skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a complete novice when it comes to road infrastructure so I really have no idea. But I always thought the argument was expanding road capacity just caused more people to consider using it and it always naturally expanded to the point of congestion regardless of size. I'd think a road plus a tunnel would have a similar effect.
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Not long ago I was an Ionic believer, but not anymore... the lack of support for their cloud services [0] has turned many people off and signals that they don't mind leaving their users "locked".

Devs are migrating en masse to react native. I have friends in several startups leaving their jobs because they've been tasked with maintaining legacy Ionic 1.x/Angular projects, while the codebases are migrated to react native...

For hacking quick MVPs is not bad, it was even cool 2 years ago, but for serious projects starting from zero, react native is a smarter choice.

[0] https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-cloud/issues
Should the un-gifted students be required to build that school ?
You owe your employer nothing. Leaving now will make a point to them about their egregious behavior. As a teammate, I would respect that greatly. Speaking from experience, I can't think of a better time to leave the horror you describe than now.
The authors have noteworthy bona fides. Andy used to work for the NSA, and Nelly has 16 patents with names like "Informed implicit enrollment and identification".

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-honig-82239750
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelly-porter-708a10b
It's informative to look at actual examples of SHTF scenarios, war zones for example. In Afghanistan, Chechnya, Syria and so on, groups band together for survival. As far as I can tell it isn't particularly about the fortified redoubt. And armed militias seem to be the form that the groups take.
I don't think it is the wealthy business executives that rise to head those militias. So maybe these rich peppers will just provide targets to more ruthless and bigger bands of raiders.
I program in K professionally and help maintain a fairly large codebase. It's an unusual-looking language and it takes practice to learn to "skim" K code in the way that most programmers are used to for their favorite curly-bracket language, but it can be learned.

The biggest messes I have to clean up come less from "clever" code than they do from people who try to program in K as if it were some other language. For example, somebody fond of for loops might write the following to apply a function 'f' to pairings of values and their index in a list:

result:()
i:0
do[#v
r:r,,f[v[i];i]
i:i+1
]

Ugly, complicated, but "close at hand". There is of course a much nicer and more idiomatic way to do the same thing:

result: f'[v;!#v]

Most of the time conciseness isn't the goal, but you get it as a side effect of writing good code and working "with the grain" of the language.
Some universities have slightly higher pricing for non-EU/Swiss citizens.
I bring it up to managers and co-workers as often as I can, without sounding too bitchy or out of place, because I know how fickle some humans can be, I don't want to be a constant source of negativity -- you have to be in an exalted position to bring up these things, because otherwise you'll just be brushed aside -- well Frank over there sits in the noise and he's twice as productive as you -- well I am not Frank. That's part the reason I don't quit. I am hoping to excite some kind of change. There are enough psychological studies and evidence based claims I can make to fill a boardroom on the negative effects of distraction on productivity, it's just finding the right opportunity and having the right leverage.
From what I see among my friends working in the Bay area, those who moved to startups with "unlimited vacation" are taking less than the few ones who are at generous[1] big corps. And then of course there are still companies like Apple that give 12 days to new employees.

[1] By US standards :) For instance 25 days plus ~10 national holidays.
Disagree. As an immigrant to the US, I see many cultural norms that the US has (at scale, despite heterogeneous population) that were bizarrely foreign to me, but that I (and other immigrants like me) quickly picked up on and developed.

Examples:
(good) giving pedestrians right of way when driving, stopping at stop signs, holding the door open for people
(bad) empty small talk conversations used to fill silences with casual acquaintances.
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Python has async/await since Python 3.5. I recall Guido acknowledging C# in a Pycon keynote. I don't think Guido hates (or misunderstands) functional features, but rather prefers Python to be something different from what you want.
I am unsure what your argument is here. The liberal position here is, in a nutshell, that women's rights are treated poorly and should not be. It's a real stretch to say that means they should be treated as if they were men wearing dick hats because they think men are equal.
Trump doesn't strike me as the sort of boss who enjoys hearing contrary views from his minions. I imagine he told his press secretary to get out there and tell the media off for lying about his record-breaking inauguration numbers, and Mr. Spicer went and did it.

The man is remarkably insecure. Everything he does has to be the "best ever" or it's just not good enough. Having someone like that in charge scares me.
Central bankers experimenting with people's lives. Bold move for Modi. If people start starving and losing their way of life, things will change.
Armies have never been less valuable than they are today, and they are getting less valuable very fast.

Money is probably at peak value: more valuable than it has ever been, but people are realizing its limitations and it will probably never again be as valuable as it is today.

Other forms of value are ascending. That's why people who rely on money and armies for their livelihood are so scared.

