skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Use the opportunity to learn: (1) What it is that attracted the potential investor to your idea; (2) What they would require of you in order to make an investment. Investors can be a distraction, but when the time comes to raise money you need to understand what investors are looking for. And yes, the most likely outcome of such a meeting will certainly be "let's keep in touch," but the very worst time to get to know investors is when you are desperate for money.
The only other large-scale PHP based system I've seen that has worse architecture/coding standards than Magento is Moodle.
SanDisk made an iPhone case with up to 128GB of built-in storage
You can still MiTM your own devices which use SSL, just add a custom certificate to them (all major MiTM tools support this).

The problem is not encryption... the problem is buying black box devices which are not transparent to their users. Bad manufacturers will always be able to do this whether we advocate for encryption everywhere or not.
You're misremembering, that's all. And things have changed since you were in that age bracket, anyway; the US common core standards mandate compound interest lessons as early as the seventh grade.
I first noticed this issue when I saw a guy struggling with an English-Portuguese dictionary to try to understand the error messages that the university's Burroughs B6700 Fortran compiler had added to his program listing. Soon after that I saw another guy having a really hard time learning Basic because he couldn't memorize "N E X T", a sequence of letters which meant absolutely nothing to him. I had previously thought that with Fortran, Basic and Algol having so few keywords this wouldn't be a problem like it would be for Forth or Smalltalk.

I once saw a computer which had a Basic with keywords in Portuguese, but I have never found any references to it on the Internet. Logo was translated by several people, but unfortunately they didn't coordinate their efforts so Portuguese Logo programs were even less portable between versions than normal.

In 1984 I translated all of Smalltalk as described in the "blue book" to Portuguese, but it wasn't easy:

1) "self" does not have a nice equivalent

2) lots of words like "copy" can be either a verb or an adjective. No matter which Portuguese option you choose it will work in some contexts and be really bad in others

3) lots of words like "new" are gender neutral. No matter which Portuguese option you choose it will work in some contexts and be really bad in others

4) word order for adjectives is the opposite in English and Portuguese. This actually fits in well with the postfix syntax of Smalltalk's unary selectors, but breaks down when naming components: "car door window" works but it would have to be "janela da porta do carro", which doesn't work

5) You might be able to tell the difference between "ordered" and "sorted" when describing collections, but Portuguese uses the same word for both

Smalltalk-80 makes a distinction between String objects and Symbols. So you can have many 'new' strings but that gets converted into a systemwide unique #new symbol which is used for method names and other things. I created a MultiSymbol class in Smalltalk-V that would convert any of a set of strings into the same symbol. When going the other way around (to print, for example), it would use the value of a global variable to pick between the objects. So you could type in your program in Russian and ask it to be listed in Portuguese, for example. This was good enough for all the standard symbols, but you would have to add translations for any new symbol you created yourself. It got the job done, but by the late 1990s everyone I met had a strong opinion that programming languages have to be in English.
Seems to be down. Mirror anyone?
> My point is sure the game has gotten tougher but just because it is doesn't mean you blame the game you just outwork the other person.

Sounds like a race to the bottom in the ever decreasing marginal productivity of labor in 21st century capitalism.
The answer is mostly completely obvious, and the fact that you're even asking makes me wonder if you're trolling (EDIT: apologies, I over-reach). Here are some categories of jobs for which most people don't or can't self-teach, or where a tertiary degree is the default route:

Huge swaths of the medical profession (MDs, BSNs, PAs, DOs, Pharm.D.'s, ...)

Non-BSN nurses and expert tradesmen and craftsmen (tertiary == post-secondary, which includes community college!!!)

Engineers

Lawyers, clerks, etc.

Accountants

Actuaries

Industrial scientists and their surrounding support structure

Lots of mid- and uppoer-level management in every sector (many of these roles really do require a tertiary or higher command of statistics and other skills)

Educators

The whole army of support roles that require an excellent command of written language (good communicators are hard to find, and more often than not have tertiary degrees... those English majors really do often actually learn how to very write well)

Even software engineers. I know it's an unpopular opinion round these parts, but the huge majority of excellent software engineers have a tertiary education in CS or a related field (Math, physics, etc.).

Could all this stuff be taught without a four+ year degree(s)? Some of it could. Most of it couldn't -- not well, at least.

In short, employers hire these people because it's either impossible or very difficult to find people who are ready to work in these roles (or, in rare cases, are even legally permitted to do so) straight out of high school.
Well as much as I appreciate your earlier points, I do want to comment:

> The culture around college necessity is incredibly frustrating. To make matters worse, when the subject comes up, many people say things like "Not going to college worked for you, but it tends not to for everybody else and it worked for me blah blah." It doesn't ever, every push the conversation forward. It's a weird, frustrating form of survivor-bias.

