skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Date/time input types are behind a flag starting with v54.

Also Safari still doesn't support it...
Beyond “Hidden Figures”: 8 all-women teams who changed the world
>There are many beliefs that must be correct in order to ensure survival

Or you could say, you know, that beliefs must hold some utility. There are a lot of utilities that we need from our beliefs. I believe that the front of the bus is a portal to hell that threatens to damn me to eternal suffering, so I'm quite terrified when it approaches to engulf me. This shares utility with realizing that an impact with a bus can result in awesome momentum transfer, causing a sudden acceleration preventing my soft body from containing my precious bodily fluids. The point is the utility, not the rationalization (this term is loaded pretty heavy at this point, sorry).
These figures are pretty old. See for example: http://en.sanofi.com/Images/40647_GlobalGBUs_NewGeo_2015.xls
Given the mention of eBay, should governments ignore eBay traders who ignore tax regulations? [1]

Do the US government ignore people who don't comply with online sales regulations, or do they charge them a penalty? [2]

The words 'eBay', or 'Uber', or 'Airbnb', or any other gig-economy organisation, do not provide a broad licence for legal non-compliance.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/tax/11077...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/2010/04/22/irs-tax-audit-ebay-seller-...
Driving and parking in New York is so incredibly difficult and expensive compared to mass transit, especially the subway. In the cities where that is the case, there isn't the same class division between those who drive and those who take mass transit.

In LA, it is exactly the opposite: mass transit is incredibly difficult, slow, and in some cases more expensive than driving. How can you "make people of all socioeconomic classes take transit" in that scenario?
Maybe this is why facts don't change our minds. Given exact evidence that it was wrong, which we all accept, and then turn around and say, oh yeah, we got it right this time. We're all trying to feed into our biases, not change our minds. I'm not trying to point out what you're beliefs in low-fat vs low-sugar diets have changed, I'm trying to point out the fact that you see evidence that science was wrong, and you still believe in it.

I'm not a luddite, I think everyone should believe in what is most likely true, I mean what else can we fucking do right? What I'm saying is don't turn "science facts" into a religion and believe it blindly. I think actual scientists do a good job at this, because they're actually testing it.

We fail when we convert science reports into articles and then into policy so quickly simply because it feeds into the biases of the people in charge at the time.
>The government and the press have their biases but they are not always in conspiracy mode out to destroy the little guy.

No, but they often are. And not just in easy to point fingers at regimes.

Not that long ago, the might NYT were writing about the fabled "WMDs", were independent bloggers (no YouTube existed yet) were speaking against that BS. To a third party those would have looked like conspiracy theorists.

Guess which side turned out to be true?
I think it does a fairly good job - I read through it in about one minute, and (having already spent some time studying jet engine principles) think it got the essential concepts across. e.g. it doesn't use the word "bypass" but does explain the principle. In such a small amount of space and with the constraints on vocabulary/prior-knowledge assumptions of a mass audience, going into the design tradeoffs of different specific designs is overkill.
This is starting to be a bit annoying... I think we read enough about painful interviews. If anyone has a better way, please share... But it'd be nice to skip the ranting...

I personally have been the evil interviewer for some time. I'm giving paper coding tests that make sense to me, and I'm generally very happy with my recruiting. I have never met anyone who slammed the door screaming "I'm too good to take your stupid test". I've passed people who completely screwed the test. I've failed people who nailed it in 5 minutes.

I've taken interviews where I was asked brain teasers, fibonacci things, pointer swapping, class hierarchy things. I've been accepted to some jobs where I failed the tests, I've been thanked to some jobs where I passed the test.

The point is it is NOT about the test.

When I read someone saying "I've taken countless interviews, and I don't get a job", I'm thinking: well, either he's been very unlucky (which happens), or there is something wrong with the guy's attitude.
Just wanted to say I think you've done an excellent job with this!
Not books, but a few years ago the BBC broadcast a series of programmes called Lost Kingdoms of Africa. There were eight programmes in total. The very first programme was on Nubia.

Unfortunately, the programmes are not available on iPlayer (the BBC's online TV and radio catch-up service, which isn't available to anyone outside the UK). But do a search on YouTube and you'll find all eight episodes.

Here is a link to the BBC site that lists each episode

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01bgnb1/episodes/guide
Demand response [0] is an interesting solution to the electrical grid problem; utilities will pay customers (usually large commercial customers) to use less energy during periods of peak demand (which allows the utility to build fewer plants, so everybody wins).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_response
well maybe some of them but you didn't read all of them ;)
Samsung's approach to unlocked Galaxy smartphones is all wrong
> working Americans often suffer the most severely from the impacts of poor mobility.

