skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For Europe and Japan, population is in decline. US population would be in decline if it were not for immigration.

There are three claims made here, and only one is correct. Europe has a very small net positive population growth (its population, unlike Japan's, is not in decline), and the US has a small net positive rate of natural growth (and so, it would not be shrinking even without immigration.)
What Is It That Developers Are Missing?
Employee's leaving the company en masse every time they realize you only have 3-6 months run in the bank.
Hmmm I don't think you'd get geo dist for free. For example, I don't think start of authority can be shared by multiple resolving servers. Or if it can, it's a feature of some specific dns implementation.

You get free caching which is tolerant to partitions, but you'd get that with either solution since it's largely the forwarding dns servers which make that happen and the difference here is constrained to the authorative resolving dns servers.
jQuery.Deferred was such a convoluted api for me. I polyfilled a Promises lib and felt bad having multiple libraries that on the cover said they did the same things.
I wear analog mechanical watches, I really wish Pebble would release a band with a small screen. I'd like to be able to check my meeting schedule without grabbing my phone or computer.

There's one absurdly overpriced smart band on the market currently and it doesn't function well. Right now if I want one I'll need to build it myself :/
Don't forget we are close to an electric vehicle breakthrough to the mass market, and it looks like solar PV is on a cost curve that will potentially mean it will dominate electricity generation in the decades ahead (took it's time getting there, but better late than never.)
The same is not true in countries without free speech protections.

I'm not convinced. I've seen plenty of (presumably) US citizens complain here that Europe doesn't have free speech, because we have laws to curb hate speech.

Still, we are very much free to discuss and organize against our government.
The dash / similar hadphones have internal storage for audiobooks and podcasts with no gps. You could then use gps on a running watch (this is the setup I use to listen to music and podcasts running)
> Would it have made you reconsider the offer?

Yes. You're hiding crucial information for valuing a piece of my compensation.
Volkswagen is making a $300M bet on one of Uber's rivals
I would suggest a course in business ethics, not try to say a company like facebook or okcupid is a scientific organization
How many sites are on the internet again?

Around a billion.

1% would mean 10 million websites are using each possible feature. Okay, it's not quite that even, and a lot of popular sites (like many news sites) stick to the most basic features, but all these browser features are there for the other various cases. Like aforementioned web apps. Various tech demos. Sites with very specific use cases.

In other words, it's because the internet is massive and varied.
Options are your right to equity or ownership of the company. So you experience some of the upside as well as risk some of the downside.

The problem is equity is serving two purposes. On one hand, it represents ownership of the company, the ‘capital’. On the other hand, due to it’s favorable tax treatment, it has become a key component of compensation.[1] Marisa Meyer didn’t start or invest in Yahoo, but she is compensated almost $40m a year in equity, over 90% of her pay package.[2]

When you are evaluating an offer between a startup and a larger company, regarding compensation you need to evaluate the whole package: salary, equity, and bonuses. Startups want to compare only salary and over value their equity. “You’re taking a 50% pay cut from Google, but we are giving you XXX in equity at our last valuation.”

Look at the total pay packages with more realistic valuations such as a 409a for startups, and then examine the probability of different exits and how much you will make. There’s a reason people say employees are learning while founders are earning.[3] An honest assessment of the paydays doesn’t usually bode well for employees at startups. If founders can’t talk to you about this, you probably don’t want to follow them. Most hope you don’t ask the questions and then say things like “What, you don’t believe in the company!” They should be able to sell you on the probability of success, the learning, and everything that will make up for less comp. But don’t let them mislead you about the comp.

[1] https://medium.com/the-wtf-economy/what-paul-graham-is-missi...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=marissa%20mayer%20compensati...

[3] https://bothsidesofthetable.com/is-it-time-for-you-to-earn-o...
Hmm. While I stand by the sentiment of this comment, in hindsight I could have worded it less harshly.
Ouch. Part of me thinks the French government would allow this to happen due to them being non-compliant with that 'right to be forgotten' request.
I'm really happy to see that I'm not the only one with this dream. It would be good for developers and good for end users. Everybody wins.
Yes. You must have faith in the algorithm. Do not question its results.
I enjoyed my original Pebble but I stopped using it quite a while ago and while I would love to pick up a new one they just don't look stylish enough. I mean sure they're getting better and yes this is very subjective...but why do they always have to do a double bezel? It drives me nuts! I'm glad they have improved upon it but most of their marketing shots are with a black screen next to the first, black bezel seems really misleading to me (just like they did with the original Time launch).

