skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. How often do they show up? Are they skippable? This is pretty ridiculous, after making such a big deal of it being ad-free.
Totally the opposite experience - normal 40 hour week means working 9 AM to 6 PM, due to 1 hour lunch break. This is even the case in most public administrations (Germany, France, EU Commission), I'm quite curious where a 9 AM to 5 PM day is normal...
You'd probably say something like "还没有", "没有" or "没吃" ("Not yet", "No" or "I haven't eaten"). Again, it's just a greeting, the answer doesn't matter much (unless it's your mom asking you in which case she'll make a big deal of it, but that's a pretty international behavior).
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Holy shit man.
Thank you for demonstrating my point!
Does Google offer any sensible support though without paying consultant prices? My pain with Google services that it is very rare to have any contact address where you can get more than basic information. No, clicking through a FAQ does not help, not to mention when you are forwarded to out of date pages because Google decided to override your language of choice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_ship
Could you elaborate on that? My experience with React has been that most of the 'shiny time-waste' problems don't arise from, say, React + Redux, but from the itch to use all the 'cool stuff' that people are talking about.

I've wasted so much time configuring apps to get hot module reloading to work, adding all sorts of redux middleware, using react-router as it transitioned to a completely new react-router, working with higher order components, using some immutable library, etc.

Many of these things were not necessary for the stuff I was building. In fact, in a bunch of cases I could've just used React and nothing else. I suspect if I'd done that, it wouldn't have felt as much like premature optimization.

Thankfully most of these projects were personal, and learning a lot about the React ecosystem has been fun. Still, lots of premature optimization.

I'm very curious to hear where you ran into issues.
I've never heard a credible argument of how a fully cashless society could operate under conditions of natural (or man-made) disaster. The multi-day blackout in the Northeast US, flooding, tornado, earthquake recovery, targeted cyber attack, etc.

The idea that because the electronic payment system is readily available on all of the "good days" doesn't mean it will be available at a time of strife.

Cash works without electricity, without phones, and without network. That's a killer feature.
An Overview of first to die term life insurance rates
A life insurance policy is a contract between policy holders and also the insurer whereby the policyholder promises to pay a set amount as premium at regular interval and from this, the insurer offers to pay an established amount as death help to his beneficiary. If you're not aware, the policyholder may be the person who buys the policy, the individual whoever name it is bought is called the first to die term life insurance rates, though, in most cases, the policyholder, and also the insured is the same person. The beneficiary may be the person who gets the death benefit on the death of the insured. The fees are the amount one must pay to remain covered. It might be paid monthly, quarterly or annually. The premium one has to pay depends upon various factors such as total sum assured, chronological age of the insured at the time of policy purchase, kind of policy you are going to purchase etc. There can be temporary term life insurance or permanent universal, whole and variable life insurance.
However, first to die term life insurance rates with large benefit you must buy term life insurance. http://www.lifeinsurancerates.com
> Keeping build packs up to date, keeping all the scripts running, and making sure an app has associated dependencies, etc--I imagine that's the difference between an independent setup you can self-host quickly and easily and one that's very dependent on an ecosystem of Heroku maintainers, tooling and existing server infrastructure...

I work for Pivotal on the Cloud Foundry buildpacks team. 4 of our buildpacks (Ruby, Python, Go, NodeJS) are downstream forks of Heroku's.

We merge from upstream approximately weekly, but the pace has definitely dropped.

We build all the runtime binaries we ship with our buildpacks. We also build the rootfs it all runs on. Some of these pipelines are now fully automated. For example, when a NodeJS tag lands, our pipeline will build the binary, add it to a buildpack and put it through our battery of test suites. Our product manager can make a release with a few keystrokes and a button press.

The difficulty of engineering really comes down to the nature of the ecosystem you're turning into a buildpack. We did an article on writing buildpacks[0], taking Rust as our example. It was a doddle, because of Cargo. Meanwhile our PHP buildpack performs incredible gymnastics to make a 12-factor cloud platform look like a shared host circa 1999.

[0] http://engineering.pivotal.io/post/creating-a-custom-buildpa...
I'm not trolling.

The situation I'm describing is literally what happens in the real world. If a large trader wants to buy a big block of stock such that he can't fulfill the order on a single exchange he has to be pretty careful about how he executes the trade or the market will move against him. As soon as he purchases all the stock at the market price on a single exchange those selling stock on other exchanges will raise their prices.

It's very important to understand this. The price doesn't (generally) rise on other exchanges because someone swoops in and buys up all the supply. It rises because the people who were selling in the first place change their offers.
Part of me thinks that this guy is a hero but my cynical side thinks that maybe he can get more out of the situation in the long term (in terms of reputation and future clients/contracts) by turning down the money (given that this news has worldwide coverage).

