skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're used to mountains, oceans, et c you might find the landscapes and outdoor activities (aside from boating at the ubiquitous man-made lakes) in the Midwest lacking, to put it mildly. Most of it's also pretty far from anywhere that's much more interesting. If you're lucky you'll be in a location where you can take a 3-day weekend of mostly driving and spend a day somewhere better, but that's about as good as it gets. Hard to get decent fresh seafood at anything like a reasonable price, too, for obvious reasons, so hope you're not in love with seafood. Flights to Asian or European countries are more expensive than and take longer than on the West and East coasts, respectively, too, again for obvious reasons.

It is cheap though, and some of the cities have decent (and improving) culture, considering how inexpensive they are.

Source: lifelong Midwesterner, lived in four Midwestern states.
That's true, but the fact that there is an approximate ideal water temperature for coffee brewing has no bearing on what appropriate storage and serving temperatures might be.
The young who are childless but still have a high income. That implies, though, that if/when they have kids, they're going to find San Francisco to be less attractive...
Can confirm both - I've been writing LOB software for the financial industry in VB6 up until very recently, and stopped because I switched jobs, not because they've stopped writing them :P

To be honest, VB6 is much better than some of the other stuff they have around.

I now switched to a travel agency and am interacting with the Sabre blue screen systems that are similarly old.
Quora, Allrecipes skills coming to Amazon Alexa devices
I wonder why the higher-up managers aren't able to spot bullshitters, and if they could be trained to do so. It would certainly benefit their organizations.
What It Takes to Be a Digital Nomad, from a Startup Who Creates Them
The stupid paper doesn't make any sense. It says when you think of a line you think of the ends ending. That would be a LINE SEGMENT, a line goes in infinite directions. Fucking christ
I disagree with the notion that our time period would not be considered special to people from the future. Our recent history is the birth of the modern human- computers, technology, the industrial revolution, nuclear bombs, landing on the moon. I think it would be a time travel historian vacation hotspot.
I'm pretty sure Ubuntu 16.04 is Python 3 by default and you have to ask for 2.

edit: nope, been imagining things. too much time in venvs i guess. need to get more sleep :)
One thing that will be a factor for a long time is that a piece of paper doesn't require integration to share it with other people, or a battery to be charged etc. It's just a real object representing your ideas.
When I first saw the Chromebook, my thought was that Larry Ellison's 1998 dream of a network computer thin terminal had come true. It's smarter than a true thin terminal, but everything lives in the cloud (err, butt).
It's not just a PR effort.

She asked for $11k for medical bills. They refused.

"""

After four hours of deliberation, the jury found for Liebeck. She was awarded $200,000 for compensatory damages, reduced by 20 percent because Liebeck had contributed to the accident. They also awarded $2.7 million in punitive damages. One juror said, "It was our way of saying, 'Hey, open your eyes. People are getting burned'."

"""

http://academic.udayton.edu/Lawecon/Assignments/Torts/Mc%20D...
> Apple’s first rejection was focused pornographic content shared by Gab users. While this is rare, Gab users can share legal pornographic content as long as they tag it as #NSFW (Not Safe For Work.) After a phone call with Apple we came to a mutual understanding on the topic and agreed to mute any NSFW posts by default in the iOS app so long as users had the choice to opt-in.

Sorry, too lazy to download the iOS Reddit app myself. But does the Reddit app have NSFW muted by default? What does that mean in the context of logged-in accounts? That is, if I've been a longtime Reddit user and subscribe to NSFW subreddits, do I have to opt-in to seeing those subreddits when I first sign-in using the iOS app? Or is it that Apple just wants NSFW to not show up by default for a given app? I think Reddit's default subs aren't NSFW...?
All that stuff is very affordable on an average developer's salary if you move to, say, Florida.

It may be somewhat lost on the San Francisco crowd who consider a "luxury home" to be one with a separate bedroom.
Um, your solution to illegal immigration is beating people?
> Now, for A-level companies like Google, Apple, FB, etc. it's actually better to do what you do!

Bull-fucking-shit. Google and Facebook are the poster children for algorithm based interviews. They don't give 2 shits about what you have done because it wasn't done at Google, so it counts for nothing. Now go solve another pointless dynamic programming problem you waste of skin.
You have no experience; no linkedin; or you're not in SF/SV/NY/London.

Link to your linkedin/resume please?
This is only one of a possible spectrum of outcomes. Presenting it as the only one is disingenuous. It describes a company almost at war with itself due to abysmally poor internal communications.

I'm sure we all recognise it, because it's the shitty baseline, but we can do and do better than this.
Counter-point, at least for me:

I got a Kindle in 2012, when I traveled the world for a few months. Swapping books or even buying new ones every 2-3 days gets boring quickly. So I got the $79 Kindle back then (still think it's the best one ever, because its light, no keyboard, no touch, page flips with mechanical keys on both sides).

