skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may be like "approach anxiety" for when guys never strike up a conversation with a woman they are interested in because they think all women will reject them. Why not try and go on some interviews? How can you possibly know you will be rejected without even going on one interview? Do you think all companies are the same, and your competition is all prepared for whatever it is you imagine they are doing? You're shadowboxing without ever getting in the ring.
Instances are not equivalent to servers. Just because you have 2000 instances, you don't need 2000 servers to run it. Just like you don't have a single server per WordPress install.

For example, I have 100 Mastodon instances running using 8 VMs at https://masto.host/

I can tell you that a VM with 2vCPUs can run 30 small instances easily (CPU load average under 50%) as long as you have 1GB of RAM for each.

So, if you have a server running, I am sure you can add Mastodon to it and the only thing you will notice is the 1GB of RAM usage. If you want to install it for a small group of users, just find a sharing hosting space like mine or go with a $3 VPS and you will be more than fine.
That link seems to cover a lot of scattered topics. Care to explain more?
Kernighan’s law:

“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.”
Very cool! You should add some sort of 'loading...' message when you submit the demo - I initially thought I was back on the home page.

Also - it's probably a bit more work and/or more processing intensive, but it would be very helpful to see the probability outcome in real time (as I move players in/out).
I wonder, how are these results skewed for more complex problems where certain questions and answers are taboo? How easy is it for the wisdom of the crowd to fail once global bias and majority censorship are considered?

Are echo chambers ultimately better or worse for society?
I am quite not sure how it would be expensive for existing residents even after sale to so called foreign investor. As far as I understand, in Germany, rents are fixed for existing residents and landlord can not evict them (few exception exists, probably won't work for investors).

That 10% increase rule is only for new tenants.
Blockchain-for-good startup Stellar launches partnership grant programme
China Plans to Ban Fossil-Fuel Vehicle Sale Totally
You shouldn't put your node_modules into git. Try using this git ignore. https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Node.gitigno...
The problem with calling women 'females'
I wonder how long it will be before some cunt suggests we all need biometric ID cards or some sort of RFID implant.
> They needed to "benchmark" me against other candidates, and the only way to do that was with a consistent "test".

If your employer were ever sued by a candidate for discrimination and it came to light that you had received different treatment than other candidates, some very uncomfortable questions regarding the reason would be asked in the courtroom. An unfortunate bit of fallout from the litigious environment we live in today, but it is what it is.
The best things about cities come from density combined with diversity. Having a lot of diversity means there's lots of niche interests; having a lot of density means those niche interests have enough adherents to come together to create communities; whether they're specialist shops, restaurants, discussion groups, music, theatre, political movements, sexual interests - whatever - the more niche your interest is, the more likely you'll only find like-minded people in a city.

I could say I don't understand why people don't live in cities. The countryside is boring - if you're not interested in the outdoors, there's nothing to do. Suburbs make some sense for people in middle adulthood to raise children in a safer environment without being too far from the city, but otherwise they're just a space / commute tradeoff, getting more space for your money than somewhere closer.
That is laughable. They push full screen pop-up ads within AdSense itself...
Twitter has an unlaunched tweetstorm feature
Would love to experience it myself. What's the best way to play it now - dosbox?
As a counter example, I also have about 10 years of experience, but never studied for interviews. On average I pass about 50% of the interviews at companies big and small (ex: passed Google, failed Facebook). I think people often looked at questions and think "there's no way I can do them", but many times you can get some hints and use enough first principles to do well enough.

Individual questions are often bad indications of quality but interviews often consist of 4-5 or even more questions and in aggregate they do say something about the candidate. Some companies do require candidates to pass all the questions and that's a different problem.
How are employees of the federal government "receivers of state benefits"? It's a job like any other job - they work for money.
Why Amazon’s Growth Ambitions Don’t Fit in Seattle
SQL is neither FP nor OO! It's not a general purpose language though, so it may not be a great answer. It's still amazingly useful and incredibly prevalent.
Maybe we could encrypt each credit update with the person's Social Security Number? That way, it would at least approximate the current level of security.

This would be much easier if we could replace the current Social Security Number system with a public/private Social Security Number key system. But alas, that would require much regulatory change.
Don't forget that Lucid was the OEM for the Lisp implementation in SUN Common Lisp and the SUN Symbolic Programming Environment.

http://ftp.lanet.lv/ftp/sun-info/sunflash/1990/Aug/20.01.lis...

http://3e8.org/pub/scheme/doc/lisp-pointers/v2i2/p5-endelman...
It could have to do with the fact that video and text articles are different mediums.
Maybe Google Search is punishing search scores for YouTube videos because of ads, but since most online videos exist only on YouTube, those results generally still rank highly regardless of the penalty?
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http://scout.com/nfl/steelers/Board/103198/Contents/fRee-Ste...
RSS does give us this.

http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss

TinyTinyRSS and Fever make it a pretty good experience too.
My ISP, WideOpenWest, uses HTTP injection as their primary method for notifying customers of maintenance, etc.
This was something from January (2017) and trailed in 2016.

