skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the "can't build out" thing is over-emphasized. We can't build out only in the relatively skinny band of open space around town. But there is lots of space that is / can be built on outside that band, ie. Louisville, Superior, northwest Arvada (Candelas), Gunbarrel, Niwot, Longmont. None of thee places are very far from Boulder. What we need is better public transportation. Most people drive into town, so there is lots traffic and parking is hard, which makes people want to live in town to avoid that.
Regarding the standard library you might also give a brief explanation about bounds checking in debug builds for example.
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The cost from any station to O'hare is $2.50. However, the cost from O'Hare to downtown is $5.00

https://www.transitchicago.com/fares/
> (of which the reviews and corruption people claim simply does not exist).

It is a well known fact that game companies pay people to write positive reviews.

One example (Microsoft): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeHjN4oWVfk
Give your terminal some personality with Tenor GIF for CLI
I’ve been through M&A twice from the selling side and once from the buying side. You need an LOI before you turn anything over you wouldn’t tell a potential investor. NDA should have been the first thing done before talking in detail. Feel free to reach out if you want to talk confidentially through the process.

Edit: if they are keeping the product/tech you should have them value it based on future expectations of value. It’s less of an acquihire in that case. Don’t take an acquihire price if they’re going to immediately realize more value than they’re paying you to take a job.
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>A bootstrapped business is alive as long as the founder is willing to continue trying to make it work. So a bootstrapped business doesn't fail per se

I'm going to rewrite your comment in more concrete terms and by doing so, you can let me know if I have parsed your meaning correctly.

For example, in California, the annual filing fee for C-Corp or LLC business entity is $800. So, for as long as the entrepreneur is diligently paying the $800 each year, the business has not been formally "shut down" and therefore, has not "failed". (Alive != Failed)

With that adminstrative setup as the baseline, we consider your next comment:

>didn't give up when I wasn't making any money. I worked freelance contracts and kept the thing going [...] even if I wasn't bringing in money,

I think this means that one can get any 9-5 day job and keep the "bootstrap business" as a side hustle for years that never brings in significant money. It can never be considered a "failure" because of 2 properties:

(1) the business wasn't formally wound down (just continue to pay $800/year admin fee).

(2) a money-losing business still provides "education" and founder comes out stronger. (Not sure if this also implies that failed VC business does not provide education and strength)

It seems like your advice is dependent on a hyper technicality of what "failure" means to you instead of engaging the spirit of the comparison between VC vs bootstrapped.

I go back to your first comment which already had as a condition "want to make enough money to be independent". Many current and former bootstrapped business founders will disagree that it's "not hard." It is extremely hard to create a self-sustaining bootstrap business that brings financial independence reasonably fast. (The "fast" being relative to working 30 years at a 9-5 job.)

Also, when you rely on phrases such as "determined as hell and didn't give up", you're inadvertently falling into the same "survivorship bias" for your bootstrapped business which the article complains about for VC businesses. Being "determined as hell" is an unfalsifiable attribute. Oh, you say your bootstrapped business failed?!? It happened because you weren't determined as hell.

I'm sympathetic to bootstrapped businesses because I sold custom software that way but touting the advantage to non-VC businesses as one that let's you redefine "failure" in an idiosyncratic way which keeps the business from meeting that criteria -- is not very compelling.

In any case, if the business is in a domain that can be bootstrapped, by all means, do that option. The founder will have more leverage. Leverage is good.

The point to my first comment is that advocates for "bootstrapped businesses" will have the same cognitive biases as the essays for VC businesses.
I had to Google it:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2858802/Woman-nois...
GIF for CLI
All the replies you've had so far are good reasons for why software engineers might prefer laptops.

As a different way of looking at it, as an Electronic Engineer (I hope I got the right acronym), some of the software you run may well require a bit more performance than most software engineers need.

I think a mobile i7, 16GB of fast RAM, and a fast SSD is pretty good for most developers now, particularly when we're not compiling code - we're mostly using scripting languages (at least the type of devs around here) so the development cycle depends more on reloading and parsing files off disk than on intensive compilation and optimisation steps. There are definitely software engineers who need more, but many will do just fine on a laptop, and the portability wins out.

