skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or, perhaps we (the United States) as a society shouldn't be stressing out mothers in the critical first year by shoving them back to work after, what, three months (if you have good bennies)?

Or completely drain our social welfare system and establish a demand-starved economy with wealth inequality and a draconian health care system that leaves all families stressed and overworked?

Or we can go with your bullshit predetermined social darwinianism.
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It's not a prior Linux distribution until you add crouton. Same as why Android isn't a Linux distribution.
Do you actually know anything about their lease program? The lease program is designed for Uber drivers who want to work full-time. There's no mileage limit, and it's meant to just return the vehicle, so things like residual value, etc are meaningless. Uber drivers can easily put on 70k miles in a year, something you never could do on a traditional lease. And you can walk away from the lease with a 2 weeks notice.

How exactly is this predatory? If you're only driving minimally, then it's definitely not a good deal, but it's not meant for those drivers. It's for drivers who drive full-time, ie. 40+ hrs a week.
10 Trends and Predictions for China’s Tech Industry in 2017
Look for "The strange situation" on YouTube :)
This is a remarkably content free article.

Summary: are mmos dying? They could be, because they're repetitive and that's boring. Write better stories.
Did they move companies? If so, which companies did they move to? I am guessing this could already be found publicly?
I guess my next question is then - why is anyone using filter/map instead of comprehensions or even generator expressions? Familiarity when coming from FP?
Walk away with 2 weeks notice but will be on the hook for full lease if done after 30 days + first payment
They are widely available in Europe. Do you mean they don't sell well outside of the USA ?
Just quietly, I'm looking forward to a new form of wardriving where you hang out the window of your car with a mega phone and ask Alexa to buy expensive jewellery or sex toys.
Damn, that's quite annoying on my LG Plasma (but not really noticeable in other than web browsing), I thought OLED would certainly not need to have the same feature.
Parental genetics are far more important than parenting style in determining what kind of person you turn out to be.

And the "nurture" that matters is your peers, not your parents.

Skeptical? I highly recommend this book-length treatment of the research literature: https://www.amazon.com/Nurture-Assumption-Children-Revised-U...

Unless they are doing twin & adoption studies (hard!), attachment researchers are conflating parenting practices (these warm and loving parents had a warm & loving kid!) with genetics.
500/mo for silver plans is pretty standard.

If you want a better health care deal you'd need to leave the USA or maybe become a member of congress.
The Bellus 3D face camera [video]
The page looks decent overall, however, I'm having trouble imaging how it works. Would someone simply give an instagram id, then get nice analytics?

I wonder if pricing is high, what about a non-expiring free tier for 1000 posts?
Assume the audience doesn't know what you're talking about. Give specifics.

Even with a concierge doctor you still need a plan for hospital, ER, surgery, etc
Harvey Mudd students seem to only have 9 actual majors to choose from, vs 100+ at some other colleges.

https://www.hmc.edu/academics/
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13311737
From Zero to Podcast in 10 Hours
I learned about this in a course titled Dynamics of Complex Networks and Systems taught by Mark Spong, a robotics control theorist active in dynamical systems research. Ever since learning about Braess' Paradox in that course, I have noticed examples of it in the highways of DFW. The simplest case to spot is where an off-ramp feeds directly to the next on-ramp, creating a "shortcut" for drivers who exit and re-enter the highway.

I've tried to make the case that by closing "key" exits on the highway, we could reduce congestion. But who would be responsible for making that likely unpopular decision?
In my experience filter/map are used by people who just don't know about comprehensions, or are not used to having them available. It takes some time to start using them where properly.
I keep things like ssh keys password protected and stored on a (server|usbkey|cloud storage|etc) with some dot files etc.

For project development everything I do runs in VMs, mostly configured via Vagrant. I happen to store these vm's on an express card SSD so could in theory swap them to another machine, but the idea is that in the event of catastrophe it's just a `hg clone` and `vagrant up` to get back up and running.
How many supported AMP because the wanted to? Google has way to much control over the modern web, they're approaching abusive monopoly status.
My motivation is primarily I don't want to learn all the over-complicated details of C

If the author finds C overcomplicated I look forward to finding out what they think of a complete database system.
XLA: The TensorFlow compiler framework
> The university says outsourcing their work to HCL will save $30 million over the five-year term of the HCL contract, which will cost $50 million. That’s a meager savings of 0.1% of the UCSF budget...

