skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having toyed with React and Angular for similar amounts of time (~3 weeks of each), I found React whole lot simpler and more understandable. Probably because it only covers the V in MVC. There is so much stuff in Angular that seems like it belongs in the back end and is just duplicated unnecessary on the front end. (It's not like you are likely to write an application in Angular without a server based back end are you?).
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Amazon has generic listings for everything so its hard to tell exactly what you're getting and from who. And since sellers share the same listing you can't apply any real filters to try to weed out the sketchy sellers other than "too cheap." Someone who isn't trying to be obvious about it would be selling at a higher price point. I don't really have a problem finding legit sellers on eBay whereas Amazon is basically a crapshoot.

I actually ordered a book from Amazon listed as "new." I got a tracking number from USPS shipped from Maryland or whatever. Book comes FedEx from India!! Yes, seller is buying fraudulent shipping to make it look like their books are shipping from the US!!! Worse, the book was in garbage condition. I mean really worn, ripped cover and all. Had to get a refund from Amazon. When I reported the seller to Amazon no action was taken that I could see, if it was up to me blatant fraud like that would be a auto-ban. I left a review warning other users of the sellers practices and the seller actually tried to convince me they weren't actually listing fraudulent tracking numbers with "we used to ship USPS but we had problems with packages getting stolen." Which makes no fucking sense at all.

Additionally, even worse (if this could get worse), I now believe that book to be a counterfeit/unauthorized printing. I didn't know that was a actually a thing until this week, but the book's quality and price-point is a huge indication. I thought the price point went down due to used books in the market and the book was just not great. I just Googled and counterfeits of this book are common and mine matches the description of the counterfeit version. :-/

I've heard horror stories about sellers who create a detailed listing for a product and a second seller comes along and changes the listing making seller 1 sell products not as described in the listing. I don't know if its true, but people claimed it happened to them.
Many words in places influenced by Arabic (or other Semitic languages) take similar forms, in this case mu_a_i_d (een is plural). Arabic has a triliteral root system and this form is a way of structuring a root to indicate the person who does the thing the root refers to. I don't know if Tamil was influenced by Arabic; in this case it could be an utter coincidence.
Unfortunately I think the level of discourse is already at rock-bottom. I would like to agree with you and I think people do need to be careful and not jump the gun (and thereby provide fodder for the denialist camp) but at some point we can't simply be academic about it all - the evidence for AGW (or ACC preferably) is overwhelming at this point and while an objective academic is preferable it can also be damaging to the goal of changing public opinion.

The denialist camp has a simple and effective strategy for disputing anthropomorphic climate change: First, always call it global warming to make it less understood and then if its cold [1], dispute GW and if any single piece of information doesn't 100% fit with GW (ie, a single datapoint that shows global temperatures cooling by ignoring ocean temperatures [2]).

However, if you are being 100% honest about any climate measurements you cannot say anything other than "Well, this single measurement doesn't tell us anything but it fits with the trend of rising temperatures globally and we need more data and research.". This may be true, but its not winning the argument. People will follow simple, easy narratives and will shy from complex arguments whose consequences are also terrifying and potentially apocalyptic. By sticking to our guns and taking the high road, we might be dooming ourselves and by the time people really feel climate change it will be too late. Is our high-minded discourse worth that? I'm not saying we rabidly jump on every datapoint and say "SEE CLIMATE CHANGE", but until I see a lot more credible information I think its time to stop taking such a passive stance.

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/26/politics/james-inhofe-snowball...
[2] https://weather.com/news/news/breitbart-misleads-americans-c...
Four-year-old boy saves mother's life by dialling 999 using Siri
To put a finer point on it, no, I'm not too dumb to find a regular ordinary signup link somewhere when I'm interested, and no, I didn't accidentally forget to click yours. Face it, website, I'm just not that into you!
My uncle works in art-work transportation, and some of the pieces are basically not transportable, but are travelling from museum to museum anyway.

He remembers a charcoled doorframe, that had to be transported although it basically could come apart any second once moved. They have vibration reducing special boxes, with the same climate protection as humidors have it.
Also there are titanic insurance fees at work, to move art.
And sometimes, somebody in some state run museum, is forced to take the cheapest option available.
One of those haulers venturing into art, transported a artwork by a Chinese artists (do not know the name), basically very long paperrolls with Chinese letters on them to be hung from a halls ceiling. Those rolls they come in cardboard boxes, sealed with tape- and the poor fellow, takes a cutter, and systematically, cuts through the tape that seals all the boxes.
Each box a artwork, insured for 25.000€ - sliced.
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Some people like large pixels - mainly because HiDef displays with pixel-doubling have spotty coverage.

