skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
THIS 100%! ...I'm an extremely undisciplined never-finish-even-starting-almost-antyhing ADHD-I crazed squirrel-brain that never has enough out of learning "just a tiny bit" of some new programming language, new tech, or even entirely new field, but hardly gets good at anything.

Sure, learn one or two languages from completely different paradigms than what you use daily, to broaden your mind and seed stuff in context. But the... STOP! And get more projects finished faster and better instead, you'll learn 100x faster this way, and learn more useful things.

Then learn some time management and communication skills...
Why do universities have to do anything? Report it to the police, and they should deal with it and use the proper procedures. After that it's the courts.

Having some kangaroo courts and then losing lawsuits never helped anyone.
> Getting more bikes on the road makes bicycling safer. Drivers in cars are much more careful when they see bikes everywhere than when they only see them once in a blue moon.

I'm aware of this, but the infrastructural camp tends to assume that it's obvious these effects outweigh the problems with infrastructure. I'm not certain. I think a hybrid between the vehicular and infrastructural approaches is necessary to get the benefits of both with minimal downsides. This means recognizing the problems with infrastructure and avoiding them.
Carbon pricing, carbon pricing, carbon pricing.

It's the one thing virtually all economists agree on as the most efficient way to catalyze large-scale change (although we'll still need regulation and sequestration as well).

Politically, the most realistic way to get this done without a huge public backlash is via a revenue-neutral carbon fee and dividend. There's a bill before congress right now [0]. Canada implemented a variation on this at a federal level recently.

One of the most active groups supporting this kind of legislation is Citizens' Climate Lobby – if you care about this issue, please consider joining.

[0] Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act: https://teddeutch.house.gov/uploadedfiles/deutch_014_xml_116...
Reminds me of the killdozer.
Exactly, not only that, but there are other sleuthing ways to unmask a particular person. This puts the onus of discovering a person's identity on the web platform provider, rather than relying on the infrastructure of the country's law enforcement agencies.
I can look at the salaries of the companies that advertise salary transparency and know for sure that I’m getting a better deal than I would get there.
If that is the case then there are "zero" barriers to entry for many simple SaaS models though. Wufoo, Dropbox etc. With AWS/Azure etc you can spin services like this up pretty easily. So why hasn't someone outdone Dropbox with a $5/a month offering?
I thought about that too. Seeing a lot of salary negotiations on different levels must give you an edge for your own negotiation.
As a totally self-taught and advanced-beginner in bare bones R, Python, CSS, VBA, etc What can you recommend as the #1 thing I can do to improve my approach to programming? Not talking about syntax p,which I can easily reference when needed, but high-level paradigms and thought-patterns. Is there a favorite book, school of thought etc? Much appreciated. I know it’s a broad question.
It's less of a distinction then it used to be, but IDE's tend to be workspace/project first, and editors tend to be folder/file first.

You would typically point an IDE at a metafile that described the source files, build settings and so forth and it would discover the editable files. All this in a semi opaque manner, bootstrapped by some menus or templates. In contrast in an editor, you might generate the metafile only when your project becomes too big for the defaults to be sufficient.

You're right that the distinction is much more blurred now. For example you can do a lot in Visual Studio now without using a "project" file.
I also have many email addresses, for similar reason. However, I run all of them on my own computer; messages sent to them cannot be accessed remotely.

I also set up each individual address manually (by editing the /etc/aliases file). If it receives spam, I will remove it, and the server will tell them that address doesn't exists.

I don't really trust Google to do my email, but I do not need to do so; I don't like their email software anyways, so that is why I use a different one.
> This study was small, short-term and narrowly focused, though. It cannot tell us whether different amounts or timing of sitting — say, 10 hours a day, or five or 15 — or of exercise might affect our metabolisms differently. It also involved only healthy, young, active volunteers.

> And it does not explain how inactivity might be undercutting the benefits of exercise, [...]

