skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The amount of garbage I get free with every ZIP file from a Mac user makes me think Apple users aren't the brightest bunch either.
This is a lovely piece of satire given the prevailing obsession with silly CoCs all around.
Ah, something like this has been on my TODO list forever, would greatly appreciate it!
Being a community manager is a thankless, unrelenting assault on your confidence and emotional and social stability.

The social Internet's linchpin has almost always (since as long as I can remember) been that it requires a certain kind of person to be an unpaid community manager (by any name), and nearly every site you visit (wikipedia, stackoverflow, reddit, etc) makes use of these nonployees.
The only thing that doesn't work with my X1C6 on Linux is the fingerprint reader. Everything else works.

They fixed the sleep issue with a BIOS update. The only remaining issue is aggressive throttling of the CPU, which is fixed with this: https://github.com/erpalma/lenovo-throttling-fix
Ask HN: How common is it for founders to have no idea what they're doing?
For obvious reasons, I made a throwaway account for this post.

I work at a startup that's been running on VC life support for several years, with no real revenue, no working product, and no proven customer base. The company has "pivoted" several times to no great success. We have several big-name funders who seem to have invested on the strength of our founder's reputation (he was semi-successful in a related space a decade ago).

The founder has neither a technical background nor a traditional business background. Management decisions are based largely on his mood (which he takes out on his underlings when it's bad), his ego (easily inflated and easily bruised), or wishful thinking (rampant). He is an inveterate micromanager of nontechnical tasks and simultaneously exhibits 1) limited understanding of technical topics and 2) lack of faith in the abilities of technical staff.

I guess what I want to know is how common this all is, and how bad it really is. The idea at the core of our business is not stupid, and I believe it has some chance of success if executed correctly. Our founder is difficult, but I hear stories about difficult/crazy founders of successful companies all the time. I am probably on my way out, but I am interested to hear whether this kind of situation is very common.
Sydney and Melbourne, Australia have seen this exact same problem
A textbook is cheaper and collated.
Don't BR ridiculous. There are lots of mutual funds that don't experience the swings that many hedge funds do.
This warms my heart. The x220 is one of the most oddly aesthetically pleasing laptops I've ever seen.
Intel kills off the 10nm process
Sort of. With modern software design and modern manufacturing it doesn't cost anything extra to allow you to change to a different floor plan. So you can get a kit that is easier to put together than the sears home of the past (despite having to meet stronger codes), but it will be a custom home.

With standard lumber sizes kit homes don't gain much though. Home Depot sells precut studs (92 5/8) that allow the standard size drywall/plywood to fit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HMDprogramming

Doesn't really compete with a regular keyboard+monitor in terms of ergonomics/eye health/fatigue/input methods right now. Maybe in 5 years
Ah cool. I miss them because I jumped off Linux and switched to OSX/macOS for a few years and then moved to Windows.

That said, I just found https://www.stardock.com/products/windowfx/
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Leaving aside the religious aspect of the CoC which are probably going to be controversial the other rules are actually fairly common sense. A few that caught my eye:

> Do not give way to anger.

> Do not nurse a grudge.

> Do not entertain deceit in your heart.

> Do not give a false peace.

> Do not swear, for fear of perjuring yourself.

> Utter only truth from heart and mouth.

> Do not return evil for evil.

> Be not a grumbler.

> Be not a detractor.

> Hate no one.

> Be not jealous, nor harbor envy.

> Do not love quarreling.

> Shun arrogance.

> Respect your seniors.

> Love your juniors.

> Make peace with your adversary before the sun sets.

Good rules to live by IMO.
Where "growing up" of course means becoming cynical and bitter, and pretending that hating fun is "mature"? And before you tell me that it was impractical... sure, a bit, but I really doubt the wm is a significant limiting factor in anyone's workflow, and it's still every bit as useful as whatever Windows uses these days.
47. Keep death daily before your eyes.

Oh, don't worry SQLite, I do.

I fucking hope it's satire. Even so, this page should be nuked from orbit. It's shocking that SQLite would allow such a page on their domain.
Show HN: Congressional report card for measuring efficacy of representatives
> It might be the case that e.g. Lebanese or Indian cuisine is popular among non-Muslim Brits

Umm.. Majority of indians are hindus not muslims.
It's actually worse than that. The accepted answer by the OP is pinned to the top forever (or until OP changes his or her mind, which is often never), no matter how many downvotes the pinned answer collects.
I found the conclusion rather disappointing:

> What should Stack Overflow be when it grows up? Whatever we make it, together.

