skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What about the wife and husband who want to sell hand-knitted socks online, or small businesses who do less than $250k/year online? Will they be able to afford an alternative to the LAMP stack and fully shield themselves from legal liability and the horde of lawyers who will gladly step into any loophole?

If mom and pop want to sell hand-knitted socks on the internet I usually recommend them to use a hosted shop solution such as shopify and its ilk. They want to sell socks, not become an expert in hosting a LAMP stack. This is how liability works for brick and mortar stores as well: They're liable if a customer electrocutes himself because some dork attached the wrong wire to the wrong metal part. That's why mom and pop stores in the brick and mortar part of the world usually don't do the electrical installation or any parts that's covered under a builder code. They hire people supposed to be experts in that field to do that work and in in turn, they get to discharge the liability to them. It's about time we treat software the same. If you want to host something, either own up to it or hire someone to do it.
But if a standard library implementation is allowed to do something why can't I?
This problem exists on native apps as well. There's multiple strategies for handling that, depending on your constraints and requirements.

The simplest solution might be to use a placeholder. You might also want to track how much time has passed, so you can stay at 60FPS.
Program manager

First, it's useful to distinguish between Technical PROGRAM Manager (TPROG) from Technical PROJECT manager (TPROJ). TPROGs are a bridge between inside teams and the outside, including customers and partners. The TPROG works with developers, DevOps, product managers, sales to bring the company's solutions to real world deployment. TPROGs own delivery of products and services to customers, possibly, through partners, using people and resources not directly under their control. Key skills: deep technical knowledge of the product and its deployment to the customer, close working with the customer about what they need by when, trust of the internal business and technical teams, even though, typically, TPROGs don't have administrative authority for a the teams, ability to write and implement governance policies to guide all stakeholders in the the successful delivery.

TPROJs, on the other hand, are usually part of the development team and manage completion of development projects. This usually has deep responsibilities for the technical aspects of products.

Each company has their own unique definition of these roles, so you need to understand exactly your responsibilities and the metrics by which your performance will be evaluated in the particular situation.

If the TPROG role is defined as above, you will NOT have direct responsibility for coding and software development. But remaining abreast of the internal structure of the product or service will be a huge advantage. But you will be too busy with all of the complex challenges of product delivery to have any time for coding.

I hope this helps a little...
I'm not so sure most people can fly for leisure. Setting aside the miseries of air travel, and whether it constitutes "leisure" or not, according to an AP-NORC[0] survey, 43% of Americans were not vacationing this past summer, and, of them, 49% cite cost as the main reason. Only 12% of non-vacationers said they weren't vacationing in the summer because they were planning on taking a vacation another time of year. Putting that all together, 38% of Americans say they simply can't take a vacation for such reasons as cost, and "can't get time off."

Given our culture of consumer debt, this doesn't speak to whether people can afford to vacation, just whether they intend to do so or not. And, it doesn't really break down flying vs other modes of travel to vacation destinations. Nonetheless, I think this suggests that "many" people, in fact, cannot "afford" to fly for leisure.

[0]: http://www.apnorc.org/projects/Pages/Americans-Plans-for-Sum...
Just like they were on Mac OS days.
Here you go, I uploaded an image of the file transfers showing just the html and javascript:

https://imgur.com/a/aTpj2
I prefer Windows Classic even more, probably because it's what I'm used to and the UI elements are easily recognisable but not too fancy.
My favourite tech "what if?" is the open-sourcing of all of BeOS in 2000, which I have heard was talked about internally. The main parts of the GUI, the file manager and "dock", were actually released under an MIT-like license near the end of the company.

This would have meant a stable, easy-to-install graphical OS available back when KDE and GNOME were still at version 1 or 2.
Still, that's not what you grade you for in school. Differentiation is much easier than integration, because for the former you have, within the scope of what they can throw at you on the test, a well-defined set of rules you pretty much mechanically apply to the formula until you can't simplify the answer anymore. Whereas integration is a constant guess-work and performing algebraic magic tricks to maybe make the formula look like something you can tackle with one of the two or three generic methods you've been taught.

Sure, school != reality, but it's the former we get tortured by...
> <select> is good enough for me, [...]

If it just was fully styleable. Browsers really should implement better selection of customizable standard widgets. Currently it requires too many hacks to re-style the built-in input elements. Web components feel a bit overkill for most cases.
I live in Shenzhen and I use Mobike all the time. The biggest obstacle was getting a bank account to pay with. The identity verification process was to take a picture of your passport and a picture of you holding your passport, and then it took half a day for Mobike to verify the information.
Scaling Your Org with Microservices [slides]
This article appears to be an opinion piece, containing links back to the author's book on Amazon. Not much to see here.

