skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks!

So far, I've found this, but it doesn't seem to be programmable, in a conventional way:

https://www.noodoe.watch

I'll have a look at the Jolla prototype, and try to contact their engineering team, if it turns out to be relevant enough.
Muted autoplay is always allowed. Working around these changes for one of our products right now.

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-p...
Hey, I don't agree with that either. In my experience, there is a normal distribution of idiots regardless of the country of origin.

A lot of my colleagues and ex colleagues either work or have worked in Infosys/Wipro/TCS at some point in their careers. And again, they didn't "magically" get worse or better when they left or joined my company (I'm in a product development company).

Wipro, Infy etc aren't able to hold quality senior technical talent because they cannot pay as much. The better senior developers leave to product development firms that pay better and have better quality work and work life balance, leaving behind newly joined junior developers who know less, but will accept what Infy/Wipro pays and work ungodly hours.

I've read that every 5 years the number of active developers doubles. That means that every 5 years 50% of the development workforce has little to no experience. In India, that 50% starter workforce is concentrated, sitting in the big consulting firms, developing their skills and getting better, and when and if they get better, they leave.

The real problem is that if you pay peanuts, you get... people willing to work for peanuts, until they can get a better job.
Trust me. You won't hit 424,712 requests per seconds per each node (that is 1,528,963,200 per hour).

You need to have many nodes and a a well distributed and scalable infrastructure to handle 1B req/hr.

There is no point to benchmark your programming-language/framework when doing web development.

When it comes to web, you will hit N different capacity limits before that even with slowest framework, starting from your database, network connections, bandwidth, third-party API rate limits, IO performance etc...

Consider only a few options base on project requirements, ecosystem, productivity, and available human resources. then compare the top two on performance.

You can't compare H2O and Rails on the same list. they are two different animals.

Moreover, I'm sure all of these frameworks are not well optimized for a raw performance benchmark, and also these results are heavily affected by filters you are choosing.
Don't spend time on pointless benchmarks.
>has more to do with different cultural definitions of "yes" than lying

Thus the Windows dialogues which let you choose between "Yes" and "Yes" when localised to English-India.
Google ties their OS to their services. They prevent smartphone makers from installing apps or services competing with their own. They're using their influence in one market to harm competition in another market. That is illegal as it should be.
That's changed now, thanks again.
Productivity is not a function of 'how much stuff employees accomplish' - it's more like a measure of profits or economic value creation per employee.

So yes, small company employees are 'really productive' in the 'working' sense, but economically, not so much.

Other than at hedge funds and maybe some other very niche businesses (law firms?) ... the megabucks comes at a certain scale.
This is the answer. Works great with caffeine as well.
Not so much that.. but I bet there are logical contradictions in law, and repetition. You know how typescript can check for errors? I bet there are lots of errors in law code.

Lets say the same law says something is illegal and not doing something is illegal, because of some convoluted language and whoever passed the law missed it. Maybe not refactor right away, but at least check for errors.

Also, if a computer could process law code, lawyers would be obsolete, patent trolls wouldn't have leverage, etc etc.
Has anyone tried Zig? From reading the project page I don't see anything that it has/plans over something like Rust that's much further along.
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I think you’d be surprised just how many Amazon fire tablets are out there. They don’t get much mindshare because they’re cheap but I run into a non-trivial number of them at friends/acquaintances houses. Especially for kids.

Hard to know since Amazon doesn’t release sales numbers.

Either way Apple isn’t doing anything to shut down tablet competitors other than making a great product at a price people seem to be willing to pay. There aren’t tons of lawsuits or requirements that retailers can’t sell competing devices.
This is the new standard on HN. People can bury news if they are organized. I agree that this is madness. I have seen the moderators defending this kind of behavior (with "it's out of our hands" type reasoning), which frankly makes me shake my head and wish for a HN successor.

Once you have a sufficiently large group of organized followers - in this particular case pretty much all of the "career C# developers" (there's a lot of them) chimed in by flagging posts that got negative traction to the whole Github-MSFT thing.

Edit: Your post was just flagged by the career microsoft people. Let's regroup at https://www.reddit.com/r/hnresistance/ (I just created that subreddit).
There has been a lot of progress to clean up target languages syntax, as can be seen from talk "Haxe 4.0" by Nicolas Cannasse:
https://haxe.org/videos/conferences/haxe-summit-us-2018/
Strange that you view it this way. I'm not extremely familiar with the case, but how I remember it is Gawker published a sex tape of Hulk Hogan and refused to take it down. While at the same time lampooning "society" about "the fappening". Hulk Hogan sued Gawker, which brings it to a court. Peter Thiel had a personal grudge against Gawker and used that case to take them down. Either way, it was still up to a court and all Thiel was doing was helping to fund Hogan's legal case. I'd hope that our courts have enough integrity to where if the evidence is against someone, no amount of money will change that verdict. Perhaps a bit idealistic, but I see no evidence that Thiel's money caused an inappropriate ruling in that case.