If you want to help the world, money and armies are not the tools to use. Start with your time, human time will never be less valued than it is today.
O_O looks like they finally found a smart guy who is right. We now build skyscrapers in couple of years compared to pyramids in egypt but it still takes 14 years of professional training to be a doctor. Then we wonder why it takes so long to find a cure for something or go to Mars. Hmmm, Imagine being attacked in the Age of Empires game and it is taking forever to product soldiers to defend.
Smaller towns often have a far more fierce sense of community. Most of the time people are drawn to them out of shared values and beliefs.

Here in Alaska the small towns fall into a few categories: native villages, churchy types, and fishing towns. The native villages and churchy communities are extremely close knit and wary of outsiders. Nearly everyone is armed to the teeth up here too.

While the logistics of defending a single large apartment building might seem beneficial over a few houses in the middle of nowhere, the big difference is the apartment building is in the middle of the city where all the unprepared people are. In a huge crisis it would be difficult to justify the expense of gas to reach the remote village for a raid. (especially those off the road system).

Also, if you live in the woods you have easier access to wild game with less competition.
It is tragic to see millions of people denied a basic understanding of the world and themselves.
O_O looks like they finally found a smart guy who is right. We now build skyscrapers in couple of years compared to pyramids in egypt but it still takes 14 years of professional training to be a doctor. Then we wonder why it takes so long to find a cure for something or go to Mars. Hmmm, Imagine being attacked in the Age of Empires game and it is taking forever to manufacture your soldiers to defend.
I find for the jobs market usually Java and C# dominate.
I love how half of these plans all depend on workers transporting them. Yeah some guy in an armored SUV is going to pick you up and save you while leaving his family & friends to die.
>Thanks for letting me know you have cool firearms, ammunition, and god knows what else.

I'm pretty sure many of those card carrying NRA members would love for you to show up on their doorstep to take possession of their firearms and survival stash...
Do you want to move up? Don't you feel that becoming a manager (as opposite to individual contributor) will make you loose touch with the tech?
> 2). Abuse with nullable type

What kind of abuse? Too much or too little nullability?

I mean, in Java anything can be null unless it's a primitive type, so that should give you even more problems. Unless it's some sort of mapping of nullable values to non-nullable types that's giving you these crashes?
Scientists are humans operating in large institutions.

It is undeniable that humans and human-run institutions are subject to all the same corrupting factors that every other person or institution is.

It's alarming that most of the comments here start off with the default of "the science must be true".

Science as a process is virtually infallible, but science as practiced by humans in human-run institutions is very very far from infallible.
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“People don’t quit bad jobs, they quit bad bosses"

Looking back, this is the actual reason why I left my previous jobs.
Not your fault management is incompetent. You owe them nothing.
Switzerland's economy is adorably small. It is approximately 3x the size of LA County, and in there are cheese makers, watch makers, ski chalets, etc.

"inspiring great affection; delightful; charming"

This seems adorable to me.
Not sure if it counts, but the jdk9 project page has the July release date and all the features scheduled for Java 9:

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk9/
It's like trying to replicate Las Vegas in twenty different locations in the US, or increasing its population to 10 million people... It doesn't scale.
You just proved my point.

There is no actual evidence that Switzerland is a good place to live because of "stolen" money - in reality, in the American case, not even slightly stolen money but legitimate money owned by legitimate expats that the US Government somehow believes it owns by birthright. In that case it's America stealing from the Swiss, in fact.

There is plenty of evidence that it doesn't matter though, like the fact that the country is still the same even after eliminating all financial privacy rights for non-Swiss. Note that Swiss people still have very strong privacy from the Swiss government by law, a position that puts the Swiss government in a weaker position than most governments are, as tax investigators have much less power. It's only foreigners where the Swiss financial privacy has been dropped. Yet they still manage to make the system work well.
Yeah whether you're leaving or not this is still business, not a charity.

Charge a healthy consultancy fee (hint: it's more than your ex-wage cause you need to cover taxes, your self-employed admin costs, and motivation fees). If they need you enough they'll pay it and if they don't then you're away guilt-free.
I spent 2 years cleaning houses. What I saw makes me never want to be rich
Those drugs were developed with stolen money, their banking system is the worlds harbor for frauds, thieves and dictators funds, and gets to lend all that money out at cheap rates.

Mining tunnels is cheap compared to a real military. Pax Americana means they, like all european countries, don't spend a fraction of what we spend on defense.
I have to give it to the militarists though: they were certainly secular. When the long-overdue recent military coup failed (or didn't happen, depending on who you ask), it seems to me the flood walls just collapsed irreversibly. Fundamentalist faith is on the rise worldwide, and Turkey has especially been under attack from within and without for all of its history.

The country just feels lost at this point. It wasn't so long ago, Turkey was considered an important ally of the EU, on track to become a member state.