Similar discussion on this topic from yesterday, though not really any more insightful:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15159919
Best UX Companies to Work For
In the current economy I feel co-ops are bit too radical to remedy the imbalances of power within large businesses (where it really matters). We might need something less aggressive like the widespread promotion of Employee Stock Ownership Programs (ESOPs) as a start [1]. Also co-ops might come across to business people as something along the lines of "loony-leftist Marxist idealism". Instead one can speak their language by saying things like "decentralizing planning" and "capitalism where everyone is a capitalist" and show how there is indeed common ground. An excellent example of this is The Capitalist Manifesto by Luis Kelso [2] (the creator of ESOPs).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_stock_ownership_plan

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Capitalist_Manifesto
Slightly surprising to me ... does it still fail for you (I just tried and it worked, but maybe I'm missing something - used Chrome over here)
Whoa whoa, who's talking about ending freedom of movement? To be clear we are talking about being eligible to receive free money from whichever local area agrees to issue it to you.
Wait, why? I never understood why people with ultrafast connections care so much about this. It's not like you are doing anything that remotely uses 100% of that speed most of the time.

If I had even close to a 1Gb symmetric link I wouldn't care too much if I lost a couple megabits here or there (especially in the name of security or privacy). If I had a 30mbit link that only had 1mbit uplink I'd be upset not to use the whole tube but complaining about 980mbits vs 1000 is just a waste of time.
It's also their residential gigabit fiber service, which is bad news for me. The service is great, the Arris gateway device isn't...
> you can see that the point was not Flat UI is bad, but rather Flat UI done bad can strongly hinder UX.

Yes! You're absolutely correct, and that was ultimately the point I was trying to make, if poorly.

My comment was more of a response to this post's title and a handful of particularly torch-and-pitchfork comments.
One thing people miss about government provided healthcare is that it's easy to be made mandatory. If government provides your health care it's only natural if it directs you to a healthier life to save people's money. I, for one, don't want "doctor's orders" to become actual orders enforced by police.
You can chart a centile. Each point can be the centile of X measures.
> The only traits that illegal immigration selects for are desperation and a willingness to break laws and live on the fringes of society.

What an irresponsible statement.
Seems to imply that because there are features in the software, it would be preferable to get a build with fewer features for the sake of quality; but that makes no sense, removing features from your build isn't going to improve the features you keep. A lot of this post doesn't make sense. :- P

> Hardly understandable if you consider “state of the art” Developmental and operational models like DEVOPS.

This, and some other sentences, are gibberish. "DEVOPS" is not an operational model.

> Lack of micro-services architecture renders technical debt possible.

This of course implies that routers can reasonably be constructed as systems of microservices, which to me seems like it would sacrifice basic performance targets if taken literally. If he means node-based routing, sure, that's basically how things work anyway. More facile, it seems to imply that microservices render technical debt impossible, which is ridiculous.

> However, it gets challenged using new concepts like SDN and NFV, which promise much faster network adoption, automated control, reduced time-to-revenue, which all are good business solutions.

More gibberish.

This is probably not an honest article, but a professional services marketing wankpiece. That's too bad, because frankly it seems like some of the ideas are worth exploring, and I would be more convinced and excited for his company if this were less manipulative and more direct.
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The super-OP reeks of the common refrain, that

>If only there were less regulation on the market, the small man would be able to make and retain all those profits he works so hard for!
While I was on the same page when I was fresh out of college and actually did believe this... I am sorry but I have learned otherwise only after stumbling through all the really uncomfortable life experiences from working in a large "regulated" bank, to working in a funky tech startup with "great" founders, to starting my own company and pitching to "great" investors, to even the personal relationships and even the other seemingly "ideal" relationships.
Being too truthful only leaves you feeling more lonely. Almost all the hustles are based on lies anyways...
I do personally believe that if one has had to struggle enough in life and wasn't blessed with enough privilege/guidance/network, moving forward in life without some lies is almost an impossibility. (Basing this on candid conversations with some of the "successful" people I have had the chance to interact with at times...)
So I am pretty sure, there enough people here who lie often, but aren't comfortable admitting it yet. I just try not to lie to myself at least, hence was looking for opinions if someone did feel the same and how they dealt with it.
Yeah because C makes it so much better.
The psychology of Soylent and the prison of first-world food choices
Increase your price substantially.
> A coworker who used to work at Sun maintains that they really needed to go private to avoid years of chaos from waves of layoffs when they were profitable but not enough to satisfy Wall Street.

It still surprises me that Dell was able to somehow go private before Wall Street killed them too.
I've met many oracle sales people claiming they make excess of $400k a year. They are also all alcoholics.

