skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand the last half of your last sentence, but the rest sounds about right.
This was my first thought, but I assume that they tackled this issue when they lifted the building, since keeping telephone service running during the process seems to have been the primary goal of the project. Perhaps once the building was up, they did whatever they needed to do to extend the cables.
> like the person who corrected the use of "he,"

The person who corrected the original commenter seems to recognized that "he" was being used in a gender-neutral way, even offering the use of "they" in its place, most likely as gender-neutral "he" is offensive to some.

However, english does not concern itself with what is or is not offensive. That is entirely up to the user to decide.

> Grammatically acceptable or not, using "he" as a gender-neutral pronoun here introduced confusion.

That gender-neutral "they" was suggested as a suitable replacement here, I don't think that is the case. The fact that we can find another word that unambiguously removes gender from the subject means that gender is irrelevant to the comment in question entirely, leaving no room for confusion with respect to what the message is about, no matter what pronoun is used.
...and 20k lines of APL is... probably not something any APL programmer has ever reached for any single application.
Not entirely false though. I do miss coding (actually playing with the computer) as I did in the 90s, alone and without comparing to anyone else, or thinking something was already done and my efforts were futile..
Not much of a rhetorical question, you seem to think you know why I'm here. It's because I personally find Hacker News is quite interesting and insightful. And I have contributions I can make, and the upvotes to most of them seem to show that others think so too.
Many people would tell you to quit. Don't quit. Go on a sabbatical, or an unpaid vacation. First, it'll help you get in a better place, mentally, and second, it will show exactly who is contributing to this idea/work. Either you will be educated, or they will.
Here's an even more wild example - the city of Chicago was too low to the water, causing sanitation problems. So they moved the whole city, one building at a time... about six feet straight up. With the technology of 1850-65. While most of the buildings in question were in use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago
I fought this draining battle for about 15 years of a relatively typical IT career, from desktop support, to junior dev, too dev and all-hats, to application support, to QA (less stressful), to finally getting out of the game for the most part. Rarely did work not stress me out, aside from when I was starting out in desktop support roles, and maybe when I was trying out QA.

I knew people that seemed to be made for it. They may not have liked it, but they managed to power through day after day of drudgery like it was nothing. They were productive, accomplished their workload, and did it consistently over and over. Sometimes I envied them and wished I could be like them. But in the end, I just am not.

One of the biggest problems for me was that I rarely felt like I was working on anything worthwhile. It was either advertising to sell stuff, or tools to help people sell and ship stuff more efficiently, or number-crunching to track money, or various forms of CRUD to keep track of the cogs, and so on.

And even when the work was interesting, it was still largely driven by deadlines and plans and getting X done in Y time units. Put these here frameworks together, work out most of the kinks, and ship, ship, ship! This was also kind of soul-crushing for me, because I like to get things "right", even if it means prototype after prototype that's discarded after a month or two of learning.

In the end, I opted to minimalize my life and switch largely to supporting myself through barter and scavenging. Now much more of my time is under my control to do with as I please, and I try to make the most of it. For me, that means much more yoga and movement, and coding irregularly—when I am struck. I also feel much healthier, because I can sleep as much as I want and on whatever schedule I want.
> The person who corrected the original commenter seems to recognized that "he" was being used in a gender-neutral way and even offered the use of "they"

Their first suggestion was to use the correct gender-specific pronoun, and then they said that alternately a gender-neutral one could have been used. I don't think it was understood as gender-neutral.

> The fact that we can find another word that unambiguously removes gender from the subject means that gender is irrelevant to the comment in question entirely

Sure, but if it's read as gender-specific then it's still a factual mistake. Would you be so defensive about someone correcting a wrong, but not critically important, date?
Ah, so it's .tw now.

Do they announce their domain changes somewhere?
Like the removal of dependence on foreign oil thanks to solar power, and development of inexpensive large-payload space launch systems for national intelligence payloads?
Founded in 2017 – List of 10000+ startups Founded in 2017
sinatra was my favorite minimalist framework, the dsl is so clean and easy to write, mvc was easy to bolt on, and it worked well for so many of my projects. great to see that it's still being updated. fwiw, i went through a phase of nodejs, and now golang, but i had a lot of productive years with ruby and sinatra.
If he had that insight in 2011 then he was pretty late to the party. By then the 1K to 2K line limit for 'beginner programmers' was very well established.

To go beyond that you need a few tricks of the trade, mostly structured programming and avoiding global scope will get you to 10K and up.

After 50K or so you will need even more tricks: version control will become a must, naming conventions matter and you're probably well into modularization territory. Some actual high level documentation would also not be a bad idea.

By the time you hit 100's of thousands of lines you are probably looking at a life-time's worth of achievement by a single programmer, or more likely you are looking at teamwork. And so you'll need yet more infrastructure around your project to keep it afloat.

