skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's interesting. It's almost exactly the same. I did a trademark search, and although "Podio" is registered as a word mark, the logo design is not registered. So IPInfo is probably in the clear, but they may want to consider a new logo.
> every 'gamer' out there is out to hate indie by default

that's a bit of an over exaggeration. Gamers hate overhyped, but under delivered games. It doesn't matter if it's indie or not.
That's not an example of "shifting the power dynamic"
tremendous article!
Elon Musk's Car Tunnel Gets an Elevator Next Week
You've posted this at least 4 times in this thread. Why?

This is a clearly established matter of both state law, and the common law, and every time a property owner has fought, they've lost, at considerable expense to both them, and the taxpayer.
If your function takes a callback and you save a continuation inside of it, then one of two things happen:

- if you call the callback before you save the continuation, then the callback isn't ever called again (unless you call the whole function again, of course).

- if you call the callback after saving the continuation, then the callback is called whenever you resume the continuation.

So basically, resuming the continuation is equivalent to either never calling the callback, or calling the callback like normal. It sounds weird, but everything works out.
NYC to SFO in 12 hours is an average speed of 215mph

With zero stops and no delays.
That's all nice and fluffy sounding. Anyhow, I'll sell my share of the beaches and take the cash. What? I can't? Then this whole story is one giant bull shit. If you can't sell it, you don't own it.
HONEST Act

I wonder who comes up with these clever doublespeak backronyms... the other one that immediately comes to mind is the "PATRIOT Act".
If he didn't keep posting and reposting the same blurb about whomever is representing the defendant, I might more reasonably consider his point of view. Until then, I'm really considering him just to be trolling.
I've been a web developer since 1996. I built dozens of websites professionally before moving on to building apps in many industries, including finance and insurance.

I can, without hesitation, wholeheartedly endorse SquareSpace because it requires zero of my skills. It makes so many painful things painless. I have no idea why people put static websites on their own infrastructure, especially when anything moderately popular needs paid DDoS protection anyway.

In fact, with all the modules, my website would have to get pretty fancy (beyond ecommerce, beyond CMS) before I'd build a custom solution.

I've actually turned away at least 10 clients (who would have paid me $10k+ each) and told them to just build it themselves with SquareSpace and hire a designer instead. I feel like it's unethical to take those contracts as a developer anymore.
Agreed, prostitution as a profession should be seen more as a therapy, than as a playground for men to exploit their darkest sexual desires. I mean, if you read some of the horrific experiences prostitutes undergo, it'll leave you with disgust.
Bottomline, we men have to learn to treat women with respect and equality, regardless of their profession, period. This is portrayed superbly in Pretty Woman.
Since we are talking about highly male dominated field, his definition is right. They have problem and there is not enough female programmers for them all. And even if they would marry one, they won't spend time with their children and all care will be on her - meaning that they need traditional women who has little carrer ambitions and is simultaneously programmer.

It just so happens that traditional women tend to chose more feminine professions and people with little carrer ambitions tend to prefer slower workplace.

So, good luck.
Fair, it's late and I was just trying to clarify my point.

This whole thread is toxic.

Nothing but polarized opinions. I'd like it if there was more middle ground, and a lot less emotionally-charged up/down votes. When the points start feeling like Reddit, it's a huge turnoff.
A fun way to familiarize yourself with grid is CSS Grid Garden:

http://cssgridgarden.com/
> It doesn't have to do with looks. That's the wrong way to look at this.

Looks play a very large role in determining attraction, which in turn plays a large role in determining whether an advance is or isn't "wanted."

The rules as they're currently written therefor apply very unevenly and unfairly. The more attractive you are, the wider your scope of acceptable behavior is. The less attractive you are, the narrower your scope of acceptable behavior is.

If Dave McClure was someone more Sarah Kunst's type, we might be reading an article about their pending nuptials. Instead, we're reading ones about how Dave McClure is a creep who should be added to the sex offender registry.

