skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Deriving meaning from the context requires understanding the context. That's fine for the original author or the refactoring dev, but the troubleshooter swooping in to fix that problem that's obvious in the UI needs to be able to understand the variable names with as little context as possible. "Well, if you'd just spent a few hours to truly grok the intent of the code, ..." is not an acceptable answer when it's possible to make the solution transparent as easily as making more descriptive names.
Glulam beams are actually pretty ecologically sound. They're made from laminations of smaller pieces of wood, so there's less demand for old-growth trees. It can also be made of the smaller pieces left over from cutting larger pieces. And of course, trees are a renewable resource, if managed right via sustainable forestry.

Another benefit to them is that a single glulam beam can replace several ordinary dimensional pieces of lumber. So you end up using less wood because they're stronger.

And when used as architectural elements, they're attractive.

https://www.apawood.org/glulam
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I think Uber has proven that their disobedience is beneficial. In the US and India they have made the transit sector vastly better than it was before. Even ignoring the benefits of the app over hailing a cab, the drastic reduction in racial discrimination is an amazing improvement.

Note that India also had apps/SMS driven taxi hails - autowale.in started in Pune (my city). But Uber fixed transport and the political situation, whereas autowale.in is just a footnote in history.

In any working society you can - and should - assume that most laws are there for a reason, and that this reason is just. When that assumption doesn't hold, your country pretty much disintegrates. Hence, going against the law is a special case.

Then by your standard, the US and India are not working societies.

Then again, by your standard, it's pretty clear that not all of Europe is working. For example, witness how often French unions and others engage in violent and illegal actions (both assaulting Uber drivers/passengers and others) on a regular basis.

In any case, you seem to be backing away from your original claim and accepting that some laws are unjust and breaking them is ok. Do you argue that American or Indian taxi protectionism laws are just?
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I literally stay at my job because I'm the sole earner for my family and the health insurance is very good (PPO) - if it wasn't for health insurance I'd probably freelance and spend more time at home
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Prodcedural code can also be well compartmentalized and tested.

I was also until recently quite convinced OOP was the only way to go, but I'm seeing signs everywhere that a lot of the design-problems I've met over the past few years are at least magnified by OOP.

The abstraction promised by OOP is a good thing, however very few people are able to consistently make good, reusable and maintained abstractions. To the point where it becomes a weakness rather than a strength. I don't want a billion wrapper-objects that obfuscate my code, and makes the surface area of it bigger than it has to be. Often I struggle understanding code more because of how it was separated, than because of the complexity of what it actually does.

I liked Rich Hickeys talk "Simple made Easy" [1] and "Brian Will: Why OOP is Bad" [2]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8tNMsozo0
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM1iUe6IofM
Australia (mentioned because Americans love to talk about the size of their country somehow making single-payer impractical).
But here's the thing: What we have now is anarchy. It's just that the powerful make the laws, and con the masses. Some places it looks like capitalism, other places more like kleptocracy. But just about everywhere, the game is rigged.
This tool was created so uber can refuse to provide data to cities, the tool itself is useless to people who work in cities.
Wouldn't it be funny if all of Obama's sleazy tricks orchestrating leaks, etc, ended up making Trump stronger and putting Obama in prison?
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I'm simply pointing out that Temporal's argument that breaking the law is always wrong is simply incorrect.

I'm not saying all laws should be broken. I'm saying one must decide whether or not the law is just, and support those who break unjust laws. I see no one even attempting to make the argument that taxi protectionism laws are just. Do you have an argument that they are?
Does anyone actually remove the tablet portion of these class of laptops other than to say, "and do this and it becomes a tablet."
"for example using 'i' as a counter in a loop which anyone with experience recognizes without even thinking."

This actually isn't too bad provided the loop's scope is small and it is obvious from context what it is doing.

It's variable names which could have a variety of different meanings used in larger contexts and scopes - that's when maintainer confusion really sets in.
Someday perhaps we can return to those wonderful bygone era when we had no weather satellites and no one knew the hurricane was coming and thousands of people die and billions of dollars is lost. But the important thing is we bought more carriers.
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The Target CEO resigned 6 months after their breach, but he did walk away with $61M. http://fortune.com/2014/05/21/target-ceos-golden-parachute-6...
I believe he is writing from the U.K. but they have the NHS, or did I misunderstand your point?
There's really no way that you wouldn't notice it and I've seen it mentioned in every review.
I may have butchered the quote a little bit (not a famous quote, just something told to me once).

"If you spend too long convincing someone of a problem they can't see, they start to see you as the problem" gets the meaning better. It doesn't mean to give up, it just means that you are making yourself their enemy and thus probably making it harder to get your message across (look at the studies on showing scientific evidence to anti-vaxxers).
I hope he gets his tuition waved for the next couple years.
Well if you plan to sell out you don't waste any money on extra product you won't sell.

