skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You ultimately _can_ force enough people to stop taking the piss with laws. It mostly ends up being about whether you can convince parliament to pass the right ones. I like to think we (Australia) get it right at least some of the time.
Hard work is hard work no matter where you put in the time. Unfortunately, he put in the work in only books and not relationships. As you get older you begin to see that relationships, knowledge and hard work are what determines success in life. We can't neglect any one point in the triangle, so we need to balance them. The sooner we learn that the better.

C students can be very successful but not if they're lazy and hermits.
> Someone else? I said people.

Ah, I didn't realize that by "people" you meant "people who are me and not someone else". That clarifies things, thanks.

> There is no reason to pay attention to everything in this world.

The inability to see reasons for things is like the definition of uninspired, though.

> Being obedient is common in...

I eagerly await publication of the results of your well-founded study of the relationship between obedience and vigilance.
Nice, thanks for sharing! I built a simple scraper and I need to add background processing etc:

https://github.com/RealEstateWebTools/property_web_scraper

Will dig into your code to see what I can learn.
Porn Check Critics Fear Data Breach
Cgo has overhead and is slower
If you decide to open source your project, please share the link here. Thanks
There are many metrics to judge a programming language by, and even different "axes". Going from theoretical correctness, consistency, type system soundness all the way to ease of development, "batteries included", empowerment, developer productivity (on small and very large programs, as that is not the same), and more recently "forcing" good practices.

Even popularity is a value, as it automatically provides a community, but it's also a pitfall, as massive popularity inevitably means the average programmer of language X becomes as smart, careful and reliable as the average programmer irrespective of language. And, to put it mildly, that's not a positive evolution. That, above all others, was VB and Delphi's downfall.

On three axes, I would argue VB, Javascript and Delphi did/do incredibly well: ease of development (of small-ish programs), and the deployment story, as well as the empowerment they provided.

On things like consistency, developer productivity, batteries included (Delphi was better on the batteries included front), type system soundness, ... they were somewhat sub-par.

It's just what people value at the time. And of course, it is critical during a career in development to distinguish yourself from the average programmer.
While not nearly as popular as Webpack, Broccoli.js (used by Ember, among others) exposes the DAG concept. Webpack is fine if your task roughly matches the purpose Webpack was built for, but when using it I miss the composability of Broccoli. There's a good architecture overview here:

https://www.solitr.com/blog/2014/02/broccoli-first-release/
Since you brought up voting in the first place, I'd guess that you're still hooked on the narrative that claims "Voting is important!"

That's not a good inference. Before I answer, let me ask you: Do you think the election of Trump is at all significant?

Meaningless gestures don't gain meaning just because we wish it were so.

The subject of discussion was my political affiliation, not whether my votes were significant. So your sentence is a bit of a non-sequitur.
I was surprised he missed another alternative, quick already fits some of the other companies under Ben's own Aggregation Theory.[1]

Spotify could try to become a music label and audio itself, by expanding to lesser known artists in particular. Basically, adopt Netflix's strategy.

[1] https://stratechery.com/2015/aggregation-theory/
Also a shareholder. Voted for. If Elon wants to die on Mars and needs personal wealth to get him there, as long as he delivers on his Tesla milestones, I've got no problem with it.
I’m not sure why, but your comment was dead, so I vouched for it. To your point, you’re right, but the title is still quite misleading and doesn’t have to be.
I've found 1 star reviews to be hugely useful on Amazon. Often have seen detailed contrarian 1 star reviews for books that have nearly a 5 star average and found very interesting viewpoints. This works especially well when you're suspicious of the product being a scam - less the case for books, but very useful for other consumer products. The 1 star reviews are where people who received a cheap knock off or something that broke or otherwise failed quickly complain. I like to read the 2 and 3 star reviews as well but there's a similar amount of filtering necessary in my experience.
True evil requires true power, as without its manifestation, evil can't be spotted. If Google was small and inconsequential, it didn't hold power, then it couldn't be evil.
> Why doesn’t someone make a better native editor?

I can make it.

In fact, there are many native text editors out there.

The problem is not creating the editor itself but the community around it. If your editor doesn't supports the most common/basic plugins like linters, debuggers, painters, formatters, code intelligence, etc then it becomes another one in the pile.

Atom became the popular piece of software that is today because of the JavaScript community. Hundreds of high school, college and university students with several hours of free time during the week, writing code in a language that overflows on the Internet, to extend the functionality of a program baked by one of the most popular companies among software developers [GitHub]. This is the type of community that you need to build around your editor in order to make it popular.

Take a look at TextMate [1] which used to be one of the most popular code editor with a graphical interface for Mac years ago. It was open-sourced [2] after its developer put it in maintenance mode. And while it is still being maintained today, not many people are well versed in C++ and Objective-C to contribute to the project at the same speed as a JavaScript programmer would do with Atom.

