skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I know a lot of people dislike PHP and WordPress, but I haven't found _anything_ that comes close to it in terms of sheer extensibility and plugin ecosystem. There's a plugin for pretty much anything you might want to do with a platform. I even moved my personal Jekyll-powered blog to WordPress a few years ago.

That's exactly what I dislike about WordPress. Yes, it's extensible, yes, it has a shit ton of plugins, but it's also exactly why it's so unsecure, slow and bloated. People want to do with WordPress things that it _should not be doing_. It's a CMS, but its blog engine roots still show to this day.

> My favorite thing about WordPress is that it's a known quantity. There's an easy to follow tutorial teaching you pretty much anything you might want to do with the software. PHP isn't the prettiest language, and WordPress itself feels a bit creaky at times. But it's a practical tool. It does the job, and does it very well.

It's a very decent blog or simple presentational site engine, but as soon as you stray too far from its base functionality, you end up stuck with shit plugins that break every couple of updates. Their biggest multi-lingual plugin (WPML) slows down every request by a full second just by turning on the plugin. Yeah, you can optimize some settings and gain some of it back, but almost nobody does. Access to tutorials is nice, but the vast majority of them are actually garbage and filled with bad practices.

> Since I'm a JavaScript developer, I was optimistic about Ghost becoming a viable alternative to WordPress. Sadly, Ghost's plugin API still doesn't seem to be complete. Without that, it can't replace WordPress for anything besides basic blogging. That seems to be the niche the Ghost developers are interested in, though, so I don't think it's coming anytime soon.

The thing is, people want a new WordPress. But a new "CMS that does everything" is bound to have the same issues : being tolerable at most things, but not very good at anything.

Disclaimer : I worked at a web agency for some time where half the sites were WP. People want things done with WordPress because they know the admin panel, then get surprised when their site ends up being a huge bloated hack that holds together with duct tape. Oh, and Jesus Christ does it get hit by bots all the freaking time...
One day you wake up and have your own custom firmware on your hacked together laptop which is running a Linux that's using three different package managers on top of custom built kernel and x.

Each step seemed like a good idea but when taken together you wonder what when wrong and when.
The IRS doesn't initiate calls, period.
Maybe SamSung is playing fair? Usually the US is okay with others outdoing us, if they play fair, and historically even if they play a little dirty (Japan late 80s early 90s) but probably not okay of they play wholly unfair with gov't backing and support.
No updates is another issue. But it is a problem created artificially. Somehow my 10 year old Core 2 Duo I'm using as HTPC is still getting updates and is working perfectly fine.

The issue is not artificial. Before around the Core 2 Duo, processors and hardware were getting faster at such a rapid clip and the software was taking advantage of it that you really had to upgrade often to use modern software.

My Dell Core 2 Duo 2.66Ghz laptop from 2009 has:

8GB RAM - still the standard amount of RAM on most consumers.

A 1920x1200 display - it was one of the last laptops that had screens with that resolution before everyone moved to 1929x1080 and that resolution is still better than the average consumer laptop.

Gigabit Ethernet - most laptops these days don’t come with Ethernet at all and for those that do, gigabit Ethernet is still the standard.

250GB hard drive - of course now hard drives are SSD but most laptops still only come with < 500GB hard drives.

In 2009, an almost 10 year old computer would have had much lower specs than what was then a modern computer.

You see the same ramp up in mobile hardware that happen with computers. It just happened a lot faster.

And it doesn’t matter why the Android ecosystem is such a mess when it comes to upgrades. But it is.

Not only is the 6S from 2015 still getting official updates - so is the 5s from 2013.

Also, the processors in iPhones are so much better than in the typical Android phone, the phones have more headroom for upgrades.

For instance, this is where things stood in 2015.

https://hothardware.com/news/performance-preview-apple-iphon...
I love that the second point is basically:

"No, what you write won't matter, but nothing else does either, so go ahead and write."

Curiously, that makes me want to write more.
Since you asked, poorly. I've never heard of Beaker and when I run it through Google I have to scroll down to see anything about Beaker the browser. But I'm sure when they show up to WHATWG or W3C the room goes silent.
Indeed, I've been missing out!
https://elements.envato.com/ has a flat subscription with lot of resources you can use in commercial projects.
I try to use frameworks which contain building blocks, so I can just use existing functional elements (like Alert in Bootstrap, etc.) without having to come up with my own css rules.

Obviously, this works only if you don't need any custom elements, but I'm not a designer, so I just usually use what's available.
> What kind of glory?

The envy of the world.
I agree with you but would somebody care to enumerate all the ways in which switching is difficult?

