skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue with clients is more that I want to make stuff I want. Not based on someone's brief. Working with people is something I enjoy.
Looks fine to me on a Macbook.

That foreground colours for the main text is not even that light. Only lighter text is used for the lesser important sponsors sections.

Maybe you need to get your vision checked.
Do you ever worry that this data might be used for bad purposes?
There is many names for it. The problem with "quasirandom" is that is sounds a lot like "pseudorandom". For the special case of points in a plane looking for "Poisson disk sampling" also brings many great resources.
SMS merge(like mail merge) from Google Sheets
Are those cached locally, or only stored on a remote host?
That is an example of 'legacy' FORTRAN (when it was still written in all-caps). I agree, reading through that is not a great time.

edit: That being said, there are some really well-written projects that have shown me what good modern Fortran looks like [1-3].

[1] https://github.com/nwukie/ChiDG

[2] https://github.com/flexi-framework/hopr

[3] https://github.com/jacobwilliams/Fortran-Astrodynamics-Toolk...
I have it for some applications. For smaller (<50kloc) services I use node in a functional/immutable style with minimal context objects (too convenient to go full immutable). When you learn the ctx object and the utils module you know how to make almost anything. For larger I'm still looking, but my rule of thumb is to avoid most OOP paradigms and most especially inheritance at nearly all times.

Think more in terms of the code state than the conceptual/business state, because when the code state is readable and understandable and low-overhead, it leaves you all the brain space to think about the problemset. No matter what, working on establishing patterns, share them with other people working on the same codebase, and make them better over time - build only enough tests so that you can cleanly refactor whole files, while not bogging everything down in the details. If you are ever afraid of changing a file (except at top level tooling), even in production, you're doing something wrong, because the potential footprint of your changes should be as low as possible.
> If you are a top 10 site you won't need an EV, but if you are in a small business in a competitive market it could help.

Random people don't know an obscure corporation any better than they know an obscure domain name. It's as possible for Foo LLC to be operated by "Satan" as foo.com.

And the people who know what an EV cert is know that. So hardly anyone will even realize that you have one, and the few people who do still won't care.
As long as you're considering buying it and are willing to sign a NDA. Twilio also has a generic white paper that's available without scheduling a demo, which may be more accessible. If you're having trouble with Twilio/Authy giving you permission to view the SOC2, you should reach out to one of the evangelists.
I don't think I'd want to start having to count cards in order to play Settlers well, in addition to keeping track of players' hands.
Nefarious types can leave their phone at home or ditch it before crossing a border. And just buy a new phone after crossing a border to connect to their existing phone plan account. It's easy for these persons to bypass security checkpoints and still connect with their regular contacts abroad. Ultimately it's just another useless "security" measure.
Firefox developer edition is the former Aurora (development) channel. It is not the stable release channel.
When I play RISK with my kids, the time invested in each roll of the dice is proportional to what's at stake. During a critical close battle, they might shake, blow, and otherwise cajole the the dice for a minute before rolling. Playing on an iPad with its RNG loses all this, so it's very pleasing to think of playing online with real dice.
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also, scaling databases is not terribly difficult, it is just very "clumsy".

Still, having a proper transaction manager and query planner will give you far better performance compared to doing it on webservers.

Also, aren't bsically moving the complexity of the database to the webserver? Which makes your webserver far more complex and harder to scale in comparison. Especially if you need ACID. (which is a must if you are doing anything with data storage imo).
How is this any different from what Amazon does? They don't manually inspect all uploaded files. Instead, they rely on legal protections given to service providers.

Filecoin miners can do the same by (a) registering as service providers and (b) complying with blacklists and takedown notices as mandated by their legal jurisdiction. Note: Filecoin miners don't just store arbitrary files assigned by the network; they sign contracts with specific clients to store specific files. The only difference from Amazon is that the network itself enforces these contracts.
> 1. The vast majority of startups are not successful

This alone is why 90% of people will not choose to work at a startup. You will work long hours, for crap pay, and you'll be waiting in line if there is an exit.

The odds of there being an exit worth anything to anyone other than a founder are small enough to not even worth considering.

If you are a founder you're gambling on your chances. There are ways to mitigate the risk but there's no sure thing.

Don't start a startup if you do not have the financial security to basically lose everything you put in.

Don't start a startup if you have family that depends on your income. You could choose to eat ramen and sleep on the floor of a college dorm room. Your kids (and CPS) might not appreciate it.

I agree the motivation is very important. I disagree that you cannot find the same motivation in a more stable organization (or can't motivate yourself). I recently finished reading, Extreme Ownership [0], and I bring that with me to work. People need to be responsible for outcomes: that's not unique to startups. You can also find that motivation internally and share it with your colleagues as you go.

