skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the original article was written for someone who's going to _manage_ a new team, although it doesn't say that as explicitly as it should. But that's what I'm reading between the lines.

I think the "listening tour" is a pretty good idea even if you aren't a manager. But what to _do_ with it, needs somewhat different advice.

I also suspect the programmer in the comment I'm replying to did _not_ in fact do the "listening tour" that is the main recommendation of the original article. It's not advocating for suggesting changes based on your personal opinion, but only after learning what the team thinks and based on what they think. So the programmer in the comment I'm replying to didn't follow the advice at all.
Unicode normalization/equivalence is half of what you want and UCAPI is probably the other half.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence
https://www.casaba.com/products/UCAPI/
UK faces €2B EU tab for China customs fraud
Possibly a key indicator of a quality SF idea / author -- how much closer we are to their universe a decade or two later.

I wholeheartedly disagree. As the great (and unfortunately late) Ursula Le Guin wrote, I write science fiction, and science fiction isn't about the future. I don't know any more about the future than you do, and very likely less.[1]

Predictions are cute and all, and I enjoy reading them, but SF certainly can't be judged by how predictive it is.

[1] http://theliterarylink.com/leguinintro.html
Please stop posting these pre-clinical studies on rats and mice! No one should ever be taking anything away from these sorts of studies for human health.
I'm one of the people who never understand the absence of generics in Go and, to be honest, I don't find his reasons here very convincing.

> Early in the rollout of Go I was told by someone that he could not imagine working in a language without generic types. As I have reported elsewhere, I found that an odd remark. [...]
What it says is that he finds writing containers like lists of ints and maps of strings an unbearable burden. I find that an odd claim. I spend very little of my programming time struggling with those issues, even in languages without generic types.

Does he suggest we write containers from scratch every time we need them? There is a lot of nontrivial logic, which I'd prefer not to have to get right again every time. (Not to mention that would feel very much the opposite than "programming in the large")

> But more important, what it says is that types are the way to lift that burden. Types. Not polymorphic functions or language primitives or helpers of other kinds, but types. [... long rant why types are for mediocre people and interfaces are awesome... ]

I very much agree that interfaces are awesome and composition is way more useful than inheritance, but what does that have to do with generics?

If you have a function that takes a list of things and returns another list of the same things in sorted order, wouldn't you still want to have a way to keep track that the returned list contains the same things as the list you passed to it? That seems independent of whether the things are specified through types or interfaces.

Languages primitives for containers are a good idea, but the way Go eventually implemented that (hardwiring the few most-used containers into the language and making it really cumbersome to use custom containers) seems very unsatisfactory.
> we won't see a dime of it!

We users click through recaptchas because they're better at spam prevention and they're free. Why would we expect to get paid for two seconds of thought?

> training autonomous military drones with dishonest crowdsourcing

The recaptcha in the article is fake. Do either of the citations mention recaptchas for drones?
Same driver, different vehicle: Bringing Waymo self-driving technology to trucks
;) Until the nexr coin. And the next one. Etc...
> Joining implies that you merged the two businesses with no money changing hands.

Not at all. Saying you "joined" a company is often used as a less transactional (that is, warm and fuzzy, not cold and financial) way of saying you were acquired.
They have a very detailed and plainly written privacy policy which details what information is gathered and how it is used. If their customers put a premium on privacy they should have read the privacy policy prior to using the service and understood Tunnelbear's obligations under it. As long as Tunnelbear has met them they have nothing to be ashamed of. It even addresses the possibility of being acquired and the impact that may have regarding the data they have collected.

"If our organization structure changes (i.e we undergo a restructuring or are acquired), we may need to migrate your Personal Information to a third party related to a business transaction, but, we will ensure that such a third party has entered into an agreement under which the use of your Personal Information is only related to purposes necessary for the transaction."
‘Splinternet’ to herald a trade war for the ages
Definitely depends on yourself and the strain. I will mostly be able to think extremely abstract and with a very high level of creativity and detail, multi-layered even. Meditation has changed the effects considerably, as long as you're lost in the content of thought, interpreting it as new thoughts, the high is just too overpowering. When you're present you can direct your paradigm and steer the direction of thought waaay better. I guess it all comes down to how self aware you are. I've noticed a general trend to calmer, more tranquil highs as 1) I got older, 2) smoked longer, 3) meditated more and 4) with rising tolerance. Also after psychedelics for some weird reason.
Switch to Caddy, then. It becomes mind-numbingly easy to setup.

https://caddyserver.com/
So, one needs to use a font that OCR finds hard to avoid detection. Would rubbish keming do the trick, you could abide by imposed don't requirements but change kerning/leading?
I think your argument is sound, but what OP is trying to say is, it's a $30 radio- and so long as you don't expect it to perform as well as a $300 radio, then it's fine.
I have three Baofengs and they all work spectacularly well, because I purposely purchased non-knockoff models.

