skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately it was cancer from the radiation of atomic bomb tests that killed John von Neumann far too early, not his experiments with cellular automata.

https://www.hnf.de/en/permanent-exhibition/exhibition-areas/...

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_universal_construc...
Buffer is a nice app, not a world changing invention with any kind of technical or business moat. No one went in hoping to become a Buffer Billionaire.
You weren't sure what focus was going to win, but in the end, COM1.
In my experience one of those "associated columns of information about the choice" is frequently an end-date, beyond which the choice is no longer available (so that old records can continue to be associated with old then-valid choices, but new records cannot).
If you want to stay in technology but not actually write code, give Product Management or Project Management a try. You’ll make less money than a similar level engineer, but your job will rely more on communication and relationship building, which is fun if you’re an extrovert!

You can code on your spare time to keep your skills sharp if it’s still moderately interesting to you.
I miss the XP interface as well. Its cartoonish look buttons, animations, sounds brought a certain sense of play or joy to working on those computers I don't get now with OSX or Win 7.

Or maybe I was a wide eyed teen ager first exploring software development, Java 5-6 and NetBeans!
Only around half of all languages even have a writing system.
This is just some MVP java app with an nginx proxy, elastic-search, and mysql? Why is this running in k8s on aws via Kops in conjunction with a cloudformation template for aurora inside of a VPC? With containers separately built via packer +ansible kicked off via jenkins after each pull request merge? The CI pipeline also kicks off a canary deployment in our UAT environment with a prometheus exporter for monitoring on our grafana dashboard and if you want to see logs you have to look at our ELK stack for that and if you want to do any debugging we have Jaeger for tracing across our service mesh which is based on Istio using Calico as a network overlay. All that for an app does some crappy knock-off of trello.
Research has consistently shown that the traditional menu bar is actually not very usable for most people. Office ran into this problem fairly quickly, even back in 1997. The menu bars quickly became overwhelming.

This series of blog posts from a decade ago is intresting: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jensenh/2008/03/13/table-of...
Have you considered asking them if you could continue running your system if you agreed to add a permanent large banner at the bottom or top stating clearly that your system may break user experience?

I realize they are saying something about privacy, so it may be their position to argue against every system that does what your's does...
For a moment I thought it is something to do with Jordan Peterson
Could you link something that supports your opinion?

As for me: US consumer confidence surges in August to 18 year high. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/aug/29/us-economy-.... Consumers wouldn't be spending if they didn't have extra cash in their pocket, and they expect the economy to stagnate/decline
IANAL and all that and it doesn't bother me, but the first thing I thought of was the age related ToS restrictions from the HBO Silicon Valley show.

From the HN "legal" page:

> If you are under 13 years of age, you are not authorized to register to use the Site.

https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/

I assume no 12 year olds actually try to follow this boilerplate on the internet. Do sites that require a DOB to sign up reject those under 12?
I'm no Warren Buffet, so I hesitate to disagree, but these kinds of stories always make me think of a parable about weight lifting.

You go to a gym to learn to lift weights. You see a big strong guy and ask him to teach you. He must know how to lift weights and get big and strong, right? He's done it after all.

Sure enough, the big guy knows just what to do. He's got all sorts of advice, he disagrees with conventional wisdom, he shares his training schedule etc. The only problem is, when you follow the big guy's advice, you don't see much gains - or maybe you get injured, or you plateau.

What you didn't know is that, in addition to all of his advice and idiosyncrasies, the big guy takes steroids. The big guy is big not because of his lifting schedule or the chant he says before he works out or whatever, he's big mostly because he's taking steroids. Following his advice without the steroids won't really be that useful for you.

To relate this back to the Buffet story, Buffet has been rich for decades. His wealth came from his ability to value companies, make deals, etc. Then with money he lives a very different lifestyle.

