skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nugget has a pretty vibrant community of SaaS-focused founders. As a modern community, most of that activity is via Slack and Discourse threads, not passive blog posts. The Nugget Slack channels are pretty active, and they include real-world mentoring by folks who have been there/done that.

Like any community, only a small handful of Nugget members are super active. Many people come to Nugget looking for self-implementing ideas, and they tend to wash out when they realize that hard work is involved to make ideas into businesses.

Several Nugget members have done the work to hit revenue, and there is a core group of us who are taking advantage of mentoring by Nugget's Justin and Brandon, who really know their stuff.

I belong to FounderCafe, Fizzle and Nugget; they all add value, but Nugget is laser-focused on actively helping people actually BUILD SOMETHING. If that's what you are seeking, you owe to yourself to check out Nugget.
Which has nothing to do with my point, which was that the grandparent was assuming the MUH wasn't true as evidence that it isn't.
Holy crap, that article is full of crazy gems:

> The Australian letter-to-number mapping was A=1, B=2, F=3, J=4, L=5, M=6, U=7, W=8, X=9, Y=0

wat?

> In the United Kingdom the letter "O" was combined with the digit "0" rather than "6".

nooo...

> In Norway, the North American system with the number '1' corresponding to one pulse was used, except for the capital, Oslo, which used the same "inverse" system as in New Zealand.

holy crap

> the United Kingdom selected 999 due to the ease of converting call office dials to make free calls. "0" for the Operator was already free, and the cam that removed the shunt on the line when the dial was rotated to the "0" position could be altered to include the adjacent digit "9" (and "8" if required) so that calls to "0" and "999" could be made without inserting coins.

And there we have the explanation for GPs assertation that "999" was the best number, it was instead a purely technical limitation in the mechanical construction of pay phones.
$7.5B “clean coal” power plant suspends coal gasification, now burns natural gas
> Vietnam was not a very popular war, they did it anyway.

It was extremely popular when LBJ started the war. Less than 25% of the public thought sending troops to Vietnam was a mistake. Similarly, only 23% of Americans thought sending troops to Iraq was a mistake at the outset of that war. Popular opinion overwhelmingly supported both of those wars. The notion that "it's very clear that the majority of Americans do not want more war & nation building" and "the globalists + military industrial complex go ahead and do what they want anyway" isn't just misleading, it's false -- if not an outright lie.
Please don't play in traffic. The medical bills can pile up fast.
But the Valley isn't where the "generational failure" referred to in the article is taking place.
Which team is that? I'd like to know so I can avoid it.
I'm just going to leave this here and then step away from the insanity here on HN:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-crux-of-...
> * the tickets cost nearly as much*

Given that we don't have a high speed rail system in place, I'm not sure where this number is coming from.

> You're limited to putting people in a few train cars, as opposed to a continuous stream of people on a freeway.

My wife, my kid and I flew down to Texas, and are going to be spending about 20 hours doing long-distance drives.

I would absolutely love to be in a few high-speed train cars than stuck in a car, in a continuous stream of people, where one of us has to remain at relatively high alert for hours at a time, while the other one is strapped into a seat, trying to entertain the other other one who is strapped into a smaller seat, but has boundless energy and no concept of patience.

If we had some sort of road-train system where we weren't welded to a gas pedal and a steering wheel, then maybe.
For Rust? Are you aware of rustfmt?
In Hawaii, the city bus system isn't disgusting. Someone I know told me so. But yeah everywhere else in US, public transportation is disgusting and inconvenient.
Not if they had no money to spend on marketing in the first place. Saying no money was spent on marketing is advertising strategies that might work if someone with low capital who is trying to boostrap a company.
I guess it depends on what you mean by productivity, but I can read a book while standing, I can read and respond to emails, and I can actually zone out and relax.

In a car, I have to be on moderately high alert the entire time I'm driving, especially in traffic.
They may just be specifying the amount of marketing.

If the headline simply reads "Taking $foo to 250M API req/day" and then it turns out that all of the traffic came from a $4MM ad spend, it's a lot less interesting to those without $4MM to spend.
Openbsd changes of note 624
... and it will also make them not anonymous functions :)
> 2. Private prison lobbyist

That should say: government prison lobbyists. See: how government police & prison lobby groups have fought against pot legalization for decades. They have far more money and influence than the private prison industry (and that was 10x more the case 10+ years ago, when the private prison industry was hardly more than a pebble).

Those with the most to lose from pot legalization in terms of money, are government employees. The extreme majority of all the people put in prison during the US prison boom, went into government prisons staffed by government employees, and were arrested by government employees.

