skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're guaranteeing failure if you've set yourself up into a situation where you need your minimally viable product to instantly start producing revenue or else dire things happen.

From a serious, practical matter: immediately go get an income. What you've described doesn't have any hint of a broader business model or a way to make money, much less immediately.

From a product suggestion standpoint: what you're describing is a shallow front-end, not a product or a business that can stand-up on its own that can command $N per month from customers. I say shallow because what you've built is a minimally developed shell running on top of other service/s. That's a weekend hack conceptually, not a business.

Maybe you can find an angle to build this early foundation into a serious product and business from here. You won't be able to do that if you can't support yourself financially. I would anticipate it taking some time. Venture capitalists aren't going to go for what you've done at this point and just start throwing cash your way.

Also, change the name. It's going to be difficult to be taken seriously as Talky.cards. Rather than going generic (few good domains available for talk/talky/talkx), create a new unique name for your product that has a shot at being memorable.

Above all else, despite the MVP mantra that is all-too-common, it's important to give yourself time to be successful. Success always takes far more time than any of us would like. What if, given a little bit more time, you find a great way to turn your early product into a serious business? Versus artificially compressing yourself into a bad situation time wise and perhaps ensuring failure.
Socialism and Capitalism isn't really applicable on non-tangible things.

If Cars can be duplicated like software, then sure calling FOSS socialism makes sense. But since that's not the case, it isn't.
Owned ThinkPads for more than ten years. Started using a MacBook pro in 2015 as my main machine and never looked back.

The good things about ThinkPads: Their keyboards are excellent. Also, I love the fact that I could replace almost every part of if. Other than that I can't say too many good things about them. Mainly I was using the x2.... line. The x2...t models (tablets) were pretty sturdy. The non-tablet version wasn't (x220, x230...). Constantly some part would break. Just by being carried in a messenger bag. Now that's the hardware. (Lenovo advertises them as super sturdy, military spec or something.) Comparing that to my MacBook Pro Retina 2015: Been using my MBP daily. It goes with me everywhere. Never failed.

I won't say much about the OS. Only so much: Windows was terrible for open source development. I heavily rely on a terminal and bash. I was using Cygwin and PuTTY. This combo gave me a decent terminal and shell. But it was far from perfect. Then I installled Ubuntu on one of my ThinkPads. Loved that. But I was missing so many tools (Evernote, OmniGraffle and so much more.) macOS gives me all the proprietary software I love. Plus a Unix environment and an awesome terminal (iTerm).

I'd go with a MacBook (Air/Pro).
So what's your alternative to private property if you want to erode (or abolish) it?

I don't see how you having power over someone and them owning things they don't use justifies thieving from them.
You should be able to buy an absorption test kit. For instance in the UK, you can pay £50, you get a couple of detectors to sit in your house for a few months and then you send them to a certified lab.

These kits are fine if you want to check or sell your house - in most cases the amount of radon in your house is determined by your local geology. If you pass an absorption test, it's unlikely you'll suddenly find dangerous levels of radon in the future.

The advantage of the real-time detectors is that they're real-time, but it's hard to prove that they're calibrated.

http://www.ukradon.org/information/measuringradon
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> The commentary doesn't specify, but what private sector use of OSS might be declining rapidly? Does this claim have any merit?

I'm an engineer at a fortune 50, and from where I am sitting this is claim as no merit at all. Our dev shop is pretty much entirely open source excepting databases. The rest of the company prioritizes open-source first for all new development. Open source is alive and well in private enterprise, and I suspect that's why Oracle (and some other companies) are diversifying their PR strategies right now.
Couple of questions. For the querying:

https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/query-data/querie...

It seems as though there is just the capability for AND logic between the WHERE queries, is that correct. Is the any plans to add AND/OR and perhaps a concept for representing grouping like parentheses?

And for the data structures:

https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/manage-data/struc...

Is there any capability to perform joins or have the data populated at query time?

