skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Redux has had some API churn as well

Uh... what API churn? The Redux store API hasn't changed meaningfully since about a month after its 1.0 release. 3.0 came out around September 2015, and it's been the same since.

React-Redux has stayed API-consistent too, even though we rewrote the internals for 5.0.
There's this company that offers internet service on flights also claims to offer secure hotspots, (it's a gimmick) around cities all over the US they're based in Los Angeles: Boingo Wireless. The only way to cancel the service is to call in, that's their whole scheme. When you call in they treat that as if you were doing something extremely complicated and that takes time. One of the customer service representative told me that he would have to contact the engineering department to cancel my account...Like that would be necessary. I was getting impatient, on the phone for about 40 minutes. This new law will be the end of them.
Carbs in the colloquial sense are still plant based - disregarding the comparative traces of carbs in animal products.
This is a fairly small failure by Intel's standards. The 10 nm fiasco is far larger.
Thankfully most people have more sense than Kant. In truth, I doubt Kant himself would be so hardline if he were actually put to the test in such a scenario. Talk is cheap, would he actually be so depraved in practice? I can't rule it out, but I doubt it.
Meditations on Moloch (Coordination Problems)
Labor Day is most definitely granted, as is MLK, at the big techs.

I’m sure most full time employees get Labor Day off actually. That’s the whole point of it actually.

See:

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-12-paid-holidays-at-Googl...

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-paid-holidays-at-Microsof...

https://www.glassdoor.com/Benefits/Facebook-Paid-Holidays-US...
Using the archive.is link because the current version of the post has some edits from the original.
The printer isn't the problem, it's just a heater. The problem is the paper. You can get BPA-free paper, though it seems like the standard replacement is just as bad (it contains BPS).

There is a Vitamin C-derived paper by a company called Appvion. You can buy it on Amazon but apparently it's not great.
Microsoft is arguably the best in the entire software industry at maintaining backwards compatibility. They go to extreme lengths to maintain support for older code and it's relied upon by many major enterprises so you're not going to run into issues unless you're planning on having something running for 50 years.
You seriously believe this will increase processing costs to say Verizon or Comcast?
Reminds me of this arcane tidbit: you can write your own checks...

> you can write a “negotiable instrument,” bank talk for a valid check, on just about anything. According to the Uniform Commercial Code, the body of law that governs these things, all you have to include are the name of the payee, the dollar amount, the name of your bank, your signature, the date, and some suitable words of conveyance, such as “pay to the order of.” You don’t need the account number or the bank ID number you find on preprinted checks.

https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/562/can-you-write-...
So, about that treadmill desk in the newsroom
I think typically UK google employees make less than SV but also significantly more than most software jobs in the UK. The guy I know is really good and did research in undergrad related to a niche Google is interested in.
Social media small print too hard for kids
Tech companies have to compete on 15. They can’t just offer fewer than Facebook google Microsoft Apple etc....

Some companies BS on unlimited vacation, but I ignore those unless I trust them alot.
> I'm unemployed and have no money

I've had people still try to sign me up when I've said this. I had just moved country, had no job, and was literally living off my credit card. I ended up getting stopped by some people on the street trying to sign me up for some charity, because I'm too nice to tell them to fuck off.

Even after I explained that I literally arrived in the country a week ago, and that I literally have no money, they were still trying to get me to sign up for a recurring donation. Sure, I understand that they get commission, so they want to make a sale. But not only is it extremely unethical to try and get unemployed people to sign up, it's also trying to extract blood from a stone.
Is there a catch to regenerated limbs? Maybe weaker, more cancer prone, or faster aging?
Do you not realize that you've linked to a YouTube video of a recording of a vinyl record?

