skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Side note *The Army/Navy/Marines/Af/and Coast Guard share employees with the NSA. As in, close to half the NSA employees are D.o.D Military.
This whole article seems predicated on a couple of misconceptions. To whit: 1) getting bought out is losing 2) buying is winning.

The fact that Amazon has more money than Whole Foods is nothing to do with its performance in the groceries market. The fact that Amazon has bought Whole Foods suggests, in fact, that they think there's value to be had there that isn't reflected in their current market capitalisation.

And none of this actually means that the Whole Foods acquisition will work. It sounds like a good idea, and I wouldn't risk money betting against Jeff Bezos but Amazon aren't a dominant player in the groceries market yet. They've just bought one of the few successful insurgents.

In short, this is just a move in the game. Calling the match is pretty premature.
The obvious problem here is that taxi or cab to most people means the thing with a light on top that you raise your hand to hail.
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/31717/what-do-the-phrases-fr...
How the cost of light has fallen by a factor of 500,000
I sometimes worry that old HN comments will bother me in the future. HN doesn't allow you to scrub your history. But ultimately I say fuck this. Maybe it'll be for my own good, ensuring that future employers and partners will not be the kinds of people who would care about such things. Might be a great moron filter.

Maybe an antidote to this phenomenon is for us to collectively go punk on it. If everyone trolls nobody trolls.
Don't these types of articles just have clickbait titles to get Millennials to comment in outrage at being called millennials?

J Crew "killed" J Crew by not adapting to the consumer right?
I couldn't tell if this post was sarcastic or not at first. Seems weird to say Less is Better, and then say you like CoffeeScript which adds a whole layer of abstraction over JS.
How Airplane WiFi works
Because one cellular telephone conversation can disrupt the concentration of 30 engineers hours-deep into complicated debugging jobs, especially when it's one side of a lengthy dramatic argument. It takes each engineer about 15 minutes to recover concentration, in my estimation. So that's about 7.5 hours lost, or about a programmer day.

Concentration is precious and fragile. If you can know just one thing about managing programmers, please know that.
I'm not sure those people are so willing to brand themselves online. If they are, they already have the capital to have someone else do it for them.
No, according to Wikipedia that was actual generated power / all power used.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_the_United_Sta...
there's also the bit about how adding a whitelisted IP for access takes like 20 FREAKING MINUTES to take effect.
> I think a subreddit would have worked much better.

I'm so used to the reddit and hacker news style that I'd also prefer this as well. This Twist App looks too much like another email inbox[1] to me and that puts me off it. Maybe they could offer ways of changing the UI.

[1] https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1000/1*zI94S5XizoB4WickR...
Probably the same world where speech and love are free. :)

Roughly:

Free as in beer means you don't have to pay money to use it.

Free as in speech means you have freedom to use or modify it in any way you want

Free as in love means it will happily plays with all other software and systems
Google's educational game - Interland
I got this book recently because I loved Code Complete. I've read the first half, haven't had time to finish, but the key take away for me is that nothing really beats historical data.

In fact, he showed that even breaking down things into tiny details is not much help without historical data to base estimates on, or maybe I'm misremembering.
Author here:

Being trained as a media theorist I understand your criticism (and am going to check out Horkheimer's essay, thanks for the tip!).

But this website purposefully tries to keep things accessible in order to reach a wider audience.

I often see how academics have a deep understanding of what's going on, but just aren't as good at spreading that insight to a wider audience, like the startup community.
His claim that wind turbines are useless because they take the effort of 150 tons of coal to produce the steel is interesting. He didn't follow it up with the obvious calculation of how long a wind turbine take a to get that energy back. I did a quick calculation, and it looks like you can recover that input coal energy in only a few months of operation.
Never understood the appeal of CS, JavaScript just isn't painful enough to warrant it. Been happy to watch it's slow exit from the mainstream.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=coffeescript
Unlikely, it's an FS they're designing for user devices not for use in implementing icloud.
why the free advertisement? bitbucket and others are also pretty good.
Sorry, unfortunately I did get my numbers wrong. Based on a chart of Android versions taken from the Google site, it will probably be at least a month or two before 0.7% of Androids are running the latest version. My bad!

