skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of (free | non-free) software is complete trash.

The advantage of free software is that it never dies; someone can always, if they want/need, pick it up and use/extend it. You don't have to hope a company does go bust, and pay them for the product and/or support, and keep upgrading your devices to newer, still supported versions. Ok, some of that applies to free software but if you want to you could stick with the old versions, or make changes yourself, or pay someone to. These avenues just aren't open with closed source software.

Some people won't be able to afford the commercial products, and the free ones might not be as good/polished but if they get (most of) the job done then they fill a niche.
It's absolutely useless if you learn it by other means, in the same way second dinner is useless if you already ate first dinner.
Perhaps somebody can build a filesystem on top of this.
Enlightenment provides draggable workspaces, or at least did (I haven't used Enlightenment since about 1999) provide that. I used to use that. The usefulness is substantially less today without having different video modes and the copper trickery

(EDIT: For those who haven't used the Amiga, apart from providing multiple workspaces, which was in itself a big deal for home computers at the time, it was exceedingly useful because there was no "best" video mode those days - you could have high resolution and few colours, or low resolution and "many" colours - this made draggable screens very useful as you could e.g. have a high resolution screen visible on part of the display, and a low resolution screen on the rest if you wanted. E.g. some paint programs made use of that to show their toolbars etc. in a fixed resolution, with the image itself on a different screen)

Today there's always AROS, which can run hosted on Linux and runs a bunch of Amiga apps, though there are still painful missing parts to AROS and it's not an option to let you run Linux apps on Amiga-style screens.
I have one notebook for all my subjects. This only works because I never really look back at my notes (I refer to online lecture notes, the textbook etc. for that). I only write notes down because it helps me remember. my style is similar to OP's I just sort of randomly write down whatever I think is important, I'll use lot's of arrows and pictures.

I started doing this sometime in like middle school and have stuck with it, it's perfect for me but ymmv.
First thought: your site gives a first impression of a shopping site with the scrolling devices across the top. But I don't think that is your intention.

Second thought: The site has three "primary" things: manage, share, discover. But none of these things appeal to me as stated. I think arriving at the site via a link should present the one primary use case that's most likely to hook me (probably "discover"? but then you're like a shopping site, so maybe "manage").

I'm concerned about "share"; people seem to be getting allergic to the word.

Beneath the fold, the first use case for "manage" is knowing when my warranties expire. I don't find this particularly compelling; I don't think I've ever (or maybe only once?) wondered whether a device I had was under warranty. Curious why you present that as the primary thing you can manage.
I think it would be very risky to put so much information in a single place that can sift through all these details and summarize this information about you. What are the security measures that you will offer?
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That's true but there still have to be people coming aboard to seafasten the rocket. To my knowledge it's not welding itself to the deck.
We spent years waiting for our BaaS patents to clear (the patent office was confused) and now we're ready to take on the world.
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It is already possible to run a VM and get 95% of the normal performance with a processor with recent virtualization instructions. My next computer will be built with this specifically in mind. I think this is an important step to better computer security.
I totally agree but it only appears in this section (where the intended audience is) if the post is prefixed by "Apply HN" :/
And use a caching proxy as a level 1 cache.
Some schools are handing out useless degrees, I don't disagree about that.

A degree from a program that has a proper curriculum is extremely valuable for programming.

Ok, maybe not for slapping together some extremely simple CRUD applications if that's only what your job entails.
Also the stack is Node/Express and MySQL.
A problem in my field, scientific computing and HPC, suffers from a big problem involving the reproducibility of experiments. Some tools like Jupyter help, but that is only useful in a limited capacity.
When I joined a very demanding part of the French education system [1], my grades started to drown. I had basically never had to study to be top of my class in High School, and suddenly I was in the bottom quarter. I resolved to work much harder, and my grades went back up, but by the half of the first year I was still not where I wanted to be and I started feeling depressed and wondering what I was doing there.

At the time, there was one national exam you could take at the end of first year to join a mid-tier "École" (engineering school) directly. I knew I was good enough that I would almost certainly pass, and I decided to take it. There were two days of written tests. The first one went well, but as I was walking up to the 2nd day of tests I was mugged in the street. I ended up spending that day in a hospital, so I couldn't take the test. Now I had no other choice but to stay in CPGE for one more year.

After that episode I decided I couldn't continue like before, something had to change.

One of the main things I changed was that I stopped transcribing classes. That was considered heresy by teachers, who told me I would certainly fail. You have to understand that math teachers (not all of them, but mine did) wrote their lecture on a black board, and you were supposed to transcribe all of it. You would end up with binders full of math demonstrations that you were supposed to learn by heart.

