skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People seem quick to provide criticism of definitions without presenting their own definition for reciprocated criticism.

So far your definition so far is limited to just precluding anything greater or equal in age to 9 years or anything above 2 Billion in revenue.

Typically what happens as companies scale is they switch priorities from being growth oriented to being a profit oriented one -- the reason being is not looking after bottom line is simply not sustainable.

Focusing on growth at the expense of profitability is sustainable for early stage companies as a someone will pay to see if the growth can be realized.
> Personally I'll gladly accept more dead astronauts (and hail them as heroes) if they push spaceflight further.

How noble of you.
This post is too detailed. For many of these problems, no one is going to get "gotcha'd" by a problem which the compiler gives you a detailed error message for. Go is by no means flawless, but you usually face simple problems which might stump you for a moment but usually have easy and readily found solutions.

Scala, on the other hand, is much harder to understand and much easier to write bad code in. I still don't know what the idiomatic way of doing many tasks in Scala is, the type model is nigh impossible to wrap your head around, the docs are scatterbrained and inconsistent, and I've spent way more time than I would like trying to get sbt in line.
Udacity is a bit strange example. This means that they have what? triple size of react native in their main app? That's weird because on android react native blows APK to much larger percentage.
Dismissing history’s most recognized economist out-of-hand seems like you have already decided the answer before hearing the arguments.

Edit to add: Michael Porter (one of the most influential living economists) made is career studying the economic theory of competitive advantage.

"clusters: critical masses—in one place—of unusual competitive success in particular fields."

Link: https://hbr.org/1998/11/clusters-and-the-new-economics-of-co...
> It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

I doubt most of them care. Even if some engineers care, I really doubt that the product team does in a circumstance like this.
It was never "free" as such - you were always supposed to pay for it - but it was possible to build it yourself. You did the right thing.
It's the default in the macOS installer. You have to uncheck a check box to turn it off.
The $140M being "alleged" is the most blockchain part of the title
And SaaS is anything but open source most of the time, specially in the consumer space.

We are back to X-Windows applications on dumb terminals, just prettier.
Great. Just when my daughter has installed Blender to learn 3D modelling.
I wouldn't called Deluge minimalist - that's Transmission.

Deluge is more of a power-tool, albeit one most people can use happily.

The big thing that I like is that you can use the desktop GUI (GTK) client with a remote daemon doing the actual downloading. Plenty of them have web-clients (Deluge does as well), but it's nice using the proper GUI. Other than that, it has all of the usual tools you'd want from a client.
Certain level of paranoia can actually be beneficial in some lines of work.

Bobby Fischer suffered from severe paranoia and constantly feared being poisoned among other unlikely things. But that flaw was also a great source of strength when he played chess.

Andrew Grove, co-founder of Intel, wrote a book called "Only the Paranoid survive". An example of how some level of paranoia can help you as a CEO.

I think the secret is: balance. Surely bad things can happen: we can choke like eating, or hit by space debris and die but winning the lottery is probably more likely.
I'm so sorry if this article scares you.
This is not the intention of this article.
In fact, Go is a relative simpler language comparing to many other popular static languages.

This article is intended to emphasize that you should NOT learn Go with the attitude by thinking Go is a very simple language.
Possibly the most succinct refutation of the reasonableness of IP rights ever devised. Rather than proving that copyrights should be respected, it forces people to realize that when computers allow you to completely encompass all human effort into the design or creation of a work, and remove entirely all human effort from the duplication or distribution, dollar value as a measure of scarcity or rarity becomes meaningless.

Also, dammit, we're getting close: https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/mkultra-3d-printable...
it does? the entire premise is that this leaks encrypted data
Well, yes, it's easy to attack my "argument" when you didn't originally give the full details.

Bugs are not imaginary scenarios. Also, did the US outlaw gun ownership without the rest of the world noticing?

> And I do agree that a raging driver taking control from the automation continues to be a problem. But that's no worse than the original situation, now is it?

I only replied to one point: that you cannot state with 100% conviction that the cyclist wouldn't have died had there been a self-driving vehicle.

