skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And what echo chamber would they say you've surrounded yourself with?
In order to be impeached, you have to actually have committed a crime, no?

So far as I know, tweeting dumb shit is not yet a criminal offense.

I've suspected from the outset that four years of Trump would effectively amount to four years of stasis, with perhaps a chance of getting a conservative majority in the supreme court for the foreseeable future.
I started out this post by attempting to defend G.W. Bush, but considering the Iraq War and his handling of the Afghanistan War, the worldwide consequences have been catastrophic beyond that of the Vietnam War.
Do you have a good link for technical info? I found the Wired article but all that says is:

> The HomePod uses local recognition to hear the Hey Siri command, and encrypts all your communication.

That's great as far as it goes (at least it's not streaming all audio) but it doesn't rule out the rest of the command from being sent upstream, and encryption just stops third parties from intercepting it - if I don't want the vendor listening in either, it doesn't really solve my problem.

Happy to be proven wrong by some more in-depth info from Apple though!
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14558352 and marked it off-topic.
I think any honest examination of the question is going to conclude that employers and their employees often have opposing interests and the lack of collective bargaining makes it much easier for employers to have their way in a relationship that is wildly imbalanced in the first place (I mean, really, compare the stakes of one worker's job for the employee and employer). We are in a profession where we are far more insulated from the ill effects of this than others; I think a lot of people posting here forget that.
> Prison guard education is just a few weeks in the US to my knowledge

First off, this varies by state. Second, a few weeks might be an exaggeration for most states. In California at least the academy is 12 weeks long and that comes after application screening, written & physical exams, background/psych checks, and interviews.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=slack,discord

So far of course Slack is still much more popular among business users, but I've anecdotally noticed a big surge in Discord usage among consumers (on Reddit especially).
Director of engineering?
To be fair, the responsibility overwhelmingly lies with the civilian leaders of the military.
This man is bad and he should feel bad.
WebAssembly and Friends Roadmap
lyft currently does like 200-250 million rides/yr [1] with a crazy trajectory. if we "conservatively" assume 40-50% average growth YOY in ridership

that's like 6 billion rides/yr by 2025.. which puts this estimate at 15% - 30% of rides being all-electric + autonomous.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-27/lyft-book...
Just a note: paper is either made of dead standing trees or wood that is so full of rot/defect that no lumber can be made from it. It is a common misconception that live green trees and whole forests are destroyed for paper.

- a former woodsman for 13 years

Edit: My experience is in western Canada. I forgot that hackernews is a global site. Some countries do grow pine specifically for paper.
JSONB data-type allows for specific field modifications in the JSON object. Operators look ugly in hand-crafted SQL but, works a treat.
It's almost comical when they pat themselves on the back for creating a couple hundred coal mining jobs, supposedly. Drops in the bucket relative to the US economy.
Indeed, I was 30 and my brain was still plastic.
Really, the only notable thing from my post was the fact I'm still using the same Latex manual after all these years.
Kinda ragged now, but still useful.
I don't know if I'm a catfish programmer, but lately I've been completely disinterested in offices with the sorts of perks that I used to go crazy for years ago. I don't care much about free lunches or extremely nice desks or chairs or ping pong tables or whatever. That stuff is distracting. I care much more about buying my own lunch and fun.
Chin up! Here are some tips:

* Reframe the task as a game. A crime to solve if you like.

* See it as a series of black boxes that you keep subdividing (You are working top-down right?)

* Keep a [cork|black|white]board like they do in the movies with all the suspects and details of the case, with the string linking them (Do this digitally if you like)

* It's more important to know the I/O of the boxes/components than how they work, at least initially

* Be transparent with your employer about the difficulty. They know it's a mess - that's why you're there.

Good luck!
Sounds like an HBO (higher professional education) in The Netherlands.

Having done a bachelor at an HBO and a masters at a research university (and now doing a PhD at a university in Japan) I can say Computer Science at an HBO is excellent preparation to work as a programmer at a consultancy firm or at a firm doing grunt development work (business app developers, web development, etc.). Like another commenter mentioned, you probably won't easily be able to write code for startups which are doing stuff like robotics and deep learning. However in due time libraries will make it easier for you to work in that area.

Even at the PhD level I sometimes suffer because of not having a very strong background in the mathematics needed to build/use cutting edge technologies. I think most students coming from an HBO would have some problems working at a startup working on some novel tech.

