skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unrelated, but it would be nice if someone OCRed so that the text is accessible. Otherwise it's just a high-quality scan.
Inflation doesn't make much difference to inequality, because the wealth of the rich is primarily assets not cash.
"Your app should run on windows. It only runs on [not windows]? Downvote!"

"Your app runs based on technologies that mean you could easily port it to windows. But it doesn't run on windows? Downvote!"

"Your app runs on windows, but it's built on technologies that allow it to run anywhere else; why does it only run on windows? Downvote!"

See the pattern? Saying "I don't like your entire contribution because it doesn't run on a given platform on which I think it COULD run" is counterproductive and at best pointless; at worst rude.
POP3 is horribly inefficient and SNMP is a security disaster waiting to happen. At least POP3 isn’t widely used anymore.
> ... where N is an arbitrary number you choose (12 is good, because https://dozenal.org).

FTFY ;)
Most rss readers work with Atom too, but more people know what RSS is than "atom", which is also text editor and a processor and a particle
The Amazon gods seem to be playing pranks on me at the moment: I use your link to look at the product on Amazon US "Zojirushi NS-TSC18 Micom Rice Cooker and Warmer – 1.8 Liters"

Clicking the link on the page to view the product on Amazon Canada gets me to "Zojirushi NS-TSC18 Micom Rice Cooker and Warmer, 10 cups"

Strange, The US site lists the Liters held while the Canadian site switches to telling me how many cups it can handle.

Ergh. I'm Canadian. I can handle the litres.
I’m sorry but you are mistaken. I think you should research this technology more.
el Reg has not been mentioned yet? Travesty! I know their hacks breeze through here because quite a few articles are seeded from here.

el Reg is quite well thought of and their hacks do a pretty decent job - journalism -wise.

https://www.theregister.co.uk

I am just a commentard there but look forward to taking the piss out of you.
The Baffling Return of Mike Meyers
probably the same four letter words that were uttered when it was determined that something wild and crazy was needed in order to support the requirements.

documentation is key.
These Children are Safe – UK WWII child evacuation on film (1940) [video]
where strengthen = strengthen some version of it that very likely morphs further and further from actual events
Y’all are making the assumption rural areas want these things without asking

How about we include their own list of real needs (not just “More jobs” rhetoric) in the real debates rather than going in circles with hypotheticals on social media

Maybe the government can start there

Cause I grew up in a rural area. The aren’t luddites. But they also don’t want YOUR context pushed on their ways

Read some Paulo Freire
Seeing that little "Life timeline" chart on the right has got me wishing for a time lapse of that evolution. Would be truly amazing to see that...
> such as royalty and religion

That's because they had the power to go to war to enforce their contracts. Etherium holders do not have such power, so ultimately, relies on the country's laws to enforce the smart contract.
This is an even more childish comment. You think you can change how human nature fundamentally works? How naive.

People are selfish and greedy. They always have been. They always will be.

Any solution to a problem that relies on building "a new kind of social momentum" are ignorant at best and actively harmful at worst.
How is this legal? Wray just lied to Congress. Sure, the FBI has an excuse that they simply overcounted, but when you make no effort to correct your previously erroneous count, and it clearly is in your advantage to keep citing the old figure, I don't think you can claim that you made a statement that was, to the best of your ability, true.
Unfortunate that we (as a collective --- not something I personally believe in) seem to think that that is being "professional", and that it is somehow a reason to make everything as bland and soulless as possible, and that that is somehow better? I agree that a lot of code has lost its "character", so to speak.

The Linux kernel still retains much of its fucks and shits, and apparently has gained a whole lot of crap: https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/
I am interested in knowing if there are advantages to using blockchain generally outside of Bitcoin - I don't understand it in this case from reading the post. A centralized exchange could be fully transparent, publishing every transaction, and handle every type of debt, if it wanted to.
I’m not sure that’s true. The Supreme Court just struck down an anti-gambling federal law.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/us/politics/supreme-co...

It’s not clear at all that the federal government could ban the lottery without a constitutional change.
It's not the whole answer, but Postgres is rather remarkable for its support of using first class programming languages in stored procs - you can even write them in Java if you want:

https://tada.github.io/pljava/
Apparently, the compiler is progressively rewritten in d. For those interested, there is a tag for the last pure c version: https://github.com/DigitalMars/Compiler/tree/Last-C-Version

Would probably be interesting to convert it in C++17 :-)

Meta-comment: I delete my previous comment by error and want to put it again, and didn't manage to do it again. Is there some anti-duplication code that prevent to write 2 times the same comment on HN?
Dan Lyon’s Disrupted describes the experience of working at one such startup. It’s brilliant, funny and brutal.
You really think the "populists" who want to "tax the rich" are going to stop
At the 1%? It's not the 1% they despise - as evidence by the election - it's "the liberal west coast elites". The other 80% with households making less than $116K year would just as likely start taxing everyone who makes more than that.

