skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't recall Task Roles being a thing when I started using EC2 Container Service. For container security and isolation, that makes a whole lot of sense.
Another fun fact is that 911 in almost any dial sequence will dial 911. One of my colleagues discovered this when he was testing some dial plan thing years ago. I think he called 911 a few thousand times.
The acquisition of Timetra is the most successful one in Alcatel's history; it has grown into one of top 4 carrier routing vendors from a startup;
and they still have very amazing stuff:
they recently launched FP4, a 2.4Tbs network processor with full routing features:
https://networks.nokia.com/solutions/fp4-network-processor
It is something that every state and county could decide.
Mostly I'm just commenting to underline how much I agree with you, but I'll also add that a lot of people, when they're thinking about the experience of a game, are thinking about it just as if it were a movie-- such and such happens and the player has this or that reaction. This, I think, is generally useless, whatever the medium. You're just getting all enamored with talking to yourself about how great your work will be rather than working with what's actually there. But leaving that aside, it's particularly limiting with games, which are interesting for their possibilities and in which the audience has real agency within the work itself.
But going from javac to Maven in CS1 would be insanely difficult; there are many prerequisites before one can use Maven. It may only work in top-tier schools.
Deep learning：poem_generator based on LSTM
I agree with you.

The rest of the state wants NYC to gtfo as bad as NYC wants out.

The problem is that their unfortunately economically interdependent enough that when the idea gets floated the people who stand to lose money make a big fuss, sway public opinion and the idea is dead in the water. IIRC there was a little bit of noise about a similar split in Washington recently. NorCal would probably be much happier without SoCal. The rest of IL would probably do ok without Chicago, etc.

The pattern is that people in the country really don't like a bunch of people who are nothing like them running the state and telling them what to do and the city thinks the country is full of backwards hicks who are holding them back. They'd be better off without each other.

IMO being able to actually self govern is well worth whatever the price is.
I don't have an issue so much with this specific case, so much as the fact that it gives political cover to things like the EU's right to be forgotten which I think is total garbage.
Without genuine selflessness, homeostasis or worse is inevitable. This is why in Japan you traditionally find the most enlightened Zen monks not teaching, but cooking or supervising the kitchen - because that's the prime point of safety vulnerability for a monastery.
The Man Who’s Making Tech Do Something About San Francisco’s Massive Wealth Gap
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> If someone is selling "insurance" for those things, you can be certain that you're paying 100% of the cost somewhere.

Nope; probably more like 150%. Except I hear that in America, those insurers can get a deal for you for the routine stuff compared to someone un-"insured". Pretty f'ed up.
There are loads of good ones out there but here's a few IMP:

-MadewithARkit (brand new, lots of cool stuff)

-SwiftonSecurity

-VentureBeat

-Kara Swisher

-Christopher Mims

-Google Developers

-Google Research

-Steve Jurvetson

-Siraj Raval

Honorable Mentions, the Parody Tech Accounts:

-Not Jonny Ive

-Bored Elon Musk
> I think if you don't have daughters, or don't have young girls in your life

Or you don't buy the "role models" concept..
Perhaps not those events specifically, but even the qualities you mention are byproducts of success. A how-to book on the same subjects, written by different authors of equivalent writing ability, where one is a successful practitioner and the other a fraud, will net you two different books.

While the signals we look at to determine authority are varied and different for each person, style-of-writing is generally included in that list. Why would so much advice on etiquette and morality suggest ensuring one's written communications are of high quality?

I'll admit I didn't really read the links you posted but in looking over the first few paragraphs on http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html he is clearing signaling his authority in how he name-drops MIT and talks about his MIT educator friend. (And I don't mean to imply there is anything wrong with that; writers are often advised to establish their qualifications early) I imagine the 18-year-old me would have felt confident about his essay simply from this reference.

Finally, the wannabe theory of thought leadership isn't a hard-and-fast rule. There are exceptions...
Because a lot of working code is very bad. Reading other people's code is a good to way calibrate expectations for code quality.
I haven't read much Camus but I absolutely loved his semi-autobiographical story about his childhood growing up in Algeria he wrote just before he died in a car accident: https://www.amazon.com/First-Man-Vintage-International-ebook...

The story stuck with me for a long time and I was told it was much more accessible than many of his earlier books that were more philosophical.