Anyway I'm not surprised they'd go back to kickstarter. Tons of promotion and I bet they get a special rate compared to most other users of kickstarter.
HR trackers need to touch your skin or be wrapped around your torso. This would severely impede on the devices ease of wearing/ease of use/lightness, which is it's main focus.
Accidental deaths is a very poor measure of cost to society. For example coal kills far more with pollution than with accidents, and fission disasters render huge swathes of land uninhabitable for decades.
The monthly viewership figures (50m viewers, 500m views) are interesting, I've never heard of Coub before. Are there places we might have seen a Coub and not realised it, do you have integrations with other services, or are all your views driven through your website (from social media?)? Thanks!
Because people won't trust google soon (google != alphabet). When adblockers are fully implemented and used by the entire population, google will look like societ russia after the collapse of the CCCP. It is going to start moving into any business where information is valuable (every business) and it will be super scary as they have the entire worlds data and they have been using it to train a very complex and highly sophisticated AI for nearly 2 decades with billions of records of training data a second in every category you can imagine.

So people will want to protect their data & privacy, especially companies.

People will want to have a better search experience, which means that things that are on the internet that they want to see will be there. Google is probably the most monitored for takedown requests/deindexing and they control most of the video portals and certainly the window you view the interent through so they are a target to legitimate and illegitimate takedown requests.

edit: they also have built the components and outsourced them. Hadoop/Map Reduce, most of Apache's products, elasticsearch, and another google offering tensorflow can certainly be made into a search engine. Obviously not google scale, but certainly an individual.
> And now people think they are going to be left behind if they don't learn Angular, Rust, Shiny7 and all of that.

I have a bit of ADD-ness so shiny objects look the best. I love learning and have learned to curb my learning appetite to skills / areas that I think might benefit me in the near term.

> Every bit of bullshit steals your cognitive capacity and turns you into an 0.1x programmer.

Agree3
The Charge HR sync is garbage in the US as well. It never syncs for me unless I explicitly open the app, and even then it takes forever. "All day sync" is enabled, I've tried resets etc. no dice.

I'm OK with the HR accuracy, but the sync issues make it more trouble than it's worth. I still wear the thing, but only bother to sync and look at the app perhaps once a week at most since it's so damn slow.
^ Yeah. I use SVG heavily in all my web projects, and I've never seen a single user access one of my sites & had the SVG blocked. I wouldn't buy '87%' at all.
matlab? custom function was (or still is?) a one-function-one-file. i had bunch of function-files in a project directory. my mind was literally scattered.

then i moved on to languages that allow binding function to variable. i had much less files. simpler.

FP with anonymous function further frees my mind from naming variables so i have zero chance of mistyped function names. easier maintenance? sure

those didn't stop me from getting work done; however, i prefer to not waste time on weaker programming languages, although coding on those languages did broaden my mind (yeah, now i know they suck)
Baby steps. A very, very small fraction of WordPress developers even do local development, much less use build tools and/or Vagrant. Most of them know how to tinker with a functions.php file, but not much else. It's surprising, but true. Just look at subreddits like r/ProWordPress. Very few are even using Git.

This product (the command line utility included) are my way of trying to push WP development forward, out of cowboy coding on a production server or deploying over FTP.

I think the price is fair, given that the app will not have any outside dependencies other than VirtualBox and Vagrant. You won't even need a Ruby, because the app comes bundled with Ruby. All build commands can be run inside the VM, which comes stocked with Node, Ruby, PHP and more.

There are apps like CodeKit and Tower that are GUI's to command line apps priced for the same price. They sell well, because not every developer is comfortable on the command line. Think of a front-end developer who only does design with HTML/CSS. They don't want to mess with Vagrant or anything like that. They just want to do their job, and most of the time that means coding on an external dev server and uploading via FTP.
Most of your recent comments to HN have been political. That's not really what this site is for.

The current thread is pure politics, of course, but it's also not about the direction you're taking it in here, and internecine politics are worse.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11760362 and marked it off-topic.
There are many arguments against it. I think the main cultural difference is that in general Americans distrust the state more than Europeans do, which is often a good thing. Though, I think with jury trials it fosters a bad system.

I am not a lawyer and there are good articles discussing the system, I think lawsuits can often be highly complex and should be handled by professionals, not amateurs. I believe if you look guilty you are better of with professionals, who I imagine are more likely to judge you based on facts instead of sympathy.
One of the comments on that article links to this https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1488 which rather suggests that this surprisingly specific optimization was added in order to speed up some calculations in one of the SPEC benchmarks.

(The benchmark in question is code from a chess program called Crafty, which represents a chess position as a bunch of 64-bit bitmaps. Unsurprisingly, 64-bit popcount is quite often useful for this.)
Aside from the MySQL vs. Other DB debate (which I refuse to take part of, although I'm willing to ascribe good points to all camps), this article is absolutely excellent with respect to acting as a guide for people who want to use MySQL as a Key/Value store. Absolutely stellar article! All of the points are dead-on. I applaud the author for putting together so much specific information about tuning MySQL for Key/Value in one place, and the ridiculous speed and scalability you can get if you do it correctly. (That being said, NoSQL Key/Value databases are good too.)
Calling Fortran 59 years old is odd, as not many people write in the original form of fortran. C11 is much closer to K&R C than Fortran 08 is to the original Fortran.
> Can be viewed with a radically stripped-down web browser.

