skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of door control buttons in an elevator that you use everyday only to find the button resting on the floor one day, revealing that it was adhered to the control panel with a hot glue gun the whole time.
Another idea I have heard is to encode your feature flags and entitlements as a bitwise string, and include this string in your customer's signed auth token. This way, your front end and back end don't have to hit your entitlements API all the time. When they change plans, just refresh the auth token.
Oh that sounds reasonable, I'll give it a try on one of the next projects. Thanks for making it!
Weakness: No social skills

Strength: Gets trampled cause no social skills

Sounds pretty horrible.
My takeaway from the article and from other studies is that exercise improves the condition of your brain, allowing one to be more efficient at what they are doing.
Something that the article didn't state is that exercise has a positive impact on the creation of new neurons on the brain. The idea that we're born with a limited number of brain cells has been debunked.
An analogy would be going to the gym might not make you better at any particular sport but it will help you on the path to be better at that sport; your brain possesses a certain amount of neuroplasticity, akin to a muscle, training this "muscle" and having the right physique will help with your goal, be it improving efficiency or learning a new skillset.
I don’t even think it would take a new law. A sufficiently ambitious prosecutor could make the case that AirBnB is the lead conspirator in a RICO, with wire fraud as the predicate offenses. The recent college bribery indictments were brought under that act.
Man you nailed it
I read this on Ars earlier today, and I couldn't help feeling so...uneasy about the current state of the gaming industry.

Financially speaking, Fortnite (and its F2P antecedents) have found a business model that's clearly superior to the traditional "boxed release" models (for want of a better description). They've hit upon a formula that makes them some serious cheese, no two ways about it.

But I have to wonder - to what end? Does this actually create a better experience? At some point aren't you just taking your users for suckers, finding more and more ways to squeeze every last dollar out of them?

What happened to the Valve of Half Life, Portal and TF2? What happened to the dedicated band of creatives who just wanted to make awesome games that entertained people? When did they decide "Fuck it, let's throw all that away and just make as much money as possible?"

And now they're suggesting plugging into your brain to find even more ways to stamp out the childlike joy that we all used to have?

I know it's hard to turn away a billion dollar company. But is this kind of success really what they wanted to build when they started? Do they honestly feel they've made the world a more fun place?

To some extent, it has me questioning capitalism's role in the fabric of society. I mean, clearly it is an efficient use of resources - players wouldn't be paying money if they didn't value the experience in some form or another. But that doesn't mean they're enjoying it. Slots players surely aren't having "fun" when they're pumping thousands of dollars through the casinos, but they still do it.

Very meandering rant, I know. But I don't think I'm the only one who feels this way.
What is ironic about it? There are already pedestrian-only zones in many cities, aren't there?

Ironically, the aim should be towards the opposite you're suggesting. By increasing the density and removing space between buildings, you are creating a city where it is more viable to use bikes or walking as your main mode of transportation. Subways are useless if your final destination isn't easily walkable from your stop. Your goal shouldn't be to create a city for cars, your goal should be to create a city where it is easy to get somewhere.

I do mostly agree with the three or four story height, though. This is the proper height to use for most suburb-style developments, higher is only really needed in the CBD.
Unfortunately, this starts off with a really bold statement.

> The toll our relatively new sedentary lifestyle takes on our bodies is clear: For the first time in U.S. history, younger generations are expected to live shorter, unhealthier lives than their parents.

This sounds really biased. Obviously exercise is good for you, but to say its the only factor causing a reduction in our life expectancy is quite a reach.

This makes me doubt their interpretation of the other research presented.
But it's easier to change to winter tires, and you never have to scrape the windows. There's pros and cons to both.

I've done many cold winters with a bicycle, and with a car, and there's no clear winner. For me it comes down to how far I'm going, what I need to carry with me, the quality of the roads and drivers, whether there's a bus route, and availability of bicycle storage versus car parking. I've never found traction to be a serious issue. If it's bad enough to avoid the bike, it's bad enough to avoid the car, too, and I'll walk or take the (chained) bus.
I’d be curious what your expectations and constraints are, but from my experience of running clusters in the double digit TB-Size my ballpark figure for that amount of data would be 2 medium size data nodes and a small tiebreaker. Alternatively, if you can live with the reduced resilience and availability, even a single node might just do. Depends on the expectated churn though, ES really does not like document updates.
Jevons Paradox!
Ironically shitposting about autists is a great idea. Theyre very good at recognizing irony.
It seems like pushing for immediate change would be a mostly risk free proposition. And so focusing on the worst possible case, "time is clearly running out", seems fully justified. Even if time is not running out, trying to improve the sustainability and let's say 'organic equilibrium' of our society would be a great thing. But as with so many things there are unforeseen consequences, but ones that we should now be able to foresee. Climate change has inexplicably become extremely politicized even though it's a more important issue than ever before. This [1] report from the UN is quite disturbing:

UNITED NATIONS (AP) A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2030. Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ″eco- refugees,′ ′ threatening political chaos, said Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program, or UNEP.