That said, I have met many excellent HBO students who either joined a company and did very novel technical work or went on to be successful in academia. In the end, I guess it depends on your mindset.
The tactical blunders resulting in the loss of noncombatant life are only so widespread because of the civilian leadership's priorities. It's rarely the fault of any one servicemember.
This is fascinating. Thanks for sharing. I wonder what % of people know this.
What does "political relevance" have to do with political longevity? We're not a fundamentally different country now than we were last year, and policies created with a pen stroker can be struck down just as easily. Anyone who thinks that Trump's policies are a good predictor of future US policy need to explain their rationale because it doesn't follow reason.
In principle I do not disagree. But if we are talking about reducing pollution not by improving processes but simply by moving production to a country where regulation is more lax then I think the headline is accurate.
surge.sh is perfect for static front-end things. Heroku and Digital Ocean for everything else.
It's actually what a grad student said about a topic that Summers later signed onto as part of a broader report... and you left out the last and most important paragraph which belies that the thing was written as a satirical critique of opponents of Liberalization and of the economists who insist on measuring everything in purely monetary terms. The last paragraph:

> The problem with the arguments against all of these proposals for more pollution in LDCs (intrinsic rights to certain goods, moral reasons, social concerns, lack of adequate markets, etc.) could be turned around and used more or less effectively against every Bank proposal for liberalization.

There are plenty of reasons to dislike Summers and to distrust the World Bank, but you should recalibrate your sarcasm detectors if you think a left-leaning economist (he's the nephew of Paul Samuelson and Kenneth Arrow.. I mean..) earnestly wrote "I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that."
Like I mentioned in the top comment, I'm still reading the book, so I'm interested to see how things like moral hazard and preventative care are addressed. In the first chapter he advocates splitting our system into two parts. The first would be government supplied cradle to grave health insurance that only covers unexpected, catastrophic events. The idea being that 90% of the population would never even file a claim. For everything else the author recommends the free market with doctors and providers competing for our business.

He gives the example of LASIK eye surgery. Apparently it isn't covered by insurance and has to be paid for with cash. After 20 years you can find it as low as $299 in some cities while some doctors charge more and claim to offer a higher quality service.

I'm still not clear on how a bad lifestyle that leads to diabetes which leads to foot amputation would be dealt with under this system but I'm enjoying the book anyway.
Nothing wrong with that! There are more of out there than we think :-)
Whatever helps him sleep, I guess, but I don't think I can go along with this.
Do the waste wood chips from a typical lumber mill go into particle board or might they also go into paper?
BTW, the original paper is about Cervus Elpaphus, which in the US we call Red Deer. This is different from American Elk, and also from Scandanavian Elk (which we Americans call Moose).

Moose are terrifying, since they are often upwards of 1000 pounds, and are tall enough that when you hit them with anything smaller than a full-size pickup or tractor trailer, they tend to fall on the roof and windscreen of the vehicle, crushing them and killing the passengers.
The term you want is 'capitalist' but you also need capital to be called that.
Plot twist: We're all catfish programmers...
> In what way is this proposal better or more progressive than direct cash transfers to acquire the same market housing that everyone else does?

Rent-seeking (in the economic sense). IIRC, any kind of direct cash transfer (or even subsidized loan) has been known to result in price increases for everyone. See, e.g., college tuitions. (Disclaimer: I haven't looked into the data myself and am relying on recall of things I've read in the past.)
Keep working. Almost every startup is a clone. Almost every mega-successful large company (Coca-Cola, for example) was a clone -- we just haven't heard of the original product that they cloned.

Figure out what makes users of the other product unhappy and fix it for them.
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I'm looking for a slide control that will go up and down based on a control board's input. Seems simple enough but I don't know where to begin to find such a slide. Please help! Thanks :)
"I’m the master now. Yes that sounds arrogant and I don’t think I’m going to add that word to my LinkedIn,"

Sometime a change in language helps to soften a word with too many associations: software guru ?
It's sounding like all the top tech companies use space-based indentation. Our style guide makes some pretty convincing arguments as to why it's better. It sounds like good developers are either more likely to (a) work at top companies or (b) search out information on best practices for handling indentation. Mediocre developers probably just use whatever, which ends up being tabs a lot of the time.
The guidelines that ask us to comment civilly always apply, no matter what you're replying to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Because for a certain type of person having your code run on a real Z80 is much cooler.
Would this be considered a business, not a startup? I don't see major disruption happening in this space. Lots of companies make non-wood paper, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_paper and plastic.
Worth noting that this is a "benefit" of not offshore outsourcing, but outsourcing in general. Large companies prefer to purchase services from vendors rather than hire employees to limit their liability and responsibility for those workers' well-being. For example, a Fortune 500 will prefer to hire small janitorial services companies to service all of their offices rather than employees, so that these small services companies can ignore workplace safety and reduce costs, while the large company can say "Hey this isn't our problem" when a janitor gets injured on the job.
Excuse the OT, but I read halfway through this article getting more and more curious as to how they were going to bring the topic back to American Chipmunks. It's probably related to how much information I feel compelled to consume with less and less time that I skim text to the point of misreading key words. I've started to notice myself doing this more and more. Am I alone in this?
I think that everyone is collectively exhausting all of the cultural poignancy to the old ideas, and that soon something truly new will arrive.
Consider the Sennheiser HD 380 Pro. In the same ballpark price wise, but I think the sound quality is much higher. In particular it's less bass heavy.

