skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a kind of very specific, targeted, niche comedy, excellently executed. I only use Git casually, and I can't tell how much of that text couldn't make sense in an actual doc; it all looked real enough at a glance.

Thank you for sharing, this made my week.
I feel like what you described is the main reason for the profitability of most "sharing economy" services. Uber is also advertised as a little side gig you can do when your car is not being used while the real goal is to have a taxi service that isn't subject to the same legislation and unloads more cost on the driver.
When I interviewed at Airbnb, they asked me about one thing I learned in the past that could be useful for Airbnb.

I suggested that people who are developing the product should once in a while spend a few hours handling user tickets themselves (perhaps shadowing an actual customer representative), so that developers get to sense (at the gut level) the pain points.

The interviewer did not seemed pleased with that suggestion.
I'm also appalled by why they even need to recode a radix tree themselves to filter out a DDOS, considering the many options available without reimplementing the wheel.

any serious hoster filter out ddos with a router. routers are basically build to test IP against subnets, so they can basically run each IP address against a million of hardware subnet testers all running in parallel and decide what to do depending on the result.

And if you don't have a router, any OS worth its salt already have a radix tree implementation for its routing table. The only thing you need to turn a Linux routing table into a ddos filter is to enable reverse path filtering and then add blackhole routes with iproute2.
No, the last time this earth was this hot was that long ago.
it's good to hear the horror stories like this.

here's hoping they IPO so I can short them! seriously, companies like this are not long for this world.
Wow, I literally cannot tell if this comment is trying to sarcastic or serious.
Investment properties.
Digital tokens based on share of 10 Nasdaq-listed companies
Quite the contrary, I can't see it.
All your examples presume that the people targeted lack the initiative to seek what they want, no? One could argue that getting all the junkmail targeted ads out of one's face _delays_ actual transactions with retailers that would-be customers can adequately find themselves, with even greater information.
"Loopholes" are often things that benefit society though. It's sort of an indirect tax. Like donating to a charity. Basically the government is saying that they'll lower your tax burden if you use your money in a way that benefits society as a whole instead of just enriching yourself.
Point is the shape is unknown. A cigar shape is one possible explanation that fits the light curve data; a solar sail is another.
In my opinion, the first thing you should do is write down a list of things that you're really passionate about. Is it languages? Then find a language based repository on GitHub/GitLab. Is it networking? Contribute to a project that interfaces with HTTP.

"First of all, how do you pick an area to contribute?"

I can see from your submissions history that you are interested in AI and some machine learning. Those two somewhat related fields are fields that are hot right now so finding projects on them will not be difficult. You don't need to join a super large or complex project, it could be as simple as contributing to a series of tutorials on machine learning.

"Do you go with something that's related to your field of expertise?"

Do you want to learn something new? Then find something that's not related to your field. Otherwise if you want to solve a problem in your field of expertise, then sure go with your area of expertise.

"Is it even feasible to instead pick an area that you want to learn more about?"

Yes, but it depends on the area. If it's developing an operating system, then be prepared to do a lot of reading beforehand before you even think about contributing. Project maintainers who are in charge of behemoth sized projects (such as those in charge of maintaining an operating system) tend to have little to no time to field questions. Whereas small projects and their maintainers have ample time and, in fact, would love to answer questions about their projects.

"Do you jump straight in and start fixing bugs to get started?"

Personally, yes I have if it solved a particular irk I had. Although, I would first open an issue and detail what you plan to contribute. Then send a pull request.

"What's the typical timeline by which you feel like you are being productive?"

Typically, a few months in I became really productive.

I would also suggest creating your own project rather than contributing to it. But be selfless and open-minded with it. Allow contributions and let people criticise it - it's all part of the learning experience. Helping other devs never feels like a chore and actually ends up being enjoyable.

The best thing about open-source is that I felt like I was contributing to something bigger than me. That my projects can and may live on long after I've gone. When you receive your first issue or pull request it gives you a sense of happiness that people are using something that you created. For me, that is one of the best feelings ever.
Money is money, and status is status, especially to women. You think even criminality changes that?

You know how many girls have said "I can't stand him" to my friends and then slept with me instead of them?

Come on guys get real. Women aren't angels - quite the opposite.
Logo aside,

I appreciate the quick blog post much better than the old Uber brand which tried a bit too hard to explain every thought behind each part of the rebrand.

https://www.uber.design/case-studies/rebrand
RHEL is free (use CentOS or Fedora)

Support is not free. If you want software updates, security patches, bug fixes, or somebody to call when shit hits the fan you pay Red Hat.

