skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Additionally, you should be able to answer most of these questions—all of which a candidate is likely to ask you:
• How long is the sales cycle (from first conversation to closed contract) on average?
• What is the typical deal size (in terms of ARR)?
• How is your product priced?
• What are the steps of the sales process?
• How do you define success in this role?
• How are you getting new leads and generating conversations?

As a technical founder, these are exactly the questions I need to ask someone with sales experience!
Scaling Knowledge
Every time I read something like this, I'm reminded of how much I know my grounding in history to Age of Empires 2.

Sure, it got a lot of things wrong and it took liberty with a lot of historical facts, but it also gave me a basis for, and appreciation of history.

I knew about the Mamluks because they were an elite unit in the game, and I happened to one day just Google their name and read the wiki page.
Yeah, the Tableau embedded visualizations are awful on mobile.
I've been quite satisfied with my "instance-of-one" via Masto.host.

Mine is a much shorter domain than the average instance that I've had in my back pocket for years, which I find is also nice for a number of interesting small reasons (including sharing links to Mastodon statuses on places like Slack).

I'm not sure I intend to always keep it to just myself, and I've made offers to give accounts to friends, but so far no one has taken me up on the offer. I definitely don't ever expect to allow public signups, though.
GIMP is a bit of a learning process from Photoshop, but once you know where everything is in translation, it's really not too bad. I moved entirely to Linux and while I have feature requests for GIMP, it hasn't held any of my art back.

Their window/toolbox system sucks though. I have a hard time placing all windows where they need to be and even opening some of them. It's probably my biggest complaint right now.
One Red Cent: Curiosity Rover Totes Penny on Mars
I am not sure, but that sounds right.

This was a few years ago and my memory may be faulty, but I remember him saying that it would probably take the collapse of a large bridge like the Brooklyn or George Washington bridges in NYC before the authorities in the city would consider using the system.
Ok, but what gives you more of a right to survival than the plants you kill? If anything, plants are the most benign entities on the planet, they're the only beings capable of producing their own food.

These are hard questions, I don't expect anyone to have the answers.
> real gap in the depth of tech

Do you mean it's harder to hire top tech talent? Are the companies technologically less advanced? Something else?
wow wat a provacativ sujestion are u a philsofer u shud run mikrosoff
Using Facades to Simplify Elixir Modules
I use them to convert markdown files to pdfs and open them. It can be as simple as the shell command `pandoc .md -o .pdf; open *.pdf`, and for more complicated documents, you can just write a makefile and have vscode use that.
... taken over their natural habitats, and then bred them into distorted shapes that would not survive in the wild. Chickens, for example, have been cross-bred so that their breasts are freakishly huge compared to their ancestors ... some chickens have a harder time walking upright due to this. We couldn't send these animals back into the wild because their current genes didn't evolve / adapt in the wild in the first place.
When Blockchain Saves Customer Reviews, All of E-commerce Will Prosper
That seems like a strange way to look at it. If we grant that part of the appeal of a Rolex is that it is out of reach of most people, $1700, adjusted for inflation, was out of reach 50 years ago. Today, a luxury good of that price is well within reach for a middle-to-upper-middle class person who cares to save for a little while. If Rolex raised their price that much to keep it too expensive for the middle class, that seems to imply a greatly increased standard of living for everyone.
I'm sure the real Vim power-users might miss a whole bunch of stuff, but I consider myself an intermediate Vim user, and I think VSCodeVim is great. Almost all Vim commands I use seem to be supported. So thanks for your work :).
Creating Self-Assembling Code with Genetic Programming
The problem with that definition is that sometimes there is mitigation you can do before the vendor can get a patch out and that effectively counters the problem.

It also isn't reasonable when the vendor simply won't or can't patch it (because they've gone out of business). To have it be labeled a zero day forever because the vendor doesn't exist is silly.

I have followed "public knowledge" as the key factor because IT systems in production are complex and some companies actually do defense-in-depth and sometimes vendors are shit.

