skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "Byzantines" WERE Roman and always called themselves such. They were the "Rum" to the Turks because they called themselves Roman.

I'm not sure how a state which can trace a direct lineage of law and rulers back to Romulus is "carrying the torch".
It's staggering that this is the top voted comment.

> car loan

most of America doesn't have any way of getting to jobs without one

> eat anything but rice and beans

most people need fundamental nutrients from vegetables just to be able to survive, these vegetables tend to be more expensive than less healthy things

> a >$30 month cell phone bill

internet access gates opportunity in American and for many people their cell phone (which they cannot afford to pay for up front and therefore must lease) and its data plan is there only gateway to the rest of the world

> drink anything but water, have cable tv (or assuming Netflix)

any right to a Gatorade after shooting hoops at your dilapidated public park on a hot day, any right to 30 mins of entertainment after working your mind numbing job that drains of you all life

> You've got obvious improvements you can make to get out of that dilemma.

Why?

Why is the right to a just life gated by the requirement to surrender basic humanity? Who is this we?

A toss off link to a Wikipedia article?

The Census Bureau itself says American household income is the same since 1987 [1] while cost of housing, education and healthcare goes 2x-3x in the last decade alone [2]

How does a world view like this even get formed?

[1] https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://...)

[2] http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost-...

This place baffles me sometimes.
How about displaying an identicon, that is rendered from the domain, in the address bar? People might soon learn what the icons of their important sites look like and will easily detect if somebody is trying to phish their bank account.
I'd prefer primary/replica, because it's both more descriptive and, because Microsoft uses it, is already familiar to a huge swath of techies.

Also carries none of the baggage of slavery.
I tend prefer minimalism. I tend to find a lot software abhorrent for complexities and bloat. Heck even standards keep getting more bloated. Also kinda wish the terminals/consoles were treated more of a first class citizen. However, so much stuff expects a GUI. Heck, I am not even that old only 26. Heck, if I could just use text based browser in the console, I probably would very rarely start up my desktop environment.

Speaking of minimalism one of my favorite ISA's are OISCs. CISC vs RISC pff OISC man. Particularly Transport Triggered since it actually lends it's self to compile time parallelism pretty well. It's also the only type to have a processor built. It's kinda like a data flow machine but is not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_instruction_set_computer#T...
Perhaps more precise language exists, but my understanding is that master/slave more accurately describes the relationship than primary/replica does. A replica implies mirroring, but doesn't imply the other key components that differentiate it from the primary or master node.
I'm well aware of that and, to be quite honest, it isn't particularly impressive.

But there is a piece of perspective that is perhaps missing. I've seen him preach to companies that have orders of magnitude more active users and orders of magnitude as much profit as he had revenue. And making people there believe that he somehow knows something about what it takes to make a company successful. To make a successful product.

I've seen companies who had brilliant people who built more business for their company than this guy ever built for himself be told that "why can't you be more like that". Because it is always more attractive for some types of companies to listen to some outside hack than to actually pay attention to unglamorous people with far more potential. It is easier to admire something that comes with a book, ceremonies and eloquent salesmanship. And sadly, it is easier to take what they say seriously.

I've worked on products that had an order of magnitude more users (products you might well have used) and wondered "why am I doing this again?" because at the company I was working, that wasn't really numbers indicative of a successful product.

IMVU is 23 people. It is the equivalent of a mom and pop shop in this context. I'm sure his story is compelling to someone hacking together a product in their spare time and dreaming of doing a startup. But you do need to understand that he has very little to offer to the kinds of companies this cult does real damage to.

Using the numbers you quote (they tend to vary) IMVU has an order of magnitude fewer users than MySpace. MySpace. The graveyard. That's 4 users for every copy of "The Lean Startup" book sold (well, probably fewer since I haven't kept up with his book sales).

IMVU has fewer users than people who've seen Ries talk - live or online.

IMVU is not a notable success.

He is a successful seller of self help books. No doubt about that.
>WH might still be more

Sure is. I understand that the club nonsense is a marketing stunt, but at the end of the day WH is (was?) overpriced, which is all that matters.
I have a goal in mind with every blog / video / book I read. Its a short decision matrix on whether I decide to skim something or not. E.g.

- Do I care about this article, is it useful to me next week? -> Skim read it

- Do I follow this author? -> Skim read it

- Is it news? -> Skim read it

I find that it is better off not deep diving into everything I read, and take most things with a grain of salt unless proven otherwise. This all of course depends on what you are reading, if it is all useful factual information, more consideration will be made.

If a topic interests me a lot, or an author I really trust, I will spend significantly more time reading slower. I only read nonfiction books recommended by people I follow, so I'll naturally read these slower.

For retaining information - I just use triangulation and swim in a sea of related topics. It becomes easier to tie information together later, when you've seen keywords and concepts already.

