skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work for a product with big numbers too. We have humans reading the support queue (with a lot of engineering to prefilter and group for bulk replies and what not). People may or may not like our support, or may complain it's not as good as it used to be, but it's there.

Frankly, we couldn't have as many users as we do without a human connection in support. Users tell us what we're doing wrong, and what we need to do that we're not doing, and where we need to improve --- but only if you listen to them.
In most browser implementations (at least all the ones we develop for) it would assume a radix of 10 for those values specifically.
The answer is - railway ;) . I doubt that small craft (any prop type) will ever be so quick overall - they are aircrafts and require all aircraft related checks and control, safety for passengers, safety from passengers etc. And about price I don't know, maybe it will be slightly cheaper than jets. So you'll have slightly cheaper businessjet prices, which are still astronomical.
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Are Macbooks still king or is there a reasonable alternative?
I think this is correct. This is to help management say that if if there is a policy and it’s violated that it can’t have been accidental because extra conscious steps have to be taken which violate policy. Making it easier to make people adhere to policy (and discipline as well).
It’s reminded me to this funny talk https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
> defaults to base 10, whereas parseInt (at least histortically) does not.

To clarify for others (because this probably sounds crazy): The default is implicit like the rest of JavaScript, it will change base depending on presence of the prefixes 0x (16) and 00 (8), it doesn't seem to have included 0b yet. The confusing bit was octal because as you can imagine some sources might have base 10 padded with zeros, ES5 basically removes implicit octals in parseInt to avoid this issue.

Arguably this is more of a problem with the ambiguous octal prefix than the concept of using prefixes to determine base.
I'll admit I'm a very fringe case, but I loved the ability to play the original Microsoft Entertainment Packs on my Mac using WINE. There's just something about how simple and clean those games are, and people actually like to see them when I have a paused game of rodent's revenge on one of my screens.

I really don't want to lose that!
This is a long-winded expose of northern Virginia. I only made it about half-way through, there were some subsidies promised apparently.

In any case, I never considered locations other than Northern VA as viable for the HQ2 business, it was 90% going there from the start IMO due to 1) Existing Amazon Offices 2) Existing Amazon Datacenters and major internet exchanges 3) Proximity to DC.

So, to present this as to 'How Virginia Won' is a little wishful IMO. Virginia did nothing other than happen to be the place where other companies are doing business.
I like how you expressed it. The days of “free lunch”, easy answers from traditional religions are gone, and now every of us individually needs to do a hard work of finding a purpose.
The question isn't one of "that will not be seen" it's one of "they don't know if it's seen because the reader didn't use the mechanisms which allow email tracking."
Agreed - if you read the description section in the Mozilla docs, there is no mention of falsy. He should eliminate that section.
What about just downloading and adding comments to the text based diff representation (and maybe email or something to send things back and forth).
Thank you! The article failed to provide the conclusion, ie, how to make it work as one would expect were one not steeped in JS quirks
In that code, after generateKey, during the sensitive operation, the system might need to do a garbage collection, at which point this array might have been copied to a different location in memory before your call to zero. You have to also "pin" (afaik this is the usual terminology for this) that array to a fixed location (which would then have to be a feature of that runtime and garbage collector) after allocating it but before generating the key.
What should the average person know about Facebook’s June announcement of Libra?
Stalling is a term also used with engines, and it's pretty clear he's talking about engines not working at altitude so "stall" is probably the correct term
1.25M revenue in 5 years is nothing. I'd ask how those competitors you mentioned are doing but I think I already know the answer.
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Yeah I’d imagine most of the reasons sited from this hat wiki article don’t apply to an electric plane. But yeah air density would definitely be an issue but I thought the nasa Helios flight showed 90k to be the upper limit? So figured pushing to bear that altitude could be achieved and possibly beneficial since it would avoid bad weather and reduce drag... I guess was imagining the bulk of the engine power would be consumed at the start of the flight to reach altitude and then from there mostly glide until descending to land... but I’m not an aviation engineer at all just dreaming of quieter sky’s and less pollution
> mainland

Hey there, Republic of Ireland would like to have a word with you :)
I used to stare at the name every time and try to pronounce it like a word in an African language (like Ngoba). Felt like such an idiot when I figured out what it's supposed to be.
Propeller noise can be generally managed more easily than engine noise.
The article is not clickbait but the takeaway is easily misinterpreted. Instead of "JavaScript is such a weird and confusing language" it should be "a lot of people are using JavaScript without understanding the method signatures of commonly using methods".
The syntactic sugar here is that map and parseInt can be called without specifying all parameters. (But, since JS has no function overloading, it's the same function you're calling.)
What do you sell ?.
> I've sat out of the whole superhero franchise for, what, over a decade or so now?

