skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not that far. Again, to reiterate my argument, paying money to Chinese companies is not the same thing as giving them a board seat. For me, the line would be drawn at that. If I rent my offices from then, they don't get any control over my company. If I take a billion dollars from them, then I am beholden to them in a large way. Fubdibg another office space or a different pc maker is not a problem.
Not in all the cases IMHO. Sometimes a newbie is lacking experience and be might not be aware of that. He might get overconfident and cause troubles for other and himself. This is where "shepherd" would have helped.
I had few mentors that just knew when to help out and what questions are on my mind and that helped a lot.
It was initially developed in Zurich.
Yet another reason why learning Algorithms + Data Structures + Paradigms is much more powerful than focusing too much on language specifics.
I get ya, but I think you just described abstraction. Sure, if we're speaking low-level, we might as well use "hashtable".
A Node.js command-line debuger that doesn't suck (as much)
I remember struggling with moles as a concept in school up to the point when someone finally told me that "a mole" is not like "a kilogram"; it's like "a dozen".
I don't see the connection with "HN+dropbox". Dropbox was/is easy to do by yourself as a techie depending on your usecase.

This is not easy/possible at all and the closest I can think of, which has long ways to go in pursuit of this (and they aren't pursuing this directly (I think)), is something like NixOS - which seems to be quite popular on HN.
Ask HN: Best residential proxy provider to scrape web?
I am looking for a provider with a high pool of residential proxies. Intended for scraping. Would love a discussion on finding the top one.
No company employees other than Google are known to be as vocal about business decisions,AFAIK. Culture matters. The culture which Larry,Sergey and others started is reaping benefits today.
I might be wrong,but if we look at companies in general, Google is the closest to having a democracy-type of vibe.
Buffer have published their formula (and all salaries)

https://open.buffer.com/salary-formula/

it's basically: base reference salary * cost of living * role * experience

edit: oh you where talking about payrole, sorry, I'm OT
>We just live here man, you don't think we actually are in charge and can make any difference...do you?

Is it a democracy or not? Are you a brave people, or are you really a nation of cowards?

The world burns while Americans do everything they can to not take responsibility for their government.
Call it what you want. Your race is reducing your chance at getting in due to seats being taken by those who got a bump for being a certain race.
What made you think that I am not building a company/product? :)

As I said, I am moving forward and will continue applying for every batch of YC, no matter what I am working on (whether it's the same product or something new).

Sounds like you consider YC to be valuable only for idea-stage projects, but that's not true. There are companies that have raised money and still go through YC.

P.S. Viewing your application at YC as "lottery" would likely not get you even an interview. It's not a lottery. My application wasn't strong-enough and that is why it didn't get picked.
On the contrary, it would be a great pub quiz at places like Assembly and Breakout.
Actually, I'd do it frequently if I could, since I live in a multi-lingual household.
imo it's probably better to be rejected at this stage than the interview stage.

I previously got an interview and spent 4 days in travel (they only fund the cheapest flights on hipmunk, which often has several connections), for a 10 minute interview where I thought most of the questions were answered in my written application, only to be rejected anyways.

I'm sure there are sound reasons for the short interview time, but it feels disproportionate to the effort. The best part of that experience was probably talking to the other startups.
I'm fairly right of center and I had never seen the video you mentioned until I looked it up just now. My jaw literally dropped, I could not believe it is the same person speaking just 3 years ago. I did not vote in 2016 but I would have voted for 2015 Bernie Sanders any day had I seen this interview.

Of course, I would've been disappointed with where my vote ended up now that Bernie is apparently an ICE abolitionist. I always respected Bernie and figured his endorsement of Hillary was a one time act of pragmatism. But this interview is something else, replace "Koch brothers" with "Soros" and all of a sudden you have an alt right conspiracy theory.

What's more surprising is that the Vox video only has 170k views after so many years of political dirt digging. We certainly live in interesting times.
Would be very interested in hearing HN's opinions on unionising in the games industry.
India's first Bitcoin ATM seized, co-founder held
Some kind of c++ conference happening today? Lots of c++ submissions!
>Title is misleading

It's sort of a default title for a long-running series on The Quietus. It's not uncommon that a featured artist qualifies "favorite" somehow.

http://thequietus.com/features/baker-s-dozen
> After a rather long gestation, I’m pleased to announce that support for modern Web Components APIs has shipped in Firefox!