I'd characterize it as, "journalists" using their platform to go after specific people they don't like. Thiel helping one of their victims who couldn't afford to mount a case without running the risk of ruining themselves if they lost. Seems to me like a really noble thing to do.
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The lack of disposable income is greatly overstated. In the US, the median disposable income is ~$1000 per month. This is the money left over after all normal middle class expenses are accounted for i.e. money you can save or spend on luxuries. And the average disposable income is twice the median.

While it is true that there are many Americans with little or no disposable income, that does not apply to the majority of Americans.
I think the maker of xbill is safe. The game was last updated in 2002 and the page promises anonymous CVS access coming "soon".
Don't advertise with "no logs" then.
I wonder, did you have the "dead code elimination" feature enabled? (Just throwing it out there. I haven't tried transpiling to PHP with it myself. :) )
...to riches.

There are riches besides money.
This is excellent, we need innovation in the US solar panel supply chain. Energy independence is tantamount with security.
A repo critical of the acquisition was removed from the Github “trending” page.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17251255

This doesn’t bother me that much, as the repo itself was unaffected and I expect a trending page to have some sort of bias/editorship.
Well, the absurd one was:

>the license at least used to forbid even saying "Datomic" aloud in public.
Searching and following a particular person with probably cause is fine under the constitution allowing the police effectively follow anyone 24/7 strips away a lot of 4th amendment protections. The fact that the laws haven't quite caught up to the ability of police to spy on people en mass should not be a justification for them doing so. Law makers lag behind the public and the state of technology by decades.
My dad (in Italy) drinks his last espresso after dinner, at ~9pm, every night, and soundly falls asleep by 10:30am.

Perhaps he has a high level of CYP1A2? I am wondering if there's a cheap but effective method of measuring it.
Not long ago even European countries had double borders - you had to go through one checkpoint of your own country, that would verify that you can leave(you are not a wanted criminal for example), and then another checkpoint of the country you wanted to enter, to check if you have the right to enter it. The area between the two was the no-mans-land. This arrangement still exists between some South American and African countries, you have to go through two separate checkpoints.
https://www.ivpn.net/blog/privacy-guides/advanced-privacy-an...
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Do you sell to local government or defense contractors? How has your experience been with them?

Also, if your customer is smart and still outsource to incompetent folks, they aren't too smart - are they? Either that or they are too smart to deal with you, and have handed over the relationship with similarly capable folks.
Notion brings its powerful note-taking app to Android
If you can make it in the West you’ll leave your homeland typically. Tech is a sector that often can is merit based so it’s not difficult for foreign engineers to prove their worth and make the migration (relative to other service sector industries).
I'm not saying performance doesn't matter I'm saying performance is NOT ONLY thing which matter.
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You’re getting the usual downvotes for this, but there’s probably some truth here. Remember, the Theranos story started up right around when the whole “we need more women in tech” stuff started gaining steam. All the stories were coming out about how tech was run by men and full of bros. Lo and behold, here comes this young, seemimgly technical woman who dropped out of school and dressed/acted like the next Steve Jobs. It fit perfectly into the existing story! Like the X-Files poster, everyone Wanted To Believe! The Theranos story hit the tech press right in that blind spot, and people were willing to overlook their skepticism in order to believe that they were witnessing a real female Steve Jobs tech celebrity.
It was a trick sentence, RDBMSs that can do that and remain useful enough for at least some applications don't exist.
The parent explicitly said that would be unethical, so you agree with them.
I’m on my second remote job, and I find all HN threads on the subject contain this bizarre exaggeration about how different it is, and how you need to be a certain kind of person, and have stellar communication skills. I feel like it’s the same as people warning others off living in Seattle - i.e. gate keeping.

And how are these hypothetical poor communicators performing at non-remote jobs, anyway?
Gitea costs no resources at all. I don't know EC2 because I self host (at home) but I've got an Intel Atom based server of 5 years old or so (costs 20W) and it runs great.
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This is an honest question to people who side with the proposal. At what point would these measures become unnecessary? What are the conditions?

Btw what is the name of the ideology that one would use to justify this?
I thought the MS one was cost based. “It’s nice and cheap until you sell one OS/2 box.”

Thanks.
> The Wall Street Journal is the only reason the company was outed.

