skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most basic thing Candy Crush does that slot machines can't is adapt its behavior to the user.

Candy Crush can (and does) let you play freely, only to popup the "insert coin to get help" when you are stuck. It also adjusts the game play to your level (by advancing to harder levels) so that you are always challenged and possibly get stuck. If you advance by paying, you probably will need to pay more to get further (if you failed an easier level without help you will probably fail later levels without such help).

In an imaginary world, a slot machine could have a camera to track who is playing. It would let you play for free the first few times, even give you some money, but leaving you one "advance" short of the stronger payments. After some rolls, you are prompted to insert coins to get extra advances. Of course, the machine keeps the payment structure favorable to itself, but tricking you into inserting more and more coins, all the while getting you hooked into the game. It could even adjust the payment structure to be more and more in its favor the more "hooked" it detects you are.

Regulation that prevents the above:

1. Slot machines cannot track users by any means.

2. The payment distribution has to fit certain parameters (think X% of money given back within N rolls)
Basic Survival Skills
But it is progressive to hamstring development because the permitting process is a shake down for 'affordable housing'.

It is progressive to hold environmental concerns as a valid reason to halt development.
Great point. It really does amaze me that I likely use tools like precision GPS approaches and live access to weather data more than the typical part 121 airliner. However, I do think the FAA's strategy to slowly and methodically make changes to part 121 is valid given the safety record you cite.

It does excite me to see these things come to GA though. If you chose to use them properly, tools like ADS-B in and inflight weather at least gives you the option of making more informed safety decisions. But I still see too many young CFIs teaching "buttonolgy" before good old stick and rudder. Priorities should still be what is in the Airplane Flying Handbook: 1. Aviate, 2. Navigate, 3. Communicate. Safety, even with all this tech, still comes down to sound aeronautical decision making and cockpit management.
Why Are We Still Teaching Reading the Wrong Way?
I can't remember who made the point, but the friction stems from the current generation of Silicon Valley still thinking they are counterculture rebels from a decade ago. Nobody working at Wallstreet would dispute that Wallstreet is huge, capitalistic, and corporate. Silicon Valley is the same, but it's filled with people wearing metaphorical Che Guevara t-shirts, clutching onto their copies of Marx's Manifesto, dying their hair purple or blue, and smoking weed. They have largely become that which they claim to hate, but have not realized it.

Events like this are what we see and will continue to see as reality and self-image merge. The leadership is fine, but they are probably more cognizant of this fact than the rank and file. Their challenge is helping their employees make the transition without suffering an existential crisis.
>What the Windows Registry needs is a REST API.

shudders
Typeclasses in perspective
It's not reduced, it's self-adjusted to store less in order to not slow down multitasking.
Do you know what airlines use Foreflight?
And has been since just about the dawn of the Republic.

Turns out you don’t have to be a Saint to be leader of the free world. Might go as far to say that a Saint wouldn’t be particularly well suited for the job.
The usecase in the article was to parse logs from a CDN serving cached content not an app server which serves every request.
One of our heads of state got impeached for (lying about) sexual misconduct so there's that.
I could point out a few but I’m currently partying. Here’s my favorite and tell
me if it is close enough to convince you “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”
I've never seen a contract contain the clause, "We don't have to pay you what we owe you, simply by having one of our employees make an accusation of sexual harassment against you." I would never sign one.
Agree that the md80s are noisy monsters, but really has very little overlap with customer satisfaction. <1% of Delta's customers are going to live close enough to an airport with Delta mad dog departures and even fewer of them will take noise at home into consideration for their satisfaction.
There was a report earlier this year that China is still producing industrial quantities of banned CFC-11, mostly for use in foam blowing.

https://eia-global.org/reports/20180709-blowing-it-illegal-p...

Apparently carbon tetrachloride is used as a chemical precursor to CFC-11:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tetrachloride#Historic_...

