skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as work goes, I think one reason for this saying is that getting permission requires a higher degree of good communication. Once the deed is done, you can show it to explain it's value. Getting permission involves conveying your vision to people you may not know well who may not have time or inclination to really understand it.

For some of the other examples, such as marrying someone, if you go ahead and get married without asking, it signals a higher mutual commitment. In some sense, it more strongly suggests you love each other and are not merely social climbing.

I think an article about the logic and practicalities behind this could be fascinating.
Though not a nomad, (in that I have a solid home base I travel out of,) as a freelance consultant I'm usually away from home base for 20 or more days a month. My form of 'nomadism' isn't working in big well known cities: NY, London, Paris etc.. I mostly work out of nondescript client offices in smaller cities in South/South East Asia and Eastern Europe. Working out of a coffee shop is not usually an option. The biggest problem I have is getting healthy food and exercise. They just aren't good healthy places to eat in many developing countries. Wonder how digital nomads handle this issue.
I would classify cashing out as timing the market. I'm not saying it's a bad thing to sell at current prices, but who knows if we'll have another +25% year or a -25% year? My point is there's no reason to be fearful, just realize that it's all a gamble unless you have an edge.
Why are all houses not owned and rented out by a small group of wealthy entities? Just like every other market, it should trend toward consolidation right?

It's happened. In many small and medium sized cities, there's one dominant landlord.[1] So far, nobody is big enough to do this to a major city. Blackstone may be getting close. "Blackstone is now 'the largest owner of real estate in the world'"[2].

[1] https://righttothecity.org/cause/rise-of-the-corporate-landl...
[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/blackstone-is-largest-owner-o...
Not all markets have MoviePass and CostCo. I grew up in the wealthiest county in my state, and we still didn't have a CostCo, but we had plenty of theaters.
Jedi in Vim, PyCharm/IntelliJ, and whatever tool VSCode uses (which I think is Jedi).

Same experience everywhere. Once I type "tf" - a hang for multiple seconds, presumably while it loads the entire Tensorflow library. The completion then works smoothly, until I hit space or otherwise exit the completion.

Once I type "tf" again, the cycle repeats, and I have to wait multiple seconds.

You'd think the tool might cache libraries instead of reloading them every time. Seems like it doesn't at all.
Strangely, I've also found that Opera's android browser is by far the fastest, very noticeably.
For certain types of image manipulations or other computations, it may well be that the pointers are supposed to refer to overlapping regions. This is the kind of problem that, as Dennis Ritchie pointed out, bedeviled FORTRAN for ever. I think the solution is to fix "restricted" and let programmers opt-in. If the programmer doesn't do that, or gets it wrong, too bad.
"I just have no confidence that they have the will to enact change. They are benefiting from the current system and to do something radical to fix the system would go against everything they'd learned in their careers"

I hear you - but I also believe there are a number of them who imminently grasp the dysfunction and would like to do something about it. This is kind of out of my discipline but my Uncle was on the board of governors of a Hospital and he and the board watched as crazy stuff happened and definitely wanted to do something.

I worked in mobile at a once very succesfull handset manufacturer ... I watched the iPhone be borne and eat our lunch. As the execs failed, paradoxically, some of them knew what was happening and just could not get the system they were inside to change ... but a lot of us, were we to be in different systems, I think could be successful at it.

Anyhow. I wish him the best ...
Not a recession, not in this economy. It’s too strong right now, give it another 2 years maybe.
Green Dot recycles the packaging but I think the GP was proposing that companies recycle (or safely dispose of) any actual durable (not consumable) products they sell. The legal stuff and logistics would be difficult to get right, but it is an interesting idea.
I strongly agree with the 'cognitive overhead' comment.

I think, a number of challenges that Redux and MobX are intended to address, can potentially be resolved in more elegant and easy manner with the new (16.3.1 and above) Context APIs. ReactNative 55.+ works with 16.3.x and 16.4.0 so these APIs are available to your react native apps now.

