skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...the developers have "eliminate tedium" as a specific design goal.

I think lots of good has come from that. At some point, though, it started to feel like a lot of what the dev team considered tedium I considered fun, and vice versa. (I could of course download the old versions and play locally, but playing online was a lot of the fun.)

I need to see if I can get a spellcaster through the full game

"Pure" spellcasting can be done, but it's unpleasant to play (just from a UI perspective) and usually a suboptimal use of XP (DCSS usually rewards moderate investment in several areas rather than extreme specialization in one.) If you're not imposing that on yourself, then book backgrounds are overrepresented among the better starts in the game.
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> But it's such a simple idea that Facebook or Google or WeChat could add a "tweet" capability and perhaps crush Twitter.

So why don't they?

The reality is that both Google and Facebook have made their attempt to own "real time" and both efforts failed. Google even had to pay for the Twitter firehouse for a while, and eventually just gave up.

When people need to know what's going on RIGHT NOW, neither Google nor Facebook is where they turn. Twitter is the fastest publishing platform on the planet. Tweets beat an earthquake from Virginia to New York, just like XKCD joked they would. Contrary to popular belief, this is is not easy to do.
The middle ground is correctly configured alarms that follow team-specific escalation policies and wake up the right people.

FWIW, alarming systems aren't that flexible. The market sorely needs better solutions around monitoring and alarming. We use PagerDuty for this and it can be made to work with about 80% of our alarms, but it's a PITA. Also, on the topic of waking people up, the PagerDuty app conveniently includes several blaring, obnoxious alarms, but it frequently fails to receive push notifications, so it's not that rare for someone (or several someones) to sleep through the PDs. :|

I do understand what you're saying and I think most people actually are reasonably flexible as long as the occasion doesn't become common. But I wouldn't hold it against someone who's dangling from a mountain if they can't text back immediately (unless they're the on-call engineer that day).
I once did some research on networking and related stuff - it was not my primary topic, but I remember a few things.

During my reading, I found one of the best (as in readable) books was Doug Comer's "Internetworking With TCP/IP vol. 1" - an excellent theoretical reference. [1] However, skip the other volumes from Doug Comer (I think there are 3 volumes).

For writing practical applications, Richard Stevens' "Unix Network Programming" [2] is usually recommended, I didn't find it an easy read though. Perhaps others can pitch in.

For both the books suggested, getting a used old copy for cheap is a good idea because the core information was already there even in the first editions.

Finally, read up on PlanetLab [3]. Its a fascinating project - a small scale internet built on top of a subset of nodes contributed by universities and research organizations across the globe - that people can contribute to, and if you actually manage to get into the developer's list and make a contribution, you can quite honestly claim to have pushed the state of the art forward.

And lastly, be prepared to spend a good amount of time - I don't think it will be a fast or easy process. For whatever reason, I have found that the community around this work to be a little small, especially in comparison to how much it permeates pretty much everyone's life.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Internetworking-TCP-Vol-1-Principles-...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Unix-Network-Programming-Sockets-Netw...

[3] http://svn.planet-lab.org/
The Intellectual Yet Idiot
I've seen that article. :)

It came at a great time, in that it really crystallised some ideas I had been having about the friction of using React-Router. So I buckled down and wrote my own router component with HistoryJS & Crossroads.
>When you say you like to just fork it, do you mean that you're publishing the fixes you make somewhere, or just keeping them to yourself

Really depends, some maintainers and authors really dislike forking, they also tend to be the ones hardest to deal with on pull requests.
For those curious, the startup the author[0] was referring to was Mobcrush[1], where she was Head of Business Development.

