skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not only that, but Paul Graham is the one that came up with the beer test. So for this author to say that nobody tells you these things is wrong.
3 lanes each way in a level interaection seems like a bad design to begin with. I have never seen a 3 lane (3 lanes in each direction) road cross another at the same level. One road should go over and the other under, with large onramps for turns. Because a 3+3 road is a highway and has no place in a dense area at all.
It's an IDE for a programming language, which is only part of the picture. Compare it to what the Flash IDE or Visual Basic offered developers. Or Smalltalk in terms of a fully customizable, live environment.

Maybe something that's a cross between Developer Tools, Flash Designer and the Smalltalk environment.

Anyway, VS Code isn't the development environment for the web. It's just one of many options for writing Javascript.
This sounds like a lot of smoke and no fire to me. Are men having trouble finding jobs in tech because of their gender? Is Damore even having trouble finding a job in tech despite his claims that he’s the target of a witch hunt? Was there some kind of law passed that forces tech companies to hire more women?
No, it was a democracy for the relatively small portion of the population that were free males, and authoritarian with respect to the rest. And that example of limited democracy was crucial to leading to our far more general one.
Every Good Regulator of a System Must Be a Model of That System (1970) [pdf]
It was an example of the tyrant of pure democracy. Democracy can only work if it’s limited by strong individual rights.

Your examples are good, but my favorite example was the battle of Arginusae, a massive Athenian victory which directly led to the fall of Athens.

In the Peloponnesian War, Spartas army was supreme, but they could never defeat Athens navy. Finally they crushed it at Methymna, and blockaded the remainder, positionihg the Spartan navy to block trade with Athens and starve them.

Athens was forced to build a new fleet manned by inexperienced sailors, and appointed 8 strategoi to lead it against the now vastly superior Spartan navy. Using innovative tactics they won a great victory at Arginusae.

But immediately after, the Athenian commanders were unable to rescue survivors from their disabled/sink ships due to a sudden storm. The citizens of Athens, joyous at the amazing victory, now turned sour. The assembly voted to execute the generals. After they were executed, the war turned against Athens and many realized the mistake they made killing their best generals, so they brought similar charges against the instigators of the charges against the generals.

Pure democracy is a mob at work.
Right, leave it blank when enrolling → Empty value coerced to number becomes 0 → Recorded in Unix timestamp format where 0 is Jan 1 1970 → Wow, everyone was born then?
Wow, and I thought our 8 hour games of Axis & Allies or Shogun were epic. I do remember one game of A&A which went for 3 days once.

But a big factor of all those games was the banter and chatter that took place in between the play rounds - which easily took up >50% of 'game time'.

Discussions about famous war heroes, tactics, politics, geography and purely made up stories to rationalise our game play was what made those sessions special, and stand out in my mind FAR more than the die rolls, cards or token that we had...
I was headhunted for BBC in London. The salary on offer was honestly laughable for a senior position. I declined.
Long live web apps. It’s not that they need to be killed, it’s that they are evolving and need/urge to evolve more. With so many OS, HTML works perfectly to distribute one single source-code in all platforms. I see it the other way around, “web apps” are here to stay and evolve.
> Nuclear winter is not a discredited myth.

It has been discredited. Even Sagan admitted as much. The idea that all humanity/life would end has been discredited.

Billions would surely die, but millions of humans would survive.
You don't have to imagine. MS Office is available as a web app.

https://www.office.com/
The culture surrounding the job has enormous impact on who signs up. It's not inherent that tech jobs have to be like they are, but finding a better path could take a long long time. It's IMO scum and villainy willing to chalk it up to gender imbalance while not considering that it might take large scale sociological change, perhaps over decades of time, to gradually make our system better. Trying to be gender fair is only a small part of building healthy, good workspaces- there's many other systematic evils that need rooting out, and I'm not sure why that's not apparent & considered before making these kinds of gross discarding remarks.
I just don't buy that even if basic income implemented properly it's would provide enough money so skilled programmers would go work on their dream project instead of getting full-time job with good pay. Being just a bit above poverty with food and rent is simply not enough.

I know many people who would say it's would be great, but I sure that wouldn't looks so great in practice. If average salary of developer is going to be multiple times above BI the only people who going to stay out of full time job would likely be useless due to their poor skills or inability to work in team.

I saying that from my own experience: I almost left doing my boring freelance stuff to learn C++ and work on project I want to see finished. I still keep doing it because I like it, but living without money is not fun. And I'm crazy Russian guy who used to see poverty all around, but I absolutely don't see how people who used to get at least $70,000/year salary in EU / US would go change it to something like $40,000/year BI.

Also I can't say much about Apache or Python, but other two examples are wrong. Linux become actually successful after corporations backed it while WordPress have massive business behind it: Automattic has 500+ employees and way above 1B valuation.

