skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a big difference, and one of the enduring legacies of cold-war propaganda is the confusion of the issue by conflating the two. A market economy is better at allocating resources efficiently than a command economy, but the argument over whether to have a command economy or market economy is separable from tendency of wealth to concentrate. The existance of winners is important to a market economy, but it also serves as an entaxic force (inverse of entropy, analogous to gravity) in the system that moves it towards greater order and centralization, until the corporate winners become de-facto states unto themselves with their own command-setting potential. Keeping the winners from leveraging their winnings to also win every subsequent round is the game we're playing to keep the field fair. That points to ideas from communism, but it has nothing to do with whether there's a command economy. Socialism is what happens when the demagogues get control of the ideology, just as they have in the US.

What we need are anti-trust protections that prevent the formation of `too-big-to-fail` entities of all stripes.
I don’t think it’s necessarily something people plan, but it certainly happens, especially in the more car-centric outskirts.
What is the problem with cyclists cross the road on a pedestrian crosswalk (with a reasonable speed of course)? In some European countries cyclists are actually forbidden to take direct left turn on the road and have to use pedestrian crosswalk for that.
He's talking about the tube, not cab services.
In London I see this charge all over the place even for only two people... usually it's 10-12%.
Huh! I've been considering remapping F1 in vim for a while, I might actually go ahead and use it for something quite common (I've already taken up F2-12 for other handy tasks).
Yup, cabOS is a niche, even FOSS-with-SaaS company. Not a $60bb company.
> ESPN pulling veteran announcer Robert Lee off a University of Virginia football game because his name is too close to Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general is an example of political correctness in action, and that has nothing to do with treating people fairly (certainly the announcer wasn't treated fairly in this through no fault of his own), but to prevent the risk that someone might get offended;

Pretty sure that the announcer himself asked to be moved to another game.
Please add [1990] to the title name.
ACID's C is about the write side: "ACID is a set of properties of database transactions" (wikipedia) which is different than CAP's C: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistency_(database_systems)...

Postgresql with read replicas is ACID-Consistent transactions because single writer, and CAP-AP eventually consistent because distributed reads.

It is easy to agree with you here: "PostgreSQL basically stops working well too, once you start mixing transaction processing and business reporting and BI in the same box at scale." It's worse than that - the app has to be coded before it can be scaled so you get fucked by complexity-scale via ORM a lot sooner than bigdata-scale. But as you sort of say, the point of a data warehouse is to be cap-AP (eventually consistent) through read-replicas without breaking ACID-consistent transactions for the system as a whole.

as to the argument "everything is bad at scale" i think that has merit too, I just gave a talk at ClojureNYC about building real apps with Postgres (tables) vs Neo4J (graph) vs Mongo (documents) vs Datomic (eavt): https://github.com/hyperfiddle/hypercrud.browser/issues/4 (Did I say real "apps"? I meant "balls of mud")
Thanks, this is great. There has been a lot of vitriol about Disqus but I love how easy it is to follow a conversation on there.
Also, it seems like it could fall under RICO:

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

One could argue the disclosure timing and executive stock sales (pre-disclosure) could constitute investor/securities fraud, as well.
Windows help and Windows troubeshooter are among the two most useless things in the OS (and lately it's Cortana). It far easier and more relevant to just do a Google search than waste time with these things. Same goes for answers.microsoft.com, whenever i see that link on top og Google results I'm pretty sure I'll just waste 10 minutes of my life and then search for the same thing on Stackexchange and pray to god someone has answered there in the succinct SO way. God knows how much resources and man hours Microsoft puts into making these things.
I think this is about adult ADHD.
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I'd recommend looking at RhodeCode for code-review. It has few unique features like pull-requests versioning allowing partial diff between updates, todo notes. Team looked at few gerrit features and want to port it too to make code-review much better.
Good news everyone!

https://godotengine.org/article/beta-release-python-support

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6MsqsJqnao&t=2h35m09s (Emmanuel Leblond at EuroPython 2017)
> The user experience is why I use Uber.

User experience is why I avoid Uber. I've only used ride hailing services at airports, and Uber drivers tended to be very aggressive on the roads compared to Lyft or regular cab drivers. I had one driver miss an exit on a freeway, and then proceed to REVERSE on the freeway to get back to the exit. That about sealed it for me with Uber.
> IMO, while Tim Cook may not be a product visionary, I think he is unrivaled as a business visionary. Calling him merely a "good" operator does the man a tremendous disservice.

As I said elsewhere, this bothers me too. Cook is damn good at what he does, the problem is what he does is product delivery, not product development. The solitary new line they've launched since Job's passing was new sizes of iPhones and iPads, and the only entirely new product was the Watch, which arguably the first gen (Series 0 now) should never have left Cupertino. It wasn't ready, and I'm sorry but I think Jobs would've told them to take it back to the lab and make it GOOD before they released it.
I do too. And the scroll lock and num lock too. And I added a sticker to let IT know that the keyboard isn't broken and shouldn't be replaced.
Of course you can take your water bottles on the plane, you just can't take them with liquid in them. Just empty them and refill them.

