skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't matter if you put it on your resume. You can use what you learn to build a portfolio project
there are lots of current day Internet-scale problems where, in order to solve them, someone is going to have to figure out how to overcome people’s natural tendency to mistake popularity for quality. This falsehood compromises all kinds of rankings, from search results to Yelp and Amazon reviews to tweets. Even here on HN, “number of upvotes” (popularity) unsatisfactorily attempts to declare something about a comment’s quality.
Bluebird from American Express website is down (more than 8 hours)
What does it matter if it is emulated or real?
Dustin Moskovitz (co-founder of Facebook and founder of Asana) is worth 10.2 billion. Why doesn't he self-fund Asana?

https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/dustin-a-mos...
Each cell can be configured to use different libraries ?
This. Who must do the infrastructure building may be debatable, but it's entirely reasonable to oppose new units when no one is pulling their sleeves to build infrastructure.
The caching story in GraphQL sucks. Its pretty good with frontend frameworks like Apollo, but that's not a solution to the whole problem. Sure it works for your website/app (if you've got one), but it does nothing to offer caching for a generic API.

Its easy to argue that the main advantage of GraphQL is to reduce overfetching fields on the data you need for your views. That's a great advantage. But how much of the performance advantage gained from this is offset by the substantially reduced backend cacheability of these requests? I would guess a ton, especially with highly complex views that require lots of database pulls.

That isn't to say simple caching strategies aren't still possible (you can encode GraphQL requests into GETs and just cache that url at the CDN layer, this is part of the spec AFAIK). But when you have an open API serving many users, where you can't predict what fields they're going to ask for (or even the ORDERING of those fields in their request, which would change the request body despite the response being the same!), this has to be a problem that crops up pretty quick.

There's no HTTP-level solution to this. I doubt there's any solution that would work well enough to be worth implementing. Which leads me to believe that its an intrinsic problem in GraphQL; the more freedom you give clients to request whatever they want, the harder it becomes to guarantee performance for the requests they're making. And GraphQL gives clients all the freedom in the world.

Oh, and don't even get me started about the fact that because GraphQL stitches together essentially depth-unlimited data from your data graph in one request, there's no way to express different TTLs on each item returned, on the backend or the frontend. If you've got data that could TTL for 24 hours, but another piece of data that TTLs for 60 seconds, you essentially have to specify the cache-control to account for the smallest TTL.

Overall, I think GraphQL is fine. But I also believe what we'll slowly discover is that "Company X" simply fucked up their REST API, then will look to GraphQL to solve all their problems. And it might solve some of them, but then they'll have an even more complex system in place with even harder problems. Facebook can solve those problems; us small shops can't. Better hope Facebook shares their solutions with the world.
With self help, spiritual and health people I have decided only to listen to people who live their own teachings. I have seen famous yoga teachers talk about the benefits of yoga while popping large amounts of Ibuprofen daily because their practice injured them.

Same for some gurus who outwardly are serene and friendly people but their ashram is a dictatorship that terrorizes and manipulates people. There is also a lot of sexual abuse going on. Ram Dass himself did questionable things.

I think bad behavior negates the teachings or at least diminishes them by a lot. How am I supposed to know something works if it doesn't work for the teacher?

Unfortunately there are only a few authentic gurus and teachers.
Dustin Moskovitz (co-founder of Facebook and founder of Asana) is worth 10.2 billion. Why doesn't he self-fund Asana?
It was better than nothing. But only slightly.
Amazon Offering Gift Cards to Data Breach Victims
But in terms of net stock equity, Apple is still about 3x MSFT, so I really honestly dont know what you are refering to, when list other assets etc. as Apple is 3x net.

In my humble opinion, apple stock is way cheaper than any other tech stock atm, when you look at the financials. (I own AAPL and will be buying more)
Yes. Commuter rail passes are just that overpriced. If I had to pay for parking the costs would be about the same.
An OEM license for Windows was a few dollars for companies who gave into MS's demands.
Tell you what, call up a local law enforcement officer and ask for $10,000. When they say no, tell them you know where they live. See if that is considered a threat by the courts.
No, not owning a car in the city is like not having legs. Just yesterday, somebody was laying some propaganda on me about how I could save money by getting rid of my second helicopter. Would you put out one eye, or cut off one ear?
One point of clarification (or correction, not quite sure) - using GraphQL as an API Gateway (as opposed to the GraphQL server directly talking to the data layer) for 1st-party clients is actually pretty common in the GraphQL world.

