skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can take a few guesses at how people might make these mistakes without being exceptionally delusional:

- Estimates of climate change in the scientific literature tend to be conservative. Scientists often publish "at least" projections that lay readers might read as "up to". Especially if readers are consuming multiply digested-and-regurgitated versions of scientific reports (primary literature -> university press office -> Gizmodo).

- Considering average effects without accounting for extremes: e.g. visualizing "X centimeters of sea level rise by 2050" for a property near water without accounting for what that higher average level means during the worst storm of a decade.

- Thinking that you'll have enough warning before everyone else's irrational exuberance evaporates that you can go with the herd for the foreseeable future. With something as big as a home purchase, most Americans will sadly only get one chance to learn this lesson the hard way.
Indeed - heaven forbid you try to sign into Azure Storage Explorer with both! It invalidates the other (workaround: use a SAS)
"Apple Forces Recyclers to Shred All iPhones and MacBooks"

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/apple-recycling-i...
You can get a free copy of windows for testing purpuse. you cant do that for mac.
I happened to have read the book a month or two before watching the movie. They were very different. In Ray's biography, he passes himself off as a "My word is as good as a contract" and "When I say I'll do this, I'll stick to it." The movie interpretation has him much more ruthless.
I probably should have written that as Community Version. I'm very uninformed when it comes to all of this and the Docker, Inc. ecosystem. Sorry about that :)
Yeah, in Haskell it's allowed but outputs a warning. So a lot of my modules use -fno-warn-orphans :D
Gotcha. This may be a bit of a tangent to my above question but it came to mind from the topic of transitioning:

Do you all discuss event sourcing and how it fits within an overall TimeScaleDB strategy? Anything more than a peripheral concept?
The nature of Facebook makes it also far more easier to release and distribute new products. People come to your service every hour -- on the other side none (should have) wanted to visit Microsoft's homepage, which makes the enterprise agreements a necessity, that doesn't scale (by any means) as well, although MS managed to scale pretty well.
I should clarify: one of the reasons Drew stuck with those instead of larger (I had recommended customs with 48s at one point) is so that he can use the same config in all regions. We have some older zones still with Ivy Bridges and such that won't do >32.

I fully expect that Drew will add a simple override map to say "use 64 threads here, 48 here, 32 here and so on" but with a goal to minimize preemptions.
I don't think that's true. A lot of americans complain about government in general but they don't have any specific suggestions (other than not changing the programs that benefit them like social security, medicare or VA). Maybe they have been trained to feel helpless by the elites?
“He then assessed each person’s scientific literacy with questions such as “True or False: Electrons are smaller than atoms.”

This is not a scientific literacy. It does not require to understand what science is and how it differs from a belief. Not much difference from asking "What is heavier: air or water?"

Edit: What people really lack is the understanding what science is. Why this method of exploring the world works better than the others. Only after that they can understand why it is worth to pay attention to it.
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Thanks for the clarification. I'll give this a try... maybe on Monday. This seems like a Monday task.
Yep, I knew about that; but appreciate it. Right now, discovery is not my priority...its more about me being lazy to post my stuff to multiple UIs. Its 2017, my lazy self simply wants to post to my gnu social, and have computers under my control auto-post to maybe 1 or 2 other destination silos (cough https://indieweb.org/POSSE cough)

Again, thx anyway! ;-)
On macOS, it's the "intuitive" command + option + i , which I can never remember (and then you still have to click on the stupid security tab, which is hidden if you don't have enough horizontal space on the dev tool frame)
I hadn't thought of that. Your average "crappy thumb drive" probably has more ECC than you'd need on a physical piece of paper. You're right.
Kubernetes benefits all parties. AWS can move customers away from GCE using Kubernetes, too. As a customer, you get more freedom and flexibility.
With public cloud, you're paying for the control plane. Period.

Yes the raw compute cost is much higher (and the performance often less) than bare metal, but software development is really, really expensive. With the public cloud you get the result of literally millions of programmer-hours "for free". To many that's worth it (at least at first, below a certain scale).

This is also one reason why Kubernetes is really exciting, BTW. It's a control plane that you don't have to rent.
I'm not quite sure what your point is. Is it that the OP seems too 'sneaky' for your taste and you'd prefer them coming right out and asking startup ideas/problems to work on?

In any case, what's wrong with trying to probe your peers for ideas and possible brainstorm? If you don't want to participate, simply do not comment, no?

I am a genuinely curious individual, and these are the questions I also like to ask, and not always because I want to profit immediately from them.

I'd be curious to get more of your feedback regarding this.
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You tell anyone they can't have anything, they want it more.

