skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dare you to find a single office without a printer.
The "No Temporal Scotsman" fallacy if you will.
Yes. If a person is able to do things sequentially (get up, brush teeth, etc etc), be able to decide, (if I do this, then I do that), they can code
just to clarify ? the question itself has merit ? no ? the description of the commander in chief however may not have shown respect, for which I accept your comment and take the downvotes on the chin.
> I think parents themselves are not adult enough to deal with Facebook and avoid being manipulated or cheated. I think the world hasn't caught up with addictiveness of social media yet.

I hear this criticism a lot and to me it strikes a similar tone as the 1972 documentary Future Shock. Effectively that the pace of change is too rapid and humans cannot adjust. Its a compelling argument on its face, but its been falsified over much of history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkUwXenBokU
Younger me: "Yes I can do that, and I'll have to you in an hour"... 3 weeks later, less hair and a horrible implementation that "works".

Older me: "Yes, but..."
The fact that it can point to unmanaged memory is a benefit for me. Just last week I’ve been porting some performance critical code to C++\CLI and this will allow me to use a span of of object instead of having to pin arrays. One other application is that it is now possible to implement a memory pool using a contiguous piece of memory and only returning slices of it, previously you would have to have multiple instances of a fixed size array in the pool.
Ah, sorry. I was speaking more in terms of internationalization than actually converting between time zones. All you need is a database, but that database can be hard to maintain and can be very large.
The research they cited just says that older people tend to file more patents. This is just one component of innovation.
And why exactly are Microsoft being allowed to dictate restrictions upon general purpose PCs manufactured by others? Why do other OS distributors need approval from Microsoft before their OS images can be used under Secure Boot, without the user having to install their own keys? We need to overcome these big usability hurdles, or PCs are going to become just glorified smartphones needing 'jailbreaks' before long. The writing is on the wall for those who can see it, IMO.
It's a boundary condition. I expressed myself badly.

EDIT: If you are a physicalist. Some people are not.

EDIT2: "The Truth" has nothing to do with whether one is a physicalist or not, but the interpretation of some various sub-sets of the facts inform various ... schools of thought.
I see both sides. The magic of SOAP is you can give a tool a WSDL and it will generate bindings in a language of your choice.

The downside is it has to be pretty complicated to enable the magic, so building it can be complicated, and debugging it is a nightmare. You could say the same about a lot of modern JS, and that's been somewhat solved by amazing tooling.
This solves the problem of not allowing low level optimisations in interacting with memory that are C/C++ developers bread and butter.

Most C# developers won't use it directly, but rather benefit from wide ranging performance increases in the libraries they use.
This seems to be mostly about skynet scenarios, which is an entirely different problem.
No, the app has no control over it. It displays a system dialog once it tries to use something.
TJ, https://apex.sh/ is so beautiful. Did you design it entirely yourself or did you get help and if so who helped? Also mind if I ask what your inspirations were?
Branding is a requirement to protect your product on Amazon, and any seller who isn't registered is highly vulnerable.

Regardless if that is a good or bad thing, I'm not sure, but most brands are manufactures, though I'm sure many are white label sellers. White labelling is a dangerous strategy on Amazon, and I'm not sure who is successful at it long term.
Bad signaling due to spending large when a company is still shaky or raising money is one thing - but the scrutiny over how other people spend their money always seems rather strange.

On one hand, starting a business and being successful (at least financially) is highly encouraged, however as soon as someone makes it, then it's all about how they dare to spend what they've earned instead of considering the billions of other people on the planet with every decision. Perhaps it's best to just let people do what they want with what they have.
I went to buy an iPhone X. AT&T told me Galaxy Note 8 is better
I’ve noticed the word “gaslighting” being increasingly used. I’ve also noticed that my brain responds to use of this word by decreasing its expectation that the text or utterance is worth listening to.

Looking at the way it’s used in this comment, I would say it is ascribing malice where malice is unlikely, and would be implausible in the first place. So maybe my brain’s heuristic is justified.
This is a good site to visit for those interested in learning more about cuneiform script and the Akkadian language (an ancient language related to Arabic, Aramaic, and Hebrew).

http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/knpp/cuneiformrevealed/in...

The site itself is a public outreach site about divination during the late Assyrian empire (c. 680 - 620 BC), so there's a lot of interesting information on there.

You'll need to install a Unicode cuneiform font if one isn't already present on your system. Unhelpfully, Unicode doesn't distinguish between cuneiform sign forms from 2000 BC and those from c.800 BC, which are graphically simplified and easier to learn for a beginner (though less aesthetically pleasing). The 800 BC signs (called the 'Neo-Assyrian' script) are usually those taught in a first-year Akkadian class.

