skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In high school, he wanted to be an aviation mechanic, a big step up from lumberjack for a kid that likes rockets. His geomoetry teacher recognized the under-matching, and asked him: ‘Do you want to be the guy who fixes the plane or the guy who designs the plane?’

Good for them, maybe, but ... I also hate this. It's set up to make it sound like being a mechanic is somehow inferior to being a design engineer. Your plane won't fly without plenty of both people.

Having worked both kinds of jobs, I much prefer fixing to designing. And I'm the last person you would have expected to say this, back in high school! I never even considered this type of work before I was 35.

Alternative phrasing: "Do you want to deal with office politics for the rest of your life, or hit things with a hammer?"
> If you distribute and link libcurl v69 dynamically,

This whole thread is about avoiding this.
BBC opens consultation to improve BBC iPlayer for licence fee payers
Inc.com lists 2016 revenue as $32.6. Also interested in more information as to where that puts them though.
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I have high hopes for C++ modules. Seems like that could be a good catalyst for a standard C++ package manager.
Eh, I'd say they're pretty different goals and use cases in reality. Pandoc is great for translation into other formats, where the other format then is applied final styling using downstream tools.

AsciiDoctor is for the Asciidoc format, but, generally includes some nice tooling for commonly used output formats.

Yes, you can use pandoc to convert asciidoc to something else, but in general, I've noticed that asciidoctor has great support for HTML themes:

https://asciidoctor.org/docs/produce-custom-themes-using-asc...

https://github.com/darshandsoni/asciidoctor-skins

The PDF styling directly out of the asciidoctor tool, on the other hand, isn't as advanced. So going from asciidoc to DocBook can make sense here, and I think is probably still done to do things like create truly professional looking PDFs.

What to use? Depends on your toolchain. I almost never need anything but HTML and PDF.

I've found that people, used to Markdown, can jump into Asciidoc and use `asciidoctor` easily.
> How much more time and money will it take to develop appropriate materials and processes to make fusion an economically viable power generation process?

That's what I meant with "works".

A technical demo is irrelevant. Something "works" when it can be used to solve a problem which, as you pointed out, is still an unknown.
I was one of the PA Kickstarter supporters and played the game on Linux. It never worked flawlessly (graphical glitches). Today however I can play the latest DOOM (through Steam) on Linux using Vulkan without problems using an AMD card and open-source drivers. There is no reason not to build games for Linux, just use Vulkan and graphic problems are a thing of the past.
> just aren’t practical in es5 because they would be too verbose

This is why coffeescript was a godsend. It produced very efficient code too, simpler and faster at runtime than the ES6 replacements.
Wait, sure, but don't hold your breath. This investigation has taken much longer than we were led to expect.
> someday we'll achieve a utopia wherein we'll be able to 3d print anything we want, and it won't be possible for governments to exist and we'll all live in libertarian paradise.

At least, that's what I got from him.
Here is my similar story from Washington state.

I was a happy fully sighted software developer up until a few years ago an eye disease started all of a sudden. Now I am blind. I applied for disability and got denied. I appealed and was denied again. In the end I hired a lawyer and won the case. Judge told me he was surprised that I had to go this far as my case seemed so clear to him.

To make things fair, I wasn't fully blind at the time when I applied for disagbility. My doctor thought I was blind enough to be considered disabled. Social security's doctor didn't think so.
I completely agree. As Chamath Palihapitiya (ex-Facebook) eloquently puts it, our technology culture is 'ripping apart the social fabric of how society works' [0]. We're social creatures who thrive on human interaction and sharing genuine moments - social media gives us the exact opposite [1].

