skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you embrace it, escalate or forward it to the correct people, and then go back to what else you have to do.

How would you maintain this habit in a world where:

1) Time is limited.

2) Context-switching has a high time cost (see “manager time vs maker time”).

3) Communication takes effort. Describing issues conherently takes at least 15 minutes of focused time.

4) “Noticing an issue” is an event which happens at least 4x per hour? This includes seeing an alert come in via your error-reporting infra and determining if it is or is not spurious.

Your attention would be jerked this way and that. If you are in the process of reporting one issue and see another issue, do you report that first or second? How do you find time to defrag your working memory and to focus on your original task for the day?

We live in a tremendously noisy world.

Without a commitment to focus for 2 hours and ignore things other than your current task, How do you accomplish anything?
The growing white supremacist threat is indicated by the rise in hate crimes in the United States.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/us/hate-crimes-fbi-2017.h...
I was a child to a single mother of two in Berlin without a car.
I 100% agree with this. Stripe is fun for startups with <100'000 / year revenue, but then it gets ugly. The reporting can't be configured at all and is highly cumbersome, especially if you need something slightly different than they offer for comparability (e.g. last 7 days, last 28 vs last 30 days), and Stripe is not transparent about their fees at all in the back-end.
I think Pug is the closest thing to Haml with traction: https://pugjs.org/language/conditionals.html

Here's a Pug -> JSX transformation: https://github.com/pugjs/babel-plugin-transform-react-pug

Detouring from the most popular path tends to come at the price of tooling idiosyncrasies that are rarely worth it, but it seems to at least work with eslint-react and has syntax highlighting in some editors.
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> This allows us to enumerate a particular subset of active IPv6 hosts which can then be scanned.

So if you have turned off the firewall in your CPE, someone might heave an easier time scanning your network, without having to find your ip address from a http access log or using webrtc etc.

The property of scanning resitance due to address sparsity in IPv6 is not very strong (nor is it meant to be a security boundary) and there are many things like this that can go around it.
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Huang Kicks Off GTC, Focuses on Nvidia Datacenter Momentum, Blue Chip Partners
Not really. It's 472 gigaflops for $100 and not particularly energy efficient. It's useless for bitcoin by a large margin and for Ethereum & co. you can get a used GTX 1070 with 6.5 teraflops of compute for about $250.
Well I think the difference is insider knowledge. If you run a public company, and know everything that is happening, that can give you a significant advantage in trading that stock.

While I agree what the President is saying can move markets, and does, it's usually not because he knows something that everyone else doesn't (non-public information). It's just that his opinion moves markets. You could say the same for short sellers, who make detailed reports and release them publicly on why they believe certain companies stock will go down. This also affects the stock price, but doesn't have any non-public information.

Now if the President was shorting all the pharmaceutical industry, then said something like "we're going to socialize healthcare", I feel like this is a bit different because it's almost like the regulator is using their information for gain. Same for congress, although funny enough, this hasn't been technically illegal for long: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act
Thank you for sharing his story.

It’s saddening how many people are robbed of the kind of friendship they could have with people who are different yet the same in so many ways, because of this learned hatred.
How to teach Raspberry to detect movement
Github commit history is an excellent measurement of your willingness to work overtime for free. Of course companies will love you for that
You can delegate the entire administration, include insurance, and its free money.
This article says _was_ almost always: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-bc7d54e7-88f6-4026-...
Money that is not being spent is almost always being invested. If cash is literally being hoarded under a mattress it’s neither being spend nor invested but that means that the value of everyone else’s money goes up by some infinitesimal amount. If Bill Gates turned his entire fortune into cash and then set it on fire the assets that that cash used to represent would not disappear. Bill Gates would just have made all other holders of dollars a bit richer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-me2inj1nNw
Whenever this argument is made, there seems to be this conflation of "economically good" and "x made me money." Just because you make money (or make more money) doing something doesn't mean it's a net good for society.
There's nothing worse than flogging a dead horse, yet Ruby fan boys seem to love doing it.

Just. Let. Rails. Die. Save the world from some Carbon and don't implode the sun by running that garbage.
According to the spec, it can lead to all the same problems that any UB leads to, including all the problems that any memory unsafety leads to. The code is allowed by the spec to cause memory unsafety.

But to list some direct memory unsafety possibilities: indexing off the end of an array, indexing off the end of a vector, dereferencing a bad pointer, dereferencing a null pointer, dereferencing a bad iterator, double delete.
You should read "From NAND to Tetris". You could totally build a CPU yourself after a year of study. Not something that can compete with a modern microprocessor of course, but then again you probably couldn't build a compressor for a fridge with the same quality as a factory either.
Pi needs way more than 500ma, which a USB 2 port maxes out at, I think.

