skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also think some level of the reverse - maybe not - is true. Things are not that complex and high school graduates can do fairly high status jobs.
There is software not using your system that I would need. Even if this covered all OSS products I use, I wouldn’t pay $500. The price is kind of ridiculous. If it’s for every employee in the org
"..concerned that it could lead to false expectations from children of personal support from a televised figure.. ..he went back to production carefully screening scripts for any hint of language that could confuse children in that way."

In today's world, producers would probably do the opposite to up-sell merchandise and stuff.
For me, the $$$$/mo requirement and focus was a turnoff to participating.

No idea if that will ever change (or if it has), but I’d imagine there are other people like me who enjoy building things and talking about the process, but are not interested in sharing such personal details.
That "immature" community you speak of is one of the best parts of IH. As someone who joined IH and the maker community in general last year, there are few other places that I turned to beforehand to get basic and/or "dumb" questions answered about entrepreneurship. Hacker News is far too elite for that kind of environment.

For me, it's a place to feel "safe" to ask questions that might get ridiculed or passed on elsewhere. It's not just about the informative podcasts and interviews, but also about being around people who have the same goals as you, but are at different stages. It just so happens that many of us are at the beginning. And there's nothing wrong with that. We're all learning together!
A lot of people dislike Florida politics, state social policies and culture. It's very, very different from Seattle or Portland. Similarly the Floridians think people in Seattle are insane.
I see what you’re trying to get at. But your example is not correct.

What Porsche model is a stripped down version of another? Porsche Turbo S —> GT3/2 RS? Cayman GTS —> GT4?

Because in those 2 examples, there’s no stripping down.
As a developer, I feel like the target market are product owners or managers that want to pretend to have bigger product insight than is viable for their role. At the point where you're building these complex mockups featuring real logic and real code you might as well code it out. If it takes you much longer to release a test build than make a prototype in this cluttered UI then you should be working on your tooling.
Speaking of banks with terrible websites, my credit union's login page features a checkbox for "Forgot my password", which is not only confusing in and of itself (" I need to enter my password to reset it?") but also is exactly where you'd expect the "Remember me?" checkbox to appear, meaning that any instinctual attempt for me to tell the site to remember who I am will instead result in me resetting my password.

I'm entirely convinced that banking website design guidelines are driven entirely by a seething hatred for the end-user.
PIling on to say this title sensationalizes what was a very reasonable and good-humored exhibition of one person's small project. Hardly an alternative.
John Lasseter to leave Pixar
Are joint data control relationships now the norm rather than the exception?
Nah. The the post office should offer checking accounts and EBT cards.
America has nearly half of the World's millionaires, and 2017 1.1 million NEW millionaires were created.

http://publications.credit-suisse.com/tasks/render/file/inde...
Weeeeell... She didn't apply... :-)
Quite often you have to manually do the task at least once to determine how to automate it. That tells you your upper bound on how much time can be saved.

If for example it only took 15 minutes of manual work it's highly unlikely that the payback of automation would occur any time soon. That's especially true because the 2nd or 3rd time there may be different special cases and you'd have to go back and change your automation.
simply stated: go back to the old format, it was better. Nothing says that you have to stay this direction. Sometimes things don't work.
This "Cloud Market" stats they quote (which they've quoted in the past) seems like a very dead website.

Looking at the site:
http://thecloudmarket.com/stats#/by_platform_definition

The numbers haven't changed in the last 2 years, looking at "Popular Images":
http://thecloudmarket.com/#/popular

The top listed image is Ubuntu 7.10 ("Gutsy") from 2007...

.. and looking at recently added the most recent is from 1 year ago:
http://thecloudmarket.com/#/recentlyadded

So a bit of a bad journalism moment there I think that's a very bad source!

I'm sure theres a more recent source but one 2015 article claimed that Canonical was claiming "In 2015, over 2 million Ubuntu instances were launched in the cloud – Based on their statistics, Canonical claims that 67,000 new Ubuntu cloud instances are launched every day! That’s by far the largest number that any OS vendor can dream! Ubuntu dominates the LAMP deployments in the cloud."

So indeed, probably missing a few zeros :) I can't find a newer public source, but this blog post from 2015 has some numbers for Ubuntu:
https://blog.ubuntu.com/2015/12/22/more-people-use-ubuntu-th...
- At least 20 million unique instances of Ubuntu have launched in public clouds, private clouds, and bare metal in 2015 itself.
- In fact, over 2 million new Ubuntu cloud instances launched in November 2015.
- That’s 67,000 new Ubuntu cloud instances launched per day.

Of course some instances last minutes or days, but never the less.

