skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can definitely make over $1m a year running a bootstrapped business. On the high end of the success scale you can walk away with more money than a successful VC backed co-founder.

There are more businesses that are totally inappropriate for VC than should take VC money. The problem is everyone is equating tech businesses with VC. There are plenty of dead tech startups that actually have modest economics and would have worked if VC, and the high expenses of the top tier US talent, had been avoided.

Another note, something I’ve learned more recently. Some businesses won’t make more money even if you force more capital in to them. You can end up with a really good company that can be profitable for decades, but destroy it by force feeding it outside capital (VC or other.) It is important to identify this early.
> They're generally not resorting to violence; they're blocking the boats

They're sometimes violent. "Mr. Watson and his Sea Shepherd Conservation Society have rammed, sabotaged, shot water canons at and thrown stink bombs on whalers and commercial fishing vessels" [1].

There is an odd symbiosis between the Sea Shepherd's vigilantism and the Japanese government's protests. Peacefully tailing and documenting would be more effective in the long run. But de-esclating would piss off the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's donors. In the meantime, Japan uses the Sea Shepherd's vigilantism to distract from its own activities.

> The International Court of Justice, which has its seat in The Hague, is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations

The ICJ's jurisdiction is complicated, e.g. "compulsory" jurisdiction is limited to cases where both parties have agreed to submit to its decision [2]. (Japan has rejected the ICJ's jurisdiction over this issue [3].)

In any case, the Sea Shepherd regularly breaks suites of international maritime laws. Advocating for the limited application of the law is advocating for no law.

[1] https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2010/0106/Whale-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Court_of_Justice...

[3] http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/japan-...
Inflation is not the reason.

Practically all savings give returns above the inflation. Interests respond to changes in inflation. If you look at the real returns, you can see that they are surprisingly stable.

Fixation with nominal valuations is a sign of financial illiteracy.
Merry Xmas....
> It is going to cartels that have no interests in common with you

To elaborate - we absolutely have something in common. These 'cartels' (businesses) don't give a flying fuck about DRM, they just want to be able to sell things. Often, they make good things that I want to buy. Good set of interests to have in common.
Read books, lots and lots of non-fiction books. Dial down your consumption of mass media (television and internet blogs) and social media especially. Expand your understanding of written exposition, make yourself receptive to others’ arguments (which means: feel free to change opinion if somebody else’s logic convinced you, and don’t always consider convincing others to be the point of the exercise), expand your vocabulary, and perfect your syntax.
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Section regarding the format:

LUKS2 format and features
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The LUKS2 is an on-disk storage format designed to provide simple key
management, primarily intended for Full Disk Encryption based on dm-crypt.

The LUKS2 is inspired by LUKS1 format and in some specific situations (most
of the default configurations) can be converted in-place from LUKS1.

The LUKS2 format is designed to allow future updates of various
parts without the need to modify binary structures and internally
uses JSON text format for metadata. Compilation now requires the json-c library
that is used for JSON data processing.

On-disk format provides redundancy of metadata, detection
of metadata corruption and automatic repair from metadata copy.

NOTE: For security reasons, there is no redundancy in keyslots binary data
(encrypted keys) but the format allows adding such a feature in future.

NOTE: to operate correctly, LUKS2 requires locking of metadata.
Locking is performed by using flock() system call for images in file
and for block device by using a specific lock file in /run/lock/cryptsetup.

This directory must be created by distribution (do not rely on internal
fallback). For systemd-based distribution, you can simply install
scripts/cryptsetup.conf into tmpfiles.d directory.

For more details see LUKS2-format.txt and LUKS2-locking.txt in the docs
directory. (Please note this is just overview, there will be more formal
documentation later.)
12 Best Material Design Website Examples to Draw Inspirations
This tendency of "solve this problem first, instead of this other thing" is rather unfortunate. Why not work on both? Or get the right people to fix what you'd like?

Using earthworms is not new at all - this has been going on for hundreds of years in agrarian societies.
What. Are. You. Talking. About.
Red army faction, German domestic terrorists in the 70s, see the movie baader-meinhof phenomenon
> JSX is a thin XML-like DSL on top of Javascript

^ this.

It directly translates to `React.createElement`. This is also why everything inside {} is pure Javascript including things like proper `this` etc.
It's not hyperbole (although I can't vouch for its accuracy). What the person you're replying to is saying is that:

1. There are some (fairly standard) food safety regulation in place in Oregon that govern acceptable levels of different toxins in baby food, produce, etc.

2. There are some entirely different and vastly stricter safety regulations in place in Oregon for cannabis.

3. If you tested baby food, tomatoes, and grapes which pass the actual Oregon regulations for baby food, tomatoes, and grapes under the cannabis regulations, they would fail, potentially by an order of magnitude.

