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> Floppy maybe doesn't make sense unless you know what it is.

Even if you know what a floppy is it's not that obvious without a bit of context. People today seem to analogise floppies to USB keys, devices to move data. The idea that you would save a file directly to portable storage, rather than just to the hard drive, is somewhat alien.
I think it was, to paraphrase, "the repetetive part of jobs", which is, according to him, "75-80% of what most of us do".

Just a slight distinction, between all jobs, "repetitive jobs" and what I mention, "repetitive part of jobs".

Interesting to compare this idea with last week's Ask HN (How much of your time at work do you spend not working?)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14082599
The value of content depends on the collective intelligence of the network around it.

Good networks concentrate intelligence by providing feedback and support that helps the network converge on useful, original insight.

Bad/malicious networks destroy it with noise and false information, creating a feedback network that suppresses reality-based original insight.

The process of blogging is irrelevant. So is the process of peer review.

It's the quality of the networks around each area of interest that defines the real value, not the process.

E.g. peer review works well when it's part of a high quality network. When it isn't, it's no better than random posting.
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Imagine the exposure you get from such a post.. I think a little bruise on your ego would be worth it.
We do, check out MediaMath. We will ask you design, debug and like the questions. Well also do a take hone problem.
Do you think that because you disagree with her political views?

Genuinely curious. Doing a study on how people interpret texts. Agreement seems to be a significant factor in how much people like an article.
Makes the argument some were making for their use of Electron seem less relevant.
Interesting that the one reply that wasn't completely dismissive, in the economics hell-hole that is hacker news, was from an economist.
They left out the biggest one! If you say something dumb in it, the comments will crucify you for it :)
I don't have the original source handy, but I recall a study showing a high correlation between hand dexterity and surgical outcomes.
Yeah and you'd be the first guy I'd think of in an early stage start up. You're a gets shit done kind of guy.
Arngren's web page has been like that for years, not much new there.
Food security is not nationalism.

But people actually campaigning for it...

People, who rarely get worked up about anything that doesn't put money in their pocket or stroke their ego, giving enough of a damn to go out and campaign for it... well, OP said it directly: he wasn't sure whether it was about putting money in their pocket, or stroking their ego.
I'm using a K-World ATSC Tuner[1] on an Orange Pi Zero[2] (not Banana Pi as previously mentioned). Armbian[3] nightly installs with no modifications, and then Mythbackend[4] is installed using apt-get.

I bound to the machine's IP instead of localhost, and then was able to enter that into Kodi, where a list of TV stations Myth found appeared. It was surprisingly easy! I haven't had any issues with stuttering or skipping when streaming to a single Kodi instance - haven't tried any more than that.

[1] https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/KWorld_ATSC_340U

[2] http://www.orangepi.org/orangepizero/

[3] https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-zero/

[4] https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythbackend
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Every web framework out there (express + nodejs included) will handle exceptions properly and not blow up the server on exception.
> we have an extra tax on storage devices that gets pooled into a fund to "compensate" authors for that exception.

That's... a surprisingly (and refreshingly) pragmatic way to deal with that percieved problem, to be honest. It'd be nice to see more countries going with solutions like that, rather than the old "Do as I say or I'll beat you over the head"
History is a lot less scary when it provides the user with the bulk of the value.

On the other hand, I'd argue that showing it at that level of detail to the user makes it more scary.
I wonder what would have happened if that level of connection had been made between 9/11 and the Iranian govt...
They broke an unusual number of things in 7.1, a couple somewhat annoying e.g. defaulting DateTime('now') to including microseconds, without a single builtin function available that can strip/change microseconds on a datetime.
Of course but it so satisfying to reduce the overhead further. The struggle to reduce a megabyte of overhead by half a megabyte is great while knocking half a megabyte off a gigabyte is often trivial.

I'm not arguing that anyone should try shaving the megabyte of course.
> If they'd counted milliseconds since 1970, they would have exhausted int32_t in less than 36 minutes, and nanoseconds would have exhausted same in less than 2 seconds.

Milliseconds would have lasted 24 days. Microseconds would have been 36 mins.
I guess I need to elaborate, since I am getting down voted.

I have only heard of maintaining systems in contexts where it means keeping a system running. I don't see what that has to do with the ability to WRITE software (good or otherwise). Hence, my question.
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For me it seems to be a bit tacked on. Rundness is a timeless human thing, brexit is in this context just a contemporary local buzzword with relevance limited in scope and time.
> The name "Ukraine" (Ukrainian: Україна Ukrayina
> [ukrɑˈjinɑ]) derives from the Slavic words "u", meaning
> "within", and "kraj", meaning "land" or "border".
> Together, "u+kraij" means "within the borders" or more aptly in
> English, "the heartland".

