skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Content is still content when javascript is involved. Twitter serves content, so does facebook, so do wordpress blogs and medium and likely whatever other sites you think of when you think about how terrible javascript is, because "content" and "javascript" are not mutually opposed.

I like Hacker News (obviously, since I spend far too much time here,) but I also like that I can run software in my browser and stream video and audio and play games. FFS, I'm running DOOM in a DosBox emulator in another browser tab as I type this. How is that not qualitatively better in terms of the breadth of content that the web allows than having it be limited to basic text styling and embedded images?
But exactly like the commenter stated. Part of the goal is to fix IPs like this being inaccesible. This DNS is both easy to access and using what should be, a perfectly accessible IP
Take a look at https://interviewing.io if you're looking to practice interviews. I've used it in the past and it was immensely helpful.
It's the East Coast vs West Coast mentality.

West coast has always been about experiment wheareas east coast is more conservative. I've always wondered if it was because the Europeans took hold of the East coast first and it was only the more brave who would take on the Westword journey. Perhaps that mentality is still engrained in the culture?

I think Dragons Den vs Shark Tank is a clear example of how much stronger the US is (population is 10x too though).
Can't believe I've gone this long (2 years) without knowing about the `sls logs` command. It's life-changing.
I work in the trucking (telematics) industry. I've dealt with a decent amount of ftp file transfers, but most stuff I've seen has been some sort of API based (SOAP, REST, etc).

Can you give a few more specific examples? Are you in the industry now? Working at a carrier?
It's not a "crisis" in the way the Bay Area is, where there is barely any inventory even if you're a double-Googler household, 3BR homes on 1/4 acre go for $2.5M, and if you're a teacher or other non-tech job you're either living with roommates or have an hour and a half commute. However, Portland/Boulder/Denver/Austin have all seen large increases in house prices, driven largely by Californian housing wealth finding cheaper pastures.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/05/pf/oregon-unaffordable-calif...

https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2018/01/10/austin-ho...
People like you are the ones making up for incompetent workers and fat cats up top. And the systems rolls on in equilibrium.
California has a surplus now.

What budget year are you talking about, where an actual surplus was evident when the budget year closed?

Projections are just projections and can be seriously wrong. A projected $2.8 billion surplus[0] quickly changed to being a $1.6 billion deficit[1].

[0] https://www.scpr.org/news/2016/11/17/66216/california-analys...

[1] http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-jerry-brown-budge...
Warning that your first sentence means the opposite of what you probably intended. I'm not trying to nit-pick grammar, but that's a kind of mistake that people wouldn't know was a mistake without the following context and you'd be completely misunderstood.
This title seems like a pretty bold endorsement of the sunk cost fallacy. Does the article actually reflect that?

Why would something be more valuable just because I paid more for it?
It's several hundred billion in revenue per year - i.e. about half the Canadian GDP for the FAANG companies.
Yes, except you don't know the price before entering, but once you do you're immediately charged. A store that acted like that would be forcefully closed.

You could say that's not a problem if you already know the site, but most use dynamic ads, so you don't know what you're going to get - you might even get infected (another thing that would get a real store closed).

Finally, most of these stores are connected and tracking which ones you visit and which products you purchase, and you don't have the option of "paying with cash".
I'd be curious how your panels compare to mine

Do you have a link to your before/after panels? I'd be curious to see this, and also be interested in your before/after diet.
Non-alcoholic drinks, sure. I usually buy a bottle of water at least, flight attendants are not always able to serve drinks, it helps to bring something with you.
Health care is not that expensive for upper middle class earners. We are a family of five and insurance costs us $11k/year in premiums and, worst case, another $16k/year in out of pocket maximum. And you’re also forgetting that stuff costs less in the US. Groceries, gas, etc. are all much cheaper down here.
> we don't realize that we're conserving overall complexity and flawedness, just moving it around.

I broadly think so too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5262556

Though the shifting sands of the economics of compute, disk and network tend to favour this or that approach as time goes on. So while FaaSes are just CGI, they aren't just CGI; but we can at least try to be non-doomed with regards to repetition of history.
Sorry about that. Try these:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...
the last few years under governor Brown have led to a budget surplus for those years

no, it wasn't a surplus. 2017 showed a $1.6 Billion deficit[0].

[0] http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-jerry-brown-budge...
I suggest you look into the Software Carpentry foundation - they are making a great effort to improve scientific programming through short workshops: https://software-carpentry.org/
I know, but GP also mentioned "most highly developed countries", and parent replied in the plural.
Not even close. Pretty sure both LoL and AoV are around 2-3x larger than Fortnite.

