skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure most all jurisdictions allow you to request a blood test in lieu of a breathalyser. I assumed it was common knowledge polygraphs were junk, but at least Wikipedia says they're in common use in the U.S. but are considered controversial. I knew polygraphs were banned as a prerequisite for jobs in many areas and that many government jobs had them as part of the interview, but figured it was more of a stress test or hazing. I do think the bar for expert testimony and scientific evidence could use a lot of improvement in the U.S.
> How do you articulate this if you are consulting?

I don't.

How would you feel if your client concerns themselves with the colour choices in your text editor?

Our job is to learn their business problem and deliver a solution. We are the expert at that, not them, so we choose how we want to do it.
Go pro-sumer. Ubiquiti stuff won't break the bank; Unifi for ease of management, Edge for fine control.
> For example let's say you want to have access to Stripe subscriptions from Python

I will use the official stripe flask checkout example[0].

> and cache them to your database, you'll need something like dj-stripe. There's nothing "in Python" other than an API client because the Python stdlib doesn't have a model ORM.

With their OpenAPI definitions[1] to create the needed sqla model boilerplate, which creates the needed pgsql tables. For change log of my models it is kept in my py model files and xml with sql diff using a cheat where I implemented a Liquibase python wrapper[3].

I'm lucky where I work in a not to enterprise env so self-rolled solutions is sometimes acceptable and we try to keep it sane.

[0]: https://stripe.com/docs/checkout/flask

[1]: https://github.com/stripe/openapi

[3]: https://github.com/Morabaraba/python-liquibase
Ask HN: Why is data simpler than syntax?
Hi, I recently watched this talk (https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy) by Rich Hickey and I think he makes a convincing case for differentiating easy and simple. One thing that I struggled with during the talk was with the lack of examples.

One in particular is data being simpler than syntax. Are there any resources online that explain this idea in more depth?
Oh nice, they've fixed it in every major browser?
Things that weren't obvious to me as a non-mathematician:

f:S×A↦S

(I assumed it meant: the model is represented by function f, whose inputs can be any combination of S and A [domain], and will produce an output value in S [codomain])

Why do we set the Q to 0 below?

The constraint that Q(st,at,st+K,K)=0 enforces the feasibility of the trajectory
I live in China. This could be an IP thing or something.

On my Android k9 client I never got sendmail to work with informaniak.
Not even in Norway where we have more Teslas per head than anywhere else.
Thinking of studying abroad? Why Suzhou, China is the place to be
I'm really happy about this announcement. As a fairly high-ranked user myself (7.8k at the moment) I try to use the tools the site lets me access to counteract some of the nonsense directed at new and enthusiastic people and the unreasonable suppression of certain questions and answers, but there's only so much you can do when you don't have hours every day to go through the close votes and edit queues.

Heard so much from so many colleagues over the years about how SO is inaccessible and unwelcoming, and started to realise why. I'm glad SO themselves have been on the same journey, because they're far better placed to do something about it!
No, it's not a matter of names; the Austrian school (not to be confused with economists from Austria) claims they don't actually exist, and that the examples usually given can be explained by governmental manipulation.

"There is no evidence of the "natural-monopoly" story ever having been carried out — of one producer achieving lower long-run average total costs than everyone else in the industry and thereby establishing a permanent monopoly."

https://mises.org/library/myth-natural-monopoly
Salaries for programmers in the UK are definitely lower than Silicon Valley, but it was still well paid. The career structure was different with far fewer big tech company jobs. Experienced developers who weren't looking to become managers would move into independent consulting / contracting.

10 years ago £500-600/day was fairly standard for consulting gigs (>£100K/year vs £60K/year as a senior engineer employee.) In London there was plenty of contracting work and could easily count on working full time on six month contracts. Outside of London the pay was a little less and the opportunities further between but with the lower cost of living it ended up about a wash.

Working in Silicon Vally now, the big advantage is the availability of super-senior engineering roles that only really exist in organizations with 1000s of software engineers.

By my estimation, software engineers in the UK are on about the same social rung as solicitors or accountants. I think doctors still enjoy a high social status in the UK, just without the high salaries (or huge student loans!) of the US.
Jones Forth: http://git.annexia.org/?p=jonesforth.git;a=blob_plain;f=jone...

There was some discussion of it here a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=942684 (though unfortunately the site is now dead)
This article describes detailly how to build  xamarin.forms native custom dialog
> You really wanted to have as much debt as you could service without going bankrupt.

This is an interesting thought. I have mostly heard this advice for corporate. Companies are encouraged to take on as much leverage as they can without affecting their bottom line. But I never thought it can be applied to personal saving and market crashes too.

I had couple of questions - how do you calculate debt or leverage at personal level?

The savings example - wouldn't the savings increase as well?

Should you look to increase your leverage in times of high interest or a low one?