Compared to Electronic Engineering, I remember some of the software that EE students used at the uni I went to required some beefy hardware to run on. It was large complicated software, that I'd put in the same category as 3D modelling suites, or video editing/effects/rendering. It required high performance workstations, and higher performance simulation servers. I can totally see why an Electronic Engineer would prefer a workstation (although I think to call it a "real" workstation would be a little disingenuous, it depends what your engineering is!)
Here are the lesser documented features [1] of HN.

[1] - https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
Right, but if you survive the procedure, are the side-effects going to kill you, or leave you more likely to contract diseases, and so on? That's more the question. And the answer appears to be no. Plenty of reasons why it's a bad idea, just not this one...
Sweet project!
Canadian citizen held for months after border agents dismiss papers as fake
Yes, someone knows.
(Seriously though, I hate it when people online will ask "does anyone know....?" )

But to answer the question, apple say their plans ahead of time. I'm sure that when they release their next model of laptop it will have a revised keyboard.
Years ago when wifi first became a thing my friends and I would drive around with early Wireshark and a Pringles can antenna and change all the open SSID's we could find to "Call [some number] to secure your network". All the routers back then were open by default so we could easily do a few dozen per day.

When they would call (and they always called), we would then show up and charge the person between $50-$250 (or however much we thought we could get) to change the SSID and setup WEP.

When times got desperate and we needed a new flat screen TV we returned back to our previous victims, and, having their WEP passwords we setup, changed it back to the original message:

"It's a good thing you called us -- the hackers got in again, but we have some new defenses against them. Stick with us. We'll protect you."

As a bunch of tech-savvy poor kids, it was very satisfying taking money from rich, old (mostly white) people. We were able to quit our jobs working fast food with our new found venture. That somehow made up for the unethical nature of it all in the youthful minds of late teen and early 20's punks.
Yep -- if you make over $600 (and mine was $600 + $90 for court costs) they have to send you a tax form and report it.
Technically it is possible to implement a sort of opt-out or even opt-in moderation instead of mandatory moderation for everyone. The problem is the authorities don't like that and will eventually force the owner to censor something for everyone as long as there is at least some amount of centralized control left to the owner.
I'll just leave this here as on point of view: http://www.paulgraham.com/corpdev.html
Just for those with the knowledge and money to pursue a case against him.
That's not the choice customers have. The parent gave examples for why companies often need predictability and stable ABIs.
They're choosing between no kernel upgrades and RHEL's.

What good is a fresh kernel if a binary driver you need but can't change breaks?
SEC announces cryptocurrency ether is not a security
SGI also have themselves to blame when they decided to be just yet another hardware vendor selling Linux/Windows systems.
That sounds like a cool idea, but a complete pain to implement.

There's been bugs that crash iPhones with combining Arabic, or freeze Android devices by spamming LtR override.

There's the Zalgo meme, where you drown out your words in combining diacritics.

Layout engines are already struggling to keep up with the standard, even without the ability to render a UINT_MAX x UINT_MAX canvas of infinitely repeating fractal penises.
I've heard X1 Carbon 5th is great for Linux, but 6th gen still had issues. Anyone know if the 6th gen is okay with Linux yet?
That doesn't seem fair. The MBP sitting in front of me has mini DisplayPort, USB, HDMI ... all are standards. The newest MBP has USB-C, which is a standard. My last MBP also had FireWire, which was also standardized.

There are dongles to buy, but that seems to mostly have to do with such things as Thunderbolt and the ability to piggyback older legacy technologies on newer connectors.

Now if you were talking about the phone, I agree. But I also see the point -- micro USB is a terrible, terrible thing. As long as it's robust I would like to see the next phone ditch Lightning for USB-C, but I am otherwise much happier with Lightning connectors than I have ever been with micro USB.
still works on win10! and you can backspace, but only the current line, so don't press enter until you're really sure
In Australia, fiber-to-the-home vs. fiber-to-the-node has been a fairly political issue about which I knew very little, so I looked it up. [1] After reading about parent comment and the miles of unused fiber, I wondered what the difference between fiber near my home vs fiber in my home would be, and found some good info. [2]

[1l http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-13/federal-election-nb...

