skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition, a lot of the techniques used to write high-performance Java boil down to "write it like C". Avoid interfaces, avoid polymorphic virtual calls (as you can't avoid virtuals entirely), avoid complex object graphs, avoid allocating as much as possible...it's not nearly as nice as naive Java. Still nicer than C IMO. If your process segfaults you can know for certain that it's a platform bug.
I remember reading a dreamed up device that would hopefully show up some day written about in 1960.

Weight ~1 ton, cost ~1 million dollars inflation adjusted, non toxic, delivery date ~1990. What did they want? A 1 GB random access HDD.

A 32 gigabyte micro SD card for 10$ would have blown their mind let alone a smartphone.
With the launch of
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/aws-glue-...

Wouldn't using ETL Glue job to directly dump data in parquet format be better?
> To discuss this properly, you need to consider the evaluation strategy, which is part of the semantics of the language.

Yes, you are certainly right. I misread and thought incorrectly that the discussion was about whether certain constructs forced data dependencies in any theoretical language, not in the particular language Haskell.

> These details of evaluation order are important to know, and they are not something to be argued about: they are well-specified ….

While I take your meaning, I think that you don't mean literally what you said: they got to be well specified precisely by being argued about, and will hopefully get to be even better specified by continuing argument. They are certainly not for me to argue about, though.
Logitech’s Mic’ing Up with Blue
All 3 could be possible.
Google SEO, Amazon Reviews, AppStore Reviews, Facebook News. Fakes are everywhere. Fake it till you make it [0]. If you really think about it, everything around us has a grain of fake. Ads, startup pitch desks, TV, people relationships, politics. Everything! I almost feel like we're fighting the wrong problem.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_it_till_you_make_it
All of my formatting issues disappeared when I adopted prettier for my Javascript projects.

I don't have to worry about bikeshedding/yak shaving anymore and now can focus on more important problems.
First Tesla Solar Roof performance discussed with the owner
> The important question is not what Plato did and was trying to do, it is what is the truth and how can it be clearly communicated to people so they can make use of it.

You’re assuming such an entity as truth exists which is a fairly platonic position...
Yes, but my [total] guess is that you get to automate way way more truck miles than car miles.
I went to a talk earlier this year where they said they would do OSX before Linux. So it may be some time. There are design complexities in getting it to work, Windows has quite a different structure for filesystem drivers.
I ran out of shelf space a long time ago. I have stacks of books in a room plus boxes in storage.
That is not a book on architecture. I like the book too, but it just doesn't have anything to do with architecture.
I don't know anything about Laravel but I've been working with Rails since 2006 and with Django since 2016. Django has little to do with Rails. It's much more similar to Java Struts from 2005 (when I left it for Rails), form objects and template tags among the other nuisances. No XML thanks god, but a weak deployment story (no Capistrano or Mina, I built my own tool). I'd pick Django over Struts without thinking (I don't do Java anymore, even with morr modern frameworks), but I pick Rails over Django any time customers give me the choice. Django (and Struts) are optimized for large projects at the cost of developer time but very few projects grow even to medium sized. Django has a decent admin tool. That's the only advantage I can think it has over Rails for the typical project I do.
I also worked with Phoenix (Elixir) in the last 12 months. It's kind of midway between Rails and Django in terms of framework and language complexity.
I'm a self-taught web dev, and I want to further my CS education but can't go back to school for various reasons.

I've seen various syllabi eg teachyourselfcs.com and though they seem legit (and I've dabbled is some courses) I don't quite see the application/direct benefit professionally.

Let me phrase in another way; when I got started it was easy to see why I needed to learn front-end and back-end to make a web app (for a CRUD job). Now I want to go further, but where?

I think it would be helpful to see what jobs I could get by furthering my CS fundamentals, and not just "Senior Software Engineer".

So, as someone with your unique perspective, what do you recommend? Should I really slog through ye olde CS curriculum in hopes that one day I'll be able to apply some of it? Can you recommend another approach?