You can see quite a bit of this at work when you browse through open source repositories at github, those are roughly the points at which plenty of projects and up being abandoned, as often as not through lack of insight in how to organize a larger project as through the demotivation that comes from lack of adoption.
I'm going through this exact thing currently, too. I sometimes struggle to follow even the most basic of instructions, I have to really, really focus very hard to follow someone explaining something to me because my mind starts to wander half way through the explanation. I have to have things explained to me two or three times, and I can feel very dumb at times because of it.

I find struggle to have productive meetings, because I'm bored to the point of physical discomfort at times. I went to the doctors about it and they referred me for relaxation therapy (?!). So I'm struggling to know what to do about it currently. I was tested for ADHD as a child, but they concluded that I was just poorly behaved.

It seems to be a pretty common issue with engineers, I've came across loads who have similar issues.

I actually posted something similar to your post in the funfunfunction forum recently: https://www.funfunforum.com/t/attention-and-focus-issues/389...
Regardless, it remains that gender-neutral "they" was considered a suitable replacement, thereby indicating that gender was irrelevant to the subject of the comment all along. The gender correction seems to be more about pedantry than confusion. "They" could not possibly work in the comment if gender was a required part of understanding it.
I think their value to google is to hook users into googles paid services. We spend $60 year per user at my company.
The FBI's War on Black Bookstores
Unless people walk up to it and check they’ll never be able to tell the difference anyway.
> it looks like an artificial phenomenon.

Yes. But to a large part that's because it is specifically presented as such.

For example, the graph in the episode looks very damning. However, it is an extract, arguably in order for it to look as damning as possible. Here's a more complete version of the same:

http://www.randalolson.com/wp-content/uploads/percent-bachel...

Hmm...now it's not nearly as lopsided as that extract. First, there are all these subjects that are at least as and actually even more lopsided than CS, and dominated by women. In fact, more fields are dominated by women than by men (which has to be the case because there are more women in universities). But that doesn't fit the narrative, so out they go.

And of course the CS curve approaches the general engineering curve. Hmmm...maybe that's because CS is a lot like general engineering. So maybe the outlier is not the end of that curve (where CS approaches engineering), but the beginning of the curve?
Is the direction important to you? Personally, I just want to be able to look over the city. And not have another house in front of me.

At first I will simply go through all listings for each city manually. Looking at the photos and the reviews. And make a list of the ones with a view.
I love these PVS-Studio write ups.
Do you like your job and way which you do it? Could you continue doing this for 20+ years more not getting mental?

If there is at least 1 "no" answer, you should think about changing the way you earn, at least. Life is not about the money, it's about excitement and passion, about things you really want to do.
Inkscape for vector graphics. I feel it firmly competes with illustrator.
Question: how does promotion work within the company you work remotely at?
This research is truly interesting. As interesting as -> https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/02/16/beyond-the-words-predict...
Zero-downtime deployments 1950s style.
Sorry, I just edited in a second quote to my previous comment that addresses that part of your point.
How Clash of Clans helped Supercell build a $10bn empire UK
Can someone explain what this does?

Like, what should a user expect to see when visiting the application, and what a developer could expect to make developing this application further?

I see a "gas" and a "gasprice" used, but ctrl-f doesn't show anything in HN comments, nor in the readme outside of the code, indeed the code itself is commented with:

// Someone help me understand this.
+1 for pomodoro technique.

I find one of the additional benefits it has is that it gives you a means of quantifying your day. Often I can't remember exactly what I've been working on but knowing that I've completed x amounts of intervals leaves me way more satisfied at the end of the day and makes me feel much more confident that I've been productive.

I find it can also reveal how long some things take to complete. Rather than thinking 'uhh I couldn't even complete that task today' it can often lead to 'wow, I worked on that task for x intervals and it still wasn't complete - I definitely underestimated that one!'
Last time I checked - they weren’t conservatives.....
Hollywood style crypto-specialists
It would be amazing to generate entirely new organs that don’t exist, to give humans capabilities they never had. I’m all for it.
Not sure why the excitement around ditching Lein when it looks like there is little or nothing to be gained at this time? The author describes a handful of other tools that are necessary to do things Lein does out of the box (uberjar)

The Clojure ecosystem (specifically through the lens of this post) reminds me of the Linux desktop ecosystem. Lots and lots of tweaks and knobs and dials for the sake of having tweaks and knobs and dials.

That’s my biggest gripe with Clj... there is hardly ever a “right way” to do things and usually a dozen esoteric approaches to organizing your application. It’s a blessing and a curse. All the rope to hang yourself with.

