skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'll find most successful business folks don't obsess over tool selection - good enough is good enough, customers don't care about code quality, etc. Engineers (myself included) tend to want to compare tools and pick the best one possible to solve a problem and of course - opinions vary.

Both have their place - but err towards the former in the early days.

One could write a book on the subject (and many have!).
The endless supply of aid is creating a cycle of poverty in southern Africa
Patents maybe made sense a century ago with much fewer people and companies on the planet. Oh, and no internet. Today it's just a detriment to human progress.
Looks like you have some alpha traits and don't act as a doormat. So not surprised you hit the "jackpot". Any guy who maintains frame and dominance can do the same.

women go for men who can either provide for them or can act as the captain. Have a look at the [1]redpillwoman sub for examples of the latter & anywhere else for the former.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/RedPillWomen
Plus, there's no money to dole out without the deal.
It's nothing new or ironic because that's exactly the definition of centralization. Here's the definition: "concentrate (control of an activity or organization) under a single authority." There has been and will always be systems that try to centralize already existing distributed entities.
I guess they are busy working out how to maximise their venture capital?
This makes me think of the thousands of domain names that expire every day.

Most probably housed spam, but some probably housed at least some work of value.
Older versions of the Android app allowed for "Stream caching" which you could select up to 100%, allowing you to listen to songs entirely offline if they had been listened to once before and you had not cleared the cache.

Recent versions of the app have removed this setting entirely, and from the behaviour I've noticed indicates that no caching is taking place on the phone.

Which honestly is just really stupid from an operations stand point. Why is there any point to transferring hundreds of megabytes of songs on a playlist over and over? Bandwidth isn't free for users, or SoundCloud's CDN.

This is why I have started to download music from SoundCloud more, and consuming it offline with VLC. It's pretty easy to do, even if SoundCloud doesn't offer the download button.
If the massive gravitron was leaving a black hole it would be slowed by the black hole's gravity.

(1) We should see this as some inconsistency in how gravity scales with the mass of a black hole. The larger ones would have proportionately greater 'drag' on leaving gravitrons, pulling more in.

(2) If they are massive, and therefore subject to slowing, shouldn't gravity waves leaving a black hole be subject to some sort of doppler effect? Should we be looking for red/blueshifts in these waves?

(3) If gravitrons have mass and are subject to gravity, what brings that gravity? What sub-gravitron particle regulates gravity going in/to/out of the gravitron? This would require a new set of particles be created by non-gravitron massive objects (ie black holes) alongside the gravitrons. Like I said, too strange to exist.
Making "good" interfaces is subjective.
Funny, you think it was written by a man. I thought it was written by a woman.
Seems like an organization does what you're thinking of. It holds several repositories and several people have access.

But that still has the separate Issues issue.
The interference pattern is audible - a chirp that "rose to the note of middle C".
I disagree, and this quote I've seen floating around the internet sort of sums the idea up to me (albeit with a music analogy):

> I thought using loops was cheating, so I programmed my own using samples. I then thought using samples was cheating, so I recorded real drums. I then thought that programming it was cheating, so I learned to play drums for real. I then thought using bought drums was cheating, so I learned to make my own. I then thought using premade skins was cheating, so I killed a goat and skinned it. I then thought that that was cheating too, so I grew my own goat from a baby goat. I also think that is cheating, but I’m not sure where to go from here. I haven’t made any music lately, what with the goat farming and all.
I do not know about in general but where I work we physically stand up during daily standups.

My impression is that the standing up part really works too. We usually get quite restless when the meeting exceeds the allotted 10 minutes. Of course that might just be because people are bored quickly too.

A question to those sitting down during your standups: Isn't it weird to sit down during a meeting that is literally called a standup? Have you tried or considered standing up?
In fairness, he makes a lot of points that GitHub is particularly awful at, specifically things that aren't very relevant to enterprises (who pay their bills) and therefore aren't priorities for GitHub.

You're totally right about software being more about people than about code. That being said, I think maybe you're underestimating just how many issues ESLint receives and how willing people are to volunteer time to the project. They've received almost 2500 issues and have essentially 5 active developers.

Yes, you're one hundred percent correct that issues are the problem here. That's a lot of issues for five people. Period. You're being a little lenient on GitHub's behalf by not weighting how poorly it does issue tracking which expounds their problem a great deal.