[0] https://www.amazon.ca/Extreme-Ownership-U-S-Navy-SEALs-ebook...
Don't forget to keep you dependencies up-to-date. Check libraries.io or versioneye.com
Last I checked, a video of his wife in college "experimenting" was still up on PornHub.
That's exactly what the pack of cards is designed to solve. With the cards it's guaranteed that the 6-7-8 will show up more often than everything else.
Haidbauer incident
Unfortunately it draws its own context menu which looks very ugly, doesn't behave native and interferes with dom.event.contextmenu.enabled=false.
Fantastic and respectful way to not take the bait.
Not a mathematician but have a background in engineering. Some damn constants are everywhere and have too many useful properties. Take "e" for instance. I'll be damned if that isn't a terribly versatile number.
Don't know, man. Every time part of the establishment (i.e. everything that's already out there and have already made a name for themselves) tries to reach out for the younger crowd it makes itself more démodé, not less so.

I've never used Snapchat, though. So I don't know whether this is cool or uncool by their community's standards.
> Firefox’s decline is not an engineering problem. Its a market disruption (Desktop to Mobile shift) and monopoly problem. There are no engineering solutions to these market problems. The only way to escape this is to pivot to a different market [...]

Privacy is the one problem that Mozilla/Firefox can address, which Google and Microsoft will be fundamentally conflicted about addressing. It is also a growing market; that is the market Firefox should be aiming for!

It seems to me that Mozilla/Firefox folks don't appreciate this at a deep level. They are eroding user trust in the attempt to gather data for engineering better features. Eg. see the recent controversy regarding Firefox's usage of Google Analytics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14753546 .

I made some comments on that thread, on how Mozilla/Firefox could try to win the privacy market. I don't want to repeat those comments, so I'll just link to them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14754672
The Frege-Hilbert Controversy
Forefox installation numbers maybe declining, but how does it compare with any browser install? Maybe desktop growth has stagnated, maybe with always updating OS and Firefox itself, people just don't need to "install" Firefox anymore?
Not for me and definitely not on Linux, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1280523 for example.
Everybody wants a new HDL but there's no standard yet. Embedding it in your favourite language is the obvious solution, and hence there will be at least one per language.
Your encryption challenges just got easier with InnoVault, a Tozny toolkit
Well, I'm not sure if I'll ever have the wit and guts to hustle my way to that circle, dunno if I even want to in the first place. But there's truth in "it's who you know, not what you know" so ya, feedback-looped, thanks ;)
Soccer fan knocks drone out of air with toilet paper roll
I believe that's what projects like Filecoin and Swarm are trying to solve. How do you incentivise long term storage of these files.
I like the idea behind the Super Falcon model: fixed positive buoyancy with an inverted wing design.

Like a plane, but with gravity replaced by buoyancy and the Y axis inverted so the wings "lift" you down.
Isn't that in direct opposition to their EU antitrust settlement? How does MS get away with this?
Every time I bring this up people look at me like I am insane for suggesting such a thing.

What people don't think about is the extra societal costs associated with drug addition: thefts/violent crimes, prison costs, unproductive time from seeking the next high, etc. Cutting out the middleman would solve a great deal of these issues, and save the taxpayer money too.

It seems the moral issue of giving "free drugs" to addicts is just too much to bear, unfortunately.
If I remember, wasn't the version installed by Avast a custom chromium fork until relatively recently? Then there was some security issue, and google basically stop the AV's to knock it off? I think Comodo also did something like this too, though theirs was more of a mess, because Comodo.

EDIT: Found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11057532
Netscape 4 versus IE5 or 6 was pretty bad. They got stalled a few years while rewriting their browser. Firefox was better than IE almost from the very first alpha tests.
Why CircleCI Stopped Using Core.Typed (2015)
And I can't even delete my profile/old comments on "Hacker news".
This comes off largely as a PR exercise given the fact that the train is most likely going to be using solar a fraction of the time and when it does, it won't contribute much.
I wish git bisect could handle the 'find last good build' step by jumping back exponentially through history, then switching to binary search once the last good build is found
What's the problem with them being on random machines? I believe the purpose of Filecoin and other projects like Swarm is to incentives people to store the files long term and in some cases verify that those files are still being held.
Sorry, I misunderstood you. The way you phrased your earlier comment ("Mac with SSD") made me think you were talking about hardware performance.
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I’ve I said earlier I’m primarily a webdesigner and not against animations etc
But this is poorly executed.

Here’s (almost) the same concept, with a far better UX :

https://tympanus.net/codrops/2015/12/16/animated-map-path-fo...

