skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't wish to belittle the hardships and sadness having an elderly parent at a relatively young age may potentially bring, but the alternative you're suggesting is never being born, which surely is even less preferable.
I've had a similar experience with emotional tolls and performance at work.

I've found that having one or two trusted work friends to confide in helps immensely. They can basically act as support touchstones, even if you only talk about the topic once.

Compassion in the workplace exists, but mindreading does not. Knowing that you dont have to shoulder the burden yourself, and be reminded of that fact, can help clear the mental space we all need to do our jobs. It's not easy or perfect, but it is doable especially with practice.

As an example though, I've supported coworkers in similar straights in the past who only said as much as "I'm waiting on the results of some tests, then I might just quit my job and travel the world."
My job is documentation, but I've always advocated for things I work on, believe in, and enjoy.

Thanks.

(and my sibling is right, they suggested that those who don't like IRC could use Discourse instead.)
Do you need to have a best man? Just go without if it doesn't feel right. My brother was mine, and my wife had five bridesmaids, but I don't see why you'd be obliged to have one or give them any formal duties. Always baffles me when couples go to awkward lengths to balance each side of the aisle.
On the one hand, I see your point. But on the other hand, if a master of some skill says "This is how I achieve the results I achieve." — perhaps imitating that might just be valuable. Does a dancer not get better by learning to imitate (at least at first) a master? (Though perhaps eventually, a deeper understanding of the artform might take hold, at which point experimentation and improvisation allow the dancer to explore undiscovered variations of the artform.)

And I don't think it is just that Knuth does it that catches my attention either. Ideally, I think (if I understand the premise of literate programming), literate programming would force the programmer to take the time to explain the code being written, and ideally, the rationale behind why that code solves the problem at hand. And to do that, the programmer must first understand the code being written, and I think upon attempting to do that, they'll find they have not sufficiently thought the problem through.

I fear too many of the coders I know would not honestly attempt it; they are in too much of a hurry to get the code written.

Now, I don't think literate programming is the only way to accomplish that; simply writing good docstrings and comments might suffice to a good degree (and good ones: I too often review code where the docstring is a basic repetition of the function name and arguments, or where the comments explain what is being done, but not why). But far too often I see no comments, no docstrings, no tests, just miles and miles of code, and so it is no wonder that Knuth is what he is.
We had a bad experience with Gitter, and so decided against it.
The code you just shipped became obsolete at the moment you rolled it to prod
What are generics?0
I’d say that is just spreading FUD around. How come I see plenty of job postings? Not interested myself, as I’m happily running my own SaaS written in Clojure and ClojureScript, but seriously: if you want a job writing Clojure, it’s not that hard. I mean, if Walmart and Citibank are hiring Clojure developers, it’s not exactly „in decline”.
http://hnrankings.info does at least some of what you ask.
True that. Eventually satellites as powerful as the ones in that one Mission Impossible movie will be available to laypeople like you and me. Scary.
You know what? I dislike Zuck's company and what he does as much as anyone, but this is naked revisionism and opportunism and pandering. Back in the day the Supes were wagging their tongues and smiling broadly at the prospect.

No, sorry, give those $75 million back, if you want to remove the name. Don't be a hypocrite.

My unrequitted wish is that one day SF gets a new city charter made for adults with kids in mind. These supes always, always look for the lamest things to hang their hats on and boast what a wonderful job they are doing. You got needles, you got homeless, you got people who can't afford rent, you have jobless, drug abuse, infrastructure which needs retrofitting, MUNI, etc., etc. let’s not worry about that. Let’s take a name down!!
"Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tacitus (he was Roman, my bad.)

It's not so much who said it as someone said it a long, long time ago. This is the societal equivalent of someone complaining about a bug in the alpha version then the bug winds up getting shipped.
I don't understand how someone can get in trouble for promoting imaginary currency.

Can you get in trouble for promoting fake money from Monopoly and trying to convince people that the collectible value of the Monopoly money will increase?
I prefered the old slogan. It actually told me a bit about the language and made me curious to pick it up.

The new slogan does not do that for me. But I might not be their main target - I like programming languages for the code itself and not the applications/domains where I can use it.

The website didn't need a redesign either imo, but it is better than the changed slogan.
> Immigrants will always be foreigners in Japan.

People Americans treat (arguably) worse than foreignors:

- Those whose ancestors were in North America before it was colonized

- Those whose ancestors were forcibly brought to North America more than 150 years ago.
The thing that blows my mind is how "influencers" will routinely be paid well into the six-figures for sharing a photo of themselves using a product, and apparently that's the most effective way for these brands to use their marketing budget.
This Is Why You Don't Keep Logic in the Front-End
Why serverless newbies should use a deployment framework
After several minutes I was able to read it in full... and lots of reading and back-tracing.

