skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume he means like a red-headed step-child.

PC police might be on to terms like this nowadays, but by using the term I understood them to mean:

- A less loved resource
- A potentially ugly resource
- A resource that causes trouble
> You can just unplug that cable no?

For the "road warrior" use case, one cannot, in general, assume that it will be possible to unplug an arbitrary cable (especially not within a reasonable amount of time), no.

Even assuming one could just unplug that cable, there's no guaranteeing that the substitute cable is long enough.

I've seen a remarkable variety of conference room cabling setups, and, though it speaks to the ingenuity of (especially startup) companies adapting to various facilities constraints, it also means that there are no safe assumptions one can make a priori about availability of connectors, including gender thereof.
You assume companies are actually effective at maximizing productivity, and make rational decisions towards that goal. But, for example, I work in an open-office environment, and studies have pretty conclusively shown open-office environments are bad across the board: disease, stress, worker unhappiness, and productivity. Yet, the fad has caught on in SV.

All of Dilbert is a testament to companies not being effective at maximizing productivity.

It's a big change. Big changes scare people, and people would rather assume the simple view that if four days is good, five must be better. Another mythical man-month.

In fact, if five is so clearly better than four, why not six? The first company to do it would have an advantage while the rest caught up!
Hawaiki Cable's 15,000 kilometre fibre-optic cable
Lots of US federal government agencies and contractors offer 4 day weeks on alternating weeks. I’ve heard it referred to as RDOs (regular days off) or 9 9s (9 9-hour days instead of 10 8-hour days). At the offices I’m familiar with, almost everyone does it.
Have something to say. Something that you WANT to say. If you don't have that, cancel the talk.

So you want to say something. Say it.

Don't start your 20 minute talk by spending two minutes going over an outline of it, saying that you'll first present the problem, then review past work, then blah, blah, blah. I HOPE that the thing you want to say isn't "I've spent a lot of time organizing my talk like this..."

Don't start your talk with a funny anecdote about the driver of the taxi you took from the airport. I hope that THAT isn't what you want to talk about either.

Do start by describing the problem you're solving (you are solving some sort of problem, I assume...?). But only to the point where the audience can grasp what you're trying to do. Review past work only if the focus of your work is something like "I fixed the problem that the XYZ algorithm unnecessarily recomputes A...". You can mention how past work relates to yours at the end of the talk. It will make more sense then.

Get as quickly as you can to WHAT YOU ACTUALLY ACCOMPLISHED. I hope that's what you want to talk about.
One zoom level in from that it shows the names of all the major roads, glorious. With google maps it seems you sometimes have to zoom right in to where a road is half the screen to see the names. I switch to OsmAnd on my phone for exactly this reason.
Sorry if I impugned your motives.

I think that this report is only useful in showing app developers that the patterns they encounter in their bug reports are common in the entire ecosystem, not special to their specific app requiring further investigation. Keep the patterns, keep the information about integration with external tools (customers might find it useful). Scraps the rest.

The main problem in the report is that you try to answer questions which your data and analysis is inherently incapable of answering. For example:

- "Which manufacturers have the most bugs?"
- "Which UI orientation has more issues?"
- "Which locale has the most bugs?"
- "How does battery affect app stability?"
- "Which OS has buggier apps?"

As other commenters have mentioned, your results could be just artifacts of the user demographics (or any number of other confounders). The answers are, at best, meaningless.

There are significant inconsistencies in figures 1 and 2. They definitely do not agree with "Errors discovered through Instabug are most likely to be resolved within 24 hours of being reported." (except in the narrow technical sense of the first day being the most likely day).

Even if the data was sufficient, there's no mention of statistical significance in comparisons. For example, Danish is the locale with the most bugs per user. However, you have quite a lot of locales and random variability is expected. Is the difference statistically significant?
That's gotta only be true for a small subset of techies; for a majority of people, religion is religion still. We haven't figured out a secular way to induce feelings of exhaltation (ayn rand tried, I don't think it worked for most people).
The problem isn’t that Google wants to charge for a service. The issue is that they offered it for years for free or below cost effectively price gouging any competition. Now, with no alternatives they jack up the price. Classic monopolistic and anticompetitive behaviour.
In Japan there is a site called kakaku.com which maintains graphs for historical prices. We used it to great effect when buying a combo washer and dryer.
At this point I already cancelled my prime with Amazon, and generally try to buy things from other sites if possible. The counterfeit issue alone makes me avoid them whenever possible.
> low level radiation is probably good for you

colour me unconvinced.

