skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's following the semantics of wider use of `<<`` in groovy which denotes forwarding contents of one object into another, eg: adding to a list

list << x

or writing to a stream:

new File('test.txt') << 'hello world'

So if you read it as "forward the result of g into f" then it makes a little more sense.

But I agree, it's still not very intuitive and for readability I would normally just write:

h = { f(g(it)) }

Which I think is far clearer. But that's partly an argument against functional programming style itself which would ordinarily see function composition as more idiomatic.
>how working dogs usually aren't as neurotic as pet dogs

there is strong survival bias here.

>I've never met a well-mannered Pomeranian

similar bias. Being a well-mannered for Pomeranian is different than being that for a St.Bernard.

With all those biases taken into account and understanding the limits of so wide a generalization - yes, "the good behaving dog (and i'd say happy dog) is well tired dog" as any dog owner knows :)
If you've ever done work on the dash you'll know that it never goes back on "just right" there is always a little bit of extra rattle introduced. A lot of the body is designed for one way assembly. Rework inevetably is lower quality than manufactured right the first time.
This is the case for almost every island in the world!
"Article numbers"?
GE Offers Lessons as United Tech Goes Digital
It's a tradeoff I guess. There are organic fish farms that do a good job, e.g. the European ones. They won't thrive without demand. So I try to buy organic fish, it's expensive though.
>Verizon's throttling was described in fire department emails beginning June 29 of this year, just weeks after the FCC's repeal of net neutrality rules took effect.

Does throttling in this manner violate network neutrality rules? The 25GB/mo cap is enforced in a way that is neutral to applications or users.
>If you complain about having to spend a couple hours outside the interview on work, maybe you don't really want the job that bad enough. People will spend weeks on an unpaid open-source project but then complain about 2 hours for something that might get them a great job.

I've happily spent weeks on unpaid open source projects and I complain about it. Mostly because homework requires no effort or investment on the company's part and it's too easy to hand it out to everybody and then toss candidates' hard work away after it's submitted because they don't like your name or something.

These days I mostly ignore homework requests and point companies to my GitHub profile. I haven't lost any good jobs that way. Companies that erect hoops that make it clear that their time is massively more valuable than yours before you're hired are going to treat you the same way once you're hired.

I disagree that homework is necessarily more realistic. IME all homework assignments have been the same kind of garbage asked by whiteboard happy companies - how to reverse a binary tree, etc. Pointless crap that has no relationship to 99% of real jobs in tech.

When I was running interviews I organized a 1 hour test during interview that was as realistic to the job in question as I could make it. I truly don't see why that isn't the standard.
I appreciate it, perspective and the landscape are things I really want to learn.
This seems like the classic case of people relying on intuition instead of the documented SLA. Verizon's plan should be assumed to be a 200Kbps plan that can occasionally burst to 50Mbps. But someone tried it out, and mentally built the model that it was an always-50Mbps plan. Then they were proven wrong during a crisis.

I very much agree with other posters that "unlimited" is a very misleading term. If the service runs at 200Kbps, then that's something like 65GB/month, which is not an infinite amount of data. If Verizon sold two "unlimited" plans, one that could be throttled and one that couldn't be, it would be very clear to the customer why the 16TB/month (50Mbps * 1 month) plan was a lot more expensive than the 65GB/month (200Kbps * 1 month) plan. But they hide it all in the fine print, so anyone that doesn't carefully read the fine print and extensively test the service doesn't actually know what they're getting. This is unfortunate. I don't think it's a net neutrality issue (it's not like they were throttled because the traffic was going to Amazon instead of Google), but rather a truth-in-advertising issue.
Fiji Water already exists.
Building a Unified Back End with AWS AppSync and Amazon Neptune
There are actually 6 Herbert Dune novels and over a dozen others.
Given the vast quantities of existing depleted uranium and spent nuclear fuel I feel the molten chloride fast breeder reactor should come first.
Data and Privacy for Autonomous Vehicles
In CA, 101 acts as that wall between PA and EPA. The differences are more subtle: less trees.

https://goo.gl/maps/c6t8e6dtHbn

Trees are one of the major factors affecting property value. If antifa really wanted to attack the 1%, they would covertly kill trees around the richest folks' homes and start fast-food franchises nearby.
Ok, so let's summarize: no homework assignments, no whiteboard interviews, no "trick" questions, no "personality fit" questions, no work-sample exercises (could be interpreted as unpaid work), no relying on credentials.

