skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some buddies work in a lab doing all kinds of product (mostly but not exclusively food) analysis for chemical and biological contamination, pesticide levels, etc; and they also do some research and run the same tests on all kinds of stuff they find personally interesting, including things they would personally consume.

Their experience is that the general commercial products are the safest to use - all the organic small scale farmed stuff sold to the general public is highly hit and miss, sometimes they're less contaminated but quite often it's literally off the charts e.g. hundredfold exceeding the limits allowed for commercial products, or have all kinds of dangerous bacteria (indicating e.g. fecal contamination) that they've never seen in samples of the mass produced food. Also, things their relatives have grown not for sale but for themselves with the purest intent have sometimes been contaminated - e.g. some parasites in their pork.

TL;DR - home-grown stuff can be expected to be less healthy and more dangerous than the industrial farming processes in well regulated first world countries. Often more tasty, though.
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Not denying you get these issues or errors with sites. But how come I never seem to have any issues with major sites. I do see cloudflare stuff. But never for a top 1000 site.
well, it was my personal website and I wanted to show my own projects from there...
I just forgot I was using CDNs from google since I wrote the site 6 years ago...
My point is that maybe we shouldn't see this in isolation.

Paying insurance is stupid - until your house burns down.

Guns for every law abiding citizen that wants one (and paying a few lives every year) is stupid until your uncles, brothers and sons are marched out in the woods and shot.

This happened less than 30 years ago way to close to me.

What I wish NRA would do though is fighting for stricter rules for gun storage, teaching risk assessment (do you really need your loaded handgun to be available for your kids?) etc.
Interesting, I hadn't heard of you guys before! I agree the Windows Store has a lot of potential, as it's a relatively safe place to let non-IT users get software. (And as someone who carries Windows Mobile too, I really appreciate good UWP software!)

I notice you state this is your first acquisition, but multiple apps on user.camp seem to have different author companies. Can you explain this to me? It's part of why I wouldn't have known I've installed one of your apps before or seen your others by proxy of being from the same developer.
Just a suggestion: your guys would benefit from a "who are we" section in your website. =)

(Sorry if it's there and I missed it.)
It's also why software is a pop culture. Sophistication and completeness is seen as complexity and cruft by each successive generation, who start something new and simple.

I don't think it's very avoidable. Tech is genuinely getting incrementally better, but it's usually in a sawtooth pattern.
Oh wait, I misread the comment you were responding to. Oops!
The issue here is that we don't live in a global government, but a national one. The government is elected by American citizens, and if a huge chunk of American citizens are experiencing a declining quality of life, they will vote for a change candidate.
Microsoft retires Groove Music service, partners with Spotify
Worth noting the ColdFusion is about as old (1995) as Ruby (1993), Java (1995), and Javascript (1995). Python is of course a few years older than these. (1989)
Many times in my career I've had to open very large files (usually CSV data) and inspect/edit them by hand.

Of course there are other ways to do this work, but a text editor that can efficiently open and edit very large files (e.g. Vim) is a great tool for the job. I will put up with otherwise excellent code-specific editors/IDEs that cannot work on such files but my default general-purpose text editor is always going to be something that can.

I appreciate that the design and implementation of text editors is basically an art form (one I've dabbled in myself) in which simplicity has aesthetic value, but efficiency and flexibility are very important for an editor that's going to be used for real work.
Just "those days" may well not be good enough. I have fairly bad cat allergies. I can feel it after just a few minutes in a room where a cat _was_.
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I fear that payments based on total number of access or usage would still encourage pandering to the base instincts as with advertising supported model.

Payments need to be based on quality of work. The system should ensure that Alex Jones doesn't make much and ProPublica does well.
I used anecdotal evidence because OP was talking without proof too. So I didn't see the harm.
Tangentially unrelated, with all the kids with strong peanut alergies, what's going to happen in 10 years--will offices ban peanuts and peanut based foods?

We informally had a dog policy at our old office, which was an offshoot location. I'd bring my dogs in, until we hired a woman who had grown up in an area of the world where wild dogs were a real problem, and was deathly afraid of them. My co-workers loved having them in the office, but where you work should provide an environment where everyone can do their best, and given dogs weren't germaine to our business, it was best they were left at home from that day forward.
Do factors like Smoking and Drinking influence the quality of the stem cells you can procure? For example, if one has been smoking heavily for 5 years, is it beneficial to "detox" and then have cells harvested? Is the quality of gathered cells different based on lifestyle, or do MSCs have impunity in this kind of situation?
Pet-friendly offices: I’m sure having a pet visit the office once would be a treat, but every day quickly can become a burden on the team.