And lastly, how do you find assets which aren't hit by inflation?
Why Xbox failed in Japan (2012)
I'm one of the creators of this demo. For the past several months I've been working on a cycle-exact 8088 emulator (that will eventually be able to run 8088 MPH properly). I don't have it hooked up to any audio or video output yet, but for the first time last night it ran automatically-generated testcases all night without finding any differences from the real hardware.
You're confusing QGIS (the government source) and QIIS (the independent source) - the OP is correct, you'll need a government registered entry for the DBA and these don't exist in the UK.

Visit https://certsimple.com from the UK and you'll even see the UI change to remove the DBA option.

Trademarks aren't the same thing as DBAs, but a number of folks would like to get the EV guidelines extended to include trademarks.
Too bad the thing remains so freaking buggy. I have to reboot every 3-4 hours after years of 12.04-17.10 running for days, weeks even. I would pay to get stability back!
Linux boot.S
My blue collar Dad was always telling me that “Einstein couldn’t tie his own shoes”. I think this sort of attitude is just a way for people to make themselves feel better by bringing other people “down a peg”.

I really do think it is wrong that people look down their noses at other people because of their profession or even worse, that society has made some people ashamed of what they do - good, honest work. That is where this resentment comes from.

At some point in my life I realized that everyone was ignorant about something (maybe most things!). I wouldn’t look down on people who can’t turn a wrench/program a computer/cook a meal/shoot straight/etc. just because I/you can.
What they are doing doesn't even require ai, you can just look for the keywords and output the given phrases. But yes generally Ai can probably get you better results than humans can, it can probably give us some insights about dating.
Hello Forth.pl
I guess most "businesses" is just side projects, and doesn't make any money at all. But most importantly: They keep paying the monthly fees, (the same fee as those who actually make money).
I have worked with the Django some, but not a lot, but I always find the admin site a bit frustrating and hard to configure and style. Maybe it's just my lack of knowledge and experience about Django, but it often times seems faster to generate a crud admin interface in many other frameworks like asp.net.

Otherwise I am a big fan of Django, I think it is possibly the best web dev framework out there even if I work in asp.net for most of the time.
> UBI is not a long term solution

As computer programmers, I think the one thing it teaches is that nothing is a/the solution. I remember when the default version of rails was going to require like 7 technologies to be able to do the things people wanted.

Programming also teaches that solutions come in tiny elements, that aggregate to a solution, which is usually held together by the flimsiest of margins. I remember a talk where at one point YouTube's big trouble was exporting video thumbnails, which had I think hit the iNode limit.

Programming also teaches that solutions need to address actual problems, and usually only the directly immediate problems. We have all seen the posts of someone who thinks they can write code and just let it scale, and how that never works.

My point to this long preamble is there is that the concept of a solution to nebulous, undefined "problems" is impossible by definition.

My biggest issue (and I have several) with UBI - which full disclosure I am both a fan of and a donator to the UBI test here: https://www.givedirectly.org/basic-income - is that the only way it has a chance of working in the first world is to replace all existing welfare, up and down the government hierarchy (i.e. at ALL levels). The chances of that happening are... what's less likely than a snow flake in hell?

However, UBI as a tool of aid is fascinating. Currently, most aid is poorly measured, and not really that effective. If we could introduce a tool with lower overhead, and help the poorest of the poor for a mere fraction of what it costs in the 1st world, the results could be world changing for the 1-2 billion people with the absolute least. If that proves applicable in more expensive countries, more's the better, but even if it doesn't, and proves to be of value in specific situations, it could still be an unbelievable tool for human progress at the margins.
https://2ton.com.au/HeavyThing/#appsources
One of the community members has a bot that travels from room to room anytime somebody mentions a room link.

The list (and graph!) of all indexed rooms is here: https://t2bot.io/voyager/
> But this isn't true. No one knows anything about a user on Stack Overflow unless they explicitly announce it, and generally my perception seems to be a disdain towards newer members in general, not ones from any particular group.

I understand what you're saying, and while you're correct, it doesn't change the fact about how people feel in a community.

There are really two groups here: newer coders, and marginalized groups within our profession.

Newer coders are less confident, and when you see the types of responses you see on SO, you're less likely to want to participate - nobody likes being told that they're stupid or not working hard enough, as an example.

For marginalized groups - primarily women, people who aren't white, and the LGBT communities, they already have to deal with sexism, racism, homophobia, and other forms of discrimination in their daily lives. When you have to worry about hostility in general, trying to participate in a community that does have a reputation to being hostile is even more difficult and frustrating. The fact that you don't know who an SO user is unless they volunteer the information simply doesn't matter.

> Trying to make this about minorities feels like a desperate attempt to fit in with the 'social justice' sphere, and to virtue signal to people on sites like Twitter.

