skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jesus Christ, here we go again.

If you "free market" types figure out a way to get ten different companies competing on public fiber in 100 different cities across the US, then I'll finally listen to this argument. Until then, realize that there is no market. It's a monopoly.

Stop dismissing consumer protection with a wave of your magic market wand when you really have no idea what you're talking about.
Never said it didn't.

Logical replication is frequently a requirement which reduces your options to not Postgres until now.
> To those knee-jerk rejecting the argument based on the Breitbart domain

Breitbart has destroyed their credibility, or more accurately never gained any, through constant lying and intellectual dishonesty (this is when the letter of something is true, but the spirit of it is false).

I can cite any number of disreputable sources saying anything and then demand you parse through them and disagree piecemeal, but that would be a waste of your time. Or we could be reasonable people and cite reputable sources to back our coherent arguments. I am unaware of any fact-based coherent arguments against Net Neutrality.
Being 538, they were discussing multiple polls at once. Some polls have it down as low as 3% and others suggest it may be 30%.
as much as I agree with you I don't find it realistic and find more realistic excluding at least most intelligent self aware animals
People have different coping mechanisms to difficult circumstances. I found that video games helped me a lot after a really brutal break up; to kinda escape into a different world with fixed rules and rewards. Its weird because I don't generally play a lot in normal situations, but this circumstance somehow made the prospect of playing video games all day very attractive.
>Outside of real estate, cars, and financial products, what B2C companies do?

Declining for sure, but high ticket B2C still has salespeople.

Home improvement, cosmetic surgery, cosmetic dentistry, vocational education, timeshares, boats, recreational vehicles, insurance, furniture, solar energy, hot tubs, pool tables, pianos, etc.

And a lot of stuff at the low end, home based seller angle...beauty, vacuum cleaners, organic, supplements , diets, and so forth.
There's something about needing to focus on a singular action that really helps you detach, I find. I don't think it's necessarily avoiding it - when you're detached and not thinking about it I think you give yourself space to reorient. Sometimes the world gets too noisy and you can't think straight.

That said, I once tried to relax by playing a chess game and I almost punched something I was so frustrated with how quiet and slow the game was ;)
It could be two if it inserted the space for you!
"this decision leads to an internet that benefits Internet Service Providers"

I would correct this to:
"this decision leads to an American internet that benefits Internet Service Providers"

The FCC can really only screw up the Internet for Americans. If you're an Internet user not in North America there's very little reason for you to care about the decision the FCC made today.
It's a 'soft' vacuum, so doesn't have anywhere near the difficulty of a 'hard' vacuum. IIRC the detailed specs of what they intend to do aren't out, so it's all just speculation.
Of course, the firms with the most to gain from net neutrality are those with the least clout. After that you're left with some enlightened self-interest second order folks and... startup incubators.

If there's a single company on the planet with lots to lose if net neutrality fails, it's YC.
> What I am against is just adopting tech that doesn't improve anything

How do you know what improves what if you don't use it in anger?
(Not at 10 years, but...)

Take care of yourself. You are not a robot. Showering, skin care, hair care and sleep are important. It's worth it to go to a good stylist regularly. If you're happy, you're doing better work, and most importantly you're more approachable to your coworkers.

Don't ignore mental illness. It needs to be dealt with aggressively, on multiple fronts, until you've figured out the right ways to cope and be functional.

You can't just code alone in a corner. You need to socialize with your team, or you'll miss out on the meta knowledge (patterns, styling) that's being passed around the team.

You are smart. Give it a few years, and those impossibly talented and brilliant senior programmers will be your peers.

Don't be afraid to refactor and change code. The person who wrote it didn't know what you do now, because business requirements are constantly changing. Be aggressive - sticking TODO statements in code isn't going to fix technical debt.
One keystroke, not two? I type l<tab> in Xcode then I'm typing in the variable name. You'll have to arrow down if it's the wrong one then hit return.

You can argue that it's really not much extra work but it all adds up. Especially when you try to code on a tablet, which I find myself doing occasionally.
this! but also note users and access to them is what "IT" have and "software" often struggles with. Run some field trials, do interviews and field visits to support requirements analysis...
I don't think putting someone in extended solitary confinement is reasonable in almost any circumstance (and very not reasonable in this case). But I don't think what she did is protected whistleblowing (she basically aired the 'sausage making' of US foreign and military policy, not highlighted a specific violation of US law) - on the other hand, I think the length of the sentence ought to be proportional to the gravity of the crime.. 35 years is overkill by an order of magnitude, she should have gotten 1-5 years.. with 2 being an ideal.
In my experience yes, most people do touch type, and no, most people don't use right control much, if at all. The right control key on many keyboards is already so uncomfortable to reach that even single-hand chording with the left hand feels better. Using caps lock as the control key makes it even easier to completely avoid the right control key.