How are we supposed to hire anyone?
European Parliament: “digital communication does not lead to human well-being”
> Not from the religious right; that was back in the 1980s

IIRC, GW Bush's administration in the 2000s made a big anti-porn push, IIRC, with Attorney General Ashcroft being particularly focused on it.

Regarding supporters of Trump and the Catholic Church: I agree it would be hypocritical for them to advocate against porn, I don't think that stops anyone, and I personally don't care - acting against evil (I don't think porn/sex is evil, but they do) doesn't require you to be a saint, or nobody would act.
Deploy Only What You Trust: Binary Authorization for Google Kubernetes Engine
That page offers services for personal use. Verizon isn't making an offer to provide services to businesses/government via that page.

The appropriate offer is here where you must contact a rep who is probably trained to inquire about the business's requirements: https://www.verizonwireless.com/biz/plans/business-unlimited...
Some would argue that College Board is barely a nonprofit. See https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2012/10/16/is-the-college-boa...
They were reporting a fixed number of things to NCMEC every day and every month. They capped the number of things they'd report to NCMEC. The indictment specifically charges them with getting ad submissions clearly pertaining to child sex trafficking and not reporting to them to law enforcement. When they met with NCMEC, NCMEC told them (paraphrasing) "you're breaking the law and will eventually get prosecuted for this". NCMEC and Backpage were not allies.
The Soviet Union kept two sets of historical archives, allowing only the most reliable and/or senior people inside the "real" one (for example, accurate data on Stalin's purges). They also kept two sets of economic statistics. As you suggest, it caused a lot of confusion. And, yeah, no one knew who had the correct information.
Depends on pay, right? If you are offering employee #1 market pay, why would you give them 10% equity? That is potentially millions of dollars for not taking a risk.

I have been on both sides of this, and have thoughts. What do you think is fair for employee #1 making at or near market rate?
If it's not connected to the internet, it's not an ISP.

How will you access global DNS?

Can I ask your motivations here? You seem very keen on muddying the waters in this discussion.
You received a response. What if you hadn't? How many hours did you invest? How many of these would you be willing to attempt if you never got a response of any kind? When the author speaks of abuse, I believe -- in part -- this is what they're trying to highlight. For every submissions, like yours, that gets a response, there are probably hundreds that hear absolutely nothing.

I'm OK, within reason, with these homework assignments if they come after some kind of initial screening where the company has shown at least the minimum level of interest.

However, as the very first step, it feels off to me.
As someone who was a huge hipchat fan that got moved to Slack. It's integrations, bots, and a delightful UI. They figured out UI better than any chat. Sometimes it's just building the right product.
I'm so old I still have a multi-purpose personal server instead of separate VPS/containers for everything.
I think you misunderstand the purpose of the subsidies. It isn't that the government wants these farms to completely stop producing. Soil conservation is about preventing dust storms by rotating different crops between fields and then letting overused fields be overtaken by nature again before coming back and reseeding them again years later. Edit: Also, there is never enough food to contribute to solving world hunger or supplying the ever growing demand of a rising human population, and their pets mind you who also consume part of the production. You do -not- want to "permanently reduce" farmland.
The Difference Between a Typeface and a Font
This exists probably in all countries. I also don't quite get the message out of these pictures. Or if it is even a matter which needs to be solved. If it is, redistribution of wealth is not practical IMO.
US inmates in 2018 are paid worse than prisoners in Soviet gulags in the 1950s https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leonid_Borodkin/publica...
The Greek regulatory authority for energy is actively planning the connection of most of the islands to the continental grid using submarine cables. [1]

On top of that Euroasia Interconnector will be connecting the grinds of Greece, Cyprus and Israel forming the world's longest submarine power cable. [2]

Connecting the power grid is cheaper long-term. Greece has roughly 200 inhabited islands.

