skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Other sources indicate something that might be related - arrival of a "sniffer" WC-135 plane from Florida to UK that detects and monitors radioactive events. So there might be something going on (or not).

Anyway, why is it so bad to be concerned about health impact of even negligible radioactive release (are you sure newborns/sick do have the same threshold?) as an ordinary citizen, given the massive dishonesty of governments in the past in cases like Chernobyl or Fukushima? Why can't we just read in the newspapers within 2-3 days "we detected a minuscule amount of radiation, probably related to bad weather" or something, rather than keep a lid on it? Don't we deserve better? Or do we have to be handled like kindergarteners with somebody else deciding what is good for us to know?

And please stop with the banana examples, it's getting tiring. You 100% know there are various radioactive elements emitting different types of radiation, some way more dangerous than the others. Iodine by itself is just a first indicator but it's not the only element that gets released; some of the others are way more dangerous and we deserve to know. Not to mention there is a very different outcome if you just get some element on your skin or if it gets incorporated (cumulatively!) into your bones, organs or gets stuck in your lungs.
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It feels like people are focusing on bad conditions and unreasonable deadlines, and not the idea that in the real world smart people under execellent conditions do this very, very frequently.

I've worked for long periods of time in 3 codebases that were over 2 million loc in my career, all had great conditions, all had very smart people. Those are not huge codebases by any standard, and yet all 3 had people talking about ground up rewrites. All 3 had people complaining about every single example the author used. Two of them undertook the ground up rewrite estimating one year. Both admitted to having made a huge mistake 3-5 years later.

My theory is that all software eventually becomes difficult to maintain and full of warts, regardless of smartness, regardless of conditions. We all have code ideals we believe and talk about that don't work as well in the real world as we imagined. We all have deadlines that are shorter than we want -- it's a universal constant. We all imagine we can write code and fix big problems faster than we really can. And we all fail to fully understand what's working right in a messy large codebase and tend to focus on what's wrong.

I don't know how to fix this, but it's very possible the author ran into thoughtful paradigms he just hadn't seen before and didn't fully understand. Some styles seem messy if you haven't seen them before.

React is an intentional lack of separation of concerns between code and markup. Some projects are required to mix tabs and spaces depending on tools. For that matter, bash scripts alone require mixing tabs and spaces for some features. And so on, it's important to have context for why things are the way they are before jumping to the conclusion that it's bad.
The one that's been getting me lately is the split between Xcode 7/Swift 2.2 and 8/3. We have an older project in Swift 2 (yes, it's slated to get changed over, just not yet), and new work on a project in 3. If I try to open one while the other is already open, one of the Xcodes invariably freezes or crashes.

I will say, though, that I've always liked IB (though not storyboards). But then there's the wonderful "Oh, you opened a nib, I should move something around in the XML." -> SCM status changes even though I didn't modify the file.
> that's not quite what ferrari intended when selling their cars at $5000

If this is what they intend, they could go about it differently; other posters suggest venues happily allow touts to take the risk away from the venue. A random lottery would be perfectly legal, and allow the ticket distribution to be random, if the venues desired this.

I'd also note, any company that actually did this, might not be able to maintain shareholders, since some companies aren't supposed to be anything but self-interested by design. Bands could always insist, though.
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"modifications to standard of living expectations" are purely untenable and ultimately destructive to everything that defines human society. If you really want to get people to oppose you, try to guilt trip them, tell them they have to be too cold all winter and too hot all summer, tell them they can never travel again, cram them into tiny apartments where they can hear every bodily function their neighbor performs.

The solution to resource depletion and pollution is to give people what they want in a way that's actually sustainable. Build thicker walls and floors to block sound and conserve energy. Design more efficient lighting and appliances. Develop renewable energy. Etc.

Everything non-essential to human survival is everything that makes us human.
Thanks, that was an insightful reply. It's like when the banks pushed off mortgage risk to the public market before the great recession. Companies accrue massive technical debt (risk), but push it on the buying company who either isn't competent enough to DD the software, or simply doesn't care. In the end, someone has to pay for that negligence, but it's like playing hot potato or musical chairs.
Yes. Especially if the thing that causes rental house prices to rise also causes alternatives to rental housing to rise...
YES. Oh GOD yes.

Some of the worst D'oh moments I've had came from before I added tab completion to my .vimrc, because it almost completely eliminated errors that my typos introduced.
Vim itself comes with a user manual, besides the command reference. :h user-manual

Another site with good general advice is https://www.vi-improved.org/
> The best ones are the ones that can push out a solution given too little time and given a (maybe self inflicted) bad code base.

