skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The internet and modern computers are the result of Government and University funding (e.g. DARPA, UC Berkeley BSD) and corporate R & D projects like Xerox Alto / Start at PARC and Bell Labs Unix, C, etc.

Free Open source volunteers merely imitated (Linux vs. Unix) or extended institutional or corporate sponsored projects or ideas. Without robust government and corporate funding of basic research in the later 20th century we would not have the well developed information technology industry we have today. People founding vanity projects, ICOs, and forking is not moving the industry forward. What truly revolutionary innovations have originated from open source software vs. just imitation or variation?

Blockchain is revolutionary but the developers did monetize their work in that case (literally). In this society you need to earn money to live. It is mysterious that so many people in software want to practice their trade for free. I guess they love what they do but I think the quality of their work would increase if it was monetized. Monetization need not imply centralization or appropriation c.f. bitcoin.

It just means assigning value and ownership to the results of socially valuable work. What is so evil about that? I think, from an evolutionary psych view why people think contributing to OSS is prosocial is because of something like a genetic tendency to share new technology with the tribe. In the ancestral environment it would have been uncool for one shaman to have monopolized a new flint knapping technique. But with the rise of trade and property right people can develop and protect their competitive advantage / economic niche and monetize their work for benefit of the whole of society why collecting a reward from their innovations. Free Open Source fanatics like the GNU people are stuck in the stone age and do the profession of software development a disservice.
This is from the same guy who made the MarI/O video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv6UVOQ0F44 - using Neuroevolution). In the video he also compares MariFlow vs MarI/O.
I don't know if it's "the primary cause", but it sure one of the root causes. You can't expect a game of monopoly to turn out like apples to apples. They're different games.
When you're dealing with such a small amount of money, my best advise would be to keep it as Bitcoin. The worst that could happen is it crashes and you're out $12. If it goes up in value, you're up whatever that ends up being.

I think of my own story ... I had mined about 25 bitcoin back in (I think) 2009, when each was worth (I think) a penny. My interest was purely academic -- I love this kind of thing, I thought the idea was neat[0]. I had a major OS failure and decided to reinstall, wiping the drive and my wallet. At today's prices, I'm out $135,000[1]. Whoops! You never know...

[0] Though promptly tossed it into the category of cypherpunk fantasy -- while everything that was claimed about it "could happen", back then it seemed more likely that my dog would write Shakespeare.

[1] Referring to #0, I would have ended up selling that 25 bitcoin when it hit around $10, assuming that making $250 would be pretty incredible. There's no way, short of removing that drive and storing it, forgetting about it and realizing the error "yesterday" that I would still have had those Bitcoin.
> I'm not very familiar with India's geography, but I doubt he could easily find an airport that isn't surrounded by people.

It is currently parked at Mumbai airport, which is surrounded by Dharavi: an extremely densely populated area. According to Wikipedia, Dharavi has a population density of over 277,136 people per sq km.
wait....what?
+1 on identifying all the warning signs. I've done a lot of contracts, many unpaid. All have the same signs.

A major symptom is that many of my worst clients are both impressive and repulsive. We have decades of experience with people (yes, even us needs) and whatever your instincts are about someone, it's probably right.
This is the most pleasing typography and layout I have ever seen on the web. I want to know how it is done!
Bingo! I've seen things go wrong with Backbone. The lack of opinion is great if you have an experienced developer starting the project and defining the filesystem layout and overall architecture. We, unfortunately, did not have that for our marketing site. I actively avoid working on our marketing site for this very reason.
With modern slot machines, isn't this actually true though? I thought one of the benefits of computerized slots was to be able to control the pay outs better.
Thanks for the reply. I might give this a try.
>Any tips on how to find the new gems?