And for the last thing:

It is mentioned multiple times in the documentation that nested collections will not be deleted if the parent is deleted. I'm just curious why there isn't the capability to insert a document with options that would allow something like a cascade delete. Since you allow indexes on collections, there is obviously some sort of metadata maintained, why not just add an additional flag that could be set so that whenever a record is deleted it can optionally have its subcollections removed as well?
Offshore or outsource?
Go into Gmail settings and add aliases there for each “account” you want to add to the catch-all. Actual separate accounts costs you $5+/month each.

(I do similar on my domains and the Gmail alias is easier to do than logging into Admin CP and adding aliases there)
Right, the solution isn't to take a 1-year term at USDS, it's to go beyond coding to IT management while not losing respect for the people working the technology, building political connections, and getting appointed to positions like Department CIO for a government department. And that's not the solution so much as getting into position to really make an impact on the problem.

And, yeah, it's not easy. Solving big institutional problems isn't.

OTOH, a term at USDS may give you an opportunity to work around the fringes of the problem and grasp it's grand outline better. And the scale of government is such that a small improvement can be a big deal.
No, but that's not what we're talking about.

Mozilla giving money away is totally expected. You may not like who they gave the money to, but that's totally within your rights. If you look at what RiseUp says they do[0], it's that they run an email system that they attempt to keep the US Government out of. I am being led to believe that you don't agree with their reasons why, which is fine by me.

[0]https://riseup.net/en/about-us
In the past I’ve seen that free software licenses make companies nervous, and they will inject Legal in the middle of your project schedule. This creates at least weeks or months of nontechnical dependencies in order to obtain approvals for even the simplest things (and you have no control over the activities of the Legal departmentc at all so good luck with your promised timeline for completion). In addition, GPL can practically translate to an automatic “No” in some organizations.

The wording of licenses also matters, which is why coming up with “cute license that is mostly well-known license but different” is a sure way to severely delay or prevent corporate adoption of your project. At this point, you should really just pick a well-known license.

Given these thorns in the side of company code, it is not at all surprising when engineers consider just coming up with some code themselves.
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From what I read it's just on their identity service which isn't actually a freeze. Also doesn't solve the problem of the other agencies charging. You really need a freeze against them all.
> Rust delivers on all these claims

No it doesn’t.

One reason is rust doesn’t have SSE/AVX/Neon intrinsics.

Without them, you can’t get anywhere near all the performance of C, nor anywhere near advertised performance of any modern CPU.
I like this site and the flat cnn site so I built this:

http://flatreader.herokuapp.com/

I would love to grab article text, and display with no images, but I'm fairly sure that violates redistribution laws.

Any ideas on features would be greatly appreciated. Cheers.
I do not know what any of that means. Googling it led to a bunch of conspiracy sites and equally incomprehensible shady semi-legal advice and advocacy sites
Amazon Created More Jobs Last Year Than 46 States
"if all you have is a hammer, sell it to the government for $3000"
How to build a serverless contact form on AWS
But it COULD be!
This has been explained: https://riseup.net/en/about-us/press/canary-statement
Fast food and obesity in developing countries
> Here there is an inexplicable conflation between “open data,” which has a long legacy in the USG and stems from decades old principles that the USG should not hold copyrights

It is explicit that the United States Government can not hold U.S. copyrights on government works, that's not a "false narrative", that is the law[0].

[0]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/105
> 05 Individuals must have the ability to shape the Internet and their own experiences on it.

Try and stop HTML5 video from autoplaying. Try walking the talk for once.
I'd like to hear about this too :)
My understanding is that it's really just one more way insurance companies try to avoid paying for hospital bills. My partner works in revenue recovery for a regional hospital and it's staggering how awful insurance companies are.

I've heard many stories where waiting for insurance authorizations would have literally cost people their lives, but the insurance has grounds to refuse payment without it, so the hospital ends up eating the entire cost of the person's care.

The system is so incredibly fucked up. Far beyond what most people think.

That being said, maternity wards are apparently the college campus of the hospital world, which is why you see so many of them being built in rich areas. They are insanely profitable.
Seems all too common lately...
How do people manage hundreds of Git repositories?
I have worked with several large companies using git as their version control system. One hosts several hundred git repositories in bitbucket stash, the other has around a hundred repositories in github.
We recently ran into an issue with joda-time where upgrading past java8u60 caused apps to fail on startup. So my team is tasked with getting all of our microservices working with the latest jdk.