If you don't have the steroids - the vastly better ability to do something the market puts a lot of value on, then Buffet's advice may not get you very much and may actually hurt you. Where Buffet lets lower priority tasks slide or delegates them they still get done by his employees. If you do it then your house is going unmaintained or a relationship is getting neglected etc.
Can I have some ideas? I’m actually having the opposite problem..
I'm obligated to tell you all that I use i3-wm on Arch Linux btw.
Here's a photo of a motion detector with a lens and a light pipe above it: https://d1unzhqf5a606m.cloudfront.net/images/product/honeywe...

It could detect a finger touching the surface of the light pipe.
Data system opens its doors to all Liners
All websites need onion/i2p addresses, not HTTPS.
(Also to bdhess) just a note that I'm not trying to say the right thing for a car is also the right thing for software, just that the contrast between the design philosophies is funny (haha and/or peculiar).
How a nuclear stalemate left radioactive waste stranded on a California beach
Works.

https://picular.co/oscarhealth
https://picular.co/yeukhon
I won't comment on Amazon shopping around for tax breaks, but I would take issue with idea that welfare payments "subsidize" Amazon.

The whole idea that public assistance subsidizes employers is based on the false assumption that people only require to get paid what they "need" and therefore accept lower wages because they don't need as much due to government aid.

I think a more plausible explanation is that employers pay employees based on productivity and supply of employees with that skill set. If an employer can make $15 an hour per marginal employee, then that employer will not pay more than $15 an hour, regardless of what employees demand. And if there is an oversupply of employees with those skill levels, then they can choose from the pool based on the market rate. This is pretty standard economic theory.

Another way you can think about it is that Amazon is helping states and federal government by paying these employees, otherwise the welfare payments would be higher.
Proton pulses accelerate electrons to 2 GeV
http://www.vetstreet.com/our-pet-experts/why-does-my-rabbit-...

More generally

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprophagia
>Would you play a round of Russian Roulette for $100? The most likely outcome is positive.

>Why do you keep trying to reduce the argument to the absurd?

Really?

In your Russian Roulette example, we know the risk, we know the rewards, and we know the probabilities of both.

With regards to immigration, you believe you can't estimate the probabilities, so you've arbitrarily decided that expected the risk outweighs the expected reward.

>I haven’t made any mention of banning immigration and yet you are contrasting my position to banning software development... like somebody working on a web browser will magically invent a new master AI.

So if that's the problem you have with the argument I’ll change it to just banning just AI research?

Let's go another route. Automation through software development has the potential to cause very similar problems to what you think immigration will cause--depressed wages, high unemployment etc…

There’s a big potential downside, we can’t realistically undo it once it’s done. We don’t know the probabilities because the experts can't be trusted. The sheepmullet doctrine says we should ban it (or severely restrict it?).
There’s a limit to how many pulses you can have per second. They stack more waves to get more capacity.
Show HN: UPGRADE ALL THE PIP PACKAGES!
Might be different nowadays but back when malls were a thing you could just go down to the mall and practice. 1st step for me was to set a goal to approach 100 women (or 50 or 20, whatever you can do) and go do it. They’re all strangers so it doesn’t matter if you goof up or look silly. Don’t focus on the results at first, just the process and mechanics of approaching, and review later what worked and didn’t. It’s like learning any sport or skill. Study, practice, review.
I've been watching lobste.rs for a couple of years and the content is generally excellent.

I've never gotten around to getting an account though, just following the links is usually enlightening.
That's why the traffic is so damn awful now ... people are having to travel further out of the cities to find affordable housing, but the high paying jobs are in the cities.
Seed investors offered a deal. They weren't spring chickens.
Thanks. That was my hope. And it's great to have an informed opinion.
That's unfortunate, the only feedback I'd have for the creator who did a lot of good and with good intentions too I believe, is to pick a different, less "confrontational" name when doing stuff like this. Slack is now just being defensive.
>> Isn’t balloon helium mixed with oxygen so that children don’t suffocate inhaling it?

> Nope. The stuff you can get from party stores (in the US, anyway) definitely isn't; more than one person that I have heard of has committed suicide with it.

