skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have always had this experience. I never stopped to consider that others don't have it as well. Now I wonder how much this correlates to how people process information. I tend to visualize abstract concepts in some fashion, ever if I cannot describe what I am seeing.
>"I keep telling people the McDonalds of the future isn't going to be the same large box with robots running around - it will be much smaller, because robots can use every inch of the kitchen area unlike humans."

The majority of space in a McDonalds is the dining area and ordering counter area These areas are occupied by customers. The kitchens in a McDonalds is already pretty compact and dense.
A great quote from Lambert about what software development is:

1. Decide what the program should do.
2. Decide how the program should do it.
3. Implement these decisions in code.

Only the last part is actually coding.

In other words, as a software developer, you are not paid to type. You are paid to think. And the deeper your knowledge and experience, the better tools you have to actually do that. So focus on learning step 1 and 2!
I'm taking a shot in the dark, but have you looked at the Hy language? I imagine it must be relatively straightforward to port this over to RPython.
I'm very optimistic that we can solve this problem with better tools. That's not to deny, as others have pointed out here, that emotions drive our thinking and that a post-fact world is as old as the art of rhetoric. It is, rather, based on the observation that we have an incredible ability to crowdsource information--including of an opinionated / normative variety--thanks to the internet, and yet we're still using the same rather rudimentary tool we started with: threaded comments. Threaded comments have their virtues, to be sure, but one of their downsides tends to be a lack of structure in the body of the content.

Sequiturs (https://sequiturs.com) is my attempt at a tool that solves this problem, of how to collaboratively reason and change people's minds about something. I've written a bit more here about why I think the answer is better tooling: https://sequiturs.com/blog/post/introducing-sequiturs/
Logic is a tool. Like all tools, they hold no value until given a purpose, then they take on the value of the task they solve.

(Just my opinion. Agree or disagree. That's cool.)
Some other perspectives:

- Salary is VERY important for most engineers - most of us are making incomes where making a little more money might be important. That said, consider the incentives that drive the decision makers (managers) who decide on salaries. The managers who say "Yes we can keep these people but no we don't have to pay them more" are much more likely to succeed than the ones who say "I need more money for the same headcount". Unless you've put serious institutional capital in the bank in the form of previous success, you won't win this argument with higher management. (By the way, I agree with the general premise that turnover is really expensive and most companies, including their upper management, don't take it seriously).

- I think that this is another example of the "Hard to measure, easy to measure" divide in otherwise scientific management that defines most companies today. It is easy to measure salary. In fact, you are usually required to report it in most accounting schemes. Measuring cost of employee acquisition is easy for some parts only. On-boarding and training costs can be relatively well quantified. But what about lost productivity? What about lost innovation? Trying to measure "what isn't there" has never been easy. Managers will make decisions based on the hard data at hand. There is almost never enough hard data to justify greatly increasing their salary, and most managers won't go out on a limb (lacking hard data) to try and justify this. I can't say I'd do differently in their situation...
http://i.imgur.com/JBLmKHQh.jpg

Well that was a useful question to ask.
Thank you so much for the link! I've experienced it too and always wondered what it's called. It happened multiple times, over a period of a couple weeks. It always occured at the worst time - the moment where you actually fall asleep. It's definitely related to the twitching many people experience during this stage [0], as I thought.

It can be really intense: an extremely loud sound, a bright flash of light and jerking of the neck muscles. It became stronger every time it happened - until it suddenly went away completely.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk
Hence "sorta-kinda" and "can of worms" ;)
It's the second entry in the table here. Links to https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscod...
So far Apple has never produced any audio listening equipment that I (or any other discerning listener) would rate above 'mediocre' in the sound quality department, which is arguably the most important part.
That's most likely related to the pressure you exert on the retina. Close your eyes and press on you eyeballs, it should be even more intense.
That doesn't make sense to me. Not every document is equally damaging. The punishment should fit the crime.
It's basically "cheating" at GC by exploiting a very narrow use case. I saw a trick like this at Smalltalk Solutions in 2000 with a 3D game debugging tool. The "GC" actually simply threw everything away for each frame tick.

