skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure what's the point of these letters, reminds me of the comments section in the NYT which I find politically overcharged and offensive. It was an article that resonated with many people. Does it make people feel better to ridicule loneliness. You can brush off poverty but it still there...
> I imagine it's much more likely this power will be used against a few big players (Apple, Facebook, Google)

Aussie market is not that big. Its gdp is less than a tenth of USA, smaller than Canada and a half of India. It is a good size but if a bunch of google employees stage a protest over this, google may just pull out of it because losing talent can be a bigger pain.
Right, but this doesn't explain the speed of recent change.

Maybe Steven Pinker jinxed civilization the same way that guy did who wrote a book a few years before WW1 about how globalization made war between modern states unthinkable.
There's literally no information here. If could have been a previous medical issue. But this will go right to the top of HN front page because it mentions google and what most will interpret as a 'conspiracy'.
It's going to become worse as more and more work becomes remote only
This issue came up in Seattle, where I read that they are also going to do some rezoning making it possible to replace houses with small multi-family dwellings. I'm sure it will be controversial in the same way there.
A lot of murderers are low socioeconomic status males, but the vast majority of low socioeconomic status males are not murderers. It seems a lot like there's a choice.
It looks like a 'what-about-ism'.
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It is more efficient to export Alaska oil to Asia than to refine it in the lower 48.

Alaska is only 4% of US production these days because North Slope is a more exornsive operating location than lower 48 shale oil.
I have a lousy family history with heart issues, stokes, on and on. After a lousy year mine hit pre-hyper and I worked on stress reduction and more exercise. I was monitoring BP regularly. That was high for me compared to the past few years.
I began as a solo founder and I (gladly) accepted a vesting schedule as part of our first money in.

There are very few legitimate reasons that founders shouldn’t be willing to accept vesting schedules for their own ownership — I mean, there’s one: that you believe the value and potential of your company to be so great in a short time horizon that you can get rich quickly and leave within a couple years, and also believe with 100% confidence that the risk to do so is negligible and external factors (market downturn, you name it) will not be able to impede your progress. Call me when you build that company; it’s roughly equivalent to the perpetual motion machine of company-building.

Vesting schedules for founders are standard terms and there are a multitude of reasons they’re standard — as a founder I can give you reasons, and VCs can give you plenty more. As somebody who began a solo founder, there was no intracooperative founder risk to me accepting a vesting schedule and I did so anyway without hesitation, for the reasons I outlined earlier.
> just because they threaten passengers

I'd say "especially if" rather than "just because".
> From an economic perspective, using a service like Pivotal feels like placing a bet that the pricing difference between cloud providers will be higher that the cost of paying for Pivotal's support plan

Wrong.

The idea of using 3rd party orchestration services will increase the ROI or lower the TCO through things like the ability to run the same container or function anywhere, including on prem (which is rarely more expensive than the cloud, by the way).

Apache is free, but if you run IIS on-premises, Apache on Amazon may not necessarily save you money. That's why Azure is doing well and others (such as Pivotal) may be able to carve out a niche for themselves too.

And it's also wrong to say that major cloud providers operate on low margins.
Wouldn't the choice to fix a broken system require free will not to be an illusion?
The strain used is specifically:

Lactobacillus reuteri MM4-1A (ATCC-PTA-6475)
Ah gotcha. I'm not super familiar with iOS, and was vaguely aware of such limitations but not that specific one. BTW, I didn't intend my question as disagreement; it was a sincere question.
I think you're making it more complicated than it is in many places. In many you'd need not get in a bus at all, because the rail stations are dense enough to always be a couple blocks away. That requires having more than just 1 train line though, which is only really true in NYC (and maybe Chicago? You have to squint really hard for but to be the case even in sf) if you're looking in the us.
That perspective makes sense for founders who own a ton of stock, but not as much for people like Aaron Levie, who owns 3.4% of Box.
Maybe, but as a white Eastern European immigrant to the US, I found myself well described by the article. Precise and studious but anxious and risk averse.
Yeah sure I saw him with Zelda in this game
Net export of products leads to a slight total surplus.
This EIA has the gory detail of contributing factorsin below link.
Note third section for the botton shows a net export surplus.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=35032
Isn’t a DSL a separate language?

Libraries sometimes cannot do what new languages can, or can only mimic it in a very very cumbersome way, I think this is why the author advocates for separate languages, rather than libraries.

The other thing that a separate language allows is for the author to remove every distraction that a host lanauge might have, and really streamline and emphasise the concepts they’re trying to show, and those concepts only.
As a developer who loves Ruby, the article (or possibly someone's comment above about making a mini-language around monads) reminded me of an excellent talk I heard lately that implemented a DSL/object model for monads in Ruby, and refactored some moderately sticky problems to use them. Still didn't convince me that they were the One Holy Way to do my next project, but got it a whole lot closer to a tool in my toolbox.

