skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since we've decided to be unnecessarily snarky to strangers, I guess you've never seen a business make a decision that doesn't necessarily have a positive impact on its customer base. That makes you essentially the only one in the known universe that hasn't noticed such a thing.
My in-laws sold their house in Saratoga for more than 10x what they paid for it, and are quite happy with that result.
Seconded. I worked with Astrobotic (https://www.astrobotic.com) while at CMU, and many of us have the GLXP to thank for becoming better engineers and leaders.
There are dozens of us.
Being an Emacs enthusiast myself, it always surprises me how much more popular VIM is. Is this because VIM is taught more in schools? Maybe because VI/VIM is typically installed by default on Linux systems?
I'm not sure it's generational. I've always encountered developers who prefer to learn from people rather than words. I think the difference here is that now that YouTube has come along these developers are catered to more, so the people who prefer to learn this way have a better choice.

I don't really see any advantage to video over text / rich documents for learning development topics, and I see several downsides. But perhaps I'm biased, because I'm like you and very strongly prefer words.

I expect improvements to the technology will help alleviate some of the downsides to video in the long run as well. Are there any video platforms widely used for developers that let you do a full-text search over the transcript for code and then jump to a point from a list of results? Because that at the very least is a dealbreaker for me.
Don’t sell yourself short because of a lack of a degree. The labor market is extremely tight right now, and you have bargaining power as long as you have the skills.

Moving to security architecture from infrastructure/DevOps with no degree, I doubled my compensation.
Ursula Le Guin was a supporter of libertarian socialist ideals, which are opposed to both capitalist and centralised/authoritarian socialist ideologies. She was a big fan of Murray Bookchin, who came from an anarchist background and founded the ideas of "communalism" and libertarian municipalism.
Here's a demo of an interactive book about symmetry: https://twitter.com/mandy3284/status/951589414911721472

Lots of ideas: https://twitter.com/Dynamicland1
Migrating to Python 3 with pleasure
Reading the blurb on their website, it seems as if their business is providing funding for your lawsuit in exchange for a share of the proceeds if you win, not actually directly providing legal services. They need to be good at predicting which lawsuits will be successful, not good at actually winning lawsuits.

> Tell us about your lawsuit, including the court, case number, and who your attorney is. If approved, we cover all your legal costs, including attorney’s fees, deposition costs, and working capital for your business. The only time you repay is if your lawsuit successfully resolves. We’re in this together.
If I had a dollar for every time an XO, Sales VP, or board investor (I’m looking at you Todd Rulon-Miller) said we were expecting an IPO filing in two years (bless thier optimistic little hearts) and sold for executive bonuses and a common stock price for the parts then I would have 3$. Best exit I ever had was an XO who’s singular prediction statement was “I think we have a chance at building and contributing to this technology and I think that might be valuable to this software enterprise segment, do you want to go find out?”. Buyer beware, contributor beware; it’s just how the game goes. Look for the humble introspective and you increase your odds, there is no guarantee, you only control your investment. That’s a tough break for those that were over exposed you have to cap your liability to your comfort level. bummer for those that caught the bill.
a curative, but not preventative, linear-time solution:

1. if usage of ruby = 0, halt.
2. reduce usage of ruby and return to step (1).
will use that and report back
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Yes, always restaurants and designer's portfolios had the flash-only sites.
It fixed now. We had some issues when we reached the #2 spot on the HN homepage.
Dear hackerrank:

You can do scrollto or lazy load. You cannot do both.

The table of contents is essentially nonfunctional on mobile.
Argentina was throwing dissidents out of planes into the Atlantic ocean in the 1980's. Chile had Pinochet. Colombia only just recently signed a peace treaty with FARC, drawing down a 50 year conflict that has killed >200,000 people. Guatemala had an almost 40 year civil war. El Salvador had a 12 year civil war. I could go on...

One thing that a lot of these conflicts and situations had in common is that the USA covertly overthrew a democratically elected, socialist leaning government using the CIA. Thousands of people were killed due to the meddling of the USA and the CIA.
A New Representation of the Rational Numbers for Fast Easy Arithmetic (1979) [pdf]
It's tiny and ubiquitous. Even tiny VMs and embedded devices have Vim.
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Humanity has always tried to find a way to get intoxicated, whether it's beer, or drinking hallucinogenic reindeer urine. It's a basic human instinct.

Maybe society will move past alcohol, but it will still be getting inebriated on something else.
I'm not sure where you're drinking but I've most bars will have a basic Pils on tap, most likely a Stella or Heineken at that. Any decent bar will have some random German or German style beer made by a more local brewery on tap.

Regardless, your premise of bars changing out taps of universally liked is incredible subjective. Wouldn't they be pick beers that they think you be more liked by their public to increase sales?

