skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Extremely well said. Yours is a more in depth and eloquent version of what I wrote in the first section of this essay:

"This is an essay about go-to-market strategy and market development. It’s also an essay about company culture.

Specifically, it’s about how the market focus and culture that helped a company reach significant heights can rapidly transform from critical assets into potential liabilities…and what to do about it.

While Twilio is the focus of this essay, this essay is not just about Twilio. It could be about about ANY potentially disruptive company with brilliant founders, venture-scale ambitions, great products, a top-notch team, and traction to die for."
> Many of the things the human body was optimized for aren't really that important in the modern world. E.g. I'd take a body (or brain...) that was 10 times stronger but required ten times more energy. Energy is abundant now.

Energy is abundant only in certain areas of the world. As a species, many of us still face malnutrition.
Did they buy extra coverage for the event? I've been to football games and mardi gras and they don't have issues with coverage and that's a lot more than 20k people even if they're not all playing it should be similar unless PMG is really really bad with bandwidth.
What if I say "No, you can't seize my assets and I refuse to go to jail"?
Mostly in North America. I recall my old prof(french dude, this was probably at inria) saying something "and then this young American man that had made quite a name for himself overseas came to the uni. He was shocked to hear we were using lexical scoping. We were equally shocked to hear that we had been so Wrong the last couple of years. Turns out he held the same beliefs we had had a couple of years prior. They apparently were standard at American unis".

In my mind I hope that American man was Olin Shivers, who has written about how he came to France and learnt how lexical scoping was faster, but I don't know the year when any of these events happened.
OOP does not start with Smalltalk, but rather with Simula 67 a decade earlier.
Simula 67 - not Smalltalk - was the main force that drove Bjarne Stroustrup to extend C into C++ and the rest history:
While Smalltalk did enjoy a period of mild popularity in the late 80s early 90s and went on to influence other languages like Objective C and Ruby, the mainstream of OOP was defined by C++ and later Java.
These languages viewed focused on statically determined method dispatch rather than message-passing, but this is a feature of their older lineage rather than the butchering of the original pristine form of OOP which never was.
Another approach they use in strategic planning is this:

Build great resources and capabilities in yourself that can be applied to a plethora of tasks, and then, try to find out which of those tasks are profitable for you.

This is much like solving a problem you have - which turns out, other people have that problem as well.
I have seen JSONP. But I'm not a frontend dev and in my experience the web suffers from a persistent overspecialization of terms. I didn't mention the term JSONP, because I didn't want to end up calling something JSONP just to have someone point out, that this isn't really JSONP, but floobleworp, which is when you use jQuery and add the comment-symbols to make it safe against XSS or something in that regard.

Also, I still consider JSONP an incredibly gross idea :)
One would expect that devs would be unable to assist law enforcement. Except to say that it's hopeless. That's pretty much what Tor Project says. Maybe that's just BS, of course. But one can hope.

An official statement from OpenBazaar devs would be good.
Humans just aren't made for that sort of feedback. I couldn't imagine 10 or 100 people yelling genuine critical feedback like this at me -- let alone thousands. I imagine he didn't have a great day.
It's worse than a presale, because there is no legal obligation for the company at all.
Magnetic launchers can be used in reverse as catchers too as a sort of atmosphere replacement.
Most examples (Stripe being the exception) are for internal use, and I think there is a difference between software used internally and API's / libraries used in the product.

Stripe is about payment and payment will be at the core of most businesses so it makes sense for the higher ups to take an interest.
Have you tried it? Its actually quite nice. You don't have like it yourself, but you don't need to declare it bad for everyone else
Basically, what others have replied is true. But, in essence, yes, I now believe that this would've worked too, if you choose an appropriate discretization of the grid. Hilbert Curves probably were simply the Hammer I had lying around. In the end, it didn't really matter, given that the actual Hilbert Curve part was mostly copy-pasted, but at least it gave me the opportunity to actually use them (and learn from it).
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Have you considered starting a consulting firm?

Seems you have enough experience and expertise to lead a few people such as yours and give counsel to companies in the field of product prototyping.
> Danish, outside of specific persons, has two genders. German and French have three genders

Given that Norwegian and German have three I would expect Danish to also have three. French has two (le + la).
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duplicate, please check before submitting!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14821478
Right, it is basically Willy Wonka but without the charm or wit.
This is excellent and I have no idea why the 5 or so previous submissions failed to gain any traction. The topic is fascinating, and the style of presentation (video coordinated with interactive 2D and 3D animated models) is absolutely of interest to hackers.
Totally! So just show them you've got situational awareness by taking the initiative without them having to ask.
I think it's a spoiler-culture, where the movie/show/book isn't even worth reading if there isn't some prospect of a petty thrill or twist.

storytelling isn't something to be taken lightly, it's been ingrained in us since the dawn of language. it can affect entire generations in ways nobody understands and very few care to study. The movie 'babe' created vegetarians, scully from 'x-files' inspired women to study STEM, scotty inspired a generation of engineers.
I am pretty sure that's just you, since the meaning is clear from the context. You should probably work on that.
That was my question - the article also mentions bear managers. How do they manage them? Do they hold meetings with the bears?
American culture has evolved to be "loosely typed", simply because people could not count on others having the same cultural background. The whole "loud, simplistic" American stereotype likely has similar roots.

