skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The amount of mindless, repetitive boilerplate one has to write because the language tries to be "simple" at the expense of abstraction, genericity and expressiveness looks intolerable to me.

After wasting half a day staring at a totally nonsense generic class definition in Java spanning more than ten lines of code (after having worked in with Java for many years) I do not want any programmer to be clever any more, except he or she has so much social (and code) proof, that I will be delighted to learn something in such an exercise.

For the rest - I might add as a hyperbole - even Golang is too expressive.
> or even better, just generate a random new domain every single time.

I'm no expert, but I do recall reading in one of the WC write-ups that there is known malware that does this.
my personal favorite: http://input.fontbureau.com/
Curious to know if with youtube red, if i play in the background is it smart enough to switch to an audio only stream, or still full bandwidth?
There is a big gap between the hardware, the drivers, and the operating system and "nobody" to blame or who can take responsibility for the whole system. This happens in Windows mainly, you can buy the last notebook and replace it before this stuff is solved. I had the synaptic issue
and many others with the X220 and Windows and now suffer other new issues with the latest XPS 13.
> if people can't consume in a responsible manner

The problem is that in the nanny state regime, the state gets to define what counts as "responsible". Which really means certain people (those with wealth and power) get to impose their definition of "responsible" on everyone else.
> ZFS has most of the same features plus a few extra

The ZFS feature set is not a strict superset of what btrfs offers. The ability to online-restripe between almost any layout combination is quite useful for example. So is on-demand deduplication, which is also far less resource-intensive than ZFS dedup.
Corroborating anecdote: somehow the Amazon Ember font is really important for branding here at Amazon. It's a very big deal when our ads don't use it.

Though to be fair, as an ad block user, I can't actually be totally sure that the font wouldn't have a positive effect on my ad engagement.
I think approaching a marriage with a utilitarian attitude actually makes less sense since there are inevitably stretches where one partner feels like they are getting a raw deal. Say, a partner gets cancer. Or you have your fifth miscarriage.

A healthy marriage is more than the sum of its parts. Part of the point of a marriage is commitment even when you cannot offer as much back, whether due to personal foible or catastrophe. Or even when the spouse gets all those promotions and could conceivably "upgrade".
Wouldn't every company say they just do everything? I mean, heck, I would...
Google news falls foul of some of these. I hate how it takes over scrolling and also the annoying way it iframes of the pages you open. You don’t own the internet google!
Only 75% of respondents feel welcome in the community. That seems bad, considering those who felt unwelcome probably left already and didn't participate in the survey. I would have expected closer to 100%.
Doctorow mentions the cases where a printer company has made their software lie about how much ink was left in a cartridge to make consumers replace them more often. I always wondered why a manufacturer would want to do that. I mean, I understand the motive of making consumers buy ink more often, but from the manufacturer's point of view, why would they want to throw perfectly good ink away? Colour ink isn't as expensive to manufacture as they like to claim but it's still worth something. Why didn't they just put less ink in the cartridge to begin with (and maybe lie about how much was in it), instead of lying about how much was left toward the end of its life and throwing ink away?
Buying a domain would make deanonymizing them easier and would take energy from the main effort.
> having some objective event trigger a legal requirement to have the nanny version

The problem with this is, who gets to decide which objective event is the trigger? There is no real solution to this problem; it always ends up with a hodgepodge of arbitrary rules that benefit certain people (those with wealth and power), but are a net loss for society as a whole.
> "Excuse me Sir, Excuse me Sir, Can I go to the toilet please?"

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/07/no-bathroom-breaks-i...
Thanks for suggestion. Changed the color. Working on others.
Evacuating is very difficult and dangerous.

This is a great read as to why:

https://np.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/6wcpt0/la_vita_bella_n...
To me, it seems like a nice way to help alleviate climate change - though my guess would be that it's not enough energy to make a big difference.
Aren't there enough job sites out there focusing on exactly that? This looks to be someone trying to differentiate.
Why do our phones, which certainly felt damn snappy the day we bought them, inevitablely seem to slow down to the point of unusability after a couple dozen months? Even after a factory reset and installing no apps at all... I know it didn't take that long to open/close the built in apps when I bought that iPhone 4, 5, 5s...

The only thing I can think of is the flash drive is slowing down as it wears. Or, the CPU clock rate is programmed to progressively lower itself the longer it runs.

Has anyone done the performance analysis on used phones to prove this isn't just my brain moving the goalposts as hardware improves, or apps just slowing down as they bloat, but that the old devices really and truly are running the same software significantly slower than when they were new?
I do, are we going to use anecdotes as data? What about iCloud drive applies to drivers for hardware in this instance?
I hate to be "that guy" but, I don't think this is really what people want their kids reading:

"SMUGGLER: Do you like booze?

