skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If I were to hash the headlines from a 1969 "ON THE MOON!" article, would it prove that my block is older that the bitcoin's genesis block?

That would only prove your block is NOT from before 1969. The date of the article in question is 03/Jan/2009. Which is around the time of the block itself (thus proving the block wasn't generated before 2009).
> Part of being a good developer, I think, is that just because you can't understand why someone wants to do a certain thing doesn't mean that their use case is invalid.

For all intents and purposes, if you fail to make a convincing argument for a use-case to a developer, it is invalid. It's not actionable. An argument could be made for any program to do anything in any possible way, for any number of reasons. Developers need to narrow that possibility space down radically. It would be nice if developers could spend the time really understanding every opinion offered to them, but it's not going to happen.

> That's childish and, frankly, entirely expected of Open Source Dev culture, which has a nasty habit of being condescending to users.

Doing "customer support" for free to the general public can wear on you. In fairness, can we agree that there are "difficult users" as well?
My tax haven is RothIRA.
The first link is to purchase a TEX Yoda II. They're now regularly stocked at mechanicalkeyboards.com, which is awesome.
This is just how business works at that level.

Don't like it? Me either, but Google is still playing by the rules.
getting 500
They officially dropped "Don't be evil" a long time ago.

http://time.com/4060575/alphabet-google-dont-be-evil/
I have fond memories of playing Final Fantasy II as a kid. I downloaded Octopath Traveller on the Switch and couldn't get through the introduction I was so bored. Going back and playing Final Fantasy on the NES Classic, I can't believe I used to have so much time on my hands and so much patience to play this stuff.

Then again, I've gotten deeply in chess lately...
Other game types exists, friend.

I've collectively dumped hundreds of hours in Factorio, Stardew Valley, and Kerbal Space Program.

You dont have to look very far to find games which have long play times and no lootboxes (which is a fairly recent thing). Sometimes, games are just good without exploitative mechanics
every time I read stuff like this I get that ol' rise of anger: that the Internet, the great leveler, it will bring us all together regardless of where we happen to be on earth ... at least, unless you want to build it, in which case you need to be in the same small area for 40+ hours a week.

Aren't we tech types obsessed with removing single points of failure?

Aren't we moving past "you must sit in a specific chair so your manager can have specific interactions with you, in person"?

I know there's remote work out there; believe me, I know. But read stuff like this and browse the "who's hiring" threads, laden with ONSITE, and wonder when I'll finally be able to sever the link between the skill in my brain and sitting in that one specific chair in that one specific building in that one specific town.
> That only really matters if your backend developers are a different team to your frontend developers

What if there is one team, but different developers (one working on the frontend, another on the back)? What if QA can test the API while the frontend development is ongoing?

What if the front and backends have different toolchains, and ultimately separate execution environments (server app backend vs JS running on client machines).
Ah, you had a secret handset, not (land)line (or, as per Ernestine, instrument).

Basically, decades ago, 411 was the first "N11" to come into common use, for "local directory assistance"; and 611 was for "repair service". But all 8 were reserved ( https://www.nationalnanpa.com/number_resource_info/n11_codes... ), and there was no way they were going to rescind all the already-existing phone numbers with "11" in them, or even with "911", since they'd been in use forever.

Some random examples of real numbers with "911" in them: 800-345-1911 is the South Hackensack office of TransAxle; 800-349-1100 is (or was) Louisiana Health Monitoring.
> I maintain and support the C++ toolchain for a major commercial embedded operating system

which one?
> The Bay Area is literally a series of midwestern towns dotted by dot com campuses.

Midwestern? It's as far west as you can get.

And they're not towns - they're cities, all merged into one massive continuous urban sprawl for 80 miles around the bay.
Hip hop is increasingly influencing all aspects of American culture - the tipping point being my mother texting me if “I liked Cardi B”

Just as haute-coture fashion houses have embraced streetwear trends, hip hop is the dominant force in American music. It ain’t going anywhere.
Obama was CIA from birth or was at least born to a family of assets:

- his parents met in a Russian language class in Hawaii
- father graduated from Harvard
- father worked for oil companies and government in Kenya
- mother moved to Jakarta and Pakistan working for NGOs, funded by development banks
- paternal grandfather worked for British colonial forces in Europe, India, and Africa
- maternal grandmother worked for bank that dealt with emerging markets in Pacific

If you know people that work for the company... or with the company... these are pretty typical covers and paths. No one declares themselves an officer, they're just working on an ag tech startup in the desert! Or Mormon... there are so many Mormons. They generally have no vices, travel for missionaries, BYU has amazing language courses, and they believe in the mission.

