skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds like something straight out of the Unix Hater's Handbook. :)

But epoll is not the fault of Unix. Linux gets it wrong, but others do not. There's a good (and wildly entertaining) discussion/rant about it in this BSD Now episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6XQUciI-Sc
> I used to want to show off my web developer skills and make fancy pages, but that just makes me never get around to finishing and/or updating them. There's a reason busy people often have bare-bones websites, and you can still make a simple website look decent with HTML and CSS.

100% agree.

As a UX designer (and only a hobbyist developer), I decided the way to make my personal site easy to read was to use simple, semantic, classless HTML with a super basic responsive stylesheet. Just the good, old classic document layout for me, nothing fancy. I actually use a minimally modified version of this stylesheet: https://github.com/programble/writ
Japan has more old-fashioned music stores than anywhere else
Fair enough, I'd strike-through that quip in my comment if I could. Still, this problem needs a bold/breaking fix. I most likely didn't run into this with my dev-testing because I am on a filesystem with reparse support.
That's pretty standard and accepted. Don't know what gp is talking about.
What about mobile technologies?
That obviously won't work, since laws are subject to the whims of elected officials and constituents that can change them through NIMBY lobbying, and they need to get past those NIMBYs in the first place. See: SF Bay Area development restrictions.
I live near Barcelona, those days the temperature reaches 27-28C.

We don't put the AC, we open the balcony door and the air current is enough.

In winter, we reach at most 5C, we don't put also the heating. Some neighbors have it very high and in our apartment the temperature is 20-21C.
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So is the implication that using non-.NET stack pieces creates headaches? Ex - PostgreSQL with the T-SQL plugin?
ispositivenumber.js

Wait, there's also

is-positive-number.js

So confused
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I think the real problem is being able to distinguish between criticism of a language and criticism of the people using it. The former is ok, the latter isn't.

If we take a criticism of a technology we use as criticism of us, it's a rather unhealthy state to be in. Technologies come and go. They aren't something we should immerse our identity in.
I'm from the US and it still sounds silly.

Americans - You can do a similar structure with any word that has noun/verb forms if you want to imagine how dumb we sound to other English speakers.

"Sure was exciting to watch Phelps swimmerize that last race!"
Don't forget to include the chemical energy you use to run your body in your figure for "my power." The impact from agriculture is pretty substantial.
I'm not sure when those days were. Maybe the 1980s? In the 1990s VC firms I interacted with were made up of partners whose background was non-tech and associates who were freshly minted MBAs. (Who had lots of opinions about what we should be doing which seemed to be totally buzzword driven.)
Heh yes... http://ledisdb.com
While I'm not sure I agree with your entire point I think it's clear that not only do people not appreciate the _generations_ of hard work you're leaving behind when you abandon LLVM/Clang/etc or languages with powerful type systems but they actively resist understanding this. Put simply I don't think people disagree with the "20 years behind" thing, I actually think they don't understand what you mean.
Thanks for the constructive criticism, gents. Cheerio!
It could be the hottest January on record. Seeing as half the world is experiencing winter right now, what do you think will happen to global temperatures when the southern hemisphere experiences their summer?
There are lots of examples on my site IndieHackers.com of people building up a side project from nothing. In general, they seem to do two things in the beginning.

First, they spend lots of time talking to everyone they can: friends, family, coworkers, people in their online communities, people at conferences, etc. This is not scalable in the long-run, but very helpful in the beginning to kick things off. Paul Graham has written about this extensively: http://paulgraham.com/ds.html

Second, the more successful founders find good distribution channels. They find app stores, online marketplaces, partnerships, etc that constantly put their product in front of lots potential customers. Easier said than done, of course, but the first step is just being aware of that approach.
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To me, startups are a little too flaky for this job. They have a pattern of deleting customer data when they fail, and the nature of startups is that they mostly fail. I'd prefer a tool I can run locally, or a larger established player like the Internet Archive.
But the point still stands that Go's stdlib is practically a web framework. Especially considering the level at which the community away from frameworks and towards simple idiomatic use of stdlib.

Also, hiring trends for newer technologies doesn't necessarily indicate anything aside from a labor shortage. The chances that a company can hire a sharp Spring Boot developer without advertising are much higher than the chances that you know a great react developer with years of experience.
This is how Americans feel about, for example, "wheelie bin".
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> You shouldn't get a tax break for having kids.

Fair enough. Then people should pay more in taxes than they receive in health and pension benefits. Right now, American retirees on average get more in benefits than they paid in taxes. The only way that works is if we have continual population and productivity growth, meaning we need to incentivize kids or we need to stop retiring and getting sick so much.
Tesla product announcement at noon California time today
Based on the people I know from Vietnam, I'd agree. Politics is deeply entwined with private industry in Vietnam. Want to get a gov't permit? You better know someone to help you out.