Disagree, given the observation that pets (provided they're well-behaved, are well-groomed etc) reduce stress and promote empathy. It's just a question of measure - somewhere between "once" and "every day" there are these notions of "once in a while" or "from time to time". Which I suspect would be optimal, for this particular indulgence.
For the better or the worse, Delphi has become the defacto standard Pascal implementation. Free Pascal aims to be compatible with it and Lazarus is pretty much a clone of Delphi 7. If memory serves right, neither Cantu's Essential Pascal book, which is a brief introduction to the language, nor his comprehensive Object Pascal Handbook cover the VCL but focus on the language itself.

You may want to ask these questions in the Free Pascal community, this stuff is too uncool for the HN crowd.
This is a terrible attitude to have when responding to an obvious potential UX confusion, particularly when it will only come up in edge cases (>10 per millisecond).
I don't think this is completely correct, but maybe I've experienced life in a bubble.

Many people certainly do not get PTO, in particular retail workers and non salaried employees. I don't believe I have a single friend who is salaried and who does not receive some kind of PTO. For example, public school teachers get paid time off in addition to summer break (where they are generally not paid).
That would be a problem if we only had one cryptocurrency, but actually we have hundreds, and can add more anytime. Rather than a gold standard, we have something like the system of multiple privately-issued currencies advocated by Hayek. He thought it would self-adjust without any need for central administration.
Interesting.

A quick search in the bay area seems to confirm, at least to some extent, the article's findings.

https://imgur.com/a/PwABV

I searched the east bay for Safeways. Rockridge, Piedmont, Montclair, Alameda (all better off areas): check, check, and check.

If you see the area south of downtown Oakland all the way down to almost San Leandro is completely devoid of all Safeways.

In my experience of driving through those areas, they are mostly served by discount stores like FoodMax, Food4less, or other ethnic stores.

No real point here other than I checked what the article said and it seems to jive with reality.
I was under the impression there was a statutory amount, but it was ridiculously low. To have none at all is pretty damn terrifying.
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Generics in Java have well known limitations stemming from type erasure (a design decision made to preserve backwards compatibility). Things aren't quite as dire as you made them out to be and in the general case, they work quite well.
Plus if they just pay you more, you can bring a packed lunch to work and save the money towards holidays / savings / gifts / financial independence / whatever.
That's good to know. Thanks for the explanation!

Not currently useful to me, but I'm sure this hits the sweet spot for a bunch of people.
I don't think it's straightforward to create a company with a H1B, because of a chicken and egg problem.

Typically you create it with an E2, which let you issue E2 visas for 3-4 other people. Then either you die, sell, or start issuing J1, later converted in H1B. H1B is generally too risky, being bound to a lottery, and that's the last thing you want at an early stage startup.
and not just that, but for every possible case for the line you can think of. Like the post above, testing the results of a function returns a list for 1 item, or many items...

I see all too often, java bad, just look at how many lines you need to write to get "hello world". Who cares, the IDE generates that for you, but if you don't understand static void main as a beginner... again who cares, just put it in and ignore it until you need to understand it. Also read that dynamic languages are so productive, but they never mention you need to then write tests to detect what the compiler would catch for free. Yes good code needs tests, but the compiler IMO is a damn good built in test suite for catching many classes of errors
Namespaced keywords can really help with refactoring your domain model.

Usually I use normal keywords for throwaway or glue code, but anything important (my actual domain entities) will be namespaced, allowing (relatively) pain free refactoring.

Cursive has a few good refactoring tools/shortcuts, but I would also like to see extract/inline/move for functions.
Thanks for your help. I'll take a look at Cantu's book.
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I've personally tried this, and it only sometimes works. It depends on the wakeup time. I can go as early as 9am and feel rested. This is a few hours before my natural waking time - and wake up. 8am? That's a bit of a struggle, but overall doable. Any earlier than that and I get a sleep debt. The quality of sleep simply isn't good enough to keep me going and it winds up bad for my mental health.

To be fair, I've been like this since I was a child. Everyone thought I'd grow out of it, but I'm 39. I work evenings and nights with some ease, though, and luckily have generally had jobs that start later in the day or allow days I can sleep later (even if I had a few early days during the week).
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It's pretty much a standard perk for any tech company worth their salt.

The minimum number of days off is pretty much a BS perk too.
While London does have a lot more surveillance than the rest of the UK, anywhere in the UK has a lot more surveillance than most other comparable countries.

It was 13 years ago that the UK's then information commissioner warned we were sleep-walking into a surveillance state: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/aug/16/britishidentity.f...

The worries seem positively quaint now in comparison to the data that Facebook, Google and the state now collect.
It has a lot of use in government and health care. I can't speak to his current projects, but Pud was still using it on some of his recent startups.
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It's Camp D that I'm least familiar with here; outside of academic projects in lisp/scheme I've never used them for anything serious.

