skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I'm aware of that. But this is the full context of the comment:

> I am opposed to advocating for cold-turkey veganism though. Milk products and eggs are great meat substitutes, and the lack of both makes entire cuisines inaccessible.

The "immediately change" connotation of "cold-turkey" doesn't make much sense here. The commenter seems to imply that eliminating entire cuisines -- i.e. having "entire cuisines inaccessible" -- is a difficult problem for people, regardless of the speed at which you do it. And I agree with that. Which is why I find it weird that he thinks it's weird why people who weren't born on vegetarian cuisines can't just switch to them, when introduced. I would argue that even if that were possible for most people, things like "Impossible Burger" are necessary for a successful transition.
I can't speak for anyone else... but I learned javascript and even liked it for most of the reasons outlined before the Good Parts book came out.

Since ES6 it's even better.
Thanks for the recommendation. Not seeing anything on there suggesting they provide quiet places to work.
The debt I've seen my peers saddled with has typically been 6-10%, issued mostly in the recession/post-recession years of low interest rates. It seems like exceedingly high interest to me when mortgages and car loans are half as much.
The paper doesn't seem to explain why 'lish'. I originally thought 'list' + 'hash', but that doesn't seem to be consistent with their definition of the data model.
Nope, I'm lazy: Lifx.

They were a little annoying to set up, but have worked well since.
Actually, Bernie ran as a "Social Democrat", as did most all the progressives that ran, not a "democratic socialist".

When an opinion piece starts with a false narrative most everything that follows will be skewed to meet that narrative.
That will lead to universities only accepting students that would get jobs after graduation, which would probably kill many majors that don’t have high employment rates.
bash 4 introduced associative arrays (aka dictionaries or hashmaps).

Which, while you can do without, is a nice feature that makes some things easier.
I think tcsh might hit your requirements.

(Personally, I use zsh, but it's much more heavy than tcsh.)
I would hope that those people would at this point realize that the upset about the GDPR was completely overblown?
There's also the related observation, demonstrated in Eric Frank Russell's Wasp [1], that merely leaving behind the signs of tampering is enough to cause fear and panic.

In the novel, which is written as a deliciously dark satire in the vein of Kurt Vonnegut Jr., a single agent causes havoc in a foreign country by subtly creating evidence of a mass sabotage by an underground guerilla force: Spreading rumours, distributing provocative stickers and posters, leaking assasination target lists, strategically leaving surveillance equipment to be discovered by the authorities, and so on. He doesn't actually perform any acts of sabotage.

If Wasp had been written in 2019, flying drones at airports would have fit right into the narrative.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp_(novel)
Sear's return policy for Craftsman pro tools was exceptional; lifetime warranty. If it broke, bring it in to exchange for a replacement.
I hate to break it to you, but you're just not trying hard enough - keep trying.

During my last round of looking for a job I never applied to a single company, I let all of the recruiters come to me. In five months, I had a total of five interviews and three offers.

I have an active github portfolio which shows a professional picture of myself and I have React skills which might set me apart (React is very hot right now, won't be like that for much longer though as the market is starting to saturate), but aside from that I'm self taught and have about 3 years of professional experience, ten if you include personal/self-taught experience.

I had to go through some BS phone screens though, it was to the point where I had to buy books specifically on C# design patterns and architecture just to pass them, I had managers grilling me on some pretty esoteric aspects of the language, but it was worth it. (I have ten years of self-taught .NET development experience)
I was pretty shocked to be able to use them in Tanzania, and at like 1/10 the price of our hotels' car service.
Kepler: Graphical Actor-based modeling system for scientists
Well, it's not just about it being hard to get up in the morning. It's also about the tendency to stay up late when everyone else is tired, isn't it?

Though, I get your point that probably many claim to be born "night owls" when it's probably just the constant light from the monitor and internet addictions that keep them wide awake.
Hi, project maintainer here. I'm sorry you had that experience - do you have an example of this?

