skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not true: https://qz.com/761219/in-44-days-the-us-will-no-longer-overs...

The entire overview of the decision is in the article. Essentially, one piece of how the Internet was managed was handed over from the U.S to ICANN. The reason is fairly straightforward; the federal gov did not feel the need to manage this thing for which there was no need for them to manage it.
Lindy Beige on YouTube discusses the size of military units and how it relates to that. Platoons have 30 men (with smaller squads), a Company 100 men or so but not over 150 for the same reasons.
Political correctness isn't language control... attacking it is!!
Could you spend a couple of minutes to describe the advantages of Airtable over Fieldbook or Ragic? I've been gripped by indecision regarding which tool to use, and hence use none of them.
Let's hope they can be profitable and not be like twitter.

From the article:

"MuleSoft reports a $50 million net loss on $188 million in revenue for 2016, compared to a $65 million net loss on $110 million in 2015 revenue. It raised over $250 million in total venture capital funding, from firms like Lightspeed Venture Partners, Hummer Winblad, NEA, Sapphire Ventures, Bay Partners, Morgenthaler, Meritech Capital and Salesforce Ventures."

Growth at the expense of revenue can work I'm not saying that it doesn't, but, now the IPO provides VCs a way to exit, thereby leaving a company that hasn't made any money and retail investors, as chumps, to buy up the shares.
If you read the comments below the article, the reason CPS was called was because someone recognised the couple from an earlier case. In 2015, they both were apparently arrested after blowing up a shed in their backyard while attempting to make "honey oil" (hash oil made using a solvent, typically butane or propane). Dome's kids (at the time) were taken away by CPS after the incident. Both Dome and her (now) baby-daddy were arrested, along with some other person.
A while back I made this prompted by a question in Stack Overflow: http://codepen.io/garciahurtado/pen/AGEsf

It is a less refined version of the techniques in the article, the approach is different in that it uses post-processing to provide the line thickness.
It happens, but I've also experienced the stream playing flawlessly for the first 30s and then severe buffering for the remainder of the video, or the ad buffering and the video not. Network conditions change and buffering happens, but i haven't seen a consistent trend where the content is worse than the ad, like i have on so many other video players.
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Among everything else, Orwell is a master of English. This can be hard to see because his mastery never calls attention to itself. His focus is always the point.
What's wrong with Ted Danson? (genuinely curious; all I remember about him is his role on Cheers)
I suspect $200 million could fund a great deal of life support.
OMG: angry india women removed her clothes in police station
Unilever rejects Kraft Heinz $143bn(£115bn) merger offer
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True. A slightly different flavor of USSR, but basically the same.
Only two hundred thousand thousand dollars? Yes you can't possibly run a business on that.
Then you'll love BSON :p ( Binary JSON)
Any advice on how to find these types of clients?
Excellent analysis. Completely agree.

I have never seen a piece complaining about the usage in "insurgent" vs. "rebel" when the news speaks of foreign affairs, but that is a perfect example of newspeak.

Instead, we speak of newspeak because the new president doesn't like "politically correct" speech.

What?
This sort of question is itself poor history. We cannot cleanly use today's popular cultural boundaries like "europe" and "arab world" to describe people 600 years ago. The assumption that we can bake all european nations into one civilization that has coherent and universal cause-effect relationships is not really solid.
Hey, I didn't even get into the dissonance between "Everyone will be reasonable" but then "Do not be offended if someone suggests you are not being reasonable."
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just saw some people offering only 5% equity to build out there project. That juts seems awful low that all.
This is such a strangely sparse comment. Can you say something about why you recommend this article?
Edit: ok, you don't like that Orwell article?—we got others. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13672556.

> Orwell is great. This article is questionable.

Probably true, but it's an excuse to talk about Orwell and most commenters here are doing a great job of that. How about we keep it up and not take the bait? That would be breaking new ground on the internet.
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Yea at my work we have some legacy solutions that depend on libraries that were built with the 2010 compiler but the source is not available and the library shares stl containers on the boundaries. Therefore we're forced to create wrapper libraries that encapsulate the 2010lib and use things like char* ptrs instead of strings on the library API. Those wrapper libraries need to use the 2010 compiler and then we can add those libraries to our modern solutions without having mismatched definitions of stl containers.
Regardless of who the actors are, this is classical Fair Use. The reason you don't see the opposite very often (major media company's materials being used in a Fair Use manner) is that company's lawyers are smart enough to see it's Fair Use, and that their case would be thrown out of court almost immediately.
You forgot to include the probability that any given mutation occurs in a cell where such mutation can be observed to produce a beneficial effect.