Using zero day excessively leads to alert fatigue IMO.
How We Built the Twilio API for WhatsApp
North Africa was christian? The amazigh were animists, and Islam was present before any large scale invasion, and was mostly spread by amazigh tribes themselves. (at least in the case of Morocco)
That's a good perspective. I drifted away from pomodoro's precisely because I found the intervals too be a bit too rigid and the breaks occurred when I'd be in the middle of something. Instead using one or more as a bootstrap for productivity is something I hadn't considered, but it seems obvious now.
Battery, the side brush motor and all brushes. And I accidentally tore off the top sensor - I had to solder it back.
If they don't help, their entire family become victims.

It's hard to imagine standing up to that.
Nice, can't wait to buy the cheaper Xiaomi clone in 6 months.
Very interesting read.

I was confused about the specific location the document desribes. "They enable semi-truck or bus drivers to drive straight into either elevator from the intersection of Atlantic and Flatbush avenues on the southeast side of the arena."

At the intersection of Atlantic and Flatbush is a large pedestrian plaza and the main entrance to the building, they would have a hard time driving a truck through there. The actual entrance is on Dean Street (and indeed at the southeast corner of the arena):

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6816292,-73.9748135,3a,75y,6...
@ronomon/hash-table
Which books on amazon can u buy to read about this shaping of eye during development
Different conclusion for the same article: I picked mlterm

https://anarc.at/blog/2018-05-04-terminal-emulators-2/
Show HN: AntWar.io – Webbased Multiplayer SimAnt
I finally bit the bullet and bought Pixelmator 3. It's an older version, but it was cheap and I'm not using it for anything demanding.
Quantopian is looking for algo's that compliment their fund. You may have a strategy that outperforms the market but is highly correlated to an algo quantopian is already backing.

Your algo is also tied to the quantopian API and data that they provide. I'm not sure what the effort would be like to port a Quantopian algo to a platform like Interactive Brokers.
Not to assume too much about the commenter you replied to, but it's fairly common knowledge that women are more sexually fluid than men (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_fluidity#Males_versus_f...). I read "different for women" to mean "women are less repulsed by the notion of gay sex than men," which is borne out by evidence.
Paint.NET became irrelevant when it became closed source. These awful malware buttons are just another example of the same mentality that led to changing the license.
Saturn's Strange Hexagon Recreated in the Lab (2010)
I think it really went downhill earlier than that; somewhere around 4 was when they stopped trying to work with the ecosystem and just started blocking things instead. Perhaps I've accidentally got rose-tinted glasses on though…
exactly, but for some reason if you refresh the page the PDF is embedded.
> I don't want to run a large project like Mastodon.

There are good options like Masto.host that will run Mastodon for you, but you can bring your own domain. I find that a satisfying middle ground, and it's what I use for my own instance.
Not sure. I'm not an ophthalmologist; I've just read a bunch of journal papers to try to understand the development of nearsightedness specifically, since I wanted to use it as an example of an effect in a pop-psychology blog post.

Probably any ophthalmology textbook would go into the development of the eyeball, though I'm not sure the science of the effect of light on said development is old enough to have made it into any of those textbooks. I think current textbooks would explain that myopia is caused by a distortion of the shape of the eyeball during development, but wouldn't attempt to go any deeper into why that distortion occurs.
Sounds like a terrible idea, if the interaction is not discoverable. Even if it was easy to understand, you need a lot more mouse dexterity than the average user to operate something like this.
And soon:

When the AirBus A380 was the future
> Pardon me while I fail to have respect for [...] thed-level manager

The manager specifically being discussed was the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, not a “mid-level manager”.
This was one reason I got a stupid robovac (Eufy) with no network capabilities, just a remote control. It doesn't even try to map my floor, but rather just zooms around randomly. Frankly, the cheap price didn't make the decision any harder either.

Works surprisingly well, you just have to give it a bit of time and let it do its thing in peace.
Some insight into how they learn the skills...

https://www.businessinsider.com/north-korean-defector-jang-s...