They're not "typical dumb engineers". They mention nowhere that they'll somehow end up with less bugs if they leave GitHub. But they believe they'll be able to more accurately assess issues and turn them around faster by using a different platform--which if you're familiar with the alternatives, it isn't the completely facetious assumption you cut it out to be.

Sorry if that comes off aggressive. Not intended. You make great points. Just wanted to reiterate that GitHub has some blame here...
Lots of talk around the OSS world on how to "get involved with open source" and this is a great solution to both problems. Newbies can start getting involved by triaging issues, and projects can alleviate some of the pains by letting them do it. It's a win win.
I actually looked at the video and dont really think he did that bad. I mean it was obvious that he was having trouble putting his thoughts out there, but it wasnt like he was just completely mute. Relating to my experience, Im not ever on TV, but lack of sleep(meaning anything less than say, 7 hours) severely impacts my overall anxiety level. I am the kind of person that cant skip a night of sleep. I feel awful and unless something is absolutely necessary, like surviving, I call it a day and try to get some sleep. Either way, it was great of him to write about the experience.
less than quadratically because space is expanding in between
For the same reason that the open-source projects don't say yes to all the feature requests they get... because once you make a new feature, you now own it. It's so easy to ask. So much harder to support it forever and ever afterward.

I find it ironic that open-source maintainers sent the same kind of ranting letter "demanding" certain features in the same "entitled" manner that their users do to them. :)
Any vibration is just a signal. We don't actually have a direct experience with a sound, hearing is our brains interpreting the nerve signals generated by tiny organelles jiggling in our ears. What is concrete then, is only the shape of the signal, but not the medium through which it propagates.

This device just acts like a gigantic hearing device. Except it's not pressure waves, but the fabric of the universe which reverbates.

Note that the frequency of the signal is indeed in the audible range.

Anyway, I was a bit irritated of this same phrase, but because I tought radio astronomers had been listening to skies for quite some time now.
What happens if an ssh agent is used? pageant requests the passphrase and then leaves it unlocked. Or is this audit step set up so I can remove the key from my agent and then demonstrate that I need a proper password to get in?
>Shouldn't states be able to compete among themselves, in a free market fashion, in order to attract business development that is likely to pay huge dividends over the long term?

Sure, but that competition should be based on taxes that don't discriminate for and against certain individuals and companies.

There is also an argument that allowing states to compete with each other just causes a race to the bottom. Tesla was going to build the factory anyway. The country as a whole is worse off is Telsa is allowed to negotiate away all taxes by forcing states to compete over it.
I continue to be amazed that (a) Algorithmia is still around and (b) anybody takes them seriously.
Sleep++ 2.0 Proves That There’s Still a Market for Apple Watch Apps
So how are software developers supposed to meet women?
I may have suffered permanent eye damage from the rolling.
I suspect unfortunately many Software guys act thirsty when young and get confident around women only into their 30's.

Just as their stock raises,they settle for late 20's & 30's women who has had her fun and now wants to play mommy ( not wifey)

Such a travesty that many a men are blind to the redpill truths
https://www.reddit.com/r/marriedRedPill
I find it really sad when projects grow enough that they start seeing user input as a burden. It's usually the beginning of the end and a sign of the hubris that tends to grow out of popularity. Both the author and GitHub itself are guilty of this. Docker is another good example. They've stopped listening because they have become too smart for users. When your userbase grows you need to evolve your methods not make it harder for users to communicate their needs.
The entire idea of a payday loan is necessarily high risk for reasons discussed ad nauseum, and that dictates the interest rate.

There would be no payday loans (smallish quantities of cash for short periods) without commensurately high interest rates. There's a very real risk of default, and smaller amounts of cash are not economical to process. (Have yet to see one that allows you to borrow <$100)

Put another way, imagine you're a VC type and want to disrupt payday loans. You do this by loaning money at more reasonable APRs - say something like 15%. On a one week loan at $300, your profit isn't even 25c. Even with economies of scale, even with all the automation and tech SV can muster, this operation won't even pay its own infrastructure bills. One default and you've wiped out weeks of profit.

Removing the option removes a useful and occasionally necessary tool for emergencies.
I don't think they continued doing this. It seems like they bootstrapped this way, but last time I used it (a few years ago) it was recommending the same artist 's work in two vastly different styles.
Every other business that operates in Nevada that isn't getting this deal.

All other taxpayers in the state that will have to cover the amount this entity would have paid. (Something more than zero, something less than the actual tax break)
To be honest, this is a problem that has to be solved by cash/donations.

1st level triage for issues could be done by developer in the Phillipines on Upwork for like $5-10/hr.