[1] https://macromates.com

[2] https://github.com/textmate/textmate
I'm a Redux maintainer, and I can vouch for this.

It's a pretty neat project. I've seen literally dozens of JS immutable update utility libraries, and Immer is the best one I've seen in terms of API, simplicity, and being able to write "normal" code.

It's racked up over 3000 stars so far, and that seems well deserved. I finally had a chance to play with it myself for the first time this last week, and it seems to work as advertised.

I think it's a great solution to help simplify immutable state updates, especially in Redux reducers. In fact, I just published a small package that, among other things, uses Immer as part of a `createReducer()` lookup table utility ( https://www.npmjs.com/package/@acemarke/redux-starter-kit ). We're hoping to eventually turn that into an official Redux "simple setup" package.
I personally am not a fan of phys.org for that exact reason - headlines are overhyped to the point of clickbait.
You can write some pretty heavyweight C++ if you're not careful.
If he’s not incentivized by all of the high ideals he claims, plus $20 billion, then he’s broken.
Those of you discussing Scala Actors might like the details in this paper on that I coincidentally submitted to Lobste.rs this morning:

https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/151999/files/EPFL_TH4874....
Hyperloop pipe dream
IMHO, Microsoft has been doing a pretty good job. I don't think it's as bad as you make it out to be:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh567368.aspx
VAT is not regressive. Everyone is taxed at the same rate. Or doesn't matter if rich people spend lower percentage of their income. Sooner or later the money is spent and then it will be taxed. If it's nevertheless spent then someone (the rich person!) provided a service for free as they never asked anything back on it.

Seriously, it requires understanding of basic linear algebra to see that VAT isn't regressive. The article you linked makes the same mistake. You will be taxed at some point and if you multiply your money by investing before spending it then you're taxed on bigger amount. The rate ends up being the same for everyone.
Is tying CEO performance to company performance really a good idea? Just 3 days ago we had a story about how shareholding affects the company and CEO:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16502607

So, it begs the question - What do shareholders do if something like this happens?

Additionally,

> But the success has also underscored the company’s dependence on its CEO -- a risk factor that’s routinely spelled out in regulatory filings.

> “Although Mr. Musk spends significant time with Tesla and is highly active in our management, he does not devote his full time and attention to Tesla,” the firm’s annual report said, noting that he’s also CEO of Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

So, it seems Tesla is dependent on Musk but it routinely highlights how he is not fulling paying attention to Tesla. The question becomes - why should they pay a part time CEO a full time salary? And what happens if Musk doesn't hit the target and they need to hire his replacement?

> The award could affect what Tesla has to pay to hire a potential successor, Glass Lewis said

It might change how other CEOs might view compensation at Tesla. They might push for even more aggressive remuneration.

So, its better not to open a door which cannot be closed later.
It is a non-trivial problem, but one common enough that I would suggest any Actor library worth its salt would include mechanisms to tackle it. (Here's Akka talking about back-pressure support in Streams, for example. https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.5.11/stream/stream-flows-and...) Akka also provides infrastructure for actor pooling and routing.

I don't see the manifestation of this problem as forfeiting the point. You could on the opposite extreme write one monolithic application that does everything: web interface, application logic, and data storage. It's readily apparent that for most use-cases, the benefits of separating, say, your web and database software will more than outweigh the added complexity cost of running two applications and routing requests between them. (And we don't anymore balk at running pools of web servers in front of our databases.) Continue to chop your application into smaller segments and of course you'll see diminishing returns. The application just has to be complex enough to raise the expectation of benefit from segmentation.
I thought it was the 'everything is super fast now' update (whichever one it was, 57 I think?) but maybe it's more recent than that. I was noticing last week that I can actually hear the CPU/GPU fans spinning up on some websites, which it never used to do.
I don't think it makes sense to apply this kind of 'evidence' to a specific individual.
How Alexa is helping me to address the sleep problem
A lot of good stuff, yes. But the advances of the last decade are dwarfed by the advances of 1990s.
Any links on how the company started?

I had no inkling of its origins till reading this article.
Google has been doing that for a long time. For example, many years ago it showed a warning about an unsupported browser if you tried to visit Google Docs using Opera. Now it is using user-agent to choose Youtube UI version (if you are unlucky to use a modern browser, you will get that bright whitened UI with huge margins).
Also, web version of Skype isn't working in Android browser.
OpenTable Fires Employee for Making Fake Reserve Bookings
author here:

This chapter is an attempt to convert Perl one-liners to Ruby equivalent..

haven't used Ruby before, so it was nice intro to the language as well for me... overall impression was that Ruby combined some of the best features of Perl and Python (which I use primarily for scripting/text-processing purposes..) like cli usage, string/array methods, set processing, block form, etc

to read this as e-book: https://www.gitbook.com/book/learnbyexample/command-line-tex...
A Japanese Photographer Traces How Cities Are Built and Destroyed
I can't help but be curious of his leaving circumstances.

