skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fewer and faster: performance made easy
$20 for a chastity belt seems like a bargain to be honest.
How about smartwatches?
I suspect that the author is suggesting that consumers who don't wish to be subject to the filter or the tax would just drive over the border to North Carolina to purchase a computer.
"There are certainly categories of food where healthy is more expensive, such as some organic and gluten-free products, Reczek said."

there's basically zero evidence organic or gluten free are "healthier".
Depends. You may end up being "that guy with the stupid idea" for the rest of your time there.
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"we have more surface area for innovation today as well a society that offers the 'resources' (i say this broadly) for individuals to pursue explorations and discovery"

yeah, it's not obvious that the thesis here is true, in fact I would suggest that its probably not true

the surface area of new idea is probably expanding, and the resources for finding new ideas is almost certainly expanding as well

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seems like the better argument is that ideas in the future will be in different idea spaces than the current ideas

and that within a specific idea space, you can exhaust the ideas
dunno how area or population density affects economic output other than perhaps for agrarian economies that need the land. maybe real estate, but you can build up you don't need tons of land for that.
The implication is that people will travel to North Carolina from South Carolina to buy their computers instead of having to buy the "filtered" ones in their home state.
no, libraries should not throw exceptions if they get a http response. that is a perfect example where the programmer has to roll his own, because this is entirely situational.

the pseudo-code example of the grandparent seems to me to implement
a) detecting the http code,
b) throwing an exception and finally
c) handling this except.
Reading the article was upsetting. Reading the actual law being proposed, however, is even worse. Gobsmacked. I am not sure how any lawmaker or attorney viewing this bill would be able to press ahead with this.

"What about the first amendment?"
"Oh, nevermind that - they can pay to remove the filter."
"...?! I guess Freedom isn't free after all, but I didn't think that's what that meant. Are you going to manage the filter?"
"No, the companies will manage it - it won't cost us a thing to block the traffic of the whole state. People will just do it for us, you know, because we tell them so."
"...?"

> COMPANY MUST: "make reasonable and ongoing efforts to ensure that the digital content blocking capability functions properly, including establishing a reporting mechanism such as a website or call center to allow for a consumer to report unblocked obscene content or report blocked content that is not obscene"

This is far more than the $20 cost it purports to be.
If it's in the center of your field of view, yes. Less so for those in your peripheral vision.
It's a little ridiculous that the "source" is just a link to the top-level domain for Ohio State University.
Thank you! As a person who learned programming entirely from FOSS books and things, I felt immoral to charge for my tutorial/ebook.

Do you have any thoughts about the video series I made on the same ebook's content? Where does it make sense to publish? youtube or udemy or somewhere else?
This is why UBI will never be implemented in the USA. The culture's deep-seated puritanical belief that one's worth comes entirely from their productive work-output--that a living must be "earned" and "deserved" in order to be legitimate.
Right, that was my point in the following two lines.
But that's the job of the investors, they don't try to hit the returns with every idea. What they look is a capable team who can pivot if that's what it takes to make a compelling product used by millions.
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If humans only died from 'flukes' (accidents, crime) we'd live 9,000ish years
Is there any recent development I am unaware of that makes SC the sex trafficking hotspot of the United States?
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"The inventor of the infinite loop died of starvation when, while testing his invention, said 'I'm coming to dinner in a minute, I'm just waiting for this loop to end'."
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Yes, this sums it up. State-based taxes and fees on goods are pretty easily circumventable when you buy in another state, or, you know, on a website.
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You don't know South Carolina...
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I have my hopes up for Nokia and Microsoft - win10 devices are more or less a pocket PC. When Linux Support gets properly implemented into Windows, a brilliant new era will dawn.

Not to mention c# is a beautiful language.
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That's true, though I was specifically focused on actual code contributions that make it into a production branch.
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You trust the industry too much, or you're naive. All of them will do whatever it takes to make money. See Cisco and the GFW, for example.
Winston Churchill is also famous for gems like:

"I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion."

"[Ghandi] ought to be lain bound hand and foot at the gates of Delhi, and then trampled on by an enormous elephant with the new Viceroy seated on its back."

"I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place."

If he wanted to find fascism, all he needed to do was look to his treatment of the imperial holdings - something that British socialists were quite eager to point out.

If you torture the definition of fascism so far as to include social democracy, then it will also encompass America since the arrival of settlers, centuries of monarchical and parliamentarian Europe...
As someone with a fantastic manager: it's great. He handles the planning and resource allocation for projects and makes sure that I have everything I need to be able to develop, this includes making sure that any external dependencies (like people not on our team) do their stuff and that the team as a whole is maximizing our time.