[1] http://www.ekathimerini.com/230518/article/ekathimerini/busi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuroAsia_Interconnector#/media...
It's a bit more than the output from a single person in a year. You just have to hire 2 more guys and you're good.
Rebooting does not help when your files are in an invalid state. (This may be relevant to software environments which persist the state of the entire "world.")
> Despite the overarching issues here, what culpability is there when these public safety services who build reliance on these private companies don't do due diligence on what they use?

Are you assuming it's possible?

First, if they're a monopoly, your "due diligence" is "Yep, we need a service and they're the only ones who provide it. We build our own using money we'll never have or we go with them."

Second, cell phone companies are known for lying. Just outright lying. (My proof: If a service is limited, calling it unlimited is a lie.) How can you do due diligence when the party you do it with is lying to you?
I went on a vacation to Bora Bora once and upon seeing restaurant prices of $40 per person I walked two miles to the grocery store, bought a pack of hot dogs for $15 and boiled them in the coffee pot. I am not sure what food would cost on the moon, but I would definitely bring hot dogs.

I am technically considered wealthy (3% or higher). But definitely clip coupons and save money where I can.
Any plans for macOS support?

While Wine and Proton work on macOS, there are no plans to support the new Steam Play functionality on macOS at the moment.

Sad. Deal breaker for me.
I agree. If the cost is low enough and it tastes, looks, smells the same, the fast-food giants will push it through. People who don't care too much that their meat is highly processed already today, probably won't care tomorrow either
Nope, even small farms receive them. And, most of the farms in the U.S. are actually owned by rural families, not large corporations. Edit: When I think of evil megacorp PACs and their lobbyists, I don't think of agriculture at all. Farmers have it rough; droughts, infestations, blights, hedging bets, fabricated news / inaccurate prices to keep exports flowing that eat their bottom lines, high machinery and supplies costs and the already tough job of growing something from nothing while meeting stiff competition. Not to mention being a thankless job. Few care or understand how the food ends up on their table.
Am in my twenties, hadn't read a book for fun since I was eight (nothing outside of school).

Two things got me going reading books again: 1) not getting that much from blog posts and not learning enough from coworkers and 2) friends I looked up to who read much more than me. Three years ago I forced myself to read 2 technical books. Two years ago I read 8. Last year I read 40 and this year I'm on track for 50+ (33 so far).

At first I could only make myself put in time to read advanced books on programming and architecture. But in time I was able to force myself to read (older) fiction as well as books on economics, finance, psychology, management, writing and history.

These days it's easy enough to keep myself on track because I feel like I'm losing ground to myself if I don't keep reading. There's so much to learn and while I can never get it all, I've internalized the drive.

I cannot recommend enough reading about psychology, history, finance and programming/architecture/management to fellows in tech. These topics apply so clearly and frequently in life/at work.

If you're curious I'm on Goodreads with this username.
Agreed. Personally I hate these kinds of books. This style, long-winded "cheery" explanations, constantly "playful", as if I was a small child that couldn't hold my attention for 2 minutes before you had to dangle a colourful toy in front of me. Like they're afraid to be serious for a moment (so many exclamation marks). I'm not here for humour, or to have a pleasant conversation. I'm here to learn. Just give me clear and concise, with minimal fluff.