To quote wikipedia. I.e. from what I read on Wikipedia, it is the other way round: Ukraine is the heartland, Moscow would be at the outskirt.
I'm wondering the same :)...
Yes, but I'm sure they are no Einsteins, which is of course the minimum we expect.
Albert Caraco [1] is even darker than Cioran. He committed suicide right after his father's death.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Caraco
No. For biology at least it is the one to aim for.
In Spain you used to be able to buy modded consoles and mod chips were sold legally be even large retailers, iirc Portugal wasn't much different.

This isn't about banning DRM it's about not restricting your legal rights under ownership.

In both cases it can be "fixed" by changing the terms of sale to a lease.
Not only that; just imagine the noise level!
> Yeah, no, that's not how that works. Found a startup without sales or marketing and get back to me.

Entrenched legacy B2B is one example where the level of marketing can be close to nil (if we don't include "sales" in our definition of marketing, otherwise there's no reason to argue), but still allow the business to prosper.

But that ignores that you haven't refuted the point. The advertising part of marketing, in its current form, is a net negative ("evil") to consumers. I'm not specifically signaling out the entirety of the "marketing" umbrella, but one of its subsections.

Can you tell me how advertising directly benefits the consumer?
I am assuming that if somebody tries to brute-force Gmail login form, eventually Google will start throttling the login attempts. I am curious about how they got around that. Getting around the throttling seems like a more concerning bug to me (if they were ever able to do that).
Price of fresh produce in the US varies depending on where you are. In many places, using the phrase "ridiculously inexpensive" would get you laughed at and/or castigated.

That said, fresh produce in the US sucks. Every European country I've visited has had notably better produce. I had a garden salad in Italy that actually made me pause and go, "Oh, these aren't supposed to be a form of self-flagellation in the name of health. These is actually delicious food." I rarely have that experience with US produce.
What happened to the idea of building great stuff that people are happy to pay for? What happened to the idea of treating employees as people and not legal entities to extort?

Having owned and run my own service-oriented business that employed a few people: For many of your customers and many of your employees, the naive and sunny approach works great. You can provide great service and have happy customers willing to pay you. You can have employees who are really friends just helping you to provide that great service with whom you split the proceeds. You can treat those customers and employees like everyday people. All is wonderful.

Then you come across the bad apples. You come across the customers here and there who don't want to pay you for great service, they want it for free. Even worse are the customers for whom you provide great service, but they want you to pay for some imagined problem that you caused for them because their expectations for your service were completely different than what you clearly provide.

Then on the employee side, there are those employees who thought that just because I started the business that I was somehow wealthy and living the high life. They didn't appreciate the year that I went without a salary or the risk that entailed. They didn't appreciate that I was overall making much less money than I could have if I had just gotten a regular day job. They didn't care about the loans with my name on them that would ruin my finances if the business went south.

When you come across a few of those bad apples, that's when all the rules and lawyers come into place. Your nirvana of work and customer environment can turn to crap if you don't have a little protection against the jerks. The phrase "this is why we can't have nice things" surfaces time and again in the face of those 1 in 20 sociopaths who interact with you as a business owner.
If anything, the most important lesson in blogging: blog for passion. Don't blog for money. If you can figure out ways to monetize for money, than do so. But never expect it.

Been running http://www.confessionsoftheprofessions.com for a few years now. In the beginning, it wasn't making any money at all. I eventually decided to sell ad space for $2 a month (now $5 a month due to increased popularity), and I have quite a few companies that purchase ad space. Occasionally, I'll get a sponsored post (they pay me to prioritize their article or pay me to write it), but most of the income comes from the ads.

It is not much, but it does pay for the server it sits on and did buy me a laptop when mine broke. Wish I could quit my day job and do it full-time, but I'm passionate about it to keep it going. My visitors and contributors are the ones who really keep me going when I get bored or lose interest in maintaining it. If it weren't for them, I'm sure it would've been in the archives of the Internet.

My interest in the topic of the website is much more important than the amount of money I could make from the website. So anyone who comes along and offers a monetary donation is certainly helping out.
It's true that many seem to make it regardless, and the negative things we go through often make us stronger (when they don't kill us).

I wouldn't change anything in my own life. I also wouldn't wish some of the experiences I've had on anyone else. I don't think those statements are contradictory.