That being said I really like writing Clojure in the pure sense but have yet to see a really pleasant 1. App architecture and 2. Web application and routing layer. Ring/compojure don’t do it for me.
Binary Search explained with security camera footage
ASDF appears to have been deprecated in favor of Quicklisp, or rather, Quicklisp appears to be the next generation of ASDF, since I saw asdf functions inside of Quicklisp.
What Pelican quickstart actually do and how it does that?
Can you buy Oxycodone online?
yes! you can buy Oxycodone online with one stop pharma.
Could you elaborate a bit more on your morning routine plans? I’d like to get up earlier and do more productive things before I start work (I’m remote and flexible), but as it doesn’t get light here until 8am at this time of year, I find it really hard to get up early.
Exactly - this concept of the gluten challenge is accurate and makes sense clinically, but in practice, one has to continue working or going to school and it isn't reasonable to be in massive pain and mental disarray for 1-3 months for a medical test.

Hopefully celiac testing will advance in coming years.
> Jabra Speak table conference mics

My experience with them is that they are not that great - you need to be wary of being close to them and speaking in their direction or they'll have trouble picking up your voice.
>It's impossible to write down a Haskell function equivalent to Clojure's `apply`.

apply :: Dynamic -> [Dynamic] -> Maybe Dynamic
apply fn args =
foldM dynApply fn args

Impossible may be strong misclassification.
Had a friend who mused (not sure if serious, but tone somewhat suggested it) that'd he'd travel in such a way to "avoid the racist counties" (i.e. majority brexit)...
This approach is immensely helpful to me as well. Started practicing problem slicing after watching a lecture from Don Knuth. He started by writing down a problem and underlining it. He then solved small bits of it and worked through many examples that seemed almost trivial. Eventually, some amazing results began to emerge after the many trivial examples were worked through. Impressed on me the power of breaking a large problem down into small, simple parts and working through them one at a time. I think problem slicing is one of the only ways to actually solve some kinds of big problems.
You do realize that the ground has a fixed force based on the landing -- while an accident at 1000 ft with a non gliding helicopter means falling to terminal velocity with certain death?
Show HN: Building a Deep Learning Bird Camera
So what should the runtime names be then?
Kim Kardashian unveils a photo of North baby
Optimally Engaged Experience
What's pineapplefund.org ?

A bitcoin-billionaire decided to give away his fortune.
There's always the question how they asked. If they asked users if they had worse economy after the software update, a lot of people might respond yes, because of the loaded question. I mean I barely know any cars that actually have the stated economy.
I'm curious to know whether what your describe actually exists.
Sleep, Exercise, eat healthy.
I agree that music can help you work, but I also think at the same time, it can negatively affect your motivation to work.

I also do listen to the same subliminal audio recordings over and over again, and it fades into the background after awhile, just as regular music does.

It's all speculation, of course. I could be suffering from placebo effect. It's just something that I believe has helped me.
Template Toolkit, or just use Mojolicious...
No worries. To your edit:

> Would you be so defensive about someone correcting a wrong, but not critically important, date?

First of all, the usage of "he" is not technically wrong.

I do not know if there is a great date analogy here, but perhaps "tomorrow" carries enough ambiguity across timezones that we can work with it. If I say tomorrow is Tuesday, but you are in a timezone where tomorrow is Wednesday, then you're fine to say that tomorrow is Wednesday, and I'll chime in to say that tomorrow is also technically Tuesday. To continue to argue that the original comment shouldn't have used "tomorrow" as it is too ambiguous to understand is fine, but given that you say it is not critically important, I'm not sure what there is to gain?

If, by "tomorrow", I mean Tuesday and you think I'm talking about Wednesday, does it really matter when it is just a passing fact and not something particularly relevant to the overall message?
You still want 1977 tech, because those guys all had one or more PhD’s in subject matter required to build not just the software, but the hardware to run it as well. As a result of that, the software they designed is still very high tech if unorthodox, even by today’s standards. Modern Lisp is like using a faster than light spaceship with a gravitational distorter (moves by falling into the projected distortion), compared to getting from point A to point B in a gasoline automatic car which is leaking oil (Python); If you run into some ‘70’s and ‘60’s tech, take the time to master it so that you could build antigravitational devices all day long (XKCD Python import.antigravity joke notwithstanding). Lisp is still cutting edge technology, and it’s from the ‘60’s and the ‘80’s by the way.
... also HN seems to have developed a peculiar ranking system - in fact any system of communication gets a ranking system. It seems that hierarchy is part of human nature, isn't it?
Why wait until the end to point out that this letter is most likely nonsense? Seems unlikely that people are getting scammed out of hundreds of million dollars a month.

I tracked down the actual letter here and confirmed it has all sorts of stupid stuff in it. https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/r8LCxXQ4...