We get a lot of questions raised that are better handled on the project forum, slack or Stack Overflow, and try to ensure the github issue list is kept as genuine code issues rather than general support questions. That can be misinterpreted, but it isn't our intention.
> Soy accounts for 2/3 of global protein feed.

This may be the current case, but it doesn't, indeed shouldn't, be so. It just happens that in the US, CAFO's are the best (financially) way to raise beef cattle.

In any case, livestock's primary food source should never have been soy beans.
> GDPR is relatively straightforward to comply with, particularly for the simpler kind of sites that don't seem to have bothered.

For a small site, having to appoint a representative in the Union might not be straightforward. See Article 27. They might be excused from this requirement by meeting the three conditions given in Article 27(2)(a), but that is vague.
That's what I've been wanting since VR started. I just want to be able to place browser windows around me in space, and enter input into whichever one I'm looking at. Bonus points when I can also have a VLC window somewhere, file browser, etc, but mostly just want a stable usable VR-space window manager for now.
Google Gives Nielsen a Cross-Platform Boost
When I was in high school, I helped my friend get cable TV back to his bedroom by patching it over a really long length of phone cord. Crappy picture, but it was better than nothing, and he didn't have to share the living room TV any longer (his older brother later ran proper coax).
Do we think skipping out on a bond is OK?

If you are really wanting to do that, don't carry a phone around with you.
Location: Rockville, MD, USA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: unix (Solaris, linux), bash, python, perl, shell, sendmail, source control, webservers (apache et al), databases, automation
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tNNnTcV3rhDB1S5Qlhf3PII2bH8...
Email: sthgrau@gmail.com

I am a creative problem solver with a passion for automation. I have extensive systems administrator and full stack
software engineering experience. I believe problems are growth opportunities. I am looking for a company that I can
grow with. I prefer to show rather than tell.
Because both AR and VR still have the possibility of enormous growth.
>For some staff, teaching is clearly something they _have_ to do and effort is put in appropriately.

Well yes, of course. People don't go into academia because they want to teach. Academics are also not rewarded significantly for good teaching.
How am I wrong that ads are a 0-sum game for the society? Perhaps I'm ignorant, but I really don't see where the value is for society. I understand that it's not for the advertiser, but for society?
Venture Capital Keeps Flowing to the Same Places
This is ridiculously full of unfounded statements, naivety and unsound reasoning
How not to pay taxes: don't sell anything.

You jest, but this is exactly what at least one of my businesses is about to do. We are in the UK, so Brexit uncertainty dominates any sort of EU-related planning for the next few months. The EU VAT rules for digital sales were already full of complication and red tape, and right now we don't even know whether the existing UK government systems will still be operating after the end of the current quarter on 31 March because it might all disappear with Brexit on 29 March.

When we took professional advice on how to prepare for this as well as we can under the circumstances, no-one in the room had any confidence in what little formal guidance exists so far or that the official positions currently set out by either the UK or EU governments will be realistic when the time comes. The consensus (by which I mean "view strongly advocated by literally every professional advisor in the room") was to suspend sales to rEU states until the dust has settled, and just redirect our efforts and finite budgets towards customers elsewhere in the meantime. That will inevitably involve some short term financial cost, but then so would making major changes in our technical systems and accounting practices at short notice to comply with all foreseeable possibilities at the start of April.

I don't find it inconceivable that lawyers in places like the US might give similar advice to some clients regarding the GDPR for similar reasons. If the clients are primarily dealing with data subjects outside the EU as well, avoiding the entire area as much as possible might be a reasonable position to take, even if again it's only temporarily until there is more known about the real implications of the GDPR as guidance and the first enforcement actions start to resolve the uncertainties.
There is already software to skip TV ads. Not perfect, but good enough apparently. For a short review see https://www.adblockradio.com/blog/2018/12/10/ad-blocking-tv/

You could set that up on a raspberry Pi, to play IPTV.

