skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Apache Groovy you need to write `a?.b?.c` for nullsafe chaining on both `b` and `c`. In the past, its project managers have discussed propagating nullsafety down the chain so you'd only need to write `a?.b.c` to make both `b` and `c` nullsafe, but they've never implemented it.

Not sure if that's in Rust, Kotlin, C#, or Ruby, or in Groovy's Antlr 4 parser.
5 years is a long time in this industry. Best to move on.
Oh I assumed it was some new temporary credit card thing!
I think you read this too quickly. It doesn't say anything about being entitled to a job. It says people have the right to work.

It's not saying the government owes you a job, but that the government can't stop you from working. There is protection against unemployment, but that does not imply the protection must be absolute because, of course, that's impossible.

It's a big difference.
This is definitely not the case in Germany, unless there has been a very recent change in legislation. There are lots of scummy companies in Germany that make you fax/email copies of official ID to unsubscribe, even if joining was possible with a click of a button.
By default, you'll get "error TS2339: Property 'asdf' does not exist on type '{}'.". Yes, the error can be disabled.
Last time I checked, Trump was trying to build a tower in Moscow. Trump then directed his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, to lie about the discussions to Congress.

There's no indictment of Michael Cohen, because Michael Cohen is cooperating with investigators on the matter. Michael Cohen was recently threatened by Trump at a personal level and therefore delayed public testimony on the issue.

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Michael Flynn, former was pro-Russia during the whole Ukraine situation, and has been found guilty of several measures.

Remember: Clinton's emails were all over the news as well. The difference was that nothing was found of Clinton's emails. In contrast, there's indictments, and people going to jail in the Trump cases.

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Finally, with the Roger Stone indictment today, it has finally been proven that Trump's organization was working with Wikileaks.

There's no proof that Wikileaks is a Russian front. But its widely speculated that that is the case.
Interesting on the relevancy stand point. As an iOS developer, I had to learn a whole new set of skills for the interviews... I can count on one hand the number of times I needed to use techniques needed for the algorithm questions. I feel like the skills around making large scale apps is more about being able to reason about large scale projects and keeping everything clean and tidy.

I haven’t really met anyone yet who could talk the talk but couldn’t write code... I’ve definitely met people who have tried... maybe I have a good BS detector, or maybe I’ve been lucky? All people I’ve hired without doing the BST/linked list/DP problems, Ended up working out great. They probably can’t do those problems still, but they can code a damn good app. Guess it goes back to not caring about false negatives
To say that public transit is heavily subsidized ignores that the alternative, building new roads, parking, bridges, and other infrastructure is even more expensive. And it ignores how much regular road use is subsidized.
> But the question I am asking is, between a couple taking a year of leave and one (usually the woman) decides to become a full time parent vs. a couple takes 6 months leave to have a kid and both stay in the workforce. Why is the latter better than the former? workforce

I think the point may be that employer paid family leave is meant to help people make having a new child fit in with their career. If you are switching to full time parenthood you are quitting your job, not taking a leave from your job.

They aren't implying that working parents are better than full time parents, or more desirable to society. They are just saying that as employers they are designing their program around people who are going to remain employees.
Yeah, I'd definitely be pretty upset if someone wiped the record of my college degree, but (I hope) Udacity courses don't cost nearly as much as I had to pay.
Awesome, NT finally shedding some baggage.
Reading about the experiences of others. Or asking around.
A bit off topic, but as we usually have [pdf] in the title for pdf submissions, can we get [autoplaying fucking video] for autoplaying videos?
Everyone knows Trump's refusing to sign a budget without wall funding, that's no secret.

The part you left out is that the Democrats blocked a bill with wall funding, even before they took over the House. Trump never "had a perfectly good budget on his desk, written by his allies and passed by Republicans".

Both parties put this issue ahead of the continued operation of the government and both are responsible for the shutdown.
Since they solved the problem of "what if file sharing didn't suck?" they now need to solve the problem of "what if cancelling a subscription didn't suck?"
> My personal opinion on the matter is that children are 49% horrible and 51% of pure bliss and it's that 1% which makes the whole difference.

In my head I think of it similarly: the mean of the experience of living before and after having a child is roughly the same, but the variance is much higher after. Which side of the mean I'm on varies, and I honestly don't know where it will end up over time. That's why it's so hard to know whether I regret it or not. Given all the positive stuff (ya know, the unconditional love and all that), I can never say that I regret it, but in so many ways life is also just objectively so much worse now.
I like this guy. It's like he's trying out for HBO's Silicon Valley.
That might be relevant if the things enumerated in the so-called Universal Declaration of Human Rights were actually rights. Or universal. Or at least not riddled with internal contradictions and subjective qualifiers...