If one cell in your body mutates such that it might protect your lungs against damage from smoke inhalation, it won't do you any good (nor ill, probably) if that cell is in your toenail matrix.

Nor do all cells in the body divide at a uniform rate.

I would guess that the one type of cell most likely to show an effect from non-germline mutation are the hematopoietic stem cells. They produce all types of blood cell, are self-renewing, and blood cells touch every other part of the body. But they are also only 1/10000th of all myeloid cells. There may be only 10^6 HSCs in one body

Your reference [1] only included the abstract: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248399628_An_estima...

Also, 10000 generations of ancestors is not 10^4 fertilized eggs. Most people have two parents. 0 generations of ancestors is 1 fertilized egg. 1 generation is 3. 2 generations is 7. 3 generations is 15. The upper limit on N generations is 2^(N+1)-1 fertilized eggs. For 10000 generations, that is 4e3010 cells. Though the number of individuals in the species eventually limits that number, as multiple inheritance causes some of your ancestors to be counted more than once. The lower limit would be the degenerate case where all 10000 generations were siblings that had at least one son and one daughter, and that is 2e4. So quite a lot of room for variability in there.
I take a slightly different view of it, with mostly the same conclusion. When something seems to require people be able to identify and self-regulate some of the baser elements of human psychology, it's unlikely to to work in practice. I contend that even the most reasonable and rational person will have periods where they enter a state of unreasonableness and/or irrationality that is impossible to identify while within said period.
It's a shame you got downvotes for a polite, friendly, question. (I upvoted you but it doesn't seem to have made much difference).

In the cache the author says:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sclient=psy-ab...

> Back in 1998, the Gameboy camera got the world record as “smallest digital camera” in the Guinness book of records. An accessory you could buy was the small printer you could use to print your images. When I was 10 years old we had one of these cameras at home and used it a lot. Although we did not have the printer, taking pictures, editing them, and playing minigames was a lot of fun. Unfortunately, I could not find my old camera (no colored young Roland pictures, unfortunately), but I did buy a new one so I could test my application.
Including, incidentally, in the (invalid by its own description) example, function decorators and the format method on strings, which were both present in Python 2.
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I'm curious, have you ever been mailed a rotting dead rat in a plastic bag before?

Some people have legitimate reasons to not want to be found and the police aren't going to do much with that kind of harassment either.

Similarly, if there is legitimate evidence a "crime" was committed via the website they can seize the domain or the registrar can. "Anonymous DNS" information doesn't get you very far if there is a legitimate court case.
How about a wager?

My first wager is that you're not in a position to know if it's being discussed.

My second wager is that it happens. For starters I'll bet you $100 with 40:1 odds that it does happen. Happen defined as "Both parties announce intentions to merger/acquire within 6 months from today."
Probably it's just to provide a clean-feeling workspace. It's nice to start a day and the coffee machine is clean and the trash bins are empty - especially the latter is important, given that food waste etc. can quickly develop a nasty smell.
Note that GGS is not actually held in high regard by academic historians. Its pop history.
That was the book he talked about having sacrificed his art to write.
"Just 200m"! These guys and the VC s are operating in a different realm from any bootstrapped company that don't aim to "exit". This makes me think that sadly bootstrapping high tech in the silicon valley is nearly impossible in this century.
The text is worse than that, it says "expect everyone to be reasonable", not "everyone within a group". In a group of have shared interests and shared needs, but leadership is different, it responds to different social pressure. If leadership is dysfunctional you have a problem, and no amount of kumbaya is going to help.
Yeah, Microsoft's macro assembler (MASM) is still quite popular in some circles.

... okay, most of those circles are probably people writing cracks and game cheats.
I'll admit I haven't actually been to Northern Europe, but if you're talking about places like Copenhagen, my understanding is that the climate there isn't that much different from, say, Seattle. It's not warm like Italy of course, but it's not a tundra like Minnesota. The southern Scandinavian cities of Malmo and Oslo are not like the northern reaches of their respective countries, which truly are cold.

And as a cyclist myself, I seriously question how you can claim it to be feasible to bike all winter, in -40 temperatures no less, no matter how you're dressed. I get serious wind-chill problems on my face, head, and hands as soon as the temperature drops below freezing, and that's with a skull-cap covering my ears and some cycling gloves. I do have heavy winter gear I can wear when the weather's cold, but there's no way in hell I can shift the gears on my bike with heavy ski gloves on, and ski pants would probably cause me to wreck. Furthermore, I'm still young enough to not have circulation problems; try telling some 70-year-old to go cycling in -40 temperatures with wind blowing.
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I'd say you just exemplified the problem. While you view the election as proof of unreasonableness of half the voters, I see your outright dismissal as a clear inability to see an opposing view and hence unreasonable.
This is probably the most enlightening comment I've read all day. I've been looking for a suitable explanation for this trend, and here it is.
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Another one https://github.com/candid82/joker
Giphy launches library of more than 2,000 GIFs to teach you sign language
That's too many fars.
So this is locked up in "secret sauce". But as a hint, the analog aspect can be exploited.
The actual number is a bit higher than 150 (290 according to Bernard-Killworth [1]), but the real cost is all the social grooming required to hold a large leaderless group together becomes an increasing drag on the organisation's efficiency.