A pure HDMI pass-through may be expensive because of the HDMI acquisition-side.
This is completely incorrect. Google/Facebook/etc actually have far better data privacy than the telecoms. Google/Facebook/etc all sell access to target you using the data they know about you. Telecoms literally sell your data. There's a big difference.
Hi - project maintainer here. Always keen to get feedback, so interested where your 'not commercial-ready' comment comes from. There are quite a few companies using Node-RED in production today within their own products and services.
Never fear, WePivot.
Interesting point, I wouldn't have guess that. Although, it sounds like they would still rather their members buy products, based on this sentence:

> If you examine the company's sales, it brought in $56.59 billion in net sales with a merchandise cost of $50.21 billion and sales expenses of $5.92 billion.

I don't think that sales expenses would vary much depending on how many members were buying products.
The classic (and hilarious) book The Systems Bible (https://www.amazon.com/Systems-Bible-Beginners-Guide-Large/d...) has some deliciously tart words on this subject:

We present the Fundamental Law of Administrative Workings (F.L.A.W.): THINGS ARE WHAT THEY ARE REPORTED TO BE...

The net effect of this Law is to ensure that people in Systems are never dealing with the real world that the rest of us have to live in, but instead with a filtered, distorted, and censored version which is all that can get past the sensory organisms of the System itself...

This effect has been studied in detail by a small group of dedicated General Systemanticists. In an effort to introduce quantitative methodology into this important area of research they have paid particular attention to the amount of information that reaches, or fails to reach, the attention of the relevant administrative officer or corresponding Control Unit.

The crucial variable, they have found, is the fraction Ro/Rs, where Ro represents the amount of Reality which fails to reach the Control Unit, and Rs equals the total amount of Reality presented to the System. The fraction Ro/Rs varies from zero (full awareness of outside reality) to unity (no reality getting through). It is known, naturally enough, as the COEFFICIENT OF FICTION.
Ask HN: How to do front end development for a CLI app?
I've made my share of UIs with HTML/CSS, WPF, good old fashioned 2d drawing, and so on. But now that I'm tinkering with an occasionally interactive CLI app, I'd like to learn the fundamentals of making a "UI" in that world. I'm not asking about how to parse arguments, or architect the app, nor am I looking to reinvent ncurses - I don't need fullscreen, or mouse support, menus, scaling or anything like that. But I would like to build passable radio buttons or checkboxes from scratch, formatted tables, a nice spinner or progress bar. So far I've been getting by on libraries and ad-hoc fiddling, but I'd like to read or watch something that establishes some fundamentals, since none of my experience has given me any intuition or instincts that are transferable to console APIs.
Kodak's goal was to keep customers happy while selling less silver. Less silver means more grain, so they envisioned digital methods for reducing grain, before printing photographs at some centralized facility (obviously not the pocket I keep my phone in). So the sed program did various convolutions on rather coarse images, for playing with ideas.

My dad's other contribution that stuck was ordered dithering: Bit patterns for various gray levels that worked well next to each other, without edge artifacts at the transitions. Long ago replaced by other methods for higher resolutions, but last seen as part of the DEC logo on their product boxes.

I'm sure that choosing characters to represent gray levels in this sed program got him thinking in that direction. I've never been good at complicated, but he taught me to see simple.
LIFO, I see its being used here but I still don’t understand why you would?
Not only this, but we should have continuous integration testing.

Each batch of every product should be run through a litany of health and safety tests, and such a thing could be crowdsourced.
Been no bees where I live for 3 years now. Same with Monarchs.

