skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bullshit.

He was able to have some success on his platform, which would have failed earilier. This most definitely helps with discussion later. He was able to influence a section of society enough to get into politics. He's still able to command attention when he speaks about something. He likely inspired some other folks and made it more OK to be a democratic socialist. (Unfortunately, this has worked on more detestable outlooks with this last election as well).

The aftermath of him not winning the primary influenced the election itself. Some folks voted differently than they might have otherwise and third parties were a real topic of discussion, even though no one actually thought they would win. Heck, even being able to run for president - something most citizens couldn't pull off - is a win in itself. And he did it with that message and on one of the two major parties' tickets.

Not every accomplishment involves a clear defined win or money.
We frequently update our supporting TLDs to avoid this problem. It's important considering the plethora of new fancy TLDs that are popping up all the time.

Thanks, and glad you liked the product!
I used this recently to send my little brother a wedding present. The UX was pretty poor from his side for enrollment, but after that was done the transfer was instant as advertised.
Isn't Drastic violations of human rights the other name of the USA and also all other nations around the globe ?

This view is also a specist one, what about all the other lifeforms on the planet that we could not have life favorable condition on earth ? insects, plants, ocean life, corals, etc.

Switch from compete to cooperate mindset and there would be a lot less lifeforms rights violations.
Also instead of having the USA lifestyle as a model we try try to reach and have for ourselves, we should aim for the India lifestyle so we could all live on earth without destroying the planet.
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Looks cool! This would be a really good candidate for a service worker though [1,2].
A service worker would let you make the site available offline, so users can actually turn off their connection _before_ visiting the site.

A basic caching offline-available service worker shouldn't be too hard, you just need to handle the case where a user comes to your site and is already offline.

[1]: https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/getting-start...
[2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Wor...
>>"download?" from where? Links rot.

Best practice here is to self-host + host on a third-party site and run a torrent as well for the archived files. I've done it in published papers and one of the OA journals I publish with strongly recommends this exact path.
I really enjoy PeerJ and their mission. They lack a Sports Science journal which severely limits what I can publish, but I find my way into it via other disciplines when relevant. I help them out as much as possible.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. Businesses have call to send _many_ payments (and many types of payments); the overwhelming majority by count are below $25k. Since nothing about existing ACH or wires is going away as a result of this system, it's a pure win.
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Not in their plan, they're talking pure constant acceleration for solar system wide exploring :)
I feel it's the other way round.. Everyone is advocating Javascript, python etc. JS webapps are more and more developed directly in the browser in the dev console, CSS interactively modified to directly see the results.
But this also lead us to code coverage abominations where people write hundreds of tests for manually checking input types that otherwise might crash the thing after two days running because that hashtag less of lists of objects contained a string instead of a float.
Is that fun?

In gaming Unity3d embraces this interactivity by modifying more or less everything directly while the game is running. The unreal engine blueprints show data flows live etc.

In technical sciences there was always Matlab with its interactive mode of development. We have similar technology in data science with ipython, Spyder, jupyter notebooks etc.

Actually I'm seeing more interactivity than good type systems out there. Elm, Haskell & co is something you find advocated in internet forums but rarely in companies.

(and as the author mentioned - those two actually don't have to be exclusive)
Like polar ice ?

this would be simpler for sure but it would require very difficult things to attain such as having people relinquish their air conditioning, stopping capitalism and consumerism, changing the global industrial process, diminishing our energy consumption, replacing the current political systems with democratic ones, returning to ways of producing food that do not cause soil infertility.
Rather than making an ad hominem attack, how about you actually explain why you think the author is wrong?
A protest can only work if the people who are in power feel that their lives are being threatened. They get death threats all the time and they take notice of big upticks in numbers.

If enough people want a politician gone, they will be. There is a point when people's will can transcend the boundaries of the law.
In some cases more, in some cases less.

And yes, there is a general sense that the Government has no clue what to do about this. People are scared.
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I mean, it's all interconnected, so yes.

- Activists who lead protests often work with writers, journalists, and professors

- Protests also draw attention to otherwise less mainstream issues - just look at how we talk about income inequality today vs before Occupy, or prison reform and police brutality before BlackLivesMatter

- There are feedback loops. Successful protests draw more protesters in the future by drawing attention to and legitimizing grievances.

- yes, changes in technology or the economy also matter
Isn't the problem the same but with different technology? I remember families that had a no TV policy while other spent diner watching soap operas.
I was surprised the first time I had diner at a friends place with his parents and there only was music in the background.
Really depends on the type of programming you do. For many cases, any of those three will be more than enough.

