skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As opposed to what? Characters someone typed into a corporate content management system?

I don't understand your point

> Pew Research center found

Some information at last! That's what I'm talking about.

First, "excluding the right-wing media" is a pretty major omission. Excluding my right leg, I have no easy means of walking. The right-wing media is enormous, including the leading media companies in many segments (Fox, WSJ, talk radio, etc.).

Second, reading the report, the number the parent quotes excludes both media with a right-wing audience and with a politically mixed audience (the report defines it by the political leanings of the audience, not of the news outlet); the number includes only media with a predominantly left-wing audience.

Third, the parent comment implies that 95% was negative, omitting that 39% of the coverage, even in media for left-wing audience, was neutral.

So here's the actual data, for media consumed by predominantly left-wing audiences: 5% positive, 39% neutral, 56% negative.

When right-wing media lambasted Obama day and night for over 8 years, opposing everything he did, calling him everything from Kenyan to Communist, I don't recall such an uproar about coverage. And the left serve as his propaganda outlet either, the way Fox et al serve Republicans - the progressives didn't like him, and there is no Democratic propaganda front with major reach.
If you're not willing to invest because it's risky, that's fair, but if you're also going to complain that those who do are getting something for nothing, then it isn't so fair.
TOML, which is newer, has nearly 6.6K stars. Hjson has 1.5K, JSON5 has 1.8K, HCL has 1.2K, and ICL. At the same time, a newcomer such as ICL [1] has less than 10.

[1]: https://github.com/archipaorg/icl
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Interesting, as a candidate I prefer the take home project because then I don't have to cram largely irrelevant knowledge.
The janitor's salary goes up, and the incentive to automate increases. It's all win really assuming knowledge work is more enjoyable than being a janitor
Possibly, but I wouldn't think it's likely that every janitor is going to want to be a programmer. Whereas if you invest money in a school that teaches programming, there's a good chance that most of the people attending that school will want to be a programmer.

But you make a good point though, with even a fraction of that budget + maybe a little time investment from their staff, they could create some great opportunities for their otherwise non-technical employees.
Whenever I see IAP on paid apps I'm almost instantly turned off.

Do you know what sort of nature they are? Is the game complete without them? Do they nag about the IAP in game?
However, they are not more likely to be happy (down to a certain point - earning less that 70K affects your happiness; above that though, it doesn't seem to have an influence).

Happiness != Fun. Sadly, we often seem to try to maximize Fun (/pleasure/ease/etc.), and not Happiness.
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The best thing about this is the open issue claiming it's "Too much like the real Terraria source code." [1] :)

This bring back a lot of memories. Way, way back in the day i wrote a clone of Battle City [2] in XNA with a half-decent AI. I had intentions to learn and use some OOP patterns. I ended up with a handful of monstrous classes and generally a clusterfuck of spaghetti code. But... i learned a lot about AI and path searching algorithms and, best of all, it worked. I think i still have this code sitting on a disk somewhere. This makes me want to throw it on Github.

Thanks for sharing!

[1] https://github.com/raxod502/TerrariaClone/issues/2

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_City_(video_game)
On the other hand, sometimes you're hiring a professional rather than a laborer.

The difference is they'll do the quitting rather than you doing the firing.
> and frankly, they're probably going to see through a lot more management BS that younger people might not have the experience to read correctly

I think this is bigger than most people realise. Bring in the bright young things straight from university (or with a couple of years' experience) and they won't know that "working 20 hours overtime per week is normal" and "you don't need a lunch break if the company supplies food" are a crock of shit.
The internet is full of people who can help you, like stackexchange.com for programmers.
I do most of my web-dev in Nim these days. Meaning my ELFs are ultimately produced by GCC og Clang. Everyting statically linked - and I mean everything: For clib I use Musl. And then I UPX the bejesus out of them.

It's simply nice to ship a fully working app, with SQLite* and everything, which will basically run anywhere with a Linux kernel, in a single executable far below 2 MB.

*) Yes, the vast majority of the world's websites need nothing fancier than SQLite to keep them happy. And manageable.
Socrates would want us to not take anyone's word for it, including Socrates'. Plato might want the same.
I filed a ticket to end my verizon service
"Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection"
> You're essentially arguing to _increase_ segregation between the wealthiest and poorest striations of society, which would effectively redefine what it means to be middle class in America and possible wipe out the concept of lower middle class entirely.

