skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Combined sewers are generally syptom of aged infrastructure. For many years standard practice has been to separate storm and sewer systems -- in part because the cost of treating sewage is roughly proportional to the volume of water passing through the system.

Going further, stormwater systems are also a sign of obsolescent approaches to infrastructure. Contemporary practice and progressive land use regulations require development generated additional runoff to be mitigated on-site to maintain pre-development flow rates at a development site's edges.
My kids are both in high school right now. My observation is that they are largely platform agnostic. Of course the browser runs on any platform. That's their "terminal" for everything. They use Google Docs on whatever computer they're sitting at, and have figured out its collaborative features.

Just a few years ago it was very important for them to have a computer with the latest version of Office installed on it -- one for every kid in case they both got assignments at the same time -- but the teachers are now largely comfortable with Google Docs or Whatever. That 3-user Office 2010 license is probably my last commercial software purchase ever.

So it seems that the choice of platform is something that the grown ups worry about, but it doesn't affect the kids at all. Their school seems to have gone with Chromebooks.
> pizza hut there is apparently considered "fancy food"

Ten years ago, but not so much now.
Is it just me or has it gotten a lot worse over the last 5-6 years?
Vitamins, minerals, anti-oxidants, fiber (in some cases).

But yes, barring fiber, these are all micronutrients, not macronutrients.
ALSO:

A beautiful feature of this market is that most of these projects have whitepapers!

https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper

https://golem.network/doc/Golemwhitepaper.pdf

https://whitepaper.uport.me/uPort_whitepaper_DRAFT20170221.p...

https://bravenewcoin.com/assets/Whitepapers/Augur-A-Decentra...

https://gnosis.pm/resources/default/pdf/gnosis_whitepaper.pd...

It's important for everyone to realize that as some of the more technical people in the world, we are uniquely positioned to be able to judge the value of these projects by understanding of the technological implications they introduce.

I.E. We know the value of platforms, well, some of these projects are positioning themselves to be core platforms in an ecosystem where entire industries will be built with software. Any project that makes it easier to build this software is worth looking into and reading their whitepaper.

That's all from me. It's really exciting!
I read that as theranos on the tech side. What real estate scam are you referencing?
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"Inside a glistening white elevator cab, pressurized to make my brief ride even more comfortable..."

How does that work, when it comes to getting off, unless each floor is pressurized?

A quick search finds only references to pressurized shafts, for smoke control in the event of a fire.
Exactly. Unless and until the input of text ceases to become a primary function of computing devices, touch screens will never be as effective as a laptop with keyboard.

Sure, add on keyboards are an option, but it is a second class citizen and apps aren't primarily designed with them in mind.
Why not make a smoothie which leaves all the body of the fruit inside the drink. Add a bit of water and nuts perhaps and there you go.
Incremental property-based testing
The records before comprehensive satellite measurements are not very useful to determine a baseline.
Did you really mean 20€? Here in Germany you can't find them?
Gold is no longer tied to power. Real estate now defines who is to be king. Look to the wealth funds of the middle east. They dont trade oil for gold these days. They buy land, the real international currency. The man with the most diversified land across many countries is king.
I would have to agree with you being an Indian student in Germany right now. I have seen a lot of Indian/Pakistani/Middle-Eastern students at my University with lower skills than what is usually desired of them at a Master's level. Of course, I can't generalize and there definitely are a lot of talented students in the mix as well. One interesting fact is, that my University recently reduced the number of admissions given to International students with probably some changes to the admission criteria, the standard of new students has now increased.

Also, you are right about some Universities being closer to German standards than others in India (I guess every country has good and bad Universities, the onus here is on the German Universities to identify the right ones and improve the admission criteria). I personally do not see a lot of difference between my University back home in India and the one I am enrolled at in Germany.
I think it takes experience. That's why I still believe that sw architects are really essential.
Yes, and as a milk ad.

Milk seems to be associated with various health issues too, and that it's important for children's growth is a dubious claim.

But it's clear that drinking large quantities of liquids with a high sugar content (including milk) is not good for you.
But that doesn't make it 'an AI'. That's a subtle difference but it matters.
> Uh, as soon as you're processing PII, be it health information, social security numbers like in payroll, or credit card information, you're required by law (or the CC industry) to have these. And no, cutting corners is not an option

True, but you can still organise out less sensitive components to serverless, and there are plenty of payment and payroll gateways to outsource the compliance problems.
You're not talking about food science, you're talking about reporting. Dietary science is as valid a science as any other. It is the people who eagerly impose their dogma and zeal onto it in the same way they do subjects like sex, child-rearing, and religion that cause these inconsistencies.
> "High School" as an educational trifurcation is very USA, most of the world seems to bifurcate into pre-teen and teen. No concept outside the USA of going to a separate building for ages 14-18.

