skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually Occam's razor would say that WaPo will naturally have a bias towards Bezos. That is the simplest/purest answer.

The simplest view is that Bezos owns WaPo and therefore he will have undue influence over WaPo.

I don't ever envision WaPo going on a anti-Bezo rant like they do with Trump/et al.

Also, occam's razor says Bezos bought WaPo for his own benefit. Nothing wrong with it. But people are so eager to tech gurus the benefit of the doubt or project some "saintly" traits to them.
> One difference (Don't know if its a benefit) is that it uses a common runtime.

You keep saying this. It's not mentioned in the post, and it doesn't match how qbrt is actually doing things. Where are you seeing it?
Note that the blog was written in 2013.
Throwing random code over the wall is fairly harmless, until it sees any level of popularity, at which point you become the sole point of contact for a sea of people expecting bug fixes for free. That can be rewarding, but it can also be intensely draining.

Imagine looking at your personal inbox giving you the same feeling of dread as you'd expect looking at your work inbox after being off for a few weeks..

I'm currently trying to offload one project because it's getting too much, and just finding a new maintainer who knows C and Python to a decent standard has turned out difficult. None of the regular project users have stepped up. Shrugs
But why would you ever use such an awkward language to do this task?
Wrong, I simply wasn't using it and heard of the service.

You can hear the bad quality by comparing it to a high quality version of the same song on good speakers.
It is funny you mention Bandcamp as your flagship example considering how much 1993 duct tape is holding it together. You cannot compare the UI and tech of the two; Bandcamp has neglected the same Courier New interface since they were a startup. SoundCloud engineering is worlds ahead. They were one of the biggest proponents and pioneers of containerized microservice architecture. They took a lot of beatings so that we wouldn't have to, and that's worth something to me. Frankly I've never read an inspiring development article from Bandcamp a engineering team.
The author is young, and has been there for 3 years. I'm guessing this is anecdotal, and he happens to have had a good experience. Always possible things have improved though?
Probably similar: https://www.minnpost.com/mnopedia/2017/02/power-farmer-minne.... The article quotes $600 per mile in 1939. That's $10,500 per mile adjusted for inflation, but the inflation metric isn't a good one here. Inflation is calculated using consumer prices. The inputs for electric (or telecom) infrastructure are mainly labor and materials, which are relatively more expensive than they were back in 1940. For example, if you scale $600 by the change in minimum wage over that time, you get $20,500, about what's quoted.
you'd be surprised.
when specifications get passed around in the endless maze of defense affiliated sub contractors and sub sub contractors, they may be implemented in all kind of creative ways.
and i entirely agree that the operational issues of enforcing the air gap are by far the most challenging cost in this kind of environment.
the culture of business environments is by and large ill suited to the kind of strict enforcement these environment require.

if RF leaks are part of your threat model, then i would definitely not class them as "proximity attacks". without adequate shielding, antenna black magic and a rented apartment on the other side of the street work perfectly well to capture signals of interest.
I would imagine that above £500/day the amount of gigs starts to drop off dramatically and that therefore £500/day is at the higher end of the market. Thus, if you are pitching yourself at around this level you are claiming that you are among the best available. Quite a bold statement to make, and you have to have the skills to back it up else I would think you'll quickly be found out.

I guess that like anything else, whether you can get to that level and stay there depends on potential plus application.
While I don't regret it, last experiences with open source probably made me to not do it again. Essentially people seemed to assume that if I release a project, it also means that I'm require to provide free support for it, etc. The attitude from users of the software was depressing - in fact to me it feels that my paying customers are nicer on average.
If you don't want functions you use daily being built in and easy to use - just include a 3rd party one with composer. It will be namespaced properly.
Becausing back when you are why'ed is a really fundamental part of human parenthood. I wouldn't have missed for anything.
Paying for a music playback?

I am paying for music storage, but playback should use source quality at all times. Exceptions are when the track is uploaded in a lossless codec like WAV or FLAC. Then it should be OGG compressed. If you use MP3, at least use 192 kbps or better 320 kbps.

Example: https://clyp.it/ allows 320 kbps streaming and it costs 0$.
that's very uncharitable. This person has a PhD in mathematics and has done some studying in the field. This is their own personal opinion of the matter after a firsthand experience.
That's why you should support public health services. That way everyone in your community can benefit from the services that you can't provide for yourself. Self-reliance is an ideal rather than the be-all end-all.
Can you give some examples of when and how the Left is doing this?

From what I can tell, in general the left of the US is constantly making an attempt to be all inclusive. I'd agree that there hasn't been enough work to help people see that they have common cause with people who look different and live in different places. That's really whats needed, but it's never been clear to me how to help someone who is severely bigoted to understand that their views are born of ignorance.

