skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you've used .NET Core recently if you're saying that it feels half-finished. This is just FUD. At this point, .NET Core, especially 2.0, is excellent for almost every use case except native app development. Even then, you've got .NET Native attempting to solve that problem. The last time .NET Core was "half-finished" was probably its 1.0 release.
Rails Application on Heroku: Redis, Sidekiq, Action Cable and Cron Configuration
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ with PoE and Bluetooth
I fly in the south and as long as I'm not at a major airport (in class G) I can get gas pretty cheap. Poking around on some maps I can even find it cheaper.

Really all depends where you fly.
May be I didn’t convey the message right. I’ve already mentioned the value of negative space. I understand what negative space is and why it can be judiciously used to benefit layout composition.

Apple Music uses way too much to the point where it is frustrating to use it.

I am not saying we should make Apps that look like excel spreadsheets. I kind of find it condescending when people provide advise without understanding the argument.
A legitimate ad for a crypto currency is the same usecase as a credit card: you want people to choose your currency/card for their transactions. Note that in both cases the legitimate use is transactions, and in both cases the real motivation is those who fall into a scam (in the case of a credit card high interest rates).
They definitely do not hold your ID, except perhaps to lend you the tools to replace your battery in the parking lot. Forcing a customer to drive without a hard copy of the driver license is not smart. The deposit you pay to rent the tool is identical to the purchase price. This is true for several states, including California.

Some of their rentable tools are better than the tools available for retail sale while costing less or including better accessories like a sturdy case.

I kept several rental tools. I rented a few with intent to purchase them and told that to the store personnel so they could order a replacement. One of my favorite tools is a serpentine belt wrench. The rental version comes with a case and a couple of extra crow foot wrenches. The retail version has fewer accessories and no case.

Some locations now only rent for 48 hours. I had no problem returning those rentals after a week.

Replacing suspension components often requires specialty tools.
That would really give me concern.
Is anyone else a bit sick of these 'pi days'? Every year we get the same old shtick.

Pleasingly, under the one true date format [0] there are no pi days. (Well there are, but long past the heat death of the Universe.)

[0] https://xkcd.com/1179/
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Big data for the people: it's time to take it back from our tech overlords
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidermolysis_bullosa

TLDR: It's a genetic disorder best known for causing fragile skin. It also predisposes people to certain forms of cancer, which is apparently how the author died.
Probably you'll like Quora then: https://www.quora.com
I learned C and LISP pretty much at the same time (back when rocks were young and you needed a PDP-11 if you wanted to run Unix). Then I went to college and the first course in the Computer Science major was a "killer" they taught in Pascal. Okay, so Pascal is a kind of screwed-up C, and I could deal with that.

That "killer" course had a semester-long, multi-phase project that was a kind of symbolic calculator (with sets and operations on them). It was maybe a couple hundred lines of LISP . . . so I wrote a LISP interpreter in Pascal (with a garbage collector, natch), then wrote the meat of the project in LISP, embedded in the Pascal source. Was the only person in a class of 300 or so who completed the project that semester, but the professors were not amused with the approach I took. Can't imagine why :-)

I've never used a functional language in production, but I've stolen LISP techniques and used them in quite a few products. I never felt frustrated by the fact that I couldn't use LISP or Scheme or whatever in <product> and had to use C/C++/Pascal/Java/C# instead, but have seen it happen in other engineers (notably when the Apple Newton switched from Dylan -- an object-oriented variant of Scheme -- to C++; there were a bunch of forlorn looking ex-Scheme hackers wandering the hallways, clutching copies of the C++ Annotated Reference Manual and trying not to cry).
Derek's book notes inspired me to post my own [1]. Making the effort to clean up my notes and go through them strengthens the lessons learned.

However, I'm not sure how valuable these types of notes are for others. Often I find a passage that resonates with me falls flat for others, and vice versa. It depends on other books you've read, life context, etc.

I do try to indicate who might find the book helpful, or who should probably skip it.

[1]: jamesstuber.org/booknotes
Open Location Code: An Open Source Standard for Addresses
Knowledge Graphs for Enhanced Machine Reasoning at Forge.AI
As of 2.0, ASP.NET Core does finally feel ready for primetime to me. I've been revisiting the whole picture periodically for 2 years, and finally the tooling seems to be complete and performant, and the end result and developer experience finally seem to have been worth all the headaches.
Dr. Hawking has had a profound influance on my life, and I presume the same for many others on HN. For some reason I found solace today in this song "Page One", which I'm just going to leave here:

https://open.spotify.com/track/2HZEJcDdPUh1umsw4qcY1X?si=3Vf...
> This is so utterly false. You're essentially claiming that the value of these services is all based on the innovation of the _hailing_ functionality, but there are countless apps that recreate this functionality _exactly_ whether for 'regular' taxis or separately licensed cars.