I keep a running copy of the stats here: https://oasis.sandstorm.io/shared/UtPbpOAW2OaV4QpkgwIclqGeGC...
It's a bit of a trope that mathematicians consider all knowledge to fall into two groups: 'unknown' and 'obvious/trivial'.
For example BPO for Google in Makati, Philippines through Skykes is an 25-30,000 PESO/month job for content moderator. $500-600.

And that's considered a good job if you're a filipino.

It's about half that in India.
> All these kids want to do a bunch of busy work and for no good reason. It makes the feel productive.

This is pretty patronizing. Not everybody who uses these tools are "kids who just want to do busy work". In fact, I'd argue that "kids" (or more accurately, "new developers") are the least likely to want to do busy work, as they'd prefer to be able to build stuff fast. (And for the record, I feel like I suddenly started doing a whole lot LESS busy work once I got decent with React.)

I generally agree that "less is better", until you have to start re-inventing solved problems.

> I learned this lesson with Cucumber/RSpec/Caybara and etc.. I started asking why I had to use these over plain old TDD and so I used TDD for a month and I found out everything was totally fine.

RSpec is just a testing framework though? It's not something you chose instead of TDD...
In this hospital we use scalpels. Are you familiar with scalpels? How would you rate your experience in scalpels?
Why I Am Not a Maker
Not properly but I want to add a graph in the future to see if currency prices correlate with sentiment and in the case that they differ, determine how they move towards each other.
The author (Matt Ridley) has an interesting story actually. He because chairman of Northern Rock, following in daddy's footsteps and oversaw it as it went spectacularly bust - the first run on a UK bank in 150 years.

Now he appears to be cheerleading for another industry (fracking/oil) that is piled high with debt:

http://www.econmatters.com/2014/07/oil-companys-fracking-deb...

You could probably run a profitable hedge fund that simply bet against his predictions.
From the page I linked:

> To begin using the virtual environment, it needs to be activated:

> $ source my_project/bin/activate
Well that is a bit uninformed. Military grade (at least the US context) means algorithms and implementations analyzed and approved for use by the NSA. Today this means 'Suite B' crypto like AES, RSA, ECDH, etc. It should also mean dedicated hardware or certified implementations, physical key fill, etc. However, the words 'military grade' are frequently abused by sales to mean a badly performing variable time noise spewing implementation of AES.

In days past the 'commercial grade' crypto was often not real crypto, like voice scramblers, using 40-bit DES (when govt was using Triple-DES), XORing against a non-cryptographic PRNG keystream repeatedly, all sorts of rubbish.
My point is that there is probably a bump going in and a hit falling out. This wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_S%26P_500_companies) shows the additions and removals. I am curious about the distortive effects of demand from the S&P 500 as a proxy for the effects of passive investing.
The Science Behind Spotify's Discover Weekly
How to make a cinemagraph, no Photoshop needed
This seems like software that would take over the computer, such as a customer service app, a monitoring app, etc. In other words, it might be the only thing your running on the computer (in the foreground). I rarely use a desktop app that makes use (effective or otherwise) of multiple monitors.
To clarify, I'd love to see a raw text list of just the packages, without header text and/or other things.
This is not really new. Looking for "biases" that give better search results is kind of the point; it goes back to PageRank. (A preference for more popular content is going to rank less popular content lower.) Similarly for many other search ranking signals.
Delivery Hero Seeks $4.9B Valuation as IPO Price Set
I distinctly remember the way Steve Jobs presented it: "It's a phone, it's an iPod, and it's an Internet communications device."

