skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not really the comparison for a startup, though. It's "Would you rather have an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand website that does nothing useful, or an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand website that's full of security holes, or a hard-to-use, hard-to-understand website that basically does what it's supposed to?" It's pointless to make a website that nobody wants to use highly usable.

There's an opportunity cost for everything. The most fundamental opportunity that you don't want to miss is building something that lots of people want; if you don't accomplish that (and it turns out to be really hard), it doesn't really matter how well you've built the thing that nobody wants.
Countries don't need to have a corporate tax, and if they do not have a corporate tax it doesn't mean the US government should get a piece of the pie because no one else decided to take it.

Just like a Comcast monopoly in a small rural town the US government without competition would continue to soak up more money and spend it on increasingly useless things.
Privacy issues aside, I can't actually trust Windows 10.

It shut down twice on me while I was working (to install a mandatory security patch). This OS treats its users like kids who wouldn't know better.
It's nice irony: This article, about a site removing commenting, now has more comments than upvotes (although such a ratio almost always indicates a flame war).
> perspectives can be learned from observations or experiences

I hear you, but there is no substitute for actually being a parent, with all the struggles and rewards that come with it.
I believe Windows updates have uninstalled both CCleaner and Speccy without my consent.
I'm pretty sure that if I have learned one thing then that the answer to a question along the lines of "are people really that stupid" is an emphatic yes no matter the bar.

In any case, this is after all just the free stuff. If you believe that what they are offering is the real deal, of course, and with this release I'd put the probability at >0.
it's just amazing how someone can harbor deep hatred for things that happened 100 years ago, and then proceed to integrate that with his views today, and then somehow gets accepted into ycombinator, and still have hatred for the country that accepted you. Just....speechless.
The idea of nurturing a nascent industrial base has been active for much of the past 200 years. It also breaks down on highly predictable lines:

Economically dominant nations are in favour of free trade. England / the UK in the 19th century. The United States since the 1950s.

Economically less-developed or backwards nations tend to oppose it, or at least, unrestricted free trade. The United States through much of the 19th century. The UK from about 1919 through the 1970s.

Ha-Joon Chang has been one of the louder voices for this recently, but his own scholarship points to many earlier instances. Friedrich List (mentioned in your article) wrote a book on the topic (The National System of Political Economy), available at the Internet Archive.

Among List's American publishers was J.B. Lippencott, who among other works also printed the authorised version of Chamber's Encyclopaedia. As I've just noted in another comment, there's a particularly illuminating bit of editorial umbrage expressed by the British publishers (Chambers) of some apparently unauthorised rewriting of select articles within the American edition:

https://archive.org/stream/chambersencyclo00unkngoog#page/n1...

In the interests of literature, and in defence of their rights as authors, Messrs Chambers have to make the following Satement regarding an American edition of their Encyclopaedia:

After a time, the American publishers began to make extensive alterations to the articles, a thing which had not been contemplated in the agreement. ...[I]t is a serious matter when, in a re-issue of a work, statements and opinions are introduced which are repudiated and hateful to the original proprietors...

The first "hateful" example was the article on free trade.

British: "This term, when used so late as twenty years ago, expressed a diputed proposition, and was the badge of a political party; it now expresses the most important and fundamental truth in political economy..."

American: "a dogma of modern growth, industriously taught by British manufacturers and their commercial agents...."

Also covered, "Protection -- Protection Duty" (tariffs), rather predictably "Slavery", and containing "a slanderous imputation concerning His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, which we should be ashamed to copy" among other offenses, an article on Elizabeth I.

I find this interesting on multiple grounds, both in the debates over economics, and in light of claims that Wikipedia's highly visible edit wars are somehow anomolous. I've long maintained they're not by virtue of existence but rather visibility, and feel rather vindicated by this evidence.
Well said. Letting corporations and financial institutions regulate themselves has been disastrous on so many levels. But so long as they are protected from the effects of climate change the SV libertarian "tech delusionists" will keep their heads buried firmly in the sand.
Hmmmm. It probably depends upon how much money were talking.

If the customer is throwing around a couple million dollars of NRE, it's probably worth bolting something on and pocketing the money. If the customer is only moving a couple hundred thousand, it's probably not.

This seems more like a software-only startup issue. We have hardware and have these hard-nosed discussions all the time--generally about volume.

Customer--"We want X and we want 100,000 units and we're going to put the NRE on this payment schedule."

