skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HTML and CSS are actually a pretty terrible syntax for building interfaces, which is unsurprising given HTML is a document format, and CSS is designed to style documents. If they were really the best possible syntax, you wouldn't have so many popular frameworks.

Rather, HTML/CSS/JS is what you're stuck with if you're treating the web as your platform, which is tempting when your code is really just a front-end for a remotely hosted system anyway.

Electron is the result of people trained in web development turning their hands to desktop development, but not wanting to learn something completely new.
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The scene is great in Stockholm, anchored in Spotify, King and a good representation of games companies (EA has a decent representation if I remember correctly). My knowledge of Oslo is limited, but from what I have heard, thing are a bit stunted there.

Copenhagen (my former home turf) used to be not great, basically software engineering was/is considered low status and all the smart devs in corporations were steered to higher status, but less technical, roles like architect, consulting or project management (or other middle management). Denmark really bought into the idea that we're the ideas people, the grunt work can be done in India or Poland or whatever. Some successful software startups came out of there, like Endomondo, Vivino and Zendesk, but they moved their centre of gravity to the bay area at first opportunity. This has since changed, and from what I've heard there's a fairly happening startup scene there now (still an awful place to be a corporate dev, though).
Many common western products are borderline fraud: Cold medicines and pretty much all beauty products for example.

The FDA doesn’t care that the majority of cold
medicines in Walgreens don’t work better than placebo because they’re deemed safe.
He seems to be doing well considering there are people who have problem with the words 'nationalism', 'right wing' etc. Baba Ramdev is neither of these. He's just a guy doing business and is pretty good at it. Whether you like it or not, he's the future of India.
A couple of places in the South:

Atlanta: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Buford+Hwy+NE,+Georgia/@33...

Tampa: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Tampa,+FL/@27.9494221,-82....

Charlotte: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Charlotte,+NC/@35.2023214,...

Raleigh: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Charlotte,+NC/@35.7310989,...

Louisville: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Charlotte,+NC/@38.2154225,...

These are rather extreme examples (I said 8-11 based on my experiences in Long Island, NY), but things like this are not uncommon.

Most of these medians are basically nonexistent, and even if they did exist, there usually aren't any physical barriers that can stop a car above 50MPH, so they're just marginally safer than standing in the shoulders next to moving traffic.

> You don't usually have to cross more than two lanes at a time because most places like that have raised medians.

This can actually be a disadvantage, because in my experience, it has been rare where a crossing light on these types of roads gives you enough time to cross the entire road all at once, which can add a few minutes waiting for long, car-focused light cycles even for an able-bodied person. When crossing the street, the total distance and time it takes to go from one side to the other is what matters in terms of pedestrian comfort and convenience.
This area of magical thinking just amazes me: Look at the recent two years! The big run up in bitcoin value has happened because people were moving money out of China despite capital controls put in place.

Is it still as easy? Probably not, I'm not up to date. Could people who have done that get in trouble for that in the future (thanks to bitcoins long memory)? possibly, if their opsec wasn't top notch and even if it was top-notch but they were unlucky enough to use a mixer that cooperates with the chinese government.

And Erdogan's turkey is also a great example; While the "coup" was happening, it was possible, even easy, to move money out of the country using bitcoin (not so fiat money). Quite a few people left the country afterwards, and many were arrested regardless of phone app. I don't know how many of them took their wealth with them in bitcoin, but they had much easier time doing that than any other way. at the time
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Examples of neglected children (Jungle Book style) are problematic. Learning won't work if their psyche is broken. Better example would be: loving parents who never teach their children anything useful - if something like that ever happened.
I don’t even know what I’m looking at... I love it!
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15 Top-Paying IT Certifications for 2018
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Thanks :)

When I was looking for the forgotten game, I crawled through the internet and found almost any other available title (LightBot also). I'm teaching computer science and try to collect as many tools (e.g. games) to people with no programming experience.
The USA's involvement in suppressing the Vietnamese uprising against the powers that be began with Truman (if one ignores Ho Chi Minh's plea to Woodrow Wilson at Versailles). The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba seems pretty ill advised as well, even though it was planned under Eisenhower, Kennedy was in office when it was executed.
You might not be better off in either universe but my reply was regarding difference between buying cryptocurrencies and buying shares.

Buying shares is like investing 50k in your Uncle Eddies seashell harvesting venture. In return you receive 50% share in his venture that is you get half of all future seashells harvested by Eddie.

Buying cryptocurrencies is like giving 50k USD to your Uncle Eddie and getting some seashells back but that is it! There is an active market for these seashells and price goes up and down.

