skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason of the success is that he set a realistic goal that he could achieve within a month!

Setting goals is like making estimations. First make sure your goal can be achieved by you, now. eg something you can do right now and finish within a month. Then you cut the project goals in half. Now you got something realistic ;)
> No one’s going to stop you from using an unfree, censorious system if you want to. However, we’re going to object vociferously if you try to force it on everyone else.

You didn't really answer the bits where he was more or less discussing government regulations. Your answer doens't relate to what he stated.
I'm thinking they're probably just more unmarried, more childless people in every respect.
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Chest cavities aren't especially space-constrained, and another commenter mentioned that electrodes wear out fairly quickly (single-digit years), so it appears that a fixed non-rechargeable battery has enough capacity to last the lifetime of the device.

Wireless charging (for a pacemaker) has the issue that you've got to push the energy through quite a lot of flesh, with consequent efficiency and heat issues.

Wireless charging is absolutely an option for other devices implanted closer to the skin, though.
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I wrote this very thing to an investor once. Norms aside, due to information asymmetry the only companies worth getting equity from are the ones not including equity in an offer. For every one Shopify there are a hundred weasels or failures. You get much better people by just offering higher cash and they can buy into your round if they really, really want to.
Why Reading Is Important for Children
I'm the same. Also been staring at computer screens since 1982, with no obvious problems. Getting old is annoying though: my arms are now not quite long enough to focus perfectly on my phone screen without my reading glasses, but a +1 pair of supermarket glasses is enough to fix that. Distance vision is still fine.

The great thing about LCDs is that even in my 50s I can place them far enough away to use without even needing reading glasses. CRTs were so bulky, it was really hard to do that (but back then, I didn't need to).

Anyway, just another datapoint that intensive screen use for 3.5 decades doesn't have to cause issues.
It's not necessarily about large file size (storage is cheap anyway) and memory usage (although RAM on portable devices is still kind of limited).

Performance in Electron-based editors (e.g., Atom) is horrible. When you're used to vim or fast GUI-based editors like Sublime, even typing in Atom feels sluggish. That's not even talking about loading large files, search-and-replace operations, multiple cursors, etc.

Example stats: https://blog.xinhong.me/post/sublime-text-vs-vscode-vs-atom-...
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> Hopefully survival in the post apocalypse doesn’t hinge on time estimates.

Don't worry, we're implementing Survival KANBAN. Challenges and allocations will happen naturally on a board, while management tracks concurrent Survival In Progress to make sure we're not creating more survivors than we can handle.
htop allows viewing open files by process (press 'l'), as well as sorting (F6 or click column header) and filtering (F4 or '/').
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It's probably about avoiding the cycle where you polish something for two years in obscurity, only to find that nobody wants it, then repeat.
Munich was pretty good. It's been deployed for 4+ years and won't be replaced until the end of 2020 (assuming everything goes to plan) so that will be at least 7 years of use. It seems that the reasons to move back to Windows weren't completely technical either.
A counter-example is enough to prove me right.

I could give you at least one counter-example, ie a real court case from 2017 where two specific entities secretly coordinated a trade for stock in one of them on material and non-public information and was determined legal. (Obviously it went to court because people like you abound, who believe that a complex matters like inside trading come down to "material" and "non-public".)

I'm not going to give you that example though, because I take issue with your arrogance, ie authoritatively claiming that someone has zero facts on their side when you have no idea what you're talking about :-)
That's a pretty big assumption, probably not based on anything other than your gut feeling?
There seems to be little overlap in the Munsell colors between the two[1][2]. There does appear to be a variant that uses some ColorChecker patches[3], or there's another calculation that just goes directly off of the light's emission spectrum[4], assuming your spectrometer has enough resolution. I think in practice, an ad-hoc comparison of the ColorChecker under daylight/D65 and the light in question will yield good enough results.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_rendering_index#Test_col...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColorChecker#Colors

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_rendering_index#New_test...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_rendering_index#Example
> I mentioned several reasons.

"Of course it wasn't supposed to be instant. That's why its a shit system to use as currency"

no you didn't.

> Why are Bitcoin transactions still slow?

that blanket statement is false and again illustrates how little you know about bitcoin. bitcoin transactions confirm within 10 minutes provided adequate fees. the lower fee you choose to pay the more you will have to wait until confirmation. speed is function of fees.

if you intended to ask "why aren't all transactions on lightning and therefore instant?" then it's because lightning is still in very early stages and is only starting to get adoption.