[2] https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/whats-difference-fttc-fttp-car...
I'm not sure if the advantages are significant enough over using haml markdown filters (last example) to warrant creating an implementation.

Great idea though.
https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations is looking for help. https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/owg-membership...
"suffice it to say, the complex manoeuvring of some extremely bright and learned people unwittingly triggered the financial crisis."
So it wasnt the bad loans that were given to people who couldnt repay at variable interest rates prone for increases in the future? If everyone involved was truly educated, they likely would nothavs taken those loans in the first place...

Dont confuse free market behavior (all people involved in the market) with that of a highly learned population
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysinternals

Very efficient, though technically MS acquihired Mark Russinovich.

He still works on them even though he's Azure CTO.
How to Articulate the Value Proposition of AWS in 5 Words
> Visual Studio allows similar capabilities for C++ via data visualizers.

No reason this couldn't be possible for Emacs, I guess nobody bothered. In particular, Common Lisp with SLIME already makes use of "presentations" in REPL, which nicely combine CL's print-object output with inspector/debugger capabilities.

Ultimately, no one limits you to printing out simple text. In various Lisp software I wrote, I ended up displaying profiling info inline in REPL, like this:

CHARTED-LET*
0 9.249
˫--------˧
SOME-VAR: 0.006 |
OTHER-VAR: 0.004 |
SOME-COMPUTATION: 2.036 |==.
A-SUMMARY: 0.062 |
DATA-FOR-A-CHART: 3.486 |====
SOME-BIG-COMPUTATION: 9.249 |==========
SOME-TREE-STUFF: 0.005 |

(EDIT: there were pretty Unicode characters in that output, but my browser / HN ate them. See https://github.com/tkych/cl-spark for how it should look like.)

(all it took was a simple macro on top of a sparkline lib). I dumped custom execution stats out-of-band into a HTML file that, with little bit of static JS, rendered explorable charts. I've sent data straight into new Emacs buffers for processing, with a help of this simple macro:

https://gist.github.com/TeMPOraL/8715c9dd9837e0b601d1cdce059...

(can be trivially modified to make the new buffer automatically assume a given major-mode).

Point is, you don't have to limit yourself to simple, uninterpreted printfs. Write your own debugging tools! And while I'm not up to date with C#, most other languages and IDEs I've seen don't move beyond dumb printfs. Java definitely doesn't (hint: Grep Console is a very useful plugin to IntelliJ and Eclipse). And this Console.table() is just a visual gimmick. I'm actually disappointed that with all the capabilities for interactive HTML rendering, that's the best the Web standardized on so far.
What was exactly incorrect? I would agree that "you can see any specialist you want" is an exaggeration, but as someone with good insurance, I have about 100+ different ENTs in the bay area I could bring my daughter to, Stanford and UCSF included.
Try and follow JoeyYVA and it automatically unfollows you
> "what is essentially larceny"

Quantity has a quality all of it's own.
MIPS CPUs are still quite popular in embedded applications, although i don't see that lasting much longer. all of the PIC32 line by Microchip uses MIPS32 architecture, and many Broadcom SoCs are MIPSEL, especially their switching silicon.
This one's great because they actually fly to India and meet the scammers! Definitely worth listening to both parts!
ULA wa s private but government supported. They coild have competet in the international launch market but largly didnt.

