skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's basically a good crypto library with a terrible UI around it.

In my experience (after trying it a few times every year for the last few years), even its backend platform is unreliable and slow. So I'd call it as "It's basically a good crypto library with a terrible UI and a flakey backend behind it."
Roomba on the Blockchain
Would investing give high return, or a black hole sucking in your money.
The noise nuisance from motorcycles can also be a terrible blight on urban areas.

Although many motorcyclists do ride well maintained, quiet machines responsibly, there's a minority who modify their exhausts to increase noise and pollution in pursuit of a little more power. The noise levels can be ridiculous!

Personally, I can't wait for electric motorbikes to take over.
This!!

I reported the same problem to posteo.de in March 2016 and still have not received a satisfactory answer, though it seems they have some counter-measures in their webmailer nowadays. The fun part was that as a "no logs" privacy-oriented provider, they were not even able to track who sent them a complaint from their own support address ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

As a comparison: at disroot.org I found the same problem, and it took them a few hours to repair their postfix configs.
Thank you again for explaining. I'll have to look into that. (I'm a little strange so I don't often follow leadership without also querying their reasoning constantly.)
I'm sorry that the product wasn't easier to use, and that it wasted so much of your time. For anyone else running into this, we do have docs up about how to access authenticated submodules: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/repo... (that shows how to do it against another Azure Repos instance, but a variation will work for any Git provider with a PAT-style bearer token)
I think some of us who hate cars (me included) also picture development patterns where cities aren't so sprawling that those with disabilities would have trouble getting around. In your case, a walk/bike ride across town might not be necessary. The market would be nearby, accessible to you via some small electric vehicle that operates on something closer to a human scale than a Ford F150. Heck, even the design of buildings themselves cause you problems because of cars. Instead of a small market, we have big box stores that require one to move significantly further while shopping.
I've been quoted $22k, an amount that was apparently previously agreed upon with Google.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_need
As long as we're clear that the noise around Huawei has nothing to do with any 'theft' but with the US feeling the heat and moving to protectionist tactics.
Using uBlock Origin to hide the youtube recommendations sidebar was a fantastic UX improvement.
Now I don't have withstand youtube's persistent recommendations to watch Jordan Peterson.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18937640
Temperatures here are rarely under -5 but rarely above 0. The key is that they hover just below zero and the ice stays on the ground.

Ice is very different to snow to cycle on.
No, because Mitch could be voted out by the rest of congress.
> Cities existed before without cars

Nope, their cars were called "horses and carts" (or donkeys, oxen, llamas, camels, etc.). And they were used not because people were idiots, but because walking and carrying stuff on your back has limits, and those limits have been reached by the economy thousands of years ago. And if you think modern cars are dirty, think about what comes out of a horse and where it goes when the horse feels like it. And how much would it cost to own one and maintain it in a working order. Of course, back then most people that weren't rich wouldn't hop the city back and forth because something interesting is happening on the other side, and would buy everything they need at local store or make it themselves. I'm sure homemade wooden shoes are almost as good as Nike. We just have to drop our living standards to medieval times, and we'd be fine with horses and donkeys. Or we can go further back and get rid of them too. Clean pre-industrial living like people lived 10 thousand years ago. I'm sure it was excellent then.
Ask HN: Uses of reflection/introspection for statistical programming?
Hi,

Having seen demos using reflection/code introspection à la smalltalk in statistical programs pertaining to codebase analysis,
I feel there ought to be many interesting applications for statistical tooling, but I wasn't really able to think of any besides the obvious ones:

* interactive graphs with one-click link to underlying data
* visualize the program itself (i.e. the analysis plan) as an interactive graph (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baxtyeFVn3w&t=26m50s)
* for each result, one-click link to every element used in computation (= callees), and to every further computation using said result (= callers), essentially collapsing indirection (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baxtyeFVn3w&t=30m20s).

Reflection adds overhead, but for people doing small and irregular data (of which there are many) it seems to have potential. I would be interested in your opinion and ideas for additional applications of those principles.
Headless Chrome running in lambdas/cloud functions. CI/CD validates this with each push.

