skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Focus on mastering the DOM and Web APIs as you learn. You could even try building a minimal, single page web application every day for the remaining 6 weeks left this summer ;)

The simpl.info site "provides simplest possible examples of HTML, CSS and JavaScript" to help get started. Good Luck!

https://simpl.info/
I had no problem with the web-based chat either, though when he asked about setting up service at my new address, I said I was moving out of the country.

But still, I'd prefer to use a simple web form to cancel service rather than sit through a 15 minute chat session
Not sure it would hold up in the Supreme Court. Provided the law is worded strictly to apply to CA citizens / only when corporations are serving CA citizens there is little to make an interstate regulation argument on. And there is also international precedence (EU GDPR) which could guide court opinion.

Maybe it's just wishful thinking but that's my $0.02.
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I'd cast my vote for promoting it more, it's a pretty handy feature (at least for comments)... I also like that it lists things in the order of recently favorited rather than chronologically.
> All the while, nuclear is falling further behind renewable solar and wind power. As Schneider notes, the 3.3 GW of new nuclear capacity connected to the grid worldwide in 2017 (including three in China and a fourth in Pakistan built by Chinese firms) pales in comparison to the 53 GW of solar power installed in China alone.

Somehow I don't think nuclear has any chance of coming back. The tone of the article is that no one can figure out how to build them.

By the time we have lots of nuclear plants, we'll have even more cheap solar panels and cheap batteries.
Trident is (and is widely acknowledged to be) about the bare minimum required for a semi-credible nuclear deterrent. It's just about enough to make a country like Russia think twice. Probably.

The deterrent provided by the US is not the special relationship, but the US's enormous nuclear arsenal, which it probably would deploy against Russia if Russia launched a nuclear attack against the UK. They would do the same if Russia launched a nuclear attack against any NATO power, so the special relationship doesn't really come into it.
Indeed. And it's a small but interesting sentence, because it serves as a counterexample to some theories of counterfactuals. To quote the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on David Lewis (p □→ q means "if p were true then q"):

> The basic idea behind the alternative analysis was similar to that proposed by Robert Stalnaker (1968). Let's say that an A-world is simply a possible world where A is true. Stalnaker had proposed that p □→ q was true just in case the most similar p-world to the actual world is also a q-world. Lewis offered a nice graphic way of thinking about this. He proposed that we think of similarity between worlds as a kind of metric, with the worlds arranged in some large-dimensional space, and more similar worlds being closer to each other than more dissimilar worlds. Then Stalnaker's idea is that the closest p-world has to be a q-world for p □→ q to be true.

But "13 is prime" is the most central example of a necessary truth; in this example there _are_ no p-worlds. So the fact that this sentence is, in fact, meaningful shows that the way we use language is doing something different from Stalnaker's model.

And of course, the connection between counterfactuals, analogy making, and general intelligence is one of Hofstader's research interests, and he comes back to it in a later chapter. This example of his again kindof makes fun of counterfactual reasoning about mathematical objects:

> Related to this notion of slipping between closely related terms is the notion of seeing a given object as a variation on another object. An excellent example has been mentioned already-that of the "circle with three indentations", where in fact there is no circle at all. One has to be able to bend concepts, when it is appropriate. Nothing should be absolutely rigid.
I wonder how you avoid writing stateful components in real-world complex SPAs.
Honestly, there isn't much to learn. It's just a function that takes props and returns a React component (usually via JSX). The only big decision is the props API.

https://reactjs.org/docs/components-and-props.html

The best thing to do is just to brush up on functional concepts, thinking about things in terms of composition and application, and threading state through your application and flowing back through to the top via dispatches. Learn more about flow (the concept, not the framework). I like to picture a waterfall, where the water is state that always keeps flowing no matter what it hits. State should start at the top from some source, we don't care what that is, and then flow through the application down into the leaves. Functions can do transforms and reductions on state, but they should never hold on to state the way class components do.
This would have been a welcome change when I tried to break my marriage with Verizon. 3 phone calls later and 2 months passed they were still charging me for the my cell phone service and it took repetitive attempts to straighten things up. Bastards!
Though I love Sublime's cold open speed, VS Code is my second favorite editor on Mac, and I appreciate how they've continued to make significant updates and improvements over time. My use cases are simple, so I am not the best person to give a thorough review of its deep IDE-level features.

But overall, I have really enjoyed using it and IMHO it's one of the best examples of an electron app out today. MS has done some great performance tuning to make it not feel so much like an electron app. I have a love/hate relationship with MS as I'm sure many do, but this is some of their work that really shines.
I can vouch for the author's points on the good parts of vue.js.