Article 22

> in accordance with the organization and resources of each State

So basically each State decides how serious it is about this. Apparently the organization of this State permits shutdowns and furloughs, which is enough to satisfy Article 22.

> of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality

Subjective to the point of meaninglessness, but there is plentiful evidence to support the notion that one's dignity and personal development can survive in the absence of a government job. Or any job, for that matter.

Article 23

> Everyone has the right to work

No one is being told they aren't allowed to work. The right to work does not guarantee gainful employment in your preferred field or with any specific employer.

> to free choice of employment

Neither is anyone being told they must perform any particular job; everyone is free to choose from among the positions available in the open job market. At this time that simply doesn't happen to include any government jobs, at least not if you want to get paid. There are plenty of private positions available, though.

> to just and favourable conditions of work

Subjective. Unless you're being coerced, your choice to remain is sufficient evidence for me that you consider the conditions "just and favorable" compared to your next-best alternative, which is all that anyone can reasonably expect.

> and to protection against unemployment.

Here's the first part that might actually be considered a statement of entitlement to income and/or having others pay your expenses. It would be unreasonable to expect this protection to last forever, though. It comes with the expectation that one is actively seeking new employment. "Protection against unemployment" is not UBI.

> (2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.

Non-discrimination does not guarantee income, a job, or paid expenses, so long as these are doled out (or not) equitably, so this part not applicable.

> (3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration

There's that subjective "just and favorable" language again. No one reasonable is going to guarantee a livable income for yourself and your family merely on the basis of effort without regard for whether the work is actually productive. If you and your employer come to a voluntary agreement on the terms of your employment, that proves the resulting terms "just and favorable" enough to suit you—and no one else's opinion matters.

> and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.

The conditions to make this "necessary" are not defined, so we can just say it's never necessary and ignore this clause altogether. There is always another option.
Notes on 4 years of starting up
> I find it weird the way Facebook seems to be using the term here. These are charges that were never contemplated by the cardholder. There is no "buyer's remorse" dimension.

It's my understanding that it's the responsibility of the cardholder to "contemplate" the consequences of delegating charges to others. What Facebook maybe should do in this case is make it painfully obvious that other users of one's Facebook account could incur additional charges without reentering the payment card information.
It's okay guys, the security of your credit card information is important to them! Also, it's a big responsibility, and they "need to do better."

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=zuckerberg+"we+need+to...
But it helps local businesses raises wages, etc.

Tariffs are important to keep certain industries alive locally.
The Garmin Fenix has a pulse oximeter.

https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/fenix5plus/EN-US/GUI...
Yesterday, there was news that Facebook was porting Yarn from Flow to TypeScript for ease of new contributors. That ease is a shared goal of one of my projects, and yesterday I tried porting it as well.

I discovered that in contrast to Flow, TypeScript has horrible errors. Often I ran into errors that would not give much more information than "error" -- no line information, no file information, nothing. One of the causes of such opaque errors was empty Flow-style typecasts, so they were pervasive throughout a large project.

In contrast, Flow has beautiful error messages.
You're basically limiting your skill pool to those without a job. Or a family. Certainly not both.
The other interesting connection to wage growth and 1970's was 'women in the workforce'.

The concept, apart from the genuine support that existed for it, was certainly pushed by the feds, not out of political support but because they knew what the implications were.

They could drive down purchasing power and families could make up for it by having both parents work.
Well, that's a no-go. We're a small startup that's scraping by and only recently we're starting to get some traction on our GMail integration. If we're asked to undergo such a review, we don't have the $15k+ to spare, so we'll likely say goodbye to the ecosystem. Like someone else said in this story, we're probably just going to focus on Microsoft which is much more developer friendly.

Worst of all, this won't stop intentional bad actors from stealing user data for whatever purposes they have in mind. Big pockets are going to laugh even at a $75k fee.
Facebook could be run by the Russian mob and people would continue to use it(and Instagram and WhatsApp).
Obviously we should just use scientific notation for everything:

> YC companies raised over $9.45e8...
Thank you, you're right, that's important to include.

But that's the only detail of the story told above that's true.
One thing I love about living on the south coast of England is that I can cycle to my train station all year round. All winter bar a one or two days midwinter when there is actually some real snow/ice. I don't even bother to put on my studded tires I have in my garage.

When I did live in Oslo I did put on those studded tires for the colder months. But that was only for the late autumn and spring when there might be ice but mostly bare tarmac.

