skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What he found was a tiny court with few resources, a town of crippling conventionality and an immediate hostility to himself and his type

But somehow Weimar represents Liszt at his greatest.

I had to smile, in a way this is still the case. The open and immediate hostility is now more a skepticism. But there are a lot of reasons to stay in Weimar.

For the Hacker News crowd interesting is, maybe, that Weimar even has a hacker space: https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Maschinenraum

There are even start ups in and around Weimar (Erfurt, Jena, Ilmenau) although a lot of those is more traditional entrepreneurship in the optical or medical area, rather than software. But don't forget Intershop started in Jena and Prof Karlheinz Brandenburg, the inventor of mp3, is at the Technical University Ilmenau.
> This new version takes 5-10 seconds before I can start coding, that's far too slow.

Last time I had to launch Atom was when 1.8 was released. In the use case where you leave the editor running this startup time isn't a problem.
Benefits of Argan oil for your skin
Liber office has virtually no realtime collaboration, no mobile, and no web app. It's apples and oranges. Libre office is still going to be better for writing long form, and quip is for pairing (a)sync review and ACL management.

It is difficult to see the role of libre office (or any native only app) in the enterprise for much longer.
It's a distortion because it didn't happen at slow motion. Not to say slow motion can't be useful, but it's not how it happened.

Think of the ultimate slow motion, a photograph. Emotions and muscle movements sweep across a face, but depending on the photographer's or editor's choice of moment, the same person can look scary or beatific.
I do not care to lose karma because of my strong opinion on a subject (like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12055486). I am more annoyed when I lose karma trying to give more matter of thought (for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11723170 or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11713948). This may be linked with my poor English level, but I do not really understand.
>who here would bet that this would have still happened if both companies were turning a profit?

Do you even understand what you're saying? Solarcity 'loses' money because they invest all their profits and more into expansion. Same goes for Tesla. You should read the quarterlies and SEC notices yourself.
"A biography of a major cultural figure should not start by sounding like a performing arts undergraduate describing themself on Twitter."

That's the quote of the article for me. I think there is way too much emphasis on Liszt the performer and his earlier symphonic music than on his later work. At the latest stage of his life, he developed an almost post-modern attitude towards the piano, as a percussion instrument rather than a melodic one, and also began experimenting with atonal music. These are two of the most dominant aspects of early modern (i.e. 20th century) music, seen in Lizst work as early as 1885.
I see both as office apps.
I did not know about this talk, really appreciate the link. Thank you.
Yep, you are correct. I was thinking of Linear A.
From about the middle of the article:

<q>

What if everything was powered by “The Web”, but you never saw a browser?

This is a big question. As an industry would we be happy with the user hardly ever seeing a web browser anymore? Or is that the one thing that is sacrosanct?

I think my original classifications: Notifications, Physical, Embedded and Integrated, were not a million miles off where I think the platform is headed.

</q>

It's a long argument / technical exploration of what a web-served world not mediated by browsers, but through notifications, native apps, embedded systems, etc., would look like. More Web-as-data-back-end than Web-as-content-delivery, in one view that occurs to me.

That said: the article wanders, doesn't start with or come to a point, and is difficult to follow. It's more a thinking-out-loud exploration than clear draft IMO.
Except it's not everybody else that seems thin-skinned, it's "more and more people becoming thin skinned". If people around you are catching flu while you stay healthy, isn't it a problem with them, not with you?

