skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Be careful with that. There's a growing body of evidence that waiting too long to have children causes some disorders. EG Autism is far more common in children born to older parents. Money is an especially difficult one, as it's very easy to move your own goal continually upward. Happiness is also difficult, since it's almost always going to be a transient state and not a long-term thing.

A better list is probably:

Stability, Contentment, Kids.

When your situation is stable and you're content with how things are going, then consider kids. Don't try to wait until you're rich / happy all the time, it won't work.
"Free speech" is freedom from government reprisals. Nothing in the article relates to this, merely that private companies wish not to support Neo-fascists.

You can be upset about this, but please don't confuse it with Freedom of Speech.
My own fork of Antirez's kilo was created specifically to add Lua support:

http://github.com/skx/kilua

Having even basic support, for key-bindings, and reacting to events, is very useful.

I wrote a console-based mail client which is configured and scripted via Lua, and would love to see Lua added to "all the things".
Well, let's try to remember criticism isn't a bad thing. Both directly, and the fact that if nobody is doing it then nobody cares.
You just don't know what you are talking about with your guesses and assumptions about the industry. Welding has a lot of union members. Union members traditionally voting for liberal politicians.

> multitudes in rural areas,

Where are you getting that stat? Most of the big construction projects are near urban areas. And for the remote jobs they are usually bringing people in, not hiring locals who generally aren't qualified for the work. Some welders do a lot of travel.

https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=Welding&utm_medium=cpc&utm_sou...

> therefore a person is much more likely to find people who share political culture

If you really want to better understand the mix of political views in that industry, join a welding forum and go to the "off-topic, politics welcome" board and you'll see just as many people complaining about illegal immigrants as you will people correcting the misconceptions about immigrants. Trump? Plenty of Trump supporters on welding forums, but just as many people there predicting buyer's remorse and complaining about how Trump is an awful president. The shared political culture that you are imagining doesn't exist.

If you want a softer term, it's certainly uninformed prejudice. You made a guess about the political leanings of an industry based on your stereotype of a working class person and you were wrong. That's ok, but don't dig yourself even deeper by going into greater detail about your wrong assumptions.
> if you're freshly creating all these objects and a big ass dependency graph from scratch per request for each request

That's not how modern PHP works.
I live in the Bay Area and just bought a house: 500k is not required. 500k in savings here is still rich - it ain’t THAT relative
Our Banner student information system is tied to Oracle. My applications all go against Banner data. Given the licensing cost for Oracle and our current round of cost-cutting, if Postgres was an option, we'd probably take it.
I use Python daily and have never heard of mkvirtualenv. I started using pyenv a couple years ago and it worked well enough that I stayed with it. It's really a shame that there is no source of truth for packaging in the Python world.
Say what you will about them but at least their recruiters still seem to be the same. Apparently them visiting linkedin profiles correlates with the funding rounds (or news before funding rounds, i.e. now).
This is happening, but unfortunately information is not perfect (a random hiring manager doesn't know that Cal State is loosening requirements but Oregon State is not) so actually the brand value of all state and community colleges is decreasing, which will have the opposite to desired effect on social mobility. CUNY has probably graduated as many Nobel Laureates as MIT undergrad, but it will be tarred with the same brush of "the average college graduate isn't what he or she used to be."

A similar effect is happening in the US political arena where people are being called "-ist" for a wider range of transgressions than previously. Rather than increasing the political penalty for these offenses, the expansion of the terminology has actually weakened the associated opprobrium, because people think of being "-ist" as a less bad offense since so many more people seem to be doing it these days.
I consider the names article more a thought experiment. Consider the last point:

> 40. People have names.

Good luck getting names right.
ANSI can do it in one escape sequence: "CSI2K".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code
Modernize office reception
Funny that learning actual mathematics isn't mentioned.
Yes, it is compatible with some older Windows drivers.
What happened to Eich is another issue entirely. The article is about people getting into political arguments with their co-workers and then getting upset when those co-workers don't want to be their friend anymore.
I think it's unauthorized copying, which is copyright infringement. Infringement is usually a civil matter, but if it's done for profit or on "commercial scale" it can become criminal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement#Crimina... So I think individuals using youtube-dl wouldn't have to worry about it as much as the operators of the youtube-mp3 site would, just because of the difference in scale.
This is not necessarily permanent. Does youtube-dl work with your Netflix subscription ? This shows the direction we're heading.