The really insidious thing is that many of the big players and driving forces behind these trends saw it coming, knew that what they were building may have far-reaching negative consequences, and then chose to do it anyway for the sake of money. What a time to be alive, right?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78oMjNCAayQ

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4853817/
I see. This is why they needed to hack into Google/Gmail in 2011 because nobody has the brainpower in China to circumvent it. Also, are seriously suggesting that you can only only do organizing on platforms that are blocked by the firewall? It still amazes me how ignorant people are in the west. And there is the cultural difference. In China people use Wechat in a similar fashion as we use Facebook, they share pictures etc. Finally, almost non of my Chinese friends who live in the west use FB even though they have the liberty to do so. Similar story in Vietnam and many other countries. Again, somebody has to be quite ignorant not to see FB as a national security treat. Even the US recognised that, you might have seen the congressional hearing of Zuckaberg, which was quite a shit show for many reasons.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-hacking-idUSTRE750...
User-serviceable and removable are not the same.

There are few consumer laptops with removable (pops right out) batteries these days. I haven't seen one since the early 00s.

At best there are still those which are user-serviceable (requires a screwdriver and some finesse at the least). And Apple products where you cannot do even that.

Some business models still have the external removable battery, but have lower specs and higher price than consumer counterparts.

Almost no modern smartphones have removable batteries. It's rare enough that the LG G5 tried to make it a selling point a few years ago.
Oh believe me I love AsciiDoc. I would use it all the time if half the tools out there would support it. Sadly, as it stands most forums and chat apps still think Markdown is the only format ever to be invented.
Lots of "bag things" are legal. What's your point?
> However you will learn significantly more, build a stronger network, and accelerate your career trajectory much faster by joining a successful startup than an average one.

smack forehead Yes, what ever could I have been thinking before! Yes, yes, I should only be joining a successful startup, not an average one!

> steep career trajectories, like Jeff Dean, Marissa Mayer or Chris Cox.

Yes yes! New plan: be Jeff Dean!

> Next, you need to evaluate the strength of the team and market

Unfortunately, this is not realistically possible for most non name-brand candidates. The company is not going to entertain the amount of inquiry (due diligence) you would need to pursue.

> Evaluating the relationship between founders is as important as evaluating the founders themselves.

Indeed it is! Good luck getting access to do that ...

This article is just more hyperbole from triplebyte. I wonder how their business is doing ...

https://triplebyte.com/careers:

> We've already achieved profitablity

But if I may quote from this article:

> one thing we learned at YC was not to be fooled by large absolute numbers. What matters most is the growth rate.

triplebyte, put your money where your mouth is and advertise your top line growth rate, not the fact that you are profitable. When your fee is on the order of $30k per hire and your infra and operating costs are low, I expect you to be profitable.
As an "investor" you should consider the range of asset classes available to you when deciding how to invest your time and labour.

See Dan Luu's articles about "big company vs startups" and "options versus cash"

https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/

https://danluu.com/startup-options/
The all-ones Null Pointer are part of the software interface of the 82557 ethernet controller.

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/manual/8255x-10-100-mb...
That's a very odd claim to make because the EU itself is extremely clear that you're wrong.

I won’t quite the rest, but I think you have misunderstood the EU’s position on this.

Yes, as I said there are different forms the relationship could take. I described some of them. What there isn’t - as various EU bods you quote point out – is any other deal available at this point. It’s done. If the UK had engaged in this process honestly, from the start, then other deals could have been achieved. Remember this graphic published by Barbier? http://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/rngs/BRITAIN-EU/0100603...

I don’t think I’m being at all inconsistent or dishonest here. I’m happy to change my views if I’m wrong. But I haven’t heard a convincing argument that the current situation is the fault of anybody but a comically incompetent UK government.
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Hi! I work at GitHub.

All the details are listed on the official pricing page in the feature comparison section: https://github.com/pricing and in the docs: https://help.github.com/articles/github-s-billing-plans/#bil...
I believe inefficiency is a red herring. I want the government to collect taxes to fund these efforts for two reasons:

1) So that we can have consistent, reliable, and widely-available services.
2) So the financial cost of society is spread fairly across everyone.

