skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What? Who voted those people into power? Who decided what to buy, thereby improving the market share of one company over another? Who decided that mass-produced, disposable goods were the way to go with no thought about the long-term impact? Who secured their own nest-egg and then actively worked to drive down wages and costs to improve investment returns?

Saying the entire generation except those in power didn't do shit but live life is sort of downplaying the impact of choices every single person made. Choices made with seemingly no thought to their longer-term implications for the world.

Also, pulling 'those in power' out of the context of their generation doesn't really make sense to me. That
statement appears to want to remove responsibility from literally every person who was alive, except maybe governmental leaders and the heads of the top 100 companies or however many.

I would argue that you are both correct and incorrect. They did live life in their time, exactly how we are living now - just living life day to day within the context of their times. But that doesn't remove responsibility for their decisions. It appears to me that boomers especially lived their lives with less emphasis on what the future may hold and less focus on the long-term implications of everyday people's decisions. They appeared to live without understanding that they really are a small part of what we would call society's choices, but a part nonetheless.

God I hope all that makes sense. I feel like maybe it rambled a little.
Digitalocean also should produce and sell chairs, sofas, yoghurt, car tires etc...
I'm not sure what the person above was trying to say about me. Tires are like $70 here to replace, $20 to patch, and if you're like me, "free" because you ride bald tires :p
There needs to be a distinction at the api & permissions level between course and fine geolocation. My weather app doesn't need to know my exact address... location within a half mile or mile would be fine. Similarly with "gas station locator app". But my GPS navigation app DOES need fine location.

If you could control this permission at the app level, many of the privacy issues brought out in the article would be mitigated.
Monopolies have a decent amount of government oversight - more or less depending on the locale, but probably more in a place like California. This is something people can influence.
I'm intrigued by these atomic re-landscaping proposals.

Cooler coastal air could be drawn into California's dry, hot inland valleys by blasting a number of large, artificial passes through mountain ranges up and down the state.

And atomic explosions could ameliorate intense traffic problems in Los Angeles not only by conveniently creating new passes through the Santa Monica mountains for new multilane highways between the Valley and the West Side, but also as a means of clearing gridlocked intersections.
It was actually new to me.
And started making new ones when the supply dried up.
I remember the 90s when GenX could do no right and worse things were blamed on GenX than Millenials have had to deal with.
Employers: we'll boost pay, and even some training, for cloud computing skills
This is exactly the wrong interpretation. We know that cannibalism causes prion disease, and we have known that for as long as we have known about prion disease. the question is not whether cannibalism causes prion disease, which it definitely does, but whether past cannibalism was common enough to have selected for some innate resistance to it.

http://www.virology.ws/2015/06/12/resistance-to-prion-diseas...
I'm surprised you've never seen it before, it's been pretty common for a long, long time.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_socialism
If you hit something every fifteen thousand miles, the cops will stop chalking it up to "mistake" pretty quick.
Linux malware: is it so hard to get it right?
How do you like living there?
Container Service as a Service
Also usenet
Did Bob Parsons declare the moral high ground while standing on the back of an elephant he murdered?

https://gawker.com/5787676/meet-godaddys-ridiculous-elephant...
An open source list of React Native conferences around the world
Totally off topic but I must. Because of the the painful UI to the horrible marketing to the elephant killing paid for by the founder, I celebrate everything anti-Godaddy.
I'd actually advise #2, but I'd do it at the same time as the others. Why? Because I did a lot of design classes and studying and I really, really wish I had taken typography.

The designers that works with fonts well make the nicest and most pleasing designs. Just copying others will ensure you can copy well. Understanding the theory behind those designs will allow you to make anything you want, and do it well.
IDC's Top 5 Innovators in the AI Platform Space for 2018
Israel: Startup Nation Is Becoming the AI Nation
Tracking the Pixels: Detecting Web Trackers via Analyzing Invisible Pixels
> employees can and do get held accountable at criminal levels (and that is also possible at this point)

What? American employees never get held accountable for white collar crime in startups

Every startup I was a part of in America was engaged in fraud, and the co-founders would laugh about it in front of employees
I really love this research work - especially patchworks.

I think there is a huge amount of progress to be made when contemplating code from the "read and comprehend" use case rather than the edit use case.

Personally, I've taken to using command line syntax highlighters to render code to svg images, which I then open in a vector graphics program and mark up using a pen tablet (wacom). It reminds me of the days of printing out on a line printer and marking up with red pen offline. I just love it.
Show HN: A categorized database of ~400k journalists
Hey guys!