Like Lynx?

In terms of sites versus apps, I think the browser vendors are responsible for making this happen. Adobe AIR was the closest effort I saw of marrying web technologies with apps.

Sadly AIR never took off and whilst I appreciate the intention, it left a huge looming question of what do we actually do with all this new web technology?.

One answer I came up with in recent years was what you suggested: of partitioning off the people who want to work with the technologies and keep them separate from the text+image+CSS based web we've all grown to love.

Similar to how the demo-scene was an offshoot of game development...
even Delaware corp in CA seems to be subject to CA law and it doesn't seem to be waivable (IANAL of course)

http://calcorporatelaw.com/2015/01/inspecting-records-delawa...

http://www.oclaw.org/research/code/ca/CORP/1601./content.htm...
How do you guys plan to monetize Coub? If it's through ads I can see a problem since the videos are very short.
I think those things were going on long before Twilio got in the game.
It's not easy to avoid auto-updates-- you need to edit a group policy to do it.

Now your response would be that anyone who lacks the sophistication to do that should be forced to auto-update anyway.

And I would agree, except the updates also force a reboot, which can be catastrophic to non-saved work, running processes, etc. And stopping the forced reboot after updating Win10 is VERY much non-trivial-- it's step 2 in the link below.

https://superuser.com/questions/973009/conclusively-stop-wak...

That's some serious mojo.
Ople Favor Naturals Over Strivers – Even Though They Say Otherwise
UNIX utilities on Win32/64 still feel weird. You don't really have forward-slash paths adopted everywhere, and you have weird volume drive mounts. Writing a Windows app means you have to deal with the realities of Win specifics (e.g file systems) and the fact that you can't link to a UNIX-shared library like you can with OS X. Windows line-endings have screwed me over with running bash scripts (easy to fix with git settings). Have to deal with cmd as default shell. Windows out of the box loves the wchar_t type and std::wstring, a 2-byte character which doesn't even really encapsulate Unicode (UTF-8 is used just about every other operating system).

While OS X binaries aren't compatible with Linux, it's usually just a recompile. Sometimes there's a little more to it. But generally a lot less work than Win32/Cygwin. Yet to be seen with Ubuntu on Win32/64, but apps written in Windows Linux subsystem have been said not to be fork able from Win32/64 apps.

However, Mac's file system HFS+ is terrible. That's a good reason not to use it for servers on top of parts of it being proprietary.
> Every coffee you've ever had in your life was a lower temperature than what McDonald's was serving up.

This is a pretty sketchy assertion. Instant coffee is generally made from water you just boiled yourself.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_wrap
They would have a serious conflict of interest between getting people on the plane ASAP and checking safety. I already see this when staff are lenient with checking passports and boarding passes.

On top of this, most airlines have terrible customer service, so there's no reason to believe they would provide a better service than the TSA.

The TSA clearly has many faults, and nor can it take all the credit for the lack of terrorist attacks on US flights. However, it has to get some of the credit. It's wishful thinking to imagine this is a simple problem with a simple fix. If you're going to get rid of the TSA, you're going to have to convince the majority of travellers that the extra convenience is not going to come at the expense of safety.
> Story can be found here

Well worth a few minutes. Not that teaching it would help much, wisdom rolls off people's minds like water off a duck's back.
Actually companies make it hard on purpose to find an email address or contact form, because support is expensive. It's a well known trick to burry that deep within some bullshit interface with answers to questions you don't care about. I always find the "Was this helpful?" questions frustrating on support pages, because they don't have a "No, I want to freaking talk to somebody" button.
Uh, one is an editor UI, the other is an API. They're not exactly comparable.
Slavery already exists, it's just hidden from sight.

A truly compassionate society would offer better alternatives, so that nobody would be coerced.

Prohibitionism is not a solution to anything except to the guilt in the moral conscience of the well-fed middle class.
> So, unless it's something that Apple intends to do anyway, Dropbox's request will don't have much success.

You'd think Apple would be happy to add extensions they themselves could use in the future to replace Dropbox with their own iCloud extension.
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11760362 and marked it off-topic.
Any recent desktop linux will have virtualbox available. You could also run something like proxmox.
It is used for other things too, it wasn't introduced only for cloning. But yes, it could be replaced with pure JavaScript, I might do this when refactoring next time.
The price per megabyte is high but the price per SIM card per month is very reasonable. Twilio has never competed on price, it's competed on being the absolute easiest service to integrate with the rest of your infrastructure.