This is the (analyst) data everyone is citing: https://www.superdataresearch.com/us-digital-games-market/
Lawyers can be horribly lazy.

"let's just wait for a reaction, if we are lucky, nothings gonna come."

"Let's just threaten with outrageous claims instead of making an effort."

"We know the law is wrong but it's easier to roll with it than to fix it or find a way around it."
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-jerry-brown-budge...
The Expertmaker Accelerator data processing framework
That's the cost approach to value, and directly speaking, it's a fallacy, as what you gave up is now a sunk cost. However, if nothing has really changed since you made the decision, it certainly establishes a minimum value to yourself as a revealed preference.

Another is what would others give you for what you have (market value).

I think the best one, that you can uniquely derive for yourself, is what is the maximum value at which you would have been indifferent to make the trade - that's the true value to yourself.
thank you so much! that's the best comment I was hoping for
Games follow a trendline like te^-rt where t is time and r dependent on the game. The reason is simple. When a person learns of some piece of content (game, meme, whatever) there is some probability they share it with one or more people. If on average each person exposed shares with more than one person then you get an exponential explosion (aka virality). But sharing content with people who have already seen it is redundant. Eventually the average new people shared with per person exposed becomes less than one and the exponential growth becomes exponential decay. Content where r is large explode quickly and die quickly (blue/black dress). Content where r is just barely greater than 0 have a slow rise and slow decline.

The only game to ever become a lasting cultural phenomena via internet virality is Minecraft. The reason is that the r value is small enough that population growth during the games lifetime is non-negligible.
I don’t understand what you mean by this. Every company that hired H1Bs also (usually) sponsors their Permanent Residency as well ( well, at least the ones that don’t abuse the system, like FAANGs). They absolutely want to keep these workers on for a long term basis.
The place I work uses BlueJeans and I really like it.

The dedicated app runs on just about everything'; iOS, OSX, Windows, Android.

On phones you can use Video and Audio or just plain Audio (Low Bandwidth mode).

You can send your BlueJeans room URL and they can join with just a web browser (Web browsers get less features though). Non-Hosts can join the meeting without signing up for anything. They just click and join.

I think the audio and video is pretty good. Much better than Facetime, which is not a good comparison because Facetime is pretty terrible. Audio quality is good.

There is dedicated hardware that supports BlueJeans so you can use it in conferences rooms.

You can record meetings.

All the standard stuff like screen share and what not. You can even ping pong back and forth. I worked with someone where they had to type in some stuff and I had to type in other stuff on their computer. They just joined my BlueJeans room and when I was not typing, they could type. No clicking to take control or give it back, it was more or less seamless.
dang should do a Hacker News AMA
>initially sold expressly - as a way to control black and asian people, and later other people of color.

Hippies too; that's why Nixon choose to schedule pot.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-rich...
How about existing residents who rent in CA cities? Your argument doesn't stand.
Acually, the primary complex goal-directed physical process I was talking about was Scott Aaronson. Also various other mathematicians, and mathematics/mathematical research collectively. Evolution is goal directed with regard to locally maximizing inclusive reproductive fitness, but it's not particularly involved by this point.
Typing Game with Hacker News Headlines
I think it's mostly nostalgia. People miss the old, quirky, simple web of their childhood, that felt like it had a distinct culture and wasn't so mainstream, and want it back.

And most of the rest of it is legitimate criticisms about the way javascript is used, but those are implementation and design decisions that are driven by culture, and can be changed by culture... and none of which really undermine the premise that computation in the browser has value.
Were they larger their first year or two on the scene?
It was created to work on code-breaking during World War II and then formalized by Harry Truman as an official agency.

It was made to serve the military and in turn the American people but over time their mission has been perverted for the sake of security theater.
want to discuss the convo?
You need a brutish thug in your tribe/gang/Pantheon which you can count on to do dirty jobs. That's why the connection between organized crime and intelligence agencies has always been solid.

Too much oversight/rule-pushing muzzles the potential of these guard dogs to act or intimidate. If you don't have these thugs in your gang, then other gangs that include them can take advantage of you. They are protecting the interests of the Gang-leader. They are not there to help old ladies cross the WWW. They are there to wiretap entire countries to capture contract fraud before it can damage the US economy (which impacts the average citizen). They capture gang infiltrators before they can do too much damage to the defensive and offensive capabilities of the gang. They make infrastructure to annihilate the communication capabilities of other gangs, should this need arise.

A gang without rule-skirting all-seeing thugs, Tricksters, and Peeping Toms will not stay on top.
you can buy brand new unlocked essential for 350$ so what you write makes no sense to pay for used phone more than it's cost of brand new

your wife should break such contract
It’s amazing, I agree, and it begs the question of whether the day they were exposed to influenza was on a Friday…
> Our world is sufficiently productive (a trend I expect to continue rising) that we could offer a modest life to everyone regardless of how much they work.