Us--"No, you're going to put all that NRE up front and it's <2-5 million dollars depending upon change complexity>. And you're going to front the first 10,000 units which is <generally a nice chunk of a million>. After that, we can put you on the royalty schedule. We can't put ourselves in the position of losing the company because your volume never materialized."

Customer--"<choke> <splutter> That's preposterous."

Us--"No. It's the reality of hardware. We know our costs really well."

Side comment: it's always 100,000 units and 100,000 units is generally hardware death--big enough that you have all the volume problems but small enough that your profit sucks.
It doesn't only work with Cloudflare but if you want to use a custom domain + SSL you need to use a provider that can proxy the request for you. GitHub and their Fastly setup won't serve custom certificates for you and the *.github.io certificate wouldn't be valid for your custom domain.
Right, then you still need a script listening to the event omitted from Posgrest. And if the scripts you are building are anything less than trivial it seems to me you are right back to Flask/Django/etc at all.
Aurelia 1.0: How to build a simple secured application
How to start a side business
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#{@record.name} / #{@record.description}
- binding.pry
= check_box_tag(display, true, @record.display, :disabled => true)
= _('Display in Catalog')

Ruby syntax is terrifying. There is so much going on here I can't even begin to figure out what this code is supposed to do.
>So I guess I'm saying if you want print books, you should make that known by buying physical copies of books. Cos if the trends I see continues, I can't imagine it'll be practical to do print tech books too far into the future.

Agree with your sentiment but I don't think economics will be the cause of fewer books being printed. The technology for printing has advanced to the point that Amazon and other Print-on-Demand companies are able to fulfill their standard delivery promises for online orders without even carrying inventory.
I'm curious to see what they offer on the Model 3. I'm guess they go back to a more industry standard warranty.
Respectfully: come on. Once again, these aren't hard numbers to get. The varroa mite outbreak began in 1987. Feral honeybees were probably effectively eradicated by the end of the 1990s. Now, look up the introduction and adoption dates for neonicotinoids.

I know approximately fuck-all about beekeeping. It should not be this easy for me to rebut arguments about neonic toxicity, but I appear to be holding my own on approximately 3 Google searches per day.
This is cool, but I wish for a more schemey language. Like if the serverside was written in Chicken, using CSS and HTML-like code inside that, and the clientside was written in Spock.

Unfortunately, Spock doesn't seem to be ready for prime time. It works, but it can stress your JS implementation in odd ways.
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The benefit of limiting options is to keep it standardised for most OSS projects, which I like.
But who controls the purse strings? I feel like in the United States teenagers have a large say in the purchasing power of their parents. Including not so cheap items like gaming consoles, feature phones, clothing, maybe even cars. You can even include college tuition (potentially the second or third most expensive purchase of a parent's life) in this. Is it the same in China? Genuinely curious.
To see if anyone would notice ;)
Yeah, as for me you're preaching to the choir :-) But that's fun so I'll do it some more too

You don't get to just stop worrying about schemas, joins, and transactions in your database. If your database won't do those things for you, now YOU have to.

* No schema just means (as you nicely describe) your app deals with schema changes, not the database. Have fun.

* No joins just mean your app deals with the complex choreography of keeping denormalized tables up to date. You think that's easy? Have fun deciding what updates to make synchronously or asynchronously, what to compute where and when, making sure you don't screw up and either hose performance or end up with stale data in a dependent table... enough of this and you'll be dying to come back to a proper relational database where you can just CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW and call it a day

* No transactions just means.... oh, who am I kidding, you're not going to bother to write your app carefully to deal with those consistency semantics (and if you do, you'll probably do it wrong), you're just going to ignore them, call it a day, and hope your product doesn't get popular enough that the race conditions start pissing people off.

* No SQL means instead you're probably going to use some protocol that's much newer, much less popular, and locks your app and your mental knowledge into a single specific database product. Have fun rewriting your whole database layer and relearning the whole API and data model when you realize FooDB might be a better fit than BarDB. And it's way easier to go from SQL to non SQL if you end up having to than the other way around
Kinda, sorta.

I, personally, want it to matter because Twitch's mantra and goals are still focused around being 'for gamers.' As a user, I feel like the "purity" of the space has been diluted. I am not alone in this.

From a business perspective, I guess anything goes as long as it gets eyeballs on ads, people buying bits (Twitch fun bucks), and more channel subscribers but simultaneously balancing the friction that new features have with the established userbase.

>but it is also the largest streaming site of any kind.

