skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For sure that's great. The issue are still:

- it's not there today
- it still has to be bolted on (eg: adding new keywords, as opposed to, let say, Flow automatically doing nominal typing for Classes, which was the right move).
- The ecosystem did not get to take advantage of it for years, so existing types, libraries, etc, are not written that way. That's a lot of tech debt.

That's why new languages keep popping up all the time. The later you bring in critical features, the more bloated you force the system to be.

I will admit TypeScript has been doing a decent job at containing the bloat (most of the crap features were actually what they implemented super early on, like the namespaces, enums, etc...the new stuff is really cool). But I think having proper competition enabled that: see the original strict null issue, where people were all but saying it was not possible/practical. Good thing we had Flow as a counterargument. Now with Flow dying a slow death, we'll have less fragmentation (great!), but less competition (possibly stagnating language. Boo!)
You went to a BMW/Jaguar dealership, whereas OP most probably went to a smaller dealership aimed at a less affluent population.
That setting sounds like it's for clamping your output to drive analog televisions in case your media has supercolors in it, given its default. I mean, putting a lens cap on a camera will record 16, and a white title on black in most editors will use 235 white on 16 black. I'm not sure what you think that setting is doing in that circumstance, when playing "typical" media. It definitely shouldn't be scaling, because that would distort intended color.
This is a really important point, having seen both public and private systems I think it's quite valid.

In this case I probably would not want a head of orthopaedics to treat a relatively straightforward leg break- I would want a practitioner who has a significant amount of recent experience in this area. The ER doctor likely sees hundreds of these a year, so may actually be the best person. Of course if my case is particularly challenging, I want a consultant with a significant amount of experience- but it doesn't seem right for that person to pushing their skills to the highest bidder, regardless of patient need.

I also don't want a steak with my meal, nor do I care for a fancy waiting room, as they aren't going to fix my leg.
Isn't the point.

If you think all that extra money rich people habe is deserved, things are okay.

But many people think this is not the case.

And if it's not the case it's important to show the world what you get for (undeserverd) extras for that money, like a longer and healthier life, for example.
Err... definitely not. Shouldice Hospital is one such example.
This is absolutely optional. You can use " instead. You then need to escape the " as you would in JSON.
I used to buy cars with cash. But right now car loans are so cheap, if you have good credit, it may make more sense to take the loan and keep the cash invested.

I think my current rate is 2% or so... an unthinkable rate not so many years ago.
That heavily depends on where you go and the area. Not the same as a car, but when I went to get the check for the down payment on my home (which was 6 figures), I went to my bank which happened to be in a pretty upscale neighborhood were houses were significantly more expensive on average than what I was buying.

So when I asked the teller to give me a multi-hundred-thousand dollar check, they didn't even blink. "Please enter your pin number sir. There you go sir, have a nice day".

I assume this is very similar. A place selling BMWs is probably used to seeing newly minted millionaires on a daily basis.
A normal market would partially address this by adding doctors. In the USA, new medical schools have to be approved by the AMA.
Chernobyl was just about the worst possible outcome of a nuclear disaster: The majority of the radiological material was swept up in a cloud of graphite dust and lofted into the upper atmosphere by a fire that burned, uncontrolled, for over a week. Fukushima happened in one of the most densely populated areas on Earth. And yet, even counting those, Nuclear is still the safest energy source we have. We can talk about black swans and fudging the estimates, and I'll admit that your line of argument would be stronger if we were talking about the very first reactors to be built, when they were still just blueprints.

But that's not the case. We have real-world evidence that we can use to calibrate our expectations against reality. The fact is that, even if you count Chernobyl and Fukushima, our existing reactors are safer than fossil fuels. And I think that you would have an exceedingly difficult time arguing that newly-built reactors would be less safe than existing reactors.
Curious about people's experience w/Turo. Seems like a good way to enhance a new car-buying experience.

Other than that, it seems weird from the car owner's perspective.
Title should be fixed. It's "The + in TLA+", not "The and in TLA+"
But the main reason people get short term leases is so that they can switch cars often and drive a new car all the time. They don't want to deal with selling a car, fixing it, worrying about it losing value after accident, with short term lease you pay a premium for an option to drive a new car and less worry about things
Nope I'm stupid
Not sure why this isn't default in many tools. That's 99% for hazards.
Wealth inequality is not the only reason for revolutions. There are also dictatorships, human rights abuse, corruption, disregard of laws for the elite, and other fine things that might warrant the direct action.
This is my hope for blockchain tech. I know it's becoming a meaningless buzzword but I do hope that it challenges traditional financial/state institutions in a way that gives the average participant more power than they currently hold.
I see you mentioned tini (another such init) in the README as being "not as simple as it should be". We're using https://github.com/Yelp/dumb-init at work; if you know it, what do you think of it?
It has a "Load URL" operation, which can be used to GET resources. (You want arbitrary verbs, I assume?)