sure, hormesis is a theory worth considering, but so is Petkau. There are good reasons that international standards retain LNT on review.
Of course, but my contention here is that the director of a movie or the author of a book it's based on has a substantial contribution to driving the work and it is essentially his "vision," while in some of the cases described in this article what is happening is more that an "artist" is putting their name on someone else's work to which they made little contribution.
Doesn't every tech company pretty much start free then start charging once they get all the users?
Falling in Love with the Dark (2015)
thanks for your advise! Maybe I should give Patreon a try after the kickstarter :D this kickstarter is a quick-starter.
https://creators.kickstarter.com/quickstarter/

It is mainly for making new backer friends or have a good relationship with my potential customer of my web visual effect dev tools.

thanks a lot for your help on overall direction of business model. have a super nice and happy day~!
Here’s a link I found by searching ‘surgeon radiation exposure’: https://spinalnewsinternational.com/reducing-radiation-expos...

This one discusses limiting procedures per year. Apparently in one example a surgeon could do 4000+ safely with a lead apron and only 300 without one.
https://insights.ovid.com/crossref?an=00007632-201304010-000...

There appears to be plenty more material out there relating to this.
Perhaps. Or perhaps programming instructors like Python better. When I taught statistics, R was more popular and featureful for the task than Python, yet I chose to teach my students Python.
Future electronic components to be printed like newspapers
Part of me wonders if they allow the counterfeiting for exactly that reason, so you know the Amazon basics will not be, then they can make yet more money off of you.
Sunlight does effectively produce radiation burns in your skin, however. And that definitely causes cancer. If we treated sunlight the way we treat barely detectable nuclear radiation, we’d never go outside and we’d use blackout curtains.
Not at all fear mongering by this Gardiner person:

Gardiner fears it will make it easier for terrorists and people who are too dangerous to pass criminal background checks to get their hands on guns.

"I think everybody in America ought to be terrified about that."

The fact that high end 3-D printers are still too expensive for most people doesn't ease her concerns.

"The people who make them will be state actors or well financed criminal cartels who have the ability to execute well organized criminal attacks in the United States and elsewhere," she said.
Some years ago, I worked on a project with a chat between people from different countries and add a Google translate in each sentence. So two people with different languages could exchange a bit.

It was almost ready when Google changed the rules and started charging a lot for the service.

So I learned my lesson, and never again based a project (or a part of a project) on a tier service, because the rules can change too fast and ruin it all.

That what people are experiencing now with Google map.
Sure, but there's a bit of a stretch from there to the parent posters claim "anything outside of port 80/443 will be blocked at some point" as a justification not to develop new, non-HTTP based protocols.
> Remarkably, Jiang et al. gave themselves a huge handicap with regard to beating the resolution record. For any given microscope lens, the best resolution is achieved by using the shortest possible wavelength of the radiation or electron beams concerned. However, the authors used relatively low-energy electrons, which have twice the wavelength of those used in the highest-resolution lens-based microscopes9,10. Using low-energy electrons for microscopy is good because it greatly reduces the damage inflicted on the specimen by the electrons. But in this case, it also meant that the resolution of the lens used by Jiang and colleagues was reduced by a factor of two. To beat the resolution record, the authors had to process a particular subset of the ptychographic diffraction data (the high-angle data), thereby obtaining an image with a resolution 2.5 times better than would otherwise have been possible.

Nice. It looks like this is a fresh gateway breakthrough with low hanging fruit on the other side. It's always exciting when it's not just eeking out a small increment gains blown up by University Press.
aww thanks a lot for your kudos!! :D You can try try replace similar code with these code...

vec3 ball1 = ballify(vec3(x, y, z), 1.0);

nextPos = ballify(ball1 + nextPos, 17.0);

nextPos.x += cos(nextPos.z - time * 30.0);
nextPos.y += sin(nextPos.z - time * 30.0);

nextPos += getDiff(nextPos, mouse * 17.0) * 50.0;

gl_FragColor = vec4(nextPos, 1.0);
Starting free then charging once you have all the users isn’t a Google Maps-specific problem.
Unfortunately I think you're right. But:

John Roper is general manager of the Phoenix Theatre in Fort Nelson, which is home to about 4,000 people.

The 4,000 residents may not have other options, and small towns don't tend to like 'the big guys' stepping on the locals. It's really only a fringe of the fringe that may care enough to change their opinions (not even necessarily their behaviours), but that's still better than just rolling / bending over with no resistance at all.