"Mirim University produces most of the hackers that get placed in Bureau 121. It's a highly competitive program, with each class accepting only about 100 students out of 5,000 applicants. They take six 90-minute classes every day, learning different coding languages and operating systems, from C to Linux. Jang says a lot of time was spent dissecting Microsoft programs, like the Windows operating system, and how to attack the overall computer IT systems of enemy countries like the US or South Korea."

Also

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/north-korea/how-north-korea-rec...

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/913712/North-Korea-late...
Thanks!
We have a very brief description of the "distributed COLLECT" feature here:
https://github.com/arangodb/arangodb/blob/3.4/Documentation/...

More beef to be added to this until the GA release.

The benefits of distributed COLLECT will come into play for queries that can push the aggregate operations onto the shards.
Previous versions of ArangoDB shipped all documents from the database servers to the coordinator, so the coordinator would do the central aggregation of the results from all shards to produce the result.

With distributed COLLECT we now create an additional shard-local COLLECT operation that performs part of the aggregation on the shards already. This allows sending just the aggregated per-shard results to the coordinator, so the coordinator can finally perform an aggregation of the per-shard aggregates.

This will be beneficial in many cases when the per-shard aggregated result is much smaller than the non-aggregated per-shard result.

Following is a very simple example. Let's say you have a collection "test" with 5 shards and 500k simple documents that have just one numeric attribute (plus the three system attributes "_key", "_id" and "_rev"):

db._create("test", { numberOfShards: 5 });
for (i = 0; i < 500000; ++i) {
db.test.insert({ value: i });
}

Running a query that will calculate the minimum and maximum values in the "value" attribute can make use of the distributed COLLECT:

FOR doc IN test
COLLECT AGGREGATE min = MIN(doc.value), max = MAX(doc.value)
RETURN { min, max }

The database servers can compute the per-shard minimum and maximum values, so they will each only send two numeric values back to the coordinator.

Without the optimization, the database servers will either send the entire documents or a projection of each document (containing just each document's "value" attribute back) to the coordinator. But then each shard would still have to send 100k values on average.

With a local cluster that has 2 database servers and runs them on the same host as the coordinator, this simple query is sped up by a factor of 2 to 3 when the optimization is applied. In a "real" setup the speedup will be even higher because then there will be additional network roundtrips between the cluster nodes. And in reality documents tend to contains more data and collections tend to have more documents. If this is the case, then the speedup will be even higher.
The key thing to know is that the Microsoft Python Language Server -- long, official name I know, hence why we just call it MPLS internally ;) -- comes from our Python workload for Visual Studio. It was an extremely tough call to make because David Halter has done a great job with Jedi and running that project. But in the end we decided that if we were going to need to keep the IntelliSense engine in Visual Studio going then we should get more out of that investment by turning it into a language server and making it available in VS Code.

But I will say (and continue to say) that we are extremely grateful to David Halter and everyone who has worked on Jedi. It gave the extension the initial IntelliSense support it needed in order to be successful. And we currently have no plans on removing Jedi support for those that prefer it (from the extension's perspective we're actually trying to treat the language server as yet another project we have integrated support for, but where we have a direct line to when a bug or feature crops up that we would like to see addressed ;) .
>The New York Times and NPR listed prominently in the carousel, and yet neither use AMP.

Edit: NYT does use AMP: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/us/p...
I saw one in real life for the first time this summer, at the Museum of Flight near Seattle. It looked beautiful of course, but the cabin was incredibly confined. Not like airlines are known for their cabin space, but I don't know if I'd take a faster trip in such a confined space over a cramped seat on a longer flight.
The Educational Tyranny of the Neurotypicals
Thanks for caring that I get this.

I've long considered and wanted a system like you've described. It seems like it would have incredible long-term value. Is everything for yours self-hosted? What wiki do you use?
> If Rolex raised their price that much to keep it too expensive for the middle class, that seems to imply a greatly increased standard of living for everyone.

