skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went nearly a year without a paying customer, even though I had an email list of over 300 people and a beta user pool of ~400 people, got on the front page of HN twice, and was #3 product of the day on PH. Still, nobody stuck around, much less offered me feedback. It was tough, and I considered giving up many times. But to call it a failure because of that would've been premature.

If your product isn't selling, maybe you're not doing something right (likely!), or maybe it's just not a good product. I think you can figure out which of the 2 your product is by putting some real effort into discovering why nobody is interested in giving you money for it.

The "why" may be your sources of traffic, it may be your messaging, it may be that your product doesn't actually solve a problem, or it may be any number of small things that build up and turn into a gigantic roadblock that nobody can pass without their hand being held.

I didn't start seeing "good" traffic until I started spending money to experiment with Google Adwords. Through that experimentation, I discovered that the traffic sources I was relying on so much were in reality total garbage. They were users from PH, HN and Reddit; "tire-kickers" as a lot of us call them. They just want to try out the hot new thing, then rinse (i.e. churn) and repeat with the new hotness. They aren't prepared, or willing, to open their wallet.

The Adwords traffic was actually converting, so I quit focusing on the bad traffic channels and starting adjusting my ads, finding better keywords, and talking to the "good" traffic (yeah, they actually talk back!). Since I was getting quality traffic now (albeit, low numbers), that helped me find the next roadblock, which was my, at the time, terrible onboarding flow.

The root problem wasn't that my product was bad, it was that I was sending bad traffic to my product and I didn't want to change that. The second problem was that onboarding sucked. I'm still not where I ultimately want to be with Keygen, but now I'm working on other problems (hint: scaling) because the root problems I was having have been fixed.

Stop guessing, and figure out the why.
"Network partition" is unrelated to partial database failure or database partitioning. It means that database servers got disconnected from each other. Normally this shouldn't be a problem, but as far as I know they don't use proper distributed algorithms and so it's possible that disconnected servers each became masters and were serving requests independently, which is why they speak about inconsistencies. I believe this problem is commonly known as split brain [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain_(computing)
If you are equivocating this CoC to Republican conservative values, you are laughably wrong.
It is just unfortunately not very clear what sort of insights come from it. Or maybe I should say, the explanations of the insights that come from it are not things I recognize as useful, surely due to my lack of experience. Or to put it yet another way, as soon as one understands monads, one becomes unable to explain them to someone who doesn't.

Groups have morphisms, okay great. I don't know what to do with that, even if I'm sure it's important.
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Perhaps, but on an ordered list of contributing factors "a defeatist attitude" is pretty near the bottom.
Systemd breaks fundamental Unix principles. Those principles have been around since the 1990s at the latest. So yes the use of objectively does fit...
> lobbying is legalized bribing

So when I call my elected leaders to voice up about an issue, that's bribery? Because what I'm doing is lobbying. Or, if I call my elected leader and patch in a friend in another state who's more knowledgeable about the domain, is that lobbying?

If it's not, then what if my friend and I both patch in an out-of-district friend? What if we form a formal club? If we want (a) freedom of political speech and (b) freedom of political assembly, it gets really hard to separate a grassroots interest group from a destructive commercial one. (And should civic interests always trump commercial interests? That's a political question, too!)

TL; DR Democracy can't exist without lobbying. With respect to paid lobbying, I might agree, but the devil's in the details.
This reminded me of a YouTube channel where a maker crafts knives out of various substances (including one made from Lignum Vitae [0]). He recently began measuring the Mohs' hardness of the different knives he makes - though I'm not sure exactly at which video that starts.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKH63_r0OCA
The Saudis aren't stupid; they knew this would become an international news story, and they also knew the long-term impacts to them would be minimal. Killing a dissident this publicly is primarily a deterrent to future dissidents; if they can dismember a well-known critic this publicly with no recourse, lesser-known critics get the message.
> the hardware's unreadiness really puts a damper on development efforts

And regrettably it means that now, when COTS hardware components are arguably sufficient for HMDs to start competing with screens, there's no code, no widespread perception of need, and thus no clear market to target. And thus no hardware for sale. Bootstrap deadlock.

Given the effect Minority Report's UI footage seemed to have on popular imagination, perhaps it might be helpful to have some nice demos? So say software devs can have a "I want that!" moment. And industry can have a "oh, well that, that we can build for you now" head-out-of- err, heads-up moment.

