skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has to do with the starter mechanism. All florescent tubes need a starter, including CFLs. Industrial/commercial florescent lights take a few seconds to warm up, often with some flickering. For home use people want their light bulbs to start up fast, so manufacturers put quicker starters in CFLs at the expense of longevity.
It seems ridiculous that a gift intended to encourage studying prevention of terrorism and conflict should fund a religious conference.

I've made directed donations before. If I found out that the donation to my school was spent on football helmets instead of the scholarship fund, I'd be very upset.
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> I suppose this is what happened with CF bulbs? We were promised longer bulb life, but in practice I find that I have to change CF bulbs far more often than traditional fluorescent tubes.

CF bulbs were sold as having long life compared to the incandescent bulbs they were drop-in replacements for, not compared to flourescent tubes.
Yes, they use 2 spaces: https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html
I’m sure there’ll always be some market, but looking at the numbers it wouldn’t be unreasonable to speculate that the sector is currently in a bubble.

And it’s obviously very vulnerable to recession.
This reads like you haven't paid attention to anything Microsoft has done for the last five or so years, including VS Code. The strategy around VS Code is entirely consistent with the more open-source-supportive angle the company has been taking, and the editor is very performant and well-engineered compared with Atom.
It looks "cool", in a early 2000's kind of way, but after watching the video it didn't seem to solve any new problems other than maybe enhancing collaboration a little bit. I feel that new platforms/OSes need to have a killer, differentiating feature that makes it stand out and solve a real problem an order of magnitude better than its predecessors. Also it always seems that feature has to be "normal" user facing, not programmer facing. Real users don't care (or even know) if your whole platform is based off of shitty text files, or addressable object oriented unicorns.
> but allows the performance of ... malloc for key code paths.

Everything is relative, I guess.
Two things I feel compelled to mention: You can evaluate it for free, forever, just dismiss the nag screen. The other is, it's easily worth the $80 in my opinion.
By the way, Notepad cannot display files with unix-style line ending, it doesn't keep indentation and it inserts BOM when saving file as utf-8.
Sorry, you're absolutely right on the dates! But how would planned obsolescence work if the inferior product is made by a competitor? It sounds more like a me-too drug scenario. Was Cervarix competing with Gardasil on price, with a tradeoff of less protection for lower cost?
> wattage

energy / power. Both work in this situation.
But since a million people are happy to sell their location data for movie tickets, it is a good startup idea. To say otherwise an excuse to restrict other users' freedom, a pretty bad behavior.
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Chefs and restaurants don't file patents on recipes AFAIK and they still manage. Didi basically copied Uber and the tech is still far inferior
Three, or two, hours still counts as 'trapped for hours'.

Airplanes are not comfortable at all, and no hyperloop pods actually exist - that statement makes no sense.
It's still too good to be true. Why aren't there dozens of apps offering me $100/yr flat-out for my location data?

MoviePass is a play to intermediate the movie-shopping experience, so they can extort kickbacks from theaters.
Not all graphics hardware is supported by WebKit. For example, Intel 965 chipset doesn't support WebGL.
> 3d virtual reality

3D skeuomorphic interfaces were always good in theory. I think the problem with them is the keyboard. The mouse is capable of recording velocity (which is why it is used for aiming), whereas the keyboard is binary. This distinction is crucially important for navigating quickly through interfaces. If I want to switch apps or tabs, I can typically do it with a very quick flick of my mouse. In 3D I would have to walk over to my new task which could take a significant amount of time depending on how far away it is from me.

Nobody wants to explore a 100 story virtual mall when they can just type in exactly what they are looking for. It could maybe work for Ikea, but the markets where this could work are so incredibly niche.

The advantage that computers bring is that they don't have to work like the real world. I am sure that our current approach to VR interfaces (which is 3d skeuomorphic) is a dead-end; there exists a more productive method that works nothing like our reality.

Regardless, the 2D browser was the better approach. Cool does not equate to usable.
Infringe a patent, and the holder of the patent can be awarded damages. We're familiar with that.

Knowingly infringing a patent can bring triple damages.

You can bet that the USPTO granted someone a patent on the linked list, or a common variant of a hash table (don't get me started on how the USPTO determines prior art -- they don't use common literature, they seem to just search the patent database). So if you accidentally read a patent on said linked list / hash table and use it in a product and you're sued for infringement, damages go up quite a bit. That's one reason companies discourage engineers from reading patents.

Back in the 1980s someone had a patent on "Network standard byte order". Didn't matter the order you chose (big or little endian, or inside-out like the PDP-11, or whatever). As long as it was a stable and common byte order used on the network, you infringed. The "inventor" was a friend of a friend, and reportedly he said, when the patent was granted, "I can't believe they gave that to me."

