skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you can only reach one supplier, then why would they bother to pay to advertise to you? They're the only option.

EDIT to clarify: I'm not trying to argue here, I sincerely don't understand how this is supposed to work.
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They idea is not worth much in the sense that if you thought of it, there is a 98% chance someone else has thought of it before you, and 95% chance a few others are already doing it. The remaining few percents on both cases determine that the idea is not worth much. Great ideas with done badly can succeed, but those successes are usually short term and fade away, in particular when someone else copies the idea and does it better. Ideas are a dime a dozen. Really. Not that hard to come up with them. Coming through with one to a launch and running a business with it - that's the hard part.
http://articles.latimes.com/1996-10-07/local/me-51336_1_sout...
I think your analysis is correct but you've missed the point of this article and the research cited.

The research says these hot streaks exist, you've given some examples of explanations for their existence, the two aren't contradictory. I don't think that article is making out that they're not caused by your proposed explanations.
Well, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_County_Pumped_Storage_Sta... lists a capacity of 44 GWh.
"Do not do this in production" is always implied. Blog post code is always chopped down for readability. There is no proper error handling, architecture, performance considerations, etc. Blog post code is for presenting concepts. It is up to you to write production quality code.
I do not agree. Some things are clearly addictive and it is much easier to stay away from them. Maybe it is a character flaw that I do not think I will avoid to become addicted if I start smoking, but the fact is that smoking is so addictive that most people become addicted in very short time. There are other things less addictive but more damaging when you become addicted. Drugs like Meth or crocodile do exist, and they cause horrible things.
I do not think that Facebook addiction is as bad as these, but when I see parents with babies on their street which pay much more attention to their phone than to their baby, I cannot see how this is going to cause something good.
It's only an abusable temporary localized monopoly if the fuel supplier is spying on me so they are aware of that fact.

The solution shouldn't be to always carry extra fuel around. That has various negative consequences: decreasing range, increasing the amount of weight I am moving around. The solution should be not letting them spy on me.
>If you want to have some fun, you can smoke pot while standing on the border and holding it in your left, Dutch hand. If you're really daring you swap it over to your right, Belgian hand, and congrats, you're an international drug smuggler.

-The problem with trying to outwit the police is that they can be creative, too. If I were a sufficiently annoyed Belgian police officer, I’d just grab you on suspicion of being under the influence of a controlled substance, take a blood sample to prove it and throw the book at you. (Assuming that not just smoking, but also being intoxicated on herbs is illegal in Belgium...)
In what way did they become a jerk after you asked for an increase?
From a few lines below in that article:

“President Carter would be glad to reduce the frequency of routine maintenance at the discretion of the Park Service,” Ms. Congileo said.”

The back story is that he donated the house to the National Park Service. And, as even the Republican who oversaw that said, the cost is essentially a rounding error.
It isn't, because according to the spec sheet its all Core frequency are about the same as AMD.
The premise of this article is that Carter is an “un-celebrity” who choose to avoid profiting from his presidential past, not that he’s living on the streets as a pauper.
That runtime system is huge. I remember it was an obstacle to high-assurance in Haskell. Is there a detailed write-up on what those 80,000loc do? Maybe someone could redo it in one of the verifying, imperative languages like SPARK or ATS to increase its assurance without full verification.
Do you know of any open opportunities for Mechanical Engineers on the East Coast at these robotics company?
Films are not startups. A film is a sum of it's parts in a very even way. A good film must have a good story AND good acting and good cinematography, and good music. When the balance is broken the film suffers in some regards. When that balance is too broken it flops. Also, a film has a life shelf of a month give or take (in Cinema). Businesses hope to last (just a bit) longer.
/r/programming is the most toxic programming-related group/forum/board I've ever seen.

Incidentally, I think part of the communication problem is that commenter #2 read commenter #1's comment, plus a bunch of other people's comments that color the interpretation of commenter #1's statement. It only gets worse as your comment ages and whole discussions evolve around it.
I came into possession of a couple of TI-74 basicalcs a little while ago with a printer attachement and a couple of ROM cards with some kind of tax software on them.

They're pretty cool little devices. Kind of frustrating to program on though. I wouldn't have wanted to have to do that for a living. But still pretty cool to have something with that kind of power you can carry in a large pocket in 1985.

