skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're taking on considerable risk when you use a technology without a vested backer

I hear this line a lot, and it reminds me of Warren Buffett's line about finding out who's swimming naked when the tide goes out. He's referring to unprofitable companies that get exposed during economic recessions, when their stock prices are no longer boosted by generalized positive sentiment (I'm oversimplifying).

In this context, I think frameworks get exposed when big company support gets withdrawn. Angular didn't always look like an abandoned beached whale. Initially, having the backing of Google made it look like a de facto obvious choice. But when support from a large backer wanes, it quickly accelerates the demise of a framework as what the halo effect previously presented as well-considered design choices are suddenly recast as clear mistakes in hindsight.

This might never happen with React. But if it does, it will be swift and loom with unmistakable signs in the rearview mirror.
Such a tube would need to be pressurized to the depth of the deepest water. It would also block the flow of water through pinch points, deepening and accelerating that water. Where is this magic tube? Then imagine trying to handle this pressurized tube in not-deep and/or dry parts of the cave. It is pure fantasy.

A man died bringing an oxygen tank through this cave. Pulling 10,000lb rubber tube through that same hole?
D'oh! Yes, now I see how I misread what you wrote.
It's there. Albeit only the Free Pascal compiler
> 3. Prove it, and I'll give you a raise.

I am assuming that this answers are not done on the spot, but after a minimum debate.

With this answer, the standard process for the employee will be to polish their resume, put themselves on the job market, research candidate companies, explain dozens of time why they want to leave their current job and interview up to getting a proposition.

At that point, there is sunk cost associated with all of that time spent, they have successfully came up with legit reasons to leave the job, and are facing people that want to work with them more than you seem to be.

At that point, I think that mentally moving to a new job is just easier than staying.
It works for me if I set github to use the desktop version. I wish I knew of a way to always use the desktop version on my phone.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if that language question is already automated then google's AI wouldn't reduce labour costs correct?

What would the benefit be? Of course the customer will gain a few seconds but I don't see a large improvement.
Hot Swapping Gear Mechanism (3d Printed)
Many in the thread re:Stylish recommend using Stylus as an alternative
The vast majority of the planets population accepts and cherishes their gender identity.

I'm not sure that's the case – I get the impression that the "vast majority" of the planet's population doesn't really ever think about gender identity at all.
Do you have the option to re-up at the same firm each time?

I'm just observing from an ex-boyfriend of my kiddo (so no questions haha), but University of Cincinnati's engineering program alternates co-op and academics every semester. So you're looking at 6-8 work terms of 3 months each by the time you graduate. However, as far as I can tell most interns re-up to the same company. He's been at the same one since the beginning. It's a great program.
Do you have Intel graphics in there by any chance? I've had the brightness issue on xps 15, and it turned out that the Intel drivers were responsible.
It optimizes for something, not in the sense of intent but in the sense that there's something that increases as evolution takes place. It's just pretty hard to describe exactly what. Darwin called it by the delightfully circular name "fitness", where evolution is the survival of the fittest and the fittest are those that survive.

(Of course, fitness is relative to an environment and the environment changes as things evolve, so it's not like there's some global 'fitness' property that increases. Just that, all else held constant, the thing which evolves tends to become better suited to reproducing in its environment.)
> The insurance agent reported me to DMV (the relationship had soured pretty badly before this all happened) for not having insurance. It was a 2 minute call to my new insurance agent to let them to know to send proof of coverage to DMV.

This wasn't necessarily a malicious act on their part, most likely regulatory, and you probably didn't have to do anything to rectify the situation.

I don't know what state you live in but when I was working for an insurance broker (~2004) CA, TX, PA, FL, and GA all received at least monthly if not nightly uploads of vehicle coverage.

I also know that GA shares that info and DMV records with FL and NC.
>The number of resumes that cross my desk that have 4 months here, 9 months here, 6 months here is absolutely astounding. These are full-time positions.

So my last full-time (i.e. non-contractor status) job was for a startup that nearly failed. I was let go in the final round of layoffs, and I was only there for 9 months. I feel that a resume isn't really a good place to say "Oh yeah, my time here was short because I got laid off due to downsizing". Apart from actually talking to you about the situation, how can I explain myself?

Also, how would you feel about a resume where someone has had multiple 6-9 month jobs, but they were there as a contractor?
I'm not saying we label too much per-se, but I think it is important to remember that our minds use labels as a shortcut for understanding the properties of the things we label. Useful, but not always accurate.
I think chongli is wondering if the job-hopping mindset is forged in an academic career in which you work for 4-5 different companies in a short amount of time.
On Sexual Violence: Bystanders Don’t Get to Decide What Restorative Justice Is
You said 24. That sounded very young. So I looked. No point beyond that. T’wasn’t an attack.
> But a smart assistant can just listen to the customer and decide this automatically.