The 'CuneiformNA' font is available for download here: http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/doc/help/visitingoracc/fonts/

Also on that page is a CuneiformOB (Old Babylonian) font, for the 2000BC sign forms.

Alternatively, Google provide a cuneiform font as part of their Noto project. These are also Old Babylonian sign forms:

https://www.google.com/get/noto/#sans-xsux
Thanks! I do all the design stuff myself. I wouldn't call myself a designer, but I do enjoy it either way!
And yet we don't because humans are immeasurably better at dealing with edge cases than any automated system. That being said, I do expect those systems developed by SpaceX to be automated. But I'd hesitate to call it "an area where automated systems should be really good."
Morpheus Data Optimizes Multi-Cloud Deployments and Unifies Ops Teams
It's a bit arbitrary to say that a company is only good at three things.

Also, the bad hiring A -> B -> C players only makes sense if the "three things" are all in the same business domain because then the A listers from the same domain are used up.

But, when Google is doing things like Android, Self Driving Cars, Youtube, Glucose Sensing Contact Lenses etc. Each domain is different and interesting enough to attract top talent. (When we say Google, we mean Alphabet, right?)

Amazon is such a wild thing and always iterating on new ideas (Alexa, AWS, Etc) I highly doubt they will be limited to "3" things. Also, Amazon have a great trick of commercializing all the services they create for themselves, which seems like it will just keep adding hedges and more surface area of revenue.

Microsoft, still huge. Sure they didn't win search but they have so many other strings to their bow (Xbox, Surface, Windows, etc)

Funny thing is, Microsoft didn't exactly own the search market and then "get beaten" by Google. Google just aced that from the get go and essentially created that market growth by making it possible to search the web so well.

Slack is a great example of how that works. There were lots of players making team chat and the market was not so huge. Then along comes Slack and makes something that is a delight and useful for many people, so much so, that it creates a new outsized market that didn't quite exist in that way before.

So, rather than "get beaten" I think the most likely scenario is that new players will continue to come along and create versions of "products that don't suck" and as a result markets that were once small will, all of a sudden, become huge.

I also think blockchain, right now, is like the internet was in say,
1998, and there will be some huge companies emerging from that tech.
With graphQL you have a concept of query complexity, you would base costs on complexity not number of API calls.
It is simpler than that. There is a social link between age and authority.

For the first third of your life almost anyone you interact with who has authorarive power over you is also older than you. Think parents, teachers, coaches, managers etc.

A VC (or incubator mentor) will most likely have a stronger authorarive stance and feel more comfortable with younger founders. Founders will feel same with younger employees and so on down the hiring ladder.

It requires maturity and confidence to "unlink" age and authority. In a culture as driven by "macho posturing" as the Silicon Valley startup world is, this, in most cases, ain't going to happen.

Thus startups are young.
It is because the young are cheap and stupid.

I could have stopped at cheap, but clever obedient monkeys demanding peanuts, throwing poo at their keyboards, is a better value proposition for a venture that has a 5% chance at success, than a higher grade simian.

Pro tip to cheap monkeys: Understand your value proposition, and get expensive fast.
I think it's safe to start calling yourself that... love it and will definitely be using it as inspiration.
It's rather more complicated than that. Its primary argument is that certain species of wild plants can be domesticated easier than others, and can be pushed to more productive yields through cultivation (e.g. wheat, rice), while others are more lacking (e.g. soghrum). Similarly, with animals, some regions don't have any suitable wild ones that can be domesticated as beasts of burden or food animals, others have some (e.g. pigs, alpacas), and still others scored big time (sheep, cows, horses). Once discovered, of course, these spread around, but it takes time, and is limited by climate and geographic features.

So the theory goes that Middle East and East Asia basically were the lucky ones to get that bootstrap, and other bordering regions (e.g. Europe) got it from there; while Africa, Australia and the Americas were not so lucky, and by the time they got all those things, they came on ships alongside some technologically advanced and well-armed people who weren't exactly on a humanitarian mission to spread the riches.
7 billion if it they want to.
Ask HN: We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?
It's not the product, I strongly believe we have a decent product.

we recently launched Sieve PRO
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/sieve-pro

https://www.sievehq.com/ a saas, where we provide all tools for anyone in tech to start freelancing in 15 minutes. This includes a personal website, client on-boarding, NDAs, requirement collection, eventually invoices, payments, and agreements.

When we had 600 people coming to our website, had 400 people click the signup but only 40 people signed up and NO ONE PAID.

We were asking for yearly payment $348 ($29/mo) as a part of Elite 100 program where we give away 100,000 shares for the first 100 people and all the features coming up in the next year for free.

