skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm very similar to you and grappled with the same issues.

What really changed for me was reading some Hindu philosophy. I'm Indian and Hindu by birth but have been agnostic pretty much all my life.

I looked into the philosophical component of Hinduism out of curiosity.

The heart of Hindu philosophy is in the Gita. The core idea of Gita is to "do your duty regardless of the results"

This is a belief I've now come to embrace wholeheartedly.

I've stopped bothering with the results. I've stopped bothering with what others are doing.

I only focus on what I CAN do - my duty - and forget about the rest.

Relinquishing control has been a great thing
There is no framework to make apps look iOSish on iOS and Androidish on Android. Back to native programming, I guess.

Google's Flutter certainly creates apps (using mostly web technologies) that have the correct look and feel for Android and iOS from the same codebase.

Keynote: Flutter (Dart Developer Summit 2016)»https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx-AllVZ1VY
Even more insane, Americans ALREADY pay for all the uninsured through their insurance fees, as the cost of healthcare for the uninsured is passed along to insurance companies by the providers in the form of higher prices.

I'd only correct your post by saying that it's not about paying extra, it's about paying the same amount and/or less to someone other than a for-profit insurance company. I am in Germany and am totally blown away by the German health insurance system. It seems to work really well for all concerned.
Partly this depends on the platform.
C++ is well supported on Microsoft's .NET platform where you can access all the functionality of the .NET libraries through C++.

STL, I guess, is more used on Linux.
I would advise against trying to use portable libraries and instead using libraries designed for the platform you are targeting.

Having said that, a good portable UI library is the open source WxWidgets which is accessible through C++ for OSX, Linux, Windows
The ability to work uninterrupted is a privilege. First time sink is family, spouses, partners, kids, friends and social obligations. Take 2 hours minimum.

Organizing food and eating - another 2 hours. If cooking add an hour to that so 3 hours for food.

For cleaning and basic home maintenance - minimum 1 hour. Personal hygiene - add an hour so total 2 hours.

Commuting if necessary - 1 hour minimum.

Add 8 hours or let's be harder and take 6 hours for sleep. That's a total of 14 hours that can't be negotiated leaving you with 10 hours for work.

Given the brain will not operate at that stretch you need distraction, so web, tv, books, games, movies - another 2-3 hours. So 7-8 hours seems to the the maximum any human being can work.

If you don't have family and friends and someone takes care of food and maintenance you can get an additional 4 hours. So anything beyond 10-12 hours seems physically impossible, and this is with 6 hours sleep, no family and all responsibilities taken care of.
"BTW, Foucault is actually readable. Who knew?!"

This suggests that you have never bothered to read Foucault. He is extremely readable.
When were those days? We had 3D buttons since the mid-eighties at least (SGI's UI, Motif/Athena, etc).

And that was what the majority of the world was familiar with since the mass explosion of desktop UI users with Windows 3.1. (And even the old mid-80s Mac OS had 3D-ish buttons and such).
So current situation is like using Google and Facebook ads (literally) to raise money. Exchanges on which these ICOs are traded are not regulated. So volume can be fake and likely is. Furthermore money could be coming from anywhere. It could be money laundering simply. So it's not as simple as government is stopping me from burning my money
Bang on. Across the globe, citizens of every other nation cannot fathom why the US prioritizes military spending above all else. It just doesn't make sense.
On a parallel thread, August just turned over to September and rent is due in Houston:
https://news.vice.com/story/harvey-flood-rent-undocumented
"It's a thought crime."

uhm wat?
As long as analytical tradition keeps reducing philosophy into "logical programming," it'll always fail to appreciate the meaning and value of interesting continental ideas such as postmodernism.

This paper is just a very typical example of that failure. Getting buried under `P and Q, therefore R` statements, nitpicking individual examples, missing the whole, thinking mechanically and all...

For example, the author confuses Foucualt's notion of "truth" with basic "truth conditions" and refers to Tarski's "material adequacy condition" to "debunk" Foucualt's reasoning as "false theory."