The only way to figure out what you like is to listen to a bunch and see what you like best. Read head-fi reviews or whatever and find out what's worth your time, and then just try a bunch. Listen to something with really delicate sounds (think strings or some kinds of classical), stuff with really loud rocky sounds, stuff with deep bass, and then listen to that song you know every single note of that you've listened to countless times and would be able to hear weirdness.
The commenter's child is under 5 years old, so they attend day care.

Day care facilities (private businesses) rightly don't permit sick children to attend until they are not infectious.

Paying $100 to avoid the loss of work (more than $100) is rational.
In this case it doesn't even come from hatred, but from ignorance.

It's not in Samsung's self interest to give all its employees cancer, for example, for many reasons. But it happens as a result of ignorance.
If something is too complex to be explained to a college freshman, it might be time for a paradigm shift to simplify (I.e. Ptolemaic astronomy vs heliocentric)

Algebra and calculus were one bleeding edge research that only the elite understood, now kids are learning it in middle school.
> Douglas Adams totally nailed it when he wrote that removing barriers to communication could become the cause of conflict.

Where are all the really big wars since the advent of mass media? There's a large amount of forest-for-the-trees-ing here. In our domestic politics, we've grown more polarised, but our societies in general are more harmonious, more integrated. One of the problems the globe is facing is that the lack of wars has removed one throttle on human population growth. Removing barriers to communication has significantly improved civil rights as well.

I guess my point is that just because things aren't perfect now, doesn't mean that they're worse than they were previously.
Here's prairie dog language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1kXCh496U0
This isn't the first time it's happened. The printing press and radio both were followed by waves of "fake news", conspiracy and the like.

But ultimately people stop buying the National Enquirer. The FCC shows up to enforce some basic rules about truth telling and libel.

And... Facebook changes their algorithms to stop allowing crap to bubble up? Twitter decides to actually clean up their platform at least a bit?

Places like /pol/ can exist without them being mainstream, but when mainstream platforms host fringe views because '1st ammendment lol', then you start having issues.

In "the old internet", if people were being toxic, you'd just kick them off the forum, out of the chat.
Definitely not.

Find your niche and solve the problem the other company isn't solving or solving well.

Over time your product will differentiate where your customers tell you to go.
Satellite based entanglement distribution over 1200 kilometers
It almost seems that you're trying to have it both ways. Routinely conducting three weeks (or whatever period) of ceaseless interrogation is as bad for civil rights as it is for actually finding the truth in an investigation. Either tell us that such practices are fine because cultural differences, or tell us convincingly that they don't actually happen. Pick one.
35 years old and it reads like a retro interpretation of modern Apple developer documentation. For technical documentation there is just something so warm and inviting to it (even when the UI is basically just text!). Like a safe little refuge for developers.
Exactly. I have alpha/beta testers clamoring for new features, and I have them write every single one of them down in a list. I have them reporting bugs, and I have them write every single one of them down in a list. And then I separate that list into "showstoppers" as number one priority, "user-experience" as number two, administrator niceties as number three, and legitimate, completely new features as number four.

Showstoppers means users stop using the product. Either the site is down, core functionality isn't working, it's too slow, etc. If these aren't addressed, there's no point in offering the product. Users are unforgiving, and in most cases you only have one shot.

User experience is making things nicer. Text is too big. Fonts aren't consistent. Page redirects don't go where you expect. Colors are wrong. Minor things that decrease the value the customers are getting translates into major impacts to your pocketbook. The design and finish should be as close to perfect as you can get it.

Admin nice-to-haves are things that end users won't ever see. My admin panel is atrociously designed. But only me and a handful of other people ever see it, so who cares?

Legitimately new features I actually prioritize last. Not because I don't want to offer more, but if the above three things aren't making people happy, more features won't help. And for every feature that gets added, you have to address 1-3 all over again.