Someone needs to come up with something like a functional language based on a trick like this. Or maybe a meta-language akin to RPython, so people can write domain specific little languages for doing things like serving web requests, combined with domain specific "cheating" GC that can get away with doing much less work than a full general purpose GC.

Couldn't a pure functional programming environment be structured to allow for such GC "cheating?"
Isn't that a warning sign of a possible or impending detached retina?
How does this compare to YCMD[0]?

[0]: https://github.com/Valloric/ycmd
- Record number of commutations for nonviolent drug offenders and now Chelsea Manning, as well.

Granted, it's all symbolism, as his administration has prosecuted far more than he's released for those same 'crimes' and done nothing to improve the system, but at least it improves the dialogue going forward, potentially. I will be impressed if he also pardons Snowden, who exposed him (as opposed to Manning who leaked Bush administration secrets).

- Shifted a significant amount of land from the poorly managed BLM to the Forests Service.

Again, not actually solving any problems, as the BLM still owns roughly a third of the land in the country, but he did some symbolic improvements which benefit his image.

- Providing a strong voice for the large strides made for the LGBT community during his administration.

Again, he opposed gay marriage during his 08 run but slowly came around and ended up warming up to it sooner than others. He certainly was not "the reason" progress was made, but I'm at a lack of other accomplishments.

Some additional ones:
- Balancing the budget.
- Getting us out of imperial interventions in the Middle East.
- Reigning in the surveillance state.
- Promoting healthy interest rates instead of kicking the can down the road and encouraging debt.
- Fixing the healthcare system.

Those ones were jokes, obviously. Obama has been a pretty awful President where it matters, competing with the Bushes, FDR, and Woodrow Wilson for the title of worst since 1900. The only things the President really has absolute control over are foreign policy, management of non-legislated decisions such as DEA drug scheduling/prioritizing and surveillance programs, and military execution (see: Pentagon audit 2016). On all of these fronts he is an absolute failure who has desecrated our Constitution and hands over the keys to the most powerful Presidency in US history to Donald Trump. But damn, did he look good doing it. Charisma > results, Obama 2020.
Simple REST API in Node.js
yes, exactly the one. personal note, it's bad form to have published the candidate's salary. at the 3 mil level, not even Google has many employees making that. probably narrowed it down to a dozen or so people since they even mentioned that it was a "programmer" (which I interpret as high IC level).
At which point decentralization and anonymity become negatives.
When the vote is as close add it was, there is no high ground. It's a win/loss by a tiny majority. If remain had won I would like to think that people would have had enough sense to know that almost half the population is disgruntled and done something to make them happier instead of throwing insults everytime "they complained".

I guess no one will truly now know.
As I said, I have a hard time believing that is what's meant, but I think that is a pretty fair summary of the big-picture implications of that proposal. If you don't think so, please explain how rather than throwing out the word "strawmen" and pretending you've debunked something.
I'm not sure I would agree.
I've had it for as long as I can remember, so I don't think so. I do have poor vision though.
A couple years ago, my employer redesigned their credit card page from a slightly cluttered, clunky design to a cleaner, more modern version. Nothing fancy, certainly nothing heavy, just your typical Web 1.0 -> 2.0 CSS adjustment.

Payments plummeted by 5-10%. Didn't understand it. Reverted the change, and still have Web 1.0 UI to this day.
This looks great! I'm still looking for the best replacement for Vesper [http://vesperapp.co/], which the developers abandoned since it wasn't making money. It looks like Standard Notes has a lot of the same features, but part of what I loved about Vesper was how _nice_ the interface was. Standard Notes looks good but I'd love if it had a more Vesper-esque iOS app.
Reminds me of something Putin said to journalists regarding global balance of power:

"International Relations is much like mathematics — there is nothing personal about it."[1]

[1] https://youtu.be/kqD8lIdIMRo?t=11m25s
Ask HN: Why aren't we using syntax-directed editors
Most editors parse code into an internal syntax tree for highlighting and type-checking and such, but still make us edit the text directly.