Overproducing just throws money away, means you need to push back your launch date longer, or build much more manufacturing than you'll ever need again.
> "It doesn't sound like the guy got patent protection for his device."

But in China it doesn't matter if you have patent protection or not.
> But alternatively, I fully like my life. Had I taken a different path, I might not have this life.

This is exactly what it is. I'm sure that, had things gone differently, it would have all worked out in the end, but life is all about happenstances. If a certain chain of events hadn't happened, I wouldn't have met some of my best friends, or gotten the jobs I've gotten, and I value what I have today tremendously.
Are you mentioning in the process that 'you absolutely hate your job' ?
I wonder if the driver quietly agreed to a settlement with a non-disclosure clause? We know they are common, so the suggestion is not fanciful.
Long names that are constantly repeated makes the code very tough to read, there are many Java codebases that show that effect.
Well open source software seems to be continually inovating, so we shouldn't expect open source hardware to not.
Yes, but with a totally different scale.

- 15% more Millennials went to the uni comparing to Baby Boomers

- In my friend's production company that works for BBC almost everybody is a contractor - 20 years ago very few were. (Similar pattern exists in big banks)

There are so many variables.
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It isn't enough to just have UI. You. You need a driver for financing as well. It is all well and good to be able to leave a job to start something new, but if you can't finance that thing you just have a bunch of people sitting around complaining that they can't raise money to do what they want.
Before Uber, SF, NYC and Mumbai and many other political systems prevented competitors from providing better service than yellow cabs. Uber's political activism has fixed this.

coordinating personal attacks on journalists who criticised them

This was an ethical hypothetical, not a thing that actually happened.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nicole-campbell/what-was-said-...

fake bookings.

Uber made real bookings and then gave the driver a sales pitch during the ride. All they did was pay their competitors for the right to offer drivers a better deal.

Kind of the opposite of Google/Apple/etc colluding NOT to offer each other's employees a better deal.
here in sf many people are out on the streets. families are out on the beaches & hills of hawaii. we have got to make it, as a culture, possible for anyone willing to play along at a reasonable level to have a good life.

we are failing at this, and it is tragic, and it is not a world any of is should be happy to be in.

we have immense, mind-blowing wealth as a culture and as a nation. we need to do better.
Glad you've had a great experience and I agree it's a great game.

Perhaps input lag is the wrong term or you just aren't looking but even just walking out into the starting area framerates start to drop and the game becomes noticeably slower. Try it in undocked mode and it's very obvious.

If you are used to playing at higher framerates (which isn't uncommon seeing as other big console exclusives are 60fps usually at 1080p) it's a real difference.
The interesting thing is that we're divided by an ocean, and still have same stereotypes ;)
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Yes. But there's also substantial cost in abandoning existing C/C++ codebases and rewriting them from scratch. Since the advances of C++11, something like SaferCPlusPlus[1] (a memory safe dialect/subset of C++) might be a more practical/expedient way to address memory safety in many cases. An automated conversion (assistance) tool is being worked on, but could use more bodies if anyone's looking for a project to contribute to. :)

[1] shameless plug: https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus-BenchmarksG...
Or justice.
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I got a t-shirt with my new Porsche from Germany :|
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The point was that, given the NHS, the health benefits issue is probably, for good reason, not something I would expect the author to consider in their summary of dad jobs.
In The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt cites evidence that intentional communities that have shared sacrifice without sacralising the acts or the principles behind them see no gains from the sacrifices demanded. Essentially, you need religious fervour or something similar to get the advantage of sacrifice.
What right and rules cover this behaviour?
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Only ~500 for me, but same deal. Fradulent buyers flat out lying and no amount of evidence on my side stopped them from trying to go to collections over it.
Not asking for super HD super high performance, but there's a huge gap between that and sub 30 fps framerates especially for a game that while stylized isn't super HD.

Sony was hyping 1080p on the PS3 in 2006. Granted, they didn't reach it most times, but when you are releasing a console more than a decade later, people have expectations.
I'm in a much more technical role, so it might be different, I agree that 50 application is low, but 7 onsites with no result seems high. My experience is that by the time a company brings you on site, you're in the 3 candidate, or even the only one and this is the last check.
You think the level headed constitutional lawyer was recklessly breaking the law in the last months of his presidency?

If Obama did directly order wire taps of Trump campaign personnel, his ass will be covered 6 ways to Sunday.
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Nice, as an Australian I concur.