Think about how many people during the Cold War moved to a remote island to take intensive Russian language classes.
I have not played the game, so this is only from what I've read [0], but it is my understanding that they designed a progression system that strongly pushes people to pay. Also, while not strictly "loot boxes", you are still able to indirectly pay for random items because the drops are linked to level progression, which can be sped up with micro-transactions.

[0] https://kotaku.com/the-free-gear-in-black-ops-4-is-an-unforg...
As a European visitor, I had similar feelings about SF.

One moment I'm in Twitter HQ, enjoying free food from around the world, place is buzzing with techies. Next moment we wander around a bit and there's a whole park where the homeless are living in the bushes.

I was literally in a place where one guy I met was designing self driving cars, and another guy was wandering the street with no shoes on, fighting with his invisible friend.

I also thought the natural surroundings were a contrast with what people have built. Minus the bridge and a few landmarks, the city looks kinda bland. Too low-rise for such a popular place. But there's hills and natural features that are quite spectacular.
Years of marketing video games to a way-too-narrow demographic with no disposable income - boys and early teens. It's not the only media that was stuck in the "kids only" camp - look how long it took cartoons to break free of that mould. Thank The Simpsons for that one.
In the novel, the three-body civilization would go extinct if there are two or three suns in the sky.
Stop using URL shorteners, to help protect the Web, please
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The difference is: that's not my problem, and it shouldn't be!

Let Microsoft worry about how to keep Windows running and I'll worry about keeping my own applications running.
They are certainly playing by government rules. People who arent happy with this should complain about and to governments. and not to corporations.
I did this dance last year, so let me give you some free advice.

Show your kids how to save and how NOT to overwrite your save in BoTW.

Having my kids blow away my ~20 hours of work completely deflated me and I have not been able to get back into it since.
And he likely wouldn't have those 50 BTC anymore, might've bought a pizza or something back when the price hit $0.30.
You didn't hear much from the people using Python 2 to get things done. Here is what happened in that world:

* there were no syntax changes, no new keywords, no deprecations, no coloured functions (http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-y...), no major changes in the standard library etc

* some sore points (eg subprocess & threads) had backported modules with fixes

* python 2.7 continued to be supported by major third party libraries, and they tended to avoid wholesale changes

* binary compatibility and testing are easy (I have a python binary module compiled on 32 bit ARM in 2014 that still loads without recompilation today)

ie python 2 is more than sufficient to solve real world problems, and in the last decade has been stable, debugged, and predictable. You generally don't hear from folks doing this!

Much like C++, Python 3 still has the problem of which subset of language features to use since they affect minimum Python 3.x version, interaction with libraries etc.

The Python 2 -> 3 transition is going to be a case study for a long time. All the intentions and planning seemed right, yet here we are a decade later. There are difficult trade offs between new productivity, stability and predictability, and giving things time to mature, with space to make mistakes. As an example Rust seems to be applying the lessons learned.
This article from The Street[1] references a survey saying that business travelers rank WiFi as their second most important thing behind a comfortable bed, but 81% report poor WiFi experience. Its amazing that the big brands haven't updated/invested in this service.

How hard/expensive it is to swap out some older access points?

1: https://www.thestreet.com/story/12793880/1/why-hotel-wifi-su...
I’m not sure if the Bay Area are Midwestern towns anymore than they are generic American suburbs. Their culture is not Midwestern at all.
> her husband acquired a peculiar smell

That would point towards some molecule being eliminated from the body after some kind of silent poisoning. That could be a reasonable explanation for parkinson and other diseases, if proven true.

Trying to match the smell with some common products could be very interesting.
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I suppose by American standards they're cities, but if you're at all used to like, Seoul, they're basically towns.
I would rather think some of Flutter's current rise in popularity is because it's not JavaScript.
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This is legal. Any issues should be taken up with the political and tax system that allows it.

If you blame the company for doing this then I expect that you also make 0 deductions on your personal taxes and pay as much as possible.
Your contributions are post-tax.

Of course, when you retire.....
I did say a good game, and meant to imply the comparison to similarly good movies.

I was just ignoring the games and movies that suck and would be a waste of time and money.
China’s cyber police take aim at ‘negative information’ in new crackdown
It does? I thought almost every game is available a few days after launch?
Brains remember more easily with drawings than written notes
Career growth and networking opportunities is unprecedented there. Plus, if the salaries are higher in proportion to the costs of living, then your 10% (or whatever) savings you put aside will be much bigger.

