skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe some of these things didn't engage us as much, but it is dubious whether that's for better or for worse. For what it's worth:

> listen music on youtube

True by definition, but listening to and distributing music via computer networks has been going on since the 80s.

> learn and use any programming language for free

There were plenty of resources on that on the web in the 90s and on bulletin board systems in the 80s.

> git

A complete side note since it has nothing to do with the web.

> open source

Many significant open/free software projects started in the 90s. NetBSD/FreeBSD since 93. GNU has been around since 83.

> read the latest news in online newspapers from remote countries

News websites surprisingly existed in the 90s as well. It is speculative to say that their increasing plurality owes anything to the current centralization trend.

> broadcast on twitter

Broadcast on your own personal website. Broadcast in a newsgroup. Broadcast by email. Broadcast on IRC.

> social networks

Bulletin boards. Email. Newsgroups.

> slack

IRC

> OS updates

Like, say, Slackware in the mid 90s?

> World of Warcraft/games

On-line, networked games existed before the web and don't really need to rely on it.

> crypto currencies

Again, not really dependent on the web.
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that was my position for the last 7 years about hybrid vs native on mobile. but with the recent slowdown on new features on mobile, i'd say even the common denominator is probably largely sufficient for 99% of the apps.
What? I've been a professional marketer to varying degress on and off for about a decade now and I've never heard anyone say anything like this.
There isn't one. But there also isn't really a primary use case for postgres, as compared to mysql. It's just a pretty pleasant to use nosql database.

Easy clustering, first-class changefeeds, a somewhat-confusing query-system, runs in the current working-dir by default means it's dead-simple to set up for development. No fire-and-forget write.

Reminds me a bit of firebase, but free and open-source. If you're in a position where changefeeds or nosql are important, you should probably give rethinkdb a look.
As I said, I fully agree with the author's thesis, just not at all with the way he made his case.
What a shock, someone who creates companies doesn't like unions. And usually CEOs LOVE when their employees unionize!
I think there's a straight forward explanation. Bitcoin has fundamentally proven its stability this year. It's already had one fork and China cracking down on it hard. It was a major test for Bitcoin and the net result was Bitcoin came out literally stronger than ever after a drop that was, in hindsight, just a blip. If that news didn't trigger a devastating sell off it's somewhat difficult to imagine what would.

Another key point is that Bitcoin also has inherent value as a currency. You can pay for things easily and quickly directly with Bitcoin in an increasing number of places. Should somewhere like Amazon decide to start directly accepting Bitcoin, the price would go through the roof.

And one more debatable issue is that Bitcoin is in a way a sort of metronome or heartbeat for cryptocurrencies as a whole. Almost like a reserve currency. If Bitcoin fails, it would likely have a devastating ripple effect throughout the entire crypto community. "If Bitcoin fail - anything can fail." is something that would likely be uttered rapidly in response to any other crypto. So an investment in Bitcoin can in a way be seen as an abstract investment in cryptocurrency itself. If you accept this, then the corollary is that other coins are indirectly marked against Bitcoin. So you would be implicitly taking on additional risk for unclear gains.
This is a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15619337
Unfortunately most people who haven't become a particular expert in any area don't understand the idea of nuances and how deep they really can go. The more I've become an expert in an area or through multi-disciplinary interests and the nuances between those areas, the more I feel I've become better at differentiating how much to integrate someone's thoughts/understanding based on the level of depth of their arguments - contrasting to how much detail I expect myself to put into an argument if I am trying to prove a certain point. Becoming nuanced is a practice, regurgitating shallow depths of an argument is generally more an state of memorizing - which for me doesn't build trust that a person truly understands something.

Not sure I wrote all this out, one of those reflective mornings..
> You could probably get a cool half million in seed money for this.

There are already multiple companies that do this. Not really any reason to raise venture money for it though.
Without any further description about what you're trying to do, it's difficult to answer the question.

There are millions of different ways:

You can do your landing pages in WP and easily integrate with newsletter pop-ups and all the other growth hack tricks.

If you have a SaaS you can run the whole subscription system (accounts, billing, renewals, etc.) using WooCommerce.

You can sell digital downloads of your software using WooCommerce.

You can keep your user-facing documentation in WP.

There are plugins for turning WordPress into a CRM so you can track your leads/sales.

etc.

The possibilities are literally limitless.
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Same reason that people who live in the US don't have the freedom to choose whether they want to be governed by the US government. Social contract
Hi,

Here's how it handles code snippets: http://helpie.pauple.com/demo/help/syntax-highlight-and-copy...
That seems obvious today, but the McCain was laid down in 1991. Computers were much less sophisticated back then.

