skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it really harder to make close friends or harder to make a lot of friends?

Kids will force you into having less friends but the friends or family that remain will be closer plus kids will force you into social situations. In your 20s you can give trust more freely because you have less to lose but when you involve kids the trust and closeness requirements increase so the circle decreases.

I think the desire for a lot of friends goes down as well the older you get as well.
Yes, but sifdine is dead too, so there you go.

So to summarize the advice from the dead to jmeyer2k:

1) Don't use Flash.

2) Whatever tools or languages or libraries you choose to use and put a lot of time into learning and becoming proficient at, don't sweat it when the die, just move on to better tools. It will happen again and again. It gets easier and easier each time.
I want to stick up for the "normal pipeline" of going to university for Computer Science. It should really be the default choice of anyone who wants to get into programming. Granted, I know plenty of other people who are programmers now who didn't do CS, but they almost all still did university, and they regret not having done CS in hindsight because it would have been more applicable to what they ended up doing. Spending four years doing CS really does help you a lot when it comes to solving tricky problems (and on Big 4-style coding interviews). It's hard to be disciplined enough to do all of that book-learning on your own.

Also, at 17, you're likely to think you are way better at programming than you actually are. A high quality CS program will quickly disabuse you of that notion, thus allowing you to get better.

And like many others have said, of course, still have fun along the way.
I thought another variable that changed was your employment status. That's a huge one, no?
For me, over a decade. It's simply easy and does not pull any confusing tricks like nano with long lines, or vi with... incomprehensible behavior.
Like Pets.com never happened
> it seems that you have not understood the question.

I did, and have provided a very clear answer to the question in fact.

What the government of a country should do if a group of people declare themselves on sedition, start refusing to pay taxes, wants to steal all public resources, harass and drive out of the place the people that think different, take their properties and piss generously on the constitutional rights of the majority of the citizens?

Enforce the law, obviously

"But, but, I want to ignore and twist the law in my benefit!. I should be allowed to do it, because I'm special!, my mom told me!"

You can violate the laws everytime that you want, as long as you accept the consequences, and repair the damage caused to other members of the society.
Finally, someone with actual good advice.

_This_ guy gets it.
I miss systemd-timesyncd in that list... is it actually the default on modern Linux distros?
No one is writing web apps using javascript because they're "using the resources available" to them, in the form of powerful hardware. They're using the only TOOLS available (javascript). The problem is we just don't have a better choice, at least on the front-end.
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Just targeting you at that level by definition means invading your privacy to the extent you may not want, or want to control and can't. Just to name a few things: 3rd party cookies, whatever data is mine-able from your profiles, your interactions, your use of the social network platform itself, on mobile, your email, your searches, information from your interaction graph, not to mention everything you might do in real life that ends up online in some way..

All of this to serve better ads is at the cost of your privacy, everyone's privacy. You can actually find things you might be interested in just fine by searching for them instead of seeing some ad twice that you might be interested in. Serving better ads requires more data on consumers and once the treadmill starts, there is no getting off unless as a consumer you decide to take back control. This is why ad-blockers are as big as they are.

This isn't some externality either, what happened in the election is the externality. To the extent that Facebook interactions fed and influenced the election, it was because better ad targeting; and more consumer time on the site, which helps better ad targeting is the business model. So, I agree with the article very much.
Right, it's not exactly the same kind of "holding". But in this case also (burying the money), the economy (a free one) is not hurt.

To get a view of it: what if I have chests full of gold, then before dying I take tons of them, burn and bury so no one else ever put their hands on it? Nobody is hurt. Nobody is getting less food than they would, nobody is getting less anything than they would, because even if I bury the money I have, I didn't bury any other of the goods and services that are available in the economy in any time.

Because money is just a resources "coordinator's" power. If I burn mine, I'm just letting go of that power and letting someone else do it instead.

Sure, saying I had all that money not stealing or anything of the sort implies ppl I'm involved with (in/directly) are so much better that I "was allowed to coordinate more"/"received a lot of money". But still, in the end, the economy is not hurt.
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This managed to put most of its content off-screen on Android, without letting me resize the viewport at all. Completely unreadable.

I miss the days when people would use tables and minimal or no css.
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> In a company where you ship continuously, you see this and think “Simple – I’ll tweak a test and a regex pattern, get a quick code review from my buddy beside me, merge to mainline, and 1 minute later when it’s deployed to production, reply to the customer: ‘Sorry about this, it’s fixed now, thanks for letting us know.’”

