skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uber is a household name in many cities in India now. Surely, the same is the case in many other countries.
Sewer grates are frequently square. For what it's worth.

(Not always, but quite frequently.)

They have the same gravitational-gradient dynamic as manholes.
I'm sorry. I was not trying to be confrontational. Sillysaurus said he did not see much merit in perusing the book after professing some experience in language implementation, and I felt an answer based on personal learning was in order as a counterpoint. Good Books, that actually teach something and mean something are exceedingly rare... this quality, is of course often quite personal.

The concept of 'guilt' when abandoning a book is completely foreign to me. I presume it is a facet of poor self esteem? This is quite useless as a concept and people need to find their own intellectual feet. Not all need to dig the same things.

If some weird book some unknown dudes in the internets glorify feel useless to me I just dump the book without a second thought. I don't have the time to become an expert in every subject, so I should only investigate those concepts that arouse a personal feeling of beauty. Doing brainy things "just because you imagine it makes you look smart" is counterproductive.
Paper and cardboard generally come from fast-growing pine plantations. Those are replanted as soon as they're harvested.
That's true in the US (where I come from) but less so where I am now (Ireland). The main issue here has been zoning and height restrictions limiting construction of housing near jobs.

Of course, it's not just density - it's the variety of use. I used to live in South Park, San Diego and it was a wonderful neighborhood, even though it wasn't all that dense (mostly single family homes - and gorgeous ones at that). It did, however, have all sorts of retail, dining, parks, housing, and other things in the same neighborhood, so I could still get most of what I needed with a walk. Of course, houses there were not going to be affordable with the incomes we could get in San Diego, because this made it about the best neighborhood in the city.

Actually, that example is illustrative. It would be illegal to build South Park now. Partially because of zoning, but also because of parking requirements and traffic "engineering" (to use the term rather generously). All those little cottages would be surrounded by asphalt (mandatory parking minimums), not gardens, and the streets would be three times as large (gotta ram fire trucks through at 45mph after all!)

That being said, it wasn't perfect. I went to the community planning meetings (at 5:00 in the evening, so it was mostly retirees) and was usually the only person defending planned new bike lanes.
Anyone else find the redesign of Indie Hackers somewhat confusing?
I used to go to the site and it took one click to go to the newest interview, now it takes 3-4 clicks and I'm consistently unsure if I'm I've clicked the right thing because I'm not sure what the purpose of the timeline page is and it's not really what I was trying to get to.

Anyone else agree/disagree?
I drew a map with RoughJS and d3 (3rd example ->)https://github.com/pshihn/rough/wiki/Examples

I'm sure Charts and all would be easy too.
> The original point of social media was to bring people together and build communities. Now, more than a decade removed from it's inception, it is doing the exact opposite. It's tearing people's communities apart, making people more polarized, and driving huge wedges into the very foundation of this country.

"Corporate" Social media are businesses, they are not here to bring people together but to sell influence. Businesses like Google,Twitter or Facebook have been very good at that. Social media are no different than TV or any ad sponsored business. The customer is the advertiser. How do you think these businesses are making billions without their users paying anything?

Venture Capitalists decided to support these business models with massive amounts of money, allowing them to reach critical mass. The whole "bringing people together" was just marketing ploy during the growth period in order to acquire an audience. But that's not how VC got their return on investment. Remember when Facebook was a website acting as a private network for families and friends? they quickly pivoted away from that because it doesn't make that much money.
Yes, I too reached for my adm5 manual
It's not an iron law. Plenty of employers spend more money, in order to increase retention and productivity. Believe it or not, there are many employers who actually care and see their employees as human.
I wonder how those pictures would compare if they were taken by the same camera technology.
I found this to also be great for sales pitch or any pitch in general, or to convince oneself for main life decisions (move to a new city, found a job, or buy a new expensive item).
The community overlook in an opensource library

Haha really? https://mail.python.org/pipermail/security-announce/2017-Sep...

It’s the Wild West out there. And then there’s NPM...
> Was that a 4th amendment search if they claim that they didn't look through your briefcase?

It's a seizure whether or not they looked through it, and it's a search if they examined—by any means, technical or otherwise—the contents in a way they wouldn't have been practically able to without seizing it, irrespective of whether they opened it (and even more independent of whether they claim they opened it.)
Because they don’t support (positive) discrimination maybe..
Not sure if you're kidding, but if you're not, there'd be no terrorist attacks at all if we were all locked in our own individual rooms with only telescreens to communicate with each other through.

Maybe we should take a serious look at that. It could seriously protect tens of thousands!
>You don’t have to be irrationally exuberant to succeed in the market, even if it’s irrationally exuberant.

