skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
JS single app routers is not the issue: these can opt for historyState instead.

The issue is normal HTML pages with anchors, and possibly with no JS.

This is a very normal age-old standard feature of web hyperlinking. It's not a weird new artifact of badly coded apps as someone commented below.
The ones I remember doing myself were the Tree recursion count-change problem, Simpson's Rule, and counting pairs in Lists. These were for general programming jobs as I recall on Javascript (not my speciality) or Ruby systems.
If the only reason those people have jobs is that we feel pity for them and don't want to automate their work, then what they have is not a job. It's just disguised welfare.

Why not just give them actual welfare?
Do You Earn Less Than a New Silicon Valley Employee?
Ah, yeah, you weren't the only one bitten by that. We actually went and changed the Cloudant metering model recently so that you're billed on provisioned throughput rather than total request volume. You get dramatically more predictable billing, with the tradeoff that clients need to handle a 429 Too Many Requests response if the Cloudant instance is under-sized. More here:

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/bluemix/2016/09/new-cloudant-lite-...
Well, there's always church.

Religious institutions provide avenues for nominally non-commercial social interactions. Mutiple variants are available to account for taste (e.g. Christianity, some forms of yoga).
I wasn't aware there is a problem.
Thanks! It's mostly vanilla JS and the Ractive framework for the editor UI.
Offtopic, but I had to chuckle a little: Bay Area house prices have gotten my mind so clouded that I instantly thought you were missing an extra zero on each of those dollar values. I had to re-read it twice until it dawned on me that there are other places out there...
Not true. You spend three years "on the job", and the result is the same for blue- and white collar work.

Most sysadmins in Germany that I know (some of them the best I ever met) did an apprenticeship.
"Forcing people to do things a machine can do is inhumane."

It's not clear there's anything a person can do that a machine can never do, in principle.

So then what's the point of having people?
British imperialism. America inherited the groundwork laid out by the British but being a former colony themselves, it's uncomfortable with the idea.

American imperialism is such an overused propaganda term from the Soviet-friendly bloc., it's actually quite laughable.

The more accurate term is American economic hegemony. The rest of the world relies on American institutions that ensure trade between countries flourish because they have long understood that without economic activity and dependence, it has always led to conflicts.

Without physical force you cannot act as the single source of truth for everybody trading on your platform. This is why America has the largest and most advanced military in history. They understand the fundamental coupling of diplomatic projection and enforcement of their economic policies.

Is America perfect? No. Are they good in all intentions? No.

But it works. There has been no world war 1 or 2 scale conflicts for quite some time now. Countries are now tightly ruled by multi-national corporations with backing by central bank that makes compromises and wins concessions according to American policy.

It's very expensive and tough to offer an alternative, although China seems to have the right idea by starting AIIB etc., but everyone is wary about the strings that come attached with it, as they've inevitably always has been from American monetary foreign policies.

The devil you know is better than the devil you don't. China is a big unknown for the rest of the world. Americans have been around and will be around for this century, unless China successfully manages to usurp their military power, which doesn't seem possible since their military complexes haven't even matched those of the Russia. For instance, producing a stealth fighter from stolen blueprints from Lockheed Martin but not able to produce a jet engine and relying on Russia (who are also wary of having their tech stolen) who sells them expensive crap.

If America is an empire, great, because I shudder to think what a Russia or/and China hegemony is going to look like.
Those machines cost $10-$30k, and require cleaning every few hours (minimum wage, only significant skill is the diligence to do it) and maintenance every few days or weeks by a steam plumber. The operator/button pusher is a little bit like a flight attendant: most days here to get you your drinks—but every once in a while, here to notice steam coming from the wrong place and take the machine out of service.
Not so; the cantatas are authentic J.S. stuff.
>Obviously that isn't happening

Take a look at Kleiner Perkins. KPCB has offices in Menlo Park, San Francisco, Beijing and Shanghai http://www.kpcb.com/china

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ceibs/2014/09/19/chinas-many-typ...
Are the two really the same though?

I mean an application that breaks sucks, and you might have to roll back an update or wait for a patch. It is annoying and you may lose some time.

A security breach may be more rare, but it also might be much more damaging. You might lose your whole business or worse.

The right answer is probably some subtle equation of both problems relative to one's specific circumstances (trade offs) but "it depends" never makes for a good internet argument so most people don't bother with the nuances.
That depends entirely on the regex implementation. If the implementation uses a DFA to match multiple regexes simultaneously then the performance will be as good as a trie because a DFA is more or less a trie.
> Both provide a seemingly "free" service

I'd argue that open source maintainers provide a free service. Government employees do not.
Your story reminds me of my spouse: He was visiting the US and somehow wound up in a Chuck E Cheese. Playing for the children was war scenes, with tanks and soldiers. He was pretty appalled it was acceptable for children due to violence.