That just comes off to me as though even he didn't realize how ubiquitous phones would become, and how integral to our lives they would become, even replacing computers for so many tasks. It's my phone, my iPod, my work outside of office hours, schedules and times my workouts, my alarm clock, my camera, my GPS and mapbook, my library, my notebook, my flashlight, my scanner, my TV, the way I look at cat pictures and the way I look up where to find an AED in an emergency.
In other news, already known information. Every USA states has clear laws on releasing whose registered with which party, past affiliation and address.

Clickbait.
Last time I tried it did not support cjsx -> jsx, as far as I can tell, so it's useless for migrating React code bases.
I just read your link on Medium. It presents good arguments in favor of Twist versus email. What about comparing Twist to something like Discourse or Usenet forums?
Your totally right.. I misspoke, should have said 'intentionally consuming a substance'
HAKMEM, 1972 tech report from MIT AI Lab “containing a wide variety of hacks”
POC is used so little as "people of color" that it's not even in the most promoted uses in the Wikipedia lemma:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POC
Real-time chat happens quickly — one line at a time — discouraging full, thoughtful conversations.

Slack supports shift+CRLF for line breaks, so users can write epic poems broken up in to hundreds of stanzas if they want to. Using Slack as a one-line-at-a-time chat service is a choice that a user makes. Slack itself doesn't enforce it.

Topics are all jumbled together in a channel so it’s nearly impossible to piece together the full conversation.

Only if users interrupt the current conversation with something else. Again, this is a cultural choice that users make. It's not a Slack thing, or even a chat thing. Also, Slack does support threaded conversations (albeit with a pretty horrible UI).

Important team knowledge — like what decision did we make and why? — gets buried and lost within hours (even with powerful search).

I totally agree. Slack is not the right place for documenting important stuff. Nor is a different chat app, or email. Important knowledge should be put in a knowledge management app (eg a repo wiki for code, or a Word doc for business related things).
I'm absolutely fine with external libs not being typechecked if there's no d.ts. The issue is it literally didn't support this scenario until 1.8 (when AllowJS was added). To me, this is the biggest tell that there's something fundamentally wrong with TS's design priorities. How could it not support JavaScript libraries for so long?

Here is one of numerous posts mirroring one of the module resolution issues that has plagued my project: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39957100/visual-studio-2...

There are equivalent reports on GitHub and elsewhere on the net, as well as numerous related but separate issues.

IDEs from the same organization that sponsors TS don't even work reliably with it. Note one of the responses: "try VSCode." Indeed, VSCode works for me on the exact same code.

Currently I'm doing the same thing as you: running the TS output + the non-TS codebase through a giant blender of browserify + babel.

At one point, I would use --outfile, which makes TSC bundle all your files and dependencies. Neat, right? Nope - it gets the order of the dependencies wrong, which you find out later, at runtime. The maintainers on GitHub said "don't use outfile."
I kind of wish I'd gotten the people I hired to build our terrace to first build something small, like a doghouse, before hiring them.
The previous issue 0x14 is also a NES ROM that prints its own MD5 hash. That issue was dedicated to fun things to do with MD5 exploits.
I've cycled through 3 nick names over 8 years for this reason. Not that I'm ashamed of what I wrote or its untraceable, but I am a bit paranoid overall and prefer privacy anyway.
> It's like any other thing in capitalism. You'll have a contingent of folk that won't do the work, based on ethical reasons, and you have folk that will, for financial reasons.

That is true, but going on my peers (especially the ones fresh from university), I think a dangerous proportion of people simply aren't aware on any level of the ethical implications of what they do. It's that which worries me.
TLDR: Editorialist in UK conservative political magazine[0] tilting at windmills as sources of clean energy. His hobby, apparently, or his job[1].

It's too easy to shoot holes in his "facts". I won't even try. He's deliberately being intelectually dishonest, coating his opinion in statistics carefully taken out of context.

