skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In all my years in tech, I have literally never heard a single person (that wasn't part of a flashy ad campaign) exclaim that IBM or Oracle offered their company a solution at a good rate, got it setup in time and that it works well and solved their problems.
What you are missing is that they created money out of nowhere. No individual loses directly, but it affects the overall money supply. In this case, the price of bitcoin was inflated artificially by buying it with an asset that was created out of nowhere.

It's like having a printing press that creates legitimate money. No individual loses, but the prices of everything you can buy will artificially increase (or another way to look at that is the currency deflates) if you print enough of it.
> > Separation into front-end and back-end modules.

> That solves a lot of the Emacs trouble iiuc.

True enough. Despite the fact that it's IMNSHO the best editor out there, emacs is not without its problems. It has a lot of historical baggage.

> I get the separation of concerns, but intermingling the concerns has helped emacs in a certain way.

I agree. One of the huge features of emacs is that (above a very low level) everything is implemented in a fairly decent Lisp, and everything is available to Lisp code. How much will plugins be able to dig into one anothers' internals in order to get work done? Yes, monkey-patching is bad — but it's better than not being able to monkey-patch. Relying on plugin authors to expose extension points is probably not going to work in the long run: it really helps being able to define advice on functions, wrap functions, replace functions, mutate internal variables when one knows what one's doing &c.
The imaginary enemy may be China and Russia. Russia, in particular, has a very powerful disruptive force.
China and Russia will work closely together to try to prevent the outbreak of conflict. Hopefully there won't be a major outbreak of war.
source:
http://www.perfectjammer.com/gps-blockers-jammers.html
It's official: HN has become completely reduced to reddit
> If you're ever offered an opportunity to work with these systems, just run away.

And we wonder why the only bidders on these projects are frauds.
The perplexing life of Ernő Rubik (1986)
Update

I tinkered with it some more. it is a good idea, and a tasteful medium to do it in. However, the implementation is half-assed. And - I don't doubt that they put a lot of thought into it, but because your only service complexity IS this dialog, you have to nail it. It has to be really good. As is, it's about at the level of a poorly done IVR for a corporation. And you're expecting people to use this for any kind of therapy?

I'm just along for the ride, playing through the options. But there are clearly cliffs where, one moment it asks you to tell you about something personal, and the next it goes "ok see ya!" - i guess in a way it's good they managed to replicate the emotional distance you can feel from therapists in real life, too.

Perhaps it'll improve over time. If they want this to be good, they'll have to.
they're not going to have an actual product in 3-5 months, union or not, if they fire everybody

e: it looks like they're in the salesforce ecosystem, so perhaps they're glomped onto the Benioff philosophy of "No Software". i guess they're ok with the 1.5 nines of uptime and universal agreement that the software is crap that this implies
I think they had this in Photoshop circa 1999, or I def. remember seeing a demo of it by Adobe around that time.

Anyways, neat! Nice contribution.
Congrats to all the engineers who are about to get a year plus salary without having to do any work.
Value object refactoring pattern – improve your Ruby on Rails app
Chuwi SurBook or SurBook mini for you?
Not to mention that there’s huge C++ codebases out there (gaming, financial industries etc.) Great C++ skills will still be in demand for quite a while. Trying to ramp up new developers on a new, “too-bleeding edge” language/framework is too expensive. D markets themselves too hard on the C++ crowd, whereas languages like Rust and Go market themselves well outside the C++ circle to bring those devs closer to something that they can use as part of a performant service imo. I like D, but I think the two other languages stole the spotlight here.
I don't understand, how is this different from Google acquiring and then selling off Motorola Mobility?
The city of New Haven charged property tax on everything worth more than (IIRC) $5k when we lived there. It’s a large part of why they have few businesses despite a major university since there’s a strong incentive to move to a neighboring city.
It is much easier as a Google employee to publish open source projects under Google's copyright[0] rather than getting them to grant the copyright to you.

To have Google give you (the Google employee) full copyright of projects you work on while at Google, you need to go through a committee[1] that reviews the project to make sure it doesn't collide with some other project Google already is working on. As this is really hard to do for many projects, it's easier to just let Google keep copyright ownership of it and have it opensource under them.

[0] https://opensource.google.com/docs/releasing/

[1] https://opensource.google.com/docs/iarc/
Probably because he works on it on the clock.
oh my god, they actually put Webvan as an example of a disruptive company on their site (as of 1940 PST Jan 30 2018)

https://www.lanetix.com/company/#why-lanetix
I believe a related question to ask is: How many new projects are started in that niche?

C still seems to spawn new software because people are working directly with hardware and don't wish to code using straight assembly. I'm thinking computer engineering related fields. Robotics for example.