And children were one of the things that does seem very different to me - shockingly so. I'm American, and most children are fairly quiet. But they are much more free to roam, within some reason and allowed to play quite often, even while at school. I'm going to guess all this helps out quite a bit along with your last points.
Yes, I agree - I think this is why so much was also used in the Coursera Scala course to build up the student's understanding of the functional aspects in composing software. Must revise SICP sometime soon.
I'm a little skeptical of this.... What's the ulterior motive here? We all know SamA was very anti-trump, is this an alternative method to keep the new US political regime from affecting YC? It's almost a weird form of discussion censorship. Whose idea was this?
There should be flavors of HN flags, including "old news".
I also don't think it's a problem (although now I'm wondering if I missed something DAPL related yesterday), but I welcome the experiment.
Or rather, it takes years. Of course they can increase production eventually...

But the silicon factories cost billions each, so no-one is going to scale up because of a temporary shortage. The same, even more so, for the factory-factories.
I wish someone would add Chromecast support to Dolphin so bad.
It's not anecdotal, it's a comment that showed up in design documents of games by experienced developers. Trade shows and magazines used the best quality possible, because it was marketing.

However, I'm not aware of any gdds that specified coloring as a technical challenge; most of the concerns were around overscan and making sure games weren't unplayable on B/W TVs
No, no, it's all going to be OK now because there are 1000 Carrier jobs not going to Mexico.
> We all know SamA was very anti-trump

Who is SamA?
Yes, but those are actual valuations based on sales prices, not predicted valuations based on an algorithm. Different thing.
Why is this a machine learning problem? Why not use some low-power tag for items, and scan all items on customer exit?

Personal opinion: Amazon is not interested in creating supermarkets/wal-marts. Instead it wants to sell an ML solution to other brick & mortar stores, and this current effort is to prove plausibility. Selling an ML solution, with cameras and software, is harder to compete with than a tagging solution (especially if based on open and accessible hardware).
Many many people write scripts in Excel. It is easy and accessible to the majority of people who have computers today. Some accountants and quants would even call it fun.
My experience generally mirrors what you state. I transitioned a fairly significant code base & complex deployment process from a mix of maven and ant to gradle. I found Gradle's 'opinionated but flexible' approach to strike a good balance. It's definitely more complex, at least in our build, simply because of the size and scope of our project which has a wide variety of inter-dependencies which makes for a very complex task graph to build. But, the parallelism results in a far faster build/deploy cycle which is a worthy tradeoff.

We initially planned on going full maven, but its strict lifecycle and plugin system was simply too rigid. Beyond that, XML makes for some verbose configuration for even simple things.

We ended up developing our own Gradle plugins in static groovy and java, but it's very easy to do small bits/tests based on scripts and migrate functionality into specific-purpose plugins. Using Gradle was especially fortuitous when it came time to implement new areas of the product that relied on npm/node and webpack for front-end resource assembly.

Gradle hasn't been without its own minor growing pains (early lack of tooling support, rapid version changes), and it's certainly possible to create a big complex mess if you script everything ala ant -- but it's also possible to create very nicely defined DSLs and build systems that are expressive in use. Our onboarding got significantly easier in switching to gradle from maven+ant, and teams can now easily make minor tweaks for their build needs without having to learn maven's plugin architecture.

Builds, just like anything else, benefit from some best practices. I have no issue with Maven, but I won't start a new project with it.
This theory strikes me as teleological rather than explanatory-- it explains phenomena in terms of their effects rather than their causes. Effects come afterwards, so they can't be the explanation for something that's already happened.

Really I do not see what this idea is supposed to add. Darwinian evolution is a perfectly complete, tight, and verified explanation for the existence and complexity of life.
It was my idea and has nothing to do with political preferences, though the election season was probably a factor.

It has to do with us noticing an uptick in two undesirable things: harsh ideological comments, and accounts that use HN primarily for political battle.

You can see one example of how the idea developed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13052458
Sam Altman, the president of Y Combinator.
At no point did I say this should be outlawed. But as a society, we should look at these types of "innovations" and question whether it's actually providing benefit to the longterm, wellbeing of our people and our ability to function together collectively.
The 'lack of brains' argument holds if you're looking at the Third Reich leadership rather than Germany as a nation. Aside from the poor choice of trying to take on both the USSR and the USA, near the end of the war, the Third Reich made a number of awful military tactics and logistics decisions that accelerated their loss.
Going further back, are planets and stars forming also part of evolution?
> So basically, calloc exists because it lets the memory allocator and kernel engage in a sneaky conspiracy to make your code faster and use less memory. You should let it! Don't use malloc+memset!

