skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100% agree. This hits an even bigger discussion around the "norm" of working. The whole 9-5 going to work 5 days a week was developed during an industrial revolution. Now a days 9-5 applies less and less to certain industries in which it's more about getting the work done by a certain time vs. completing it within a certain time.

The amount of resources saved by those who are able to work from home would not only have a positive impact on environment but also travel times, this would reduce the amount of both foot and vehicle traffic overall having a positive impact on everyone else's well being. It's unfortunate the solutions to these problems are so slow to move or often times missed by the top. All in good time!
Handy for finding employees too:

https://nerdydata.com/search?query=humans.txt
Thanks! :)

I am glad you have enjoyed it.
> that's pretty much what everyone wants.

Not me at least. I'd strongly prefer to work completely around and not be among people. I accept that there are good economic reasons why companies want to have their employees in the same office suite, but if asked for my preference, I'd strongly object.
also, if it's a US company and it ever goes bankrupt/sells its assets, third party buyers aren't bound by any privacy policy whatsoever. yes, this is crazy and it means US privacy policies are basically meaningless; best just don't give them your data, but what can you do. personally I believe that collecting the data and pretending a privacy policy makes it okay, is nefarious by itself already.
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> "What is obvious here is that the poor neighborhoods are profitable while the affluent neighborhoods are not."

I didn't understand the argument either. I've lived all over the country and doubt the poor neighborhoods in Chicago (where I'm from) and Detroit (where I once lived) do their respective cities much good from an investment point of view (whatever that means). Another thing to consider is that poor people use social services, and anyone who has been to Oakland will tell you a lot of those services live downtown. As a former resident of downtown Oakland, I'd say this rule wouldn't hold up there either.

Still, we should invest in poor neighborhoods because it's the right thing to do for the environment as well as the residents of said neighborhoods.

I'd argue the government should start the process by cleaning up brownfield and greyfield (obsolete shopping centers) sites and consolidated land for ease of development. The initial costs are certain to be higher but the returns are larger (in many cases).
The article plugs a 'Playbook' by RocketInsights on how to build an Alexa Skill. It doesn't have any code samples though and just gives an outline of the process.

If you want to create skills fast, checkout the Python framework I created

https://github.com/johnwheeler/flask-ask

I've implemented the 'Space Geek' sample outlined in RI's Playbook

https://github.com/johnwheeler/flask-ask/tree/master/samples...

I've also worked with Amazon to put out a getting started tutorial on their developer blog

https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/post/Tx14R0IYYGH3SKT/Flas...
FWIW, I'm a postgresql committer these days, and pg_hba.conf was probably the bit I was uncomfortable with for the longest (user level, not code level).
Once I was driving normally, and a cop car drove into me. So of course the cops immediately got out and started shooting at me, even though it was 100% their fault. Definitely broke the realism.

(I had right of way and they didn't have lights/sirens on)
That's pretty sickening, but can't help but consider true. Upvoted and added this comment for emphasis.

In Australia voting day is always a Saturday, from 8 am to 6 pm, also with ample opportunity to mail in beforehand. Oh and you'll be fined if you don't cast your vote... It may not be perfect, but appears way more democratic to me than the US elections.

http://www.aec.gov.au/Voting/polling.htm

(When I left Norway nearly two decades ago, so glad I didn't go to the US now.)
I disagree with the segfaults bit (which is what you had been focusing on so far, and which is what I've been arguing against) but yeah, "guarantees thread safety" is iffy.

The wikipedia definition is pretty vague, it relies on a concept of "safe" that isn't defined there. It's acceptable to say that "data race safety" is "thread safety", though confusing. Rust's homepage does clarify what it means in the bullet points below that statement, so I wouldn't call this a lie. It may be misleading though, and this is a common misunderstanding as steve mentioned, so I submitted a PR to fix it https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-www/pull/685
pcwalton said Golang's userspace threading model with Golang's I/O is equivalent to using "normal" threads with synchronous I/O, not that it's different from using threads and "async" I/O.
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The wrong part doesn't come from the 5mm, it comes from being orders of magnitude wrong by some other method.
"...industry-style work environment, and one that has been enormously successful..."

Seems to be confusing correlation with causation.
yea Blizzard jumped on that train a while ago I'm sure it relieves them of so much load
Announcing Remacs: Porting Emacs to Rust
> Coworker eating with mouth open at desk next to mine

Isn't it strictly forbidden to eat near computers where you work? At the university's computer labs it was and at the place where I had internshipss it was also.
What you're forgetting is that while the small parties are king-makers, they're not kings. They don't get to dictate the bulk of policy - they generally just get to get one favoured bit of legislation looked at.