I just tried to figure out whether I'd recommend any of the Marvel films on their own raw merit to someone without interest in the whole series and... no? Maybe Guardians of the Galaxy 2 if you like sci-fi. Solid theme, better writing than most, fairly good humor. Maybe the first Iron Man since it stands alone pretty well and it's not too hard to just stop there, satisfied, having basically seen what about half the rest of the movies do (god, there are what, 22 or 23 now?), entirely. Interesting perspective to think about them from.

If you have any interest in Marvel superheroes whatsoever I'd recommend Into the Spiderverse as the best single movie they've put out. It's animated, not part of their live-action "universe".

But yeah, none of it's Hitchcock or Renoir, at all. Or even upper-tier Spielberg. Well, maybe Into the Spiderverse hits almost that level, at least.

[EDIT] I don't mean to be too harsh to them, overall they're an incredible achievement in consistency, with only a couple being truly terrible (my attempt to give Thor 2 a second chance was... not successful, only made it about 30 minutes) which is pretty nuts, even for by-the-numbers filmmaking. At least four of the five Avengers entries are maybe the most flawlessly-executed high fan service in the history of ever (2 was a bit of a misstep—pulled their punches, I think, though even it's just shy of belonging with the others). But yeah, "would you recommend any of these to a film fan, not a blockbuster movies fan, who doesn't want to sit through 50 hours to see the whole thing?". That's a toughy. Maybe those couple, that's about it.
I feel a lot of pity for all wild cats, because their domestic cousins have it soo good. This cat-fox in a remote swamp in a remote island is dearly missing out big in the perks of civilization. Then again, we even let people do that ...
Only because map's third provided argument exists. If map only supplied element and index to the callback, this would pass most type checkers I'm familiar with, and would remain just as confusing.
You write like it's a bad thing, but if this is resolved by Apple doing right by their customer, isn't that a good thing?

Obviously, that is a rage post (understandably). OP seems to no longer be enraged... problem solved, right?
The map function fully expects a function with two arguments, as per documentation. Why would passing a function that takes two arguments to map be an error?
Other than the GPU on the 2012's will randomly fail with no other fix than to disable the discrete GPU via firmware hacks.
It's worth mentioning that all these measures can be fairly trivially defeated by the analog loophole[1]. I suppose it's harder to prove authenticity in that case, however.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_loophole
This is a key factor for me not getting a mac. Not so much that I couldn't swap the hard drive, but that I couldn't recover data if the motherboard goes bad.

And the keyboard.
Some rockets use hydrogen and their pressure vessels aren't so heavy as to keep them stuck on the ground. You only need to contain the hydrogen for hours, not weeks.
The OP wrote "I don't (and won't)" use an email reader with such tracking liabilities.
Actually solving problems at the roots like that won't show results for 1 generation which is too long for human political memories
Yeah, GSuites it's pretty bad for enterprise use because it's missing such, in my opinion, mandatory features.
I have friends and relatives in London but seriously wonder how long it will be before they are forced to leave - things just seem to go from bad to worse on all sorts of indicators of quality of life, and the authorities appear acquiescent in the decline. Whilst in the UK one admittedly can never get very far away from built up areas, my plan is to get as far away as possible.
> Probably seems a lot worse, since a year to a 12 year old feels like at least 5 years to a 30-something.

Reminds me about the old quote about how life is like a roll of toilet paper, the more you use up the faster it goes by.
You're being downvoted but you do raise a valid point. I've been willing to fight with some pretty awful checkouts in the past to buy something I really want, or to buy from someone I really want to do business with.
I tried the preemptive kernel and didn't make a difference.

I also tried Bitwig and it's great, but I use a Push I. That creates an issue (Bitwig support for Push fails in 2 major points: note repeat, and delete functionality... and they keep making changes without adding something as simple as that to the devices API).
I read years ago when it was first announced that price saving should be significant, also less machine hours for engines (longer maintenance intervals), less safety checks on the ground etc.
I'm surprised no one has come up with a browser extension yet that circumvents this. I'm guessing it would be fairly trivial to do so.
> The language has enough information

No.

> expected function that takes 1 argument

`map` expects a function that takes one, two, or three arguments.
Read harder? Don’t resort to ad hominem attacks because you don’t know or understand the law.

Walmart allegedly bribed foreign officials they didn’t try to bribe the “cops” for bringing the bribery charges. Although you can’t distinguish the legal difference, it doesn’t mean there isn’t one.

Executives do go to jail quite regularly for bribery and companies can and are judicially dissolved also.