The biggest advantage though is: I read way more on a Kindle than ever before. I love that you don't have to carry a book, can adjust the font size, and basically pick it up faster than a physical book and continue reading, even if it's only for 10 minutes in the subway.

Also, Kindle books are usually cheaper and I (as a German) get to download many English books instead of having to order them and wait for a day or two.

Weird: I often highlight some sentences or paragraphs in Kindle books that I like, but I actually never look back at the notes I took.
What's great is that you have to use Western Union to send that person money while they are in jail
So you are saying there are two sorts of people, those who put people in categories and those who don't, and you are the latter type. Ok.
In the sales community, "legacy" seems to mean "what we didn't sell you."
This.

Folks: encryption is not mainly for doing dark, bad things. It is normal and reasonable to want to control who comes into your house, who reads your email, and who can track your every move.

Stop naming your tools as if they were for bad guys.

Lavabit Guy, of all people, should realize that encryption isn't worth beans to anyone if the rest of society thinks it's Bad and Should Be Punished.

So stop making it sound like that. That's Step 0.
Stocks increase about that rate annually but people don't seem to have an issue with that.
Your concern is somewhat ancient history in the node/npm world. NPM >= 3 flattens the dependency hierarchy as much as it thinks possible. (3.0.0 was released to beta in Jun 2015; NPM >= 3 has been bundled with Node LTS since "Boron" in Oct 2016)

Subsequent versions of NPM continue to improve upon this flattening effort.
I don't want "all brands", I want just one. Maybe you're not set on a particular brand and model, but when I buy a car I am, because a single, somewhat lackluster dealership buying experience is far preferable to having a POS car that breaks down a lot or that I'm not very happy with for some reason. There are not dozens of different dealers for the same brand in the same metro area. So that leaves me driving around to a bunch of different states to cover all the dealers.
ahahahahahah I tried the same

https://i.imgur.com/dYcPDkX.png
Since Python and C++ were not successful due to promotion by Google (but for other reasons), you do not have a logically deductive counter-argument here.

Your counterexamples speak nothing to the validity of the proposition "if Google promotes something, it will likely be successful".

They are counterexamples to the ridiculous proposition "If, and only if, Google promotes something, it will be successful".
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In other words, Western Union is guilty of not being zealous enough at being a quasi-law enforcement agency and investigating its customer transactions...

To those cheering here, you should remember this next time you try to open a bank account or make a payment, and your bank wants to see a thousand of proofs and certificates before moving a finger.
What does this mean for Fi users?
I guess someone inside Google must have a soft spot for Voice, neglecting an app for 5 years and then resurrecting it is very unGoogly.
Maybe the restrictions on building created the growth? The Bay Area is an awfully nice place to live if you have money. Every other American city, except for maybe New York City, is endless chain store filled sprawl which requires a car to do anything in. Even New York requires a minimum two hour drive to get to some decent natural scenery while with San Francisco you don't have to go very far to get to be in a great natural environment.
Inside Instagram’s reinvention
Thanks for the data point. I'm curious about how "integrated" your setup is. Do you use it for invoicing as well as receiving payments? Do you need to do any reconciliation of income, invoices, fees received, outstanding payments, etc? Is it plugging in to any APIs of other products?
This website is essentially 6 lines of text and a web form. This could be implemented in, say, 25 kilobytes of PHP code.

Your website took around 6 seconds to load, weighs 3.5MB and requires my machine to pull data from about 17 different domains.

I realize that you (assuming you are the author of this site) are mostly just following current web design trends (single page websites) so I'm not putting the blame squarely on you, but how is this even remotely reasonable? Honestly, I prefer the average 90's website to this.
Do you have any details or examples of your battery work? Those battery numbers almost sound like switching someone from older battery chemistry to a lithium based formula.
The two times I did this with two separate teams I hated it.

I'm a very social guy, so it isn't an introvert thing, but I work 100% remote, I don't want to meet and be confined to 'activities' or environments where I can't be productive. If I wanted to be in an office, I have plenty of job offers to do so. If I wanted to meet my co-workers on 'activities' (like the once a year retreats with parties and trust falls and what-not) I would join the local kumbaya group.

Just thinking I have to travel for a week, away from my friends, my family my routines for someone to have face-to-face time with me that could have been done on skype/hangouts is ridiculous, and whenever I hear about yearly retreats/trips I pass on the job.
> (As regards Daredevil season 2, it was unfocused, full of ninjas and superfluous side characters. They completely lost the plot.)

It perhaps speaks to how mediocre-bordering-on-bad season 1 was that I agree with all of that and still think it was quite a bit better.
Hmmmm, it looks like the version string in RC4 hasn't changed...