In other words: Blah blah unrealistic idealistic blah blah. But it makes me feel better.
He's not wrong, but he's not taking into consideration the fact that it's a feedback loop. It's the same perspective as chiding the homeless for not pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. They are in too much mental poverty to do it.
I understand your point. I think this is partly related to the fact that instance attributes are public by default and do not require accessor or mutator methods (though you can easily create them with the @property decorator) and partly due to the fact that Python is a very dynamic language.

You can make instance variables "culturally private" by pretending the variable name with a single underscore, and you can name-mangle (to make it effectively private, unless someone really goes out of their way) with double underscores, but I know that's annoying to do for most/all variables and that making them private by default has advantages.

Python is just not as strict a language as Java, Swift, C#, etc. That has advantages and disadvantages.

Personally, this hasn't generally been an issue for me, because I've rarely directly modified instance variables in my own code unless I'm intentionally doing something really "meta", and it's not a pattern I've seen much of in other codebases.
Yea this guy is super legit: https://www.kickresume.com/cv/steve/

email: hello@kickresume.com

phone number: 999-9999-999
Here's a couple analyses:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/12/17565218/arenanet-guild-w...

https://www.polygon.com/2018/7/10/17550276/guild-wars-2-aren...

https://www.pcgamer.com/fired-arenanet-dev-calls-dismissal-a...

In short, a woman working at ArenaNet, the company running GuildWars2 (an MMORPG), posted a twitter thread about her thoughts on designing narratives in an MMO. A prominent (male) streamer of the game responded with his opinion, which (as he stated) was a disagreement of her point of view. To this, the ArenaNet employee expressed her opinion that the streamer was explaining to her how to do her job, and implied he was doing this because she is a woman.

Quite predictably the exchange exploded into a shitstorm of epic proportions, which supernovaed when ArenaNet responded to the incident by firing the employee.

I think the response by the community at large to the woman's firing is despicable, and the firing was probably not justified. But, I have been thinking a lot about the words of the exchange, and how much of a clusterfuck the situation is. The exchange itself is, in my opinion, not black and white. To be fair, I say this as a guy, so it's entirely possible that I Just Don't/Can't Get It. I accept that and am happy to be pushed back on.

The words:

>ArenaNetEmployee: {{29 tweet thread discussing character writing in MMOS}}

>Streamer: "Really interesting thread to read! However, allow me to disagree slightly. I don't believe the issue lies in the MMORPG genre itself..."

>ArenaNetEmployee: "Today in being a female game dev: "Allow me--a person who does not work with you--explain to you how you do your job."" {{quotes streamer}}

I feel like this whole shitstorm could have been avoided if the streamer had hedged just a bit better, or instead had asked her opinion. Basically, in the discussion, setting her up as the expert (which she is), while still expressing an opposed position. This is basically what hedging does anyway.
Just because they have a nice PR-friendly story to tell doesn't make the pricing any less predatory. The point of predatory pricing is to attract people to the service, to shut down competition.
> I ask because I downloaded Maps.me the other day, after reading HN, and have found it to be missing most businesses that I've attempted to search for. In addition, there seems to be no obvious way to suggest missing destinations.

You might try looking at OsmAnd. It too uses OpenStreetMap data, but it does allow you to add some amount of missing data as well (see https://osmand.net/features?id=osm-editing-plugin).

This, of course, is part of the advantage of OpenStreetMap, you notice something missing, you add it, and now it is no longer missing.
This. While Best Buy can be convenient in a pinch the company, in terms of after-purchase-support is a joke. Case in point I ordered a washer/dryer set from them a couple months ago. Overall it saved about $50 but I felt like I was helping a local company as Best Buy HQ is here. Never again. Not only did they not show up with my delivery 3 times they had the nerve to show up over 90 minutes late the delivery day and had excuse after excuse after excuse. The moved me between two different escalation support people (out of TX) because of the first misstep and never provided me an easy path to contact anyone directly in the process. On top of all that ordering on .com means anyone local is 100% useless. I emailed the Best Buy CEO spam inbox and ended up negotiating $250 back after they ended up wasting well over 16 hours of my personal time waiting on no-shows and on the phone. I won't spend another dime with them after the Geek Squad manager who came out on delivery day as a "premium convenience to make sure everything went smoothly" drove back and forth in front of my house for an hour because he clearly knew the delivery was, yet again, late and he didn't acknowledge or apologize for the failure to deliver as promised. When I called him out on it he flat out lied to me. Best Buy seems to be a lot of internally segmented groups, none of which are empowered to solve a customer problem.
For point 1, it’s not incels saying sex should be redistributed. The incel mentality is that they are /owed/ sex in exchange for being “nice” to someone (typically a woman, but I’m sure that their a gay incels).