If you're doing a lot of data crunching, data science, or other computation - then you'll need more CPU/GPU/etc, which takes you down the 15" route.

I opted for a 13" Macbook Pro as I travel a lot, work away from my desk a lot and generally have my computer with me anyway. If I was desk-bound I'd consider at 15", although I'd also consider an iMac/cheap laptop as an alternative combo.

I'm not a huge fan of the new Touchbar series. Actually think if Microsoft keeps it up I'll consider a Surface next round.
If the majority of a population think being gay or bisexual is a horrific thing, and are OK with barring these folks teaching jobs and the like, what happens then? If one doesn't protest and can't get jobs in positions that reach folks, what are the other options? Pretend you aren't gay? Pretend you only like the opposite sex? How in the world does this person fight religious messages saying this is wrong?
From googling it doesn't seem like there are any ladders anywhere that'll go to 67m.
Impressive work, Mr Tošić! :)
No, you have that backward a bit: the NOx emissions are high when the car runs efficiently (high compression/temperature)

So you can make the engine run at high temp, do 5L/100km and output 200hp, but with lots of NOx produced

Or you can run it cooler, with less NOx produced, but then it does 6L/100km and ouputs 175hp (say)

So basically the bad code was

if (under test)
run_cool_inefficient_lowNOx
else
run_hot_efficient_highNOx

The reason why many diesel manufacturers cheated is because the numbers for diesels are only good if you run hot. All that low consumption, high power etc comes from its ability to run hot, but then it spews NOx.

This was made worse by EU regulations that focused 100% on CO2 - which is proportional to consumption only.

In order to sell cars in the EU they needed models that stayed under 120g/km CO2 (say 5L/100km) and of course they couldn't be lower power than the competition, and to stay under price limits for company purchases they needed models that stayed under the price limit where they could fit AdBlue systems
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Probably depends on what you are doing. If you only need simple bookmarking with some notes it is maybe really not worth the effort. However if you for example research something like an apartment, job, car, vacation. Or want to save movies, recipes, restaurants, ... and you want to sort/filter by any of the properties or you want to display pages with location information on a map, there is not much of an alternative right now. Sure, except if you count extracting the information manually, copy it into excel and setting pins by yourself on Google Maps. That takes literally hours without link.fish and a minute with.

Yes, the image situation is not great right now. Looking for a permanent solution is on my to-do-list.
> bankers making interest while the money sits in limbo, I guess

This is a common refrain. Has anyone ever actually done a calculation to show that it's a significant amount, at least enough to disincentivise building a quicker payments system?
The general attitude has been that if building regulations are followed, you won't need the ladders. Grenfell residents themselves were told in the event of a fire to NOT evacuate, and to stay in their homes. The presumption was that any fire could be isolated, contained and extinguished easily.

The questions now being raised are over whether the building regulations were enough. Successive governments have reduced the "red tape" in the name of liberating the market, but it seems free markets will often compromise when it comes to safety.

That said, I'm not sure right now I would want to live at the top of the Shard (as some people do).
No, just a comment in the spec: "Note that an application may reinterpret an explicit size, depending on the context. E.g., inside a VR scene a font may get a different size because of perspective distortion."
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SDCard has security implications (you cannot currently protect them with permissions, for example), which means that any other app could read it.

But then there's encryption... so not sure why they wouldn't do it
Last time I checked all tested diesel cars displayed anomalies between their supposed emissions and their actual emissions. So at this point: Likely all car makers.

And while this hasn't been public knowledge, it is not that surprising, because it has been public knowledge how much the mileage tests are gamed, so it's not surprising that all other tests are gamed as well (and, specifically, using defeat devices is also illegal).
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Another C build system– a new toy for learning C programming
I'm learning C programming, and I need a C build system that:
1) easy to use, no installation is necessary;
2) if something wrong I can easy to locate it, and debug it;
3) I don't really want to learn another language that some C build system used, except just shell and makefile;

So, I build a toy for myself, it's fun for my learning process. Now, I can do C programming in MacOS, Linux, and Windows.

Here is: https://github.com/junjiemars/nore
This is the kind of comment that makes me wonder if you've ever seen a theatrical play, let alone non-professional improv.

Once you realise that pedantry isn't part of the gameplay it gets a lot easier. It merely has to be good enough for those sitting at the table - who themselves are also invested in their suspension of disbelief.

> effort worthy of a major novel or movie

That's the thing, RPGs do not exist in a vaccum, nor are they trying to portray a particular historical era realistically - they are based on fantasy novels. That means you don't have to ..