Apparently, ballon helium is now often mixed with air in the US:

Where can a person obtain ‘pure’ helium? http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2015/07/11/where-can-a-person...
Unfortunately I missed the warning about the change in helium tanks that will now include oxygen.

Ballon Time FAQ
https://www.balloontime.com/contact-us/faqs/
Our helium is rated from 98-99.99 percent pure. However, due to global helium supply issues, we are now mixing helium with air. All tanks will have 80 percent or more helium.
Is that the general consensus now? I've not really paid attention to the discussion around him as much as the discussion he generates which mostly seems to be incredibly independent (or indignant or simply contrarian). Are there some people who were proponents of his in particular who have abandoned him? The article seems to suggest his former colleagues still think he is a powerful intellect
If this was absolutely true, China and India would stop having any maths/science/arts/medicine/CS people.

Pollution control is on my mind constantly, and I hope we get a hold on pollution soon. But to be honest, the western media is after it a bit like how they were after Salt or Egg yokes earlier. I don't know why but the press constantly needs a target to pile everything on.
And even Microsoft's ;)
Wage data is well-tracked and is shown to be growing more slowly than inflation. It's possible the high growth in nominal wages are engendering some good feelings, but actual purchasing power is dropping.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/business/2018/07/12/i...
Ask HN: What do you use as an alternative to Slack?
My workplace uses slack but is open to changing. We are not happy with slack due to the following, along with other reasons:

- poor UI
- slow clients
- hard to remain organised

What do you use instead?
My gf loves this kind of work and actually wants to do something very similar herself. She has been working on mapping the locations of Emma Smith during her life in the 1800s. It would be super neat if something like this existed for the united states during that time.
So, Germany is US controlled territory?
11 year olds follow the rules!
PGo is a source to source compiler to compile PlusCal into Go/TLA+
> not rational

If it could have been prevented, it is the right reaction.

Besides, this is how China works most of the time. Pressure (boycot) on companies leads to results... or put them out of (nearly) business.
TLDR: Lawsuit alleges NordVPN's parent company is employing botnet code that is patented by Luminati. Article author suspects that if NordVPN is doing it, it is probably in the vehicle of their VPN app.

It seems to me that suspicious users can avoid this by either connecting to NordVPN VPN proxies using a client they trust rather than through the app. Alternatively, for those on macOS, use the version of the app published in the Mac app store.
I learned how to use sine and cosine for drawing circles when I was probably 9 or 10. It was years before I found out what they actually mean and how they work. I didn't even know what the curves looked like.
Mods, can we retitle this to point out that it's specifically the US economy that's grown?
I typed in "Trump News" and I got a bunch of Fake Colors, none of which were anything like the correct shade of orange. They're shadow banning orange colors and right wing red colors, only showing dark left wing blue shades!!! Why are they censoring all the warm positive Trump colors??? All colors matter!!!
Interesting analogy, given that this attitude is pretty reflective of the industry as a whole. US manufacturers lobby against fuel efficiency regulations, and stonewall any newcomers to the industry. European manufacturers fraudulently subvert efficiency requirements to make the product seem more efficient than it really is. Presumably some of those resources could have been devoted to actual engineering...
That’s a good point. I’ll def ask after I take it down and let them know. Thanks!
The paper link: https://www.sigops.org/src/srcsosp2017/sosp17src-final23.pdf
> We aren't talking about just accepting them we are talking about making it specific issues to fight for.

Huh? I think you're missing some key words in this sentence. You're trying to say that it's inappropriate for a company to "fight for" gay acceptance? Is that it? That could have many different meanings, depending on who you ask. Why don't you show me a specific thing a SV company has done that you find objectionable?

> Since when was being a gay a problem any of the SF/SV based companies we are talking about?

Already addressed this issue. Current existence of anti-gay animus IS NOT a prerequisite for inoculating a company against anti-gay animus.

It's like I'm saying "Let's make sure the kitchen has a fire extinguisher" and you're saying "But the kitchen isn't on fire yet."