This seems ridiculous to me. Syntax and type errors should be impossible to create in the first place. Why aren't we manipulating code directly? Is it hard to learn? Is it hard to use? Has it been tried?

The more I think about it the more odd it seems that we never abstracted beyond raw text.
> saw the email associated with it

How?
Seeing this in debian stable would convince me it's likely to be around in ten years (with security updates for the dependencies).

Shorter term, an Ubuntu PPA wouldn't hurt. Other people have other opinions and litmus tests, of course.
Man, how come I am so normal, not a single weird thing to happen to me :) !.

Last night, while I was laying in bed, with eyes closed, I see flash, I think to myself: "Man, I am finally getting visual halucinations, how awesome!"... then I hear thunder rumbling...
Network Security Through Data Analysis
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028444.do
> 400k seems egregiously high, and designed to pander to populist opinion rather than any reasonable interpretation of the law.

400k is what they settled for. They did so, presumably because they were exposed to even worse because they behaved egregiously and if damages did not include a substantial punitive component (at least proportional to the inverse of the successful litigation rate) it would be economically irrational to not break the rules constantly.
More simply, setting tax rates is part of budgeting.
I had that too. From an engineers perspective it looks like there is a coupling between the auditory and visual system/nerve. It makes sense that it only happens when you are lying in bed because there is no sensory input and the 'gain of the signal amplifier' is at maximum.
I love the idea, I have for a while. I hope to see this project grow. But, without a rich text editor it's not the efficient option. I've done Markdown notes before, rich text notes are much faster to read and write. Enough to make me abandon principle and just get it done.
Try out https://www.reddit.com/r/noisygifs/
I use google keep as a todo/planning app and VSCode with Markdown extension as a note taking app.
I don't know about that it added a lot of confusion and fueled a bit of the Arab spring and the offshoot situation in Libya

not fully of course but and it's hard to quantify it also deeply damaged americas ability to respond to the events correctly
Vesper-esque apps are more difficult to maintain, and thus inevitably shut down :)
News is now Global and readers are transient and not loyal.

Brave should take it's micropayments wallet model, but dumb it down and sign a business deal with all major news papers.

You pay $10 per month and get access to all of the news papers. Brave divides the royalties based on your reading habits.

Benefits:

* Easy for consumers to understand

* Easy for news orgs to understand

* Bitcoins and wallet hidden from mainstream

* Proves Brave wallet technology for wider adoption
brave should do ad replacement implement horizontal ad targeting based on sites you visit and then pay publishers and users. users don't want to pay for content (we're spoiled by free), they don't really care about ads as long as they are relevant (to a point), and publishers are stuck right now implementing "native ads" which is just sneaky clickbait crap. brave is onto something but paying with bitcoin will reduce the value of the potential from an everyone market to a much much much smaller one.
Perhaps also relevant: I'm not much of a lip reader, but when I clearly can tell what someone is saying, I have an auditory response. I hear the words. Sometimes this is so strong that when viewing video, I have been fooled into thinking that there was actual audio, when there was none.

I wonder if this is the auditory version of vision whereby the brain fills in details that are not necessarily there.
Sorry -- I'm not an American, I misunderstood what "supermajority" meant (I took it to mean a majority in each of the houses). My bad :).

I'm not saying the Democrats weren't roundly drubbed in the last election, just refuting the belief that this might be the worst position a political party has been in since WW2. I hadn't thought of the state legislature, however! That's a good point.
A Layered Grammar of Graphics [pdf]
One Indian State’s Grand Plan to Get 23M People Online
You betcha.