Proportional representation is far, far, far, far, far better at representing a large modern democracy than the US electoral college system (which includes the ability for some electors to completely ignore the will of the people - not sure how that makes sense). FPTP only results in a two-party system over time. Prop rep and friends allow for multipolar politics.

Besides, if you're worried about the undue influence of small parties, the electoral college still sucks, because small states wield undue influence - votes beyond their population count.
http://www.snopes.com/man-charged-driving-influence-caffeine...
This startup scene so far never made sense to me, but now thanks to you I can see the light: it was an artistic militant happening! Hurray!
Collaborating IRL is more effective IMHO (and my experience working with remote offices). Plus, having an office can be a great perk: with a small commute (~20 min) and 3 meals a day, I save a lot of time/energy just on the food.
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In Texas, they are allowed to give you a DUI even of you pass all sobriety tests; they leave it up to the officer to determine intoxication even if there is none present. Another fun fact in Texas: you don't have to be driving to get a DUI; they can nick you for intent OR they can determine that you are in "control", which could mean sleeping in your truck bed with your keys in your pocket.
Can you make small pieces of paper stick to a battery? No. Can you make them stick to a balloon if you rub it on your sweater? Yes. Greece - Italy 1-0.
> European Commission vice-president, Andrus Ansip, said it was now proposing simpler rules, "so that internet users do not have to click on a banner every time they visit a website".

If you accept cookies via a banner pop-up, you won't see the banner again until you clear cookies for that site. So what is Andrus Ansip proposing that is different from the way sites already behave?

> Also, banners would be scrapped for cookies that do not invade users' privacy, such as those remembering shopping cart history or counting website hits.

What is meant by 'invasive privacy'? At some point a user will need to sign in to make their purchase. Is that deemed worthy of a cookie alert since the users' identity has now been established? And what does counting website hits mean? Does that mean any website that includes analytics, no matter how intrusive, is exempt from cookie alerts?

The cookie law may have been well-intentioned but it demonstrates how badly informed, and out-of-touch the EU Commission is on digital matters. When will the Commission actually appoint someone who understands the internet? The current European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, Günther Oettinger, had no experience whatsoever of the 'Digital Economy' before he took up the role. It clearly shows.
Sr. Site Reliability Engineer here. (Itself a complex title, varying by employer.) I have taken to identifying myself as an Operations Engineer for this very reason. I'm an engineer focused on operations. Tada. You want some operating and I do some engineering to get there, and all of that is clearly printed on my tin. Some might disagree with my reduction, but I feel that it fits well what I do.

Pretty much everybody who knows their way around a compiler and administers systems could probably take this title and be fine, and then you're not suffering under the yoke of devops or whatever. Because when I hear "developer," I can't help but think a feature engineer on the product side for some reason. Same with that word creeping into "devops," and that leads to things like "full stack" engineering -- creating the impression that only a select few work with or consider "the whole stack," which is a scary subliminal message. Even if you're a developer simply changing the colors on the Facebook feed or something, you should always be thinking about the full scope of things and how your changes will be operated. (Your operations nerds will love you if you think about us ahead of time.)

As an aside, systems administrator with no software skills is a totally and completely fine career, with a number of very smart people (and friends, still proudly announcing every year of uptime in texts), and in a lot of these discussions I see them denigrated. Just remember that, not saying anyone is doing it.
Items missing:

- IntelliJ IDEA

- John Carmack
That was a dark time and was fueled by politics rather than the respect of the local population. A large percentage of the Jewish population left for France and Israel - I believe it was an almost 50/50 split between the two.

More notably, this was a move by the Tunisian government, in "solidarity" with Palestine and in agreement with the rest of the Muslim world. This does not mean it was right of course. From my conversations with my paternal grandfather (b. 1927), Jews were treated like regular Tunisians.
I knew this from years of experience, and I provided ample evidence (and research) on this problem to executive management at companies I worked for.

The sad fact is that PHBs, even well-intentioned ones, simply do not know what it's like to create multi-layer models in your mind and then develop from those models. They hear the marketing guys bullshitting all day about clients and thing that _that_ is work, progress.

In the end, it just means that the backbone of the modern company functions more poorly, and that revenues are potentially lower than they could be. Maybe the lower revenues are offset by the lower office rent costs; maybe the only real loss is the happiness (and loyalty/tenure) of the thought workers of the company.

This leads to another problem that we all suffer (via bugs, hacks, viruses, and otherwise lack of software quality) - that people running companies really have no concept what software is. I see no solution to this problem, since ultimately even the companies started by geeks get absorbed by bigger companies run by PHBs...
Unless the neighborhood covenants prevent it, of course.
Sounds like the build system doesn't have an appropriate base image... or create one. If I had to do it in production, I'd probably have a base image with the appropriate runtime, and the dependencies, then a release image with only the application's updated dlls added. ymmv though, and probably a lot of work.