I wonder if there is enough information publicly available to compare the workflows on the McCain to the same workflows on the Zumwalt.
It shouldn't be thrown under the bus, it should be understood though of what its limitations are.
Yeah, I came here to mention Linux on Hyper-V - the performance is great, the free version, while painful to setup, its extremely low friction to keep running.
The mania phase is pretty clear here. What goes up like that must come down. It's simple as that.

Study currencies, stocks and commodities price histories before and after they entered parabolic phases. Nothing lasts forever.
UBL probably did what he did because they are not a superpower, but were tortured by one.

Look into the history of the middle east maybe?
Perhaps it started as a joke and mistakenly became a business, like the fellow who got elected in Australia?
Naaah, we are already onto seamless and AI-driven transformation to digital ... ;-)
You're absolutely correct. We're certain to see big crash at some point.

I remember when Bitcoin crashed from $30 to $8. That was brutal.

Later it crashed from $100 to $40.

Crashed again from $1000 to $300.

More recently it crashed from $5000 to $3000.

Enjoy your popcorn while the rest of us hold through the crashes!
I understand that keeping on a desired course is not a simple task and requires prediction and understanding of the surrounding waters... But you can say the same thing about crosswinds and thermal layers and pockets of turbulence in the air over a runway, and autopilots land 747s every day. In a far more computationally intensive and less recoverable domain, with more complex system dynamics and controls even discounting the extra dimension, plus sensing that's both more limited and harder to interpret. If modern controls theory can land an aircraft, I'd expect it to be able to run a ship along a trajectory like it's nailed to a rail in space-time.
Fair, apologies if I came off as too harsh. What you said just felt like the slippery slope argument.

For me, I see it less about limiting peoples freedoms, and more about moving delayed costs up front. People are still free to buy/sell most any food product. However, some appear to have a marked impact on society, but in a delayed fashion.

That is, you won't get sick from drinking 32 ounce sodas the day you drink them. However, you are likely to get addicted to them and they will make you unhealthy eventually. Increasing the costs moves some of that pain early, so that it is easier to make the choice to avoid.

Do I think this is perfect? No. Not even close. Nor do I think people should be disallowed from buying stuff like this. I do think more of the proceeds should go to making people healthy or at least educated. Going into the producers of these products doesn't help the health, and the way marketing works, they become less educated on the risks of these products. There is a reason we had to regulate the hell out of cigarettes, for example. And I don't shed any tears over that.
No different than asking "Why is the internet service Facebook growing but the internet service Twitter isn't?" or "Why did the internet website Facebook grow but the internet website WebVan didn't?" Bitcoin and Ethereum serve different purposes (a store of value and maybe a currency vs. a computing platform, respectively).
Doesn't protect from rubber hose side channel attacks.
I think that was the joke. All three sentences got grammatical errors.
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"If you’re driven by curiosity, free coffee and an unwavering belief in technology as the lever of societal innovation, then check our careers page to see if niolabs is the place for you."

This is just too good.
Yes, but so what? It's very easy for people who don't actually make things - like actors and academics - people who never face tradeoffs in their life, to get up on their high horses about people who do. If Kumail wants to comment on the ethics of the computing industry he should man up and write an essay in which he lays out his case, and shows why his preferred tradeoffs are better than those chosen by industry. Like anyone else would have to do, if they wanted influence.

Instead we get this clickbaity junk based on a series of tweets, which nobody would have seen or cared about if he wasn't a famous actor.
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Thank you. No one ever describes why anything was written in the first place. And they almost never go out of their way to list the pros/cons of their system. Although I've never even used it, I loved that the BoltDB project mentions other key/value DBs and why you'd pick one over the other, right there in the readme.
More people are buying bitcoin than ethereum. Therefor the price goes up faster. Supply / demand.
Isn't a big part of that area below sea level? So for a start you'd just need to dig a channel to the Mediterranean or Nile and wait. No extra energy required at that step--you could even harness some from the flow.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara_Sea and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression
It seems likely that most people who use SQL Server were at least Microsoft shops at some time in the past, though; otherwise why are they using SQL Server?

Very few people start a project using SQL Server if they're not otherwise using MS stuff.
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Ok, I like the idea and I want something that does this.

I don't want a desktop app that fills my entire screen.
Also, I created a user with sudo IAM permissions and it kept failing validation.

Gave up. :(
Our unique technology allows you to not only increment the counter, but also to branch based on whether that counter is equal to zero.
Games and chat are always popular examples, but I think it's really valuable for data-science.

You can also "fill in" missing data. If you were writing a webscraper, you could make a service that looks for url objects without any content, and scrape them. Then make a service that looks for url objects with content but that is missing ML-filled in details, and have it fill those in.