Anti-gay animus exists outside of the workplace; it is a threat, even in the SF bay area. (Heck, I was called a faggot on MUNI the other day for holding hands with my partner.) It's important to keep it outside the workplace. This is a point you've neglected.

> Gays are not minorities in SF/SV companies

??? Gay people are not in the majority, what are you talking about?

> Virtue signaling is nothing but that. It's dishonest. It helps no one and alienates everyone who doesn't agree

Virtue signaling is ... dishonest? What? If a company advertises that they're cool with gay people, and they are actually cool with gay people, that is not dishonest.

As far as alienating people who disagree, GREAT! That's the whole point! Those people who have a problem with gay people should find somewhere else to work.
I’m almost convinced at this point that tech interviews are essentially random dice throws and the results have very little if anything to do with whether the candidate is qualified. Failing an interview stings the ego, but it should not—it says nothing about your qualifications.
A Neural “Auto-Correct” Feature We Use to Process Ambiguous Sounds
I’ve been trying to learn a little about economics. Do you have any favorite economists, etc that you follow? I’m trying to learn more about the interaction of QE, rising fed rates, growing deficits, etc.

Basically, I’d like to move beyond the headlines and the spin.

[Update]

Here are some people I try to follow:

Jan Hatzius - Goldman Economist

Robert Schiller

Stephen Roach - Yale Economist
https://www.project-syndicate.org/columnist/stephen-s--roach

Jeremy Grantham - GMO

Ray Dalio - Bridgewater

Larry Summers
Yep - that's exactly been my experience.

(off-topic) Org mode is really amazing. I've transitioned almost completely from Emacs to Vim over the last few years but I still have Emacs on my dock only because of `org-mode`. I've tried substitutes in vim but nothing really works.

(back on topic) Another advantage of writing comments is coming back to the code becomes so much easier. I can re-read the comments and understand what's going on much faster.

To do this properly I've developed a simple system of 'categories' that allow me to structure the comments properly. I think they works really well. For anyone curious - here's an example in my last weekend project: https://github.com/theproductiveprogrammer/luminate

Check out the comments in the code (`main.js`). I think they make the code much easier to understand and maintain. It's almost an alternative to TDD - Comment Driven Design (CDD!)
The public NASDAQ has grown to 4x over the last 10 years.
VC should do better or go home.
The difference with computers in the "cloud" is that there is a much higher incentive to hack them since there is much more data on them, and hackers can be fairly confident that they will get valuable data in a hack. This is not the case with your personal computer. So if you are bad at security, I would argue that it is much safer (from a security point of view, at least) to store things on your own computer, since your mistakes are much less likely to be noticed.
Going to be honest, when I was 14 and learning to program, I quickly learned how shitty and harsh the internet can be, especially the types that frequented forums.
Show HN: Aircrud – Spin up internal tools in minutes
Dang literally makes his ad hoc rule decrees un-replyable at this point. It's so blatant this site is experiencing some sort of opinion squeeze from a hidden source.

Who are we tidying up for? Is it even reasonable to think that Internet users won't crack a few well-meaning jokes about rats eating shit to communicate? That's inherently funny and still interesting. The humor is just bonus.
Obviously GITer bombs
You must not have read the post you are replying too.
Are you using the term ‘AI’ incorrectly?
Is it possible to do this across an entire monitor ? Could the NSA (or anyone else) be filming us through our screens ?

"We see all through the black mirror"
And all it took is Republicans abandoning their perennial platform of cutting spending and free markets. I wonder what else they were complete wrong about?
Wait, do you mean the internet or the internet?

Ooh sorry, I mean the interrrnet, not the interrrrrnet
I'm a subscriber to The Intercept. Today they sent out a note about their crowdfunded Brazilian coverage of elections.

https://www.catarse.me/tibnaseleicoes
In Beijing it wasn’t uncommon to hear of a PKU student every few years being murdered by a taxi driver (especially black taxis), once they went full in on satellite campuses causing lots of transit headaches. And like I said originally, I don’t know if it was higher than average or just well publicized when it happens.

