skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe there's zero business value in keeping secrets (I don't believe that at all), but even if that were the case and Apple were just overly obsessed with "the prestige" [1][2], why would that change anything? They should be free to operate the company in anyway they want. Apple's a 40 year old business and everyone knows their culture. Employees know what they're signing up for (and I think their first day is an orientation about this topic specifically).

[1] https://youtu.be/gZY1mB9m9b0?t=19s

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/13/the-iphone-5-event/
They do set prices, collectively. If they don't think the prevailing market price is worth their time, they choose not to work at that price and the market adjusts by raising prices if there aren't enough drivers to satisfy demand.
WikiHouse – an open source project to reinvent the way we make homes
> When an electronic item is defective, when an item you buy reoccurringly degrades in quality over multiple purchases, or when something stops working before it should those are all warning signs of a counterfeit.

Yeah, those things all happen to genuine products, too. It doesn't tell you much.
So you’re saying that media is not biased, that in fact all of the people saying that there is a bias are trying to portray a “false balance”? Have you looked at the CNN homepage recently? If you
u don’t see bias there, there’s no point in continuing to discuss this with you.
How would that even work? Like, sure they could watch their own programming, but the people watching it would come from essentially the same pool of people, with the same set of shared biases, as those who chose to run the story that way in the first place.
I keep it simple. Only invest in coins with very good fundamentals, as in so strong they could potentially beat Bitcoins.

Buy when people are panic selling for no reason. Sell when everyone gets excited about it, when people like my farmer uncle are advising me to buy.
"Hey, looks like your website isn't using the most cutting-edge design theory, because look at this one that I just made up"
allocation characteristics of different languages. Go copies when passing args. java is pass by value, but those values are usually pointers to objects. very different needs.
Split stacks are no longer used, as of Go 1.3 (2014).
That's a problem with PayPal, not Gmail. You can't register "myemail" if someone else has already registered "my.email", so PayPal must not have verified the address (unless you accidentally clicked the verification link yourself).

There was an article posted recently that complained about how Netflix lets people create multiple accounts using dot variations of the same Gmail address, and plenty of people pointed out how it made no sense to blame Gmail for Netflix failing to verify email addresses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16781959
There's a huge difference between messing up a small piece, and not knowing how to even approach a trivial problem in the field. Do you not see the difference? Like, this is way more like Francis Crick asking 'what's a cell?' than screwing up a math problem.
I suspect that's an average of people who work full-time, people who work part-time, and people who don't work at all, such as unemployed, retirees, and children.
I really wish WebAssembly did not use the word "Assembly". It doesn't really resemble any actual assembly language. And if you look at the comments in this thread, for example, a lot of people think it's letting you have something like arbitrary machine code.
It is not constructive for me to engage with this level of cinicism.
Yeah, that is how I saw it too. But honestly, not everyone thinks the same or wants to start a company...for some people not buying right away could just cost them more in the long run i suppose. Personally I feel even in that case the life experience of renting and moving around is probably healthy, but each to their own!
Are you talking about 2nd amendment? If so, that's not a grant to violence by any means. If you want to test if the state really has a monopoly on violence, try being violent, or simply disobedient with an officer of the state.
Can this be used with CGO_ENABLED=1 if CC is emscripten?
I will second this because I've seen it happen, both to me and to other people -- an environment that wasn't a good fit changes and suddenly someone excels, or someone excels and the environment changes and suddenly it's like they can't do anything right.

Also, having clear criteria set up in advance is essential. You should know before you go into the room (or pick up the phone, or whatever) not only what constitutes a pass versus a fail, but also what kinds of things in the interview signal more than just passing. And the pass/fail can't just be "regurgitated an algorithm we wanted them to regurgitate", because that tells you nothing about whether somebody's actually good to work with.
WebAssembly doesn't provide any functional capabilities that aren't already accessible to JavaScript. This change does not really enable a browser to do anything more "natively" than it already could, other than run code that's written in Go.
WebAssembly allows you to build "native" libraries that can be accessed from JavaScript. There is huge value in that.
Please EFF, keep ruining the US internet and leave the EU alone, thank you.
Do you also fork all their dependencies and subdependencies and fix the path in all of them? Otherwise you are still at the mercy of account/repo renames or deletions
Would you let your kid use the product your company makes?
I'm curious, after watching a former FB creator saying he wouldn't let his kids use social media. How many other people here share this view? No need to share which company you work for, obviously.
At the same time, people in the armed forces are probably sick of hearing "GOOD JAB!" and getting slapped on the back while their countrymen do nothing to prevent the need for the means of war.
This takes a very heavy analytical approach to the reasons for seeking an entrepreneurship path. I think it misses the larger point - most people go into it for highly personal subjective reasons. Mine, and most I feel like are simply choosing to chase after the dream of making real money, enough to buy our freedom from the rat race and live life on our own terms.
Some more food for thought on the meaning of =, from Girard's "Proofs and Types" [0]:

> There is a standard procedure for multiplication, which yields for the inputs 27 and 37 the result 999. What can we say about that?
A first attempt is to say that we have an equality "27 x 37 = 999". This equality makes sense in the mainstream of mathematics by saying that the two sides denote the same integer [...] but it misses the essential point:
There is a finite computation process which shows that the denotations are equal.

