skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our work involves quite a bit of interaction with the customers and they are all rather very conventional companies themselves.

We do the 'rent a conference room' so frequently now that it starts to approach renting an office.
One key difference (from a legal perspective, rather than a developer perspective) is that all of the above apps first display user commentary and the user is then given the option to open the link to read the entire article. This is an important distinction under the fair use doctrine: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/fair-use-the-four-fa...
Ugh. Another rule added to block obnoxiously loud autoplaying videos on inc.com

I hate the 2018 web.
It wasn't even consistent - a colleague had weird errors with networking on Vista and I didn't even though we had identical laptops.

Microsoft support was basically "yes it does that sometimes".
Alright, let's make it about humans:

Person A prefers apple over oranges and potatoes over tomatoes.

Person B prefers also potatoes over tomatoes but does not care about apple or oranges.

Original poster now argues that it is okay for Person C to say Person B is an oranges hater, just because Person B prefers potatoes.

Replace Person A/B/C with your favorite groups of adversaries.
politely removes your tinfoil hat. sounds like something straight out of infowars. (Disclaimer: not from the US so also completely unbiased)
There's a Chrome and Firefox extension called Make Medium Readable Again: https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA

It works great and disables many of these annoying things.
> In my opinion, if it works, and provides the utility it was designed to bring, then it doesn't matter. If it makes money, then who really cares!

This makes sense. However, if the code 1) is hard to understand (according to the developers available) and change and 2) needs to be changed, it costs money.

Eg, read about the expense banks are now incurring trying to maintain COBOL systems. Whether the code is "bad" is debatable. But the fact is that they have a hard time finding people who can work on it.
I find the assumption that any advanced civilization is going to emit external electromagnetic radiation and/or be warm quite curious. Most quantum computing work is at low temperatures, and work on photonics (for example : http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6397/57 )is coming along nicely. If we assume an extropian approach of uploading into a more advanced substrate, I find it more likely that they would be quite cold in nature.
I don’t think you can trust their assessment of its speed. There’s no way to reliably determine the speed of an unknown object of unknown size and distance.
When humans read aloud, they usually sound pretty bad. We tend to read sentences word-by-word instead of breaking it down into parts. I have no idea how Polly actually works, but it sounds to me like it is reading word-by-word like many humans do.

I'm (probably overly) conscious about how I read things aloud. If I can't read a sentence quietly before I read it out loud, I try to diagram it as I go. For instance, if I identify what I'm reading as a prepositional phrase, I give it less vocal emphasis. Subjects and predicates usually get the most emphasis.

Of course, what I described is much easier said than done. I wouldn't be surprised if you were already doing it.

Good luck with Polly moving forward and thanks for being so willing to take user feedback!
I've noticed that the biggest online advertisers are rarely the largest advertisers overall.

Sure, there are airlines that target travelers and travel sites. But I've only once seen a Coca-Cola or McDonald's ad, for two examples. Yet these are massive companies who seem to only advertise offline.

There's a reason for this. They didn't get to become enormous companies by having stupid marketing departments. They know more about advertising than anyone at AdWords or Exponential or Federated.

The advertisers I see online are smaller companies, and internet companies advertising at each other. The only times I see a big brand advertise online, it's when the ad has been very carefully placed on very specific websites that match what the brand offers.
What language does have a deep copy/merge operation built into the language?
Your problem is then with YouTube kids, not YouTube.

Not everyone wants their content censored by dogmatists.
I didn't down-vote you, but for someone who's talking about how easy it is to find studies backing up what you're saying, you haven't been very forthcoming with citing any of those studies.

Also, you went off on a bit of a wild tangent about how awful the left are. HN doesn't generally like politically-motivated rants.
He already has caused more harm than good to the Labour Party over his stance on Brexit.

He’s been a Euroskeptic since the 70’s he sees the EU as a neoliberal capitalistic endeavor which stands against everything he stands for.

Over the past 2 years now he showed no opposition to Brexit which goes against the wishes of his party members and their constituents and against the ideals of being an opposition party.

I really don’t see him changing his tune now as he showed he is incapable of letting his own ideals take the backseat to the will of the party.
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In a starkly divided country, corporate pandering is the last bastion of bipartisanship, an activity enjoyed by both Democrats and Republicans at every level of government

$2.5B in corporate welfare and permission to build a shiny new helipad for Jeff. For locations they seem to have selected years ago.

What a farce. This far exceeds even NFL-owner level exploitation of a city.
May's play is to delay as much as possible and then at last moment call Parliament to vote, when there really is no more time left to negotiate. Then Parliament only has to choice of "no deal" or "May's deal" and she seems to hope for enough votes for her's ... sad times
For a few countries (The Netherlands and The United States for example) we have official entities that employ people. I for example am employed by the Dutch entity, meaning my salary and taxes are handled like any other Dutch employer.