But I would expect that there would be limited releases of CCl4 itself if the main use were in manufacturing other chemicals. Maybe they're just manufacturing the whole gamut of chemicals banned by the Montreal Protocol and using them in exactly the same ways they were used historically.
From the article:

> Well, we don’t multitask. We task switch. The word “multitasking” implies that you can do two or more things at once, but in reality our brains only allow us to do one thing at a time and we have to switch back and forth.
I mean, I hope people would want to do that. Otherwise the people doing it are the ones who don't.
can’t tell if you’re being funny or serious. making it all the more funny. either way, brilliant!
The Python 2 to 3 transition is completely unlike what you describe, at least from my perspective. I regularly write pure Python with no translation, 2to3 or six module usage that runs on Python 2.6-3.7.
> Kind of funny how the NYT publishes the original story to generate outrage

The older I get, I realize that more often than not, these companies don't report the news, they create/generate/manufacture the news. Half the time, news is actually a manufactured product for consumption no different than a movie or a song and the other half, it's political advocacy. There isn't much news in the news industry.

> then after successfully doing so to an extent, cherry-picks examples of the outrage in order to generate yet another article that is apparently worth publishing.

And voila, they are bumped to the frontpage every single time. It's like watching a world class magician ply their trade.
"Accusation of sexual harassment" is kind of an understatement given the massive amount of misconduct that occurred, often not even denied by the bad actor, in direct violation of company guidelines. You don't just get to light the employee handbook on fire and keep all your compensation. You can get fired with cause.

Naturally trying to kick someone out and withhold compensation is a lot harder than just quietly ushering them out the door and paying them off, which is what typically happens here because Google does not want bad press and does not want to get dragged into a multi-year court case by someone they're trying to fire.
Which photo? Are you confusing MD-88/90 with Delta Connection perhaps?
The first one were started in the twenties iirc, but that is close enough.
> I'm not necessarily opposed to the general spirit of what they're trying to do here

Can you elaborate on this?
So your point is entirely different then. Lying trumps (no pun intended) sexual misconduct.
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I did a key-person contract negotiation after my last company was sold, and I over-spent on legal for it (20/20 hindsight everything would have worked out peachy for me had I just blind-signed what the acquirer gave me) and it was not my experience that compensation after termination for cause was a market ask. My lawyer, for whom I was very small fish indeed, suggested that I could probably ask for anything I wanted short of any kind of severance or acceleration on termination for cause.

You know more about the market in the Valley than I do, but I am surprised to hear the suggestion that anyone at the SVP level would have negotiated severance on for-cause termination.

(The point you made subsequently, about him maybe having locked in some amount of comp in exchange for non-compete, makes more sense.)

Again you know this stuff way more than I do. I'm just sort of probing here.
It’s coming... https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2018-1...
Since we've presumably never had a 'saint', how would we know that they wouldn't be better for the job? It's hard to imagine that someone who had integrity and respected other genders would make a worse leader, so I'm interested in why you'd thing so.
Μάχες παραμονής από νωρίς στην Σούπερ Λιγκ
In the US I’ve only ever heard of anyone using Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro or LIDO by Lufthansa Systems.
Clearly you know nothing. Poststructuralism since the 60s, and postmodernism since 80s, have had profound impacts on philosophy and other related disciplines. This all emerged out of France (Barthes, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Guatarri, Mouffe, Butler, Harraway, the list goes on and on and on).
One can readily argue that roughly 270 elected representatives appear to regard it as insufficiently unacceptable as to require corrective action in light of a broader political context.

That doesn't mean something is, in isolation, acceptable.
Amazon, Google, Facebook. Look at the castles they've built in Seattle, you aren't getting in unless you are an employee or are escorted by an employee. None of those companies need this level of security, and most other businesses you can literally wander into during office hours, but that is generally not the case with these three.
I wish so much that I had known about lisp in college. I only knew Java, C++, Javascript, and Python.
Agree that it is far more likely to do that with small numbers rather than big numbers. But that is something entirely different than finding a sustainable scheme giving 10% per month returns.