No, I'm arguing in favor of higher-density cities with a mix of low, mid and high income under a larger governmental entity.
I think GP could have a point with Dunning-Kruger applying to EM. Here's the main difference IMO: By far most people who experience the Dunning-Kruger effect have no way of self correcting, i.e. they don't recognise when they're wrong or they do when it's too late or they keep on their path nevertheless because of the sunken cost fallacy or vanity. EM on the other hand has proven to be very good at admitting and correcting his mistakes. That filter effect combined with simple uniform-density-spherical-cow type modelling for his initial guesses combined with some of the best computer simulation experts in the world seems to be enough to have catapulted his endeavours to orbit and back - both figuratively and literally.
> When right-wing media lambasted Obama day and night for over 8 years, opposing everything he did, calling him everything from Kenyan to Communist, I don't recall such an uproar about coverage.

Because that's expected from the right-wing media, just like HuffPo is expected to hate Trump.

The problem is that the "centrist" media is biased. Only 6% of their coverage is positive.

> just characters someone typed into a field on their web browser

Every post on Hacker News is just characters someone typed into a web browser. Every text post on the Internet is just characters someone typed into a text box. What was your point there?
Florida has startup credibility?
As always, QA is an afterthought at Google.
Hi xmichael99,

I'm a lead developer from TiDB, and thank you for voicing your experience regarding reporting bugs in our community. I can assure you that our team member would never ever offend you, or any other developer contributing to TiDB, in such a way. We are grateful for your participation and support.

Could you send us a link to the issue you are referring to, so we can look into it more and make sure it's resolved? If you have any other issue, feel free to email me directly as well: shenli@pingcap.com

Thank you for your feedback. TiDB's progress would not be possible without people like you.
I think you're making the classic mistake of attributing actions to character rather than circumstance.
Node v8.7.0
Normally when I hear people disparage their early attempts at code, I think to myself, "Oh, come on... how bad can it be?" Well, this is bad. Really, really bad.

On the other hand, there was nowhere to go from here but up. Gotta start somewhere, right?
Notable Changes

* deps:
- update npm to 5.4.2
- upgrade libuv to 1.15.0
- update V8 to 6.1.534.42
* dgram:
- support for setting dgram socket buffer size
* fs:
- add support O_DSYNC file open constant
* util:
- deprecate obj.inspect for custom inspection
* tools, build:
- there is a fancy new macOS installer
Looks like expansion packs. From the Google Play page: "PLEASE NOTE: Additional content for RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic is available via In-App Purchase, specifically the three expansion packs: Wacky Worlds, Time Twister and Toolkit. The expansion packs are the ONLY content that require an In-App Purchase and In-App Purchases are not used anywhere else in the game."
As someone "on the other side ;-)", I don't think you protected much. UPX is pretty much the classic "Hello World" of unpacking manually, and tools like PEid will still be able to tell it's UPX from the decompressor stub alone.

It's been years since I unpacked a UPX manually, but I still remember what it looks like: a PUSHA at the start to save all the registers, a lot of decompression code, and finally a POPA and a JMP to the OEP. Incidentally this general pattern is also shared by a bunch of other simple packers (more focused on compression than anti-RE) so unpacking them follows the same process.
1)Male Deaths: http://articles.latimes.com/1995-08-04/business/fi-31566_1_w...

2)Female sentences: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/11/men-women-prison-s...

3)Women get more degrees: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/in-a-first-women-surpass-men-in...

4)Never married women earn more: http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/apr/09/...

Everything above is (somewhat) common knowledge. Notice how I picked mostly progressive liberal publications as initial sources, to avoid right-wing partisanship bias.

I don't want to come across as condescending, but were you honestly questioning the parent poster's assertions?
The real benefit, in my opinion, from autonomous vehicles is that they remove a major barrier for a lot of people to not owning one. By taking drivers out of the equation, you can cut cost or increase vehicle availability or both to the extent that being able to get vehicles urgently, or cheaper, depending on need, can give most people in densely populated areas an experience close to as good as owning a car. Better if multiple people need to go different places.

And while you're right that this will probably drive up demand, it achieves something else too: Availability of extensive route information. Now imagine a shared system for such cars to negotiate routing, and such cars can know which routes will be less congested, and can know which cares it is most effective to re-route because of where they're going.

E.g. there's a chokehold near me for Southbound traffic that it's tremendously beneficial to bypass if you're heading South-East, because you can take back-roads with lower speed limits but that are shorter, and that will end up being much faster when the chokehold is congested. Which it "always" is between certain hours. But if you're going South West, it's better to suffer through it.

With vehicles able to negotiate route information, vehicles going South East could be automatically re-routed when there's congestion, resulting in average speed improving for everyone.

In fact, you could even imagine a system where cars autonomously negotiate a fee for other cars to let it get in front (so you could e.g. pay a 30% premium for urgent trips and have the car company spend, say 25% to buy its way in front of others on congested routes).

This may not entirely solve the problem, but it can make congestion more about total throughput than maximizing throughput on a small number of routes.

