skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I'm kind of an asshole.

Note however that I said "obnoxious" and not "toxic".

I wonder though why you think his being a fan is relevant to what I said? I'd think if you really like someone's work you'd be careful to actually engage with their commentary about it and not just dismiss it.

She discusses at length about how giving the character any strong personality will stop players identifying with the character and he comes back with using more branching dialogue. But (speaking as someone who could give a shit about narrative games), it's sort of obvious that players will take branches that they don't end up identifying with...
> This has been reposted so many times by the author and by others that I can't help but finally ask.

Which hilariously begins with the statement:

>> This has been reposted so many times by the author and by others that I can't help but finally ask. What's the point?
"You adopt the child, you're responsible for it"

MS didn't write Skype but it sure got worse after they bought it.
This comment breaks the site guidelines. They ask: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

They also ask: "Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

Please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow those rules when posting here, so we can all avoid boring flamewars.
How about enough to sustain an individual with accommodation, healthcare, transportation to and from work and enough to feed themselves on a 40ish hour work week. Some jobs don't offer that. Let's start there before talking about how much trouble it would be for businesses to support your edge cases.
> WHOIS Privacy Services have been doing exactly this for a long time and they are usually paid by the domain registrar.

Yes, but crucially they are not the domain registrar, and that's because this was already a problem.
But high stress can do some amazing things to your brain.
And immediately when I found this out I use it at my advantage.
For years I worked on my project with results like "a step forward, two steps behind". So I quit my job with only a few thousands $$ and put as much stress on my "system".
I found my "eureka moment" a few days before I ran out of $$.
They call this the survival instinct.
Sure. Not gonna chance the world overnight, but we need to know where North is. Right now I feel like people are questioning the compass and if it really works :(
My professional career started in 2008, but I didn't personally use Git/Github until maybe 2010 or so, but it still took until 2015 for me to be able to use Git/Github at work!

Version control system timeline for me has been

IBM ClearCase -> CVS -> Perforce -> SVN -> Git

The non linear path is from switching jobs/working on legacy projects, but yeah.

Git has it's problems, especially on usability, but it's much better than all the others in that list!
I would recommend the audio book of Thinking Fast and Slow. I have been listening to it during my commute and it is fascinating.
> Have we reached the end? If there anything beyond Git?

The ability to split and merge repositories as easily as we can split and merge branches might open up some new use patterns.

The particular context I'm thinking of is scientific repositories. These tend to grow in size and scope in an unplanned manner. Pieces inevitably need to be split off for a collaboration, to be made public, or because someone is changing institutions and needs to take part of the project with them.
Just because you founded a company, it does not mean you get a cut of the final sale.

Starting a company is hard. You can struggle to make it profitable, never get there, and end up deeply in debt years later.

Fanduel became relevant mainly because of the marketing it was able to purchase without that it would have fallen by the wayside. You need lots of money for that.

The founders must have needed cash at a critical time so they must have had a reason to put their shares second to the shares of the equity firm.

It makes no sense to feel bad for them. They knew what they were doing and they got more time out of the business than they would have gotten otherwise.

Yes, it's not the greatest outcome but it really is,"just business."
Could you expand upon the technical problems you ran into? I would have thought it possible to build a reasonably good meeting scheduling bot with just classical constrained optimization algorithms (no AI / ML), but I'm probably missing something.
> what doctors must to is to relieve the pain, nit to prolon

No, doctors implement the patient's wishes. If the patient would like to live as long as possible, even if in pain with an incurable condition, that's the patient's prerogative.
My question for developers and engineers (on HN) today is this.

Do you think that people like Hertzfeld, Atkinson, Wozniak etc were super special in the way they are portrayed? Or were they simply around at a time when there was little competition in terms of competition? (Not saying they don't have talent just is it godlike?

I am reminded of what I thought was 'smart' based on people in my own local school. Then you get out in the world and you realize there are so many people that probably have much more ability, drive etc and they appear to far exceed what I thought was 'great'.

I think about this any time I see a field that is sparsely populated. Things like fighting wild fires or observing things in Antartica. Not like there are hundreds of thousands of people doing that but then from that small group you end up with 'experts'. (And maybe they are but usually a larger number would yield more qualified 'experts', right?)
As an english speaker, I don’t know how to pronounce it. Git, subversion, sourcesafe, they can all be easily pronounced.
Does My Small Business Really Need a Website?
It wouldn't surprise me if it's intentional. Once you deploy parachutes the capsule can drift a long way; waiting until the parachutes are stably deployed (which they did) and then dropping the capsule is one way to make sure that it doesn't drift over land, and land on something unfortunate.
He'd have put the smackdown on the waanabe g's in purchasing fo' real.
I know. It was mostly venting and pinching myself to ensure this us not a bad dream.
If you wanna go low level, mio. High level, Tokio.

