skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love this type of thing in C# because it's such a terse and well designed language. It's easy to make something stand out.

A cult favorite of devs at my previous employer was to (ab)use the power of LINQ to try to create the longest single line methods possible. I held the unofficial record for a while with a LINQ statement over 1200 chars. Innocent enough since resharper can unwrap them into sane code but lots of fun
That's amazing! Check out the difference in altitude compared to the commercial jets flying near-by:

Boeing 767-316 - Alt: 33,000 ft

Balloon - Alt: 61,900 ft
I was online in the 80s. I have an account on voat. I visit Slashdot. I should be ok. ;-)
Distasteful group think, change is the only constant. How predictably cliche.

I moved to Seattle in 1995 from 90 miles away. Let me tell you about Seattle then vs Seattle now.

1. It had neighborhoods that were distinct and varied. 2. Street life was more vibrant 3. You could have a part time job and still live.

Some of these things change because they changed for everyone, everywhere and not Seattle specific, but also not good. Now, Seattle is the same everywhere and more of the people moving here are moving for the job. Not for the place, or the people or the culture, if we can call it that. The job, they are interested in the career, in the money, in buying into a hot housing market, etc.

Listening to tech people talk about their 2 and 3rd Seattle house (concurrent, not serial) sickens me. The poorly run record shops, lazy tea joints and bookstores with esoteric books are gone. Now it is Gucci and 200$ t-shirts. Seattle is LAME now man. Not only does it cost upwards of 3k to rent a house, everyone is burnt chasing pointers and promos. There is no slack, nothing that exists between the places. Tech people use a city, they don't make on.
Not Vancouver. Vancouver's suburbs. In downtown Vancouver people are complaining that 30 floor condo towers are too tall, and outside of the downtown core even getting past 10 floors is rare; in Burnaby there's 30 towers of 45+ floors built or planned within a 1 km radius.
Before Boeing Weyerhaeuser ruined Seattle.

Before Weyerhaeuser Filson, Nordstrom and the gold rush ruined Seattle.

Before the gold rush the Denny Party ruined Seattle.
Is there anything better than this kind of drama? Obviously I feel sorry for those hurt, and this sort of behavior is awful, but as an onlooker I live for these days. Nothing more entertaining than all the drama in the wake of something like this. Hope no one takes this as an endorsement of the behavior or support of being a bad person. Maybe you can look at this comment as directed at other people like me, with less involvement in this world, and maybe that will make it easy for you to ignore if you’re involved in this drama! Sorry for the monologue I just don’t like getting downvoted
I was talking about penance, and I also used the word penance, so we're good, right? The quoted section is what made me think about this aspect of the issue.
I agree you based on fact that more in code we use

void *s = then use it as
s=

But I agree more that the

void* s = then use it as
s=

Is more understandable as the first set confuse me when I learn pointer. It still does. void* is a type like statement. And void is like a return type statement.
See elsewhere on thread. Also, my opinions on racism predate my discovery of ESRs writing on same.

Please stop treating me as an imbecile incapable of forming my own opinions.
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There's even a Trabby museum in Berlin.

http://www.trabi-museum.com/home
> The syntax is easy

That made me chuckle. I've tried Applescript from time to time but always given up with it in frustration having failed after repeated attempts to find whatever particular Englishey construction might do what I want (or anything for that matter). Perhaps its approach doesn't work well for programmers (or just for me).
> If one cannot exhaustively find a sufficient reply to give in thanks after so much time than I'd say that's logically identical to being unable to reply "in any way".

That is true, but that's not evidence that "ever" can mean "in any way". "You can count on me" and "I won't let you down" are precisely equivalent at the full-sentence level, but there are no equivalences between the individual words (barring "you"/"you" and "I"/"me").
In host country. Outside that, the user must follow their laws. The States don't have different speech laws. Not different enough to matter. Those get tossed when they get too SCOTUS.

If you read my posts, you'd see I already commented on what I felt about the current laws. They are right here in this big thread.
Would you think so if you poured your soul into writing a book, only to have it copied and distributed without your permission, for someone else's profit?
Yea, loon was unheard for a while, together with tesla both can get Puerto Rico back online ASAP.
"Not only does it cost upwards of 3k to rent a house"

The majority of tech workers who recently moved to Seattle rent their homes. I can't imagine they're happy about high rents either. Certainly less happy than a third-generation homeowner who's made $300K by doing nothing but watch prices inflate.

"Tech people use a city, they don't make on."

Isn't that what natives have said about immigrants since the beginning of time? They're uncultured, they're greedy, they crowd out the natives, they're only here for money, they ruin the neighborhood, etc.
Not steel, but rather an Aluminium Smelter and Mill.