I do agree the purchasing of craft beer lines by conglomerates is something to be concerned about but I like to think of those beers just being consistently available. It normally doesn't change the taste. The taste of Goose Island Sofie and Matilda beers, for example, are still great, and Blue Moon is still terrible, in my opinion of course.
Shipping containers could be another choice for temporary budget housing and is modular. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipping_container_architect...
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Don't think this is related to the topic of this thread. This question belongs somewhere else.
rant: another weird symptom of the world rapidly turning into shit.

It seems like more knowledge only makes the world worse. For a consumer there is very very very little benefit of corporations knowing anything about you.

The entire concept of insurance is to lessen the financial impact of an unfortunate event by everyone contributing a smaller amount. Fighting against this principle is insurance companies that want to keep accepting money but really don't want to hand it out again. To do this they will disadvantage anyone who is more likely to need their money. Some things make sense, maybe smokers should pay more for health insurance but with more and more data mining they will be able to find trends where people that do X might be 0.001% more likely to claim and will therefore charge them more. If you happen to also do X you will pay more even if you yourself arn't more likely to claim. and when they chuck ML/AI into the mix to look for trends it will just get worse.
But you can always move them easily using existing unmodified way of transport..
GDP is also flow through a country from productivity to revenue realized. Every country is not adding its flat GDP to its wealth every year because a majority of the value created from GDP goes to buying other countries GDP in the same way a companies revenue goes mostly to paying for its operating costs. IE, the US has a 20 trillion GDP but only sees around 4 trillion growth a year in national wealth the same way Amazon can have 135B revenue and 4B profit. Of course, the US having a "profit margin" of 20% to Amazons 3% demonstrates its not a one to one comparison, but the they are definitely the more apt comparisons for measuring how large an economic system is, rather than just how
much its profiting.

You could also use net worth to quantify how much "weight" Amazon has available rather than what it is actively exerting in influence, in which case it would be around the 35th largest nation considering its 656B valuation. Thats roughly as much as Finland is worth. I didn't use that statistic because I think there is a much wider differentiation between a nations wealth and a companies market cap than USD revenue vs USD nominal gdp.
So what email address should I get that will most reduce my risk of crashing my car?
Took me a while to find one near the very end, where Ketho, a Hainishman, member of the oldest sentient race in the universe, decided to risk his life with Shevefc on his return to Anarres:

"[Ketho] looked at him gravely, as if he was not sure what happiness was, and yet recognized or perhaps remembered it from afar. He stood beside Shevefc as if there was something he wanted to ask him. But he did not ask it “It will be early morning at Anarres Port,” he said at last, and took his leave, to get his things and meet Shevek at the launch port."
Despite this, in my experience, Emacs provides a more feature rich environment, comparable to an IDE, rather than only a text editor.
And getting my board back online just became tomorrows project, yay fidonet
> Somehow we've gotten from there to a point where you're suggesting that a poor person who is somehow capable of starting their own small business is, by the very nature of being poor, fundamentally incapable of making a good decision regarding disability insurance options.

I don't think anyone is actually suggesting that.

I was suggesting, essentially, that poverty is a vicious cycle. That, to quote the movie Hell or High Water, "I been poor my whole life. So were my parents, an their parents before 'em ... It's like a disease, passing from generation to generation. Becomes, a sickness, that's what it is ... Infects every person you know"

And obviously this isn't a universal. There are always exceptions, that goes without saying.
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I don't know how or to what extent it's organized, but I've noticed a considerable effort promoting C++ per se (not scoped to a particular dialect/platform/product) in the past ~5 years. Outlets like isocpp.org and CppCon seem to have done a lot to raise the profile of the language.
Craft beers are cheaper for restaurants and have a higher profit margin, and there's the "community" factor of having local brews; and in some cases just some "good ole boy" attitude. There are a lot of incentives. It has not much to do with net sales, because it is offset by other incentives. Customers don't often complain, especially in bars that are for partying and generally just getting drunk. Who cares if this local brew tap doesn't get much requests? There is no feedback, and it just drives the people who like "imports" to buy bottles and the profit margin is even HIGHER there. It's a win/win for the restaurant/bar.
Oh wow, I never thought about that! I tend to only take Magnesium supplements when I suffer from leg cramps, after working out too much.

I don't know how it would stop the grinding, but it, sure enough, sounds like it would help with the tension headaches I get when my neck muscles tense up/cramp up from all the grinding.

Thank you very much for suggesting this, if this actually stops the grinding too then you've just given me some serious increase in quality of life!
From an idealistic standpoint, I'm disappointed. It sucks seeing one of the few "highly" visible efforts on this front "failing".

From an realistic, utilitarian standpoint, I can understand why this happened.
> The biggest gap in knowledge is with JavaScript frameworks

> Most often, employers want developers who know AngularJS, Node.js, and React.

