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I don't think there's a binary state on if an area of study is adjacent or not, but a spectrum that is unique to the individual. Depending on your career goals, learning areas that don't directly contribute to the production or quality of the lines of code you write could be more "core" to your skills and non-adjacent compared to learning an esoteric programming language you may never even use to build something with.

Given the leverage developing software can have, and the ease to which it can be deployed globally, I err on the side of assuming that the breadth of skills that are "core" to a career which includes a focus on writing code to create software to be potentially quite broad.

I think I certainly take a generally unorthodox viewpoint in that I have a hard time swallowing the idea that a single person shouldn't be able to consider the skills to design, build, deploy, operate, and iterate on a single piece of domain-specific software as "core" to the job of being a software developer. 20 years ago, it was generally normal thing to do that, with a huge number of software tools (often shareware) developed by a single individual or 2-3 person teams. Today, its much rarer, perhaps except in a few domains like indie game development or open source infrastructure products/frameworks. Projects may start that way but it's generally assumed that when it becomes time to get serious, you need to staff up and delegate to specialized workers.

Even within the generally accepted scope of the domain of software development I find it hard to understand the justification for the separation between "front end" and "back end" engineering -- beyond the fact that the tools today have grown full of incidental complexity, making it hard to get the breadth of knowledge needed to be effective, it seems clear that a person building a single integrated system is going to build something different than a number of people building a system where Conways law informs the architecture due to specialization and communication boundaries.
I'm the founder at Akia (https://akia.ai). We're using NLP to help hotels with the number of inbound they receive from guests who are coming on or staying on property.

Though I'm not personally a regular user, from what I've observed, the AI is able to very, very efficiently resolve a significant number of requests because a lot of the messaging is the same: "what's the wifi?" "bring me towels" "can i get my car?" etc.

The application of NLP for a niche industry has felt particularly appropriate for a small startup where in contrast, doing generic NLP really feels like a boil the ocean type strategy that makes more sense to those who have the resources (google/apple).
MH17 was shot down by a Buk missile system, which is a less sophisticated medium-range system.
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What if they have something that is so nuclear that a high profile murder looks like a walk in the park... for example, perhaps clear proof that Putin controls both the Democrats and the Republicans... or that reptilian elites are real...

or perhaps even they don't have the keys to the insurance files because they're just the mouthpiece, so the insurance is not theirs :o
Is it really anything new? Informix was self tuning in the 80s.

I suppose you could automatically identify slow queries and identify what indexes would be useful, sort of how a JIT identifies hotspots in code and optimises them.

Personally it sounds like a play to keep lucrative enterprise customers on side by allowing them to cut the DBA role that is a necessity for a decent sized Oracle install.
Interesting to hear that - I actually find Gmail's autoreply feature to be extremely annoying. When it's not suggesting outright inappropriate responses (once had it suggest "Ok! see you there!" on a thread about a funeral a colleague was attending), they just seem trite and useless.
Something people have to know is that these rules affect only the center of Madrid and traffic has been severely restricted in the Gran Via. Traditionally, this has been an important route to get from one side of the city to the other. So what this means is this traffic has moved somewhere else and that's why you see such a small drop in CO2 emissions in the city as a whole. Ironically, few families live in the center, so this might end up worsening the problem in residential/family areas.

Now closing the Gran Via and surrounding roads is problematic for various reasons. For example, the most important museums and cultural activities are in this area.
> general purpose data structure format

General purpose until you need to store dates/times, self-referential structures, enums, etc.

json and toml are both serializations of data. I don't think the line you're trying to draw between "configuration file format" and "data structure format" is a well-defined line.
I’m sure if they have to choose, they’ll still take the billions. No shame in that, but to pretend otherwise is silly. As if FB is pure evil and everyone else is amazing.
If you do this, you still need to do a one-time correction for the length of a degree longitude at a given latitude, or you get weird behavior even at small distances (and it gets weirder the closer you are to a pole). We learned this the hard way when our "k-nearest places" query was returning point clouds which looked like ovals!
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The press release mentions a previous 2015 fuel cell patents initiative. Press release for that at https://global.toyota/en/detail/4663648 ... stories about it were submitted to HN a bunch of times, to no discussion. I wonder what the impact of that 2015 release has been?
I agree with this in general, but I think there’s room for more programmatic ways of calculating what the desired state is in tools like Terraform. There are already a lot of built-ins in terraform that are deterministic but procedural ways of calculating what the state is, without infecting the declarative nature of the reconciliation process.
Having the parser play "guess the type" like YAML can cause problems in almost any use case, though.
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Custom Voice Commands is an iPhone and Android smartphone app that uses NLP to allow you to tag photos, videos, notes and web pages with questions or phrases. For example, you can tag a bunch of photos with the phrase "show me my favorite lunch photos" and every time you speak that phrase you'll see a slideshow of those photos.

