skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry - I wasn't clear enough. Who says it's one single relational database? And besides, like I mention, it's often not relational database queries but a service calls (think microservice architectures, for example). Or both!

Anyway, I respect your position that yes, for the average user, throwing a bunch of "async" in there isn't going to make their code faster, and it's just cargo cult programming. And yes, there is some tradeoff curve where sometimes, for a small benefit, it's not worth the effort to worry about it, as with all things. But it's just a tough sell to argue that no one should need this :-)

More and more often today, the backend serves as glue between frontend clients and a horde of services / data systems. This is often an I/O heavy workload (wait while I make a request, wait for a response, wait while I download x10). This kind of workload is ripe for speeding up with async. That's all I'm saying!
The Socts language[0] is not to be confused with Scottish English[1] (although it's easy to see the elements of the Scottish accent in English in Scots orthography).

Scots is a fellow-descendant from Middle English (alongside modern English), with some minor grammatical, and more substantial vocabulary divergence.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_English
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How do you structure the JS code in server rendered webapps? How do you structure pjax code? I'm wondering also if there's an open source project I can take a look at.
I've read that they won't be using them, because they generally have professional setups with proper lighting and DSLRs. They also then edit photos before posting them.
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Can you expand? I don't understand this viewpoint.
You have more control over your government than you have over Uber or AirBnB -- especially if you're not a customer of either of those businesses. The government is (ideally) merely a voice of all of the people.

Transportation and housing (for example) are parts of the critical infrastructure of a community. Allowing decisions about those things to be made entirely by the (relatively wealthy and mono-cultural) owners and customers of those businesses is unfair to the other people affected by those businesses. Hence regulation.

Which, again: There are bad and stupid regulations. Of course. But regulations are useful tools, overall.
This behavior isn't really capitalism, it is driven by flawed U.S. tax law which allows owners to deduct interest expenses and losses.
Or with corp. equipment. Thanks Silicon valley for that.
Long haul truckers also have a difficult job, and are squeezed by large shippers.

People associate used glamour with flying, but I think that is because it was so expensive and most people were shut out. I think of a passenger airplane as a greyhound with wings. There's no reason not to think of a cargo plane as a semi with wings, in which case you shouldn't expect the pilots to be much better off than truck drivers.
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Cognitive behavior patterns that influence the user experience
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The author failed to mention the context of the data chosen; specifically the dates. For example, rob vs. steal, would change depending on the century the work was created.
I think rollers would work. Common sugarcane juice machines easily crush a thick, hard (almost like wood) cane into dry paper-like sheets. They can easily crush vegetables, unless you try to put a whole pumpkin into it.
If paying for a client's hosting needs is a potentially high risk arrangement, my gut reaction is to have the client's account tied to their credit card and to invoice maintenance and other services separately. Because:

1. It means that the client owns the resources and that is good for the client.

2. It means if the client stops paying for hosting, you're not out the money.

3. It means that if hosting gets expensive, you don't own the problem...you own the solution in the form of additional billable services.

4. It means that the client can make the decision to pull the plug if usage gets to high and you're not involved.

I'd add that under this scenario, you can maintain the client's account on their behalf and charge a nice fee for doing so...maybe a fixed fee plus a percentage of hosting costs. If the client wants to move to a cheaper alternative, you can charge for that work too. The most important thing is that you do not own hosting costs when there is a problem.

Good luck.
> Sorry, it's 86% and 14% in Linux 4.11. It's literally in the link I posted.

you first quoted 80% and chided me for not reading the article linked to because it supposedly implied/had it in there. now you're moving the goalposts and point at a different article that i can't have guessed before you posted it.

> Maybe that's not the case in Hungary, but that is the case in America (and Australia where I am).

it's not necessarily the case there either. i had worked in both countries and always negotiated contracts that wouldn't have such overreaching clauses.

> I mean, Linux kernel development worked in this way for the first several years when it started.

exactly and you can see how much (or little, in this case) that achieved vs. what money did when it started to pour in. it's not at all hypothetical that if currently paid developers were stopped getting paid then the current pace of development would stop to a crawl (related example: look at gcc vs. clang/llvm after google/etc moved their developers from one to the other). easy test: would you continue to work on linux with the same pace/effort if your company stopped paying you for it? yes/no? if you answer yes then i also expect you to pay them back any past salaries you cheated out of them ;).