This sounds like a really bad idea. If it's not a critical bug impacting all your customers, do you have to fix it in 1 minute? Once your company gets bigger, you would want to do proper code review and QA, so your 'one-line fix' doesn't accidentally bring down the whole site.
I think there is something conceptual and then you make it real by implementing it.

An "oldie but goodie" example is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360

These machines had one instruction set architecture, but different hardware implementations of it so you could run the same software on machines with different memory size, speed and cost.
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Google's anti-bot measures DoS the service for me rather frequently.

(Perhaps I am a robot?)
I heard there was new management that was acknowledging those events as mistakes and trying to fix them. Not sure though.
Except when it gets hot. Latex holds heat like a brick; if you haven't got air conditioning and live somewhere where it gets warm, stay well clear of latex.
Obviously, corruption depends on the country -- Slovakia is not Romania, and is not Ukraine. Political corruption lives in most western countries as well, by the way, even if you don't notice it.

But as it happens, I know quite a wealthy family who got scammed for millions (through a corrupt notary) on a property deal in an EE country. It wasn't even a business dispute, just a scam.

When they took the matter to court, which should have been a clear "win" case, the judge(s) (even on appeal) ruled against them, so they had no way to recover their money. From that point of view, it is not unreasonable for me to assume corruption can (potentially) play a part of it. :)
Very different. Pets.com in Y1: revenue $600k USD, advertising spend $11.5m.

Deliveroo generates significant revenue and is a business/brand that consumers are passionate about. The bet investors are making is that their gross margin can increase quickly.

Expect they're doing close to £300m of revenue now, so a 6.5x rev>valuation multiple is punchy but fair.
I like to read technical books on my tablet while I spin at the gym, and read them again, and read them again. This builds foundational knowledge and is a big accelerator if you are simultaneously putting the technology to work.
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Another unicorn that can only exist because it uses fake self-employment to turn their workforce into a cheaper one.

Just like Uber and so many others this only works because for some reason turning paid work into something that is not even self-sustaining suddenly is accepted.

Does nobody have ethical issues with seeing value in devaluing people?
No doubt a lot of reviews are nonsense, you'll find that anywhere though. Seriously good mattress, especially for $1000 though.
With pay comes expectations and that can be ugly. You have the rest of your life to get paid.

The first question is: how do you know you can code at a 'relatively high level'? Don't be surprised to learn that you still have a lot to learn (actually, there is always more to learn, get used to it) For example, from the small amount of code on the github, I see no documentation or tests. Also javascript and python are fine, but they are only a beginning. The best education you can get, before you go to college(!), would be to join an open source project and try to contribute. The feedback you get may be brutal, so choose a project you can care about and that is well structured for newbies (look for projects that include specific provisions for new contributors like a 'graded' bug list that have a category for easy fixes waiting to be done). Start looking at the code so you develop the skill of reading and understanding OTHER peoples' code and then fix a few bugs and submit them for review. You will learn more in a month this way than you will in a year on your own.

Coding is very different as soon as you start working with other people, whether they are other developers, customers, bosses, etc. The best way to learn those other skills is before there is money involved.

If you really want to take on projects, look for volunteer organizations in your area that might want help with their websites. They often have at least small budgets and might be able to pay you something for that help. Even your high school IT department might need some help. Ask! Does your high school get any sponsorship from area companies for things like tech or robots? Contact those companies and see if they have any needs.

Good luck!
Technically that is not "zero knowledge" since the definition of ZK requires interaction (so there is no "publishing" of a proof). What you described sounds like this construction of "non-interactive ZK:"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat%E2%80%93Shamir_heuristic

NIZK is a very different concept from ZK, because the verifier does learn something, in the sense that the verifier has received a string it could not compute on its own. In ordinary ZK the verifier cannot compute anything after running the protocol that it could not have computed beforehand (so it gains nothing from the interaction).
Seems like a great candidate for a Rust implementation, but I can't seem to find one yet..
Sourceforge doesn't belong to the company that did the crapware thing anymore, and the new(-ish by now) owners stopped doing that.

EDIT: relevant announcement from January 2016: https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-acquisition-and-fut...
In any ordinary business where your running costs were 20% of revenue you'd think you were making out like a bandit.

If you were spending $10k a month to make $2k in revenue you'd have a problem.
What have Deliveroo done differently to be more successful than the food delivery startups that came before?
I've used htpdate for the times ntp has been blocked by firewalls. It's worked fine for me without hiccups.
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> Sure it does, <!-- ... -->. This is also what Emacs will automatically use if you add-file-local-variable in a Markdown file, so I don't know why you're using that weird format.