Yeah, patents are utterly busted.
I assumed the tetravalent vaccine only worked against the four named strains. If it's semi-effective against all strains, then I see how eradication is possible. Thank you for the clarification.

Edit: Wait, the article does not say the vaccine is semi-effective against all strains. It says the vaccine is semi-effective against cervical cancer caused by all strains. My confusion is not removed.
A gift to Boeing would be a taxable event. The IRS would consider it a transaction.

When I joined the Bronx Zoo as a member, I gave them $200 and received some benefits in consideration. Those benefits are valued at $140, so I am able to deduct $60 from my income.
Ideally, you would not care at all. You would simply develop HTML 4/5/6 a user has a browser that supports that spec.

In reality, browsers have known bugs that last for years, you need to collect stats to figure out support policies, and you need to reproduce customer bugs.

Example: old versions of Firefox have an RCE vulnerability if you use third party jsonp apis. If you use these apis but don't block these ff versions, your users will be vulnerable.
The document is dated March 1, 2018. Originally filed in 2016, yes, but it seems to be current.
I came out of academic circles in California in my young adulthood, and I see the snap judgements you refer to quite often in myself.

I think I was on a track where I valued learning and inference above everything, and that gave me a kind of a weird cognitive bias. Things I could rationalize that weren’t obvious got ++points in my head. The result being I overtrained towards using “scant” information, to use your nomenclature, and undertrained more abundant information sources that were more easily apprehended.

Kind of a masochistic information bias.

It did open my mind to some (very real) things that few people notice. Which is useful. But it also closed me off to some quite useful but more mundane realities. I probably share a lot with conspiracy theorists in that way.

It’s been hard reorienting myself out of that. In some ways I’ve overcompensated now and become more gullible.
Google sifts through your e-mails, which compromises a cornerstone of your digital identity. People needing to send you an e-mail will also seldomly appreciate their e-mail being read by Google.

Google doesn't "read your email", they index it. Which allows you to search it. And then they show ads that are targeted to keywords that appear in the index. Gasp!

I seriously don't understand what the big deal is. Genuinely, what is the risk or concern here?

And I really doubt that GDPR is going to kill Gmail. They need that index to provide the search capability, if nothing else.

I think many of you who are fans of GDPR are going to be gravely disappointed.
Right, but in my scenario (and I appreciate perhaps this means I'm "doing it wrong"), the messages themselves have a fairly heavy payload (around 800 bytes). Given that, whether I'm spinning up an actor or a message, if it can't be processed quickly it's consuming a non trivial chunk of memory.
Is it really so? Can OpenGL update only a small part of a framebuffer (for example, when a single letter is typed) or will it rerender the whole text?
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We’ve adopted the monoclass architecture at our startup after reading about how well it works at Google.
I love Lua but VSCode is mostly written in TypeScript so you get a fair number type checks.
Both of these roles sound super interesting to me, but I am only a freshman undergrad (studying marketing or finance? & computer science).

I really hate the business school in all honesty. Initially I thought it would be full of people who are passionate about finding what a consumer wants and building it. The reality is that many of these students just want to be suites in either consulting, investment banking, or corporate roles. I am super passionate about building great products and working with A players, but I don't want to be another "pointy haired manager."

Wondering if any of you have advice on how to break into the UX research roles with hope of becoming a project manager or product manager further down the road.
Note that it's still going to require extensions
Erm, what? Yeah, you want to structure a retirement system where the well-to-do want to opt out. Otherwise, we're giving tax advantages for "retirement saving" that really goes to heirs. How it's currently structured in the US, we do so through contribution limits.

If all the retirement system change is make rich people opt out and have poor people who die early pay for the retirement of poor people who die late, it's a smashing success.
As a heavy listener of tech podcast, I have to say this one is really good.
> If the bindings are reference types, the CLR will economize their representations as long as they don't have any static state, I think.

Yep, I knew about that, but type providers don't necessarily generate generic types. So, I meant something a bit different.

As you know, If Foo<T> is an ordinary generic, then T must be a CLR type, which is to say that it must be code that was somehow turned into a CLR type (usually by a compiler such as C#). But, if Foo<> is a type provider, then arbitrary code of an arbitrary language can go in between the angle brackets (which is why type providers can accept strings). Essentially, each type provider is a compiler, but the code that is generated must be expressed (or "wrapped", if you will) as a CLR type. But these types need not be generic (and usually aren't, I think). So, not having erased types in F# is akin to having a compiler that can't generate loops or subroutines†.