Running a company that's competing with another company who has connections with the gov't? You're screwed.
The insider stuff is definitely what's interesting, for example there are quick facts that help you calibrate your assumptions that are very hard to come by. They're usually the things that companies don't want to talk about. They write articles about the things they're doing well, it's not common to get real time "yeah these are the problems they're still figuring out, maybe you should avoid copying their strategy" info.
Yes, and you can also produce better electrical hardware with a $200,000 fabrication unit than breadboard and a soldering iron, but one of those is a lot more accessible to someone just starting out.

I don't see the raspberry pi people being derided and mocked by Intel's engineers because they use such lowly plebian tools.
I think you and i share a similar line of thought. I'm trying to rack my brain (and contribute something) as when (other eras) in history has the "regard of future generations" cause for such debate or action like this one.

Nobody can predict if another person's life will be better if "x" happens. This is a foundation of suicide prevention.
http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST389/TEXTS/Nightfall.h...

just in case you haven't, spare your self some time. One of my favorites. No spoilers please.
The article above implied that they would be about 5 miles away. I don't see that impacting home values.
Make telecommuting and carpooling/ridesharing the new normal.

Less commutes == less emissions.
Overselling A.D.H.D.
Let's talk about a free market.

> every incentive to cut corners

Do you continue to patronize businesses that cut corners when you expect good customer service or a good product?

The free market ruthlessly punishes businesses that do not meet consumer demands. Only through government interference are substandard businesses sustained. Profits are the signal that a business is doing something right.

Ok, but the EpiPen is a life-or-death product. We must have coercive government regulation, right?

> How many people have to die

As far as a quick search could turn up, it looks like the discovery and isolation of epinephrine was entirely the product of private ingenuity -- in 1901. Government did not have some large project to find this wonder compound that could save lives. So private initiative already has saved countless lives without the direction of the government.

So here is a compound that has been around for 115 years, and somehow we're looking at $600 for a two-pack of injectors. There is no way that situation arises from free-market processes. Government has been heavily involved in healthcare for a while, granting monopoly privilege to favored parties, effectively eliminating competition.

Additionally, if a company sells a product purporting to save your life in a dire situation, shouldn't they be held liable if their product doesn't work? Not only will people cease to trust said company (forcing them out of business) but competitors will also arise -- and survive -- based on how well they serve consumers.
AirBnB must hate this type of news. It undermines the trust that is essential to bring "sellers" to their marketplace.
Ah ok, so you're saying you'd use it to handle input rather than to "simplify" output spew. Fair.
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The end user cares when a SQL injection vulnerability takes down their site or when their site turns into a massive pile of tech debt for which any improvement takes weeks.

I agree that PHP was designed to be a bad language but easy for noobs. That's the point. By having a low learning curve it has displaced vastly better choices. And that's why I'm suggesting we need to fight social hacks with other social hacks.
Proprietary licences both frustrating and pushing move to PostgreSQL
> but having never used Go I'm wondering what makes it a "bad technology"?

The justification for Go is basically "developers are stupid and don't know what they are doing,so we're going to tell them what to do, how to do it and not trust them in any ways". Which is bullshit of course, it's just that Go compiler is bare-bone and so is its type system.

Go is bait+switch . It has just enough features to make it easy to learn/deploy, its standard library has just enough things to get one started quickly when it comes to writing servers.

But as soon as one tries to write something a bit complicated its short comings become obvious and tedious. Some see it as a blessing, some see it as an insult to software development. There is a bit of bad faith in both camps but Go authors have masterfully been able to escape any criticism with dubious arguments.

Imagine Java maintainers refusing to add closures to the language and the Java community would be justifying it by saying "closures are too complicated, slow and a bad practice".

Does it make Go a bad tech ? no, but it sure has a weird community. But Go has great ideas, it's just has horrible ones too. Fortunately, as the language becomes more popular, it will be more exposed to criticism. Which hopefully will lead to a better Go in the future, whether it comes from Google or not.
I've seen this very frequently as well, and when pushing back or pointing out that it's not a good idea, they respond with the argument that we have to do what they say because we will want to raise another round eventually, or just the general perspective that they must know better what they are doing than the engineering staff in the company.

I have long felt that one of the reason such young founders are funded is that they are possibly less likely to push back on onerous terms or instructions.
There are so many of these articles these days. The authors speaks of our obsession with driving back the night via tech. Then they bemoan how people can no longer see the stars. But what about those of us who _naturally_ cannot see stars tech or no? I'm in the pacific northwest, where your lucky if you can see the moon through the clouds during much of the year. I used to live in the middle east, where natural dust often blocked out or blurred the night sky. But it did create amazing sunsets unlike anything I've seen in north america. And if you are in a deep valley or surrounded by trees, both common in much of the world, you aren't going to see much of anything on even the clearest night.

