skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course there are examples where complexity cannot be the issue. Russia had frankly no legitimate explanation or capacity to out-compete the US on launch systems, yet they did in many ways. Even the US-built Atlas V uses Russian RD-180 engines. Perhaps things like regulatory capture and bureaucratic intertia, among others, are to blame.

There are other examples. I spent a lot of time around Boston, where road work takes ages, the roads are horrendously bad, and the most corrupt large-scale project in history took forever to finish (and then even a ceiling tile fell off and killed someone due to absurdly corrupt quality control). Of course, complex roads projects can be built extroardinarily quickly and safely[1].

1 - https://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/25/california-free...
If your processes are complex, you're likely need flexible tool which allows arbitrary workflows. Of course you might argue that complex processes should bend to match tools, but not everyone who pays for software will agree, so Jira definitely has its market as a flexible tool even if it means that there should be dedicated Jira developers.
I think this is unrelated to being self funded or being in the A, B or C round.

It's more about the fact that any new cool young company can disappear soon, if there is no business. And this happens both if investors give you money or if you simply don't make enough money. That's the way it is...

Eventually, if the business doesn't work well, it doesn't work well...

It's also somehow the reason that nobody got ever fired for hiring ibm or whatever the saying says...
IPTV services are usually based on multicast and seem to work quite efficiently. But it's obviously useless for services like Netflix/Youtube/etc. because you have to be sending the same content to everyone at the same time.
That's definitely not a sure thing. For example here are the GDP comparisons between China and India going back to 1975.

GDP, five year increments

India
$100b (1975) | $190b | $236b | $326b | $366b | $474b | $834b | $1.68t | $2.1t (2015)

China
$163b (1975) | $191b | $309b | $360b | $734b | $1.2t | $2.3t | $6.1t | $11t (2015)

They started out in close proximity, were identical by 1980, and they ended up 35 years later with a 5x difference between them. Why? Poor choices that India made along the way. The point being, the sort of growth China has seen is not automatic, it isn't a given at all that India will make the right choices that lead to it becoming another economic superpower. It may make the right choices. China was only able to generate that expansion through very aggressive focus on traditional industry and manufacturing. India isn't following anything like the path that China did, I don't see where they're going to generate the extraordinary foreign investment that China did by using old-style manufacturing as a magnet for capital that they could then reinvest into domestic expansion. To say nothing of the fact that that style of industrial empire and manufacturing is disappearing, and that disappearance is going to accelerate with leaps in automation that are happening now. It's being discussed as an advancement trap for developing nations, where the ladder of advancement gets wiped out for developing nations by AI, robotics, etc (eliminating jobs that otherwise could employ hundreds of millions of people in places like India and China).
We have a few, but a bunch of "mittleständische IT firma"/"Enterprise" manager dudes are just founding new sub-companies so they can call their old crap start-up.
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Ditto. I finally bit the bullet this week and made the switch from Inbox back to Gmail since Inbox is headed to the guillotine.

So far I’m finding it awful. Miss my bundling and I miss swiping to snooze on iOS (swiping both directions archives in iOS though I’ve heard it’s configurable in Android)
Guess it's predominant in Berlin, people are as removed from business thinking as possible up there.
> Taking into account all the abuse she had to take from them

Some unsolicited advice, because internet: I really hope you understand what you're getting yourself into. I have no idea how familiar you are with Chinese culture, but be aware that family, especially parents, are very important in China. I'm sure you heard the "in China, you're not marrying a person, but a family" thing before. It really is deeply ingrained in Chinese culture, so depending on at which age and for how long she has lived in the West, despite her parents treating her bad, she might still feel a great urge to abide by her parents and pull an emergency bailout.

Even if she decides to cut ties with her family, which might very well happen if you don't pay a dime and make her parents lose face, keep in mind that now you need to be extra sure she is well integrated locally (friends, activities, social life). Again this depends a lot on how westernized she is, if not that much, having Chinese friends is crucial if you're living in an entirely different culture. Just don't let her get all reclusive and spend all time on Chinese social media. This might sound like a joke but I've seen it happen. The culture barrier is real. I've seen Germans struggling to adapt to the American way of living and vice versa, and they're ridiculously close compared to China and any Western country.

