skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nearly 5 years ago, a few months after being rejected from YC and a few weeks from being essentially bankrupt (my daughter had an unexpected surgery while we had only catastrophic health insurance), my brother and I posted a Show HN about Webflow (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5407499). It was our last-ditch attempt to show a proof-of-concept to the world before going back to our old bosses to ask for our jobs back.

Thankfully, the post took off - we were #1 for most of the day, and over 25,000 people signed up for our beta list in the several days after that post. This helped us reapply to YC with a lot more confidence and traction, and we were able to get into the next batch.

Webflow (https://webflow.com/) has since grown into a profitable business with close to 1,000,000 users all over the world, billions of website requests served, and close to 60 team members in over 14 countries. I'm pretty sure none (or very little) of this would be possible without HN and the community here, and the super positive reception our post had.

Today, we're on a mission to enable more people to create powerful software without having to learn how to code - we probably have decades to make that vision a reality, but we're on a decent start in large part thanks to our launch on HN.

A HUGE thank you to the community here!
https://github.com/asciinema/asciicast2gif
> Research has found that a human's reaction to feeling a lack of control differs both between individuals and between situations. i.e. learned helplessness sometimes remains specific to one situation but at other times generalizes across situations.[6][8][9]
>“southern charm” is real and nice at first, but in my experience it’s actually pretty shallow, cheap, and discriminatory.

Ohhhhh yeah.

I have to admit I have a limited amount of personal experience with the South, but this is both the impression I have from my limited experience and what people who grew up in the South but live in the Northeast now tell me from their experiences.

Or as someone who grew up in Louisiana told me "'Southern Hospitality' and hospitality anywhere else is the same except that outside the South they don't feel the need to brag about it and also offer it to people that aren't white."

It's just sooooooo so so so shallow, some of the stuff I hear Southerners brag about I'm thinking, in my head, "well literally anyone I know would do that but that so I'm not impressed and, nobody would feel the need to brag about it later."

I just hate how shallow and insincere it is dressed up in in the thin veil of sincerity
I'm not as familiar with Havana, but sure, in Moscow in "good" old times it was illegal to be a bum, or unemployed.

Come to think of it, it would be just as illegal to openly compare the living standard of even a third-rate party apparatchick vs. that of a factory worker, for whom the system ostensibly worked.

I am not sure if hiding the rather natural that people end up differently (even though in places like Cuba or USSR where you end up depends far less on your abilities than in the US) is in any way better than having the differences in the open.
Hmm. I remember KA9Q, Crynwr packet drivers, Trumpet Winsock, etc. I don't think the creators of any of these got enough credit or compensation. Probably other similar solutions as well. I think there was an open source ne2000 driver with similar popularity.
The drop in women in computer science seems to follow the rise of home computers in the 1980s, which, as far as I know, were more popular among men/boys.
You're missing out. Most of the interesting comments are shadowbanned.

Reddit is much better for open discussion. 10x better.
And who gets to decide what is and isn't a fundamental right? Remember, the majority of Californian voters voted to ban same sex marriage in 2008. That would make us (people who think same sex marriage should be a right) the minority. If your boss declared the right to firearms a fundamental right, should it empower him or her to fire anyone who donates to politicians that support gun control (in other words, almost all Democrats)?
The analogy has a couple of problems with it. There is the fact that programs can be run in parallel, with one program feeding the other output in real time. This one the article covers although I don’t completely buy their explanation.

For another example, ‘cmd | cat’ is often not the same thing as ‘cmd’, because a command can inspect whether stdout is a tty or not and alter its behavior. This is why ‘ls’ normally outputs all in one line, but changes to one-per-line when used with a pipe (e.g. grep).

The other issue that comes to mind is that bash provides multiple concepts of “monadic” sequencing; not just with pipes but with the && and || operators, if logic, for/while loops, etc, which form a more traditional “imperative programming” monad. Perhaps bash could be considered then to be a nested monad (monad transformer?) but I’m not sure how precisely you could model its semantics while keeping things elegant.