The APIs are in flux so the docs aren’t great. In three months, give or take, it will settle down significantly.
> Is there any way suffering at the end of life can be good?

If a patient values life for its own sake even in the presence of suffering.
> Vue has components. Updating the dom is mostly mutating your component attributes. That's it. Nothing else.

How long have it been since you at least looked at Ember?

> With ember you got controllers, models, inheritances ...

You use those now only when you choose to or not at all.

> ... many special methods

= adding features Vue does not have.

>
The Ember beginer tutorial starts with a full fledge app with a cli to install ...

Ember-cli is something everyone is desperately trying to copy. Even Vue!

Sorry, but this sounds like generic anti-JS-hate: tons of misinformation to bash something you have no clue about.
I wonder what he thought of Obama getting his.
Ask HN: Would you purchase a non-framework website template in 2018?
Would you ever consider purchasing a website template you like even if that template was not using a framework?

Is there a market for straight HTML/CSS themes (i.e. not Wordpress or Bootstrap templates)?

Or is the market so saturated that no-one would seriously consider purchasing a template since there is so much free stuff and it's so easy to simply copy a site's HTML and CSS?

I'm guessing any theme that is slightly popular can expect to see copycat themes pretty quickly.

Interested to hear your thoughts. Thank you :-)
Totally agree. Could AI or machine learning be used for this type of application? I don't know much about machine learning, but I could imagine that it could be used to learn the programming habits of a development team and, perhaps, use it as a context for determining its merging strategies.
I'm another victim of Poe's law.
Yep. For MS in particular you can get very specific damage that can't be mitigated by other parts of the brain, but in general the amount of malleability hides a lot of impact until later.
Except that it’s likely to change without warning.
I think you're assuming that HTML (and maybe CSS) is the foundation layer of the web. I would argue that JS is part of that foundation. Sure, historically, JS came (much) later, but things change over time. E.g. Java was originally designed for television, but, love it or hate it, JEE is a completely different animal.

All that is to say that I think it's a bit unfair to say that a non-fake brutalist implementation must not use JS.
I always wonder, though, that (usually) a good percentage of the value in these deals is the institutional knowledge of the company. The purchasing company better know the amount of ill will engendered when connected leaders like the CEO make out like bandits while everyone else gets screwed can have a serious negative effect on the value of the company.
Heh. Especially true if we allow indirect to count, since I'll bet the vast majority of the web APIs upthread are hosted on *nix.
Please make the title go to the link
Absolutely love mcedit[0]

[0] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=gerane.T...
My Mother started experiencing dementia at 57 and it has been difficult to see such a brilliant, adventurous worldly woman change. She is still the person whom she was but now she is a creature of habit and does the same thing and the same time everyday of the week. Leaving her neighborhood and visiting new places including restaurants and parks makes her uncomfortable. She used to love traveling to places like Kenya, Portugal and Indonesia but now she just wants to stay local. She was quite a sculptor too but gave that up to raise five children and now that all of us are out of the house she doesn’t have the capacity to peruse her old passion any longer. Moreover our conversations have progressively become shorter and shorter over the years and lost a lot of depth. As her son it’s very difficult to deal with. Moreover I’m in constant fear I will be afflicted too as my grandmother had Alzheimer’s as well. Maybe AI or some other tool will be utilized to develop medications and treatments to halt and reverse the disease in the future, fingers crossed.
I think it always replaces the entire body element, not parts of it, yes
I appreciate the concrete experience described in your comment, but please don't do this:

> So because some people are idiots others should have to suffer?

It degrades discussion and encourages worse from others. And since it was obviously not what the commenter was saying, it breaks the guideline which asks you to respond to charitable interpretations, not weak ones: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Also, you've gotten into flamewars about drugs on HN before, and we had to ask you to stop. I get that you have reason to feel strongly about this topic, but that doesn't make it ok to bring sharp elbows into the conversations. If you can't be respectful, including to people who seem completely wrong, then please don't post.
Do you even understand what ethnic cleansing is? Clearly you don't.

The current administration is unquestionably undertaking a racist policy of deporting non-whites in service of demographic change. The idea that anyone could apply "both sidesism" to that sort of vile and horrific act is itself pretty vile. You may be reluctant to think that people who you think are just normal people (or even people you know and like) with (seemingly) good intentions who are "just doing their jobs" are actually key participates in crimes against humanity. But it has always been this way.