The author doesn't make a compelling case for transferring $6 million a year from California's taxpayers to fewer than a hundred individuals. We can't decry BART being so expensive while tolerating waste as a round error.
Looks to be TCP over websockets; which isn't really that interesting IMO.
This could actually have a counterproductive effect. If I recall correctly, early Roman armies saw homosexuality as an asset, because the soldiers were less likely to desert if their loved ones were in battle together.
so I guess, you all dont actually know the Western Medical Industrial Complex is just a scam? That "Health Insurance" has nothing whatsoever to do with human health?

maybe next century, "benefits" will actually favor the recipient, and not their corporate masters...
The future is a decentralized internet [Techcrunch]
Apple Reinvents the Phone with iPhone (2007)
10 hours is a long time.
Self-interest is not conscience.
You seem angry.
Software Developers Should Have Sysadmin Experience
Were they ever alive? It seems like the market only ever had so much room to begin with.
I think the question is more about our expectations. MMOs frequently cater to the casual gamer now and so the hardcore experience we had when we were young is virtually unattainable now. There are no fresh unique experiences in the MMO. Where other genres bump up the bar, again and again, to thrill us in new and more extreme ways, the MMO fails to make the same leaps so our sort of "tolerance" to the MMO thrill doesn't get exceeded to produce a new peak experience. MMOs have tried to change with games like Terra but ultimately there isn't anything new to feel. For me, it was the way games forced me to work together with other people that was enlightening. There will be a revolution in design at some point as budgets creep up and a hole in the market for something unique causes pent up demand to grow. It's only a matter of time before someone really throws something new at us and we can burn another 1000 hours in a game until that too seems stale. Perhaps VR will be the advent that throws a curves that MMO need to produce immersive social experiences. Who knows but there is pent up demand for sure.
AMP preloads the content before you click, which your own web site can't compete with.
Which is a problem why? Uber is not a charity.
i really don't understand the ethically complex part. off the top of my head i can divide these kind of decisions into 3 categories: offensive security which in most cases is clear on which side you are on, bugs that can affect user's wellbeing for which there must be guidelines or someone is not doing their job (technical incompetence is besides the point, everybody makes mistakes but some risks can be quantified beforehand and mitigatios be put in place), and intended functionality like fingerprinting which most of the times are pushed top down from the product manager's side, again, pretty well clear cut where the responsibility lies. the point is most of the time the 'coders' decide on the how part and less on the what, which is where the real disasters come from.
Hwy 635 in Dallas has a variable-toll expressway lower level.
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Rust tightly couples performance and safety. Sandboxing separates out performance and safety, so you can take your pick of languages for performance, and your pick of sandboxes for safety, without conflict.
just cant wait until we can compile real programming languages down into web assembly, and the whole "front end" debacle can DIAF :)
Petition to give forgotten Disney more love
Wow you are actually attempting to connect Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights movement, "conscience" and "injustice" with Travis Kalanick and Uber?

That is so messed up.
s/Zawinski/Betteridge/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
I submitted this as I've been feeling much the same way. I recently went through a bunch of my old games trying to put my finger on what I miss about them.

I re-installed Neverwinter Nights 2 and started going around some of the persistent world servers out there, and I really enjoy the role-playing that goes on among players. I've actually been considering resurrecting my DM gear and finding some pencil and paper players.
While it's far from a functional language, I find that it's possible to build functional style abstractions without too much headache. The iterator protocol is so well supported by the language and the standard libraries that using map, filter, itertools, generator expressions & comprehensions gets you a long way. You get the rest of the way by writing any specialized combinators you need and then imperative code to tie things together. You can build up a lazy pipeline of data transformations that works pretty well.

There are some gotchas where you need to explicitly copy (itertools.tee) iterators when you have multiple consumers, and be careful with mutable values, but it's manageable.

It would be nice to use curried functions as functools.partial gets verbose, but at that point you're far from Pythonic code.
See also, the Price of Anarchy [1] and How Bad is Selfish Routing [2].

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_of_anarchy

2 http://theory.stanford.edu/~tim/papers/routing.pdf
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I've been trying to relive the incredible high of pre-expansion Everquest for a while now, but nothing quite comes close to the massive amount of investment you'd have to put into it, the total lack of help outside of the in-game community (no guides, no in-game extensions, bare-bones UI), and the sheer terror of death that the game would instill in you. UO folks probably can relate to that as well. Those games felt like sandboxes where you'd be thrown into the deep end with tons of real consequences for carelessness, decisions felt meaningful, alliances with other players essential for survival. Nowadays you can grind your way through an MMO on your own, everybody gets their personal rollercoaster ride, everybody gets to win. Probably a big reason why we've seen a resurgence in games like Dark Souls and rogue-likes.

I did "enjoy" EVE quite a bit too, although parts of it felt more like a job rather this incredible treacherous journey through a magical and hostile world. EVE was more about the politics and logistics than the game itself.

I agree with many other first-gen MMORPG old farts that we will simply never be able to re-create that experience in the same format, that era is gone and is best left as a positive memory. Perhaps as others pointed out VR will be that next big leap forward that will allow us to suspend belief once again.