I was thinking of native comment syntax in Markdown, which is absent. But you are right, HTML comments, like anything else HTML work fine in Markdown. So you have a valid point.

> There's a stronger argument to made that org-mode doesn't really have comments. As far as I can tell syntax-ppss never gives me non-nil for them.

Hmm, I had never checked that. That's good to know. M-x comment-dwim works though. This might be good to report as Emacs bug.

> Sure, a line like "# foo" appears in a comment face,

That's a proper comment as per Org spec. Those lines are completely ignored by Org, for any parsing or for any exporting business.

> but so does a line like "#+ASDF:" or "#+BEGIN_SRC" (but not a line like "#+TITLE:").

Because those are not comments. It's not an official term but I think of those as pseudo-comments. The "#+.." lines while looking like comments have a special meaning to Org. The meaning of those can also be exporter backend dependent.

> So whether something is a "comment" depends on its contents, which means it's syntax, never really a comment.

Yes only for #+ comments.
I don't want more. I want less. I could care less about what exact shape the bump is on the iPhone X, or how React ruined your life, etc.

Highly relevant news could be a unique selling point, but all I ever hear from people is how impossible it is.
Maybe sleeping long enough (7-8 hours) requires a certain (higher) amount of energy, which would be supported by a big dinner before bed? Not sure if there are any studies on this.
While I agree this self-employed farce has to stop, the service itself is good. Previously takeaways were all the more greasy options, the deliveroo options are nicer food and it's aimed at a different market segment. It allows venues access to a market that was previously denied to them because they couldn't justify running their own delivery service full-time.

They charge £2.50 per delivery. If they were paying couriers minimum wage I assume they'd be able to make money off it still.

I think that price probably includes the high risk that the self-employed status will be rescinded.
Was just reading about them only the other day and how they are losing money: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41347817

So how they derive such a valuation is very much at odds with actualities.
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You haven't failed, you've founded a successful startup. Now you're looking at options and obstacles to taking the next step up. Big money, and the potential for even more of it, does weird things to people. Look at where you are at in life and where you want to be personally. The problem with "possibly" is how it can change one's perspective of reality. Others have given you the "take the money advice." I agree with the push both fronts advice. The reality is you have the skills to start a company but finding investors is not your gig.

Options:

Small Business Association - Specifically the 7a Loan which tops out at $5 million. The "Lender Match" program may also be of interest.

Find a lawyer or banker with experience - What sgs1370 said.

Consulting firm or person - If you don't have contacts flush with cash hire someone who does.

Legal council - The cost of a hiring a lawyer is a pittance compared to later realizing you should have done so. Same thing applies to a banker if you sell the company. (Obviously)

Things to consider -

https://hbr.org/2008/02/the-founders-dilemma

Managing a small team of professionals is a different world from finding and managing competent workers. Your daily duties will change dramatically especially if outside investors have a controlling stake in the company.
They beat everyone else, including UberEats, to the AU market. I think them and Foodora were the first two, but they won and UberEats just relied on their brand to muscle in. Both share the market pretty evenly ehre, from what I can tell.

I wonder if they did this for many 'secondary' markets to try to beat the big players or if AU is just a weird case.
For those wondering about these numbers, Deliveroo has a great concept, solid execution and huge brand recognition.

Just-eat (worth 4.6B) connects people to shitty takeaways and has a terrible website. Deliveroo connects people to restaurants and provides the delivery service themselves, through bikers (here in London). They have taken this and spread throughout Europe.

They are going to (and are) completely canablising Just-eat who seemed to run out of stream and grind to a halt several years ago.
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Fall in love with a person. Learn how to sell. Travel and sxpand your mind. When you get to college, enjoy yourself. You’ll be working the rest of your life. When the time comes to bring people together and start a company, you’ll know.
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I typically work best in the morning. I have my most productive hour the first hour I work. If I'm able to get flow on my project then it will carry me a couple hours into the day. Once I'm pulled out of my flow or I tire, I find it hard to get back in. This is the time I'd like to spend having conversations and/or meetings, with other people helping to spur my imagination.

I can't always control my schedule to this degree, because I work for others, but it's ideal for me.

I suppose it works this way for "morning people".
> And most remarkably, Los Alamos’s managers still have not figured out a way to fully meet the most elemental nuclear safety standards. When the Energy Department on Feb. 1 released its annual report card reviewing criticality risks at each of its 24 nuclear sites, ranging from research reactors to weapon labs, Los Alamos singularly did “not meet expectations.”

That sounds almost suspicious. It's hard to actually articulate that suspicion, but nuclear material is involved here.