It's more of a historical overview than a vision for the future.
It's still around, still seems to be getting maintained, people still use it. KDE has had most of the 'cool' compiz effects baked into KWin for ages now, just not turned on by default.
Learning Clojure: dependent types and contract-based programming
Linux isn't much of a story any more
TLDR: politically appointed trustees of a pension fund systematically invest in somewhat-fraudulent investment schemes, which shock horror had some questionable financial returns (they were in fact quite large, but with a minus in front). This is, obviously, the fault of all bankers on Wall Street, not of the appointed trustees or of the politicians appointing them.
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You're assuming that every Muslim endorses every Middle Eastern government, then?
This is fascinating. I would love to set up something like this at my current workplace. How much time do you allocate during Thursdays to review?
I think you are wrong. Our CI infra caches all dependencies, but it depends on github for new internal code pushes (kind of the point). If github is not sending events, CI doesnt kick.

Youre ignoring half of the problem. If you dont receive events from github because they are down, your CI doesnt work either -- dependency caching doesnt matter at that point.
Honest answer: yes.
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And, additionally, was a host on the YouTube series PBS Infinite Series, shortly before it was cancelled.
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Replace "God" with "Linus" and "Christ" with "The Linux Kernel Mailing List", and we'll have a decent candidate for a Linux CoC. ;)
The only questions I've seen constantly outdated are web dev related. More stable technologies like C/C++/python seem to have up to date answers most of the time (purely anecdotal).
Didnt's Foursquare do something like that with its transition to Swarm?
it would be cool since this is claiming high performance
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Hah yeah of course it did! It's weird, the worst that would happen back in the day was a program on your PC would get abandoned. On iOS, you're liable to download an "update" to something (like Galaxy on Fire 2 HD, which WAS a great space game for iOS) and suddenly it's been acquired by a new company, and the $9 you spent has been turned into a F2P garbage, ad-ridden experience.
I loved the demo, but I think that 3D interfaces very rarely bring any value to your brain. After all your visual system is built around the idea of turning n-dimensional noise into a non 3d abstraction.
you're asking this question in a thread about Mark Cuban... yes, 100% salespeople
I'm quite content with investing in the Middle East and Pakistan over the 'tobacco guys'. One group has been responsible for wilfully murdering hundreds of thousands of innocent people, including children, for decades. The other group is just likely to follow a religion I'm not a member of ..
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It seems if you save money at the bank they will actually loose money for you since their interest rate is lower than inflation. The financial market is such a clusterfuck lmao
Most of them, if not all, have links with the middle East or other muslim countries. Either they are subsidiaries of middle eastern banks, or were funded by middle eastern investors.

As a Westerner and an atheist, ethics to me is staying far away from these organisations.
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Possibly just need to reduce every answer's score a little every month to favour answers which are actively being voted up more recently.
I've owned and fiddled with ThinkPads since the 486 days and my previous laptop was a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E530. The screen resolution was 1366 x 768, but after some research I found that a W530 screen could be fitted which offered 1920 x 1080. It was literally a straight swap that must've taken less than half an hour.
I don't care much for CoCs but the tone of the README makes me think that the author is the type of people CoCs are written for (or against). A page long strawman rant.

If you don't care about CoC then don't have one. Don't use this passive aggressive "let me write a thousand word essay to let you know how much I don't care about or have time to deal with CoCs".

>However, if someone tells you you are stupid, or wrong. Stop. Think. Does this have anything to do with your race, region, religion, or anything else not related to this project? This is a tricky one. Have you considered, that they are either having a bad day, are a bad listener, or possibly, you are wrong? If you feel you're not wrong, please, by all means, reply.

If I call somebody stupid in the context of a technical contribution to a project then I'm being unprofessional and out of line. Doesn't mean that I should automatically be executed publicly but I don't see why it should be the person being insulted who should introspect to figure out what I meant exactly.

Oh and if I contribute to your project and you call me stupid I can assure you that I won't reply, I'll get out of here as fast as I can and never return.
This is similar to almost all unpaid positions which require dirty work and give you a bit of power.

The people who do them end up being people who volunteer to be "paid" with the opportunity to go on a power trip.

I've not had experience of it myself, but I've heard from some people who have worked at high profile charities that a similar thing happens there.
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Pension contributions have been made. In the best case they are large enough to cover everything. However in all the likely cases they won't have enough money to pay out their promises. If more money went in there would be enough returns with reasonable investments. Or you can chase risky investments and hope that better than average returns pay you back.
For perspective, how much does Android charge developers for using the play store ?
Saudi Arabia is a peace-loving country that wouldn't harm a fly.
Ask HN: 4 months after posting my project on HN, it has 0 users. Has it failed?
Four months ago, one of my projects was ready to be posted on "Show HN", and so I did. After a couple of hours it reached the frontpage and traffic was through the roof. A handful dozen of trial users signed up, and with feedback of the community, I thought that if I were to spend a bit more time on it, this would be the side project I could continue working on and make some side-money with.

Long story short, four months later, I am the only user of my service. I hired a brand strategist who looked at the market, with who I forged a marketing plan, and with who I set goals. Needless to say, none of them were met.

