skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only way you will ever achieve wealth redistribution is with violence. Look at the great leap forward. It will not happen in America, at least I pray not in my lifetime.
Nothing. Nothing whatsoever.

I look first at whether the project solves my problem within my constraints. Then I look at who is involved, what is their commitment level to the project (if it matters), and how they seem to be handling issues and PRs. Then I do a quick scan of the code to see if it’s reasonable, look at dependencies, etc.

Then I test it out.

If I’m weighing it against other projects, I usually do a back-of-the-envelope muscow type analysis and comparison and weight them based on my proclivities.

General popularity? Not usually a big factor unless it seems like the project might get abandoned (if that even matters).
The industry is not a closed system. People can leave or join it at any point in their careers, and they may (read: do) do so because they can't find jobs or the jobs they do find are hostile to them.
The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2018
You can also live in Anywhere, USA if you're not willing to be that adventurous. It's cheap, too. I worked remotely in Yakima, Washington, which means I could still fly home and visit Seattle from time to time.

Then again, some people love the adventure of moving to another country, and I encourage them to pursue that if that's what they want.

That's all moot though because the Zig guy said elsewhere he'll probably be following his girlfriend who's about to graduate.
What Happens When Mueller Wants to Dig Through Your Phone
No, it's not a technical challenge. It's a business issue. You know, the whole Visual Studio makes us a lot of money can we really afford to just open license its main feature?
For the Club mate fans, a decent drink I threw together one day:

4 parts club-mate
2 parts lemonade
1-2 parts white rum
Glass filled with ice

Refreshing.
I have a feeling some of the people involved with kx systems probably did well out of it. https://kx.com/about-kx/
> aka quotas of people with subpar skillsets

That is not the goal, nor the result of these efforts.
Durban's crime appears to have a homicide rate per capita equivalent or a bit higher to that of NYC in 1990 during the height of the crack cocaine epidemic.
My concern is over the quality of the stars.

What percentage of people star repo's where they like the idea but never get pass the Readme....thinking they'll come back to it but never unstar it.

What about people who star something, try it and decided it's not very good and will keep it starred to see how it evolves...
Let me introduce you to the concept of ErrorKind in Rust (i.e. in the IO module of the std): https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/io/enum.ErrorKind.html

There is also the "failure" crate which has patterns for the kind of thing you mentioned:

https://boats.gitlab.io/failure/error-errorkind.html
https://boats.gitlab.io/failure/custom-fail.html
Evidently not to the extent that we can rely on self-interest as a viable regulatory mechanism.
I always assumed the line about water "opening up" whiskey was just about flavor and personal preference, but I just did a bit of looking around and apparently it might also get you drunker faster. Diluting vodka 1:1 with water apparently speeds up absorption quite a bit, so there's something physical happening, at leas tin the stomach.
What College Really Costs
> There is simply no reliable way to find your audience today that doesn't involve "spray and pray"

The strategy to get customers IS the startup idea.

This one subject is the place to focus 90% of your creative energy, it never came for free. And it won’t involve “spray and pray”
You could indeed do that. I really like eat_veggies' suggestion, something I'll consider.
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> Apple has 100% market share in the iOS market.

And Linux has 100% market share in the desktop Linux market. But it probably doesn't count as a monopoly.

I do believe the significant market share of Apple smartphones is an issue, but as far as I know they haven't managed to make it a monopoly yet.
It's actually really simple. In the EU Apple doesn't have that much market share to be consider for antitrust laws.
To everyone thinking about using caffine or other drugs to combat sleep: all of the latest sleep reseach would suggest that 'optimizing alertness during sleep loss' is a fool's errand if what you want is productivity. The real goal must be to ensure you get enough sleep, not that you medicate yourself with caffine to stop your body from getting sleep signals.

Think about it this way: If prolonged sleep were not absolutely essential to your survival and health, sleep would be the biggest mistake evolution has ever made. an animal spending 1/3 of its life unaware of it's surroundings is an incredibly steep evolutionary price to pay. It should be obvious that if we evolved to do that, there would be gigantic benefits to it, considering htat there is not a single known animal with a nervous system that does not sleep (including insects!). If caffine was actually helpful at reducing your need to sleep, an animal would have evolved by now to endogenously produce caffine.

There is a substantial body of sleep literature now showing huge benefits to physical / mental performance, willpower and creativity from sleep. Don't fight it, use it.

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Edit:

One statistic thats particularily compelling to me: Every year during daylight savings when everyone loses an hour of sleep, the rate of heart attacks rises by 25%. On the day of the year where everyone gains an hour of sleep, heart attacks fall by 21%. Thats the effect of gaining / losing a single hour of sleep.
Apple is not a monopoly. You don't like Apple, you go elsewhere.