For a beginner, who's not sure if it's worth the time and money investing $300 on a radio that might not be used, it's a very good idea to start with a $30 radio first.

As an aside, I feel that consistently denigrating people's choice for less expensive hardware is a very big barrier to the hobby's adoption.

I've had many people tell me that it's one of the things that turned them away from the hobby. Others that still stick around simply avoid discussing what type of radio they're using (not an easy task, when you're rag-chewing, mind) simply because they don't want to deal with these arguments.
Probably the rise of IoT bringing people down the stack to microcontrollers
Actually, I'm curious ... can you give me an example of a state who's tax policy you covet?
There is none. Rat/mice studies are used as very early steps to point directions for actually significant studies in human populations.
I always feel this way when i see 'anti-' something. For example anti-austerity. That noun makes it sound as if austerity was the norm and sane choice and anyone with better ideas was being negative.
My wife and I did a similar thing, not even bothering with precious stones but designing rings that featured some stunning turquoise set in white gold. Non-traditional? You bet, but neithor of us gave a fuck and we love them. Plus, we didn't go into debt to pay for them, using that money to entertain our guests.
Not only a saying: science. As long as you can walk 1.36 m/s (about 5 km/hour), the grim reaper will never catch up with you. 0.82 m/s (about 3km/hour) already makes you mostly safe (http://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d7679)
Are YouTube beneficiaries of copyright? I think they'd make more money if users were allowed to copy and remix video.

Edit: And Viacom sued them for a billion dollars because YouTube executives knew most of their money was coming from straight-up movie rips anyway. Viacom only lost the lawsuit because the memos didn't name specific videos.
Yeah that bothered me as well.

Would you write: "Site uses American characters to publish fake news." ?
Are they the sort of mask that makes you look like subzero from Mortal Kombat? I've been thinking about getting one.
Well, there was really a bifurcation in art.

Painting and drawing went for various forms of stylized representation, because competing against photographs doesn't interest most people.

But you also had a new field of photography, where the focus is now composition. There is a marked difference between the photographs I take and the photographs a skilled photographer takes, even if both are realistic depictions of a scene, and the difference is, sometimes, art.
I think in general, no, we don't.

I know this crowd thrives on the non-general, pedantic edge cases, however, so it depends on which "we" we are talking about.
Wow, this is great. I feel ashamed now because I was complaining about a 10-15 deg C cold. My old city was around 30 C the whole year.

What about breathing? Do you use any mask or this is something that you get used too?
Having been inside Google I can say I did not see any reasonable justification of the crazy hysterical anti-GPL and anti-AGPL position of the lawyers.
Only opened the article to find information on their journey.. looks like they haven't finished their trip yet.
Well, this is part of the fun the halting problem - this can be proven to terminate in some cases but not in general
Good riddance to bad blood diamonds.
Me too. When I was in the diamond market I got some from Diamond Foundry: https://qz.com/630512/would-you-propose-with-a-diamond-grown... which I also learned about on HN! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13038912 although I can't find which submission.
The thing is that these diamonds aren't fakes - they are real diamonds. Also for many years there have been gluts of diamonds and the market has been rigged to keep them expensive. Eventually the flood gates will open and diamonds will get real cheap.
I'm more interested in "C++ Templates in Less Than 3 Years".
Importantly, if I sit down at a piano for a few minutes, stare at the keys, and don't play, I have not performed Cage's work. There is a subtle nuance here.
> Clinton was vocally pro TPP

She flipped from pro to neutral between the time when she was involved in negotiations and the time the negotiations completed without her, and the whole way to solidly opposed later.
jaded : Bored or lacking enthusiasm, typically after having had too much of something. [0] - hm?

Lacking in enthusiasm, perhaps. There is something to be said for people who venture into every new setting with an optimistic mindset, and not caring if they should tiptoe round, so agree inasmuch.

On the other hand (based on 40 years+ of professional experience), workplaces are in reality on a spectrum regarding these things (not binary good or bad), and peoples seniority as well as their need to take any job in the lower end are on a spectrum as well (some need to take what is provided because of location or other factors). In certain intersections of these factors I'd still say be careful to follow the advice in the linked article very literally.

In the appropriate cases I'd say it was excellent advice though, perhaps that wasn't clear enough.