When traveling there are faucets at every restaurant, gas station, campsite, or pretty much any place you can think of. It's even safe to drink from the streams out in the nature.

In speaking with tourists it's clear that the main reason they buy water (and in the quantities they do) is that they just don't know any better.
I think that site is tweaked for US politics, so yes according to US politics, Obama is not centre-right. The questions include things that are political issue in the USA, but are settled (one way or another) in other countries, like "should there be public broadcasting?".
ahhh, can't you just map it to something else? (nothing?)
If this is a problem, write an app that emails/faxes/whatever a report to TfL? Could even integrate some CV stuff to read a license plate number from the phone's camera. This is the sort of thing that takes large organisations a while to build, but could be a weekend project for an interested developer.
What is the rent here, enterprise licensing? Quasi-monopolist? Does MongoDB have anywhere near a majority of market share for database vendor?
Which is why I thought that the hold-⌘-Q to close Chrome was a godsend! Apparently this is also a feature with Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/824072
I'm not sure I follow.

From my understanding of the term, the "real" reality would be the same as the objective realm per definition;

What do you mean when you say "objective" as in "... the subjective or the objective realms"? Some sort of shared definition? If so, wouldn't this also be subjective to a certain degree?

I might just be post-hoc rationalizing my own interpretations here, but doesn't our subjective experiences of reality being based on our sensory organs' interpretation of stimuli from what is presumably the objective reality make fewer assumptions than a concept involving interconnected or "symbiotic" realities?
This was a long standing bug for Firefox but they fixed it a couple of months ago. (The bug was about Firefox not honoring the macOS's key remapping.)
Meta comment: The HN headline is difficult to parse. The original headline is a lot better.
[2] is basically an enthusiast sub and filled likewise filled with unrealistic expectations of normal people. The mechanical equivalent of "what kind of neanderthal doesn't run no-script?"

[1] is better because it's real stories.
I did not know that tool. Also, apparently it cannot map control keys...

https://superuser.com/questions/413384/how-to-remap-control-...
I use Monzo, and would highly recommend them. Great customer support, very transparent (you can see their trello roadmap, they interact with the community via forums and Slack) and I love their product too (have switched over to their current account as primary bank account now). They have somre really great people working there too - if you're in London they have a lot of events and talks that are pretty interesting.
I am not aware of any F1 help screen that is of any use on windows.
"If it is slow, it is wrong."
The best way is Firefox's RSS reader via:

/bigrss

The worst, by far, is any list that shows actual article thumbnails, as rendered by a common, modern, up-to-date web browser.

Looking at HN repackages, that actually show me the visual snapshots of all the articles from the main page, I find myself consumed by nausea, seeing the cacophony of repellent ad-addled page layouts all together, all at once.

A comparable awful experience is letting the Slack app stream live updates into a dedicated channel with the RSS Slack app, totally uncurated, so that you can scroll back through a week's worth of article snippets. That little experiment proved to me how finicky I really am, compared to what so many others happen to find interesting, and how small any given individual's tendencies might be, when taken as a defined subset within a large community.

Everything else is so-so, in between.
American companies should say No to Saudi demands to geoblock content
In Berlin it's now illegal for them to transport passengers if their card reader is not operational.

Drivers have still pulled the ""my reader doesn't work" on friends.
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AFAIK, Windows has never had a built-in way to remap keys. Sure, you can download third-party tools to do it, but that's often a dicey move in a corporate environment where you aren't allowed to install third-party software.

I'm really surprised more keyboards can't do this kind of simple remapping themselves. I used to remap the keys on virtually every machine I worked on, but these days I just bring in my CODE keyboard which does some simple remapping itself (e.g., caps lock -> ctrl).
I thought the flow diagram was promoting the use of GPUs for large datasets... Brytlyt is a GPU database right?
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On MacOS it Just Works (at least for modifier keys) :) https://i.imgur.com/Bt1X7Nq.png
This is a bad comparison.

Core philosophy of Perl is to empower programmers with more than one way to do it.

Core philosophy of Go is your coworkers are too stupid to be allowed to have nice things.
This is a shit article that provides no insight into what we learned that changed our mind about how antibiotic resistance arises. He simple derides as silly and stupid the idea that we ever thought that resistance could possibly arise if we quit taking antibiotics before the bacteria were all dead, leaving a population with better survival characteristics to rebuild the population.

Interesting finding if true, but don't waste your time with this article.
I remember reading about Uber opening in France. Obviously the french taxi drivers weren't happy with it, and Uber were putting out press releases about how they "want to work together and blah blah corporate waffle".