I think a pi3 needs at least 2 or 3 amps.
The language was invented so that Bjarne after his experience having to rewrite Simula into BCPL, never had to go through such a low level language again in his life.

Plenty of interviews where he states this, including some of his books.
I am not patio11, but I do work at Stripe. Both are true; we use a lot of email, typically with lists, and a lot of Slack.

Other tools, like a wiki, an issue tracker, Home[0], and a culture of "run" rotations (like on-call but for helping folks on other teams) help keep chaos manageable.

It might be interesting for us to write up another update on this, since many folks are curious...

[0] https://stripe.com/blog/stripe-home
Agreed. And not only is it not limited to psychology, but it spreads to areas of grave concern, like cancer research.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/plan-replicate-50-hi...

https://elifesciences.org/collections/9b1e83d1/reproducibili...
Not Acquiring Yahoo (2008)
The SEC doesn’t have authority over the president. Your complaint makes absolutely no sense.
> computer code is always in Latin/English script

No it isn't.

I'm working on an application now where many of the variable names use Norwegian specific characters and the bulk of the comments that I write are in Norwegian. Now that we have Unicode there is no reason why non-keyword text should be in English or in a Latin or Latin derived alphabet unless you expect people who can't read that language to maintain the code.
> It really says more that most people don't assume the EU to enforce GDPR in good faith and to just opportunistically use it as a way to take money out of the tech-company piggy bank.

Funny, considering that there already are cases going on and not a single one is close to those maximums.

> Everyone I know takes GDPR seriously

Wow, what people do you know? Considering that the vast majority of sites doesn't even have opt-in into tracking but opt-out after they started tracking, I think the people you know are some weird exception.
This is a bonkers line of argumentation. Speculation is not a productive activity. It is also potentially very destructive.

A different argument would be to say that the seller of the property is putting the money to better use, but nevertheless speculation of land, particularly in big cities, is purely a legal issue and regulatory capture. Change taxes to LVT and watch them dissapear.
Now even the US has grounded 737 Max, as the last one to follow up. Also for political reason?
Spaces dont pay taxes. Only people pay taxes.
Taxing it through estate or through income is not taxing space vs taxing human beings.
And here come the knee-jerk down votes.
That is demonstrably not true. All over the world, people raise families just fine without cars. As a matter of fact, I saw a truly dystopian scene of a group of children, on some school outing I assume, crossing a road at a crosswalk, all holding on to a long ribbon with two flag-waving adults (teachers?) on both end.
When I was the age of these children I was walking around and crossing the streets on my own because the city I grew up didn't have such patently idiotic things as unregulated cross-walks with 30mph speed limit. But no, we'd rather risk running over children and make them walk in a chain gang, than inconvenience the metal murder/fume box people.
> I was told that the value of homes in these economic development areas -- even in "tier 3" cities -- is going up by an absolute minimum of 10-15%/yr (that's being conservative). So if you have money in China, of course you invest in housing. There's no property tax.

It helps a lot when the government refuses to register sales when the price is under the guidelines. If you put a price floor in the market can stay irrational even longer than normal during a bubble.
How does Rust sweep the flor in game engines like CryEngine or Unreal, GUI frameworks like WPF, Qt, MFC, IDE tooling like Visual Studio, database drivers like OCI and ADO, CUDA, Metal, DirectX....?
How would you make google maps without js?
quasar lets you build a responsive web app, and iOS and Android apps, where ionic focuses on mobile, not bad just different. Also, Ionic’s support for vue is really new and not as well documented.
I've been following a "diet" of eating a normal lunch approximately once per day (usually around midday) and then fasting until the next day, save for an extra fruit or two while at work, and a small bit of something salty during the evening if I feel like I need it.

I don't know if it's the most effective way to lose weight, but my trend is definitely downwards, and it's improved how I feel overall quite drastically. A lot of it is probably just improvement from not overeating, but I can't deny the effects.

I think my diet has been working so well for me because it's so easy to follow. I don't count calories nor do I have complicated rules about what to eat (I do try not to go overboard), only when. Dealing with the feelings of hunger has also become easier over time.
Every time I read an article about something still being relevant, it soon becomes irrelevant.
I think the down votes are for spouting nonsense instead of having a rational discussion about the article.
Couple words from me: https://lukaszkups.net/notes/thanks-to-vuejs-ive-found-front... ;)
Soon becomes irrelevant, or is already irrelevant?
Because logic as a subject doesn't have a community in itself and a lot of noise instead of signal (can't find anyone who doesn't mention Gödel against science and maths)
Google Fi does not even qualify as an operator really. It is not a standard that any device can implement. It is only implemented by google's blob. You can use google-fi as a regular network if you hardcode to one operator, but the switching stuff needs a blob.
I replaced `rails` with `Django` in your statement (and maybe could do the same with Node.js), and it reads the same. Guess it's just about being familiar with a mature ecosystem you already know, and then you can achieve results.
Mediterranean, Caribbean Sea. Google can answer these things relatively simply.
I have resorted to using DND mode as a whitelist. If a caller does not identify with a number in my contacts list, the phone doesn't ring. I feel whitelisting is the only thing that's going to stop the calls... extreme or not.
> Given Facebook, Microsoft, and Google have shown they're against federated messaging the more pertinent question for me is "can it work?