0: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kohkim

1: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mobcrush-2
Lack of pluralisation of BIGCO in first sentence.
This argument doesn't make sense to me. Why would they cause controversy without reaping the benefits? It's a sensationalist headline anyway, it's a piece of plastic that has a function.
Only root can do that.
Yep. https://investor.vanguard.com/financial-advisor/financial-ad...
Any 10-15% yield loan today is essentially junk grade as far as bonds are concerned. (That would be the opposite of "low risk" investment.)
Sure, OSS can have bugs and I understand authors don't owe me anything. It would be nice if the program can be improved, but I'm certainly not going to demand it. Depending on the software and problem sometimes I can fix it, and when I have fixed it, I'm happy to submit a patch, if there's a reasonably convenient way to do so.

I have encountered times when it's more complicated to offer the fix than it was to fix the problem. IMHO, it would be useful to be able to send code and documentation without having to navigate multiple layers of logins, subscriptions, and other hurdles.

Sometimes the bug is too obscure for me to find, or requires deep knowledge of hardware/OS interfaces beyond the capacity of mere mortal users. Like patches, bug reports should also be easy and uncomplicated to submit, and to communicate about if necessary.

I think many users are sophisticated enough about software in general, and want to help resolve problems. They may not be able to single-handedly debug complex issues but when met halfway by projects these users would probably do a lot more to assist.
Make a plain PDF resume that's as easy to read as possible. If you want, also make an enhanced portfolio or a personal site.

Someone might print a stack of resumes on a crappy printer that's running out of ink. A recruiter might fax your resume to a client. Someone might want to read your resume on an off brand PDF viewer on a phone with a slow connection. Someone might have 200 resumes to look through and not want to figure out the unique UI for yours.
> Is there any evidence for this claim that a Tweet has more "cultural significance" than a Facebook post

How about:

> the media prefers to use Tweets as the minimum unit of cultural exchange

You're trying to discount this, but the media only survives if it reports on what people consider to be culturally significant.
If they can't reorg and continue operating, what would a bankruptcy filing accomplish? They're going to default on all their debts either way.
That's a great effort. Though their mission isn't exactly what I am describing, it's definitely on the way.

It seems like it is mostly about collecting source code at this point. But the harder problem is the build and runtime environments (and how to "bottom them out"). Without the ability to execute it, source code has limited utility.

"Given that any software component may turn out to be essential in the future, we do not make distinctions and collect all software that is publicly available in source code form."
The point is that they work at attracting pageviews.

Pageviews from members of the culture.
How is $100,000 a small concession? That covers the significant majority of all workers in all developed countries.
Yeah, this. I know Craigslist feels like an entire era ago, but at its peak, it ate up 25% of industry revenues. Media companies were definitely slow on the existential uptake, but I think a lot of industries would have a problem with a 25 percent drop in revenue over 5 years.

And that was just one of the problems that media companies had to track. It'd didn't help that newspapers were just exiting a period of golden complacency in which cities were monopolized by a single newspaper. If you wanted to print an obituary notice for your mom in tiny font in a 4 inch space, you paid $500 because what the hell else were you going to do?. When I was in college one of our professors told us that running a newspaper was like running a printing press that printed money. And he was right. The problem with newspaper companies was that they didn't reinvest enough profit into innovation and experimentation.
Ah well rather than being uncessary, theres' alternatives for all of those options.

React could be replaced with Preact or Inferno.

Redux could be replaced with MobX or RxJS.

Webpack could be replaced with JSPM.
No it's not. Currencies move against one another all the time. Your yield is only zero against the same currency, but it doesn't mean your yield is zero in terms of actual global buying power.
"perhaps even via rouge admin"

Those dang rouge admins (sorry, but I found that typo particularly amusing :-D).

So, is a rouge admin embarrassed? Or is he just so terribly mad at the world that he has turned red?
Relevant:
http://isaacbrocksociety.ca/2011/12/14/about-the-isaac-brock...
In my opinion there is a huge difference between I get an error in my compiler, and my user has a hard to reproduce error in a month when they are in the middle of a business critical task.
I didn't get my blog up and running until I a) started keeping a journal on 750words.com and b) started writing in a spiral-bound notebook every spare half-hour.

