skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had some years I thought the same way, however:

From a DNS point of view:
you can't have CNAME's on your root (can be useful, especially in some DNS load balancing situations, or load balancing on third party providers)

From HTTP point of view:
A no-www domain might not be the best solution if you ever want a 'Cookie-free Domain' (static.) for images etc. which speeds up your site. If you start with a no-www domain you have to setup a different domain (no subdomain) for it: like sstatic.net for SO, ytimg.com for YT and yimg.com for Yahoo.

When the browser makes a request for a static image and sends cookies together with the request, the server doesn't have any use for those cookies. So they only create network traffic for no good reason. You should make sure static components are requested with cookie-free requests. Create a subdomain and host all your static components there.

If your domain is www.example.org, you can host your static components on static.example.org. However, if you've already set cookies on the top-level domain example.org as opposed to www.example.org, then all the requests to static.example.org will include those cookies. In this case, you can buy a whole new domain, host your static components there, and keep this domain cookie-free.
https://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#cookie_fr...

in my view having a www record (and no-www redirect) has more benefits that a no-www
Yes, but you have to have at least 501 karma to be able to downvote. Until then, the arrow never appears.
The biggest trick here is that TeX source like $\answer{2} + 1 = 3$ provides "answer blank + 1 = 3" on the web, but you can do more complicated things like $\sqrt{\answer{4}} = 2$.

The website uses Fraser's differential synchronization algorithm, so a student's work is saved as they do it -- and that happens in real time, so an instructor can "look over their shoulder" and watch a student working in real time. The server is actually a git server, so an author publishes content by performing a git push, and because the server knows the history of the content, the server provides the version of the content on which the student last did work.
It might not be that sunny in the winter, but it'll be warm enough that you're not completely bundled up away from the sunlight you do get if it's not actually raining.

Winnipeg might be much sunnier in the winter, but I'm not sure you'd get much more sun exposure given things like wind chill.

BTW, where on VI are you? Quadra here.
> The average person now has access to healthier grocery / purchasing options

Because every other grocery store is selling poison? The average person doesn't even have a WF near them to shop at.
> The IRA won’t make anyone rich. A calculator on the site estimates that if you’re 22 years old and making $14 an hour–saving around $120 a month–you could end up with around $230,000 by the time you’re 65

So no room for 2 years of education or a drop year for health issues or layoffs or travel or starting a risky business?
Human biomass displaces other species.

It is no coincidence that the human population has doubled sine 1970...while the number of wild (non-domesticated) animals has halved.

So sure, we might be able to support 80 billion (!!) humans...but with a correspondingly devastating loss of biodiversity.
I had a profound feeling when I understood the algebraic completeness of complex numbers thanks to one of his videos about complex numbers.
But why add to the confusion by hiding important information?
You can go to any Orthodox church and see the liturgy celebrated as it was in the times of Emperor Basil Bulgar-Slayer. Constantinople survives.
Work hasn't failed us. Consumerism has. Stop buying brands. Stop buying Starbucks. Stop eating out. Stop buying the newest phone. Don't buy a fancy Macbook if you don't have a use case for one. Stop buying too much car. Stop trading resources for lifestyle.

A 25 year old who only puts $300 into a reasonable retirement fund each month will have over $1M at retirement age.
$30,000/year 43 years from now will be sub-poverty living. Based on prior inflation, you're looking at $6,600/year
Where I live, average social worker pay puts them only one rung above the people they are supposed to care for.
I hope you asked for a raise :)
Hey Ethan, glad to hear that you are already in the same city! If you're interested in that arrangement, I'd encourage you to apply and just specify your situation in the cover letter.
What is it called the day after you are aware of it. Zero day still? That makes no sense.
20% YoY is very low relative to most of these large SaaS startups that you see on here. The S-1 for Elastic had it at 75% YoY or so. Most of these companies also have absurdly high negative revenue churn. Gross margins approach 75% which become net margins when they stop growing so fast. See the 40% SaaS rule.

https://saasholic.com/the-rule-of-40-for-saas-and-subscripti...
If you'd like someone to look at your budget to see if there's some fat you can cut, head on over to forum.mrmoneymustache.com and submit something to the case study forum. People are often surprised by how much they can save without significantly impacting their well-being.

(BTW that calculator is awful because it assumes you need to spend a specified fraction of your income during retirement. That's not how this works at all! By that standard, almost anyone is going to be behind the curve.)
Good point - but even my mum (65 and not very good with phones or computers) will just bash the bare domain into her browser.If it's got "www." she'll use that, if not she won't. She still knows it's a web thing, the www. for her and everybody else is superfluous.

Things change. We've had something like 30-odd years of URLs. The people who can't deal with this are vanishingly small, and those that can't are likely not your target market; or they're the sort that'll just consider Facebook to be the web.