C++ falls into an uncanny valley, it is neither high level language with all of the benefits (e.g. programmer efficiency, certain security guarantees, lower barrier to entry) or a completely low level language (or at least it isn't if you want to benefit from most of C++'s advantages over straight C; you'll avoid a garbage collector but not a lot of "magic" behind the scenes).

C++ carved out a space with 3D gaming for a while but with many development houses moving to licensed game engines or targeting mobile platforms C++'s benefit may be waning.

The data does support this supposition[0].

[0] https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/cplusplus/
Are .edu back-links still important for SEO?
> However, it doesn't take that many machine learning algorithms or Nvidia GPUs to send someone an email/facebook message/SMS "in the morning" asking them to be in a good mood.

haha oh man that's actually my side project!
They spent $5M on Oracle software. That's a LOT of someone else's source code they paid for.
Does anyone here have experience with Fliess iPID controllers?[0] The papers indicate they are superior, Fliess is a generally respected academic, but the math seems the same with slightly different terminology....

[0] https://hal-polytechnique.archives-ouvertes.fr/inria-0037232...
I'm on the opposite side now. I don't work for a software development company. The people who make us money have to support software development. The development department is considered a cost center. That doesn't mean that I should pay them.

For the most part, what you make isn't derived from how much revenue you make your company. It's derived from what the market will bare. Even if you are independent, people who are hiring you are going to try to find the largest spread between what they have to pay for development and the profit they can make based on the development.

On the other hand, what are the real cost of being an independent developer? Health insurance, a computer (that we would probably have anyway) and any development tools. We can usually get away with Fred development software.
Other than US persons.

And you are required to deposit a minimum of $10,000 USD fiat.

And you are required to wait 3 months for verification.

So, sure, go ahead and do it "right now", subject to those caveats.
5 Pemain Pinjaman Yang Tidak Perlu Kembali Ke Klub Asal
RestSharp, CsvHelper and Polly?
The picture on the article's page is of a flock of children who are following a person, presumably a pied piper, who has no head and no pipe.

Doing a google image search shows the head was specifically cut off for this page!

Yep. That's the state of cryptocurrencies. A picture is worth a thousand words.
Meh. The performance is almost never worth the huge complexity jump. Instead, profile an app in a higher level language and if any part's too slow, implement that in C/C++. That'll quite often be a low, single digit percentage of the app. Get the performance for substantially less engineering/maintenance cost.
Exceptional, factual, frightening story. Everyone who uses social media needs to read this. It is a wake up call for us all and hopefully a call to action for some...
> Taiwanese domestic wires of all sizes have been flowing unimpeded this whole time.

Your only knowledge of this is based on "surely we'd hear of people complaining on English language forums if they weren't able to".

And at the very least, if you do wish to do anything, you are required to maintain at least $10,000 USD (not USDT) and wait for up to 12 weeks for verification.
AArch64's ISA has only 32-bit instructions.
> a massive shortage of skilled engineers.

I keep hearing that a lot in every other country. And every time I wonder - what is the criteria for the shortage? If it's skill, what is the skill? If it is from a value perspective, what is the expected engineer output vs salary?
They could always sell flamethrowers.
> “We believe one of the most anti-unions things you can do is to let all employees go,” Parks said. “We’re going to fight as hard as we can.”

Isn’t the strength of a union in that everyone stops working collectively? Firing all of them is basically calling their bluff.
You're right, but I don't think we've seen either of those skyrocket like Bitcoin. If one or the other was up 5800% perhaps we might call it a bubble....
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Very very hard for me to imagine. I know good designers who'd be willing to work for $40/hr. CAD. Developpers are a bit pricier, maybe 60-70... Can't find mediocre ones for 300? Maybe we don't have the same definition of mediocre. And btw, one year full time at $500/hr is in the vicinity of one million. Where do I sign?
Land in Australian capital cites is expensive, but home construction costs are not. We built 307m2 with a decent builder in Perth for AUD$250k a few years ago, if anything construction prices have softened since then.
You are going to bat for them, in the fact that this comment is the first where you've made any note of "claims", and "expects".

All your other posts on this thread have made these as statements of fact. "Bitfinex offers wires", "Go ahead and open an account right now", etc.
As a matter of principle this seems like a negative thing for open source. Can someone explain to my why it isn't?
If they hold the bitcoin, yes. I dont think anyone is missing that.
See also five interesting UK examples:

Healthcare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bupa

Media: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Trust_Limited

Retail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_Partnership

Finance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationwide_Building_Society

Lots of stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Co-operative_Group
I did this years ago with http://shrugdude.com/ and look ma, no ads.
I doubt it'll be as easy as it was for 32-bit ARM because AArch64 has no (well, only a few) predicated instructions. Instead, the 64-bit ISA effectively uses those bits to name additional registers.