Sent from my Lenovo Explorer WMR HMD running on an old laptop's integrated graphics. Simple custom stack. (But only briefly, so I could say that.)
Coca-Cola will likely kill more people than guns and organized crime, honestly. But I see your point.

There is a lot of evidence that organized crime is a substitute for opportunities in legitimate society, so that example is perhaps not applicable. The opioid crisis caused by US pharma may be a bigger and better example.
Would you be interested in speaking with a Congressional legislator to have this edge case addressed? While your mother waived her own social security benefits, public policy should allow her to collect her spouse's spousal benefit.
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I struggle with consistency and I saw someone on HN recommend the writings of Barbara Sher.

I'm currently reading "Refuse to Choose! Use All of Your Interests, passions, and hobbies to create the life and career of your dreams". I haven't got too far in it yet but learning about "scanners" made me feel hopeful about my inconsistency.

I also read As a Man Thinketh by James Allen this morning which might be the complete opposite. That book recommends IDing your crazy dream and doing all it takes to make it a reality.
To clarify - it is wealth of the council, not average wealth of individual residents. Bear in mind also that the cost of living is very high, given most products have to be imported from the mainland. For example, the Shetland Islands has some of highest petrol prices in the UK despite being the site of the largest oil terminal in Europe (oil has to be exported for refining).
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I think op wanted to point out the comment that was saying how impossible picking grapes would be by ai.
This is similar to what I consider to be one of the most important parts of the HN Guidelines:

>Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

I think it nicely and concisely encapsulates a few critical parts of online conversation: that it's a two-way street and to be productive requires responders to also really think about what is being said, and that we should all take a certain level of humility as a baseline because we lack a lot of the non-verbal cues that face to face discussion has. A big one (and a definitional part of the whole "global community" thing) is that it can be hard to tell on the Internet if someone is a native speaker or not. Particularly for English, since that gets a significant level of formal education through much of the world and is also a significant focus of machine translation with probably one of the larger learning sets due to being an early target. IRL people can quickly tell if there is some sort of language barrier and adjust accordingly, but in online discussions it can be a lot harder to not project too many expectations onto people on the other side of the screen. And of course even native speakers can just plain be tired, or have had a bad day, things which again non-verbal cues could suggest but takes conscious effort with just words. Finally, people outside of a specialization can have valuable ideas to convey but lack the terminology to express it the way someone specialized would. One could say they're not "native speakers" of that sub-dialect of English even if they're native English speakers.

So it really helps as a baseline to try to figure out what people are really aiming for even if they lack the precise words to convey it. I've found it's a suggestion that has made me contemplate and rewrite responses even if I still forget sometimes.

One fair corollary however: this is all as long as there is reason to assume good faith. That's the default assumption, but it's not a right either, it is in fact possible for someone to demonstrate bad faith. In that case suppression or expulsion should be swift despite any cries of "censorship", because resource exhaustion attacks are also a major threat in online discussion. Less so in more specialized areas like mailing lists then general forums, but even there it can happen via rules lawyering and the like.
Always fascinated by this — I suppose during my formative years, this was the kind of stuff in space books I checked out from the library: space tugs, lunar colonies....

As a hobbyist, I am trying to create a model of the "space tug" featured so frequently in the 1970's NASA studies.

Here is more information on the Space Tug than anyone could need including links to NASA documents/studies:

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacetug.php

My progress on a model:

https://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=294711
The comparison says on-premise, does that mean you can run in a docker container?
Interrupts at their base are signals for crossing from an asynchronous, parallel world into a synchronous, sequential world. Some sort of signal needs to exist for that purpose.

There is likely a way to cross domains that can be formally reasoned about more easily. Although, like functional programming, implementing the abstraction directly on silicon probably wouldn't make much sense. Process calculus is the place to start if one is interested in this line.
How does an algorithm short of strong AI do that?
It's an oversimplification. The idea is that laser beams are extremely collimated, with divergences well under 1 degree in many cases, so over 200 meters the beam might only expand a tiny amount. But not to worry, the beam still spreads. Calculate the beam spot size of a laser, where the area increases as the square of the distance. Meanwhile, intensity is the inverse of the area. At sufficiently long distances, this will become apparent.
>>I disagree with making "diversity" a goal. If the developers in a specific free software project do not include demographic D, I don't think that the lack of them as a problem that requires action; there is no need to scramble desperately to recruit some Ds. >Rather, the problem is that if we make demographic D feel unwelcome, we lose out on possible contributors. And very likely also others that are not in demographic D.

