skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say the complexity is in balancing profit over time. Here is your contradictory force. In the end that large engineering consultancy was making zero profit and was worth nothing. Whether running a business into the ground will give you more overall profit than just selling it and putting the money into government bonds is something one can consider, but in your case was the consultancy owned by the people making these short-term profit maximizing decisions? The agent/principal problem for companies has not been solved.

It is probably not a coincidence that the top 6 US companies by market cap (Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Facebook, Berkshire Hathaway) are still run by their founders or were run by their founders for most of the companies existence before a recent step-down (Microsoft) or death (Apple). Most public companies aren't and they struggle to grow or even survive over time.
It doesn’t have enoigh rain to really feel cyberpunk.

... on a side note, I just realized we’re now as far away from cyberpunk in time as cyberpunk was from the golden age of sci-fi. That also feels wrong somehow.
Elixir defines its parts as either 'Language Syntax', 'Special Forms', 'Kernel', 'Standard Library', and of course user code.

Things like a function call is language syntax. You cannot replace language syntax with anything else. Special forms are things like `for` and `with`, and you can replace these with syntax (though that's going the wrong direction in my opinion). Kernel are the standard library bits that are auto-imported into every module (unless explicitly told not to via `except:` or so), these cannot replace special forms or syntax. Etc...

The Pipe operator is just a normal macro in the Kernel, it is redefinable and in fact there are a surprisingly large amount of libraries that do (to make it more monadic interestingly, which makes me think Elixir needs a binding operator in kernel, perhaps `~>` or so).

Things like `fn`/`end` are language constructs, just no way around that at all.

The match operator `=`, interestingly enough, is a special form and not a language construct, so there are times that you can override it as well.

> except of course for Scheme, which is perfect :D

Take a look at Racket, it is scheme refined into bliss. ^.^

> Elixir has some inconsistencies, but I don't think they make the language "hard-to-read" in any realistic way.

Not overall 'hard-to-read' (not like Java for example), but definitely harder than Erlang I'd state.
And so is MMO data (cacheable in a ton of cases, shardeable (the article even mentions this one!)).
Haha, would it be any worse than the congress we have now?

I mean a round-robin lottery would probably have a better approval than the dismal 15% congress has now.
Yes, but only in one direction. If you low-pass filter a raster scan signal, then the image is blurred horizontally, but retains its vertical resolution.

Vertical filtering can be implemented in analogue circuitry using line delays (this was done for standards conversion as an alternative to pointing a camera at a screen), but it's a lot harder than taking a photo of a folded-up print-out.
Maybe it's not such a bad time to turn into a centrist considering the liberal meccas seem to be the places where people are struggling the most: http://thehill.com/opinion/finance/384536-the-great-exodus-o...

Or, if you really want to influence change and impact the country, staying in a dark blue state and living within an ideological bubble isn't going to change anything. Charlotte has seen a great migration from blue-collar democrats from the Ohio/PA/NY areas, and I believe PHX is seeing the same from Chicago and surrounding areas.

For me personally, virtue signaling do-gooders with billions of dollars that just happen to live in a city with a crippling homeless problem doesn't sound attractive to me.
'Fishy' doesn't mean 'forged', just 'suspicious'.

The factors I mention – fast patenting/profit-seeking, odd axes/combinations to get a result, unclear blinding, inconsistency with other expected fly lifetimes – are all the kinds of things correlated with flimsy results. It's usually wishful thinking, not conscious forgery, that leads such authors to overlook the weaknesses in their setup when they get a publishable/profitable result.

I do have a high opinion of my ability to detect flimsy results from the details (or missing details!) of a scientific paper, from decades of reading and watching which results hold up, and which don't.

You're practicing scientism – sacralizing certain procedures, titles, or outlets – rather than science here. Science requires a high standard of proof, and recognizing patterns of misreporting. There's even a strong case to be made that "most published research findings are false":

http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jou...
I agree, new macs are moving toward all polish and no humanity, just a clean sterile machine.

There's a reason for that. Tim Cook is a bean counter, not a technologist, and not an artist.

Steve Jobs was a technologist, and a wannabe artist.

"The goal was never to beat the competition, or to make a lot of money; it was to do the greatest thing possible, or even a little greater. Steve often reinforced the artistic theme; for example, he took the entire team on a field trip in the spring of 1982 to the Louis Comfort Tiffany museum, because Tiffany was an artist who learned how to mass produce his work."

