skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Philosophy was actually pretty popular in the US up until 1950 or so. In particular, for the latter part of the 19th and first part of the 20th century the country had Pragmatism, a philosophy designed for America.

But then the field got taken over by Logical Positivists and Analytic philosophers following Russell and early Wittgenstein,and they tried to turn it into a rigorous and mostly irrelevant science. And in the meantime in the humanities people turned to continental philosophy and eventually postmodernism,and in political science there were the Straussians. All of these went off in very different directions from the country, and as a consequence attracted followers who didn't have much useful or persuasive to say to the vast majority of people.

There are exceptions, like Martha Nussbaum or Peter Singer. But academic philosophy today is mostly irrelevant.
Introducing Houston CI
Depends on where you are flying. ANA is my favorite airline (Japan), but Lufthansa (Germany) has better food I think.

EVA (Asia) food isn’t great, but United and Delta are still worse imo.
When it did work, like when Bill O'Reilly was pushed out of Fox News, the PR and public outrage aligned with a large faction within the company. It's a lot easier to push out or target individual bad actors than to reform the whole corporate structure.
Somewhat meta-comment:

I'm slightly sad this comment is being downvoted. I can see why someone would, as especially wrt IBM, there's a decent history/precedent for their being aggressively ageist, and it's a topic on which we certainly don't want to pass over without a hard look. (Full disclosure, I tend to side on the "more worker protections" team, but I want to try and take the parent in good faith and think it's a point worth considering)

That being said, I don't think the OP's comment is something we should ignore, that ageism can appear as an emergent symptom of simply culling an aging workforce.

Here's my napkin math for this scenario, and I'm admittedly playing devils advocate here: You hire 10 new people every year. Every year, every employee has a 1% chance of going "stale". You don't fire every year, or at least, don't fire aggressively. If push comes to shove, when you do fire, you try to clean house. Wouldn't you naturally find the highest % of firings in the older brackets?

Anyway, I have no particular reason to think this is true, I just think it's not so unreasonable a point to make that it should be downvoted in terms of argued. I've specifically seen both cases, older higher payed workers culled on-whole in indefensible fashion, removing domain expertise and powerhouses. I've also seen employees start phoning it in, and for there to be a meaningful epsilon of time before anyone catches on.

To be very clear; I'm personally convinced IBM crossed some lines, given the evidence. However, I can see situations where there's enough ambiguity that I don't want to shut down people asking those questions.
> The list of things I was told I should improve on included listening more to other people and accepting their opinions

Right, accept opinions rather than researched facts substantiated with numeric data?

That environment is really not worth fitting into.
Oft. I agree with you there. I never enjoyed spring. I don't get the appeal. With scala I loved play framework. I know it has java support but I never tried it. It used so many scala idioms and features I'm not sure how well it would translate.
"Conscientious objection" to taxes means you wouldn't pay taxes, it doesn't mean you just complain about it. You can't do that and stay a US Citizen and not go to jail.
Seems infinite so far.
They’re almost as bad as the “sovereign citizen” crowd, more numerous, and just as sanctimonious. Maybe Blockchain has a future, but this current crop of money launderers and thieves don’t. Between the SEC in the US and tax authorities elsewhere, it’s a just a matter of time before having an immutable ledger of these activists is shown to be a really bad idea.
Energy is thrown off by the Earth's core and the Sun whether it's captured and used or not. Because bitcoin can be mined anywhere in the world with internet, economics are pushing miners to sustainable power sources, just like aluminum production. American households cannot easily move to be closer to sustainable power sources so it's not all that useful a comparison. Not all electricity consumption is equally sustainable.
"a" new account? not 5?
I've been logging the position and speed of my car every second for nearly a year now with a GPS receiver, so this was super interesting to me. Still on my todo list is doing something with all that data.
Ask HN: Best choice to build cross platform mobile app with JavaScript?
It's 2018 now what's the best choice to build a cross platform mobile app using JavaScript/TypeScript?

I have seen options:
- NativeScript
- React Native
- Ionic

What's your choice and why?
Or Free Software alternatives such as GNUcash.

LWN have a current "Grumpy Editor" series article on Beancount:

https://lwn.net/Articles/751874/

And an older one from 2009:

https://lwn.net/Articles/314577/
Without getting too spicy here: What I was saying is that comments allow for people to provide "plain English" context to their code by giving a summary of what the code does, something that most contracts don't do. I was trying to point out that the example OP was using is a flawed comparison.

Code comments are typically written for whoever they're written for. I understand that"Plain English" might be a 2 sentence summary, a line by line review of each step, or a 3 letter reference to a common phrase, but it doesn't change that you have a tool available to you to provide summary context for potentially confusing or complicated pieces of logic.