That's a pretty wide range of possible outcomes for the same behavior.
> Why use a database as a queue? It is known this doesn't scale well nor work particularly well.

PostgreSQL scales to 100K writes per second on my laptop.

I can probably get another x10 from a big cloud instance.

You can probably run 99+% of real applications in that range.
I can recommend "Scaling up".
https://scalingup.com/
There is only a limited amount of bitcoins which can be mined so you can assume at some point all coins will be mixed at that stage what do you propose happens?

Woth the type of people who invest in bitcoins I can see them simply making sure all bitcoins are tainted in this way for purely idealogical reasons not even to ensure that illigal activity can occur.
If you make more money than another person or can possibly benefit them in some way or the person is attracted to you then you are in a position of power. You're argument is absurd and out of touch with the human nature.
A Brief Primer on Single-Payer Health Care
Reminds me of Demolition Man... all coming true. https://youtu.be/jae38H1_j-E
I think there's been a misunderstanding, I was making comments about general workplaces - not about the situation in the article.
Seppuku is a good description, to me it reads like a modern version of socialist "self criticism" [1]. Which is an undignified, forced way of subdueing the already broken "enemy of the people".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-criticism#Communism
If you're allowing emails as a credential reset mechanism, you've already got that problem.
I meant the case where the function doesn't use continuations at all. It calls the callback. The callback saves a continuation. Then the callback could return more than once to a function that doesn't know anything about continuations.
Not every upvoted or selected answer in StackOverflow is correct. And sometimes the questions themselves are wrong.
Yes, hence it's not a bonus.
The Problem with Participatory Democracy Is the Participants
What incentive is there for an exchange to implement this?
https://medium.com/@inFullMobile/limitations-of-custom-ios-k...
Getting downvoted for bringing up completely reasonable points?

And who is gonna pay for this magical high speed railroad that never breaks down and is never delayed?

High speed rail in California is costing around $90 million per mile. A perfectly straight line from NYC-SF is 2,572 miles. That's nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars. All to allow costal elites to increase their travel time? Sure.
Tables don't work in a world that requires responsive layout. I don't want to be pinching and zooming all over the place to read content on a handheld device.
Ah, yeah. So in that case the stack frame is set up exactly as it was whenever the continuation is saved. If your function's output is based entirely on its input, you'll get the same result each time. If it uses some state (like incrementing a member variable) then that action happens each time the continuation is invoked.

EDIT: Sorry, I think you were saying you know what they do but that it seems like that'd break all kinds of invariants. It's true that you have to consider scenarios a bit more carefully, but I find it's not that much of a burden compared to the benefits.
The prior owners only charged to park, not for access to the beach itself.
Expenditures are a terrible way to measure military strength. The US military can't pay Chinese wages.
This study does not adjust for age, experience, height, or anything really.

It's enormously suceptible to a hidden variable effect. E.g. suppose males and females has different experience levels. The VCs questions might be the same after controlling for that, and so we should be researching why males and females have different experience levels. Instead, we're looking in all the wrong places.

I'm not saying this is the case, but it reflects the quality of the study that even the basic stuff wasn't considered.
> 2. The case argued was that the tax deal was illegal when it was agreed upon and therefore void. Sweetheart deals / government aid is generally illegal in the EU, and neither Google nor Ireland should have been surprised.

You are right about Sweetheart deals. But the dispute is whether the "deal" is sweetheart deal or not. Ireland DoF, Apple (not Google) and US Treasury argues that Apple was following the same laws as everyone else. But EC says otherwise.

Note that EC have repeatdley shown their discontent regarding Ireland's, otherwise EUAA consistent, tax laws. One might argue that its an attempt to harmonize tax laws across EU despite it not being a requirement under EUAA.

> 3. Do you have any examples of the ECJ changing interpretation on a whim? I do see that Google lacks legal certainty, but when you're as unique as Google is, lack of precedent comes with the territory. That said, Google is walking up to the red line of its own volition. There's a limit to how surprised they can credibly act when they find they have overstepped it.

