skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The amusing thing is when a web site for a company that does real stuff ends up looking like one of those. I mentioned Continental in a self-driving car discussion. Here's their web site.[1] Someone commented that it looked like a fake company. The rearing-horse logo, "The future in motion" as a slogan, and the vague name looked suspicious. The pictures look like clip art. The top of the home page rotates through four large banners - "Making Mobility a Great Place to Live", "Let your Ideas Shape the Future", "Continental Pledges Support in Response to Hurricane Harvey", and "First 48V drive for electric bikes". The last at least mentions a product. The entire initial screen does look vague.

(Continental is one of the world's largest auto parts makers, over a century old, based in Germany, and with over 200,000 employees. They make everything from tires to self-driving car sensor integration units. Not a fly-by-night startup.)

Look at General Electric.[2] Their home page has "The Digital Industry Company - Imagination at Work", clip art of some enormous piece of machinery, and a search box. Of course, GE probably made that enormous piece of machinery. But there's no indication of what they do. For that, you have to use the "GE Businesses" drop-down menu. It may take a while to find out that GE is prepared to sell you a jet engine or a locomotive.

What seems to be happening is that startups are emulating big-company sites. Badly.

[1] https://www.continental-corporation.com/en
[2] https://www.ge.com/
> Not all the countries are pure meat eaters...

lmao... fish is meat.
> China sites terrorist financing and money laundering as problems with ICO'e

You can maliciously use your paper money right there in your leather wallet to do all sort of criminal activity, should we ban regular money too?
You don't have permission to access /roundtable/deeper-deep on this server.

Is anyone able to access the site?

Here's the most recent archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20170904030057/https://www.lapha...
But the thoughts people think aren't evenly distributed -- they primarily center around the same things.
Value of classic cars and fine art plunges as photographs soar
They are copied from http://sqlite.org/arch.html, which is built from (see http://sqlite.org/download.html) data in Fossil at https://www3.sqlite.org/cgi/docsrc/timeline, which leads me to e.g. https://www3.sqlite.org/cgi/docsrc/artifact/d22a2c9642d584b8, which seems to contain the right strings, so presumably is the file describing https://www.sqlite.org/images/arch2.gif and its copy on https://cstack.github.io/db_tutorial/assets/images/arch2.gif

That's fig source. So, I guess this was made by some GUI that uses fig as its native file format. My guess would be xfig (http://mcj.sourceforge.net)
Not a downvoter, but it doesn't quite work. Google isn't against open-source. It's somewhat related, but not exactly.
A $500 fine for brutal assault?

I had to pay a larger fine for forgetting to pay a $40 ticket.
What use case do you have such that the current crop of SQLite go bindings do not suffice?
Its harder to recommend a second step pen, as it depends more on personal taste. There's two facets to what you get as you step up the price ranges - fancier nibs, and fancier bodies.

Fancier bodies is almost entirely a style thing - if you want a certain look, you can pay for it.

Nibs is a trickier thing. The "solid gold nib" thing isn't just marketing, there's actual advantages to it - mostly an opportunity to make the nib "softer" as it bends and flexes slightly as you write. This is very much a taste thing as well, but a much more difficult one to judge online! Different brands will generally have house "feels" - Lamy is a popular entry brand, and tends to make all their nibs super stiff, with almost no flex. Pilot or Sailors stlye tends to run softer.
It's also worth mentioning that Japanese brands almost all run one size "finer", so if you're looking for a nib from a European company like Lamy or Pelican that's around the size of the pilot fine, order an extra fine.

All that said, possibly my favorite nib is the pilot vanishing point, which is ~$120. I don't think there's much in the < $100 range that's significantly better than the metropolitan. I'm also a big fan of Sailor and Visconti's fancier nibs, but that's up a considerable price band.
It appears to me that the trouble with building an exchange isn't the software, but the securities regulations involved in running one.

Woe to they who attempt to do so without counsel.
Apple ends its annual music festival after 10 years
Warning: Site has autoplaying video.

What's HN's criteria on the [video] tag, is it appropriate for links which include a large auto-playing video, but also contain article text? Or is it reserved for content which is exclusively in video format?
(I used to work on the webserver for Google Search. Left Google several years ago, have no more vested interest in them.)

The reason for the browser-sniffing in search is a combination of ease of testing + latency reduction. By supporting a known set of browsers, you can write a test plan for each and shard it out among contractors (or ideally, automate it with a Selenium config). Manual tests run on every release (2/week when I left, maybe more now), and automated tests run on every changelist (thousands/week), so you can see how adding additional browsers to the testing matrix can consume significant resources. Very often cutting-edge features will launch on Chrome only and then if users like them, they'll get ported over to all the other browsers. (Or, just as often, the project is canceled and the feature is unlaunched on Chrome a year later, which IMHO isn't a great habit on Google's part but it is what it is.)