Many (most?) other cultures have not been subjected to the same pressures. Indeed, purity is a common thread throughout most human civilizations.
That's a very gloomy situation. I've been thinking about continuing my education in the field of data science, but what you just described makes me worry about what I will be putting myself into.

May I ask, do you think the situation is the same in data-science / IT -related fields, too?
> Yes, it's largely conceptually obsolete.

I'm sorry, what? How did you arrive at a point where you believe this is true? This is like calling compilers "obsolete."

Is it because you believe deep learning has "taken over" or something?
Are programming languages becoming more like natural languages? (2013)
It's unusable on my Android tablet. I'll try it on a real browser tomorrow.
Given that this wasn't about actually walking the map, but about just finding the locations still missing (and those locations where few and sparse), this really isn't necessary.

It would be, if you'd want to do a speedrun, though.
I was just saying that above, it's an ownership tax. A lot more people are paying it as it's now embedded on the electricity bill, so it's useless to recommend to pay it as it's now been basically enforced.
I believe you should comment in english if you wish to be understood.
Is there currently a plan how the OB company will make money?
This should be based on whether the connection is marked as metered rather than WiFi Vs cellar. I s sometimes need to tether one device to another - a risky thing to do with a limited but high speed data plan and a second device that will happily use 100s Mb of data in a few minutes.
Managers though still have same mindset of treating employees as replaceable resources

It becomes self-fulfilling. Once you start having a high staff turnover then the org has no choice but to ensure that people are interchangeable and replaceable. Its hard to break out of that. Amazon's senior management should have nipped it in the bud early on.
Automation at fulfilment centres will drive down prices, which will increase the volume of goods ordered online. Given labour is the only major scarce input to production for most categories of goods, the decrease in prices (and by extension, the increase in number of goods shipped) should be roughly proportional to the decrease in labour hours needed per good, resulting in no net change in labour utilisation.
(I experimented with using space filling curves in City Skylines (a sim city clone) a while ago; here's awriteup for any who might be interested: https://inventingsituations.net/2015/11/28/space-filling-cur... )
No, she wanted to report on it. It's great how we make false claims about other people.
> So, English is the default and our regional language as the optional for our kids.

Why is that?
From my experience with the Yellowstone bear managers I have talked to, they attempt to connect with the grizzlies in their youth as cubs. As the cubs grow older, the managers are able to promenade alongside them, join them at meals, and even camp alongside them at night with their future bear families. It establishes a human connection with the bears so they are one with the park.
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The babysitter analogy is extremely powerful. I, for one, hope a middle line is found
"the findings entirely change the beginning of human history and place the last common ancestor of both chimpanzees and humans - the so-called Missing Link - in the Mediterranean region."

Is there evidence of chimpanzees in Europe in the same timeframe?
Author throws their uninformed and limited view of injectables against their previous empty and uninformed optimism for wetware grinding due to their #fingermagnetennui (which to be fair is No Joke™), is saddened.

Includes such deep insights as:

• Stitching a cellphone into your arm maybe isn't the future

• Replacing body parts for fun doesn't make sense yet

• biohacking is in decline because Trump was elected
> Why can't we spend any effort fixing the root causes of anything and instead treat every early tech as a given and spend so much effort in developing workarounds?

Network effects.
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No, power is how fast you accelerate.
Oscar Wilde did not have the experience we have with socialism. Maybe if he lived today, he would have a different opinion.
That's the plan. The key aspects are anonymity, privacy and decentralization. What we get is democratization of freedom.
USB 2.0 should be almost 100 times faster than the original IDE interface, so there would effectively be no difference between using an IDE->Flash adapter versus an IDE->SSD adapter. On the other hand, if you wanted to be clever, I bet you could emulate the whole 5150 faster-than-life on the ARM cores on the SSD, and just use the old hardware as a screen and keyboard.
> I'm explaining that the tax-cost can be a very cost-effective tax investment for the state, so it can be sensible policy, regardless of ideology.

Not as cost-effective as simply picking the cherries from other countries. Plus, the risk is lower. That's my point. If you appeal to economics (or utility, whatever), follow through.

