skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've studied abroad for some brief periods, but I've lived almost all of my life in the US, particularly in some of the more rural states. I'm at this weird place mentally where I'm sometimes both exasperated by the economic situation here, while still annoyed by 'outsiders' who draw attention to it. Sometimes I feel that the faults of the US get more negative international publicity than other countries, leading people who don't really know the situation here to constantly try to bring up our issues. At the same time, there is still a Cold War-esque "We're number 1" attitude that makes some people here unwilling to see the faults.

In the end, I wish I had an answer. Even more so, I wish I knew what the problem is. As the article says: I'm not surprised that bridges and roads built primarily from the 50s-70s are crumbling and need to be repaired. I'm just surprised that it costs so much to do so, and no one is sure why.
The article isn't making the comparison you seem to think it's making.

Neither the US nor Italy are being directly compared to the developing world. The author is taking the UN's term of "in transition" and considering whether it might apply to the dynamics at play in both countries.
Bezos Just Gave a Private Talk in New York. From Utopian Space Colonies To
What the majority is doing doesn't seem so scary when it's easy to opt out. I'm using YouTube and Spotify mostly to listen to obscure accordion folk songs these days. The recommendation algorithms adapted to that pretty well and give me more good stuff.

It seems like the issue here is conceptual? If you care mostly about what the majority does then it's more of a problem than if you don't.

And although it's good to show an interest in what other people like, you can also talk a bit (not to be a bore) about what you like.

It just doesn't seem hard at all to do something the majority isn't interested in. Most people don't care what you do and will show at least polite interest. You can do what you want.
Nah, it's just a re-implementation of S, which was really, really old and different from what people expect.

R is wonderful (and has multiple dispatch, thank you very much), but it's definitely not as familiar to developer types as Python is. R has lots of weird quirks (a[1] vs a[[1]] vs a[1,]) and uses function based generic programming rather than object based generic programming.

Because of the re-implementation of S, it has lots of odd quirks and multiple ways to do things, which Python tends to avoid. Python is definitely more consistent from a programming point of view, but R is a more cohesive system from an analytics point of view.

But yeah, lots of people are hateRs (unfortunately).
Reading this reminds me how my High School Teacher prodded a cold-war, Orwellian, censorship interpretation out of us in exams.

But Bradbury was definitely on to something deeper.

I'd forgotten all about the Seashells and 4 walled televisor in this classic novel. Definitely a great metaphor for today's social media.
Yup, means your requests aren't limited to 29 seconds that API Gateway enforces. And you don't have to deal with fiddly config. So if you're using something like ASP.NET Core its insanely easy to setup a website in a lambda now.
The most productive person I know literally cannot stop. He has to be doing something every moment of the day or he turns sour. He’s also horrible to be around often because he’s prone to caustic, hyper criticism. He seems to have been born with more energy than average. Tho maybe it’s a symptom of ocd or somehow related?

I personally average one completely lazy day per weekend and one day of getting everything done.
Side Project – Group-Chat Widget for Websites
Hey guys,

For those of you who are building websites and looking to integrate a chat to their site, I would be happy to hear your feedback on a small side-project I've been working on. The project is called Chatters (https://www.chatters.live), it is a very simple live chat solution and is now out in Beta version.

You can easily generate the html code and embed it into your website.

Feel free to play with it and let me know what you think.

Yotam.
No idea? They were plastic plated unforged metal; the plastic would gradually flake off into the dough then finally the hook would snap. I assumed there was just a bad batch of hooks in the market until the third one broke. The Kenwood hooks are forged stainless instead.
No, if you fail to pay taxes, you will be carted off to jail, violently, if necessary.
The point is that whatever you feel government should or should not do, government is the entity that as a society we collectively decide should be allowed to violate your individual consent in favor of some sort of partial group consent (if you're in a democracy). Thus, if you think consent is important, a system where private charity provides adequate healthcare should be preferable to one where the government provides adequate healthcare.

Healthcare in the us is seriously fucked up. It's highly regulated and prices are set in an incredibly corrupt fashion. Insurance is misunderstood by politicians as a magic trove of money and then gets the blame when it falls short. We get quite honestly the worst of a privatized and the worst of a public system.
Wait, in what country? Not in the USA! You ain't forced to pay shit here if you don't want. Don't want to pay taxes? Go work minimum wage job then, don't pay taxes okay? Or be megarich and still don't pay taxes. Nobody's forcing you by threat of violence to make a ton of money in your salary and pay taxes on it.

The laws are clear, and you agree to them by living here. A taxation-related arrest will be done non-violently anyway, what on Earth are you talking about here?