If you're manually spoofing your user agent, then Google figures that you know what you're doing and it's "use at your own risk anyway", and that if you get a broken experience, your first thought will be to disable the user-agent spoofing.

Additionally, browser-sniffing lets you serve only the JS needed for that particular browser, and not all of the hacks/polyfills/bugfixes/workarounds needed for browsers that the user isn't using. This is probably less of an issue now that things are more standard, but when I started ('09), not needing to serve all of the IE6 workarounds when the user was on Chrome or Firefox saved a lot of latency for users that were on modern browsers.
From the sound of it, they don't know either:

https://www.reddit.com/r/socialmedia/comments/11d8tt/can_som...

"it is up to you to browse the site and create your own interpretation of it"
Worth mentioning: login.gov
Yeah, but at this point, I think the risks of modern reactors are understood well-enough to say with confidence that safety is not a major argument against nuclear energy.
Watch "From Alice to Ocean", which covers the same ground, with camels, better.

One of the first CD-ROM multimedia presentations to be any good.
Soderberghs version is much more reflective of what happened with the emergence of OpenSolaris and Illumos (not to give away any spoilers but apparently forking is a real thing and it lives on). Tarkovskys movie was such a philosophical drivel that I feel asleep. How is the book - is it worth reading? As I understood it neither of films follow the novel very closely.
The point is that the ecosystem is so fragmented now that Googling often doesn’t get you useful answers. You find an article that applies to some version of Ubuntu, but you’re on Fedora, or you’re on a different version of Ubuntu that’s made major breaking changes in basic components (systems, Mir/Wayland/etc). At least back in 2002 most everything used SysV Init and Xorg.

As to your other point—grandma has an iPad. To the extent Linux has relevance in the desktop, it’s for CS students, people setting up a lab of workstations, etc. Simple stuff like setting up a Remote Desktop is squarely within that use-case.
XKCD is a high iq version of a reaction gif.
I didn't see that XKCD is being specifically about open source. That said, the one I posted a few months ago was spot on and yet it was downvoted to death within a few hours, so I don't think it really matters how perfect the fitting is.
China bans a great many things, even if those bans can be circumvented (access to certain political websites being a notable example).
Most websites don't sell anything directly. They don't need to be understandable.

To take the previous examples, continentals and general electrics websites have nothing to sell to you whatsoever. The website is used to publish general company information online like: financial reports, global news, official contacts and addresses, job offers.
Why I won't be getting a phone SIM card in my new country
I was talking about this guy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Illich) rather than the Tolstoy character, but same deal.
It doesn't. The title is clickbait. Nobody knows why Bitcoin goes up and down, but people listen to whoever talks authoritatively on the subject.

China's announcement was probably a trigger that caused people to sell, rather than being directly responsible for people selling.
The situation is completely different now. Reactor design is much safer, operational safety is at another level and safety risks are more clearly understood.
Well, while I don't think perfectionism is always a bad thing and releasing 'any old thing' as quickly as possible it's always a good idea, I definitely see where he's coming from. There's a balance you have to strike here between 'done quickly' and 'done perfectly', and pushing towards either end can doom your project.

I mean, look at Duke Nukem Forever. The game spent 15 years in development because the creators were never happy with it, constantly felt it needed to be better than the competition and always fretted about what engine might be the 'best possible choice' for the title.

That wasted millions of dollars, years of people's lives and all manner of resources for a game that would have been better released after three or four years with a couple of sequels down the line.

And lots of non game examples exist there too. I'm sure you can name amazing systems that took so in development due to 'doing everything properly no matter the cost' that their nimbler competitors ate them for lunch.

At the same time, you can also likely remember many examples where products got released without enough care and attention put into the coding site (or quality control in general) and it just slaughtered their reputation and long term popularity.

It's a fine line you have to wander, and one that can sink a product or service if you go too far off track.
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I agree completely now that you say that.
I think China likes Bitcoin because money flowing into it does not strengthen the dollar thus putting pressure on their foreign reserves. If people are sneaking their money out of the country, they'd rather be trading it for Bitcoin than dollars.
They give out free T-shirts, duh! On a more serious note, it looks like some sort of social media website.
6 Year Old's Own Composition of NatGeo's Genius Theme Title Music
I wish I could use Vivaldi, it seems like a nice browser for power users. Unfortunately it's closed source (besides the Webkit parts). Considering how much sensitive information goes through a browser nowadays, I would never consider something closed source.

