skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ah don't mention Electrolux, that brand has been just a disappointment to me.

Subpar dishwasher (comparable Siemens one cleans dishes visibly better), very subpar washing machine (integrated dryer has almost 0 effect on how wet laundry is), kitchen hood above stove stopped working completely after 6 months (of course this one is most costly to change because its integrated to the wall). All bought in 2016 for flat reconstruction, none of them basic models, rather higher ones (but not highest). I am not that rich to afford managing of those crappy things.

Never, ever again (I had same type of experience with Whirlpool cca 10 years ago). For +-reasonable pricing, Siemens & Bosch, for absolute quality and reliability, Miele.
Is everyone aware that this is merely a dump of "Stack Overflow Documentation" (not Stack Overflow Q/A), repackaged in PDF format ? (Also a request for bitcoin donations.)

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/354217/sunsetting-d...

https://stackoverflow.com/documentation

https://archive.org/details/documentation-dump.7z

There is no indication that these books are curated or edited.
I'm always so confused by the nomenclature in homebrew. Even beyond all the beer terminology, I'm still not sure what the difference between update and upgrade is. The docs simply defines upgrade in terms of itself: "Upgrade everything with:
brew upgrade". Does "everything" include homebrew itself (which is what homebrew update is supposed to do) ? If so are the commands redundant? It just seems like an example of a great tool overall that has all these unnecessary complications.
Time for me to get on the train and go to NYC one way is 2 hours plus, so over 4 hours round trip. It is 50 miles away from my old home. Cost is $27 round trip (off peak) or $38.50 (peak) for the ticket. So taking the train is convenient and I love it but it ruins the rest of my day.

Now there was a time when I was 19 and the last train left at 11 PM I the schedule said 1 AM kind of sucked and the next train was at 5 AM. It was with friends from LA and their flight was at 9 AM the next day.

You are on the trains schedule so I will have to wait for the train to leave. Usually if I had a quick stop in the city I would make other stops coming back home. Most people HATE driving in NYC and refuse to do it so I am not sure how much this will help.
That is an unforgivable sin of web design: do not highjack the open-in-new-tab/new-window keystrokes.
I don't see anything I said that is demeaning. I didn't say it was a shitty thing to not have a life outside tech.

If you never get burned out or otherwise disillusioned with "tech", more power to you.

I suspect most of us eventually find we need something more in our lives though — I was addressing those people (and I suspect the article was as well).
Textpattern user here.

The upcoming Textpattern 4.7.0 will be released in memory of Dean Allen.

Cheers, Dean.

https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern/commit/7d41b1ada4...
Looked at some pages on Algorithm and Java, the content looks very relevant to current practices and it is well organised!
Just because jobs are no longer mandatory, doesn't mean we won't have hierarchies of power and, if anything, probably allows for even more sex.
Probably not, but us westerners are going to be forced to compete with them sooner or later.
This is interesting coming from Koster who was the lead designer of some of the the most interesting MMOs ever made in Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies.

SWG had the misfortune of releasing in 2003, by 2005 EA was trying to compete with WoW and within a few years had nuked the game so much that they ended up canceling it. There is a great emulator out there for it, though the game at this point shows its age.
Twitch challenges YouTube with new video producer tools, Disney partnership
When is "when you were a kid?"

For me, seeing a 1980s ad is pretty funny. At least I had the excuse that I was a kid.

(Though I recall even in the 90s thinking the whole "EXTREME!" thing was stupid. I think that may have been a pretty egregious case of geographic parochialness; surfer culture may seem totally radical when you're in Hollywood, with easy access to the beach almost year-round, but for anywhere else in the country who either doesn't live so far south, doesn't live near a surfable beach, or doesn't have the cash to fund such an expensive hobby, it was much less compelling.)
"Anywhere you have employees, you need an accountant and a lawyer. This one surprised me."

Really?

That's pretty much business 101. Doesn't need to be one person exclusively, there are offices that combine both services, but yeah.

Unless you're subcontracting them.

Oh and "work visas are complicated", they are, but H1Bs are much more complicated than the average (and abused by big players as well).

So overall, it's a nice writeup, but pretty, pretty basic.
Weihenstephan is still one of my fav breweries. Would be nice to see articles regarding how some of these companies managed to keep going for this long.
lawsux.com, maybe.
A standard 35 hour work week could help with this.
Yep, Hanford Site was/is an epic disaster.