Where is this threat of violence coming from?
How toxic was dark fall, what was the type of game and what was the effort barrier required to play it?
We implemented this recently because a design that was dropped on my desk called for it, cause you know, marketing people. I was pretty happy with the library, but after reading some of the reviews on here I think we are going to have to look into how it plays on some devices and use-cases again.
Naturalization in Europe is restrictive if you measure it across all axes:

- Allow time-based naturalization outside of marriage?

- Allow dual or more citizenship?

CH is on the more restrictive end, but it is one of the few European countries to allow either of the above. If you compare outcomes and hurdles, the U.S. has been more restrictive to foreigners coming in than CH (don’t believe me; tell that the the Canadians I know who moved to CH instead of working for U.S. branches due to U.S. not issuing family reunification visa).

So the question to ask: what do you want? Permit to enter, live, and work; permanent residency; citizenship? Each of these things are different.
That's a favorite trick of politicians for criticizing health care proposals.

There are hundreds of different factors that you could use to compare the health care systems of any two countries.

When someone proposes some change, and offers country X as an example of a place that works that way, opponents can always find among those hundreds of factors some particular things where we have better care than X, and then that's all they talk about.

And of course if you propose a change and do NOT cite places that already work that way, then the opponents say you are trying something that is just theoretical and it would be irresponsible to risk our health on such experiments.
> I really believe that in the future of Redis “client side caching” will be a big thing. It’s the logical step in every scalable system.

As soon as this happens I will have no use for Redis. I already have better scalable datastores. I often use Redis as a cache for those. If Redis isn't a low-latency, consistent key-value/key-structure store anymore then in my mind it isn't Redis anymore.
"We now have intellectuals intentionally depriving the world of revolutionary research because of this"

Any examples? I'm not sure what you're referring to here.
Wouldn't the hard part definitely be creating a product that people love? I do understand that asking users what they want is generally underrated as advice, but that's nothing compared to creating a product that really catches people's eyes.
A side note - I work with developers in Belarus which borders Ukraine and the Chernobyl to the north.

In that process I’ve met many young people who grew up in neighboring villages and small towns who call themselves Chernobyl-baby. Nothing severe, but they all have various minor health issues, apparently.

There was even a humanitarian program that provided summer getaways to some European countries for kids growing up in that region.

I (we) always hear about the Chernobyl disaster, but to see people born 10 years or so later and in a country that many have never heard of gave it a human face to me.
When was the last time you stayed in a "third world" country?
I'll give it a go, thanks!
Patents aren't "meant to protect you from bigger companies muscling you out".

That's a common story told to justify them, but US patents are meant to do what the US Constitution says about them: “To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.”

Many people who do small startups think patents are a net negative for small startups.
This was a thing on the night of the explosion too. Workers were reporting doses at the maximum their equipment could read. Those figures got passed up the hierarchy and contributed to the downplaying of the event, as doses would be way higher in a meltdown. Serhii Plonkhy has written a really good book about the disaster called ‘Chernobyl’.
About ten years ago and I have relatives that live in one. The examples I gave come from personal experience or that of people I know.
Tax liens and wage garnishments are violence, apparently.
I know rats can chew through many things. I did not know about cement. Fortunately, houses are not made of cement. They are made of concrete. And, as far as I can read online, only improperly cured concrete is vulnerable to rats. Rats also cannot chew through copper.

There’s also a question of how thick the material, and how motivated the rat. Can rats make a dent in bricks? Yes. Is a single rat going to chew a hole all the way through a brick wall just to see that’s on the other side? I’m no rodent behavior expert, but I doubt it.

More to the point (at least according to YouTube exterminators) rats will only chew through things if they have a reason to. That is why you seal holes with silicone caulk after the copper wool: to prevent the smell of food from drawing rats in.

In any case, I can only tell you what treatment we applied and what the results were. There is a lot of information on the internet about how to prevent rat ingress in apartments and buildings. Based on my experience, that information seems accurate. But another approach is to assume nothing can be done and live with periodic rat infestations.
Uh, nothing to do with Mesa. Don't know how that happened, but I can't edit it now two hours later...
You do realize that physical resources, which money is to some extent a representation of, are themselves finite, right?

Printing money does not food create. Look at Zimbabwe for what happens when MMT is put into practice.
Economist sometimes do a poor job of fact checking their journalists. I also like the Economist, but it’s not perfect. You still have to think for yourself and try to cross validate the information
Looks like they're having some server issues.

