skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think custom domains are a tool for price segmentation* (like a student discount). Medium and Wordpress want offer a free product (for marketing/network effects), but also have their higher-end users pay. They do that by limiting a few features their higher-end users need to the premium product to force them to buy. In this case, it's custom domain that lets you look more professional.

You see this with email too. Want to use your own domain and look like a real business (vs. some dude with small-time aspirational business-hobby run off of gmail)? Then you pay $5 a month or spend your time being a sysadmin.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
>> I won't implement mobile support

Mobile support was a huge factor for /r/place. To reimplement the project while completely ignoring mobile is basically taking out maybe 30% of the effort required. It's a bit of a copout to claim "can implement in a weekend", while discounting one of the main reasons why it is nearly impossible to hammer out solo in a single weekend.

The other "big ticket item" is integrating such a system into an existing live stack. It's very convenient that you get to pick the tools you think are most efficient for the job from scratch; it's quite another to restrict yourself to an existing set of tech.

>> an architecture that can scale to 100k simultaneous users (although that part will be hard to actually test)

Also this. Reddit had a single opportunity to deploy live. You can't throw out many days of required dev/staging benchmarking for a system that must work on first deploy. You're not "done" after a weekend unless your first deploy both works 100% and scales as required.

tldr; Were I to do what you are doing, it would be out of interest and to put it live for others to use. What seems disingenuous is to do so with the primary goal of proving that "see, child's play - it's not difficult at all!". The goal should be to build something that works, not to rush the job as some way to show off and take something away from Reddit's efforts.
A few favorite quotes from "The Dream Machine"

The idea began to dominate my thinking and for the next two evenings I went out after dinner and walked the streets in the dark thinking about it

-Jay Forrester, on the idea of magnetic memory

Trying to avoid every conceivable error is a recipe for paralysis, having the freedom to make mistakes is necessary for achieving any progress at all

-Waldrop (author) on Herbert Simon & the idea of satisficing in the context of behavioral econonmics (he was awarded the Nobel in 1978)

. . . a way of life in an integrated domain where hunches, cut-and-try, and the human 'feel for a situation' usefully coexist with powerful concepts, streamlined technology and notation, sophisticated methods, and high powered electronic aids

-Englebart, prophesying

You couldn't develop and improve the system without seeing how a large and diverse community used it in practice.

-Robert Fano, on the development of time sharing

The spirit at that meeting was as good as it gets - the most civilized, ecumenical, incredibly supportive atmosphere you could want. People would cheer you on even if they didn't agree with you, just because they loved the fact that you were good

-Alan Kay on the early ARPA community

We felt strongly that only a very small group could do the project on that timescale . . . I don't remember such a thing as a weekly progress meeting. We were more in tune with progress than that.

-Dave Walden on the development of the IMP, the first packet switching node

To Lick, the obvious solution to the software crisis was to apply better and more interactive computing . . . when the systems are truly complex, programming has to be a process of exploration and discovery

[H]ire the smartest people you can find and give them their head - but let them know who's paying the bills . . . it wasn't enough to hire a bunch of super smart individuals, you had to build a community, a culture, and an environment of innovation. You had to give your people the kind of challenge that would light a fire in their eyes, that would generate an atmosphere of non-stop intellectual excitement, that would let them feel in their gut that this is where the action is. You had to provide them with lavish resources - everything they needed to do the job. And through it all, you had to keep your bottom line guys at bay so your guys could have the freedom to make mistakes

-Jack Goldman, founder of PARC
Stuff did just work on my 286, and I the only thing I ever ran into problems with was Windows 98 (which required a coprocessor). So it didn't really matter what you had.
I just wanted to point out that your 2 examples are manifestations of different phenomena:

>One of the most active sources of new terms is apparently layoffs. Consulting companies and CEOs try to one-up each other, perhaps unconsciously, who can come up with and then own the coolest new term.