It's pretty good for disparate teams with different sets of technology. One group doing document classification, another trying NLP, another using RNNs, etc.

There are a few times in my career where rethinkdb would have been a killer feature, especially with it's well-documented language bindings.
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There has been
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/commuting-takes-i...
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/what-mentally-strong-pe...
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/urban-survival/201501/c...
https://www.accessmagazine.org/fall-1992/commuter-stress/
"managing the avionics is almost more difficult than flying the plane" The same goes for modern cars. The electronics is a nightmare. HVAC controls locked away behind touch screens menus. It's awful.
Monetizing a large user base?
Here's a link to the abstract from 2010. I found it to be more readable than this thinly veiled analytics advertisement.

https://research.google.com/pubs/pub36299.html
I picked one OTC penny stock loser in 2009 that went completely out of business. Something associated with vertical farming.

I missed out on Apple because almost NOBODY used Apple in the Midwest in the mid 2000's -- everything was MS. That's a great example of me living in a bubble (which I just said in another comment that I didn't, but there ya go)

I missed out on Priceline even though the tech support center I was working in had a whole division dedicated to doing their customer support! Basically, they just never seemed "legit" to me, they seemed like a scam, who the hell wants to "choose your own price" for something important like a flight and then wait and see if it gets accepted? Very weird to me. People also never seemed too excited about them in general... extremely hard to predict they would become the acquisition masters that they did.

Both solid examples of blind spots in my strategy.
Isn't https://unroll.me the service that was helping people unsubscribe from email lists, while selling their data to uber?

https://theintercept.com/2017/04/24/stop-using-unroll-me-rig...
A big forking deal
> if city centers were more affordable to live in, many fewer would choose to live so far away from work. Myself included.

I agree, and would personally do the same too if possible. But I've watched us artificially inflate property values for literally my entire life. Even in my tiny US Midwest city in the middle of nowhere, city center prices have never been remotely affordable.

We should take it for granted that it's too expensive to live in US/CA/AUS/NZ cities -- because that's the honest truth. That's been the current state for decades, and there's very little chance that any major city center ever becomes affordable again in our lifetimes.

Obviously, we should still try to fix this. I fully support trying. But every facet of our society is wholly dedicated to preventing city centers from ever becoming affordable. Affordable city centers just are not likely to happen. We should not assume regular people live in a situation that doesn't exist, and likely never will.
Heh yeah well I am not native English speaker and it did go a little fast.
and postgres!
Why not Hyper-V instead of VBOX? Much better in every aspect other than maybe desktop. I wish Linux gained enhanced session support.
One of the interesting things I note from the readme, is that they have an implementation of Grid graphics. Grid is pretty awesome for lower level graphics, and is part of the reason ggplot is able to be as good as it is.

Looking forward to poking around at their implementation. If it’s a JVM friendly implementation, that could open up some nicer visualization options from other languges like clojure, scala, etc.
Reminded me of "Hackers":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmz67ErIRa4
Why is it inflationary?
"Militaries are good at making horrible UI."

This is extremely applicable: https://hackernoon.com/why-the-dmv-website-sucks-2f27a367baa...

Disclaimer: it's an article I wrote about why government software contractors suck at their jobs.
As I understand, not really. Only prepare.

Although people are unhappy and annoyed, I think it is right decision to close the ID cards. This can be recovered from. If they were compromised, the trust would be gone.
Why isn't it a valid metric for a project that wanted to turn coasts to inland? Isn't it basically the only one? Under this project, several countries would have lost their coasts for good.
Why would you discuss things that are not work related? Some people don't have boundaries apparently.
Not a very scientific theory, and not much collected evidence but based on my observations Bitcoin get's much more press, more people know about it and want to buy it. It's all very speculative. To say 1 bitcoin is worth 7000 USD is the same as saying I can manage to sell all my bitcoin for that much which is likely not the case. As with all assets, the moment a major player loses confidence and signals such in the market, there will be a sell off and major crash in the value.

EDIT: anectodal evidence, this week more than 10 non-tech people who ask me for investing advice asked "should i buy bitcoin". The moment non-experts begin to ask if they should be buying something is generally a good signal that something is bubbling
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There exists a desire to have children in a household amongst some people both male and female just because it can be fulfilling and nice.
Or it's because more shady merchants (drugs dealers) accept BTC. Why does anyone think it's more in-depth than that?
Opex loses is liability. Company with no opex is an asset.
Oh, I didn't mean to imply the Chinese had enough stockpiles. I meant they have a big enough economy to rapidly build up their nukes (or invest in bioweapons etc), should they decide to.
My intuition is that people like to start firms because they enjoy the feeling of being tribal leaders, and people like to participate in firms because of ordinary tribal hierarchical belonging...