You could back down and just concede you really meant to add at least one condition: "if that jackass had a completely autonomous vehicle, with no manual input possible, it is highly unlikely the cyclist would have been killed"
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You can't compare statistics unless the underlying miles are comparable, though. The only miles that humans drive which should be compared are those that a given AI is capable of driving.
Still from the user perspective I see no difference between Uber/Lyft or taxi - I choose the one which is fastest/cheapest on a given circumstances, so not sure what's your point here.
Wow; that Brazilian network card. It has three Z80 CPU's on it.
Agree. I work for a big healthcare company that likes to throw around the revenue numbers (pretty much all public companies do). Of course it's huge, cause healthcare is expensive (US). Our profit margin is like 2% cause COGS and labor is just as expensive and our top line revenue is basically just a made up number that we like to bill people, with no hopes of actually getting paid that amount, it's before the insurance companies "contractual adjustment", which is essentially a huge discount that we know invalidates top line.
> Discussing which tools work best is an important question in software development.

I completely agree, but would you write an article titled "Spoons still blowing away Forks in digging holes"?
same feeling.
Funnily enough, PewDiePie is no longer on YouTube's good-side, and virtually all of his newly uploaded videos get demonetized by YouTube. He's no longer "advertiser-friendly"
There are certainly public/tax policy sets that could serve both: to help and/or protect those who don't have the opportunity or ability to become an Ayn Rand hero, but also still allow for those that choose to fight down that path. Yes that means that the richer one becomes, the less they take home as a percentage of their gross (more so than current tax policy requires). But it means that there are more than two extremes to the issue.
Same reason a coffee shop might offer to let you charge your phone/laptop batteries for free and then take that away when they see you are running an extension cord to your office.
Sure, but YouTube gives the option to not monetize your videos. You can't give your users and option and then be upset when some users pick that option.

If people picking that option is causing problems for your business, you take that option away.
Yes, but it sadly died around 2009 when most developers left the project.

GCC devs just kept it around because of the unit tests, but with GCC 7 they removed it from the distribution.
Can Chewing Gum Patch a Flat Tire?
Apple initially went after the small shop in this story.
The Diabetes Cure That Most Insurance Companies Won't Pay For
> With React there's no weird "v-if ng-if" template logic that you have to grapple with. To me, Handlebars already gave me enough taste of how horrible and limiting maintaining template logic outside of components is.

React was a good step in the right direction. But IMO they lost the plot with things like:

- shouldComponentUpdate(nextProps, nextState)

- componentDidUpdate(prevProps, prevState, snapshot)

and the whole props vs state thing. This adds so much unnecessary complexity to the code base.

Thankfully I can get all the benefits of the react style without any of the awkwardness of its API with hyperdom

https://github.com/featurist/hyperdom
I was thinking about this the other day in a campground, noticing the frayed collar on a favorite REI hiking shirt I must have bought in about 2004. They have definitely made the fabric thinner in recent years as well as sometimes changing the style in unhelpful ways. But, these thinner fabrics do also perform quite well in hot sun. They just don't have the same durability.

I also thought of my down-filled mummy sleeping bag in the tent, which is c. 1985 and proudly made in China by the Swan company. It works great after all these years, only a little stained by iron oxide and having lost a drawstring from the hood. My father bought a matching pair as a set, and I inherited the other half from my brother, so my wife and I can zip them together and have a cozy sack for two. Modern bags may have a bit more loft and pack a little bit smaller, but not enough to want to replace these.

When breaking camp, I noticed my c. 2013 tent had sheared off an attachment point between the rain fly and the poles. I may try to fix it with some of that crazy tent-repair tape, as I did when it went for a tumble in high winds once. But, I think back to some old tents my family purchased around the same time as my sleeping bag, and am glad to have this amazingly light weight tent instead. Those old ones have probably lost their waterproofing to rot, but their fiberglass poles were so heavy I'd never want to drag it somewhere again.

Shoes on the other hand are a disappointment. I have watched the average life span of hiking shoes decrease rapidly.
With a SQL database, how do you achieve consensus on a proposed transaction without a middleman taking an arbitrary cut of the proceeds?
> After that I learned about Grafx2

Yeah, I also use GrafX2 – it's much smaller, much faster, and support more platforms than Aseprite! ;-)

Few weeks ago we discussed GrafX2 on HN[0] and on Reddit[1,2]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17213761

[1] https://reddit.com/r/linux/comments/8hih45/sh_grafx2_25_rele...

[2] https://reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/8hifts/sh_grafx2_25...
Anecdotal: Try probiotics, drinking kefir helped me relax. After some search online, I came to know that it is expected. YMMV.
https://www.fark.com/politics/

Also good
A key element of blockchain is the associated business logic (smart contracts). You need an immutable ledger and you need agreed upon business logic.

