jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Agreed, that's a sweeping statement to make on Rails scalability. Just trying to make a point though. :-)

As for Goliath - we will. Time is the scarcest resource in a startup, and that's why haven't opened it up already. We need to get some documentation in place, and remove a few dependencies.

Point is though, there is nothing inherently novel in our stack! All off the shelf pieces: thin, async-rank, async middleware, em drivers + em-synchrony.
I certainly sympathize with the meat of your arguments, but I take issue with the use of the word "capitalism". That capitalism is being used at all to describe our current system, is a misnomer.
>"Maybe they found that the vast majority of people that add a chapter wanted to buy the book, so they made it the focus."

Even assuming that most people wanted to buy the book when they opened a book sample's menu (which is unlikely, since you can't even see the book's price in that menu), this does not warrant changing the default selection from a non-destructive, repeatedly used action (for every other document type) to a "destructive" action (for book samples).

You just don't randomly change the order of menu items when people expect to see the same order, and you most certainly don't change the default action from something that is used often and is harmless to something that is potentially harmful.

>"The ONLY solution to the problem of
accidentally order would be to require
users to go through a multi-step process
of confirming the order"

This is a false dichotomy. The choice is not between "make ordering the default action" and "make it absolutely impossible that people will ever order a book by accident." You can vastly improve the situation without solving every edge case.

The solution is simple: don't make buying the book the default action. If people have to consciously switch to a "buy book" menu entry, accidental book orders would very likely be cut down to a fraction of what they are now.

>"User experience, of which UI design is
just one part, is much more important"

I don't see how the distinction is relevant in this context. Are you suggesting that accidentally ordering a book is a good user experience? :-)
the patient engaging in risky behavior (not washing hands, eating rotten food, etc.).

I see where you're going, but this may not be the best example. I believe it's currently thought that exposure to some bacteria and other uncleanliness is essentially exercise for your immune system, especially in childhood.
Could you be more specific? I didn't see many or maybe any of these. Of course, it depends on your goals. Get a job, any job, or get one with a good fit that might last?

Perhaps "We need to know your real weaknesses." But she's stating it as a fact that's hard to dispute and tells you how not to reply.
Depends what your using those tools to do and how your doing it. It's true that a lot of web development with some simple PHP to glue it together and give it some basic interactivity can be boring.
>Why everybody in this thread is using it instead of just "infatuation" -- some Internet meme that I'm not aware of?

Because that was the term used in the article.

edited to add: Though, to me, you're right: I don't see much difference between limerance and infatuation.
The article cites TechCruch as the source several times, but doesn’t seem to include any links.
I think Iain Stewart went down one for his "Rise of the Continents" series.
ON all of them? Or just on those where they're trying to squeeze publishers?
> It also needs to be as bipartisan as possible so that it doesn't get tossed around every time there's a shift in administrations.

I just don’t see how you can do that (in the US) when one of the major parties seems completely convinced—for reasons I simply can’t fathom—that Climate Change is a giant hoax.
Yep, currently dealing with a situation like this. The captain of the troop closed my complaint against one of the troopers without any investigation or justification. They didn't even notify me.
The demand for “good” teachers far exceeds the supply.
I'm sure all that is true and borne of experience.

Sometimes I'm concerned when a topic is adjacent to serious issues of bias, and nobody is talking about it. We can get very comfortable not talking about issues that don't impact us.

Using the R-word is often unfair, waters down the meaning of the word and provokes feelings of being wrongly viewed. But being the victim of bias can be worse than all that. If we err on the side of being alert to potential bias especially if we are not the victim, then maybe that's not unhealthy.
> if you're using a normal desktop OS there's no system-wide "java" command (anymore (thankfully))

Just about every Linux desktop, especially with LibreOffice installed, will have a system-wide java command. It is entirely normal and expected.
what are those "significant advantages"?
why are all the scammiest people from chamath to sacca getting in on the EV grift? seems like the tesla soaring has basically drawn the gnats around easy money
STFU and just start to do it. Open a todo.txt file, write down small goals that will eventually lead to the completion of your über spreadsheet. As you finish items on your list move them to a done.txt file. Try to do at the least one thing on your todo.txt every day. Don't wait for the weekend either, this should be a daily exercise. Humans respond well to habitual activities, however it takes a lot more effort for someone to get in the habit of something that does not have an immediate reward (working out vs. smoking) but once you get in the habit of that non-immediately rewarding thing, it becomes part of your life.

