skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Management: "We wrote a new version, it was 300k SLOC!"

Me: "Wasn't the earlier version 30k SLOC?"

Management: "Yes."

Me: "So what was added?"

Managment: "You can load software via FTP now, and there's an embedded HTTP server!" (what they said)

Management: "270k SLOC!" (what I heard)

Me: "But now we have to manage that, maintain it. What capabilities does this give us?" (answer: none, the old way of loading software was only slightly slower, and because this is embedded you always needed physical access anyways)

Management: "But our programmers can handle it."

Me: "Today, because they wrote it. J over there is leaving to be a project manager on something else. Who will handle this after he's gone? Oh, and you actually started putting the maintenance on a group of contractors who weren't involved in the development."

Management: "We'll rewrite it again!" (what they'd have said if they hadn't walked away)
Sorry for being a little off-topic, but speaking of GitLab CI's, I really wish Auto DevOps wouldn't be enabled by default/mysteriously when there's no .gitlab-ci.yml and it hasn't been manually enabled. You end up with the red 'build: failed' icon which appears to be impossible to delete/hide even if you disable Pipelines under project permissions and disable everything under CI/CD.

I believe one thing that cause it is changing a repo from private to public without unchecking Pipelines permission (enabled by default). The new GitLab profile pages looks absolutely gorgeous, but I suspect many will be turned off by the highly visible 'build: failed' icons next to the repos, even if those repos contain nothing but a JSON file.. I personally had to resort to deleting the repo and creating a new one to get rid of it. And on that note, clicking on the '/users/username/projects?limit=10&page=2' next button results in the Overview tab turning blank.
I found it interesting to learn that all these companies are re-drawing all of these emoji in different ways, that there is actually a site that writes news about emoji, and that people turn out to hold strong views on these matters.
It's probably not facebook. Your wife's friend may have certain apps installed that have access to her texts, both incoming and outgoing, and they are likely phoning home her data and selling phone numbers to scammers. I've seen this where I've been texting my wife and then soon after get text adverts based on certain words we were using.
On paper, yes. In practice, no.

A one-party "democratic republic" is not a democratic republic.

A country that's doing what China is doing in Xinjiang to the Uighurs isn't a country with a bill of rights that matters.

I'll agree that China is not at the moment particularly communist/marxist. That doesn't make them a democracy.
To add to this, 30 million Chinese actually live in caves. That’s got to have an effect on the mean.

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/18/world/la-fg-china-ca...
Your slightly less inane argument is a good example for why they would deny last minute refunds, because some of those expenses cannot be undone at the last minute. But if the paid passengers take the flight, their ticket costs cover all those expenses you list. By failing to take the flight and not requesting a refund, a passenger does not add to those expenses, and even reduces the fuel expense slightly. So where are the damages?
A pioneering scientist explains ‘deep learning’
Nice. Looks like a competitor to Retool: https://tryretool.com/. (or perhaps the other way around, since Bubble predates Retool)
We can have light-hearted pieces that are actually relevant to tech or science in an interesting, or meaningful way.

Also, again, my partner and I use emoji all the time, but I absolutely certainly do not when communicating with other developers, clients, or anything with an air of professionality.

Case in point: HN does not support emoji. Or, if it does, certainly nobody uses them. And it is certainly not a feature I’ve seen requested here.
Then yes, I supposed the English professors would be more concerned. They likely have less experience with physics than physicists have with English literature. I still doubt either group would actually write anything publishable, so it's a strange proxy for intelligence. Being able to write publishable academic works has much more to do with experience and domain specific knowledge than anything else.

Why not just ask which group would score higher on an IQ test? Because then I'd have no problem guessing that the physicists would, on average, have higher IQ scores. I don't think that's a controversial statement though - Stephen Hawking was often touted as the smartest man alive for his accomplishments in physics.
Anecdotally, my wife owns a villa in a fifth tier city (even under another city as a prefecture!), and housing prices there seem comparable to a smaller American city (like say Spokane) of similar size.

The median income in Beijing is around 18k RMB/month. The one bedroom we were renting was 7500 RMB/month, which was considered neither cheap nor expensive...it was definitely cheap for what I was making but then I had to forgo a lot of niceties that I wanted (like a real shower). My rent in the states is much higher but I don't have to worry about the same crappiness that even a high-end Beijing apartment has.
The Strange Loop videos are in the process of being uploaded still. There are a lot that deserve a look. I was there at this talk as well. This is one of the most diverse and high level conferences out there.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_QIfHvN9auy2CoOdSfMWDw/vid...
...but is a hackathon exclusively all-coding affair? I don't think so.
Also, you only have room to park your car when the house is in certain orientations!
Some neighborhood kids would definitely wedge rocks in-between the rotating platform.
For the sake of argument, let's assume that the headline is true -- local governments have taken on more debt than they can service in a slowing economy.
What's the endgame? Here are some possibilities, would love to see some economic modeling to quantify some scenarios.

