skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm using Electron ( shell? ) to make a simple desktop app. Certain things are much nicer, such as the ability to have everything be "owner draw" in a way that isn't as frustrating as using owner draw in the usual context. IE,
I can easily at a bitmap background to whatever component I want. I can control a lot of the look/feel of the UI with style sheets.

IMHO, React is another way of covering up 20 years of bad design decisions that went into web tech. React is the natural reaction to using a tree of text to represent data structures. If things were done right, React wouldn't exist.
By 'real modules' I mean things like DLLs that can be hot swapped at app start or at runtime.
The more I look into things like Atom, the more I am disturbed by what constitutes 'state of the art' in web tech.
I think software engineers pretty much wrote with pencil on paper in the punch card era. Operators then punched the cards. At least in some orgs. This is a bit different than what Feynman did, though, I think.
Stockholm University, Sweden, which is a decent university. Not sure how that compares to your experience. A government owned university with ~30,000 students. No fees for EU students. I was also a college dropout from Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
Global monetary taps still open wide, Fed minutes in focus
LOL yeah, I just spoke to a dietician the other day who swore that glucose is the only thing your brain can use for fuel.

It's easy to be ignorant about a situation you never experience. Every single person they deal with is going to be in a carb-adapted state and never miss a meal, so their body will run entirely off of glucose.
Which is probably the right approach, then you 'capture' addicts, which is surely the concern?
Count me in... Can we imagine a society dedicated only to this and would it be viable? Hmmm...
I've tried both pdftotext and pdf2txt and I remember not being satisfied with either. Neither seem to handle non-ASCII characters very well, but I'll take another look soon though.
Philosophy does deliver. It's important in, for example, medical ethics. That has a profound effect on your life.
Is have thought that too, just IIRC that the article noted the kids being their own laptops and the image is titled as if an exemplar.
Forces you to 100% commit to oop paradime. Often much easier to test and more clean than counterparts. Its used in enterprises for a reason.
Exactly my issue with it. I would make HTTPie my primary tool if its cli syntax was as lenient as curl's. It would save me piping my output to `jq`.
Some, not all.
Imagine the cost of the drone ship, the landing system and the logistics of recovery - I suspect that's the reason it's only a 30% reduction.
I'm enjoying programming because of this.

Though at some point, it become harder to convince someone else to help with your cause.This happens to me most of the times, I become too immersed in the problem as the problem keeps expanding bringing more problems along the way.

I had to master all aspects of the web development, from dev ops, backend to frontend so I wont be disappointed by spending hours convincing a frontend guy to contribute to a very complex backend( mind that it is not complicated ) where the guy lacks the back story on the original problem I had.
You get a custom operating system that literally no one else offers. It is a bit hard to put a price on that, but to me, it's absolutely worth the money they ask for the mini. I would even risk saying it's very cheap for what it offers.
Not really related, but I just wanted to share - there's another desert that almost no one knows about, and it's right in the middle of Europe - in Poland:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C5%82%C4%99d%C3%B3w_Desert

It's slowly disappearing though.
Not at all. I'm a 15 year veteran. No chance I'd move into management or project management. First, I'd hate the job. It'd move me away from the code, which is where I enjoy spending my time. Second, the problems I'd be solving would be far less interesting; I hate dealing with inter-personal issues and deciding which project takes priority is boring. But ultimately I'd be less valuable, and therefore make a lot less. Veterans command a pretty decent salary. I know I make a good chunk more than my direct manager, and I make a little over three times as much as the PMs I work with.
Any details on the Pink modular system?
Plus their launch backlog is already pretty full since they are undercutting all the incumbent providers... no sense in decreasing their margins if the current prices are very competitive.
Perhaps I misunderstood what Gwynne was saying. I thought that "launch costs" would be the cost of launching a rocket for SpaceX, rather than the price that they set for customers.

Perhaps your correct though, the quote is a bit ambiguous.
The other aspect that makes SDR so appealing is wiring up software blocks in GNURadio that used to be implemented in hardware. This drastically reduces the testing cycles and lets you basically guess, measure, and muck around until it works.
How DevRant Turned Thousands of Angry Developers into a Successful App
Of course all security assessments are time limited, but 15 minutes isn't a time frame I recognise from 10 years as a security consultant...

Security assessments are usually measured in days or weeks or for large projects months
This might make be better as an RFC3229[1] (Delta encoding in HTTP) implementation-- putting the cache information in the querystring is strange when HTTP has a bunch of headers dedicated to it.

Cloudflare has a similar solution called Railgun[2] for updating dynamically generated pages. "reddit.com changes by about 2.15% over five minutes and 3.16% over an hour. The New York Times home page changes by about 0.6% over five minutes and 3% over an hour. BBC News changes by about 0.4% over five minutes and 2% over an hour."