Yeah, ok
I'm 36, I agree with the article to the last comma and I don't think it's just an age thing. I enjoyed IRC and ICQ a lot, met a lot of people there, some of which are now very important in my life. I loathed when they were replaced (in my country) with MSN messenger. I didn't like Fotolog, but I enjoyed the very early days of Orkut and then the Facebook golden age mentioned here, and I hated when it became an ad feed and people migrated to Instagram.

So (for me) it's not just a downward slope where older = better as I become crankier, it's that some particular services at some particular points in time hit a sweet spot that others didn't. For me, important qualities are protagonism of text (networks with protagonism of images like Fotolog or Instagram are posturing tools, as the author says), thematic groups/channels (I like to discuss topics like politics, philosophy, videogames, learn languages, etc.), and ways to actually meet people (MSN didn't have this).

Facebook was great in its peak as it ticked all these boxes, with the added value that you could find real-life acquaintances and follow them - no social network has ever been that strong at letting me know about my old classmates' weddings and children, which is a cool thing IMO.

Today, the widespread social tool that comes closest to my ideal may be Telegram groups, but the discovery and meeting people part is only so-so.
Yes they do, because there is still employer withholding. Almost 75% of Americans had too much withheld: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/01/30-million-americans-are-not...

And if you don't believe me on the reducing-sticker-shock part, here's a quote from the Treasury: "it... greatly reduced the taxpayer's awareness of the amount of tax being collected, i.e. it reduced the transparency of the tax, which made it easier to raise taxes in the future."

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

It is indeed a very underhanded way to con citizens into putting up with stupidly high taxes.

Oh, and for what it's worth, it hits lower incomes harder because they are less likely to hire tax advisors, fancy accountants, etc. to make sense of it all for them. Maybe we would end up with lower taxes on our poorest, too, if they realized how much they were being robbed.
We use NLP / sentiment analysis at Last10K.com to highlight positive and negative remarks inside lengthy annual and quarterly reports of publicly-traded companies in the US. Here's an example of a report filed yesterday:

https://last10k.com/sec-filings/vnce/0001564590-19-011520.ht...
You haven't provided any evidence that those shorts destroy value.
We also were frustrated at the verboseness and vagaries of the terraform syntax.

We ended up preprocessing them using jinja2, injecting our variables via its context, and using its cleaner syntax for expressing conditions, loops, etc. Now we have the best of both worlds.
From the study itself (n.b. the context is a description of a pilot study, not the final study) :

> Fifteen developers made an application for the project.
Their compensation proposals ranged from €55 to €166 and
the expected working time ranged from 1 to 15 days

So best case scenario these are freelancers with a day rate of €11 (???) - €166. Assuming these are workers in countries with low costs of living... These are still ridiculously low sums. But, these are people who make their living writing software. Ergo, lots of software actually gets written by people like this. Easy to forget that when working with 'proper' developers.
Plutonium Fight Exposes Rift over Federal Government Ownership of Lands
A cap on alimony would very likely help especially since it's driving some of the men to suicide when they are forced to pay 90%+ of their income in alimony. I doubt it's helping the problem when some see that and think twice about engaging in a relationship.
Yah. And Trump is still a Manchurian candidate that Russia controls.

From your article:

"“As far as we recall these are already public,” WikiLeaks wrote at the time.

"WikiLeaks rejects all submissions that it cannot verify. WikiLeaks rejects submissions that have already been published elsewhere or which are likely to be considered insignificant. WikiLeaks has never rejected a submission due to its country of origin,” the organization wrote in a Twitter direct message when contacted by FP about the Russian cache."

"A WikiLeaks spokesperson told the Daily Dot that no emails were removed from what the organization published. The spokesperson also suggested the Daily Dot was “pushing the Hillary Clinton campaign’s neo-McCarthyist conspiracy theories about critical media.”"
So you just turn up in jeans/t-shirt to listen to some Rachmaninoff?
We replaced most of our JSON config files at my last job with either YAML or JSON5 [1]; personally I'm a pretty big fan of JSON5 from a readability and writability standpoint, although the caveat is that it still uses 64-bit floating point for all numbers. YAML is a bit too... enormous for my taste personally, but at least it's better than JSON.