It has a "Parse JSON" operation, though some people here have run into some limitations of that. Next week I will have better JSON support!

It doesn't really support XML parsing yet. It can get data from HTML tables and lists. There's a lot of possible ways to convert a tree (XML) into a table, and many are not useful, so I'm going to have to give this some thought. If you have an example of an XML document or API response that you'll want to parse, that would be super helpful.
It's pretty interesting to see what the biggest VCs are in states that aren't massive business centers. I didn't even know what to expect for my home state of Virginia.

Now I know what CIT does in that giant oddly shaped building near Dulles.
http://www.porsche.com/uk/accessoriesandservice/financialser...

> Porsche Financial Services - a trading name of Volkswagen Financial Services [VWFS], with finance provided by VWFS - offer different finance plans across the Porsche model range. To find the right plan for you from a selection including Personal Contract Plan, Lease Purchase, Hire Purchase and Contract Hire, simply explore the options below or contact your local Porsche Centre for an individual and personally tailored quote.

http://www.porscheawards.co.uk/carfinance

etc etc.
According to the article, $40k is the flat rate for everything except hospital stay, which makes a lot of economical sense.

If it is $40k _on top_ of existing medical expenses (which I doubt), it is just another toy for the wealthy, and will not gain significant traction. "Regular" concierge service is usually much less expensive.
I wonder to what degree the waits in Slovenia are exacerbated by the people that pay to jump the queue.

If you only have one pool of doctors to draw from then those who are seem faster by paying are slowing down the remainder. If its a small enough difference that a significant portion pay the slow down could be substantial.
If cost of debt < investment returns -> borrow money / finance
A unique pleasure of HN is watching programmers try to argue with domain experts on the topic of their domain expertise.
I agree. I helped my younger sister buy a car on a PCP recently, and I think they are actually a reasonable deal.

It is my understanding that finance company guarantees the future value (GMFV) and that the final payment is optional, e.g. you can always hand the car back at the end of the term if it is worth less the the balloon payment.
When I bought a Honda many years ago, they were offering 1% financing. At the same time, Toyota was doing 0% financing. I don't know how they make a profit on it, but why wouldn't you get a 0% finance deal over paying in full?

I think the main benefit of paying upfront is to buy a used car.
"You can always get better faster service if you pay more." - Just because that's how things are now doesn't mean its ideal or the only way.

Benjamin Franklin while an unrepentant capitalist, tempered that with protestant values and a sense of civic duty. Allowing money to control how critical social functions work: elections, medicine, education directly undermines them.

Maybe you could pick one of those things from your list and try to find ways to make it better both for the individual and the common good.
I'm beginning to think this is a flaw in SQL. It's so easy to bust the entire table.

Could've had something like 'UPDATE ALL' required for queries without filtering.
Yeah, I had the same thoughts when I was writing that. The key difference is that the current system is so convoluted that there is almost no meaningful market for consumers on the actual care side of things.
Even Augur and Gnosis are overhyped IMO, their proponents don't seem to realise that these prediction markets already exist outside of the US. Their only differentiator is that they sidestep existing regulations.
Hmm, so you don't acknowledge any work that we could be doing to prevent the destruction of the planet? An interesting stand to take, but not one that I agree with.
Cassini: The Grand Finale: Waving Goodbye
>if you're expecting an asset like a 918 or 911RS or R to go up in price, you'd be stupid to not leverage your cash at a low interest rate and put the rest of it to work somewhere else

This only makes sense if your bank thinks it will go up in price and will lend you the money at low rates based on the car itself as collateral. If you're getting the money at low rates based on other collateral (like you suggest above) it makes no difference if the car value goes up or down. If you think you can make more return on your other investments than the loan rate you leverage, the rise or fall of the value of the car is irrelevant.
Any reason you didn't go with something like dumb-init[1]?

[1] https://github.com/Yelp/dumb-init
I am an European, and am not part of the program (I have a passport issued by Polish government.)
Ask HN: How much could some one make if he makes a traditional mobile mouse app?
There is no mobile app as traditional mouse(because of engineering problems), but there is a mouse with iphone touch or gyroscope.
How much money a person can possibly benefit if he makes a traditional mouse app for mobile
If you had said that there would never be another successful revolution in a first-world western nation, you may have been correct.

From the point of view of the person playing pendulum on the lamp post, though, it doesn't matter if the revolution is successful or not. All that matters is that the revolution attempt, no matter how ill conceived and doomed, started where that person happened to be.