In the dev/test/staging environments you can continually do things like post 3 new articles with random text, then ensure that the latest blog posts show those 3 in the correct order, etc.
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DHS: Multiple US gov domains hit in serious DNS hijacking wave
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What I have found out by talking with the Google verification team is that if the requests are made from the client and not from a server then they do not require audit.
This is more-or-less the format Bisquit uses in his tutorial videos, e.g.

https://youtu.be/vkUwT9U1GzA

Somewhere he explained that he made a custom tool to make and play back a "perfect recording" of his edits.
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I personally find ghosting to be a quite useful strategy in a limited range of scenarios. The scenario is basically whenever you need to reject someone but rejecting them directly would lead to significant costs to you (e.g. having to listen to someone argue, cajole or shout at you to change your mind). I think the rejectees can reduce the incidence of ghosting by eliminating those costs. If someone rejects you, simply accept the rejection without complaint.
True, but it's O(n^2) complexity instead of O(n) complexity (1000 shards would lead to 1M reads instead of 4k)

If they're not persisted at the receiving side, how does it handle a crash before committing on the receiving node ? Keeping previous versions indefinitely on sending nodes to permit requesting the old values doesn't work, so this introduces a time bound on how long a crashed node has to recover (granted, this could still mean weeks)
I agree with your point in theory, but it’s somewhat ironic that the Oslo bike share you link to is closed for the season. There are ways to move around without cars, but it becomes far more challenging in winter climates
I can't seem to find any related information for now.
> It doesn't look quite as good with 5-6 shopping bags with groceries for the kids

Kiwi is literally everywhere, in Oslo it's not going to be more than like two blocks to go grocery shopping.

> Most people who say raising kids in Norway without a car if fine usually haven't had any kids yet

Neither me or any of my school mates had access to cars growing up in the 90s, pretty sure kids these days can walk also.
In the country-side I'd kinda agree with your points but in the city, especially Oslo everything is super accessible.
Meh. They're different languages with different expectations. "is" is distinct from "==" in both, and Python gets "==" right (obviously). Javascript doesn't really have any high ground here[0]. (In contrast, Python:)

>>> [] == False
False
>>> object() == False
False
>>> "" == False
False
>>> {} == False
False

They're just different.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et8xNAc2ic8
http://sublimetext.info/docs/en/extensibility/macros.html
From TFA

>> I can think faster than you can type

No, you can't. Just because the author operates at XYZ skill level, does not mean the rest of us are similarly impaired. I'm sorry he had to sit through so many boring coding presentations that he purposefully chose to attend.
I often visit a pedestrian friendly small community in Queens. The number of very old people I see walking around is amazing. Tragically, the intersections are dangerous and people drive fast through the narrow streets. There's little traffic enforcement and, since Americans don't think about this stuff, nobody seems to care. Walkability is being developed away in the surrounding areas. It's so sad.
Seems off topic?
Agree. We've really put all our eggs in one basket in the USA... you NEED a car to reasonably participate in most parts of society. Sure public transit or biking are options, but they are much less efficient than driving. This is the problem. We've spent 75 years building this way, now when we want to take small steps towards reversing that, the steps are widely misunderstood. In a sense we've been extremely car oriented for 75 years, so that when anything except ultimate car domination is presented, it appears extreme.
Eyeballing some monthly graphs on [1] it seems to be 5-15% of peak traffic, I would call that few. Also, the city bikes don't operate during winter, which I can completely understand

[1] http://www.eco-public.com/ParcPublic/?id=3936#
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Isn’t part of the interest here that Oslo made a shift, rather than always having had it this way?

This is starting to catch hold in cities of all sizes in the USA, too. Usually a couple roads in an already somewhat-popular commercial district will be shut down, either certain days or all the time, and many cities are seeing noticeable impacts on economic activity.
> I'm surprised so few people ride motorcycles

I would find the risk unacceptable. Basically any flinch of anybody on the road can literally kill you. In a car, you are at least surrounded by the steel walls, so if somebody decides to do something stupid, in most cases, it's metal that gets smashed. In a motorcycle, the only thing between hunks of metal wizzing around and your flesh is a thin layer of leather. Not enough for me.
Personal anecdote: a friend of mine driving a motorcycle was killed when another driver hit him
100% this.

Motorcycles are hands-down the fastest way to get anywhere in the city. This gap only widens when you consider that parking instantly becomes a non-issue.

We have perfect weather for it year-round. Lane filtering not only gets you to your destination faster, it's actually statistically safer. They're cheaper to buy, cheaper to operate, cheaper to insure, cheaper to fuel, and dramatically cheaper to park (at home, at work, on the street, and in terms of not worrying about parking tickets from street sweeping since you can often park off-street).

If do you need to carry more cargo than the bike will carry, you can always take a Lyft or Uber.

I get that a motorcycle isn't a workable option for some people. But it's certainly a better option than car ownership for many in the city, and I'm astonished that it's an option that so few people seem to consider given how perfectly-tailored this city is for it.
I think public transit would only be viable in dense urban cores. In other areas, if the city desires to provide transportation assistance, I think it's probably more efficient to provide other forms of transportation to the working poor (who are typically the primary users of public transit in midsized cities). Here in Grand Rapids, the busses are so lightly used that it would probably be cheaper for the city to hand out Uber or Lyft credits for the people that are now using the busses (and it'd provide a better user experience too).
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Most egregious might be the National Football League.