Anki is useful but I never have the time to write any flashcards down.

I think the best way to improve skills is to go through many rapid cycles of learning. Skim read, get your hands dirty with code if possible, reflect & write things in hackernews etc/talk to someone about it, repeat process as soon as possible. The faster you do this the more you can retain, read, and pickup new concepts.

After many rapid cycles take one slower cycle and spend more time reflecting on things learned
I’m much younger and less experienced, so what I’m going to say could be irrelevant, but your resume seems too busy.

I’d cut it to 1 page, remove all the symbols, flags and logos. I’d also remove most of the extra stuff (personal interests, volunteering, objective, references).

Essentially, almost anything that doesn’t show that I’m a very talented engineer should go. Also, I’d consider using latex if not already and go for a more sobre style that focuses on ease of reading. The way your education part is indented is great, the work experience part seems to have something wrong with it.
Thanks for the info. I'm not that Alex.
Because of the payout model (all and only winning tickets split a fixed prize) the EV for buying multiple randomly distributed tickets and uniformly distributed tickets aren't the same. Consider if you were the only one playing a lottery with 100 combinations. If a ticket costs $1 and the jackpot is $100 one random ticket has an EV of $1. However if you buy 100 random tickets on average you'll only cover about 64 numbers, so your EV per ticket is just $.64, whereas if you buy uniformly distributed tickets the EV is constant up to the number of combinations. If you imagine raising the prize to $200 and that two people are playing this lottery and one buys 100 random tickets and the other buys every combination the random player has about a 36% of getting nothing, and will share the jackpot the remainder of the time. Overall the uniform player has an expectation that's almost twice as high as the random player, and makes a pretty strong case for buying every ticket if you're the only one that does it. It falls apart if you have to compete against another uniform player.
There are no added hormones in WF meat. There are no hydrogenated oils in any of their products.

There are no phthalates in any of their beauty/wash products.

Obviously you can define health however yo want, and you can scan the shelves of other stores for these same things. Maybe you can find a couple phthalate-free shampoos in Target, read a bunch of articles and memorize the good brands and hope they don't change. Or you could shop at WF.
What is the usability improvement of www?
Funny you mention BP, my local BP gas stations actually ask people if they have the card of a grocery's shop chain, since it give 3 cents/litre off.
It does, but from their perspective, it works. Stores make more money (via numerous avenues) with stuff like this, so they'll continue to do it.
lol, this one is a plain bug if true, and hints at a really rash change, like, not reviewed at all.

It's getting likely it will have to be reverted and a loud slap in the face delivered as should be.
Why does it make loadbalancing and fail-overs harder?
This is not emphasized enough: prior to the last 100 years, the concept of retirement as currently visualized simply did not exist. You had kids, and the kids took care of you in your old age (or you just had a terrible old age).

A very small number of people had the resource base to survive growing old gracefully: Social Security was an attempt to extend that to all on a consistent basis. That's not to say some form of it can't be made to work, but as much as we may love the core concept of retirement we may need to accept that it isn't broadly economically viable without a meaningful, direct index against increasing life expectancy (with the usual caveats for infirmity, disease, etc).

It is (in my opinion) a well meaning, long term social experiment that might be coming to an end. I am quite curious to see what (and how) we get to the other side of that.
>> EAV (Entity Attribute Value) tables—use a specialist product intended for handling such schema-less data instead.

> What if you have to use the data in some complex join-heavy query? Make a copy of the data needed in the relational database and hope that the data doesn't get unsynchronised?

No, he's saying that schema-less, arbitrarily-extended information has no business in a relational system at all.
I disagree. in my experiences (anecdotal, I know), WF was a lot earlier to larger varieties of organic produce and organic products. It is true that many stores have caught up, but WF still has a larger selection of organic/fair trade certified/high quality meats than most other stores. Their animal welfare rating system alone is pretty pioneering (if it is to be believed). They have also partnered with more local growers and farmers than most other national chains.
There is no guideline on HN forbidding down voting for disagreement. 'dang as recently as a month ago reiterated this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17666145
Did Adobe not learn from Flash?
My understanding is that master/slave more accurately describes the relationship than primary/replica does. A replica implies mirroring, but doesn't imply the other key components that differentiate it from the primary or master node.

I think leader/follower is just as accurate while carrying less baggage, but I could see people getting offended by those terms, too. Follower implies lack of autonomy, blind devotion as in a cult, a follower of a dictator like Hitler, power centered around a possible demagogue, etc.

