skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose we'll see in the relatively near future. China is setting themselves up to completely dominate solar in the future. Not only by investing and developing heavily in their own country but also having the prescience to start doing things like buying up cobalt resources throughout the world -- perhaps inspired by the success of the petro dollar.

But their development for now is mostly just one of taking something, refining it, and producing at scale. If they intend to go the whole 9 yards with solar they're going to need to come up with innovative deployment and load balancing solutions that will be first in the world. Similarly with things like electric vehicles, which they're also investing heavily in. Will they simply have the equivalent of 'electric gas stations' everywhere or actually take things to the next level with ideas like wireless as-you-drive charging? And they're also pursuing automation in their factories as wages rise. That in turn will lead to interesting technological, and social, problems. And they've also put forth interest in working on completely revolutionary projects, such as a permanent manned moon base.

So I suppose this will be answered in the near future. For now I just don't see any reason to expect them to suddenly fumble. I think you're dramatically underestimating the difficulty of what they're achieving. Like I mentioned in the first post, if their 'secret' was just "espionage, slavery, education" then it makes one wonder why all developing nations (most of which pay far lower wages that China) aren't on their way to becoming a technologically advanced industrial civilizations.
[apparently my opinion is unwanted]
Maveron’s Anarghya Vardhana on B2C Investing
Is that so?

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM

He's not as bad as previous popes, but there is still a long way to go before I'll call him modern and besides that the selection process pretty much guarantees that only the most cynical or the most delusional person would rise to the position of pontiff to begin with. The arrogance involved in this whole business is staggering, but when looked at through the 'who benefits' lens it suddenly makes a whole lot more sense.

The Church is simply a man made power structure, carefully constructed to allow a bunch of men to wield maximum power in the world while escaping culpability in almost every sense.
What should one use then?
Depends what you mean by production ready. Sure thing, $192M is not a billion dollar business.
Putting up work crews in cheap motels is not uncommon.

You generally have to do it a lot before the hotel will be willing to consider the kind of bulk discounts that make it profitable.
Everyone switched to SSDs ;)
I couldn't do it. I've ridden my road bike for about 2 hours at a time at various points in life (outside of just commuting daily) and I just get bored out of my mind. I get bored biking to and from work. I take routes with a lot more traffic now because it keeps me more mentally engaged with not getting killed and I find myself less focused on the physical discomfort.
An objective look at freelancing
> Tools like Docker make me wonder if they’re an excuse to avoid learning how to do ops or how to use your distribution’s package manager.

When you need to maintain a linux distro toolchain for you product, Docker is a godsend. Don't downplay or ridicule Docker. It is incredibly useful for buildserver architecture.
I would say it depends on your task, if pre-trained ones performs better, you use pre-trained ones, otherwise you let the model learns the embedding itself.
The vast majority of people find XSLT to be an unreadable mess - and for any non-trivial project that requires collaboration, just because it's possible for one person to like it doesn't make it a good choice.

If most people agree a representation is terrible, it's a bad choice for anything serious, because suddenly only a subset of your team or contributors can work on it effectively.

There is a reason XML isn't used as syntax for programming languages. Anyone claiming that an `if` construct, for example, is well represented by a mess of XML tags has a different brain to me and the vast majority of people I've met.

XSLT was meant to be a general-purpose tool. Having a syntax that the vast majority of people find incredibly hard to work with is clearly a huge problem with the spec.
As Cities Woo Amazon to Build Second Headquarters, Incentives Are Key
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Thats a really limited view to take. Braga when he had limits was a great talent. He did write some really great episodes, but he also gave us some of the worst trek in the history of the franchise.
I found it slow. Also, just remembering this now but I came in to work one morning only to be questioned as to why I was downloading GBs of data while I was out of the office. I guess Dash was refreshing the local copy of all the docs every night. Uninstalled it right away.
Netlify. I used to use GitHub Pages + Cloudflare (for SSL on custom domains), but deploy previews made me try out Netlify, and I've had a fantastic experience with it.
I agree that these studies need to use the area's whole population to be complete.

They should give these a try in a more insular area, like a big town the middle of nowhere in Wyoming, for these studies. They would have a more isolated economy.
Techmeme summary: https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-has-honed-its-site-hunti...
How CV-driven development shapes our industry
One great alternative to running are team sports like soccer or basketball. You can get cardiovascular excercise similar to HIIT training, while also having fun. The downside being that injuries can happen more often than during jogging.
Could you point to a definition of "application" that has the word "team" in it?
What's better than an airgap... a moat.
Yes, but with depression the subtypes are recognized by medicine. For example, it short allele[1] is a recognized cause of depression, as is loss triggered depression[2]. And there is fruitfull research on the subtypes. When I am feeling paranoid and cynical, I go as far as to think that the reason for not having split up the autistic spectrum, as has been done with depression, long ago is that there is a lot of funding ear marked specifically for "autism" which would go away if you started actually breaking out the real causes.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15877307
[2] https://www.mentalhelp.net/blogs/the-difference-between-grie...
Insects Conquered a Watery Realm with Just Two New Genes
The UK no longer has a national public library system
I did when I was younger and my theory is that one of the reasons some people have trouble with endurance exercise is the same reason they can't do yoga or meditation. It's just too much time alone with your own thoughts and it's scary for some people.