Participating projects in free time might work for some software, but most of time there is group of lead developers who doing most of heavy lifting and projects wouldn't live without them. And there plenty of extremely boring, but very important work that is critical for security and project integrity, but can't be really crowd sourced at all.

PS: Though I should note that I'm proponent of BI and I feel it would work great as replacement for traditional ineffective welfare systems that either useless or too easy to abuse (I seen plenty of it while lived in the UK). And I sure that BI could give indirect benefit for the society in general, but I don't believe it's what's needed to push FOSS forward.
>Most of the points is arguing that NSA could compel the company Duck Duck Go, Inc to install equipment and then forbidding the company from disclosing that fact.

You don't need to do anything like that. DDG doesn't crawl the web itself, it uses API providers like Bing (Microsoft/NSA) and Yandex (Russian/FSB). They're legally required to disclose that on their site.

It's possible to identify people solely through anonymised credit card transactions[0] so doing the same for search results is pretty much the same.

DDG isn't private, it just gives the illusion of privacy, same as TOR. That said though if you're a high profile target then there's much more direct means to track what you're searching.

[0]http://www.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/science.1256297
Financial App, for us to keep our household bookkeeping and finance management in.

Initially written in the abandoned Angular 1 framework and legacy ASP.NET, I'm now rewriting it using Knockout (with router5 for routing) and ASPNET Core 2. Initial version used gulp for bundling, new version uses webpack (for development) in combination with hot module replacement. Webpack has been a real nice experience.

https://github.com/Sebazzz/financial-app/tree/ko-rewrite
i had to look it up: SWIM = Someone Who Isn’t Me
It isn't. So what? Things will get better. And even if it doesn't, those who really need bitcoin will be able to use it.
How do you even buy non memory foam these days?

I really don't understand the benefit - if you ever move in your sleep then you will be uncomfortable.
Yes. That's why I called it more of an oligarchy than a democracy. Modern notions of democracy is so different from the ancient greek conception that it doesn't make much sense to claim they are both democracies.
Most biotechs don't have any revenue when they go public. They are traded on scientific progress through clinical trials. The idea being that if they do get through a phase 3, they are immediately valuable since they have a monopoly on a valuable therapeutic. Most likely, they get acquired by large pharma before that point - see Kite & Gilead.
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"If you want to rag on JSON, that's fine. It's not a great format"

JSON is simple and powerfull.
It's success justifies it, to call it a great format, I think.
But I am curious, what whould be a great format, in your opinion?
If I kept my retirement funds in $100 bills, I would be just as paranoid about them too.
12 possible answers… little better than a 1-digit PIN!
New Verizon Leak Exposed Confidential Data on Internal Systems
I recently went bought a Casper. I didn't like it. It gave me a sore back and neck and didn't get any better until I switched. So next I ordered a Leesa. But that had the strong chemical smell. And I left it unpacked in a room with ventilation for two weeks and the smell didn't stop. Then I ordered a Tuft and Needle, and despite being the cheapest of the three (I think?) it had no odor issues and was surprisingly the more comfortable. I'm very happy with it. The return on the other two mattresses was completely painless and easy, so I highly recommend taking advantage of their 90-100 day trials.
I wish "7. THE BEGINNING IS THE MOST DIFFICULT PART" were actually true. In my experience, the beginning is hard, but it can get much, much harder than it was at the beginning. In fact, the very book ("The hard thing about hard things") that he cites in point 7 tells the story of many crazy difficult things Ben Horowitz fought through many years after the beginning of Loudcloud/Opsware.
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How does Serpent.AI help with scraping game state? In my ignorance of the state of research here I would think that's the most common barrier to entry.
What is your definition of flawed, then? It is the most widely used distribution network of applications.

Personally, I would argue the exact opposite. The web in its current state is a brilliant piece of technology that is vastly undervalued.
"terminator, not separator" is an easy way to remember it. I would call bar in GP's comment a fragment.
Vigorously arguing about "what women want" in the face of today's known discrimination against women in tech is not relevant.

Not to mention misrepresenting what "the argument" is about, but I guess you've already moved on from that.
I'm personally using it because it gives me:

1. Rooms

2. Disconnects and reconnects,

3. Fallack solutions

for free.

Although not for a game. I trust that its just not made for that kind of performance.

But for a messaging app its actually quite decent.
I don't think that the web is complex, at least not in a sense I'm understanding "complexity" word. Web is a huge pile of semi-specified standards. There are bunch of written standards, like XML, HTML, DOM, JavaScript, CSS (each with multiple versions). There is a lot of tribal knowledge, that you'll get only with experience, like things that doesn't work with IE 6 (luckily IE 6 is not very relevant today). There is some security-related stuff, things that you should remember if you don't want to make a vulnerable website. But it's not a complexity, it's just a lot of things.

