skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A tunnel built in 1900 looks nothing like a tunnel built in 2017. Strength, longevity, safety systems, dimensions, computer controls, power etc etc are all massively upgraded. It's not a fair comparison.

That's like saying this electric car [1] from the 1902 would be far cheaper to build than a Telsa in 2017, therefore Teslas are over priced.

[1] http://www.intechopen.com/source/html/41483/media/f4.jpg
> I remember a decade ago when a front-end developer meant you handled HTML/CSS/JavaScript/Apache/PHP/MySQL.

Wait a minute. If front-end developers handled Apache/PHP/MySQL too then what did back-end developers handle?

I used to think front-end means client-side (HTML/CSS/Javascript) and back-end means server-side (Apache-or-nginx/PHP-or-Python-or-Ruby/MySQL-or-PostgresQL).
I heard webpack is in now. Grunt and Gulp have gone the way of the <marquee> tag.
its happening at work no? what does it have to do with work otherwise?
>Capitalism rarely extracts questionable value from society, and when it does it's normally the result of government interference in an industry in order to advantage one business vs another - creating non-value-based power imbalances like monopolies.

May I suggest cigarette / smoking advertising?
For #3, I say skip jQuery and go with Vanilla JavaScript ala https://javascript30.com

Every green browser have pretty good JavaScript support. document.getElementById will be your friend.
I don't know how to tell you this but there's no such thing as a car that can drive itself.
Oh, understand. Yes, I misinterpreted the subjects of the statement.

[1] edit: oi, changed "understood" to "understand". The former implied that I immediately understood what you were saying. I was trying to say that I didn't initially understand, but do now after the correction... sorry if that caused more confusion.
I don't see why being in a minority means accepting a higher chance of being confused by a criminal. This is how cycles of oppression propagate.
Dishwasher has directory traversal bug (webserver)
> 'leisure' gets boring awfully quickly

Not for me, as long as I get to keep all the toys in my garage. The list of projects I want to complete is probably an order of magnitude too big to finish in one lifetime as long as I have a full time job.
If you think that interpersonal and morale issues don't affect how effectively a company functions, I kind of think you don't get how companies function.
Never from the point of view I'd like to see it from.
You can always get errors of course. The new `load/trap` feature gives you more flexibility in that area, but there are limits as with anything. Pretty handy for CLIs, though, when you expect your audience to know what "syntax" even means. :)
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New IntelliJ Scala Plugin: SBT Shell, REPL Worksheet and Akka Support
What is the status of TCP/IP networking in rootless runC? How can incoming and outgoing connections be restricted?
I'm sorry, but I heartily disagree re: style. I love it. I was just about to write a comment to commend it. Love the way you handle underlines, the font is pleasant, the sidenotes are awesome and I like your background color.

I do agree that the some structure would help with retention, if you're interested in that.
Just like everyone else.
It's possibly too big a task for one person, I agree. If he manages to get something usable in even 10-15 years, though, I'd be impressed. HAMMER2 is a clustering file system with POSIX semantics, and by the standards of that category, I don't think it's going all that slowly, to be honest. Ceph has had probably hundreds of person-years of development put into it, and only very recently have people started claiming CephFS is production-ready (and still many don't trust it).
That's about funding though right? And now about how much the individual state programs pay for things (like prescription drugs). In the end does it work out to be the same thing? Maybe? I'm uncertain.
Sounds like someone binge-watched themselves to satiation and is now projecting changes in their personal preferences onto the vendor that supplied their cravings.
Some background, for those who haven't heard about TempleOS before:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8658283
Understanding Power is a great place to start. Its a collection of past talks given by him and I found it to be a great primer for more focused Chomsky books.
Us-supreme-court-hears-oral-arguments-over-your-right-to-refill-ink-and-toner
In middle eastern countries where domestic terrorism is higher, like turkey or israel, the security checks are pretty abundant.

You get searched at the airport entrance, and get your luggage checked with xray scanners. Yoy get another one after passing the passport check done by cops. If you are flying to united states you get searched again at the gate.

On top of this, they verify your legal status at the checkin. It happened to me once when my greencard was approved but i only had the ead card. We literally spent an hour to get it sorted.

So i am not sure, but adding one more layer on top makes me feel sad.

