skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the UK as a native Englishman I would be totally ok with people turning up late to a party/BBQ/whatever. No problem (although not for a dinner party where you need to prepare etc)

But if you agree to meet people at a certain time, then being more than 10-15 minutes late without letting the person know is just rude, selfish and inconsiderate. Sure problems come up - these days there is zero excuse to not let the people know you are going to be late and give them an estimated ETA.

By being deliberately/incompetently late in those scenarios where you've agreed on a time, you're telling the person whose time you are wasting that you value your time more than you value theirs - i.e. that you consider yourself and your time as more important than them, and so fuck you - I'll get there when I want and you can wait for me since I am the most important one in this meeting and you and your time is worthless...

Are you late because you are just a bit disorganised? Please get a grip make an effort because you're a grown up and the people you are meeting had to make an effort to get there too.

Are you late because you are just an arsehole? Take a long look at yourself in the mirror.

tl;dr - depends on context.
Standing desks vs. sitting: why sitting isn’t slowly killing you
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet#Feasibility
I've also translated and yeah, it means going from scratch and becoming not only the translator but the writer of the text. You show the client, "is this what you meant?" And THEN you translate THAT.
5 Technologies Helping B2C Field Services Meet Consumer Demands
It seems to me that #1 is a matter of lack of responsibility. In the US if you dig a hole and someone falls in it because there were no signs, I think you'd get sued to hell. The company, if it survices, would find who's responsible for the bad decision of not putting any signs, and punish that person accordingly for their lack of foresight. Next time that or another person, if they learned from the mistake, will be more careful.

Why is there no such focus towards responsibility in Brazil? That's the question imo.
You're right. The $100B cash held by Apple is already priced into its market cap, which is turn included in the personal wealth of all its investors. If someone were to sum up both personal wealth and corporate assets, they would be double counting.

That said, I think wahern's general point is still sound.
> How could places like Detroit or Puerto Rico continue to pay their promised pensions when their economic base has evaporated?

As a manager of a small team, I had this problem. My team was composed of very senior people and I had a big bag of money to share for salary increases. Another manager had a very junior but very brilliant team and his bag was quite small.

We joined efforts, and we joined the bags. Now we had the flexibility to give the correct salary increase to everybody.

The way to solve this problem is to share the burden. That is the base for insurances.

Governments should offer an insurance against local changes. As the economy goes global, it should be a global effort. This is easier said than done. But it is the real solution.
Is there a way to actually do that for most stuff? I actually want to buy some real Apple EarPods and the first 30 results seem to say supplied by some random outlet for about 25% the regular price. Dunno if there's a only show direct from Amazon button somewhere?
> [edit: sorry, my mistake: the market cap reported is not actually outstanding shares times price, pointed out below]

Actually, market cap is outstanding shares times price. It is a value per company, not per class/type of shares traded. Sort of like how the same CEO would be listed under GOOG or GOOGL. You'll see the same market cap listed under GOOG or GOOGL.
>With more substance I guess we could start looking up FCC standards when it comes to broadcasting lies over the air.

I believe the relevant legal authority on the question of FCC implementing content based restrictions on speech can be found in U.S. Const. Amendment 1.
There are two new Microsofts, both trying to make great big piles of money.

One is the tech infrastructure provider. They're keeping the corporate customers but now also going after consumer-facing tech and startups. To do the latter, they've finally had to shed their dogma and go where the devs are. OSS, platform-agnostic, this is the MS of .NET Core, VSCode, and family. There's good people working here, and they'll make Azure make heaps of money.

The other Microsoft does "platforms". They've had a lock on corporate for a long time, though no one enjoyed it. Now they want to expand their brand and their lock-in into the personal lives of upper-class knowledge workers, challenging Apple by being the "serious" to Apple's luxury-hipster positioning, and challenging Google by being coherent and playing a long game.

The first Microsoft knows that the second is no place for their audience, so they're in a hurry to separate themselves and their wares from the platform-provider. It's not just .NET Core and VSCode, there's a ton of smaller projects all moving in the same direction. Sql Operations Studio, Sql Server for Linux, Blazor, x-plat Azure tooling, x-plat Powershell, opensourcing MSBuild, it's comprehensive.

I wish they'd just split and become two separate companies.
The fact that the Greek state is incompetent or corrupt was not unknown before the crisis. The banks granted loans to Greece knowing that the Greek state was incapable of paying back because they were certain that ECB (or EU) would guarantee their loans.

If you are assigning moral faults, then please do so for the banks too who made their loans knowing the facts & assuming that they would be bailed out by EU if things went bad.

A more rational thing to do would have been to force the banks to grant Greece a debt haircut, waiving off 50% of the loans, while helping Greece restructure its economy in a realistic manner.

