skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not convinced that a mattress is even a useful product. I have been mattress free for about a third of my life and it's basically fine.

The best argument for sleeping on a bed that I've heard is "chicks don't dig it", which has not been my experience, certainly not once you get through the door. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
We've lived in Thailand, Vietnam and South Korea, and medical care has been fairly atrocious in each one.

This was the most pronounced in South Korea, because it is so advanced technologically but somehow still has that SEA feel of wanton medical incompetence. It catches you by surprise more.

Massive doses of antibiotics no matter what, IVs for no good reason, X-ray to check for head lice (!!)... fun stuff.

I heard medical care in Singapore and HK can be excellent though. Interesting to hear you've had such a good experience in Thailand, it was the opposite for us (GP, dental, surgical -- you name it, it sucked, even in ?top? places like the Bangkok Hospital). Where did you go?
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Regardless of how you define anarchy, it isn't how the author of the Crypto Anarchist Manifesto defined it.

Taxation of private income is anathema to privacy. You can only eliminate, prohibit or tax income if you eliminate privacy.

That's why in the manifesto it says:

>The State will of course try to slow or halt the spread of this technology, citing national security concerns, use of the technology by drug dealers and tax evaders, and fears of societal disintegration.

All of the major figures in the cryptocurrency field, like Nick Szabo and Wei Dai, were part of the cypherpunks mailing list. The author of the Crypto Anarchist Manifesto, Timothy May, wrote about uncensorable digital currency in Cyphernomicon, in 1994.

>A currency and markets primary purpose is to provision the state. What would a crypto currency without a state provision?

Markets and currency provision people.. Trade is a basic form of human interaction that benefits participants.
or maybe the problem is that you can't handle people? "Inconsiderate primates?" AirPods underneath muffs? But why?
Yeah, I had to deal with a perl port from a ruby library that had kept most the rubyisms in. The really disturbing thing about it was the Frankenstein levels of autovivification involved. Fortunately someone (not me) is going to get paid deal with that soon.
The inresting thing is that it is very easy to get a detailed quote for any medical procedure that is not covered by insurance and payed for out of pocket by the consumer directly.
But how does the INSURANCE POLICY work for it
It looks like Microsoft's TypeScript is the new hotness (static types! just like Java and C++, but better), and it's only compatible with ES6, not Coffeescript.
Although it goes without saying that this is huge news, I have my concerns that the response was near-universal unbridled optimism.

I'm a little interested in hearing how else this may play out in the spirit of "fearful when greedy, greedy when fearful" and welcome any contrarians to (respectfully) share their thoughts.

As a side note: I've found the various armchair M&A proposals triggered by this rather amusing. Just this weekend I heard various people earnestly suggest that:

1. Wal-Mart purchases Rackspace and RIM

2. Google purchases Costco and Disney

3. Apple purchases Netflix and Target
If you have a maker space you better have a budget for repairs and somehow include this in the fees.

Things will break as people learn how to create. Part of the journey.

If you shout at them they'll probably lose interest.

My rule is "borrow to try, buy if you're serious about it"
>Here is a thought: Maybe if Google started (threatening to) enforce the GPL against vendors, this would be fixed. Sure, it would also destroy their business relationships. But it would actually fix this security problem, today, immediately.

This is naive and you know it. In reality, what would happen is 3-4 years from now, once the lawsuit has run its course, maybe vendors would need to publicize their binary sources, but given that much time they might just develop in house solutions.
Sadly, it'll never happen. The original (no effects) film is lost so any remake would need to both erase/repair the old graphics, and then put the new effects on top.

I've heard that the TNG remaster isn't recouping its expense on just DVD revenue, and B5 doesn't even have a tenth of the audience. It'll never recoup the costs.
Good answer. Our discussion sort of touches on the ingrained biases organizations can have toward a particular language, whether for the good or bad. Ideally I would push towards learning new languages and approaches to problems, but organizations (mine included) push towards the principle of least astonishment and it can be difficult to break that barrier. There's good business sense in doing so. Or, to rephrase, if your organization is ingrained in doing things a particular way the tradeoff of attempting to adopt something newer and/or different had better be justified.

This is nothing particularly insightful on its own, of course, but this philosophy in terms of "what language do I write my code in" is worth a retread every now and then.
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I stand corrected. Apparently things have changed since I last used it. Apologies to all.
It seems you haven't updated yourself on C++11, C++14, C++17 best practices.

If the code has any explicit new/delete or malloc/free, then something is wrong with the design.
It won't go away for the same reason pounds and miles won't go away - people who know it can't be bothered learning something new, and people who are learning it aren't influential enough to cause change. Avogadro's constant is not in any way fundamental. It exists to reconcile the two different mass units that chemists use - gram and amu.

