skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would imagine so. But you generalized a universally bad bespoke software industry experience to say, “after a few honeymoon years he will discover almost the exact same problems with industry.” The OP didn’t even get that kind of job: he’s a malware researcher at CISCO Talos.

You then said, “the grass looks greener, only to realize it was towards the same shit we left behind.” My whole point was that the grass is greener than you described in different parts of the industry than bespoke software.

In other words, it sounds like we’re mostly in agreement, but I chose to get out of bespoke work. You seem to be advising to suck it up and sweep the barn floor.
Unrelated to git but as soon as the authorization was failing with even a correct JWT token, the first thing I would have looked at is the AuthorizeHandler and registration stuff in Startup.cs.

It got crystal clear when the breakpoint was not hit or when removing the Authorize attribute worked.

The repeated saying of my tests were passing and it must be the framework kind of annoyed me as the Authorize attribute is not magic and there need to be wiring stuff which need to be written.
A funny article on the profitability of melting small coins (and you don't even have to melt them yourself to realize value!)

http://www.creditbubblestocks.com/2011/02/silverbugs-why-don...

Written at the peak of the last silver blow off top in 2011.
Well, what's better, a problem 20 years from now, or having the exact same problem 20 years from now AND also dealing with from 0-20 years?

There has to be a name for this sort of "reverse slippery slope" argument, but it isn't coming to me.
When I think of a "most HN" comment, I think of one of four options:

- Dismisses a new project that simplifies a task and makes it more approachable to non-technical folks (Like the famous Dropbox comment [0])

- Is extremely pedantic and serves only as a distraction from a discussion

- Argues in favor of pure functional programming

- Misses obvious sarcasm, even when the /s is included.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
You just apply for it but recently fire insurance companies have been pulling out of the market or skyrocketing their rates. Many homeowners are now simply opting out of it....a very risky move. If I were those homeowners, I would see the writing on the wall and simply move before you become the victim. If a good fire comes through that area, all of those homes will be burned up quickly.
Thanks. Glad you like it .
Unfortunately, people like the penny in the US because it has Abe Lincoln on it. He was a Republican, and freed the slaves, so both political parties like him. That makes removing his coin somewhat difficult.

I grew up in Illinois ("Land of Lincoln") and it was one of the only states where you could pay toll with the penny, because Lincoln was such a powerful symbol. I guess that got killed off in 2017, however. (You can't use any coins now, it seems.)

(While researching this comment, I found it hilarious that IDOT had a COVID-19-related unpaid toll relief program, but they accidentally sent people $0.01 invoices because of how they "leveraged an existing system" to generate invoices. Another use for your penny!)
Hey, they have some info on this: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/10/19/value-per-acr...

Usually the tax values of properties are available to the public, as well as digital maps of plots. You can combine the two to do a coarse analysis of how much each property is worth per acre.

Urban 3, the firm that did the analysis in the article, goes much further and includes things like where people take trips and which roads are the most valuable, that sort of thing. But even a basic analysis can be quite telling.
More like a mild-mishap trap.
Here's a little trivia: It was originally titled the Psychology of Everyday things. It was so popular with designers, particularly software designers, that they re-titled it.
thread_local x;

void foo() {
x = 10; // x in thread 1
foo(); // moves this coroutine to thread 2
x = 20; // might erroneously write to x of thread 1

The issue with dynamic libraries is that TLS computation is slightly more expensive (as the TLS offset is not statically known) so the compiler is more likely to cache the TLS address computation. So the above function might be more likely to "miscompiled" if is part of a .so translation unit.

edit: also yes, forcing inlining off is not guaranteed to disable cross procedure optimizations. At the very least you have to disable function cloning. In fact I see that GCC now has attribute noipa which is probably a better solution.
As an Australian, it also baffles me. We withdrew 1 and 2 cent coins from circulation in 1992, and prices are simply rounded to the nearest 5c when paying with cash. Maximum 3c difference per transaction, which averages out in the long run.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230336050457741...
Yes, for sure it is. But what is the alternative? A compiler can only complain on a monolith, it can't scratch boundaries out of the system it compiles (and still within that monolith, encapsulated system the data might be inconsistent).

