skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back when communications and printing devices were much slower, we often chose tab stops to reduce the number of characters sent. I have used this algorithm, but I doubt it impacted my career earnings.

James L. Peterson, James R. Bitner, and John H. Howard, ``On the Selection of Optimal Tab Settings'', Communications of the ACM, Volume 21, Number 12, (December 1978), pages 1004-1007.

http://jklp.org/profession/papers/tab/paper.html
You're right, those are the leaked docs from June. Here is the one I meant to link, August's. The interview is alright, a little self-congratulatory at the end, but the documents are pretty hard to argue.

https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/08/14/google-machine-lea...
Oh, I'm not saying you can't live as a vegan. But the criticism of these diets is they prescribe X grams of this, Y grams of that, and use those numbers to compute a global environmental impact. If the X and Y are both underestimates compared to what an adult needs, then so is the impact.
I realized that my team simply did not have much to say on the issue of police brutality. This was odd—mostly because I’d watched them debate countless other topics, newsworthy and not, with a proud deftness and alacrity,”

This is a nonsensical complaint. There are probably 10 topics that I am interested in, that are important to me, that nobody I know would be interested in discussing at length with me. I understand that police brutality may be an important issue to him, but coworkers not being interested in discussing it at length at work doesn’t seem like an indicator of racism or bad company culture to me.

I wonder how much the current college environment has to do with graduates ascribing things that seemingly have no connection with various “isms” to them.
Google also responded immediately to getting hacked by the Chinese - no more Windows laptops or PCs for developers 10 years ago.

The security of Chrome is astounding (and certainly far better than Apple or Microsoft).

The only black stain is Android... (Edit: disclaimer: I use Android)
I worked at a startup company for a year in the Midwest that was in the exact same situation, growing 50% YOY with only a little pocket change for speed funding all owner by the founders.

The founders had the same exact idea, founders own 100%, employees own nothing, and they wanted to tell everyone how awesome they were because of it. Key difference was that apparently our city's chamber of commerce that had a lot of skin in the game trying to brand themselves and did some PR work for the founders before they ran their mouth on how wonderful their company was. The message was, after a few edits:

You were going to be paid well but we will never put you into the golden handcuffs our friends on the coast love. (Google "We don't coast" for context)

He sounds like an asshole but really being able to work for a privately owned fast growing company without shitty options being paid well is pretty great in the tech world.
I grew up in a mostly black county, and attended predominantly black schools my entire childhood. Something that the typical person on HN doesn't understand is how implicitly absurd, and accidentally racist, it is to view the comments of an individual black person to be representative of black people in general.

We do this all the time, but would never accept a random white person to claim they represent all white people.

Al Sharpton knows nothing about the lives of black people where I grew up. He's never been there. My friends growing up were deeply resentful of his constant claim to be "the voice of black America." He's a New Yorker, through and through. And yet the media elites act as if he was an elected representative of black America.

This Google employee is no different. How does he get to speak for all black Googlers? Who elected him? How many black employees at Google think he's correct, vs. paranoid and overly sensitive?

Show me an actual survey, and I'll open up on this. But this is anecdotal bullshit, just like the placating white hosts on news channels signaling their virtue by picking up the phone and bringing Sharpton on since they don't know normal, non-celebrity black people.
Same here on only service visit. That glass is huge! When I went to get the car tinted they didn’t even carry a piece of tint that large
The article you cite says:

> "To put our results into perspective, the levels of driver errors we found are of a similar magnitude to those found in people with a blood alcohol content of 0.08%"

This is just comparing against the lower limit of what we legally allow. Clearly, many drunk drivers are far drunker than this.

But in any case, I don't think it's "just public pressure to enforce moral values". You can't legally drive on Ambien, but this is a prescribed drug that I don't think people have a moral issue with.

While I think the dehydration example above is probably a stretch since it's not really as bad as alcohol, there are other things that are. I'm pretty sure driving with lack of sleep is pretty bad. But it's just not practical to test for it as far as I know.
I don’t feel like a Tester anymore
If anyone’s looking for a browser with deeply integrated vim key bindings then check out qutebrowser. I’ve been using it for about a month now and it’s pretty great. Only downsides for me are lacking support for my yubikey, and questionable security. I’m not saying the security is necessarily bad (I think the actual browser is based on chrome), just that I don’t have as much confidence in it as I would in stock chrome or Firefox.

https://qutebrowser.org/
In the real olden days (mid 90's), we had entire offices with public IP addresses and no firewalls!
I've made a switch almost year ago from Linux (and OSX earlier) to Windows - thanks to WSL it's like being still on *nix system but with running painlessly .exe applications ;)
splendid reading, an enlightening essay about society and operating systems as a mediated experience methaphore
FWIW: Norway has very good universal bealth care and my employer still has health insurance that goes above and beyond that.