These are not guarantees the free market provides, because the market doesn't care about outcomes. Giving people tax breaks and hoping they donate it to homeless shelters will probably not help all the homeless people in the country. Switching the FDA to an opt-in subscription service will not prevent unsafe drugs from reaching consumers.

Sure I'd prefer government to run be as efficient as possible, but the goal isn't efficiency, it's better outcomes.
I don't get it - it seems to be just a list of common false claims about Assange (according to Wikileaks)? How is that "things you can't say"? Surely you can still say them? Or what - will Wikileaks send their hired guns to silence you?

Also I think Assange is not in control of Wikileaks anymore.
I understand that intentions don't always matter, but if you read the lyrics to the song, I think it's more the opposite.
There _is_ a "neither fish nor fowl" moment where private companies start giving out RSUs. It has to do with the overall value of the company and the size of the offer package, and rules around how much you can vest in ISOs in a given calendar year. It also has to do with the exposure to employees (and ex-employees) as shareholders pushing you above the cap that requires you to report as a public company.

At any rate, it is fairly common to get RSUs in a late-stage private company. Uber was giving out RSUs 4 years ago, I believe, and has reportedly filed for a confidential IPO as of last month.
I've written my book in Asciidoc [1]. It's a brilliant tool and far more powerful than Markdown but it does have some quirks (for example, you need to escape "C++").

1 - https://book.picheta.me
> My quest for relearning C++ started in November 2018.

He started ~2 months ago.
I'm sorry to hear you left GitLab. We're working on making sure GitLab offers a great PaaS experience https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/111 (I posted in there 3 days ago, hopefully indicating this is important to us)
On the flipside, while Windows has a greater quantity of drivers available for devices on day 1 of release, Linux tends to have a greater quantity of drivers available for devices at time of install. With Linux, there's no separate step of having to wait for Windows Update to pull the driver, since all the drivers are included alongside the kernel (the exceptions being printer drivers - which aren't developed alongside the kernel - and firmware for wireless NICs if you're going with a strictly-FOSS-only distro).

Meanwhile, I "fondly" remember having to have a USB stick on hand for Windows 7 installs because the default install didn't include wired (let alone wireless) NIC drivers for 90% of the laptops and desktops on which I installed it. Thankfully Windows 10 is better about this (at least on the wired front; wireless drivers are still hit or miss), but still.
The lawsuit wasn’t because it was free. The lawsuit was because IE (a web browser with a weak market position) was bundled with Windows (an OS with a dominant, almost monopoly position).
it's 3 collaborators not including the owner.
> Github is a growing social network for developers

But in a social network I am the product
Why would you assume that? Presumably the maintainer is pretty knowledgeable about their project, and the maintainer may be willing to "sell" their time (on the project) for less than market rate.
The tragedy here is the medicinal benefits of the non-psychoactive portions haven't been getting effective research. Anecdotal evidence shows great potential there.

But meanwhile the dur-hurr, let's all get stoned crowd is pretending today's 20%+ THC weed is the same as what we might have enjoyed decades ago. It isn't and THAT is perhaps even less studied.

Criminalizing it to the extent that's happened is a whole other train-wreck.

So, yeah, bring on more testing and actual scientific study of it.

Stop trying to deflect the argument because it might actually reveal problems. There are problems. Let's have a better understanding of them AS we move forward.
Tales from the Xenix Crypt (2017)
That's like saying there wasn't cancer before cancer was first diagnosed. I don't think clinical depression is becoming more commonplace. I think it's becoming more recognized. I'm old enough to predate modern drug treatments for depression, but as a child, I saw plenty of untreated depression around. I recognize it for what it was now.
Agreed about He3, but it's not just D/T; there's at least a bit of money going onto p/B11, as a way of sidestepping the problems of neutron embrittlement. I think TAE is working on it?
"Do you actually work in the City or in the financial industry?"