All progress is necessarily a change, but not every change is progress.
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You've hit the nail on the head for me at my current place of work. The only alternative I have here is Scala, which I wouldn't choose, but higher quality ecosystem and community, and closer to Rust which I'm enjoying at home, so am thinking of doing the switch.
Deanonymizing Windows users and capturing Microsoft and VPN accounts
This is facesioustly reductive.
100 rounds of user research on GOV.UK Verify
Damn, I forgot to mention Emacs! (and Spacemacs), I actually typed "three editors" but only placed two... and I'm not sure where to put Emacs because it has many run options; hmm, I'll change it tomorrow and will also mention the GUI for Vim and the plugin for Sublime and Atom. Also, yes, it was aimed for beginners but that's no excuse.
High-Priced Recruiting of Talent Abroad Raises Hackles(2011)
https://mattermark.com/blog/ used to create reports and infographics on startups and were quite active on HN. Their product and marketing evolved a bit.

https://mattermark.com/mattermark-weekly-1-sent-sunday-june-...

https://mattermark.com/mattermark-startup-traction-report-20...

http://www.schumacher.me/blog/the-berlin-start-up-scene-acco...
Create your own space program
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DO you have a link with visuals? sounds fascinating.
pfSense is based on FreeBSD. there is no "pfSense hardware", just x86 machines.
The Sun and Moon appearing the same size means there's a corona during a solar eclipse. I don't think the corona appears if the Moon is larger than the Sun. It's the corona that's spectacular, and it could even have jolted life to become intelligent life in some way.
Plays nicely into the Broken Window Theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory
True, but when I get told to use this instead of Libre Office, because we can collaborate better with it. Then I think it's natural to miss features.
I left a company with great work/life balance but rather average or even low salary after 2 1/2 years for a startup but after a month into the job they introduced those stupid stopwatch JIRA plugins to measure time spent on tickets plus time sheets.

I know not everyone can maybe afford to do this but this is something I'm never going to put up with and I left after only 3 months purely out of frustration without even having a new gig. (Was quite suprised to be approached immediately by a subsidiary of a well known online auction house, where I'm still working for 2 years now.)

If you don't have a family (wife + kids) be bold and don't put up with such inhuman conditions. Developers are high in demand and this is the time to use the opportunity.
My understanding is that our economic structure and model is based on the expectation of growth fueled by continuous innovation, growing efficiency, growing workers productivity; the pie grows, and the slices become bigger for everybody.

If (when?) that stops, we'll have to change our model. We already have big problems with the pies not getting bigger for a big part of the population.
I worked on a large deployment (hundreds of Macs) that used custom scripts to harvest, and backup license files. Our scripts were executed with Apple remote desktop and also used JAMF.

At the time other companies (such as google) used puppet + custom scripts to deploy their license files + other executables on their Macs whilst leaving the users with sudo access.
Beyond Hashtag: How SM Provides Opportunities to Better Engage Customers
>I don't see this as a case of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"

It's just that every time someone attempts to "reinvent email" or replace email, they end up creating something worse or at least something less flexible.
This is just a rephrasing of Postel's dictum. Be liberal in what you accept from others, but conservative in what you dish out.
I think this also facilitates moving to another competitor if the need arises
Here's to hoping you sleep soundly then!
Insect Awakenings [Ants Pass the Mirror Test]
> Wouldn't it be simple to claim that more demand (for any given corner or area) is immediately reflected in the price? That doesn't sound like a scandal;

Absolutely not. This is why price-discrimination always happens jumping through a weird hoop or other. Imagine the typical example of price discrimination, S/M/L coffee for widely spread prices that don't have much to do with the cost for the amount of coffee with prices that wildly change up and down depending how busy it is, customers would be rightly pissed for getting screwed because they're obviously not getting a fair price. Price differentiation needs some sort of trick to obscure this fact.

Otherwise it's like saying "getting away with this is perfectly fine because capitalism", which is motivated purely by greed, not the possible benefits of a free market.

> it's harder to arrange for 10 cars to arrive at a spot than 1.

I think you forgot to divide by ten, there. Try this statement for a fairer comparison:

to arrange for 10 cars to arrive at 1 spot vs 10 cars at 10 spots

Seems to me that the 10 cars at 1 spot should be cheaper.

