skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How is this so old?

These commits are obviously jokes, probably by Ken Thompson or Rob Pike.

> Was Go something that was brewing for a long time prior to its development and debut at Google?

Its an evolutionary descendant of Bell Labs languages: B -> NewB -> C -> Newsqueak -> Alef -> Limbo -> Go. (The channel-based concurrency model was introduced in this line with Newsqueak)

> Also, Kernighan? Maybe I live under a rock, but I wasn't aware of his involvement.

He is peripherally involved as the co-author of 'The Go Programming Language' book: http://www.gopl.io
Ask HN: Best way to monitor data incosistency in a distributed system
We have a distributed system where multiple services interact with each other, and we often run into inconsistent data states due to one or more services failing. What sort of methodologies can we use to identify such inconsistencies (e.g. anomaly detection systems)
That sounds ideal for working harder, not taking it easy :).
It adds another dependency, but you could always try Avahi/Zeroconf. Good for service discovery on a local network.
I have projects on github older than git thanks to cvs2git and svn2git. They can convert history:

https://github.com/sumdog/MplayerBuddy
You can use Vysor which mirrors android screen on desktop.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vysor/gidgenkbbabo...
This already exists. It's called noti. It's cross-platform, supports most of the same backends, and can send Slack notifications (which ntfy can't). It also has an awesome API. You can put `noti` at the start of a command or `;noti` at the end, which is what I always do. I never remember to set the notification until after I've typed the command. If you forget to set the notification and the command is already running, you can call `noti -pwatch <pid>` and set notifications after the fact. It's very well thought out.

https://github.com/variadico/noti
The Founder’s Dilemma – Who should build software product for my startup?
I agree, further discussion will not yield to productivity because you assumed that you are talking to someone with poor logic in the first place.
I'd rather not leave my country.
Late 2011 17" MBP. Quad core 2.4GHz i7, 16GB RAM, SSD.
I have rarely ever heard someone argue that. lettergram did not argue that, only that employee wages are exploitative. In a labor market with unemployment and no real safety net it's clear that workers cannot individually leverage a fair wage.
Tall tales: Why China’s lane-straddling super-bus won’t get off the ground
> I can't wait for the SF taxi industry to completely collapse.

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
Perhaps not, but it might be a significant component of it.

Think about it from the point of view of someone who doesn't interact with black people very often: they probably can't tell whether a person is a gangbanger or dangerous or not. If you can't distinguish a potentially dangerous black individual, then everyone black person becomes suspect, especially if you have a negative view of the group to begin with. People's natural risk aversion and fear of unfamiliarity just heightens this affect.

But presumably, that same person is more familiar with white people and can distinguish real threats, from, say, their neighbor or the kid down the block.
It sounds possible to detect what a voter chooses even within a voting booth. Just knowing this was possible could be a serious threat to one of the last bastions of democracy, namely voter privacy. If I think that my vote is detectable by the powers that be, I might as well be in North Korea.
Why? You can just buy an unlocked phone and not put a SIM card in, right? A Moto E is $40 on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XQVDW6Y
> Well, my own experience is that the $1.49 million would more likely be reinvested in the company as a whole: hire more developers, more salespeople, expand the office, etc

A lot of it also goes to essential business expenses: HR, legal, the AWS bill, the new feature that's currently losing money but will pay off in the long term.

And the person who made the $1.5mm code fix didn't do it on their own. They wouldn't have been able to improve the code if somebody else hadn't already written the first version. And neither of them would have been able to get their code into production if somebody hadn't set up the build and release process for the company. And they never would have been in the position to make the $1.5mm fix if their manager hadn't identified the need for an additional engineer on the team and recruited them. And the company wouldn't exist if the founder hadn't had the idea in the first place. And the company would have blown up last year if the lawyers hadn't made sure the company was protected from a frivolous lawsuit. Et cetera, et cetera.
Honestly, I got to the early paragraph where the author mentioned trusting government, and I was sad. Not trusting government is a great disadvantage to America in most times, but it's our great strength in the times it matters most, and I'm really afraid my generation has lost that thread. Government is great when it goes right, but it's a prisoner's dilemma with a strong bias against you when its wrong. The value of government can be huge, but it can just as easily screw you over, at whims driven by small scale petty politics. Government is great when working well, but the damage it does when not working well is worth avoiding giving it much power.
I've had the exact opposite experience - all the JetBrains IDEs have been super responsive, whereas Visual Studio could never keep up with moderately fast typing and regularly hung for minutes at a time.
$10M in sales with what profit margin? 20%? In that case the $1.5M in extra sales is $300k in profit. Also a developer with $100k in salary costs about $125k when you consider payroll taxes, insurance, 401k matching, etc. If you factor in the cost of office space, equipment and support staff the total cost per employee could easily be $200k. Most developers also don't increase revenue by $1M per year on a regular basis. So when you look at the whole picture you realize that most developers aren't as underpaid as you think. And the ones that can consistently generate $1M+ in profit by themselves definitely do get paid much more than your typical developer.

