skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That parallels my experiences. I got tired really early on with projects that ground to a halt because of brittleness and a lot of my focus is on building skill and confidence so that version 3 is no harder to ship than version 2 was. Every team I’ve left on good terms was more effective when I left than when I got there. The ones that fought me the whole way frustrate me and it shows.
This somewhat makes sense if you use HN primarily and exclusively as an aggregator. I, and I'm sure many others, also make very heavy use of HN as a discussion board, and in that respect the submitted article is more like a loose word association used to start a discussion. If the submission is titled "Blue is better than purple." but has 300 point and 100 comments, I might take a look regardless of the stupid topic. For all I know, I might encounter some neuroscientists talking shop in the comments.

I also don't particularly care for more Apple news, or some political rant, but the discussions that sometimes follow these can be extremely interesting, and enough so that I would regret their disappearance.
It reflects poorly on us that this is being downvoted. The parent shared a simple cautionary tale without baiting or flaming or anything like that. It is a good thing, to be aware of the worst case scenario; IME, projects that fail badly do so mainly for people-reasons / org-reasons, just like this.
Also if your co-founder doesn't know he's, at least, a jr developer and you guys can't even talk about that, you have other major problems that if they aren't biting you in the ass in other ways now, they will.
To add to the other comment, it's not just price but also volume. It's easy enough for me as an individual to buy 10 Toshiba HDDs... but Backblaze would like to buy them in quantities of 10k or more (if at all possible - obviously during the Thailand Drive Crisis they had to deal in small quantities).

It's a lot easier to get Seagates in large volumes than some of the other brands - Toshiba specifically is problematic, iirc HGST maybe also.

Also, I didn't say Seagates were always shit. But some of their models are, and they are the only brand with these issues, and it's been a repeated problem for them over the last 10 years.
There is no death penalty in Spain.
This would work (albeit in a demoralizing way) in corporate America. I don't think it's going to work when his cofounder also owns the code base and the OP doesn't really have a right to restrict him. This is a communication problem, not a technology one.
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The BBC has to get an anti-Modi (Prime Minister of India) jab in: "He worries about the ruling Hindu nationalist BJP's efforts to impose Hindi all over India, which he calls a "direct attack on our linguistic plurality". "

Various governments in Delhi, throughout history, have toyed with the idea of making Hindi the national language. It hasn't happened yet, and won't happen. But, of course, the BBC would like you to believe that Modi thought of it first.
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Honestly, having lived in both NY and SF for years, you need both - a highly dense urban core, and effective transportation from the outlying regions.

If you just add transport, what will happen is what's now happening in Brooklyn - you'll just see rents pushed up further away from the center as the wealthy utilize mass transport to buy up housing a bit further from the core. It ends up with everyone else just being pushed further away until they're again facing a 60-90 minute commute.

Manhattan is able twice as many residents as San Francisco, which means it can absorb a lot of people before they start to spread outwards. It also helps unburden the mass transit system by reducing the distance that the average resident is traveling to work - helping make room for people commuting from the edges. (And to be fair, anyone in NY now will tell you that their mass transit system is having serious problems, too.)

The Bay definitely needs better mass transit - but I'm not holding my breath waiting for Marin, or Palo Alto, to jump on board with the idea of both better transit and more housing.

In the meantime, SF should be doing everything it can to increase housing stock if it wants to remain affordable - and yes, that might mean high rises in the sunset, or near GG park, despite what the author says. That kind of "build housing, but not in a place I have to see it" attitude is a big part of why we have a housing crunch.

Build more places to live, and the cost of living will come down. It's that simple.
David Cameron? It's perhaps fair to say he called the referendum expecting to win, continue his political career and quell the infighting within the Tory party and achieved none of those.

While Madrid's handling of the more recent Catalan independence campaign has been pretty inept the Brexit vote sets a pretty strong counterexample to "just call a referendum, you'll win, it'll be over for 20 years". Scottish independence is a good example too, that's hardly gone quiet...
If you read the article, it's not actually about transportation. He's talking about making a political region around the Bay Area that can break NIMBYism by making decisions that affect the Bay Area as a whole.

Interesting idea, but ultimately a fairy tale. It won't happen.
I think it is reckless to change borders just because few people want to. This is not your standard political issue, it's freaking tearing the country apart.
Your entire main point has been to intentionally misdirect from the topic.

Go learn the real definitions of the terms you're tossing around, instead of making up your own.

You're the one who actually claims to be guilty of whataboutism: "OK I'm guilty."