From what I can tell, the Right uses positions to drive wedges between people, such that someone can literally hate something which is clearly benefiting them personally because they have turned the issue into an Us vs Them argument. The only thing I see the Left consistently use as a wedge issue is class and money... Whereas the Right uses every possible thing they can come up with to convince people that follow them that they should all be afraid of what the Left is going to "take" from them.
I had no idea it was so taxing, but I do want to let you know that MaNGOS is probably what set me on a path of learning programming (which has become my career) so I am indebted to you.
That's an interesting question. I actually started following all of them around the time of the last election because the political atmosphere got me interested in seeking out primary sources - so I'm not sure about a change in tone.

It would be a good set of corpora to feed through some NLP algorithms though, I might look into that at some point.
I hope I live long enough to see the results of this. Proxima Centauri indeed!
From when I worked in restaurant: when your hands are full and a customer asks for something, you tell them you'll get to it "right away." It sounds satisfying to the customer, but actually means you'll do it when you are done with whatever you're doing. This seems very much in line with "ahorita."
When the answer can't be found perhaps the voice assistant can say "Because I said SO!".
To be fair about the keyboard thing, when I was born computers were programmed through punch cards, and I never learned how to use them. They switched to keyboards pretty quick after that.

So to a 6 year old who can't use a keyboard... well I don't see keyboards disappearing quite that quick, but it's obvious that voice interaction is going to feature quite heavily into the future of computing.
Digital natives? Are people still using this term?
So the people who invented the Internet and most of modern technology are called "digital immigrants"? How can one take lazy journalists who still use these terms seriously?
Erm, it's also good for many other purposes?

Computers can be used to watch child pornography. What point am I making with this phrase? None.
I have no idea what you are talking about. How would hitting tab change html_entity_encode into htmlentities?
That's not opensourcing something, but giving a service for free.
No SWAP is hurting your Linux performance
Yes, I thought that was amusing, the idea that Mr Toig's main complaint about his portrayal in the article was the mis-statement of his preferences for presentations gives you some idea of what it must have been like in the section of the business that he was responsible for (we don't know who provided the correction of course).

A previous manager of mine insisted on all documents using 12pt Arial with 18pt line spacing...
If we all accept a definition that becomes the new meaning. It depends on the group listening. Language changes because its based on society at large defining the rules.
China's position is not about humanitarianism...

their position is about the US and Russia.

This situation happened back in the mid-1950's as well, only difference was that it was Russia that wanted North Korea reigned in. China gave essentially the same response at that time.
Perl is actually not a bad choice for matching a Mac address, and invoking some external event. Why would it be awkward?
No I don't mean it in a way that is subjective. It does depend on person to person because of factors in their knowledge and situation, history etc etc, but elixir lives in a world that the others don't. Making a language that plays on the erlang vm and has complete access to OTP was a good solve. Other languages haven't been able to replicate OTP despite attempts (and they likely won't). It's not better for everything and the language isn't somehow obviuosly better, it just solved the right problem if you want easy web scale that doesn't do things like drop connections when you release or have a difficult concurrency model. Functional programming is a grind at first but it's a good fit for this world and elixir is more accessable day to day than erlang. I have way more experience with PHP but there are limitations there that can't be solved. So I would say that both your points apply, I am making the claim that X is better than Y because of core value reasons, but that doesn't mean that economically other languages don't make sense for web programming. I still make new projects in PHP and Python because of existing infra at work and others that can't/won't learn elixir and co. We'll just be making something slightly inferior and not be building tools for a more pleasant future, but it still makes money for the biz and isn't terrible
Usually I find needless jabs like these in bad taste, but looking at how pompously the question was worded, I think it was well deserved here.

If he'd just said—is there something you want to ask this room full of Googlers?, it would be okay.
New car is coming Everything is safe.
Yes, it looks like they dropped library support for xml apparently because of some problem with the C implementation of sax (presumably some of the same things that prompted others to migrate to sax2)?

(But apparently they can support libraries that have C shared library interfaces, so... there's that?)
hah! thanks honestly. I need to bring up this term more often than you'd think and without thinking about it got it wrong probably almost every time
Lasca Language
His contribution to linguistics is definitely great and no one can take that from him. But to call him a great modern-day thinker is a bit of a stretch.
Definitely the open source part, as most of the issues were results of open sourcing it.

This comes down to two parts being problematic:

- we took away business from private servers as there was now an open source solution
- applying the open source community model on the private server scene was a disaster. It was to idealistic.

In hindsight, the open source part was basically painting a target on us.