If anyone is familiar with it, Landau and Lifschitz is my kind of book ;)

EDIT: I've just skimmed the Hutton book. It looks great! That's what I mean. You don't have to be dense or incomprehensible or dry. Just stick to the point and explain as clear and concise as possible.
"cheap," "consumer-oriented"

Two terms that don't appear in any Verizon contract, commercial or otherwise.
Your definition isn't accurate. That suggests that you don't get 4G speeds after 15GB, which isn't the case.
Is this even legal, given false advertising guidelines? They have provided an advertisement for products by a company that doesn't exist. I don't know the legal details, but I am questioning whether this is actually permitted in the U.S. if you go by the letter of the law.
These cellular contracts are negotiated under the Western States Contracting Alliance (WSCA), its $37.99 on both Verizon and AT&T for "Unlimited" data. In a prior life I had more overview on these plans, and only Verizon directly throttled these plans, AT&T would let you use hundreds of gigs with no issue.

Also, these plans are bespoke and rarely worked with, its likely their Verizon rep didn't bother to look into any of the handful of custom plans that you get as a WSCA account. Another benefit is a flat 25% discount or thereabouts IIRC, any public agency or charity in most states can get these plans FYI.
Commercial/.Gov wireless is different. Verizon and AT&T both offer true unlimited or pooled plans and will even kick off other users to prioritize public safety. I’ve even seen cases where they will roll out temporary towers for emergencies — something is hinky about this story.

Although Ars Technica is beating the net neutrality drum, this has more to do with a fire department administrator going cheap on operational costs, or not using the California state contracts. They are using an aircard in a command vehicle, probably with PC, multiple mobile devices and video as well. Just pay the $75 vs $40/mo, and you don’t have this problem.
My interpretation (which I think is "more correct" than yours and your parent's because it subsumes both) is that there's a good developer shortage and bad developer glut, and the interview process is an attempt to sort an individual developer into one of the two buckets.

Although from personal experience, I've been rejected from several companies and gotten more than one amazing offers at the same time (i.e. in the same "I want a new job" career cycle). So maybe the categories aren't that clear cut.
When was microsoft microsoft

when was twitter twitter

when was facebook facebook

Comcast was an Internet Service Provider when it Provided a Service that allowed access to the Internet.

It will take far longer to route your home server to global DNS, all while bypassing comcast, than it would to register that server's IP on the DNS with your new URL, ebay2.com

But, that's just the same thing I, and many others, have been saying, for about five posts deep now, so I'm curious where this fight of yours is coming from.
How I Manage Clients?
The fine print isn’t that fine. It’s pretty clear what you are getting: https://www.verizonwireless.com/plans/unlimited/
It seems unrelated to me. If I write an Op-Ed and send it to the New York Times, it's not a net neutrality issue if they refuse to publish it. Maybe they personally hate me. Maybe my idea seems dumb to them. Myabe I ka'nt spel rite. Even though The NYT has a website, that doesn't mean they are under any obligation to publish something there just because I want them to.

I don't see why Facebook is any different. It's their website, they have no obligation to publish anything.

Whether or not you believe Facebook can exercise editorial control over user-submitted content, it's not a net neutrality issue. Net neutrality is about moving IP packets around without charging different rates based on what's in the headers. That's all.
It's what I learned with. I thought it was pretty good, but I haven't tried any others. It gets you started, and seems best for a reader who knows a few other languages.
Yeah SML helped a lot while learning Rust for the same reason.
Apple Maps does of course not use Google Maps and the Google Maps app doesn’t track your location while you aren’t navigating. No app gets to track your location if you don’t allow it.

This suit is all about alleged this and alleged that and then it’s presented as the truth while there is no proof at all. Perhaps the Android part is going anywhere but my money is on at least the iPhone part disappearing rather quickly. Perhaps the idea is to bully Apple into a settlement with some negative press attention, well good luck with that.
Years ago a company I worked for used a Verizon reseller so they wouldn’t have to deal with the seemingly endless non-service related issues. Great signal/service but atrocious sales and customer service even for business accounts. We paid a premium on top of a premium just so we didn’t have to deal Verizon’s sales/support directly. I doubt it was the best financial decision but being able to get a replacement phone delivered same day/next morning with no questions asked, having billing problems dealt with quickly or issues with the definition of unlimited sorted out in minutes was amazing.

