skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Soros is 88 years old.

He gave all his money to the Open Society Foundation. OS receives funding from multiple sources. OS is funding a lot of organizations around the world based on decisions by tens of committees.

Does that mean that everything these thousands of organizations do are paid by Soros?
That my career doesn't depend on participating in silly discussions such as this.
Sure, but you will need another boss service to make sure you’re not giving up on this boss service after only a week of annoying micro-management stuff :)
It sucks when Google kills a product I love (okay, pretty much just Google Reader), but I also like that it means Google can take risks on new products. If they didn't have a mentality of trying lots of new things, we likely wouldn't have GMail, Google Maps, Google Docs, Android, etc... not to mention new things like WayMo or Calico.

On top of that, most "dead" products aren't gone completely... there's a strong Google alternative that they're investing in.
The downvotes here say all that needs to be said. Just put your fingers in your ears and scream "antisemites!!!". It's like that episode of Seinfeld, everything is antisemitic, even Jews. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQpvK72le4Q
Most are replaced or included in some other G product.

So they do live on.
This just looks like a crutch to me. If you need someone hovering over your shoulder to hold you accountable to complete work, you're either suffering from depression, or not behaving like a responsible adult.

Someone who is able to complete work without paying someone to tell them to be productive will always find much more success in what they're doing than anyone who finds a service like this valuable.

This is for the same type of person that believes in setting New Years resolutions.

Not bad for a business though, regardless of what I think of people who use it. Very low expenses, good profitability.
> I'd really love a proper "pro" macbook pro

More like MacBook Dev, imagine:

- Good keyboard, with Lenovo-like mouse clitoris

- Edges that aren't cutting your wrists off

- No touch bar and regular size trackpad (heck, I'll pay extra for this)

- 15" OLED screen for outdoors

- Figure out GPU. I do not want annoying GPU switching and beast of graphics card - I just enough to drive 5K screen.

- A USB port

- MacBook Air weight/size or insane battery life

- CPU with best single thread performance

- RAM up to 128GB or more
that's a great point, and as i was reading this, i was thinking that perhaps aws should get into cloud office as well.
I'd say there is at least some correlation. Not a great indicator, but better than nothing and helpful since it is in the user agent. They aren't curing cancer, so accuracy is less important.
I'm thankful I got lucky.

I was born in a prosperous country at a good time. I had parents who were well intentioned and reasonably smart. I have an older sister and got to see and avoid some of her mistakes.

Some of the work that I did early on is not too impressive now, but was sufficiently impressive at the time that I never had to look for work.

Capitalism appears to be rewarding people like me. I think there are many people who come from cultures that are resistant to learning better ways to do things. As such, they stagnate, while people who are able to separate the wheat from the chaff on the internet learn ways to be efficient that create ever widening gulfs between themselves and the dig-in-their-heels-and-never-admit-room-for-improvement crowd.
Its taken 30 years for high-temperature superconductivity to have a significant impact in the real world!
Christ, all you need is a function to stick in there.
A "boilerplate" for serverless is an oxymoron.
I'm also interested in this topic, here you can read some interesting stuff:

"Links to resources talking about how to understand mathematics, mathematical language and mathematical notation."

https://github.com/nbro/understanding-math
Python. It changed my life significantly. I have a job I love, I earn good money. Not sure I could have reached what I did under a couple of years with other languages, because Python let me focus on learning all kind of things beside it, because it was fairly easy to pick up.
It depends. I used a similar setup for a while, and the performance overhead of the VM was less than the impact of the endpoint protection software intercepting file access when developing directly on the Mac. Very noticeable on stuff like watching JS files or IDE indexing.
Maintenance windows that don't cause downtime? This was even discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16871931

Read the last description: "amateur and unprofessional." The same thing happens for Kubernetes Engine. Does Google internally run their Cadillac infra like this? Of course not. The conclusion is either they don't care about their external cloud or that team can't ship basic features.
Google reader. never forget.
you discussed zero practical implications of this new found (but should have been assumed) knowledge.

so in other words, no effect, business as usual.
Agreed, it’s pretty ridiculous to think otherwise.
Mafintosh created hypercore and hyperdrive, which is part of datproject.org a nice p2p option to consider too. It is used by Beaker browser among others.
Oh there is plenty of documentation on these sorts of things, in the form of tradecraft manuals. The first example that comes to mind is the Speedball lettering manuals (https://www.printmag.com/design-inspiration/the-speedball-te...) but there’s other ones out there that have gone through many printings.
Maybe then the parents would need a boss to help with time management?
Google hasn't just killed products, they destroyed whole community channels with their actions, eg. RSS and nntp archives.
“They require substantial quantities of rare earth metals, however, which are expensive and are mostly mined in just one country – China – which has led to worries over security of supply.“
I think that's pretty difficult. During the firebombings in WW2 people asphyxiated in the shelters.
Edward Snowden Explains Blockchain to His Lawyer – And the Rest of Us
I use a wget invocation similar to the one listed for ps-2.kev009.com. I've recently used HTTRack in a few places where that had issues and was impressed with it as well.
I read quite a lot about history and it was more complicated then that. There were famines, but also plenty of time without them. There was feudalism and social classes did not mixed (meaning dude and girl having families of similar resources), so what you wanted from dude was physical strength.

