skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We're all just people who want to spend our days doing and making things in a way that feels valuable

"doing and making things in a way that feels valuable" requires a belief that the things your company do are valuable.
considering how many "packages" are implicitly provided by a traditional LAMP stack, it's not _that_ surprising.

You want cookies? package. Sessions? package. promises? package*. make http requests? package. templating? package. hashing algorithm? package. You get the picture. If I had to replace every PHP function I use with a package, I'd end up with just as many packages.
It’s a business, so yes, it can be a monopoly.
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I'm not an LLVM expert, but Swift is an LLVM frontend, so once it's open source, I think it should work for the various backends?

Right now the issue is library support - swiftc can already just spit out LLVM IR: https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/issues/2427

The stdlib would be included in the open source release.

Linux boxes would fulfill "non-Apple product" though. Unixy programming languages like Swift and Python have always been weird on Windows.
Ooh fun!
I hope this is a joke, but just in case anyone thinks this is a good idea, remember that this violates one of the ten principles:

Decommodification
In order to preserve the spirit of gifting, our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. We stand ready to protect our culture from such exploitation. We resist the substitution of consumption for participatory experience.
Little irks me more than the occasional driver who comes to an unnecessary stop to merge onto a highway (I rear-ended one of these geniuses once, neither car was scratched fortunately). Or the guys who slow down to 20 mph when one is supposed to merge at full speed. Sigh...

That said, punching it is indeed an example of exhibition of speed and these videos clearly fit within its definition:

http://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/crime-penalties/federal...

Is someone going to arrest these people or what? J/K...
What paranoid nonsense is this?

Gender neutral physical requirements just means you change "men who can lift Xkg" into "people who can lift Xkg". If that still happens to exclude most women, so be it.
Yup. Not offering me a 15 day trial makes it super hard to know how it will work with my two email providers, not to mention the advertising video and site make it very hard for me to understand how using the app is like.
Google Europe Blog: Improving quality isn’t anti-competitive
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And, sadly, completely irrelevant. Any organization as large as Google can, and does, construct nearly litigation proof ways to eliminate folks they don't want working for them. They are particularly careful around people who might fall under a protected group, but if you read the original comment it was "PIP or quit". PIP, short of Performance Improvement Plan, is a document between you manager and you which describes what you must do to maintain your job. It can be simple (like come to work reliably every work day for 180 days) it can be complex (enable the delivery of complex project X through co-ordination with people involved in the project), and if you are on your way out, it is unlikely you will satisfactorily meet the required remediation.

So good in theory, not really useful in practice. Sometimes a useful tool for enhancing your severance package. And you have to think about fighting to stay employed at a company that is kicking you to the curb because you're pregnant. What else might they do? It does push people closer to unionizing though, and that is becoming a bigger threat for tech companies than it was due to shennanigans like this.
Start watching some content and it'll appear on your homepage next time you visit :)
The Trouble with Design Abstraction
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I worked with OpenCart about 2 years ago, so my memory is fuzzy but I believe it hooked into paypal either out of the box, or it had an official plugin for that. What I liked about OpenCart plugins is that the paid ones were a one time fee, instead of subscription basis bullshit that solutions such as Shopify offer. And of course you could always just hack into the code yourself to customize it. They had simple analytics for shoppers and their flow built in I believe, don't recall if there was anything for marketing.
Even if it is, it leaves the responsibility of updating the data to the maintainer of country-data.

That, and it's really quick to just use an existing module.

I believe GP wanted to use country-data as just an example for both (or either, or more) of these points^.
And how many robots?
Joseph here again. I wrote the post.

I think this is spot on. I used to hate the ideas of values, since I only saw examples of it done incorrectly. I’d see corporations create values or frameworks and it was obvious that they never adhered to them. So, we didn’t have company values for the first few years of the company. Then, a group of people on the team came to me and said we needed values to preserve our culture as we grew. The idea to create values was a grassroots effort at HelloSign. Then, we went on a retreat to create them. A year later, the team was absolutely right. Values have been hugely helpful in sustaining our culture as we grow.
Ways in which it's worse: range.

Interior is debatable and subjective. The only concrete thing where it's worse is range. And everybody acknowledges that as far as I can see.

The problem is that a lot of people don't understand how the stuff works, and imagine that the ways in which the Tesla is worse are much worse than they really are.

Edit: range and price, actually. But everybody mentions the price too. Don't mistake "nobody mentions the flaws" with "everybody mentions what flaws there are, there just aren't that many flaws."
It depends on the dosage. In medium to large doses that's certainly true, but it's not a settled question for low doses. The model that assumes that any radiation (no matter how little) causes damage is called the Linear No-Threshold model, and there's actually not a lot of scientific consensus on its validity.

