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We wrote this example/tutorial App for complete beginners to learn JavaScript & TDD while building a fully functional TodoMVC clone without any frameworks. Would love feedback from the HN community. Would you have found something like this useful for learning JavaScript & TDD?
A treaty that is unenforceable (ie no one can observe the outcome) is as good as no treaty. You can't really attribute most cyberattacks and if you automatically assume it is country x, then country y in conflict with country x will rush into attacking you.
In fairness, there aren't that many high level politicians. And even if one were to read posting and admitting that fact would probably be bad, career-wise.
> why bother?

Because I'm a bit annoyed by what seems to me a growing push towards confusing the judgement of someone's work with their moral qualities. I see it as fundamentally anti-intellectual, as it strives to bring extraneous criteria in the evaluation of what should stand and be judged on its own. A scientific theory or a work of art aren't less valuable because their authors or proponents are or aren't communists, or arians; a literary masterpiece isn't diminished by the fact that its author was an anti-semite, or sadist; a great movie director remains a great director even if she did horrible things in her private life. Very little of our past science and philosophy and arts would still be standing if we were to apply these criteria, and I very strongly doubt we'd gain something better. Every single time "political" criteria have been used to judge the value of intellectual products, it's been the indicator of serious troubles, both for the society doing it and for the overall quality of the disciplines.
You realize most of the labor unions that made meaningful reform were in factories yes? Factories that simply would not exist today because most of the work has been replaced with automation and equipment orders of magnitudes more efficient, yes?
I like to look on high end headphones as I would any other luxury item - I'm willing to pay for nice materials of a higher quality or a better experience, if the item is right.

That could perhaps explain some of the price - plus I think we're at the point where many of the headphone companies have discovered that there is an ultra-high end market for some of these products.

You can see this in the prices of many top brand flagship headphones - the majority of the well regarded brands have been gradually putting out exceedingly expensive flagships in the past 2-3 years.

10 years ago - then the Sennheiser HD650 was seen as a flagship at $400, now look at the Sennheiser HD820 released earlier this year at $2200.

You aren't going to find too many people who will say that the sound improvements between the two justify an $1800 increase in MSRP.

However if you reframe the perspective to that of a luxury good, given the perception of headphones (regardless of use case) has changed somewhat in the interim and are seen as a fashion accessory and there's a larger enthusiast pool - you can see that manufacturers would be willing to push new boundaries when it comes to price.

However I think it's only the lunatics, or the conspicuous consumers who are ignorant to the law of diminishing returns when it comes to headphones and audio in general.
Great pieces of advice but it’s like asking a sales person to learn how to code. My best advice and where I believe engineers should spend 100% of there energy up front, is to go out there and find a cofounder who’s primary skill is to sell stuff. Product or marketing folks.

Both strategies (yours and mine) are very tough and time consuming, so I’d definitely pick mine. Why? Because it would be so much more optimized in the long run. That’s how most of the tech companies started and there’s a good reason for that.
> Sigh.. I've seen this argument so many times I have to wonder if the people peddling it has ever sat on a hiring panel.

I have interviewed for jobs and have interviewed others for positions on my team. Both startup and traditional 9-5 tech jobs.

> The decision to hire someone in a high-skilled job has extraordinarily little to do with their compensation and much more to do with their perceived value.

It's a bit of both.

> Society has conditioned us to view a certain kind of masculinity as inherent value. Men are rewarded for their aggression and confidence, whereas women are criticized for ego and emotionality.

Is it society or nature? Also, society socializes males to be less aggressive. So I don't agree with your claim.

> Perhaps this argument has credence in the low-skilled labor market, but it is not applicable to tech,

Because in the tech world, aggression is what is sought?

> Because the system I just described above is prone to failure thanks to unconscious bias.

If that is the case, why don't these women create companies and hire only women ( who are supposedly doing the same job for 77% pay of their male counterpart )?

Maybe in construction work or farm work, male traits are highly preferred. But in programming and tech world, it's pretty much what you can do.

You really didn't address my point. If what you are claiming is true, why don't you start a search engine company and hire only women? You would put google out of business in a few short years given your built in 23% profit margin.

Do you realize how significant a naturally embedded profit margin of 23% is?

So I'll ask again. What is preventing you or any other person from starting companies and hiring women if women truly make 77% of a man's wage for the same exact work?
it's probably not that they're all stupid and malicious

... any more than psychiatrists are stupid and malicious for acting in accordance with the norms of their profession.

In both cases, people can be wrong without being stupid/malicious, and likewise, people can be wrong whilst adhering firmly to the status quo.
A salad with some pan-fried halloumi cheese and pine nuts is quick and satisfying, though probably too salty to eat every day. Halloumi works as a meat substitute in a lot of recipes.

