skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You act as though companies aren't obligated to pool their training resources in a manner in which the senior employees are spending say X amount of time training junior employees. They're spending money on training - just not how you want them to. They're getting training done the way it's been done for thousands of friggin' years, man, via the master and apprentice interplay. Thousands. Of. Years. Mano a mano.

I think working from home makes no sense. Home is for home, and work is for work. If you want to work from home, you should consider freelancing, otherwise working is a collaborative process done in a communal setting and oftentimes the best training is direct, regular contact and education transmitted from sr. to jr. employee. I think most companies have come to this conclusion and have determined that WFH is a detriment to quality jr training and is simply not cost effective.

It's a win-win for the firm:

1.) they get to train their jr.s for the future with high-quality experts from their own team at the scene on demand

2.) they avoid sinking money into shitty training sessions which do nothing but band-aid the lack of genuine mentorship that is not done via chat protocols and instead subtract productivity from the top srs and pool it towards the jrs development.

I'm not sure why you can't see this from the business's perspective. It just seems like you really want to work from home.

But what do I know? My hunch.
I think writing all these programs and functions, setup everything etc. in total it takes longer than just doing it 'by hand'..
Most recently it seems to happen on a fresh restart.

Previously, it had to do with my usage of Terminal; I've had to touch ~/.bash_sessions_disable -- /etc/bashrc_Apple_Terminal has the nitty gritty.
Ah, interesting!
btw cody's lab is an really fun scientific youtube channel. his series on extracting metals is really fun.
Is your ssh password `ls`? That's not a great password.
I hear the water-boarding facilities are great over there!
The xps I'm sure is a fine Linux machine, as are probably a few other $1500-plus laptops, but I refuse to pay the equivalent of a used Honda Civic for a machine that is mainly just for letting me do research in multiple tabbed windows and write code. If my phone shipped a full OS, I could already use it as a portable PC with an HDMI monitor and Bluetooth keyboard/mouse.

The failure of modern mobile computing is simply user interfaces that are as practical as a Palm Pilot.
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I think the article makes good points. We have already seen callback hell. I wonder how long it will take before we coin the term “monad hell”.
What the fuck is this? Every minor update has to get shit-posted on HN?

EDIT: Why the hate? Go contribute something worthwhile to Node instead of wasting your time in this post.
I think you have a valid point and in the grand scheme of things, SaaS accounting is hardly consequential to a company's success.

But even in reality I would be worried about a management team that doesn't pay attention to control of a company's technical infrastructure. Having business expenses fall neatly under one bank account is not a complicated responsibility and doesn't get in the way of a "get shit done" attitude.
That doesn't sound right. A ton of DOS software in the late 80s and early 90s was written in C.
They didn't give Burger King permission to use the device.

Burger King knowingly attempted to access the device of thousands of people and then issue voice commands, without permission.
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Copenhagen's Latest Piece of Cycle Infrastructure Is a “Stupid, Stupid Bridge”
I object to the parent's question as being a form of character assassination. There's a lot of garbage written on the internet, and claims of being a lawyer or in any way an authority on a particular subject should be questioned.

It's great that others have checked out the guy's statements, but I think the downvotes on the parent and easy dismissal of his/her IMO reasonable question is a bit much.
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Hyperbole, or just wanting to watch the world burn, aside, why is IoT, as an idea, retarded? It seems to me that having the underlying platform for secured communication to semi-smart technology is good. If my house could intelligently govern itself within a set of parameters I define that fit my life, I bet I could save a few bucks a month on power, not have as much food, and help the environment in my own little way.

I do see the idea of IoT with no security and no long term commitment to the products as actually, technically retarding (we'd be worse than we are no for the reason you enumerated). Could you make an argument for your last statement as to why a good implementation of IoT is bad?
Well, he has to. The phone/tablet bet is lost, the services bet is lost, they're going back to GNOME... there are few things Ubuntu is doing well, and they might be profitable but not that much.
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This would have the wonderful effect of making the CVE yet another tool that can hold corporations hostage in exchange for money.

Yes, security failures are pretty bad, but startups not happening thanks to excessive regulation is probably worse.
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It's a good idea to put the central conclusion of the article somewhere near the top of it so that people can decide whether they want to read all of the article.
If you read Robert Heinlein's future history stories there is often included a timeline chart. Heinlein wrote stories that spanned the entire timeline.

Except he left a gap where the USA became a theocracy and entered a dark age. Heinlein could not bring himself to write about that depressing era.

Many have observed that Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale fits perfectly in this gap. In fact, Heinlein's Revolt in 2100 feels like a description of the collapse of the dictatorship in Handmaid.