Again, put another way, some of these "top performing bootcamps" sharpen your React skills and whiteboarding skills, which have a career/market value. But they don't appeal to me because they don't seem academically/CS focused.

I hope this duality/constraint came across.

Any guidance appreciated.
College is only one way (albeit a good one) to get a firm grasp of CS. I'd argue putting in 1000s of hours of work is another.
Juice was close to that:

http://www.modulaware.com/mdlt69.htm

It's one of those alternate histories for Web development I wish took off.
Yes, I am imagining something like this, with self driving electric tractor trailers being orchestrated at huge stations with solar collecting roofs along the transportation corridor. Inspection and maintenance could be performed by human workers if needed. If the trailer is destined within half the distance of the next station, the load is dropped, and a human driver does last mile(s) delivery.
> They need to give customers a way to sort by review counts in a time-weighted fashion. In other words, a product with 1,000 reviews and a 4.5 average that had been sold for five years would rank higher than a product with 1,500 reviews and a 4.8 average that had been sold for three months. This would help identify the quality products from stable manufacturers.

Major improvements have been needed in Amazon's search ranking for years. The fact that it's little better than it was in 2002 tells me they don't really care to fix any of the issues with their shopping experience.

Dear anyone at Amazon: please read this and implement the suggestions: http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating....
That's a good practical tip
Followed by the loss of what.cd. It was truly one of the most impressive catalogs of information on the internet.
132ms to load the whole page for me. Over half that time (76ms) spent establishing the connection and negotiating TLS. TTFB only 18 milliseconds once the connection was established. No adds, no pop ups, fully accessible, cache friendly, and virtually free to host and maintain.

For a public news organization that doesn't need to desperately push their brand onto people or track a user's every breath, this is a great thing to provide, even if most people would consider it "ugly".
Site appears to be a tutorial site (I can't tell for sure because it is down) that I couldn't find a link to from the project website.

The project website is here: https://roughjs.com/

I could be wrong but his smells of a tutorial website trying to gain traffic using a cool JS library.
Application-Level Optimization of Big Data Transfers [pdf]
Similarly: http://lite.cnn.io/en
> But - not all the time, as there are now viable alternatives that do 2-day delivery well enough. For example, I started ordering some stuff on Walmart.com. A lot of things that are “prime pantry only” on Amazon are available for the same price on Walmart.com, without any restrictions.

There's also local retail. If you don't mind a trip to a store, you can size up the product in person and go home with it the same day. I'm my experience, the prices are often competitive with Amazon, too.
Out of the frying pan and into the fire
Computer science graduates also need a lot of training. If not more, a boot camp graduate has already been exposed enough to modern tech stacks to at least come in as a junior. Too many CS grads have little practical experience to hit the ground running on even the simplest real world projects. Yes I have a CS degree.
Totally hear you there. Thanks for the feedback!

We've seen freelancers and agencies record feedback themselves while on the phone with their clients but appreciate your honesty - super helpful for us.
Well I wasn't arguing with that claim, but rather pjmpl's references to what Tim and John said, that I believe should be taken with a grain of salt.

With regards to GC, do check out Unity3D new ECS/Job system/burst compiler. Essentially sidestepping the garbage collector, C# safety checks, while trying to work with the how the new generation of CPUs are designed to perform.
That's awesome. I've been toying with the idea of building a half pipe on my desert property.

The only problem is it'd very likely attract a bunch of vandalism to my cabin :(.
> He's a freshman at Kennesaw State right now, but he really struggles with the idea of taking two years of classes that he has very little interest in.

