skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The performance improvements are very noticeable : general page load times, pushing code to gitlab is as fast as github now and the commit messages load insanely fast, compared to a few months ago where loading commit messages in the UI used to take at least a couple of seconds. I don't follow gitlab development too closely, but they seem to have focused a lot on improving cache performance.

But one change that I did not like was the the removal of the side panel which could be pinned. Navigation required fewer steps, but now an extra click is required to bring up the options.
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I'm honestly take TPG's crappy DSL, which is cheaper and has unlimited plans, over high speed connection at prices like that. It's easier to simply queue up stuff overnight.

What's the current state of the NBN network in major cities? What's the availability of Fibre in cities like Sydney, Melbourne and Perth? Are there unmetered plans? Are they affordable?
I agree. I've only ever received one red light violation, and that was because I intentionally rolled through a red light at low speed on a three-way intersection making a right turn.

It was early Sunday morning in clear conditions, with clear visibility in all directions for about a quarter mile, not a car in sight. My trusty crapmobile had been stalling while resting at complete stops, and the destination was my mechanic's place, which was 100ft around the corner. Stopping at that light very well could have meant calling a tow truck to be towed 100ft, and I'd already made it about 25 miles with only minor issues at that point.

Well, I didn't see the red light camera that was newly-installed (let alone any notices for it), so I ended up with a $100 violation for rolling through a red at 5mph, issued via some company the local municipality contracted. You can't really argue context or circumstance with those people, since they're pretty much just call center employees ensuring that the video technically supports the violation. A stop-gap for the imperfect nature of their automation.

Ended up bitterly paying the $100. In retrospect, I wish a cop had stopped me instead, because there's about a 98% chance I would have gotten off.

The perverse aspect of the cameras is that in many states they don't count as moving violations, so that indicates it's not actually about safety but in fact revenue.
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I have a cute natural language data analysis tool. It turns sentences into pivot tables.

http://omrelli.ug/tables/

It really wants to be wrapped up into some sort of product, but I'm not quite sure what :)
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Designed, built and launched a mobile ICD-10 & ICD-9 iOS app for physicians, clinical staff and medical billers.

For those of you not familiar with ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases) is the standard for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases for purposes of clinical documentation and billing.

Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/icd-10-diagnoses-codes-icd-x...
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It is probably not a conquincidence that yesterday the US administration announced the new rules on tablets and laptops from certain high risk countries. This won't be a popular opinion here on HN, but these rules and procedures are aimed to protect US citizens. This is why we have intelligence. They were probably hearing and picking up chatter.
It's been a few years since university, but:

Coming up with ideas is an exercise in creativity. So you need to exercise your creativity. Brainstorm everyday try to come up with 10 topics, they don't need to be good. Optionally, prune them down to what you think is good, and summarize why you think so. When it's easy come up with 10 do 15, 20, etc. Eventually you'll have the creativity muscles of Stephen King :).

Not getting distracted is a matter of discipline. Set aside time everyday to write. Start small and work up (a few hundred words then work your way up to 2000+). Beyond that have a basic idea what you want to write. Outlines help immensely.
The reason it is king is because Nvidia has basically pulled an Apple. Same internals have been supported from 5.0 all the way to 7.0. This while most tablets barely have been supported within a single own major version.
Love this! It's been working well for me and has kept everything organized. Design is beautiful. Awesome work.
While "fulfilled by Amazon" can no longer guarantee something isn't counterfeit, they still do and process the return and will get you your money back at least (and the issue/loss will absolutely land in the sellers lap). At least they are still providing that safety net at the moment. But once they start pushing back on Prime members and this process things will nose dive at Amazon. I'm certain their are people scamming Amazon and seller's abusing that process too. It's only a matter of time until something changes...
Reading the article it seems that authors issues were all due to buggy and incompatible plugins. Some were even written by the author himself. And that's what I'm trying to say: you don't need 20-odd plugins, they only cause problems.

Regarding you other point, I think it's the other way around because vim users can't learn a new set of keyboard shortcuts if their life depended on it and that's basically why we have evil mode.
Unless a red light camera is put on every single intersection with a light, there's still a bias in play, a bias based on who uses the intersections where the cameras are placed.

The busiest roads (and thus those most likely to get cameras) are fed by those who are commuting into town to a day job; not by those who live in-town. This immediately creates a bias based on income; the larger the city and the higher the costs of living in the city, the bigger the bias.
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You can contact me at hello AT 1001tweets DOT com
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Perhaps not the strongest possible, but I've heard the argument in the past that it violates the confrontation clause of the 6th amendment – that you are unable to face your accuser, since your accuser is simply a timed camera.

