skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Back in the earlier days of the Internet, one of my first web apps I created as a reporter was a local crime map (inspired by, but much less sophisticated than Adrian Holovaty's chicagocrime.org [0]). This involved contacting each police department individually and asking them to email me the data. A couple of departments were happy, because they didn't want to pay to develop their own online map. Others (small jurisdictions) didn't have the IT process in place. But there were also large departments that definitely had a data process, but declined to participate (and I didn't really have the capacity to start a legal fight for it, since this was a side project, and I was the sole developer).

What I had been told unofficially, even by departments that did agree to send data, was that publicizing the data was perceived to have possible negative consequences -- such as scaring off potential home buyers (this was during the housing bubble). My point is that crime has always been a big draw for local news organizations, and this includes data applications like crime maps. But even ignoring how it might distort public perception of crime, there was always a pretty implicit downside to a local publisher in making their own community look like a shithole. Not just the negative feelings, but the price of real estate (and those real estate advertisers).

From what I can tell, Ring's proposed news service is just for Ring customers? That is, a non-Ring user (or someone not in the local geofenced area) might not get to see the crime news for a given area, in the same way that any Web user could visit a public crime mapper like chicagocrime.org. So the Ring news service gets all the upside of the attention that crime news draws without the same downsides that would usually be part of a publisher's news equation. This, added to Ring's already inherent appeal to customers paranoid about local crime, might lead to problematic incentives in their crime coverage.

[0] http://www.holovaty.com/writing/chicagocrime.org-tribute/
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Git made some design decisions that sacrifice usability for speed when you're dealing with a gigantic repository on the scale of the Linux kernel, which is what it was designed for.

I believe that git won out over mercurial for the same reason that small start ups choose systems and processes that are the same as those used by big players like Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.

People should try to make design decisions and choose tools for the scale they're actually at. Not the scale they hope to be at some day.
I bought an Alienware that cost 4300$ last year, and that's after 900$ in savings.

The computer arrived in a box that had 2 handle sized holes in it and I could see the computer directly exposed from the outside without the box being open. It had shipment dust and debris INSIDE THE BOX. It's the saddest, cheapest, most sorry ass excuse for a shipment I've ever seen. I took pictures, I couldn't believe it.

Then I booted it up and was inundated with Dell pre-installed software. Wiped the thing clean, got a Win10 ISO directly from MS and called it a day. This will be the last Dell I ever buy. Lesson learned.
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> that they are in a disadvantaged position which makes them disproportionately affected by class barriers.

My point is that today's disadvantages, regardless of how they came to be, are not racial but socioeconomic and we need to address those concerns.

> disproportionately affected by class barriers

Again, you are inserting arguments and points that I never argued nor intended to argue. Parent claimed there exist current class barriers for blacks that exist for no one else in regards to universities. Unless some law exists on the books that I've somehow never heard of, this is categorically false.

> the parent never claimed that other races aren't affected by poverty.

Given that the parent comment quite literally says that the problems faced by blacks do not apply to any others, I wholesale disagree with your assertion.

> White people do not face systemic class barriers

Class barriers are by-definition about class, not race. You are either ignorant, or poorly trolling.

> The conversation wasn't really about race until you made it so.

That is, perhaps, a valid criticism at some level. At the same time I bristle at comments that something that would have been a problematic barrier for me somehow wouldn't be solely because of race. Socioeconomic problems are by-definition socioeconomic. That they may be problematic at differing rates makes them no less of a general problem, so at what point why even involve race in the conversation? Because it will get some subset even more riled up? Crying wolf is a bad thing.
There were a bunch of ways to bypass the check. For example another way would be to use "http:\\" which wouldn't get detected either. The new version isn't vulnerable.
So what? I don't agree with you at all but it's irrelevant, the important thing is that the tools are there and they make your code more robust.

If you're willing to sacrifice the stability and performance of your output for a saccharine IDE and its installer then that really speaks more to your priorities as an engineer.
Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 81
Existing users will not be affected
If it’s not safe to say “I got nothing done yesterday” at your standup then it’s a waste of time. Stand-ups are not about accountability, they are about discovery.