We've built our single page application (SPA) web app with vue.js and are very pleased with the results -- https://checkoutclip.com. We were able overcome most of the stumbling blocks by looking up https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/, https://github.com/vuejs/vue/issues and https://forum.vuejs.org.

For server side rendered (SSR) pages, we're using nuxt.js, which is working out great as well. E.g. SSR page: https://video.checkoutclip.com/-LDQ5TtL_yywYCgUNb6K

I would recommend vue.js for anyone building their first SPA even if they don't have prior experience building one...it's easy to pick up.
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Talking admin and not policy, he had a number of issues. The secret calendars may have violated federal law, the large raises for his aides that the White House declined and he went around them and did anyway, the large increase in security detail costs and first class flights, the soundproof booth, having staffers book his hotels on their personal cards with no reimbursement, using staff to find his wife a job, making staff run personal errands, etc.

For a guy that supposedly believes in smaller government he seemed to waste a pretty fair amount of agency money.
41% isn't 'rare' [0]. Aside from protecting your stuff in the event of disaster, the real value of rental insurance (must like car insurance) is liability protection in the event that something bad happens to someone else. Policy Genius has a good overview of what renters insurance does and doesn't normally cover [1].

Renters insurance is cheap, especially compared to the value of your stuff, the cost of living in a hotel for an extended period of time, or paying someone's medical expenses after an accident.

[0] https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-renters-...
[1] https://www.policygenius.com/renters-insurance/learn/what-do...
I canceled my LA Times subscription online last week. The website says you have to call to cancel. I thought I'd just give it a try online, fully expecting to fail, but to my surprise it all went through easily. They asked for the reason, and when I gave it (excessive ads+tracking) they canceled.
Apple iTunes based subscriptions also have a very easy way to unsubscribe, probably to the chagrin to companies which use them.
There are schools in various countries, e.g. Romania, which are known for producing extremely well prepared applicants. They select for these schools from the entire country and have them focus on sciences, math and computer science early on. They practice Oxbridge style interviewing/math olympiad questions to death.

This results in for instance there being proportionally many more Romanians at Oxbridge Cs/Math/Physics than you'd expect by population.
WSJ is notorious for "you have to call us to cancel".

However I bypassed this by subscribing with amazon where i can cancel subscription online.
Imagine their surprise when the estimates are still wrong after doubling.
It’s a shame they didn’t have an arm of the study looking at female-only units. As it is, they are comparing men-only with mixed units, so there is no way to determine how much of the effect is due to being in a mixed vs single gender unit. I recall in England that women did better academically in single-sex schools than they did in mixed schools. It’s conceivable the same might (or might not) be true here.

Of course, they also need to ensure equivalent levels of fitness and experience, which doesn’t seem to have been the case here.
Interesting, but I still disagree. To the extent that code is a tool, it's as fundamental as a pencil and paper. However, I believe that it runs much deeper than a tool, even a very fundamental one. I was a double major in literature and math (CS emphasis), and I think people really overlook how fundamentally algorithmic thinking structures your mind, at a very deep level. I think it is particularly valuable in combination with other approaches, which is why I encourage people who study CS to read and study widely in the humanities and sciences. I think people who do that can have unusual insight into topics well outside the traditional realm of CS.

I do think differently about problems well outside the realm of CS because of my background in CS. You don't strictly need to code to develop this kind of thinking, but coding is a good way to develop it. For me, it has been as fundamental as literary analysis or mathematical proof.
This is the origin of the term "bike-shedding"!
Awesome, I might finally have a viable alternative to voiding payments to companies that play games with canceling
230 billion USD is, according to Wikipedia, Russia's annual spending (not just military spending). I can see how that figure could have been interpreted as referring to military spending in the context of my post, but that's not what my post actually said.

The figure of $69 billion overall military spending seems consistent with the 10 billion figure I gave for Russian spending on nuclear weapons.

I got that figure from here: http://www.icanw.org/the-facts/catastrophic-harm/a-diversion...
The figures are a bit old and I accidentally used the older of the two. But unless they're way off, it's true that Russia is spending more on nuclear weapons than any country other than the US. It's also spending more than France and the UK combined (France and the UK being the only European countries with a strategic nuclear capability).