(Disclaimer: I work at Canonical just in case that matters to you)
The people who do good in the name of religion, by and large, don't need religion to do good. They may (or may not) use religion as an excuse to explain why they do good, but that's just it, an excuse, and without religion they'd almost certainly still do good.

On the other hand, there is a tremendous amount of evil done in the name of religion that wouldn't be done at all if it weren't for religion. An incredible amount of hate and bigotry and oppression and violence all rooted in dogma.

People don't need to be taught how to love. But they do need to be taught how to hate.
I found meditation practice immensely helpful in my struggle with depression. I learned that the present moment is the only moment, and I can let the thoughts pass through me and come out the other side.

I thought it was pretty hippie-dippy stuff when I started, but I was desperate enough to give it a good honest try, and damned if it didn't help more than talk therapy and everything else.
I have been working on creating a system that reads the stock market for patterns in order to buy valuable contract options, calls in bull markets and puts in bear markets.

The major issue I had was being away from the computer when a trade needed to be made. Now I get in automatically and sell with stops.

Been showing impressive returns for myself. Was not thinking of running it as a business.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17270396
Simone Giertz is okay (tumor was noncancerous)
First complaints under the GDPR lodged within hours
Queueing theory. Computer systems have plenty of queues at different layers, and queueing theory helps understanding their behavior.
Or you could immigrate to Canada and then from there to the US in a total of about 5 years.
This. Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore were amongst the first celebrities on Twitter to actually post the content themselves rather than by a manager/PR agent. This got a lot of media attention and many other celebs followed shortly after.

I still remember finding it strange to see how Ashton and Demi personally wrote short messages, since every form of communication from famous people at the time were formal statements released via the press.
It definitely offers TCP as well. I had an Apple engineer confirm to me that the kernel still provides sanity-checking of the packets and implied that the kernel will still terminate a TCP connection if the process crashes, both of which only make sense if the user-space networking layer is handling TCP.
We Talked to People Who Work in Tech About How They Manage Screen Time
It hasn't served that purpose in decades...
Sergio Lerner's Crypto Trip
Is using mercurial+bitbucket instead of git+GitHub limiting my contributors?
I have a project using mercurial and hosted on bitbucket. We are a growing project and benefit a lot from third party contributors.

I recently found out that our most prolific third party contributor actually uses git to do and test his work, and only converts to mercurial commits for the pull requests.

Am I shooting myself in the foot by using mercurial?

We originally chose mercurial because our users (and thus likely contributors) are scientists (as are we), and many are unfamiliar with software development tools and practices, and frankly, nothing is as newbie friendly as tortoisehg (even as a mercurial expert tortoisehg is my preferred way to do 99% of my work with mercurial, and I will miss it sorely enough to attempt to write a clone of it for git if we switch to git). But it seems maybe the people most likely to contribute are the subset familiar with programming, and they are more likely to use git and github.

tl;dr should I move my project to git and github?
They'll lose money on every one, but they'll make it up in volume.
NVIDIA is my dream company. Does anyone have an in?
After all, a ton of people is only 14 people.
>I wish secular folk could see and appreciate all the good that religion does.

Secular folk disagree that religion is an optimal, or even necessary, way to do that good.

Specifically, religion as it relates to and requires a belief in the supernatural, and in the precedence of the supernatural over the natural. You can walk the straight and narrow path without the carrot of eternal salvation or the stick of eternal damnation.
Couldn't you also use this to test REST API's that you are interfacing with? Wonder if you could expand this to do stuff that postman does.
As a person who has experience with severe depression, studying evidence-based psychiatry, and conducting psychiatric services research, I wholeheartedly endorse the advice in this piece.
Are you saying that not everyone knew he was a preacher? I don't have that impression.
I remember being so unimpressed after Facebook's hype because their "bots" were no smarter than SmarterChild was back on AOL in the early 2000's. (Which was at least innovative for its time.)

I at least thought that there would be some Alexa/Siri-level AI going on, but most chat bots are about as intelligent as texting commands to an SMS short-code number.
fftw isn't exactly developing an optimal kernel from scratch. It's testing a range of different methods and simply choosing the best for one's parameters.

Facebook's Tensor Comprehensions framework, which generates CUDA kernels through a genetic algorithm, is closer to the sort of approach which would take greatest advantage of the hardware it's on.
Some email software (notably, Gmail) allows you to undo by delaying the actual send for a few seconds.
Distribute and install go binaries via npm
graphql feels like I'm going back to the days of SOAP/RPC calls, maybe I'm just getting old.
Add one extra neuron and the whole net is different.
It's an effective dark pattern. Many websites practice similar trickery.
Good "state of the state" esque writeup. Thanks, Brandur.