However you do not get to claim any more seashells produced by Uncle Eddie.

Buying common shares implies certain rights to some enterprise while buying cryptocurrencies implies nothing.
Baba Ramdev's business is an indicator of things to come in India. As India is resurgent, we will see more such mega enterprises which connect to India's ancient Hindu past. In many ways the ancient Indian civilization was much superior to Western civilization. His business is successful because there's a market for it. People are happy to connect with their forgotten past by rejecting the West in a big way.
Yellow peril?
If only upper management allotted time to this... I'm a product manager and we're flying blind. Even our KPIs are absolutely bare bones.
For the sake of being a contrarian, there are two pieces of "glass" in a glasses.

I do wonder if simpler english will ever catch on

I do wondr if simplr nglsh wil evr cach on.
In my experience designing electronics, EEs and the people handling logistics/manufacturing are extremely risk averse actors who make many decisions based on trust and personal relationships. As a contractor, my deadlines would often only allow for at most two or three prototypes before I had to deliver a working design and that did not leave much room for error. If my client or I had an existing relationship with a vendor that always supplied parts on time, fast samples/dev kits, or if I knew their reference designs to be more reliable than most, then that vendor would be the preferred source for parts even if their other offerings weren't the best or the most cost efficient.

You can also often get great pricing for low/medium volume orders if you have built up a history so I've had situations where I had to design a significantly more complex board with a microprocessor that normally cost 10-20 times more than the CPU I would have chosen (from another vendor). The client's supplier for the other most expensive part on the board had too much inventory of a soon to be discontinued processor (that was pin compatible with a newer one, also very expensive) and the account manager's boss was willing to sell us everything we needed at an 80% discount off high volume pricing with pricing guarantees on the newer parts for several years, all to meet some regional sales quota.

As another example, microprocessors often have arduous power up requirements where different voltages have to be supplied in a specific sequence within annoyingly specific timing tolerances. In a project using Marvell microprocessors, it was much faster to just use Marvell's power chips and existing reference design than to waste precious time on modifying designs for cheaper chips from other vendors. The power parts cost five times as much as they would had I chosen my favorite vendor but because the board was a mixed signal design it was extremely expensive to make changes and test prototypes.

A vast catalog of parts is an especially powerful market force if you are a company like TI that has a well developed software tool like WEBENCH which can spit out dynamic reference designs for most of their power chips. Unless I have an existing reference design from a vendor of a major part (like the CPU above), I usually go straight to TI's tool to design any power supplies I need so I can focus on the meat of the PCB. If TI also has parts that do something else I need on the board I will often just choose them instead of researching other vendors (unless it's a really expensive component) and that compounds as I make more and more PCBs, each time becoming more comfortable with TI parts at the expense of others.
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Why is it a minimal edition"? What is minimal about it? Comparing it with the scan of the original (you can click on the paragraph number to view it) it doesn't look abridged.
Wizards Presents: Worlds And Monsters.
The problem is we design our environments to be fundamentally hostile to walking between suburban neighborhoods, so only those who are desperate enough will walk. Usually this means the suburban poor, because cars can be prohibitively expensive.

This usually results in scenarios that beggar disbelief, like this one: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/radley-balko/raquel-nelson-ja...
Thank you! I agree that just using of pattern matching may be not enough. But, instead of Visitor Pattern, I would use generic traversal "strategies" (combinators). My ideal is a DSL with first-class term rewriting rules + user definable strategies which take these rules as arguments. In fact, I already use such DSL for compiler writing :)
Seeing all these empires and countries changing hands, unifying, expanding and breaking up again makes me think more about the concept of national identity tied to a geographic spot as very problematic.

If I went back in time 200 years, 500 years then 1000 years to the exact same spot odds are I won’t feel more related to the people I meet than people from any other spot in Europe.
The article explains that "children" is a fancified form of "childer" which matches the German "Kinder". The dative has nothing to do with this.
The application of it to politics is particularly noticeable in mature democracies with a first past the post type system of elections.
Dense matrix algebra has the benefit that besides the matrix dimensions, the data itself has no impact on performance

I was very surprised when I first learned that's not strictly true, because of denormal numbers[1]. Here's a session in ipython --pylab (with MKL), demonstrating a 200x slow-down for matrix multiplication with tiny numbers. Crazy!

