skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tithe half my income to people in need and volunteer about 30 hours per week to the local soup kitchen (would do more but my free time is tied up in Darfur mission work) and I, too, hope NYC will keep the people you help out in mind as well.
i can't read it at all.

with wifi there's a bit pink box saying "disable your wifi". turning off wifi does nothing.
It sounds like this happened after I left Crunchyroll in 2015. The process I had in place was definitely not like that :/

Well FWIW, I personally wrote the coding exercise that you enjoyed (http://www.crunchyroll.com/tech-challenge/roaming-math/yourn...). I thought it was a good mix of basic algorithms (tree traversal) as well as some practical knowledge (CURL/http). I'm surprised they are still using the same one :)
Yeah, that was my impression too. Giving the song more credit than it deserves, but I suppose that's Death of the Author.
the degree of control is much smaller

https://i.imgur.com/XECdomK.mp4
Chiming in with the first big name journal I thought of—Nature, which lists Excel as a more appropriate format for supplementary data than a table: https://www.nature.com/nature/for-authors/supp-info

It doesn’t mean Excel is the right tool, but it does speak to a fundamental problem: it’s a non-starter to try to change the entire scientific community in one move. We need to find ways to make the tools people use do a better job at doing what we want them to, rather than shouting that they’re using the wrong tool...
Honesty and integrity > "nicely" not-nice
Sidewalk Labs unveils its vision for Quayside Toronto
Starting to see this damn near everywhere, macro and micro scale stuff. Especially true on individual projects where team members cycle out over time. Often they end up looking like that monkey ladder experiment where we're very clearly tracking towards a goal, but nobody is at all clear on why.
What's funny is I imagine "Amazon Prescription Drugs", would look like dark-net market websites.

Both sell prescriptions, both use USPS or whomever to ship. Besides I bet it would be easier to track illicit use if it was regulated. Not to mention cheaper, faster and digital. Less prejudice.

Too bad the general consensus is that these jobs are necessary when they aren't.
How is the first application developer to know this git (not go) feature exists in the first place? The application developer is looking to use `go get`, and is frustrated that `go get` only downloads via https, asking them for a username and password combo every time. `go get` has no documentation to make it use git URLs.

Only when the application developer looks online for a solution to this do they find some StackOverflow post detailing this workaround. Or other workarounds, like the insecure option of telling git to save your https credentials.

Sure, a knowledgeable application developer can put whatever quirks their build system needs in their documentation; but a developer ignorant of these workarounds shouldn't have to go beyond `go get`'s documentation in the first place.
I don't like using virtual machines, it just adds too much friction to me for getting things done. At least that was my experience on windows OS. I've tried a combination of docker, dockerhub, vagrant, and virtualbox. I'd rather just have a seamless development experience right at startup, macOS is really good at that.

I tend to shy away from tools whenever I can, because everything has a maintenance & learning cost associated with it. Also, because I tend to have a lot of things open at the same time, virtualization really slows me down whenever I have to jump into the virtualized OS's keyboard / mouse / etc.

Down the road I might start using docker images + docker hub if I feel that the benefits (isolating test environments, debugging issues cross platform, deploying) of using virtualization outweighs its cons (maintenance, setting up, memorizing new commands, constantly running commands, etc). As of now I don't have much of a use case for it though.
The burn is potentially more efficient, but the bigger it is past a certain point, you’re just blasting that energy out of the atmosphere. I suppose burying or submerging a massive device would deliver more energy, but it would be supremely dirty in that case. Airbursts are the best way to attack drag-sensitive targets due to the formation of a Mach stem, and as a bonus they’re cleaner than water or ground bursts. If you really want to destroy a target use MIRVed warheads of lower yield, in the 70kt-1mt range, with overlapping shockwaves. As a “bonus” that technology already comes standard and doesn’t require new testing or exotic designs and delivery systems.
The last few jobs I've gotten I've gone in with a number I wanted, told them what it was, and gotten it. Prior to even attending the job interview I'd come up with a reasonable number that I was happy with. Then when the conversation comes up I know exactly what I want, and I haven't had to deal with tedious negotiations with recruiters. The closing process is easier on everybody, and either everybody gets what they want, or we find out if it's not going to work out right away.
Docs including an image gallery of mockups here https://sidewalktoronto.ca/documents/
I wish every language had docs like the CLHS.
Oooh thanks for this! That's awesome
Here's an interview with the guy who uncovered the deception, from a local Palo Alto newspaper: https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2018/07/01/was-the-stanf...
> Go doesn't just support git

