skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So... plenty of comments about font size. What do y'all think about the actual contents of the book? I've looked through it a bit and seems like an interesting concept--understanding why certain decisions were made in the history of the web, and extracting "resilient" design patterns out of those decisions.

I'm reminded of the first Feynman lecture, explaining how physics was discovered through a historical lens. I find it immensely helpful. Hopefully this web book is helpful as well!
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I have a problem with this comment.

Not only did Trump talk plenty about his policy ideas and followers notably chose him based on these policies, Trump's views have never been expressly "liberal".

Furthermore, plenty of people have predicted exactly how Trump would turn out. During the race, the left media continually argued that Trump would be appointing "1%ers" to his cabinet, and that is exactly what has happened.

As for his "playbook", he clearly doesn't have one, and this has been consistently stated by opponents. But he's still as predictable as any other politician. This myth that he is somehow unpredictable is absurd. It's pretty clear exactly how he intends to run this country.
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'Unfortunately, there's an incredibly huge gap between "loss of coastal regions" and "Earth becomes a second Venus"' … maybe there's not. And that's part of the problem. Psychologically people perceive differences as "linear". It's part of how our brains are wired: to go from A to B draw a mental line and try to walk it at a constant speed. The greater the difference, the longer the line, thus the longer it takes to get from A to B. Hence the "huge gap" sentiment. But climate is not a linear system. Going from A to B could be a tiny step. Or oscillating, or dampening, or all sorts of funny things. Modelling of, for example, oceanic plankton (which gives more than 50% of the atmospheric oxygen) showed that the difference between "happy ~20% oxygen in the atmosphere" to "no oxygen ever again" is a small temperature change [1,2]. Non-linear systems are very hard. But they are fact, not fiction. That one last metric ton of CO2 could really be the difference between "life as usual" and "goodbye complex life on Earth". Communicating that fact is unfortunately even harder. Because people cannot perceive these changes, they're stuck in the linear mindset. And this worries me, because when we realize we need to really do something it's probably already far too late. If it isn't already (but in that case, science won't matter…I'd rather turn the page to "existential philosophy in the face of extinction").

To me it seems like simple risk management, even with a small probability the loss would be near infinite, whereas the loss of "doing something" is probably negligible. (carbon tax, energy transition, discouraging procreation, anti-consumerist lifestyle … probably all beneficial for humanity from a birds-eye view)

[1] http://www.wolfandwildlifestudies.com/downloads/oxygendeplet...

[2] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11538-015-0126-0
And that, my friend, is a pitifully short list given the total number of climate scientists in the world. 97% say that humans are causing climate change. So yeah, keep spreading the BS and start shopping for real estate away from the coasts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_...
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How 30,000 people helped pick the new Bash logo
> $72k - $50k = $22k, not $12k.

Oops.

But that's still less than most people's annual rent, so it's still not enough to live on. It doesn't change my argument.
Smog is different than carbon. Traffic deaths are different than carbon. We don't give up on reducing traffic deaths in order to disincentivize carbon.

You're seriously suggesting allowing half a million people to die per year unnecessarily in order to incentivize them to adopt cleaner power plants.
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I've been using this knot for 8 years, and it hasn't come untied on me once! I'd highly recommend it.
I had almost the exact same situation, except I'm up in MN. Top notch schools and no crime, 4200sqft home, etc etc. The salaries in SV are way too low to ever consider a move.
Veritassium debunks this claim on climate change, along with a dozen others, in less than 7 minutes in an informative and entertaining way. It's a great video, you should at least watch it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OWXoRSIxyIU

In short, during the 70s, there were some papers on global cooling. But even then, there was still 6 times more papers on global warming. Science overall has been looking in the correct direction for a long time now. The narrative isn't changing.
>"hot spots" in darker northern climates

like Europe, Russia, etc. ? In this countries people are bigger (thermodynamics) with bones to carry that weight so the issue with vitamin D seems to be solved somehow there - one obvious solution Nature came up with is color of skin, ie. receptivity to Sun.

Now, if you take people from sunnier location and put them into darker northern one you'll get a "hot spot":

https://www.vitamindcouncil.org/new-research-somali-immigran...

https://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2008/07/mysterious-...

Btw, notice that in Minnesota they blame it on the bunch of immunizations:

"Harrington suggested that differences in the genetic make-up of Africans put them more at risk for developing autism than other immigrant groups, and noted that refugee women and children must undergo numerous immunizations.