However, I have also seen mention of people remapping return to the right control key, then doing who knows that to still be able to press return.
HBS in effect introduced the Western capitalist version of what in the USSR was called an "apparatchik." This was precisely what you say: a party functionary and professional administrator who knew little else and had little real world experience with how anything they were managing actually worked.

It turns out that to manage things effectively you need to understand them. Who knew?

I used to live in Boston and a friend (who went to Harvard) once related to me his view that the point of this was to ensure high earning employment for the otherwise inexperienced and overly sheltered children of the wealthy.

The other contribution of HBS was to deeply entrench the cult of "presence," extroversion, and alpha signaling as the single most important quality for leadership. There's an excellent book whose title is escaping me that gives a great history of the "extrovert ideal" in the West.
Please don't make generically ideological personal swipes like this, no matter what you're responding to.
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It takes zero effort in IntelliJ (pictured above).

I remember reading a suggestion about proportional fonts in a discussion on HN about code editor preferences. Switched to them several years ago and never looked back.
That's not what I meant. I meant that content owners simply won't deal with Netflix without DRM in place. Whether or not that's a rational approach is irrelevant; it's their stance on the matter.
Not sure about the governance model of Kotlin. Hopefully it succeeds.
You may use `also`. It is like let but it returns the receiver.

val person = selection?.organization?.owner?.also {
setTitle(it.name)
setImage(it.image)
}
Push notifications are sacred, but some apps just don't get it
Odd - because margin being what it often is a dollar saved is worth three/four... ten... ?
>Etsy should know what makes it special to customers. Why isn't it more efficient at delivering that?

It is a Very Hard Problem and I don't envy them at all.

Verification of authenticity. I honestly wouldn't know where to begin. Spot check with live people? Expensive and begging for errors. Have sellers document their process? Easy to fake and expensive to check. Have a hair trigger for banning people that are clearly breaking the rules?

They also have the structural problem that Painstakingly Crafted generally takes time. That means less throughput.

And all of that is on top of the general problems of running an internet retailer with global reach.

Because of all of the pressures of throughput and the cost of verification they decided to ignore all of that and just give up, for the most part. And now it is a race to find a new 'quirky stuff that looks crafty' niche like an online Hobby Lobby to live in or lose their brand completely. I don't think it will work in the long term and I think we are witnessing a slow motion Pets.com.

Probably, what they'd need to do is split what they are doing.

One side would be how most of Esty is right now: a bunch of Hobby Lobby level quality crafty looking things that aren't actually hand crafted in any meaningful sense. It would be the place to go to get cheap, somewhat unusual gifts.

On the other side would be high end items. Hand crafted $2000 rocking chairs, for example. Something that can be marked up significantly and that it is worth it to go the extra mile by Etsy and sellers to verify is handcrafted. Maybe video walkthroughs of the process, spot checks, samples sent in to Etsy to be examined by experts etc.

Sellers can exist in both areas or one. The Verified Crafted side would buttress the Crafty but not Crafted side brand wise and the Crafty side would have a larger, more predictable income stream to make sure Verified Crafted can tackle the sticky problems it faces.
I tried to explain exactly this before and a lot of people didn't get it. 1.0 doesn't mean anything, JetBrains spent so much time to make something stable and good. That is why kotlin didn't suffer of the big changes swift suffered since its 1.0. (because kotlin suffered those changes before 1.0)
It's obviously very strongly influenced by Scala, to the point of adopting a number of its syntax decisions that are considered questionable (procedure syntax, infix notation, "=" function definitions).

I will echo what the others have said; it's not what I would choose, but in practice it's never been a problem when I'm writing Scala.
> The boundary between a beginner and a coding rockstar really isn't very great

I'll add to the chorus here and say this is not only untrue, but so untrue as to be absurd. By all means caution against hero worship and remember that even those with exceptional talents are human, but don't misinterpret that lesson to mean there are not vast differences in quality between a beginner and an expert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMxNLCEIcbU
That's funny how the titles aren't actual links. Oh, well.
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You might not even need the gas, just rotate them around the center and they're rigid.
Maybe they are playing Fischer Random...
The BBC. Someone's website isn't a public place. This isn't free speech.
Great research, one tiny nit-picky thing about the writing -- I was a little disappointed at their use of "Hidden Figures" to make the point that "movies centered around women resonate with audiences."

"Hidden Figures" was a great movie. But it's a movie that centers around characters _being female_. I don't think we necessarily need more movies around "women," we need screenwriters to not automatically default to making their characters male when gender doesn't drive the plot/interaction with other characters.
Object.create in JavaScript
This might be a case where no one has actually tried it with a maker mentality. Musk was saying the other day that you need 1 atmosphere of pressure capability to create a vacuum, but 5-6 to hold back the watertable related to his tunneling network. Seems like from a first principles perspective making a vacuum should be much easier than an underwater tunnel. I'm guessing that you could create a partial vacuum in such a tunnel fairly easily. But I haven't 'done it' and that's the rub.
Then go solid-state.

