skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes company policy can get in the way of mental health days if you call them that. They will usually want to think of it as a sick day instead of PTO. While I know not every company does this, every company I've worked for requires a certain amount of notice for PTO which depends primarily on how much PTO you plan to take off. However when I use sick days I tell them I'm using a sick day and don't ask.
Three Useful Express Middleware
Business-wise, they need to have the "smarts" built-in to subsidies the price so they can compete. Even if you don't use the built-in apps, it's still collecting interesting enough data to sell. Most people don't know how to block specific devices from accessing the internet, and worse, some of those devices won't work at all if they can't.
Careful not to spill your quinoa smoothie on your bespoke Macbook when you type your comments.
Frida 12.7 is out with fast inline C in JavaScript
I don't understand why Comcast has such unbalanced offerings. In the Bay Area, a top tier package (over $100/mo) is 250mbps down / 10mbps up. They claim that most people don't need to upload things, so they allocate "more of the pipe" to download. This seems like bs to me. I upload things all the time.
Install GNU Artanis with Docker
They didn't though. Just recall during the Healthcare repeal debacle, the very same voting base was foaming at the mouth against Obamacare while complaining about the threat against the Affordable Care Act.
If you want performance Cordova is not going to impress you ...
Am Microsoft.

Mountains were moved to make it scale, but that has been achieved. Semmle can scale with work - it just takes a lot of effort and code.
Punchcards have their virtues! My family's business used them for inventory management in the 70s. You could print out a deck of cards for the inventory database, and walk around the warehouse pulling out cards for anything broken or missing, then scan those cards back in to change their category.

Now you could do it all on an iPad, but the bandwidth of shuffling cards by hand can be significantly higher than scrolling through a list.
You can't really use Japan as a model for any place outside of Japan. You can't make San Francisco's residents behave like Tokyo's any more than you can make Ruth Bader Ginsburg the left tackle for the Dallas Cowboys.
Despite being amazingly well written, the most recent edition of K&R was published in 1988. The current version of C is C18, released last year, so K&R is missing about 30 years of evolution. It's not a bad book, by any means, but it doesn't include important aspects about how C is used today.
Two things: lack of having a clue and perverse incentives. The first leads to endless piles of barely functional code; the second rewards that.

The 'real' programmer that spends a month on a long term maintainable chunk of code with a well defined API and some documentation to go with it in a few hundred lines of craftmanship will be at a disadvantage to the person that creates an unmaintainable mess half the time and that is promoted away for being so great at 'getting things done' before they have to deal with the mess.
Interestingly, according to your links it looks like hackers invented microblogging.

Most of those blog posts aren’t longer than a paragraph.
OT: the FT's paywall appears to have opened up, apparently in general, not just for HN referrers.

I'd previously been using the archive.is / archive.fo workaround.

The FT is among the very highest-quality mainstream/establishment news publications, and is well worth the subscription, if you can afford it. It will reward your attention even if not.

Update: this is a one-day promo:

https://4estate.media/@aendrew/102814393931699671
It’s pretty simple: don’t connect it to the internet. Use something like AppleTV or your own box that you trust to show your streaming services.
since there is no known therapy this comment can easily be construed as wrongly blaming those with autism spectrum disorder for not having solved their autism spectrum disorder simply out of laziness and lack of motivation. I'm not a fan of RMS in general, but we're saying that the apparently untreatable condition he is allegedly affected by is effectively his own choice and own fault, an attitude that at the very best fails to help anyone with untreatable mental conditions and is also not uncommon. It may help those without such condition feel like they're living in a just world, on the other hand.
>Why do you think that is? Even after all those full-pack warnings! Don't people know they're bad?! And to answer what we tried: Gutka (a form of tobacco) banned in most Indian states. Ban on advertising of alcohol and tobacco products.

I thought we were talking about vaping. I already said I was more than fine with restricting purchase, advertising, etc. in the same way we do with tobacco. But no, it's now a ban, and we've tried nothing.