This happened as new homes were built in the area and old ones sold to new owners. Almost all of them use pesticides, whereas the old timers dealt with the bugs by living with them, both good and bad.
Good one, same here. About 2 years ago I started doing just this. One hour of seated meditation followed by exercise while still leaving 20-30 minutes of "nothing" time before starting work. It has changed my life for the better in so many ways its hard to overstate.
Sure it's less efficient when compared to high protein crops, but there are vaste acres of land that can't be farmed and can only sustain grazing animals (and then some of those are more feed efficient than others, say, cows vs sheep)
Court: Politicians who block citizens on social media violate First Amendment
> When the first hard disk (IBM RAMAC) was developed, people drew the same sorts of conclusions. The difference there was that they weren't convinced that the disk would be faster than a secretarial pool. The net was that IBM invented hashing and made it definitively the case that the disk WAS faster.

Source? The impression that I got at the Computer History Museum was that they had specific performance requirements from a customer that they engineered to.
Monzo: Progression Framework
I would not know how to do it on the web player, such as https://www.adblockradio.com/player/ Do you have an idea?

On standalone players, it a really great idea and it is already being considered.
I was a night owl from the time I was 16 until 33(sleep 2-3-4AM until 10AM-11AM-12PM), and then I adjusted my sleep cycle to be an early riser(sleep 11-6). It took about 4 days before I felt physically right. The hardest part was lifestyle adjustments around the differing hours. I don't believe I have any kind of special power.

OP sounds depressed with a self-defeatist mindset. He considers himself unemployable because he is a night owl. I don't know if telling him 'It's okay, it's not your fault' will help his situation. And I don't think what I'm doing is similar to telling a paraplegic to just try really hard to walk - is there any science that these 'hardwired night owls' can't actually change?
The only thing worth eating there from keto diet perspective is the fat but it better be good fat! (No cheap vegetable oils or hydrogenated fats)
Walter Benjamin, “Unpacking My Library: A Talk about Book Collecting” [pdf]
Yes. Exactly so. If I had to make no effort at all, and I could also save some money, I would switch. But it is not obvious that everyone would. Perhaps all of your acquaintances would, but perhaps you just don't know someone of the sort who wouldn't.

Pre-framing the debate in (hostile) terms of just how selfish I am gives me the inkling that you are not looking for an honest, factual, and productive discussion, and that my participation might be seen as an invitation to browbeat me with guilt and propaganda. Instead of wasting your words on convincing me that you're so prejudiced in this matter that the outcome of any discussion we might have is already predetermined, go buy an Impossible Burger--or a thousand--and let them do all the arguing for you, because their actions speak louder than your words. They'll win over my stomach with a $2.00-off coupon, while you're still trying to recover from implicitly devaluing every sacrifice I have ever made for the sake of someone else.

Your post is an exemplar of exactly the sort of vector that I can't stomach--unnecessarily hostile and loaded with assumptions.
Leetcode, InterviewCake and Cracking the coding interview book should be enough to give you good understanding of topics involved and how to solve problems.
1. Chip design

2. Prior to going to school I was a full stack web dev. I was tired of the framework of the week treadmill and didn't think it was something I could find fulfilling for the next 20-30 years until retirement.

3. I'm very sure. Hardware is a different beast than software. In order to excel as a modern hardware designer you need all of the fundamental EE knowledge and a lot of the fundamental CS/programming knowledge.
We tried this 3 years ago. All hosted by IBM. Support provided by IBM. Part of their cloud push.

The IBM DB2 connector from Node-Red would slowly and surely leak resources and finally disconnect after a couple of days. Took us weeks to figure out what was going on. No one could help us. No way to debug things.

Would recommend it for kids as a playground. Would recommend IBM cloud (bluemix) for kids as an expensive playground. Would not recommend either for production.
I don't really buy this as a real difference.

I suspect that the memorization is just brute force via flashcards or practice and that's more straightforward for people to 'study'. The other method of deriving and actually understanding is generally harder and usually relies on existing knowledge you learned in previous grades (it gets harder to use that method over time if you haven't been). It's also something the teacher may not be capable of either depending on school district.