CITIZEN: Sure I do. And who are you?

SMUGGLER: I'm the person who will sell you some booze.

CITIZEN: What about cigarettes?

SMUGGLERS: Sure thing. Cheap Ukrainian variety for $1 a pack. Also Slovenian Mariboro brand."
There are companies like the one I work for that are willing to hire experienced engineers and then train them on their chosen technical stack. The job engineering descriptions on the Rover.com career page include "Rover’s web app is written in Python and built on the Django framework. Nevertheless, we are willing to train people in Python and Django, so first and foremost are looking for good engineers who are eager to learn."
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck, you may need some stale bread to feed it, not a sirloin.

What's the big deal with signing a piece of paper and having a really awesome party with all your family and friends? I don't get the adversity to the marriage 'practice' (not a bad word choice either, as you do have to practice it everyday).
"I'm not ashamed to admit it. When we arrived to prison, I was absolutely terrified. But I needn't have been. See, for a brief fleeting moment, I'd forgotten I was rich and I lived in a place where everything was for sale."
The most obvious difference is probably in the 0s. For example, I would never use Droid Sans Mono (#8) because it lacks a clear distinction between O and 0.
The medical career field comprises more than just doctors.
>Arguably "good people" don't support nor vote for an individual who openly brags about assaulting women...

If you take that stance, then your options are:

1. 45% of the voting people in USA support sexually assaulting women.

Are you OK with that understanding? Do you not find something unsettling about saying 45% people in USA are OK for sexually assaulting women? The same conservative family oriented people, the same law and order people, the same god and sins people are supportive of sexually assaulting women? Can we have survived as a nation so far if so many people supported sexually assaulting women?

2. Hillary still lost to such person. What does that say about Hillary?

If Trump's audio conservation had not leaked, he would have won by even larger margin. What does THAT say about Hillary? Why do you think that was the case?
You can't fix exfat errors on linux (fsck just reports the errors).
Labelgun: reducing label clutter across mapping libraries
I'm still using profont http://tobiasjung.name/profont/
Oh god, I remember setting a whole sone as my logoff somewhere in the win9x days, and it totally would. I had to hear the whole damn song just to reboot, by which time I had forgotten to change it. Annoyed my family for weeks.
Choose boring employees
I can barely fit 3 posts at one time on my mobile screen as opposed to 10 HN posts. This is way too big.
How about this simple hypothesis: Android is suffering from the same problems all Windows had prior to Windows 7 - drive fragmentation. Cheap flash will not give you nice access times when data is fragmented, and over time fragmentation accumulates.
NPM: Super fast algorithms for typescript
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono is obsolete at this point; DejaVu Sans Mono is a complete replacement for it, with better language coverage.
Dina font forever.
If you are a professor can be true. For just about everyone else you need both. Even then, a professor in CS should venture into real programs once in a while, either that or move over to math where "useless" effort is valued. (note that math has a long history of creating useless theory that turns out not to be useless - complex numbers for example)
I live in an area with several great charter schools, several badly under-performing charter schools, and similarly several under-performing and high performing public schools, all in the same school district.

The biggest difference between those that under-perform vs over-perform boils down to the average SES of the families whose students attend the school, which translates fairly well into the resources (time, $, and skills) that a community is able to put into their school.

At the schools that perform well, regardless of whether they are public vs. charter, there is a critical mass of parents who dedicate not only their money (via PTA donations), but their time, organizational and technical skills (i.e. managing budget, strategic planning, fundraising) to the school. The existence of the critical mass of people with such resources is often a function of geography and other selection biases among the students/families that attend.

All this organizing, fundraising, and student selection bias has a disproportionate effect on school performance. In particular, government funding (California in this case) often falls hundreds to thousands of dollars short per student. So PTAs fund programs like science, art, and music, and teachers aides to support classrooms. As a result, higher SES schools tend to have those programs while lower SES schools tend not to have them.
Emacs Grand “Cathedral” Debugger Rewrite
Well, either the trigger is legally enforceable, or it is not. If it's legally enforceable, then a legislature gets to decide. If it's not, then either the manufacturer decides, or it doesn't happen.
> info is relayed to an outfielder using another set of signs (say touch the nose if fastball, touch cap if breaking ball, etc), outfielder relays information to batter with yet another set of signs.

Slight nitpick; the players in the field at a given time aren't on the same team as the batter, so the outfielders relaying signs to the batter doesn't make sense. However, Holt and Young are not starters for the Red Sox, so it's more like that one of them formed the part of the chain in between the trainer and the batter rather than an injured player and a fielder.
"At the same time, Sevier was suing Apple for selling him a device without pre-installed pornography filters—an omission that Sevier argued led to an addiction" ... "and was charged with stalking and harassing both country star John Rich and a 17-year-old girl."