I'm not convinced that it's the actual running that's predominantly responsible for the neurogenisis (although we know that exercise causes an uptick in HGH so it's plausible). It may just be that much time with nothing else to do but think. Essentially it's walking meditation.
Not as pretty as DevDocs, but https://rdrr.io covers the R ecosystem.

(I'm the author.)
It's kind of what I like about them. Now quiz time. Who's heard of JTF2?
I feel like the author went to the effort of writing what I was too lazy to.

I don't want to donate to WMF simply because I don't want to confuse their metrics into believing this current campaign is working. I've donated before, I'll donate again, but this round has been so disgustingly crass, that I want nothing to do with it.
> But with how fast CPUs are these days it's usually not important for a long time.

That’s a very naive statement to make.
Every single technological advancement relieves someone of work. This allows people to put their money towards things that they would rather put money towards, creating more jobs there. This makes the world a better place.
To add to this (and to refute a specific example brought up in the blog post): "learning ops" is not a way to reduce the complexity of software deployment. In fact, Docker exists specifically to solve that exact problem -- in net, it reduces the complexity and challenges of deployment in distributed systems.

Some complexity is unavoidable due to a project's scope and requirements -- introducing new complexities can oftentimes reduce the overall complexity of the system.
If you compare: Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Google (Alphabet), and Microsoft on the one hand to JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, and Goldman Sachs on the other, the tech companies have 2.6 times the market cap, 1.6 times the revenue, 1.1 times the net income available to common (a measure of profit) and .7 times the domestic work force.

I wouldn't say they are small compared to Wall Street.
Also there is https://github.com/extr0py/oni, an editor also based on Electron
Paywall, but I'm going to go ahead and assume the real answer is that some drug company will get monopoly rights to sell it, and has outlined an effective strategy to get it overprescribed at the expense of US taxpayers. That's how it became a 'breakthrough therapy'

edit: I'm not saying it's bad to treat MDMA as a useful therapy. I'm just saying what force was at play to change the cultural opinion.
> Makefiles and/or bash scripts are not written in javascript

Why should you rewrite all that stuff every time there's a new fashion out there?

By the same token, a rewrite would have been required when Perl was all the rage, or Python.

> The dense syntax of command line tool options is intimidating

Anything you don't understand very well can be intimidating.
Andrew Gelman (of NYU), who is featured in the story and is criticized by Cuddy as being unfair and trollish, wrote a response:

http://andrewgelman.com/2017/10/18/beyond-power-pose-using-r...

I thought that Gelman wasn't presented in the best of light, especially his awkward quotes about not wanting to engage in "interpersonal conflict". But he called the piece "excellent and fair to all sides" and was pretty gracious in response to Cuddy's criticisms and how the NYT portrayed him. I honestly wasn't a huge fan of the article but re-reading it after a bit of sleep, and knowing that Gelman thought it was strong, I appreciated the issues it brought up. Certainly has to be one of the longest stories about p-hacking/p-curves in mainstream media.

I sympathize with Cuddy and have no doubt that among the legit attention that Gelman and other critics have directed toward her, she's faced hatemail sparked by dumb sexism, which makes it easier to tar the legitimate criticism as being sexist.

I do think Cuddy needs to face legitimate criticism. She may not have been a malicious fraudster, but ignoring criticism after a long time is not much different than actively being deceptive. I also can believe that she faces hostile criticism that isn't equally distributed among all the other researchers who used weak, but previously acceptable standards. And I don't think sexism can be dismissed outright, if people find it safer to talk shit to a woman compared to a man.

What I wish the story had more of was how scientific criticism is done outside of Gelman's blog. Gelman is the main scientist/research I follow on the topic. Apparently some see his snarky critique as toxic, and Gelman says he is intending to reevaluate the way he writes about things so that his point doesn't get lost in cheap jokes. How do other blogs do it? I'm somewhat sympathetic to Gelman because I perceive that there is significant institutional resistance (and few incentives) to re-examine and correct a peer review study, and being harsh/edgy/rude and beating the drum over time might be the only way to get scientists to care? But that doesn't mean his critique can't be refined for the benefit of his mission.
Heyo, I was part of the team that worked to make this a requirement for federal agencies. Happy to answer any questions.
It's a fair bit easier to setup than Cassandra and a document store is simply easier for most people to reason about than column-families.