In much of Europe, Android is the only choice.
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Why is pop music so  popular?
Ask yourself why you're on this site.

Is it to steadfastly argue positions far outside your domain expertise or engage in discourse and learn?
It's a sign that there's a corporate backer whose social media person thinks stars are important. But I usually already know if it has a corporate backer, and I've usually already decided whether that is relevant.
Azure requires internet accessible ports to monitor your back end resources
Doesn't making things where it costs the least and guarantees best quality contribute to the overall efficiency and economy of the world.
@Nsomaru are you living in Cape Town/South Africa?
The typical number for German combatants is closer to 50k, so I'm curious what your source is for 5k.
I caution the community against optimizing for continuity when there are so many other factors that come into play. Sure it sucks to change which tool you rely on every few years but that’s bound to happen anyway for one reason or another.

I mean it’s all Git so switching might take 20 mins a repo, but without some of the great features the most modern (often well funded) companies offer you might lose 10 mins or more a day.

It’s all up to you but I don’t value continuity as much I do productivity.
No questions like

> Okay, what percentage is canceled and what percentage is frozen? How many of these projects were actually going to happen anyway?

which were informed by the poster's past experience with public interaction through the media. I'd argue that questions are rarely opinions.

Why didn't the journalist at least cite the source of the informatoin? What if the survey that provided the data gave more details about why the projects were actually canceled/frozen? Should it really be up to the media to decide for me how to interpret the data?
What do you do with your cash if not put it into a savings account?
Curious— have you ever tried compiling to C++ or CS for the backend?
I understand that an app recognizes keywords by itself. Then it doesn't need to send any heavy sound data to the server. A simple "send an ad for uni" transaction is sufficient.

I believe any microphone-authorized app (e.g.: Facebook) can do it, preferably when the phone sits on the table. "Buy", "Need", "Wish" are good keywords when they are followed by another word that sells easily : "shirt, phone, watch, ..."
Yeah, as a former senior engineer with a well known company, who took time off to develop his own programming language all he has to do is throw his resume into the recruiter feeding frenzy and immediately get a job.

While it's admirable, I can't really say it's risky. Risky is quitting in a field where people stay laid off for like a year.
I believe it's very simple. If a police officer wants to do just about anything with you, they can and will, regardless of the rights you have, or restrictions put on the police.

Also, the Bill of Rights trumps regulations, but a bank is a private entity and you don't have rights there.
We applied for YC 2017 but didn't get accepted. I don't know if we still have access to the application we submitted.
BuzzFeed France is likely shutting down
There's not much point in investing less than $1000. People are getting hung up on the "savings" part of this. It could be a checking account, it could be cash in a jar. The point is that it's the amount of money available that isn't tied up in material assets like real estate, a car, etc. or isn't invested in something like a 401(k).
For golang projects I usually check go-search.org [0] to see how many other packages import a given package.

Number of users of a package seems like a better metric than number of people who "favorited" something through the stars feature.

Would be really cool if github provided a way to surface "number of users" or "number of downloads" data in a way that it could be used to rank github search results [1].

[0] https://go-search.org/

[1] https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=&type=
The number of jobs involved in this scam is trivial either way. The point of solar power manufacturing is not to make up jobs for people to do; it is to convert our energy to a source that doesn't kill people. If our planet is really at a slight risk of danger, and if solar panels somewhat ameliorate that, then it is stupid to prize a few thousand jobs. Last month the economy created a net 233k jobs---in one month. The economy is $19 trillion and we are waging a PR war over $1B vs $2.5B.

Federal reserve and fiscal policy are 1e9 times as important to job creation as this tariff. Would it be bad for the economy if someone invented a machine to make solar panels cheaply without any labor at all? No. That would be good because we could have lots of solar panels and save the planet.

Important to remember these tariffs were not conceived of as a job creation scheme. They were created to produce a windfall for investors who bought the bonds of bankrupt US solar companies.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-23/jpmorgan-...

I think that, for the White House, the tariffs have an added benefit of quashing an industry that more and more competes with coal. For reasons of graft, an obnoxious "heartland" brand and some weird fetishization, this administration is deeply obsessed with coal---one of the worst industries in the country to work for, which kills countless people via pollution.
Not quite. The question is how do you choose the most qualified candidates? As an example, a lot of emphasis is put on CS degrees. But if you've been in hiring, they aren't an indicator of how good someone is going to be, and interviewing candidates is hard. I can teach people who can think logically how to program. What I can't teach is having the guts to do the right thing, diligence, curiousness, willingness to learn, etc.