(According to school data, the percentage of Hmong children and Latino children in Minneapolis public schools with autism is not as high as Somali children with autism.)"

while in Sweden :

"A Swedish newspaper published an article last week about that country's Somali population and its high prevalence of autism. The story described a autism study that focused on Somalis. Doctors hypothesized that the high rates of autism in Somali children born in Sweden is due to the lower levels of sunlight and vitamin D immigrants get in Sweden compared with Somalia, a country near the equator. Dark skin that's covered up and a diet that doesn't include fatty fish limits absorption of vitamin D as well, according to the doctors. "
It's a fair point and why I stopped and grilled some chicken a few hours ago instead of going deeper down the XKCD386 rabbit hole.
...like Sacramento.~
Again, this is not a reply to me.

You don't wait until you've proven it beyond doubt. But you say "this is our best model, we're pretty confident it's right in the essentials, and we're going to act on it but remain open to being wrong; here are our policy proposals". You don't say "this is our best model, and here are our policy proposals based on it, but even if our model is wrong we would make the same proposals anyway".

I have no particular insights into the other questions.
Oh I didn't put that list in any order :)
I am not sure if JetBlue is bigger than SW or vice versa.
As a developer, I've specifically pushed to maintain a co-located team, precisely because the type of work my team does works far better when co-located.

I do decentralized development regularly, and for some kinds of work it works fine. For other kinds of work, it makes simple tasks take an order of magnitude longer.
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Presumably, a Markdown-enabled email client would display a pretty-printed version of an email it thinks is in Markdown. The output, not the input.

Markdown is no more text than HTML is. Which is to say, it is, but it also has more structure you can teach software to interpret intelligently. The only difference is that Markdown is 1) more human readable and 2) less standardised.

I think reifying our social conventions for conveying formatting over plaintext so that software can understand it is an excellent initiative.
Probably the same amount as package theft.

If I wanted to, I could just walk around and take packages off as many stoops as I wanted.

Why don't I? Because it is illegal.

Of course 'youths' are going to do dumb things but I am doubtful theft from drones are going to become illegal. Although that brings up the point of stealing packages using drones for anonymity.
> So far, the first Galileo smartphone by Spanish company BQ is already available on the market and other manufacturers are expected to follow suit.

Is Galileo support not present in smartphone SoCs shipping today?

> Galileo is fully interoperable with GPS

What does this truly mean? Does it use GPS-compatible signalling and thus Galileo satellites masquerade as GPS satellites? Is there are separate 'overlay' Galileo stream for additional features?
I learned another definition, that politics occurs when a group of people need to make a decision about something.
Elon Musk joins Donald Trump’s advisory council
>We've had worse, and we've seen worse
While true, I'd like think things are different now.
If you use pocket you should check this.Save,organize and send links
There need to be far more robust and easier to setup technologies to let end users locally host their own services rather than leaving it all to the likes of Facebook/Google
Both of those are data unknown, and both would normally be null. You don't distinguish between known unknowns and unknown unknowns at the database level.

When you say "The user submitted an empty form field as their answer", you do have data. It's weird to use null for that.

Since you can leave a key absent in DynamoDB, it basically has two ways to say "data unknown" and no way to say "knowingly left blank".

You can repurpose null as you suggested, and it will work fine in isolation, but it will massively violate the principle of least surprise and could lead to painful bugs.
> If one out of every 3 cars has vomit or syringes in it or feces

1 in 3... you must be from San Francisco?
Note the strong correlation between gain areas and the strongly blue counties from the election: http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/president. Interesting that economic and social force bring the educated together into dense communities, where they are then under-represented given the way political power is currently apportioned.
Considering that we're posting on a platform owned by venture capitalists, I think the more labor-centered posts we get the better.
> Investors diversify their portfolios by investing in a number of startups and also in more reliable investments like well-established companies. You can't treat a job that way - there's no way to diversify the hours of day into several different companies with different risk levels.

It is definitively possible to diversify: Just do an agreement with other programmers to put all (or, say, 50%) your incomes into a common pot and distribute the content of the pot among all peers. Just set up terms and conditions and let everybody who is part of this agreement sign them.
I guarantee you developing countries will not find that a convincing answer to their objections about bearing the brunt of attempts to curb emissions.
Crud. Got the name wrong too huh?

I remember the apology, and I understand why the name "standard" appealed to him. It's certainly what he was trying to do and normally would be a great name.

Except someone else was in control of Markdown so calling your project "Standard Markdown" seems rather hostile to me (or at least rather oblivious).
Actually the push for NASA to use commercial style contracting was started under President Regan (Commercial Space Launch Act of 1984 and followed by further laws under G H W Bush in 1990), while Elon was at Pretoria Boys High School (Transvaal, South Africa); so to say that his lobbying had anything to do with NASA moving to awarding competed fixed price contracts for orbital services rather than using the previous cost plus model of contracting amounts to crony capitalism is entirely wide of the mark and bordering on wholly false.

