skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm from Btown. With its latest Indian content, Netflix has really made a statement about what it can do with original content made for this market. Consciously working with the best in Bollywood and giving them creative freedom that the internet provides (traditionally censor board in India is conservative and absurd).

Amazon Prime too has made strides in acquiring and producing content for the Indian market. But both have clearly taken a different stance in doing so. Amazon is quick to acquire bollywood movies for Prime and from Netflix's latest content, it appears that they have potential to replace bollywood bangers.
I disagree, simpler code can be better if the library is well known. Otherwise we would never be using utility libraries. Though yes, coupling indiscriminately is problematic
You can write off something as being hard if lots of people want to help you learn it and share their tips and advice, but then you're just ruling out learning anything worthwhile, really.
It's not just more insight on your personal preferences. It's the 100% certainty that one user on two different platforms is the same person. It enables companies to trade and sell your data behind the scenes with much higher levels of reliability. For instance imagine there was another TangoTrotFox on Reddit or whatever, and AI parsing of his statements led to a strong overlap in self identifying statements, vernacular, etc. You still couldn't be 100% sure it was the same person and so collating data would not necessarily be as valuable for advertising companies as it might otherwise be.

And yeah, I completely agree that this is a spot where the user "wins." Congrats, you get spammed with even more heavily targeted ads, political engineering, and more. What happy days.
I think the GDPR mandates that you can view your personal data, but doesn't require a specific format. I'd expect the motivation for this to be more like generating growth, or as a token initiative for data exchange standards.
You do not assign your copyright to Google in order to publish your video on YouTube. That will not hold water. Rather, you declare Google an irrevocable license to use and publish your video on their platform.
I like your comment and agree with it. The purpose of such sports, especially the Olympics, is to test for genetic (and, I'll add environmental & epigentic) advantages.

Your thoughts on Caster Semenya's "advantages"?
I'm happy to see a new take on trying to produce a meaningful load metric.
Do those who commented not understand /s?
Thunderbird to the rescue...
There's another angle to this which I think is quite important. 4 years back, I joined a team where the tech lead would always warn developers about the abstraction problem described here.

Very regularly I'd hear "Code duplication is fine, do not use an abstraction here".
What he meant was "In this case the abstraction might be incorrect. Use abstractions only when they actually relate to business logic, not just because two pieces of code happen to look the same".
Unfortunately, while that was very obvious to him, to new developers to the team (like me) it sounded like "Do NOT use abstractions, they are evil". Over the years I developed a habit of never thinking about abstractions because they are evil. I duplicated code that should have been abstracted and today we pay the maintenance cost for that.

tl;dr: Experienced folks, be careful when you caution your peers against abstractions. Be very explicit and assertive that they _CAN_ be used correctly and one shouldn't avoid them.
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Funny, I'm always knee deep in long shavings when cutting that way, much shorter knotty lumps which won't split with an axe. Matter of wood, or special chain perhaps? Birch, pine, spruce and normal cutting chain&teeth, in my case. Or maybe there is a non-obvious technique?
You can harass employees of legal entity which is what happened. Besides, emotions are not necessary for harassment.
> It simply isn't in their interest to give people _actual_ control over their data, so why would they?

GDPR demands it and it's good PR.
My best guess is the GDPR:

> To further strengthen the control over his or her own data, where the processing of personal data is carried out by automated means, the data subject should also be allowed to receive personal data concerning him or her which he or she has provided to a controller in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable and interoperable format, and to transmit it to another controller. Data controllers should be encouraged to develop interoperable formats that enable data portability. [...] Where technically feasible, the data subject should have the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another. [1]

To me this sounds pretty similar to what we can see on Github.

[1]: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...
> We have moved towards a world of centralized services because that's what people want.

No, nobody cares about centralization. Centralization is a mechanism that provides some of the values people do care about; convenience, indexing, free hosting, simple interfaces.

But it's a mistake to conflate centralization with the root cause that makes many of these services fail. If centralization was actually what people cared about, Google Plus would have beaten Facebook. After all, it's way more centralized than Facebook is. But it's not more convenient, better indexed, or simpler.

It's also a mistake to look at the list of failed efforts and say, "well, decentralized just doesn't work." Bear in mind that the list of failed centralized social networks is actually a great deal longer, and the chance of any one of them succeeding is just about as grim. The reality is that most social networks fail, period.

There are some compelling reasons why from an architectural standpoint centralization might make it easier to succeed, but the average person on the street can't even tell you what these words mean. They don't care.

