skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recall watching the movie back in the days when I was a child and I had no clue about backpacking. It was just weird surreal experience. 10 years later, spending 2x 3 months in India and Nepal this way, some aspects of my life changed for good.

For example I will never ever do any other type of vacation, it doesn't matter if with kids or being old (of course the nature of the trip will reflect those aspects). I will never book or plan whole vacation in advance, rather just have flight tickets, info about possibilities, and adjust plans as trip unfolds.

One is getting much much more bang for your bucks this way, especially since you generally spend less bucks to start with. Intensity of travel is much higher, one interacts much more with locals, tastes true local foods etc. Its one of those things that the more money you put in, the less rewarding and more bland experience you are getting back.
Quotas really are everywhere in real life too, but, as you say, they are paired with word limits. Writing to a particular length is an important skill for professional writers. Novels, non-fiction books, short stories, magazine articles, newspaper articles, all have very specific (and fairly narrow) acceptable ranges for word count.
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"shield you from management/bigcorp bullshit"

I've heard that memorably described as managers either being "shit umbrellas" or "shit funnels".
programmers instinctively overcomplicate things in interest of collective job security

It’s more likely boredom. Cranking out yet another CRUD app is more fun if you do it in a weird way. And a new “skill” for your resume.
I read about 3 metrics that make a good manager 10 years ago in HBR or some similar publication. Since then I have run the list against my good managers, and the bad ones, and it always holds up.

A good manager must:

1) be Competent

She doesn't have to be the best coder, or even able to code, but she needs to be competent in her area of expertise. Nobody can stand working for an incompetent for too long

2) be Consistent

If he is not there next week the team should reasonably be able to continue and predict his decisions. Nothing is worse than having someone constantly flip flop on their decisions, or worse just blowing in the wind to please his superiors.

3) Care about you - genuinely.

You have to believe they care about you, genuinely. This person has your best interest, and your career advancement in mind.
The solution based on that data is clearly to cancel men.
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> Am I misunderstanding something?

Probably. Did you attempt the quiz?

> If they wrote a blog post on rules of thumb for evaluating code, would you take it seriously?

I don't know if I would take it seriously before I read it. But after reading it, if it had quiz showing me their method could get over 95% correct after reading a 10 or so word summary of the end result, I'd take it very seriously. I haven't come across too many things in my professional life that have save me that much time.

It makes you wonder just how much spare time the people who peer reviewed those papers had on their hands.
The note-taking tool business is tricky. OS vendors have great versions included for free (Apple Notes, OneNote) and there is a surfeit for free and good-enough solutions.

It makes me fearful about the positioning of my own tool - https://thorny.io - an interactive notebook for decision making.

It could be categorised as a flavour of note-taking tool because it's like a cross between an outliner, a spreadsheet, and a logic-programming tool. If it is treated as a type of note-taking tool then it puts it into the red ocean. I'm not sure there is space for multiple note-taking tools in people's workflow. Spreading notes across tools would be a massive pain-point.
I have watched Zuckerberg's testimony on the Capitol Hill and the distance between him and the senators was significant. He looked kind of calm, but I think I sensed some intrinsic distance. Facebook, being as huge as it is, I think it might be hard for Zuckerberg to even think in terms of smaller-scale problems, not that Cambridge Analytica is a small scandal, but his capabilities of understanding the frustrations that leaked users might have had seemed pretty limited.
I'm not sure why you believe this. Every discussion of PR's tax scheme, the issue of 183 days comes up. Even people with a passing interest are aware of this requirement. Sure, you can lie about it and hope you're not audited, but knowingly lying on your taxes is already broadly known to be a dangerous game.
I have little experience with native iOS development, so you might well be right. That said, Telegram strikes me as quite a bit simpler than Slack. Not just in number of features, but also considering how many of the features are 'strange' UI.

As an aside, apparently the next version of Telegram will be a complete rewrite done in Swift, and snappier as a result.
Why? It sounds like she was giving direction to her directs and holding them to account. Every manager who gets stuff done does the same thing in their own style.

There arguably are less blunt ways to do it - but for that team, it seems like it was the right approach. Also, OP is presumably overstating the need to be typing all the time since that's not how programming works.
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What law specifically does this violate?
As far as I can tell this is about artificial canals, not natural streams of water.
> What's happened is more annoying "we use cookies and track you"-banners all over the internet.

Not exactly. What happened on many sites is that along with that notification you are given an option to opt out of tracking and view crazy-long lists of partners with whom data is shared. So on those sites the user is given both choice and greater transparency. (Although I admit usually the choice is presented in such a way that it is easy to accept and difficult to reject - which is actually prohibited by GDPR.)