If every open source project was developed by those principles, all high and mighty web companies would collapse.

Good work is being done, but it's for free.

EDIT: You're right of course about the reality in the parasitic companies.
Here's what I would love: A wysiwyg editor much like WordPress outputting static HTML (maybe even directly to S3 buckets).

Does this exist?
I've noticed this effect recently - I call it "too big to try."

Once a given institution reaches a certain scale, the apparent limitations on human attention at the top of the hierarchy make it impossible for the organization to contemplate small ventures. Like the parable of Bill Gates finding a hundred-dollar bill on the sidewalk, it's no longer worth the time to stoop to pick up the small stuff.

(Intuitively, this seems related to the absurd inflation in the cost of public works in the US over the last century.)
There is a substantial subsidy, but not one that covers the full price difference you've highlighted:

https://www.gov.uk/plug-in-car-van-grants/what-youll-get
Were you getting a VAT exclusion with OVH?
Apple works with their bug reporting system; instead of encouraging people to "sign" "letters" (on Google forms no less) - open a bug report at https://bugreport.apple.com, post the bug number and encourage people to duplicate it. This is the only way to move something at Apple.
And see also http://fixradarorgtfo.com
not wasting a lot of silicon space on an integrated graphics solution seems to be a big win in terms of increasing the effective power of the CPU without increasing the price as much since in the end the die will likely be smaller.

I am surprised Intel has never come up with some more gaming oriented i7s with more cores and no integrated graphics as pretty much no gamer would run without a discrete video card anyways, but then again without any competition from AMD it probably wasn't worth the engineering effort or the risk of cannibalizing their Xeon offerings.
I wonder if this story will drive anywhere near the interest.
When should I pivot?
For example, I've built http://www.fastveneus.com as a way to connect diners to unique/discounted set-menu meals at their favourite restaurants. However, it's strictly a web app, and the bookings have been less than promising. Is the web-app dead? Should I invest in turning it into a mobile app?

Or is it a business model issue? E.g. that people just don't want to book and pre-pay for a meal when dining in at a restaurant, even if it's discounted through fastvenues.com
I wouldn't quite say this - the comforts that plugins bring can be quite useful, even if I only use them once in a blue moon - but definitely have some idea of what the bare minimum you want in a .vimrc is.
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isn't that what Typescript is shooting for?
absolutely agreed on vim-adventures. I generally play the game once a year or so out of pure enjoyment as well as a way to remind myself of all the areas where I'm getting lazy or relying too much on a plugin!
> it's hard to get away from

Could have fooled me, many western women lean towards tsundere...
No worries, Windows 10 Professional, Chrome 56, no issues on Edge/Firefox, maybe it's a weird bug with this particular issue Chrome?
It's only unrealistic if you aren't willing to adapt to changing market conditions.
Also, the devops and hangops slack teams. I'd probably say those two and hacker news by themselves helped me get a promotion.
I believe Lektor does that: https://www.getlektor.com
I haven't looked up the figures for you, but a lot of it is based on future decarbonisation of the electricity grid.

Depends on which country you live in of course, but right now in most countries the carbon factors for petrol or diesel will be lower than those for electricity.

Norway is probably an exception to this: it has lots of wind, lots of rivers, and lots of money.
Another great blog: http://highscalability.com
Along those same thoughts, you put many developers in a room and they end up converging on "the one true architecture" and nothing ever ships but you have this monstrosity with some very beautiful code in it. Put few developers in a room and you get decent code and a solution to the problem that actually ships.
Wow these taxes sound out of this world (in my home country Poland, it's 3% or 17%, depending on the engine size).

Hasn't anyone attempted to go around it by finding someone in say Germany to register the car as a first owner and then immediately purchasing the car (as a used car now) from him?
I'm going to be honest that looks awful and not comparable to a cheap car like a Micra, Twingo or any of the other cheap city cars. Seems like you're losing a lot just to save a few quid on petrol.
Can you still submit apps with Xcode 7?

In response to your problem, having done the Xcode Old/Xcode New dance every year since 2012, I got into the habit of making sure they are never running concurrently. Things get even worse if you run xcodebuild on the command line while a different UI version is running.
The funny thing is, I preferred ambitious women, especially when contemplating marriage.

It seems easier to get along with someone who has a career and therefore similar goals and troubles and life-rhythm.