But the customer will not start speaking before the system prompts them to speak or asks them a question. And since it has to do that in one fixed language, the choice of that language will usually determine what language the customer responds in; this is in the Indian context where most people calling into an IVR will be bilingual at least, speaking English and one regional language.
So who's responsible for removing the death threats, doxxing, hate speech, spam and other contaminants if not the mods?

Advogato tried the trust metric approach, but it now seems to be offline. https://web.archive.org/web/20161124203307/https://advogato....
How many products have development cycles longer, than a year in the same mode? While I was working in Microsoft, management switched people between projects in 1-1.5 years due to some "reorganization".

And that was a large product. It would happen much more often, if they'd follow agile.
Entrepreneurs often do do this sort of thing.
for example Andrew Forrest (Australian Mining Billionaire) has offered and assisted many times for disasters (bush fires, MH370 serach etc).

Seems to be something that driven guys just do
and Forth and Erlang
My main takeaway: people want to avoid writing JavaScript about as much as they want to avoid writing machine code or Java bytecode.
I'm not overly concerned, this forum is extremely USA-centric.

Across the entire UK there were only 4 police shootings in to 2016 and only 2 total in all of 2012-2014.

I'm willing to bet America has 4 yesterday (even adjusting for proportion populations)
Yes, I can understand that. I have been part of the outsourcing industry for 12+ years now and I have personally seen clients losing interest and trust due to delay in communication.

Turn around time is extremely important for us. And specifically for that reason only we have assigned a Project coordinator (check our pricing section (1)) for communication purpose on our pricing page. Right from the beginning.

I can assure you that turnaround time won't be an issue. We will try to answer you as quickly as possible once we are in receipt of your message.

It means that on a working day and time, we will try our level best to answer you within 30 minutes of receiving your message.

(1): http://xpditesolutions.com/hire-development-teams.html#Price
Bing Maps now using OpenStreetMap for building outlines
reduces labor on the customers side. it’s a small improvement, but one that drops hints about a new class of optimization that is often neglected.
IMO /. got right, more or less. Limited amounts of votes, can't vote and comment on the same topic, and both ups and down are hardcapped (-1 to +5, starting at 0 for anonymous, 1 for registered).

I just wish they never had tried to "modernize" their site, as the 2.0 commenting system is a downright mess.
>people may feel more comfortable talking to something that seems genuinely human instead of something that is evidently robotic ("press 2 for...")

People probably do feel more comfortable when they think they're talking to a person. But will they appreciate being forced to talk to a robot designed to reap the benefits of a human-like interaction from the caller while providing none of the same to the caller?
New optimization algorithm exponentially speeds computation
> the root of my struggling is most likely not within the other, but myself.

If only more people would think like that! (Not thinking of me here ... ;-) )
No one commented yet on the title "... saved the Pentagon millions". Compared to 700B a year (budgeted, more is spent), millions is sort of less inspirational.
A company uses x that no one else uses and you're blaming the job seeker for not having that particular skill?
That's your opinion.
See https://www.quora.com/Do-all-SIM-cards-come-with-a-phone-num... for someone who seems to know a little more than I do telling us that the number is not necessary for the card to work.
Ever wondered why the other EU countries didn't make much of a fuss over Brexit? It's because the UK had many privileges from the times when it was needed to establish the EU... and then it didn't even join the Euro. The UK has been an entry point for English speaking businesses into the European market, but it kept all the benefits from that behind an exchange barrier, which is not in the interest of the rest of EU countries. Now, many of those businesses will leave the UK and establish operations in the EU-Eurozone proper, directly contributing to strengthening the Euro instead of the GBP, which will become a further incentive for countries to stay in the EU.

As for the UK, there are other ways for it to survive and even thrive, but whether it will be good or not so much for most of its citizens, remains to be seen.
Both Google and Facebook offer Advertisers something novel. Google has Search, Maps, YouTube & Gmail data it can use to offer high degrees of targeting through AdSense. Each of these applications alone is nearly the same magnitude as Reddit. Facebook has one of the most complete networks of human relationships the world has ever seen. With their embedded Like Button they can gather data on these users even when they're not on the site. They give advertisers the opportunity to target groups in ways previously impossible.