For example making available global stores to all the components that need them, being able to invoke 'render' on the interested components, when a particular store is being updated -- all of that is being supported.
All that without passing the store as property through the hierarchy depth.

for the cases where your component relation is 'horizontal', rather than hierarchical. I recommend simply to use pubsub.js. It is a library that has 0 dependencies (rarity in JavaScript ecosystem :-) ). and has both Sync and Async publishing via channels. So that you can pause your publishing to the horizontally-connected components, if you need to, and then resume -- when the publishing is done.
Hi! I want to demonstrate a tenet of postmodernism.

I'm wondering whether you'd agree with the following paragraph, even though my words aren't your words:

You and I are exchanging words right now. Those words don't really mean anything. Meanings are private to each mind, and everybody decodes words and interprets them as having different meanings. Those meanings, or perhaps those concepts, within each mind will give rise to some sort of worldview (or POV for short) which gives everybody their own uniquely-colored glasses through which the world's stage, players, narratives, and behaviors appear filtered, giving rise to new meanings and possibilities.

This paragraph was hand-written and spontaneous, but I think that you'd nonetheless agree with it because it is an attempt to capture common societal ideas about how English encodes meanings, and thus I think that most English-speakers will decode it to predictable concepts, and I think further that folks who have studied philosophy, not just postmodernism, will find concepts in it similar to the concepts that I've imagined.

Why this is fascinating: I think that this understanding of language decoding as a strange loop is totally overlooked by this crowd, but it could completely overhaul how giants in the field are read, in particular Hofstadter.
> Perhaps this shouldn’t come as a shock, given that Frappuccinos pack a lot of calories and customers are increasingly looking for healthy choices. But Starbucks needs some new hits to give people a reason to come back through its doors, especially with so many insurgent and boutique coffeehouses chasing the same customers.

Indeed, at over 500 calories, any given Frappuccino is almost 1/3 of my daily calorie budget. That's a lot to spend for a single treat. They keep trying to push these at the "Happy Hour" events they hold every other Thursday - announced by Wifi auto-login page, auto-signup email newsletter, and numerous app notifications. They're using just about every trick available, but sadly their caffeinated milkshakes aren't bringing paying customers to their 'yard'.

As a frequent Starbucks customer, I face 3 issues with the stores:

- Lack of low-carb, high-protein meal options. The protein boxes are acceptable, and more options would be lovely.

- Long lines to order, and an uncomfortable wait for the drink. The solution I've found for this is to order through the app, from a store about 5 minutes away. By the time I arrive, my order is waiting for me at the end of the drink rail.

- Unpredictable lack of seating - no way to know if all tables are taken at a given store, without actually being there in person. Google Maps can give some idea. Not sure of a better solution for this, short of table sensors or webcams.

The long ordering times are a problem held by almost all coffee shops, and Starbucks app is the only thing that makes me opt for them over smaller local competition.
Funny you mention McDonalds, because that's where I buy my fraps now instead of Starbucks. They taste exactly the same but are significantly cheaper.
Probably a really bad idea in the age of GDPR.
What banknote security systems look like around the world
You folks trying to tweak the wording are missing the point. This phrase has traditionally been attributed to Grace Hopper, a pioneer in our field.

Write a compiler, then feel free to come up with your own idioms.
Geez man just relax a bit and move to a smaller city. I make 100k and live in a 2200 square foot house with 3 grocery stores within walking distance and a 10 minute commute. Life is pretty easy, I make websites for my companies marketing team. I don’t even have a high school diploma. Nobody is pressuring me to work as many hours a day as possible.

California and New York are not the whole world, and things are really great for raising a family in the Midwest. Both of those places seem like a dystopia borne of the city councils own design and people’s willingness to live in a bad environment.

