skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked into the "Guarantee" issue a while back when I felt dissatisfied with Comcast despite their "Customer Satisfaction Guarantee". Unfortunately it seems Guarantee is just a meaningless marketing term.
I'm not sure if you would consider this a feature of the language. But having a large community and large, readily available, libraries is huge.
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On my 24" monitor, you body text feels immense (at 1920x1080) and I have to scan my eyes left and right too much - annoying enough that I scaled the page to 80% to read it comfortably. It is important that column width not be too wide to avoid too much eye travel, while maintaining 60-80 chars per column.

This brings it down to normal text size comparable to a comfortable-to-read novel page size on my screen.

Comparing to WaPo, they unwisely have 100+ chars per line at that immense size. I've stopped reading the site at all because the balance of the width and font size combo is too much work. Most of the others have wisely kept to 60-80 chars per line, and scaling works to read them, but all feel a bit too large.
It isn't great.... it's just ok
Always take things with headphone/earphone reviewing with a grain of salt. You may not like the same things the reviewer does. There may be differences in music, biological differences in age, or different circumstances of use.

Also note that headphones/earphones are one item that are particularly resistant to effective A/B testing. It's hard to put on a different set and not know you've put on a particular set.
Huh? There's a standard mini-Display on there too so no proprietary dongles. My work even had them just cable tied to the HDMI ports in all our meeting rooms.
Embedded Linux developer here as well.

As much as I grind my teeth with Yocto, it does make the process of generating a usable toolchain much easier than it used to be. Which makes the rest of it easier.

Up until a couple of years ago it was pretty much "grab what you can from CodeSourcery and cross your fingers".
> Frankly, I'm astonished at people's willingness to consume shitty food that is obviously likely to have a detrimental impact on their health.

Collecting pennies in front of a steam roller.
In Germany, you can take several years parental leave in which you are protected against being fired. But you only get paid up to 14 months and only up to 60% or ~2000$/month after tax. This gets completely paid by your health insurance (which you have to have) and your enployer doesn't have to pay anything.
Pork is almost as popular as beef. 50 years ago, beef was king. With meat the US has become poorer.
The best for the customers would be to be acquired by Google, AWS or RedHat.

Then they can "replace" the docker name with something that works, earn revenues out of it and benefit from the synergy with their other products.

The issue is, Docker is not worth billions of dollars and these buyers are already en route to kill it with their own replacement.
you realize that the tests are primarily for other developers (on your team, in the future) and not yourself, right?
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Ask HN: Are GitHub Pages builds still delayed for people?
They were delayed 12 hours ago.

Now, twitter.com/githubstatus says "Everything operating normally."

But my site is not updating.

And I got an email when I updated a file that says the build failed.
But some schools do mandate some form of athletic participation.
Yes, I would agree, temporal databases is an interesting topic.
what no edna love?
https://github.com/res0nat0r/edna
>The really damaging monopolies only ever come from government-granted powers.

All private property in the Western world (and much of the rest of the world) is government-granted.

Unless you happen to be a local warlord with your own private army, it's likely anything you think of as "yours" right now is only so because a government exists to either grant you the rights to it or to protect you from its theft. (Of course, Proudhoun would argue that all property is theft. I would too, but only after a couple of beers.).
Yes, "lacking power in small samples sizes"
Fortunately, JEE & Spring are MUCH easier to get started with :-)

Let them eat COBOL...
Are you really arguing that Discourse's superior linear complexity outweighs the huge constant cost in any meaningfull scenario? At 4mb/840kb * 970 comments, disregarding any additional JSON data that Discourse loads, a Discourse thread would need to have 4974 comments before its strategy is more efficient than Hackernews.

Jeff, I respect you, but I don't understand where you are going with that comeback.
I think Erik Naggum was a bit imperialistic in wanting 'Lisp' to mean Common Lisp. One nice thing Clojure did was to revitalize the Lisp-as-language-family meme.
I grew up in the deep south, and my folks were the first generation in my family to move out of the trailer park (technically, their parents lived in mill villages, which was a similar indicator of poverty, but the first several years of their marriage was spent in a trailer). They made it out before I was born, so I had a lower middle class upbringing most of my life. Many of my friends were in the same situation; their folks bought houses and moved out of trailers during their childhood. There was a general trend upward, out of the trailer park and into middle class lifestyles.