> Then don't..who is asking for that?

If we don't educate them or don't give them the means to do so, they have zero opportunity here, as opposed to slightly above zero.

> U.S. is a good example of shooting itself in the foot. Unles some special circumstances are allowed, no foreign software engineer can get hired in the US until Oct. 2018...

Which is exactly not my point. That is Trump's protectionism at work, not the idea that you pick the cherries from other countries (instead of letting them just flow in).

> "We should use force to not allow other people to move so I can have higher wages" -> how is this not oppression to you?

We're talking about people at the very bottom of pay, how much lower are their wages supposed to drop? I suppose that you believe in the magic of an idealized market, but in the real world there's real people there defending their interests. The same kind of people that will gladly elect populists, by the way. If you want to call that oppression, fine. What difference does it make?

> That you find a beggar unsightly is a problem to you, not the beggars problem,and you are welcome to try to fix it by donating.

The beggars problem is going to become the mob of people that will ask for them to be locked up and deported, in case they become too much of a nuisance.

Again, you're arguing too much like an idealist, which isn't really useful.
Clifford Stoll: Why the Web Won't Be Nirvana (1995)
The context of this is a recent article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14821446
I cannot wait for 2.0 it has been a longtime coming.
I think he is referring to method NBA teams select newcomers. They take well trained young person and they have them do vertical jump. Because they are well trained, their vertical jump will not improve much because there is genetic component to it. But if you are average then of course it will improve with time as you do training, for example if you lose weight you can jump higher or if you practice and improve nerve-muscle connection that will increase your power output it will also improve your jump. But at the end of the day there is genetic limit for the most part, but just like with everything there are probably exceptions...
dude, mosquito larva is major food for many species, people like you should be eradicated
Exactly the same here. For Example at the moment it is Crypto Currency. Likely in the range of 50 Tabs.

Like you said about the boring material. I wouldn't think of them as boring. But detailed, and basically takes a long time to grasp. I will need to spend at least an hour or two on the topic. And i since it is not the most important things in life This two hours schedules gets put away for the time being.

Then there is the Apple News tabs hoard which happens in Apple Events.
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Imagine you go to Ancient Greece and tell them: "in the future there will be a library of over 1 million books and papers containing the knowledge of the world, that any person rich or poor can access from almost anywhere in the world"

Do you think their reaction will be: A) wonder that such a library can exist, or B) to tell you that it is not a library because of the flagrant copyright violations.

Libgen and scihub are among the most amazing products of humanity, that will receive a prominent place in human history. That they are illegal is an almost boring item of trivia.
I believe in that case of the growth in the public sector and the slowdown in GDP growth, it is.

Do you have any evidence of that at all? Because I have evidence showing the opposite: eg China has an estimated public sector value of between 29% and 50%[1] and it is generally regarded as a high-growth economy (6.5%+ growth(, while somewhere like Greece (22% public sector, 0% growth) isn't.

In-fact, eyeballing that table doesn't show much apparent correlation at all. There are high-growth, high-public sector countries, high-growth, low public sector countries, low public sector, low growth AND low public sector high growth countries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_se...
Actually, power and velocity are connected as follows:

P = F . v

where v = velocity,
F = force,
P = power
Whatever became of the summer of love?
I use fonts with ligatures while programming because they're more expressive of intent. Many languages use a combination of characters to form a single meaningful token, such as JS with =>. This token is meant to appear similar to an arrow, and has nothing to do with = or >. In this case, I find it preferable to draw a ⇒.
As a bitcoin newbie, I'm even more confused now as before and I don't know if I should start with bitcoin at all..
I was really optimistic about GitLab's vision and really liked how they shipped a ton of really good features, but they reached feature creep and I'm pretty sure they will never get "usably fast" because maintaining all these is a huge burden.

Also if you have tons of features like these, I think it's impossible to get all of them right and at the end, you have a lot of mediocre/poor features and few good ones.

The other thing is user experience. Who will know all these features, especially when setting some of them is already hard and need experts...

If you want to be everything for everyone, it's mostly impossible or you get a very complicated, unusable and/or slow thing.

I'm curious for counterarguments to these points.
This story reminded me of a great board game in the 70's called "Escape from Colditz". Apparently theres a reprint!
https://theboardgameshow.com/2016/10/18/escape-from-colditz-...
How so? Would you have to "land" by going back down the barrel of the launch device?
See http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/comment/simon-eng...
I've started making another one that try to respect the system's theme:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vertigo-tabs/
The first problem isn't really a problem, since ligatures are provided by fonts, not character encodings. From the Unicode FAQ on ligatures and digraphs (http://unicode.org/faq/ligature_digraph.html):

"The existing ligatures exist basically for compatibility and round-tripping with non-Unicode character sets. Their use is discouraged. No more will be encoded in any circumstances.

