skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having to be international by day one puts a high barrier to entry, requiring lots of effort in a growth phase that's resource constrained, and kills potential ideas before they can get traction, as it's more expensive (and slower) for them to do so.

On the other hand, California by itself is a large enough market so you can get a profitable (because of sufficient scale) proof of product-market fit and tackle internationalization with much, much more resources. Which seems the proper way to go; good internationalization doesn't really scale.
> and say that this roughly cancels this out. However they can afford to treat the country like a big "system" and can ignore the plight of the individuals who have been left behind in this system and the communities where they live.

You're missing the big picture. People in e.g. China are better off now because they are enjoying the upside from wage growth. Americans enjoyed this in the 1950s, but the ensuing globalization meant the improvement in wages would go to the lowest paid workers. In theory, once developing nations reach the same minimum wage as the U.S., American workers will start reaping the rewards of increased wages. In the meantime, Americans can pat themselves on the back for having a strong currency, cheap products made with cheap Asian labor, a great justice system, and employment and education opportunities galore.

The globalization genie is out of the bottle. It's not a matter of being able to afford to think the country as a big system -- you're the one who's myopically looking at it from the perspective of a cherry-picked subset of workers.

Americans can either wait until the developing nations catch up or they can invest in education (and write legislation) to bring more workers into the 21st century. Swimming against the tide of globalization is akin to fighting the Industrial Revolution -- I suggest giving up on that idea.
> Then there is a single comment (not an answer) which says "you are not supposed to do that", which have received a single upvote.

This comment should be deleted as it's blatantly off-topic and a waste of time. OK, let's forget about question one, since I found it in two seconds.

> Comments are for asking questions, request clarifications and providing information which does not constitute a regular answer.

> Several answers make it clear that the CSS solution is more fragile and worse supported than a JS solution

As you say here, the questioning ("clarification") of the question isn't limited to comments. It's easy to mentally ignore comments, but when you have to read through half an answer just to get past the BS... and besides, the CSS solutions in that thread certainly are fragile and bad, but that has nothing to do with CSS being appropriate or not and more because the answers are, well, terrible. CSS is perfectly capable of doing what the question asked for in a robust manner, and it avoids changing the page on-load which is a bad user experience (not that any web developers actually care...) and certainly no less fragile (assuming JS is even turned on in the user's browser).

The problem is people telling others what they should do, and I don't want random people trying to dictate what I should be doing -- especially not people giving answers like those. Actually, a couple of the answers are OK, and somewhat explanatory, but the rest are just BS that throw code at you, which is useless and a waste of everyone's time. To be fair, web development answers on SO are the lowest-quality generally speaking. I'm pretty satisfied with using SO for answers about e.g. Emacs.

> I really have a hard time seeing the problem here?

Uh, seriously?
Agree on all of your points. I am a hermit that deleted FB and only responds to a few people via text. It's a decision I made that I'm still currently happy with. If something were to happen to my existing core friends though, it might be a pain finding new ones.
The inevitable cycle of these datetime libraries: Moment.js was originally a lightweight date parsing system that got big because of all the locales and extended functionality. If you need it, it's the only one that does it well and there's no easy way to make that smaller.

A common lighter alternative though is date-fns: https://date-fns.org/ which reuses the native Datetime object and is architected with ES6 modules for tree-shaking so you can include only what you need.
This website taught me there are upper- and lower- case numbers.

http://theworldsgreatestbook.com/book-design-part-3/
Step five - feel satisfied with yourself

Step six - watch with dismay as all of these distractions creep back onto your phone.
Imagine you're married, and you agree with your wife about certain basic rules of the relationship, procedures for resolving disputes, etc. Should those basic rules be up for debate when, years later, you're having a heated argument about something? And if so, who gets to decide how to change those rules?

The Constitution is the same way. It's a check on democracy, but it's also democratic: "we agreed to do it this way, and if we want to change a rule we have to reach a new agreement through a cool-headed process."

In this case, the Constitution creates limits on what kinds of things may be resolved by the executive branch, and what must be done by the courts. That allocation of power between branches is not something we want to leave to whatever people think is a good idea on any given day. As to why we look to 18th century England: the founders thought that English courts worked pretty well, so they basically forked English common law. So sometimes, to understand our own law we look to what the English courts were doing before we made our own fork.

Sometimes you like the end result, sometimes you don't. Sometimes originalism means that a terrorist who is a U.S. citizen has to get a jury trial in an Article III court, even if the prevailing public opinion is that those people should be tried in military tribunals.
Been waiting for this for a while!
Automation and management of open source databases in the cloud
These are pretty good rules and I've been doing something similar for a while now. Unfortunately, most people like being addicted to their smartphones and don't see it as a problem.
I learned about junk bonds from Adam Curtis' series "The Mayfair Set"[1].

