skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say that the data I have at the moment are reliable in the sense that they are collated from informed, reasonably up to date sources (mainly US government sources at the moment). I would say that they are not very complete and not very granular yet, but this is something I am working on.
Maybe one day they'll remove the latent virus code in our DNA and use those areas up for DNA Storage. Imagine if every human that went into space to colonize, had a library of information in their finger tips.
The other failing of this sort of recommendation is that it assumes all software users are using software the same context: that being as individual consumers or maybe small groups. In that context, there's some good sense.

However, consider the enterprise context where I have thousands or even tens of thousands of people that have to use the software in some coordinated fashion. A new application feature may be useful under the right circumstances, but trying to be sure what the best and most appropriate uses of a new feature in a large organization often times just cannot be an ad hoc affair. Part of the job of enterprise business applications is to centralize information and make processing that information more efficient. When the usage of that system in the field is not consistent however, then you lose a lot of that benefit.

I'm sure the author wasn't thinking about the boring old enterprise, but without context in the article it's difficult to say whether the advice is meant to pertain to the consumer focused startup or all comers.
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If the two options are that or letting it corrupt data, then yes. I'm on call for my own services. If I write a buffer overflow that can be exploited in production, I'd rather be woken up than hacked.

We don't have a 100% SLA for uptime. We can be down for a bit and not have broken any of our commitments to customers. (My current job's SLA is super lenient, actually, and outside business hours, the control plane can be down for a while as long as the services being managed are up.) We do effectively have a 100% SLA for security, because there's no way to reset the world to an un-hacked state.
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Reminds me of magic sands beach in Kona. It looked like an awesome beach in pictures so we went. There was no sand. It was all gone. Had to check 3 or 4 times that we actually had the right beach. Turns out seasonal hydrology removes the sand in the winter, but puts it all back in the summer.
I found it really interesting to observe as well, and I think they've done a great job in appealing to technically-minded people with their posts. Well, apart from their Firefox Frontier blog [1], with its awful hip-ish language. I guess that is targeted at a different type of person than I am.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/
Do you disagree with the point of the article (that in general rich flight isn’t significant) or are just sharing a personal anecdote?
Anecdotal, but I have one multi-millionaire friend who left California strictly because of taxes. It takes a certain type of personality to just up and do it and he exemplifies whatever personality trait that is.

Millionaires are established, and the article goes into reasons why they don't move around. However, what potential effect does higher taxes have on people starting businesses or thinking about starting one?
As an old-school Java dev that's been pulled into the JS world kicking and screaming, I can say that I have a pretty good appreciation for most of the complexity around modern FE builds. NPM legitimately kinda sucked up until the last few releases and is now stabilizing. I get functional programming. I even advocated for react when it was new because it felt so natural and powerful. Redux (or really react-redux) just hasn't hit that sweet spot. That being said I've seen it be hugely successful on big projects.
I've got an MS in computer science, and the thing I've noticed missing the most when I've worked with people without a degree is not their programming/software engineering/etc. ability (they seem to pick that up naturally just by doing), but their theoretical computer science instead. Mind you, a lot of crappy schools don't teach that either, but it's really useful on occasion.

I'd say go through Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming in your spare time, it's got one of the widest coverages of that sort of stuff, and it's actually a lot more approachable and better written than a lot of the other similar textbooks out there. Assume it'll take you a while though.
I don't agree that economic collapse is the correct term as it suggests total production drops alongside things like hyperinflation etc.

Rome allowed for an incredible amount of wealth transfer, but the total economic output of Europe at say 500CE was not significantly lower than the total economic output of Eurpoe at say 200CE.

Watermills were developed by the Romans, but continued to improve though the middle ages. Iron smelting has a long history, but was improved though the middle ages. You can look at a huge range of productivity increases throughout the middle ages as yields improved due to constant innovation.
I would like that too. In the LA area I have no idea where to get veggies that have been grown locally.
I've used a CSA before and it was nice to get random assortments of fruits/vegetables that I otherwise wouldn't buy. But the convenience of just shopping online for what you want is lost.

That's why my friend started Market Wagon[0] which acts as a middle-man between farmers who have crops and people who want to buy the food. The experience is like shopping on Amazon but you're buying local.

[0]: https://marketwagon.com
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The author's position seems to be that the very notion of civilizational collapse is flawed because people often come up with reductionist, poorly supported ways of explaining it. The unspoken implication here is that whoever brings up a threat of collapse in a political argument hasn't got a clue what he's talking about. Stephen Bannon referencing Gibbons work comes to mind, and, come think of it, that's probably what prompted the author to write this piece.

