skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like you've been engaging sociopaths on their own turf, and yes I can see that in that environment everyone lies would be a true statement. Personnally, I don't lie about anything, and I find life to be very simple. I don't have to think about what I told to who, when. But I'm just an old developer who's been in the trenches for a lonng time.

You might read up on the gervais priciple, it explains a lot imo.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
Alan Davies will be thrilled.
Why not use Pocket?

https://getpocket.com/
I think AWS X-Ray deserves to be mentioned here - it tracks requests through different services using tagging and provides visualization. AWS also has other useful tools like SNS and SQS for building loosely coupled microservice systems.

In the AWS case microservices are combined with other paradigms like Serverless and event driven computing. I would judge all these together and consider the overall benefits you gain from fully managed services, built-in autoscaling, independent parallel development and deployment of microservices, etc. Personally I would not go back to the old ways.
Nobody "has to use it". Furthermore several JVM languages are developing LLVM-targeting compilers like ScalaNative and Kotlin Native.
$62750 according to his twitter https://twitter.com/uetoken?lang=en
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Don't quote me on this, but there's a specific-ish exemption for family/friends if I recall correctly.
I don't really buy any of your assertions. Why even lie? If you're lying to get out of an uncomfortable situation for example, you can't possibly value that person that much no? Ultimately, if telling the truth kills the relationship, it was probably never really alive to begin with.

As you lie it'll only beget more lying. E.g. Pretending to be friends with someone which will only get you more pretend friends and so forth.

What exactly is the end goal of lying? Financial gain? Prestige? Power?

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Anyway, it's pretty easy to tell when someone lies consistently. When you do so the honest people will begin to limit interactions with the liar. And so your interactions will be consist of a higher and higher percentage of liars. Eventually you'll have to lie to keep up with the other liars. It's almost like the "keeping up with the joneses" effect, but with lying.

I've found that most vices are committed in pursuit of others. Identifying those and eliminating all of them (not necessarily entirely, but together) is the solution, if you that's what you want.
Those "studies" are self serving. That is the political propaganda keeping you feeling safe in having your rights violated. This isn't a question of flavor of politics- but fundamental rights. Do you have freedom of association or not?

Secondly, you think its "fairly clear to [you]" that these ICOs are scams. I am sure some are, but I know for a fact that many are not. I am quite capable of telling the difference (as a blockchain engineer.)

The presumption that every startup failing is "people being swindled out of their money" is very odd one for a discussion forum run by y-combinator.

Is y-combinator being swindled when an investment fails?

And you're still sidestepping the point:

It's my right to apply my own discernment to what are good and what are bad investments. Not people who don't know the difference between SHA1 and SHA2.
Imagine Oracle's current business model goes downhill. Imagine Oracle has plenty of money remaining and asks "How can we monetize Java?" They will not ask Hacker News, they will spend potentially millions of dollars asking lawyers.

Given Oracle's past behavior with respect to Java, their general competitive model and their financial resources the answer is "Worse than you you or HN can imagine".

If you already have a significant investment in using OpenJDK, you may not have a choice, but otherwise there are other good technologies and you should avoid any JVM, JDK and other Java/JVM based technologies or languages. IMHO.
What has been written about reading source code?
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`brew install <thing>` is a natural thing to try first. If it works well then why use something else?
Because the average joe can't afford to pay any more in taxes. If only Europe would build up their own military, and help out a little.
It's highly limited. If you have 300 friends you can't take $10k from each, unless they are accredited.
> why average Joe from USA is OK with government subsidizing Europe with his tax money

Where do you get the idea that "average Joe" is okay with that? It's been a huge talking point for Trump and his supporters for the past two years.
* introduction of direct voting (e.g. reducing complex matters to yes/no decisions)

As a Swiss I have to comment on this.

First, is this really a right-wing point?

Where I vehemently disagree is with the sentiment carried with the "explanation" of direct democracy that you added.

Every parliament will boil down complex issues to "simple" yes/no decisions. Or how do you imagine a parliament can vote on anything?

Furthermore a right to a referendum is literally just consulting the people for a yes/no vote that already happened in the parliament. In Switzerland you need to collect a certain amount of signatures of voters within 100 days to mandate a public vote on the exact law that was passed by the parliament. Changes in the constitution mandate a referendum.