Here's a PDF of the UN 2017 report - it shows America has over 49 million immigrants on page 6.

http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/p...
I started teaching myself to code about a year ago and in my last job before I "retired" to travel I managed a team that was woefully inefficient and stuck in their ways. I was constantly telling them "there's always a better way!" When I had learned enough about programming to strike out on my own a bit I realized I need to practice building stuff that was a bit more complex/interesting than yet another To Do App. So I started to keep a little list of all the things I encountered that were frustratingly inefficient or annoying so I could try to "build a better way" as a way to practice coding.

I try to work on building something from my list every weekend. I'll be the first to admit that (so far at least) most of the things I've built have not, in fact, been better than the status quo. But it lets me flex my problem-solving muscles a bit and I definitely learn better by coding something from scratch than I do from any code-along course/project.
Consume, create and distribute memes. Work on personal projects. Watch YouTube.
CH is Switzerland, in case it helps anyone else out.
You think China isn't using it's tech industry to further it's own defense and surveillance projects? That what you seem to imply?
> No, if you fail to pay taxes, you will be carted off to jail, violently, if necessary.

That is simply false. You will not be "carted off to jail, violently, if necessary". If you refuse to obey the laws of the country of course you will be arrested. They will not be violent! If you choose to pull out a gun or something and fight them, then you have initiated the violence and they will defend themselves. This is all fucking insane anyway, why are we even talking about this? You don't have a clear understanding of how the laws or modern society works.

You're not living under a threat of violence with taxation, my god. I can't imagine what kind of misconceptions you have that result in you thinking that a result of you not paying taxes could end violently. We have looooong surpassed that, and in fact, our Constitution written hundreds of years ago, while flawed, absolutely prevents the scenario you are describing.
When the Xbox 360 finally shipped, Microsoft didn’t want these alpha kits returned. I waa working for EA at the time and our studio arranged a raffle for these; you could enter a draw and if your name was chosen you could buy one of these G5s freshly loaded with OS X for $500 with the provision that you couldn’t flip it for a year.

All the money went to charity so it was a pretty good deal.
only one of these has a reasonable local testing story
The article mentions cataracts too. These can happen to anyone, but radiation induced cataracts are well documented. https://radiationsafety.ca/radiation-induced-cataracts/
Kids in Tokyo are also sexually repressed and have societal mental health issues that continue to baffle academics. Kids in Tokyo also have absurd work hours, brutal education standards and are exposed to large amounts of pollutants.

But hey, at least they can ride the subway alone.

Every country has its' problems, and any country can seem great until you actually live there.
In the middle / upper middle class of America, you are likely to have a much higher time demand than in Germany / Canada / France / Europe. Checking the government's mandated annual time off shows that Germany has 29 paid days off per year, while Canada has 16-30-the US has 0 mandatory paid days off per year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_b...

While you probably have PTO in the US, the typical leave is 2 - 3 weeks, many companies will offer unlimited PTO to further obfuscate how much time you are expected to take and avoid PTO payouts.
Don't forget the massive amounts of blow.
Downvoted by the SJW crowd for saying the truth. Stop giving the RSA (revenu de solidarité active) to foreign nationals and then look at how the immigration from third world countries will stop by itself. A lot of people feel there will be a push back, and the sooner the softer for everybody. If we let the situation rot 4 more decades this will finish in a bloodshed. The Gilet Jaunes was a first and mild attempt at it. The next time will be uglier.
I'm confused by your logic. Isn't the median home price in the Peninsula a multiple of the median home price in SF or OAK?
I'm not saying that the US shouldn't do better, it absolutely should. But it's also important to try to keep a little perspective, and be thankful for how lucky we are.
Careful or you'll let a libertarian define a term very broadly then start making bad syllogisms at you with it.

[edit] actually may be an Objectivist, I guess. They argue the same.
OpenAI’s GPT-2 on the Trolley Problem
Sounds like a personality trait, not a mental disorder. High conscientiousness plus high neuroticism would be my guess from my favorite armchair.

Anyway, I agree that obsessing over productivity can be toxic. The correct mindset is to be efficient, not just productive, so you can finish your tasks faster in order to enjoy life sooner.
Cons: You have to live in a shoebox and experience the soul-crushing boredom of urban cities, which has about as much character as a slab of concrete.
Can – Safe Rm for Moving Files to the Trash Can
I'm still not sure how it works. Bitcoin is a push-only protocol, how are you pulling BTC from a private wallet every month?
There is a way to avoid this kind of problem; have sufficiently complicated syntax that most random permutations caused by "fat-fingering" are incorrect. Python's problem is that the syntax is so minimalist, and the semantics so rich, that any random typo is liable to do something.