There were mining areas where men died young so women fed themselves and kids. Occasionally wars killed men leaving women being more in numbers.

There were multi generation families where everyone worked and elders ruled.

In any situation near famine, everyone worked for money or food however they could (women and kids having limitations but also able to prostitute). Poor people always had two working and not just caring about kids - idle lifestyle being luxury.

And then aristocracy marrying for power and peace.

Then farm had everyone working on own property, no one working outside house.

Historically there were many different arrangements. None of that requires or implies selling and buying brides as something good that that girl, through that happens.

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I was full time stay at home. It was idle. Also hard, but due to psychological reasons - kids were fine but that lack of everything else and no purpose no usefulness no challenge and isolation were killing me.
Downvote such commentators. It is a common tactic of racists to write anti-semitic comments and pretend that they are only asking innocent questions.
Github search also only searches content hosted on github.com which while still large is only a fraction of the code available on the internet.
This doesn't seem to be a complaint about Amazon's website exactly, but about buying options/shipping prices/etc being out of whack with the nature of the products. If the NY Times had an option to buy a single article for $1000, that's not an issue with their website, it's a mistake in pricing. Not to say that these aren't mistakes; they are. It's a reduction in the quality of their offering as a marketplace, reducing the signal:noise ratio by offering products/services that no sane person would want. The more things that you have to wade through that don't make sense, the more frustrating the shopping experience will be.
Amazon accidentally streamed an unreleased episode of Doctor Who
Really the thing is that said criticisms need actual substance to be legitimate. Every kook blames him for stuff that happens anyway. People protest or riot when angry about something. A pattern of innuendos doesn't mean anything other than some people hate him. Hillary Clinton isn't a leader of a cabal of assassins.

Vladmir Putin also has plenty of innuendos about killing people. However he actually does have them and has taken pains to make it clear it was him doing stuff like using rare nerve agents instead of any far cheaper method of assassination - just common cyanide in a large enough dose kills just as well as polonium, better in fact but it causes too quick and clean a death for terror purposes.
If is a centuries old anti-Semitic trope to see powerful, evil but smart Jews behind everything.
If you forget it (but what would you), it's still fallacious

> Ad hominem (Latin for "to the person"[1]), short for argumentum ad hominem, is a fallacious argumentative strategy whereby genuine discussion of the topic at hand is avoided by instead attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, or persons associated with the argument, rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself.
Oh well. Have a happy Thanksgiving.
The rule might feel true as a consequence of Zipf's law that says the second biggest is roughly half as big, and the third biggest is 1/3 as big as #1, etc. So because of a power law, the #1 and #2 are big enough that many people will just dismiss the rest.
I can't reply to them and would't want to, but the sputtering Tourettes of accusations from disgruntled shadow banned trolls in this thread is music to my ears -- the moderators are doing a bang-up job, and the system works!

Thank you for "forcing San Fransisco liberal social justice politics down everyone's throat", you "west coast liberal elite echo chamber". Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!!! ;)
I’m at least glad that there aren’t teams full of disgruntled Googlers maintaining zombie products. That is the worst for job satisfaction.
Alternative title: "Amazon's web marketplace is so complex that it sometimes makes unexpected automated up-sell recommendations"

There's not really any news here, other than the fact that managing such a huge _and extremely effective_ commercial website is difficult even for one of the most well-resourced tech companies in the world.

If the purpose of an website-that-sells-things is to have carefully tuned UX for every product page, Amazon.com has some small (although hardly 'horrible') UX problems. If the purpose is to sell stuff, the article makes it very clear that for an arbitrarily specific product (bassoon straps), you're extremely likely to be able to buy one quickly and easily from Amazon.

What if BuzzFeedNews.com is actually... trolling its audience?
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This seems like something straight out of the Scientology playbook.
So? It’s here now.
I immediately thought of the most annoying (best?) project managers Ive worked with.
Oh my God.
It's like 1993 all over again, only with a 1000x faster "modem" and it is wonderful.
To be clear this quote refers to the traditionally used magnets.
Social Credit is merely a virtual representation of something that is already very real. Our reputations precede us, a decade of hard drinking, abuse and fighting in pubs will earn you a social score amoungst your local area, as will a decade of volunteer work with a local charity.