For something like your typical rails app, Mongo has some real nice properties. It makes it sticky. You start out with Mongo because you can just drop data in and off you go. You keep using it because Mongo, despite all of its drawbacks, is really plenty good enough for more than 80% of the stuff on the web.
Great. Let's keep this place technical. How is "sexism in SV" of any interest to a global tech-focused community?
At my (admittedly tiny) place of work, we use it in production for literally everything alongside redis. It gets the job done. Not my favorite. I'd rather be using PostgreSQL since our data is 100% relational. But though some wicked twist of fate, I'm the only one who can use SQL dbs, and the Sr. devs like mongodb.
Will this support BBCode or will it have to be some sort of plugin?
> clueless software engineers

Will it really software engineers who get to decide what is built and get to try out their theories? I would think that it's some sort of product manager who makes these decisions (who I would actually expect to consult the customers and other stakeholders). Don't know if Google has a different hierarchy in terms of decision making than I expect though.
Maybe they haven't noticed? I've seen databases fail in ways that take a long time to detect on accident, if you don't have a source of truth to sanity check against.
On iOS this has been changed to “when the app is open” for months.
How many people will engage in real personal development, and how many people will just spend more time on Netflix and Facebook?
I haven't played this game myself, but from the description I suspect that "passes the word to someone else" should have been "comes up with and passes a different word to someone else". You end up with a stack of words where no two adjacent words are the same. Players might also try to avoid adding non-adjacent duplicate words to the stack.

Eventually, someone decides it's time to start popping backward through the stack. They respond with the same word that they were just passed and the group tries to remember the right words to continue popping back down the stack, one person and word at a time. This gets harder "near the bottom" of the stack because it's been longer since those words were spoken.
"Firearm are killing Americans, but Nobody's counting"
> Exxon did not say to the President: 'build suburbs because it's good for cars'.

Yes he did. A few examples of what oil/car folks did: dismantle public transit, make sure negative externalities of cars are not directly paid, lobby congress to pay for 90% of highways and make transit funding less/harder to get, get into wars for oil, take over planning departments at highly regarded colleges and change curriculum to churn out car focused planners.
I'm pretty sure at least a few people genuinely wanted to. they ended up being pretty happy as they ended up working at our company for many years.

I have no idea how long you've been working, but for myself, my wants and desires have changed pretty significantly over the years. Plenty of people (not just in technology) want change in their career, and are more than willing to trade off the freedom of running your own business with the freedom of being an employee, and not having to worry about the 10 zillion things you have to worry about when you're running the show.

I've also hired plenty of technologists that had similar experiences with management. Do anything long enough, and the grass on the other side starts to look a whole lot greener.
The use-case is in the opposite direction: when I only have my phone, I have my entire computer with me - including the storage and the files and keys and so on.

No syncing required. You only have a single computer. That's a big win, I think ...
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Apart from the smugness, I hope you realize that technology != success. It doesn't matter that I can replicate Tinder with a few weeks of coding.

In fact, the two are often inversely correlated because engineers can be so worried about what technology, what stack, what language, instead of worrying about the real deal: getting the users.
That was one helluva story - thank you for posting it!

I have to say - outside of the obvious judicial system problems - the whole ordeal ultimately led Juan to completely change his life, in ways he probably never imagined. I'm sure he would like it had the whole "jail time" aspect of the ordeal could be deleted, but without it, he never would have ended up where he is now with his education and potential future career or business prospects.

It's one of those crazy things about life, which we rarely and truly appreciate, that oftentimes even the bleakest moments within our lives can sometimes prove to be great turning points toward better future things (of course, there's "survivorship bias" also playing into that - for many, tragedy has begotten tragedy; perhaps also leading to the whole "misfortune visits 3 times" trope).
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Wow. I can't imagine that happening. Something that so many people take for granted, but the protections that cover what books you check out would be terrible to lose.
Lol. I don't know if you clicked the username, but it's appropriate: https://bitbucket.org/sgaron-cse/
Probably. Probably unavoidable. I think I'd rather have Google doing it than Exxon. I'm excited to see how this pans out!
I agree, but technical advancements can also lead to a transfer of wealth from worker to capital owner. For example, there are roughly two million long-haul truck drivers in the US today. When we have self-driving trucks, they will lose their jobs. It's not a very fun job, and self-driving trucks will be better and safer. But it will also transfer wealth from the worker to the capital owner.