Also I hope the way her parents treat her doesn't trigger too much of a protective instinct. It's noble you want to help her but be really sure you know the person and want to stay with her. Breaking up now and sending her back to her parents might make her life miserable, or maybe not and she'll find someone back in China, but marrying her, fucking up her relationship with her parents and then realizing it doesn't work after a year or two will quite likely make her life miserable. (But depending on how ugly it has gotten, you might actually like that at that point).

Again this is general precautionary advice, mostly assuming worst case conditions.
To your first point on speed: check out Popcorn Time. Even though this example is, likely, streaming copyrighted material - it showcases that BitTorrent is indeed fast enough to stream reliably at FHD quality. Bandwidth, even from a mildly seeded torrent, can easily push down hundreds of megabits per second. As others have noted place a few well connected, data center oriented, seeds and you have speed and distributed sources (reliability). Content caching boxes already handle the majority of Netflix traffic at the DC/head end of your ISP today. So Netflix could easily add BT to that caching layer and bake it in to their native apps (Android/IOS) as a first test bed.
> You should try it some time.

Worth noting that Patrick Collison was/is a Lisp user. While in high school, he won a fairly prestigious Irish national science-fair-type contest (the “Young Scientist”) with an AI bot written in some Lisp dialect.

IIRC he also contributed some patches to one of the major Lisp projects.
I travel to Hong Kong every few years to visit family. Each time, there are more MTR stations--and on some occasions, entirely new lines. The MTR is just as complex as BART, if not moreso. I think it's worth considering why some places can build things like a metro fast, but others can't.
Yes, but that was to be expected from a company founded by a bunch of copy-cats.
The only reason why they attacked him is this twitt : "Who do you think owns the press? Hello."
Even a billionaire can't say that without retaliation.
Unless that sweet green bar is your immediate gratification.
Physics may have drawn laughter at the time as well

http://www.paulgraham.com/disc.html
I love the idea of gradual Ruby typing but I think I'm going to wait until Matz follows through with his promise to bake it into the language.

But if I were working in a shop that was considering moving off Ruby and this would convince them to stay on it, I'd very happily adopt it.
"Why are certain things getting so much more expensive?"

Because we are lying about inflation. It's not a conspiracy, just a mutually agreed-to delusion. By pretending inflation is lower than it is, the poor feel like they are standing still instead of sinking ...though instinctively they know. And the people just keeping up get to feel richer. Since technology and efficiency improve, the people staying in the same place have cooler things.

If inflation were reported correctly, average would see their paychecks dropping as wealth and power consolidate elsewhere. There is no interest in creating alarm around this fact. Instead the public is distracted by social drama, and political discourse consumed by things that do not affect the real shift in power.
yeah not a bad idead. i need to find plantar fasciitis sleves that are waterproof.

I am too young for this shit :( .
Google is one of the bigger Java shops out there. That, if anything, is their first-and-foremost language outside of search.
I thought this was the most interesting question also.

My own experience bias suggests there is a scale problem related to skilled workers. That is to say there are fewer people with skills needed to achieve the work demanded (by the whole system).

There could be a number of factors here but I’d have to assert education and incentives have not kept pace with the demand. I think this holds true even if we say the projects are more complex than ever or if the technology has advanced rapidly. It still seems like an imbalance of skilled workers to the work.
The hubris of mankind believing he can bend the climate to his will is still strong today.
Yes,there was a time when results were not good enough,these days I only use google if my query isn't direct or if a I need to search for individuals(due to how little they care about privacy,searching email addresses anf names is still ideal in google)

Ddg also has 'bangs'. For example !whois looks up a whois record,!b searches it in bing and !translate translates via google translate. They havr many more :-)
I really hope this isn’t malice on CBS’s part. Either way it’s a arms race and it’s interesting to see the introduction of a social component.
Google is becoming very much anti-anonymous. Its not possible to create gmail account anymore without phone number. Wish there is something like DDG for gmail.
I’ve been a contributor to GNPY as part of the Telecom Infrastructure Project. It’s essentially a route planning tool for planning optical networks.

https://github.com/Telecominfraproject/oopt-gnpy
How is hard to read code a virtue. ?
I wonder if the SEC will disclose the persons that end up receiving compensation for the $40M to be distributed amongst "harmed" investors? My hope is that sophisticated investors are excluded from the compensated group as they know how to manage and leverage risk where as the retail investor does not. The retail investor is the one who would have been harmed in this instance.
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You are right!