Citations:

1. This kid, I knew in kindergarten, wanted a G.I. Joe. Mom against all wars, and tired of seeing guys comming home with limbs blown off, only to be homeless, and have certain people shun them. That kid would buy GI Joes, and hide them in the neighbors hedge. That kid couldn't stop talking about Joe. (That kid tried to touch my Joe, and it happened once. The next time, I swatted his hand. Never told my shrink that one?)

2. I need my weed. It cures my condition. It make me more creative. I just want weed. I don't care if it's placebo.

3. The girl who said no. "You're just not my type." Years later she comes a knocking. Hell no, but I would have done anything for you in the ninties. And looking back--why? She was just an average person, but partied? I thought about her so much over the years. A bunch of lost years? Crazy?
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I get this, but in another sense, the answer is to offer people a reason to visit the site beyond the number, build an app with features people who care about celebrities' net-worth will enjoy, make something compelling so it's not as one-dimensional and easy to sidestep. It's like the whole 'keep american jobs' thing. I agree that American jobs are good, but many of the people calling for 'bringing back jobs,' aren't asking for new jobs with new technologies, efficiencies, and ways of doing things profitably, they want things to go back to 'the way they were,' and that really can't be done. Cut the losses try something new, keeping lessons learned.
I assume you mean Ray.
Ah, this is rather what I keep on explaining to folks about climate change - you don't have to wait for cities to be underwater, for infrastructure to be destroyed, for the worst consequences to be felt - they just have to be anticipated for disaster to strike.

For instance, you might have a scenario whereby Europe somehow has no climate change (this is demonstrably not the case), but, say, the 'stans become nigh on uninhabitable, or at least, bad enough that people don't want to stay put - you end up with a refugee crisis on your doorstep. This foments political change, economic change, and again, climate change is having an affect without directly affecting the local area.

Commensurately, you might find that your home insurance premiums on the gulf coast just keep on going up, and you decide to sell - except, the best you can get is less than you bought the place for, because new buyers are either building in the cost of insurance to the purchase price or don't exist, so you either don't sell, and end up staying until disaster really does strike, at which point you have nothing, or you relocate, writing off the worth of your property - which is where a great deal of people keep most of their net worth - and again, relocate, destitute. This creates pressure elsewhere on employment and housing markets, and before you know it, Iowa is saying that they want to implement immigration controls because the locals are up in arms, and political instability ensues. Meanwhile, your property on the gulf coast is still there, still standing, still not submerged, but the town's services have been gutted by the exodus, and the place is worth nothing - despite having not had any direct climate change impact.

Our society is a deeply unstable chaotic attractor - little nudges can cause massive disruption. Climate change is more of a shove, than a nudge.
> Advance warning: You might want to avoid doing this at work or in a public place.

Curious but admittedly eloquent variant of "nsfw".
Sure, Leddartech vu8 is targeting that in some of it's marketing material at least.
To be fair, there are mountains and they're pretty rocky :-)
Fantastic idea. Pour overs are the fastest decent brewing method, and usually the cheapest. Making it portable is really cool little innovation. If the coffee is good, I could see this really selling
I say this not as an excuse, but as an explanation: these things are very, very hard to get right, and can be nearly impossible to retrofit onto existing systems. When every single one of your dozens (or at Google's scale probably hundreds) of interlocking backend systems designed at different periods by hundreds of different engineers were built on the assumption that one primary key == one account == one user, and you try to change those assumptions in anything more than a superficial way, it's a guaranteed multi-year project with a high chance of failure. Just look at the mess Microsoft is in with their accounts, also on the front page, as an example (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14159085).

And of course, once you're a certain size (that Google passed more than a decade ago), you pretty much lose the opportunity to ever start over from scratch on this sort of thing. You're dealing with legacy systems forever.
Starbucks?
What problem do rockets solve?
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by event sourcing. Can you elaborate?
Not really since that's not an explanation of the results. The simplest explanation of the results is that ants have some degree of self-awareness.
Not to downplay climate change, I believe in it no matter what and I know it's one of the biggest catastrophes our planet has ever faced.

But I see a prediction of 32 cm rise by 2050 on Wikipedia (1)

It doesn't seem like the Florida coast is going anywhere overnight. Is there a chance we're panicking?

(1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise
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Thinking about this a bit more... I'm wondering if this engineer is really gambling? There's no question that a lot of people who buy ocean front property probably are... but I wonder if (s)he has a method to their PARTICULAR madness?

Ports are necessary to a nation for reasons of infrastructure and logistics that I won't go into right now. However, this is not to say that Miami or Myrtle Beach are as important as Houston or... say ... New Orleans. The reality is that there are certain ports that are more critical to the continuance of the US than others. And I'm hard pressed to think of two ports more critical to our survival than Houston and New Orleans. If those two were to disappear tomorrow, I'm pretty sure the rest of us would find out the hard way why they were important. (I'm not a petro-chemical engineer myself, but I was at Halliburton for a bit, and metallurgy alone to replace 5 or 6 trillion dollars worth of pipelines would be staggering.)