If starlight is so important, at what point should we project images of them onto those evil clouds? True darkness, without seeing the stars, is not an unnatural state of affairs.
"The problem is that costs are subsidized by basically letting businesses destroy the environment. The solution should be simple: add lots of taxes, let the off-the-shelf cost of meat and gasoline reflect the real cost to our environment, make deforestation a crime, tax the shit out of all polluting industries and if a country is not participating add taxes on imports from said country, or ban those imports altogether.
"

This will either lead to:
your country (and many countries) becoming a massive failure or war.

Leading people isn't done solely by smacking people repeatedly and saying "no don't do that", or taking money out of their pockets every time they do.

This mechanism doesn't work if you do it to everyone, and in fact, if you look at oppressive governments, even they tend to have at least one class of people who can do whatever they want or are paid well or whatever, and use that class to keep others in line.

Leadership instead is often convincing people to be dragged along with you in a direction they may not want to go.
It has to actually be palatable to people to do so.

There are other problems.
What makes you think people won't emigrate to the places which don't do this crazy plan?
What makes you think the leaders of those places won't end up with tons of power because they have a near-unlimited set of people who want to live there, tons of money, and a happy populace?

If they gang up with other countries, what makes you think they won't just take over your country, and if you've pissed off the populace enough, that your populace won't want that to happen?

This "simple" solution just ignores all the politics, etc involved, because it thinks they don't matter. But they do.
I can't reply to ema's post.

To a point, but that wouldn't be useful in this sort of case. We're talking about people who lived 80 generations ago, many of them before the Saxon and Norman invasions that both flooded the English gene pool. I'm English with no 'known' African ancestry. But it's quite possible I have some African ancestry from 1800 years ago, but I might also have African ancestry from one ancestor in medival times, and perhapse an ancestor from the West Indies sugar plantation days. How would you ever tease that out? It would only add up to a few percent of DNA but would be all over the map. Many brits probably have ancestries all over the place like this. What about ancestors who were Berbers? They have largely Visigoth ancestry, but are from North Africa.

In any case, the idea that this specific evidence isn't of value 'because DNA' is just daft.
World CO2 emissions in 2014 were about 9.8 gigatonnes. The current concentration of atmospheric CO2 is about 400 parts per million. In 1980, the relevant figures were about 5.3 gigatonnes and 340ppm.

We've got the accelerator to the floor. It's no wonder that we're getting all the speeding tickets now.
I would use it to show the progress to a user :)

For example: 68% done

Or: ETA: 15 minutes
We found Amazon's secret drone testing site hidden in the English countryside
We decided to decrypt secrets on service startup so if KMS is down during the deploy we can stop the deploy after first server fails to start. Not perfect but good enough for our use case.

In case of catastrophic KMS failure we can always manually replace secrets with plaintext and revoke them afterwards.
I'm the maintainer of a proprietary C++14 RTOS for work. What do you want to know?
Liability isn't (shouldn't be) the first concern in health discussions. Presuming an individual cannot afford the $600 version, surely the chance that a printed version might work is purely an improvement in their situation.
> 'Superior technology', when talking about a language, is entirely subjective

No it's not.
That's exactly what I thought too, I first heard the word in an Offspring song:

That car looked so tempting, so easy to drive / Just like that apartment that you burglarized

I thought the songwriter had invented the word to make the rhyming work. I couldn't believe it the first time I saw it in a serious context.

I normally find it pretty tiresome when Brits get all snooty about Americanisms (getting rid of all those redundant 'u's was a good idea!). But "burglarized" just sounds ridiculous.
Not OP, and I don't have an opinion on Go, but I think that's why he used the words "threatens to".
I believe separate APK files for separate resolutions may be a thing on the Play store, but I'm not entirely sure.
Passport JS is horrible. Sure it's easy to use, but it's not secure, which is kind of the entire point.

There are other libraries that are interesting, but that's more a function of necessity than of it being a good thing--people write JavaScript because it's the only thing that runs on the browser, and then people port it onto Node. And it's worth noting that a lot of these have been held back significantly by being on Node. Take Babel for example; it's useful and interesting, but the code is a mess because of callbacks, which makes it hard to modify, and it was taken down by the left-pad fiasco a few months back (which broke thousands and thousands of builds worldwide). Some interesting things have been built on Node, but that's despite Node, not because of Node, and they would be more reliable if they weren't built on Node.
Economic policy needs to understand human behavior more so the author suggests QR codes on dollar bills so people can track their spending.... Ummm what ?
>Perhaps we could consider what is going on here to be something of a small-townification of cities.