$ grep "VERSION_" Makefile

DYNAMIC_VERSION_MAJOR	:= 1
DYNAMIC_VERSION_MINOR	:= 0
DYNAMIC_VERSION_REVISION	:= 0-rc3

...
I don't think we can define a lower bound as we don't know the size of the universe, or if there is a cycle of previous universes without life.

However, life showed up on earth at a very early stage which suggest it has a relatively high probability over a planets lifespan. Without other information to go on earth is probably topical and life generally shows up within the first 500 million years watter shows up.
Why? IIRC cross-origin will prevent the http page from reaching into the https iframe and furthermore the password is being sent over https so google doesn't really care.
>> It was at this point that the seasoned data architects in the department began expressing their exasperation. “15 years ago, everybody was telling us ‘Get off the mainframe, get on AT&T applications, build these thick clients. Mainframes are out.’ And now thick clients are out, and everybody’s moving to APIs and microservices, which basically are very similar to the thin client that a terminal uses to interact with a mainframe.”

A.k.a. "Them as not knows their history are doomed to repeat it". But I suppose it's more the case of business imperatives than real ignorance that drive this mad race to make new stuff that works worse than the old stuff only so we can then go back to the old stuff with a different name.

Btw, that lady is my new tech hero:

“The systems that I love are really the systems that other engineers hate,” Bellotti told the audience — “the messy, archaic, half chewing gum and duct tape systems that are sort of patched together.

<3 <3 <3
I think that this would essentially mean that Uber has to be a shrewder lender. Uber must know how much drivers usually make, and when a car payment would make it difficult to live, especially based on region. The solution to Uber being a bad lender and encouraging this "perception of indentured servitude" is to disallow some people who already have money problems or are buying too expensive of a car from participating.

Which is an okay decision for them to make. But it does feel like they're taking some nanny-responsibilty for people who ought to be able to make their own financial decision? And they would absolutely be disqualifying some responsible people who could have made it work.
Pittsburgh.
Fair enough. Though it makes it pretty unappealing to set up a renewable energy source in Wyoming, or even in the general vicinity of the state, if you can't actually sell to people or utilities nearby. At that point, the only good reason to set up a renewable energy plant within Wyoming is if you have some extremely good geographical/climate/geological reason to do so.

Note also that this bill also blocks geothermal energy, which I would expect should be pretty attractive as a source of energy for the home state of Yellowstone and Old Faithful.
This app is just a fine publicity gimmick on the part of the developers. This happens a lot! Will get loads of news stories, Facebook shares and likes but make not a joy of difference to anything.
Ha :) I don't think it gets better then what you just wrote.

I think it is mostly due to tools on computer being bad. When I use writing app like IA Writer, or simple outliner like Outlinely or Vim plugin... I get a lot from that, mostly because I can type fast.

And I love everything paper and pens/pencils.
React and .NET Core Deployment on Linux
I'd first question who these successful people actually are, and by what metrics they're considered successful.

Over the years I'm starting to realise more and more that what I thought was success was actually prequalified by some sort of head-start or privilege: Born into wealth, great connections, amazing generics, etc.

It's important to scope these out first I feel.
I agree. I've been working and managing a small group for several years working remotely. It takes about 6-12 months before someone fully adjusts to working remotely. Communication between each other isn't a challenge as we meet every morning.
My understanding is that she was not driving. She had pulled over. Just wanting to clarify...
I don't understand why this is so weird. History is filled with chapters of societal wanton and rampant violence. It could be a class struggle like the French Revolution, deep seated ethno/racial enmity like the Rwandan Genocide, or some psychopathic asshole gains power, blames a helpless and pitiful group of so-called 'depraved deviants' for the entirety of his nation-state's problems, curses at the president of the US, and decides to deputize the entire nation as modern day Judge Dredd's with full authority as judge, jury, and executioner.

Yes, even in the 21st century, (although this is in the Philippines, this shows what humans are capable of given certain conditions), you can kill someone if they are suspected of using drugs and Duerte will give you a medal. The astute among you can see that you can kill any person, sprinkle some crack on them, and not only will there be absolutely no investigation, you will be regarded as a patriot and a hero. It seems that if you kill a poor person, absolutely no one cares.

This is one of the first major purchases I would make and I do have a rather large emergency kit should disaster strike. Like me, they're in California along a known fault line way overdue for a major earthquake. Unlike these "smart" execs, I'd hone my survival skills. I'm not overly concerned about a 21st century peasant revolt, but we live in an area where it's not a matter of if, but when a major disaster will strike. If people are without electricity and running water for an extended period of time and/or there is a breakdown in security (police, national guard, etc.), it gets ugly quick. For example, in Los Angeles, there was a mentally ill person who threatened to jump off of an overpass on the 405 (possibly the world's busiest freeway). His antics caused such a slowdown in traffic, the freeway became a literal parking lot for a few hours. Because a man inconvenienced their time, people began to goad him into killing himself saying things like "What are you waiting for you fucking pussy, get it over with!!!" This wasn't one person, a significant part of the traffic jam was saying this or wishing it.