On the flip side, if your critical metric is latency then these tricks of calloc's and the OS's are exactly what you try to avoid. memset() the buffer, and if you have the privileges you should mlock() it to prevent it from being paged out. Of course, this all presumes that it's not an ephemeral buffer to begin with. Best to change your design to leverage a long-lived resource if possible.
I've been hesitant to go into new and just start flagging all the terrible stories because I've read about people that lost the ability to flag. So I only flag on relatively rare occasion. Does such an overuse mechanism actually exist?
And to think, HN is already where I go to get away from politics. The site already only barely tracks the daily/weekly news cycle.
In my experience, it's hard to judge the popularity these days as there tend to be more self-checkout kiosks than traditional checkout lines that are actually manned.
> Right now it looks like a lot of misery and poverty on the horizon before things get better.

So what is new? We have been automating jobs out of existence for a long time. Every era has had a lot of people that are redundant, every era has had useless governments get to grips with it.

Recently I automated three jobs out of existence, making the computer do the data entry work with the customer filling in forms. This is great for the customer as they now get what they want done instantly instead of having to wait a week for the human to do what the computer can do. It is great for the company as 3 people don't have to be managed, provided office space and paid. But as for my colleagues?

I obviously have had thoughts about automating my friends on the next desk out of existence, how I see it is that there are actually plenty of vacancies in the company, there are plenty of vacancies outside the company and the writing has been on the wall for the last year regarding the changes we put through. 2 of my 3 former colleagues are now working elsewhere, having moved on fine, but there is the one that did not step up and go for other interviews within the company or look elsewhere. Now I am sure that government handouts are available, however, if someone does not look out for their own job and assumes it will always be there for them, what can you do? Is it always the government's fault in this situation?

My above sentiment is a tad Thatcherite, it was Norman Tebbit who said 'on your bike', i.e. if there isn't a job for you in your home town then you have got to move, the government isn't going to magically create a job for you. The 'on your bike' remark didn't go down too well in the 1980's, but 'on your bike' it has been since then.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13103213
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13100301
You claim it's a personal attack, and then you do exactly what I said you would; take the evidence, and do your best to dismiss it.

My favorite part of your post is how you acknowledge that you knew about court cases related to predatory pricing (Arkansas Supreme Court), while simultaneously pretending you didn't know about Wal-Mart being accused of it, and demanding evidence to prove it anyway.

Combined with your clearly detailed knowledge of the history of Wal-Mart, you can't even properly accuse me of throwing out an ad-hominem without contradicting yourself.

Thanks for the laughs. I had karma to burn. :)
This sounds awesome. Politics has weighed heavily on here at times, even on topics that... just aren't relevant to the tech industry.

It'll be interesting to see where this line falls on tech politics stories this week. Is a post about like... the FCC transition team in or out this week? It's definitely political, but also very tech.
It's amazing how quickly examples of the problem dang specifically mentioned have popped up, like this comment.

Assuming bad faith without evidence is a big part of the issue here.
Supermarket retail has razor thin margins, last I heard. If it's going to save money in the long run, then it's the future.
The fabs don't want to increase production of current 'old' technologies and are transitioning to smaller die processes and ramping up 3D production so there's a perfect storm of increasing demand and fab refurbishments reducing availability.
"Nothing is going to be done politically until there is either civil unrest or until there is so much impact to those with lowest wealth in society that the capitalists start getting poorer returns because too few people can afford to purchase the goods produced."

The problem is the civil unrest seems to be moving in the direction of ethnic nationalism and isolationism, which may not turn out to be the best long term solution to this problem.
What a grim and desolate idea.
This is a strategy you could only accomplish a single time. The losses would be on the order of $10,000 for food only currently on display. you probably wouldnt be able to sell your stock before it expired. and the whole thing would be recorded on camera.

not to mention you'd be arrested for hacking
The custom tasks are never reusable - they are specific to that one build. If they ARE reusable they become gradle plugins, same as in maven.

Effort of banging out a custom task to make a tar in a particular way and get it published: gradle=a few lines of groovy, maven=a full plugin in java?

To be fair my maven experience is the lowest of all (between gradle/ant/make/maven), but I was being honest in that I would never want to go back to maven (or ant) - I get more things done faster in gradle.