> understand what a medieval blacksmith understands

... you merely have to make up what the minor character of a blacksmith in a Jack Vance novel might say. If you want to do some common tasks there is probably a table for armour repair or weaponsmithing costs in AD&D 2nd edition somewhere.

There's usually a bit of tension between railroading the players into set-pieces versus dropping hints and relying on them to cooperate, but that can be all part of the fun.

> consistent

Consistency issues can usually be fixed with wizards.

(edit: the whole issue is addressed by Shakespeare at the start of Henry V, "can this cockpit hold
The vasty fields of France" etc)
I have happily traded working in a nice language with slow iteration times to working in a lousy language with very, very fast turnaround.

My favorite extreme example was the time I used a super fast 6502 assembler environment that would do the "change a line of code and get the target running" cycle in a couple of seconds. This kind of interaction is magical. You're still writing kind of crappy assembly language, but it almost doesn't matter. Things just flow.

On the other extreme: A large component of me deciding to quit a job was the fact that a build of the product took four hours. And the build was typically broken. So: Arrive in the morning, sync, wait all morning for the build to fail. Do another cycle after lunch: fail. Go home, repeat for weeks. (Add to this: Managers who refused to buy decent development machines, people who kept checking in busted code and making things worse, and a crushing schedule. Who needs that?)

These days I'm do a lot of C++, and some PHP. The C++ projects take a few minutes to build, which isn't great, but it's survivable. The PHP "builds" as fast as I can refresh a browser page. And as much as it pains me, on most days, when I grit my teeth and get honest about it, I'm more productive in PHP. And I despise PHP.

I learned LISP early on in my career; wrote a few LISP interpreters, goggled at the majesty of LISP machines, read all that I could. But I've never shipped a significant project in LISP, nor am I likely to. And the Newton actually flipped from a LISP (well, OOPy-Scheme) implementation language to C++ in order to ship. I'm wondering if there is some law of human nature at work: You can have elegance and comfort or you can have a product. I sure hope I'm wrong.
There's a lot of variables and fine balance at play, for sure.

Riding the bus alone for the first time: IIRC I was 11, but in a small village, I'd already ride a few miles from home on my push bike.

I wouldn't expect death as the most likely outcome of a public transit ride at this sort of age.

There's no one size fits all approach to raising children.
try removing big storage hogs. it's also liberating to have less apps on phone :)
Fighting with a bad technology stack definitely takes time away from the domain, where "the fighting" is different for everyone. One should be in a state of flow during dev, game or anything. So the tools that enable you to get there are the right tools.

Does correctly implementing a composable state machine and effects system mean the game is more fun? Usually.

This essay is full of question begging and false dichotomies.
Thanks for owning the assumption you made, and clarifying your point.

I made a lot of notes when I went through it. Nearly all of it was new to me, and I've got a degree and also taught at undergraduate level!

Frankly, I'd never really thought about the process of learning, as I assumed what I'd been doing all my life was good enough - the course was enough for me to realise there were better ways to do it, and has helped me already.
Zeynep Tufecki's boom Twitter and Tear Gas argues this exact point very thoroughly. Would recommend to anyone interested by this discussion.
Do the course completions or certificates from these sites (edx, courseram, etc) count?
"The issue here is that the "99 cents from the App Store" model was always a broken way to fund software development."

This is one of the things that bothers me. It doesn't work for you and i, but must be working for some other people. Might be a generational thing. Might be more tech-focused people need less of that, or something.
FYI: Audi is part of the VW AG.
WebAssembly doesn't appear to be a way for threading to come to JS, unless you count adding a JS API that lets you invoke multithreaded code in a totally different format and memory/execution model as "threading coming to JS". I don't think anyone is itching to move V8/SpiderMonkey/etc. to concurrent garbage collection, so concurrent memory access in multithreaded JS code will likely be limited to SharedArrayBuffer/WebAssembly for the foreseeable future.
It's automated. It doesn't mean continuously operating.

I'd recommend listening to this planet money episode[1] where they describe how the ACH came to be.

It's called automated, because it's a step up from the original method of payment processing between banks: handing physical slips of paper between each other.

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/10/04/229224964/episo...
you can count on some start up measuring this data (from dom tree, or something) to some extend.
Exactly like polar ice. The problem as you point out is that polar ice is reducing which just makes it worse.

And obviously this whole discussion about technological solutions is due to the fact that all those things you list seem to be impossible or happening too slowly.