To my knowledge, Atwood has never acknowledged a connection. And it doesn't change that I feel A Handmaid's Tale is a masterpiece.
use screen coordinates for clicks as that also simulate user muscle memory.
oh... so can I type !id to re-run the command?
I see that tech companies are trying to get more diverse, and diverse is good without a doubt. Isn't it likely that males are just more interested in technology than woman?

For example trying to diversify a ballet team.. I find it unlikely that any significant percentage of males can be reached.

Is tech different than ballet?
There are a few problems with the second definition:

1. Airlines in general don't seem to have defined 'boarded' in their contracts. This usually means that the meaning as tested in court will default to that commonly understood, i.e. 'has entered the aircraft and is seated'.

2. Accepting the manifest isn't final, there have been many instances of aicraft returning to the gate for manifest changes. Even to embark a late but high-value passenger. So when is the aircraft finally boarded? when the wheels leave the ground?

3. The United CEO stated that the flight in question was 'fully boarded'. That may have been an error in terms of hsi legal team but shows that even the airline doesn't have a concrete internal definition.
I think you're mixing up "higher order" code and "point-free" code. Just because you don't go point-free doesn't mean you have to resort to nested for-loops.
> C is not a safe language

More like "most C implementations do not offer memory safety by default". This is unrelated to the language per se, it's like for example calling Scheme unsafe because an implementation could have set-cdr! on '() write on random memory. It can be applied to any language.
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Put the Flight Attendants on the Jumpseat, and put the pilots on the UPS flights that to go SDF. If they were truly "Space-Positive" must-rides, they would have had seating assignments.

Seriously, this wasn't hard.
How is that for the sake of corporate efficiency? If you can't get a crew to a plane they're supposed to work on in time, you have to cancel the flight, and then instead of inconveniencing (in this case) the four passengers they chose to bump, you inconvenience an entire plane of passengers.
It had a case for "yes or no dammit!"
Phase portrait animations of complex functions
I've been successfully using Chrome headless in a 500MB Docker container for dumping the DOM for https://www.prerender.cloud/ for months (rendering a large variety of sites without restarts for weeks at a time)

Run it with:

--js-flags="--max_old_space_size=500"

to force the VM to keep it GC'd below 500

Chrome v55 was a 30% memory savings, before that I used 1GB containers.

It's not perfect, but I am definitely pushing high volume (multiple tabs, concurrent activity) and I am not having any significant stability issues and I am pushing diverse sets of webpages.
> If people were not deplaned, another flight would have been delayed/cancelled affecting not one or two people but hundreds.

And how does that become David Doa's personal problem?

And how are you gonna feel about "restorative justice" when United pay his hospital bills - and then assault one of your family/friends next month, because they know it's cheaper doing that than delaying/canceling flights (or, you know, getting their fucking shit together and having proper plans to get flight crews to their planes without turfing paid and seated passengers off aircraft...)

Like I said - I hate "ambulance chasing lawyers", but I genuinely hope this ends with an out of court settlement north of 10mil - not because I think Dao or the lawyer "deserve" that much, but to make it crystal clear to all United employees (including the CEO) that this is _never_ the right way to deal with this problem.

We _know_ what his seat was worth - $1600 - someone else offered to get off for that, and was "laughed in the face". United were offering $800. The one of the four crew missing their spots - worst case - affects "hundreds" of other people (people you'll note who, like Dao, have paid-up tickets and contractual arrangements with United, not Dao...).

Let's say United managed to only incur the $800 per seat costs they were offering here as compensation to the "hundreds" of other passengers potentially affected by one crew members absence. At the very low end, if "hundreds" is only 200 - that's $160,000 dollars of risk - and I admit that's something the on-site United manager needed to mitigate. Which they had the option to do for only $800. Instead - they almost certainly broke the law, purposefully mis-used non-applicable regulations, and didn't back off when things started to go pearshaped, not just in the aircraft, but with the tone-deaf initial two messages from the CEO.

So by saving $800, they put a guy in hospital, and the people who made that decision got backed all the way up the management chain to the CEO and his legal advisers - in a $22billion company.

And you're somehow implying that what the victim did here makes him as much as a jerk as the United and airport rent-a-cop people?

Sorry, we do not agree on that - you are just wrong.

And I stand by my earlier comment - if this doesn't end up with a settlement up in 8 figures, _my_ read of that will be that United fully intend to do this again next time it suits them, and that assaulting paying customers in the interest of "shareholder value" is part of their procedure manual.
Do you also spend time visiting suspicious websites on your friend's laptop?
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Here's a link to the CEO's original/first email supporting the staff:

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/north-america/revealed-...

