skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not documented anywhere. I miss documentation.
It was a phase.

There was VRML, The Second Life, Linux had that 3d cube where every side was a virtual screen. Everyone had been reading Snow Crash.

And just like virtual reality was just around a corner, it was also the time of the first digital currency boom: Liberty Reserve, E-gold, DigiCash, Flooz. More things change, more they stay the same.
If Australia had relied on telling children not to have unprotected sex, the HPV rate would not have moved much.

But HPV is only one of many infections that use unprotected sex as a vector. The one danger of this kind of policy-making is giving children an illusion of being protected from adverse effects of unprotected sex in general without combining it with advocacy of protection.
I listen to a ton of podcasts and this one is really good. Nice work!
These are the same people projecting that Apple should have sold 80M iPhone X's...and then apple "fell short" of estimates when they sold 77M [1].

Why do people listen to these proxy advisory services like Glass Lewis [2]? Honestly, none of them have anything near a good track record or are worth anything [3]. They are effectively like tabloids for the financial markets.

Honestly, I'd love to hear from someone on wall street what value these "analysts" provide?

[1] https://www.recode.net/2018/2/1/16961202/apple-iphone-x-chin...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_Lewis

[3] https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/2159435...
I've worked with Comcast for quite a few years though Contingent Technology Solutions, and I have noticed a change in their quality lately. It's almost like they care a little bit more. Don't quote me on that, though.
Working in the field of networking I can say it's highly unlikely that Cogent is performing traffic shaping specific to Panic traffic. That's a ton of changes to a ton of hardware with a risk for screwing things up that just isn't worth it. Cogent isn't going to go to those lengths for a client that has a single connection and hosts a small / moderate site. Beyond that: the connection that Panic has to Cogent is most likely through the data center they're colocating with, not a direct connection to Panic equipment. That's not for certain, it's entirely possible that Panic paid for a drop from Cogent; however I'm guessing that's not the case.

What I find odd is that they would colocate their hardware in a DC with only a single provider. The company I work for has four transit providers so as to ensure uptime / reliability (don't get me started on how often we experience unplanned maintenances from our upstream providers). Seems like Panic may want to consider a different host for their colocation or examine (provided they're dealing with Cogent directly) a secondary ISP.
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Considerable numbers of parents in wealthy suburbs have not vaccinated their children:

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/melbournes-antiv...

The next pressure point will be that if parents don’t vaccinate their children, child-care centres will be forced to refuse to take children. This will actually work because the vast majority of these wealthy suburbs have both parents working, and they must use child care.
You may be committed to dying on this hill, but keep in mind that corpses left behind stink up the place. Please have a care.
Interesting article.

As the saying goes, the first step is always the hardest; and from my personal experience, I can attest that writing (especially through the old school 'pen and paper' way [0]) can serve as a very effective tool in de-cluttering the mental muddle that comes with formulating anything new.

Think of writing as an extension of the brain's working memory -- by offloading cognitively taxing task of keeping track of nitty-gritty details of task at hand, the prefrontal cortex gets a bigger pie of the mental energy -- which helps one to focus on the stuff that actually matters.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/19/science/researching-the-b...
Patents are far from the only factor affecting innovation, yet you seem to conclude that patents are good based on level of innovation in the US.

A logically similar argument (“fallacy of the single cause”) would be: Hawaii has a relatively low rate of gun violence yet their gun ownership is high, ergo gun ownership must be fine.

Of course some patents are good, but as market concentration increases in the US, IP has become abused by entrenched oligopolistic corporations. Most recent reputable studies find that the US patent system has probably been a net negative on innovation of late [1].

[1] https://www.economist.com/node/21660559
On windows my current cygwin session with tmux and a single markdown document open in vim is about 25MB. Some of my chrome tabs (jira is the most complicated thing open) are nearing 200MB, somehow outlook is taking about 500MB and Visual Studio is eating many GB's.

It's extraordinary how wasteful some apps can be.
The way XRay render text is more compositing than rendering.

They will render text to a bitmap using HTML canvas and then use that as a texture for GPU.

GPU will be compositing those bitmaps, it won't actually be rendering text.
> Interop is another advantage of the erasure model

And, in the case of F#'s type providers, it means not having to generate zillions of types when coding against some huge schema. But, on the other hand, it does give you the option to do so.
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> On the contrary, there is plenty of evidence on the diminishing marginal utility of wealth.

For the average person, but who are you to decide? He clearly already spends his money productively by largely self-funding ambitious projects, and I suspect that he would be pursuing even more if he had infinite resources.
That sounds like an OS/hardware problem, honestly. There's no reason vim with any setup should lock up a machine.
I always felt like the Atom team should scrap their work and start afresh. I love Atom, and have used it as my primary editor since its inception, but it's been the worse performing text editor I've ever encountered.