I'm not disagreeing with your point btw that some people can't deal with this - all I disagree is the extent.
Ask HN: How did you find your mentor?
What’s the story behind your mentor?

I remember when I finished school a friend of mine introduced me to his babysitter. He was actually a filmmaker and taught me how to live from filmmaking in 3 months. Since then I feel great appreciation for mentors.
Again you are shamelessly arguing "the principle of it all" without actual real world examples of problems.. Cite some real problems and we can have a more productive discussion. It doesn't help to falsely equate hiding "www." with corrupting phone numbers.
Do you support Germany's banning of Nazi propaganda?
My guess is that is where they will focus their acquisition energy.
Look, it's just math. Of course there's room for these things. Learning to consume just a little less than you currently do grants you a ton of flexibility.
I don't know what ISP does, but good on them for helping their customers.
Similar to David Walsh, he set up MoNA with his profits.
this is how voting works tho
No. We can tax corporate profits. More and more profits come from automation and outsourcing. Just tax it.
I might be missing something here, but how does not owning property necessarily mean "living hand to mouth and at risk of being booted out of your apartment by a dickhead landlord"?

Just going to put this here for people who are interested: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Taipei
This one is kind of a "religious" topic for me, I guess. I'm sorry that it is, but it makes me exceedingly defensive.

I trained on Active Directory (AD) with a group of veteran sysadmins in 1999. I don't have access to the "Microsoft Official Curriculum" book from my class in '99 (long-since thrown away), but I have a distinct memory of a lively conversation in class re: the pitfalls of using a public domain name as an AD domain name (or, worse yet, a Forest Root domain name) during the class. It was very evident to our group of veteran sysadmins that using a public domain name in AD would create silly make-work scenarios (like installing IIS on every DC just to run redirect visitors to "www.example.com"-- just as you describe, albeit IIS didn't natively support sending redirects at the time).

I'd go further and suggest that anybody with a modicum of familiarity with DNS knows having multiple roots-of-authority for a single domain name is a bad idea. Microsoft not supporting split-horizon in their DNS server (like BIND does with 'views') compounded the difficulties with such a scenario in an all-Windows environment.

I certainly wouldn't argue that Microsoft has given exclusively good recommendations for AD domain names in the past (evidence ".local" in Windows Small Business Server), but I am reasonably certain that their documentation always suggested that using a subdomain of a public domain name was a supported and workable option.

I started deploying AD in 2000. I've deployed roughly 50 forests in different enterprises, and I've never used a public domain name as an AD domain name. I've domain-renamed all my subsequently-acquired Customers for whom it was an option (which it was, so long as they had not yet installed Exchange 2007), and have been rebuilding the Forests of Customers who made the wrong decision in the past, where it makes economical sense.
I ACTUALLY F*CKING DID IT
> GIMP's IWarp workflow is horrendous.

Welcome to 2018 where GIMP 2.10 is available and features the Warp Transform tool that does the same (actually, more) and works directly on the canvas.
In other news, the NYT writes about how to retire a millionaire in your 30's:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/style/fire-financial-inde...
There is an actual (small) reason for the existence of "www" nowadays. You cannot have a CNAME record for the domain apex (example.com). Many dns providers implement a workaround by resolving the CNAME record into A/AAAA records when queried.

https://serverfault.com/questions/613829/why-cant-a-cname-re...
> We've had something like 30-odd years of URLs.

24 from the RFC, 26 from the discussion that led to it, per Wikipedia.
As an engineer I agree. But I try hard to keep grounded in the irrational real world that I occupy. So I have to respect the reality that I have to work with the irrationality, not against it.
I was aware of it, but I couldn’t have told you about it without prompting. I didn’t remember it that well. As soon as someone mentioned what it was it made perfect sense to me.

Yeah, that’s the complex part of all of this. As you said context is king here, and Jones is very well known for making implicit or explicit derogatory remarks about Jewish people. There really isn’t room for him to claim “I didn’t know that“.

> there were almost certainly better grounds for the ban

I think you’re right that this was sort of a cherry pick.

He’s done way more than enough stuff in the past to earn him a ban but they never acted on it.

After the hearing and his behavior immediately after I’m guessing they were tired of defending him and having to answer these questions AGAIN.

But it would seem especially strange/capricious just say “that thing you did three months ago that we gave you a pass on? Now you’re out.“

So I think they just chose the latest thing as their “instigating” incident and said that plus the totality of his previous behavior meant a total ban.