In [1]: A = randn(1000, 1000)

In [2]: %timeit A @ A
25.9 ms ± 199 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10 loops each)

In [3]: A *= 1e-160

In [4]: %timeit A @ A
5.52 s ± 21.2 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)

You hit denormal numbers more quickly with single-precision floats. I have been bitten by this issue in the wild a couple of times now, and seen a couple of other people with it too. Sometimes denormals are created internally in algorithms, when you didn't think your input matrices were that small.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denormal_number#Performance_is...
Ghost in the Wires.

Reading of Kevin Mitnick's exploits and benign (to me) curiosity was inspiring as I was testing out my own hand at hacking and social engineering in college. His approach to SE allowed me to get over the fear of dealing with individuals in my job hunt and to generally see people more as people (strangely enough).

The book is full of excellent anecdotes on the joys and consequences of sincere curiosity. To this day it still inspires me to ask "What is behind x/ if I push/pull/turn/fuzz this x" and "What happens if I just ask for x"
"for chasing cost-savings "

It's interesting that for execs big bonuses for good work are considered motivational and necessary whereas for the little guy good work doesn't need to be rewarded because it would add cost.
English is made up of words from many other languages. It only got a set of rules after the fact, which is why there are so many exceptions.
Belief in a flat earth being a myth is, as your own link says, specifically about Europe in the Medieval era. No one denies that people considered the learned ones in their community at other times and places believed in a flat earth.
I don't know about the link, but if you are interested in the subject I think that you would enjoy this lecture:

MIT Math for CS, Matching Problems: https://youtu.be/5RSMLgy06Ew

tldw: it can be mathematically proven that the best strategy is to take the initiative when looking for a partner/job/vacancy, starting with your prefered choice and working down from there, and let others shoot you down if need be
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I was referring to where the -n came from. After research it seems it came from the old case system, which originally came from german, not sure if it's the dative plural, was just a theory. Here's more about that:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-en#Etymology_2
I expect a defanged/declawed cat would not be able to fend for itself and would die through starvation or predation.

Cat lovers and bird lovers have been fighting over the restored wetlands on the south side of the bay since the late 70's as far as I can ascertain.
Barbarasi et al., Parasitic computing, 2001 [1]

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/35091039
Yes... but I won't do any of those things because whenever I could be doing them I'll read reddit instead, or watch youtube 40k videos.

Perhaps you're the type of person who can just "do" what you've described, but lord knows I can't.
Figuring out those things requires too many maths. ;-)
> I would’ve done it for free.

Are you sure? If you didn't have a job (because there weren't enough business good enough to pay minimum wage) but had your basic needs paid for (through basic income) wouldn't you want anything more for yourself? Wouldn't you seek connections and new skills? Probably some people wouldn't, but you?

Are you sure that you owe where you are today only to someone buying lots of your time for a price below reasonable minimum wage?
The author writes Scala libraries and tools and blogs about Scala. It's "not friendly" only if you're expecting him to write for a different audience than the one he's addressing.
This page gets into it a little bit more:

http://www.makingandknowing.org/?page_id=1653

Minimal in this context just means that it isn't as feature rich as the online edition they're currently working on. "Using the English translation of Ms. Fr. 640 as the basic data set, students collaboratively created a minimal (i.e., limited, basic feature) digital edition by the end of the semester, effectively prototyping a design for the Project’s final digital critical edition."
How do you handle people that simply don't do well on this? I have for example a front-end guy who's not really good in UX and always jumps in to code instead of discussing a mockup first.
“Let me see if I can explain why your response comes across as tone-deaf”
I can live with "glasses", "pants", "pliers" and "scissors", but "data" drives me crazy because even native speakers seem to be completely inconsistent when it comes to its number.

EDIT: Now that I think about it there is another one that is hard for me, even it I know it is the correct form in English: visa (singular) and visas (plural). In my mother tongue it follows the same pattern as datum and data, it's Visum (singular) and Visa (plural).
What's the proper way to read this?

The font is gorgeous but also massive.
I'd say that's baseless speculation, considering the amount of people who treat bitcoin mining as a grow-op.

Sure, the industrial operations are the ones getting articles and showcases and blog posts, but at the same time I've seen plenty of news articles of police busting some kid for scamming/drug charges and catching him with 100 gpus in his room.
Dual doesn't really help in this case. In a dual system, we would have something like:

1 pant

2 pantx

3+ pants

The problem with the words op is describing is that they should, semantically, belong to the category of 1 object, but morphologically (and syntactically) belong to the category of not-1 object. Adding a separate category for 2 objects does not address this.
Silicon breakthrough enables cheap microwave technology
Better not let the kids in the workshop. They could think the tools lying around there are made by professionals so they'd be safe, resulting in them getting hurt. And the metal and wooden dust from the saw someone used there could get into the wound and that could get nasty. Really, better just tell children to never go into workshops, or tinker around at all, for that matter.