Instead, many people especially at the EU saw the Greek economic problems as a moral failure of all the Greek people for which all of them, including pensioners, must be punished while safely bailing out the banks that originally lent. Somehow, it is unacceptable to blame the banks.
Price vs. Adoption: Vitalik Weighs in on the ETF Situation – CryptoPotato
> IBM uses special and completely unintuitive names for basic concepts…. because OF COURSE THEY DO.

As I recall, it's called "Bluespeak", and that sort of thing is pretty common actually. I was educated in networking at a Cisco netacad, so I use Cisco terminology that is apparently not universal.

Programming languages do this too for some reason: Sum type, tagged union, discriminated union, variant...
Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story (1998)
Artificial intelligence is helping to make China’s foreign policy
What I tell people who ask if they should work for a startup
> People today are not as curious as Leonardo was

Nor were they in 1490.
I believe it. But so many things are that way. Headaches suck.
Its not only frustrating. After he got elected the divorces in US spiked 20%. I know few spouses that slept in a living room thats how heated it was. Obviously its totally ridiciolous. We have 3 branches so no lunatic even Trump will turn into Dictator. And he will be gone. In 2 or 6 years whatever.

We have a rule at the dinner table - no politics talk. They dont get anywhere and make us as family only fight with each other about stuff that we have absolutely no control over.
After going ballistic on 'stupid' people on twitter and getting quite negative feedback on such, I'm done giving advice.

People were propagating wrong information in my specialty and I lost it. I even provided them with factual/math proof and it didnt matter.

Now I'm over it, if they want to find the information, they can. Otherwise they get to fail without my help.
What do you mean by "serious admin features" for a router? They run Linux and any third-party firmware will give you ssh access. What's missing? And swapping out WiFi radios is something that you only need to do once every few years, so it's nothing that should weigh on the decision about what to use in the meantime—especially since new APs can be added to the network without requiring you to physically decommission the WiFi capabilities of your primary router.
This rust project, to manage the number of threads in a monero miner afair.
https://github.com/Ragnaroek/mithril
There are also other reasons to dislike unsolicited advice.

* It robs you of possibility to figure it out for yourself and think for yourself. It kills pleasure or achievement of whatever activity you are doing. It prevents learning.

* You look less capable to third parties. That actually matters.

* It is often wrong, as whoever gives that advice does not have full information. As in, I am doing it this way and not that way for a reason and really really don't care about defending my choices to strangers who are no more qualified then me.
Yes Finnish seems to be especially hard to translate, Google and Bing often produce English that is close to gibberish
We Speak Too
Microsoft Apple Google Amazon...
Their journals are not even doing their job properly and have published a plagiarised version of a paper already in Nature:

https://www.reddit.com/r/academia/comments/8w98c8/shameless_...
John Feminella on Bitcoin: A Peer-To-Peer Electronic Cash System
And if you return too many of these garbage products, they close your account. The ultimate dark pattern.
Did we just dodge 9/11 2.0?
Why a tiny paper cut hurts so much
I agree with your overall comment, but could you elaborate on the link between

> [Immigrants] are hitting the job market, and now, their children too.

and

> the overall quality of English texts is noticably decreasing, from ALL of our customers

?
I like the stack trick.

But it's still just a membuf library, without any string support. No encoding, no Unicode, no upper/lower/fc/norm support, which would be important to compare or find strings. And coreutils (e.g grep) still have no unicode support. It's 2018, not the seventies anymore. Unicode strings need to be normalized to be able to be found.
Sued to hell in a country with 1/10 the money of the western world doesn't mean a lot.
Does this work in jurisdictions such as London where there are extra checks that drivers must pass?

I can't imagine that a food delivery service could be competitive using drivers rated for safe person delivery.

Is the driver fleet for Uber eats even the same as the minicab fleet or is it really just another business?
Why don't you write it? I don't mean this in a snarky way - I don't share this particular problem, but other people writing C++ code probably do. It sounds like you're 1) experienced in writing C++, 2) reasonably knowledgeable about the landscape of regular expression libraries in C++, and 3) aware of a clear gap in the functionality of available libraries.

Whatever you develop might not make it into the STL, but I bet a bunch of other people would find it useful. If it's a matter of personak time and this is a professional need, maybe you can write it for your employer.
About Maidsafe: their goal is to build a new descentralised internet, and I think they still are in the alpha phase with testing on a big swarm of VPS's. It is a moonshot project, with all its pros and cons. And yeah, they use Rust ;)
> When she says “let’s not forget that a large part of the technology and necessary data was created by all of us” it sounds like we voluntarily got together to create a dataset for the common good by revealing the most intimate details of our lives through having our behaviour tracked and aggregated. In truth, we did no such thing. We were farmed.