Good thing turkish airlines will use specialized storage mechanism to store laptops in cabin. At least that will prevent things from getting stolen or potentially illegally searched.
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It was used to hack together build pipelines since the tools didn't fit together nicely, creating hard to debug messes which we grew tired of. Those hacks can be replaced with webpack and you're often left with a few snippets that fit nicely in the script section of package.json (npm scripts). Gulp is still useful for some projects, but a lot less often.
Massive Gold Coin Worth Millions Stolen from German Museum
That is surprising. I've tried watching many 2-3 star movies and thought to myself "yep, this movie is shit" and stop watching.
Building Small Apps with React and Cerebro
You forgot only about:
- banking
- online shopping
- medical data handling
- other sensitive data handling
- medical devices (pacemakers etc)
- IoT
Calling them a nasty name? Do you really think that's a mature and effective strategy in this situation?
I've been seeing studies since the release of the Inconvenient Truth claiming that the point of no return has been reached.

I don't doubt climate change, but I'm very skeptical of studies positing a slippery slope of catastrophic proportions. It's true we don't know the cascading effects of increased CO2 and methane emissions, but that doesn't mean it the unknown is apocalyptic.
doesn't work on online version of Pages (iCloud), no way to insert an equation

equations created on desktop version show up in online-version as low-res jaggedy bitmaps, un-editable and un-pretty

so much for vertically integrated "just works" approach

disappointing
You must be toying with us. Please, tell me it is a joke. I can't find literally any reason to start a phone call down to seconds. What's wrong with starting it just when minutes counter changes?
This just EEG which has been around forever. I wouldn't call that a brain-computer interface
Web workers in angular
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Offstage Live is a the one stop for music industry contacts. Wether it is sync licensing, bloggers, publishers or film supervisors. Let our reports take your music to the decision makers.
Building on the outskirts of New York City is also cheaper than building in Manhattan.
The React ecosystem's take on performance is really immature. Generally the server's job stops at isomorphic rendering which is a brute force and imperfect way of improving performance.

Next.js and React Server are making steps towards solving this by bringing concepts like incremental loading and data hydration by default.

I've talked about some of the approaches Facebook used to improve startup performance in the past:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b875VAC6r-w
It's easy to see the advantages of memory safety, since it eliminates an entire class of bugs that C programs tend to suffer from, but I think talking about language "ergonomics" is much more tenuous.

One thing that C programmers tend to love about C is that it's simple. C doesn't have that many language constructs and that makes C programs easier to reason about, read and audit, which also makes it easier to find these non-obvious errors. A C programmer approaching an unfamiliar codebase can feel assured that it is made out of the same concise set of constructs as any other C program. On the other hand, modern languages like Rust, C# and Go are a lot more complicated. They have most of the language constructs of C, plus some extra, so not only do you have to understand the concepts in C, you also have to understand things like ownership, variance or pattern matching. Every new feature increases cognitive burden on the programmer. Adding something like exception handling, for example, means that control flow suddenly becomes more complex. Now, instead of only leaving at return statements, a function has a potential exit point anywhere it calls another function. "Smart" features that encourage terse code and reduce boilerplate can also result in code that is totally obtuse to anyone other than the person who wrote it.

I'm not saying that C is at a sweet-spot for language complexity (Brainfuck is probably too simple, but OTOH it only has eight symbols!) I'm just saying that it's important to understand why a lot of developers really like C, and C is often praised for its simplicity. Any language that intends to replace C needs to understand why C programmers use C.
HFS+ has a global lock so only one process can access the file system at a time. I would imagine having APFS clear out that limitation speeds things up dramatically.
The universities, companies, and individuals involved in this machine learning renaissance are a collective super-intelligence.

It's amazing how fast we can learn now, fuelled by information-sharing over the internet. I'm literally forgetting the names of everyday acquaintances because I'm learning and retaining so much new stuff.

The problem, from an individual's perspective is that, while you can stand on the shoulders of giants, you can't easily commandeer all that brain-power.

I'm imagining getting some time-slices of Terry Tao, Geoff Hinton, <insert other big brain names> 's cognition to devote to my own projects. What would that even look like?

On a different note, if we really could mind-meld, could we ever truly hate or kill each other?
> waterless ones are patented and without a water line you'd be locked in to higher priced products and/or have to spend a lot of extra money to run a new water line after the walls go up.

Urinals have a very long life cycle, and by the time one needs to be replaced, it is likely any patent left would be in Design only, and thus other manufacturers can build and sell them, allowing the market to rebalance the cost.

In other words, "they're patented" is a bogus argument for needing a water line.

There are better arguments which you tried to hit on - what if you want to replace a urinal with a stall or some other fixture, e.g. - but this one alone isn't a good one. There are also plenty of counter arguments for why this kind of thing is a really bad idea in the case of a water line (e.g., a blind water line is going to be a much more ugly problem when renovations do happen if they aren't well enough noted in the designs or if the designs are unavailable, and what happens when a blind water line leaks, bursts or corrodes through inside a wall due to freezing/accidentally drilling or nailing through a pipe/etc.)
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I know this is pure opinion, but interested to hear everyone's thoughts?
At http://blog.ruleml.org/post/32629706-the-sad-state-concernin... Kowalski summarizes his theory of the classification of rules (within production logic systems) in to a triple typology, and suggests that the last of these types, which he terms reactive rules, are more fundamental, and "the driving force of life". These are rules which define a subsequent action or state from current conditions, ie. "if hungry then eat".