I was also making the joke that if you're writing extremely complex pieces of code and not providing some kind of comment to accompany it in a setting in which that code, you're probably doing it wrong.

Some people should do some things some of the time, and other things never, but not always. Things can include writing comments for code. fixt
>> Cash-starved, often socialist governments found throughout Europe will always find ways to use their broadly written laws to obtain badly needed government revenue from US corporations.

Which one is Germany? "Cash-starved" or "socialist"? And Belgium?
There I agree with you.

However Unity is improving their performance, you should have a look at HPC# presented at GDC 2018.
I wanted to come in to say this as well. I am not a fan of the previous practices Uber has had and I hope they have changed some of their ways but I have always appreciated their willingness to publish their findings from an engineering perspective to the world.
Definitely. I don’t think it’s necessarily pessimist to know that when you see headlines about companies it’s almost always directly related to someone manipulating stock prices on way or the other.

Getting a good PR firm at work really opened my eyes to just how manipulated everything is.
this + light-weight OSS browser = mini-electron ?!

Any technical barriers to this ?
mindfulplay wrote that it's "probable", not that there is no way that everyone else but you is the problem.
I'm a YNAB user in the UK, where auto-import isn't really practicable because banks refuse to guarantee you against fraud if you give our your online banking details to anyone else, including YNAB. That should change this year because they're being forced to allow customers to use that data: https://www.openbanking.org.uk/home/what-is-open-banking/ However, I've actually found it very useful to spend time manually entering my transactions because it's given me a much keener understanding of my finances. Having said that, I've got as much out of that as I'm going to now so I'm looking forward to being able to do auto-import.
Maybe it wasn't in 2006, but it wasn't that hard to make it a good mobile protocol and now it certainly is.
I have a strange love for the Acela Express' cheeseburger. If I wasn't sitting in a meeting right now I would go to Penn Station now and take a ride to Newark for that burger.
Thanks! Yeah, that's the danger of putting up a public roadmap with dates on it. We've seen a little production usage that uncovered a couple issues that we wanted to address quickly, and that shifted the timeline a bit. But we'll get there.
I do live in a bad spot for trains (Oklahoma) however they keep trying to build more rails (which make no sense in our region).. to determine how much sense they made to me personally I studied a trip to chicago from oklahoma city.

Turns out I couldn't find any destination where trains beat driving or flying in the metrics of time or cost even.

I do get that trains work in some regions in the US ~ but we should define those regions or what makes a region good for rail and focus there. Amtrak to me is one of the largest scams the government does - it's a constant money losing operation. It takes in so much money - and loses money on every thing it sells from the tickets to the drinks and food.
There is an automated validation process and occasionally (very rarely) your update will get flagged for manual review. This will prevent you from uploading known malware samples and supposedly some other suspicious stuff as well. This might be good enough to prevent extensions from exploiting Chrome vulnerabilities. But spying on users or injecting ads into webpages? Even if the validation attempts to detect this kind of behavior, gaming it would be trivial.
If technical interest rates are dirt low on your technical debt, go into technical debt. :)
3 days is a relatively aggressive schedule for the road trip. The train makes up for its low average speed by not needing to sleep overnight.

The real problem is that the cost is greater than or equal to a 4-hour flight.
A Tale of Two QuickTimes
A mortgage is not a requirement to building a house, but making that tradeoff will induce a number of constraints and require non-standard ways of living for a while that may be more than you or your family find acceptable. The main ones are being uncomfortable in the short term, and probably living in a rural setting where land is less expensive.

Here is a link to a book that lays out a very good strategy:

https://books.google.ca/books/about/Mortgage_Free.html?id=U8...

(warning: although I read this book and considered it's approach, I used a slightly different strategy towards home ownership without a mortgage that allowed me to purchase existing homes)
This line of discussion causes, to me, funny quirks of logic.

"If you take reality to be right here, right now (what else could it be?)" - can't disagree!

But, after that, things start to get self-referential in tangled ways - "time cannot exist, it just helps us map change" - but 'change' requires time! And 'mapping' is a mental act that involves change!

I can't help but feel that if these apparent contradictions were ironed out, the answer to 'what is time?' would be close by.
> the US is at little risk of "destruction"

Propaganda can destroy democracies. (And in most or all autocracies, propaganda is central to the regime's power)

Social media, and private data, and disclosure of private emails, and obtaining compromising info by hacking, can all be excellent propaganda tools.

So yes, computer security and hackers can threaten the actual destruction of western society. Via propaganda and 'information warfare'.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/562246/how-democrac...
https://boingboing.net/2018/01/25/supercharged-dumdums.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fascism/2017...
> Objects that have a reasonable chance of colliding do go in the same direction.

No, even that's not the case. If it were, the delta v of anticipated collisions would be low enough that they wouldn't pose a serious problem.