> [...] if the two things we have were the same then we would never feel the need to state their equality. Concretely we ask a question, 27 x 37, and get an answer, 999. The two expressions have different senses and we must do something (make a proof or a calculation, or at least look in an encyclopedia) to show that these two senses have the same denotation.

[0]: http://www.paultaylor.eu/stable/prot.pdf
How is the EFF ruining the US internet?
So there's a lot of other things that can be done on the client other than interacting with the DOM. In particular, applications that render intense graphics, or manage a local database could GREATLY benefit from more efficient compiled code, and this would open up possibilities that the current JS engine wouldn't be able to deliver.
Like, literally have never heard of a carburator? Even if all they work on are diesel and electric?
Landlords and employers as a rule should not have access to your records. The only exception is employers that have a legitimate concern such as for example security companies or banks.
5) Not start a 'startup' that requires funding or hotshot coders to grow at 10x every month, but instead start a regular tech-oriented business that doesn't require any of the 4 other points.

Tech entrepreneurs do not necessarily have to start 'startups' in the HN sense of the word and I know there are plenty on HN who have taken the slower, bootstrapped path without rich friends, lack of debt, or even being based in ideal countries.
I guess it depends on how you define 'modern' there are plenty of people working on XMPP protocol extensions along with active client & server development.
As weird as this might sound, I see WebAsssembly more like a portable shared library format than a JavaScript replacement.
Interesting. I can't say that I ever get that, and I email Gmail a ton. I'm curious if Google outlines how to prevent getting considered SPAM or not. It could be that I've had my domain for >5 years as well.
Indeed. I'm really curious about the example I saw on their front page, apparently showing a bot commenting that "accessing this ImageView outside the main thread may cause crashes in this app". Is this genuinely possible to achieve?
> but I've never understood what the employee gets out of it

They may get money?

Some of these companies have valuation in hundreds of billions, and a small bit of news can nudge that +/- 0.5-2% or more which could be a couple billions dollars. If you own just 0.1% of the stock, that would be several $m opportunity . So, paying your informer, say, $100K or something, sounds reasonable, if you can execute it properly, even accounting for fake informers.
That's a fair argument. I'd question the motive behind stripping videos like that: copyright issues or something deeper?

To be clear I'm not taking a political side, I just haven't really noticed too many left-leaning content makers take hits at the same rate.
"Be free of debt, either from student loans or mortgage" ... if the price of your mortgage is the same as renting, why is your statement true? If you run out of money, mortgage or rent, you've got a problem.
Add to that: once you've had one "hit" (even if it's a small one off $100k exit) then you're basically hooked for life.

You'll realise it's almost always easier to make money from a successful business (no potential constraint on earnings if you solve a large enough problem) than it is working a job (time limited, limited opportunities for promotion based on age or company, etc)

But I agree, not everyone is made to be an entrepreneur.
> It's not worth sacrificing your freedom and privacy.

I don't think security cameras in public place necessarily sacrifice either.
The supposition in instances like these is one expressing a notion of equivalence, whether or not an equality results in a contradiction doesnt mean that the meaning of the symbol has changed.
How is this different from an email list? If I send an email to a email list can I a few years later request the hosting site to delete my email, delete that part of the monthly digest (or all the monthly digest) and also request that the hosting site forward the deletion request to Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo(mail), ...
There's quite a bit of controversy about Coinmarketcap manipulating prices by presenting false data, so it might be advisable not to use it or its data.
Came here for this and to also link http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com
I agree with your points, but is it realistic or are those excuses? Has anybody quantified actual entrepreneurship? Yes, your example are complete home runs but most entrepreneurs would end up with a small business and not unicorns.
Yes, in theory. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6825713/html5-w3c-vs-wha...
No, Google has the right to fight each such request in court.
I strongly disagree with your second point. There are quite a few very successful entrepreneurs who have started companies while being mired in terrible financial circumstances. In fact, it's very common for these circumstances to be the stimulus that gets people moving in the direction of their own company. There are many, many stories of this, to the point that it's a cliché.

I myself started my first business at a time when I had virtually no money in the bank, and my car was literally repossessed one month before my business became profitable. If I had stopped and said "I can't afford this" and just given up and gone to get a job, I would have never seen the success that came later.

