skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a voter---and I wont' say which way---and I'd like to have a conversation but I am afraid that if I express any views then this will happen:

1. I will be called a member of a neo-fascist party

2. People will say that I am a racist, sexist, bigot.

3. I will be fired from my job because I no longer fit the "company culture".

4. People will see me at a public workspace, and move away from me, and refuse to partner with me. Eventually I will be asked to leave because I am making people uncomfortable with my mere presence.

5. My acquaintances will shun me, and speak about me in whispers of "I didn't know he/she was like that..."

This is why I do not speak. I simply cast my vote, and move on.
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It would be great if it could lock the wheels for walking and climbing on uneven terrain
Realize the article is written by Andy Pasztor. If there is ever a negative SpaceX angle, he'll find it.

I'm not disputing the factual content of the article, nor do I have reason to believe he's paid off to do hit pieces, but it's important to realize he almost constantly has a chip on his shoulder with respect to SpaceX.

Another thing to keep in mind: SpaceX produces more liquid rocket engines than any other domestic provider by a VERY large margin.
Was just wrestling with mailing from node this week, and have seen reference to nodemailer. Reading his notice, it seemed like a nicer version of the itext pdf library license change. I completely understand the motivation behind both, but $800 is just out of my budget (and the budget of many of the projects I work on).

Slight rant - the itext license change was frustrating because we were using it on a project, and then the license change happened. The minimum price seems to be $2500, and I couldn't tell if it was per year or what. But to have it on a dev machine, and a test server too, drove the price up more - something close to $6000 IIRC (but it's been a while since I looked in to it).

I completely understand the motivation behind the pricing changes, and if it turns out that fewer people use it, but they pay... that still works out for most parties.

I'd encourage the nodemailer author to consider a couple other options - something under $500 for commercial usage, and a higher price point for some extra degree of support (1 business day turnaround time, etc?). As others have noted, a smaller amount is something I can float or simply absorb - larger amounts introduce hesitation, or pushback from clients on pricing (especially if it's a term/time license).
I don't see you actually arguing your point, beyond a heavy dose of pathos. The reason this kind of approach gets downvoted is that you're replacing any sort of argumentation by just trying to attack the issue on an emotional level, and a very manipulative one at that ("people who don't agree with me are uncritical hypocrites").

I don't know if it's terribly useful to argue which book is more relevant. There seems to be some truth in all of them, but then also a lot of assumptions and unfounded claims, and they all honestly feel very dated. I think I've seen a lot of the same ideas better expressed on blogs.

My preferred author is actually McLuhan. If we're going to talk about TV's, the internet, and social media, I think he covered that whole subject a lot better, and with a much more interesting point than "people suck": that technology can have effects we cannot predict, and that we're letting reality shape us as opposed to us shaping it. "We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us."

We're currently in a time where any sort of philosophy that implies large systemic effects that override will is rather unpalatable (talk about avoiding controversy) to most people, but that's not an assumption we can buy on faith if we want to talk about how and why things are.

The first thing that really needs to be proven in all these sorts of discussions is whether or not the development is somehow unique and extra-bad. I'm not convinced that the current state is so much worse (for whom?) than a time when certain minorities had to deal with more than having their toes stepped on. I really don't know what to do with that statement since the two things are very related. We were huge dicks to certain minorities for millennia. We're now trying to be considerate, and perhaps overdoing it. But what do you propose, not doing it? Maybe this avoiding stepping on toes is a sign of something else, something bigger, something older?

Or was that not the point? Unfortunately, you haven't clearly stated yours, you just quoted an author.

Yeah, people get offended. They get lazy. They live in ways that are not fashionable. When is somebody going to ask why? "People suck" is such a lazy (haha), boring answer, it's a nonanswer. People haven't magically changed, why do they "suck" all the time? Anyone want to answer that?

I don't think anyone wants to, since the answer is rather grim, and it doesn't have anything to do with minorities.
What happens to the economics when governments start charging some type of road tax on non-gas vehicles to replace gas taxes for road maintenance?
What you want to find is a predictable way to generate sales where the economics work.

1000x this.

Test on a per-channel basis, ie. marketing spend per customer acquisition, immediate customer value, (conservative) value over customer lifetime. Frankly anything but the initial sale is largely bullshit, but investors love it if you can show nice numbers here. At my first startup (China-wide multilingual hotel reservation platform) I had an angel work through this with me and come to the same conclusion I did: we'd tried pretty much everything, so customer acquisition was either going to be very slow organic or expensive and cashflow negative / capital intensive, save some kind of channel partnership deal.
I have used vim for years and I was tasked with making an Electron app for a client so I tried vscode... And I love it! I still use vim for sysadmin things but it has been the first thing Microsoft has made since the original Natural Keyboard that I absolutely love. It is good. I recommend it to others. I hate bloated editors and it is good... No config/setup process either - the defaults are enough!
I would imagine that Musk cares less because Telsa is already unable to meet demand, so bleeding off demand for a quarter or so will have less of an impact on its bottomline.