> Both Linux and grsecurity were developed for some time without direct income sources from most contributors.

in our case, it's not 'some time' but 'all the time'. that's the big difference which puts the original statement into a very different light:

> Meanwhile the kernel upon which their work is built has been provided for free for much longer

that 'for free' isn't at all free (money makes it happen) unlike our volunteer project (money doesn't make it happen).
Students are a heterogenous group of individuals, not all students take well to being given freedom and just perform poorly. Likewise, not all take well to rigid instruction and rebell or slide into apathy. But most try to adapt and struggle through it.
I imagine it helps when you've written a book to register the domain name for its title.
This is the deal at every company. Every employee (and the company itself) wants to be able to say they turned a hackathon idea into a real thing.
At mine you can work on your own project on your company provided computer. You own the IP. I think it has gone well for everyone.
It doesn't seem like a myth to me. Vast amounts of money being spent on stupid consumerism, selling user information to the highest bidder, ADS ADS ADS ADS, businesses that are so good at losing money they'd do better if they literally burned piles of cash every day...
That's a goalpost on wheels. Anyway, it doesn't change the fact that the GP offered than even under the same regulations, public facilities perform significantly worse than private ones.
It's not always this straightforwards. To talk of my own situation:

> "Can you give me location? Front of the head? All over? Back of the head? Near the neck?"

worse in some places, but I get it everywhere

> "Can you describe the pain?"

it's not pain

I don't know how to describe it.

> "Can you describe it? Does it feel like a constant pressure? Is it a sharp stabbing pain? Does it feel like a dull stimulus that creeps over you?"

No. I can't.

.

I've been dealing with this for well over 30 years.

Only in the last year have I had a bit of an explanation of why it is indescribable.

It seems likely the issue is a nerve issue, and when the nerve signals to the brain go wrong, the brain doesn't know quite how to interpret them, so you get sensations that are indescribable.

In my experience, basically everyone assumes that if there's a real problem then of course you can explain what it's like. That if you can't then that's your fault.
Direct link to a scatter plot (x axis: quantity, y axis: gender):

http://varianceexplained.org/figs/2017-04-27-tidytext-gender...
At the face of it, this seems like a fool's errand.

The upper bound for obfuscation is that the obfuscated text should still be readable by a human with minimal effort. To read, the average reader will looks for patterns like "replace j with the y sound." Once these patterns are determined, coding them into your NLP AI is trivial.
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Desktops over laptops for numerous reasons. Lower initial cost, better GPU (I work in graphics), ability to add more memory, ergonomic keyboards, ergonomics in general, lower lifetime costs (I still using some 17 year old computers, with upgraded processors, memory, hard-disks).

And I agree with tolien on keeping work at work in general (and everything else he said). You need a few laptops for people to take to clients and demos (depends on your business).

VM's make it incredibly easy to restore/set-up any kind environment quickly. And with everything in the cloud, you have almost instant access to code and docs.
Waymo
Agreed.

If you're doing this, at least keep it private.
There can be a number of reasons for missing a flight. Two examples: a) You're going from an airport which you need 2h+ to get to, and your train is delayed. b) You're on a week long holiday going through multiple towns, you miscalculate travel time / miss a transport, and don't arrive on time.
Get started with multiplayer game development using libGDX and AppWarp
Only if the side project is an unauthorized intent of clone your software. Fire if he doesn't do his job. How want to fire if someone does more?
Hard to believe he couldn't find a height between 3 feet and a few thousand to do a safe demonstration
The author mentions in the second paragraph that the data comes from scraping Wikipedia articles' plot descriptions. So the plots might be old, but the descriptions (and language) were all written recently.
The washing machine analogy would have been appropriate if washing machines would refuse to start unless you use the same brand detergent and clothes.
Clearly Conflict of Interest opening up both parties to potential litigation. a) Have a policy in place before hiring someone; b) remind the employees to follow the policy.

My previous company sold this type of training to corporations, who need to have concrete rules set up for the benefit of both parties (ok, mainly the corporation's benefit). I realize startups don't have time to focus on HR policies and legal protections, but get something basic in writing so both parties are on the same page prior to this issue coming up. Without it, the employee has the right to do whatever the heck they want and then sue for wrongful termination.
So... look at Google Analytics, buy the devices you see, plug them into the wall, and buy unlocked devices? Not sure why that required an entire domain, several pages and multiple eBook formats.
It was noted by someone in the comments. I think I disagree. I don't see why this couldn't work, and the jet engines in question do produce sufficient thrust and are cheap enough that you could buy like 6 of them (52lbf thrust each), with a total of 312lbf of thrust, enough for this kind of project, for the price of a new car: http://www.chiefaircraft.com/jc-p200-rx.html

How much does a good rigging setup cost plus good professional video editing software to edit out such lines? I suspect it's not even much cheaper than making this work. (Particularly since you need to buy the jet engines anyway.)

