skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
News Feed App with Text Messages Using Twilio and Turbo 360
> I suspect the truth is between these extremes.

That's not a very bold prediction, that the truth is somewhere between the two extremes.
> Japanese picked them up before the standardization occurred and so missed out on the homogenization.

Actually, the writing with 𠂇 is older than the japanese using the characters. The wikipedia page on stroke order suggests the homogenization in stroke order might have happened last century.
It surely depends on the size of the room. In my father's flat (50 m^2, one bedroom), there's enough room to expand the table without taking any major furniture out. The table needs to be moved to a different spot though. I haven't asked him where he gets the extra chairs from - probably some from the bedroom/kitchen, but still you need more. Also, with 8-10 people it gets crowded in the room, but that's not a problem (or - even more fun) if you're dining with people you're close with.

TLDR: it's not ideal, but doable.
I don't want a Tesla because they're green. I want one because they're wicked fast, because they provide full torque from a dead stop. Because I hate the gas station. Because the interior is both luxurious and minimalist. I want one so much, and I could care less about the environmental impact. Long term, electric cars will fully replace the ICE because they're simpler, faster, and cheaper.
This argument assumes the the rich only spend 1% of their income.
> unless you believe it is totally random

Nassim Taleb has built an entire writing/speaking career on the premise that most success (particularly in the financial industry) is predicated on N events, where N is low enough to statistically produce exactly the number of Warren Buffetts, George Soroses, Jeff Bezoses, etc that we see today, by mere chance.
Can hot water freeze faster than cold water?
As someone who used to work trafficking ads and spends a lot of time blocking them myself, I'm of the opinion that this is the approach to take.

ReadTheDocs and sites like BikeRadar are my favourite examples: If I go to a bike site, I expect the ads I see to be about bike stuff. If I'm on a technical site (like Stack Overflow or ReadTheDocs) I expect to see ads about related technical topics.

Unfortunately the advertising industry has gone down the route of hyper-invasive, user-data focused advertising, for what I consider to be very little benefit to either publishers or users. The only people who benefit are those who pedal the tech that enables this market.

With all the ML tools available to us now, I'm not sure why we couldn't build tools that accurately match ad content to site content. You don't need to invasively track users users this way either, because you only ever need to be concerned with the topic of the site/article and not who's seeing it.
Chinese character tattoo translation find a source
From my perspective, on one side, they messed up on compartmentalization/access control. On the other side, the US is and should be held to a higher standard than China or Russia. Insiders are sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution, and when they see secret mass warrantless surveillance, and wars fought on dubious pretenses, one has to decide if you follow orders or do what you think is right by the Constitution. Additionally, from what I have seen, and I think this was pointed out by Ed Snowden, whistleblowers have been strongly disincentivized to use official internal channels. I don't know how Russia and China do it, but the US's open and free society has always been the source of its strength, and I hope it continues to be so.
This is a recent list of founders ousted by investors:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/22/ousted-founders-ubers-travis...

Briefly:

Steve Jobs, Apple
Travis Kalanick, Uber
Jack Dorsey, Twitter
Parker Conrad, Zenefits
Andrew Mason, GroupOn
Jerry Yang, Yahoo

This is just a small number of particularly high-profile cases.
^^^This.

I run Adsense on https://arcade.ly. The pages are heavy anyway because they implement games, and much of the payload is music and, to a lesser extent, sound effects. As an experiment I tried loading the pages without music and was nothing short of appalled by the amount of crap Adsense downloads.

Thing is, it's not Adsense itself that's the problem: it's the adverts themselves and the lack of control/moderation Google chooses to exert over ad providers. They serve up tons - I mean really a lot - of JavaScript, which tries to track you in N different ways, all so they can display a hyperlinked image with the most basic of animations and mouse over effects. This payload, often running to well over 1MB, measurably slows load and execution performance on the page.