No. The company was outed by people long before the wsj. The wsjalong with the rest of the media was the one that built theranos up because they wanted to push the feminism agenda.

The wsj stepped in and took the credit after the exposure/pressure on social media was going to break the story wide open.

It's similar to the nytimes taking credit and getting the pulitzer prize for breaking the weinstein story which they kept quiet for more than a decade. But once social media was exposing the story, the nytimes decided to release the story they kept quiet for so long.

It's like an arsonist who helped set a house on fire dousing the house with a glass of water after the firefighters put out the fire and pretending that they saved the house.

And lets not forget that if you criticized theranos or holmes, most of the media/journalists ( including those working for the wsj ) would attack you for being a sexist or a bigot.
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now a publicly listed company with $2.55bn in market cap
The most talk I've heard for legalization of weed recently was when Sessions was going to enforce it strictly.
Things have changed significantly and management purges are very common. And once you lose your job, finding a new one is hard, because to be frank you have no real skills apart from Microsoft Excel.

In many cases there have been people who lost jobs and didn't get a new job in over an year and had to move tech roles eventually. Some people had to change career tracks(get into marketing etc) permanently. So there is now a dedicated incentive to stay in the technical track.

Also in the current age, moving to a non-tech job is the long term equivalent of choosing a non-STEM career.
Not sure of the specifics in the last 18 months on straight OpenFL, but I know that some frameworks built on top of it had nice features like hot reloading. HaxeFlixel has an in-game debugger, too, for example. I guess it depends on the types of tooling you had in mind.
Just a day after this article:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/researchers-predict-...

It's almost as if they want an economic catastrophe, as long as it happens when the other guys are in office.
Most people count a VPS or container as self hosted as well, though. You don't need to own the hardware if that's not your thing.
We use the word "framework" as a term of convenience covering the full spectrum from platforms, micro-frameworks, to full-stack frameworks. We are also liberal with accepting contributions from the community, which means we do indeed include several frameworks that are well outside the mainstream.

That said, in tests such as Fortunes, you will see many full-stack frameworks demonstrating their capability to deliver myriad web application fundamentals (such as request routing, database connection pooling, ORM, XSS countermeasures, character encoding, data structures, and server-side templates) at very high performance levels.

This project establishes a high-water mark of performance. Very few web applications process anything remotely close to the requests per second we're measuring. But using Fortunes as a proxy and applying a coefficient (e.g., 0.005) to adjust for real-world application sizing can give you a very rough but nevertheless potentially useful approximation of real-world expectations. For example, one can guess their application is 200 times more complex than our Fortunes test. Rough back-of-the-envelope math will then estimate a framework from the ultra-high performance tier (~200,000 fortunes/sec) might yield a generous ~1,000 real-world app requests per second on a modern Xeon server. Meanwhile, a framework in the middle tier (~10,000 fortunes/sec) would yield a more constraining ~50 real-world app requests per second. Again, this math is hand-waving and you can interpret the results in whatever way you prefer; you can dismiss the validity of approximating things so coarsely. But my experience is that real-world applications based on frameworks I've used—which are sprinkled among all tiers of our results—do align with this hand-waving approximation.

Edit: I invite you to read the last section of the blog entry about this round [2] where I argue the same point in another way and share one of the tweets from an application developer whose real world application benefited from the performance improvements made to his favorite framework.

[1] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=motivation

[2] https://www.techempower.com/blog/2018/06/06/framework-benchm...
Looking for more on Zig I found a talk [0] (~1 hour) on the language by Andrew Kelley from just a few months ago.

Edit: I see there already questions about Rust in this thread. There's an audience question on Rust in the talk [1] and the creator states that Rust is Zig's biggest competitor.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4oYSByyRak

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4oYSByyRak&feature=youtu.be...
This works against global passive adversaries.

If you instead ask yourself "how many Tor nodes are out there"[1], and then ask yourself "what is the NSA's annual budget"[2], the concept of a global active adversary makes me a bit nervous.

[1]: http://torstatus.blutmagie.de
[2]: https://www.theverge.com/2013/8/29/4672414/leaked-snowden-do...
Same. I was off all caffeine for a month and I much preferred going back. However I stick to tea now and save coffee for emergencies.
Lying is specifically spoken against in the New Testament [paraphrasing: "let your yes be yes"; and "be beyond reproach"]. AIUI lying is allowed in Hinduism [the means justify the end] and in Islam [if it furthers Islam, it can't be wrong].

However, just because it's lauded in Christian writings and by Christians doesn't mean that Christians are any better in this respect than others, "we are all sinners and fall short of God's glory" afterall.

I imagine Buddhism to have a similar focus on truth?
> Really we should have some kind of open source simulator of a market, and the surveillance state perspective of it, so we can prove in practice what is possible to deduce...