PS: I know DRMs are broken eventually. But Netflix seems to be holding its ground for now, and seems to be attacked only through HDCP (the weakest link for now since you can find capture HDMI cards with stolen keys) for the highest-quality content.
Hah my hft bot would double stock value of apple for 1 second and a bunch of automatic deaths would be handed down to investors.
Anecdotally I have some involvement in a private school here in the US that caters to foreign exchange students from China. These are the cream of the crop with the best education from wealthy backgrounds and are highly intelligent. NONE of them plan on becoming doctors. Every single one of them is going to business school because doctors are paid relatively shit compared to what they will make on the business side. And being a doctor is itself a relatively high paying gig. The idea that the difference between $2 million and $20 million isn't going to impact the life choices of the greatest minds in the world is lunacy.
It is a story. But it's a predictable drama, and the story is just as much about the researcher's naiveté as Google's inevitable reaction. A lot of outrage was circulating about this, and I'm incapable of sharing that outrage in this case.
If you are wealthy and have a lot of holdings, create an offshore company and move all your wealth to it, then just get a company credit card. All your wealth and possessions is now owned by that company...

Spit balling here, but I'm not sure a wealth tax will fix it.
Announcing Dive: a todo list that helps you break down big tasks
I need to maintain quite a few reasonably large code bases that I have been writing alone or have maintained for a long time. I do not have the mental hard disk space to remember every detail about every parameter and what are it's side effects.

Having more clearly named everythings and more limitations in the API's I write for myself really help me maintaining all of the things that I've been writing in the last decade or so. If I'm in my IDE I expect that when I have an instance of an object and I type `.` (or it's equivalent) it will autocomplete with only the things that I should touch and those things should make sense immediately without having deeper knowledge of the object I'm consuming.

Languages like PHP but Java and C# a bit less but just as well are prone to writing code that can confuse the consumer. More modern or functionally designed and stronger typed languages can take guessing and confusion away, combined with the ideas expressed in Clean Code.

But a lot of other sources as well, don't treat the guy like he's god. I love to read the analyses of Carmack's code for example.
Copyright can't control what you do with code, on your own computer. Disassemble Windows if you want to. Nor, in theory, can it control what you do with music in the privacy of your own home. Block YouTube ads if you want to.

It can control your right to redistribute. Hence youtube-dl is legal, but a website that runs youtube-dl and gives you the result isn't.
you can probably achieve it by modifying framework-res.apk. At least it worked on Nougat, copied the colors from Pixel to get its blue theme on my Nexus 5
> The problem is that no tax code can close all loop holes because you just can't foresee the creative ways people will out maneuver the tax code.

Especially that they can use their wealth to hire teams of world-class specialists and pay them to figure out creative loopholes. It's something regular people can't do.
Is it too soon to ask about a GraphQL alternative to a hypermedia APIs?
You need to have a card associated with the account and can't remove it if you're in Czechia. Or if it is possible I was not able to find how to do it after a hour of googling. It's per country requirement.
We're just using "web-scale" unironically now to describe things meant to operate on the scale of the world wide web. I guess this is progress?
Carve it onto stone tablets.
Yeah, 1.5" of blue board is probably not sufficient. I imagine carving 4" blocks of foam to fit tightly together would be more rigid and weatherproof, but cutting all those angles just right is difficult.
Why should we look at it that way?
That wiki article is great.
Not sure why this is relevant?
Folks in this thread may be interested in "4k Video Downloader", an elegant and simple GUI for fast downloading of YouTube audio and video with multiple resolutions and options.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4K_Video_Downloader

I use this with VLC to watch lectures with fine-grained control over the playback speed (i.e., 1.7x, not just 1.5x and 2x).
A question I've been meaning to ask for a while is if we could use HPKP to bootstrap a TOFU (trust on first use) model.

i.e. you get your cert signed by both a traditional CA and a CA you set up yourself. the traditional CA would work for the first visit. However after that it gets pinned to your own CA.

You can then sign your own certs at your leisure e.g. offline or with private key on a yubikey.
Because the disruptor might succeed with or without them and the disruptor might treat them more favorably (at first) than the status quo.

My neighbor grows soybeans, and he hates the guy who buys his soybeans. If someone came in and treated him better and paid him more, I think he'd leap at the chance to sell his crop to them even if it imperiled the future.

Besides, suppliers aren't monolithic. Many suppliers are scrapping for new business or ways to differentiate themselves. Better farmers could be more successful in a paradigm where they could earn extra money for healthy plants than say selling to walmart who simply pays a fixed price if the plants meet minimum standards.
>How much money do you think that will take?

Most developed countries pay $3,000 to $4,000 per capita, according to Wikipedia. US pays about $7,400 per capita. So that would be the costs I guess. Beware there are more "capita" than taxpayers, and that all taxes are not paid through income taxes.