1: https://json5.org
China Turned 350M Millennials into Day Traders
Besides the obvious applications like search and voice assistants here's a few really good ones

* https://www.grammarly.com/ is pretty interesting. Corrects your grammar and not just your syntax

* Swype keyboard which uses your spelling corrections as a way to better figure out how you use a swype keyboard

* https://flexibits.com/fantastical and many other calendar apps do NLP stuff to pull out meeting info. Microsoft, Google and Facebook do this kind of stuff pretty well (Disclosure: I worked on such features at Microsoft)

Happy to give more examples if people are interested in working in this space.
I could understand your reasoning if Trump loved Wikileaks but he does not know what Wikileaks is.
I thought the same of Elton John's song Nikita, and the French film. Both sound feminine to Western ears, but it is clearly a masculine name in Russia.
He's unfortunately right. I would like to think that slowly disbursing funds over the course of a year would help, but it doesn't. The feds have essentially unlimited capacity to borrow, as evidenced by their constantly running a deficit. It also makes things more expensive in terms of paperwork/administrative bloat on the part of the government, employer, and consumer.
Translation services, Unbabel [0] is the only one I have experience with (they went through YC a few years back). And I noticed a couple of days ago they're hiring developers in Lisbon.

[0] https://unbabel.com/
Do you know how you compare within your company? That’s probably a better benchmark.
I just derived the spherical law of cosines that's the foundation of this formula using quaternions and Sympy. The quaternions were modelled as 4x4 matrices.

The philosophy is that you can treat trigonometry as a triangle construction problem. You give me the specs of a triangle, and I can use physical tools like compasses, protractors and rulers to construct your triangle. This is similar to using trigonometry, except without any algebra involved, just construction tools. You can also use this philosophy to derive the algebraic formulas. When it came to formula derivation, I used the quaternions to simulate the physical construction, and I got out the formulas.
The VS Code extensions manager shows a star rating, download count, extension description, a list of the commands they expose, often the popular extensions have animated gifs showing how they work. What else are you looking for?

For example when I installed VS Code I needed a Git extension. There are zillions but only two or three that are clearly ahead of the pack and it only took a few minutes to try each one.
For the cloudflare case, I found this interesting:

dig www.cloudflare.com

; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> www.cloudflare.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 38923
;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.cloudflare.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.cloudflare.com. 16 IN A 104.17.210.9
www.cloudflare.com. 16 IN A 104.17.209.9

;; Query time: 14 msec
;; SERVER: 75.75.75.75#53(75.75.75.75)
;; WHEN: Sat Apr 13 14:46:25 PDT 2019
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 79

dig cloudflare.com

; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> cloudflare.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 16630
;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;cloudflare.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
cloudflare.com. 536 IN A 198.41.215.162
cloudflare.com. 536 IN A 198.41.214.162

;; Query time: 73 msec
;; SERVER: 75.75.75.75#53(75.75.75.75)
;; WHEN: Sat Apr 13 14:46:47 PDT 2019
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 75

Why does cloudflare.com resolve to a different IP address than www.cloudflare.com?
> All these new fancy all-Go tools creep me out.

It certainly makes one's ability to look into the machinery and know what is going on much harder.

> If I want to write some Perl/Python/Bash script to support some very non standard part of my infrastructure, I should be able to

That very feature is why I love ansible: if there is some quirk, or even an unreleased module (they only ship new features in major releases, I recently learned), then you can copy the upstream file, or a modified version of the existing one, or even a whole new module, into the `library` or `lookup_plugins` directory of your playbook and you're back in business. No fighting with golang anything. You can also write ansible modules in any language you like.
GPS receiver determines its position by measuring the distances to GPS satellites. Those distances are calculated from time delays. To get the delays, the receiver should know the exact time. Its own clock is not stable enough to do it, so our receiver has to determine exact time by monitoring one more satellite than is strictly necessary, and calculating the time from that.

