jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"Profit as the only measure of success is how we ended up in this hell world. You're welcome to only care about that, but I prefer to imagine and work toward better futures."

No, profit is not the cause of hell. Debt is, it's a modern-form of slavery.

When you accept VCs money, the reality (if you play by the rules), is that you agree to give your most precious ressource (time and energy) to pay back your debt.

It may pay off, or may not, but you have to be very aware of your choices.
I’m not sure what you are on about there. PNGR is as pronounceable as PRNGL is, in fact they even have the exact same dropped vowels (i followed by an e). You even have to force in an unnecessary extra word which devalues your acronym imho.

Personally, my issue with PRNGL is that it makes me think it has something to do with random numbers (PRNG should make most think of pseudo random number generator). The same argument could of course validly be made by someone about PNG being a common acronym too, but for some reason PNGR doesn’t make me immediately think it has to do with image formats, where as PRNGL does make me think random numbers. My own mental biases are likely a factor there.
Bingo. I would add that the movers tend to define their own fields, and by action and driven by need/practicality, not marketing. Those seeking to enter a career, generally have a different set of goals and priorities, reguardless of overlap.
It's not so sad or surprising. Apple is heavily leveraged to build chips in support of its core business, which is building iPhones. He can likely achieve his goal of becoming a top executive in the semiconductor industry (within Apple or other company) faster by getting acquihired into a larger corporation as head of this new server development company.

It's all about mission orientation vs. functional orientation. Apple is heavily leveraged in a functional orientation to build chips for iPhones. NUVIA is heavily mission oriented in building server chips. Mission oriented companies win on speed. An acquihire of NUVIA shortens the total time this fella would need to ascend to the top tier of semiconductor executives just by virtue of the fact that they are a company that moves faster. He either becomes a top executive in a successful chip startup, or he gets acquihired at a high level into a big semiconductor company. Either way - he wins.

Andy Grove has some great insights on mission orientation vs functional orientation if you're interested. Chapter 8 of High Output Management - cliffs notes available here:

https://medium.com/@iantien/top-takeaways-from-andy-grove-s-...
Push solutions like long-polling and websockets are a separate concern. It's perfectly possible to use those technologies in a web app that's primarily still multi-page, such as a stock ticker on an otherwise static page.

I would draw the distinction in navigation. Are links primarily triggering built-in browser navigation (MPA) or are they handled by long-running in-browser code, backed by asynchronous requests for additional server data (SPA)?
Those who purchase your apps are paying to Apple, why would YOU send them a refund? If they want a refund they have to figure that out with a marketplace not a seller.
Yeah, these charts and plates are detailed documents, and we did some work to make make them most accessible. Couple of notes on this:

1) You can pinch zoom the approach plates, and rotate the iPad for the best screen fit.

2) You can hide the top bar on the Plates screen to make the plate bigger.

3) You can pinch zoom all of the charts, and we provide a magnified "overzoom" that is closer in (but fuzzier) than the native resolution of the chart.
“How do I get a technical person to build my amazing idea for me?”

By giving something. You have to give to get. I think some non-technical founders get this and some do not. Otherwise, the technical person is going to build their own amazing idea. :)
Looking forward to meeting like minded techies!
Until they overhaul patent law this may only make things worse. We need less software patents not more.
So what? I don't think being humble is a virtue.
Isn't this what WADL is for?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Application_Description_Lan...

Also, would love to chat to you guys about some of the things that will be of interest to API providers that we're working on at Akshell (http://akshell.com) - would you have time for a quick Skype call?
That could just be misdirection...
FWIW, WebKit nightly (OSX): 271 +9

edit: Can anyone familiar with Chrome development shed some light on how it is "ahead" of the WebKit nightly? Regressions? Is there rendering code in Chrome that doesn't get pushed back to WebKit?
Dynamic support is present in .NET/C# as of version 4.0. Consuming JSON in applications written or currently running on prior versions leaves one with little choice than writing static types to deserialize to.
Damn, I shouldn't have missed that post back then ... :)
Your app's heap and globals are isolated from others, requests are killed after 10 seconds.

Communications between different apps is via HTTP requests, although we did have the ability to let you talk directly to another app before.

A very neat feature is the ability to reference trusted third party libraries. Updates and bug fixes to them are immediately available to your app with no work whatsoever on your part.
To your users, removing something from the latest release is equivalent to throwing away the code. Sure, you can trivially bring it back using source control, but the user can not, so the damage might already be done.
Psych research is starting to suggest that the organization of the human brain makes it especially bad at predicting the future. That is, we make more mistakes building timelines like this than can be explained by a simple lack of information. You could call it the Eloi-Morlock bias:

Regarding distant futures, however, we’ll be too confident, focus too much on unlikely global events, rely too much on trends, theories, and loose abstractions, while neglecting details and variation. We’ll assume the main events take place far away (e.g., space), and uniformly across large regions. We’ll focus on untrustworthy consistently-behaving globally-organized social-others. And we’ll neglect feasibility, taking chances to achieve core grand symbolic values, rather than ordinary muddled values. Sound familiar?