The war on drugs was a government program, that benefited the government by dramatically increasing its power and scale in just about every possible way. The private prison industry was tiny before year ~2000 (and it's still a small minority of the racket, which still mostly benefits the government).

The government prison complex is worth hundreds of billions of dollars per year. All that profit extract goes into the pockets of the government employees (and to a lesser extent, government contractors that build prisons etc).

Show me the labor cost of all the government employees related to the prison system (including the unnecessary police/arresting-related employees) over the last 40 years, inflation adjusted. Here's a hint: it's over a trillion dollars and makes the private prison money look like a joke.

CoreCivic is worth $3 billion and does $1.8 billion in revenue. That's equivalent to the salary & benefits of about 20,000 cops. There are two million (that's 100x the size of CoreCivic) people directly or indirectly employed by the government prison system, including 1.2+ million that are employed by state & local law enforcement agencies.

The income & benefits for those two million workers that are feeding off the government prison complex, is worth at least $150+ billion per year.

Politicians also love the government prison complex. It supports their power by making sure taxes remain artificially high, which keeps their slush funds higher, and they can basically build jobs in their voting districts with government prisons.
German Google, no. Also not when writing it in German.
there's the "everything is objects and messages sent to them" bit too, which is definitely from smalltalk. ruby took the good bits from several languages.
Fyre Festival Organizer Charged with Wire Fraud
I'm confused why you think you're entitled to this information?
I don't think that argument holds water when it comes to rail.

High density population centers separated by low density farmland and open space should be nearly ideal for high speed rail. There are huge swaths of land where there's nothing to tear down, there are fewer property owners to deal with, and there are usually fewer obstacles to route around.
And somehow magically the continuously overcrowded streets and traffic jams don't apply to the Googlr car? Have fun waiting in traffic..
I do not think this is true. I think people have an easier time seeing themselves in an Acela car than they do in a Jetblue seat --- which is part of why the Acela is so popular. People don't drive from DC to NYC so they can signal their independence. Pretty much, they don't drive from DC to NYC at all.

Where HSR is feasible and built out in the US, it gets used. The problem is, HSR isn't feasible for the most economically important routes in the US.

You can get from London to Paris in 3 hours on a train, and from Paris to Frankfurt in about 5. Almost as a rule, the most economically central European cities are closer to each other by rail than the most important American cities are --- excepting the Eastern Seaboard, where we have rail --- by air.
I would not have much interest in greater understanding between me and someone who calls my desires "retrograde".
>"Actually what we need is a huge corrective in media, the stuff feminists complain about all the time. [...]This problem forms in large part because men are too attached to media that reinforces notions of women as secondary people, objects, and reward trophies."

Yes, let's make it a thought crime to think of women as "secondary people, objects and reward trophies" and punish them for thinking it, instead of punishing actual physical criminal behavior. Let's ban and burn books because we don't like the type of behavior they "create" in males.
Ditto. Sounds like a bunch of egos I want to avoid at all costs.
Hi Thomas,

Just want to begin by saying I have a lot of respect for you and Matasano.

I think the fact that you think that it's inappropriate to discuss mental health at all is very telling of the main issue I have with all of this. Mental health shouldn't be taboo. I think people should be more open and willing to discuss their issues and any traits that they recognize in broad diagnostic criteria, and to seek treatment. Other first-world countries have a much better approach to mental health, and I don't see why there isn't a broader push in the United States to get to a similar point.

I knew three engineers who committed suicide, and I think they could have been saved if our current society didn't shame people for seeking treatment. I know most of my past and former coworkers work through their problems with self-medication or escapism, because seeking treatment is unthinkable and a sign of weakness.

I think it's wrong to just pretend like this hypothetical is impossible, and to follow a plan of action that doesn't account for bad actors and leaves their victims to fend for themselves.

My main bone to pick with BPD is that people with good intentions, either knowingly or unknowingly, enable those who have it because they belong to a group that they seek to protect, and can use that status as a shield to defend their irrational and abhorrent behavior. I think this is extremely dangerous. The root of this discussion was about the burden of proof resting completely on the accused. I don't know if anyone can even see that anymore since most of my posts have been flagged. That is the only thing I have a problem with, though I admit that I segued way too far towards posting about BPD simply because I used it for my hypothetical.

I think the vast majority of people who participate in modern society could benefit from therapy and mental health services, including myself. Surely some people have observed my posts in this thread, and think that I could benefit from therapy after having a traumatic experience with someone who had BPD. I'm inclined to agree, and I don't really have a good reason for why I haven't followed through. Talking about it online and spreading awareness definitely helps me.
There are so many opportunities to save energy with self-driving cars that I suspect this point will not be a clear win.