He says our business model is "wholly-changed" and now founders need to be super-talented and a long list of other things in order to succeed in the modern world.

I would argue that founders have always needed incredible smarts and a good product/market fit to succeed. I don't think anyone would claim that the "titans" of industry (think Rockefeller, John Jacob Astor) didn't have street smarts, grit, and perseverance.

> affords amazing access to capital, an ultra-connected network of technically savvy persons with whom one can potentially ally, and a huge reservoir of resources by which founders can educate themselves to learn, grow, and develop

For sure, there's more resources (cheaply) available than ever before.

IMO, this should all add up to make it easier to start a business and succeed. Maybe that's what he wanted to say.
Despite most of my professional programming being in Go nowadays, I am extremely sympathetic to the Haskell/FP way of thinking about things, and trying to make invalid state unrepresentable.

However, having made the mistake a few times now of trying to use "unsigned ints" for things that I want to assert are never negative, I've learned the hard way not to do that. The problem is, there's always some bug you have in the program that will drive the uint "negative", wrapping over to a huge number. Unfortunately, since you get no warning when that happens, it tends to take longer to show up, and without a clear cutoff to say "ah, this is clearly invalid" it can be hard to even program detection code, whereas checking for "less than 0" can be unambiguous.

I'd loooove it if I could easily, cheaply, and universally (i.e., not just in Go, but across all my programming languages) turn on a behavior that says "if this int or uint under or overflows, throw an exception instead of trying to do whatever stupid thing you're going to do". I get the sense this is heading down the road where in 20 or 30 years, this is just going to be common sense. However, we are very early on the road yet from what I can see. Whenever I bring it up, even today, even in this sort of context, it still is generally negatively received. (But not uniformly. A few other people agree. I think momentum is with me. I'm not sure my programming career will live long enough to see it, though.)
It's people that have seen the abuses of C++ templates. They're very powerful and therefore people tend to want to use them for really complicated things.

Look up things like SFINAE and compile time metaprogramming. Templates were not intended for those things. When they work they're ok, but if they go wrong good luck following the 10 line error message.

Here's an example from Rust:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5nifpm/they_said_rust...

That's what people don't want.
Getting Started - Quebic FaaS Framework
probably worth noting Moscovitz is worth 9.1 billion USD and Rosenstein 150 million....
Ask HN: Would QR codes be readable by a conference audience on the big screen?
I'm trying to work out if it makes sense to display QR codes on the big screen at a conference or event, if the people in their audience could read it.

I suppose the answer is "it depends", and in particular I'd want a very short URL.

Interestingly, I can easily read QR codes from 15 feet away on my PC screen by pointing my iPhone camera and zooming in.

But I'm interested to know if anyone has heard of this working?
When I was a kid ~25 years ago it wasn't the "classic" blocks I was jealous of my friends for having though. It was something like the Forbidden Island (6270) set as shown here:

http://legosteveblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/lego-pirates-wave-...

Not corporate-branded -- but not total freeform.
Hi, this is the founder of Clustrz, let me know if you have any questions!
What I learned about cryptography in 3 weeks
I’m a bit of a contrarian on this issue. If you look at how you type you actually spend more time thinking about what to say rather than typing it out.

I think language is extremely high bandwidth. We’re bottling up extremely complex, abstract thoughts into a few symbols.
Rick Perry(longest serving Republican governor of Texas) was a Democrat and in charge of Al Gore Presidential campaign in Texas in 1988. In Texas there was a massive exodus from Democrats to Republicans in 80s and 90s. Attributing that to Nixon's Southern Strategy is over simplifying. Reagan re-aligned politics in US.
What are you basing this on? I've been reading up on Alpert and had not heard anything like it. The student who got him fired at Harvard, by the way, was Andrew Weil, who later became famous as a holistic physician. I haven't heard any suggestion that Alpert raped or seduced Weil.

Listening to some of Ram Dass's talks from the 70s, I've been struck by how far ahead of his time he was in facing up to the power dynamics between gurus and disciples, and especially the sexual power dynamics between them. His statements on this from over 40 years ago sound pretty contemporary today. That's unusual, given how different a time that was. So unless you guys have specific evidence that Alpert raped people, I can't help but think you're picking on the wrong figure.
> I'm disappointed that the Rust community is moving from open IRC to proprietary Discord.

Surprising indeed. Why not to Matrix?
10,000 people sounds like a lot, but in terms of a large city’s sewer system it’s not that meaningful. In terms of traffic etc you are talking about 10k people in a 3,870k people population area. That less than 1/3 of one percent.