In your case, the vinyl record is the other source. Not to mention the other one provided by the other respondent. And a vinyl record is a great source to have -- it will last a lot longer than any other digital link to a stream of a record, if cared for properly.
11 of the 12 most polluted cities on earth are in India. They need to build a lot faster given coal is still 3/4 of their energy generation. The US is a laggard on solar as a percentage of energy generation, and even the US has a larger share of its energy derived from solar than India does.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-43972155
From a cognitive/psychological/understanding perspective:

Fundamentally the reason it is hard for average citizens to understand the dangers of radioactive materials, is because humans are pretty bad at understanding huge numbers, similar to how we are poor at dealing with low probabilities.

The big number in question is avogadro's number. A tiny speck of material contains huge amounts of nuclei. A single nuclear disintegration (after being say ingested) can cause mutations in multiple ways (chemically by daughter nucleus and alpha particle, compton effect knocking an electron away, beta particle ionization, ...). for a given level of enrichment in a radioactive material, the number of fissionable nuclei is proportional to Avogadro's constant, it's pretty hard to fathom the number of future disintegrations.

Another way in which the paramount requirement that these materials not mix with our environment is hard to visualize is again Avogadro's number: once mixed into the environment it becomes very hard, to unmix them, again because of the sheer number of nuclei in even small samples of normal matter.

Then there is also of course our poor intuition with low probability events, and that any unforseen rate/probability that is greater than the sum of all rates/probabilities of all known failure mechanisms would easily dwarf this sum of known failure probabilities, since we engineer the known ones to be as small as possible.

Just today I read in the local paper that our nuclear reactors apparently weren't built to specification, and the steel in the reinforced concrete is degrading, and would not withstand many events (like a plane crashing into the reactor)

There is a known example of a hijacked plane, where the perpetrators threatened to crash into an experimental nuclear reactor. Cryptocurrencies did not exist yet so they were forced to land in order to receive their demands, today they would not have to...

The legal limits are defined in terms of natural background radiation.
Honestly, the best way to handle these things is to forget even bothering with the company and file a charge-back with your bank or Visa/Mastercard. You have every right to call up your bank and deny a charge for a service you're not using, and didn't ask to renew.

Plus it's guaranteed to get the charge removed immediately, and you'll be hurting the company by adding to their charge-back tally, increasing payment processing costs for them and potentially completely cutting them off.
Yep. We use both 10.x.x.x and 192.168.x.x at my workplace (who knows why). I had to request a special change to our VPN settings so I could still access my home network while connected to it.
Yeah that's a great idea. Thanks!
I've actually closed bank accounts to get away from subscription services. It really is an outrage. What more should it take than telling them you don't want to pay for their service anymore?
Why don't you try asking them?

Nonetheless, I am sure that you could live without any of the content hosted on those YouTube channels. The word "content" is a fair terminology in this context since if any media is so pigeonholed as to demand being streamed and served from YouTube, it must not be that artistic, thoughtful, or useful to most viewers. YouTube doesn't optimize for utility, art, usefulness, tact, expression, or value. It optimizes for addiction.
Ultimately the solution is to let the customer manage their subscriptions via their payment service provider.

PayPal does this.
Processed food always being bad is an oversimplification. Try having eating a raw potato sometime and you'll see what I mean (seriously don't they are toxic). Cooking is a basic form of processing to make the foods nutrition actually processable or processable more efficiently. The 'processing' most associated with the term are optimized for taste and shelf life often at the expense of nutrition or too much of a good thing. For instance protein - it is held up as a holy grail 'good nutrient' but it turns out that going too high is bad for the kidneys and thus general health. That isn't unique to processed foods either - Steve Job's fruit based diet put Ashton Kutcher in the hospital with pancreatic issues when he tried it for getting into character!

Past failures at making something more healthy have failed to measure an additional variable - say margarine being better before a sufficient understanding of transfats and back when they thought all cholesterol was the same.
Could you elaborate on “trap-based bounds checking”, or provide a reference to learn more? My searching mostly pointed to “trap” as being a WASM concept, rather than some processor feature that improves bounds checks.
And IBM's is around $50k.

