skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in my late 30s now, and the biggest impediments to starting a business are family/financial obligations and the fact that nobody is going to fund a ~40 year old first-time entrepreneur.

So the only option is to work nights/weekends on an MVP (the slow way) while holding down a full-time job, and hope you can get enough traction on your own to attract attention/investment/etc. --> I'm finding this last bit extremely difficult. Doing dev/product work as a moonlighter is perfectly reasonable (though not necessarily fun after a hard day's work), I can sit up in bed with my laptop and hack on code until I fall asleep... but add sales and marketing on top of that and there simply isn't enough time to do things right (not to mention, you really need to be selling during standard business hours -- except you can't because you're at your day job).
I guess because the majority of their users don't need and don't understand it.
> There's nothing Node could or should have done about the lack of string padding. Node's "standard library" is first and foremost concerned with enabling network and filesystem IO. JS on the other hand even lacks a built-in way to handle dates properly (the Date class is largely an afterthought based on Java).

That's absolutely incorrect. Now, I might be using a slightly contrived example here, but take RPython and compare it with Python. Both use mostly the same syntax (i.e. ECMAScript vs Node.js), but one is extensively much more feature-filled than the other because it targets general-purpose programming(Python) vs a very specific purpose language, used as a lower level "Framework" if you will (RPython). RPython has no need to implement something like `left-pad` (although because it's a subset of Python, it's sort of already implemented)

With RPython, it's intended you build things on top of it (which is how I view ECMAScript), whereas with Python (more like Node.js) you'd expect that to...exist.

The fact of the matter is, the language teams in these examples had completely different goals and I personally believe that Node.js should have gone more the Python route and had an extremely strong standard library that would handle mundane tasks like `left-pad` does. It disappoints me that the Node.js team (outside of the ECMA technical committee, which designs the language itself) does not thing it should be responsible for this kind of simple tooling and instead rather passes it off to developers.
White label exchange providers openly advertise wash trading as a feature. Also many provide liquidity from other exchanges so using aggregate market cap across exchanges is extremely inaccurate.
It's completely racism, dark skin color is an indication of non-European (priamrily either African or American indigenous) ancestry, and what you describe is a outgrowth of racism in which Europeans are favorered and the other two groups disfavored.
Unless you are in the EU just don't worry about it. Think of it has EU shotgun to the foot that lets non-EU startups get ahead.
Here you go:
https://www.vestas.com/~/media/vestas/about/sustainability/p...

Money-shot on p66. About 8 months for EROEI (Energy returned on energy invested). I worked on some of these Life Cycle Analyses and can attest that they were quite rigorous.
And I'm sure that the passersby had data about bicycle thief demographics that they looked at before they chose how to react.
I hear you, I'm sure it's solvable, yet I have spent at least a few sessions attempting to figure this out and Mint continues to tell me I'm "in the red" by several thousand dollars every month (when in fact I am not)

I'm not seeing the "credit" applied to my card, just the expenses. I thought that Mint was supposed to "ignore" CC bill payments - however something just still isn't right and it makes Mint almost completely useless to me.
It's so the non-EU users won't have any rights under the GDPR. All non-US users were officially being served by Facebook Ireland instead of Facebook US, which would have put them under GDPR too (like India, Australia, etc.).

The discussion is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16872542

I don't see it in a quick scan, but I wonder if that means all the revenue from those countries will no longer be shielded from US taxes, which might indicate how seriously FB see the GDPR as a threat.

EDIT: pdkl95 mentions in another comment, they claim it doesn't.
As much as my inner kid (and probably outer adult) is grinning at the thought of having a real personal house robot, the idea of it being more mobile Alexa than Giskard takes away some of the appeal.
Sure it doesnt ;)

The think that myth is coming from the fact that JVM is heavy (150MB?), so it takes time to start, and hot-spot needs some iterations on a source code before it can fully apply JIT, but other that that, Java is really good.
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IPX was a rather popular internet protocol in the late 80s, it was a TCP/IP competitor and during 90s it was often present in application configurations as a equivalent of TCP/IP, usually only these 2, no other choices. It wasn't really scalable and completely lost to TCP/IP soon.

You present blockchain as a new "TCP/IP" (meaning successful technology) but it might as well be a new "IPX", left on the margins of history books after a decade of struggle. Currently nobody knows for sure.
If I was going to sum-up this comment, it'd be something like "Sell what you know."

The viral growth of companies started by 20-something founders is fueled by 20-something consumers.