"Our employees followed established procedures for dealing with situations like this. While I deeply regret this situation arose, I also emphatically stand behind all of you, and I want to commend you for continuing to go above and beyond to ensure we fly right."
Someone mentioned an idea I really want recently, a use by like label "this device will receive security updates until 1/1/2020" and "this device will receive updates 1/1/2018".

We all hear how consumers don't care, but that's largely because they aren't given enough information to care.
The Path to Rust on the Web
I'm pretty sure they even have interline agreements covering this situation.
Apple is reportedly working on sensors for diabetes treatment
Computers follows rules the same way a football player follows physics. Those are not the rules GP is talking about.
You can totally get rid of that stupid ad on the Windows 10 lock screen
"Those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind" - or words to that effect... By dr. Seuss I believe? (Don't hold me on that attribution)
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Ordinary People: On Diarists
If you're an oh-my-zsh user there is a handy part of the .zshrc config for enabling and customizing the timestamp format. Dead simple.
Because Trevor.
I just saw numbers and assumed they were frequencies, my bad!
Well if it's not true then someone can go ahead and prove it?
An introduction to window functions in Redshift
It is not a monopoly play by any means. Alipay is a big competitor of TencentPay and bigger than WeChatPay. Also though the app supports so many features and services, it has a really simple UI. The user has to go hunt the various features and they don't send too many push notifications either. You have to really know the ins and outs of it to know where to access some of the features.
Cool website.

Some thoughts / constructive criticism: Why would I be incentivized to get the full ES7 book when there are already quality materials out there for me for free (i.e. ponyfoo's articles are amazing).

In contrast, I was very attracted to the article on building a list - it's pretty unique and shines a light on interesting CS & JS concepts.
Game on Spicing Up App Experience with Gamification
I think he means he types it out accidentally, we've all been there. Bonus points for when you're doing it on a screenshare or projector.
Last time I tried TypeScript we ended up abandoning it after having mismatches between dependencies and TS definitions.

We had to postpone upgrading libraries to wait for definition updates or write and maintain them ourselves. This was in the early stage of a project though, we needed to get a quick first version out in 2 weeks and it just wasn't worth the hassle.

Has this situation improved - I understand typings are no longer installed with a 3rd party tool/registry?
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"Is there a doctor on board?" "Not any more."
That is exactly it. Hindsight. In hindsight I'm sure a lot of the people involved would have made different decisions. That's easy, and it's easy for all of us to criticize what they did, given that we have the benefit of hindsight (and a distinct lack of solid information, so the usual outrage machine has taken hold).

This was a very rare event: in the majority of cases, they're able to get volunteers to take a later flight. In almost every single one of the cases where they aren't, the people involuntarily bumped leave without incident. I doubt anyone on the flight crew foresaw their chain of actions ending in violence, right up until it happened. And I think that lack of foresight is entirely reasonable and understandable.

United (as a company) did a poor job of handling the aftermath, though.
Next to frequent flyer status I'd also assume that it's less likely to hit you if you have checked in some luggage.

In Europe even before 9/11 flight security protocols demanded that a passenger need to be present on the plane and be seated until boarding is complete.

No piece of luggage is allowed to go on the flight if the airline / the pilot / crew / airport staff has knowledge that the passenger is not on that flight: They need to open up the cargo area, remove all containers until they find this person's luggage so it can stay on ground.
> Yes, security failures are pretty bad, but startups not happening thanks to excessive regulation is probably worse.

How so? I mean, I'd rather avoid either, but if I had to pick one, I don't get what's so special about "startups" that they're more important than data security.
When did silicon valley lose every inch of sense of humour and started taking everything super seriously?
I am one of the dozens. If only I was able to locate a history-related technology job. It seems like you need to be in Washington DC to find anything like that.
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Compared to the other two big US airlines, yes -- United has an earned reputation for slashing mainline service in favor of regional affiliates. People occasionally joked (only half joking) that if previous CEO Jeff Smisek were only legally allowed to, he'd have outsourced long-haul international flights to 50-seat CRJs.

This also played a role in United's frankly abysmal on-time ratings; in order to have enough capacity while moving everything into tiny regional jets, they had to raise the frequency of the flights, which led to logistical clusterfucks at their hubs when they just overloaded the ability of the airport operations to handle that many flights.
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It is clever? Is it intrusive?

No.

It's Brazil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film)
What? No.

If IoT (and important software in general) doesn't get some aggressive regulation, then people will die at some point. There were already cases where the heating went out in a whole town because of some connectivity issues
...I don't remember the details, but i think it was in Sweden.

Medical devices, industrial machinery, power plants and at some point god forbidden nuclear plants.