The actual winter months was not suitable for cycling. Studded tires are fine on cleared roads with nice rink type thin ice on it. But on most roads especially the park roads I prefered to cycle on you could not see the tarmac. Cycling in the winter on a normal bike is a nightmare on these surfaces that are several layers of snow and ice refrozen many times leaving random deep grooves which forces your wheel to turn in all sorts of directions all the time. Add a foot or two of snow if the snow ploughers and gritters had not been there yet that morning. Exhausting and dangerous.
In Moscow I've seen people use their off-road vehicles to do just that - drive next to the road so as to not be in traffic. I've been told it's illegal, but they still do it.
Facebook: Designing Security for Billions
Just don't save payment card information in your Facebook account which you share with an irresponsible minor. If you primarily blame Facebook for this problem, you are failing as a parent.

The fact that it is technically possible for Facebook to validate some purchases and prevent some instances of this problem does not make it Facebook's responsibility not to do something practically equivalent to handing your wallet to a toddler at a carnival.
Now I want to cancel just to see the figures.
Does this have any implications for Google's effort to integrate Swift into Fuchsia?
You can see the alphastar perspective of that 11th game here: https://youtu.be/H3MCb4W7-kM?t=5195

It struggles with camera placement like real players :) And uses popular divert-attention tactics, which shows it understand that part of the game - for example when it sends oracles to mineral line at the same time as it attacks in front. Previous versions didn't do that, because they were taught playing vs cheating AI - so no point diverting attention of something that has instant access to any unit on the map :)

It also struggles to defend against adept harras beacuse it has "tunnel vision" - controls its oracle instead of defending probes at home. Mana actually managed his attention budget a lot better (this is a crucial pro-player skill in starcraft - harras is effective because it trades little of your attention for a lot of attention of the enemy, it's a skill that becomes irrelevant when opponent doesn't really have "attention" and can perceive and interact with all units on the map at once like previous version of alphastar).

This one is much more human, and much lower level. In my opinion it lost unfair advantage, so the mistakes in its errormaking are revealed. Previously it never was behind and never had to react to human player strategy - it rarely even scouted because what's the point - it wanted to build mass stalkers anyway.
If I were implementing the ATM example, I'd do something similar to Auth/Capture where the balance check places a hold on the funds until an eventual capture / reversal.

Of course, that is basically 2PC in spirit.
Here at HN.
Annnnndddddddddddddddd, massive traffic jams and a single point of delay. Thank you njabore, that’s very cool!
It depends on what an account deletion means, yeah. Is there a GDPR for universities that makes them delete all history of your attendance at that institute? Do customer privacy laws force Udacity to do a more thorough deletion than you might expect if you're treating it like a website rather than a university or vice-versa?
Everest Helicopter Rescue Fraud Leads Insurers to Threaten a Boycott
Perhaps more worrying than this change is the recent focus on expanding China's coal plants [1]. China already now is responsible for 45% of the global coal electricity. Just look at this diagram [0]. And with their one-belt-one-road initiative, they are building coal plants around the world.

[0]: https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-worlds-coal-power-plants
[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/judeclemente/2019/01/23/coal-is...
I've cancelled by NYTimes subscription just a few months ago. Didn't have to do any phone calls-- just answered a few questions in the chat, right there on their website.
As any seller on eBay can attest, it's definitely possible to deliver exactly what you promise and still have the customer demand a refund or chargeback.
Say you sign up for a gym. The agreement is for $50/month with a year commitment. You give them a credit card to pay.

6 months in, you cancel your credit card (or it expires or whatever).

The fact that they can't bill you doesn't change that you agreed to the plan and that you owe the second 6 months anyway. That's a debt and the gym can (and some do!) choose to go after you for it in whatever legal way they feel. That's collection agencies, and direct lawsuits.

An open ended agreement ($10/month for a newspaper) often will have this same style - you agree to pay $10/month for access, they give you access. Valid until cancelled. If you simply ghost - is that cancellation? Probably not, and it's up to the contract. Of course, most consumer things just drop it and shrug, but that is not a given.
I don't think American culture is more fundamentally macho than Swedish culture. Maybe now it is on average, but not when this rule came into place. Monetary incentives really do work.
Is there an option to simply not pay anymore?

That sounds like a complex process to avoid deleting the wrong things, but maybe not the same for stopping a subscription?
> Extended insurance is not free; your employer has to pay that

Maybe, except now I make more money than any company that doesn't have such insurance would offer me, AND I have the insurance. So it's all win. My employer didn't have an option for "if you don't take the dental insurance we'll give you more money".
They have nothing to do with cancelling, I just got those messages every now and then on the Amazon home page.