AArch64 already has similar code density to x86-64 anyway.
Isn't it 'illegal' to fire as retaliation for unionizing?
Standard Notes.
A Bone to Pick with Skeleton Screens
I didn't notice until after I'd posted that you already mentioned SN here. :)

Love it. Thank you for your work. Please don't stop.
Having grown up in a faith+medicine culture I've not witnessed any proven healings (that didn't invoke medicine too) in over 20 years. It's one of the reasons I'm not a believer today.
It amazes me too. But we have to remember that although there was no product innovation, there was business model innovation for that niche market. Online subscriptions for razors were not a thing.
The Simpson's tv show brought out a lot of narcissism. It was meant to be a joke to laugh at but people started emulating it which encouraged many to believe it was ok to be that way.
C++ is a complex language no doubt. But software written in C++ need not be complex.

Java, on the other hand, is a simple language. But the kind of unnecessary complexity I have seen in Java-land (EJBs, Spring, etc.) has no parallel in the C++-land.

So going by your argument, I would choose C++ over Java to avoid the complexity jump, then profile the app, and if any part's too slow, improve that again in C++.
Maybe I heard it on "Marketplace" recently — but the gist of it was (and I think it was focusing on young South Koreans) people were buying Bitcoin because all other options for getting rich quick seemed out of reach.

It was a sobering portrayal of Bitcoin as little better than a desperate lottery or roulette spin for a generation that feels left behind by the growing financial inequity (inequality).
Most of Nintendo's hardware obsession ends up being accessories more than core system tech. I would like to believe that Nintendo bringing ideas for hardware with Apple executing would work really well. Plus, Apple could use a bit more, "Friendly for children aesthetic" and not so much "Future Techno Glass World".
Privatize the DMV/Allow startups to provide the service
I can't imagine the lock-down plan working. I would imagine that people are far more local to Valve than MS. They would be the subject of an immediate AT lawsuit and would receive perhaps the biggest backlash in gamer history.
I had a therapist for a while. While beneficial in some ways, I grew leaps and bounds from reading books, way more than I ever could face to face for an hour a week. Or even 40 hours a week.

Therapists can be hugely beneficial. But they are also human, and are subject to their own timidity, attitude, perspective and theories. With books, these are laid bare and are unashamed. An author is sometimes more willing to get in your face about something than a therapist ever would dare.

And for me, that's what I needed most. New ideas, new perspectives, new ways of looking at myself, my emotions, and my relationship with others.

Not knocking seeing a therapist, but one can get comfortable with them and not make the progress you need. Likewise, I know a great deal of people who have had repeated bad experiences with therapists, sometimes to a criminal degree.
$78m over 5 years for 25 (probably average) developers and a few licenses is excessive. Not sure what massive tech problems the Nevada DMV is trying to solve, but I doubt it's much more than a DB cluster with a web app or two thrown in front of it. Tech Mahindra's developers may be average, but their marketing department seems to be exceptional!
Can you provide some examples? Any one character in particular?
The Myth of the Stand-Alone Corpse
Certainly, but justice is rarely carried out perfectly accurately. Hopefully getting close enough will send a warning of the consequences of such a decision to others in the industry.

As an aside: A good number of people in Europe will apparently prematurely die as a result of their actions, so if nothing else, it will be incredibly difficult for many of these guilty employees to justify their actions even to themselves.
Not exactly. It's illegal to fire people for engaging in protected concerted activity to improve their working conditions. Unionization is one example of something that could be protected concerted activity, but not all tactics for forming unions would qualify as protected concerted activity, nor is protected concerted activity in any way limited to forming unions. (There are some explicit protections for unionizing, but this is the general principle.)

For example, using your employer's Slack to discuss improving things like healthcare, overtime, wages, etc. would be a textbook example of something that would be protected. You need at least two employees (non-managers) leading the discussion though to qualify as concerted, one person complaining is just a malcontent and doesn't qualify for any protections under the law.
For nonrepresentable constants, a compiler will usually generate a constant pool and emit a single PC-relative load instruction to materialize the value. Many assemblers have directives to do this automatically.
I honestly thinks that the CIA's own list (https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_17760284.html) is the best one.
I do kind of suspect that a lot of the problem was really their ability to impose a $1/user "tech" fee. Once you get to that point you really don't have to explain over much to anyone unless things go massively wrong (which they did here).