If not CentOS/Fedora use the same source codes
...he hopes.
I remember the 90's. I think it takes a revisionist to say raising the top marginal rate was what caused the economic boom. I would guess the big drivers were low oil prices and that dot com thing.
Single functionality HTTP handlers in Go, can now be served on HA. Nice.
that is a straw man itself. it is already regulated.
I'm sure a rational discussion about co-opted symbology is what what Slack wants associated with their new icon/logo, rather than many people's visceral gut reaction that is almost certainly independent of the sense of rotation.
In much more primitive societies. Again what scientifically demonstrated (not speculated) consequences of climate change are you worried we can't deal with when it happens?
Bells and whistles and no improvements to workflow. Sad to see because this DAW is really promising. At the moment they are still far behind Ableton and Ableton itself is lacking in the workflow department.
The market is so underserved that those companies can throw anything and people will buy, sadly they forgot about professionals again.
Both redfin and Opendoor go through licensed brokers in each state so is agree with what you posit.
if you are a EU citizen you do not have to donate. your contribution is automatic whether you've asked for it not.
==Federal leadership could probably turn the rust belt around, if that were a priority, but, well, you know... if a Democratic president with political roots in Chicago couldn't or wouldn't do it, there's not much of a chance of it happening now. ==

I couldn't agree more. I strongly believe there should be a Marshall Plan for the Rust Belt. It should probably be a part of the Green New Deal, especially if climate change will impact migration patterns.

If you look at the most violent cities in the country, it is dominated by Rust Belt cities (Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Cleveland). If we are looking for a national emergency, this might qualify.
Because Donald Trump and his friends want to pay less in taxes and don't seem to care much about the health of the government or its citizens?
TortoiseGIT always required me to check way too many boxes for each individual operation. Took me way longer than on the command line, where you just define one alias and you're good.

My biggest issues with git were when you were working in projects that had other usage patterns. It's a bit like C++, apparently everyone uses different subsets and strategies.
for a "naturally occurring" process to create something we could suspect as a lightsail, I wonder about something, perhaps a comet, blowing a bubble. That is a layer of something what could form a membrane over something that could off gas. Both triggered by heat. Bubble is created and pops or deflates and the skin blows around for ever.
>Wrong. It's insider trading if you have material, nonpublic information. It doesn't matter how you got that information.

You are totally mistaken as far as the law in the United States. I can’t speak for other jurisdictions.
It is all speculation and no proof, but a good advertisement for the cited scientist.
>I also think realtors have a demographic tidal wave about to hit them, consisting of first-time young home buyers and some slightly older home sellers who are used to online transactions and want nothing to do with realtor-mediated transactions.

What platform will facilitate these transactions?
I kinda like Warren Buffett
There's also a chance that the company ran out of money. Sometimes the CEO comes into work one morning and says "foo deal with bar investor broke, we have six weeks runway, cancel every expense you can."
> you can actually redefine the keyword `undefined` since its actually a global property and not reserved

This is horrible :(
You're not at all in the minority: the (interesting) US president was elected in large part because enough people were sick of ever-expanding federal government that they got to the polls and voted.
World's most popular coffee species are going extinct
I'm not dismissing astronomy at all. I'm saying that if we can't explain something, that doesn't mean it can't be explained in some other mundane way. When we look at a problem and go "well, we don't really know what caused it, therefore aliens" seems ridiculous when there's unlimited things that could be the cause, just because we aren't aware of those causes.
Criticizing creationists and racists in the same sentence... you clearly haven't thought this through. Only a creationist could believe that there are no differences between human populations that have been separated for tens of thousands of years living in vastly different environments.
Adapting to this optimally is probably going to involve waves of dam construction; Not for hydroelectric specifically (though China sees Tibetan hydro as a huge opportunity), but just to ensure that there's something left of the monsoon in the dry season.

Adapting to this through an uncoordinated approach of sociological gradient descent is just going to see tons and tons of wells being dug, in a race for the deeper acquifer.
For me the problem isn't so much the license as the change felt somewhat like a bait and switch. After you became popular you changed the license to be more favorable to you, which is always a sketchy move.
And yet life managed to persist despite being much more primitive.
That's actually a fun thought... once you've got your probe up to a third of the speed of light or whatever... how are you going to slow down again in order to actually do anything useful?

Or maybe this is a solar sail that was part of an ACCELERATION stage for a probe that already passed through our solar system millions of years ago.
"Agents are entrenched, and they will put up a damn good fight to protect their margins" is how I read this.

Also this is a PR move for Zillow to tell agents that they're on their side.
Particularly egregious is Congressmen (https://twitter.com/SteveScalise/status/1081579535114608640) and Governors (https://twitter.com/ScottWalker/status/1085199713463422981) pretending they've never heard of the concept.
I understand why people use electron, it's just such a disappointing choice.