"where he was “physically fighting human trafficking” as a rescue worker with an organization called Orphan Secure."

It's very very sad that NGOs need to do better job of vetting their volunteers but this is a pretty good reminder. Just because people are willing to go overseas for a good cause does not mean they are qualified. There are great orgs out there fighting human trafficking, but letting some crazy guy to go Malaysia to beat up heaven knows whom does damage to orgs who are doing ethical aid work in this area.
My understanding of this is that the amount of heat transmission depends on the temperature of your target. You point it at outer space (cold), and you get a win. You point it at some sort of IR collector (necessarily at ambient temperature, or higher), and you've lost your cooling ability.
> and how valuable is it really ?

at least 20 million dollars
There are also commercial products available, e.g. https://www.paragon-software.com/ufsdhome/ntfs-mac/
And this happens to who? Does it hurt? Why should I care?

I know literally no-one that has ever complained about 'inflammation'. When I say explain what it means IRL, I mean please explain the impact.
Congrats. Interesting how this winner take all market will evolve.
I have fond memories of several hour defrag sessions on old Windows machines.
Having the device lie based on the age of the cartridge makes for a more predictable sales volume in the future. See also, inkjets that "clean" the heads by running ink through them on every power cycle.
26 companies have "all" values apparently https://i.imgur.com/QQqVyQX.png
Ah yeah, that makes perfect sense. :)

IntelliJ's plugin just became officially supported by the company, so let's hope it gets even better from here!
about 26 do https://i.imgur.com/QQqVyQX.png
You could write make rules to do about anything, sure. But you don't want to have to rewrite those rules for every project. You want make modules that you can reuse from project to project. Those are notoriously hard to get right. And when they are done correctly, they are hard to share across organizations, or even within large organizations.

In particular, I write a lot of C++. I want targets for gcov, g++, gtest, dpkg, rpm, clang-format, clang-tidy, cppcheck, clang, CLion, Eclipse, ctags, and include-what-you-use. Am I supposed to maintain each of those targets on each of my repos?

It's simpler to have a standard place with all the needed source files, binaries, search paths, definitions, etc., and just wire that data up to each extra target.
Show HN: Online ansible playground with an introductory tutorial
Could be the drive slowing.. but definitely a big chunk of loss of performance comes from OS updates (i.e. that were not tested on the now old device for performance and battery discharge rate as aggressively as initial release)
What price democracy? It's a real trilemma
After the CRISPR malware transmitted via actual genes, I'd barely be surprised.
Yeah, I realized that after I posted that it didn't make sense so I edited it. I don't know why NY Times are referring to people on the bench and/or baserunners as "outfilders," it's ridiculously confusing to figure out what's exactly going on the way they explained it. I think the author must not be very familiar with baseball.
Perhaps as a way of encouraging you to persist through minor stumbles? As a tribute to your partner who dreams/hopes of a wedding?
Say no to every iOS upgrade and your device remains quite fast. Apps do slow down over time, unless you disable updates for them as well.
Go does not inline functions when it should
Interesting that a massage therapist has among the highest divorce rate, but a physical therapist has among the lowest. Those jobs don't seem that different.
Hn: privacy is the most important thing, the government is making lists and out to get you.

Also Hn: let's make a detailed enough list of the exact medical condition of every household in the country that we can evacuate everyone more than X vulnerable in a few days.

Unrelated: you're aware Cuba has roughly the population of NYC, right?
Courier New bro.
Hookworm, a disease of extreme poverty, is thriving in the US south. Why?
Well, there are open source synaptics touchpad drivers which are license-compatible with Windows. In this sense, Microsoft is to blame.
Digital Advertising Is Facing Its Ultimate Moment of Truth
I also have both an x220 and an XPS 13, both running Arch. x220 has always worked/felt great with synaptics driver, XPS 13 still has issues which I somewhat suspect are due to using libinput. Also might be a hardware issue :/
What I worry about is the regulations and certifications many other industries have to curtail cheating may someday be needed in our domain. I do not look forward to the day that happens.
Trump uttering "Bush lied, people died" at debate, inside Bush library, to the cheers of the crowd, Republican Conservative crowd.

If Trump hadn't done that, I would have gone for eternity judging those people as war mongers no matter the cost.

If Trump hadn't said "I want some punishment for the woman" on abortion, I would have gone for eternity judging all anti-choice folks to be for incarceration of women for exercising choice.
Ask HN: To employees of a startup that later got acquired/IPO'd
How do you figure out you picked a "winner" startup before joining?