OTOH, since you can sue property (for example in asset forfeiture cases), that might not hold any water.
The important bit of this for HN is that he got these companies to pay by using their sales order, invoice, payment process, and that process is common to most companies.

If you have a small or an open source project you're going to struggle to get companies to pay unless you can fit their process.

This means that it's probably worth while offering a "professional" licence. This grants no extra functionality, but allows the company to put in a sales order, and allows you to deliver something and allows you to issue an invoice.
If you got an IRS notice you could call the IRS
That sounds amazing! You can get a PO Box at a USPS location and then creep on everybody else's PO Box mail???
With [c] a spam filter
Not sure why, here is the original post: https://hackernoon.com/58-of-high-performance-employees-say-...
I don't feel like this is true - the rich people can hire the lawyers to get them right back out of the ticket. Secondly, the cost of the ticket creates different amounts of deterrence, as when you're rich enough with no social shame (cop car with lights), you're probably going to run red lights.

See: cars parked brazenly illegally are rarely beaters.

These types of "democratizations" usually leave the poor even worse off, where they have no extra-legal wiggle room (chat with the cop) and no intra-legal resources.

See: Modern credit cards, mobile phone billing, etc.
Yet, my very first C++ program was to declare an object that contained a byte, had a constructor to initialize that byte, and a method to return it. My 'main' declared an instance initialized with 'true' and the code simply returned the accessor method's value.

The generated code? "mov ax, 255; ret"

That was pretty good optimization, seeing completely through the abstraction and flattening it to the simplest possible implementation. I was impressed.

Anyway there're lots of further abstractions these days, harder to see through. I imagine a clever human, with domain knowledge, can write a loop to do what a high-level library used to do.
> They'd have to accept that people are going to die and that by rolling back precautions, they take that on themselves.

-Oh, we already do in other aspects of life, so why not?

An example:

Driving a car has become ridiculously safe; as long as you don't head-on another car, chances are you'll survive. (As long as you don't do silly stuff like drive at 120mph, skip seatbelts and such).

If we had separate lanes all over, there wouldn't be more head-on collisions. Lives saved. Only, we decided it wasn't worth the expense and inconvenience. We only have barriers between opposing lanes on the most accident-prone stretches of road.

Personally, I'd be inclined to vote for just about anyone who had the balls to tell the public that bad things happen.

Well, if they did it prior to something bad happening, at any rate.
Unfortunately I'm one of those guys who just really enjoys having the last word lol.

>The same thing that happens with the people whose lives could be saved right now if we...

I'm just looking for an answer to the question. Right now society pays for treatments that can't be afforded. Furthermore, I'm actually pro drug development when most of your response seems to think I'm not. I actually think that the current system does not support R&D like it should.

>I think there's a lot that can be improved about the market. I have a lot to say about that, but you are trying so hard to be cute and using children's arguments that goodwill can no longer be assumed. Good night and good luck.

I'm a mirror, you're glue... :P But seriously, I am citing my sources, there's even a huge post in here a bit upstream you can read with all sorts of sources debunking a couple industry claims. The point of turning your quote around is to show that those sorts of diatribes aren't particularly useful.
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While certainly useful to three letter agencies, the original reason for imaging the front of mail-pieces is for mail routing. The mail-pieces that don't have routing bar-codes in the address areas get fed to an OCR system to read the address data (with a fallback to humans for the last few that OCR can't read) so the computer system knows where to route the mail-piece. In order to read the address text via. OCR one needs an image of the front of the envelope to feed to the OCR system. This new offering is just leveraging that scanning process that has been in place for a very long time. The biggest difference might be that previously the image went from scan to OCR to deletion and instead now they've decided to replace "delete" with "store" to make this new offering feasible.
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We're closing down on April 30th.
Jet fuel isn't very flammable unless it's atomized or vaporized, something which only happens in the engine. And it's pretty straightforward to extinguish an engine fire, and all aircraft engines have systems to do this.
How is it an injustice to make people pay when they make our roads unsafe?

People drive reckless, ignore speed limits, race over intersections in the last possible moment, ...

... and then it's an injustice when someone fines them?
I'm going to repost from the last thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12892473):

StartOpz (http://www.startopz.com):

Workday-lite (really lite) for small businesses. Individual components such as time-off tracking and expense reports all have sites on there dedicated to them individually that seem to do well. This covers all of them and could use somebody who has time to dedicate to (content) marketing.
Thank you. I think I lean towards Transcendental Idealism: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12709430
Totally agree with you. Those sounds like measurable human facing impacts that can and should be optimized.

