skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone that works in project A uses properly configured IDE, so when you take a look at code you'll actually see something like that: `getClient(liveMode: true)` instead of just `getClient(true)`.

Is there really a point in creating Enum or writing more complex internal logic if you use proper IDE?

Only benefit I can see is doing CR's via Github like system - but still, I do not believe in CR without actually pulling, viewing, and testing code on own computer.
I bet the next week was glorious if everyone smoked them at their desks
Depends on the location and sector. Many restaurants still have siestas, maybe not in the tourist-centers of the big cities, but on the country side for sure.

Just like the US and other federated states, Spain has a lot of diversity within it's borders, and a lot of social/economic questions needs the context of "where" to be answered correctly.
> Just think about it for minute.

But... why wouldn't they? Google already is heavily invested in doing this kind of parsing because a lot of their calendar entries are integrated with AI that figures out when you need to leave your house, how to add entries dictated over voice, how to auto-add new appointments based on emails without duplicating entries, and so on.

So Google already needs to know how to parse your calendar data in intelligent ways. And the way that data would be integrated into ads is not going to be all that different from the way Gmail data was processed.

Who cares if it's a small fraction of users? It's basically free data, being consumed by technologies that Google already has to build anyway -- and for the few users that do heavily use calendar, you're getting a ton of data on their everyday schedule.

Why build a set of tools that can do all of this parsing and then say, "nah, we're not going to deploy it everywhere."?

> What percentage of people actively use Google Calendar?

I don't know. My hunch is that it's not a fringe product though.

It's been a while since I checked, but I remember either Calendar or Keep being the default calendar app on Android. What percentage of Android owners use the built-in calendar on their phone to set reminders?
And ripgrep is quite a lot faster than GNU grep[1], especially if you need unicode support.

[1] https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/
Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20179820
That first gif is a todo list, which is NOT a spreadsheet.

> I agree with you that it could be better, but so many other startups do a lot worse that looking down on someone that is not perfect, hurts the cause of "fixing shitty landing pages" rather than helps.

So you agree that it sucks, but it isn't the worst landing page, so it gets a pass? I'm not on some crusade to fix shitty landing pages. I'm actively looking for a replacement for an application I use in my day-to-day life. The onus is on Coda to explain to me clearly and in 3s if their application meets those needs. I'm simply pointing out that their landing page has failed to do that FOR ME.
How many rope bridges have been rebuilt every year for the last 600+ years? I find that extremely interesting.

From the article:

> The Q'eswachaka bridge is woven by hand and has been in place for at least 600 years. [...] The tradition has been passed on from generation to generation with every adult in the communities on either side gathering to bring new life to the crossing. [...] The reconstruction of Q'eswachaka takes place once a year, [...]
I'd argue that a colony at the bottom of our own ocean would survive literally any event of any magnitude, maybe except for a direct asteroid strike. In terms of survivability of the human race, that's a better project to start with - and of course then move on to other planets, but underwater/underground colonies would give us lots of insights into living in such environments permanently.
> Cryptocurrency's "selling point" is being regulated by mathematical rules and not by potentially-corrupted policymakers.

But this is generally false; like fiat currency managed by the governments of capitalist democracies, cryptocurrencies tend to be regulated by technical experts implementing policy on behalf of th user community in which power is weighted by, roughly speaking, the product of wealth and interest in influencing policy.

For the “selling point”, the software embodying the mathematical rules regulating the cryptocurrency would need to be fixed for all time.
It doesn't matter what it was intended for, which it very well may have failed at. What matters is the value people see in it now. The claim is it represents digital gold bars.
Reminds me of the Model S shooting brake (station wagon) https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-s-shooting-brake-featu..., which I saw on display recently.
Well mines : Unicode is trickier than you think, there are some date-time that don't exist, transactions are trickier than one (usually) think, don't use floating point for money (because many people don't understand floating point), a quick fix always introduces another bug, any contract (WSDL, json-schem, whatever) is full of holes, integrate with others first, legacy database are full of bad/unexpected data,...
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The universe may have...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/us/politics/ufo-sightings...
'I am deliberately ignoring techniques that require significant effort, or large changes to program structure.'
At the end of a project death-march (at one point I turned in a >100 hour timecard), the division director had a celebratory thank-you dinner for all the managers involved in the project.