Reddit seemed to follow the path of traditional media such as newspapers for a long time, thinking static ads were enough. Viral 'organic' marketing seems to be one of the most valuable services the platform offers, and other firms capitalize on this, but it's tricky for them to capitalize on this and maintain their credibility.
My problem with disjoint forums is that I can't get a digest of "top stuff happening across all subjects I am interested in". I have to visit each forum individually.
US forces smartphone giant ZTE to fire its CEO and leadership team
Perhaps, rather, it is morally wrong to say that certain consensual sexual practices are morally wrong?
The article doesn't touch upon education much at all, which I believe is a central part of social (im)mobility. Problems arising in society later on will simply stem from the early life of members of society, not afterwards. It's a common principle that education is the key to societal equality, in some way.

All I can offer is my story on this. I've lived in the UK all my life in all sorts of regions from those of lower working class (my hometown) to my recent years where I've lived in rather upper-class "lawyer-doctor-business owner" regions. The difference in education between the lower and upper classes is stark. Let me explain.

Upper-class children are enrolled in schools of like-minded high-achievers full of entrance exams and interviews (provides a non-zero floor to student "intelligence/quality" at the school), and strict rules/discipline. They are further pushed towards degrees leading to higher paying careers - Finance, Medicine, Law, by their families and the schools themselves. Their families purchase extra tutoring, they have smarter parents (this is a positive feedback loop across generations!) to guide them, and so on...

Compare this to lower-class children, who, in the UK (and i'm pretty sure everywhere else essentially) are enrolled in "state schools" (free). These schools have no entrance requirements (there is zero floor for student quality), the families almost never purchase extra tutoring, and are much less pushed towards "meaningful" degrees. The schools offer equal environments to the best and the worst of students.

This imbalance in education (and by extension upbringing in general) is what seeds everything else. And indeed, in the past few years the UK government has recognized all the above. How they plan of solving it? The reintroduction of "Grammer Schools"! These are state schools (still), but _do_ have enterance requirements, thereby allowing lower-class students of high intelligence/quality a chance to separate from the worst students in state schools and enroll in a more challenging education. There is much debate in the UK whether this will work, or will simply just allow children of rich families to more-often/further separate themselves from poor families. Time will tell.

That's my 0.02c anyway: Education.
A lot of people do want echo chambers, and a lot of social media is designed to exploit this.

People tend to consider content that appeals to and reinforces their biases and desires to be more interesting, of higher quality and more trustworthy than content that doesn't.

Even self-described "free thinkers" tend not to want their beliefs challenged or to be moved from their comfort zone too much.
I'm with you on this one, and I'm surprised you've been downvoted so heavily.

Gender, sexual orientation, and the identities associated with them seem like such weird anachronisms to me. I understand the reasons behind why the exist and why society evolved in this direction, and I've got no interest in forcing anybody to abandon their self-image. But I do find it strange that people want to construct identities around what are ultimately just biological facts.
sans-whispy
You are right about that. This is a slightly different situation, though. What you describe is scenario #2 up-thread. The person I was responding to was posting an alternative to scenario #3. I'm just saying that in a tight labor market a company adopting response #4 instead of response #3 is cutting off their nose to spite your face.
Using Machine Learning to Understand Page Templates
I think Show HN is for displaying what you are building. We are trying to productize our service model shop by creating a subscription model.

Recently many startups are coming with such a business model.
There is a whole thread on IndieHacker on this topic: https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/tell-ih-productized-servi...
1. For the near future, it seems China is planning to build lots of their own designs (which AFAIU are improved versions of previous generation French designs (not EPR)). https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/07/03...

2. Some quick duckduckgo'ing suggests average capacity factor of Chinese utility
solar is around 15%. (Really good locations like SW USA can reach up to 27%) . With a capacity factor of 90% for nukes, it's 3 GW nukes and 8 GW solar.
It happened to me at IBM. I got a 5% raise the first year, and 10% the next; both we're suprises. (And I was making good money for the area when I started, so I don't think they were trying to catch me up.)

My direct managers were awesome, but I ended up leaving for other reasons.
There is one, from the european network to made to provide
semiconductor prototyping for universities. [0]

[0]: http://www.europractice-ic.com/
Graduate’s guide: Nailing that interview presentation
2) it could be a greenhouse
I wonder if there is a corollary to rule 34: that someone, somewhere, will find anything objectionable.
Dude, your law and order has made sure to eliminate all Sikhs not only in Pakistan but even in Afghanistan. Million strong minority has been reduced to mere thousand. Let’s not point fingers here, your dictators have made this whole region a hellhole for minorities.
> just shorthand

> accept regular javascript... The only exception is... but it is close enough to ES6

So you basically validated all I've said. And it's also incomplete. Because the amount of gotchas and things that you have to constantly keep in mind in Vue is mind-boggling compared to JSX. Because JSX is a paper-thin wrapper on top of React.createComponent, and goes out of its way to keep everything in Javascript. Unlike Vue.