But yes, in general you can view the shell as a monad, and there are libraries in Haskell which do exactly this (Shelly and Turtle come to mind). In general, the divergences from a purely monadic model come from the fiddly bits of real-world programming which can cause edge cases.
And what can this be used for? I can hardly imagine any real-world application for this but distributed calculations like Folding@home, SETI@home, password cracking, DDoS-ing etc. And I totally can't imagine what can this have to do with a GUI framework like vue.js.
Also I would say that early CA Common Core for math basically just pushes up the current curriculum up about half a year, a mild improvement; more importantly it's a cleaner spec for outcomes.

It doesn't really re-order the curriculum, it uses a few new terms, there's mildly more emphasis on word problems, and there's earlier introduction to linear sequences. It's just a few touch-ups here and there, presumably to prepare kids better for Algebra 1. The whole reform is a modest start.
Changed my views on drug policies.
He had direct benefit to the nursing home, and used them for use-case validation to better work product.

So the general model is, if you have a smart idea for e.g. fender-bender companies, and want to workshop it... cold call repair shops and be prepared to proffer something they value in context, to justify the engagement.

His particular use-case had residential qualities. Many ones won't have that. I guess you could ask to put a hammock in the spray booth, but if you've seen "blue collar" you wouldn't want to do that (somebody dies in there)
<blockquote>For example, look at the US right's decades-long pursuit of anti-GLBTQ policies. Gay people mostly just want to be left alone to live their lives.</blockquote>

Being left alone is all I ever wanted as a gay man. But the gay rights activists are demanding all sorts of positive rights and privileges from the government, and worse yet, they are trying to do it in my name.
If you're looking to use React instead of Vue, the Origin Demo Dapp is a great starter also combining IPFS with Ethereum.

https://github.com/OriginProtocol/demo-dapp

(Disclaimer: I was a big contributor)

Also note that `ganache-cli` is not strictly required in addition to truffle, as one can use `truffle develop` to get a local test chain.
I've lived in the east coast, the west coast, the midwest, and the south all for extended periods in my life. I've lived in so many states in this country that I know intimately the diverse viewpoints and diverse culture that exists across America.
> Finally, a detailed safety analysis shows that up to 1900 watts can be transmitted to a coil receiver enabling safe and ubiquitous wireless power.

What...what happens after 1900 W?
Exactly, and to elaborate on your point, take a problem that seems complex and difficult to break down, and find the simple pieces that can be tied together to solve the complex problem.

To me, that's programming in a nutshell. Or at least what it should be.
It's not circular, it's what maturation looks like. Yeah, Json's great - lots of people are using it for lots of things. You could argue it's lack of being schema-bound is a great advantage, and you'd be right, and wrong, depending on your application.

This just serves to provide a way to say "yes, we can have strongly typed schemas as well as our nice succinct format" to those who need it.
Concrete Airmail Arrows: Accessing the Bay Area’s Unique ‘Double Arrow’ Set
Throttling doesn't kick in until 50GB now (T-mobile One).
I have witnessed women being sexually harassed by some definition of the term or put down in a sexist way at every tech job I've been at. That being said I am against affirmative action.
Unlike the European states, Indian states are do not have a long running political history or national "myth". They have been formed based on linguistic similarity and for ease of administration. And they are not homogeneous either, hence there are multiple movements in place for further fragmentation (most of which are justified).

Also these states (or ancient / medieval kingdoms in them) have rarely been "at war" with each other. Until recently, India was sparsely populated and it was easy the "migrate" to another land to establish your kingdom rather than fight with your brother or cousin.