TI-74 specs:

TMS70C46 CPU[1] (C70009,
another chip from TMS 7000 family also reported)[2]

31 5×7 character LCD

32+4 KB ROM

8 KB RAM

RAM/ROM memory expansion port

Hexbus port

80 characters per line (31 visible)

powered by 4 AAA-size batteries
Not disagreeing that this predated Facebook. But the problem is that Facebook took this known vulnerability in human psychology and exploited it to the absolute max.

The product has been meticulously engineered to push all your social acceptance buttons. It would have been possible to design a product that helped people gain awareness of and transcend the deep underlying insecurities that give rise to addictions of all kinds, including social media. They deliberately chose not to build that product because it would be less lucrative, at least in the short term.

Giving Facebook a pass on this is like giving a heroin dealer a pass because opioid addiction predated their business. It’s true but it doesn’t absolve any of the moral responsibility for profiting off a product that causes harm.
If they're using assisted GPS, I would actually expect this to deteriorate the ability to actually locate yourself. Unfortunately.
The prereqs, [1] Design and Analysis of Algorithms & [2] Performance Engineering of Software Systems, are available from mit ocw:

[1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

[2] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
>>Why can't the doctor's office, which already knows all of that, just print out 15 forms with all of that pre-populated?

Which brings us the principle:

Never ask a question whose answer you already know

If you know the answer already, why does the question exist on a form?
I found a random post searching for developers in local Facebook developers group. I responded, went for interview and got the job. It was quite a godsend for a 16 year old, as most companies would consider this risky.
The efficiency is comparable, pumped hydro gets ~80% at large scale practice, while this is promised to be 85% and might turn out to be the same after all the implementation issues and wear&tear comes in.

Which it should be - IMHO, despite the material, both systems get very similar techniques, at the core in both cases you have the loss of a motor+generator pair plus the friction of your mechanical system.
If we are right now discussing whether something is actually causing more harm than good, this statement seems to avoid the core of the issue. Does it usually help people to be and stay happy? If it does not make them happy - why do they use it?
Nothing like beautiful, serene wilderness with a loud BZZZZZZZ from a couple of drones.

I really want to love drones for their sci-fi coolness, but drone operators are a constant source of misery.
> If one couldn’t avail himself of the defined features of git, then there’d be no reason to build on top of it in the first place.

Sure build on top of it, but don't expect your users to implicitly know the defined, yet obscure, features of git you build on.

> It’s hardly magic.

I didn't claim this is a magic feature in git. I meant the way of `go get`-ing a private library by letting `go get` try and clone from https URLs while silently changing them to git:// URLs in a completely separate layer under it is magic.
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Again, how much do you think he should he get? He also had power—-and responsibilities and stress—-that are unimaginable compare to the vast majority of Americans.

And for what it’s worth, the median household income is around $60k. Three times that doesn’t seem crazy high.
The correct response is to laugh at them and move on. And mock them on HN.

It's worth being aggressively negative toward such companies, because negotiating to your market value is step one in leading a good life. The fact that they would have you not do this means they don't care about the quality of your life, so you shouldn't care about their company.
But what does that point have to do with this article, which details how differently Carter lives compared to other former presidents? I think it’s self-evident that Carter, being one of the fewer than 50 men in the history of the U.S. to be elected president, has an existence generally unimaginable the the vast majority of Americans.
Building a good team is hard. Yet companies think they can hire an engineer which had a senior position somewhere and be fine. Senior or 10y experience can mean literally nothing, it doesn't qualify for a central role in a team, nor does it tell anything about quality. Expecting something grand from a bunch of rookies is simply dumb. Writing better blog posts or smart essays won't change anything. A rookie needs to follow the wrong path and fail with it. Good mentoring can speed things up, but you still need to let them fail. Team building is vastly underdeveloped in software engineering, it is not even a serious thing. Yes if you start out with a good guy that carries the newcomers, then you're golden. But that is mostly just luck.
You'll get downvoted for expressing unpopular opinion, just like every other similar site.

HN used to have a general rule in the community that you don't downvote without explaining why. It was a much nicer place back then.
Unless you statically link your dependencies, but that comes with its own can of worms.
Could implement those as a permission or setting, I wouldn't mind the Uber app being in low power mode all the time.
I beg to differ. Exactly as shown your video, environmental protection is currently mainly led as an element of public policy. Hence, when it conflicts with economic and individuals' interests there is not much weight to preserve regulations and budgets.

The approach taken in recent years consist in creating or empowering an entity to represent of those interests. The more legitimate and the more economically robust is this entity, the more difficult it will be to act against its interests.