Yes, but it is risky. If you don't follow trends/buzzwords you have two threats:
1) You bet that many people (the market) are wrong and you are right. Possible, but unlikely.
2) You bet that after these many people (the market) come to senses and realize that they were wrong (remember: nobody likes to admit that they were wrong), they acknowledge that you are right and buy your product. As the funny saying goes: "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent".
‘People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.’ - Maya Angelou

Your last sentence reminded me of that.
Yes. This use of the word 'recruit' is a Britishism. We rarely say 'hire' for jobs, especially permanent ones.
> When the target user runs Winbox Loader software (a utility used for Mikrotik router configuration), this connects to the router and downloads some DLLs (dynamic link libraries) from the router’s file system.

Wait, am I getting this right? The router isn't simply configured via web, telnet, ssh, or a simple proprietary tool that talks its own protocol with the router, but actually a proprietary tool that downloads and executes code from the router that you're trying to configure? If so, why on earth would you design anything like this? What were they thinking? I mean, apparently those DLLs aren't even signed or anything.
You don't need do-notation to use Monads, that's just useful for building up a lazy-evaluated data-structure describing what IO to perform.

Java and Javascript, for example, have been gradually introducing monadic concepts into their ecosystems. Java collections and Futures grow 'of' and 'flatMap', JS Promises aren't quite purely monadic but have 'resolve' and 'then'. So it's perfectly possible for an imperative language to use monadic features to implement async operations.

But much as I enjoy using JS Promises (really!) I prefer ES6 async/await, even though it's just syntactic sugar. Not least because even fairly straightforward-looking async/await code can desugar to something you wouldn't want to try to read by hand.
Five per day is a pretty low application rate for what it's worth. You can get through twenty in an hour if you're organized and motivated.
Could a space enthusiast explain the utilitarian point of space travel to me? Space is cool, but it seems like most of the posited uses for space are either extremely speculative (asteroid mining) or a "solution" to a doomsday scenario (a small colony surviving if humans can't survive on Earth).
It was my first reaction too, but when you think about it, a steak or some bacon probably wouldn't seem disturbing and these animals have way more advanced brains.
There are in fact system dynamics in which specific behaviours are unhealthy. Toxic, if you will.

Consider these, generally, hygiene factors.

There are substances which are toxic in specific concentrations or circumstances, which are otherwise healthy: oxygen, CO2, water, vitamin D, salt, nutritional iron. Certain forms of discourse.

My view increasingly isn't that there are things, but interactions or behaviours. A thing isn't, but is what it does or how it behaves.

(This ... tends to simplify numerous ontological questions.)
1) None of these directly disprove God, only the founding documents of Christianity. And, it is awfully arrogant to assume that the Christian God is the one that needs to be disproven. You need to do a lot more to substantiate that position as the Christian religion is neither the oldest nor the most numerous.

2) You might want to go look up biblical archaeology. Quite a lot of the history in the Bible has been disproven.

3) Simply being factually correct is necessary but insufficient. Falsifiability is about disproving a prediction called a hypothesis. Very few religions have tenets that allow you to put the pieces together and make a novel prediction that can then be tested.

And, if I were being particularly uncharitable, I would argue that the fact that the Second Coming has been predicted over and over and yet still has not occurred is actually significant disproof of the existence of the Christian God.
To explain my downvote: not contributing to the conversation.
> overestimating importance of the build system

True. Gradle (and its Apache Groovy build DSL) conquered a market by first creating that market. There's really no need for a build system with a procedural build language -- a declarative language to describe a build like with Make and Ant/Maven is good enough.
> revealing a hidden culture exhibitionism

Not only do many females seem to enjoy exhibitionism on subs like /r/gonewild, there's also a not-so-hidden culture of exhibitionism that takes place in real life that "strangely" seems to have so far escaped being raised in the ongoing gender wars discussions. Human beings are very complex beings.
The city renovated my neighborhood recently as well. It's much more walkable with a street turned into a park, the expensive new apartments, and equally expensive restaurants.

I'm all for the density. I already have a nice place that's much cheaper than the apartments. I eat-in mostly to save money. Now, my nightly walks will be more interesting. My options have expanded when I do go out.

Your friend might have to consider roommates, a cheaper place, or staying with their parents. If they're renting their own apartment six months a year to afford it, then they can't.
I was just addressing OPs statement about paper quality as it has existed across "rigorous" papers (conservative and liberal) for decades. Op-ed has always been a steaming pile thats thankfully not reflective of the actual news published.

As to your point, I agree completely--this guy just needs to be fired, and the NYT should post a correction. He was a trusted writer who made false claims about his own behavior.

Should the NYT have surveilled Manjoo's "experiment" for a fluff piece? Should it monitor their writers to make sure they actually went and tried that new cupcake place on 5th avenue?

Maybe. But I feel like the issue here is that this staff member blatantly lied to both the paper and the public, which feels akin to a doctor violating his hippocratic oath.