Putting those online is not inherently a stupid or bad thing. Putting them online without a means to view them, without controls on who can view them, without ability to redress wrongs or corrections, without institutions that support it, yes that's crazy.

We are never going back to a world where only your neighbours knew what you were like, but we do not either have to go to a world where only the Stasi or ad-tech firms do too.
absurd. you simply cannot compare iran/russia/china/SA with the west in general and the US specifically.

i’m walking on the beach on thanksgiving and when i get back home i’ll feel just as free to speak my mind and respect my neighbors right to speak their mind without fear of the stasi knocking on my door tonight.

we have a free press whose only fault is our own (profit motive).

i could go on but you get the point.
Usenet archives are still there, if you search from https://groups.google.com/forum
There are other potential sources in the world, but they will not be explored until there is a clear financial benefit to exploring them. That will most likely not happen until something goes wrong with the supply in China.
I remember when everyone suggested their own way of s-expressions (basically) to avoid having to write superfluous end-tags and other XML/HTML tchotchkes, now we're getting multiple ways to get all the markup boilerplate into our programming language.

Sometimes it's weird how tastes change. Same thing happened with the nigh universal hacker-ish dislike of "bondage and discipline" languages, now it's enforced formatting wherever you look.
That's also why I detested the formal, algorithmic writing method you learn in English classes. They always wanted you to turn in an outline before you had even begun your paper. How are you supposed to organize a paper before you even have anything to organize?
Using cars to evacuate blocks pretty much every escape route.
That isn't social credit. Social credit would be when you're turned down for a bank loan because the NSA scans your Facebook profile and scores you as a possible political dissident because you liked too many anti-Trump memes. But that isn't happening in "the west" (yet.) No one is being blacklisted across the "the west" from housing or employment because of wrong-think. At least not systemically.

What you seem to be describing is simply society, and the fact that speech in a free society can have social consequences.
I must admit I'm a little bit confused. It opens with a discussion that people find Git hard to use, and a statement that these problems are likely more than skin-deep but then goes on to describe a wrapper around Git which is mostly a bunch of aliases. Don't get me wrong, I'm know that many people do find Git hard-to-use, but I don't see anything in the eventual project implementation which backs up the original claim that the problems are conceptual. I don't think it's possible to fix conceptual problems in a tool by just wrapping it.

I have heard people complain about the staging concept (personally I find it useful, because you can do 'git add -p' which allows you to craft intermediate commits or to-be-squashed fixup commits after you've finished some development), so it's removal in this tool is unsurprising. And it is nice to auto-stash on branch change (though personally I think that they should've made stashing a much better-supported concept in their Git wrapper -- I've never really liked how stashing was implemented in Git).

I do really like that they appear to have worked hard to remove all of the super-scary warnings that Git likes to spit out. As someone who has taught high-school students how to use Git (among other things), I've learned that the easiest way to scare away people from your project is to have bright-red warnings in response to a user doing something. Most students describe it as though the computer is effectively screaming at them. Some tools over-compensate for this is and spew emoji in response to user input, so I'm happy this tool has struck the right balance.
Where can I learn more about the emulator? The link sends me to a different product (one that I really really really never want to see anywhere I work).
It kept fooling them in 2014 as well.
Elixir. It made me a better programmer in every language.
Machine learning papers are a particularly toxic brew of people in a rush, who like to show off, and who spend all day fiddling with code & little time reading or writing mathematics. Lots of formulas for quite simple things are at best ambiguous and at worst simply incorrect.
When I first began writing papers I tried to describe using prose. I found that readers were confused and there was much more ambuigity than I anticipated. By using mathematical notation, it becomes a lot less likely that you are misinterpetted and often takes less space. It's kind of like the difference between providing code versus a written description of the algorithm.
So, there is no way at all to stop that from happening.
I'm really tired of this topic, and no one has said anything remotely new or insightful on it for quite some time. Can we.. Maybe move on?

Google discontinues products if they don't meet whatever their internal criteria is for success. Some people don't like it. Some people don't care.

That's about all there is to say.
Exactly. This seems to be a point that the "Git is easy" crew doesn't understand. Not everyone (in fact, very few) find going into that depth for something that's nothing more than a tool to be reasonable. Reminds me of the Gentoo users that used to say compiling everything is a great idea for an OS.
But if you use different hash keys, then you would have to hash each word multiple times.
A lot of these are pretty silly. 100% of Songza features were rolled into Google Music. Listing every phone they no longer market doesn’t make a lot of sense either. You might as well list Maps for Series 60 phones if you wanted to get down to that level.
And if we actually prove it's not true?
Yes, I found this link there. Killed by Google is more comprehensive and detailed compared to the cemetery site.
I suspect we’ll move on from this topic about the same time we move on from believing every new iPhone release is the beginning of the end for Apple.
> Git's use of a DAG is confusing and unfamilar for many programmers, though in reality it's beautiful and simple.