The ideal leaderless company size is going to be a function of the efficiency gained by having increased specialisation (each person can focus on fewer things) against the cost of social grooming. Having a hierarchical structure allows the cost of social grooming to be constrained vertically rather than across the whole company.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number
I am not a fan of the new administration, FTC, CFPB, or even FDIC, but all regulations have disparate impacts on banks depending on their size and structure. The large banks have benefited from recent complicated and nebulous regulations with high compliance costs. Re-regulation is why the too-big-to-fail banks have gotten bigger. Deregulation would benefit smaller banks, and harm the larger ones.
Yeah, especially in dense, expensive areas such as SV, Munich or Berlin (exception: you're happy to work in a nasty area of town where space is cheap but there's waste, drugs and other unpleasant stuff everywhere), money is a massive issue.

Basically you trade off a quick way to work with quality-of-working.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Menzies#1421:_The_Year_C...

I'd never heard of this book (or theory before) but its Wikipedia page has lots of criticisms and claims that the book is basically nonsense (having said that, many of the references are to a site called 1421exposed.com so...¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ). The Wikipedia article about Zheng He's voyages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_voyages#Seventh_voyag...) has substantially better references and makes no claims (even speculations) that he ever traveled to the New World.

Let's just admit that if such a voyage did in fact take place, it did not make anywhere near the impact as in Europe.
I think Google can learn something from Microsoft here: [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGFogwcx-E
> which was covered above

I don't really see how the backpointer thing could work, I find that it too will be limited, but I'm probably just wrong here.

> What I'm talking about is doing it within the language and automatically.

Once the language is verified, more user-friendly abstractions over the verification can be built.
Three Qualities Nordic Founders Lack
It still happens with friends that you've known for a long time.

Some people become very successful and it becomes harder to relate to their 'high school pals'.
>I said, it's a belief, I don't have any proof just as no one has proof there is.

Does it not seem statistically improbable that in the entire universe, life only occurred once?

Personally I think if I believed that, I'd have to accept a creator deity of some kind as well.
I bless whoever hides those substantive titles in the URLs.
I'm sorry for the employees that lost their jobs because of the shady practices from management. Other than that, I hope they close doors soon. Putting people at risk for the sake of making a few bucks has no justification.
'Reasonable' doesn't mean relaxed or even nice. It means being guided by reason, ie the application of logic to available evidence. Socrates was a reasonable person, and his insistence on being so made him a lot of enemies.

It might be worthwhile to define this up front; this worthy advice seems to rest on an implicit understanding of 'reasonable' as meaning 'considerate' or 'not rocking the boat.'
I had never heard the term before; after looking it up on Wikipedia, I have never heard of any of the software packages listed. I don't know what I would do with such a tool. If I'd ever needed one, I imagine I'd already have gone looking for it, so I guess that these software visualization tools must be solving problems which don't really exist in my part of the industry. Maybe this is the sort of thing you need if you're trying to wrangle some giant mess of a business app with millions of lines of Java? I don't know, I've never gone near that world.
> Look, bandwidth costs money.

For the user too, do you think people have unlimited data plans? I'm not paying to see ads.

> Don't be an asshole.

Because insults are going to rally people to your cause?
Ah, yes. That's been on my to-read list for a long time. So many books, so few hours!
That's just a feed for his newsletter, Money Stuff. Here's[0] a more complete feed that also includes his standalone articles for Bloomberg View (like the current Dole article).

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/rss/contributors/matt-levine....
> Doesn't Option() on a Rust pointer optimize down to a zero pointer value anyway?

There aren't pointers here though.

But yes, you could use NonZero<T> to mark the hash value as never-zero so that the option gets optimized. You'd still need unsafe code to construct the nonzero, but that's okay.

At least for the Hashmap I don't think the code is premature optimization; it seems to be pretty "idiomatic" unsafe Rust, with unsafe used exactly where needed. I haven't really looked at the btreemap in a while.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13666424
Having a well developed professional network is essential to being a successful freelancer, actively marketing and prospecting new clients is extremely time consuming and can lead to low value work. The best opportunities will come from referrals and existing contacts.