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3229
[2]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/efficiently-compressing-dynamica...
One reason I do strength training is that I'm terrified of getting old. I want to hit my 50s/60s (currently 29) with plenty of strength because:

1) I never want to be unable to get out of a chair

2) If I do get cancer (and as medicine improves it's ever more likely cancer is what will get us), I want a buffer to help stall cachexia ie muscle wastage which can lead to death.

The other reasons:

- it's fun

- the feeling of beating last week's numbers.

- As well as improving your physical attractiveness, it signals to others that you have the willpower and motivation to set goals and see them through.
I didn't say it would be easy.

Illegal content (threats, etc.) isn't a problem: it can be moderated out / censored, and if someone's unhappy about it, they would sue, and if they're right they'd win.

I'm not sure "trolling" can be defined with objectivity; contrarian opinions are what makes freedom of speech interesting.

What's difficult is spam: of zero value, extremely undesirable, and yet not illegal.

The way HN traditionally did this, was to "kill" comments without erasing them; one could still read dead comments if one wanted.

My point is there should be some kind of an appeals process in those matters. The moderators can't also be the judges of last resort.
A quick thought on hiring diversity
This was actually recently discussed on the github issues:

https://github.com/gmetais/sw-delta/issues/1
? I don't trust "them"; I rarely trust individuals, and absolutely never any corporation. Corporations are necessary evils that need to be strongly supervised and regulated, in my opinion.
I say clearly in the blog post that there is danger when you have software handle any life-critical service. The criticism I'm making in the blog post is the arguments by the auto-industry and their providers that FLOSS is inherently more dangerous than proprietary software.
Awesome! I was just thinking the problem with finding startup problems might be a good one to solve aha!
The μ css framework, a 1 ko css file
Remember in the current Falcon 9 design, they are only reusing the first stage -- reported to account for 70% of the cost of the rocket (which is of course different to the retail price of launch service), and attempting to recover and reuse the fairing, an aluminum honeycomb core + carbon fibre sheet enclosure the size of a city bus, which is thought to add a couple million dollars per rocket including capital costs (SpaceX is thought to have limited capacity to produce fairings at a high rate, which is why they're chasing reuse).

They still need to rebuild the entire second stage each launch, and continue to pay the salaries of 4,000+ employees.

If the end-to-end launch service is priced at $60 million, 70% is $42 million, with the other 30% ($18 million) that needs to be paid each launch. Assuming the cost of all re-use is 100% free (gas and go), a full passing on of the savings would mean the second launch (which has a free first stage) could be priced at $18m + ($42m/2) = $39 million.

That's a 35% discount off $60 million. SpaceX haven't proven that reflying a returned booster is safe and reliable. It will take many relaunches to gain statistical knowledge of safety of the fleet they're building.

If SpaceX can reliably relaunch the first stage 5-10 times with minimal refurbishment costs, the amortized costs drop dramatically. During the development of the Merlin 1, testing aimed for 10 full duration (3 minute) test fires. I can see SpaceX aiming for 5-10 flights per booster with the current iteration of Falcon 9 over the longer term.

I encourage anybody interested to play around with this spreadsheet [1]. If the current design can be proven to have say 5 launches per Falcon 9 booster, that's a 65% saving to SpaceX. Falcon 9 is already the cheapest vehicle in its class (though some providers are cost competitive if doing dual launches on say, an Ariane V). The Russia's Proton rockets were reasonably cost competitive, but their reliability has proven to be very low in recent times.

As Amdahl's Law notes, as the number of reliable relaunches per rocket with minimal refurbishment costs increases towards infinity, the total cost will asymptotically approach the currently non-reusable portion of the costs (so in the current design it's the second stage, launch operations, fuel, fairings etc)

In a few decades, SpaceX wants to get airplane like re-use (fully re-usable with thousands of flights per vehicle lifetime), where each passenger pays a marginal cost of roughly the jet fuel cost and inspections and refurbishments don't happen every single flight but at set intervals. That's a probably several design generations away though (human Mars landing will certainly happen first)

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/144Y_OVmFFYTh_zTiV-FH...
Judges, which is what the article and the two parent posts are talking about, are not peers but trained lawyers. A judge in the bronx will probably not be from the bronx.

They are professionals assigned to a court and are supposed to be impartial.

http://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/code-conduct-unite...

Also, IANAL, but "lawful judgement of his peers" sounds like it is related to trial by jury, not common law, I think you are mixing up two very distinct concepts.

EDIT: And finally, most court cases are not going to be judges making new common law decisions, but simply applying existing ones. The issue we are talking about is that in the US it is not being done fairly in criminal courts in some areas.
Usually undergrowth means mushroomy, savoury, usually characteristic of pinot noir especially from Burgundy. I've been told it's increased by including stems in fermentation. It is a thing and it can be tasted; I'm not sure undergrowth is the best word for it, but it's a translation on a French word approximately meaning forest floor: the mulch of rotting leaves etc. It's more about smell as a component of taste than actual experience of eating rotting leaves.