My direct supervisor was at first puzzled as to why I wasn't coming with him to the dinner at the end of the day, and then he was quite appalled - I think he later had words with the director about the whole thing.
"You're not the customer; you're the product."

That, by the way, and surprisingly for me, it seems it's a quote from 1973:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/07/16/product/
I work in the US and since the Great Recession the swag that we used to get around the office (e.g. t-shirts, ice cream days) have really dried up. Spending on buildings, on the other hand, has increased rapidly.

Last year I went to a meeting in France that was held in a rather old building in Grenoble. It was a day long meeting so they brought in a boxed lunch for everyone. Shocking. There was some sushi, chicken in pasta, hot rolls, chocolate cake, and two small bottles of wine and water. It was fantastic.

I was slow on the uptake, but then it hit me, given a choice between spending money on people or things, they chose to spend it on people. Honestly, a total shock for me.
Hopefully that's /s, as debugging CGo stuff is a royal pita. ;)
IANAL (and haven't read the opinions) but it seems as if the general situation with public access channels could have allowed for a very narrowly crafted opinion that said the provider was a state actor in this very particular case. But it is a potentially slippery slope.

ADDED: SCOTUSblog has a writeup. In general, the split decision seems mostly a disagreement over which rather specific facts apply. https://www.scotusblog.com/2019/06/opinion-analysis-court-ho...
It's happening. What's the plan?

The rise of ISIS was driven by crop failure due to climate change. The temperature in India reached 123 degrees already this year.
>“We don’t want financial data and social data to be commingled”

Keyword is want. They don't want the data to be commingled, but alas, it will.
Implied sarcasm and irony is a troll's game. Not to imply that the poster is a troll, I have no reason to think that, but that's why I never assume sarcasm if it's not explicitly stated.
I started off having strong integration with ML frameworks but eventually, I made it more generic to track any kind of metrics and parameters especially if one is using a custom algorithm.

I'm working on adding data versioning where one can keep version their datasets and pull it anywhere using a line of code in python or command line.
I would like to see these graphs next to graphs of for-profit university attendance. Looking at wikipedia, for-profit grew rapidly until enrollment started dropping around 2009.

For-profit schools are "13 percent of the nation's college enrollment, but account for about 47 percent of the defaults on loans. About 96 percent of students at for-profit schools take out loans, compared with about 13 percent at community colleges and 48 percent at four-year public universities."- 2012 report [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/education/harkin-report-c...
The problem with college is that going to college won't make you an expert in your field. Even if you're an A+ student, the amount of knowledge required to be an expert vastly outpaces the knowledge gained by going to college.
Wow, P&W also didn't pay very well, wonder how low LM is.
Multiple reasons, two I can think of right now that frustrate me at that the vote was held when students were on holiday (they needed to vote where they lived, so many students didn't vote who were 6-1 remainers). Secondly, lots of undemocratic goings-ons such as https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/14/judges....
This is one of the many reasons why I don't use web apps. Google Calendar is just a dumb pipe connecting various instances of Fantastical for me.
Note that PBS is mostly funded by donations and public access channels are a different thing - usually part of the cable franchise agreement with the local city.
If I had the time to construct exercises I would use a very primitive game engine to teach these things. Depending on the students math level you could focus on the interactions and their logic or the math of physics (in a simple way).

This idea is biased to my own experience.

The benefit of this approach is that it teaches that computer science on its own is great. If you add an understanding of science and math, it can be even more powerful.

I think working with numbers is something programming "snaps to" easily.