There wasn't before Uber showed up. Last time I took a Juno, the driver asked me if he could text me a promo code so I could send it to me friends, that's when I stopped shopping around

> Separately from this, it ignores the fact that there are cost-based reasons for these kinds of behaviors. Drivers, for example, have to think about round-trip cost. If you ask me to drive you from Washington Sq. Park to Astoria, I have to think about what fare to charge you such that it covers my expenses on the longer trip _as well as_ the likely problem of not picking up a return fare that takes me back to a high-traffic area.

It's illegal in NYC for a yellow cab to refuse a ride request to any of the five boroughs. As for the livery cabs, the pricing was inconsistent for the same trips, over and over. Doubt any of it had to do with anything other than maximizing fare, which is their prerogative, since there there are no checks in place for that kind of behavior.

> This is all discussed with much greater statistical depth in the Naked Capitalism articles on Uber, but the basic problem is that none of the ride hailing services have found a way to make this any cheaper, except through massive subsidy...

I understand this. It doesn't invalidate the sea change in the experience of moving around NYC, particularly in the evening and late night.

> And if it busts, you'll see that all the niceties you describe in this comment are mostly the product of either (a) massive investor subsidy, or (b) easy and cheap-to-copy innovations like a map and location-enabled hailing app.

Let's hope (b). I doubt these innovations would have spontaneously arose from the taxi commission or the livery cabs.
If people stop using these drugs if they're not advertised maybe they're not that useful in the first place? Isn't there enough money to be made selling real treatments for real diseases?
Likely never, as Azure Web Apps uses a modified IIS and strongly bound bindings (e.g. *.azurewebsites.net) to work. This seems to impact only host headers delivered directly to Kestrel. There's no scenario I know of where you'd be able to do that in Azure Web Apps (since the whole thing is powered by IIS, even when .Net Core is in use).
This sort of behavior may earn points on facebook or reddit, but no one here is impressed with classless posturing.
To me, the right way to follow up is personally with one of the individuals you met during the interview process...i.e. in the context of professional networking rather than a job search. Networking provides value to the other party because networking is a two way street. "Give me feedback" is one way, all about you, and work for the other person. It is also risk because the reason companies in the US don't provide feedback is to limit the risk of being sued.

To put it in context, be ok with not getting hired this time (yeah I know it sucks). But the long term is about relationships. Asking for feedback for a position creates a context in which someone is unlikely to say, "I know this other company that's hiring and <important person at other company> is a friend/customer/acquaintance of mine. Here is their contact information."

I'd put it this way, if someone gave you the impression that it is a good idea to ask for feedback following an interview in the US, that is an impression to remove from your mind. It raises the concern that you might want to argue over the feedback. If a company interviews six people for a position, most or all of them won't get hired.

One way to work the networking side is simply to try to connect on Linkedin the next day as follow up. It's low effort on the other person's part to open the door to future interaction while allowing them to signal that they are not interested in a passive, non-confrontational way or carefully consider their response.

Good luck.
Many? The link only talks about chapter 4 of his book Thinking, Fast and Slow.
I feel like you don't really disagree with the parent comment, you're looking at a separate issue.

From the lived experience of the consumer in NYC Uber was a revolution in convenience, reliability and overall experience. We already had car services, and Uber was functionally similar to a car service plus a hailing app, but it ended up being so good it competed with taxis as well. The quality has diminished and there are competitors now, but Uber is still better in most situations than taxis or traditional car services, and isn't significantly worse than Lyft or other apps.

From a business model perspective you can say that Uber is only competitive because it burns money, and eventually if SDCs don't come quickly enough they will be forced to jack up prices or go out of business. It's a valid argument, but doesn't have anything to do with how consumers experience Uber today.
Which promptly got rewritten after pg left.

EDIT: From the years being here, and having played with LISP myself, it's a language that appeals to a certain type of programmer, who claim to find it very productive compared to other languages.

And everyone else hates it.

So you pick a LISP language you're severely limiting your hire pool.
Enforcing the speed limit the system is designed for intuitively sounds like very reasonable and effective safety measure, not comparable in any way to your fantasy scenario.
There's some who self identify with it, Skepchick and The Dixie Chicks come to mind, but it can be considered somewhat derogatory, dismissive, or at least belittling in some contexts to some people.

I think context and age matters a lot here (as well as personal preference) - young women and (especially) girls may use the term amongst themselves but middle age women almost certainly wouldn't, if you called your boss "chick," it would be seen as inappropriate, belittling and disrespectful. It's in the same category (but not "severity") as other diminutives like sweetie, honey, babe, girl, girly, and doll.