It's a conservative model, and thus it tends to get used out of an abundance of caution, but it's hard to quantify low-dose effects accurately. Since we're all exposed to a fair bit of radiation naturally, low doses don't represent much change in total radiation exposure.

Average dosage to the public in the affected countries was about 9 millisieverts [1]. A CT scan is about 10 mSv. The average natural exposure is about 2.4 mSv per year in America, but in some places with high radon levels exposure can be up to 7 mSv/year. It's difficult to reach significance with small changes like that.

[1] http://nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/resources/health/health-effec...
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Have a look at https://developers.google.com/custom-search/json-api/v1/over...

$5 per 1000 requests. Price goes down with more requests.
In the EU, we have a legislation that (at least sometimes) actually evaluates things in the context of the world we live in today as opposed to the 18th century. Thus, it can dynamically react and even proact to situations—such as for example treating a de facto utility (Google search) in the manner of a de jure utility.

To paraphrase some guy, “If Google don't like what it see in EU, it go somewhere else.”
To make it perfectly clear, ProseMirror is seeking funding to go open source with 7 days left. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/prosemirror/x/1663745#/st...

Already put in what I can.
Came here to say this. It is a waste of SFFD resources, but since when did "waste" become a concern in SF?

I remember one of the folks at Stamen design wanted to plot where SFFDs responders were going, and for what purpose. But he was stonewalled by SFFD and denied the info. SFFD does not want you to know that 90% of their calls are for homeless-related issues.
While I share your sentiment, the case with MS was different because they were coercing hardware manufacturers into not bundling Netscape by threatening to revoke their Windows licence. Google aren't revoking access to their other, primary product if you use Yelp, Bing Maps etc.
A typical car will alert you when you have about 40 miles left. It's not too hard to find yourself in a situation where it's more than 40 miles to a gas station, although it is unlikely.

A Model S will alert you when you're about to drive out of range of known charging stations. If it's 100 miles to the next charging station, it'll start to bug you when you have something over 100 miles left. Not quite the same.

But my point here is, of course, more about the fact that you have to make ~50 (depending on how much you drive and what you drive, obviously) trips to the gas station every year even when you're just local, and thus gas-based range anxiety, while small, is ever-present. In an EV, it's not present at all when local.
Temporary fixes are usually the most permanent kind of fix.
A few potential downsides to an employee not believing:

1. If they are offered an identical position at a company they believe in, they will leave. You won't be able to do anything to keep them around, so you have less ability to retain valuable employees. Hiring and training new employees is expensive.

2. They won't push back when bad decisions are made. Would you waste your time arguing about a bad decision if you didn't give a shit about the company? You want people who will work for the best interest of the company. Granted there comes a time when you need people to accept a decision, but you want their to be a discussion around those decisions.

3. They will negotiate for more salary than equity/options, giving them less incentive to help make the company succeed.

4. They are less likely to convince their friends to join the company. Stripe built an incredibly talented engineering team through mostly referrals[1]. You lose that if you are hiring people who won't convince their friends to join.

I'm sure I am missing many others, and all startups may not need a team so dedicated that they would give up their salary, but having a team who believes in your company does have real benefits.

[1]: http://firstround.com/review/How-Stripe-built-one-of-Silicon...
Regardless of whether this includes real people or not, that's still quite a bit of load that they're able to handle.

Have other services like Google or YouTube reached this milestone as well or is this an overall first for any site?
> FWIW, this is certainly not what people who do research into how to teach math advocate.

Of course it isn't, because such lunacy wouldn't be supported by competent research. But the people who do education research, the administrators making curriculum decisions, and the concerned parents trolling about the dangers of "Common Core" on Facebook are distinct sets with little overlap.
Looks like the OP took https://xkcd.com/773/ to heart.
By Google "verified", they seem to mean that the phone runs some tests on the network before actually connecting to the VPN, and disconnecting completely if the Wifi isn't up to par. It would be nice for them to confirm exactly how it works, though.

The VPN only works with access points that the phone automatically connects to through wifi assistant (this excludes any you have manually selected at any point in time). The VPN only works when the phone itself finds a hotspot that you have never selected and decides to connect.
Joseph here again. I wrote the post.

Agreed. The mission becomes key in having everyone focused and going in the same direction. Startups are really powerful when you have a small group of people are highly focused on solving a specific problem. That’s how they can compete against massive companies. They lose that power when everyone is going in different directions.
One Billion people used Facebook today
It seems similar to the primary-backup instance of the Vertical Paxos family. In the primary-backup Vertical Paxos, one can tolerate f faults with f+1 replicas as long as a reliable external reconfiguration master is there to replace failed replicas and make sure everyone agrees on the configuration.
Here the external reconfiguration master would be ZooKeeper and the primary-backup protocol the ISR protocol.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/v...
DNS explained by a cat, that's the internet
Virtual reality flopped in the 1990s. This time it’s different–apparently
Most companies using Node probably also have some form of CI. For example the company I work at probably generates tens of thousands of package downloads a day because we have CI running docker container builds for automated testing on every commit, and each container build downloads packages from scratch for an entirely fresh build.

