skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had also an adopted cat for 14 years - and he was this standard cat - an asshole. Still was very loved.

But even if adopting is very nice - you get a cat for free and help the poor animal, me and my wife wanted a maine coon for a long time, so we bought one.

Together with us for two years. And he's like a dog - plays fetch, and when you call his name, he comes to you. I have deep-ish voice, and he certainly hears me and understands words like his name, "negalima" (can't do that/not allowed in lithuanian), and he certainly knows the word "skanėstas" (treat). He's so unbelievably friendly, anytime I tap on my lap when I'm sitting, if he sees that - he comes and curls on lap instantly.

He's also very gentle. I was surprised - when playing, he very very rarely bites bare hand. All cats that I know have no problems biting and clawing your bare hand when playing. Funny when friends come over - oh my god, he looks dangerous - big and has this evil look. Gentle giant indeed.

Maine coons are great.
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I adopted my two nearly all black tuxedo cats after learning that black cats get adopted less often because people think they're bad luck. If they won't then I'll just have to adopt all the black cats.
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I shop a lot on Ebay, I think it really works well.
Anybody know what camera was used to film this?
MY FRIEND FELL OFF a CLIFF REAL Not CLICKBAIT
They change stuff seemingly at random, usually for the worst, I always imagine various competing groups in the organization just add and remove features and how things work when they feel like it or need to show that they are "doing something."
The bottomless bowl of Peanut M&Ms I keep within arms reach.
My guess would be that everybody is just happy they have some tool for this other than pen and paper. Since not one product in the sector distinguishes itself by being both mostly correct and somewhat useable, there is no pressure to improve.

EDIT: typo
> Not optimized for users

It's slow and buggy and awful to use on most Android phones for most of history. It sucks the CPU and battery while you're not using it and slows your whole phone down.

> hardly fair to say they're slow or poorly designed.

No it's completely fair and totally true. The Facebook apps are really badly designed and so are the websites.
> It's a fact that C doesn't have closures.

OK.

> That is my point.

Not unless your first two sentences have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Your point appears to be that because it's a low-level language it doesn't have these features, which is false.

> I happen to like that fact, but you don't have to agree with me.

Or I just think you don't have any experince using better languages. That isn't to say that other language could supplant C, but just that it's difficult for me to image actually liking the C type system (or lack thereof) and lack of first class functions. It's incredibly limiting and requires a lot of hoops to be jumped through to do anything interesting.

> And "creating functions" means: closing over variables ("closures"), or partial application.

Well, you said at runtime. Of course you can "create" functions at compile or programming time!
You should try Security Guardian, it is really simple to use. All you have to do is enter a domain name or an ip address and let the magic happen ;)

http://security-guardian.com/
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Thanks, have registered my interest. The lack of salaries/ranges is one of my pet annoyances when job hunting.
"users" of Makefiles are actually developers, not secretaries, pensioners or architects. They should at least understand tradeoffs and choose accordingly.

Developers are used to not using spaces: oneStupidClass or AnotherStillStupidClass or others_do_it_like_this or bIhatehungariannotation or daxpy .

As you can see it is not that bad and it has been a widely used practice for decades.

Since you are comparing specifically to windows land, perhaps it is their focus on using spaces in file names that made them always be worst than unix like systems in terms of stability, sequrity or performance.
Slack et al work great for arguing and discussing, but confluence is the best Wiki for recording long term conclusions and providing long term structure for projects. Google Docs is a jumbled atrocity by comparison ... confluence linking
and navigation just work.
Would have liked to see a bit more nuance in the article. "European Union citizens have the right to free movement, settlement and employment across the EU."

I can understand exceptions being made for British citizens who have been living in the continent for many years. However, it hardly seems fair for all British citizens to be granted free employment/settlement rights in EU states, when other EU citizens aren't afforded the same rights in Britain.
Pigs outnumber people in Denmark, No. 1 in Europe
Well, there's the day I knew I was a real programmer.

In a 24 period, I saved a customer's hundred thousand dollar sale by redoing a hand written assembly function synchronized between three cores. I ended up with something single core and 10,000x faster.

Before that day, I'd never touched assembly language, the customer's hardware, the processor family, the problem space, an oscilloscope, nor anything embedded outside an Arduino.

Story here, forgive the writing style:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14637859#14639134
skype for business
The Desktop browser version of Facebook is slow af. It almost feels like they are loading every single HTML element with yet another API request.
Definitely this one. Buggy as hell for simple workflows of uploading pics, on mobile version (web, hell will freeze before I will again install any of their apps in my phone) chat/messenger gets added/removed randomly so I can/can't respond to messages.

