skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of my coworkers tend to keep their heads buried in details so intently, I find it very difficult to talk to them about the big picture. It is quite frustrating, as the big picture tends to inform / change the details. We often end up building things up to the strictest technical standards with the most appropriate frameworks etc, but hopelessly miss the general requirements.

I've found asking questions to be the most effective approach to help them "look up". Where lecturing, writing specification documents, or trying to describe a problem tends to fall on deaf ears - a few carefully worded questions manage to broaden the focus enough to pull attention away from the details.
I wasn't making that argument, though.

In my post I already noted some agreement with you -- it is fair to say all those things you mention play a role, and I said that. In fact, I would go a step further with improving government intervention and am in favor of abolishing farm subsidies for corn (which subsidizes junk food and corn syrup). I even think taxes on junk food and sugar is a great idea.

So I am with you most of the way.

However, at the end of the day should we be teaching people they are not responsible for their choices? Ultimately, when even with McD as your only option you can lose weight and still be relatively healthy, is the individual without fault?

And regardless of the answer, even in the extreme case of no-fault, I just don't see the lack of responsibility productive.

Additionally, I am weary of why we put some failings in a "can't blame them basket," while others not, when everything comes down to environmental influences--A person left to age from birth in a dark, silent room will not be a person the way you and I understand it. So should we just give up on personal responsibility and blame everything on everyone else? There is not one shred of taking individual responsibility in that article.
can confirm. My day job is coding in Clojure, which I love, but if I get a spare Sunday afternoon I'll do some coding in Pharo, playing with Roassal
React and other framework licensing
What do you guys feel about React's licensing controversy? Would you use it for your startup? If not, what other popular frameworks out there do you feel is shaky in terms of licensing?
This doesn’t worry me. In fact I like the idea of coal power plants being a backup and ready to go. The more solar we have the less backup we’ll need, but it’s always nice to have a backup.
Spacemacs [0] :)

http://spacemacs.org/
I can second this. It's a book written by capable people who do some research in the area too and they don't unecessarily hype the technology like so many resources you find about cryptocurrencies.
Yet you can save yourself by simply uninstalling the this evil app from your phone, literally by 2 clicks. Or simply don't go to their pages. Log out. Delete your account.

I don't claim any morality on FB side, I think their business strategy is actually pretty clear and straightforward, but some people's complaints against FB are beyond pathetic.
I bought an iPad pro 10.5 + LTE in June, and after fixing a bunch of bugs in CoCalc.com (online coding, LaTeX, and data science), I have been pretty surprised to find myself using my iPad most of the time for backend development (for frontend dev, there is an app called "Inspect" that is kind of like Chrome dev tools). As the linked article says, copy paste is a big pain point.

What I like: speed, LTE, surprisingly good keyboard, screen nice to look at, light weight, battery life, excellent built in cameras, the new files app

What I don't like: websockets are disconnected in background tabs after about 30s, copy/paste sucks, lack of chrome dev tools, lack of a real Google Chrome browser (it's really webkit).

(Disclaimer: I work on CoCalc.)
The Future of Grocery Retail
DelivAir uses drones to deliver to people, not physical addresses
In 1973, I invented a ‘girly drink' called Baileys
Tablets are inherently worse from an ergonomic standpoint. The only advantage is the new horrible posture is different so it seems ok for a while.

PS: Humans need several inches of separation between their hands and where their eyes are pointing to be comfortable for 8+ hours a day for decades.
Ignoring the fact that it's against the law, I'd say there's a problem of illegal immigrants taking jobs away from citizens, or at the very least lowering the wages that a citizen can expect for lower end jobs.

Then, when they have children, they get benefits that citizens pay for.

Now throw in the fact that if even one illegal immigrant commits one crime, that's one more crime committed than if there was no illegal immigrant.

To compare the situation to Jews in 1930s Germany is foolish at best.

Edit - I just noticed that you use the term "undocumented immigrant." They're illegal immigrants, and ignoring that doesn't change the fact.
If we break it down into a binary comparison, there are givers and there are takers. If a giver doesn't learn early on how to handle takers, they can allow themselves to be used very easily. If a balance can be found between a giver and a taker, they can accomplish a lot together.
The emacs tutorial: ”Just type shit. Seriously. It’s a text editor. It works like you think it should. No autistic screeching required to enable edit mode to actually, you know, edit fucking text in a fucking text editor.”

Do you know the command to quit vim?

CTRL-Z

sudo killall vim

sudo apt uninstall vim
I don't see how Uber is considered "too big to fail". They aren't the banking system, they are a ride hailing app. If they go away, people go back to using cabs.
Is Amazon the type of place where you must learn to speak MBAese? (a term I first heard from Spolsky on a Stack Exchange podcast.)
Is there a battery technology that can store 90 days worth of full-plant production (which doesn't require a second generator consuming a fuel later)?