Are you proud of that? Do you wear it as a badge of honor? Those were your own words. Don't contradict yourself now by denying that you're not trying to misdirect.
It's possible. It's also just possible that the average American family in New York doesn't have much need for a house with 5 bedrooms. I don't have enough data points to draw conclusions here.
So, it was probably a UK op.
Some elements that can help are:

- an agenda

- sending an e-mail with the meeting goals or slides in advance

- a moderator that keeps the meeting on topic

- marking non-essential people as optional

- minutes, or recording the meeting
> Many are already imprisioned

That's inaccurate, there are 2 civil society leaders (not politicians) imprisoned, and the alleged reason is not their support of the independence. That said, they should not be in jail (imho).

Note that greater risk is accompanied with greater personal, social gains (as a nationalist, I guess it is nice to have the chance to be a father of the nation). That doesn't give (or take from) them any legitimacy though, they just become sexier in the story that they are selling.
I would expect anybody working with DAWs and sample libraries (extremely low latency random read performance needed, meaning every note playing can be a sample anywhere on your drive) would jump at these, both pros and amateurs.
Remind you, transfer throughput improvements from HDD to SDD had limited effect on perceived performance; the reduction in latency was what made SSDs magical (compare normal USB stick to USB sticks with SSD controller). Optane when they manage to get it to original promise and optimize software around it, should yield a similar latency reduction, making them feel much snappier than current SSDs, though throughput-wise they might not be so shiny.
Because they were planning to spend millions of euro in an illegal thing. Money directly stolen from people like you and me.
What's the human pass rate for captchas? I bet I've personally failed at least 20% of the captchas I've solved in my lifetime.
Side effects of this productivity increase (which is hard to measure anyway), can completely negate the benefits when looking at the big picture. You create concentration in one area and create a bubble instead of betting on a more organic approach.
I don't see how that line suggests that "Modi thought of it first", especially since the paragraph before talks about historic loss of languages.
ASLR has been table stakes for over a decade.
This mischaracterization is very common. The phallacy is framing the people against nationalism as nationalists. It's the same dirty trick as saying that atheism is just another kind of religion. Of course you add the "extreme-right" insult for good measure.

Most people in Spain are not nationalists of any kind. That's just a lie. Nationalist votes are, being most generous under 10% of national grand total. People opposing to nationalism are just refusing the tribal bs.

Whoever the winner of this fight is, it will be a sad day for Europe, because nationalism and national borders will have prevailed and this goes against everything we need to build a stronger and better EU.

This nonsense we've been hearing for years: let them do whatever they want to do or else they win. WHAT?
>If that means more concentrated urbanization in a few places, that's simply a continuation of a trend since 1870 that has resulted in tremendous growth

That's not universally true. Even leaving aside cities with fairly big problems like Detroit, many of the current destination cities saw significant outflow over the course of a number of decades. The current trend for a fair number of (mostly) college-educated millennials to desperately desire living in certain dense urban cores is a relatively recent phenomenon. (Which is part of the reason it's way outpaced things like mass transit infrastructure.)
Their maglev train was built by Siemens and ThyssenKrupp in Germany, the _real_ leader in high speed rail transportation.
Comical attempt to give Street cred to the NYT.
> I don't think row polymorphism is what the OP asked for. They might be what the OP wants, but that's a-whole-nother matter.

I think that's the other way around. It appears to be what they asked for, even if it may not be what they want.

They pretty clearly said they wanted to be able to write a type that says "Object that has method f :: a -> Int".

What you're talking about doesn't seem to be duck typing (though it might work nicely along side duck typing), it's being able to add methods to objects at run time (unless I'm misunderstanding).
How do they lose out if they find someone that meets the job requirements? Really they only lose out if they settle for somebody who can't do X and has a degree when there was someone who could do X and doesn't have a degree, assuming X is more important than a potentially well rounded education (quality obviously varies and I agree it is not a HUGE boon for most jobs).
If they make voting day a national holiday, and they make the ID free and easy to get, then maybe. I believe it's mandatory in Australia, would be interesting to learn how they've felt about it.
But most of those small arms suck.

In Vietnam and Afghanistan they had weapons being sent to them including stuff like artillery and mortars.

A bunch of militia with store bought guns(many pistols or hunting rifles) doesn't really compare to guys supplied with full automatics and RPGs.
The other problems with porting the code to some other language (like C++):

1. Introduction of errors (both overt and subtle)

2. Fixing of what seem to be issues in the original code that are actually undocumented workarounds (or similar things) to potential bugs (in COBOL or who-knows-what-else-in-the-codebase)

Both are big issues in such a move; software engineers don't often appreciate that much of this old stuff is still around because it WORKS. It has been virtually fully debugged, just through the iteration of time and experience.