It's a great story if you were ever the intelligent rebellious independent type growing up.
Lists like these are why imposter syndrome is so prevalent among engineers. You read something like this and suddenly you wonder if you're actually qualified to even be in the industry. Most of those questions will give no indication of a person's effectiveness as a frontend engineer, with the exception of the system design questions. Those are mostly rooted in actual problems that you might encounter as a frontend engineer.
Thank you for that. I really appreciate your candor.
The turbines engines used for natural gas based electrical power production can be throttled up and down over a wide range. IIRC from maximum power down to about 15%. But, no you do not want to just shut them off. There are natural gas based diesel generators that can be turned on and off, but being Diesel engines they really only run efficiently over a small power output range and you control how much power is generated by how many you turn on. You need rows and rows of the Diesels to match the power from a gas turbine and each diesel needs to be individually matched into the power grid. So, there are reasons to go with gas turbine electrical power generation to meet peak power demands. OTOH, CA is tearing down recently built plants because of over capacity which is just crazy and obviously a boondoggle for the electric companies. But, building the plants was driven by the craziness that immediately preceded it; CA's NIMBY driven under capacity and being forced to meet peak power demands by buying outrageously priced power from out of state. Just bad planning, more bad planning, and certainly more bad planning to come.
> There is certainly an odd dynamic on the "nerdy" websites when it comes to promoting the under-represented gender.

There have been plenty comments here discussing the "why", and the gist of it is the concept of "under-represented".
Don't we have the same issue in software today..

Many projects have their own snowflake build systems, web APIs have custom authentication schemes, multiple federated login systems...

Don't get me wrong we see a lot of consolidation, the world is getting better :)
On any other day the quote might have been quite different.
This reminds me of a comment from the book "Postwar: a History of Europe between 1945 to 1989". Many oppressive governments that sprang up were initially supported by the learned classes. The quote is as follows:

"Totalitarianism can never truly succeed without the support of the intellectuals"

I'd like to point out that even religious totalitarianism usually displays this trait as well by co-opting the theological intellectuals, so this dynamic plays out again and again on both the liberal and conservative sides of history.
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I, too, noticed that what matters is how good you want to be, not how good you currently are.
If the comments are dead, they are not representative, in fact, they are clearly exactly what the community rejects.
Not a news app but dead tree subscriptions to quality newspapers (WSJ, NYT) are seriously under-rated in my opinion. They don't interrupt you, try to get you to like or share, and it's extremely easy to skim while at the same time learn things you wouldn't get from click click clicking on articles from the website. Curation is worth it.
Unmanned blimps and lasers could do it.

In a far out, sci-fi kind of world, huge solar powered blimps hover in fixed traffic patterns, collecting more solar power than they use, and relay fractional amounts of collected surplus energy down to parasite vehicles, that assume a formation for refueling laser targeting, within the blimps flight pattern.

The cars accept the laser energy in a beam collector, for energy conversion, netting a bonus as recharge, and then resume independent travel as their intended destination requires.

Predictive consumption graphs can estimate optimal routes, for different charge requirements before leaving, optimizing for fastest time, best blimp paths, least energy consumption, traffic congestion avoidance or whatever.
"Functional core, imperative shell" sounds quite dogmatic and not "getting it" is no reason to fear for anyone's code.

Just like the OP article argued that TDD can become an all-solving hammer in the eyes of people, so can functional programming. In this particular case I can think of a whole host of applications where the core should definitely not be functional (and, for what it's worth, immutable state is not inherent to functional programming, or at least it didn't use to be). If it were so, ORMs wouldn't be a thing.
Before pontificating too much about the doom of Hong Kong, you should observe that compared to the US, HK has:

- Far lower crime and incarceration

- Better education (measured by PISA scores)

- Incomparably better infrastructure (compare beautiful, clean HK subways with laughably pathetic US ones)

- Better health outcomes than the US, 84 year life expectancy vs 79 for the US

- Preserves an incredibly large percentage of its territory for parks (most of HK island is a park)

- No natural resources like the US

- All of this with far far lower taxes than the US (government % of GDP is roughly 14% compared to 38% in US)
Yep - that's on it's way ;-)

At this point, having such a 'check engine light', or, for instance, having a cluster of 10 cells under your wrist that change color (which is subsequently sensed by your iWatch) is just a (very challenging and expensive) engineering problem. It's entirely scientifically reasonable to have such biological readouts sensing a number of different biological states. You already blush, perspire, increase heart-rate, etc. - hooking up those same responses to change the pigment in 10 particular cells on your wrist is not much of a stretch of our current tech. It's only logistical sci-fi, not theoretical sci-fi.
How about the <three body>, Chinese sci-fi..
I like the idea of getting free money every month, but it just wouldn't feel right to live on money that was forcefully taken from someone else, even if they do have a lot of it. Maybe somebody will invent some sort of sustainable voluntary UBI. That would be the best.
Well that's the article's point, a think tank serves one of the factions of the plutocracy and on the global and national stage public intellectuals have also been replaced by puppets of the plutocracy. They all serve money and people who hold it, just different factions. While at the same time the intellectuals in universities have become more and more divorced from reality, embracing ideologies that are excessively liberal and left leaning rather than centrist.
> comments on stories about feminism prove the need for feminism

Just like comments by atheists prove the need for religion?
Research is all over the place. East coast has MIT and Harvard.
Ask HN: When should the company ever consider changing programming languages?
It seems like 99% of the time you shouldn't do it. Seems like articles are only written about success stories though. Do you have any anecdotes where switching a programming language was a bad idea?
Sure, I agree, but an emotional quote on any given day probably isn't a good basis for an arguement.
> Like all elite groups with legally enshrined privileges, this group has created a set of myths to justify its existence, and a scapegoat to blame for society's ills.