No, we willingly and voluntarily gave our personal information away to companies in exchange for their services. Sucks to be us, but there do exist people who refuse to give away their information online, and it's not exactly impossible to be like them. To turn around after having received the benefits from Google, Facebook, etc. and cry foul about them receiving their part of the deal is childish.

> Specifically, surveillance capitalists like Google and Facebook design proprietary and centralised technologies to addict people and lock them in. In such systems, your data originates in a place you do not own. On “other people’s computers,” as the Free Software Foundation calls it. Or on “the cloud” as we colloquially reference it.

These systems, even if you think they are addictive (which is debatable), are still voluntarily chosen by users. Users choose them because they are BETTER than managing free software on their own machines (if they weren't better, people wouldn't do it after all). People just don't want to manage their own data, as shown by the mass transition of data into "the cloud" and the abandonment of "ownership" of data for a streaming rental model (e.g. in music, TV/movies, productivity software, etc.).
7 Reasons Why React Native Holds Strong Stand in Open Source Community
It's only the same as a really long shutter time if the subject is stationary, and in the case of Earth-based astrophotography it never is, because atmospheric turbulence is always moving the image. If you take multiple separate shots you can combine only the good ones:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_imaging
It's relative all the way down: the resources to mark the hole are cheaper, too.
Great resources. Would love to share it with my http://draftss.com team.
>>I tend to view the use of TCO for basic iteration as a mistake, which makes code harder to read.

I understand some one like you is far more experienced and has been around for a long time. So obviously you know better than I ever will. And you are right. Even with very minimal Lisp exposure, after using Scheme and Common Lisp, Clojure's TCO thing feels unacceptable.

In fact after using Common Lisp, and I'm a novice, even some one like me feels Common Lisp to be a far superior language compared to other Lisps around.

The issue is, like I said, I started learning lisp starting with Scheme, and I started recently. First book was SICP, second was 'The Little Schemer', third was 'The Seasoned Schemer'. At that point your brain is hard programmed to think in terms of recursion, and whenever I see loops my mind moves to recursion automatically. You have to trust me when I say this, when I read PG's ANSI Common Lisp book , I skipped the sections on iterations and loops, because I thought I would never use them anyway.

I have to say those Schemer books do their job really well.

May be I just need more practice, so I will develop more stuff in Clojure, now that its not even possible to do that Clojure, eventually that TCO addiction should go away.

:)
> Is it some strange form of altruism

That makes me sad. Altruism is not strange. The urge to do for others what you would have liked them to do for you is common, normal, and healthy. I review only a small percentage of the things I buy online, but I do review some when I feel that I can provide some information I don't see in other reviews. Precise details about fit for running gear, or durability for just about any product, are often hard to come by, so I'll often come back and add a review to share my findings. Maybe it will encourage someone else to do similar reviews, and maybe some day I'll benefit from reading one of those. Does that seem strange to you?
Some versions of it clearly have the fox curled around a planet, but not all.

My twenty pound marmalade-and-cream Maine Coon chases his own tail on occasion, doing a pretty good impression of the Firefox logo.
How the Pull Request Is Built
It's actually very unusual especially because it happened right in Almaty's downtown. Downtowns in Kazakhstan are usually considered safe.
If the software was known to be unreliable, then it shouldn't have been on the road. Everyone at Uber who worked on that project shares the blame.
Curious_yogurt, do you have any opinion about the order in which Plato should be read? I believe the author of the linked article is suggesting the order that was believed correct in antiquity? But then there is also the question of the authenticity of the first book listed, Alcibiades I.
It can seem odd to begin with a book whose authorship is in question.

Might you have any comments?
This is a funny and entertaining text snippet. I would however not have a problem (except maybe, that it wouldn't be written by a native speaker) to write a similar text about the US, from a German perspective. And think of what a swiss person could write. I could write about interstates that looked like tarred roads. About train stations in chicago that were closed and falling apart and locals explained that it was built with federal money so if they would tear them down they would have to repay that money, about light switches and other building features that remind me of socialism in Germany's east because they are so low-quality and not built to last. People spending overtime hours in the office, yet constantly surfing on facebook, while on the other hand not having time for a shared coffee break, etc, etc.
because it is your responsibility not to walk blindly into a hole.

Why the US is so blame happy, rather than personal responsibility, that is the question.

--------------------

Just different cultures
As a seller, I can verify that one of the reasons I can request a review is removed from my product is because of cost. However, I cannot find a reference in their product review guidelines [1]. Seems like they need to update that guide, unless I missed it.

Sellers play a big part in flagging reviews that violate the guidelines. In fact, I think most of the culling of bad reviews comes from customers and sellers complaining and very little from automation as people here might imagine.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
Definitely does not look like a backtracker to me.