The people suggesting redistribution of sex are politicians in response to the incel who went on a rampage killing people because he couldn’t get laid.

For 3 sex work is work, like any job it can have fun bits, but at the same time I know former sex workers (weirdly enough it’s a field that becomes less employable as you get older) who said it was a lot of work. You aren’t necessarily doing things you enjoy, but you have to appear like you do. Also apparently golden showers are/were popular which meant they were drinking continuously and holding it. Chafing is a thug, etc.
I can't agree with this statement more, espousing the tired pull yourself up by your bootstrap motto for clinically depressed people is dangerous.
Huh, why does the doctor care who pays the bill?
Yikes. That Amazon is so bad at this is kind of shocking.
Did you to read the article which mentions all the competitors that are available?
It definitely depends on the city/town. In the small town I grew up in, you were welcome as long as you were baptist (or at least some Christian denomination) and held fairly stereotypical conservative beliefs. Publicly deviate from that and all bets are off.

I could imagine larger population centers in the area not suffering the issue as badly, but I’ve never lived in midwestern city so I have no experience to corroborate that with.
The type (class really) of an object tells you nothing about how it will behave. What you need to do is check the methods attached to the object, not class, at runtime:

1) Exist.

2) Behave how you want them to behave.

I've written plenty of code that got that done by using an assert just after the docstring.

People will monkey patch, if not in your code base, than in a library you're importing.
Chicken+Shrimp+Stir+Fry
Hate ETFs? Quants Say They Found Anomaly to Profit on Their Flows
You’re right. I’d not realized that it was regarding preventing disease, not simply a generic precautionary measure.

And while pregnancy may well be viewed as a disease or a cancer, after a fashion, at least condoms protect from a wider range of affliction.
This is pretty insane, I think it's about time that tech companies start to honour longer-term contracts and give more notice, even on their hobbyist service offerings.

I mean, imagine a local grocery store who's rent would go up by 28x, 1 month notice. Or his procurement costs? That means literal bankruptcy or closing down his shop, virtually overnight. That's just not okay, not after years and years of service. You need to honour contracts for at least a year at a time and give notice. You can give two months notice on a 5% price hike, not a 3000% one.

Few other businesses operate in this manner, and those that do we tend to call shady, exploitative, inconsiderate etc.
ClariNet: Parallel Wave Generation in End-To-End Text-To-Speech
That's actually interesting.. species that we are not laughing at might take over the world and even surpass our own achievements and years of existence in the far future.
A bit nicer than having the British attack an allied fleet because they might capitulate to the Germans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Mers-el-K%C3%A9bir

In Britain's defence, the Germans did later try to capture the remnants of the French fleet, and the French scuttled their fleet to avoid capture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuttling_of_the_French_fleet_...

Another interesting story involving the scuttling of a ship is the Battle of the River Plate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_River_Plate). The German ship, the Admiral Graf Spee, was forced into a neutral port due to damage. Rather than be forced out to face an overwhelming force they were certain to lose against, Captain Langsdorff instead scuttled the ship and committed suicide.
Unreal Engine: Networking and Multiplayer
subcultures or supercultures as everything is subsumed into some kind of subphysical hellscape of abject banality where group think and mob mentality rule the day centering on the most immaterial of arguments and supercharged by misapplied statistics for engineering consumptive behavior.

cool.
Part of the reason why I quantified it. There are legitimate cases of depression caused by non-self-inflicted chemical imbalances.

I’m not advocating for people who are currently taking anti-depressants to drop their pills tomorrow.

The studies (I’m on the train so I’m not trying to cite these sources, google it) show that lifestyle changes with antidepressants is much more effective than antidepressants alone.

Even if you have a non-self-inflicted chemical imbalance, your shrink is likely to prescribe all of the things I listed.

Source: my shrink, and every shrink worth their salt.
I agree with you, but I’ve cleared up this confusion with a number of colleagues. People coming from languages that have a truly immutable “const” find the keyword confusing in js.
>Here's one from my own code, where I allow a query to be specified through --query , or as a hex-encoded query through --hex-query or as an input file through --queries, but I only allow one of them

This would be better written as a mutually exclusive argument group. Assuming you're using argparse: https://stackoverflow.com/a/13310109