There are undoubtedly different flavours in differently made wines. Spend time tasting and it's evident that grape, region, style and age all have big effects. But pairing, sequencing and intoxication also affect how wine is perceived, apart from the psychological effect of price / label, and ultimately it's subjective. Some people like alcoholic grape juice. Others like loads of tannins because it's what they associated with wines they were told were "big". Fashions change too.

Drink around and buy more of what you like, is my rule.
>And gain for the people paying these now-low prices?

Indeed, the OP is committing the broken window fallacy, seeing only company profits, not savings on behalf of the consumer.

A move from one region to another is zero-sum? It might be, but that depends on many factors. Does the person move closer to work? That's fewer miles driven, one less car on the road, less pollution, more happiness, higher productivity. Is one local government more efficiently run than another? That's better use of tax dollars. And on and on. Competition drives these factors.
The safety truck
> fastest growing libraries in the past few months

reminds me of https://xkcd.com/1102/
The idea of "Security Through Obscurity Kills People" as a bad thing is a very catchy phrase and great rhetoric. However it is also one of those statements which lowers the critical thinking and allows people to talk without producing stats or facts or demarcations of when a idea should apply or not apply.

For example we told repeatedly to use obscure passwords, lock our phones and tablets with 4 digit numbers, and even swiping-the-screen-gestures, bank account information is protected by numbers and password! And all this in most cases is an obscurity scheme, and that obscurity scheme is our single point of security failure before complete systems access.

"Heartbleed" was present in OpenSSL for over decade, out in the open and nothing detected. ...

p.s. slightly off-topic, but can you accurately count the number of ball passes? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47LCLoidJh4
Have you used webpack? It allows for hot swapping and a bunch of other module features.
I feel that there should be more nuance and awareness in general about 'addiction'. Most people, and I even catch myself sometimes, associate addiction with severe alcoholism, junkies, gamblers, and so on. As a result, it's really easy to underestimate our own unhealthy dependence on things.
Mesmerizing Photos Capture the Flight Patterns of Birds
More of an architectural goal than an architectural issue.
In addition to Joof's comment, remember there are several types of lentil. Red lentils, puy lentils, all delicious in an appropriate recipe.
The New Science of Morality (2010)
That's more of a dustbowl caused by deforestation - doesn't have the arid (or semi-arid) climate of a true desert.

The Osoyoos "desert" isn't really arid enough, either.

Deserts don't have to look like sand dunes, they are any area with a low rainfall. Sometimes the plants that are adapted are virtually a forest, but it's still a desert. For example in the Baja California desert:
https://mbgecologicalrestoration.files.wordpress.com/2015/03...
I'd argue that in finding a subject for a startup, you don't want to find a problem. I mean, why would anyone want problems?

What you want for a startup is fertile ground.

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Go to the nearest upper-middle-class person you know (at the 10th percentile of revenues). Ask for their account statement. For each line, try to answer the following:

1) What are the margins? Is the price of the item driven by costs of production, or by what people accepted to pay? You want the latter. Prefer emotional over utility.

2) How did the person came to know the product? What were the drivers of acquiring the product? What did close the sale? What were the alternatives?

3) What is the cost of entering this market? Would you be able to do it?

- Then you have a list of fertile grounds, out of which you can try to work out:

4) What can be improved over this market? How would you sell differently?

5) What can be improved over this product? What would you modify in the product?

6) Are they buying it? Build only the store front: throw a landing page somewhere, stir some activity, see if you get emails. Interview the leads you got. It's ok to announce to people you won't be doing X.

7) And then, only then, you can work on a problem to exploit the scarcity of being the only one having solved it.
Looking forward to this not even being news in the future. Thank you Elon
The 4 digit PIN is rate limited. How is that a single point of failure?
I mean, react (and associated frontend technologies) are just a way of making it easier to write code within the constraints of browsers, which are honestly a small miracle. Yes, they're a pile of hacks upon hacks (the web was designed to share physics papers, not deliver complicated multimedia applications), but they let you write the same code for every major operating system, device, and form factor that exists and deploy it seamlessly over an unreliable network. It's shocking that everything works as well as it does.

And as programmers, everything we use is just papering over the horror of writing network-connected cat-sharing apps on weird-shaped bits of metal - why worry about a light abstraction over the JS build step?

My experience with Atom has also been sub-par, but Visual Studio Code is pretty cool and built on the exact same platform (electron).