The problem really is they've hit a scale where they need a human CSR to handle their 1st level triage but they don't have the cash to pay one.

Volunteers find the work mind numbing enough they refuse to do it for long generally.
Phabricator is really nice, recommended.
Your last paragraph resonates with my experience learning. After two years of working with Rails I realized it's like the Mac of frameworks. It does so much to prevent me from thinking or looking under the hood that I don't actually know what's going on. So part of my reading this year is on topics like REST so I actually get it, and also building things without a framework (rather than use the devise gem, build my own login system, build own router, etc). It's pretty painful because I'm so used to effortless progress through gems, but very worth it.

I think people in my situation just get comfortable and forget that they need to keep digging deeper. I think this also differentiates someone being just a programmer vs an engineer.
Github is neither open source nor volunteer-based. They are a product which a lot of people pay for, including most of those who signed the letter.
I think the universe has a long list of outstanding feature requests.
"You lack key knowledge" is already an order of magnitude less name-calley than "You are ignorant", because it doesn't take the form "You are X". But why diminish the other person at all? Build them up by increasing their knowledge.

The distinction here is simple. Factual comments about insurance and licensing: great for HN. Comments about people's knowledge levels and getting tangled in personal bickering: bad for HN.
DevOps best practices: How to end the software delivery guessing game
Honestly, you weren't there, you have no idea what kind of tone / non-verbal cues she was putting out there.

It's entirely possible you're right, but all you know about the situation is what he's written here. Without any other information, I'm inclined to believe what he's saying.
The two newscaster people were quite good at handling it too! I'm guessing this happens relatively often...
Perhaps is a matter of principle? I would think that if you add those changes, problems would go away. But you could also make the argument that once you show everyone that complaining /boycotting/etc works against you, more people will go for it?

Seems far fetched, but might just make sense given who pays their bills..
So you can link your Github profile to recruiters and add "Creator of project X" in your CV.

I hate the amount of garbage and noise created by this. But how many of the good tools we have today wouldn't have existed if people didn't just started coding?

It's full circle to your first phrase since if nobody was using nobody would write redundant/worse tools. Man I miss the time programming was only my hobby.
I'd guess interfacing with music labels and copyright holders must be a special kind of tedious. Seems to be a recurring problem of music platforms who don't fit the industry's royalty model
The end of average IT
> If we move off GitHub, we will immediately eliminate the random noise we get through issues.

> At the same time, we'll eliminate drive-by pull requests that also need reviewing.

I don't think these are good reasons to move away from GitHub. If your project is truly popular, then the people who are filing these issues will follow you to your new home. You'll get a short period of respite, and then you'll be back where you were before. If your project is only popular because you're on GitHub... then moving off will not only give you a respite, it will also destroy your user base.

This is why full-time software engineering teams have PMs. They act as an API for the engineers: helping others understand what sorts of requests can be made, what kinds of responses can be expected, and turning away abusive/malformed traffic.

It simply sounds like this project is popular enough (and >5000 issues in just over 2 years certainly qualifies as popular in my book) that it needs non-engineering attention. Get someone to join the team who wants to fill in a PM role.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11081923 and marked it off-topic.
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"Let it go, let it GO!"
I don't see you complaining about states that already waive sales tax, personal income tax, or corporate income tax. Doesn't Nevada have the right to compete with these other states?
Issue templates, no. An issue spam filter, on the other hand—especially one the submitting user knows exists...
A central-hub choice of implementation shouldn't be confused with a centralization requirement however. It is possible for distributed systems to still converge on things (indeed, entire papers have been written on the problem of distributed “agreement”), it's just that they must work in a very different way.

Indeed, we had this, in the form of NNTP and older news servers; those servers essentially exchanged copies of whatever was posted from around the Internet. If there were no news.ycombinator.com, there could still be a wide variety of servers that constitute “hacker news” around the world, that come to a general agreement on what the collection of posts should be. At any instant in time, not all servers will be 100% identical but for all practical purposes they would be.
Outbound Notifications Boost Customer Loyalty – IVR Technology Group
A MOS6502 assembler impleme​nted as a Rust macro
Yes it is sop. That doesn't make it a good things. People in the UK are very angry at Google's seeming ability to negotiate a tax deal. Google is today denying any such negotiation. But Tesla seems proud of their ability to negotiate special deals with local governments.