To fully grasp the idea it is important to understand the different natures of logic programming versus imperative/procedural programming... there is not really an if-then-else-style (ie. control flow oriented) program state. Rather, the programmer tends to throw a bunch of formal rules at a 'solver' which simply determines the result.
>it assumes that the cost of a kWh of battery remains at today's high value. If battery costs are falling rapidly (and they are), then the value of a used battery pack will be driven down as inexpensive new packs come on the market

Good point. However, this also means that utilities are going to adopt renewables a lot more since storage will be getting cheaper.
Dang, no permalink. I sense a missed opportunity here :-)
I liked gulp, but it does seem like webpack has the mindshare going forward. If your using the Angular CLI then your project is using webpack.
taleb says himself in antifragile the answer is antifragile
Could a disease be racist if it only targeted one ethnic group?
Ask HN: What's it going to take to stop all these awful non-popup popups?
Seems every time I click to read a story sourced through a Facebook post, there's so much garbage in the way of reading the content that it's not worth it to stay to read it. I end up leaving after closing sometimes as many as 3 of them if I'm really interested, usually less.

Maybe my detest is reflected in their analytics, but I imagine mine is a drop in a vast bucket of reader behavior. It seems like a hopeless struggle to sacrifice my ability to consume what interests me to try to send a message that this sort of end-user disrespect is unacceptable.
It showcases some interesting dynamics regarding businesses becoming involved with politics and power. It's a good walk through of how "we just want the government to make companies give their fair share" can easily turn into something darker.

I certainly wouldn't promote objectivist an-cap policy writ large, but there are truthful elements in both Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. I specifically like how Ayn Rand draws a link between collectivism and racism, which was truthful in the era she was writing in. A rare perspective.
Oh my, I'm afraid they exist[0], and there are already NYC unions trying to ban them: http://readwrite.com/2017/01/17/new-york-ban-self-driving-tl...

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHbMt6WDhQ8
Sure.

OTOH, if something does come out of this, it could have extremely far-reaching consequences. Forget interfacing with AI. Think - locked-in syndrome, or people with various disabilities (blindness, etc).

This is the kind of moonshot that ought to be encouraged.
Some of the dual metal build coins suffer from faults when they are exposed to cold environments. Once can test for this by placing the coin inside a freezer and observing one of the metals shrink to the point where it disconnects from the other part of the coin.

There are much older examples of latent image technology on coins, for example Russian 10 ruble circa year 2000 (look at the middle area of the '0' character): https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/coin-rubles-russian-commemor...
Why You Can't Ignore React Native in 2017
I found the same, but consider it to be bias. Once you have had a really good manager, you compare everyone else to them, and of course the rest fall short.
The collaboration through iCloud stuff is great for the features it supports, but it seems to be very much beta at the moment.
Since when are those things regulated by the same building codes as a permanent building?
Those aren't equivalent unless humans are out of the loop entirely, which they shouldn't be in any area of law.
I reccomend "Just Enough Scala for Spark" tutorial from Dean Wampler.
It was scheduled in Strata NYC, Singapore, and San Jose.
Good part: practical. No "weird" or "religion-like" stuff. Just get st done today.

It's archived in SafariBooksOnline: check
https://conferences.oreilly.com/strata/strata-ny-2016/public... before applying to Safari just in case.
Trapped in a car loan thing is their Xchange leasing program. They give sub prime car loans to anyone with a pulse if they agree to do drive for uber. Their car payments are taken directly from their driver income. These leases are expensive, a corrola costs about 150 a week to lease. People got trapped because after signing uber dropped rates and the driver can't afford their payment and have to work more hours for the same money. Somne simply work to make the payment and no longer earn money for themselves. If you remember the driver that got in a argument with the CEO, this is what he was taking aboutvwhen he said he lost 90k

Check out point #5
https://consumerist.com/2016/05/31/5-things-you-should-know-...

Better article
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/arti...

Quote from above article

He leased a 2016 Toyota Corolla from Xchange in November, paying $155 a week. Two months later, Uber slashed fares nationally. Soon Hofstede had trouble keeping up with his payments. He went from making $200 in a weekend to $140 in a weekend, he said. "It got to the point that I would drive just to meet my payment," he said. "If you were short on your payment for a week it would roll onto the payment for next week. It starts adding up."