That's a good question - I don't know. Discovery of anything not SEO optimized is difficult, and a lot of that content was on Geocities and Tripod, so the modern equivalent might just as likely be on Wordpress or a service like Wix, making the design homogeneous even if the content isn't. Ironically, I've found most off the beaten path sites through references in Youtube videos and Reddit. When I was getting my CS degree, the web design class involved building a quick personal site, so URLs connected to colleges might also be a good place to look.

But what's more likely, that no one is writing their own custom HTML sites anymore, or that some people are, but we just can't see them because they exist in their own ecosystems beyond the Googlesphere (and possibly even the Anglosphere?)

...I just realized I'm vaguely arguing for (but not defining the parameters of) a Drake Equation for the web, where N is new personal content. Even if the parameters are low, the scale of the web means N should be significant.
> This plane cannot fly until the DGCA (aviation regulatory authority of India) registers it.

It is permitted to fly it under 20 feet without DGCA registration.
IPFS over Tor?
There's probably money to be made there. Could use something similar to generate realistic fake reviews.
More correctly, he builds the gulag for the rich.
Yes especially in the BA. We could build twice as much housing and it wouldn't be enough.
Based upon my experiences as a business traveller, it has been like this over 15 years.
People are already talking about social media and how it's addictive[1].

1) https://www.google.com/search?q=how+social+media+is+designed...
Again. You would prefer they do nothing than provide this?

That link is absurd hyperbole.
The first one I ever saw was iron (https://github.com/iron/iron) -- weirdly enough, it's not on the list @ https://crates.io/categories/web-programming::http-server.

I wouldn't think that web frameworks were the reason -- at this point, almost all the frameworks that aren't django/rails size are the same, set up a route, add a handler, do whatever you need to in the handler, start the server.

python's flask/ruby's sinatra/go's http.server/rust's iron/haskell's servant/clojure's ring are all the same to me at this point, and generally what I'm comfortable starting with (I pick those micro-frameworks over 'batteries-included' django/rails)
Huh. That's curious. Maybe you got grandfathered in. It's definitely restricted for new sellers. Anything Disney, which it turns out is a lot of stuff these days, is all restricted too.
Not sure why I my question was just about carry-ons...

For checked bags, what do the departing and arriving airports charge the airline per-bag for handling?
I don't see what you gain by doing so other than producing more emotion which isn't particularly helpful. We already have way too much emotion surrounding this word. A nebulous definition makes the problem of terrorism harder to bound and develop strategies to deal with.
To paraphrase Stalin, how many divisions have Facebook and Google?
I'be had the same experience, though you will start to get the hang of more complicated machines after a couple dozen spins.

I wonder if that complexity adds to the allure.
"Now that I understand this complicated machine, I better not let that that hard earned knowledge go to waste"
These "articles" with embedded scroll-hijacking garbage have got to stop.

I really wanted to read about slot machines but I'm not suffering through that.

Does this need to be a new hn flag? This is the second of these today.
sounds like Pad++ from UMD ... http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/pad++/
Personality cults aren't political.
Limit presentations to 10 slides. This works for VC pitches. It should probably work for anything.

Guy Kawasaki even has his 10 20 30 rule [1]. 10 slides, 20 minutes, 30 point font.

I had a writing assignment once in college. The limit was 1000 words. And then there was a list of points we had to address. Enforced brevity was the challenge.

On the other end of the spectrum, there's David Byrne I Heart Powerpoint [2] which I had the pleasure to see at Berkeley. He's mentioned in the article.

[1] https://guykawasaki.com/the_102030_rule/

[2] http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/ppt1.html.
Not often addressed in the largest of internet companies is how little the pay for bandwidth and transit. Google literally pays ZERO for internet access in either direction since they bought so much fiber in late 90s early 2000s. This is how they can run search (both directions) and youtube.
I know exactly how you feel. This was a sign of bipolar disorder in my case. YMMV
And the shareholders of the companies that swallow or replace older companies most likely will be the same to a large extent.
I'm surprised this hasn't accelerated so much, considering the availability of the internet, relatively cheap hosting, donation services like Patreon, typesetting software and platforms, etc.
I listened for a couple episodes, but when they started talking about machine learning it became obvious how little they understood it. With how willing they were to confidently opine on how it would change industries based on an incorrect understanding, I lost confidence in the other things they talked about.
Funny how this story dropped off the front page...
Given that most (all?) airlines do the same thing, how is "Don't fly China Southern" going to help?