I'm sure Vivaldi has no intentions of becoming "evil" like Google, but because of its closed source nature it wouldn't be hard to slip a tracker or two in the browser and regular users would be none the wiser.
Serious question: what do you believe value is? Do you think it's more related to how much you can sell your output for on the open market or is it how much leverage you have/your ability to extract capital? A mix?

I've been in enough meetings with sales, marketing, and execs to know that they see value as "how much can we get someone to pay for this."

So why is it, when labor applies this same concept to themselves people get really defensive? Who cares if you're making 100k, 1million, or 10million a year. If you can extract more capital for your product than your current rates then you are "undercharging", as most business folks have told me.

And good business also means using every legal trick in the book to extract more capital. Whether that be locking customers in at start-up stages so when they grow you have more leverage and they're forced to use your services barring a massive investment. Or unionizing so you have more leverage to negotiate the return on your product. I mean, if a business was going to lock themselves into only one paying customer they would set up a million different protection clauses.
The expiration date is a good guide for those of us who are anosmic and wouldn't otherwise notice.
SEEKING WORK - Houston, TX / Remote / Travel OK

Available from September 12 (next Tuesday) onwards.

I'm a full stack web developer doing everything from desktop Electron apps to backends for mobile apps running on AWS.

I'd be happy to help with your next project whether it's working on a large, existing codebase or building a user-facing product from scratch.

Here are some of the technologies I typically work with:

Backend => Python/flask or django, node.js, go
Frontend => ES2015 JavaScript, (+ TypeScript if possible!), React+Redux or riot, preact, SASS, Bootstrap
Storage => postgres, sqlite3 redis, RethinkDB

I cut my coding teeth writing compilers in C++ and Scheme, so I'm confident I can figure out whatever stack you need me to.

Shoot me an email at phil@upvalue.io or check me out further at https://upvalue.io or https://github.com/ioddly
Why? SQLite is one of the highest quality codebases out there! For fun, sure. But I think you are underestimating the size of the SQLite project and it's tests. Just because the library is small it doesn't mean it's simple.
I'm a bit skeptical of the claims he's making in his article, since he has obvious incentives as the founder of a browser company competing with Google. Judging from the amazing features listed on the webpage (bar charts of my history, wow, do not need that at all), I'm guessing his product sense might have some something to do with his companies not working out, not bigger competitors that are out to get him.

Can anyone point me to links confirming his two claims: that Google services were maliciously blocking Opera for reasons other than compatibility and efficiency for a low-market-share browser, and that Google blocked his ads for spurious reasons. He doesn't really provide details on what rules he was violating, but judging from the fact that the ads were reinstated the moment he was in compliance with them, it sounds like a trumped up charge.
One piece of advice I'll never forget: Never grep a yacc by the i-node.
Hey OP,

Great website! I read a book that was recommended on HN probably 6 or 7 years ago and I've spent the longest time trying to remember the name of it. My local library that I borrowed it from doesn't keep checkout history records so they couldn't look it up for me.

I looked at your website and sorted by all-time and found it: "Winning Through Intimidation" by Robert Ringer! I had even remembered the turtle on the cover but still couldnt't find it by Googling. Thanks for the site!
Java is open-source, too, yet we still have Oracle trying to shake money out of its users.
Sort of related:

https://github.com/elliotchance/c2go

> The goals of this project are:

> .. The ultimate milestone is to be able to compile the SQLite3 source code and have it working without modification. This will be the 1.0.0 release.

So if that project does work out, there will be a Go SQLite implementation of sorts. No idea how messy/usable the result would be as a base for development though.

Note - haven't personally been tracking the project at all. More just that your statement prompted remembering it. :)
That's because they want you using their app, which they have more control over and where they can disable features like background playback and Picture in Picture which they can then charge you for.
From the comment you're replying to:

> Let the people who invested poorly get wiped out-- it's better for the economy. (There are examples of this too - crashes that happened before the federal reserve which were much worse than the 1929 crash, but which are forgotten to history because they didn't create Great Depressions

Of course there were panics and corrections before the federal system - as rothbardrand mentioned, they didn't create events as bad as the depression.

The "bonus" you mentioned lasts 3 years, where as the great depression: "started in 1929 and lasted until 1941" (src: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression). Note: "The Depression of 1882-85 was not inaugurated by financial disaster or mass panic, but was rather an economic downturn that came about through a protracted and gradual process".

Compare that to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Crash_of_1929 and tell me where the line between "market corrections" / "downturns" and "financial disaster" / "mass panic".