Hopefully we can find ideas from other countries to pay less than current prices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_system#International_co...
“Before it was, ‘I don’t agree with you,’ but now it has evolved into this new thing that is much more aggressive, ‘don’t even say something that is counter to what I believe,’”

This sums up rather well what I believe is a new era of righteous indignation in America. This is not isolated to just America, or Americans, but it's not something we've really had to deal with before. That righteous indignation manifests itself in how we react to people we disagree with, whether it's over a parking space, or something someone else does somewhere in the world that we don't like. The new belief is not "I disagree with you, go away" it's now "I disagree with you, and I'm going to do everything in my power to hurt you, destroy your reputation, get you fired from your job, and cause you as much pain as I can, likely from a distance." It borders on a collective superiority complex.

As someone who has worked in Congress, now as a lobbyist, I think this began with the leadership of both parties. No longer do our elected officials find way to reach common ground on public issues. Instead, both parties, their leadership, and through their public relations and voter base, have turned to a tactic of "attack, defame, and destroy." Washington has become dysfunctional because of this righteous indignation, and it has permeated down to everyone else, made exponentially possible by the internet.

I wish there was an easy solution, but I don't see one.
I bet the US will end up fine in the end though due to draining the brains of other countries.
I've never used Docker. Searching "reproducible research with Docker" yields lots of results. Any stand-out resource suggestions?
> Very vague on details. No links to exact researchers or their findings.

That's the whole point. When you are dealing with a major security incident (anything impacting a countries ID cards would count), one of the first things you should do is tell the world that something is happening and the steps you took to stop the bleeding.

The information will come =]
As said in many other comments, the idea that there is even a "strict mode" which was not on by default for many years is itself a problem and a red flag for other problems.
In what way is it not propaganda? It's exaggerated for their own benefit to further their agenda, which is to promote their reddit alternative.
Here’s How Corn Makes America Go Round
Sure, but the set you'd restrict to would look rather like the VM interfaces, only more awkward because it's had to be retrofitted on to what already exists, and often more permissive than it should be because a library assumes all syscalls are available (why would it not?)
As someone on the opposite of the fence (renter not a landlord); I'm unmoved by your concerns. I do agree with your comments that we should keep this strictly in the legal realm and not the realm of feelings. So, let's look at the legal side:

Texas tenant/landlord property rights
After serving you notice of the damage (not caused by them and thus your responsibility under Texas law), either by certified mail or 2x hand delivered copies, your tenant can take you to justice court where the court can reduce your tenant's rent for the loss of value and use of the rental unit [what do you think a flooded house is worth in the rental market?], or require you to pay back a month of rent and $500, or award the tenant the amount of actual damages, court costs, and attorney fees.

So, I think you could have a little more humanity, and realize your tenants are also dealing with a nightmare and potentially strapped for cash; or you can be a self-centered asshole and have your tenants and the court system ream you for it.
They apparently already have 1200 employees.
The upgrade reset/reenabled all the audio alerts for mail, calendar and SMS that I had disabled. Why did Google reset my notification preferences!?
> But it doesn't--it could just mean you think the other candidate had stuff that was more disqualifying.

That seems like a false dichotomy. There were third party candidates. Plus, you can always choose not to vote.
It is difficult to see how it would be explicitly legal in any country that is a signatory to the Berne Convention and the three step test. Which is almost every functioning country in the world.
Interesting viewpoint, a couple of thoughts. Please consider the role of the largest bull market in history when judging your success. Many people have made this mistake, myself included.

Your example of singularity indicator is very Hollywood-esque. When i consider what an ai system would have to do to first determine who to target in such a scenario is much more illuminating. There are many paths to the singularity and strong ai, not all them involve software running on hardware, human augmentation and group minds being two. Your scenario may very well be possible today, though not desirable.
Slightly off topic but you mentioned it. There have been some great developments in vegan cheese, most notably Daiya. The first time I tried it at a restaurant I sent it back thinking they made a mistake by giving me dairy cheese.
They'll also do that kind of thing with Texas A&M logos, so don't read too much into it.
i.e., AIX and Power systems
I've written this before, but part of the problem is that "college" means such a wide array of institutions, experiences, and instruction that it's almost meaningless: https://jakeseliger.com/2014/04/27/paying-for-the-party-eliz... .

That being said, it's definitely true that the college system has evolved to perpetuate itself, as the author writes:

Cal State is setting an example for the re-definition of “college readiness” towards “willingness to sit tight and pay the cash.”

I also like to tell students that college is a multiplier of their own motivation and actions. If students don't read (and many apparently don't: https://jakeseliger.com/2017/08/28/igen-jean-m-twenge-the-ki...) then they aren't going to get that much out of college. A lot of their experience is up to them.
A 10x developer is not ten times more productive than the average developer, they're 10x more productive than the worst developer.