I did accept their initial scaling issues/crashes/broken functionality in say 2005-2008, but this web is unbelievably shitty even in 2018. 'Feature' of these days - when I find finally something interesting and worth commenting on, often clicking on Comment reloads whole part of the feed with the article never to be seen again, ever. Sometimes this happens also while just scrolling down, unbelievably frustrating. Unless I manually go to feed of given user. What an utter failure for such a highly valued company with basically 1 single product.

They need proper competition, we users would only benefit from this. Too bad Google Plus is insignificant, Google's way of building reliable software is on completely different level than FB.
A good design is as simple as possible but no simpler. The problem with ticketing and document authoring platforms are that they are arbitrarily complex. I have some sympathy for Atlassian on managing the complexity of these things. We could say that they should limit their features better, but predicting the cost of adding another use case to a pile of them is not a solved problem.
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>To some extent, wine is a Veblen good.

To me it feels like it's 100% Veblen over $120 and partially Veblen if it's > $25.

IIRC in blind taste tests ordinary people tend to prefer cheaper wines and even the most obsessive oenophiles and sommeliers will not show consistent preferences for bottles that cost more than about $120.
This would be ideal! I've been able to capture something like this for brief periods, but it's an unstable situation. Most of the time, processes and team dynamics strike me as highly dysfunctional, as if designed to destroy productivity. I have worked on about 10 different teams, and 4 of those were pleasant and reasonably productive experiences. The rest I could mine for a lot of stand-up comedy material.

The main problems: Autonomy, ownership, and true responsibility. Even for people with 'senior' in their title, on many teams/companies these are nowhere to be found.
it's slow as hell, clunky interface , hidden options, bouncing from one page to another in apparently different designs and versions. The seller interface is quite terrible, but even the shopping experience is pretty outdated.
Any URL ending with .aspx
Haha I agree, this happens nowhere else.
To add to that, most business conferencing solutions in general are pretty bad: Skype for Business, WebEx, and Google Meet. Have seen a big pickup in Zoom which is decent.
Ah maybe that's what I'm missing- I don't use their app. The mobile website mostly works well for me. They removed messaging from it because they're jerks, but you can switch the desktop mode and it works.
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CA Agile Central (Rally) - Enjoy the mystery of why you can only view 5 defects in a very small iframed area plopped on the page.
Absolutely! End of March is the target.
If it's just for devs, I like GitHub Enterprise wikis and readmes.
Great offer on waiving off the fee. I'm a privacy nut, and though I realize you're doing this for publicity (at least on Twitter), I would prefer a method that's directly done on your platform. Perhaps something like a code or something that one could enter in the bio or elsewhere would be nice.
> European citizenship confers a number of privileges: the right to live in and move freely between member states, the right to diplomatic and consular assistance from other member states, and the right to participate in elections to the European parliament.
The shared assumption of the European Union and the UK government is that Brexit will mean British citizens will automatically forfeit these rights.

I'm having a hard time imagining how it could be otherwise. The EU and the UK could certainly come to terms on some of these issues but I seriously doubt that UK citizens will be allowed move freely between member states if the converse is not allowed as well (i.e. EU citizens entering and leaving freely the UK). I seriously doubt that UK citizens will be represented in the European parliament.
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It's not just that. The web is fundamentally incompatible with security against the server. ONLY local solutions can be secure against the author of the code being untrustworthy (ie. the security of the web fundamentally depends on MS, Google, Mozilla, IETF, etc. being trustworthy. Without that condition satisfied, even perfect code can be compromised). Let's say some webapp is actually really secure (when you first run it and generate the data, they're not cheating, and really upholding security), the docs are on your hard drive, you control the data storage, and so on and so forth.

You might think, I made my docs using a secure program. They should be safe, right ? Okay ... Let's say the organisation behind it "goes bad", and now you want to access your docs. What happens ?

You browse to their server. Your browser downloads the code to read the docs then and there from their servers.

Nothing prevents the incredibly easy security problem:

You browse to their server. Your browser downloads the code to read the docs and the code to fully break your security. (maybe the NSA /justice system compells them [1])

As long as both of these conditions is satisfied, there can be no security from the author of the code:

1) code gets changed without guarantees for it's security properties/thorough inspection

2) bidirectional connection for the code

As long as both of these conditions are satisfied, you CANNOT be secure (meaning you don't have to trust anyone). Impossible. Mathematically impossible. Since the web fundamentally depends on both these properties, there can never be true security on the web. Call it candio's law.

With local installs (e.g. Libre, Open or MS Office) you can secure everything and still have updates and fresh software. How ? Easy: have one-way data transmission from the internet to your machine. Download the programs onto a read-only drive (for the truly paranoid: write to DVDs or something that is fundamentally incapable of rewrites). Then use those read-only media to upgrade. That's enough to get OpenOffice running. And no matter how compromised OpenOffice is, the Apache project cannot access your data, nor can they do anything else, if you cover your bases. For instance, they cannot delete your data. They cannot prevent you from accessing your data. They have no power over you.