Once a container is built and passes tests it is reused as many times as needed for deploying out on edge hosts so there are no more additional package downloads after that, but still the continual CI builds throughout the day as people commit code generate a lot of downloads.
Otherwise known as the will of democratically elected governments.
Depends. There obviously has to be a large change in the demand curve at the supply point if that point is fixed. But I agree that a small horizontal shift in a demand curve can have a big impact.

I don't think that's the right way of looking at it, though, because it treats the men and women supply-demand problems as independent. As long as the prefer-men employers are outnumbered by men, they won't affect equilibrium in this simplistic model.
Is a library not a simple service? While they might not be intended to fill the role of helping you find government services it seems like they fill it appropriately.
Show HN: A small command-line utility to rotate a file or directory
Monetising Snapchat
This is probably just because people who a believe a god exists have beforehand adopted beliefs that they were told are the god's. If one maintains, "I am a believer of religion X," it's tantamount to, "my opinions are those of X-god." Easier than doing some sort of modeling of the mind of god and filling in the details with one's own mind, is to start with the premise, "as a (e.g.) Christian, my beliefs are God's beliefs" and just say what you believe.
growing revenue is not just important, it's the reason for existence of every business!

getting everybody to drink the kool-aid all the way to the bursting bubble isn't that appealing outside of the silicon valley cloud.

you might as well work for IBM if you want to follow platitudes from disengaged senior management. at least they prioritize making money over 'changing the world'
> Instead, the calls that ring in this and nearby fire stations tend to go like this: Male, apparently homeless, sprawled unconscious on a train platform.

I can confirm that this also happens in Tempe (Phoenix), all the time.
Wow, I am very impressed with the typesetting on [1]. Jealous, even...
What is sad, a lot of homeless have serious mental health issues, anecdotal evidence, I seem to see a lot of former military.
Probably far less than twitter, g+, or other social networks.
"With more first-time parents than ever older than 35..."

I would gess this probably has a larger subconscious impact than societal drivers, I wonder if any studies on this have been done
Thanks for the tips, I'll give these a try. Much appreciated.
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We had looked at a bunch of forums from the traditional forums like MyBB, PhpBB, Flux BB to newer takes on forums like Vanilla, Discourse, Nodebb and Esotalk an year ago.

I liked the minimalism of Esotalk but it was being phased out in favour of developing Flarum. I found Vanilla was somehow missing the typical community feel of forums though lowendtalk is using it and is one of the busier communities.

Discourse was Ruby and extremely difficult to install and we did manage eventually but I always felt you need to be comfortable with Ruby or have managed hosting with Discourse. It's a handful.

Flux BB was one of the fastest of the traditional forums then. Arch Linux uses Flux BB and its a busy forum. It will be interesting to see which way they go now that it is going to be Flarum. I remember seeing some heated discussions in the Fluxbb forums about the shift.

We just added a flarum container in the Flockport app store [1] for those who want to give it a quick spin. It will work with LXC and most likely Nspawn too for those who have a recent versions of Systemd.

https://www.flockport.com/store
I'm a PHP developer, can I ask how you made the transition to Node? Did you just start hacking away at personal projects with Node? Any advice on resources?
Proxy Piercing a User Device Involved in an Online Transaction
Definitely agree. The Mailbox team seems to be hard at work and is pushing updates almost on a daily basis to restore some of the design and improve stability. I don't mind switching mail clients but the workflow in Mailbox is hard to beat. Plus their native mobile client is best-in-class.
Discovery VR app released in React-Native
I generally want to keep my eyes on the road when I'm driving, and it's a lot easier to do that with physical controls than a giant touchscreen.
I think you're mixing up two different things discussed in the article. There is one remark about how many packages are used by Jut, but then the case study is about NPM using Jut to analyze traffic at the NPM registry. The billions of downloads per month is global traffic. For instance see https://twitter.com/seldo/status/631289016101441537
is Robert Scoble a robot?
Of course I am. That's the only kind of right it is possible for non-lawyers to have a discussion about, since legal rights either exist or don't.
Frankly, I think the tactical HOW part of this article is very light. There's much content on WHY it's a good idea and apocryphal anecdotes. Here's some actual advice I gleaned from the article:

- Say, "We’re going to make this decision before we leave the room." (And do it.)

- Begin every decision-making process by considering how much time and effort that decision is worth, who needs to have input, and when you’ll have an answer.