Another part of Swiss democracy are popular initiatives. You can propose a change to the constitution like adding "The State mandates a minimal wage". If you gather enough signatures the people will vote if they want to add this to the constitution. If it passes, the executive is required to propose laws that implement the change.
"correlation ID" is the common term. Has value outside of microservices as well. Monoliths don't always have a single log file.
I would suggest that if someone "whines" 'you mean figuratively, not literally' that they may be double-checking (depends on context of course). Or perhaps the complaint may be due to the fact that the complainer does not know that "literally" can mean "figuratively."

I agreed that the word "literally" can be used figuratively, but this use needs to be obvious- kind of like pronouns. I personally prefer to avoid that use because I am not a particularly talented wordsmith.
That's not it.

The issue is that government programs in the US have a history of being poorly run, abused, expensive and totally unable to be reformed once in place.

There is a separation between "wanting healthcare" and "wanting government healthcare." It's a lack of faith issue combined with a history devoid of contrary examples.
> because we're subsidizing europe, which is a huge free rider on the US military.

Even given that, the budget is massively overblown.

> If Putin for whatever reason decided to become an expansionist power and the US had an european level military, no one could stop him.

You seem to appeal to extremes. Ignoring how unlikely for that is to happen, you still don't need ~1000 military bases around the world, or would 500 be too little to stop Putin?

> Europe in general has been massively subsidized in different ways by the USA from the end of WW2. They turn around and love to show off their moral superiority while someone else picks up the bill.

That is the cost of being as global superpower and the world police, you pick up some bills, but you also get away with a lot of crap that others wouldn't.
I dunno. I haven't met a bigcorp yet (including government) where you couldn't join in the middle of the ladder with a sufficiently impressive resume, and working at interesting startups on tech that a bigcorp might want to use is definitely a way to do so.
The thing I don't understand about the subsidization argument is that it suggests Europe would choose to spend what America is spending, if America wasn't doing so already.

I think Europe has fundamentally different ideas about the cost/benefit of investment in military. If the US went all-in on isolationism and drastically cut back military spending, Europe likely wouldn't replace American spending dollar-for-dollar. Instead they would spend more on other things, such as health care.
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If you're not into reading the article itself and want to check out the technology first, here's the link to github: https://github.com/ory/hydra

If you have any questions, feel free to ask ahead.
I have friends whose dog is named Pliny. He convinced his wife they were naming the dog after a great historical figure, but really it's just his favorite beer. It's pretty high on my list when I visit CA to see if I can find it.
>It's not inaccurate. there is almost always an element of intimidation

Is there any way you can back this up in some solid, less qualitative manner? I understand the broadness of what is being discussed, but I've never seen this talking point come to fruition in any relevant manner. It's always a mischaracterization (normally designed to appeal to outrage "consumers") whenever I look deeper to any specific incident that gets presented as "exclusion through intimidation and violence"
> Secondly, you think its "fairly clear to [you]" that these ICOs are scams. I am sure some are, but I know for a fact that many are not. I am quite capable of telling the difference (as a blockchain engineer.)

The average Joe and Jane on Instagram/Twitter/FB can simply not tell if it's a scam or not what e.g. Paris Hilton is advertising.

Heck, I'm a sw dev too - and I have a hard time figuring out why some of the ICOs need their own token at all. Simple offer what you sell (e.g. legal services for a certain market) directly and let them pay as they wish. Absolutely no need for a blockchain to achieve things.
That's your presumption. You think they aren't technically savvy. Hell, I think some of them aren't myself, but it's not my right, and it's not your right, to say what they can or cannot do with their property.

And a lot of those non-"savvy" people have outperformed me, for instance by buying ETH at the ICO.

You guys keep presuming that the only choice is "people losing all their money" and that these regulations stop that.

The reality is, these regulations keep the poor people poor, not keep them from losing all their money.

As I have pointed out, you can go to Las Vegas and lose all your savings in a weekend.

That dog don't hunt.
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Sure, certain concepts have been around and keep getting reimplemented but it's far too easy to confuse the old with the new.

One of the very real issues WebComponents solve is encapsulating the component functionality and styling away from everything else in a typical web page; you know, the basic separation of concerns stuff.

Certainly nothing that Microsoft proposed then has today's comparability and flexibility of today's offerings.

Microsoft didn't lack good ideas back then when they cared about the web; they were clueless about interoperability across devices and platforms. (IE for the Mac had a better but different rendering engine than IE for Windows did.) And because of their monopoly status then, they weren't to be trusted.

