skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
unrelated, but sears has had a lasting impact on american life in some of the strangest ways. Im an automotive engine mechanic, and to this day I still see old cars with "sears" style 'advanced' tire balancing.

This was a service they offered back in the 90's and were subsequently litigated for it in some cases as they hadnt disclosed the full operational process to customers before the work was agreed upon. Basically a tire alignment at Sears also included wear leveling. Sears would pull your tires off, spin them in a special laser mapping machine on the wheel, and grind down high spots in the tire to "balance" it. this worked to remove flat spots in the tires but the technology could actually increase the chance of a bubble or blowout in certain conditions.

Then theres Craftsman tools. Worthless garbage from 2000 onward, but if you managed to find yourself a set of genuine Craftsman sockets or wrenches from the good old days then you're officially the dreamiest grease monkey in the shop. These wrenches were practically strong enough to tear the hinges off St. Peters gates. They were the gold-standard that settled every east german/west german tool argument from an old timer.
Pretty slanted. Politics are fun when they are so blatant in your face wrong.
I'm guessing there are cookies on other domains that their JS is looking for?

Nah, the browser doesn't let you do that. This SO answer suggests it's to pass the Referrer header so that the destination site knows the user came from Twitter:

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/343667
Narp, I mean sure he didn't get to keep his tenure as CEO, but he was barely in his 30's when Groupon changed hands to stock brokers, who'd rather have a more experienced - read: stock price level manager - CEO at the helm.

I wouldn't trust myself running a big company!
But does it fly?
Consumption vs. Dedicated Billing Models, Which One Is for Me?
Quite a few old thinkers have thought up models for that kind of prediction we do. Ex: Piaget. Gary Drescher's book "made up minds" presents his PhD work building a simulated environment and a robot in it that builds concepts about its environment through exploration.
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The least prophetic and most distracting part of Brave New World is the presence of the World Controllers in the first place. The idea that there is even someone to argue with about the preferred state of society is off - the folks driving forward a culture of consumerism and sounds byte dialogue are as much desparate consumption addicts as the rest of us!
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Valid points, I think both are great pieces though I will add that imo BNW nailed the cultural aspects of a dystopia. Mass indifference and "near infinite capacity for distraction".
You cannot for now just stop providing the CG-NAT, not when so much of the Internet is still v4 only. V6 deployment will reduce the load on it though.
I agree that with OP that the large number of people in Japan may be part of the explanation. But I think there are a few Japanese specific explanations at well. For instance,

- In Japan, sleeping in public is more common (0)
- The workplace is more formal, meaning more men in suits (1)
- Drinking after work is very common in Japan (2)

This means that sleeping outside is less taboo for salarymen, that they are more likely to wear a suit to work and they are more likely to head to the bar straight after work while still in their suit. In other places, I image people might change before heading to the bar or wear something different to work in the first place or might have more inhibition about sleeping in public.

(0) https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/world/what-in-the-world/j...
(1) https://www.businessinsider.com/differences-between-japanese...]
(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomikai
How is India so far ahead in IPv6 adoption?
That's ludicrous and unbelievable. Either the standard deviation is small, which implies that almost everybody does that, or the standard deviation is large, which implies there's a significant percentage of people spending more than 8 hours a day checking email. Either way I suspect this is more a demonstration of the unreliability of self-reporting than an accurate reflection of reality. Either that, or there's a significant deviation between what is being reported and what the wording of the question was on the survey. (I can imagine spending hours a day doing a task you received over email, but if your boss asks you for a report of something or other over email and you spend three hours assembling it, that could be "three hours related to email" but not "three hours checking email".)
Why would you think it's rare? I've seen places running multiple projects were developers were barely aware that the sysadmins gave everyone an IPv6 address, and therefore the rate limiting has to be IPv6-aware.