If you are interested, Francis Fukuyama [1] has a very interesting theory that says that India has been held together by its society and not its state. Multiple waves of invasion have not fundamentally altered the texture of the society, parts of the new culture have been slowly assimilated in it, often forcing the invaders to adapt to their new home.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origins_of_Political_Order
The number of Cryptocurrency Hedge Funds doubled in the last 4 months
Consolidation. There are way too many frameworks right now and they offer nothing different, especially for something so commodity as packaging and running a single function. The major cloud vendors are also rapidly evolving with Azure Functions being the most integrated and useful with AWS second and GCP far behind.

The next few years will see 1-2 open-source frameworks along with all the cloud vendors getting to parity of running almost any language in response to almost any event source. Templated data pipelines and other processing should also become common and as easy to run as a docker container is today.
None of the above, it is not made for computation intensive tasks (it would be extremely inefficient and expensive). You can make crypto kitties though.
There is leadership and then there are ideas.

It is entirely possible to support someone's form of leadership without entirely supporting all of the person's ideas.

That's why I specifically said Trump's vile brand of leadership. It's OK to agree or disagree with his ideas, but leadership is far more than having good or bad ideas. Leadership is ultimately about people and having a selfless, coherent vision for the people you represent.
I would have said 10 years ago you may have been right. Now I would say that most of the most vocal liberals (granted, thats just the majority we hear about) aren't just afraid of the power of the elites, but are afraid of anyone who disagrees with them. Once you disagree with them on anything, you are fair game for retaliation. That to me, by definition, isn't someone who is liberal. Though, they use that word to describe themselves just the same.
Absolutely! (I've observed this in myself and many others. This is probably the biggest advantage a startup has, btw.)
What's rate-limiting, being downvoted?

People get up and downvoted all the time. Why would that discourage you? A person can't live life without being questioned. And I'd much rather be questioned by smart strangers (even if I disagree) than argue with significant others.
Language construct trip - Less Sugar vs Sugarless.

On a separate track - Is it the sign of my age, that I am either concerned about developers not knowing the impact of their code on the hardware, or just whimsical and miss the days when one opened strace or kdb to see how efficiently the code executes? Does someone else feel this way?

One of the less desirable side effects of hardware becoming cheaper is that there are many places for a lousy programmer to hide.
I think he meant that Moscow is also extremely corrupt, yet outperforms NYC (despite comparative levels of corruption).
...And yet articles about call center grunts probably don’t garner front page interest in the same way that “founder” does.
Well -- not totally ad free. There are the job postings for YC companies.
Not regarding network access
I've used tmate for this purpose and it worked well.
Raise your hand if you have worked with an empathetic manager
<blockquote>welcoming history and the paradox of tolerance</blockquote>

The "paradox of tolerance" is only a paradox if you assume that society can determine objectively for its citizens what constitutes "tolerant" and "intolerant" behavior; such societies are by necessity totalitarian.

In a free society, there is no paradox of tolerance; in free societies, individuals make their own choices and judgments about each other, and there are many different, conflicting views about which choices are tolerant and which are intolerant.
He well might be, although the accusations of racism all seem to point at some very anciuent and rather vague hearsay.

Economically SV may not be too far from the mainstream, because really, if you drive away not only Thiel but the rest of VCs, who's gonna throw millions on your new world-changing blockchain crowdsourced augmented-reality chat app?!

Socially, though, SV positions itself far, far left of not only mainstream, but even of the outer fringes of common sense. Which comes out quite ironic in the end, e.g. when you look at tyhe stuff in Damore's lawsuit (the ones still proceeding) vs. the fact that Google is simultaneously being sued for underpaying women.
Have you tried out teleconsole? I've used it quite a bit and I'm quite happy with it.