But the "In the last year" section of your account's order list is pretty much the same.
Its a Lie. I have YT watch history disabled for hmm 2 years now, recommendations "work" just the same.
The author sounds like an entitled whinger. I'd be curious about what age he got his first job.
Is that even plausible? Not being government, I can't just declare "Anyone who lies to me is committing perjury, nyah nyah!"
Getting into Kaggle.com competitions
Bob may or may not be concerned with what the state is/was, and more concerned with what state the system needs to converge on.

I take your point, although the assumption is that Bob wants to set state=baz IFF (if and only if) state==foo. However he may simply need the state to be baz, regardless what the previous state was.
The NYT at least lets you use PayPal. When I wanted to cancel I couldn't even get through to a rep, so I just switched my payment method to PayPal and then deauthorized the recurring payment from PayPal.
Car-dominant policies are also exclusionary, just for a different group. Being effectively required to drive is an enormous burden on the impoverished.

Also it sounds like a mobility scooter is kind of what you want?
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Huh? It sounds like a problem with your toolchain, not TypeScript. You should get all of that whenever there's a type error.
Insightful
Truth, food deserts will grow without the car. To see what it is like, go visit your local ghetto and rural area.
yeah check out this list of feminists by religion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Feminists_by_religion

Notice anything interesting?
Depend probabbly not, but "hey there is this thing this guy did" might be a real thing. Probably not weighted as much as other things but still relevant to some.
I recall this being the other way:

We can refine anything, but other places can not, so they pay more than we would for the nicer oil. We used to mainly get oil from Venezuela, which is extremely sour. Saudi Arabia affects our prices due to the world market, but we have never gotten much oil from there because of the long shipping distance.
positive feedback loop of "more money->more power->more money->..." causing system runaway until critical value of some key structural parameter is exceeded which leads to a local or global system breakage.
I have Global Entry -- which gives precheck, but still get to the airport early. There have been times -- SeaTac is notable for this -- where the Precheck line is longer/slower than the regular line.
Show HN: Solver for the game 24 in Python
Imagine having a business so fragile that a single employee failing to show up could take down the whole show. This is entry level business school stuff, and something anybody running a business will learn first hand very quickly.

Would you have any sympathy for management that purposefully made sure they had a "bus factor" of one and then blamed that person when they inevitably got hit by our theoretical bus?

Maybe apply the same logic the hardware resources if it helps to think of things with less of the emotion in talking about a person; The company has a single consumer grade PC running linux in the corner of a cubicle serving up the entire companies suite of applications, no load balancing or backups at all. Many devs and admins have come and gone recommending a more robust solution but management refuses to consider other options. Whose fault is it when it falls over?
This one wins points for comedy, but I've seen worse. NY Times forced me to open an IM chat window with "customer service" and request my cancellation interpersonally through them.
Holland has a lot of wind though, that can be very annoying as well. (And somehow it will change direction during the day so it will always be against you..)
Finally the killer application for Google Duplex.
I cannot describe how infuriating it is to see hacks like this get publicity. Thank you for sharing that link.
Ok, I'll put it out there... Fallen Angels by Niven and Pournelle.
Truth, but however, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
You think that's dumb, but I bet the marketing data behind that says otherwise.

You think "I already have a mixer, idiot!" but in reality the chance that you are interested in buying a mixer just went from 1% to 2%. (Because you want another one, because you want to gift one, because you returned yours, etc.)
The thing that separates fastai course from other courses is the use of fastai library (built on top of pytorch). fastai library makes it dead simple to train neural network faster and with more accuracy.

Write a neural network is easy. But tweaking hyper parameters takes lot of time and knowledge. fastai library implements cyclical learning rates which varies the learning rate during training along with some other defaults for other hyperparameters.

https://github.com/fastai/fastai
Actually, one of the benefits of strong typing (without side effects) is that the correct implementation is sometimes the only one that compiles.

For example, if you know that a function takes a generic list and returns an integer, then the list’s length is pretty much the only non-trivial computation it can perform.
But this is easy to do. Just embed a version number (or hash) in the form. If after submitting the version to be changed is not the same as in the form, then you know there is a conflict.
So we are still in roll your own code mode really. I can't get my dad to 'just download this' yet. That is why WhatsApp et al. are 'so good'.
Quite the opposite, form a very unsheltered life. It is the sheltered people that want to get paid leave, which is why the highest income workers are the ones that get the most paid leave of all.

> You do realise that even if a parent chooses to work, they have to pay someone for childcare?

That is an argument against paid leave: if a worker takes up the "nanny job" for their own son, they are capturing 100% of the value they do. No need to pay them twice for it.
> In that case he's putting it up against TDD + code reviews

Not to mention that TypeScript makes it easier to do both. Code reviews are easier when you can read the types instead of trying to infer them by reading the code, writing tests is easier when you have type-safe test data.
I'm even more afraid to drive a car on those surfaces to be honest.