It's trivial to fix once it becomes a problem (at least in our case it was), but I wouldn't expect it to be an uncommon mistake.
Normally this means if your phone supports IPv6 then you will actually be connecting with Google over IPv6 and if you can only use IPv4 then it's be tunnelled, v4 → v6 → v4. So the stats should be accurate.
There was a Show HN for colorblind accessibility no later than a few hours ago. As someone who is red-green deficient, while I can see the difference, the list is barely readable. I would suggest using the whole background color of a cell, and using one dark shade of red for unavailable, and one bright shade of green for available.
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Just about everything Kate Gregory has presented at cppcon is worth watching. The nitty gritty tends to be C++-centric (as befits the venue), but the overarching themes are more or less universal.

Where Rich Hickey's Simple Made Easy talks about simplicity at the macro level, and mostly as an aspirational goal, Kate's talks focus on the practicalities of actually achieving simplicity at the micro level.
As brutal as that UI was by today's standards, I would still consider it far from the worst of UIs from the 90's. The behaviour of the controls were objectively bad, but for the short time era were still rather impressive. Media players seemed to always take the cake with terrible controls and skins for presentation. I love 'em.
"Design, Composition and Performance" by Rich Hickey.
His view of what improvising means is brilliant.

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Design-Composition-Perfo...
dig +short aaaa news.ycombinator.com
[no output]
If anything, that seems low. I'm a programmer, and I have days I'm completely chewed up doing email all day long. Other people, wrangling email is practically their entire job.
5.6 hours per weekday! That seems too much to be true. If we work 8 hours, we're left with 2.4 hours to do something else than checking emails.
Drinking with ethnic Japanese as a white or black person really does make you feel as if your tolerance for alcohol is doubled; in reality you just drink less and in smaller portions. A common way of drinking together in Japan is ordering a large pitcher of beer and sharing it with small glasses.

Culturally drinking still is expected behaviour in Japan. When you can't drink for a while because of medication or whatever reason, you will find yourself explaining and excusing yourself all the time; in part because of the Japanese cultural habit of filling eachother's glasses instead of your own — preferably in order of seniority.
Sonique
Yeah, I pictured the victim too. A friend of mine owned vending machines. He paid rent for each location, and any loss of product came from his own pocket. Similarly, I remember reading a letter to my local newspaper by a woman whose husband managed the newspaper vending machines. She pleaded for people to stop taking extra copies, because her husband had to pay for them. I always thought the newspaper ran those machines, but they're serviced by independent contractors here.
> street does seem to be a thing in Tokyo

it is not specific to Tokyo at all. Go to the center of Osaka, you will find drunk salarymen every day of the week.
Happens a lot in Korea. Having traveled extensively in both countries I'd say it probably happens more often in Korea actually.
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There are publicly available stats on this stuff. You can look them up on the IRS website. They disagree with your assertion.
You've given some good examples of nesting which don't introduce branches, but most nesting does and therefore, nesting is an approximation for the cyclomatic complexity of a piece of code. Reducing this complexity helps with testability and (moreso) with the ability of humans to understand the code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity

Agree with you that reducing nesting is not in and of itself beneficial.
Sure, soon we will publish are internal company handbook for the public too so I will share it here! :)
I was working for one of the "big" 3 planning the rollout of IPv6 in their cellphone network. They stopped the project due to budget concerns. Doesn't seem to be too high of a priority for them.
If they want it out by $DATE I'd argue it'd be simpler to add support for Apple Pay / Google Wallet.
Just the glass is cracked, accidental damage. I had a guy in a stall in Hong Kong fix it. Took 30 minutes, cost $35
In how many malls is Sears the remaining anchor store? This is going to be painful for suburban America.
Link shorteners in general are still handy esp when communicating the link in an medium that you can’t click on the url. TV, Radio, saying the link in a YouTube video (though that does have the description), saying the link during a live stream (though you have chat) and for just pure branding.
Oh and let's not forget the availability of 飲み放題 (drink as much as you want) plans in many restaurants at night. It's cheaper than usually ordering 3 drinks and leads to a higher consumption of alcohol at the end of the day...
CIO deciding to dump all Java estate and move to .NET/C# wouldn't last in the position for long. Business doesn't care much about platform or other technological nitpicks, they want solid, reliable tools. Both (and many more) can deliver this.