I only saw this from the perspective of the investor that gives money and "hopes" it will work.

This doesn't contradict the fact, though, that in Europe the "big plan" tends to work for a simple reason: there are already deals (if it's a b2b) or the product doesn't innovate and it's based on something already working elsewhere.

Obviously this prevents innovation.
Yes, I know. He was signed up for Google's Summer of Code (I forget the exact year) to do a CL project and I was going to be his mentor. But before it started he quit and founded Stripe instead. :-)
UWP doesn't even support Windows 8, it is strictly Windows 10. Not that 8 is very relevant.
Seems to be as complicated as regex to me. Perhaps I am missing something? Any other libraries like this that are decent at this and simplify the problem?
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in America household voltage for lighting is usually 110volts AC RMS. And you could divide that by the resistance of the bulb to get current.

Or take the power rating and divide that by 110.

So a 100 watt bulb is close to an amp.

As to the rate, you could use an oscilloscope or a high speed camera.
What is the relevance of this? A tiny fraction of people, who are benefitting materially from the system, are happy about those benefits -- that's not shocking. And it has no bearing on the wider effects or ethics of the system.
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see also this page 2 of 4 interview with Alan Kay

http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-wit...
Specifically, slow boot times in Windows 10.
"Why are programming environments still so primitive?"

Try JetBrains tools (IntelliJ,Pycharm and kin). I still use vim to edit from a shell, but the JetBrians suite is higher-order coding.

Editing a function while debugging it was available in VB in the 90s. Drag the execution arrow to code you have already run, rewrite it, and step-over.
People downvoted your question because they don't like counterexamples conflicting with their ideals.
No, multicast for IPTV is not cost efficient for ISPs. I don't think there was ever a time when multicast was anything more than hardware vendors trying to profit off of ISPs with broken promises of efficiency.
What's so strange about it? He's a person that, through talent, luck and effort, has become really good at what he does, just like good actors and sports professionals. And what he does has much more impact on the world that what an actor or sports professional does.
1. Time and cost of building and growing a new e-commerce platform, especially for a giant like Walmart is non-trivial. I bet the requirement design alone would take a year to be approved.

2. Big companies often fail in new and unfamiliar markets.

3. Consider acquisition price inflation. If YouTube was created in this period, its selling price would be near $20B just like WhatsApp.
before they build a new station....

do they do environmental impact studies? was enough time given for the study to complete and people to challenge the results? possibly with another study? are there community meetings to discuss the impact? does everyone in the area have a chance to voice their opposition at an open hearing? do all workers on the construction team have strict safety regulations? require certified training for specific tools? the company selected must pass random workplace safety visits? are they allowed to impact existing traffic flows during construction?

we did this to ourselves
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Honestly, if I had to develop a new desktop app for Windows I would seriously think about Electron. It's frustrating that there is no premier desktop app framework for Windows anymore. UWP is too limited, WPF is pretty much deprecated. Win32 has a huge learning curve and finding devs would be very difficult. Pretty sad situation.

Maybe their secret plan is to push people into writing web apps with ASP.NET? Event that doesn't work because a lot of people will use Node instead.
What an ignorant comment.
Workers know what they are getting into.

Customers know what they are buying.

It's an ecosystem that lives on its own.

Could you think of Google made in Europe? In Germany, in France, or in Italy?

It's no wonder that many Europeans tend to go and live in the USA for that reason.
I think survivorship bias is highly relevant to this question. It may not be the entire answer, but it definitely needs to he accounted for.
Oops, sorry, you are correct, I got it mixed up with the 8/8.1 SDK. Fixed.
Can I specify a regular expression as an argument to a string type or demand an integer or a real argument to be a solution of a certain equation with this? Can it also handle validation of certain data against other data in runtime (e.g. load a list of available options from a database and make sure no value that is not in that list gets is allowed as a parameter to a certain function)?
The two most known users here with a similar story are patio11 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11 ) and bemmu ( https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bemmu )

They have posted many interesting stories about their business in Japan, and the live there as a foreigner. They also have blogs with more details.

In particular there was a loooooong post by patio11. (I had to read it in two steps.) https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan... HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8573992 (818, Nov 7 (2014), 309 comments including comments of the author) and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12885435 (185 points, Nov 6(2016), 51 comments)
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"Rube Goldberg" is the best description I've heard for a JS dev stack. So true. Its so awful. But its so much better than it used to be and I pray it continues to improve.