If it is just the idea of having to take a load of liberal arts classes that perturbs your son and not the low level courses like chip design, logic, algorithms and data structures, calc and stats, one alternative to consider is to study internationally. English universities, for example, offer a bachelors in computer science in three years. Unlike a "8- to 16-week full-day immersive courses that focus solely on technology" they have a curriculum almost exactly the same a US computer science course minus the 3 English classes, 3 history and political sciences classes, 2 economic courses and an art course that a college like Kennesaw has a graduation requirement: Kennesaw State Curriculum (http://ccse.kennesaw.edu/cs/docs/BSCS_2016-2017.docx). To compare look at the University of Bristol's Curriculum:[https://www.bris.ac.uk/unit-programme-catalogue/RouteStructu...]

I know this is not an option for everybody - many people need to stay close to home for personal or financial reasons, but is definitely something to look into. With regards to finances, English university for international students even with 1 year less of study still cost a lot. However, I am pretty sure that the course structure is similar at most European universities some of witch offer really low fees to international students.
Why were they not overpriced before and now only misspriced, when we have more information?
Xiph.Org has a command line program called cdparanoia, which is built with the same philosophy as Exact Audio Copy (EAC). The FAQ page explains a lot about why the program is necessary.

https://www.xiph.org/paranoia/

https://www.xiph.org/paranoia/faq.html
It would surprise me if another company didn't pick up the torch here. It sounds like Otto had a working demo of the technology. There's $800B+ on the table, someone is going to crack this market.
We've started seeing some Marketing/Growth teams use the product to communicate copy changes etc. so we're interested in how else we can provide value there.

Love the idea of upvoting edits. Will definitely test that out more :)
> hardware I know works with local ISP's

Your ISP is irrelevant, unless you're shopping for an integrated modem+router. Rule number 1 is don't do that, and keep your modem separate and just a modem. Then your router only needs the universal standard Ethernet port as its WAN interface, and at worst you might have to configure PPPoE instead of just using DHCP to get your public IP.
Trúng tuyển Cao đẳng Dược Hà Nội chỉ với học lực trung bình khá?
Yet another fucked up issue that is made worse by the lack of proper healthcare in the US. In Washington State, it's almost impossible to open worker's compensation claims at all and when one finally does manage, the state steps in with their quack doctors to claim it isn't the employer's fault and the state shouldn't pay for it. Even if the employer wants to help . Attorneys don't want to take the case because there is no profit to be made from someone getting better. And companies like Amazon and others get away with injuring workers and paying nothing for it. Pretty fucked up way to run a society. One of these days, someone like this is going to snap and then the idiots will be all up in arms about gun control or some other bullshit completely missing the point. The cycle will continue with people being abused and taken advantage of in the name of profits. I've been dealing with this shit now for almost three years and no end in sight. I'm lucky I make good money and can afford care for myself but still hurting everyday, working in pain every day. No one gives a fuck about your health here even when you are making the company a shitload of money, let alone when you're too injured to work because the job injured you. Company profits, state profits (from not paying for obvious worker's compensation injuries) are all more important than employee lives or health and employees have zero recourse especially in a state like WA. We pay for workers compensation insurance only to be denied and left to suffer. What a fucked up system.
No idea why you're getting downvoted. The Jordan Peterson situation is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. When a public intellectual accuses a group of identity politics, and the response is to dishonestly misrepresent his attitudes I can't help but think they are only proving his point.
That’s kind of like how you can reduce noise in low light images by taking a series of photos and averaging them together.
> It obviously has to be more expensive than buying the stuff yourself, otherwise they wouldn't make money. What you are buying is essentially flexibility.

> - are a cash-strapped startup and are fine with paying extra as long as you don't have to provide money upfront

This is where the legitimate value of VPS and cloud computing for early startups.

The price premium (i.e. a multiple, rather than merely a percentage) is comparable. That implies a high degree of waste/risk with unused/unreturned inventory is baked into the price.

What I have yet to read, when reading about this benefit, is what happen when the startup is no longer cash-strapped. In practice, I've seen many remain "fine with paying extra", with the benefit being not having to transition to the cheaper option. It's a subtle form of lock-in.

