skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the detailed outline.

The primary issue I see here is the indirectness between creator/publisher and consumer for what their receiving. Similar to cable: one reason people are cord-cutting is that they'd like to pay for what they want, not the whole bundle.

The Kickstarter model addresses this somewhat, but it doesn't account for long-term continued revenues for the creators for ongoing projects. Also, there have been significant defaults on Kickstarter-type projects, and people (including myself) are becoming increasingly wary that they'll see the fruits of what they paid for.

As for the death of the advertisement industry, they do significantly foot contribute to the income for a lot of media projects, things people aren't willing to pay for directly. While people who pay for subscriptions may think that covers a lot of publishing cost for things like newspapers, it in fact covers only a small percentage of their total revenue. Compare with something like The Information: no ad revenue, small staff, relatively low output, over $300 per year for a subscription.

And, yeah, the state-level entity (which you mention more often than a private one) is going to be hugely unpopular, at least in the US. Look at public broadcasting (NPR, PBS). A small fraction of the budget, still relies heavily on supporter drives, and constantly under the knife. Not to mention the fear that anything involved with the state is propaganda.

A really tough sell, in my opinion.
I've started working on my take over the world side project and it has a watchOS component. I've been pleasantly surprised with the access to the CoreMotion and HealthKit data on the watch, as well as the ease of access for accessing the network directly or passing data and files back and forth with the iOS companion app.
> I think AGPL introduces some measurable adoption friction, but it certainly isn't toxic.

Let me first say that I respect you and RethinkDB immensely.

Rather than comment on toxicity, I'll state a fact: in the company I work for, which makes heavy use of open source software, is relatively sophisticated, and is legally cautious and conservative, AGPL software is verboten. It's a non-starter. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.

So, in the absence of a company that can actually offer a valid license to the product, there's no chance of considering it, let alone using it. This may seem overly cautious and FUD inducing, but it is how things work in our litigious world.
Handling disruptive neighbors at night is easy, I just call the police. Has worked every time.
There is a massive difference between suspending immigration and detaining existing immigrants/permanent residents.

Stop parroting these bullshit alternative facts. In substance and impact, Trump's EO is far more expansive than anything Obama did.
From my perspective - good.

I don't mind sharing that I voted for Trump. I'm not a cheerleader for him, though, my reasons for doing so are limited in scope and he has yet to act to support my interests. That said, all signs seem to indicate that he will do so.

The absolute best thing that could come from a Trump presidency is if Congress and the courts were able to significantly restrain the authority of the Executive Branch in general and the President in particular. It has grown far beyond its Constitutional bounds.
And they only help you get or stay asleep. The actual quality of your sleep can still be horrible. Like not breathing 40x a night like I just found out I do.
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The whole point of vanilla HTML is that it has few presentation details. It has some headings, bold, italic, and such. If the page does not specify margins or font size, the browser absolutely should set these so it is most readable on the device. If I write plain HTML today I am not optimizing for some VR headset that will be used twenty years hence. The headset should render the plain HTML in a manner faithful to the semantic markup, not so it looks the same way it looked on Netscape with a VGA screen.
I call this "the Dwarf Fortress UI paradigm."

Yes, it's very fast to someone experienced with it.

Yes, the learning curve is incredible.

No, it will never change because the stakeholder (ie. the developer) is happy with it.
This is close, but I'm thinking cut out the web tools part. Do we really have to depend on HTML and CSS (or other XML based format which needs a web browser to view) to make and edit a simple word document? I cringe thinking of the bloat that is introduced when using CSS and javascript to view text+pictures.
$5k may be a bit optimistic, I would calculate your costs now in your part of the world. I know that I burned more than that in my first year. I think if you start by lining up some jobs that can sustain you before you quit then you will burn less. Take your time if you want to travel and work. Currently I want to travel a good amount and am still cautious about the timing with my contracts that I have now. Remember work up to travel and make sure you are in a good place contracting wise before you take on a whole new lifestyle. I love to travel and think it can be wonders for developers, just be careful early on.
The ability for one spouse to forego work in lieu of dedicating themselves to childcare is a privilege not enjoyed by a substantial percentage of parents. Besides that, the choice to have kids (or not) remains in this country one everyone is entitled to make.
> The money mostly goes to the capital-owning class

In a free (and not colluded) market, end prices will go down. Profits will depend on the market, not differently from the effects of economies of scale in general.