The weakness of this approach is that anyone who thinks they're weak at math or logical thinking ends up possibly feeling left out.

For example:

- if Mario touches an enemy, he should loose a life

- if Mario has a power up active he should go back to original form

- implement Mario's jump

- implement Mario's movement

- make it inertial

- implement gravity

- implement momentum

- etc..
I've only ever dabbled in Lisp, but that seems perfectly readable.
Dialog – A domain-specific language for creating works of interactive fiction
> And she recruited a ragtag team of mechanics and DIY car modifiers to tackle the project: Marcos Ramirez, a Bay Area maker, mechanic and artist; Boston-based Richard Benoit, whose YouTube channel Rich Rebuilds is largely dedicated to the modification of pre-owned Tesla models; and German designer and YouTuber Laura Kampf.

Interesting whose name ended up on the headline...
Flickering fluorescent is soulsucking, I agree.

Technically speaking, a similar kind of solution that exists for LEDs also exist for fluorescent tubes: using high frequency ballasts that do not perceptibly flicker (not even (near)subconsciously - which is true for a lot of LED and fluorescent lights). Those are more expensive, hard to find and not the default though.
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Here's my story:

A place I worked at one time had the vending machines removed. The owner's neice was overweight and died of cancer and had other health issues, so he didn't want any of the rest of us making poor deciisions and ending up like her

So they took the vending machines out. Great, now we need to go to the gas station a block down the road to get a candy bar, chips, or afternoon soda.

One particularly hot day, the sales team went out to the production floor/warehouse to hand out Powerade (generic gatorade) to the workers.

They brought the social media and marketing people with them to take photos and post the 'good deed ' online. We can only have a soft drink when they deem it necessary!
> Many studies I conducted actually told me that people favored analog controls over digital touch screens controls. It gives you tactile feedback, making it accessible for anyone with sense of touch.

I assumed this was widely known (because of COURSE we do), but the digital touch screens were CHEAPER than dedicated physical controls for all desired functions. To design as well as to mass produce.
See also: open offices.
It looks like US supreme court is as clearly divided as the US political parties. A large number of US supreme court critical decisions are 5-4 decisions. And a large majority of them have clear partisan divides. If only Obama had his chance to appoint Scalia's successor, the US supreme court might have been very different.
As an immigrant: Not for most.
"Go enjoy a round of drinks with all the people you don't work with anymore."
My view on why they attract me: I’m technically inclined. Loved maths and physics during school and college, where one basic, but fundamentally powerful idea, enabled to solve so many problems. It seemed knowledge distilled. You just apply and combine and operate, and boom: The Right Answer.

Then picked a business book, where one idea is iterated for 100 pages. Looking it from different angles, explaining, examples, anecdotes. I’ll-tell-you-something-I’m-doing-it-I-told-you recursive sandwiches. “By the end of this book” nonsense. It seems facile, it does not demand pencil-and-paper work like in maths. Also, one idea per book? Wasted time.

Finally a book comes that just lists ideas. Not very detailed. Seem very fundamental. It reminds a little bit of a maths cheatsheet, the minimal expression of the Maxwell equations that will solve all business issues. It sounds exciting!

But as others noted: if you cannot work them, exercise them, and think formally through implications, it is cargo culting from maths. At least to an extent.

(Sorry for the style im in my mobile)
PICC stands for Processor, Interface Controller and Communication (PICC) Programs Manager
No, it is not. You can use credit cards to buy things online.
What if it costs twice as less? Think of it as cashing in a small part of some stock/investment to use it to buy something. If you're really that concerned about crypto price changing, you can just top it back up that evening.
Incandescent light is generally better for the environment though (IIRC LowTechMagazine did the math for this)
All that proves is that you have no reasonable expectation of privacy wrt your phone number. Any piece of information that has to be disseminated to untrusted parties to be of any use (like a phone number or email address) is by definition not private.
Yes, that was the S3 outage last year...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13756111
Can I get some further commentary from people with 50 years of experience in software development?
Depends entirely on the team. There are teams at google with heavy on call or crunch times. There are teams where everybody works ordinary hours.
* From the Hacker News Operators Manual - Hacker News Principle 3.7 states no amount of sarcasm, no matter how extreme, will be clear to the majority of hacker news readers. Thus sarcasm in commenting should be avoided as much as possible, and if deemed absolutely necessary, clearly signaled with the "/s" mark at the end of the comment.