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Research can take hundreds of hours on it’s own, not even counting the time it takes to run an effective email campaign.

Over the last year we’ve run hundreds of PR campaigns for companies like Instacart and Dos Toros. Our campaigns have been featured by hundreds of media outlets like The Washington Post, The Independent, and VICE.

We started out building media lists by hand, but that sucked. We built crawlers to compile the 1.0 of this data, then purged, cleaned, and enriched it all. With this update we’ve added millions of data points: new tags, phone numbers, journalist media outlet, photos, and more!

Since our 1.0 almost a hundred companies (startups, photographers, PR agencies, etc.) have used Press Hunt, logging almost 80k searches.

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- Matt & Aaron
> Perhaps more historically accurate if you can watch it draw

Were computers really that slow back then or is that effect exaggerated for nostalgia? Really hard to imagine computers that slow for us young generation.
Thank you for sharing your experience with swoole. I didn't know about swoole and will definately play with it to add to my options on future PHP projects.
Meanwhile, Linode fails to innovate.
Puma is rereleasing its classic 1986 RS-Computer running shoe
The article is Carl Sagan's perspective, and a lot of it is his current views of the SF he read when younger, as well as a general discussion about the value of SF to young enquiring minds.

For a very different take, I really enjoyed the novel "Among Others" by Jo Walton which is a coming of age story about a young girl who is avid reader of SF/fantasy. It really puts you in the mindset of someone who is growing up with SF while they are in fact growing up, rather than thinking about it as an older person.
There is No “Duck typing in (go) golang”
Go uses "structural typing" on methods to determine the compatibility of a type with an interface, and it's not "Duck Typing". Maybe a similarity with the Duck Typing makes people think it's the same. But it's not. Those two are very different type system.
Is the thorny problem of elegant vs graceful degradation. In a raid system you want something elegant but not synchronized. In a single drive, some sort of graceful degradation is usually preferable.

http://www.assetinsights.net/Glossary/G_Elegant_Degradation....

http://www.assetinsights.net/Glossary/G_Graceful_Degradation...
> Launching a (classifies) satellite into a useful-for-spying orbit is one level of secret, although clearly something which could be done with unmanned rockets (as was done later).

(As was done before, during and after the space shuttle program.)

In this case the story says the satellite required ad hoc human intervention in order to become operational which does support the idea that the STS was needed.

However given the amount of propaganda around both the STS program itself and of course the NRO and other intelligence agencies it's difficult to know what to believe, and I pretty much agree with the opinion (yours too I believe) that the STS was a significant drag on the US space program.

(What's the chance that purpose built "satellite retrievers" might already have been constructed? The current crop of micro satellites would be seemingly easier to retrieve and return to earth using a "corona-style" mechanism (drop and collect in air via aircraft) -- something impossible with the older refrigerator- or bus-sized ones.
It's immune to road rage from traffic jams if you aren't the bus driver. Riding in a bus a traffic jam is just more time to read a book, solve the day's crossword puzzle, get some work done, or nap.
We blew up a bunch of Pacific islands and various other places with hundreds of explosions for no purpose other than to make sure we could more effectively kill people. Nuking the moon is positively benign by comparison.
Congratulations.

Another test and proof that the placebo effect is real.

This has been done so many times in so many ways, there are better ways to spend research money at this point than to beat this proverbial dead horse.
nah i wouldn't go that far, banking employees and shareholders of recapitalized companies in 2007/2008 privatized gains and socialized losses when they were mostly bailed out with taxpayer money/federal reserve credibility instead of going under, but uber/airbnb/aws are pure efficiency plays. they increase the utilization of (what used to be) private cars, real estate, and servers respectively. there are trade offs between renting and buying, and we are moving more towards a rental economy mostly because it's more efficient in many cases to just rent what you need when you need it (opex) rather than spending big on a depreciating asset (capex)
As someone that identified a bug in a Drobo firmware once and was offered a job on the spot I think the problem with attracting talent is two fold.

The first problem is really two parts, not only is it rare to find people who have passion for storage related technologies but very few will gain exposure to these technologies to develop that passion.

Kids don't routinely grow up with a SAN in the house. They do tend to grow up with lots of internet connected consumer caliber devices and can easily gain exposure to working with these technologies.

I was fortunately able to explore this type of technology in depth because a family owned business let me tinker with their server equipment in high school.