For what it's worth, I think Python's approach here is the right one (at least, for Python.) As others have noted, the common answer to this among Python users is to just use a linter to catch these kinds of issues, although I find that unsatisfying- linters can't catch everything, and they require you to have your stuff together well enough to use them (e.g., you can't be a student who is already overwhelmed with the bare necessary stack.) There are things that seem like they could be done to alleviate these kinds of problems within the language itself; most obviously, for the particular problem in the OP, a variable annotation expression could require the right-hand to be a type expression. It's not clear to me why these kinds of moves aren't taken.
Great, the answer is then: You should give it a try, to a certain extend "Why Julia is nice" is easier experienced than explained.
honest question, not a serious SDE here. In what ways is julia not supportive of OOP?
That doesn't sound really "batteries included" to me.
That's not how LinkedIn grew. It grew via user-hostile patterns like emailing everyone's contact lists on their behalf to sign up.
As I've gotten older, I've started noticing that culture goes through endless time loops like we're riding a toy train. Back in the 90s, we listened to disco and wore bell bottoms just like our parents did. Today, I see teenagers wearing overalls and boots and listening to Nirvana (which is quite heartwarming, honestly - at least there is hope for the future).

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that social media is just another cultural deviation. As a society, we haven't said yet that it's rude to talk loudly into your cell phone in public, or stare into it when you're surrounded by people also staring into it, or wear headphones everywhere like the gym where you might learn something if you ever talked to anyone.

It's an eerie feeling to see the world a step or two back, to take in the big picture when everyone else is jacked in. I can't really blame people for putting on blinders, as bleak as these times are. Sure, we have unlimited access to news and information. But news is mostly bad, because that's where the money is. Even the best news like NPR leads to depression, especially when you realize that the main news networks broadcast spin now instead of investigative journalism, and they're all anyone watches.

I have no deep epiphany here. But I just want everyone to know that this profound cultural cynicism we're experiencing right now is quite familiar to me, because it's what I grew up with in the 80s and 90s while most of the world was distracted with Monday Night Football. The world's been burning that entire time, most people actively tune it out, and the people like us who see through the veil see more than ever.
this movie in dolby vision 4k oled with good sound is a completely reinvented b&w.
Hmm maybe your friend has forsaken physics. He did not implement any physics in his engine! (not yet?) =D
RO water has to stored in plastic be because it is acidic. Most people don't realize that after you RO filter your water you need to add alkalinity back to it. Also if you get the ppm too low, it will leach nutrients from your body when you drink it. It's not healthy to RO/ deionize water then just drink it without adding some CaCO3 to bring the ppm and pH back to a reasonable level. Some multistage filters do this to some extent, but it really needs to be tested to confirm the levels are acceptable and that the filter system is working as expected. The brief interaction with a polypropylene liner is not a problem at all at room temperature though.
It actually wasn’t NT. It followed the NT/Win32 APIs but a very cut down special purpose OS.
Of course. That's why the original article is kind of ridiculous. Every country has its pluses and minuses but suggesting that the US has the quality of life of a developing nation is pretty off the mark.
I still find it very difficult to trust Bloomberg after “The Big Hack” was widely refuted without a retraction. Now whenever I read a Bloomberg puff peice like this, I’m wondering who’s agenda they’re serving. Who’s got all the Recruit stock that wants to see it rise? How much of the article is twisted to paint this company in a positive light? They’re not a trustworthy publication anymore.
I use R daily at work, and often reach for it before Python for non-statistical tasks out of comfort.

But R's functions for non-statistical tasks often break the language's idioms. Those dealing with files and connections are especially ugly.

I wouldn't call it insane or unreal, but it's definitely not intended for general scripting.
Mastadon is not decentralized. Its federated, like SMTP.

> Youtube’s copyright strike system errs on the side of the entity making the copyright claim.

Youtube is required by law to do this, else they lose their DMCA liability protections.
Yeah, well, I live in one of the ex-USSR countries. And guess what - there are no Macs here whatsoever. I'd suspect that x86 is the prevalent platform in China and India, the dominant players in the outsourcing markets. So, no, most of development is done on Intel machines.
The whole libertarian and conservative sales pitch is just a sales pitch for business practices that hurt the many at the betterment of the corporations or rich few. They clamp divisive stances onto it to pull single issue voters into their pool. Whether any of their actual enacted laws decrease deficits or increase personal freedoms isn’t even discussed routinely. (The last time the US ran a budget surplus a D was in the White House. Deregulating is always pitched as a positive but winds up in selling people less than they had before - relaxation of banking regulations leading to recessions, etc)
Social Media, and Fear of Failing to ‘Keep Up with the Joneses’
besides old computers there is also arduino as a modern target with limited resources:

http://thedemoscene.tumblr.com/post/3750689725/gameduino-con...