What tools are there to modify and commit similar changes across 100+ repositories at once?

I have found gitwalk https://www.npmjs.com/package/gitwalk which does a subset of what I want focused on github. But google has not revealed many other tools that can do discovery and transformations across 100s of repositories.
Upon continuing to research some uses, I found this website : http://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php . It allows you to donate computing time to various scientific projects from around the world
In canada if your a canadian resident (not a tourist basically) you get healthcare. Many provinces also have a 3 month residency requirement, but some don't even have that.

On top of that, uninsured costs of healthcare are still significantly cheaper.
A choice quote.
https://i.redditmedia.com/eL7_BFQW3XfTroeyzv9KqX8CaaWStPn-xj...
Bad faith dealing, blatant disregard for the truth, misrepresentation of the law.

Sounds like Oracle to me.
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If you are the copyright holder, you can do whatever you want with the software. You don't need to obey any license since you're the counterparty for anyone accepting the license. If your premise is correct, and open source projects have become dominated by tools, libraries, etc that support a proprietary end product, it would make more sense to me that most of those tools would be released under the GNU GPL so that the original author can incorporate it into their own proprietary software but no one else can do the same and the original author gets back any improvements contributed by outside parties.
> That is obviously possible

It actually isn't in any simple fashion.

What happens if state A implements health care much better than the state next door, so everyone flocks to state A and deluges the hospitals?

Do you make so that only state residents get the 'state rate' for health care?

What about the people who are stuck in the poor, badly managed states that get left behind?
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I feel for you. My first wife suffered from much the same thing. You've pretty much described her to a "tee".

She's 54 years old now and hasn't changed much since her first "breakdown" in her early 20s. I think it's safe to say she never will. Her's was triggered by postpartum syndrome after we had a child that died shortly after birth. It was a terrible thing to witness. It happened over the course of about two weeks and got to the point where it was an obvious safety issue for our year old daughter so I had to have her "committed".

She spent time in various psyche wards in the Los Angeles area, including the County Hospital. I visited her there many times and I can attest that it was always an adventure.

She was never a threat to me or anyone else but she's committed petty crimes on occasion while living on the streets. She's bounced around between halfway houses and the streets and brief stays in psyche wards and local jails since. I left California when our daughter was 3-1/2 years old. Over the years since when she's been doing good our daughter has visited her for a few weeks at a time and got to know her and that side of her family, so for us it's not been near so hard as could have been.

Getting our daughter away from that chaos was a deliberate decision on my part. I didn't want her constantly wrapped up in that. I've helped her mother out many times over the years and never turned down her requests for help, but there's been years go by in between when we didn't hear from her and often when we did she contacted me to ask for money and didn't want to get back into any sort of program.

She has a brother who's set her with an apartment and paid all her bills and gave her a comfortable allowance over the past ten or more years and she's decided to head back to the streets and disappeared a few times still. Last we heard she was doing a short stint in jail somewhere out there.

When she's doing good she's really quite brilliant, and when she heads out to the streets she's as determined to be there as one could be and there is no stopping her.

I don't see how it would do any good to lock her up. Not her or society as a whole.

It's true, she hasn't stayed long in any public housing or program, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be there and available when she's needing it or willing to try and work at normalizing. I know for sure it's helped her many times.
Go macbook air.

For development I've always had issues with windows machines. When learning rails I tried countless tutorials on windows, would get stuck, something isn't working, spend time trouble shooting.

After a frustrating time one night I grabbed my Wife's macbook. The tutorials worked flawlessly and I accomplished so much. I always recommend using a macbook for development.

The air is more than capable for rails/laravel/python development.

Looks like your are in India, in the states you can pick up an air at best buy on sale for around $800 to $900. Check the apple refurbished site too.

You won't be sorry, you'll fall in love with the trackpad and keyboard, and they come with an SSD.

Good luck with the startup.

Sounds like you already envy others 'Shiny Macbooks' so save up for one and go for it.