Photo Recall is an Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant app that lets you retrieve Unsplash photos by voice plus photo slideshows created with Custom Voice Commands can be viewed from your Amazon Echo Show or Google Home Hub (or via the Google Assistant app).

https://treycent.com/app/content/photo-recall.html
But you don't _need_ to abuse comments for extra (or meta-) data if you're using XML, you just use a separate namespace.

It's definitely the case that XML has features that aren't needed -- or at least, we've survived without them thus far -- but there definitely feels like more than just a smidge of only realising later why some of that complexity was present. See also: npm vs pretty much any other dependency management system.
He also never guessed that we would eagerly stand in line to spend $1000 to buy our own tracking devices.
Yep, "orange man bad" is a thought terminating cliche [1]. Intended to position the speakers above his or her opponents, but without a hint of self-awareness necessary for efficacy outside of the echo-chamber. The label itself sounds so puerile that it ironically paints the speakers as mindless as the ones they're trying to paint as mindless.

"This is an insult that stupid people think makes them sound smarter than other stupid people," as I've heard before.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A...
In 2017, the USA had 37,133 motor vehicle fatalities, at a rate of 11.6 per billion vehicle miles driven.

I’m having difficulty finding a recent figure for how many miles Tesla autopilot has driven, but they reached over 1.2 billion by July last year.

3 deaths is 3 too many, of course, but it’s also 10.9 less than one should expect for 1.2 billion miles driven.
Autopilot drives far safer than I do, my mind wanders on a 1 hour commute. I know the gaps, on 101 where they just moved the lanes and used stickers for markers, autopilot doesn’t handle it well. But I feel WAY safer with it on. It’s pretty amazing, and it’s light-years better than other car manufacturers’ offerings. Try the Volvo self driving and then compare, that thing tried to kill me multiple times in a single weekend drive.
78% of American workers live pay cheque to pay cheque.

I would suggest that of the two possible hypotheses, the one where the system itself doesn't let them do anything else, might be the one more worth examining than the one that betrays a complete lack of empathy with your fellow citizens.
Which could explain why they waited just over one year after cutting his internet access to arrest him: if after one year still nothing happened, it's pretty much safe assuming he doesn't have a working dead mans switch (anymore).

If true, this could also mean they were in agreements with the Ecuador govt. to arrest him a long time ago.
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Question to the author (hopefully you’re still around!): why do you think the dat files weren’t included in the signed iso?
To talk a lot and say nothing. In Mexico, this is commonly called "cantinflear", named after famous actor, Cantinflas, who did that a lot.

How did this get to the front-page, anyway?
Back when Facebook changed to the Newsfeed algorithm I knew it wasn't good and I didnt like it. In retrospect its definently when it all started going downhill for me as a user of the platform. Now, I haven't posted anything in 3 years....
Flutter/Hummingbird will be writing DOM elements, so it's not just an opaque WebGL texture.
I assume that I'm fully outside any influential demographic now since not only am I not on Instagram but I don't know anyone on Instagram. My friends who don't do Facebook do either email or Discord (and a good portion of my friends do do Facebook).

Honest question, is the division of the world into distinct social networks an expression of increasing social stratification around the world? I know little about Instagram but it sounds a lot like a place for people aspiring to wealth.
Feel free to poke holes and suggest more ideas :)
Facebook is designed to be addictive and pervasive. Missing it does not mean you need it back in your life. Stay strong.
What does moral high ground have to do with being charged and extradited?
Related ongoing discussion about Madrid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19652528.
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> Those involved are barred from talking about the case by the agreement.