Am I overthinking this? When I've been looking for jobs, I've found the emphasis on JavaScript frameworks slightly perplexing and frustrating. I would assume that a competent web developer should be capable of quickly learning a framework. Having to know JavaScript, CSS, etc. to the level of passing a technical interview is already demanding.

Learning one framework very well is another opportunity cost. Researching and picking a framework to invest time into, then building a project or two using this new framework is another. Keeping up with the world of JavaScript framework developments is a whole project in and of itself.
Bloomberg is worth $50+ billion. They could afford Twitter.

Michael Bloomberg is worth an estimated $52 billion per Forbes. He owns 88% of Bloomberg the company, and nearly all of his wealth is wrapped up in the company. It's an extremely profitable business with $9+ billion in revenue.

It was worth ~$22 billion during the great recession, when Michael Bloomberg repurchased 20% of the company (rather brilliant timing, buying it from Merrill Lynch). That was a decade ago.

https://www.forbes.com/profile/michael-bloomberg/
I seriously doubt any person with intact sleep regulation could go anywhere near eleven days without microsleep. Wikipedia is wrong in suggesting that was the case with Randy Garnder (Wikipedia is in general not a reliable source on sleep issues). There were at least strong signs of microsleeps before the fifth day (noted in the study[0]) and my guess is that occasional microsleeps would have happened earlier. They did not closely monitor for microsleep.

[0] Gulevich et al. Psychiatric and EEG Observations on a Case of Prolonged (264 Hours) Wakefulness
http://dabamirror.sci-hub.mn/f1cafe0b11ce25fef6875f3c55c6652...

The true record for sleep deprevation may be held by someone with fatal familial insomnia, although it sounds like stage 1 sleep is at least sometimes possible with that condition so it might depend how you count that. Morvan's Syndrome is another one that can cause an extended lack of sleep.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morvan's_syndrome
For those interested in freely visiting somewhere like this, there are a few planes (including a 747) rotting on a plot of land in Bangkok. It's called the "Airplane Graveyard"[1,2].

When I went, a Mother+Son seemed to have the place fenced off, and asked for $6 (200 baht) to let me in. I happily paid and had a great time walking around, taking pictures, and climbing through the airplanes. It was fun climbing up the back of a 747, going up the stairs, hanging out in the cockpits, out doors, on wings, etc.

When I was there, there were no other tourists there (as I assume is usually the case). You have to be careful, as there are scraps and sharp things everywhere (though everything small seems to have been taken). One of the airplanes seemed to have someone (homeless?) sleeping in it, so I left it alone.

On the way out, the ~6 year old boy living there with his Mom asked me for another $6 before he unlocked the gate, but I told him I already paid. I argued for maybe 30 seconds and by chance another tourist showed up and the kid opened the gate for that guy and I left. Not sure what would have happened if the kid kept asking for money.

[1] http://triphackr.com/visiting-the-airplane-graveyard-in-bang...

[2] https://www.wheresidewalksend.com/bangkok-airplane-graveyard...
I'll take nano and previously pico over vim
I had thought of this and have some ideas regarding identity management, interested in having a chat? DM me at twitter @benoror =)
Thank you for the presumption of good will. Doesn't happen much online these days. Cheers.
Walmart claims to have it in stock at their store in Mountain View, so I'm guessing it's sold here. I haven't gone looking myself, but Anheuser-Busch certainly distributes their big brands in California. It's possible that Busch itself just isn't that popular out here by mass market standards, though?
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Sometimes as a company grows they need "old hands" to guide them to the "next level", i.e. transform from start-up to full-blown company with all the requisite experience that needs. Google brought-in Eric Schmidt.

In the transformation toward maturity they can engage in promoting leadership from within with guidance from acquired leadership.

Not all companies have needed that external experience, but many have.
It would be kind of fun to have a publishing company that would reprint and send out curated old issues of classic magazines to the nostalgia seekers of the world.
Seriously, that's a laughably low "prize". If you could make it to the moon for < $20 million, the US government would have military bases there for cheaper than it costs to build a single fighter jet.
Trying to sign up using android... click does nothing in the signup modal.
Marc Benioff: World must 'wake up to threat from tech giants'
Within about three miles of my home in Chicago there are about five or six craft breweries plus two additional off-site taprooms for two of them. They all look like that. They're still great, though.
From the preface:

> Put a bit more dramatically, [this monograph] will seek to show how problems that were once avoided, having been shown to be NP-hard to solve, now have solvers that operate in near-linear time, by carefully analyzing and exploiting additional task structure!

This is something I've noticed in my own research on inverse problems (signal recovery over the action of compact groups). And it's really quite mind-blowing. What this means is that you can randomly generate problems, and these will be NP-hard to solve. However, assuming the problem is not randomly generated (i.e., there is some regularity in the generative process that produced the data), there often appears to be some inherent structure that can be exploited to solve the problem quickly to its global optimum.