You're probably right, the legacy companies won't buy-in without a fight, but I see two avenues of success.

- New companies: If a federated messaging system existed five years ago, Slack may have chosen to run on an open standard rather than build its own.

- Large corporates: they may want the self-hosting, security customizeation, and lack of vendor lock-in of an open standard. For example, I know that Goldman Sachs has built their own in-house messaging service (crazy, I know). They may be a good candidate to switch to an open standard.
Haidinger's Brush
I doubt property ownership is concentrated enough for this to be possible. Tacit collusion can work with a duopoly but by the time you get to five participants in a market it doesn’t work unless cartel agreements are legally enforceable and I doubt there are less than 5,000 residential property owners in Barcelona.
"Islamophobia" is a stupid loaded buzzword. Used by some to discredit and slander those who raise concerns with Islam.

The problem with this word is that it seeks to shut down those who oppose any aspect of the religion. For some odd reason being a Muslim is considered an ethnicity, or race. This further complicates any polarizing discussion about what Islam looks like in a Muslim minority country like Australia.

Racism is a nasty, ignorant crime. But if you oppose the requirement of full head coverings of Muslim women, are you being racist? How about Islamophobic?

Most reasonable people want peace, not violence. Most people do not condone or want extremist views. Yet violent religious extremists are a growing problem in Australia's nearest neighbor Indonesia. Not to mention we've had our own share of Islamic terror here in Australia.

The road to peace is not helped by such words as "Islamophobia". This is particularly true when Islam has the historical habit of crossing into politics and power with brutally oppressive laws in Islamic governed nations.
Is this not spooky? No noises? The drops of water somewhere? And you always start to wonder who this might be, who landed at my floor with the elevator? It actually triggers one of my childhood dreams. To be alone in a skyscraper. :)
All the standard web technologies are still relevant.

MySQL & PostgreSQL are still relevant.

Redis is still relevant.

Ruby on Rails is still relevant.

Javascript is still relevant.
not really - it was some years ago that i just sat down and googled around exploring the issue. Similar conclusions:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2...

"But as people gained awareness of the contagious nature of cold sores, they became more cautious about exposing young children to a skin outbreak. That means more and more of us get to adulthood without any HSV immunity.

On the one hand, that makes the younger generation more susceptible to HSV-2 -- one won't 100 percent protect you from contracting the other, but they have some antibodies in common. On the other hand, it means that more and more people get their first exposure to HSV-1 not through kissing, but through oral sex."
You figure, to gain a slot as a budget item, sometimes there has to be a deliverable, and when the deliverable is unspeakable, you get something like this.

It's probably better than the alternative for spilled milk. Good, bad or indifferent, a creative writing exercise fills out a gap in unaccounted time and resources better than a mysterious blank spot that no one will talk about.

Something like this probably fills in for things you couldn't even save with redactions.

But then again, maybe it's cover for things that turned out to be uninteresting and wasteful, bad situations that resolved themselves on their own, people running off with stolen money, or perhaps those times when your entire spy ring is discovered and executed, and there's an unwillingness at the highest levels to document the botch in any detail, so make up whatever you want but make it N number of pages.
And for toxic attitude that ruined /r/programming
I've used Crow [1], a C++ web micro framework, in the past and it was delightful. Glad to see more competition in this space.

[1] https://github.com/ipkn/crow
How does one rationally discuss an irrational conjecture?
From an historical perspective, I totally agree. Decades ago, when scientists settled on the mouse model, I don't believe that there was much (if any) solid evidence about evolutionary relatedness. As you say, mice were used because they were the least-expensive mammalian option.

Even so, it's arguable that predictive success for the mouse model helped drive its widespread adoption. Even so, just about all small mammals (e.g., rodents, shrews and moles) are more closely related to primates than large mammals. So maybe it was inevitable.

> ... getting rarer ...

Funny story. I was a grad student in the late 70s. And there was an animal-rights riot on campus. The primate lab was besieged. And some of us, whose thesis research depended on our building's mouse colony, were totally freaked.
ASCII Art Cows
>self driving small car

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JMHRKQG

Classic Amazon: they're charging $399 for it, when obviously it's a Starfighter-style test for their AI engineer hiring pipeline. It would hugely increase their own expected revenue to give it away to anyone with an AWS account, but they couldn't resist skimming a couple bucks off of each sucker.
History That Explains the ICO Bubble
A podcast version of it is here: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2019/03/17/crypto-bubbl...
With Typescript classes that becomes better imo. Data are instance variables, computed properties are getters (and setters) and methods are instance methods.
I live in Bangkok. This sounds like it could be every other condo along the Sukhumvit BTS line.