Division of secondary education into separate upper and lower stages is actually pretty damn common, and definitely not unique just for USA. For example in Finland (and I think in Norway too) we have 6 years in primary, 3 in lower secondary and 3 in upper secondary school. Both EU and UN classification have three levels for this range.
As a partial answer, here is the document that outlines the redis philosophy: http://oldblog.antirez.com/post/redis-manifesto.html

I bet that coming up with this points and having them in mind (even subconsciously) has helped antirez evolve redis in a coherent direction.
Yet lack of experience won't help either...

so, experience and keeping up with what customers need
To extend on that, is there any evidence that more technology provides better education results?
>> tDOM for parsing and creating XML and HTML content

How is tDOM supposed to work if WebAssembly doesn't have access to the DOM?
In what way is the desktop experience crippled? The way I use it is petty much identical to my Windows 7 experience.
Complete nonsense. I've worked for the Pentagon since the middle 80's, it was and still is by far the biggest consumer of AI. The brightest minds of the 80's just couldn't deliver a working AI system, despite the government investing billions in LISP and Ada projects.

The same happened in Japan and Europe, their best CS people failed to deliver the promised Prolog AIs.
Conversely I'm in the same boat, but I still can't find value in LinkedIn because it feels so disingenuous, and not at all part of my peer hiring circle. I suppose if I weren't already employed in a job that fulfills all of my needs, I'd be more concerned, but LinkedIn has never been anything but a curiosity for me. I'm sure others may find more value in it, but in responding to your comment I guess I just felt the need to say you're not the only one that took the same unconventional path.
> The Band is the most bizarre deprecation for me

Why? They didn't sell.
This article is largely non-sense and not scientific at all. Here we go again with the fruit = sugar = evil, when I have yet to see an overweight person that eats too much fruit.
There are communities of people called fruitarians that only eat raw fruit and vegetables and are largely very healthy. And yes.. they juice.

The problem with diabetes is that the cells of the body have too much saturated fat which blocks in the insulin receptors.
MapSCII – Braille and ASCII OpenStreetMap renderer for your console
What Kind of Programmer Are You?
FreeRTOS is here: http://www.freertos.org/

Though the "RT" is the only real overlap. It's targeted more at lower end hardware, but does have an x86 implementation.
I guess it's hard to test, so they discovered that they can just continue to make shit up...
I find HN (and most of modern life in general) pretty cyberpunk as it is.
The mpaa arent technology people. Their security wants are laughable, thier audits toothless. The contracts are scary to read but that's all they are. The film/tv industry is an open book for hackers. Password remain active forever. Accounts never close. Projects are extended and moved without thought to security. The average porn production studio is more secure against hackers than the average mpaa-contracted entity. The porn studio at least turns thier machines off when not in use.
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That sounds really great. I think that the day-to-day "breaking news" style reporting on this subject is common, but longer more visual pieces that get into the nitty-gritty are rare.

I'm a designer and journalist very interested in similar areas. I just started releasing a podcast focusing on similar subject matter: http://metaverse.audio

If you end up moving forward I'd love to chat. ejfox@ejfox.com
That's definitely how I got my start in security.

But from a software development perspective it's never been easier to write/run code in a web browser and doing something to your local computer isn't as important as making your computer do something.

iPads are definitely consumption oriented devices, and while I don't love Chromebooks, I don't think it's as dire as it seems.
Make it feature-driven. When Facebook came out they didn't know photo sharing would be a definitive feature. When they put it out there they took a slug to the shoulder for not realizing it sooner and then implemented relevant features (like tagging).

Similarly when Redis came out I doubt the creator realized everybody and their grandmother would use lists as a defacto message queue but now look at all the commands list has that facilitate just that.

Key point is to accept and welcome that slug to the shoulder that pushes you in the right direction, to abuse the metaphor.
Very true. Yet as a manager leading a team of mainly backend engineers who don't have lots of interest in front-end development - we need a toolchain that is easy to pick up, easy to understand the fundamentals, and easy to train interns or junior devs on.

Of course - it also helps I understand that tech stack enough to efficiently explain it to younger engineers. That said - these three technologies have a LOT of material on the web and consensus on that tech has helped my folks build things "more right" more often, without having to do all the nuanced consideration themselves.

When it comes to X resources, Y time, and Z goals, it's all about the right tool.

I think many people give JS shit because it isn't always the right tool - but people choose it anyway due to hotness/hype/vague advantages.

So I'd agree its a mix of skill, resources, and goal. Arguably another manager with amazing React skillsets could do the same thing with a different stack. I'd love to see that guy in action, especially if he can have a more productive team for the choices.