If I were working on a new project I would probably not use "master/slave", because at that point it's trivial not to use it, but to ask an established project to change what they're doing for something so petty seems very silly.
You are overestimating the cost. This is going to help kill the www on the long run.
Spck mobile editor looking for beta testers
Everything? No. Certain produce, bulk items, and white label products were cost competitive, and often cheaper, than regular groceries. At least that was true ~15 years ago when I used to shop there regularly, and save money, in the DC area.
I totally get that. I don't dispute that. But if you must choose between "please sir, can I have some more?" and controlling your own revenue destiny, it is clear why some would choose the later.

Would you want to be beholden to AWS' whims? You might as well be a Walmart supplier at that point, constantly dragged out to Bentonville having to make your case for every penny of your costs. Amazon has proven its model (all about scale), how it operates (your margin = our opportunity), and you partner with them at your own peril.

I'm suggesting the thought process to shift from, "Ahhh, those Elastic guys and their bad decisions!" to "Hmm, well, tough decision to make [forgoing revenue through AWS] but I understand why they made it".
Hi hackers, I am the author of a brand new editor that works on phones and browsers. I made this app because I really enjoy coding but can't be glued to my computer at home all day during school and commutes. I have Github integration in the app so you can make github commits to your projects on the go. I didn't really want a makeshift solution where I need to upload code to a shared drive or download a zip file whenever I make progress, and I couldn't find anything out there that was free. The app works offline and stores your data in a local indexedDB database so you don't have to worry about leaking confidential code to the public. I hope to get some beta testers and feedback and create a useful tool for all to code with~ Have a nice day everyone, happy hacking!
Sure, perhaps there is no reason to associate www. But the issue here is a browser showing an incorrect url.
Not sure why you are getting downvotes but I agree with you here. I think this change is going to benefit both technical and non technical users. How many websites make the mistake of not handling www and non-www the same? Or having a valid certificate for both domains? It's not just a pain for the non techies
For those of you reading this and thinking this person has any idea what they're talking about, I'd like to direct your attention to their website: http://marketgodfathers.com (as listed in their profile).

In particular, note that this titan of industry advertises a monthly subscription service for options trading 1) with absolutely no technical or nuanced financial terminology, 2) using words like "play" to refer to trading, and 3) with wealth-centric hype videos from The Wolf of Wall Street and American Gangster.

Run, don't walk, from this person's advice.
You seem shocked at this with word usage like "actual users", "real url's" and "actually no idea"

But how are we to expect users to know any better until general technology literacy improves?

Many people can't tell you the difference between a modem, router, OS, browser, or website.

I remember years ago sitting down with my elderly grandmother trying to show her how to use a desktop...

We are too close to our work so everything is familiar and easy.

Even the concept of moving the mouse on a table to represent moving the mouse cursor on the screen is something we take for granted.

Tell someone who's never used a mouse before to double click something to open it. You have to start way back earlier at the concept of which physical button on the mouse to use.

This turned more into a general rant about how we overestimate regular users but I'ts been on my mind for awhile.
You can print droplets of thermoplastics via the Arburg process [0].

[0] https://www.arburg.com/en/products-and-services/additive-man...
Ralphs and Vons in California have been doing the charity ask for years. I always assumed it was their way of bragging later "how much they gave back to the community" while conveniently forgetting to mention those funds came from customer donations. I hate it, too.
> they are slowly trying to do away with URLs

They might be changing how they want to display them, but "do away with" is unsupported by the article:

> But this will mean big changes in how and when Chrome displays URLs. We want to challenge how URLs should be displayed and question it as we’re figuring out the right way to convey identity.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-wants-to-kill-the-url/
Vodafone Tells Hacked Customers with “1234” Password to Pay Back Money
This idea that having a car and eating more than beans and water means you’re spending too much comes from those (slightly fanatical) Money Mustache followers. I agree that we should not advocate for a world where we have to sacrifice a middle class lifestyle in order to retire middle class.
Yup, and that measure determined your position in Google search results.

I'll just get some popcorn.
Simple answer is that those bitching about lack of features want GIMP to provide exact same features as Photoshop with exact same workflow.

I wonder if these same people also bitch about learning new languages or frameworks when technology moves on.
Just how much is www costing the world? I think compromising the function of URLs is going to be much more than whether or not there's a www in one.
To improve information retention you should exercise your "information retrieval". Basically, take a sheet of paper, write down the name of a topic you're learning or a book you're reading, and then write down as much information as you can remember about it. Compare your notes against your previous attempts to identify what you need to focus on studying/remembering more. Repeat this exercise until you can comfortably recall all the main ideas.

Two books I highly recommend that can help you with improving reading and learning skills:
1) "Make It Stick" by Peter C. Brown
2) "How To Read A Book" by Mortimer J. Adler.

Good luck!
Exactly; wish I had added that to my original point.
Just out of curiosity, do you have kids?
Interesting angle. Any resources to back up that claim?