I hear what you're saying. They can be really finicky. I've had very good luck using it all cleanly without issue. I especially love binding vscode to an open browser so that I use vscode for all the inspection, breakpoints, etc.

But I also experienced your lamentations. It took a long time for me to get it all working. Sourcemaps were so unreliable years ago. Now they just seem to work, having learned all the painful lessons about configuration.

There still aren't any sane defaults and the ground won't stop shifting. But now that I have it working, it works great.
How does being a fan of an actor or sprouts professional make sense? It's not rational at all. I think you just give it a pass because it can be ascribed to fall under the category of "aesthetics", in which we've generally agreed as a society not to question someone's right to an opinion.
Mandatory paternity leave would help close the wage gap
I think it is becoming more common. In the early days it seems like there were more of a mix between rich drop outs and poor enthusiasts. Today, especially with the housing market, it seems like there are a lot more 'fake' companies. It used to be that if you came from a wealth family and didn't know what to do you started a public relations, event or media company to pretend that you were doing something. Today that is a "technology startup". Most of which are second or third tier companies in the sense of global reach. While much of the success of Swedish startups come from ending up being first tier companies. Maybe part of that was that Sweden sort of experienced the dot com bubble, which meant that there was less room for phonies for a while.
You get free private projects with Azure DevOps too, and it's a great product to work it.
> They're "secure" (meaning we let anyone's javascript code just run in our browsers, even embedded in other people's code, and seriously expect no ill effects)

I don’t expect that. Use after free vuln + heap spray + shellcode = Ill effects
I have a question. Are there any German laws or regulations that prohibit using startups from using stock options as part of total compensation? I thought I remembered hearing something about this once, namely that it wasn't possible in the same way it was possible in the US. Is there any truth to that?
For me if benchmarks are forbidden, it means that software is significantly worse than its competitors. So this clause by itself is worse than any benchmarks. There might be exceptions like Oracle, but not everyone is Oracle.
The world has changed. On the one hand you still have FCC 97.315 (on the extra exam) which permits sale of non-certified HF (sub 2M) amplifiers from amateur operators to amateur operators, which serves as a convenient loophole for 'homebrews' exchange by individuals with technical competence and presumably a sense of responsibility. On the other you have Amazon placing no restrictions on the purchase of BaoFeng UV5R-s at US$ 23 which have wide VHF Tx capacity. Among other things this supplies individuals, nefarious or otherwise, with the capacity to jam or transmit false weather reports on NOAA 162 MHz maritime band (for the hell of it, verified Tx capacity there using a 136-174 MHz Wouxun KG-689 run into a dummy load). With today's pervasive laissez faire mindset, measured tighter restrictions may be a necessary evil.
"It's really telling that in Windows 8/10 they "modernised" some, but not all, of the control panel UI. It's basically random as to whether a setting you need will be in a Metro-flavoured window or a Win32-flavoured one."

That's really infuriating. Makes me wonder what all these devs they have are doing the whole day.

"To me, the trouble with everything after WinForms is that it lacks a really compelling reason to upgrade. It's not easier to develop for and it's not nicer to use, and on many desktop systems the font rendering is much uglier in the new system. It does perform better at high DPI, but (catch-22) few people use high DPI windows systems because it's not well supported by even the OS let alone the applications. "

WPF had great potential and I think they could have made it a wonderful environment if they had kept improving it. Clean up XAML syntax (maybe something like they with ASP.NET and Razor) , simplify data binding syntax and debugging, make MVVM first class citizen and it would be great. Instead they (almost) stopped development of WPF and cranked out a series of half baked successors like WinRT, Silverlight and UWP.
Sounds like an abuse of the youth naivety. Many people don't care about their future until they graduate and make their fair amount of mistakes and selling their privacy is going to be among the mistakes they'll probably regret later.
The designer is fine now.
Explain Like I'm Implementing (ELI): Pretty Good Privacy or PGP
Current leader of Saudi Arabia is not a smart man, this is the only reason Son managed to coax them into this.

Remember, the true nature of that fund is floating right under ones nose - it is a nation scale LBO scheme, backed by enormous amount of debt.

They look to buy few other monopoly businesses that they hope will be making money with the same ease as oil, but, obviously, that's not possible.

A very naive assumption on their behalf.