I think the reasoning behind implementing these small languages on their own would be twofold: one, unless you're very careful, you end up with lots of context and approach and style inherited from your host language. You can write non-rubyish Ruby, but only to a degree...and anyone using it who's moderately familiar with the language is likely to break your artificial constraints. And for many of the programming concepts perhaps best demonstrated in isolation, they're divergent enough to be hard to implement well in a 'traditional' host language.
Opcode's Studio Vision.
How does Sid Meier's Railroads compare to Railroad Tycoon? Growing up I played Railroad Tycoon II and Monopoly Tycoon a lot, which actually gave pretty good lessons in business. Issuing bonds at 7% are annoying to pay back, understanding overhead costs, etc.

Also, for what it's worth, Railroads seems to be on Steam for $9.99. Pretty sure it'd work with more than 2 GB of RAM. There's also a bundle with Railroad Tycoon II and 3 for $14.99.
It seems like the fine for noncompliance for an individual is 238 "penalty units", which currently corresponds to nearly $50,000 (Australian), unless I misunderstand things. A $50,000 fine is quite serious even for a well-paid software engineer.

I agree that a lot of people seem to be catastrophizing this, but it still seems like a pretty big mess.

If I end up writing a little library and it gets popular, who's to say the spooks won't decide that's where they want the backdoor, and just send me a TAN to the email on my GitHub profile? Very likely not, but it is possible and would cost me at least several thousand dollars in legal bills to figure out how to respond.

Wonder if it will be possible to be insured against receiving such a request for foreigners (and maybe even Australians) who work on software that the Australian government would like to backdoor. To cover any possible fines for noncompliance but also, if you do want to use the "it's a crime in my country" defense, to deal with the complication and expense of hiring an Australian lawyer to represent you.
What the author is missing is that Google is not forever the owner of the dominant browser engine, and in fact, if Microsoft executes well, they might well take control of Chromium in a few short years. All Microsoft has to do is persuade Windows users that the new Chromium-based Edge (CEdge) is so good that it is no longer necessary to download Chrome. Because of Microsoft's still-dominant position on the desktop, CEdge will become the most popular web browser. At that point Microsoft can fork Chromium and now they own the dominant engine! Google did this to Apple when they forked Webkit and now Microsoft can do it to Google.

In fact, Google is doing everything they can to help Microsoft do this. Consider the fact that logging into Gmail from Chrome logs you into Chrome. (Yes, there is an option to disable this but that's a fake non-functioning option.) If Microsoft offers better privacy--and they will--CEdge will be the preferred browser in no time!
Completely agree, I'd dive in with both feet. The lame hardware support still bothers me. I remember being amazed at being able to restart servers, like say if the sound died. I've been watching Haiku and the progress...
That's if you believe the fiction of 9-11. Free fall wtc, tower 7 falling for no reason other than the information it contained, and phone calls to family members that were most likely faked by the government
A single notice can request the data of every single one of your users.
same here, I think of Riven as the perfect game.
China’s land area is slightly larger than the US

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_depend...
What makes you think the TSA has a net positive effect on the air travel industry? TSA is dehumanizing and makes me hate traveling. It's insulting and humiliating to be forced to wait in line and perform useless rituals.

> one of those rules boosts sales for airport businesses

This is pub talk, essentially the broken window fallacy. Making travel unpleasant is unlikely to have helped the airline industry.
Wordpress will drop PHP 5.6 support in April 2019
I like that you're asking the right question. I have a number of ideas, but none are very clean or simple answers.
Paul M. Romer: Lecture in Economic Sciences 2018 [video]
I implemented that once, if I remember right, it was a huge pain to read because the OCR messed up many of the symbols. Hobby splines look pretty nice though.
Pakistan government is accusing me of a crime. Twitter is its messenger
I wonder how long will this stay up and running.
If you control over different groups over time with the same age groups you can see how they evolve over time. Not sure if its what they did here.
I'm obviously not an expert on US law but I find it very hard to believe that it is legal for an employee of a US company, without the permission of that company to put up a fake login page for particular users and then provide that information to a foreign government.

Now if the TAN/TCN was issued to a US based company that would be a different issue but then you as an individual would not be in violation of it.

Not that that makes it a better law, but I think for people not physically in Australia the risk of being issued an enforceable (under Australian law) TAN/TCN is quite low.
I remember when Google's motto was 'Don't be Evil.' Now programmers are literally dying in their offices.
Someone else already replied, I agree with them, yes. I'm curious if anyone wouldn't?
I also feel the Punishment is "cruel" but I am unable to give alternative to society yet. Saints/religion has given some alternative but not everyone follows.
I do Dreamcast homebrew (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uZP9iOQc6E) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlFu-y1LDbs) and I've thought about trying Saturn homebrew, but getting code to run on a Saturn has been more difficult than running it on a Dreamcast.