However on the other hand, as you say, there are sites which only give notification without giving any choice - which is also prohibited by GDPR. So I'd say the law is good, now we need to see it enforced and actually punish sites which do not follow it.
It's common knowledge that wasps are far more aggressive than the bees commonly found in Europe and North America. Maybe that common knowledge is wrong, but AFAICT the paper doesn't dispute that. It does admit that wasp stings are more painful, but then waves that away by arguing that most wasp species can't even sting, which is irrelevant.

Also, you're far more likely to find wasp nests (of the stinging variety) in very inconvenient places, like under an eave near your front door. This makes them far more of a potentially dangerous nuisance than bees.
> Keep an eye out for opportunities to improve the group outcome in the future and have a nice day.

I think what you describe just minimizes fuel consumption though.

I had not really considered that people might view it differently but thinking back on my experience in Canada, I remember being surprised at how much people would accelerate when the light turned green and how hard they would have to brake just seconds later at the next red light.
It doesn't necessarily break the law though, as far as I can tell.

There are exceptions in the law for when the person's sex genuinely matters. If you're hiring male models/dancers/actors/medical test subjects, for instance, then you're exempted. As far as I could see in my skim-read of the article, it makes no mention of such cases.
At a time when people are questioning the impact of technology on their lives and looking for leadership from independent organizations like Mozilla
This book A First-Rate Madness by Nassir Ghaemi [0] is about that. He looks at various historical leaders and how one half of them make good wartime leaders, but bad peacetime leaders, and the other half -- the opposite. Some of his case studies are, as far as I can remember (couldn't find a summary online): generals in US civil war (Lee and the scortched-earth-guy), Chamberlaine, Churchill, Hitler, JFK, Lincoln, Napoleon, Nixon, Bush. US centric, but still pertaining to anyone.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/First-Rate-Madness-Uncovering-Between...
Huawei would like to participate in "forced" partnership and open their servers to the US government in exchange US market access. But still, it's banned by national security. laughable?
Here:

https://www.deconstructconf.com/2018/julia-evans-build-impos...
But China protects local emcumbents and new entrants, forces joint ventures and IP transfer. If the Chinese market worth it? For some companies yes if course, but I don't think the Chinese market is always a good idea... Which is exactly what China wants.
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This looks neat!

Is it possible to get started without creating an account on your website? I couldn't figure out how, but I figured there must be a way if it's "100% on-device".
https://mentalhealthdaily.com/2015/02/18/at-what-age-is-the-...

TL;DR: Human brains are fully formed after 25 years. This means that you make decisions differently before 25 and after 25.
https://mycroft.ai/ is a very popular assistant too.

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I was backpacking back in the day this was still circulating as a book. Internet was just becoming a thing but yet far from pervasive (trips to the internet café once or twice a week to "phone home") - good times :-)
Perhaps your error is thinking of currency as a part of the natural world, rather than what it really is, an invented medium of exchange. In order for it to work in its intended fashion, it must have some scarcity. It can’t be so scarce that it hinders growth, and it can’t be so abundant that it causes too much inflation. It’s not the only means of exchange, it’s simply the most efficient one, and the role of the central bank is primarily to maintain appropriate balance between the forces that push and pull on the money supply.
I mean, our bridges in the US are not necessarily great. From the Tacoma Narrows bridge to the I-35W bridge... sometimes they collapse.
It actually might be a lucky thing that you heard a crackle and smelled smoke, because whatever burned up might have left a sign on the board. If you look at the board carefully under bright light with a magnifying glass, you may see some component that is clearly messed up, like blackened or ruptured.
I think it goes both ways. As a democracy, America has a pressure valve if things are going poorly, and a peaceful transition of power to the other side of politics is always an election away. (It could fall as a democracy, but it's hard to see a trade war with China being a cause for that.) Maybe America might discover a lack of political will, but there's also a chance it could be wrapped up in nationalism and sold to voters, and action against China is one of the rare things that a number of strongly anti-Trump people do support.

As the rulers of a one-party totalitarian state, the CCP is setting itself up to take the credit and blame for everything in China. Following the "century of humiliation", China is attempting a century of rejuvenation. It started poorly with the Cultural Revolution and tens of millions dying in famine and violence, but it has made remarkable progress since Mao. It appears that the government is well-liked today (although nobody knows anything about China [1]) and economic development is continuing. The government can easily deal with a bit of discontent if required (by, say, putting a million people in concentration camps), but if there was a genuine crisis and people realised that the government had terribly mismanaged things or economically stagnates long before it becomes truly wealthy, the CCP might find that the mandate of heaven has shifted.