Its not ECJ its EC. EC has acted retroactively (Apple case). EC has acted without precedent and warning (Google case).
Is there any evidence of it working for this application other than your anecdotal experience?
Have you considered a career in QA?
where did you find this? Is there a page showing it in use?
Now that I've paid more attention it seems I was wrong. They are actually injecting the query into the route.
You may (and obviously do) disagree, but there is no universe in which I would use a security-essential product built with PHP.

It has to do with the lack of static types, the "flexible" (i.e. lax) syntax, silent errors, and type coercion. But, even more than that, it has to do with the practices of PHP's maintainers. I suspect HHVM is better, but I can't say for sure.

Just one man's opinion, of course.
"See downthread about Minneapolis-Chicago, which I do not think makes much sense"

MPLS-Chicago has never really resonated with me, but there are some straight north south lines that I think make a lot of sense ...

Duluth-MPLS-DesMoines-KCMO would make a lot of sense.

Cheyenne-FortCollins-Denver-ColoSprings-Pueblo ... that would make a lot of sense.
So your solution is to have no international business? Brilliant!
"how many stops do you have in between dragging down that average speed?"

It's amazing that other countries haven't solved this problem by inventing things like express trains.

Oh wait, they have. It's the literally same technology as a skip list.

"that does half of what you can do in air, at probably not a ton more comfort level at twice+ the length (I've not seen a lot of inexpensive long train trips in the US or Asia that beat domestic coach (let alone domestic first) by enough for me to want to put up with it for two or more times the amount of time), and at the end of the day you haven't solved SEA-NYC, LAX-NYC, etc, which are all already served in the status quo."

And yet, most people aren't traveling cost-to-coast. We don't need to solve SEA-NYC with trains. Solving SEA-LAX or NYC-ATL would be more than good enough.

Otherwise, your comment is completely counterfactual. I just spent a year in Japan. Trains there are cost-competitive with air travel, far better in terms of time and convenience, and vastly more comfortable. The only train segments that are "twice the length" of driving or flying are the segments that don't exist (i.e. you have to take a circuitous route, because the direct line isn't there). No rational person in Japan prefers to fly or drive if they can take a train. Even the local lines are preferable for trips under 4-5 hours.

And Japan is the size of the US west coast, with similar population distribution (a few big cities, with lots of smaller, rural towns between). There's no reason we can't have the same systems in America. We just don't, because we don't invest, and Americans insist on arguing about things they don't understand, based on little more than opinion and ideology.
5 years ago I tool the train from Edinburgh to London. That is not a fast train. 400 miles in 4.5 hours. But was kinda like being on a BART train without the crazy people. The trip is longer than flying (not by much) but the stress load is a lot less than flying.

Someone mentioned longer distances in the US. But far as I get most places building rail through the flat nowhere lands is really cheap. And the trains can run at max speed with few stops.

If you built a line from Chicago to Denver, okay 900 miles. But at 220 MPH, four hours. Be better than flying.
>Why is a chair worth $500?

Same reason a good mattress is worth $1k+.

You spend a lot of time in it, and quality product greatly increases your quality of life (back pain etc).

Note: I have no idea if Aeron chairs are good or not.
"Where HSR is feasible and built out in the US, it gets used."

Where is this ? Epcot center ? I don't know of any actual high speed rail in the United States.

Acela most certainly isn't ...
It may not give you the "person" back and it certainly won't help the person themselves – unless the cloning is accompanied by some kind of mind/memory transfer/restoration – but it could allow people to keep a likeness of their pets at least, and, legal and ethical issues aside, the likeness of celebrities.
If you see them as people, you should be able to interact with them as fully-rounded people, including asking them out (once only, not being a persistent nagging asshole), complimenting their attire, telling them the latest gossip, in short - communicating your feelings, provided the feeling is mutual. Whereas in a professional setting, you aren't a person, you're filling a role and obeying protocol. It's a sliding scale between "professional" and "casual", but generally when you're interacting professionally, you aren't addressing the full person, you're only letting your Senior Frobnicator part discuss frobnicating barbazniks with only the Chief Barbaznik Wrangler part of the person in front of you; whereas in a casual setting you're communicating with all parts of the person.
A value judgement if I ever heard one..
Codepen embedded in linked page.
Regarding autoprefixer, at least this article recommends against using it, since the MS implementation has more differences than just the prefix:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Grid_La...