This isn't about trying to make it only about minorities, and the post doesn't give that impression. It is, however, about making sure that everyone feels welcome, and that has to include thinking about and understanding WHY minorities aren't feeling welcome, even if there isn't explicit discrimination against them on the site.
If we expand the question to include problem solving, logical thinking, building things using different components(ex. Lego), there isn't an age where a child couldn't learn. Having a strong foundation in these topics will definitely help the child if he/she learns to code later in life.
Unfortunately this is just wishful thinking. This is not going to happen anytime soon; maybe not in our lifetime. This does not mean we should not work towards it
Women alleging sexual assault by Uber drivers
There aren't any Third Party solution that is as good as Time Capsule. That is the problem. And in a perfect world, I would love to have Caching Server, File Sharing Server and Time Machine Server, along with Router all in one Server appliance.
And He said: "There can only be ONE Question and ONE Answer in this World of Code!" - Stackoverflow Answer LVL 5000+

BTW: I have registered at least 3 Accounts to ask silly programming Questions when i was beginner and Stackoverflow managed to kick me in the motivations everytime i was stuck at something.
Depending on the granularity of your utility's records you may be able to provide evidence that you were home based on your energy and water usage. This would probably look less suspicious than if you just happened to follow an elaborate alibi routine every day.
They get the answer by being linked to the question they duplicated.

The only problem is if the question is not exact duplicate, but that doesn't happen very often with such easy questions.
On the other hand, browser mouse gestures were awesome for half a decade before smartphones were a thing.
No, ai will help expend it
I'm happy user of "old" 802.11n Time Capsules / Extremes (flat models). I've no plans to upgrade. If they break, I'll just buy a used one. Knowing Apple, support (security updates) are not going to end soon.
800,000 people are about to flee New York, California because of taxes
With all due respect, but this kind of report is pretty useless to the rest of us without any context. A link to the question and a copy of your deleted answer at least. It's not like every single complaint is valid - plenty of people complain whose treatment seems entirely justified. There are plenty of useless answers that SO has to deal with.
Isn't the point of having "Limited" on your name to warn potential creditors that you're allowed to take their money and run? So hiding it seems to defeat the purpose of having it in the first place.
Wtf is that video auto playing and jumping around the page? I could only read the first 1/3 of the article then gave up.
>We trained users to tell other users what they’re doing wrong, but we didn’t provide new folks with the necessary guidance to do it right.

What makes you believe that YOU know how it should be done? I am not saying that people shouldn't be nice but over and over and over we see these tech companies embark on social justice missions to set guidelines that end up backfiring because they underestimate the complexity of the range of possible human behavior.

At best, rules generally dont get enforced equally and at worst they become a disaster that affects the inner workings of what made the site worth visiting in the first place.

And this right here tells me what to expect will happen in the future

> the nice thing about problems that relate to how people feel is that finding the truth is easy. Feelings have no “technically correct.”

I love stack overflow and would hate to see it devolve into something that deviates from what it truly is about: code.
Keep track of your Scrum project with a burndown chart
Binance+Partners+with+Changelly+&#8211;+A+Win-Win+Relationship?
Wasted. I'm sure Iran, Bashar Al Assad, Putin and goodness knows who else would completely agree with you.

Anyway, the entire US military budget coms to about $2350 per adult American. Emptying half of the prisons would about double that (taking into account the productivity of released prisoners, the above includes full economic costs of incarceration). Only about $40,000 each left to find the funds for.
NBN's speed slowed by reliance on copper network, its CEO admits
I think the biggest selling point for me is not just the delivery time but also the returns process. It's easy and painless to return things.
If we are talking about just-in-time, managed vs ahead-of-time, compiled-to-native, parts of the industry have already been changing course in last 5 years - even if not always with full commitment, but more of a "just in case".
Java and .NET platforms has been gaining ahead-of-time compilation support from the main vendors. Microsoft has been reviving C++ support. Various new programming languages with static-typing and high performance as a priority are gaining traction.
I stopped even attempting to answer questions on SO (most of the time i wasn't succeeding because it seems to be full of full time reputation builders that copy/paste examples as soon as a question is asked) when I noticed that "teach the man how to fish" answers are discouraged, called "too generic" and other crap. Only ready to copy/paste answers that just give the man a fish seem to be encouraged.
But isn't it the case that while nurseries may not solve shared data handling, it certainly doesn't make it harder to reason about. If you get a fix rule that when the program has passed a certain point (the nursery) then the threads are done and the shared data related to the task will not be shared anymore.
The only information we have from the blog post is that Stack Overflow has survey results telling them that marginalized groups feel particularly unwelcome, unless you have some other source of info I didn't notice.