FWIW, I've also personally watched millions of dollars get wasted on over-engineering, that's part of the context behind my comment. I'm pretty sure I've seen more money lost on problems that don't exist than I've seen lost on avoiding problems that do exist. (Of course, that's impossible to prove, and I could be wrong, but that's my personal feeling.)

And in no way do I advocate not considering performance at all. I've done a lot of high performance code, and I think it matters a lot. But I like that Abrash attaches it to something meaningful, not make it faster for the sake of making it faster. The author didn't demonstrate any meaningful metrics like you did, he only said you should make it faster because you can.
That's because tablets are a stupid toy fad.

They combine the worst features of a laptop and a smartphone (too big to fit in your pocket, too awkward to type compared to a normal keyboard) and offer very dubious advantages, not to mention probably the worst software support out of all portable devices (barring smartwatches, another dumb fad).

Sure, a lot of normies and apple fanboys bought into the fad originally, but now they're beginning to realize that the device is mostly useless except for some casual youtubing in bed or letting your kid play some educational games.
Assuming omnidirectional antennas.

If you aim well enough, that finite spectrum is only shared by a handful of clients.
Promotes a horrible kind of Entrepreneurship that will damage employees lives. He seems content and driven and good at what he does, but boasts about it too much. He walks the walk, but also damn sure spends a lot of time on talking the talk too. Personally dislike his content, but impressed by what he does / has done.
Yes, but I know it is going to be very difficult to find someone willing to pay as much as I expect for the time I spent developing it (1 year full time + 1 year part time). So, it will be always mine until I decided its time to kill it forever.

http://apphunt.livae.com/
Doubly surprising given the fear is expressed in a thread specifically about the 50x energy-density differential between jet fuel and Li-on batteries.
I looked at that years ago and found enough complaints about it thatI picked a lower-tech service. Be sure to do some research before you try it.
It might be worth considering that this unwieldy policy could be an obfuscated response to a specific, credible threat. In that case the US government increases the odds that the move will be regarded as getting lucky, rather than necessitating that adversaries look for leaks and adopt better security policies.
He makes exactly one good point, and then repeats it incessantly: there's a tendency amongst entrepreneurs to do too much planning and not enough execution.

His practical advice to "document rather than create" is a good synthesis of a solution, I think.

Everything else beyond that is just pep-talk.
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I was kind of vaguely gesturing towards that idea, but you crystallized and articulated it much better than I could :)
Context: Linux.
Well...yeah. That's what pays.

(And this is why I subscribe to media that does support long-form journalism and kit out journalists with the tools--and the paychecks--necessary to make it happen. Subscribe as in pay-money-to-on-a-monthly-basis. It's the only way it survives.)
They work. You are supposed to run them at noon but I run them during breakfast and then it's easy to give the kids an early bedtime.
You might be misunderstanding functors since they are basically tangential to classes. Every generic class `F<T>` where we can lift functions `T -> S` to `F<T> -> F<S>` is a functor.

Think of lists as example, they are generic over a type and we can apply functions over the base type by applying them to each element.

Functors are a basic building block of category theory. Category theory is basically the essence of composition so using functors leads to easy to reason about and extremely composable code. This also extends to things that build on functors like monads.
~10 years, every 3 to 6 months. Longest is 9 months. Shortest is 3 weeks.

The cable starts to fail underneath the strain relief boot. It unwinds, individual strands of copper start to break, and it shorts out. The play/pause (or ending a call) is the cable shorting causing the phone to interpret that command.

It happens most to people who walk with a device in their front pocket while listening to music. This accelerates the rate of failure of the cable underneath the strain relief boot.

I even brought it up at WWDC. Twice. Still the same boot after a decade. My AirPods show up in 4-5 weeks.
Does a mind generated by finite computation violate Godel's incompleteness ?
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They shut down the test after I pointed this out to them, but had I not they were completely unconcerned. At the time it was called "Real Mail Notification", so hopefully they have fixed the issue with this new iteration.
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People have always obsessed over "news", since humans are information-hungry by nature. But the modern tech crowd seems to have forgotten that there are two kinds of news: the kind that is objectively new (i.e. recent data), and the kind that is subjectively new (i.e. I didn't know that before). I think the situation is a bit similar to the distinction between objectively established frequencies and subjective Bayesian priors.
I would look into using aria2, a CLI download utility. It has a '-c' or '-continue' flag to resume a partial download.
I am assuming it isn't people stacking shelves in a supermarket.
The "languages over time" section [1] is overrepresenting Javascript. It shows separate charts for JS and node.js, when the latter is not a language but a runtime environment.