Youtube Gaming, Afreeca, and many others still exist; hopefully Twitch doesn't rest on what they have in regards to streaming. Twitch is also no longer just a streaming site; it's a software and wiki/database company now with the acquisition of Curse. Curse definitely brings in it's own conversation of "Users You Don't Want."

Edit: Added Curse stuff.
/r/politicaldiscussion was created as a response to the malarkey that has become /r/politics and they place an emphasis on civil, reasoned debate. May be worth your time.
Nobody is going to sue the company they've never heard of. If they have heard of you, you're in a good position to start worrying about things like accessibility/scalability/security.
That's what I was trying to say, you have access to a machine like a webserver that had internet-facing services you could exploit and now you want to go deeper into the network.

Or do they usually only speak SNMP on a management port?
It seems in this case it might be

{"A" : [2, 3]}

This kind of stuff is useful if users explicitly understand and design their application to expect this kind of stuff. It might not be possible always.

But note, that there is still a good value in all the servers which got the same conflicts ending with the same result. As opposed to say server1: picking {"A" : 2} and server2 {"A" : 3}. Now something can be built on top of it given it understand and accounts for how merges happen.
I would imagine such a system would be mostly equivalent to no comment system at all. I'm not going to bother commenting if nobody can even see it, and 3 days later when they can I won't even remember that I commented.
That's less the fault of Ruby and more the fault of HAML. http://haml.info/
Do you think that was as clear to the sponsors of the ACA as it was to you?
The low splash urinal is a great idea... I've had it several times over the years, I just then think of how often restrooms are actually updated, and how many years it would be before such a thing became common. Kind of sad really.
Legality and party vans aside, the concept might work from Shenzhen to Hong Kong.
> "What is the alternative?" - a system of rights based on the nature of human beings. Human beings survive by producing the things we need to survive. We need governments to protect others from initiating force against us in opposition to our primary needs of living.

I'm having trouble figuring out how this doesn't still boil down to people making judgement calls on what is and isn't a right, just with a level of indirection, so maybe this other question will help me see what you mean:

> Will we ever see this in reality? No. But, the closer humans have gotten in history the better off they've been.

Do you have an example in mind of when and where we've come especially close to this ideal?
European countries and Canada have these programs because we have had active left wing and socialist movements that got into the streets to demand it, formed political parties, and even sometimes won elections.

The fact that the Democrats have had as much political power as they have in the United States and _not_ yielded these results should tell you just how useful they are to 'progressives' as a force for 'progressive' change.
I totally understand why they're doing this. Their comments section was terrible. I'm not at all surprised by the findings that a couple hundred to low few thousand commenters are posting the vast majority of comments.

I'm really surprised at the energy that the trolls on NPR spend. You'll see the same account posting rude comments on just about every article. Who has that kind of time?
Put simply, Apple and Google allow users to opt-out.

You can run Android and not send Google a single byte of information. You can't run google's _apps_ and do that-- gmail, google calendar, the google play store, and so on. But it isn't mandatory. Telemetry is in the apps, not the OS.

Even if I set telemetry to "basic" (the lowest it will go), turn off Cortana, and don't use IE or Edge (or any other MS app), Windows 10 sends telemetry to Microsoft. That's not OK.
> What you've said is not a true statement

Sorry. Allow me to clarify.

It is my observation that

> stories which aren't in favour of a good old fashioned lynching

often, and especially in the last 12 months

> get flagged and then removed.
At GitLab we think that when you are self hosted there should still be role based access control. We selected Cog as our chatops framework for that reason https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/issues/1412 It has fine-grained command permissions, users/groups/roles, and audit logging.

Besides ensuring that users are restricted it is also important that a bug in a script can't do too much damage. Where Hubot runs every script in the same namespace Cog has separated the coordinator and the scripts. They use containers to do this so you can write scripts in other languages than javascript. Apart from that Cog as pretty sweet unix like piping between commands.
No, byte simply meant the number of bits needed to represent a single character in a fixed width encoding.

From Wikipedia: The byte (/ˈbaɪt/) is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer[1][2] and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit of memory in many computer architectures. The size of the byte has historically been hardware dependent and no definitive standards existed that mandated the size.