The author also mechanically replaces the word "truth" in Foucault's quoted writing with Foucault's so-called "definition" of truth and expects a fairly reasonable reading to come out as if English semantics was as mechanical as Lisp.

Sorry, the paper has failed to pass the facepalm test while attempting to "expose" the most cited author in the whole field of Humanities as "false."

This kind of mechanical, logic based reasoning ignores the poetic style, metaphors, and most importantly, the whole context of writing by focusing on the details and missing the whole.

It's like teaching an AI to understand Shakespeare's poems but AI constantly finding "contradictions" that "does not compile."

Foucault's philosophy is mostly "political philosophy" and has nothing to do with truth conditions. He also deliberately does not ground his arguments on definitions after definitions. Rather, it is more like an ongoing, deep, open reflection on power, truth and subjectivity in general.

As to "social construction" of truth, you would be amazed at how beautifully Foucault traces back the emergence of "free market" as a "site of veridiction" for "truth" starting from 18th century and how that interacts with "power," "governance" and "subjectivity," all constructing a "regime of truth," covering multitude of implications that a "syntactic analysis of English grammar" cannot explain.

I think there are more things to be found that would interest a hacker in postmodern thought yet gone missed.
So protecting its citizens using military force is fine, not wealth redistribution, but taking care of its sick citizens, (arguably the ones needing the most protection), is somehow questionable?
Adaptive Mobile Patterns: Apps for Phone and Tablet
>Skeuomorphism ceases to be useful once people don't remember the physical thing you're trying to use. 3D buttons aren't actually that helpful to my generation: a lot of the buttons I've used in real life (e.g. those on my microwave) aren't 3D.

That's probably a bad design on the part of the microwave maker. We still use tons of 3d buttons everywhere, and everybody is familiar with them.

>On a computer the most common button-like thing is a web link and those don't (generally) use the 3D-effect.

Links are links, not buttons.
You know that an employer is calculating the overall cost per year and the overall productivity per year. If you want to work X months and get 12-X months of vacation, just tell the employer and you will get a reduced salary and paid vacation, so in the end you cover your total cost.
Medical leave? Buy an insurance that covers medical leave. Everything has a cost, who should cover it, the Holly Pope?
Big salary? Well that poor janitor earns 10 times a Chinese janitor in a big city and 50 times a Chinese janitor in rural areas. You janitor is extremely rich by comparison, why don't you pay some more tax to help the Chinese janitor? Or your moral fiber ends to your border?
Whereas I think that not regulating this space is a great recipe for scams, crashes and monetary instability.
> No one in their right mind would even think about writing and using WebComponents in vanilla JS.

Why not? I have written a complete widget toolkit [1] this way. With vanilla APIs the code is a bit more verbose and repetitive, but in turn you get more options for speed optimization and fine-tuning.

[1] https://github.com/jarek-foksa/xel
"Even more insane, Americans ALREADY pay for all the uninsured through their insurance fees"

Exactly. But while it's called "insurance fee" not "tax", it's somehow OK, even though tax extra would amount to less than insurance -- yet another paradox I honestly don't get.
I find that so wrong I guess. The act of decrypting the drive is "testimonial" itself, even without providing the password to a third party.

But yes, I agree that I misunderstood what they were saying.
They did finally add an option to the Mac version Excel 2016 to turn off the cursor animation. It's in the Excel preferences panel, not a systemwide setting like on Windows.

I don't recall whether it was in Excel 2016 all along or if they added in some update, but the option is definitely there now in the Mac version.
rbenv is a thing that exists.

npm already installs dependencies locally by default.

I already generally avoid Java apps, for bigger reasons than packaging, but setting a custom $CLASSPATH for the JVM to load your dependencies isn't really that difficult.
What I can find says $80k+ for the existing Hep C treatments. Wow.
How about letting the code object decide if it's a method or a function, using a meta-object protocol to track when a code object is a method? Frankly, Guido's arguments boil down to "I can't see a nice way to not have it", not "here's a good reason to prefer this style".

That would add complexity to the implementation and use to solve a specific problem, while leaving others unsolved. In any case, disagreeing with a decision doesn't make it a hack.

