skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that ladies and gentlemen is exactly how American IT became taken over by Indian outsourcing companies and the quasi ones like Deloitte , Accenture.
American exceptionalism and a good education system might make you a great consultant but who turns that spec to code and does the grunt work ? Surely you aren't hiring American college grads because they have already been told this work is boring and shitty and they are special and should build domain expertise or salesmanship .
Don't get me wrong - it's an excellent article but I think this is targeted towards developers with experience who also understand the big picture (accounting , P&L, systems). However doing implementations , turning spec to code , reusing it are great ways to enter the IT industry with solid pay and something that American college grads encouraged to take up for a solid middle class life . Infact community colleges and colleges should teach those skills similar to how it's done in India. (No I am not a Trump supporter).
> socially savvy people generally want to know the answer will be "yes" before the question is asked

If you need a trillion dollar idea: teach socially unsavvy people how to recognize a yes before they have to ask the question.

I know you can make boatloads of money, because I am one of those unsavvy people and every bit of information about dating basically comes down to:

"Here are 10 hints that tell you she might be interested. If you want to know for sure, ask. Oh and she might be too polite to actually turn you down, so here are 5 more tips to recognize when a yes actually means no."
Software, complexity and cache invalidation – The curse of derived state
Fundamentally it's a bit of a prisoner's dilemma situation, but with three actors. The relationship between website developers and adblock developers is necessarily adversarial - adblockers only exist because users disagree with the developers how the website should appear.

> start putting road blocks in front of my building preventing others from getting in

It's more like you've erected a billboard, and the Campaign Against Ugly Billboards have given some people AR glasses which edit out the billboard .. and a bit more of your storefront. It's not really in the same category as fraudulent Yelp reviews.

> If you really want that blocked, I'm more than happy to not serve you!

I think you'd be better off just accepting this. The user and their user-agent has a "right" to display a website how they want, including in ways that the developer didn't think of - and including ways that are broken. The user can break your site if they want. I appreciate that this causes problems when they've not realised that it's their choices that break it, or put in annoying requests ("why doesn't this site work in Lynx"). But fundamentally they're customers, customers are always annoying. Given your context of a paid app it sounds like it's worth asking them to disable the adblocker pre-emptively, but presumably you've tried that already and they haven't.

> Take Google shopping for instance, an entire service shut off because "it's tracking", while Amazon or eBay or any other online shopping service isn't blocked

ublock Origin blocks bits of Amazon within the website - the internal sponsored advertising. I only noticed when some of it flashed up and then vanished.
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I am not familiar how this things work, is there some kind of a vote where shareholders debate if this(censorship) is a good idea or not? Or there are only a few people that can decide it.
A really hard winter followed by a dry summer and there will be almost no insects. Now a wet summer followed by a warm winter followed by a wet summer and maybe some other factors, like plenty of food for the insects, their population will explode in no time.
Instragram's founder is talking about what's wrong with social media and FB
That was a surprisingly well written article with a well articulated point.
I rediscovered(after 10 years or so) a half-solution the other day: any activity that requires focus but is done offline(so not programming nowadays, unless you have your docs/tutorials/etc offline).

In my case it's making music. The product is obviously crap and takes a lot of time to create, but it has done wonders to my ability to focus.
To continue my Rams quotes from above: "[Good design] makes a product understandable".
If having to find out how to best use your tool is a challenge (especially when the new iteration seems to be such an apparent step backwards compared to the old), maybe it simply isn't good design.
This has been posted at my work, it's a very good resource.
It's true but partial. Internet is not a TV it's a cable network of Infinite size. I realize it was often like zapping or worth. It also eats on the social aspect, just like this comment is.
Chrome's seems to be the only announcement that doesn't mention it's coordinated with the other major browser vendors.