All the ways I know of on that scale actually require a second plant/turbine -- in which case, you didn't store 90 days of solar production capacity, you actually stored 90 days of the second plant's fuel, which you produced intermitently with solar capacity. (Which can still be a very good and environmentally friendly thing to do! But isn't what we're talking about as a technical point.)

Ways of the second variety:

- Hydro pumping

- Hydrocarbon synthesis

- Hydrogen separation

- Compressing gasses

And there's probably more that I'm forgetting.
I’ve never heard of that site. Good name, though.
The Real Message of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
INK'A: Design and ship startup apparel
Any decent apps that support it? I have been thinking of buying a Leap Motion to experiment together with Rift
How  to Overcome Fear?  12 Needs
Maybe... I work somewhere that works very hard to provide nice UX for people. It's a shitshow. But I'd still much rather have this job than work for Amazon.

Basically the longer I work in this industry the more thoroughly convinced I become that nobody knows what the hell they are doing.
Thanks for your dissection of IPFS, really useful to understand! Looking forward to more
Circumstances change quickly.

I'm married, things happened, and we ended up having a baby. Due to various circumstances beyond our control. That cost $100k.

As a healthy guy in my 20's, I suffered an injury through no fault of my own that led to me needing a serious back surgery. Net cost -> $250k.

Rolling the dice on something that fundamentally life altering, and expecting society to pick up the tab for the consequences of your risk management is bullshit. It is a good illustration of why you can't treat healthcare as a market driven thing unless you're willing to drop the moral obligation to preserve human life (and expect the providers to "absorb" it).
"traditional" frameworks have had the concept of "design time" since the 90s. Unless you were writing winapi using notepad and compiling with cl.exe
How does a tablet fix that? The distance between touchscreen and keyboard is even further than between keyboard and a trackpad.
The Bo Diddley Beat: What Makes a Good Rhythm Good? [pdf]
When I see people talk about living indefinitely around here in threads that come up occasionally, it does make me wonder if they are on the other side of some selfishness cutoff. It's weird to think that you'd be interested in living for centuries or longer in a world that has seen everyone before you die and day by day sees horrific injustice. It's almost solipsistic.

The same dynamic exists with those hundred millionaire preppers. It's very peculiar to actively prepare for a world in which hundreds of millions are dead and you are surviving in a mansion in the boonies somewhere. That must signal something, some kind of disconnect between your plight and the plight of others.

Though the people discussing that aren't usually obviously "selfish" so it does seem that the people who are directing the controls (or have a shot at them) usually are lacking some kind of empathy. The lack of it is probably useful if not necessary to get ahead because if you do stop to consider the world, it's hard not to find it very depressing.
Nuclear and coal often can be shut by warm weather too, if their water supply is affected.
I manage a website and Facebook page dedicated to resources: http://blockchainsaw.com and http://facebook.com/bitcoinresources. The FB page is updated a lot throughout the day and contains more than Bitcoin stuff.
The Galaxy Note 1 ended my use of the iPad as a tablet.

The iPad, however can't fully replace desktops until it can use a mouse.

Even being a heavy keyboard shortcut user, the mouse can't simply be touchscreened away. There are many tasks where the precision and speed of a mouse can't be beat, much like typing is faster than using the touchscreen keyboard (for most)

The software is there, but I'm not sure why Apple wouldn't expose the ability to use a mouse.

If tablet sales are plateauing/declining, maybe they can merge into laptops with bluetooth mouse access, which will never really go away.

Unfortunately Chromebooks (today's netbooks), or Android tablets even allow more to be done. It's a shame because iPads have so much horsepower.

The fun thing I'm looking forward to is using your iPhone/Android as the computer itself, attached to a laptop shell/dock. Apple has filed for a patent on this, and you can order a superbook from Sentio on the Android side, it's pretty slick and inexpensive.
This is an IP core rather than an actual SoC so the pricing will obviously depend on what else gets packaged with it, but based on the core+caches area of 0.538mm^2 on 28nm it should be competitive with the Cortex A7/A53/A35. As seen in Allwinner A64, Raspberry Pi, etc. It does say 2MB of L2 cache whereas most quad A53 SoCs I've seen have 512KB so the cost is probably going to be a bit higher from that. But full SoCs are likely going to be in the $5-$10 range.
I think it's unreasonable that everyone involved is considered an author of the article.
Only onsite for now.
i took a lot of classes with MBAS, they were a lot of fun and seemed like nice people
I was hired as a junior developer, without a degree, with the following things:

- A personal blog

- roughly 20 personal projects that I've worked on
throughout my lifetime as a hobbyist, most of which weren't very complete but demonstrated my passion

- A willingness to learn

- A good attitude
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Other than the fact that the Jews were living there as legal citizens, not illegal immigrants.
I wonder what was the issue with arrow keys. Were there keyboards that lacked them?
Host Your Own Open Source Password Manager
The Error in Baseball and the Moral Dimension of American Life
>I think one of our problems is that people have downgraded the importance of this. Much code nowadays (rightly or wrongly) is considered "disposable" - people think that the likelihood of any given piece of code they are writing as surviving more than a few years is negligible.