What did we do wrong?
I don't know man. Middle management is a really shitty job. You have to do stuff that you don't believe in (because upper management says so, and they _might_ be right, even if every fiber in your body tells you they're wrong). As a dev, even as a very senior dev - I find that it's ok to be true to yourself, and say that you don't believe in it even if you have to do it. You can also easily switch teams. As a manager - you _have to_ be positive and sell it to your subordinates, who may be (should be!) your friends too. If you don't sell the vision well, there's no real way to know whether it failed because it really was a bad idea, or it failed because you didn't motivate your team to work on it.

This, I found, is too much for me. I have no remorse if I demotivate my managers; and I can keep my mouth shut and not say anything, to avoid demotivating my junior-dev colleagues. But as a manager, "keeping my mouth shut" is not an option.
They might call the example something other than "SafeSum" as it produces wrong answers on overflow :)
White labelling is hugely common on amazon and in the low end consumer technology business as a whole. The chance that any of those brands are a manufacturer is incredibly low, they will have close ties to a factory but their operation is must likely a marketing company with a logistics department.
> Only branching out into innovation when its under their own terms and they have a solid plan.

I think there's a lot to this. The young are more free with their energy and are more willing to throw it around haphazardly, everything is new to them. The older have been there done that and more adverse to wasting their time, thus more likely to only innovate when they believe they have a good idea and the means to execute on it.
Salary can be gamed hard tho. For example, you can offer higher salaries and lower equity (or no equity), to make sure you make the cut.

As a foreign prospective employee you are willing to let go of almost anything to get your nominal salary up high enough to be on the list. Its still a perverse incentive.
The issue here is that the same companies who can afford good SEO can afford Google Adwords. While a search engine that can find you non-commercial information would be very useful it is, un-ironically, very hard to find a commercially viable business model for such a service. The profit incentive that needs to be attached to everything in a our current commercialist world really narrows the scope of feasibility for potentially cool services.
That's less than the annual growth of Houston or the Dallas megaplex. (>800.000) They are a couple of times bigger and also grow much faster.
Capture it is more likely to gather intelligence and recon.
> The point stands (as a counter to the idea that Argentina's fleet is somehow ancient) that they're of a pretty similar age and era

Somehow you've missed the fact that ARA San Juan is 9 years older by your own account, and even older if you consider the fact that HMS Vanguard was only comissioned in 1993 and entered service in 1994.

Considering also that the typical design life of a navy ship is somewhere between 30 and 40 years, perhaps we can agree that a 10-year difference is highly relevant and significant.

Moreover, fatigue life is an unforgiving master and can't simply be fixed by mid-life updates.
Agreed - and this coming from a person likely considered "older" in technology (i.e. > 40 yrs). I think the criteria for "innovation" is flawed or at the very least needs to be expanded. It should include research published (pay-walled or otherwise) and high impact open source contributions at the very least.

Patents are typically filed by folks working for large(ish) corporations or universities. For corporations its almost a given that someone senior up the chain is on the patent. In a university - its generally the professor(s) leading the lab that will always be on a patent filed on behalf of the lab irrespective of the work they've put into it. That behavior in itself is a bias towards having an older population be on more patents.
I wish someone could make Facebook get closer to becoming a strictly positive addition to people's lives. If it merely gets destroyed then something would just substitute it. It's already in a position to do anything it practically wants, and there's a lot of good that could come of it... all it needs is a clear mind and willpower.
Rolling back the net neutrality rules is quite worrisome.
Ask HN: Side project ideas
I have a couple ideas for side projects and would love to get feedback.

The ideas are:

1. A poor-man’s cloud storage. The idea is that instead paying monthly for cloud storage you buy this small IoT device and connect usb drives on IT and your files are available to you over the internet. If you want redundancy you can choose to backup you drives to the drives of other users(encrypted of course).

2. A back to basics email service. Text only, whitelist only, with unlimited random one time email addresses. Emails will not reach the user’s inbox unless the sender’s email is explicitly whitelisted(or the user has emailed them first). For online registrations user’s will be able to request one time emails. Nothing fancy really.
Is this serious?

I mean, kudos for helping push node module developers to make better use of `.npmignore` et al, but this project strikes me as overly snarky or even trolling...

Seems like what we really need is for some volunteers to tackle the most-installed packages on npm that publish with many extraneous files.

Hell, you could even automate it by writing a bot that (politely) points out likely-extraneous files and opens a pull request with changes to `.npmignore` to clean things up... Hmm... Weekend project brewing...
Open source app to generate any GraphQL server documentation instantly
Have you tried arrow (my favorite), dolorean or a third one the name escapes me right now?

I use arrow whenever I need to process a date, no matter the usage. Having a consistent interface is golden.

EDIT I just realized that the author of moment in Python (you link to) also mentions arrow.
I have to remember the name of the third package, it addressed some weaknesses in arrow (particularly issues with failed parsing which does not output an error)
I like 1, however you risk to have the same problem than Freenet : nobody wants to host potentially highly illegal content even encrypted.

