skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I helped write a bunch of Quora's rules and policies, and I also helped create the Top Writer's program. I probably hand selected you in the first two years.

I left Quora in 2014, but your first statement feels very true to me. I can't say what they did after I left, but I saw a clear willingness to have a fuzzy interpretation of the rules for power users.

There was a time when Quora would bend over backwards to have one person from NASA write answers. I felt that wasn't really a great strategy. I always felt it would be much more valuable to have 1000 NASA employees write their best answer, and to find a way to make that happen.

This clearly didn't happen, as the one person from NASA who wrote thousands of answers is still a very active.

Full disclosure: I deleted my entire account, questions (>100), answers (>1000), and edits (>100,000) in rage in around 2015, mainly because I'm immature, but partly because I didn't want Quora to have what I made after I left. Also, I created a new account, because I wanted to feel it out to see how it was now, in case someone comes looking :P
The mess is simply a syptom of dated copyright laws applied in the modern era.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/personal-bloc...

For me, it's "Pinterest, what's that?"
Where do all these C++19 / C++20 standard "improvements" REALLY add value, instead of making everything more complex and convoluted? Is it just slightly different syntax for doing exactly the same? ... get<0>(triple)
my apologies I did not see the previous post - I wanted to review what this article suggests is correct and incorrect Wi-Fi testing.

This article states that many previous studies tested: (from the article)

It uses a large chamber surrounded by 1 mm aluminum mesh wire mesh to provide reflections of the EMFs. The chamber in which animals are exposed on a platform at its center, is also surrounded by antennae in all 6 directions (up, down, all four horizontal directions) such that each antenna is broadcasting with one polarization is opposed (at 180°) by another broadcasting with the 180° opposite polarization, as well as by four other antennae, broadcasting with 90° different polarization in each of the four possible directions. This produces a field that is more like a non-polarized EMF rather than the usual polarized artificial EMF"

is this a fair test of modulated polarized Wi-Fi?
It's also incredibly nice for having a clean deprecation process.

Make visibility private except to current blaze deps, and then deprecate or delete as normal. You can be certain no one new will depend on the old stuff.
The interoperability standards are actually pretty much there, at least for the more common types of patient records. The situation has improved tremendously in just the past few years. Epic and their major competitors are doing a decent job of supporting the lastest HL7 CDA and FHIR standards, including specific implementation guides.

The bigger problem now is that many provider organizations haven't upgraded to current EHR release versions, or haven't opened up their systems to access by other providers.
How about flying a drone into a plane engine.
For what it's worth, despite the very strong liberal bias on Quora, (I worked for Quora 2012-2014), they tried very hard to reduce bias from their feed algorithms and tried to remain very neutral in rankings and distribution.

I think there was a conservative chilling effect that went above and beyond what they could have done to help.
the second group of papers mentioned in the article was commented on as follows:

"Laudisi et al. (2012) used a different exposure system, that of Ardoino et al. (2005) where the vast majority of the exposure is produced from reflections off a long cylindrical surface in a TEM cell, where the curvature of the cylinder will also produce a largely non-polarized EMF and different reverberation paths and consequent destructive interference, may both be expected to occur. Consequently the predicted low biological activity of EMFs produced by the Wu et al. (2009) system may be expected to also occur from this TEM exposure system Ardoino et al. (2005). It is not possible to study biological effects of EMFs from Wi-Fi, cell phones or any other important exposures using such exposure systems because of the polarization changes they produce from the original polarized EMFs and because of destructive interference."
The Making Data Count PDF. I also have a hardcopy of a shorter version. https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/making-data-count/

I like this because it's an easy to read and understand guide to statistical process control charts, and common cause variation vs special cause variation.
thanks for mentioning Bad Blood - truly great book, possibly best in 2018
Exactly. This is the "must have a college degree" requirement.... That in itself tells you little, and there's a thousand cases it's the wrong filter, but the volume is so high that there must be some automated filter.
If you get rid of your 7 dogs, affording RV repairs becomes a lot easier.

I didn't get the impression that these people have their priorities in order yet.
> There's no consistent feeling to the library

Well that's because it is really a collection of mostly unrelated libraries by a large number of different authors.

There is some general theme (emphasis on value based generic programming in the stl style as opposed to more traditional Oop), but that's about it.
Have you thought about this a lot?