Now if this "exact" time suddenly jumps (compared to internal clock), it probably means that the signal is not coming directly from the satellites, but relayed from Vnukovo.
It was only August of last year (2018) when OpenAI barely lost to some good human players, and now here we are. It's starting to feel like AlphaGo all over again. If it does go that route, OpenAI Five will continue to get better as it keeps playing itself, till it leaves humanity behind.

Chart of appx AI MMR over time: https://openai.com/five/
You misunderstood what I was saying. I didn't claim there was just spam there, but some spam (which very well might have been through user-submitted content etc, can't tell without the URLs), which is enough to get a site banned.
Learning different concepts from other languages can make a big difference. For instance I learned about the value of composition over inheritance by learning Rust, then applied it to my life as an Objective-C developer (prior to Swift). It forces you to break out of your well tread paths, and take the best of other systems and fold it into yours.
Have you tried Atom?
There is a lot of waste in the food supply chain. Some of that is suitable for human consumption at the point where it is classified as waste [1]. In Europe the food waste in fruit and vegetables is over 50% [2], of which at least half could be turned into black soldier fly or mealworm feed, which makes for good poultry or fish feed. But most of it today is going into waste dumps or at best turned into biogas.

Disclosure, I work for a startup that turns this into a circular food production system, from food waste, via insects to fish and vegetables via aquaponics.

[1] EU rules say eggs should be marked “Best before date” as 28 days after they have been laid, but stored propperly they are good for at least double that time. (Swedish) http://www.svenskaagg.se/?p=19895 In the UK supposedly 720 million eggs are thrown away each year. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/eggs...

[2] http://www.fao.org/3/mb060e/mb060e00.htm
> (to be fair to myself, American math education is horrible)

Mmmmmmm. Not magically converting meters to miles?

I dunno. I kind of think that one's on you, bud.
Trying to appeal to a large group on the basis of emotion is surely populism.

1. We welcome you, despite 14.1% unemployment rate in the country (probably higher), whereas a large portion of jobs are part-time and another large portion of full-time jobs pay minimum wage.

2. We welcome you, although we know you'll end up on the streets.

3. We welcome you, although we can't, but might this serve as motivation for your deadly journey ("efecto llamada").

4. We welcome you, at least we say, so now we can pat ourselves about how good we are.

The opposite is reason.
Predictive text in your phone messaging app.
Tesla will increase Full Self-Driving option price ‘substantially’ on May 1
> I like taxes being withheld from my paycheck.

I'm glad you prefer it. With that said, it ought to be a choice for those who prefer it, not a mandatory procedure. This is especially true in that it makes the taxpayer less likely to realize just how much he is paying. Quote from the Treasury: "it... greatly reduced the taxpayer's awareness of the amount of tax being collected, i.e. it reduced the transparency of the tax, which made it easier to raise taxes in the future."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_withholding_in_the_United_...

People pay way too much, and breaking it up into little payments makes them less likely to realize this. It's the same reason salesmen offer it for expensive purchases (cars, iPhones): low payments of $100-$400/mo are much more appealing than a big check all at once.
Let me guess: you're a EU citizen living in _London_. Not exactly the same thing as anywhere else in UK.

For me, watching Brexit from a distance is more akin to seeing people not wanting to leave the Titanic pushed into the lifeboats, dropping from the main deck: sure it's ugly, but wait for the iceberg, and see who are the smart guys afterwards.
Most languages have JSON5 libraries just as they have TOML libs.

TOML is decent but if you need nested data it gets super awkward.

> What if you have an issue in prod and need to fix something quick? You might only be able to open it up in a stripped-down vi, or if the machine is locked down you might only be able to materialize a plain text view. What if not everyone uses the same tool? This imposes a further constraint. Yet more concessions pointing to how horrible JSON is for humans.