After college I then co-founded a startup back before the cloud became big. That meant we needed to make use of old hardware to provide service to our customers at a price point that made our service profitable. Old drives were not a reliable way to do that. New drives were extremely expensive for old servers back in the day when SCSI was the interface that you expected for a server. We had to get creative and play with JBOD devices. ZFS was an amazing tool for us in those days, and it still is for anyone who wants to tinker.

The other aspect is that while these skills are valuable for creating a "job" they do not have potential for creating "massive wealth". Why learn about storage if you aren't going to be part of the first 10 employees at a company that has a $10B exit? Let Amazon and the other cloud vendors worry about that stuff.

Knowledge is power though. I recently came across an AI startup that I'm now helping. They were spending significant money using GPU computational power to provide artificial intelligence training through a cloud provider. They blew through about $300k in credits within the first year to give you an idea of how much money that type of power can cost.

I am now helping them cut over to their own co-location facility. The first year alone they will save so much money it will pay for the next three years.

Then you read articles like this: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship...

Reading that helps reinforce the idea that no matter what path you are on in the field there is potential that some random thing you learned about an SSD firmware helps you optimize some growth stage companies product and ultimately that helps you build wealth.
> My (limited) understanding is that the Boomers were themselves quite exceptional - we're in the longest era of global-level peace

What does “global level peace” mean?

> the Boomers themselves WERE a "boom" of population,

True, but that hardly makes them exceptional.

> the extended middle class of the 50s was an anomaly

But, again, not one that makes the Boomers, who had nothing to do with cresting that, exceptional.
> The early rockets were primarily designed as ICBMs with peaceful payloads as secondary adaptations.

Von Braun was interested in astronomy and space exploration well before the war. He is quoted as saying "the rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet." - referring to the Sept 7 1944 launch. In essence it was a peaceful rocket turned into an ICBM and thankfully later on returned to its peaceful status.

And on a side note: imagine being Von Braun after the US handed him the keys to their state of the art space program with a cold war sized budget. Beyond a dream come true.
I do not believe that.

1. I can't find a source that says less than a few nanometers.

2. 300 picometers is roughly the diameter of a helium diatom. The head cannot possibly float through hydrodynamic means if an air molecule can barely even fit under it.
Did the Saturn hold out for so long only because nobody cared enough to crack it? The Saturn was stillborn as far as I can tell. Sega rushed it to market to try to recapture that early Genesis magic and discovered too late that launch titles/partners are important.
1) Sure, there's no abstract right to access the beach, but there's still a right, rooted in the fact that the access already existed, and he can't change it willy-nilly

2) The definition of "development" in the law in question includes “change in the intensity of use of water, or of access thereto”, which seems precisely what he did. The fact that this doesn't sound like the common definition of the word is irrelevant.

4) The court still ruled against him on the question at hand - whether he can simply close access as he wishes. The "not ripe" decision is about a different (if related) question.
Also newsgroups.
I don't think the soviets were behind, and in fact they were far ahead in some capabilities (e.g. heavy launch). The program has suffered from neglect since the end of communism though, while the US has made some progress.

And it isn't like the US program hasn't suffered from neglect either. The best thing for US space efforts, both orbital and not, has been the end of STS.
That sounds like an evasion of agency and responsibility that wouldn't be accepted from a lowly soldier, burglar, or even athlete for why they massacred a village, robbed houses, or cheated to get ahead respectively so why the hell should we accept that excuse from the privileged who had myraids moral alternative options?
Agreed on the rice. Here's some "food for thought:" A flawed taco can't be repaired the way that a temporary tricycle of a car can be.
This is a key theme of all "tech" culture commentary. They play fast and loose with the distinction between "tech" as a business vertical, and the "tech" focused roles found inside any companies.
Sunshine by Danny Boyle dealt with human extinction, although the focus was on reigniting the sun instead of colonizing planets. The cinematography is beautiful and it gets into some heavy themes.
I don't think any piracy will ever compare to DS piracy. You could put all the games you wanted on a micro sd card, stick it into the R4 (or any of it's many clones) and there you go. And for the last couple years of the DS these cards could be had for under $10. Even the Wii required some effort to soft mod, and you still had to care about updates. The DS was totally broken however.
Which was an utterly impractical weapon that had no use other than geopolitical chest-beating.
I used Morpheus I think then bearshare
> functional fanatics that design solutions only top 20% of devs can understand

Not a part of that group, but I think this is a false narrative. 20% might be accurate, or it might be a bit high even. But it has nothing to do with `top` or `bottom` performers. It's purely to do with exposure to functional styles.