Just mention to point out that companies can put an effort into this even if thwy don't have to.
> I realized that my team simply did not have much to say on the issue of police brutality. This was odd—mostly because I’d watched them debate countless other topics, newsworthy and not, with a proud deftness and alacrity,” [...] particularly after big news events such as the police killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, and during the ensuing protests against police brutality.

Is Michael Brown a good example of police brutality though? Maybe they didn't have much to say because it turns out a lot of the facts there have been twisted and embellished, to put it mildly. Maybe they just politely refused to discuss it at work?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Michael_Brown#%22H...

https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releas...

https://web.archive.org/web/20190811143955/https://www.washi...
No, Hacker News has a very different demographic than most other sites. I'm not saying flagging isn't a viable model, but it's also not reasonable to pretend it's going to work as well.
Async-std: an async port of the Rust standard library
We still support old code we haven't rewritten, occasionally adding some features, but generally speaking, no, we haven't looked back. The core of our business logic (a lot of background processing) has long since moved from a hand-rolled CFML approach to Sidekiq. The eventual goal is to retire CFML completely.
on a whim...do you know of any good guides for integrating an external API? i'm new to rails and working on a rails project that needs to communicate with a third party api -- there are a lot of messy guides, particularly for oauth
^^ agreed, and a chuckle to spare .. so far I have never heard anyone seriously argue that the right to bear arms extends to atomic weapons as well as assault weapons ..
Yet you still breathe. The journey is not yet over and you may still have some time left. I'd take what you learned and try to synthesize it for the rest of us to understand, I know I would benefit from such a thing.
Arsenic was used for damn near everything from agriculture to manufacturing until about 100 years ago. It's a very effective pesticide (it kills everything!) and there weren't a whole lot of other options back then that actually worked.

https://www.chelseagreen.com/2009/the-tangled-history-of-ars...
I hated on Rails forever. It has its flaws for sure. And granted, I now have 5 years of experience with it, but there is nothing that compares to it for whipping something together quickly.

Don't get me wrong, Python is a great language. And Django is a great framework. There's lots of good languages and Frameworks.

But Rails has the right magic of incredibly stable tooling, a huge community, and tons of documentation & guides written for beginners. It definitely has a unique (and valuable) place in the world / businesses.
83% of US teens have an iPhone according to Piper Jaffray in April 2019 [1].

That number is biased, however, as 1) it's solely based on a survey done in high schools, and not every teen will feel comfortable admitting they have something else than an iPhone 2) the surveys are performed by DECA Inc. which is more affiliated with private schools and public high schools in affluent neighborhoods.

Still, I estimate that about 3 in 4 teens (and increasing) have an iPhone, either new or a model that was previously used by a parent who bought a new one. That's huge, and iMessage plays a very big role in that.

[1] https://www.ped30.com/2019/04/08/apple-piper-jaffray-genz/
Offshoring and the decline in US manufacturing employment
+1 for tubeless -- I switched a few weeks ago after getting sick of weekly punctures in Phoenix -- already saved me a boatload of time and trouble.

Currently running WTB Venture 47c [changed from Horizons] on a 650b 'gravel bike', fantastic stuff, gets me where I wanna go.
Protest clearly is useful and virtuous.

But protest that is crafted to cause disruption to the populace at large (blocking traffic) needs to be used very carefully.

It can create backlash against and undermine your cause.

Further, the precedent that any group with a grievance can undermine common goods like transportation infrastructure is a dangerous one-- irrespective of the validity and the severity of the grievances..
Just the fact that you will be profiting off of this perceived issue, means you have some interest in the root causes of impaired driving remaining unsolved. Reading statements like this just tells me you have dollar signs in your eyes:

> we're imagining a world where there are one of our devices in every police car in North America

Nowhere did I see a sentiment akin to this:

> we're imagining a world where people act more responsibly, driving deaths are reduced, etc

I think it would go a long way towards establishing more credibility and goodwill on your part if you pledged a not-insignificant % of revenue (not just profit) towards education, mental health and/or civil rights efforts. At the end of the day, it is all citizens' tax dollars that will be used to pay you, so you should do the right thing and make those dollars work for them.

You should show that you're actually using this as a step towards eradicating the root cause, not just profiting off of the perceived problem. Probably the best way for something like this to show it has helped society is if it ultimately obviates its own raison d'être, because the problem has been solved and thus the need for your palliative has vanished.