I crunched the numbers before we moved to SF and even paying 10x more rent for 3x more salary worked out ok.
I strongly agree. Think of Rust as a very opinionated and functionally flavoured version of c++.

Also I recommend looking into F#, Haskell and Clojure.
Well, part of the reason. They wanted to use a number close to 0 so that it could be dialled on a rotary phone without requiring visibility. 111 was rejected for the reason of random events or faulty lines, 222 because it connected to Abbey's local exchange: http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/hi/people_and_places/hist...
> or that this is a non-issue

I'd argue non-issue. Attack vectors could be to attempt a double spend (not worth it) or confirming empty blocks (why?).
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It also means that they can be ported to other OSes with zero dependencies on Linux.
It was never dropped, it is still in Google's Code of Conduct. It's not, however, included in Alphabets.

https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/
Working in the same place, in my anecdotal experience, leads to better communication. A couple orders of magnitude better.

Face-to-face communication provides much higher "bandwidth" than text-based.
Requiring a bond during the appeals process seems like a fair way to handle this. Interesting to see Qualcomm so confident they will come out ahead.
Exactly right. Conservatives vs Liberal != Republicans vs. Democrats
It hits home that at the end of the day, tech, like all industries, is controlled by money men and managers who are conservative in their business practices and fear change.
It's also worth it to get a copy of the standard(s). The latest standards are pretty expensive (several hundred dollars each), even in PDF form.

ANSI had made the C++11 standard available for $40 several months after it was formally accepted by ISO.

I still use my copy of the C++11 standard time to time. Helpful for explaining why things work in a particular way and for answering "I think I found a compiler/stdlib bug, is my implementation conforming" questions.
Agreed. Even if there are innovations to be made they are either (a) held out deliberately to inflate future prices or (b) are not feasible, materially or financially right now or (c) just don't exist.

But it doesn't help that Apple is trying to compensate for slower sales with higher prices. They are digging themselves deeper that way.
> Focus on making your code clearer, not fancier or "faster".

Exactly!

> By far the biggest mistake I see developers make is making their method/function bodies too long. Extract your methods people

As a general rule this is just one side of the coin imo. I often see this approach increasing the complexity of control flow in direct proportion to the simplification of individual code blocks. Net gain zero.
I wonder if this is what he got in exchange for signing the "lockbox" bill into law [0].

[0]: https://www.masstransitmag.com/rail/news/21039311/transit-lo...
And they said alex jones was crazy.`
The UK could join the EEA or the EFTA along with Iceland, Norway and Lichtenstein. Switzerland would also get to have more negotiatiating power with the UK in the EFTA.
I guess the same reason to hit the World Trade Center not whatever stadium hosts the Super Bowl.

Attacking civilians is mostly pointless. Though, that’s also my view on terrorists so I don’t really understand the mindset.
I think of it as Microsoft’s OSes differentiate by features aka marketing weasels. They’re essentially the same OS otherwise. MS markets this as backwards compatibility at times as well. I think that’s a good feature that Google doesn't appear to be making a priority.

Having said all of that, I’m sick of googles abandoning of products. I loved my 2013 Pixel 7. They essentially sell goods and services only to ignore them when it suits them.
You cannot replace ethical with legal. We all understand its legal. But to post on a forum criticizing this is not a permissible action?, but some how supposed to bring the political class to change things...
Not really.

With cryptocurrencies, anyone at any time can fork for any reason.

This can't be done with the government. The government will prevent you from doing so.

A cryptocurrency can't prevent another cryptocurrency from existing, though.
> The tax strategy, known as the “Double Irish, Dutch Sandwich”, is legal

Hey, at least it's got a fun name. I can't imagine anyone is too surprised by this. Personally I'm happy to pay my tax burden. I grew up in America, went to public schools and benefited from public services.

Corporate tax evasion like this seems like fixation on a local maxima. There's no way to account for the return on your mandatory tax investment, but their is a return and it's important for everyone.
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UK scientists test breathalyser for detecting early cancers
It's crazy that the NYC transit system is controlled by the state government in Albany, a bunch of folks that pretty much don't use it at all.
“7 Steps for a Guilt-Free 2019”
Ahh, yes this speaks right to me. I went through a loop in the latter half of 2018 trying all the best of modern gaming: World of Warcraft, God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, Breath of the Wild...