Dominant position talking :(
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/augur
It's all about the bottom line. If you can spend $80k to make $100k, it's worth it to some people. Or $90M to get $100M. Whatever.
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>>Hard to develop a space program when you're spending all your production fighting over scarce resources, plugging leaks, and attempting to feed a planet with decreasing yields.

All the more reason to develop your space program.

At the risk of pointing to Movies, but yet, one of the underlying themes in the movie Interstellar is some day there will be no option but to leave.

So its about time we think seriously about mining asteroids, space colonies and having some kind of permanent self sustaining and growing colonies in space.

Sure Humans are still likely to have the same problems, but you have eliminated the biggest threat to our existence, and we now have thousands of years at our disposal to plan the next steps.
A guide to rhythm in web typography
India's flower that blooms every 12 years
Stumbleupon. I remember spending hours discovering all sorts of strange and niche sites, that I would never have found otherwise. So much esoteric and random stuff came up, and sent me down many rabbit holes that changes my life such as learning about DIY electronics etc.
Except in South Africa where Bain etc are under heavy fire for facilitating government corruption on an unprecedented scale during the Zuma years
Can you imagine if we could have another ~30 years of Allen? Me neither. I really hate cancer. RIP space guy.
> 6/ The other thing I find disturbing, after all these years, is the willingness of my former colleagues to not only comply with the censorship but their enthusiasm in rationalizing it. It is not a coincidence that the rationale they give was the same one management had given them

This is the really disgusting thing. Are they "just" sucking up to management or are they maybe the only ones who buy the propaganda?

Or is this some kind of self-justification process that protects them from their dying sense of guilt?
How to Stand Unique in This Competitive Taxi Booking Industry
The Kawasaki KLR 650 and the Suzuki DR 650. These make great, reliable long distance adventure bikes suitable for almost any terrain.

You may argue that these bikes are still in production, but in Europe its all but impossible to lay hands on them due to EURO5 emission norms.
Stripo email builder launched on Product Hunt
Google is clearly evil now. Will anyone do anything about it?
Says a thing about the reality of human impedance [mis]match with the modern life fantasy. Moving one's butt in nature is probably more tuned to our system.
They only "know" the data didn't leak in the 2 weeks prior to them finding out about it.
Get the hell out of here bud.
> a field as esoteric as “recursive function theory”

How can this kind of descriptions persist when recursive functions are the very thing that a computer computes.
How Pharmacists can support new mums
Which specific comments in this thread as it stands indicate anti-muslim or anti-immigrant bias?

Edit: what did saana say that got them flagged out? Is this the one?
I forgot how fun that was! I'm checking out their new site right now!
There are some strategies to prevent Amazon from destroying your business, but you have to be very careful.

I know people who make 3k+/month with a 3-5k+ investment. They don't really care that it doesn't work anymore for that specific product after 4-5 months. The ROI is crazy. But most people don't know how to do this properly and lose money. For these people it's basically gambling and I wouldn't recommend it. It's hard to pull it off consistently.

edit: OT - is it just my perception or is HN more interested in passive income sources lately? (also making passive money with SaaS like the projects on indiehackers.com)
Sounds like a case where the startup just overvalued itself and couldn't deliver?
aah the good old days
Nobody made an argument about class membership. I simply presented some demographic data of VC investors.

Meanwhile, you completely ignore the data about investors being heavily skewed towards two specific universities. Isn’t that a past life experience? Isn’t VC investor a “class” in itself?
One of my literary touchstones is "War Music", a re-telling or re-imagining of the Iliad by the British poet Christopher Logue. I've read a couple of translations, but this is the one that really set my head alight because he takes liberties with the content (including occasionally delicious anachronisms like "the thumping of helicopters overhead") without taking liberties with the story. It feels faithful to the original yet very modern in its expression. He was dedicated to performing poetry, and I think this comes out in the text - I found myself hearing the sounds of the words in my head as I read it.
OK, my commment was a bit rude and flip (esp. for HN). But I'm finding your approach wearying, which may or may not be your intention (maybe you're not sea-lioning, but you're doing a good impression).