Have you noticed that most tax deductions that are designed to help the middle class phase out in the $120 - $160K?
But any CA can issue certificates for any domain in our current system. Sure, you can always manually inspect the certificate and see if the root CA is expected. But does anyone do that at all?
You are missing the spirit of the comment.

This is not a matter of can it be done and be standard, but whether it should be.

That's just as important here.
I see, since this is a side project for my friend only, that's why I haven't finished the whole MVP yet
DropzonePHP – PHP package for DropzoneJS
Entitlement and Public Hearings are exactly this and i mentioned it in my previous comment.
Comments along this line are my favourite in our industry. Harry Roberts said, back in 2014, "Modularity, DRY, SRP, etc. is never a goal, it’s a trait. [...] but understand that they’re approaches and not achievements". This advice has stuck with me ever since.

https://twitter.com/csswizardry/status/539726989159301121
That is my biggest concern.

My second biggest concern is performance overhead. Sure, they are individually fast. However the one thing that is hardest to scale is the database. Loading the database up front with overhead means that you'll hit that limit sooner rather than later.
The TwitRSS thing sounds awesome. It would be pretty easy to setup a web hosted version of Winds so people can access it however they want. Anything you particularly like about FreshRSS?
Most likely the post you're replying to meant smtp instear of snmp. Makes more sense for a remark about a mail client. I see this typo more often.
Is there a heat dissipation reason why satellites are painted white instead of black? And if so, why are they white instead of a completely reflective surface?
The best way to discuss any speed thing is with anecdotes, right? /sarcasm

I had a system that required the parsing of large json chunks. The system pulled the json from an API, pushed the data into a json-type column, then sorted the data into normal form.

I originally tried using straight Python to pull the data, but decided that I ought to keep the original data for record keeping, plus testing was a lot faster without constantly calling the API.

When all was said and done, the whole operation took about a minute to complete. I decided to try trigger, which caused the entire process, from call, to printing "done," to take less than a second.

In this case, the trigger was signficantly faster.

The danger of this anectdote, and all stories with databases, is that all things have to be posted with "in this case." Any time you read triggers, aggregation, CTEs, etc, are fast or slow, consider that this is almost always told in a vacuum. There are so many variables, that the term "fast" is wholly useless
Yes, I forgot the actual issue was not CTEs directly.

I agree the query could have written better (I am still getting my head around how to use LATERAL), but it worked fine in 9.6 and stopped working in 10. From a backward compatibility viewpoint, code working in one version should still work in the next (even if it isn't the best code.) Or at least, start issuing deprecation warnings one version before making it not work.

Anyway, posting this to HN has triggered someone to go rewrite my code for me (thanks Ants Aasma, whoever you are), so now my Postgres 10 upgrade blocker is solved :)
> so that it doesn't have to do any expensive VDOM diffs.

I am wondering, how is it possible that such non-expensive algorithm is more expensive than many VDOM libraries in this benchmark[1] ?

1. https://rawgit.com/krausest/js-framework-benchmark/master/we...
I’ve learned so much from Steve, can’t recommend enough.

Most designers will prob look at some of the tips and say “duh” like that’s common sense, but coming from the point of view of a developer these tips are so good and make understanding basic design ideas so much better.
wow, I really liked it.
Amen!

We have ugly words for ugly feelings ideas places things. Putting them in there is no crime.
I bet a lot of the people with little savings would argue that they didn't F up, they just were born into a poor family.

If you are poor, it's much harder to take risks and try to get ahead. You are always on the hook for your rent and can't just go ask your parent for a 0% interest loan to help you out for a couple months.

Yes, a lot of Americans have bad financial habits and buy unnecessary things. But some of these people with little savings are doing everything they can to stay afloat and just don't have the luxury of doing an 8 week data science boot camp to get a better job (or they would miss rent and get evicted).
Flying Cars Are Finally Here! (Kind Of)
Idk about “unholy”. I wish I could make eshell (in Emacs) my full time shell, but certain things like nvm don’t work, etc.
It's funny to me that you are using words like proletariat and bourgeois, words used to describe class differences in an agrarian basee society/economy, to describe modern america, which is as opposite as you can get from an agrarian society.

The social Dynamics of the modern anerican situation have changed so much from when Marx was alive his labels no longer accurately apply.
Or Email Connection!

http://web.archive.org/web/19980212160741/http://www.email-c...

edit: fix link
Yes it is. That's the SI unit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceleration
> Those who don't have the cash on hand say they'd have to cover it by borrowing or selling something.