Source: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
Add a dark theme and we are talking!
Unlikely, since new Macs haven't had the startup sound for years.
Based on your requirements and the change in your environment needs I'm not sure why you're considering a MBP - at least not until the next iteration potentially addresses the keyboard issue and comes with a spec bump. Seems like the X1 would be a far superior fit in this specific context.
food is scary and dangerous and it'll make you sick in subtle, imperceptible ways that'll eventually kill you. i just don't even bother with the stuff anymore tbh.
That sounds pretty adversarial, you may have demonstrated GP’s argument.
The 'Mother of All Credit Bubbles' Is Brewing
Learn just a little Awk (2010)
I'd take reskinned KOTOR in a heartbeat. If the quality of writing is consistent with Witcher 3 that would be even more awesome.
Sometimes doing nothing is better than doing something. In this case, doing something (a) does not harm China, as intended, as they are still the only viable place to purchase these items, yet (b) actively harms business in the United States, as we are paying the additional cost ourselves.
Scalable incremental data aggregation on Postgres and Citus
The bloom filter will tell you whether _the hash of your password_ is in the set. It doesn't matter whether your _password_ matches a pwned one, it only matters whether your password has the same hash as one that is pwned. This tool expands on that by simplifying the test such that it gets more false positives, but still has no false negatives.

Imagine that password hashes are six characters, and `abcdef` is the only pwned password we know about. A smaller version of this tool would reject your password if it hashes to anything that starts with `abc` (such as `abc000`, `abcdee`, `abcdef`, etc). With this toy example, we can see that this is deliberately pessimistic -- it only is a "your password might be pwned" indicator.

It's like throwing out anything in your fridge that is past its expiration date, even if you don't know whether it's actually spoiled.
The udQM they're talking about is in a very different regime than the quark matter produced at RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) and other colliders. In those, heavy ions are collided ultrarelativistically (speed just under C) and for a very brief instant, quarks and gluons are liberated from their confinement inside proton and neutrons to become quark-gluon plasma, or QGC. There are up and down quarks just like in normal protons/neutrons, but also other quarks can be created (strange being the most common). At high enough energies and with particular kinematics, you can make all six quark types: see BaBar experiment, LHC, Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) experiments.

In the paper, they're talking about udQM being more stable at zero temperature and pressure, basically "competing" with normal elements. The wiki diagram is useful for reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark%E2%80%93gluon_plasma#/me...
Minor nit: In case anyone was confused as I was, "lose the plot" is a British idiom [0].
It means, "To lose sight of an important objective or principle; to act contrarily to one's own interests through concentrating on relatively unimportant matters."

[0]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lose_the_plot
A different implementation of same idea, if you just want to see how it's been done at least once: https://github.com/brianm/pwned
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Yep! But you can browse them more easily in the PDS Image Atlas: https://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/search/?fq=ATLAS_MISSION_NA...
Is this an end run around the California law that non competes are unenforceable?
A quick Stackoverflow job search shows seven postings in the past month. Two of them are what I would consider regular software engineering jobs. That's horrific to somebody who's worked in a healthy job market where, after a layoff, you can land another good job in a matter of days. Also there's the matter of career fulfillment. In Charlotte, you can either work for a startup for 60-90k or a soul-grinding finance job (or similar) if you want more. There aren't many of the former positions either.

RTP is a much better proposition in that part of the country. Similar cost of living and a real software industry.
According to a text from my surgeon.

“LASEK is ASA or Advanced Surface Ablation. PRK is the old painful kind of surface ablation prone to scarring.”
Life expectancy is actually a really great example of the opposite. People routinely claim our health system is bad compared to europe because our average life expectancy is lower.

It turns out african americans skew our metrics because they have

1) high infant mortality
2) high murder rates of young men

The high infant mortality is irrespective of wealth and has a disproportionate impact on average life expectancy because the death of a 0 age person has a huge impact on the average. When you look at the rest of the population, our whites are on par with europe and our asians are on par with asian countries.

One way this is gamed is that some countries have different standards for reporting infant mortality.

<<The infant mortality rate is defined as the number of deaths of children under one year of age, expressed per 1 000 live births. Some of the international variation in infant mortality rates is due to variations among countries in registering practices for premature infants. The United States and Canada are two countries which register a much higher proportion of babies weighing less than 500g, with low odds of survival, resulting in higher reported infant mortality. In Europe, several countries apply a minimum gestational age of 22 weeks (or a birth weight threshold of 500g) for babies to be registered as live births. This indicator is measured in terms of deaths per 1 000 live births.>>

In the US it is gamed in reverse in the sense that the average hides the true problem is with subpopulations and not the entire US medical system as a whole. Our (gamed) poor performance in this statistic is used as a measure to support moving to a substantially different system.
Thank you, I'm glad you were able to deconstruct the sentences critically instead of emotionally triggering.
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Given that Corporate profits have been at all time highs recently I think their responsibility to their workers is obviously being circumvented in order to increase shareholder value. You are stuck in this Corporation first mindset. You ought to get out of it.
But then your "one factor" just becomes a combination of various other factors. I don't think the point of Goodhart's Law is related to "over-optimizing for just one thing," rather it's a statement about whether any metric (even a broad, diverse metric that takes into account multiple different things) can retain informativeness once it is set up as an optimization target.
mRemoteNG is very good for many remote sessions.
Nintendo sued them for bypassing their protection. Often people caved; Nintendo/Sega controlled how many games a developer could get published; the genre etc. Codemasters was like "yeah, right" and reversed engineered it, and got sued. Apparently they thought they were going to lose and agreed with Codemasters to call off the lawsuit as long as Codemasters maintained publicly that they had done a deal with Nintendo to end the case.