I'd guess for a large percentage of people they never learn the non-memorization form of studying because they're never really exposed to it and because it's often not rewarded (sometimes it's punished). The brighter kids might pick it up anyway, but I'd suspect they could do the brute force memorization like the other kids if they similarly weren't as capable of it.
The Web isn't going anywhere as society today heavily depends on it for all kinds of solutions. Just think how many things we do these days on the Web. So with that said, gaining the knowledge to build useful applications on the Web will lead to a career in Software Engineering. Because a Web Developer's knowledge spans across many different technologies, we typically use titles like Software Engineer, Front End Engineer, Full Stack Engineer, etc.

For example, here is what a Front End Engineer might have knowledge in:

- HTML (semantic markup)

- CSS (layout, animations, responsive, mobile-first, media queries, SASS, etc.)

- JavaScript (the language itself)

- HTTP, AJAX, Promise API, RESTful APIs, async VS parallel

- DOM APIs, DOM Performance

- UX/UI methodologies

- Accessibility, ARIA

- Module bundlers, transpilers, build tools (webpack.js, rollup.js, etc.)

- Various frameworks and libraries and knowing why and when to use them (e.g. Lodash, React, Ember, jQuery, etc.)

- Programming design patterns, methodologies, and best practices

- Object oriented programming

- Functional programming (.map(), .reduce() and knowing about immutability)

- Test driven development and various testing frameworks/libraries

- Command Line (Bash, and/or other Unix/Linux shells)

- Version control (GIT)

- Data Structures and Algorithms (arrays, trees, DFS, BFS, and more)

- High or deep level knowledge of how Browsers work (the event loop, reflow/relayout, etc.)

- A server side language (NodeJS, Ruby, Python, PHP)

- Databases (MySQL, NoSQL)

- A server side web framework (ExpressJS, Ruby on Rails, Django, Laravel, etc.)

- Security (authentication, authorization, XSS, SQL injections, cookies, and more)

- Ability to deploy a product in a production environment (e.g. AWS)

- Development workflows (GIT, code reviews, continuous integration, and more)
There's another aspect don't think it's mentioned yet, that someone's emotional attachment imbues an animal with a difference that makes harming it different to harming another animal.

Similar (at a different level) to me snapping a stick, vs snapping my kids "favourite" stick that he found. Identical actions in one respect, but the human emotional impact is very different.
Because there's a chance it will go up 10x and no other asset will.
Keep going! Good luck!
Train birds to chase drones.
The README mentions that some Dropbox source code is included, though I don't see it in the repo?

We include Dropbox's Python 2.5 bytecode

Dropbox is pretty well known for building their desktop clients in Python. I recall they're stuck on Python 2 and use some obfuscation and opcode remapping with a custom interpreter so its a little hard to decompile but still possible. Would love to see what this decompiler can generate for them though.
The link I gave says that the practice I described "is the norm", meaning that yes, a court can do that, while the argument is that the court should (almost) always do that.
It’s also the fact that you can’t register with more than one GP so if you don’t live within say 30min of your work going to doctor appointments is a day off essentially not to mention that if you don’t pretend to be dying when you call them they’ll tell you to get some rest and call again in 3 days.

If you go to A&E sure NHS is good enough, but for preventative care and general appointments however it’s pretty poor same goes for any kind of specialist care unless you are getting it at the hospital.

Don’t get me wrong universal healthcare is important single payer universal isn’t, and the NHS’s trust structure is really poor so if you live in an area where the trust is literarily bankrupt the level of care you get is piss poor at best.

I think the biggest mistake the Brits did is to prevent the NHS from providing premium services at a cost like better rooms or cosmetic surgery.

The best healthcare systems in the world are those in which the healthcare providers are non-profit, are required to maintain a specific subset of services defined by the government, aren’t allowed to deny service but are allowed to make money on the side with things that aren’t covered by the government.

That extra money is key because as non-profits the only thing they can do with it is to reinvest it in either their staff or their services there are no shareholders to give dividends too.

This is something the NHS lacks I would much rather pay the NHS the same money I pay to Bupa and get the same service as I can get now knowing that some of that money is going to go into improving the NHS as a whole.