What's alarming, to me, is that many of those same friends are back in trailer parks, or slumlord-run apartments, today. The trend today is pushing people down and out of the middle class and back into poverty. Poor folks could scrabble their way out of poverty through the 70s to early 90s, even though we don't regard all of that time as a "good economy", my recollection was that the average family was coming up, rather than falling down. That doesn't seem to be working anymore.

The numbers seem to agree with this: the American middle class is shrinking. Some are climbing up into the upper class, but I suspect that's mostly people who never knew poverty. I think past poverty has a gravity that pulls folks back down, if anything goes awry.

Health problems have been a leading indicator among my old friends. When people get sick in America, it can be an economic disaster. Less so with ACA, but it's still too much if you're barely hanging onto your house, your car, etc.

I live in RV parks quite a bit these days, as I live in an RV and travel kinda full-time (in a leisurely manner, after many years of constant travel), and I meet a lot of people who are "choosing" to live a more minimal lifestyle in an RV. But, the reality is, they often don't have the option to live in a house; at least not one they own. The Tiny House movement seems to be a lot of the same: people who can't afford a traditional suburban home, but still have dreams of home ownership. I see the Tiny House "movement" being criticized a lot as "fetishizing poverty", but I think that misses the point that a lot of the people choosing to live in Tiny Houses aren't fetishizing being poor...they're just poor. They come from middle class backgrounds, so people just don't recognize it as poverty.

I worry that the economic divide in the US is a disaster waiting to happen for the country as a whole, but it's already causing significant pain among the people who come from a poor background and don't have family safety net to help lift them back up, when things go wrong. They just keep falling, and trailer parks, RV parks, slumlord-run apartments, etc., is where they end up. And, getting back out again is harder than it's been in a long time.
Google will release one if they expect a market share for Windows S. They are offering the browser as a gateway to their services after all.
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If I understand this right, with Intel's Optane you will eventually need to write everything to HDD because data collection happens at steady pace and the cache size is limited.
The health coverage is a lot cheaper for the company. In the USA it starts at $500/month for a single dude.
Honestly, I think I (and a lot of people here) would probably prefer the numbers to what Discourse has at the moment. At least with numbered pagination you can choose to view page [whatever] to narrow down the posts you want to view. On Discourse you either scroll like mad and slowly load in crap, or click the last post and slowly scroll back up.

If I know something useful is on page 10... well I'm just out of luck.
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I haven't lived there, just visited Barcelona a few times long ago, but I did see some bad cases in the news.

About the USA, it's very difficult to judge. I do believe that centralized services are better in Spain-sized countries, not sure in something so big as the USA. Still, voting judges and local police seems so strange!
Considering that the Midwest contains the Great Lakes [1][2], how would fresh water fishing be any more labor intensive than in the open ocean?

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lake_Erie#/media...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes
> Too many ORMs I've seen just have a Big Lock, leaving you with just one writer at a time.

Geez, I think you've seen some pretty terrible ORMs. I don't know of any mature and popular ORMs that do that. If they do, I have no idea why they are popular or what makes anyone consider them mature.

ORMs that don't do that include: ActiveRecord, Sequel, Hibernate, Core Data, SQLAlchemy, etc.
I question the focus of this article. It would be excellent advice for print that cannot be changed after it has been printed, but since every web user can (in theory) control the way things look on their device it would be better to focus on making that easier for people to do.

As an artist, I absolutely agree with all the design arguments about readability etc. But that stuff doesn't need to be on the server side. I really resent being forced to download tons of design data whenever I visit a web page instead of being able to set preferences and have the computer present text in the way I actually want to see it. Many websites are horribly crufty and ugly, and make my reading experience worse.