Tangential, but I think these sort of silencing agreements are overwhelmingly to the detriment of society, and should be illegal/unenforceable.
I love this article. Sums it up perfectly. Back during my school days, everyone was on Facebook. Like as if your friends were always with you. However, lack of moderation, the decrease in content quality and endless walls of meaningless excess really kills the value prop. For me, it's not necessarily privacy - it's more about trust. And I know that's one thing Facebook has lost.
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Exactly. If not, the states then get to keep a large amount of money while the feds then do a rougly equal split of tax revenue to states. It's a cheaters' way to basically rob other states to fund your own agenda, and I hate it.
I feel that we need a Facebook, but without pictures, just text
>Production indexes for a few industries are derived by dividing estimated nominal output (calculated using unit production and unit values or sales) by a corresponding Fisher price index; the most notable of these fall within the high-technology grouping and include semiconductors.

You might hate the argument, but it's because the argument is accurate. The increase in US-based production isn't caused by the manufacturing industry kicking ass. It's because they fudge the numbers. They consider a CPU that's sold for twice the $ to be double the production. If you remove the high technology grouping, the US manufacturing base has cratered.
> what's wrong with this?

It's conspiracy.

> Assange tried to find the pre-image of a hash. There's nothing criminal about that either.

That's also conspiracy. You can't take these two acts out of context. They were done with the intent of stealing and disseminating classified information which is illegal.
> Why does anyone really need an agent in 2019?

Because being good in a field means your time spend in that field is valuable. Running around having meetings with people and trying to set up future work, negotiating pay ect. is time not spend in your field.
It’s not that agents have some secret knowledge that artists simply cannot learn, it’s just that the time effort and network of an agent is entirely orthogonal to the art itself.
I've never seen a gas station receipt with a timestamp. Is that common in other places?
The internal part is at the same pressure, so they probably cancel. I'm more worried about the level of oxygen disolved in the water, but IANAB.
Sure, in the case of Komarov. But that's not what we're talking about in this comment thread - we're talking about the inclusion of a random tweet about Mike Pence that could have been left out without changing the message at all.
After reading the article, better phrasing would be “I miss what Facebook used to be”. It may be addictive and pervasive now, but the feeling is that it no longer fills the niche it used to.
Everything that he mentions he misses is now in a group chat for me. A group of 20 or so friends have a Telegram group where we spit out random thoughts, talk about news, day to day life, spontaneously throw together plans to hang out or go for dinner, post candid/embarrassing photos of stuff we’re doing, etc.

Some days only a few people are active, other days you’ll open it up to hundreds of unread messages from everyone.

It’s not public, but it doesn’t need to be. In fact we end up having more entertaining and honest chats since it’s private.
I didn't realize how big Takahashi was. Thanks for the article!
Pictures are good, as long as they are original pictures and not reposted memes & other garbage.

Facebook needs original content. Not links to outside crap, no clickbait, no memes. That alone would make the platform much better.
I turned off almost all tracking in Android a while ago, but never scanned the data it collected. I recently looked at what data was associated with my Google account, and there I saw: every voice command I ever issued my phone, and when I used what app. I could see at 9:30am I opened my camera app. I can see I viewed a notification at 9:45am. And so on. I deleted it all, but my guess is it probably still lives somewhere in Google.

I knew they tracked search. I knew they would use my voice usage to make it better. I didn't realize how pathological they were in tracking literally everything I did with my phone and tying it to my account, down to what apps I opened and when. It's creepy as hell.

It really made me want to just exit this whole smartphone shitfest, because I have to assume they're still tracking all this data, just not making it visible. Maybe Apple is better, maybe not. The problem is I can't know for sure, and if they lie - what could I do about it anyways?
Is your question “what’s wrong with a non-citizen supplying the means for a member of the military to access and share sensitive data”? I should have thought it obvious what is wrong with that.

There’s nothing intrinsically wrong with briskly thrusting a knife back and forth. But if there’s a person stood in front of you and you intend to kill them, the moral and legal context changes. Context and intent matter.
I have seen first hand that they do, not that I wish I hadn't.
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/assange-turned-down-docum...
LightSail has (or at least had) a hard limit of 20 instances. They also have a soft limit of 2 instances, after which you must request an upgrade to a higher limit. I had to submit a support request explaining my intended usage. It took a week to get approved.

The stated reason for these limits is to avoid unexpectedly large bills. But I suspect that it's also to prevent crazy-ass strategies for getting around bandwidth costs.
And that's right after "readability is important". ;-)
Perhaps the writer misses their 20s now that they are 35, like almost everyone.
I added a Haversine operation to CyberChef[1] last year. Very useful equation in a very useful tool.