PS: Simply from the overall US population growth rate the metro area should expect to add ~27,000 people every year.
In general it is nicer to use signed numbers for indices. The actual index can't be negative, true, but differences between them can, and it means you don't have so many dubious sign conversions.
"Science" and religion are both equally fallible because both are interpreted, disseminated, and perpetuated by man, which as we all know is about the most fallible thing there is. It's obvious and demonstrable that various religious institutions have had varying levels of corruption over the years as their power has waxed and waned based upon how much faith the people have in them. Why is it such a stretch to see that in this modern era where religion has been pretty much been given up on in favor of a more or less blind belief in whatever headlines tell us "scientists" now say, that once again, power and political motivations corrupt once-pure institutions?

Imagine trying to convince someone of incredible religious conviction that their earthly Church demonstrably has repeatedly fallen victim to corruption over the years, only to have her respond to you with, "but that can't be; the Word of God is unquestionably infallible!" There shouldn't be any problem in holding both of those ideas ("the Word of God (Bible) is literally Gospel and infallibly true" and "absolute power corrupts man") in your head at the same time (if anything, the former explicitly reinforces the latter!), and you'd be hard-pressed to find a Catholic today that won't admit that their earthly Church hasn't gone through periods of incredible corruption and downright evil.

Nobody's going to argue the validity of the scientific method, but when you look at the innate nature of man (demonstrated time and again over the course of all recorded history), it's easy to believe that modern "science" is just as corrupt as any other institution man has made at any point in time that rose to power in the minds of the people, i.e. "very"
...and I’m bankrupt.
So chaos is like a cryptographic hash function where a given input always produces the same output, but even a slight change in the input produces massive changes in the output?
The thing to remember whenever “better than the alternative” comes up is that transit is good where cars are bad and cars are good everywhere else. Transit is never going to beat out cars in environments where traffic is light, density is low, and parking is cheap. But traffic isn’t light and parking isn’t cheap where density is high.

This is about deciding which kind of city you want and building the transportation options that fit that environment. Cities built for cars are very different from cities built for density and walkability. You can’t compare the two modes devoid of that context.
What's that famous tag line? Oh, yes:

"Use of Go 2 Considered Harmful".
I don’t see what function the hypnosis is providing?
Constantly amazed at folks who don't appear to have any relevant experience pretending to educate folks who clearly do. You managed to list 4 things before punting to "etc." and 3 of them were lifted from the parent without modification. Can you explain how the only thing you added, marketing, scales per good sold? Why is "fixing defects" a one-time NRE and not related to the volume of product produced?

But who can forget the stellar recent hardware companies like Fitbit, Jambox, Sonos, and Pebble all of whom waited a minimum of 5 years before bothering to introduce a second product.
It doesn't help at all that the common medications are mild, situational nootropics with grossly inflated PR. Usually you say something like "I got a prescription for X and, instead of overdosing and dying, stopped having episodes" and people immediately realize that you're not making things up. Unless the prescription that fixed your brain was Adderall, in which case they just accuse you of being addicted to speed and try to lecture you about drugs.

I've started saying that I have a neurological issue that interferes with memory and concentration. Having been diagnosed at age 27 also helps. People react much better when they're not being blind, bigoted asshats.
The boomers have made it so difficult to buy a house that I chose to not have kids so I have a chance at having some peace and prosperity myself. Sucks but true.
The author can claim anything. But sorry, it is really not suitable for trading financial systems.
This is what I understand - in the Hindu tradition (perhaps it's similar in Buddhist and Catholic traditions) you are supposed to enter a new life when you become a Sannyasi (monk). One of the initial rituals in many schools is to perform funeral rites for your former self. Through this process, you renounce your family, relations, and what you think of as your "identity". Then the guru gives a new name to the monk. Afterwards, monks are prohibited from talking about their purvashrama (previous life).
I totally hear you that this is not a huge inconvenience in practice. Part of me is worried that it becomes more and more of a problem the bigger the project gets.

But mostly, it just seems like a really weird call to make for the language. There are real disadvantages to it -- I can't really rely on my search tools. So that... when you're using a library you can refer to its identifiers using a different capitalization convention if you want to--why is that important?

I don't know, it just seems like a really weird call to make, and if that's one of the first things I've learned about the language it makes me think there are probably plenty of other weird things like it.
I do agree some of these stuff. I find C++ ugly too. I pay for everything in cash. For email service, I just run my own; it does not use any webpages at all.

They also mention nonfree JavaScript codes in webpages. Even if it is free, it does not necessarily mean that it is the program that you want to run, and even if it is, you might want to modify the program and then to run the modified version; most web browser software does not seem to consider such thing.
The 90s LEGO sets were maybe the golden age. Classic pirates were maybe some of the best that there ever were. I salivated over those sets back in the day
> Could you give us an example of a specific FAA or NTSB regulation which has a suboptimal benefit:burden ratio?