I live in Paraguay, could anyone shed light on what stereotypical views/biases I would experience in a job interview as an Aussie living in Paraguay?
Forget the accent. Stay where you are, move to a big city in your area, and build out your idea with focus on needs of local companies. Understand very clearly and in a quantified way ($$) what benefits your solution can bring to the customer. Get customers. Make them happy. THEN think about going to the USA.
The point is supposedly that providing housing for the current exploding population is more important/urgent than their great-grandchildren having to tear down and rebuild their houses in 100 years.
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In other words: Spam?
Because matching the native 32 word size is better for the prefetcher, right?

Wouldn't most CPU's these days be smart enough to detect advancing the index by 4, and then using offsets?

So:

for(let i = 0; i < someUint8Array.length; i += 4){
let R = someUint8Array[i], G = someUint8Array[i+1],
B = someUint8Array[i+2], A = someUint8Array[i+3];
// ... manipulations here
}
Also, it's difficult to determine if you end up spending 2% more on purchases than you normally would because of the "convenience" of the card. If you are a person who is diligent about budgeting then I'm sure it's possible but most people I know will just pull out the card at Starbucks if they don't have cash in the wallet to pay. Without the discipline that 2% can evaporate very quickly.
I'm more than a little bit suspicious of these glues. They form moisture barriers for one. How is the longer term durability (100, 200, 300 years)?
Yes, it shows up :)
Ok, understood, and agreed.
I'd like to share some solutions. This is a compact notation for Elixir using the capture operator `&` and importing all Enum functions:

import Enum

[1,2,3,4] \
|> filter(& rem(&1,2) == 0 ) \
|> map(& &1*&1) \
|> reduce(0, & &1 + &2)

Also ExActor (https://github.com/sasa1977/exactor) library does exactly what you want: generates "standard double" GenServer functions and significantly reduces GenServer boilerplate.

I've discovered that it's significantly easier for me to get in the flow state of mind while programming in Elixir. Comfortable and powerful. Definitely a worthwhile investment of time and effort.
Notch (original Minecraft author) got $750k frozen by PayPal.
Yes, they do. Quick googling (reputable sources) show that. They're especially prevalent in the prison system. Production and transport is through Mexico but consumers are in the US so they exist on both sides of the border.

Why would the cartels not move into the US given the chance? You underestimate their reach, there's no way the DEA/FBI could shut them down when they can't control the drug war as it is.

If you aren't aware of them in the US it's because they aren't as open about violence.
The situation is way more complicated than what can be discussed in a HN comment. When it comes to things like social security taxes, the taxation of US-sourced income etc., double taxation treaties can help a lot, but generally speaking no tax treaty is required to claim foreign tax credit.
It's a more structured article, that's for sure. No unfunny comedy at ifixit!
> You can't actually solve the problem of user error with training, and it's good to see Amazon not playing that game.

The problem of user error can be mitigated by an appropriate level of OCD.

But OCD can't be trained, you either have it or you don't.
Great point about labor mobility. Many would be American entrepreneurs may never take the plunge (start-up, small business, etc.) because of healthcare cost and fears.
Sustainable timber production is a solved problem, opposing wood use in general (as opposed to specifically, when done using problematically sourced timber) is counterproductive.

Also, I recall reading that most old-growth forest clearance is to free up the land for agriculture, not primarily to produce timber, so timber buildings aren't causing this.
Forget your accent. Move to a big city in your area. Understand how your idea will bring cash value to your customers business(quantified value proposition). Build your solution for these customers. Make them happy. Only AFTER THIS, think about the USA.
> Obviously if we had infinite energy we wouldn't have any problems.

It is obvious that we wouldn't have the same problems.
Agreed although I've found that come code review time there'll always be someone demanding a more descriptive name regardless
Had do make a throaway to comment... Same situation, but I'm getting a promotion! In fact, I refused one last year, but now I'm getting one I like.

I don't like the place anymore, and can't absolutely care about anything there (I do like some of the people). The pay is good, so I didn't quit. I though the problem would self correct once I get a bad evaluation or something.

How can people not notice I'm working one day a week?
Using a single screen unifies them with every other developer experience though. Currently if you're porting to the 3ds you have to think of some use for the second screen and make you code support it. It seems like this time Nintendo is trying to get a larger dev audience, by supporting Unity, Unreal, etc. so you can send your game to the switch just as easily as every other platform.

EDIT:
I also agree that they should let you transfer purchases. They seem intent on making everyone buy Super Mario Bros over and over. Tjey might lose some profit there, but it would buy them so much in their customer relationships.
The one thing that strikes me is "I hate my current job". If you can afford it, have you given thoughts to take a different type of job at a lower level (project manager, or something more technical), something where you are less emotionally invested?