From "Facts regarding the unauthorized storage and disclosure of the 12 July 2007 aerial weapons team or AW team video", a statement by Manning to the US Army:

The video depicted several individuals being engaged by an aerial weapons team. At first I did not consider the video very special, as I have viewed countless other war porn type videos depicting combat. However, the recording of audio comments by the aerial weapons team crew and the second engagement in the video of an unarmed bongo truck troubled me.

As Showman and a few other analysts and officers in the T-SCIF commented on the video and debated whether the crew violated the rules of engagement or ROE in the second engagement, I shied away from this debate, instead conducting some research on the event. I wanted to learn what happened and whether there was any background to the events of the day that the event occurred, 12 July 2007.

Using Google I searched for the event by its date by its general location. I found several new accounts involving two Reuters employees who were killed during the aerial weapon team engagement. Another story explained that Reuters had requested for a copy of the video under the Freedom of Information Act or FOIA. Reuters wanted to view the video in order to understand what had happened and to improve their safety practices in combat zones. A spokesperson for Reuters was quoted saying that the video might help avoid the reoccurrence of the tragedy and believed there was a compelling need for the immediate release of the video.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/01/bradley-mannin...
I have many times taken over projects that were so deep in technical debt that only extreme surgery would save it from being killed. It can take a long time to turn those projects around and make them healthy again but it is possible.
Cmhc-to-raise-cost-of-mortgage-loan-insurance-in-march
To delete a tag simply click "File" in the notes list of the selected tag. I've had this question come up before so I think it's time for a clearer way.
Their supposedly-factual section has its share as well. Consider the recent misleading article about economists' feelings about market-based education. Scott Alexander points out what it seems to me can only be a deliberately-engineered effort to mislead:

By leaving it at “only a third of economists support vouchers”, the article implies that there is an economic consensus against the policy. Heck, it more than implies it – its title is “Free Market For Education: Economists Generally Don’t Buy It”. But its own source suggests that, of economists who have an opinion, a large majority are pro-voucher.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/12/30/contra-nyt-on-economist...
Yes it's Obama's fault Trump was elected.

facepalm
If you're adopting ES6 into your stack, you may as well go all the way and support ES2017 features.
If he had raised the the rent as he did and then rented it to a different tenant, there would be no issue. If he had raised $100 a month, she decided to move out and he moved in, there might not have been an issue.

You give up some rights on your property when you become a landlord. For instance if you own a home, you can go in and out of any part of that home whenever you like. However if you rent it out to someone else, you lose that right. (You can enter but must give notice a certain amount of time in advance.)

As a landlord, you have the right to raise rent above market rate in most areas, but in this case you lose the right to move in if said raise in rate causes the tenant to move out.
Like this? https://www.shortcutfoo.com/app/dojos/sublime-text-3-win
All kinds of stuff. Disclosure about what the U.S. diplomatic staff knew about corruption and torture in various countries -- and what they really thought about the ruling elites of these places, despite public statements to the contrary; attempts by companies such as Chevron, Lockheed-Martin, and Coca-Cola sought influence in certain countries; how the U.S. arranged to spy on UN officials, etc.

Here's one of my personal favorites (summarized by Reuters):

"You know the movie 'The Godfather'? We've been living it for the last few months," a businessman involved in the dispute was quoted in the cable as telling an official from the U.S. diplomatic mission in Tripoli.

The cable, which was made available to Reuters by a third party, centers on a bottling plant in Tripoli that was shut down for three months. It had been seized by troops loyal to Mutassim Gaddafi, a son of Muammar, who at the time was feuding with one of his brothers, Mohammed. (Another State Department cable suggests a third Gaddafi son, Saadi -- better known as the family's professional soccer player -- may also have been involved in the squabble, though no details of his role are given.)

Eventually, the American diplomatic mission in Tripoli, known then as the U.S. Liaison Office, sent a firm protest to the Libyan government. The document states that around the same time, Mohammed Gaddafi, possibly under pressure from his sister Aisha, a family peacemaker, apparently agreed that shares owned by the Libyan Olympic Committee, which he led, would be sold to a third party.

