skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Following Trump doesn't put $ in Twitter's coffers.

Twitter is bloated and still doesn't know how to truly monetize their product. Wall Street has been floating it on potential for a while now.
I agree that the original claims can't be taken as absolute truth either without further proof.

The claim of paid protest only happens to be more suspect because of Trump's recent pattern of writing off dissent as inauthentic when in aggregate it's clearly grassroots and sincere. The link between Musk and Trump reinforces this, but it may be only a coincidence. It's context worth noting but it's not absolute proof that Musk is lying.
Hello from Barcelona!

I understand that Barcelona is a much bigger city with an even bigger tech community but given that we catalans are incredibly closed when it comes to our circles of friends I think I can share a couple of things that are working out here.

- We have a Slack for tech people in the city. This is really bringing the community together, even when the used techs are different. We used to have (and still) different slacks by tech / meetup community etc but we are slowly bringing them together.

- Some of the events/meetups allow people to have 1min presentations on what they do/need etc. Because most of the events involve beer in the end (not only the techie ones!) these 1min intros serve as a good excuse to break the ice when the beer time comes. It's way easier to start a convo with a stranger if you have this 1min of info than if you've got nothing. "Heyyy!! So you are doing a drone that brings medicines to old people, this is great I've been working on a drone that..." You get what I mean.

- It is incredibly important that the "drinks/networking" take part on the same place where the events are held.

I think people is shy in general in these types of events, especially techies, but obviously have a lot to talk about and share, so I think we just need to find ways of sparking conversations.
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You aren't really refuting the parent comment's point that Microsoft has not been revived. You're just arguing that Microsoft's descent is good for society overall. While I agree, the parent just argued that Microsoft hadn't been revived.
Or you can do it on the client side by hooking into the module loader and decompiling the wasm back into asm.js. See for example the

https://github.com/lukewagner/polyfill-prototype-1

PoC mentioned in the wasm FAQ.
I feel the same way. Location is a lifestyle choice, one among many, whereas the market value of a widget that I make has little relation to where I make it. Should an employee's salary be lower if she makes the lifestyle choice to buy clothes at thrift stores and drive a 20-yo car? Higher if every meal is at a restaurant?

Edit:typo
What if standard http module to be replace with this in express? Is it going to work?
> He's way too young for this attitude

I've always found these kind of comments unusual. How old is old enough? For me this usually came off as arrogant.

> the feeling of being superior is a common problem for all types of skills if you're young

I know plenty of people who still have that exhibit that sort of behavior in pretty much every age bracket. Arrogance doesn't correlate to age. It's kind of arrogant to say "You cant think that way, you're too young" too.
Even assuming that all of this increased spending is enabled by easier access to capital (through federal debt, as you say), it doesn't really answer the problem. The incentive to lower the cost should still be there.

Suppose before introducing government loans, university education costed ~$X/year on average. The government puts additional $Y/year on the table, so (putting the issue of repayment aside) now people can afford to spend $(X+Y)/year. Why then the colleges that can provide the service for $X increase the price to $(X+Y), when they could have kept the price, so that customers choosing them would only pay $(X-Y) out of pocket? Market should clearly favor the service providers who did that, so why doesn't it?

Rebar now costs something like $600/ton. Suppose government gave direct subsidy for rebar used in building construction of $300/ton. Would it increase the rebar price to $900/ton? I don't think so -- the companies that continue to charge $600 would clearly undercut the companies that try to charge $900. Of course, there are some secondary effects, like the increase of demand for rebar as a result of the subsidy, which could probably increase the price a bit if the supply is limited, but there would still be incentive to drive the cost down (at least until the subsidy cover the whole price).
Smoking a joint isn't illegal. Possession without licence is.
The education system prioritizes that all students have a baseline knowledge above all else. It's not the goal to incentivize high achievers using a hard scoring system, because this'll prevent the success of others who aren't good in educational settings - and there is a group of people who are incredible programmers, but lack the skills to get good grades.

If you're really good, you have remarkably good grades and do interesting projects in your spare time.
w.r.t. your understanding of unfair:
Don't compare yourself to fellow students, because they are by definition average.
If you want to profit from your advantage: do stuff, get connected with great minds, build projects. This will get you years ahead of your fellow students who are busy passing the exams. What about this incredibly unfair advantage? ;)
They really do need to do this. Any embedded tweets for Trump/about Trump should automatically have an ad underneath them. They've never had more eye balls on their tweets than now and they should capitalize on that.
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Firstly: this is just overall a ridiculously incorrect comment.