Quora is Adam's baby. He owns most of it and has been involved as a primary investor for... I'm not sure how long. Before that he was CTO of Facebook and an early investor in Instagram. He's made immense returns on these investments. I don't have numbers, but I would bet money he could buy back Quora from investors with cash and still be a several-hundred-millionaire. With that said, why would he do anything but his pet project?
Or Seattle, Austin, New York, the Raleigh area, etc. There are plenty of cities with a lot of software jobs.
I am interpreting the question as being: "What was my greatest pleasure reading experience in 2018?" Thus my answer is: Nimoy, Leonard: I Am Not Spock (1975). Since it contains the greatest pleasurable experience of the most influential TV scientist of our times, even when he didn't have green blood -- his time as Tevya in Fiddler of the Roof when the cast presented him with awards for his service and they ate a cast dinner together. Thus he received the greatest emotional outlet of his quite in-held life.
Now we need to crack down on the enablers of these comments. People who up vote these reflexive cliches.
Improved export from Hydrogen to Jupyter Notebooks is at the top of my wishlist, and I'm hoping to submit a PR for it soon. See this issue: https://github.com/nteract/hydrogen/issues/1296
> Maybe Vox picking on pewdiepie is unfair, or maybe they're justified. But viewed in the proper context it's inconsequential either way; neither Vox nor pewdiepie are provoking bullshit wars.

But they are provoking bullshit wars.

Being an unreasonable extremist and drowning out the reasonable voices on your team gives the unreasonable extremists on the other team license to do the same.

People being able to express contrary opinions in public is a release valve that allows a moderate consensus to form.

Polarizing everything and then shutting down public debate is how you get into a war. Just because nobody is actively building munitions factories doesn't make this a benign development that it's reasonable to ignore just because the country is not yet literally on fire.
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Ha, so it's a pretty good example of how to be a programmer then huh?
Exploding the Phone (Phil Lapsley): A history of the Phone Phreak phenomenon. If you've browsed around ancient hacker lore or read textfiles.com, you'll enjoy it.

Giving Good Weight (John McPhee): Some John McPhee articles. They're very good, as usual, the title article being about farmers markets and told in an experimental style.

Rust: The Longest War (Jonathan Waldman): Explores several different stories tied together by the theme of metal corrosion and the people who contend with it.

Hallucinations (Oliver Sacks): Mostly about what malfunctions of the brains of a few can tell us about how all of our brains are structured.

Designers & Dragons: A History of the Roleplaying Game Industry (Parts 1 and 2 so far) (Shannon Appelcline)
The history of a bunch of start-ups.
I’m still not getting your argument. Why is this not “just adding overloads”?
Factfulness (2018) by Hans Rosling is fantastic about the real state of the world.

How the Internet Happened (2018) by Brian McCullough is a fantastic read about the history of the internet from first internet bubble to the iPhone.

Educated (2018) by Tara Westover is an amazing autobiography.

Enlightenment Now (2018) by Steven Pinker is pretty good, even if he doesn't know that much about the actual enlightenment.

Autonomy (2018) by Lawrence Burns about self-driving cars is well worth a read.

Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff is good about the very strange world inside the Trump administration.
You're talking about compile time and issues with your IDE. It is unfair to call it "Not high quality". We can think about this from an end-user standpoint that it bloats the IDE and impacts usability. Fine. Your IDE/compile times may be different than others.

Boost is extremely high quality in terms of its documentation, algorithms, and readability of the code - which is its core purpose. Please don't conflate your minor development environment gripes with the excellence of Boost. It is really not fair.
My choice as well. Lovely dive into psychedelics
The last section of the article is a systemic analysis of articles that did not find any effect and analysis as to why.
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Haskell list comprehensions are a small layer of syntactic sugar over the monadic implementation, that is implemented on a library (that comes with the compiler, but it's still a library).

It is entirely dependent on lazynes, first class functions and complex compiler optimizations. But there isn't much specific code for comprehensions there.
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I would appreciate you pointing me to comprehensive articles that have a null result ("n" greater than 100 would be good)
JFC.... Awful idea. What is this, early 2000?

Does StackOverflow and those guys pay anything? IIRC you don't even get paid to answer.
Quora's investors' money is goin' down the toilet.

Haha, paying for questions: the dumbest idea I've heard in 2018!
Rust and C++ usage are pretty much inversely proportional to their editorial frequency on HN.