And if a decentralized service comes around that's more convenient than the alternatives, they'll switch. Because they don't care.
Sure, the NYT will explain that very thoroughly to you if you'd like to read the article.
It is true that taxi organizations lobbied ahainst Uber, but they had public opinion on their side. Uber is the one that was perceived as exploitative.
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Personal info of 1.5m patients stolen in Singapore's worst cyber attack
The UK tried an experiment in 1974 with a 3 day work week, rigidly enforced, for everyone.

At the start of 1974 there was a national miner's strike. In order to preserve coal and power all commercial users were limited to 3 specified days electricity consumption in every 7. That lasted 2 or 3 months, and came right after the oil crisis.

At home there were regular power cuts and houses were freezing places illuminated by candle. This is when the UK became very interested in central heating.

From the government's own figures, a 40% reduction in working hours caused just a 4% drop in productivity.

I am surprised there haven't been studies to try and validate that experience outside of of strikes and crises. The government's own study and the result seems to have been silently forgotten.
I think that's what happens in the case of regular world economies who don't have the luxury of a reserve currency.

But if the US really did need to do all that accounting then how come they've accumulated a debt of 20 trillion?

I'm not saying that the US economy is completely immune, but they certainly seem more immune than other economies.
While it's clear that the WIP limit isn't featured, I can't clearly see the distinction between email being push and traditional Kanban being pull.

I think that the push and pull being different are being applied to different things. Work is pulled into the resource that does the work. The push aspect of email is more akin to orders for products, which even in traditional Kanban systems is based on external demand and not production capacity, so also push, in a sense.
Well, when he does become a team leader, you can still look for another job. Preventing the promotion of someone else sounds like a futile undertaking.
Infinite Regress Arguments
If you truly love what you do number of hours worked becomes inconsequential.
I plan to develop a kids version of halfchess (see halfchess.com). One of my users recommended me to do that. Perhaps you could give it a try and send me any suggestions from the feedback button in about us page.
This is like a horoscope. Everything in that article can be attributed to nearly every western nation (at any time since he said it). Ok, there's an ideological war...which there has always been. There's always been a conflict between those who want a capitalistic and more egalitarian economic system. Looks a lot like Russia already conceded that one.
They raised 53,100 Euro.

The article says: “Online since March 2018 in a beta version, the project should definitely take off by October, based on the money raised.”

Quite the confidence being exhibited with such little funding.
There's also the UPU S1 standard for a common vocabulary for postal addresses. A couple of years ago I was working on implementing it for a large logistics customer. Postal addresses are actually a field where XML can be put to good use. An international address would look like a piece of semistructured text with all formatting into multiple lines etc. preserved, with portions of text such as ZIP codes, names, etc. tagged with elements.
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For those that wondering as well: GoCD is a continuous delivery server, but it’s not written in Go. It’s a Java/Ruby on Rails project: https://github.com/gocd/gocd
You skipped PHP right in the beginning.

I use PHP for prototypes and Go for serious stuff.
Unfortunately I don't think it will last. Indian government + its agencies are very conservative and I'm sure they will be making attempts at censoring Netflix in India.
ASTM, etc., are composed of people who develop standards and use standards independently of any incorportation into any laws. ASTM predates the federal legislation encouraging incorporation of privately developed standards, on which public.resource.org relied, by almost a century. The laws are recognition of standards the industry had already designed for itself.

ASTM members are mostly companies that design products to, and build according to, the standards. The monetization strategy of charging for the standards thus is simply the building industry taxing itself to support standards development.

The interesting thing about this case is that there are three things (the standards model, open access laws, and reliance on expert technical standards) that all are desirable, standing alone. It’s the interaction between them that gets hairy.
Has anyone here had a good experience making a single UWP app for both mobile and desktop?
It's a very small (5 people) outsourcing programming company working for a grown up foreign startup (30 people, now setting up a beachhead in another country). There is no HR, my boss does the job interview himself, and he believes HR are crooks.

I just don't think I can prove he is a malicious manipulator, much less a psycho. It would become my word vs his word. Unlike his pal, who used to liberally sling racial slurs, he watches his words. If his remarks are consistently demeaning towards me, you'd still need to listen to perhaps hours of wiretapping to pick up a pattern.
It still appears to be active on GitHub[0][1]. Perhaps all the low-hanging fruit has been picked. As mentioned in the contributing guide[2], they only use authoritative data sources.

"OpenAddresses is a collection of authoritative data for address locations around the world. We collect address data from authoritative sources; we do not create our own data. A source is a location where authoritative address data can be found. Examples might be a downloadable CSV file or live ArcServer feature service hosted by a national postal service, a state GIS department, or a county property parcel database."

[0] https://github.com/openaddresses/

[1] [for posterity] https://web.archive.org/web/20180721063519/https://github.co...