Let me preface this with saying, I'll be so upset if the majority of answers boil down to having a lot of luck :D I've been burned out through a few early stage companies and it feels like it's all blind luck. Hopefully it's not all a guessing game and you can make predictions based on certain qualities and metrics of a startup at early stages.

As a bonus question: would you work for an early startup whose founder(s) have no previous business track record?
i thought Hacker news _is_ the hacker news for cryptocurrency... lol.

this is a news aggregator site, just like HN
That's very cool, thanks for the info!
> or Android development

You've got lucky. Android catches up with internal Windows dev nowadays. Last time I met with Google engineers, they told me Android team was always on fire because of target release dates, infinite bug backlog and other similar stuff.
The article raises some interesting points, but does not consider that there exist countries outside America with different, working, tipping policies:

- They completely abolished tipping, which caused social backlash because people are conditioned to tip. While the article qualifies this as "if we get good services, we should tip". As someone who recently moved to the US, that does not seem true in my experience, but rather you tip irrespective of the service quality.
In other countries your bill includes a standard tip and then you are free to add an additional, smaller tip, if the service was good.

- They had issues communicating the price "increase". Of course, in effect you still pay the same amount, so other than tax avoidance, this is purely a psychological issue.
What other places do: List the same prices as before and include a fixed service fee. This can be per table/per person or just a fixed "tip" of, say, 15%.

- The waiters were payed less because the prices were not adjusted accordingly. Not a tip/no-tip issue.

- salaried employees have more stable working hours and their employer was unwilling to pay for all these hours if demand is low. This of course ignores that on the other hand, they don't have to pay extra during busy hours, but previously this part was payed by the customers.
Worth noting is that Verizon almost certainly is paying a net amount for those deals than they would actually cost (if anything). They may have revshare arrangements for new customers and wholesale rates for things. I'm curious what the actual cost per user is forecasted to be.
HiDimensional (Leveraging expert referrals to improve technical hiring)
It's probably to avoid/mitigate lawsuits. It's possible that this would still be covered under false advertising but there's something to be said about the feasibility of testing a lot of unopened packages to show the ink level is low vs having to run all those packages down within the parameters of the device (so the testers aren't seen as the cheaters, over-using the cartridges to make the problem seem worse than it would be for "regular folk"). They'd be dead-to-rights under-filling but they have a better shot (and a better potential settlement) with the under-reporting.
I like my marriage to be a bit more permanent than my job. I work in an at-will situation. I can leave anytime and they can fire me anytime, no reason required. That is fine for work, but I like more stability in my personal life. I don't have an issue with a "contract" to agree not to shop around for a better gig. I don't have an issue with a contract that will take a bit of work to undo if it is wrong - all the better reason to get it right before entering into it. Marriage or not - throw kids into the mix and you have one of the big reasons people stick together when maybe they otherwise wouldn't.

Marriage is much more than believing in "love". Marriage can remind you that you might want to stick around even on the bad days. Life isn't always easy, but sometimes it is too easy to walk away from something that is better held on to.
They are if you use an open source operating system. If not you've already accepted this anyway in your whole stack.
It may have something to do with globalization. Legos are quite expensive, and the Chinese manage to sell them at 1/3 of the original price (while still getting reasonable net margin I believe). Their quality is comparable - not identical, but not too far off. Many Lego fans are buying these. I don't believe this is the main factor, but I wonder how much it influenced Lego's current financial result. I know people who buy Lego clones exclusively.
The most effective (and hard to spot) way IMO would be some sort of custom app that would do different wrist tap patterns. The players on the field wouldn't need to look at the watch at all.
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono has been my goto for a long time.

I've recently switched to Iosevka ; it's a little quirkier but also good.
Private networks could grow to become public. It would be nice to be able to use the same system for scaling from 4 to 10B.

Private blockchains are incentivized to adopt public blockchain architectures because public blockchains are most economically vetted.
This seems so logistically infeasible as to not even get "considered". Just because a bill has been put to your legislators doesn't mean they're "considering" it, as if to imply they're weighing the pros and cons. It might very well be that legislators take one look, laugh, and vote "oh, HELL, no."

Okay, so your backward state congress critter considers it, and votes "yes". Wanna know why there's so much porn on the internet? Because your constituents watch a lot of it, and boy are they going to be ticked to find out they have to pony up $60 to unlock their laptop, phone, and router for a little personal recreation.

Top it all off with a nut job cherry. "Disbarred attorney", where have I heard that before? Oh, yeah, Jack Thompson; we saw how far he got. Not to say that we shouldn't remain vigilante. But in this case I wouldn't dirty the pitchfork just yet.
I don’t think the camera room were relaying the signs, but rather what the signs meant. So that when a base runner was at 2nd they’d understand the signs they were seeing.