This service, however, appears to be aimed at consumers and only considering B2B in the future, so perhaps it's all academic.
cdparanoia, I find, works better than EAC. The latter seems to be 'the standard' though.
This is not a credible news source.
> It should be the other way around

> I really think I'm just a stupid idiot

> I cannot motivate myself

> If there would be at least a reason... but there isn't

I very recently had to pass through a similar ordeal. Mine lasted for a very long time and eventually evolved into full-on self-sabotage. I would go through cycles where I would work very hard to establish an easy status-quo, just to suddenly become completely uninterested and let everything fall apart. It was really hard for me to figure out how to get out of the rut-cycle, and the path I took was very specific to who I am and where I came from. I can't give you step-by-step instructions, but I can outline the general idea and approach that got me started down the right path.

I'm about to get really psuedo-scientifical. Buckle up.

You should forget all this business about what you think you should be feeling. Here is how (I believe) human experiences work:

Step 1: you experience real-world stimuli (the touch of a significant other; the sound of waves crashing)
Step 2: you have feelings
Step 3: you have thoughts

You cannot control your feelings by simply thinking "I ought to feel happy" or "Stuff makes me happy and I have stuff; therefore I am happy." If your feelings are truly a barrier to your work, then you need to examine them. Most importantly you need to acknowledge them without shame or judgement. If you're having some emotional response which does not line up with how you think you should feel, you need to let go of how you think you should feel and just accept your feeling. Don't call it "good" or "bad", just let it happen.

Observe your feelings in a neutral manner. That means you shouldn't wish to dispel or possess any emotions which you may or may not have. Just pay attention to them when they pop-up. Try to understand what real-world stimuli is triggering your emotions. Very often our emotional triggers stem from childhood. If you pay attention, you'll notice that a lot of people seek to mate with men or women who resemble their parents; recreating childhood memories is a very common pattern of unconscious behavior.

The key thing is to allow your mind to be a safe space. Your thoughts and feelings are completely private. No one is going to judge or hurt you for having them, so it's completely safe to just notice each and every one - especially the unwanted ones. I assure you, acknowledging your unwanted thoughts and feelings will not cause you to act on them. Based on what I've seen, I'd say the opposite is true: If you try to suppress unwanted thoughts or feelings you will unconsciously fulfill them in your real life.
It's pretty clear that the US government needs to make this a reality. Continuous high resolution live video (visible + Thermal). Entire classes of geopolitical problems will become non-issues. Later, the service can be offered to the general public, like GPS.

If US gov doesn't do it, China will.
How does HTTP2 make minimization less necessary?
Russian Electronic Jamming Poses a Growing Threat to U.S. Troops in Syria
> Having known a few truck drivers and having a good friend who was permanently disabled by a tractor trailer I know this industry needs to be made safer.

Having known a few truck drivers myself—including my father—and having a very good friend who was permanently paralyzed by another friend driving a standard car, these things don’t influence each other. The trucking industry is far safer than your average driver[0].

> The ratio of big rigs to commuter cars is presently out of control!

The numbers disagree with you. That ratio is currently about 1:135[1].

[0]: http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/large-trucks/fatalityfacts...

[1]: a couple quick searches place big rigs at about 2M in 2017 compared to nearly 270M registered passenger vehicles in 2016.
Take a look at VyOS (a vyatta fork). Pretty slick.

Ubiquiti did their own fork of vyatta for their edgeos offering, I believe.
In the short term, sure. In the longer term, when increased taxes and decreased services impact the average person, these promises will be renegotiated.
Yep! Based on personal experience I couldn’t agree more.

I don’t think British society is ready to address these issues either, there’s still a lot of unacknowledged classism and racism.

Overall, I’d sum up the British attitude as “it’s not that great here, but it’s the best country in the world”.

That is, there’s a lot of cynicism, but people assume the balance in the UK is as good as it gets.

It really isn’t.
It's very likely! There's a couple approaches one can take to detect this:

* The rip log generated by EAC includes a CRC of the audio data. I can calculate this independently to ensure the data is the same as what EAC wrote.