EDIT: fixed grammar
> theres no website I can go to and check my vote

If such a site existed, vote buying and/or coercion would be a lot more prevalent.
Elon Musk and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Joining Trump's Economic Advisory Team
You seem to be arguing that climate change is real and human-caused. I do not understand why you're arguing this, when I have repeatedly said that I am not arguing against it. I'm merely arguing that we want to know, contra the user who suggested it didn't matter if it was true or not because we should act the same in either case.
> In the end using coal is probably a super bad idea. Hopefully other methods come online soon.

The only use of coal is for electricity in the power plants already there. Coal makes the majority of the fuels used to power India.
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Those things aren't even legal in the US, and I'm sure that if you were caught using one by a company like Amazon, they'd quickly put you on the hook for the bill.
I understand the appeal of basing Markdown's syntax off of the way people naturally tend to structure unformatted text (and in fact, that's one of the reasons I love Markdown so much), but I'm still really confused as to why anyone would regard syntactic ambiguity as a feature.

Leaving any sort of ambiguity in your spec inevitably leads to different implementations resolving those ambiguities in different ways, which confuses users and causes problems with interoperability.

Is there some sort of upside to these syntactic ambiguities that I'm missing which might offset those obvious drawbacks?
Which cities?
Not sure why this was downvoted.. I live in Berkeley and a 2bdr here is cheaper than a studio in the city.
Alaska Airline has great craft beer from Alaska if that helps ;-)
What determines consequentiality?

"The script tries to remove as much of Wikipedia’s additional markup as possible, and skips inconsequential articles."
> he's close to a mortal enemy of Trump

He is a business man who takes business decisions. He cares not who is in the white house, provided he has access and he can benefit from this. He certainly will.
Thank you!

> We still haven't entirely wrapped our heads around the fundamentals like equality (just because it's fundamental doesn't mean it's simple), so there's still a lot of work to be done in the DT world.

Yeah, even though in the end the proof techniques are similar in algorithms that are complex enough (invariants, refinement), I think that DTs in particular add a lot of accidental complexity (but that's because they try to do more than "just" verification). The difficulty of equality is not fundamental to computations -- it's an artifact of the functional formalism...

> But going from 98% to 99.9999%, like Coq offers? It's outrageously hard.

That's absolutely true. Much of the problem has to do with the fact that for 100% you need to do end-to-end verification, which means you must reason about the programming language's syntactic constructs, yet with semantics that still generalize and can be reduced (abstracted) to global properties. That's a tall order.

> I'm most excited for Lean

I'll give it a look. I really enjoy TLAPS, the TLA+ proof assistant, but I'm always interested to see what else is out there.
If possible, can you elaborate on those critical features?
Also surprising that Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, and Pittsburgh aren't in the list.
It doesn't work in the enterprise context where I am yet to see any code review taking place.

The very few I happened to see weren't real ones, rather some meetings to tick a few check boxes, usually faded away after the managers realize the amount of "wasted money" doing them.
What a great idea. This is exactly what we need.

I wonder if Markdown will ever get style annotations? Like CSS, but lighter and less broken.
Sounds like a bad bad idea to me. When authorities realize that you have outwitted them they are going to beat you up, torture you or simply kill you. In countries like Pakistan, Turkey, India or China you body might later be found floating in some gutter somewhere. A better idea would be to simply hand over the camera to cops and save your skin.

There are two strategies of surrender when a defeat in imminent.

Political surrender: You fight till your last breath and make it difficult for the other party to win.

Military surrender: When defeat is imminent it makes sense to surrender without a fight and cut need-less losses.

I think journalists when confronted with a certain defeat must embrace second type of surrender instead of first.
I disagree that $22K net is not enough to live on. It is if you go the multiple roommate/1+ hour commute (i.e. East Bay)/never go out lifestyle. It's not a ton of fun, but it's doable.
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Yeah, I'm not really seeing that as a negative.
> My guess at a marginal tax rate would be ~40%.

Sounds high for Seattle.
I'm not sure I follow your example exactly...

What works for me (and I am just one person, and - again - not really a professional developer) is that I think in terms of branches. If I want to add a new feature, step one is to create a new branch. I do whatever I want in there, make 1 commit or 50 commits, push to the repo 1 time or 50 times (note that sometimes I might want to push incomplete work so I can load the branch on multiple machines), test in a realistic but isolated environment, fix whatever bugs come up, and generally work however I want to work. Then I merge (or submit a merge request as the case may be) when I'm satisfied. And then I delete the branch, purge it from the repo, may it never be heard from again. If I got something wrong or want to change the work I just submitted, I start over with a new branch.