As a user here’s my main gripes when comparing the two UIs :

- The map in tympanus is in svg. Lighter, see how the interaction is always in sync with the user interaction ? Why using tilze at maps if you can’t zoom ? You’re lazy loading but I’m not lazy reading.

- The text flows naturally : you need to choose either you build a powerpoint with bullets either you write more elaborate content. This UI is more appropriate to bullets but is displayed with a powerpoint type UI because of …

- Scroll hijacking : everyone not working in a webagency hates it. Even your boss who tells you that (s)he finds it cool hates it when they need to use it.

…And the stock video of water isn’t bringing much (but that’s another debate)

The only good piece of news is that the UI seems to be open-source (though bound to external services) so if you want to punish your users or improve the whole thing :
https://github.com/Esri/story-map-cascade

But as I’ve also said earlier people died in this crash and families are still looking for explanations and I don’t find this way to narrate the events appropriate. Maybe I’m old school and should just say to my relatives : If I die in a tragic fashion please don’t let any webagency and government agency do parrallaxes on the circumstances of my death and its side effects
If you look at the Catan number-circles that you use use to mark the tiles with their roll, they have a set of dots on them - 6 and 8 have 5 dots, while 2 and 12 have 1 dot. The dot is the numerator over 36 of its probability.

Likewise, if you use the Traders and Barbarians dice-deck, the same thing applies - there are 5X as many 6s and 8s in the deck as there are 2s and 12s.
Torrent hosts do not have a monetary incentive to host files.

Filecoin (and other decentralized storage systems) provide monetary rewards and penalties for storing or failing to store files. This is introduced in Section 4.1.1 of this paper.
Yes, this is a wonderful technical hack, but terrible as a business strategy. They are admitting that they don't have a good architecture that would make upgrades easy.
I really loved the suggestions (or questions?) that it offers on the top. It helps to structure your thinking and how you approach a problem. They are useful even if you use any other note taking tool.

I tend to doodle a lot while I'm thinking, often on a small piece of paper or literally back of an envelope, so this can be the digital form of that process, but adding a doodling feature would be great too!
1. Backup phone

2. Encrypt backup

3. Upload encrypted backup to cloud server

4. Delete backup

5. Wipe phone back to factory settings

6. Cross border

7. Download backup from cloud

8. Decrypt backup

9. Restore phone

This is the only sane thing to do besides not crossing the border with an electronic device at all.
Nah, "Disable Ctrl+Q"[1] is one of the three extensions I require to browse the web, alongside uBlock Origin and NoScript. I have no idea what the Firefox devs are thinking with that shortcut.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-ctrl-...
You shouldn't keep it in coinbase regardless. I prefer the Nano Ledger S
> Maybe Firefox is slow on Linux but on Windows I don't notice a difference between it and Chrome.

I really think this is a big part of the discrepancy in opinions of performance here. In my own experience, Firefox on Linux just has sluggish responsiveness. It doesn't happen everywhere, and sometimes the effect feels cumulative (depending on how long the process has been running). I've also found the occasional website (usually forums) where the text input box is painfully sluggish in Firefox (for no good reason), while its just fine and dandy in Chrome.

Now I've also run Firefox on Windows, where it seems quite snappy and I don't really have any performance complaints.

(Of course there's also the part where "hip web designers" are now treating Chrome like the modern MSIE6, which probably affects "internal" sites more than public-facing ones. But that's a topic for rants elsewhere in this thread.)
I use Firefox (Linux) and Fastmail, and definitely don't have any problems: the web UI is just as fast as always and have no CPU issues. Maybe it's some addon or something?
It's not that long ago when downloading SMS etc. was worth an outrage. I hope it's not only time between us and the server access.
The Internet of Things is amazing.
Don't worry man, blockchain.
I just tried on two popular websites, espn.com and cnn.com, and Firefox was slower to first paint on both, noticeably. No extensions installed on Firefox but a few on Chrome. It's slower.
100%. They're not the only ones either, it's become the industry status quo for platforms to allow these groups to operate openly - Discord has the same policy and houses some of the largest organized hate groups online. You can make the case that this way at least they can keep tabs on them and give any relevant information to authorities when crimes are committed.

To be clear I'm not trying to rail on the founders of these orgs, I can't say for sure that I'd do much better in their position, it's a business first after all.
Well, the "journal" in the sense of academic publishing and in the sense of a blog derive from the same root: a continuing first-person description of one's activities, updated periodically over a stretch of time.
> My friends, who are also CS grads and should know better...

I know this is about being "technically correct" but I'd argue that even if you're pedantic and know the behavior of true randomness, the complaints are justified.