From earlier paragraphs:

> In 2013, [officials in Washington] worked with the lab director to shut down its plutonium handling operations so the workforce could be retrained to meet modern safety standards.

> Those efforts never fully succeeded, however, and so what was anticipated as a brief work stoppage has turned into a nearly four-year shutdown of portions of the huge laboratory building where the plutonium work is located, known as PF-4.

What...?

My first thought is "front for clandestine operation." How, or what, I don't know; I don't even know if something like that would be viable. If a TLA wants to play with nuclear stuff, couldn't they make their own base, or would they need an existing one? And if they did need to use these kinds of facilities, surely they'd be able to keep the media out.

Okay maybe I'm wrong. I'll leave this comment here as a suggestion that maybe this line of thinking isn't correct after all. (I've been figuring this out as I've typed.)
At the same time, many tribes benefitted from exchange and alliances. Tribalism does not necessarily imply brutal conflict.
Not all queries can be parameterised - I'm not aware of any DBMS that allows for the parametiersation of identifiers (e.g. table and column names) or variadic operators and clauses (e.g. IN() and optional predicate clauses), this is why "Dynamic SQL" is a thing - which comes with the inherent risk of SQL Injection.
How does this article show that?
Find a cause you care about, then help out however you can.

Also you have a lifetime of coding ahead of you (if that's the career you are after), enjoy your life while you don't yet have responsibilities like mortgage and family. You may not realize it, but at your age the amount of freedom you have to do whatever you want and make mistakes is a big advantage.
Try to make something popular or try to make something profitable.

Both can go on your resume.
The site is not very clear. The links to "our work", "about" and "contact" are empty. The header points to screenwipers.com that is a parked domain.

It's not clear at all what does they do. Do you have a video of one working?
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£128.56m in sales last year, and a loss of £129m. So very much curious how they managed such a valuation without over-hype.
There are two NTP parsers already if you want to get started: https://crates.io/search?q=ntp
On that regard I would say that the court case a little while back about the employment status of uber drivers might have some bearing. IIRC they demanded some drivers be available at certain times, and did other things that put the lie to "self employed" status.

Don't get me wrong, I know all the shady shit that goes on in this direction with delivery drivers etc, and I expect at some point we're going to end up with a big shift in the rules.

With Uber it's just one of many things that I dislike about them.
Having the wrong management is almost worse than having unqualified engineers.

I worked in a startup where they had put the Systems Operations (as in, Linux datacenter guys) under the Chief Marketing Officer for about a year for (reasons).

Three years later, we are STILL cleaning up after that mess. Wrong management creates problems that aren't so much a result of ineffective management... wrong management seems to always move resources away from things that most engineers would call "normal and customary processes" (like patching software or updating libraries that software is dependent upon) and that's how you end up with Equifax. Or a smoking hole in the desert somewhere in New Mexico.
Yes, because otherwise non-critical bugs pile up and hide critical bugs.
Not very sustainable unicorn is it ?
Odd then, that the police are specifically calling out Uber for non-cooperation on this, and a failure to put proper checks in place.
Everytime when sth. on SF is linked someone comments "Oh, that crapware site". Thus I thought maybe we should check out what SourceForge is trying to become. I'm by no way affiliated to them (nor a user ATM).
Deliveroo also take 30% of the food sale so I always assumed the £2.50 went to the rider, which seems like decent amount.
From https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/systemd-timesyncd :

> In contrast to NTP implementations such as chrony or the NTP reference server [systemd-timesyncd] only implements a client side, and does not bother with the full NTP complexity, focusing only on querying time from one remote server and synchronizing the local clock to it.
But chewy.com sold for $3b so what's your point?
While I strongly agree with your overall sentiment it's worth noting that this is not a new startup-developed characteristic. The people driving FedEx delivery trucks to your office are independent contractors too.
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I find it funny they're claiming some sort of AI system will help them make better margins.

In my city, Nottingham. all the deliveroo people gather in Trinity Square waiting for jobs. There's obviously no special AI needed.

I do think though that it raises the issue that they should be paying for their own business premises and stop using our public spaces as their company waiting spots.
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Would it be fair to say that the valuation is based on the back of Just-eats valuation?
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Spoken like a true believer.
Why do you find that funny?

Natural uranium is pretty unremarkable. The greatest danger from it is heavy metal poisoning. It's also common enough that restricting its availability would be rather difficult.

Strictly speaking, if you got enough of it and were sufficiently determined you could create an improvised nuclear reactor with it, something along the lines of a carbon-moderated design. But the risk from that would be fairly minimal apart from some local radioactive contamination.