skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can use the community product to make commercial software: https://www.quora.com/Can-startups-use-Microsoft-Visual-Stud...

The windows app store store does take a cut, though it seems to be reduced to 15%: https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/05/07/a-new-micr...

But even if it was just a hearts and minds exercise - why do you want hearts and minds? As a strategic play to support other parts of your business, i.e. Windows, even if it's not the Windows store.

In any case, it doesn't really matter the specifics are at MS now, you could look at Android or iOS instead, where the dev tools are free and they are definitely taking a 30% cut, and contrast that to a few decades ago where you had to shell out a few thousand dollars if you wanted MS' dev tools at all. Or take a look at Unity which has a subscription, which people are pretty happy with.
It’s funny how hard they went on Alex Jones as that can pretty much summarize to us all whether they were afraid of his rhetoric or not.

They were very afraid.
That's a good question? Only someone local from that area, e.g. not me, would be able to answer that. Here's another question, even if it was not operational, then why all the secrecy surrounding the closure last Thursday. Even if it was some sort of break-in, or similar, occurrence, there is usually some sort of PR of some kind, but not providing information usually leads people to speculate, e.g. UFOs, aliens, which is now the case on social media sites: https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/article21838556...
By default, go compiles binaries linked to libc to use the system DNS resolver. It does re-implement a DNS resolver but it's only used if CGO is disabled at compilation time.
This cheatsheet has been around for years. Nothing has helped me grok git better than this cheatsheet.

Here is its Github repo: https://github.com/ndp/git-cheatsheet
I don't know if an entire floating-point number is necessary to keep track of precision. If we are willing to accept precision to the closest decimal digit, and my calculations of the max mantissa of a double-precision floating-point is 9.0071993e+15, we could store the precision in 4 bits.
Personally I find the method-style syntax significantly more readable.
>- When guns came into play, we were helpless and had to obey.

As if before guns opposing trained swordsmen was an easy task.
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True. Nice parallels to Martin Niemöller's famous quote.
The problem is that git has terrible U/X.

The commands are unintuitive, have defaults that nobody uses, and use names that are prone to misinterpretation because they have completely different meanings from what you'd expect.

It's not only difficult to learn; it's difficult to remember the commands and the switches you have to add every single time (why?), and all the extra commands you have to throw in just to get from a checkout to a complete working tree.

Git's UI really needs an overhaul. Unfortunately, I fear it is already too late.
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> My breaker box will turn off if there is a fault.

If this was infallible there wouldn't be a market for surge protectors
The passage about Gorilla's securecookie is misleading. JWT only sign the data. It doesn't encypher it. The Gorilla's securecookie, encypher the data and signs the encyphered data, the date and the cookie name.

Note also the existence of github.com/chmike/securecookie which is as secured, and more efficient in size, number of allocations and speed.
I was expecting to see a leftpad comparison too :D
The terrorist goal was never to have this happen. Terrorist(as long as we're thinking of Osama Bin Laden for example, and not say IRA) goal was to get the people in western countries to think why they are being attacked, look into it, and realize that it's happening because of attrocities commited by their own governments in middle East. Osama Bin Laden has himself admitted that the attacks on America have failed to achieve those goals, because Americans have collectively refused to ask "why" they were being attacked - it was sold as brown people hating freedom , with no deeper context to the whole issue.
Why the downvotes? The parent is correct: TA is junk science. In the case of bitcoin it does make for great schadenfreude though: https://i.redd.it/8f87wq7snzl11.jpg
Bitcoin isn't used as a Fiat hedge. It's used for laundering, buying drugs and other illegal activity. That's all that is keeping it alive
This is probably a stupid idea, (I know absolutely nothing about natural gas) but why can't we emergency vent the gas outside?

My gas meter is already outside the house, more than 30 feet away from anything flammable. In an emergency overpressure like this, shouldn't I be able to pull some sort of emergency lever to vent the gas outside.

Yeah, that gas is flammable, which is risky. But that has to be less risky than just sitting around waiting for my house to blow up, which seems to be my only option today.
For the mind:

"One small step can change your life" by Robert Maurer

For the body:

"You Are Your Own Gym" by Mark Lauren
to add to it, and i can't remeber now, first 50 pages he expressed lots of opinion that has no factual basis or he does not support it with evidence.
Let's not forget that both are in urban information bubbles.
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Shares in China's Tesla rival Nio soar more than 75% in a day
How shocking that a massively multi-ethnic country that contains 5% of the human population has very large gaps in life expectancy if you measure by county.

