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Cheap capital searches for a return. Venture funds pump up valuations of privately held companies to show mark to market valuations (paper returns) increasing. Allows funds to show good IRR without actually returning capital to LP’s. Allows funds to raise more capital for new funds based on prior performance.

It’s basically an unsustainable financial mess that will collapse.

Not that big of a bubble though compared with the student loan fiasco no one is really talking about these days.
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..and oppression!

(look -- they hell-bannned me :))
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This is basically the exact opposite of the Repugnant Conclusion, which states that many poor lives is better than fewer happy lives. This ran on HN within the last year.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/repugnant-conclusion/
Since you are in San Francisco, I would recommend going to meetups as a place to meet other coders with similar interests. Employment in a workplace with coders is also a possible option. Or taking some classes.

Good luck.
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A year ago I was camped by a lake on the US/Canada border. A large otter popped up not ten feet away and casually cleaned its fur, dropped down to grab something to munch on from the lake bottom. Obviously, it's a less intimidating encounter - but I had a similar thought at the time: people don't see large and/or rare animals outside of zoos. That has to affect the appreciation of natural spaces and the public's desire to preserve the ability of complex systems of wildlife to live within them.
I have been using http://www.languagetransfer.org to learn Spanish, and it is the best language system, aside from total immersion, I have ever used (I speak five language with varying degrees of fluency).

It is a series of audio files, typically about 10 minutes each, and all you do is listen to them, answering questions when the instructor asks.

German, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Swahili, Spanish, and others. It's a labour of love by Mihalis, who asks for donations but otherwise does it all for free!

I haven't tried Chatterbug, but I am completely sold on Language Transfer, because it sidesteps the rote memorization that so many other systems use.
There's strong landlord-tenant laws in most parts of the United States that make renting to a stranger a risky venture. You can't just show up and move all their stuff to the curb and change the locks if your tenant stops paying rent - you have to go through a court process which can take a while. Landlords are looking for tenants who are likely to pay rent, it makes sense they want to rent to people who actually have the means to pay rent. We are in the age of Big Data where background information is widely available for a small fee, it makes sense they want to get as much information as possible on prospective tenants.

I've never rented where I wasn't required to pay first month's rent and a security deposit as well.

Though it would have to be an insanely hot market for this practice to work - vacancy is extremely expensive for a landlord and the margins on being a landlord are fairly low (despite what the guy giving the "I'll teach you to be rich" presentation at the Holiday Inn will tell you). In fact, I've heard of landlords keeping rents to long term tenants a bit under market price just to keep them, I rented for six years without a single rent increase.
This ends up being a debate about word choice, and I normally hate that. But there is good reason to distinguish the two carefully, and the easiest way to do that is word choice.

I cannot, by definition, censor someone. I can ban them from my systems, kick them out of my home, refuse to listen to them and tell all my friends to ignore them, but I can't censor them, because I do not have the power of the state behind my decision. The difference is I can do all of those things, but nobody else needs to put up with my antics. If Dang banned you, you can still talk on thousands of other places.

I absolutely agree with you that this argument is used to shut down discussions, but that doesn't mean the distinction isn't important. Just listen to all the dishonest, deceptive bullshit we hear from politicians defending themselves by whining about the First Amendment when criticized, as if their right to speech is a right to be free from criticism. The problem being, of course, that people who don't necessarily know better fall for it and suddenly believe false things about how free speech works.
I'll be damned! It really is a Mainah convention.

I have like a dozen Moxie shirts. Man, the poor village people had to put up with me moving in. I used to drink - a lot.

But, we've come to grips with each other. It was so different than I'd expected. I do love it here. It's home. It's the only hometown I've ever had.

And it is awesome. The people crack me up. I've even got the accent figured out.
Here's a new JS framework that's exactly like Vue, but with much less functionality, making it faster to learn.
$100K,but still that's pretty high if they promise of fulfilled.

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>I think it's possible to do the same thing for modern webdev. Arc's goal was to be a reliable foundation for building webapps. It comes with a user+admin system out of the box, for example. Every Arc app does.

Forums written in other languages do as well - and any decent framework can just include user management as a dependency. To me it doesn't seem like an unqualified good idea for Arc to bake all of that into the language or the default app.
I have to say I don't really understand the point of these projects. Faced with the problem of generating a static part for my website, I just used Django to "print" the static part. I'm not saying you need to use Django (although in my case it has clear advantages, namely that you write everything using a single tool), but.... left pad, anyone?
Quick note on the welcome page of browserless.io: "then browserless if for you" should read "then browserless is for you".
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Huge flame wars get a lot of upvotes and lots of comments -- but it's essentially the forum equivalent of candy. If you want your forum to have some nutritional value than you can't let the candy topics run rampant no matter how much people seem to want them.
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This seems like a very different end result than what was desired. All your in-flight app and system state is still unique to each machine you connect to.