What's less common is using the GraphQL server for service-to-service communication, though i've been aware of people using it this way for my entire 3 years with GraphQL. I'm not yet convinced it's superior to alternative solutions to this problem (like gRPC, Thrift, other API Gateway patterns like JSON-API), but it could well be. I'm still happy using GraphQL in its sweet spot (and not-coincidentally what it was designed for), which is building an API for 1st-party websites and apps.
I share the same (useless) opinion.
No, wrong. It's not sooooo much expensive to live in NY unless you live in Manhattan along with bankers and media tycoons. In fact, most folks who work in Manhattan still come from outer boroughs and suburbs like LI, Queens and Brooklyn where the cost of living, especially rent, is nowhere as crazy. In fact, until a decade ago, Manhattan wasn't seen as an ideal place to raise families and most middle-class folks lived outside the city.
Then, question for all the readers: what's the best loyalty program now, for someone who doesn't travel too much? (50 nights/year).
Everyone's aware of the lack of generics, it's been rehashed to death. This is a discussion on Go 2, which will add them.

The current type system is poor, but still better than dynamic languages.
Every time the team has tried to use Asana we’ve given up. It’s slow on my iMac Pro. It’s so slow and there’s no reason why it ought to be. It’s painful to perform any operation with it.

...maybe it’s because I use Firefox, but even then there’s little excuse.
Silicon Valley is the place where Mark Zuckerberg - a college drop out - ...

Calling “those who leave college to grow their promising business” undermines the challenges that actual dropouts face.

(Note the word “promising.” Most people don’t have users banging down their door to use what they’ve made.)

Plus, I don’t think Facebook could have been started outside of Harvard or similar.

When Gates, Jobs, and Zuck are dropouts, you get the impression that college is worthless. But where else are you going to find a cofounder?

Perhaps step one in starting a business in Silicon Valley is “go to college.”
It looks like a very annoying place to work to me.

Big fan of gravitas in the workplace. Probably because I'm over 40 (thus not qualified for "diversity") but wow, how does any work get done from the photos? Looks like something straight out of my elementary school in the 70's.
Thank you for the information.
I am however not an investor but a developer. When 'a free tutorial' is advertised i am always afraid i'll be forced into later payments or becoming the product myself, especially when professional investors are willing to support the company financially.

Giving information on your website about the user do's and don'ts are always appreciated without having to file a request in triplet to the board of directors.
Still I highly appreciate the links to the company information.
And I am so stoked for it. Smalltalk did a few things right that have still not been properly copied by other systems, but smalltalk itself was doomed to obscurity the second all the major implementations went for the Common Lisp-style "ship the system as an image" brain damage.

While clojure is far from perfect, it actually has a story for shipping your code, in a form where you don't need to embarrass yourself when your customer gets it, into servers, web pages, desktops and cell phones.
To add onto this, the rise of double and multiple-income households means that for optimal placement, more often than not you want to be next to multiple transportation options so that all earners have a somewhat reasonable commute time.

(It's also, I believe, a factor in why people move less often around the country now; it's hard to find two optimal jobs in any potential destination.)
I meant within the last fifty years and on TV.
I've been SPG platinum for the last 6 years and am also lifetime gold. The big pain point for me is that you can no longer qualify by stays OR nights. I don't travel quite enough to meet the platinum qualification by nights but always did with stays. Given that I have no chance of requalifying for platinum next year I'll be shifting my spend to other brands to see how they treat their frequent guests.
>extremely difficult to find past problems…

Huh? Click [Events], click on the year, click on the day.
Estimated mass: 1.51e10 kg - heavier than the Great Pyramid of Giza but lighter than the Three Gorges Dam

(4/3) * pi * (213/2 [m])^3 * 3 [g/cm^3]

Mean diameter: 213m

Kinetic energy is 0.5 * m * v^2, so figure 10 [km/s] which works out to 7.59e17 [J] or 181 MT of KE total. The airburst is around the square root of that, so 13.5 MT.

If it hit just right, it would be big enough to wipe out a large city metropolitan area. The odds of it hitting at all aren't that great.

Postscript: There ought to be a scifi weapon that flings pyramids.
It still makes him 100% reliant on those friends, who you've already noted are corrupt. He's likely already been squeezed out of 99% of this money.
The lack of code on the landing or "learn" page is not great in my similarly useless opinion.
> a feature that is not guaranteed to be there, say, a year down the line, is that a good investment?

The Go devs have been extremely clear that Go modules is THE solution to Go packages.
It'll be interesting to see where TS goes over the next couple of years. They seen to have a short roadmap.

The proposed @types scaffolding seems interesting for solving issues with untyped libraries. Maybe the focus will be how do we actually get all the code typed rather than resorting to 'any'.

Side note, quite amusing: https://twitter.com/kitsonk/status/973651805950242816
I have tried using Asana multiple times but always find that I need desktop app to fully utilize a quick editing and task management. Without an app it's always multiple clicks away from adding a todo item, it's quite annoying to go to the website, login, select project and only then you can actually do something.

I've recently stumbled upon Notion [1], and it's just so much better and more convenient for me, they have desktop and mobile app as well, which helps a lot. And their unusual free editing based on templates has been super convenient for me so far.