The creepiness infuriates me, but it's the overall shittiness of the development practice that produces so much bloat for so little value I find most offensive. I mean these people go in to work, half-ass throwing together a bunch of code and assets in the worst way imaginable, and then carelessly spooge their effluent all over the web... and then they have the audacity to start whingeing about people running ad-blockers. What do they expect?

My site gets next to no traffic at the moment but if/when it's grown a bit I'm going to start looking at non-ad ways to earn money from it. I'm even considering ditching them at the moment to see if that might help grown traffic in itself.
Came here to comment on AGPL. We use Celery a lot. Sometimes for really small projects. Sometimes for Fortune 500 companies. Either way, AGPL isn't an option and managing commercial licensing on something like this for each customer is a huge pain. Despite my technical interest in the project, I can't really get past the licensing. It's a non-starter for me.

I hope it works out for the author. If not, maybe there are other revenue generation options that could be paired with a less restrictive license.
Grocers here use eggs to drive foot traffic. I've paid $0.50 for a dozen in the last year and usually pay around $1.
[INTERN][RA][PhD] Opening at Precog Lab
Cristiano Ronaldo welcomes baby daughter Alana Martina into the world
Came across this post by my advisor (PK) at the Precog Research Lab in IIIT-D, New Delhi, India where I worked for a year before heading to do my Master's. Great place to work at with an amazing bunch of people doing some awesome work.
It wouldn't work anyway. To make up for the advertising revenue, that subscription would have to be in excess of $100/month per household, and you'd need to get virtually every household in wealthy nations to buy into it. The amount of marketing money spent each year is on the order of 10-11% of all revenue made by companies selling consumer goods... you can't replace that with some $10/month subscription even if everyone paid it.
Has anyone had experience transitioning a Bubble app into an actual coded app/DB outside of Bubble?

I could see it as an interesting solution for rapid prototyping of ideas, but I'd be concerned about lock-in and extra expense later when migrating to something more robust.
Tunneling isn't really a paradox, it's just a direct contradiction with classical mechanics.
It's debatable that he did. Politifact rated it "mostly false."
Interesting. I’m interested in a related MS/PhD with a similar math background as OP and assumed I was disqualified.
I enjoy good food too. Certainly depends on the people. For others, food is a tremedous point of stress. But I think all people can enjoy a dinner party, regardless of the food.

Two somewhat related cultural touchstones:

1. Truman Capote’s party of the century — the menu hardly seems like a highlight: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_and_White_Ball

> The night's menu, to be served at midnight, consisted of scrambled eggs, sausages, biscuits, pastries, spaghetti and meatballs and chicken hash, a specialty of the Plaza and one of Capote's favorite dishes.

2. Dialog from Glengarry Glen Ross:

Ricky: Did you ever take a dump - made you feel like you'd just slept for twelve hours?

James Lingk: That I -

Ricky: Yes? [James Lingk laughs.]

James Lingk: I don't know.

Ricky: Or a piss? Great meals fade in reflection. Everything else gains. You know why? 'Cause it's only food. This shit we put on us keeps us going. It's only food. The great fucks you may have had, what do you remember about 'em?
TL;DR: based on user reports. nothing special or interesting. I regret reading this.
I completely agree, and in writing this post it was one of the pieces of feedback that came up.
Ultimately we decided to go ahead with the verbiage because it would be the most easily understood, but the _message_ here is not about junior vs senior or organisational hierarchies. It's about peers and interactions between more and less experienced persons.

I interact with people daily who are far more "senior" to me on specific topics, and I to them on other topics.
Also if it's not in text, you can't use all the tools effectively, like diffing, versioning, to actually create reliable tools with few bugs. I'm very skeptical of graphical programming.
As a former military wife who helped build my husband's career, raised two special needs kids on a tight budget, homeschooled them when the school system failed them, etc, this comment really ticks me off. It is like saying women are only whores and their only measure of worth is being good at extracting money from men by sleeping with them. The more money they extract without really producing anything of value, the more we praise them. I find it grotesque that anyone would make such a remark.