I do think there's definitely an opportunity to streamline this, and separate the commit for the libraries from nuget, and the output from the build process... If they can automate this, all the better... I was pretty happy basing from the *-onbuild and it just built the project nicely and ran... but if you're constrained on space, I can definitely see this becoming wasteful very quickly.
With the amount of undefined behavior that C contains I find it hard to imagine that anyone would call it a straightforward language. Thinking in terms of the underlying hardware and memory can be misleading when one is confronted with things like signed integer overflow and TBAA.
It's more like, increase the value of those areas so the inhabitants will be prosperous so they can afford to pay more taxes.
Update for Juniper SRX firewalls opens root-level account
outlawing fully automatic weapons

Federal law doesn't outlaw full-auto weapons; it taxes them. Their ownership and use is legal in many states.
> Right, but they aren't just a lack of evidence for coked-up-driving, they're actually evidence FOR clean driving.

You stated that there was no evidence for impaired driving. Based on reported observed behavior it was.

> Well, they're using the reckless driving charge as a license to fish, falling back to it only when they've exhausted other avenues.

That's a huge assumption to make. What are they "fishing" for? They already have an officer making a statement that he was driving erratically. That's pretty much him dead to rights.

> they should be saying "believe there is no evidence whatsoever for this charge."

There is no chemical test evidence. There is plenty of behavioural evidence, evidence that warrants a reckless driving test.

> system is simply unable to prove it.

The system is very able to "prove" that he was driving poorly and he will be punished accordingly.
This is an interesting characterization of the situation! I can save the 20 LOC involved in implementing this if I just give up the ability to write my own event loops and pepper my code with a bunch of additional "await"s every time I add an asynchronous operation to a function used by other functions.
Obviously, no.
Neither. People take it for granted that every interaction is an avatar.
Buy the Winchester Mystery House and start extending it. The haunted house space is ripe for disruption. Eventually, sell the whole thing to Google as their newest campus. Then join the board of YC and spend the rest of your days funding apps that let people send the word "yo" to each other.
Wow, thank you for pointing that out!

Due to the resulting thread, I feel legitimately excited to sit down and learn a new-to-me language for the first time in ages :)
If they had any marketing sense, they would start by telling me why it's better than Clojure. I'm sorry to offend the Scala guys, but if you want to be the best JVM language, you need to improve on Clojure.
Actually there is a false equivalency even if I take your list on face value - the things you mentioned are done by multiple actors: two US administrations, Congress, Tribal and sectoral militias, Middle-Eastern governments, even private entities (CNN). On the Russian side your have Putin and his vertical of power (the popular term for his centralized, personal rule of Russia).

I also don't understand the point - is any of these things I listed OK because the "US" does them (or vice versa)? Looks like the 'Tu quoque' or 'appeal to hypocrisy' logical fallacy.
That has been confirmed? I haven't heard about any convictions- has he made some admission I haven't heard about?

Bill Clinton wasn't elected (he hasn't held the "highest office in the land" for some years now)... so I am little confused at this sentiment?
It's my fault - I misread R_d as diameter and not radius. The disc is indeed 5mm in radius (10mm in diameter). With this value, the speed of the disc edge is 65m/s or about 145mph.
Since this list doesn't actually make any sense, I'll list two actually great developer tools:

+ The Stack package manager for haskell: https://docs.haskellstack.org/en/stable/README/

+ NixOS: https://nixos.org/

Note that NixOS' drive towards critical mass isn't complete yet. It has great Haskell support (especially since Stack has nix integration), but may not have as good support for your language. No point in switching OSes before the time is right.
Thank you so much, this is awesome! I really appreciate the time you must have spent to put it together!
Where does this come from? Why do people care how Americans mourn? We mourn plenty, and in every way. Why do you care? Why should Americans care what you think?

This is presumptuous and insulting. How dare you prescribe how others celebrate or mourn.

If anything, the rest of the world should diversify. That's equally absurd as treating America like a single culture.

Disgusting.
Exactly, minimal setup visual regression testing.
Not necessarily, we play games for play sometimes. Because it is fun. Take Minecraft for example. No serious win-state (until fairly recently) but it still has tremendous appeal.
You can easily have plenty of parking and lower rents. You might also be seeking big-city stuff like subways and major-league sports, and that just isn't going to happen.

Proof: Palm Bay, FL (got parking and low rent, and even has tech jobs -- but no subway or major-league sports)
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The article is about the failure to make something honorable of the worst actions a person does to another. What is so surprising of that fact other than the US spending billions on their Navy SEAL brand and exceptionalism? They could spend trillions on prettying up the act of war on men who only find killing another to be their only solution and they will still have the same problem if not worse.

