skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Sounds like you're a bad culture fit and it's time for a PIP."

That's the usual response I see from managers to employees who try to leverage anything. The only option I see for employees has been to get another job, companies are willing to sacrifice all the costs of hiring and onboarding an employee to make sure they don't have any non compliant ones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molniya_orbit

Search for molniya.
This article is interesting, but its links to the GH project [1] appear to be mishandled somehow because they link to the article itself.

[1] https://github.com/ITHare/kscope
Oh god, not this again.

You have such a simplistic understanding of economics for somebody who asks others to read and study.

Where do tools come from? Are they descending from heaven like magic? Tools are the product of someone’s labor. Why would mr A who built tool X give it to mr B for his enterprise unless he gets some return?

Or do you imagine a world in which there is no shortage of tools? In that case just imagine a world where there is no shortage of anything and we can dispense with human labor altogether.

Anarchism is very possible when robots do everything. But not short of that.

Also, you should study why the anarchists ultimately lost and were butchered by the communists after the tsar’s regime was toppled in Russia.
apparently someone thought that the notion of a tag system with a semantic scope bound to a file tree hierarchy is such a ridiculous--nay, offensive!--idea that they had to downvote me for it, but couldn't bother to address it on the merits. The problem I see with tag based structures is that tags are global in scope, and so, tags have to mean one thing and one thing only; on the other hand, having one set of tags for a photo directory subtree, and another for my code repository makes a hell of a lot of sense to me.
What breaks with 1.1.1.1? Some people can't use it because of misconfiguration but it shouldn't break any services?
Sure, I was thinking of this specific case only. If someone starts to use tiny cameras in a way such that they are actually useful for remote sensing, then by all means regulate them.
It's a farce that you need a license to take pictures at all. I'm sure Russian and Chinese satellites already take photos of the US military bases regularly.
I try to work very closely with my contractors for this reason.

If I dont see results or competence I bail before its too late.

I think the lesson for your friend is that they need technical people with ownership in the business. If your primary use is your App, you should be your own expert.

IMO: Be a full stack developer at least once in your life. Maybe twice.
One of my favorite talks ever is https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
Occasionally something gets deprecated. Like export template, trigraphs or auto_ptr. But pretty much only when there is widespread disuse and displeasure. 99% of features are used by at least 1% of the user base and need to be kept around.
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Hi folks, what's your blogging workflow? I'm thinking tools (Jekyll, Gatsby, Wordpress), deployment (gh-pages, Netlify, AWS?), commenting (Disqus/own?), feedback forms (Formspree?), etc. What do you use?

(Used to do Jekyll, currently using Hugo on Github pages, but I'm thinking of switching to Gatsby since I know more React than Go, so it's harder for me to make changes).
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This shift in perspective has been critical for me. Similarly, it is critical to ask “Whose problem am I solving?”

I am an engineer and tinkering with tech brings me pleasure from creating, I crave mental stimulation, and I get immense satisfaction from havingright things in right places”. Polishing the code is like polishing the car engine for a petrolhead.

But those are my problems and triggers. I am feeding _my_ needs, then implicitly expect other people to give me _their_ money for doing this. Because look how hard I toiled! Yet many people do not care how polished their car engine is. And I have never seen clean code that was generating revenue.

The critical shift was to accept that people and have needs I don’t have, and they are desperate to solve them. And their professional lives are often painful - I get frustrated when I spend a day with almost any professional outside of tech. “This is the shit you have to put up with to get anything done??!” I haven’t had that problem since teens, if ever, and I can fix it. Automatically, empathy takes over, and I want to rescue them from the daily dread. So I wire together a minimal app that will make them glow with delight for 6 months, and they’ll give me dollars in return. Today was a good day, because two strangers supported each other and did not focus entirely on themselves.

If it were up to me, everyone would get a juicy steak. But when going fishing it’s more effective to bring worms.
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All the other people on the road are having autopilot forced on them by reckless early adopters.
Not OP, but even today I still don't understand why is Dropbox different except for hype and media coverage - there were many similar services back then (including integrating as a virtual drive on Windows) and we have literally tons of these services now.
I don’t have a horror story, more of a caveat emptor tale:

When I was a freshman in college and learning iOS, I contracted out a developer team in Bangalore to write the backend software for an app I built, so that I could focus on the front end.

I had not taken a software engineering course by that point and had little experience writing clear and concise requirements, so that when the product was done it was missing key features that were necessary for the app to function but were not explicitly detailed in the contract.

I had to renegotiate for the missing features at an additional cost of $100. Granted, it was not a lot of money, but it was more than 50% above my original budget, and as a college student, that stung. Sometimes I still wonder if I was screwed intentionally.