And the subtle near-mystical benefits to being in the same room, the "high bandwidth communication" of "body language" and all those things, all seem to me to have a great deal to do with the ancient structure of the primate dominance hierarchy!

You notice when you bring up the topic of remote work in an organization that isn't fully remote already (i.e., isn't operated by introverted shamanic nomads) that it's totally not a decision about rational economic benefits. It seems to be much more about family, tribe, smelling each other's sweat, etc.

Benefit calculations are tricky because you could find just as many benefits to working separately, although it might lead to you to think of work in a different way, a less tribal way.

You don't argue that professors, poets, and carpenters need to huddle up in a boiler room to get their work done, because we know that some modes of working more require privacy, relaxation, autonomy, etc.

I think tribalism is really powerful and like a core force in our evolutionary heritage. As it happens, I personally tend to inhabit the fringes of the tribe, and I do better work in a solitary or remote situation.
Wow, how have I never seen MA that's awesome and pretty darn accurate.
The main thing in this is the cool demo of reverse-generating a distribution from its stats to produce lots of very different shapes with statistically identical properties. Like the adversarial images discussion recently.

But I think people over-estimate what can be taken from statistics. It's a tricky subject; ultimately the map is not the territory and condensing a reality to a distribution loses information. And probability can be very counter-intuitive from the Monty Hall problem upwards.
It's pretty bad. Even if you put it on max, disabling automatic elevation, there are still flaws that microsoft doens't bother to fix.
But only (1) is a logical explanation for _recent_ price movement, no?
A black hole crossing our path would give plenty of warning, assuming it approaches significantly slower than the speed of light.

The effect of a black hole's gravity on distant objects is exactly the same as the effect of any other object with the same mass. It would disturb Kuiper belt objects that everyone's watching very carefully these days, affect the orbits of the outer planets as it moves closer, and bend light around its event horizon in a very obvious way.

Whether we can do anything about it, of course, is a different problem.
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Wilful blindness doesn't suit you.

You can very easily find plenty of mainstream media news articles about Hillary's million plus fake followers, and you can look at election era tweets and retweets yourself.
>I think my view is more that of Silicon Valley/entrepreneur/programmer types. These people (me, etc) want the best long term outcome and will take big actions towards that, even knowing it’ll cause some short term pain.

>I don’t think ‘regular’ people think like that. They generally care more about the people around them, their own pain, their tribes, their cities, etc. (But not at all about trillions of as yet unborn humans.)

And I think that both of you have a very peculiar taste for bullets, since you like biting them so much when there was otherwise no actual need. We can invent cool technologies, colonize space, and have an egalitarian society. In fact, in my view, those things go together: you can't really get a stable multiplanetary civilization going when people are constantly trying to tear out each-other's throats over socioeconomic inequality.
"Whhhaaaaa! This law that was supposed to make it easier to overturn bullshit patents has made it easier to overturn my bullshit patents!"
I was lucky enough to see a series of lectures by Surya Ganguli this summer - he stole the show at the conference I was at. I highly recommmend seeking out his presentations.
> If they can afford it. Capitalism is actually the system of stealing value from your labour in order to make a profit.

And yet, freelancers or one-employee businesses are also engaging in capitalism. Are those the ones being stolen from or the ones stealing? Socialist ideas are so confusing that I can no longer tell.

> I guess that explains why two of the world superpowers in recent times are/were communist (USSR, China)

And half of them dropped it while the other is not precisely the best place to live in the world, even if it might be the only communist experiment that isn't a complete nightmare.

> That must explain why China is lifting more people out of poverty than any other country.

Wasn't China the place were only five years ago there were thousands starving in sweatshops? And that's assuming that isn't happening anymore, I haven't kept up to date on that.

> It's better than fuedalism, but I'd rather live in a society focused on helping each other, than in one focused on exploiting others as much as I can to maximize my capital.

It's not like you can't live in such a place today, where are you writing this from? I'm assuming China, given that it's the only example of communism you're using.

> But don't you think it's better when people work together and help each other, rather than thinking only of themselves?

Capitalism prevents this how? For that matter, this you're describing here isn't what socialism or communism are about, as history shows.

> You sound like someone who drank way to much of the Ayn Rand Cool Aid.

And you sound like someone who'd greatly regret his/her life choices once you see yourself in a gulag (or a gulag by any other name). Wait, did you think you'd be spared?
so what are they doing in one sentence?
I know people facing this issue. You can email me at veer@totalcloud.io. I can help you set up the whole thing.

We are already working on revamping the onboarding documentation.