skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In theory if there's a choice missing that consumers would prefer, some other company will step in and fill the void knowing customers will prefer their new offering.
As a note, WASP refers to old money families with ties going back to the colonial era, not just middle-class/wealthy white dudes in America. Also, at least in STEM departments, you will see plenty of non-white names.

> In Physics (my background), most papers have 2-3 citations, and only a small percentage have 1 or fewer

Does that account for self-citations?
Do you deliver in Brazil?
Reading your post, and the linked article, I'd be interested in examples where the previous systems failed to provide expected functionality...

My expectation of email today is "I enter some address(es), define the addresses as TO, CC, and BCC, type a message into the body (or extend an existing message) and send the contents to a server which then re-transmits it as necessary."

That's the core of email... Every email program I've ever used can handle those elements, sometimes with only plaintext, but that's the core I learned decades ago. I wonder when that would have been available.

I suspect that multiple people should be credited with advancing this tech. It is likely that the title "inventor of email" is a one-sided and incorrect view of history.

Sutherland and Engelbart pioneered GUI technology, but I wouldn't want to use the system either created. However to deny them credit in the development of the GUI (Engelbart in particular), would be re-writing history.
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A Mozilla developer re-invented Reactjs in 40 lines of code
No, no, Mailspring and the Nylas Mail Lives forks are totally divorced from our infra.
Qualtrics, Domo, and InsideSales are in Utah Valley. Vivnt and Workfront are down there but aren't quite a billion yet.
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Mukherjee is like candy for me. I have no idea what it is but either his style or methodology just sucks me in.
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An A380 or 747 is significantly less nimble than a 737, and would take a lot longer to unload and load back up. The flight in question did a turnaround in 51 minutes, including taxing time, which is extremely quick.
Breaking the Crypto used in IOTA
A direct link to the repo: https://github.com/stasm/innerself
My 2 cents.

Instead of having to manually load a virtualenv, why not have that information contained in the project, and running a command would use that virtualenv similar to how npm, sbt, or maven work.

The majority Python projects I've worked on have had a requirements.txt file anyways that was specific to a single project, so I haven't seen a situation where having a bin/activate was beneficial.
This underscores an error that many conservative thinkers make - that "values are everything." I think values are an important part of achieving good outcomes, but values don't exist in isolation. The war on drugs criminalizes behavior that could be better treated through rehabilitation. Then it compounds this error by imposing large externalities, like felony records that make it impossible to find a job, excessive mandatory minimum sentences, etc.

Values multiply positively with other factors. So it's not "bourgeois values" + "economic opportunity" == "success". It's more like "bourgeois values" * "economic opportunity" == success (multiplication instead of addition). When "economic opportunity" = 0 values will have no impact. This is an idea that a lot of us in the U.S. grapple with, that you can be virtuous but still end up with a bad outcome.
Hurricanes aren't really difficult to fly through since the air moves horizontally, and is mostly predictable, it doesn't really affect the flight much. Takeoff and landing are the major problem areas.

Thunderstorms, however, are much more difficult to fly through, because the air is moving vertically in an unpredictable fashion.
Why do I continually hear the term "unpaid intern".

I believe there is more to the US than just California, right?
I'd say all three are part of a feedback loop death spiral.

1. Walmart - always lower prices (people want cheap crap)

2. So...cheap food means scale it up really big (agrabusiness)

3. And cheap non-food mean outsourced manufacturing (because people want big salaries to buy lots of cheap crap)

...and perhaps that's where it started, that last bit:

People want big salaries (or paychecks, or pay - whatever), so they can buy more stuff (there's also the whole "easy credit" thing - but that's another discussion). They want that stuff cheaper. So businesses searched for ways to make it cheaper: Scale stuff up, have fewer employees (or pay them less), and outsource manufacturing.

Classic death spiral.

/I know I am over-simplifying things here...
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Why do you think Al Gore caused the polarization of climate change and not that the polarization of Climate Change caused Al Gore to be a more polarizing figure?

Except for being a climate change activist he is a pretty bland public figure. It's not like he's Ann Coulter or Michael Moore.
I haven't been on the other end, so I don't have first hand knowledge but it seems to me that it's far easier to dismiss contributions because you didn't make them or they don't fit into your careful plan then giving up complete control and cultivate a strong contributor community.

All the reasons you ascribe to it aside from "documented" aren't applicable here. The feature was in the bigger vision, it was well tested, backward compatible, etc...