With a DC, I just connect it to a computer through serial or ethernet, pop in a CD-R with a loader program, and I can easily upload and run code on it.

On the Saturn, getting a loader to run it much more difficult since it requires some kind of console modification (like disabling the disc-door state detection in order to allow disc swapping, or getting hold of a sold-out disc drive replacement) or an ISA-only PC Comms Link card and a Pro Action Replay. (I do happen to own a PAR, but not a Comms Link card and would rather avoid setting up ISA compatible hardware just for one purpose.) Testing on an emulator is a terrible idea, because you have no idea if it will work on real hardware, and I like trying to come up with ways to break emulators anyways, so that option's no good.

And... I was going to ask if you had any ideas for how to upload code in my situation, but I decided to search for "pc comms link saturn" while typing this and found a Bluetooth adapter for the PAR's comms port, so... I guess I just ordered one.

Actually, I've been working on an SH-2/3 assembly blitting library to run on the HP Jornada 690, a palmtop computer which has a 133 MHz SH3-DSP as the CPU. One of my goals for the library is for it to run on a 32X (which I actually don't own), and a Saturn is much closer to a 32X than the Jornada, so I'll be able to get a better idea of it's actual 32X performance this way.

And the Jornada really does use the DSP variant of the SH-3. I was disassembling the hardware initialization code of the boot ROM to figure out what it's memory timings were (to compare them to the 32X) and found it executing DSP instructions. I wrote a test program to double check, and it passed. The Jornada has a software modem, so the DSP capabilities are probably used for that.
But how many rails can you fit in the same envelope as an interstate?
>The vast majority of WordPress developers are designers or non-technical people who either don't know how to code, or who can hack a bit of code now and then.

That's what I thought. There's a reason why WordPress has a reputation for being insanely insecure and a terrible platform and it mostly has to do with the fact that it's made things easy for people who have no idea what they're doing. Existing page builders allow you to make something easily while completely ignoring the affect of page load times, proper syntactic code, and quality. They're meant for people who don't invest the time to actually learn what they're doing so they can throw crap together that they can charge clients who don't know any better.
They are covered with a pro-government slant.
What? There’s no reason to believe that Google murdered him.
There are literally thousands of people in those offices. And the company is known for its lavishness towards creature comforts to it's employees. I don't know where you're coming from.
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It would be very hard for that to pass the proportionality test in the law. I know it's tempting to go for the worst case dystopian scenarios but it's actually important not to go overboard. Politicians and other people with a say immediately stop listening once they hear that. This law is extremely problematic even with a conservative interpretation, so I think we should stick with that.
MS Access is still around. Did it change for the worse from previous versions?
> with a transit system mostly regarded as 'pretty good'

That's probably US bias, because as far as I can tell by reporting US public transport is generally very bad and far worse in big cities compared to much smaller cities elsewhere.
Hollywood is the most powerful and effective Western propaganda outlet.
Only commercial product I'm finding with this strain is Biogaia Gastrus, but please let me know if anyone locates it in anything else!
What kind of fucking bullshit is this?

Autism is a spectrum of compensating behavioral patterns that emerge as the way to diminish unusually high emotional stress (which is also a spectrum) due to genetically transmitted "imbalances" in a brain's structure (and/or biochemistry).

So, nowadays every kind of fucking bullshit deserve the label "working hypothesis" instead of "gross incompetence"?

BTW, autistic spectrum disorders are "hijacked" the most stable evolutionary strategy of "good looks" - quiet village beauties are carrying these alleles (presumably, product of inbreeding).

There is no coincidence, that ASDs affects mostly boys. Motherly instincts, it seems, diminish (or compensate for) behavioral deviations.

If one could come down to earth from the Ivory towers of abstract bullshit and look at the real world, the answers are out there.
Well Coca Cola doesn’t make any money on Dasani or Smart Water if you slip on by!
Professional Write for DOS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfs:Write) was such an efficient little world processing program. It also had an internal contacts application so that you could mail merge your documents.

Another one is QBasic/QuickBasic. I have yet to see a modern programming language that lets you get started that easy.
But this will go right to the top of HN front page because it mentions google and what most will interpret as a 'conspiracy'.

Do you think this wouldn’t happen if the company in question were Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Tesla, or any number of other companies regularly discussed here?

Do you think there’s an anti-Google conspiracy on HN?
The trend has been relentlessly toward petroleum self sufficiency 2005. Here is the five week data table showing such:

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=35032

The detail is somewhat overwhelming, but thenet import number is shown near the bottom.
If you don't like the price feel free to create your own. There are some excellent open source tools available for font creation and manipulation like FontForge. There are also some excellent open source fonts that you can use as a workflow guide.