The problem is, I am completely unable to focus on two things at once, and writing takes focus. So while I was copying what was written on that black board, I was not understanding it. Just the math classes took something like 16 or 18 hours per week, and I was wasting all that time. So instead, I bought books. I would read them in advance so when I went to class I knew what the teacher would talk about, and I would understand the details and the demonstrations.

The result? My grades went back up. At the competitive exams at the end of the year, I got the best rankings of my class, better than those of students who had taken the 2nd year twice.

So of course, this is anecdote, but I just wanted to say that what you wrote resonates with me 100 %.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classe_pr%C3%A9paratoire_aux_g...
I've done at least one race where they gave you those twisty pipe cleaners, but I would be extremely surprised if this was used at a big event. Those things can be a bit easier to yank off.

With most wrecks it's really hard to have the center of the handlebars impact something in a scraping motion, but I've had a hard wreck in a race sending my bike tumbling through a stream into the side of a hill and the worst damage to the number was getting covered in mud. The number tag was essentially shoveling mud yet stayed perfectly intact.

If you look at her finishing picture there isn't even zip-ties left. No number = DNF.
I wish to take the liberty to clarify myself, since the down vote is worrying.

My post, at its surface, appears full of "marketingspeak" and cliched language. But in essence, each of the points are directly implementable solutions that address the challenges raised by HN user in parent comment.

i) I provide a viable (albeit well known, but this doesn't make our strategy weaker) early growth strategy that targets a specific user group.

ii) Another well known but nevertheless essential custom for early startups. I understand that mentioning such basics may take away from my credibility, but we must realize that startups often fail because they forget the basics.

iii) I suspect this comment can be deemed too vague. It is encompassing the uniqueness of Agora/Dais, and expressing it by invoking comparisons to hacker news. My purpose is not to cozy up to the user base here, but to state the truth. Hacker news is highly unique in how well its content is organized and displayed. HN is also unique in how its user base interacts (content-oriented as opposed to profile-oriented). Agora/Dais respects HN and will learn from her best points. But we are not direct competitors. Targeted social capital of our product, its UI, and the targeted user base are all differentiated substantially.

iv) This point states a fundamental company operating principle. The vision of Agora/Dais is to dramatically improve the quality and quantity of debates held online and offline on relevant topics, and to see our platform become a facilitator for improved quality of life among our users. This is a very important point that will be highly featured in all of our presentations to VCs.
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I think your problem doesn't actually exist. I've had roommates for years and have always been fine with direct in-person communication, texting, or post-it notes. How many people have you pitched this to that validated your assumption? Is there a different market you can target?
I have a strong feeling that there is a marketing campaign going to promote Go. It is promoted so hard that it became annoying. :(
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Biggest issue is spammers, resulting in anti-spam blacklists blocking the IP ranges, so many mail servers won't accept mail you try to send from there.
From what I understand, advertisers aren't paying the users of Brave. Brave is paying the users.

Advertisers pay Brave (just as they would pay any other ad network, I guess?) Brave then slices that money up giving a % to the content publisher, a % to the user, and keeping a % for themselves.
Sure but what if you want that boolean backed up somewhere?
The only cure to imposter syndrome is to help others with their imposter syndrome (e.g. mentoring junior developers to blossom their confidence and skills or teaching underserved populations computational thinking). Once you get it to the next level (e.g. your imposter students mentoring/teaching the next generation), hopefully your imposter mentality will start to exponentially fade.
You guys have been nice enough to not bring it down, so all is good so far. Peak load was 600 concurrent. Not sure on DB queries.
The draggable screen part is not particularly hard. It's basically multiple workspaces coupled with data about screen mode and offset from the top of the screen. Whenever they're dragged, intuition need to rebuild a copper list - basically a set of instructions for a simple co-processor.

The copper list will contain a bunch of simple instructions to wait for a certain scan-line, and then write new values into various registers to change screen mode (if necessary), update the palette, and change the source of bitmap data to the location of the next screen.
IMO people forget that a human being, as a general-purpose problem solving automaton, is actually a relatively cheap resource. You can make a human being -- at this moment still the most complex object in the universe -- perform tasks for $10/hour.
OK, I like this idea - as a business owner I can definitely see the use case. Your home page presents the idea very simply.

One thing I instantly want when reading your site is a gift :) -- you say "try it out" but I think it would be pretty magical if you'd just send me one if I type my address, or something like that. Obviously you'd want some way to prevent abuse.

Second thing I want when reading the site is to see the pricing on the homepage. I'm not in the business and have no idea how much these gifts are going to cost, so an approximate range (or, even better, github style "plans" showing various gifts and how much they would cost) would go a long way towards getting my email address.