But that assumes we do the right thing by constructing a standardized network and enforcing conformance with it, so they can behave more like high-speed train segments and less like individual vehicles. Here in the US, we generally do the right thing, but only after trying everything else first.
Yeah, and features like Data Saver on mobile Chrome will quietly proxy your requests through Google servers. Not sure if G forwards the proper X-FORWARDED-FOR headers (or if all IP detection services read them).
I didn't look close enough in the developer tools to see the limited extent. From what I can see, just the email list sign-up forms on www.nytimes.com are using React, but all of the new front page of mobile.nytimes.com is in React. They are testing the new version of the mobile site in a partial roll-out, so if you open a new browser session there's a good chance the new one will get served to you (It will have a message saying "You’re seeing a test of a new version of the New York Times home page.").
That's like refusing a fresh cheeseburger because you're afraid that by the time you bite into it, it'll develop botulism - even as you're minutes away from starving to death. You're nitpicking tiny details and dismissing a clear improvement because it does not conform perfectly to your idealized standards. Life is messy, people make mistakes. That just means we keep moving forward and self correcting when we need to not when we make up entirely hypothetical downsides, most of which never end up happening anyway. I repeat, again: you have provided zero evidence for your claims that the Rust team is doing the wrong thing or heading in the wrong direction.

This insistence on using hypotheticals instead of providing evidence screams fear; not a rational evaluation of the community and its plans. It's the same tired strategy used by conservatives for thousands of years to fight literacy, education, suffrage, abolition of slavery, welfare, universal healthcare, and pretty much everything good that has happened in human society. No one but its rhetorical peddlers take it seriously because it is purely self defeating: if you're too paralyzed by hypothetical issues to take the first step, then those issues will never be resolved, freeing you from facing the uncomfortable change ahead.
I agree it seems like potentially the same problem, and it manifests in forcing devs to write 'resolvers' which looks like horrible drudge work. So I wonder if there are decent offerings without the impedance mismatch between GraphQL queries and the database (so we don't have to translate them into SQL). I did a very quick look and at least found this: https://dgraph.io/

I'm getting the impression that if nothing else though, I'm probably gonna need to wait a few years for this tech to stabilize more. Which I find very unfortunate, because the standard way of doings things these days feels very unpleasant to me (I hate writing boilerplate more than anything: have an overuse injury, so typing is the worst part of coding)—and the GraphQL queries do seem to make a lot of sense (although forcing clients to have explicit knowledge of schema structure seems a little dangerous...).
I'm not sure I understand how you're managing to dismiss geography here. Can you explain why you think it doesn't matter? The biggest cities in the US are, with the exception of the Eastern Seaboard where we already have usable rail and California where they're building it now, simply very far apart.

Even with the best available rail technology, trips between them would take over 12 hours by rail.
A guess: Now that Trump is talking about "infrastructure", the passenger train people are coming out of the woodwork again looking for big subsidies from the US Federal Government.

Some years ago, for a while I was a prof in Ohio. Well, there was a group all hot on connecting all the Rust Belt cities -- Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Cincinnati, Muncie, Akron, Indianapolis, South Bend, Youngstown, Toledo, etc. with passenger trains. They were really hot.

Look, guys, the US had a very good passenger rail network. Could go by train from one tiny crossroads to any other, all by train. And people did that. But soon that whole thing was killed off by, and may I have have the envelope please? Right, the Model T, etc. Private cars. A lot of the tracks grew up with weeds.

After WWII, soon, for trips up to 1000 miles, say with the whole family, people would rather just take the family car. Just after WWII, the passenger trains were still running, but, no thanks, people would rather take the family car, e.g., from Florida all the way to Grandma's near Buffalo, NY. As soon as I got married, my wife and I went to her family farm for Christmas, 900 miles, by car, car packed with stuff. Plane? Train? Bus? No thanks.

Gee, guys, now with the TSA, no way will I want to take a car full of luggage, toys, Christmas presents, etc. past the TSA. No way.

For me, for anything like family travel, public mass transportation, no matter how fast, how roomy, how cheap, how safe, due to the TSA and all the luggage handling problems, lack of privacy, being legally under the thumb of a lot of people, rules, bureaucrats, various cases of police, being subject to being forced to wait in my seat for four hours while whatever is going on, etc., the answer is no, no way, never, don't bother to ask again.