And billionaires aren’t going to treat everyone super terrible because any billionaire knows if the peasants aren’t getting their bread instead they want the riches heads. That’s not really a great gambit if you’re ultra rich.
Indeed it is. I can't thank you enough!
Twitter Suspends Users for Sharing Stephen Miller's Cell Number
The lost me when they fired a founding contributor over some stupid political virtue signaling and caused him to resign.
So no comment on that 30% of income spent for public schools?

> You mean an incredibly sub-par education for kids key formative years!

This just sounds like scapegoating. I think the subpar education of public schools is not caused by immigration. Public schooling needs massive changes, immigration or not.

> It's an easy justification to make - you just don't care because you aren't personally impacted.

No, I'm caring about the kids of illegal immigrants as well as kids in the US. I don't value people differently by nationality or the status of their parents. And I value severity over quantity generally when it comes to moral issues.

> Why not seek to solve the issue - perhaps in other ways?

Again, I'm all for solving it, but I don't see how this was justified at all. Mind you, we don't even have any tangible numbers on the effects of this policy.
> it's impossible for the vast majority of people to survive off a single job's income

The average employed American earned $928.74 a week in May of 2018 [1]. That's over $46,000 a year [2]. That's a livable wage. In the same month, labor force participation for Americans over 16 was 62.7% [3].

So a majority of Americans have jobs, and the average job pays over twice the poverty rate for a family of three to four [4]. The vast majority of Americans can survive off a single job's income.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t19.htm

[2] 928.74 * (52 - 2) includes 2 weeks' vacation

[3] https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States#R...
I don't see the security issue with using the one browser which is least likely to let a webpage root you.
Meanwhile, the IRS and the US government are more worried about shaking down middle-class expats with the absurd reporting requirements of FATCA and the only double-taxation system in the world.

The IRS & treasury department obviously have the power to get international governments to cooperate, but choose to focus their power on Johnny-salaryman instead of international money launderers.

As usual, the rich and powerful have ways around this (ie. holding assets in offshore corporations) while the little guy with no powerful connections gets screwed for his meager salary.
Exactly right, it means nothing. The so-called Cryptocurrency space is low intelligence and self interest on all sides.
I guess (IANAP) that's because hydrogen is easier to observe as part of interstellar gas within a galaxy as opposed to the thinner intergalactic filaments which is also further away and doesn't get illuminated by stars or stellar remnants.

So the baryonic matter in galaxies is already accounted for to a larger extent than the filaments.
+1 for ff on android (because it can run extensions)

recommend checking out 'night light mode' for night browsing -- it does some things a little nicer like dims images and uses low contrast (full disclosure: i am the author. feedback welcome!)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/night-light-m...
It was only a couple of months ago that I remembered I paid to have my name included in the Firefox advert, as printed in the New York Times:

https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2004/12/mozilla-foundation-pl...

That was back in 2003!
After reading this article when it came out, I ended up reading the book "Checklist Manifesto" and have incorporated checklists into my professional and even personal life. I highly recommend it.
Using Deep Learning to Help Pathologists Find Tumors
If where we are at now is the end result, then YES! The employees who truly had a problem should have simply quit and found another job. Most of them probably wouldn't have cared enough to quit.

Mozilla is irrelevant for me now. I just want a browser, I don't care about their political views.

This is also what I hate about Tim Cook and Apple, he's too political.
Oh, come on. You know everyone on this site is a fucking asshole.
Buy vegetables and walk a lot.
Hey, that's still a free 4%.
This journalist does not seem to know about the tech world he reports about. Not a single word has been shed about all those high quality addons, that Firefox users once had, and how huge the quality gap is between Chromium based add-ons and what was available for Firefox. In my opinion, this is so extreme, that I switched over to Vivaldi browser, now that XUL is gone.
"there is no subtlety left to language"

There can be and English is well suited to it, though it is rare.

Crazy example is Paris Hilton's use of a single term: "That's Hot"

Basically, she would use the simple two words to both openly mock and demean someone, subtly enough that only erstwhile 'in the know' people would get it ... but at the same time, it was in a way earnest, honestly supporting the authenticity of whatever she's commenting on.