But you can't just ignore the law like that like you can in USA, the French taxi drivers started attacking and burning Uber cars.

https://techcrunch.com/2015/06/25/french-anti-uber-protest-t...
Venezuelans Turn to Selling In-Game Gold for Bitcoin
The DC metro has elevator access throughout the whole system as well. Judging by the frequent announcements I hear, there is almost always at least one or two elevators out, but they operate shuttles to take people with wheelchairs to the nearest station with working elevators when there is a outage.
Also, it's not "free". Nestle builds buildings, pays taxes, employs labor, invests in infrastructure. It's like saying "Intel sells chips for $1,000 that are made from 20 cents of raw materials! And there's kids starving in Africa"
Looks similar idea to a Unimog[1], which I've seen a few camping out in Europe when I've been on holiday; saw a couple when I drove through Western Sahara (cheap banger rally stuff), and they can get just about anywhere. Some of them are kitted out to a seriously high standard, and you could go just about anywhere and be comfortable in them. I think the fuel consumption might be somewhat heavy though...

[1] http://www.expedition-trucks.com/brokers/unimog-4x4-expediti...
If it's due to capital then the companies will reduce prices of the goods they produce (assuming there is enough competition). The consumers then can use the savings to spend it on more labor intensive products.
I buy bottled water because my home and office tap water tastes disgusting (I've tried various water filters and they didn't help. I'll probably try a reverse-osmosis filter soon). I also buy bottled water when I'm travelling, like you.
Pretty sure the point of the article is that the idea that we need to take the full round of antibiotics is itself an exaggeration of one study that's now known to be wrong, and dangerously so.

If we've been creating resistant bacteria because we've been following this "take it all" mentality, then I don't really blame the author for getting a little worked up over this.
Just tried it in visual studio.
loads up a web browser. that is irresponsible.
The scroll to anchor on touch start is super annoying on the top 21 list. I can't scroll the page in that section without accidentally jumping to another page anchor.
Maybe it's akin to nigerian scams. They don't want to waste their bandwidth on someone who's not going to click on their numerous articles with similar title and generate more ad revenue.

However if you are gullible enough to click on
"7 awesome things Miley Cirus did, number 4 will shock you!", you are ripe to click on all the click bait they will show you.

The problem arises when good quality content uses clickbait. It's the same as naming your bank "The Nigerian Prince Bank of America".
And of course in Rust, if you Try you might get an Ok Result, or you may just return in Err.

It's often a good exercise to craft your program to the language you're targetting, to take advantage of it's strengths or embrace it's traditions.
No, "mugging" is not a colloquial term for "overcharged" or anything else for that matter.
Correct – even for developers in DMZ networks have a hard time getting to install things they need to work. Many organizations have convoluted processes for requesting admin access to your machine. Even if you do get access it doesn't mean you necessarily can even download things, most have firewalls that block binaries from anything but "trusted" sources (basically white listed domains, so yeah – "trust".) In a few cases, monitoring on machines have raised red flags and I've had to explain after the fact why I've installed or run a particular piece of software, and in some cases got a proverbial wrist slap and things/access reset.

It's all for good reasons I'm sure, but some processes and rules are so opaque and convoluted and arbitrary, plucking keys off a keyboard is much easier.

Source: I've worked as a developer in mostly top tier banks since 2011.
How does it compare to https://airtable.com/?
If by "grinding an axe" you mean "trying to ensure that humanity preserves some of its best weapons against disease instead of squandering them". Seems fine to be emphatic about that.
This is interesting to me. Can you share your experiences? What you did, what went wrong, and if you would do it again how would it be done differently?
You mean like Oracle, and Microsoft? Taking a small % of every cab transaction, sounds like a billion dollar business to me. Right now the only thing Uber is doing is spending more money than it makes.
I’ve been using MiniHack[1] for iPhone for a year or two; great way of interacting with HN (can vote, comment, etc).

[1]: https://itunes.apple.com/th/app/minihack-hacker-news-client/...
I didn't mention taxes, but it seems to be explicitly about non-cooperation in criminal matters, workers rights and all sorts of other areas.

Black cabs are far from a monopoly, and Uber are far from the only alternative.
But there are fast and frequent train services that cost less than that, so it doesn't make a huge difference whether or not Uber is an option for that route.
Exactly right. If you refill an used bottle and leave it in your car for a few days, it will turn green from whatever's living in it. A new unopened bottle will sit for months. I use bottled water. I may refill it the same day if I see a tap, but I'll toss it and pick up a new bottle the next day, or that afternoon.
I wish I could remove "F1" from Chrome: I'm in the middle of a lot of tabs, reading them after each other and accidentially pressing F1 instead of ESC and a new useless help tab obens on the far right.