But for us - most UI Frontends are fancy buttons on backend service APIS, or stupid CRUD. Rails does this with confidence.
Yet, if they did so perhaps the architect would stop putting grass in places where it's too f'ing difficult to actually maintain properly. Sometimes putting the 'expert' in the shoes of the 'maintainer' works wonders toward creating designs than can actually be maintained.
> Any trained Sushi chef knows how to cut the fish properly, all they need is access to a good wholesale fish market like Tsukiji

This isn't a convincing argument at all, I could just as easily say "any trained sushi chef knows how to cook rice properly, all they need is Amazon and access to a good rice cooker like Zojirushi".

For what it's worth, I don't believe the idea that rice is the main focus -- it just sounds like the sushi chefs are fucking with people when they say something like that.
> he couldn’t have known how comedians would come to double, in a culture saturated with information, as journalists

Er... Wasn't Nixon interviewed by David Frost?

Hell, was Diogenes having too much fun?
But is it really, for instance the process of finding 'recommended' amounts of nutrients seems to be more or less as good as picking numbers out of a hat.
Not having a hobbyist option, means there are fewer people trying to use it for new and interesting things.
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But that's also true of almost every other place on the internet; if you'll pardon the pun, StackOverflow is the Exception.

Quora's utility is a tiny subset of, for example, Reddit's /r/AskReddit. Except it does away with the community vibe and what is at least somewhat a meritocracy on Reddit and replaces it with being an already-well-known figure or someone who can sell their reputation well enough. Half the questions are directed at specific people anyway, which is quite bizarre: 'What was Elon Musk's GPA at UPenn?'. If you want to have a Q&A session with a famous person, /r/AMA is much better. In general, there's nothing stopping you from asking and collecting questions and answers anywhere else on the internet, so why do we need a specialist? Quora's Q&A implementation has nothing to set it apart from SO, or even Twitter threads.

More importantly, in terms of user base, most conceivable questions have a better place to be asked than Quora. For some of them, that place is Reddit or StackExchange, or even your favourite Elon Musk fan-fiction club. For the rest, there is probably a community out there that isn't limited to the open Q&A format that users on Quora try to shoehorn everything into.

The one topic that seems to do inordinately well on Quora is questions about startups, because respondents can tout how successful they are when they give you an answer and be upvoted according to how well they do that. This is the rare case that people are actually looking for reputation rather than content. If you're looking for people with life experience, AskReddit does a great job of promoting answers where people take the time to tell a story. Subreddits (like /r/malefashionadvice, for example) do a great job of organising communities around common interest with lots of Q&As and beginner guides thrown in. If you want what Quora purports to provide, just find any old community online with the people you want to hear from and ask it there instead.
My company is hardly a startup (16 years old), and we are in the process of converting a few of our processes over to Lambda and API Gateway (via luigi), with good success.

I wouldn't agree with the "You're locked in to this vendor" statement. Our Lambda code is just Python Flask apps and our "if Lambda is down" plan is to run the services from our data center via uwsgi serving the Flask apps. GCE also can easily serve Flask apps, but the environment there is weird and I spent tons of time struggling with things that worked in my GCE dev environment to work in the real GCE. I had high hopes for GCE but it was a total pain in the butt.

As far as moving your bare metal servers around to whatever DC... Enterprises don't easily move data centers. Minimum to move our couple of Lambda apps, deployed on uwsgi, is probably a contract for 2 years at a grand a month, and $30K worth of hardware. We wouldn't take down one data center until another is fully up and running and proven.
Any other payment method would also work.
The 80% accurate statement is about the maps themselves. Google maps will show a road that just doesn't exist. Or you will be driving down on a road that isn't on the map. Or the map will show the road going through, even though you are at its end, looking at a cliff. It will show intersections that do not exist.

In some cases, I can tell they used old data. I know one road in particular that did exist 30 years ago, but the forest service deliberately closed off when a rock quarry closed, and it has been re-forested. It still shows on the maps. Another that shows on the maps was planned to be built by the BLM, but never was... yet the map shows it. So I'm not sure exactly what data set they built their maps from, but clearly it did come from data, not actual exploration... because the dirt roads in the American west are just not accurate.
Ah! Thanks for the clarification!

Also, I screwed up when I said table sugar. I meant commercial sugar used in things. Table sugar still comes from sugar plants.
Even outside of education, I don't think the iPad is useful for anything other than consumption.

I've seen some creative types using drawing applications on it, which is cool I guess, but for the most part I don't see it replacing a laptop/desktop just yet.
You must be kidding
Aside from the lack of security from the 2G networks, not to mention the worse quality call, it is very likely that 2G will be phase out during the next decade in many countries.

This will render the phone utterly useless.
I've just logged out and deleted cookies. They won't let me actually close the account either, because it's "limited."
Just install anti-adblock blocker:

https://reek.github.io/anti-adblock-killer/

This arms race if so much fun!
Every story I've ever read about PayPal is a cautionary tale not to ever use or rely upon PayPal.

