skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it rules out a more recent hoax. I would consider a book produced in the early 15th century that deliberately contained.nothing of use to be something of a hoax. A magician's prop, for instance.

There's another question of whether, even if information was once encoded in there, it is recoverable. Either because of some sort of hash-like function applied to the data, or just because there's not enough to go on.

It's certainly intriguing.
Semi-related: that's why 'blockchain technology' can be so useful to banks. It's not that they need anything blockchain at all, but in practice CEOs are not actually all that powerful against the vested interests of middle management, but having the excuse of hyped up 'blockchain technology' can help with pushing through common-sensical reforms that you would want to do anyway.

What's a wheel house?
People will still go for the cheapest base ticket price. For all the outrage, nothing has changed.
> But can you make a website with the same knowledge ?

One of my first commercial projects was a web-content management system written in Objective-C. Customers included Siemens and the German Bundestag.

Another couple of projects were written in WebObjects. If I wanted to, I could use Cappuccino, but I am not a big fan of web//client apps, so I don't.

> Can you make it portable to other OS ?

This product ran on: Solaris, AIX, NeXTStep, Linux, OS X. I think we also had a Windows port.

> Can you reuse 20 years of knowledge, resources and libs ?

In the sense you meant it: yes. Except it's more like 30 years. However, programming skills are (or should be) transportable. With virtually no previous experience, I became lead/architect on a Java project, which succeeded beyond anyone's imagination.

> Can you hire tomorrow 10 experts to help you on it ?

Is this a serious question?
Thank you just did that.
This is by Lapka co-founder Vadik Marmeladov.

https://twitter.com/vadikmarmeladov/status/85147501833262284...

In 2013, before Lapka was acquired: "He was dressed head-to-toe in tailored black garments... he confessed to me that one day, if his company ever got big, every employee would dress this way. “That’s the dream, anyway,” he said with a self-effacing laugh."

https://www.fastcodesign.com/3050743/why-airbnb-just-bought-...

See also his personal site http://www.vadikmarmeladov.com/ which showcases similar design principles and includes "our Codes of Practice":

1. Wear the uniform

2. Think long term (like 30 years from now)

3. Build stories and languages, not things

4. Create your own universe

8. Do not build utilitarian products. However, use them as a medium to express yourself

20. Move to LA

23. Use only one font, just a few colors, and just a few shapes

28. Remind yourself daily: you and everyone you know will die

30. We are 2046 kids
Not the one you asked, but psychedelics inject a ton of entropy into the system, allowing you to break out of the "bound states" humans tend to get stuck in.

Taking shrooms pretty much rewired my value structure from the ground up. I went from caring about traditional things like a good career (therefore social approval and everything else), to valuing spending time in the sun with good friends more than our usual ego-centric living patrerns.

LSD is great for the visual/aesthetic experience - it's so stimulating and kinesthetic - but it leaves your mind a little more intact.

DMT is a really interesting and profound psychedelic, and one that is massively misunderstood and, IMO, unfairly judged. Doing large amounts of DMT improved my ability to visualize hyperdimensional systems, and gave me (in my subjective opinion) a better understanding of the nature and structure of existence
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I see your problem, at 1 milli-bit per second that page is going to take ... 500 years.
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No, but I can tell that a company with a subscription model is more sustainable than the same company without.
I tried to subscribe... with test card data just to see if it would call out to a processor... It did not work, but I didn't get any errors on the screen... here is the console...
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwzFTPlMnM3weVZvMV9wNW1qRzQ...
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Have you seen how many messages you can pump through and transform on a node process? Yes, there is an abstraction and that's a cost, but v8 perfomance is "good enough" for almost everything.

Maybe not a coin miner or a graphics engine; but cpu is never really the constraint for applications such as those inside electron containers. Where you see them chewing 100% of a core, those are bugs.

Also, while th e language has flaws modern; JS vms are pretty bleeding edge....
Are you looking for more academic/business/cloud cases, or would advancements in game AI be an option as well?
2046 is a movie by Wong Kar-wai and was recently shown as part of a scifi series at Metrograph called "The Singularity" here in NYC.

I mention it because part of the plot revolves around a place called 2046, where nothing ever changes and in which people try to travel to in order to find lost loves.
IMO most "stable minds" should be messed with. Stable is relative. Most minds are "stable" in that they are crystallized into arbitrary activity patterns. This is why deep personality change is extremely difficult without psychedelics (you need a transformative experience, psychedelic or otherwise, to change)
I'm not so sure. I'd actually say the issue is not enough competition. Airlines have been consolidating a lot, and apart from the same 2-3 airlines that people generally seem to really like (Virgin & Alaska that now merged, JetBlue, and perhaps Southwest).

Spirit is trying to create a no-frills airline.