"Canoeing" itself is a tradition in the US armed forces long before the SEAL Team 6 undisciplined actions. It was common for US military soldiers and Americans to refer to Chinese and Koreans as "zipper heads" because they used to shoot those civilians and PoWs for sport in the same manner as the Navy SEALs practiced in their desecration and mutilation of enemy combatants.
Another factor is that contemporary companies more often will issue RSUs instead of options. This (afaik) allows a company to avoid hitting the shareholder threshold which would require reporting.

IIRC, Facebook didn't have to go public when they did, but once they hit the threshold they would have to start reporting, and at that point there's not much reason to not be a public company.

(Another reason cited was allowing early employees to take advantage of the value of their shares without otherwise having to leave the company.)
You have to consider the technical limitations as well. It was designed to play on the PS3 and Xbox 360. I imagine the next generation GTA will offer more of what you are looking for.
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thank you. it wasn't intended to be negative (or, to put it in a positive spin, it was a positive negative :), mostly "i'm not sure, but i don't think so".
Probably because an AI that always plays optimally wouldn't be very fun to play against.
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"thread safety" and "memory safety" are vague terms. "thread safety" is clarified there. "memory safety" has a particular meaning in that context which is true for Rust.
I don't think that's true. Originally, Tuesday was chosen because farmers needed a day to get to the county seat, a day to vote, and a day to get back, without interfering with the three days of worship, or Wednesday, which was commonly a market day. [1]

It could be kept that way for that reason, but to say it was deliberately designed for that reason I feel is disingenuous.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_Day_(United_States)#H...
Whenever I read stories that involve guys like these that come in swinging and think they can change things and end up just spending everyone's money, I've always wanted to label this behavior and you got me thinking ... "Broxecutives".
Shameless plug for my attempt to build a smallish SPA in Reagent, Re-frame: https://rahulpilani.github.io/mortgage-calculator/

Code here: https://github.com/rahulpilani/mort-calc
You have something kind've like this in the Australia system. A bicameral legislature, the lower house is up for grabs every election, but only half of the upper house is. This means senators are basically elected for two terms, and the turnover is slower in the upper house.

There is provision for putting all seats up for grabs in both houses - a 'double dissolution' - which can only be done if parliament is deadlocked. Apart from that, turnover of senators is slower than members of the lower house.

It doesn't have the effects you're after though - these senators are still party creatures. I'm not sure I'd like your plan anyway - people change a lot in 29 years, and you would need checks and balances against undue interference. Deep-pocketed lobbyists would only have to focus on one person per year, for example.
You shouldn't really be using expect much :)
Regarding the killed children -- wasn't the people doing a revenge murder of a Palestinian teenager sentenced to long jail sentences when they got caught?

The Palestinian terrorists are declared martyrs, mural paintings are done, their relatives get a pension from PLO -- while caught Israeli murderers are sent to jail..?

It do seem like equivalent sides, as you claim... :-)
Just wait for gentrification to hit the area. Then the $50k houses will be worth $650k+.
Oh, yeah I know. Didn't mean to imply your main point was incorrect.
For a lot of companies it is worth it because it gives you access to the talent in SF.
The "medicinal purposes" concept was always a fig leaf for de facto legalization of purchases, given that there are many specialty 420-specific "clinics" that have literally never declined a prescription request.

Just look through the back half of local newspapers (e.g. Metro in the Silicon Valley area) and look for the ads with mostly green graphics featuring hot girls wearing stethoscopes.
> Is GTA V the same as setting up a rig which controls I/O for a real car? No. Of course not. You're not being fed data from LIDAR, which Waymo [Google X driving] seems quite invested in.

I've been coming around to the conclusion that LIDAR isn't going to be the way forward, unless prices come down greatly and mechanical scanning is done away with. Perhaps something like Flash LIDAR, if it could be made 360 degree FOV and cost under $500.00 in quantity - that might be worthwhile for manufacturing a vehicle with, but currently even the cheapest 3D LIDAR is still way too expensive.

I honestly think we'll see camera-based solutions becoming the norm; high-speed, high-resolution machine-vision cameras are already an established technology (though mainly black-and-white; pair those with lower-res color cameras and fuse the output as needed). Set up multiple stereo-camera pairs for overlapping 360 coverage - it would likely be a fairly cheap solution.

At that point - the frame-buffer view data from GTA (or some other simulator) could be considered close to "real world" for data gathering and model training.
I admire the Haskell folks, much in the way I admire theoretical mathematicians... which is to say, I'm sure the work they are doing/did has some value, somewhere (in the past).

But the Haskell proponents that I have known have admitted that the reason they don't use Haskell more is because the libraries and ecosystem aren't adequate. That's not to mention that maybe Haskell is just too much for even the above average dev to grok.

So why push deeper? Is this just academia stroking itself? Why not invest this energy in something slightly more commercial?