Besides all that, the idea that nukes are somehow the cheap option for Russia is pretty nuts when you consider that Russia still maintains a fleet of ballistic missile submarines -- an expensive hobby by anyone's standards. You could pay for lots of conventional weapons with the money spent on that. They're even building shiny new ones: https://thediplomat.com/2017/06/russia-to-launch-its-deadlie...
"The brand of their school makes zero difference at this point."

"unless you interviewed with some extremely inefficient employers, you were not rejected due to your school brand, but due to your perceived interview performance."

I disagree with this point (and FYI I don't think I've been rejected due to this).

I strongly believe that the word like 'Harvard' biases perceptions right from the start of the interview. As do appearance, culture, possible demarcations of political orientation.

I believe that even at a supposedly imminently professional place as Google ... that the same person interviewing with a 'thick southern accent' who enjoyed 'hunting and fishing' would have more difficulty than otherwise.

Tech is generally a little better than other fields because it's a little easier to intelligently discriminate between good and bad ... but in my view it's problem.

I totally agree that 'school' is a reason to 'fly them out' - but I also believe that if you did not allow interviewers to see the resumes ... that'd you get different results.
The companies who are advertising the protein content are probably doing very little if anything to "bump up" their protein content. It's probably all about marketing what is currently selling things. Kind of like how vegetable oils used to (and maybe they still do) advertise that they're "cholesterol free".
> Being vaguely involved with the Oxbridge undergrad admissions process in CS/Math i can tell you there is very little trying. A fuss is being made about coming from a disadvantaged background but in practice sadly the people running it only care about one thing: how well you can grind out an answer to a math olympiad style question in 15 minutes.

It varies a lot between colleges/interviewers. I initially interviewed at Trinity (Cambridge), and there was an admissions exam (roughly STEP I/II level) and the interview was solely focused on that. I was then pooled to Selwyn, and there was no admissions exam and the interview was much more general (split into three parts - NatSci DoS-barely even about the subject, more about yourself generally/why Cambridge; CompSci DoS-more general questions, it was more about coming up with an idea, or how you would implement something, and broader CS concepts, than being able to chase down a specific answer to a set question; Physics DoS-focused around a particular question, but was more interested in you being able to come up with a viable method, and explain your reasoning, than being able to do every single step there and then (I needed _a lot_ of hints, and was still admitted for CompSci, and that DoS later said that wasn't an issue - I could see the broader idea, and would have got there with time/being able to look things up)). Someone who interviewed directly with Selwyn said they had the same experience.
They do -- And then they come in at 2x time/cost of the doubled estimate.

The initial estimate for the Vogtle expansion in Georgia was $11.5 billion total with first power coming in 2016 and 2017 for the two reactors. The cost was repeatedly revised upwards with the latest estimate at $27 billion and they aren't expecting power before 2022. The entire project might still be cancelled and rate payers will just lose ten billion+ dollars.

Can you imagine a project that is over 100% over budget in time and money when the scale is billions of dollars and a decade?

Anyone with the background should try and pencil out a financial forecast to make money off tying up tens of billions of dollars for 15 years before you see a penny of revenue.
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> Not sure how true all of that is, though. I have a healthy skepticism about historians

Is that supposed to be an argument against it? Have you examined the arguments and evidence, which thousands of experts have examined and been convinced by? What exactly do you object to?
You're right, I wasn't clear. There are already farms producing food using permaculture systems, but I meant rather that it's not the majority of what you hear about for what is organic.
>>> Please listen closely, our menu options have changed.

You are missing the "as". Please listen closely, as our menu options have changed. I know it by heart and can hear the same voice over and over again in my head. Crap!
People die from pain-induced shock [1] all the time. I think the essential mechanism is that pain changes your heart rate and blood pressure. Small doses increase both, but large doses decrease both. A large enough dose can make your heart rate and blood pressure drop enough to cause shock.

[1] https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Neurogenic_shock
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On the other hand, irrespective of how confident they are that things will pan out, corporations like Alphabet and Fiat Chrysler have no problem whatsoever with issuing press releases saying that Fiat Chrysler is willing to sell up to 62k Pacificas to Alphabet within the next few years under an agreed framework if Alphabet decides it's made enough progress to actually spend 1% of its annual revenue on more cars.
Do you literally mean skip to page 300 and begin?
I am actually surprised that many people didn't know about this handy tool
The really evil ones hang up on you after you've been on hold for a fixed period of time.
OpenWRT is pretty powerful, certainly. If you prefer an open source solution, that's definitely the way to go. I've used OpenWRT which I liked quite a lot, but I prefer the ease of having an integrated solution with the Unifi products.
I'm glad you think so, thanks.
I think it is helpful to have some deeper programming language theory when learning JavaScript, so you can recognize what it is really doing behind some syntactic sugar. Specifically, first class and anonymous functions, closures, the whole event driven model.
> That's plausible and incremental. No cleaning problems, no homeless people living in them, no need for remote monitoring, a far simpler liability and insurance situation, and so on.