EDIT: Also I'm always down to make new developer friends in the area. If you've got time for a chat, my email is in my profile.
what's FPR in this context?
Start with the principle of charity.
Rails needs more opinionated decision on frontend story. Just pick ReactJS instead ? Not a bad idea. Or VueJS ? Neither a bad choice. It's the main reason i don't choose Rails over a universal Node.js stack for the HTML rendering part.
Cool. I purchased a 3Mx3M tarp and set it up like a tent. I find it useful to be able to use it in different configurations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNFu2Gw6CSs
> No, I'm assuming that the software engineers had sufficient information to know what the gaps in their knowledge might be. ... if the engineers were told by the manufacturer that an error in the sensor would result in no data rather than bad data, there should immediately be followup questions ...

Yes, of course there should be due diligence with any hand-off. However, lets assume for the sake of argument that there was, and the engineers using the sensor data received appropriate answers to their questions, and yet still the sensor did not perform as specified.

It's hard to blame someone who did their due diligence, did everything right, and relied on ultimately inaccurate information.
The crew quarters are literally between the missile launch tubes, which sure they aren’t exploding under you, but still.
React looks a lot more popular than that comparing title:react vs title:vue on indeed.com or stackoverflow.com/jobs. Though I don't see the point -- they're exploring almost the exact same concepts.

As for what's next, I have a hard time envisioning anything usurping React any time soon. Its breed is basically the state of the art in UI paradigm and an active field of research. I'd put things like Elm in that cohort as well.

I think the better question is: what's next for React and its cohort?

When are we going to see these ideas appear first-class in Cocoa/UIKit/etc? When will we finally see "OOP is good for UIs" (OOP's final foothold in our dogma) lose out to "FP is good for UIs"? What's the next big thing inside the React ecosystem? How far can something mainstream like React move towards the strictness of something like Elm?
You think being open to true _facts_ implies a toxic attitude? You must really live in a small, limited world.

Here's a graph displaying some factual and relevant information:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=R...
As a counter point: Vaccines aren’t a big profit center for big pharma. They are expensive to develop and most people need only one to three shots for 10 years or a lifetime.

On the other hand, there is hormonal contraception, which is indeed a great profit center, because people need it every day (or a hormonal IUD, which is good for 3-5 years, but also a lot more expensive).

And now read news reports about all the nasty side effects of the pill. There was a big shift around 2016 and since then, there are media reports all the time. Nothing is put under the carpet here, although I think, economically speaking, it would make much more sense to “manipulate the media” that hormonal contraceptives have no side effects than manipulating the media about vaccines.

And the number of people affected is even less than with vaccines (only women in a certain age and not all of them vs. basically all children and many adults). So it should even be easier to manipulate the media about the non-existence of side-effects of the pill (of which stuff like thrombosis is deadly).

I know, just because one thing isn’t manipulated, everything about vaccines could still be manipulated, but I don’t buy it. Follow the money – doesn’t seem that lucrative.
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But conversely, if you mourn only the people lost in that tragic event, doesn't that diminish the loss of people who die in no less tragic events that don't get publicity? (which is the vast majority of them).

My point was that it's all cherry picking, because you can't mourn everybody, and we don't even try. Draw a line far enough, and beyond that death and suffering is all very abstract, even if we do know about it. And mostly we do not - although we know where to go if we wanted to find out, we don't want to find out; events of comparable magnitude and depravity happen in some areas of the world with far more regularity.

So it feels a tad hypocritical to focus on this particular way to cherry pick as disrespectful.
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Still better than emails and office documents scattered around the internal network.
No personal attacks, please, regardless of how wrong or annoying another comment is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't know about the EU as a whole, but the Danish government just exempted itself from large parts of the GDPR, mostly regarding fines. That's a little idiotic, given that the government loses/leaks more personal data than anyone else.
I was in a small company working on payments team as fullstack engineer. Given the big volume, stripe would be too expensive for us. So we built our own credit card processing service. We integrated with FirstData directly. While I was working on payments, I kept following news about stripe. I love their design and appreciate the deep care they put in their product, even the documentation. I like Patrick and John's inspiring stories and love watching their interviews. After 3 years, I was looking for a new opportunity. Stripe is my dream company. I was lucky to get a phone interview. The conversation went fine. The coding problem was easy. But I could tell the interviewer was not impressed. I couldn't figure out what and why. I was depressed when I got the rejection email. I'll definitely want to try again. Anyone advice or suggestions Stripe folks could offer would be greatly appreciated!