>I grew up in a small town. If something was going on out from behind closed doors, everyone knew about it.

This is a phenomenon Marshall McLuhan wrote about back in the 60's when electric media was gaining traction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_village_(term)

>In the electric age, when our central nervous system is technologically extended to involve us in the whole of mankind and to incorporate the whole of mankind in us, we necessarily participate, in depth, in the consequences of our every action. It is no longer possible to adopt the aloof and dissociated role of the literate Westerner.
Unfortunately, nuclear has one big issue in addition to the issues already described (long time to build a plant; geo-political concerns on the link between plants and atomic weapons): when it goes bad, it can go spectacularly wrong. No other power source has produced a singular disaster like Chernobyl where about 2500 square km of land is basically uninhabitable for a few hundred years+. Coal fires are the only thing that come close.

For that reason, the NIMBY forces / politics against nuclear are much stronger than average (both in building the plant and storing the waste). Never mind that, on average, nuclear power is much safer than fossil fuels. People fear the spectacular more than the mundane. Take terrorism vs. car crashes, in the Western world you're more likely to die in a car crash by far, but it's terrorism that stirs up the fears.

As far as global warming is concerned, power generation is only part of the puzzle anyways. Such contributors as transportation and deforestation are also important. Honestly, solar and wind are pretty competitive right now... except for one angle. The main problem with solar / wind / etc. energy generation right now is variability, so the real "moonshot" for this technology is energy storage. (Which is the same real issue with electric transport as well).
> The end user, the one who pays the majority of our bills, doesn't give a shit about your language choice, your code, your DB choice, or any of it. They care if it works, if it's easy to use, and usually if it looks nice and that's about it.

The problem is that this doesn't mean every option is equally good for the end user. A lot of software that gets belittled is criticized for being a good way to provide a bad product. These are tools that are great for getting things done quickly and smoothly, in return for kicking the can down the road on reliability, security, or modifiability.

Think of the small insurance companies which offer easy signup at low rates - and then don't come through when you file a claim. When people go out and produce lengthy essays on why Mongo is dangerous, it's often a response to seeing systems that work for now, but are likely to fall over completely sometime after the contract is done. When your database offers high throughput by not actually checking for successful writes, it's easy to hand over a performant system that's going to lose a bunch of medical records the first time a server fails.

So no, the client doesn't know or care, but all too often that's because they're getting immediate benefit in return for delayed, probabilistic risk, and no one is telling them about the tradeoff.

None of that is justification for being a jerk, or mocking actual people (obviously!) Nor is it a reason to pretend that Mongo is never a good database choice, or that PHP is never a good language choice. And you're right about the grossness of mocking beginning programmers for starting with approachable tools.

But I object to the idea that the value of debates should be measured by whether users care about them. I'm not much interested in what my bridges are made of, but that's because I have faith that someone behind the scenes built them reliably. All too often, that's not the case in software.
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Some of it is undoubtedly a craze shedding the least-engaged, but I wonder how much of that could be due to it being August and people not wanting to traipse around in the height of summer.

I got interested in the game, but I decided to wait a bit as daily high temperatures hovered at the century mark.
The interesting point in Finnish case is that the land reform was (at least nominally) a central requirement of the Red faction in the development leading to civil war in spring 1918.

The White faction won the war, and it ended in a bloodbath. with the Reds severely repressed. But the law about land reform was approved two months after the civil war ended.

Twenty years later, when Soviet Union attacked the country as Stalin believed the Reds still wanted a retribution, he faced a unified nation where the sons of Reds and Whites alike fought together, well enough to avoid occupation at the end of WWII, though the reparation payments were heavy indeed.

And then, at present day, many people say that "the land reform was the biggest mistake of the century" because it created lots of small farms instead of big, centralized agriculture.

Anyway, giving people a patch of their own land seems to be a good way to commit them to defend and work for it.
If you somehow cut personal transportation of all kinds to zero in the US, you'd cut total GHG emissions by about 13%. Nothing to sneeze at, but it won't solve the problem by a long shot.
Thanks for the pointer, this is a great stylesheet to use with Markdown!
The problem of "not enough feedback" is far more pervasive than that of "too much feedback". However, most companies that try to resolve this issue try a One Size Fits All approach for all employees, rather than customizing the feedback solution. Different groups of employees need different frequency and intensity of feedback: client-facing employees typically benefit from more feedback than engineers.
...and that's how 'burgle' sounds to me (US)
True, I don't need scaling. I do need robustness to hardware failure, though.