He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control.

The article is identical as quoted above, except for the date. It's actually talking about 2000 - 19 years ago. The article was written in 1989. With climate change we made rather catastrophic predictions long before we were reasonably certain of them. And I think this was generally well intentioned. It's the same logic as above. The worst case outcome of doing something is far less bad than the worst case outcome of doing nothing, and so focusing on the extreme seems justified.

Yet I think this exact behavior is a big part of the problem. Each highly publicized prediction that fails to come to be results in an ever larger blow to credibility. Have this happen often enough and ever more people simply stop caring altogether, as in the fable of the boy who cried wolf. And so should insects become the next hot button issue, I think we should very much make every effort to ensure that our predictions are in no way whatsoever aiming to invoke emotion or utilize sensationalism. And so in this way, I think articles such as this which overview with data with a tempered and level head and likely to be a million times more effective in effecting actual change than the extremely sensationalized and hyperbolic articles from other media outlets.

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Look at it this way. Imagine you could go back in time and change history to try to optimize the chances of society doing anything about climate change. What would you change about the past 30 years? In my opinion had we avoided the doom and gloom predictions and simply focused on testable demonstrable effects, we'd be much further along today simply because the credibility of predictions going forward would have a much higher degree of credibility and proven reliability behind them. And so I think going forward on this issue, the #1 thing we should focus on is credibility and reliability of prediction.

[1] - https://apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0
By maintaining >50% engineering staff for so long, Google has inadvertently created a fascinating study of the interplay between two spectrums: autistic and psychopathic.

More on the similarities and differences here, namely aspects related to empathy:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3826592/

It seems of no coincidence that so many of Google's social products have misfired - due in part to this interplay - influenced by the empathic dissonance found in managers from both sales and engineering departments.

I suppose it is another way of saying that Google (insert other SV giants here) employees are not only demographically dissimilar to the customers they serve, but that they cannot hope to represent them faithfully due to this empathic dissonance at senior decision-making levels.

Perhaps this is part of the fate that befalls most large and successful companies.
In Nier: Automata there is a hacking mini-game which you do in the middle of character action combat. When you enter the mini-game, full orchestral track is replaced with a chiptune version.

Devil May Cry 5 does the opposite where vocals and instruments get added as you reach higher Style ranks.
> Then have someone go over the source code

That someone is who exactly? Did you ever try to contact support for any google product and get more than some standard text blocks back? And that's just regular support people. For what you suggest you'd need an army of people literate in Java, reviewing any app with that permission, including every update, ever uploaded to the app store.

The best way would be to just get rid of this feature, and then maybe look at what the most common use cases for it were and add a few APIs for those.
Jenkins, SonarQube and Unity 3D. Is anyone using this combination?
I am not an anti-vaccer, but that doesn't mean I should attack them disingenuously. I don't think that they claim that they do not need those vaccines because they cannot catch the underlying disease. I understand that they claim that some vaccines are causing more harm than the disease they are attempting to prevent.

Now I don't think they are right, I believe the harm caused by those vaccines is orders of magnitude less than the absence of vaccine, and I believe parents should be comfortable taking the small risk than their kid may have a bad reaction to the vaccine over the much greater risk of complications from the underlying disease.

But I think claiming that an anti-vax caught a disease proves that he is wrong is disingenous. In fact according to wikipedia [1] the vaccine is 70% to 90% effective, so he may himsef have been vaccinated for all I know.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varicella_vaccine
It's a question for science the implications of technology to be tested under controlled conditions -- i.e. small cities and like. It's not a political issue to be decided through arguments and debate. And yes you will be dead and most humans are vain enough that they couldn't care less if they destroy the planet as long as they get all the benefits immediately even if there is nothing left after that for future generations.

The point is also not to argue the adoption of a single piece of technology... but to allow the adoption of an epoch of technology all at once whose interaction you can predict... because proper science and due diligence has been done on it. And also to create a real culture that you are born into and will die with... rather than the disposable culture of everything... i.e. the tech that you are born with is the tech you will die with.
I've encountered this type of program before. The interviews often include tasks that traditional candidates would find boring and lots of repetition.
Kirkland Ito En green tea is delicious. These are great brand partnerships. Reputable products get sold at wholesale volumes.
> Because such long words would certainly be split up between their constituent words, not between random places.