> Of course it is related to Bitcoin

it was related to one visa card issuer (wavecrest) that decided to discontinue support without any explanation. debit card providers that didn't rely on wavecrest are doing fine (and those that did - are moving to new issuers).

quick google shows a whole bunch: cryptopay.me, bitpay, spectrocoin, xapo, www.shiftpayments.com. there's 5 for you.

> Yeah, life is temporary as well rolleyes. This is a non-argument. You cannot tell when the problem is solved, and its a severe issue for adoption of Bitcoin.

this is possibly a non argument for you as a person who knows very little about the space.

everybody is aware that issue exists and makes a lot of low value transactions on chain economically not viable, that is exactly why lightning was developed.

> I can't be bothered to spend time to reply to the rest of your ad hominem.

you sure can't be bothered to educate yourself on the topic. as it seems you're from netherlands, your country's total energy consumption in 2012 was 82 Mtoe, total world energy consumption was 9000 Mtoe and world energy production was 13300 Mtoe. as i said - not even a blip, just find some courage to admit you were wrong. alternatively you could of course start arguing that 0.9% is totally a blip, in which case i'm at least happy to leave you better informed.

> If I have 100 buckets of sustainable water, and I piss in 90 of them, then the rest of the world only got 10 buckets of sustainable water left for general consumption

it's called a free market. if it is economically viable for mining companies to spend energy at their location for the price at that location - not much you can do about it.

> So using unnecessarily vast amounts of energy is a loss for the environment

it's only unnecessary by your definition and understanding of bitcoin.

> Dear reader, please don't fall for the Bitcoin scam. Read the above link instead, and notice the parallels with the Bitcoin/cryptocurrency mania. Specifically, the parallel with ICO and early adopters of cryptocurrencies.

yeah, i totally agree about most altcoins and ICOs. the rest is just you being angry and extrapolating more than you should.
I wasn't so much disagreeing with the implied statement as I was criticizing your expression. You didn't add anything to the discussion I didn't read better in other comments. Point in case the focus is on the ratio of brainsize at birth and later, in relation to body size I might add.
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Why are you wasting people’s time in the comments on a technical article with your strident political opinions? This comment has nothing to do with the article.
Ehhh. A few interesting thoughts though not necessarily original, the "your equity is worth 0" mantra has been repeated enough that it's not ground-breaking.

It maybe makes sense for huge, publicly traded companies like Apple (who could easily afford to just pay their employees enough to offset the equity loss and then some), but of course there's the whole idea that equity compensation aligns incentives for employees and the business.

> “You people in tech are crazy. I pay my employees handsomely in cash and I keep all of the equity for myself.”

This would be catastrophic for the startup industry:

* Why would I ever work for a company that has huge downsides (chance of failure, lack of resources, etc.) when I don't get to enjoy any of the potential upside

* How many startups can afford to pay their employees "handsomely" (relative to what they could be earning elsewhere)?

The only way I imagine a 0-equity world working is one where VCs cough up a ton more money to compensate startup employees handsomely. And to be fair to Fred, maybe that's what he's suggesting (spending more money now to retain more equity later). But I didn't see that stated anywhere.
> Windows 10 switched to a rolling release model, which is nice.

I disagree. Not only are constant changes destabilizing to the user, they're destabilizing to developers too. I really don't get why so many people (Linux Desktop users especially, so maybe they're all webdevs?) love them so much. Once I have a system set up for my workflow, I don't want it to go and screw it up by changing things unnecessarily.
By saving power she means leaving enough margin to keep the supply voltage stable, running the machine near the limit could cause voltage sag when another device like the tape drive is turned on.

Just like apple limits power draw of it's devices to avoid possible reboots when too much current is demanded from an old battery.
I can't work out if you're joking.
A friend of mine rents out her apartment using Airbnb and I remember it was a max of 60 days p/y. Are they reducing it?

EDIT: Yea it looks like the city is reducing the legal number of days someone can rent out something via Airbnb [0,1]

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/10/amsterdam-to-halve-airbnb-...

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/10/amsterdam-airbnb-rental-...
I wrote a java applet which would calculate the digits of PI, when it loaded it would fetch the most current result by polling a CGI - and every minute or so that it was running it would upload its progress to that same CGI.