Sustainable should mean that 500 readers of HN each individually managing their little $2000 nest egg ($1 million aggregate) making independent decisions should be able to collectively be sitting on $3.13 million after a year.

You don't get sustainable 213% returns without a commensurate, sustainable level of risk to go with it. But if you're able to do it sustainably with 3x ETFs, congratulations.
It's this. They scrape news articles and make trading decisions based off of them. There would be a similar drop from naive systems if someone posted "Tesla Bad :(" on Bloomberg.
Facebook Groups as Therapy
Exactly. This is opinion engineering. They take an event, look at it, find the angle that is most likely to solicit responses from their readers. With that narrative in mind, they would go on to produce the story, weaved it a way to appear like that their account is what actually happened.
That's pretty cool that it never goes down and you don't ever buy at $60 and sell at $59.40.
Being a peon teaches you how to be a peon, or how to take advantage if peons when you move up the food chain.
I'm starting to look at it from a different perspective. I don't necessarily think bad is actually bad, or a better way to put it, there's no such thing as "good" code. What I usually find people calling bad code is just not easily understandable. We as programmers started programming with really comfortable abstractions for easy problems and we expected things to continue like that.

When we go into the world of unsolved problems that someone solved and we have to maintain them, and we can't understand them immediately, we call them bad. It's my gut reaction almost every time I'm confronted with something that doesn't immediately enlighten me, even thought I know it's the wrong reaction.

We are always comparing everything to the simplest and most solved problems that were easy for us to understand. When it isn't so easy we call them "bad".
Unprompted but relevant plug for a cool coffee table book, played my nostalgia nerve like a fiddle.

https://www.bitmapbooks.co.uk/products/the-art-of-point-clic...
VR Could Show Others What Autism Feel Like – And Lead to Potential Treatments
Well-said. Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_Me,_I%27m_Lying
Great stuff, congrats!

Just a small (but important because is the hero image) correction from a spanish native speaker: the earth is female, so it should be "Hay que protegerla", ending in "a".
> I try to avoid leaving a game or Youtube video open when I am "working".

Slightly related: Almost all my "work music" is wordless, instrumental.

Programming tasks rely heavily on the language-portion of your brain, which are biologically hardwired to monitor your environment for speech, whether you like it or not. Anything sufficiently speech-like will generate an interrupt-signal in your head and steal some of your time and attention.
Benchmarking Google BigQuery at Scale
Just make it backwards compatible! Use all the ingenuity available to figure out how to do such a thing.
Do you think that termination clauses given by google to employees have zero conditions attached to them? Even if you're an executive there are absolutely things you can do that would forfeit the contract. If you were fired for stealing secrets, do you think they'd pay you out? Certainly the same clauses could be written to avoid paying if you have to be let go because something you did caused some other sort of harm to the company. We can talk about whether or not the contract included such a clause and whether or not thats a failure on Google's part, but I have a feeling that's not why you posted this comment.

And btw I think it's clear that if I offered you the sort of money this dude had you probably wouldn't pass it up based on what the conditions for termination payout clauses were.
Forgot to add the line count of backdoors and stupid absurd shit like processing fonts on the kernel rather than userland so people can hack your 896 core machine and mine bitcoin.
Perjury is a crime, for starters.
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Why don't you say why you think I posted this comment?
Why is an advertorial with a lot of hyperbole and very little content on the frontpage? I am an aviation enthusiast and I'm sure we could find better sources about this subject.
Won't you then lose out on performance improvements that don't break your code.
To clarify, the European Commission had a public consultation on DST[1]. The response was strongly in favour of ending the clock changes, and furthermore favoured permanent DST. The EC has called on member states to come up with an appropriate way of accommodating the public’s preference, telling them to coordinate so that time differences across borders are kept to a sensible minimum.