More bluntly, we seem primed to confidently see history as an inevitable march toward a theory-predicted global conflict with an alien united them determined to oppose our core symbolic values, making infeasible overly-risky overconfident plans to oppose them. We seem primed to neglect the value and prospect of trillions of quirky future creatures not fundamentally that different from us, focused on their simple day-to-day pleasures, mostly getting along peacefully in vastly-varied uncoordinated and hard-to-predict local cultures and life-styles.

The original paper in Science: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/322/5905/1201.full.pdf

The quote is from here, with more explanation: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/11/abstractdistant.html

And here's more on the implications for evolutionary game theory: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/01/a-tale-of-two-tradeoff...

The last two are great reads, with one caveat. The author specializes in asking uncomfortable questions, so it's best to take them as a challenge to your sense of open-mindedness. If you find yourself getting angry or thinking "this can't possibly be true," you might want to think about it some more.
When I was younger or when I started a new project, I liked to think about productivity in terms of "lines of code written today". Now or when I'm in a big codebase, I like to measure in terms of "lines of code deleted today".
GO HUMANS.
I think you're mostly right.

However I would've said the same thing about Telegram/Signal/Defi and other decentralized/privacy first technology not too long ago.

I think there's a reasonable case for the idea that as the conversation around censorship and data ownership evolves, we'll see a restructuring of the market toward some level of personal data ownership. We're probably far from that today though.
> "Google is a giant advertising platform."

That is a polite and public facing way to put it. But it's highly misleading. Google is in the behavior harvesting and archiving forever business. _One_ of the ways that intrusions manifests itself is advertising.
I've fixed this by converting the geodetic coordinates to ECEF. See v1.2 release notes here: https://github.com/thampiman/reverse-geocoder
> It’s pretty gorilla. Very, very gorilla, but it works.

I've never heard this expression before. Does he mean "guerilla", as in "improvised"?
In India recently, a TV commercial depicted an inter faith marriage. This enraged some hindu groups and the ad got pulled because there was a vocal online outcry, calls for boycotts, doxxing, etc. The corporation protected itself from the negative externality.

I'm all for it, but I recognise what is also happening as a result.

While in the above case it's the corporation pulling its own ad, and in the Facebook case they're a platform, the end result is the same. Some activist group tells the advertiser not to advertise because their ad equates them to X and X is bad, here are a bajillion deeply offended people.

At Facebook you have employees colluding with activist groups giving them tips on how best they can "effect change" on Facebook policy. Which advertisers to target, which controversies to use in their activism. It's all to bring about the desired political outcome of some radicals - limit the reach of my political enemy or their strongest arguments.

In the USA the religious group doing the activism is not Christianity anymore - back in the 70s and 80s the Christian lobby had the same degree of influence over TV show content. Today there is a secular belief system occupying that same position, with the opposing political party at the helm, much like the religious right of a few decades ago.
Ah, Joe Biden, the jackboot of the totalitarian left. A career of middling corporate-friendly politics was brilliant cover.
> Instead, I found an Indian firm called BigBinary and hired a few engineers as contractors.

> Since its inception in 2011 BigBinary has been remote and all 100+ team members are spread all over India.

So you outsourced development to take advantage of Indians so desperate for a job that they’d accept lower pay and pocketed the profit for yourself? I don’t understand how outsourcing is still legal when we have scumbags like you who show us problems with it.
I try to limit it in an attempt to reduce risk. I used to order lots of take out.

Turns out, this time is pretty good for weight loss. At least something positive will come out of it.
In some cases management is afraid and thinks that they need to appear to be positive and unwavering. I would advise to play along and not to feel like you need to actually be productive at this time
Grammar ambiguity: the site is in the US. So a "US Website" -> what kind of website? A coding website -> US (Coding Website) -> "US Coding Website"
>The less people buy, the more the economy suffers. It's rather straightforward.

I don't think it's that straightfoward.

Economy is not "people buying things", it is the management of resources and money in a state.

On top of the abstract notion of economy, you need to have a goal, e.g. what you want to achieve with this management. (Of course a lot of people think there can be only one goal, or that it's something like a physical law, where people have no say, etc).