As for the rest of op-ed, I honestly feel like cherry-picking facts and figures to form a one-sided opinion is tantamount to a lie--perhaps an even more sinister one. And just like we don't have op-eds on Wikipedia, we should be damn sure to isolate them from what we call "news."
And Reddit has been toxic since day 1.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/z4444w/how-reddit...

They were Fake news before fake news was a thing.
Hire and recruit can have the same definition.
> Bezos would also like to move millions of people off-planet as well.

In Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy, one of the points made is that even with multiple space elevators, you could never move more people off the planet than are being born on it at the same time. Consequently, space exploration is not a cure for overpopulation. KSR researched this 25 years ago, has the math on that changed?
It looks like the HQ is in Tencent Seafront Towers, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent
I don't understand why you think this is a good argument. There are plenty of things people are allowed to do that they really shouldn't.
Unfortunately the same requirement isn't generally understood to hold in these circumstances.

For example, the 9th circuit court of appeals in U.S. vs Davis[1] held that airport searches are "administrative searches" and are permissible in much broader ways than searches while being arrested.

[1] http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2005/06/07/04...
But why exactly would a company do that if they can find engineers that meet their skill requirements locally?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_wages

They are not mutex. You can actually care about your employees, see them as human, and pay them an amount that you both mutually consent to, which is what Amazon is doing.
Which is why they fixed their resource hog of a client right?
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Very cool. Reminds me of Steve Hanov's work:

http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=33

http://zwibbler.com/

https://www.websequencediagrams.com/
> Men are disproportionately conditioned to be over-confident, because boys are rewarded for being noisy and cheeky.

This is highly unlikely to apply to most of geeks/developers.
I built a RGB LED Display and at first implemented brightness levels by just PWM modulating in a linear way. I quickly found out that it was lacking in dark shades or that the bright shades were almost indiscernible. The solution was gamma correction which made the shades look distributed evenly across the brightness range.
Trump Issues Order to Block Broadcom’s Takeover of Qualcomm
From a technology point of view, one of the collateral benefits of space exploration is that the technology and science that will come from that effort can be used elsewhere.
Next time you are in the Florida Keys you may give it a try.
That's how they are solving the overpopulation.
As both a listener and once guest of SE Daily (and now contributor to the open source project), I really appreciate both the content and the community around it. Jeff is fantastic at conducting the interviews, even with people who arent very experienced with being interviewed (e.g me). Glad that it's doing so well. Would be curious to know how many people on HN listen to it as well.
>If the more and more people attaining a postsecondary education really were adding $10k to their yearly income like the article suggests, incomes would be rising substantially.

Adding $10k to your yearly income does not add $10k to the aggregate yearly income. In large part, educational credentials are a positional good - if we gave out twice as many law degrees, we would not have twice as many practicing lawyers. In other words, completing a degree often helps you get a job at the expense of others who do not hold degrees.
i bet your mom knows what a chat is and not what imap and smtp are.
but he may not be so rich if his workers didn't live paycheck to paycheck...
Good point. What I'll say for now is that if anyone wants to use EnvKey with Lambda or Cloud Functions and is worried about this, feel free to reach out - dane@envkey.com. We'll make sure you're paying a reasonable price that reflects your usage level.
Kinda sad to see when organization like the Against Malaria Foundation and GiveDirectly could absorb hundreds of millions in additional funding. I know long-term thinking, break-through technologies, blah, blah, blah, but spending $3000 to save a life via mosquito nets or $500/year to raise someone out of extreme seem like easy, immediate wins that should be prioritized.
Living in space or another planet requires the highest levels of sustainability. Necessity is the mother of invention. Everything learned in space will be used on Earth where applicable.
Note that testability isn't just an aesthetic preference in an explanation, it's deeply part of what it means to be an explanation with any utility; if an explanation for a phenomenon has no falsifiable implications, it adds nothing to your understanding of the universe than the bare knowledge of the phenomenon it is offered to “explain”.
It uses the WebSocket API.
It means the deist explanation doesn't stand up to Occam's razor as well as the multiverse explanation. "Parsimony" in this context comes from the latin, lex parsimoniae, "law of parsimony."

Adding a deity to the explanation requires adding an "entity" completely nonexistent in the current models that are the basis for the multiverse, i.e. those within quantum theory and cosmology.
Its not a justification, it is a matter of fact that his decision making is not dependent on the masses' value system outside the realm of law.

Thats what anti trust laws are for.

I perceive any such talk that he should spend his money a certain way as propaganda.
If it's been 2 years, can they even prove that he can still remember the password? He hasn't had to use it for over 2 years, it would be entirely probable his memory of it has faded.