I've spent the past three years using Django Rest Framework. I switched over to using a GraphQL (Graphene as the provider, Apollo as the client) and it's been fantastic thus far. Easy to pick up, great documentation. Will learn more as we grow.
"...how much cruelty among Christians is acted under the colour of Religion; as if we could not be Christians, unless we crucify one another..."

--Charles Stuart, _Eikon Basilike_
Ok. From your standpoint literally every contract for work/production is fraud. Until you do the work, you can't be certain you can produce the contracted result, so it's fraud.

Your argument boils down to being unable to predict the future with 100% accuracy. Most people don't consider the constraints of reality to constitute fraud.
As an atheist, I think good people are gonna be good. What does religion have to do with it. I was once very religious, and my experience is that good people are good, regardless of belief or lack of.

You'd probably be a good person without your religion, so I'm not convinced that I should give any credit to your religion. Probably more credit goes to who raised you.
Didn't razer do this some time ago?

I think this kind of thing is pretty cool, but ultimately, a touchpad below my keyboard is akin to the ones on the dashboard of many modern cars (though a lot less dangerous) in that I don't want to look there.
I've been trying to overcome my prejudices about Florida, and you're really not helping.
I don't have any idea why the top comment here is about Christianity. Understanding the psychology of small kids and good communication practices has nothing to do with religion.

It's a great read. I'm not as taken with the nine steps at the end for how to speak Freddish. I do agree with some of the steps, but not all.

Some of those steps are a good communication practice with any demographic, such as framing it positively. The mind has some trouble with statements framed as "Don't do X." Modeling what does work is generally vastly more effective, efficient and comprehensible.
I started shaving to a No 2 in university due to thinning hair. At the time I perceived a decrease in interest from women. 20+yras later, I shave with no comb (< No 1) about once a month. There is a definite increase in interest from women when my head is freshly shaved vs after a couple of weeks of regrowth. So I feel there is an attractiveness spectrum where full head of hair > none or almost no hair > partially bald / balding.

Interestingly in winter I often wear a beanie and people take a much longer look when greeting me while I have it on. I am not sure if it is because it forces them to focus more on my facial features for recognition or maybe they are trying to work out what my hair might look like underneath.

Regardless, losing hair and shaving my head did affect my attractiveness. Weirdly I think it also can be similar to the "grey-hair" effect where people attribute a sign of aging to greater experience and wisdom.
Unfortunately you would be disappointed. top is only going to display what's running on your current node, not the whole machine. There is probably some sort of global top, but just logging in and running top in your shell will only run top on the head node. That head node might still be beefy, but only as beefy as a large shared memory machine can be.
The Separation of Platforms and Commerce
> Most content on the internet is created for marketing purposes, unfortunately

Why is this unfortunate?
In mobile design, I generally stay with the same convention of placing positive actions on the right. The "dominant hand" argument isn't relevant, since your thumb usually rests on the left side of the screen if you're right-handed, but the "forward motion" rationale still makes sense.

It will be interesting to see what conventions from Windows-Icons-Menus-Pointer (WIMP) interfaces still exist on mobile in ten years, when desktop UIs are mostly history.

We still type on QWERTY keyboards, even though the original rationale is long gone; musicians still make albums about an hour long even though they don't have to fit on two sides of a vinyl record anymore; we still have 60 minutes in an hour even though the ancient Babylonians' base 60 counting system has been gone for millennia.

I wonder how many more generations will continue to debate whether "cancel" should go on the left or the right?
Most machines will allow for back filling if your jobs are short enough and small enough. But that will still leave some of the machine under utilized.
How do you “warm up” before coding?
Beginning to code is usually a struggle for me, whereas continuing is easy, sometimes even addictive. Especially when I'm facing a project that's daunting and/or that I haven't looked at in a while, I find I need to coax myself into an appropriate mindset.

I've found it often helps to review the filetree, the recent history of commits, and any comments with the word "todo" in them. That feels pretty basic; I imagine there are more, and more sophisticated, methods.
which in your particular example happens to be terrible, as you would discover if you actually tested it in a real-world setting

My points all come from real-world experience, both as a user and developer. These unwanted UI changes irritate me enough to complain about them, but apparently my opinion doesn't count at all, because these so-called "experts" will only parrot their vague "studies show that X, therefore you are wrong"? These "user studies" naturally bias towards the worst of the worst. In fact, you are displaying exactly the sort of dismissive holier-than-thou attitude that I've been on the receiving end of, multiple times, and I can personally tell you that it really fucking pisses me off.

Think about it: if I'm the user of your software, and you change it so that it breaks my workflow, I am not going to be happy regardless of whatever justification you provide.