I don't think this is true, because I think too large a fraction of the world's current productivity is supplied by people who would not produce if they didn't have to to earn a living.

> My vision is for systems of robotics that are totally open source (modifiable and royalty free) that can create the basic goods for survival.

This would fix the productivity problem, yes. But...

> Then groups of people fund corporations with bylaws like a constitution that guarantee rights to shareholders. The machines provide for the people and excess goods are sold to a market to support growth of the community.

This would throw away the whole thing. If there are open source machines that can create the basic goods for survival, the obvious thing to do is for every individual to just own one. There is no need for corporate ownership; in fact, corporate ownership undermines the whole thing, by giving some people an incentive to game the corporate system. If there is no such system, there's nothing to be gamed.
You should try Brave browser. They are trying to align the incentives the righ way imho

https://brave.com/
After the appearance (and sufficent success) of the replicator, it stops being a random process. Edit: or at least not a completely/primarily random process.
I'm immediately skeptical of claims of any software let alone a game rivaling Amazon. It'd be cool if it's true but very unlikely.
> When I was in the US there was a guy handing me a towel in the bathroom. That is an incredibly meaningless and superfluous job!

On the other hand, most Americans live their entire lives in the US without ever seeing such a guy. Are you mind-bogglingly rich?
(HN doesn't do private messages, or this would be sent privately)

Thanks for coming out here and fielding our totally ignorant questions. Its an amazing and beautiful world out there, thank you for sharing your discoveries about it.
I haven't confirmed what you've said yet, but it makes sense since 8051/8052 MCUs are generally used for their compatibility with legacy code.

I've been working on an agricultural spray controller that uses some silab part only because there is already assembly code written for it. The company that sells the controller doesn't want to spend the time rewriting it in C and moving to arm or pic.
From the article:

> The 2017 call records tally remained far less than an estimated billions of records collected per day under the NSA’s old bulk surveillance system, which was exposed by former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden in 2013.
Depending on how broadly you define "coastal cities", you'd be including a huge proportion of the US population. Might it even be a majority?

If it's a majority, then I think it's safe enough characterize the individualistic attitude as American.
Building an ahrefs/moz/majestic competitor?
It would be the mainstream languages problem then or something. Concurrency with actor model is easier to learn and use than OOP, which many people seem to be able to use.
"A paper from last year showed that neural networks and rational functions efficiently approximate one another"

I recently came up with a hand waving session demonstrating that sinks and toilets are able to drain water, provided that they are not blocked by a neural network. However I could only get it to work for the degenerative neural network and not the pretty silly type and certainly not a rational one.
As an engineer I don't understand "engineering is done without numbers". All engineering revolves around math. Granted, estimations are needed when your doing analysis on something with no simple formula or that 12 inch pipe has some unknown amount of grime between 1-4 inches.
CSV could be much easier to parse if people use the ASCII codes meant to be used as field and line separators, thus avoiding having problems with commas.

See https://ronaldduncan.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/text-file-form...
It's well known that that's simply because Safari is the only default browser option on iOS, so apps have to use workarounds if they want to let users open links in a different browser. Though even then all iOS browsers must use Apple WebKit.

On other operating systems you can set the default browser to be Firefox, Chrome, or whatever else you want, and different browser engines are allowed.
Why would you trust what AT&T is saying publicly? This could have very well been an experiment to "see if anyone noticed", folks noticed, so here's the default "we didn't mean it, you can trust us" explanation.

Major ISPs generally do not act in the best interest of their customers, especially when the action is allowing access to service that hurts their ability to collect more information about their users. They certainly do not deserve the benefit of the doubt.
Not sure, the only number I can find on the AoV wiki cites it as making in April 2017 ($435M). It was first released in Nov 2015.
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As a Canadian thank you for your story. I felt somewhat the same way but thought it was just me.
> Serverless is still many years away

I strongly disagree, yes it is early and some of the tools notably debugging and logs aren't anywhere near the level they need to be.

I'm developing an app with serverless and this article really resonated with me about my struggles. I think once Aurora Serverless launches allowing developers who need a relational database to easily move on the platform you will see rapid growth with serverless.

Why? Because it makes so much sense. Why worry about managing servers or scaling? Why continually write the same boilerplate glue code over and over again?