If you look at European countries, a much coarser level of measurement the gap is 83-71, 12 years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_b...
If you're suggesting that wealth/income is different than quality of life, I would have to very strongly agree.
Spot on. We all know this from a mile away but I still went to check out their website.
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People who casually read conspiracy and alternative news (e.g. not hardcore conspiracy theorists who read David Icke), might believe some crazy crap (that doesn't hurt anyone, just discredits themselves), but they are also more prone to questioning the mainstream narratives (and that is very much feared).

Not to mention that a lot of very true shit going on is indeed conspiracies -- it just doesn't involve aliens and illuminati, but established powers (e.g. the white establishment having FBI follow and discredit MLK and other civil rights activists), state agencies, rich private interests buying politicians and forming cartels, powerful elites pushing their agendas, big industries promoting their crap (e.g. big food and big tobacco buying their own "scientific research" and then promoting it in through the magazines they advertise in) and so on...
We’re Measuring the Economy All Wrong
what books you recommed we read in place of the book in question?
Seems like a reasonable assessment. Killing other people and having close friends killed affects people in very negative ways. I had not considered that most US servicemen did not even see combat in WWII.

Its too bad that most states in the US have cut back enormously on their support of colleges and the prices have gotten out of control. Having such a large number of people start out life so highly indebted and many responsible people not going because of the cost seems like a really bad strategy for a successful society.
Nice article, but I fear North Americans just don't care by and large.

I've had some passing involvement with bike advocacy and have been a bike commuter in Los Angeles for the past six years. My impression is that in the early 2000s, there was a flowering of bike advocacy and infrastructure.

But now we've reached the point of resistance where other transport modes are pushing back against any more consideration for bikes. In short, cycling is now big enough to matter but not big enough to win.

I've often wondered if there was an approach other than the incrementalist, go-along-get-along approach that most bike advocacy has taken. The electric scooter startups have changed the transport landscape more quickly than anything else I've seen.
Good that there are counterexamples. I have no such luxury as I'm on the fifth PCP doctor this year. I lost two within a week.
I'll never understand how turning a society into a surveillance state is the better alternative to thoroughly checking who you let into a country/region and deporting people who don't follow the law and make no effort to integrate.

It was dead obvious that open borders and acceptance towards extremist ideologies would lead to more police and surveillance, yet here we are. The political left get exactly the society they don't want and it's their own fault. I could laugh about this if it wasn't so sad.
The Federal government has a constitutional obligation to defend the country. Education is not in the constitution and has always been chiefly a state and local burden.
I literally have no idea what the point of this comment was. It's too rambling to actually come up with a coherent response to.
At first possibly, but the mechanics of shifting become second-nature pretty quickly, about a few weeks to a month of daily driving.

After that, the idea is that you have to pay more attention to your surroundings to understand what gear you need to be in. Each gear has almost its own personality, something you only really get exposed to if you're forced to set it manually.

Its a lot like the car equivalent of the command line
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Agreed. From the article: “Markets like to retrace to the breakout”. Nonsense.
No, I won’t. I haven’t said a word to anyone at work. I haven’t filed an HR complaint. I put my headphones on and deal with it. I only mentioned it here because it seemed relevant to the discussion.

I’ve got all the proof I need to know I have this, and it’s never happened in the absence of someone eating a crunch snack.
In most cities, especially in America, there's a vicious cycle:
0) Cycling is dangerous because there are too many vehicles on the road
1) There are so many vehicles on the road because everyone knows it's dangerous to cycle
2) Go to 0

Breaking out of that loop requires building safe infrastructure for cycling, like indestructable cement dividers between bike lanes and vehicle lanes or no-vehicles-allowed-in-<large area of city> days
> The problem is that git has terrible U/X.

I know this pain. Trying to debug a merge conflict for the first time is like trying to do open heart surgery with no prior training.
Yes, we absolutely do. There is a matcha cafe near where I live that sells rainbow colored drinks, and they have a wall in the back that specifically designed to be a backdrop for selfies with the product. It is a natural evolution from food items designed with instagrammability in mind. Love it or hate it, this is the world we live in for the next little while at least.
Even once you learn git's fundamentals, the UI still sucks though. I like to think I have a pretty good grasp on the git model, but I still consider this article an absolute must for git use: http://gggritso.com/human-git-aliases

Whenever I use a computer and I don't have "git unstage", "git discard", "git publish", etc. it feels like I've lost my opposable thumbs
Very smart use of /tmp
> you can get everybody onto the same page by talking about the complex plane in terms of the layout of Black Rock City: the Man is at zero, Center Camp (Esplanade and 6:00) is at i, the main entrance is around - 2i, the 3:00 and 9:00 plazas are at ± 1, and the Temple (a nondenominational, pan-belief, transient, and intentionally flammable structure) is at + i.