With the 2018 SI change, Avogadro's constant will be defined as an arbitrary number without any physical basis, and the amu will be a constant multiple of the kg. No more 1/12 the mass of carbon 12.

Of course we'll still need a way to represent large numbers, but there's no fundamental reason it has to be such a complicated number. It could be exactly 10^24, for instance. Again, I agree this isn't going to happen because of legacy inertia.
I was starting to build something similar but your execution seems better, thank you!
How long did it take you get to that point?
>Not according to the compiler. Anything can become anything else.

You mind clarifying that? I constantly have compile-time errors from type mismatches. You can cast a variable to a different type, but you can do that in any language.

you can't implicitly convert a char to an int, your compiler will take that as a fatal error. About the closest you could get is char and short since they're essentially the same data type, but even then the compiler might throw an error over an implicit conversion.

That said, JavaScript doesn't have types at all, really. Every type can be implicitly converted to another type, and yet Node is still used server side.
I'd go farther to say at most large-ish companies, even one level down (sometimes two) from the CEO means you'll never have to work again in your life. I think people forget just how much these senior executives make.
I think the customer is going to lose, eventually. I was chatting with a worker at WFM and they mentioned that WFM sends out inspectors to farms / suppliers to make sure things are up to high standards.

Now compare that with Amazon, who co-mingles inventory and can't even guarantee what I purchased was authentic.

Also, will I pay more for Kale after reading a book on food nutrition? Will I have to put the food in the basket to know what the price is?

I see two very different cultures. Time well tell, I guess.
any recommendations on making your own foam mattress?
If you're in tech, you've probably used an Atlassian product (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket).

Make an Atlassian add-on!

It's been a (mostly) solo gig for me so far. Two months ago my own add-on happened to do $8K in sales within a 30-day window. That put me around the 150th position on this ranking (add-ons ranked by last 30 days of sales):

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/addons/top-selling
The sad truth is, most people simply refuse to confront hard questions in a manner that challenges their coping skills.
A few examples are D, C#, VB, F#, Eiffel, Delphi, C++, Rust.
The "write readably to a storage medium" part of a(n otherwise) reversible circuit will still be reversible.
Thanks. Really helpful, if I forgot something and need to just refresh about the topic.
> being so badly inaccessible that you can get a court judgment over it

How you've twisted the facts...judgement was based on the determination that Winn-Dixie’s website is heavily integrated with the company’s physical store locations, making it subject to the ADA...key phrase: heavily integrated...which was the point of contention. Judgement was based on the applicability of ADA to a company's website, not the scope of how badly inaccessible the website was.

> ...requires you to be expending effort and time and money to screw up. It's not something that you just accidentally do out of ignorance.

Because web design is a static practice that never changes, right? With as much dynamic crap associated with the latest UX trend these days, it's surprising that anything modern conforms to a generalized definition of accessible.
I've done RoR stuff and something about "doing-things-the-rails-way" bugs me to no end. After being paid to work on a RoR app I started to hate Ruby. Some time after I wrote something small and silly for my thesis (to visualize some data and give my classmates something to play with) in Sinatra and it rekindled my love for the language.

Something I can't really put my finger on just rubs me in the wrong way in Rails, but using Sinatra felt like shattering chains that were holding me back. Maybe it was partly that I was learning NodeJS at the time, I dunno, but I can't recommend Sinatra enough. This being said I have zero experience with Sinatra in an production environment, so take this anecdote with a shovel(s) of salt.
This is the same argument I make to my friends who wear pants - how can you compare the potential of a version of you who never had pants with a version of you who had a given set of pants? This is particularly relevant with pants because you don't have a version of you before having pants, since these are usually applied at a very young age...
It can not win when there are only three people working on it part timely. Check the new feature list of Python release every few months.
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>>It's easy to walk into someone's office and have a discussion.

>Certainly less easy than joining in on a conversation you overhear while sitting at your desk.

Great! No more distracting me with conversations while I'm trying to work! If you want me in the conversation, ask me. Don't take my choice away.
The beard care thing tipped me off. The WORST bath salt I've ever gotten came from Whole Foods. It was this $25 thing that was super small and smelled weird.

The best salt? $5 Dr Teals from Walmart: the land of "wide loads and screaming kids."
>Do you think this is a proper use of scarce resources? Is this defensible?

Oh come on, you going to make an analogy about doing nothing and completely ignore my argument that vacations are nothing. Humans don't need vacations. Humans probably also didn't need cryptocurrencies.

>You point to other trucks on the road, they are transporting goods and providing essential services to society

And you ignore all the vehicles on the road transporting humans and their toys to the distant destinations where they are going, not to do work, no they are avoiding work.

>Would it be fair to say this is an act of utter recklessness and irresponsibility?