The Wikipedia article on the Kessler syndrome, linked to upthread, gives some useful references. One of them is an article on how a cupola window on the ISS was pitted by a microscopic piece of space debris. The pit is 7 mm across, about the size of what a small rock would put in a car windshield at highway speed. How fast would an object about 1000 times smaller (and therefore about a billion times less massive) have to be traveling to have the same impact energy? (Hint: it's about the same as LEO orbital speed--but that's orbital speed relative to the ground, not relative to objects on nearby orbits in the same direction.)
Thanks! We've got a couple more features coming up along this vein that you're really going to like.
Right, that was why I was asking if someone had a good link to read on. :)

And, honestly, from the way I've seen phones behave on older wifi networks, I would be surprised if some aren't actually spamming the network. Unnecessarily fast. Worse, I would hope the network has some protection built in for the bad actors that do.
I am not a teacher but I did volunteer in my children's classroom when they were young. I do understand what you mean by the range in comprehension.

I am not counting the other things a parent does to enhance a child's learning experience as homework time - so we all might be saying the same thing.

I will give a small example which might illustrate having an enhanced learning experience. One of my volunteer assignments was to teach children math using coins. My son and daughter were naturally motivated to understand how much money they had because I had them save money buy things at a very young age. I was shocked that some classmates did not understand denominations and others could not do the math. My husband made coin dice for the classroom kids. They rolled the dice and added the values to figure out how much money they had on the coins. This was a big hit with the kids.

What I didn't want to do was do homework for my kids or give answers. Discovery is how children learn. My kids ended up proud of what they could do on their own. When they failed - we discussed taking ownership of failure.
I was hopeful simple would have become this magic solution but they just released the concept of savings funds that transactions won't pull from after waiting seemingly 7 years for it. Along with their strange "no long term travel" policy, I'd wouldn't recommend their service for anybody outside out college.
Perhaps using something like replicated.com if you don't want to do it yourself?
It often runs a bit late in the morning as well.
Did IBM use to have "great wages" as the article says? Because it certainly doesn't anymore. A friend had an offer from IBM Research. It was practically a grad student stipend and a drop in the bucket compared to GoogFace wages. It was even worse than Amazon wages, which is already a painfully low bar. (Though AFAIK at least they let you pee in the bathrooms).
X in XMPP stands for eXtensible. They could simply augment XMPP to match their needs better - and guess what, it's exactly what happened in last years. Now XMPP is a good, modern, battery- and UX-friendly IM protocol, with some clients even E2E encrypted by default.
You can find lots of references from the time of the repeal saying "this is a bad idea because this act was designed to prevent banks screwing around in the way that caused the Great Depression, and the inevitable result of repealing it will be to cause a similar problem".

Then you can look at the CDO crisis less than ten years later and talk about correlation not being causation until you're blue in the face.

Here's another prediction: the destruction of the CFSB will lead to anti-consumer behavior at large banks.
I see you have never taken Amtrak before :)
Software usually has a technical reason for not running on a platform it's not targetted for.

There is an analogy here though: like a site refusing to run after detecting that your browser is running on Linux, such that if you fake that string, everything works fine.
A few reasons: the train has to slow down and then get back up to speed for each stop; there are stops in a few cities for refueling / shift change / restocking onboard supplies. These stops take a lot longer than just filling up your gas tank on a road trip, anywhere from 1 to 3 hours. And the article points out that Amtrak is lower priority than freight when track conflicts occur, so you will spend some time sitting on the prairie waiting for a freight train to go by.

Realistically, nobody's making that drive in 31 hours anyway without a lot of caffeine and breaking the speed limit.
Histrionic reactions don't improve the overall quality of software.

We certainly should have environments where we can tell someone code is shit, it's just silly and counterproductive to then leap to attacks on the abilities on the person behind it.
You still can get into trouble with Kotlin, hence why they have an interoperability guide in Android.

https://android.github.io/kotlin-guides/interop.html
There doesn't appear to be any reparations for the actual consumers.

Where exactly do the fines go? A class action lawsuit would have served more justice.
Doesn't the low pressure in a plane contribute to the blandless. Not a problem on trains.
Maybe people don't like the idea of living in a world where someone can be asked by an employer to spend years developing specialized skills then be so easily thrown out onto a job market where those skills are useless?
Why restaurants became so loud – and how to fight back
I would guess people internally were skeptical about it too, but as they demonstrated, they have an app that lets their employees see the difference due to this change: Presumably they wouldn't have deployed it (at likely significant resource costs for processing) if it didn't average vastly better.
Can we add a year to this headline? I was excited because I thought this was new information.
I'm actually happy with this, having taken around five >24hr Amtrak trips over the past few years. The dining car is pretty great overall, but the announcements for it get really, really grating really quickly. Because all announcements go over intercom, everyone hears it - maybe 20 announcements through out the day. Really breaks the mood if you packed your own meal.
Pretty sure you're not both talking about the same thing.
so to make it a little more clear: Phishing can come in a lot of forms from telephone to websites to sms-phishing, whatsapp etc...