I think younger devs think this. Once you get a decade or more experience, you grow wiser and realise that code never dies, and especially the code you wish would die is particularly tenacious. And this is pure speculation, but I would wager that the number of lines of legacy code that is kept alive with maintenance is much greater than the number of lines of code that gets abandoned/rewritten/obsoleted.
Mouse allows precision selection and clicking on text that no amount of keyboarding, touching, or apple penciling.

If I have a remote desktop type of task, there's no other reasonable way to do it than to click fast with a mouse, like I would type fast if it was a shell task.
I know that ace editor[1] has key biding for vim. The chrome plugin SurfingKeys[2] use it internally.

[1] https://ace.c9.io/

[2] https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys
Why would I want my USB adapter delivered to my dry cleaner instead of my home or workplace?

Literally none of those things require a national ID anyway. You can just give them that information, if you want to.

The ID only allows to it to happen without your consent. Including all the things you don't want, like price discrimination.
Does equifax breach contain enough information to wipeout ones back account?
Is this a possibility?
What are the list of potential way where this data can be exploited?
There are advantages that electric cars have that have nothing to do with their evironmental benefits. They have massive torque, smooth acceleration, are silent at low speeds, you never have to go to a gas station, fewer moving parts so less to go wrong, etc. And even on the most coal-intensive grids in the US electric vehicles produce less greenhouse gas emissions than the average ICE vehicle and there's still a public health benefit to displacing non-GHG emissions away from cities where people live.
I always find LearnXinYminutes to be a cool "quick look" at a language syntax: https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/smalltalk/
I'd also recommend after vimtutor that you just keep a postit note on your monitor with a few commands. Replace it every week or two. You'll learn some commands you like and use all the time, others you'll forget because you don't use them. But it really makes it easy to become "an expert" really fast.
You can start tinkering with your own car. Id you tell me what brand/model you own Ill gladly help you around it.
Looks pretty good. However, how are you going to differentiate your offering from other more established players out there? (e.g. ThingWorkx, AWS IoT etc.)?

Also usually these types of "no embedded code needed" offerings are OK for demo applications, but what happens when a lot of custom features are needed? E.g. how can one add custom biz. logic to the auto-generated code? If this is not clearly spelled out, then customers are going to be hesitant to get locked into your platform I think.

You can msg. me direct if more info needed, I've worked in the industrial monitoring space for over 15 years now.
Do you have any idea of a good data source showing the total amount of state aid fines imposed by the EC? One source I've found [0] suggests that total state aid fines by the Commission from 2005-2015 were somewhere on the order of 2.5 billion euro, which is dwarfed by the 13-15 billion euro fine Apple is facing. But I may be misreading the report I found/missing some better data.

[0] rlegutko.pl/download/en-nieuczciwa-konkurencja-polityka-insight-270320171.pdf, see Chart 8 on page 18.
Wow, didn't realize all those were from 1981. I loved growing up in the 70s/80s. Begged for a computer for 3 years and finally got an Apple //e in 1983. Still have it today :-)
Funnily enough, "URLs and plus signs" is still my most up voted question on stack overflow ( https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1005676/urls-and-plus-si... ) -- same a+b example too. 7 years later, it seems even the big names have issue with this.
Do you leave your GPU mining all month long? What does that cost in electricity?
Always a little confused by what 'tiling' is. On gnome I use 'untiled'/overlapping windows, and with SYS-right/left/up/down, ALT-tab, ALT-`, ALT-ESC, etc. shift windows around on gnome. That's it, plus quarter-tiling and definable keyboard combinations?

What would be really useful is a workspace organizer that given a keyboard combination automatically opened a number of applications in preset locations (on a new workspace); i.e. set up a work environment for a specific task. Is that possible with a tiling manager?
> would you expect the salesperson to recommend an electric car

Not in the US perhaps but here in Norway I think I might. It has a lot to do with the attitude of the authorities and how much they are willing to skew the market in particular directions. In the past they skewed it for diesels now for electric. The US has historically tended to skew the market to favour on-shore producers, regardless of what they made, at the expense of imported vehicles. Now there are subsidies for electric cars so I can easily imagine that there will soon be a time when a salesperson recommends an electric car even in the US.
> My point is programmers already shouldn't want to work there, but it's Amazon, so.