Being German myself, we used to have a special relationship with that country. People forget nowadays that there are so many originally-Turkish people in Germany now because at one point the influx of Turkish workers was a welcome addition to the German economy.

I often wonder about the parents of an ex-girlfriend, who after working their asses off in Germany for their entire lives, moved back to Turkey for retirement - for much the same reasons pensioners in the US move to Florida. They were a friendly, modern, secular couple. I wonder what situation they find themselves in now.
Fuel is great to trade. So is ammo and horses. The latter are especially versatile because they can often feed themselves, make more horses, provide truly all terrain transport after the fuel turns to varnish, and you can even eat them if needed.
> The rest of the world can do a lot of things when America develops drugs for them

Honestly this "Oh we're so benevolent" argument always irks me. "Sorry poor folks, we can't have affordable healthcare because otherwise the rest of the world will suffer due to the lack of money in medical research!". It's excusing the insane medical fees (1000 dollars for a bag of salt water?) by lying to yourself "Oh but at least it means the money goes to health R&D!" (Hint, it's not, CEO's of medical insurers are the top 0.1%).

Medical companies can charge so much because the government lets them. If the government had single-payer and managed to force the price of medication down, the price will go up elsewhere, one hopes to a percentage equal in each country's GDP/purchasing power. If a government tried to sell this to you by saying "We want to make sure we pay the fair price, and that everyone else in the world pays the fair price.", are you going to say "Boo! No! We want to pay more than the fair share, because, oh we're just so benevolent!"?

Don't get me started on unprecedented peace. Even if that existed, it's all been unraveled post-9/11. How many democracies has the US toppled? See Iran 1953 for example.
Hi Ryan

I'm confused by the pricing.

I went the pricing page and it wasn't clear to what, if anything, the service cost.

Just FYI.

https://onupkeep.com/pricing.php

Edit. I really like the intro video by the way. https://youtu.be/oX7Lak7o0qI
Being an engineer does not necessarily make you a bad manager though.
Ayn Rand in the novels has 'villains' who bring politicians into power who then decide upon legislation that then protects those 'villains' from cheaper and better competition.

The 'heros' in Ayn Rands novels embrace competition because they invent new things and know/think they are the best and the best should win.

So yes, protectionism as a concept to protect factories from cheaper and better competition is right out of the 'villains' playbook. This is also something that Thiel doesn't understand about Trump.

Also Trump supports coal against competition of cheaper energy. Not Trump, but the recent legislation efforts in Wyoming do exactly the same (protecting coal) and I'm sure Trump is at least happy with it.

"Trump might be moving the world towards a Galt's Gulch analogue"

No Trump is moving the world straight in the other direction. Protectionism is just the first step to protect his cronies (e.g. textile), next moves will be protecting coal against solar, oil/gas against electric cars etc.

How did Trump make his money? Not by inventing (e.g. Musk would be a 'hero' in Atlas Shrugged) but by shady deals on casinos, buildings and using the system (tax breaks etc.) for him, like the 'villains' in Ayn Rand novels. So for sure Trump is on the 'villain' side in Atlas Shrugged - if you don't agree, read it again ;-)
Congrats on your launch, this looks really cool! And I love your story!

Did you do the design, too? What's the tech stack? How do you stay motivated?
Growing up in CA, I had no idea about the former glory or struggle of the chestnut tree, and so found this piece quite interesting.
Sorry, but if we are to learn from history, there is no hiding place in the world. Barricading yourself in a bunker would be like building your own prison. How long could anyone really survive before emerging back? And if the super rich did survive, how long before they destroy themselves again? You would have an accelerated log(N) kind of self-destruction. First year of survival = 1%, 2nd time = 1% of 1% and so on...
Since we are speaking in ridiculous hyperbole -- if everyone worked for private industry and no one had the option to work for the government -- what do you expect would be the effect on the distribution of wage and labor benefits?
Being considered an outsider is not bad. Being treated as subhuman or as an enemy because you are an outsider, that's when it becomes a problem.
The best kind of extinct.
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>Perhaps, but if a geographical area of your country produces most of your food,

As a matter of fact, much to most of our food comes from California.

>Such is the path to resentment, secession and violent revolution.

Why is ignoring the majority of the people, who produce 2/3 of the GDP, not considered a path to resentment, secession, and violent revolution?

That is, why should we in the sane, tolerant, productive, non-fascist majority not just declare independence from a government which plainly has no intention of listening to our voices or interests, which rigs elections against us year after year, and which considers itself the only legitimate Americans?

Why should only the loser minority get to revolt?
I'm not sure "hate" is the correct word but "Tall Poppy syndrome" is real in NZ.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome

The egalitarian ideal is also declining rapidly in NZ.
And to me, doing this pro bono shows a lack of regard for the value of your own time.