(1) euphemisms for negative events like "layoffs"/"firings" into "downsizing", "rightsizing", "resource actions", etc. Same situation as using "unintended targets", "collateral damage", etc for civilian deaths in war.

>"Hmm, I kinda like how so and so used the term 'circling back' I'll start using it too, it just seems so fresh and cool.

(2) phrases of "social graces" such as "circling back", "reaching out", "touch base" instead of the blunt tonality of "I will call you", "I will notify you", "Be prepared for me to be back at your desk a little later for your answer", etc. It's fascinating that this language lubrication to not make other people not feel like they are at our beck & call has been happening forever. If it was 200 years ago, I suppose one person might hand a note written on a piece a paper to a servant, and then the servant then passes that paper to the target's servant, and finally the target's servant gives the paper to the target. It seems like reinvention of phrases like "circling back" are recreating this non-threatening version of "we will be communicating later".

I understand that people can be irritated with both examples. However, (1) is more about dishonesty and deflection where (2) is just human grooming and ego preservation.
A ballin' coding boot camp in your pocket
When it comes to philosophical objections to taxation, it's not the awful infrastructure around me that bothers me, it's the bombs dropped on other people's children and the bars that confine people for no morally justifiable reason.

My heart goes out to the people held in torturous conditions in prison on my tax dollar. I hope that I someday have the strength to resist and refuse to pay for this.
Why? Don't they benefit tremendously from building (mostly) on an ultra-competitive, near-commodity components market?

When they want something strategic (Retina screens, custom ARM) they make a big investment, but I can't see how getting directly into the fab business gives them any kind of long-run advantage.
Think of it as a one-time license fee to white label the Medium tech. Pretty cheap, imo. Surprised they didn't make it a recurring fee, tbh.

Out of curiosity, what benefit do you see getting from having the content be on your own domain vs. Medium itself?

It's probably just me being quirky, but when I'm reading a Medium article on someone's custom domain, I get slightly annoyed that it's a little harder to get back to Medium itself to get to the rest of my reading list.

If you decide against paying the fee, I doubt I'm alone in saying that I don't judge the content itself on whether it's on medium.com vs. randomtechguymusings.*.

Publish good, thoughtful, valuable content and your work will speak for itself regardless of domain name.
The distance isn't a big issue. It's trivial to put the RAM close enough that the signals spend less than a nanosecond in transit on a round trip.

It's all about the speed of the memory itself.
Never do these things in email marketing
While the right to be forgotten can recall "sanitization" or some kind of censorship, kids should be able to have their histories and everything associated with them pre-adulthood expunged. As kids we all did silly and regrettable things. It'll be a shame if we allow those things to follow people thought-out their lives.

As kids we're exploring all kinds of ideas --some good, some regrettable, but we should be able to explore them without fear these crumbs of exploration will follow us in to the future as if we were fully mature and aware as we explored ideas.
I too would welcome general AI, but fear we'll just be stuck with a verbal Microsoft paperclip.
> Wouldn't most tech guys be able to support a family working for any of the local web developers, app developers or IT departments of non tech companies that you find all over Florida, New Zealand and most of the Western world?

Probably, but doing menial tasks behind where the modern edge progresses in technologies, your skills would become obsolete in 5-10 years. You'd either need to proceed to a general managerial path in your chosen no-name company, or devote time for self-study to stay in touch with the fashionable technologies.
I agree, but what if this script takes itself 10 min to run because it has to do lots of work? That's the slow cases I mean.

