skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like the Socratic method as it resonates with the way my brain processes information and I think it's effective to hopefully get people to think for themselves.

But it's not a silver bullet. I've recognized that there's times you just need to dictate information and hope the receiver catches it. I find myself needing information in this form sometimes. Literally just tell me the stuff and I'll learn it this way.

I've also noticed this pattern with my children. I ask questions to get them thinking for themselves and hopefully discover their own answer but alas, it doesn't always work. Maybe they are still too young but I don't really know. So I then resort to just dictating the information and that works too.
Same here, in a legacy code base with millions of lines of duplicated code that I unfortunately had to work on, IntelliJ would not even let me type, it just froze up all the time. Atom also sucked, fuzzy finder locked up the UI for 10 minutes. VSCode I can cold boot & start using the fuzzy finder, no issues. Feels like vim, in that it "just works". So performance is more dependent on what the software is doing, not what UI toolkit / runtime it uses. VSCode is faster on this codebase because it seems to not block editing due to a search index, like the others -- which has nothing to do with Electron vs Java.
That portable defragmenter probably could run into problems because writing a single block file can take more than one block on disk (the file system may need extra directory block(s)). Instead of deleting the files, setting them to zero length might work better.

”and then writes out a shell script that accomplishes that”

You better use a different device for that.

Firstly, you don’t know how long that script will be, and its length will affect what commands to use.

Secondly, if you just make it long enough up front, it may occupy space that, at the end of its run, must store other data.

Here’s another even more impractical idea: if all you know is that your disk does first fit, can you write a program that, after whatever amount of disk I/O, defragments a drive? I think you can (ignoring blocks used to store directory information)
Thanks overcyn great framework. How you are bridging between iOS and Android. Can you provide simple example code that make me understand how you make things working and internal details.

It will help me to understand better. Any future plans to write blog.
Sweet, will check it out, I'm not particularly attached to gsuite
It used to be most people who quit permanently did so by going cold turkey. That was true even after patches and gums, but I'm not sure if it's still true with vaping.

Though I have a theory cold turkey quitting normally happens after a health scare of some variety. My father was a 45 year smoker and quit the day of his heart attack.
And then, just as icing on a massive and impressive cake? Totally unforeseen rates of intermediate mass BH mergers! What a time to be alive!
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Thanks, I'll check them out. Specifically, I'm looking for a way to view source (really DOM) of an arbitrary webpage in the browser.
Ok, raise your hand if you didn't see this one coming.
I fully agree with the advice, but I do worry that we are creating a monoculture for authentication. The pessimist in me says it is not if, but when a major vulnerability appears in the Oauth stack. Good thing about most vulnerabilities is that the blast radius can be rather small.
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Wondering if there is any global stats outside of US.
I guess so. Hmm... well I sure hope we get a more developed awareness of the issue so we can plan accordingly for ourselves.
How is this different than using datastore?
> an ultra wealthy 1% can offset the relative lack of wealth in the rest of the 99%

Citizens of western nations (the US in particular, median income there puts you among the .3% globally) and the rest of the globe have a similar dynamic yet I have seen no westerners who proclaim the evils of income inequality attempt to resolve that disparity, in fact they seem set to increase their own income making the problem worse. Thus I don't take that argument on it's face as a serious one.
They explain a little later in the article how Parks did her research:

> O’Malley described a 2010 case in which Parks, after receiving a tip from a social worker, began “cold-calling” rehabilitation centers, searching for a seventy-nine-year-old woman, Patricia Smoak, who had nearly seven hundred thousand dollars and no children. Parks finally found her, but Smoak’s physician wouldn’t sign a certificate of incapacity. “The doctor is not playing ball,” Parks wrote to her lawyer. She quickly found a different doctor to sign the certificate, and Norheim approved the guardianship. (Both Parks and Norheim declined to speak with me.)
Tldr: Keep it that way.

I've started working on a side-project developing a mobile application when Fuse[1] got "traction". I remember the bashing on HN regarding the name (since well libfuse). I'm usually all sys/backend, but I've got into it. You start digging through their board and see a lot of examples, catch around stuff on their channel and so on. Kind of joy sometimes.

The thing is, I've been planning to support both iOS and Android from the early start. So that was really a great choice, it looked promising. Or so was I thinking.