Java was, is and will be solid, you can find much more tools/frameworks/libraries for any task, and tons of highly skilled devs. That few people moan on internet forums won't change things a bit.
I sincerely believe we should treat quantum computing discoveries as (long term) major 0-days, as in they should sent in confidentiality to sensitive sectors's actors, those that depend heavily on classic encryption.
Encyclopedia of Ethical Failure (2016) [pdf]
That's just ridiculous, to a programmer. I don't remember when I have last received something critical by email, never mind hours worth of it. They're all either automated notifications or company-level announcements; neither requires immediate action, or often any action at all.
The Scandalous Story of Dreadful Code Written by the Best of Us - by Katrina Owen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp_ST9nbf5M

This talk made a strong impression on me when I was figuring out how to write more beautiful, and more readable code.
Work aside, how does the average user have 2.5 hours worth of personal emails to attend to per day?
> You can pretty much make this argument for everything - Ferraris should be plastered by LCDs with ads then.

Not a Ferrari, but my mother got a discount on her Toyota Yaris by letting the car dealer put a decal ad on it for 1 or 2 years. (Back in 2002 or so.)
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Wow. It's true because we (the audience) want it to be true. More than suspension of disbelief, it's buy-in. I've read A LOT of sci-fi. And I very much bought into the beliefs (of my favored authors).

Le Guin could just as easily be talking about current events. Today, we call it "make your own reality".

Thank you. I hadn't connected these dots before.
Both Korea and Japan are very high on the "drinking habits" ratio, and that shows in the rate of stomach cancers: both countries have the highest rate of such cancers in the world (as well as digestive tract cancer I think). Pharma companies usually rush to get their new cancer drugs approved in Japan because the market is so huge.

Rate of stomach cancer around the world:

https://pmj.bmj.com/content/postgradmedj/81/957/419/F1.large...
What Is Wireless Charging Good For?
Yes, and one of those things that comes for free is a very good UI layout system and tooling.
Why gene therapy will create so many jobs
How is it possible that even in the worst cases you spend more than 5 hours doing this? Every single day? Most emails require a quick, pre-determined response (which google actually makes easier for you now) and the ones that don't are surely not taking more than 5 minutes to type out.
How huge? If I may ask...
The real key is don’t put original data in the cloud, period.

If you save your surveillance data to a disk in your home, it’s subject to the traditional old fashioned warrant process. Once a third party has access, you have given up your rights in many ways.

Cloud for these use cases is dumb for many reasons. You don’t need cloud compute, don’t need cloud storage for the use case. I was able to do what these consumer cloud products do with raspberry pi type hardware a few years ago.
Because with IPV4 addresses getting ever more expensive[1] going straight to IPV6 for as much as possible, and placing everything else behind a provider-wide NAT saves you a lot of money. And in India they're trying to modernise as cheaply as possible.

[1]https://www.ipv4auctions.com/
Though it doesn't help at all if all the interruptions just move to slack, a realtime chat environment may just make messages feel even more urgent to react to than email...
Likely, it's just a password-protected database, not signed or such. I think that's what his/her app "Time machine" button does.
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Are closed-box speakers really better than ported ones?
That's neat. I am thinking about building something similar just with scanned invoices. I hope that using KNN on some image features can auto-classify the invoice into existing categories well enough...
There is a limitation on the header size in the oatpp html parser.

Think I should tweak this.