It may also create other jobs etc., but clearly the wealth transfer is one part of the effect. I think that as a result it is important to pursue social policies to mitigate the disruption experienced by displaced workers, and to spread the benefit of the technology to a larger fraction of society.
I always feel uncomfortable when researchers miss the creed ”Correlation does not imply causation”. Media jump every time - but that’s their job. In this case it is a really vague study based entirely on subjective measures and the researchers don’t pause for a moment to consider causation in subjects response to visual stimuli. There are so many shortcomings to this, mostly from the press. What is reported in the news regarding the “cure” for dyslexia is base on what 1 of the 30 subjects in the study says. I am not a believer, but I encourage more research on Dyslexia. At least the experiments in this study seem easily reproducible although I don’t expect repetitions will shed much light on the cause or cure of the condition.
Yes, for now the lazy convenience of being able to use GitHub directly as my "CMS" makes it worth the hassle to work with Jekyll and Ruby in WSL for those rare times when I need to do larger changes and make sure that I preview them locally.
I don't live near bears or potential predators, just surrounded by forrests.

Once I decided to jog longer than usual, and got 10km away from home. At one point I stopped. And something striked me. I was "far from home", in a place where nothing was known, predictable, slightly confusing; just slightly, the trees were spaced enough so I could see far, but not sure if that's a person or a tree in the distance.

I didn't feel fear, but clearly something in my brain became alert, just slightly alert, without even trying to focus or think harder. I was surprised that this mode was here and I never experienced it before. Got me very curious about nomadic life. Previous generations gradually removed this randomness from our lives so we could be comfy and fear less. But it also gave me a rush of sensory inputs, that compared to the pleasure oriented cities, felt very good.
You can already buy an insurance plan that will pay for it in some states, and that's reasonably priced. In my case religious family members would never let it go down though even if the finances were solved.
>When I look at a tool like Gulp, I wonder if its success is largely attributable to people not bothering to learn how Makefiles work

I have. And then I learned that I also need autoconf/automake/m4 (which the author is not mentioning). So there is complexity already out there (even for makefiles)

>server applications ship entire operating systems in glorified chroots;

If this is about Docker, I don't think that the author truly knows how Docker works.
Well, at least it sounds like the opposite problem that the Bay Area has! And yet the real estate in Toronto is just as expensive?
If only this were a website for technical people...
100% agree. I hated it. It was expensive, stressful, and unrewarding.

My loans won't be paid off until I'm in my mid 40s. I feel like a sucker who fell for a scam. It's objectively the biggest mistake I ever made.

I'm sure my perspective will be soundly dismissed on HN. I'm sure I must have done college "wrong" or something. Whatever. I'm not trying to blame anyone else. My choices seemed like good ones at the time; these things are only clear in retrospect.
Can someone explain a few practical reasons why someone would want to build their own. Other than to learn or to do an ICO
Pricing is hard, but yes, I think they did price this one a little too low.

That said, the goal is for shares to have a nice upward pop when they hit the open market.

This helps encourage a broader based of shareholders, protecting against the case where a big shareholder decides to dump all of their shares.

This also helps in the case where the company comes out with bad news in the near future. Shareholders who make money are less likely to sue.
Boring and painful. Seems about right.

Boring, because you frequently have to do something in addition to exercising to make the time spent exercising interesting. See the myriad of sibling comments.

Painful, because my exercise as a youth (competitive swimming) badly damaged most of my major joints, making anything but the lightest of impact workouts painful (which leads, sadly, back to point 1).
A Letter to Future CircleCI Employees
> perfecting the user interface

Frankly haven't noticed any difference in UI.

> and positioning the product correctly (i.e. text messaging instead of instant messaging).

Basically framing & marketing. Yes, that's important. But not exactly a technological innovation, rather finding a right set of words to convince the users to use existing technology.

> dismissing Dropbox’s legitimate innovation because rsync already existed.

There are substantial differences between what rsync did and what Dropbox did, especially in the area of storage and automation. rsync is just a tool to get bytes from point A to point B, Dropbox solves the end-user problem. Whatsapp doesn't add much to solutions that already existed - besides using phone number as ID instead of email, there's nothing different in UI or capabilities or solutions of this service that hadn't existed for decades before.

Uber and Lyft give me things I couldn't do before - i.e., get transportation cheap on 5-minutes notice. Whatsapp just rehashes what already existed for decades with a new label on the box. It was a successful label, good for them, but that is not what we talk about when we talk about innovations, usually.
They don't have to be.

They can spy on Americans, the NSA can spy on Canadians, and the two governments can freely share information between eachother. (Because it's not information about their own citizens.) Canada is one of the five eyes, after all.
Okay, maybe that's not YOUR definition of innovation.

I personally like this one:

http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/innovation.html
No disagreement on any of that. I don't want to scare people off with inflammatory suggestions (which is why I suggest aboveground activism rather than taking up pipeline sabotage, but I am absolutely for paradigmatic change despite the inevitability of violent opposition.