They paid you to do the job before, why do it for free now?

I've been in this situation fairly recently. I pointed out to my old employer that I was "being nice" by consulting for them since my new job was keeping me pretty busy, so I told them the max number of hours I was willing to commit to, and how much I would charge. Come up with a reasonable cost of your time (hint: not below $100/hour) and find out beforehand how they want to be billed.

It's business. A business exists to make money, not to be your friend.
> Looking back, the main problem was probably Spring, Glassfish, IOC, XML, Maven and numerous other "EE" things that java-people assumed were a must 10 years ago.

One of the most popular frameworks - Spring Boot - includes many of these now. It's fairly light, contained, works well in Docker. Maven is pretty straightforward for simple things, IOC is optional. I haven't exercised it heavily though, but what's wrong with those things?

> I die a little inside every time I'm forced to launch eclipse

Intellij's your healing potion then.
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Perhaps it would be worthwhile for you to engage with the scientific literature cited in this article? These arguments are considered.

Indeed, even in TFA:

> Failing to provide an appropriate education for students who are gifted increases the risk of mental health issues, boredom, frustration, developing behavioural problems both at school and at home, leading to disengagement and dropping out of school.

> When these students are academically isolated in a non-selective school, they can “dumb down” and underachieve to improve social acceptance by their peers and minimise the risk of bullying and social isolation.

We can disagree about these conclusions, but I hope we agree that if they're right, it's not morally right to send a gifted kid to a regular school on the theory that they'll set an example for those around them if the above is the cost to the kid.
No, but there should be seperated, one project based, the other classic frontal teaching and a way to trade gifted-extra-credits into "have the non-gifted work on your project for better grades".
The brain uses REM sleep to cut unneeded connections
Because oxygen is much more common than fuel on Earth's surface.
So no pp for nz???

Edit: BTW, my point was that your previous point is nonsensical. The fact that the State can suspend one right doesn't mean that right is less important.

Also you don't seem to understand that "social democracy" is actually what happens in every western country, even the USA. The goverment seizes at least half the production of the country. Maybe USA spends a lot in the military while other countries spends more on public health. But that's how they spend the money. The fact that money is collected and percentage of wealth seized is the same.

What (hopefully) we're talking about here is the legal safety that you have for the money that you have after taxes. If the State can arbitrarily seize money, raise the taxes to confiscatory levels or use another trick to crush you, that's lack of control.

I don't think that's worse in NZ than in the USA. Actually I believe it to be the other way around.
à propos. Thank you for this timeless and wondrous proof!
kdb is not statically linked.

edit:

$ file q/l64/q
q/l64/q: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18,
you've lived in three western countries for 10+ years each, and your mother tongue is one of the official languages of the 'foreign' nation?
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I do think that educating other people is important, because we don't live forever.
Sometimes a customer makes a downright irrational complaint. I don't really understand what they're complaining about or how to resolve the issue.

So I ask them to fill out a simple form: What happened? What did we do wrong? What is your desired resolution?

Often by the second question, they begin to realize we did exactly what they wanted (and no I don't mean we did it in a smart aleck way) and that maybe they're being irrational. By the third question, they get a perspective check: "how would I do this?"

Or they don't... and then explain in detail what they didn't like. We then address the complaint to the satisfaction of the customer.

I only use this in specific situations, but it's very effective.
We’re initially targeting the US market, and it was easiest to get serving data in imperial units to start.
We are planning to add sensible serving sizes in metric units as soon as we can.
From a fiscal point of view, it's impossible for every country to be a net exporter of goods.
I think the West is both Brave New World (consumer society) and [partially] 1984 (mass surveillance by three-letter agencies).
i am very suspicious of my fiance of two years now that she's cheating on me, she has changed passwords to every account that she has, plus put a pin lock on her phone, i have been searching for ways to retrieve her text messages without installing any software on her phone or having access to it, so far i am not having any luck. we have a 19 year history together, plus a beautiful 18 year old daughter & this is eating me up inside. But i finally burst on this page from Google and found the God eye who changed my whole story for good! He help me hack her FB, her emails and her phone number and i got to see all his messages and apps from her phone. only for me to found out she's cheating and have a son out there without my consent but i thank the God eye for letting me know all this and am moving on fine with my life and my daughter. He's also involved in any sort of hacking issues. Hurray!! Get to him on (Godeyeviewhacker@hotmail.com)
Making fun of Justin.
I wish secularists would do a little more soul searching on the question of why fundamentalism is on the rise at all.

Personally I think it's pretty simple: fundamentalism offers a sense of community and belonging. In the age of loneliness that's pretty compelling. Secularism offers knowledge and information but nothing human -- no community, no identity, no sense of place or culture. (I can't remember where I first heard "age of loneliness" but I think it's accurate.)