Having been on the receiving end of that, I've learned not to do it to my users, because I know how it feels.
> suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem

Sometimes it's a permanent problem, like getting diagnosed with Alzheimer's or going blind. Unfortunately there are still a lot of untreatable conditions which can obliterate one's life.
> rent seeking behavior

So many people are confused about the meaning of this term lately, to the point where I think we might need to scrap it and come up with a new one. In traditional economics, rent-seeking is a bad thing, because it involves lobbying the government to increase one's revenues without performing any economically beneficial function. This is why the term has a negative connotation. Almost all economists think this type of behavior causes inefficiency.

Buying a house and renting it out does not fall under this category. In this case, you are performing a beneficial economic function (i.e. you are providing someone a dwelling, in exchange for money). There are related rent-seeking behaviors, such as lobbying the government to prevent building new housing stock for the purpose of increasing the value of your dwelling and the amount of your rents. But the act of investing itself? Not rent-seeking. Not considered bad by most economists.
I love this sentence buried at the end I don't think anyone has commented on yet:

"We plan that almost every widget in this GUI (and the of the game) will have tooltips briefly explaining what everything does, since for example not even us developers know what Enemy base Richness actually does any more."

Such an honest statement with absolutely no followup. Love it.
(off by a factor 15)
An interesting article, though I don't think this bit is entirely accurate:

> because he knew that children—the preschool-age boys and girls who made up the core of his audience—tend to hear things literally.

It's not about hearing things 'literally', but it's that children are less adept than (some) adults in dealing with the polysemy inherent in natural language, and especially in navigating polysemy based on context. The example they provide is a good case in point:

> For instance, Greenwald mentioned a scene in a hospital in which a nurse inflating a blood-pressure cuff originally said “I’m going to blow this up.” Greenwald recalls: “Fred made us redub the line, saying, ‘I’m going to puff this up with some air,’ because ‘blow it up’ might sound like there’s an explosion, and he didn’t want the kids to cover their ears and miss what would happen next.”

So blow up meaning "explode" isn't any more 'literal' an interpretation than blow up meaning "to inflate". In fact, if anything, the latter is the more literal interpretation. But the point is that blow up is polysemous, and the "explode" sense is common enough that children might take that to be the primary sense and (especially) younger ones might not be able to use the immediate context (nurse with a blood pressure cuff) to discard that sense as unlikely.
Yup. I still think about turning the case on its side to look for wall attachment brackets and the key snapping off. I could have easily bought a replacement lock and screwed it in without anyone noticing.
China hackers steal data from US Navy contractor
That's a typo.
I think a good reason is developers/users don’t have to learn the verbiage/tooling that each vendor uses, especially for more complex rest APIs that offer features like the fields query param.
What's going on with hyperloop these days?
Today the programs shaping kids seem to be videos on Youtube Kids of random people unboxing new toys.
I think Tcl is incredibly elegant. It's got a set of very simple syntax rules that compose together to govern everything. You can use Tcl to create your own keywords that are used exactly like the built-in ones and your caller won't ever tell the difference (well, unless they inspect an error backtrace). For example, a try/catch syntax was proposed as TIP 89¹. And many many years ago, as part of the MacPorts project, I implemented the entirety of TIP 89 in pure Tcl. The TIP was proposing actual Tcl keywords, but I implemented exactly the proposed syntax and semantics without a single keyword. I have no idea if that code exists in any form anymore (I haven't been involved with the project in something like a decade), but I'm pretty sure the only observable difference between that and TIP 89 is error backtraces² that cross a frame involving try/catch.

Also, virtually every type³ in Tcl can be expressed as a string, and so you can model the entire language mentally as if every value was in fact a string. If you wanted to write your own Tcl interpreter it would be pretty easy to actually implement it this way, though obviously performance would suffer quite a lot.

¹Later superseded by TIP 329 in response to the error options dictionary in Tcl 8.5.

²And FWIW I believe there's no actual spec for what error backtraces look like anyway, I think it's implementation-defined, though don't quote me on that.

³The only type I know of offhand that can't be expressed this way is an array (which is distinct from a list, that is a fundamental building block of Tcl and can absolutely be expressed as a string)
I did that too! Blue Arrow? Interesting to hear your story. I'm having flashbacks.
I have to argue from personal experience and my own eyes that lesser offences can be harshly punished and everything that is legal or in the rulebook is not constantly followed. Of course this will depend on location but you're talking in absolutes.
Ask HN: How do you backup your macOS system?
Uh, electric train cars are all but self propelled, and could carry their own electricity if so desired.

Trollies and street cars are individually powered.

Slip cars only made sense during the age of steam power, when locomotive power was supplied by huge coal powered engines with furnaces, before internal combustion and deisel made smaller power plants possible.

It's interesting, but now we have monorails, magnetic levetation, induction and more, and the concept of coasting to a halt at a precise point pretty much only has utility in amusement parks.