While tunneps are private, not many pivate companies come up with new transportation systems.
For some reason, Axe Cop Munchkin seems to be a lot more fun to play than regular Munchkin.
I'm not sure I understand your first point? TV is a major part of the economics of fiber deployment. Chattanooga's fiber system also includes TV, so does Google Fiber. As to your second point--have you ever had FiOS? Verizon's wireline division is run like old-school AT&T--FiOS is very high quality.
Yes, I missed it indeed, that's great news! I wish I had asked for a million dollars in my post :D
No, they are busing working on Emojis.
I would absolutely love the touchbar ... as long as it were in addition to the regular keyboard, instead of a replacement for that top row of keys. Put it above the keyboard and keep the ESC and function keys, and I think it would be great.
If the network has been paid back then it's a non issue. Wireless broadband has a host of issues and fiber makes it's adoption less pressing. Sure, if it rolls out in 15 years then the city might be out some capital, but it also gets 15 years use from that fiber network. So, unless it's coming in the next 5-10 years it's probably not worth considering.
It's really interesting just how rare those skills are, even at the top. Napoleon made 26 marshals of the empire, and only 3 would have been remotely capable of stepping into his shoes: Davout, Massena and Suchet. (Murat, Ney and Soult are all hype, don't @ me)
Fiasco with 7-8 year olds? What could go wrong? ;)
My downarrow was like this for a while. Then it broke and I'm sending it in.

I've had so many keys stuck due to dust or some other particle . When I press hard enough I can hear it crack and the key usually works again...I really hate the keyboard :P
Paid to the FCC, and not the victims?
It appears that the government is not interested in the victims, rather just wants a cut of the scam for themselves.
Wow, this is great. Thank you.
I feel like a lot of it is changing the discussion. Like not everyone has the money, time and effort to be able to do a small claims thing, but there are a lot of things you can do. Teaching people to pull their credit reports, teaching them about risk assessment (I talk briefly about threat models when I do an online privacy talk at public libraries and I think it's useful to help people figure out "where do I fit into all this?") and how to get more information that they can trust.

And, for this audience especially, try to be supportive and helpful getting people to figure out how to keep their information more private in a way that works for them. Most people aren't techie and that's OK and is going to stay that way. Help them be better at the things they need to do, with good, well-sourced information, don't just holler at them because they write passwords down or don't know the different between their Apple ID and their laptop login. Encourage them to look at the structures that underlie the systems that they use every day (frex: Google is the world's largest advertising agency and that should figure in to personal decisions about how much to interact with them).

Above all, don't just bitch on the internet! I mean, sure do some of that, but that should be the beginning of your work to try to help yourself and other people deal with the situations we're in, not the end.
Yeah thought this for a long time as well. I believe this is affected by genetics.

Interestingly, there is a gene mutation which makes people more impulsive when intoxicated. [0]

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/nov/17/gene-mutatio...
> A government can declare that something is worth a dollar, but the market determines what a dollar is worth.

So what happens when the government declares that a candy bar is worth a dollar, but the market determines that a dollar is worth half a candy bar?
I have a MacBook 12". It took me either months or more than a year to notice that the haptic touchpad does not depress at all when you click. It happened suddenly when I pushed it while the laptop was powered off, and I panicked, thinking the pad was broken / stuck.

I still grin like an idiot pushing into the pad and telling myself that no, my finger did not go down. It is really magical.

If this can be done behind an eink screen or something similar, with a distinct feel for resting a finger and pushing a button, I believe it can be day and night for laptop keyboards. Alternatively, these eink screens could for sure have ridges for key delimitation.
This. My last trip with my macbook pro to the genius bar went this way. My keyboard didn't work. He looked at my screen, then whispered: "your screen is having a recall -- look at the glossy layer - it is coming off -- we replace it for free".

I mean apple sure knows how to take my payment in 15 seconds at the store with my information and email address. But somehow they can't inform me of a recall.
University of Chicago becomes first elite college to make SAT, ACT optional
Thanks; this is sort of what I was expecting when I clicked on the original link.
RPG also stands for Rocket-Propelled Grenade; the comment by vorpalhex appears to assume the same :)
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Freedom of speech but... not shouting "fire" in a crowded theater.