Inverter-based power supplies are sufficiently light that a guitar amp should only be the weight of the wood and the speakers.

And, the speakers have to be a certain size to move the correct amount of air--so the copper coil is probably the limiting weight. It's remarkable how much air you have to actually move to get decent sound volume.
the matrix.
The ancient Masters were profound and subtle.
Their wisdom was unfathomable.
There is no way to describe it;
all we can describe is their appearance.

They were careful
as someone crossing an iced-over stream.
Alert as a warrior in enemy territory.
Courteous as a guest.
Fluid as melting ice.
Shapable as a block of wood.
Receptive as a valley.
Clear as a glass of water.

Do you have the patience to wait
till your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
till the right action arises by itself?

The Master doesn't seek fulfillment.
Not seeking, not expecting,
she is present, and can welcome all things.

-- Tao Te Ching, Stephen Mitchell translation. http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/taote-v3.h...
That's why you play 5 minute blitzes!! :)
Tesla factory employees describe grueling work conditions
I would like to love Kotlin, but I wish it have proper macros.
I don't disagree, Wolfram would suggest that the rules of gene expression arise from a still simpler set of more fundamental rules :-) And that, in a nutshell, is his entire thesis.

If you keep following it down, and uncover the rules underneath the rules, then you reach the last irreducible set of rules. And then somehow that understanding will let you deduce something else or something. (that was were I fell off the train, trying to figure out the second part)
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> The problem with HBS is that they seem to claim that applying generic business skills like financials and cost-cutting to an existing industry have a similar effect. The problem is that they don't.

I think you just helped me to make a connection. I think what we are seeing is that technology skills with some business acumen out-competes pure business skill in generating efficiency.

This lines up with a book I just read[0], which recommends that developers become independent "efficiency consultants".
[0]https://leanpub.com/developerhegemony
Val might have originally been OCaml or Haskell.
Please don't get personal like this, no matter what someone has said.
It's actually "if the lambda is the last argument in the call you can close the parens after the penultimate argument".
Many years ago, I came across the term "emacs pinky". I thought it was joke, until I got a job as a programmer where I was lucky enough to have free choice of editor, so emacs it was.

My memory is a little hazy on the "when", but I think some 6-12 months after starting at that company, I noticed my left pinky did indeed kind of hurt. Reaching for that Ctrl-key on the far, far left front of the keyboard was getting a nuisance. The "emacs pinky" was real!

I did a bit of research on the Internet and found a piece of text that said, Ctrl used to be where CAPS LOCK lives now, oh, and here's how to make your CAPS LOCK into an additional Ctrl key (I cannot remember a single time I used CAPS LOCK, so I did not exactly miss it). I made the change and found it more comfortable right away.

To this day, the first thing I do on a new computer I am going to use for longer than, say, a week, is to make that little change. My pinky has not had any problems since.
If the arguments were repeated multiple times, it's easier to point out that FCC intentionally ignored them, and it's not "we didn't notice" situation.
I'm not sure what that commenter was suggesting, but one possible solution is to give the public the ability to vote.

Right now, the FCC has to receive comments from the public but does not have to listen to it. If the FCC were bound by the vote of the public, it would likely behave very differently.
A lot of this has been at least partially addressed since VS2015. There is built-in code search (ie, "find me any language construct with these letters in it"), there's support for basic refactorings (rename, extract method, extract interface, etc). I got used to all the built-in stuff before someone talked my into Resharper, and found most of the built-in stuff is actually better these days. Faster, anyway.

There's always been codegen support with snippets, although I never found too much need for it, personally.

The tools ecosystem is pretty weak though. I always found TestDriven.NET to be the best test runner, although Resharper's is OK if slow. I actually like NUnit a lot better than JUnit, but YMMV.
Rotor and stator materials: copper or aluminum for windings and laminated steel for cores.

Tellurium based solar PV had about 4% market share last year. The vast majority of PV is based on crystalline silicon (over 90% market share). Tellurium is rare but it is not actually a rare earth. Rare earth element is a term used to designate the lanthanides plus yttrium and scandium. "Rare earth metal" is not just another way of saying "metal that is rare on Earth."

Can you show where tungsten is used in inverters? That would be interesting to see, but tungsten too is not a rare earth metal.

I think that you are also incorrect to state that "The integration of solar roofing circuitry now requires lithography like production techniques which are incredibly expensive and filled with all kinds of rare earth elements" but I will happily admit that I am wrong if you can document it.
Please do not post like this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
ICU collations are prepopulated; see <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/collation.html#....