End-to-end route information also opens the door for services to mediate multi-step routes with e.g. cars feeding public transport much more efficiently (e.g. in my case I live almost exactly halfway between two major rail stations, with two more small ones not much further away. I almost always opt for the largest of the four because it's at a central junction that gives me the best option for almost every destination so I rarely need to think about it, and it also means I know exactly how long it takes me to get there.

But if I can tell an app where I want to go, and get told to either go to the bus stop or wait for a car, get taken to whichever station is the best option and told which track/train to take, and get picked up by a car on the other end, there might be substantial time savings and often a better shot at a seat. The only thing stopping me from "shopping around" like that today is that it's extremely inconvenient.

Again combine that with pervasive end-to-end route information, and you can make it even better by ensuring not too many people get routed onto each train if two options are relatively equal and one is less loaded.
Only if you aren't willing to save the money for that up front. Of course most people prefer to get the stuff they want when they want it instead of when they can afford it (and going from renter to owner paying a mortgage does tend to be cheaper), but if you really wanted to, you could live without credit.
Isn't the example just a gif? The pause and open link are shown like it's the real deal but then it just opens up into a lightbox.

Where can I see an example of the actual embedded logs?
Original author here.

The fact that all the methods were so ridiculously large made declaring loop indices globally less of a problem. But trust me, it caused plenty of bugs... :P
I think you're wrong. Sure, I won't buy the hype, and I won't pull the all-nighter, but I'll still get more stuff done than the people who do stay all night. I may tell you your schedule is unrealistic, but it was unrealistic whether I told you or not, and you won't make it realistic by sleep-depriving your new grads.

Any owner who thinks they can get more real work done by driving a college grad hard than they can by hiring me is an owner who's short-changing their bottom line.
A man missing most of his brain challenges our most theories of consciousness
See https://github.com/BusyByte/TerraFrame/pull/1.
With the possibility of interest rate rises, investors will increasingly want to be paid dividends. When shareholders get restless, the board of directors starts getting concerned, etc.

Looking at what happened to Travis over at Uber is an example of how things can change.
Oddly, I think one thing in support of your claim is that modern people do better at IQ tests. I've read that if we calibrated correctly, then populations from a few generations ago would have absurdly low median scores -- as if they had actual mental conditions.

But that can't be right measurement. Any test that took a normal person from 1900 at found them to so lacking in intelligence that they can't function in normal life is clearly missing some part of their intelligence. And perhaps that missing something is what you would describe as broad mindedness and robustness.
> Personally, I expect that every member of my team will matriculate out at some point.

That's good - if your organization (even if not your team) has a need for the people that now have souped-up skills.
Reminds me of this https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-intern...
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I'm surprised to hear that --- I can and have seen it happening with more advanced/obscure/protective packers, but UPX is so common and very easily unpacked (and thus scanned by AVs) that I'd say any AV which gets confused by UPX is not worth using at all.
Meanwhile Switzerland, one of the top most expensive countries in the world, has tunnelled at the base below the alps (one of the most difficult terrains to tunnel due to vertical sediment layers) for ~20B. Workers died on that project too, but that risk is simply being managed rather than grinding everything to a halt.

I'd argue it's absolutely possible to improve the cost on American public transit infrastructure by one to two orders of magnitude if you can simply get a way around government capture.
Tried once, but missed the addons in Firefox that Vimperator can also have access. Too bad vimperator will stop working soon.
Is that actually the case? My impression is that the vast majority of companies bearing the Virgin brand was either started by Virgin Group, bought by them, or has seen a significant investment. Many have since been divested again, and continued to license the brand, but I've not heard about any cases where they just licensed the brand without other financial involvement. Maybe I've just not paid attention?
This is for something like the security questions when you reset your password except based on your financial records.

- Do you recognize this street name?
- Have you bought from this store?
- How many mortgages did you co-sign?

Answering a set of these “knowledge” based questions is considered statistically probable proof that you’re you.
> I constantly think about him and remind myself to not get to comfortable in an industry.

What are the practical outcomes of this? Side projects?
You might start by just googling for it and hope somebody has already compiled a list. Outside of that, for an organization that has IP's allocated specifically to them, you can search the ARIN registry.

For the US, you could do something like this if you wanted to find IP's for the Senate:

$whois "US Senate"@whois.arin.net

which gives back something like:

# start

CustName: US Senate
Address: Telecommunications Department
City: Washington
StateProv: DC
PostalCode: 20510-7202
Country: US
RegDate: 1992-12-03
Updated: 2011-03-19
Ref: https://whois.arin.net/rest/customer/C00594783

NetRange: 63.82.112.0 - 63.82.119.255
CIDR: 63.82.112.0/21
NetName: UU-63-82-112
NetHandle: NET-63-82-112-0-1
Parent: UUNET63 (NET-63-64-0-0-1)
NetType: Reassigned
OriginAS:
Customer: US Senate (C00594783)
RegDate: 1992-12-03
Updated: 2003-05-30
Ref: https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-63-82-112-0-1

So the Senate has 63.82.112.0 - 63.82.119.255 assigned. A few caveats though:

1. Those IP's might not be the ones assigned to desktop computers in staffer's offices. They may only use these for servers, or they might not even be used at all. For all we know, they have access via some random ISP - Spectrum, AT&T, whoever. Hell, they might have dial-up through AOL! In which case, it would be tough to ever really know.