Even though the most recent thing is not as bad (relative to his previous ‘highs’).
According to the London museum of science, Babbage looked at binary, as well as many other bases and made an informed decision against it. The supremacy of binary is not as obvious with mechanical systems as it is with electrical semiconductors. These machines are built with gears, not switches.
If you turn 65 in 2040 or 2050 or 2060

Some historical perspective: My understanding is that when Social Security was created, the average life expectancy was 67. So offering it for people age 65 was intended as providing for people in extreme old age who had probably worked physically hard their entire lives and were pretty beat up.

I'm not saying we don't have genuine problems here, but this article is bellyaching about, basically, a golden era when the world was relatively briefly unusually comfortable and acting like that was the norm throughout all of history. The reality is that money per se only became common place something like 300 years or so ago. So the very concept of retirement and saving for retirement is relatively new.

This makes it a little hard for me to take this article seriously, so I confess to not reading it in full. Some of the things it gets right: Pensions are going out of style precisely because people are living longer, so pensions wind up being financially unsustainable.

Given that people are living a whole lot longer and are generally in better health at 70 these days than 65 used to be, it isn't really some huge hand-wringing drama that older Americans need to continue working. Instead, it is evidence of how successful we have been in some sense.

This is a good problem to have. We need to make adjustments to the system, but people living longer and this requiring cultural adjustments isn't some giant tragedy.

Retirement for, say, two decades or whatever is hardly some historical and long standing human norm. It's really rather out of touch with reality to act like it ever was.
No, it's really important to retain all those dots and slashes. This is not sarcasm. I'm being completely serious when I say this. It's really easy notation, and the differentiation of context for dots, slashes, question marks and hashtags is really useful.

Wikipedia FR > Canada

I look at that angle bracket with the white space, and I get chills. And I'm not even drawing attention to that oh-so-glaring omission of the /wiki/ context. Truly horrifying.

Repeat. This is not sarcasm.

Dark roads ahead, friends.
One of the things I used to like about shopping at Whole Foods - no stupid club pricing.

Yeah, I have prime - but I am not putting the app on my phone and don't want to give my phone number out, or be bothered too. Just let me buy my groceries in piece.
but if you're reminded repeatedly by management and you continue not to, then what would you expect to happen?

I’d expect a massive fucking award for not constantly pissing off customers with this nonsense.
North Korean hackers actually travel abroad to their target country for 2 years according to the business insider article someone liked to in this thread. Seems possible they may travel again.
Musical apathy? This really only applies to music. I derive great pleasure from other artistic works, just not anything auditory. On a perhaps related note, I can recall almost 100% of what I read, but I can recall only about 10% of what I hear, no matter how closely I am paying attention. Someone can tell me something, but it won't make sense. But if I read the exact same words I will have complete comprehension and recall.
There was never a requirement for www. to be anything other than the bare domain for most people. It became useful because it was synonymous with being a web thing right back when people hardly knew what the web was. This was serendipity, which turned out not to be serendipitous when people had to write it on signs / read it out on an advert etc.

I see no reason now to associate www. with the web version of your service. If I receive a request on port 80 or 443 for the bare domain, what's a better option than service the 99% of people who want a webpage?

You are splitting hairs on this one.
In Texas, anyway (where WF started), other grocery chains have been passing them by. A big part of why WF sold to Amazon is that they are getting squeezed between co-ops and chains like HEB's "Central Market" stores, which have lots of organic produce at better prices and with better public image. Trader Joe's is another chain that has been encroaching on their space. I think WF was pushing the envelope on healthier and/or more socially responsible produce and other foodstuffs 20 years ago, but that ship has long since sailed. Amazon got them past their "best by" date.
> I don't even answer

Now if only I could get it to not leave a message.
Does it matter?

If this kind of behavior is against the platform rules, should the rules only apply if someone can prove that the person didn’t make a mistake in who they were targeting?
Thanks for the rec! Just bought for $5 (kindle ed).
You could use the same argument to say that SV engineer salaries should be way less in order to align with the global markets.
Per https://www.valuepenguin.com/average-credit-card-debt#income... the lower income earners in the US have almost 10% of their income in credit card debt. Per https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/fact-shee... 12 million people spend $9 billion in payday loan fees and people spend billions of dollars each year playing the lottery. Poor financial decisions and money management is definitely playing a role in this as well.

We really need to include suggestions for adding programs and laws for encouraging saving, removing predatory lending, and incentivizing responsible spending in articles like these. There is too much focus on consumer spending and not enough on household stability and having money in the bank for emergencies.
I know several people (i.e. 3 of my grandparents) who lived jobless that long or longer. At least half of their retirement years, they were physically and mentally incapable of holding their previous jobs, or even the most menial unskilled jobs.

One had half his body paralyzed by a stroke, and you couldn't really tell how much understanding he had of the world around him when he was alert. The other two had forms of alzheimer's that, eventually, left them occasionally speaking czech instead of english (they moved to the USA as children) and not recognizing their own children. The first sign they needed full-time care was when we caught one of them overdosing on ibuprofin- get a headache, take some, forget, take more, repeat. That, and leaving the gas stove on for hours.