What a lot of testers and developers get wrong, I think, is assuming priority #4 comes first. Numbers 3 and 4 may be able to be reversed in some situations or during a sprint, but end-user experience is always priority numbers 1 and 2. Developer/admin experience is lower down the list than a lot of developers/admins might want to believe.
Revalidation – Higher Order Component for Validating Forms in React
Ad blocker breaks webapp with HTML IDs containing “AD”
these things get run in phases. phase 1 they insist on novel architectures, rethinking of basic premises, required involvement by academics.

by the end of phase 3 when they actually procure machines its mostly 'just give me one of what you're already shipping, and it better run MPI well'

doe exascale was supposed to be fundamentally different. because by the time you got there all the incremental improvements in power and latency management weren't nearly enough anymore...my guess is that they'll just make big gpu clusters and call it a day

its probably not that much money in the scheme of things, but the sad (or good) depending on your perspective is that HPC got so far out of the mainstream that when corporations finally got around to worrying about scaling, they just did their own thing. so I guess they can thank darpa/doe for infiniband? not really?

and they're still running fortran/mpi
Buried in the article is that the binder is polyolefin, which basically just means plastic. So, this is plastic paper. Granted, the examples given were for semi durable items like menus and business cards, but i still see that as a net negative.
You're not welcome to start flamewars like this, and you've been using this account primarily to post ideological comments, which counts as an abuse of the site. Please post civilly and substantively or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thank you. Updated.
Sadly no, the code is in an Enterprise application and that part of the codebase is extremely unlikely to be open sourced.

And getters add overhead because it invokes a function which returns the actual value. Honestly it's not that much as the most JS engines are really good at optimizing that kind of stuff, but when it comes to typed arrays every bit counts, as their whole purpose is for the fast-path of code.

And simpler is almost always better.
China is deeply racist and expansionist. Their claims on various parts of India are totally ridiculous. Their annexation Tibet is also blatantly illegal.

China is not USA, it is not full of white people and multiculturalism. China will eventually trigger WW-3.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/catfish

The urban dictionary definition of catfish is ridiculous.
You make a great point. Thanks for reading.
Why is this in the DOE budget?
Posting like this will get your account banned. Please stop.
DOE? that cant be right
The person, not the campaign. Besides, he's under investigation now for firing Comey… although not much to investigate when you admit committing crimes on TV.
To make a ton of regular paper requires 100 tons of water, TBM says, while its Limex paper is made without water. In place of 20 trees, it uses less than a ton of limestone, as well as 200 kilograms of polyolefin.

...

"Making paper from wood chips involves planting trees, which can be carbon neutral, so I’m not sure how much appeal this will have" from an environmental perspective.

Appeal from an environmental perspective: zero. Less than zero. Polyolefins are plastics. The vast majority are made from fossils. Polyolefins can be made starting from biomass but then so is ordinary paper. It's baffling if the inventor or his customers think that he's improved on the traditional environmental tradeoffs associated with paper production.
Germany hasn't even existed for "centuries", it wasn't unified until the late 19th century.
Well if you didn't know this at the start then 1, you didn't do your homework and 2, you came up with it independently. Which means other will too.

I wouldn't let it stop you, just because someone had an idea first doesn't mean you can't do it better.
Prairie dog language decoded:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1kXCh496U0

And crows can transmit similar information, such as the description of humans they've never seen.

All forms of anthropomorphism are poisonous dead ends.
It took me 'til "Africa is inefficiently under-polluted" to realize it was satire.
I second the 380s. They're pretty great, though they can get more fatiguing than I'd like after a few hours of listening due to the horizontal snugness. 7 5/8 hat size, YMMV. I use them every day despite that.
I go back and re-read DNA's HHGTTG series from the first book to the last one at least once every year or two. Upon each reading, it becomes less and less of a hilarious poke at the future possibilities, but rather a sad reflection of what we have become.

I remember the first time I read the books 3 decades ago, I yearned for such a device as the Guide. But now I have the very device that I carry with me everywhere (albeit with a shiny Apple logo on it, instead of the MaxiMegalon publishing corp.), and I can't help but wonder if it has made my life better or worse.

Excuse me, I am just going to go outside and wait for Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged to show up and insult me...
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It depends on the mill and the current economy. The wood chips will not be used for pulp but instead burned to generate power for the mill, made into fire pallets, particle board or other similar product. Based on what makes the most money in the current economy and the products the mill is equipped to make.
I was going to say I saw the same thing for Lyft in SeaTac. So that makes sense.
The author was a senior scientist at Intel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_C._May
Yeah, I myself use an adblocker because there is no other reasonable choice - but the poliferation of add-ons that can break pages that are not tested with them is concerning.
Tax cuts on the rich don't increase consumer spending, since rich people don't spend all their money (proof: they're rich).

Although this is a popular theory, mostly promoted by the people who don't want to pay taxes.