Must be a horrible job even if they get paid well for it.
It depends on your implementation. This isn't a new problem, it also exists in native applications.

If it takes a long time to render each item, you might consider using a placeholder and caching existing elements. Be sure to track how much time is spent rendering so you run at 60FPS.
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> But they have no clue what real wealth is.

I think measuring "real wealth" by some relative metric like "top 1%" is misguided. To me, being wealthy means being able to live a comfortable life without worrying about your next paycheck.

I'm from Germany, but studying in China on a scholarship. The 1000 euros per month I get wouldn't put me among the German 1%, but in a country with a lower cost of living, I spend only half of what I get. When the scholarship runs out next month, I have a year of runway at my current spending level. That's wealthy enough for me.
Hi I am interesting your advice on which math to learn if you have a spare moment to provide it. I too am starting to teach my self the requirements of data science and am also self conscious of the math I don't know. I am very excited about what is now possible with machine learning and deep learning as I believe it will become increasingly necessary for developers to stay relevant.

Could you comment in more detail on which mathematical skill you have found useful as data scientist? Which resources did you use to teach yourself? Very appreciative of any help.
Are you questioning AI BIG DATA CLOUD BLOCKCHAIN???
react-virtualized [0] is a great implementation of a virtualized list using ReactJS.

[0] https://bvaughn.github.io/react-virtualized/#/components/Lis...
Didn’t IE use to let you style random components such as even the scroll bar?
How (not) to become a programmer
Yes, these kind of theoretical arguments are so important and constructive when scores of people are actually in serious trouble today, in the real world.

"The police enforcing doctor's orders." Give me a break. I'm all for healthy debate but come on. This is the most inane argument I've ever heard about universal health care, and I've heard quite a few.

Sorry for not being more constructive, I just can't see this line of reasoning go anywhere useful.
I have realized that Difference Equations i.e. the discrete variant of Differential Equations are much more common in Computer Science/Data Science(recurrence relations etc.) and it would have been great if they were atleast given half as much attention as Differential Equations get in universities.
My colleague’s error consisted of believing that the more testable the material, the more teachable
it is. A wider spread of performance in the problem sets and in the quizzes makes the assignment
of grades “more objective.” The course is turned into a game of skill, where manipulative
ability outweighs understanding.

Sounds familiar.
He already started a new company.
Amoveo

A scalable blockchain for financial derivatives. Optimized for scalability via smart contracts inside state-channels. Has a build-in oracle for integration with real-world data. Written in Erlang.

https://github.com/zack-bitcoin/amoveo
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Theoretical?
I've been living in the USSR. It's been very practical there.
The author is effectively ousted from the "company", physically assaulted, signs nothing, then spends '5 days' with 'the Aeternity lawyer' mulling over a contract? All of this after not being paid while their colleagues are being 'paid regularly.'

My question is what/where is the legal void that this company existed in?!
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Yeah this is very ugly on both sides. A basic contract would've saved everyone a lot of grief.
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Or probably since the very first brew command on the homepage is `brew install wget`.

"Ah, wget. I guess I do need that."
Byzantine is a good guess: Hipparchus was from a city about 50 miles away (Nicaea), though I think he did most of his work in Rhodes, and lived a few hundred years before the time of the Eastern Roman Empire. ;)

But anyway, the etymology helps: “sine” = medieval Latin translation of an Arabic corruption of a word originally from India and meaning “half a bowstring”. “Tangent” = touching. “Secant” = cutting. “Chord” = bowstring. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyā,_koti-jyā_and_utkrama-jyā

The reason sine and cosine are each-others derivative is that if you start with uniform circular motion and take the vector derivative, you get another uniform circular motion in velocity space.
Again, deletion as in an actual destructive process isn't required by any EU regulation.
Can't you already do all of that with a userspace implementation?
The fun part is that the owner of Aeternity calls himself Godfather of Ethereum.

https://medium.com/@yanislav/king-of-bitcoin-godfather-of-et...
The vagueness of that part reminded me of a time I worked at a small startup several years ago, and the owner got angry about something and kicked a chair which partly hit a couple of us. The damage was pretty mild but one of us did get banged in the knee so he limped slightly for a couple days.

I can only really imagine something similar happened in this case too
> And unionists, no matter how piss poor a job they do, can never be fired (in theory they can, but in practice it never happens).

Do you mean union leaders or regular members? Because if it's the latter, then you have a counterexample in every 100% unionized company that ever fired anyone.
> you can't chart a centile,

Why? If you have servers with millions of qps, the graph would show the 99% latency over, say, a second or ten.