I also want to correct something the article mentioned, that Netscape was irrelevant back then due to Microsoft's cool features--not true. In fact, on any big project, developers had to essentially make two sites--one for Netscape users and one for IE users.

The "new" Microsoft it much better with getting their ideas out and working with other companies.
They're not genetically modified, merely bred for specific attributes, like people have been doing for thousands of years.

Just regular evolution with human selection still works fine, with no need to directly interfere in the genetic makeup.
So this is phenomenal interesting to me - I cofounded a startup looking at exactly this space: we want to use crowdsourcing and AI to make the information published online in the aftermath of disasters useful for response organization. We're still very much early days, but we have been lucky enough to pick up some seed funding :-)

If your SO is interested, I'd be really grateful for the opportunity to have a chat with them about their experiences!

We've got a website at https://sempo.ai if you'd like a bit of background...
That's nice.

However, I'd need it to be open-source, because connecting it to a HP Proliant server is probably not trivial (these beasts have two power supplies). Also, I need it to work over ethernet.
Ok, so all projects start with an idea. What is your point then?
trump needs to order a fleet of busses from tesla.
There's a group 3 also that's roughly "clearly I need microservices on my resume, so we're using it".
They are not a solution in search of a problem. They have a very clear problem statement, it's hard to orchestrate reusable front-end code. React's problem statement is roughly the same, but react seeks to provide more structure and functionality to the foundation of web components. The WebComponent spec is just trying to formalise that foundation.
Lets assume I am accredited.

This isn't about me getting mine.

This is about the fact that the regulations deny you a chance to join me.
FWIW, I have no problems with the file in Sumatra.

https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org
Mc and Mac prefixes are mostly outliers :-) At least in the case of the apples they're named for a person.

The computer industry really jumped into case sensitive naming with both feet. I'm sure NeXT wasn't the first such example but they were one of the earlier ones when it started to become the norm.
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In that case, what do you consider to be good tomatoes? If you don't like any of them, maybe you just don't like tomatoes?
> Retrofitting a transport system to replace the need for cars is virtually impossible.

This is a very pessimistic take on our capabilities.

Retrofitting modern (past century technology) transport systems onto cities that are a ~ 1,000 years old is things that many cities have managed to do. Almost any capital city in Europe would make a good example.

Can you elucidate on why doing it in Houston is 'virtually impossible'?

> It's a 100 x 100 mile area. I grew up there and drove 5 miles to high school, through sprawling neighborhoods.

TFA suggest that a million cars within the Houston Metropolitan Area were destroyed. According to wikipedia this is ~ 4,300 sq km.

You've suggested that Houston is 100x100miles ... which is about 25,000 sq km.

You can't both be right.

For reference, Sydney metro area is estimated at around 12,000 sq km - three times the size of Houston. Australia's renowned for low population density (equating to relatively high cost of public transport infrastructure per person) ... and yet.
I'm not surprised, even some basic analysis on the ICOs such as Civic raise a lot of alarm bells.

Will be very interested to see in the next couple of years how many of these projects still exist.
Ooooo oooo pick me! We're doing something in this space. Very much early days but we DO have seed funding :)

Https://sempo.ai if you're interested
Never happened. Some kick starters didn't deliver, but you're factually wrong-- these laws have existed for decades before Kickstarter started-- and you ignore my point. You can lose your life savings in a weekend in Las Vegas and nobody bats an eye.
This, absolutely. I actually care passionately about racial, gender, orientation, and economic equality. I've been an activist for these causes for nearly my whole life. I want more people to care about these issues and speak up about them.

However the mainstream manifestation of intersectional activism is opposed to this, apparently predicated on the notion that speech is a zero-sum game, and that if you're part of any kind of majority-group, you can't be on our side.

This both morally and strategically wrong: morally because it is founded on a notion of race/gender/culture/identity essentialism that is the entire fucking thing I've spent my life fighting against, and strategically because the only winning condition is one where you get the majority on your side -- and telling them how much they need to shut up will never, ever do that.
So it's what Daniel Dennett refers to as a 'deepity' then?

Source: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Deepity
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> The issue is that government programs in the US have a history of being poorly run, abused, expensive and totally unable to be reformed once in place.