Lastly, you could probably get away with an insanely simple "api" for your mvp that just let the person upload a CSV of addresses, and then dumped them onto a stripe checkout. You could build that in a day and (I'd guess) go pretty far.
foo.controller.js

foo.service.js

foo.directive.js

would all be in different folders, one for controllers, one for services one for directives etc. if you have multiple tabs open in your ide like Webstorm you'd only see foo.js three times over, if you did not prefix it, and be hard pressed to know which is which at first glance.

With that said Angular 1 is dead long live Angular 2 :)
Isn't mic of much bigger importance than camera?
Those interested by this article may enjoying browsing through Hugh Hunt's other pieces - he's done some pretty amazing things in the name of popular engineering! http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~hemh/
Node.js' left-pad is Accidentally Quadratic
This library has been "not ready for prime time" for at least 2 years now... :-/
BTW, after looking a few of the options (both those I found on my own and those mentioned here), I saw that some of them mention things like OpenVZ. I guess that is the virtualization software used. Do we need to know something about the underlying virtualization software / hypervisor that runs the VPS, or is it enough to know Linux? Last VPS I used, I only interacted with Centos, and did not know what the virtualization software was.
also interesting: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortt-Synchronome_clock
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A solution to the tax problem is to change methods of taxation so that far less information and monitoring is needed. While we're at it, we could also make taxation less regressive, more efficient, and simpler to comply with.

As much as possible, we should be taxing consumption, not income, savings, and growth. Where it is necessary to tax income and growth, we should be looking specifically at the largest, wealthiest corporations and their major beneficiaries, not average individuals.
It's always interesting to see rich liberal cities like San Francisco because there is really no middle class. You are either making lots of money in IT or some other business or you can't afford your rent and are barely scraping by.

You don't see this as much in cities that are not as liberally run.
>And yet Mathematica is not nearly as effective as math when done by pencil, paper, and a trained mathematician.

You'd be surprised. Actually it's not even close.

Good like calculating FFT, working with large primes, etc, with pen and power for one...
Yeah everyone seems to have this 'visa' in everything but its name.

The EU doesn't have any of this, you just get in and get on with your day.

Unfortunately because the bastion of freedom charges a $14 fee and makes you fill in a very visa like form the EU may soon have this blasted visa form too :/
What are you going to do if the NSA requests data from your service? Are you going to stand up for the consumer and protect our data?
Does SquareSpace do any encryption for non-admin log in things?
Sorry for not being clear, I am curious regarding how my phone bill becomes searchable.
Seems like glorified cruise control.
While I can relate to you in regard to the decreasing number of tech relevant articles (I wish there were more of them), I actually enjoy reading articles about class and the comments that follow.
What kind of business role do you want? If it's sales pickup books like Spin Selling, Launch (by Jeff Walker), and Predictable Profits Playbook.

If it's more general finance you want to learn coursera should be fine.

If it's leadership qualities, start with the book How Google Works.
Thank you to whomever posted this link again; I'm glad others can read about GNU's perspective.

If any quotes from others here are out of date: I rearranged and modified the article slightly to reflect some suggestions from rms, and to clarify a few things.
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Uhoh, that means somebody is MITM-ing you. They've observed your qubits in transit and broken quantum entanglement. Now the BaaS server can't store them.
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I particularly liked the story (#13) about the "difficult" scene where they needed to film a scientist tagging a whale with a transmitter. The weather was good and the whales showed up right on time, and the real scientist (standing in for the fake scientist played by an actor) made a great shot with a crossbow to tag one of the whales. The whole scene only took a couple of hours to shoot.
I wish I could provide such an example in good conscience, but a (very broad) NDA with a former employer precludes me from doing so. They might not mind, and he might not mind - but I would have gone back on my word, which I definitely would mind.

I know that this reduces the strength of my argument to essentially "nuh-uh!" ... sorry. But I will tell you that, when he says (in that keynote address) that he is willing to explore the possibility that he could be wrong - I believe that he is being completely honest.

As to your description of his "singular focus and unwillingness to consider the validity of alternative perspectives" - that just doesn't seem accurate at all; it describes neither this speech nor his observable approach at large. It does, however, remind me of a funny pinterest picture/quote:

"Once you hate someone, everything they do is offensive. 'Look at this bitch, eating those crackers like she owns the place'. "
To clarify I'm talking about a double significant amplitude limit, which for a given typical three hour sea state is the mean of the highest third of double amplitudes. Does anyone know the reasonably precise location of the landing? I can then find what the typical waves are in the region.

After watching the video I don't know what Musk is talking about. Maybe he's talking about a maximum double amplitude.
Throwaway account, fyi.