On a side-note, I really do hope that creators keep making titles where the game world is a nasty, hostile, inscrutable place and you and the people around you have to band together and figure it out, nothing is going to spoon-fed you the solution. It makes such a big difference to the end-user experience.
Perhaps not exactly the right link, but Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course (also from Stanford) teaches exactly the required things in the first three weeks: https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning
Martin Shkreli kicked off Twitter
If you want to write extensions in Rust, here's a library for rust that utilises Postgresqls own allocators

https://github.com/michaelsproul/postgres-alloc-rs
The Price of Anarchy
A purely scientific approach to that would be a pair of electrodes inserted into the pleasure center of your brain.

Philosophy (or parts of it, anyway) studies why this isn't actually a desirable approach for most of us.
When is this from? The last paper in the reference is 2010.
> If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job; he tripled Microsoft’s sales to $78 billion and doubled profits from $9 billion to $22 billion

> Apple under Cook has doubled its revenue to $200 billion while doubling profit and tripling the amount of cash it has in the bank (now a quarter of a trillion dollars)

I think the picture could be even less rosy than that. It could be argued that Ballmer was just there while the enormous untapped value and momentum that had been accumulating in Microsoft over the years started to get released. It's possible any other CEO could have done the same or better by being in that position at that time. Could be true of Cook as well. He inherited Apple with an extreme amount of untapped potential.
Older MMO's, like Everquest or World of Warcraft, were pretty blatant skinner's boxes. You were lucky if a NPC sending you out to collect bat-wings got a little bit chatty. Some more recent MMO's, such as Bioware's The Old Republic or Cryptic's Star Trek Online, are much more story driven. STO, for example, has enough single-player instanced story-driven content to reach the maximum level, at which point you either quit or dive into the skinner's box that passes for an endgame.

That being said, single player games still seem to set the bar for story-driven content. It's a simple matter of how resources are spent. A MMO has to be able to suck people in long-term and be interesting for at least some players after they've put hundreds of hours into the game. A single-player game can end after 30-40 hours and not be called "too short" by reviewers. The budget for any given minute of gameplay is therefore much lower for MMO's than for single player games.

We're probably going to see a blurring of lines between single player games and MMO's in the near future. Games will have a high production value, story-driven, single player component that's all a lot of people will want to play, but they'll also have an open-ended MMO component. Some games will start players out in single-player and, at the end, dump them into a MMO universe, trained and equipped well past the newbie stage. The upcoming Star Citizen is apparently going to use a model similar to this. This solves the newbie-training problem that MMO's often struggle with while allowing players enamored with a single-player game's universe to continue inhabiting it, albeit by consuming content made with lower production values.

So, no, the MMORPG is not dying. It's just having lots of sex with single player RPG's and producing mutant offspring.
As a Postgres user, I like the idea. But their post comes off sounding like a JS dev wanting to rewrite an app in the latest popular language.
How Bad Is Selfish Routing? (2001) [pdf]
wow, I admire the dedication to supporting multiple operating systems, but that script is a mess IMHO. why is there a hardcoded version of easyrsa? I haven't worked with easyrsa in a while but does it still do 1024 bit dh parameters by default? because that would also be a mistake. it looks like there is sufficient interest, so maybe I'll cobble together a bash script.
Maybe in the US. I've seen personal macs mostly on rich kids (ie. Parents paid for it) or graphic designers.
Your example misses some variable. Here is a better example: regulate fishing in an area where fishing is expensive. Prices go up. More fish flock to areas where fishing is done at an industrial cost-effective scale, more fish is extracted at a lower cost and re-imported, resulting in a permanent increase in extraction.

It's obviously more complicated in the real world as it misses some economic and biospheric mechanics, but it gives a starting thinking exercise.
Well, for one I believe they pre-date comprehensions. Having them as functions is also occasionally useful for partial application, e.g.

from functools import partial
to_strings = partial(map, str)
# vs
def to_strings(seq):
return (str(elem) for elem in seq)
Eh? Are you saying they don't sell Android tablets anymore, but only Windows tablets?
Oh, cmon. You don't need to buy into that whole "cultural Marxism" conspiracy theory to believe that postmodernism is a cancer to philosophy (and so much else). All it takes is reading some postmodernist writings, really.
'Modern' soaps, shampoos and deodorants - they're mainly chemicals and most often than not contain Parabens that are definitely not good for you [1]

Barber/Salons - Since the last year, with the help of a trimmer, 3 sizes of scissors and a mirror, I have learned to cut and trim my own hair and beard. There is a pretty steep learning curve to begin with, with some embarrassing results, but once I was past that, it became ridiculously easy.

Toothpaste - Brush twice a day, sure. But, you don't need as much toothpaste as advertising tries to convince you. Again, over the last year, I've reduce the amount of toothpaste I use to 1/8th of what it used to be and I haven't noticed a decline in dental quality or my breath.