The only reason they get away with this price differentiation going the other way is because they are able to hide these prices from the customers. Driving up profits from unequal information availability is also known as "screwing people over", so yeah that'd be a scandal (except for all the HNers that will go "I am genuinely curious why this is so *surprising" to anyone" -- because getting screwed should be a surprise, otherwise you should've gotten mad sooner, like when we said there's no proof of getting screwed)
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Volkswagen Faces South Korean Ban on Vehicle Sales
Cool. Had come across your site a month back when looking up D info, maybe via the This Week in D series. Congrats.
> How are you measuring success?

Being a marketing platform, I would imagine something like the maximum number of people within their target audience engaging.

And two: not having facts/discussions which tarnish their company's image on the platform.
It's a real term. This is not how the pile depth is decided but a maximum depth.
Ahsomeness Featured on Yourstory as Startup Story
I wonder what's the cheapest/most low-power hardware that could do that job? A Raspberry Pi is too underpowered (putting Ethernet on USB is also a big problem), but what's the next step up from there?
Is the irony in the title intentional?
Tangentially related, I have a chum who used to work for the UK's Environment Agency.

As some may have noticed, the UK seems to be suffering flooding more than it used to. Part of his job was to speak at town halls and village church halls and the like during and after flooding. He'd take a backup man with him whose job was to sit in the car outside with the engine running.

So he'd turn up at a newly built settlement named "Little Flodington" or some other such. He'd look at the unforgiving rocky hills surrounding it, and at the river running through the middle of it. He'd check the history to find that for the last thousand years, the only recorded usage of the land was grazing animals and growing crops that can handle a lot of water. No buildings more elaborate than temporary shepherd huts. He'd open up the department's flood-risk maps from the last fifty years and find he was standing in the middle of a big blue section.

He'd then field questions along the lines of "Why didn't you stop my house being flooded?" and "How are you going to stop it happening again?" with answers that were not well-received. "You bought a new house on a flood-plain. We're not going to stop it happening again."

He's since moved on up to work for a local council's environment dept. A council with less flooding.
Dropbox ends XP support with only a month's notice
Until you exhaust your resources. Then you just die.

The only thing a free market does perfectly is use resources as fast as humanly possible. Efficiently, of course. Why waste resource you can't profit from?
Apologies for the ambiguity - for what it's worth, I only use the term ironically here since that's the vision most anti-reddit people seem to have of reddit's userbase, I probably should have put it in "quotes". Reddit is a diverse place and there's more than enough room for everybody.

I don't buy into all of this identity politics bullshit, dismissing someone for their race, gender, social status, sexuality, and so on is regressive and precisely people should be railing against, not perpetuating.
Applied on a Backend developer position, received a link to online test with algorithmic tasks (got 100% for these tasks on Codility), then had a Skype interview with their architect (just discussed my experience, nothing technical). After that haven't got neither email nor call. Would not recommend, don't waste your time.
> They built a skyscraper, on sand, in an earthquake zone!!! What the heck were they thinking?

My guess is that they were thinking of something that starts with "pro" and ends with "fit"

I mean, Tokyo is earthquake zone, but it's not unsupported sandy soil
It's plausible that such civilizations are up against an unsurmountable hurdle. Perhaps they can't spread in an economically viable way?

If you look at the rocket equation, a slightly different planet would make launching rockets extremely difficult.
The journey to day one of the rest of my life
> This is analogous to claiming that microwave ovens increase the risk of cancer, even though we can't detect it.

To be fair, the control group would be difficult to say the least. The same is true with the economy. So yea, it's very possible there are behaviors we can't detect.
Right. I was also thinking of the need to shield modules from each other. All this stuff, packed closely together, with interconnections.
pretty cool, would probably be good if you mention the non-logging in your ToS or somewhere in an official statement. or by using a warrant canary clause somewhere ...

ask them to add you to:

https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS
How to Make Remote Working Work for You
Getting Started with RxJS
Privacy Tools: Encryption against global mass surveillance
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“Can we retrain the workforce as knowledge workers?”
The purse for the Mayweather - Pacquiao fight was $230 million. That's one fight.