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283201/
In the specific example of the lottery, if people could intuitively grasp what the odds really meant, few would play. It may not be a tax on stupidity, but a tax on how many people fail to understand how probability works. It’s also a tax on the impulsive, the desperate, the uneducated and people who have a predisposition to gamble.

Then difficulty in explaining to people these facts, or convincing people of them doesn’t imply some broader cultural relativism. The lottery is stupid, it’s just very challenging to get people to understand that consistently.
The Vietnam strategy; declare victory and retreat.

Since to you logic is a game, like chess, you should study our little exchange and see how you lost in your very first move. But logic is not a game (it is our means to knowledge) but if you treat it as such it is a game you can never win, even if you do.
Yarn feels more stable to me. I don't know how many breaking changes they've made but it sure feels like fewer (the version 1.x shows that).

Also, I think npm released it's lockfile too quickly. It didn't work for quite a while. Maybe it does now, I don't know, because any npm projects I have I have turned off package-lock due to it not working in the past. Yarn's lockfile just works, and always has.

So I'll stick with Yarn as long as they just keep it stable the way it is.
So, that first one is "off topic" for one site, and wil get migrated to another site.

That's bad.

What's worse is when it's on-topic for the first site, but gets migrated to another site, and then migrated to a 3rd site, and then sent back to the first, where it gets closed.

This happens because there's overlap between linux, unix, super user, and the various distro-specific sites.

If you have a linux distribution on Apple hardware you're going to have a hard time on StackExchange.
So which one is it: it’s creepy and you don’t want it in your life, or it’s creepy but not enough to avoid it?
My SO is a HR manager, many times as a screen for tech roles. It's interesting hearing it from the other side. She's a brick wall with regards to sensitive job information that lie past her scope of knowledge. She just won't release it.

She says the same thing as you however: if you want the good stuff, you have to attack the social vulnerabilities of tech people. They generally aren't trained to know what to say or not to say past the obvious. With carefully constructed questions, you can often get the information you're after.
Considering the choice of words of the article itself, Bloomberg appears to be on the side of patent trolls (in particular, deliberately pretending it's a David vs. Goliath situation in which megacorps crush the rights of independent inventors).

Maybe Bloomberg has a directive to support IP monopolies and IP protection, and the journalist failed to see that a sleazy NPE is something quite different from Disney.
> I am not sure if I understand, but if you only need a terminal and browsing, what's the problem with Linux?

In the case of my last Linux laptop it was compositing not working when using an external monitor on the low end Intel graphics card I'd picked because it had OSS drivers and was regarded as having excellent Linux support.
Startups that once would be be Ruby shops are moving to Elixir in droves
Im have the $200 one from amazon. it has no cameras or wifi, it just randomly roams around the rooms or you can set it to 'curb' mode and it will be sweeping along the walls. I don't use a lot of paperclips so I would not know but you can test it by feeding it a bunch of paperclips and if it does go on to scratch floors then just return it, I guess.
I have no idea whether Samsung uses it, but the NVMe spec allows a device to request use of host memory for caching. It’s considered a low-end feature, since it’s slow and inherently volatile. It’s called “host memory buffer” for those who are curious.
My perspective: Jenkins f...ing sucks. For the reasons you delineate. To me it's a pile of side-effects which pretend not to know obvious things.

As a counterexample I present Jetbrains' TeamCity (if running a build server yourself is necessary).
Have, not had.

See https://www.npr.org/2011/10/25/141672992/native-foster-care-... for one of the many current problems that natives have.

For the record I have family members living on reservations. Go back a little over a century ago, and natives were hunted for sport, like game animals. It was only 40 years ago that the USA officially discontinued policies of forcibly removing children from their homes and putting them into schools where they were mistreated. I personally know people who were beaten as children for speaking in their native language. Abuse and prejudice remain facts of daily life.
I suppose the argument is that, in this case, one company effectively has a monopoly on monetizable distribution for a certain type of content. The somewhat analog is if there were only one gallery in a city that decided on a whim to display or not display certain artists.

But, while true, I'm not sure how different it is from being dependent on fickle public tastes or a major sponsor/patron deciding to pull funding.
Interesting concept. I wonder if in the aftermarket these bonds will trade more like stocks due to the risk aspect changing over time (with the upper bound being the present value of the face value of the bond).
I usually ask a trivial problem like this. Not really to see if they can code (I have had one or two people fail here though), but more to serve as a conversation topic. Why did you do this? How would you do that? etc...
Pretty awesome idea!
The ones I hate most are freely available legal rulings, government documents, and scientific papers that are open access (or at least link me to an abstract).