You missed an important qualifier, there.
Nice. I can see it being useful and it is great that you managed to open-source it. Is it something you've been using internally or something like that?

On the other hand, as far as I looked through the demo (not much) it is just a CRUD app themed for real estate. That's not a criticism or a bad thing about your app, but it is a bad thing about our industry: how come people still have to write the same thing over and over again just to change the theme, colours and data model?
Author here. I'm both pleased and dismayed to see this is as relevant as it was when I wrote it a year ago.

Obviously, this piece is satire. When giving interviews, I do whatever I can to make the candidate walk out of there with a smile whether they did well or not. I stand by the idea that it should be possible to entirely assess someone's ability without ripping their guts out or making them sweat.
This is really just a semantic argument. You're free to call it Function as a Service or FaaS if you want.

Hosted WordPress is SaaS but not FaaS.
This is really neat as a technical demo. What's your anticipated real-world use for something like this?

My first thought was that it would be fantastic in a case where I needed to pull a file off a server I was SSHd into but didn't feel like setting up a SFTP session. Of course, in that case I probably wouldn't be comfortable having the data pass through a third-party.
while you're here, i'd love to know more about what your data infrastructure is like.
Not quite; vdso is a general syscall-wrapper mechanism. The Solaris solution is specifically just for the gettimeofday(), gethrtime() interfaces, etc.

The difference is that on Solaris, since there is no public system call interface, there's also no need for a fallback. Every program is just faster, no matter how Solaris is virtualized, since every program is using libc.

There's also no need for an administrative interface to control clocksource; the best one is always used.
Sorry for the confusion, but F# isn't in alpha for .NET Core support. From the post:

Specifically, the following are in RC:

- FSharp.Core as a .NET Standard NuGet package

- The F# compiler running on .NET Core as a .NET Core console application

- F# support in the .NET CLI and the .NET Core SDK

However, the following are not supported at this time, but will be supported in a future Visual Studio 2017 update:

- F# support for .NET Core Visual Studio tooling

- F# Interactive (FSI) running on .NET Core as a .NET Core console application
Wow, very exciting! Already starting to use it. Question: How to embed a scrimba "video" on another page?
The Solaris method doesn't have the problem the other implementation did.
Why should they be? Look at it from the other side:

They clearly have no interest after they themselves pass on. Their failure to contribute children hurts whatever civilization they're a part of, because they haven't created more taxable human beings, more workers, more artists, or more scientists.

Why reward such selfishness?
That is a very interesting point and it sounds like a similar situation occurs in parts of Texas. Without an efficient urban grid (walkable, cycleable), or a practical car alternative, like rail, buses, the outcome may be you can set prices however high, but people will still pay because there is no other option.

I would still argue that prices should be set however high whereas to eliminate congestion, even it is seems "too high", simply because there is a limit to how many lanes can be constructed and no amount of lanes can eliminate congestion, and then we must allow market forces to occur such that development and lifestyle patterns change, which takes time.
What will happens when american discover Thermomix and Cookeo ?
That favours people with high charizma and pleasant personality (not same as pleasant to work with) regardless of skills or work ethics. Compared to those, whiteboard or live coding is improvement.
I can't believe this warmongering is on top. Yes, maybe ask who is dumping what and question the authenticity, but stop trying to talk up a nuclear war on the basis of downvotes on Reddit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-use_development
With respect it's not the job of the user to be an expert in the architecture of your application. The fact you won't admit there are problems identifies a real with issue with your organization.

Firefox is slow, I don't know why. I was hoping the engineers working on it would know - it's scary that they do not.
The problem is in LA, traffic blows. Not only blows, its becoming a liability costing productivity. If money is taken for this, money can be used for something else promoting less traffic. It isn't about taking money at this stage, I think that it way oversimplified. IMO LA is fubar in terms of traffic which is just one of the reasons I work remotely even though I'm 20 minutes away without traffic, meaning its fricken 2 am in the morning on a tuesday type traffic.
I think this is in Nightly and now Firefox Developer Edition (54) behing a pref: https://twitter.com/mozhacks/status/821005161602646016
It looks more like Wikileaks chose this timing to help Trump. No one is talking about his paranoid surveillance tweets now. Everyone's talking about how suddenly the CIA is in all our phones and TV sets. Trump gets to say "See, I told you!", and the world gets to witness another NSA surveillance style scandal, only this time possibly on an even larger scale.
Sure, this is essentially the argument for disclosure of bugs before they've been patched. If I had known about e.g. shellshock before the patch was out, I could have written a Snort signature looking for it in network traffic and have my IPS drop the packets. I do this on my network with bugs I find before the vendor patches them.