> The rich tend to reinvest money instead of spending it

Investing money and spending it is practically the same, from the perspective of the economy.
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The pandoc help section on "--self-contained" indicates that it can mostly handle your use case (minus the compression step).
Logically-following question: why do we have such a population that the average and below-average members are too stupid to out-think common automation? Let alone, why do we continue to have such a population?
Not really, there is nothing about being labeled a 'mystic' that means the person is less politically informed. The Catholic Popes are arguably in the same bucket but were and are some of the most politically informed and influential people on the planet. Simone Weil was very politically active and quite well informed.
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Also good, thx :)
Because they collect them green and then ship them with ethylene so they just look 'red' ?

Ethylene: The Ripening Hormone

http://postharvest.tfrec.wsu.edu/pages/PC2000F
Agreed. Always interesting how the so community reacts to posts though.
Does Mithril implement something akin to Redux? Otherwise, I'd argue that those graphs related to size aren't quite correct.

Also, fetch isn't required for either React or Vue.js, could certainly just use the built XHR API to get down even further.
That's what I meant.

The market may not be global from an employee point of view, but that's an oxymoron, that has never been the case ever in any field. ( not saying it is a good thing )

Without any protectionist measure, it just remove one of the many resourcing options for the large US companies. It is unrealistic to think that the job will be automatically reassigned in the US when those companies are already spread all around the world.

All I'm trying to say is that suppressing H-1B is probably good because abuse is never good. However, I don't believe it will magically solve the problems of stagnating salaries without something else.
nice article - please change your font - it makes reading those blog post very difficult
For those of us who don't follow RethinkDB story: I was initially confused about this - they're talking about "open-rethinkdb", even though RethinkDB itself is open source.

It seems that the company between RethinkDB is shutting down, but trying to let the project be continued by the community. Some context I found here: https://rethinkdb.com/blog/rethinkdb-shutdown/.
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I think his comment was more about the idealism of the idea rather than the practicality.
Sort of. There's definitely an anti-authoritian trend amongst hackers, but hackers are only part of the community; the rest are capitalists.
> That's true, but only for fungible goods.

That's essential to the definition of competition, yes.
Looking at the landing page, I have built some hypothetical mental model on how to use the app and its feature, but it's mostly guessing - it would be awesome if they put up a video showcasing real-world usage and features.

"Task Board, Design Specs, Knowledge Base, Coding Docs, Team Handbook, Roadmap" - are these possible use-cases of the system? Or are they disparate document types? You create a document and pick one of these types which determines its features and layout?

"lets you nest pages inside each other" - does this mean hyperlinking?

"No more markup" - so WYSIWYG, just like Google Docs, Quip, MS Office, etc?

"Love using Trello" - I don't know what Trello is.

There's Slack notifications, but can you @tag people?
If I'm reading right, this is the same problem as http://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com/post/153545455987/ru... , only it hasn't been fixed yet in Swift?
This reminds me a bit of trying to make 'noodles' on modular synthesizers - a term for a piece that keeps playing and evolving by itself without further tweaking or patching, and preferably without falling into a simple periodic attractor. It's more of an intuitive skill than a science, though I've found Integrated Information Theory useful and relevant.
Jeremy Evans[0]: He has made a lot of useful tools for developers who want to implement a minimallistc approach to web development on Ruby.

His probably most well-known projects are Sequel[1] and Roda[2], but he has frequently contributed to many important projects and Ruby[3] itself focusing on simplicity and performance that impacts all the ecosystem.

0: https://github.com/jeremyevans/

1: https://github.com/jeremyevans/sequel

2: https://github.com/jeremyevans/roda

3: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12024

Edit: formatting

Edit: Also forgot to mention, I really like his approach on developing frameworks with great extensibility and modularity leveraging Ruby's capabilities without 'magic'.
Yes, you are! Parse Server Team :)
I don't really take issue with running this on AWS Lambda. Seems as good a place as any.

You're right that there are other straightforward options, but they do have downsides. Worst case is you have mismatch of workloads (e.g. a rogue cronjob affecting another service). Or you end up with resources that are largely idle.

That said, I agree with your unease on the application side. If you had a dozen (or many dozen) of these you've got pieces and parcels of logic all over the place. I think some architecture/style changes could be mitigations here. A shared library might be one.
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Ditto, I was lucky enough to try out the beta a year ago, and since then, I've been using it more and more compared to Docs or even text files (for event planning, side projects, server docs, etc).

The markdown integration, especially for inlining code, is awesome and what Docs should have been. Being able to quickly make a checklist has also change my note taking behavior and I almost never use straight up text files or specific list apps anymore.

That said, they recently changed their UI to hide the starred docs from the side bar which really makes them harder to find, and I actually find the inline dropbox file links/tables fidgety. But all in all, it's pretty awesome at reducing the friction between mind to note.
So, uh, what if he is acting outside the scope of the powers given to him by the Constitution and Congress and the courts and Congress don't do enough to stop him?

