skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Setting aside the environmental impact of the false emissions claims -- deceiving millions of customers about a big ticket product should have a commensurate punishment.

I hope this isn't the last VW conviction.
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I'll just pitch in on this - I've noticed that textiles made in Turkey are really great quality, unlike many of their other exports.

Same goes for tableware, good quality for cheap.
Looking for anyone who is an expert in a domain your not familiar with is difficult. Especially a co-founder, as your success together will depend maybe more on dedication & your relationship VS technical ability.

At a minimum, look for someone who:

- Has the ability to explain something complex from their area in terms you understand.

- Is not afraid to question or disagree with you, but does so in a way that doesn't make you feel bad.

- Is looking for a challenge and is genuinely interested in what your doing

- Displays a history of non-conformity, thick-headedness in some way.

- Really thinks/codes in terms of minimal viable product

- Who you get along well with!
Looking forward to no more.
But you’re dangerously close there to having no predictive power. Business folk may rightly judge a product by its market success, but some business folk need to decide where to invest resources in building new products. Hindsight is 20/20, and of course products that are widely viewed as having poor engineering quality can succeed and even dominate a market, for a variety of reasons.

But that doesn’t provide much evidence to support the claim that, when developing a new product, engineering quality doesn’t matter. Sure, we can take the fatalistic view that new product development is an unguided process like biological evolution, where we will only know which random mutations were successful when we observe their prominence many generations down the line. But clearly most people act as if they believe they can do better than uniform random (i.e. investors generally don’t invest the exact same amount in every new company or product they can find).
So what? That's still isomorphic (I said isomorphic, not identical), as you can map a value to a stack state and vice-versa. See my Java programs in the comment below, where I explicitly perform a mapping on the state of the stack to map it to a variable in a different expression of the computation. My talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15uy9Ga-14I) addresses this precise point.
Thank you, super.
Punish one engineer and leave manager and other companies alone?
UI has the big problem of power vs casual/noob user and everyone stars as a noob. There are good compromises, usually the power-user tool is hard to get in to and more efficient.

Similar for switching away from QWERTZ.
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After how long usage was this measured? Do you have sources? How about Colemak and its variants?
As in, the cessation of all consciousness. This topic moreso than any other! Can't wait for the end of this senseless and horrid concern.
No, that would be racist.

I object only to real estate sales to people who are not permanent residents or citizens. I don't give a shit what country any Australian is originally from ... we are all Australians who hold citizen or permanent residen status, no matter the color of your skin or religion.
Conway's Law [0] is an essential aspect for large scale software development:

> Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.

[0] http://www.melconway.com/Home/Conways_Law.html
Well,you try to design a test of typing speed and fatigue but it's very challenging because all your subjects are probably already familiar with qwerty keyboards even if they don't touch-type.

And then you conclude abstract fitness is irrelevant anyway because everyone uses qwerty and there are:

- Advantages in everyone using more or less the same thing

- No way you're going to make everyone incur huge costs and switch
The "meal deal" was always confusing to me. Specifically I refer to the customary inclusion of crisps in the meal. This doesn't compute for a German.

> Plus you can now waltz in and out of a supermarket without talking to a single soul here and sit there on your own at lunch being miserable, another British pastime which I throughly enjoy :)

But, do you still get to queue? And who do you complain to about the weather?
Lampson has done an update of his hints paper, in the form of a presentation [1] (the video of the talk), [2] (the slides).

[1] http://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/blog/video/lecture-...

[2] http://bwlampson.site/Slides/Hints%20and%20principles%20(HLF...

Edit: added link to slides
Thank you for mentioning them!!! Was just looking for a solution for connecting my VPSs across DO, Vultr and Lightsale ZeroTier looks like a perfect solution
Why is gold $1,288 per ounce today? Purely because it acts as a store of value. But gold is only valued at its current valuation, because people say gold is gold and that has a certain value. You could have picked any other rare metal, or say, diamonds. Gold has limited real world uses.

The same could (not saying it will, but could) apply to Bitcoin. It seems to be growing into digital gold / a digital store of value.

The price of gold globally is $7.8tn. Bitcoin is worth $150bn(ish). If there is a 50/50 chance that Bitcoin does become digital gold, then at current valuations it will be cheap. Is it not worth investing $1 today, to potentially make $10-20-30 IF it does succeed? Those are decent odds with great upside.

This is not investment advice, just my personal opinion.
Why? Because context matters.

That is, for example, just because BetaMax had a superior Feature X doesn't mean that Feature X matters to enough people. That feature exists in a broader expectations + wants + needs "eco-system." That momentum can be very difficult to redirect once it gets rolling.