>>> On a scale of 0-10, where 0 is “fired and escorted out of the building by security” and 10 is “left entirely of his own accord on wonderful terms,” my departure is around a 4.
When I was at a company that one of the founders departed from a few years back, one of the generous gestures the remaining founder offered was to keep the departing founder's email address alive "forever" (I left a few years later, not sure how long that was).

A simple gesture that cost the company near nothing and acknowledged the long history of the departing founder.

I don't know if Rand asked, but it seems a simple item to offer.
The example Derek uses in this post about looking for a booking agent reminds me of an anecdote he told several years ago (as I recall, it was part of a speech or a Q&A he did at Berklee College of Music) about how he went about reverse engineering the process for getting into Rolling Stone -- he phoned Rolling Stone masquerading as someone working for a label trying to find a new publicist, and asked if they had any recommendations. From this he got a list of publicists that Rolling Stone liked, which were the publicists who were most likely to be capable of getting him written up in Rolling Stone.

I actually put a version of this into practice several years ago when I was a looking at how to break into the world of trade publishing -- I had a manuscript for a fantasy novel, and decided my ideal outcome was to get published by Tor (a name that appeared on the spine of many of my favorite fantasy novels growing up). I went to the bookstore and compiled a list of books that had Tor's name on the spine, then went through the books and identified the ones that were most similar to my own manuscript in terms of subject matter/tone, length, and target demographic. Then I opened each book, flipped to the "acknowledgments" section, where most authors take the time to thank their agent. This game me a list of agents who A) represented books similar to mine, and B) had successfully sold books to Tor.

I think the lesson is that if you don't know the specific way forward, it's often as simple as starting at the goal and working your way backward -- want to know which publicists are on good terms with Rolling Stone? Ask Rolling Stone. Want to find out which agents have sold books to a specific publisher? Grab some books by that publisher and open them up.
raphlinus said that many of the design decisions are similar to xi.[1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/7qszkz/xray_an_experi...
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/50selectrical.html

1953 Washer and dryer, $494.90.
You're a bit late to the party lol. vim is dead.

All us 'cool elite programmers' as you so blindly follow, have moved onto to use neovim.
I totally agree, and besides if it’s on Phys.org, they ripped it off someone else to begin with.

By the way, your comment was dead again, you might want to email a mod?
Try 10GB each for Illustrator & Photoshop CC :(
It's better than Edlin. That was my first text editor.
SMS Spoofing attack targets UK bank customers
The ol Stallman-oroo
They look like they're the same price as mid-end LEDs.
There is nothing wrong with a man choosing to avoid women friends. After all the emotional abuse of men by the feminists during the 60s and 70s, I drew a line. I truly wish women well, but (with the exclusion of professional relations) never on my time. There is nothing wrong with making such a choice. It's totally my personal prerogative to chose whom or whom not to associate with. No one has the right to tell me I have to accept this or that person as a friend. It's not even judgmental on my part. I just don't want to put up with the attitude.
Rand has been a huge influence on thousands of people, and if you ever launched something on the web, at some point you must have used their tool for a reason or another. Personally I really loved the way he explained complex things with his whiteboard in those weekly videos. These are great starter points to understand the heavy cog of SEO world. I don't know how many times I directed people to their blog for self-study/research etc. I am sure their success wasn't due just to him, but also an incredible team of people with him, but he was the face of the company at Moz until now - I wish him well!

Weird that in his goodbye piece he says he did not leave entirely of his own accord:
> "On a scale of 0-10, where 0 is “fired and escorted out of the building by security” and 10 is “left entirely of his own accord on wonderful terms,” my departure is around a 4...”
That is something that the piece doesn't answer, probably something going on, but he still has major shares and influence in the company i am sure!
Can attest that this is sound advice. I really like Paypal (though I readily admit they are often a bad corporate actor) but I just wish their fees weren't so ridiculous.
Luckily they have helped stoke the electrification of transportation despite your protest. My condolences.
Some things to consider:

- the low pressure required is the equivalent of flying below 50km altitude, which is still far from space or a full vacuum. LEO is > 160km

- pod designs are using passive maglev, with all energy input going into moving the car. Even if that wasn't the case, Maglev actually uses a comparable amount of energy to standard trains, and becomes more efficient at very high speeds, so no nuclear plants required

- one of the benefits of tunnelling is precisely avoiding the need to buy expensive land rights. The Boring company was setup with the sole goal of reducing tunnelling costs by 10x

- it will not cross the speed of sound
I feel like this only applies to a very specific kind of tech investor demographic.