[2] https://github.com/openaddresses/openaddresses/blob/master/C...
My mother in law lost her home in the Butte Fire that was also a result of negligence on the part of PG&E. They don't deserve a bailout of any kind.
Looking at nuxt.js, express and mongodb and then deploying customer pages as static pages on s3 rather than running these dynamically from the app. Picked up 100 customers in a single day so now I have to move quick.
It's dealing with the free-rider problem. The system would work best with as many people participating as possible, and you don't want people waiting until they get sick to get insurance, since under the ACA they would receive coverage for conditions that arose prior to being insured.
Not sure about in the US, but the dot com bust wiped out IT work and contracting in the UK for a couple of years, but did not translate into a recession for the UK economy. It was very much of the sector. So here 2001/02 didn't count as recession, just a little local crisis, even though friends and I were wondering where the next meal was coming from.
I think you missed the point regarding whiplash. He's saying journalists should have been more skeptical about these companies all along, and should have dashed in some skepticism into their reporting throughout the last 10 years. Instead, they didn't pay attention to these things until recently, at which point everyone realized there are some things about Facebook and Google which seem questionable. So they waited too long to start looking at these companies critically, and when it became a salient topic and everyone started criticizing Google and Facebook all at once, they also had to jump onto the criticism bandwagon seemingly out of nowhere, causing the readers whiplash.

Does that argument make sense?
特朗普与普京《时代周刊》上演脸合体 这下舆论又炸锅了
美俄总统芬兰会晤后，对于特朗普来说，舆论的压力似乎一天比一天大。就在这时，普京首度发声，力挺特朗普；特朗普也闪电宣布，邀请普京秋天访美。
Quantity =/= Quality
Some magazines but certainly not all. The publisher I worked for most recently had three sister titles: one entirely ad-funded, another entirely subscription-funded (no ads at all), the third (which I edited) half and half.
The average work week in the 1920s was about 50 hours. The 40 hour work week was only standardised in the 30s, mainly as a response to huge increases in productivity.

We've had decade upon decade of substantial increases in productivity since then. Why hasn't our weekly working hours since the 30s ever been reduced?
I was also thinking of moving into another department. We currently have 5 people in 2 rooms, soon to be 7 people in 2 rooms, working for 2 branches of the foreign company. I know boss is looking for some C/embedded developer, and I'm FAR from being useful at that post at the moment, but in a half a year or a year if I program Rust in my spare time, I may be.
Yes, I think that's a good analogy. Tech is treated like a cool toy in the news, rather than as a corporate sector that has real consequences on everyone's lives. Tech should be covered differently than computer games. (Not making a value judgement about gaming, just saying it has less of an effect on society.)
At this point in time, I wouldn't recommend parsing files with a regex just yet. Parsing is indeed one of the few areas in Perl 6 that hasn't seen any specific optimizations yet.

Where Perl 6 has seen a lot of work, is general performance, and specifically in the part of concurrency.

Where the common idiom for grepping lines using a lazy iterator and showing the matching lines from a file in Perl 6 is:

.say for $filename.IO.lines.grep( { m/foo bar/ } );

You can spread this out over multiple CPU's by simply adding the word `hyper` to it.

.say for $filename.IO.lines.hyper.grep( { m/foo bar/ } );

On most current hardware (4 x 2 hyperthreaded CPU's) this would cause this code to run 3x as fast, while keeping order. If you're not interested in order, you can use `race`:

.say for $filename.IO.lines.race.grep( { m/foo bar/ } );

Which will make it go a little faster still because it won't need to remember the order of the batches of work.

Jonathan Worthington explained this quite well in this blogpost: https://6guts.wordpress.com/2017/03/16/considering-hyperrace...

So, yes, at this time, that particular job is done 9x faster with Perl 5 than it is with Perl 6. If you don't need any specific features of Perl 6, I'd suggest you keep using Perl 5 for that. Whether this answer will continue to be correct in the future? Time will tell.
The wood looks like somewhat dried aspen, not the worst to chop. Not to dismiss her skill, at all.
I don't know if you're being sarcastic but this is a very dangerous way of looking at it. You absolutely can burnout and overexhaust yourself doing something you love. People need to learn to take breaks and time off more than the other way around imo.
Generally good advice, but with 5-7 people we're still at the stage where we communicate nearly everything face to face.
I just love Python. It's my favorite programming language for many reasons but one of them is writing python never feels like the language is working against you. Python always feels like it's helping you.
Metaprogramming is just macros: code that generates code. One use is to get rid of repetitive code patterns. Another is to move certain computations to compile time. Your statement that metaprogramming is used to solve a metaproblem is just wrong. Those two words are only related in that they share a prefix.
I've watched a couple modern Indian films recently, and the characters switch effortlessly between English and Hindi, sometimes in mid-sentence. More than once I even saw one character ask a question in Hindi and the other quote them in English: for example, (in Hindi:) 'Aren't I the smartest guy in the world?'; (in English:) 'No, you aren't "the smartest guy in the world".'.

