skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But I see your point as being precisely backwards: it's the JS crew who constantly evangelize for their way of doing things, and that way of doing things is completely inappropriate for anyone who isn't already expert.

"Choose your own tools" is advice for experts, and literally nobody else. It smacks of the cowboy attitude, and that attitude is wildly unhelpful to almost anybody doing professional work in software. Frameworks and coding standards exist for a reason: not to be unreasonable strictures, but to provide guidance and sanity in a staggeringly complex field of endeavor.

Many new devs and junior devs are flocking to the JavaScript ecosystem, and it is one of the most troubled and chaotic ecosystems in all of software right now. Anyone who is not a complete JS badass is simply not going to find Node to be even a decent choice for learning best practices pertaining to the larger world of application development. And I feel I'm stating that politely.

So: yet another JavaScript Pro tossing out the "choose your tools like a Pro" advice-morsel is part of the problem, as I see it. I don't want to work with people who toss the kids into the deep end and hope a few can learn to swim real quick. I think people deserve a helping hand and a reasonable set of expectations.

The JavaScript ecosystem has become self-parodying. Anyone who is oblivious to that fact is inherently NOT a trustworthy witness. That is not to say that the whole thing is rotten and worthless, but it IS messy as heck, and refusing to acknowledge that is a sign that one is in denial about some pretty blatant facts.
As a user, the simplest thing would be to offer login via third party such as Google, Facebook, etc. I really have having to create an account each time I want to try a service. I much prefer linking my Google account and cancel app privileges if I want to stop using it.

Don't be too greedy with the permissions though, only require what you need (which should be almost nothing based on your description).
This looks good, but requires changes to the system being traced. In my case, the system I'm most interested in tracing is a closed-source black box, so changing it isn't an option.
"What can he do with the reputation of "the guy who claimed to be Satoshi"?"

The guy in question apparently makes a living creating faux companies and filling fraudulent tax returns in Australia, it doesn't sound like he cares of his reputation that much.
Is having a child a basic or a luxury?

This idea seems to be built on a notion that there are needs and that their are wants, and that we are only going to give enough to supply needs. But there are two major underlying problems with this.

First, even if we assume that needs and wants exist, you aren't going to have agreement on what falls in what category. For starters, is having children a need or a luxury? Is a clean place to live a need or a luxury? Is having a healthy food a need or a want?

Second, I'm not sure the division between needs and wants is even real. Yes, you'll die without food in a few weeks, die without water in a few days, and die without air in a few minutes, but what about something that increases ones likelihood of dying in a few years, but not any shorter? For example, a starving person can survive off a very poor diet for a much longer time than with no diet, but if they are missing vital nutrients, they will still eventually die. Or look at loneliness and the negative effects it has on people. You won't die within a year from lack of human contact, but your overall life expectancy will drop greatly (except for infants, who will die from lack of human contact, as shown in a few experiments which scientists are ethically banned from reproducing).
Under German law you are subject to German laws about commerce if you are "addressing the German market". Some indicators include offering your site in German, probably also support German phone numbers and addresses, etc. For some services/apps this is obvious (e.g. online shopping) for others it is more debatable.

The most important part however is that of course you don't have to give a damn about what German law thinks as long as you aren't in a position in which German jurisdiction can be enforced. Likewise, even if you are a German citizen living in Germany some German laws and regulations may not apply if you are decidedly not offering your services/apps to a German audience -- though of course that's a much less safe position. Either way, it's not as simple as "it exists on the Internet, therefore it falls under German jurisdiction" although the reasoning is quite similar to that in Brazil.

The point is moot, anyway. Brazil can't enforce their laws against a US company that doesn't have a presence in Brazil, but it can ban them from Brazil -- as apparently a Brazilian court is allowed to force Internet access providers to ban specific IPs. Whether courts should be allowed to do that is a legitimate question but right now in Brazil they apparently are, so everything is fine.

This isn't an action against WhatsApp. This is an action against Brazilian WhatsApp users. It's basically enforcing a sanction against WhatsApp by preventing Brazilians from accessing the service (which they can't get at otherwise). This is more like a German court forcing an IP ban (in Germany) against a Nazi website hosted outside of Germany -- which is a thing.
Craig Wright 'to move' Satoshi coin
Ask HN: Evaluate this behavior by potential cofounder
We've been talking for about 1.5 years, known each other for about 4 years ... talking off and on throughout those 4 years.

Throughout the past 1.5 we've been talking about different ideas, interest levels in different areas, and most importantly understanding if an idea resonates with us.

