skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no evidence that a portfolio of Basecamps would beat a portfolio of Twitter-hopefuls, and a lot of reasons to think it wouldn't. Most companies fail. They fail when they're carefully run companies on organic growth paths, and they fail when they're reckless moon-shots.

There's an important fact I think people here miss. We tend not to consider a quiet, well-run small organic tech company that generates great salaries for a team for 10-15 years a "failure". And, in the sense that it's lucrative and pleasant and enriching for everyone directly involved, it isn't. But if it doesn't ultimately generate liquidity for investors, it is, for those investors, a failure. Startup investing isn't a charity run by pension funds for the benefit of software developers and product managers, or even for the users who enjoy the products built by those teams. For investment to make sense, it has to generate returns --- not just steady ticking returns, but enough to offset all the other failures.

Companies like Basecamp are great. Incidentally: they're the only kind of company I ever think about starting! But we shouldn't kid ourselves that they should attract investment dollars. Reckless moon-shots are intrinsic to the model of investment-funded companies.
What's wrong with async/await?
Not even TS work - it can include lower level classifications too.
Until the stores start offering delivery
in a previous life, i worked for someone (small start up) that did exactly this to me. I reported him to the authorities, and he is not in prison. I depends on the size of the amount stolen and how busy your local DA's office is.

I was in NYC.
Depends if the whiteboard questions are how to implement a hash table, or a B+ Tree sorting algorithm directly on hard disk minimizing read/writes per node, while constrained to a specific amount of RAM.

Writing B+ Trees in such scenarios is not something that one does on daily enterprise coding.

Yes, I had that question done to me at Google, on a phone interview.
How is the tech cooler when you _remove_ from consideration one of its potential niches (even if it's a lesser one)? I don't buy the spectacular claim as expressed above either, but it's not beyond to me to think of how it could have a non-revolutionary but solid impact for personal consumers' lives at some point.
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Here's a few more interesting facts:

- before the Crown, there were several crowns. England was composed of a handful of Anglo-Saxon petty kingdoms

- before that, it had an emperor. The Roman emperor.

- parts were ruled by the Danish (the Danelaw) and parts were ruled by the Saxons

- with regards to the UK, the political union is much younger than the union of crowns. The personal union was a Scottish king inheriting the English throne. The political union was the English parliament strong arming the Scottish.

- there was once a kingdom of Ireland until England had its way.
They include the fact in the first paragraph that mentions Amazon. Almost certainly this is a house rule that all the editors at the Washington Post are familiar with.
What do so many of these thinkers (or any in all of history) have to say about machines that act of their own volition to complete tasks that render most or all human effort unnecessary?
My rule for posts that contain text as an image is that the information in that image is almost certainly wrong.
I think that reasoning is kind of lame (is it really so hard? do they eat the same thing every meal?) But certainly both Obama and Zuckerberg would be distinctive figures regardless of what they wore.
I don't understand enough about how Indian government works to answer this question: Why can't they lay down sewers and water supplies in urban areas, at least to start with?
I use this list as more of a scare tactic/reality check, something I can show naive entrepreneurs who think they are ready for funding realize there is a lot more to the game then having a cool idea.
I said this before, Uber should seriously consider closing down its operation in other countries. It is expanding virtually exponentially (they have a huge engineering team) for the type of company they are running. They need to focus on the U.S. market. They are losing way too much money everywhere combiend.
Loud sounds make nearby things vibrate, which is easily felt. Even louder sounds, like cannon fire, had obvious concussions and visible shock waves, and you could feel the thump in your chest.

A bell ringing will set up visible vibrations in a nearby cup of water.

Instrument makers shaped sound in air boxes in violins, and shaped it in horns. Sound has obvious propagation delays through air.

Maybe lay people had strange notions of sound, like flat earthers, but educated and observant people would know better. The evidence was all around, it did not need a lab experiment.
That's actually awesome, what a ridiculously simple way to mess with people. Something about nerds makes them freeze up when they see a guy in a suit as if it gave one magical powers. People claim not to care about clothes or fashion, but if that were true they wouldn't care if he wore a suit.
I think the author is slightly exaggerating here; not that the larger range wouldn't be useful.

Assuming that there's a stationary obstruction that you must come to a complete stop.

According to [1] the stopping distance of a car travelling at 70mph is 245ft (75m).

A car travelling at 70mph is doing approx 31m/s.

With a 0.5s reaction time, the car would travel only 90m, or;
With a 200m range, the car would have 4s to initiate an emergency breaking manoeuvre.