But the huge ones like United/Continental/Delta seem to be focusing all their innovative energy on how to creatively charge people more for fewer services.
Do you know if anybody ran the numbers? Centralized coal plants might still be more efficient than micro-petrol plants in every car?
Yes, it's good advice, I know how this works. Meetups and linkedin messages.

You still need to be in a google location to come across a meetup (there are only so few offices in the world) and your profile might need to be better than "I dropped from art school last month. I like computers."
Yeah, but usually, that 3x income also comes with normal, 9-5 working hours. So you slog through the day, and have plenty of time to do the passion stuff at home.

Plus, if we're talking about games, you have the money to pay people for quality art, sound, etc. So when you are ready to make that step, you can really give it some polish.
That's an interesting point actually. Maybe there should be multiple stages to copyright expiry, where the opportunities to create derivative works open up over time, without the work itself entering the public domain just yet.

Derivative works are where most off the societal value lies. Something like videogame publishers owning any footage of their game being played is absurd.
Perhaps the military was a fan of Roger Penrose, and really did want to expand. Or perhaps they intended to tile the entire world with a geodesic grid.
I don't think most people are suggesting that these former employees turned contractors would be rubbish. Just that they aren't willing to put up with the BS of "going the extra mile" or whatever without being paid for it.
I bought some, with a tight stop in case I'm wrong. I don't think it'll even take a few months. I'd be willing to bet it's back to normal by EOW. That prediction depends greatly on how much stock you put in the saying "gaps always get filled".
Average tech worker? Cause that's the only comparison that matters.
The primary benefit of 'Slack' over "older tools" is that the former are free – not just financially but in terms of how much time, effort, and energy is required to set them up and maintain them.

Sure, there's lots of freely available alternatives, but even tiny (but non-zero) costs in time and money are the difference between widespread usage and relative non-use.

I setup Gitter on a GitHub repo for a project by clicking a button and accepting a pull request that Gitter auto-generated for me to add a link to the repo's Gitter channel in my project's README. That's the competition that every older tool is failing miserably to meet, let alone exceed.
Can a single .swift file in Xcode contain entire source code of an iOS app?
Indeed, but I find that large games which try to tell stories may be well written, but are not so appealing to me as smaller (often indie) games.

If I want to be told stories I usually prefer books, films. (Though I liked Baldur's Gate for eg. which is an opposite of what I usually prefer)
With the self hosted CE offering so good, I see no reason to use the SaaS version.
No, microdosing is different from outright tripping. The underlying stimulating effects of LSD don't go away
Maybe you are ignoring the market?

I work on Wunderlist. One of our key differentiators, the thing customers love, love, love, is native apps on the major platforms (iOS, macOS, Android, Windows), in addition to an outstanding Web app.

We quickly got several million customers, were acquired by Microsoft for "an undisclosed amount".

http://www.theverge.com/2015/6/2/8707883/microsoft-wunderlis...
In "Office Space*, the guy says he spends all his time appeasing his many bosses and only gets 10 minutes of real work done in a week. At my corporate job, I spent at least two hours a day doing necessary tasks that didn't really count towards production, but would cause problems if not taken care of. I also routinely cleaned up messes left by the people being actively rewarded by management for their speed who achieved that by doing sloppy work.

I do freelance work these days. My corporate experience helps me not stress overly much about how little actual work seems to happen. There are always a bunch of tasks necessary to getting other things done that "don't count" as work.
Yea I think heard this podcast. Basically your email password gets hacked and once they have access to your mail they reset you're uber password. Once they have access to your uber account they immediately change the email and phone number on the account.

Some Insider info, I used to be a contractor for them at corporate.

The reason support is useless is because your account has 3 identifiers the UUID (nobody knows this, it's like 16 characters), you're phone number, and email. So once those are changed support has no way to find your account and that's when you'll get the run around because support can't access any billing info and can't look you up that way.

I'd suggest looking through you're old email for a legit p/w reset or if you still have the messages from when you signed up. You might be able to find the UUID that way.

Edit: you should also tell your credit card company to block any charges from Uber until this gets cleared up.
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It's not my friend. Its a movement to change the world.
I agree on the continuous improvement - i wasn't suggesting you do this once and stop thinking about it.

But note, 25 years we didn't have the same solutions we might have today, but we had good solutions to lots of common problems. We certainly had solutions to "system is specified by a mixed bag of ASCII and inconsistent EBCDIC files, none alike, all specified 15 years ago. Which is at the heart of the problem OP posited. 25 years ago people were saying exactly the same thing about banking systems in COBOL that beat describes. Exactly. The batch processing OP discusses had already been out of vogue for a decade at least. We had good solutions for nearly all of these problems, what we didn't have was quick, cheap solutions.