What MrBuddyCasino mentioned about mediocre teams though, that is a real risk. I'd nominate one or two skilled people to create and maintain it, but be sure to crosstrain and use comments liberally. The initial learning curve on gradle can be brutal for complex projects.
I think the HN guidelines have always discouraged politics, so this isn't exactly new. I'm guessing the mods have gotten a lot of complaints about the volume of what many people see as off-topic submissions and discussions.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Can we have an objective criteria with which to judge which comments/stories are political?

Examples would be helpful as well...
If you buy anything that isn't doje coin or whatever, you are effectively converting to fiat, buying something, and obligated to pay capital gains.

As for how to avoid The Man: Take a look at India. They lived that dream and likely will again in a month or two.
Please don't editorialize submission titles, especially not to make them more click-baity.
This can only be good. Despite some of the silliness of copying only surface level things and massive busses of Chinese tourists, any challenge to the status quo in China and Taiwan is refreshing. I'm no expert, from my layman experience working in both countries, I feel there is an opportunity to dominate industries in both countries by adopting a different work culture.

For example, a design firm I worked at in Taiwan absolutely had the margins to pay its employees better than it was, but non-technical junior employees were making ~30,000TWD (~1kUSD)/month with 60-70 hour workweeks. The designers made about 45K TWD, and the engineers about 60K TWD, each successively working more sane hours, but still much more than their American and European counterparts. Benefits were laughable. Not only were the hours absurd, they were inefficient - people would stay in the office because the boss hadn't left yet, the boss hadn't left yet because bosses should stay late. Meetings were comically disorganized and useless. Lunches were considered "unpaid" time. Holidays on Friday meant you had to come in on Sunday to make up for "lost time." Inefficiency combined, painfully, with a boss's idea that more hours = more work, and everyone suffered for it.

Maybe I'm being overly optimistic, but I hope to one day move back to Taiwan, pop open a company in design or hardware, pay 120kTWD/mo to my staff (that's 44k/year USD), focus on efficiency, employee retention, develop, and benefits, and start poaching the top talent in the country. Efficient practices would mean I'd be paying less people more and getting more bang for my buck as my employees would be highly talented and still getting as much done as twice as many subpar, overworked employees. It may not even cost me more, but if it does, not having a bunch of old and useless middle and upper management sucking up profit off the margins, and not having to funnel money to the pockets of Mainlander investors would more than make up the difference. I've developed the fantasy to the point that I've thought perhaps I'd catch media flak over my "stupid" high wages, and the debates I'd cause would only generate more interest and attention in my company and product - something like Stratton Oakmont or Gordon Ramsay's first restaurant, where he kicked out a food critic he didn't like and exploded in popularity for it.

I mean, I quit my crappy design job there to work 16/hour weeks as an English Teacher and pulled in 60k TWD/mo for my efforts. It's totally fucked in Taiwan.

EDIT: I'd like to add that when it comes to health benefits, they aren't really a thing in Taiwan because the cost of healthcare is shockingly cheap - and that's before you get national healthcare insurance, which is standard for employment. I mean benefits more in the sense of sane lunch breaks, vacation and personal time, options/stocks, bonuses, continued education, commuter benefits, etc. These essentially don't exist in Taiwan.
I really welcome this move. I couldn't get out of bed on Nov 9th and a few hours of introspection later, I realized I have no control over any of the Political changes and that I shouldn't be causing myself so much stress.

So I stopped watching the news -- both online and on TV -- since Nov 9th. It's been an incredible month for me since then.

I've made significant progress on my languishing side-projects ( a Show HN coming soon in Jan 2017!!!) and am generally less stressed and more mindful and happy.

I made a conscious effort to stop watching news and ride out the next 8 years (I expect Trump, like Dubya, will get Re-elected in 2020). I still need my "tech" fix, and visit only HN since I gave up the news. Yet I found a few Trump stories on HN recently, so this is a great move.

Thanks mods!
> It's over. After 20 months it's finally over...I'm free.

https://xkcd.com/500/
> Each agent should act on its best interest, and disregard all else. Distilled like that, it's the purest form of capitalism.

No. Each agent should act according to his own will and believes, that often is in his own best interest, but that not always true.

Its a hard case to actually prove this assertion of facebook. I have not spent any time an it or read much research on it.

Is it really that different from all Americans reading the same newspapers that thought the Spanish American War was a great idea?
Much needed
You should read the story. All those other plot possibilities would be even more serious departures.

Also, the movie didn't bother to really explain this – though it made hints with the statement about how the heptapods see time, and Hannah's name being the same forwards as backwards, etc. – but there's no time-travel aspect specifically because there's no influencing going on at all. She doesn't cause anything to happen.
Trust-dns: A Rust based DNS server
https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp
shrug, I haven't seen any submissions or threads I'd consider political for over a week.