For bonus points tell me how you plan to become filthy rich with an Excel spreadsheet.
Well, unit testing is only really efficient at finding certain kinds of bugs. Its good at protecting your core framework / system from breaking changes to its API, e.g. an engineer changing the result of a null being passed into a function. However, against the "I never expected anyone to do that" type of bugs, its next to useless. Only beta testing will save you there.
I'm using it now, and Google is still the real default for everything else (search bar, etc.)
Microsoft is really throwing money at search lately. Bing is everywhere (Colbert, iOS 4, "Filomena", "Search Overload").

How long can they keep it up for the returns they're getting?
> You did, however, seek further credibility to backup my comment

Actually, I didn't. I already trusted you about that study. I sought further information, because I was genuinely interested.

Nevertheless, I think I see your point.
There are lots of startups over here that plan on massively serving webpages

Seamicro is using the same sort of lateral move that RISC made and that Transmeta attempted to apply: Could certain functions happen more efficiently if moved outside of the traditional 'box?'

Could a datacenter provide a low-latency infrastructure for front-end web-servers while reducing their power and other expenses? I think there's a good chance this is already being done.
Well, the problem is less that there are more shares of a company for sale than currently exist and more that it can generate high levels of unrealistic downward pressure on a stock. With a normal short sale, there is some balance between the long and short side - that is, you can only short so much before the longs start buying again and stop the downward price movement, and there are only so many people willing to lend stock to short. Once the supply is gone and the price is in balance, you can't continue to short the company and the downward price movement stops, theoretically having incorporated negative market sentiment.

With naked short sales, you're removing the supply restriction, making it possible to continue to pressure the stock downward beyond where it should go in a balanced market. This sort of pressure can cause a panic among investors in the company and become a self-fulfilling cycle - once a company's stock is pushed below a certain level, many investors will dump the stock, regardless of the fundamentals of the company. It's not a cheap maneuver, but it's potentially phenomenally profitable for the people committing the short, and it's totally devastating to the company under attack. It also doesn't represent balanced market sentiment, nor the actual value of the company, and the company can be forced to take dramatic measures due to circumstances for which it wasn't to blame. It's a potentially highly destructive practice and banned for a very good reason.
... and the region around the plant has been quite severely affected: long term evacuation of inhabitants in some areas, kids can't play outside in others (and must take constant "precautions"), large scale decontamination needed (removal of top-soil, etc), fishermen not allowed to fish (it depends on the species and their feeding habits etc, some have shown no contamination, others are way, way, over the limits), many problems caused by loss of confidence (obvious huge drop in tourism, a very hard time selling farm produce, etc).

So sure, the number of people that started glowing green and exploded is small (:-), but the financial and social repercussions of the Fukushima incident are not small at all. "Number of people that died" isn't the only statistic to look at when evaluating such things...
I think now with Kinect, the only limitation is your imagination...
One of the first times I stopped to help what appeared to be a person with a flat, I got a good long (loud) lecture about how just because she was a woman, she wasn't helpless... how men should just ... if we'd all just... call the police if I don't ...

Honestly, I couldn't tell by sight at 5 feet is she was male or female. To say this response caught me by surprise is an understatement. Over the long haul, this experience did not deter me from stopping to help, I'm just a little more careful not to go bounding up like an over-excited Labrador puppy with my offers of assistance.

This is probably good advice from a security standpoint as well. Stop to help, but be situationally aware.
It's interesting how sub-Saharan Africa is still a mostly dark continent.
Also interesting are the connections between the Kurds from Turkey and those from present-day Iraq, and how people from Baghdad are still more or less connected to those from the northern parts of Iraq (there's still a major Sunni presence in there as far as I know).
Do you know http://www.hikr.org ? It seems to fulfill the same purpose. It's centered on Europe and reports are mainly in German and other West European languages, but there's an English-speaking community on there, too. It has been around for a couple of years, has a huge community and tons of hiking reports already.

How is Hikify different?

Also, I think the copy of the three steps could be tightened. Something like "Find an interesting route near you - Climb it - Log your achievement and share your experience and your pictures."
Unlikely that you could manually join tables any faster than MySQL can, given that the optimization of joins in MySQL has surely been given considerable attention.
Apache has not strictly been one process per connection since 2.0. See the worker MPM. I would have chosen nginx, but Apache can be configured as a capable static file server.
I will preface these comments by saying I spent over twenty years in a previous career as a practicing agronomist.