Not much of a horror story but I hope my tale can serve as a lesson to others who may find themselves in the place I was then: learn the tech or be very very clear about your requirements before you sign a contract.
Nice. That's further than I would have gone. I would have written a script to export to CSV, import to SQLite, run the queries, export back to CSV then convert back to Excel. Maybe that's why I don't have my own company...
"It took a few days to build the first version. It was butt-ugly and looked like it was designed according to whatever the opposite to Feng Shui is, but it worked nicely."

Made me laugh.
We just launched So, we wanted to do something nice
It's such a nonsense application of the rule that the people doing the regulation didn't even think about it for at least 8 years (https://youtu.be/fshVNOJ-Wtg?t=296) so it's hard to fault SpaceX.

It's also an extremely good bet that NOAA also recently got an application from ULA. (https://youtu.be/FUJ9Dtyiclw?t=213)
These are the type of comments I love hn for!
Not the most in depth HN comment, but my user ID - tCfD - stands for The Center For Decentralization, an intentional oxymoron which I sometimes use in casual conversation to call attention to the fundamentally paradoxical (and the closer you get, the more they confound) premises of this subject.
> there were many similar services back then

Citations please.
Using 1.1.1.0/24 for a DNS service was a bad idea.
Now all this garbage traffic is being routed.
(Before, it would just be dropped closer to the edge.)
I'm part of the SatNOGS team (https://satnogs.org) pretty interesting work you are doing there :)
There are keys, but Telegram has no access to them because the communication doesn't go via their servers. Russia is saying Telegram should change their system (e.g. not make it end-to-end, or send secret keys to a central server, or allow disabling encryption) to comply.
This seems to be one of those problems that you can solve 90% of the way very quickly with a seemingly simple set of rules.
1) stay in your lane

2) dont hit other objects

3) obey traffic laws

Then that devil that is the details shows up...
> "Guess what computers excel at? Driving consistently on consistent highways."

Possibly on paper. In reality, as of right now, computers are clearly far from excelling at this specific task.
working on a daily basis with excel/vba/sql and was intrigued for a moment. Then I wandered into the pricing and was truly surprised. Again, a niche tool that charges as much as the complete jetbrains suite (if you're a subscriber for 3 years).
Don't go too far, or you'll get...

auto i = { 1 };
It's also more comfortable for your passengers.

I did a 6 hours trip with a friend continuously putting his foot up and down on the throttle, and it was the most gruelling car trip I've had I think.

When I asked he said it was "to keep control on the car". I'm a patient friend.
There is a generator: https://github.com/rooseveltframework/generator-roosevelt

And the database issue you raised is tracked there: https://github.com/rooseveltframework/generator-roosevelt/is...

We decided against staging a database (and especially an ORM) by default, as it would make the framework a bit too opinionated, but we're certainly not against adding support for it as an off-by-default option in the generator to add in a bunch of common db configs.
Wow, good read. In HN I always discover another interesting secret US Gov project.
I recently had to give my CVV to a call centre and they paused recording for that part. Probably more reliable than trying to scrub it afterwards.
Proponents keep touting this as the real benefit of self-driving cars, so it's hardly surprising that some people have taken them at their word and not realised that the car is not, in fact, truly autonomous and may drop out at any moment.
I can't understand the blindness of the Tesla/Elon fanboys in that thread; the comments on that thread are so defensive of Tesla and still show little concern for safety. Despite fairly damning video evidence, a fatality, many reports of accidents and near accidents...
Yeah, some how I knew you’d go there.

When you hold up small regions that survived for a short time (about 3 years), created nothing, then were defeated, I’m not sure you’re going to win against a system that created modern North America from nothing and has lasted over 200 years.

Anarchism is an abstract idea that has never worked, which is why all your examples are of anarchists that work with collectivist, squarely against their individualist ideals.
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Anything is evenly spaded on a log scale...
What about 4K? 8K? What about a big honking lens strapped to the side?

If the agency requires everyone to get a license, they can filter out the people doing shady stuff.

Granted there's not many people sending rockets into LEO.
I have now rewritten my code so that I include bytes directly in my src/main.rs like so:

#[get("/fonts/<fname>")]
fn fonts<'a> (fname: String) -> Result<Content<Vec<u8>>, NotFound<String>>
{
match fname.as_ref()
{
"autobahn.woff" => Ok(Content(ContentType::WOFF,
include_bytes!("../static/fonts/Autobahn/autobahn.woff").to_vec())),

"autobahn.ttf" => Ok(Content(ContentType::TTF,
include_bytes!("../static/fonts/Autobahn/autobahn.ttf").to_vec())),

"grobe-deutschmeister.woff" => Ok(Content(ContentType::WOFF,
include_bytes!("../static/fonts/Grobe-Deutschmeister/grobe-deutschmeister.woff").to_vec())),

"grobe-deutschmeister.ttf" => Ok(Content(ContentType::TTF,
include_bytes!("../static/fonts/Grobe-Deutschmeister/grobe-deutschmeister.ttf").to_vec())),

_ => Err(NotFound(format!("No such file: /fonts/{}", fname)))
}
}

In the meantime since I first wrote my original code, the web framework I was using called Iron [1] has become unmaintained and they now urge people to pick a different framework. I chose to use Rocket because it seemed to have the features I want and the documentation seemed good enough to get started (and it was).