It's not like having sources available makes the story worse for others.
It's not a myth. I see it when recruiting for my teams. My sample size is too small to give a proportion, but it's enough that not having tests would be a total waste of my and their time since I'd have to fire them on day 1.
WeWork bought their corporate HQ building.
Yes, that's why I bought the new Nokia 3310 as a second phone. Unfortunately no whatsapp.. but that can be a feature.

I like the minimal layout of the blog, but no rss!
Didn't JJ tubes buy the old Tesla tube factories? I have a bunch of JJ tubes for my guitar amps!
> This triggered my interest to go look at the C source code for linux[1].

Coreutils is not Linux, and GNU tools are notoriously heavyweight. For contrast, here is Toybox implementation of rm:

https://github.com/landley/toybox/blob/master/toys/posix/rm....

busybox:

https://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/coreutils/rm.c
https://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/libbb/remove_file.c

And finally openbsd:

https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/bin/rm/rm.c
On the other hand London's figures are skewed by gangs. If you remove the 15-25 year olds that hang out with gang members, the murder rate is far lower.
#MeToo activists in China are turning to the blockchain to dodge censorship
I've had a similar experience. I've gotten a tremendous amount of help from StackOverflow, so I tried to contribute by answering questions.

It took so much effort that I gave up. I seemed to be caught in a catch-22 where I didn't have enough reputation points to answer.

So I treat it as basically "read-only" now.
The USPS will never allow it. Only USPS deliveries are allowed in any USPS receptacle.
Yeah, definitely this. Depending on security as well, dropping something off at the car is fine, but getting inside the building would not work at a lot of places.
Except in this case it’s like being forced to resolve disputes according to your uncle’s inexpert and biased reading of how your great-great-great-great-grandparents settles their marital spats.
What didn't I learn? The message couldn't have been to not rely on a centralized service for RSS feeds, because switching to a new service was trivial. I ended up better off than before Reader shut down. My lesson about RSS readers was that it's fine to trust a centralized service because there's basically no risk if it goes away.

I learned a bigger lesson about not trusting Google services in general, but I don't see how that means I shouldn't use Feedly.
I wonder what their customer base is like to protect themselves from downturns. Their customers can go month to month easily, but they're locked into long term leases.
Finally, i am waiting for something like that for some time.
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> it will give you the users location if they deny browser location

Seriously? Did you help build BonziBuddy, too?
Since the article seemed to neglect actually linking to the data, it is publicly available here:
https://gea.esac.esa.int/archive/
Awesome, save some efforts of configure ngnix to work with geoip databases.
>Necessary for what?

For whatever the people who provide the money need.

>There are already plenty of "necessary" people who consume the cultural output of the "unnecessary".

I don't think the corporations/governments will just have a few hundred million people around to add some culture to the place.

>It's worth remembering here that America lost in Vietnam.

Yes but the infrastructure of modern society is extremely fragile. The occupying force (the governments/corporations) already have control of it at the start of the war. The only reason we have so many people is due to this infrastructure. If it was a war where the population was not as fully industrialized, it would be different.

That is not to say the robot owners will win the war, but lots of people would die before then.

>Personally, I'd like UBI, but mostly because I'd use it to free up 40 hours a week (plus my commute, time outside of work invested in a career) for research in fields I'm interested in.

That is what people think they will do, but it is not what they will do. It is not the utopia that they think it will be because there are fundamentals about human nature that mean we don't really just sit around thinking up theories and playing guitar. The people on welfare now do not have that life. They are mostly depressed and subdued, which is the point of welfare.

Humans in general need things like self-determination, the feeling of being valued, the ability to maybe have hobbies that cost more than a basic income. Getting a job won't be easy to make more money, as there will not be many jobs.
Everyone has NPM. A subset of them are familiar with Yarn. So it makes sense to use NPM if Yarn doesn't confer any operational advantages that you care about.
> Does WeWork own anything real to secure the debt?

From the article: WeWork is issuing seven-year, senior unsecured bonds
Oh, I'm such an inattentive reader.
Side note/rant: I hate the Cracking the Coding Interview style... studying for these type of interviews is annoying. Trying to find a good video on youtube, where they aren't just naively coding up the bruteForce->optimal possible solutions, especially is irritating. It is literally a landscape of college kids with thousands of viewers who treat these interviews like the SAT. Even the author of the book produces videos with very little insight or meaningful content.