What does/can this mean? Should I accept that what I built will only be used by myself, or is this a phase each product/service goes through? If only there were one extra paid user, I would have enough motivation to continue, but with zero conversion the motivation starts to fade.

I think it is irrelevant to re-post a link to the project, but feel free to ask/look it up if you think it's relevant.
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On 19 Oct 2018, at 6:26pm

http://sqlite.1065341.n5.nabble.com/Regarding-CoC-td104277.h...

> Yeah, that's gonna magically appear on Hacker News within the month. For those curious ...
A few weeks ago I was trying to find a contact page on a site that had infinite scroll (don't remember the reason or the site). The link to contact information was in the footer, which was impossible to get to with infinite scroll. Absolutely ridiculous.

Ended up having to disable JavaScript to be able to scroll down.
Makes a lot of sense, and it is encouraging. Thank you.

You just made me realise I have no idea who's supposed to read it; what I expect them to already know or understand. Even just for the writing itself it is essential.
The more stars your project has, the more likely people and companies are going to use it.
Stars represent trust. When it comes to adoption of an open source project, trust is everything.
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/rosetta.pdf

It's worth reading this if you've got a math background at all. It's a nice summary of what Category Theory is and potential applications for it.
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I got bored of scrolling through it. I know it's just someone's blog but I'm always a little surprised when grown-ups use stupid little cartoons and memes.
It may be worth noting that the title of the submission is incomplete. The article's title is

Canada installs Chinese underwater monitoring devices next to US nuclear submarine base

(vs "Chinese underwater monitoring devices next US nuclear submarine base", the submissions current title).
It makes a lot of sense for any kind of binary format as well (eg. gzip: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1952).
My Dad had the 701c when I was a kid. When it broke (completely dead, some kind of motherboard / PSU failure) he gave it to me to "fix" so I dismantled it to see how the keyboard worked and then just threw everything in the bin. It still keeps me awake occasionally. :(
True but maybe they will be applying the tactic at Azure.

Their new strategy appears to be cloud services, all in [1]. Desktop, mobile, hardware, patents, dev tools... everything ties back to encouraging Azure use now. They're offering massive partnerships and credits (first one is always free) to attract new migrations. In the last year their managed service primitives (db's, queues, lambdas, lb, etc etc) has matured tremendously, so now it's convenient and practical to quickly build full hosted applications. Like AWS but different.

As they make more open source contributions, forking popular projects and making their own spin on things, there can be MS flavored Kafka and Classic Kafka, for example.

Then once your service is hosted in Azure, with forked nonstandard services and APIs, it's inconvenient to leave: things aren't close enough to other clouds so you need to re-invest. This is the definition of lockin.

Here at $work we have swallowed the whole lure: investment, credits, partnership, migration, custom services. And that lure has big treble hooks in our gills.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobevans1/2018/07/26/why-amazon...
The only thing I can provide is that I once talked to a girl at a party who had been working at a startup for about half a year. When I asked what the startup was doing she could not tell me. She said that she didn't have the slightest clue, but as long as she kept the job she was playing along.

That was in 2002. I Just checked and that company still exists, albeit as a branch of another company. They must have pivoted about 10 times in the past, and their current website is littered with bullshit marketing buzz ("Cognitive Enablement" being one of them).

And sorry, I have no idea how this business model works.
> is category theory worth learning?

Yes. Very much so. Especially if you're programming functionally. It will explain why all this is the way it is. Why sum types and product types are what they are, the big picture on functors, monads, etc, etc.

I like Bartosz Milewski's introduction [1][2] where he states (paraphrasing) that he started programming back in the day with assembly, and as programs got more difficult we needed higher level abstractions, so he moved to procedural languages, and then after that another higher abstraction was OO, but he realised that OO has a fundamental problem: objects don't compose, and so he found himself functional programming with Haskell... each time looking for better abstractions.

Category Theory is the ultimate abstraction and although you can't write code with it, you can step outside of the detail of complex solutions and think about the bigger picture and then use that bigger picture to help you build your detail. And that's why I think it's valuable.

I particularly like his journey too, as it exactly reflects my own.

[1] Category Theory for Programmers - https://github.com/hmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf

[2] https://www.youtube.com/user/DrBartosz/playlists
> I don’t see what the benefit of that system is as opposed to paying someone market price for their labor.

