skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here we get to the real heart of the problem. Engineers of all levels seem to default into “this code is shit - I could do better” instead of having some empathy and considering they don’t have the whole picture.

But the wrong lesson seems to be taken away from this. It’s not that all code is shit - it’s that you aren’t good at reading the code yet if you can’t see all the little hairs and bug fixes.
Buffett's subsidiaries still borrow money to build things like power stations and railways. He prefers to keep some cash so he can put it in high return ventures if they come up.
You lost me at comparing an externality to literal slavery. I'm sure if you lost your job and were without a job for a year or 3, you'd not sing the same tune.

"If China and India keep doing that, we stop buying their stuff."

This would cripple the global economy and throw millions into poverty.
Could this be because of similar reasons why SpaceX can’t hire non US citizens due to their rockets qualifying as ICBMs? I remember Elon mentioning this in a press conference.
Yes but it can still be useful. Facebook is basically planning to compete directly with amazon in ecommerce space. In the future, you won't even have to leave facebook to buy something. The merchant will be able to process orders directly through facebook.

Also my guess is informal trading markets will form using this facebook currency. If everyone is using the same form of payment then cross boarder trade becomes much easier. No more foreign exchange hassles. I've already seen it happen with stuff like amazon gift cards but recently amazon removed the ability to check the balance of amazon gift cards. I have already moved away from accepting amazon gift cards for this very reason. If facebook's coin is widely used and can be used to buy a lot of different stuff then I would definitely shift my informal trading to the facebook coin.
”Prod is on fire and nobody can figure out your burrito pasta”

”Isn’t this a wonderful learning opportunity for all of us”

Debugging time is never a good time to start honing new skills.
... and 2.7.10 is from May 2015 - 4 years ago
What makes you think 'goals articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt' (saving others the search I needed) hold any weight over HM Government in the UK?

They may be meant to apply globally, but 'violating' one doesn't mean anything if it's not more than a rousing speech. (i.e. not an international treaty that the UK's signed.)
It doesn’t work too well unless you’re doing HVDC.
Pieter Levels does it. He is the kind of a guy you'd want to take money from.

Take a look https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1131797489818882049?s=20
> Under current policy, threats to US industry are threats to national security.

Sure, maybe policy-wise, but common-sense wise the argument doesn't hold up at all. Google's minimal loss from business with Huawei is nothing compared to Huawei compromising the 5G infrastructure of the US.
Whilst I would personally use i >= 0 and find the use of -1 here slightly jarring, it is correct. .NET libraries usually use int even in places where uint would be best (like Array.Length) and indexers like this[int i] for Array. So, this will work fine. Well, it'd work fine anyway, because the negative value is never used, but yeah...
Without coming down on either side, the simple answer here is because the funding company would be ahead of competitors.

In high-tech markets, pioneers often develop durable leads (Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon, etc.). There's a huge business advantage to having the IP + the team that developed that IP in one place.

Conversely, handing over IP alone doesn't build a business. For example, Tesla could give away all their private IP for the Model 3 and it would still take a lot of investment for a competitor to arrive at a parity offering (which would be years behind, because Tesla's teams haven't stopped). Because the product is much more than a sum of the basic research.
Horses, not zebras. But yes, there are a few zebras in the world also.
Wow, thank you for your advise! This might be interesting to try...
That's less about emotion and more about context, which absolutely is important to capture. Links to tracking systems, and in more dysfunctional environments, quotes from emails and water cooler conversations can help a lot when going back in time. Generally I put those in the commit message whenever it makes sense, but sometimes it's better to put it in the actual comments themselves.

On the other hand, on the rare occasion that I've commented or committed something based on emotions, I've always regretted it. Granted they never caused problems for me, just a source of internal embarrassment. Still a good enough reason to be thoughtful about what emotions you express.
Wait, why is Facebook patenting a robotic electric motorcycle? – Electrek
> Disingenious to pretend this is neutraL.