"Find all the subsets in a set that add up to sum" -- "Okay for this we will use the sliding window technique and here is how it is done" -- WTF is this. I get that they want to see problem-solving skills, but this is on a different level requiring the interviewee to have studied and knowledge of the technique, otherwise we are basically trying to develop efficient algorithms from scratch and in little time. --This makes sense for college interviewees who have only studied the past 4 years, but for a professional with experience why is this adequate??
As long as it is an experimental surgery, it may be quite simple to find a donor, considering no competition.

I don't know if the donor or his family has to consent specifically to donating an organ which is normally not donated and where the procedure has a much lower chance of succeeding.
> 99% of my candidates can code, as in iterate over collections, write case statements, and call functions.

Honestly, that's way too trivial to call "can code". I usually ask something less trivial, yet still extremely easy like "a function to check if a string is a palindrome" (I explain what a palindrome is) or "check if a substring exists in a given string".

You wouldn't believe how many people "with 10 years experience" just lose all motor function in their hands and mouth, even without any time pressure.
Children born overseas (e.g. France, Taiwan) can't be British. Children born in the UK from me can be British, I think.

I was in the UK for university and a Christian volunteer group, over a period of 5 years. I emailed the Home Office to ask to "upgrade" my citizenship, but they said there's no way to do that. So I'm not sure where you got that 3 year limit from. (But maybe this changed since 2012 when I was last there).
Finally, i am waiting for something like that for sometime.
The idea that no one can code is often a result of poor interview practices, i.e. coding trivia contests under the gun.

Then misconstruing poor performance as coding ability.
There is also a tendency to try to mark something off-topic as quickly as possible... occasionally you see this in the Hot Question feed. A good question was initially voted to be off topic.
The same is true for a camera. Dang.
Some guitarists like to use old tube amps because they can be repaired, maintained, and modified much more easily than their modern counterparts. Old tube amps tend to have point to point wiring, which is much easier to fiddle with than reflow soldered PCBs.

Electric guitarists are often poor, clever, and self reliant. They can regularly find themselves out in the boonies with nothing but duct tape and baling twine to hold their rig together. Choosing a more robustly built older amp is not an irrational choice for such a person.
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You are referring to Feynman, but you are misunderstanding his quote quite a bit. He belongs to the "shut up and calculate" camp of science, and tried to say that it is not worth it to try to build "intuition" about a phenomenon so remote from the scale at which humans experience the world.

Instead of relying on hearsay to reinforce your beliefs, I implore you to challenge them and read an intro science textbook on quantum mechanics. It is that theory of nature that permitted us to build the day-to-day electronics that powers our lives and our civilization, and it is empowering to understand it. "Theoretical Minimum" is a good set of free courses with video lectures for instance.

Or if you prefer you can just continue with your self-aggrandizing pity and willful ignorance. It is true that there is a rat race in the sciences, but that does not devalue the amazing advances that science has nontheless given us.

Edit: for the more advanced I would suggest reading the first few chapters of Sakurai's or Griffiths' Quantum Mechanics textbook - if you know math they explain how quantum mechanics works quite well. Or Aaronson'a Quantum Computing since Democritus if you are more interested in computational complexity.
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> That statistic in skewed because most of the murders happen in the favelas within drug gangs

But that (with “favela” replaced with he appropriate local term for underclass neighborhoods) is true pretty much every city everywhere.

> City areas are ripe with petty crime but murder is perhaps as widely seen as London.

Yes, but “if you exclude our underclass neighborhoods, our murder rate is the same as City X including it's underclass neighborhoods” is not making the argument you seem to think it is.
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Maybe the difference in people's experience with candidates who can't code is that some types of programming are full of BSers and others aren't. In nearly 30 years I've never encountered a candidate who flat-out couldn't code. If you see a lot of that in your specialty, maybe you should ask yourself what it is about that specialty that leads to a different experience.
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Don’t really get people who defend mega corporations. They played the game and they lost. They should’ve known that the rules can change, especially if someone is cheating or gaming the system.
It does but I can't say how frequently. My IPv4 address has only changed 7 times since 2012. My IPv6 record has changed once this year when I shut down my modem for an extended period of time.

I use http://freedns.afraid.org/ to manage my DNS. They support IPv4 and IPv6 with domain linking so you can update all your DNS records with 2 calls (one for IPv4 and one for IPv6). This can be done with wget via a cronjob on your web server or in most routers these days. If you use their premium tier you can use stealth records and wildcard DNS.

Just remember to set your TTLs on your A records to something low like 60 seconds. And don't host anything mission critical.