First of all, a survey about unwanted sexual advances in a professional setting is set against a background that's completely different than a campus survey; only if the campus survey was talking about "unwanted sexual advances from teachers or someone with a power imbalance e.g. TAs, coaches, etc." would the analogy be interesting. Was it?

Obviously the YC survey could be better worded and/or explained (perhaps the summary is less precise than it should be). However, it's pretty weird that your takeaway is to try to parse out these numbers, with no actual knowledge of anything involved, to try to make them seem smaller.

Second of all, you are going out of your way elsewhere in the thread to conjure up corner cases and thought bubbles where a VC/angel might have asked someone on a date ("an unwanted sexual advance" - maybe) without it being a conflict of interest. It's a maybe, but that's a real reach to imagine - first, it would imply that these people met up again after a clean 'sorry, we're not interested in your business'. It's not logically impossible, but it seems more likely that the "first order" effect was "a group of entitled VC/angel dudes acted like assholes as per usual".
From the article:

The critics argue that Nowak and his colleagues make an unwarranted distinction between inclusive fitness and natural selection theory, and assert that inclusive fitness has been quite valuable. They stress that inclusive fitness ideas have helped yield insights into many biological phenomena, such as why social insects have skewed sex ratios. "Their announcement of the demise of inclusive fitness is wrong," says STRI's William Wcislo. "They've done a service in a sense: [Their paper] forced people to again rethink something, and it's quite clear that the evidence in favor of Hamilton's theory is quite convincing."
Was looking for this. Completely agree.
Why Create a Frontier-Inspired Scripting App?
The format is kinda a cross between Twitter and Medium, so in my household it is (perhaps unfairly) named Tedium.
I know this will not be a popular reply but I miss the Apple Newton dearly and wished they had the chance to ship a 3.0 version. The Newton OS 2.0 was so much better than what came before it, I think the message pad was the best personal computer I had in terms of actually being personal. It felt like your machine in a way that modern smartphones don't.
Sure. But in the days of it systems and digitalization less and less is being printed. It’s also quite difficult to find and access these printed copies someone might have stored somewhere.
They are using GPG Authentication subkeys for SSH.

I have them on a smartcard and it works really well (you can also connect Yubikey 4C to Android via OpenKeychain and login to servers using Termbot on the go using hardware stored keys - secure and convenient!).
Open Source Content Management System for APIs and Clouds
You have missed nothing. It is just another traditional business implemented "on blockchain", and as usual the blockchain here doesn't add value.
Aside: I found the final sentence of the article (injected by Threader) interesting. "Enjoy Threader? Tell @jack."

I wonder if Twitter will eventually branch out into more long form content like this.
>Don’t ever let would-be consulting clients pay you for code that you write.

A similar piece of advice is in the often-submitted article by Patrick McKenzie.[1]

The common idea is that instead of being just a "code monkey", you position yourself higher up the value hierarchy to be more of a "solutions provider".

In my observations of programmers that successfully sell consulting vs earning a W-2 salary, both articles leave out the dispositions and natural inclinations of the reader. This affects how easy it is to move up the value hierarchy.

To do high-value consulting, one has to take an honest self-assessment:

1) Do you like to be somewhat entrepreneurial and "hustle" for work? (Some programmers would prefer to be given a set of defined tasks and then be left alone rather than scout for new jobs and projects. The act of "selling yourself" to prospective clients is uncomfortable.)

2) Do you accept that there can be cycles of feast or famine because of downtime between freelance contracts? (Some programmers would rather have the predictability of steady paycheck rather than stress over contracts and chasing Accounts Payable for past-due payments.)

3) Do you find "solving business problems" more interesting than programming languages? (E.g. some folks are more interested in Python 3 vs Python 2 differences or studying Lisp macros -- rather than tackling the domain knowledge and complexities of modernizing a hospital billing system, or the code to monitor container ship logistics, etc. The coder views the business stuff as boring but programming languages as interesting.)