Be careful about concluding that these people are poor. I'm not poor, and I have no cash. Everything is invested. Piling up cash in a savings account just means it'll get eaten away by inflation.

This is hardly uncommon. If you've got a house with a large payment, you aren't poor, even though you may not have any cash. Your money is invested in the house.
Some people are getting huge amounts of money just because they can, and today's society, with the growing relevance of intellectual property, is geared more and more towards income inequality.

It used to be that one could somewhat easily get $1M by just selling 1 million people some $1 items, however that required making 1M items in the first place. Nowadays one can get the same $1M by making just a single unit of IP, and selling 1M copies at $1 each. Sure there is no guaranteed way of knowing whether some IP will sell 1M copies, but that only turns it into a sort of lottery which exacerbates the inequality even more.

Given that money -and particularly M2- is credit, which is kind of an "intellectual property" on itself, it isn't really surprising that a greater amount of IP in circulation would also mean a greater amount of credit/money.

Workers who exchange their effort for a fixed amount of income, are just out of all this IP lottery and its income multiplying potential.
Yes I am assuming a large and notable mutation. Humans fought for thousands of years with implements so where is the human with Star Trek armor skeleton.
I guess in the books the diversity caused evolution is strong and notable

Ps choosing your mate is a recent thing for humanity
Do you suppose the original etymology of "Rothuizen" could have been an older Germanic name that might have been rendered as "Rodehuizen" in modern Dutch? (I'm thinking of modern German "rot" corresponding to modern Dutch "rood".)

Wiktionary seems to believe in a Middle Dutch "*rōt (in placenames)" referring to the color red.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic...
Fun fact, Stream is almost entirely written in Go. Winds is based on Node/React. I think it's nice as it enables more people to contribute. (everyone knows JS)
Marx's labels are so outdated it doesn't make sense to use them in our modern economy.
Capital is something you purchase or work to build from raw material, or some combination. And an education (with or without a degree) is considered an asset. So why not?
Ryan Hoover Tells How He Built Product Hunt with a Globally Distributed Team
“This insanely unnecessary bandwidth usage penalizes sites that have long (>10) feeds with complete posts.”

Since rss is text only the sizes are very small and compress well. Considering the average web page is 3M[0], pulling down 10-100k of every post ever doesn’t matter. And http takes care of not pulling the same file over and over.

It’s certainly a downside, but completely useable as is, and better than any viable alternative.

As far as standards go, I prefer simple, static file, over something requiring dynamic response.

There’s also nothing stopping the site from limiting the RSS feed to only 5 posts with a link for full.

[0] https://speedcurve.com/blog/web-performance-page-bloat/
What great news for Magento users! Adobe will do great things with this recent acquisition. That is definitely the pattern I see when I look at past Adobe acquisitions.
My cousin's a core contrib on [xonsh](https://xonsh.org) which is a posix-compliant python shell. I remember him cackling about making his env completely unusable to anyone else in the world (while giving himself amazing powers)...
A version of this comment appears every time this is discussed. This isn’t what we’re talking about. These aren’t liquidity problems. People really just don’t have the money.
Proposal to fix NYC’s subway and broader transit system expected to cost $19B
What you said doesn’t disprove what I said :)
Following a Tuna from Fiji to Brooklyn–On the Blockchain
I work for a university making some of their websites ADA compliant. Simulating several different colorblindnesses is part of doing so. It always surprises me how even universities can be up-to-date with accessibility but sites as popular as Facebook or google can fail many of the checks we do.

It must have to do with the university receiving federal funds..
Or you have way more users via rss than through their browser. This could be a good thing as it results in less bandwidth than if they all hit you directly through browser.
That’s interesting and I see your point.

While I realize addicts might be victims of circumstance and not just victims of their own bad choices, at some point we have to prioritize safety.

Are parks for tax payers and their children to enjoy the outdoors safely or are they a place to shoot up? It’s an either or proposition because the two can’t coexist.
None of my public school classes ever mentioned compound interest.
I'm not missing anything. There's nothing wrong with placing links in emails. The link is good, presumably in and out of gmail, and is clearly a gmail feature, not an email feature. There's no problem here.
nvm sucks! try n!

https://github.com/tj/n/

seriously, it's so much tidier!
In my experience, nobody wants to hear this, but basic food is damn near free. I get it, I get it -- it's just a silly thing Sean Hannity says. It also happens to be true. Nobody has to eat cat food to save money. Have you priced beans and rice lately? It barely costs anything.
Trip hop, metal, or asmr. I don’t really feel like music I enjoy with discernible lyrics distract me though.
Why do you think they’re painted white? The flare itself is the result of reflections from the polished antennae which aren’t painted at all.
If 40% of people can't find $400 in a pinch, then it means at least some of those people self-reporting as "Doing OK" still can't find $400 in an emergency.
> this is the actual reason that your hypothetical auto-repair shops aren't all apartment complexes.