Additionally, the wealthy people who buy Teslas are more likely statistically speaking to be Trump supporters, or have a more nuanced view on politics because of their socioeconomic status.

We can't all distance ourselves from our long-time friends due to a single election vote.
So if you want to commit crime, you'd move to a neighborhood with a lot of criminals who will be likely to give you a pass?

Specializing the "peer" criteria seems to run big risks of having people judged by a group of peers who may all disagree with certain laws.
Well said. This smells like a hatchet piece put together by the gray hairs at StratCom who've continued to be incredulous that a private enterprise can put things in orbit and have hoped for SpaceX to fail from the outset.
Noise ordinances to the measure that the noise becomes really disruptive, as in, people can't sleep or function because of it. That is reasonable and regulating is happening only to the extent necessary to prevent this. If it was handled the way Vaping is handled in Australia, there would be blanket ban on music at public places, for example.

Vaping is primarily a nuisance to those that (correctly) learned to consider smoke (but also, unfortunately, whatever looks like smoke) as something negative, due to decades of anti-smoking campaigns. It looks like smoke so it's bound to be bad.

Anti-smoking campaigns and legislation exist not because smoking is a nuisance, but because it causes real health issues.

Perfume is not really regulated by legislation in public spaces (unless there is some edge-case that I'm missing), obviously it can be regulated internally, as part of a private work policy for example -the same way that dressing code does. Totally different matter.

Barbeque smoke, like any smoke, is harmful, so I don't think we should compare it either.

If vaping becomes a disturbance to the extent that it needs to be regulated, any regulating should be done completely independently of any superficial similarities to smoking, based solely on facts relevant to the actual disturbance.

The fact that most arguments I see are based on the possibility of unknown health effects -even though there is no evidence for such- and not on the fact that it is otherwise disturbing, to me indicates that it's no more disturbing than dozens of other things that are allowed in public places but nobody dares propose that they should be banned by law.
"Really likes", or "owns"/"runs"/"works for"?
I guess everything in perspective.

We're a pretty small country (approx 4.5mil), so bringing 100 people over to NZ would be like California committing to bring 800+ over.

And in terms of salaries, again perspective. A good dev will command a six figure salary easy, and a nice house in Wellington costs around $600,000. When you take cost of living into account, you'd be doing alright.

But hey, Middle Earth isn't for everyone :)
I beg to differ. While the presidency is determined by the electoral college, the popular vote is not meaningless.

A hypothetical president who won only 30% of the popular vote, while winning the electoral college, will be enacting policies that 70% of the electorate explicitly voted against.

Even with these numbers, a more moderate (and reasonable) president might still be able to mend the fences put up during the campaign trail. But with such a polarising president, the dissatisfaction amongst the populace will be even more pronounced. This is exactly what we're seeing now.
Israel GDP is $290.6B/yr, US Aid is 3.8B/yr. That is 1.3%.

Israel government spending is $64B/yr. US Aid of $3.8B/yr is 6%.

For comparison, if the US got relative aid like that it would be: $170B/yr. US military expenditures is only 598.5, so this would cover about 1/3rd of it.
Beyond the valid patent worries (Broadway.js uses Android code, which isn't cleared by the MPAA in the way the Cisco code is), I would be interested to have a proper comparison with jsmpeg in terms of FPS and battery use on mobile. I would assume there is a CPU cost associated with more complex decoding operations.

Edit: here is jsmpeg's author talking about it:

> There's been an experiment, called Broadway.js, which tries to decode H.264 in JavaScript. And there's some demos available, but I haven't been able to make this work consistently. It's very flaky. It tries to decode different stuff, and different threads And it barely works, if it works at all, so-- and you have to download, maybe, one megabyte of JavaScript for this. It's all part of EM script. [sic — emscripten?] And it's-- yeah, it's very complicated to get working, which is why the MPEG1 form of this is so nice for this, because it's so simple. And you end up with a decoder that's 30 kilobytes in size.

https://fronteers.nl/congres/2015/sessions/jsmpeg-by-dominic...
Since both of you assume that, we'll assume it's true for the moment. In that case, in order to scale their sales, they have to do it by an industry benchmark unless proven otherwise. The industry benchmark is about linear scaling of a sales force.

Actually, a more accurate calculation is much more complex. It's also almost impossible to figure out accurately unless they release certain data - which I guess they won't do.

Good luck with that!
This is no longer true in most of the USA (and many other countries) [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_long_tailpipe
This is kinda cool.