Crimes against humanity are rarely committed by movie villains, they are committed by ordinary folks just like you and me, people you would think are good honest people if you judged them by their ordinary day to day activities. But those people are still capable of committing atrocities. And if you can watch an ordinary person commit an atrocity and still think they are a good, honest, ordinary person, then you are complicit. A lot of pretty ordinary people have done some horrific things throughout history, while even more ordinary people watched and did nothing.
Having shared these zines with beginners IRL (hi, I did the cover!), I can say that the abstract nature of the terminal makes it less intimidating but does not remove from the content.

I imagine for an intermediate/expert audience who has established an intimate relationship with the intricacies of the actual UI, screenshots could work fine. For people who barely have an idea of what this thing is, cutting the cruft in a friendly way is good.

Print one out and give it to a friend, see what they think. :)
It was my understanding that all AI technology/approaches need some sort of training. And that this training required some sort of human intervention to grade "correctness"

In companies that I have worked for that want to use AI; they always have a clause in the privacy agreement allowing employees to look at users' content in order to determine how well the algorithm was doing.

There are some differences: 1. PII was redacted (to the extent possible); 2. Customer could opt-out.; 3. the AI wasn't core to the service.

That said - sci-fi AI does seem to require humans behind the curtain.

Personally, I am more comfortable with a human being my virtual "AI" assistant than I am with real AI. I feel a human is less likely to make a mistake that will cause me personal damage, there is more responsibility/liability to doing a good job.
As I recall, we were using noweb. I typically wrote using XEmacs (these days I'm back on EMacs). I certainly remember typing noweb at the command line.

The document I wrote into was turned into two documents; latex, which included all the source code and the accompanying discussion and design, ready to be turned into beautiful PDF; and Objective-C, ready for the compiler. Code review was done using the PDF document, design review had already been done before we started writing the noweb (and thus before we started writing the code) and the code review included checking that the design implemented matched the design approved.
> a silly-sounding name knocks it out of consideration.

I wonder why the same didn't happen with git. It's really rather rude in English.
They likely mean "soft" in a positive way.

https://thoughtcatalog.com/nikita-gill/2016/02/love-a-soft-p...
Ask HN: Best audio based learning courses?
What are some of the best audio based learning of programming, math, and other technical subjects that you would recommend? I am back to driving at work and the audio format is the only format I would have access to.
Fine, you are King of Kings for a day. Draw the line

P.S. Usually a lot of these things solve itself, as by the time you are of marriage age people wither know your family history or the disease has manifested. If you had leukemia as a kid and go for x procedure every year, why would a reasonable person marry you?
If it really was lower gain then sure. But as it is, on average, startups give you more chance of ending up with nothing but an entry in a CV.
I find hot tubs weird. A bath by myself or with a partner is OK but a hot tub with half a dozen people? Shudder.
Skills that I wished I learned in college
> It's supposed to replace the A10 as a close air support craft

So was the A-16 ( no error ) with the Pave Claw cannon pods. It had a brief outing in the Gulf War and the A-10 prevailed.

Probably the same will happen with the F-35 until the A-10 finally falls apart. I wouldn't hold it against the F-35 at this point, there are plenty of more critical issues with that project.
POSIX, stdlib
It's working for Uber...still waiting for those autonomous taxis that don't run people over....
I believe you, and I've seen what appears to be the same effect first-hand, but it has not been replicated in controlled environments. Here's a non-scientific article which cites several studies which failed to find a correlation: https://www.thecut.com/2016/08/the-sugar-high-is-actually-ju...
I think that as long as it's in their clear and immediate interest to make a little more money, most people are going to try to find a way to do that. I think poverty itself applies all the "stick" that's needed; as long as even part of a "carrot" is available, people will reach for it. (Sure, there will be exceptions, but that's not what we're talking about here; we're talking about most people.)

I don't think people need "social pressures" to get them out of poverty — the idea is ridiculous and, frankly, offensive. [Edit: that was too strong, and I withdraw it. I'm not sure how effective it can be, though, for the government to try to apply social pressure, and I don't think it's most of what's needed, anyway.] What they need is a little more help. Case in point: In 2015, Montana implemented a bipartisan, state-funded employment initiative that offers Medicaid recipients a range of services, including career counseling, on-the-job training and tuition assistance. The program is voluntary — people can sign up when they enroll in Medicaid — and it’s paired with targeted outreach so that those who stand to benefit most from the program are aware of their options. So far, more than 22,000 Montanans have participated, and employment among nondisabled Medicaid recipients is up 9 percent in the state. [0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/07/opinion/sunday/do-poor-pe...
I am sure it is possible. One of my friends from the university days went for his PHD in statistics at Yale and he was able to survive the math doing everything via programming.
Heya HN, I worked on this with Tracy (who is on a plane right now). That is, she did everything and I made some doodles for the cover, but happy to answer any questions!