I grew up in my folk's shop. Not really all that poor, I guess, in comparison to some of our customers. I mean, all 6 of my family at least had a toilet and a TV. All us kids still feel that good eating is Chef Boyardee and Twinkies (really). To this day, my brothers take all the bell pepper bits out of their Denver omelets at IHOP, one by one. Just can't stand the taste of fresh veggies. Power went out from time to time, but we did have it. We all did sports year round, mostly because it was a valid excuse to not work at the shop for my folks, that was nice I guess and means we weren't all that bad off. That shop was not fun either. It was an autoshop, so grease and asshole customers was life. My pants literally stood up on their own after work in the summers, there was that much grime in the fibers. The shop was a tin shack, so the winters were frozen and the summers were 120+ everyday by 11am. Still meant you had to fix the transmissions though. We all knew lathes and welders by 10 years old. Firefighting and carpentry became routine as us children were put to work. Don't misunderstand, I love my folks and I loved my life, but that child labor was not safe, though we all didn't know it at the time. Dad never had algebra, mom got to geometry, but that's it. The pastors would not shake Dad's hand as the grease that bakes into your fingernails makes you 'dirty' in their eyes. I love Jesus with all my heart and am a Christian, but the church can go fuck itself long and hard with the wrong end of a steel rake.

Ok, have I proved my 'poor' cred then? Yeah, it wasn't as bad as other commenters here, but still, I know man's lot is labor.

And I think that's what pulled all us kids out of it. Grit and a stiff upper lip. We all had our bones scarred by that life of labor. So, when it came to school and all this BS 'achievement metrics' that the colleges use to let you in, it was comparatively easy for us to accomplish. As such, when folk complained in college that algebra was too tough, we all found that bewildering. I went to a UC with my brothers and my sister went to a CSU and we all did Physics or Chemistry as they were the hardest majors. Nothing else really felt right as a use of all that money my folks saved up for us. Labor was our lot, as was Adam's, and we felt that was the only way.

Now we all have good jobs or are in pretty good grad schools. And yes, I recognize that we had bootstraps to pull ourselves up with, and others do not, so my own family 'tithes' 10% to some charities we believe in. All us kids do something similar.

Grit is the only thing that will pull you out. Hard work and Jesus' grace. Luck is also big, I guess, but you have to make your own luck.
That's not a true statement about modern C# and Java.
> The correct column is the other one, 'Total overstay rate'.

Yes, you're right. I used the column that indicates "overstayed the visa and are still in the US as far as the DHS knows", whereas the Total Overstay is sum of those still in the US plus those who departed.

Here are the correct figures since I can't modify my earlier comment:

Bulgaria 1.74%

Romania 2.06%

Poland 1.49% (since you mentioned it)

Average of all non-VWP countries 1.74%

The highest rates are Bhutan 24.89% and Djibouti 27.67%.

And for comparison: Average of all VWP countries 0.73%

The highest rates in VWP countries are Hungary 2.92% and Slovakia 2.36%.

> Also those stats for the Romania and Bulgaria are after refusing over 15% of all Visas applied for.

I'm interested to know where you got that figure? If anything, I would have thought that US visa refusal rates would be even higher (varying by country of course).
But then you'd still have to store their id somewhere.
We're largely there already; it's just not obvious because it's incredibly ingrained in our culture. We've been there. One aspect of brands selling people an 'identity' (think apple or more profoundly, rolls royce). That's the consumer culture everyone hears so much about.

Companies have larger weight in American government than people do. Lobbyists and campaign contributions go a long way. Aaron Schwartz became dedicated to campaign finance reform for precisely this reason.

Part of the problem (and part of the solution to that problem) is that large scale companies must always optimize for money. They can care about certain things more, but still must optimize for money. Sometimes this benefits the general public, but sometimes it works against them too.

Decoupling industry from politics may be a good idea; we can give more weight to what is good for people than what is good for companies. Although politicians like Trump make me think that might not be ideal either :P.
Thanks for the good times everyone. If anyone's interested in making this a real thing (IoT, state manager, web hooks, auth, labels, analytics, GUI, etc) reach out at hello@booleans.io. I'd love to build it out but have a day job so it's tricky. The BaaS future is one of endless opportunity.
Not exactly sure what you mean, but the funny thing is that there seems to be no single-word translation from the German "performant" ("with high performance") to English. Or is it?
Anybody know the year of this? It was posted in 2007 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=81289) and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9997073 has 2003 in the title, but it's likely even older. The delightful Eco quote was from 1995.
I think it's more meant for internal RPC within a cluster, to e.g. avoid overloading a service.