Outside of these countries we employ employees as contractors, meaning they have to do the taxes and such themselves if I'm not mistaken.
Several in my family were exposed to rabies via trying to save a rabid calf (before we knew it was rabies). We started the vaccination protocol ~3 days later. That was more than 2 years ago, and we are all fine. Definitely not only a 24hr window, thankfully. Was still pretty scary...
Do you expect May to resign if it doesn't pass?

NB I have no idea what is going to happen over the next while.
I'm sorry but I don't understand, are you saying that you are able to do your work at the same time as taking care of a baby?
I realize they are growing fast but isn't it a little early to declare success (as the title seems to) when you're generating $10.5 million with a cost structure that includes 350 employees?
In case you didn't know SF has been building more housing/per capita than New York City for a while now..
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This is false in the practical sense of having board member commitments plus court cases interacting with the big corporations. At that point the will between corporation and government may be in tension, but they should not considered separable that we can say either are actually "free" to act how they want.
>He or she would notice that what worked early on isn't working as well any longer and would adapt.

I've seen a few execs not be able to do this, so I don't really blame the CEO in this situation. They did fine and dandy as the product started out but were flailing in the wind once we got big enough.
I can't believe you people haven't brought up the obvious zombie-gut microbiome connection yet...
I guess your app is basically a browser. And so, you are competing with their own browser.

What else can you expect from a walled garden?
most likely these routers in Nigera were configured to send traffic destined to Google through China first ( a more specific /24 out of the Google prefix was configured -> China Telecom ASN ), through a route-map mistake this was advertisied out to the public internet instead of staying within the Nigerian ISP ASN.
I don’t see how she can stay in her position, but then I’ve been so baffled by what’s happened lately that anything’s now possible.

You’re not alone, FWIW. I’m pretty sure literally nobody knows how this is going to play out.
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That's what I was thinking! Enjoy being up and walking around. Being chained to a desk is not always a dream job by any stretch of the imagination. There are very direct mental and physical health ramifications impacts that can only be partially mitigated.
I still don't understand why NYC gave up so much by way of incentives and subsidies. With things the way they are, seemingly Amazon needed NYC, way more than NYC needed amazon.
> MS bought the [...] current and future projects that are hosted there

what? microsoft doesn't own any projects hosted on github other than their own
> The University of Tennessee ranks well in supply chain & logistics

Fedex is based in Memphis, so this makes sense
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Your argument misrepresents the metaphor. It's the wall that's the barrier to freedom, not what goes on within.
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Something I ask myself all the time: how will I be able to tell when we've reached actual totalitarianism in the West? It won't be Chinese style totalitarianism, and I'm pretty sure they won't helpfully dress up in jackboots and announce things have reached peak totalitarianism. Would we notice at all?
Yes! All: please email us when you see stuff like this. We read emails.
The article mentions the availability of free birth control in some places. Can you describe how being 'financially stressed' has anything to do with the ability or desire to have sex?
Github had a major outage. Google has been having outages for the last week. Facebook had an outage yesterday. AWS is always having some sort of outage. Outages are actually more common than we think.
Labour’s position should be to oppose Brexit and to remain or rejoin, that is not however Corbyn’s position it never was and for the past 2 years he showed that he is not fit as a leader because he can’t bend his ideals to the will of his party.

Corbyn wants socialism, he want to nationalize the industries he wants to get rid of the neoliberal keynesian economics which the EU and every other social democracy in Europe promotes and follows he doesn’t want to be in the EU he was against the U.K. joining the EU in the first place and he didn’t do anything to prevent it from leaving.
All the tooling around is great, support/faq/docs are great. You can scale upscale down fast, and testing new ideas with AWS services is painless even for the costing view.
I'm not too concern about general costing compared with DO or Heroku.
Another benefit is if AWS is down, "half" of the internet is down, so explaining this to a customer you can just tell - "AWS is down."
Been using this for a while: https://stackoverflow.com/a/44612374/663447 Best clone imo (for the correct usecases).
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So since we are on this subject, does anyone have advice for wrangling spaghetti QT apps into submission? We have two of them here and of course their creators aren't here anymore and we find it very difficult for developers that weren't involved in their development to grok all the shared state.
The point is that even when there is a fixed price gap between higher quality and lower quality goods, the rationale to buy the higher quality gets stronger as that gap becomes smaller proportional to the price of the products.