As for tests, of course it's great to have tests, but how do you test if a streaming video from a phone app is dropping more frames after a specific commit? there are things that are hard to test with a script. And usually these are the cases where bisect is very useful, because it reduces two weeks of debugging to two days. Which is still a long time.
> I felt a bit guilty making so much money off the situation

Not really sure why people feel guilty when a corporation negotiates a mutually beneficial agreement with them.
are you in college?
yeah I was not too convinced when I read the article. The government can easily figure out the taxes for your wage (which your employer did actually figure out) but they can't figure out the taxes on your real estate revenue, and maybe other activities (traded cryptocurrency? freelanced on the side? Airbnb"ing" some of your estate)
The Internet connectivity issue was the big deal-breaker for me. Australian bloggers have been complaining about it since the beginning of the WWW. Apparently there's one provider and they don't care about anything beyond "email and casual browsing". I've heard that Australia and New Zealand share the same ISP and the same policies.

This is going to be a huge hinderance for any tech enterprise.

I'm glad to see @bspn (sibling comment here) say that the Internet quality is improving.
Good point about corvids. Ants are another example I was thinking about. They actually do engineer ecology on the scale of individual mounds by feeding and growing fungi that they eat. They are spread all over the Earth, and I think they have us beat in terms of biomass. Maybe there could be another definition for a weaker form of intelligence that covers those cases.
Moore is also quite old (80), I'm even worried about his passing from time to time. So I suppose he's not doing much ambitious things but enjoying himself.

Parallela has managed to conduct a very succesful KickStarter. They've been under the radar since but still active, they published new plans for 1000 core coprocessor array. And I suppose, now they've proved themselves alone, they won't stop soon.
More in reference to the comments here than the actual article, but TODOs in the comments can be used to transmit what I find to be useful information: $THING was on the writer's radar, but $THING is not handled (correctly or not) in some non-obvious manner.

If your project uses them to indicate e.g. things that can not be merged into master, then obviously that's one thing, but when they're simply comments, the hate here seems misplaced. Other than (maybe) redis, I don't think I've ever seen code that did not have "potential things to do" that would have been nice to see commented.
I can, we'd have in-core sharding/ha/multi-dc in postgresql by now if they didn't focus on nosqls :(
You can consider using mirroring with GitLab to have everything in a single GitLab instance: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/repository_mirroring.htm...
In Spain is a breeze, a web app prefilled with your financial data
I would think the holes are even bigger: their feats are often inspirational, whereas junkies are often parasitic.
'Much' is a matter of perspective. Mine was formed in the 80s and 90s, when doubled performance took maybe a couple years, not a decade.
@jonathansizz Thanks for posting. I have a technical background but very little education in chemistry or biology. Can you or anyone else here recommend some resources for learning the basics of biochemistry and evolutionary biology?
> That's how it is in most countries because they're all different entities collecting.

Exactly. I pay city, state, and federal income tax in the US. My city is about 1.5 times the population of Finland, and that's only one of the three different forms of income tax I have to pay. At least that goes through the state, so it's only two departments, but that's again separate from the federal IRS. And that's just income tax, not other taxes I have to account for and pay as well.

The reason it's more complicated in countries like the US, Japan, India, etc. is because they're much, much larger, which requires more complexity to manage - both the size of the government itself and the revenue-collecting departments that need to support it.

If I only had to pay taxes to my city's revenue department and there were no state or federal tax in the US, I can guarantee that the process would be a lot smoother for me as well.
I'm failing to understand how webdev is saving the world more so than games...
Even if you relocate to Colorado, Kansas, whatever, one occasionally needs to travel to other countries, no?
Another SlicingDice co-founder here!

I would be happy to answer any questions about our own analytics database (S1Search)
"Let's tease this situation apart."

United Airlines' core concern is for the safety and security of our passengers. Mr. Dao, a passenger on a recent flight was politely asked to leave the flight after a safety-critical United employee had to board and take his place.

The safety and security of all our passengers is paramount at United. After repeated attempts to disembark, Mr. Dao became belligerent and eventually posed a safety risk for passengers and crew members, requiring the contact of the Aviation Police.

The police arrived and handled the situation according to C.R.C 1875.12. At least two non-physical attempts were made to diffuse the situation before a physical response was required. Acting in accordance with the law, officers used a reasonable and warranted amount of force to remove Mr. Dao from his seat, eliminating the safety risk he posed to United crew and other passengers, and also to himself.