I always wonder why people think something is fake when the real thing would actually be easier (if more dangerous) and cheaper than faking it.
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Anecdotal evidence: I used to work at a construction materials depot when I was younger. I remember how lost I was when I initially started, I couldn't recognize any of the material sizes by looking at them, while all the old timers always just knew what size they were just by glancing at them. Then only after a couple of months, suddenly I could too. Years later I'm still pretty good at guessing lengths, while people around me seem to always be way off. I can hold out my hands and make a foot, three feet, 1 cm, 0,5 cm 10 cm between them pretty reliably, while other people seem to be way off.
It's interesting how thoroughly ingrained sexist concepts are in the language. Even a verb that's fairly active like 'resist' assumes a power relation in which they are in a worse position.

I'd like to see this done by country or year or language or genre.
I think this graph tells you everything you need to know. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=baby+sheep%2Cl...
This.

When I have a big project at work I would also take a small one to recharge mentally as well and switch back and forth. We got new management and they saw this as us wasting time on the big project and declared we can only have one project assigned at a time. Genius, so now when I need a mental break I'm not allowed to work on things that benefit the company.

This lowered overall productivity and lead to either daylighting or just general time wasting.
Sorry I can't contribute more, this needs to be a quick message; but I recommend that you take a look at substack/tape⁰ for testing in JS; browser and server side. It forces you to write 'simple' tests; the likes of Mocha give you too much fluff, and use globals (i.e. magic).

[0] https://github.com/substack/tape
The interesting aspect is how a $100m theft is not considered a "material event" with regards to SEC reporting at these firms.
Why would being inside your mother for nine months, which you have no recollection of, be more important than the following years of developing an emotional bond? It's not even about making such children lack the body contact with parents since that only happens after the baby is born.

Anecdotal, but I'd have no feelings about being grown in a bag. I'd be rather happy to know my mother didn't have to suffer through 9 months of pregnancy.

I feel that strong feelings towards these things are a product of culture. Some did some good, like saying the pregnancy is a blessing to make it easier for women to pull through. But with developments like the one described in the article, these cultural norms stop being useful and can be safely dropped.
Replace "closed offices" with "bedrooms" and "conference rooms" with "living room", "dining room", etc. and this sounds an awful lot like an actual house.
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This is a fantastic response, thank you very much. It's a shame I can't up-vote more than once. I remember watching some Dart videos in the past and being really impressed by the language so I will revisit it as an option to pursue along with AngularDart.
Management might see a red flag for someone who thinks it's fine to use company property and resources without payment nor permission.
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I work with a bunch of remote employees. My general policy is that I want them to be available to say "hi" and talk about the day at the start of the day (9am) in my timezone, and to give me a status update at the end of the day (5.30pm, ish) in my timezone. (The morning "hi" is a standup, really.) I expect them to reply on Slack or by email in a reasonably prompt fashion (eg. within 1 hour) during regular office hours in my timezone, and if there's something that urgently needs doing (a bugfix, digging out some info because there's a meeting depending on it, etc) then I expect them to snap to it. As to their actual work, as long as the eight hours get done, deadlines are met, and we don't fall behind, it is a source of absolute indifference to me whether those eight hours of work are done during regular office hours or if they have an entirely different job they need/want to do during the day and can only do work for me at night.

That's for remote. If someone is physically located with the rest of a team and is doing side projects whilst their colleagues around them are doing real work, and potentially they're not responsive to work queries, then that seems fairly wrong.

Of course you have a conversation first with someone before you fire them!
That only applies to PDF.

Most e-books are in epub or mobi format, and those are essentially HTML.
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On the flipside of alexdrans, I suggest looking into using Airbnb's Enzyme[0] for React and Facebook's Jest[1] for testing React components.

[0]: https://github.com/airbnb/enzyme

[1]: https://github.com/facebook/jest
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In your example the async code doesn't really help anything though - the next statement has to wait for the response from the previous one before continuing.

In your example you'd probably want to be using Promise.all to run two IO operations simultaneously.
I'd recommend checking out James Shore's Javascript TDD site: https://www.letscodejavascript.com/
cargo pilots flying for Amazon still have it much better than warehouse workers.

That maybe so, but it isn't right to say "suck it up, there are others who have it worse". Both groups are treated badly and both groups deserve empathy
For arbitrary C code, I believe checking for those issues is equivalent to the halting problem. Or at least uncomputable.
https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/07/09/what-does-...
Lab-grown ‘mini-brains’ do mimic human brain development
Exactly. Given what he did, that just sounds wrong.
And how many square meters ? Do you find it enough ?
Not explicitly, but I'm guessing that if you've paid for business/first, there is some small chance you'll be bumped back to economy (as in the story making the rounds a few weeks back) but probably a vanishingly small chance you'll get bumped off the plane entirely.
great advice for sure! If you arent able to enjoy working on code at least a little bit, i dont think youd be able to stick with it long enough to really have a good fundamental understanding of software development
I hate PDFs basically for the same reasons you seem to like them.