Regardless of the motivation though; I think this move is good for society and sends the right message.
I have vague memories of soviet grocery stores in late 80s/early 90s, but they certainly didn't have too much items to begin with.
I am 100% more concerned about the negative interest rates motive than the dependence on financial institutions for payment (which is also worrying)

Having said that, yes, cash sucks. Small coins suck even more and I rejoiced when countries started rounding prices to 5c on cash payments
Thanks, as soon as I read the title about file watchers I was hoping it would be a simple rerun/restart tool.
What's would you recommend I do to improve my startup?
This starts in two weeks. I'm taking it too!

https://www.edx.org/course/reliable-distributed-algorithms-p...
I don't see how these boot camps are substantially different than so called "for profit colleges".
License says beta version says it collects usage info and sends back time and date of each call to jyt.

Would be nice to be able to opt out of that.
If you don't like that, you might find Privacy Badger useful: https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
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> That's because you're thinking in English.

No, it's because I thought making the point in English made more sense in an English-speaking forum than making the point in Chinese. I'd go with 像国王一样(的) "like a king" or 适合国王(的) "fit for a king" for the English senses of "kingly".

The point is that, as bad as the Chinese writing system is, it's still fundamentally a writing system. 女, 娘, and 妮 may all variously mean "girl" (actually, 女 is an adjective), but they are written differently because they are different words (or, as the case may be, stems). Conversely, it makes sense to talk about the pronunciation of a Chinese character. Japan somehow overlooked this principle when trying to adopt writing, and the Japanese system is a total mess. Japanese 漢字 can only be read in context; in isolation, they represent a grab bag of some unrelated words with shared semantics along with assorted nonsense syllables.

> Other than that, in Chinese, there is the concept of a radical, which can be combined to inform the readers about the context it's used in. In Japanese, as bemmu wrote, it'd be additional kanas to inform of context.

This appears to be... nonsense? The concept of a character radical is not restricted to Chinese. It refers to a part of the character that gives you a hint about the overall meaning. For example, the radical of 冷 "cold" is the 冫 on the left, which means "ice". The radical of 切 "cut" is the 刀 "knife" on the right. And the radical of 漢 "the Han race" is the 氵, which means "water" (they're not all helpful). They are an inherent part of the character and are totally independent of any context. And the kanas you describe as "inform[ing] of context" in the OP do no such thing; they encode grammatical suffixes which have no characters of their own. Chinese uses (wait for it...) Chinese characters for the same purpose; Chinese grammatical markers, unlike Japanese ones, do have dedicated characters. Radicals are a completely unrelated phenomenon.
It would not apply to MP3:s, because by the time it hits the MP3 encoder it must ALREADY be digitized, and it loses quality as it goes through the encoder.
Isn't "a ship where we can live for 1000 years" just the same as a planet?
I agree. Things like having the weekends free and getting enough sleep are really important for having a sustainable working life. But that does not mean working 35 hours per week is a must or 40 hours is a natural limit, for example 9 AM to 8 PM from Monday-Friday is a 50 hour workweek and easily sustainable. The norm in industries like banking, big law firms or management consulting is more like a 60-70 hour work week and while it is obviously not desirable, there are many people who can do it for many years.
The paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.01196
How many settlers? 1,000? 10,000? 100,000?

Would you launch adults (average weight about 70 kg) or children?
> I thought Ruby ensured there was only one symbol with given contents, so that equality testing for symbols reduces to pointer equality. I don't Python strings behave that way.

In Python, string literals are reused, if that is what you meant.

>>> a = 'abc'
>>> b = 'abc'
>>> a is b
True
mbox is fine for a read-only (or at least append-only) archive. It's when you start deleting messages, changing flags etc. in the middle that it becomes a pain.
If it’s properly done.

There’s thousands of retail CDs out there with clipping, intentionally created during the Loudness War.

To listen to them properly, one would require a remaster, or 24/192.
There's a lot of noise. Most things submitted to HN don't get noticed. If you can't get onto the front page in the first hour after you submit something, it's pretty much all done, and nobody will ever see it.
Is there such a thing as a "reputable bank" though? There are huge profits to be made by skating close to, and over, the ethical line. I doubt banks really want comply - they just want to avoid getting caught.
While we wait for research to get there we can play with the other rocks in the vicinity. All those climate engineering ideas could be tried on Venus, for example.

If we could change that atmosphere (engineered bacteria and collision with an ice asteroid to lose some gas and gain some water?) and cool it down a little.. It's not that far out of reach.
Same story for colonising Mars, or even sending astronauts there. It's pretty much unfeasible. Yes maybe we could send some people there but the costs involved are so astronomical that it really can't be justified. We're stuck on this planet and we need to make the best of it.
some more corporate handouts
Humans are capable of incredible achievements. But it is unlikely we will achieve interstellar travel any time soon. We are too busy fighting wars (relicts of the stone age, really), improving our advertising technology, and just generally slacking around and looking good in the process.