Good that they don’t do that, then. And good that they’re not obliged too, either.
They probably want to be the West's WeChat.
During the battle with kaguya sasuke is fatally
Maybe it wouldn’t work if you are starting today, but I hsve enough returns built up that I should be able to experience a major depression and still beat the S&P. Assuming that the market doesn’t go down more than 33% in a day.
You just have to look at Apple in the 2000's - they didn't invent MP3 players or smartphones, but they certainly created the first truly viable generation of each product.
It's PayPal or Venmo or whatever existing money transfer service you like, but with Facebook Dollars.
That was my thought, too. If you need ACID transactions, use an ACID database. There are rather a lot of them. And then mirror the data out to Cassandra after the fact, if you need it there. Ironically, Cassandra may not be the source of truth!

Way back in the stone age, MySQL did not yet have ACID transactions. They got them about the same time they stopped bragging about how much faster they were than Oracle, but I digress. Anyway, I had to write a bunch of transactional code around it. Drove the dba and me nuts. We begged for Sybase (we both knew it well), but the startup CTO was an open source purist and hated his first contact with the Sybase sales machine.

Eventually they folded, and the point was moot.
Do we know what the actual root of that ‘in review’ period was?

It’s entirely possible that Spotify was trying to get Apple to change a store policy during that time, perhaps even with the threat of an antitrust complaint that they are now following through on.

You can make it sound like Apple is the bad guy abusing its store policies, but it’s equally the case that Spotify is just trying to leverage a few obvious features that into a giant payout through legal bullying.
The previous space tourism was operated by the Russian space agency out of the Russian section of the ISS. NASA didn't particularly like this at the time but weren't in a position to do much about it.
This came out in 2016. Is it gone now?

Reasonable idea. More protection circuitry to prevent blowing out the connected PC might be a good idea.
Google Ireland are supposed to though.
This is out of an abundance of caution, not necessarily because the law requires it. This explains it: https://www.quora.com/Does-the-Cops-TV-show-need-to-get-sign...

I'm sure the attorneys at Ring have already been through this discussion to decide whether similar actions were warranted, and concluded otherwise.

Also, a big difference between COPS and the instant case is that in the TV shows, law enforcement have already identified the suspect, while here, the suspect is at large. I think it would be difficult to convince a court that you were the intentional target of defamation when the defendant hasn't identified you yet.
This title is a bit misleading.

FedEx is only dropping their Express business. As cited in the link, they note, “FedEx has made the strategic decision to not renew the FedEx Express U.S. domestic contract with Amazon.com, Inc. as we focus on serving the broader e-commerce market. This decision does not impact any existing contracts between Amazon.com and other FedEx business units or relating to international services.”
If people need a product, they will find it. If they want to know about more products they might find useful, they will inform themselves — hopefully using a neutral source whose interests are aligned with theirs. Not from an advertiser which is interested in making them buy whatever garbage their customer wants to sell. Which does not educate and inform customers, enabling to make good decisions, but to manipulate them.
Interestingly, some of these absolute truths are absolutely true at larger (50+ devs, or so) companies because forward progress can't be made otherwise. System not documented? Might as well not exist at all. Code is not tested? Well, then nobody really knows if it works or not after even the most insignificant and peripheral changes. People don't treat code quality as a priority? Welcome to days/weeks/months of yak shaving to fix even the simplest issues. Good at communication but can't code worth a damn? Consider becoming a manager, not a "senior developer".
Literally once every 4 or 5 years I've heard a layman say "second world" referring to "poorer than America, richer than Ethiopia"; the lay usage is probably still first/third world, but people are slowly cottoning onto developed/developing nation.

I think even in common use, that use of "second world" is still "wrong," as far as anything in English can be wrong. Ted Cruz referred to it as a "basketball ring" and we all had a laugh, but we also all understood what he was talking about; is that wrong?