Whenever for some reason something is blocking me that isn't directly code related, he's the best point of contact to get stuff moving again.
Thank you, I did not have time to check my work.
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What are the odds that the sponsors know this bill is garbage, and only proposed it for the sake of having the opposition on record "voting for sexual exploitation of children"? I know this kind of rhetoric (distorting votes against a bill to be votes for the opposite, most commonly: all votes against any bill including a tax cut => "Senator Johnson voted for higher taxes 4194304 times") is used regularly, but I don't know how much of a stretch it is that someone would propose a bill primarily to fuel it.
This is why you don't do development by standards committees. It never ends well.
Having lost about 50kg, I feel happy talking about this.

It's much more expensive to eat healthily, and in general more expensive food is healthier, so people are just running in reality.

To be exact, you can eat cheapily and healthily, but it is very boring. If you want an exciting and healthy diet, that gets expensive. No ready meals, and things like prawns and raspberries (two of my favourites) are great low cal options, but not cheap in quantity.
I'm honestly not sure what you mean here. I can't make sense of it.
Which pseudo code are you referring to?

Exceptions being for "exceptional" circumstances is a popular misconception. Exceptions are for "an upper layer to handle". You can use them for any alternative values you wish to propagate to the upper layer.
North Carolina borders South Carolina, where the proposed ban is. GP is pointing out that South Carolinians will be incentivized to buy computers out of state, driving up sales there.
Piwik is an awesome tool. But today I'm only using their JS Tracker to send requests to a pool of nginx servers.
The event logs are parsed with Fluentd and saved in a mongodb instance. After that, a proccess do some aggregations and put in my postgresql (app db).

We have this setup because we run our custom and specific analytics for a lot of clients.

Do anyone have a similar setup and have some experiences or hints to share?
> That’s when the distraction starts. I promise myself, just a quick glance at Twitter to see what’s going on in the world, and then I look up and it’s 1:15 in the afternoon. Twitter is my heroin — it’s endless content, and if I’m bored by one tweet, I just go on to the next one.

I think the danger of unlimited news is understated. The addiction is as bad as other forms of drugs. Ok, maybe not as bad as heroin, but I don't think we are far form that.
Polish government plans to restrict journalists' access to parliament
Interestingly, this also holds for cat food. People are often willing to pay a premium price for the food of their pets, while in the end they and their pets get to eat low quality processed stuff.
The same politician who's public office website has a disclaimer on their contact form which reads:

"Notice: This form may not be fully-compatible with Google Chrome.

If you are experiencing issues sending a message while using Chrome, please try another web browser."

Figures, the same guy who thinks this is practical is the same guy who says to people surfing his website that it's not compatible with the number one internet browser in the world.

Why does government choose to be ignorant about technology? And why do we accept political ignorance of technology?
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SQL Server supports heaps (tables w/o clustered indexes) on which indexes point directly to the referenced row. It's nice that they allow you to choose between those and tables with clustered indexes where any secondary index references the primary key. See
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh213609.aspx
I think Piwik is straight up web stuff..

It wouldn't be all that hard to set up an Elasticsearch/Kibana instance and then throw your maillogs into it.
Openssh is one of the pieces of software that I would argue needs to be kept up to the latest and greatest regardless of the original version shipped by the distro.

I would similarly push for latest version of OpenSSL but that's harder to get right.
> You don't actually get in the water at 80°C right?

No, you get in the water below 10°C. The 80° (or 90°C, as I often see claimed on Finnish saunas in Netherland) is the air. Extremely dry air, where your sweat evaporates almost immediately. Until someone pours on the löyly.
So of all the issues that South Carolina has, this one is the most pressing for that elected official to address.

Not really surprising, because this type of legislation tends to come from Red states. There was the one in Texas about high school cheer leaders not be able to make certain moves because they're too suggestive.
Probably that if it passes, people will buy computers across state lines and transport them back. A bounty for NC electronics stores.
And did so behind the scenes within Google rather than in public?
Furthermore the `await` syntax is one of the reasons why cancelable promises is contentious.

There's no easy way to "cancel" an awaited promise without basically resorting to the .then() syntax.
Yes, of course, rules against incorrectly marked or marketed or adulterated products are different from the war on drugs. What I'm saying is that drug-war-type activities are based on rules prohibiting the sale of particular goods even with zero promises as to their safety or efficacy. (And the FDA does enforce a number of such rules, though certainly not that many compared to other bodies.)