That is true, but isn't that because they're being used to play politics? ie. being poorly funded to prove that government programs don't work, or awarding massive contracts to private contractors that fail to deliver quality due to corruption, (campaign contributions etc. ) and lack of oversight?
To this day I'm absolutely flabbergasted that XHTML didn't win out. Well-formed XML documents, rather than a best-guess soup of broken HTML, was perfect. Absolutely perfect. I sat on the edge of my seat for 2-3 years waiting for the XHTML MIME type, with clients performing strict parsing, to become the new norm. It never happened. It's extremely sad if you think about it - we couldn't handle a world where developers had to conform to a very simple level of strictness. Imagine any backend language (C, Java, PHP, etc.) allowing you to get away with vomiting up garbage code with syntax errors, and having the compiler or interpreter best-guessing your program's logic. It's unfathomable! And yet, that is exactly what we have with HTML(5). Mind-boggling, to say the least.

Related aside: to this day, we still cannot write <script src="/main.js"/>. We must use <script src="/main.js"></script>. All because of a multi-decade old description of a CDATA element. Sigh.
Before investing in execution, why wouldn't you weight it up with cheap talk? You think people should dive into execution straight away without forethought?
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You are correct. I am whining about something like that happening, and noting that while correct its use (obvious hyperbole) is subtle and not one that many who use it that way pick up on.
Yes, and the "illegal activity" can be "money laundering"
I had to collaborate with some distinguished middle-aged scientists, and Fortran is what they spoke. And given how 'terrible' the code was, I developed great respect for their intellect - how they were able to get such results out of their tangles. (The moral of that story is: do not keep your intellectual property only in code)

'terrible' is the word we use, but they were not professional programmers (and had zero interest in the craft) So fit-for-purpose maybe, 'unstructured' but not 'terrible'.
> So how can one explain that the economy cannot deliver relatively cheap and tasty basic food products (at much higher profit margins as the consumers are now more wealthy and more health conscious) - a task that ineffective, communist economy fulfilled with relative ease.

That's pretty simple: Poland is now importing a lot of stuff that it used to grow at home. And since Poland is not the wealthiest country it doesn't get the high priced quality stuff.

A lot of stuff that worked under communism does not work equally well under capitalism until a long period of leveling has passed. And on that front Poland has done exceptionally well compared to some of the alternatives, even so there is still a long way to go.

Incidentally, I lived in Poland before the wall fell, and of course what you should add to your story is that if tomatoes were available they tasted better, but they really weren't available all that often.
True.

It's also notable that the gradient between fully functional people and the mentally ill people you describe is entirely smooth.

The clear medical distinction between "mentally ill" and "not mentally ill" is an artificial construction that makes the situation easier to describe by throwing away most of the information.

In truth, there is no clear line where one goes from "needs institutionalization" to "self-managing adult". It's all a matter of degree, which makes the whole discussion really difficult.

What happens to the people who aren't medically diagnosible as mentally ill, but do have personalities, habits, or traits that make them take decisions that always destroy any opportunities or resources available to them?

This group gets ignored a lot, often (I think) because it's uncomfortable to think about how such people exist, because in some moral systems there is no solution that doesn't hurt somehow.
That's a new one, erecting a series of straw men and then demanding that I knock them down.

Of course you are incredulous because you want to believe that government is good and moral and its' right to be a slave.
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I think people associate JIRA with middle managers who "work" all day in JIRA and foist draconian JIRA "processes" on everyone. eg: My current manager wants us update all open JIRA tickets every morning with "current status" .

Not sure why manager types like JIRA though..
Huh. I was gonna type a lot of this, but you've saved me the trouble.

I did want to signal boost the stoicism part, though. There are a lot of good mental health practices available in modern stoicism that tend to appeal highly to nerds and other logical types. I can't recommend the following book enough: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0195374614/ref=pd_aw_sim_14_1...

I reread it every couple years and it has definitely helped a lot with my feelings of loss and "wasted time."

Oh, and getting older. It's incredible how much more mellow I feel at 37 than at 27.
Have you got a look on Elixir/Erlang/OTP?
I don't really understand this persistent "carpentry/craftsman" analogy - it seems to me software dev isn't really like a craft at all. I'd sooner stick to "software engineering".
I didn't know this when I joined CA. It took me 6 months to realize what I fell into - and I quit the next week. It felt like working in a hospice - most depressing few months of my professional life.

Oh and don't forget to tell the truth in your next job interview: "CA is a tremendously successful company and excellent employer, unfortunately, the role was not the right fit for me".
Perhaps, but the inhabitants of the other thousands of settlements, including many in polders that were once lakes or seas, would probably agree.
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