Once you've done the "know thyself" exercise, you can then analyze how various types of "consulting" is sold in the marketplace and where to position your services.

If you're just a generalist programmer in (e.g. C++/Java/Python), it will be difficult to sell that as "consulting" to companies. You have to go up the value chain and sell "solutions". This is easier if you have expertise in a specific business niche that interests you. As for examples of selling general consulting that covers the spectrum from "bodyshop of programmers" to "solutions providers", that would companies like Infosys (India H1B), Pivotal Labs, Thoughtworks, Accenture, IBM Global Solutions.

Some exceptions to selling small scale "consulting" without being a being a solutions provider would be web freelancing and maybe cybersecurity auditing. Otherwise, generalist programmers either need to work for the solutions providers above, or become a solution provider themselves, or find contract gigs on marketplaces like Upwork and Dice. However, selling your programming skills on Upwork is the probably the opposite of the advice given in the 2 essays.

[1] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...
There are hacks for the magsafe desire...

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/7/12/15960594/m...

I just switched to a new 2018 macbook pro. The missing esc key isn't so bad. Thought I would hate it, but like everything else, including new FB redesigns, you get used to it and move on.
==I guess your point is that the 70% white investors think as a block and can be generalized?==

I’m not sure how you arrived at that assumption. The point is that this is the data (as pulled by one person), you have chosen to take the giant leap that somehow those people “think as a block and can be generalized.” Why no mention of the other data points and focus solely on this one?
Like what? Will anyone do anything about China? How about the US?

"Will anyone do anything about it" is classic bystander effect by the way - what are you doing about it?
Exactly. I remember the spectacular failures of pets.com and webvan.com (they blew through.. what, $600,000,000 in less than a year?) and now we have chewy.com and a bunch of other grocery delivery services.

what's old is new again, they say.
How Inspiring Founders Embrace Vulnerability
Makes me think of Cyc which is still around ( https://www.cyc.com ). Wonder if any HNers have experiences with it? I tried opencyc and was fascinated. It's a prology lisp married to a huge database of rules and knowledge. The open source version doesn't ship with the knowledge part so it's hard to evaluate if it's of any practical use. Was meaning to apply for a research license but didn't find time yet.
Probably, maybe after a while, depending on the price. (My budget is often stretched thin.)

Less than USD 20 and a convincing web page or demo instance: immediately, without even trying it first, if for nothing else then to support a good idea.

Less than USD 50, same rules as above + convince me you are going stick around: once I have some spare cash and after trying your demo.

More than USD 100: you have to convince me.

I'll also be happy to pay reasonable amounts for feature keys etc as they become available.

I'm more hesitant to anything that stops working if I can't pay subscription for a month but in some cases like the old WhatsApp it was a no brainer because of the low cost and low friction.

Edit:

ways to mess it up even if the product is otherwise perfect:

- Windows only or Mac only (I'm primarily a Linux user.)

- Chrome only. (I always was a Firefox guy, but it is now at the point were I actively avoid Chrome)
Oh I think I used ssh pageant [0] once and Putty support in GnuPG, I think it was more reliable (I don't remember clearly, sorry for that!)

[0]: https://github.com/cuviper/ssh-pageant
Your novelty and my depth are entirely subjective realities.
>> If having to find out how to best use your tool is a challenge (especially when the new iteration seems to be such an apparent step backwards compared to the old), maybe it simply isn't good design.