First, "pick a song from a uniform distribution" is an implementation detail, not the use case. The use case is "pick songs in a pleasant, novel order". If the implementer chose to do this using uniform randomness, that's their descision. If that implementation does not fulfill the use case, it's a bug and also their responsibility.

Second, the function is frequently called "shuffle" - so it even gives some hints about the implementation expected. No shuffling algorithm should ever result in duplicates. (except at the beginning and end of playlists)
"Government" is governance of humans by humans. It has never been "good" because the past is so dismal and because humans collectively have not come to make it good.

The challenge for those who critize government generically is that they design a good governance ... whether we call some part of it government or not.
I'm currently using it as an aggregator (displaying scraped and scored data).
An Experiment in Zurich Brings Us Nearer to a Black Hole’s Mysteries
AWS-rendered React chocolate chips with Dawson
From Italy with Wine – History of Wine in Italy
I'm actually wondering more how Google is getting away with those screenshots from the submission. That's exactly the same behavior that it was recently fined for wrt product search.
Hey chewxy. I think I talked to you about FtC for a while when it came out(irc maybe?). Good to see you again.
I use Snapchat, there are many stories from natgeo, vice, mashable, etc. So this seems like quite a natural progression for some other news sites. At least they’re trying to stay relevant.

Edit:

Just watched it: there’s a new section in Snapchat called shows, and it seems to be differentiated from stories. The show is extremely short and vapid, but still entertaining. What more can you expect from the low attention span of Snapchat users themselves?
Pshaw. Make real dice that do that and I'll get excited.
I think there's probably a right way to do it and a wrong way. You may be right in that if there's a wrong way to do it, old-timers like NBC would find it.
Not necessarily if the inputs are free (e.g. unused disk space). However Spotify, Skype, and Joost all found that CDNs are cheaper than borrowing free bandwidth from people so the same may apply to storage.
Hey zkms, this reply isn't about the main thread, but bear with me. I happened upon your comment here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13454185) asking about the status of Parabix. Granted, that was almost half a year ago, so you may not even remember making the comment. But just in case you're still curious about Parabix, yes it is still very much in development! I've been working on it since about the time you made that comment. The most fully featured application we've built so far is icgrep -- an attempt to rewrite grep from the ground up using Parabix. It's still a bit rough around the edges, but it's usable and exceptionally fast. On large collections of files (10s or hundreds of GBs) it's often orders of magnitude faster than grep, and has more robust Unicode support to boot. We're working on some other pretty neat stuff too, but they aren't quite ready for widespread release yet.

I'll see what I can do about getting our website updated! Thanks for your interest.
Oddly enough, Windows 10 Pro seems to leave my default browser alone most of the time (I do seem to recall it messing with it once, but I may be wrong), but I've had it attempt to switch my default media viewers away from VLC and Irfanview multiple times. Quite annoying.
> However, I believe relational databases (Postgres is what I have experience with) has defaults that are basically correct, and unlikely to cause significant issues, whereas in my experience MongoDB did not have this. MongoDB might be easier to understand on the surface, but I think that's deceptive.

Postgres has good and sane defaults. Also the documentation INSIDE the config file is top notch. The one thing which makes postgres the golden standard in my opinion is its extensive documentation. Documentation is key to maintaining an RDBMS

Mysql does some weird things on an initial install, and documentation is sadly all over the place.
>perception of drug addicts as weak and deserving of their fate

I think you're right but the reasoning is one step removed from the conclusion.

Drug addition is a poor people problem (in part because it takes resources and support to break the cycle).

Opiod (and meth for that matter) addiction skews rural and therefore white.

A lot of people take the attitude that poor rural white trash are poor white trash because they live in a dying town with no industry and refuse to relocate to somewhere they can more easily scrape by. The catch is that the people making these judgements generally have a very different set of values than the people they're judging.

When you take the attitude that the situation that leads one to easily become an addict is the fault of the addict then it's hard to have sympathy for addicts.

There's also a lot of (well meaning) "optimism to the point of stupidity" in assessing how effective firearms legislation is as an avenue to reduce violent crime and how easy it is to make a driver-less car that can effectively share the roads with vehicles operated by people
And there are 5 times as many people who get personally upset about another person's preferences to the extent that they blow right by the part about "...not why I'm writing this" and the actual comment that the poster made in order to post their anti-vegan and, for some reason, Arch Linux user screed.
GitHub isn't social media, dude.
I submitted a link to the Verge article on this with the title "Facebook to add paywall features later this year" which is the main highlight here to me.
Looking at the Y axis scale shows that the variation is not as much as it seems.