skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lightspeed is that number in a vacuum. Interstellar space is not a perfect vacuum. There will have been some matter to slightly slow the photons.
I've used _lots_ of different Android devices since I purchased the original Android G1 device in 2009 and I never had a problem with chargers (although I don't use the original chargers most of the time).
I renewed my US passport last year and that was entirely done through the mail. Why is uploading a photo inherently less secure than mailing a photo?
How? They don't have a lobby. They don't advocate for any politicians or party. You can't vote for or against the IRS.
People used to say Wikileaks is independent and definitely not propped up by the Kremlin. And now it's plainly apparent that they are. For me, living in Russia and knowing the kind of rhetoric our government likes to push, it was obvious all along. Once Snowden will be revealed working for the Kremlin, I'm looking forward to gloat about that too.
What a bitch nigger.
What a bitch nigger
I agree, although I doubt they care.

I also tried to switch to Gmail in preparation, and it's a lot worse IMO.
Fortnite Has Contributed to Five Percent of Divorces in the UK
> Ambly is designed for use when developing hybrid ClojureScript / native apps

Can someone shed some light on where Ambly would fit into the development workflow?
If you read what Linus said, nowhere did he conflate technical merit with social merit. Your comment very much does this. He specifically said there haven't been pain points around technical issues, but around process issues, which is what he's personally trying to fix.

Open source is about the community, and I think Linus figured this out later than most. Sure, you can dump some code out there and maybe even get users, but you won't have built a community that improves software until you've shown people can file bugs reports and patches or otherwise be a part of the community without being personally insulted. This is a pretty low bar tbh.
I'm reading Sapolsky's book "Behave". It's quite packed with info, better than a usual popular science book. I think I'll first finish it before I'm gonna go for another form factor to digest the same material.
As father of five: yes, please yes.
It means there's going to be a penis everywhere you thought there was a vagina.
Yes, their previous travel issue was being interviewed at the Turkish border, a friend of his admitted that he was not a fan of Erdogan. Come on. The US based on that complaint put them on their nofly list. That's a banana republic violating their own constitution.
Almost all stories I comment on have at some point appeared in the HN RSS Feed, which contains basically stories that appear on the frontpage. Since I poll every 5 minute I also catch a lot of stories that only briefly are frontpage.
SJWs want to control everything.
Apple most definitely has no dominance for its smartphones anywhere. Even in US where it's larger than anywhere else, Apple's market share is much less than 50%.
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How I imagine this going is that you have a developer friend who supports what you are doing but who isn’t at a place in her life where she can quit her job to focus on an early-stage startup. So y’all make an arrangement where you pay her to do interviews.

How should you structure the payment?
In principle these CoCs look great. In practice they are abused tools to hunt people SJWs don’t like. And they don’t like a lot of people.
Yeah. People who can't decide what gender they want to be are always ahead of the curve.
Having an upper bound on how long one has got to stay in the forest has got to be very practical, though.
Smart to use John Oliver. He'll likely pick it up and provide free PR.
Why not talk to the ESO fund to see if they’ll pay your tax bill?
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Companies recruit PhDs because they have amassed many techniques...

While everything you say is no doubt true, I've got a a lot of friends who have had no problem getting quant jobs in most major finance centers in Europe despite only having Masters degrees
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This conjecture also assumes that our understanding of thermodynamics applies in any other hypothetical dimension.

It's entirely possible that displacement in these dimensions corresponds to an increase in energy in the system that offsets the "lost" energy.
That’s the thing. Too many websites don’t care about you and just add a random library they didn’t even test. Also these libraries are just made to make something - not to solve a problem. They could test if the can set a cookie before showing anything and assume nothing is accepted by default.
Increasing wages does, however, increase the consequences of getting caught. If someone stands to lose their $12,000 annual salary if they get caught, then selling user info for a couple thousand is tempting - it increases their annual income by double digits. By comparison, I think considerably fewer people would accept such a bribe if they stood to lose a $120,000 salary. This is Singapore's logic: their government officials are some of the highest paid in the world.
The obsessive passion is itself cultivated. Looking at pre-Apple Steve Jobs you would hardly guess he would obsess over building top of the rank devices. Spirituality, LSD, Hitchhiking around the country—you see traits of a freewheeling hippie than a visionary.

I don't deny the role of genetics, but the problem is that people have been inculcated with the idea that you're born with a very specific interest and that's what you should spend your life doing. When the steam runs off, people are stuck in careers with a bleak outlook.

I feel passion is more a combination of different skills—obsession, curiosity, persistence. You can use them to make inroads into any field—and be happy too.
Btw. we also have a course covering the basics of CSS Grid: https://pinegrow.com/courses/learn-css-grid-with-pinegrow/
How on earth does automation, docs, and testing turn programmers into cogs?