>No, it began with people getting hooked to nicotine-delivery substances and not being able to stop.

That's ridiculous. Of course the current hysteria did. Whether or not I want to be hooked on nicotine is none of your damn business.

>Nicotine addiction is bad, at least on economic consequences (remember, this isn't a rich country, so for many people it's a choice between nicotine and other necessary goods)

Again, don't need to be people's nannies. Do we have real data on that or are you just thinking aloud? Are there no other vices that would take its place? C'mon.

>I'm not sure if I want to wait for multiple generations to get hooked up to addiction before the health results of multi-decades of careful research (sometimes sponsored by vaping companies) are out.

I'm not sure it should be up to you. That's my point.

>And yes, it is my right as a citizen to support something I know is curbing a bad thing before it gets hold in my country.

You don't know it's a bad thing. In a vacuum where it is the only harmful substance known to man, sure, but you ignore the fact that people are just going to go back to cigarettes. Why isn't your country as concerned with those?

>Again, the last thing I would say is helpful is banning things, and I'm kind of starting to understand your points as well. But vigorous defense of nicotine isn't the right way to go IMO.

I'm not out to defend nicotine. I wouldn't want my son to start vaping, but we have to weigh what we lose at the same time we discuss what we may gain.

One thing I'd like you to understand is that, from my end, I'm worried. I'm worried I'm going to lose vaping and will go back to cigarettes. I hope I don't, but I've failed before, and I have a family who is worried as well.
I don't have a reference, but I believe coffee cups are assumed to be recyclable even though actually, and in most part due to the polyethylene-lined inside, they are not.
A simple form of this was done in Prague recently, to see what tourists were throwing away (5 min video).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5Vj8wb5jAs
Surely, that depends on how you frame it?

Tossing three coins doesn't increase the odds of any one of them being heads, surely enough. But tossing them at the same time as a single combined trial, instead of just one coin, does increase the odds of at least one heads showing up from 50 to 87.5%.

Of course, you're going to have all those vaccines anyway and so the odds are the same overall for those administrations. Just like it doesn't matter whether we toss three coins at the same time, or weeks apart; the odds are 87.5% we will see a head.

But grandparent has a point about a situation like getting multiple vaccines before travel, where you're making it more likely that side effect will occur during that specific inconvenient time.
I don't understand. Comcast has their own infrastructure: a bunch of coax in the ground. Century Link (previously known as: QWest, USWest, and Ma Bell) has their own: Cat-3 coppter in the ground.
Ah. I'm not a frequent Google user, so I've never seen that before. But I'll concede that most people are frequent Google users.

Still, the fact that Google has a workaround for this issue shows that it is an issue.
Comparing Distributed SQL Performance – Yugabyte/ Amazon Aurora / CockroachDB
Red Hat Open Letter to the Free Software Foundation Board of Directors
In Colorado here as well, but unfortunately unincorporated Jeffco. Really hope this begins to spread through Colorado, since right now our only option is Comcast.

If it does well for Fort Collins and Longmont, maybe other areas will try it as well.
You were a little more direct than I would have been, but I was thinking the same thing. Basically ignore the job posting/resume process, or just work with it only as much as you need to in order to get in front of someone with hiring powers.

Also, remember that the people who actually decide who to hire are often as frustrated with the process and its artificiality as the applicants.
This isn't the most unreasonable idea, are their movements really consistent with balloons, though?
Wow, they seem to be completely wiped out.
What better way to turn up the innovation engine of competition than to raise the bar with a baseline standard?
Dangerous advice if object values can contain string terminates..

var obj = { "Name": "Joe`s sloppy" };

will work well as plain object while

obj = JSON.parse('{ "Name": "Joe's sloppy" }');

Will kill your site.. hard to control especially with several different unicode characters all being interpreted as plings
It's a reasonable question -- and I'd consider it another argument for the "paid upgrade" model not to have died. That makes it possible for users to hop off the bandwagon, while still providing some level of recurring revenue from existing customers for developers.