It also covers the adsense product - so using google product can affect your google rank.

HOWEVER there are many many news websites that have not been penalised despite a full range of pop ups, interstitial and screen take over adverts.

Anyone from Google able to explain why there is such a discrepancy?
There's more than just 3 credit agencies, it's just that those three are the most reliable of them for credit reports. Given all the complications people have with even those three, it really doesn't say much for the rest of the industry.

The odd thing is, I never had to worry about this stuff in the UK. There's no notion of a credit score or centralised credit agencies that I needed to worry about. Most loan etc interactions take place with your existing financial institutions who already have your information on record.
If you send me $5/month, I'll come over and turn Javascript off in your browser.
>Fortunately, that's happening

Can you link to some sources? How is our current system post-industrial?
Not all states guarantee a jury trial for civil asset forfeiture.

And federal civil asset forfeiture almost always starts out as administrative forfeiture which doesn't involve the judiciary at all.

When the feds seize an asset the owner has 60 days to file a claim. If no claim is filed the government keeps the asset.

If a claim is filed, the government can either pursue civil or criminal forfeiture. In the case of civil forfeiture there is a right to a trial by jury.

However, as I said previously this isn't automatic. The person has to either have the legal knowledge to know how to file a claim, or they need a lawyer. In the majority of cases no claim is filed in many cases because the legal fees necessary to recover the asset will be greater than the value of the asset.

Basically if the government sizes a few grand in cash, it will cost you too much to recover it to make it worth it.

In states like Tennessee, police can seize your cash and you have to sue to get it back. They automatically get to keep the assets unless you sue them. They don't need to convince a jury of anything unless you sue them.

This is not the same thing as a person suing you and then using a replevin action to force you to give up your property. This is like if a person broke into your house, took your TV, and then you were forced to initiate a lawsuit to get it back. Plus you couldn't recover legal fees, it was significantly more complicated and costly than small claims court, and the thief suffered no consequences beyond returning the TV even if they lost the case.

Even Clarence Thomas, the most conservative member of the the Supreme Court, indicated in recent statement that he believes the current way civil asset forfeiture is practiced is unconstitutional.
Rent can be adjusted up to match prices in the area (with a limit of 15% increase per 3 years), and modernizations are a valid reason to increase prices above that. Which is the typical gentrification scenario Berlin is worried about: old buildings are bought, improved to a more luxurious standard and then rented at accordingly higher prices.
Yes, which is part of the government, as I mentioned. The important point was that it was gov't and not private as several people were claiming.
My bet is once you're talking enforcement the markets are already concentrating. Maybe something like UBI? I don't have all the answers.

Maybe the federal government offers lower tax rates based on how many different states the company has a sizeable portion of its labor force. Ie near zero for being spread out everywhere.
* Analysis of 215,000 people's DNA suggests variants that shorten life are being selected against.

* tested more than 8 million common mutations, and found two that seemed to become less prevalent with age. A variant of the APOE gene, which is strongly linked to Alzheimer’s disease, was rarely found in women over 70. And a mutation in the CHRNA3 gene associated with heavy smoking in men petered out in the population starting in middle age. People without these mutations have a survival edge and are more likely to live longer, the researchers suggest.

* certain groups of genetic mutations, which individually would not have a measurable effect but together accounted for health threats, appeared less often in people who were expected to have long lifespans than in those who weren't. These included predispositions to asthma, high body mass index and high cholesterol.

* Most surprising, however, was the finding that sets of mutations that delay puberty and childbearing are more prevalent in long-lived people.
Ask HN: Urgent – Where to Find Chicago Food Supplies for Hurricane Irma Relief?
Dear HN,

I know there is a contingent of military and "prepper" folks on this forum and I need your help.

I'm sure of you have seen coverage of Hurricane Irma's approach of Florida. What you may not have noticed was the devastation that Irma has already caused in the US Virgin Islands. Irma's first US land fall is not happening this weekend, but already happened last Wednesday in the USVI. I'm not going to sugar coat it - the situation on island is dire. We lost the roof of the hospital, two fire stations, two police stations, and many many many houses. The island has limited relief supplies and people are running out of water and food.