I've been wondering: What is the subtext, what are the implications, of using English or of switching languages? There must be some and I'm missing the subtleties.

EDIT: clarification
Censor board can censor Netflix as well if it gains critical mass in India. So the platform cannot help bypass the censor board
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you write like what you read
I think what GP was getting at is that people will rip and re-host other people's videos.

That already happens plenty on Youtube itself, so I don't think it's crazy to assume that you'll start to see PeerTube instances that take someone else's channel and just mirror it.

Now, is that PeerTube's problem? Not really, it's between the copyright holder and the uploader. Is YouTube going to try and raise a fuss? I kind of doubt it, the press would have a field day pointing out the hypocrisy.

But the laissez faire attitude of content creators (and Youtube as a platform in general) might ironically make it attractive to hosts who want to fill up their instances with content quickly.
Agreed, I subscribed to NYT since subbing was an option, and read daily for a decade, until they decided to double down on partisan politics (I presume as a business decision over quality) since the last US election. The switch was very noticeable if you were paying attention. Maybe coinciding around the time the new Arthur took over as lead...

I too switched to WSJ and don't mind paying the extra cost. I miss the days when NYT feigned neutrality and focused on the balanced reality of stories over fermenting outrage via opinion pieces packaged as breaking news.

You can still find the good NYT content as the pop up on content filters like HN, Twitter, and Pocket without having to put blinders on to ignore half the other content on the site.
Programmer – an assault on bugs
Demanding money back is not harrassment, especially after being conned.
I had those cards.

Horrible to deal with.

In college I inherited a Dell Inspiron 1100 from my Dad. Total pile of junk.

I upgraded the CPU, Ram, and disk drive. It was still terrible.
Feynman's Thoughts on Fermat's Last Theorem
How to Get a Free US Phone Number for Verification – EarnGurus
This feels like moving the goalpost to me. If PeerTube succeeded, but most of its videos were being linked and shared on Facebook and Reddit, would you call it centralized?

It's fairly common for me to see people share direct links to a podcast's website if they want to share a specific episode. And even from the point of view where iTunes is a centralized indexer, they're still very clearly pointing at a decentralized service.

The biggest podcast aggregation service in the industry decided to rely on a decentralized model rather than hosting files themselves. That doesn't count for anything?

The fact that every single podcast app is using a distributed protocol (RSS), including Apple, doesn't count for anything?
Ideally you would be able to get a cash based health insurance policy where they would have a doctor diagnose you quickly/cheaply and then give you the cash to pay the doctor yourself. This way you could fly to different countries for cheaper care. That's what I would do anyways.
He was patent trolling before it was cool.

You can sue anybody for anything. There are ways to win even a bullshit case.
Erlang with Ruby-like syntax plus macros..something like that. It compiles to the same VM as Erlang's and has almost all of the same semantics as Erlang.
“AWS Free Tier limit alert”
"While I welcome a teardown of a voting machine I wonder why it's mixed with the conspiracy theory that the Russian state falsified votes. "

I don't think we can say with certainty that they didn't. We know they were hacking into other voting-related systems. We know they hacked a voting systems vendor and spear-phished hundreds of election officials. And a Russian oligarch-connected investment firm bought a company that hosts Maryland's statewide voter registration, candidacy, and election management system; the online voter registration system; online ballot delivery system; and unofficial election night results website.

None of this directly confirms that votes were changed, but it's indicative of a heck of a lot of activity around our elections, and it would be very odd if they weren't making efforts toward changing votes. Possibly to the extent of having operatives in the US to do so or bribing election workers, though I have no evidence of either.
actually your info is very very dated. this was an issue long ago.
FYI - I'm based out of India and a lot of interns,etc here can only afford AMD laptops with 4 GB of RAM and HDD. we are not even close to macbook territory here.

We actually moved these kids to vscode first. And then we realized how good vscode's performance really was.
Vernacular use has not many such "subtleties", except maybe that some sentences flow better when translated to English.

I have not seen much vernacular use of this "quoting" phenomenon you noticed in sacred games, I think that is mainly to offer a clearer understanding to a multilingual audience.
Scared Games is awesome. There's also another original documentary series Netflix recently launched which is 'Wild Wild Country' and its based on cult Indian figure Osho and the time he spent in Oregon. It's worth watching too.
Dijkstra also beautifully sums up this concept in his 1972 ACM Turing Lecture [1]:

> The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340...
Because that’s the only only thing they have control over. It’s at least possible to imitate someone’s stack or basic idea.