Ride sharing and taxi hailing apps have definitely made taking a taxi mug safer. Conserving how didi has replace black cabs, that is definitely a good thing. I’m not sure why the government wants didi to shutdown its ride sharing business rather than rely on it as a sure fire way of at least solving murders after the fact. Even full background checks won’t solve murders 100%, and knowing you’ll get caught is a great deterrent.

Property crimes are still a huge problem in China, there is a reason all 2nd tier apartments are still barred like crazy. Chinese police don’t really care, they are not using the CCTVs to actually fight property crime, rather for other things.
From now on, I'm shall call them "spinning dinosaurs"!

"Hey mister! Is that your drone?" "No kid, it's not a drone, it's a spinning dinosaur..."
Humans are kind of complex, you never quite fully figure it out.

But you’re right, with the right person, things just resonate. You don’t have to put an extreme amount of effort or be worried about little things.
just use foresee :)
Depends on the state, but it’s fairly common for people to be born outside of hospitals, even just at the side of the road etc.

https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHSI/CDPH%20Document%20Libr...
Also quite vivid:
https://picular.co/neon

Not so vivid:
https://picular.co/noir
I just assumed no people actually try to follow this boilerplate on the internet, glad to see the this knowledge is being passed down through generations.
I believe that was my original point: Chinese officials will rely on didi to police it’s drivers, since having the police instead do that isn’t practical. But it winds up being worse than that, since if didi wasn’t around we would all be taking anonymous black cabs again.
4-Year Old Misfortune Cookie Rears Its Head in Medical Gateway Device
I've even gotten job offers from HN. Definitely can be profitable. I'd say it's rarely profitable for most of us. Just a nice place to learn about stuff and meet interesting people. The profit potential is a bonus.
Hey HN, wanted to share the 3rd iteration of Aircrud. Now you can drag & drop to build pages using a set of flexible components—like charts, tables, forms, and more—and then copy and paste your API details to bring them to life. It's a fast, simple way to build wiki-like tools your teams can use to flip feature flags, manage orders, analyze data—basically anything your APIs can do, you can build a tool for it with Aircrud. Let me know what you think!
GitHub process automation: A bot to build pull requests by core maintainers
I found some nice greens: https://picular.co/marijuana -- Have a MERRY CHRISTMAS! (There, I said it.)
I'm not saying the current state of affairs is reasonable (i.e. I'm saying that ISPs are currently monopolies). I'm saying that the FTC's proposed definition to determine whether there is competition in a coverage area is reasonable. One heuristic I'm using to support my claim is that the FTC's proposed definition implies there is still an ISP monopoly in the area in the picture I linked.
And, they have excellent Brazilian coverage already:

https://theintercept.com/brasil (note the "s" instead of the "z").
Sign up for a dating website. Don't expect too much out of any particular interaction. Just try to learn from each one and get better. It helps knowing that everybody there is more or less on the same page.
> But I do need to know it's a network error and not some abstracted LibraryNameException.

How is that any different from using return values like Rust does? It seems that libraries have their own `LibraryError` type which you have to decode anyway.
How about for a 32 year old who is just learning JavaScript and comes across this repo? Age has nothing to do with it.
We wanted to use the KCL on the receiver side, but figured that it required building some sort of cluster to mediate which node would receive which shard. Tricky, especially when resharding. With Lambda, you get that for free. So we opted for lambda, but weren't overly happy. Did you solve that problem?
Microsoft Authenticator app comes to Apple Watch to offer password-free logins
Yeah, yeah, yeah... Pier Paolo Pasolini made a movie about it.
That's an excellent point. The only place the library has access to the private keys are during account creation and message signing. Perhaps I should implement both directly in the wallet so it's visible and clear to everyone.
languages with logo graphic writing systems, such as Chinese and Japanese. I think for governmental purposes there is a set of allowed characters, but people may consider the true form of their name to be written with a rare character that's not in unicode.
Excel isn't scalable, repeatable, auditable and so on.