Source: common knowledge in the small West England game dev community.
I wouldn't commit to any specific date. It's not something you can timebox.
Approximately 0 Heartbleeds.

A Heartbleed-level vulnerability means "everyone is vulnerable, exploitation is trivial, consequences of exploitation are severe" so therefore you need to a) update yesterday and b) assume that the fact you haven't updated yet (because you just found out) means you've already been screwed. These kind of bugs are very rare, and the only comparable one I can think of is Debian's OpenSSL bug.
How long until the email client is also part of Gitlab?
Many internet death threats are not "true threats" and are indeed protected speech. Not all, but a surprising amount of it is.

You can read more starting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elonis_v._United_States
You are 100% correct in this. You can call your device just fine as made in the USA even if your passives, ICs and so on come from elsewhere. The other commenters don't understand anything about electronics.
I respect your charitable interpretation, but it turns out to be overly charitable based on subsequent posts. I’m going to take a page out of the “know when to back away slowly” handbook, and back away slowly from this train wreck.
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The relative labour market returns to different degrees
I have a text file with headings. Text file still rules. On notepad ++ it identifies html links from the text and i can just ctrl click on a link.
As someone who is on the precipice of purchasing a new home, this is my top concern and reason for potentially continuing to rent.

So naturally I am attuned to comments like this, and articles elsewhere, which talk about this subject.

Do you have any further insight into why you think there will be a recession in the next 2-3 years? Other than "it's a cycle and we're lined up for another one" ... Are there other market conditions that are making that more and more of a reality?
Yes, but Google need some resources to monitor and research who exactly left to found, and who was working simultaneously at both with conflict of company interests.
Everything you list is in each of those locations, though admittedly California has among the best weather in the world.
I'm in it for the long run. It deliver today and can only get better.
If it's Monaco then they're already doing that, as that's the core piece of VSCode.
It's a pretty editor, but it's not an IDE. No build tools, no debugging, no navigation, no refactoring, etc.
Everyone wants to go camping these days
I'll admit I'm a very poor "look and feel" person. But am I the only one who thinks that the zooming images on this webpage are hostile to the user?

(1) The zoom animation takes too long, I want to see the screenshot

(2) After zooming, it's still difficult to read to my 33-year-old eyes. I want a fullscreen image.

(3) After finishing squinting at the screenshot, I scroll down to read more text only to have that text MOVE while I'm reading it as the screenshots animate back to their original positions.
In addition to the other replies, another reason for the friendship between the US and Israel is that US founders saw the United States as a recasting of ancient Israel. Where Israel escaped Egyptian captivity to form their own unique nation, the peoples in America had left their various captivities (religious, political, economic) to begin a new nation unlike the nations of Europe.

Some examples:

Benjamin Franklin proposed that the scene of the Exodus (Israelites passing through the sea) be made the official insignia of the United States[0].

"Moses standing on the Shore, and extending his Hand over the Sea, thereby causing the same to overwhelm Pharaoh who is sitting in an open Chariot, a Crown on his Head and a Sword in his Hand. Rays from a Pillar of Fire in the Clouds reaching to Moses, to express that he acts by Command of the Deity."

He suggested the national motto be, "Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God."

The Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, preserved to this day, is inscribed with a passage from the Torah, the book of Leviticus[1]:

"Proclaim LIBERTY Throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants Thereof"

[0]: https://www.jpost.com/Christian-News/Today-in-History-Benjam...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Bell#Inscription
Sure does smack of tossing ol' Briar Rabbit into the briar patch. "Punishing" them by making their finished goods a ton more competitive by kneecapping our own industry? Wha?!

Forget Russia, should we maybe be looking into what China may have done to get this guy elected?
Before blockchain revolutions? I don't see how the blockchain would impact 2020/2077 in any way
Vaguely - think GitHub file editing, but far more powerful. Some differences would include:

* No terminal

* No development environment to speak of, either (e.g. no libraries or binaries installed)

The post identifies that this was developed as a way to include multiple file edits in one commit. GitHub, by contrast, applies a commit per file edit, so if you want to change three files, you would open each file separately and each edit/save would become a separate commit.