(BTW I've flown China Southern many times, both domestically and internationally. I've not found them to be any worse than other airlines.)
Overwhelmingly large number of people in society are selfish. They say that social welfare is good, but when time comes to increase taxes to fund it, either they oppose, or build in clever loopholes to work around it (the rich do anyway). What's left is the middle to lower class getting the burden, and that causes them to also reject tax increases.
For Dutch, try tweakers.net.
Honestly, I have dreamed and imagined how that could happen for years now. Of course, you’d have to start somewhere just like this. I think Facebook data with image recognition and and text analysis would be my first choice, largely related to Facebook “Groups” and menber join dates. Overwhelmingly imperfect but would be quite interesting.
Consumer Reports is top nouch and very thorough.

It can be a bit behind on the far changing stuff like electronics, and it can be pricey.

But I've never found them lacking in quality and detail.
This is the correct explanation. The journalist misunderstood something he said to mean he discovered Fourier transforms at that later time.
Definitely a problem. I had 10.24s on first load, which is about 9 seconds longer after google/duckduckgo becomes usable.
I'll be more convinced when they actually produce a recording of this.
Meat space HFT.
If he's into tech and stuff, why isn't he on board with their 2030 plans if it's about modernizing society?
In our case we were doing a fair amount of data manipulation, so it wasn't strictly a case of pushing the data through, although we had higher bandwidth per stream.

But, there are a bunch of different ways to solve the problems. I guess how impressive it is depends on they have gone about solving their particular cases. There is a fair number of network accelerators that offload individual stream level management to little cores running on the network adapter itself. Cavium, EzChip and now even companies like mellanox are playing in this space https://www.enterprisetech.com/2017/10/04/mellanox-etherneta....

So, i'm not sure the impressive parts are necessarily in the stream counts but what they must be doing to "align" (for lack of a better term) them. AKA the trade offs between keeping a few seconds of a video stream in RAM vs sourcing it from disk/wherever so that multiple users streams are aligned to avoid having to hit a secondary storage medium. In netflix's case I suspect that requiring fairly large buffers on the endpoint allow them to get away with a much lower QoS metric on any given stream.

Put another way, at least the few times I've watched netflix's bandwidth usage, it seems to be bursty. It blasts a few 10's of MB/s of data and then sits idle for a few seconds while the stream plays and then you get another chunk.
This is great, and the trademark would be an awesome addition! I also often use namechk to validate socials right after I find a good .com... maybe you can link to them (note: i’m not affiliate)
As someone who grew up with Google and is now trying to get into niche interests, I have basically no idea how to do the real, old fashioned leg work. I still don't know exactly how much of this is Google's fault, because it remains great for providing information on a lot of more broadly accessible subjects.
"I really wish restaurants and everywhere else would include taxes in their prices too."

Easy. Move to the UK, or China, or Germany, or ...
It is also possible that Satoshi Nakamoto was an alias for an NSA project. I have no special knowledge either way on this matter.
In case you missed it, we just added support for 2D Geospatial Queries in Amazon Athena:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/ug/geospatial-exam...

PS: I'm on the Athena team
iphone 3gs, really?
The Amazon vs. WalMart Arbitrage
There's probably a few poor souls at Google pulling $150k+ that are doomed to this...
Personally I think this is less intelligent design and more evolutionary.

It's an important distinction because scenario one is a stack of evil old men cackling away, scenario two is just people doing their jobs.