Maintaining disk consistency would also be a nightmare as each machine is unaware that it’s sharing the physical disk with other machines and they’re all clobbering each other with conflicting writes. You “boot” on machine A and suddenly all the files it was reading/writing have changed unexpectedly.
This ignores a basic truth of evolution. You think you can "choose" against children, for the environment. But that is not allowed.

If you take that choice, long term, it'll simply result in others, presumably less ecologically conscious, doing it for you.

Furthermore, one can easily argue that fluctuating numbers of animals is far worse than just large numbers of them. Animals will adapt to having larger numbers (by, for instance, shrinking their bodies). Fluctuating numbers, well, read the history of environmental protection at Yellowstone park for instance to hear what can happen.
What's a typical going rate for a speech partner?
So, you've decided that one organization's private constraints are important and another's aren't.
> This argument is touted around a lot to justify censorship by private parties. Don't be misled - it is censorship

It's not about justifications, it's about prerogatives.

> There are plenty of things which are both legal and immoral.

Despite what you seem to be implying, the operators of a privately run forum have no moral obligation to let anyone speak, regardless of how that might impact the quality of discussion in the community. It is totally fair for participants to criticize the moderation efforts, but just because the site is high profile doesn't mean that the moderators are any more morally obligated to permit comment than you are morally obligated to amend your fine article with my commentary.
I can't wait to have two 200mb apps on my phone fulfilling the same need instead of one!
Watson lets you search your own corpus. Google search searches the web.

Google's system does a great job on the web as a whole, but their "search appliance" and "site search" products are not as good as their web search and certainly not best of breed.
And we've already seen them collaborate to suppress wages through cartel-behavior. Anti-trust regulators seem to have a limited view on what necessitates punitive measures or even trust-busting.
I think they'll probably stick to LTS. There's no 17.04 for WSL AFAIK, so I doubt there'd be a 17.10.
They also have a chrome extension. Devdocs.io is awesome.
I read the article once, and didn't find it interesting. The TL;DR that was apparent to me was "existence is pain".

I read the article again, this time in Mr. Meeseeks' voice. It was substantially improved.
I have 2 blogs, both on WordPress. My web development blog is on a DO droplet and uses the Roots stack, Trellis, Bedrock and Sage. https://roots.io

I've done a lot of WordPress development, custom themes mostly. I can't always use Bedrock and Trellis due to hosting constraints, but I would never choose anything other than Sage for a theme development project.

The Roots projects have always been ahead of the curve as far as WordPress development goes. Whether it's things as simple as name spacing, or actually taking advantage of PHP 7 features, to using Composer to manage dependencies, gulp to automate build processes, Ansible for automated provisioning and deployment....

I could go on and on, but I'm loyal to these tools because they've consistently pushed me to learn new things. I also enjoy the workflow.

My personal blog is hosted by Automattic, on WordPress.com, strictly out of convenience.

I'm looking around at other options however. I've thinking it might be time for me to move on from WordPress. Partly from the Roots stuff constantly driving my curiosity, and partly from being unhappy with the direction the WordPress project as a whole is taking.

I've been looking specifically at Ghost, Craft, various flat file solutions, and have even been considering taking a crack at building my own blog with Python. (Python because I've been learning it and have really been enjoying it)
This would be more like...if Trump ran Breitbart for a decade, and Breitbart had a following consisting of most of the US population and could easily be used to sway huge portions of the electorate because you spent the last decade figuring out how to manipulate your viewers.

Probably a better example is if the GOP owned a private intelligence firm that had data on every citizen and could manipulate what they saw/read/said
The concern is not pissing people off, exactly. It's crying wolf until the relevant people stop listening. It's drowning out the voices of those who really did spend three decades studying the problem in order to come up with the right answer.

See how almost everyone's reply to the original post has a different recommendation? If they all worked hard to make those things happen, there would be a symphony of screams and no consensus and effective action. It's possible the right answer isn't even in there. It's possible the right answer even is, "Oops, wasn't a problem." When you act in uncertainty you make things worse.

Yes, getting the right answer is hard. It may take a good chunk of a lifetime. If you really want to change the world for the better, though, it's not a step you can skip. Saving the world over lunch while you're young is a fantasy.
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Terrible title. Tinder isn't the cause, it's just a medium, and we're all acting like cave people in every aspect of life if you follow the logic "evolutionary instincts=cave people"
Well, all top engines did some kind of search on parameters, not sure if you can find much improvement there.