I would love to see the chart for Go instead of Javascript twice.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2017/#technology-la...
A technical solution to transport security doesn't solve very many problems on its own, either human or social; it's just a prerequisite to truly solving most of them.
You mean an actual PO Box? At a post office? Or a private mailbox, like at a UPS Store? If the former, this is really surprising. If the latter, not as much.

Anyway, I set this up for my house and it has been working fine. I haven't gotten anything that wasn't intended for me (of course, I get stuff that's not intended for me in the REAL mail on a regular basis, so even if it happened here from time to time, it wouldn't be a big change).
They can't be throttling based on user-agent... right? I thought this was the New Microsoft. Any other hypotheses?
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I don't have a problem with either of your hypothetical users. I simply believe that it's the user's responsibility to ensure that their browser is not disclosing more information than they want.

Servers are not committing any ethical violation by attempting to track unique user identities through non-disruptive utilization of normal browser features like cookies, plugins, and ETags.

The unifying thing is that companies want to display ads, but users don't respect that want and employ technological solutions to block ads. That's all well and good.

But by the same token, when a user wants to browse anonymously, there is no reason that servers shouldn't utilize the resources that are regularly available in a typical client-server exchange to attempt to identify the user.

The only contrary argument is that companies should be forced to respect the user's wishes, just because the user wishes for it. That's not how the world works. If the user is concerned that their browser may be leaking information, they should take responsibility and ensure it isn't. It's not on the company's head to ensure that the user's wish for privacy is respected any more than it's on the user's head to ensure that the company's wish to display ads is respected.
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> operating systems and hardware all move at lightning pace

not really, last big leap was the ability to unlock gpu for stream processing, and that's it.

it's quite faster today as ten or one year ago, but at it's core it's still a von neumann machine and not much has been discovered ever since, mostly we're repackaging under a new name things that have been discovered in the 70s', like the thick vs thin client debate, which played more or less the same over and over again as the bottleneck switched from bandwidth to latency to client performances, the last iteration of which was ember and angular precompilation.
the article suggests that chatter in terrorist networks increased after the new rules were put in place. Hard to say whether that's good or bad, but it at least shows that they may have to change strategies.
There are many lights of this variety. They are classed as SAD lamps/bulbs.
> 4 times across 4 cities

Can we be clear that these 4 homes were probably within 15km of each other. They are Suburbs in Auckland City. On the North Shore, which is probably considered the richer part of Auckland.

> but in this modern age using an outdoor clothesline is a sign of poverty

I don't know about the rest of the world, but even in 2017 it's still very common in NZ to hang laundry outside. Most people own houses with a back yard.

My parents no longer live in Auckland, the house they live in has a huge front yard and back yard, even tho they own a washer and a drier, mum prefers to hang washing outside, because it prevents the clothes from shrinking from the heat of the drier, and I quote (cos I rang her today to clarify why she dries her clothes outside) "it prevents burning the smell of soap into the clothes so they don't smell like soap"

> While you were living in a below-average income neighborhood, most likely working for a living while your neighbors lived on free welfare, you found them stealing from you?

Those Suburbs are on the North Shore, the 'poor' / 'low income' suburbs are in South / West Auckland. I doubt you would find many people at all on the north shore who are on the dole.

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Look, New Zealand is a beautiful country, with amazing people, it's my home. But our government sucks, and is pretty corrupt despite what the corruption index tells you. Every 3 years we change government, and its full of promises, and they never deliver. There is so much the government could do to make it worth while for Kiwi's to stay in the country, let alone convince people to move there to start businesses or work. But they continue to hinder the country. I left 11 years ago, and every time I go back it's more and more depressing in Auckland.
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He does actually say "The lesson to be learned from this is that it is often undesirable to go for the right thing first. It is better to get half of the right thing available so that it spreads like a virus. Once people are hooked on it, take the time to improve it to 90% of the right thing." He's explicitly blessing the worse approach up front to get something working that then gets accepted and improved. It's ultimately a bird-in-the-hand argument.
> It was also a long time ago I posted an actual question.

This doesn't necessarily mean it's about your experience, that is, as more and more questions are asked and answered, it is more likely that an answer already exists, so you don't need to ask a new question.