I'm mostly reluctant to tell anyone that their use of English is wrong, because it's such a fluid and ever-changing language; but when something like "second world" comes up and not in reference to the Soviet countries, it still jumps out at me as "well, that's not how people always used to use that phrase"...
> It’s extremely hypocritical of the US to panic when other countries act the same,

This is pretty disingenuous. You are ignoring a ton of history behind China, its authoritarian nature, and how Chinese companies are far more an extension of the PRC than US companies are of the US Government.

All companies are a threat to the national security of other countries so long as they are beholden to the government they are in. But as others have said, the severity of the threat changes drastically. You can be almost certain that Huawei, via the PRC, would compromise US 5G infrastructure given the chance. You might be reasonably more skeptical of a US company doing the same to another country.

Finally, your Wikipedia link contradicts your own post:

> [The CLOUD Act] provides mechanisms for the companies or the courts to reject or challenge these if they believe the request violates the privacy rights of the foreign country the data is stored in.

In fact, there is nothing here that would lead one to believe that the companies can be forced to hand over data on citizens from other countries. The legislation here pertains to the data of US citizens.
For startups decisions need to be made quickly and definitively in order to survive.

You might reduce entrepreneurial success and make the economy correspondingly more inertial/monopolistic/feudalistic if you raise compliance overhead and management friction for young startups.
Probably, but when I see that I think of the problem as being more with the consumer rather than the business. Obviously the business is going to do what it has to to survive and thrive, but I would much rather consumers step up to the plate rather than businesses needing to throw softer pitches.

This is more true of creative pursuits (I don't think an artist should "dumb down their art" to increase mass appeal), but I think it holds true for businesses as well.

It's just very "Idiocracy" to me, but maybe I'm being oversensitive.
Launch cost extra.
> Load the remaining customer funds into RAM, and decrement them on each API. Periodically flush the remaining balance to DB at set intervals (say every hour).

So you only ever have one app server?

Sure, this specific issues could be handled other ways, but in general global state is hard.
Hmm... how often does a company fire a big customer? This would seem significant and probably related to either a pricing dispute or the fact that one way or another Amazon is encroaching on FedEx's core business.
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You don't want to hear, but I tried to use mutt with Gmail.
Blockchains can (and quite often do) have bugs in their implementation too, they're not entirely magic.
I got several working, albeit, old, oscopes and signal generators from pawn shops for $50 to $100 each. Had to search a while, but they tend not to sell well there, so they eventually get marked down.
It's not like there isn't already tons of innovation in the fast-international-transfers space. PayPal is one and has been around for years. TransferWise is newer and direct-to-your-account.
> This appeals to people for whom middle class suburbia is an unreachable aspiration in real life, a growing demographic.

Considering the extremely high cost of SL land, i doubt this is true.
The four freedoms refer to European trade. http://en.euabc.com/word/506
For simple "web apps", typically its a poor understanding of SQL that is the bottle neck. Since most web frameworks include an ORM, many developers don't even know much SQL any more and treat the database as a simple 'object' that you can call methods on and iterate through. Case in point: you're building a dash board for a web based store to show details about the 5 most recent orders. But each order references 5 other items (as a simple example). And each item references an SKU# that can come from 5 manufacturers.

So an optimized query set from an ORM will end up querying the DB like this: First it selects the 5 rows from the order table, but since you left out any join clauses, it then runs 5 more selects on each of the rows returned from the order table to pull the related rows from the items table. So we are now up to 6 queries.

But each row of the item table references 5 manufacturers (again, as a simple schema example). So each of the 'item' 'objects' (5 per order) has to then make a query to fetch the sku manufacturer. So that is 25 more select statement queries on top of the original 6. So using the ORM properly and building out the right join clauses, you would have made 1 query. Instead you made 31. Now lets say that DB is not on the same machine, but a different machine on the network. Throw in 2ms - 10ms latency per query and now you are looking at 62 - 310ms of latency to fetch your data. And that is just for 5 'rows' of data. Do the math for a more realistic dataset, 500-1000 rows or so. Now you're looking at minutes of latency for your data to come from the DB.