Of course like others I use it for eBay but never, ever, for anything important.
I'm a huge fan of a little app called Maplets.[1] Has saved me on a number of occasions, and highlights how limited the big name mapping tools really still are for all kinds of navigation information.

[1]: http://www.mobilemaplets.com/
Followed just a few sentences later by the commercial juice industry is happy to take advantage of this idea [that juice is healthy].

If you want to attack the article, you can pull out bits and pieces of it to do so, but it's written by diabetes specialists who are responding to misconceptions about juice that they see in their clinic every day. The vast majority of their clients are drinking commercial fruit juice, not carefully measured made at home smoothies.

I'd have appreciated reading this article years ago before I knew anything about nutrition and thought the smoothies I was drinking from Jamba Juice were good for me. They weren't and contributed to my being 40 lbs overweight at the time.

So if this article gets a few people to reconsider (or even think about) their conceptions about juice, then bravo.
The opposite is also true. Keyboards and mice are no replacement for a touch screen. I have a laptop with all three and I love it.
Sure, but that's a side point -- the main focus is one the actual cases (like using it as indignation, for instance). A bad or non-realistic anecdote doesn't affect the main point of the essay in any way.
Well yeah, maybe arrest, maybe just "come with us we need to chat" intimidation. It was figure of speech.

Edit:

Or so I thought until I searched a bit more and found this [0]:

18 U.S. Code § 700 - Desecration of the flag of the United States; penalties:

(a)
(1) Whoever knowingly mutilates, defaces, physically defiles, burns, maintains on the floor or ground, or tramples upon any flag of the United States shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.

So I guess if you stepped on a flag the FBI could in fact arrest you.

[0]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/700
I'm not a kid in school, but a highly paid software engineer and I have gone with a Chromebook. It does what I do, surf the internet and for 10+ hours on a single charge. When I want to do some programming, I just ssh into my several-year-old Linux desktop and use tmux + vim.

If ChromeOS opened up its Linux internals without using the crouton hack, it would destroy every other platform out there.
This has worked fine for me.
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Similar to my sibling comment I think the value in sw architects isn't the ability to predict the future from experience, rather they should build systems that can accept reasonable change.

Some practical examples would be to implement build systems into their stack that accept database migrations and rollbacks easily. Or realizing they are in a fast-paced team that could benefit from specific frameworks and languages (experience would play a big role here).
> And remember how Hitler just went state shopping before there was a war?

Hitler went state shopping because the regions he started to invade had a majority of German speaking folks. As soon as he started to do something else (i.e. Poland) it started a war.
This is an unpopular opinion here, but I'll voice it anyway. There are serious privacy implications of using Chromebooks, particularly in schools where young students may not understand the degree and extent of online tracking going on in ChromeOS.

Since you cannot use a Chromebook fully without signing in, everything you do in the operating system is tracked and recorded by Google and tied to your identity. Why is this even considered remotely acceptable?

The amount of data that Google captures about students must simply be staggering.

It's simply not enough to say that the data is "anonymised" (a meaningless term when you have so much data about a user's online habits), or only viewed in aggregated form. This still means the data can be interrogated and mined for information in ways we can't begin to imagine.

It remains baffling why the tech industry is so silent on this important subject.
This certainly sounds like an AI application. Do you have some reason to think it isn't?
LinkedIn also only wants to consider jobs in the modern sense, not the traditional sense. So I decided to list myself as "Co-CEO of the Ganz Family" with the description "Full-time stay-at-home mom. Job description includes cleaning up other people's poop, so it actually isn't too different from corporate life..."

EDIT: And if you think that this approach would cut down on the dumb recruiter spam, you'd be sadly mistaken. :-/
Will be expanding the emoji set.
Why Use Postgres?
Have you installed crouton? Check it out if not. Allows you to run a linux distro on a browser tab. Super useful.
It amuses me to see "Western" Japanese food (youshoku). E.g. hamburger steak, Napoloitan pasta (totally disgusting to me) or even omurice. Dishes that we vaguely recognize, but are really Japanese creations or Japanese versions in the case of hamburger steak. I imagine an American in Denny's probably feels like a Chinese person in an American Chinese food restaurant or a Japanese person in an American Japanese restaurant.

Also, all the weird sorts of things you can get on pizza in Japan that are utterly foreign to Americans (and even more so to Italians).
Vernam cipher will come to rescue.
Thanks for bringing it up. I will make sure to make the spelling changes :)
Why would you want a touch screen on your Macbook? Touching the display will leave grease stains on the glossy display, you will move the angle of the display, and you have to raise and extend your whole arm instead of just moving your hand. It doesn't make sense to have a touch screen on a Macbook because the form factor is totally different from tablets.