As an example: private servers running mostly use MaNGOS (there is not much else to use) and pretend to have built their own software and advertise by bashing MaNGOS.
I think the term 'digital native' is too disambiguous. There's two things that could be considered being a digital native; one is technical, the other is more functional.

On the technical side, I completely agree with this article. Most people my age (late 20's) and especially younger ones, don't have a clue about the insides of their devices, or how the internet actually works. They also don't seem to be interested in a lot of this stuff. They also tend to think that everything that has to do with their devices is complex.

On the 'functional' (for lack of a better word) side however, they seem to know exactly what to do on the internet. They know how to get attention on the internet, what their peers are interested in and how to get as many likes as possible. They live on the internet, live stream everything they do and make lots of selfies. This seems to be the reason why we're starting to see lots of younger kids becoming YouTube famous, or starting viral marketing companies.

The last thing, to me, is the part where people really become 'digital natives' in stead of 'technical natives'. Also, because most devices are so hard to open, most kids won't even get to see the technical side anymore, unless they want to build a gaming PC.
>The real answer is, computers suck. Seriously, computers are effing awful machines

It's easy to brush off the millions of things that computers allow us to do that we couldn't do before because of some terrible UIs.

Computers suck, the internet sucks, but the pony express and cargo boats sucked worse. I can get a message across the world in about a second. No applause for that though. No praise for the things we can now do. We're just too eager to find things we wish we could do, and blame our current technology for not knowing our dreams.
This is a rather old joke in software:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-ninety_rule
I think it is more of a management issue; had management stayed on top of the productivity of their workers this wouldn't have happened. A good project manager would have grilled someone over why they felt the need to rewrite someone else's code on the company dime.
SoundCloud is still the only place, as far as I know of, where underground and loft electronic music is shared and recognized. It's a pretty big scene and I genuinely don't understand all of the huge negative words surrounding SoundCloud right now, but I guess as someone who uses it every day I don't really pay attention to their business decisions.
I tried a variation of the same approach - thought my girlfriend how to use MS Excel formulas and she became better than I am at it in no time, because she managed to apply it in her job. But how to get her to code still eludes me...
You may bundle the Electron runtime in an app or not. An app is started by "electron main.js", so once Electron is installed you have just to download an app and create an icon. Example with https://github.com/Scriptol/Advanced-Editor
Always nice to hear it had some of the intended effects. The - albeit ideal - project goal always was to inspire people to learn development and engage with more complex issues.
Can you elaborate?

It seems interesting to know about the cultural misunderstanding.
Well it's more about the language being needlessly complicated and having 10x different ways to do the same thing, not to mention the language (Perl 5 that is - 6 is a different story) lacks essential concepts like object orientation and exceptions (you have to get "shims" like Moose or Try::Tiny from CPAN to fill those gaps). Why would you choose something like this instead of Python or Ruby?
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> It says that the probability is not zero. That is a very important distinction for some people

I'm not a mathematician, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't even say the probability of failed consensus must be nonzero. For example, the cantor set shows that it is possible to have a set with infinite elements, but zero length. That is equivalent to an infinite number of interleavings where consensus doesn't occur, but the probability of hitting any of them is zero.

Sure in real world systems, the probability would always be nonzero, but when it's still so close to zero, it practically doesn't matter. Which is why in the real world, people do build very reliable distributed systems out of unreliable components.
I'll make another virtual world
Where do I sign up for WhatsUp ?

Sounds cools.
node red looks legit, those wiring diagrams make for a cool UX. will give it a try.
Just going by my 12 friends who've "liked" the page, 4 are British, the rest from elsewhere in Europe. My friends are about 50:50 UK:rest-EU.

I'm surprised either group bothers with the recipes. The ingredients are American, as are the quantities (pounds/ounces), and the oven temperatures in Fahrenheit. I generally can't be bothered dealing with this, and in search results will prefer a British (or Australian) website to avoid needing to convert anything.
Yeah, this is my experience as well

Before open sourcing, I have that anxiety that people will look at my shitty code and judge.

Nobody really looks at the code in reality. People just come, write some terribly written bug report, and then they write "+1" in github issues.
They are all "business" in the end after all, I'll stick with the tiny nuance that "startup funding" became a more PR friendly replacement for "unicorn hunt". Not that there is anything wrong with it, but "could have been easily avoided" stuff like these happen more often.
In any mission critical situation the entire tool chain is just as locked down and controlled as the "source code," even down to the silicon.
> How so? Because when I put a PHP script on a server with "<?php echo 'Hello world' . date('Y' time()); ?>" that is a one-liner and I'm sure it'll work for the next 20 years.

Web hostings have abstracted this for you. In reality, you need to install Apache or Nginx first. PHP does have a built-in server but its for testing only not production.