I've also bookmarked this article about CSS Grid in production, but haven't read it completely yet: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/06/building-production...
Any recommendation of a "default" license to use if you don't care too much about licensing will always carry strong opinions of whoever is recommending it. So, instead, here's a decision tree of good recommendations based on the two biggest decisions that factor in to choosing a license:

start
|
V
if I modify it, and give someone a
compiled binary of that, should I also
have to give (or offer) them the source?
| |
yes | | no
| V
| MIT/X11 license
| (alternatively,
| Apache 2.0, or
| 2- or 3-clause BSD)
V
is it a library
or a program?
/ \
library / `----, program
V \
can it be used by programs \
that DON'T give/offer the \
source with binaries? \
| \ \
yes | \ no V
V `-----------> GNU GPL
GNU LGPL (alternatively, GNU AGPL)

Whether or not you think the "default" choice to each question should be "yes" or "no" is something that people argue about plenty; whichever you choose, someone will tell you you chose wrong.

As for the "alternatives" in parenthesis at the leaves of the chart: if you don't care about licenses, the default is probably fine, but if someone told you that you should use one of the alternatives at that leaf, I wouldn't argue. (Apache 2.0 comes in over MIT if you care about patents, AGPL comes in over GPL if you care about SaaSS)
Well, neither. It's sort of like a yield statement for the whole stack. But that metaphor is more confusing than helpful.

It basically just saves the whole call stack and lets you restore exactly that stack anytime you want. So it's like a longjmp, but also "jumps" to whatever function return chain was in progress at the time the continuation was saved.

If it seems weird, it is. But with weirdness comes power.
> They can also reach buyers who want to see the full product before making a purchasing decision or who wouldn't become aware of your book through conventional marketing efforts.

This is definitely true for me, and one of the reasons why Oreilly is one of the defining "colors" on my bookshelf. In particular with technical literature I really need to get a good look into the book before I make a commitment and a decision to buy. I just don't want to spend money first and then stick to something that turns out to be rather disappointing.

So my usual way of buying books is to download various publications on a topic via Bittorrent and then buying the best one once I know what I want. This is similar to going to a public library, getting a few books, and buying the most convincing one for long-term use. If there was a micropayment way of paying for the short-term evaluation, I would be more than happy to pay for that (as I implicitly pay via library contributions, which go to the publishers to some part).

Having said that, Oreilly traditionally had a market of being the "printed out manual of open source software", which I'm pretty sure is dead by now, and I wonder if they can reposition completely. One thing I noticed is that they now often sell books that have titles that sound very general "Data Science for blabla" but turn out to be really just tutorials/manuals for some particular framework. That's the kind of book I would want to avoid. Nothing against good examples, but I don't need printed out tutorials.
I'm wondering how the Bootstrap CSS guys feel about CSS Grid, having just spent enormous work on porting the Bootstrap 3 grid to CSS Flexbox. I guess right after the eventual release of Bootstrap 4 there's going to be Bootstrap 5 based on CSS Grid, making "container", "row" and other divitis optional? But that's sure going to be another sh*tload of work with all the QA and corner cases.
> entry level position in one day flat and living modestly for a decade or so

It's still essentially setting your career back by 5-10 years... that's a significant downside. And given that it's by far the most likely outcome, it's foolish to discount it.
I think you're missing my point as it pertains to the NYTimes article:

Dave McClure's looks have no bearing on whether the comment "I was getting confused figuring out whether to hire you or hit on you" is at all appropriate in a professional setting.