Automation is removing the repetative work that a cog would do.

Docs and testing allow you to take on work of greater scope by being more sure of yourself and what your coworkers have built.
Oh don't worry, Apple will now only produce lightning chargers and deliver phones with USB-C to lightning for charging.
I've not moved the goalposts. I'm just saying the fact that stocks are also driven by people's perceptions of other people's perception of the stock's true price doesn't negate the fact that the discounted value of future cash flows ultimately underpins the asset's value.

For what it's worth, this is my field of expertise. I work at a top bank in Wall Street and assure you discounted cash flows isn't a "useless mental model". Just ask the Court of Chancery in Delaware.
Their slogan is "we can't make it more enjoyable, but we can make it easier" ("Leuker kunnen we het niet maken, wel makkelijk"). I haven't yet have to file taxes in any other country but when I compare my experiences to those of others on HN I suppose they're doing okay.
It gives you a great safety net. It lets you speculate in the great game. 9 in 10 ideas will fail, but that's ok as you won't end on the streets.

Those without the safety net have far more to risk, so are far less likely to succeed. For every richard Branson who starts up a company from the back of their van there's 9 who do that and fail, and are currently on minimum wage stacking shelves. For every millionaire actor there's a thousand waiting tables. For every musician there's 100 teachers. Very little to do with how good they are, all to do with the lucky break.

Hell where your parents live makes a massive difference. When you start out with a job in the big city, you either live rent free with parents and thus save £10-15k a year, or you put your entire wage to paying bills.

After 5 years you have 70k, enough for a confortable deposit on a house, or a few years of speculation, or investments that will grow to half a million by retirement.

If your parents don't live close to where you start your career you're far more hand to mouth.
Depends on the purpose of the mission. Flying for fun or to deliver packages agility is probably more important. Flying for surveillance perhaps it would be better to be in the air longer.
Are you me in fifteen years?

Seriously though going on hikes with my three year old for three or four hours is amazing. We only hike about as many miles, but it’s amazing how great kids are if you just give them the chance.
It can be mutable if setHeight sets width automatically, and vice-versa.
I don't get this mentality at all. The number one thing I wish I had was more of in life was quality daytime hours to spend with my family. It's why I have kids. I've been spoiled by paternity leave for our new little one, and I don't know how I'll cope with having to go back to work.
I agree. I'm thinking of moving to that model when my current contract comes up for renegotiation early next year.

A 20% paycut is definitely liveable, and that extra day per week would make a lot of difference - either in terms of bootstrapping side projects, or just quality of life.
FB couldn't collect data on your usage from an RSS feed, which is what they use to drive their advertising platform, which you are also not participating in. So having you read outside of FBs site or app is not in their best interests.
Another European here.

Anecdotally, I don't know anyone personally who's actually paid any amount of attention to the details of this.
>The big wins for lightning are that it's tsuper thin and that the part more likely to break is on the cable rather than the socket, while the type c socket on my MacBook and the one on my Anker charger (somewhat) rapidly became loose. I'd hoped that it would be the ground shroud on the cable but sadly it was the sockets that failed.

That's kind of weird. USB-C was specifically designed to keep the material fatigue on the side of the cable and also increase durability over micro and mini USB A.

The only USB-C port I had fail was the google charger I had my nexus shipped with, which broke after 3 years of heavy abuse (lots of ripping and tugging and in one case even ripping the cable out of the socket so the plug on the cable broke).
I might be wrong about this but last I checked new MBPs don't even have half of the maximum capacity that can be brought on a plane, because thinness curse.

Edit: checked, and this was true for the 2016/17 models. The 2018 models have 58Wh (13") and 83Wh (15") in the most expensive configuration. 2016/17 models have 49Wh and 76Wh respectively. The non-touchbar ones have 54Wh, even in the 2018 models. You can take up to 100Wh on an airplane, not counting spares. So every MBP model currently available has significantly less than the maximum allowed capacity.
The thing is, lots of magazines have fantastic content. They just don't have it at a volume sufficient to fill a whole magazine every month.

I have a stack of Wired for example - early Wired in particular every now and again had fantastic articles. But the ones I've kept are from many months apart, and each one of them I've kept for one article.

A magazine like Time with the reputation time has, tends to have that reputation because of the occasional articles and images that are outstanding enough to be remembered, and because their baseline quality is high enough not to detract from the successes, not because everything is consistently good.