I assume you're not seriously suggesting the main reason individual Olympic events don't realise anywhere close to that much revenue is more down to the quality of the promoters than the commercial appeal of the individual event.
Very cool! Font rendering still seems to be a very under appreciated aspect of UI/UX considerations, and with higher-resolution displays rendering performance is definitely more important today than it otherwise has been.

Is the aim to use this in the Xi Editor project? (https://github.com/google/xi-editor for those who haven't heard of it, another Rust-based project of Raph's.)
Green Party’s Jill Stein, perpetuating myth, says Wi-Fi endangers ‘kids’ brains’
On Configuration (2012)
Anything that has the right ports should work.
Surely, the tilting is the biggest worry. Anybody care to estimate how many more inches can this tall building tilt before the lateral stresses lead to its collapse?
Where is CorOS office in Berlin? I can't find any information about it. On CoreOS website San Francisco offices have their addresses listed, but not the Berlin one.
In-car cameras let autonomous vehicles track passengers as well as pedestrians
> encoded on the fly

no, and often their encoders will go bad and produce invalid output (blocky/purple) in one of the resolutions/formats. There is ZERO options for fixing that other than deleting your video and reuploading (losing all the comments/upvotes). Even if you have 200K subs there is no way of contacting YT for help, mmaybe they will speak with you at 1mil subs :/
Right. And if there is a thread on the Iraq War or Brexit, I'll pretty much guarantee that it's going to be heavily weighted with arguments and comments--mostly reflecting the talking points of a particular political perspective--that have been made a thousand times before. Plus a good smattering of "F so-and-so."
They're not better off - that's a bit like saying people would be better off if hairdryers were DRMed by magic to heat up only hair. Those closed systems are significantly limiting the usefulness of computing devices. Hell, it's getting hard to call modern mobile platforms "computing devices" - they're becoming glorified TV screens / pretty interfaces to your credit card.

Also, that remaining 2% has to come from somewhere. People learn to make next-gen tech by playing with and reverse-engineering today's tech.
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Just because it's done intentionally doesn't make it better in any way.

Sure, you can look at it as some kind of art piece, but I would not call it good writing.
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I've been lead to understand that some issues may have been before Tycho Brahe no one had made accurate measurements, especially of the entire tracks across the sky, not just 'interesting' places.
any links with technical details about this?
Agile AMA with Ash Maurya, Author of Scaling Lean
I consider myself a passionate developer, and while strive to put myself into scenarios and projects where that is a plus, it's generally not the easiest route. People who care about what they're doing technically become bored or aggravated easily in their daily work. Being opinionated about things that are considered taboo is not always a good thing either, especially if that goes against common tropes or when you're on a buzzword-driven project. It's also easy to aggravate other passionate developers if there are different opinions. Passion-induced skepticism about a solution or tech stack can sometimes even be construed as incompetence.

If your passion is programming in general, chances are you have a broad experience background, which is not always perceived in a positive light by management. I recently had a meeting with a potential client who told me they would not hire me because they found it strange and implausible that someone would be able and willing to do both script language programming and also develop native modules in C.

I would say, all things being equal, non-passionate developers are very feasible career-wise and absolutely essential for many projects, because chances are they're going to be doing the brunt of the work.

Especially in a team, these players are important for follow through. I like to think of teams as RPG adventuring parties: you need people from all character classes to make it work. While all-mage or all-beserker parties can sometimes pull through, a balanced and diverse approach is a better generalized strategy. You want tanks and support characters.
They have been using Go for a few other projects such as
- git-lfs ( https://github.com/github/git-lfs )
- hub ( https://github.com/github/hub )
etc
Sprinkling an article on a supposedly technical matter with insults and ad hominem attacks doesn't suggest that the author is a well-balanced individual or has anything meaningful to add regarding the technology.

This blog post is a complete waste of time.