The growth of companies started by 40-something founders is fueled by businesses with 40-something managers/executives.
Same reason we have choosen to leave hunter-gatherer lifestyle and adopted agriculture despite it shortening our lifespan, making many of us miserable and allowing many very bad things to happen (like states based on slavery).

The people who adopted it had huge competitive advantage over everybody else.
Countries have been "developing" fusion power for decades. It'll arrive shortly after quantum powered personal computers.
They are good for plain text emails, since a lot of email systems mangle plain text emails at ~ col 72.
I’ve always been told that transmission of electricity is hard or inefficient. What is HVDC and why is it better?
When someone sends an SMS to my landline, the phone rings and there's some kind of automated service that reads it out to me. It's even pretty intelligible, usually.

This isn't something I ever signed up for explicitly. But maybe it's just my provider?
Back in the day I learned Javascript to create a Firefox extension called budaneki[1] that does basically that. It got quite popular but I abandoned it later since I no longer needed and didn’t have a business model.

Today I’m very happy with the Safari on MacOS as you’re can preview links. I like the Wikipedia implementation a lot, but as a Safari, I’m already used to have it everywhere.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/budaneki/
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That's the key problem here, people can't agree on what a blockchain is, and keep re-defining it to meet their implementation needs. If you think decentralization is fundamental you won't accept the enterprise blockchains into the definition, but the B2B companies aren't going to look at it that way.

This is what usually happens when marketing around a term gets too froth (see also, AI).
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A part of the burden of cars is the table stakes though... cars can potentially kill people. A home robot worst-case is a potential pooptastrophe [0] (I guess.. unless people can trip on it and fall down stairs).

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/08/15/po...
Vim isn't that popular with coders. Visual Studio and Notepad++ are the most popular across the board while Vim is preferred by Sysadmins according to this Stackoverflow survey from 2017 - https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology-mo...

Notice how those numbers don't add up to 100%. They let you pick multiple answers on the survey. Therefore, I would consider Vim percentage even lower in reality since many people would specify it on a survey since they basically have to use it while working on a server.

Vim is used by a small but very loud minority. Don't listen to them - they're optimizing for the wrong thing (keeping your fingers on the home-row of the keyboard) at the expense of just about every other aspect of computing.
The mouth as an example with regarding to speech doesn't work very well. People can say one thing, but say it in a way that means the complete opposite. So already we have tone incorporated into our speech. Who knows what kind of subconscious thoughts we embed into our speech that are not yet understood well.

Then there's the combination of tone and the words, accent, body language and every other context embed into our language that produces a very complex meaning, even for one word.
In other news, Google wants to read your SMS messages.
Can confirm that SMSs are still a thing in enterprise. Several of my clients use SMS a lot. Given the character limits, they tend to prefer short links so they can give more info in the actual text. We've just migrated from goo.gl to bit.ly on two of them.
Nat Geo article that explains it.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2012/12/1212...
In my experience with board games variation is key, Much like most people don't just play one computer game forever either.

And yes monopoly is terrible. Catan is mostly something to keep you occupied while conversations happen.
In my experience it doesn't have your comments, posts, etc in groups.
From a VC perspective failure has a maximum downside of whatever you invested. Success has a limitless upside. That's why 9 out of 10 companies failing isn't an issue.
Long before we acquired Akiban, I prototyped a sql layer using (now defunct) sqlite4, which used a K/V store abstraction as its storage layer. I would guess that a virtual table implementation would be similar: easy to get working, and it would work, but the performance is never going to be amazing.

To get great performance for SQL on FoundationDB you really want an asynchronous execution engine that can take full advantage of the ability to hide latency by submitting multiple queries to the K/V store in parallel. For example if you are doing a nested loop join of tables A and B you will be reading rows of B randomly based on the foreign keys in A, but you want to be requesting hundreds or thousands of them simultaneously, not one by one.

Even our SQL Layer (derived from Akiban) only got this mostly right - its execution engine was not originally designed to be asynchronous and we modified it to do pipelining which can get a good amount of parallelism but still leaves something on the table especially in small fast queries.
Thank you. That's the key acknowledgement missing from nearly all the breathless descriptions of "where this is going".
Nope. Adding power to the grid is +X MW. Removing power to the grid is -X MW. Not producing any power is 0 MW.
I'd suggest finding a co-founder. This can be difficult depending on where you live. Go to a meetup and talk about your idea. Find someone who gets jazzed about it and ask them to come on board. Give them some tasks to do to prove they're serious. When they disappear and don't do them, go back to solo founding satisfied you wasted your time on comment advice from an anonymous stranger on HN.
Something always breaks.