I'm not sure how to really address that in a subscription-based world, although PocketCasts seems to be pursuing a pretty good approach here: you can use the app for its core functionality without subscribing at all, and the subscription price is pretty reasonable. If you want Office 365, where the cheapest price is $70/yr, the calculation might well lead you to "let's see if Apple Pages or LibreOffice can do what I want instead."
My feedback:

* I really enjoyed it.

* It took me a bit to get out of the mindset of games where you slot your upgrades into predefined places on a ships body. Until I got past that, I didn't properly appreciate how cool the game was.

* I found it hard to actually view battles and see what was going on. At a range where I could see the ships, I couldn't really see anything about them. I often wanted to track a ship or to track-with-offset a ship (if I had ships chasing it down), but I couldn't really get the hang of setting my viewport very well. After a while, I got used to speeding up time and then dropping it down to 1/4 as soon as my ships made contact, and that helped a bit, but it was still difficult for me. I feel like having a ship selector of all ships in radar range that I could page between could be good, and maybe make it easier to chase ships down with the viewport.

* While it's pretty easy to know if you need more crew, or power (because of the indicators), it's a lot harder to know if your ship is suffering because of insufficient maneuverability.

* There were a lot more friendly fire events and collisions with my small formation of ships than I thought was really reasonable. I love the possibility of it, but in ships crewed by reasonably intelligent crew, it should be obvious to stay out of the huge plasma beam firing at the other ship.

* I did enjoy discovering that due to my placement, if one of my missile launcher bays fired during a particular maneuver, the maneuvering thruster would blow my missile up.
I haven't checked all the tools, but even out of the paid ones SEMRush is the only one I've found that allows you to export all the keywords in a way to make this technique effective.
Absolutely. I think litter is entirely a cultural/social issue.

It might be a little trite but I sometimes think the Eastern approach of Shame is more effective than the Western approach of Guilt in curbing small social transgressions.
The hell it does. Dijkstra's words are as important, if not even more important than when they were first written. The whole problem is that we keep re-inventing the wheel and all associated problems over and over again. We never put the lessons learned the hard way to practice in the long run. New generation -> rinse, repeat.
"Many of the peaks in this dataset correspond to holidays and/or events that bring more people out onto the street — Halloween, for example, shows up prominently."

yeah I guess so
Maybe Mr. Hanky will be the spokes-poo in superbowl commercials for the product.
Is there anything at all to suggest that this isn’t just another regular explainable UFO sighting?
HPV can cause mouth and throat cancer[1].

[1]https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/sexual-health/can-oral-sex-give...
Dangerous advice if object values potentially can contain string terminators..

var obj = { "Name": "Joe`s sloppy place" };

will work well as plain object while

obj = JSON.parse('{ "Name": "Joe's sloppy place" }');

Will kill your site.. hard to control especially with several different unicode characters all being interpreted as plings by json parse..
That has not been the case for me. My personal cell phone number has been on my voicemail for a decade now, and I get about two calls a year, generally for system outages or weird issues for a user with a deadline, or for true special cases.

We have automated monitoring of services, and except for the core routers and environmental monitors, all SMS notifications are disabled from midnight to 6am. 'tis lovely.
The post you're commenting on was generated by Jekyll. The data transferred on a cold load is 70.76 KB. Most of that is a TypeKit font.