But showing evidence is needless: the federal reserve _necessarily_ aggravates the business cycle by promoting mal-investment. This was Murray Rothbard's mentor Ludwig von Mises' great work "Human Action" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Action), specifically Chapter XX section 8, "The Monetary or Circulation Credit Theory of the Trade Cycle" - (full text is online here: https://mises.org/library/human-action-0/html/pp/818). One of the key tenants of Austrian economics and in particular the work of von Mises is that it is deductive from pure logic, rather than from experimental or statistical observations. Austrian economics is more akin to biology than psychology.
Retail customers are the cheapest source of capital for BB. I remember directors would laugh about it when it was brought up. Banks are not doing retail (any) customers any favors.
> ..employees who had given their careers to the company were told of their termination via a pre-recorded call — “robo-RIF’d”

This sounds awful, and very long from what would be the legal requirements demanded in the country I live in.

What would such a robot call say?
A. J. Jacobs' interview with the author[0] is an interesting read.

[0] http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a26792/honesty0707/
Off-topic a bit, but just want to say your juggling talk is very good (and IIRC got me to start juggling again). Although my friends found it odd when they saw it a second time and realised how even your off-hand jokes were all deliberate and planned.
Please visit http://indi.com/9996m to hear the music. Awesome!!
As a Firefox mobile user, I actually appreciate the stripped down Google. It loads a lot faster than the bloated regular search page on slow connections, and infinite scrolling is irritating anyways.

That doesn't really excuse Google's anticompetitive behavior, though.
By skipping the second half, you missed the push of "I've been on Oprah, therefore this company will be successful". Seriously, the last 20 seconds before the logo reveal starts is footage of him on Oprah.
Well, at least there's no "Uber/Airbnb for .." part
Generating an AST client side, then serializing it, can take a substantial amount of CPU usage especially in languages like JavaScript or Python. If you do include the ability to make an AST, it would be good to have a facility for parameterized queries so that you only have to build and serialize the AST once.
Yes please! A couple years ago I wrote a sql-like layer to federate queries across a couple different databases, with the intent of unifying the data we had spread out over postgres, cassandra and S3. The best decision I made was not writing a real query parser and just using s-expressions, which is pretty much what you're asking for. It was great.
How about the audio book of Deep Work by Cal Newport?
The key thing is reliability and most Balancing Authorities will have procedures dictating which generation comes offline.
https://companyname.com/docs

Don't see why you need a subdomain for this, and it seems like something that may be worse on a SEO/marketing level (there's mixed evidence here, but some sources like Moz say that subdomains are treated like separate websites rather than part of the same one).

So you may not even need a subdomain for the docs site.

You certainly don't need a whole separate domain for it, especially if the only reason for it it a 'cute' domain hack without much in the way of practical value.
In a stroke of timing, I released this today:

http://simplesuomi.com

I'm an Aussie trying to learn some Finnish now that I live in Helsinki, so I made this little app and plan to send it to some mates of mine.
I mean, none of that is related to capitalism, but why not make believe?
Bletchley’s wartime codebreakers meet again
Can Chinese investors still invest in foreign ICOs, or is that now illegal too?
I'd imagine something like "shutdown -h now" or the solaris equivalent
Seconded, it's a great utility, without dependencies, and very simple.
You are not the first one to use this argument. Somehow you believe is that if government can do something without public health care it means it won't do it with public health care for sure. Did I understand it correctly?

If so, let's try it on some other topic. E.g. "Government is already wiretapping and spying on citizens communications so providing public Internet is completely safe and in no way government is going to be spying on it!". Does it work for you?
"Mining" looks like an export business from a Chinese perspective. Mining companies build facilities in China, hire people in China, make something of value, and export it. That's encouraged by policy.

"Exchanges", though, are iffy. Those are financial institutions, and the PBOC can regulate them if they want. They've done a little regulation, clamping down on margin and accepting credit cards to buy Bitcoin.

Bitcoin used to be down in the noise as a way to get money out of China, and was tolerated in the way that putting all your relatives on the train to Hong Kong loaded up with 20,000 RMB each is tolerated. The numbers for Bitcoin are getting bigger, though, making PBOC action more likely.

A few years ago, it looked like yuan convertibility was on the horizon, but that didn't happen.
>The idea of the Internet turning into a battlefield of propaganda is very far away from the ideal.

Too late, it already happened, and had nothing to do with data collection. When television was invented, people had much the same visions of utopia: it'll be used to educate people. The internet is now flooded with propaganda from think tanks banked by billionaire wingnuts to the Putin Troll Army.