After fine 7 months, my new shiny mobile app. was behind somehow manageable code and one developer - me. Stay still, I never worked on mobile before. So I went for market and hit few clients at an early stage. Good news everyone, we got this. As a co-founder with other two, designer and marketing manager, we went out as a `free` and rent the magical space. The hype was there and -. Clients started requesting features, which meant another success. The ideas presented were fine with us and I started working furiously on it. Pressure and all, inb4 start digging for more developers. Few remote devs and features are ready, users love them. Now it gets to more advanced features, UI, code starts to get abstract, and devs aren't sure if they web, script or compile. We somehow managed to stay on ball.

After five such months, we ditched the Fuse and rewrote to native. Since devs where remote, they understood the cards. Some of them are still here. Now we are all happy, codebase is eh.. fine, stuff are supported, you know.

The story speaks I think. These tools, at early stage, should be took as a grant of salt. I do however appreciate work given towards creating xp stuff. Some of these tools are great for prototyping.

[1] https://www.fusetools.com/
Yeah unfortunately, those are downsides that I don't think will change unless we get Go on wasm or something similar. Go brings its own advantages though. Fast, static typing, goroutines, theres no need for JSX, etc. And personally the JS ecosystem doesn't appeal to me at all.
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The FreeBSD Ports Collection[1] is the main means of installing 3rd party software on FreeBSD. Precompiled packages are available, too. You can view a list of available ports on FreshPorts[2]. Of course you can always just compile and build your own software if you choose.

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html
[2] http://www.freshports.org/categories.php
I'm skeptical that this would actually be profitable... would like to see some metrics on AWS costs vs. mining rewards.
In addition to what artpar, commented, I'd say take it slow and try to appreciate the browser as a dev environment. There are a lot of interesting APIs/technologies available today, e.g. Service Workers, grid layout, geolocation api, etc. You probably won't need to use them for work, but they are still interesting.

2nd) if you have to use a framework (say react), learn to appreciate what it does for you. Try to understand what it is accomplishing and don't be too afraid of jargon. It's a steep hill, so you'll need patience and perseverance, but it gets better, and there is some world class, creative, software engineering going on in js framework these days.

addendum:

I don't recommend you spend a lot of time checking this out now, but react boilerplate is an impressive example of a modern frontend js stack. Tons of frameworks, and very possibly too much too soon, but it's pretty well designed and documented, and has a nice supportive community.

https://www.reactboilerplate.com/
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Ask HN: How do you get over the executive wall?
Hi! Long time lurker.

After a six or seven year career spanning different generalist tech roles (everything from product designer to front-end engineer to platform developer), I founded a startup, raised seed, and sold for a 5x return. Yay.

I've spent two years at my acquiring company, mostly making sure that our IP gets integrated and has a good home. It's clear however that the acquiring company is not a growth company by any means, and I find myself incredibly stifled by the slow pace, the lack of vision, and frankly, the denial about the situation.

I report into to our CPO, but have found myself unable to find a realistic vector for also becoming a C*O in the company, as he is unlikely to leave as a founder and they do not appear all that interested in exploring alternatives that might cause his role to be diminished or otherwise carved up. I likely wouldn't be all that interested in sticking around anyway, given the cultural problems I mentioned above.

As I look out into the job market, I'm concurrently finding myself being a week late to opportunities. By that I mean, by the time I find them and/or a recruiter reaches out to me, a candidate is already deep in the process. It's frustrating, and I'm finding myself wondering if my long-standing aversion to networking is causing me to miss these opportunities, as I assume that most of these jobs are filled with internal recommendations from people within the professional network of the other executives.

(I should note that I'm actually an extrovert by personality, and have a..decent-to-good sized network within my industry. I just find networking and the typical post-conference drinks to be incredibly tedious.)

I'm at a bit of a loss for how to accurately phrase the question, but hopefully some of you will understand where I'm coming from. Is the right move simply to suck it up and pretend to enjoy forced conversations? Is there a recruiting firm who is actually somewhat good at handling generalist/entrepreneur types? Or is this just the narrowing of the pyramid as you get closer to the top?
"I wouldn't be surprised..." isn't really a strong enough sentiment to support the statement "vaping definitely isn't healthy". At the moment, the harms of vaping are speculative.
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Don't dwell on the letter of the round. Some companies raise 10M in Series E because they don't require as much capital. Others raise more in Series A because they do.

Telecom is a capital intensive industry, which is why startups need to raise such large amounts of money. This is also why Twilio needed so much money (>$200mm) though they did take it in later rounds.