It's not.

Actually, I take that back:

It's only in any way appropriate if Sarah and Dave had a pre-existing friendship or relationship of some sort that made that sort of comment permissible. There's zero indication that they did. Dave knew they did not have this kind of relationship but nevertheless put this woman in a position where she was apparently both offended and concerned that it might affect her professional life.

That sucks. Doesn't matter how handsome Dave may or may not be.
Creating maps that reflect indigenous geography
"In a thread 3 years ago, I made a list of the top US cities by GDP, and then broke out the crow-flies ground distances between them"

I agree with this sentiment. However, I don't think that connecting large cities together is the most interesting thing we can do with rail ... rather, we can find corridors of opportunity that open up a lot of movement and economic activity that is hindered by being just a bit too far to commute ...

For instance: Duluth->MPLS->DesMoines->KCMO

For instance: Cheyenne->FtCollins->Denver->CoSprings->Pueblo[1]

In each of those instances there is only one large metro area but there are "junior" areas that could benefit greatly by gaining the ability to commute ...

You really can't commute from Duluth (where people need jobs) to Minneapolis (where jobs are) ... or from Pueblo to Denver ... but things change if it's just a 40 minute train ride away ...

[1] With the admission that Denver->CoSprings is logistically difficult due to elevation change on the route ...
Text of the HONEST Act:

> (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration Authorization Act of 1978 to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from proposing, finalizing, or disseminating a covered action unless all scientific and technical information relied on to support such action is the best available science, specifically identified, and publicly available in a manner sufficient for independent analysis and substantial reproduction of research results. A covered action includes a risk, exposure, or hazard assessment, criteria document, standard, limitation, regulation, regulatory impact analysis, or guidance. Personally identifiable information, trade secrets, or commercial or financial information obtained from a person and privileged or confidential must be redacted prior to public availability.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1430
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Osaka is just 300 miles from Tokyo. You can't even get from SFO to Los Angeles in 300 miles. Of course trains work in Japan.
> It has to do with the lack of static types

We're using PHP 7, with declare(strict_types=1) everywhere.

> the "flexible" (i.e. lax) syntax, silent errors, and type coercion

We use return types with strict_types=1, and throw exceptions if something is going wrong rather than proceeding with invalid state. If something was going to return a falsy value where e.g. a string was expected, PHP will throw a TypeError instead. https://3v4l.org/8VR05

> But, even more than that, it has to do with the practices of PHP's maintainers. I suspect HHVM is better, but I can't say for sure.

The release manager for PHP 7.2 is a former HHVM dev, who is very much about correctness and maintainability.

It sounds like your opinion of PHP is based on circa 5.3 and earlier, but a lot has improved in 7.0 and newer. I'd definitely recommend giving newer code a second look.

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/php7/

https://paragonie.com/blog/2017/02/cryptographically-secure-...
Xkcd: machine learning
Nike Thought It Didn’t Need Amazon, Then the Ground Shifted
China’s ‘Pearl Bro’ making millions from live streaming
If you have no symptoms then what on earth would you have to talk about with your GP twice a month? I think you overestimate the insider-expertise the medical profession possesses when it comes to optimizing health.
This one is interesting -- worth the time to read.
And what would the cost/benefit analysis of adding security be? Not just the cost of security staff and equipment, but from slowing everyone down and the implicit economic impact on society.

Not taking this into account is immoral, because those resources could potentially be spent saving peoples lives in more efficient ways. Terrorism is extremely rare way of dying.

I'm extremely skeptical that this accounting will even show a benefit for airport security, but I don't think airport security is mainly about stopping terrorists. It's about controlling what people bring on board the plane, as there's a lot of things that could inadvertantly cause trouble on a plane. The same can not be said for trains to the same degree.

Also, planes themselves can be used as effective weapons if taken over. Don't think that goes for trains, especially where they're electrified.