Feels so dirty, like free health screenings for employees, when the real purpose is to built an insurance risk profile for a geographic area.
Facebook is the cigarette of our generation
Your comment made me search for the nearest one. According to Google Maps, the nearest Whole Foods Market is over 10 hours away. I guess I'll shop Half Foods Market like I always do.
That was an interesting read, thanks for sharing. My own understanding, from personal experience working in an ER, was that they charge more there to offset the cost of the (often impoverished) people who use it for everything from the sniffles to gun shot wounds. These people, who don't have health insurance, typically don't pay their bills. Also, I saw many homeless people come in simply for a bed to sleep in and a hot meal. They take up a bed and nurses/doctor's time. ER's aren't mean't to be non-emergent PCP's or soup kitchens, yet they often end up serving that purpose. The end result as I see it is a bunch of expensive and poorly delegated resources.
Byzantine Agreements to the Rescue of Blockchain
That version does not support containers extension. It has only basic built in support.

Firefox ESR has thousands of open bugs, and possible exploitable flaws. And I don't presume the current tip will be much better. I don't think the fixes you presented make much difference. Also a hacker more probably will attack tip and ESR.

I'll faster go to Palemoon than returning to Firefox in the near future.
How is having to "just know" that you have to type www to get that page to load, despite it being presented without www a step forward for usability for technically unsophisticated people? It just seems confusing to me. I get that it looks "cleaner" but I am having a hard time figuring out how it makes anyone's life easier, or how it actually makes the web more usable.
Is that $1.4k in addition to getting their $4k back? I always assume that with lotto-based shenanigans, the "return" isn't actually a profit, but the maximum of payouts after having bought all the chances their money could buy. I'll spend $20 on tickets for a large jackpot, and I'll will $2 on occasion - that's not a "10% return" but a "10% refund," and I'd expect a non-finance journalist to get that wrong.
It would have been nice for it to say "JavaScript" in the title of the blog post, anywhere in the blog post, or in the title of the video. That's what I suspected, but I had to scrub through the video just to confirm, which is probably more effort than most people would be willing to put in.
Meaning you can't retire abroad and receive your pension? How many months out of year do you have to reside in Australia?
Now that's just being antisocial.
Lol, "have you dined with us before" is the most irritating thing. I usually want to say, "no, but I've dined at a thousand other restaurants, will this be radically unfamiliar?"
Cite some real problems and we can have a more productive discussion.

Already cited elsewhere.

It doesn't help to falsely equate hiding "www." with corrupting phone numbers.

It's a valid comparison. Both are specifiers. It's the same sort of shenanigans with poorly planned "abbreviated" phone extension dialing and outside number prefixes in my company's office causing wrong numbers and accidental 911 dialing.
Firefox is a better browser due to tree style tabs. But it is noticeably slower.
How are you annoying customers by giving them an opportunity to save money? Perhaps the customer is a Prime member and doesn't know or doesn't recall that they will get a discount.
Who Left Open the Cookie Jar? Evaluation of Third-Party Cookie Policies
I miss the old Whole Foods. I feel like the shopping experience has gone downhill in a variety of ways.
I'm mid 20s and am putting just over $1000 a month into retirement, split between a private and workplace pension. I intend to do this for as long as possible!

Disclaimer: I don't live or work in the U.S
>... I think you could assume good faith usage of those words and still have a problem with it.

One should also understand that not all countries have the same political activists and race-baiters that the US has and therefore the words master and slave don't carry the same baggage as they do in the US.
Read the title of the article again ;-) Most Americans can retire. And there's this pretty broad movement to rationalize middle class earners failing to save. For those earning under ~25k/year, I agree: it's challenging. Especially if they've got medical problems or other extenuating circumstances to deal with.
They don't need to care about checking whether it's there or not or seeing it at all. But in a general sense, users do care about reduced clutter and aesthetics, and this is a way of improving aesthetics and creating a more consistent URL bar. It's a tiny bit more consistency and a tiny bit less clutter, but it's not nothing.

The users who truly care can just click the URL bar. (Someone said you also have to press the left arrow, which if true seems like a bad decision. I would agree the full URL should always be visible whenever the cursor focus is in the URL bar.)
The "link tax" appears to be a myth invented by the opposition to stoke the emotions of readers like you.

The actual proposal is copyright over the content of articles, so that search engines and blogs couldn't (without a license) post content snippets that circumvent the publisher's website and monetize their own sites in its place. There are valid criticisms (chilling effects around needing a license before repeating or summarizing content), but they aren't the ones boingboing and friends are crowing about.
I would think that depends on what kind of once-in-a-century events you’re talking about. If it is a big earthquake, chances are that, if one strikes one bridge, several others will be hit on the same day. You could have adverse events ‘only’ about every 50 years, but lose half your bridges on such days.