If you think most executives have no idea what is going on and add zero value then I am guessing you haven't spent much time around executives. The whole reason your typical developer got their job and is able to keep it in the first place is because executives figured out how to run the business well enough to grow and continue to hire developers and then allocate them to projects where they can increase revenue. If you think it's easy I recommend you give it a try sometimes.
Because... aliens
And yet it is indirectly tied - it was CIA support for the more radicalized mujaheddin factions in Afghanistan (which in turn was caused by listening to and trusting Pakistani ISI advice too much) that produced Taliban later, and indirectly accelerated the creation of al-Qaeda. Remember this?

https://imgur.com/CRaBPOx
By your math, the janitors are worthless. Fire them all, and give that money to the devs! Then, as the garbage piles higher and the weird smells ground into the carpet linger, you can keep yourself warm with your extra money.

Also, why shouldn't the investors get their cut? They were forking over their money to pay you before a line of your code ever hit production; going by your math, developers should be paid on contigency of the code they write getting into production, and penalised if there's a regression.
> I don't think many taxi drivers in the US respect their own work

For me, taxi driving was a game: "I wonder who I'm going to meet today..." One of my passengers had been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. He didn't win - I picked him up at the homeless shelter. He was going to work, and was almost back on his feet...

Sometimes passengers remembered me.

Sometimes passengers provided the rest of the story for things I'd been wondering about, or confirmed 'tall tales'. Like the bartender who confirmed that the visiting NBA basketball players really did come into his bar that night... Months before, the other night driver on our little team had said, "YOU'LL NEVER GUESS WHO WAS IN THE CAB LAST NIGHT!"

> and society for sure doesn't make them feel respected. Respect seems to be much tighter coupled to monetary success and I can't say I'm free from that.

Plenty of my passengers let me know that they appreciated us.

Taxi driving has traditionally been a rough occupation. Drivers used to carry a lot of cash, and were seen as targets for thugs who were desperate for money. Cash isn't as common as it used to be, so taxi drivers don't have to project as much "toughness" as they used to.

I was always looking for a bigger picture, so I guess my experiences in the cab reflect that.
I see this conversation every fucking week on HN.
Fixing the XMPP Push Problem (2014)
I believe you host the product yourself -- so if you are going to have to deploy it, modify it, etc., you'll want to know what stack it's built on.
Want to make more? Marry your best friend (#5)
I agree. And as Slavoj Zizek is fond of saying many (most) people are ok with someone doing the dirty work for them (break the law, torture, what have you) they just don't want to explicitly be told about it.

And anyway, if there's a better service to be had, that people want and are willing to pay for, screw the law, it's a high-latency side chain of authority that has built-in, but slow and political, update mechanisms, not the actual Word Of God.
Is this part of YC S16 or is it for YC W16?
Google presents 5 amazing virtual tours to celebrate National Park Service
Cwc: cat and wc. Did this project to learn go
Uber and other type apps are successful disrupting traditional taxi services where a heafty price tag is on medallions.

Where countries like Japan who do not have a medallion system really, there is not much to drive prices up for taxi fares for Uber and like to undercut to be successful.

A good taxi and transit system isnt everything... I live near YVR, we have taxis lined up at YVR for convenience.
You are also paying way more cause first, the taxi medallions are so expensive... Then there additional fees for being licensed to do pickups at YVR in the designated area.

Everyone I know who commutes via taxi or transit wishes Uber types were here (banned).

Especially when u fly to DFW and the only options for a taxi is a broken minivan 20 mins later.

And then Uber being less than half and a lot quicker.

Convenience and cost. If Japan has those covered, then no reason for a Uber type to be operating there
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Get two jobs working 30 hours, each paying 75%, and you'll work the same as one demanding software job, and make 50% more!
I've always just used mail to send a text for notification:

./long_running_script.sh && mail -s "Script Done!" number@tmomail.net
Given that amateur satellite watchers can take pictures like this: (http://www.wired.com/2016/06/backyard-detectives-search-for-...) of spy satellites, finding something that comes with 131 miles of the surface every 104 minutes should be doable.
The author is very uninformed.

Within the city of San Francisco, rent control is a staunch disincentive for
property owners to rent out their apartments or to invest in the
construction of new ones.

Rent, perhaps. But the rest is pure idiocy.

Rent control does not apply to post-1979 construction. And anybody who knows anything about sf rental laws knows that. And rent control laws don't inhibit construction of buildings to which they don't apply.
MobX – Simple, scalable state management for React
> If you want to know what's really going on come to the Philippines. Don't judge based on what the news says.

