skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scheduling in Go, the basics of pointers, Go 1.11's compiler and more
> And there's no legal way to do the business below that.

Actually, there is. Register an Irish company. All the paperwork is in English, costs are low, and you can operate across the EU.
People frequently take loans and sell assets to afford weddings. It's not unusual for parents to save for weddings right after their child is born.

One friend's parents sold off their car to fund their daughter's wedding

It's honestly all absurd
Failing fast is done to reduce risk. The quicker a company fails with an idea, i.e. discovers that there is no market fit, the fewer money was wasted on it. The remaining budget can be used to try other ideas.

The big company model, where something unproven is developed for a long time by a large team, is substantially more risky. Only when they go live after "finishing" their product they might discover that nobody wants it.

Anybody trying to innovate will fail at one point or another, because not all bets play out. So the key is to make the bets as small as possible and therefore "fail" as quickly as possible.
I remember that in the late 90ies/early 2000 that swedes or scandinavians always had these super low ping internet connections. Combine that with a long winter and you have a lot of tech experienced youngsters that spend a lot of time on projects (in this case gaming). They did (and still do) extremely way in esports in relation to the size of the population.
Is this link a joke? Reading down the page it gets progressively snarkier, definitely in a way that leads me to think this is satire.
Crew resource management
Show HN: Persona Scripts: Equip various users with with software and resources
Ted Kennedy on the Rocks (1990)
Working with long texts can be a huge challenge, especially when you need to include code snippets within your documents. Here are three ways to confidently and conveniently do that in Microsoft Word.
> I think that historically law enforcement and intelligence agencies are strongly leaning to the right.

Lots of law enforcement lean left due to being in unions and government protections. Even in the intelligence community, a lot lean left.

I think you are confusing right with authoritarism. Law enforcement and the intelligence community lean to authoritarism. There are authoritarian left and authoritarian right. Both extremes hate freedom and love control.

The worst form of authoritarianism occurred when extremist left ( socialists ) joined extremist right ( nationalists ) and created nazi germany.

> That is why they are so inefficient and things like the Russian meddling with Brexit and the USA elections happen.

So you want intelligence agencies to tell the people how to vote? They do that already. And if they are rightists as you claim, wouldn't you want them to be less effective?

Your comment contradicts itself.
I think it can be hard for people to appreciate the differences because the truly different things are those one takes for granted. To not make this too long I will go directly to what I think has made the difference:

A relatively egalitarian society with a lot of trust between people and towards the government has made progress relatively effortless. When people don't feel the need to guard their own position because they might end up getting screwed there often isn't any good reason to be against development.

A relatively large amount of excess time, security and knowledge that enable people to something else. Startups are ultimately about harnessing excess potential. If all the value are capture by some other industry or the housing market there won't be much left over for startups.

Various cultural factors enabled by those things. Like being able to be independent (with the help of the government). Not being afraid to leave value on the table. An overall sort of generous, or at least non-petty, society.

If you look at factors like these, you can actually draw a lot of parallels to somewhere like SV compared to the rest of the world. SV is to at least some degree a recreation of academic life at its best. Which is the area of US society that would be most similar to Sweden.
A better overview with some sample apps:

https://www.w3.org/community/rww/wiki/SoLiD
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/09/26/perspective-yo/
Hi all! This is an experiment (also beta software) to equip various kinds of computer users with exceptional software and curated resources.

So far, the personas are: General, Gamer, Engineer, Creative, and Clinician.

Maybe we'll never have a Year of the Linux Desktop (´･ω･｀), but I figured helping to bring user personas to Linux would be of aid.

Please message me if this project interests you and you can join the team. Need a GTK dev, tech writer, as well as a web designer.

-Matthew
https://solid.mit.edu
This is a talk. In case you just want the youtube link, it's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1cgRXhpQLY
> I’ve never seen anyone complain about Instagram or visa.

Then you are not listening to everyone. According to some, Instagram is the most toxic site out there, and Visa leeches fees from their customers. I'm not necessarily in those camps, but I certainly have heard the criticisms.

Industries that are ready to disrupt have loyal followings that they think everyone loves them, when in reality much of society would be just as happy to see them fade. The web as a whole is reaching that point. Whether you dislike the privacy issues, the money-driven nature of startups, the demographic who lives online without engaging with the world, or any other reason... the web is not universally loved, despite the many people who still think it is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Maybe it is time for some changes.
The problem is that everyone assumes all businesses operate out of the US.

4$ buys you 4 meals in India.

But the real reason is, startup funding rounds are generally 1/4th of the size for an equivalent stage as compared to the US.

every bit counts.
Like Popcorn Time?
I'm skeptical that there isn't another side of this story or at least less absolute terms used.

