skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A mixed bag here (not all technical but relevant nonetheless),

- No free lunch

You can't invent outcome out of thin air. Laws of physics apply.

I have been often asked to "achieve outcome that requires a lot of effort" but somehow ... somehow find a way to do it without any of the effort.

"Bullet proof our backup systems .... in 2 weeks"

The problem with this is there's always some subset of people who will claim they can do it.

(By diluting the meaning of words such as "bullet proof" low enough to fit the time-frame)

- HTML is not photoshop

So many people think a webpage is just a fancy poster.

- The ability of programmers to solve your problems is directly proportional to how well the business domain and the problem itself is specified.

Software is the outcome of a process/function. If you don't provide your share of the input to it it will not magically come about from the ether. The lack of that information will be obvious in the end product.

If you go to the doctor but are too lazy to talk about which part of your body hurts ... well don't expect miracles.

- Not all problems can be universally and indiscriminately broken down into smaller pieces

Also refer to the mythical man-month. I have seen a lot of people with what I call "lego-world mentality".

They think anything and everything can be broken down into smaller pieces and the output collected and stitched back together and they think that has no effect on anything (quality/timeline/integration).

It's like asking 4 chefs to each cook 1 egg to make one big omelette.

Even things that sometimes look like obvious separate systems/sections only look like that on the surface.

("You do the X part" .. "I do the Y part")

Again, It's not a lego world.

- A sequence of next-best moves does not always lead to the absolute best solution (Local minima/maxima, lazy algorithm to the travelling salesman problem)

Sometimes you have to zoom out. In practice this means progress doesn't look like a consistent straight line over time. Sometimes you pull back to be able to gain more speed and jump further.

Not understanding this results in execs viewing anything that is not strictly and overtly progress as a waste. Further discouraging a class of important work and shaking the carrot on the stick for people to pump out features mindlessly.

- Everything is much more flimsy than what you are lead to believe

Similar to the lego-world mentality. You see execs applying that (imaginary) mindset to certain things such as APIs and cross-system integrations.

They think it's like plumbing. You connect the Zendesk pipe over here to this other pipe and it just all flows nicely. Like a nice clean diagram in your head.

This perception is created because they only consume the surface-level marketing material but don't see the ugly crap under the hood.

As a result they under-estimate how fragile software is.

This happens in a lot of domains. For domains that people are not an expert in they tend to over-estimate how sophisticated/accurate the technology/processes are.
> This is not a zero-sum game and you exemplify the very problem of demonizing people based on color

I'm pointing out that specific minorities are being unfairly treated and your response is to infer that, not being part of the minority, the folks inflicting this must be part of the majority and then say: "demonization!"

I'm not using the word demon here. I'm saying what's obviously happening. What 20 people just got fired at Uber for doing, and more have been told they can take training or leave over. I'm not sure why recognizing there is a problem for certain people is "demonization" but it seems very fair we cannot call abusers abusers because it will hurt their feelings, but care not at all for the rights of the victims to seek redress.

> Young white men deserve protected status in the same way that young black men deserve protected status.

... What?

> The commonality here is the social economical status

Then why are there more black men in jail then white men even normalizing for economic status and type of crime? You keep suggesting that if we just listened to the stats this would be clear, but observing the stats a picture totally discordant with your worldview emerges.

> The solution is not an eye for an eye (more prison, harsher punishment, deportation, blaming them for their own situation), but rather helping them out of the low social economical status they are in.

I'm happy to help, and I do. But also: folks need to admit they're part of a system perpetrating wrongdoing and work to end that wrongdoing. Everyone has a shared duty to do this as part of our society.

I'm not sure how your response here addressed my criticism about electing super rich white men as proxies if the real problems are caused by the rich unfairly treating the poor, as you imply...
I was using F, good catch :)
Ok. Maybe I used the wrong word.
> Since switching and routing IPv6 is more expensive

This was true for the first generation of products which weren't designed with v6 in mind. I don't think it's necessarily true anymore. The fixed length fields and much easier routing tables should lead to less complex hardware. (Not that it matters since everyone is dual stacked for the forseeable future.)
If you said it's not 'strictly true for India', you'd be correct, but when you say it's 'far from true' then not so much. India has two ancient languages Tamil and Sanskrit and modern languages are derived from these (but I am def not an expert). The modern forms are considered different languages, but they are quite close to each other, easy to learn one from the other e.g.the grammar is the same and words are usually just different pronunciations/intonations of a common root. It's easy to see that in the ancient past they would have had more similarity.

The original point was "there really was no 'India' before the British cobbled one together". If so, then where was Columbus trying to go? Of course there was 'an India', it just wasn't structured like a modern nation state, which is true for every other modern country as well.
Is "inflammation" a function of opinion popularity?
Is “interpreting” necessarily faster?