2. needs to have a lot of users to be useful.
> Wages have been FLAT vs rising inflation for ages, mostly due to labor over-supply.

In software engineering? Are you kidding?
The huge advantage of nano over vi in that scenario, is that nano 1) uses the conventional [i.e. as used by every editor other than vi] arrow key cursor movement and typing behavior without the need to toggle any modes etc, and 2) displays the shortcuts you need for anything else on the screen by default - things like saving, cutting/pasting, searching, and, oh yes, quitting.

So, while it might not be optimal for vi users, it is at least accessible to pretty much everyone regardless of their background. Whereas for someone not familiar to vi, getting thrown into the dreaded : prompt can be a frustrating nightmare.
I'll just suggest reading The E Myth which covers this topic quite thoroughly.

https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Most-Businesses-Dont-About/dp/08...

but the tl/dr; is something like "make time to work on your business instead of always working in your business. To that end, make things as process oriented, repeatable, and automated as possible".
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe a neutrally buoyant, or even (a little?) negatively buoyant sub can adjust depth, perhaps even surface?, under its own power.
like water flowing to the sea
It's not a troll, this is for AWS Lambda, where size impacts deployments and cost starts. See my comment below about the automation, I think it could/should be done too!
> Think back two or three hundred years ago when land was cheap or free.

That's a very odd perspective. It applies to the United States, but the United States is at best 500 years old. In the Old World land hasn't been cheap at any time in recorded history.
Samsung is making a detachable Chromebook
You may be right, however, there certainly was an upgrade path from the scanner edition. This may have been when '4' or '5' ('n') came along, if you owned any version of n-1 then you got the £150 upgrade price rather than the full £450 sticker price as it was back then.

So you could get a £100 scanner that was in itself 'reduced' from say £200, with that you could get your nobbled version of Photoshop for free, plus some SCSI card that was 'free'. Then paying a mere £150 to get full and improved Photoshop was not a difficult purchase decision.

After getting lured in by the cheap scanner I was on-board, paying for all the upgrades until I discovered that command line image processing was much more fun.

At the time there were lots of these pricing anomalies, e.g. ways to get full MS Office starting out with some student edition. I even managed to upgrade Visio from a version provided free on a magazine, before Microsoft bought it.

Funny to think how 'clever' I thought I was back then getting 'bargain' software. Odder still is that I now use Microsoft's VS Code with vim keybindings running on Ubuntu totally for free.
Whenever anyone talks about business ideas, there's always some person that says "Oh, well I will pay so much for it!" and when you implement...they don't pay. That's probably been the downfall of many a web service when they realize its cheap for a person to say that they might pay so much for something, but hard for them to open their purse when it's time.
What are the features that c# is missing?
As the other comment explained delegates are the equivalent of anonymous inner classes and are far better.
Checked exceptions are really a nuisance, I would call them a negative feature.
Java enums in c# are basically classes with readonly properties if you need to pass constructor arguments.
Streams in Java are a huge clusterfuck.
I can't think to anything that Java has that is better than c#.
As it happens, whilst the sources mentioned in the article (Old Assyrian archival texts excavated in Kaneš, Turkey) are unfortunately not yet available online, there are a substantial number of cuneiform texts available in interactive, scholarly-edited forms on the Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus: http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/projectlist.html

Admittedly there are swathes of cuneiform tablets which aren't available online yet (for example the OA texts, Old Babylonian letters, many tablets that haven't even been entered into museum catalogues yet) but the online corpus presents some very rich material.

There is also a Github repository https://github.com/oracc

(NB I am not affiliated with Oracc but I do use it heavily for research and am a big fan!)
Why epoch over UTC?
It is notoriously different. Not to mention that if you want to stop working to do proper job shopping, thats not an option.

Absudity by the reverse: if it is not problem, how about a law that makes it equally cumbersome for visa holders and americans to make jobs. It can't possible harm americans, and it will satisfy the irrational demands of those that see a difference.
>1) I can't be bothered to look for references, but the NY Times has not failed to notice (and criticize) the fact that the Trump administration is staffed by quite a few people from Wall Street. A fair question is whether the NY Times would be as critical of a hypothetical Hillary Clinton administration, if it made similar personnel choices.

The NYTimes also covered the Dakota Pipeline protests and the DWS DNC scandal. CIA influence in domestic media has also been covered in mainstream media.

But there's a difference between technically covering a topic somewhere and incessantly exposing an idea.
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But Laravel documentation is really bad, isn't it? Or is it the same for other frameworks as well? I mean the official textual documentation.
It seems dangerous to joke that the idea of weapons like that are just science fiction. It isn't far-fetched at all, and technology like that could be here in a short matter of years or perhaps months.
how do you get groceries? you uber to whole foods and back?