Denying a historical phenomenon for political gain is as bad as selectively citing a two century old book to justify xenophobia. It is revealing that the author mentions Tainter's "Collapse of Complex Societies", and then dismisses it's meticulous definition of collapse as "jargon". Before coming up with this definition Tainter spent a whole chapter describing many, many examples of social collapse including the ones mentioned in the article. The definition arises from these examples and absolutely covers the collapse of Rome, Bronze Age and others.

As for how we define and study the social collapse without arbitrarily designating some cultures as superior to others - a good example would be collapse of ecosystems. In this case you can have a sensible definition of complexity and energy intake and the collapse would be a sharp decline in both. There is a whole framework for similar studies in social collapse - see this talk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0R09YzyuCI
It's not only taxes, but taxes have played a major role in the state's poor business climate. Some of the state's major employers have moved or threatened to move out of the state in order to motivate other states to offer financial incentives to stay. GE left for Boston [1]. Aetna left for New York [2]. Stamford grew to support UBS and RBS, only to see them depart ... leaving enormous vacancies in prime real estate. You can find varying polls rating the business climate, but Connecticut has been ranked towards the bottom of many of those [4], with the state capital facing potential bankruptcy. State and Local Tax Burden Rankings study reported that Americans paid an average rate of 9.9 percent in state and local taxes in 2012. According to the foundation, the five highest state-local tax states were [4]:

New York 12.7 %

Connecticut 12.6%

New Jersey 12.2%

Illinois 11.0%

California and Wisconsin 11.0%

2014 CNBC Top States for Business (Connecticut ranked #46) [5]:

Economy – 49th

Cost of living – 48th

Cost of doing business – 47th

Infrastructure – 42th

[1] http://www.nationalreview.com/article/429874/ge-leaves-conne...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-29/aetna-s-d...

[3] http://www.hartfordbusiness.com/article/20170509/NEWS01/1705...

[4] https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/fun-facts/states-with-t...

[5] http://www.ctcpas.org/content/26536.aspx
Karnataka is governed by the Congress Party of which Indira Gandhi was the leader (and Prime Minister of India). I think that's the only connection.
It's interesting to see this in the context of their later success, but one bit of trivia stood out:

> Microsoft is now unleashing a barrage of programs, including ... Access, a communications package for the I.B.M. computer.

This is the 'other' MS Access - the one that predates the database.
Perl is awesome. I bring in 90k+ a year making a living on perl while only working remotely ( and living in a small city where the avg household income is <$50k year).

Honestly, the only reason python "won" was because google picked it up for internal use (and that was only because of the perl5/6 debacle since why pick perl5 since 6 would be coming out by next Christmas?)

As far as "undecidable", its a feature and one of the reasons why it still remains faster than most other dynamic scripting languages.
> But what is spoiling the party is that the company was eclipsed last year as the largest personal computer software concern by the Lotus Development Corporation, creator of the highly successful 1-2-3 spreadsheet program. Lotus's revenues totaled $200 million for the 12 months ended June 30. Microsoft's revenues came to $140 million in that period.

Between the fact that it was in '85 (long before the days of windows 95/98 and microsoft really "taking over the world"), the revenue total that wouldn't even register as a margin error for today's dominating tech companies, the fact that a deal with IBM meant they had "won it", or that their main competitor is a company so that they utterly destroyed a decade later ... What a blast from the past.
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Why even 13 cents ? Walk into any Gurudwara and you will get a healthy meal for free.
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I am all in favor of a congestion tax that was previously proposed (but failed, politics):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congestion_pricing_in_New_York...

I'd actually just settle for enforcement of existing law. 53' trucks are illegal in NYC, as is driving a truck down a street that is not a truck route. The NYPD could generate a lot of income if they simply enforce the laws on the books. You constantly see 53' trucks driving around (they even literally say "53'" on the side) and no one cares... until they make a turn and get stuck and block up traffic for a mile.
I feel like the comment is misleading in so many ways. The first article even has a video showing the 'rich people' filed a lawsuit because they already have a wall protecting them from the 1800's, which is the height of the dune the government is building up. Not to mention the build-up was to protect residents further inland. Beaches are pretty much public property. Private owners have sued to claim newly created beaches up against their properties due to replenishment. I have not read a lawsuit where the government has lost its right to make it public land.
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Earlier this year, I opened up an issue to get community discussion and feedback on ways to "reduce boilerplate" and make the getting started experience easier: https://github.com/reactjs/redux/issues/2295

The discussion trailed off, but I'd love to get additional feedback and ideas on ways we can improve things and build easier-to-use abstractions on top of Redux. (Or, even better, get some volunteers to _help_ us build better tools for getting started.)
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the x-wife thing is a joke too AFAIK - but why? i don't get it and it reads very unprofessional. explain.
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I would imagine the argument is as follows:

Climate, along with dozens of other factors, produced variations in human traits. Some of them, like skin color, height, etc. are obvious to everyone. Others, including intelligence, are not so obvious.