You say this like we're such a beautiful country whose drinking water doesn't make people in rich countries sick. And no, they aren't likely to come here with all the violence and the supportiveness of people like you. We'll probably get a travel ban by other countries and have a crashing tourism industry.

Last I checked, oligarchs are still in control. PLDT has a monopoly on telephone lines. Meralco has a monopoly on electricity. The Lopezes are dominating TV entertainment. The Ayalas own the business districts and have the top real estate projects and banks in the country. And you, you're still where you were before Duterte became president. Arroyo got away with corruption. Peter Lim fled the country despite accusations on pushing drugs. People are still poor, hungry, unschooled.

Nothing's changed. You just worship Duterte too much.
Or your place is that much sneakier about it :)
That was a good machine.

Business mistake: "Mr. Ellenby sold Grid to the Tandy Corporation (the parent of Radio Shack) in March 1988." Grid was never heard from again.
In theory, you're right. In practice, San Francisco's progressives keep scheming to bring newer apartments under rent control:

https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/15/aaron-peskin-proposes-e...

http://www.beyondchron.org/will-peskins-rent-control-expansi...

Jane Kim, currently the leading candidate for State Senate for San Francisco's district, says "There is no doubt we need wholesale reform of Costa-Hawkins", the law restricting rent control:

http://janekim.org/2016/07/13/compassion-clause-costa-hawkin...
“India 1, China 0” or Indus OS: i18n and l10n done right
Qué pasa cuando realizas descargas ilegales?
Ask HN: What parenting books do you recommend for a new dad?
From the text ``With at least 12 major Indian languages supported, Indus OS has tapped into what the market needs, not what a government wants. That's powerful because it means the software is developing and pivoting according to demand. For example, it offers simplified predictive typing and translation between regional languages.'' -- way to go!
This project "visual changelog" usually blow my mind at every release.
https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog216/ind...

And this is exactly the opposite of a git commit only changelog. They put great effort in it so that everybody wait for it eagerly, and it might one of the reasons they got lots of sponsors and users donations.
I don't see why if an artist can publish directly on Apple Music they can't do it on Spotify.

Artists are usually locked by their labels with pretty bad contracts that prevent them from doing anything else on the side.
Labels often even can even get the majority of the revenue from live performances.
> "Even names like that, 'part-time' or 'reduced,' make it seem like a deviation from the norm, like you're doing less."

This is a telling statement. Why are we still stuck on a minimum of 40 hours being 'full-time'? After over a century of productivity increases, and with ever-increasing automation, we could soon be at the point where a 15-hour work week is the equivalent of an old 'full-time' work week. Now is a good time to start nudging down expectations.

The pay cut is wrong, however. The fact that people are producing much more now in 30 hours than they used to produce in 40 argues against that. If a company is profiting from the benefits of that productivity, but can't afford to pay the employees for their work, then it needs to change something else.
Unless I see evidence to the contrary, I assume that all startups follow your model - i.e. they don't give a damn about the product they're making[0]; they need something that'll give them a good growth curve in order to get bought for $alot[1].

I wonder if and when people get tired of that. I also wonder how user engagement/retention numbers evolve globally over time; if almost everyone treats their users like cattle, I won't be surprised if more and more people started treating on-line services as throwaway.

[0] - corollary: all the "we're trying to change the world", or "our passion is to help you do X" they say on their page is just lies.

[1] - that also applies to paid services; I've read that classic Maciej's post[2] about paid vs. free services, but companies aren't stupid; if being paid signals trustworthiness and leads to more users, they'll make the service paid

[2] - https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user/
He lives alone unassisted, does his own shopping on the weekends and travels to the Joondalup campus at least four days a week, making the 90-minute commute that involves catching two buses and a train.

It's fascinating -- and inspiring -- to see how mentally and physically capable some people remain into their 100s.

Is it good genes? Good lifestyle? Good environment? Good luck? Maybe it's all of these.
It was an one-of-a-kind event but Twitch Plays Pokemon was a pretty memorable experience and something that could only happen on a livestream with 100,000 people in the IRC chat. Basically, someone set up a livestream that played pokemon games in an emulator using commands taken from the stream chat. With the complications of a 30s video delay and thousands of people pressing buttons at once, some really interesting things ended up happening.

https://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/wiki/intro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WziMRN9WoVk

Today they are "between games" though so the stream is just playing Pokemon Stadium in a loop

https://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon
Violence is the only thing that will continue to go on if we keep asking for justice, so our children and grandchildren will die fighting wars we could have stop just because we hold that word in such high stem.
Ml: a short C program to run linux binaries on osx
Are the EnChroma glasses not effective in your case?
Apple has never asked me for my login credentials, nor did the third-party repair shop I took my MBP to a few months ago. Well, maybe there was a time they did it that I don't remember, but I'm pretty sure they haven't done it since releasing OS X. (I'm not a frequent user of Apple service, but this MBP has been in the shop four times, I think.)