1) Central government gradually inflates the currency to monetize the debt with a few defaults along the way. Damage is funded by Chinese creditors (defaults) and Chinese citizens (inflation), and it takes 20 years to fully play out.

2) Central government bails out bad loans by selling a portion of their $3T in foreign reserves, including $1T of US government debt. Chinese creditors, investors and citizens are made whole. Foreign bond prices fall and interest rates rise, causing recession and financial crisis in the US.

3) Central government bails out a few well connected players, but mostly allows market forces to run their course. Shadow banks and local government financing vehicles go bankrupt, causing a cascade of bankruptcies in the real economy, and economic growth is 200 basis points under potential until 2022.
The way he portrays Allen as a man he looks up to, and he choice of photos, is touching.
The docs[0] state that the workflows live in `.github/main.workflow` and you can use the visual editor or edit them manually

[0]: https://developer.github.com/actions/creating-workflows/crea...
> Financial implosions tend to have bad effects on the political system

This is the primary driver behind my suspicion that some form of financial crisis the US economy has begun, but it's not yet visible when people look at the fundamentals. Unemployment is great, wages are rising, assets prices are growing, etc.

According to the indicators, the economy is as healthy as it can be. But our political situation suggests something is awry, people are way more pissed off than they should be.
Yet another first world problem solved. Phew...
More Liquidity for Cryptos with EXchange InFinite (XinFin.org)
Microservices can be useful if you really can share services between applications without organizational friction. In other words, they have to obey Conway's Law.

Unshared microservices are a waste of time and code. Make sure your org is actually ready for sharing, because it does add inter-work-group dependencies that the management and team structure must be comfortable with. I've seen "build it first and they will come" fall really flat.
'Chauffeur as a service' will work ONLY for the next five years till the time self-driving cars adoption starts.

When the government agrees to license Level 5 autonomous cars, it will come up with so many restrictions and regulations only a big business can afford to satisfy those regulations. For individual owners to satisfy all those regulatory requirements, the cost of the car becomes prohibitively expensive.

So the above mentioned solution is the long-term solution.

By 2025, Self-driving Electric fleet car same 1000 miles/month subscription $250/month (sharing rides with other passengers)
do you have a mirror to this? video has been taken down.
Jackson-Databind and Default Typing Vulnerabilities
I actually looked through a few peepholes (they didn't even have glass, they just had doors with holes where a real peephole might go!) for some of the apartments in the building I was renting in. These units weren't even renovated, they were just concrete shells! The other way to tell is to count how many lights are on during your night walk. First thing you find is that units with windows facing into the complex are usually more occupied than the outer ones (makes sense, noise is a big problem in the latter).

And traffic/parking was pretty bad at that complex, if 25% of the units were unoccupied, I couldn't fathom what full occupancy would actually look like.
Personal Book Library Web Project
It is a good thing I suppose, it means some of us don't have bigger worries than that.
No one will touch Sears. The debt they have is huge and all those pension crap of employees.

If Amazon have to do anything they will just open the stores. Buying Sears means opening own grave.
First, I think you guys did an amazing job and should not only celebrate you achievement within the short period of time, but also plan to execute this further. I think it's a good nice-to-have.
China can and should be measured by the same terms as Western economies, they're bound by the same constraints. There's nothing literally magical about China and their government isn't omnipotent, no more than the Soviets were.

The primary debt problem in the US, is the public debt of the US Government. The US Govt can decide to 'forget' their debt, they're going to use inflation to do it over time (that is, quantitative easing, debt monetization). US Government debt will increasingly be held internally as a percentage, as it expands by $700b-$1t per year. There are no external buyers for that much debt and they can't afford the high interest rates it will take to attract that much private capital over time (it'd rapidly swamp the US budget), only the Fed will be able to keep up with it. They'll follow the Japan recipe, holding rates artificially low perpetually to keep debt cheap, while debasing the dollar to stealth default on the debt in order to reduce its real value vs the economy and government finances. That's how Western nations forget their debts.
Google to Split Chrome and Search from Android in EU
A democratic republic with a president for life?

They're communist.
How much accounting regulation is actually enforced on these? How many ghost projects or empty infrastructure with revenue booked using estimated values instead of real sales?

I don’t doubt that it won’t be an entire haircut, but to say these function like regular bonds seems odd.

Is there a contagion concern here? What other products are collateralized using these? We saw this of course with well-rated packages of loans actually being manure. Anything like packaged LGFVs with hedges?

Asking because I have no idea and am legitimately curious about the possible downsides.
I wish I could use an eye-roll emoji right now...
Same result, we starve.
Do you routinely eat bagels dry? I don't think most of us do.