I'm talking about something similar to the described in the paper, 100% self-learned solution without using human heuristics, based on NNs. That could bring a totally new ideas into chess.
We are riding a bubble. A couple years ago, people were talking about an Internet/High-tech bubble. It was just the ignition. Now, we are even going crazier but this is becoming the "norm", so pretty good ground for things to go super-crazy-high from here.

Nasdaq Top 2000: 5,000

Nasdaq Top pre-2008: 2,804

Nasdaq Bottom (2008-crisis): 1,293

Nasdaq ATH: 6,624 (just a couple days ago)

That, or the dollar is going through hyper-inflation. And I'm pretty certain this time will not be different (though from a volatility perspective, maybe)
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And what proof is there of genocide? No one has verified most of the 'reports' coming out of Myanmar. Not like these things haven't been exaggerated or outright faked before....
That is curation. Censorship is the editor telling a writer they can't trash rap music. HN does both.
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Another poor quality article with little research. It started with big tech companies are bad and followed that with some reasons. Lot of start-up don't succeed because they are not innovative and lack vision. The ones that did add value are doing well likes of uber, Netflix, airbnb, slack. In fact, if the author expands his world view a bit more and looks across the globe than he will find many more such examples. Even within the big five there is significant amount of competition and currently it is good for customers. This article is just crying wolf without offering any substantial reasons. Big companies buying of smaller competitors isn't some cunning move neither it is something new. This happened all the time even earlier. In fact the rise of cloud services has reduced the entry barrier for tech companies significantly by reducing upfront capital costs. Imagine if before starting a factory you first had to build a coal powered electric plant, not many would venture i guess. The argument about snapchat paying google for cloud services is just absurd. It would be costlier for snap to build this on their own.
Just FYI, when you post content like that, it is completely unreadable.
It’s probably solvable with enough resources. I don’t honestly know why anyone would fund this, though. The “let me plug my phone into random machines” crowd is pretty small. People who want roaming state are probably better served in general by cloud apps, which don’t require that the user carry a dedicated device to boot with.
There has been a lot of work looking at this issue inside of Google. One of the natural outcomes of trying to schedule a bunch of different 'types' of services on CPU and maximize utilization, is to look at each subsystem (memory, network, disk i/o) and work on ways of partitioning them. Of course if they can block everything (like disk i/o can) then you need to take extra precautions.

co-processes using the same spindle (physical disk drive, even if they aren't on the same partition) can easily become priority inverted if the low priority process is doing a lot of disk i/o.
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The inflation from QE has already happened at the highest corporate levels. A billion is the new million so to say. Wait till it catches up with Main St.
You sound like engine developers just produce those abstractions out of thin air and they work perfectly out of the box. They need to work on them and waste their time on duplicating efforts. Bugs that plague Unreal Engine for instance demonstrate how far from trivial this is.
so basically church hijacked justice system as a propaganda vehicle allowing to show off god-in-action - with impressive "miracles" for the "innocents" and with god-blessed-and-willed torture for the "guilty".
I guess you can write "Over [some reasonable number]" on your application and not be lying.
"Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor, if you didn’t know."

Let me just say thank you very much for adding this sentence :)

I feel like 50% of headlines on HN are written like "New version of qx58g" and somehow none of the headline, the comments, or the linked article will give any indication what qx58g is.
The fact of the matter is that we don't know a lot about how our ancient ancestors behaved—what they ate is on the firmest footing, but most of the evidence there is based on residues found on the teeth of skeletons. Just about the only thing we can firmly say about how our ancestors chose mates is that, at some point circa 50,000 years ago, some mated with Neanderthals.

There's long history of people speculating about our early ancestors, and the consistency with which they reflect the biases of the era in which the speculation is done, rather than being based on strong empirical evidence (which, I'll grant, is really hard to come by) makes me deeply skeptical of the whole endeavor.
The Website Meta Language has been around since 1996: http://thewml.org/. I used it to generate content years ago before more modern tools came out.
Do you have an example of catalogue/journal that you would want to do? Gutenberg can do blogs but I originally built it for any kind of content: landing page, landing page + knowledge base, landing page + blog etc so it should work in theory.

However, if your data is coming from an API/database something like Gatsby (https://www.gatsbyjs.org) would be better.
You will notice that I did not comment on the quality of NYTimes' articles. And it was a convenient example as it is an easy one to spot (at this moment there are 2 articles from NYTimes on HN front page).