Personally I like larger pixels, larger display at a longer distance (maybe it's my vision - gettin old?)
Fair enough, but the more money you have, the more people can hear you and you can't infringe on the ability to spend money in a campaign without infringing, to some extent, on the right to Free Speech.
I use a Dell 4K 24" monitor on a Surface Pro 3 with Windows 10 and rendering at 150% or 175% works great.
I think the distinction is that a breaking API change breaks some of your code, a backward incompatible change breaks your entire codebase -- i.e., fix a few method signatures vs refactor your entire codebase.
5USD per employee per month? Don't you think this is way too much?
Another article I'd recommend reading from the same site:
http://www.filfre.net/2013/02/dan-bunten-and-m-u-l-e/

I really liked a lot of Dani Bunten's games as a kid, and this article lays out that world of early video games as a great story
Conversely, though, if moving to a higher level language / paradigm makes you more productive, you may not need so many people in the first place.

Modern-day parallel would probably be WhatsApp, with Erlang taking the place of Lisp.
Publishers should approach everything from the point of view of a person on the street: if it wouldn’t be acceptable in real life, WHY is it acceptable online!?

The equivalent of a pop-up newsletter modal is somebody on the street PULLING you aside, standing directly in front of you and preventing you from going any further until you answer their question. All without bothering to observe what you were doing beforehand. Your choice then is to step back the way you came to avoid the creepy sidewalk-blocking people. Ridiculous, creepy and unacceptable in real life but essentially exactly how web sites treat their visitors.
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I agree with your framing that the collaboration aspects of large projects are probably harder than the technical aspects.

However, I think there are still lingering questions about whether the "power" of a language has noteworthy interaction with the difficulties of collaboration. For example, some might argue that the guard rails put up by FP languages allows them to reason better about interaction with colleagues' code. Talking to colleagues about code interaction is a human collaboration problem too.

If that's the case, then part of choosing a programming language is also in service to mitigating the difficulties of collaboration.
Hah. Borland 3.1.Don't remember TP 3.5?
But looking at the data is hard, name calling is easy.
We're supposed to take Apple's "nuh-uh" as the smoking gun disproving Wikileaks? That's quite a stretch.
Disabling Javascript has singlehandedly fixed several annoyances I had, even with ad blocking. No more tabs draining my battery (ok, css animations are still a problem), no more things jumping around, no more page popups, no more Intercom chat windows from people eager to talk to me, no more 3rd party crap Javascript tracking me (ublock prevented them already, but it's nice to know there's no way they can bypass adblock). Things load and render fast.

Some pages still require Javascript, and SSO is usually a pain, but for those cases I have a Chrome profile with Javascript enabled and a simple Hammerspoon script that launches that profile in incognito mode for the url I have on my clipboard.

Oh, and Gmail basic html mode is so snappy!
Yes, it is based after the musical term! I explained a bit about the naming in the Packet Pushers Podcast[1] (around the 6:40 mark)

Disclosure: I'm the creator of Ostinato

[1] http://packetpushers.net/podcast/podcasts/pq-show-52-using-o...
Have you ever been to Des Moines? Not picking on you specifically, but boring and conservative aren't the adjectives I'd use for it. It's possibly slightly more conservative than Ann Arbor or Madison, but the area around Drake feels like a college town to me when I visit.
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I think you're missing the point. The point is you're going to get crappy counterfeits on Amazon, so it's better to just buy them on Ali where you'll get them cheaper.

If you want the real thing, don't buy on Amazon.
Yes, I'm just being pedantic about how you say it. :)
2-3 years ago I got a 28" 4k TN panel for ~£280. Then a 24" 4k IPS for ~£200.

This year 2 27" 4k IPSs for ~£350 each (both LGs, the first one a better model but cheaper because pre-Brexit-vote).

Prices have gone up from my POV.

In answer to your question: https://www.overclockers.co.uk/monitors/by-type/4k-ultra-hd?... -- under £300 for 24" 4k IPS. OCUK is a UK subsidiary of Caseking (de), so I'd be surprised if similar prices weren't available across Europe.

In all the above experience, I've found Acer to be very good (3 monitors, 2 excellent and 1 with pixel defects), Benq to be poor (multiple returns before I gave up and bought something cheaper) and LG to be absolutely flawless.
I looked around for alternatives, but I haven't seen anything else more compelling than a MacBook Pro.
Does monopoly law apply when they have healthy competitors in every sector? This has seemed to be the escape hatch for the large tech companies: go do everything, not just eat one sector.
Performance is a property of an application as a whole, not just the framework it's built on.

While you can certainly argue that apps which use webviews are slower on average than their native counterparts; Electron-based apps aren't necessarily always going to be slow; and native apps aren't necessarily always going to be fast.