The dirty little secret of all these vertical farming stories is that the numbers don't add up. The Sunday NYT had an article where they talked about growing corn in one of these buildings.

If I gave you the building and the land you couldn't make money growing corn. They speak of turning a crop every six weeks, I don't know of a single hybrid variety that matures in less than 78 days. Quite simply the NYT reporter didn't ask any critical questions.

Even with high value crops like lettuce and flowers it is dubious. But farming vacant urban land with hoop houses like they're starting to do in Detroit does make sense, There are security risks in an urban environment but those pale beside the costs associated with twenty stories of hydroponics.
> I'm less worried about the consequences with North Korea

Not if you're South Korea or Japan...
> honest question: do you think identity theft should likewise be renamed?

I don't care about that one so much. The reason is that nobody's agenda is being pushed each time that we say identity theft. We also all know what identity theft is and what it does to the victim. OTOH saying "don't steal music" makes it sound like a different issue than it really is.
Russians still develop Energia rockets and engines. It is modular rocket system which included soviet space shuttle and some heavy orbital weapons. It has more powerful engines than F-1 used in Saturn.

It is modular system and heaviest configuration were close to Saturn, but are currently abandoned. The lighter configurations are in active use and share the same engines and other components. Plus they develop new types.

I guess it would just take a few months/years to develop Saturn replacement if there is demand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RD-170

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energia
This article is a misguided attempt to bemoan Panasonic for not enabling Amazon Prime video on their devices, which really has nothing to do with ecosystems and more to do with inferior technology and/or poor pre-purchase research.

I don't view Prime Video as an ecosystem but more as an added value type of thing. Beyond that, it's opt-in, therefore not limiting.

If the OP wanted Prime Video on their TV they should have purchased a TV that offered it, or buy a box that does it as an add-on.
I created/run a couple web apps (http://w3counter.com http://w3roi.com and a few more). Everything is profitable and I've lived off it for the past 6 years. All bootstrapped, no outside funding.
By this stretch of logic of yours, the various photographs supposedly depicting Bigfoot must thusly be concluded to be reasonable evidence of Bigfoot's existence :)
These are excellent questions, and they come up all the time with founders.

Here is the basic trade-off:

On the one hand, it is a drain to have to pay lawyers or to have to comply with pure legal formalities when you need to focus your energies and resources on building a business.

On the other, if you skate along, and then something goes wrong which you have not covered legally, you get into a potentially tricky situation that can easily become more expensive to deal with than would otherwise have been the case had you invested some money and effort into covering the formalities in the first place.

My rules of thumb for founders on this are:

1. If you are a sole founder, you normally can take the "minimum steps" to get a bare-bones entity in place and defer more complex items until later. In that situation, you don't need to worry about what I have called "strings on stock" (i.e., restricted stock) or about IP formalities because these areas tend only to lead to problems when you have multiple founders and the risk exists that one or more of them may act opportunistically in the absence of clearly defined legal rights.

2. If you are a team, and you have a high level of trust among each other, you can also sometimes go with a bare-bones setup while you remain in, say, an early development phase (or otherwise are not actually transacting real business) and nothing of too high value is yet involved in your venture. In such cases, as you build varying degrees of value into the business, you do take some legal risk that someone will act opportunistically but this is normally an acceptable level of risk, both because it is remote and because the fallout from a worst case is not likely to be major. Hence, you can often wait before taking the more formal steps. Of course, all of this changes once you have built something that already has high value or excellent prospects of acquiring value. At that point, in my view, it is imprudent to rely on too informal of a setup.

While you can wait in such cases, it still helps, in my view, to speak to an attorney preliminarily up front just to get a strategic perspective on your options. Having done that, founders can usually make good judgments about whether or not to take other immediate legal steps or to defer them. The point is that they can then do so in an informed way (assuming the attorney is knowledgeable, which is not always the case unfortunately).

Concerning legal formalities associated with equity distribution, I have had lots of founders over the years come in having done a half-baked job on this when set something up themselves (a "quickie LLC" or some such thing) and it normally is no significant problem either completing or correcting this sort of thing as long as the founders remain in harmony. So, founders can take their own cut at this sort of thing and often come out OK but this often is as much dumb luck as anything else. Again, if any sort of value is involved, I think that founders should try to do things right at the stage when they do their key stock grants (or start doing real business).
Bugs that allow remote attackers to take over your computer when you hit an evil web page are also coming almost too fast to fix. They aren't the new normal, so I see no reason to back down on these kinds of problems either.