Thank you for the note!
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(make-vector length 0)

Interesting. That threw me off. I overlooked the previous paragraph:

In Emacs Lisp, an obarray is actually a vector. Each element of the vector is a bucket; its value is either an interned symbol whose name hashes to that bucket, or 0 if the bucket is empty. Each interned symbol has an internal link (invisible to the user) to the next symbol in the bucket. Because these links are invisible, there is no way to find all the symbols in an obarray except using mapatoms (below). The order of symbols in a bucket is not significant.

Thanks!
> [Direct instruction students] freeze when they
> encounter non straightforward exercises. They
> are unused to initial uncertainty, doubt,
> assume that if first attempt failed then it
> means something bad and there is no point in
> continuing etc.

I would argue that students "freezing up" when presented with new problems is _also_ a part of a solid educational approach. Careful guided instruction when introducing new topics is absolutely necessary. But at some point the student is going to need to practice "open-ended" problems.

It is sort of like weight lifting, to really develop one needs to reach the point of failure in a controlled way, regularly and repeatedly, BUT NOT ALL THE TIME.
On top of that, Tokyo is super safe. It's next to impossible to get mugged or abused. Weather is rather friendly for this behaviour as well.
I don't use finder that much. My workflow usually involves finding stuff in the terminal and then using `open .` to open it in finder if needed.

But that snipped was neet! So I'm adding it to my dotfiles.
Mobile networks (3g/4g) in India operate on ipv6. Thanks to Jio everyone and their dog has a 4g connection nowadays.
I would take Gosling's opinion over Brian Cantrill's one, given who was actually involved with Java at Sun.

Plus I belong to Java developers community since the early days, and I quite remember how the Sun, Oracle and IBM triad used to push Java altogether.

Including those NC announcements made by Sun and Oracle.
The new Palm is a tiny phone to keep you away from your phone
It was overfunded on Kickstarter, but then they - very transparently - expanded the scope of the game.

They delivered a documentary series, with a high production quality, while they were developing the game that was incredible to follow.

The communication through the forum during the development was excellent, transparent and informative.

I was very hyped about the game and it was not below my expectations. I enjoyed every minute of playing. It is not the best point-and-click adventure of all times if that was your expectation.

I believe it is nonsense to put in this list as well as comparing to the situation of the OP
That's one thing I thought was a little disappointing when I was in Tokyo. The trains stop at midnight on the weekends, when I would miss it I'd have to stay out till they started up again.

In Germany, at least in bigger cities, they have on weekends and holidays that public transit goes all night.
Is this a competitor to something like Enigma?
You must be blessed enough not to have to do any support or field questions from customers...
Ttyplot – a real time plotting utility for the terminal
I could easily burn my entire day following our Slack channels. Email is barely a blip anymore.
Just replace "style" with "half reasonable style".
No, unless your job is specifically about communicating with people via email. Which definitely isn't a programmer's job, for example.
Not _no_ sign. There are teeny-tiny signs:
https://community.virginmedia.com/t5/QuickStart-set-up-and/I...
It is an opinion and it is honest. So yes. If you don't share it about Apple products great.
First rule: Make sure servers are strong enough to handle traffic. this is not UX - its more of the tech :)
well, you are clearly applying to jobs that are so different from the ones I applied, in such a different reality, that we are barely discussing the same things I guess.
Google AI can now spot breast cancer better than humans
ISPs don't usually care too much about long-term value.

When most of your core network is IPv4-only, getting some CG-NAT equipment is indeed cheaper than buying a completely new core network.
Sonique was bad, but it had nothing on some Windows Media Player skins.

http://orig13.deviantart.net/f597/f/2009/164/a/b/headspace_s...

http://www.matthewfurman.net/sites/wmp-skins/img/optik.jpg
Case in point.

Preferring different methods of communication doesn't make you smarter or a leader. It means you have different preferences, nothing more.
1984 and BNW remain the two real standouts of dystopian fiction. 1984 always felt the more powerful of the two to me: it's starker, more overtly shocking. BNW is subtler, but for probably most cultures it rings more true to real life as it's turned out this far.