Looks like a good choice if you want a lot of nodes without Wi-Fi to report back a small stream of data each month.
no, the site on the charge website has the tld .io
It was still a solution, covering all aspects of the issue, and people have done great things with it.

But you conflate the solution with the particular implementation.

It could be whatever else language instead of AppleScript, e.g. Python or Javascript -- it's the idea that matters.
You worked hard to imagine that.

But @jerk is already .@ mentioning his (her?) @victims because that's how @jerk is.
Telemarketers run thin margins and usually use cheaper providers than Twilio.
Encryption and anti-tracking tools are at a peak, sure, but that's a response to the dark ages of tracking. Privacy tools have developed in direct proportion to the steadily-growing loss of baseline privacy; much of what you list solves privacy issues that simply didn't exist until recently.

And yes, I feel capable of choosing how much of my data I give away. But that's a feeling I get by virtue of being a privacy-concerned software developer. To get what I would consider a basic level of control in a web browser requires half a dozen scripts, extensions, or settings changes. Do you really expect someone who's never heard of Javascript to understand why disabling execute-scripts-by-default is an important step for privacy and security?

I've had smart, STEM-employed family members ask me to "set up privacy stuff on my computer". Even at a medium-low level (no VPN, no Linux) it takes me a decent amount of time and thought, and I already know the tools and topics I want to deal with. My mom shouldn't need a third college degree to understand how to protect her privacy.
Holy shit this
My brand new (somewhat expensive D:) laptop tries to commit sudoku any time I look away. I've had it for less than a month and already I've taken it out of laptop bag scorching hot twice - because it decided to wake up for no reason and then stay running with no air...
@jerk is usually very purposeful.
They render multiple frames at the same time.
Don't companies have to establish (and report to shareholders) the 409a valuation regardless of anything else? Every private company I've had stock in has done a quarterly 409a in order to demonstrate to the IRS that they are fairly valuing options. Admittedly this is a bare number, without any of the supporting material that may be of interest if one wants to do their own valuation, so DE law is still interesting here, but for the sheer purpose of valuing your stock 409a seems to do the job.
This is why I left Twitter after whole 3 days AFAIR. I followed several tech people, and the amount of content produced was just too much, particularly since 2/3 of it was random noise.

I'm missing out on some interesting discussions for sure, but I'd have to be on Twitter half a day each day to scroll through all this stuff.
>We might have our kinks, but I don't think that most of the people in jail ended up in there because "Yea, what you were doing was allowed by the law, but you know we kind of didn't like it

And it's not like that in France either. You have to take into account that some HN users are real experts on U.S legal matters, whereas most European legal matters are discussed on here without much if any professional legal expertise.
I wish I would have known about this back in 2011 when I joined my first California startup. While I did learn a lot on the job, the leadership team was very shady about the value of the company and the shares. I eventually ended up leaving and not exercising my options after the C-level execs were switched out 3 times in 6 months, but having this info would have been great to know.
>> Many CLI tools are also non-interactive. Adding that interactivity adds complexity.

> Most things worth doing are difficult.

The most important thing is to identify and get rid of all accidental complexity.
No WebGL

One problem is that some interactive news articles can make very impressive use of WebGL, like the interactive climbing map that accompanied an article about the Dawn Wall freeclimbing record: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/01/09/sports/the-daw...
Open Hotspots in Germany are incredibly rare (due to a just recently lifted law that made Hotspot providers liable for criminal activities commited over their connection). The use cases you described can be covered with an iPod Shuffle or similar MP3 player. The interesting part is really the mobile internet connection, which is hard/pricy to come by in Germany and probably other countries. Especially in rural areas you won't get a good enough connection for Spotify.

Another useful use case would be an emergency button for elderly people. Current devices are rather expensive and/or only work at home.
A TSA employee was whining about a lack of pay increases to me recently. I smiled, then turned to my friend and started discussing how naive they are and the negligible amount of value these people provide to society. She turned beet red and didn't say another word.
My 2c, but its too little too late. Unreal and Unity are the big boys fighting for game developers, especially indie game developers.
This is what I do. It's basically free.
Allow users to tag a set of hashtags as a category. Make hashtags user-taggable and suddenly sorting and categorizing is easy.

Undoubtedly this just sounds like a good idea to the "few orthogonal abstractions" hacker brain, but with the right UI it could work.
> I think Raymond has been a terrible figurehead for open source.

I agree with that, but still think CATB was a pretty good paper: I don't think they're two completely exclusive concepts. Along the same lines, I respect some things about RMS and what he's done, and disagree strongly with others. He is also not a very good advocate for open source (err.. free software): perhaps that's why ESR got some traction - he was not great, but better than the others. At least he wasn't opposed to people making money to the point of personally offending them.