Nodejs is both a server and a webapp. You just need to install nodejs at bare minimum to run a "hello world".

Try installing nodejs and php on DO to see what I mean.

With regards to nodejs overtaking PHP, various stats from various sources back this up.

> it doesn't change all the time and you can be quite confident that it'll keep running for another decade.

Now thats just false. The switch to PHP7 from PHP5 alone has many BC breaks. Latest Drupal is a rewrite. Laravel LTS dont last "a decade". Code breaks all the the time in PHP land. The only thing that dont change in PHP world is WordPress.....
Hypnotized by Hyperloop
You're argument is basically, we can't trust either, so we should just throw our hands up and ignore them all?

The entire point of the scientific method is to come to some common understanding of fact. What we need to demand is that articles are backed by properly run studies so that we can come to a common understanding based on good methods.

Yes, Al Gore believes that the current warming trend and climate change is man-made, so he will point to those things that support his theories and possibly downplay things that do not. This does not make him wrong.
Reported breaches
I was told by someone who learned Swahili that they don't say sunrise or sunset and, instead, say 6 o'clock (owing to the consistency of the equatorial sunsets/sunrises). If true, it's an interesting example of place can influence the way we understand our world.
The museum of the cutawl (2005)
Thanks to mangos I've played for years for free. I've made dozens of friends along the way. It's been a big part of my life and I'm very happy about it. Your project has made me and thousands of people very happy. So don't talk such rot.
It's a few years old now, but still quite interesting to play with. The CPU itself is only 3.5K transistors but already looks amazingly complex until you visualise how it's broken down into individual, mostly independent modules:

http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?t=2208&f=8

http://breaknes.com/

(The Russians seem to have a fondness for detailed IC reverse-engineering. There's a lot of Russian-only information on the internals of the 6502, 8080, 8085, Z80, etc.)
And that is the big loss. Having a place where one could discover new music has so much value over being served the same songs by the same few artists
Computers suck and people get scared. Only having one app on the screen at once, only having one way to do things...

One way to do everything robs people of their ability to think.
May be a problem with the business but I think it is great for art and music, not that you disagreed with that sentiment.
> They know how to get attention on the internet, what their peers are interested in and how to get as many likes as possible.

Is it specific to an age group, though? My mother is in her 60s and she seems to have no problem getting 100+ likes on FB every time she posts a pic of her grandkids. She knows what _her_ peers want to see.
Why?

The truth is that we're all part of the problem, and all part of the solution. Rich people have a greater influence on the direction of the world than the poor, but only because we let them control the debate.
I've been using PHP for many years now and I was very close to switch to NodeJS or Go a couple years ago until I discovered Laravel. That changed my view of PHP completely and it improved my code quality and potential by a 10x factor at least.
I think that what Taylor Otwell has done in the last years with Laravel and with its ecosystem has been really underestimated. Not just for Laravel that is an excellent framework in my opinion, but especially with all the other products and libraries that he built along the way.
It covers all the needs I had in building my last few SaaS products and it made my life soooo much easier.

A few examples:

Forge and Envoyer: setup and manage your VPS in a breeze and deploy your code with zero downtime.

Spark: create a SaaS product in literally a matter of minutes without having to care about all the boilerplates

Echo: real time notification across multiple channels (mail, Pusher, Slack, etc.)

Passport: OAuth2 API server as easy as it can be

Scout: Redis/Algolia search with just a couple of lines of code

Dusk: test your app easily both for unit and browser testing

Cashier: payments with Stripe and Braintree in a breeze (both for one time payment and recurring ones)

Socialite: OAuth for all kind of services (Facebook, Twitter, Google, ...)

And beside all this, there is the excellent Laracasts by Jeffrey Way that made me learn not just Laravel but PHP and JS in general in a really great way.

And I could go on talking with the great and simple queueing system, the perfect integration with VueJS that I love as well, ...

As you can see I'm a big big fan of Laravel in general and I hope that it will become popular in HN especially over time.
>"Then it's not a startup. A startup is designed to grow quickly. Everything we associate with startups stems from the fact that the successful ones do make millions within a decade. For it to be a startup, you have to have a large target market."

I am sorry but where is that criteria codified? This is nonsense. Here is an article with 14 founders being asked what defines a "startup" and only one of them mentions market size:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/natalierobehmed/2013/12/16/what...

>"Everything we associate with startups stems from the fact that the successful ones do make millions within a decade."

No, that's the sensational media coverage that associates that. Further what is meant by "make millions"? Millions in revenue when you are losing millions is not really an indicator of success is it? Also Uber, Spotify at 8 and 11 years old respectively both have millions in revenue but lose money. Are they "successful"?
MIT researchers have developed the thinnest, lightest solar cell to date