Thinking is hard. It's easier not to think too much.
probably

All joking aside (and I love Canada and think it's fantastic) it simply would not be a contest at all for the US military. That's not a slight against Canada, it's just a fact.
Yeah, maybe the next big thing isn't travelling to a far away planet but just creating a ship big enough. I had a pretty cool theory about that when I was a kid, funny to see that it may be what actually happens.
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8M is some serious cash, and this story will be forgotten next week. There's no need to put down people taking moral decisions. Cynicism is exactly the thing perpetuating problems like this, resist that in yourself.
Sometimes this convention falls apart, e.g. when constructing HTML tags it is easier (and more readable) to write:

return '<a href="{}">{}</a>'.format(url, text)

than

return "<a href=\"{}\">{}</a>".format(url, text)

Especially for a lazy developer like me... :)
Have you tried an Emacs with eww which relies on libxml2 for HTML parsing?
There are way too much homophones and you don't always have the luxury of the context. Learning a symbol for each root (not word!) is not that bad, English spelling is almost as bad, actually.

Spoken language is quite limited compared to written Japanese.
> The entire yearly budget for the US armed forces is around $600 billion.

Oh, only.

My point still stands: 2.5T isn't that much for a project at a national, or even global, scale. A mere ten times ISS and ITER and LHC combined? Absolutely doable.
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Youtube still has a bar on top of the page saying that youtube is best experienced in Chrome.
There are cannabis clubs all over Barcelona now, hard not to find.
How Long Should I Make My API Key?
Focusing on habitability from our perspective seems somewhat parochial.

From the perspective of colonization: by the time future sentients descended from or created by present humanity get to other planetary systems, we-for-some-definition-of-we would be capable of living anywhere, and space and novelty will be things that you get by computing more efficiently, not by going places.

From the perspective of adding data to the Fermi Paradox: assessing the possibilities of life being out there by looking for places in which bacteria of the known varieties could survive probably tells us little about the true range of life.

From the perspective of resource assessment: by the time descendant entities get to other systems, it won't much matter how the matter there is distributed. It will used efficiently whether a gas disk, rock and ice condensations, or (improbably) somehow all in the star.
Interesting that he doesn't mention the Breakthrough Starshot concept at all.
Isn't it the NOKIA Lumia 525?...
> I only don't mention specific names because I don't have explicit permission, but you'll just have to trust I don't intend to lie here.

It's true, he doesn't have permission.

But at least one company in fintech is willing to admit appreciation of Hashicorp tooling.

Anyone curious come chat with Joel in Napa in a couple weeks.

https://www.hashiconf.com/talks/managing-vault-in-a-federate...

And if you're into distributed systems, talk to us seriously:

"From a values perspective, we're trying to understand the way the world works — that's what our business is — and so we're really interested in people that have a sort of deep curiosity, people that have the patience to understand deep and complex systems," Kreiter said. "Now, whether those are biological systems, or economic systems, or political systems, it doesn't really matter. Somebody who has an interest in and an ability to understand that deeply is interesting to us."

And that's why we like Mitchell.
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They're slightly different problems. Docker images are, as everyone loves to point out, immutable. Once built, they're built, and if you want to patch a vulnerability you have to rebuild and replace.

A lot of folk on Dockerhub are just folk. They don't have security teams keeping an eye for relevant CVEs and triggering rebuilds.

I work for one of those companies (Pivotal) that does have a security team keeping an eye out for relevant CVEs. I work in buildpacks. If you send an app to a Cloud Foundry installation, you used the rootfs image and buildpack binaries that we built. When a high-value CVE lands we commit to providing replacement bits within 48 hours. We usually do it in much less.

But even with extensive automation -- and ours is pretty extensive -- this requires humans to watch the firehose of flaws. Most people who write a Dockerfile and forget it don't have that luxury.

Incidentally, Docker now offer security scanning of dockerhub images, for a fee.
A friend of mine was doing a Masters in Zoology a few years ago, and I briefly discussed the idea of generation ships with her. She explained to me that a foetus can't properly develop in microgravity, and they abort in the early stages. (I can't really remember because it's going back 12-13 years now.)

Accelerating such a ship at close to 1G for half the journey, then flipping it over and decelerating at the same for the other half of the journey would approximate Earth gravity for the occupants. Since acceleration acts by pushing against you, rather than acting against your entire body as gravity does, I'm unsure as to whether it would be an adequate substitute for gravity.