I work for a big tech company; it is very hard to bring in people without CS degrees because of the interview process. Weirdly enough, the only place I've seen this happen is IBM, where they had a written exam based on logic questions, not programming questions (although the two are clearly related, and one was about scheduling/threading, it could be solved by somebody without knowledge of the terminology).

I have never seen numbers that indicate hiring CS majors is more cost effective, better, etc, and most job ads happily say "CS or related", but then the interview just doesn't reflect that. Maybe it is slightly easier to pick from a pool of people who have prior experience, but it's lazy. I think we can do better.
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Utter FUD. There are at least 3 major payment processors on the level of Stripe or Braintree. These have existed for the better part of a decade now.

Those payment processors not able to collect payment from international customers. Most SaaS companies need global acceptance.
Datomic basically does the same thing your database does - caching the working set in memory and running the queries. The difference is that with datomic the db is running in your java process rather than on another server. This should get you better scalability (for reads) and make complex queries faster. (Writes still go through a designated server.)

The data is modeled as a collection of (entity,property,values,txn) tuples (with schema on property). They are stored in a log and a few ordered sets (indexes) that are structured somewhat like 2-layer btrees with large pages. These pages and the tail of the log are loaded as needed while running queries. The nature of the data model also gets you point in time queries and queries across time (e.g. all previous values of a property).
I will not even possibly consider introducing a 3rd party dependency unless it has one of the following:

1. A reasonably release cadence of packages (APT/PPA/RPM).

2. A well defined release cycle with a sane download path (for tarballs).

3. Obvious community support by way of GitHub stars, pull requests, issues.

That said, in the traditional adoption curve, I am somewhere between 'late majority' and 'laggard'. Mostly because I don't have time to evaluate most things.
How many more decades of abuse do we have to endure before we realize the DMCA sucks?
It was explained to me when starting my current remote position that they didn't care how I got things done as long as they got done, and that I was expected to reasonably be available during normal local working hours and respond to communications in a timely manner. It might seem a bit vague, but it has worked well. Basically if someone emails me from my team I respond as quickly as I can. Also, Levels of Effort don't change because I am remote, so there is already a common understanding how long things take. Not having a jerk for a boos helps too.
If the project is fairly new, a large number of stars mean that the author is popular/famous and/or they won the Show HN lottery.
Everywhere I have been the options are Android, iPhone, or a feature phone. Are there actually places where the other two are not an option?

Another commenter said it seems to be that Apple just doesn't have enough market share for anti-trust rules to kick in, which makes sense but also seems unsatisfying. A market dominating company being anti-consumer doesn't seem any worse than a smaller competitor being very anti-consumer, especially when that smaller competitor seems to be making much more money from their practices.
Write more, but get feedback.

Unselected, ungoverned, training, can simply reinforce bad habits.
There is a massive screening process in both India and China that results in the top fraction of a percentage of students going off to study in the US. Those are the ones who later go on to publish while at US institutions. So yes, there is some signal there.
To be fair, maintaining an (internal) gitlab server really only costs you the upgrade time. You make a snapshot, upgrade (and optionally rollback if something breaks). It takes exceptionally little time - unlike say, running your own email server.
I honestly didn't even realize they were still a thing that existed.
NTSB: Autopilot steered Tesla car toward traffic barrier before deadly crash
Thanks for the explanation. I see your reasoning.

If there were a (asterisk) in the title: Web Framework Benchmarks (asterisk link), with the asterisk taking you to a page with something like your explanation above, that would be lovely.
You usually get a copy in your e-mail when you submit.
You may want to investigate i2p which is resistant to traffic analysis.

And does not run 100%bandwidth all day and all night.
What about golang projects that are not imported?

For example https://github.com/ochinchina/supervisord
Assumes equal distribution of skill across diversity lines.

This can be the case, but as gender bias for STEM starts at a very young age and we try to artificially correct it later, that may not be the case.

In spite of individual skills, however, there may be value in diversity of thought.