We found an idea about 4 months ago that resonated with us both, and have been actively talking to companies (customer discovery), but since about 3 weeks ago I haven't heard a word from him. We had been actively doing customer discovery for about 3 months talking to people prior to the absence of talking.

Anyone experience something similar?
A confirmed email address is probably the easiest point of user authentication.

Other than that - I totally agree with you that giving an email address away for sign-ups is pretty icky, but a necessary ickiness as there's not much else to choose from except OAuth (Google/Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn/etc)
You're using words differently. Are you British? The person you're responding to was American.

I wouldn't call the Queen or Prince "upper class", I'd call them the nobility. You still have remnants of an actual feudal class system whereas we do not. Our classes go solely by income. Roughly speaking, the lowest 25% is poor, anything between 25-90% is middle class (a term which has expanded over the years), 90-99% is upper middle class, and the top 1% is upper class. Of course there is no hard and fast agreement on it, and others will disagree about the exact demarcation lines on those ranges, but it's the same gist.

So I personally wouldn't call a nurse and a teacher upper class, but they could easily be upper middle class.
He'd have to know whom to kill, not? And that would bring him nearer to the person that anybody else in this world.
Statistics is overrated: the rise of data science
How is Angular any different than React in the way that it allows you to bind models to the DOM? They're both component based, you have to specify the template and backing logic in both.
My problem with password managers is that: a) I have more than one computer, b) I lose physical objects routinely, and my computers tend to break down and be replaced.

But I have a good memory and I trust it much more than my ability to keep things organized and make routine backups. It's easy for me to generate more or less secure passwords that I can memorize, like:

shrebangodiKe24+
binarKedonado!3297
Miregofinar--0009

etc.

Those will last for a few more years, until password crackers will become so fast that it will be impossible to remember any kind of secure password anymore.

Then, I'll be screwed.
Designing the Scylla Userspace Disk I/O Scheduler (Part 2)
I've often thought it would be an interesting experiment to drop cheap GPS units into the bags of the homeless and create an online tracking system.
Makes sense. And no, but a temporary program could have been put in place I guess.

It seems you're now stuck with a program that was designed to address a problem of 70 years ago.

I'm especially curious about the history of Social Security in the USA. I can read about this on my own time, though.

It does seem like it was a tool used for polotical gain.
If I want to waste my time, then it's my time to waste. If you don't want to waste your time, then don't.

I believe it's worth wasting my time because two of the leading people involved in Bitcoin, as well as two leading news organisations, have all reported on this so it's interesting.
Why? Because any broadcast medium will be part of a normative ... structure. It's like a social pilot beacon.

There's an "Independent Lens" about the breaking down of this effect in Romania under the Ceuchescau regime - "Chuck Norris vs. Communism."

TV grew up under the Silent Generation. I recall distinctly when my parents stopped watching "The Smothers Brothers" because it got "too political".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11612673
I think you are using the traditional UK definition of "upper class" while nommm-nommm is using the US definition - they are completely different things.
Except that generally the point of using C is to squeeze performance out of your alogorithms - so you can't limit yourself. But even the simple straightforward stuff has been done just sloppily. I think we just take for granted that it's part of the learning curve and that programming just isn't easy.

And eventually your fingers memorize all the nuanced and sure if you don't screw up it all works. But it's designed in a way where you end up shooting yourself in the foot. It's hard to reason about pointer and reference notations, everyone eventually miss a break in a switch - const is weird, arrays vs. pointers is weird. Symbols are needlessly overloaded to do different hings. Things that seems like they'd work for strange reasons don't
EXAMPLE:

foo(const char p) { }

main(int argc, char argv)
{
foo(argv);
}

I really really recommend opening up "Expert C Programming". I promise by page 50 you will be angry - not because there are so many gotchas, but because most of them are completely fixable. Just no one has bothered to do it
Any password manager worth considering these days can sync across multiple computers given your master password.
This is a nice, informative, concise comment. IMO, it would be stronger if it didn't start with a childish insult.
Syria and Climate Change: Did the media get it right?
I assume you mean AJRF. Just because those two examples are unacceptable doesn't mean "wow, get real" is acceptable. If you disagree or don't understand why someone said something, then either forget about it, or reply to it for clarification or discussion.

I mean why don't we all just post "get real" to everything or everyone we disagree with? Apparently a surprising number of people here can't think of a reason why not, since they think "get real" a fine response.