I think you're the exact target audience for typescript, for what it's worth. It will give you type checking, IDE integration, compiler errors, modules, etc basically for free and is (not exclusively, and IMHO) built for people who find javascript distasteful.
@cc_bot on telegram provides bus times. Only for London, UK.
I would like to agree with you (it sure is much easier than running a mail server), but isn't the problem that your friends also need to use PGP?
>doing regular body-weight resistance training (pushups, situps, pullups, air-squats), helps to reduce the amount of muscle you are losing while you are losing weight

Can you explain why archaeologists, astronomers and professors have the highest life expectancy and athletes and body builders have that among the lowest?
My daughter and I saw a couple of strange flashes in the sky while out looking for Perseids last night. We're in the UK and the flashes were in Cassiopeia in the North Eastern sky at about 10pm BST, is possible they could have been from this rocket?
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Our only desert? There is a small desert in Yukon, as well: Carcross Desert. At least by my definition of a desert: wind blown sand dunes with little patches of hardy shrubs and scrawny trees.

Maybe the fact that it formed from a lake bed makes it not a real desert?
Simple memory allocator in C
Why would you want to conserve that? Isn't reverse-desertification a good thing?
We are mostly of the same opinion including on the need of something being done about it.

My only objections are:

1) freedom of speech has absolutely nothing to do with the government or its ability to curtail it.

It is a natural right, one that everybody is born with and one that cannot be given, only taken away.

2) social media sites are private property of their owners and, as such, they can impose any limit they want within its (virtual) premises.

The solution to the problem is not regulating it (that in my opinion would increase the ability to curtail the freedom of speech) but to revert to the descentralized web of links that used to define the World Wide Web.

People can self publish and should do it, be it video, audio or text.

People should also, if they want to compete, to invest as much resources trying to be heard as these companies invest trying to be gatekeepers.

We agree in general, just not on these small points.
What I mean is that there's no indication of a willingness to seriously regulate the platform as in setting up some kind of court and doing routine interventions.

Which makes it seem a bit disingenuous to claim that Ethereum contracts are now "just like" ordinary contracts, or that Ethereum is a "regulated platform."

The hard fork looks like a slightly panicked reaction to a rather extreme situation that threatened to undermine the platform in its very early days.

I don't agree that "nobody in their right mind" would trust Ethereum now and we'll see how that plays out.
You aren't gonna need it
I assume you probably tried 'scratching your itch' and it isn't really going anywhere from there.

Not all itches are opportunities. All great, subtle opportunities lying out there may not necessarily happen to be your itches.

That said, if you are looking for problems i.e your problems that you want to solve, but just couldn't find something, then what's wrong is that you aren't doing a lot of things.

Go shopping. Watch out for things that you think could be made better. Accompany a friend to a hospital. See what solvable problems lie in the process of treating a patient in a hospital. Experience a lot of things. I'm sure you'll eventually hit on something that you can solve.

Another good exercise is to look for things that qualify as unsolved problems in different domains/industries. This isn't tough. HN's Who is hiring thread is a great place to start. These threads are a key knowledge base of people working on problems. Go ahead, just do a HN search and you'll realize there's a lot of things waiting to be made better!

"What are good ways to find startup problems to solve?" - is a deep question. If you do crack things out (and I'm sure you will), please make sure you share it with the community :)
I agree with every fact you make here, but I don't see how that disproves my statement. I didn't mention anything about sentencing - I used the term 'leniency' in a general way; as the tendency to view defendants as innocent.

Also, I'm not saying that the criminal courts are doing it right - I'm saying that maybe we have two extremes and the ideal justice system operates somewhere in the middle.

I can't stand that self-righteous legal crap about 'guilty-until-proven-innocent' - In my books, if you can't prove something mathematically, it's not proof - In effect, you can never really prove anything in a legal context - In reality, everything is always judged "on the balance of probability".
If you dig into the chrome developer tools you will find a lot of tools that make web app development easier. The ability to find memory leaks in the profiling tool has made large javascript applications much less stressful.

Some of the things you mention are no longer best practice, for example, using strings for templates or JSON.

That's actually a good way to describe javascript, C++ without types. It makes the language more approachable. You have to remember, it was always meant to be a scripting language. There will be things that limit the size of applications built with it, and it is not optimized for maintainability.
Python packaging is good now
I really like Vue and wouldn't want to use anything else right now. it feels much more natural to use for me than for example React. it is however quite a struggle when first using vuex for storing. I haven't looked into 2.0 much yet but vuex is said to get easier to use then. keep up the good work!
Cool. Vue is such a godsend in the ever more complicated world of Javascript frameworks. It combines the simplicity of jQuery with the power of Angular. The documentation is excellent as well. I hope Evan can keep up the good work for a long time!
For example if someone skims the code.
In the end we will be fighting wars to keep people employed (probably already the case) just like for profit prisons strongly encourages incarcerating more people.

It is a very sad world where we favor profit over lives and suffering.
I really hope the patreon model catches on with open source.