†(Perhaps a better analogy is a compiler that can't eliminate tail-calls, since erasing everything to a certain base type (that F# lets you choose) is kind of like reusing stack frames vis-à-vis the analogy)
HE can fund his future ambitions with the additional equity.
I'm optimizing both for "what system is best for society to implement" as well as "what system is best for individuals within it". There's a pretty significant individual upside - people who were unable to save enough for retirement can now retire due to their tax-advantaged plan earning mortality credits.

Being able to leave assets to heirs comes at a price. Just look at the pricing of the different single premium immediate annuity options - anything that also preserves assets to heirs in certain conditions also costs significantly more for the same income stream. The goal of retirement programs in general should be to ensure that as many people as possible aren't destitute in old age as cheaply as possible, IMO.
It also has 1 level of undo.
https://www.udemy.com/learn-advanced-c-programming/

https://www.edx.org/course/advanced-c
> I think 7% nominal over a long period (such as a pension fund could expect) is quite reasonable and would expect a pension so funded to be quite stable.

Pension funds aren't retirement accounts; you don't care about a total 30-year return, you care about ongoing cash flow, and if you have fixed obligations in a bad year then you eat into principal. This obviously creates problems down the road, especially when you have decreased contributions over time due to a shrinking population in the municipality in question -- or a shrinking tax base (e.g., the downward spiral of rich people leaving because they don't like tax hikes, which results in tax hikes to cover the revenue shortfall....repeat).

Also, they're usually diverse portfolios with a fair amount of lower-risk/lower-return assets (mostly T-bills and investment grade F500 debt), so 7% is actually pretty ambitious.
High speed scanner, and an unreasonable amount of manual effort.
Proof by personal experience isn't all that convincing. Maybe you've never done pair programming, but other people have.
You don't need to meet majority of Europeans to reason about the population, it's called sampling.
He is right as well which is obvious for anyone, who visited some European countries and actually tried taking to people.
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There is an alternative where the "parasite" and the others both pay for infrastructure voluntarily instead of at the point of a gun. The dregs of society can just deal with it while valuable people live without being shaken down by State thugs.
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anyone hear the theory that cytomegalovirus is a fragment of a gigantic prehistoric virus? a nurse friend heard about the theory in his medical microbiology class but I haven't been able to find much online.
I paid more than amount in 80s for a nintendo game as I do now for that $50 game.
> I don't understand why these electron editors are popular at all.

I would like to understand this better too. I'm guessing vim and emacs take too much time to learn, since they drag the whole unix ecosystem with them. Sublime might be a decent easier to learn editor, but it's a non-free product that could disappear one day, you have to go through the hassle of buying it and it's expensive one too. So sublime is not even a choice for most people. This leaves us with electron based editors as an acceptable choice. But obviously bloat, performance still matter and people will choose something better if available.
My rose-tinted glasses are cracked, so I don't want to go back. Software was a lot less capable back then. And APIs were often incredibly obtuse, bespoke, or both.
Does anybody remember the article about their generics implementation in assembly ? How they basically were able to reduce the cost of generics by observing they needed only 3 implementations, by writing specialized versions, one for 8-64 bit values (just one version), and then one for 64 bit pointers, and one for structs (struct passed in by having length and value).
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I hate Facebook so much for this. Their apps are beyond bloated and track far more than I'm interested in sharing. It used to be no issue at all to send messages.

But suddenly it's not possible to send a message without going to a clunky version of Facebook.
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have you tried visual code? also electron based, but works for me, i do golang development mostly.
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For personal use, sure. But remember he wants to fund Mars missions.
Yeah. People complain about Java type erasure, but the problem is not that they have type ensure, it's that they did it only halfway.
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My gardener once left one of his shovels in my yard for a few hours. During that time, someone stole it. I asked him why someone would steal a shovel, and he said because it was a $150 shovel.
Spotify is an excellent product. They have addressed and solved almost every problem users cited for why they wouldn't pay for music via other means.

It's time to admit it: consumers do not deserve this level of product in exchange for listening to a few ads. These users are obviously unprofitable. And the premium version could likely be more expensive, too.

The devaluation of music was a collective moral convenience. Now it's time to pay.
But the cost to his ego for not meeting a milestone which receives even more publicity because of the big price tag is a big motivator (or at least one could argue)

So even if the utility of the funds isn't consequential, a package like this might be one if the few ways to further incentivize a CEO like Musk.
A push method that contains a code, or a push method where you just tap "yes"? Because just tapping yes is much easier to MITM/hijack. The attacker just has to log in at the same time as you're trying to log in, and you will tap accept and let the attacker in.
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Ugh that's it, I never cared before, but now I'm switching to DuckDuckGo.
It was the second largest donation in the school's history, and if it really was a paltry sum, UChi could have just rejected the donation, or at least rejected the donation if it came with any strings attached.
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To be fair, AT&T and Comcast have existing infrastructure (mostly poles) they can leverage.
I am not an experienced C+++ programmer. That being said, I found Marc Gregoire's book to be pretty good.
https://www.amazon.com/Professional-C-Marc-Gregoire/dp/11188...