I almost switched to Vim a few months ago, but the impact to my performance was too high for me to keep it up for long enough.

I'm definitely going to be using Xray the moment it becomes stablish.
I'm sure that software rendered webgl will be fine unless you're running a 5k monitor. It's just being used as a convenient texture glitter, the primary benefit is bypassing the DOM.
It's quite interesting how user agent stings have changed and become more bloated with time.

Other fun facts:

- Chrome on iOS reports its chrome version (eg 64.0.36), with no way to get the underlying Safari engine version.

- Android webviews have replaced one UA string pattern with another close to three times (pre-Kitkat, Kitkat till Marshmallow, and one for marshmallow and above)

- Chrome continues to add a "Webkit" version to its UA, even after having forked to Blink. Though since Chrome 27, the webkit version always says "537.36".

Src -
I wrote a library that generates user agent strings programatically -
https://github.com/pastelsky/useragent-generator
Thanks. Will it work as once per month thread? I hope we can try once again on monthly basis. I am editing title to Idea March.
He's not half-assing it, but he has Mars goals which are likely to distract him at some point. He is serious about his Mars efforts. At a certain point it makes sense for him to leave to focus on that, unless staying at Tesla also helps him hit his Mars goal by 10xing the resources he can dedicate to the effort.
Minifiers can remove dead and unaccessible code.

They can also rename function and variable names with shorter ones, and compile code to be shorter (marginal gains since it's all going to be served compressed).
No, it didn’t cause the disease.
We call bittorrent distributed, I think IFPS counts too.
I feel like web masters shot themselves in the foot and created this mess. I kind of like just serving the page and letting the market figure it out. Developers would have moved faster to make sure their stuff didn't break and maybe the browser wars and the dark ages that followed would not have happened.
I know that PayPal is always trashed for various reasons and rightfully so, but one thing the new (or fairly new) players like Stripe haven't gotten right is fraud detection. PayPal still rules when it comes to chargebacks, Merchant protection (if you follow their protocols correctly, eg. don't sell guns, illegal stuff and read their documentation thoroughly which requires you to do some API calls to enable merchant protection) you're pretty much safe. The same isn't the experience with Stripe.

I, as a developer myself find it incredibly easy to put together something with Stripe in just a matter of few hours with Stripe vs PayPal. But, have you ever experienced a fraudulent case with Stripe? Stripe will almost always side with the customer even though you have evidence to prove you were the one scammed. I hope you never have to experience what it is like because you can't even get hold of someone over the phone when that happens.

But, as much as I hate PayPal like you, I can tell you, there were many many incidents where I got stuck with their sh*tty documentation and I was able to get hold of someone from their developer team. There were many instances where I was able to successfully win chargebacks against fraudsters by getting hold of someone on the phone and explaining the situation. Stripe simply isn't there yet, and this is one of the most important elements in this business, not just the fancy integration and documentation.

It's not Stripe's fault though, I opine that they simply don't have enough data as PayPal does to detect/prevent fraud as good as PayPal.
And then you could write test cases, based on the documentation
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Why doesn’t someone make a better native editor? (That’s not sublime)
I always think back to when I had a 120MB hard disk in the early 90s. It contained multiple editors, raytracers, games, music editors + music, images, paint programs, multiple programming languages and development kits, a multi-tasking operating system... and room to spare.

90s me would be absolutely floored by a text editor needing 438MB RAM.

Wait, what am I saying? 2018 me is pretty flabbergasted by it, but perhaps less surprised (and more cynical) than 90s me.
Your first twwet is what makes everybody skeptical. Your post here makes it sound like you're just polishing things up. Your tweet makes it sounds like it might not have even started.
Yes, but it's still in an evacuated metal tube. That's a severe constraint.

BTW, going to maglev completely blows the original economic model out of the water. The whole point of the original hyperloop was that the track was going to be cheap because it was just a welded metal tube. Now it's a welded metal tube with a maglev track inside. That's no longer cheap. In fact, it's a reinvention of maglev in a way that makes it even more expensive. If maglev wasn't economically viable before you put it in a tube (and it wasn't) it won't be economically viable after.
iOS does.
This, like many other arguments that attempt to downplay the role of taxes in economic incentives, attempts to turn a continuous variable of interest into a binary one.

The weaker the profit potential in the EU, the less companies will invest there. The effect of higher taxes can't be reduced to "leave or stay." Moreover, the diminished incentive to invest would also to apply to potential replacements for these companies. So, very hypothetically, if Google spends $100 in Europe and they leave when they decide investing less $50 isn't worth it, the next company taking their place will likely only want to invest $50 rather than the $100 you were already getting from Google. It's still a loss unless you want to assume both that Google's replacement would be European and protectionism is a wise economic strategy.
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Hi all,
I'm starting initiative in my current company to build the deployment and infrastructure framework for our engineering team so each engineering team can independently create, manage, and handle the infrastructure, configuration, and provision stuff.