If someone was convinced that gasoline would cure their hair loss, they couldn't get it through a pharmacy, but they could still get it from someone making no such promises. If someone was convinced that cocaine would cure their hair loss, they can't get it any way, any how - even just as something labelled "dangerous goods, do not consume". That's the prohibitive authority that leads to raids and cartel warfare. And that's the power that many people still support the FDA/DEA/government having, and which I am pointing out is the root of the problems with the drug war.
The problem with customer support is that people can stay doing it until they get automated out of existence, during which time the writing on the wall is clear. Do they apply for other vacancies in the company or do things such as improve the documentation that the customers need? In my experience there are plenty that do not, they roll on to thr next temp/customer service job to get stuck in that groove.
Function-level programming
some day

Object reference not set to instance of an object

is going to drive me to kill myself.
If it's written spartan style, yes. If you go nuts with its dark corners things do get wierd. It's why it's a hard labour to write safely - and a contributing reason to JVM success.

It's the mother of all, and abusing it in ways that make it unpredictable is more than likely.
Mariah or Messiah?
This is another great point. Our support team is directly linked to a spaghetti fixer, this is great bc bugs are squished instantly.

But sometimes a new checkbox appears and that is a real problem.
A lot of people, myself included, equate healthy food with perishable goods. Perishable goods do cost more. Frozen or canned veggies are cheaper than fresh veggies.
> But it's not rich or structured enough to be the canonical record of what dependencies your project needs.

I'm not arguing for it to be that, and I largly agree with you.

As my example shows, the Dockerfile doesn't need to contain any detail of the dependencies - you can "outsource" that entirely to whatever mechanism you wish, as long as you can easily add whatever you need to apply those dependencies to a suitable base image to the Dockerfile.

But most of the time I don't care about precision - I just want a means of getting a working build environment quickly. If it pulls in 100MB of unnecessary libraries, I don't care, if it gets me an uncomplicated way of building the project without having to assemble the dependencies myself.

For a lot of projects I come across, my experience is that because the list of build dependencies are often never automatically tested, it's a crapshoot whether or not their build instructions and dependency list will yield a working build environment on any given system.

"Even" a plain Dockerfile that is regularly used to rebuild the build environment is far superior to a text file of dependencies that is rarely to never verified.

If you want to go one better and storing more precise instructions and then use them to generate a build script or Dockerfile, then awesome.

The main thing is that absent automated testing of the build environment too, the list of dependencies isn't worth the bytes they're stored in. And a simple way of regularly testing the build environment is to rebuild it automatically.

My experience is that the dependency lists for projects that automatically rebuild the build environment - whether as Docker containers or in a chroot or any number of other ways - tends to be far more reliable.

And if you first can automatically build the build environment, it makes sense to make it easy for everyone to use that automatically built build environment.
I've not heard of any. I would imagine that the real value for Microsoft is in expanding the number of server platforms on which SQL Server can run and MacOS doesn't really fall into that category.
> When Linux Support gets properly implemented into Windows, a brilliant new era will dawn.

Dream on. MS will implement just enough for cloud devs to use Windows as their dev environment, with a clear push towards Azure as the cloud of choice.
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> So, the browser should load the HTML page into a part of memory that can be discarded by the OS if the OS needs more memory. Actually I think it is strange that no such memory API exists in Unix.

It is more tricky then you would think to determine what "needed" memory means. Does the OS need disk cache? Or the content of memory mapped files?

It's not unlikely that you currently have some process active which has memory mapped a huge file. Does it need the content? Who knows.
Yes.

Getting crap into the language is worse than not getting good stuff in.

But did they really veto here?

As I read a few days ago, the guy doing the proposal just was forbidden by Google to work on it anymore.

I wasn't in favor of this proposal think it's one of the better outcomes, but the form how if came to be dropped was a bit strange.
Healthy food does cost a lot more. Fruits and vegetables cost much more per calorie than flour, oil and sugar.

A $6 bag of apples has less calories in it than a loaf of Wonderbread.

$2 of broccoli has less calories than a $0.30 can of soda.
Conservative southern politicians aren't exactly worried about what makes sense past what gets them re-elected. Vigorous hand-wringing about nebulous moral issues due to the self-righteous nature of their constituents is one of the issues that checks that box. Pay no attention to the fact that this is one of those regulations that will unduly burden businesses. Or the fact that every PC already has a hosts file of sorts. The only thing a porn filter has in common with sex trafficking is that they both have something to do with sex.
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He's got a bunch of kids and a wife. Moving might not make sense. Kids will cause more stress if they're unhappy in a new location, and how do you move the current sole bread winner? She'd have to find a job in the same area as him, meaning you're looking for two jobs instead of one.