Consider also this is perhaps a false distinction. V8 always produces machine code when running JS IIRC. And that code is JITed doesn't mean the entire module is.
Do they have a Synology module to backup a NAS?
> It's basically newspeak to make people with absolutely no ties, legal or financial to one company ("independent contractors") feel some allegiance, or some team spirit.

"Newspeak job titles" seems like a good name for this phenomenon.
Um.... reread that comment. He's saying that VBIEDs are totally possible, and that this example of CAN Bus control isn't going to cause a new era of terrorist actions, because it's just as easy to do it with servos and/or ropes and cables.

What he's saying is not false.
Why People Still Use Chat Rooms for Entertainment
Sorry, my comment isn't about how people would die post-apocalypse, it was about you saying that 80-90 percent of people died before age five before the year 1900 which is much higher than reality (probably about 30% in the middle ages, less then that in the 1800s) and also your assertion that if they survived to adulthood they lived to 80 at a similar rate as today when in fact it was much less common.
Soccer's changes have revolved mostly around the offside rule and introduction of yellow and red cards, I think.
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I'm not super familiar with the development in the low level network space, but I really wonder what the plan for IPv6 is.

IPv6 has been the future of IP networking for decades. Yet here we are and I still often surf the Internet without v6 connectivity.

It suffers from a fundamental problem: As long as IPv6 is not universally available nobody has a real advantage from supporting it. But as long as it provides no advantage many ISPs and web server operators won't bother supporting it.

I think this is a design flaw. IPv6 was built without a plausible transition plan. The plan "over time more and more people will switch to v6 and at some point everyone will have it" clearly doesn't work and will never work.
Depends on your state. I'm in Ohio and that's perfectly permissible. Under the Ohio Revised Code and the State Operating Standards for Schools you could do that and have it be considered a) home schooling or b) a private school where you would be exempted from a large portion of the operating standards. In other words, you have significantly more flexibility in how and what you teach.
The food part might not be sarcasm.
There's been a trend recently to put high OBP bats at leadoff regardless of their speed (see Kyle Schwarber)
Very bottom of the page here:
https://www.apple.com/macos/high-sierra-preview/

"iCloud storage plans. With room for the whole family.
Now you can share an iCloud storage plan with your entire family. Choose 200GB or 2TB and give everyone enough space to store photos, videos, documents, and more."

Strangely this comment is the only mention of it I have found outside of Apple's own site. I'm desperately looking forward to when this will be an option though.
If I remember correctly, that was actually Bautista's idea when the team was in a slump. The manager decided to give it a try, and the team started winning so Bautista saw quite a few games batting leadoff.
I know this is supposed be about unnecessary regulation killing a company that was bringing wins to both homeowners and providers, but... am I reading this right:

"By the Summer of 2015, we had onboarded over 1,200 Heroes, provided care to a few hundred clients ... In June 2015, we raised a $20 million Series A, bringing total funding to $23 million."

So two years and $3 million dollars after they launched, they had only "provided care to few hundred clients". And using those metrics they somehow raised another $20 million dollars?

It seems like they had other problems then a change in the regulatory landscape.
Email works fine technically for sure. But what about handling things like spam? How are projects like spamhaus supposed to work with nearly infinite IPv6 addresses?

This is extremely hard with IPv4 already, it will be a huge mess with IPv6.
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Some comments:

It's weird seeing the kid number pushed so hard on the dashboard. I'm in college, so that's not really a feature that applies to me.

I'm not a fan of the date picker, an actual calendar popup would be better IMO.

If people are getting unique IDs, it should much rather be a GUID rather than what appears to be an incrementing index.
Why would you use long pipes of refrigerant? Move the air, not the refrigerant. Plenty of existing central heating systems do that (no radiators, just vents in each room). Systems like this already exist and work rather well.
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We'll be having the same post 20 years from now. NAT, for all its problems, has more or less solved the IP address problem.

As a geek, one who has put the networking stack into the ETA-10 (yeah, I know, nobody knows that machine, CDC spinoff super computer) and SCO's unix (yeah, I know, it sucked), so as a geek who gets the stack pretty well, I've never warmed up to IPv6.

To me, it seems like it went too far. 64 bits not enough? Really? Unless I'm doing the math wrong 64 bits is enough for 2635249153 addresses for every human on the planet.

slovax ~/p bc
2^64
18446744073709551616
./(7*1000^3)
2635249153.38707880228571428571

So 128 bits is needed why? I get that people used to say that 16 bits would be enough and they were wrong and the 32 bit people were wrong. I just don't see how we run out of 64 bits in the next $BIG_PILE of years.

I don't get it. Seems over engineered. IPv4 works pretty well, seems like a slight improvement would have been enough.
In the past week, a new record was set for the amount of grand-slams occurring on a single day. 7 grand slams!