Now there's a bad tools. JavaScript is a bad language and its ecosystem is mostly terrible. If you want to create react app with hot reload using es6 and other things that modern developer expects to have, you'll end up with tons of configuration glues, some experimental hacks and many tools hacked together. Or you can download "starter" template, where those hacks are already glued for you. Good luck to add or change or fix something there. In contrast I can write very simple maven config and it'll support almost everything I would ever need without any configuration. It's difficult to navigate among those tools, but this difficulty will be solved with better tools and better documentation. I'm eager to wait until I can throw webpack and just write ES7 with imports and browser will understand it. I shouldn't need build tools for web.
I used vb6 20 years ago and have recently (quite unfortunately) had to learn html/js/css basics. The web is hot garbage for displaying form data compared to microsoft tools circa 1996.
How many really truly secure C programs have ever been released into the wild? Maybe qmail? But qmail did it by completely rewriting the C standard library.
Quite possibly. I understand some of the demographics information needed for TALX to process the unemployment compliance is salary for each employee covered.
i think the simple explanation is that these are elements introduced into american culture by italians
We could've had that years ago if Mozilla had not (as all the browser vendors do depressingly often[1]) decided to torpedo NaCl for nonsensical reasons that boil down to "NIH," in favor of creating a far-inferior, crippled spec practically designed to be aimlessly bikeshedded for years.

[1] Mozilla usually pulls such NIH moves to sabotage the introduction or use of languages (even DSLs) other than JS on the web. See also: WebSQL, Dart, HTML5 vs plugins, HTML5 vs XHTML2. Whether you agreed with their position on those disputes or not, you have to admit there's a pattern.

Again, not picking on Mozilla, everyone's an offender: Microsoft generally slows things down so their browsers don't get too outdated, Apple pursues vendettas against competitors and is myopically focused on moving mobile forward while neglecting desktop, Google's constantly attempting to muscle through user/privacy-hostile misfeatures and highly-specialized features that improve their own web apps more than the web as a whole.
My favorite story about Campaign for North Africa involves a, uh, 'innovative' solution to the POW problem. As the British roll back the Italians, management of POWs becomes a large problem, requiring the players to create POW camps in empty hexes and allocate units to guard them or else they can revolt (as mentioned in the article). Legend has it that one player was looking over the terrain and weather rules, and realized he could place the POW camps in hexes representing dry riverbeds. Come Springtime the hexes would flood, turning into regular river hexes, and freeing up valuable guard units for other duties...
Agile, like waterfall, is only as good as it’s implementers. At my workplace we had lots of lingering bugs because the entire project had been poorly architected. We pushed to refactor and our scrum masters looked at us like we were crazy.

Putting patches in bugs fits in a 2 week cycle, taking months to do something right, does not.
This is stinkin' amazing. Great idea and nice implementation.
This post reminds me of a few old blog posts by Glyph Lefkowitz (of Twisted Python fame):

1. on what's wrong with web development: http://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2009/09/oh-atangled-web-we-we...

2. on how to fix it: https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2009/09/web-untangled.html

3. earlier, on the problems with generating HTML through string concatenation: https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2008/06/data-in-garbage-out....

Also, my own personal plea: If anyone tries to create a new platform or front-end framework, targeting the browser or otherwise, please don't neglect accessibility for people with disabilities, i.e. with screen readers and the like. At least the Web sort of gets this right.
"I think its more plausible that they then simply buy out key companies rather than found a bunch of new companies in hope that one will succeed."

How many new search engines were focusing on privacy and security as their main differentiator from the competition?

I know of only one: DDG
Well, if you want to trust your anonymity to luck or not being monitored then yes, you can be anonymous on Tor. But that's little comfort. It's possible to cross a highway blindfolded too. But it isn't smart to do so and it is even less smart to assume that it will always work just because you can't see the danger with your silly blindfold on.
The fact that I couldn't read this because it redirected me to a Medium web app that I wasn't logged into told me everything I needed to know about the article.

The medium remains the massage.
Can you imagine how slow boarding might be if the information needed retrieved from a distant mainframe by the scanner before it would emit its _beep_ of consent? (I agree with you, though)
I still haven't found a reliable way to save webpages. Firefox and wget won't download stylesheets or script tags generated by javascript. The only working approach is to print webpages as PDFs. It's a pretty terrible platform for documents.
Also web is open. I don't need Tim Cook's permission to run something. And despite this lack of walled garden, I'm much less likely to get something bad from web, than from app, because web have much better sandbox than app ever will.
This to both. However, the problem with the web is there are old implementations that must be maintained in browsers for backwards compatibility. The issue with this is that it increases the barrier to entry for web development because it's much harder for a new person to even know what options to gravitate to.