I don't understand how you can make a blanket statement like that. Why should programmers not want to work there?
> Pharo, like GNU Smalltalk, has a command line mode so that you can use your favourite editor.

That's good news that does not appear in official documentation (last time I checked).

> Yes, Pharo (and Smalltalk) is a world unto itself but that's the price you pay for a highly productive, easy-to-program software development environment.

Users want standalone software. They don't want to be forced to run programs in your highly productive IDE. If your IDE is marketed to programmers as "a shiny IDE you will never be able to escape from", programmers won't use it for fear of not being able to deploy software in a way that users would accept.

> remain rigid and stick to old, familiar ways

You know what has never ever worked for promoting programming languages? Insulting people who don't use your language.
With Facebook's license change two weeks ago it might no longer be an issue/controversy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15316175
“No More White Guys in Tech”-Melinda Gates, at Grace Hopper conference.
"This time around, though, that community will be bridled with union–busting and data-harvesting apparatuses sure to make even the most paranoid techno-tyrant salivate."

This is what worries me the most about something like Facebook running the town. I can imagine their Zuck-net would have plenty of mining to flag "potential unionizers" and snuff them out before they have a chance to begin.

Unions are really the only answer to balance the corporation's power and I fear they won't stand a chance.
Note that there is a difference between retirement and destroyed. I believe my company still keeps an old coal boiler from the 1880s connected to a generator from the 1920s in operating condition. Because this generator exists and can be started in an emergency (with 12 hours warning for warm up time) we get a substantial discount on our power. I understand that about every 5 years the power company asks us to turn it on at which point we supply power for most of the town.

If you look you will see many businesses have their own generator running on the hottest day of the year - they get a discount. Because diesel generators can start on a minutes notice they get are higher on the priority list as to when they get asked to run on their own generator rather than grid power.

The above isn't to say that the power company is retiring these old power plants in the same way. I would guess in some cases the maintenance required to make them safe (or emissions legal) to use might be too high and they are destroyed.
"Never before in history has such destruction been caused by a single person."
sure, but i'm going to have to charge you a royalty of $5 per use.
Why so hateful? What does having autism have to do with this? I don't really like the quoted piece from the preface either, and even if the author has autism, what does it matter? Isn't it more fair to people with autism and more powerful with regards to your dislike to the author to just not like the author based on that you don't like him as a person? That way you don't insult everyone with autism and you insult him more.

Also, your diagnose does not make much sense; you state that the dramatised telling in the preface means that the author has autism? In that case that would mean that people like Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert or in that case most Americans (compared to us reserved Dutch people) would have autism.

On top of this you seem to suggest that you have to have some sort of mental condition to do things 'wrong' (as far as you want to call the preface wrong). What disorder do you have that led you to write cliché as 'clise'? Or did you mean 'sexy young man'?[1]

[1]: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=clise
You're probably joking, but fwiw I'm 7 weeks into Duolingo's French lessons right now and found most of this course page to be easily readable without reference to the English. It's much easier than Le Petit Prince, a children's book for which I still need to hit the dictionary a lot.
How is a web-based tutorial better than "the real thing" (i.e. vimtutor)?
Never heard of Shelly. I have always used Panic's Prompt. It has been a while since I reviewed iOS SSH options. Can anyone compare Shelly to Prompt? Or suggest other apps?
Licensing IP is the weapon of choice for modern tax evasion. Estimating costs of goods and services is relatively easy for tax authorities, there are detailed rules and so on; but IP is so vague that it can be easily abused. It's the same story with Starbucks and so on.

> there is more than a good chance that this will not hold in the high court.

That is very unlikely. The Commission tends not to act directly unless they are absolutely certain that the case is extremely clear and they have ticked all boxes. This is because these actions have, obviously, huge political repercussions; Commissioners, at the end of the day, are politicians who have been entrusted to be somewhat above the fray and to look out for the whole continent, so they usually don't want to be accused of partisanship (there are always exceptions, of course; but the culprits tend to pay a heavy price in the end). The act itself is basically a statement that they have a great deal of proof. You won't find many people who know European legislation better than EU staffers themselves, so when they act on it, it's very unlikely they will lose a legal confrontation.
I like the very short privacy policy https://fairerpay.com/privacy
Computer scientists are the new physicists:
https://xkcd.com/793/
> Unfortunately Chromebooks (today's netbooks), or Android tablets even allow more to be done. It's a shame because iPads have so much horsepower.

Exactly this. So much power, but so limited. I would much rather use my ipad pro than my android device, but the android device, which has pitiful specs compared to the ipad pro, is just as capable as a laptop.
Here's a "Pharo Cheat Sheet" PDF from pharo.org http://files.pharo.org/media/pharoCheatSheet.pdf