Your talk of balance is ironic considering the subject. It's absurd that a single blank window with no content should spawn multiple processes and consume over 100mb of memory before any logic has been added. Demanding better would almost certainly be met with calls of selfishness so I'll settle with contempt.
No, it only matters if you had a duty to keep that information confidential:

https://www.kiplinger.com/article/investing/T052-C008-S001-w...
Or decreasing the deficit? Last time we managed to balance the budget was under Bill Clinton.
I thought Opendoor are themselves agents/brokers, no?
So? The guy paid for a week of unusable living. Why would you want to be on that platform?
Redis is still there, didn't they do something similar?
Doing one doesn't prevent from doing the other.

I'm also in the minority but my view on this has changed a lot in the past few years. I don't understand why there isn't a "maximum income" regulation actually. If you make $20M/year, do you really need more?
As I posted above, the poster is not mistaken.
I thought TL;DRs were supposed to be at the top of a post.
Blockstream Satellite API: Pay with BTC via Lightning to Broadcast Data Globally
> pretended as if nothing was wrong about 3-inch long cockroaches running around all over the place.

To be fair it actually is pretty common to see 3 inch cockroaches running around in Hawaii and other tropical places, even in reasonably nice/clean houses. Especially in older houses that might not be insulated or sealed very well (given the weather there's not much need to insulate for heat purposes).

Granted, keeping things clean and making an effort to get rid of bugs when you do see them will obviously make things better, and it sounds like this host was probably more neglectful than they should have been.

This is honestly a really interesting example though - a lot of people's stated reason for liking AirBnB is being in a more authentic, local environment. But then when you have different expectations about the conditions than a local person living in that house might have, it becomes a bad experience that AirBnB should solve. Where should the line be? If you want them to standardize things and make sure all listings are comfortable for the widest range of people possible, doesn't that just end up looking exactly like a hotel?
Unscrambling the Hidden Secrets of Superpermutations
Hmmm I wonder if in that case a good travel insurance would work. You are staying in those places temporarily so I'd argue it's travel.
> "119 miles of range in 15 minutes" is also nowhere near as fast as an IC car "visiting the pump".

The article was corrected to say 5 minutes. See also replies from timsher upthread.
National Survey Finds Few Americans Willing to Pay for Privacy
No worries! Pretty much everyone I talked to who was aware of the deal (online and off) thought the same.

These things are pretty complex.
GP's point may be rescued by changing this to: Americans may have entered the war because of Pearl Harbor, but the reason why the Allies were the "good guys" is that they "fought the nazis". The reason why nazis needed to be fought is genocide and concentration camps. But, in 1941, most people didn't know (or believe; reports were coming out since 1930s, but fell on deaf ears) in all the atrocities the nazis committed. Back in 1941, for most countries involved this was just a regular war; the extra moral significance was added post-war.
> Are you working on solving one problem, but then notice some other unrelated issue and fix that too, before committing the first change?

Almost. Most often it's:

- Working on solving problem A
- Notice problem B
- Start to solve problem B
- Notice I'm getting distracted from A, and return to finish it.
- Want to commit my fix for A, but don't want to lose or forget the partial work on B.

Two different approaches I might take in this situation, depending on whether B is related to A.

1. If they are related (eg, B depends on A), use `add --patch` to commit A, then finish and commit B.
2. If unrelated, use `git stash --patch` to stash B, then commit A, then switch to a different branch to finish B.

Honestly, I see the point of both stash and staging, but not both together. Too many tools for the same job. On my long list of projects to do is a git porcelain that combines some of these concepts (eg, stash and working directory which would be tied to a branch):

- Each branch would have a single stash.
- When you check out a new branch, all uncommitted changes are automatically stashed.
- If the branch you're switching to has anything stashed, that stash gets popped.
- Any current workflow that involves stashing can be replicated by using a branch instead of a stash.

This way, branches can be thought of as "state of the working directory", which is more intuitive with the branching tree model, imo; commits are a snapshot of the repo at that point in time; and the staging area is just a way to choose what should be included in those commits.
>I would be absolutely astounded if targeted ads did not provide significant long-term advantage to a big player like Google. How can it be that having intimate knowledge of someone would not allow you to sell them more stuff?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactance_(psychology)

People know when they're being manipulated and we usually don't like it. All the data in the world won't help you if using it creates antipathy.
> don't fool yourself, people have been harassing and exploiting others without issue long before the internet. the difference is that while the internet can extend their reach the very nature of brings such occurrences to light more often than before.

There's another key difference that you are completely ignoring.

The return on effort invested with internet harassment is much better then the ROI with harassment in the physical world.