Venture and Growth Investors are only looking for $1 billion plus exits, so the $100M breakeven doesn't bother them. Instead, they ask, "What's a new telecom company going to be valued at?" and "What are the chances this can get there?" and "What will our ownership be then?". They multiply the three #s, and then do some discounting.
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Me too. But, on the other hand, I am not too surprised given that civil forfeiture is legal in the US...
i just learned about the goal a few days ago. there's also a graphic novel version of the book: the goal: a business graphic novel

https://www.amazon.com/Goal-Business-Graphic-Novel/dp/088427...
Yes 683 pages, but 178 of that is the language:

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1548.pdf

That's up from 95 in C90, a factor of 2 not 3 in 20 years.

http://read.pudn.com/downloads133/doc/565041/ANSI_ISO%2B9899...

You can treat Rust as a useful language as long as you don't need to get work done. I rather like C11. I would have liked Rust, I tried, if they'd have known when to say no or if they valued sparseness for its readability because it reads like C+++:

const USAGE: &'static str = "usage: blah blah";

By contrast, I like what seL4 did with C. They wrote in C and proved in Isabelle.
> Personally I find Java overly verbose and bloated

Not much more verbose than it needs to be explicit.

"Explicit is better than implicit."
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Very exciting. I found this to be the one "missing piece" keeping me from being able to build a whole app on Firebase when checking it out earlier this year. One question though, will this support BLOBs like GridFS?
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Sadly...

http://www.onlinejacc.org/content/29/7/1422

Edit: To clarify, there is still no contest at all between potential long term harm from smoking, and massively reduced potential for harm from vaping. Sorry for my lack of responsibility in making that point clearly, or at all.
Do you think they've switched to another navigation framework? I've had some success with https://reactnavigation.org/ - although it's fairly early stage.
why do "serious" Developers have to use heavyweight IDEs? what makes a more basic editor a toy?
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Ask HN: If Facebook was written today, what language would you recommend?
Note: Not the fb with millions of LOC but the initial one with a few thousands that started it all.
The law was written by the people who use it to exploit the elderly. This is just another case of endemic US corruption that sits behind a polite facade.
great talk!
List some well known ones for Linux. There's a 95% chance there's a FreeBSD port
Peter Thiel doesn't work at YC - please check your facts: http://www.ycombinator.com/people/
Why do you think it is worse? I am interested in hearing of your experiences on this.
Snow cleared from road is exceptionally dirty. It has sand, salt, any other chemicals used for snowmelt, and then engine oil.
I think it's a stretch by far to call either Interstellar or 2001: A Space Odyssey most scientifically accurate movie. Using a correct simulation of black hole is one thing, but this alone does not make necessarily make it very accurate. This is not the first time I am seeing this, and I don't know it pops up everywhere. There are parts in the movies which make me cringe, like bending gravity by hands inside a black hole, and giving some strange bar code. Or the highly incorrect approximation of probability from TARS. If I were to select an interesting scientifically accurate sci-fi movie, I would select martian or primer. The later is more consistent than what is evident on watching it for first time.
You can store Blob data, but the maximum size of a single document is still 1MB. If you need to store larger blobs check out Cloud Storage for Firebase.
For me biggest disadvantage of RN is JSX. It was not bad idea originally, but at this point its very complicated thig full of edge cases.
You can update the javascript parts without having to deploy a new version of the app, which takes time on the store's end to approve.
I'd say a lack of powerful navigation and refactoring tools.
Welcome to the hell that bureaucracy perpetuates. Criminals learn the system and it is easy to exploit when government workers have no concern other than to process work. So we end up with a professional class who preys on those who cannot defend themselves as they have the power of the courts on their side.

this is the type of law and regulation that only gets changed if something outlandish gets championed by the local press or they step on the wrong person' toes. seeing how this goes down I would not be surprised if people like Parks hire detectives to dig up possible "clients" just so they know who is an easy take.

Most certainly needs to be changed and those participating need to be held accountable.
Good question. It is the same system that would happily take children from the parents who were caught with a small amount of marijuana and hand them over to a serial sexual abuser, so the problem is not limited to elderly.
> cute when [...] was a scrappy little startup. Now they're dominant, it's just creepy.

Microsoft/Gates also had trouble with this. What is "business hardball" in a startup, can be illegal conduct in an almost-monopoly.

In a kitten, pouncing aggression is cute... in a liger, not so much. For the same behavior, you'd put it down.