Plain python.

Fine, but I think the claim is that Python's culture avoids being overly clever compared to the culture of languages that offer similar possibilities. Being overly clever in your personal view is inherently subjective and therefore unarguable.
Wait, so you're in China?
These are 5 of the best Apple ARKit demos we've seen so far UK
With Android Oreo, Google is introducing Linux kernel requirements
Didn't Java go big around 95? When do the main patents expire? Or is the issue copyright around the language/APIs?
I was young in 1999 so not very experienced with technology but I really doubt people were hating on Microsoft back then. Sure, every company will have a hate camp but I doubt it was as spread as it was in the past few years.
Agreed and it seems to me that "free-market healthcare" doesn't work well in practice.
Best NFL Jerseys for Budding Fans
It ... sounds like you wouldn't have any trouble getting accredited?
No plans at this point. We're trying to keep teams working on the same thing in the same location.
Sure, but they could also add x-tag to their resource list.
Maybe they should take some of that 180 billion and build a transport system.
REdmi note 4 solutions
I recently analysed a load of my time tracking data.[1] I only managed to get up to 11h37m per day when I'm travelling for work. That includes flights as 'work'.

It does seem pretty unlikely unless he's counting Networking/social type events in the evenings and stuff.

[1] https://www.tinkertailorsoldiersponge.com/toggl
The AMI Origin Story – Hacker Noon
With most ICOs there is no risk that anyone other than the persons who created the ICO's will make money.
What? I can't take 10K from my parents/friends and give them equity?
Sketching the shipwrecks of Brunei
BE a KERNEL HACKER
The interesting thing about MEC is that they have had pretty good growth in the past 25 years. I started going to the one in Ottawa in the 90s. It was the fourth store. MEC started in 1971 and Ottawa's store open in 1992. There are now 22 locations. The buildings they built aren't cheap either.

Looking at their most recent financial statement, it looks like they have $284 million in assets ($164 million being property). They did $365 million in sales with ~$110 million in gross margin. They made $3 million in earnings. So pretty darn healthy, especially with their current aggressive growth. ~3% profit from gross margin is quite reasonable. The company owes ~$190 million to its share holders, but they have no way to redeem it...

I wonder what the executives pull in. "Selling and administrative expenses" are $110 million (which I guess includes all the salaries and executive compensation). So not too shabby.

If you want to live in that world... it might be worth giving it a try.
> The hype is so big and the benefits are very unclear. At least to me it seems like there are only negative aspects of doing microservices.

I think there are two groups or organizations that benefit from microservices:

- actual scaling is required

- "we are too stupid or politically entrenched to maintain a modular code base without them, so we try (and most likely fail) to enforce modularity with microservices"

Of course, group 2 will only further entrench themselves.
"I want to talk to a real human" usually works for me even without profanity. At least for Microsoft.
I've both loved and hated JIRA. For me, it all comes down to how well set up it is. Its configuration over convention approach leads to many installations being poorly configured and often hacked together.
How? Wikipedia tells the story [0]. But here is my take. After Be Inc stopped making BeOS[1], some guy (no names, google yT, he was the CEO) tried to license the Personal version of R5.03 to allow it to be repackaged.

After Be Inc folded, this guy tried to get his "yellow Tab" company going for a while. It would stop and start. No one believed it would happen.

Then they released a product based on the BETA R5.1 release. Everyone was a bit confused. Was it legal? This went on for some years. They made about 4 or 5 betas, then a 1.0 release, then a 1.1 and 1.2. There was a BETA for 1.5 too.All along, people were shouting "this is not legal." They made a load of changes that implied they had source code access. A few notable community developers were involved. At least one ex-Be employee was also involved.

So, 2007, the proverbial brown stuff hit the fan. Firstly, ACCESS come out and say "we do not believe YellowTab has a legitimate license. Moreover, we have been trying to give them notice of this for many years"[2]. Then, JLG (former CEO of Be Inc) basically comes out in public saying "we never licensed anything to yellowtab". There was a complete breakdown of the timeline of events on OS News[4]. It was like getting a big box of popcorn and watching the biggest BeOS conspiracy theory since the Focus Shift unravel. It was compelling.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnussoft_ZETA

[1] Focust shift. They stopped the desktop in favour of Internet Appliances.