Example, some odd guy from the sticks would say or do something a little bold, play some crazy song on a banjo, and she'd say 'That's Hot' as if to say "That's so laughably lame, but also, kinda cool and authentic, Bravo".

In only two words.

Aside from the 'sour grapes of the author having been displaced by globalized concentration in journalism ... he does make a point.
if you don't have any particular attachment to the romance of drinking coffee, a month of caffeine tablets will run you about $5 (or less)
Fraud prevention, gate keepers.
About Pickle—

If we pickle a string which comes from an untrusted source, that’s fine right? There’s no way to format the string or anything such that it exploits any kind of vulnerability with pickle. Right?
Higher is better in Motion Mark, Speedometer, and Jetstream. ARES-6 is elapsed time.

Safari beat the other two browsers in all four benchmarks.
> when all I wanted was a black coffee.

This is incorrect at least at all the Starbucks I've been to in the past 5 years (ATL, LAX, San Diego, bay area). If you order just drip coffee, the cashier just fills it for you whilst billing. No waiting in line with the other folks who have different tastes from yours.

Also I agree with my sibling commenter; if all you need is black coffee McD is much better. But you might have to wait in line with "big mac and fries" folks to order their crap.
Tilting at windmills is not just about imaginary enemies. From Wikipedia:

> The phrase is sometimes used to describe either confrontations where adversaries are incorrectly perceived, or courses of action that are based on misinterpreted or misapplied heroic, romantic, or idealistic justifications. It may also connote an importune, unfounded, and vain effort against adversaries real or imagined for a vain goal.

People who incessantly complain about the evils of all governments -- a key clue here is referring to "the state" as a singular platonic entity -- as if they know of some better solution, when they clearly don't, remind me of the above.
Brain stimulation restores movement in rats after stroke
I agree with you, that for the same 'business logic', having it JavaScript vs native, unless you do lots of sorting/copying of data -- will not have battery impact difference.

However, React itself (not the javascript engine) brings in additional dimensions, that are somewhat unique to react.

For example, React's (and therefore ReactNative) TextInput control, essentially (in my understanding) encourages you to update a state variable, every single time type a letter into that control

(because the values displayed in the control are coming from the state, so the only way to display the character you typed, is via updating the state).

So that round trip of the character update, to updating the object with state variable, calling .setState, forcing the re-rendering, will consume more battery power. In my view

(I know textinput in particular has the 'uncontrolled model').

My point, that the constant 'create new object', update the state with it, and Re-render -- could be slower (and less battery efficient), than doing may be something similar (or more efficient) in Native Code.
> Why can't there be a way to get a regular, no frills coffee without waiting for tens of minutes?

McDonald's, Dunkin Donuts, and hell, even Starbucks offers that if you order ahead with their app and just pick it up when you get there.
To be clear, I take the cans to a nearby depot.
To be fair, 3 dollars on coffee 3 to 5 days a week is probably not eating in to your budget very much. But I guess we all focus on different things.
IntelliJ only seems fantastic because it is so tightly integrated with the language you want to use. That's why the company has to release a separate product for each major language they support. Considering this, IntelliJ cannot be considered as being in the same league as a general text editor such as vi or emacs, it is instead a special-purpose Java source editor.
Coffee tastes good :)
True, but I didn't think IP was saying anything particularly controversial. Hence my curiosity!

I was almost wondering if OP just created new accounts for every thread out of some hyper-privacy orientation.
Euhm. Of course there's the factor that there's "timing the market" and there's realizing the current expansion has been going on 9+ years (average = 8) and just not caring you get the top wrong by ~1 year.

Timing the market is arbitrarily hard or easy depending on the time ranges involved. Saying that there'll be a recession somewhere in the next 2 years or so is almost a certainty. If you want to get it right to the day ... big problem. Month ... still serious problem. Right give or take half a year ... probably doable with enough research (though I think you'd conclude that it'll happen around the beginning of 2019, not quite now).
Mostly, yes. But market saturation isn't a hard cap on sales.