For distributed systems this has been solved in the last two decades (if not even longer), but still systems are pressing against formality, how come?

Continue to write the code to deal with the (always changing) data, maybe that's it when diving data apart from code (:OP/DO#1 ; Perlis 9. It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.).
Many countries refuse to extradite for "political" crimes.

I'm in favour of extradition provided due process is respected, no cruel or unusual punishments are involved, and the crime is a crime in both juridsictions (and not political).
I am skeptical of a causal relationship here.

I think it may be more to do with a different but simple phenomenon: the growth and maturation of countries.

When a people/country are starting out "from scratch" with little material wealth, of course most of their economic growth are focused on material advances -- getting people to produce more, make technological innovations, infrastructural gains. Postwar USA (and Europe) people's economic activity was just to build up society. (broad strokes of course)

As a country gets older and more mature, and its material needs are reaching 90+% satisfied (by some subjective measure) then what happens? People have wealth, interests, commercial activites, and they start disputing with each other over it. Legal activity increases while primary production activity no longer dominates an economy.

So naturally, you observe that legal/professional services increase and of course at some point you'll experience a flattening or decrease of raw economic growth as a country can't sustain 10% growth every year. Then you think "oh, the lawyers caused this". But that's not interpreting the effect correctly.

I would wager you'd see an increase in the number of doctors and their economic activity, or artists, or musicians, etc. too.
I don't know if mypy allows you to mock the API but at least flow does for javascript. If a library is untyped you get a file with all the exported functions and you can quickly set the types for the functions that you interface with. We have been using this for a couple of years and it's a godsend. There's a community project to share these external library definitions https://github.com/flow-typed/flow-typed
I recommended dropping vertical margin and instead using exclusively margin-bottom (or padding-bottom) as much as possible. The behavior is generally more intuitive, and you'll get the control you're looking for.
No he’s not
As the saying goes: we reinvent the wheel not because we need more wheels, but because we need more inventors.
On days we had to do something like that, whomever was taking the child dropped the other off at work.
When was this?

From mid-2016 to mid-2019 I drove through 35 countries in Africa. I spent a month in Congo (both), Angola, Mali, Sudan, Burundi, Nigeria, etc. etc. [1] I skipped SL and Liberia due to the relentless rain, though I bumped into plenty of other people driving around that went to both.

While it's obviously a stark contrast to Silicon Valley, from what I saw and heard, these days it's not nearly what you're describing.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waQGUz0Z97Y&list=PLNiCe5roBX...
What is the relationship between intelligence and data compression algorithms?
Why would it be best, considering the enormous cost of replacing 25 cent coins with 20 cent coins? What advantage does 20 cent coins have over 25 cent coins?
It’s for coffee, not donuts. They even rebranded to drop the latter from their name.
i think your version will break a bunch of common uses of `margin-{left,right}`; e.g. indenting like

blockquote {
margin-left: 15px;
/* ... */
}

won't work properly (it'll go all the way to the left). i haven't checked, but i think that in the grid version, you'd get an indent as expected.

and i think that's the grid version's main advantage – it doesn't "use up" `margin` and `max-width`, so you're free to use them to style stuff that appears in the body. feels a bit more composable, though at the cost of also feeling massively overcomplicated :/
It was purely mechanical. Somehow I managed to find the model:

https://www.ebay.com/i/203083047312

A closeup picture of the dial:

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/aogAAOSwFmZfPquw/s-l1600.jpg

The log-factor wasn't as severe as I had remembered, but the 0-1m angle is about the same as the 20-25m angle. It was still pretty easy to get 15s, 30s, etc. I'm sure you could do a lot better with modern digital electronics.
He is too old to be prosecuted, it's unethical . . .
"Hello. Welcome to the Automated DMV, Mr. Smith. Your car registration needs to be renewed. Since you're here, and we recognize you, and your car is in the parking lot, and we recognize that, too, renewal will be $122. You have three parking tickets outstanding, so we will add $150 to that. You have one red light violation, and we're sending video of that to your phone if you want to contest it. But since the face and license plate match, we assume you won't, so we're adding $1025. Your total today is $1297."