It doesn't even need to be an attempt at revolution. It just needs to be a sufficient build up of anger in a local region. We KNOW this can happen in a first-world western nation because we've seen it happen several times.
I tried to apply, but the website was so awful I eventually gave up. I made 3 or 4 attempts, and each time the form would fail on some BS validation problem, and lose my input.

https://i.imgur.com/M0DKq94.png
I've been looking for a new car for a relative. This guy comes over. I said, o.k., I'll be polite, and give him a chance.

Within 30 minutes:

"No one pays cash anymore."

"No one work on their vechicles anymore. It's right to the dealership for Maintence."

"My prices are spot on with Blue Book for 100 miles."

He saw I had a Blue Book, and he has the nerve to tell me he's competive. All his prices were at least 5 grand higher than a one year old BB.

His boss owned all the dealerships in Petaluma, or most.

His manager came over, and said how's he doing. I just said, "Oh, he's great. Really honest guy."

I walked out, thinking anyone who lets a customer with 18 grand walk off a used car lot, should be fired.

On the severance check, "Work on Closing"

Or, the market is so hot, he's getting over BB for his used cars?

(I see so many new cars lately. I don't know how peopke pull it off.
Plus--maybe it's just me, but these used cars (2013-2016) just look like a sensor away from being stuck in the side of the road, and they all look alike.)
I'm waiting for the same. Supervisord seems to be dead project now, without any releases since the last 10 months or so.
What? They’ve changed the transforms, the entropy coding, the way motion compensation works, changed the blocking strategy....what aspect is unchanged, actually?
A link between video games and unemployment
No, your phone didn't ring. So why voice mail from a telemarketer?
OP says the team is 40+ and CTO just let them all walk on a catwalk.
Announcing BEAM Dealflow to Bridge Investors and Entrepreneurs Better
Price increase on .info domains
And a lot less hype
Ohhh ... is it asking you for permission, when you first start the app? That's not cool.

I can see why it would do that, but that wasn't my intention. That should be easy to fix. Thanks!

UPDATE: OK, confirmed, and a fix is ready. 1.2.1 will not ask to see your Contacts until you use the relevant operation.
OK, I'll bite: I upvoted your original comment, then downvoted this one: It doesn't contribute to the discussion at hand, and I don't have much interest in promoting the viewpoint of someone so entitled that they think it makes sense to unilaterally dictate the terms of a discussion they're having with total strangers, then call people cowards when they don't obey. Being ignored is not being silenced.
The actual paper is really interesting.

Leisure Luxuries and the Labor Supply of Young Men
http://economics.sas.upenn.edu/system/files/event_papers/lei...
Marketplaces are hard since the main thing you can sell is liquidity. If I were these car companies I'd focus in a benefit that helps users without requiring liquidity (single player mode) to bootstrap the marketplace.
For me the standout versions were 95 osr 2, which had tiny system reqs but was comparable to 98 in ability, and NT4, which was the smoothest modern multi-tasking computing experience I've ever used. I was sad when hardware and software upgrades forced me to w2k, because it seemed like a big step back.
I'm curious to see if the porting from Java to Kotlin on Android apps will prove to be as challenging- and frustrating- as people have described the shift from Objective-C to Swift.
it's just another form of competition right?

all car firms offer lower and lower loans rates to try to get you to buy their product, and eventually the rate reaches 0%
I agree. There is huge potential in a non-exploitative 1:1 substitute.
While true, those values are highly correlated - at least in Americans, and most of the developed world - with people desiring lower access to guns for the private citizenship. Low access to force multipliers makes it much harder to spark and win a revolution against the state.
From the article:

> Graham Hill, of the National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers, told the FT recently that using a PCP, drivers could pay less for a new BMW or Mercedes than for a second-hand Ford Focus. Or, as Bob the Dinosaur might put it, “they just make you sign papers!”

People don't tend to think of BMW or Mercedes as cheaper down markets cars.
> it's a linear programming problem

Indeed it is. Lets catchup more sometime. Here's my email again srean.list on gmail

Totally agreed there is lot to like about L2 but there are plenty situations where it is terrible (in fact some of them are on one topic of your interest: monitoring server farms). In some of those situations L1 or a combination of L1 and L2 helps a lot.
I'm not a fan of Apple but I think I'd rather work with isomorphic Swift than JavaScript.
The title of the course would be just as accurate if they omitted the "on Big Data" part.

It's an applied philosophy course, really, about how to spot misleading claims.
Marshmallow is still the best lib in town. Indeed, most of the libs fall short when you start to use them in the real world. Where validation is more than a type, when fields are dependants on each others, when data is generated on the fly post validation and where you need all that to cascade down your nested, sometime recursive, data structure validation, which then should produce equally complex error messages.

A data validation framework is not a toy project.
The "Tangle Approach" seems to do some awesome things:

- Seems to have similar robustness to bitcoin in terms of double-spend/attack defense.