They'd probably have been much better off it they hadn't managed to get a truly massive amount of money together. Spending tons of money properly is far harder than people realize. Unless you have a cadre of people who've closely managed outsourced contractors before you are basically going to be giving a lot of people learning opportunities on how things can go wrong.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was less a political hack than someone getting exactly what they asked for and having no idea what to do with that horrible fate. Imagine quoting millions to fix multiple complex underlying problems and being handed that with what was no doubt an unrealistic timeline.If adding people to a late project often makes it later, the same is often true of money. Knowing how to spend millions of dollars on a tech project is a skill, and it isn't a common one in chronically underfunded departments.
That only works if the surface area to volume ratio of the heavy lifting parts is low. If it isn't, you'll spend all your machine cycles crossing the bridge and human cycles maintaining the bridge rather than getting work done on either side.
Had a chat with our insurance agent recently; she wants us to increase our insurance coverage on our home in old palo alto, which is currently calculated based on $350/sq.ft. rebuild cost. She said that clients in the burned-out areas in Santa Rosa were being quoted much higher rates, and although she admitted that was partly due to a large number of people competing for contractors all at once, she believes $450 is a more realistic replacement cost basis.

That would be also based on replacing the existing structure, which is single-story, no basement.

What almost always happens when an older house is sold in this area, is that the property sells for between 1M and 2M, is immediately scraped and replaced by a two-story-plus-full-basement (with home theater and au-pair apartment), which then sells for 6M-8M with a profit of circa 1.5M.
i spend a lot of time looking at alternative housing and i must say that container homes are complete and utter bull shit. its a stupid fad that is fueled by idiots.

containers are expensive. just transporting a container is already a losing proposition because you are transporting a mass of steel in the form of a large empty box. so you lose on getting your materials transported. its more expensive than just buying an equivalent amount of steel and building it into a house.

containers are extraordinarily poorly suited for making houses. if you want any windows at all, you need to heavily modify the container, reinforcing and welding and all together going through enough trouble that you might as well just make the whole thing from scratch. the entire container-home movement is completely retarded -- its like watching solar roadways again. a massive group of people who are totally liberated from critical thought. container homes are stupid. they are a pollutant in the alternative housing scene. stop making them.
Land/lot cost: pretty dead on from my browsing of real estate in the Bay Area. I think the cost to build ($2M) is a little high — but I suppose the kind of person that drops $2M on the lot is "in for a pound" so to speak and will want the works when the house is constructed.
That still sounds like what happens when regulatory capture goes wild.
SoftBank Vision Fund Invests $300m in Wag, the Dog-Walking Service
Yes, you are right...the following better?
https://regexper.com/#((%5B0-9%5D%5C.)%7C(%5B1-9%5D%5B0-9%5D...
In all fairness, webvan was addressing something that folks apparently want. IIRC Amazon is actively trying to roll out something very similar to this right now...

Don't confuse "disruptive companies" with "mismanaged companies". The first implies they are on to something, the second implies they don't know how to reach it.
There are no benchmarks yet - https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/7twccr/upcoming_rel...
To be fair, they are contrasting themselves from the companies in that category. But the copy could use some work.
There are two kinds of developments:

1. Application level: Typically manipulating lots of strings and data massaging. I prefer Java or python for this. The IDEs and eco-system just is so much faster to start with

2. Systems level: Typically a high-performance system like a DB manager or a fast processing library like a message producer etc. These things are time critical and need performance.

I used to really love C++ but I agree, it takes far too long just to start making things run. Sigh!
Plus elxis, nxi, and xi11.
I think at-will states can fire for any reason, including unionizing
All of the references in the article were published here https://markpesce.com/meanjin/
Blockchains LLC buys 67,000 acres at Northern Nevada industrial park
In IPv4 addresses, as far as I know, this is not done -- it is only IPv6 addresses that use the double colon to indicate a sequence of zeros.
Square foot costs are only given by a GC, so that's already included.

> I know people who GC the projects themselves to save a great deal of money.

Do not do this unless you know what you're doing. One bad contractor (and you will be hiring many) can trash the whole project. The value of the GC is that he brings a stable of quality contractors that he knows and works with.

I've gone both ways, it really depends on the situation.
Is this a debug build or a release build? File loading isn't particularly fast atm (we load the whole file into memory) but once a file is open I can breeze through it..
Ask HN: Do you need part time help?
In order to bootstrap my startup while paying off debt, I'm looking to provide business development / sales / growth hacking opportunities on a contractual basis paid for performance.
i think the best hope for D is not to replace any language, or dominate any domain

but to be a player

there will always be systems written in different languages for different reasons, or for small advantages of one language over the other

there is a place for C# and Java , a place for rust and go, a place for F# and Clojure, a place for Pythong and Tcl/Tk, etc ..

D from the little i know of it, is a nice language, I dont think it will ever dominate anything or replace anything .. but it definitely has a place .. or deserves to have a place
They have been using some ugly tactics to market it too:

http://www.businessinsider.com/oracle-customer-explains-audi...

Quote from the article:

Oracle has been threatening customers with big bills for software they're using but it says they haven't properly paid for, Craig Guarente, CEO of Oracle asset-management consultant Palisade Compliance, previously told Business Insider.

Then Oracle makes the threat go away if the customer buys credits for cloud services, according to the consultant's description of the tactic.