I am part of a group coordinating private air charters to provide relief supplies to the USVI. I am loading a plane tomorrow (Tuesday) in the Chicago area - does anyone know of Chicago-area locations where I can get MREs and other pepper type food supplies that can be transported to island and survive without refrigeration or the need for heating. The Great Lakes Naval Station has MREs at the commissary but I do not have a military ID.

Thank you so much for any help!!!!

Jacob
To deal with that, right click on "Inspect element", mouse upwards until the whole popup is selected, and click "Delete Node".
Absolutely certain. I, for one, turned down the opportunity to move to Northern California (I got a H-1B visa) in large part because it lacked diversity in ways that interested me, even though it would have been the best move for my career. I stayed in London instead.
My mistake, I misread you as stating it's 100% not government anymore. My bad!
I built Strum Machine (https://strummachine.com) which is a music practice tool aimed at players of bluegrass, old-time, folk, etc (the music sub-culture I grew up in). I started working on it only after having failed to find an existing product like it and wanting one to be available for my music students. Development began in Jan 2016, launch was May 2016. Built with the Meteor Javascript platform as a mobile-friendly website; native apps still in (very slow) development. About 300 paying users, mostly through word of mouth; it's been hard to figure out how to do marketing otherwise. Just cracked 1k MRR. Minimal ongoing costs and maintenance, although I still have a looong list of improvement-related TODOs. It's been an extremely rewarding project to be working on, and the extra income has been a very nice bonus as well. :-)
By the way, you don't need to use let in your original code.

const x = {};
x.a = 123;

You're not changing x, you're changing a property of the object it points to.
Same for me. Lately I was wishing there would be a translation matrix for all these basics in every language.
I'll bite. Visually blocking text vs video. Either requires a click (or long wait) to get to the content. What is different?

In fact, there's often less waiting with overlays on top of text content.
We're talking about the "long tail" of information, which is huge also outside of science. Think popular culture.
While you can get away with only basic algorithmic skills and I also agree with your points about being able to ship/talk to users/etc I think that having decent algorithms & data structures skills is essential for a developer. For example I have worked on projects where people were not able to ship a product for a year with 10 people and our new 3-man team shipped within 6 months just because we figured out that an algorithm solves the problem. You just can't do well in some contexts when you don't have the ability to figure out whether the problem you are struggling with has a well-known solution. I think it all boils down to having at least a decent ability in all areas (like product management, soft skills, math, etc) involved in order to be able to be productive in all environments.
Uhh there totally is a credit score and reports in the UK. In fact Equifax and experian are two of the major agencies in the UK. So you aren't in the clear.
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I don't know how this particular hack was done, but you may be interested in how notaz carried out the StarCraft ARM port:

https://hackaday.com/2014/07/31/playing-starcraft-on-an-arm/

https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/starcraft.73844/
This is not specific to C, but common to all evolving standards. If you want portable code just drive on the middle of the road.

Often this is as easy as coding to an older standard, like C89 with a few selected features from later standards, and adding some compatibility features / problem detection in the build system.

And don't rely on features that are difficult to explain and/or add only questionable value. Just return 0 from main, it's the obvious simple thing to do.
Now there is an illuminating and world-forwarding idea!
I'm fairly sensitive person and I've lived in apartment buildings the last 8 years of my life or so, of which 4 and then 2,5 years in student apartment buildings of which that latter was practically totally quiet.

Only in the past 3 months I've had to endure two shitty apartments/neighbours in a row. Sometimes the bangs are so loud the building or walls vibrate. Almost impossible to concentrate for long periods because it has come to almost expecting the banging to start any minute and lasting for however long. Crazy stuff. Looking for an apartment again, third in the span of three months.

The only way to sleep is with earplugs because of intermittent banging and knocking noise. I've actually had to resort to using hearing protection and wearing earplugs during day also to be able to escape into solitude and comfort. Didn't realize how much I loved silence until now, it is a luxury indeed and I'll be among the first to queue for that ear nano augmentation.
>Have cool things like a free regular bus to natural areas where people can swim or hike (cheaper than building olympic size pools, no?).

If this is in Canada, wouldn't the water be cold for most of the year? An indoor Olympic pool works year round.
Neat! But this is near impossible to read. Perhaps add new tweets to the bottom and have a toggle to "scroll with tweets" or something?
The wanna be Mastodon users could use reading my blog post The Importance of Choosing the Correct Mastodon Instance https://carlchenet.com/the-importance-of-choosing-the-correc...

There are some ideological and technical points to consider before choosing your instance.
I've read a lot of books on self discipline and IMHO that was the worst. Also pomodoro method is good for simple work, not great for programming as it interrupts flow and doesn't give enough break. I would recommend more like 2 hours work and 15-90 minutes break.