Yes, a unique / superior feature _might_ be what wins you the market but it's not always that simple.
No not your comment. Other pro Net Neutrality comments and threads here.
How old are you? Maybe you don't remember...

Not only is traffic noticeably lighter than in 2003, it is INCREDIBLY lighter than what it would have been without congestion charge, given the city growth.
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I've always enjoyed dark humor. Though not because I have higher intelligence. It's fun to get away from cliche and melodrama with any type of humor. And dark humor seems to be fitting for possibly bad situations. I wouldn't joke about death at a funeral but I might when someone talks about possible doom and gloom and death is abstract ways.
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It's not just the consumption and how it affects you. You also have to consider the effect of your alcohol consumption on others, especially your significant other, kids, family or friends.

Maybe you're feeling fine with one bottle of wine every night, but I highly doubt your partner or kids feel the same way. You may not notice it (because your intoxicated, after all), but a bottle of wine does affect your behaviour. Forgetting things, repeating yourself, being annoyed more quickly, incoherent stories, some verbal aggression... all minor things you may not notice, but the people around you do. And they don't like it.
Thanks to our Polish friends (I assume), London has some decent options for bread nowadays. Lots of them even sourdough and decent crust.
I can recommend Iosevka¹. It looks a bit condensed, which takes time getting used to, but after that you have the benefit of monospaced, without it being so wide.

It's also highly customizable.

¹ https://be5invis.github.io/Iosevka/

white on black paragraph sample: http://malea.lacerta.uberspace.de/up/11a0e427-7717-4f25-a74d...
For those users who have opted or email notifications, you could store only bcypted email.
Yep, a few. Check TechyTokyo, Meetup, and Doorkeeper
US food isn't really better than the British stuff.

Go to South East Asian (or Asian in general?) to meet some peoples obsessed about food. Continental Europe might also count.
They're really not doing much. I just let my premium membership lapse because they have so few extra features.

Trying to make a facebook news feed doesn't do anything with their current data which is their strength.

I really wish they'd up their game.
> Europe has the same bland greenhouse tomatoes in my experience.

Try any Mediterranean country (France is included in that btw).
> If you are their only option, there is a reason for it, and you should walk away.

Depending on your other options, it still might be interesting. Just know you are walking into a potential trainwreck.
I tend to agree, although I think this is probably a spectrum, rather than binary. Or maybe a bimodal distribution? I think that people probably tend one way or another, but we all probably display both reactions in different areas of life, at different times, etc.

I also think the terms you used probably aren’t ideal, because they imply a political connection that might make people resistant to your premise. It reminds me of the maker vs taker thing.

I like to think of it as reasonable vs unreasonable, as in the George Bernard Shaw quote:

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
I have personally found that being the host of a party or dinner is an interesting way to be social without being extremely extroverted. Sure, you have to be sociable, but your primary objective is to make sure everyone is having a good time, the party is going well, the food is distributed, and so on. Your role is not to entertain individual people for hours on end, but more to make introductions between others and work behind the scenes, so to speak.
I liken these questions to a problem with a fancy car. If you have the exact tool it's trivial but if not damn near impossible.

And a horrible interview question. It shows only that the interviewee has heard the question before or not.
VW and the German government are basically "cooperating" on everything [1] [2] [3]. It's extremely naive to think that VW will get a fair trail in Germany.

[1] https://qz.com/1045619/germanys-diesel-scandal-shines-a-ligh...

[2] http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/09/05/lobbying-data-re...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/world/europe/germany-volk...
No need to ponder, its very simple, people would rather not live in the desert.
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it's not meant to be blown up. Look at the paragraph examples in the "specimen" tab. It looks really tidy in smaller size.
The problem is that people want market success to be a consequence of engineering quality. But a lot of people are interested in a lot more than engineering quality. So the products with the best code don’t necessarily make the most money.

You could ask “why do some attractive people marry ugly people?”. It’s because your reasons for choosing something are not necessarily the same as somebody else’s.
What are the meetups usually like, content-wise? Another user commented that they seem more like mixers -- is there any scheduled content at all?
a lovely example is uFDFD, ﷽ (single char)
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For programmers, QWERTY is actually superior to DVORAK in my opinion. The US keyboard variant more specifically as most language designs have been influenced by how reachable each punctuation is to that specific layout. And with auto-complete, the alphabet placement is not that important.

Actually if we were to rethink the keyboard based on the frequency of usage, it might make sense to place all the punctuation a bit closer to the home row for programmer keyboards.
> But this takes time

If processes against German bank managers serve as example, it will take exactly long enough to satisfy the statute of limitation.
Australian here - I agree. HN must realise that this story gets trotted out basically ever week on prime time TV.