Also, ICU collations are case sensitive, just like libc locales.
Inside Bitfinex's Comeback from a $69M Bitcoin Heist
from that standpoint they are exciting, from architectural not really, at least not in 2017

Actually Chicago seem like one of very few places I would really like to visit in US (very photogenic from what I have seen), but I don't see myself visiting US anytime soon with your government attitude since 9/11 (I don't really think Trump is something really evil compared to Obama or Bush, they all essentially destroyed all my interest in visiting US as tourist by imposing all kind of totalitarian practices which go further than Chinese totalitarian gov), same reason why I didn't went to NoKo when living in China, not gonna support such gov with my money. To be fair I am not going to Germany too after Merkel's 2015 invitation to illegals.
Cost explorer is EXTREMELY limited.

If you want to get good information by Tag, By Product, By detailed Date Range, etc you need it in a DB.
what is the difference between "backspace" and "rubout"? the emacs keyboard had both it seems, but wouldn't they be doing the same operation?
None of this is new news, this is exactly what The Intelligent Investor and Margin of Safety are based on: that the market is irrational.

To go further, this is what Warren Buffett made his first few millions off of what is considered "cigar butt" investing. These are stocks trading below their Net Current Asset Value (NCAV). That means take all of their cash, real estate, equipment... those are your net current assets. Now take a subset of those stocks, and you find some at such steep discounts that they are trading below the cash they are holding. How is that possibly rational?

To put that in perspective with a contrived example would be Apple, currently trading at $153 with a market cap of nearly $800B, $250B of that is in cash. Now imagine Apple is trading at $45 a share. That would value Apple at $235B...but if they liquidated the company, they would have more than that in the cash alone! And that is exactly the kinds of companies that folks like Ben Graham and Warren Buffett invested in, because they were so cheap, and probably not even great businesses, but had "one less puff" (hence cigar butt) in them before they closed up shop, were acquired, etc.

Now, one retort might be that these guys were investing in two of the worst markets in the history of the US economy - Ben Graham came out of the Great Depression and Warren Buffett from the bear market of 61-62. But there are still examples of this today. Seth Klarman's fund (which still exists today) has only had 3 down years and is considered to be one of the greatest investors since Buffett. These investments still exist, and it's all based on buying cheap when the market has irrationally priced them at a sale.
Paytm Raises $1.4 Bn Funding from SoftBank Group
Is it "The Power of Quiet" by Susan Cain? Very good book that touches on this, mentioning HBR by name if memory serves.

https://www.amazon.com/Quiet-Power-Introverts-World-Talking-...
Using indentation != saving tabs.

Even if I use tab key for indentation, my editor can use either spaces or tabs when saving. It's configurable.
> array fortran

You mean Coarray Fortran, which can be a substitute for OpenMP, but simpler.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coarray_Fortran
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>Since the entire thing is some bizarre attempt to shame white men into stopping the things that make them so enviously successful

What makes white men successful? And where does the article try to get them to stop doing that?
American decisions can set precedents which other countries follow, and are often pushed by their trade policies. They also affect American IT companies, which are used by people all over the world.

There's good reason for non-Americans to care about the American Internet.
Manager: We need to ensure people aren't using similar passwords on reset, but we can't store the password unhashed.

Developer: Similar passwords? Or Same passwords. Similar is hard.

M: Similar. Can't let people be lazy with their passwords.

D: Well, if we really have to do it, I guess we could store a bunch of hashed variations of the password, but...

M: Good! Let's do that.

D: ...but that could be a massive amount of space for long passwords.

M: Okay, we'll just enforce short passwords then.

D: ...doesn't that more than negate all the benefit of preventing similar passwords when rotating them?

M: Doesn't matter, the CEO said he wants this. Hop to it!

Developer laments the stupidity of their life
Nope, one would normally write the code which parses such S-expressions such that the first atom in each list indicates the function to use to parse the rest of the list. So there'd be a FEED-FEED function which knows that a feed may have version, homepage URL &c., and there'd be a FEED-ITEMS function which expects the rest of its list to be items, a FEED-ITEMS-ITEM function which knows about the permissible components of an item &c.

If you really want to do a hash table, you could represent it as an alist:

(things
(key1 val1)
(key2 val2))

This all works because — whether using JSON, S-expressions or XML — ultimately you need something which can make sense of the parsed data structure. Even using JSON, nothing prevents a client submitting a feed with, say, a homepage URL of {"this": "was a mistake"}; just parsing it as JSON is insufficient to determine if it's valid. Likewise, an S-expression parser can render the example, but it still needs to be validated. One nice advantage of the S-expression example is that there's an obvious place to put all the validation, and an obvious way to turn the parsed S-expression into a valid object.
Are there /any/ digital cameras these days that only do stills?