I owned a few fast food restaurants. To gain sales you either added new customers (the market saturation cap), increase order frequency or increase order size. Obvious, but the counter-intuitive part is adding customers is orders of magnitude more expensive. That's why loyalty programs, rewards, "Stars" are so prevelant; as are all the little snacks you walk by on your way to order your $1.99 black coffee - Starbucks needs you to pick up that organic, gluten-free rice krispies treat.

The eating out/burger/coffee spending pie is only so big in number of customers, so to increase your revenue you try to steal customers from other businesses and reduce the time between visits and increase the amount spent per visit.

"Only at Starbucks - Nitro cold brew", "117 stars to your next free beverage" and conveniently placed chocolate covered expresso beans are specifically targeted to these issues.
I'm guilty of contributing to the decline of Frappuccino sales. I used to drink them regularly at Starbucks. Two (related) things happened: I got off the street and I got healthier.

I use food in place of drugs. Me consuming enormous amounts of coffee for the caffeine is a sign of health distress. I have mostly quit drinking coffee since leaving California and getting back into housing.

I was also going to Starbucks for the Wi-Fi. I now have internet service at home.

It's anecdata. But maybe there are trends happening that are impacting Starbucks, but which are not really about Starbucks per se, and that don't say something dire about the world.
The system is meant to automated a certain process, some business process among different people.

It does not loose meaning because it can be aborted if stuff goes FUBAR.
I really hope they take some time to introspect on how this happened for a second time. From an outsiders perspective it was placing everything on a rewrite and zero perceived progress for years.

It's good for the internet that Firefox succeeds. If they managed to take back the lead I hope they don't give it up a third time.
why not support your local cafe instead?
Thanks for the data. I know very few people who legitimately have more than one job and I grew up in a poor household. We got by.
Vivaldi is being built on Node.js! I did not have the time, yet, to dive into this topic, but it could mean for some real power-horse!

https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/5347/technologies-behind-viv...
Not related to the article's content but, this link just flashes between black and white once it's loaded for me (iOS Firefox). This might be one of the strangest broken websites I've seen.
I believe in such signals. Starbucks, to everyone, is discretionary spending: pricey, single-use consumables. In the US, the stores are someplace you can sit and spend time, like a Panera, but plenty of people get their drinks to go. It'd be worth comparing drive-thru and take-out traffic with eat-in traffic at Starbucks to see if a particular category of orders is declining more.

Discretionary spending on consumables is the first thing that most people cut back when they're trying to save money. People have a fixed amount of income, and they try to allocate that to necessities first. A reduction of spending in discretionary consumables may be an indicator that people perceive their cost of living to be rising.
> 8am, so dense you can’t pick it up.

Speak for yourself bro. flexes noodley web developer arm

These kinds of questions are fun. Very much in the spirit of XKCD’s “what if?” series.
Previously discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17346028
- 140 points/167 comments

Also...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17349025

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17346993
Every single one of them is lying through their teeth and should be attacked viciously over this when re-election comes.

Such horse shit
Anecdotally, it really depends on the Starbucks. There are plenty that do not fill it for you right away. IME, if it's hot coffee usually they will. Iced coffee, they won't.
It's neither a right, nor a privilege. It's a job. Was he doing a good job? I would say yes. Did Firefox prosper after he left? I would say no. User marketshare has gone down.
I don't care about 'morality', I just want a good browser.
There's always Go - Gorgonia[0] aims to be a Tensorflow/PyTorch replacement. Performance is somewhat comparable (somewhat because it's always in flux as I keep updating it). Heck, it even uses hindley milner type inferences (not that it's particularly useful)[1]

[0] - https://github.com/gorgonia/gorgonia

[1] - https://github.com/chewxy/hm