Lentils and onions over rice will fill you up, but it's certainly less fun than a steak.

Stir fries are quick, fun to cook and satisfying. Slice a couple of hard-boiled eggs, add soy sauce and sesame seeds, and serve over the stir-fried veg.
Ask HN: Why is my website not indexed by Google?
Hi everyone,

We launched our new company website around a month ago, it's www.antheon.ai and it's built with Wordpress using Divi. The problem is that our website can't be found on google when I search for "antheon". I just can't figure out the reason.

- There is not robots.txt file that prevents Google from indexing it.

- We registered the website in Webmaster Tools, fetched the page and requested indexing (no issues were found by this tool).

- The website is not in private mode but publicly visible.

I really don't know what we can do to get it indexed. Does anyone have ideas of what could be wrong?
This is solved by the hotel tax as well: if you want to decrease the number of tourists, raise the tourist/hotel tax.
Capitalism is fully compatible with authoritarianism and often even welcomes it. Authoritarian states are more willing to help reduce costs incurred by things like human rights and labor laws.
Because _we know_ that AI lie detectors can't currently prove beyond reasonable doubt that someone is lying. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens's_razor
Problem here is that developed world has destroyed it's wilderness long time ago, used that land to produce food and resources, but now we demand that others don't do the same. Why don't we instead create a wilderness by giving up on our local agriculture land? Nature takes back the land very quickly and if you limit hunting and repopulate the animals you'll quickly have a full-blown wilderness back. It doesn't have to be Amazon or some place in Africa, Europe once was covered in forests end-to-end too.
Stuxnet was extremely complicated!

More info:
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-sophisticated-piece-o...
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According to this thing if I had a similar level job at google I’d be making $150k more a year in total comp than i’m making now but I’m like 90% sure I can’t get that job at google.
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Sorry, I guess we've got our wires crossed somewhere. I'm not suggesting that the hiring process be automated. Just that the compensation offered is fixed along a completely rigid structure.
There is no will from upper management to handle these issues appropriately, which is part of why Google as an organization is in its current state. Google has been able to paper over issues with copious amounts of money thus far, but that is breaking down as time goes on.
14 years later and we're still all eating Heinz. Sorry, Jim.
That is your personal choice, and is fine. But I think you can happily coexist with these other people:

- Those who care about influencing their culture and want to do what they can to change it.

- Those who are concerned with where their money goes and whether or not they think that that is the most effective use of their money.

Feel free to ignore the concerns of those groups and do what you want. But I don't think that wading into a conversation you fundamentally don't want to be a part of is effective.
"which cost the EU a little more than $5 million"

Well, I didn't know my taxes were used to build such systems. It would have been really more acceptable if they sold the system as a simple chat bot that records what you says, in case you are involved in a case later. But the "lie detector" part is scary and this is the typical instance that Elon Musk warned against.

I don't understand how academics accepted to work on that.
If everyone knew how to grow food locally there would be less transportation waste, more community, & stronger immune systems from working the dirt with hands instead of exclusively machines.
I understand it to be a classic buffer overflow using a memory copy. Bounds checking fails and a buffer is overflowed with bits from the attacker. The author was able to cause a kernel panic. This does not mean another attacker could not execute arbitrary code using this exploit.

I expect to see a PoC soon with arbitrary code execution in kernel space on all unpatched MacOS/iOS devices soon. Which would be bad...
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Did Neil Armstrong Really Leave His Daughter's Bracelet on the Moon?
I also think so. Moreover, I wish there were a way for me, as an average nonmillionaire, to invest in that as an industry.
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There is nothing in a democracy either that prevents minorities from being oppressed. Examples of democratic countries with oppressed minorities are plenty.
Ouch. At first I mixed it up with the EMDrive, which would not work. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325177082_The_Space...

But a simple ion thruster is fine.
Those beasts are incredibly fast up there in low orbit. Something like one earth orbit in 2 hours.
You could say that the effort is vain, but saying that it "has the opposite effect" is quite a strong statement. I am interested to hear how individual efforts of going vegetarian/vegan are contributing to global warming. And could you expand on "putting effort into pushing for the drastic changes"?
> the point of the open source was often to share code to improve the state of the art and provide useful code for people so they don't have to start from scratch

Was that the point of free software? I thought that the point was freedom: that users be permitted to use, modify & redistribute the software they use. Inclusion of BSD-licensed code in proprietary software fails at that: a macOS user is unable to use macOS without paying for it; unable to legally modify it; and even if he did modify unable to legally distribute those modifications.

BSD-licensed code is awesome for vendors of proprietary software who want a head start; it's not so great for users.
> Actually, I don't want to wait at all.