It's like a doctor prescribing opiates vs solving the underlying issue of a patient's pain, or psychiatric patients hooked on antidepressants. I'm sure there were plenty of execs dreaming of every pharmacy stocked with Oxy. These things may be helpful, but only as a step towards solving the underlying issue. When they become the end goal, people get hurt.
Not sure what you mean, but aircraft stopped being "chassis and body" some time in the 1930's. That was the switch to a monocoque design with stressed skin.
My thoughts as well. Kind of a clever trick and I guess I can give him that this particular marketing trick doesn't have any real victims nor does it really hurt anyone, but its still dishonest at the end of the day.
I think it's hard to say which is better, each software has quirks that will drive you insane.

In 3ds Max; simple things like selection are broken. You double click to select an object and its children in the Hierarchy (contrary to single click in every other software ever made), the problem is, this is laggy; you get a loading spinner when selecting objects!

In blender despite the UI refresh in 2.8, the interface is still horrible. There are hundreds duplicate menu entries, and many functions without any menu entry at all, accessible only by keyboard shortcut.

The only software I've use that doesn't drive me mad is Cinema4D, but it's missing some features from other softwares.
Cannabis has been medically prescribed in CO for nearly 20 years. As of this year, autism spectrum disorders are a disabling medical condition qualifying for medical use, joining PTSD, seizures, cancer, glaucoma, AIDS, severe pain, and others.

https://www.cell.com/pb-assets/journals/trends/molecular-med... draws similar conclusions scientifically rather than anecdotally -

"Currently, science does not support the development of cannabinoid limits in motor vehicles drivers per se because of the many factors influencing concentration–effect relation-ships."

"There is no one blood or oral fluid concentration that can differentiate impaired and not impaired."
Why anti Star Trek ?

I remember several episodes in TOS where the crew got easily overpowered by the aliens, and they were cryptic and truly alien.

It was in TNG where the 'guy in a mask' alien became commonplace.
> founders who know they have a big opportunity

Firstly, that kind of founder/opportunity is exceedingly rare. It may as well not exist for purpose of discussion.

Ideas are literally worthless. You become successful via execution and execution at scale (unicorn scale) requires many moving parts with many people. That means there's no sure bets at the early rounds. There's not a specific formula that "works" so it's all subjective and VC groupthink. VC "works" only because they take high risk with limited downside via all the things Toptal is complaining about. Without those onerous terms, there would be no VC (as we know it) and it would be an order of magnitude or 2 harder to get funded.
Arsenic trioxide was widely used as a herbicide. A typical application would be something like 1 pound/1000 sq feet. ( 50kg/hectare for the rest of planet earth).

So dosing a field will take about as big a sack as you can carry and 250mg will kill you.

Extra fun fact: I got the application rate numbers from an article about controlling weeds on golf courses.

When people have a feeling about herbicides being dangerous… this is the kind of herbicide that caused it.

Extra bonus fun fact: My father's grandmother used to make up a mixture of arsenic trioxide and mercury to paint around the windows to keep bugs out of the house.
Ive never understood fair use to be a right. Fair use is a weakening of right holders rights, a defense that can be used to get a case dismissed, despite copyright infringement having technically occurred.
Google is working on this. Look at section "Mute song only (beta)"

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2902117?hl=en
Well, that's what I meant by CO2-equivalents. They figure methane into the math that way. Removing that methane would account for 5% of the CO2-equivalent problem we have. As potent as Methane is, it's dwarfed by the amount of CO2 we've added.
Not at all. The verification is symbolic.
At the gigatonne scale, nothing is easy to store. Fill the entire Hoover dam with graphite, and you've stored 6 gigatonnes. We need to store tens of gigatonnes per year for a hundred years.
Really, really happy to hear this. The Hartl tutorial is my gold standard. Props.
> it would probably destroy her relationships and her mind

What then is left of a person?
> You didn't ask me how my warranty service was.

I'm going by the basis of the article. Although you're right, your anecdotal evidence would be helpful to the general gist of the story too.

> The rental company said following a dispute over how to resolve the quality shortcomings, Tesla triggered a refund clause but Tesla disputes that it canceled the order.

Overall, it seems like a warranty issue. Quality shortcomings are common in fleet vehicles (order 100 cars, a large number of them are going to be defective). The main issue is warranty + service, to ensure that all vehicles get up to code for business use.
Resonance: How to Open Doors for Other People
It's almost like Silicon Valley "move fast & break things" ideology, applied to auto manufacturing, leads to the manufacture of defect-ridden cars in a tent.
Yes, I saw the stats and still think "minimal" is exactly correct. If you read my link, the unpowered version showed an 8% metabolic rate reduction while running. If you put batteries and motors on something, I would expect the gains to be quite a bit better than that for it to be practical.
Very cool! Congratulations!