The question stands: should cross promotion deals be disclosed?
I'd love to see more tools go into the space of learning what I consider to be the farthest thing from English. That's like Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc. There's a lot more that goes into learning these languages due to differences in pronunciation, characters, and sentence structure.

I know the demand is often placed on the romance and germanic languages, but they're often easy enough. You can usually bring along your own character set, which dramatically eases the transition into something new.
I've personally found HN to be a lot more censorious than the subreddits I frequent. I really don't like the diverse fuckery the HN board software uses as "anti-spam" measures, like account creation IP bans ("Account creation temporarily disabled"), slowbans, hellbans and defacto bans that discard the content of your post and pretend to be temporary ("Too fast").
Morals are relative. I consider it a moral obligation - you may feel differently. Both are valid.
I flag almost every single one of those stories, because they stopped covering new ground after about the first day or two. I can't be the only one, maybe the users are deciding?

Outside of flagging, behavior within the post itself (lots of comments?) probably penalize them. Really, really good stuff makes the frontpage, though. The issues at Uber, for example, were widely discussed.
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This was my first thought, as well. I use Dash several times a day. It has been indispensable for me.

There are a few main things that will probably keep me on Dash, for the time being. In no particular order:

1. Global shortcut - Being able to quickly show-search-hide from anywhere is extremely useful for me. I can quickly refresh myself on the syntax of an uncommon function. The faster I can do that, the less likely I am to break my flow.

2. Support for random/obscure projects - On top of community-added docs, Dash lets you point it at any random GitHub project and it will pull down the README. This has come in handy plenty of times for me when using small tools and components. Sure, it's not as nice as full documentation, but it's nice having that README searchable in the same place and offline (see reason #1).

3. Docsets - Dash lets you define groups of frameworks (etc.) and name them. You can even specify which version of a framework to use in the docset. This allows me to tailor my results to a particular stack, depending on which project I'm currently working on.

EDIT: I should read :)
Which evolutionary theory maintains that women naturally seek intelligence? And I don't know what Tinder results they were looking at, but for every "must keep up with me intellectually" I saw, there were about 50 "must be 6'4" (i like to wear heels)" comments.
Windows Live Messenger, just as a random example, had apps for J2ME, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and later iOS, besides the desktop.

Is "mobile first" an euphemism for "doesn't have a native desktop client"?
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>"The harsh and angry negativity of some comments in this thread is difficult to understand. As others have pointed out, and as should go without saying, this is a private site with whichever ruleset its owners choose to impose, take it or leave it."

I find this comment difficult to understand. The success and value of a site like HN largely depends on a community who submits stories and engages in discussion about those stories.

Stating "This is a private site" and "take it or leave it" is not only unnecessarily dismissive but its a false dichotomy. Liking something and wanting to see it improve are not mutually exclusive.
The discussion on the Ruby core team issue tracker is also very informative: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14009
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World is an unfair place.
So, you are not much of a fan of Samuel Clemens then.

His advice of - "Never let your schooling get in the way of your education." - is worth keeping in mind.
> dude turn up to random classes! nobody will notice. The chicks doing psychology are amazing.
> I've lately just taken to buying stupid cheap laptops from chinese manufacturers. That way if they go belly-up I'm not out more than a few hundred dollars.

If size and weight is not a big problem you can just buy a bunch of old Lenovo T410/T420/T510/T520 from Craigslist/ebay. They are fully serviceable and you can replace all the parts on your own
One of the reasons I call out voting manipulation is that people do it on HN unintentionally, mostly due to Product Hunt normalizing it. (atleast people aren’t taking out Twitter ads advertising HN submissions)
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CSE is comparable to America's NSA in general function and scope. While CSIS does intelligence work with computers and hires a lot of programmers and analysts, CSE is traditionally the more technologically-focused of the two. You also hear significantly less about it than even CSIS.

They're good at their jobs.

edit: Spelling. They changed it from CSEC to CSE
Firefox, because I like it as a browser. Plus its Javascript error messages are often more illuminating than Chrome's.

Also, cross-browser compatibility is important to me, and I figure all my colleagues test stuff in Chrome and will complain about stuff that doesn't work there. I can't tell you how many Firefox-specific bugs I've found in our site.

The tough part is finding someone who will regularly check stuff out in IE or Edge, if you don't want to be spinning VMs up and down all day every day.
I think that makes sense. But how much is too much? Say you have a very high post volume on one side of an issue, so you start moderating more heavily. Do you allow posts through representing the other side? Is that "fair"?
Many of us seek to avoid controversy by hiding in technical details. These controversies are mind numbing because all answers are blatantly obvious and there is nothing to compute; merely humans being awful humans.