That was back in 1998, or so. When Java Applets were almost useful. I showed a pretty animation, and stole your resources!
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Olus the new dialogs are missing functionality and in some cases the functionality is greyed out for no discernible reason.
Be prepared to a subtle PR war from proprietary solutions vendors, not blatantly directed at software (eg. not like giving 10000 free copies of Windows + Office + this and that) but indirectly helping the city to gain public acceptance, say funding schools, hospitals, public infrastructures etc. then offering at the same time the option to local politicians to get their face associated with the events.
What politician would refuse the opportunity to address a speech during the inauguration of say a new library/hospital/mall/police station/parking lot etc. built with money that did not came from taxing people? That would make a hell of an argument during election time, so you can consider him technically sold to whoever the money comes from, even though he didn't get a single dime in the process, which of course will mean that once he is in power he will use whatever software solution the founder is "suggesting" to keep his seat.
And dont forget to beat your own drum every month!
The case of Kosher wine from the link shows how about 0.3% of population forced almost all wines in US to be Kosher by boycotting non-kosher wines. The important thing is that the minority should be distributed across the whole population uniformly.
Skia does not have a stable ABI, which is a requirement for inclusion in the NDK: https://github.com/google/skia/blob/master/experimental/c-ap...
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> and nobody gave a damn anyway

Have you ever linked them anywhere? I'd have thought this comment was a good place

> it may only be me but besides this kind of articles I would like to read articles about people who have no side projects

Probably, that sounds like a boring read
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>Sometimes the simplest solution is the best one.

Yeah. Which is exactly why if the benefit is being aware of your hand posture you're better off just sticking a note on your keyboard than buying a new one every few months.

That was my whole point!
Computers are getting better than humans at reading
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I still have his The BeOS Bible on my bookshelf. I don’t know why, really. (For context, I also have Inside Windows 2000 and Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach, all of which are pretty dated.)
> "I learned language X and that was hard enough, I'm going to stick with it and not learn anything else."

There's also a sizeable portion of companies that have the attitude of "we want someone who's really passionate and good at learning. oh and they need to be expert in language x. oh you're not an expert in x? sorry, we can't wait for you to learn it. we don't care if you learnt something else"
I found a hack for #1 (I'm an architect) - I fit houses with 2 dishwashers side by side. You simply move dishes from one to the other, and start it when it's full. Think of the dishwasher as a robotic closet that automatically washes your dishes.
Atom doesn't use 80MB, it uses 800MB. On the other side, my Eclipse installation uses ~1100MB and runs whole array of analyzers and background stuff that an IDE should run. Atom runs nothing at the back or provides the same functionality while using 800MB. Also, Eclipse is portable around all major operating systems.

Resource usage can be justified if the that resources is used toward something meaningful. C is "slower" than assembly, yes; however both assembly can be inlined into C, and magnitudes more can be done with C at near-assembly speeds.

I develop in C/C++/Python mainly and in some other languages for fun and curiosity. Python is easy, but it's not as performant unless the underlying library is native, hence nobody is using it if it can't obtain very high performance in my field (scientific computing, HPC, and related areas).

Actually, writing a low performance GUI is pretty hard since most of its cycles are idle. If you can write an application with a GUI which slow to respond to low-complexity, common tasks (naive text editing, input, menus, moving windows), something is very, very wrong (to be clear, GUI can trigger resource intensive background tasks, but that's not what I'm saying).
Because the skillset is not the same.

It is quite different to have spent 5 years doing nothing other than building up engineering knowledge, and just learning a few things to get the job done.
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When people talk about startups and equity, they often talk about the “risk” of joining a startup. For me, as a founder, the equity portion of a comp package isn’t about the risk. I’m curious to know what HNers (often with very passionate thoughts on the topic) think of my theory.

There is risk at companies of all sizes. Also, the idea of a single career in your lifetime isn’t a reality, so the “risk” of a losing a job is really the risk of losing it without notice. Compensation for that risk would be something like one month of pay, not illiquid certificates that might or might not become cash someday.

Employees can also change jobs voluntarily. But the idea that their employer should get a percent of their future earnings as compensation for that risk would be ridiculous.

I believe equity comp is because employees have two jobs: 1) execute on their day job, 2) build the systems, processes, culture, and institutional norms of the company. Basically, the equity component is added to the cash component because building a company takes long-term thinking and because it’s a ton of work.

I’m curious to know if others think about equity comp having a purpose other than to offset risk. Thanks!
I run KDE, Firefox, Slack (browser based app), Chromium, VS Code (browser based app) (plus Gvim, shell etc) on Arch and it's currently steady at 3.9 GB (of 16)

Edit: Also be sure it's actually used: https://www.linuxatemyram.com/
Services like BitPay require transactions to go through quickly. If your transaction arrives an hour too late the bitcoin price in usd has changed and bitpay refunds you your money or asks you to send more money. In both cases you have to pay the transaction fee again.

I wouldn't be surprised if a high transaction fee increases the speed of deflation. Smaller transactions are stuck and will be forgotten. Spending the currency is difficult. All you can do is hold or convert to fiat.
> Not the only one. Admittedly I don't have kids, but I'm familiar with family life and I don't think this is really that much of a problem.