So porting can easily introduce bugs that may not be apparent immediately; and because software engineers are always wanting to make thing better, if they are working with the COBOL codebase and see something that they think could be done "better" - that change might actually cause problems down the road, perhaps in ways that aren't recognized immediately, or only in edge cases - things that were worked around decades ago in the COBOL implementation.
I think it's more because "smarter and more knowledgeable" is being conflated with "speaks English." That kind of casual ignorance doesn't elevate the discussion here.
Except mine had plenty of bugs nobody ever saw because I spotted them while writing the tests...
You could probably post your application here and get feedback that would be at least in the same ballpark as what YC thought.
VirtualBox is slow (especially sharing files), we've had lots of problems with it becoming corrupted, and requiring a fixed partition of RAM makes it very hard to run more than one VM without starving your VM's or host of memory.

vagrant-lxc has none of the above problems, it is just containerization with no virtualization penalties.

I've had lots of people tell me that Vagrant sucks. When digging into their problems it's almost always been VirtualBox causing their problems.
...yes. lost a battle with autocorrect after a few beers.
"Brisbane ... is currently blocking a large housing development for local reasons."

Good for them. I mean, probably not, but Brisbane is their town and they should determine their own values and courses of action.

The solution to San Francisco needs to occur in San Francisco - not CC county or Marin or Sonoma. There's a lot of very, very distinguished and historic and noteworthy 1-4 story housing stock in San Francisco that I hope stays around ... but there's a lot of 1-4 story housing stock that is complete shit and needs to be rebuilt, in-filled, brought up to 2017 sanitation and earthquake regs and served by new rail lines.

Notice how I didn't say "served by BRT[1]" ? Served by rail.

If you see a bus, they blew it.

[1] Bus Rapid Transit (and related half-assed bullshit)
The analysis tools for C codebases are quite impressive mostly because it’s a statically typed language which is amenable to such analysis.
Are iphones, TVs, and internet the measure of "quality of life" we want to settle on?
We can fault Brisbane just as we can fault every municipality in the Bay Area. That's not short sighted, it's necessary.
Url changed from https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/26/sec-fines-zenefits-nearly-..., which points to this.
I wouldn’t trust a person who says they kicked a pigeon.
It's interesting that you take the phrase "efforts to impose Hindi" to mean an unprecedented attempt, because nowhere do they state that this is an original idea or the first such attempt.
> If all of those extra characters are for extra flexibility (maybe for using more repositories in future?) then it smells of premature optimization. I'll happily do without it.

I wouldn't say it is to use more repositories in the future (I also hate future-proofing code) but rather to make it explicit what is happening on the database side. It aligns well with other ideas in Ecto, such as letting the database do uniqueness checks.

Most of the problematic Rails projects I worked with were because of this coupling between business logic and database that ActiveRecord encourages. But this is nothing new, it is one of the top 3 complaints about Rails.
No.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Spain
https://crt.sh/?id=240277340
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If nice places for people are too expensive, make more nice places for people. But instead we make more nice places for cars.
There are deep structural reasons for the lack of wage growth, so that's not a feasible near-term solution.
I had a chance to visit one of academy he helped establish, adivasi academy(their domain name has expired), tejgarh, vadodra. I really liked how he played the role of catalyst in helping local people recognize their own culture and preserve it.
[Edit]: My bad for linking to the infested URL, didn't realize it.
Mentioning you have a dash cam at all seems like a bad idea. I have one but would never admit it. Let them lie their way into a corner first then present evidence they're being fraudulent. Also the risk that it can be used against me if, upon review, I am not entirely faultless myself.
What's wrong with buses?
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Are internet, Twitter and Youtube now controlled by PP? I don't think so.
I can’t help but think this is because nobody writes testable GUI frameworks. You can’t build a castle on a swamp, unless you’re Monty Python.
Ask HN: Deploy a sandboxed desktop software?
I have a nw.js application but at the same time I don't want to allow malicious code to be run on the clients machines.

My thought was to put the app in a sandbox and distribute the software along with the sandbox.

Has anybody run into such situation with Electron/nw.js? Say you ship a browser built on Electron/nw.js, how do you make it secure enough and is sandboxing the right approach?

I'm not sure where to ask this question as stackoverflow has already closed it
I'm not sure I understand your point. Do you think the majority of spaniards would support amending the constitution to allow for a region to declare independence? Seems really dubious to me. And if not, then why blame the constitution?
The real solution is for companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, etc to have the COURAGE to create large work epicenters outside of the Bay Area. Create headquarters for tens of thousands of workers in more remote areas with a strong infrastructure, with great benefits for working families. Do what Amazon wants to do with a second HQ, and create demand outside of the Bay Area.