Learning Haskell first doesn't make you a top 20% developer, much as I'm sure HN in particular will want to argue with me on that point.

All I'm trying to say is: there's not an intelligence spectrum of `imperative` to `functional` with `object oriented` in the middle. They're different, and many who learn one first struggle with the others, but that doesn't mean they're lower performers in what they do know than the ones who can talk about currying vs partial application.
Interesting. I wonder if we could somehow return to that clip of progress in science and technology. If we did so, who knows where the US might have been now, in terms of science and technology?
Probably cheap capital in case the markets turn down. It's expected that the venture capital money will dry up a bit and the fed raising interest rates means that taking loans will be more expensive. I've seen a lot of VCs say if you can take it now, take it.
I think a lot of people were using Prime to small quantity low-margin items, and they were losing on shipping costs.
That makes me wonder if it is possibly cheaper to instead have a CPU and analog/digital converters in the package that emulate memristors...
Access doesn't mean a road is required. He simply cannot prevent people from accessing the beach, whether by foot, bicycle or other means typically employed.

If Vinod supplies a road he'd be responsible for maintenance. The other questions are handled already: he'd do the same thing as if someone died in his house or a car was stolen from his driveway. Any member of the public who observes crimes like this can also report them
Airtable is almost exactly that: a collaborative, simple MS access. It's free for up to 1,200 records, then $10/user/month for more https://airtable.com/pricing
Idle, Incremental or Tap Games. Why does the game mechanic work so well?
I'm fascinated by this, because I see it as well.

I'm fascinated because when did owning a home with a family become 'not' an experience? Legitimately confused by this.

I have a house in a rural area (because of where I work) with a wife, kid, cat, and dog. Most of my friends are just aghast that I would choose to 'settle down' because I won't get any experiences at all. I mean, I'm not dead. . .

I don't get it.
Please don't do this anymore?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And `explicit is better than implicit` is idiomatic python, but the language uses the most implicit characters available on the average keyboard (` ` and `	`) to denote control flow.
I think Amazon dug themselves into a hole with this one. The Amazon Marketplace is the biggest liability to their brand reputation, but now it is also a big revenue driver. It would be in the long term interest of Amazon to ditch it, or severely clamp down on authorized marketplace participants. But Amazon is now in a sticky situation because the stock price, which they rely on for many reasons, is heavily dependent on revenue growth.

AMZN's ridiculous P/E ratios aren't really ridiculous when you think about it. Everybody knows Amazon pumps most of its free cash flow back into the business, which increases their growth rates at the expense of current earnings. The prices they are getting for the stock are just the result of a market betting on the future profit potential of Amazon when the growth stops or slows to normal levels. High prices imply that investors see huge amounts of growth potential, and if you extrapolate out what that P/E means, it shows that AMZN investors see Amazon growing 10x larger (or more) than it currently is.

But now Amazon has this huge liability of the Marketplace, and in order to cut it out they have to cut back their revenues by a substantial amount. And a revenue slowdown or decline signals to investors that growth is slowing. Needless to say, the anticipated future value of Amazon will cut quite drastically with a hit to revenues.

Compounding the problem is the fact that so much of their compensation comes in the form of RSUs, which are new issues. This is a great growth strategy, because it reduces their dependence on free cash flow for compensation, allowing it to be used for investment. BUT, any hit to their stock price will require drastic increases in RSU grants in order to maintain personnel, further exacerbating a drop in stock prices through dilution.

I don't envy the person who has to solve this problem.
Woah. Thank you so much for sharing that with me - I had never heard of a toast sandwich before and now that I understand its makeup I'm more of the mind that the author is a genius for that bread sandwich example.
Pretty much all Nintendo consoles have been pirated, though.

The story how the Gamecube was cracked is also quite interesting, ironically also related to SEGA. The way they cracked it was with the GCN port of Phantasy Star Online by them. The first thing that game did when it connected to the SEGA server was to download a binary patch and execute it. People figured out they could just DNS spoof the server and run pretty much anything they wanted.

You needed a pretty specific set of stuff for that to work, though. You needed an early version of PSO as well as a Gamecube broadband adapter. By pure chance I had that back in the day and I remember getting this to work, attaching the gamecube to my pc with a long crossover cable between two rooms, trying to figure out the network settings and running the spoofing software. Good fun.
I wouldn't quite say that. Some aspects are opinions, but there's plenty of facts. Such as "House Reps A and B are cooperating on a bill regarding X" - that's a fact. What your position on X is, whether the bill is a good or bad idea, and why A and B are cooperating on it are opinions.