And of course that will never work for Office 365/GoogleDocs or any kind of web replacement. Under basic security measures those products simply ... cannot work.

[1] People think that it's the NSA going after their data. I'm sure that happens, but what is (by far) the most common reason a judge orders your mail copied to someone else ? Divorce (and related, e.g. alimony disputes). Second most common reason ? Commercial relationship gone sour. THAT's what you should be afraid of : all your mail sent to your competitors because you got into a legal fight with one of your suppliers. In practice I'm pretty sure more emails become exposed due to allegations of animal abuse than the NSA ever gets.
In general I would agree. I'm not catholic, but in that tradition they have the principle of subsidiarity:

> Subsidiarity is an organizing principle that matters ought to be handled by the smallest, lowest or least centralized competent authority.

Taking care of your family is definitely a priority. I would also encourage supporting local charities and getting involved with the work too (ie volunteer days).

You're right that its not just about the money, it just happens to be a resource that a lot of us have available, and merely giving can be a good place to start.
yeah paypal redesign is half assed and awful. i keep having to look for the 'switch to old version' buttons
Saw this in my inbox yesterday and was excited... until I read it. Nothing changed. Ultimately Elastic is still looking for a revenue model beyond consulting that makes sense.

Our company needed to build a bunch of this ourselves, simply because of the bundling cost. At the end of the day many, many organizations would love the ability to PURCHASE A SINGLE PLUGIN not all of x-pack. Ignoring the cost - the reality is that x-pack is useful in large enterprise, and a reasonably tiered model to develop against would help startups get going, and tie us in for the long-term. Instead, we built our own.

The sheer number of times I've had direct conversations with people at Elastic (from CEO down) about this makes me cringe. We rely on Elastic. We currently have our own ecosystem around it. We're also going to (over time), probably have to open source bits and pieces, so that others don't have the same pain.
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Not to forget the myriad of different standards for storing and ex-/importing data...it's job security for the programmers, I guess
I optimize for good stable long term mental function, not temporary boosts. It works for me.

My overall philosophy, divided by macronutrient:

* Lots of high quality protein (grass fed beef, free range chicken, tempeh, etc)

* Minimize high GI (glycemic index, meaning it spikes blood sugar and insulin) carbs

* Healthy fats (avocados, flax seed oil, etc)

Raw almonds are a good example of 2 & 3 combined

I'm not perfect but it takes a while to develop habits and I've gotten into a good habit.
YES! Thanks. :)
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What's the real size of Africa? How West used maps to downplay size of continent
I don't believe that repetition of an action will make you productive on the long-term basis. It's all about being aware of the cycles, of which makes you unhappy hence unproductive. I've been most productive when I have some headspace and now all it takes is a cup of tea.
How is In-N-Out pyramid-shaped?
What are the advantages / disadvantages of such a setup compared to running Ubuntu in VMware Workstation?
Go vs. Kotlin(JVM) on AWS Lambda
We rely on it - Elastic 6.2.2, logstash latest - we forgo kibana. But to be fair, we completely repackage this into our own dockers, to make life better.
Interesting, thanks.

With or without base salary though?
Replace “blockchain” with “multiple copies of a giant Excel spreadsheet.”
If infantile religious endoctrinement was avoided, then it would only take one generation for religions to disappear almost entirely.
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>* increasing something by a factor means to multiply it by that number*

That's absolutely wrong... When you multiply something you scale it by a factor. When you add to something you increase it.

1) 4A is 400% of A.

2) 4A in an increase of 300%.

3) 4A is an increase of 3A.

4) 4A is an increase of a factor of 3.

In the most charitable interpretation you are confusing the terms of exponential growth with linear scaling and misapplying from one to the other. A growth factor is not the same as an increase in a factor.
Thanks for reading and for sharing your story. That's very encouraging to hear.
Continuous integration and deployment for Android apps
You might want to take a look at http://dreckstool.de/hitlist.do
There is a nice ranking there...

("Dreckstool" = sh*tty tool)
One of my favourite parts of ReasonReact is that reducers are built in, out of the box. The Future-Fetcher feature coming in React reminds me of that; I recently built a React Native app that has 99.8% Flow type coverage, that’s meaningful and has caught dozens of bugs as the team worked on it. Having nice state management built into React will be lovely, and subsume a lot of the type imports or duplication that using Redux, React and Flow together currently requires.
> with the Ukraine conflict being the most obvious result of this strategy

Russia fought wars on foreign territories before and after they invaded Ukraine. Syria (2015-current), Georgia (2008 but parts of Georgia are still occupied), Transnistria (1992 but part of Moldova is still occupied).
As an EU citizen I would have no issue granting free movement to British Citizen even after Brexit. The British are valuable for Europe both economically and culturally and I don't see why a bunch of Xenophobes should be allowed to punish all Brits, including those who are curious and adventurous and wishes to live and work in other parts of Europe.
Don't be so dismissive.
The point wasn't solving it perfectly, but to mimic the old behavior while avoiding certain bugs/things that made it less enjoyable.