Well, sorry for the pun, but you obviously don't:

"By the way, unlike what many in this thread seem to think, being in the EU is of limited value for business protection. France and Germany via their proxies have been trying to pull financial work out of London for years - the EU Commission already tried to illegally ban Eurozone countries from using the UK for certain types of trading and clearing"

The EU wanted to have the EURO clearing in countries that have the Euro. The EU supreme court, that is hated so much in the UK, actually ruled that such a demand can not be made since the UK is in the EU (but not in the Euro). Since the UK is leaving the EU now, Euroclearing will move back to the Eurozone with a sunrise period granted by the EU.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/financial-services-city...

It does not make sense to look only of the cost of something (e.g. EU membership fees) without looking of the benefits gained. Allowance of euro clearing was one of the benefits.
I expect nation states to do what is in their best interest. Wikileaks helped Russia whether they wanted to or not. Russia's attempt to interfere with our democracy has led to one of the most toxic political climates in US history. The nation is divided and we keep shooting ourselves in the foot because we can't get along.

When I mention NWO I'm simply referring to the fact that as the US has ruined its own reputation, Russia and China have developed a stronger position with the rest of the world. If we ever got to a place where Putin-led Russia was considered more of a leader in the international community than the US it would be bad for almost everyone. Likewise, although China has made slow and steady progress towards being less terrible, if they were suddenly more influential to the rest of the world it too would be bad for almost everyone. No one says "Man I wish the rest of the world would wake up and start operating like China and Russia, that's really the model that freedom loving people everywhere should aspire to." Russian and Chinese people are just as good as anyone else, but in spite of our government being pretty shitty in many ways, their governments are still atrocious in comparison.

Its not about communism. Its about Russia's obviously hostile intent towards western civilization and Wikileaks selling out their integrity to support it simply because they don't like the US.
He's continued to claim asylum to dodge a credible rape accusation rather than face justice. [EDIT: his claims of fear of extradition to the US are credible; there was a leaked charge against him in US courts. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/us/politics/julian-assang...]

At this point, he's dodging Sweden's justice system because he can and because Ecuador allows him to. And all of this distracts from Wikileaks' ostensible goal of shining light into the dark places of power; public trust in them weakens as they continue to refuse to cut ties with an accused rapist dodging charges.
Me too, but I hope Microsoft add CI features inside GitHub in the future.
Maybe that was the best way for them to get our attention? After all nobody seems to care about their actual releases anymore...
Well I am not sure how different your presidents are, if you only looking at the foreign policy the picture is kind of blurry.

https://www.ranker.com/list/the-twelve-worst-us-presidents-b...
And Microsoft is in good relationship with the government and agencies. Guess how valuable is that data for them :)

And guess what they want... "Private code to know what people are working on."
When Steve Jobs was alive, market research didn’t dictate all these things. They built the best product possible and the ergonomics of the hand guided the shape of the phone.
OCCRP does amazing investigative journalism. I know in Romania, Rise project is associated with them, and they have some amazing pieces.
Github actions exists, seems to be semi-CI
Although I prefer iPhones, I don’t think any American manafacturer is not in the pocket of the NSA.
Brian Cantrell has some really interesting blog posts on this http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/09/28/the-relative-performa...

Sometimes, choices aren't entirely about the structure itself, but about the affordances that a language offers you.
This is an interesting comment, because it shows how capitalism has atomized us. It is everyone for themselves and it is everyone against eachother. You want to make money so you can win and have more power. What if...we worked towards a world where worrying if we have enough money isn't the standard. You say you have escaped the feeling, but it sounds like it still rules your life. I don't blame you.
GitHub = Free Public
BitBucket = Free Private

I have 100+ repos on Github and about 30 private ones on BitBucket. Brilliant move because now I will use Github exclusively.

I do wonder how they will monetize “me” though...
I think the two are more coupled than you're making them out to be.