"Right now, you have $475 in your bank account. We can set up an easy payment plan at $150 per month plus 3% interest per month if you like, with automatic deduction. If that's OK with you, just say "Yes"."
> Still, you have data entry that everybody in the field understands, that's rock solid (so no need to unit test anything)

Hey @TeMPOraL, there's a guy with a withdrawn PhD thesis on line 1 who'd like a word with you...

http://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2017/02/27/escape-gene-na...
Presumably it would be more accurate to say he's known to be biased towards plaintiffs and plaintiffs are the ones who choose where to sue.

And obviously someone known to be biased towards plaintiffs is not the sort of person that should be well respected among the general population.
People really love the aesthetics of having lots of vegetation near their homes, even if it does make them death traps in a wildfire. Mill Valley had an enormous fight last year about an ordinance to require 3 feet of defensible space. Getting 30 or 100 feet would require cutting down every tree in town.
> but CSS has an obscure unit that makes our life a little bit easier

I've been out of the HTML game for a while, is ch the new em? em has been around for a while.

I understand that they are slightly different, but is there a strong reason to use one over the other?
Just last week McAfee (no relation, anymore) filed an S-1.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24621764

I was thinking the timing was good since the OG JM hadn't been in the news lately...
Not squashing commits doesn't scale. That's the key to discern who has experience on large projects. Intermediate commits are of no interest to a codebase with dozens of developers.
Grass burns, yes, but quickly and generally not in conflagrations. Trees are often (though not always, and increasingly less so) largely untouched by grass fire. Back-burning is highly effective on grassfire.

Scrub burns ferociously, far more violently than one might expect, thanks to the volatile oils. For much of Southern California, this is a poorly-manageable threat.

An entrenched crown fire is a true fury, not to be trifled with. The main fire can burn in a location for hours (rather than minutes), and individual trees or roots for days, even months.

The heat from even a modest forest fire is ferocious. I found myself a 1/2--1/4 mile or so from a relatively small burn (an acre or so), and could feel the radiant heat from inside a car.

A hillside on fire, or a fire-front overtaking a position, is like a blast furnace, with temps over 1,500°F. Plus choking, blinding smoke, poisonous fumes, low oxygen, and flying and falling flaming debris.

A 1km deforested buffer might help, along with building codes.
For transpiling we go from one "language stack" to another. eg. we transpile Teradata BTEQ, SPL and SQL to BigQuery, BigQuery script and pyton.
mypy-boto3 works fantastically: https://mypy-boto3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
They need more energy than even the new tesla batteries can provide.

If they needed anything, it's a change from pistons to turbines running a generator. This is also an area where those millions could actually translate into use in normal vehicles.
Heard many of the accusations made in this film are fabricated. For example, I heard that the film makers paid some of the women in the film to say stuff that MacAfee never engaged in. So I would watch this documentary with a skeptical mind but it is an entertaining documentary none the less, just don't take it 100% serious.
I still lament the phasing out of the UK 1/2p coin, loved those as could use them to tighten up screws and adjust the brakes upon my bicycle of the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfpenny_(British_decimal_coi...
> can be codified into law but we'll always find a way...

Which is the best argument for a minimal legal ethical codes. Any system can be hacked, especially those designed by humans. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. So...
I know individuals / hobbyists who do this, which is fine. Financial orgs should know better, especially if it is actually "critical." How did this get through any sort of review? How do you know Yahoo is authoritative?
Yeah, NZ phased ours out late 80s/1990. 2004 we phased out the 5c piece as well.