We thank the officers and United crew for their quick attention to this matter, which likely prevented further safety and security problems from arising.

At United, we are committed to the safety and security of all passengers and crew.
You can close a self employed tax account in the U.K. You'll have to file VAT and Tax info for that tax year but that's about it.

If you do not go through the process and close your income tax, NI and VAT accounts then yes you need to file them even if you no longer have a side business in practice.
Not me, but I knew someone who moved to Christchurch. He had to delay his interview because the office was demolished by an earthquake.

He loves the place, but I think would agree with the "poor housing" comments upthread - inexplicably under-insulated.
Interesting and relevant paper on the end of Moore's Law: ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/dburger/papers/ISCA11.pdf
The first thing I notice about this article is that it talks about generation, not consumption. Where is the data on US energy consumption? It's especially odd given that he compares US generation growth to China's consumption growth toward the end of the article.
Fossilized bone survives 65Myr, but granite buildings and metal tools do not leave even the slightest fingerprints? I'll call BS.
Russian Telecom Exec Suing Apple Over Definition of Gigabyte
> But suppose it were entirely up to United. Whenever I've asked people what United should have done instead, "offer more money!" is really the only response I've gotten.

That can only be true if you haven't really been anywhere talking about it.

People have suggested paying more money, having them take a later flight (or a morning flight), having them take a different airline, paying for a rental vehicle and asking someone to drive them the 6 hours.

Part of the reason people are so angry about it is because there are SO many other options, and they went STRAIGHT to the nuclear option.
Yes, this!

In criminal law, that used to be the norm.
In a couple of work environments, people would initial the TODO -- I'm trying to remember if Joyent is one of those companies. I liked this, because it was extra honesty about the craft and I could pick the person's brain if there were issues in that code. It would also seem to allow to get a TODO brain dump when someone is planning on leaving the company or assist in who to bring to the table for refactoring of a large component.
The 640 K Barrier
I love NZ... but I live in Melbourne, Australia and there are tons of kiwis here (including many close friends and colleagues). They come here because salaries are better, adjusted cost of living is less and there are just more opportunities for professionals.

Australia isn't perfect but I'm not really sure that NZ is a more attractive destination for tech workers.
I think what we need is acknowledgement that any sufficiently large institution is indistinguishable from government, and include only those corporations that meet the criteria of "too big to be private" (related to "too big to fail") in restrictions placed on government.
Why not? They're perfect examples of efficient governance. We don't like to have that efficient governments, because in politics-land, this often involves bloodshed and suffering.
#easterbot – send your friends easter postcards and watch it live
Bob Taylor made it that way.
Canonical Gets Serious About Doing Enterprise Right
> For the most part, this is all true in, say,

Woah woah woah, as someone who used to live in Tulsa, don't even joke. It is easily one of the most aggressively conservative and corrupt cities in the US.
Joules, but the cost of memory access in terms of speed has an even worse disparity.
Oh yeah, i remember visiting a richer friend who had a soundblaster until my parents bought me a sound card...
I'm in the same boat. I tried for multiple years and I've been waiting for their experimental preview of their 2d tools since last summer. As someone who's rolled their own and has tried Unity, Godot, and GameMaker, I'd rather roll my own or use GameMaker than use Unity or Godot. I've found GameMaker Studio 2 to be quite nice.

If Unity ever finishes their experimental support for Tilemaps and other features, I'll try it again.
My wife is an expat kiwi and we visit NZ every year since most of her family lives there still. We have also been contemplating a move back from the US, but housing prices (especially Auckland, but everywhere that isn't rural farmland is an issue) and lower salaries are the only thing preventing us, still. Auckland is an amazing city but it's so incredibly congested and expensive that unless you are wealthy or in the housing market already, it's very difficult to make a go there.