You know what else I hate? Web pages that are so in love with their print ancestors that the text is squeezed into a narrow column and almost 2/3 of my screen is white space. So I have to keep scrolling endlessly because you can't figure out how to flow text into two columns.
Have you actually experienced enough memory errors that you need ECC?
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I generally just don't see the point is making certain business models illegal when there wasn't anyhing that bad going on before the net neutrality laws were passed.

Tmobile is certainly violating net neutrality with it's binge on and free music streaming features. But it's generally good for the consumer.

All the arguments for net nuetrality sounds like slippery slope fallacies to me. "They'll block everything except their own AOL like service!" No, they very probably won't.

I'd rather have a wait and see approach. If the ISPs become abuse, then we should apply net neutrality.

But I see no reason why we shouldn't then apply "OS neutrality" to apple and google. Or search neutrality to google and bing. Or social networking neutrality to facebook and snap.

Facebook and google actually do the sort of stuff people are upset that ISPs might do.
It is, but not that much as you think. Adjusted for PPP it's only 30% cheaper here.
"Sell to people who have money!" is the sole recommendation from these bootstrapper-idols in the startup community, like Patrick McKenzie and related.

Still, if you want peace of mind, try selling to people who don't have money, but who will also not require you to give them support night and day, to write complex contracts and have a lawyer, to have a dedicated helpdesk and to write custom code for.

If you want money, money and money, ok, this is probably fine advice, but not all people want that. Many people, I believe, want to write software they enjoy.
Are these valuations really that outrageous compared to startups? Yes they're really early, but the ETH platform is a huge force multiplier in terms of decentralized scaling engineering that you don't have to do, not to mention the intrinsic benefits it has.

If you think in terms of valuing based on how far a project has gone it seems crazy, but if you think in terms of valuing based on how far away it is, that actually lines up reasonably in my mind. $100M for a decent shot at eating a big chunk of a $10-100B industry in 2-3 years? I've seen crazier things in SV.

Obviously a lot of these are scams, but there's some good ones, and I mostly agree with which ones the market has picked.
At least in the US, as the company is footing the bill for employee health insurance, the company has incentive to fund assorted employee wellness programs.
Just lead-acid batteries. It's old-school, and it works :)

He has replaced the entire battery bank once, and now has more panels that track the sun.
So is this just another veiled attempt to repeat Windows RT? it says it runs only windows store apps.
I've seen web developers do this a lot and it's an annoying trend. I'm glad there's a "Reader View" that Safari and later Firefox included so I didn't have to subject myself to some asinine design "philosophy" that made reading their info a chore.
Given billionaires running their own space programs it makes me wonder why there aren't more billionaires running biologic research companies. Between life extension and immunity to (or protection from) really pathological conditions it seems like their interests would be aligned with folks like this.
One company I worked for had a benefit of paying up to $1000/yr for a gym membership OR up to $1000 of gym equipment for your home per year.
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Because then every vendor looking at its CRM knows it just landed a whale of a customer.
They don't use their personal accounts. Accounts are managed for students in much the same way as the would be for a business hosted with Google Apps - https://edu.google.com/
Your website body text should also not be covered up by "social buttons" if you ask me.

http://i.imgur.com/cmrn7wB.png

So much empty space on that page, let's put the facebook link in the worst place possible!

EDIT: It's funnier in this case because (based on my limited experiences) this sort of fixed positioned social media bar grew out of mobile websites that were constantly fishing for shares, but this particular site has realized they're annoying and put it in the top header instead. It's only on desktop that we get the fixed position floater.
Those look more like proofs with pictures, than proofs by picture, but I'm too lazy to get involved into the obscure notation of that book and check whether a random proof from the book would be equivalent to a modern proof from a standard textbook.

Altough, judging by the old timey language of the book, it's possible the book predates Hilbert's axiomatization of Euclidean geometry and the proofs in it were good enough for the standards of its time.

In modern mathematics proof by picture generally means you've drawn / pointed out a single example, possibly wrongly or in a way that doesn't generalize, and because you've shown that one example holds you assume all possible examples hold. That, obviously, needs not be the case.
Which we should all rejoice. Because the oceans are already being over fished to the point we're facing a very real likelihood of collapse. If Americans were pulling at the same rate as nations like Japan or India, we'd all be in a very bad place already.
It isn't just the serialization, but the fact that being careless about these things tends to co-occur with other kinds of sloppiness.