While this is accurate, after seven years of attending Burning Man this is the first time that I've heard anyone describe the city layout - even after spending a pretty significant amount of time at self-identifying geek camps like The Institute.
This is like in times past a people believing that they could detect any other intelligence by seeing the smokes from their fires. After all how else would they cook their food or create light to see in the dark? A dyson sphere isn't some profound insight into the universe. It's a relatively straight forward idea once we achieve the understanding that we can capture EM energy and convert it into other usable forms of energy. Of course before that revolutionary discovery or EM utilization it's something that would seem completely nonsensical.
Wow, what a great read. Thanks for sharing!
On the other hand Kepler 37b is only slightly bigger than the moon and its 200 l/y away.

Planetary transistion detection isn’t just a question of size (of both the star and the planet) and it’s orbit but also of alignment of the orbit of the planet, the orbit of earth and the two systems.

Now with a predetermined communication array the alignment isn’t a problem more so you can use a light shield at the receptor similar to StarShade which will be used to block the light from the star allowing Kepler to image the planets directly to block the majority of the light from the star which would reduce the required size of your transmitter further.

It’s quite likely that over a distance of even a few 100 light years with a modulator as small as a few 100 km across might be sufficient.
I am not saying you don't have a good source. I am saying these numbers are not going to be exact.

EX: The 2017-2018 APPA National Pet Owners Survey

https://americanpetproducts.org/Uploads/MemServices/GPE2017_...

Overall dog ownership in the US at 48% +/- 4.4 based on 505 completed surveys. But, that's not nearly enough data to slice things down to 30-40 year olds and worse it's a servery which have dubious accuracy overall.
So roughly half as much for a continent with over twice the population and 44 sovereign countries? The difference between areas in South Dakota and Colorado is bigger than that between Luxembourg and Moldova
What does it say about me if I find the people at the top of the status hierarchy to be profoundly uncool and don't want anything to do with them?
True. Not all doctors or patients exhibit these behavior patterns, but many do in my (anecdotal) experience because of the very basic healthcare I have access to. If I had zillion$, there are astronomically-better doctors whom likely treat their patients somewhat better... but it's my fault.
But why wouldn't it give us the "right" to destroy it? Is there a "right and wrong" without any sentient life making an ethical choice?
I love it! Reminds me of https://www.interviewbit.com
Not sure if it is that simple. The main idea at least as per what I understood is that there is nothing wrong with your back or structure.

People with multiple herniated discs, "pinched nerves", etc never have back pain yet people with no structural abnormality suffer from paralyzing pains.

The reason is your mind. The logic being your brain tries to hide difficult emotions aka stress and most specifically repressed anger (which you may be even unaware off) by creating physical pain by creating oxygen deprevation in some nerves (which is totally harmless like a cramp but feels like the end of the world to you).

So the pain is real and measurable even though harmless. Regardless, this creates fear and you start believing that the problem in your disc bulge, herniation, etc which is causing it. This is my own interpretation but it's the fear of pain more than pain that makes it into a debilitating pain.

Once you add all the advice on sitting like this and standing like that and getting into the car like this plus problems from your MRI, X Ray and more and more things you are doing wrong, you start believing there is something actually very wrong with you. Yet is not the cause of it but just your repressed emotions.

So long story short as soon as you start believing your body is fine and it your emotions causing the pain, the pain loses its purpose and goes away (that's why people who have been struggling for years get better in 2 to 3 weeks).

The best part is you don't even have to fix the emotions, Just knowing your issue is not structural will make you better.
You can't “turn off the borrow checker” in Rust
He is not a Nazi because he fought against them, but someone who had the same views as him today simply would be labelled a Nazi (or at least Nazi sympathizer) by many in the current environment. Strange times.
As much as I think the EU is mostly a force for good, they also have very different opinions on what free speech entails compared to say the US. Australia, where I’m from, even more so. Im unsure how we fight this.
This shouldn't even have to be done is the point
Like I said, I think it's a step in the right direction. It provides a bit more guidance than a typical cheatsheet, but I'd still consider it mainly a cheatsheet.

It doesn't really show how data moves around the different parts as much as it hints that something moves into these nebulous buckets when you run certain commands.
My wife has been biking to work for a couple of years now (I work in an industrial zone - I don't trust the awareness of large truck drivers - so I don't follow suit) and it's really revitalized her joy for the city. Her commute has become something she loves. Because of this new found passion we've both bought new bikes, have started passing our weekends by experiencing the city from the view of a bicyclist, and while it can be frustrating finding a place where you're bike can go (our city has been building bike lanes and mixed use paths like crazy which help a great deal), it's been incredibly enjoyable to bike to those places one normally wouldn't go due to the car traffic and the pain of parking. Last weekend we put 100 km on over a days travel just getting out and enjoying the city, we've also taken day trips out to neighbouring municipalities to better explore.