And it's true that some people have been really stupid financing multiple properties off of each other and trying to live off of rentals then having it all fall down. But that's hardly more than a tiny minority of idiots.

Furthermore the Australian property market really has at least two completely different levels. You've got Sydney with multi-million dollar hovels. And then you've got pretty much the rest of the country which is reasonably priced. There might be a third one which is "CBD apartments" which are also crazily high priced - but if you live there you're an idiot too.

Guess where most of the media is? Guess where most of the focus on pricing is? Yes... it's Sydney.

Now it's true our houses are relatively expensive. I watch some American shows where they're house-hunting and get pretty much mansions for 1/4 of the price of a normal house here, but, I suspect those are in semi-remote places.

But is it a party? Not really. Is it over? Not by a long shot. You can't trust any of this news.

Of course if you're buying a house way beyond your budget, or buying multiple houses, you're an idiot and get what you deserve. Also there's always the risk you do everything right but then lose your job, run out of savings, and can't make repayments - but we're all in that position.
You were born and bred in Perth, but never truly lived in Australia, that makes no sense.
I don’t even think that learning a new layout is the dealbreaker. I think the dealbreaker is that, no matter how you work, you will occasionally need to use a computer with a standard keyboard layout. It may not be very often at all (the last time I used a random computer was an on-site programming interview with the company’s PC, and that was a text editing disaster despite my familiarity with QWERTY, though I still got an offer), but it’s probably often enough that it’s not worth the small potential gains of another keyboard layout.

Of course, now that I present that argument, I realize it could be applied to text editors shortcuts and plugins, which I have customized extensively on all my main development machines. That said, I almost never do any significant coding on random machines, so the cost/benefit analysis might work out in my favor (I certainly behave as if it does). I also remap all my Caps Lock physical keys to Control/Command, which is pretty common among programmers but very rare among non-programmers. That’s another case where my gut says that the small rare inconveniences of using random computers are outweighed by my regular productivity increases.

However, I don’t have any actual data on this, so it turns out my argument in the first paragraph of this comment is really just a guess. I do intuitively feel like QWERTY to Dvorak is a much more significant alteration than Caps Lock to Ctrl or some customized hotkeys in my text editor of choice.
Note that the plague is very climate and fauna dependent:

https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/07/daily-...
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nit: Dynamo != DynamoDB: http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2012/01/amazon-dynamodb....
Most of the time. Take a look at developer tools for instance:

jenkins,nagios,graphite,jmeter,mysql,postgresql,puppet,vagrant,virtualbox,mongodb,npm,docker,openvpn.

What all these software have in common. They are the most popular despite being poor products and often having notably superior competitors.
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It depends what you mean by superior.

If you mean superior in a technical sense (which unfortunately seems to be all a lot of startups and engineers focus on), then obviously there are tons of instances where 'superior' alternatives fail to catch on, simply because the 'superior' alternatives lack the non technical benefits of the older products or services.

Like how a new social network might be more decentralised and censorship resiliant than Facebook, but lack the community/userbase that makes Facebook valuable to begin with. Or how a CMS system might be better coded than WordPress, but have a UI that people find more awkward to use (or an install process that's overly tedious/annoying for non technical folk).

In that sense, a lot of superior alternatives fail to catch on simply because for all the 'objective' improvements they make, they just don't do what people need them to actually do. A community site or social network doesn't need the best codebase possible, a long laundry list of features or a censorship resistent setup, it needs a big enough community/userbase to get people invested in it.

Of course, even when all factors do line up... well, that doesn't exactly guarantee the alternative with succeed either. People aren't robots, and don't choose every action to be as rational as possible. The difference between two competitors can just as easily come down to pure luck, some perceived emotional connection, timing or anything else, not necessarily the quality of the product or organisation behind it.
But those are mostly localized and unorganized farms, right?
Tangential, but I was able to recite all the words, but only because memorized them in a nonsensical, but easier to remember story. I like the exercise because it forces me to be creative.

The CAT looked at me eating an APPLE, I threw a BALL outside to see if it would chase it instead it climbed a TREE...
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Microsoft became Microsoft because they were better at marketing/business in the technology industry, not because they were better at building and shipping technology.

Amiga workstations and Macs in the late 80s were way ahead of DOS's UX with its 640k RAM limits and poor CGA graphics capabilities. But they became the standard and caught up with the graphics and multimedia capabilities of the other two platforms 20 years later once they could invest into removing their technical debt.