Neither do I. But I also accept that, given the sheer volume of stolen creds and bots out there, sites that damage their bang/buck performance, even at the cost of very minor inconvenience to users, are likely to be targeted less frequently and in lower volume. Even if I wasn't begrudgingly willing to pay that price, I'd at least admit to the logic of making the process more time-consuming as a deterrent.
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Ask HN: Where are the database for high dimensional similarity search?
It seems like with the advent of embeddings and other deep learning inspired vectorization someone must have made a database that is able to do (approximate) k-nn on high dimensional vectors. Like ElasticSearch is for Lucene I'm looking for a "database" that interfaces with something like annoy or faiss, but I've yet to find one! Seems like a great opportunity?
Wow, we had used the same stack. Neo4j - gave up because of horizontal scaling issues, moved to TitanDB and then our startup folded.

Fast forward 3 years and am back in the graph world, this time dealing with money laundering and fraud rings. It stumps me as to why graphs are not used more in the financial world. Financial transactions are no different from social interactions. So concepts such as community detection etc apply to the financial realm as well and in fact we are using such concepts to determine fraud rings. I may get back to neo4j.
Google and Facebook are moonshots by extremely talented people. I don’t know about you, but I have no close to zero chances of building something similar.

It’s wiser to be realistic, find problems businesses have, understand them better than anyone else and try to solve them.

EG. some dropshipping platforms don’t have integrations with some e-commerce platforms, interview dropshippers and build the ones they’d need. It might not be fancy, but it works.
I respect this more than people that try and change the world with a new decentralised web 3.0 no one will ever use

EDIT: you added a reference that your thoughts are for B2C. But Facebook and Google are B2B, the Cs are the product
This makes no sense. Eating meat is just as expensive as energy consumption. Food can be just as delicious with 20% meat instead of 80% meat. Why would you insist on eating as much as possible?
To the contrary, JavaScript is one of the most portable and backward-compatible languages of all time. Portability and long-term maintenance on node.js is excellent if you stick to long-term development practices (commonjs, es5) and few core packages such as express.js. The only weak spot I encountered were subtle changes in error handling such as removal of auto-cleaning of resources with domain.dispose() back in v0.12 or v4 or so, and the somewhat unclear deprecation status of exception domains or the error handling/cleanup story in general, resp.
> "Service Source Code" means the Corresponding Source for the Program or the modified version, and the Corresponding Source for all programs that you use to make the Program or modified version available as a service, including, without limitation, management software, user interfaces, application program interfaces, automation software, monitoring software, backup software, storage software and hosting software, all such that a user could run an instance of the service using the Service Source Code you make available.

How could one even practically conform to this license? Unless you are a 100% pure open source house, every company uses proprietary software in some form. Be it the OS/Apps on your developers/operations (management software) laptops (macOS/Windows) or firmware/tooling (ILO, DRAC, etc) of your server stack.

I understand they want us to buy a proprietary mongo license, but I don't see how it would even be possible to run mongo as a service without.
Been on the internet so long he has a great domain name: http://woodblock.com

I’ve bought many pieces over the years from David. He has slowed down a bit with his personal carving as he has gotten older but has taken up training a new generation of artists which is very admirable.
An absolutely massive amount of land could be saved by not eating beef. I don't see that ever happening in America though. And even if the land was saved from cow farming it would just be used to create more urban sprawl.
The single-cell protein sounds a lot like Mycoprotein (brand name: Quorn) which is normally grown/fed with glucose syrup as well as CO2. Sounds like they've come up with a novel variation or process that doesn't need the glucose?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycoprotein
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I fall into the "Build before talking to customers" trap constantly. Even though I know it's "wrong", it is hard to escape it because of the simple problem of not knowing who to talk to.

The article suggests doing a search for potential companies, finding contacts on linkedin, and sending out some emails. But what about experimental technologies or developer tools? I wouldn't expect a lot of success with a slow moving Fortune 1000 company in my city, and there's no way to search "startups using x" for a generic technology, like serverless or NoSQL.

I have found a little success going to meetups and talking in person to other developers and entrepreneurs, so maybe I need to more aggressively take this route. The internet is too big/impersonal/oversaturated from what I can tell.

What would really be helpful as a software engineer is a guide on how to improve entrepreneurial networking, which has to be the foundation before tackling some of the techniques in this article.
Google Employees Plan Global Walkout to Protest Company's Treatment of Women
Well, in particular, suppose 1 out of 100 people is lying at the border. Send 10k people over the border, 100 are lying, 9900 aren't.

With 85% accuracy, 85 of liars are flagged as lying (correctly), and 15% x 9900 = 1485 of non-liars are flagged as lying (incorrectly).

Thus, a bit more than 5% of people flagged as lying are actually lying, while nearly 95% of people flagged are innocent. This is not even taking into account the possibility that hardened criminals might be less nervous than somewhat anxious normal people.