Just as long as we're clear that demographic D being underrepresented relative to the general population is not evidence that we make demographic D feel unwelcome. Representation relative to the population of graduated CS majors or working programmers is better, but still not necessarily the right comparison. Representation relative to, say, the population of programmers who are experts in your implementation language, or who are users of the project, or the intersection of the above, might be better. Even then, that's not direct evidence that making D "unwelcome" is the specific reason.

Direct evidence would probably be something like, take some online exchanges and show them to a bunch of {working programmers or some other decent approximation to the population your volunteers might come from}, and ask them a few questions about how they would react to these exchanges, how much it would discourage them from volunteering, whether things like it have discouraged them from volunteering in the past, etc., and then show that demographic D has a much worse response.

By the way, has anyone done studies that showed that women respond much more negatively to harsh online exchanges than men? I have a feeling they would be called sexist if they were published, but... The closest one I can think of is Pew's online harassment study[1], which said, among other things, "Women were more likely than men to find their most recent experience with online harassment extremely or very upsetting—38% of harassed women said so of their most recent experience, compared with 17% of harassed men."

http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/10/22/online-harassment/
In fairness, the context of the Ts'o email seems to be conference organization, and it points out that large fractions of the rape statistics are made out of domestic abuse and drunk undergrads.

Neither of those seem particularly relevant for conference organization, so it should be possible to point out those simple facts without being immediately tarred as a rape apologist.

I do believe most of the people in favor of CoCs mean well, but the first paragraph of your comment basically reads like an unsubstantiated attempt at character assassination of and by a random person on the internet, and I guess lots of people are (probably unjustifiedly, but whatever) afraid that CoCs will provide cover for engaging in precisely this kind of poisonous behavior.
The Delaunay triangulation of a set of points on the sphere is given by the convex hull. The Voronoi vertices on the sphere are given by the facet normals and vice versa.
The convex hull is quite fast to compute.
The originally envisioned Space Shuttle was much smaller, but NASA couldn't get funding without USAF. In the process USAF and NRO demanded a much larger shuttle, which required the boosters and the additional orange fuel tank, and generally raised operating costs. You could argue that this significantly contributed to the overall failure of the shuttle program (outside of narrow use cases)

Then came the Challenger Disaster, which grounded the Shuttle fleet for three years and lead NASA to cancel all performance improvements, leading to the NRO giving up on the Shuttle as a launch vehicle. In the end the space shuttle was neither reliable enough nor powerfull enough for NRO missions. [1][2]

1: https://de.scribd.com/document/348134338/Declassifying-the-F...

2: https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB509/
This is as good as saying nothing at all since nobody agrees on what serves the public good.
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Making decisions based on a single event is risky. One could even argue that an event of this magnitude is likely to cause significant improvements in reliability. And you just paid the price for that as a user, so unless they keep failing repeatedly, you may be better off sticking with them.
It's not a joke. Dr. Hipp is a genuinely religious person, and he means this seriously.
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Instead of punishing the other party, you have a choice to ignore that person by setting a filter for that person's email.

This way, if enough people filter-out, the person will be silenced. Others, who are more forgiving, would continue to receive that person's contributions.

My rule is, I make decisions for myself and only myself.
It can be either - I find that most complaints about Jira boil down to the complainer being forced to use a system, the end users of which didn’t get a seat when it was being designed (and so the result is a bureaucratic mess), or, misconfigured and unnecessarily slow and clunky.
If I could only erase one person from history, Keynes would be very close to the top of the list. The damage caused by his malevolent theories has done immeasurable harm to all humankind.
I can't seem to get back Image result for a character. I want a way to see all the different art for one character.
Anyone manage to get back multiple Image results for a character?
Charlie at semimaccurate has many, many items broken uncomfortable news about intel and others that has later been proven fully rather than ‘semi accurate’.