You have your choice of consensus algorithms. Most of the time when people say blockchain, they mean the public networks like bitcoin or ethereum. But if you move to a private, permissioned network model, you can use consensus algorithms that don’t need mining and have very high transaction speeds. This is the approach taken by IBM Blockchain (via the Linux Foundation’s open source hyperledger fabric project) and a few others.
I am somewhat shocked Oculus is wasting Carmacks time and potential on something nobody wants (watching 360 panorama movies).
This stuff is being proposed for data that needs consensus between multiple companies, so each company can't have their own.
I'm sorry, no offensive. Your feeling of the extent how you master Go is much like mine of the two years ago.

BTW, this is a free online book. And the go101.org website doesn't embed any third-party advertisements and tracking code.
Because $company is only one of a number of competitors and none of them is going to let one of them handle the pot.

And because there's distribution but also only a small number of semi-trusted peers, a "blockchain" would be efficient as it wouldn't have to be a proof of work, it would only need to be a signed "public" ledger (public in the sense that all companies can access and add to it). Don't think bitcoin, think a git repo with a bunch of committer signing all their commits.
Hawk decals pasted on windows seem to do a pretty good job of fooling birds, but wouldn't fool humans. So do scare-crows
Here’s why experts are skeptical of the ‘gaming disorder’ diagnosis
But every time I ask about that, I get crickets. So who here is using JSX in Vue?
> LibreSprite is taking the GPL religion religion into the kool-aid zone.

False. LibreSprite is fork of last GPL commit of Aseprite, not even in active development. They are actually preserving cool piece of software. Maybe one day someone will want to develop it further or learn form it. Do you expect people not to fork when Aseprite author decided to close the source?
Who determines if competing companies are entering authentic data into the communal blockchain? How do you address a consensus attack in an aggressively competitive industry with relatively few players?

Immutable garbage is still garbage.

Databases are perfectly compatible with any variety of authentication layers.
There are luxury cars that attempt to detect when a driver is falling asleep, and people are sometimes mandated to have an interlock on their cars that prevents starting if they have alcohol in their breath. So if these things are not universal, presumably it's because of cost-benefit analysis, not because they need to be invented.
I came to say this. Write down the things you worry about as honestly you can. The end result is that your worries become more tangible and easier to judge.
What Is Low-Code and Why Should You Care?
> There is no law on the books justifying separation.

So are you saying you want children to be places into jail cells?

> Border Patrol themselves say it's "not inaccurate" to call them cages.

There's bars, yep. Did you think it was going to be a Holiday Inn that they put these people up in?

> Oh, everything is ok then.

No, the situation is terrible, and costs taxpayers millions. They should all just be sent back immediately upon capture. The whole thing is a waste of time and money.
There are more guns than people in the United States
I'm actually far more afraid of a security flaw than a defect. Security flaws could be deliberately exploited by terrorists or other bad actors. That's a really serious concern.

On the other hand, that's the kind of thing that gets addressed by brute-force improvement. Security is a well-understood field, and the main problems we've seen with car security so far have been caused by insufficient effort, not insufficient technology.
If one open redis instance is compromised, then they probably all are. Attackers scan the open internet for vulnerable hosts and then deploy their payloads to any they find.

If you go searching for open mongo databases in shodan, you’ll see the same thing. Most of them have been pwned and have a single table with instructions on where to send bitcoin to get their data back.
See datadog warnings, alerts and nodata on your i3bar
Yes. An aggressive entrepreneur like Gates would be able to rustle up a few paltry thousand in investment capital. People do it all the time.
I want it. Also looks like prerequisite for other fancy stuff.
Some people seem to radiate neurosis and spread it to any susceptible minds, including family, friends and pets.
A blockchain is a digital and distributed ledger of transactions, recorded and replicated in real time across a network of computers or nodes (figure 1). Every transaction must be cryptographically validated via a consensus mechanism executed by the nodes before being permanently added as a new “block” at the end of the “chain.” There is no need for a central authority to approve the transaction, which is why blockchain is sometimes referred to as a peer-to-peer trustless mechanism.

I see this kind of explanation a lot. It's misleading at best. A block chain is most definitely not a ledger, as is claimed by too many sources to count.

A block chain is a tool allowing a group of users to produce a single, unique transaction log.

To this end, transactions are grouped into blocks. A block references two pieces of information: (1) its ordered list of transactions; and (2) its parent block. Two or more blocks may claim the same block as a parent. Therefore, a collection of blocks can be assembled into a tree with one or more children pointing to a parent.

Each user maintains its own copy of the tree. All paths through the tree are followed and scored. The path with the highest score is designated as the active chain.

The active chain is what many people think of when they use the term "Blockchain."