But the idea that IQ is inheritable and variable between ethnicities is not too terribly controversial, even though it is politically taboo to mention.

Thus, you'd find that some groups are more likely to dominate fields than others (due to nature) and not 100% because of societal differences (i.e. nurture).

So the actual question for a society in a competitive global economy to ask is what proportion of limited resources are used to help those in the rear catch up vs what proportion is used to push the most gifted farther ahead.
I'm not sure this article is accurate. I started here:

https://mises.org/blog/california-illinois-and-new-york-keep...

>This is why places with highly progressive income taxes –

>such as New York and California – still thrive as centres

>for talent and elite economic success.

It it tax policy, or is it the thriving academic|tech|financial mass that accumulated due to historical events, an attractive climate, and defense related spending? I'm pretty sure its not tax policy.

>Migration is a young person’s game, and moving

>overwhelmingly occurs when people are starting

>their careers. By the time people hit their early forties, PhDs, college grads and high

>school drop-outs all show the same low rate of migration.

Is it primarily young people migrating? I ask because two generations of cold climate dwellers have migrated to Florida, Arizona, North Carolin and California. This has left many of their former states with high taxes and declining populations.

And according to the Tax Foundation: "Between 1999 and 2010, high-tax New York, New Jersey, and California lost about 1.2 million individual taxpayers and more than $97 billion of personal income. This does not include the corporate losses. Meanwhile, low-tax Nevada, Wyoming, and South Dakota –not known for their magnificent climates – gained about 172 thousand individual taxpayers and $15 billion of personal income during the same period, again not including corporate losses. People are moving to these states and their money is following. Certainly this trend is not a coincidence."
Along with a silicon shortage then?;-)

For anyone wondering: a lot of "rock" and "sand" is silica AKA silicon dioxide.

When it comes to oxygen we also have water which contains oxygen.
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We've had memory-safe languages for decades, and for decades we've pursued raw performance instead of safety; we need to stop doing that. Safety is worth a little bit of performance.
> Knowing what I know now, I could have made a lot more money going to a bar and working for one night than I have made by going to college, law school, and working for 20 years

Can you explain this to me? You can earn 20 years a lawyers salary by finding a high-earning man in a bar? Sure, I can do the same with lottery tickets..
I'm really surprised this is the first one we've observed, I would have assumed that it would be a regular occurrence, but then I guess space is pretty big after all.
Glad you could clear that up! My inability to interpret your comment is only surpassed by my inability to interpret Hobbes ;)
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I think it's mostly react-redux. There's arcane boilerplate in the connect function, mapDispatchToProps looks like a leaky abstraction, actions being passed as objects with a string in them is super brittle.

I don't have a fix, but I think just being able to inject a link to the store and then having an API that can be manipulated directly from the component would more comprehensible and cut down on the layers of indirection. I typically see corresponding action, reducer js file for a component when 95% of the logic is already in the component. Just merge them.
> Is the quality of life for the ordinary Russians better today?

Maybe today it is better, but that didn't help the millions of Russians who drank themselves to an early grave since the 90s:

http://www.aei.org/publication/russias-demographic-disaster/

> Russia witnessed 6.6 million more deaths in this fifteen-year period than would have occurred if the country had merely sustained the mortality schedules from two decades before.

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2014/09/02/dying-russians/

> By the mid-1990s, the average St. Petersburg man lived for seven fewer years than he did at the end of the Communist period; in Moscow, the dip was even greater, with death coming nearly eight years sooner.

Sadly, the poor, rural, white parts of America are going through a similar demographic crisis right now, while the rest of the country is busy vilifying them as racists.

Systems collapses have very negative consequences for those who depended on the old system.
The reduction of pork barrel politics took away the carrot... we no realize that we have no stick.
Re: Truck taxing, it doesn't have to be a long time -- we just have to not elect idiots. Bloomberg pushed it in 2008, NYC Council voted for it and the NY State Assembly shot it down.
Similarly, I've always liked javascript's dynamic and flexible nature, especially for ui programming where requirements evolve quickly and dramatically. But now that I've got a big redux app that is on a pretty steady course, I'm starting to see the value that static types would bring. A lot of the mental overhead of working with the codebase now consists of remembering the exact shape of all the data, which properties are defined on which actions, etc. Before too long I'm going to have to give Typescript, Flow, or something along those lines a serious look just for the sake of having it all defined in one place.
My links list does have a "Using Redux Without React" category page, which points to some articles on using it with Angular, Ember, etc: https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links/blob/master... .