All i can think is

* Intel amt (all enterprises use)

* avx-512 (nobody uses)
Used to use Firefox, primarily for the dev tools. Switched to Brave. Easily the best browser out here right now.
Actually, most of do work in corporate dystopia. Not sure what experience you are drawing your opinion from.
Copying links out of Hangouts on iOS results in getting a massive Google tracking url.
In some ways. This is the same browser that doesn't (or "didn't"? It's been a while since I've looked) do CLR-based certificate revocation checks because Google didn't like the standard, but will black list specific revoked test certificates to make it look like they do (Verisign had a test site for a while with a revoked cert). To be fair, they are right: CLRs are sometimes huge and downloading them is a pain, but they're still the standard and Chrome decided it didn't want to use them.

So then OCSP comes along and everything will be fine now, right? Nope, Chrome doesn't (or, again, "didn't", they might have fixed this since I last looked, but that doesn't make it any better) let you do any sort strict revocation checking, so if the OCSP response failed and a response wasn't pinned, Chrome would happily let you in without bothering to check revocation (Firefox does this by default too, annoyingly, but it does have a strict mode).

Even if these things have been fixed, Chrome's general attitude towards web standards and security is to run away and not bother when they don't get their way, so even if you're not already skeptical of blanket claims that they're "more secure", which is a meaningless thing to say, there is evidence that their attitude towards web security might make them less so.
Firefox has supported running multiple profiles simultaneously since before Chrome ever existed - I used them. Chrome was first released in 2008, and here's an article about Firefox's multiple instances from 2007: http://turbulentsky.com/how-to-run-multiple-firefox-profiles....
Google Hangouts failed in Firefox for me last week. Had to break the Chromium out.
The section on "Cost of SEAL Capital, in Equity" is mathematically correct, but omits a few key points that make the example unreflective of what would happen in reality. The whole point of the Equity Conversion terms is to keep open the option to raise VC if the founder wants to do so.

If after a SEAL, the business decides to raise a priced round at a valuation higher than the Valuation Cap, then the investor has the option to convert to [any unpaid amount of the Return Cap] / [Valuation Cap].

If at the time we are negotiating a SEAL this simple math shows the investor would own a giant % that would make a VC round impossible, then it closes down that option and defeats the entire purpose. It's very easy to plug in numbers that generate a result that is extremely founder-friendly ($100k, 3x, $5m cap = 6%) or ridiculous ($250k, 5x, $2.5m cap = 50%).

As part of the upfront negotiations, any honest investor would make sure the founders understood how these numbers play out in a variety of scenarios and agree on terms that are fair to both parties.

The example in the post is $250k, 4x, $3.5m and with the implied 28.3% the conclusion is "the terms will work out so poorly for you and your new investors that the most likely outcome is new investment never happens" - But by changing the cap to $5m, it becomes 20% (not an unreasonable ownership stake for a very early seed/pre-seed investment). If the return multiple is 3x, we get to 15% which can be further reduced by any payments that might have been made prior to the fundraising round.

There are plenty of fair ways to structure these terms. Though I would agree that for founders that are dead set on raising a round of VC in the near future, they should use traditional products like a SAFE or convertible note, which are built for this purpose.
Things to keep in mind with LG. And I am NOT a Mac user ("BTW I use Arch"), but I have owned a Mac in the past (2010 Macbook Air). I am NOT trying to talk you out of this, but you should go into this understanding the trade-offs you will make.

- The build quality will not be like what you are used to. The entire chassic will flex and the keyboard will feel more like a trampoline than the keyboard on your Mac.

- Customer support will be useless, just write that off now.

- Keyboard layout might be a little bizarre, I have not looked at this one. [Ed: just looked, wow thats bizarre. Tiny keys, weird arrows, num pad is strange. Just take a good look before you pull the trigger. Not saying its bad, just ... odd. OK maybe bad.]

- Webcam will probably be worse than you are used to

- Trackpad will be light years behind your Mac both in feel and how it performs. Apple just has this figured out and no one else can touch it. Might still be "good" just wont be "Apple good".

- Quality control will be really poor compared to Apple, you might have dead pixels in the display or other build quality or QA issues.

- Prepare to spend the first 15 minutes peeling off stickers and the glue from them.

- You will probably want to just wipe it and re-install Windows or install Linux vs "de-crapwaring" it. No idea what Linux support will be like and I would be hesitant to be the first one to buy one to find out. And this is from someone who runs Linux exclusively.
Umm Microsoft?
I just use "they," "them," "their." Not sure why this isn't more common.
ISS is basically several space stations and modules docked together in space. One set of modules is Russian, and entirely capable of undocking and operating as independent, small space station.
Is it any easier if you write first in your native language, then translate?
True, but one has to wonder if the business cases to just keep milking the existing user base, or if there will be any attempt at selling new installations.

New license seems like a hard sell, unless HCL invest heavily in both Notes and Domino.
Yes as I understood it that's what Patreon is, longterm subscription for extra goodies.