I think this graph is pretty standard? But I'm happy for suggestions of better ones.
In what scenario is it an advantage to be able to encrypt/decrypt data with a certain key, but not know the key directly?
Trigonometry was important (presumably much more than calculus) for navigation/military applications at some point in history, so maybe it just stuck that way?
I've been giving them money for a few years with concrete specific outcomes (surgery for people who can't afford it).

Best money I ever spent.
Uh, missed that - Thank's for pointing out.
It's election year in Germany.
The list is preposterous because the title was "I think I see a pattern", and all the other examples given were breaking laws or some other nefarious goal (and I'd emphasize those other examples were clearly taken from the point of view that these companies were doing something bad). The implication was that "circumventing texting charges" was somehow stealing from telcos.
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>I suggest teaching vectors before trig. You can get the cosine and sine from the dot and cross products.

What about geometric algebra instead?

http://www.shapeoperator.com/2016/12/12/sunset-geometry/
Successful Tactic for Easy Mobile App On-Boarding
Mobile app development companies are doing their best to make onboarding easier for the users paving a way of effective communication to them.
So, the premise there is "we couldn't find the bugs by the whole community in twenty years, but if we split the community into a dozen independent projects which do not cooperate, surely then we'll find the bugs that eluded us for two decades". Right.
It was also "understood" not long ago that the women of the villages you ransacked would become your property, that the king could do approximately whatever he wanted, that approximately all your kids would die seemingly out of nowhere before the age of five.

That tyranny has been "understood" is not a justification for the deliberate resurgence of tyranny. That you could take even more money from the public to fund your pet project is of no importance to the question of whether it is right or wrong to do so.

> This argument seems to be novel from the late 1800s.

Have you heard of the USA? It's been constituted since 1788, and it was more or less understood that the government wouldn't be getting involved in this sort of thing. If I'm not mistaken, 1788 is before the late 1800s.
There's a Hepatitis A vaccine and it's readily available, yet trying to get a doctor to give you one requires a lot of conning and manipulation. Why is this? They say this is a disease only found in other countries, so if you tell your doctor you travel a lot, they'll finally give in and give it to you. How about giving the vaccine as a default? Clearly, San Diego is not in another country. This should be a standard vaccine encouraged and administered to anyone and everyone who wants it. This is certainly not a healthcare system that works well or at all.
You have also left out an interesting third group, who are interested in the welfare of the poor, and believe the middle class have gotten far too much airtime and are basically the same as the super-rich with respect to the poor's concerns.

These folks don't come out much on a national level, but are prevalent in urban housing debates, defending the poor and rich alike against the (upper) middle class.
That's ... a fantasy. Do you understand the limits of welfare? Do you know the waiting lists on typical public housing? Have you seen how much the SNAP program has been cut? Have you seen the limits of medicaid? Are you aware of how underfunded our school systems are in general and how poorly educated students can be even if they've been given a diploma?

Every single program you've listed has a coverage that is only a fraction of what it needs to be to actually keep people housed, fed, educated, and alive.

Edit: Here are some interviews that explain what poverty is really like in the US today: http://www.wnyc.org/series/busted-americas-poverty-myths
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That's precisely the point the post you are replying to is making.
How do you know? It's not a magic law of the universe that "someone" always creates things because someone wants them. Sometimes problems are hard and just don't get solved, for a long time, even though everybody wants them solved.
This is the "What have the Romans done for us?!" argument :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ
This! I love simplicity of electron but it is absurdly resource hungry.
WiFi Jamming with deauthentication attack using $4 ESP8266 module
Taboo question: What is an acceptable homeless population? What is your reference point? Obviously, poverty will always exist in some form, but how much can we realistically improve it?
I was kinda more thinking the other person kicked a garbage can or chair and it banged the authors knee or something. Had similar happen at a start up years ago and seems more plausible than being attacked.

If he were attacked like I think he wanted it to sound then a lawsuit would probably get him the money he wanted
What kind of an asshole would not help a little old lady who requires help? Rand would and so would anyone who understands her philosophy.
Many places in California don't allow anything besides low density sprawl, creating a situation where you can't build sufficient housing (esp. for the working poor) and real estate prices escalate upward in short order.

Should housing in major cities be nearly doubling in price every decade?
I'm fairly sure hunting is declining in all of the western world.

As anecdata, consider the outlawing of fox hunting in UK, declining hunting love in France[0], and a similar decline in the US[1].

The more hunting becomes unusual, the higher the number of people who will consider it in negative light compared to those who view it favourably.

[0] http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37865215
[1] http://deerfarmer.com/wiki/hunting-decline
Having government benefits available to some people but not others, who are in the same circumstance, seems immoral and very prone to corruption. If someone qualifies for housing assistance and gets it, then moves out of that situation, and if they need it again it might not be available. This is a system that discourages a person from getting off of assistance (dependence).