4. Which suggests that either Oregon (and basically all other states) have dangerously lax regulations on food and produce, OR that Oregon has ridiculously strict regulations on cannabis.
If I use colors with uniform luminosity will color-blind have difficulty distinguishing them?
That sounds like a horrendous idea. How could amazon possibly think it made sense to do that?
Yes. https://microkerneldude.wordpress.com/2016/06/16/verified-so...
Confused by the downvotes here. In almost all of America (looking at you Cali) the property taxes are reassessed yearly to the value of the home.

This is how we want it. The three blocks in every direction surrounding a middle school shouldn’t be populated by 80 year old retirees.
Why do I care how somebody has earned their prestige? I want my questions answered, and nobody should care (much) about anything else. It’s already elitist and hostile to newcomers, the last thing we need is that it be enshrined in the implicit underlying data-structure that ’prestige’ is the whole point of the enterprise. Keep in mind that karma points or whatever are first and foremost an instrument for classifying replies from users, and only as a side-effect became a badge of honour. If anything that tendency should be suppressed to avoid concentration and the old-boys-club effect, not the opposite.
> We must use guns

Wait, we're still talking about Netflix's highly scalable architecture, right?

This shit sounds like its right out of n-gate.
He's actually exploring the difficulties of defining numbers numbers in a naive way to be their decimal expansions.
I completely agree. People tend to be afraid of saying "no" to avoid offending people. And then there is the case of showing off in front of 10+ people.

At my last job, people were spending nearly 2 hours each day in meetings. Each of these meetings required 1-2 hours of preparation. So, nearly 50% of the work week or 20 out of 40 hours were being lost. And most of these meetings were "updates" meetings. Update to Lead Engineer, then team, then VP etc. To top it off the manager believed in "face to face" interactions. So, all meetings happened via video conferencing.

Whenever I explained on how it should be a lead engineer updating the manager and the manager updating to VP, I was given a strange look. How do we show off our achievements? They said.

But it also meant I couldn't individually say "no". Every time I did that my manager received flurry of mails from other engineers on why I was given the "special" treatment of skipping these meetings.
I too agree to a certain extent. I've experienced many problems that could have been avoided had decisions been communicated to wider audiences, and problems that were actually avoided because someone in a meeting (who was not a primary participant) said "actually if you do that change, you'll need to handle a dependency with our component".
It has been constant for almost half a century for the middle class, yet everyone is working more for the same not less.

How exactly can you live better than your parents, assuming they had a house, a car or two, phones, TV, computers, access to supermarkets of all kinds, enough money for living expenses and a hobby or yearly vacation...
How about "isn't primarily going ...".

Media is an investment, which is why were getting lots of "low creativity" movies, re-boots, extended franchises, sequels, etc.. People will risk money for art, but investors don't want to risk anything: some franchises can basically churn out anything and be sure to make a huge profit (which Hollywood accountants can spin as a loss by charging millions for IPR).

I think the spirit of the former comment is "when a movie makes $$$ profit how much of that is going to the colourist, or the make-up artist, the IT support, the animation assistants, ... all people essential to the movie. Versus how much goes to investors whose only part is being already rich?".

The creators get wages, but how many of the creators get profits, and how often is it more than simple investors get?
What happens when I violate IP laws? The police comes knocking on the door, even though I didn't deprive anyone of anything or harm anyone in any way. The only reason companies like Netflix are able to exist in the face of alternatives that are many times better in every single way(like torrents) is because of this underlying foundation of violence.
Wait, banks OPEN branches in Manhattan?! Isn't internet banking a thing in NYC? Like, what would you even DO in a bank these days. They don't even carry money anymore.
Online B2b Marketplace for suppliers, wholesalers, distributors and buyer
You mistake simplicity for performance. Simplicity is about lack of interleaving of abstractions, it's about one concept, one task, one role, single responsibility etc. I recommend Rich Hickey's talk "Simple made easy" for that matter: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
Funny you say that because i find the font size used by that site to be the most comfortable for me (and i have far from a good sight...) and i really dislike sites that use huge letters (like f.e. Medium). Then again, i prefer small font sizes in general and i dislike the tendency to waste space in modern UIs - both web-based and desktop (and mobile, but i don't use that much and in mobile it is kinda of acceptable because fingers - although i'd really like it if mobiles came with a stylus instead and adjusted their UIs accordingly).
In the US. Inequality has dropped significantly. A large portion of the gains to America were captured by its elite. The large portion of the gains in other parts of the world have lifted billions out of poverty.