Finally, they are here! Great work.
Top 10 trends in digital experiences for 2019 and beyond
it's called Bitcoin.
This is the easiest route. Every country has its own tax and SS laws that would be impossible to handle from a central location. Easier to pay a bit more so each contractor is able to fully pay all of these too (accountant fees included). Which is also important to take into account when negotiating salaries because 50k on Munich is not the same as on Ibiza.
> Sly And The Family Stone – Fresh / Fela Ransome-Kuti & The Africa '70 – Afrodisiac

Did not expect to ever see these names on HN!
well, it's a very different thing if the title is "Why I quit Oracle" or "Java Creator: Why I quit Oracle" and when it's all about removing name the consequence would have been a meaningless "Why I quit".
Forgive my penchant for lateral thinking; English & Ehrenreich's book makes strong points about the development of "professionalism" and industry, two pillars of the pathological substrate making our survival, as another commenter put it, "politically impossible."
Bash has a horrible syntax. Beyond a simple for loop I would reach for Perl.
Just use awk.
Klong already uses bytecode internally, although it is not as efficient as the one in S9 Reimagined. I doubt that adopting the new abstract machine would help that much, because Klong spends most of it time evaluating built-in operators anyway.
Which is why legal measures to force distribution, openness and shared ownership between stakeholders are essential.

Otherwise eventually looters force liabilities onto taxpayers. Human liabilities, or material ones.

For capitalism to work it needs rules, transparency and infrastructure. Our choice is simple : Brazil or Norway.
Kind of, although last time I checked React devs were the only ones not keen in moving into Web Components, while everyone else is moving into that direction.
I appreciate the kind words, but let's give me a tad more credit in the experience department, please: I have been doing production OS kernel development for over two decades, and have done non-trivial work in essentially every privileged subsystem across several different microprocessor and OS architectures. If you want to say that I have gobs of experience in kernel development (and more generally at the hardware/software interface), but no experience with unikernels per se, then fine, I guess -- but at the same time, let's acknowledge that you are the CEO of a unikernel company who very much has a dog in the fight?
Is this somehow related to the Perl 11 announcement?
It does depend on the actual task you are going for, but I have been using https://smartproxy.io/ for a while and they seem legit. High pool and does not limit nor threads nor activities. Suited my needs. Ah, and quite cheap actually.
You can make the same point in a less aggressive manner.
this is me theroadchoseme.com
Lightweight Java Docker Client, Version 0.0.4, Released
That's the joke [0]. But otherwise this is what I meant by "shed your expectations". Even if it were possible to prove something was not possible, how would you build it? There might be some free money in there somewhere.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
Even the UK Government can’t get GDPR right
If your app relies on server-side functionality to work, you should look into the SafetyNet Attestation API to see if you can block cracked apps from working by having the server refuse to talk to an app if it can't prove it was installed from google's app store.
I didn't realize you were a masses. If you don't have time to read two books, how did you get a job in the technology industry?

I'm sick of you lazy techies. Grow up and read a damn book.
The series has always been an engaging introduction to new music for me.

Nils Frahm's is another good one:

http://thequietus.com/articles/18741-nils-frahm-favourite-al...
I don't know about that; land is expensive and inhabited by plants and animals, and you have to deal with wind. In space, there are other problems but at least you're probably not getting in anyone's way. You might also be able to use a much smaller shade, as it can be parked in L1 where it's always shading the Earth, and you don't have to deal with some of the reflected light diffusing through the atmosphere and not actually making it back out into space.

That said, I think the usual objection to the space mirror approach is that you can get the same result much cheaper by spreading a cloud of tiny reflective particles into the upper atmosphere. (I've heard of proposals that would just mandate some additive to the fuel used by large passenger aircraft.)

Making the sky 1% hazier is kind of uninspiring (especially when compared to giant orbital mirrors, which could also act as death-rays if aligned and focused properly), but if it's cheap and is likely to work, then maybe it's worth a try.

(Unfortunately none of these options is that they don't do anything about ocean acidification.)
Thank you! I like the "calm forest" analogy!
Astonishingly in the UK it's actually illegal for companies to do this.
What difference does that make? "Sure, we run the same borked Windows 10 build as everybody else, but don't worry"?
Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6rmlBNh...
>I would argue that Apple actively doesn't want to support your two use cases because they'd much rather sell a device to each member of your household and make it incredibly easy to share the page you are looking at between each member of the house.

Bingo! Apple have acquired immense expertise in applying this anti-pattern.
It takes a lot of mental bandwidth to think about lowering your own CO² emission. Still useful in terms of awareness though! Less driving and flying, less meat, low cost/high reward home energy efficiency improvements, ... are quite obvious ways.