The problem with all this of course is that it snowed here yesterday, and that's just the first sign of a trend that's going to last until April.
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Very interesting post, especially with regards to the granularity Uber needs to forecast. This granularity on the time scale alone means that Uber is kind of forced to compress a pretty big part of there Sales and Operations Planning into a very short period of time.

I'm really looking forward to the follow up posts, espiacially the process is intriguing. Being an Ops guy myself I aleeady see now a lot of challenges and also fun in this.

Also nice note: Traditional taxis don't have that problem (in a positive sense). Having a learning and intelligent network of drivers reacting tobthese paterns and acting them allows them to achieve availability, in less efficient and less customer friendly way. Another advantage taxis is fixed pick-up locations (at least they exist in Germany). This allows traditional taxis to shape demand on the location level. By provding cuatomers a more convenient solution Uber now is forced to actively plan on both axis.
In case anyone wants to find the book he co-wrote there is a link on the co authors site (https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/liberty-team/silkie-ca...) it is called Information Security for Journalists. I hope that he is ok and just decided to go off the grid as some of his friends speculate.
This is the best comment!

I wondered this myself. I mean, I can test it and see that it appears to give the correct result, but how do I prove that it gives the correct result?

I didn't include it, but you can do reductions, successively replacing the names with their expansions, and you see that it works out was we want.

And in Combinatory Logic, there really is nothing else. If an expression has the correct "type," then it works. There's nothing except rearranging terms, duplicating terms, and erasing terms.

But that being said, I don't know if that's a "proof," and I especially don't claim that a proof about Combinatory Logic would say anything at all about JavaScript.
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Capital gains tax in the US is among the top in the world, and if you live in California I believe it's #2 considering the state's 13.3% addition.

You're right that net worth taxes are non-starter virtually everywhere, that's one thing both parties will always agree on.

Reid is only worth about $10M at 78 years old, not exactly massively wealthy, it brings him just barely into the 1%.
Except the UK has attempted to pass similar power grabs a number of times. Sadly.
For those in Chicago: Darger lived for 43 years at 851 W. Webster Avenue in the Lincoln Park (the house no longer exists).
Apple's best product is now privacy
Barley wine, malt liquor, grain champaigne?
I’d love more bikes in our town, but it’s not very flat. Is there some data on how much flat does the town have to be to get around on a bike? (I guess electric bikes change that equation a bit, but they’re still quite expensive.)
Git gets complex pretty fast, but in teaching the junior devs starting at my company I realized there are really only 5 or so commands that get used on a daily basis for the basic stuff: fetch, checkout, add, commit, push

I think if people new to git can wrap their heads around those, the rest is easier to learn and can be learnt as needed
If you are in the .NET world, you can use Refit or RestEase:

https://github.com/reactiveui/refit

https://github.com/canton7/RestEase
You can now raise the spectre of Andover. :(
Crypto is by-and-large only good for illegal transactions; same as BitTorrent is only good for illegal downloads.

Anyone talking about other "applications" doesn't understand the way things currently work.

People with this correct opinion might get censored by the Inquisition but we have only been right so far...
You can also ‘return’ the outer function from within a ‘for...of’ which is pretty useful imo.
I like this trick that I use in C. It's limited, as it only matches string prefixes, but it works pretty well in the end: https://tia.mat.br/posts/2018/02/01/more_on_string_switch_in...

It allows you to write something like this: https://github.com/lpereira/lwan/blob/master/src/lib/lwan-ti... -- which is generated as a binary search by GCC.
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There’s more to it than that. China was a cycling nation for most of the 20th century. They went from safe cycling nation, to now, where the most populous cities with good mass transit are clogged by cars and some motorcycles.

Affluence is a factor. Later on post-affluence may permit a social signal to again take up biking becuase it’s a choice of the upper middle class and become aspirational..
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I did read, but didn't understand the parent comment. Apologies!
Gas infrastructure works when the power is out... It can't survive all natural disasters, but some.

When it's -6 degrees outside and you have hot water, heat, and a fireplace that are all still working you'll get it real quick.

A furnace does require a generator to run the blower, but it can be a pretty small one and it sips fuel.
Reading doesn't make anyone successful. Working does.
Reading improves your knowledge if you read the right stuff.
Working and applying what you read improves your odds.