So given the criticality of certain ports... maybe there are people out there identifying the "ocean front property" that the US cannot live without... and buying it up where it is affordable? They wouldn't be so much gambling... as they would be seeing where resources will have to go... and getting there first.
> `npm --help` at least gives you a list of commands

`mvn --help` gives you a list of commands too.
What pisses me off is these homeowners are going to expect the federal government to bail them out when their property gets destroyed by climate change.

I don't mind helping out areas impacted by tornados hurricanes etc but not ignorance.
No one mentioning healthcare?

I think there's a massive opportunity to lower costs and improve user experience in every area. I wish Apple used their pile of cash to invest in a big vertically integrated healthcare service - a chain of hospitals, in-house-developed software throughout, improve user experience, integration and tech on every level. Basically healthcare rethought from the ground-up with Silicon Valley consumer-oriented mentality. Yes, extremely daring, but they're in a unique position to pull that off.
In a very limited sense they have since the ads you end up seeing are targeted towards your culture based on your browsing history.
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800k isn't affordable housing by definition.
Grandparent is writing numerical code. I doubt that Go which has neither operator overloading nor built-in types such as vector/matrix will work here.
And this is making Java look good how exactly?
> Geographically, like a phone network.

I don't think that makes much sense for breaking up something like Facebook.

Unlike a phone network, Facebook's service is not rooted in geography. Yes, it's users have homes and geographic locations, but those are just arbitrary account attributes, just like their name or if they like the Denver Broncos.
You might as well have one post-breakup company start out with all the A-M accounts and the other the N-Z accounts.

If you had to divide up the users between N successor companies, I'd probably be best to do it based on friend-graph connectivity, with mandated interoperability between them. That might make the successors sticky enough to survive.
Why not rewrite it in Graphene, which is the Servo's foundation for browser.html?

https://github.com/browserhtml/browserhtml
Pretty weak response. I fail to see how their machine's "consistent pressing" improves on a blender or juicer in the "taste and nutrition" department, and that is the point that sells the $400 machine. Point 3 about the "connected supply chain" is just a boast. On point 1, are people dying left and right from eating recalled food? I'm not convinced there's enough of a problem there to warrant such defenses, especially when it looks a lot more like a market capture tool.
> everywhere that accepts cards

Given the shift to chip-and-PIN, which can't be emulated like this -- Plastc claimed they could but never demonstrated it (because it's impossible) -- they were way too late to market with this idea even 3 years ago.

And if merchants are going to roll out new POS hardware they might as well jump to NFC as it leapfrogs cards on convenience. And security, if your device implements tokenization and fingerprints-instead-of-PINs (like Apple Pay and others). Also it's built in to lots of phones and watches now.
Ok, you didn't say it was a good thing. Let me rephrase: so you find it "less wrong" because they replaced an allegedly paper-thin but relatively unique character with another paper-thin but bland and uninspired Hollywood trope?

I guess I disagree this is unimportant. Susan Calvin was a pretty cool and unique character when I read the stories. A woman of cold logic who out-thinks men instead of being a piece of decoration? Cool! Instead, they butchered her in the movie, along with inserting Will Smith's character which doesn't match with anything in Asimov's robot stories -- not even with characters such as Mike Donovan and Greg Powell -- and is completely out of tone with everything Asimov wrote.

Also, buy my vintage all-star converse sneakers, and drive my powerful futuristic Audi. Yuck!
I am primarily talking about the Oracle/Docker partnership. Oracle is well known for acquiring open source projects and stripping them down to skeleton crews to remove competition, pushing the developers who built the OSS onto forks. Microsoft has improved its image, it's still got plenty of skeletons in its closet though. Remember the "Get the facts campaign"?

The fact that they’re constantly brought on stage to be paraded as a symbol of enterprise maturity and stability just tells me that the product is not mature or stable enough to speak for itself, and that the original OSS community really has no say in the direction of Docker while enterprises are sold the ship and wheel for their rubber stamp approvals.
Internal divisions are pretty competitive, so you're not far off.
Not just in "spy cases", but in all areas -- e.g. a missing "fugitive" the other week in a nearby state -- I read and hear about the incredible amounts of manpower (gender-neutral) and related resources being devoted to these "hunts."

And I can't help thinking, 'What if you (random gov. agency, or whatever -- and the politics behind it) put those resources into addressing the underlying problem?