Enjoy your border crossings, everyone.

EDIT: fix italics

EDIT to add: And that's after they get the accuracy up to 85%. And unless accuracy is defined somewhat differently.
>In the UK, the 1970 Equal Pay Act was triggered by the Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968.

And 1970 might as well have been 1870. The 21st century is an entirely different world.

Most of the jobs that triggered actual labor reform in the 19th and 20th centuries just don't exist any more. The factories of the 1800's wouldn't survive a single day of business today because modern, largely automated, equipment would leave them sitting in the dust when it came to profitability.

In this case you list, same thing. There aren't sewing machinists like that now, that stuff is largely automated. Very few automotive manufacturers use people to do the sewing and when they do it's a highly skilled artisan job that involves hand stitching for luxury vehicles, not machines.

I do not deny unions reformed working conditions, most of it however was many, many, decades ago in a world that doesn't begin to resemble today's world.

Fact is, unions are dying in the western world. Union membership is free-falling. Who needs a union when you have a cell phone and organizations like OSHA here in the US that you can directly file safety violations to for investigation.

Unions made changes with striking. Striking is no longer a useful tool and no longer needed.

If you strike now, especially if you aren't in a union, you should be fired. For each of those people that strikes over this, there's probably 50 people that would ecstatically take their job in the city they are in.

Striking isn't going to do jack for discrimination/harassment. We don't live in the 20th century anymore. Documenting and reporting incidents will bring change, not walking out of work like a child throwing a temper tantrum.
When she talks about the "war against boys", she's talking about the school system. Schools overmedicate and overpunish boys. The system drives boys out of school and as a result, only 40% of college students are male. If an inequality like this went the other way, there would be national outrage.

But it's not exactly a "conservative" issue. Plenty of liberals have written about it too:

https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/06/stop-penal...

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a32858/drugging-of-the...

https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/inside-school-research/2015/...
It's odd how on one hand, the consensus here is that the quality of the work environment is very important to the productivity and the wellbeing of employees. And on the other hand, people argue that this type of misconduct should not be punished unless it's literally illegal.
> The SSPL is not an open source license.

So far this is just your opinion. If the OSI will approve it has yet to be seen...
Apparently the iPhone 6 has a surprisingly high-quality DAC: https://www.computeraudiophile.com/forums/topic/22843-how-do...
No. Only when you make MongoDB Available to third parties as a service do you need to make the source code of your service available.
But we also evolved to have a large cerebral cortex that allows us to make decisions that go against certain impulses because we are able to see the bigger picture. We evolved to conserve energy when possible but we exercise anyway because we know that if we don`t it will be detrimental to our health.

And many people are still healthy while on a vegetarian diet so it is possible.
Huge fan of Neo4j and there are many data stores that would benefit from a graph, security data being one. And Cypher is a fantastic query language for graphs and should be the standard.
Oh, there's a bunch of stuff in addition to that. I could give it a shot, but would probably mess it up. :) Way better if you hear it from the horse's mouth. Here's Scott Grimes from Marriott at GraphConnect 2016:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdFYEuWWpzo

Pretty amazing stats in there!
I used to work at an OTA (online travel agency, ie Booking.com, Hotels.com). There's all kinds of complications to what seems to be a pretty simple thing: a building with rooms that are either occupied or not. There's multiple rates per room for a single night, then there's something called room rate plans which I won't get into. In other words: it's more complicated that we think (or than it needs to be).
It also would make the food more expensive.
I see results when I add quotes "antheon.ai", just further down.

When searching for a specific text from the page I get http://antheonsiteeu.azurewebsites.net/ a duplicate of antheon.ai
Yes, halloumi is amazing!
Isn't that contradicted in Fig. 3 of parent's [0]?

Might have been true until 2015 but not anymore.
As I pointed out there, Bitcoin blocks are not mined every 10 minutes on average, because hashpower changes. You can look up the actual average time over various periods of time here https://data.bitcoinity.org/bitcoin/block_time/all?f=m10&t=l
This is not the graph of a pure poisson process.
Admins, it looks like I have personal haters. Can you fix this, please?
Google’s AdaNet Uses Neural Networks to Build Better Neural Networks
There's a suggestion in a piece on this in yesterday's Guardian they hope it can become a bulk filler in foods. Still light on details as it goes off into "what ifs".

Unlike Quorn and other microbials it doesn't need a carbohydrate input so should be able to reduce agriculture needs markedly if it works as hoped.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/31/electr...
To be fair--a lot of the land in America used for beef is prairie. There wouldn't be massive rain forests there or anything anyways.
Sounds like pre-unionizing to me. Wonder where this will lead to...