The correct response is reprocessing. Most of the "waste" generated by power reactors is actually still usable as fuel. It also eliminates the really long-lived stuff, so that the small amount of leftover waste only has to be kept stored for a much more manageable 500-1000 years.
Fortune news:
"Computer AI Can Now Read Better Than You Do"
"Alibaba has developed an artificial intelligence model that scored better than humans"

Bloomberg news:
"Alibaba says it’s the first time a machine outperformed people"
"China’s Plan for World Domination in AI"
And here I thought that was what your content was meant to achieve

If you’re selling the same thing as everyone else but your website is more hip, yeah not really a win to get excited about

You’re just hanging onto a trend until the next one

I get it though

Web dev is like home building or couture; Make up new style trends to cash in on a contemporary meme!

Personally...meh
Nothing's particularly wrong with it. I'm just not sure it's major enough to support Amazon.

I mean, I definitely hope it is, because Dallas doesn't need Amazon setting up shop here. But Chicago and Dallas seem like they have more infrastructure to support a major project like Amazon's HQ2.
I run coderfit.com, we match programmers with tech jobs in Zurich, Munich and NYC.

Since a long time I try to educate companies to at least pay a symbolic sum to the engineer, like 10-20 USD/hour.

The reason companies don't do this is because they think that if the programmer fails, paying 100 USD for "nothing" is a waste (x). Most don't value the positive reputation and word of mouth this will generate. They just assume that if you're rejected they will never meet you again and after all you "agreed" to do a free homework task, so you are not supposed to be pissed.

(x) Paying recruitment agencies five figures however feels okay because it is somewhat linked to the success of contributing bringing a new person in.
"After all, they have a competing API, Metal"

Which is hilarious because the trademarks on the S3 Virge with MeTaL API from the late 90s/early 2000s are still in effect. S3 should be suing Apple right now.
Sounds like he followed Phil Greenspun's instructions [1]!

"The Easy Way

Step 1: Read Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing

Step 2: With your new $250/hour skills, build a database-backed Web service for a Fortune 500 company.

Step 3: Take the money collected in Step 2 and purchase a couple of Canon or Nikon bodies and every lens in the respective manufacturer's product line.

The only problem with this approach is that, once you've got a cabinet filled with lenses, you still have to figure out which to take out for a particular project and how to use it effectively. If you're rich, read "get" in the following headlines to mean "take out of cabinet". If you're not rich, read "get" to mean "buy from one of the photo.net recommended retailers"."

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20030401081311/http://www.photo....
> You have paid 0 for the use of Google's servers and their software.

> unfortunately you aren't the customer, although you might feel differently and they've definitely marketed things in a misleading way.

That's a false distinction. I paid for the product, which includes the hardware and the software they decided to integrate. I'm their customer. However, Google will still try to trick me into shadow-working for them and give me no help when their system misbehaves, because they don't know how to deal with human user-customers.

Basically, not that "I'm not a customer" it's that Google treats its customers badly.
I'd offer up that while it may be useful to compare outcomes with zipcode, the same research would benefit from more granularity, and often is. For example, block to block neighborhood boundaries can reveal remarkable contrasts between socio-economic conditions.
The city of Los Angeles really needs a graphic designer
If you smash a salt crystal with a hammer, all the resulting pieces end up with equal charges of anions and cations, so were any ionic bonds really broken?

That covalent bonds are broken seems obvious if you ditch the paper and cut through a sheet of long-chain polyethylene. The scissors don't just stop if they're about to break a polymer chain.
Unfortunately, I find this to be a similar case with office/workplace politics pretty often as well.
Given the circumstances of Manhattan, where most individuals don't need to drive into the city, a congestion charge would seem to make more sense.

But, yes, in general the alternatives for excess demand of a fixed quantity item tend to be:

1.) Increase price

2.) Have a lottery (which doesn't really make any sense here)

3.) Have some sort of rationing scheme (waitlist, can only buy X of item, etc.)
Specific Care Thyroid–Treat the underlying causes that affect your sleep
As an art installation, for its visuals and animations? It's nice, I like it. Its problem is that it's trying to peddle information, and doing so in a highly inefficient way.
Another Cape Town resident here. I've been trying to consolidate a lot of this information (and links to official sources) on http://www.capetowndrought.com. Just sharing in case helpful. :)
The perfect Call-to-Action (that makes you actually want to take action)
Yet... alcohol can not be freely moved between states. There are clearly cases where interstate trade is prohibited.
Think about the trees that are used to produce paper in the same way that you think about wheat that is used to make bread. There will always be demand for bread, so it makes sense to manage your natural resources responsibly. No natural resource means no product which means no business. Timber is managed like any other crop.

If there were no paper or wood products, those trees would be cut down to be replaced with homes, farmland, mining operations, etc. Owning land costs money, selling timber to the fiber & wood products industry actually preserves the forests occupying the land.
The IOTA of China? How IoT Chain ($ITC) Is Securing the Internet of Things
Your interpretation helped me understand most of the laws.

I hope mods replaces yours with the original.