I was happy to se new Rails notification from newreleases.io today.
What do you think about Julian Assange? Is he a Heroe?
Is he a heroe? Im agree when someone show us the true but ¿What is the limit when someone cross the line? The goverment is affected and show the worst part of them. Can they do that? Put someone in the jail like a street dog?
Seems to be really strong seasonality. How does that make sense? Wouldn't people put off their purchases until -it looks like- the end of the year?
Not that I think much of technical analysis, but from eyeballing those charts it looks like we're right on the (upwards) trend that has held all decade, with the exception of people getting a bit over-excited in 2018.

I'm quietly hoping for it to flatten off or drop, but I don't see it in those charts.
Do you remember a source? I'd be happy to update my own thinking to that number if I found an argument for it.
From my personal experience, I can agree with "personal experience" not mattering as much. But on the other hand, I received counseling as a teenager and my first counselor wasn’t a good fit for me at all (while my dad loved him) and I switched to another. I can imagine a black person having a harder time connecting to a non-black psychiatrist.
Does this test for edibles? If a user has THC in their blood stream but not from their lungs, will this show up? Alcohol is absorbed through the stomach, passed through the bloodstream and released through the lungs. Since THC is fat soluble, I can't imagine it interacts the same way to allow for breathalyzer testing of people who have taken edibles.
Sure, I'll give it a shot.

Ruby classes usually need to explicitly require the other classes and modules which they use. Rails implemented a different way to achieve requiring dependencies using a method called "const_missing" which requires the missing dependent when it is not found in the known constant list.

The problem with this is that if your classes and modules do not adhere to a strict arrangement within your source code directories then Rails can sometimes not find the file you are looking for, or worse find the wrong file.

Since "require" has an effect on the loaded constant namespace, the order of requiring dependencies can make a difference in the presence of bugs related to which code has been required.

There's more information here: https://github.com/fxn/zeitwerk#motivation
Claim:

> The Federal Reserve Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on December 23, 1913, when most lawmakers had already left the Capital for their home states

The bill passed the House of Representatives by an overwhelming majority of 298 to 60 on December 22, 1913. The bill passed the Senate by a vote of 43 to 25 on December 23, 1913. That's 60% of those voting.

There were 96 Senate seats in 1913, and 71 senators were present for the vote on the final version of the bill. Of those present, 43 voted for the bill, 25 voted against, and 3 did not vote because of vote pairing. 24 senators were absent and 1 seat was empty because of a recent death.

The pages from the Congressional Record that show the vote and the vote pairing are here (PDF): http://www.llsdc.org/assets/FRAdocs/fra-lh_v51-cr-1487-1488-...

An earlier version of the bill passed the Senate on December 19 by a vote of 54 to 34 (an absolute majority). Only one Senator who voted for the bill on December 19 changed his vote to nay on December 23. This was George Perkins (R), Calif.

If all senators had voted, the vote would have been 57 votes in favor of the bill. There would be 50 Democrats, plus one Progressive —Miles Poindexter— and 6 Republicans: Jones, Norris, Weeks (who all voted for the bill), as well as Crawford, Fall, and Sterling (who were absent but would have voted for the bill).

Of course, any Congress could repeal the Federal Reserve Act. It has been amended dozens of times since 1913.

Claim:

> The Federal Reserve (a cabal of international banks that is not part of the US Government) seized control of the US monetary system

The Federal Reserve System includes an indepent federal agency, the Board of Governors, led by 7 governors who are nominated by the president of the United States and approved by the United States Senate.

It also includes 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks, each a separate corporation. Each district Bank has 9 directors, 6 chosen by the member banks in the district, and 3 chosen by the Board of Governors (the federal agency). Each bank gets two votes for directors. If there are multiple banks in the district owned by the same company, only one of those banks can vote for directors.

Federal Reserve member banks consist of all national banks plus those state-chartered banks that choose to belong. There were more than 1,600 member banks at the end of 2018: https://pastebin.com/iiDR4Za4

Claim:

> Even though the constitution still describes the value of a dollar as a specific weight of gold

Nope. https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcri...

Claim:

> President John F. Kennedy voiced support for returning America to the Gold Standard.

Sounds like the Executive Order 11110 myth. This was part of JFK's plan to eliminate silver certificates.
Don't blame Autodesk. Blame Avid for selling it to them. Avid never quite understood how to position it in its' lineup, and sold it at 1/10th the price it paid 10 years prior.
The Four-Second Catastrophe: How Boeing Doomed the 737 Max
That's not the case. The policy of the UK government is that they just had a referendum in 2014, so one is not needed today, not that another referendum should never be allowed. The latest poll I can find shows that the majority of Scotland opposes another referendum at this point, so why would they have one right now before Brexit is complete?