If Google created a new HQ in Kansas City, with it's fiber links, and low cost of living, and added really great benefits like free day care, etc, then won't software engineers move there, especially those that are ready to start a family? I bet you they would. I definitely would. Then it would create a new ecosystem of economic prosperity there, and then it would take a lot of pressure off the Bay Area.
Paris low rises are 5 stories, which is basically illegal in much of the Bay.
Reading that statement, as written, it comes across as if the "ruling Hindu nationalist BJP" is trying to impose Hindi. There's no mention of other attempts in the past.

But the reality is: ever since India became independent in 1947, various political parties, including the Congress party, have considered making Hindi the national language: https://www.quora.com/Did-Prime-Minister-of-India-Jawaharlal...
I believe the original post meant "meaningful as form of identity" to human brains, not technical identity.
I agree. It was a great guy. However, I think its worth pointing out that JSTOR didn't want him prosecuted and they came to a viable agreement. SciHub on the otherhand is plain theft and its not being backed by donations, it has to be more well funded than that based on its uptime and storage.

The general estimates in the community is around $1.6 million a year to run. That's not cheap.
That's... not at all what I'm seeing. Very broadly: at high queue depths and on mostly sequential data, it's competitive with and slightly better than the flash devices. At low queue depths and on random data (pretty much exactly where "consumers" live) it's much, much faster. Like, 4x the scores in s a bunch of those tests.

Now... to be fair consumers applications in the modern cloudworld are generally not storage-limited. So maybe your point is defensible in a specious sense. But as actual performance measurements go, these really are ripping fast drives.
The key point for me was when Spain announced that they were going to remove Catalonia's autonomy and dissolve its parliament. What did they expect Catalonia to do?

This seems like an iconic example of what NOT to do when faced with an independence referendum. Compare the situation in Scotland or Canada, where AIUI the central government grudgingly permitted the referendum, campaigned on the issue locally, and offered symbolic concessions to local autonomy while focusing heavily on the pragmatic risks and costs of independence. In Catalonia by contrast we have plenty of images of the police violently disrupting the referendum and independence protesters, then pledging to end local autonomy altogether.
Please don't. If you troll HN we will eventually ban your main account as well.
Manhattan comes close to continuous high rise.
But that applies to most politicians, and is a common factor in all elections. I was disputing the assumptions which concluded that external factors are the primary explanation for the election results.
Any idea why it was revoked?
There's even a Santa Cruz Yimby. Local organizations are necessary to deal with local issues, and going to local planning meetings, and local city council meetings.

And on the regional level, the YIMBY movement has been very successful this year with several state legislative initiatives that hold cities accountable for meeting their planned housing goals, and for increasing funding for affordable housing.
Right, but trolls are for flagging, not feeding: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

All: To flag a comment, click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click 'flag' at the top. (There's a small karma threshold, currently 30, before flag links appear.) We monitor user flags and take action based on them, so this is a good way to help HN not sink too far in quality, and we greatly appreciate it.
IMHO, nationalism in Europe is not a rational. If you listen to their discourses lately, there's hardly anything rational in them. I think their fight for independence could possibly be defended rationally, but they express themselves under the assumptions that 95% of people want it and that things are 100% legal. Real world is a bit more complicated.
I actually sympathize with the NIMBY-ers quite a bit when it comes to housing. But in terms of transportation, it depresses me to know from first-hand experience how much better things could be. Better public transit is simply a win-win for almost everyone: far fewer cars, more pedestrian areas and access, an increased number of people willing to live outside the city, and streets that don't feel like DMZs. City life is categorically improved when you no longer have to shuffle streetcar schedules or chase the bus around. (Or sit in traffic for 3 hours to go across town.)
I'll have to disagree with you on that one. It's really about transportation and housing density.

The article seems to ignore the idea of the denser urban core gives more places for the wealthy to live and possibly damping the sprawl of medium wealthy house.

Also one of the central ideas of the article is that there needs to be one governing body to make everything work together, but at the same time ignores the fact that half of the color coded map contains housing from a different state.

Furthermore, while public transportation in NYC (and the North east corridor in general) is better, it is still kind of slow. While I couldn't find a great example of 10 miles being an hour in NYC my closest was Astoria queens (relatively cheap) to Wall Street is about 10 miles and takes around 45 minutes on the subway (one transfer).