We specialize in comparing visually website to our own database of legit websites and then comparing the domain to detect fake/phishing websites that hosted on different domains. For example, we detect that website looks like paypal and then we check if it's hosted on one of paypal domain (paypal.com,paypal.uk etc...)
How Leanne Cozart Hustled to Get Marketing Jobs at Warriors,NFL &Oakland Raiders
Want decent airline food? JAL, ANA.
I do auto-import in the US and it's pretty nice. I still manually enter in things at the end of the month (otherwise they might not clear for a few days and eat out of the next month's budget). But it does a good job of recognizing when it auto-imports a transaction you already entered manually so you don't get duplicates.
From the content:

To enable this, Google Talk uses the standard XMPP protocol for authentication, presence, and messaging.

... but don't miss the heading

We announced a new communications product, Hangouts, in May 2013. Hangouts will replace Google Talk and does not support XMPP.
Ask HN: How do you test your CMS-based website deployments?
Enterprise CMSs have a lot of complexity and my small team is looking for tools to improve the efficiency and coverage of QA.

After seeing some unexpected bugs post code deployments, we’ve started looking into testing tools which would automate the task of spot-checking the site functionality.

This is despite developing on a test server and slotting time for testing.

We have a large number of pages, many of which have content changing over time. A test suite would need to accommodate that.

I’d love to hear about your choice of tools and process.
Good luck trying to get the publisher's name from Google. Google knows which credit card was used to pay for the publisher's account, but they won't tell anybody - and I doubt that they are interested in going after the publisher themselves.
They didnt. They simulated powering 112x112 black&white sensor, the rest is just props and 'recreations'.
Seconded on every point.
Hi djsumdog,
We understand you have concerns about security. Here at Mint, we use a very strong proprietary cryptographic security model which guarantees the safety of your personal information. We'd love to discuss this more with you so if you reach out to us at https://help.mint.com/ we would love to make sure you're happy with our services.
/KEB
He was riffing - the 3rd line is "It’s a quote from Douglas Adams."

At least, as it appeared in the comments on HN.
I find Scala is the thing that's actually advancing programming productivity - even when it comes specifically to IDEs/HCI/visual programming - whereas I expected Granger's effort to fail as it did. So I'm very glad Odersky's continuing to focus on Scala; if anything I was worried that his efforts on Dotty were detracting from maintenance and improvement of Scala proper.
Wait until you hear how BTC transactions are taxed in Poland: they are subject to a 1% tax on civil law transactions (TCTL).

The worst part isn't that you pay 1% on transactions where you lost money. The worst part is that you are supposed to fill and send the tax form for each individual transaction. Now imagine automated trading, making hundreds of transactions per day - I suppose the cost of paper for printing those tax forms would outweigh any potential gains.
> Trying to micromanage and compel people to do what you want is inefficient compared to inspiring people to want the same things as you,

I generally agree, but I have never ever seen that in a business world. What the business owner wants - maximum profit - is in a direct conflict with employee wants (maximum salary for an easy and/or fullfilling job), so I can't see them ever wanting the same thing.

In general, people are willing to forgo their immediate interest (high pay, interesting tasks) only if they believe they're doing something for a greater good, and that does not happen in companies. Even if you're crunching on some innovative product that will make the world better (which is the claim that is often used to motivate people in startups), the main reason for the crunch is that you're trying to beat X other companies that are also working on the same innovation. So, even in such case, you're mostly killing yourself to make the owners rich, as the world will be a better place regardless of whether it's your company or your competitor that manages to win the race to the market.
What is the probability that a given byte will be corrupted on a hard disk in one year?

What is the probability of a complete HD failure in a year?
I have 16GB of memory, and I use a java IDE. It uses more memory than the javascript toy editors do, but it does so much more.

If you just want a text editor, there are dozens of native ones for each platform that don’t require java or javascript and are fast.

It’s when you want stuff like advanced code intel, refactoring, etc that the likes of JetBrains products make the memory usage a good trade off.

Using a boat load of ram to render a text file slowly with no more features than textmate or kedit or what have you “because electron” is fucking stupid.
It won't put them out put business, but I guarantee this is not a good look for them or their board, even internally.

I have no sympathy for them, fyi.
What problem are you trying to solve? Who might also have that problem? Where would you go to find people that also have that problem?
Yes, I am a Chase Private Client and, to be honest, it's awesome. I call and a friendly human answers immediately.

But beyond that, I think Chase does a pretty good job overall with in-branch customer service. Their online/mobile banking is great. They're the best big bank by far IMO.