It's important though not to overlook the effect of investing in other people's carbon efficiency instead.
A piece of anecdotal evidence. I willingly spent ~25000€ extra on my Belgium home's energy efficiency. One year later, I end up living in Latvia, where many places don't even have simple radiators valves. When their appartments with city heating get too hot in winter, they just open the window at -30°C! Imagine spending just 5000€ on my home, and the rest offering free radiator valves installations in Latvia -- or other even more efficient schemes of course!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
Why is delvincasper posting projects from shalithasuranga's GitHub account? Easy upvotes?
If an elderly person can't find these settings buried in some menu system, they're as good as set forever.
The stark loneliness of lighthouses
Today everybody can buy a computer that is build into an ethernet port.

https://www.lantronix.com/products/xport-pro/
The Waning of Python
I agree, it was as well seasonal. Does not consider the types of task, the working dynamics, maturity of HR processes, distribution of tasks, how recently the employee was hired, overloaded professionals versus professionals with new tasks that needed to be learned. well at least the news did not present us with these data. this behavior study should have been placed in a bigger time frame, 1-2 years?
> why not devise a real time geolocation device to be embedded in cars and then lobby for it to be nationally adopted so people literally can't speed

The insurance companies are absolutely working on this. https://www.moneysupermarket.com/car-insurance/telematics/

In re immigration, the desire for more enforcement will inevitably lead to a national ID system, even if it's a "shadow" one like shadow Facebook profiles. The UK already has requirements for "proof of migration status" if you want to rent somewhere to live or have a bank account, and they keep trying to bring it into healthcare and schools.

In a country where illegal voter purges are a big problem, this will make the situation worse. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/19/georgia-gove...
It's an arbitrary number, but it's nice because one mole of atoms with atomic mass number X will weigh approximately X grams. This is exactly true for carbon-12 (and is what defines a mole).
What different do you mean? In computer-related topics state always refered to the ability to change or not change after an interaction has finished. I don't see how he used a different usage?
I know(? it feels like I'm missing something). It is just that I feel the opposite. This is exactly the type of project that HN would like. And not heckle, because there are no similarities with the Dropbox case.
Half serious suggestion: Could we somehow enable individuals themselves conduct auctions to allow advertisers to access? Imagine being able to say: "I will accept 10 ads today - you guys figure out what you want to show me".
I assure you I'm not trying to strawman you. These conversations somehow always get so emotional so quickly, so I'm trying to be as forthright as possible. What I am reading from this post is that you're suggesting that since previous changes in temperature took place over extended periods of time, nature had time to evolve thus helping to minimize effects. That seems like a reasonable hypothesis.

How long of a time do you think would be the minimum to allow for the presumably substantial evolutionary changes that would be required for adaptation? How does this contrast against the warming, potentially upwards of 10 degrees celsius, that occurred some 330k years ago - to say nothing of the sharp increases in CO2 that also followed? In particular, how rapidly do you suppose that warming occurred?

[1] - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Ice_Age_...
They gave up using any Android forks and did not push Tizen.
Maybe most accidents are due to speed because a lot fewer people drive too slowly.
How do you prevent software compromising the bios? Or SSD-Firmware? Or whatever hidden storage else is builtin?
> it makes no sense for the constitution to tell states how they can or cannot vote. This was antithetical to the entire notion of what the United States was supposed to be

The United States was originally "supposed" to be made up of a number of slave states where a large chunk of the population wasn't allowed to vote (but their numbers still counted for seat allocation). Everything follows from there - they went to war with the US government, lost, and had their independence taken away to ensure fair treatment of the black population.

Without the Federal government a number of those states would revert to apartheit.
TypeScript support has just been merged on create-react-app
I mean, at the time of my posting this, literally every other top-level comment but two are kind of heckling the idea. I agree that a (working) project would be very interesting to the HN crowd. But it definitely also is an idea that many of those same people would have doubts about, very much like the Dropbox Show HN comment.
Author here...

The v8 debugger protocol rocks. The standard cli interface to it less so. For example, missing is simple frame-motion commands like "up", "down", with attendant evaluation in that context are possible from the protocol.

This tradition of cool debugger protocols with crappy CLI interfaces I first noticed in jdb. Creating a decent CLI isn't all that hard.

You might think well, no one uses CLI interfaces any more. As I watch my colleagues work, especially those who work in cloud and container-based systems, I am seeing that they are still using command-line interfaces quite a bit.

Finally, for those would-be command-line debugger interface writers, instead of inventing a new interface, why not pick an existing one to work off of? Here I selected gdb (as I've done in the 6 or so other debuggers I've done).

By doing this, as you learn any of the debuggers, you'll most likely be able to apply to the other debuggers, including gdb and vice versa.

What I have come to learn, especially with the stock node inspect, is that most people don't really know how to use the full power of what's already there. This is partly due to its differentness. But it is also partly due to its sparse documentation
> ticket you every time you break the speed limit.