Fun time to be a baseball fan.

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/234270104/7-players-hit-grand-...
Restaurants operate on pretty thin margins. You're confusing the cost of raw materials with the cost of prepared and served meals.
To all those people attacking this guy, I think it's important to point out that free soloing is absolutely controversial in the climbing community, for exactly this reason. Heck, Clif dropped some climber sponsorships, including Honnold's, for just this reason:

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/sports/clif-bar-drops-spo...

Personally, I do think that free soloists like Honnold to some extent damage the reputation of the sport by making it appear inaccessible and irresponsibly risky, while the reality for sport climbers is that the sport is really fairly safe with proper training and equipment.
Then the other massive change was "no one can be offside when the ball is played" to "no one in an offside position can attempt to play the ball". Totally changed the way the offside trap was practiced, I believe.

EDIT: This is what I was thinking of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offside_(association_football)...

Doesn't say when the change in interpretation was made.
Agreed. Stop, assess and arrest is now audit-able thanks to body cameras and we're already seeing the results in greater accountability. However, with greater visual accountability has come de-policing, a serious problem in some cities.
It's not quite as natural, though. On the other hand, making it explicit is often a Good Thing.
>If your CAN nodes are all authenticated to one another, it's a lot harder to hack.

The problem with that is now how do you do the legitimate good things you want to do? Of course, these kinds of locks usually have their own problems and usually only keep "honest folks" out.

John Deere would love it though.

https://copyright.gov/1201/2015/comments-032715/class%2021/J...
Do not despair: he literally does not experience that feeling (http://nautil.us/issue/39/sport/the-strange-brain-of-the-wor...). It's like being bummed that you can't spray a fountain of water out of your elephant trunk. There's fundamental physiological difference.
You're not wrong, but I'm referring to the specific brand of Protestant American Christianity that the country started pushing in the 50s. There are, of course, differences, but - as a group - they're pretty similar on major issues.

http://www.npr.org/2015/03/30/396365659/how-one-nation-didnt...
"Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them."

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

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14499713 and marked it off-topic.
An API would definitely be a positive step :) awesome work!
Apparently, meditation can reduce the size of your amygdala [1], and this reduces your fear response, so yea. I'm not saying you can become like him, but you can make some headway in that direction.

[1]: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/what-does-mi...
Honnold and Tommy Caldwell climbed it as a traditional roped team in around six hours while rehearsing for the solo. It comes down to the competence of the team and how well they know the route. I can promise you that Honnold knew every single foot placement off by heart by the time he hiked up to solo it.
Catching up with 1980's Lisp:

http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/f_mk_rnd.htm
For reference, the current GC proposal is here:
https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/master/proposals/gc/O...

I expect it'll be discussed at an upcoming CG meeting. Either the next one or the one after.
No, rather a function of provocation over substantiveness.
Ads will likely improve over time. Remember when Facebook was filled with "one weird tip" ads?

My bigger concern is yours, that Pinterest will lose its human touch by removing social features. The new tried-it feature seems like a promising new foray into making Pinterest social again in a way that's uniquely Pinterest. Time will tell.
"IPv6 addresses have 64 bits too many in them" is not a very strong argument, especially not in 2017.
You're in the minority and that minority is shrinking. APFS isn't being designed for HDDs, support for them is more of a concession than a concern, as the future is, clearly, SSD or better.

SSDs already have higher capacities than any HDD, and soon their price will drop down to parity and then below as SSD gains continue to outpace those in the HDD domain.

We're in the transition period here where, for the next few years, SSD space will still be at a premium vs. HDD. Beyond that the SSD will offer vastly more storage than you could possibly need at a cost you can afford.

In the interim if compression gives you an extra GB of space then make a compressed volume and mount that. It's fully under your control.
Does the term "net gain" mean anything to you?
Then I think you found a great startup idea. Create the AI that warns you when you are about to inadvertently commit a crime, thereby helping you navigate the complex and incomprehensible legal system. Investors will line up to give you money because they will know that everyone will need your patented AI to avoid jail
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Nukie brown, upside-down!
After watching Windows, Python3, and IPv6 all go through decade long upgrade cycles, I'm hoping we've all learned some valuable lessons about the hidden costs of backward compatibility.
If they want to be a bookmarking site that also recommends items, they need a way to unequivocally say, "I'm not interest". I get wood working an fashion recommendations. Then one day at the height of Zootopia they recommended some comics based on the story. Tried to figure out how to say no. Apparently I missed. Now I get Zootopia every 5th recommendation.
You can practice the climb with ropes and gear on. You can practice batsuit flying by jumping from an airplane and using a parachute.
Fast? Unpredictable based on previous output if the seed is truly random? Here is a read I enjoyed on the subject:
http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/aspnes/pinewiki/C(2f)Randomizat...
given all the different moving parts described in this scenario, the bureaucratic challenges alone make me immediately file this in the jetpacks and flying cars category of sci-fi/tech. the changes that would have to happen in government to make this work would be the real paradigm shift. what a world that would be.
Well, humans are capable of improvising better than something automated or pre-positioned. That's the biggest reason. Second, for the terrorist organization itself, people are probably close to free assets (you just brainwash a few more), whereas spending a lot of R&D on developing an automated explosive delivery system and then continuing to patch vulnerabilities in it that governments would use to neutralize it would cost exponentially more.