https://github.com/gravitational/teleconsole
It's good to know you have such a high view of yourself in comparison to others
Then part of the skill of being a "10x" developer is avoiding working with incompetent PMs and devs. There is no way to achieve outlier successes in an environment like that.
Furthermore what does 10x mean? What is being measured? Features, quality, lines of code, dollars, bugs, time, "the mission"? If the measured things is d(dev1, dev2, ...) then there are some interplays going on. No every 10x dev can 10x every team.
5 months of your life calling nursing homes? Not Herculean, Sisyphean.
Move on. You’re not getting your money back. Just accept it and remember this the next time you ask anyone a question with an answer that has higher stakes for you than them.
Says the guy who wrote an interactive C compiler for Lisp machines! ;)

"C combines the power and performance of assembly language with the flexibility and ease-of-use of assembly language."

https://github.com/navoj/clisp-c
> It doesn't mean that there are no servers involved, just that there are none to be directly managed by the developer.

They already had stuff like that. S3. RDS. Elasticache. At least the cloud gives you the nebulous feeling of servers off in the ether somewhere.

But serverless is neither specific nor accurate. It doesn't work. It's nothing more than lazy marketing-speak.
Security probably requires quite a bit of OSS on it. Lot's of proprietary software. There are a lot of penetration testing devices, not so many securing software.
> If it's on Ethereum, it's not decentralised.

You didn't mention it not being a blockchain. Words matter.

I think the fork was a mistake as well, but that doesn't make something centralized.
>1. The Harvard part of the degree is completely irrelevant

Except It's a pretty good indicator of his socioeconomic background and the numerous opportunities that were made available to him in his life that others didn't have. Apart from that yeah..

Oh and also the copious networking opportunities it gave him and access to circles that others don't have. yeah.....
I just moved from DO to OVH. More for less, and an Arch image...
> You missed where I said he had one employee.

No, didn't.

> So he's a capitalist?

He'd be a capitalist if his own labor was an insignificant share of the labor applied to his capital; a small business with one non-owner employee rarely would be that way (it could be, if, e.g., the employee did all the work and the owner was purely a passive investor.)

> These definitions are useless when it comes to evaluating wealth and the meaning of being rich.

They have a lot more to do with wealth than income level does, though, yes, class and wealth are not identical.

> Being a "capitalist" by your definition doesn't mean being wealthy or rich by any stretch

Surviving as one certainly does, unless you can consistently, year over year, manage improbably high returns (and if you can, you'll probably be quite wealthy before long even if you didn't start there; instantaneous inconsistencies between class economic patterns and wealth are more common than durable ones.)

> while being a "worker" can result in unimaginable wealth.

It can in theory, though it doesn't very often in practice, even among the narrow slice of the labor-selling population who experience some period with the kind of income which suggests the possibility of such an outcome.
Hi! Pywren project lead here, we're working on more and more fun HPC-style projects! We're also interested in expanding to more and more backends, so please feel free to reach out if there's something you'd like to see.
Somebody should mine the data and calculate year-over-year inflation rate, we have a mini economy on our hands! :)
Convert OneNote Documents to HTML Format with Resources in Separate File in Java
A CMS backend to which I can sew on any template based frontend I want without having to follow the strict workflow set by the backend.

The backend would just serve content when asked (JSON prolly), the frontend could be anything you desired.
That was surprisingly worth reading. I didn't have high expectations for startup content on MSN.com.
Peter Tattam at least got some belated credit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2282875
I don't know anything about any of the organisations you mention, but:

Is it possible they didn't lie, but got it wrong? Seems to me your assumption they lied isn't entirely warranted, and possibly it's counterproductive talking as if you're certain about that.
Where Chinese ecommerce giants see their next phase of growth
Yet another JavaScript tool is not going to make a significant difference in your productivity.

Knowing something completely different like R, TensorFlow, or Erlang, and the specific scenarios where those are exactly the right tools for the problem you are facing, can completely change the kinds of problems you can solve in a short amount of time.
A plugin to handle all of GDPR requirements?
"My point is that it benefits the developer to branch out and learn a diverse set of things, regardless of the details."