The benefit is that Beamte are locked in to the state. It's rare that the private sector snatches Beamte away from the state. This means that, unlike in the private sector, the state does not have to worry that its most competent employees suddenly vanish.
Always wondered about these. Fascinating read, thanks for submitting.
While I agree with the general intent of it, to call it "right to repair" legislation is slightly misleading. Apple isn't trying to make it so that if you open your own device you'll go to jail or something like that. When you buy an iPhone, you can do whatever the hell you want with it. Apple doesn't care. What it IS trying to do is basically not making it so that it actively helps people to repair the device. Right to repair legislation — as in the case of New York's — would require companies to take certain actions, like providing repair manuals and parts.
sharia
/ʃəˈriːə/Submit
noun
Islamic canonical law based on the teachings of the Koran and the traditions of the Prophet (Hadith and Sunna), prescribing both religious and secular duties and sometimes retributive penalties for lawbreaking. It has generally been supplemented by legislation adapted to the conditions of the day, though the manner in which it should be applied in modern states is a subject of dispute between Muslim traditionalists and reformists.

- more ethical? or just different cultural values?
i won't get all excited just because they claim not to invest in guns etc, - sharia law doesnt allow women to go to school or drive a car... do you think this banks maybe also enforce such laws in their banking ideology? ....
wobbly windows is so 2006. Enjoy clothy windows. https://videopress.com/v/zmiBKUyQ
Alibaba Cloud opens London datacenter to take on AWS
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I use Viral Launch's Market Intelligence to get data on # of reviews, estimated sales, review %, etc. I also use Helium10 to get keyword search data supposedly from the Amazon Advertising API. Between those two sets of data- it's very easy to see bad sellers.

There's dozens of tools for Amazon sellers and I think what they're missing is something that connects ALL the moving parts together as well as helps Amazon sellers expand outside the Amazon marketplace. Amazon software tends to be expensive.

Helium10's cheapest plan is $100/mo.

The software I use for inventory is $50/mo (Inventorylab),

a repricing software was $50/mo- now maybe $100/mo (Appeagle/InformedCo).

Feedback email software is $20-50+/mo (FeedbackGenius, ZonPages, etc).

Restocking software is $50-100+/mo (RestockPro).

Sourcing software is $50+/mo (Pricechecker 2, Tactical Arbitrage, etc).

I learned Python to automate some of my processes because I was spending thousands of dollars for my own tiny Amazon store with $100k+ annual sales. There's over 100,000 sellers on Amazon that do $100k+ annual sales as well hundreds of very big sellers ($10m+) that need custom software solutions. So it's a niche but interesting market.

It's a pretty exciting space. Amazon changes so often, every few months, making it difficult for small sellers and software providers to keep up. The best software last year is no longer the best software today.

Currently I see the biggest competition in Amazon PPC software companies: Teikametrics, Feedvisor. If anyone's interested in building software for Amazon- I'd love to connect.
Smalltalk and Racket are two languages I recomend to anyone wanting to learn a new language just for self-education sake. Now running Smalltalk on JVM I can't think why I would go down that road.
I think the point was that it's "ethnic food from somewhere in southern Asia that's further west than Myanmar or so" not that it conforms to any particular religious requirement.
> If a private entity can’t afford to offer annuities without the power to increase taxes, then they are obviously a very, very expensive benefit, so why should only government employees get them?

Because the government can provide them more cheaply than a private entity by its very nature - shouldn't it make use of that competitive advantage? Better pension schemes are one of the ways government are able to offer a competitive employee compensation package despite substantially below-market headline salaries; if you replaced the guaranteed annuities with their market dollar value that would mean costing the government more to be able to hire the same people, offering government employees less value overall and so getting lower-quality employees, or both.
That's very good understanding of recent events codeaken, thanks.
Well, seeing that my associate and I end up getting stuck at the very least twice a week, I guess I'll have something to write about. But yes, I might quite simply run out of material ^^"

Thanks for taking the time ! You've been very helpful; gave me lot to think about and, more importantly, act upon ! I appreciate it.
Try to update one of those outdated answers and your changes will be removed, because the original author has more internet points.

The amount of circle jerking on Stack Overflow is stunning.
The problem arises when "belittlement" or harassment is defined by someone's feelings rather than any objective, specific standard.
From what I understand, Intel's 10nm process is roughly the same as 7nm processes from other foundries, and Intel's 14nm is more or less 10nm on someone else's scale.
Haha! How can languages differ on something so basic and universal? It beats me, but I'll make sure not to make that mistake again.
> ... releasing kernel with my shitty code and EVERYONE thinking that I'm an idiot

Or, "releasing kernel with my shitty code and ruining the day for a lot of people."
According to Wikipedia from 2010-2016 about 200 new drugs were introduced that were partly funded by the NIH, of these drugs about 80 were significant in the fact that they worked via previously unknown mechanisms.
I don't see anything more or less ethical here. The bank has to get a return. Whether it does so through interest or a "share of the profit" is more a matter of risk and transaction cost. It's hard for me to believe that what it costs to maintain a knowledge of a borrower's profit and then collect from that is really competitive.
I agree with this, but would like to say, if you open your orders history, you can order the same arrows again assuming the business is still selling them on Amazon.