The Spartan children that reached adulthood may have been tougher than the kids we raise today, but that is not an argument in favor of the Spartan system.
How rude. I upvoted his post anyway. And here we have another example of liberal violence mistaken for benevolence. Censorship becomes "banning a nazi".
Exactly. People harping that this is not "commercializable"
miss the point that selling out of the web is the very thing this fights against.

The creators of personal computing and internet like Licklider were idealists who envisoned the computer being a tool to expand human intellect.

>“In a few years humans will be able to think as no humans have
thought before”

See the scope of their thinking and that of sellouts who want to commercialize personal data to squeeze dollars.

The crass selling out of the ideals by the later "entrepreneurs" who claim to make the world better but have no such ideals other than profits has resulted in complete mess.
Clearly telegraphing Apple's intent to release new "Apple approved (and licensed)" storage "accessories" for their systems.
> In web-apps architectures, you have a choice: multithread or multiprocess.

No, the choice is definitely not that limited. Saying something like this is like saying there's no Nginx, only Apache available as an HTTP server. For the concurrent, IO-bound code you can leverage all kinds of concurrency approaches (coroutines, green threads, callbacks). In these use cases, multiple threads are actually a bad idea from the memory efficiency perspective.

On the other hand, multiple threads would be viable for CPU-bound and/or long-running code were it not for the GIL, that's true. With the GIL you don't have that option and have to resort to multiprocessing.

Multiprocessing is not so bad, actually, although it does make the code more complicated. Unless your problem is massively parallel (but then you'd use GPU instead), spawning n x 2 processes for n cores is definitely possible with how much RAM is available nowadays on the servers. You get optimal parallelism at the cost of serialization overhead (or other complexities if you want to directly share memory).

There are some languages which do support most existing concurrency mechanisms and they may be a better fit for a particular project. However, not supporting parallelism via multi-threading hardly disqualifies any language, provided the other tools are in place, solid and widely used.
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Meta: I find it odd that we live and work on an internet where everything we do is tracked and logged in fine detail. Huge companies do this every second of every day. Many folks, including me, don't like it. Each day my feed is full of news from these companies offering new products and services.

But when a new company comes along that is trying to break that cycle? Suddenly a ton of people pop out of the woodwork to warn us there might be a privacy concern.

Ok sure, but where the hell were you guys when Apple talked about it's new file system, or LG released new smart TVs, or when a dozen other newsworthy things happened in the last week from big companies who are scooping up all of our data? These are not companies that might scoop up data. These are companies that are already doing it.

Look, I'm full-bore tinfoil hat guy, but after watching this for years, there seems to be a lot of selective outrage going on online. Some folks get a free pass. Some folks get trashed for much less. I find that very odd.
Part of what I like about Slack is how they raised money when they didn't need to (at very advantageous terms).

https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/is-slack-really-wo...

> This is the best time to raise money ever. It might be the best time for any kind of business in any industry to raise money for all of history,

He basically knows he didn't need to raise 200M, but if you can take that, put it in the bank and don't have burn rates the likes of Uber - you've got a while to figure out the exact route to profitability.
I was pleasantly surprised to find that applications by 17/18 year olds to medical school here in the UK require that you demonstrate manual dexterity - one person sending in a video of them plaiting their hair which apparently went down well!

[NB This is in addition to the very high academic standards that are required for places at medical school].
It's fairly common nowadays: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy
i would say phone camera would be good enough for everything unless you need to shoot in low light and more importantly with zoom, digital zoom hit limits very fast

though personally i just gave up on zoom and shoot everything with mobile which is always with me instead of carrying heavy camera just to use rarely zoom and low light photos
Slack's UI and desktop footprint makes me nuts, but we are already on it and forced our vendors to join. I miss the tiny IM clients of old.
You're literally a Rails developer, so I think parent nailed it.
> Frankly, it's a bit bizarre to me that US citizens don't understand how to draw the distinction between those two sceanrios...

It's also bizarre to make that distinction in the first place. If you're OK with mixing in other people's business, why would it be forbidden to mess with your own?
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Interesting, looks like it's blue/white. Any particular reason for that?
I often ask people about their editor setup too - I tend to find that the level of enthusiasm they have about their editor is a moderately good indicator of their enthusiasm in general (though not, necessarily, their competence - I think that's stretching it too far). If they give me a look as if to say, "Why on earth is he asking this?" or they reply with something like, "Oh, whatever to get the job done... what do you use?" then it doesn't suggest to me that this is a person who gets much pleasure out of programming.