It won't help that Tesla's boss could write a check for this amount, perhaps 10x this amount. So this isn't a liquidity issue. The business can be financed with or without this deal. And Tesla claims profitability regardless. They only want this money because they want the money.
> The Federal government does the same and much of it is for similar reasons, should it be prevented from doing so?

Yes, a hundred times yes. This is one of the biggest problems with our tax law and allows politicians, under the guise of promoting businesses and jobs, of bribing people and companies. One law for all.

Competing can be done without alterations in tax law to bribe companies. Its a straight up cash bribe and nothing more honorable. All of these deals are made with other people's money. Its bad enough we have status seeking politicians trying to attract sports teams. I look at the absolute bull that FX companies deal with and see all the problems of allowing government bribes.
With air superiority, your army may operate as it sees fit, having freedom of the battlefield. Without it, you will likely lose battle after battle as your troops are not only bombarded from above, but their movements are anticipated and countered.

Example of the latter: The Ottoman Empire's attempt to take the Suez Canal in 1915 via overland march. The movements of their approaching army were reported to the British & Indian troops by the new "wonder weapon" of the age - the aeroplane. The Turks lost 2000 men, the British 150.

Edit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siY6C55ndI4
I believe this was attempted, but they were running an older version of openSSH that was only getting security patches. OTP was not being triggered if an SSH key was used. so it was either password + OTP or ssh-key alone. They opted to disable ssh-key auth as the solution
There are implementations which approximate bittorrent written entirely in javascript. It's possible.

However, I really doubt infrastructure costs dominate SoundCloud's money problems. Significant, yes. But a major engineering overhaul developing an entirely different architecture for distribution which might either not work or alienate customers is probably not an appropriate move when in that situation.

Maybe it could be something to do as a clean shut-down to help things live on (an amazing thing when dying companies do things like this to end well) but not ... expected.
Charming quote. The same argument could be made about making your own food "from scratch." But it's not a solid refutation of the essay. Let's say that if one end of the spectrum is unlimited dependencies and complete indifference to the complexity and size of the project, and the other end of the spectrum is raising your own goats, there must be an ideal somewhere in the middle.
Einstein–Cartan theory is the only viable classical alternative.

I am unfamiliar with modern alternatives to comment.
He was talking about world war one, not two.
No tool will completely solve it, but there are a lot of changes you can make to an issue tracker to deal with increasing popularity. For example allowing people to add emoji's so that you don't get an email with a +1 comment helps a lot. For the rest of the things we did at GitLab please see our 'Dear open source maintainers' letter https://about.gitlab.com/2016/01/15/making-gitlab-better-for...

BTW I also commented in the issue https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/5205#issuecomment-18...
Which is more than funded by the workers' property taxes, income taxes, and sales tax revenue.
Is it your blog?

I'm on a mac too, and the scrolling is completely broken. It scrolls "page by page".

I hope you take the time to fix it. Since your article made it to the front page of HN I'm sure it must be a good article. But I don't have any way of reading it, which makes me very sad.

Please take the time to fix your scrolling issue.
It'll really suck for them when we have driverless trucks.
Matter of fact, sometimes it's better to be using a respectable 3rd party library. Requests vs. urllib2 in Python springs to mind, and I'm sure there's more examples.
Etherium is trading at $5.37
Strictly speaking, money (as opposed to currency) is whatever is the most commonly used currency in a given region. Gold is not generally used as a medium of exchange anymore (i.e. it is not a currency), so it is merely a valuable commodity.
I'd recommend popping this into your console.

$('.job-text').css({color: 'black'})
This is a smart way to build a list of HN users and their email addresses. My question is what will you do with this information? The sign up page makes no promises that it won't be sold or used for marketing.
Some are missing the point, most of the work we as software developers does not need long hours but deep focus. The best of the best are able to have 4 hours worth of deep focus, and we are lucky to get an hour or two of it. That would be huge. So the good habits that help us with focus and emphasizes on recovery like walking in the woods (our natural habitat), meditation etc. Its not the time, the hardware of brain is pretty much fixed, its the software, habits and mindset that make the difference.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1221756

The first two comments on this thread were definitely snarkier and more aggressive. Part of me thinks there were advantages to the earlier culture of HN, though. People were more likely to be challenged on their statements, and forced to defend their beliefs.
Those can be easily and transparently backed up and searched.

I was recently asked if this is easy to do on Windows, especially the search part. What solution would you propose to someone who wants to index many PDF files already in such a folder structure?
>>> ...any company get such special treatment.

ANY company. I'd say that covers other states.