That was years ago though so things may be different now.
Maybe fire departments should throttle responses to fires at Verizon facilities ;)
> During times of congestion, your data may be temporarily slower than other traffic

Their complaint is that they were throttled 24/7, not just during congestion.

> But while such throttling is generally applied only during times of network congestion, the Santa Clara Fire Department says it was throttled at all times once the device in question went over a 25GB monthly threshold.
> I never understood the idea of paying prisoners absurdly little “because prison”.

A visceral demonstration of decent rewards from legitimate work might reduce recidivism, which seems like a social good but is reducing the labor supply for prison industry and reducing the demand for (and leverage of) correctional officers and other prison employees. Lots of people have lots of money on the line, and the prison labor population is felons, who both can't vote and lack sympathy from those who can. So, the weight of the political pressure is virtually all on one side.
OP here. – Notably, I wouldn't criticize it for not being accurate (the priority given to conveying instructive data has been underlined by Minard himself and may be considered part of the methodology). The interesting side to it is that it is opinionated (which is probably a property of at least some types of infographics in general, since selection necessary introduces bias), the even more interesting aspect is that the opinion (or narrative) conveyed by the entire sheet is quite the opposite to what it seems to be for the chart in isolation. And, I'd suggest, it has been particularly crafted for this.

You're probably right regarding the time that is meant to be spent on it. I always imagined a contemporary beholder slowly following the path with her/his finger, considering and commemorating the corresponding narrative. While it is comprehensive, it's also slow.
How does one go from photoshop to bootstrap aside from manually copying over ideas. 15 years ago we were slicing into 9 piece boxes and changing the side panels to the background image and setting to 100% height repeating the image. The trick was always to slice with this in mind.
Blockchain person: "Hey just prove to me you're a real Rohingya refugee and I'll add you to my blockchain"

Rohingya refugee: "But isn't a blockchain supposed to be trustless. Aren't we just trusting you to verify me?"

Blockchain person: "Yeah whatever, do you want to be on my blockchain or not? I got a lot of funding for this"

Rohingya refugee: "Sure okay"

Rohingya refugee Myanmar government: "Hey I'm a real person. I'm on this fella's blockchain. That proves it."

Myanmar govenrment: "We don't care."
Verizon and the other major carriers actually do offer a supposedly higher level of service under the mutistate WSCA contract that their Verizon Wireless account falls under. The Verizon rep they dealt with was definitely being a lame duck, he can change plans on the fly if he so pleased.
Actually, this is not correct, if I am reading that right. In this case, the "punishment for a crime" is the prison sentence. Adding additional provisions to that, which were not part of sentencing at the time, I would argue is extraneous. Involuntary servitude is not part of the definition of a prison sentence.
If they provide services that do not count against the 25GB/mo cap (e.g. Verizon's own video streaming service) while other competing services (e.g. Netflix) do, then probably, yes.

If not, then probably not, no.
> "the worlds' first and finest Moon Vodka"

ftfy
If they would first create a Doctor Fork pizza in some small town ("we won't deliver to you, but wherever you are, you can come here and try it") would it be OK then? What is your argument based on in that scenario?

Because if you think that it would be OK, then I would argue it makes zero difference for the end user experience. And if it doesn't make any difference to users, then the only issue seems to be that you don't like something about it.
getting rid of states rights doesn’t give them any more options either.

this is tangential.
Damn, I'm jonesing for a Celeste four-cheese microwave pizza really bad rn. Where might a lowly member of the public borrow magical 1970's microwave technology in the Mountain View area?

PS: Anyone have one of those huge Radarange RR-9 microwaves with that (capacitive?) touch-panel in the late 70's or early 80's? Yup, I'm ooooold.
Basic Income Pilot Projects will not work
This bothered me too. I use a REPL everyday, but you have to know how to write full programs too.