[1] https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#recipe=Haversine_distance(...
I share the feeling. I too am in my mid-thirties, still know my ICQ number by heart (8 digits by the way), was on IRC and used Facebook in the early days.

Nowadays I often wonder if my sentimental feeling about the social networks of yesterday is just a function of me getting old.

The world changes. It is probably neither better nor worse. It’s just different.
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I've sold twice, and both times the agents gave me a range to offer at based on how long they thought it might take to sell. They were very much "on my side" so to speak.

I think the thing your example overlooks is the power of referrals. The happier you are with them, the more likely you are to refer friends and family to the agent when they ask you for a trustworthy recommendation. Like any sales gig, a network of happy customers takes time to build and is where the real money is at.
Text classification is widely used in almost any major website, for example for spam detection, putting things into categories, detecting inappropriate content, ...
If you get evicted, you're going to have a lot harder time getting into another apartment, too. It's also a lot easier to get help with food than to get help with a place to live.
I miss IRC, for a lot of the same reasons the author misses Facebook. Being above 35 like the author, I think it’s more the fact that people just aren’t chatty anymore. It’s anecdotal of course, but if I look at myself, I’m really not that chatty anymore either. I too used to have late night chats about random stupid things, but right now, I can even remember when I last saw 3AM unless it was to feed a baby or clean up after a sick child.

So when I say I miss IRC, it’s probably more true to say that I miss the freedom that comes with having almost no responsibilities. Maybe I should work on making more of my time, mine though.
I cannot agree more.

Because of knowing many language helps me a lot. Example, the import module system of Python is amazing. I'm not a fan of it at all but I really like how it were design. When I come to Ruby, I think Ruby need some love for its module.

Or JavaScript binding? Even if arrow function, it does has place you cannot avoid writing `.bind(this)` and you ask a question why we have to do this?

Then come pattern matching of Elixir/Erlang and it blows my mind and I just want to have that ability every where.

Then come Elm/Hashkell or any language that use `whitespace` instead of commma/parenthesis and I just love how natural these language read.

```
hello(username, country)
```

compare with

```
hello username country
```

The more I learn those languages, the more I appreciate the people who invented these and always thinking of different way to do thing.
I'll be shocked if it's not next year at the latest that having having a human intervene will decrease safety (22:32)

For certain interpretations of "intervene", that's true now. See this video of a Tesla hitting a construction barrier.[1] This is a dashcam view from a car behind the Tesla. At 00:21, it's too early for the vehicle to start turning, and at 00:22, the vehicle has already hit the barrier. The driver has to detect the failure and then take over. Much of the driver's allowed reaction time is taken up by having to wait until it's almost too late. Control handoff inherently implies a slower reaction time than manual driving.

(Not noticing the lane change warning and orange construction 45MPH speed limit sign back at 00:05 didn't help, either.)

This is the problem with shared control, and why Waymo rejected it early on.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2ml6sjk_8c
To be honest I don't recall either but some places do have a timestamp. (Restaurants being a big one)
> The best designers I’ve worked with not only understand their own domain but the possibilities and limitations of how it will be executed, because they are also developers.

I've noticed this as well. The best designer I ever worked with was obviously great at design, but also great at css, she rocked! I've seen this more than once, but would estimate less than 10% of designers I've worked with actually took the time to learn css.

I think more designers should learn css, and more engineers should learn at least some basics of design. Then everyone could communicate better and get more done faster.
It wasn't progress, it was change.
There is a new feature called, smart compose which is more useful:

https://www.blog.google/products/gmail/subject-write-emails-...
If they modify something and it ends up hurting someone, they're liable for it.

Until the courts can provide adequate compensation to the family of someone was was killed or to a crash victim who received life-changing injuries, I don't think that's going to be a compelling argument in this sort of situation.
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I like the idea. But wouldn’t me passing all my mail through one provider kind of defeat the purpose
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No, they were getting wellfare from their government!
>Escaping quotes might be annoying, but I can't think of a possible alternative format where escaping isn't required at all.

One nifty way of doing this is custom quote sequence.

In C++ it works like R"delimiter( raw_characters )delimiter"

As delimiter can be anything it can be chosen not to conflict with the payload.

Bash has had the same trick for here documents for a long while.
And that's the center alone. How much of the traffic that used to be routed through the center is now polluting other regions of the city?
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