My macbook air is still going strong, it's about three years old and I plan on purchasing a new MBair over going with a MBpro when it's time for a new one.
Your Vagrantfile is "super" minimal. I like it.

You can execute a Shell script when the box is first provisioned. Just add something like this:

config.vm.provision :shell, path: "provision.sh"

This might help save doing some manual steps if you have to rebuild the VM for whatever reason.
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> First, no one gives a crap about security until something like this happens to them. The incentives are not in place to require it. Time and resources spent on security are time and resources not spent on beating the competitor.

Exactly. I'm reminded about the tale about the two hikers and the bear. Two hikers are out hiking one day, when off in the distance they see a bear running their way to attack them. One starts to run, but the other stops to change his hiking boots to running shoes. The other says: "What are you doing? You can't outrun a bear!". To which the running shoe changer replies: "I don't have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun you".

Same goes here. Don't have to really spend on security, just enough to not actually be the one of the two (or three or four) who suffer a breach.
I think that marking the mail as spam sends a signal to their email provider, putting a mark on their account?
Every time I see a Stripe page I just stop and stare for a minute. They're always so, so well done.
yep, also the answer to questions asked when applying for a birth certificate from any US state, among other identity verification services provided by the credit agencies.

And this: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/10/usps-informed-delivery-i...
When I was a young child, I used to daydream about winning a Nobel. I didn't daydream about winning an Emmy or a Grammy, but I did dream of winning a Nobel. (And Formula 1 championship races, but that's not important right now.)

Do kids today daydream of getting a Nobel? Science was a Pretty Big Deal when I was young. We were just getting started with space exploration and splitting the atom was pretty new. We kids talked about the breakthroughs we would make, when we weren't seriously considering our future career as baseball stars and how we'd enjoy our flying cars and robots.

My kids are all grown, so I can't really ask them what little kids daydream of. The kids my daughter interacts with are probably a bit too preoccupied to think about winning a Nobel.
"The backend is done with... there's no backend! The data is directly on The Blockchain, fetched from the browser through a standard-ish API (Web3) provided by your wallet or a gateway."

Not stating this to be obnoxious, but to be clear - there is a back end for the web page that calls the data from the blockchain ... if (whoever) stops hosting that site or DNS is halted or the domain expires ...
I started out with that in mind when I was initially working on some PySpark code. It fell completely apart the moment I had to include boto3 libraries. In fact, I'd hold boto3 as the pinnacle example of searingly awful garbage that languages like Python promote. Completely impossible to do even the slightest static analysis of a library that's 100% dynamically generated at runtime.

The worst part is that versions of the API for other languages are fine. It's just the Python one they decided to go all "clever junior developer" on.
These guys seem to be able to connect across video and messaging platforms. In the age where everyone is trying to be WeChat and connect billions, the pipes underneath that would be a downright bargain at $1B.
You need to collect date of birth for COPPA compliance
Hmmmm.

Red Hat's marketshare (and stock price) have risen steadily forever.

Microsoft just gave up and open sourced .NET.

Open Source stacks run everything.

Kubernetes is running rampant.

I don't think OSS is declining rapidly. I'm pretty sure it's winning.
Equifax Breach Caused by Lone Employee’s Error, Former CEO Says
It is tragic when people die in terrorist attack.

But throwing personal liberties out of the window is akin to admitting that terror achieves its objectives and can bring radical changes to the society.
It's a bit funny that meritocracy has such generally positive connotations today, even though the term was first used and then mercilessly satirized in The Rise of the Meritocracy [1].

When different people want different things, who do we decide who is in charge? Should it be based on family and birth, like monarchy and aristocracy? Should it be based on who can seize power by force? What about ethnic and national identity? Or should we have a competitive testing system and metrics that select out an elite? Or maybe we should all vote on a person?

Or why even have a person at all who's in a charge? Maybe we should all collectively vote for every decision without any intermediaries? Or maybe we just give an equal portion of resources to every person, and let them individually decide what to do with it.

None of these systems are perfect. They all have deficiencies and can be gamed one way or another. Question is which one is the best for the particular situation.

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