Also, just down the road its accompanying power plant/coal mine:

http://www.alcoa.com/australia/en/point-henry/default.asp
I did t read his, so have graded it yet.
Could it be to avoid legal issues? Which would only make the apology worse.
I'm a little amazed that someone would honestly get that impression from living in Seattle. It's not at all representative from what I have seen.
You'll be waiting a long time, Don. That opinion of affirmative action is based on Objectivist principles that pre-date my interest in ESRs opinions on same by around a decade.

I don't know why you think that opinion originated with ESR, but your obsession with him as some sort of fountainhead of philosophical evil comes over as kind of funny.
I agree. EquiFax deserves complete dissolution as a corporate entity. Much like Arthur Anderson dissolved itself after being caught as the approving auditor in the Enron scam.

Corporations and executives as well as stockholders must suffer. For executives there must be clear disincentives to bad management. Stockholders must learn to NOT invest in unethical companies. And employees need to learn that working for poorly run companies is a poor career choice.

Otherwise, these events will continue to occur and everyone on the inside will glad hand each other about how they got away with it.
I had a mini, which was a very unique and fun design, and once had a Rover Metro as a temporary car while our car was in the garage -- also a vey fun car to drive and solid as anything.

Supposedly, the problem Rover hit was though their last-developed large car (Rover 75) was very good and reasonably popular, since they'd been pulled away from working with Honda by the sale to BMW, they had neither a modern middle-sized car nor a replacement for the Metro. Put that together with being passed from hand-to-hand (from BAe to BMW was 6 years, BMW to Phoenix another 6, and Phoenix lasted another 5) in an industry struggling from overproduction, and it was always problematic.

Whenever Citroen, GM, etc have gone bust, their respective governments have always stepped in. Competing in a loss-making industry against government-backed competitors is one tough game.
In a normal economy the only thing regulating supply, is demand.

The kind of organization that imposes supply constraints to sarcastically prevent "oversupply" are called cartels. You know, like a drug cartel?
Glad you enjoyed it. :) I sometimes to use parentheses to indicate rabbit-trails of thought, if that's what your comment was referring to. And yes, I guess it is pretty nuts to be running a big company. Not that many of us would know anything about that. :P
If I'm not mistaken, the person that you're responding to is from Australia and lives in one of the cities where Ford closed their factory :)
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Fucking car drone.

Cars are not a sustainable form of transit for cities. Those shitty suburbs that can sustain cars cannot sustain themselves.

Seattle is too confined by water to allow for your 18 lane highway, that wouldn’t help traffic anyway.

You aren’t stuck in traffic, you ARE traffic. Idiot.
You can also filter by aircraft type BALL to see only the Loons.
This article makes a clear case why we should NOT be using Twitter. This means that in a supposedly open society and with a supposedly open technology there will be a company patrolling what each of us say, to see if it corresponds to what THEY believe to be appropriate? You can please count me out.
I love/hate it when someone writes a linq statement and ends with "look, one line".
Oh, don't think I'm suggesting they're impartial stewards. But they should have some incentive not to be the co-defendant in every police assault case where the video goes missing.

It is probably easy for a records clerk to export redacted video, but should be hard for them to really delete video, or tamper without leaving a trail.

Some customers might justify the risk, I suppose. But if they were to regularly winkwink at cops deleting video evidence, they'd get walloped.
You're attemting to make a very disingenuous deflection, so I'm not going to answer anything but this:

"Also, my employer requires me to wear pants at work, but they have never provided any. Are they in violation of California law?"

Apparently you don't read the law - the answer is yes they do if there is a specific company-identifying uniform that must be worn (like in the case of fast food restaurants) and they are not legally allowed to charge you for it - they must provide it free of charge.

Go read the law. Everything you've asked me is answered in it.
That's been my number one question for a while now also in regards to other cases and other 'apologies'.

Would it makes sense for the perpetrator to go to the police and admit guilt? Would there still be consequences in that case? And if so, is that part of the reason why these apologies always seem to be very vague about details?

And if all that, should we expect anything less from an 'apology'?
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This looks interesting, but I would suspect if GitHub implemented wildcard matching, like this:

https://public.gitsense.com/insight/github?r=tensorflow/tens...

they could significantly improve discovery.
Would you support banning Obama for creating war with Assad, if he commented about it on Twitter?
Oh wow! So just like that Puerto Rico has clean drinking water? Neat!
> communism would have fallen apart on its own, likely without millions of deaths, if we hadn't gotten involved

Communism caused more deaths where we weren't involved than where we were.

This is confounded; the areas where we had no influence had much larger populations. But it is indisputable that if we hadn't gotten involved at all, communism would still have caused many millions of deaths.
And of course they would be using this only against people that have no economic or political power. Otherwise they would have banned the big liar and instigator that sits in the WH.
Because JSON is a text format, nobody prevents you from encoding floats like this:

{ "int": 1, "float": 1.0 }

Of course it's up to the parser implementation to interpret 1.0 as a float.