I do think that this nudges GitLab as a platform a little closer to being like Cloud9 though!
Just a clarification: A here doesn't mean Angstroms. It means "number of nucleons", as in carbon-12 is an A=12 system.

So they're saying A>300 means "a quark system with >900 quarks"; normal protons and neutrons have three quarks a piece.

If I misinterpreted your comment and the above was already clear to you, please forgive my mistake (I didn't want anyone to confuse A for angstroms here).
Given what you're doing and how you use your machine I think the X1 Carbon or Dell XPS would better suit you - and this coming from a guy who loves Macs!!!
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> 19th and 20th century engineering is amazing. Today, if I can't conceive of writing it as a mobile app than I just shrug.

Skills thrive only if there is an incentive, monetary or otherwise, to practice them. Otherwise they atrophy.

In my past 6 years in Silicon Valley, I worked mostly alongside PhDs in physics, math, comp sci, EE, quantum physics even. This is a metric TON of talent. Do you know what you can do with that kind of talent? You can like literally get a man to moon etc. Every one of these guys ( sadly including myself ) was working on some throwaway nonsense- ETL jobs, frontend js, distributed backend code that got rm -rfed and rewritten periodically, messaging systems replaced every year with messaging systems in latest language fad, all kinds of ultimate software crap manned by the jira monster with never ending tickets & feature requests.

So I just saved up the breadcrumbs & headed back to academia when I couldn’t take it anymore. Better to work on serious stuff, even if it were ill monetized. You only have one life.
Ask HN: To SPA or Not to SPA? (Existing Product)
Backstory:
We've got an existing SaaS product, chugging along with the Django templating engine and an old Bootstrap template bought for $20 several years ago. We're a growing team of mostly backend developers, and now have this nice and fancy 2018 re-design of our dashboard lying in front of us that we need to implement for several reasons (current design is not easily extendable as it was not custom made for our requirements, everyone complains that it looks old and feels chunky, etc..).

We have several options:

Hire an experienced frontend developer (that's comfortable with a framework such as React), and have that person tag team with someone from the backend to create an API + SPA.

Pros: Decoupled approach makes things easier/quicker to develop the product further as everyone just concentrates on what they do best.

Cons: Going will be slow as no backend API exists at this point AND we will have to support 2 applications going forward. The complete responsibility of the frontend will lie with the sole frontend developer now and in the future, as we will always be a backend heavy team that will not be able to help with the frontend if necessary.

2. Hire a mid-level frontend developer: stick with Django templates, get frontend dev to upgrade current template to latest bootstrap(or whatever works and is popular these days), and implement new design.

Pros: No API needed, backend team can continue working on product roadmap. Will have to support only 1 app. Backend devs will be comfortable fixing bugs/supporting frontend code if necessary.

Cons: Lose out on super cool new frontend tech(?), oldschool approach ?

3. Hire an experienced frontend developer and do a hybrid approach (page-as-a-component ? https://hackernoon.com/reconciling-djangos-mvc-templates-with-react-components-3aa986cf510a)

I'd love to hear from someone that grew a project and a team and had to face a similar decision.

Thanks in advance!
His assumption is that Corporate Profits which are already at all time highs cannot be sacrificed in order to pay workers more and keep prices level.
Asking the important questions.
Same thing happened to us but on the peninsula. I got tired of moving so we left for a stable housing market.
What is the use for this? I mean how many people actually use such tools for actual day to day dev? Maybe for some quick edit if you don`t have laptop/computer at hand, but otherwise I see no real advantage of this.
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Like I said, Lisps are well suited for REPLs.
> "get slammed by this..."

Wait, a second... Do you really know this? Have your supplier prices already increased? By how much on average of each imported component? What's the total increase per unit shipped?
I think the GP's uncertainty relates to download URL wildcards with HTTP. Unlike FTP, I don't believe that HTTP servers have to support your request to list all files in a directory.
“Progress was defeating a ruthless and murderous North Korean Communist regime...”

“Who, upon victory, mass murdered 10's of thousands of their own citizens...”

Proofread! Or at the very least, try not to include outright contradictions in your outlandish claims. Claiming that the US won in one sentence, and in the very next declaring the opposite is baffling.
Corporate profits are at all time highs while wages have stagnated since the 70s, you sir are full of it.
Wow, very cool. Lots of new players in this space: https://repl.it, https://glitch.me, and now GitLab (and I'd be surprised if GitHub doesn't follow in tow).

Cloud9's acquisition really left a big hole in the market. AFAIK there's still nothing out there that gives you a decent code editor (edit multiple files, have multiple tabs open, etc) that also gives you access to a Linux shell and ability to expose ports like Cloud9 did.

Personally I'm most optimistic for https://repl.it. They already have a core userbase in high school classrooms and have been adding a ton of support for serverside applications to make it more appealing outside of the classroom.