Suppose that you're right. Then why are these things more true of the relatively weak union movement in the US, and less true of the ones that governed the UK and Australia for half of the 20th Century?
Isn't the overly-litigious nature of the U.S.A also why costs are so high?

The malpractice insurance that docs and hospitals need to carry in order to defend themselves should they be sued is passed onto consumers in the form of higher medical costs.

Or at least that's how someone once explained it to me. Is that not also a contributing factor?
Im not a GH, but I developed my own dashboard for this kind of things. Just a basic Django app admin panel CRUD.
Vi Hart, taking a break from math/music, made a great video[1] on how artists (or "thought leaders", etc) create audiences. She quotes heavily from the forward to Edmund Snow Carpenter's book "They became what they beheld", which was probably written (or at least heavily influenced) by Marshall McLuhan.

The main thesis is that old-media was about finding channels of distribution. If you didn't utilize existing media channels, nobody would see your ideas. When technology made the mechanics of publication cheap and easy, it became easy for the artist and audience to interact without the need for an imprimatur or interacting with any gatekeeper. True "thought leadership" was made a lot easier - and a lot more powerful - because original thoughts could be conveyed with new types of media to create new audiences.

> If you address yourself to an audience, you accept at the outset the basic premises that unite the audience. You put on the audience, repeating cliches familiar to it. But artists don't address themselves; they create audiences. The artist talks to himself out loud. If what he has to say is significant, others hear & are affected.

> The trouble with knowing what to say and saying it clearly & fully [old media's methods], is that clear speaking is generally obsoleted thinking. Clear statement is like an art object; it is the afterlife of the process which called it into being. The process itself is the significant step and, especially at the beginning, is often incomplete & uncertain.

As Marshall McLuhan famously said, "the medium is the message". Utilizing existing mediums is by definition following what worked successfully in the past; the "thought leaders" and avant-garde artist are seen as "leaders" because they utilize new mediums, not just new messages.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm-Jjvqu3U4
> 1.3B brainwashed chinese, unlike the 300M free-thinking americans, none of whom buy into any sort of blind nationalism, amirite?

Textbook whataboutism. The US isn't jailing people who talk about government missteps. China does jail people who talk about what happened in 1987.

> Also, how does 'extreme nationalism' manifest in the expat community? Is it just talking passionately about your homeland? Or are these people actually taking physical action? I mean, 'extreme nationalism' is suggestive of more than just talking.

I think he meant "patriotic". The most patriotic thing is to believe your country's form of government is better than others, or at least as good as others. So, I gather that comment was asking how the Chinese can support their government while it embraces capitalism.

Personally, I don't hold the same feeling of incredulity. I think it all exists to support those currently in power and to prevent revolution. China had to adapt after Mao's policy failures, and they did so while keeping the same government in power.
"Unfortunately, the project isn't "finished" after you achieve initial success."

It is if the goal was to sell the company and people bought it. After the success, the remaining problems are the buyer's while the money is going to the sellers. Is that a perverse incentive for quality or what? ;)
That's evidentially false though. We have a much better system in Australia and all the exact same problems. Most of it boils down to what the previous posters said. People are completely and wilfully uneducated. More than half the country (I'd say closer to 80-90%) are literally just voting for red team vs blue team with zero basic understanding of how the voting system even works.

The majority of people in Australia don't even know that we don't have FPTP voting, despite being asked to fill out preferences on the voting form. They also have no knowledge of how the senate voting works or even the senate's purpose in the government. The major parties and media conspire to keep this attitude prevalent.

The situation seems unsolvable. There's no incentive for the average person to dedicate any more time to politics than it takes to read a headline each day when they have their own lives to worry about. And such a shallow level of understanding is totally abusable by anyone and everyone with a pen in their hand.

The system is broken, but the voting system is just the tip of the iceberg.
This article made me feel good. Ever since I started doing TDD, I refactor a lot more and my code looks nicer.

Hopefully, I'm not falling into the other trap he mentions and getting into design that would be worse than 15 minutes up-front.

Sadly, I can't comment on anything else as TDD isn't practiced at all in my area.
Damn. Really wish these had eBooks as well. Podcasts/audiobooks are really tough for me to get into. I cannot process spoken word nearly as well as the written one, and I get far too easily distracted when trying to listen to audiobooks.