These are all solved problems, I mean when was the last time you saw a homeless person camped out in a Zip Car? BMW's ReachNow vehicles are all over Seattle and they are clean, insured, fueled/charged and exactly 0 people live in them.
Funny, the meh and the ugly points are all non-issues with Ember.js.

Sounds like he wants a convention over configuration framework from a barebones DIY from the ground up style framework.
Any with audio? To this day I'm only aware of one video where you actually hear the detonation, albeit with whatever equipment they could grab out of the dumpster behind the nearest Radioshack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKwkTYeukE4
Don't throw stones at me here, I'm just the messenger... if you are living an active life style and would like to have some muscle, the golden rule at the gym is that you need at least 1 gram of protein per pound in your body (daily intake). An though I find that there's tons of mis-information out there about what's needed, the 1g per pound is surprisingly consistent throughout most researchers on the subject.
Surprised that no one has mentioned Douglas Crockford.

I would recommend his book JavaScript: The Good Parts
https://books.google.com/books/about/JavaScript.html?id=PXa2...

And his Google Talk,

https://youtu.be/hQVTIJBZook

This is for plain JS.
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H1B is a dual intent visa, explicitly allowing you immigrate.
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Yep, sneak in (or overstay), marry an US citizen.
Alternatively, create a media sob story and you're golden.
...and fat.

I switched out my morning half-and-half in my coffee w/ one tbsp of organic unsalted butter and one tbsp of coconut oil.

It has helped me lose body fat and curbed my appetite.
Are you actually deaf? Or is lying to get exceptions that are meant for the disabled actually legal?
Marvel will have to rethink Spiderman's powers. So interesting of a finding.
I lol'd while nodding vehemently in agreement.
I'm sorry, maybe it's my IoT-get-off-my-network/lawn hackles being raised here, but why does your doorbell need a subscription in the first place?
I think you've hit the nail on the head there. I've been experimenting with writing my own shell and the original syntax was a lot more like Javascript but having to encapsulate parameters in parentheses, comma delimited and quotation was a massive pain in the arse. So I dropped the requirement for quotation marks, then made commas optional, then I dropped using periods to pipe (ala methods in OOP) and then eventually ended up rewriting the entire parser to follow a more traditional POSIX syntax. As it turns out, as ugly as Bash et al is, it actually makes a lot of sense for writing one liners in an interactive shell (as you stated yourself)

So where I decided to deviate was areas I felt could be enhanced without breaking the POSIX syntax too significantly:

* shell configuration,

* error handling (something traditional shells are appallingly bad at)

* and support for complex data structures (eg so you can grep through items in a minified JSON array as smartly as you can with a traditional stream of lines.

I always respected the power of POSIX shells even before embarking on my pet project. However I never quite appreciated just how sane it's ugly syntax was until I attempted to replace it with something more readable. I mean sure there are still some specific areas I really don't agree with but that can always be argued as personal preference.

As an aside note, one thing I didn't quite appreciate until writing my shell is just how much shells have in common with functional programming. Yes I know it's a far cry from LISP machines; but if you take away the variable interpolation and environmental variables then you're left with a functional pipeline that take something from STDIN and write it to STDOUT and STDERR and does so in a multi-threaded, concurrent, workflow by default. Weirdly this still makes POSIX shells more efficient for some types of data processing than writing a monolithic routine in a more powerful (or should that be "more descriptive"?) programming language.

So there is some surprising elegance amongst all that ugliness.
Bad example. The Lisbon treaty was voted down by the Irish in the first referendum. But then the EU made changes in the controversial areas and then the Irish were asked again. And they were happy with the changes and as such with the 2.0 of the treaty.

My point is: changes.
Every car has had one since at least the 60s, and if you wanted easy access to 12VDC, that was your option. Step 2 is network effect, and now it's a "standard".

There were the Hella plugs [0] in old Volkswagens (our '81 Vanagon has one), looked much like a lighter plug but smaller, and a better design. But they never seemed to have caught on except on BMW motorcycles. In fact, whenever I hear a reference to them, they're called "BMW plugs" because that's the only thing that uses them anymore.

[0] http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/291040452525-0-1/s-l1000.jpg