Everyone hears about these $200k salaries, but most developers aren't making that. The median for the USA is around $100k, it's still a high salary for a job that requires only an undergraduate degree and no certifications, but it's not obscenely high like $240k.
Have a look here: https://nixos.org/nix/manual/
There's a dropdown in the top-left corner to switch between nix-related projects. (NixOS, NixOps, etc.)
I'm solo and I still find gusto to be worth the money. On the rare occasions I've needed to contact them, they have been great.
I remember when I first started to try and learn React there was only a handful of words and a vague diagram from Facebook about its Flux architecture. And after that there were many, many similar state management libraries. That some in the community picked a smaller one that had in-depth documentation and emphasized stateless / functional style programming is not terribly surprising.

IIRC there were a lot of comments about having to pass props to children constantly (without using a state management library). Seems like it's a lot easier to not use a state management library now that an official, non-experimental Context API exists. But remember, this was only added a few years later.
It costs less in CO2 costs to ship a leg of lamb from New Zealand to a supermarket in Los Angeles than it does for you to get in a car and bring that lamb home with you. It also costs less in CO2 costs to ship that lamb from NZ to a supermarket than to truck it in from a local farm to your fancy organic farmer's market.

If you want to attack CO2 costs, the primary costs are in the last mile.
It's the smallest of the private IPv4 ranges. Corporate and academic networks tend to use the larger ones, so it's the least likely to cause a numbering conflict.
What do mathematicians and statisticians just “get” that other people don't?
Apparently lions killed 3 rhino poachers at a reserve in South African
I don't know, because I am not on Whatsapp and it's never come up with any of my friends. Nobody thinks any less of me for this, and nobody has ever asked me to get Whatsapp. Perhaps my friends are nicer than others' here, but what ever happened to respecting people's choices?

We live on the internet, a place of infinite possibilities and uses. To suggest that it is natural, convenient, and appropriate to pigeonhole our services in this manner is thoroughly antithetical.
This is an article, not a Show HN. Please read the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
Ugh, not another site that blocks pinch to zoom gestures on mobile. It doesn’t make sense to me why so many (quite popular) sites care so little about enabling their users to comfortably read their content. The solution, for now, is to use Safari since it started ignoring that setting, but unfortunately Chrome still allows it for some reason.
Amazon has almost all of them, all the way back to the first episode. We subscribe to PBS kids (through Amazon) for our daughter, but I'm not sure if that's required for the Mr. Rogers series.
Compiling Pattern Matching to Good Decision Trees [pdf]
A single parking space in a luxury development in Hong Kong has sold for $765K
Any company that generates value for a customer doesn't have retention issues. I used to run software engineering at two subscription commerce companies. One company allowed users to cancel and pause/skip online via webpage, chat, email and even social channels. The other forced customers to call up support to cancel. The first company sold for 10 figures, the other company just did a down round and layoffs. Screwing over customers is good for short-term gain, but eventually, you run out of new customers and you burned the bridge for re-aquiring former customers.
I have multiple ~10 line POSIX shell scripts in my dotfiles. I also have a bunch each of Perl and Python ones [1]. I'd rather not rewrite my shell scripts with neither of that languages, or Ruby (which I like and use a bit).

When scripting, I find general-purpose languages are better when you have structured data (i.e. some JSON coming in) or you want to use libraries, and shell scripting better when you're wiring up multiple programs to work together, or starting up a program after setting up the environment for it.

IIRC, the FreeBSD sh(1) man page was a good entry to writing POSIX compliant, thus quite portable shell scripts.

[1] Compare the ones here: https://github.com/cadadr/configuration/tree/master/bin
They are not the only ones using this dark pattern, and it does get escalated to more expensive employees even at Comcast.
This is the motivation behind so many corporate-police partnerships, it's really sickening.

Like, if the bank forecloses on you, the police will be more than happy to evict you as soon as the bank demands it.