Oh, and (mega)churches.
I was thinking just that about the Democrats.
Is OpenSSH safer when used in addition to OpenVPN?

Probably.
1. It's not my fault! It's not personal, it's business.

2. Treat me better than i treat you. I have to look at the big picture here.

3. You'll be sorry if you run into me again! Better than being a pushover.

4. Don't leave me this way. I can't keep carrying your baggage.

If someone is bad enough to work for that you're ready to walk off the job there is absolutely no reason to continue enabling their toxic behavior. And if you run into them or their friends in future, guess what, they will probably still be toxic.

You should absolutely be decent, but don't smooth talkers exploit that.
Public transit, trams and busses at every corner more or less.
I'd be very curious what you mean here. I can definitely understand the possibility of being entered in under another name or the like, to try and avoid traditional PII, but students are supposed to complete and submit work through Google Classroom as well. Particularly in light of Google's AI work, things like an essay a student submitted is, at the very least, personal data, but very possibly, personally identifiable information. There is no realistic anonymity from just hiding someone's name.

I have significant doubts the school district is going to be particularly tolerant of "grade all students on Google Classrom, but this student needs to be graded by hand and recorded on paper" requests.
I love how epic the music is
Most people I know here in Sweden do their grocery shopping online, that's significantly reducing the car use. I used to drive 15 min x 2 several times a week for groceries, now it's not even once a week.

I empathize with driving kids to activities though, most of my car use is probably related to that, and it's more difficult to find alternatives there.
Your suggestion of parsing out the in-code documentation would go a long way towards documenting the libraries, provided the documentation is of high quality. However, that still doesn't address the bigger question: how do I program in Pharo.

There's a book, "On to Smalltalk" that actually did a decent job of getting you started, but it's decades out of date now.
Not bad, and reasonable solution - this is how crowded airports work too. Golf carts for employees and helping less abled people get to the gates.
Could you provide a bit more detail? How do you script the test? How do you maintain it against content changes?

And, how do you apply it against production site which may display defects different environments?

The CMS we use does not have any automation so automating posting and analyzing results will be out of scope.
> WhatsApp account

There's no such thing though.
His OS seems like a curious endeavour: http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-temp...
I love motorcycles and miss riding, but you're something like 30 times as likely to die per mile.
To All the Introductions I’ve Loved Before
Yep, my dad spent his entire career as first a contractor for the FAA, and later an FAA employee. Modest pay compared to private sector, but the stability balanced that out. Worked in the same place around 30 years, in a low cost of living area.

When I finally got around to getting my CS degree, I took my first job offer, in a private industry. But the first chance I got, I took a contractor job for the FAA, to chase that same stability.

Now, my dad's working for no pay, and I'm watching contractors around me getting laid off or having their hours reduced to 12 or 16 per week to stretch the leftover contract funds through the end of February. I got only a small cut myself, to 36, but the ax could come down any day. So much for stability. I'm not looking to jump ship and find a private sector dev job, but my 5 years of experience is with technologies and tools that the private industry has largely left behind, or in niches that also require domain specific skills I don't have. I feel like I'm almost having to start from scratch if I want to get my income out from under the capricious nature of modern politics. My dad on the other hand has pretty much resigned himself to accepting things as they are, since he doesn't think there's much of a market for 55yo project managers who only know about air traffic systems.

All that said, I expect a lot of contract workers in particular are going to start avoiding government contracts in the future, and considering they already don't seem to be getting much of the best and brightest, I wonder how they are going to manage to maintain any momentum in developing new technologies for air traffic safety.
> If you think a corporation gives no-warning layoffs is wrong, then don't reciprocate, take the high road.

Right. And never tell them the real reason why you left or tell them anything negative in an exit interview (if they have one). Just keep it positive and tell them how you just loved working there and there so many opportunities though etc etc.

Burning bridges might feel good, but it's better not to do it. Even for purely selfish reasons as the industry might be huge but it's super connected. You might find yourself working with the same people again in the future, isn't worth leaving a trail of smoke behind.
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If Google actually cared about not being sued by Oracle or eventually IBM, they should have bought Sun and do whatever they wanted with Java.

Now they deserve everything they will get out of this.
> It’s tempting but I don’t want to increase my chance of getting killed

I commented elsewhere but having run the numbers for myself, the number of minutes I "gain back" per day by riding a motorcycle over other forms of commuting more than makes up for any increased danger.
I would like to see where you get your information regarding young people having worldviews tailored by the government.
They pretty much know that IT has a very low response rate. Someone who starts following up like that will get banned from LinkedIn.
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Already in place, via mitigations that have been implemented. Fuel injection, multiple catalytic converters, exhaust gas recycling, and closed-loop control all add substantial expense to modern vehicles. They do, however, very effectively reduce/eliminate the smog problems that we had 30 years ago (which is a good thing).