The difference relative to functional programming is that you get paid for one and the other is just a tool
Adderall works absurdly well for me, it's actually depressing to see how it can make being productive virtually effortless. For me it's the difference between an hour of real work per day and 15+ hours. I'm just afraid that taking it often will lead to some kind of brain damage decades down the line. Otherwise I would be taking it every day.
The only time I've had to think about how to do something on the Amazon marketplace website is when trying to contact their support. I'm required to go through several prompts asking if one of their FAQs answers my questions, and of course they don't, though perhaps this is intentional to make their support more efficient.

95% of the time, everything works as I expect it to, which is about as good as it gets for me.
2 and 3 are also true of Soros attacking Facebook. So in effect you’re saying that Zuckerberg, Soros, and Sandberg - all jews - are antisemetic.

Soros funded smear groups focused on Facebook. Facebook responding in kind doesn’t strike me as better or worse than what Soros did. Bringing antisemitism into it is a stretch.
Listing every single hardware product seems a bit dubious...
It's not just about whether Soros money went to groups that funded Facebook critics. Soros donates to a lot of progressive groups, you'd be hard to find any single company/organization that have not been criticized by a group that has ever taken Soros money. For example, Soros's Open Society Institute has made grants [0] to many media orgs, such as the Center for Investigative Reporting -- better known to HN readers as Reveal for publishing recent stories about unsafe conditions at Tesla. The very same Tesla that Soros himself has had a stake in [1] to improve its stock price.

So if Facebook wants to make a non-dogwhistling good-faith claim that Soros is attempting to profit from the destruction of Facebook, the burden of evidence is on them to make the case that Facebook is indeed being specifically targeted by Soros, in a way that say, Tesla isn't. If they had that evidence, and they weren't just trying to dog whistle for all the folks who think Soros is a Jewish globalist puppetmaster, then it raises the question of why they went through an intermediary who pushed anti-Soros stories through well known right-wing trolls?

To put it another way, a true fact about George Soros is that he is Jewish. Would you see any problem if Facebook funded a PR group to push news stories focusing solely on the fact that George Soros is totally a Jew? Or to use another example, how about if that firm pushed stories about how Barack Obama spent his early life living with a white teenage woman, another very true fact? [2]

edit: added link for the fact about Obama

[0] https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/why-dont-we-hear-about-soros...

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-bonds-analysis/geor...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/magazine/mag-24Obama-t.ht...
I think that you can find good explanations of these problems here :

https://jneem.github.io/merging/

https://pijul.org/model/#why-care-about-patch-theory

Unfortunatly Gitless doesn't solve them.

But Pijul solve many problems of Git (and Darcs) and is easier to use.

https://pijul.org
It's a custom-built mini app.

- Platform: Nuxt (https://nuxtjs.org/)
- Language: JavaScript
- Templates: Vue

Finishing up with MS Teams demo atm, will probably share more on this later on.

Curious about your general reaction 'I really really really never want to see anywhere I work'. Would you mind elaborating on that please? Why such a strong opposition?

Thanks!
Siri thinks Donald Trump is a
Definitely the best looking and most comprehensive of the three sites on this theme I've seen.

Using the term 'kill' is unnecessarily negative, IMO, especially when the site author seems to consider 'rebranding' something as 'killing' it.
how long until we find out something terrible about it?
I never used it, what were killer the features that makes it so dearly missed? I would guess solid parsing, being fast and accessible from anywhere, but surely there's more?
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One feature on HN that was implemented a while ago now, but often crosses my mind to give thanks for is being able to collapse and expand comment threads. The fact that the site remembers them across page reloads is also a nice and useful touch.

So thanks to those responsible.
> So in effect you’re saying that Zuckerberg, Soros, and Sandberg - all jews - are antisemetic.

No, Facebook critics are saying that FB was OK with undermining its critics at all costs, even if that meant dogwhistling for anti-Semitic trolls.
Some remarks required,

eg. Pixel and Pixel XL, the products were 2 years old. There is a Google Pixel 3 XL launched in October 2018. The Pixel line isn't dead. It's logical that harware gets updated and/or name changed. They changed the Nexus line as budget model to Pixel flagship model to less hurt their partners (didn't like it also though).

Google Nexus 4 / Samsung Nexus, migrated to Pixel.

Google Inbox, the product is killed, but the features are said to be partially migrated to Gmail.

Google Video Player, migrated to webm.

Project Tango to ArCode ( is mentioned there)

Google Goggles, migrated to Google Lens app.

None the less, a lot are dead and buried though. I used goo.gl a lot, but there are other services.

For RSS, i use my own RSS application: http://handlr.sapico.me/