Sometimes, an improvement in ROI produces a categorically new thing. An automobile is just a horse buggy with a better ROI - yet, for some reason, neither society, nor the law treats them like it did horse buggies.
For better or worse, it's convention to use really short (as in, single character when possible) variable names in Go.

https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments#variabl...

Disclaimer: I work at Google, but not on GCF or Go.
But, it's a little more than that for some. Some people are actually able to reduce cortisol in their bodies, regulate temperature, slow the blood pressure and a host of other bodily functions through power of the mind and breathing.
Now that corporations have more benefits that actual humans it makes the most sense for everyone to operate under their own corporation.

What's WEIRD is that area of law around liability though.

IF you own a company and you're the only employee and someone dies you're in a world of hurt.

If you're Walmart and you kill 100 people by accident basically nothing will happen in most cases.
As one other commentator has pointed out, there actually has been serious consequence to Canonical, as least as far as Ubuntu as a desktop end-user distro is concerned. Many other community distributions have risen in popularity specifically around this issue of corporate involvement.

But more importantly, I don't think there is anything wrong in principle with Ubuntu collecting user data if they openly communicate it to their users. I do not agree with this Stallman-esque usage of the term spyware, if the exchange of data is voluntary and the consequence of informed decision.

If customers disagree with Ubuntu on data collection they can switch to a different distribution, but as long as the information is out there, this is not an issue, spyware or a slippery slope.
Actually, I tried to file a chargeback with Amex! They declined it since they said the cancellation of policy was set to "strict" https://www.airbnb.com/home/cancellation_policies#strict-wit....

> If the guest cancels less than 7 days in advance or decides to leave early after check-in, the nights not spent are not refunded.

^ I basically got hit with that rule.

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Edit: Wanted to add that I'm pretty sure AMEX has a partnership with Airbnb since I always notice the promotional deals pop up. Spend $200, get $50 back.
Just read that first link:

"Another reason I am not excited about the current plans for a larger collider is that we might get more bang for the buck if we waited for better technologies. There’s the plasma wakefield acceleration, eg, that is in a test-period now and that may become a more efficient route to progress. Also, maybe high temperature superconductors will reach a level where they become usable for the magnets. "

The new accelerator won't have superconducting magnets and doesn't have a particular particle to look for like the LHC did with the Higgs.
We have that throughout history and even today and yet we are still around. So again if that is what we are talking about I really don't see what exactly I should be so worried about.
I've had to teach git to several people. Here is what i teach:

- never force push (with exceptions)
- don't use reset (with exceptions)
- don't commit to master
- stop immediately if git tells you, you have 200 changes

Aside from that, people don't really seem to have trouble. Git is pretty functional with just add, commit, push, pull. People learn more commands as they need them.

This post was humor
There is already a thing called AMT so a new top bracket makes zero sense.
The amount of decent studies on actual low-carb diets is near non-existent.
Why should someone be punished for making more money? I see this as a big hammer that could hurt innovation.
I'm not a rocket scientist (heh) but I'm imagining a many-stage nuclear rocket. You'd have a whole bunch of acceleration stages followed by a much smaller number of deceleration stages followed by the payload. You wouldn't need as many deceleration stages since you've already spent all the mass in your acceleration stages.

Building such a thing in space would involve sending up the stages themselves with some kind of heavy lift vehicle, assembling them in orbit, and firing it. The number of stages you could assemble would be quite large since there's no air resistance or (relative) gravitational stress in space. You'd just have to not exceed the tensile strength of the material during acceleration. You could put together 100 stages or more I'm sure. It's one rather brute force but workable way of reaching some nontrivial fraction of the speed of light.

Someone should do the math on this for fission (NERVA-like), thermonuclear pulse (Orion), and pure fusion.
GDPR is not meant to be followed to the letter, it's legislation on principle and will continue to be ineffective and only cause further problems for the EU, while entrenching the very companies that it most wanted to protect people from. California's privacy act is a much better legal framework in case you want examples.

Privacy is also not incompatible, as even choosing the NYT to advertise on is still a targeted decision, and advertising will never die unless you entirely replace the economic system we have. We might get some better online ad practices but it certainly won't happen by just calling it all "evil", which is especially ironic considering what evil actually exists in the world.

Anyways, by your dismissals it's clear you are only interested in irrational tirades which is unfortunately very common when discussing adtech so I'll end it here.
“I’ve been dying since I was 20 so what makes it special now that I have cancer”
I think that millions of people running out of water due to glaciers disappearing could be a bit of an issue that will, at the very least cause massive social problems. How much of North America is reliant on glacier waters?
Yeah, that's what I meant. Increase the speed limits and increase the punishments.
Yeah and startups that tried to disrupt filing taxes failed...

Turbotax has kept me from paying an accountant a commission to do my taxes for years. Someone will figure out how to streamline the process online.