Turns out globalization is good or bad depending on who you are and where you are.
Are you suggesting to allow those things in weed, or disallow them in baby food?
> People would want to work on to have an international treaty of banning whale hunting altogether

People have tried [1]. It's complicated.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Convention_for_t...
And lest people think you're exaggerating about how the administration thinks, this recent gem from our current mayor:

"What’s been hardest is the way our legal system is structured to favor private property. I think people all over this city, of every background, would like to have the city government be able to determine which building goes where, how high it will be, who gets to live in it, what the rent will be. I think there’s a socialistic impulse, which I hear every day, in every kind of community, that they would like things to be planned in accordance to their needs. And I would, too. Unfortunately, what stands in the way of that is hundreds of years of history that have elevated property rights and wealth to the point that that’s the reality that calls the tune on a lot of development."[0]

[0] http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/09/bill-de-blasio-...
Sure. I’m pretty comfortable taking the position that the top 10% are in the upper class.
In somewhat-related news, I have a green-phosphor VT100 serial terminal hooked up to my Raspberry Pi 3 via a USB/RS232 adapter and I run SIMH emulating a PDP-11 running period-appropriate UNIX V. Great fun.
This article can also be called “Burning Bridges”
I feel bit sorry for Netflix, for the lengths they have gone to get their high performance/reliable architecture but the clients are still at the mercy of the OS, browsers, CPU (decoding codecs) of-course assuming high speed Internet.

From their website - https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742

Resolution:

Google Chrome
Up to 720p on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Up to 1080p on Chrome OS.
Internet Explorer up to 1080p.
Microsoft Edge up to 4K.
Mozilla Firefox up to 720p.
Opera up to 720p.
Safari up to 1080p on Mac OS X 10.10.3 or later.
Streaming in 4K requires an HDCP 2.2 compliant connection to a 4K capable display, Intel's 7th generation Core CPU, and the latest Windows updates.

P.S Interesting to note that Chrome OS plays 1080p, I assume because it has HW acceleration enabled by default (in browser alone, not in android apps though).
The fact that this is true and it’s really hard to make more land is the entire basis of Georgism, or Land Value Tax.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
It's not "our government", it's one guy who's miffed that his office was defunded. And his quotes in the article make no sense to me; I can't parse the syntax and don't know what he's trying to say. It he's being quoted correctly, he sounds addle-headed.
When banks are convenient - people (and small businesses that take cash) go to them...
7 Techniques for Avoiding Entrepreneurial Blind Spots
I'll never understand Amazon's domination in the US.

Its like everyone not Bezos chose to completely ignore the internet.
The Global Rush to Build New Skyscrapers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay#History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaupload_legal_case

The only reason Netflix exists in the face of superior alternatives is violence.
Go watch a sitcom from the 50s and compare it your surroundings. Hopefully you come to the conclusion that your standard of living is immensely greater than theirs was.

If you are thinking of things like the cost of college don’t forget to factor in how many people go to college today versus back then. If you are thinking about the cost of housing, we still have the same land and a growing population. I’m city centers the demand has multiplied significantly since then so we expect relative cost of the land to multiply.
Wages have stagnated but total compensation hasn’t. The cost of health insurance in the US has gone up a lot and most jobs have health insurance.
Promotions within a company are based on ranking employees. Even if not done explicitly, you still promote your top people.

Working more hours is a way to increase your rank. Thus it becomes an arms race between the employees. You work 40 hours, I increase to 45, then you increase to 50.

So, to some extent, hours worked don't correspond to hours needed to be worked for productivity purposes.
Then NPM would be graveyard of unmaintained projects
#4 is correct. It's a figure of speech.

https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/90141/a-doesnt-a-goo...
You missed an important point: a startup can pursue growth in a healthy way which is not frantically scaling. It can take a decade or more to convert/pivot your company into a valuable one. The typical VC fund structure limits this approach.
Christmas in Camp Slayer – Iraq, 2003
> What to Submit:

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

--- https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
See, once you have a spec, you have TWO jobs.

Verification, showing that the spec and the impl agree. This is usually done with comprehensive tests if it's done at all, and very rarely with formal methods (since formal specs are so rare). TLS 1.0 is not a formal spec.

Concurrently, you have validation. This is arguably far far more important, since it's cheaper to fix this before you go spend money on verification. Validation is showing that the spec, IS THE RIGHT SPEC! This is where you would have put almost all your cryptographers when developing TLS 1.0, and there's work on doing this with TLS 1.3 (eg, https://www.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/infk/i...).

Once you have a formal spec, written in an automated, machine-checked system, you can start analyzing it with formal methods. This is super super powerful. The seL4 specification, even at its most abstract, is rather subtle and quite long. It's hard to reason with it. But since they already had a formal spec, they could analyze that spec at its highest level of abstraction to prove valuable security properties: confidentiality and integrity. Now, you don't have to look at the whole spec to validate it for your security requirements. You just have to look at the statements of confidentiality and integrity and validate those.