Your comment serves as a poster child for what I'm talking about. Arrogant, looking down on others, deriding their efforts.
Apache Groovy's original use case was for scripting classes already written in Java, for stuff like testing and glue code. It added closures to Beanshell, which was the de facto language for scripting Java at the time.

New leadership, er, took over in late 2005 and re-oriented it as a DSL for Grails, and later Gradle. Grails has since died, with virtually no-one upgrading to version 3, or starting new projects in it. The Grails 2 plugin scene is dead. Many sites are converting their Gradle build scripts to Basel, so it's also starting a slow decline.

Around 2012, Groovy was repurposed again with static typing to compete with Java and Scala on Android. But it never succeeded, and the leadership was retrenched 3 yrs ago from VMWare and couldn't find anyone else to financially support them.

Groovy remains OK for scripting Java classes, but it's fast becoming irrelevant now that Java itself has lambdas and type inference.
"People" too - as inconsistently numbered as data.
The "pro" camera bodies from both Nikon and Canon are designed to take a beating. Here's a similar video with a Nikon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBB-CvqjdCE
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>extra fees, delays, lack of fraud protection

It sounds like you are talking about credit cards and not bitcoin.

Compared to credit cards, bitcoin has extremely low fees and fast payments. The fraud protection for merchants is far superior compared to any credit card payment solution.

It seems pretty obvious that most people spreading this kind of bullshit have never actually tried to use bitcoin, and have instead built their knowledge based on forum posts by other uninformed people.
I feel like I'm reading on my kindle with the font size accidentally turned up to max...
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The term you want to Google is "backscatter" I think. I reckon this might have been what you were looking for: https://www.washington.edu/news/2017/12/05/in-first-3-d-prin...
In Dutch, child/children is kind/kinderen, which is the same double plural. We also have that construction with ei/eieren for egg/eggs.

(Regular plural suffixes are -en and -s.)
That's the problem with Europe - every European country used to be a great empire once and people are nostalgic of those times.

Being able to call this territory "yours" again would mean war. Or a union. And we do have a union which works ok so far, hope we can keep it.
Indeed, Nim badly needs a good ORM library. Maybe you'd be interested in creating one? :)
> During the first month of IBM, orders were received for more than a thousand copies of such machines, and in the 6 years of the family’s existence, more than 33,000 such machines were sold.

What for? I can imagine some tasks for such a machine in the middle of XX century, but not for thousands of them.
> when dealing with complex sociological questions there are always negative externalities and the case can always be made that there are additional hidden externalities we don't fully understand yet. And therefore the correct solution to all these sociological problems according to Hazlitt is to do nothing.

How can he propose to do something about what's not understood? Both action or inaction have consequences and those consequences once understood would motivate a new action or inaction. I'm not criticizing, I ask this because I didn't understand well the argument in its abstract form.
> So what's the controversy?

A good example is your comments sibling.
> The way I see it, goals are the actual thing while objectives are diffuse imaginations of something, or the zoomed out perspective. To get a clear picture of something, you have to zoom in from the diffuse one first. You define your goals after zooming in, because then it's clear what's reachable.

This is exactly what I meant !
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How long are we going to continually spell things like: knife, night, knight, thought, etc. When you add up the generations of wasted human effort in spelling words in such pointless ways, its mind boggling.
Feb. 2016?
Seconded. So very helpful.
+1 for the book recommendation and the reading notes.

I have always had a little bit of the spiritual side to me, but in the last ten years I have come even more to appreciate both the philosophy of stoicism and Buddhist teachings, which have a huge amount of overlap in my opinion.
This is a great example. But I still have a bone to pick with the edited user story. It's not really a user story and crosses the line into implementation.

I'd propose a further revision:

"As a user, I'd like the home page to reflect a consistent set of branding guidelines so it reinforces the company's identity for me."

Logo display isn't covered by the branding guidelines? The company doesn't even have a branding guide?

Now you've uncovered a deeper problem. Fix that and hopefully you'll avoid a lot of aimless subjective debates over cosmetic issues in the future.
Thanks. It wasn't either one of those. Now that I remember the one I'm talking about, it's system requirements were low. What comes to mind it could run comfortably on a 512mb system.
I was thinking the same about the UK, where the Queen also has no power.

But then I thought someone like Murdoch or Dacre would be appropriate as they have more power than May (but who doesn't)