And a wife with a career is less likely to look for long term alimony in the event of a divorce.
August is in Thailand where it's 1AM but I wanted to thank Courtland for having us on IndieHackers. We've learned a lot from these interviews and are happy to give back.
>"I was talking about prices of new cars, for 4,000 euros I bought a pretty good 7-year old ICE hatchback which does its job pretty well."

I don't know what the second hand car market is like where you live, but just in case it's similar to the UK, it's possible to get a second hand hybrid electric car for similar money in the UK. For example, can get a second hand Prius for less than £3k if you shop around:

http://m.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_sacat=18290&_from=R40&_trksi...
You should pivot if you're tired of pursuing customers, but if you've only been coding and waiting for users to spontaneously show up then try a new tactic.
The short answer is that performance is as much as property of the language itself as of the implementation. You can make a subset of Python really fast, but then you can't really call it Python anymore. Think of performance in terms of how much work has to be done for a function call, for instance. If the language specifies that all function calls are dynamic, all function arguments can be anything, all type classes can be redefined and so on then those are the constraints that will hold you back when trying to make it run fast. Static constraints don't really help much, because even if you statically assert you're always passing a Person instance to a function, the class definition of Person can still change over time, and the instance itself can swap its parent classes, properties, methods, and so forth.

I agree that making simple and dynamic languages with hugely complicated JIT-compilers is pretty absurd. We need new and fundamentally better languages, that combine performance, expressiveness, and much better compile-time guarantees.
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Hard truth - I think it's a mix of both. Move on.

Ease of use is everything. Consumers don't want to have to agree to ANYTHING, especially if its the value is limited to one time use.

If they were considering signing up, it would HAVE TO BE a mobile app.
Movable Type (expensive). Bricolage (unmaintained for years?).
Do you think that a silly hack is only worthwhile if it appears on the front page of HN?
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You also have the option of using local storage and combine it with a consensus protocol to keep the data distributed. You can actually achieve better durability than mainframes.

Spanner uses cross-datacenter Paxos. Your data won't be lost even if an entire datacenter goes dark.

For Vitess (http://vitess.io), we use semi-sync replication that always ensures that at least one other machine has the data.
But the market conditions are what's holding us in place.
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Even good developers have to initially poke at a problem to get it in their head. Once there, then they can write beautiful code to solve it. Therefore, if time is constrained, even good developers will have to ship ugly (but working) code.
php7 got rid of all the refcounting overhead while hhvm still have to decide when it can turn it off.

php7 reduced all its data structures significantly. nowadays slimmer data structures are much more important than cpu.
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You can also use vim with an IDE, e.g. IntelliJ IDEA. So you get the best of both worlds. :-)
This is roughly what SBCL does for Lisp, compilation to native code that can sometimes be improved with optional type annotations. Coincidentally, the native-code compiler itself is named Python (it predates Python the language).
> if they considered this stuff a problem, they'd have fixed it by now

It's not good but it's workable. Which Apple accepts as a reason to focus very few resources on dev tools.
From what I can tell this is largely outdated advice. We've been running multiple 800GB postgres instances in docker for over a year now, with not a single problem. Not one.
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One thing I've been thinking about more and more is code that's easy to delete.

For example, we recently built a data pipeline that did a bunch of processing and wrote data to a SQL database at the end. For various reasons, there was an unscalable, quick way to implement the write, and a scalable, slow way to do it. We wanted to get the product to testing ASAP, so we chose the quick way initially.

In order to make sure that we could easily replace that code, we ended up creating a separate write function for each table, where the function did nothing else except the write. That involved a lot of duplication, but made it easy to move the tables over to a better method one by one later.

It seems like having functions with one purpose, pure if possible, is a pretty good way to ensure "upgradeable" code–even if the internals of the function are messy, you just have to write a new one that copies the same functionality. Furthermore, I've found single responsibility functions to be easier to enforce in code reviews than single responsibility classes.
> racism, pornography, pseudoscience

Ignoring the issue with pornography -- why should it be forbidden if it's done by and for consenting adults? -- you talk as if these things can be objectively defined.

As if free-thinking artists have not been classified as pornographers and uncomfortable truths as pseudoscience by oppressive regimes and tyrants. As if there is any reason to think that this cannot happen again.

I still find it astounding that, after the recent dramatic changes in government in the US[+], people have not understood that any power they allow the government over their free-agency will eventually be yielded by someone that will use it in a very different spirit than the one in which it was granted.

It seems that we are condemned to learn the same hard lessons over and over again.