In print publishers got away with that. People would read it because they often had no competing content available pre ubiquitous internet (most of my remaining paper magazines were bought for transatlantic flights). Online, if the articles don't draw in enough eyeballs, it serves little purpose.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/10/28/ask-...
I'd say the passionate people would be those working away for years on the hardware, the software, the UI that made the ipod and iPhone possible and successful rather than the guy who put on a turtleneck and sold it to the world.
Got any good recommendations for such a book?
Actually the UX is just mirroring the privacy handling of the page you visit. As we now see most pages just want to track everything about you and sell it to any 3rd party. This was bad before, but now you see it.
Ask HN: Why is DAU of Dapps so incredibly low?
The decentralized internet seems to be the future, but from both usage and utility standpoint, DAU of dapps are still very low(~10k). Why is that?
Could you post a few examples?

Woz seems like a nice guy and Warren Buffet likewise. Both seems to have worked in small teams.
I don't think the EU ever mandated any particular kind of plug, to my knowledge all they demanded was that the vendors find a common standard and use that and micro USB A was the compromise reached, which atm is being updated to USB C and expected to last a bit longer than µUSB-A.
Are we not perhaps mistaking political correctness and politeness?
Apple started supporting FLAC in recent macOS and iOS versions, but just on the OS-/file system-level. I think that indicates that a future iTunes revamp will come with FLAC support, at which point the iOS Music app will have to support it as well.
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why would it be "groundbreaking" if it's in the air :)
I expect high powered chargers and battery packs to become more common as recently full system chips for handling USB-C PD have been released which support up to the 100W via various means. That makes it much easier to build them rather than having to rely on your own fab or reusing USB2.0 chips with some hacks.
My short synthesis/summary:

Instead of trying to find a life passion, seek to master some valuable and useful skills. Leverage those skills to find work where you have more autonomy, control, and impact. This can help with personal fulfillment.

If you are lucky enough to develop a sense of larger purpose that your work contributes to, then great! But seeking this directly might be a mistake. Meaning seems to emerges from other efforts -- pursuit of excellence, indulging in curiosity, solving real problems, connecting with others, and so on.

I think this is a relatively practical and effective mindset, especially for many HNers.
uh...

my first piece of feedback is that you need to actually have a better strategy than "emacs w/ JS" if you want any real feedback

At the moment, there's literally nothing to give feedback on

Congrats for starting it, I guess?

Why do you think this will work where other attempts at replacing emacs has failed? Why JS over other options? What benefits over emacs? What architecture? Why that architecture over emacs current one? What are you plans on integrating with other editor plugins, if any, to steal your way into having an ecosystem before people fully invest in this? etc

I mean hell, the most basic question: Why do you even want to replace/reinvent emacs?
Switched about a month ago. Mostly ignored by the people in a relatively small office although they weren't on my direct team. Could use my own laptop and all desks are hot desks as people can choose where they work on a daily basis. Guy on the team eventually arrived and got up and running with dev work in half a day.

Laptop had been ordered 6 weeks before but didn't arrive for a further 2 weeks and then had ridiculously restricted Windows on it. A month later I've convinced them to let me wipe Windows for Ubuntu, with some luck of finding a senior IT support guy who likes Linux.
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Interestingly, Bloomberg doesn't have RSS feeds.
That's incompatible with the news as a an industry attempting to be profitable, as you can see from the state of the news
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The fact that the event was 130 million light years away makes me imagine this chaotic, turbulent network of gravitational waves just ripping through pockets of interstellar space...

I wonder how close you would need to be to "feel" the gravitational wave pass through you. Imagine being in the epicenter of a cluster of them.
If your company focused on building a specific technology that you will then apply to lots of industries, or on taking an existing technology and applying it to a specific business problem?

If the former, then its unlikely you are asking this question since you should be talking with the grad student who is already your cofounder.

So I’m going to assume you are building a startup like zipcar, taking mostly-known technologies and applying them to solve a business problem. In this case, you want someone who knows their particular stack very well (can debug their own package management issues, can choose good libraries, can navigate the docs quickly). You don’t need someone who has contributed to developing the language itself.

> and connect with the right talent

I’m not sure there is a large category of person who simultaneously doesn’t know their tools well but is well-respected among their contacts in the way that would draw other engineers to want to work with them. Maybe this refers to an engineering manager who hasn’t really been doing much programming in the past 3 years?

EDIT: actually yes, someone with engineering management experience who is a bit rusty with programming to any particular stack is probably a good choice—-as long as they previously have been efficient they can pick it back up again.
So you would be okay to sell bread and water in exchance for a first born?
Or would it be better to have some basic rules, like privacy, and every business has to follow these rules?
I would suspect that the light was affected by a large well on the way. If gravitational waves behave like normal waves then a gravity well shouldn't delay them much but the light would get affected and might change course a bit... enough to delay it for 2 seconds.
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What do "genius CEOs" have to do with anything? Most successful CEOs were only responsible for a single business. Multiple successes don't change what Gates, Ellison, Knight et el. accomplished because they only did it once. Plenty of instances of people that failed plenty before eventually succeeded elsewhere (Ray Kroc).
I think there's too much randomness in air travel to evaluate anything besides price.