The 3rd edition covers c++14. New version coming out in April covers C++17.
And yet we’re surrounded by complex social solutions to large problems: democracy, money, rule of law, families, religion, insurance, traffic lights, meat inspectors, patents, contracts, etc etc

The fact that Australia is close to achieving this, while many other countries are far off, also points at social factors playing a role. The vaccine works the same everywhere.
Microsoft has scripted automation of their apps, and exposing apps’ components to programmers, deep in their DNA. VBA, DDE, COM. It does count as innovation in the browser space, and it’s also a natural extension of what they’ve always done.
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Permit me to rewrite history a bit for the sake of example. If you were a Paypal shareholder and Musk was CEO would you have supported this compensation package? Would you have supported it even if you didn't know SpaceX or Tesla were his ambitions?
My impression was that problem with C99 support was that Microsoft was not willing, not that Microsoft was not capable.
> For example, Paypal's seller protection explicitly does not cover you as a seller if the buyer claims the item was not as described

My experience (I sell Bamboo chairs, ha!) is that if you can prove you have a detailed description of the item in place that specifies what is included, what isn't, what's the color, texture and everything else in sufficient detail, you can win the case. In my case I do all that plus I display my terms and conditions during checkout, so there were maybe 3 times this happened to me and I won all of these cases.

Easiest way to avoid this? Block payments/checkouts from demographics notorious of these practices - China, Pakistan, Africa, Egypt, etc. Your demographics may vary though, based on your product, your target audience, etc. Use your analytics systems to find out which ones give you a lot of high pageviews:bounce ratio and block them, especially if there are suspicious orders from them (10000 orders of a toothbrush without any prior emails, etc for example).

I use my own e-commerce platform (because Shopify sucks) to detect and trigger fraud systems. If something looks like even a 10% suspicious transaction to me, it will be flagged and pass through a manual order fulfilment. I know, I make it sound so easy, but this will probably take you atleast half a year to fine tune and you should be good.

> There are hundreds if not thousands of stories of people having this issue with Paypal, so... :)

Once again, I'm not siding with PayPal, but I think this could be because they've been much longer in the business than Stripe?
What a dumbass
Depends on what you mean by lonely, I think.

I'm a transportation cyclist, but I don't think being a cyclist has measurably increased the number of friends I have. It did give me something in common with quite a few of my friends, but I didn't meet any of them through cycling. For a while I tried joining a cycling club, but I found that I didn't have much in common with racing cyclists.

Being a cyclist did however does apparently increase the number of people who seem willing to harm me, unfortunately. That's not loneliness, but it's not good either.
Scala used to target CLR.

It was abandoned because interop was hard, and interop was Scala's strategy for success
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> Common household appliances cost much less than they did in the earlier half of the 20th century, and people act surprised when they don't last as long as an appliance from the 1950s that cost more than twice as much

Citation for this (accounting for inflation)?
Just to give an idea of how loud this is: have you ever watched a video of a launch and heard a crackle in the rumble? It sounds like the sound is overdriving the microphone and clipping, but it’s not. It’s overdriving the air.

Sound is variation in air pressure, with the peaks of the wave representing the maximum pressure and the troughs representing the minimum. But there’s a hard floor on how low the minimum can go. Once you hit zero pressure, that’s it. The waveform clips. That’s the crackle in a rocket launch.
There's always Vim, which is super extensible with plugins, and there are native binaries for all major operating systems.
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True, not a particle like the Higgs boson, and not new in the sense that we've seen skyrmions in thin films. But this is the first time the phenomena has been observed in a free 3D object (Bose-Einstein condensate), with a 3D knotted magnetic field.
Looking at their plans (https://www.sinemia.com/new-plans/) it's capped at 2 or 3 movies a day, available at any theater and in any format. You can also apparently buy advance tickets, which is a huge limitation for MoviePass.

Their business model seems more sustainable than MoviePass, too. Well, at least when it's not heavily reduced due to the Oscar promo.
I'm surprised that they don't go too much into good practice and style; these are heavily enforced in Google's code-bases. I would expect to see things like references and smart pointers, raw pointers are typically avoided as much as possible to avoid all the fun problems that come along with them.
The US has thankfully provided us with more data on the effectiveness of abstinence only education than we could ever need. Just check the data on teenage pregnancies in the Deep South.
I'm referring to local ISPs that German users use to access the Internet. Presumably the court can order them to block access to resources.