For templating I found Askama [2], which I am using from git master in order to be able to use it together with Rocket. https://github.com/djc/askama/issues/71

Eventually I will generate the routes for the included bytes with build.rs again. My new code is better both short-term and for when I will create said build.rs.

Thank you masklinn for your comment about include_bytes! which made me look at my code again and rewrite it.

[1]: https://rocket.rs/

[2]: https://docs.rs/crate/askama/
No bubble, but higher interest rates will drag the prices down. People won’t be able to afford the same house at 5-8% interest rate. Experts predict a hike to at least 5% by the end of this year. So, more likely a price drop not a bubble.
>Out of curiosity, would you be surprised by

No, not at all.

>The point is, by publishing this kind of posts, Github is making you associate git with Github

Well, git IS associated with GitHub. It's the de facto #1 hosting service for Git repositories, eclipsing all others, and the #1 host of open source git repos. They're also major contributors to Git.

But regardless of all that, they host git repos. They literally work with people that use Git, day in, day out, and help them host their git managed code.

Of course they'll cover developments in Git. Who else would be more natural to cover them (aside something like "Git planet")? The GTK+ blog? The IEEE?
This concept is specifically mentioned in the law text.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-6-gdpr/

> the existence of appropriate safeguards, which may include encryption or pseudonymisation.
I don't understand. Why? What was the motivation to conduct such talks?
Regarding what Facebook does, according to Facebook connecting people, how does patient's medical data contributes to that? "You've been committed to the local hospital last week, connect to people who shared that experience with you?"
It doesn't make sense at all!
I think this is important because "your" implies that there is something that someone can do to fix the problem. Omitting it makes the think that there's a general problem with the docker ecosystem.
> It basically predicted WebAssembly before WebAssembly existed

I really love that talk, but this is a bit of a stretch considering that it could apply to asm.js as well, which was available the year before the talk was recorded. Remember the unreal engine demo on Firefox?
Government over-regulation at its finest. I can certainly understand the FCC being involved here to manage bandwidth allocations, but a license to send pictures is ridiculous and is walking into murky water with First Amendment rights.
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@anakic

I have used excel as a data source using VBA before so one problem I had there that I'm curious how you approached was how to automatically determine data types? IIRC the ODBC engine in VBA scans a set amount of rows to guess. Are you doing anything different?
The success of asians disproves a general bias towards whites in the US or any sort of "compounding interest" associated with it.

The consensus amongst neurobiologists is that adult IQ is somewhere between 70-80% based on genetic factors. I invite you to read "The Neuroscience of Intelligence" by Richard Haier, and the many studies cited therein.

Comparing this scientific work with astrology is clownish, on par with young earth creationism.
I think the world modeling is the part that autonomous cars can obviously be better at. They have all sorts of advantages over humans; access to much more detailed maps than the average person can recall, multiple types of sensors pointed in multiple directions, a system designed to integrate all that information in a way that is advantageous for driving (we have a system evolved for whatever it evolved for) and so on.

It's the sophisticated behaviors necessary to safely drive through that world model that are the issue.

The success of emergency breaking systems (that aren't advertised as "driving" assist) are pretty good evidence that the sensors can serve well as input to safe behaviors.
No, it's an extremely overreaching interpretation of a treaty and NOAA's legislative charter.
Similarly, I was running a digital agency and the performance of one of my first employees took a nose dive. After trying everything I could think of to help him turn things around I had to let him go.

Shortly after, I got an Email from an unknown individual who said he knew the employee and asked if I could chat. Turns out, my employee was subbing out all of his work and stopped paying his sub, who then stopped delivering. The sub proved this to me by confirming some confidential information that he shouldn't have had access to.

After revealing that he had taken part in this scheme, the sub then asked me for a job! Needless to say I told him he wasn't a good fit.
Trial purchase page seems to be only place you describe the difference between free and Professional (https://www.querystorm.com/trial.html). Perhaps add to FAQ in docs or elsewhere to make clear the added functionality that comes from purchase, beyond the "non-commercial vs. commercial" use license requirement.

Otherwise, cool system!
Sounds like Seattle
It's a good point.