It may vary by region too, I know at least certain diminutives don't have the same connotations in the American South as they do elsewhere.

In general, you should probably avoid calling an adult woman you are personally unfamiliar with "chick" in many contexts, not necessarily because "PC police," but because it's just bad for communication - its not necessary and it can be a distraction from the actual message you're conveying.

Personally, as a woman approaching 40, I can't think of any context I'd care to be called "chick" in. Not necessarily offended but it would be just icky.

EDIT:

Some discussion:

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/19098/how-deroga...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/30/bird-i...
Unless of course your perception that it is "objectively" awful is not objective at all. The "awful" categorization is oftentimes just your emotional reaction to not understanding something immediately and not knowing how to use it effectively.
Let's take a look at what the "opting out" looked like:

"OMG OMG, there's a completely different thing in the computer than there was yesterday! Make it go away!! I didn't touch nothing this time!!!" And lo and behold, there was indeed a completely different OS, without any attempt at obtaining user consent (or, even worse, against the expressed denial of consent). Are you surprised that the users "opted out" of further violations of expectations?

TL;DR: nonconsensual "upgrade" bad; perhaps the tea analogy didn't quite register with MS? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQbei5JGiT8
Musk is an incredible self-promoter. He talks about how he is going to save the world, critics just don’t understand or just want to see him fail, and his words bounce around an ideological echo chamber where the facts of his claims don’t matter.

IMO, the google founders have had a far larger impact on the world than Elon, however, they don’t promote themselves endlessly.
They do it at most NASCAR races, too. Not only that, but the company that does it bought and renamed one of the tracks!
Skype is / was not "a chat tool" - Skype was an opportunity to own the IP telephony space for both the business and consumer markets. That is potentially a huge revenue base, and fits neatly into a company like Microsoft that sits astride both.

Solaris, Java, SPARC and MySQL had all demonstrated that they weren't going to acquire major revenue streams, at least under the ownership of Sun. Their valuations reflect two different types of company, something the market is very able to understand.
That's fun. I'm recently working my way back through my fundamentals prepping for some future hopeful coursework and had to play with number 1.

#include "stdio.h"
#include "math.h"

long double ln ( long double n ) {
return log(n) / log(M_E);
}

long double pi ( void ) {
return pow(ln(6), pow(ln(5), pow(ln(4), pow(ln(3), ln(2)))));
}

int main( void ) {
printf("%LE\n", pi());
return 0;
}

Or in JS

function ln(n) {
return Math.log(n) / Math.log(Math.E);
}

function pi() {
return (ln(6) ** (ln(5) ** (ln(4) ** (ln(3) ** (ln(2))))));
}

If anybody else wants to toy with it.

Getting older and working outside of the fields that employ a lot of certain technicals doesn't leave as much time for exploration as one would like.
Reminds me that i have a 3B sitting around that i have yet to do anything with.
I think they don't need autopilot or something, but to have a better onboarding and tutorial, a fun tutorial that teaches players the basics of spaceflight and rocket building step by step. Narrated by Scott Manley of course. Just get a smooth tutorial into the game. Modders / the community could probably make that with the new mission editor.
Thanks for the suggestions!

I curated a list based on the feedback.

- RedRock Coffee 9x
- Philz Coffee 2x
- Olympus Caffe & Bakery
- Coffeebar
- HackerDojo
- Dana St Coffee
- Coupa Cafe
- Y2E2

I talked to a friend who recently moved to MV, and she told me Red Rock does have poor wifi; too many people using it?

When I move to Mountain View - I'll be sure to post it on Hackernews so I can meet up with some folks.

I love programming and I also enjoy playing bullet chess. :)
Stop saying fake news
Did you do a deploy before a plan? ;)

We've all been there!
Kottke.org is 20 years old today
does an AMZ share have an intrinsic value?
I saw a presentation at qcon last week by PayPal about contraband detection using image recognition, the example was a rose for 650 dollars. In the image was a handgun, in front of the roses. So that is a thing, and pp certainly has efforts to stop it, I assume eBay does too.
What I think is most bizarre - I have friends with really decent businesses that try really, really hard to get a few hundred thousand in funding. And yet I see the most _terrible_ ideas with an ICO cap of 20 million dollars. Still people throw in the cash. Ideas with literally no need for a blockchain. But "everyone will be able to spend the token on [insert terrible idea]!"