End qoute
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If you want a spoiler, this is what it all culminates to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3cqhNJkmIs (final scene of the season)
You posted several comments like this in this thread and I'm getting curious.

Basically, what you mean to say is that Larry Garfield is an asshole (I apologize if I'm guessing your intentions wrong). While you claim to know him, I don't, but I read a few comments from other people, who apparently regard him "a model community member".

Could you share some details on why do you think he's an asshole, who almost surely did do something bad?
Your conclusion doesn't follow from your premise, which leads me to wonder whether you understand your own argument.
Or cars and airbags being tested on male dummies for the longest time, resulting in women (who are shorter and weigh less) getting seriously injured/killed at higher rates in accidents: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2012-08-22/why-carma...

> In some cases, according to tests with female mannequins, small women were almost three times as likely as their average male counterparts to be seriously injured or killed. A study of actual crashes by the University of Virginia’s Center for Applied Biomechanics found that women wearing seatbelts were 47 percent more likely to be seriously injured than males in similar accidents.
AWS supports an official DynamoDBLocal. I wish they supported local implementations of their other services as well.
By definition the decision is made in the facts available to the decision maker and those with statutory responsibilities. This does not include you or HN. The court of public opinion has no method of adjudicating facts anyway.
That's, true, but I was trying to estimate for a bare minimum, basic competency to be productive. This doesn't include the countless hours debugging, searching StackOverflow/Google and learning all the "gotcha"s in each technology. Which all just takes experience and projects not necessarily time.
> When I post my newer blog posts in relevant places online, people actually say they like the content, yet visitor numbers don't reflect such sentiment in a sustained manner.

Niche content is way more long tail than you imagine, and retention is near impossible. I usually don't add an RSS feed to my set until I notice I've read a couple of posts by the same author. That's a really leaky bucket, when you consider the ways an author can fall out of it:

- the content is not my niche
- the headline isn't punchy enough to get the click
- HN fails to notice your post amid the ever-growing din
- HN notices, but I don't do any reading that day
- I fail to notice the author has a pattern of quality worth subscribing to

Unless you're writing books, appearing on podcasts and giving keynotes, blogging may be more of a write only medium than a tool for self-promotion. Which can be fine; my personal blog is for two audiences: Google, and hiring companies. I don't track subscribers, but based on my own lax writing rate, I assume I have none =)
Oh you are so right, my bad, CSS of course - updating my original post, I just blanked.

Those are good points - I need to figure out how to fit the instructions in while still having space for the editor and others. And yes to the others, I'll try to get them incorporated. Thank you!!!
Looks better than Mega Man for DOS!
Yea, using a simple switch to compile tiny native executables for a ton of platforms is a huge draw. Not having to walk a non-coworker through a python install who doesn't want python on their computer will be nice.
Swan:A GNU/Cygwin Xfce4 Distro for Windows
More accurately, police "will" do whatever they want; they aren't lawyers and frankly barely understand the laws they're supposed to enforce. They think they're allowed to do things they're not allowed to do all the time, because the reality is they're mostly thugs and simply aren't that bright.
There are many titles now missing from Netflix. My 7yo has a hobby of being a detective so I went to look up Columbo on NF and found they no longer have it. A lot of their catalog is missing, Farscape for example.
Holy cow ... The OS is such a strange mix of impressive feats and crazy conventions.
I don't know. The Uber post involved a manager talking about swinging.
If you're detained for a suspected immigration violation they don't even have to give you a hearing for 6 months. Criminal justice procedure does not apply to the immigration detention system.
It's at least a similar sort of thing.

Critical access hospitals and rural health clinics probably overlap too, where Medicare pays out to smaller qualifying facilities using a different formula.
Can I ask why you decided to do this rather than learning on a more conventional platform?
Maybe because the privacy rules don't make as much sense anymore? http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/technology/325708-sena...

I don't feel strongly either way, I just think that there is more nuance around the issues of privacy.
Exactly my thinking. I worked with a company that developed on a medical device that took subcutaneous readings extracutaneously, and despite being developed almost entirely by Asian engineers, it got the best data quality from fair-skinned Caucasians, and the worst from dark-skinned Africans, as it totally relied on the transmission of light through skin tissue.

Claiming racism without understanding the problem is both unfair to the people involved, and an unwise undermining of one's own credibility for the times when people really are acting in bad faith. That may be in this case, but that may not be, and I don't like guilty-until-providen-innocent no matter whom it's leveled against (even a Federal agency of which I'm not the world's biggest fan, and a database the likes of which make me think we need a constitutional amendment to protect the privacy of the citizens).
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"I don't need a safety toggle on my gun I just totes keep it pointed at the ground and unloa-- oh god where's my foot"