Here in the UK I am insured to drive vehicle A as specified on my insurance documents. If I modify that vehicle my insurance policy is void and I need to inform the insurance co. and probably pay a premium.

In your scenario the same could be true on a software update.
Which is another way of saying "this is some evidence in favour of the theory that the earth is actually flat and the government is trying to hide it".
You know what I think is missing on internet?

A good guide to transition from heroku, where everything is handled and you don't need to know anything, to AWS (or similar) where you end up having to either manage everything, or at least be aware of how things work and what are all the tools available (beanstalk, etc).

I find it missing, and it makes me scared of transitioning, while still be interested in learning more about server management / linux.
E2E encryption enabled by default wasn't in the OP request. But instead of being snarky, how about you suggest a better alternative?
This is exactly what we built at Lambda School - our data science/machine learning program has math (linear algebra, calculus) and CS (python) as pre-requisites, and is designed to train the rest of the way. It can also be free until you get hired in field.

It is a big commitment - 6 months full-time or one year part-time.

https://lambdaschool.com/courses/ds/machine-learning/
The second paragraph that you didn't quote covered that
> No, the US regulates US-based companies, just like in any other field. This includes making the ability to conduct large scale surveillance of the earth's surface subject to license.

I wonder how that comports with this limitation on the U.S.: ‘Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press …’ Seems pretty cut-and-dried to me that if they launched the camera, they have a right to publish the photos.
Cool. I’m glad you said that.

Who dictates what is dangerous speech? You? A mob?

Now do yourself a favor and go and watch their speeches, then come back and quote the facist bits. I bet you can’t...because I know you can’t.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16770818
Although the voice acting is terrible - the engineers speaking about what they are doing are incredibly stilted and unnatural: "Yes Bob. I was moving it the. Wrong way. I am moving it. In the correct direction. Now. Bob. Thank you."
> My friend's first startup took a dive after spending $80,000 to work with a local development company. It turned out the development firm was just a front to outsource all of the work overseas and take a big cut.

What I get from this story is your friend raised an inadequate amount of money to build a company that required a technical background that he/she didn't possess, though should have.

80k over 5 months is 16k a month, which should get you roughly one qualified engineer. Unless the project was very simple, 5 months isn't a lot of time. Maybe they didn't understand what was possible within that time-frame / budget?

There's nothing wrong with outsourcing. I'm outside of the US (though from there) and companies outsource to me -- not because I'm cheap, but because there aren't that many people who do the specialized work that I do, in any country.

On the other side of it, most work that gets done for startups is relatively simple. There are plenty of competent engineers all over the world that can do the work.

> It turned out the development firm was just a front to outsource all of the work overseas and take a big cut.

Turns out Apple outsources all of their manufacturing to China and takes a big cut. Maybe I should start buying only `Made in the USA` (or wherever you're from) computers?
I think the world is more likely to end up using a simplified mashup of most used languages rather than a new one, especially Esperanto with all its faults.
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The driver's not the only one on the road.
A smarter, and perhaps even more profitable way to approach this problem is "OK, we want almost everything that happens to customers to be a self-serve situation" and then make your (fewer) call centre employees highly trained troubleshooters who can figure out why _this_ customer wasn't able to self-serve and get that sorted for them. The result is a better customer experience (usually everything just works, when you need to talk to a human the human is an _expert_ who helps fix your problem, not a drone working from a fixed script) and it can be much cheaper if done right.

Definitely if you think of your product/ service as "premium" this is the correct model to have.
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On the one hand, I'm rather happy about this sudden outpouring of anger; FB has fundamentally corrupted the public square, scrutiny is appropriate.

On the other hand, it's hard not to get conspiratorial, given https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/12/facebook-rupert-murdoch-thre...
My personal take:

We the people should stand up and say, "I will never again vote for someone who doesn't run their campaign solely on public funding."

Who gets public funding? Anyone with X signatures, where X is relatively small.

Having our politicians spend almost all of their time fund-raising, and designing their campaigns and message around improving their fund-raising, is just destroying us.
I don't think Microsoft would be able to produce something that was just ready, without having to create a project or click through a wizard first.

Much of this functionality is available already, through ODBC, powershell, c# - but it's cumbersome to use. That's the selling point of this software, it seems to me.
https://stratechery.com/2018/the-end-of-windows/
Couldn't they just get someone in the office with a ham license to become the "broadcaster" and do without all the NOAA license shenanigans?
So, I'd have to pay just to get into some chat group?
Not true in Europe.

Also my bank issues me temporary debit cards for online purchases.

I can chose if the card is for one purchase or for multiple purchases with the same entity, over a period up to 12 months.

I can set a monthly or a total limit.

I can request as many cards as I wish and they are free. I use a new card for every online purchase.