When I started freelancing I had two projects lined up to begin immediately, and had already been working part-time with one client - this is a great way to ensure you start your freelance career on a good footing.

Big engagements for a few weeks at a time are the ideal way to be most effective to your client as a developer, but it also puts a lot of risk on that contract working out and having work after it ends. If you are able to manage your time between two or more clients you are setting up a more stable income stream, also consider retainers but bear in mind these can restrict your ability to take on more lucrative projects when they come up.

One other thing to consider is that freelancing can be seen as a negative on your resume if you look to move back to a full-time role, since some hiring managers interpret it as a lack of a team-player attitude or tantamount to unemployment.

My main motivation to be a freelancer was for flexibility to allow me to move country, I found it very challenging to find new work after my relocation without a professional network in the city I moved to. If I had remained in my original city I would have definitely continued freelancing indefinitely.
The first 5000 years I can't recommend enough.

As far as how abstract money and society get, I think a decent counterpoint exists in Nick Szabo's Shelling Out: http://nakamotoinstitute.org/shelling-out/

Money is useful because it allows for delayed reciprocity. Delayed reciprocity can help overcome environmental uncertainty for the individual human that next to zero other animals can benefit from. From there you get the productivity of networks.
but I was told MVC was sooo 2006, multi way data binding will make you suicidal, unidirectional flow of data is king and redux is what the industry should now use.

Genuinely curious how people will react to this because it's a contradiction, we were always told React & Redux go well together but I'm always holding out the last bit of skepticism.
It's amazing how much of this remained consistent over time. The birth of the windows event loop, resources, even windows hooks started here.
Personally, I think the parent comment has done the best job of talking about Orwell and how he applies to our present situation of any in the thread.

I don't see anything particularly ground breaking about us all heaping praise on Orwell, it seems like we all love his writing.
I am so glad it is on front page. I LOVE his essays. Such a good read. And I totally agree that they'll give you more than Animal Farm and 1984.
if the workflow magically avoids conflicts, why not give them 2 commands to update/commit&push and keep all the power of git to who need it?

also, you do know that conflicts are going to show up eventually right?
There's always the third option of marginalizing the absolutists and ignoring their demands until they die off from old age and no longer form a powerful constituency. I'm not saying it always works or is inherently better, but it certainly has worked in some places.
Would you mind sharing what some of these little programs do?
> I think there's a bit of a gap in the software ecosystem today in that there's no tool that lets semi-technical people like myself create simple applications, e.g. to read and write to databases. Bit like MS Access used to do.

Isn't the tool that does what MS Access used to do, and that is available now, called "MS Access"?
I write this from a metal folding chair, with my laptop on an old folding card table.

Doesn't matter. Still the best.
I don't understand why it would be that way. Is there some inherent property of macho object files that make them outside the scope of LLD?
I asked about gravitational waves. The Physics Genius eventually answered with "Yes, a white trashbag and nothing else".

http://imgur.com/kLtsooB
So why not maintain a patchset to be applied to the original and maintain it on your own repo? There's nothing you can do if someone is holding security patches from you, but you could certainly release your own to the public.

Honestly, both of those sound like very common issues which do not result in whole new product forks. Large projects maintain patchset and private security lists all the time. To me the ends don't justify the divergence.
I think formalization and abstraction are two different things, and you conflate them in your comment.

Formalization, in my view, is about "knowing what you are talking about". So you have a perfectly defined set of basic operations on the concepts you use, and you know what you can do with them and what happens if you do; you cannot cheat by making stuff up as you go along.

On the other hand, abstraction deals with "how general I can make this thing" (AKA reusability).

What I mean by "formalization has won in mathematics" is that when you write a paper, all concepts you are using have to be formalized, or at least it must be obvious how they can be, typically through a shared context of standard theories (so you don't have to use formalism everywhere, although it would certainly be desirable and eventually I think it will happen).

But that doesn't mean you have to always use the maximal level of abstraction. It's perfectly valid mathematics, for instance, to prove a theorem just for Euclidean spaces even though there is nothing that could stop you from proving it for topologies. (And I think Bourbaki group learned about the cost of abstractions the hard way.)

The same is fine with code - if you think abstraction hurts it, absolutely go for lower level of abstraction. But it will hurt reusability of said code, no doubt.

But if you want to talk about some reusable concept, you should be able to show the code at the correct level of abstraction (or at least be able to show that you are able to show it).

So that's my beef with software design patterns - they are abstractions, but aren't formally defined. It's like eating a cake and wanting it, too. They are at best transient thoughts ("funny, this thing here looks awfully similar to that thing there, how so") before somebody should abstract them formally. And I cringe when people think that they help communication, because in mathematics, we already went through that.
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