Today we see aspects of both novels in play: echoes of 1984's Two Minutes Hate when politicians rail against immigrants, the rise of "Fake News" and anti-vax calling into question to a scary extent of the population what's real, and the fact we do seem to have always been at war with Eastasia; and from BNW, the electorate largely subdued by TV, social media, fashion and being obedient consumers - and with legalisation of cannabis increasingly a thing the comparison to SOMA isn't too big a stretch.

What to do about this, of course, is plainly way above my pay grade, and probably involves educating the electorate (UK and US probably both going backwards in this regard, given Brexit and Trump) - but suffice it to say both novels remain a must-read even 70 - 80 years after they were written. They're very accessible, readable books too FWIW if anyone is hesitating, intimidated by their rep.
Hi, I've not actually used redux at any scale but I have used react a lot (sounds silly?).

I was wondering, would it be possible to have something like a strict subset of redux with minimal boilerplate and very few and very simple API functions which are redux compatible. But which can eventually be swapped with the full Redux library if need be?
I don't remember how Manufacturing Consent referred to the facts vs images distinction, can you give a pointer to that?

I think the work by the Situationists is more relevant, particularly the concept of the Spectacle. But it was "in the air" at the time, arguably even the works of Hunter S. Thompson reflect it.
No, a "moonmoon" would be the big moon into whose orbit you park the smaller moon. Reference: https://xkcd.com/2043/
> Why should I avoid needless nesting ?

Because it is, by definition, needless. If there is a good reason for doing so, it is no longer needless.
Those languages usually qualify pork as "pig meat" if necessary. (Schweinefleisch in German, 猪肉 in Chinese)
If you work for 8 hours, 9am to 5pm, 5.6 hours is not "a few hours".
The whole 'Lean Startup' trend was such a feel good gimmick.

Sure if you arent sure about your product and havent done any market tests, a minimum viable product is fine.

However, I had/have a service that was already popular and my circle of friends were obsessed with MVP and Lean Startup. They pressured me and when I began mainstream marketing the response was that my service was low quality.

Those people were wrong, but minimal HTML/css bugs was all it took for people to question me.
A key component of Brave New World, that this article barely touches on, is genetic engineering. In BNW people do not 'breed' naturally but are created en-masse in genetic factories. This creates the in-book caste system of alphas, betas, gammas etc. Low skill workers are deliberately bred to have low intelligence and conditioned to like their allotted jobs. There is a memorable scene in the book where a class of infants is conditioned by loud scary noises to not like bright flowers or natural scenes. They are being conditioned to be happy with grey drabness.

So the reason 1984 is mentioned a lot more at the moment compared to BNW is that we aren't really in the BNW zone yet. But perhaps there will be a time when BNW is even more relevant. Things somewhat like Gattacca and BNW might still come to pass.
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Is it usually cellular ISP that first adopt IPv6?
Because there's been a new disruptive player in telecom space called Jio and I am guessing they are behind this rise in IPv6 popularity.
I just meant that there are different perspectives for different people. If you look at countries like Russia and China there is more of a 1984 society, whereas in the US and Europe, at least here in the Netherlands, society resembles Brave New World more.

Brave New World captures many of the frustrations that I have with the indifference people exhibit when reacting to issues like privacy or trustworthiness of media or politics.

When you read historic novels like Ken Follett's 'Fall of Giants' you get more of a 1984 vibe with the Russian stories. Seeing China's surveillance system described in various place doesn't give off a 1984 vibe, it breathes 1984 to a scary degree. Add modern day technology to the mix and it is nothing short of horrific.
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Exactly.

But when people use these libraries that “helpfully” set `translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false` for them and they don’t understand what’s going on under the hood, their layout breaks and they start complaining about autolayout being “buggy”.
Yes. That's what I thought too.
It’s pretty easy to acquire blocks larger than /64.
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Being on top and website dead due to HN Hug of Death is SOOO EMBARRASSING