1 - https://www.notion.so
I have used wrike for 5 years and it is one of the worst project/team management tool I have ever used. It's overly complicated (The UI is a mess.), the search functionality is not that great (Example trying to find tickets by keyword), maintaining workflows is horrible (Again UI problem.).

The only benefit I can recall is that it can integrate with other tools and you are able to create and update tickets by adding the wrike ticket identifier in an email.

I would rather use Jira (For projects) and Slack for communication than just using Wrike.
> I'd later learn from some hardware experts that you really want to price goods like mine around 5x the cost to manufacture.

This. If you're doing hardware, your price needs to be minimum 3x-5x the COGS.

If you think you're going to win some market by pricing with lower margins, like 1.5x-2x, you're setting yourself up for failure.

Interestingly, the same rule holds for restaurants: food input costs should be no more than 20-30% of the meal price.
I agree completely. Similarly, I have no idea why the creators of GIMP and CockroachDB (Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis, and Ben Darnell for the latter) thought those names were the best possible options.
This takes information primarily available via JavaScript and makes it available in a declarative form that doesn't require running scripts on the client. This means less code running on the client.
I guess that's the result when a Rust developer does the job of a Web dev.
> with Starwood's upper tier, I was being treated very well

What do you get out of hotel rewards? With airline rewards I can upgrade to first, which is a pretty big deal to be able to do and makes a massive difference to my comfort. What do you get with hotels? A suite instead of a room? Doesn't seem worth it? Free hotel stays for personal use? Do you want to stay in a same corporate business hotels that you are doing a lot for business in your free time as well?

Hilton give me a free bottle of water when I stay. It's not very inspiring.
Any ideas on handling Ethereum gas, which is uint256?
I'm a bit surprised I haven't seen any comments (admittedly, I got too distracted to read them) about the decline of children's free play and the increase in adult-guided activities in America over the past 50 years.

I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was 15 and have intermittently suffered through it over the years. I took meds for a while, but I felt like an amped-up zombie and stopped some time during college.

Kids have not always gone to school for full 7 hour days starting at age four or five, where they have been subject to strict rules that emphasize obedience to adults and "sitting still." In fact, some research indicates that children at a young age learn best how to regulate themselves through play with other kids, including through games (that they themselves create) and role-playing. Kids figure out how to regulate themselves from each other, not from adults. (This could explain why increases in ADHD, bullying and teen suicide seem to be happening at the same time.)

I look back and think that at least in my case, this might explain a bit of my issues. In my case, I think there are probably underlying causes that are only now, years later, being looked at, including pretty serious trouble sleeping and some hormone problems. But I also think that I lacked the child-oriented play that kids really need, and was wound up in adult-guided activities where I didn't learn to govern myself.

I'm not anti-schooling, but I do think that the schools have gotten too high-stakes at earlier ages, and we should probably limit younger kids to shorter school days and allow them to engage in relatively hands-off free play with each other. (Of course, this is much easier said than done - teachers unions and the lawyers' guild are quite powerful, and we moms and dads love the free babysitting we get at the public expense.)
I don't hate it, but I do miss the similarity the old site had to the rest of the ecosystems documentation. I'm glad to see more information added though.
Wow, I've heard this song a million times but never listened closely to the lyrics. Then I read the next verse which depresses me immensely because its so true.

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time

Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the english way

The time is gone, the song is over, thought Id something more to say
I really like and recommend CS Lewis articles and essays on Scientism
Upvoted for truth, but I don't know if geeks will ever stop falling for technology holy wars of the day. Emacs vs vim, spaces vs tabs, Apple vs [X], etc. One day it will be neuralink brain gel vs Arthur C. Clark's brain caps.
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I guess I'm one of the odd people out that hasn't had a real problem with the merger. I'm only a Platinum member, so I can't speak to perks at highest levels, but I've had no problem getting ahold of regular Platinum customer service. I've also had no trouble getting room upgrades (I've ALWAYS had to ask for them, despite the claims of 'automatic' upgrades), no trouble getting early/late checkout, still get treated by staff like they care about me as someone with an upper tier loyalty status, etc. No technical issues, and all of my stays have recorded just fine (knock on wood!).

On top of the status perks being the same, I'm loving the increased availability of hotels. There's been times where I've wanted to book at a specific Starwood property, but because it's rates were way higher than they normally are (e.g. 220/night to nearly 500/night), I'd end up fairly downmarket in comparison because I don't want any pushback on my expense report. The addition of Marriott properties has solved that for me a couple of times already this year - the W or St. Regis is way up, but the Ritz-Carlton or JW Marriott have been reasonable.