So, as you type into the bar, it adds what you're typing to the URL. And this is fine. But what isn't fine, is that the way they did this adds to your page history... for each and every character.

So, when I type "Things", and then decide to back out back to HN, I have to press back seven times.
Frank Su is a great teacher. I had him in ~2000 Teaching Game theory at Cornell, and I still remember the Math Fun Facts he used to start the class.
It does. The only things quirky about it: command mode "up" button doesn't know about the history of past commands... Sucky for iterating on a regex. Undo is also broken, but it took me 2 full months to notice that the vim plugin broke undo!
I agree but there really has been a lot of progress lately. Service Workers allowing offline, web notifications, and just today I read that Chrome webapp will appear in Android as if they are full apps.

The part I'm still concerned about is UI performance - it's still miles off native.
That depends greatly on the specific battery chemistry, the temperatures the battery is exposed to, the charge levels, the charge rates, etc. You can't just make a blanket statement like that.
06:00 - Alarm (wife is up at 5:40)

06:05 - Coffee. Check email/slack/rollbar/etc for anything urgent.

06:15 - Local news for weather/traffic, HN and national/world news check.

06:30 - Shave, shower

06:55 - Eat breakfast with my wife.

07:10 - We leave for work and I drop my wife off at her office.

I listen to my daily podcasts in the car. My drive to the local office is 15 minutes so on those days I finish my podcasts at my desk. The head office is 1 hour away, so I can finish them all on the drive.

I try to finish all communication tasks and all error/task/planning triage at the start of the day. The rest of the day is for coding and whatever meetings I have to attend. I try to break my coding into 1-1.5 hour chunks so that meetings don't hurt my flow as much. My calendar is pretty free since we are a small team and try to respect each other's time.

Lunch time (other than time spent eating) is spent either in meetings or in meditation/on a walk.

Back home at 5:30 after picking my wife up and we fix and eat dinner together. We'll both do some work in the evenings if we need to, but not every night. Usually just enough to finish off what was in progress at the end of the day.

We are in bed by 9:00, reading until lights out at 10.

For me the set schedule helps me transition my mental mode between work and family times. And since we usually commute together, my wife and I are on the same schedule. It helps keep us from being in 2 different modes at the same time.
Buy a Teensy 3.x and a pedal adapter kit.
Pish posh.

HN mods regularly violate their own guidelines, play favorites, and outright ban views they find unsettling.
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It's good to have someone who's skeptical and willing to travel beyond the spacex fever the tech press is infected with to report on things with a critical eye. This seems like a totally valid article, and as long as the facts are correct as reported it doesn't really matter who the author is.
> They make a modest living renting out and managing the properties handed down through the generations and have to be frugal to make it work.

Those rich real estate owners are not frugal because they need to. They are frugal because they are smart. Don't judge their wealth before seeing their tax haven bank accounts.
According to the Forbes story [1][2] on WhatsApp's beginnings, the founders didn't focus on marketing. The app's features alone sold it plenty -- and the fact that the app was sold for real money helped them pay the bills. Furthermore, they intentionally limited the product's early memberbase to avoid scaling too fast for their resources. In other words, if the story is to be believed, they ran a pretty tight shop.

I'd imagine that someone like Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, etc, who makes the product at available $0 and has to devise a monetization scheme later will need to employ a fair amount of "soft skills" staff who can forge relationships with, say, advertisers, and gobs of staff to work on features, stability, capacity to achieve a point where their platforms attract and retain eyeballs. These are the sort of companies where an injection of VC money to rapidly scale is beneficial such that the product can achieve monetizable critical mass, to fill out the part between "2. ???" and "3. PROFIT!"

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2014/02/19/exclusive-...

[2] without paywall: https://www.quora.com/How-was-WhatsApp-built
If "support" means statistics, then no, there is no valid support. All I can offer is logic. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_revenue_productivity_...

Is this (https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_principles-of-economics-...) hard to understand?

Or maybe you want something more rigorous: https://mises.org/library/theory-idle-resources-0
Another less know but really promising approach is program synthesis (also called "program generation"). One can build fairly robust model just using 2-5 examples and that too in just seconds. Implementation of this approach is already shipped in to Excel where you just enter few example of formatting and "Flash Fill" will learn what to do: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/sumitg/flashfi...