It is imperfect, but I think that this approach should be explored when existing regulations consistently fail
I know there isn't a single silver bullet - which is why I'm trying to crowdsource many potential bullets. ;)
There is only one paper (no separate letters), which can have multiple authors, if the finding was the result of collaborative work. How the collaboration is done and what authorship implies varies a lot by field though.

In mathematics, the expectation is that all people listed as authors of a paper contributed something significant to it and have co-written (or at least read and endorsed) the overall paper, so it really is a jointly authored work (if that's not true in a given case, there will usually be a footnote explaining). In some areas of the natural sciences, though, there can be large numbers of authors on a paper, because a study is the result of a lot of people's work. But in that case there isn't necessarily an expectation that every single author has verified and endorsed the entire study. For example some authors might be students who contributed a specific experiment, so got their name added as an author on the paper for their contribution to the study. But they may not be knowledgeable enough to have evaluated the rest of the paper, and probably also shouldn't be blamed if someone further down the analysis chain manipulated the data.

A convention in parts of the natural sciences with large author lists is that the junior scientist (postdoc, PhD student, etc.) who did the most practical work is listed as the first author (and called 'first author' or 'lead author'), while the most senior scientist, responsible for overseeing the entire project, is listed last and is the 'corresponding author'. Those two then get the most credit and responsibility, while 'everyone else' is sandwiched in the middle between them.

A 'corresponding author' is, literally speaking, just the author designated as being in charge of correspondence about the paper, with the journal editor and/or with readers who want to follow up (in some journals they're the one whose contact info is printed, although in other journals, all authors' contact info is included). In my field, computer science, 'corresponding author' tends to be mostly a bureaucratic role, the person responsible for handling emails from the journal, and is usually the same person as the first author. In other fields, it can carry more of an implication of the person in charge of the study. In some, the senior scientist's name is first, so they'll end up being both 'first' and 'corresponding' author. Really no consistency across areas, so the terms only mean much when talking to someone from the same field.

For example, this paper has 15 'authors' (same as 'co-authors'), of which the last one listed is the 'corresponding author' (indicated by the little mail icon): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1574-6968....
The obvious answer is expense; the motor-generator part is the expensive part of the system (both in building and in maintenance) so you don't want a larger motor if a smaller will do, and you don't want more motors if fewer one will do.

For such a system, time isn't precious, hardware is.
When I encounter echo chambers here is what I see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformity

It is the opposite of wanting to learn, explore, or be challenged. It is all about harmony and using people as numbers to wrap yourself in a warm comfort blanket of emotional protection and qualification. It is the very idea that an opinion is truth when it can be made popular or false if it can be demonized by a congregation, particularly when every conversation is a contest with emotional validation as the prize.

When emotional harmony becomes more important than the subject matter of discussion I am done.
Useless CSP
So you're saying: as you get more senior, less of your comp comes from equity?
Some Russian people I know started a project that gives random obvious advice, along with a profanity to make you pay attention.

Examples include:

- change your damn passwords!

- reset the damn cache!

- say no to your damn project manager!

- use the damn frameworks!

- stop creating the damn global variables!

- don't use the damn "!important"!

They've assembled a database of probably a few thousands of those wisdoms for different industries and it's truly entertaining. They've added an API too.

Sadly it's not in English.
Yachts and private islands with Branson...
A Prison Officer in Papua New Guinea
Satellite for broadband on-the-go in SpaceX launch campaign (2017)
OK, I know this doesn't contribute to the discussion and I apologize in advance.

But based on this title I thought this would be a short blog post about recruiters using phone-screen questions to probe whether a candidate uses zero-indexed or one-indexed counting.
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Looks like the same design as in a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anechoic_chamber
This is a con game.
I’d love this; but only if merely gathering tracking information was opt-in, by law. (I’d never opt in, and am genuinely curious to know what percentage of the population would.)
“Move fast and break things,” they said. It turns out that’s a pretty bad idea when your business relies on a small number of large customers. Broken products tend to scare them off, which in turn tanks your business. There’s a lot to be said for building things that work, but “move slowly and steadily towards a goal” just doesn’t have the same ring.

In reality, there’s a balance between moving fast and and moving slow. It’s difficult to communicate that balance because every type of product demands a different balance. I suppose that intuition comes from experience, which is a terrible answer for someone trying to learn.

I'm guessing this continuum also depends on the nature of the business one is in. In a fast-moving, consumer-oriented world like social networking, "move fast and break things" is probably very good advice.