Yes it looks phylosophically nice, but out of the language purist&geek, managers will not care if you are allowed or not to shoot you in the foot, they'll only care if you can deliver or not in due time.
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It's a cookbook!
I'm currently reading it. great book
Speaking about design challenges - it would be nice if industry will switch to LLVM-like low-level HDL (or RTL) language, that will allow easier cross-tool integration. So far every project implements everything itself. There is an idea[1] to adapt FIRRTL[2][3] for this needs. Here is a good paper[4] describing its features. Apparently Intel also using it, at least in the research labs. This will help to integrate all parts of FPGA and ASIC design pipeline together. For now chip-design feels like programming in 1990 - quality of tooling is very bad.

[1] https://github.com/SymbiFlow/ideas/issues/19

[2] https://bar.eecs.berkeley.edu/projects/firrtl.html

[3] https://github.com/freechipsproject/FIRRTL

[4] https://aspire.eecs.berkeley.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/...
And workers are free to protest in the hopes of improving conditions and policies. We’ve seen this st other big tech companies recently, such as Google employees walking out to protest how sexual harassment complaints were handled, or Facebook CSO’s telling the board (against the COO’s wishes) about concerns over disinformation campaigns.
Because America. In some other countries it would be perceived as government failure that needs fixing when an individual has to go beg for charity.
Clearly you don't know what investment banking is.
Are you trying to start an urban legend or something? There are a million ways that doesn't make sense, but hey, at least you're being creative... :)
* Math with Bad Drawings

* The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

* Bad Blood
Poker, with family and friends.
"An Amoeba Just Found an Entirely New Way to Solve a Classic Computing Problem"

https://www.sciencealert.com/an-amoeba-has-solved-an-exponen...

It's not quantum physics, so I'll settle for $100k
No, that's only if you read the English translation. In the original Greek, the two words are very different.

The original context is from Matthew 5:18, which could potentially have been written in Hebrew:

"17 “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. 18 For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one [a]jot or one [b]tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. 19 Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven."

Notice a few things:

1) Heaven and Earth have not yet passed away, many Christians ignore this part completely, but it needs to be explained why it was mentioned. It would seem the obvious reason is that "all will be accomplished" around the time that Heaven and Earth will pass away, including spreading the gospel to everyone. In another place Jesus says "And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come."

2) Notice that even those who ARE in Heaven will be called Least if they set aside even the smallest commandment and teach others to do so. Thus, even Christians need to be concerned with the Law. Literally nowhere did Jesus even bring up the idea that the Law will be obsolete. That is an idea originated by Paul.
Insofar those unjust outcomes undermine democracy itself, they're opposed to democracy. Notice how changed "democracy" to "democratic process", and how saying "democracy can result in bad and unjust outcomes" would have raised the question, as opposed to what, exactly?

As opposed to non-democracies, or to citizens who don't care about atrocities elsewhere? Those also "can lead to bad outcomes", and when you have something on both sides of the equation it's usually helpful to ignore it, and focus on the bits that aren't on both sides -- instead of ignoring anything but what is on both sides.

> As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.

-- Hannah Arendt
Do you have an example of which "parts of Windows work incorrectly"? Windows runs just fine without a pagefile. Of course if you have a piece of software which then tries to use more memory than is physically available those allocations will fail, which in 99.99% of software results in termination or a crash, but the OS itself works just fine (as does all the software as long as you're not hitting your physical memory limits).
Timing exactly one second on a stopwatch.
Ehh. A lot of things in the skillset of a capable real-world programmer have little to do with actually writing code, which is the whole point of the book. As can be trivially gleaned by taking a cursory look at the table of contents. And answering the question "how to write better code" with "write more code" is about as helpful as advising a depressed person to just go out and have fun.
> If nothing else, one of the envisioned non-library developers may unwittingly write code that uses or misuses these features, and still need to debug incomprehensible compilation- or runtime-errors.

The reason that the code is this complicated is so that end users don’t shoot themselves in the foot (performance-wise, correctness-wise) when using these features. And error messages will get better when concepts land.