(You know, the premise of the link)
You can run this docker container on your server and interact with a browser through your browser: https://github.com/moondev/gtk3-docker
If you're not a researcher, why are you doing it? If you have any other motivation besides discovery, expect that to get automated away in short order and whatever you do to rapidly become obsolete. Curiosity is your best asset.
"A company that has profitability within reach and is on track to be worth $100 million with several more years of hard work. This is nothing to be ashamed of"

I wonder if there's some vague sense of how disconnected one has to be from normal conceptions of reality to consider building a $100MM company something to be ashamed of.
I like seeing this, but: "Correlation does not prove causation."

I have a serious, incurable medical condition. Getting healthier has dramatically improved my ability to sleep. So, while lack of sleep may well cause health problems, that relationship can run the other direction. I see nothing in this piece which addresses that possibility.
Also their tech is not great. I had one question in the python set which would've been very easy to solve if i could import a pkg from the standard library but it didn't let me.
This is exactly why I despise the "urban legend" about Monsanto suing the poor, tiny farmer because their Round-Up resistant seeds blew into his crop. The actual story (much like the McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit) makes a lot more sense when you learn that the farmer not only knew that their seeds were Monsanto's but then used Round-Up on all his other crops so that they would die and only the resistant crops were left over. He then took the seeds from those crops and planted something like 95% of his field with them (which was probably 100% but some of the old plants survived). There was no unintentional wind-blown spreading.
I understand what you're saying, some people follow a popular developer and that can cause them to take what they say and regurgitate it with an annoying arrogance.

But supposing everybody took your stance we wouldn't be able to have something like Hacker News. I think following popular developers and sharing what you believe to be good content may not be enjoyable all the time, but I do think it's necessary. Just as someone who has only been in the software culture for about two years now.
> The tail call feature from ES6 is already being revisited because it caused problems

Proper tail calls being in the spec don't cause problems. Safari shipped with them a while ago. Chrome/node has them behind a flag. Google wants them to be explicit and everyone's bikeshedding about which bloated syntax is the correct one (or if it should even have its own syntax).

The actual debugging issues they talk about are non-issues in my book. Catering to new devs who don't understand tail calls is stupid (by that metric, we should get rid of a lot of other things too). We don't need stack traces for tail calls that loop (just like we don't need them in a for loop). A shadow stack works just fine for CPS (continuous passing systems) and is still better than the debugging tools we have for stuff executing across the event loop (aka nothing worth mentioning).
My Fitbit Charge 2 activity appears on Google Fit. Google Fit tends to recalculate some of the values (e.g. distance and calories) based on what Fitbit transmitted / pulled from Fitbit (haven't bother to check). I don't know this happens via their API, or bluetooth over my phone or both.
As someone currently working on a code editor I love this stuff, but there's usually more focus on the technical part then the human part. With todays hardware we can do millions of stupid things every second and it will still feel snappy. We should spend more time trying to optimize for the humans instead of their computer.
What are you proposing as an alternative to a button? Gestures? Voice commands?
You should try importing tomatoes from Eastern Europe. They are still very tasty over here. :)
I think it's pretty funny how the question got locked "due to the high amount of off-topic comments generated", given how off-topic the question itself was (in the context of Stack Overflow, of course).

Also, wow that question got closed as off-topic a lot! There's almost three pages of closures and subsequent re-opens in the edit history: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/342440/revisions
Yes, the current H1B system is broken. People will find loopholes in the future replacement as well. Will the new system be better? I am not sure.

A couple of fixes would help:

(a) Remove the dependency between the visa holder and the company that sponsors H1B. Initially, every h1b holder needs a company to sponsor. But break this indenture after 12 or 18 months.

(b) Check the wages against IRS W2. Here, people complain about wage disparities between midwest and nyc/bay area. If someone says we need to have $80K min in Des Moines, IA., and $130K in Sunnyvale, CA, people will abuse this system through intermediate contracting agencies. Basically, one works in the bay area for $100K, while claiming on the paper that he is working in Iowa.

(c) lets accept that fact that humans are selfish and that we can't get a perfect system (a system that doesn't get abused). Just work with ways to reduce loopholes. For instance, UK is stricter in terms of immigration enforcement; they send the border patrol to train stations, bus stops, apartments, to check on the status of people. I don't see it happening in the states that much.

(d) STEM is abused now with silly universities in America, minting 1000's of MS degrees in STEM.
@ryanchan001, Congratulations on your very good progress.

Consider A/B testing the home page with your A+ clients, like Mercedes, at or near the top of the page. These alone might be enough to keep someone on the fence reading.

Best of luck.
Very much agreed. Curated, peer-reviewed, or just generally thought through by more than one person -- we need more of that.
I'm not disagreeing with that; I was pointing to what basic economic principle was at issue in the upthread claim.