But that doesn't mean it's not predictable. If you treat it as a monthly payment to the repairs fund, you are probably good.
> TL; DR If everyone can agree on a single blockchain, everyone can agree on a single data format. That data format agreement is faster, more adaptable, more extensible and more resilient (in not requiring users to keep private keys) than a blockchain.

Exactly. If you're looking for a model of personal medical data ownership, DNS would be better.

Various companies that hold your data (registars) and allow you to share with the appropriate parties (zone files), or delegate that ability if you so choose (name servers). If you want to transfer that data to another company, you can (domain transfer).

Furthermore, I question the assumption that immutability is entirely useful for medical records.
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Why is Uber included in the title here? It makes it seem like Uber was involved. I think the title should mention, at most, the Careem is a Middle Eastern ridesharing company.
I like this article. I like that is has nice big pictures and videos, but they dont do that stupid big 'screenspace' image thing that seems to be popular in these sorts of articles now.

Also their control centre looks horrible. Wheres all the crap on their desks? I hope they only just had to tidy it away for the sake of a press photo.
> ... if you store data from europeans (or people living in europe) you have to follow the GDPR ...

Does that mean the company has to follow it even for non-European users?
> if one bad actor who happens to have 51%+ tries to hardfork, the rest of the community won't move.

What does that mean for Walmart and tracking their inventory?
Bitcoin's privacy isn't very powerful so I wouldn't be worried that some government would rule it illegal based on that.

Consider the scenario where you go to a grocery store, your transaction points to your face because of surveillance in the store. Buying something online, your transaction points to your physical address. You'd still have to trust the people you trade with, otherwise you lose anonymity, and your transactions and amounts can be traced. Now they know how much you earn, how much you spend, where you spend, when you spend, etc. It's very hard as an average consumer relying on Bitcoin to avoid being traced without trusting another third-party, e.g. an exchange or similar service that allows you to "cut connecting strings".
Are there known fundamental obstructions to developing a leap frog effect in energy tech?
Yes, and leverage can also cause more rapid destruction of personal net worth too. I could make leveraged purchases of other assets too and the examples would be the same. The no recourse thing is interesting, but it doesn't solve the problem of having to move, in which you have to either find a renter or pay a mortgage on an empty house. This seems to be effectively the same consequence.
I don't mean to be condescending but have you traveled much to other countries? I spent 3 years traveling across South America and most people there just take it as obvious that darker skinned people are lesser humans. I made friends with dark skin people who casually dropped in conversation that they wish they weren't so inferior, that's how internalized the racism is.

Racism is a deeply held in/out-group identifier in humans. Western education tries to confront that and fails in many ways but really you should appreciate your education in a broader context. This isn't just an appeal to whataboutism because the US is actively trying to promote multiculturalism in a way that just doesn't happen in many other countries.
High voltage DC. High voltage means it’s more efficient (power dissipation depends on current, not voltage, so for the same power, higher voltage means much less dissipation). DC (direct current instead of alternating) makes it easier to connect disparate grids as you don’t have to worry about phasing.
Unfort, those in the position of power throughout the modern history has done the exact opposite.
Facebook could have made a startegic decision to permanently repatriate profits based on US tax law changes before making the GDPR decision, which would make the GDPR decision tax-consequence free.
Plus we're probably wrong and some of them do hatch.
s/can't/won't/

In other words, a 80000-pound gorilla sits anywhere it damn wishes to. (Yes, I know that the original gorilla was two orders of magnitude smaller)
> open standards that don't live in a silo are still important

Yes, I'd much prefer that Google and the carriers both have the opportunity to read all my communications instead of one or the other.
The cost of solar stabilizes when the cost is determined by the cost of land, energy storage, electric grid and transfer cost and installation and maintenance.

If you get the conversion efficiency to the same level as photosynthesis (30% nominally) the cost of energy could approach the cost of producing biofuels.
I know it's difficult to find an appropriate title but wouldn't -

"Careem, ridesharing company/app in the Middle East"

work better than calling out Uber?
Equador tried an interesting approach: "pays us and we won't extract oil".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasun%C3%AD-ITT_Initiative
Great stuff!. Specially at the beginning, webpack is intimidating and can turn complex quickly. Wish I had this when I began.
Another add-on I would recommend is the addition of the:
- target: 'node'

for those developer that are using webpack on the backend.
Exactly - so if I buy a Bay Area house, what numbers do I put in? Will it go up 10% a year, or down 10% a year? I can see either happening. Certainly doesn't have much to do with inflation.
Judging from all of human history.. 'those with wealth' tend to not be the conscientious type.

edit: Because, they are insulated from the bad repercussions of their harmful policies.
Eg. Trafigura polluting the shit out of Ivory coast and poisoning people there. The CEO doesnt live there, he drinks bottled water and lives somewhere else in a gated compound.