Still might buy it since Kushner's new MoD book seems to be audio only from what I can see.
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These are posthumously modified ornamental skulls, carved and painted after death maybe for funerary purposes, not skulls re-shaped during infancy, for weirdo flattened head shapes among the living.
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I'm not sure I was replying directly to your comment either. I apologize.

I only recently learned about the whole "washing" of the "Incident" and it has really made me think.

I certainly agree with your rebuttal. I do not conflate the CCP with the Chinese people. And I'm aware that there are hundreds of millions of Chinese people who don't even live in China.

I also recognize that most of the members of the CCP are good people, the ones I call "scary" are a small minority. (Even if I don't agree with Communism.)

All things considered, if I'm thinking clearly, the most important thing I can recognize about China and the Chinese people is my own deep ignorance. :)

- - -

some points:

In re: the Falun Gong, they have newspapers and occasional demonstrations where I live, and they manage to make a very sober and sobering account of it. If they are lying they are damn good at it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...

I don't know the truth of it myself, I hate to believe it.

> > What is the world gives someone the right to try to lie to a whole nation of billions of people?
> No one. And no Chinese people or very few of them think CCP has the right either.

Which is reassuring in one sense but dreadful in another: the concept of the "Mandate of Heaven" is still valid, even if you take it just as a metaphor?

> Not sure what do you mean by "false reality".

I mean the attempt to pretend the Tiananmen Square Massacre didn't happen.

> No clue what "grotesque arrogance" refers to.

I mean that the folks responsible for the decision to try to change history are being arrogant, institutionally if not personally.

> Please, do not mix CCP and Chinese people. People do not align themselves 100% at all time with the government or the party.

I agree. But taken together, as a Nation, that's a lil schizophrenic. Part of the nation knowing about the massacre and part "knowing" that it was merely an "incident" or even a myth, that's very schizophrenic. Even if most of the people see through it, it's still unhealthy I think.

In re: Taiping Rebellion. When I read about it I was horrified. A vast horde hopped up on rebellion and bad religion and overrunning everything they could... And they call it a "righteous movement"..?

Anyhow, sorry for my ignorance.
Payors are healthcare wholesalers. They can buy health services from physicians and facilities at about a third to a tenth of the cost you can because:
1) It's not life or death for them; and
2) They can buy in bulk
Anybody in the entire health care system can point their finger at someone else and claim that they're the ones who are gouging us. I suspect that they're all gouging us.

One thing I've read is that states with caps on malpractice claims do not have lower medical costs.
To me, it really feels like the people working on this are amongst the immensely tiny fraction of people doing something useful. I'm envious and I hope I can one day find a way to help fund those that are better than me.
Or let me phrase this differently.

You seem to have this image of an honest academic, toiling away on OSS at nights, standing up to committees like Galileo, the proverbial Travis. You'd like to help him lessen his burden by a better redistribution scheme of grant money -- a commendable goal.

What I say is if the toil is worthwhile, Travis will be rewarded anyway.

In addition, there are throngs of less honest people you don't seem to consider. These people exist too and always jump out of the woodwork, given the right incentive of less-risk-more-reward. Simple economic arbitrage, a law of nature.

What I'm saying is, such system cannot work, no matter how lofty its ideals: it doesn't help the good, it promotes the bad and unscrupulous, and morally corrupts those on the fence.
What search term did you use on thumbtack to find your cook. I would love to be able to pay only $100/week for what amounts to 40 servings (4 people * 2 (lunch and dinner) * 5 days). That comes out to $2.5 per serving for the labor of cooking. I've looked into personal chefs before and the quotes I've received are generally $15+ per serving (not including food costs).
An example: https://trackingco.de/public/mzfzx9
I haven't yet seen any evidence of fear.
Yes, but you have to set them up upfront and there is no API to split and merge partitions. If you add more partitions, it doesn't automatically re-shard for you either. I don't think it should automatically re-shard as it would cause a ton of disk and network IO, but just something to be aware of.
The post doesn't appear to be making any arguments.
What's ludicrous is acting certain when you obviously don't have any experience with the site. I looked through that site for a few hours, at some point during the past year. It's very insightful and addresses one of the most difficult aspects of design thinking, namely when to use conventional forms and when to violate them.
This is much closer to the way I remember it. I discovered the essays before YC existed, and he became one of my favorite writers. I barely knew anything about his online store thingy that he flipped during dotcom mania, and I didn't care about lisp. I definitely thought of him as a thinker that I resonated with.
Wow these are a great way to communicate risks in workplace safety. Here's an example video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41QMaJqxqIo

This is a great idea. I wish more of the more serious post-mortems were this thorough in our industry. But I guess people rarely die, they just have millions of peoples data leaked or result in serious service interruptions, so we don't have much of an incentive.