Clearly, the reality of digital goods markets underlines how distant reality is from ideal markets.
> That's why Hollywood generates so many sequels - predictability.

Does it have anything to do with the size of the studios/companies? Look at Disney/Pixar, can it be that they are just too big in order to come up with anything original?
No true scottsman, the essay.
I hear you on needing piles of CLI packages. Regarding the web browser, the pandoc HTML seems pretty basic, so even the lightweight GUI browsers will probably handle it correctly. Also, if you include the correct bits in each image link in the markdown, I believe the resulting HTML5 will render with your included image descriptions in a text-only browser.
This isn't an asshole question, I'm actually curious: what could you do with the Apache license that you can't do with the agpl?
Melatonin is at least natural, don't know if there are many studies on it though.
Much lower cost. No need to create 100x return for investors.
Notion looks really good, I am going to give it a go. What I like especially is that for a small 3 person team, just starting, it's price friendly. This in contrary to many other similar apps.
It depends on how much effort you see going into each card. I always used Anki on a per-topic basis, and each topic was organized into a deck.
Thank you, that is great advice.
All I'm saying is that it's impossible to know the extent to which those beliefs contributed to his actions. There are millions of people of all religions, including Islam, who aren't too keen on gay people. But the vast majority have never killed anyone.

Incidentally, his actual 'stated motives' were "[his] people... getting killed" in air strikes in general, and the death of Abu Waheeb in particular.
I think Deloitte and Touche is the tax/audit arm, and Deloitte is the consulting arm.
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Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13512063
Nice,

The algorithms the article define seem to justify seeing probabilistic programming as an advance beyond twenty line programs that call 20K sized libraries - basically, these algorithm inherently auto-tune a lot of higher level operations so these can be less-leaky abstractions.
So is complaining about it in a context where that claim is not being made. As your comment is top-level, I understand it to be addressed to the submitted article. There's no claim like that in the text of the post, nor is it filled with hyperbolic claims. It's pretty calm and lays out its argument pretty rationally.

If you bring this up metaphorically, it's not adding the the discussion, as this really requires more nuanced debate rather than general remarks.
Many other cultures (and even many of my relatives) frame the task of rearing children as means to better ensure for your own care towards the end of your life, rather than as a high-risk endeavor comparable to purchasing real estate.
Co-Q-10 in the a.m. -- either by itself or paired with melatonin at night -- is probably a better solution.
If that's the case, we're too far gone to save the Republic.

Do you think we'd have a better chance to save it in four years? or forty?

We've clearly been trending toward increased executive power since our founding. If it's too late now it'll be too late later.
I think the works on display there would benefit from a more appropriate environment.

Problem is that creating such environment for each individual piece, or set of pieces, is itself sort of an art. I've indeed seen paintings on a white background which was just way too much brightness to my liking, making it hard to focus on the work. I've also seen paintings on a black wall which made the entire thing look dull (possibly because of badly positioned spots as well). I've seen paintings for which background didn't seem to matter. I usually don't really like what churches look like but Caravaggio's stuff fits well in them, imo. I went to a small exhibition in a forest once which because of the style of the paintings made all kinds of sense. Etc.

Arguably the only one who can tell what the proper environment would be, is the original artist.
No movie from 2016 is in the top 10 revenue list? OK. Is it the expectation that this should happen every year?

And you can't discount franchises, kids movies, whatever. Tastes change. One decade people want high flying, heavy-action westerns. The next they want gritty, brooding introspective crime dramas. Then fantastic/sci-fi movies. Public tastes change, and you can see that all over the history of the cinema.

No doubt that consumption patterns have changed, almost assuredly due to the glut of options available at home + technological improvements that have improved the quality of home viewing. I think it not unreasonable to suggest that Hollywood is splintering between the theatre and the home theatre at this time. Measuring ticket sales is a pretty shallow & simplistic way to measure the health of huge entertainment conglomerates.
I'm really interested in the last part of the article where the file is store locally (with checks against space) for very large files and where only the diff is synced between the cloud and the local machine. That might work wonders for people that share large files constantly but it might also be a headache if you're trying to determine a diff for a binary file instead of something simple like ASCII text.
He elaborated a little: my understanding (at the time) was basically "Pokémon in real life".
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So we've started by focusing on improving the whole workflow, which is why we're operating at the source level. But we have occasionally heard the use case for working at the image level, and it has pros and cons, so we're thinking about it. I'd like to learn more about what you're trying to do -- did you consider just using Kubernetes Deployments and Services? Or are you saying you'd like to combine the on-demand start with working at the image level? Is this basically a resource optimization use case?