I doubt artificial ice is the easiest solution, but e.g artificial clouds could be perhaps.
There's a lot wrong with the British housing market. In fact, almost every aspect of it from provision, social housing, prices, renting, taxation, to the actual process of buying and selling — is demonstrably broken.

But ... the Grenfell Tower fire was a specific failure of building and fire regulations, and it could still have happened even if the housing market was working and councils had been building housing for the poor. The cladding was installed for environmental reasons — it reduces heat loss so you need less energy to heat the building. Now we learn that this sort of cladding is much more dangerous than was generally understood, we replace the stuff on other buildings, and move on. This is mostly orthogonal to fixing the housing market or "neoliberalism".
Or don't waste 5km and make the tube 5km. The acceleration drops to 1282G. Digging a 1km hole drops it to 1000G or so. Not really that much. About the acceleration a woodpecker head gets, less than a baseball being hit by a bat, or what a wrist watch can withstand. Under 1/10th that of the electronics in an artillery shell.
>EDIT: The company, not the headset. Already have one of those.

Ok, that was funny.
Of course not, but "having a job" isn't on that list. There's a whole world of hobbies, movies, books, people, and conversations that you'd be free to explore to your heart's content. If you want to build things, go right ahead, on your own terms and whenever you feel like it. Why on earth would you miss being required to sit in an office 40 hours a week?
> "We believe this to be the first exploit of a connected device that causes the device to physically attack someone," Billy Rios, the founder of Whitescope security, told Motherboard.

I won't argue that, but at the same time I was very reminded of this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/5pazb...
gonna call it your ass, ya fuggin slut
I think this is the point. The success of any protest movement depends on whether it can be galvanized into a political force. This can happen either when the protesters have economic and financial influence in terms of sheer numbers. Alternatively, it can happen when the protesters learn to organise in a way that they become politically relevant by voting along certain lines or candidate, but even here the numbers are important.
This certainly also has to do with the value of the customer. If you are an insurance company the value of the customer may be measured in thousands of $$$. If you are a lean e-commerce middleman the value you extract from ordinary end-customer might be some cents. Engaging with the customer in email conversation may cost tens of dollars.

While customers may love email, some (many?) customer service people actually don't. The trouble I have heard couple of times is that with email you usually never manage to solve the issue in one pass. Customer fires off email with insufficient details. Your service center checks the case, asks for more details. Customer does not respond immediately. When the reply comes, the person who originally handled the cases is not at work or has forgotten the details. You can call up the customer - if the customer has provided you the number, but that has it's own challenges. Customer can't talk right now, you need to call back at certain time etc.

In some cases it simply does not work out financially to provide personalized customer service. Too many customers are so cheap that they prefer to deal with your competitor who automates things.
Aluminum oxidizes so rapidly that you can't even normally connect to it unless you take all kinds of precautions to make sure that the bare aluminum does not instantly grow another layer of oxide (which is non-conducting). And that's at ambient temperatures and the normal oxygen content %age of the air.

Hence the existence of special aluminum connectors which keep the joint under constant pressure for the life of the connection, you can see these at work in lightweight powerlines.

Complications can quickly cause real problems because as the skin forms the resistance of the connection goes up and this causes power to be lost increasing the temperature of the joint. This can lead to a runaway effect, if you're lucky the whole thing disconnects before something bad happens, if you're unlucky you have an electrical fire on your hands.

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

So even if aluminum has lots of really good properties for wiring it is still only used in a relatively small number of specialized applications.

Another spot where you will find Aluminum and its rapid oxidization property exhibited clearly is in solid rockets (as fuel) and fireworks (to give you some nice colored effects).
Exactly. I'd argue that "flexibility" is a keyword bad managers tend to use a lot. I noticed many of them insist on "you will need to be flexible" (and seem to repeat that a lot) and what it really means is that by default you drew the short straw, and you can expect to get screwed over.
It's not like I don't want to stay in India.

@navalsaini has accurately made the point about ability to work on cutting edge problems so that is the main reason.

And I have not even decided yet whether or not to move. I am only checking for options and checking if it is even possible to get visa with no degree.
I have very strong feelings against in-app purchases. Also micro transactions, I think for the most part actively hurt the games industry.
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There are sharp physical limits to how long it's possible to make a ladder.
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Indians, like Americans, are notorious for voting against their stated interests. They have high corruption but keep voting for corrupt politicians. Similarly, most of America's problems are caused by the same two parties that almost everybody either votes for or complacently allows to get elected. We should really put more blame on voters instead of governments to remind people that they cause their own problems and can fix them too.
No-one yet lives in the Shard apartments: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jul/05/shard-apart...