[1] http://www.government-fleet.com/content/driver-care-know-you...
I'm skeptical that they knew that vibrating air was what our ears perceived as sound. If you know a little about the history of science, there are tons of theories that held up for some time that are no less "ridiculous" to our eyes than some special medium moving through air that our ears process as sound. The fact that the _source_ of sound was known to vibrate doesn't exclude this possibility, and _that's_ what violin/piano players knew about (Sources of visible light often give off heat, but saying that light and heat are the same thing is not implied by that).
Thanks for providing your perspective. Articles relating to powerful parties who reject established political mores (e.g. prohibitions on unlicensed business activity, redistributive taxation) illicit a lot of demagogic reactions and attempts to cast the party as some kind of terrible menace to society.
Liability clauses are routinely invalidated in court.
In the LD advocacy community, there seem to be two types of arguments made in support of entrepreneurs/leaders with LD (typically dyslexia and ADHD).

The first is the notion that people with LD have certain deficits, and because they are forced to work around these deficits they develop other skills that are important for leadership. The article makes this argument at various points.

The second is the notion that people with LD also have direct advantages (as opposed to the indirect advantages described above). These are often described as creativity, being able to see the big picture, or having superior management skills. Interestingly, this article did not make this type of claim.

As the founder of a startup whose technology improves reading ability and focus for people with LD, I am a bit conflicted about this dichotomy. After all, if my software helps dyslexic and ADHD folks to read more like neurotypical folks, then do they "miss out" on the indirect benefits of LD? If so, perhaps they would be better off without our assistive technology.

On the other hand, if the benefits of LD are direct, then there would be no tradeoff. A dyslexic person using our software would retain all the creative and other benefits of dyslexia, but they would just be able to read much faster than before.

I'm curious to know what folks here (HN + A11Y) think about these two common claims about LD. Do you think the benefits are more indirect (like the article focuses on) or direct (which the article does not claim)?
Agreed! There are very few things I need immediately, and to be honest by the time I have enough time to make a trip over to a mall I could have ordered and it would have been delivered already.
When you publish it I would love to read it. send it.
Reminds me of an old classic, the then-Minister for Communications in Australia back in 2010.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gl7X6peh-w
If you take the time to FedEx your SSD to avoid customs you certainly made sure the disk was encrypted...
>It's absurd how much our country is going to profit models that consist of nothing more than "make the same revenue, and externalize the costs onto society."

Uber is not externalising costs to society. It is providing employment opportunities that otherwise would not exist, and rides at prices that would otherwise be higher.

Taking market share from competitors by offering consumers lower prices is not a case of "externalizing costs onto society".
One time I might have said "I can't raise my arms like this" :D
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Double IPA level of hop
It was very much alive in the early 1980s. (I worked in Cupertino from 1979-1985, and Vallco was a place we often went for lunch.)
It depends. Sometimes, it's really important, and you have to make it through quicky even if that means sacrificing other principles.

You have to balance your civic duty as a citizen with whatever else is going on. But hopefully our default mode is to emphasize our responsibility as democratic citizens to lead by example, and to resist degenerate behavior whenever we can...
The European Union is often made fun of with "the Americans innovate, the EU regulates", but in the meantime GDPR[1] is coming into force in 2018

> The primary objectives of the GDPR are to give citizens and residents back control of their personal data

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regu...
This is the standard way when looking for reduced order models in fluid mechanics.

Variations on this:
i) How 'faithfully' does it represent the data, eg, how many modes (components) are needed to resolve accuracy in a particular metric, or the entire system
ii) What is the cut-off component number which has a signal of order of the measurement uncertainty.
I think this is perfectly fine if the data just states whether the sums are in adjusted or nominal currency.

Doing the conversion is an elementary school thing. And not even that: just type "1000 dollars in 1947" to Google, and you'll get a number of links that do the conversion.

Sometimes it's the deceptive conversions that are a problem, so keeping in nominal sums helps with data integrity.
>Amazon actively and vigorously sought to make sure it stayed within the previously-established exceptions to the requirement to collect a sales tax for quite a long time,

Source?
Samo is Slovenian version of Sam. "samo" means "only"/"just" but pronounced a bit differently than Samo.
> If you[, a citizen of the United States,] ever get asked that question at the US border, please don't acquiesce to that request.

Absolutely agreed. I will do this[0]. I'm a U.S. citizen with the unequivocal right to enter the country once my citizenship has been established. U.S. citizens are the only ones who can stand up to this madness--either at the border or by influencing and electing people who can change the written law and how it is enforced--and it's our responsibility to do so.

I've entered the country several times and have never gotten more than a "passport, please" request (except, oddly, when driving south from Canada; they're rather surly at the Peace Arch, in my experience), which I recognize is very lucky of me. When I travel, I'm enough of a worry-wart that I build in a lot of spare time to get to and from my destination. "Do you want to fly today" and "you'll be screened for four additional hours" are threats that hold no weight with me, thankfully. I'm in no hurry.