I know that I'd rather write a configuration file calling best of the best components over writing code. Don't get me wrong I like writing code but I'd rather concentrate on the business logic.
> Here in the USA it's normal for everyone to have big dreams, and weird if they don't. I think I like it

It makes Americans easily manipulated and exploited.
I am Indian, and would love to take a risk. But I am stuck on greencard backlog and not allowed to start a company, probably for the next 10-20 years
It is, Ive witnessed cabin crew refuse or ignore multiple times, and clearly says so on their website too that passengers must be able to put luggage in the bins themselves. Makes sense to me, if you can't lift it then it's probably overweight and should of been checked in. Obviously I'm sure they'd make exceptions for unaccompanied children, height challenged people, injured, the very elderly, those with noted back issues, 1st class passengers maybe. Seems a reasonable policy, faster boarding, reduction in abuse, space for others, etc.. https://www.britishairways.com/en-us/information/baggage-ess...
It all about small nudges, disincentives to affect future behavior, back to the Singapore airside carpets. Others do pick up the slack indeed, and usually both ended up with a quick moan, whilst I really wanna comment you selfish .#*@ that suitcase is taking up half the bin, where do I put my bag, or good forbid you try put that 20kg on top of my small rugsack
I have found this to be the case with the customs. This is mostly because Canada’s custom thresholds are absurdly low in comparison to other countries. Both when entering the country but also when posting something in, see: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-comme...
Machiavelli wasn't just "worried"; he'd seen it be attempted (sometimes successfully). Facino Cane, Vitellozzo Vitelli, and famously Francesco Sforza. (Often this would happen on the death of the previous hereditary ruler, or through taking independent control of territories conquered in an employer's name.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facino_Cane

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitellozzo_Vitelli

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_I_Sforza
This ignores franchises. Fortnite 2 is surely on the horizon.

EDIT: To phrase it more bluntly:

"The only game to ever become a lasting cultural phenomena via internet virality is Minecraft."

... is mistaken. Mario is the most obvious counterexample, but there are dozens of others.
Here come the tin foil hats. Not everything is a conspiracy. I get it these companies suck.
> (I have used glass bottles to drive nails.)

I hope that was just to prove a point and that you were wearing goggles and gloves. If not that's borderline Darwin award territory.
the idea is that TRUST is a basic human resource, just like money. you earn trust, you spent trust, the idea is to replace money with TRUST

if you are unsure that some of your actions may lose TRUST, you shouldn't spend it

and if someone says what's your take on it, you say earn my trust

this should be really big
The OP is from a 16 year old. I trust you were worrying about MPs when you were 16 ...
Swedish mother gang raped by three “child” refugees – They even took photos
Why until recently for Oregon?
Exactly. HTML was designed for sharing static documents. Now we want/need to do extensive client-side apps that can completely replace a desktop app.
For me, as a data point, there are a couple of reasons.

1) Because when I started programming, that's what I used. I'm comfortable in it because I'm comfortable in it :-) I'm pretty sure that's most of the issue to be honest. When I've asked people what they like most about their graphical IDEs, I've come away with the impression that the same thing governs the majority of their preference: it's what they are used to.

2) My vision is poor. I use a 22 point font. The layout of most GUI programs tends to leave no room for editing if I use the same kind font size (I also have poor peripheral vision, so I use a 13" display which fits comfortably in the section of space that I can see). Things like menu bars, file trees, object trees, test panels, etc, etc are more than useless to me. If I close all of them down, I'm left with exactly what I have in my terminal window.

3) I don't like to use a mouse. I use a tiling window manager. Often I work in tmux (for which I've set up key bindings exactly the same as my tiling window manager) and I might not even have X running (I probably have the most tricked out linux console of anybody I've ever heard of). I used to have a trackball, but I've given it up and now work exclusively with a laptop with a track pad because I've gotten myself to the point where I almost never have to use it.

4) Performance. I have 8 gigs of memory in this laptop. I have swap turned off. I almost never use more than 2 gigs at a time (sometimes I have a VM which has 2 gigs allocated to it, so then my memory usage creeps up to 4 gigs). Lots of memory for file buffers :-) People are always amazed at how responsive my machine is, despite being a 3 year old i5 mobile processor with 8 gigs of memory. IDE's are bloatware for me. I won't use the extra features anyway.

Most of this is personal, but that's what you get for preferences. A few people I've worked with have seen my setup and have gone a similar way. I know a couple of people who also live in Emacs -- they never leave Emacs if they can help it because everything is completely integrated in a way that you just can't do in other environments (that I've seen, anyway).

In the late 90's I worked on Windows stuff and my employer forced me to use Visual Studio (yeah, employers actually pulled crap like that in the 90's). I eventually modified it to the point where I liked it quite a lot. I'm sure I could do the same with most IDEs out there now, but there's no point. The terminal gives me everything I want at minimal resource overhead.