That said, I'm already very busy just trying to keep up with the React+Redux community, and don't have time to keep tabs on everything that's going on in the Angular world as well. If you do find any kind of similar collection that's more focused on Angular+Redux, please let me know!
As far as I remember Ethereum smart contracts were designed to be Turning-complete because that would make them "more powerful" than Bitcoin Script. It seems that with great power comes great responsibility...
Dave's post is targeted at 'demystifying'. For this context, Lin's cartoon explanation excels.

If Dave's post was scoped to optimizing redux implementation, detailed code samples would be appropriate.
Omg a Chrome developer using the word “subpixel aliasing” in real life! I have been looking for you!

I’m about to go mad because I’ve been reporting bugs in subpixel aliasing under hi-dpi displays with non-standard DPIs (!= 96dpi) for a while but the Chromium QA team in India has been having a hard time triaging them, possibly because of the hi-dpi display requirement.

I’ve also got a fully reproducible issue involving CSS transforms I haven’t bugged yet as I’ve just been struggling to get someone to triage #765848 correctly as of yet:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=765848

Can you send me an email, pretty please? mqudsi [at] NeoSmart [dot] net

I was experiencing this particular bug on all my hi-dpi machines but it magically went away on one of them (perhaps after an OS update, as it’s running Windows 10 RS4 seeds) but it’s fully reproducible on all my other machines with a clean profile on all channels.
It is.

Gradle only became hip after Google forcing it upon Android developers.
The Government is just naturally less efficient in allocating resources than a free market in most cases. So the more of the economic power controlled by the Government, the less efficient it will be. And an inefficient economy leads to lower productivity.
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I would argue that their wealth composition determines their capacity to move around -- or, more to the point, how liquid their assets are. Real-estate owners are obviously anchored to the land that their property occupies, naturally.

One potential effect is that earned income (ie: wages and salaries) would precipitously fall much faster than cost of living, resulting in the drying up of credit and causing a credit crunch/housing crisis.
https://www.businessinsider.nl/trump-tax-plan-federal-defici...

Americans are YOLO. Part of me is in awe, there are rules against increasing the deficit and politicians are just wiping their ass with it.
Taking on contract/consulting work is probably a bit easier to start out with compared to starting a full on company, and can give you the flexibility needed to work your own hours and from home while dealing with your mental health.

This may be hard to find in Switzerland though and you may need to resort to trying to find relatively low paying work on Upwork, at least to start. The fact that your English is decent should help find you a gig. You should also go in with the mindset that finding a gig is a numbers game, and you will not get the first gig you apply to, even with a perfect application.

Once your portfolio, experience, confidence, and health is built up, doors should start to open.
The question was posed on a site dedicated to discussion of programming and related subjects. It therefore should be assumed that the author was requesting advice for developing abstract reasoning skills such as are employed in mathematics or software engineering. Your suggestions require explanation as to why they would help this sort of abstract reasoning. As a matter of fact, many people who are proficient in the skills you mention are hopeless at the type of abstract thought used in math and computer programming, so the skills you list are certainly not sufficient. Most of them are also not necessary (all apart from writing and reading challenging literature?).
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I was curious about two points that the article didn't touch on:

1. What are the per meal costs, aka how much of the meal does the 13c cover?

2. Is there some benefit/downside to just "free" food instead of the minimal cost?
Conceptual Mathematics and Sets for Mathematics from Lawvere are really good for this purpose too. Challenging but doable with the mathematical maturity that most programmers have after extensively working with functions and types.
Worth pointing out that there are redundancies in some routes, not in others. Sincerely, L train rider :)
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Week	Videos	Quiz / Exam	PA assigned	PA due

1	Course Overview |
Cool: The Course Project

2	Lexical Analysis |
Finite Automata	Quiz #1	PA1

3	Parsing |
Top-Down Parsing	Quiz #2

4	Bottom-Up Parsing I |
Bottom-Up Parsing II	Quiz #3	PA2	PA1

5	Semantic Analysis and Type Checking |	Midterm

6	Cool Type Checking |
Runtime Organization	Quiz #4	PA3	PA2

7	Code Generation |
Operational Semantics	Quiz #5

8	Local Optimization |
Global Optimization	Quiz #6

9	Register Allocation |
Garbage Collection	PA4	PA3

10	Java |	Final Exam