Now for an interesting look at wind power technology, have a look at a list of the ten most powerful wind turbines[2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spectator
[1] https://www.spectator.co.uk/author/matt-ridley/
[2] http://www.windpowermonthly.com/10-biggest-turbines
This post reminds me of a similar one by the CEO of Basecamp giving his take on the problems with group chat and their solution to those problems.

https://m.signalvnoise.com/is-group-chat-making-you-sweat-74...

> Group chat is like being in an all-day meeting with random participants and no agenda.
Many of the brands that are dominant in Whole Foods are also available, to some degree or another, in other grocery stores.

But Whole Foods has a more targeted sourcing strategy for fresh veggies, fruit and meats. They carry more of those organic brands than the usual grocery store.

It's not entirely a "whole 'nother thing" but it is a pretty deep curation of food, food types, brands, and some of the more eclectic, local and smaller food brands.

You get used to Whole Foods but when I visit a Safeway or Raley's, I'm pretty shocked what a more traditional, mainstream grocery store looks like.

That said, and on an unrelated point... though I buy more from Whole Foods than any other grocery chain, the degree to which all the stores have started to be more like each other and less local-driven has been a little disappointing. The Whole Foods in Flagstaff is much the same as the Whole Foods in Roseville.
Blue Apron Aims to Raise as Much as $587M in U.S. IPO
Look into moosefs (moosefs.com) - it's somewhat similar to Gluster, it works well on OSX and you could build a pool using all your devices.

All of your devices need a folder where you'd store data, those devices need to run a process called chunkserver (mfschunkserver) and simply add their storage space to the pool.

Mounting the pool is done using mfsmount (uses FUSE).

You'd need one of the devices (or another dedicated computer) to be the master (mfsmaster) that needs to be always online.

The restrictions are that all the machines must see each other over the network - either local lan or routed network (or a vpn where you set up routes).

Moose uses concept of goal and storage classes, you can simply set your files or folders to say goal of 3 and it will attempt to store 3 copies across however many devices (minimum 3 to meet this goal).
Storage classes are more complex and allow you to specifically control on WHICH chunkservers to store certain files/folders.

I'm using it across 4 machines, where 1 server is physically in Italy (Milan), another in Los Angeles (in a datacenter) and two more at home (also L.A.). One of my servers at home has 4TB drive so this one always stores everything, plus 2 copies across remaining 3 servers for redundancy.

All I need to do to have my data available to me is to VPN in to my network and run mfsmount on my laptop.
In Germany, apprenticeship is only possible for selected jobs and rely heavy regulation. It has its warts but I think it is a net positive.
Data on 198M voters exposed by RNC contractor
I wonder what effect Google's wagging finger and implied scolding from an interstitial will have on people who stumble across a video they like but is branded as naughty.

I find it an interesting question because:

A) Not every video branded as culturally unacceptable will be. Not every video is as bad as the worst-case hypothetical used to justify the content classification.

The landscape of cultural attitudes differ from California-based content minders. The categorization can be flat out wrong, there will undoubtedly be a small percentage of videos that even the minders see as mis-classified.

B) Social interventionist policies can - and often do - backfire.

e.g.: Teens that deliberately seek out taboo. The allure of R movies, M games, Explicit Lyrics, and underage binge drinking can cause them to live a period of their life less well-adjusted than if that content wasn't aggressively filtered from their lives in the first place.
+1.

Systemd failures are under our eyes
https://twitter.com/systemdsucks
and are not acceptable for a server distribution.
but the ruby community takes modules to magic extremes. Just take the overload of include vs. extend as one example. Some modules don't even have any reasonable error messages or try to detect when someone stomps on their names or data. It's a madhouse with ruby modules that try to be "magic" or "easy", which is never "simple".

If you ever find yourself pulling back the curtain of many ruby modules, it's time to dig in and swear as you go.
That's not ES6. It's ES2017, aka ES8.
> So we need to do two things

TBH we only need to do one thing which is to ignore the article. As stated in other comments, the authors' life expectancy premise is horribly flawed to such an extent that it is hard to make the case that it isn't deliberate.