I'm wondering if you come across as hating your current job so much that you are ready to take anything that will get you off you current job
And yet, people consume more healthcare, education, and live in bigger homes than ever before (as measured by consumption statistics). So that clearly can't be the issue.

I think this paper hits on a bigger issue: http://www.ddorn.net/papers/Autor-Dorn-Hanson-MarriageMarket...

As men's employment opportunities drop relative to women's, their value in the sexual and marriage markets drop significantly. And women's employment opportunities have done nothing but rise. Female hypergamy is probably the real issue here.
In Canada the stereotypes I heard about Italians weren't the nicest ones but I see their reasons

But the perception is usually neutral it seems
I don't doubt that Microsoft might actively try to counter implicit racism which is evident in their demographics, but I do believe there are stats that show there are clear disparities between number of Asians in professional jobs and number of Asians who end up getting promoted from their positions to C-level positions.
Exiled? We totally left voluntarily!
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It seems this needs to be appended to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal#Criticism
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Most likely related: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443768/obama-fisa-trum...

Apparently a FISA request was made to wiretap Trump or people from his campaign. It was denied the first time, but a second one which narrowed the scope of surveillance got accepted.
Because it is faster and cheaper to get a junior JavaScript developer to bang out a cross platform GUI in electron than it is to get one or more developers together to write a proper cross-platform native application.

They cared more about cost and time to market than performance and technical prowess, and in a business context, that is often a correct trade-off.

I don't like it because I prefer small fast clean applications, but I know I'm in the minority and I accept that that's how the business world works.
Oh shoot, you're right! I only bothered to google Instagram DAUs and didn't even bother for Snapchat, assuming they'd be pretty far past 200MM. I stand corrected.

Cheers!
Very well put. I wish everybody could get this concept. With this kind of attitude, you are going to write code that is easier to read, is easier to update and debug, and has fewer bugs in the first place.
U+0041 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A is "A", not "a" (in the Unicode Codespace section towards the beginning).
One of my friends pointed out the CIA and such have a long, accomplished history of overthrowing democratically elected governments. Besides the tweetstorm from a known liar and narcissist, do you have any evidence to suspect Obama has anything at all to do with the current leaks?
> but isn't this in general kind of reckless as there's no guarantee for RoI at all

Nothing has guaranteed ROI...
There's a history from the introduction of Tensor networks by Penrose to the 3D tensor networks, the quon language: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/78485948/PNAS-2017-Biamo...
I have a question for people here too. Lets say the company is a startup with 50 or lesser people and has most of the employees under age of 30 (and western).

How prominent is the question that "Will s/he be able to fit into our culture?" ... when it comes to hiring above 30 people out of India, with an Indian accent? (..haha)

I may have thrown too many boxes there... disclaimer: I have been applying to many such companies and I am above 30 Indian guy (with an accent) and many times the company has most developers under 30.
Current gen consoles you have to pay extra for a real screen.
I am stealing your last line for my personal use.

Clear communication is the most important skill for almost any business person, but certainly for developers.
That's my point, though. They clearly can't make a game with the features of BotW - draw distance, effects, etc without major compromises.

Not personally aware of any games as full-formed as BotW that are running on $300 mobile sets. Though this could just be poorly optimized, which makes it more disappointing.
This gives more of a physical development, and frames the context of the lego-like language in the cross-disciplinary field of quantum information
Like a Universal Health Care you could have a "Universal Law Care", a per se legal costs insurance for every natural person. You might have to pay low fares measured in daily rates calculated from your rate of income/wealth for any legal action you take, but nothing that would put your way of life at risk. With automated processes in law becoming more and more of a thing, it would be possible to handle cases faster and on a much finer grained basis, without sucking so much time and resources. Think of a fully-automated arbitration process. There would still be "manual law", where you could always escalate to, if you think Robo-Judge is wrong. Meanwhile wet-ware judicature would also get much more efficient/cheaper by help of automation (I think a wide-spread acceptance of teleconferencing into court would also help).

In a scenario like this, such obvious fraud would not be a thing anymore imo. And we could be there soon (except maybe for the Universal Law Care part).
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Multiple European countries already forbid cash payments over a few thousands euros. In my country the law is just being proposed: anything over 3000€ must be done using electronic systems (read: banks) or you risk getting a fine equivalent to 25% of the amount over the limit.
Information cascade does not necessarily mean no nefarious actor or actors. While I'm not saying there IS a vast conspiracy to take down Uber, I too have felt that there is a concerted push for negative PR on Uber, with the timing of the releases of bad news a bit too neat. Uber's troubles have been on top of the news cycle for a few weeks now for various things.
As seen by the coverage of the current Trump administration.

Not.
wait is this thing made by Nintendo or Apple?
You have not shown that the effects you cite are large enough to be significant.