Luckily if I close it immediately without navigating, Chrome is clever enough to return me to the last tab
The biggest problem with software (on OS side) is than you can't use your custom layout in BIOS, LiveCDs or when you need to type password if your hardware is encrypted.

Another problem is games. I use dvorak and all games use qwerty bindings so you need either to remap keys for each game or start game with QWERTY layout. If you forgot to start it with qwerty you need to restart the game, which is was really frustrating for me. It's even more problematical with online games like League of legends and etc.

I see no problem for this feature to be present on even cheapest keyboards. I picked ergodox just for an examle.
Anecdotally I know zero people who wash their water bottles once a day, and have known nobody that has ever attributed sickness to this.

And yet, decades later everyone seems to be doing just fine.

If you're going to suggest such extreme measures are the only way to drink out of a reusable bottle, you should cite a better source than "the good housekeeping institute's youtube channel"
Appenlight Exception and Performance monitoring tool released under Apache 2.0
I hardly ever see an Unreal job listing that doesn't mention blueprints, so I assume a lot of teams actually use them.
Uber is already banned in Belgium. With the exception of some variations, like Uber VIP or something.
Was after October last year, I should've reported and will do so now. It's a bit intimidating to take a photo of the license, but I guess it's easier when outside the cab. Which is, again, one more thing I like about Uber, I open the app, and it's all there. If a driver takes a wonky route, I complain and don't need to proof it much and get into an argument with the driver, the evidence is there, I merely deal with customer support, and I always get my money back.
That was very informative thanks. I think the biggest problem with allowing the 2008 crisis to run it's course is the same problem with the 1920s. It would create a Great Depression that, for the longest time, we didn't think we could even get out of. Of course with the 2008 bailout, the banks got bailed out but the citizenry did not.

Having said that, I'm not sure it was the right decision.
> for buying a bottle of water but not for buying a mobile phone...

I didn't say I wouldn't say that. If somebody buys a new smartphone several times a year then this would also apply.

and germs and their relevance is not a subjective subject. the objective criteria is whether they have a negative impact or not. just b/c there are germs that doesn't mean something is bad. germs are everywhere.

but obsessing over artificial cleanliness is also a neurotic feature of many people from industrial cultures.
I know plenty of small - and, actually, big - companies which have reasonably good relationships with their competition, actually. Craft breweries regularly collaborate with each other, as an example - even those which have taken significant capital investment.
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From the article: "in the last two decades, we actually have had dozens of clinical trials published demonstrating that shorter courses of antibiotics are just as effective as longer courses."

And from the linked WHO page: "There has been a lot of research into how long antibiotic courses should be, to determine the shortest possible length of course needed to completely kill all bacteria....Evidence is emerging that shorter courses of antibiotics may be just as effective as longer courses for some infections....They also reduce the exposure of bacteria to antibiotics, thereby reducing the speed by which the pathogen develops resistance."

http://www.who.int/features/qa/stopping-antibiotic-treatment...
This is just a goldmine of grim hilarity. https://www.congress.gov/member/barry-loudermilk/L000583 You can guarantee that the title of a bill tells you who it's going to screw over.

"H.R.3330 - Ensuring Quality in the Unemployment Insurance Program (EQUIP) Act" = " To amend title III of the Social Security Act to permit States to
conduct substance abuse risk assessments and targeted drug testing as a
condition for the receipt of unemployment benefits, and for other
purposes."

"H.R.3312 - Systemic Risk Designation Improvement Act of 2017" = something to do with Dodd-Frank

"H.R.3257 - Promote Accountability and Government Efficiency Ac" = screw over the civil service. "Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any employee in the civil service hired on or after the date that is 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act shall be hired on an at-will basis. Such an employee may be removed or suspended, without notice or right to appeal, from service by the head of the agency at which such employee is employed for good cause, bad cause, or no cause at all."

"No employee or applicant for employment in the civil service may be awarded by any court a remedy (including damages, costs, or attorney fees) under any of the provisions of law listed in paragraph (3) in a dollar amount that, in the aggregate, exceeds $50,000."

Then a bunch of stuff removing national labour relations law that would otherwise pre-empt state law; allowing concealed carry in DC by holders of other state licenses; something to do with marine mammal protection, probably removing it; and a change to labour law to require a majority of employees not just of union members in certain votes, presumably making strike action much harder.
Here in Vilnius I feel the same. Uber was late to the game (which is weird as they have an engineering office here) so there were a number of other apps launched by local companies that worked with the existing taxi companies. They provided exactly the same service (mobile app where you can specify pickup and drop off locations, and card payment) as Uber, so when they finally launched it wasn’t a big deal.

It’s been two years since Uber launched and they still haven’t really taken off, mainly because they are a lot more expensive than the other apps and don’t have as many cars. Although Uber’s cars are a bit nicer (executive car vs 10yo Prius), people here are cost sensitive so that isn’t really a selling point.