The only reason touted for not accepting it is that they wanted to get another feature in first.
Yeah, I get that - I was responding to a comment above about the "sales mix" between detached, townhouses, and condos. The data I referenced directly contradicts the assertions made above that the price declines were due to shifts in the "sales mix" between those three types of homes. Sure, you could argue that the prices declines were shifts within the detached housing market, but I haven't seen anyone provide data on that.
Yeah, the facade. Plus a lot of stuff on top of that: webhooks, open/reply/link tracking, metrics, other stuff.

https://www.nylas.com/customers/ lists some of our API customers; maybe that'll help!
I notice a lot of "being worked on" in your reply, which really exemplifies the problem. Being worked on might have been okay a decade or two ago, but it's really too little, too late when there's stuff out right now that provides everything IRC does, but better. The mindshare is gone, the user goodwill is gone.

A reference implementation of a WIP RFC is rather different from a thing you can download and install and have working right now in a server that isn't likely to change their implementation in a way that makes those features unusable (since they're headline features being sold to enterprises).

There's also the fact that most IRC clients suck, with interfaces that look and control like xterm circa 1980. Fine for the people that read Hacker News, offputting for everyone else.

Do any of these RFCs or newer IRCd's support full message auditing for the legal folks?

SASL is nice, but unless you're into something like Okta or some other homegrown thing, most are going to use plain old LDAP/AD. And AFAIK, permissions on most IRCd's are still pretty spartan. There's no way to make a room visible to one class of users but not others, as there's either visible to all or invisible to all.
To reiterate what someone else has already said, vaporizing is indisputably the way to go. When vaporizing, you can use a bit, wait 5-10 minutes, and then decide whether to use more. With edibles you don't know if you got the dosage right or not for 60+ minutes.
And those with wealth would then not be in the "free" line, which would slightly reduce demand on that line
"but ultimately each person values what they're buying differently than the next person"

that is true, but irrelevant. On average, overall value is highly correlated to objective metrics. so, this is why this conversation started. Price, including price of bitcoin, is not simply some subjective thing - it must be tied to some objective indicators. For example, price of coffee at Starbucks cannot be too far above what it costs to make coffee at home. It will be higher, since you are paying for convenience. But there is only so much that makes sense to pay for convenience and people won't pay more than that.
I'd be more curious what Clang did for values that would result in different behaviors for some ranges of a. I understand that there are limits, and that there is range checking in literals for escalation to, for instance, 64-bit values, but it seems like an optimization that is:

A) fraught with edge-case peril

and

B) easily accounted for by the developer (e.g. write "a *= 10;")...
Just a joke. Wrong tool, but it'll sort of get the job done if you hit it hard enough.
That plus extra indentation. It also obscures the intent since it's not necessarily unambiguous why those braces are there? Is it just to group logically related code (without putting it in a separate method/function) or is it because you're relying on RAII -- it's only possible to tell by searching for destructors on all the classes you're instantiating.
One small step towards a OCM. Thank you for this!
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The US Is Far More Deeply Involved in Syria Than You Know
I saw it at 400 something
This information is outdated, SourceForge at the time was owned by a company that tried to squeeze everything out of it but it was bought last year by some people who seem interested in restoring its reputation and functionality. The first thing they did when they bought the site was to remove all that stuff, cancel the DevShare program and install automatic malware detection software (based on BitDefender and ESET). They also removed all the misleading ads and disable them for logged in users.

There was a discussion about it yesterday too about another project hosted in SourceForge, you can find it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15180586
> WASP refers to old money families with ties going back to the colonial era

No, it refers to White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, an ethno-religious group that cuts across socio-economic class divides and includes plenty of people that are neither old money nor descended from families that have been in the US since the founding (and excludes some old-money, from-the-founding families.)
Does it matter if it is one hit and you are hooked or five hits and you are hooked? The end result is that we still have people addicted because of how good it makes them feel about their shitty circumstances.
Since many people are still not too familiar with Vagrant (it doesn't seem to have the cachet of Docker for local dev environments), here are a few example Vagrant configurations that I use to build different servers for local testing/debugging: https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-vagrant-examples

There are plenty of other great examples of Vagrant usage around the web, too, from Laravel's Homestead to (disclosure, I maintain it) Drupal VM.