I didn't claim Go supports only git.

> so HTTP and SSH aren't the only options.

My entire point is that VCSes support multiple transports since before Go came about. I never claimed Go should support HTTP and SSH only. In fact, I never claimed it should support either. I claimed it shouldn't force the VCS host to chose for the user which clone URL (and thus transport) to use.
Absolutely - but they might still ask themselves why they are paying an insurance company to negotiate a rate above what they can obtain on their own.

In vs out of network, deductibles, and co-insurance can also complicate the calculus
What would happen if we suddenly made opaque pricing illegal? If anyone sells anything to anyone, they'd be required to publicly disclose the price.

Having thought about it for all of thirty seconds, I can't see any downsides. Can anyone convince me otherwise?
An alternative explanation for the failures of 'big methodology' is the shift in workplace, professional and career trends. Monoculture isn't possible with a diverse, agile workforce and unless everyone's on the same page those big, prescriptive methodologies just don't work. "this is how we do things around here" doesn't work if the newcomer you're preaching to is likely to up sticks in a year or two, and you yourself have only been 'here' a year or two. But that's the makeup of most organisations today.

I'm not saying diversity and mobility is a bad thing, but it does explain why those approaches perhaps worked fine for the authors in the time period they experienced it, but don't work today.
What Zimbardo's SPE apparently did, was really more of a replication of Milgram's earlier experiments showing that people will do bad things if an authority figure tells them to. Which is interesting and important...and not new. It wasn't even new when Zimbardo did it. Milgram's experiment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment) was well known even when Zimbardo was planning his, and while this would be supportive of the conclusions from Milgram's earlier work, it wouldn't break any new ground.
Lake Spirit's Gigantic Tree Trunk Mat
It's not that incentives aren't aligned for people to start using better tools, it's that Excel is largely good enough. So we all deal with stupid Excel hashing of specific genes (because we all know which genes are this issue by this point).

This isn't exactly a new phenomenon. When I was in grad school (early 2000s), using Excel for gene names was already a well known issue. Some researchers are never going to use anything other than Excel for this even when people like me harp on them to stop treating Excel as a database. It's "good-enough", so it gets used more often than it should.
Coal mining in America's heartland [video]
Great article. In some ways it reminds me of Jonathan Blow's presentation titled "Truth in Game Design" [1]

The author is saying that Ada deserves the title of first programmer both because she did publish an elaborate algorithm and because she understood the potential of the Analytical Engine better than Babbage and Menabrea.

Jonathan Blow's presentation is more about that second point and how computers (or rather, sufficiently complex dynamical systems) can "give you something back that you didn't put in".

System theory is nothing new so it might not be exact equivalent of thinking about engines that can compose music in 1842, but it seems to me that it is not a widespread and well-understood concept as it should be, and that the public opinion is re-discovering it mainly through Deep Learning advancements.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5FUtrmO7gI
How well does your team make decisions?
Really? Because apart from macros, Lisp has less syntax and little complexity compared to most languages. The issue mamon was talking about is about different programmers using different mental models or features. If macros aren't overused, this isn't nearly as big of a deal as it is for C++ or Scala.