Repeatedly blames the CME, which has nothing to do with the VIX. Losses to investors of trillions in a week, what? The mechanism they describe is that the indicative VIX value is affected by option orders (true) and this somehow affects VIX futures (I'm skeptical). The only time this index affects VIX futures directly is during settlement, and the only example they provide totally mangles the definition of implied volatility.

Furthermore, they are complaining about someone posting a 0.35 executable bid in a illiquid market where the offer price is oscillating between 1.40 and 9.80. Doesn't seem sinister considering far out of the money options are known to be illiquid.
Capybara: Configuring, testing and using it with RSpec
Project based learning – Solidity and Ethereum
I didn't even know this was a feature.

No stats on how many people use this, though, which is interesting. I wonder if that's an oversight or intentional.
I think the Harvard part matters at least a tiny bit. A Harvard medical degree means your opportunity cost to do the startup thing is (marginally imo) higher than if you had a Cal State Fullerton medical degree.
And obviously the storyline "ZOMG he has an elite degree and still does thus" is more interesting for the random reader.
25 karma and rising xD
Why should anyone at work know my religious or political views? My views are mostly in line with the tech crowd - except I found I’m far more weary of government intervention into tech than many on HN. But I steer clear of political discussions at work.
Only if f(x) makes no sense to you in mathematics.
Never heard of headspace until now. Just heard the basics, it's a very cool site. Thanks for sharing.
The best value a language can provide is the community around it. That is, the amount of high quality libraries out there. And the choices, when coming from this stance, are a handful: .Net and JVM ecosystems, Python, C/C++, then Perl and Ruby to some extent. With these, you know most of the generic things you'll need to have in order to do the specific thing you want to do are available to you. Equally important the amount of documentation and literature out there. The actual language features, syntax, etc., all come after this. First of all, a language has to have some giants with nice stable shoulders.
Ask HN: How much should I charge for my ebook?
You can download it for free https://leanpub.com/agileforleads/

It's about starting a simple agile process in a development team; managing said process, team morale and trust; optimising for simplicity, devops, and tracking work effectively so reliable delivery dates can be used.

Take a look.

I'm after advice on how valuable this is to new teams and teams who might have tried an agile process and it not really paid off.

General comments and feedback also welcome.
It wasn't so much about ditching Lein as it was taking a clean-slate opportunity to learn and understand the new CLI tooling.

Nothing wrong with Lein at all!

Knobs and dials: this is true of every eco-system, wouldn't you say? Is 2018 the year of the linux desktop, finally? :-)

I agree that Clojure has a lot.

Right assumes a known context. Do what is right for you. Sometimes, that's Knob A, and sometimes that's Dial B. The fun is in figuring it out.
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Do you have any more information or links on this interpretation of the matrix?
Fellow ascii artist reporting in.
Check out http://pc.textmod.es/ http://bbs.ninja/
There are still a lot of ascii art compo going on in the demoscene.

There's some good history here: http://www.chris.com/ascii/joan/www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/...
Ask HN: A company-wide team challenge step count?
Hi HN!

I'm trying to create a healthier working environment by encouraging our team to do "step challenges": divided in teams, each team tries to get as many steps together per week.

Combines all the good things: team spirit, health & fitness.

However, I'm struggling to find a good app/saas to help with this. So far I found just a single one (1) but I'm curious to hear how other companies have tackled this?

I've heard from numerous sources that many organizations do this, but none can name the tool/software they used to track their step counts.

PS; hardware purchases (like Letscom/Fitbit/...) aren't a problem.

(1) https://www.countit.com
The way each one of you are changing the world, and sense of intellect our community has is incredible.

I learned a lot by just reading through conversations here and in many other threads over the time. HN is helping me become better version of myself.

Thank you to each one of you!
> Regardless, it remains that gender-neutral "they" was considered a suitable replacement, thereby indicating that gender was irrelevant to the subject of the comment all along.

Of course it was, as specifically noted in said corrective comment. Your comment could either use the author's actual gender or not involve gender at all./

> The gender correction seems to be more about pedantry than confusion.

No, the gender correction was about getting the author's gender wrong.
Part of the problem though is that not everyone thinks about these things the same way. This is called Pedagogical Content Knowledge -- the meta-knowledge about teaching skills.

One of the reasons common core math is so controversial is because it's one of these "shared experience" topics for which everyone has personal experience and considers themselves an expert, yet most don't realize that their own experience is probably quite different from nearly everyone else's. And the reason theirs is different is in large part because their mind works differently and they naturally fell into using skills matched to their own strengths and weaknesses. Take 20 people and pair them off into 10 pairs, and have one person in each pair walk the other through how they calculate 876 - 381 in their head. You will 10 different results[1]. The problem with common core is that it teaches a handful of these approaches rather than letting the student develop their own customized approach.

[1] I have actually done this experiment. Of the 8 pairings, I think we had 7 different algorithms. Only two people did something close enough to be called the same thing.