It's not that people always buy the more expensive product.
Proximity to Fedex's headquarters and hub probably played a large role.
LIC is one of the few places New York NIMBYs allowed development
Are labor unions and collective bargaining coming to Big Tech?
Chrome iPhone, just seeing purple nothing else.
> he showed he is incapable of letting his own ideals take the backseat to the will of the party

A trait that has garnered him many followers.
I'm not sure this is the case. Based on my experience, they take issue with the hard-coded sites, which the user has not "picked" via RSS or other setup process. So the issue here was just the HN domain, not all the other ones.

But I do wonder what suffices as "documentary evidence". An email from someone who works at the company? A letter from their legal department?
Not disclosing confidential information is more ethics than loyalty. That that may fall under a legal definition of loyalty in some areas, but I think in more common parlance that behavior would just be professionalism. Even then there has to be some degree of judiciousness between what a company might consider confidential and what is just industry knowledge. And over time, a lot of what might be held confidential, becomes common practice too.
Fundamentaly, deep-copy in Javascript is a typed operation and no "generic" deep-copy algorithm is possible--you have to know what meaning the value is supposed to have to copy it.

There's nothing inherently wrong with structured clone, but it's only for JSON-able objects with extensions for circular references and some built in value-like classes. It's also special-cased for safe transmission between Javascript domains so it has a bunch of undesirable behavior for local copies. (no dom, no functions, no symbols, no properties...)

Even primitive types can't be safely copied unless you know what they're going to be used for later, a nodejs file descriptor is just an integer but it's also a reference to an OS resource that can't be duplicated without a syscall.
A lot of mayors did that. Truth be told, even New York City's mayor did that.

Problem is that it doesn't make a difference. Lots of other mayors will give the incentives. And, as in the case of NYC, sometimes the governors will come in and override the decision not to give subsidies anyway. (Although in the case of NYC it likely wouldn't have really mattered. I suspect they would have won the HQ2 subsidies or no subsidies.)
It's weird that Apple says "The WebAssembly Community Group expected that parsing a bytecode would be more performant than parsing a text language. However, that turned out not to be true; Asm.js, which is JavaScript source, is still faster than WebAssembly for many use cases." and then links to a page that shows WebAssembly being 3x faster.

Also the page they link to is not just measuring parse time but also compilation time.
Well an MD-80 does use trim tabs.
I think you might be mis interpreting the parent.
They are presenting 2 options (either its hard or not), without a preferred option.

But yes I think you're right Aardman are instantly recognisable and not easily copyable.
I'm absolutely baffled why they did not select Newark as well. It is close enough to NYC via not only Amtrak and NJT but also via PATH, ripe for redevelopment ( already in progress ) but not yet so developed that the additional infrastructure is nearly impossible to add.

Adding a subway line to NYC subway is like herding a multiple feral cat colonies.
It's pretty clear the GP was using that in the sense that one often refers to acquirers buying customers, not in terms of actually buying IP of the projects.
Most Italian words pretty much match their IPA representation, minus the pretty regular exceptions like Q, C, G, Z and H and the rare irregularity.

It may be difficult to an anglophone, but I'd argue that the phonetic irregularities of English are much more of a problem to a learner. "though/tough/through" never happens in Italian.
How would an alternative deal with that problem ?
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> It would make sense if I could give it a root URL and then a robot progressively ran tests over a month and then reported back, but one URL is a drop in a vast ocean for most of us.

I think this is the end goal. Building the infrastructure to audit a single page is the first step towards that bigger outcome.

Disclaimer: I write the docs for Lighthouse. I'm speaking from my general knowledge of the project but haven't vetted these comments with my team. So consider all comments my own.
Yah that's why I use the serializable override:

someObj.toJSON = function() {
return { foo: this.foo, bar: this.bar }
}

It is an extra step but when using redux or something like that you have to serialize stuff anyway to store it and is especially useful for mobile react-native stuff in keeping state when phone restarts or connection fails.
As in something different from unix I take it
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Well, p definitely is the solution in the case I mentioned. It is indeed the maximum likelihood solution.
You could incorporate prior info about theta via a regularization term, if so inclined. What does not make sense in this?

Not sure what the OP meant, but I though it might be useful
to mention how estimators may be interpreted as anything probabilistic at all. Often, arbitrary numbers between 0 and 1 are termed "probabilities", but in this case there actually is some proportion or probability to which f(x) should ideally correspond.
As many experienced commenters below have already noted, nearly any piece of substantial, revenue-generating, long-lived code will ascend to a place full of dragons and mysticism. The more interesting debates revolve around:

1) How did it get that way, and what can we learn from that?
2) Is it inevitable that all software will end up like that?
3) How can an organization ever successfully sunset or move to a more maintainable system? Or should they even aspire to that?
I use to work on hospital lab software.