Also, you point out particular entrepreneurs who came from rich families. You completely leave out the wide array of entrepreneurs who did not. John Paul DeJoria, for example, was living on a friend's property because he was homeless and had almost no money. He started his business in those circumstances. He's estimated at somewhere in the ballpark of 3 billion net worth presently. There are quite a few stories of people with virtually no money building empires out of the rubble.

While I agree that there are a number of factors that feed into whether a startup is successful or not, I would kindly submit to you that one's attitude towards whether or not it can be accomplished is a very massive part of the picture. It takes focus and determination to get most businesses off the ground. Once you begin listing the reasons you can't accomplish it, you've begun setting up the circumstances such that you won't.
It's almost as if judges aren't stupid.
The article paraphrases Spolsky incorrectly: great developers don’t look for jobs more than 4x in their career not because they stay in their jobs longer (ie: career length/4) but because they are headhunted for most of their jobs so don’t have to look themselves
> Are you even reading my comments?

Of course. I'm referencing them. Perhaps you mean something other than you're saying?

> True, but only if the observations you make include both direct and indirect impacts. Following your example, it is true that very little software uses type system-oriented languages, but you are ignoring the impact such languages have made on other languages, tools, frameworks, and libraries. For instance, Haskell is not a widely used language, but some of its ideas have impacted other languages and domains in various ways.

No, you've confused yourself by adding in Haskell. The theory in your example is "type system-oriented languages predict utility", it has no indirect effects, it has direct effects on Haskell and the languages that Haskell passed this trait onto (and other languages that aren't inspired by Haskell).
I will stand up for the "meaningless" statement.

The typical tech company interview measures things which have no relationship to someone's quality as a programmer or their effectiveness as a member of a dev team. Any success of such a process (success meaning hires someone who turns out to be competent and a good fit in the team) is the result of factors unrelated to the interview process, and probably has a significant component of chance. But it's treated as an effective arbiter of "qualified" versus "utterly and totally incompetent to work anywhere".

(I firmly believe that Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood have done more active harm to tech hiring than perhaps any two other people, by the way)

Here are slides from a talk I gave last year with a former co-worker about doing better tech interviews, which go into a bit more detail on the issue:

http://media.b-list.org/presentations/2017/pygotham/intervie...

And here's a longer-form piece which touches on interviewing problems as part of a larger issue in the industry:

https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2018/jan/08/degrees/
If you go to any of the electronics mega-malls in Asian cities like KL or Singapore the top floor is full of little shops of guys armed with soldering irons and loupes that will repair anything for a hundred dollars or two.
What We Learned Deploying Deep Learning at Scale for Radiology Images
The bacteria, it is called lactobacillus bulgaricus.
I didn’t see those threads before posting this. Thanks for the links.

On a side note: There still isn’t an answer to the question in matter.
That's pretty much what it's supposed to be. Much of the browsery stuff is still supposed to be handled by JS.
My crypto professor made a point that stuck with me: There are many many problems that are, from an engineering standpoint, really cool and fun to solve, but can only really be used to harm or kill people. Building MIRVs or cluster bombs probably scratches the itches of a lot of aerospace engineers, but you're still using your design chops to build things that end lives.
Calling someone a maguro is not positive or nice. It’s saying they are a dead fish. I don’t think the author has (much?) experience having sex with Japanese
> Rather than allow you to write felony murder off as a consequence of Alabama being a typical southern state

Ahh, I see where we're crossing lines. I was writing off my lack of surprise at this occurring in Alabama. I would have been more surprised if this had happened in San Francisco, which as you said, has the same law. I'd love to see how frequently it's enforced by location as uneven enforcement is a thing, especially as societal attitudes shift but the laws are yet to be revised (see possession of small amounts of drugs in certain jurisdictions).

> ...I expected you to thank me. Instead I get the feeling you're looking for a fight.

I was merely rebutting your accusation that I took a "cheap shot". The first half-sentence in your initial reply has no substances, and serves no other purpose except to antagonize. I would have been grateful had you replied with just the second half instead.

> English isn't my native language, so please correct me if I'm wrong...

I wasn't attacking your grammar, I was suggesting that the reasons leading to my lack of surprise are very much in the present.
Webassembly uses a javascript "glue" for accessing the DOM. The point of Webassembly is not to just be an alternative to javascript; it's to have a binary web program format that runs at close to native speeds. This makes it extremely useful for porting C/C++ applications, especially games, to the browser.
Outside of entertainment, who cares if you feel like you’re in the environment vs being able to do useful things with it when you want to or need to? Using AR purely for entertainment doesn’t seem like such a revolutionary thing, really, especially when we have ok VR. I see some potential advantages for sure, but enough to make it a mass market nust-have device? I personally don’t see it.
You're talking to people on FB with a XMPP account? or using your facebook credentials to connect?