This is an example of security through defense in depth; patching is one layer of defense, but if you can't patch there are other mitigating actions you can take to protect against (especially) known threats. It allows someone with an offensive and defensive mission to simultaneously use exploits while not being vulnerable to them.
> If only the most powerful companies can afford meaningful machine time, how democratized can AI be?

That's the big trick that nobody seems to give a shit about, as they scramble around to make a buck.

Having the research or even the code doesn't really give you an advantage. We're just trading one set of overlords for another.
Do you have any experience with busses? Was that experience "great"? For example, have you lived in Hong Kong, which I understand is a Bus city? I live in Prague, and the trams are great. It is a 100% better experience than driving. Smooth, quiet, usually plenty of leg room. Doesn't smell. The busses, however, are hell. That low key vibration of the motor, the smell of the gass, the cramped spaces, the steps, all add up to a horrible experience.

I think a lot of people in the US associate mass transit with sociallism and associate socialism with "everyone should live like the dirt poor live". But come to Prague and ride the trams, and you will find that mass transit can be a luxury item.
Will Aaron Swartz get a posthumous award? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#JSTOR

EDIT: I guess not. "The recipient must be living."
Well, how about refraining from teaching BS state of the art?

Newton's theory wasn't proven wrong -- just inefficient at larger units / speeds, and was superseded by a more accurate theory that still gives the same results (more or less) for regular everyday observations.

Contrast with the kind of dietary advise of the 70s/80s which has been totally reversed. It wasn't "correct, but not entirely accurate", it was irrelevant, or worse, opposite, of what actually holds (according to what science says today).
But their key-value store is not transactional. Afaik, they don't define the semantics of operations like 'mv' across cells. Higher level frameworks like Spanner/BigTable work around that limitation - but are forced to present data in tabular format. HopsFS allows to to treat them as files.

Disclaimer: i'm a co-author.
> Oatmeal is great but I can make it faster and better on the stovetop.

Just curious: The OP mentioned steel cut oats rather than traditional oatmeal. Did you mean the same as well?

The reason I ask is because, while I love steel cut oats, cooking a nice sized batch on the stove can be time consuming, and I don't like the 3-5 minute oats (precooked and/or steamed; lacks the same texture IMO, same reason I don't like standard oatmeal). I'm not sure I'd go so far as to use them in an Instant Pot, but it'd be interesting to read a second opinion of how they turn out.
Photos of the 11ft-diameter Hyperloop test track under construction in Nevada
> I'm certainly not writing mass transit off but I've simply never seen it work in practice.

You've never been to New York, London, Tokyo? Or any 0.5m+ city in Europe or Japan?
> go after normal business hours

Realistically you will be asked to work after normal business hours now and then (and, in our industry, many times a year), so you'd think they wouldn't mind scheduling the one interview you'll do with them whenever the hell you can fit it in!
> It's just infuriating that the Western world has allowed the entire situation to persist for so long.

It's usually lose/lose for whomever decides takes action. Does anyone ever get mad at Switzerland for always staying neutral, even if their neighbors are being herded away by the trainful and gassed? As soon as you get involved, you'll draw opponents even if you are doing it for The Right Reasons (which will be highly contested and you'll no doubt be accused of having ulterior motives)
Does this mean we're finally coming full circle after all these years back to Tables for layout?
Are you also making a joke here? I'm genuinely unsure.
Very well. If I understand correctly, evolution selects for "good enough answers fast enough" rather than "formally correct reasoning", which I think is what you are saying in your last sentence.

Maybe what I should say is that, if your conclusion is correct, we can never be certain that it is. The "formal system" problem that I pointed out only means that we should maintain a certain level of distrust for the conclusion, rather than proving it incorrect. (At least, that's how it seems to me at the moment. I reserve the right to re-think this.)
Great job! Is there any other way to login that's not github? I'm trying to move away from github and so far the only thing preventing me are sites that require github login. It would be great if you offered just plain old email login :)
> Intel's quad cores are only really required for the pro Counter-Strike players who want 600fps at 1080p just to get the absolute latest frame.

The source engine isn't exactly the pinnacle of engine development.

It doesn't really know what to with more than 2ish cores, so you probably get more FPS by using a dual core instead of a quad core, which tend to go farther in terms of overclocking.
One-liners are bad if they are obscure and experienced programmers know that. However I wouldn't go as far as say that experienced programmers don't use one-liners at all. As usual in programming, it's all about balancing clarity/conciseness.

For example, I find this much clearer as a one-liner (Python):

validated_items = filter(is_validated, items)

rather than

validated_items = []
for item in items:
if is_validated(item):
validated_items.append(item)
The vice video rwmj posted is all about homeless spice users in the the UK.
Of course, one man's "reasoning should be about outcomes, not ideology" is another man's "the ends justify the means"….
>Right but wasn't that advice basically the state of the field at the time?