Yeah, it is much of a problem. Once you get one kid, your dishwasher will be used more than merely 1/3 more, as will your laundry machine.

Every time I clean a pan or dish or fork or knife I use water, soap, and I gotta let it dry (which uses a rack which takes up space) after which I can soak up the remaining water and put it away. If I'm already doing that, it goes in one go, called dish washing or I put it in this spot where I put in a tablet and let it work for a few hours, called a dishwasher. Which is, incidentally, very space efficient and consumes very little time. I'm a proponent of reusing dishes, glasses, etc but with cats I don't find it very hygienic.

You want to wash your dishes for 5 minutes after you finished cooking your meal. Well, that's your choice. I want to cook my food, serve it with the family, and watch them enjoy the food and (potentially) receive feedback or even redo parts or grab additional spoon or sauce or whatever and perhaps most importantly for myself: enjoy the food I made, served hot, with my family. To hell I would stand 5 more minutes in the kitchen cleaning my mess up. That's for after dinner! And cleaning it up means putting it in the dishwasher.

> The idea of storing dirty dishes in a dishwasher is also just bad. You either need 10 of everything, or you are stuck digging around and hand washing some horribly encrusted pot that you need.

Then you get more pots, or you put your dishwasher on more often, or you wash the pot(s) by hand. We, or well generally my partner rather, do the latter but we also have enough pots and pans to easily last for a couple of days. They're washed in one go, not in multiple. I think time-wise, that's more efficient, regardless of you saying is better (not sure why actually).

Putting my clothes in my garden is a sure way to attract cats, thieves, and bad weather. I don't have a dryer (am considering getting one given a baby is due). Putting clothes on doors and a rack seems to work well, though does require ventilation indeed. I can also recommend to use vinegar as fabric softener.

Your advice is interesting and inspiring, even more so for road warriors and the like but its just less practical than using machines for the tough work. Why? It saves us time and effort. Time and effort is what you sorely lack when you get kids. You don't have kids, I suspect you underestimate the impact of having even one (young) child. If you have a baby you can say bye bye to your sleep rhythm. Do you think I'd love to do dishes regularly between my sleeps? No way, I'd rather have the dishwasher on, let it dry (you gotta keep it open to let it dry via environment), and be done with it.
"You need a public deadline for sharing your work"

This is a deeply contentious claim, and definitely varies by person and personality. The dominant opinion currently is that publicly announcing and sharing goals undermines motivations because it puts the reward before the work, and it can handcuff and lead to a spiral of failures. We put too much stock in our intentions, and not enough in our actions.

To speak to the reward thing, people often announce big plans up front because they want to receive accolades/respect for what they plan to do, often claiming that it's the motivation. Whether it's donating time, going on a diet, a new exercise regimen, or that new game or novel idea, it is a success death-knell when it is announced at the outset. And then the speaker, who has already demonstrated a need for affirmation, is in a situation where the best they can do is not disappoint. Their failure is blamed on the lack of perpetual accolades for what they haven't done yet.

For most people, private commitments to yourself, and then a feedback loop with constant self analysis, is the real route to success, seeking accolades only on the results or actions of those private commitments.
In India, startups pay a much higher salary than corporate jobs along with some equity.

Given the minisicule number of startups that make it, I think this is a much more sensible option for engineers. Especially ones who want to start their own companies - as they save much more in the process.
The guys behind Brave clearly focus on end-user privacy and security and are very capable to detect any bad behavior from Blink if Google will put such thing. If one cannot trust them, I do not see how one can use Windows. One has to trust Microsoft that they do not spy on you.
When you're talking about mathematical formulas that haven't been patented, and use in other countries, yes, completely fine because it's not illegal in that other country. Look into copyright law before you open your mouth.
Yes, I get that and it's a trap many people probably fall into. But why is this such a movement now? It seems common sense to me. I could be completely wrong though...
The install from homebrew cask was painless.

I like the UI, and the mixed edit/syntax view.

The documentation hasn't really been written yet, which is a bit sad, as I kinda wanted to dive into themes and templates, but I don't think it'll take too long to work out how to make them.

Search is lacking, but high priority so hopefully I'll see it soon.
Profitable projects get built regardless of price history.
Looks really cool! Thanks for the open source work!!

Do you have any thoughts/future plans of making these accessible from mobile platforms or web?
It has a stable API for Java clients on Android, if Google actually would care they could expose that one.

And in any case, creating a 2D abstraction layer stable API on top of platforms specific version APIs, specially given that all NDK APIs are C based even if written in C++, it is not rocket science, rather a matter of wanting to do it.