If people are talking about anything other than; what I did, what my impediments are and what am I planning to do then they are wasting time. Book an actual meeting after the standup to discuss things.

If there are too many people to remember to book meetings after the stand up, your stand up is too large.

It can take < 60 seconds for each person in a stand up to cover the 3 questions. If people take longer they should be more concise and focus on only the important things. We probably don’t need the nitty details. It’s ok to practice this.
If you don’t mind saying, what company do you specifically work at currently?
Unfortunately Dell doesn't pay bounties no matter how serious the bug is.
Exactly. They were getting rid of IE6
lol. Yeah, if schools can commit to it, top notch online lectures from top notch schools, will surely turn not-so-good-profs into a tenured TA.
Not quite the same though, since Epic and Steam don’t require paid subscriptions to access their content. The only difference now is that you’re buying some of your games from Epic instead of Steam.
Epic isn't trying to directly make players' lives better via competition; they're trying to make devs lives better via competition. Their main differentiator there is taking a significantly lower cut of revenue, as well as funding the devs in exchange for exclusivity or timed exclusivity.

I understand the vitriol from many gamers: the Epic Store is a worse experience as a consumer than Steam. But I think that a more-viable funding model for game development is pretty significant: there are plenty of games that just barely eke out enough to keep studios alive/independent, or that almost do but then result in the studio closing or being sold to a megacorp like EA. A 30% cut for what was effectively a hosting and payments processing service was ridiculous, monopolistic behavior, and needed to be shaken up. As such I support Epic's move into the store space: more money for devs means more, and more interesting, games getting made.

Realistically, exclusive deals were the only way Epic could've made that work. For most people, if they could buy a game on Steam, they would, rather than using yet another launcher, and that fact means that Steam would still have most of their monopoly intact. Multiple launchers (and fewer features) is annoying but IMO worth it to get Steam to give a bigger cut to devs (which they immediately started doing after the Epic Store launched, although the Epic Store is still often a better deal for devs).
> Epic isn't making a marketplace where I want to spend my money by being better than Steam, they're just trying to make a place where I have to spend money if I want to play certain games. Good luck with that one.

Seems to be working ok for EA's Origin store, Battle.net and Mojang though.
Or you get a homeless person to do it - who is then gainfully employed, if temporarily. It's a win-win!

Anecdotally, I have heard that some people will get a homeless person to hold their spot in line at a locally popular BBQ spot.
The Mysterious and Strange Origin of the Floppy Disk (2017)
Also requesting a link like the other poster. Couldn't find anything with cursory googling and I am interested in finding out if this is google being anti competitive or Microsoft making breaking changes to expected chromium behavior
> The same thing happens in golang

Can you elaborate? I kind of agree on the Kubernetes part in that it's really biased towards Google-scale, but I fail to see such biases in Go, despite having used it as my primary language for 4 years now.
Yeah both Infura and Pinata are free for up to 1Gb or something like that, which is fine for most static websites and blogs. But those are startups, so I agree that for long-term permanence it's better to do some self-hosting down the line.
How does that compare with AWS? Is IPFS worth using for a CDN?
(apologies for the acronyms...)
> People who live a long time don't care about diets. Show me one who did.

Jack LaLanne?

He was one of the first modern evangelists of fitness and diet and lived to be 96, according to wikipedia.

Purely anecdotal but you did ask for a single example.
John Hancock?
What’s the placement? Clutch, left brake, right brake, throttle?
Hire Scottish people to make all your appointment calls and watch the Google transcription centers melt.
but it is good news.
I want so much to like Fossil. But I feel like it's too closely tailored to Dwayne Hipp's workflow.

I'm also not so hot on the jack of all trades approach of the built-in issue tracker, wiki, etc. It goes against my Unix philosophy sensibilities. But that's just my 2¢.
Tesla autopilot has killed a few people and they’re still using it.
In my experience, I think it is a question of developper count and company culture. Larger corporations have processes & checks that smaller businesses do not always have.
Just wait a century or two
Sounds similar to my situation. I try and put it down to programmers like programming to justify why the devs here take the most complex route rather then the cheapest/fastest/reliable route.
I've never seriously considered installing cameras outside my house, and the #1 reason is that I don't want a reason to fear something when there's nothing to fear.