- Internalize how irreversible, fatal, or non-fatal a decision may be. (And get comfortable with it.)

- Give important decisions 24 hours, even if you think you know the answer.

- Know when to end debate and make a decision. Use your "CEO prerogative" sparingly but decisively.

- Gauge comfort to get to the right speed: low-level discomfort (stretching) is good.

Then execute on those decisions. (This is the second half of the article.)
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When the Facebook hack comes, it will be devastating.
So basically the executive's job is to make snap decisions and crack the whip.
Except Google has no fiduciary responsibilities to search consumers.
"if you are defending yourself on the street, you'd be an idiot to restrict yourself from striking if the situation is truly dangerous"

Not necessarily. If you're a 100 pound woman being attacked by a 180 pound man, there's really very little point in striking if you aren't able to kick or knee genitals.

And before it comes up, BJJ and judo techniques, even without striking, work pretty well on street combat situations, at least in buying you time to get away from the danger.
Which means at least as many people used the web. Good going, Internet!
Can someone help me understand what the rel() function does?
Are Persians a tribe? Which tribe are Persian Jews a part of?
FWIW, in that situation, a company should be using their own npm repo, not hitting the public NPM. Artifactory provides one such solution.

It blows me away that so many companies so late in the game still do things like deploy from github, or do CI/CD hitting things like PyPI or NPM constantly.

Yes, these services are generally reliable. If you have a critical release to push, should github being down be an acceptable reason to not be able to deploy it?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10131975
Well then: Ruby integrates very nicely with Cocoa and UIKit via RubyMotion, so they didn't need to develop their own language.
Without absolutely nothing to base myself on, I'd guess Google has higher usage. Does anyone have any quick data at hand on this?

EDIT: By usage I mean what's referenced on the article, number of unique people using the page.
There is a qualitative difference between using the language of "belief", as in "a founder must create believers" (or to "believe" in a "vision" or "mission statement"), and simply saying you believe you are doing a good job and that you deserve the next paycheck. They require different mindsets and it's disingenuous to pretend otherwise.

Or, as the joke goes: "everyone should believe in something... and I believe I'll have another drink!"
Not necessarily, Facebook has mobile clients.
I'm curious to know what the metric is actually measuring. Is it one billion people that hit Facebook.com or used the mobile app? Or is it also counting people that might have triggered a hit just by browsing around sites with Like buttons on them while logged in, but didn't actually use Facebook?

To some extent it doesn't matter because it's just such a massive and impressive number, but I'd be curious to know.
From one of the comments:
'Normal email communication and phone lines were down, but thank goodness FB was up!'

Can someone explain this? How can FB be 'up' but E-mail be 'down'?
used Facebook in a single day

Just to clarify, is that fb.com, messenger, whatsapp, comment widgets etc combined?
I guess Canada kind of has this problem solved, at least for now.
Wait - half a billion of those were my sons, polling the site every 50 milliseconds
I don't understand why this is remarkable, could you elaborate? You have a smooth map from inputs to outputs, you differentiate it via automated applications of the chain rule and use this to make the error function smaller. Why should this be remarkable?
I just lost my fifth job in six years
I've been struggling with severe clinical depression for at least seven years. I've struggled hard to keep it from impacting my work, but I still keep losing job after job.

It really seems like I can only invest half as much effort as my peers without experiencing severe burnout. I'm not talking about start-up people investing 80+ hour weeks, I'm talking about people doing 9 to 5 in big companies.

Programming is still on my short list of things I love, and I can't think of anything I'd rather try to do for a living. It's not my job that's making me depressed--I still want to shoot myself on the weekends, too. I'm really at a loss as to what to do.

Yes, I'm in therapy and on medication (not that it seems to do a lot--I've lost count of how many medications I've tried). No, I'm not about to attempt suicide, though God knows I'd like to.

Is there any kind of a career that you know of that I might still succeed in? Something where a week here and there of being stuck in I-fucking-want-to-curl-up-and-cry mode isn't a deal breaker?

As it stands, I'm broke enough that I can't afford Silicon Valley any more, and I'm getting ready to pack up and move back in with my parents until I come up with something. I have a couple lifestyle business ideas I want to try, but I don't have terribly high hopes for them. After that, all I can think of is trying some programming jobs outside the tech sector to see if they're less stressful, or abandoning tech altogether and working Taco Bell or something.

Any ideas? Help?
Knowing the time saved by removing the ads is a useful number to know, IMO. I'm willing to give the benchmarker the benefit of the doubt that he used the same block lists for each blocker, although spelling it out would have been a good idea.
It's probably harder to quantify "people" with those services since they're not inherently tied to a single account. Given YouTube has long exceeded 5B pvs a day, I suspect they've come close if not surpassed it in a single day.