For example, maybe there's a push against everyone using all their own favourites everywhere. I can see a strong argument for, "please stop writing in Foo. We use Java, Go, Python, and C++. Pick the right one of those for the job at hand. We all benefit from using a common set of tools."

I'm not denying what you're saying. Just feeling a healthy skepticism that they "ban" languagues without a good faith objective.
Tell us more about it -- what have you discovered? What do you like so far? Can you use it productively for things?
Wiby
How did Jobs do this? He dedicated his life to Apple until the day he died.
> Why doesn't autocomplete help me based on the adjacent problems others have solved?

Doesn't the Facebook editor / autocompleter do that? I guess it's not available to anyone outside Facebook?

> Why can't I connect my editor to a running program and hover over values to see what they last were? Why isn't time-traveling debugging widely deployed? Why can't I debug a function without restarting my program?

print debugging is extremely versatile and the market has spoken that, apparently, nothing else has the same expressive power to overhead trade-off. I have a few theories: tool usability sucks (looking at you gdb), debugging and writing code are two different disciplines so if you can stay in the same modality (writing code) to do debugging it's one less thing that changes from under you, print debugging is versatile and can apply to everything from embedded to mobile to cloud to HPC. print debugging gets a lot of scorn but (if you want an appeal to authority) if you read "Coders at Work" no "famous" programmers use debuggers, they all use(d) print debugging.
There are very many cases in which both a 21st century and 18th century person would agree that it's reasonable for an officer with a search warrant to read through a box of letters without the accused recipient's consent; conspiracies to commit fraud justify reading your archive of business correspondence and using it as evidence in court; murders done for relationship reasons justify reading your archive of love letters and using them as evidence in court.
you are correct it could be theoretically pressed by someone else, but it should be really difficult because of the unpredictability of IDs. It should be simpler to attack flask or django based webinterfaces. doesn't it?
I didn't comment on how good or bad they're to work with but on the assumption that weather conditions can affect productivity.
There certainly are consequences concerning science and research of electromagnetic fields and radiation, fusion power research and application.

Direct real world applications? There are none, really. Where would you need 1000 T which basically makes everything metallic evaporate in it's vicinity?
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/09/26/perspective-yo/

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Determination, mono-mania, and a willingness to meet goals by any means seems to be the true means to 'success'.

I hope I'm wrong and Ray Dalio is right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9XGUpQZY38
It doesn't do antialiasing.
Principles for Success by Ray Dalio (In 30 Minutes)[video]
I know it can be done via bittorrent. Anything can be hacked to do anything if you're motivated enough. However the question asked was whether it's good enough for paying customers in a commercial environment (ie Netflix). That's a very different set of expectations.
How is the SEC liable? Is there some regulation preventing US investment houses from investing in the same manner?
His management has already nudged him to find a new job.
Just give them random fake answers as the response.
For world leaders, as a public figure, hopefully these information is already public. If that the case then what is the harm?

Ideally (hoping), in the future, these information should be made public for everyone, to level the playing field.
Client matters, yes, that hasn't even been brought up in the discussion.

Never stated I was an expert in torrent or broadcasting. But barely one who has used bittorrent can counter most of your arguments. As I've mentioned there are tons of issues (and as mentioned elsewhere in the thread, privacy alone would make it a non-starter for many). I don't believe in it for large scale, but not for the technical issues you presented.

Edit:
Apologies if I came off too harsh, been a rough couple of days.
I think media. In Brazil there was a soap opera where the main actors got ( often pregnant) pregnancy rates increased heavily during that time.
I think the social safety net is definitely a part of it, yes. But after working for a couple years at different startups in Stockholm I can say that another big factor is that most Swedish founders are either rich themselves, or their parents are, or they are very well connected. They don’t see themselves this way of course, they think they are building everything from scratch, but this does tend to be the case from my experience.
The Amazon Apocalypse Is Killing Ecommerce
I haven't done all that but I fully understood.
> I don't know something better for a wiki solution that has to be used by everyone from management to development

There’s actually a lot of enterprise wiki software out there that is comparable or better. One example from a previous job: http://twiki.org
In my case, it was due to crunch time shortly before release, and then after the project was released falling into a void of not knowing how to fill my time.

Which caused stress and eventually a burnout that I am only just slowly getting out of, after about 5 months.

I suppose it is different for each person though.
> ...but the comments on these submissions seem extremely critical...

I think there are very good reasons for the critical commentary. Tim Berners-Lee made the comment recently that it took 15 years for us to get "here," where here seems to be a bunch of handwavey marketing fluff and broken demos. I am going to take what he says and believe he meant that the broken demos were built upon 15 years of prior work on bits and pieces that no one put together until recently; at least that is slightly more palatable. But Solid Pay suffers even more from the handwavey marketing fluff, because its handwavey marketing fluff relies on Solid's handwavey marketing fluff.