* It was over 20 years old by the time I started

* It was written in Fortran

* Variable names were single and double digits

* Each fortran program would run in isolation but had a shared memory process

* It was formally a terminal program but a weird Java frontend was created so everything looked like Windows GUI

* All program names were four letter acronyms

* All data was stored in fixed width binary "flat" files

* It previously was under CVS version control, but each install slowly drifted apart, so each site had it own unique features and bugs.

* I once had to move a significant feature from one install to another using only patch files generated from the work done on the original install.
> Labour’s position should be to oppose Brexit and to remain or rejoin

Why? It hasn't been agreed at conference.

There's a party for Remainers that want to ignore the referendum result they're called the Liberal Democrats or the SNP if you are up in Scotland.
Hope all you want, but a good half+ of the HQ2 hires will be minorities. Not a lot of minorities want to live in a deep south or Texas region due to racism, stand-your-ground, etc. Same thing for gays.

If you want to hope for diverse knowledge businesses opening in Dallas, perhaps start with pushing for equality.

I can think of a thousand examples, but here is the latest: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/us/dallas-police-shooting...
Dallas Police Officer Kills Her Neighbor in His Apartment, Saying She Mistook It for Her Own

Cop comes home to wrong apartment and kills black resident in that apartment. The really shocking thing -- widespread support amongst whites in support of the officer!
Amazon officially announced HQ2
If an operating system was built to run lambdas instead of processes, what would that look like?
Testing is hard. Something I repeat often to frustrated testers. At least once a quarter I wonder if maybe something this hard should be accomplished another way. Like maybe Bertrand Meyer was right 30 years ago about contracts and pre/post conditions.

For years I felt like a terrible tester on a team of even worse testers. I still catch myself using antipattetms I tell other people not to use.

Honestly the two biggest things I know are try to write pure functions, and separate deciding from doing (these are not mutally exclusive), something Meyer also talked about. That will open up a lot of your code to simple tests with few mocks.

Book advice is going to sound like a non sequitur. I find bad habits in many of the testing books I’ve read, like the author hasn’t root caused common problems that pop up on real teams. You can’t blame human frailty for your testing problems. Testing is a monument to human fallability. Own it.

You can fix a lot of classes of problems with Refactoring by Fowler. There’s a second edition due out in a few months. I hope it maintaina the value judgements and thought processes if the original.
Yes but that's "legal loyalty", basically being honest, which is not the same as e.g. making efforts or sacrifices out of loyalty.
I looked at an apartment that had steam heating via radiators in every room. The landlord was very adamant that the tenants were not to adjust the radiators. My guess as to why is that turning one off/down could make the others hotter.
That's why it's a draft... 5 months before deadline...
> HN's consensus is [...]

> Am I reading that right?

No, you aren't reading anything right if you think there is an HN consensus on this topic.
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Totally agree that those numbers would make an outsized burn rate. The team member number is from a different date than the revenue number. Our team member number is public on https://about.gitlab.com/company/team/ (currently 383). Our current ARR is multiple times the number cited.

We're not profitable but on some months we're cash flow positive. We don't aim to be cash flow positive until 2022.
Sure, but you're acting under the premise that "if we just did it 'right' the first time, we wouldn't have this mess". What I'm saying is that only under very few circumstances does it ever workout that way. Particularly with long standing systems and their software. It just builds over years, nothing you can really do about it.
There is the "fairness" argue for this ("it doesn't matter where the employee is, they create the same clause for the company") however with taxes etc. being different it isn't equal on that level, and whether it is really fair that people in different locations get different value is a complex philosophical question :)
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The Apple ][ was actually a joy, but there were challenges : interleaved raster lines and quirks of hires color byte alignment (certain colors could not border other certain colors). As I understand it, commodore had better support for sprites and overlays. And commodore sound may have been easier as well, with a dedicated sound chip (am I remembering this correctly). I'm sure it was a wash, in the end, for which of us had a better experience.
Which is madness in the business world, and perhaps outside of it as well.
I live here. LIC subway access is terrible. Not driving to work in NYC means you either work in Manhattan or you are taking a bus, probably more than one.
I'm not sure how to fix such without getting the gov't involved, except maybe splitting Big Media (BM) per anti-trust laws. Either you regulate BM by policing their speech filtering or you regulate them by splitting them. And splitting BM won't guarantee their smaller versions won't do the same thing.
Except for the fact that the Northern Ireland conflict was still ongoing, entering its fourth decade?
> But not so fast. B, for instance, might be correlated with A. In this case, the coefficients are also correlated and interpretability becomes much more nuanced. And this isn’t the exception, it’s the rule. If you have a lot of features, chances are many of them are correlated.

Aren't we supposed to remove correlated predictors from models?

Or we can use techniques like PCA? But then, once again, we fall into the realm of unexplainable.
Most(all?) functional programming languages.
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