Therefore, since a user cannot conclude that an app is "not native" merely by observing its performance, Electron apps cannot be said to be functionally distinguishable from native apps merely because they're slower, on average, than other applications.
You forgot their own semi trucks and the Amazon Original Shows!
Another good use case for spam blockers. They work wonderfully for this.
Go has special syntax for channels, maps and slices. It's impossible to define your own data structures using the same syntax.

An argument can be made for array subscripts, certainly, but why can't you use 'make' for your own code?

They're also magic in that Go does have generics, but only for those three types.
> So before America can accomplish anything, we need to get a highly educated population that is rich enough to be able to afford the time to research complex local, statewide, and national politics.

Believe it or not, it's not a full-time job. Given that we've seen poll after poll showing that the average voter couldn't pass a 6th grade civics class, but I don't see how cutting education spending is the real problem. We spend plenty on education. If that were the root of the problem then the districts which spend the most money would have the best grades, but there's not a strong correlation there.

We spend money poorly, but we spend plenty. There are a lot of things that could improve the American education system, but one thing has been shown conclusively to not do any good on its own and that's spending more money.
Then Amazon probably isn't a good place for you to shop.
ah thats quite annoying, it was the first time i read it but annoying to see how many times its been posted
>I'm not sure what an 8K screen would do for me as a programmer.

Maybe you wouldn't be stuck with monochrome bitmap fonts for good clarity. AA on 4k is still quite uncomfortable in comparison.
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There is still real competition in the cloud computing space, though. Plus, it's a hard sell that Amazon has done anything with AWS that is anti-consumer or monopolistic. The benefits to consumers are clear, and I don't think there's any reason for regulators to come after them right now.
One area where anti-monopoly law seems vague to me: does law clearly define what a market is?

Like, MS got hit for leveraging their 'OS market' monopoly to break into the 'browser market', even though they are both pieces of software.

If you draw distinct markets aggressively enough, then everything is its own market and many companies are monopolists in their own narrow niche.

Also, what if technological changes turn two originally separate markets into a unified entity -- should it be anticompetitive if a monopolist does that?
I wouldn't say rust was hugely adopted before 1.0 (not that it's hugely adopted after, either).
To the best of my knowledge, the Python community does
not have an equivalent, popular mechanism for
experimenting with DSLs within Python.

I think this is because modern javascript practice already includes a compiler pipeline to handle modules, polyfills, etc so one more step doesn't really matter. In contrast, since Python already works out of the box, even one extra step incurs a large step. (Linters and such don't count because I can run my unlinted code as is; I can't run my custom DSL without preprocessing it).
Homeless to Home
Homeless to Home

This touching story has touched so many hearts across the country. Alfred who has given himself the nickname "drop the sign" says, he owes it all to Evon Latrail. Evon Latrail is the author, of "When Mommy Went to Heaven." She is getting ready to release another book on stopping bullies in school. Evon who did a little modeling in the early 2000's made her way to the studio writing and recording music. She made her way through the entertainment business with connection after connection.

Alfred, says he was on the highway with a sign asking for money when Evon Latrail pulled up to him and said, "are you looking for work?"
She told him to hop in the back of her pickup truck. She first took him to McDonalds and got him something to eat. After, that she took him to a huge house where someone assigned him to yard work paying him $100 a day with Saturday's and Sunday's off. He also had his own tiny room out back.

After, months of working, getting himself together and no staff pointing or judging this once Homeless man, he decided to search for his family. And, he found them. He lost hisself years ago at an early age due to drinking and drugs over a woman who walked out on him. He said he found himself after being picked on, laughed at, and judge because of another woman who walked towards him......giving him another chance to try this thing called life over.

Alfred said, Evon Latrail is the reason he calls himself "drop the sign." He no longer stands at a highway hoping for a dollar here or there with a sign asking for money. He has dropped that sign. He now stands on his own 2 feet, helping out those he can help because of the one woman who helped him out without judgement or a cause.

Go to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or Google to find out more about Evon Latrail
8K doesn't excite me. I want a monitor with 4K, FreeSync, over 144hz, running on Displayport-over-USB type C... and ideally powered only by USB.

This seems like it will be possible one day.
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In terms of popularity Javascript clearly wins. According to stats:

https://jobsquery.it/stats/language/group

JavaScript is mentioned in 17% of all tech job offers VS 10% for Python.

However in terms of average salary - Python is the winner. Average salary for Python openings is $117k annually VS $96k for Javascript.

(same stats page https://jobsquery.it/stats/language/group )
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EDIT2: In retrospect, the surname Baksh actually suggests a Persian/Central-Asian ancestry[1], so the cultural picture of the owner is actually even more complex.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buksh
There's a non-PDF version at http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/why-information-m...
Monopolies are ok, anti-competitive behavior from monopolists is not. I think the only thing I've seen that looks anti-competitive from Amazon is when they stopped selling (some?) TV devices without support for Amazon Prime Videos.
What was the end result of the MS anti-trust stuff? Clearly they weren't broken up; did it have much of an impact on their business? I assume some fines were paid after a long appeals process?