I'm the ideal test case. I have oodles of paid vacation time, a family full of lawyers, and a ornery streak a kilometer wide. Bring it.

0 - I can't say "I have done this" because it's never come up but I'm resolute. "No" is my answer, if it ever does, and I'm sticking with it.
The first paragraphs of this article are so nakedly biased that it's hard to take the rest seriously:

> IBM's financial performance has shown steady improvement ever since the mid-'90s, when the internet made "work from home" practical, using tools that IBM pioneered, like email, groupware, and Web conferencing.

> IBM hasn't had an unprofitable year since 1994, and its revenue per share has more tripled since then.

This makes it sound like IBM is doing great, instead of mentioning that IBM's revenue has fallen for twenty straight quarters, when other large tech companies have been booming.

> During that period, IBM has created more innovation than any other company. In 2016 alone, IBM filed more patents than Google, Apple, and Microsoft combined.

Equating number of patents filed with "innovation" is absurd. IBM files a ton of patents because they are in the patent licensing business.
I use Linux. I'm convinced that if I put a small Windows partition up (or another Linux install) and make grub boot into it automatically (with little delay) no one would ever notice. Does any one know if they check for multiple partitions at all?

And Android can have multiple users, can you set up a new user and boot into that one automatically?
Obviously veidr's goal is to resist normalization of the behavior.
Most large companies I worked for ask me to unlock my corporate laptop shall CPB agents ask me to do so (and tell the corporate security afterwards for obvious reasons). I don't think an American company will fire you for complying with the law enforcement.
I'm interested to read about where people believe this progression of technology will take us in the near and far future. Are there thought out considerations of what type of world we are heading towards? Has Google revealed their vision of advertising for 2032? I don't mean this rhetorically, I genuinely want to know what vision there is for advertising in the future because I believe it's something we really ought to be thinking about and judging so we can make informed decision about what's best for us.
I find files called :waq on my file system at least once per week
Retailers definitely make money by tying together transactions (easy with cards, impossible with cash). That's why loyalty cards exist.
I disagree. I use VSCode completely without mouse (and no vim mode).
>That 50x difference is not all because gold inhibits bacterial growth.

Silver also inhibits bacterial growth, which is why it's used in deodorants, silverware, etc.
do they get stuck on it in quizzes or actual programming? I haven't seen devs, other than new devs, get stuck on this, very rare to see it on stackoverflow other than for students. I think the problem is the lens you are seeing things through is this kind of quiz like thing and what trips programmers up doing a quiz. I'd like to see repeatable research into correlations between a vetting quiz and actual capability of producing software.
In Scotland the leasehold was abolished in 2004, it doesn't exist.

http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2004/08/19790/41578
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Right. And the development of a global ecommerce market would have been severely hampered if the cypherpunks hadn't won the "crypto wars".
> against an app!

Should that in some way magically exempt them from hard won (with blood [1]) labor protections?

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair
Interesting perspective, and definitely possible that benefits of ADHD do not dissipate with treatments.

This CEO attributed some of his leadership strengths to his dyslexia (aversion to email, method of running board and other meetings). If there were a treatment that allowed him to read better, what would happen to these benefits? And perhaps the question isn't so much what would happen to this CEO, who is all grown up and has developed his management style, but rather what would happen to kids with dyslexia who could be treated at a younger age. Would they miss out on benefits that he has developed?

If a parent had to choose between enabling their child to read better (which helps with schooling and many jobs) or having the opportunity to develop skills that could help with leadership, how would they choose? There seems to be a cognitive dissonance in the dyslexia community — where parents
fiercely advocate for every treatment for their child, and simultaneously also tout the benefits of having dyslexia. If the latter is true, is the former necessary or even desirable?
Hottest girl in my class had asked for help with how to install a free antivirus on her laptop because the 1 year free-with-laptop McAfee had expired and she was getting dengerously annoying prompts and thought her laptop might be hacked. By the time I was done with "best free antivirus for Windows" someone else in the lab had done it. In my defence I was a linux guy.

She married a doctor just after college. So that's there. But I learned my lesson. No more "best of .." unless it's critical or is for vanity.
The reality in the Nordics is already that most people never use cash.
I cannot recall making a cash transaction in the past 18 months.
I get the sentiment, but bug reports are distinct from test cases. Better to track the bugs inside the repo, e.g. using something like bugseverywhere or artemis.
If you're telling Joe that he can't give Bill a ride, in exchange for money, that to me seems very oppressive.
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I experience this, too!
Exactly we are blasting so much radiation everywhere, why should we start caring now with the IR radiation.
How is this a surprise? The US government is pure evil. It has always been. You don't have to believe me, just read the documents written by the founding fathers, particularly Federalist Paper #10.