Edit: Actually, I think you mean if the "motherfucker" guy had said those things, in which case, I agree. People defending the use of "crazy motherfucker" may indeed be offended by the examples you gave, or feel they are inappropriate here, but can't seem to understand that terms they think are fine may be considered inappropriate to other people.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11614116
The US has "class inflation" and middle class means what you and I call working class.
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But by the US laws the US company has to share information information on those servers located in EU with US government if requested...
DynamoDB Local Maven Plugin, 0.8 Released
Theory Explains Why Gaming on Touchscreens Is Clumsy
Same on Firefox.
Show HN: Bot Detection API
Yep.

Even if every employee worked in their own coworking space, the advantage is that they can choose one within walking distance of their front door.

No-one needs to cause carnage to their family life if they are forced to change jobs multiple times. The idea that to find a job, you have to relocate and separate your children from their friends, clubs and schooling is quite horrifying really.
people still use that site?
> My problem with password managers is that: a) I have more than one computer, b) I lose physical objects routinely, and my computers tend to break down and be replaced.

Dropbox with KeepPass on Windows / KeePassX on Mac / MiniKeepPass on iOS works beautifully for me.
I didn't get a chance to read all of them but this was my reasoning on the ones I read:

(note I'm excluding founder background from evaluation as almost none of the posts mention it; but it's generally considered a key factor for angels)

WedWell: Large market, hacking it with initial customers, however no unique insight, no clear customer acquisition strategy in an expensive market, lots of dead startups in this space. Pass.

Pinboard: Has product users love. Not clear if he wants to go “big”. YCF would probably accept him anyway. Pass.

Gresham Dollar: Interesting idea, lacks users validation and idea doesn’t seem to have been fully thought through. Underestimates adoption difficulty of online currencies. Pass.

Siris: Growing middle-class in Africa and adoption of mobile services makes this interesting plus initial traction with hotels. Not clear what the size of the market will be and if they’ll be able to buy discounted capacity. $12k will make a major difference to them. Accept.

Wanderlust: Another space with lots of dead startups, no insight on on why they’ll succeed when others have failed. Pass.

Brightwork: Not clear if there’s enough demand for this product. You can already get wrapper libraries for things like social integrations but people prefer to integrate directly for the flexibility. Segment which did this for analytics are moving away from this space into ETL. Pass.

Hacksplaining: Solves a genuine problem, user interest. Largely a content business though, tough to scale. Not clear there’s a huge market. Pass.

Krewe: As a rule of thumb social sites generally need ~1m+ users to raise a Series A from top-tier investors. Given the inherent lack of viral in this concept and lack of stickiness (after group is formed you never need to come back) seems like a dead-end without a significant rework. Pass.

Utiliz: $30-$50/user/year isn’t enough to build a sustainable business. Would essentially mean a $10-$15 CAC which feels low for this space and expected conversion rates. Pass
Yes, India is a poor nation. Virtually everyone there - including the software engineers - is poorer than a burger flipper in the US.

I would argue that the proof of the emergence of structural unemployment is not in the current rate of unemployment, but in how long it took for us to return to this level after the housing crisis.

So your claim isn't that jobs don't exist, but merely that it takes people time to find them.

How is a massive labor force disincentive like BI a solution to this problem at all? We already know that unemployment benefits make this problem worse: https://www.nber.org/papers/w20884 Why would BI - essentially permanent unemployment benefits - help?

If anything the solution to this problem is just making labor markets more flexible. E.g., NGDP targeting, making it easier to hire/fire workers, eliminating employer mandate in Obamacare, discouraging home ownership, etc.

[edit: here is non-paywalled link: http://econweb.umd.edu/~davis/eventpapers/ManovskiiEntension... ]
Do you perhaps happen to have a link to the results of these benchmarks? I'm desperately looking for some, and http://lh3lh3.users.sourceforge.net/reb.shtml seems to be quite date.

And, impressive work on the regex engine!
Have you tried a direct question? Something along the lines of "Hi! Haven't heard from you in a while. Is everything okay?"
A release dashboard that works
They don't go to the bathroom much, either.
It's a federal project. How likely do you think it is that there'll be no vulnerabilities which a review of the source code could expose?
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Vue.js vs React.js
You just contradicted yourself, and agreed that the rich invest while the poor consume. Glad we are in agreement!
Career maybe but absolutely nobody actually works. One strategy for entertaining people is to make it easy for the audience to imagine themselves up there instead of the character.

Indeed, the "Daddy's bad because he works too hard" trope is just about everywhere. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhenYouComingHome...
Playstation Network (PSN) Card Code Generator 2016 – Easy Hack Tools
Could you elaborate? What are macros and micros, and how can i measure them? Assume i'm hypothetically interested in trying the (C)GM method of diet modification.
Why Vietnam Is Not the Next Silicon Valley
Getting started with Docker and Wordpress
"Characters are not just competent employees, they tend to be excellent at their jobs (top of their field, seemingly) while spending very little time doing their job."