At least for German, this is not a requirement. Hyphenation doesn't happen at random places but at syllable boundaries.

The only care that you should place up hyphenation is that it shouldn't lead to possible misreadings. "Ur-in-stinkt" being the classic example. Only split that word at the first, never at the second possible hyphen.
This is most likely a website keeping the same data in HTML5 web storage, flash cookies or other, and when noticing one of them has been removed, repopulating them. These are also sometimes called super, zombie or persistent cookies.
Yes, a lot of people in finance say it's been over 10 years so a recession should happen soon. But nobody says what are going to be the triggers. Last time it was sub-prime loans and mispriced derivatives. But this time? Trade war? Government deficits? China's credit crisis? Low yields pushing savers to riskier investments? Nobody seems to know.
Is this not a valid approach then? The issues of ossification and strict allowance for just known protocols appear to be big enough to cause things like SCTP to not have a viable, widespread use in their future.
You may be right. But all of the suggested benefits seem like they should effect intelligence:

- Higher frequency brain waves increase 'attention, memory, and information processing'

- A heightened visual cortex increases our ability to pick out features in our environment

- Restocking neurotransmitters to optimal levels

- Healthier blood vessels improve working memory
Yes, absolutely stellar soundtrack. It stands on its own even without the game.
The difference isn't that big in The Netherlands. Legally, e-bikes are limited to 15mph, and the electric motor can only provide assistance. Faster pedelecs are classified as mopeds and are mostly not allowed on bike paths for obvious safety reasons.

In practice, I've not yet noticed this domination. Getting passed by an e-bike does happen, but it's not very common.
You could post both screenshots somewhere public.
speaking of Dell and Autism can Dell please acknowledge their Bugcrowd bounty program at all?? It's dead...
Even if languages have different typing regimes, that does not mean that they can be compared. They are means to an end after all. Outside the language itself, you can also compare ecosystems, available tooling, etc.

For his ends, statically-typed languages have benefits over Python:

Obnam is about 15000 lines of Python code. That turned out to be too much for me in Python: too often there were bugs that a static, strong type system would have caught.
AKA Canadian standards.

https://www.macleans.ca/society/technology/canadas-almost-th...

My grandfathered $140/month mobile plan has 14GB of data; 320MB is 70% of a day's bandwidth, or 2% of the month's.

If I wanted to add another GB I could accrue $100 in overages ($0.10/MB), or pay another $25/month. But Bell will charge for another month in advance if you change the current month's plan.

Strangely enough it was only $5/month to up it from 13GB to 14GB :<

All this despite being able to download at 7MB/s; I could blow my cap in half an hour, and another half hour would cost $1,400 if I didn't up the plan.

Edit: I use my cellphone's data heavily, but 20, 40, 50GB cable internet caps are common with a lot of people not understanding what that means for streaming video / downloading pictures.
The difference between mob justice and lawful justice is government. Declaration of war is the exclusive right of the government. How can random citizens declaring war be any less than incitement of violence?

Self defense is legally defined. It's not about a general fear of future outcomes. It's about preventing immediate physical harm. If you're urgently telling people to defend themselves from someone not even in the room, and is actually just a description of a group of people, then that's not self defense in any meaningful way. That's also incitement of violence.
"Office politics" is a euphemism for anti-social behavior as I see it.

And, an office "without politics" with more than two persons maybe doesn't exist, but there is certainly more "office politics" in Paradise Hotel than in my office, so it's not like anyone that stays out becomes a pawn in some scheme.
Learning other languages is not a waste. It actually makes you a better developer.
The OP’s solution is the backend getting a pre-signed URL from S3 and giving it to the front-end, so the file doesn’t need to touch the back-end servers - it goes straight to S3.

This is what I do, and it works great, with one caveat: it tightly couples you to S3 (or at least a service that can give pre-signed URLs). That makes non-production workflows more complicated. So I’d recommend using it only if you’re uploading massive files (e.g. > 50MB) or lots of files where the extra hassle is worth it.
It seems it was kept in IndexedDB, but Chrome was only cleaning it up when you closed it and not when you closed all its windows (I didn't even know there was a difference).

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=750452...
At a high level, I agree with what you're saying here - that it's difficult to compare rust or go with python. But I take some issue with your reasoning.

> After all python is still an interpreted scripting language.

Is it? Or rather, is this even a well-defined category?

> interpreted

Can't any (OK, almost any) language be either interpreted or compiled? The fact that python is typically run in an interpretive runtime setting doesn't really make it "interpreted" as a language. In fact, since python is nearly always compiled to byte code at runtime, it's arguable just as compiled as it is interpreted.