Generally I'm against government spying and tracking, but I really don't think cities could afford the traffic situation of every driver obeying the speed limit. Think about how many commuters exceed the speed limit every single day, and imagine if every person were forced to actually drive the limit at all times. I would expect at least a 10% increase in on-road-traffic at a given time, and that's being conservative. Some places might not be able to support the additional stress on traffic.

Is it time to rethink our speed laws?
Some of us can spot it. In the Apollo 13 movie, I could tell the real dialog (recorded in history) from the fake dialog.

The big failure was right after the explosion. There was a desire to show the level of stress at that time, so the script writers had the astronauts be antagonistic toward each other and generally unproductive. As I watched that, I instantly saw a bunch of wimpy unstable Hollywood types instead of carefully screened professional test pilots.

The intro dialog was also really forced, and the historical dialog contradicted the direction that rockets were fired when returning.
I remember the first time I listened to Loveless, back when CD stores still had listening stations with headphones so that you could play an album before you pay. I gave the CD to the girl behind the counter, after she loaded the disk I pressed play on the controls in front of me, and put on the headphones - completely missing the opening count and wall-of-sound crash in the first few seconds. She pressed stop told me to keep the headphones on and pressed play again. This is cheesy, but it is hard to describe the joy I feel when I play that album ever since that day.

To anyone listening to Loveless for the first time: I encourage you to put on your headphones before pressing play. Most of us probably don't have CD store employees to help us with this any more. Maybe you've already learned the "trousers before shoes" rule of listening to music from another album yourself?
Quick q, are the "walls of errors" of errors coming from code you wrote yourself or from 3rd party libraries?

I ask because you say that you want to learn the more complicated types, but I'd say it is better to stick to the basic types for your own code.

It seems obvious to me now, but It took me a while to realize: the reason TS type system is so advanced is to be able to accommodate all the crazy JavaScript APIs that are already out there in the real world. New code doesn't need (and most likely should not) use many of those complicated patterns.

This is also why other compile-to-JS languages have an advantage over TS: they don't have the burden of having to express all the craziness that is JS, and will probably be built around a much simpler/cohesive core of ideas.

TS is still an amazing compiler that provides lots of value: many projects other than TS benefit from TS type definitions. But I'd rather use something else if I'm writing an app from scratch. I'm exploring ClojureScript these days.
Which is why then you have to come up with tricks like typing c, instead of ç, eh instead of é and so forth.

Then everyone does it a bit differently and there is this pre-parsing phase trying to understand which idiom people have written the text.
When someone says "hashtable" in the context of writing software, they're most often specifying desired performance characteristics, not the specific implementation details. This is how Perl does it, for example.

Also, there are Map implementations that don't have these performance characteristics, e.g. a TreeMap in Java which internally uses a red/black tree and thus provides logarithmic lookup and insertion. If I'm writing something that needs to do a lot of efficient lookups but only write "Map" in the spec, there's danger that the wrong thing will be used, and performance will suffer. It really does need a hashtable, not just a generic lookup interface.
> The US is probably being the 'most honest' by simply saying we won't implement them. In China and India they would simply misreport their emissions and not pay the tax.

Uhm, is there some data backing up your claim that we are honest and that China and India are dishonest. I mean, we really should think twice about accusing other countries of dishonesty after our whole weapons of mass destruction invasion debacle, various wars, regime changes, our "intelligence" services, rendition, Vietnam...
> Dropbox was/is easy to do by yourself as a techie depending on your usecase.

Dropbox should have come from the OS vendors. It didn't, because we don't have OS vendors any more - we have ad agencies.
And now where is exactly the difference to F-Droid?

The FOSS store f-droid also allows to add custom apt-like repositories, which for example CopperheadOS used to add a non-sanctioned patched version of the "signal" app. Moxie doesnt want forks of signal that are also using signal's servers. CopperheadOS did it anyway because signal is not compatible without Google Apps installed (removing google cloud messaging because CopperHeadOS doesnt include Google play services).
Not clear from your comment what definition of "stateless" you mean, but it is clear from the HN title.
Life on a neutron star (2004)
When he visited the Uk base of a company (Eaton - where my dad worked) he was a director - there where instructions not to talk to him about his time in NASA.
A book won't help you making the actual sale. It can provide you some guidelines (SPIN, Miller Heimann, Sales 2.0, DISC, Challenger Sale and many more) and confidence to actually start, but eventually the complexity of the actual sale can be mapped to the weather. However if you have identified the clients budget, mapped their stakeholders, communicate with the decision makers and you have created the need and urgency for your solution, you can increase the likelyhood of coming to a sale. Even tough things will happen outside of your control.....