"Ligaturing is a behavior encoded in fonts: if a modern font is asked to display “h” followed by “r”, and the font has an “hr” ligature in it, it can display the ligature. Some fonts have no ligatures, some (especially for non-Latin scripts) have hundreds. It does not make sense to assign Unicode code points to all these font-specific possibilities."

The second problem still stands, though, especially since these sequences of characters can be tokenized differently in different programming languages. IMO, if you're going to have character replacement like this, it should be a configurable editor feature like syntax highlighting.
Well in this instance Functional programming languages allow one to easily embrace the relational paradigm and avoid all the complexity from an ORM.

Note that it has never been "proved" that OOP is more productive than anything else either.
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Yes, there are some similarities to how you would write an emulator for a real piece of hardware. It would be possible to write an emulator for whatever hardware you can find enough information about.
From human decisions, to suggestions to automated decisions
It seems there is some confusion for the author between the display part and the on disk part. text will not be saved with the ligature, it will still be pure unadorned text when saved... and for the confusion that could arise between a simple quote and a typographic one, it's not coming from the font but from the editor rendering engine (word does those kind of change, IntelliJ does not for example, but both can display correctly ligature)
Yeah, no kidding. It was distracting and a low-grade insult to those who endured the real Vietnam war. Maybe it sounded better in 2006... Trump fatigue has really dampened my sense of humor.
A classic documentary is "Einstein's Universe", where a layman (Peter Ustinov, iirc) is introduced to Relativity.

"Space tells matter how to move. Matter tells space how to curve."

It doesn't cover Quantum Mechanics that I recall.
Yes, but you probably agree that putting ethics above money means there's a higher risk of losing the long term game in a capitalist world.
> If we spread out all the worldwide social welfare resources among all the people

We need to do this, everything else is nationalism

Unf. I don't think your calculations sum up

And yes: It's called "costs of living" and you ignore it (to be higher in the west") and then you blame them (for your own wishful ignorance)

Where do you live?
My question is this. Why would pesticides on the farms that wipe out a lot of these moths be causing a problem?

The bears were there before the farms. If the farms are creating a lot of new moths that weren't otherwise there, wouldn't the pesticides be bringing things back into equilibrium?

I am really against using pesticides and I try to eat only organic products, but I am just wondering why no one else seems to be talking about this. Those mass quantities of moths being there isn't natural in the first place.
Yes but they always have to push back the 1:1s
Not the person you asked, but you need to understand this straight up: You will always be the foreigner. Period. If you don't want to stand out, and feel the need to blend in, you need to live where you grew up. That's that.

Here's the thing, though. Being 'the foreigner' is not a bad thing.

I grew up as the only white kid 99% of the people I interacted with had ever seen. Some of the smaller villages we travelled through, we had to enter/leave at night, because otherwise our simple presence would draw dangerously large crowds. No hyperbole.

There were times I was sick and tired of it. But being the odd one out opened ten doors for every one it closed, and I got to meet an incredible variety of fascinating folks from around the world. That would have been impossible if I was just another member of the throng, too. There are literally billions of other humans out there, and even in the most different of cultures, you will be able to find friends. Even in places that see you as a permanent outsider. It takes work. But it is 100% worth it.
> It draws circa 100 W when charged via the slow charger that you plug in to an outlet.

1kW - 2kW, surely? 100W would take days to charge.
The article lists a bunch of non-issues. Yes, you can create confusion by abusing unicode.

But that's not new. C++ allows zero width spaces in identifiers. There's a guy on reddit who uses characters from Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block to have angle braces in Go identifiers.

Yes, they are guaranteed to be wrong sometimes. The big one is the <<< ligature makes the merge conflict zipper look strange.

But it's incredibly obvious when they are wrong. So it's not an issue in practise.

The reality is that no one is making anyone use a ligature font, and some people like them. If it's causing a problem then you can spend ten seconds changing your font.
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We pulled this off by moving to France when our first kid was 2 years old. He went in the local village school at age 3 and was happily speaking French to our adult friends at age 5.

A year later, French is just the language that Kids and Strangers speak, so he pulls it out in those situations then falls back to English if that doesn't work.

It's fascinating to watch. I'm trying to gauge when will be a good time to up sticks and move to a Spanish speaking country for a year or two.
"Hit by cars" means multiple cars. "Hit by a car" suggests one car. We're often sloppy, and often there's an implicit understanding that contradicts what's said directly. Clearly this is silly, one car can't do that so we interpret.

Neither figure seems particularly compelling here, of its "eaten by bears" it seems way too small if it's "eaten by a [single] bear" it seems too big.
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