Those two habits and https://blot.im made blogging nigh-effortless. Like dandruff, I get it for free.
I live out of state. Never visit them myself. Best this way. I used to live near by some of them and it becomes emotional instead of business.
The CA or smart card software is only needed for provisioning smart cards for clients, and is likely to be of little concern for setting up a new server. The card itself stores a non-phishable credential which you can physically secure.
Just 5.7 Percent of Clinton Foundation Budget Actually Went to Charitable Grants
You can only contribute $18k as employee and $35k as employer (under 50 years old, anyway). Those totals are across both traditional and Roth 401(k) accounts. If you have 401(k)s at multiple, unrelated employers, you can get employer contributions from both to a total over $35k. But if both are Individual 401(k)s, I don't think that applies.
I just picked a cheap one and moved whenever i had a problem. Been with linode for years now.
I've been trying to get into that, but I'm just not finding it to have the depth of Binding of Isaac. Then again, what does, in twitch-rogues? Maybe I just need to make it past the first sewer level before I give up.
If you're looking to jump ship and your projects use Redux, you might find https://github.com/FormidableLabs/redux-little-router to be a nice alternative. RRv4 still hoards URL state within a component, while Little Router just puts it in the store. This makes deriving most of your app from URL state a reality.

Check out https://formidable.com/blog/2016/07/11/let-the-url-do-the-ta... for more on how we differentiate from the RR philosophy.
My last round of interviewing and taking a new job was resume-free. Most companies just printed out my linked in, and really only to give interviewers something to take into an interview.
Remote Desktop (RDP) Using JavaScript and FreeRDP
Catacomb Kids might suit you. It has a lot of depth of interaction.
“Economic freedom” per the Kochs and their network of libertarian think tanks means your freedom as an industrialist to bring government soldiers in to help you forcibly suppress worker strikes. It means your freedom to dump whatever you want into the local river, without pesky interference from the EPA. It means your freedom to create propaganda venues masquerading as news with no accountability. It means the freedom to force all dispute resolution out of a publicly accountable court system into private arbitration. It means your freedom to funnel money secretly to university-affiliated “scientists” to publish bogus studies casting doubt on climate change or the harmful effects of particular products. It means the freedom to secretly donate unlimited amounts of money to political campaigns, and make sure the law supports your hiring politicians and government officials at high salaries after they leave public office. Etc.

The “robber barons” are their heroes and their dream is a return to the Gilded Age.

Labeling this “freedom” is a pretty cute bit of rhetorical gymnastics.
The word "freedom" refers to freedom _from_ coercion. This is why a big government, that takes your income, inherently reduces economic freedom.

Consider the opposite.

"Now with free education and free golf lessons I have so much more freedom".

This is essentially nonsensical. This concept of "freedom" can be taken to mean anything you like, and deliberately hides the other side of the transaction. Namely, the tutors who are coerced to teach you math and golf. Or, if they are paid, the people who are taxed to pay for your "freedom" while receiving no benefit whatsoever.

The same goes for social safety nets and the rest. It is telling that these basic moral concepts are not spread in our society today. This year US may well get Trumped. Next time it will be Berned (literally).
>then companies in those countries would eventually dominate the world's market share.

Has "eventually" happened yet? US tax policy has gotten worse in recent years; give it some time.

>Instead, it's companies in higher tax countries that are the largest.

The biggest companies are in the US, which is a huge country with lots of historical capital. There are hundreds of reasons big companies tend to be here, and you haven't demonstrated that excessive taxes are one of them.

Interestingly, many young tech companies like Google have their EU HQs (and sometimes global HQs) in Ireland for tax reasons.
"Webtasks do this by allowing secure, isolated, and fast execution of custom, untrusted code directly over HTTP, with no prior provisioning."