From that single datum, you've concluded that this is because marginalized groups must over-complain, and in fact, you claim to have achieved perfect certainly that most members of marginalized groups have an addiction to complaining and will never stop, and therefore the only sensible course is to completely disregard any survey results saying that marginalized groups feel particularly bad about anything.

That's a pretty strong conclusion from hearing about a brief allusion to the results of a survey you didn't see. Your argument says a lot about you and very little otherwise.
The question really is: Do Apple expect Airport Express users to get a HomePod instead in the future? Because I would rather have a cable between my MacBook and my stereo than buy a HomePod.
Homebrew Bundle – Bundler for Non-Ruby Dependencies from Homebrew
The problem, and I'm personally guilty of this as well, is that sometimes you have a small quick problem and you're stuck. You quickly whip up some text and post it to stackoverflow. Then you get aweful reactions because you didn't put enough effort in your question and SO isn't going to make your homework. The point is that a lot of people have quick and dirty questions and don't need a full answer of half a page. All they need is a push in the right direction but SO is exactly not what that is about. SO is a site for detailed questions with detailed and high-quality answers. The point is that there are a lot of "low-hanging" fruit questions and SO is the best place to go, alhtough it is not meant for that.

There should be like a StackOverflow for "bad" questions. If someone asks "How do I append to a list in python?" it wouldn't be closed but someone could just comment "read the #$# manual (link to docs here)".
India always had the certification board and Netflix has jumped in knowing full well of the ground realities. Apart from Amazon Prime which is a lot cheaper, I don’t think netflix is loosing anything. On the contrary, they have signed up a lot of content with the local actors.
Hey, calm down! Only one piece of truth per day is allowed!
Only to the extent that identity servers themselves are centralised, and Matrix lets you run your own.
Who cares about them, they're such a small userbase (that has been shrinking for years) as to not be worth paying attention to.
These Macrocom graphics are almost obvious compared to the rest in that demo.
One argument I hear constantly is that now all ISP provide Wireless Router + Modem all in one. I haven't seen one that is easy to set up, reliable and performant.

And I don't see ISP has any incentive to improve it.

Apple's router were definitely not the fastest, but they were dead easy to set up with Apple devices, and ultra reliable. Compared to routers few years ago, they were either, easy to crash when you push them to limit, easy to over heat, crashes every few months or once a year.

I think things has got better, but still no match for Apple. From Netgear, ASUS, DLink. Ubnt is great, but it is way to prosumers. I wish they could do consumer product that is dead simple to set up.
I have heard good things about EERO, but I haven't had a chance to test them yet.
I've heard of fixed rate mortgages up to 15 years, at interest rates as low as 1.6%-1.7% if you have a secure job and an established relationship with a landesbank.
I've worked on a couple codebases approaching that a few hundred k. But at that point we've usually done major refactor, usually resulting in a codebase with a level of magnitude less lines.

I'm not saying exceeding 500k lines is impossible, but it seems like a very large system for a well written codebase with low duplicity. I would love to see what the codebase looks like for such a system written with Flask.
DocuSign raises $629M after pricing IPO
People are imperfect humans. Someone is gonna forget and check their email, as they habitually do, since we are not trained at birth to segregate our computer usage by machine, while they are at the office (where they spend the majority of the day) on their work machine (where they spend the majority of their Time). Take this example and extend it ....

That said I agree with you and do think being cautious about what one does on ones work machine is very important.
AT raises $8.6m, will boost local startup ecosystem through tech studio
I am surprised that so many people write scripts to do stuff that Homebrew offers already - Homebrew Bundle [0]!

Also, why do people copy & paste `brew install` or `brew cask install` so many times in a script when you can do something like `xargs`?

[0]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle
You can use one of the many bare-bones window managers to get rid of compositing. I still use xdm and only recently switched away from icewm (because of bitrot) to openbox.
Week 17 in Information Security, 2018
What about Pyramid?
Wouldn't they have to replicate whatever medium it is in as well? For example, if sending in saliva, you'd have to replicate the saliva as well.
I think it was the Daily Show or something like that. They specifically highlighted that the guy got in illegally.

This isn't the guy they highlighted (person was a man), but similar: https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0913/Susana-Martinez-Can-...

That being said, nothing wrong with being against illegal immigration. It's illegal for a reason. But being a beneficiary of it and not being understanding of it takes a certain type of skill.
As a pretty big contributor to stackoverflow I feel that this is getting blown out of proportion.

I'll usually go extra mile to help someone out but I like my time and the platform to be respected. I often feel that people either expect for their minds to be read or are just bad at explaining there problem.
I don't think SO community has to carry the burden of teaching people how to request help - I think it's a skill you earn by trying and failing. Sure your question got closed and someone pointed you to "how to ask a question" FAQ - just reformat your thoughts try again! It hurts nobody.

A lot of other issues like racism, sexism are pretty much unheard of so to me it seems like this article is very much just to pander some recent threads.