Pay more for more legroom? Is that before or after the person ahead of you reclines their seat? Will there be room to stow your small bag, or will that be where you want your feet to go? Will the person behind you put their feet on the arm rest and force you to lean forward? Will the person next to you be too tall or wide for the seat?
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I'd wager the GP was joking. I do get his point though. Some weekends are such hard work that I look forward to Monday for a break.

I find it's worst when you have chores or other jobs that need to be done in the weekend and your kids, for whatever reason, take a particular objection to cooperating. So in many ways I could see a 3 day week as potentially helping there since you'd have an extra day for chores thus could work to the children's schedule a little more. That is assuming, of course, that we don't end up with two "Sundays". (in many UK suburbs Sunday can be an absolute nightmare as everything opens late and shuts early).
I can understand you feel like this, because the article has a lot of political charge. But there is the real accusation that (social) media is unfairly balanced. The article makes a rightful statement that this is very hard, if not impossible to do (it is similar to a nation state proving it has no nuclear weapons.. you can never be 100% sure).

Yet this problem requires some kind of solution. The issue is dividing public opinion in ways that are detrimental to society. Leaving politics behind IMHO there is much value in thinking how tech platforms (and to a lesser extent journalists) can cope with this.
Google’s search engine for China censors results for ‘democracy,’ ‘human rights
The problem is classic teaching is pretty much fading away and being replaced by "edutainment" type material. The new generation wants educational material but entertainment at the same time.

Problem is the classic teaching methods are generally better for building skills for higher-level learning/thinking/projects. When I say classic teaching, I am talking about structured material that is sequential and focuses on the more challenging aspects of the subject (not boring, mono-tone lectures). The edutainment material on the other hand focuses on a lot of off-topic discussions and generally dumbs down the material. So yeah, the video is entertaining and you learn something but you only learn the high-level of the subject. All complex aspects of the subject are avoided because, well, who the hell wants to spend time looking at complex mathematical equations or talking about some high-level topic that is hard to understand.
Why does it have to be random at all? Why not start at the beginning of a Linux book and something like http://wiki.bash-hackers.org?

Even acting systematically leaves room for astonishing synchronicities.
It is very interesting how dichotomic Linus' traits are beeing discussed here. Many seem to think that him beeing an asshole at times correlates with communicating clearly – then the opposite is quickly constructed: kind, polite, but not saying what is needed, robbing everyone of their time, beating around the bush..

As a (film) director I work with both with a technical crew and rather non-technical actors. As you can imagine good communication and leadership is key to make something as complex as a movie work on multiple layers. But you don't necessarily have to be aware of how your communication effects people to be a good leader (as Linus stated he wasn't), but it certainly helps to make your communication more intentional and less erratic. Film directors can pull the strings of their actors while beeing assholes, real friends or a cold professionals – but all of them have to be aware of the effect it is having on the actors – otherwise they are just shooting darts into the fog monte-carlo-style.

You can't just force someone to deliver peak performance. You also can't just convince them rationally, even if they have a huge incentive. It is your job to get them into a place where they A)can deliver their best and B) they also _want_ to deliver their best. If they are mentally stuck it is your job to show them the possibilities, if they are head-in-the-clouds it is you job to ground them back to earth, while still leaving them freedom.

How to achieve effective communication like this depends mostly on the situation, the constellation between sender and receiver and last but not least on the character of the individual.

Someone who overestimates themselves all the time, but can't deliver and destroys work of their team might need a different treatment, than somebody who really gives their best and accidentally fucked up. Psychologically speaking, some might be more receptive to public communication (where there is more than one person listening) and others want/need a one-on-one.

Effective communication is, when you can push everybody over their boundaries, using the language they need and in the end they should feel like they wanted all of this themselves.

This won't give you that infamous aura, but it will get the job done faster, better, using less words and in in an ideal case everybody will thank you, because they learned a lot.

One cannot not communicate. That is why it is important to make communication intentional. Read Paul Watzlawick's Five Axioms of communication, if you didn't already: http://www.wanterfall.com/Communication-Watzlawick%27s-Axiom...
You must not have flown much on domestic Chinese or Indian airlines.
Maybe once upon a time but I feel increasingly that online competition is increasingly being used as a scapegoat for declining editorial standards. The rise and fall of publications is a natural cycle. There’s no reason at all why Time should continue immortally, it’s just a trademark at this stage.