[2] http://www.osnews.com/story/17623/Access_Completely_Unaware_...

[3] http://www.osnews.com/story/17664/JLG_No_Agreement_Between_Y...

[4] http://www.osnews.com/story/17628/Timeline_of_Zeta_Developme...
This helps a lot. Thanks!
x-tag is mentioned on the WebComponents site--and it works with the same underlying technologies as Polymer: shadow dom, HTML imports, custom elements and templates: https://www.webcomponents.org/libraries
Switching from a CMS to Jekyll
There is always macports: https://www.macports.org/
Where do you apply to be funded by YC Research?
Oh, then it's a good thing the article was talking entirely about Silicon Valley.

Oh, wait...
Jordan Peterson has made a few great videos on postmodernism. If anyone is interested, "Postmodernism: How and why it must be fought" [0] is fairly short and to the point.

I try to apply the scientific method to my internal beliefs. I've changed my mind many times when presented with a sufficiently strong argument and evidence to back it up. I'm wrong about stuff all the time, and one of the main ways to find out and fix it is to talk about it!

This is a large part of why I'm opposed to silencing people, instead of letting them talk and honestly engaging with them. Righteous indignation might make you feel good, but it probably won't convince anyone to change their views. You can change someone's mind by being polite, doing your research, and chatting with em. Daryl Davis shows us a prime example of this: How One Man Convinced 200 Ku Klux Klan Members To Give Up Their Robes [1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf2nqmQIfxc

[1] http://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544861933/how-one-man-convince...
He means "delegates", kinda like union leader but not exactly.

But they can absolutely be fired, they are simply a protected class of workers, meaning they cannot be fired because of their delegate status, but can be because of anything else. It's very similar to the US protected classes of workers.

A very simple Google search will show you they do get fired from time to time, e.g just 3 month ago: http://www.courrier-picard.fr/32021/article/2017-05-22/le-de...

The guy got fired for cause after 26 years in the company, because of a coffee break that lasted too long. Due to his protected status, a court has to validate the firing, and in this case they did.

@ekianjo is simply dwelling on the common French entrepreneurs narrative that the law is anti-business, etc.
I can't say too much about Flask since I have not used it as much as I have CherryPy. I would like to try out Flask at least once for a big project for comparison but don't have the time to do so yet.
It isn't the public, it's the public not in the 1%.
It's a 100 x 100 mile area. I grew up there and drove 5 miles to high school, through sprawling neighborhoods.

Retrofitting a transport system to replace the need for cars is virtually impossible.
Yes, it's described by the article.
> As a programmer, I'd be happy in a team to be the only programmer as long as the rest of the team are experts in their domains.

As someone in that position right now, let me just tell you that it's not all roses (not that I think you'd necessarily assume it was!). For one, you have to deal with the stigma of being 'the nerd' in the team. You'll also end up doing a lot of menial tasks because "you're the technical one" (e.g. trying to fix the printer, explaining basic tech to other members of the team).

Finally, most importantly, other members of the team don't really understand what you do. They might devalue it, expect you to complete tasks in an unrealistic amount of time, or get frustrated when you're the bottleneck.

There can be benefits of course — you can probably plan your work yourself without being told, quite as much, what to do — but, contrary to expectations, I've found it quite problematic: you are in a very isolated position.
Yeah, you'd think the HN crowd would be the ones to welcome ICO with open arms.
Handling 1M Requests per Minute with Golang – Smsjunk – Medium
The problem is that companies doing ICOs aren't Uber.

Peek your head into /r/ethtrader. You will find people putting their retirement savings, mortgaging houses, etc and these people aren't technically savvy and can be easily taken for a ride. While you might have good apples, there are going to be tons of bad apples, people just coming with a white paper and asking for millions of dollars. Coming back to your question, the rich don't need protection as its ok to lose money when you are rich. The 'not rich' need protection as if they lose all their savings, it will seriously harm their lives.
>He also deliberately does not ground his arguments on definitions after definitions.