In contrast, Amiga died a slow and painful death because of mismanagement and owner squabbles, even though they were used for much more than home gaming (real time TV station visuals) even into the early naughties. They were just much better than the alternatives. And ahead of its time as a technical platform and home PC.
I saw something posted here a few months ago called 'Scuttlebutt'. What about that? The founder is definitely positioning it as the anti-facebook and himself as the anti-Zuck.

I agree with you there, I think that is why all the other challengers have failed. None could create an equal social graph or off anything good enough to make people want to leave.

By now though, it may be the case that people don't want to join anything new because of losing 'memories' and fear of missing out.
So did some poking around; apparently, there are two timestamps in GPS messages, and the more precise one is packaged in a custom hash function and called the "ranging code". The timestep (called a "chip") is a bit under a microsecond.

But yes, the receiver does have to measure small time differences between received signals; but that just requires a local clock with high resolution, not one with low drift or low absolute error.

For example, if your local clock is a second off, but still measures time intervals to pretty high precision (say, 0.01% - losing a second every three years) that's probably not going to mess up your location fix very much. Especially when the problem is overconstrained as it usually is intentionally. Compare the theoretical minimum requirement of three visible satellites to make a measurement with the 4-12 satellites that the system guarantees will be in sight at any time.
Could you expand on this a bit? I haven't heard this argument, and I just listened to a pretty long conversation with FCC Chairman Pai (on the Fifth Column podcast, if you're interested). His argument was that it will reduce the burden on small ISPs, which would then pop up everywhere, creating a pro-consumer competitive market. (Which is either magical thinking or just disingenuous, but that was his argument, such as it was.)
I think one of the most useful papers about scaling modern web architectures is Armando Fox and Eric Brewer's Harvest, Yield, and Scalable Tolerant Systems: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5015/8bc1a8a67295ab7bce0550...

Not only was it the paper that first put into written word the CAP theorem, but it also prescribes design principles for scaling out applications with graceful degradation and "orthogonal decomposition" (i.e. service-oriented architectures).

It's also a fairly short and easy read at only 4 pages, and I'd definitely recommend everyone interested in practical modern distributed systems to take a look.
> Most of them completely skipped vetting me, and just were hungry for someone who could code.

How did these people find you?

I am ready to quit my stable job and do something fun for a while. Where do you I find people in the same boat.
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He said 'I'm drinking on average 5 evenings per week...'

This, for me, doesn't sound like someone with an addiction issue.

You make some fair points but I was trying to give the guy a bit of encouragement that his problem is not so great that he can't just snap out of it.

Apologies for any offence.
Most disturbing thing I've seen in a while.
Also because Microsoft made the right decision for business customers when it came to backwards compatibility.
That was because the book was written before the third time he went. (See Wikipedia.)
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I don't know, Amazon has disrupted retail from the ground up but is starting to spread. I think they could take a crack at it and get further than Google+ did.

It's all speculation though. We can rule Microsoft out.
You typically don't try to "predict", you just learn about customers' wants and needs and solve for those. Why try to guess what attributes are important in a product when you can just ask / test
The competition has moved inside Linux. The large companies all maintain their own patch sets. There are still ways they believe that they can make OSes better, they just don't believe they can compete with Linux in all the other ways, so they just write their own modifications for it instead.

Which is absolutely wonderful, because Linux is licensed under GPL, so the best improvements end up in the main tree and everyone benefits.
This is a beautiful syntax for pattern matching! Love it!
Although some advice, that you might thing are right or not. Doesn't matter.

Disclaimer: I'm just saw the idea and I din't run any investigation on existing solutions.

Suggestions / Questions:
- A plus would be having a "promise version" that could resolve .if() || .else || .elseif || .all || .then || .final || .catch would be awesome to be combine with generators or just async/await.

- I would love to have it, build-in of ECMAScript, so could you think of something that could fit in a draft and could be pluggable in babel? as a POC? (Would be worth it?)

- The website, by layout, says "I wanna sell you something, that has little to do with coding!" I know is about taste, but thats my feeling on it, is just a minor irrelevant thing.

Anyway I like the API that you're delivering. Nice neat syntax, I would see if during my coding I get a chance to give it a try, I would tell you the results of it.
Maybe I should have said "guaranteed employment for life" instead of just work.

Irrelevant of the salary, most medium cities will only have a handful of tech roles available, at best. It's super hard to find and hold a job.
The article neglected to mention Amazon's recent $250 million expenditure licensing the rights to Lord of The Rings, which they intend to develop into the most expensive dramatic series ever produced.
Net Neutrality is not a good thing. It’s not an evil thing, either