Sure. The air traffic control system is 20th century technology that has air traffic controllers doing things manually that could be done by computers. A better automated system would have the same or better safety while requiring significantly less labor.
Would you like to assign me any more imaginary opinions? Your reply is an exercise in whatabouttery: ignore this harm because look at all those harms over there. Controlling the age at which one has children is within one’s power to control, and helps to alleviate obvious harm. Nothing you have said or can say will change that.
If it's ADHD, behavioral therapy isn't super effective, unfortunately (at least according to research I've seen). Medication could help and you... should see results pretty quickly (after a nasty adjustment period though. It changes how your brain works and feels extremely weird)

My understanding is that if you actually don't have ADHD, the medication isn't effective, so if it's helpful there's a strong signal there.

A proper analysis by a psychiatrist would be helpful (and you should share your doubts). But I think if you look at things beyond the "attention" and "hyperactivity" aspects . For example, saying things without thinking, lots of remorse for actions after the fact (showing proper judgement but lack of control), etc. Medical professionals are the best for this, but there's a lot of reading out there that you can check out.
For some people and organizations "as un-risky as anything labelled "experimental" could be" is risky enough to be automatically being disqualified from even being considered. There's the label 'experimental', so it can't be used anywhere touching the production codebase regardless of any other arguments.
One question: As far as my knowledge told me, anything (or most?) interface{} in Go will be put to heap instead of stack. Will generics change that?

I really want to utilize those 2~4K stack spaces for the routines.
You can make a ton of money with COBOL, even in 2018.
I'm not having kids largely as a result of the mismanagement of the boomers.

I'm holding on to my nastiness.
I haven't bought anything since the end of the LOTR era... killing the last vestiges of the classic themes has been a big misstep for LEGO.
I really like Pulsar and it definitely has overlap for some use cases with Kafka but its important to understand that they are 2 different kinds of systems.

Pulsar is a classic Pub/Sub system. It offers persistence but the basic concepts are what you'd find in most any Pub/Sub system.

Kafka is a distributed log (data structure, not tracing) system. Its basic concepts are what you would expect around something that is persisting events. In many ways its better to think about Kafka as an event datastore and not a messaging system.

In particular, Kafka is much better in use cases where you want to provide all events to many different consumers on their own time frames, over and over again. Use cases like building distributed caches and replication formats will likely fit Kafka better than Pulsar.

Also, Kafka has much higher industry adoption. You are much more likely to have third party support for Kafka than for Pulsar. Also each has a seperate Apache project dependency. Zookeeper has... warts, but they are well known and operating Zookeeper clusters is a much more common skillset than operating BookKeeper.

Again, I really like Pulsar but claiming it is better in basically every way is just false.
These things do not have to be at odds.
RESTful microservices deployed to AppEngine + Cloud PubSub. With MongoDB for static json assets. And either Firebase or Cloud DataStore for all metadata, config, and application state. Strong isolation between different modules. Set things up right and it will run forever with fixed (or rather, predictable) costs and zero maintenance.

I do appreciate how productive GraphQL and frontend frameworks like Gatsby can make developers. Having seen it first hand in hackathons ;)
Curious a/your use case or two for the “fan out” capability here. Do you mind sharing?
Sheryl Sandberg Is Said to Have Asked Facebook Staff to Research George Soros
Not rooted in science, perhaps, but in empirical evidence? Boy howdy.

I used to be 260lb and invisible to most women. I decided to get my act together, start lifting weights, and dropped a significant amount (nearly 100lb over the last three years) and wouldn't you know: interest is through the roof. Couple that with a burgeoning business and money getting stable and it's point and shoot.

Most men (people) don't like that reality because it means a few harsh truths about looks, status, and money. It also means you have to take responsibility for your results which is the antithesis to ideologies that push as-is self-acceptance and "good enough" ideals. That is to say, my starting to understand and accept this reality hurt beyond belief. It took the better part of a year to really swallow the changes that were taking place.

You have a ranking and women especially are either subconsciously or (for a select few) consciously aware of it. Coincidentally, men are too (read: they don't like you climbing the ranks; their behavior in response makes this clear). I've lost a lot of friends in the process of getting my stuff together—people who I'd consider second family. Serious food for thought.
Let's put it this way, do you feel a monarchy is as equally corruptible as a democracy?

Both are institutions constructed by greedy, corrupt, stupid, fallible human beings. It's just that the latter has built in several mechanisms to address this. Like science.

So over a long period of time, democracies have proven to be less corrupt then monarchies, and like-wise, science has proven to be less wrong then religion.
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How GitHub scaled their product team
Are there any automated accessibility checkers that catch the low hanging fruit?
Really good points. I found this video ("Is Utopia always Dystopia?") fascinating, delving into similar territory about expanding our idea of what utopia, and thus a better future, can be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n20ZbRJyKPM
you cant just mix the two materials gradually like the mystery flavors? https://youtu.be/xUpGTvPrCG8?t=203