A variation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_forest might get the job done (the risk is an overfitted model).
I didn't think of this, you could still steal something that's designed for an intranet (those may cost thousands)
This is probably due to the fact that PostgreSQL (libpq) has an "async" interfere built in and MySQL/MariaDB don't. These benchmarks are running very basic queries that perform well on either MySQL or PostgreSQL.
Can you point to anything saying that the problem with monopolies is you’re not allowed to cancel a contract?

I’ve never heard that before as a definition and doubt it would stand up in a court.
The first 3D printed houses for rent will be built in the Netherlands this year
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>Those investments were driven by U.S. tax incentives and the falling costs of imported panels, mostly from China, which together made solar power competitive with natural gas and coal.

Why not manufacture the panels in the US? It would create jobs and save the environmental impact of shipping billions of dollars of panels across the pacific- freight ships are brutal when it comes to emissions.
They pick their targets very carefully. They will generally aim to get contractual sign off from business-focused people that know little about IT. They'll promise them the world at a fraction of the cost of competitors, and the business guys will present a healthy set of cost savings to their board. Once the customer is fully locked in, they will fail to deliver on a few of those promises. Then the excuses start. Then the timelines slip. Then, after many months of this charade, they might get fired. Then the customer might try another company. Then they go back to on-shoring their dev team.

Basically, it's not (1) or (2), but instead (3): that these guys are master scammers, liars and confidence tricksters. They exaggerate without committing to anything and lull their customers into a false sense of security. They are THE slipperiest eels in the industry.

If you don't believe me, I encourage you to give them a try just once - it will probably convince you.
OpenFL's matured a bit since then and I quite like it personally, though I should point out that OpenFL is simply one of many libraries, and the rest are worth checking out, too! OpenFL's probably the most well known but the ecosystem has a lot to offer beyond that.
I didn't say not keeping logs is unethical, I said " explicitly not keeping logs to protect users from law enforcement" is unethical. The difference is subtle. If you just happen to not keep logs that's fine, or if you don't keep logs because you don't want to have to pay for storing them or something that's also fine. But explicitly saying, "I could have logging here, but I don't want to because I don't want to provide evidence to law enforcement serving a valid warrant" is, in my view, unethical. Not tremendously unethical, mind you, but unethical. The morality is about the intent rather than the result.
I wish the article had more details on why the propositions were rejected. It makes sense though, Alphabet is there to make money not foster an ultra political working environment. After the Damore incident, I wouldn't consider working there, but this does offer some hope to those who aren't far-left leaning.
I completely agree, and said so in my original comment.
Perpetrators are in a way victims like I am in a way a basketball superstar who never really reached his potential
Managers need to monitor output rather than time worked. Even if my colleague is able to get the same work done in half the time as me, we should still be treated the same.

Peer review also goes a long way. Your colleagues—onsite or remote—have a pretty good sense of both the quantity and quality of your output.
I used Haxe and NME years ago to build an Ouya (RIP) game. I was coming from actionscript and it was a delightful language. Glad to see it's still evolving. That game project was a blur of haxe, java, and c++ due to Ouya's infancy and haxe could handle it all. I was impressed
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There is a class of people who make obscene amounts of money while introducing systemic risks into the economy.

When the inevitable blowup happens (like in 2008), then these people keep their bonuses of tens or hundreds of millions of dollars while the losses are socialized, which means you're on the hook and your tax money is used to bail out "too big to fail" banks, insurance companies and auto companies.

10 years later people are still talking about a "recovery".

The money supply has been diluted via money printing (so-called "quantitative easing") which is still being done in EU and Japan on a massive scale.

The already wealthy are positioned much closer to the money spigots (by being able to get money at much lower interest rates), and can therefore do "carry-trades". Basically a license to print money.

Money printing and interest rates kept at an artificially low rate deprives from savers and pensioners of income they would otherwise have.
Consequence of demographics? Competition in India and China are arguably fiercer because of scale. If you’re not pulling out all the stops then you might be handicapping yourself relative to your peers.
Rust seems like a spiritual successor to C++. Zig seems like a spiritual successor to C (except it's a little closer to C, as you can directly run things from C in Zig)
Yeah the pace of change lately has me mentally filtering out and avoiding any articles / posts / news / documentaries older than about 6 months at this point.
How did they force them? With a gun or something?

Google will threaten to cancel your Play Services license if you ship services (that have nothing to do with android) competing with them. Classic case of harming competition by product tying IMHO.
The other question is for people who side with the proposal: what would be considered 'too much effort' when it comes to inclusion and equitability?
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