In my experience, jobs that pay upwards of 100k require significant time/energy investments. I make good money, but I have to be mentally engaged all day long. I also have to deal with situations that come up nights/weekends/holidays. My average work week is about 50 hours of time I'd call "billable" plus another 20 hours of time spent on keeping current with my field.

I would GLADLY trade half of my salary to work half the hours, but that's not very easy to do: companies want employees on standard hours, and I still have to keep up with what's changing in my field to be relevant and continue pulling in the salary I have.

So I think there's a sweet spot where a job is good enough to avoid the financial stressors like missing payments or not being able to replace necessities, but not so demanding that the stress of the job itself approaches the same level.

On the extremes: Stress from finances (low income), stress from very taxing job (high income). I agree with you that I'd prefer the job stress, but not by all that much. They both make me anxious, worried, drained.
Why would you read my comment as defending his programming chops?
My wife has allopecia and some other endocrine issues, some of which were likely caused by childhood vaccinations.

My daughter has a history of febrile seizures. It is hard to deal with your 9 month old with eyes rolled back, mouth open, convulsing in your arms. It'd be harder if she had polio, etc.

We still vaccinate. I do wish vaccinations had more controls and weren't manufactured in China though.
No, you're right. The comment you're replying to is specific to Chrome. Firefox behaves as you describe, though personally I still strongly prefer TST's behavior; it's a substantial further improvement over Firefox's default setup. Especially when you add in container tabs, and the ability to prefix url bar searches with % <space> to search through your open tabs.

Some people seem to strongly prefer Chrome's behavior. The only advantage I can see is that it forcibly prevents your tab count from getting out of hand.
Then banning mosques is not in the scope of your statement.

Hmm - I disagree, and I suspect most courts in the kinds of countries we're talking about would also.
A visualization of Malbolge programs, try playing with the m parameter
Are people really ashamed of their code? How are they even able to assess the quality of their code especially when they are just getting started? It feels sort of a Catch-22. Also, how does making private repos free help here?

I think a more encouraging move would be to have people with all experiences share as much of their progress as possible so that people who are getting started can find inspiration and learn to overcome their "imposter" feelings.
Read this with an open mind: consider a dialect of Lisp. There is the saying “Lisp is not the language that will solve your problem, but rather, Lisp is the language that will allow you to create the language that will solve your problem.” Perhaps what you need is a biology DSL. Lisp is excellent for creating DSLs.
You can use the Typescript transpiler directly in a browser.
The runtimes are not locked down, anyone can publish theirs (under their domain name, ofcourse), so it depends on who publishes it.

For the freedesktop one, they have following policy[1]:

- When a new stable release release is done, the changes on that branch will only be:
- security updates
- stable releases (tested carefully); no ABI breaks / API build breaks.
- we will try to keep updating that branch as much as we can

- We release a new major release every year, only if:
- There is a ABI break
- There is a "API build" break (apps might not compile because new major releases of important packages (GCC))
- Looking at the GCC and other major project cadences, this is likely going to happen annually.

- We only maintain the current stable release and the previous one, this means:
- Stable releases get 2 years of security updates
- We maintain maximum 3 releases at any given time:
- Development
- Stable
- Old stable

[1] https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/freedesktop-sdk/wikis/rel...
Why online ads don’t build brands
I came here to ask the exact same thing.

Maybe zuckerberg really hates spots?
It seems a bit odd to complain that C++ doesn't support garbage collection. I mean yes, it's true, but... part of the point of C++ is to give you control of memory.
It's open source and self-hostable. Its delvelopment process is basically transparent, which is nice as well.

Other than that, their CI system is quite amazing!
Where are you getting this data? I've known many monks (and nuns too for that matter) and you are encouraged to discuss when you are unhappy. No abbot wants a miserable monk, so they work with you to be sure you are happy and adjusting well to the life. If not, then you mutually come to a decision about what to do next, even if that means leaving the monastery. Implying that they are some sort of prisoner is inaccurate.