2. Searching the ARIN registry can be tedious and takes some guesswork. Searching "US Senate"@whois.arin.net will give different results than "U.S. Senate"@whois.arin.net, which gives different results than "United States Senate"@whois.arin.net, etc. There may be a way to use wildcards and other fancy search expressions, but if so, I've never bothered to learn how. Might be worth looking into.
Cosplay as China day.
Something that I've been thinking a lot about lately is the idea that due to the way humans evolved, we've spent most of the ~100k years of our species existence in an environment we evolved to be adapted to. Humans have spent most of our history as hunter-gatherers, and only in the last 6k years or so have we had civilization and only in the last 100 years have we invented abnormally pleasurable experiences (crack cocaine, Doritos, World of Warcraft, etc).

Milkshakes cannot compete with broccoli because milkshakes are far beyond the tastiness of anything we would have found in the savannas of Africa. But so my wonderance is - would life 70k years ago be as fulfilling and enjoyable as World of Warcraft, since that was the environment we were adapted to do well in?

Modern schools ask children to sit still for hours and do mental work. The savannas had us outside all the time, living with close family and friends, exercising a lot, etc.

I'm not trying to romanticize living in the jungle, just makes me wonder how our ancestors felt day to day.
I want to see the problem solved, but this feels like the wrong solution.

Reminds me of the time where I couldn't trust what the UI says about the audio of my desktop computer running Linux circa 2005
If only it wasn't under a restrictive license....
https://oneplus.net/support/answer/will-rooting-or-unlocking...
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It's normal with ethereum shillers

Broken model users wont want to pay for gas to use the platform
The FOMO of Bitcoin is unbelievable :(
Link me what you are talking about
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"Ansible" and "open source" don't go together that well in my head.

I used to send a whole bunch of fixes to Ansible as they were so responsive in merging my stuff extremely quickly. But after they were bought (or /incredibly/ close to the same timing..) my PRs stopped being merged in a timely manner, often requiring many rounds of tedious rebasing as they looked at it 2 months after submission when the code had moved on. Naturally, I prefered to spend my time elsewhere...
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The demoscene continues to make extensive use of packers, more for achieving even better compression than for protection against RE:

https://in4k.github.io/wiki/exe-packers-tweakers-and-linkers

(Incidentally, these advanced packers also tend to frustrate RE to some extent, since the same tricks they use to increase compression ratios can often greatly confuse RE tools.)
Go here and scroll down to "Select historical production vehicles" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_electric_vehicl...

I grew up in the 70s and saw production electric vehicles that are not on this list. People have been chuckling for a long time and for good reason. It's not that electric vehicles won't eventually be successful -- they must. It's that the time from, "Hey, an electric vehicle would be a good idea" to "Hey, we've figured out all the engineering challenges to make this viable" is longer than the lifetime of most of the companies that entered the fray.

Look at the list of vehicles from before 1990. That's the "getting to the market first" list. All gone. Then look at the list from 1990 to 2010. How many of those will be major players in the electric vehicle market? My point is that I'm relatively old for someone on HN and there have been production electric vehicles since well before I was born. They only started to be viable in the last few years -- and even then, we probably need a few more breakthroughs in battery technology before the market settles out.

Long distance, super fast trains in tunnels? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%AB%C5%8D_Shinkansen I saw the tunnel the other day. I was surprised that practically the whole damn length of the maglev tracks will be in a tunnel, but it makes total sense. That's been under construction for 10 years. They are optimistically expecting to make a profit in 2026 when "costs stabilise".

Will long distance, high speed trains in low pressure tunnels be successful? I have no doubt. Will Hyperloop One be successful? Umm... frozen balls of ice remaining intact in a very hot place probably have a better chance, but I won't say they will definitely fail. If they can secure something like a trillion dollars and invest it wisely over the next 30-40 years, then their chances will improve significantly.
Actions are character.

If you call in to work, don't tell me your dog died. Tell me you're going to stay home and get royally drunk - if that's the truth. I'll still make it a paid day off.

Your actions are your character. If they aren't, you have no character.

I'd invest a lot in an employee and do a great deal to protect an employee. Demanding honesty is a pretty low barrier and everyone knew my policy. Don't lie. It's not very difficult.

Lies in business has another name, fraud. Don't do that. Well, you can, you just can't do that and represent me.
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