Isn't that intentional? Words that have no fixed meaning can't be refuted by logic.
> 3D buttons aren't actually that helpful to my generation: a lot of the buttons I've used in real life (e.g. those on my microwave) aren't 3D. On a computer the most common button-like thing is a web link and those don't (generally) use the 3D-effect.

Those are good examples, and got me thinking about the first hypertext system I used when growing up: AmigaGuide. That did use "3D buttons" for links: http://reality.cm/aguide.htm
Moment you realise this startup is not worth your bet
It's basically a modern version of the divine right of kings.
Managers should stick to the rule "if you complain about Jira, you'll get Bugzilla."
I suspect it was downvoted because "Isn't all that stuff about drivers?" is phrased aggressively. After the detail memsom posted, posting what amounts to a 1-sentence argument is dismissive, even if that wasn't your intent.

If your comment actually said your summary of it ("my impression was that this was a driver issue that Apple could mostly avoid") then asked "As an ex-user, what do you think?" I doubt it would have been downvoted.

OTOH, if you were actually arguing that the problems were all driver issues (rather than proposing the possibility and asking), then your theory needed a lot more substantiation.
Ugh, that doesn't normally happen in Western Europe, but if your argument is that you'd rather see thousands of people not receiving healthcare than an odd incident where someone was forced, then I am not sure you have your priorities straight.
I do know in the mid-2000s IBM was one of the biggest resellers of Sun's hardware, possibly doing more volume than Sun did directly.

They were interested in OpenOffice ... just not sustainably, as it turned out.
Despacito Feat Justin Bieber Remix Luis Fonsi Daddy Yankee – Music
A user interface is a tool to connect the computer and a human user in order to allow a task to be performed. Unless these three components change, the only reason for the interface to change is to make it do its job more efficiently.

It's no different from the many other tools used by people to do their jobs. Once they reach an optimal form, they stop changing unless some drastic technological change occurs. Hand-tools for woodworking hadn't changed for centuries, until electricity was introduced. Electric hand-tools have only had small gradual improvements since then.
because we're subsidizing europe, which is a huge free rider on the US military. If Putin for whatever reason decided to become an expansionist power and the US had an european level military, no one could stop him.

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.
Any religion or ideology can be (and has been) used to instigate or allow inhumane acts against groups of people; Buddhism is no exception (as anyone well-versed in Asian history will tell you). 'We' in the West tend to take a rather peaceful view of Buddhism due its lack of conflict 'here'.

Not that religion is inherently violent though. It's just another attribute that can be used to determine membership of a group and access to privileges.

I agree with you on Aung Suu Kyi though; the way she completely denies the statehood of the Rohingya minority — by consistently calling them 'Bengali' instead of Myanmarese and by allowing this genocide to happen — is galling.
REI is a coop as well, with a somewhat similar dividend structure. However I doubt that all of the profits are fully distributed at the end of the year to members. I would bet that there are 'members' who are investors/owners, not typical consumers, who actually take some of the profit home (but that is a guess, I am happy to be wrong). And of course any business should have savings as well, for multi-year capital expenditures, incidents and accidents, etc.
I dunno if Jira sucks, but the granular subtask hour estimation it encourages certainly does.

Is this really how most 'agile' shops work in this industry?
Taming snakes with reactive streams by thoughtram
Hmm... bubbles can also happen without central banking - think the original tulip bubble for example. Also not all bailouts are bad, for example the auto bailout was estimated to have saved ~380k jobs. And it wasn't the auto industry's fault the banking system went wonky. The system may not be perfect but it's not all bad.
So I could shine a flashlight into my eyes while looking at the eclipse, and I'd be ok?
Turn Your PocketCHIP into a Badass On-The-Go Hardware Hacker’s Terminal
The article you posted has been updated with 2016 info:
>The most recent Eurostat data for the 28 EU countries also puts Sweden in the top spot.