In a slower-moving, enterprise-oriented world, "move slowly and steadily without breaking things" is probably the right orientation. Those kinds of companies probably die in fast-moving consumer land.

A while ago I read an article about the programming teams that work on the space station, on satellites, and that sort of thing. Alas, I cannot find the link right now, but the gist was that those teams move very slowly and work very hard towards correctness. Any bug found is generalized and their entire code base scoured for similar bugs. That's a different environment than social networking.
One other nice thing about keys is that you can restrict them to a specific command. If you have users who are running well defined tasks that can be a great way to avoid handing out full accounts.
Chinese already have faith in unempirical Chinese medicine, I don’t think vitamins are much less reliable than that.
good? go package management is awful. it makes tools like searching through a git repo a chore because all of the source code for your module is in the repo too. the OP was pointing out how far behind go is behind something like python.

if you really wanted to, you could so something exactly like go is doing in python and create a virtual environment with all of your packages and version of python and ship it. there are also ways to build binaries from python.

if your machine is locked down by corporate IT, you use a virutal environment
Came here looking for this reply. I can understand acting that way after a long string of unproductive interactions with Apple support (note, I'm not saying I would excuse it), but typing that into a dialog box and then being proud enough of what you've written to tweet it out to the world? It doesn't leave me with a positive impression of this guy.
Seems like you removed the description of your incident? I was curious to hear it - happy to know you made it out.
"undefined" is a type that has exactly one possible value. An uninhabited type has no possible value.
>> Is it a mix between apis and direct website scraping?

That's right. I am trying to normalise the data from all the sources so I can generate some useful filters.
Isn’t that just one big cluster from 2000-2015? Or, was that your point?
Helga?
1) It's a phenomenally successful tech company.

2) It's not uncommon in HN to dislike and/or distrust Facebook.
There's already tons of sites about this stuff, probably hard to add much that hasn't already been written about at this point. I did a bit of collecting myself for a while but gave up when I both no longer needed calculators very much anymore and the prices started getting ridiculously inflated.

http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/calculator_time-line.... - similar timeline but goes back farther

http://rskey.org/ - programmable calculators

http://datamath.org/ - TI calculators

http://www.hpmuseum.org/ - HP calculators

https://web.archive.org/web/20070528063100/http://www.tasweg... - Soviet calculators, original site sadly went down

http://thimet.de/CalcCollection/index.html - huge collection that includes accuracy and performance testing (for programmable models)
What's wrong with !important?
Weather does have an affect on noise along with the differential between air temperature near the ground and higher up. It is common for the local government testing facility to send out notices to expect louder than normal booms from rocket testing during different weather.
It stops redirecting after a year or so, which is the window for considering something a duplicate on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
True in my experience. I’ve had salary go up 10% and equity double when getting promoted. So equity goes from a small portion of total comp to the majority.
I disagree with your characterization. `go get` is the right tool for new developers (hell, I've been using Go for 7 years and I still use `go get` for the initial phase of my projects); they don't need reproducible builds, they need to install third party libraries and compile code. The current official reproducible build tooling in Go is vendoring, and that's quite unnecessarily painful for the things new developers need to do. Fortunately, Go 1.11 will be out soon with support for modules, so new developers can learn how to install code with the added bonus of not needing to learn a new set of tools down the road when they need to care about reproducibility.
I find this a result of pervasive command and control structures which inevitably lead to low trust environment.

Something breaks, so the manager naturally thinks he must add a control that will prevent the person or a from ever being able to do it.

Very soon nobody can do anything without approvals by managers so far removed from actual decision that they don't even know the names of components being subject to change. The change then must travel from the only people that know what the change is but are absolutely barred from ever seeing production environment to people that being so focused on operations don't have time to actually understand what the change is.

Once you are being treated as untrustworthy it will show in the rest of your work. Why code correctly from the start when you are not deemed trustworthy to do it correctly and there is lengthy testing and approval process to make sure you are not going to bomb your company?

The correct step is to recognize, that introducing more controls can very soon lead to low trust between employees which is self-fulfilling prophecy. When you are not allowed to do something because you are not deemed trustworthy to do something, then soon you have no experience and then this serves as a proof that the initial decision was correct.
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The cranes also encounter corrosive water from outside the weather - and the dam of a pumped hydro station doesn't need a full replacement after a couple of decades; a crane does after 15-20 years at the most.
Equity isn't a thing at most companies.