In my view however we're at this stage in part because the high saturation level of music artists in the market is unsustainable. Consumers can't and won't support that many artists such that they will all or mostly enjoy longterm success.
>ancient.

Well I feel old. Not quite Tha old though lol.

Thanks anyway.
Yes, that was one factor for sure. But it was actually really complicated, quite mind boggling in fact. The thing is that, in spite of Stalin being pretty much the only effective external support the Spanish republic had, the communists inside Spain were pretty much a marginal group when the war started, and had to resort to all kinds of intrigues to get support from both the population and the, still, official government, and also to had get rid of rival groups, like the ones you mentioned.
> China's recent successes can be attributed to intellectual theft from innovative cultures, and brutal oppression of their own people. This does not scale.

It scales pretty well. Reason? Facts. Anyone saying China can't innovate is self-denial.
You are right to be concerned - so many side projects don't gain traction due to simple UI issues putting users off.

1. As other comments have mentioned - if you are willing to pay, a good designer will go a long way.

2. Use a common component library with a custom theme so it is good code but not 100% the same as elsewhere

3. Keep lots of whitespace between everything

4. Keep it simple - good UX is about so much more than UI and feature creep is so often the enemy of good UX
Sans serif font, dark gray text on light gray background, massive padding and you are in.
Opera uses Chromium under the hood. Have you used Firefox lately? Personally I don't think there's anything clunky about it.
Why is Bitcoin dropping? 'It didn't fall because of the ETF delay'
How many neurons does it take to make a consciousness?

The thing about consciousness is that you can't really define it. You know you have it because you experience it. You assume that other humans have it because they are like you. You might further assume that certain other beings have it because they are also like you in many ways (though you'd likely disagree with the idea that theirs is as meaningful as yours).

But you can't prove any of it. You can only say that certain things react to certain stimuli in certain ways, which describes everything in the universe. Is it really that much of a stretch, then, to suggest that perhaps everything in the universe has some form of awareness, some experience of things, albeit probably too different from our own to comprehend?
Playing with CSS Sticky Positioning
...and that's why AMD didn't miss revenue forecasts, right? EPYC was pretty anemic, I would have expected an explosion in sales with such a product, not the underwhelming sales performance it experienced. There are obviously other factors holding it back.

How do you know AWS/Azure etc. aren't using them just for price haggling with Intel, as it was done with AMD in the past all the time? The fact you can get EPYC servers doesn't mean they are wide-spread anyway.
I'm not sure what that has to do with anything. He isn't a champion of whatever, and nobody is trying to make him one. He's a dead author, that's it. This isn't a religious movement or something, it is people liking a book. People liked a book, then you said they aren't allowed to like it because you used one of the progressive thought terminating cliches.
> If you're Chinese, this would be great news, if you're American it would be concerning.

What if you're not American nor Chinese?
Ditto Machine maybe?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_duplicator

I recall still getting handouts from those in the late 80s/early 90s.
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Anyone know of big, marquee examples of "trade secrets & technologies" handed over to chinese affiliates. I hear reference to this all the time, but have a hard time "putting meat on it."

Any nice clean examples where a chinese company gets IP/secrets that a French company would not have got?
I was also wondering, what is so bad about being the consumer nation, when our currency is in great demand around the world? In some weird way, the US has made the dollar itself a sought-after commodity, that is super easy to generate and sell to the rest of the world. An amazing deal, really.
The rocket tower being built in the tropical jungle
I got a prescription for hydrocodone after having a wisdom tooth taken out. I never bought it, and I didn't take any other medication either. There was mild discomfort for 12 to 18 hours, but it's crazy they're prescribing pain meds by default for no reason. And there was no instruction from the doctor to limit the pain med to only if absolutely necessary.
this guy writes 'he's' instead of his and after a few of those i got totally put off this article. the whole second point is just moot. That being said, playing with genes is about as good of an idea as running with scissors with our current understanding of them...
Or one of these- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_duplicator

I'm pretty sure this is what I remember my school using during the same time frame.
I am not very good at article positioning. Care to share more?
It's at least a little bit promising that the reaction to the CRISPR baby has been resoundingly negative. From the technical errors pointed out by scientists in this case, to the visceral reaction to the idea of "designer babies" to most regular citizens.

Of course, we have some short-sighted scientists who only care about their own work and not the long-term implications, like He himself and Church, but the actions and words of these two were roundly condemned.

Hopefully this buys us enough time to see the real long-term implications of starting a Phenotypic Revolution[1], and we can get some world-wide consensus to stop gene-editing in humans.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1729861563/
Thanks for the nod to competence.