I've never had my home broken into. But I guarantee you there have been all kinds of suspicious-looking things happening outside of my house. Someone's probably looked in the windows of our cars. Hell, I'm sure folks have wandered into (and out of) our gated back yard. Nothing's ever been stolen or disturbed, and while it would still be trespassing, it's not hurting me. My life would be worse, rather than better.

Maybe I'll sing a different tune when my house gets broken into some day, but for now I'll be blissfully unaware. And what would the video do for me, anyway? It seems the news is full of video clips asking people to call the police if they recognize the person. And what? Usually, nothing.

I live in the bay area, and have never once worried about package theft. I think homogeneity is probably the biggest predictor of it. Live in a multi-generational neighborhood? No problem.

Live in a cookie cutter subdivision with one way in and out, and every single resident is gone all day? Package theft heaven.
The fact that they walk a huge amount (16,000/17,000 steps per day) seems to be a very obvious factor.

Unfortunately, getting this kind of behavior, at least in the US, would be enormously challenging, because our land use policies and regulations are generally designed to make walking useless and/or painful.

I've lived in several parts of the US, currently live in Munich, only NYC felt close to Munich in walkability, and I honestly think I'd still give Munich the edge (even though it's not as dense and business convenience is worse). The other areas I lived in -- Silicon Valley, Seattle suburb, Utah, various parts of Alabama -- were all complete and utter garbage for walking. They're very obviously not even trying.
Congress and the Executive consult with each other, work on co-authoring laws, and plan together all the time. It isn't that weird that the Supreme Court would talk with the other branches.
I don't know anything about game development so maybe someone can explain something to me. If you develop using 2014 technologies and it is now 2019 and you want your game to still look fairly visually modern, how much do you need to rewrite?
It is a formula and whenever the formula gets revised there are these opportunities created that did not exist before.

There are some things that are ruled out of the essence of the formula and some things that get used to define it. For instance, the BT46 Turbofan that chucked stones out the back is not on. Meanwhile, the monocoque chassis with stressed member engine is part of the formula.

The rule changes to this year have resulted in two approaches to front wing aero, right now we don't know whether the Alfa Romeo approach is actually better than the Mercedes approach. That might be mere aero, nothing important, but think how it would work if anything was allowed so long as it was safe.

So there are some things that have to be ruled out such as the high nose that is better design but bad for potentially beheading drivers. If we let anything in then you could go back to the Williams FW14 and allow active suspension and a whole host of driver aids. You could even go further back and allow 6 wheelers, ground effect skirts and V12 engines. If the rules - the formula - was thus cast in stone - open to everything - then within 3-4 seasons the grid would distil into what was the de-facto winning formula. If six wheels really were better than four then every car would have six wheels.

Although the rulebook appears to stifle innovation it does promote it by these small and well thought out changes that happen every few years.

Having said that, I wish there was an 'anything goes' formula with a budget cap. So cars would have active aero, auto-pilot, super-capacitors, tuned-mass-dampers, low-profile tyres that weren't designed for needing pit-stops, performance enhancing drugs for the drivers, grid-girls advertising cigarettes - well maybe not some of these things that were once considered a vital part of the spectacle, but you get the idea.
> It's almost as if human experiences don't fit into the carefully curated categories we have in modern society where individual aspects are considered in isolation and not handled in a holistic way.

Well put. The challenge for any individual author is that it is much easier to write defensively in a narrow niche (cue: increasing specialization in research). It is very easy to start flinging accusations and ad-hominem attacks on an author who's ambitiously trying to synthesize connections between apparently disparate topics, which discourages any ounce of originality/creativity.

A more obvious problem is how our systems bias for an explosion of "content" and evisceration of nuance. For some thoughts on the topic, see https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/09/24/norbert-wiener-comm...

To start with, I wonder whether we can construct a better reading list for an audience with a more holistic bent, not just in relation to health, but for other domains too. Once a curated audience is established, authors might find more inducement to write such stuff. That said, once these floodgates are opened, filtering out the bullshit-mongers will take significant effort and judicious exercise of editorial discretion.