I have always loved games and been an enthusiastic gamer, but there was precious little fun to be had. My keyboard wary hands went through the motions, and I sat on my arse.

I sold off all my systems and found my mind open wide for reading again. Now, I have since discovered gog.com and it seems to be a splendourous portal for gamers of age. Casual, strategic, relaxing... It is much more my speed.

For me, I am a gamer — but my tastes rapidly and deeply changed with time. Smaller doses, more puzzling puzzles, and less comrades.
>No, the number of people unable to get housing will be reduced by the number of people who win the lottery and get housing

That is the same number of people who currently can get housing by buying it. Until you change either the number of people attempting to move into the area or the number of housing units, any change will just change who loses and wins, not how many people lose or win
Absolutely. Those who throw stones should be able to prove they take $0 in mortgage interest deductions, child deductions, medical deductions etc.

If you have a problem with these legal loopholes, go after your congressman.
It's legal means it's the right thing to do?
We're not really talking about "the average game" either though, otherwise we'd have to include "the average movie" which must necessarily--like games--include amateur and very low budget projects.

We're talking about is the games you actually end up playing versus the movies you actually end up watching. For me the value for money is crushingly in favor of games, both in terms of hours per dollar and in terms of subjective enjoyment.

Other people might have a different overall experience, but let's at least compare the right things.
The UniParty.

However... This is where I'll make a point. The GOP and Dems absolutely both hate Trump. That's the funny thing about bubble types and die-hard liberals is that it seems neither can see just how little the GOP wanted Trump. They just didn't have a riggable system like the DNC did.

That like him or not, Trump is very much disrupting the many of the plans of those politicians that while pretending to be against each other have almost identical goals. That's not a defense of Trump, it's an understanding that if you hate the GOP, you should understand Trump is their enemy and it doesn't make sense to lump them together in your bias, at least not all the time.

EDIT: LOL, apparently because some Republicans like Grham and Rand Paul support Trump he has the entire GOP establishment. Except Flake, McCain, Romney, Paul Ryan, Priebus, and this small list that is effectively still against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Republicans_who_oppose... .... Look, I get that it makes you sad to hear that Trump isn't liked by the people you don't like, but if you think the GOP wanted or wants Trump now - you're foolish. They're STUCK with him now, that's a big difference. The GOP as a hole will halfheartedly "fight" for him, while wishing he was dead.
> If you have no clear idea how your driving software works, how are you going to make sure this doesn't happen?

A lot of people don't know how typing "www.google.com" into their browser works but DNS "just works" for them. There is software in nearly every part of our lives that could systemically go wrong in catastrophic ways - we do our best to plan and prevent them.

> People have common sense, variability and adaptive learning to prevent things like that. Moreover, our traffic system, our cars and our driver education have been co-evolving for safety for the last 100 years. (Heck, some of it started with horses and carriages.) The complexity and size of the system have been gradually scaled up for just as long, and it's designed and refined to be used by humans.

Isn't that incredible? The complexity goes up: we adapt. As self-driving cars are introduced we adapt and evolve and incorporate these changes in technology, the driving "environment", security, safety measures, and laws and regulations.

> Traffic system isn't a board game.

I didn't see any efforts at self-driving vehicles just say "ahhhh! this driving stuff is so easy!" Of course it comes with huge difficulties, an enormous amount of complexity, a baffling amount of data, a ton of edge cases, and now a wealth of tribal knowledge on the subject.

When considering these things think of the systemic benefits as well. There was a story on the Google self-driving cars in Mountain View not taking a turn when the passengers of the car expected it would. Turns out that the IR sensors on the vehicle saw that a jogger behind a wall of hedges was about to enter the intersection to cross while jogging. Systemically implementing that change across a fleet of cars would then save untold numbers of injuries or lives.

We adapt.
And this people can be also sort of 'legally sequestered' by the government. I know a case and is horrifying to see it.
we wanted a 2-bedroom apartment and a reasonable commute. Ultimately this meant that our rent was $4250 USD per month...
Whaaa....
A false positive rate (currently) that high may preclude this being used as a widely available diagnostic test, but if used within a patient base already showing other signs of problems it might be more acceptable. After all, if you're going to see a memory specialist you're already thinking there's a problem.
It's not like the movies. You can't just hack into some servers and steal money. You can destroy all of their computing infrastructure and internet connections and not change anything, other than calling a lot of international attention to yourself.