(You don't hear about most of these bugs, because the people who find them don't usually publish before the patch hits, but ask anyone who's reported a bunch of browser bugs how long they waited for fixes.)
Most CMS systems leave the design up to the developer. The UX components are based on how well you lay over CSS, JavaScript and graphics. Drupal and Wordpress already have rich theming systems and a lot of (out-of-the-box) themes that give a nice UX. For something a bit more advanced you could use something like Apache Lenya.
S3stat (http://www.s3stat.com) brings in enough to live on, and funded me while I was traveling last year and bootstrapping the next thing. It also has the advantage of pretty much running itself on autopilot, so I can sometimes go entire months without opening the IDE or doing anything beyond responding to the odd customer email.

I'd highly recommend building something like that (a low-maintenance income generating business) as opposed to the sort of zero income "shorten urls then tweet them from your location on your camera phone" thing that requires 14 billion users and a Google buyout before you see your first dime.
Re: the crypto questions.

Not only are these just trying establish if you're in the club or not, but judging from his answers on the DH vs RSA questions (which are not-well formed to begin with), it seems like he's trying to establish if you're in the club that knows the names but has no knowledge of WTF is actually going on in crypto.
or "yes" :-)
Let me guess.... debian?

Everywhere else it's totally sane.
Two things have made the US safer

1- Pilots with guns & keeping the doors closed for the full flight

2- Passengers not willing to allow others on the plane do harm to the plane. If passengers see things happen now, they will stand up and makes attempts to stop them. We won't have a 9/11 style hijacking. Even if someone gets a box cutter in, people will take them down before they'll let them take the plane.

I can't imagine how these body scanners would make us significantly safer.
Fortunately you can now use XPath for simple queries and XQuery beyond that.
I don't think suffering by itself can really be enjoyed, but it can be a way to realize or learn things about yourself. Pain is a very subjective sensation, and severe pain can cause you to close up and recoil from or fear that sensation. But it can also be an opportunity for you to face the pain and feel it and all that in implies; it can bring up past suffering or traumatic incidences that bother you and in that context provide the opportunity to heal and move on.

Suffering in many ways is getting closer to death, and death provides the opportunity to be begin anew. It's an abstract concept but can be applied to everything you encounter as a living being.

In fact when you try to avoid suffering you close yourself off from so much experience. You could even say that to avoid suffering requires to live as a small subset of yourself, within a very confined sense of self. Expanding out from that will entail suffering but that's only a very small part of the story and it will lead to experiences you can't yet imagine.
Yes, but the peace of mind one experiences while being groped or ionized makes it all worth while.

Regarding how much radiation you receive on the plane itself, I always try to sit away from the window and on the north side of the plane if possible.
But many times, making something look better gives people a better understanding and more confidence, therefore you get more money.
as if they are delivering total immunity from terrorist attacks in exchange.
You still need to decide what's important though. A pretty page doesn't always perform better, and can appearance changes after the fact negate any A|B testing you just did. You can't dissociate A|B test from appearance.
"Let's get non-musicians making music! We'll just give them a nice MIDI keyboard instead of that hard-to-use violin"

Sure, this will skip over some tricky bits of getting started with programming, just as a MIDI keyboard can make it easier to make violin sounds without having to learn all that pesky fingering.

However, as with playing the violin, those bits aren't really the hard part to learn; the easiest to use keyboard in the world won't make you a composer and flow based programming is not going to make you a programmer.
Personally, my favorite is the MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco:

http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2012/12/about-ms-os2-20-fiasco-...

Notice I mentioned the "Microsoft Munchkins" and other unethical attacks against OS/2 later on was far worse than the Joint Development Agreement between MS and IBM, and the mention of DR-DOS at the end.
I think the reason people call Bitcoin efficient is because transactions actually happen much faster than through regular banks. In a real bank typically you need to wait one workday to get the money transferred, whereas in Bitcoin timescale is in the range of minutes.
I can recommend Universal Paperclips as treatment. You start making paperclips by hand and end by converting the entire universe into paperclips. The universe seems big until that counter at the bottom of your screen says "0.0000000001% explored" and starts rapidly going up.
> (and before people get the wrong idea: I just registered to see what's going on there).

You should not need to say this.
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