That it's you who's showing survivor-bias. The data as far as I'm aware of it, does indeed confirm, that a college degree is a net financial benefit, despite of course obvious substantial anecdotal evidence to the contrary that every person is familiar with (my friend xyz got a degree and he's doing shitty). I'm purely talking historically, and financially.

Even today I'm seeing a job market where you can't get a traineeship in most companies without a master's degree, as silly as that may be.

Also I want to stress that tech is very, very much an exception. A field where more than most, you can get access to jobs on the basis of your work, not your work in school. I feel HN underappreciates the difference with the rest of the population.

In terms of happiness, fulfilment etc, I can't speak on that.

Also, I can't speak on how this'll develop in next generations, e.g. for those going to college today or later this decade, but I suspect like most that there'll be a big paradigm shift making college way less appealing.

At the end of the day, the benefits of college can be seen as an arbitrage opportunity in the market. i.e., spend X money for education, get Y (which is > X) benefits in income in return. And like any arbitrage opportunity, X will increase in cost and Y will decrease, as more people are drawn to the opportunity, until it largely fades. (or worse, temporarily flips around due to oversupply, like we've seen in some industries, e.g. MBAs at various times, or lawyers recently).
The best way to understand the differences is to try it out. I haven't used either of these tools personally, so my comments are more general.

We focus on giving you an extremely rich crash report and day-to-day workflow tools, whereas often other tools are more about high-level passive analytics. Additionally we work cross platform (web, mobile, and desktop), and go much deeper than most things that simply aggregate logs.
my #1 rule of multi-threaded programming: don't do it.

failing that my #2 rule is to make sure you know exactly what you're doing and even then exercise extreme care. #3 is have no mutable shared memory state. #4 is to use queues of immutable messages if needed to communicate between the threads.
The void left by the parallel port: Resurrecting a dead interface
Adblock Plus is very popular and very inefficient: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-vs.-ABP:-effic...
>So at 17 or 18, with little life experience,

...isn't the real failure right here, in the constant infantilizing of our young? Shouldn't we be expecting our society to produce semi-capable adults when they come of age? It's not like people have to be so unworldly at the tender age of 18.

http://roppskyline.pbworks.com/w/page/6550634/Growing%20up%2...
Neither will FTL. Time at the destination and back will the time elapsed between departure and arrival.
TrackJS is only JavaScript, whereas Sentry is cross-platform. In many cases a niche single language service works very well, but specifically for Browser JavaScript we go above and beyond most implementations and it's one of our strongest offerings.
I'd absolutely agree they're better than I am personally, since I'm neither a medical researcher nor an expert at evaluating medical research. But I don't believe they're better than an organization focused on solving a specific problem.

As a random example of inefficiency: there's a lot more money going into research on specific degenerative diseases than into the causes and solutions for degeneration. Solve the root cause, not the symptoms.
i'm really sorry this happened. hoping you find a better gig in short order.
Hoo boy, these articles make the rounds every couple days.

People live in the Bay Area because of: professional opportunities, culture, weather, and social network. If you value those things more than high cost of living then you stay -- you either have the privilege of money or the tolerance of being financially stretched and not have all the nice things.
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Only saw one other mention of this, but ASMR[0] videos are often helpful to promote sleepiness, in addition to the pleasurable feeling they give some people.

Here's a good example of one I've found that has helped me to fall asleep [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_sensory_meridian_re...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRcdrgPA5wI
I reckon you're talking about QuakeWorld. Because Quake on a 200+ ping was ice-skate-mode.
Also from the Twilio marketing team (2011-2013) as a developer evangelist...

First, by being developers. The first word in our title was "developer" and each of us had 10+ years of serious ship-it experience on projects large and small from all over various industries. Even if we didn't know that specific problem, we had shared experiences and mindsets.

Next, by treating everyone with respect. It didn't matter if you were in a "boring" job behind the scenes or the most amazing job with accolades and attention or the person making the purchasing decision, you are someone to be treated with dignity and respect.

Finally, by being hero makers. That was our internal code name at the time. Our job was not to promote ourselves and get our names out there. It was to help make that developer, that hacker, that entrepreneur be admired and a hero in their organization. That meant helping them design, build, and ship useful tools quickly that would work today, tomorrow, and a year from now.

My 0.02.
New chip design makes parallel programs run faster, requires 1/10 the code
This is a LOT of debt to put on the balance sheet of what is (still) a young company facing new entrants into the luxury-electric vehicle market segment.
Wow thanks for the moderation! I guess here in Hacker News we are all smart engineers and scientists that rely on the scientific method except for when it comes to microsoft when we all turn into drooling idol worshiping children.