I should except common lisp here. That is indeed a complex language. But Clojure and Scheme aren't/
Good use of PWA service worker features.
Getting rid of that damn blink tag was the first time I ever directly edited a binary. Such a minor annoyance seems quaint now with what the web has become.
It seems to me that the main point of the study is to demonstrate the plasticity of human morality. That people will adapt to different situations in ways that are surprising. People will become "bad people" if they are in a situation that rewards it, especially over time.

This is "situationism," as opposed to "dispositionism."

Even if the study is very flawed, and even if the implication that this shift can happen in the course of days rather than longer periods of time is not accurate, I think it is an important concept for people to take in, that can help in everything from crime and punishment, to the design of online forums with automated moderation (a.k.a. "karma systems") so they don't turn toxic, to understanding how voting systems can potentially polarize and divide people, and, extending that last point, to understanding what happens to people at Trump rallies.

I suspect a lot of the people who seem so eager to discredit the study have a bit of an agenda, in that the find the implications of the study so uncomfortable. They want to believe they'd be a good person even if in a situation where badness is consistently rewarded over long time periods.
Ruby is famous for it's advocates claiming it is the easiest to read language. I have yet to see evidence of said claim.

Sadly, I have seen the opposite. I, and most of my team, dread dealing with the Ruby package at work. Notorious for obscure tricks and terrible callback based system, where it is ridiculously easy to mess things up.
Once upon a time, I had a 600 dpi Apple laserwriter printer, and it occurred to me that scalable graphics were suboptimal. I wanted to directly access and control every dot at full resolution without letting something else rasterize for me. I eventually figured out how to print my fractals and magnetic field diagrams that way, although I've forgotten the details now. Seems like this would be a good way to do graph paper - make sure you were printing lines exactly one pixel wide.
Reality TV was invented in the 1970s.

“Journalist Ben Blum cites new evidence that points to choreographed results and pre-ordained conclusions”
That "new evidence" came to light in 2017. An entire book has been written and published since then. So why now?
IMO more likely to be emergent behaviour. Stressed people generally have issues prioritising difficult long-term goals over tasks that yield short-term gratification.
Ask HN: As the first developer, how to prepare for new ones
I am the first software developer hire for my company and just graduated college - they have been using contracts before. I am trying to produce the best product as fast as possible but my code to be honest is trash. Not DRY, no testing. But I have been reading a lot on having a great infrastructure and how to do code reviews. The bosses have talked about hiring more devs but still, I am worried how to "managed/work" with them. Any tips from your own experience?
Models Will Run the World
Please do, then, it's better for everyone in the node ecosystem if people aren't running node 4.x in 2018.
I call bullshit. The transition you cite easily went through XML configuration to annotation based magic to modern config libraries, where largely people just stopped caring about the magic.

In all, the hard part was internalizing the various life cycles. Not the silly syntactic or configuration tricks to make them happen.
Chicago/Atlanta doesn't count?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.citylab.com/amp/article/399...
Rolls-Royce launches new battery system to electrify ships
Debug podcast interview with him:

https://imore.com/debug-7-jordan-mechner-and-karateka
Ah, I loved Karateka when I was young. That was a hard game!
There is imposter syndrome though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
You could try Firefox with File / Work Offline (I'm not sure of the equivalent for other browsers).
Fair enough, so I’m asking: do you think it is harmless or harmful?
No. If the study was flawed, there is no real take away. Pretty much period.

Imagine if physics claimed it was ok that they couldn't predict the motion they were trying to describe, because they still had fancy equations. The entire point is the predictive point.

Now, if there are parts that are replicating, then good. We hopefully learned something. But if the study doesn't replicate, you are just pushing an agenda. Odd, as that is what you claim others are doing.
No but they may try to make you think it is. I’ve seen this first hand at an urgent care center.
Your examples are very detailed, I appreciate that. But I don't get it, it just serves to help my argument - at each of those individual companies, you can ask for more money and probably get it, even if it puts you above market value. So why wouldn't you?