Fonts have historically been expensive because each variant is a significant amount of work, and folks often want ALL THE VARIANTS. You're looking at years for a single variant, and a single family of fonts may be someone's life work. Yes it's non-trivial to create an italic version of a font. Kerning each weight... want fonts optimized for a given size (opticals)? That's a ton more work there too. Of course it costs money. Don't except that a license to redistribute that for a pittance — there's a big difference between a license to create documents that will use a subset of the font and embedding a whole font that your customers could then use for any purpose they see fit essentially bypassing any sort of income. Although I'd argue you'd be best off using system fonts in the vast majority of use cases lest you come off looking like that guy who uses Comic Sans everywhere.

That said, while legacy companies have been (and still are) reluctant to embrace newer technology, some are better than others. Most foundaries will let you preview fonts online and offer a wide array of samples to view. Typekit was a great resource where you could license fonts for web use. Of course Adobe bought and mangled the ever living hell out of them. In terms of foundaries, FontShop has been at the forefront of embracing technology (including all the cool things you can do with OpenType) and typically licenses for their excellent FontFont family of fonts are very reasonable. Monotype bought FontShop a few years back so we'll see how long that lasts though.

My take on it is that if I'm using something to make money I should pay for it. When I setup my letterhead and business cards I ended up buying licenses for the font variants at around $30-$40 per. It adds up, but it also gets you thinking about whether or not you really need the bold, condensed, italic variant or not.

Look -- I had a conversation last night with a friend of mine about the new Nikon mirrorless system. He was a pro photographer for a while. His comments? People don't buy photographs anymore so there's no sense in him investing in a new system. He let the lease run out on the studio this year and bought a boat instead. Here's the key difference between a photographer and a typographer: one finished photo may be the result of a few days or weeks of work[1], one font is going to be an order of magnitude more work.

1: Yes there are ALWAYS exceptions and outliers -- e.g. for the stuff I shoot I spend maybe a few hours in post per shot at the very most and that's pretty extreme for me.
What? They don't want you to know them by heart that's why they're all listed in the menu next to every command that has them and they update live as you hold down the keys so you can see what modifiers are available.

Also, you can use whatever keyboard you want. I don't see how this is an issue at all... And what microscopic return key are you referring to? The return key on my MacBook is nearly the same size (maybe a half-centimeter shorter) than my full-size desktop keyboard.
That analogy doesn't speak to me. It brushes over a lot of complexity, infuses value judgments and trivialises important issues.

1) Global warming is not really comparable to cancer. Cancer is a healthy system getting disrupted and ending, global warming is simply a system changing. The type of change threatened by AGW is very scary and expensive, but the future is going to involve radical change anyway. Deciding what the change is likely to entail and how many resources to set aside for dealing with it is an important part of the debate.

2) It appears you are invoking a variant of Pascal's Wager. Pascal's Wager is fundamentally unsound. It ignores the fact that we make decisions in a finite world, and some risks are too small to devote attention to (because there are an effectively infinite number of trivial risks that we need trivial effort to deal with, resulting in an infinite demand for finite resources). Resources are limited, if we did believe that climate change was 'not real', then devoting anything to motigating it would be unacceptable.
It's all open to negotiation.

Founders outright own the company in the period between creating the C Corp through taking safes, if any, until taking a priced round.

Depending on the progress at that point, you may or may not get asked to revest. In our case, we negotiated with our VC that our vesting period started on incorporation. However, we were funded within 6 months of incorporation. If that period were to be years, it would be extremely reasonable for a VC to demand revesting, and to the benefit of multiple founders IMO.
Great analysis. I think of it as avoiding the DevOps explosion and it drives me nuts when I see early stage companies sinking lots of time into getting the perfect setup of what is actually just a cost center. There's likely some strained argument for how this ultimately might benefit the customer but that ROI is a long way off, and if you're still in business.
What makes you think this is unusually fast? If anything the example of Rome was unusually slow, which is why it is so easy to understand the sequence of events. The current trends are proceeding far slower than the decline of the Weimar Republic: in 1928 the Nazi party won less than 3% of the vote; in 1930, over 18%; in 1932 they were the largest party in parliament with nearly 38%; after 1933 free elections stopped being held and Hitler was given the power to enact laws without a parliamentary vote.

[Edit: Edited to correct the vote totals for the Nazis in 1930 and 1932.]
Letters to the editor are internet comments before internet comments were a thing. The intent was to display variety of opinions relating to a topic so you weren't beholden to just the newspaper's stance. Not totally sure why they continue to publish letters, I suppose they're usually higher quality than internet comments because they require more effort.
Does brainfuck count as a small language?