PS: 16 bit bytes are now common with UTF-16 with fits a large chunk of Unicode. On the other hand UCS-2 is not a fixed width encoding so different rules apply. However, we stuck with 8 bit bytes for long enough it's become a viable alternative definition, until we byte the bullet and go back to a fixed 32 bit format.
No, I'm saying you can't do that with this bug; that's what I mean by "not a pivot bug". It's a way of persisting inside access you got some other way. Because, again, people don't listen to SNMP on the outside interface.
There is always going to be the elitist attitude of newcomers ruining things for the "OG" people. However there is certainly no way HN compares to the rest of the drivel out there. Always going to be a fine line between popularity, and trash.
It depends where you live. I know many Canadians who've had different experiences. This points to a major problem with socialized products - how they perform depend not on merit or ability to pay, but where you live, how good your representative is, etc. That is much worse.
I had to do an international marketing plan for a local business in one of my marketing classes in school, and the local startup my group chose did exactly this. Their products were so spread out across so many different industries, there was no telling where their focus was.

They were also into consulting, so whatever product they thought up for one customer, they started advertising on their website as a finished product. The product we were focusing on exporting to another country had 1 customer...the one that commissioned the product. We actually didn't learn that until halfway into the project, but by that point, we were already leaning towards suggesting that they forget about exporting any product overseas and focus on getting more business in our area.
Makes you wonder if they could have made more money by pretending to find them and reporting them to the respective bug bounty programs.
It is not drama if two German equivalents of the New York Times and the Washington Post both slam the Tor foundation's behavior. This is the other one:

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/jagd-auf-jacob-...

The FAZ and the Zeit are two of the most serious newspapers in Germany. FAZ is conservative/business friendly.
Why should anyone have to support them at all? It comes down to they and their supporters convinced society we should care about them and we decided those profiting off the majority to be the ones bearing the cost of the minority.

Why do I have to bake a cake for a gay wedding if I do such for straight weddings? Because the people who want that requirement have won the level of support needed to have legal support.
Same exact scenario here, except a kidney problem. It was a nightmare to get back into coverage and required ultimately working for a large company.

Since that happened I've always thought the lack of universal healthcare was a major cultural lever against entrepreneurship and small business ownership, because stable healthcare coverage is probably the number one draw of working a corporate job. It seems so culturally odd to me that employment and healthcare are so linked in the U.S.

Unfortunately I think some people don't understand how existentially frightening it is to get a bunch of rejection letters from insurance companies until it happens to them.
I've been in this business a long time, and sadly the whole episode is entirely in line with the general level of competence and empathy that I've come to expect from the Windows division. SQL Server is really good, hugely impressed by .NET Core, but I can say nothing good about Windows today, and haven't been able to for an age.

Disclosure: I was one of the people that signed the petition to ask the EFF to get involved. The stories from people whose computers were taken out by upgrades that they were tricked into just got too much. If you think that this kind of thing is totally surprising, though, I'll refer you to the disaster that was the Windows 8 UI changes, and the swamp that has been the Windows Update experience lo these many years.
I just tried it, and it seems to me like it shows the timer only on google.com, not on the Google-domain for my country, so maybe that was a factor. The other comment pointed out more inconsistencies, though, so might really just be Google's algorithm judging at random who's allowed to get a timer and who not.

DuckDuckGo's implementation [0] seems more robust to me, but if you don't use it as your default search engine, it's probably easier anyways to just click on the first link in the Google search results (or use Cortana obviously).

And yeah, you do need to leave the tab open until it ends. I don't see that as that big of a flaw as you do, since most people have a browser open all the time anyways, but yeah, whatever floats your boat. Certainly isn't terrible to have another option for it.

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=5+minute+timer
> American governments are not capable of running efficient programmes, because to a first approximation American government employment is a make-work program for people who can't get hired at anywhere that cares about competence.

American governments are not capable of running efficient programs because to a zeroth approximation Americans keep electing politicians that not only promise that government can't do anything right, but also work to ensure it.
Best Western: Scrappy Digital Transformation
Of course not. What we're talking about is parents being discriminated against, and the number of documented cases where women have been discriminated against for having children (leaving to look after them, being passed over for promotion because they don't work late, etc) is considerably higher than men, so if you're suggesting there might be parity in discrimination you'll need to find some evidence to back up that point.
No, but it's funny how many people are ignoring the main point of the article to get angry about the hypothetical example.
I am sure the rewards are worth any struggles you face :) If it makes you or anyone feel any better I always try to give up my seat in the subway to a parent...
You may find it hard to believe but the market "taking care of itself" is at the core of the neo-liberal ideology peddled by the powers that be from Obama, the Clintons, the EU, IMF, World Bank, ECB etc. They don't care if it destroys the planet or drives people into poverty. As long as it works for them, it's all good. Technology will fix it so no need to worry.