[0] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/jaded
How can I make a chain of function decorators in Python?
I did the same comment seconds ago about breathing. I don't have asthma, but this is something that is difficult for me too.
4 Themes from the Open Source Leadership Summit (OSLS)
I suggest taking a bunch of these tests. You might be able to schedule one test and get both technician and general. I did two tests in one day (and missed like 2 or 3 from getting my general). But the technician is fairly easy, but there is some memorization that you need to do.

http://aa9pw.com/radio/
Pinker is just a perfect example of a new breed of popular "public intellectuals" who are lazy, boring and non-skeptical thinkers, who love to criticise ideas they are too lazy to study and understand.
The third question will give you a valuable map of influence in the organization. The more often names show up and the context in which they show up tends to provide a very different map of the organization than the one in the org chart.

This hits me hard. I always go into a company and ask to see its org chart so I can get a feel for where I'm at in the company. I have been frustrated before because some companies don't have org charts or they are inaccurate. I will be using this trick in the future.
If you're interested in learning more about compile time computation, I wrote a book about it in Lisp.

http://billsix.github.io/bug.html

http://billsix.github.io/cac
Those are interesting, especially the second one. I've read a little here and there about Unicode normalization before, but UCAPI does look like what I really wanted. However, seeing as UCAPI isn't free or even "listed price plans", I get the strong feeling that this will not see much pickup (at least until someone makes a free one).
The former is not likely to be an issue for the site I'm talking about. Ad injection is shitty but I don't think it makes my blog "irresponsible".
Is it even ethical to be or remain an American anymore? We can't claim we don't know better anymore.
> That's not true. If you bet 99% of your money each time then there's still no probability that you go bankrupt (it's literally impossible to go bankrupt unless you bet all your money), and you make money much faster.

The huge mistake you're making is in assuming that money is infinitely divisible. Let's say you start with $1 and you bet 99 cents and lose. Now try betting 99% of 1 cent and see if you don't go bankrupt.

It's very simple to verify Kelly's findings by building a naive simulator.
International treaties typically have provisions for unilateral withdrawal. They don't subordinate countries. Given a withdrawal provision, they require ongoing commitment to mean anything.
It sometimes seems like we software developers travel in really distinct worlds.

People who have an established pattern of changing jobs every 2 years won’t even get an interview in my org, and they definitely need at least a year before they understand the problem space well enough for their offers of major architecture changes to be welcome.

The idea is that coming in and working on the problems you’re assigned is good because you can more deeply understand the problem space AND make things better.

I expect this, better and faster and with more humility and wisdom, from senior engineers. That doesn’t make anyone a ticket monkey in my book, it makes them effective at their very highly paid job.

As an aside, I highly recommend the article’s strategy for appearing (and hopefully actually being) wise and humble, as long as you’re getting your assigned, bare minimum work done.

Anyway, it sounds like maybe we mutually wouldn’t want to work with one another, which is why it seems like we live in different worlds to me.
> Clinton was vocally pro TPP through ~2012

It's worth recalling that Clinton was Obama's Secretary of State into 2013, and anything she said from 2009 til then is likely to reflect the position of the Administration rather than her personal views.
For me this kind of micro optimization never worked but in the most advanced skill areas I have (e.g. vim hotkeys).

For everything people related for me the very simple approach worked best:
- find a topic where you can see the other person getting a profit for their problems/career as well
- start discussing that topic with them
- if you hit it off, stay in contact
- if you don't hit it off, try to reduce contact as much as possible

And then work hard and try not to be a dick, but be a dick to people who want to exploit you. If someone worthy gets a bad impression because you self-defence he will come around when he sees you in action more.
My problem with that right now is running in the snow/ice. The cold doesn't bother me, but It's hard to run on ice, even with traction devices on your shoes.
And because that's just about the only thing it's good for. Go has all the capabilities of Pascal circa 1990. No one in their right mind is going to use it to write a modern web browser.
Netflix’s Secrets to Success: Six Cell Towers, Dubbing and More
Private Internet Access is my suggestion given their support of EFF, FFTF, Creative Commons, as well as the greater FOSS community.

Full disclosure: I work at Private Internet Access.
These guys are great: https://encrypt.me

I used them when I was freelancing and working on public wifi. Super easy to use and reliable.
I feel like the article is not about this at all though. If you behaved according to the algorithm as a newbie, you would only refactor and change the design pattern if people told you that that should be done. Which your newbies weren't told according to what you're saying.
You weren't kidding! It looked like you can buy 1kg of uncut rubies for ~$35 and 100 smaller cut rubies for ~$5
Yes, but a lot of free market proponents seem to ignore that transparency in markets doesn't just happen. There is no "invisible hand" guiding that.
Trump Enthuses About Musk, NASA During Cabinet Meeting
I was also stating that cannabis improves focus for me. That is, directly after use. I have never been a regular cannabis user so I can't comment on my experience on the long term (I was just stating that I wouldn't be surprised if cannabis had a negative effect on your focus in the long run - just like prolonged caffeine use has on your energy level).