Second: the 30x return discussed was back in 2008-2009. The flash crash you are talking about happened in 2010. Also the SPY moved down like -10% during the crash. Bro, come on.
Yes and no. Most H1B's are stuck on that visa for a long time [more than 6 years] because they are waiting for their green card. Because green card is restricted by country, folks from India/China/Mexico have to wait much much longer to get a green card. If you change company when your green card is being processed, the whole process will have to restart. So most people just stick to their company and wait it out.
Whats wrong with this?
+Prolog
But to get to mythical status he needs mystery. We know too much about the men. There is just too much written down about these guys for thor-like myths to develop. Napolion had "the king's touch" ... probably the last supernational power attributed to a leader of a western nation.
True, I guess it's seemed cheap to me because I store relatively little data on Tarsnap. (In fact, I don't think I've added any funds to my Tarsnap account in like 2 years.) If you're dealing with larger quantities of data I could see how other options would be the way to go.
Trump and Twitter are in many ways inseparable and at least tangentially relevant to the article. It's unique that a sitting president would utilize a social platform so prominently, that so many people would have the opportunity to engage with him directly. It's argued that Trump's uptick in Twitter usage has raised its overall visibility as well.

So, it's not unfair to bring him up. It's also not inherently political to do so.
Fine, then substitute Kayne instead.
Yes, exactly. There are developers who can create code that works, that looks fine, that works for a certain context; however that context is completely separate from reality.

Conceptual damage to an application is a lot harder to fix than the damage of 'ugly' code. You spend years fully recovering from fundamental flaws in the concepts of your application.
> Stuff like food and electronics has dropped in price thanks to a combination of automation, exporting the work to cheaper countries, and technology improvements. The same things haven't happened to education and health care.

This explains why health care, education, etc. have increased in cost relative to consumer goods. It does not explain why those things have increased by an order of magnitude relative to wages, rather than staying constant relative to wages. And obvious explanations for the increase are false: these are all labour-intensive services, yet their cost has increased tenfold without increasing wages to workers, and in the face of increasing productivity of workers. None of the other raw materials required by these services (real estate, energy, tools, consumables) show price increases that explain the magnitude of cost increase. What objective evidence exists indicates that the quality of service has not increased substantially. So where is that extra share of my income going?
I'm no scholar of Ovid, but even in your interpretation, the actions under consideration aren't seen as particularly defensible in and of themselves. Rather, they're acceptable when viewed from a certain perspective. Probably most actions are like that, but the pride evinced in this dictum should be reserved for actions that are self-evidently ethical, rather than relatively so.
No, but they're generally less susceptible to the more transparent forms of marketing.
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I think more people should look into Clojurescript with it's advanced optimizations which I believe could help achieve the goal of "shipping less javascript".
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of course, it's barely growing.
>has basically zero options with which to pursue his interests in a controlled environment

No way, he could easily get his own lab in AWS and probably for not much cost since he is in Uni. Hell, buying used stuff from ebay or some other auction site and hacking those for legitimate research would also be a path. Medical devices are probably low effort, high reward.

I definitely get where he's coming from with not having peers interested in security. Message boards and chats only do so much, but there's ample knowledge out there to build a plan for how you want your life to go from this upbringing. Going to a few conventions (even alone) would probably do wonders for him in terms of making connections but those can be expensive.
The best current real-world example to look at would be Apple's Interface Builder for iOS. Why doesn't everyone use IB?

The biggest reasons in my experience are:

* Limited logic. A builder is fine for a simple static layout. How should that layout change depending on the data to be displayed? How should it adapt to different screen dimensions and orientations? Pretty soon you want to write code to control the view.

* Doesn't play well with source control. Even if the GUI builder spits out a text-based format like XML, it's hard to read and understand diffs, and it can be difficult to impossible to merge.

Why don't use tools to make writing HTML/CSS less boilerplate? To some extent we do. We have CSS preprocessors and HTML templating.