However, the structure of this chain is mostly boring and unremarkable. The most interesting thing about it are transactions. Like blocks, transactions link together. Additionally, transactions run programs that induce global state changes.

The secret sauce of "Blockchain" boils down to incentivizing each user to choose the same active chain in an adversarial environment. The best-tested procedure uses "proof-of-work."

If the relative order of events plays an important part in what you're trying to do, and you operate in an adversarial environment, then a block chain might help.

Otherwise, there's not much a block chain can do for you.
It sounds like you may be suffering from OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder). One of the more common symptoms is excessive worrying about seemingly trivial things, to the point of becoming obsessed with ways in which they could go wrong, often coupled with excessive checking and avoiding certain situations.

With OCD you can often intellectually identify things as real/fake, but another part of your mind takes over and overrides those and triggers worrying even when it's unwarranted.

I would strongly recommend consulting with a psychiatrist to get a diagnosis, and advice on how to proceed. I've gone through a couple of pretty bad episodes with this, and have been helped immensely by a combination of CBT (cognitive-behavioural therapy) and prescribed medication. Of course everyone's situation is different; but it's definitely worth seeking professional help.
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If people were all reasonable all the time we wouldn’t need laws that prohibit them from driving under influence, stealing or plain murdering people.

If excessive sports and exercise were a problem on any large scale, I would advocate for regulation, too. My feeling however is that people rather tend to need incentives for exercising at all, so I’m not holding my breath on that one.

Freedom is not absolute if you are living as part of a society.
Americans for Prosperity has 2.3 million members, according to Wikipedia. Current headline, "The Koch brothers are campaigning against tax rises for public transit projects", is an improvement over original NYT insane "How the Koch Brothers Are Killing Public Transit Projects Around the Country" but still misleading. Kochs are financing a 2.3 million organization, which in part - by activities of their local activists, going door to door, which is impossible without wide support on the ground - opposes some public transportation projects. Which sometimes are a colossal waste of taxpayer money. For example: https://reason.com/blog/2018/05/22/corruption-incompetence-c... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-... https://reason.com/blog/2017/09/18/seattles-sound-transit-pa... https://www.aei.org/publication/whod-a-thunk-it-like-most-ce... and many more.

From the article itself:

Early polling here had suggested that the $5.4 billion transit plan would easily pass. It was backed by the city’s popular mayor and a coalition of businesses. Its supporters had outspent the opposition

So the evil Koch's money was actually less than the benevolent whoever-that-was-NYT-is-not-going-to-tell-us's money. So how did it happen?

“This is why grass roots works,” said Tori Venable, Tennessee state director for Americans for Prosperity, which made almost 42,000 phone calls and knocked on more than 6,000 doors.

So it's not nefarious Koch Brothers and their dark magic. It's people on the ground making phone calls and knocking doors and convincing people that they are right. This is how democracy is supposed to work. But of course for NYT it is anathema since their side lost this time, so they would present it as some kind of dark magic of evil Satan brothers. I would want to say I expect better from NYT, but the times when I did has long passed.
So what are the odds then that they created a new user account on some local machine and used that to make the changes?
I'd sell for 3x annual profit.
Blender is the epic example of free software slowly eventually eating the big proprietary guys' lunch. Volunteers spending countless hours writing software, because they were fed up with the very high pricing point of the alternatives (Maya, 3DS). Now hopefully they can kick off the eating of large internet incumbents like Youtube, maybe using some decentralized free video sharing like PeerTube. I love watching blender tutorials. I hope this creates more competition in this space (online video hosting).
This is a helpful short book on things to consider when pricing software:

download.red-gate.com/ebooks/DJRTD_eBook.pdf
You don't see an installer when you buy a new Mac. I just installed 5 new computers in an office, and none of them had a mechanism for enabling FileVault other than going into sysprefs and turning it on myself.
> Mark has raised $16,658 for Texas Civil Rights Project

That's pretty underwhelming considering has a net worth of $75,600,000,000.

He could donate orders of magnitude more than what he'll raise without even noticing the decrease in his wealth.
Thank goodness there are people like you that aren't scared off by the big box stores. I am not in the market for fabrics right now, but I am looking for various supplies for a home remodel. I frequently find that while the big box store might have multiple options in any given product category, they are all garbage and I have to look at specialty stores to find anything worth spending money on.
Interesting... AWS leaked that subscriptions to SQS are in the works, but it's good to see that Azure has that already.
Are we comparing a full software ecosystem to a barebones OS? Further holes being secret hardly means they don't exist.