Make more people on aggregate richer might be one such goal. More equality might be another. Or raising the standard of living. Keeping buying power stable. etc etc.

So, some people not buying stuff might be "bad for business" but bad for business is not necessarily bad for the economy.

And even if it was, those people might be forced to buy other things, or others might be encouraged to spend more in their place, or there could be lots of other complications.
The situation is more nuanced than the surface outrage I've been seeing.

Do you support freedom of expression? Do you think bigots should be allowed to say stupid things? Well, freedom of association is also a right- its the right that underpins gay marriage and the right that allows discrimination.

I'm bisexual, and I'm not a bigot. I don't discriminate against people based on silly things like race, ethnicity, etc, --- hell I don't even discriminate on the gender of someone, when choosing romantic partners, how many of you can say that?!! -- but I do believe that discrimination is really just a form of freedom of association. It's stupid and counter productive to be a bigot, but it's still a basic right-- just as I don't have a right to force you to marry me after one date simply because I think we're a good match, while you may not be interested in marrying me because of my gender (or my beard.)

Literally, straight people not sleeping with members of the same gender is a form of "discrimination" based on sex!

I don't like governments attempts at social engineering, but the basis of gay marriage is that we have the right to associate (eg: get married to) whomever we want. A right we have, by the way, without needing any government permission! By that very same right, I have the right to exclude christians from my place of business (or just bigots.) It's a basic human right who you associate with.

There's an argument for a limitation on this right based on extreme or extenuating circumstances... and I'm not going to argue against that, in the same way that yelling fire in a crowded theater is debatably a limitation on free speech.

The problem here is, christians are allowed to discriminate against gays, but gays are not allowed to discriminate against christians-- because the christians are a protected class (as are all other religions.)

If we were a society that really protected rights, we would recognize that the freedom of association is fundamental, and yes, it has the downside of allowing bigots to be idiots, just as the right of free speech is fundamental and has the downside of allowing bigots to say stupid things.
+1 on "not managing the asset well". Other than the Bettencourt books, they aren't even on Kindle, which is basically leaving free money on the table.
You mean apartment, right?
Ironic since the first RFRA was a 1993 federal law that was signed into law by Democratic president Bill Clinton. It unanimously passed the House of Representatives, where it was sponsored by then-congressman Chuck Schumer, and sailed through the Senate on a 97-3 vote.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/blogs/indianas-religious...
It was the training for freediving, although I grew up next to the ocean and have been swimming the majority of my life so I'm sure that plays a part.

What the article doesn't mention is most people can increase their lung capacity using several techniques like over-unders (pool drills where you swim across a pool alternating between underwater and regular),Oxygen tables, breathing patterns (think meditation), and working out while holding your breath (be careful with that one, I'd suggest just walking holding your breath first).
> Reef fish have a pelagic larval stage

But some gobies provide parental care. At least to the eggs. Is common in this family.

I don't remember now if they have pelagic larvae, but is not always guaranteed. Many reef fishes don't have pelagic floating larvae, reef sharks for example don't work like that.
Is this for an investment or a currency? There's a reason there is both.
Am i not understanding the assumptions in your question or is it underspecified?

But, whats wrong with postgres here?
Are the IPs from the same ARN block? Cloudflare should show you that in the Firewall events page. If they're using IPs from a single VPN/Server company then you might be able to just block the ASN.

You might also be able to find common user agent headers through the CF firewall page and block them based on their UA. That'd not work if their scraper tool was randomizing the UA string but quite a few of them don't
It's rare that I personally write these kind of optmisations in web apps, but quite often do for backend processing services (and then, only for "embarrassingly async" operations such as hitting a database or HTTP API).
You might want to check out what SpaceX is doing.
I feel the huge discriminator here is the need of paying up upfront for the license, compared to a free tool/library, regardless whether or not the free stuff is up to the task
A support contract aligns incentives nicely when crate maintenance is a risk point.
I know a couple of optimists who seem very interested in the notion that all the work they’ve done so far has created a good outcome instead of one where people have to work very hard to do basic things.

“Everything is awesome,” in this context, is alienating, or if you prefer, gaslighting.

And self damaging. Nobody wants to talk to them about real problems because there is no safe space for candor. So people talk to the pessimists, creating a rift. “I haven’t heard anything about this,” has been uttered more than a couple times. No shit Sherlock. Who would talk to you about problems like this?
Why don't you restate the quote in your own words if you think I am misunderstanding.
That is not a "risk" in the sense of adverse outcomes. Anyone can throw bitcoins in a wallet and forget about them for 10 years. There is no risk of adverse outcome involved in doing so, and people should not be rewarded it.
This isn't really that hard to understand:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Clearly "phones" falls under the category of "papers and effects".
>I never used Mac but I recently heard from a friend

If you have to start your post this way, maybe reconsider if you're going to add anything.
Very much so. I run into this with Clojure. It has so many different ways to skin every cat, each with its own unique blend of quirks, that it can be quite difficult to understand other people's code, and, by extension, use the language in a team setting.