I tried hangouts recently and the lack of message carbons made it pretty unusable.
European leaders are creating a crony-capitalism hellhole where globalists reign supreme.
Recent laws like the cookie regulations or GDPR are made for the purpose to stop the spread of free information and favor regulatory bodies and the already estabilished companies.
Of course I'm citing the laws that directly influence the web, but there are many more in all industries.

With this proposal they want to impede freedom of information while at the same time get some of that sweet tax money in the pockets of their allies.

It is that simple, and it's not a conspiracy: it's a natural process, they just have to support people who align with them and push them forward while slowing down the rise of other forces. You don't need a conspiracy for that, just a common culture and a shared goal, and the globalists have them.
> And in addition to that, the "if the law is in fact on your side"-part is also easier to determine beforehand

I do think that American courts have a problem with this, and I do wish Americans cared more about it. It's fairly standard to hear people over here talk about whether or not something is legal and say "Oh, but I'm not a lawyer, make sure you consult with one before making any decisions."

That always irritates me. Our laws ostensibly exist for the common people, not lawyers. It reminds me of the stereotypical olden churches where only a few people would get to read or understand the Bible. It feels dirty.
Nonsense.

I have a mortgage, student debt, and do not know anyone particularly well off, I quit a very stable job, and am in the middle of launching a tech startup.

People get so hung up on privilege these days that they lose sight of the power of merit and strategy. I think it is a dangerous mindset.
I reached the end of Japanese course about a month ago and have continued to practice daily. Here are my thoughts:

* Many of the English translations don't seem like idiomatic English. Sometimes I think it is even grammatically incorrect. This has made me worried about some of the Japanese not being super great as well. With other people chiming in about how languages they already knew having this problem, it doesn't look great.

* I agree with numbers. They way Duolingo handles numbers, days, months, etc is to me worse than the traditional way. It took a long time to get decent at numbers, and I screw them up a bit. I don't know any of the days of the week, but I know what day of the week words look like. They only ever include one day of the week word it the word bank, so you never actually have to learn.

* On the subject of the word bank, I think if the incorrect words where more plausible. For many lessons, you don't need the Japanese input. The word bank only provides one plausible English sentence.

* It needs more sentence variety. For example, if a less has "The tea is hot." and "The ramen is cool.", why not also add "The tea is cool." and "The ramen is hot."? I find if Duo selects the same lesson a few days in a row, I start to memorize the answers and can punch them in without needing the input.

* I can form original sentences. I'm not very fast at it, but I think that is to be expected. I don't think I'll get better until I start trying to actually speak to people.

* The bigger problem I have is a lack of vocabulary. Duolingo seems to like to jump around a lot, never getting good enough at any one thing. Even in a situation where you are able to get by if you stick to a script, eg at a restaurant, there are still gaps that would prevent me from doing everything in Japanese. Looking at Memerise, it seems to focus on giving you more depth. For example, Duolingo taught me how to say "How are you?" and respond "I'm fine.". Later I've been able to add "I'm tired." and "I'm scared." Memerise teaches you "I'm fine.", "I'm tired.", "I'm happy.", "I'm angry.", "I'm hungry.", and "I'm sick.". That feels more useful.

* The audio quality is crappy. Sometimes it sounds like the syllables are clipping into each other or something. Sometimes it seems like their text to speech engine got confused about where word boundaries are. I took a brief look at Memerise's Japanese course, and the audio quality is much better.

* About 50% of the time when I try to tap the button to replay the audio clip, it seems to think I want to quit the lesson.

* It would be nice if there was something you could tap to temporarily see Japanese sentences with spaces between words.

* While I expect Duolingo would never do it, I think a few lessons on innuendos would be useful. It would save some embarrassing situations.
Article mentions that the compiled code will also run on Node.js, does it mean it will be possible to use all zillions of NPM modules from Go at some point in time?
Several years ago I wrote a piece titled, "To Save the Gulf, Send the Enterprise". At the time the Deepwater Horizon oil geyser was spewing crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, and the well's owners were trying to figure out what to do.

I suggested sending the US Navy's portable nuclear reactors (such as carried in the Enterprise and other aircraft carriers) to aerate the ocean surrounding the oil geyser. It was entirely impractical - a navy blogger responded to my email with a blog post (and a link) to say it was a terrible idea.

The Enterprise has since been retired, and is currently being disposed of. But I think the core of the idea is still valid. Aeration would help deal with all this agricultural runoff...

Maybe I'll write a new post for my neglected website: http://SendTheEnterprise.org/