* The rip log itself has a checksum that can validate the CRCs are intact.

* I archive my rips in Google Cloud Storage along with a sha256. If my NAS's copy goes bad I can fetch the backup, and validate that it's the original data.
#lang rackjure – Clojure-inspired ideas in Racket
Yeah, I know. The whole point of my post was in response to abhiminator that I don't think the NRO has the capability to get a live stream of the entire Earth continuously. Are you agreeing with me, or are you saying you think there is an undiscovered & undetectable NRO LEO/MEO constellation continuously observing all parts of the planet?
Moravec's paradox.
Not the OP, but this reminds me of a similar experience I had with a book called Space Opera a few months ago. Don't remember where I first heard of it, but it was being touted as comparable to the Hitchhiker's Guide. All the reviews on Amazon were 5 stars, and since the kindle version was only $5, I bought it without checking further. It turned out to be a pretty disappointing read, and nowhere near the caliber of anything in the Hitchhiker's series. I remember while reading it wondering how could all the reviews have been so good. I just checked fakespot, and it had an F rating with 92% low quality reviews as of April 25 [0]. I then had fakespot update the analysis, and it's now a D, with 41% low quality reviews [1]. So it seems like the fake reviews were bought to get things jump started, and now real reviews are catching up. Now that I think about it, it's probably a fairly common way for authors and/or their publishers/publicists to get the early sales and hype going.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/PWFTTbV

[1] https://www.fakespot.com/product/space-opera-7ea7cc4e-4bae-4...
Modern JS is OK and TS is pretty nice
Considering that every android phone (literally billions of units) sends a location update every 5-10 minutes directly to Google, and nobody cares about the cost, why would airplanes transmitting continuous location updates be too costly?
$3M seems way excessive for a company that owns 15 properties. However it seems this is a big company:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriton
Aggregated Audit Logging with Google Cloud and Python
Ah. Have you tried butter, which would be a lubricant? And it would probably be relatively safe after brushing because of the lack of sugars.
I believe it. It's just very misleading.

Amazon obviously has a huge catalog. There's lots of niche products, where quite honestly, there just isn't enough money for fake reviews.

Not to mention some products like books, where most seem to be real.

The question Amazon isn't answering -- and what I think you're getting at -- is something like for top products in certain products like electronics -- what % are fake?

The answer to that I would wager is >50%.
There was a great Reply All podcast on this topic. Between it and this NPR article, and recent personal experience, I'm seriously questioning whether I want to continue my Prime account.
> Meriton is Australia's largest apartment developer and also the country's biggest residential home builder founded by Harry Triguboff AO, its managing director, in 1963. Meriton sells apartments and also operates serviced apartments accommodation under its Meriton Suites brand in Sydney, Brisbane and the Gold Coast.

> In 2007, it was estimated the company was building about 1,200 apartments each year. By 2010 this figure had increased to 2,000 units. It is estimated that over the past 50 years, Meriton has built more than 65,000 residential apartments on the east coast of Australia. It also offers serviced accommodation in 17 locations.

> 2014 was a record year for the apartment developer, with the company’s annual turnover rising more than 50 per cent to $2 billion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriton
from Wikipedia:

2014 was a record year for the apartment developer, with the company’s annual turnover rising more than 50 per cent to $2 billion, bringing it to 11th place in IBISWorld's 2014 Top 500 Companies, up from 29th spot the previous year. The HIA-Colorbond steel Housing 100 named Meriton as Australia’s largest residential home builder, up more than 5000 housing starts, from 2573 in FY2013-14 to 7929. Based on this figure, new homes by Meriton accounted for around 10 per cent of all multi-unit dwellings commenced in Australia, and 29.5 per cent of all multi-unit dwellings commenced in New South Wales. Meriton projects equated to approximately 0.05 per cent of Australia’s GDP.

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...yeah I think they'll be fine.
Tangentially related: I think this is the first time I see an emoji URL “in the wild“, not as a proof of concept.
I don't know how to feel about it.