> Solid builds on 30 years of Web research and development. It has a cutting edge semantic layer with proven scalability...

Since when has Solid proven its scalability? The demos don't even work. Even if it overcomes the infirm state of Solid, it then suffers from the apparent fact that while Solid Pay is intended to interact with the existing monetary infrastructure, no one working on Solid Pay seems to understand that infrastructure. In Solid Pay, a Credit increases your balance; but everywhere else, a credit decreases it. This sounds simple, but if you mess up simple, I fear for the complicated bits will be worse.

There are real problems here, and we can't just hope they go away; we must be critical of them or else we risk dealing with them for quite some time should these systems actually materialize.
Rail gun.
Recently, I started learning SQLite. I have some knowledge of python so I want to organize my information using SQL and python (Being electrical engineer, I am not coding for earning).
Eliminating unrequired guards – MoarVM / Perl 6
This is also true for VB6, add lines of code in real time and resume stepping through. Also you can hover your mouse on variables during debugging to see their contents.
You don't think Twitter was critical in building Musk's brand and investor interest?
Attending weddings must be a frequent activity if you get invited when anyone within 3 or more degrees of separation is getting married. Really, how often does an average Indian attend weddings? Are expensive gifts expected?
classes of drugs, e.g. opioids, stimulants, cannabinoids, psychedelics and so on

Don't forget the dangerous drugs alcohol and tobaco in that list.
> I wonder what this would do to the startup landscape in the long term though. Will this make startups look more like big incumbents more than a sprawling landscape?

I think it will support the trend for later stage startups to stay private and raise capital through the private rather than public markets. A $100B fund is unlikely to be a player in seed and early stage deals. There the existing seed-stage and VC ecosystem will likely remain dominant. If you're just starting out, it's not obvious to me that monster funds like these will affect your life very much.
> Why do there seem to be more examples of rapidly-completed major projects in the past than the present?

This is a great question, and I echo many of the sentiments here and elsewhere around general complacency, slowing rate of change (even as bits of technology get better faster), and so on.

But...

One of the reasons that big projects used to happen so fast, is that the interests of people negatively affected by those projects were quickly and efficiently ignored. Of course that's great being able to look back at the big projects is inevitably good, but it's not so great if you were one of the people whose interests were ignored. An advantage of the stasis we seem to be stuck in now, is that we as a society are not quite so willing to stomp all over the interests of whoever happens to be in the way of a great new idea. Is this a good trade-off overall? That's not so clear, but there are good intentions on both sides of the "how fast should be do big things?" question.
RE rapidly completed projects

A primary driver of the 'slowness' is a major focus upon safety in the workplace. Take a look back at the death rates per 1000 workers for some of the historical projects that people often like to point to and then look at a modern project.

The second element is that these safety elements are often enforced by regulation. For example, look at how much extra scaffolding is in use today during construction (which used to be ladders).

To directly look at corruption, this is an issue but not in a direct way. Corruption happens through the 'contractor ladder' where the primary contractor has a subcontractor who has a subcontractor who has a subcontractor. Repeat ad infinitum.

One of the primary reasons for this is the challenges in maintaining a large enough workflow to keep a standing workforce employed. It's difficult to justify paying expensive construction workers and engineers when they're not actually building anything.

Finally, tendering protocols are often quite naive and have been implemented to make something "least cost". This has led to a nightmare scenario of companies underquoting in order to win a tender, secure in the knowledge that a government will not leave a project half finished. To remedy this better contracts are required, for example, you can offer a recurring revenue stream (e.g. 20-30 years) to a company in return for a particular project. On the other hand, this can often lead to poorly build projects that last exactly 30 years.
MIT D4M: Mathematics of Big Data and Machine Learning [video]
The spectrum is regulated because you can use uncertified radio equipment, if these are banned anyway, the regulation makes no sense anymore.
> typing "!imdb matt damon" will simply forward you to the following link

In Safari, typing "imdb matt damon" and hitting the down arrow before enter gives me the same result. Do other browsers not have site search built-in? It will also pick up search fields on any site you browse you instead of requiring it to be added to some central repository.

And I use Spotlight for calculator and unit/currency conversions. Seems wasteful to roundtrip that kind of stuff online.
Oh, whoops I meant smbc for the webcomic, not xkcd. I haven't read xkcd in a while (maybe I've just got old but I feel like the quality of jokes started going down a few years ago)
Skype has become so clunky and slow lately, so I find myself avoiding it whenever possible. Could this be the reason behind the worse quality?
One of the features I specifically look for in a laptop is "NO TOUCH SCREEN". I really don't understand it. Why would I want touch on a laptop or desktop PC?
western/white men who marry asian women oftentimes look down on the wife's culture or race. 'white savior complex'.
>If the file format becomes obsolete, it's gone. (This has actually happened to many video and audio formats.)