One interesting thing I found is that it appears to support intersection and negation, as documented here: https://github.com/arnoldrobbins/mcilroy-regex/blob/master/R...

Running `make` will build its `grep` utility, and using `grep -A` enables the intersection and negation features.
You want the receipt to return stuff at the market, though generally if it's not a warranty case then you're at the sellers good will if they accept it.

Online shops are a bit better and you can return within 14 days no questions asked.

Most of german consumer protection happens at the backend and between shops, not directly with the consumer.
I was at the New Battery [0] in 2014 and they had tried to recreate the control room in the bunker with panels and equipment and figures made out of corrugated brown cardboard, which seemed terribly low budget and yet somehow quite appropriate to the setting.

[0] https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/the-needles-old-battery-and...
Why do LPs sound better than CDs?
like hackernews?
Data security in the cloud
JVM Language Summit 2018 videos playlist
I find this sort of complexity absolutely fascinating: I imagine it is similar intellectually to learning of a new order or family in biology: you understand the mechanisms and underpinning goals, but the mechanisms and results are wholly foreign to you.

Had a similar experience with the Bloomberg terminal, which is a similar evolutionary offshoot. (Think "what if the GUI had never happened, but the 3270 form-style CLI had gained a mouse and graphical representations?")
Great, because this leads to less references to Elsevier papers, which will cause their importance to decline.
Papers and academics "worth" are measured by the number of references. If the papers are not free to access for academics, their importance declines.

I had the same trouble with the ANSI, ISO and Lisp papers behind expensive paywalls and just chose to ignore those. In the end the free versions won and the greedy elitists lost.
Someone should build a News-Genius-type overlay extension with a parallel review system that's better-maintained and more difficult to game. The only way out of Amazon's shit review scheme is eschewing it entirely.
AFAIK, that's not true; the spec doesn't guarantee that it iterates in insertion order, it's just how it's commonly implemented in browsers.
The Impossible Fortress – The 80's, Love, Vanna White and C64 Game Development
I am born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, and am very punctual. For business meetings most people don't come up late, but for social gatherings they almost always do. It's frustrating because it seems like I will never learn my lesson and always arrive punctually even if I don't intend to
HTTP 418 I'm a Teapot
No. I run LTSB, so there's no store, although I do sideload some free apps that discontinued their earlier, better desktop apps.
You can report a seller and it was pretty easy to find via google, "amazon report seller":
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/help.html?itemID=20...
Yes. And for beginners, https://py3.codeskulptor.org/ is fantastic.
This is better than what Google play music does. It just auto renews. Fuck 2 factor auth. At least Amazon gives you that chance.
I haven't said otherwise. You haven't explained why you're writing a review before dealing with support rather than after.

Also, perhaps a higher percentage of people with bad experiences will write bad reviews than people with good experiences writing good reviews, so the watered down argument isn't perfect. I would have left out the word 'perhaps' but I don't actually have any hard evidence.
I've only bought Sennheiser and Audio Technica headphones for the past couple of years. Good quality and good sound.
Same here, and I live in Rio.
So does nonprocessed cheese. You'll want to store it in something nonpermeable like modern cheese paper, or a small plastic bag.
Ex-SolarCity employees: We were fired after reporting millions in fake sales
> hitting the job market, and now, their children too.

The immigrants are in play.

> the overall quality of English texts is noticably decreasing

and they are changing the landscape beyond just economy.
Well, creating confidence usually creates power. So probably the receiver will gain power, while the advise giver will lose power.

It's probably more complicated due to good advise yielding respect on the receiver side and sometimes both are having observers that might consider the advise giver being in a higher position. Also in hierarchic cultures the advise giver can modify the available future choices of the advise receiver, especially when there are observers.
Probably, nothing or maybe RCS. It looks like the history was "reconstructed" from time stamps on the file system so no VCS is a strong possibility.
Maybe because you can't profit speculating about AI bubble as it's not actually tradeable and barely anyone invests in it.
I bet you could, given good audio equipment (good DAC/amp/speakers or DAC/amp/headphones)
A guide to sideDBs and private data on Hyperledger Fabric Node chaincode
For me there was no procedure. It just ended and I got an email asking me to pay again.
There's a CNN story about this :
https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/30/investing/russia-us-debt-tr...
>378 verified 'customers' that all review the product, with five stars, on the same day?? What are the chances?

Depends on the product. For a highly anticipated release like a video game or an iphone, pretty high.

I would say that this sort of thing should raise an automatic ticket in a moderation queue, but I wouldn't autodelete the reviews.
Also, will the sporadic negative experiences be enough for users to leave the site, if they are distributed among all the infrequent buyers?