The worse case I've seen recently was this exact case. To generate an inventory page to show an html table with about 300 rows, the DB was being queried over 300,000 times with a page load of about 7 minutes (and getting longer everyday). I added the proper join clauses to the ORM and one query was issued which would return the result set in about 700ms which put the page load time to about 1 second. A 1 second page load imo is still not very good. But it seemed to impress everyone that with 1 hour of work, a page load went from from 7 minutes to 1 second....

For what ever reason, most people don't understand this anymore. Instead of learning SQL, the line of thought is to upgrade the machine, move to a 'no-sql' DB, introduce some caching layer, and many number of other ideas. But "lets make sure we are querying the DB instead of iterating through it" is never discussed.
This "trend" seems just so sad to me, but the truth is, the title sells. Unfortunately that means changing the original name to something totally different in translation just as the publisher wants to sell the book. I don't think this is right but as long as it is the will of the writer it will make just him look ridiculous because of the ways he used to sell.
To paraphrase TFA's title, "human beings are the sex organs of the human genome".

To borrow the terminology used for plants and algae, we are the diploid sporophyte phase. And our gonads are the haploid gametophyte phase, which trigger development of sex organs. That is, flowers.
Polyamorous isn't a specific enough term. Perhaps for the sake of our discussion it's enough to say that neither animal demonstrates monogamy or the kind of harem / central-female-group characteristic of sultans or lions.

There's a lot of good material online about what chimp mating behaviour is actually like.

Monogamy is rare in the animal kingdom, more characteristic of birds than of any other creatures.
The earliest reference for TCP/IP or Internet connectivity from that doc is in 1992. Running locally over finger before that, so I wouldn't consider that an 'internet thing' per se.
Attempted burglary is a criminal act.
I long for a return to old-fashioned values in human behavior, but since I live in the real world I'll just have to settle for security cameras.
Be careful taking in this new direction as anything more than marketing PR. As you've stated before, I don't even think this time, it's anything more than the marketing department speaking for everyone. Mozilla has had weak statements on previous PR controversy's before. On a longer timescale, the organization will change it's position again due to economic and cultural pressures.
Then what is the problem showing a person doing nothing wrong then?
It puts their currency in the same semantic basket as Bitcoin and Ethereum. The effort to give these other currencies legitimacy also gives Facebook’s currency legitimacy; many people who support these other currencies will also support Facebook’s. If Facebook’s currency is attacked, it becomes (in some sense) an attack on all cryptocurrencies.
Let's see...Genentech has: onsite child care, car wash facilities, haircutting, spa treatments, bike repair, a gym

United Shore: their own starbucks, a gym, outdoor basketball courts.

Commvault has: ping pong, foosball, pool tables, a gym, a softball field, a basketball court, a walking trail

Procore has: a gym, catered lunches, bring your dog to work policy, fitness _classes_, massages & haircuts onsite.

Adobe: a gym

Tesla: employee lease program, shuttle services

Intel: gyms, fitness classes, spas, dry cleaning, banking.
That explains how we got this video game title:
"Summer-Colored High School Adolescent Record – A Summer At School On An Island Where I Contemplate How The First Day After I Transferred, I Ran Into A Childhood Friend And Was Forced To Join The Journalism Club Where While My Days As A Paparazzi Kid With Great Scoops Made Me Rather Popular Among The Girls, But Strangely My Camera Is Full Of Panty Shots, And Where My Candid Romance Is Going. –"
Given the fact the constitution limits the govt and not the people.

Given the fact the constitution says the govt cannot limit the freedom of movement.

The govt cannot make laws limiting freedom of movement regardless of the method as they were not given that right by the constitution. Therefore driving as a form of movement cannot be regulated.