It seems a lot of older applications / communities migrate towards Vagrant as some of the things they do are harder (or at least not as straightforward yet) to implement in containers.
Too close to Germany? I'm not even kidding!
A comment from earlier this summer that I think explains a lot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14879335
What is up with this societal mentality that the employee is beneath the employer, and the employer has the license to be rude and it's the employee's job to accommodate their bullshit? Sending a resume for a job interview and dealing with an obnoxious recruiter is definitely not a battle I'd pick. If that's how they treat prospective job candidates, then that's probably not a company I want to work for.
I'm too late for anyone to see this, but they could probably take the Qualcomm Stadium site in San Diego's Mission Valley. It's right on a trolley line and a very easy drive to the downtown airport, not to mention an easy flight from Seattle. UCSD is a great supplier of young talent and Qualcomm and Viasat offer engineers they can poach.
Sleep is a pretty vital process with a lot of health implications for the brain and for your body. Reading Ariana Huffington's book "The Sleep Revolution" was pretty eye-opening, also see this article: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/07/arianna-h...

Sleep helps your body regulate stress including mood. The lack of sleep can be attributed to your procrastination, as well as other possible health issues such as a lack of focus and lack of self-discipline. You're not at your optimum best.

In addition, I noticed avoiding caffeine (or going decaf) is pretty helpful. Too much caffeine reduces the quality of sleep. I personally noticed sleeping upwards up to 8 hours and feeling like I only slept 3 hours -- because my body was over-caffeinated. Cutting-down caffeine (or going cold turkey) helps a lot in the quality of sleep.

For focus -- meditation will help greatly. Learning how to meditate and doing it daily even for 10 minutes will train/discipline your mind.
The CADR is an example of a computer that implements a virtual machine in software, what makes it special ?
That's a pretty bold claim. Why do you believe it's deliberate?
What about your job burns you out? I've seen in different jobs a range of stress levels depending on the type of project and the team culture.

It IS possible that another job would be a better fit for you.
The fact that this is a major feature announcement for Signal underscores an important difference between Signal and competing "secure" messengers. Virtually every Signal competitor has nicer "profile" support. But there's a reason for that: Signal goes through contortions to make sure they're not storing a database of sensitive metadata.

An even better example of this is Signal's Giphy support. Most of us on HN could add Giphy support to a chat application in a day or two, and plenty of chat apps have done exactly that. But that's not what Signal did: Signal runs what is an effect a VPN for its users to access Giphy through, so that Signal can't see what you're searching for and Giphy can't see who you are.

This is one of the things that makes HN discussions about how much nicer other messengers are so aggravating. A lot of those messengers --- really, most of them? --- don't really care about your privacy. They would much rather get to market quickly with new features, even when those features mean their servers are loaded up with gigabytes of sensitive metadata.
I think software engineering cannot be more like civil engineering because software is the result of the decision making process. In civil engineering, the blueprint is the result of the decision making process and the bulk of time and cost is building from that blueprint.

You cannot compare the process of building a bridge to building software; you could compare the process of constructing the blueprint with building software. And I think the scale of complexity of most software far exceeds the complexity of most blueprints.
heh, the Springboard slot.

Man the handspring is an excellent PalmOS unit.

They were few and far between but I've got a few of the "cool" modules, a huge GPS, an SD card reader, a memory bank, and the "good technology" MP3 player.

Good actually pivoted from hardware to making an exchange compatible mail client for PalmOS to compete with Blackberry.

The slick Vizor Edge unit had a removable springboard slot, which triples the sub-cm thickness.

Handspring then made the Treo, which was competitive for what it was until WebOS and iPhone came along to spoil the party.

Palm Pre anyone? :(
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By the time the everyman finishes reading the malarkey he doesn't know anything useful and now believes he has a handle on a complex and multifaceted issue. Ergo he actually knows less than when he started.
what was the clue for CCCCCCC?

14 across - sound made by someone choking
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SpaceX cannot hire non-US Citizens because of ITAR.

http://www.pmddtc.state.gov/regulations_laws/itar.html
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More evidence supporting the claim that, as a society, we have completely lost the capability to have a conversation on anything. Everything is polarizing and everyone feels the need to pick (and defend) a side.
A company that is similar in practice is the giant Samsung. They make electronics, military equipment, ships, missiles, medical equipment, etc... they even make some basic technology for space rockets and cruise missiles. The only thing they don't or can't make is the stage 1 launch system which the US prohibits them from developing and they instead purchase it from Russia.

The Samsung family are geniuses at running complex operations, but their basic operations are heavily assisted by other companies and people from other nations.