It also feels very personally insulting to me as it dismisses my competence as a mother based on the fact that I failed to marry a millionaire. I really can't manage to express how completely inappropriate I feel the remark is.

To the assholes downvoting this: you are sexist pigs. May you burn in hell.
Or what about wave particle dualities?

How can one particle interfere with itself?
Any dictatorship has a ruling coalition, so I think you are making an artificial distinction. What keeps a dictator in power is his/hers ability to compensate their ruling coalition to keep in place a system where you do not have to rule in the best interest of the majority.

A core tenet for a successful dictator is the power and willingness to replace anyone that acts against your interest with someone from a large pool of replacements. A dictatorship also only thrive when most people are relatively uneducated so that they can't challenge you and that most people do not have enough resources to afford dissidence.

If you want to learn more about the topic "The Dictators Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics" is highly recommended.
Hi Sean! We met a few weeks ago at OOPSLA.

The paper I have in mind is Zhai et al's "Automatic Model Generation from Documentation for Java API Functions" presented at ICSE last year, from Nanjing University. It is arguably more of an SE paper though, and a lot of the authors are at US/Canadian universities; for all I know, she did most of the work in the US.

Still, the number of good faculty who come from China is growing; it's only a matter of time before some of them choose to start research groups back home.
As long as you do explain later ;-)
I think it’s the fear of being trapped with people you might not like and not being free to speak your mind.

In a restaurant you can leave at any point with very small excuses; you can safely blame the cuisine if you don’t like it; and it’s a large environment with distractions, where one can simply “blend out” if he wants to. At somebody’s home the attention on each other is more intense, it’s a small and quieter environment, you can’t tell the host that his lasagna is terrible or his background music is atrocious, and it feels a bit offensive to leave early.

This sort of thing is not an issue if people are close friends who can safely slag each others’ off, but in an increasingly globalised and atomised society the ratio of friends to acquaintances has decreased significantly, so gatherings probably tend to feel more formal.
I worked at Trimble Nav in the radio group. 5W for a consumer device is on the high end. UHF base stations often do around 25W-50W+ for wide-area coverage on top of a tower. If you did like a coworker did with a YAGI antenna and accidentally place a base-station onto high-power mode, nearby flesh (<10cm) will receive a significant radio burn.
> Most of what we do though is thinking about a problem and how that relates to what computers do.

Ah... now, in my mind, you're getting into Software Engineer territory. Programmer, to me, simply means you know how to make a computer do what you want. That can be "knowing how to search for someone else's code that makes the computer do what you want" at times. Once you get into thinking about the problem and how that related to what computers do, you're getting out of that generic "programmer" term and into engineering.
From the article it says a wealthy laborers tunic is one shilling. Somewhere else it mentions max salary for a laborer of £2 (40 shillings). Both around the 1300s.

In the UK today a £40k salary is pretty good, above the median and AVG, so at most a decent tunic cost like £1000 in today's money (at most $1500), probably less. So it the right order of magnitude, but over-estimated.
Thanks, glad you liked it :-)

There's definitely a strong bias in our industry towards "greenfield" things - everyone wants to do the fun, exciting, initial work. But once the new shiny coating has worn off there's a ton of really hard work to do with resilience, robustness, scaling, etc. Too many people just give up at that point, get bored, and do something else.
The Fallacy of Success (1915)
Keep in mind that these microbenchmarks are run with N=10000, which mostly renders the 600ms total latency difference insignificant. Its also highly likely that the gap will become minimal over time.

If that's still a non-negligible difference, I don't see why one wouldn't just write a server in something like go instead. Node isn't the best choice for a performance-sensitive application.
The signal-to-noise ration and linkedin is surely very low nowadays. I am actually working on a article describing what I learned hiring and firing freelance recruiters who work mainly with Linkedin.
Try not to live your life counting down 2.5 years of your future.

In hindsight, those 2.5 years will be just a heartbeat.