> Isolated using containers
There's a challenge response authentication scheme. The authentication method can be enforced on the client but not sure if you can exclude completely password based authentication and enforce certifcate or challenge response authentication, servers need to be configured accordingly.
Yeah, I don't know that 'compete with' is the right word ... it would take a tremendous amount of work, time and money for someone to get enough customers for the big telcos to even notice. But you don't really have to be big enough to be on their radar to be successful - a few thousand customers is nothing to a Comcast, but it can make a healthy profit for a small business.
What San Francisco Says About America
If a study forms a conclusion you don't agree with, then you look at the source and automatically assume it's biased.

If it's something you agree with, then no need to check and see who did the work. It stands on its own.
Because they could spot and enter many small markets with "fish".

In finance and investment there is (to a first approximation) only one big market, and you are the "fish".

Those guys wouldn't have made their tuition walking into the Bellagio and entering the Big Game.
Offering a more friendly business climate is leeching?

So if I open a store and sell you a computer for less than the next store over, am I leeching from my neighbors?
FWIW, you can get Kafka packaged as a fully managed and HA service from https://aiven.io on AWS and also Azure, GCE and DigitalOcean.

But if the Auth0 runs their entire operations on AWS, maybe Kinesis would have been a more natural transition.
I've never heard of any libertarians that were against "worker strikes", that would be very much against the core tenets. I also don't see any evidence that libertarians are industrialists. The only statistics I found showed that libertarians were about as rich as democrats on average, or a bit less. Anyways, HN is not the place for political debates so I'm out!
Because I still have to file onerous US taxes, I can't open foreign bank accounts, and I personally would have to pay tens of thousands a year to the federal government even though they would do nothing for me while outside the US?

I suspect you're wrong that $100k covers the majority of expats, but even if you are, it's not like it's much better to fuck over a minority of expats.
Nothing on the Internet delivers news faster than Twitter. Every other platform is either too slow (websites with CMS's and editors), or too filtered (Facebook or chat apps, on which posts are private by default).

If you want to know what's happening right now, Twitter will give you better results than anything else, including a Google search. Tweets famously beat an earthquake from Virginia to New York, fulfilling an XKCD joke. And it's almost all searchable by the public in real time.

So that's one thing: it's a close as you're going to get to a real-time tap in the zeitgeist.

Another use is comedy; you get everything from corny puns and "dad jokes," to multi-year character humor arcs, to biting political humor, all in one place, as fast as you want it.

Another is the ability to drill down into a wide variety of subcultures. Various niches within politics, programming, sports, finance, etc. all have robust conversations going on constantly, and many of them internationally.

Candidly, it took a long time for me to get Twitter. Ultimately for me the secret was to follow a bunch of folks I might like, see what they said, unfollow the ones I didn't like, and then follow the folks who the others (the ones I kept) retweeted.

I spend more time on Twitter now than any other social network or app. And I only really started "gettting it" a year or two ago.
We’re not talking about random people who consider themselves “libertarians”, who are mostly fine people albeit rather naïve in my opinion. We’re talking about “libertarian think tanks” and university-affiliated “libertarian institutes”, which are predominantly funded by billionaire industrialists.

Jane Mayer’s recent work is recommended reading on this subject: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385535597

Or if you want something shorter, from a few years ago, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/08/30/covert-operatio...
Such nonsense.

You may want to study property rights (protection from pollution) and freedom of speech (publishing studies).

I don't know about the Koch bros, but libertarians are the most anti-corporate people you can find, precisely because government and corporations collude to destroy individual rights and freedom.

You may want to stop reading your lefty media if you are to retain any intellectual capacity.
Hmmm... Uber is basically unregulated. Whoever wants to drive for Uber can. Why hasn't the system imploded yet? Why isn't it solid gridlock in NYC due to too many Uber cars?
Winlicense. You can't read asm sometimes.
We need an on-premise and cloud story, so cloud only solutions did not cut it for us.
I'm not sure how much of this is the trench itself but I asked a local ISP about how much it would cost to connect the apartment building I live in to the municipal owned (and shared) fiber located ~200ft down the street.