Musk on the otherhand is kind of like the Trump of America's advanced technology industry with the illusion of a heavy liberal bent. His focus is on more of a "white" company, being South American and having escaped from the abolition of Apartheid, he fits in well with what the majority of Americans are looking for. However, the expectation of him being a "white US" friendly operation prevents him from adequately recruiting the needed personnel to run a conglomerate.

edit: I understand that some of you are finding it difficult to process how Musk can run companies that appear so attractive, yet ignore its cultural and political structure. It doesn't matter economically. Economically, all that matters is what you perceive of his image and thereby the company(s) whose image you believe-in from what you think you understand of Musk.

What works in the US and Europe is to develop a latent "white supremacist" image with a strong undertone, without any direct overtures. The only difference between Western liberalism/democracy/etc... and Western Fascism/Racism/Consveratism etc... is how the basis and execution of this idea of supremacy is viewed and communicated.
I’m finishing up school for a Manufacturing Engineering degree. It’s frustrating when people look down on the degree due to a lack of appreciation. So many people are so far removed from manufacturing that they think a company simply walks into a store, buy a few parts, and put them together just like a consumer would when in reality there’s an entire discipline dedicated to figuring out how stuff should be made.
The only ones at that price are out of stock. Going rate from third party sellers is $50+ for a $15 container.
I'm excited for the JS refactoring and the color picker. VS code is looking better all the time!
And, in all probability, the most controversially received.
Gerrymandering is an issue. Please see https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/map, and zoom in on Austin.

Austin is a part of the following Congressional districts: TX-21, TX-25, TX-31, TX-17, TX-10, & TX-35. Of these districts, only one (TX-35) is Democratic.

On the other hand, Lamar Smith (TX-21) is one of the Representatives for the Bluest city in the state.
Everything is compiled to MTX via NVCC(LLVM) so as long as the libraries are equivalent there should be no impact.

Many of those libraries are nothing more than an interface over the existing "1st" party libraries e.g. cuBLAS so you in effect aren't going to be running unoptimized code.
> It is, in fact, illegal to not pay an intern in the state of California if the intern performs beneficial work.

It's illegal in the whole US: https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.htm
This is not true at all. Small studies are simply less accurate. Would you prefer to conduct further research on a cure for cancer that's been shown to lead to recovery in 0-50% of cases (the confidence interval includes 0%, so not significant) or in .5-1% of cases (significant)?
Which part of people becoming depressed and/or turning to opioid addiction (or both) after becoming unemployed is controversial?
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Thanks for sharing this. I've got a few side projects that I need to finish and launch, and this will help me stay motivated to get it done.
I'm not sure the ratings are that broken in this case. Googling it I get:

78% Rotten Tomatoes 5.5/10 IMDb 3/5 The Guardian

above the fold, which is enough to guess it's quite good but not amazing. It's kind of obvious IMDB will be polarized if you look or just use common sense.
I have no association with this company, just think it looks very cool.
So long as airport infrastructure is in place, it's trivial for airlines to add routes based on demand. There are a lot of airports, such as former Air Force bases, that could handle significantly increased demand. You can find a lot of fairly large city pairs without non-stops but that's usually because neither are hubs and there isn't quite enough demand.
Its time to ditch significance levels altogether and use Bayesian inference or analysis.
Yeah but what if they couldn't take off in time? Those pilots/crew would suddenly be stuck on an island weathering one of the most powerful hurricanes in history.
> Don't you think even now we've got wireless streaming with bluetooth or wifi which Headphones can make use of to move forward with headphone jack missing?

If BT didn't cut out/die and had decent quality I'd agree with you. I've tried multiple headphones, but my experience says it's just not there yet.

If you have to push users to using a new technology, instead of letting them pick it up on their own because it's obviously better, that tech might not be as ready as you think it is.
Funny how we've been protecting poppy fields in Afghanistan for 15 years. Probably just a coincidence.
What's the usual sourcing process for large amounts of components? word of mouth? suppliers cold calling potential customers? how does company x that manufactures product y get in touch with part supplier z?
If there was sufficient code coverage then the test would hopefully invoke a function that eventually calls on your potentially dead function.
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SunOS, HP-UX, and BSDs up to a point all ran System V binaries until recently, or still do. If they really want that then it's a thing they can ask for.
And this is not just any old commercial building, but is also probably considered vital infrastructure for emergency planning, and so extra-reinforced.
Anybody know if they has code-signed their Windows and macOS binaries with 2.0?

It's a shame so many "core" developer tools are not code-signed. It makes life hard in companies where binary whitelisting is used.