I feel like future research will focus on finding the line that divides the "tractable" problems from the "intractable" ones.
Yes, and if you're ever in Tucson, the Pima Air & Space Museum offers a bus tour (weekdays only I think) of the "bone yard" at Davis-Monthan. There's also the Pima Airpark a bit outside of town (see https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/business/747-airlines-fin... ).
For example while kubernetes is all the rage in Silicon Valley and every startup is using it, most companies further away from SV take longer to adopt these new technologies. They are just evaluating and experimenting with k8s and in few years might move more significant loads into it. Similar with other tech as well. I think that’s just one example but you could look at programming languages, different automation and deployment tools etc and Silicon Valley is on the cutting edge.
quantity of patents is measurable, but how would you measure the originality of the patents? Patents can be cited, one way would be to measure the number of citations - but here it says that this is a feature of US patents only https://www.quora.com/Why-do-patents-cite-other-patents
Is there another possible way to measure the impact of a patent that could apply to all national patent offices?
> What’s the biggest challenge when hiring talent?

"Hard to assess skills before onsite" -- That's funny, I've never had a hiring manager or interviewer look at my literal hundreds of thousands of lines of code on GitHub or several of the OSS projects I've contributed to.

Not to mention the actual book I co-wrote.
stokes theorem is often written (in a continuous setting) as

< dM, F > = < M, dF >

(the adjoint of the boundary operator is the exterior derivative). In the discrete case, these integrals are actually products of matrices. There is nothing too deep here.

Edit: regarding the "true by definition" issue, you can do one of two things. (1) Build the definition of the boundary and exterior derivative independently and then verify that Stokes theorem holds. Or (2) build the definition of only one of these two operators, and then define the other one as its adjoint. In that second case, Stokes theorem is true by definition. But it doesn't matter too much, these are just two different ways to write the same thing.
I wonder if you could render all of the man pages on your system to 8.5x11 and print them out like that
Unfortunately, doesn't work with Google yet... It does work with Dropbox and Github though.
The ones who use hacker rank do. All the other people don’t bother using a site like that they are just living their lives playing baseball and other things outside of the job
+1 for "Find a Valid Use Case" there are many, indeed. It may take many moons, keep digging!
If you have a 1080 HD projector and camera and 100" diagonal table, that's 22ppi in and out... OCR would be tough.

It's easy to live-edit the code in a piece of paper. Once you start to get used to it, it's really enjoyable to jump between altering physical materials, arranging papers to alter communication between the pages, and editing code within the pages.
It absolutely is mine. It's my data, and my credit.

I do not care at all that they're a "for-profit company." I don't believe they should be able to profit on my data without allowing me to see it, and make corrections as needed.
I think the real correlation here is with age. People who still use a Hotmail address are likely from carryovers of the MSN era, i.e. millenials.
That one stat made me question the entire survey. There's no way so many people use VIM over Atom, Sublime, etc. Right? Someone reassure me here.
> While Uber operated in Germany... shall we recount the reasons why they do not do so any more?

They refused to pay insurance for their drivers? That's the reason why Uber stopped. Because they didn't want to pay for the time between the driver leaving their home and entering the car, and the time that the driver picked up the first customer.

Which meant that during this time the driver was entirely uninsured, which in turn is illegal.
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That is not at all what that says. Someone who owns their house is not a landlord. A landlord is someone who rents out a property to someone else.
The site is actually readable if you turn off that awful css. Who thought removing white space from the titles and adding an obnoxious faux cursor were a good idea?

Most/all of the charts gain absolutely nothing from the interactive features either, a grouped histogram style chart could show the same information in a static image. It would be better actually, you could compare the groups side by side instead of relying on animations and hovering back and forth.
How much experience do you personally have with Switzerland based start-ups? Serious question.

The parent's comment is valuable because they actually have direct experience with the topic. It's being upvoted accordingly. Very few people on HN are likely to have direct experience with Swiss start-ups, further amplifying the value of the parent's input.
Founded in 2005, Practice Fusion competes in the crowded electronic medical records market and discovered a niche by offering free software that was popular among small and solo physician practices.

Instead of charging for its software, Practice Fusion generates the bulk of its revenues through advertising to doctors.

Oh what could go wrong....
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It’s not about features. Vim is meant to be custom tuned through plugins until it meets your needs, after which no other editor will satisfy you.
We had some server issues earlier today. This is fixed.
Good docs and demos: https://docs.opencv.org/master/d5/d10/tutorial_js_root.html
Regulation is typically unhelpful to the market, as it incurs unfair overhead. Blockchain based things can work in a decentralized way relying entirely on the protocol. Still, a blockchain without a community or developer group tweaking the protocol as time goes on is not a tenable solution. There is still a guiding hand but it is very slight, very gentle, and only used to keep things on course.
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