It's hard to make a good argument that amazon is (or could be) a monopoly. It's more like google or Walmart where they're just really big and their scale makes them hard (not impossible, maybe unrewarding) to compete with.
>Amazon has generic listings for everything so its hard to tell exactly what you're getting and from who. And since sellers share the same listing you can't apply any real filters to try to weed out the sketchy sellers. I don't really have a problem finding legit sellers on eBay whereas Amazon is basically a crapshoot.

Exactly!!! The legit stuff on Ebay won't be that cheap, but it is easy to find it, and distinguish it from the scammers and the Chinese counterfeits.
Thank you, ive been bored as hell all day!
> What kind of journalism is that?
The propaganda kind
Some people stay on old versions of stuff specifically for that reason. The wait for exploits that give the user root access to his own property can be excruciating!
How many years away are we from being able to push this kind of throughput through a GPU?
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If you leave that review, it will go back and hurt the seller. I've seen advice in some of the groups I'm in for sellers that says if a listing gets shut down, look at recent reviews to determine if anyone was unhappy.
Also, if you return and mention the word counterfeit, that will be picked up. I've had one listing temporarily shut down because of a return that said they were worried it was counterfeit, then I sent amazon invoices and they let me sell again.
Let's not kid ourselves. Samsung and the other Korean chaebols, Mitsubishi and the Japanese keiretsus or even 3M have at least similar breadth.
Curious about how anti-trust laws for an e-commerce firm might play out in 5-10 years, with the internet + globalization having come so far since Microsoft, I'd imagine even the US government would start to lose leverage breaking up something like Amazon.
Neat, always nice to learn new things :).
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> Linux is the real pain - most things only support integer scaling for UI elements and 200%/2x makes it feel a bit big to me.

That’s actually only the fault of Gnome.

All KDE and Qt programs support fractional DPI scaling – with a different ratio per screen.

Don’t blame all Linux programs if it’s only Gnome that’s broken.

The environment variable used is

QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS=DisplayPort-2=1.75;HDMI-A-0=1.08;
What's the use case where bezels are inconvenient? For me I want natural delineation of workspace. Being able to snap applications to 3 physical boundaries makes it easier for me to organize my work, vs one massive display where every window is floating arbitrarily.

I'm not saying those are the only two options, I'm just curious what the downside is, specifically with productivity use. I feel like if I had a 50" concave display, I'd want my window manager to have some kind of logical organization similar to what I'd have with multiple monitors anyway.
"It's only a matter of time before Walmart kills Amazon. Walmart has enough cash to copy Amazon and steal their market share."

I am intrigued by your statement. How do you think Walmart can accomplish this task?
I'm not so sure that not talking to a union is a bad thing. :-)
It really is :-(
Low profits tend to happen in the first years of a transition to subscription. See Adobe for another example.
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At first, sure, but essentially you're training people to ignore you regardless of what you do. As advertisers are finding out, eventually someone will create a tool that allows people to ignore you online the way they would anywhere else in life.

The clear trend is just tuning out what you don't want to do deal with, from rantings about religion and politics, to someone trying to sell you shit.
Same kind of shit is still going on in silicon valley.
The biggest issue was Python standardizing on Unicode by default in Python 3 and breaking backward compatibility with a lot of (bad) string handling code the hard way by also forcing developers to unlearn a lot of old habits.

JS won't experience a directly similar thing because it started with default Unicode strings support (because it had to, and also because JS is slightly younger than Python and had that advantage).
You're going to really hate this page https://github.com/lvm/awesome-livecoding/blob/master/README...
On the subject of syncing, Apple's devices still† use USB 2.0 cables. In practice the software might be more of a bottleneck, but still.

†IIRC the iPad Pro actually supports USB 3.0 on its Lightning port, but the included USB cable is plain old USB 2.0.
I run a newsletter biz and avoid all these gimmicks. Real attention is what matters not phony metrics - even if attention is hard to measure.
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That is a very sensationalist way to view debt loads. First of all, there are today 20 million more Americans than there were in 2008.

Second, there has been real income growth.

When considering the sustainability of debt levels, it makes much more sense to look at something like household debt service payments as a percent of disposable income, or total household debt versus GDP.

To be fair, interest rates have a big part in debt service payments, but I think if you look at this chart of debt service payments vs disposable income, you'll see we're in a very different position than 2008:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TDSP
Going forward, let's consign this inane phrase to history
Absolutely, but those are rarely discussed. I don't really get why, all of the firms you listed are incredible.