Any examples of video or audio files that are currently impossible to watch/listen to because knowledge of the file format, and all software capable of playing it was lost? If such a thing has happened, there are probably people interested in reverse engineering the format.
> Walmart could've started out on their own.

They could have and it would have taken years to build a brandname or they could buy an established player and get the brandname from day one. Walmart went with the other option.

That is how big companies operate, nothing to do with India.

Is Google a fool to buy youtube when they had Google Video?
Hmm no I don't think so, the goal with multiplexing is to keep the streams separate so you can untangle them at the end since you're running multiple customers on a fiber. Losing a wavelength means less streams you can fit on it.
> Where would you need 1000 T which basically makes everything metallic evaporate in it's vicinity?

There are lots of metallic big things on different types of battlefields, like tanks or even aircraft carriers, it would be really helpful for the opposing sides to be able to “evaporate” them. Not sure how close to implementing this as a weapon we are, though, probably not that much.
Kkrieger was totally mind blowing, and for me the first painfully clear demonstration between the difference between tech demo and product known and used by the masses.

It was science fiction level technology. Wikipedia says development was started in 2002, but I have (possibly completely wrong) recollections of seeing some kind of (non playable, 320x200 resolution) demo way earlier than that.
Sure, but my comment was not about you. I’m just pointing to some stats to substantiate my point
I'm a fan of Masayoshi Son's audacity. However, the outlandish premise floated in the article (raising $100b funds every few years) is all premised on the back of the freak Alibaba return being repeatable over and over again. That's not going to happen, there's one China and its boom phase is mostly over. The last China-like outcome, was a century prior to that (the US).

I watched Masayoshi Son make the same mistake of incorrect extrapolation, 20 years ago.[1] The pitch - the same one he made 20 years ago - only works while the tide is high, when the tide goes out it's ugly. There were countless articles touting his 300 year plan for the future back then, while he was riding very high on the epic Yahoo returns (at one point his investment into Yahoo was worth something like $44b, a particularly huge return to generate in a short amount of time back then). Alibaba will have legitimate staying power, unlike Yahoo's bubble valuation circa 1999/2000, however it won't change the fact that there aren't going to be endless lines of Alibabas to generate vast returns off of to justify raising $100 billion every few years. Alibaba will prove as rare in China as Microsoft or Google are in the US.

[1] http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2053732,00...
I was chatting with a retired couple. They told me that wedding red envelopes are the majority of their monthly expenditure. They're at the age where all their friends' kids are getting married. (They don't live in the capital, so I guess their rent is cheap or they own their apartment.)
Well, there was this revelation that NSA had the 'Gemalto network wide open'. After week long investigation Gemalto denied any breach, leading to situation where you could either believe NSA or Gemalto.

https://www.wired.com/2015/02/gemalto-confirms-hacked-insist...
> Why are programming environments still so primitive?

Because we as an industry made a strategic decision in the late 20th century to value run-time efficiency over all other quality metrics, a decision which has manifested itself in the primacy of C and its derivatives. Everything else has been sacrificed in the name of run time efficiency, including, notably, security. Development convenience was also among the collateral damage.

> Why can't I debug a function without restarting my program?

Because you use C or one of its derivatives instead of Lisp or one of its derivatives. In Common Lisp you can not only debug a function without restarting your program, you can redefine classes without restarting your program. It is truly awesome. You should try it some time.
It's contraception. The solution is for the government to randomly introduce placebos into the contraceptive supply. Or just accept that, given the choice, people don't want kids that much.
WinForms will out live UWP, WFP and pretty much everything else Microsoft develops in terms of GUI frameworks. It works for the vast majority of programs that businesses need, it's easy to use and so far it's been the best investment in terms of learning a "framework".

If Microsoft want's to move forward, they need to consider moving new stuff into WinForms and expand that with the features of UWP, WPF, XAML and other technologies they've tried to introduce over the years.
How does this compare to Urbit?
China is slightly different in that the sex ratio is skewed, there's more men than women. So giving women incentives for divorce probably wouldn't affect marriage rates that much (not that I think it's a good idea)
A more sustainable ETH investment game model
Except you only managed to disprove one point, every other counter argument you gave I was able to offer problems with.

I honestly think privacy is the least of the problems. A bigger issue is just getting content owners on board to begin with

Edit: sorry to read you've had a rough few days. Hope things improve soon