In my neighboring state problem, several man-years of effort and wages -- including, I'm betting, a significant chunk of overtime wages -- went into tracking down one fellow who went off-grid and was found -- in a non-confrontational manner -- by a local farmer.

That would buy a lot of assistance and prevention programs. A lot of pro-active healthcare and remediation -- areas where a relatively little amount of money goes a long way.

In these "leak" cases, nobody seems to work up-front on systems design and mitigation. And, in my opinion and wish, full-book audit trails; I'm not particularly interested in controlling these leakers, but I would like an inviolable record of every use of these systems that also documents uses to circumvent citizens' rights and due process.
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Wops, sorry for my confusion!

Then it is definitely interesting :)
The startup scene here in Vancouver is scrappy but really shouldn't be compared to SV in any way, it's just not a fair comparison.

We are, however, woefully under-represented with experienced seed stage investors, as the author states. The few that are here have abandoned seed and pre seed and are exclusively VC, mid to late round investors. Can't blame them, either, as the wins are still few and far between.

Vancity seems to excel at bridging H1B visas for large firms hoping to cycle them into the US once they've cleared. Candidates get here easier and quicker.

We're also a cost effective labour farm, and our devs are happy for the work to help pay for their ridiculous mortgages.

Great city to live in, worst city to fundraise, good place to launch and validate, and really nice for avoiding the noise.

We'll see a unicorn or two in the coming years. They'll just go a much different path than the typical SV startup.
I just want to thank the author for a very well-written piece. I found it incredibly interesting and really connected with the format/flow of the post. I would love to see similar posts for various frameworks and languages.
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1. Sports betting

2. Oligopoly[0] just a few companies who deliver live results.

You would need a ton of cash upfront, to hire people who would watch the games and would press buttons in order to inform you about results so you could parse them and deliver live results which eventually would become a live API.

But as you can see, there are people involved in this, who watch all those games, if you can manage to automate this, without requiring too many people, you are a rich man.

Let's put in that way, almost everyone consumes their API if they are offline, we are offline.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopoly
I really hate the fact that you're exactly correct.
Does serde support serializing to protobuf and back?
I recalled incorrectly; Clarke was apparently pretty happy with it. I must have been thinking of some other SF film. . .
Doesn't the XPS13 only go to 16GB? My understanding is that you need DDR4 to get 32GB RAM in a laptop.
Note that 22kW is right about what a Tesla will consume cruising at highway speeds. So you could label that as "an efficient cruising car."
I would agree with that quote if it was referring to Java or a scripting language. But developing an application using an embedded web browser as the framework has to be the most inefficient use of resources as possible.
i swear these media outlets read hacker news/medium/any other popular blog site and just regurgitate information
Sure there is. They call them "Mexican Cokes" and they come in bottles (12 oz.). I used to buy them by the case at Costco for ~18.

Also, I was using 'sugar' generically, and perhaps I should've said 'sugars' (i.e. mono- and di-saccharides)[0]. Fructose counts as a sugar in my mind. Maybe the naturally occurring substances we desire should not be extracted, and the other constituents that occur alongside our desired constituent has an evolutionary reason for being there.

[0] Sucrose is glucose + fructose:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucrose
Kim Stanley Robinson explores this very market force in some interesting ways in his new New York 2140, with the Intertidal Property Pricing Index (IPPI).

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-08/only-sci-...
George Lucas asked him to direct Return of the Jedi. I still don't quite understand why he turned that down but picked up Dune a year or so later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJQ4vCu-S0U
It is just a result of poor planning, technically they are two separate accounts. https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2016/...

They did add an option so you can change your personal account's email address so you don't have to deal with account namespace issues.
I live in Calgary and we had a big flood a few years ago. The province and federal government stepped in to help some homeowners that weren't covered by insurance. Following the flood, they did land evaluation and identified homes in the flood plain. If you lived in the flood plain, you would only receive government assistance once. After that, if you stayed in the home, and it flooded, you were on your own. And this was home specific, not buyer specific. So I really should be saying "Your home would receive government assistance once".
This guy cannot honestly be as dumb as he presented himself in this article.

I guess if he thinks people will buy his explanation he very well might be.
I like that the first comment points out that they would be useless once the chip and pin switch takes place "in a year or so".
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14119713

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14130241

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14153900
It's a difficult problem, but food just takes too much of people's time. Something like a personalized service that brings you food according to your own nutritional schedule would be nice.
Algo trading is about having the edge.

The edge is something you have and other people don't.

Enjoy your feature engineering.

(Meaning: selling the same curated data product to many customers undermines its value. Overpricing it and selling only to the selected few, on the other hand...)
https://crates.io/crates/serde_protobuf

(I haven't tried it)
We'll just have to agree to disagree.