I flatly don't care about a startup getting shut down because they had shitty security, there will be another one. The people don't die from that in general. But if a person dies because of lack of regulations, or a strip of land gets contaminated, that is it.

And instead of thinking about corporations being "extorted" for not fixing their shit, how about society having to deal with the fallout of shitty IoT security? DDOS paradise, possibly critical infrastructure being taken over etc

If your business model breaks down if you are forced to do it properly, it was shit. Find a new one. Welcome to capitalism, it's nobodies job to make sure your company succeeds
I was using this definition: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=b4pcb4ytjt235ec...

Like many words and phrases, I suspect there are multiple uses (I've found three definitions for "Broken Windows" so far - economics, law enforcement, and coding. While the last two are connected, the first one is not)
I'm quite happy that at least three historian-programmers have come together, here.
Pretty sure, yes.

So it seems that people in this thread are taking the position that depression is a calling from a higher being. Not just metaphorically, but some version of actually true.

Have you spent some time with depressed people, or been depressed? This posited higher being is pretty weird.

I am constantly suprised by my fellows.
I spilled my coffee!
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Rethinking the Customer Experience|Ask Yourself These Questions
Kindergartener and parent asked to sign NDA for Google field trip
Uber reportedly tracked Lyft drivers using a program named ‘Hell’
I loved reading https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/12125. It is a great example of open source persistence despite it not being a priority. Things move forward at snail pace and stalls multiple times. Just when all hope seems lost, they manage to ship it ! This is the case with most opensource projects - things take their own sweet time but they eventually somehow manage.

On a side note, I noted that https://github.com/larsbergstrom owns lars.com. Wow! I wonder how much that is worth given that every 5th german is named lars ;) (though strom seems to indicate he is norwegian)
i have no idea what you're referring to, but it sounds like the photographers ought to. what's wrong with pursuing a payout if it also helps to incentivize avoiding future abuses? do you think airlines are run as a charity or something?
woah this is quite in-direct defense for united, as if you're a some PR guy for them...

anyway, if the guy payed for his tickets, doesn't he have the right to stay on his seat as long as he's not a terrorist/criminal?

Also, united should be blamed for 99% of this incident, as it was united that called security to force the guy out - even when they had the chance to offer some other guy more rewards/etc for a smoother process.
Thanks for writing this!

One nitpick: the guide says "If you're curious why it's important to not have a phone number on your account, see the security key FAQ", but the linked security FAQ doesn't actually appear to say why it's important.
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I think one problem is lack of competition + bought politicians (lobbying). This has made them complacent.

Europe and Asia has better airlines:
https://www.1843magazine.com/travel/what-the-numbers-say/com...
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How is this better then implicit state? I have no idea what data was passed around here.
It wasn't _his_ problem. But he was the one on whose lap it landed, it could have been someone else. This is not the first time airlines overbook and need to bump someone, nor the first time they had to remove someone --and it's likely not the last nor likely illegal either. I'm not saying he or anyone should "like it" but them's the breaks and those are the rules airlines work with --on occasion they have to bump people. On occasion people make bad decisions and these things come to light.

Most level headed people don't put up a struggle to get off. Most people who are thus inconvenienced or wronged will take it up via normal channels. If I'm asked to deplane, unwarranted as it may be, I'm not getting into fisticuffs --I'll take it up later via other means, and it appears most people in the same situation do the same. Very few people become belligerent. Again, not saying this is the preferred mode to operate, but it's how airlines operate. Maybe an 8 figure fine changes that but my guess is they'll just have more legalese giving them more leeway in bumping passengers. I don't think it's going to change an industry which historically operates on thin margins. Not unless they become "re-regulated" and we get the privilege to pay 2x to 4x current airfare like people did pre-1980s in real dollars.

Here's why I think he was a jerk --the airline, right or wrong was operating from a legal standpoint which includes the ability to take people off a plane (you may debate that) but he did not retaliate in a legal manner --he took personal affront and physically resisted removal. Separately, I think the airline were jerks because they should not have resorted to their legal options when they had not exhausted reasonable monetary options first.
I don't think they only focused on Octane, it's possible they may have weighted it more highly, I can't speak for the v8 team (I don't work on v8), but that sounds like an oversimplification of what probably happened.

One example could be focusing on throughput instead of startup latency which could yield distorted outcomes for real world apps, or mostly app code that is mostly early-bound style OO code/monomorphic functional code vs code that is hostile to class shape analysis/PIC.

It seems in the last few years, especially with the idea of Web competing with native with stuff like asm.js for games, there was a focus on maximize throughput, but it's rare your typical interactive web app is running code that benefits from that.