I wonder whether MS has a well orchestrated campaign to have multiple employees troll hn, or whether they just go to the source and buy moderation points in bulk from ycombinator.
I'm not following how that has anything to do with the comment you replied to. I personally am actually very anti-tax, but that's an orthogonal issue as to whether or not individual effort counts for anything or not, and whether or not "it's all luck".

Note too that "success" doesn't necessarily have to mean "building a startup and having a big exit." There are many levels of success.
As I understand it, both are interrelated. I've seen the very same thing in paper magazines. Let's say we look at a magazine about... ties. There is a symbiotic relation between the brands (even if there are more than one) and the writers. Writers help the brands to sell fabric and brands help the writers to sell paper.

It's not very likely that someone writing in such a magazine writes that ties are useless and outdated. Maybe they could say that foulards are disgusting or that people that refuse to wear a tie are unelegant.

That doesn't mean lack of honesty, just self-selection. If some writer dislikes ties, it's more likely that he ends up working for another kind of magazine.

However, there is a point when this gets a little too far: writing that ties cure cancer, insinuating that anti-ties are ugly unkind persons that can't stand others' elegancy...

Is such person really so fanatized that he really believes that crap or is he just exagerating to push the business?
It's anybody's guess. But IMHO this question has been answered for Gruber years ago.

Oh, and just one last thing: I assume that being a friendly blogger gets him a lot of perks, from free hardware for testing, some information earlier than anyone else, conferences tickets, that kind of thing.
It sounds like you've confused tertiary with post-graduate.

Tertiary typically means post-secondary. Secondary typically means US high school or equivalent. (from wiki: " The World Bank, for example, defines tertiary education as including universities as well as institutions that teach specific capacities of higher learning such as colleges, technical training institutes, community colleges, nursing schools, research laboratories, centers of excellence, and distance learning centers.[1]")

So the electrician with a CC degree has a tertiary education. Of course, so does the Ph.D.

Hopefully that clarifies the magnitude of the fact that fewer than 1/2 of young Americans obtained a tertiary degree...
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College can never become too costly for a single child of two well-educated and well-employed parents with 18+ year career behind them. It's just a fact that in such situation colleges will start decreasing cost and tuition to get students in.

Also cost increases are stuff that look good in marketing material to increase desirability of that college over other colleges and that trend will hit a wall. Also there is increasing political movement to get college tuition costs down.

What I get from this is: Either USA is totally screwed up country or you two value your personal lifestyle a lot more than having a child. Child isn't really that expensive since even poor can afford it. Its expensive to have child with expensive lifestyle.
Imagine we had this "systemland" in place, what kind of communication experience we might have?

(For example, I came back to this thread from email notification.)
Holy crap I appreciate this change! I thought they'd never fix it because of compatibility. Thanks for the effort you put in.

It's not that I use emoji filenames, it's that I deal with real-world natural language text all the time, including at the console.

(In terms of compatibility, my text-justifying function is going to stop working correctly for the period of time between when gnome-terminal updates to Unicode 9 and when Python 3.x does. Still worth it.)
Trello vs. Asana
i had a similar issue with mongo and time series data. for special purpose event data like that gist, i think you should consider using a column store.
you don't have to do anything.
They're actually pretty terrible. It isn't a high bar to do better than the NIH when it comes to supporting new technologies. Almost all important early fundamental research, the high-risk part leading up to new knowledge and potential new technologies, is supported by philanthropy.

The NIH really only funds follow-on work for things that are already known. In order to win a grant you have to have already proven your thesis. It is somewhat ridiculous.

So if you want to delegate your vote, delegate it to a non-profit. Or invest in a startup in the field you care about. Anything other than giving to the NIH.
How did he get past the E2M5 underwater elevator ride with the forced drowning damage? I know you can skip it by immediately running away from the button and getting stuck, but that also causes damage.
Sure, but these fields are known for being selective, and objectively requiring a very high level of domain-specific knowledge. Presumably, they will remain this way in the future, despite the cost of education rising.

Notably, if the field doesn't objectively require a very high level of domain-specific knowledge, but rather a general baseline command of a broad topic, eg. software development?
That's true I guess. I did transfer from a really small college to a big state school with a decent cs program. It's not a top college, but we do get a ton of money for research. And I did notice a huge difference in opportunities.