This is certainly not the only workflow, undoubtedly not the best workflow, and maybe not even a good workflow. And it probably breaks down if your changes are sufficiently complicated (though I avoid this by always working in bite-sized chunks, which I've learned to do the hard way). But it works for me and - as far as anyone on my team has ever told me - my colleagues and collaborators.

I can't comment on git's other features or alternative workflows - I rarely or never use them! But what I described is functional, simple, and covers 100% of the cases I've encountered in my (brief) career in software. And I think for 99% of users just getting started with git, if they just pick a simple workflow and don't fight the way git wants them to do it, they'd also find that git is surprisingly easy to learn and to use.
And I'm pretty sure that random blue spot in Florida is Gainesville, home of University of Florida. There's certainly no major urban center there; the population just about doubles during football weekends. But the university serves as an anchor for startup activity.
Omnity is a 'semantic mapping' search engine that's now offered for free
There are reasonably easy ways around this though - for example, keep your coins in monero, and send to the bitcoin payment address via a service such as xmr.to . (I'm sure that there are other ways, but that's just the one I'm most familiar with - in fact one may even be able to find some software which does this conversion automatically for you via the xmr.to api).
To further add on to that, I would frequently run into programs (and sometimes games) that would span multiple floppies where almost the entire first part of the archive was just installer data. Sometimes, the actual .zip file data would start on the tail end of the first disk and then span however many disks were needed while other times the first disk was just the installer and then the .zip data was on the other disks. In either case, PKZIP and PKUNZIP would be able to read that file but only in the 2nd case would they be able to read the file without that first disk.

Things got further complicated when RARs made the scene because I remember that some of the early .RAR apps offered their own implementations of .zip support that would create multi-span .zips where the installer data was on the first disk, the .zip data was on the other disks, but the container spanned all the disks.

This meant that you could potentially have 3 different ways of dealing with the same data and there was no safe way to assume which method was used:

1. Installer on disk 1, multi-spanned .zip on disks 2-n
2. Multi-span .zip on disks 1-n
3. Multi-span .zip on disks 1-n but installer data only on disk 1
""this is our best model, we're pretty confident it's right in the essentials"

'what do you mean you don't know, you're not sure? you could be wrong?!'

that's how people see that. that's why climate science needs to give concrete beyond doubt proof. anything less and people ignore it.
I'm also from Michigan, and living in Detroit is actually pretty cool.[1] It has great beer, good food, a low cost-of-living, great bikability, and a thriving scene of 20/30-somethings (both yuppies and not). Granted, it is a spiky place: you either love it (hit that peak) or hate it (land in those valleys). The phrase "to each their own" certainly applies.

[1]: I don't live in Michigan any more, but I do visit Detroit regularly.
EMachineShop [1] has been doing this for over ten years.[1] The guy behind eMachineShop, Jim Lewis, thought he was going to change manufacturing, but ended up just being a very convenient job shop. eMachineShop, which is in New Jersey, had a writeup in Wired in 2005.[2] The 2005 hype reads like the 2016 hype for Plethora: "Designing stuff used to be just for experts. We're bringing it to the masses."

Like Plethora, eMachineShop has a CAD system which can tell you what's manufacturable and how much it will cost. The main difference is that Plethora uses a plug-in to Inventor or Solidworks, so they're aimed at pros who have those expensive packages. eMachineShop has a free downloadable CAD program, which understands what their processes can do and will calculate pricing. It's an impressive program, one which will prevent you from designing unbuildable parts and warn you if you're forcing an unnecessarily expensive operation.

Plethora has the San Francisco location, the cool web site with no pricing info, the guy with the neckbeard, the funding to lose money on the first order, and the emphasis on onboarding potential customers for marketing purposes. Maybe that will help them scale.

[1] http://www.emachineshop.com

[2] https://www.wired.com/2005/09/fablab/
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I'm curious, is there any evidence that nanodegrees and other moocs are pulling would-be students from traditional forms of higher ed?
This is badly implemented appliance thinking. Other appliances have forced updates that are tested and that don't interfere with the users' lives.
I am still struggling with Markdown. In my opinion, the lack of a common, standardized specification thwarts its practicability as universal internet standard.

I still wonder why not more powerful markup languages like asciidoc spread more.
CA taxes are marginal. My math was overly simplistic, because I only wanted to illustrate that you needed to pay CA taxes on your full salary.
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