Would it be fair to say I never said Bitcoin was not that, just the we might have more egregious actions that we perform that are accepted as a part of daily life.
!g still works in ddg though.
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You can't. Does it matter? Does the possibility of minor changes to an individuals physiology matter when the current alternative is death for quite a few people? Even if minor changes in our physiology happen all the time?
It seems like too many involved with Babylon 5 are dying far too young.

Don't forget Michael O'Hare. Not that he had much involvement after the first season, but still, dying at age 60 is much too young.

Also Tim Choate. A bit player, but I really loved the character. Yes. Yes. Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people's needs. Very sad life. Probably have... very sad death. But... at least there is Symmetry
If you are not a web developer you may consider building an app. I find the Mac App Store to be less competitive than the iOS one.

Personally, I released my app two months ago: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/easygit/id1228242832?mt=12
It's one small thing but string interpolation annoys the crap out of me when using Python and while it might tick the understandable check box I wouldn't say it's easier to read. After using Ruby it's such a chore to read or write in my opinion (which admittedly doesn't mean much having so little experience with Python).
That depends on whether the market leader benefits from network effects. All other things being equal, the market leader in a naturally monopolistic industry, like say social networks, has a much more compelling product than competitors. That allows the market leader to extract monopoly rent.
For anyone else who has never heard of greenwashing like me two minutes ago:

> Greenwashing is like whitewashing with a green (environmental) brush: companies and organizations making themselves and their products sound or look like they’re really helping the environment. And they lure you in — creating the perception that you can help, too. In some cases you are helping. In some cases, it’s greenwashing.

Source: http://greenwashingindex.com/about-greenwashing/
> It seems that thinking on exceptions in low-level languages is firmly in the "no way" camp.

Actually most of them have them.

Just out of my mind, Mesa/Cedar, Ada, Modula-2, Modula-2+, Modula-3, D, Object Pascal.
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Reading the complaint (https://sleepopolis.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/caspers-a...) it looks like Casper is suing them for not disclosing their referral links are referral links whilst alleging that they steer people away from products they don't get good referrals on.

I have no idea about the basis or any of the details but it's not just "wrote review, got sued".
I'm lying on mine now. Incredible deal. It sounds like a too good to be true price. I'm sure it's not a very high quality mattress, but it was a huge improvement over my previous one and I'm comfortable.
You dont necessarily need "integration" to achieve this. You can always put a file under version control.

I've stole some links from https://github.com/gioele/pw to show that there are downsides to the separate files approach:

http://nms.csail.mit.edu/projects/ssh/

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-2666
GPL implicit patent grab, Google thus prefers more open licenses than GPL.
Thanks for sharing, and I agree that it is always sad to see upper management marginalize the contributions of certain groups of employees.
> And how many decades did it take for C++ to support std::array?

About one decade.

In the mid-90's already most C++ compilers had their own version of std::array, for example Borland compilers.
> Does the possibility of minor changes to an individuals physiology matter when the current alternative is death for quite a few people?

Again. That was not the question. But I see you have answered the actual question also, agreeing with my point. So we're cool..
If I had children, I would not lend them expensive/delicate items. At least not until they have demonstrated a level of care and responsibility with items of lesser value, which is a process of trust-building that literally takes years. Which is exactly the point: these friends/family members have demonstrated the opposite.

Relevant aside: in Boston, there is a community boating organization. They own the boats, and members (who pay a fixed monthly fee) can take out any boat at any time… IF they have passed the requisite training courses and exams, both of which are administered by knowledgable staff. Again, this is a process which literally takes years, to work up to the more expensive/dangerous boats.
In order to get an ADA complaint to succeed, the website has to be inaccessible. Getting the "heavily integrated" ruling wouldn't get a judgment against an accessible site.

And yes, you really do have to go out of your way to build something a modern screen reader can't handle.
The 30 year one is great, because it makes you realize how very few things matters in the long run. It helps put perspective on all the other goals.

If you are very ambitious, you can think of things that would take close to 30 years to achieve like any kind of scientific discovery, or becoming a senator, or president, or coach to a professional sports team, etc.

I'm not that ambitious, so I have goals that relate more towards the legacy I want to leave behind and the environment I'd want for myself when I'm old. Examples would be things like: I have children who think of me positively, I'm inspiring to others (could specify in what way if you want), I've lived a life of honesty, I've been fair to others, I'm retired, I'm as healthy as can be, I live in the company of loved ones, I have an active social life, I have more then 5 friends I still talk to regularly, I have the means to sustain myself, I'm still active in a hobby, I have no regret, etc.

The 30 year goal basically forces you to define for yourself what it means to have a great and successful life. When I did it, I realized that for me, having real strong meaningful relationships was most important, I couldn't think that 30 years from now anything else would matter to me. So maybe in 10 years I want to become a Principal engineer, but in 30 years I won't care if I did or not, but I'd care if I lost all my friends and sabotaged my social life.