So the challenge becomes creating equality (job opportunities are purely derived from the individual's skills in spite of diversity characteristics) vs creating maximally performing organizations, which may benefit(or suffer) from those diversity characteristics.
I was in Taiwan recently and it is a lovely country, but talking to some friends who work there (in non-tech jobs) they said there is a large brain drain to mainland China. Has this been your experience? I'd imagine salaries are substantially lower than what someone would make in the US, even after factoring in cost of living.
How do you define "wealth redistribution" that you can think it is a business?
I know nothing about your medical issues, but to bring up a counter-point, it's possible that your 'mild ADD' and migraines are the symptoms of insufficient sleep quantity of quality. Medicating with caffeine could be counterproductive if that's the case.
Every large organisation I've been in operates in silos, and these firms hide within these silos. Also, these firms have a bad reputation - everyone in banking knows it, yet they are still employed because they're cheap and let you add bodies to the shop floor when funding is squeezed. That makes managers look powerful with big empires, which helps getting promoted. So it's not all about code quality or productivity - sometimes it's just about looking like you're getting stuff done, before you leave and let someone else inherit the mess.
If your goal is to make a move away from your team then you won't get a lot of help I agree. Usually there are mutually beneficial goals to you and your boss. Those are the sorts of things you can expect help with.
Tell me again how we're supposed to be competent enough to run our own banks, and that as long as we never make a mistake reversing transactions are not a needed feature...
I’m pretty sure Anders’ salary at Microsoft qualifies him being called rich.
Interestingly enough, many rural communities in the Midwest have been soundly rejecting wind farms, and some have voted down solar farms.

The real problem with agriculture these days have been caused by subsidizing industrial production of basically two crops, corn and beans. Farms were smaller a generation ago, and produced more diverse kinds of crops as well -- actual food crops. For example, much of the corn goes straight to ethanol plants these days.
I assumed stars were like favorites.
Great point, felt your argument was very astute.

However, really small nit: I think you meant to use e.g. instead of i.e.

e.g. = For example:
i.e. = That is:

I could see i.e. working where you used it but I think you intended it as e.g.

Thanks again for your thoughts!
Like I did a few years ago, I quickly browsed through some of the sites and didn't find solid quick start stuff needed to get me (a haxe noob) to go further.

For a 'mature' platform looking to get more attention I would have liked an easy step-by-step demo 'hello world' for a haxe -> android target.

But, I couldn't even find much in the way of haxe-for-dummies that specifically address the android target.
I thought this pattern was losing favor? Since it makes generic swiping/navigation more difficult to track?
I had to create and then maintain an excel file for this reason. There is no other way I am remembering who witnessed me living somewhere 15 years ago.
With regards to the signal aspect of it, I personally only star repos that I am using on a project.

I naively believe that there are many others like me and it helps me determine which projects are "I actually use this" vs "I starred this because it's the cool thing to do/use".
and smoking won't hurt you at first.
I like your comment for its balance, but on point #1 it seems the value trade-off really depends on the problem. For example there are lots of start-up companies to manage cloud infrastructure that seem to have no trouble finding customers, even though it's unlikely they will all survive. The solution has enough value it outweighs vendor risk.

In other problem spaces you can change the cost calculus for users by focussing on ease of adoption. Specifically the blocker in some cases is that companies are afraid the risk of a vendor going away makes the integration cost a bad investment. You can change that trade-off by making adoption as easy as possible at the cost of some other aspect of your product. MySQL and MongoDB are good examples of product success achieved through focus on ease of initial integration (at the cost of other features like transactional integrity).
I disagree. To me, it appears as mostly opinion with personal anecdotes presented as evidence.

The opinion esentially boils down to "Don't trust this story or the media in general, only credulous individuals would believe what this story is saying, if you read between the lines you will come to the same conclusion that I did, after all, my personal experiences back up my opinion that this story is bullshit"
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I've found that the average age of uncommented, open issues are the best indicators of the likelihood that a project is actively maintained (even if it's in the "no activity because it's already finished" stage). Another good but not as useful indicator is raw number of commits.
Less than ~20 stars = I’m gonna have to maintain it myself. Whether this is practical depends on the scope.

Anything else is pretty meaningless.
..and this is the problem. The assertions of escape. I don't understand it. I would write prose the same way Jack Vance (did) and Gene Wolfe (does) if I could write. There can be one true way for the expression of logical thought. We can try exceptional dialects but they fail because they cannot encompass every concept we should expect and they cater to the ego and domain.

OTOH, the young always have a fresh perspective and they
usually have good ideas based on the times. They should be
listened to and mentored. Very few active older (1995+) folks left in IT ,after the method management and purposeful purging methods of the last 10 years, to mentor them. Most of us weren't great at teaching anyway. It was a paycheck.
> The instant solution to worrying less about your web applications being copied by the clients you developed them for.

Is this a problem that happens often?
If your personal threat model includes physical attacks on a U2F key, then it's unlikely the key is the weak link. The attacker would more likely use that physical access to root your computer.

If your threat model does not include physical attacks, then any U2F device (except software-based ones) is fine.
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LOL I posted my GitHub project here on HN a few years back and picked up 8 stars. More like a scratch-off win for me.
You may end up in the black in 10 years, or something, but solar will undoubtedly make the purchase price higher. This is not what we need in California at all. Moreover, the rule applies to many apartment buildings and condos as well.