Then perhaps it wasn't a field that should feel confident enough to give public policy/health suggestions?

>That we know different now doesn't mean the scientists then should have acted on information unavailable to them.

Most of the issue was because BS studies, referenced but not replicated papers, assumptions and the like. Not because they lacked some more precise instruments or such.

It's not like Einstein's theories, which complete Newtons, giving more accurate predictions at edge cases, while Newton's are still accurate enough for everyday calculations (e.g. ballistics).

It's like claiming X (e.g. on fat) and finding out that it's actually -X, or that X is irrelevant.
CPU intensive != single threaded
For East Africa you can't beat anything by Richard Reid. He also has a wonderful book on Africa from 1800 to the present you may enjoy: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1405132655/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_...

I tend to only focus on E Africa when reading (since I live in Uganda), but Richard Reid's writings are the best for understanding the region's history.
64_bit quad_core computer reduces costs
More importantly, it's a bit stupid/outdated to stockpile dangerous stuff when you have the facilities to produce it if/when it is actually needed.
I once started writing a podcast app like that. As a listener I would reallly like the idea. Unfortunately I don't see why a podcaster would do the job of adding metadata on my platform if they don't get anything out of it. If it was a core of their value proposition, they would probably use a mooc platform and not a podcast.

Then I though I would probably need to build a more useful tool to manage other needs of a publisher, like website, feed generation, pushing to multiple platforms, etc. That way I would have all sorts of metadata for free AND I would provide value to the publishers (automatic publishing to all other platforms). I could host the content too and give them download numbers, could post listening habits from my app, and all that.
But that is a lot of work though, before I can provide any value to either the listeners or the publishers.

Then I listened to a podcast about the podcast ecosystem (how meta) about
how podcasters actually benefit from the ecosystem being so distributed.
If there was a single format for metadata dictated by a single company (would probably be apple) it would eat into their advertising revenue. They would not admit it, but it's actually good for publishers if they only have rough download numbers. Without clicks, they can just make up their numbers, and sell ads even though everyone fast forwards on the ads. If they had actual clicks, their revenue would become dependent on it.
Hi.

Thanks for your comment. "Mass" is used as an adjective. One of the meanings is "affecting large numbers of people". It's sometimes very difficult to make a clear title, subtitle.

P.S. headlines/titles fixed
Thank you for the rebuttal. These are definitely potential alternatives but I think they all lead to the same place. When it comes down to stopping a determined belligerent, you have to beat them on whatever the battlefield happens to be.

The group of allies comments make sense, but that assumes a super-state group of allies with shared values are willing to band together to share those values (NATO is a prime example of this, but it's not ALL countries of the world, just those nations that felt the need to counter Soviet / Russian influence)

> controlled by a council of heads of government who had to take (arrest) suggestions from the chief prosecutor of the international court, but were forbidden to take other actions collectively.

In order to effectively "arrest" activities of other countries outside of your typical shame, embarrassment, sanctions or other incentives you need to be able to pull together a force that is more powerful than that country.

In the case of 1-4 party hegemony this isn't really plausible, and that's the current situation (in my opinion). At a minimum you'd get hegemonic blocs like (totally random because they're not opposed but they're known blocs) BRIC vs. NATO.

Once a single country (or cartel of countries) has enough of a deterrent or military force, then they can (effectively) do whatever they would like, including go against any collectively forbidden actions. I'm not saying this is what _will_ happen if countries happen to think participating in a global order is a good idea and are friendly, but that's not the historical precedent. I'm not sure how to counter that, short of the current blocs or potential other future arrangements.

> I'm not sure I was ever offered a choice of whether or which nation to join

The reasons for a number of nation-state formations are very much rational. That said, they are not necessarily permanent or as binding as people think. The idea of being "French" is pretty powerful. If you live in Alsace, maybe you waffle, but it's a unifying thing that has territory tied to it due to a long history. Different for more recent Western assignments of borders, surely and you see the results of that. Just because you're a citizen doesn't necessarily mean you're part of the nation, but my guess is that you probably come to identify somewhat with your country at some point?
Is there anything in Newton script you miss in current languages, or wish that would be more widely adopted?
Buses are one of those solutions that look great on paper. Proponents of buses point to flexibility of routing, lack of new infrastructure installation, cost, etc. It's very difficult to argue with any of their points.

And yet, bus transit is invariably a dismal experience, simply the worst. I think it's because a bus gives you the worst of both worlds — the stop and go headaches of personal automobiles, and the forced interaction with strangers on trains. (This isn't a real problem on a train, however, because one can usually simply walk away from an unwanted interaction.)