1. https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/21/nobody-knows-anything-a...
I'm looking for exactly this, and at this point I don't care what it costs. I just need something to store all my receipts/mail/invoices in, and have them OCR'd and searchable from all my devices (so unfortunately DEVONthink is a no-go)

Any recommendations?
I don't myself, but my brother, who designs and builds stages for U2 and other musicians, uses it for automation (lights etc.)
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“She named it the White Shark Cafe even though she wasn’t sure whether the sharks went there for food or sex.”

In that case she should have called it “Plenty Of Fish”...
I can also see the bug on macOS with Safari 12.0.

I find it quite worrying that devs already wrote a lib to fix the issue but didn't fill a bug report to Apple and shared it on SO. Anyway, a trendy HN post might be enough to get the attention of some Apple devs and I've pinged a dev just in case: https://twitter.com/ArmandGrillet/status/1042339847384518656
Some of the best experiences I've had programming is when I thought of something I'd like to make, but it seemed impossible. Then I went and made it.

You do that enough times and coding becomes like real-world magic. You know you can do it, you don't know how yet.

Yes, there are places you can get stuck. Rules-processing, unstructured data, Markov Chains, ML, and so forth. But even that's a win. You start understanding the various classes of problems to be solved and how best to approach each one of them. That kind of meta-knowledge is really difficult to get without wading into things.

At the end of the day, you realize that there's no such thing as impossible problems in coding. There's just problems that people can't figure out how to produce optimum results. A lot of the ML stuff we're seeing now is more like "make the best of things" and less like math.

Programming is a hoot.
>I wrote a lib to fix the bug. https://www.npmjs.com/package/array-reverse-polyfill

everyday we stray further from god
When software engineers stop disclaiming all liability for their products failing, we can talk about them like we talk about engineers (sidenote: some are already take responsibility)
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Sure, the intention is relevant.
Definitely. As a rule of thumb, the shorter the event, the more it advantages young males.
This game template was design for students with zero experience. So the create new objects command was omitted in the user defined rules. The game itself controls the box placement for this game. The goal of that game was to learn about events and actions.

I plan to add more game templates with the create object command for more advanced users. You can set it's properties, game physic values and so on. The game itself will need to implement and execute that command. The game template just tells the Game Creator what that current game supports. So the magic happens in the game code. Hit view source on the game if want to see it.

The project was built in a 2 weeks; server, Alexa integration, mini-game, and game creator logic. If the project gets any traction, I'd love to keep working on it.
To be fair, Nokia's Windows Phones used plastic which felt rather valuable and high quality. It was an excellent finish that doesn't feel out of a place in a premium device at all.
>And we have not yet started talking about the weaponizing of the dollar, which can be recently seen in the conflict with Iran.

Not just with Iran, but everywhere. Most people do not realize the monopoly of USD in banking transactions.
Essentially US can pass laws or even through executive order control the economic and trade policy of other countries.
Turkey and India are barred from buying Russian equipments. This is not free trade. When US uses its monopoly to block India from trade with Iran and tries the same with China, that’s not really free trade either.

You mentioned weaponizing dollar, many people do not realize how it works. We’ve seen a lot of negative news about China recently . I suspect some of it has to do with their decision to open their own oil futures trading that is not run on USD. This could be the largest threat to the USD monopoly. Time will tell..,

edit: additional links and info:

Basic info on Shanghai crude futures [0]

Some early speculative behavior. I wonder with low early volumes in this market can be manipulated to scare off more serious investors [1]

Seems like the Shanghai market had its first delivery on Sep 12 [2], that being said, some predict it might take 10 years before it will have serious impact on the market. But sometimes financial markets move ahead of the physical realities. So, its impact might become palpable in just a few years [3]

[0] https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-china-crude-oil-futures-an...

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-07/oil-specu...

[2] https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/China-Completes-First-...

[3] https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/2139676/will-ch...
What I remember from the talk: 1) Don't be a drunken sailor that aimlessly wanders from one topic to another; 2) There are millions of competitions out there, pick one, and become the best. It's an excellent talk.
>>but it doesn't feel inherently discriminatory to advertise a job in, say, "Men's Health" but not "Cosmopolitan" magazine.

Similar but still very different argument. A woman can pick up Men's Health but FB ads just don't show up in her stream. Also Uber specifically and purposefully left women out, unless they say, "oh, we clicked the checkbox by mistake" ("or didn't click the women one..." )
This is a great point. I wish more people with an interest in policy/politics also had an interest of in intellectual history.

A lot of the most important debates of the last 100+ years has been on exactly this debate.

Rationalists like Ayn Rand (sort of), Rosa Luxemburg (red Rosa) and others on one side, and the like of Karl Popper & Hayek on the other.