I think that's more "needs of drama" than anything else, though. It's basically impossible to show somebody doing a job on TV. You can show the social interactions, you can show very carefully selected highlights, you can show quick dramatized representations in the language of drama (e.g., a man holding a shovel in front of a ditch that wasn't there in the last scene, dirty from head to toe, taking a deep breath and blowing it out loudly, and wiping sweat from his brow; this is a man who just spent hours digging, but we don't have time to show that), but there's no way to truly show them doing the job, because who would watch that?

And I'd also suggest that what it is is the extreme positions of their jobs; either they are very good or they are very bad. Again, standard-issue dramatic heightening. Though "average" comes up, but the way it is represented is simply to ignore the job. I can recall several instances where we are informed some character has a job, and maybe one episode will center around their job, but for the most part it's just completely unimportant.
No, do not want! Flattr's main problem is already that it's far too easy to game, and if you give in and click on everything, you dilute your contribution to the things you actually care about. Replacing the ad with a flattr button is good - in fact it's great! but auto-clicking that for you - no! Let's not replicate the clickbait economy.
>If you'd just let the banks fail, you could have spent the same money giving everybody

The bailouts were asset swaps, repaid with a gain for the taxpayer [1]. They were not cash giveaways. Comparing this to simply giving cash to people is ludicrous.

The most at risk was about 2T, with only 650B actually out at any time, which at your claim of 20K per person, only pays for 32 million people. You're off by an order of magnitude (completely ignoring that the bailouts were asset swaps, not giveaways).

>Hate poverty? The U.S. has spent more than 5 Trillion on it over the last few decades. That's another 20K or so per man, woman, and child

Over the course of decades. It's not 20K in a year. It's more like 1/40th ($500) of that a year. And the only places I can find a number this large includes Medicare/SS payouts. Are you going to remove these programs (especially Mecicare/Medicaid) with your conversion to a once in a lifetime check per person?

> The national debt is closing in on 20T. Would you rather have a balanced budget and a check for 100K?

That's nonsense. Adding massively more to spending via UBI is not going to balance the budget or reduce the debt, and I don't know what magic lets you take 20T of debt (the biggest holder being SS, and large amounts to the Fed and loans to US investors, such as retirement funds) and simply divide by 320M people to get 100K (actually, this is 62.5K) in a check. Nothing in this line of numerology makes any sense. These uses are nowhere near exchangeable.

>(I understand the math is way fuzzy here. It's to make a point.)

The math isn't fuzzy. It's simply wrong, from the starting values, to the calculations, to the conclusions.

>The reason UBI has such broad appeal is that, well, people are able to do basic math.

Unfortunately this basic math is not coupled to reality, ignores very important and well tested economic ideas backed by 100+ years of empirical data, and is ignores the downsides and costs involved.

And so far, I fail to see many UBI proponents that are able to do basic math. A few can, but mostly they are full of numerology and ignoring the meaning of various amounts.

I've yet to see a UBI that doesn't either require massive tax hikes to the point of possibly destroying the economy or leave those needing assistance now in much worse shape.

>Slogans are great. Results are better.

Intellectually honest claims checking is better, and it helps avoid chasing impossible or unlikely or destructive plans.

[1] https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/
US companies operating servers in the EU must comply with EU data protection laws regarding information on those servers.

More accurately, US companies processing personal data of EU citizens must comply with EU data protection laws. It just so happens that locating the servers in the EU is among the easiest ways to comply with that.
> I've never met anyone who actually thinks it's a good idea.

I see you haven't met my mother. Count yourself lucky.

Those people exist – there's some quite generous child benefit programs in some EU countries, and the math seems to be simple –, but they're far more rare than the "OMG WELFARE PARASITES" would want you to believe. (And in many cases child protection agencies intervene and get the kids off to safety, because as it turns out, people using kids as money presses tend to have a screw loose or five.)

And honestly, I don't see the problem. People get kids for all the wrong reasons, people abuse their kids for all the wrong reasons; that won't get significantly worse. At the same time, fewer kids will grow up in crippling poverty and have their lives ruined before they turn 10 because their parents can't afford to give them any useful education outside the bare minimum provided by public schools.
I've started to use a stateless password management scheme for that purpose: https://github.com/majewsky/pwget
What would this mean if so? And if not, what would that imply? :)
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