And for AoE you cannot precompute everything. Things you have to tackle:

- Walls being built or torn down

- Trees being chopped down, gold being mined

- Units moving as a single group, not bumping into each other, not creating a dead lock when entering a narrow passage

- Units of various sizes (ram vs. villager)
> They removed messaging from it because they're jerks

That's another case of bad design. Intentionally making the webapp worse for you by removing perfectly good features so they can extract more $/user on average.

They make lots of money and the make very poorly designed and user hostile software.
It was my understanding that Obama had actually dampened Bush's plans for missile defense in Europe, and instead was focused on shorter ranges that would come from Iran, and the redistribution of resources towards an "Asia Pivot".
Sal Khan is a fan of Carol Dweck's Growth Midset.[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtKJrB5rOKs
A few points: data movement is expensive, but the reasons are not so simple:

1) x68s RAM needs to move huge amounts of data cheaply and extremely reliability. This requires a lot of power to fight noise. Once you're allowed to have a few bit flips, the bus voltages can be made much power directly lowering losses.

2) A significant portion of the large energy costs is actually in computing associated with memory movement! (according to Sohmers from REX Computing, about 40%). Encoding, queuing on processor, Decoding, fetching, queuing on the memory controller, and caching again on the CPU takes a lot of logic.

I think it's quite possible this approach is superior for low precision floating point applications that currently use CPUs/GPUs. Note this allows lowering voltages for the whole system, including interfaces and memory.

Also, data movement doesn't dominate the energy cost of all applications; there are plenty of operations still compute-bound (e.g. some evolutionary methods), it's just that the applications more in vogue are like that. There are plenty of applications that are currently done in DSPs and ASICs because of heavy computational costs (error correction decoding as mentioned in the article) that might benefit from this.

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As far as I know, it is still an open question whether it is possible to generalize this approach for data-efficiency. I have a few ideas I've been playing around with but none that seem to work yet.
> I'm genuinely let-down that Ackman failed.

But given that the two people you went with both spent their money on the scam, you shouldn’t be surprised at least.
In the U.S. & around the world sales pro's earn multi-six & 7-figure incomes (Read: more than most physicians, attorneys, engineers, etc.), yet most founders fail to recognize their import. For example, startups regularly task a co-founder or, gulp, initial admin hire to engage a prospect list or subset thereof. It is an enormous mistake that yields suboptimal adherence to best-practice and crucially, a flawed data set that a founder may clumsily use to forecast growth, churn etc.

The sales talent required to build processes, identify most promising inbound/outbound prospect funnels, execute script/price-point analysis & closing ratio's, etc. to bring a v1 to market is immense. Respectfully, your friend is woefully unqualified to serve your startup well. A B2B with pricing model you've suggested requires a 10x pro.

Where are you located? Website?
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man you have got to experience that one
I encourage you to stick to these realistic plans. I have succumbed to bargaining with myself lately. I said, "If this project does not get X users or make Y dollars in Z time, I will get a job." Then, I said, "I will make a smaller-scoped thing that may have more mass-appeal, and if that fails, I will get a job." Then it was, "I will go all out trying to market these things, and if that fails, I will get a job." I made the decision to stop the foolishness and really start looking for a job full-time only yesterday.
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> The problem with ticketing and document authoring platforms are that they are arbitrarily complex. I have some sympathy for Atlassian on managing the complexity of these things.

Many things are arbitrarily complex. But Atlassian constantly gives items of differing importance the same level of attention, in a shotgun blast of UI.
There is the old saying "Honesty is the key to success. If you can fake that, you are golden." :)
Real world makefiles are not simple like this. The simplest makefile I can think of is still hundreds of lines long:

https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/Makefile
Not so sure about it. Religions tell a compelling story for multiple other reasons.

Maybe it could happen if some of these roles were expanded by the media as it seems to be an ongoing process, e.g. superheroes movies. I am not sure if that would be desirable though.
That would never fly anyway. The EU insists on reciprocity — although negotiations can take time. For instance the US is the last non-reciprotal country on the visa-free list.

And EU citizens get their citizenship through the national one, cf Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union Article 20:

> Citizenship of the Union is hereby established. Every person holding the nationality of a Member State shall be a citizen of the Union. Citizenship of the Union shall be additional to and not replace national citizenship.

Of note, EU citizenship is a subset of national citizenship as countries get to decide who is or is not a "national" member.

This distinction is mostly visible for overseas territories e.g. Greenland and the Faroe Islands are both part of the Kingdom of Denmark but both outside the EU, yet Greenlanders are EU Citizens while Faroese are not.