That sort of experience leaves me thinking that this is a very dangerous turn to take for a language whose core ecological niche is, "Easy for professionals who don't have a BS in CS to understand and use productively." Lines 2 and 13 of PEP 20 are core to why Python, of all languages, came to dominate that niche. I am beginning to fear that the Python core team, being composed primarily of software engineers, is ill-equipped to properly understand that.
I just moved my home desktop from Manjaro XFCE -> Ubuntu Budgie and it's significantly snappier.

I don't say "faster" because I didn't do any before/after quantitative benchmarks, but my experience has been that Budgie provides a responsive UI.
The issue is the use of the word “meditation”. It's just an “umbrella term”. There are literally dozens of techniques that use the word “meditation” to describe them. The variation is astounding, and some have very little in common from a purely external point of view.
Statically requiring a (the default case) non-nillable pointer to be assigned to a non-nil value (presumably, ultimately as a result of an operation that fails if it can't allocate, or one that either fails or returns a non-nil pointer when passed a nillable pointer) before being used?

The same thing as is done for any other non-nullable value in static type systems.
This was obvious even before COVID-19. I used N95 masks before the pandemic for stopping industrial particulates and the box clearly stated that bad fitting rendered them ineffective. Moreover, the N95 instructions said if you had a beard the mask was ineffective. (Damn obvious really!)

Why at this late juncture are we reinventing the wheel?

More madness, more wasted time.
What is the VPN for bitcoin?
No the cookies are good apparently
>I will say their system is a bit clunky.

Interesting, I use TaxHawk (parent company to FreeTaxUSA, same software) and I find their UI excellent.
Hinted handoff multimaster

What does multi-master have to do with anything?

The subject was making the postgres master/slave replication as easy to use as the aforementioned db's.

Yes, some of them use more advanced clustering models (multi-master) than postgres and are still easier to use. That doesn't exactly make postgres look better in the comparison.
I predict this will become a reference link for pro-Python arguments in the same way that insufferable 'fractal' article has become a boondoggle whenever PHP is mentioned.
Then he will have to charge for it - maybe he is waiting for the best time.
I get the feeling that the first paragraph or so is trying to make this Japanese school sound somewhat dystopian. I can't help but be amused by that, thinking back on reciting the Pledge of Allegiance every day in gradeschool.
- people vote for cops to track license plates "for security", "for the children", "don't complain if you have nothing to hide"

- libertarians complain "you don't know who will be in power tomorrow and (mis)use this data or allow for its misuse"

- some company comes along and buys the data off the cops because those in power let them. Maybe those in power when the law for collecting this data passed promised that this data wouldn't ever be shared, but now it's someone else or they changed their mind because fuck the people.
That's still a silly point. For security reasons a lot of people don't hook their source control directly into production web-servers, and instead deploy from a secured environment hooked into secure control onto production (which would still require something like e.g. SFTP for the actual transfer).

Regardless their point was poorly explained/explored.
No, that's not true. The only client with non-negligible use that you have to lock out to get an A+ is IE6 (because IE6 only supports SSLv3, at best, by default).
Just saw your comment. I'll check it out tonight.
> No, it takes toddlers and other infants away from their parents causing huge trauma for the reason of wanting a better life.

You know that they do not separate them for wanting a better life. They separate them because their parents broke the law and are being processed. The same way child services take away children from parents when they go to prison. It's due process and not because you have the wrong skin color or set of beliefs. Americans are having a discussion about if separating children from parents is necessary and what to do about it, the Chinese are not.
And if you really believed what you wrote, you'd be protesting in front of your city's childhood protection services headquarters and you're not.
> According to a recent consumer report (pdf) commissioned by networking hardware company Ericsson, the average smartphone owner in the US currently uses around 8GB of data each month.

Whaaaat? I figured that must include Wifi so I looked at the PDF, and no—apparently that's the actual mobile data usage. It's a self-reported survey, but still. Up here in Canada I have a 10GB plan which is more than anyone else I know, and is way, way more than I generally use. The only time I've ever come close is when I've been on vacation and done a bunch of tethering.

I'm not surprised that some people use 8GB per month, but I find it very hard to believe that's anywhere close to a national average, unless usage in the US is dramatically different than in Canada. (I know our cell plans are more expensive so it's probably somewhat different, but that much?)