> Have you looked at Christchurch? Apparently the government is incentivizing companies to build there with the goal of making it the high tech capital of the South Island. I believe Vodafone has some pretty impressive plans for the city.

I was last in Chch a couples years ago, so it may be changing, but my impression was not great. My wife lived there during the earthquake and their recovery has been slow. I think it will improve, especially with increased investment, but it's probably years away from being anywhere like Auckland or Wellington again. Even 2-3 years ago the downtown area was essentially a ghost town from what I remember, and that's still several years post-earthquake.
On a related note, a Stanford tax law professor Joseph Bankman had run trials of pre-filled forms for a few California state taxpayers. Listen to his journey on Episode 760 of PlanetMoney podcast:

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/03/22/521132960/episo...

TL;DR:

* 99% of people liked the pre-filled forms

* He took this idea to California state congress, but Congresspeople were "warned" about him by Intuit lobbyists

* He hired his own lobbyist but lost by 1 vote in the Congress

Edit: Grammar
I have a really hard time taking someone to task for "piracy" of 20-30 year old titles.

As far as I'm concerned, I've bought those games about 2 or 3 times, my conscience is clear for format shifting to an emulation box.
I love his channel! I'm surprised it isn't more popular, it has top notch content and regularly scheduled releases.
And Republican lobbyist also. Their reasoning was "We don't want to make filing taxes simple, because if they become so people will stop hating taxes"
In my opinion: it's permanent. Simple as that. Even if the info is harmless in isolation today, any new bit that can be identified as you becomes part of your aggregate.

Ten years from now, or tomorrow, People You Don't Like could be in charge of any given agency or company, and deny you things then based on what you did today that was perfectly legal or ethical.

There are more extrapolations from that but it should be enough to be short but get the gears turning.
Tell that to Samsung. Their 3d vnand gave them a crushing lead for the last several years in the nand market.
Impressive!!

Though I've never seen the Accumulator referred to as the "A register"...

LDA #$c0 ;Load the hex value $c0 into the A register
Comparing frameworks by the commonly used gems/plugins seems to not be a bad idea. I wish to see list of 100 most popular gems and their equivalents in competitive frameworks.
Not very isolated, only a few hours from Seattle if you live where all the tech jobs are.
You're mixing eras a bit, I'm pretty sure windows 95 and up required a 386.
Headless browsing mode coming to Firefox in version 55
Yes that's true, but shot noise is a real problem.
Building an Open Source Portfolio
> Although REI also eliminated their lifetime guarantee.

IIRC, that was due to blatant abuse (e.g. people scrounging up worn-out stuff from garage sales to trade in for new).

http://www.dailyemerald.com/2013/06/04/rei-changes-infamous-...
Personalized Wood Watch
Off Topic: Is it just me or are the trolls out in force today? People in this thread shitting all over game development. Seriously, if you're just off work for the holiday weekend, go outside. Stop screwing up perfectly good HN discussions because your ego feels threatened.
Post from a few months ago: "Alien life could be so advanced it becomes indistinguishable from physics"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12994455
I'm playing a game through steam linux that has a Unity3D splash screen on startup.

Are you sure they don't have linux support?
I mean that was true for DOOM and the like. Optimizing it was really about optimizing the accesses to VRAM. See all the Mode X and unchained memory stuff.
At the risk of coming off as pedantic, Olympic marathoners DO run 5 min mile marathons very regularly (the world record is at around 4:41 pace currently). That said, I fully agree with the comparison of startups/businesses to marathon running. As someone who does both, the parallels are really interesting.

The hardest part of running a marathon is training -- hitting mileage goals, pushing yourself during workouts, prioritizing running above social outings, staying injury-free, and staying healthy. Not to mention the occasional psychological hurdle and hormonal changes. It really lines up quite well with the startup experience...
I'd argue that Nintendo's biggest competitors are the iPhone and Android game markets.