Edit - It's actually Principle 4.1
I guess, but she organized and hired. Kind of like Tim Cook. He gets credit or flak for things at Apple even if he’s not in the trenches doing things.

Plus she’s the YT “personality” so she gets the credit.
It's already here, and it's called Amazon Ring.[1] "Our township is now entirely covered by cameras," said Captain Vincent Kerney, detective bureau commander of the Bloomfield Police Department. "Every area of town we have, there are some Ring cameras."

Amazon seems to be handling consumer surveillance, while Microsoft is concentrating on the business market. Google Nest, of course, watches you while you sleep. Facebook is a bit late to the party; their "Portal" device is still in pre-order.

"Big Brother is watching YOU!"

[1] https://www.cnet.com/features/amazons-helping-police-build-a...
Both Quake 1 and Quake 2 ran fine on my Pentium MMX (and i guess regular Pentium since they didn't use the MMX stuff) using the software rasterizer and Quake 3 also ran fine on my Pentium 2 with a GeForce 2.
Depending on the definition of "modern". If you mean third generation tanks, then the US has almost twice as many. 7970 vs 4791. Russia has 15755 but I'm not sure how many qualify as third generation. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_main_battle_tanks_by_c...
It does look cool. TBH, I've never thought much of these pickup truck/car hybrids (which have a fairly long history) from a practical perspective. You get a car without a lot of interior space and a pickup bed that is too small for a lot of purposes. But it's a nice aesthetic.
What a shame that this is being downvoted. More puns!

If we pun them to death maybe they won't pick such silly names again
I don't mind gift cards. It's a bit tacky when you can tell they are Christmas leftover by the eGiftCard that is included with it expering back in Feburary, and it's June.
I thought paying people to do things and taking credit yourself was the way of silicon valley.
Only about one-quarter of Indians eat beef, so it's not at all safe to assume that any random group of Indians you encounter will be majority beef-eaters.
... and can be used to buy stuff online using your credit card, everywhere, all the time.
> Are they exactly at our level of development?

If so, then at just 12ly away, we could converse with them within (many of) our lifetimes.
Those control systems only work within certain preprogrammed constraints. They are generally incapable of handling unexpected situations outside of the design limits.

Computerized fly by wire systems still depend on a pilot in the loop, especially in the case of a mechanical failure.
VMS is widely maligned today, but it really wasn't bad, and as you note the clever, native support of versions was kind of amazing. I can't believe that's not part of a modern OS.

VMS' clustering tech was also pretty great, which is the reason my late-90s employer was still on it (though on Alpha hardware at that point, not Vax).
Ask HN: What are the fastest-growing startups, right now?
Hey hackers,

I'm looking to join a startup and I want to see what are the fastest-growing, yet still young (<=18months) companies out there.

Your help is much appreciated!

Best,
Nikolay
You convert your fiat currency into crypto currency. Once the exchange is done, you have no rights to the fiat currency. This is in no way similar to a bank. The bank can use your deposited money, whereas here the currency is always in your digital wallet, and only you can initiate a transaction in and out of it. Do you have any information that contradicts this? I've only skimmed the whitepaper.
Or they put on a show because they had visitors in...
My employer, a US DoD component, had a program called “On The Spot” awards. The idea was that if you had done something outstanding, your first line supervisor could authorize an immediate bonus of up to $1000.