Wish this myth would stop perpetuating, they're very clear in the original study.

Here's some more details from the horses mouth, Steve McConnell who popularized the concept in Code Complete:

http://www.construx.com/10x_Software_Development/Origins_of_...
If you use a broken RDBMS, maybe. The standard is quite clear, and that certainly doesn't work in PortgreSQL.
We're already seeing the problems. The Alt-right was breeding in forums where single frustrated men were going to vent. Why they are single and frustrated is something to be studied, but if you read some of their posts, it's really clear that they have expectations for relationships that come straight out of porn: submissiveness and insatiability.
> Though personally I'm not pinning many hopes on Magic Leap specifically given how little we've seen of their actual device and how vague they are about actual progress.

I like it that they are trying something other than the traditional goggle based VR/AR that nobody wants.
Julia Evans:

Blog, https://jvns.ca/blog/2014/09/18/you-can-be-a-kernel-hacker/

Video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IQlpFWTFbM
It's hard to change those things, it gets ingrained in the culture of the organisation.

You would think Oracle would have been able to deal with that but they only seem to know how to agitate people.
lol. While I get your point, I would say it's not quite true. At least in Canada. Source: father's a 2nd-generation pipe fitter at a large refinery. The guys that work those kinds of rough jobs tend to be a bit more rough around the edges, but tend to support more left-wing policies. They just feel the tax bite more than people like us who can take a "work from home" day, because they have to put a lot of themselves into their work every day. But most union-member tradespersons tend to support our public healthcare, public works, view the company's motives with skepticism, and have an arguably higher degree of respect for human life than a 3rd-generation white collar worker. (They need to, because their coworkers can die if they don't)

But like I said, that's in Canada. I can't speak for the US.
NeuroBlast Is a Videogame with TensorFlow-Powered AI. (Go and Python Version)
Disneyland’s Tomorrowland was once an ode to a utopian future
Say we had a Twitter or Reddit but without the folks who eat babies. Wouldn't those still be super useful for the majority who don't eat babies? Or would they be worthless because there is some limit on the content?
Thank god, I was wondering what I'd replace Solaris with
> data checksums are disabled by default (silent data corruptions!)

Use ZFS.

> removing a file on the filesystem may lead to a silent loss of data in PostgreSQL

Don't remove database files. LOL. Looking at the link:

> data file is zeroed after some power loss(it is the most known issue on XFS in the past)

Use ZFS.

> not even protected by checksums

Use ZFS.
Also because types in PHP are specific things.
If you're an owner of an asset, and your primary residence is in the country of wealth taxation, you pay a wealth tax on the value of that asset, no matter where that asset is located.

Another problem though is valuation of that asset. There will be huge incentives to show lower valuations, but that's already a case for things like real-estate property taxes, and somehow the system still works.
Does this include Nearly Free Speech?
Hmmm... I am pretty pro-privacy, but I am unsure that an employee's corporate email account should qualify, particularly given that anything said by it could be construed as a statement by the company itself. If the employee was not notified email monitoring could happen when they were hired, I suppose that's a problem, but I almost feel like that should even be common sense.

The article suggests more employees are using their work email for personal purposes, and that is really the problem, I think. Particularly because it places your personal data inside your employer's control, and your employer can terminate that account at any time. It would be much more preferred if you connect your personal account to your work devices as well, so that you still have a clearly denoted personal/corporate firewall in your communications, but can still access both from work.

I don't think employers which heavily monitor their employee's corporate email are... good employers, persay, but I'd question any suggestion they shouldn't have the right to.
x2.

Modern designs for things that can fail dangerously incorporate features that cause the system to go down a branch that ends in a safe failure mode high up the tree rather than allowing the possibility of a less safe failure many more steps down the tree.

It's like how Uhaul overbuilds the living crap out of it's trailers then puts relatively (compared to the rest of the system) light duty tires on them. Better to have idiots blow out tires than other less safe failure modes.
Registering a company remotely should work. That's the easy part for Estonia to implement because the company registry is a government office.

Opening a bank account is more difficult because it's up to individual banks to make the decision to allow remote account holders. Banks are private companies, and government can't easily force their hand without the big hammer of passing some legislation in the Estonian parliament (which would then also need to be vetted for compatibility with pre-existing EU law).

In my experience, European banks seem to go out of their way to make it difficult to open an account. I've had bank accounts in Finland, France and USA, and the last one was a breeze compared to the others.
I was trying to see if there is a way to fix this- "no tax code can close all loop holes", and my first thought was Formal methods- and lo and behold Google points me to http://snapl.org/2015/abstracts/hsu.pdf

It sure looks promising. But still wondering if it has been applied in practice.