How about this theoretical situation: I place an encrypted file in a hard drive belonging to someone I dislike, and then frame them circumstantially with the likely possession of contraband data on said hard drive. Since he owns the device, he may be so unlucky as to have the authorities believe he knows how to decrypt the file despite him claiming he has no knowledge of how the file came to be or how to decrypt it. If they will not accept that argument, this seems like a good way to place a political opponent in jail indefinitely by someone with the means to craft such a scenario
How about this: first teach advanced critical thinking skills, so people have the skills (if not the will, that's another problem) necessary to see through propaganda from both sides.

I have a feeling a lot of people would have issues with this approach though.
I don't mean marketed as in they advertised it or whatever, I mean what it was presented as.
>history of questionable articles [...] did not seem directly relevant to whether he is being misleading now

I believe the point being made was that his use of social media could have been the cause of this. The implication was that the perceived decline in quality of the output and the ever-increasing use of social media were correlated:

>Manjoo’s latest column seems to be of a piece with these earlier works. After trying, and failing, to get him to own up to the fact that his assertion that he had “unplugged” from social media was not true, I asked him whether perhaps his use of social media was messing with his own self-perception. He didn’t respond to that question.

We can argue about the validity of such assumptions, but, nevertheless, the author of the article was trying to build a case here.
> TSA agent asks you ... and then if they are able to find out they you have lied you have committed a crime.

Not sure that's the case: TSA agents are not police or any other law enforcement any more than the gate agent is,and can't make arrests or anything like that. Pretty sure you can say what you like (though please, be polite!).

I once pulled out my phone to photograph the badge of an agent who was particularly obnoxious, not just to me but to others. I planned to fill out the complaint card. He freaked out, told me photography was not allowed, grabbed me by the arm and called for the cop. The cop came over and told him in no uncertain terms to let go of me, that photography is fine, asked me if I got a clear photo and made sure I got a photo of the badge. And handed me a complaint form. I assume he already knew that the TSA guy was a jerk.
Let's see - Vanity Fair, Wired, GQ - there seems good reason to think that Conde Nast are willing to compromise and go with the click bait, a lot.

https://www.wired.com/story/bad-actors-are-using-social-medi... .. is the first entry Reddit, is it in the list, nope.

I think Conde Nast are prepared to stoop pretty low in the search for dollars before integrity.
Stevia does produce an insulin response - but, it appears, in the "right" direction. There are apparently several labs exploring stevia as a treatment in diabetes models, for instance: https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/abstract/1...
> the same requirement must also hold for Terry stops and simple safety inspections.

You must show your work here.
Trump issues order prohibiting Broadcom's bid to take over Qualcomm
Show HN: Condor: Sorting Algorithm Challenge
Erlang does go way beyond concurrency into the domain of distributed and highly-reliable systems, and has more than lessons for us IMO - together with OTP, it’s still arguably one of the most effective and battle-tested environments for highly concurrent systems.

Like anything, it has its envelope and sweet spots, as well as its warts. Some people find the Erlang language syntax to be ugly; I quite like it and find it easier to comprehend in general than Elixir, which is much more verbose to my eyes (except for the very nice pipe operator!)

Yes, the semicolon / period thing in Erlang can be annoying, but not so much that it really gets in my way.

The tooling can be a real barrier to entry, and I’m glad that Elixir is bringing more people into the fold, although I can’t bring myself to really like Elixir for purely subjective reasons.

For example, one of my major complaints about Elixir is that it is literally Erlang with some syntax changes, rewritten libraries, and extensions like macros - but if you don’t grok Erlang thoroughly, you will get frustrated when you hit the bottom layer - like exceptions and error messages - and it’s full of Erlang data structures. I had the same reaction when working with non-Java languages targeting the JVM. They all feel a bit like bolt-on kits. At some point, you really need to understand the core.

In my opinion, of course.
Does this provide a layer of security outside of say, adding a strong password to your phone and keeping it powered off, assuming my phone's data is encrypted?
1) give a 3 day coding challenge to gauge the candidate real potential, and 2) hire fast, fire fast.
I find that word so offensive and mysoginist..
I have been asked to write a matrix search robot (Ideal solution using A* algorithm) for a company that was doing CRUD education software apps, in which I was applying for a full stack position with plenty of experience building prod apps in their stack. I just looked them up and they shuttered about 12 months after the interview.
The Unlikely Pulp Fiction Illustrations of Edward Hopper
Yep. This has way higher priority than even most other charities too. Sometimes I compare the policies of "homeless maintenance" in the US to what it could be done in the third world. I would re-allocate funds in a second if I was hegemon.
Let me ask you this: when you think about our future in 100-200 years, what do you see?

Do you really see us sitting around here and just being? Just stagnating? Waiting for the real-estate and resources to finally run out?

If you don't, or hope that it's not what all of this amounts to, the only question remaining should be "if not now, then when?".