What I found more useful:

1. Deep Work, by Cal Newport. This is much more applicable for software engineers.

2. anything by Jocko Wilink. This is sort of the Navy Seal route, build grit and so on. Jocko's stuff is not fun to read, but there's a lot of insights.

3. Peak performance, basically how to do really intense stuff in the long term. Spoiler: the secret is in working hard and resting hard, and often the rest is more difficult than the work.
It's also important to make sure people are well-rounded. If one can tweak an architecture to put a queue in the right spot, she/he may still be the person that cannot properly implement simple concepts like "separation of concerns" or forgets input validation or security checks.

At the end of the day, with start-ups I really value that mix of system and hands-on code. Without initial hires having both, it's harder to build a solid system while iterating so quickly. Amazing people skills are also key.

Over-leveling and bad hire situations are no good for anybody.
> It absolutely does not say that. If there are patented works in React (and even FB has said they don’t know if there are) then the React code is still covered by the license.

What I said was, if you sue Facebook for infringing on your patents then, by my reading, you lose the React software license. I didn't say that you lose the license if React contains patented works.

I saw the whole Linux v SCO thing so I hate FUD as much as the next guy, but I am literally going by the words in that document. I'm not adding or embellishing. Maybe my interpretation is wrong--I'm not a lawyer--but this is what I see when I read it.

> Let’s say you remove the patents license ... if you sued FB over patents and they revoked it that so many ppl are complaining about.

As I explained, my reading is that if Facebook removes the patent grant and you were to sue them, they could not revoke the React software license, which is what I believe they can do now.

Again, I know my reading may be wrong. But I am going by the exact wording of the patent grant.
I think the article is junk but that first comment by Dodson is solid gold.
By some random chance, that much like any form of luck, is well understood by most people.

What value is this proposed solution and how is it ‘just’. Sounds a lot like people don’t understand the lessons of capping salespeople’s commissions.
> What's to keep me from simply saying "I understand this and its correct" even if that is not the case?

Then you should be able to have intelligent discussions about the paper and answer questions that come up. If you're pretending to understand it, a quick 5-minute discussion with a mathematician would reveal that this is not the case.
If you have an implicit interface then you are implicitly doing OOP. You may be intelligently eschewing the worst parts of so-called OO languages (too much statefulness, and inheritance), but by using the best concepts of OOP you're demonstrating how great OOP can be when really done right.

I will point you to this interview where Joe Armstrong describes Erlang as perhaps the only Object Oriented language (countering his earlier, less considered view that OO sucks): https://www.infoq.com/interviews/johnson-armstrong-oop
Well why not have whoever is concerned about this sand thing fund an operation to go and bring sahara sand and dump it all along the riverbed? And the operation would be funded by local taxes on the companies extracting the resources. Solved.

Unless you're saying these governments have no negotiating power about their own land and resources? In which case this is just straight-up PLUNDER.
Cease and Desist in 3... 2...
I'm really enjoying Mastodon. It feels like it's geared more toward conversation than counting coup. I have asked several tech and programming questions, and gotten fast and comprehensive responses. For those interested in science, tech, privacy, history and philosophy of software development, and econ, and willing to tolerate t h e a e s t h e t i c and Tuxedo Mask memes, it's a cool spot.
Wouldn't that argument be easily settled by discussing the implementation of a hash table?
Show HN: A New Kind of Robo Advisor/Financial Planner
it's more than that. We used to have a morning edition newspaper and then the late edition. That's it. Two times a day to get fresh news. Even 9-5 too much.
Could just be a terminology mismatch. Checking for hash existence should always be constant, but checking for key existence is generally only amortized constant (that is to say, not constant across all lookups) - he may have wanted you to talk about addressing schemes and degradation at high load factors?
> Regulation is supposed to prevent or limit those externalizing costs. However it's nearly impossible to put value on something like that.

Could you elaborate? I mean, the common law is littered with examples (stare decisis) throughout the industrial revolution which establishes strict liability for, say, someone else's right to enjoy their own land or property. In the UK, this extends to a tenants right to peacefully enjoy his home, even when he doesn't own it.
Darnit. Fuzzy sets and logic just made sense to me in so many ways and I found his writings quite interesting. RIP.
https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/4bec7283cda24b180ea7a...
I've noticed that a lot of people (and men in particular) who have law enforcement or military backgrounds do this.

I'm not sure whether that's because men in those jobs tend to view women as inferior, or whether it might have to do with the fact that it's viewed as a catch-all that applies to both girls and women, so might be useful if you don't know the person's exact age, as when you're looking for a suspect who might be either a teenager or a young woman.

But that wouldn't explain why that sort of catch-all usage is not as widespread in other professions.