But that’s precisely it. The standard of living hasn’t gone up. Only the nominal price of money.
As I explained in another response, progsbase is very different from Haxe. Haxe is an independent language. If you use Haxe, then you depend on the Haxe compiler. Progsbase is completely in other languages, meaning the progsbase tools are only support tools which gives you certain benefits such as being able to translate. You code remains pure Java which you develop with Java tools.
From a debating perspective, seeing as the proof you sited (for the eye thing) appears to be incorrect, does that make you reconsider that your argument of what the real problem that should be addressed (that is, chinese and western parents aren't properly raising their kids)- might be wrong too, given that you sited no proof with this?
They didn’t have the capability of the time to do cascading failure analysis of that type.
Longitudinal studies are typically observation only, so even the stronger ones won't establish causality. But that doesn't mean the conclusions aren't valuable.

For example, if we know that DDT exposure in particular increases the risk of autism, then we can start looking at how those chemicals interact with cells, and find out more about autism at the biochemical / cellular level and even create a drug that counteracts those processes. Then we get into experimental trials which do establish causality.
> Overall, I do agree that there's stuff that can improved, but it kinda hurts to see people call them "atrocious"

Sorry :( I hate to be harsh and I don't want this to get you down, because I have a lot of admiration for the work you do (and this goes to any open source work I've ever criticized, really). So, thank you for your work.

But... the usability is really bad. They would be completely fine in a vacuum if vim didn't exist, but the point of comparison exists and it's vim and vim is just crazy fast compared to vscode-vim, it's like comparing a racer... to a fighter jet.

> What's the bug that you have with `2d}`?

That only deletes one paragraph (like 1d}) instead of two. 3d} only deletes two, and so on. It's not consistent with vim.

> There shouldn't be any reason that it reruns save upon entering/exiting insert mode

shrug, I filed an issue about this a couple weeks ago after a decent bit of debugging.

> I suspect your main issue with VSCodeVim is really the "slowness" issue

ish, it's definitely the primary pain point but there's also lots of small bugs and inconsistencies with vim. And I understand that competing with vim itself is hard, but the other comparison point is for example pycharm's vim plugin and vscode's is far behind.

Edit: And just to echo tdfx's point, without your bindings I wouldn't even be on vscode, so there's that :)
Or they believe that the fallout from trying to go that route will be worse than the fallout from letting Trump continue but trying to contain him as best as possible.
You can get Windows containers without VMs on Windows server 2016.

the WSL with Linux containers apparently does work with the latest insider builds...
Yes, I also just (slowly) realized this while skimming over the paper. So it is indeed completely passive.
Quote from OA

"Having also ruled out broadcasts from “little green men”, Bell Burnell gathered more observations until eventually she found three more repeating pulses of radio waves emanating from different spots in the galaxy."

I remember reading somewhere that Dr Bell was labelling the traces on the pen-chart recording that showed the signal 'lgm'.

Really good outcome.
Are you sure you replied to the right comment? I was giving them credit and made no comparative claims.
I think it's both. Taken from the article you linked to: "greater viewing distances outside could affect myopia progression, too"
Have noted the reference, will see what we can find.
HelloSign Is Hiring a VP of Product Management
I believe the grandparent comment said he cut off internet access for it and the old phone he uses to control it. It sounds like it works on a strictly LAN connection unhindered.

It does sound like a lot of trouble for a vacuum cleaner, though.

I mean, how clean do people need their floors to be? I vacuum like once every couple weeks and it’s not like I’m getting sick or my floors look gross.
Modern psychology seems more and more plausible
Once-in-a-century actually means 1% chance per year. If you build thousands of bridges, you need a lot better than once-in-a-century, or you will have adverse events all the time.
Its because of Dopamine. I think everyone knows this. The same is true for Social media as well.
What possible benefit would this have? Particularly considering it doesn't rely on "this" anywhere.
Cholera

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/07/us/clue-to-why-cystic-fib...