In the end, the front end is just code, and no one has yet come up with a graphical form of coding that is superior to text.
Or it could have gone the other way, and the pom-pom anenomes divergently evolved under pressure the only survivors were the ones that continued to divide well under the crab provided environmental conditions.
Probably multiple in New Orleans during Katrina. Of course, that was more than just a power outage, with flooding water destroying backup generators, more critical needs patients than non-evacuated staff remaining to support them, multiple days for support to arrive, etc.
Go will be the server language of the future
Of course you would get UBI while on strike. That's the "universal" right there.

It's not a particular change in Finland, though. There are comparatively many strikes in the country, many of them illegal (or, to be precise, breaking collectively bargained contract that is valid applicable law). This is partly due to the fact that unions can raise money tax-free and pay to striking employees tax-free.
Caps Lock is one key, easier to type, and even more rarely used, though. I highly recommend it. =)
If you're going to get transparency from a company, Buffer's gonna be it. Their Baremetrics install is publicly available. Their salaries are published on their website. They run on a "radically open" platform of management.
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Complaining about downvoting is explicitly against the guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'm surprised it's not explicit in the guidelines but HN has a strong tradition of staying on topic compared to some other message boards. It wasn't me who downvoted but while it's perfectly in line for you to notice your town, it doesn't add anything to the topic for you to point it out.
This is not front running (which is illegal). It's trying to be faster than people who trade manually based on the same info. The term front running has a pretty clear definition, it's roughly when a broker trades on your orders before executing them.
As both a hockey and baseball fan this rule seems to me a much better compromise than the NHL's system of ending a game by shootout if the 5-minute 3-man-a-side overtime fails to result in a goal.

The spirit of the game is very much preserved as all factors in scoring a run (both defensive and offensive strategy) are still in play, whereas in hockey it artificially pits the goalie against the shooter, which only happens rarely during the actual game.
>HN folks, does every post about Twitter need to be made about the president

The only regular exposure I have to Twitter comes from seeing articles and/or social media posts about Donald Trump's tweets.
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Ask HN: How did you get the first pilot/POC/sale of your enterprise software?
First of all, talk to a lawyer if you have legal concerns. HN is not the right place to take advice about legal issues.

Second, I would explore the idea of working part-time. Last April I switched jobs and now work part-time at one company while having two days a week to work on my own software. I make enough money at my part-time job to give myself infinite runway (my personal expenses are low, I have health insurance through that job, and I'm still contributing to retirement/savings which is important to not overlook). In my opinion, this is a much better option than going freelance, as you only have to context switch between two projects and you always know you have a paycheck coming in the door.
I can do it by literally typing in the terminal: "touch file.min.js", or fill it with content:
"cat somefile.js | uglify > file.js"
That's why the needed security measures need to be in place.

Using a hardware wallet like Ledger rules that scenario out.
I work at buffer. Some slight perspective. From all my interactions with Joel, I could describe him as soft spoken and very sensitive towards people around him. For him Leo and Sunil really did cross the boundaries of being simply coo and CTO. They have all been extremely close friends. For him this blog post probably isn't just a public announcement. It cements in the fact that it's actually happening. The transition period is closing off. His close friends whose advice he could always rely on are no longer there and that weight of being responsible for close to 80 people suddenly feels a lot heavier on him. I totally understand where you are coming from. All I'd like to pass on is the thought that it's not just numbers and back to a great Friday for him (or any of us). He's human too. And we humans need some space to take in and deal with complex emotions. That's kind of the bigger feel to what this blog post is about :). Cheers!
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What is the use case for this? When would I need to programmatically create a blank html file?
The difference is he has a personality disorder, extreme narcissism, that verges into sociopathy. If such an individual gets hold of a position of power, they can ruthlessly "split" the people around them, and exert greater than proportional influence. Whether this meets a technical description of fascism or not, it puts him in a category with authoritarian despots, who rule with no regard for the welfare of anyone besides themselves.
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I've been at a startup when a high-level executive/cofounder abruptly left with nothing but a short and vague email, and it was very unsettling to me and immediately made me worry about the long-term health of the company and whether or not there was hidden infighting at the top.