No decision has been made yet to either abolish DST, or move the clock forward one hour permanently, and it might not happen at all. The member states are supposed to reply before next summer, so that the switch to DST next spring could be the last time changing clocks in Europe.

[1]http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-18-5302_en.htm
>>We don't have to pay you what we owe you, simply by having one of our employees make an accusation of sexual harassment against you."

What do you mean by “simply”? Do you believe accusing someone of sexual harassment is a “simple” matter, or that it is easy?

I think the language you are using here speaks volumes about your beliefs.
Stack ranking goes back to the 80s at GE under Jack Welch.
Although I agree aerospace is slow, it's not that bad. Yes there is a lot of verification, paperwork, etc. however, safety is number one so it's understandable.
Also if you get into early TRL projects, you don't even have to deal with such restrictions.
Yes it is. They both are, technically (e.g. sexual harassment). Somehow sexual misconduct does not conjure nearly the same negative response that perjury does, and candidates/world leaders get a free pass for that one.
> I was an avid "gamer" growing up. I wasn't always the most responsible with it. Probably overdid it a lot. But I can see with my own child, this is a different ball-game altogether.

People said the same thing about WoW and Everquest and pretty much every video game. Go back far enough people said the same thing about nintendo and gameboy. Every generation thinks they are unique. You aren't unique. Your father thought the exact same thing as you are thinking right now. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

> Not sure what the fix is either, other than ruthless enforcement of quotas.

How about being a parent rather than blaming games. It's always human nature to blame others for one's own failings.

Now it's social media and smartphone games. Before that it was people were blaming video games, simpsons, south park, mtv, etc for violence, dumbing down kids, etc. In 10 years, it'll be something else. Maybe virtual reality or sex dolls. Who knows. The same complaints, different products.
Yeah, I don’t understand why companies like Boeing don’t pay competitively.

Their revenue is pretty good.

Also, they seem to hire a lot of people.

What am I missing? Why do they hire so many people at less than awesome comp?
Is it worth to rape your customers when you can just give tham a clean simple version of the product which would be much more popular?

It's the same why WhatsApp went free, and why many ad-funded sites refuse to let the user buy a no-ads experience. Simply said, the demographic with cash to spare is the one that advertisers crave the most. When this demographic does not get tracked and doesn't see any ads anymore, the remainder (which does not have spare cash) pool drastically shrinks in worth.
Cynically: "more expensive" is used as a proxy measure for "better" by Americans. Same mistake as healthcare, "Our system must be the best in the civilised world - we spend far more than anybody else".

Pencil and paper are boring and cheap. If your job is just to ensure the state buys enough pencils how do you justify an extra $25 000 next year? When voters insist they want to elect the deputy car wash attendants (another American trait - "democracy is good, therefore electing people is good, so the more elected officers the better") you just add another page to the printed ballot. No opportunity to innovate with auto-filling 600 separate elections from one party line decision.
So which is the easiest compiler to re-target to a new processor? That would certainly have some value even if it's not the most optimizing compiler.
You'd think that HR would take one look at your performance reviews over time and call the manager on the carpet.
Does anyone know if this applies to the dpdk ENA driver?
I've found the pay to be decent. The culture on the other hand is horrific.
Same in Haskell:

*Main> derivative f x = (f(x+dx)-f(x))/dx where dx = 0.0001
*Main> derivative (^3) 2
12.000600010022566
You can next ->> inside ->, took far too many years for me to realize:

@(-> ctx
:hypercrud.browser/fiddle
(reactive/cursor [:fiddle/ident])
(->> (reactive/fmap name)))

another

(-> [10 11]
(conj 12)
(as-> xs (map - xs [3 2 1]))
(reverse))
Thank you very much!
I stand to gain much from your thoughtful answer.
Recently my career took a big downturn. I got laid off and found it hard to get a programming job. I am doing production support now. I feel great despair that I don't measure up as a programmer anymore. I need to get back my programming skills but I am confounded by the huge complexities of the current stacks.
We're Incentivizing Electric Cars All Wrong
What does it speak about my beliefs? You sure like making vague insinuations instead of speaking clearly. It speaks to your character.
Discussed in 2015, including comments from an HN user who worked at both PARC and Apple:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8976872
????