Tuberculosis

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10013-cystic-fibrosis...

Anecdotally:

Winter Vomiting
Google XML product feeds generator. Feedback welcome
That's how GTK (The GIMP Toolkit) started, isn't? I'd rather have them focus on GIMP's core features, maybe UI enhancements, but certainly not on platform-building.

Edit: or rather, create a SketchUp clone with good 2D projection/export (Blender isn't for casual use)
Windows containers work on Windows server 2016 with Job object based isolation (No VM needed). They also support Windows and Linux containers (via LCoW) using hyper-v VMs.
No, that's not my argument.
Hey there - co-founder of Fishtown Analytics here. Happy to answer any questions about dbt in anyone has them!

You can also check out this walkthrough/tour of the dbt documentation site: https://blog.fishtownanalytics.com/using-dbt-docs-fae6137da3...
Your screenshots perfectly capture the sad state of this stuff and contain their own irony:

1) Google's Chrome ad is one of the giant misleading "Download" buttons, done inside Google's own ad platform.

2) The legitimate "dotPDN" download image button is done in the same style as spammy download buttons shown in ads.
Javascript works half-decently as a functional language but is a pretty bad OOP one. Pick your poison. Add to that the general consensus that functionally-oriented programs are easier to test, debug and reason about and you have my reasoning.
Ask hn: how do I push myself beyond my body’s well defined limits
3Blue1Brown is one of the best math educators on YouTube. As a matter of fact, I would say he's the best I know of at the moment. I'm currently working my way through his series on diff-eq.
Meet the World’s First Omnivorous Shark Species
If you haven't seen it yet, Feynman's podcast series The Character of Physical Law is quite wonderful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3mhkYbznBk
Wait, Paint.net is closed source, and the website knowingly has malware buttons? That makes me extremely hesitant to use the app anymore. If they're unscrupulous about putting those buttons on the website, who's to say they aren't putting actual malware inside the app?
I work in the entertainment industry for a major Sony competitor. This hack was when entertainment execs started listening to their infosec people. It wasn't just IT. Media apps also got more secure and data retention policies got much, much more disciplined. The paranoia was real. I'd dare say it's why the big social media data retention scandal came out of the election instead of Hollywood.

I've always been suspicious of the touted NK connection. It seemed flimsy then, and it seems flimsy now. However, all these years later, I don't know why they'd be interested in keeping up security theater, so I assume someone closer to it than I knows all the facts.
What's with the quotation marks? Her name really is Sandberg.
The WMWare example is very interesting!

Let me just note that the article does not propose a solution to VMWare's problem. It only notes that when instructions are removed, code using it stops working.
>I mean of course one should be washing their hands after using the bathrooom

Isn't a large value of washing after using the restroom that it means you'll wash your hands multiple times a day when you wouldn't otherwise?

> but all that other stuff you mentioned.. that's anal to the point of obsessive.

Arguments similar to this were used against washing your hands at all when we first developed a theory of germs and contamination.

Really though, this discussion won't progress until one of us has supporting data.
The Linux containers on windows in WSL, I've heard, works in the latest insider builds to at least some degree, but haven't tried it to confirm.

There are a reasonable number of Windows container images on Docker hub, although nothing like the volume of linux ones.
I'm using VSCode for my FE work and love the tooling, integrations and marketplace. Happy with the vim plugin, formatting support and terminal support within the IDE. Not a surprise here coming from Visual Studio. In the past I've considered splurging on JetBrains' Webstorm IDE. Glad I didn't.

Will give it a whirl for the BigData/ML related scripts. Nice to see one IDE being the GoTo for different lines of work.

Having said that, with the latest update (1.26.1), I'm seeing a significant lag in keystrokes. Not sure whether a plugin is the culprit.
Have you tried Affinity Photo/Designer?
> Most of our adaptations can be freely removed and replaced without harming their user.

Magic does not exist, even in the future.