'The most bespoke electric hypercar! With blockchain!' http://www.arrinera.io/ - I mean really?! I heard someone talking about "LGBT on the blockchain" the other day - "We'll aim for a conservative $40million ICO." Ridiculous.
Or perhaps some kind of storage connectivity beyond USB.
They did claim (even) more performance improvements in the release from last week, and I'm sure there's still a lot more to tweak.
So you are implying that Google only has control over ads?
your reply is not at odds with the parent statement. Getting a cab, even in manhattan, often sucks.

When the subsidies stop the ride-hailing thing will be totally different but we don't know how it will look.
Ask HN: Work perks
What kind of perks/package/fringe benefits do you get at your workplace? What kind of things do you wish you had?
Flagged for an egregious false equivalency. To pretend that the basic understanding of a tire and it's function and a understanding of the mechanisms of most prescription drugs is a stretch that will tear the fabric of credibility.

"This is a good tire, it will last longer than most and will serve you well. It is highly unlikely to interfere with any other parts of your car"

VS.

"This is a enzyme inhibitor that will degrade the signalling molecule cyclic guanosine monophosphate which will prevent smooth muscle relaxation. It could have unforeseen interactions with any number of different commonly imbibed chemicals."
Use the "5 whys" method to dig into this a little more. Yes, one major problem is lack of women developers, but why is that the case? Keep asking questions and you'll see that there's some terribly broken and problematic answers to be found.

Creating a significantly higher demand for women developers is one way to help mitigate those causes and create more opportunity.
It's worse, Raspbian is compiled for armv6 to also support the BCM2835 (Raspberry Pi 1). Here's a performance comparison between a modern 64-bit armv8 Linux on a Le Potato SBC versus armv6 Raspbian on the Raspberry Pi 3:

https://libre.computer/2017/12/03/performance-and-power-cons...
Technically, both Pascal and C are derivatives of Algol. Pascal is a variation on Algol. C is a screwed-up Algol.
This is exactly the kind of overstatement I am challenging here.

Python is a programming language. The Python 2 interpreter has been around for a long time. We're not talking about some brand new, Internet-facing server software here. The odds of any sort of critical security issue in the Python 2 interpreter itself are very small, and for anything in the associated libraries there are plenty of other options if they should ever become necessary.

This meme that any software that has moved beyond its original publisher's chosen end date for support is suddenly a threat to all human existence really needs to die. Aside from being obviously untrue in cases where the software is open source and available to the wider community to fix or update independently, security is all about managing risk. If you're going to consider this a "dangerous zombie", I hope you also aren't waiting up to a month for your OS developer to release their next bundle of security issues and then spending further days evaluating them in a lab before deploying them, and I that you have snapshot-based filesystems with offsite backups taken every few minutes on all your machines in case some idiot on your network brings ransomware in on a USB stick without realising. Those surely reflect far higher risks than continuing to automate with useful, tried-and-tested Python 2 scripts the same way you have been for the past decade or so.
MechJeb could be considered cheating though; I'd make it a bit more idk, lore-friendly and only gradually add it. Those stats could definitely be added though, with stat availability based on what pod you're using. For immersion you could have a mode that hides the UI so that info is only available from inside the cockpit - although of course most rockets are remote controlled or automated nowadays.
I've used this. For an instant Git HTTP server, thoroughly recommended.
> It's illegal in NYC for a yellow cab to refuse a ride request to any of the five boroughs...

Yes, of course. But the reason you don't see Uber drivers doing the same thing (or outright avoiding these unprofitable trips) is that they are subsidized to provide that unprofitable ride stock in areas where it's intrinsically not economical to provide ride stock. When you compel a yellow cab to do it, it means the prices have to be higher. This is why it makes less sense to compare the Uber experience to the yellow cab experience. It's like saying, "Would you prefer if a celebrity donated their first class Emirates seat to you, or a coach seat with United?" It ignores the mechanism by which the experience can be afforded to the end user (in Uber's case, huge subsidy, with no sign that the prices could be sustained absent the subsidy).

Overall I understand your comment and I realize you are aware of the counterpoints I'm making. The thing for me is that highlighting the good experience actually _is not a useful point of comparison_ with older, crappier cab experiences, specifically because everything we experience with Uber right now is inherently part of this huge ambient subsidy-based perception distortion field.
> Skype was a chat tool.

> The market doesn't care about core CS.

Yeah, implementing a peer-to-peer voice over IP with Skype's late 00s quality (which fell significantly since then) is not "core CS" and is just "plumbing", right.
Control what personal information your apps collect about you
Urbanization rates continue to rise, what is true yesterday might not be true tomorrow. Also, in much of the world this doesn’t hold even today. The USA (and to a lesser extent Canada and Australia) are unique in private car oriented culture.