When you are malnourished and/or dehydrated, you lose compassion and reason, gain paranoia, and become more focused on your own survival. For people with such resources this is like paying a few pennies for apocalypse insurance.
> but we also include quarterly face-to-face get-togethers where the team can sit in a room and whiteboard problems, pair program, or really whatever they want to do that feels useful.

To me, that sounds utterly horrifying. I'm unable to fly because of the TSA (I cannot tolerate being touched, and even the slightest risk of a pat-down is unacceptable). Any job where I'd be expected to fly cross-country is a job that I simply won't be able to do.

I want my next job to be a remote job because I'm probably going to be moving soon, and I'd like to completely decouple "where I work" from "where I live". Even if I could fly, the idea of working a remote job where I'd have to travel defeats the whole purpose of working remote.
Keep in mind that some of the trends in the article may have gone to the excessive side. Completely open or a master bedroom taking up 1/2 of the living space might fall out of style, but only at the extremes.
It has more to do with pork projects than anything else.

People keep electing an otherwise terrible politician because "he was effective in bringing (back) money from D.C. to build our schools".

In other words, reverse bribery.
I thought it was anything below 4, but who knows.

When I have unsafe drivers I aggressively rate them 1 or 2s depending on what it was. I know that it's "mean" to the driver, but I'm being kind to future passengers, pedestrians, and everyone who shares the road.
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Is there something wrong with me when I'm the opposite? I can't even read my own handwriting all that well :(

I just write everything in notepad (or vim/emacs) and store the plain text files on my server (and take some backups)
have nothing to add. AMEN!
To discourage piracy. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/12/super-mario-run-online...
Design for Non-Designers: Part 1
I find it amazing in this day and age that people even use Western Union, legitimate or not.
Really? At least you would test that the system works before handing over so much of your money to them, right?
According to the article, this plant would employ 30k-50k people. The secondary effects of these jobs would be equally massive. While I would prefer an American company operating the plant, merely employing this many people would be a serious boon.
So have internet service providers, your email service and your laptop manufacturer...
AnyDesk, a german cross-platform remote desktop access thing.

https://anydesk.com/remote-desktop

When you download an app on e.g. Windows you're used to first going through the installation dance. This app surprised and delighted me by having the downloaded .exe launch into running mode immediately. After I had tried it out and closed it, it then asked me whether I wanted to keep it installed.
Assume for a minute that they were holding at 170F (chosen because it's a middle ground between 160 and 180, common hot beverage holding temps from [1]).

Even at that lower temperature, Stella would still have sustained third degree burns in under one second [2]. Even if you're generous and take 20 degrees off to account for cooling between the time of pouring and the time of spilling, that's only one extra second's difference to get second/third degree burned. Given that her burns were exacerbated by her clothing trapping the hot liquid next to her skin, that isn't enough to have made a difference in the outcome.

The conclusion is clear. Any reasonable hot holding temperature will result in serious burns if you get the liquid on you soon after purchase.

1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18226454

2: http://www.accuratebuilding.com/images/services/charts/hot_w...
>They make a lot of money off phones that needs to be replaced every 2 years.

No... they really don't. They make a lot of money off search traffic and the app store. Android licensing amounts to approximately $0.75 per handset. That's not even a rounding error on their balance sheet, and SURELY not something to "intentionally break android" over. Broken android is a great way to drive people to other platforms. There's nothing to be gained for them in that.

more to the point, why do you think they released the Pixel line-up? They got sick of vendors screwing up Android by skinning every premium handset on the market (and skins are the primary source of broken garbage). And in that endeavor they've been wildly successful. The pixel is by far the best android handset I've ever owned. You pay for it, but it's worth it if you like android.
I've worked with several devs who are trustworthy in general, but the days they work from home they are curiously unproductive. Or you try to get in contact with them on an issue of theirs and they never seem to be around. Yet in the office they're perfectly functional and available.

Not to mention that tech staff are a seller's market at the moment - trust or not, most companies don't get a lot of choice with the staff they get to have. The article's author is supremely selfish in assuming all staff are like them.
Good job. Thanks.
> Quantum mechanics can and does predict every element on the periodic table.

Given that we can't confirm that, how do we actually know this?
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I don't know. Rolex and the like spend a lot of money advertising at sporting events (Tennis, F1, Olympics, etc). Often there is a prominent Rolex clock or "Omega Timing" ("Official Timekeeper!") and there is certainly an implication of precision and accuracy.
Historic SF site says goodbye to its porn movies
Just as surely as (a+b) = (b+a),  mathematicians love their blackboards