There are also precedents discussing it

Thompson v.Smith, 154 SE 579, 11 American Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, section 329, page 1135 “The right of the Citizen to travel upon the public highways and to transport his property thereon, in the ordinary course of life and business, is a common right which he has under the right to enjoy life and liberty, to acquire and possess property, and to pursue happiness and safety. It includes the right, in so doing, to use the ordinary and usual conveyances of the day, and under the existing modes of travel, includes the right to drive a horse drawn carriage or wagon thereon or to operate an automobile thereon, for the usual and ordinary purpose of life and business.” –
Why do they ‘need’ to be on all platforms?
Just so people can watch the detailed developer introduction.

Specifically:

It verifies the "realness" of the account, so everyone claiming that they need user's real email address for "fraud detection" can't argue that nonsense anymore. We all know that argument was just a cover for "we want to be able to spam our users with impunity", but this specifically addresses that argument just to be sure.
Except most of the time they end up being massive scams with the said "cheaper utility" charging you out the ass with horrible termination terms.
The app store UIs could just differentiate between the canonical name and a short tag line. Right now tweaking the title is the only way to add a description to the search result list.
Phone OSes should allow the user to exercise plausible deniability by having dual or multiple passwords or other physical means of telling the phone to unlock only in a safe mode that will reveal innocuous documents or photos, job, relatives and friends contacts, and possibly let the inbox and outbox contain only conversations from clean numbers. If a cop signals to pull over, a short bossa nova tap on the phone case might get detected by the accelerometer and trigger that safe mode, until the user tells the phone the emergency is over by tapping a pataflafla followed by a paradiddle diddle (just kidding, but you get the point:^)
Not that I condone any illegal use of cellphones, but often a wrong assumption by a police officer paired by his perceived omnipotence can easily escalate to a level much worse than the "crimes" they intended to prevent.
The reason we care about emissions is due to their effect on the atmosphere, of which there is one.

We don't get a free pass to emit more as our population increases. The atmosphere doesn't magically adjust. The effect of emissions on the climate is invariant of our population, and we need to act accordingly.
I want to quibble with you on one thing—the database is often easy to scale, by three orders of magnitude, by configuring it correctly, and then moving it onto dedicated hardware.
> Learned as junior: New tech solves old problems.

> Understood as senior: New tech creates new problems.

Yep! When you use "new tech", you're making a bet, and not all bets pay off. If you're cautious, you'll hold off until new tech is proven (or pilot it cautiously before migrating). If you're possessed with good judgment, you'll be discriminating in which new techs you adopt. If you have both virtues, you may even gain a competitive advantage.
You people probably haven't used IBM Cloud (or Bluemix, as it used to be). We inherited one application there, and boy was life stressful. There were already plans to move elsewhere, and then one day our managed production database was down. Took me something like ten hours to build a new production system elsewhere from backups, but it took longer for the engineers to fix the database.
It sounds like you are describing a shopping mall to me.
I don't think I've ever gotten a Fedex package from Amazon. It's all via CanadaPost and I assume US is USPS or UPS?
The problem is its not so easy to share spectrum. In reality you can only have a single transmitter/receiver on a given frequency band in a given area.
I'm convinced it's mostly my height and lack of friends. I'm not particularly handsome but I'm definitely not ugly.

As for standards, why should we settle for less than an equal version of ourselves? Same height, education, looks, strength, ability, finances, etc.? In my experience, women almost exclusively "date up".
I'm talking about all the sky-falling alarmism in all its forms, past and present.
JFYI: There's a rule on HN that "Show HN's" can't just be sign-up pages or require invite codes; people have to be able to actually interact with whatever you're "Showing".
Seems you can shot Softbank stock http://shortsqueeze.com/shortinterest/stock/SFTBF.htm
Western Union will let you put physical cash in someone's hand from across the world if you are willing to pay their fees.

Venezuela barely has a functioning electrical grid, so cryptocurrency would not seem to be a foolproof solution there.
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