For example I was in Las Vegas during the Shot Show when the FBI rolled right into the convention center and arrested executives/VPs of Smith and Wesson for bribing an undercover FBI agent, posing as a African delegate, for a large government contract.

Or how about the VW executives arrested (and convicted) for the emissions scandal?

Or the drug company Executives and CEO recently charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and defraud the US?
This is based on perception, but it is not supported by the numbers which is why I made sure to source my comments. Profits are riding on inflation alone. Only one superhero movie made it into the top 10!

Even on ticket numbers for the big movies, everything is in decline. For instance Avengers Endgame is, by far, the biggest movie in recent decades. Yet it sold 3 million tickets fewer than e.g. Titanic. This is made even more remarkable by population growth. The population since 1998 (when Titanic was released) has increased by nearly 28%. Even the US population has increased by more than 19% since then. Titanic sold 94,524,324 tickets. A population normalized comparable success would move more than 112 million tickets, and that's using just a 19% growth factor.

Avengers: Endgame, the mega-hit of the 21st century, sold 91,353,296 tickets. The industry is dying and blaming absolutely everything except their own decisions which, in turn, is likely contributing to their own demise as they refuse to accept responsibility for their own declining results. One of the countless parallels shared between Hollywood and the big budget game industry.
That it is clumsy is not the same as that it is semantically meaningless. My disagreement is that the statement is entirely incorrect.
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Not at all surprised to see Brandeis on there.
don't forget proximity to the Bezos residence; Crystal City is about a 15 minute drive away.
Jeopardy: An email option that encourages people to add OTHER people's phone numbers to Google's database.
This is not one of the weird things about Javascript. When you use a function (like map), always check the documentation to know its behaviour and don't assume it's similar to some similarly named function from another language. End of story.
I'd certainly call it unintuitive if you run into it yourself and aren't aware of this, but once you unpack it we've seen it's expected behavior.
Honestly, sometimes I worry that watching engineering videos online is worse than the vacuous shit that normal people watch.

I go through phases, things like aircraft, off grid living, hydropower, welding, CNC, machining, woodworking, electronics, gardening, farming, hydroponics.

Few of those are relevant to my day job or even my current living arrangements. But when I get really interested in a subject I'll devour every shred of information I can find on it.

The problem is, I doubt I'd get distracted in the middle of the working day thinking about Love Island, not so for the more "useful" things I've read and watched.
Jio's business model is not exclusively dependent on direct revenue from consumers. It includes content play on films, videos, music, news + subsequent ads. They've also indicated that they will be doing deep packet inspection [1] on data passing through their network to presumably build ad profiles of it's users.

[1] https://in.reuters.com/article/reliance-telecoms-jio/from-bi...
Won't the light from the copier reflect off the screen and ruin the image?

When I was in college (early 2000s) a local company sold notes/study guides for different courses. But they were printed in black text on dark green paper to prevent photocopying and sharing.

Good idea on their part but I used my digital camera to take photos of the pages and cranked up the details to make them look like blackish text on whiteish paper. Ended up selling them to all my friends.
The fact that you call it an escalator means you acknowledge that these relationships are headed upwards in a positive direction, even if they're sticking to the status quo.

A hedonic treadmill would be something like a couple feeling bored in their relationship, and opening the relationship up out the fear of missing out. They feel the spark of chasing something new and feeling desired and chased, but the new partners don't build anything deeper than what existed with the original partner. Thus the couple is no better off than before, hence time spent walking in place.
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"When we launched ProtonMail nearly five years ago, we pioneered a new kind of email service: one that gives you control of our own data."

This is a very unfortunate typo.
I guess you can thus say the list suffers from selection bias and skews small samples which makes it pretty useless but good marketing.
Well there's your first problem haha.
Optional/defaulted function arguments are an extremely useful feature of many programming languages; are you arguing that they are always harmful?
DOSBox is an emulator.
If they don’t scrape your email how is this page generated then?

https://myaccount.google.com/purchases
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/14/photographers-oral...
The thing about charity is that people often need money more than food. People who haven't ever been poor, or been significantly close to poor people, often don't understand the differences in cost/benefit analysis between themselves and poor people [0]. So you hear concepts like "I'd give them a $5 sandwich but not a dollar because they'll blow it on drugs." Which is basically the ethos behind food banks. So you end up with food rich, cash poor homeless folks

It's actually okay that panhandlers sell food on the street. They're exchanging a plentiful commodity for a liquid asset. They need money to live, not just food.