The spec is very relaxed about the number type:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159#section-6
What makes you think that anything about my opinion of affirmative action has anything to do with ESR?

Here's a clue:

https://ari.aynrand.org/issues/culture-and-society/more/Raci...

Last I asked, ESR wasn't an Objectivist, and in fact we disagree on some fairly fundamental issues of epistemology. He's a fucking pagan, for starters!

I don't know what your beef is with ESR, but the whole world doesn't revolve around him, man.
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Damned right. It is very scary. Fortunately, more people are starting to fight back. I've got a ready army of supporters, but they are Nazis and I'm not sure how helpful they will be.

The ACLU and EFF are busy right now. But they are on my side. They put up announcements but aren't able to do much. So, I keep doing what I have been doing.

I get two or three converts each time. I watch the karma change. I see the replies.

If you're not supporting free speech, stand over there and let us do it. When it finally clicks in, come join us - but you will be defending horrible speech. Horrible...

I go and immerse myself in this speech. I make it know on that I am not one of them. I go to voat and tell them my race and political views. I tell them that I'm there to fight for free speech. They actually accept me. Mostly... I've got a few to move out of their white nationalist gangs and one is getting a tattoo removed. So, it's a start.
I got a better idea. Force the researcher to create and submit a little mini documentary on the subject along with the paper.
My understanding is that the military and police, as representatives of an elected government, are legally allowed violence and should also be allowed to exist on Twitter.
> Seattle is very limited with the amount of land available.

Tunnels don't use land.
Given the year, that sounds suspiciously like the IBM 75gxp Deathstar fiasco. It probably wasn’t your fault at all.
A true hippie would wear a wig. ;)
i didn't even know who this guy was and still kind of don't. what makes these tech bloggers such a thing?
Woah: there’s little risc v’s in wide spread heardware hidden in plain sight?
But you have to build that subterranean ramp. The tunnel cost billions already without the ramp, how much more would it cost with that added complexity? There will still be surface streets where the viaduct is located.

I'm not a transit engineer but I do think this is one of the drawbacks in the kind of radical democracy we push in Washington. Everything goes up to a public vote, even things the public can't really fully be experts on.
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Thanks for the interesting comment. The 'old Seattle' is interesting.

Have you lived in any other big cities? I am not from Seattle, but have lived there and extensively been told about this 'old Seattle.' I imagine there was indeed something perhaps a little bit special going on below that grungy, steely grey patina. Not just aesthetically, but pragmatically.

When Hendrix went into the military, he was called a weirdo. He was caught masturbating in the toilet, which was listed as a reason he was subsequently discharged after twisting his ankle on a jump.

Kurt Cobain one of my favourite artists, also, a weirdo. By today's standards of rape, he did rape a retarded girl in order to lose his virginity.

Layne Stayley... A bullied, self-destructive drug addict with a history of self-harm. Even after some early successes, he was kind of like Musk in the sense of receiving a lot of bullying among all the praise (for example, Hetfield frequently made fun of him).

Some of the most important people in defining Seattle as producing great artists were, perhaps, prone to failure in life.

In the city I grew up in, under the shadow of glitz, glamour and wealth, we have high occurence of violence, aggression, intolerance for deviance and a strange love of veneers of wealth and success. I can imagine not all the great artists who grew up here made it.

Also, I would wonder what would happen to those guys if they were born today.
The ramps to get in and out of them do though. Also tunnels do occupy space. Seattle already has a bus tunnel and a rail tunnel to avoid. On top of being built on Jell-O.
> I notice that when I stand up for something on the political right, I'm often assumed to be a member of the right.

I was downright called a "Russian shill" just a few weeks ago. I criticized something Clinton did or said something about "the Russians" campaign. They proceeded to go and dig though my post history and found something 300 some days ago about how I speak Russian, so that was their proof that Putin is sending me a check every month.

There is a definite feel lately of "If you criticize my party, then you clearly must be a member of the other party, probably from the most extremist sub-group of it."
Nice! I can see more too.

Using out parameters, these are highly discouraged. C# let's you do terrible things (including goto) but the community is pretty aligned that it's bad practice. In my years of doing C# I've never used one once.

Not using var anywhere. This is C# type inference 101.

Throwing "Exception" in catch with only a message. This is horrific because it throws away the original context and any stack trace. You can just say "throw" (just the one word) or rethrow the exception with an innerexception with the original info trivially. This is unforgivable, an experienced C# developer would never do this.

Extraneous uses of "this" when it's the default.

Initializing variables to null

Not using shorthand object initializers(but this is only in newer versions of C#)

Using class variables instead of properties

Using parse instead of TryParse... Like Java exception handling is an expensive stack unwind on failure, not supposed to be used for control flow.