Making those destructive choices makes things better for them so they keep making them over and over.
If a CEO made a conscientious choice then it would most likely be at the expense of short term profit, which would diminish the extent of his power, sort of self-selecting himself out of the decision making pool.
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Given there's only a single svg element changing I'm not exactly sure you could have done it better.

It might just be that the ease-out transitions for the stroke are not efficiently implemented in whatever browser you're using.

If you've tried and check out and understand the code you'd see there's so little being done in JS that this stuff is surely not the bottleneck.
Same, and I'll be encouraging others to do so.
You can't say that "a desktop app/sysadmin script/website/etc would not see any difference" without knowing what the app was doing. An app like VSCode has a ton of shit to do.

However, the real problem with PyQT is that Python is relatively garbage compared to JS and that's why it's not nearly as popular as JS.
Ordering stuff for you on Amazon.
Interestingly, Twitter has it's own built-in t.co URL shortener, so it's not even necessary for that. All links in a tweet are automatically 23 characters.
Purely due to aesthetic reasons. I am not using the terminal for any complex stuff and this allows me to use the terminal which looks the best to my eyes. If my requirements change I may go back to iTerm but for now: something simple and nice looking is okay.
You can disable them by clicking the little gear icon on the pop up itself. I figured that out by googling aroung for half an hour.

It's just wretched, backwards UI all around.
Fluor 2 is out. Manage your fn key in an even better fashion
You created a throwaway to post this comment? May I ask why?
As an aside, one of them burned last year: http://www.powerengineeringint.com/articles/2017/08/new-vest...

By the way, you can walk right up to them. They are very impressive up close.
I don't. I never really take pictures and find it annoying when others decide that they need a picture during any (extremely slightly) noteworthy moment. Of course, some evens should be captured but thankfully everyone in the world thinks they should take a picture during those times so there really is no reason for me to.
You hope they never make a single page? You can’t improve your skills as a developer? You started out brilliant?

This is a bad way to deliver criticism, especially on a ShowHN.
I'm aware. But this is easier to use. For example, here's how you tail some log file: curl -H 'Range: bytes=0-' https://foo.example/bar.log.
> it just moves them from the developed world to the developing world

This is a really good point, clean energy seems to be a luxury at the moment.

No one can blame poorer countries, they aren't all in a position to invest in renewables, for many of them it would be crippling, the argument that renewables is sometimes cheaper only works long term, and long term takes significan't up front investment, burning coal etc takes significantly less.
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This decision makes no sense to me. Why would Google pass on all of this free analytics data? They also use subdomains of goo.gl for a ton of their own products. Google Maps shareable links are maps.goo.gl, for example.
It's funny no one would hand a child money directly. But, some how magically at 18 years of age everyone instantly becomes an "adult" and well you are conferred all the rights and responsibilities of such. And well how's that working out for society?
Thanks to both of you for the details.
My dad worked as a general counsel for a power company for a long time, and he told me they basically had a budget for how much they'd pay in violations of the Endangered Species Act related to bird deaths around their wind turbines.
The title is wrong. One blade is the length of the wingspan of the A380, 80 meters.
The rotor diameter is 154 meters.
No. For all users within EU it must follow the GDPR. If you are a US citizen and access FB from EU, they must follow the GDPR, as far as I understand it.

And being FB, they really do not have a choice, since the EU do have leverage over them because they're doing business here.
There's a difference between "hey man you should check this with a throttled CPU" and "I hope developer of this component never makes a single webpage."
IIRC the delay value is set at 500ms before a preview is shown.
A question for everyone: Would a delay in the open borders element have helped? For instances a gradual transition, with restrictions, gradually over several years moving towards full openeness?
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Don't forget that it was called RackShack before Ev1Servers
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They are also unsure whether passwords or credit card details were stolen.
Bread racks and ordinary atx motherboards in mini/midtower cases are a much, much older idea than 2003... like mid-1999 to 2000 or so.
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Ay, I hadn't reread his page, and only (mis)remembered it. I'll have to reread it. It's still the case though that that NASA page says it's not about the air above going faster than the air below. It's at least the case that there is disagreement.
If you turn off animation it's snappy.

I'd recommend either killing that altogether as it definitely gives the perception of bad performance.

Or... at least take into account the delta of the progress change when doing animation. For instance, if going from 5 to 10%... a slower animation is fine. If going from 0 to 100%, the animation should be much quicker.
For a fun rabbit hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposition_(telecommunicati...