Paper: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/sumitg/pubs/ca...
Writing Code:

if (migration_complete) {
write_new_data_model();
} else if (migration_in_progress) {
write_old_data_model();
write_new_data_model();
} else {
write_old_data_model();
}

Reading Code:

if (migration_complete) {
read_new_data_model();
} else {
read_old_data_model();
}

The `migration_in_progress` feature flag is flipped first, then the migration jobs run to backfill the new data model from the old data model, then the `migration_complete` flag is flipped. As many times as necessary, `migration_in_progress` can be flipped to off at any time and the new data model can be blown away and new writing code deployed. If there's no confidence in the code for reading the new data model, then a certain percentage of requests/users can be directed to read from the new data model while double-writing continues.
That describes everyone who is from old money. Those who aren't frugal and cost conscious see wealth exit their family within a few generations.
It's well established in multiple threads that people downvote and flag views they find unacceptable and has nothing to do with guidelines.
I can't imagine people would put up with that. People buy new smartphones every few years, but they expect their cars to last decades. The average age of cars on American roads is 11.5 years. If you try to convince people to accept a sharp reduction in car lifetime, it had better come with a sharp reduction in price, or people won't buy it.
https://storage.googleapis.com/is-now-illegal.appspot.com/gi...
Or, you know, automakers can see their wealth destroyed like every other industry that is made more efficient through technology
Interesting. Can I ask was it familiarity with segment-appropriate marketing channels, segment trends, consumer terminology, competitor product weaknesses and pricing structures, something else, or some combination of the above?
You misunderstood. :-) Yes, gamers are above market share for Windows 10 because they care. They want the newest, the best.
I have never heard of that, but I will share one thing I like about it as an IDE (and historically I have hated IDEs and used vim)... No config. Open a "folder", no project setup bullshit, and it remembers your work-state for each project/folder you open... And best part: autocomplete! But it is not heavy and slow. It does autocomplete per-file. So it does not need to analyse my entire project codebase, it just sees I used a word before and lets me tab to complete. So nice.
We need to have energy at night. With enough storage capability, you don't have to produce it at night.
Wasn't NASA's record with the space shuttle more like 1 in 2.5 fatalities per flight? 14 fatalities in 135 launches?

Must have been good enough for government work.
I think we're really starting to see the saturation point with native apps, particularly on phones. I am so sick of having to install yet another mobile app, for something that basically shows me a bunch of text, pics, and like buttons. 90% of these shouldn't exist. There is a time and place for it, but I think there is going to be a shift to the web app with more OS integration stuff.
I don't understand. What has Trump done during his presidency that calls for such outrage?

Temporarily closing the border to foreigners may hurt the economy. It may hurt the US status abroad. It may even frighten people because we all know what closing the borders usually is a prelude to.

However it will not destroy America. It does not automatically make the US a fascist state.

My view is that the US, the UK, France, and Germany are entering a period where they will draw back from international affairs and focus on domestic policy. This isolationism in the US already reminds me of existing protectionism, and pro-homeland sentiment in Europe.
Mine is fairly simple: an UPDATE without a WHERE clause on a table tracking Other People's Money. Except that was how we discovered that backups weren't working...

Really posting to share one that happened to me, though:

At a previous job, my PostgreSQL clusters were on metal (blades; not my choice, but I wasn't given one). We were in the process of replacing the SSDs in the blades, both for capacity and performance. We'd, if I remember correctly, replaced one set (the replica, I think, so we could fail over to it and then upgrade the master).

The lead sysadmin decided this represented a golden opportunity to get a side-by-side performance analysis of the new and old drives. (I'll leave aside for the moment the fact that he never said anything about doing this to me, which, you know...)

So he ran fio. In read-write mode. Against the block device, not the filesystem.

And he did that on the primary, replica, and performance test (so, identical to prod) machines at the same time.

About 20 minutes later, one of the developers, who was investigating some other issue, reported seeing "strange errors" in his psql session. I looked at the logs, and everything got very, very still for a moment...

We ended up having to rebuild the machines and restore from the previous night's backups (taken 14h prior), troll the Rails logs to find the affected orders, and refund them. I did finally get the large box for WAL archiving I'd long been lobbying for out of the deal, too, so that was nice.
Some sort of medical incapacitation?
This goes completely contrary to your original comment.

Your growth hack/shortcut was in the end, to poach a sales guy from a competitor who had clout with a bunch of customers in your field.
> when service workers and PWA's became mainstream, and also the new rendering techniques from servo are integrated into gecko

If service workers were invented, PWAs were a thing, or Servo had been built, Mozilla's actions around Firefox OS would probably have been much different.

What really killed Firefox OS was the lack of ecosystem. VP of Apps Rick Fant put all the emphasis on apps for Firefox OS instead of Firefox for Android. Firefox OS could run any app built for F4A, but not the other way around. Why would I, as an engineer, write an app for a device that I can hardly get my hands on, running an operating system almost nobody uses, with customers who (in many cases) don't want to pay $0.99 for an app, using APIs that don't work on anything else, and translate it to a language you don't speak? There were millions of F4A users at the time, and Mozilla made no effort to get folks to build for it at all. A real shame.
Makes me wonder how old the creators are. This is kindergarten behavior.
While Tesla finances and maintains road tunnels for Tesla owners to drive in.
Ugh. Handled. Thanks