tl;dr: If you don't care about the sanctity of life, humans are cheap.
What took so long?
You can create a compressed HFS+ volume that's stored on APFS if this is so critically important to you. Otherwise, deal.
It's not a good idea and it's dangerous, but we wouldn't say with confidence that smoking or drunk driving "will kill you one day", which is the part of the GPs comment I'm replying to.
V8 used to do this. Now they have a JS interpreter called Ignition.
Is there some kind of example app I can sideload onto my iPhone which will just detect and scan any/all NFC tags and display the data to me?
Me too. I'm stumbling across this from hacking some old fortran stuff into a quantum tomography simulation.

Thinking of trying it out here instead.
That's a good question. My intuition is that it would decrease the variance as people would be drawn towards the anchor. But I could be wrong. We'd need empirical data to know. There is public data available on credit card purchases in NYC cabs. That will just give you the data for payments with the anchor though, not the cash payments made without it.
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Google explains here their interview observations : https://www.google.ro/amp/s/www.wired.com/2015/04/hire-like-...
If you calculate information density, it turns out that 20-base pairs is VERY unique. The human genome is ~3 billion base pairs. Each base pair is one of four different bases. So 15 base pairs at 4^15 carries 1 billion bits of information. So long as the information is evenly distributed (which it is not), 15 random base pairs has a likelihood of occurring ~3/genome. So 20 base pairs, at 4^20 is an obscenely localized search space. But again, biology is mushy, so it's more of a time-dependent lossy grep than a true exclusive search. There are of course a lot of caveats to this kind of back-of-the-envelop calculation, but on the whole it's mostly accurate. 20 base pairs contains a LOT of information, and is generally sufficient to be unique in a particular genome.
Most banks allow you to setup bill pay online. The bank will mail a check on your schedule. No need for phones.
It doesn't make sense at all. std::<c-lib-function> is supposed to just be a way of accessing the C library from C++. C++ shouldn't even be specifying it; just citing it as a normative reference. (That said, C++ does a few things with some of the functions, like useful polymorphism on char versus unsigned char in some of the string ones and such.)
It's not excellent. Nothing about data security, encryption at rest, and a whole load of things that would be covered by GDPR (yes the service is registered in Canada, but GDPR standards should be the benchmark now for what is considered acceptable for anything).

This is an intriguing idea as a concept but feels like it isn't a sufficient focus. The privacy page hasn't been updated in 18 months either, yet the release notes mention encryption at rest (with very little detail) being added in October 16.
All new devices are 32GB+, so it's less and less of a concern each day, plus the sorts of media files that tend to clog up these devices (photos, video, music) are inherently incompressible.

For 95% of users the space gains from compression in APFS are pretty much irrelevant.
Unfortunately not. Online resources, experience, and payment processing consultants are the options available.
Is it just you to consider, or do you have a spouse and children?

If it's just you, I'd do as one person suggested, rent a room and live as cheaply as you possibly can.

Financial independence is going to require sacrifice on your part, but try and be balanced about it too. If you go too crazy, like trying to go uber-minimialist, that's extreme and harder to keep up.

Also, since your a sw dev, I'd recommend coming up with a project and/or finding other work you can do on the side, as a sort of "Plan B" should things go sideways with the dayjob.

Good luck!!
Credit card payments usually have a 2-3% processing fee. Your property manager doesn't want to pay that, thus you pay via check.
You're right though. If no one cared about extrajudicial gangs roving the streets murdering people, then it wouldn't be a problem! I know it sounds crazy. But the argument is sound.

Let's put it this way. If everyone enjoyed extrajudicial gangs roving the streets murdering people, then it would be the opposite of a problem, wouldn't it? It would be a good thing.

A necessary requirement for a problem to be a problem is that we have to care about it, or at least the effects of it.
The typical maid service before all of this is someone you hire off craigslist or word of mouth and pay directly in cash. Who may or may not be an illegal immigrant.

It is pretty much a pure contractor model on it's face. Equivalent to the plumber you hire to fix your pipes, minus the licensure.
Passion is the abbreviation of power vacuum. The tendency to work hard for the enrichment of others, even in the presence of market forces.
I would also presume that from a physical perspective he must be above average in ways that matter for this sport.