Anecdotally (as in I might be wrong :) I remember hearing at the time the 5c piece was phased out it was worth less than when the 1/2c pieces were originally released. NB I have put zero effort into thinking if that makes sense or is true. (edit - confirmed)

[ Edit ] - We also made every other coin smaller. It's always startling to get an Australian 50c coin - even though it's the same size as ours used to be. Our's is now smaller than the AU 20c.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coins_of_the_New_Zealand_dolla...
> why the hell are Americans so litigious

You admit to not knowing much about the US on this matter, then proclaim extraordinary knowledge on the subject.

The answer is, they're not by and large. There are specific sections of the US that are highly litigious however. The majority of Americans are rarely litigious, which shows up in the numbers every time someone does an exhaustive study of who is filing lawsuits in the US.

http://www.buffalo.edu/ubnow/stories/2017/01/engel-book-liti...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/24/americ...
Relevant video: "Death to Pennies", by CGP Grey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5UT04p5f7U
At least they got the right sea (:
I have seen this type of bug in production. After seeing it, I refuse to accept xls for data. CSV all day, whomever needs xlsx can transform it into that after.
I got thrown recently by an update log (powerapps solutions) which seems to do exactly this - an in-flight install/update is shown as a failure until it completes. Eventually figured out I should ignore entries with a null completion time.
Some additional hypotheticals:

- Owns a stake (or has family who does) in a local patent-focused lawfirm

- Plans to return to private practice after precedent is set and expects precedent to increase income

- Seeks future political influence with people who would benefit from biased opinions on cases
That's just dumping the issue on the next generation. The solution would be different if we lived forever, I think.
It isn't easy to do if you are rich, basically.
Better managing fire trap towns would reduce the risks to human life but doesn't do anything about CA fires burning down natural landmarks or blanketing the entire west coast, from Alaska to Mexico, in toxic smoke every summer.

Keeping people out of harm's way is a necessary, but not sufficient, step to manage California's fire problem.

Fires have health and economic impacts on people who aren't in immediate danger of being burned to death and the only way to minimize these impacts to reduce the number of fires.
Okay, so you write a script to take the data from your internal server and post it somewhere that Excel can access. You don't use Yahoo.
Using tables for things that aren't tables is terrible for accessibility.
While I agree with the main thrust of this comment; I don't think I'll ever "earn a true appreciation for CSS". Even the most careful application of class naming guidelines eventually creeps into specificity battles, and you cannot predict exactly what a line of CSS will do until it's actually applied to an element.

However: it's unclear to me what a better solution would look like; and it's clear to me that nothing better would ever be so much better as to "beat" CSS.
Stephen Pyne is a treasure.

More writings here: http://www.stephenpyne.com/
Then put him on the dime. Eisenhower was a good guy and he'd probably say the same thing.
Nice, spending lot of time with draw.io nowadays and didn’t realize they have a VS Code extension.
I mean he’s on the $5 bill as well. Isn’t that enough Lincoln for one countries currency?
But where would that money come from? If they both clean the other person's house for $20, where does $5 in taxes come from? (Answer: from the other income earner.). So the "contribution to society" doesn't just magically appear when we make this a commercial transaction.
When I fall asleep at the wheel, I do it looking straight ahead with my eyes open; it freaks my wife out. My wife never lets me drive the long stretches unless we're talking the entire time. I don't think Tesla will help me here.
It’s opt in as the article outlines.
Gotta make money some how, selling user data is an easy way to do that.
There's no better measure of how far out of line this guy is than the fact that the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which is about as pro-patent holder as any court can get, so much so that the Supreme Court has routinely been reversing its ruling... is overturning this guy's rulings.

I actually don't understand what this guy's motivation is, however. The article doesn't really address it. I kind of get the sense he is a True Believer [tm] in patent holder "rights" and is using his position to advance that view.