If you use the correct data, the only sensible conclusion you can make is that, for life expectancy at all ages, it's a hell of a lot better living now (in the UK at least) compared to living in the late 19C (in the UK).

Whether or not there were dietary benefits then versus now, I have no idea. Maybe there were but they are heavily swamped by medical and other considerations. What I do know is that this article adds nothing to the body of knowledge that would determine that.
https://medium.freecodecamp.com/welcome-to-the-software-inte...

I believe this is the first of its kind. Enjoy.
You can also use a hardware token to handle the encryption/decryption (yubikey/nitrokey/GnuPG smartcard/...).

If you have a trojan on your computer it'll still be able to decrypt your passwords while the token is plugged and unlocked of course, but at least offline attacks shouldn't be possible. Of course that doesn't mean you shouldn't use 2FA wherever possible to mitigate the risks further.

Some tokens can also be configured to wait for a physical button press to allow the decryption which which can help prevent a complete background decryption of your passwords (assuming that each password is stored with a different key, like with password-store for instance).
This works for guix because it doesn't follow FHS (if it's like Nix) which I doubt would ever happen in Debian. The alternative is to namespace via the FS.
Is anyone besides No Startch selling this? I refuse to order from them anymore. :/
"Knowlesdgee"?

Anyway, I think you're forgetting one important dimension: whether the person in question would like that particular piece of information to be known.
You've completely missed the mark by failing to point out any mechanism that addresses a material disadvantage that would otherwise compel a customer to visit their website, visually impaired or not.

Restated, point out a material disadvantage that I would directly suffer if I didn't visit their website...you'd have to establish that I must visit this website before you can make a valid argument. Failing to clearly establish this criterion begs to question what it means to be heavily integrated.

> You can get coupons on their website. As a blind person, I would need to take extra steps in order to get those coupons.

You mean the same coupons that are provided 1.) at the entrance of each store; 2.) posted on applicable product in every isle; 3.) stuffed in your snail mailbox; and 4.) spammed to your e-mail inbox. Your argument is asymptotic to a B&M store which doesn't have a website being legally required to create and maintain one in compliance with the ADA because electronic coupons are somehow universally equitable to the visually impaired...and yet here we are discussing litigation precisely because they're not.

> You can refill prescriptions online and save time, rather than waiting in the store.

So what you're saying is the time it takes for someone who is visually impaired to independently navigate and fill out a compliant web form is, in some qualitative sense of average, less than the time it would take for a pharmacy specialist without an equivalent disability to perform the same task. Oh how easily this digital generation has forgotten that a vanilla phone call is a valid method of achieving certain end goals.

> Again, I've never used their handicap bathroom. Or any of their bathrooms. You having not used it is a very weak argument.

Again, your counter-argument is a red herring and irrelevant: the existence of handicap bathroom provisions is a requirement of ADA compliance, which is predicated on and applicable to the existence of a B&M store front...it has nothing to do a website! It doesn't matter that you've never used the physical resource; there's clear and established requirements traceability to existing statute.

To wit, what wasn't clearly delineated was website != public accommodation, which the court disagreed with based on the premise that the website in question was, by their definition, heavily integrated with the company's physical store locations.

Accessibility of the website is not what's being questioned...I'm calling bullshit on the legal finding that this website was heavily integrated.

The onus is on you to understand the logic.
Perfect.

Next time you should respond, "Hmm...that's not what I have here. The answer is, 'JavaScript uses Electron and Java uses Spring.' I'm sorry, I don't think you're a great fit for us. Best of luck and have a good day."

Then hang up, and kill two birds with one stone in the process: the tone-deaf recruiter finally understands how the buzzword bingo interview feels, and you have one less incompetent recruiter to deal with.