Your market value is determined by supply and demand. Why would a company pay me as a “Senior .Net Developer” back in 2008 when I had less than 6 months experience with .Net at the same salary that they would hire someone with 5 years of experience?

Why would someone, hypothetically pay me a year ago as a “Senior Cloud Architect” who had only watched a PluralSight video and had done one small project on the side for the same amount as someone with 5 years of experience?

If you are actually asking why wouldn’t I ask for a larger raise after I gained the requisite experience, that’s just not the way the industry works. For some reason they would rather not give raises to existing employees but are more than willing to hire replacements at the prevailing market rates - that is the well known phenomena of salary compression and inversion.
Art-inspired face blurring can obscure identity without losing humanity
Take the 2nd and 3rd biggest cities in Canada (Montreal and Vancouver respectively) as an example. These places are meccas of cycling in North America. Generalizing Canada's cities is so typical of Torontonians, while their own city is the exception when it comes down to traffic and gun violence.
Why? Why not? Why? Why not?... It's interesting.
In context, I believe the author means that having a build system which splits into independent, simultaneously executing processes (such as `make -j 5` or some such) tends to have an advantage over ASDF's monolithic process model which doesn't take full advantage of multiple cores/CPUs.
At least you are honest about your ageism.
You're barking up the wrong tree

Yeah and you're scratching for a bone

You triggered all of my words

Just to see all of your curves

Knock knockin up the prom queen

She had to shake it, won't die mean

Written by a native English speaker, but still as a native speaker myself I wouldn't swear I know exactly what that last line means.
Many states are screwing up Albertson's strategy with mandatory centralized database reporting. The "opioid epidemic" is terrific justification for growing government power and enforcement arms.
Ask HN: What would it take to have a DM feature on HN?
I understand this could be a tricky "product" feature and needs some thinking but has this been considered before? Any pointers to previous threads would be greatly appreciated.
I was under the impression the conclusions were actually quite suspect nowadays. And it doesn't make sense that conclusions can be replicated. How? Only by further experiments, no?

Do I think that the study being flawed proves it's opposite? No. But I don't think you can cling to conclusions from a flawed study. At best, you can cling to the questions.
Both of your proposed solutions are appealing - but Medicaid and Medicare create a large problem, as both programs pay way below listed rates (~10% and ~40%. Respectively) so your proposal while eloquent would create massive upheaval (perhaps well deserved) making the proposal much more radical than it seems on the surface
> Say you've just reminded yourself how grep works for the third time this month.

Hahaha, exactly. There are some commands that I just don't use enough for them to properly stick in my mind. Awk is another one. This utility would be helpful for me. Thanks!
Out of curiosity, what state are you in?

Even in Alaska, not generally a very technically advanced state, I never met a doctors that didn't have the ability to send eScripts. I never visited a doc in a remote village however, might be a different story out there.
Can you point to some examples with the properties you suggest make Ruby unreadable?
This is a great article, and I also found myself shuddering to think what would happen if the world ever saw the first program I ever wrote (whatever that was).
> Even if the study is very flawed, and even if the implication that this shift can happen in the course of days rather than longer periods of time is not accurate, I think it is an important concept for people to take in, that can help in everything from crime and punishment, to the design of online forums with automated moderation (a.k.a. "karma systems") so they don't turn toxic, to understanding how voting systems can potentially polarize and divide people, and, extending that last point, to understanding what happens to people at Trump rallies.

I find this line of thought interesting. In short, it reads to me "Despite this study being of no value whatsoever, the important thing is that we should walk away with the same conclusion".

To my mind, this has the feeling of a pre-ordained notion untroubled by any evidence or encounters with facts. Which is perhaps the very thing exposed here. Zimbardo set out to tell a story, did so, and trumpeted his success is doing so as proof of some deep truth.