At the first time, I'm trying to go with IAC (like ansible, terraform, puppet, etc) approach, but just wonder is there any better way for engineering team to be more knowledgeable about infrastructure, maybe with writing instead by code but pseuducode? Like Gherkin so even beginner can understand that and then we can convert this IAPC to IAC. Anyone has experience with this IAPC stuff?
C# did the same exact trade-off in 1.0.
Why would people in country B care about what the State itself or the vocal majority wants? Business is primarily done through companies, not countries. If avoiding the "cost of business" that is taxes is possible without getting a gun to the face it's how all rational businesses would act.
For a long time, the guidance was to install jemalloc and then use off-heap objects. I can’t recall what it was, but that broke in the 3.0.x series and is unlikely to return. The feature stream (3.1.x) allegedly can use jemalloc again, but we’ve been slow to adopt it so I can’t provide proof.
He said he wants all this money just so he can fund colonizing Mars.

So I'm guessing he'd take that money and just privately fund SpaceX, like Jeff Bozos is doing with blue origin.
That's true for any developer of embedded software. Any one who makes hardware of any kind will avoid trying to put any GPLv3 licensed code on their hardware.
With attribution tracking that shows which visitors became paying customers (or qualified sales leads), and where they came from.
90% is still a ginormous reduction over 0%

But those aren't the numbers. The pre-vaccine infection rate was 22.7% (not 96% nor 90%), and the vaccinated infection rate was at least 4% (probably much higher; the 4% represents the cases where the vaccine failed to protect and the subject proceeded to develop HPV-caused disease), using their figures. So, you're looking at a best-case 18-point difference, not 90 points.

Still valuable, but hardly eradication.
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Because Sublime is so good already.
I learned from that article what Mozilla means: Mosaic Killer.
The linter was the issue.

I actually have better performance with Sublime Text and JavaScript than I do with vim and JavaScript. I wish that weren’t the case.

If you know if any better ways to get vim working with Syntastic for linting (eslint), I would love to know.
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This is the only comment in this thread that makes any sense.
As with most things when it comes to software engineering, it's just a trade-off, and depending on your use case, you may fall on either side of it. They sacrifice memory usage for development pace. Using Javascript/CSS allows them to not only get some of the most powerful pre-existing tools, but also allows the 3rd party community to move at a much faster pace too. Atom already has twice the number of packages as Sublime Text while being half the age.
Still no.

Groups like Infowars have a newsworthy impact on the political climate, and deserve coverage by news organizations. It's not about activism - the intersection of advertising and extremist content on places like YouTube is a very legitimate subject for journalism, if you ask me.
Any reason you haven't tried visual studio code?
What does the amount of revenue matter if the profit is 0 or less? Just to discourage investment in the future? To punish people that attempt large projects that don't have a guaranteed profit?
> sales tax is a regressive tax

Sales tax is a flat/proportional tax, not a regressive tax.
I've done a little welding, using the really nice TIG setup at my work's machine shop. I've contemplated getting a cheap TIG setup for home, but was wary that they'd be unusable compared to a nice unit.

Sort of like soldering irons, where the <$40 ones are typically trash, the $40~$100 ones are probably fine for home use, and the ones that I bought for work start around $500 (JBC btw, I've convinced our entire engineering lab that they're the best).

When you go really cheap on soldering gear, overall power, tip temperature regulation, tip plating quality, and iron longevity are all reduced, sometimes to the point of unusability.

What do you lose when you go cheap on TIG machines?
Or using the web version of Slack to make a call or screenshare.
> Haven't messed with the depth sensor on an iPhone yet, but you could do it with Kinects and other depth cams

Well, if you’ve used a Kinect, then you’ve used the iPhone’s tech, because Apple bought PrimeSense, which developed the initial Kinect for Microsoft.
Effective Modern C++ by Scott Meyers is a good book that I've been supplementing with google searches. It goes over the main new features in '11 and '14 you would want to know.
I've been waiting for a proper web editor that allows me to easily access my configured workspace anywhere easily. c9 and a few other web IDEs come close (though that former one is in the hands of Amazon now...), but I want something simpler and more lightweight, similar to Sublime Text.
Wait Until the truth about the medical industry comes out in 40-80 years.
there are lonely and alone people everywhere; the japanese have just given them a name, which seems far too broadly applied (goes out at night to get food but stays inside during the day vs been inside for ten years and refuses to speak).

I guess if you name a thing it becomes a thing.
Agreed, if anything will slog a text editor it is usually the linter

Also, you can choke vim with large (>5gb) test files. Or is that fixed now?
Correct. People try to make just about politics or the "naive masses" who follow the populists. It's not.