I will say I have found the lounges in Marriott properties to be a little less nice than their Starwood compatriots, however.
It's not that inaccurate. It's in the right ballpark, just glossing over all of the details of what that means in practice. Would you prefer "The virtual DOM helps make React work a lot faster than doing direct manipulation of the DOM using vanilla Javascript"? Doesn't really seem like it makes that much difference – and the author links to an external video that explains it all in more detail.

Anyway, any senior developer who laughs at a less experienced one for repeating that kind of thing is a bad developer. I'd like to think they'd take the time to correct the inaccuracy :)
I like Kotlin and I write a lot of Kotlin for personal stuff, but I think it is a niche language in the backend/server space and hardly qualifies as mainstream outside Android.

Python with PEP484 is pleasant.

The concurrency story in Java is great already and it is going to improve once Project Loom is integrated.

I fail to see how Java is significantly more verbose than Go. At least not the core libraries. The ecosystem is a mess but getting better. Java 11 with `var` for local variable inference is pretty much on par with Go in terms of verbosity.

Rust brings a lot of new things to the table but its main competitor IMO is C and C++. I've done very little Rust but what I have seen I like (though there are some things I dislike too... like lack of keyword args... a minor nit I suppose).

Scala is a shit show to maintain with some teams.
Documentation is terrible
Fortunately for me there are plenty of other musicians around whe want to at least produce some music and publish it. Even if it is at advanced hobby level. Getting ready to release our first four song EP, 80s inspired metal.
Anecdotally (n = 10 or so) every Go codebase I've worked on has devolved into a trash fire, so no. Turns out collective idiots can write horrible systems in any language.
The main thing I think when I read this is "I wonder how much Basecamp is 'worth.'" A far superior product, presumably a comparable number of customers, although I don't know, and I would guess far more profitable per customer.
> it is illegal to have two or more people gather together in public while each wearing any sort of disguise or mask[2]

Wearing a mask in public (or on private property without written consent) is a felony in Virginia punishable by up to 5 years in jail.

This has allowed for the identification and exposure of many attendees of the Nazi riot on August 11-12, 2017 who may have otherwise concealed their identities.

https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title18.2/chapter9/secti...
> Obviously it's not reasonable for a private contractor to have to build a school addition for each housing block (or is it?)

In the UK there have been various methods to get residential developers to pay for infrastructure.

They're fairly recent, and I'm not too familiar with them.

Even if the developer isn't to pay the full cost, there are efficiencies by the local government working with the developer to build relevant infrastructure at the same time.

Example: https://www.telfordhomes-ir.london/media/press-releases/2017...
Tabbing through the page is kinda annoying because they've set outline: 0 on all the buttons.
>The problem with fighting disinformation is that it requires an entity that has the authority to stamp something as true or untrue.

Any real solution to the problem of disinformation has to work through giving individuals better tools, more visibility and more control over the information they are exposed to.
Stored procedures would be one way.
Well if your platform is "Some Greek guy said something one time that agrees with me, I'm not sure what he said exactly", no wonder not many people are aligning themselves to your cause.
Sometimes it seems as if Cognitect just doesn't want people to use Clojure. It's like they looked at the results from the survey[0], created a tool that appears to address some of the main gripes that people have, and then proceeded to say "screw you" to all of the people that use Clojure commercially and may actually pay for Datomic...

[0]: https://danielcompton.net/2018/03/28/clojure-survey-2018
Rust explicitly set out to have an excellent built-in package management solution. They tapped Yehuda Katz early on for this.
Why Clojure? I’ll tell you why …
The Starwood Amex is going from 5 qualifying night credit to 15 qualifying night credit next year. It might be enough to get me plat premier some years, so I'm excited about that.

Would the extra 10 nights on it help you get regular Plat on nights vs. stays?
Having worked for both companies in my old career this is unsurprising. Marriott has a history of changing things for the worse.

One great example is when they bought Ritz Carlton. They said they wouldn't change much, and then did a sweeping rebranding (changing a lot of internal verbiage, changing the 20 basics to the 12 service values, etc). A lot of the veterans felt like the brand lost a core part of its identity then.

Starwood's rewards program was award winning and pretty much everyone I knew considered it best in the industry. It's unfortunate that they bought such a great program and can't even integrate it with theirs. It's really sad and I can't imagine them salvaging it.
"Promobird" and "Promobird V2" (and so on).
No evidence of benefits of blockchain in international development
I agree, but I don't think anyone is assuming or hoping in this thread. Just speculating, which is what you do when "we don't really know". :)
I don't know how go does it, but in some languages negative indices count backwards from the rear end. E.G. myarr[-1] == myarr[myarr.length-1].
I'm surprised there's a "Width" field but not a "Height" field. It makes sense for the request a browser makes to get an img to include the dimensions.
I got married almost 3 years ago and wanted to do the same but i would have end up like you. Printing is expensive!
For my Bachelorette party I send an image as invitation by WhatsApp.
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