I fully agree that the retirement age should start increasing, but there's definitely a point of diminishing returns. We may be living longer as a whole, but our physiology hasn't caught up enough to trust that those extra years can be spent making economically valuable contributions to society.
There are trade bodies, industry bodies, industry associations, chambers of commerce, special interest groups, lobbying groups and it goes on. Every business and corporate is a member of multiple bodies to further their interests and nobody questions these groupings.

Yet employee and worker bodies causes discussion and debate as if somehow only this aspect of economic life should not seek to promote and protect their interests. Even billion dollar companies feel the need to form groups but individuals apparently do not benefit from association. This is a completely unrealistic position in the current economic context.

This is dissonance at work, to accept the logic of the former and see it work so effectively, and question the latter.
Good point. I was on Janet / ARPANet before the web. Point conceded!
Rosalind Franklin is a huge one. Everyone thinks she missed out because she was a woman, which might have been the case, but we'll never know.
Your landing page text doesn't fit on an iPhone 6. It gets cut off after 'We make landing pages that do'.
If this is the worst example anyone can come up with, debugging a misconfigured site while relying exclusively on screenshots of beautified URLs, then I think it proves my point.

There will always be tradeoffs in advancing usability. This is objectively a small one. The problem is the unstated lack of appreciation for the value of usability improvements, because it's usually a more technically sophisticated person criticizing it who's comfortable with the way things have been. If you care about usability, that is an immensely net positive gain.
> On every new Gimp release I look through the new features and ... no. No adjustment layers.

While the roadmap has been stating for years that it's planned for v3.2 :)

> I'm confused how this is not the #1 priority.

Before 2.10 the top priority was completing the switch to the new image processing backend that makes non-destructive editing possible.

For 3.0 the top priority is switching to a newer, actually maintained version of the UI toolkit.

For 3.2 the top priority is, at last, the non-destructive editing.

It all makes sense.
These are inflation-adjusted numbers. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/four-percent-rule.asp
Sheryl Sandberg’s New Job Is to Fix Facebook’s Reputation and Her Own
As an American I don’t feel any guilt or emotional baggage. This kind of issue is brought up by people with severely underdeveloped moral codes who have latched on to the candy equivalent of morals. Which is to say, unsophisticated but provides an easy sense of superiority.
It is worse than that for some users. I've seen actual users that type/paste real url's into google's search box in order to go to the site. They actually had no idea that the bar at the top of the browser that said "google" (since they/someone set their default homepage to google) was a place where they could delete "google.com" and type/paste the url they wanted to visit there instead to actually get to the site they wanted to visit.
Another good point, I forgot about that - thank you.
What a joke. Maybe if they were in a union they would get paid more than minimum and be more "dedicated" as you say.
This is really fantastic. I just managed to find a 3x speedup on a compute heavy job I run using Py-spy - there was an unneeded hotspot in a library I'm using that I didn't previously suspect. It would have taken a long time using kernprof to dig in through the call stack to find the issue.
I have trouble getting on board with your opinion about their dedication because Whole Foods stores across the country have some of the best and most consistent customer service experiences I've had. I'd say there's no doubt they are more dedicated than most retail workers. The real question for me is if they are worth $15/hr? I don't know the business, so I can't say with any certainty there.
She had been to a private school in England before University, and was only at Cambridge as a postgraduate.
This is the company where people piss in water bottles and leave them around the warehouse because they are so afraid of being fired for going to the bathroom.
LGBT being a protected class or not was not at issue in the cake shop decision, since they were not denied service in general (they had been regular customers of that shop, and were always served). The issue was whether designing a custom cake for their wedding was considered artistic expression, and as such he had a right to refuse under the 1st amendment since you cannot compel speech.
If in most uses minds, "www.example.com" is the same as "example.com", then "example.com" is less confusing because they have probably never heard of the word "subdomain".
Surely Google of all companies has the resources to see exactly how much disruption this will actually cause. And I don't believe they get to make the decision based on that, but they should share the numbers. Any domain that returns different content between "m." and "www." vs. the apex domain are affected.
"That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved."

I think this applies here. Freedom of speech is the right above all rights and limits to that right need to be extremely precise and generally agreed upon.

The western world is drunk on politics. Concepts of racism, harassment, violence, fascism and the like are creeping into inappropriate territories. This is not a time to start making decisions about what people are or aren't allowed to say.
You're right that Focus is not a full fledged browser, though it is actively being revamped to use GeckoView instead of Chromium. I think the change is in beta right now.

Mozilla is also starting to put more resources into Android (GeckoView, etc). Hopefully we'll see some exciting things in this realm soon.