I'm working on my own idea, and pitching directly to members of the industry that I've chosen to apply programming to. Surely this isn't a rare thing? It seems much less stressful, and given that you are speaking to the very people who are likely to use your software, I feel like it is substantially easier to communicate your value. You're much less subject to the Brownian motion of a two minute speech in a massive candidate pool.

I don't think I've ever come across a guide for startups in such a situation.
Still a problem of being based in a "friendly" country which allows for liberal accounting standards.
Are you on a Mac? Had same, but fixed it with some prefs changes. Before that FF was stuck at 8-10% CPU.
Technique to see objects hidden around corners
There's a reasonable chance I'm older than you for what it's worth.
Probably you meant "conscious" not "conscience".

https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/conscien...
VRML described the vertices and edges of 3D objects, but surely it had nowhere near the power of OpenGL or WebGL. With vertex shaders and fragment shaders there is almost no limit to what can be done with OpenGL in terms of imagery you can produce. I never heard that VRML had anything like that.

In fact I would bet that a VRML renderer could be implemented in pure JS + WebGL.
Yes, I understand that it's designed that way.

My point was that, in the context of Chrome using ninja, the claim that "Ninja is used because it's simple, multiplatform and very fast. The mainstream alternatives offer at most 2 out of 3." is a bit odd considering that the decision doesn't seem to be ninja vs mainstream alternatives but rather ninja+gn(or gyp or whatever else) vs alternatives.
The minister at our local UU church IS an atheist.

http://uuspokane.org/WP2/staff/rev-dr-todd-eklof/
which, by the way, works out to $5.2k https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=US$494.90+(1950+US+dol.... I'm assuming the amounts listed on that page are in 1950s dollars because they have nice round endings like .95.
Not 'Mozilla' before you get too far into reading this.
Could changing the physics of VR games reduce gun deaths?
I think this is a pretty good overview. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cpp/welcome-back-to-cpp...
Playing the imperial march through Thinkpad coil whine
I doubt this is very relevant in the case of Chrome compilers. It's more about the huge investment/expertise in Clang- or LLVM-based dynamic analysis and development tooling.

It's just the better platform for writing these things. Heck, this is what is was built for in the first place. GCC is a solid, but also a very traditional compiler.
Can someone clarify this for me?

> A few days before Robinson’s appointment as institute director, the University also announced that two scholars, an associate professor at Columbia University and an assistant professor at New York University, would assume named full professorships at the Pearson Institute.

> “For the other two chaired positions, the U of C hired two junior, non-tenured professors from academic institutions that are ranked below the U of C in national academic standings,” the complaint reads.

Putting aside the difficulty of rating universities by any objective metric, when did UChicago become more highly ranked than NYU and Columbia? I'm surprised about both, but I'm rather shocked about Columbia. According to US News and World Report[1], UChicago is in a two-way tie for third place among all universities in the US. I'm aware it's a good school, but I didn't realize it's "officially" beating out Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, CalTech and every Ivy except for Harvard and Princeton.

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1. https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-unive...
Rust 2018 roadmap
Vim? Emacs? Anything from jetbrains (although technically that's an IDE)?
The v8 engine behind Atom is an incredibly efficient compiler, a just-in-time compiler. Without it, all current JS interfaces would be comically slow.

The problem with JS is that its execution model is built around highly dynamic features that are hard to compile efficiently. It also lacks a nice type system, though Typescript helps a lot.

The problem with Atom performance, I suspect, is mostly with its using a web browser and DOM to exit text. I bet that elisp is seriously slower than JS on v8, but Emacs is faster than Atom, because its presentation layer is more efficient (while less capable).
You are so right. I loved that cube, and there were other customizations that truly worked, but we've traded them all for reliability, a little bit of consistency, and other compelling things. But that era felt promising it's still a little bewildering that things didn't continue on that path.
> Suggesting that US law makes a company legally culpable for all interaction with that company's website has no basis in our legal system. That isn't how our law has ever worked.

As far as I can tell (and I am not a lawyer) you are wrong about this and there is case law to prove it. As wikipedia says:

"The act was passed in part in reaction to the 1995 decision in Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co.,[3] which suggested that service providers who assumed an editorial role with regard to customer content, thus became publishers, and legally responsible for libel and other torts committed by customers. This act was passed to specifically enhance service providers' ability to delete or otherwise monitor content without themselves becoming publishers. In Zeran v. America Online, Inc., the Court notes that "Congress enacted § 230 to remove the disincentives to self-regulation created by the Stratton Oakmont decision."

And here is the link to the court decision being referenced:

https://w2.eff.org/legal/cases/Stratton_Oakmont_Porush_v_Pro...

> Any small site taking reasonable measures to manage their site would be fine.

The case law indicates the opposite. Without 230, small sites would have to take NO MEASURE to manage other peoples content on their site. As soon as they took any "reasonable measures" to restrict that content they would assume the role of publisher and become liable.