But if the bank ever accidentally loses your money or something, be prepared for the police to laugh you out of the station if you ask for help getting your money back by force
"I'm planning on committing assisted suicide." (Not actually). You're move Time Warner.
It is my understanding that 38 of the states are one-party consent states. That is: in most states, it is perfectly legal to record your own phone calls. (It certainly is in my state; I'm taking Wikipedia's word for it for the other states) Though, to be fair, California (the state that TFA is about) is not one of those 38 states.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_recording_laws#Unite...
> But I dream about how the world would be if Bash were actually a good scripting language. It compares favorably to csh, and I fear that's about the best you can say for it.

I finally started appreciating Perl after having to write some nontrivial Bash scripts.

(My hierarchy is: default to Bash when my task is mostly running commands. If there's a bit of text-processing or regex required, Perl. If I need any hierarchical datastructures, Python)
I hadn't heard of laracast until starting Vue development a few weeks ago.

The quality of answers were so low I found myself longing for the days of expertsexchange.com.

Why did laracast get so popular for Vue? What was wrong with Stack Overflow?
The allure would be job/salary security for 10-20 years (albeit at a lower salary than SV), and retirement in 20 years with full pension and medical benefits for life.
VrankenFuzz – a multi-sensor, multi-generator mutational fuzz testing engine [pdf]
Heavily discussed 1-2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17456289 (333 points/130 comments)
I just looked up how large the human genome is in bits (when the 4 bases are packed into 2 bits per base) the size of our genome is about 770MB.

Is the Axolotl's genome really 42.5 times larger than ours?
Ahh, good to know that the DOI has some teeth on the accuracy of the recommendations. That makes me more comfortable to take the extended replacement. Still frustrated that I can't just sell that risk to an insurer. After all if GR has caused big claim headaches in the past, and ER wouldn't have had those headaches, wouldn't that be to the customer's benefit to have GR?
I get where you are coming from. Children were an easy source of labor back in the day.

But now, children are purely a cost center, and not a predictable/inexpensive one either. They get sick, they need schooling. Food + a crib are the least of a parent's worries.
Beware those scientific studies; most are wrong, researcher warns
what don't you find coherent about the desgin of C#? On HN there is far more value in being specific about your particular concerns rather than giving no reasons. There is a lot stuff written on the design of C#.
people do not think about it rationally.
The money you earn in SF is mostly not your money, its the landlord's money.
You can work in London, live outside the M25, and have 35 minutes commute time, in a train, and pay reasonably normal rent/mortgage.
I am not sure if you can live outside SF and work in SF and spend less than 4 hours commuting eveyday.
I've just received two offers one for permie £100k and £700/day for a contract, I'm pretty certain I would be left with more money here that I would in SF even if im on $180k.
Being in SF with family/kids is a game over I guess.
If Caltech's goal was to identify and mold the next generation's national and global leadership then it would have failed completely.

I don't think people here understand Harvard University. The funny thing is, this level of misunderstanding is so naive and naively self-righteous that it might actually destroy the cesspool. So, good.
Google will block Chrome extension installs outside its Web Store
It seems some people on HN love to hate sytemd. Even though they can't come up with an alternative that's better. Hint: It's not sysvinit.
In OSH I use the technique of "lexer modes" to handle all the cases you mention:

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/12/17.html

I have a few more blog posts on that topic I haven't published, but hopefully that gives the idea.

I probably used to agree with you (if I'm understanding correctly; it's not entirely clear what the conflict you see is). But after writing the parser in this style, I don't think it's too big a deal.

I plan to use the same technique to parse the Oil language, which is a new language without the legacy. The command syntax is largely the same, but compound constructs like function, if, while/for, etc. are different.