Most modern freeway builds include noise mitigation in their designs. This cost should be passed on to the freeway users via use fees.
> it is possible to architect the system such that Y_i is available.

I'd really like to know how? How can we be sure that the keeper of Y is ready (or even online) at the Read moment?

(As you see I'm not familiar with the systems you worked on but I'd really like to understand the context in which you present the solution).
as a multimodal traveler, i generally agree with most of the changes that oslo implemented, but let's not make cars villians. fast personal, point-to-point, at-hand, energy-dense transporation is great! and so is having grass and trees with kids and dogs playing. but there's no need to pit them against each other.

so besides leaving some low capacity, slow roads above ground, let's put a few high capacity, fast roads underground (we could call them lowways!) along with a bunch of underground parking. sure, it's expensive but in a wealthy high density area like market street, we can afford it. and yes, price in the externalities and use the money to build/maintain. best of all worlds! (better solutions probably exist, so let's find 'em)

ps - dockless electric bikes in SF totally beat driving, ride hailing, or public transit for me.
There is control, and then there is control. In the previous senate, less than half of the senators would reliably vote as republicans.
More ruby, less bash.

(Somewhat kidding)
I've never seen Electron apps lacking proper keyboard behavior for inputs. Do you have an example?
Did they pay you?
Mothers milk is a perfect food customized for each infant. Can a blue print of it be used as a source code to create food in a lab. And hence customized food?

Sorry if all this sounds far out...I don’t have scientific background in this subject.
McKinsey’s “The Business Value of Design” Is Missing the Point of UX Design
What's so bad about that?

I have lots of good nostalgic memories of climbing trees and stuff on my early childhood, and of LAN parties and couch gaming on my late childhood.

Both were "unproductive" and seen by adults as "pointless". Both were very fun.
I've seen this locally but a lot of investors aren't really in it for a return. They want to talk about being in to everyone at the country club and in their family. It is assets they can (usually) afford to lose. It is the same as buying a lamborghini, they want to be someone. Then if it does manage to hit, "look at what a genius I am".
I fear for this happening to Europe. Immigrants put an excessive strain on the NHS, for example. One of the talking points of the Leave campaign.
Strangely Gemalto and other Java licensees are doing pretty well with their Embedded Java deployments on the field lasting years between deployments.

But lets ignore that because it doesn't suit Google's PR message.
This is precisely while I'm on instagram: There's no pretense of anything being private. It's like the best parts of Facebook (cool pictures/info from people who interest me) without the bullshit (TDS-fueled ramblings).

I'll be out of there as soon as a federated alternative pops up and gets the least bit of traction.
In my experience this is only true for high skilled or white collar jobs. When I worked at a fast food restaurant there were no such protections, but that's when I needed them the most.
It's not just the liars, they're usually easy to spot.

It's those who genuinely believe they're good... they do well in an interview, because they have been working as a "developer" and can talk the talk. But as soon as they have to write a piece of code that's beyond a basic CRUD application you're basically code reviewing a bowl of spaghetti.

Google one of their variable names, and guess what site pops up.

And then there's the ability to debug something - they'll either pester other people, stare blankly at the screen, or start asking on forums.

I know this may sound bad, and some will dislike this, but: no matter how much "experience" or training, some people just don't have what it takes.

edit, to add:

Yes, I've worked with, recommended, and hired a few of these. That is why I now insist that I see some code first. Take it home, during interview, or github - whatever's best.

I'll also give a piece of sample code understand and improve. No brain-teasers or gotchas, just something I believe someone with their experience should easily do, accounting for interview pressures.

If I scare off some prima-donnas, then that's a bonus.
It's typical for small open source teams. It's hard to make money with open source.

My suggestion wold be to use AGPLv3 license and sell commercial licenses to improve the income situation.
I do this, if the crossing interrupted traffic immediately then it would be better (imo; I'm both a driver, pedestrian, and cyclist), but they often wait, which when it's raining ...

Some low-use crossings on busier roads (in UK) will interrupt immediately. Presumably they realise that delay causes pedestrians to choose crossing without the traffic signals assistance; and so signal controllers go for the safer option of immediately acting on pedestrian request.
And keep in mind, most cities in the USA weren't designed around cars. New York City got it's street plan in 1810. San Francisco did in 1839. Our cities were designed with walkers in mind. The car is invasive.

The only American cities where "it was designed for cars" is an excuse are those built largely after the 1940s, when cars (and air conditioning) became commonplace: LA, Phoenix, Tucson, San Diego, etc.