Just for completeness: we had html. We'd had SGML for a decade (which begat HTML and later XML). We had reasonable streaming protocols. We were a lot worse at connecting heterogeneous systems controlled by different entities and interoperating, but we good at networking and building distributed systems at a smaller scale.

Keeping code alive and running for a generation is a very difficult problem, but keeping systems tidy, modular, and evolving is manageable, until you let them go too much.

And people are digging the same holes today. It's not technology that is the cause, it never was. It's cost and short term planning.
Why not just use C++?
I am referring to Google's realtime collaboration features. Given a URL, you can enter the document and see it being modified in real time, as well as edit, annotate and comment in real time.

It's 2017, this is how we work now. My colleagues (literally) across the world are not going to connect to some shared NFS drive or whatever via VPN to store documents.
You have to wonder if the bright young things who've been "disrupting" food really understand just how poisonously hard the food service industry is? Even if all they ever did was read Kitchen Confidential I feel like they could have seen some of these issues (supply chains, employees, vendor issues) coming a mile away.
You don't need to remember what happened this morning particularly, so long as you participated.

Great for blockers you know how to fix or who to ask, but you may miss some others.

"I need permissions on this server to do X and am waiting for someone to do that" might have an easy workaround that a colleague knows.

"I'm doing X but it's taking some time because I'm not familiar with Y" might be met with someone offering to help as they have experience you didn't know about.

You'd never get this without some form of generalised conversation.
My comment was tongue in cheek but you can share expenses if you are traveling for a "common purpose" and not "holding out". In other words, fly with friends to somewhere you all want to go together. You basically just can't create an airplane Uber (naturally, people have tried).
There is a lot of echo for your sentiment, and no reason for Atlas to not create an LLC package for customers (at some point), but are You (and so many others) really putting off a. Starting a business, or b. Creation of a business entity (LLC) for an on going business until Stripe can form it for you as a service? If so, what is it they provide that isn't available - and cheaper - elsewhere?
Hi twakefield, congrats on the release!

So does this seem like a typical use in an AWS VPC:

- SSH bastion server with public IP with security groups for each user

- Every other server only has private IPs, only allowing access between each other and then the bastion server

How do you generate and store keys? Are you using something like Hashicorp's Vault?
I'm not sure you need a use case for this to be a sensible addition to the tools we have in the box.

IMHO if this machine is linux, and that machine is linux, and both machines are fully open, then why can't you run this app on that machine? Because reasons, that's why... no more!
Unless the gibberish is the same every time, the repeated sound of your password will still be parsable from a long enough sound recording of your computer usage.
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> What advantages did you see comparing Cloudant to CouchDB?

> If you wanted to work with really big data sets Cloudant would be a pretty good option because you can skip all the DB setup work and have instant access a highly scalable platform that lets you get to right to work.

I think one need to state it more clearly with cloudant you get a hosted solution SaaS, they will scale better then you, have better backups, and will be able to rebuild a view quickly, while you are deleting logs to rebuild it and struggling to get performance out of your vps.
Isn't Google Chrome on iPhones just a reskinned Safari since Apple doesn't allow other browsers to use their own engines?
The economics are inevitable, any proprietary or crippleware system will be beaten by fully open alternatives. And over time, those fully open systems will have more collaborators and more contributors and more users.

And @yasserf's reply was fantastic, too. Sounds like they are more providing premium hosted services than anything else, which I think is definitely a good way to go.
as though that were a useful group descriptor when it comes to behaviors.

I found it to be useful. In combination with some other comments, it gave me a particular idea about what the article was about.
Not really. Actually, however, there is a recent survey that shows that Groovy is the second most popular language on the JVM, behind Java. Myself, I use Scala, and would like to learn Frege.
And because packaging everything in a jar is easier than pulling 1e3 dependencies for every deployment. Not to mention drpendencies that also require a C/C++ compiler boost or other native libraries.
AWS free tier is only available for the first 12 months.
"Did you think to kill me? There's no flesh and blood within this cloak to kill. There is only an idea. And ideas are bulletproof." -V
I'm trying that out, and it seems that jquery is installed when you include the Semantic UI CSS. According to the docs: http://react.semantic-ui.com/usage, you need to install the CSS separately with

$ npm install semantic-ui-css --save

and with that I get

├─┬ semantic-ui-css@2.2.10
│ └── jquery@3.2.1

Plus a whitescreen because jQuery is not defined...bummer
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I'm not speculating about purchase price because it's more about what was the best alternative for IndieHackers founder but it's doubtful Stripe cares about the site's revenue, today or in the future.

IndieHackers' revenue is ads and the amount they make ($6k / month) is nothing for company like Stripe.

The article says that csallen will no longer spend his time looking for advertisers. That means that either someone at Stripe will take over that role (doubtful) or that they'll remove the ads when the current contracts expire and loose the revenue stream for the site.