Edit: Ha, makes sense now ;)
It's a fake picture designed to generate outrage.
> The fix will apparently come through side letters between Canada and the remaining TPP countries, which will keep the text intact but give Canada the exemption it wanted.

What TPP exemptions will be unique to Canada?
Facebook also aids the Erdogan regime:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/world/europe/facebook-sai...
"The above was posted by the Chinese hacker(s) who hijacked my account."
This does seem pretty poor, I've never seen any results that were impressive from it, but in its defense any published results tend to pick images that work well.
A transportation engineer has a simple solution to potholes: pave better roads
Hrmf, what I think they tried to say is that #pragma once causes your code to compile differently depending on which file it's stored inside. This can cause problem with some tooling (e.g. precompiled header generators, some distributed compiler tools, etc.) which concatenate header and source files to generate an amalgam.

So it's not "tosh", it probably just doesn't correspond to your way of writing C++ code.
I see your point, but the argument is that if you're just getting started, $30 is a much easier pill to swallow.

As for your tests on the Baofengs, I'd be interested to see your sources and the exact models tested.

As a counterpoint:
Here's a video of an Official Baofeng UV-5R being stress tested, and demonstrating how resilient the front-end is: https://youtu.be/KqVq2G9dY5Q

I don't think that a Yaesu HT would continue working after running without an antenna, but I wouldn't want to try it myself.
#International Women's Day – Eco-Fashion House and the Ministry of Tomorrow
Down in the article:

> Well, the primary answer is that Hanami isn’t trying to unseat Rails.

Exactly. Clickbaity titles are still necessary in 2018 apparently.

I've worked with one of Hanami's maintainers for a while, working on a Rails app. I have been following the project for a while, it's definitely not a Rails killer. I'm not sure why these conversations are always brought up. But hey, at least the "Elixir/Phoenix will kill Rails" discussions have stopped for a few months.
I assumed the answer was going to be the opposite.

@joel, how much do you think this is based on your experience because you've been brought into these projects.

I'm currently in a re-write and worried I've made a mistake. We could have been shipping code faster with the old system.

I inherited an old scala code base which was not kept up to date. Moving to a current version of scala would have meant updating huge swaths of the app. User management would need to be completely replaced.

I decided to rebuild in node, with the recognition that the current team don't want to build in JS, but it is going to be easier to get JS people for the website long-term and let the current team focus on the things that they enjoy and are really good at and are REALLY hard.
How does this hypothetical wider set of people know your diamond is de beers approved?

Do you keep the price tag on it?

Or do you just talk about how, obviously, you'd never stoop to buying man-made diamonds?
It is also possible to be against something and have an opinion on how the situation was handled. That some of the IP restrictions were removed shows there was room for negotiation rather than just walking away in a huff.
How is “quickly find ways to make beneficial changes that are achievable and worthwhile” distinct from resolving tickets?

That seems like a perfect description of doing a good job at resolving tickets to me. Because if the change was beneficial, it was presumably not just navel gazing architecture astronauting, it was solving an existing problem, right?
As I understand this, the attraction is not "I will want this forever" (you won't) but "I will want to remember this forever" - like embarrassing photos of your childhood, it physicalises your life log.
SQL Server Table Partitioning
That other suggestion isn't good either. Let's say there is a train that leaves at a certain time. They will have to provide the exact GPS coordinates for someone to know when they need to be at the train station
Hi geekout. I tried you via email but I have a protonmail account now. So if you want to reach me there it's eilenez@protonmail.ch
Thanks,
Eilene
The guidelines say to use class when there is an invariant and struct otherwise. This is counter productive because if a struct without invariants suddenly gains an invariant, it should be changed to class. Which doesn't matter except that all forward declarations now also must change (despite years of more permissive compilers allowing a forward declaration of a class later defined as a struct, this is not standard).

Better to always use struct and never class, or the opposite. Always class is simpler because the first members declared in most classes are public, and struct saves you typing "public:" at the top of every class. But always class has the advantage that it is far more popular in C++ library code...including std::array which has no invariants.
I have no idea of the value of my impression of the work - I saw the MIT PI present on this a year ago and have read up since, but well - that's it. However, I think that they think that the main challenges are solved as per ITER and that they are on a mission to resolve the engineering; and this is the way to do that. They don't think that there is anything left which is a show stopper apart from the need to trouser $50m++ to build the proof of concept.
Diligence at Social Capital Part 1: Accounting for User Growth
Why Crystal is a promising programming language for 2018
It’s the name for unelected corporate trade lawyers whose decisions would result in changes to national laws previously defined by elected officials.

http://www.isdscorporateattacks.org

https://youtube.com/watch?v=M4-mlGRPmkU