Of course, there are books and guides to help people, but how would someone figure out which guides are worth it? There are a lot of highly rated books on the topic of web development and if you don't already know what you need, it can be daunting.

But yes, flexbox is great.
Reddit has narrow, highly specialized communities where product mentions, while not necessarily recommendations, are very useful for researching, shopping, and understanding a niche consumer market.
Excluding the odd road works, there are no traffic lights anywhere in Marlborough, New Zealand, they use roundabouts everywhere. Driving is actually fun here.
Good to know, thanks! What gets me is that a lot of the automatic lights are of a different variety that works fine, and in some cases there's a bike lane up to a light that is incapable of detecting you (without switching lanes, at least).
I bought a Zinus Memory Foam Mattress recently on Amazon for a 1/3 of the price of Casper. Most comfy I've ever slept on. Not sure why one would pay 3x the price.
If, as the article (and much of this thread) seems to suggest, the problem we are trying to solve is

1) Serving a GUI application to multiple users in a way that they can trust

2) Maintaining up to date versions without client side updates

3) Storage of data on a remote server over the internet, enabling saas etc.

4) Easier GUI development using an IDE.

This points to needing something more akin to Citrix/RDP/Terminal services. Run full blown GUI apps on the server and serve an image of them over the network. This needn't be as bloated as the MS implementation, but seems to solve those issues above
That's not a million dollar question but one worth several 10's or even 100's of billions. If you can find the answer to it you'll push us across the hump and away from this local oscillating maximum.
The people who develop the sites you visit use as blockers. So it's natural that they don't realise how atrocious their sites look without one.
Costs are a problem for sure. But the biggest factor is the FED. They have slowly increased rates the past 1.5 years and have stated that they are going to increase interest rates further and pop the economic bubble. Not only that, Yellen has said the FED is going to shrink their balance sheet.

Credit is drying up and becoming more expensive and will be for some time. All business activity will slow ( new or established ). And we'll get a recession soon. It's only after the recession, when the FED decreases rates and loosens credit controls that business activity will start to increase again.
Things I’ve learned thru this that I’ve found appalling...

1. Freezing your credit is meaningless thru Experian. You or anyone can obtain your freeze pin using your personal now public info via their tool https://www.experian.com/ncaconline/freezepin

2. If you freeze your credit with Experian they send you a letter in the mail saying you will no longer receive credit cards offers for five years. Also that they notified Equifax and Transunion to halt any and all offers to be sent to me. WOW who are these people the mafia? I just wanted to freeze my credit thru them.
Lots of good stuff in this, but i have a couple of significant nits.

First, paired programming is a great way to help a junior learn. But it’s dependent upon their desire, i do it frequently with one whose eyes glaze over when i explain what i’m doing and i know when they start surfing the web while i’m implementing.

But otherwise paired programming is just a great way to slow me down.

Secondly, the open floor plan they described is a clear disregard for the productivity of individual software engineers. Maybe the author never experienced the difference, but it’s significant.
> The thing that makes distributions like Red Hat and SUSE "boring" is ...that we've effectively solved the problem of maintenance and release engineering

Hmm.

There are a lot of developers that could probably really do with some exposure to this kind of environment.

I could definitely see myself hugely appreciating, say, a 6 month stint doing... something relating to the nitty-gritty of keeping a distribution going, learning what the pitfalls are, what the unintuitive stuff is, etc. Basically being some key point-person's assistant (the one who deals with major disasters), or something.

It would be even better if some of this work could involve direct enterprise support: learning what customer requirements are, getting a sense of scale, etc. I can see this kind of information (enterprise support) being the most valuable - actual bespoke software would likely be a major focus of such training, and this would tech would-be developers about the disasters that can happen 5 years or 10 years on from "I have an awesome idea" "wow it's so elegant" etc etc. (Continuing from the previous point, perhaps there could also be an opportunity to be the assistant to the on-call person who sometimes wakes up at 3AM.)

You could position this as something for people looking for DevOps jobs, and maybe make some kind of cert for it as well (this would likely help with/create traction for/be needed for enterprise-level interaction).

I personally would have zero issues with signing a small book of NDAs to get this type of training myself. The NDAs would just cover how I learned, not what I learned, and in this context the how would be largely irrelevant (but at the same time incredibly invaluable). FWIW, I'd personally greatly benefit from a good debrief at the end of the course to help me find all the little ways I might accidentally leak something (eg a few too many words fall out before I stop myself etc) and learn to catch myself quickly.
I thought this story had just been posted recently, but
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Feb 26 2017 House Of The Rising Sun - Josh White and his Guitar.mp3

Another "and his guitar" version, with animals lyrics.
http://wizard.dynu.com/house_of_the_rising_sun.ogg
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