Sorry, i am not native speaker, but isn't it the same as "economically suboptional"?

> There's a simpler explanation

This neighbourhoods are mostly commercial districts that requires the first story to be commercial and other stories to be residential. Building up doesn't change commercial use of this buildings but just add more housing.

> No, you believe they're economically suboptimal, and you're making up excuses why reality disagrees with your theory.

I am not "believing", this is just a one hypothesis. I could be wrong, of course.
Interesting.

But whenever the gov't of a country has said, "We'll be the next X powerhouse!" and dumps money into it, it usually fails. The market tends to be a step or two ahead of gov't. In the late 80's Japan's gov't set out to make the country the king of high-def TV. When they finally had market-ready products, the world had moved on from analog to digital, making most of their R&D & patents obsolete. I suspect there will be (another) AI slump, and S.Valley will quickly move onto to something else. China will be left holding a bag nobody wants. The churn & burn of "cowboy capitalism" is bit too jumpy for their tastes.
Thanks for all the feedback, this is awesome. Sounds like a lot of people would like a web and mobile version.

What other problems do you currently have with your RSS readers and Podcast apps?

Anything in particular that you're missing?
Blockchain Talent Wars Escalate, Hindering Product Development
This is going to sound weird, but... One of the best nights of my life, I was on the beach at Bellows in the middle of the night with this Israeli chick the week after I got back from my last tour in Iraq. We were laying there in the sand, doing what people do on the beach at night and talking about the stars and the universe and smoking dope. I was just talking about the launch of one of the shuttles about half an hour before, and right there over our heads the ISS tracked across the sky with the shuttle right behind it, preparing to dock. I thought it was such an odd configuration and impossibly bright for anything smaller, so I checked my phone and sure enough, that's what it was. I'd give anything for more nights like that. Just the most incredible coincidence, perfect timing. Perfect night.
Education is often used as a proxy for other things that actually benefit our lives. Sometimes it makes sense and sometimes it doesn't. Certainly the kind of education being discussed matters.

It can certainly be argued that children that sit in a classroom for 16 years may lose much of the spontaneity and natural desire to explore that they were born with.

They might be a lot more passive, accept what is handed to them with less skepticism and fewer questions, be hesitant to try things without social proof, and may be ignorant of how the world actually works. They may be more likely to live in their heads and be less in touch with their own very real needs.
> weak version control/deploy solutions, and a new programming language to the stack

Are people not using the same version control for stored procedures as their "normal" programs? I thought deployment was pretty much a solved issue with DBAs.
As in ww2 Germany they said: give me the man and I’ll give you the crime.
When the link is the message, and the user thinks it won't change, or go away, it's a problem.
40% of Americans are not and never were majorly sick. Unless you count drug addicts and winos.

Yes, I've lost jobs before because of corporate restructuring.
I think that in most situations the pressure would still not change much as far as atom-to-atom distances go. And in those situations, carbon is still smaller and workable.
If someone is being paid to modernize a perl app, they almost certainly are intended to rewrite it in another language entirely.
Senator Wyden is extremely well regarded within the US with regards to technology. If you haven't seen it, he's in the documentary for Aaron Swartz.

Here are his words about the death of Aaron: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Senator_Wyden_Remarks_at_Aaro...
I've always heard of this distinction being "path tracing" as your #2 and "ray tracing" as your #1.
Why would someone want to use Kafka rather than PubSub? For a nonexpert, it seems like PubSub is just a tighter abstraction---same basic operations, fewer knobs to turn. Are there important features in Kafka, that aren't in PubSub and can't be easily built on top of PubSub?
We did our part. As of a couple weeks ago, you can now syndicate your published email conversations as an RSS feed:

https://api.fwdeveryone.com/user/inbox.atom?username=Alex391...
Hyperapp and Web Components is a great combo, especially because they can help with the problem of maintaining local component state, not a feature of Hyperapp.
> If you dont like it leave

people start leaving

> wait! dont leave! We're gonna jack up the renounce-your-citizenship fee by thousands of dollars!

actually happened already.
The whole rss is dead -> long live rss narrative has been an eye-opening experience for me in terms of practically illustrating just how powerful and influential the news is on technological development. Engineers can apparantely be a lot more easily manipulated than what I previously thought. (I'd argue we never knew whether or not RSS was dead because it was based on small and skewed sampling biases.)
Hello to Peter Thiel and the rest of the angry bunch.
Log compaction is one important feature missing from both Google Pub/Sub and AWS Kinesis streams.
They only show a snippet because they can't sell your eyeballs via the RSS feed. They need just need to drsw you to click onto their full site to blast you with ads.