Shortly afterward, the cable says, Mutassim's men left the Coke plant, ending the family standoff, but not before employees of the plant received threats of bodily harm and a Gaddafi cousin was stuffed in the trunk of a car.

Really, it shouldn't be hard to satisfy your own curiosity on this topic. Unless you think we're better off not knowing about this stuff, that is.
Google+ revives “Events” feature
You're remembering flash with rose tinted glasses I think. It is completely horrible. If what you want is an animation, render a mp4. If what you want is a responsive interface css3 and js animations more than fill the void.
Making a DAC from an Op Amp
So Assange is booking a flight to the US now?

"If Obama grants Manning clemency Assange will agree to US extradition despite clear unconstitutionality of DoJ caseWikiLeaks added" - wikileaks [https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/819630102787059713]
Too much talk about motivations and conscience. Great evils are perpetrated through good intentions and lofty ideals.

But it's clear to me that actions of both Snowden and Manning were moral but illegal.

Regardless of motivation, they both exposed serious crimes. We are all better off because of the risks they took, and there was very little damage to offset the obvious benefits.

The moral yet illegal is exactly what commutation is for. Kudos to Obama for exposing himself to vicious criticism to do the right thing.
Ask HN: Would you accept me as a mentee at your side-project?
I am learning to code with the intention to become a software developer. Specifically a web developer, probably starting as a front-end web developer.

What I want?

A mentor who is an experienced web developer with a side-project that I can help with.

Why a mentor?

I think the best way to accelerate my learning. I am learning through freeCodeCamp mostly and although I'm happy with my progress, I feel I am lacking any training on a few essential skills to properly perform at a job, namely: working in a team, practical collaboration through git/github, feedback on comments, how to create code that fits well with code from other people on a bigger project, how to read and understand other people's code.

Why a side-project?

I know a mentor could just give guidance, but to dig deeper in the semantics here I want a mentor that also is a coach that also is a boss. As mentioned above I also would like to have hands-on experience with a real life project. And, by my understanding, this project being a side-project means more room for experimentation (like experimenting having a mentee helping out), less pressure for results (as in $ results), fewer people involved in any decision process (from having a mentee to deciding what task to pass to the mentee).

Why me?

I think I can genuinely help. I believe I am smart and I am working hard to learn everything I need to be effective. Currently, that just englobes HTML+CSS+JS. You can learn more about my code checking my freeCodeCamp history (https://www.freecodecamp.com/deltasoneca).
I also have some experience as a generalist digital marketer. You can read about that at my LinkedIn (https://br.linkedin.com/in/rodrigohgpontes). So I can help with good input on your marketing/growth strategy and help with execution.

But at the end, you have to primordially want to be a mentor. To teach, guide and manage a junior developer. I expect no payment, but I do expect patience.
Or, as they say in the article, that's 4 months from now, a somewhat reasonable time (considering it could have been 28 years and 4 months) to finish everything up, get her affairs on the outside settled, and all the bureaucracy done.
The first step for me is always to add solid tests. On one project (for example) it took 8000+ test cases to make it solid, maintainable, and bug free in production.
It is not a prerequisite for a pardon, but it does serve the government's interests.

Pre-emptively pardoning Snowden before he spends a day in prison sends the signal that the government isn't going to punish people for leaking, so go right ahead.

Commuting Manning's sentence after seven years still leaves a pretty harsh warning for future leakers (is leaking that information worth seven years of your life?) while showing a degree of mercy to the individual (I mean, not the degree of mercy that commuting after 2 or 3 or 6 years would be...).

Regardless of what you think Obama's secret inner beliefs and motivations are, I think it is reasonable to assume that as Commander in Chief and President of the United States he wants the people he entrusts with secrets to keep keeping them.