Cough, cough......USB-C. Looking at the plug there is no way to tell whether the cable will support fast charging, video, or even 3.0 or just 2.0 USB. All of those cables share the same socket but provide different functions.
The problem with that is that LIDAR is a sensor that is so unlike human perception humans completely misjudge what it's capable of. After an accident humans refuse to believe that the sensor really didn't see it coming, which of course is a big problem later in court. Sonars have the same problem. There's things those sensors can see that humans just can't but in the case of Lidar, only in specific planes (so, for example, it just doesn't see things that "point" at the sensor. It just doesn't see stairs or even an abyss, even at close range). Sonar has similar problems. It sees everything everything everything ... as long as there is a whole lot of consistent nothing surrounding it. When there is structure on the sea floor, sonar is useless near it. When there is a ship on the surface accelerating, the eddy currents create a region around, behind and below the ship where the sonar is blind. And near the surface, sonar is useless. The more wind, the deeper the problem goes. In a storm, it can be 10 meters and more. People with decades of experience for some reason seem to outright refuse to believe that.

People seriously misjudge the limitations of these sensors, and this leads to accidents.

Better to use cameras, which have almost exactly the same issues humans have (e.g. bad vision in low light, limited view, "blind" angles near corners, bad optical performance near the edges, ...), which will lead to "understandable" mistakes.

Nobody will understand if a LIDAR misses a beam sticking out of a truck in front of you (which would be expected behavior: such a thing is essentially invisible to LIDAR) and impales the person sitting in the passenger seat on it.

Or the Tesla fuckup. Failing to see the difference between front and back wheels of a large truck and 2 cars. Then decapitating the driver by driving in between the 2 sets of wheels at high speed. That's a typical LIDAR issue.

Sooner or later LIDAR will decide that just driving off an abyss is the best solution to a simple traffic situation (because LIDARs see abysses everywhere, so they use algorithms that assume abysses don't exist).

I've seen LIDAR controlled robots drive into tables "decapitating" (sort-of) themselves, because it only saw the feet of the table, looking at the data, and coming to the conclusion ... yep ... it was a perfectly understandable mistake. That robot also threw itself off the stairs. Again ... tough to fault it for that, as it saw the stairs as pretty much the same thing as a stick lying on the floor. Afterwards looking at the data, that was a perfectly reasonable conclusion.

We lost the robot to the stairs. I was looking at it making that decision. Why ? You see it move, and you're automatically assuming "surely it's not going to go for the hole in the staircase". And then it decides on a solution. Boom. And yes, I pressed the emergency stop button. Doesn't help much if the robot is already falling.
Palm Pre was easily thr best phone i ever used

This.. Not so much
Yeah, 32-bit, Xbox and no-FPU platforms can be dropped, but dropping FreeBSD, aarch64 and powerpc64 is kinda sad.
Morgan Knutson on Working as a Designer on the Google Plus Team
It's implicit, the CEO must deliver value to the shareholders or be replaced. Capitalism doesn't leave a lot of room for moral standing.
It's discussed briefly [0] in Dirk Gently.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/488211-sir-isaac-newton-ren...
Yep the docs for Phaser 3 are super patchy and can be quite frustrating, often you'll find things that look as though they should work but are for v2 and no longer exist. There's a lot of great support in the discord server though
Nice article, but doesn't actually demonstrate that connections setup and tear down is the bottleneck. If you really have 500 active connections all "shouting" at the database simultaneously, the fact that those connections were obtained from a pool or not isn't going to change the throughput of the database.

Pooling introduces numerous other issues as well. For example, clients probably shouldn't all be using the same entitlements to connect, right? Surely there are some segregation of duties and roles that clients will be using alternative entitlements into the system?

Finally, you have to show some before and after results. This article simply asserts that connection pooling would improve the situation, but does nothing to demonstrate the point. Even the details of the server matter...how many cpus, how many drives, HDD or flash, what file system is being used?
First, Sun Microsystems.

Second, maybe Radioshack.

Third, the twillight zone.
Controversial means i have to do a lot of research to determine whence the controversy and which side to trust, if any. (Which I don’t have the domain knowledge nor time for.)

Lack thereof, many people agreeing on the contents, is a sign that you can read the book and (sort of) trust it.

Nothing guarantees nothing, cogito ergo sum and all that, but it’s a good heuristic.

“In my mind,” of course ;)