Also proximity to the in laws is worth something too.
> I've seen plenty of people who can reverse binary trees or fizzbang

That's the tests for entry level programmers who are 16-22: It's the basics for writing code (that could be learnt alone with a computer), it doesn't require to have had a programming jobs or to have maintained software in the long term in production.
But would his wife be able to find a job there? Moving across the country so that he could get a low paying job, while his wife instead ends either unemployed or with a much worse job than the one she currently has is hardly an optimal solution. By the sound of it they are making just about enough money to get by as it is, so uprooting the entire family in search of something else is a pretty high risk strategy,
>To be exact, you can eat cheapily and healthily, but it is very boring.

Not everything needs to be 24/7 exciting, least of all food. Figure out a few spices and you're good to go. What else is there?

I too lost the same amount of weight and food to me now is just fuel organized in tupperware that I heat up and scoop down in a few minutes. Why? Now when I go out to eat I get to properly think and decide what to spend my money on, it's that much better.

$50/week on food. Veggies, lean meats, rotate a source of carbs.
India tried this a couple of years ago. Ask them how well it worked. (Particularly since it involved publishing a list of 800 specifically blocked sites.)

OTOH global VPN services were ecstatic.
This guy seems to fall into that category:

"There have been times where I’ve wondered if I should just get a temporary service or manual labor job...I would be too humiliated... It would be exceptionally difficult to work eight hours a day hoping with all my might that a neighbor or friend wouldn’t swing by to see me working the cash register or pumping gas."

This is a definitive example of the prideful worker effect. It's kind of crazy how our modern culture substitutes "can't" for "won't".

Meanwhile, this guy says he doesn't have skills with modern technologies and he spends 4 hours/day ("a quick glance at Twitter to see what’s going on in the world, and then I look up and it’s 1:15") procrastinating rather than learning those technologies. Hardly a surprise that no one wants to hire him, I certainly never would.
Oh god, tracking one down right now and tearing my hair out...
Sweat evaporates in the dry air, and that cools your skin. A bit. The wooden benches tend to get too hot to touch, which is one of the reasons why you sit on a towel. Glasses, watches and other objects are left outside. (I'm not sure how big of an issue piercings are, actually. If they get too hot, take them out.)
How do you verify the integrity of the Piwik zip file you download?
The proposal has been withdrawn. Why would it be on the agenda in January?
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I don't know if this was sarcasm or not, but the story is enjoyable. I'd watch the movie.
i dunno. i'm not much into go. if i was going to do systems programming, i'd probably look to rust since one of my big programming influences uses it (armin ronacher).

incidentally, i created a tutorial series on programming the amazon echo (alexatutorial.com). my tutorials are pretty dry, but i'm going to probably try and create more content and start charging for it. i always admired jon lindquist of egghead.io. he started self distributing and has built a little empire. same with geoffrey grosenbach of peepcode later acquired by pluralsight.
> By the very nature of the monad laws, they cannot have side-effects, so they cannot be eager.

I'm pretty sure monads can have side effects and be eager. It's just that not everything will be captured by the type signature. AFAIK this does not prevent it from being a monad. You can have monads without any type signature. Also, AFAIK the eagerness is a requirement due to the potential for errors changing program flow that is not captured by the type signature. But AFAIK this does not prevent it from being a monad.

AFAIK monads only have to conform to the monad laws, bind and return.

I'd like to know if I'm wrong because I'm concerned with the conflation of monads and language features of haskell. Specifically we can benefit from monadic composition without making javascript into haskell. I think Erik Meijer has been rather damaging in this regard. I know I'm in the minority so I'd like to be proven wrong so I can come join the party :)
Ok. I did not know that. As I said this is what I have gathered from what I have read around as a common complaint. Out of curiosity, what is the testing-deployment cycle of stored procedures in source control? How do you assure yourself that the database uses a procedure coming from a specific commit?
The problem is education is tailored towards particular jobs. For example if you have a degree in biology, sure you can get a job in a factory paying almost minimum wage. . . but it wouldn't pay enough for you to cover your student loans and still be able to move out. There seems to be a serious lack of jobs that let people actually have a life. . . and I'm not talking about picket fence in the suburbs dream home kind of life, I'm just talking about being able to afford basic necessities
Fixed. You were right. I was trying to make it fit the strict headline character rules. Sorry.
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The antitrust case about IE was related to Microsoft using their position in the operating system market to give them an unfair advantage in the browser market. It had nothing to do with the embrace-extend-extinguish which they attempted on JavaScript.