I was told $15000, "most" of which was the trenching.

This is a rather built up suburban area.
I am from Sweden.

What you are talking about is not "freedom". It is collective insurance.

That may be efficient and convenient if done properly. But it has nothing to do with freedom. Read other posts...
Thanks! I hadn't seen that one yet.
AI genius? lmao
Oh god, being a grownup. Yeah because grownups are immaculate. They never do or say anything stupid.

If this were true we would live in a perfect world and we couldn't make any rape jokes, because rape as a crime wouldn't exist in the first place.

From the article, who was the grown-up? The guy making a mistake by telling the rape joke and apologizing afterwords, or the lady who literally had a rage fit about the whole situation and ran directly to Tim Cook and because she didn't got her way left the company?

So tell me then? Who was the grownup?

And the comment I replied to?

@daughart bragging about having a richer life and acting with a 'holier than thou' attitude? Literally being offensive! And lecturing us about how not to be offensive in an office environment?

Really? I bet this is a fun person on parties. Also I would love to talk to that team of 8. Just asking them how fun it is to work together with a person like this.
Docker is indeed a big part of the story, but security measures do not end there.
What if it's not a simulation?
Sigh...

This is what happens when you start with faulty definitions.

Orwellian at best.
Magpie-Driven Development at its finest!
The 767 is being replaced by the new, widebody 787. The new 737s don't have much other than the name in common with the 737s from 30 years ago.
Right. Here's the actual study, about 3 blogs down.[1] This has the breakdown by nation and the categories listed above. The study points out that the "economic liberty" numbers are converging for the successful countries.

[1] http://www.freetheworld.com/2016/economic-freedom-of-the-wor...
I'd say meaninglessness is a theme of the story, which is different from the story itself being meaningless.
There may be some assets to auction off, and creditors are entitled to a piece of that.
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> I'm surprised we haven't had many more leaks about them given what I would consider the ease of identifying them.

the last guy who blew whistle on the beam splitters attached to Google's and the others' fibers is happy, given the alternative, to live in Putin's country...
For small companies, it's very reasonable to ask, at minimum, their runway. There's a big difference between 3 months and 18 months, and this is very relevant to your decision, particularly if you're currently employed.

If the runway is less than 6 months, it's reasonable to tell them to complete the raise and email you when they're done. A friend of mine was laid off less than 4 months after a startup talked him into leaving apple because they didn't get their raise done.

I'd also ask when they're going to raise their next round on -- what features / milestones / usage / whatever get the raise done in the ceo's mind. And where they are on getting the aforementioned accomplished. I would prefer the ceo to know this off the top of his or her head.
If you're doing it for the money, you're doing it wrong.
So it's just a "bad play of game" if a politician allows a referendum about something where a very large part, likely a majority, of the population wants a referendum?

This looks to me a bit contemptuous towards the voters.

And I think that contempt, quite visible in the campaign at least in British media, is precisely what turned the tide in the referendum.
One of the guys actually did go pro and made a pretty good living at it for a while, besides writing some books and video series on texas hold 'em

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-andrew-seidman-started-pl...
Mumford and Ellul are among the references in Vaclav Smil's Energy in World History, which I'm just completing. It came out in 1994, too early for Kaczynski's Manifesto (1995), but it wouldn't surprise me if he references it in later works (I've not yet checked).

Bill Joy cites Kaczynski in his own Wired 2000 essay, "Why The Future Doesn't Need Us".
I'm not saying the safety net is necessarily part of economic freedom (although, I'd argue it does give individuals freedom from oppression by employers, which is different but still valuable). But, my main point is that I think Scandinavians are actually generally more pro-capitalist, pro-entrepreneur than people think. I feel like Americans are more likely to pass anticompetitive laws or impose tariffs on others, for example.