Perhaps someone here knows.
I recall seeing them on some pilots. The ad appeared once before the show for 15-30s. I don't recall any in-show commercials.
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Consul's documentation needs a couple passes. Great product, but I have to do experiments every time to figure out exactly how to use it correctly.
Question for mitchellh or others at Hashicorp:

Will "zero configuration" be a feature/goal in your next attempts at this abstraction? Was this one of the things that made building Otto so challenging?

A few months ago when I tried Otto I found the "zero configuration" idea off-putting. In fact, I couldn't even get a basic Python app to work because there was no way for me to install libmysqlclient[0]. There really was no way to configure anything in Otto.

FWIW, we ended up using Convox[1] and loved it.

[0] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9QfCNX...

[1] https://convox.com/
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I've wondered along the lines of your question. So I was hoping to find more information. Totally agree with you, that there seems to be a huge factor of "luck" involved in using HN to promote products.

Since I was very curious about your situation, I checked your profile, past posts and comments. Whilst my comments don't directly answer your question, these are the things that stood out for me:

You have been on HN for over 8 years and in that time you have only amassed 107 karma. That immediately signals to other HNers that you are not a particularly involved member.

Most of your posts and comments have a "marketing slant". HN is, IMHO, a technically oriented forum. I often notice a certain level of hostility towards posts made by sales people, recruiters, etc. For me you would have more "impact" by contributing to various technical discussions.

Looking at your two products and the comments on them by other HNers suggests that they are not as "exciting" as you think. There are thousands of products (I use the term very loosely) out there. You have to make your stuff really stand out, capture interest and of course a huge measure of luck.

Finally Show HN is but one of potentially dozens of avenues to promote your products. Perhaps identifying forums that deal with your application area is useful. I know some people who are very active in domain specific forums on LinkedIn, thus they have a certain profile. They then in turn contact other active persons on the forum to canvass for business.

I hope my comments will provoke some rebuttals. My comments are just one data point. You need a broad spectrum to base any decisions upon. Good Luck.
The implication of those hours is that you go to bed pretty soon after finishing work -- how easy do you find it to wind down on a schedule?
FWIW, this is a co-ordination problem. There are many ad-networks that know your cookie was interested in this, however there is no singular (or multiple) way to let all of the ad-networks know that you have purchased this product, hence you get loads of ads for the same product even though you have already purchased it.
An undercover cop could also bust them for selling beer.
With apologies to Cliff Stoll and his magnificent brain, let's not forget a pretty common perspective on the Internet from 1995: http://europe.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-ni....

You know, he really wasn't wrong. Online news hasn't really replaced newspapers; it's just displaced them.
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>It's a hugely inefficient way to write.

Agreed. Remindeds me of an anecdote from David Moser:

"I was once at a luncheon with three Ph.D. students in the Chinese Department at Peking University, all native Chinese (one from Hong Kong). I happened to have a cold that day, and was trying to write a brief note to a friend canceling an appointment that day. I found that I couldn't remember how to write the character 嚔, as in da penti 打喷嚔 "to sneeze". I asked my three friends how to write the character, and to my surprise, all three of them simply shrugged in sheepish embarrassment. Not one of them could correctly produce the character. Now, Peking University is usually considered the "Harvard of China". Can you imagine three Ph.D. students in English at Harvard forgetting how to write the English word "sneeze"??"

Regarding the grandparent's point of joining characters, my favorite has always been 火雞 (fire chicken) for turkey.

[1] Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard
http://www.pinyin.info/readings/texts/moser.html
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And yet, two organizations have plans to do so in the next two decades.
FUDish as it might be, it gave people -- including us here at HN -- an opportunity to discuss the pros and cons of such things.

This is what democracy looks like.
Very helpful explanation!

That said, it should be mentioned that the "rich guy"/"institutional investor" includes various pension funds.

"In a letter urging the SEC to approve IEX as a full exchange, the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, a pension fund that manages more than $125 billion, suggested that trading through IEX could save the system millions of dollars a year."
I didn't down vote you, but your original comment didn't add much to the discussion, and could be viewed as snark.

If your edit, minus the wtf, had been in the original comment, then probably no one would have downvoted.
Did you read the article? It addresses this question and talks about the reasons to use the traditional style open source license that MySQL used vs. this new BSL license.
The big idea is that the normal fully operational condition of any significant network is that important resources are broken/unavailable/offline.

Good luck.
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Thanks for your answer. I want to use Angular Universal but I also you Firebase/AngularFire2 which doesn't work with Angular Universal yet (only a matter of time).

I ask myself if Cloudflare is needed when I already use Azure. Can it hurt my search engine rankings? Getting SSL for free (and quick setup in comparison to Azure+Let's encrypt!) with Cloudflare is nice.
There are ads on Facebook?

Also — disable JavaScript. The page renders just fine without it.
If he doesn't get paid, there is no portion.