The parser is regularly tested on over a million lines of shell:

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/11/10.html

Note that Python, JavaScript, and Swift all need something like this too, now that they have arbitrary code inside string literals, just like shell:

print(f'three = {1 + 2}') # Python f-strings

console.log(`three = ${1 + 2}`) # JavaScript

println("three = \(1 + 2)") # Swift
This includes underground tests, right?
If that’s salary TC is significantly higher. That’s what a new grad can make there in their first year in TC.
Understanding Python Dataclasses
Why the Liquidity.Network is not Centralized?
How to define (de-)centralization:
(1) Who owns the funds?
(2) How redundant is a system?
(3) Can a central entity censor?
Regarding Liquidity we have the following properties:
1. A user owns at any time its funds (with the private
key). Not the hub operator, or any other entity can “steal“
the users funds. A hub is not a bank nor a custodian.
2. Liquidity is designed such that many hubs can be
interconnected in a network of hubs to provide redundancy,
similar to a network of Lightning peers.
3. A hub can choose to not forward payments. If that
were to happen, the user can simply remove his funds
from the hub’s smart contract, which the hub operator
cannot prevent. The user would then join another hub.
Pretty much off topic by me but:

Do you know what is the total surface area of currently installed solar panels by SolarCity?

Alternatively the largest total area solar panels operated by a single entity?

(it's for an astronomy idea I have)
Singapore watchdog threatens to unwind Uber’s Southeast Asia exit deal
Saying "I'm unemployed and have no money" will put you in the target market for certain products, like payday loans and diploma mills. Depending on the call center, you could find your contact info sold on to a new set of telemarketers. Win the battle, lose the war.
I hope they do, and then they can get shut down.
Netflix and Amazon are struggling to win over India with international catalog
would be interesting to know, people talk about SF only, but how salaries look in places like Phoenix or in states like Wyoming, Montana and Vermont ? are there any sw jobs there ?
Nothing beats homemade chicken stock. There is no packaged food that can replicate the taste of homemade chicken stock.
If I can contact the company attorneys via email, that would be preferred anyways.
> doesn't stop something from being a problem in terms of a goal other than X

Sure - I guess it's the difference between a tweak and an overhaul. I'd expect the overhaul to have 100x the supporting evidence.
It seems that the new version of plotly addresses most of my annoyances, but I've yet to play with it.

I really like Bokeh. It's still quite young (0.13) and some things aren't quite there yet. For general plotting, pretty much everything you need is already there. The documentation is excellent.

Plotly is very powerful, but if you have a use-case that's beyond the examples it can be hard to find. I ran into some annoying issues - for example you can't embed JSON metadata into a plot before sending to the browser because the parser can't deal with unexpected keys.

I also don't (didn't?) like how everything in Plotly is done via dictionaries and (for the newcomer, somewhat abstract) graph objects. Graph object definitions in plotly get very busy and long if you need to do anything complicated. The new imperative options seem to have fixed this.

Bokeh feels much more similar to Matplotlib and I think produces far more readable code.
You might be technically correct, but for a service that mostly facilitates piracy, I don't think you can safely argue that strict compliance with certain codes ... should confer Safe Harbor to MegaUpload?

I mean that's technically exactly what the law says, isn't it? But I'm saying, by any other objective standard, MegaUpload was nothing but a great big den of facilitation of piracy. But if they followed the guidelines for Online Service Providers, why aren't they entitled to Safe Harbor?
When they say, “this call may be recorded,” aren’t they giving you permission to record it?
AF vet, and frequently frustrated by this taboo. It's so contrary to the interests of everyone except the employer, but folks become visibly uncomfortable whenever talk of comp comes up.

Well, the American folks anyway. I work with a lot of Europeans, and they don't seem to share the norm.
I usually leave it enabled, I just tested it when I viewed the page source and saw very little was there beyond JS. I guess I come from a different time where you used as little JS as possible/was required.

I'm also not familiar with vue so I was trying to work out if it was used to build your web page or the actual chrome app. The web page is fine but I just wasn't sure where vue came into the picture for such a simple site.
What bank doesn't allow ACH transfer to pay off mortgages? Even most small banks have this now.