Lets see your defence:

- : and @ as shorthands

It means new syntax that you have to learn, and know differences between. For all intents and purposes Vue has three different types html-like attributes. JSX has only one: javascript names.

- v-bind etc. accepting regular Javascript

Let's see how this is false:

<label @click="edit(todo)">

This is not Javascript. If it was, it would assign the result of the function call to @click. It doesn't. It's a Javascript-like scripting language that has magical binding into regular Javascript.

- exception is v-for, as you mentioned, but it is close enough to ES6 for syntax to make sense

So, it's not Javascript (unlike some other places where it is Javascript), and it's not ES6 syntax, but it's "close enough to ES6". So it's not. It's a different Javascript-like scripting language.

The only place where Vue allows regular unadulterated Javascript is inside curly braces: {{}}. And there it only allows expressions (Note: JSX also only allows expressions inside curly braces).

However. Even there it's not Javascript. Not really:

{{ record.commit.message | truncate }}

Valid Vue. Invalid Javascript.

- You mean the script part of components? Do you have any examples of that?

Of course. See inline comments. Example from here: https://vuejs.org/v2/examples/tree-view.html

Vue.component('item', {
template: '#item-template',
props: {
model: Object
},
data: function () {
return {
open: false
}
},
computed: {
isFolder: function () {
// `this.model` magically hoisted into `this`
// from `object.props.model`
return this.model.children &&
this.model.children.length
}
},
methods: {
toggle: function () {
// `this.isFolder` magically hoisted into `this` from
// `object.computed.isFolder`
if (this.isFolder) {
// `this.open` magically hoisted into `this` from
// `object.data` which is a function that
// returns an object whose keys and values are hoisted
// into `this`
this.open = !this.open
}
},
changeType: function () {
if (!this.isFolder) {
// this.open can be set directly. Magic
// this.model.children cannot. Not magic
Vue.set(this.model, 'children', [])

// `this.addChild` magically hoisted into `this` from
// `object.methods.addChild`
this.addChild()
this.open = true
}
},
addChild: function () {
this.model.children.push({
name: 'new stuff'
})
}
}
})
Voice Technology Is the Future – Google Assistant
You need to be careful as to the interactivity of the protocols. Non-interactive transfers are _much_ easier to mask if you can use such delays due to the lack of things to correlate without massive noise.
Pakistan is not a democracy. That remains a fact.

Your constitution has a clause that only a Muslim and a pious one at that can be president or PM. Nawaz Sharif was dismissed because he was not considered a pious Muslim. Imran Khan is a Military stooge who led the charge against him.
Make yourself someone people want to work for
The ECB's Balance Sheet Has Been Growing Faster Than the Entire Eurozone
I agree. The problem is, like you say, that many players don't want this which means the only people playing newer games with this are hardcore themselves. There are no "victims" anymore, while in the days of Ultima Online you had no alternatives. So even people who didn't like the mechanic _at all_ were forced to interact with it. This created a unique dynamic I don't think we will ever see again.

Nowadays they just pick another game.
Fighting malaria using drones in Malawi
To be quiet frank, I don't like Twitter, but it Musk doesn't know who to ask, this is hands down the easiest way to get someone on the phone. He literally writes this down and can get a network of people talking to get back to him. This might actually be one thing Twitter is useful for.
Monero multisignatures explained
Consider (used) thinkpads. There are places that refurbish them, also selling you devices that just got out of their lease, due to the owner bailing out after only a few months. They are frequently available for half-price in good-as-new with still some warranty on them, which you don't need on the T and X series (not the carbon though). They need one screwdriver, for full disassembly.
One of the gems in this that i think might be getting overlooked:

> This trend of using chats for questions is plaguing open source projects and I think it needs to end. There is no collective learning anymore.

This is a very important notion not least of all from an archival pov.
260, give or take some.

The EU has no interest in kicking anyone out, for as long as they pay taxes in the EU.
This is not a political forum so I will not continue to reveal further what's been happening in India.
Also OCaml to OCaml bytecode via ocamlc to Javascript via js_of_ocaml.
Yeah, row content is about 16mb, This is exactly what I will do in the next step
>His skin seems thicker than yours at least, so I'm not sure you should be the one to judge...

Elon Musk has public events that demonstrate his thin-skin (unlike the poster you refer to). Like when he wrote journalists angrily because they didn't mention him as a co-founder of Tesla, even though, you know, he didn't co-found it?
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3 Criteria for Humane Technology
Nowadays it is difficult to say that certain consensual sexual practices are morally wrong without being condemned as a bigot.

That's probably good, because I'm finding it difficult to think of any consensual sexual practices that could feasibly be defined as "morally wrong" without the accuser being fairly described as a "bigot". I'd be interested to hear examples though.