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"

has a corollary I think "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by evolution"
It seems to me like HN still has a long way to go. I find my detailed, careful, well researched comments typically get an order of magnitude less votes than my one sentence inanities.
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I did this for SPARQL in Java a long time ago
Glass should be redefined as a liquid
I agree and disagree, for the reason you stated. I think Rust is a good language for web apps, with the caveat that you must understand the syntax and the power afforded first. That makes the language harder to learn, but for the purposes of webapps that makes it better.

If you start from bare micro-framework (set a route, attach a handler), you're eventually going to write some generic function that fetches an entity from a data store. In Go, this becomes a bit of a kludge (interface{} + casting + etc), but in rust it's robustly supported (traits/generic functions).

Of course, if you pick the right library for the database you wouldn't have that issue, but that's just the kind of abstraction/complexity-hiding problem you run into building webapps (from scratch at least) that I think rust is the better tool for. Like I mentoined in another post, basically all the micro-frameworks have the same shape to me at this point: add route(s), add handler function(s), and start the server.
I thought about this a few weeks ago. I remember the late 90's actually searching around the web. Now there are so many walled gardens that individual creation is limited to posting a Medium blog or Facebook post. Today, I only visit a handful of sites and developer documentation.
All evidence and theories point to climate change being caused by humans. This interpretation does nothing to change that conclusion. My view is that it is an entirely useless distinction to make. If climate change were instead caused by natural sources of carbon dioxide, it would be no less a crisis, and would require no less of an intervention.
>If I had been practising the sort of arbitrage the guy in the article was doing I would have been highly motivated to keep it secret

By your own token I think the sharing of such information would be "newsworthy". Your comment is rather inconsistent.
No one likes paying taxes but calling it theft is intellectually dishonest

No, calling it anything but theft is "intellectually dishonest".

I mean you happily use the services that taxes provide. Police, the legal system, roads, schools, libraries, anything created using the legal system, roads, schools or libraries, fuel exploration subsidies, research, etc.

No, I don't happily use any of those things. I grudgingly use (some of) them because A. the State usually doesn't allow any other choices, and B. my stolen money was used to pay for them, so I might as well derive some benefit from it. But since the initial "transaction" was not voluntary, it's clearly theft.
Do you remember DDG five years ago? Everyone needs to start somewhere.

One potential advantage is it's run out of Europe instead of the US, which is significant for certain people.
It's not a Powerpoint problem, but a presenter problem. Slides should be short and concise with a few words or graphics. If someone can read a presenters slides, and understand the presentation then too much was put on the slides.
What, with Google? My point is that someone who doesn't know Greek likely doesn't know the field well enough. To know, for example, whether some woman decades ago translated the Odyssey into English. As part of an unfinished thesis, with an obscure adviser.
> $200k/month isn't even close to $8M/year.

It doesn't say $8M/year, it says $8M total sales by the end of this year. So from the founding of his company, to the end of this year.
Medium is down
As someone with both a C++ and JS background, Go's boring nature is the best thing about it. It gets out of the way and lets you focus on the application logic. Programming languages are tools, not ends unto themselves.
In recent years, the only decent experiences I've had flying have been with JetBlue, European national carriers, and WOW.

JetBlue and the European carriers still offer decent service and don't nickel and dime everything. They let you check a bag or two. The gate and flight staff are competent and relatively efficient. The aircraft are clean, well-maintained, and modern. The European carriers even feed you. It's almost as good as flying was before 2000.

WOW is a cut-rate airline, and they're upfront about it.

The other major carriers are a dumpster fire. I won't even try to fly United or American or Delta anymore.
I can't speak for all, or even most, universities, but my anecdotal experience is that university education was invaluable. Even in classes that I went in thinking I knew everything and that the class was going to be a waste, I learned stuff. And in speaking with others who haven't had a full CS degree, it's sometimes surprising how much stuff they don't know.
That sounds about right, and I doubt that their warehouse people are fully equipped to package IKEA goods properly for shipping. When I have had orders shipped from IKEA online they have typically been poorly packaged, with pieces close to falling out of the boxes.
There used to be a comic that did cartoons based on spam subject lines. This one seems relevant:

http://spamusement.com/index.php/comics/view/11
Nice article.