All I see here is proof of how eager we are to fit facts to convenient narratives, instead of hypotheses to facts (to bastardize Doyle).
Unfortunately Microsoft Office is pretty much the software bench biologists use. Excel for data files, Word for papers, and Powerpoint for presentations. Bioinformaticans may use R for analysis and LaTeX for papers and presentations, but these are seen as needlessly "nerdy" by bench types.
No. But this is a good example of the anthropomorphic fallacy
I live at about 42 deg. N, and last winter I spent some time in Florida for the first time. It seemed like the light had a positive effect.

I read something a long time ago that suggested if you are in need of more sun exposure, it's best to get it near noon, because when the sun is low, it provides relatively more of the cancer causing UV and less of the therapeutic. Of course, in the northern parts of the world in the winter, that's not so easy.
Special caution is warranted for branded combination nootropics (2017)
Exactly. It was a bank holiday weekend here in the U.K. we moved out of our previous office on the Friday and had the call on the Sunday when the removal work was scheduled.
We have a cleaner that comes in twice a week. Members keep the place tidy surprisingly.
Correct. As a study stands flawed, there is no real takeaway.

However, a flawed study does not mean the original conclusion is false. Merely that the evidence the study provides for it cannot bolster it.

But now the study is part of the societal conversation, and this means the idea of moral plasticity is something on people's minds, especially in the context of the study.

This isn't the same thing as a rigorous study, but it does prove the point that many people /feel/ that moral plasticity /is/ a thing.

This is not rigorous, but in a way, it gives a weak confirmation of the relevance of the idea. Think of some alternatives: we aren't wondering if the study suggests people will become hyper moral when given the power to act harshly. Nobody talks about that.
The Brownie Camera Page
Apple Pulls 25,000 Apps from China After a Barrage of State-Media Criticism
I think the "push" just comes and goes in waves as far as group consciousness goes.

When I was in college decades ago... same thing, lots of talk about that study and how silly it was / warning to think critically about things.
I wonder if in a smaller place like that people keep things cleaner.... their mess would be near them.
This implies I think it is unreadable as an intrinsic property of the language. A claim I do not understand, and I am not making.

I could point to dense poetry as an example of hard to read English. Or light prose as examples of the opposite. In reality, I'd likely just be picking examples I like. Largely pivoted in the skill of the writer. Not any intrinsic feature of English.

And, ironically, it likely takes training and experience to appreciate either. Programming and writing.
1. We have let the wealthy control most legislation through lobbyists.

2. Too many Americans just care about themselfs, they are very egocentric. It kinda o.k. if it doesn't effect them, or their spawn. The wealthy really could care less about health care costs; they can afford good insurance.

3. We had it pretty good for years, and still believe most people/entities are fair. I hear people babble on about how the Insurance industry relies so much on actuarial tables, or defend doctors whom charge $350 for an office visit. (In CA, the most powerful lobby group in Sacramento is the Insurance industry. They burp, and get their way.)

4. Because we had it pretty good since WW2, we got very lazy. We seldom vote, or bother to even investigate important issues; it's much easier to yack about technology. When the draft was active---people seemed to care more?

5. It's o.k. now for some of you, but the party ended awhile ago for many of us. Many if you with the comfy tech jobs will soon know how unfair our system has become.

6. Americans have been brainwashed into believing our system is the best. After all, we are tiny versions of John Wayne? Spirituality is something to hide? I've been disillusioned with the US since the ninties. And yes, if I had a do over, most European countries, Australia, Canada, or GB would have suited me better.
um is a great name for this tool
Samsung CEO Confirms Folding Galaxy F Phone
We pay a bit more than a ‘regular’ gym for liability insurance. We have emergency buttons and our CCTV (nest) screenshots entry/exit against the logs.
The contract is simple. There isn’t a payment contract just a set of rules and a detailed PARQ questionnaire where a doctors sign off is required on any medical conditions that are serious.
In September 2015, I was one of the people celebrating the expiration of Mp3's license.

I scoured the web looking for others talking about it. I brought it up on Reddit, no one seemed to care. I still don't hear it talked about often.