I suggest doing your best to find ways to enjoy the immediate presence, and the future will take care of itself.
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It's plain text already in table form. You can have it in whatever table form you prefer with less than 30 minutes of work.
Possessives in English only get a single apostrophe at the end if they are plural. "Besos" is not plural.
"you might have actually made a well-formed argument".

I'll leave you to pat yourself on the back. The downvotes don't bother me in the slightest.
...and as an undergraduate he lived in the dorm Senior House, which was recently shut down by the MIT Administration because students who lived there allegedly "could not succeed".
I would disagree slightly with this, one recipe I made used the reaction between the baking soda and the buttermilk to provide the "fluffyness", since I wasn't aware I didn't finish the prep fast enough to get it into the oven while it was still internally foaming, and ended up with a very short and dense cake. Had someone said, "You want to be sure to be baking before the sodium bicarbonate stops reacting." that would have clued me into the time constraint based on the chemistry.
> if one then assumes that Tesla will be able to miraculously achieve a 12% net margin per car (more than Audi does for its A4 series or BMW

Given that the "Add Enhanced Autopilot" and "Full self-driving capability" features are basically a $9k software update, I think the Model 3 is going to have some interesting margins once they scale up production.
How the military is making it hard to remember our wars
How do you know it’s not FU money?
The proposed Gates development has about 1/3 acre per residential unit.

That's a lot closer to "suburb" than the "cities" you were talking about.
Indeed.
As your business grows (it is growing, right - that's why you hired more engineers?) you need to scale yourself.
If you don't, eventually you'll become the bottleneck.

Following this process has a definite cost up front. You have to give up doing some work in order to help someone else grow and learn the system.
But once they do, your business now has an extra version of you. Not as experienced, but hopefully still pretty good.
Let that person handle more work, trust them, and hire another person.
Rinse and repeat.

The truth is that when you get more senior, you almost have to stop focusing solely on knocking out code or fixing problems yourself, and commit to helping others learn how to do it.

If you become the bottleneck, the business will start to work around you and then you will become irrelevant.
Congrats on the girlfriend
> Great thing about a goto is that it is a single command which can emulate any of the other constructs.

The thing is BASIC does have other constructs. GOSUB[0] has been around in the 70s and that worked like a GOTO except when a RETURN statement was hit the code would then jump back to the point where it GOSUB'ed - effectively behaving as a rudimentary subroutine (hence the name, "GoSub").

There was also the FN[2][3] statement that allowed you to write basic functions, albeit you were limited to 1 liners. But by the 80s some dialects of BASIC were supporting more complex procedures[3][4].

[0] http://www.hoist-point.com/applesoft_basic_tutorial.htm#stri...

[1] http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Locomotive_BASIC#FN

[2] https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/FN

[3] http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcwin/tutorial/chapter16.html

[4] http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcwin/tutorial/chapter17.html
Potluck dinners are just as enjoyable. That mood of sociability still happens if everyone brings a dish, and the commentary about them can be a conversation starter. It's amazing how unforgettable such meals can be.
oh wow, that's pretty cool
> Is top 5% of patents really a good measure of scientist productivity as opposed to published articles or research awards?

In my field, one can have a long, storied, and impactful career that ends up with serious business national honors and never file a patent.
The wage inflation is why I've never been too scared about these China will take over soon scaremongering tactics. We've heard the same a few years ago about Japan. Now Japan has high salaries and we can still compete with them. As soon as Japanese produced the same quality as Europe and America, they also got the same prices. The same happened with South Korea now. A Kia car costs basically the same as a European car, it's a good car, but it's not super cheap.

And Chinese products first have to show care for craftsmanship to command these prices, which is something I haven't seen so much until now. India is probably worse.
Some people learn the technique, others learn the chemistry and physics behind the technique.
He's saying that's in total/spread out, but still seems on the high side. Between a take-home coding challenge (2h?), online coding challenge (1h), talking to recruiter/HR/hiring manager (1h), multiple interviews (coding 1h, culture/fit 1h, system design/architecture 1h, whatever 1h), you're already at 8 hours for a lot of places.