What exactly does it mean to have "good dynamic typing facilities"?
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The purpose of prisons isn't well agreed upon. It could be for keeping the population safe from people that would do them harm. It could be to punish those who do harm because those who do bad things deserve to be punish. It could be make everyone believe they will be punished if they do something wrong and therefore deter bad behavior. It could be to control someone enough to rehabilitate them.

There's probably others. Not everyone agrees on which one the US judicial system obeys.
I agree entirely, however don't forget that most people who buy them don't know what UNIX even is.
Energy of a small city is still not big enough to protect from a government takeover. Also what matters more is the cost of the mining equipment (which is more than 1.5 years of electricity if the equipment is refreshed every 1.5 years).

Anyways if Intel can make North Korea trust its hardware, I might take a look at their project.
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The previous capabilities of Quicktime, Airport Utility, Disk Utility, and Pages did not come back. The "new" Quicktime was introduced 8 years ago.

The pattern we've seen is Apple decides to re-write a utility because reasons. The new version comes out as part of a major OS release. Then nothing further happens.

The exceptions are the major apps like iTunes, Safari, iMovie, and iPhoto. Also the "discoveryd" re-write is extremely noteworthy in that it was fully withdrawn and replaced by its predecessor.
Yes,

This is the first issue that must be resolved I'm.
Wow, this is a huge change. I have used Groove Music Pass in the past, and found it decent, though I realized I save a lot more money buying MP3s than paying for streaming. (I add less songs to my playlists monthly than the cost of a sub.)

This article also doesn't mention: Will they continue selling music in the Windows Store? I am assuming this just ceding the subscription model only. Will they keep the existing "Groove" name for the app, or will this someday once again be "Windows Media Player"?

EDIT: To answer my own, Microsoft's original blog post says they will stop selling music altogether: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/10/02/micro...
That's something I don't get: why don't they use either? For decades new programmers were exposed to one or both, and they sorted themselves more-or-less by their affinity for one or the other style of text editing. But now they don't seem to be exposed to vi & emacs, and chase Big New Things™ which inevitably don't deliver either a rich, full-featured editing language (as with vi) or absolute power & extensibility (as with emacs).

Is this related to the proliferation of JavaScript libraries and hip new languages? I honestly don't know.
Skipping on training to save money -- with a budget the size of nearly half the world's military expenditure.
So where does Java & C# fit in those categories?
Yes, that's kind of the key. A single dog at the office is great.

A bunch of dogs turns the office into a dog park.

I love dogs, have two of em, wife is a key member of a dog rescue, and I loved bringing my dogs in the office. But no way do I want a bunch of dogs at the office.
Would people pay for a desktop tool like this? How important is sharing? I had built something a year ago (on top of PyQt) but shelved it for lack of interest.
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> is basically reserved for management or C-Suite folks

Oh comon, it's entirely expected in the white-collar world. The difference is it's not federally mandated.
Hired as junior dev for super cheap, got a lot of great mentoring at 3 different, then learned enough to keep progressing on my own.

A family member had the first half (mentoring, foundation to learn from) but didn't go anywhere. It's part of why I think it's so hard to train people at what we do. It's not at all clear what set of skills make someone good at software.
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Being able to take pictures quickly does depend to a considerable extent on the quality of the sensor; getting all that data off of it isn't trivial; and analyzing it to pick a focus and other settings is similarly hard to do quickly. And as it so happens, that's perhaps one area where sony is most ahead of the competition. Sure, their sensors have some slightly better technical characteristics in a lab (e.g. noise, dynamic range), but I kind of doubt they're enough to make a really noticeable difference compared to the competition. But they are really fast; e.g. show-off stuff like their relatively new RX10 gen 4 (see https://www.dpreview.com/products/sony/compacts/sony_dscrx10... ) have some fairly interesting features precisely because they're so fast. 24fps full phase detection autofocus? And it may well be able to do some image analysis to even detect, follow and focus on moving eyes at that speed? For frame of reference, canon's top end pro stuff (1DXm2) has around the same resolution, and just 16fps, and nikon's D5 "just" 14fps (not that they're really competitors, but just to give you an idea of what's technically high-end).

Speed matters, and that's not really primarily a UI issue; it's to a large extent a technical challenge too. Shutter lag isn't new, and it's been an important stat for a loooong time. Even without any further information whatsoever, I'd be willing to bet that the lumia's shutter lag wasn't just a matter of poor UI or camera app software; but also one of sensor and other imaging limitations.

TL;DR: if your old iphone had used your old lumia's imaging hardware, it probably would have been slow too.
A language-agnostic documentation tool
That's basically what Medium is doing now, right?

They offer $5/month subscriptions, and the money from subscribers is distributed among those writers who published members-only content based on the amount of "claps" (likes) each subscriber gave.
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