If you have a friend or coworker who is looking to get more comfortable with their terminal, I highly recommend printing one of these out. It looks great in-person.
I see more and more parents out there with cargo bikes in Portland, especially no with young kids. Personally the risk is not the reward for me...
The point is that advertising is a subset of marketing, not another name for the same thing. In addition to advertising, marketing includes building websites and providing information, research to determine market demand, and determining optimal pricing.
Also didn’t know owner Arnoult catapulted to 4th richest in the world after last year.
There can't be a similar process of standardization if there is no cooperation between supply actors, and there will not be cooperation if the market is completely open. There is a tradeoff between scalability and competitiveness. If your product can easily penetrate a market without any more than a few tweaks it means it is also easily replaceable, and you'll be competing through non-functional aspects.
Not the most, but pretty important for me: Purchasing Power Parity [0]

- [0] https://github.com/rwieruch/purchasing-power-parity
Not sure what you imply, but chlorinated chicken
I don't recommend anyone to send their resume to this company, I recently applied with this company and they sent me a coding challenge.

In the coding challenge they said I had 90 minutes to solve a programming puzzle, the puzzle was to implement Rule 110 cellular automaton as described here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110

In their email they said:

"Please remember that the goal is not to finish, but to write code that best represents you to us. It’s OK if you only get half-way through."

After writing the code and sending it to them they said:

"Thanks for completing our test. Unfortunately, the codebase wasn’t of a sufficient standard for us to proceed. Specifically, we observed bugs in processing the edges of the matrix, it didn’t use the command-line arguments, and it didn’t quite meet the specification. Thank you very much for applying to Prodo.AI. I hope the challenge was interesting, and I wish you the best of luck in your job search."

I asked why they kept contradicting themselves, and they said:

"I apologise for the confusing wording. I have no issue with you not finishing the task completely, but rather that your instructions for running the code did not match the code itself, which implied bugs or misreading, rather than not finishing. You code also explicitly contradicts the specification in one or two places. I’m sorry we disappointed you. Thank you again for completing the exercise, and best of luck in the future."

So first they said the code doesn't have to be perfect, they also claim their environment is blame-free, yet they blame me for misspelling the name of a file.

I don't think I need to explain how ridiculous this is or how angry I am, these companies don't have any respect for candidate's time and I feel stupid for applying with them, I don't recommend this company to anyone.
If we are determined to have an obscenely huge military waging wars around the world then yes: killing the F35, use what already works well while the tech matures is the smart move.

But if you want to wave a wand and grant me the power I’d cut the military budget 10% per year until it is down to $350b in present day dollars. That’s still 50% larger than the EU and many multiples larger than all our “enemies”.
I picked up a portage bag, which is a heavy duty waterproof backpack big enough to hold a dead body, but I use it mostly for groceries and other big hauls on a bike. It's basically just a big bucket you wear on your back. I suppose it's less comfortable than a trailer, but it doesn't require setup time, stores away nicely, and can hold 2 week's worth of groceries for 2.
I disagree on several points. A good chunk of why software engineers get paid well is because most people don't like writing code. It's not just because the businesses scale well, it's because it's an undesirable job for most.

Having worked many jobs I also disagree that it's easy, relatively. It's probably not due to IQ, it's because it requires constant thinking. Every other job I've worked is a light mental load compared to software and electrical engineering.

Most jobs you don't think about anything half the time. In hospitality you largely sit around waiting for people. Same with finance and sales in many cases. In HR most of your time is spent sending email, entering data on websites, and attending meetings. Or, your job is to talk to people most of the day, something many find more appealing.

Engineering is 6-8 hours of intense focus and fixing difficult to find bugs. As palatable as doing math homework for most people.

I disagree about intellectual difficulty as well. In school I was a teaching assistant and many, many students simply couldn't put working programs together. Even if you know all the constructs, software engineering is basically building something in your head then tanslating it. I've seen enough people try and fail to build any working programs for 6 months to believe that some people just aren't capable
To be able to explore and learn about the universe. To be able to inevitably expand our species beyond this planet.
Tech H1B = Cheap labor.
IETF RFCs
Marketing is dead; long live Product
Audit logging using JSONB in Postgres
Yes because the NSA believes the Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle applies to that data. Such data is simultaneously in the "collected"/"not-collected" state. It is only when the data is observed that it resolves its state.
Digging up someone's previous comment like that as ammunition in an argument breaks HN's civility rule. If you have a point, make it substantively. If you have a question about a previous comment, ask it politely. But doing this as an internet argument trope is offside, and doing it on the territory of someone's deepest life experiences is... low.