Being the DoD, it couldn’t be that simple. They decided that actually the bonuses had to be approved by your second, third, and fourth line supervisors. And also by the program manager at the sponsoring agency. Forms had to be filled out, lost, found, signed, routed, xeroxed, left on desks while people were on vacation. Passed through legal and security.

Also, the bonus was distributed among all the team members being rewarded. The $1000 figure was the maximum allowed for the total bonus, not the individual bonuses.

My team did something outstanding. It took 18 months of hard labor. Overtime. High stakes demonstrations. We ended up bringing in tens of millions of dollars in funding. A full year later an extra $150 showed up in my paycheck.

PS I forgot another incident. I was nominated for a prestigious award, given by an official very high up at the Pentagon. I was asked to write my own nomination letter. I was given the award; to receive it I had to dress up in a suit, show up early to work, shake the official’s hand, and then spend an hour giving him a tour. The actual award was a letter of commendation and a challenge coin. There was no bonus.

Theoretically, the challenge coin would be worth a lifetime of free drinks in bars frequented by military members. Or so I’m told. I don’t drink.
It depends, I benchmarked all of the usual suspects (fgrep, GNU grep, BSD grep, ripgrep, sift grep) on the same 30GB line separated JSON file last week and GNU grep was the fastest one.

I didn't have a scientific testing setup though. I just ran them one by one like this:

time cat title_complete_json.txt | grep tt9184994 >> result
You can tap on the bubble in the search results to display information about the place and it will have a call button there. Don't remember if it still has that bubble once you start navigating.

It is also supposed to give you POI info including the phone and working hours if you tap on any POI bubble on the screen, but it doesn't work for some reason.
As a keen cyclist that trains with a powermeter, there are very few people on the planet that can produce 500W for an hour, more like 1 minute for mere mortals.

I think 150W for an hour would be more reasonable for a typical person, even then you're going to get pretty sweaty.
I have been working with C# for a long time now, so it's pretty cool to watch it become a contender in cross platform server-side development (Mono has been there for some time now for desktop stuff, but I don't know how much traction it got. I don't think many people used it for back end work).

I think the language is really well-designed. It does have a lot of features, but still feels pretty coherent and not overwhelming. LINQ is great. As for what's coming, I'm particularly excited about the non-nullable types in C# 8.0.

I wish it would get low syntactic overhead sum types, similar to Haskell, OCaml and F#. That's the biggest thing I currently miss.

One thing I am disappointed in is going with async/await paradigm instead of supporting green threads. This essay explains why pretty well, and has already been linked on HN a few times: https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...
Yes, and I think it’s a boneheaded and disingenuous argument. Much, if not most, of the world is blatantly in poverty and cannot afford a quality standard of living. Comparing it to a world with equitable wealth distribution would be much better. This is how the western world justifies open exploitation.
>To make it even better, there were some vegans in the mix and they didn't have anything that they could eat.

I was on the reverse end of that. A small group of folks eventually became in charge of company morale type events... they only liked "different" things.

So there would be a presentation or event like thing and lunch. Except lunch would be these weird vegan-ish "pizzas" and other dishes catered out, but absolutely NO standard type lunch stuff. I don't mind odd stuff here and there but it was all very unusual and honestly sometimes gross (even the vegans on our team wouldn't eat it). Like at least have a few standard sandwiches.... At one point it became such an issue people stopped going to the events.

The saga went on and on with this group of folks "guarding" the door so people didn't leave early, events eventually became mandatory (people still did not go), etc.
Seems you haven't looked up the history of "1st world currencies" and how they don't in fact retain value over time. Even the almighty US dollar has lost 97% of its value over the past century and it's the reserve currency.
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Quebec’s harsh new laws may echo sentiments felt elsewhere in Canada
It's an oligarchy just like the nearest hotdog stand is a dictatorship.

Don't like it don't use it. Try saying the same to the governments come tax-time.