I know for me he has earned trust so to see this official denial has left me conflicted.
There isn't. HTTP doesn't define a limit but browsers, servers, and other software can. A quick google search turns up multiple places referring to Internet Explorer's limit being 2,083 characters and other browsers' being tens of thousands of characters.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15090220/maximum-length-...
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The Catholic Church has always tended to see charging interest as being equivalent to committing the sin of usury and throughout history they've tried to ban it several times. See for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vix_pervenit#Historical_contex...
In practice these prohibitions weren't too effective because people always found loopholes and ways of charging interest without calling it interest.
This is highly unlikely, if only because such hiring practices would be unlawful in Britain in almost all cases.

You can use diversity as a tie-breaker, and you can actively try to persuade people from various under-represented groups to apply, but you can't specifically state that you only take Black candidates (source: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...)

The BBC is a large centralised organisation with a hefty HR team and a lot of people who like to beat on it. They're the last people I would expect to be advertising illegal hiring practices.
What if the code was indeed garbage, and it cost a lot of time (super precious asset) and brain power (a precious asset) to evaluate and reject? Such a reaction would be understandable even if hurtful. No wonder people leaning towards the Asperger/autistic spectrum of brutal honesty would state that; such is their nature.

What would you propose for addressing it? Ghosting? Silent blacklisting? English-style "there is a minor hiccup with the code"? A compiled list of what is wrong with the code (taking another few hours to prepare)? Any realistic ideas?
I don't know about GitLab and Bitbucket, but GitHub's uptime is relatively phenomenal, given its load and feature set. I've never been in a programming environment where it's been the weakest link among hosted services.
I think epic is a grouping of features, while milestone might relate to a release, which might include epics or even just parts of those epics.
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The point being made there is also incorrect. This is only true for divergence = 0 which doesn't exist.

Also, the point made that "if I go 10x further away then my received power won't be 100x less" is misleading since inverse square law is talking about intensity.
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EEE [1] still happened under Ballmer's reign. Ballmer was CEO from 2000 till 2014, a confident of Gates (being employee #30 and the first business manager being hired by Gates) [2].

The Halloween documents [3] also contain FUD [4] disinformation from 2002-2004: Shared Source Initiative, Microsoft's 'investment' in The SCO Group, and the 'Get The Facts' campaign. That SCO lawsuit shenanigans lasted till when, 2008?

I have no issue when people argue Microsoft has changed since Ballmer left and Nadella took charge but like Gates, Ballmer was no angel either.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer#History_with_Mic...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt
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Paraphrasing another comment I read sometime ago: Gwynne is very capable of managing the operations, but would SpaceX really be landing rockets on drone ships if it wasn't Elon pushing for it?
Talking about price = the bear market isnt over yet.

Claiming any non-bitcoin crypto(ripple) is being implemented is unproven. Or that having more alt coins on coinbase is good for crypto.

BTC solves a problem, governments are irresponsible with inflation.

What problem is solved now that coinbase has Ethereum classic?
Don't mean to start a flame thread, but I hate CG "space renderings". The concept art from the 70's was amazing. When NASA and the industry in general went to CG the illustrations really fell off a cliff.

To be sure, the rendering is top-notch today, less so when they first made the switch, but I dislike even the modern realistic CG renderings. I want palette-knife clouds on the Earth in the background, hues of cerulean blue and rust orange on the aluminum surfaces of the space craft.... You know, art!
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How campaigns are using marketing, manipulation, and “psychographic targeting”
What replaces it if it loses stability or falls apart? Would it not be replaced by a government dominated by the people engaged in behavior you detest? It seems more likely that enacting more freedoms would instead result in civil war dominated by those who are more repressive, and likely the domination by the princes aligned with those perspectives.

Instead, we see a slow progress which is painful, but may be the best that can be hoped for.
the rewards will be given to you to your Quma account and then you will be able to apply them on any of the service partners we have, for example ride sharing, food delivery, travel etc. Therefore there is no need for a card.
It could expose all the windows in the current monitor, on all monitors of the current workspace, or all windows period.

Virtual desktops which I believe linux supported long before spaces acquired a nice visual metaphor with compiz which allowed you to zoom out to see them all and drag windows between one and the other.

Windows could be set to have a small amount of resistance when passing other windows to make it easy to stick them side be size.

The effects for windows creation and destruction were quite cool and super configurable.
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