There are many more that come to mind - reading the newspaper (it's an archaic habit and only adds further cognitive load in a world where we are saturated with news), hot water for baths, a cot to sleep on, online shopping.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraben

edit: added the reference for Parabens
Now i just need to upgrade my eyes, and possibly my brain, to take in all those pixels.
Does this work?

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2017/01/direct-prima...

Thanks.
> Porting PostgreSQL to Rust would be a multi-year project,

That's... underselling it somewhat a little.
Ask HN: Why does Google put the query in the URL hash instead of query string?
Search for something on Google, and the URL will look something like this:

https://www.google.com/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=some_long_string&gws_rd=ssl#q=something

The search query is the `#q=something` part of the URL, whereas other parameters are stored in the URL via the query string (the part between `?` and `#`). Why is that? Why isn’t the search query stored in the query string? Why in the hash?
Disclaimer: late answer, my personal opinions, I do not have perfect memory etc.

Advertising Chrome as "a better browser" in (IIRC) search results, gmail, possibly other places as well counts as abuse of monopoly IMO.

Microsoft was punished for similar tactics back when the default desktop was equally important as top of Google search results and top of Gmail inbox.
I am not sure what to make of this: the author is a cto of a 100~ person company, but he is thinking that a project like pg can be realistically rewritten in rust. I just don't get it. Even if you could somehow make the 'complicated' and 'scary' parts of the code base magically transform into rust (much less handle performance and other issues due to memory management being different between c and rust), how would you maintain that project? Ai driven code translation from c to rust is a singularity too soon.
That blog reads as contradictory.

It talks about building a SPA, and rendering on the client side using JavaScript. It also talks about being AMP compliant.

Those goals cannot coexist.
Yeah. Where is "vitaly rules" in this graph? I have medium sizes sites where that is 2-7% of the traffic right now.
If you can't see why individuals fighting against systemic racism at great personal risk is an entirely different thing from a billion-dollar company flouting regulations established to protect consumers and employees, then there is little hope that an intellectual argument will make it clear to you.
Know it all
Google Chrome OS is based on Gentoo Linux.
Interesting side note: ive only swen Windows 7 discs so far on markets in SEA. Even cambodia seems win7 dominated. But they also sell cheap laptops with mint on them.
More importantly, when are we going to see a port of PostgreSQL to React?
This person doesn't seem to know much about reality. Or maybe I'm just a jaded jerk.
In this case there are potential performance and safety improvements by rewriting things in rust, the exact opposite of a JS rewrite.
Analyzing AWS detailed billing reports on BigQuery
Why Google Might Sell Its Fiber Business
It shouldn't need to be made to anyone with a passing familiarity with history and a conscience.
Direct Primary Care
In the european market most people simply dont see the value in a mac. Even in switzerland where a $3000 laptop is not such a big of a deal you see this money invested in alienware or high quality business machines over macbook a lot.

I think they simply failed to keep up with the quality they once had.
List of Code Schools and the server curl reports they run
What the hell, the ideal size for 4k resolution scaled from a 30" 2560x1600 is about 40".

What is with these small 8k/4k monitors? Useless. I just buy TVs with HDMI 2.0. 50" 4k tvs are, what, $400 these days?

I get more pixels can be nice, and 8k is probably where that comes into play, but if I have 8,192 lines of resolution, I want some screen real estate too.
By the original definition, San Francisco is not part of Silicon Valley either.
I run a bootstrapped non-profit in NYC with two employees (myself and my wife). A bronze plan for my family on the NY marketplace is about $1,200+ month with an $8k-14k deductible. I was hoping to get something through JustWorks, but since it's really just one household in our company, we can't apply for that (requires at least 3 separate insurees).

Our combined family income makes us ineligible for subsidies, so I guess my option is to pay $14k a year for an $8k deductible with little coverage. I guess now all plans are HDHP, but with 3-5x the premium.
Because subsequent searches aren't full page reloads. The first search (via the Chrome URL bar) puts the search in the "q" query string for me.
The Feds could easily make the value of your public company tank over night, leading to the shareholders demanding you get the Feds off your back. So they can put pressure that way too... even if the CEO is stupid enough to try it anyway. Don't mess with the Feds they act like the mafia when push comes to shove.
I would suggest that the author creates a clone of a "simpler" DB like SQLite or Redis. Those have, as far as I understand, good C codebases, so understanding the system should be much easier.

This way you could also say: hey! I have successfully ported a DB written in C in the past, and it has been an extremely positive experience, how about trying the same with Postgres?
It's been a while since I did any serious maths, would I be lost in course like this ?
I belive that this reply says it all

> Well that's going to be a show-stopper right there. For a proper
> port, a deep understanding of the current source code is necessary.
> You'd need a team expert in both C and Rust to pull it off.
My optometrist said that you should sit at least a meter (roughly an arms length) with a regular size monitor. For this I'd say you probably want it even further away.