Individuals can similarly fail to recognize transitions. "You can't do X." "But I've been doing X for years!" "Yes, but here you have relationship Y, so X is no longer ethical/legal."
Could the melting water be used to drive a generator, that cools the ice?
A nice thing about this is that you can deploy them incrementally. A large dam is more of an all-or-nothing proposition.
But the article demonstrates that with JavaFX, you can have FXML + CSS + JavaScript. Isn't that close enough that a web developer could be comfortable pretty quickly? You're just working with a differently flavored DOM, right?

I am not a web developer, so I may be way off base.
That applies to spam from an unknown sender, not a bona fide company you have a relationship with. Messages from Facebook about your account are hardly unsolicited. I don't think it's useful to call every email you don't like "spam".
e-cigs are not the answer: See FDA [1].

An intervention that has proved effective for saving lives from tobacco use is MPOWER from the World Health Organization. Raise the cost of tobacco through taxes, ban smoking in public places, hard-hitting, scary, anti-smoking ads, doctors talking to their patients about quitting, nicotine replacement therapy, telephone counseling support. In NYC the age for purchase is 21 as it is nationwide for alcohol. In NYC, the minimum cost per pack is $13.

[1] https://blogs.fda.gov/fdavoice/index.php/2016/08/protecting-...
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They also use those means to know your face to scan photos and ask people connected to that contact list to tag you in photos, so they know where you've been, even match them with events.

They can fill your shadow profile with photos, location and time data. It's frightening.
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And it took at least 30 years for the media to start meaningfully questioning that practice.
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As someone who has been burned by non-Java Kafka drivers, beware the perception of ecosystem support here. The Kafka design pushes a huge amount of complexity onto the client, and in our experience only the Java client deals with this complexity well. We started out using Python clients but eventually moved to Confluent's REST API (wrapping the Java driver) because we had so many problems with it.
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Well that shows how much they actually care... Yeah. Direct contact has value.
How so? The state's physical form is comprised of people the way our minds' physical forms are comprised of neurons.
You're just conflating issues here. Nobody disagrees that Facebook is behaving in a scummy way. People simply think it's weird to complain about an endless stream of FB messages when the solution is in plain sight.
I don't see how that's relevant.

Tools exist to audit anything on the windows CLR. So, from a security standpoint they have everything they need and can request the source code if any red flags show up.

Sure, the source code is great if you want to maintain code. But, for a security audit it's often more deceptive than useful.
The Ports collection is similar in scope to any of the application databases maintained by Linux distros such as Redhat and Ubuntu.

In fact, many of the packages are exactly the same from the same upstream. The differences are freebsd specific patches to fix small (like enabling or disabling different compile flags) or large (for example in the case of gnome or openjdk which requires effort to port) issues, but the packages are all there.
Let me rephrase. No one here said that complexity is consciousness. In particular,
AnIdiotOnTheNet, who you replied to, did not say that complexity is consciousness.

Also, tangentially, New York's sewers aren't that complex compared to even a rat's brain.
You're supposed to upgrade to point releases pretty much immediately.
Yes, there is so much public material implying that e-cigs are basically just as bad. It seems so irresponsible to me.

I think in part it's driven by how low-status smoking is these days, to the point that some people even hate the optics of it. It looks like smoking so it must be just as bad, or close.
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> The US is a big, highly varied country

I hear this excuse over and over and over.

Do you somehow think the US is unique in this situation?

Do you think Australia is homogeneous? (way, way more per-capita immigration)

Do you think if you remove those "ghettos" from the US stats AND the stats of other first world countries you will suddenly see the US leap ahead?
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I think you did not read the article - did you?
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Just remember that it will never be “free” energy, there will at least be thermodynamic losses in principle, and that will be greatly amplified in reality.
There are 2.5M more people in the Equifax breach than we thought
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What is MessageBird? Is it a Twitter thing?
I agree with the assessment. The fashion today is "everybody needs to learn to 'code'", but that's only because companies are in dire need of a very specific profile: The junior coder that writes basic HTML, CSS and simple Javascript. They want this resource to be hired for very cheap, and there aren't enough resources available, because in the past decade, what existed was true Programmers, which can do more than that and of course want to be paid much more in return.

And then the article rightfully denounces that the people who say they want to promote STEM, are in truth just promoting coding and some software topics. STEM is much wider than that. The world doesn't need more coders; the world needs people in diverse disciplines.
One step closer to Ghost in the Shell!

Great work, and seems like a very good learning device. Can't wait for more complicated organisms to be mapped and more complex sensors and electronics plugged in. The debate about what is and isn't consciousness is going to be kept alive for a long time.
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He's pretty obviously referring to what Graham said, and not favorably (this is one of the more disappointing Paul Graham twitter quotes).