Having the emoji show a barren surface is a great insult to those of us who enjoy bagels. It was not cute until they fixed this terrible error.
When you want to know were some commit came from.

For example you can make a seemingly unrelated change in a feature branch.

And then later wonder why this change has been done. Of course you could hope to find the merge into master where the feature name could be mentioned. But it’s nicer to have it on the commit.

=> it gives extra context to the commit
The options are stupid because they have themselves stupid options. Then, write articles describing and defending how out of all the idiotic options they left themselves for this even which would obviously happen eventually, they chose the least stupid. I’m not even remotely impressed.
Yes, computing costs far outweigh hosting costs.
Do you have a source on that discount story? Because I'm not able to find one right now.

Not the OP, but my neighborhood's Nextdoor message board is filled with both Ring discounts, and pleas from the local PD for people to buy them. I have no proof that they're related, but if the marketing is being done through hyper-targeted methods like this, it might explain why it's not Googleable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%F0%9F%8D%A0 progress (HN does not like emoji's it strips them: cool URL's don't change)
The other two blog posts linked at the top are also entertaining and educational reading.

Making Windows Slower Part 0: Making VirtualAlloc arbitrarily slower
Making Windows Slower Part 1: Making file access slower
People most definitely DO NOT have similar values, and this almost entirely explains the left/right divide within the United States. Most Americans have been brought up to believe in shared beliefs like individual liberty, equality before the law, basic human rights, etc. This is the common vision we are striving to achieve. But beliefs are not the same as values. The divide comes in how we prioritize our values in achieving those goals.

Jonathan Haidt has done a lot of important work in this area, I recommend you check him out. Our moral foundations are based on: Harm/care, Fairness/reciprocity, Ingroup/loyalty, Authority/respect, and Purity/sanctity. Lefties really only care about the first two, conservatives care about all 5, and harm/care + fairness/reciprocity typically rank lower than the other values. Look at the FIRST comment on this thread. Then look at the list of values. It is really easy to see what our arguments are about once you know why people think the way they do.

I disagree strongly with your last point. Almost everyone wants to be happy, avoid suffering, have healthy and harmonious relationships, to live life as they choose, have a sense of purpose, etc. Our fights are typically about how to achieve that for every citizen. If you can find a LARGE population of people that does not want those things I will happily retract my statement.
No, it’s that human rights have long been used as instruments of aggressive foreign policy by some countries; so now, when issues are raised, there is an instinctive reaction from some quarters that basically means “oh no, you will not use that to bully Country X, because you are no saint either”.

It’s the diplomatic equivalent of
“Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own?”
Yeah, I’m sure Alabama or whatever is just swarming with spies looking for aircraft parts.
Gosh, there's more depth in that layer of cream cheese than in the entire iOS 7 interface remake.
Staff Identity Card OCR Project
Maybe you meant that it doesn’t have a native macOS app? It is indeed an Electron app on macOS.
The thing is: You're now effectively living on an island, albeit one that requires ongoing maintenance and other expenditures to remain seaworthy. And hope you don't have a big storm that you're very exposed to. Most people don't want to live someplace where they have to take a boat trip to go to work or the grocery store.

Some are fine with that but, guess what, you can often live on islands with a fairly low COL. There's tons of land in the US generally. It's just some specific locations of land that are expensive.

From an engineering perspective, you also can't build it up that much. When I worked on rig designs, every time we added equipment, we had to verify that the center of gravity remained within acceptable limits. You can't just build a multi-level structure atop the entire rig or it would become dangerously unstable.
It's kind of hilarious to hear this kind of complaint when 10x or more space is taken up with car parking space.
None of these sentiments on the rise are "blaming the victim". They seem more like "not believing the victim".
Yes, stolen — McConnell's refusal to put the matter to a vote, in the hope of holding out for a GOP president, was a gross subversion of the implicit constitutional norm that when a president officially nominates someone, it's the Senate's duty to render an up-or-down vote. That was one of the many, many reasons I finally left the GOP this year after being a Republican since age 9 (I got in trouble for putting a Goldwater sticker on my parents' car).
Ubuntu Unity. As soon as it got mature (some last Ubuntu releases including it) it became the best desktop environment I've ever seen. I was not amazed when they gave up Gnome2 and started Unity (I've moved to XFCE for many years) but learnt to love it later and the move to Gnome3 feels a disaster to me (IMHO Gnome3 is great for tablets but horrible for desktop). Now I've reproduced an environment very similar to Unity with KDE5 and enjoy it but I would certainly love Unity to actually come back.
Hypothetically if people didn't click ads, then yes that would be true. But they do, so it's immaterial.
Expected more from an eulogy from Bill, but that was not to be. Co-founding is obviously hard. Successful business or not.
Given that modern Android applications require access to API's that are only installed with Google Play Services, it hardly seems optional.
> you can't have a successful phone in the US and Europe without it