This is standard high-assurance software development, and it's not taught or practice very often.

>What does ordered mean? How do I compare a number and a string? A binary blob? A structure? Is there a restriction on the word "same" - do they have to be the existing object, or can it be a copy? Should the answer be in the same memory space as the original, or should it be a distinct memory object? Can the original be modified?

this is completely uninteresting in any formal spec system, because it fixes those details usually implicitly. you're usually comparing things of the same type, or using an explicit comparison operator that has stated properties (which become proof obligations).
OK, I'll follow the chain to the end :)
I still don't know where to get rolls of quarters from. But that's literally the only reason I go to the bank.
What irritates me more about Medium and like than the font size is the use of persistent banners both at the top and bottom of the screen.

Maybe fine when reading in portrait on a tablet or like, but not at all fine on a desktop.
This. I work with state of the art radar systems and automated target recognition / tracking. It's common to have false tracks jumping out of the noise. These tracks can accelerate zero to thousands, jump positions and altitides, whatever you imagine. If you build a machine to track jitters in electromagnetic returns and let it run wild, it'll show you all kinds of amazing things.
Sometimes it feels like everything is still done by pixel counting on bitmaps.
That looks awesome! thank you!
Using drones to build the ambulance fleet of the future
In that specific context, crates that have the same name within a Cargo crate graph but aren't the same exact crate - this is pretty much always about semver versions, when incompatible ones are required from different parts of the crate graph, you can end up with e.g. serde-1.0 and serde-0.9, and they get compiled with different -C metadata values, into which "1.0" and "0.9" were factored in.
They have glasses to correct that. Called Enchroma.
Working link here https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/bitcoin-blockchain-issues/180...
Literally?
Electron is not "good enough for people" because people don't know about it, or, to put it better, are not supposed to know about it. It's an implementation detail.

> sluggishness of the machine

So say a machine with 4GB ram and a decent 4-core CPU around 1.8 GHz is sluggish? Let's honestly say "we're sacrificing resources on the client side for ease of development on ours".
I didn't know that! Merry Christmas!
Like i needed another reason for considering game theory a potentially dangerous distraction at best.
I know it sounds contrary and cliché but listening and digesting others comments is valuable.
Legowelt is kind of a legend in the electonic music scene. He's been producing lots of great music and is still a very active figure in the scene. And he knows his synths.
Yeah, Flatland came to mind when I first saw the videos...but as you said, that is considerably less likely than some other more mundane phenomena at work.
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Because, realistically, those big companies aren't interested in competing for your little $10k/month niche. Even a million dollar a year revenue stream would be seen as a failure for them.
MPFR 4.0.0 released
Wow, awesomeness. :)

(I need to get myself some classic Macs at some point.....)
quite frankly, the two screenshots you posted are atrocious and a good reason to show people why one wouldn't use TCL/Tk
Was waiting for this!! Super happy about this. I’ve come to expect this every year now at this time.

Ruby is still one of the most productive languages out there. I just love it. It gives me great joy that 10 years ago I chose Ruby to be the language for my future.

My wish this coming year is to be able to contribute more to the Ruby ecosystem.

Btw I’ve also built something using MRuby this year. The whole ecosystem is just great.
Write like Paul Graham
No file contents, that would defeat incremental recompilation.
recently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15827369
Just Google it. There have been tea related deaths, though not directly related to caffeine and even tea leaves themselves. Caffeine overdose can happen but mostly from pills, you can't drink enough tea to overdose caffeine before overdosing water, which is a real thing btw.

I don't like "X caused zero death" arguments. Because if something as common as drinking tea caused zero deaths, it probably means the definition of "causing death" is too narrow. Nothing is perfectly safe.

Take tobacco for instance. If you restrict yourself to nicotine overdose, smoking would appear as very safe. The real killer is cancer, and you don't have a direct cause effect relationship. A big increase in probability, sure, but that lung cancer may still have been caused by something else than smoking.
I haven't experienced any of the memory issues you describe. I have heard complaints about memory utilisation in previous versions of Miui, but I haven't seen evidence of major leaks.

You don't have to register a Miui account to turn on developer options - you just tap "Miui version" in the "about phone" dialog seven times. It's a slightly eccentric UI decision, but I understand that it's intended to protect naive users against shooting themselves in the foot. You do need to register a Miui account to unlock the bootloader and install a custom ROM, which isn't an entirely unreasonable security measure.
So rather than go out and explore New York City via a shopping experience, you stayed inside your AirBnB and interacted with your computer? Why even bother visiting?

I can assure there is nothing unique about the Amazon experience in NYC compared to somewhere else.
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