In any case, if they did ask, I would refuse. Let them boot off a DVD if they need to.
Personally, I can't effectively work at home. If you send me home to work, I'm going to be constantly distracted. If you want me to be productive, make sure I have an office.

So, with forewarning, I'm not the only person like this, and if a manager or executive wants to make this kind of decision and expect productivity to not suffer, they're being... stupid.
Or from the GNU naming system: https://www.gnunet.org/gns
The link you provided contains two precise definitions of the term "monad" in the responses (one which includes the source of the "a monad in X is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors of X" quote). Was it your intent to support @infinity0's premise that words like "monad" are not elitist?

If so, well done!

If not, then I humbly ask why is a term such as monad qualified as elitist, yet terms such as Abstract Syntax Tree[0], Big O notation[1], and Turing complete[2] are not?

All four of these have in common precise definitions.

All four of these have in common applicability when considering the domain each address.

All four of these have in common their existence in programming even when not directly considered by those writing software.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_syntax_tree

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness
CloudSigma.com is painful to setup and support rep Vladimir Petrov is an asshole
OctoLinker adds support for Python, Rust, Dockerfiles and vimrc files
Serious question, how much does your Ph.D. advisor actually matter? I would think that the fact that scientific findings are published for everyone to read would imply that a person gets more of their knowledge from the common pool than the teachers they worked with. So basically I'm asking if these 24 families are actually meaningful in some way, or just an arbitrary grouping.
Quora is down!
Are there any good streamers who play games without unnecessary commentary? There's nothing that annoys me more than someone ruining the mood by starting to talk shit in a middle of an important plot point or emotional scene.
The desktop clients are built on Electron [1]. I've been using it for about 3 weeks and there's been a few times where performance issues were noticeable but not bad enough for me to start digging in the code to find the issue. Overall I think it's a well put together app, but people who hate anything built on Electron will probably have bad things to say about it.

[1] https://github.com/mattermost/desktop
I agree, as a Colombian I think the most important part about the peace agreement is that it will delegitimize the position for using weapons in politics, which has become a long tradition in our country. It is also a huge step for a country that has solved it's political differences historically by killing the other party, that we have now had the capability of negotiating for 5 years under a truce, and that the right wing government is willing to accept political participation from the guerilla, and to entertain ultra leftist policies under a new bipartisan congress, and that it is recognizing that there is a huge social gap and inequality which led to the formation of the guerrilla in the first place, which should be fixed.

Unfortunately violence probably will not end instantly, since the drug trade will continue to be a big business, and that a part of the trained militias will not be able to readjust to normal civilian life once the peace is signed. But at least criminals and narcos will not be shielded under a political left wing speech and be united under a flag, which will eventually lead to violence ending.

I am completely confident that the Colombians will vote Yes for the peace process, and that the implementation will be successful. Some very big war criminals will probably walk away scot-free, but the huge overall benefit for the entire country will far outweigh the short term injustice.

Expect a lot of big startups coming out of Colombia and some very interesting investment possibilities, since the peace agrement shows confidence in the Colombian institutions and constitution, which will lead to a booming middle class in a 50 million person country which has a lot of space to grow in since it has been historically been overlooked because of the security issues.
Check out the The High-Performance Erlang Project

which compile Erlang to Native code.
Yeah, yeah, I get it. And I still say that's a non-explanation with a misleading name.

There's no proof of material at all, thus not matter, thus no such thing as dark matter. I'd willingly accept other names such as Dark Question Marks. Or maybe Dark Mathematical Terms Yet To Be Named.

Here's a good one: Dark Unobservable Numerically Challenged Entities.
Why do some people always want the federal government to solve their problems? It's simple. Donate the extra taxes you should be paying at http://fms.treas.gov/faq/moretopics_gifts.html.

(Edit: Also, there are plenty of problems with the Federal Government size already. Pick a local cause such as Education, Low Income Families, Veterans, etc. and you will find plenty of non-governmental state or county-level groups and organizations who can put your money to a great use. Simply do the math that would leave you with the income you should have if the tax rate applied to your carry, and donate the rest).
I was speaking to the nature of their anxiety, not the probability they'd be killed or by whom. I was also trying to describe their perceptions, not the objective state of affairs. I think you'll find your comment to be oddly hostile and non-responsive.
They have one event every summer (SGDQ) and one every winter (AGDQ)
>> dark matter is likely a product of black holes

> what product, specifically, and through what mechanism?

The product is dark matter, it seems. The mechanism is the same as in the current theory on dark matter synthesis, I would say.
Wouldn't a hex editor be a better choice for binary files and odd data files? Are there benefits besides the ability to handle large files and long lines?
New ways for selfie #shoutForSelfie
That's so simple! Thank you a lot.