My best guess is that Stripe is profitable enough that they can run the site at a loss and they hope for the best case (but hard to quantify) scenario where the site serves as an (subtle) advertisement for Stripe services (and it has to be noted that the site already was a subtle advertisement for Stripe given that many of the interviewed companies already use Stripe, so the site would promote Stripe even if Stripe didn't pay a cent for it).
See, that's exactly the reason why I'm happy about this. I figure many people reason exactly like you do and that makes their base possibly thinner than it looks from the outside. So if they can extract more value from the customers they have that's a really good thing.

When I compare gitlab and github I think gitlab is the better open source ecosystem citizen because they give back at least as much as they take but github has the momentum and is better at extracting value (so more solid) at the expense of not being such a good open source ecosystem citizen.

Tough choice just got a little easier.
Thanks for the detailed explanation. I appreciate it.
Courtland, this is absolutely fantastic. Congrats man!

I'm wondering how this works out for you as an entrepreneur. Obviously now you're working for a larger corporation, but does your long-term vision align? For example, is your deal structured in a way that growing indie hackers also personally grows your income? Or is it now just a strict employee-employer relationship with a bonus (acquisition offer) upfront?
In PHP, you're looking for

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I'm not doing it to generate direct revenue, but I do see more sales coming through the products I have linked, though it's small sample size
It thought my horse was pliers, a camel, or a hand gesture:
http://imgur.com/a/JWifP
As a long-time C++ programmer I can say there's a lot of reasons to not use C++, but still, yeah.

What about D? Rust?
So what? We have those resources.

Does the weight of these just irritate you because of how wasteful it is (it irritates me for this reason alone) or does it actually have an impact on you?

People said the same things about gtk or qt when we had motif right? Apps are going to keep getting bigger, our machines get bigger too. I'm not sure what he problem is.

Edit: fat fingers
Along those lines, it sounds like Sandstorm may be a fit for what you're thinking of. It's generally more federated than a totally distributed system, but provides nice mechanics for packaging web apps, distributing them to others, moving from one server to another, sandboxing them, etc. It makes setting up and running web apps as easy and safe as downloading an app from an app store.
I think its the US airline unions. Not all unions are good or bad, but it seems to me that when people are unionized they become more hostile towards their employer and eventually their customers. By their very existence, unions form an us vs them mentality that seems hard to break. Unions then need to reinforce their value to their members by always having a fight over something.

I've had great flight attendants on US airlines, but some talk to customers in a way that I can't imagine even McDonald's employees getting away with. Why does United put up with surly flight attendants when McDonald's doesn't put up with surly staff? I think it's probably the unions.

I also think customers don't care very much. Customers want cheap more than anything else. But I've flown many low cost carriers around the world, but no flight attendants are quite as nasty as some of the ones at US major carriers.
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>Today they're trying to assault the passengers character.

Well that makes this even more sickening. Link?
You should ask those questions for any SaaS offering, as well as how easy it is to export all your data.
'Async' isn't even that good of an argument.

Have you never replied to an old forum post and been accused of 'necromancy'?

Have you never been late to reply to an email chain or a thread on a mailing list or forum?

There's no clear line dividing asynchronous versus synchronous communication. Even phone calls can be (partially) asynchronous – "hold on, let me check" let alone "let me call you back in <some amount of time>".

And similarly, if a group of people are responding to each other quick enough, even using an 'asynchronous' medium, then they're basically communicating 'synchronously'.
"If the Juju had meant us not to eat people, he wouldn't have made us of meat!" -Flanders and Swann, The Reluctant Cannibal [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBtsi3CkfBE
Why not just write another language, that compiles to machine code, but doesn't totally enforce type safety. Call it Iron.
like pfstat http://www.benzedrine.ch/pfstat.html or something different?
deepstreamHub's records can be used instead of Firebase's realtime db/data-sync part, deepstream's events are a replacement for their lately added PubSub capabilities. deepstreamHub does request response as well while Firebase offers integration with numerous Google services.

The core differences are in the way deepstreamHub structures its data (small, related documents with independent lifecycles rather than one big data tree), its speed and open core
Yeah, but then Larry dropped a couple nukes on Matz.
Attackers have started paying attention to IPv6, therefore you should look the other way. Sounds like a winning strategy to me.
See my comment in the thread.
nice project. Would you like to explain a bit about how it works?
Wouldn't the null hypothesis be no gender difference, with gender difference in either direction to be proven by experiment?
Electron exists to allow JS devs to bypass browser vendors slowly coming to agreement on new features.
Inventing a whole new alphabet for your typesetting demo is going a bit far...

Also it's not typeset, it's handwritten.
C++ isn't strictly a superset of C! Which I always found crazy. Some C will not compile for C++.