Thanks.
How to Make Trillions of Dollars (2013)
> No matter what bs the recruiter trys to tell you, take home assignments are cheap ways to evaluate and screen out candidates. You spend X hours finishing the assignment, they spend 30 minutes or less judging it, pretty disrespectful if you ask me.

Or less...

Slightly off topic but a tip to companies that give these tests who might be reading.

If you must give a technical assessment I'm a fan of giving the candidate unit tests and asking them to write code that passes.

Then you have a slightly different unit test on your end. Same algorithm but different input values so they can't just cheat and write code that just echo's the expected results.

If the unit tests pass the candidate passes. If the unit test partially fails on a small number of the unknown values it's not an immediate fail for the candidate. I'll usually look at the code for 10 minutes and see why it failed.
$100 to commute a week isn't to high?

When the train cost $27 round trip (off peak) or $38.50 (peak) it is a pain. Also if you have business in NYC you are stuck with either losing the whole day or half a day just to get there.

Now Chicago, Atlanta and LA have bad traffic it doesn't cost you a hundred bucks to commute for a week.
In America, there is a lot of tension near the surface. It might seem like that means we have deep, deep problems. But sometimes when an issue is closer to the surface, that can mean it can no longer be ignored and is closer to needing resolution.
> Why not start charging $3k a year per child (much less than private schools) at high demand schools in order to lessen the overcrowding of those schools?

If you just moved to Boerum Hill and paid cash for a $5,000,000 brownstone and converted it into a single family home, I don't see why not.

Take that money and put it toward improving the various segregated NYC schools that you used your money to avoid.
> And another questionable thing that is starting to happen more and more is that you get something for free from the seller if you leave a review.

This doesn't seem to be that hard to guard against. Amazon could offer a large bounty to report sellers that do this, and since Amazon has direct access to seller funds they could debit their account to pay for the bounty.
I would say go to college, if someone offers you full-time programming job at post-college level pay before you graduate and you don't like college go for it.
Could you give an example where you've seen someone use the word "journalist" when you think they should have been using "whore"?
In my opinion 'maximum' diversity doesn't just mean diversity of identity, it also means diversity of thinking and opinions. I also think the division of power up to the individual level is called Democracy...
That's how it should have been done with decent UX. Simple and easy to read.
Ah fair point, should've been more specific. I was a kiddo in the late 90's. I was surprised how many of the ads, especially for things like those Life Alert buttons, were completely unchanged.

Also I can't help but notice that 7/8ths of what's advertised on TV is for seniors.
Is there any more information about this? I can't even find an article which says where he lived.
Manhattan is 2 miles by 14 miles. Unless you are moving something heavy, there really is no reason not to use the Subway, it's faster, cheaper, and runs all night and all day.

Not only that, the majority of New Yorkers do not own cars. I don't even know how to drive. I do, however, take buses and ride my bike. (In NYC you'll get ticketed if you ride your bike on the sidewalk )

In NYC, real estate is extremely limited. Why should such real estate, which is paid for with city taxes benefit so few?
thanks for the pointing...I did not have the chance to check out hn at the time...

seems that currently hn uses url as the sole criterion to identify duplicate topics; but I guess one of the alternatives to that would be to use some semantic based features to merge equivalent topics unto a same topic thread -- but then in that case, it would all depend on how we define equivalence...
I think `update` retrieves information about the latest versions, but does not actually install anything.

`upgrade` will do update plus the actual installation.
That's a good point, but if it was limited to just Netflix's own content (depending on how they own/license their own content), it shouldn't be too much additional cost, right? Basically the cost of the bandwidth, but maybe lower the stream quality on their channel.
but Amazon certainly did not invent the warehouse or the conditions some of us think deplorable. there were a few headline making stories but that is all they are. they revealed a job that many expected to not be fun but never really wanted to know the nitty gritty.

there are far worse jobs out there and no amount of automation will rid us of them. from friends that work as linemen; and they all seem to enjoy their jobs; to another who works as a vet; you want a job that not only soaks hours but heartbreak be a vet.

we have plenty of "not fun" jobs but that is exactly why we pay people to do them. there are those around you everyday, I love doing my lawn but have neighbors who don't want to.

modern economy hell, its gotten leagues better than it used to be. people don't realize how much better many jobs are because they believe the sensationalized stories of the day. I am not saying there is no room for improvement but just open your eyes to what was and realize how far we have come
> Is everyone aware that this is merely a dump of SO documentation, repackaged in PDF format ?

Yes, it's stated on each book's page.
The Joyent/TextDrive situation was more difficult than most people dream of. [I worked at Joyent from early 2010 till 2014 or so... post merger, and on into several attempted revivals of TextDrive...]

Dean was much loved by his fans and seen as intractable and 'difficult' by others.