Its toughest to come up with the 30 year goals, but the exercise is worth it I think.
"My only hope at this point is the punchline of the red queen story. Peacocks are great, right up until they meet a fox."

Your entire post reeks of the unintelligible consultants that you deride.

I'm tempted to read into it some kind of triple-entendre at their expense ? Or something ?
It's almost like they convey the same amount of information or something .....
NSA has an offense side and a defense side, and they're not that tightly coordinated.
Divorce is fine. Lying to your partner by cheating them is not.
Thank you for the suggestion! I'll have to edit the original movie for that, then re-clip, re-join, and re-concat the headings, but I can do it.
I do this. It's hard to grow at first and there's plenty of ongoing marketing work but after 2 years I could already go full time if I didn't insist on living in SF.

It's a fun little cottage industry.
I'm sure that's an interesting article behind the paywall.
> C++ has had these things for years.

C++ is built on these things. The "value type" thing informs everything about the language. I love it, and it's my go-to language when something just has to be fast, but it comes along with some hefty baggage. Java gets a lot of mileage out of its reference-first philosophy that C++ would be wise to try out -- the "everything must be possible with no overhead" philosophy of the language bleeds into the programming community in unhealthy ways, and the amount of language machinery to make the value stuff work "as well as possible"
(https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3601602/what-are-rvalues...) is absurd.

> Seriously though, the JVM is killing it

As for the JVM and Java, this seems like a guilty admission that the CLR and C# ate their lunch a decade ago (perhaps not wrt performance, but for language features....) I've never worked in the Microsoft stack, but the stories have been the same since the dawn of the age -- "C# is Java with real generics, value types and lambda functions." First they laughed...
Hasn't the community (finally) learned that simply transposing a better syntax onto JavaScript does not solve or help programmers in a meaningful way like the way that static typing does? Or is me hoping that a community will collectively reach a realization like this a pipe dream?
There are other factors, like Go compiles to bare metal while Dart was targeted to replace JavaScript on the web, which is pretty much impossible.

Additionally Dart was betrayed by Google's own teams that decided to invest in TypeScript instead.
Another great resource is Sleep Like The Dead: http://www.sleeplikethedead.com/
Oops, wrong link. Correct link: [1] The point is that the insider Alphabet shares have 10x the voting power per share as regular shares, but get the same dividend per share as other shares. The shares issued to ordinary employees with stock options (class C) have no voting power at all, which is quite unusual. This prevents dilution of control.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000130817917...
> GPL'ing linux hasn't prevented any of the problems you mention, either in theory or in practice, so why do the same thing and hope for a different result?

It hasn't eliminated the problem, but it has worked in some cases to the benfit of the vendors and customers.

For example the open source Wifi router community sprung up from one such effort :

http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/3562391

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DD-WRT
Let's see, this is the same Google/ YouTube that marks dozens of PragerU videos as "restricted", despite three Wall Street Journal editorials protesting that. The same YouTube that has been demonetizing Paul Joseph Watson, Alex Jones, and other conservatives. In summary, Google has long proven that they have an unapologetic Leftist agenda.
> Not only did Mr. Immelt have his own bathroom

Crazy that this is a big enough deal to be worth mentioning in the article.

Honestly, after several years of working from home, the whole bathroom situation has perhaps been the hardest part of corporate life to get used to.
Even in Japan PHP and Java are more popular than Ruby. As per a Japanese headhunter friend of mine who works for a big placement agency there there are about 3 times more PHP jobs & 6 time more Java jobs than Ruby jobs in Japan.
On a related topic, competence, I have come to realise over time that I and many people I know have a bias towards people in professions they don't know much about, believing that most of them are good at their jobs. Reality is that as the case with general population, majority are incompetent, careless, and well, downright stupid. Be it doctors with a decade long training/education, plumbers, lawyers, programmers, etc.
In my experience, any 'improve logging' ticket goes straight to the back of the dev's backlog. Followed the next week by complaints about the logging system not being all that good... :)
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The Apple/Netflix combination sounds a lot less far fetched than these other examples (with the iTunes store being a pretty serious business).
The idea seems interesting but I can't try it, Papr [0] uses Google to login...

[0] https://jhubiostatistics.shinyapps.io/papr
>For uk students Facebook is almost a requirement of the social life.

So, are you telling me that students, people at the stage of life when they are most rebellious, and their minds are most flexible, just won't be able to find any replacement for Facebook, if they wanted to?

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Well, in justice, CoffeeScript did influence JavaScript. However some of the decisions were in my opinion bad: removing delimiters and making whitespace more "meaningful". That makes it really hard to automatically format code in a way that deterministically doesn't break.
Duality for the SVM