Yes, but do you have any evidence that can lead to "10x" productivity, even anecdotally?
Not overengineering is an art.
Silicon Valley Explores a New Investment: Your Home
Google didn't kill e-commerce. Amazon killed it. People are sick of creating accounts on every single web site out there. Who wants to enter your credit card info on some random web site? How do you know if you can trust them? And then, when you do successfully place an order, you end up having to pay shipping and handling, and it doesn't come for two weeks. Compare that to one click shopping on amazon.com, and one-day free shipping. Independent e-commerce sites just can't compete with that.
Actually I started being less mean on my criticism because I thought that everyone would welcome the criticism with open arms when I was naive. Instead, now I try to complement people first or point out the good parts and highlight the bad.

I found that this started to bleed into my real life and at the end of the day it made me grow as a person.
So is it sort of like how we use 'atomic' to mean a single discrete operation in programming?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linearizability
Mutable history is the problem. What's written to the blockchain is supposed to be immutable forever and independently verifiable by everyone. If an entity can rewrite history (eg drop or revert transactions), it becomes a problem. This is what happened after the DAO hack and it resulted in the Ethereum classic fork.
To me part of 10x mindset is seeing most things as a business with an objective. Sometimes that objective gets lost in the name of process. You start accepting projects even when it is not adding a value to the business, but i is done becaude someone wants it. This leaks from the top down. Part of that 10x is to avoid work that is useless.
Most call center grunts aren’t also tireless, gutsy, visionary, MD/businesspeople. Also they get a guaranteed salary; he didn’t. Source: am former call center grunt.
Didn't Damore receive threats of physical violence? And he's no Thiel by any stretch of imagination.
A few of my favourites:

Low level optimization - nkurz BeeOnRope dragontamer

Programming Languages - pcwalton jordwalke chrisseaton

Other people who work on well-known things that comment frequently:

jblow (The Witness, Braid)
phire (The Dolphin Emulator)
pizlonator (Webkit/JSC)

I made a web app just so I could subscribe and read all their comments via RSS: http://hnblogs.thume.ca/
empty speculation
Thank you for posting this. Would you like to compare tis-interpreter with UBSan? In which case using tis-interpreter will be better?

Speaking as someone who had rather good experience fighting this kind of bugs in Chromium using UBSan.
Because they also have "proprietary" tools (UniBeast, MultiBeast) which at one point required a paid sub iirc which ticked off the osx86 community that was all about FOSS.
What evidence do you have that I made any such assertion?
seanmcdirmid made a good point, since I'm currently teaching English my case is probably an exception and my statement was overgeneralizing
A "10X" programmer is someone like Magnus Carlsen in the world of chess. They have a knack for it which can only be explained by a convergence of nature, nurture, and sheer genius. They live and breathe programming in their professional life and their personal life. They have seemingly endless stamina. They literally solve problems in 1/10th of the time that an average programmer takes to solve them.

If they had ELO ratings for programming (like they do for chess), then a "10X" programmer would have a grandmaster rating of 2500+.

You know a "10X" programmer when you see one. Until you see one and experience working with one in real life, you simply won't understand. You will attempt to rationalize the concept by examining all of the programmers you know, and assuming that the best one must be a "10X" one. You may or may not be right.

Interestingly enough, 10X programmers almost never get paid 10 times what the average programmer makes. From what I've seen, they are lucky to get paid even twice what an average programmer makes.
Like ZeroNet, but more complicated and two years late.
This is really the vapid comment you chose and not any of the comments that didn't immediately write off the technology but actually had a business problem to solve?
The idea that there are black people in the first place is a racist one. There is humanity, there are individuals and there are classes, anything else are fever dreams of centuries past.

To try and fix original sin by making it into original virtue ends up in a new apartheid.

There are no black people, there are no white people. Anyone who calls themselves a leftist should be pushing this line as hard as possible.
Transistor Options Beyond 3nm
Borrow cycles in Rust: arenas v.s. drop-checking
A place to go for intelligent discussion after Slashdot lost appeal (to me)