Re: "By binding the payback to profit" -- but it isn't bound to profit. Re-read the terms. It's Founder Earnings, which is profit PLUS any founder salary above a 'low but fair' threshold. You can be breakeven or below zero and still have shareable earnings with a SEAL if you are making a market rate (not low but still fair).

I spent days thinking this through and would be happy to explore your objections in a higher-fidelity forum or longer-form format than HN comments.

For now, suffice to say I have no incentive to mislead founders.
I went from 15 to 13 due to getting an amazing deal on mbp. Won't go back. Never thought I would like the 13 but its actually way better than a 15 for taking with. Plugged into monitor at home anyways.
At least for me, sometimes I have to work on servers where I don't have sudo privileges, so I usually can't install plugins.
I've been thinking of doing something similar for a while! A service that continuously keeps track of what you're listening to and suggests donating to the bands. And if you could allow bands to claim the money via some kind of Brave BAT style mechanic, you could perhaps also cut out most of the middlemen.

The main reason I haven't explored this further is – would enough people care enough to make this worthwhile?
Yes, that module is useful until you start running CPU-intensive tasks. At that point you will see unexpected latencies.
It’s great to see people swapping to Firefox from chrome, but if you really want to support them, consider donating to Mozilla. As others have said, there is a conflict of interest as they getting funding from google. I donate £30/$40 a year to Mozilla for this reason, and put my money where my mouth is.
Nobody is worried about baby hitlers.

As to your other points: Avoiding genetic risks is easily doable with technology that (for that very reason) is generally accepted, such as in-vitro genetic testing for risks, or prenatal screening with the option of abortion.

There is opposition to that technology still, which goes to show that the approach you're advocating is actually the status quo. It's not like reproductive medicine has been standing still.

Beyond that, I don't see how western democracy embarking on such designer baby experiments would change anything, except for just doing the evil deed ourselves: If we decide something is unethical, having moved the line would not stop others from going further still, at least within the frame of your argument.
Plan your own holiday calendar at the Linux command line
Apple is their own worst enemy. 3d Touch, Touchbars, horrible keyboards, etc drive their material cost up and no one cares or uses these "features. It seems OSX is the main attraction to their hardware these days; as it turns out a lot a lot of manufacturers can get hardware "right".
I think the idea is that eventually we will be able to reverse engineer it though.

If you think about what advances we've had in the last centuries, this could definitely be possible a few decades/centuries down the road.
You're talking about sleep, I'm talking about "the experience of qualia," or whatever you want to call it. Sure, you can have a scientific theory of anesthesia. "The experience of qualia," categorically cannot be studied because it inherently makes no predictions about the behavior of anything in the physical world. It isn't like the idea of free will, where something is being decided, it is just about how things are being passively observed.
I don't understand. You assume the book is wrong but that doesn't matter because it isn't serious? It is serious, and I am not aware of anything incorrect in it. The criticism is not its accuracy, it is that it says things you're not allowed to say.
Accepting your blatant mischaracterization of conservative US politics as true for a moment, I think given the choice between "othering" folks in the US or a country on the other side of the world that most people know nothing about, politicians of any stripe would prefer the latter.
How about is walking down the street with these vehicles around me less safe than walking down the street with these vehicles on the street and not sidewalk?

My risk of harm while walking to/from work increased orders of magnitude, through no change in my own behavior.

I'm starting to feel like I'm being trolled, because I think you know exactly what I just said.
I was wondering why they chose to put this under a different domain?
If I understand correctly this made them require you to connect through OAuth2 and grant permissions which initially made me think twice and check if this truly a Spotify website and not something that wants to harvest my data.

Any ideas for why they'd choose not to put it on the Spotify domain?
I gave a quick look at the article so it's probably my fault - can anyone explain to me why this are not just a new iteration of the concept of Portlet (1) which was supposed to totally renovate etc. etc. ...

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Portlet_Specification
lol right. Even the pretended envy would do.
I would use a "Component" front end framework like Material-UI or Blueprint, that way you can avoid spending your time on CSS/JS issues and spend most of your time building the application. The downside is that your application will look like the component framework you select.
"I think given the choice between "othering" folks in the US or a country on the other side of the world that most people know nothing about, politicians of any stripe would prefer the latter."

I don't know what you're trying to say.
False humility. "I'm unqualified, except that I'm extraordinarily qualified."
It's probably a really hard sell unless they really can make a case for easier development and maintenance for internal applications over web technologies. I too don't see that happening without some investment. I really think its a "serve existing customers" play with some contract fulfillment potential for specced app projects.
Schistosoma haematobium is the only flukes that affects the urinary tract
Yes, it's that attitude that's the problem. Not all problems can be solved with tanks. And they are getting worse, not better, no matter what their propaganda shills claim.
> - it is not actually defensible to abort fetuses based on sex.

at least in the US you can abort a baby for any reason. The only limiting factor is time i believe.