It's far easier to configure FBReader to have small margins, nice colors and use gestures to flip a page, than to deal with the fixed page format issues of PDFs.
You said recently that the UK model (regulated last-mile monopoly) works well.[1] Is there a reason it wouldn't work well in the US?

5G fixed wireless is just entering trials. Maybe it'll be a game-changer, but relying on new technologies to create competition is why there isn't effective competition now.

FiOS upload speeds are vastly superior, but some Comcast plans offer higher download speeds at cheaper prices. Typical LTE-A upload speeds seem to be worse than cheaper cable plans.[2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14207640

[2] http://www.tomsguide.com/us/best-mobile-network,review-2942....
This is a risky assertion to make, in some cases for us.
It is certaily over-engineered. All the stuff mentioned can probably be done using an 8bit Atmega.
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I would suspect that's an anomaly with the sample of pro-life people that you know.

I'm pro-life and in the circles where I travel, this is being hailed.
Spam comes to mind.
Vast majority of the population wants to travel more but, of all things, the cost of a plane ticket is holding them back? No, this is not true.

I travel for pleasure about once a year. I can travel more if I wanted to, finances don't hold me back, but once a year is enough for me. Traveling for vacation is usually pretty fun but at the same time just stressful enough that I wouldn't want to do it more than once a year. Airplane travel is really inconvenient.

Plane tickets are just a small part of the cost of a vacation so a free ticket isn't magically going to make them afford extra travel. United isn't paying them for their hotel, rental car, and activities they are going to do when they go on this extra vacation.

Even if you do make use of the vouchers, you better hope that United flies to that place you want to go and you have enough time off saved up at work and your schedule works out to use that voucher before it expires. I know you get a year but people have schedules and usually only have windows where it works out to take vacation.

If you are a business traveler you better hope you actually like traveling for pleasure.
For me it was always from HN.
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Unfortunately that would require people's money and time. We'd also have to put our differences aside about each other and work for the greater good. A person is reasonable, people are dumb.
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I think you cross a line once you go to working on your projects. To me screwing around and doing nothing is very different than working on your own project/business during company time. If you want to do anything educate yourself on the technologies your project uses, but don't directly work on it during your work hours. Even education is different. I draw the line at working on your business during work hours.
For between about $2500 and $4500 (depending on thrust), you can get a small model jet engine: http://www.chiefaircraft.com/radio-control/turbine-engines/j...

I love these things. I love enabling gadgets that enable hobbyists and garage entrepreneurs to do crazy things like this that would normally require a military program to fund.
there is data on the subject and it is simply not possible to be more productive in an open office with distractions. It's impossible with the way our brains work
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I wonder what the implications of functioning artificial wombs would be to abortion. Would it make sense to allow people to abort if we could take the fetus from the mother and let it become a baby?
Yep, faulty memory. Still similar point though: Elon Musk bought in to Tesla and fired one of the founders. Obv, a Lotus Chassis and a car kit is much different than the product now but once you sell, you give up control.

AC prop still exists. You were correct
Carrier IoT not so promising now is it?
Many of those people have actually been led believe it has something to do with quashing conservative media.

From the man himself:

Donald J. Trump‏ Verified account
@realDonaldTrump

Obama’s attack on the internet is another top down power grab. Net neutrality is the Fairness Doctrine. Will target conservative media.

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/53260835850816716...

Like those millions of people who believed the fake news fed to them, these people don't even know what it means, much less make an informed decision, so the Republicans aren't going to lose many votes over this compared to informed voters who are typically in the cities and vote D anyway.
> The world needs an open-source, non-JVM-targeted Datomic.)

Couchdb?
Except it won't work. Historical antiques are usually interesting because they still work after decades (if care is taken).
Seems like an easy way to become a double amputee.
Rust manages it without HKT quite reasonably (rather than implementing generic monads, it has the `?` operator, which is syntax-sugar for something like [0]), though sum types are a necessity.

[0] match whatever { Ok(v) => v, Err(e) => return Err(From::from(e)) }
> Do people really miss their flights so often that overbooking isn't often an issue

Yes. Wendover Productions on YouTube posted an excellent video a while back explaining why airlines overbook their flights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqWksuyry5w Most of the time it's not an issue.
Not sure how that worked. When I've been to large companies, nothing was payed without a PO and an elaborate PO process.