Few people appreciate that the main reason the US constitution is so protective of individual liberties is that the founding fathers hated each other profoundly, but they hated the British even more. So they created a system of government that would protect the new country from the British while at the same time protecting the founding fathers from each other.

The US constitution and the US government are two different things. The former is probably the greatest document ever written in the history of political science. The latter was born evil, and continues to be evil to this day.
This is likely unpopular, but this makes my job exponentially easier. The number of "What is that click worth" questions to us data driven marketing folks by small businesses effectively closes off a lot of us that focus primarily on the data from that market. With this, there is very real money to be made with small businesses that were too skittish to advertise before. We've been playing with Facebook's online to offline and frankly the brick and mortar folks we work with that we're utilizing it are incredibly delighted.
Commerce is economic production and coordination at scale. It enables humanity to have a far higher standard of living than would otherwise be possible. In my opinion, it is a moral imperative to remove all restrictions on voluntary economic actions and interactions, both for utilitarian reasons, and for the sake of the individual's right to control their own body and actions.
The article cites number of patent cases taken to court over years. One should note that the damages are geater. When a patent troll was able to stop Microsoft from distributing their office because someone patented a way to save documents in xml and regardless of the final rule or the settlement. The FUD is enough to make many people pay without being sued.
Oh it gets better. "We don't know what you bought or how much".

https://www.revolution-payments.com/requirements-for-level-3...

> Level 3 processing can benefit businesses who sell to other businesses or government by lowering your transaction cost by as much as 1.50%.

> Line Item Details:

Of course, if they are like one of the places I worked...they just turn it on for everyone and pass it along regardless.
Agreed. Impossible to read, horrible broken UI (pagination, really?). Fonts too large. Too much white space.
I recently upgraded ElasticSearch to 5.x

I cant use a static HTML plugin called head, because port 9200 was already taken and site plugins were disabled.

Wanna use head plugin? Install 300 megabytes docker image and setup CORS.
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well, with some experience, border guards will learn to spot
a non-ntfs partition, that windows dutyfully reports as unformated/blablah space, so that will eventually be caught, dont rely on this to actually protect you, its more of a sleigh of hand that may be easily spotted by the right guard.
This works very well. We use it throughout the company, more so in some places. I have done this with security engineers, and to my pleasant surprise, with compliance candidates as well. It has exceeded my expectations.
I hate VI not defaulting to wasd for movement like every other single piece of software I used growing up... (e.g. Quake, Marathon...) Ha ha ha. (Or should my games have used hjkl)?
I don't know Vi(m) well at all and that's mostly my impatience and procrastination. Just like I could never truly touch-type. But I totally get how Vim is excellent at what it does and hence why it's important. Not using the mouse and not having a lot of distraction are godsend when doing any work worth your time involving lots of text whether it's reading, or writing code, or a story. Also, I've kind of never even seen all those ancient gadgets you have named - I feel this based on my exp with computers (and starting with a Dell Vostro) since 2007.

edit: I've been getting slightl better at it by forcing myself to use VimFx on Firefox and cVim on Chrome and now I am planning to get IdeaVim for WebStorm and Android Studio.
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Making code public does not imply support. Of any kind. Those are very, very different things.
Levi's seem obscenely cheap in the USA compared to use here in Australia and New Zealand. It's $110 AUD for Levi's bought online from Australia, and even more to buy them here in New Zealand.

American online retailers that have good, affordable shipping to New Zealand won't ship Levi's to NZ (or at least last time I checked, they didn't).
The Cluss Test
As a Python beginner I'm completely flabbergasted... How can this be? And why can't I use "is" to compare integers? This is insane. The quoted stackoverflow is not very readable to me...

By the way y == 257 does work.
This is a very old post!!
"Are you using travel mode?"

"No"

You just lied to someone at border control. Which is an offense.
So why can’t we convert the useless ‘round’, ‘smooth’ desert sand into useful angular sand?

E.g. use concentrated sunlight to fuse sand grains together [1], then crush to the desired grain size.

It’s got to be a better solution than shipping sand halfway around the world.

[1] http://www.markuskayser.com/work/solarsinter/
Depends on the exact model. The xps has an "i7" but it's pretty much just a core m with a few little extras.

Remember, this is a fanless design so thermal throttling will be insane, just like on the macbook and the xps13.
That's a bit like a European saying they're avoiding the US beacause of all the spree killings and school shootings. The risk is minuscule for any particular person.
Do you wash ever piece of clothing after wearing it once?

Most pants (in the American sense, not British) should last you at least a couple of days. I'm not going to wash a nice pair of woolen trousers every day.