It's still five times times less data transferred than the Stallman microblog you linked.
Since you mention typesetting: I am working on a volunteer project that is transcribing old, out of print books from the 1700s through early 1900s (all public domain). For now the plan is simply to make them available online formatted for web, e-readers, and PDF, but thought is being given to formatting for print-on-demand. We've never done the latter so we have no idea what tools would be best for that: is there a good reference for free tools/software for doing page layout for physical books?
Towards a UX Strategy for Gnome
'Assert early and often'. Check your assumptions all the time, nine out of ten times that's where your bugs will hide.
Does it have the ability to do ad/tracker blocking properly, or is it cripple in some way that still makes the data ads/trackers are able to collect valuable?
IA are specifically refusing to follow robots.txt directives largely on account of just this behaviour.

https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea...

https://archive.org/post/184024/robotstxt-policy-is-a-failur...
> This was how the MAX part of the 737 MAX was designed. Using a short iteration on top of an existing design.

A lot of software (that's often written about) can be tested 'in production' with fairly minor consequences in the event of 'failures'. That's an obvious difference between developing or maintaining software versus something like airplanes.

But testing or validating the changes made in short iterations is important regardless. Agile stresses the utility of short iterations precisely so the changes in each iteration can be tested and validated ASAP. Whereas in a waterfall methodology, a larger set of changes, i.e. changes that would in agile be split among a number of iterations, is tested or validated together. And the more changes that end up being tested together, the larger the risk is that those changes, and more of them, will need to be scrapped or redone.

The problem with the "MAX" changes of the 737 MAX seems more due to those changes not being tested or validated with the relevant users, i.e. pilots, at all before being 'released'.

Yes, the flawed (or incorrect) reasoning was that the changes were relatively minor and thus didn't warrant the regulatory requirements for 'significant' changes. But that doesn't seem to have anything to do with how the changes were developed, whether their methodology was agile or waterfall (or anywhere in between).

Obviously you're more likely 'to have a bad time' if you don't respond to, let alone seek, feedback from users about the changes you're making.
One of the things in the Clean Code book really helps.

Methods and functions should be around 5 lines.

Doesn’t always work but is great to aim for.
Your bank has the power to stay in business with only 10am-3pm hours, your dog has the "power" to bear the pain until you get up the nerve to lie and say you're going to the bank.

I've heard that in the advanced nation of Germany lots of useful businesses aren't open when ordinary workers have time to go visit them, such as banks and electronics stores and grocery stores. If you work an extra hour for some reason you can't pick up food except at a stall in the train station?
Sonic is doing a fair amount of fiber in the east bay. In fact, I just got my fiber connection installed today in South Berkeley. I know AT&T is also doing fiber in the peninsula and in the east bay. I just checked today and the place I previously lived in Oakland now has fiber availability. Large areas of the Richmond and Sunset districts in SF have had fiber installed. It's changing.
It's more a culture thing in Japan. If you're Japanese, and litter, you will get shamed by passersby so hard that you'll never do it again. People in the US won't do that nearly as often, and people in the US aren't as affected by shame as much as people in Japan.
There is no public-interest benefit in hate screeds. Those are memetic viruses with established body counts and should be studied, if at all, in the manner one studies smallpox.
I think their biggest ask is for GM to stop using temp workers to get around union obligations. When you have a "temp worker" who has been working for you for 4-5 years, they should probably be classified as an employee.
I’m having trouble parsing the second part of your response. Would you mind rephrasing it?

My point being that Cicero was free from a life of (physical) labor only because of the presence of these laborers/slaves. Property ownership enabled and paid for these intellectual or artistic pursuits.
Well, because the quality of life is indeed getting better and better in China. CCP successfully satisfied the fundamental need of people who were living under extreme poverty before right? Perhaps the next generation of Chinese people will start to demand more freedom, etc..
They have 99.9% uptime most months. You may just notice it because you use it more?

https://reddit.statuspage.io/uptime
Inviited – One web-link to schedule group meetings
But we are talking about a table here. There is really no good reason not to leave the format. All formatting in excel map to a formatting in ppt. And it worked fine only a couple of versions ago!
Interesting and neat to see, but will remain highly skeptical, as there are far more physical/natural phenomenon that can cause something to appear as 'a thing in the sky' then verified ET craft.
Ha. When I was reading Prolog books this year, I couldn’t help but think how cool would it be to hook it up with a Neo4j backend. With your comment, I guess I wasn’t the only one thinking this
"Even so, the video images are not definitive proof that the jet pilots were chasing an actual UFO."