I think I would've felt a bit more comfortable with this sort of transparency, although I agree that ultimately it's still fairly vague and feels a bit rambling. I think most likely Buffer is just beginning a slow decline that will be drawn out for several years leading to either more downsizing or eventual death, and the two cofounders who left decided to get out now rather than ride that out. I don't see a major company acquiring Buffer's 100% remote team, but I could be wrong.
Instant gratification is correlated with lower scores on intelligence tests
Serverless file uploads
The purpose of markets is taking risk. Any participant whose intention is not to take risk is a parasite

Like many things in life, there are complete bullshit situations where some people get a better deal than others simply due to some arcanery. Are doctors in America 4x better than European ones, or are residency spots artificially restricted to keep salaries high?

The world has less and less parasites every day because technology allows us to see them for what they really are. This is just one of the many
> The middle 50 percent of Electricians earn between $17.00 and $29.88 per hour, for an average annual income ranging between $35,360 and $62,150.20.

...that's a living, but it's not "damn good money" or "only limited by the amount of work you are willing to do". It's not even very competitive with entry-level salaries for IT jobs. It's competitive with "support" roles in those organizations. Like admins, entry-level HR jobs, etc.

That being said, I have a lot of respect for people with "dirty jobs" (my family and I have had them myself), and likewise, I have a lot of respect for Mike Rowe and his message. I'd be very happy if there were a newfound respect for those roles.

...but the money, work conditions, and career advancement prospects are certainly better for STEM degrees.
Yep. Non-quorum members can even simply terminate existing connections and refuse new connections from clients, so clients are always either connected to a quorum node or not connected at all (CP, no A)
Twitter is so powerful. When Paul Graham wants to say something, he takes to Twitter to do it. Not Facebook. Not Hacker News. Not reddit.

The same goes for many of the most influential people in the world.

Twitter has incredible utility for powerful people but very limited utility for average people. Maybe the exact opposite of facebook. On Facebook, my friends interact with me. On twitter, I speak into the void.
If i recall correctly (from what I read at the time) he hid either the existence of Surface RT or the SOC it was running from the team that was porting Office to ARM. So they had to ship an unfinished version of Office (that required multiple steps and different interfaces to update to final. Which no reviewer or early user bothered with) with it.
But hey on the bright side emulators for GBA and GBC are seemingly perfect and run on anything. If someone makes a Gameboy advance micro clone for emulators that is decent I would buy that in a heartbeat.
I don't know if it's a game or a social experience
>people in general will say and believe a lot of stupid stuff if it helps their team

It's all about "Motivated Reasoning," a term I learned from Jonathan Haidt.

For things we want to do, we ask ourselves, "how can I?"

For things we don't want to do, we ask, "must I?"

Since I've learned this, about 95% of discussion has been reduced for me. It doesn't make things easier though. It's hard for me to take that so many people are operating in such a biased way.

And it's even harder because it means really thinking through concepts like fairness, immigration, sexism, etc. These are not easy to reason about. And it takes a lot of time.
That is total nonsense. As an Indian, I can assure you that the bias is usually other way around. Of course, I have no data to prove. A more accurate way to look at why Indians are all over the place in technical companies is to go look at different engineering courses in American Universities. Indians/Chinese usually make up 50% or more of any grad class in most Universities.
>all the statute cares about is whether authorization existed or not.

No, that's not all the CFAA cares about.

>(a)(2)(C) Whoever intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access, and thereby obtains information from any protected computer;

Thus my confusion. Why present the case as "without authorization" (based on the TOS) in the first place, when "exceed[ing] authorized access" (based on the C&D) seems like a much lower bar to clear and is less likely to provoke nonprofits complaining about precedent?

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030#a_2
Regarding your first point. 360M is about half of their quarterly revenue. If they aren't able to survive with that amount, how would they survive with 360M a year.
Humans are animals, even if they're not particularly good at it.
Oh, yea. P6, Rebol, Red...any lisp with a little work.
So for this, some people just want other ways to do things. So I created them. This isn't full fledged yet. It is still in development and many more updates are to come.
It's just sad to see that he's already so negative about his options. My comment wasn't about how old one has to be to justify his negativism, I'm sorry if it came across as such. I can relate to his feelings and it makes me sad, this is all I meant with this sentence.
"...centering an object horizontally and vertically consistently is still a surprisingly difficult endeavor..." This is so true - even today. Oh wait, someone might state, "but there are frameworks you can simply integrate and they handle that kind of stuff for you, or at least make it easier"...To which I reply, do i really have to include ~500K - 1MB of some framework for this!?! Just silly that centering is an annoying task nowadays.
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