- Handle high latency and network partitions gracefully

- Scales better and wastes less energy

- Gets rid of miners and makes the work to secure against double-spend just part of issuing transactions (security scales with transaction rate not mining rate!)
In this particular case, the OP indicated his team size was 40 and the whole company was about 100. I'd argue that's beyond "everyone has prod access" size.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/6ez8ag/a...
had a similar thing happen a few years ago when buying out my car at the end of a lease (normally a bad idea, but worked out due to specific circumstance). The person I was dealing with was baffled, kept wanting to have me fill out a loan app. He either didn't want to or couldn't understand what was going on.

At the end of it I told them I had the certified check as previously agreed for the full amount due on the vehicle, handed it to him and told them I was walking out the door in 10 minutes and they could call the police and report it stolen if they wanted to. It was unexpectedly difficult to close up a seemingly simple transaction with pre-agreed upon terms.
It's certainly a confusing subject, especially now that more attention is being paid to it. We've had our share of acquaintances comment that their kids are also allergic because one time they ate something with a peanut and had an itch later that day. In our case there's immediate throat/tongue swelling so it's an obvious one.

In all seriousness, the best bet for concerned people is to see the doc and get tested. Our kid's reaction to the prick test was ~10x the normal "allergy" reaction - the doc immediately stopped the test and gave him medicine. (As mentioned elsewhere, kids do grow out of the allergy so it's important to retest!)

According to our allergist, the problem with peanut allergies in particular is that the reaction can vary dramatically for the same person. Ingesting it one time may cause nothing but hives, whereas another will result in throat constriction within minutes. Cue the news stories where people with seemingly minor allergies are suddenly in the hospital. For example, recently a girl in CA with a known allergy took a bite of a peanut butter brownie and then spit it out. Her parent, who was a doctor, waited 20 min to administer the EpiPen. She died.

(Disclaimer: not a doctor, probably didn't remember everything right, etc.)
Dams are built on large rivers. Inundations resulting from dam failures tend to follow the path of the river. Cities are also built near large rivers. The Banqiao Dam failure displaced fifteen times as many people as the Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi disasters combined. The impending failure of the Mosul Dam is projected to do the same.
You made a lot of insightful point here, but I'd like to chime in on one important point:

> - Unless you have full time DBAs, do use a managed db like RDS, so you don't have to worry about whether you've setup the backups correctly.

The real way to not worry about whether you've set up backups correctly is to set up the backups, and actually try and document the recovery procedure. Over the last 30 years I've seen situations beyond counting of nasty surprises when people actually try to restore their backups during emergencies. Hopefully checking the "yes back this up" checkbox on RDS covers you, but actually following the recovery procedure and checking the results is the only way to not have some lingering worry.

In this particular example, there might be lingering surprises like part of the data might be in other databases, storage facilities like S3 that don't have backups in sync with the primary backup, or caches and queues that need to be reset as part of the recovery procedure.
Here's why I think this is fake:

A company with 40 devs and over 100 employees that lost an entire production db would have surfaced here from the downtime. Other devs would corroborate the story.
>Anyone shipping swift code one day one had to be pretty masochistic. I just couldn't understand why people were doing it. It was obviously not ready for production use, and still isn't.

Obviously because "production" is not some monolithic reality.

What's "production" standards for NASA or Google, might not be for some small team making an iOS app or an one-person indie shop.

They might prefer to experiment with the language in their app, and get a leg up on learning it starting from the initial release, even if there's gonna be pain.

Even for actual commercial code, the supposed "pain" this article mentions is really nothing to write home about.

Having to spend a week doing manual code changes because APIs were renamed is no biggie at all in the grand scheme of things.

Contrast with whole full blown languages and libraries used in production change completely or get deprecated/abandoned. Things from Microsoft inventing new stacks and deprecating others every few years, to J2EE dropping the crappy EJBs that tons of programmers had based their code on, to React Router being redone in a new style every year, to GTK/QT N to GTL/QT N+1 transitions, ...
And the best prevention is giving small kids peanut based foods

But since some genius thought the best course of action was not exposing kids to it, we have the present situation (especially in the US)
I've heard some people complain about GNO's dutch auction style offering, but only generically. Dutch auction seems like a good option for highly-anticipated coins like BAT. Does anybody have insight into why the dutch auction style isn't more widely used?
There is a lot more to this than a simple equation. Otherwise we would all borrow as much as we could (about 2% and somewhat predictable) and put it all in the stock market (avg 7,5 % but volatile).
Thank you for recommending places where I can get more info about fragrances.
Mostly because I wanted to get the (faster browsing) benefits of ad blocking, without feeling like I'm stealing from the sites I visit.
Your "upstart" does not stand a chance against Googles and Facebooks wallets.
The 918 is a $850,000 super car.

That Porsche finances a bunch of more affordable cars doesn't provide much evidence about how many people finance $500,000+ vehicles.