But that's not even the point: there's nothing lingual about python that stops it from being compiled. It can be compared with other languages that are typical run subsequent to a compilation step without being the apple to an orange.

> scripting

This one speaks to me even less. For python to properly be understood as a "scripting" language, I think you'd have to convince me that the lion's share of community energy is dedicated to a paradigm of running a single module front-to-back as a script.

And this is clearly not so.
Books that junior developers should read in 2019
Sure monocultures are bad but talking about banning gene editing to avoid monoculture at this point is the equivalent of proposing to ban people who already own cars to buy teslas to avoid electric car monoculture. Because we are not anywhere near a monoculture, and for some traits monoculture is ok (do we miss the old design of vocal tract that gave us ability to not talk?).

Also we won't have a monoculture for whole genome any time soon, because that would mean for everyone to raise someone elses kid which people tend to not like.

There is a possibility that some people will try to make changes to appearance eye/skin/hair color, shape of nose. But that doesn't have that much effect on survivability of human kind (balancing higher rate of skin cancer vs vitamin D deficiency has other methods now) and banning gene editing to prevent that would be the same as banning all surgery to simply not allow plastic surgery.
Metal Gear Solid 1 had a better soundtrack imo. Harry Gregson William's score feels forced, pompous and too close to Hollywood style of music and it kind of lowers the overall impression I got from MGS2.
Why? Are you a journalist? What will you do with knowledge of taboo events?

It seems you would risk much for very little just to know?
Elections are no use if you can’t hold those you’ve elected accountable to the promises and commitments they made.

The downvoter must believe it’s ok for politicians to sell the electorate down the river.
Your last paragraph shows the entire problem with this concept.

Whiteness is definitely a race. Thus saying "white people are evil" would seem to satisfy any definition of racial disharmony - how can it possibly depend on context? You appear to just be proving the original posters point that these laws are never actually enforced fairly: white people get targeted by hate all the time and the authorities don't care.

But Islam is not a race. There are white Muslims. Thus whatever hatred of Muslims is, it's not racism.

People routinely lump religious hatred under the rubric of "racism" partly because that word has been granted extraordinary power in our society, partly because there isn't a nice short word for "discrimination against certain religions" and partly because Muslim people tend to overwhelmingly come from certain parts of the world originally.

But regardless of why people do it, no logical definition of racial disharmony could cover shooting up a mosque. You'd need some other type of crime for that to be logically applicable. Or you'd need to define in law that Islam is a "race" you can opt in and out of at will.
It's an advantage for some parts of software development, but I would be surprised if it wasn't a net negative for the vast majority of developer jobs.
Could you give an example where advanced LaTeX skills is required to write a paper?
From the article:

> He added that if Boeing can push out the software update to fix the autopilot’s anti-stall function that appears linked to the two crashes, it would go a long way to restoring airlines’ confidence in the aircraft they have on order with the company.

I personally don't see things being quite as rosy only because right now Boeing is caught between a rock and a hard place.

On the one hand they have to try an quickly produce a software patch just so they can get the planes flying again.

On the other hand, that patch also has to result in a MCAS that is 100% bug free. No matter what the situation the aircraft finds itself in, the patched MCAS has to work flawlessly.

It would only take one or two bad reports from pilots for Boeing to once again find itself in terrible predicament.

The pressure to come up with this fix and to make sure it is prefect must be intense.
I dont understand this post.
In different categories, Wing Commander 1 had an excellent soundtrack (and even better on the Amiga) and several years later Total Annihilation with its superb epic soundtrack never seen before in a rts.
I disagree. It's a language, it has symbols, syntax and conventions, it either gets interpreted or it gets compiled.

In the broad swath of languages, go and python are more similar than, say, python and Haskell.

What makes languages apples and oranges is generally not their compilation method but things that are more approach-centric or radically different syntax (which is why I left Rust out. Its syntax has been the thing that's slowed me down most there)
You're completely right, most cities just aren't built for cycling.

The solution is probably zoning. First, create smaller zones, resulting in more diversity. Second, allow some light commercial use inside residential areas. Ideally, stores like small supermarkets should always be within a 20-minute walking distance inside towns or cities. Third, create denser plots: discourage single-story buildings, leave less space empty on the plots, and create narrower roads.

The problem is the conversion, but it's doable over a longer period of time. If the proper laws are in place, this is probably doable over a year or 50-75.
They have a historic point but you’re right that their description doesn’t make much sense given the modern way language runtimes are designed.

A better description would be “high level JIT compiled language”.