And dollars per hour, sadly, drugs are about the cheapest form of entertainment our society has to offer.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/11/your-br...
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So looking at the rest of the documentation, the parameter not being set causes the default radix to be 10 unless the number starts with 0 or 0x, in which case they radix is 8 or 16 respectively. Though newer versions of JS no longer support the octal syntax (it likely just caused bugs for people who had initial zeros in their strings sometimes)

parseInt("0x10") == 16
parseInt("0x10", 10) == 0
Of course. Such an argument would be sound. But the political reality would make any such a case untenable. I wonder what would be easier:

1. Rolling back the voting age only for women.

2. Dismantling Secret Service and forbidding drafts by constitutional amendment.

3. Requiring women to register for Selective Service.

4. Rolling back the voting age for everyone with a voluntary Selective Service, and then granting voting rights for anyone male or female signed up for Selective Service or active military service.
The relative weight of the tank decreases with volume and the aircraft doesn't need to hold the fuel for more than the duration of the flight. The idea is not without merit.

Shape will be more interesting - storing the fuel within the wings is not a very bright idea in this case.
Just theoretically if surveillance was good enough to catch every single crime in public, would this be "worth it"? I think maybe some cities/countries would opt for this such as Singapore and China. I can even imagine cities in the US would trade privacy for safety.
Yes but with mandatory parameters the programmer would be aware parseInt had a radix in the first place if they had used it even once. That's one advantage of mandatory parameters, but there are of course disadvantages.
Scott Galloway called it along time ago on L2inc (YouTube).
Except it simply doesn't work that way in the real world, and there are tremendous number of homeless people in Florida and virtually every other brutally homeless-hostile locale. People aren't trivially mobile -- especially if their lives are insecure and moving would mean losing the one or two connections or lifelines or familiar surroundings they have. Some have physical or mental difficulties that prevent them from relocating.
There's some interesting history for awareness of the first issue: parseInt used to be a notorious source of bugs and so it used to be more common to see it with a second argument on any project which used a linter in that era.

ES5 deprecated that behaviour and it's been widespread enough that code which started in the IE9+ era now looks like the very old buggy code omitting the radix, so anyone getting started relatively recently quite reasonably may never have needed to learn about it:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
https://eslint.org/docs/rules/radix
So open the e-mail on a Kindle, or put an antiglare screen in front of your phone, or just take a picture of one phone with another phone if the screenshot button doesn't work.

I do remember some app not "letting" me screenshot something with stock Android, which I felt to be a violation of my freedom. Obviously in my case just use a modified Android ROM without the silly anti-screenshotting logic, or screenshot it with adb over USB, but for the less-technically inclined, take a picture of the phone.
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"We could do physical Code Review sessions, but it's difficult because I've a very chaotic schedule"

Aren't you a developer? You're not a manager? Can you explain why you have a chaotic schedule? If you don't code, why are you doing code reviews then?

Seems like that's the fundamental problem right there. You said so yourself, physical code reviews would solve it. So that's the solution, the problem is your schedule, fix your schedule.

You're making this person accommodate your schedule(in addition to their own), because you don't want to do your job. Again, unless I'm missing something.
In 2019, can Berlin be considered a serious startup ecosystem?
How do you know this? Enterprises have archival/deletion policies automatically applied and emails you forward to outside parties are often tracked in legal hold platforms.

It's not unusual for whole sales organizations in particular industries have all emails archived under legal hold requirements (whether sent or received.) Another set of organizations will purge all of the same email older than than a certain date.

None of these measures are particularly hard to defeat for a bright user, but many of the risks at the company-level are mitigated. This is mostly to solve challenges with regulation or company certification, but it can make a real difference when someone is handling a privacy incident.
It's a game changer for airlines such as Harbour Air in British Columbia and Mokulele Airlines in Hawaii. These are small regional airlines which operate from the water or from small airports with flight times usually less than an hour, and most of their operational expenditures are in fuel costs. Typically for these airlines you show up 15 minutes before the flight and there is no security screening, so it's very hassle free.

Think of what it could do in other areas as well too though. Imagine a flight from the SF waterfront to Tahoe via seaplane in 45 minutes (instead of 4+ hours) with no TSA screening, or potentially even SF to LA in 90 minutes.
France is creating a G7 task force to ensure cryptocurrencies follow regulations
also compounding this abundance are the ways social media/entertainment (games) basically takes the model of gambling and juices it to insane levels

“diseases of abundance”
You mean like keras? or tensorflow?
Or base random forest. You know, like the original Breiman implementation.

Python has utility. But R is far superior in its the quality of the packages, their documentation, their ability to behave predictably on a given data type.

I run a machine learning shop. Right now all of the training, application, and data management is handled via R. R is simply superior in too many ways for us to be bothered with python for the scale of work we are doing.

Since we're moving some big applications to keras/ TF we do use python and will be using more in the future. However, for almost all data management, munging, movement visualization, reporting, its an R world.
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