Do I not support freedom of speech?
Boulder isn't very large.
I think he's making a joke around an alternative expansion of the acronym "RPG".
unfortunately you can grow up, because of the view and its prohibited. You could potentially grow in and there have been a lot of condos built in recent years, but part of what makes boulder nice is that its not overdeveloped. Some people would prefer to pay a premium to keep it that way.
It's not up to you. My experience is that certain things go on much, much longer than you personally could predict. It's like Sears--that company just keeps hanging on despite its obvious failure.
Ironically, the same challenges are better solved in the world of code: Docker, GitHub, npm, etc.

Some friends and I created Quilt to bring versioning and packaging to data: https://quiltdata.com/. The interface is the familiar Python lifecycle of install and import.
I'm committing the sin of commenting w/o having read the article yet, so this might be duplicative or orthogonal, but:

Without feedback, there is no real expertise. Most experts are in domains w/o feedback, so they are mostly full of shit.

Good blog posts exploring this topic a bit:

https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2018/05/dominic-cummings-on-fi...

(above is a summary/intro to following:)

https://dominiccummings.com/2018/05/22/effective-action-4a-e...
Devil’s advocate: success is a step function. AI isn’t going to take over the world until it is able to, and then it very rapidly does.
The first example already seems so wrong as it sets the documents style in the content.
Making Pulled Pork with React Native, Expo, and Express
Oh see, my solution to that was just removing those apps, and deleting my social accounts.
City of Mist. Very cinematic with a lot of Comic Book overtones. Simple rules. All you need are 2d6. Starter kit comes with some great characters.
https://www.cityofmist.co
I would distill this as follows. Limiting to 1 pro and con to respect your and my time.

Pros
- You develop the skill of approaching things more holistically as you are forced to see things from end to end perspective.

Cons:
- As an early employee (#1 to 5) You are taking the SAME amount of risk as the founders but being compensated quite differently. The exception to this is where founders have invested their own money into the startup. But thats rare in SV style startups.
Digital Asset Transactions: Remarks at the Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit
So I'm wondering if they did any work to find out who was on the India side of this so our law enforcement could work with theirs and maybe, I don't know, capture them, extradite them, and you know, punish them for their international crime? I can dream.
I've come to really enjoy pot since graduating college. For the first two years out of school I began smoking daily - largely for self medicating purposes. I eventually had to take a break because I found my relationship with the substance unhealthy and basically became a lazy pot head with my head in the clouds even when not high. I do want to re-introduce pot into my life because I do really enjoy the mental state and it helps me get excited about learning physics and math after work which is something I try to push my self to do. I think, ultimately, my issue is moderation. If a smoke a little in the evening before diving into a subject there isn't really anything stopping me from just getting blazed and watching youtube videos - which would be fine if it didn't completely dull my mental edge the following day. I look forward to retirement where I can just go full pot head.
I have a librarian friend who's been running a Mouseguard campaign for the local kids. They seem to like it: http://www.mouseguard.net/
Most DBAs I know consider any comma join syntax difficult to maintain and difficult to debug because it's often difficult to tell the difference between join conditions and filter conditions. It's also very easy to mistakenly create a CROSS JOIN with comma join syntax, too.

The real pain comes when you try comparing the old vendor specific OUTER JOIN syntax for Oracle and SQL Server. I guarantee you'll love JOIN ... ON ... over comma joins.

Oracle:

SELECT *
FROM T1, T2
WHERE T1.PK1 = T2.FK1(+)

SQL Server:

SELECT *
FROM T1, T2
WHERE T1.PK1 *= T2.FK1

Note that the outer indicator goes on the opposite side. Oh, and, of course, if you flip the order of the fields around, you've got to remember to flip the (+) operator. Which of these three are identical:

SELECT *
FROM T1, T2
WHERE T1.PK1(+) = T2.FK1

SELECT *
FROM T1, T2
WHERE T2.FK1(+) = T1.PK1

SELECT *
FROM T1, T2
WHERE T2.FK1 = T1.PK1(+)

Now imagine you're joining 5 tables and want to reuse the JOIN syntax.

Yeah. Fuck that. I'll take this any day:

SELECT *
FROM T1
LEFT JOIN T2
ON T1.PK1 = T2.FK1
Yes, yes... sigh.