South and East europe are damned to an eternally declining economy if they don't leave the EU. There is no interest from Germany or Frace to redistribute the wealth to the periphery so they can develop too. They took away their ability to devalue their currency, so all they're left with is adjusting tax rates. Bulgaria, Ireland and the Netherlands are prime examples of somewhat succeeding in that. Greece and Spain aren't allowed to do it because of austerity. If the EU decides for a flat tax rate, everyone but the big 2 are doomed.

Unity is already hard for a country like the US, where everyone speaks the same language and could move to a different state overnight with no issues. For a union like the EU, pretending there are no borders is outright lying. What do they expect to happen? Have the entire EU move to Berlin when the last jobs in the South die out? Turn everyone in the South to a bartender for the Germans and everyone East to a cheap subcontractor for car parts? It won't work.

I believe in a unified europe. I love freedom of movement. But that won't happen through the current EU and Brussels administration. We need a new, better union, or no union at all. What we have now clearly doesn't work.
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already exists for android: https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacyLua
Your sources are an absolute joke. I'm willing to have a real conversation about this, but I'm not trawling through links with memes in them.

You mentioned McCarthyism before, yet you believe in a similar conspiracy theory - "Crypto Fascism" - where instead of people being secretly communist, they're secretly fascist. I don't know how you reconcile this with yourself but I don't buy it.
Have you tried vscode?
> VAT is an extremely regressive tax

VAT is proportional, not regressive. Rate regression can only occur if you spend more of your income on VAT-exempt consumption, which is generally not what happens.

Furthermore, a revenue tax is basically the long way around levying a VAT, the direct result is the same: an increase in consumer prices.
No need for the (2008) thing in the title. This is actually a new article from February 2018. I had an old post there, but completely re-wrote it last week, keeping only the title and URL.

Thought you guys might like a programming example that I edited out of the article:

Back in 2004, I wanted to be a great Ruby programmer. I had dabbled, but wanted to accelerate my learning to the expert level.

So I called Tony Robbins' company, and signed up for a personal coach. We had a phone call once per week, to help me stay on track achieve my goals.

On the very first call, when I said I wanted to be a great Ruby programmer, he asked, “What does that look like? How will you know you're great?”

Whoa. Hmm. I had never actually defined it. He was waiting for an answer, so I picked something. I said, “If I have read all of these six Ruby books, completed all of the exercises in them, and memorized what I've learned.”

He said, “How many chapters in all?” So he had me go add up the total numbers of chapters across all six books.

Then he had me predict how many chapters I could do per week. I said 6.

Then he said, “OK so now you've got your plan. One chapter per day, six days per week, including doing the exercises, saving what you've learned in flash cards and quizzing yourself later, and in 12 weeks you'll be a great Ruby programmer, by this definition. If by then you don't feel great, we'll pick a new goal.”

And just like that - a year of vague procrastination was now a specific list of goals to be achieved each day. It helped me more than anything.

It's tough to talk about because it sounds so simple, but man, it's effective!
Appears Glass Lewis & Co currently maintains approximately 37% of the market share for proxy advisory services - but does that mean that all of their clients vote as per Glass Lewis reports recommend? If so, given they collectively advise $20 trillion worth of assets, would someone please explain why this is not toxic to a free market.

SOURCE:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_Lewis
They should probably be spending that money on building cars.

I doubt that "more money" would make much of a dent on what Elon's motivations really are.
The bottom was starting to fall out ~8 years ago when I was doing analytics for a series of P&G content funnels.

That was when I first understood how valueless online ad sells are. In the sophisticated model we had (which filtered out bots, spam, paid for clicks, etc), P&G was in some instances paying at least (I only had our costs) $1000 CPM for views. Of course, in the data they saw, the numbers were far far lower.
I can’t answer for everyone in the Midwest, but from what I saw, no one trusted HRC. And if you were paying attention, it was revealed that politics “is like making suasage,” and that “you have to have a public position and a private position.”

And yes, I still hear a lot of resentment about NAFTA, which is strongly associated with the first Clinton administration. No one trusts that family. The people in this region called BS, not because they’re racist and uneducated, but because they feel that they were betrayed before. When the coasts shouted “racists” at them, it made everyone double-down in their position.

Meanwhile, DJT basically steals the Obama-era democratic platform, makes a stop in their little main-street town and promises the impossible.

Someone else might have a different experience, but this is what I saw and heard.

——

To be clear, midwesterners weren’t voting based on tax policy as you suggest, this was about trust, betrayal and vengeance.
webgl is used to render the text buffer

react/html/css/js is used for extensions and probably menus, etc.
I tend to ignore both gcc and MSVC. Clang is really good at bootstrapping itself with this setup even when cross compiling without any real complexity. Without diverting into a cmake vs autotools battle I like that llvm and clang just work and bootstrap so easily. Gone are the days of messing around with gmp isl and co to bootstrap a toolchain.