But I don't see going here as being drastically worse than a better school. I've gotten interviews at a bunch of places, and every summer I have classmates that intern at highly competitive companies like Google/MS/Amazon/Palantir. I don't know some of what I'm missing because I'm not at Harvard or MIT but I don't know how my school would be a negative at most places.
I can't recall exactly when I made the switch to Quakeworld, but I'm pretty sure when I first fired up Quake1 over modem, it was still quite responsive even with the original netcode.
Yeah, I've been doing Rails for work + side projects for awhile, and I love & appreciate it, but I keep sneaking glances at Elixir/Phoenix. Fast, concurrent-capable tests out of the box seems like a game-changer, for starters. Not to mention all of the cool, new (to me) concepts to nerd out on.

I'm fine sitting on the sidelines for now and letting the ecosystem mature, but will definitely be jumping in at some point.
College != Education. Education should be for anyone who wants it. However, the returns on a college education (especially if the monetary costs are high) are highly dependent on the abilities (IQ, grit, conscientiousness, etc) of the individual in question. It is a bad investment for a lot of people.
Can we grow food on Mars?
Really an poor article that just fails on too many levels.

That it should have sufficient solar power to drive production is commendable but I am curious if they are going to have some onsite storage mechanism as I assume this is a 24x7 facility.

The amount of materials that have to be brought in by rail road would a statistic I would find mind boggling. How much water does the plant consume?
In Python 3, reduce was intentionally moved into the functools library because it was argued that its two biggest use cases by far were sum and product, which were both added as builtins. In my experience, this has very much been the case. Reduce is still there if you need it, and isn't any more verbose. The only thing that is a little bit more gross about this example is the lambda syntax; I would argue that even that is a moot point, however, since Python supports first-class functions, so you can always just write your complicated reduce function out and then plug it in.
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Doesn't look very convincing: How would one assign colors to individual pixels?
I found Ecto to be one of the best Postgres libraries out there.

What do you miss from Django's Postgres libraries in Phoenix/Ecto?
I wonder if we can make a bot that posts a telemetry comment on every article with "Windows 10" in the title.
Been using Sentry since early versions (even contributed some crappy plugins myself) and moved to hosted service immediately. Great tool, I am glad to hear this news!
Saudi Arabia has declared an end to its oil war with the US
This is really cool, like requestb.in but live updating!

requestb.in has a more modern design but logvoo makes that up with fitting more useful information on the screen. Also like the history version, that doesn't exists on requestb.in
I would argue that requiring social/economic path that loads people down with high-debt at the beginning of their life is a recipe to destroying a lot of beneficial economic activity. (irrespective of if their specific career pays a lot).

I strongly suspect that if you took the exact same amount of money as is spent on education today, financed it using either public debt or taxation or some mix, and direct funded more education through public universities, education would run more efficiently, and society and businesses would benefit economically more than individually loading people down with educational debt.
Democrats are the new Republicans
Not surprising, since Randy Wolfe apparently thought it was different enough and the suit only went forward after he passed away.
Counter-Strike has very little actual randomness. Bullet recoil follows a fixed pattern which only appears random. (See http://twowordbird.com/articles/csgo-recoil-mechanics/ for example.)

Expert players can (and do) learn to compensate for better accuracy.
Some possibly useful advice: if I'm at a conference and someone I sort of know says, "This one speaker is being an ass. He's pestering me about another speaker." I'm like, "yeah, yeah that's part of being an organizer".

But if that person says, "Can you help me? Bill Smith is harassing me." Now they've got my attention.

In this case I don't know what the exact dialog was, but if you want help be sure to ask for it and state clearly why. People will respond more proactively.
Controlling the ‘referer’ header
this interests me. We have one of the "internal ssh bastion schemes" built out that they mention in the video. It sucks, and most of the reason it has to suck it to maintain complete audit logs (I work in healthcare tech, we deal with lots of sensitive/regulated data).

Will definitely be testing this out.
If some music, art or writing program is a top program, we want the best, most passionate people capable doing that work to be there, regardless of how much money their parents had. We all benefit if our most talented artists, musicians, writers and filmmakers are able to work in their chosen field. It's how culture moves forward, and it makes all our lives better.

What you seem to be saying is that only the rich and well-off should pursue those fields, while the poor and middle class keep their heads down to "earn a living."

Can't you see how that policy will impact your life negatively? I would hate to live in that world. Wouldn't you?
I agree that this trial is almost certain to fail, but as I am sure you know the resistance mutatants are normally preexisting in the patient before treatment and the treatment just selects for the resistant mutants.

I think one of our bigger problems with fighting cancer is we only trial new treatments in people on deaths door who have failed everything else. Treatments that would help someone newly diagnosed (the treatments we really want) are just not possible to bring to market.
Yes, I do. But, I would rather focus on career. I mean designing the career. I don't know how to start it.

You're right. That's life. We don't know things are going to be. Thank you for your advice.