Here's one example that has repeated itself a few times in a few companies. I kinda like having logging that works without strangling what you are monitoring and/or the server doing the monitoring. I also like having extensible log servers that you can write plugins for (although I'm not that fond of the idea anymore as people invariably will write _slow_ plugins, and then you are screwed. Do put in the APIs, but don't tell anyone it is easy to add processing chains). I like it to the point where people made fun of me for this "obsession" even 15 years ago.

So it goes like this: I use some fast serialization that can be parsed using next to no CPU per message -- or in later years, using Protobuf or similar. Because it is more convenient and I can throw in binary payloads in exceptional cases. I benchmark and I usually get high ridiculously high throughput without even making much of an effort. Great, this saves me the trouble of having lots of log server horsepower and I can get on with life. (Stuff will need to be sharded eventually, but since we keep everything dead simple and we actually have a plan for how to do this when needed I don't worry).

Then at some point someone who has never had to write fast code comes along. It used to be "let's use XML". Now it is invariably "let's use JSON". Because "it is fast enough". This is where it starts. And they'll use Ruby, or something else that is godawfully useless for anything that is supposed to be high throughput, because hey, it is what they understand.

And for a while, it is fast enough. Sure, you now have only a fraction of the original throughput, but the systems are lightly loaded and you are not bumping into any CPU limits. "See!? I told you it would work!".

Then people start to do serious logging and the stuff can't keep up anymore. So they start coming up with lots of schemes for dealing with the load. For every scheme implemented, stuff gets a bit more brittle and complex because now the code has all of these assumptions and mechanisms to preserve. And before you know it, you have a slow, complex logging system, that everyone depends on and nobody wants to touch. Well, sometimes someone will reimplement it, but they'll use whatever is hip at the moment. Like JavaScript and then ooh'ing and aah'ing when they double the throughput -- even though they kind of originally lost 2-3 orders of magnitude of performance.

And it isn't like making a performant version is a big task. With Cap'n Proto, Protobuffers and whatnot, someone has done the heavy lifting for you. Someone a lot smarter than you. And it is probably going to be faster to implement, more efficient, and easier to maintain in the long run.

Performance matters where it matters. And it _is_ stupid to forego it when it costs you little or no effort. And yes, being an old fart means I don't give a shit about people's egos anymore and I'll call them stupid to their faces when they are being stupid.

If you log using JSON (or XML, yech!) as your envelope format, you _are_ stupid.
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This blog post isnt making arguments about established tokens like Ethereum. Rather, it is criticizing the outrageous valuation of some tokens, like Gnosis, that have not even released a product yet but are valued at over $300m.
I don't think it's so black and white. I live in a very urban area, but I spend at least 50 days each year in relatively Urban -- though still in the north-east.

I don't have much experience with the southern rural culture, and maybe that's really what you're addressing, but I feel it's as part of your post implies: everything is on a spectrum.
By that train of logic we should be fighting for at least equal paternity leave for the average dad before there can be any discussion about more maternity leave..
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Companies like Gilead have made a fortune on anti-viral cures. Case in point: their recent Hepatitis C vaccines, which pulled in $4B in one quarter last year [1]. So a lack of money to be made on cures is not why this isn't funded.

[1] https://www.statnews.com/2016/04/28/gilead-hepatitis-c-reven...
They add a nice ("109 comments since April 30th") link to click at the top of the chat window that does exactly what it says. Also there's a custom search box so ctrl+F isn't as broken.
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No, mStream doesn't support transcoding.

Instead the webapp falls back to using aurora JS for codecs the browser doesn't support. This was mto support flac, but now browsers are starting to add flac support so it's not really that useful anymore
They are not going to use Linux as the OS are they?

This is the OS in which opening browser tabs cause music to go choppy. After more than 20 years of Linux this problem still exists. WTF?

Did that ever happen on the Archimedes?
So when somebody says "I am going to write some Lisp now", in your mind they are always going to write Common Lisp?