Still - one deserves to rest in peace and not be spoken ill of. Good bye, Dean, and thanks for what you did, and what the space you helped build, has done for several internet communities (textile, textpattern, early Rails, early javascript-on-the-server...) that will yet live on.
Hotels also used to provide free paper maps of the local area :-)
Not really. Moore's law refers to the number of transistors that can fit on a die, and GPUs/TPUs haven't increased that.
I have usually held this saying in the context of code reviews, and in that context I think it's correct, in a work context you should accept criticism and work to improve what you have done.

Open Source is another matter, but in general, just because you did something doesn't make it useful, and above all most software is about making something useful.
Smartphone app development: teaching children money management skills
LISP machines?
> I'm always surprised by the only-in-this-circumstance libertarian philosophy of people who support congestion pricing.

We have congestion pricing for schools. Try buying a house near one of the good elementary schools in DC or Chicago.
I believe "brew update" updates your package list and version indexes.

It's exactly like apt-get update vs apt-get upgrade, if you're familiar with those.
Basic can be really helpful for people who don't know anything at all about a subject (eg; programmers who never took "business 101").
I can't speak specifically to the Beijing system but rationing (or lotteries) as a general approach are often seen as a fairer way to distribute a limited good than letting whoever has the most money have it.

That said, especially given the circumstances of Manhattan, congestion charging probably makes the most sense and also has the virtue of bringing in additional money that can theoretically be used to improve public transit.

[ADDED: I think the key here is that driving in Manhattan for individuals is something of a luxury good. We'd view things differently if this was about distributing relief food after a natural disaster.]
Coinbase is the only company that offered me compensation to do their homework. $100 in BTC. They paid me within a week of me submitting.

I really appreciated it, and I’ve decided to adopt that as a policy in my future hiring.
The idea of post-work is interesting, but the future in my mind looks more like "pre-work." By that I mean a generalized return to the way economies functioned before the Industrial Revolution, rather than a transcendence into some vague new way of life that's radically different than anything experienced before.

With my limited understanding of history, I understand that jobs still existed before industry. Extreme wealth inequality existed as well. The difference is that most wealth is inherited, except for artisans and administrators, who concentrate mainly in cities, and traveling merchants. And the concept of a job being something that defines who you are and carries your entire family from poverty into affluence will probably die out. It's already dying to an extent.
Especially so with your high-profile customers. There's nothing, NOTHING better than meeting your customer personally, shaking hands, visiting their office or having lunch together.

Humans are, by nature, social beings. Even though, as a civilisation, we've come a long way and have created ways of communicating across huge distances, we still feel like the personal contact is so much more powerful.

Never underestimate personal contact, especially when running a business.
You've pretty much described the Chinese room argument. That aside, we have the power to limit such coming robots to be 'dumb' in a sense, where they are only capable of doing the tasks given to them. Let's hope we can manage that.
Why Blockchain Transforms So Many Industries
This brings a lot of their plans in line with Linode and Vultr, but the new plans that allow flexibility between memory and CPU are quite interesting.
True. However, the discussion here in this thread doesn't indicate that everyone understood that statement.
From a look at the Haskell one... the pedagogy is non-existent so I think the "for professionals" label is apt. The content is not in a sensible order or anything like that: it is merely compiled as a topic by chapter.

The nice thing is the formatting and links to an online REPL where you can play with the code samples.

I think it will be a handy reference material.
Wow, I had misread his quote as,

"Learn everything about modern photography outside this door."

Kind of like that better. ;)
I can absolutely expect a company not to need massive tax breaks to come to my city, and to have a plan for housing. If Amazon were to come to the Northeast part of the city and with a plan for development of housing and supporting services, that would be great. But in all likelihood, they will just crowd our downtown and popular areas even further.
Turkish Sanitation Workers Opened a Library with Discarded Books
I have been outright refusing to do take-home tests and coding challenges. I do not care if it means fewer opportunities. They are not worth the stress. In a few cases the employer waived them, sometimes they tried to cajole me into doing it, a few other times there was hand-waving and excuses on their side.
So this microcode goes in /lib/firmware/intel-ucode (in ubuntu) will this then firmware update the CPU with the latest microcode, or only use this like a driver leaving the CPU alone?
> Win32, Linux and Android

So... pretty much everywhere then?
Essentially, this brain-hack is motivating people to prefer buying from original manufacturers and big brands over cheap foreign imports.

Whether it's artificially designed or not is a different question.
It's hard to generalize but I don't think it's true for the kinds of things Valerie Aurora cares about. My experience is that those competitive SV companies have the most supportive culture when it comes to marginalized minorities, while software companies that aren't in SV and aren't run like SV tech companies are closer to non-tech companies, both in terms of sensitivity towards minorities and political orientation of their people.