There are a lot of people and projects there in the woodwork eager to come out with lots of publicity, reasons, and excuses and eager to scarf up Federal subsidies. A LOT of people/projects. Clearly there is a whole industry of this stuff. They are always back in the woodwork, and as soon as they smell money, and they are good at smelling money, out they come, big publicity drives, etc.
I mean a topic that people have flamewars about.
Making an identical copy of the body but without the memories and likely without the same personality?
>You're misusing diagnostic labels to malign a large group of people who face significant and harmful levels of stigma.

Are you going to explain why you think that stigma isn't deserved? Don't try to deflect with a comparison to racism or other bigotry. The havoc that BPDs wreak on others' is well documented, and I've personally lived through it. I really don't see how you can defend people with BPD and their actions without inadvertently defending pedophiles as well. But please do try.
How much money do you make per api req?
This needs an update:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/azerbaijans-dependence-on...

http://www.infoaz.org/new/index.php/en/manset-eng/8076-hazhi...
This is my experience as well. The data science people, who need to do proofs of concept, use Python. The people who have to write large, complicated codebases that scale well and accept years of modification use statically-typed languages like Java and C#.
So basically the reason we don't bother with more HSR is because all of our large cities are unplanned sprawling messes and the rest of our transportation infrastructure is almost just as bad as our HSR.
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
Checked one of our static IPs: the country is correct, but the city is 500 miles off.
You're continuing to take this thread way off topic. When I told you this earlier, was it not clear that I was asking you to stop? Please stop now.

23 comments about this in a single thread, let alone this thread, is beyond the pale.
The data is what it is, and I think you'd be hard pressed to dismiss the biological differences between males and females. Would be interested in hearing your interpretation, though.

First, I am not saying men cannot have feminine traits and women cannot have masculine traits on the individual level. Of course there will be exceptions, and those individuals deserve respect. But on average, I think biology is the dominating factor determining those traits due to mammalian evolution.

To address your points, I see accounting as administrative, akin to housekeeping, a supportive role of keeping the house in order.

Programming is more about problem solving, entering unknown territories, and has more risk involved.

And it doesn't sound like you've ever been hunting. It's a slog, where you're out in the woods for hours or days at a time, constantly paying attention to minute details to track animals. Finally there's an aha moment where you go in for the kill. Seems similar to programming to me.

Running up to the 80s, computers were a huge fad with promises of making big money. As such many were attracted, until some people realized it wasn't satisfying for them. My mother got a CS degree and quit IBM after realizing she hated being inside all day writing networking code. She's an extremely intelligent woman and I'm proud of that, but also grateful that she stayed home to raise me and my siblings.

And I never made any claims about women being better at communicating or working in groups. My claim is jobs that have similarities to mothering are more likely to attract women.
You should feel free, where you're comfortable, to talk about your own struggles with mental health.

You should never be talking about someone else's. That's "taboo" for good reason. Threads where that happen invariably turn into insidious attacks not just on everyone purported to have whatever condition we're discussing, but, really, on everyone with mental health concerns of any sort.

I have no doubt you'll be able to generate 5 more paragraphs about how I've somehow missed some important aspect of what you're trying to say. Please, don't. I think Dan was right when he suggested you take a breath before continuing on this thread. Your posts are being flagged off the site for good reason.
There are only a couple cities in the US where it is realistic for a normal (i.e. able to afford a car) person to live without a car, and most of those cities are already served by Acela.
> Cost of a Interrupt: 100 ns to 1 microseconds

That sounds like the time it takes to do a context switch to the OS. A math error interrupt doesn't need to do a context switch. The cost doesn't need to be any higher than a branch misprediction at 10-20 cycles.
Can't wait for someone claiming the universe is made of Rust (the programming language), and how much better is than being made of C.
I'm not convinced that the numbers in your link are quite so conclusive.

First, with stops factored in, the Acela makes about 75 mph. This is competitive with driving, not flying. There's a lot of room for improvement right there.

Second, I'm not sure that distance between the biggest cities matters. Is there actually a ton of traffic between Philly and Los Angles, for example? You could easily imagine several unconnected networks (SF-LA-SD, for example, along with an upgraded Boston-DC route, or something between Austin, Houston, and Dallas).

In a similar vein, you could imagine connecting one major city to a bunch of somewhat smaller ones. For example, Chicago to Madison, Milwaukee, or even Minneapolis. This wouldn't necessarily replace air travel, but it would integrate those cities more tightly and might replace a lot of driving. Madison to Chicago even becomes a (somewhat) reasonable commute!
Best rail technology (maglev) is 430 km/h (maglev). 12 hours is comparable in time with the same flight distance when you factor getting to the airport, boarding, taxi, security theater and congested airports.