To address your main point, though: there is always a separation between library authors and library consumers, even if they are written by the same people, because the requirements are different in each case. A library author must write general and useful code, while a library user can “get away with” hard coding logic and customizing uses to only cover what they need. Hence, the job of a library author is usually much harder.
That's before Easter only, it is supposed to be about eating plainly. The 'no meat' thing is an historical residue, some fishes are actually more expensive than chicken, for example.
I don’t think listening to someone so foolhardy would impress me very much.
> I know a homeless RV guy who got a MAC-10 for free from a drug dealer in lieu of repaying a loan.

That doesn't sound like free to me...
Many people are mentioning chaff, and heck, literally the first sentence of the Wikipedia article says:

"metallized glass fibre(fiber) or plastic" [1]

Metallized pastic sounding a lot like... glitter.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaff_(countermeasure)
Big youtubers should sue, win and create a precedent. Instead they make video where they whine and things only get worse.
If that figure is accurate for what they are paying for questions then I'm guessing it is a big chunk of revenue. Ads don't pay that well on a site like this.

I didn't appreciate how hard it was to come up with good QA pairs for a topic until IBM Watson acquired the company I was working for (Blekko) and got to see how things got made. I isn't something you can farm out to Mechanical Turk, and without AGI it isn't something that is easily auto generated from a knowledge graph. Ten thousand questions about the insurance business and vetted and ranked answers? Solid gold.
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A lot of C++ code bases are stuck in legacy C++03 or even earlier, for a variety of reasons. Most new code makes heavy use of standard library features such as iteratators and smart pointers.
That looks like such a cool book, I'm so getting it! Thank you
The danger when drawing comparisons between England and the US is scale. England is slightly smaller than Alabama.
What’s the number of people who travel in cars or are near traffic on a daily basis, versus the number of people who are on a cruise ship on a daily basis?
Thanks, yeah, I was very careful to avoid claiming they're mutually exclusive. However, although I stopped trying to learn Rust back in 2016, unless it's changed its fundamentals radically (which I understand it hasn't), I'm not sure if it's really a counterexample here for expressiveness. Can you use different allocators for different vectors in the same function in Rust? Can you have custom move semantics for objects that might know about pointers to them? And does the compiler no longer complain about code that really should work just fine? [1] I understand the answers to most if not all such questions is still "no", at which point I stop believing it really has the same flexibility as C++ or the same ease of writing as Python, but would be happy to hear if things have changed.

[1] http://softwaremaniacs.org/blog/2016/02/12/ownership-borrowi...
It is as if we don't learn! Same thing in Rust. :: is adds so much visual noise.

Julia is the only modern language with beautiful syntax. I think we should pay more attention to the aesthetics of a language just like we do with spoken languages. Certain languages just sound beautiful - Japanese and French.

C++ is old but Rust could have paid more attention to subjective aspects of a language.
You’re making a sweeping generalization without backing it up with any evidence.
Most companies latest quarterly earnings reports are great, unemployment is at record low. This is not a financial crisis based on reality, this is a crisis driven by fear of what could possibly happen, not what is actually happening and also the 2008 financial crisis is still in people’s mind, most of us would rather get out now than go through another 2008... I’m expecting this meltdown to be very short(less than a year), but we’ll get the real meltdown a few years later, resulting in a double-hump chart.

Edit: why the downvote, I’m really starting to hate the HN platform
Huntsville, Alabama has google fiber for $70/month.
Or even better, attend a coding bootcamp and become a fullstack web developer!
Reading now Factfulness by Hans Rosling and it's pretty great so far (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34890015-factfulness)

Other than that I believe Bad Blood by John Carreyrou is possibly the best of 2018 (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37976541-bad-blood) - mentioned in the other comment already
Ask HN: Project management resources for an even better 2019?
What are your favorite project management related books and resources that will make an individual contributor successful in the new year?

I'm starting the year with an overwhelming list of exciting projects and features to work on. I'm an individual contributor whose always learning to better champion projects and organize my time. What's worth reading!?
I thought that chaff couldn't be very much. If you believe this source it's about 500 tons per year, which is very much more than I thought. http://www.agriculturedefensecoalition.org/sites/default/fil...
I’m proposing leaving the upvotes in the hands of users but paying users for high karma
Peter Thiel on Trump, Gawker, and Leaving Silicon Valley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0t5prZD57s&t
This all sounds reasonable. On the other hand, you can randomly take half of someone's genetic code, complete it with half of someone else's and you get another fully functional one. That's not something you can say about programs written by humans.