The worst though, is how did they didn't make a method to reuse the SQL connect and data table code and instead copy pasted it around 20 times.
Absolutely. As a multimedia producer, I can not use a keyboard without numpad, not only with blender, but with many other open source or proprietary software.

Especially Adobe products are terrible with keyboard shortcuts, where in some cases you can not edit (AE) or can not map properly in non US layouts.
> we always need a section of the population that is in a constant state of dissatisfaction to challenge the status quo

For its own sake? If everyone was satisfied, what would be wrong with the status quo?
The exits, entrances, and ops building uses surface land.

There is limited subterranean land as well.
Wait, your name is really "Dan"? I always assumed you were named after a Far Side cartoon...

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/6a/eb/88/6aeb88bb92708a942a2563adb...

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/61/f9/bb/61f9bb66cc0e79f06246876ba...

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Tunnels digging costs are roughly proportional to the square of their diameter, if we take Elon Musk's word for it.

So a six lane tunnel probably cost more than twice of four lanes.
Hi native,

I was shopping for a new house in the Seattle area and randomly some people started talking to me (from the Southwest). This never happened to me before. I was kind of weirded out. I said, "so you guys MUST NOT BE FROM HERE." They are like, "no way. We are from the Mid West!"

We invited each other to back yard barbecues within a month.

Never happened with a native here.
I hear about people recording the police with their phones now and again, and it always makes me think of the balance between

1. If I have my phone on and recording, the police can seize it (ie, grab it from me). At best, I'd be able to turn it off, but it's been shown multiple times that they can force me to provide my fingerprint to unlock it.

2. If I turn my phone off (so they need my pin, which they can't force from me), I can't record.
A good apology doesn't have to be "several pages long." A good apology could have been shorter than the bad apology he gave.

For example, he could have said this:

"I apologize for repeatedly sexually assaulting women at conferences, including Quinn Norton. Over the years, I've done this more times than I can count. What I did was is illegal, and rightfully so, because everyone has the right to be safe, and to decide who is allowed to touch their own body. I'll never sexually harass or assault anyone again. Most of the time I did this, I was drunk or high; I went sober over two years ago. I'm also seeing a therapist to help set me straight."

That good apology would have been half the length of the bad apology he actually gave.
Seems crazy to spend as much as they did and only get 2 lanes each way. I'd love to see better road and rail infrastructure, but road construction, unlike road maintenance, doesn't seem to be WSDOT's thing -- I think due to how the plans have to be approved directly by voters. (Their pass-clearing operations on I-90, etc. are amazing, though.)
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Read "venture deals".
What prevents someone from getting a job there and tampering with them while in the factory when no one is looking?
$2b per mile (vs $5-10m for a regular Highway). I wish tunnels were cheaper and faster to build.
Go to a city with sprawl. Lets take St. Louis. 20+ miles is all sprawl and people move further still. 20 Miles is nothing.
Computer-Algebra-System,

And okay, you can do lots of math... even it all without tools. I remember having a basic math test that was fully analog. But...

while knowning all the basics is useful. e.g. knowing how to compute a square root. It is also important to know how to combine all these things and reach higher.

Tools let's you reach higher.
You are entitled to your views. But, I don't want my remarks about amends conflated with penance.

I replied at all because of this line:

I'd just once love to see one of these abusers make some kind of serious penance.

I considered replying at length and decided against it. My initial impulse was to feel like I can give you the thing you are asking for. But, then I realized, no, I can't.

The individual that raped me made amends. But, he did not do penance. I eventually forgave him, in part because he made amends.

I never got the apology I spent years wanting, nor any confession of guilt. I eventually concluded it wasn't important.

I don't imagine you actually want to hear that. So, I decided to not write about it.

What you want is for these people to suffer. In a sense, you want some kind of revenge. I generally do not. I would much rather see reparations made to those who were harmed.

Ghandi said "An eye for an eye will leave us all blind."

I don't think you build peacefulness and positive environments by going on the warpath. Peace is not merely the absence of something negative. Peacefulness or a peaceful environment is an actively positive experience that can be remarkably hard to try to describe effectively.

It is probably a mistake to reply here. It feels equally problematic to not reply. I will likely not engage further.
Nah, that's still going to leave people angry. He also shouldn't name the victim, that is him asserting control.
I don't get it. The problem: A lot of lousy research gets published in order to game the academic system. Your solution: More funding. Do you really think those guys who are already gaming the system will not make a grab at the extra funding?
Police need to be held to a higher standard than citizens. Currently, they're held to a ludicrously lower one. That has obvious, demonstrable consequences.
The the Icelandic volcano Snæfellsjökull is the entrance into the Earth, to be more precise.