I appreciate them even knowing how long a person would spend on their interview process though.
The rumor back then was because the G5 wouldn't fit in a laptop format, and the G5 became far too hot. So Apple went to Otellini (Intel) for a deal. They swapped once before architecture within macOS: from m68k to PPC. I don't know about it enough to know if that's true or false, perhaps someone else can verify?
I too cut my programming teeth in BASIC, first on my brother's Challenger 1P and then on my very own CoCo I. While it was fun being closer to the metal I'd much rather of had the 16GB laptop connected to the 43" monitor that I have now at 46 when I was 8.

btw, you can get pretty close to the spirit of the code with just a few more lines of Javascript:

var col = 0;
setInterval(() => {
document.body.innerHTML += String.fromCharCode(47+(Math.round(Math.random())*45)) + (++col % 80 ? "" : "<br/>")
}, 10);

or if you want to code golf you can get it into 1 line:

var col = 0, fn = setInterval(() => {document.body.innerHTML += String.fromCharCode(47+(Math.round(Math.random())*45)) + (++col % 80 ? "" : "<br/>")}, 10);

You can see it in action here:

https://jsfiddle.net/x5mz341z/

(edited to point to new jsfiddle with css body rules)
Tiennamen Square...
elixir one-liner:

for _ <- 1..1000, do: IO.write Enum.random(["\u2571","\u2572"]); IO.write "\n"
A hospital without patients
I have to admit, I'm rather disappointed with his response. I don't know a whole lot about the techniques of painting, and the way he described how Graham was incorrect about his statements was the start of something that could have been an amazing essay. He then had to make blanket statements about both painters and programmers, that are both way over generalized, and sexist. It's too bad, because he seems to be well versed in both painting and programming.
Thats not how capitalism works, thats what the theory predicts. The sibling comment has plenty of examples of it not working.

Anyone who knows just enough econ to be dangerous quotes this kind of crap without acknowledging all the counterexamples we see in the world. Experiment & Observation > Theory.
The same thought crossed my mind the other day, but thinking through it I remembered, for print journalism: the Financial Times (which I think has a claim on 'best journalism in English'), The Guardian, and The Economist. In the U.S. a country ~4 times the size, there is only the New York Times and the Washington Post on that level (IMHO; there's also Time, Bloomberg, and others; and we're omitting Reuters, the AP, and many more in other categories).

I think the situation in the UK is similar to the US for print journalism (whatever that means these days), with a few large blocks:

* A few top-notch publications

* Far right propaganda, substantially from Murdoch / News Corp.

* A bunch of middling, substantially ineffectual stuff

(I know these are broad generalizations, with many exceptions.)
For me it was more the chemistry informed the technique.
It's definitely not a settled issue.

> "Proper Nouns Ending in S"

> "AP: Add an apostrophe."

> "Charlaine Harris’ books"

> "the Joneses’ competition"

> "Chicago: Add apostrophe-s if singular, and add an apostrophe if plural."

> "Socrates’s tea"

> "the Obamas’ garden"

> "Les’s moor"

http://apvschicago.com/2011/06/apostrophe-s-vs-apostrophe-fo...

> "Nouns, noun phrases, and some pronouns generally form a possessive with the suffix 's (or in some cases just by adding an apostrophe to an existing s)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_possessive
> Shouldn't we be more focused on which is easier to use though?

In JS I think this depends a lot on whether you are writing client-side code or not. Prioritizing developer ease of use over end-user performance is a very bad habit to get into. But it matters less when writing code that'll run in Node.

(that said, I'm not at all convinced that the performance difference mentioned in this article matters a whole lot. It's not actually that significant.)
You should definitely make sure this - the teaching and growing of other engineers - is part of your responsibility. It's the only way to scale yourself up.
I still cannot see how https://www.inoreader.com/ doesn't get more love. I easily moved to it from Google Reader, and spend my day in the web browser version, and night with the App on my phone.
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We reddit now.