I'm not convinced this is the case. Depends on definitions of successful. The absence of competition is not the same as the absence of the ability to compete, and regulating the latter under that assumption improperly assumes it will fix the former. There is more to success than the playing field.
Password Strength Meter Comparison
Sure, if they had made any preparations or advance plans to save our billions of dollars worth of equipment. Instead, they write articles about how we just don’t know how hard it is to not waste $4 billion.
> it serves as more of a shibboleth

Like the word "orthogonal" - always know I'm talking to a techie when that one rears its head.
Expert disclosed a new passcode bypass to access photos on a locked iPhone
Very nice. I'm filled with enthusiasm about this. I've been meaning to "scratch" the "itch" re: offline browsing so that I can clear out the hundreds of suspended browser tabs that I'm toting around. This looks great. (Now, I just need to do, like, 10 tabs / day.)
Because he made huge cuts to social welfare programs as he was required to do in order to get a budget passed through a heavily Republican congress. Taxes were also raised and military spending was held steady throughout the 90s.
Wow, what a cluster-F of an operation, I often think these guys are overrated. Also, Green Berets don't have much in the way of experience or training on these specific kinds of things, in fact very, very few American forces will. I hope these guys are sanctioned back in the US.
Could they possibly have thought ahead a little more? Is this the first time a storm hit the area or something?
They usually don't record or activate outside of a range of 30 feet or so.

The Ring videos my neighbors post show their yards, the sidewalk, and all the way to the cars on the other side of the street.

It seems to be all about how your doorbell is positioned, though.
That (Big O as slang) sounds like a horrible situation.

It feels analogous to the widespread use of "exponentially" to mean "a lot" or "quickly" which is a really bad, silly thing. The difference is that few physicists and mathematicians misuse "exponentially" in casual conversation, whereas you are claiming that software people deliberately misuse "Big O". I'm not sure I believe you but either way this seems regrettable.
I think a massively underutilized core strength of developers is that we have a working thought process in front of us in the form of code, which can be used for more than just running a program.

In my experience, complexity in the code often reveals not only technical problems, but frequently also points to product and business issues. Exploding complexity and long iteration cycles are often a consequence of bad business decisions. Looking at the points of exploding complexity in the code can sometimes help identify these issues.

The key is to make the disciplines work together. Business and product decisions should not trickle "down" to developers. Instead, there should be a working feedback loop. For that to be achieved people need to be team players and talk to each other frequently. It also helps to have a 10% or so generalist in each team member's head to guarantee a shared understanding of a high level perspective.

I know, I know — this is all a given in agile methodologies. But in reality, it's unfortunately rarely executed that way.
I don't think you understand what "light-hearted" means...

The whole point is that it doesn't have to be relevant to tech or science in a meaningful way.

I also don't use emoji when communicating with clients or in anything that should carry a professional tone. But I'm also a person with a personal life and personal friends and so on.
I thought this was a great joke and hung out in the Reddit for a while. It got tedious, and some people seemed to be taking it alarmingly seriously, so I stopped.

I think the lesson is that jokes wear off quickly and anything money-like hooks people the same way.
Not so fast. In 1993/4, Clinton had a plan to cut the budget, with the bulk of the cuts set to happen after he left office, even if he had two terms (which was not a given then). Then the Republicans took Congress in 1994, and they basically starved Clinton of money, and the result was not just a balanced budget, but a surplus. But Clinton doesn't get the credit - he wasn't going to do it on his own. Congress forced him to.

For that matter, the previous Democratic president to balance the budget was Andrew Jackson, so don't act like the Democrats are the party who balances the budget.

But Republicans only seem to care about financial prudence when they're not in power (or at least, not in the White House). If you actually care about a balanced budget and financial responsibility... the US may not be the right country for you. (Maybe Switzerland?)
American private military companies like this one and Blackwater need to be abolished.
>there have been traces of evidence for exercise playing a preventative role in Alzheimer’s disease

It seems quite a weak correlation compared with the story 3 months ago "Alzheimer's risk 10 times lower with herpes medication" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17540094

Maybe healthier / exercising people are better able to deal with viruses?
Perhaps one should ask the interviewer whether they want a YAGNI-style solution or a more general/abstract solution. If you can give both, you may really impress the interviewer.

Asking first to understand the needs and intention of the application should be a first step anyhow. Diving into the deep-end face first and coding is rarely the correct approach (except maybe a startup racing for market-share).
Seems to me like the only terrorists in this story are the American mercenaries and UAE government that hired them.
What competitive advantage does Uber have over other companies? At least in my country, ride hailing companies are treated like taxis, and people switch instantly to the one that offers a better deal in town.
A EULA basically never applies, so yes, you’re incorrect.