cough If it's an, wait for it, Unidentified Flying Object, it's an actual UFO. Maybe it's not extraterrestrial, but it's an UFO.
I guess it wouldn't occur to you that the claims are valid, hence the reason they keep cropping up...
Yet more proof that our method of tying health insurance to employers is completely insane.
How about a Communist manifesto or other authoritarian literature? Why are we only really concerned about one type of authoritarian?
I actually love it. Knock sock.
This is even more important because banking systems with legacy password limitations (e.g. 8 characters) generally imply that there's also legacy password management - meaning that it's very possible the approach to hashing is outdated. bcrypt or scrypt is a best practice but it's far from universal in brand new software, the systems these banks are using were likely developed before either algorithm was published.

I'm even ignoring here that many banks at least recently used to provide strong hints that they are storing passwords in plaintext, such as by using a modified form of the password as a telephone passphrase.
Catalpa Rescue
I remember finding something like this a few years ago for testing rest apis. It was very cool but for the life of me I can't recall the name :(
If you run an app that uses Facebook libraries. This is true on iOS, the web, and any other platform as well.
From following the Vancouver/BC/Canada real estate market, this is very common and normal. (related : Vancouver BC reaching third most expensive city in the world status a couple of years back, for reasons that have little or nothing to do with local populations)

The closest I can get to sources though:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/laundered-mo...
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcasts/current-affairs-informatio...
However that doesn't impact current union employees. Is it just the union fearing for its own loss of power?
Ask HN: What made a programming language difficult for you?
On Twitter, Sahil Lavingia (founder of Gumroad) recently posted the following tweet [1]:

"For those who think they can't learn how to code: try another language.

I tried PHP a few times and gave up. Then JavaScript: gave up.

Then the iPhone came out, I tried iOS development, and everything started to click!"

Have you ever had the same experience? Struggled with a particular language and then found another language that made programming easier and more enjoyable?

[1] Lot's of interesting responses to the Twitter thread:

https://twitter.com/shl/status/1173967528017551360
No thank you.

I have always (well, post-teenage years) hated talking on the phone. Before cellphones, though, there was no other option. When the ability to communicate with people while escaping the tyranny of phone calls came around, it was a serious and dramatic improvement.

> Smartphones feel terrible to hold to your ear for more than a few minutes, but they make up for poor ergonomic design with one key feature: speakerphone.

Especially not this. When I'm talking to someone on the phone, if they're using a speakerphone the whole experience is an order of magnitude worse.
Just had first two sales now :)
Sharing is caring really. I've analysed numerous content niches with this technique (lots that I haven't produced content for) and there is so much opportunity there that I feel people should take advantage of it.
Yes, it represents a downslide back towards more primitive forms of government.
The "tech bros" trope is getting quite tired; it would be more constructive to avoid such generalizations and stereotypes
What kind of garbage PR is this?

"We either had a sensor error or...aliens!!! TBD!"

Saved you a click
Since getting my degree and entering the actual workforce (rather than summer employment and the like) I have always had a flexible schedule. I pretty much won't work for a company that would withhold that from me.
Wrong. Cigarette filters are made from cellulose.
You would have to deal with UK CFC reporting.
Cigarette butts, lottery tickets, and coffee cups - the detritus of addiction. Is there a connection there?
thanks, that looks good, I also found this free Udacity course that seems pretty up-to-date: https://www.udacity.com/course/developing-android-apps-with-...
That's fair, and double is obviously an adjective. struct foo maybe not so much.
The Internet Archive are a registered library.

Their About page talks around this though doesn't address the point specifically. It's the best reference I can come up with right now:

https://archive.org/about/