When people talk about "testability" of a theory to decide if it's a scientific theory... they are borrowing from Popper's criticism of Freudianism, Marxism & the concept of metric based "government science."
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"In general relativity gravity is curvature of spacetime caused by mass-energy. Changes in curvature propagate at c, the speed of causality."

I really hope you meant speed of light there.

Regardless, this thing is still a mystery to me. Why, if gravity propagates at c (or, better perhaps: Changes in the space-time curvature, which is caused by mass-energy, propagate at c), why doesn't the earth spiral into the sun or away from it? If the earth is attracted to the point where the sun was eight minutes ago and not to where it is right now, it's orbit should not be stable. It's a very big difference compared to the "gravity is instant" way of Newton.
So what? Here their only mistake is not to license/buy some search engine instead of wasting years on developing another "meh" one. What they are doing here with semantic search is the future and their chance to make all existing code search engines obsolete. Use your favorite Internet search engine to find GitHub's snippets of code instead. Those won't give you semantic code search though.
This is why there are different records for this kind of thing.
Anybody think physics is starting to plateau? We had huge advances in the 20th century, I think driven in part by it's virtuous symbiosis with technology. The bleeding edge is however becoming ever more specialised and obscure and the experimental equipment necessary to generate new proofs is becoming increasingly expensive and cumbersome. Quantum Mechanics provides a wonderful set of tools for so many natural phenomena beyond mere subatomic particles. But - it's so far removed from the everyday now. What next for popular science?
>I find it quite worrying that devs already wrote a lib to fix the issue but didn't fill a bug report to Apple

Why should anybody work for a megacorp for free?
1st gen? are you kidding? millions of its international users love it no mention 1 billion domestic users. it's just mostly designed for Chinese users.
eslint can disallow == for anything but `== null`. Problem solved.

https://eslint.org/docs/rules/eqeqeq
If you read the article, there's an explicit mention of the possibility of tagged pointers for some implementations, where the low-order bits represent the address and the high-order bits are used for housekeeping and might change dynamically. Thus the pointer to the same object might naively cast to different integers at different times in program execution. That will lead to non-reproducible behavior.
grub is pretty bloated but also reliable.

Finding the kernel is not as easy as it used to be. You need to read the partition table on the disk. You need to be able to understand the filesystem that the kernel is stored on. This adds a fair bit of complexity.
>They wouldn't call it work/life balance if work was really part of your life.

Wow, absolutely agree.
I don't believe this, but I am curious what your thoughts are (or others) on the questioning of the premise that this job (or any job) needs "the best".
At what point do you want general purpose code to be position dependent?
Thanks but that doesn't work for me, I can't figure which extension is blocking me.

I get this when opening that link:

TypeError: "play" is read-only player.js:2:3975

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https://f.vimeocdn.com/p/3.3.17/js/player.js:2:260

TypeError: VimeoPlayer is not a constructor 290376045:1:9150
<anonymous>

https://player.vimeo.com/video/290376045:1:9150
This feels like the same thing as the other poster said. The problem is not so much that the VC model exists, so much as the leaders of Evernote decided to pursue it (and perhaps to some degree the culture in silicon valley which pushes founders towards this model).
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So someone breaks a world record by a really big amount and the top two comment threads are virtue signaling about how unsafe it is to ride various two wheeled vehicles fast and to borrow the words of another commenter, people talking past each other about 'highest performing males outperform highest performing females at almost everything' vs. 'average women are better at some things than average men.' Way to go. This is supposed to be a tech message board. /rant over.

Now can someone tell me what the construction differences are about this bike that makes that speed possible. For starters a normal bike tire won't like that speed let alone for that duration. Is she using tubed tires? I can't think of any application where tubed tires go that fast at all let alone for that long.
How much pain and time lost in debugging could have been avoided if this had been the standard from the get-go.
If it's sexist(Wikipedia definition, yeah... I looked it up) then it's unethical, and if it's unethical I'd assume that's because of the sexism.
Is it unethical and sexist? If it is, being overtly sexist/racist/classist and supporting it with data seems worse to me that just the former. Even it it is, it should surely not be outlawed.
To stick to this comment only:

> How do you fix this company?

I'll take a shot : you don't, the free market does it for you (ie. the company isn't going to last long, or the plant get shut down if part of a group). It's the VC/Angels money that allows such theoretical stories to be actually applied to startups.
I guess things have moved on from this Perl-Vista nightmare, I was personally looking forward to having all the coders around me screaming at their desktops in a fit of frustration and rage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzJ0CytAsec
For those who are not familiar with it, this is an allusion to this hilarious Clarke and Dawe routine:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
I've interviewed a few "data scientists". Some of them were pretty arrogant. Their idea of a "close to the metal" language was Numerical Python. I don't think these guys are going to be writing the next generation of OS anytime soon.