Where are you getting these numbers? For what instance types? For what protocols? This is just wrong.
Or maybe they have that (dirt cheap) benefit so folks would assume they have great benefits.

How costly and valuable are a few Uber rides per year (that are also justified as a business expense)?

Now compare that to a decent 401k matching program...
Yeah, but sexual misconduct itself is clearly not the problem, so much as being of the wrong political party.

As much flack as Trump (justifiably) takes for the remarks he made about how a celebrity like himself "can do anything" to women and "grab 'em by the pussy", he wasn't entirely wrong. Society has always seen sexual aggression by rich and powerful men as a signal of authority and virility.
I'm not sure the follow-up story is necessary, but one way to look at it is that they were successful at publishing news that some people care about.

It's not always clear when "getting a reaction" is just trolling or what a quality newspaper should set out to do. It depends if you agree with the editors about what's newsworthy.

But if leaks keep happening at this rate, I suspect TGIF isn't going to happen for much longer.
DST may be bad, but discrete (as opposed to continuous) time zones are not. Having decent-sized economic and social zones where clocks don't change at all is extremely useful, and is in fact the main reason time zones were invented.

I sure don't want to have to think about a few minutes of time difference between Oakland and Sacramento, after all.
I thought the potty with the ipad was a joke, but it is real https://www.amazon.com/CTA-Digital-iPotty-Activity-Seat/dp/B...
I can’t stress enough just how nominal their commitment to science is these days. An elderly relative bought me many years subscription to SciAm and it’s mostly useful as toilet roll. You get the occasional scholarly article, but the majority is either “science writers” gushing over something they don’t understand, or thinly veiled politics. Hell, I agree with most of their political leanings, but I’m not interested in reading them from that source.

It’s sad, but the majority of science in Scientific American is in the name.
How are Tokyo housing prices? Vienna's cost of living is kept down by large amounts of social housing, etc. Gentrification is a side effect of not building housing.
No, they were investigating cases of sexual misconduct but the lying about it is what stuck.

If there was a "free ride program" they wouldn't even have investigated it.
> Whereas on the same exact screen, firefox/chromium are gateways to madness.

Oh my god, what hyperbole. This is like the cringey hyperbole equating rock 'n roll with devil music back in the 50s.

Things will be fine. Every older generation thinks the newer generation is "mad". It's not the end of the world.

Is hacker news mostly grandparents now? Just worried about every new technology? So many comments here feel like my grandparents talking.

It's so sad how old and scared HN has gotten. HN isn't supposed to be like it.
When I hit turbulence, I just try to keep in mind that airplanes are extremely robust and can handle considerably more turbulence than a typical person might imagine. For example, see how much airplane wings can bend without breaking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--LTYRTKV_A
There’s a pretty wide margin between having integrity and respecting other genders, and Sainthood.

IMO, I think that down on planet Earth two people may get into a sexual relationship that is anywhere from uncouth to unwise to unacceptable to illegal. As long as these affairs are consensual my own position is who the heck am I to judge?

Further, someone who is so abjectly in control of their passion — someone who is so dispassionate — I think would have a hard time fighting so hard day in and day out for a grueling 4 or 8 years.

Good leaders tend to have the personality, charisma, confidence, and ambition that they will go after the things they want even if it means some rules or social mores will be broken. To even think oneself possible of leading the Free World does require a certain arrogance. I certainly wouldn’t want a President feeling imposter syndrome in the Oval Office, even though it is certain to happen to some extent.