It's kind of scary that a big part of why patent litigation is so out of hand comes down to just 2-3 people who happen to be Federal judges.

I really thought by now that this situation would've been so out of hand that the Supreme Court would've been forced to put a stop to it but no, the Supreme Court has done everything it can to avoid taking a stand on patent issues despite the glaring evidence that they need to.

It's kind of disappointing that the Oracle Google case wasn't decided in the last term when RBG sat on the bench. Who knows what will happen now? And yes I know that's a copyright case (now) not a patent case but it fits into the whole IP nonsense.

Other commenters have mentioned random assignment of judges. That already happens. In this district this just happens to be the only guy. In the Eastern District at a certain time there were two judges. Patent holders preferred one. I remember reading that they would employ a law firm that employed the son of the judge they didn't like so he'd have recuse himself and they could get the judge they want.

This forum shopping crap has to stop.
Most of the unfathomable amount of resources being lost isn't even within traveling distance, right? And there's a massive bounty to be found in the asteroid belt here in our solar system, we could make trillions of dollars of "wealth" by transporting rare metals back here, surely?

The main reason for delays on this front seems to be a lack of long-term thinking, as well as a general disinterest in advancing space technology.
I'm not sure what the problem is with this? Yes, eventually all coins will become obsolete due to inflation but we have decided that inflation is good and its hardly a problem to remove a coin every few decades
“Shit rolls downhill” implies that sympathetic underlings are dealing with the higher-ups mess, while “fish rots from the head” implies that underlings are bad people because the leaders are bad people.
I think you might be referring to the nirvana fallacy [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy
Sounds like they need to do some deep deep deep learning learning learning.
Nvidia uses AI to compress virtual meeting videos in realtime
Pardon me, but I've read tens of technical references, rationales and getting started's in my life, but not a single one was so ritualistic and/or useless for practicing as everything about css. The reason is...

Their knowledge of CSS is built from a set of "how do I do X in CSS" searches

Because "box model and selector specificity" is light years away from how to do X. If you want an analogy, you are suggesting to win a chess tournament by thoroughly learning chess rules and figures. But you can not. It is okay for chess, where you build up your expertise for years and decades, but not for a rapid application development. Css is a bike with no front wheel, one pedal and it only turns left, unless you know that sit-backwards hack. There are better (more reason-enabling at least) layout systems out there, but cool web guys are digging in their heels on that "css" thing. And that would be okay, iff they made that damn bike at least complete, at least once in its lifetime.

Want a simple, trivial puzzle?

(component1)
.form
label.a input
label.b input
.some-content
(component2)
.form
label.c input

Make all labels of the same, non-fixed width, for these forms to look more aligned under different label localisations. Without recomposing layout elements. In constraint-based layout, it is a.w = b.w = c.w (priority:low). In gtk, you add (a,b,c) into the same SizeGroup. In css I'm doing it the wrong way, these requirements are strange, I should rethink my model, take a different/better approach, maybe it is okay for them to not be aligned, because awesome css at least solves a huge load of problems and the internet rests on it, bla-bla-blah.

That even may have an almost-css-only solution, but whatever it is, it will be yet another "recipe" with a pile of crutches as ingredients. Which is likely not compatible with rendering loops or a structure of a half of popular js/css frameworks.
What if he just wants to help out all his ol’ buddies? I’m not saying he’s not corrupt, by the way - I’m saying that the motive doesn’t have to be strictly material return. We all enjoy social prestige; who knows what kind of whacky culture the patent trolls have...
I was going for a more Lovecraftian "cosmic horror" vibe, but thanks.
State sanctioned secrecy: NSA's criminality shield
“do your financial planning assuming this equity ends up being worthless”

Most important part. It’s a nifty mechanism to avoid the upfront tax burden but you’re partaking in a significant gamble with your money nonetheless.

Would highly suggest anyone pursuing this only do so given the money they are spending can be easily thrown away without any impact to long-term financial goals.
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