The other nice thing I find about asking this is that it isn't a question they've prepared for, so you tend to get an honest answer.
You're not refusing my point by insisting on adding more complexity (a huge framework), when simplicity and rapid prototyping of a small script was the goal.

This question is what I mean, extra stuff one has to keep in mind: http://stackoverflow.com/q/5999373/923847 Does it matter for a real project? Probably not, just some boilerplate. Does it matter when I want something quick up and running? Yes.
Goodness me. I had no idea that Mirabilis still existed. What is is doing these days?
I really hate the way tech is trending. Startups have basically become free market validation for the tech kings. They can just wait to see what works, then copy it and kill the startup that did it first.

With tech more than any other industry the rich get richer. Combined with how tight the big tech companies have gotten with Washington DC and they've basically become too big to fail.
How is it a bad example? A bad example of what?

We're looking for examples of people not having to work for money and see how they cope / thrive; instead of trying to create those conditions from scratch we can start by studying people who are already in that situation.
The debate on whether the spying is justified going on in here assumes the NSA is only seeking intel, and completely ignores the possibility they compromised the systems at EastNets with the specific intent of defeating KYC and other money laundering / anti-terrorism controls so money can flow to groups they want to ensure receive money. Sure, it's speculation on my part. Well, speculation viewed through the lens of a US citizen who has witnessed decades of covert empire building perpetrated on the world by my government. I'm not even saying the NSA is directly funding any groups, they could just be silent kingmakers, working in the back room like the Wizard of Oz, pulling levers here and there to ensure funds flow to favorable groups and not to unfavorable ones. No matter how morally dubious those receiving this favor are.
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but you can still just use regular O and any Hungarian will understand what you wrote, so i don't see accents as big issue, China should take lesson from Vietnam where anyone visiting can read their writing despite using accents, now good luck with Chinese characters when visiting China
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just use accents like most of Slavic languages do or Vietnamese as well
I had a phone interview with Google a few years ago. I was asked to implement a Soduko solver. I didn't manage it during the interview, but half an hour later a solution came to me when walking down the road. Should I have been a hire or a no hire?
Ask HN: Know of any simple debug log report APIs?
Is there a simple API based service where I can generate live reports on the web from logs I generate while debugging? I'd like to debug to console and web, simply appending text.

For example, I've got a system where I scrape pages, parse out data, then store that data and process it. I've built logging along the way to talk about my progress or what went wrong, confidence checks for semantic data matching, etc. It's not too massive to not manually check, and easy to highlight where things go wrong.

Instead of scrolling through my console/output (I use Visual Studio), I feel like it'd be great to have a web based log that is just appended to and more or less mirrors my console/output so I can review easier and after I run again and want to compare output.

You could have the report be one log for the day or ask to start a new one for the day with iterated name, or delete and rewrite it. You could have the page render as markdown, html, or plain text. Just something to be quicker and easier to use on small daily jobs or when debugging.

I feel like this should be pretty "trivial" to make, but can get feature heavy very quickly or too bloated and complex to figure out.

The big question here is does this already exist? I'd rather not waste my time rebuilding something, but I feel like there's an easy win here. Would this be useful for other people as well or will people yell the virtues of proper logging infrastructures? I'm building small software to run my own businesses or startups, simple and quick is fine for now (and I know that I'll move up the chain when I need to, this is more of an additional piece).

I would just like to make simple web reports I could view daily from good debug writelines so I don't have to store more crap in the db or email myself daily.

Thoughts?
Your observation reminds me of the original negative definition of the term "meritocracy" which focused on "merit" as being something not terribly strongly linked to actual measurable performance in a field.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment
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They are probably testing waters ("preorder now, get 40% off"). But it sounds great, hope they make it!
Its reputation among people like Lakens, and others complaining about the poor state of statistics and rigor in modern science, is that it features overinterpreted overhyped results from small underpowered experiments, and when errors are pointed out it's usually not too interested in correcting them. The editors are more interested in "important" results than methodologically rigorous ones.

It's similar to how Andrew Gelman always sarcastically refers to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences as the Prestigious Proceedings, because that's invariably the adjective used in news reports, yet many of the articles are of the "female-named hurricanes cause more damage" type.
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and what exactly has Ukraine to do with Russian language? it may come to you as surprise but Ukrainians speak Ukrainian, not Russian
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Really interesting to think about how these guys model out reliability estimates and come up with such crazy numbers. Thanks for the share.
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