[+] Independently of your political leanings, you should be able to infer that the ideological bent of government can change dramatically from one moment to the next, so it is healthy to be suspicious of granting the government more power over you life, except when it is really necessary.
I think you're missing one option; could it be that people don't know it exists? Maybe you could try marketing the product extensively before pivoting to another platform.

Good luck with the site!

PS: the first URL in your post is spelled incorrectly (fasveneus.com instead of fastvenues.com)
Those very narrow allegations about one incident within the DNC are not the same as the entire corporate media colluding in Clinton's favor. I'm not happy about what the DNC did but it's not clear that swayed the outcome from an inevitable Bernie victory or that the DNC was part of a conspiracy with the media.
As mentioned elsewhere, these chips only have a 128-bit SIMD unit (either for power or for space savings?) and so 256-bit SIMD executes half as fast as it would on Intel.
https://ponyfoo.com/articles/terrible-code-sane-people
My LG Incite from 2008 running Windows Mobile 6.1 had an FM Radio, as did my HTC HD2 from around the same time. There were multiple Sandisk Sansa series MP3 players that came with FM built-in as well.

I remember the iPod did not offer FM without a dongle, probably because they didn't want radio to compete with the iTunes Store. It's probably not that different now. Lots of Android phones today (carrier subsidized or otherwise), now come with Spotify, Tidal or Google Play Music pre-installed.

It worries me that a regulatory body makes a public safety case for FM radio and won't even attempt to ask manufacturers to simply activate what is already there, in deference to "the free market". So now pushing for regulation is disrespecting "the rule of law"?

Developments like this make me wish that "open-source" device+OS projects like Mokophone and Firefox OS failed to gain traction.
It is self-reported and relative to others.

> "The questionnaire asks how often students are willing to travel for work, the number of hours per week they are willing to work, and their desired compensation. They were also asked to rate their ambition relative to their most recent work colleagues and their tendency to lead in day-to-day interactions on a 1-to-5 scale."
I applaud the effort but reckoning "credible" seems like a tough proposition. How and by whom is the list of "credible" sources curated.

I wonder if there's some way to come up with content quality metrics for news based on pure reporting of as many of the facts available. Maybe something similar to the stack exchange type system.
> There's no ground truth.

You say that like it's a bad thing, but that's the nature of reality itself.
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I think you're thinking a little too big. All I think that is really being suggested is an automatic window cracker/closer.

If the goal is just to maintain a temperature I don't think you need to go to most of the lengths you mentioned. You have a window that is currently adequately insulated when shut. This is intended for maintenance so no need for a fan to speed things up. However the room is getting too hot now will suffice to heat it back up if needed, but again being slow means it shouldn't overshoot badly either.

It still may not be worth your time, but if just cracking a window would be sufficient cooling for most of the year it could be.
Used car imports also get taxed by the same percentage. And you can't cheat, because they decide the value of the car, not your receipt.
There is one, but it's several clicks away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-ahIZCBzr8
Indeed, Apple has the high-tech equivalent of "dragon sickness", in a nod to Tolkien.

Google has a long road ahead of it, but it looks like they have the right pieces in place where I see small, incremental improvements each year, so maybe they're the tortoise. Milestones on that long road are like migrate away from Dalvik, fix business model / monetization issues with the Android marketplace, switch to vector-based canvas blitting, rationalize API support for different manufacturer-added features, and so on. What would be interesting is if they steal Apple's developer thunder by capitalizing upon open source and their in-house build system, and out-flank Apple's developer mindshare, by creating a developer-oriented ecosystem.

Imagine if you could hook up your own Docker container that Google's build infrastructure then taps to build your Android app...but all the open source your app depends upon are in their build infrastructure, with near-instant feedback on build and CI problems of the open source bits operating at a massive scale. App development shifts to a posture where open source frameworks/modules/libraries that already power a lot of software are orders of magnitude more convenient to develop under this ecosystem, and the agility/efficiency of all those Android developers coalescing around common open source components online in a single build and CI ecosystem far outstrips Apple-based developers stuck with XCode and their own person-oriented toolchains. Apple has nothing in the pipeline remotely like that kind of ecosystem. Google would also get big data-based insight into phone app development trends in real-time that Apple could only dream about. Google's phone app development OODA loop would tighten considerably smaller than Apple's.

I also wonder if Google and Microsoft could find benefits to team up to replace Dalvik with CLR, and then Microsoft Visual Studio becomes a first-class citizen on Linux for building CLR-based apps on Android.