I just want to add that with regard to definitions of the term strategy, , one could do worse than follow Jack Welch:

"The evolution of a central plan through a continually changing set of circumstances"
The Era of Whatsapp Propaganda Is Upon Us
It's an interesting story, but isn't it far more efficient to find a single product that has good selling potential and just put your effort into sourcing that product? Instead of spending $1000 on 10 different categories of product, spend $10,000 on one product, thereby leveraging economies of scale.
Reviewing that person's comments (all 3 days of them), looks like a Russian shill to me.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=creaghpatr
Not sure how this works with international clients and/or in your country, but in the past on two occasions when I've had a client decide not to pay I've done the following;

1. Send a final notice letter, indicating that non-payment will result in the debt being referred to a collections agency.

2. Sell the debt to the highest bidder, ie a debt collector.

In one instance, I got paid after the letter. And in the other, I made back ~60% of my money + got a VERY entertaining call from an ex-client who'd just had a debt collector rock up in his lobby and refuse to leave.

I'm a big believer in "F#ck you, pay me" and when I do freelance work I make sure that my clients share that belief. Generally I also lay out a schedule of payments based on either milestones (ie 'X is implemented') or on a regular timed schedule (normally once a fortnight) - if the client misses a payment, work stops until they pay.

Never let a client threaten you with "bad word of mouth" or any other nonsense like that - at the very worst they'll deter one of their mates from doing business with you, and if they're alike at all there's a good chance they would try and not pay you as well. It's not worth establishing a reputation that clients can just not pay you and get away with it.
Don’t Care Too Much about Future and Just Change What You Can Change
7 Days To Die, as per the jumbotron.

Ridiculously fun and entertaining game.
This reminds me of the concept of a "ring of functions" (albeit slightly more constrained). Since you seem to be familiar with measure theory already, that idea is probably already well known to you (the author), but I figured I'd mention it anyway.
No, it's not true. Every draw is independent, so past performance has zero bearing on future performance.
It reminds me of a project I did where I sampled articles from the financial press, put it through a sentiment API, and found no correlation whatsoever with the SP500, VIX, Gold, Bonds, etc.

I got time-series charts that looked quite similar to the ones in this article -- just noise as far as I could tell.
The web is better today. And personal home pages or web pages are still around in the form of blogs, the only problem is that most people don't blog.
https://www.aardvarkservers.com/privacy_policy

> SECTION 4 - SHOPIFY

> Our store is hosted on Shopify Inc.

I was curious how Shopify would let you roll Devise so I took a peak and it looks like it's hosted by NameCheap. ;)

That aside, what's your infra like? How are you allowing a user to manage the 7dtd servers themselves? I haven't played since v15, but last time I checked there wasn't much of an API to use to manage it all.
"It has likely been used to raise more money than any other tool in history."

Hmm, I'm going to have to think for all of 2 seconds and say I can't see a way of interpreting "used to raise more money" such that powerpoint is going to come in ahead of the pen.

And the hyperbole continue. "Are we really thinking here or is this just so much pointing and clicking."
https://www.allposters.com/-sp/Are-we-thinking-here-or-is-th...

It would seem the author wishes to blame a tool for their own failings..?
I've watched a presentation done with an app that works like this and it's nauseating. All the zooming in and out gave me a headache. It was literally one of the worst presentations I've ever viewed.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15631084
It is an interactive article so it kind of requires js. It would need to be rewritten to make sense without the interactivity.
Exactly, we're in the golden age of vlogging.
He's pointing out that the material in this article has been discussed ad nauseam and this doesn't present any new ideas.
Webapps.