In case anyone is interested, some ad-hoc examples, based on what I've been reading lately:

- Christopher Alexander (full series of ten books, ostensibly relating to architecture, but actually reflecting on so much more)

- Writings by some cybernetics pioneers (eg: Norbert Weiner and Ross Ashby)

- Design as participation, by Kevin Slavin -- https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/design-as-participation

PS: Some of my current readings skirt "unfashionable" topics related to AI/ML, many of which are papers from the 80s :-)
In terms of hardware support, the ArchLinux people seem to be doing more than anyone to document and tweak whatever laptop I look up.

Kudos to them for doing so.
You know what else? They dont have air pollution like pm2.5, which is known to cause heart and lung disease.

https://laqm.defra.gov.uk/public-health/pm25.html
Thanks. Corrected!
I avoid those problems by never turning my TV or monitor off. It does mean they light up the room at night so it wouldn't work if you had it in a bedroom.
I guess the moral is that if you make enough money fast enough, you can hire lawyers to keep you out of jail.
Is anyone using it on the daily? How does it diverge from git?
Thank you! It makes me very happy to hear that. Feel free to ping me if you run into any trouble (even if it's just a non-showstopper like some unnecessary friction or papercut.) Also keen on hearing what services I should add next. I don't use AWS Route 53 but I think it would be a good option to support for instance.
Aww, it left off my favorite "-punk" of all: trustpunks. Trust-fund children who, for whatever reason, find the need to pretend to be poor punks.
Cargo in 2019
It starts to get good halfway down:

I downloaded Neighbors—you can do so without owning a Ring doorbell—and plugged in my address in boring Arlington, Massachusetts, a city of 45,000 that recorded zero murders and only seven robberies last year. It decided I needed to know that someone in the uniform of a local lawn-care service had recently knocked on someone’s door instead of using the doorbell and, when no one answered, left. Also, there was a building fire two towns away, a couple of days ago.

Also, two young people, one male, one female, wearing identical T-shirts and lanyards with name badges, carrying clipboards—likely trying to get signatures for some cause or another—rang a doorbell and then walked away when no one answered. “Anyone know who they are?” the post from a Neighbors user asked, perhaps concerned about Islamic State infiltration of the Boston suburbs. “Call the police,” one helpful commenter replied.
Right, there are OS-specific approaches on all systems, but if you are able to compile Python itself along all open source C/C++ libs that your .py-thon file might use, you end up with exactly one executable (you can possibly even go further packaging the .py files in some compressed (bytecode compiled) inside the same binary) - e.g. all you need is there, and the approach would fare better across more systems (e.g. does not rely on advanced techniques, no need to unpack the .DLL in temp folder, etc.). Also better for post-mortem debugging - your .PDB, and your .DWP (or whatever symbol files) are.. well just one single file, rather than several.

Same thing for java, dart, etc. This makes it much easier to deploy, use, download, as it's basically "zero"-config install, no need for scripts to tweak your PATH, etc.

(but it has limitations clearly, if you use proprietary code, or you can't compile given open source library bundled with you - e.g. LGPL code, that you have to dynamically link, then again if you are project is open source this is no longer that much of a limit (but would not know that for sure))
Snapchat, obviously
Thanks. I made a note about the fact that many people -- including me, in fact -- like having variety and choices.
You are right, it is necessary to dissect. But I feel it's taken on a life of it's own.

Just as work to live in some places has been distorted to live to work.

We should create categories to understand, not understand to create categories.

I've seen it everywhere. My doctor trying to shove pills down my throat when I had developed some bad habits and he didn't ask me ONE question about diet or night routine. I've seen it in universities where professors attack each others field instead of finding the common thread. In the boss that says "that's not your job, thats marketing/QA/dev/business dev/growth team/etc". It's a lack of understand that a team should provide value to the overall and the categories should only be there to aid in overall progress.
I see part of the problem being that Agile is seen as a management methodology when it’s actually a development methodology.

Management here meaning overseeing people.

Development here meaning building things.
Apps, initial few software updates were paid. Version 1 didn't have the app store, they pushed web apps initially