JSON5 is pretty easy to edit correctly with any text editor. Not much harder than TOML.

> Can you imagine projects where [lack of programmability] might be an issue? These aren't the only codebases in the world. And just because VSCode appears to be doing fine doesn't mean they don't second guess that decision. They might just be locked in at this point.

Does TOML allow programmability that JSON5 doesn't?
So it actually turns out that on Android if you opt out of ads personalisation, the app still sends the advertising ID, but also sends in the JSON "advertising_tracking_enabled: false", which is not so reassuring. See Privacy International's talk here: https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9941-how_facebook_tracks_you_on_...
If the deduction is removed, presumably the tax rate could be adjusted downwards to compensate.

Arguably, it would make more sense to allow a deduction on state income tax for federal tax paid. That way the federal tax -- which (in theory, at least) pays for services that benefit all states -- is imposed consistently across all the states. Individual states can then decide how much to tax their citizens to pay for the state's local services, without skewing how the federal tax burden is applied.
Probably because more grown ups know it well.
>Musk's blatant disregard for human life to protect the value of his company

He could also be developing autopilot to save human lives. There are a lot of road deaths each year which is not going to be fixed by doing nothing.
Yes, it is. An architect works with local contractors for convenience.

China needs it's 6% growth and is hustling all other possible countries for it with the "one road, one belt" excuse
Marketplace is useful if you want to sell things locally.
As employers switch to High Deductible Health Plans where insurance doesn't kick in until one has spent a deductible of several thousand dollars, many people are delaying health care in general. A doctor's visit that once cost a co-pay of $30 is now frequently a cash price from $130 to $400, plus more for lab work. With higher costs and much of them unknown in advance, many skip getting things checked until it seems absolutely necessary.
But would it increase engagement? Number of comments is one way we measure engagement and you’re advocating for a feature that would take away 90% of those comments away? Increase engagement at all costs this is the only way.
QuillBot (https://quillbot.com) is a full-sentence thesaurus that will rephrase any sentence you give it. Full disclosure, I am a co-founder.
They track and consume and correlate/associate everything. That is their business: they sell their ability to know everything about you to anyone willing to pay for that information. All of their products feed into their core business.

Google is the most invasive and predatory attack on privacy ever; by no small margin.
That’s kind of splitting hairs, isn’t it?
Yes my uncle used to feed almost all food waste to his pigs. Then we ate the pigs. Unfortunately suburban Silicon Valley residents don't appreciate backyard pigs.
The problems people have with XML is not the syntax. Also, how would you represent (optional) attributes in s-expression? I could think of a couple ideas but none that is nice.
> She acts on feeling and ideology. Facts care very little to her.

A prior lawyer, judge and member of the General Council of the Judiciary – with a total judicial career of 29 years – cares not for facts?
If that's what you want to achieve, you can generate the terraform files from any external system. Basically template it.

That's what sparkleformation does for cloudformation stacks.
Solar Storm of 1859
They need to bend over backwards with evidence because terrible shows like CSI and NCIS have convinced jurors that crime labs can perform magic and that they should acquit despite a preponderance of evidence unless there's a giant stack of lab reports and a manic pixie dream nerd testifying.
Pulumi definitely looks very nice and I hope you manage to get some traction in the k8s space. The amount of stacked tooling (like skaffold) currently being used in that space is papering over the real issue that raw YAML simply isn't working.

So good luck to you!
The fact that linux (and OSX and Windows) support mechanisms of name resolution other than resolv.conf has zero bearing on dig's previous utility as a resolv.conf diagnostic tool, zero bearing on the fact that systemd changed the behavior of a nonrecursive query for root zone NS records, and zero bearing on the fact that Poettering insisted that this wasn't a problem instead of fixing it.
I firmly believe that all developers spend on going time fielding customer calls.
Best EDM album ever, I’d say.
Berkeley Blue – Accelerating robotics through low-cost hardware