skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I miss WYSIWYG IDE's like Delphi, VB-classic, and Lazarus. Dealing with HTML "autoflow" and Bootstrap is a royal pain. You sketch a draft GUI that seems a good fit for the application and users, and then realize you have to jump through hoops backward on a unicycle while chewing gum blindfolded to get it right on web browsers. Jetsons WYSIWYG technology yanked from my happy fingers by an LSD "standard". (I'm assuming "office" applications here, not those needing smart-phone UI's.)
I reformulate: no governments that theoretically can achieve free energy want it, perhaps governments that can't dream it as a temporary solution to find a way to lock it out for their own sake. Better?

Keep in mind a thing: hitler was not blocked via military operation forces against forces nor interior civil war but due to the lack of gasoline. And that's true for essentially anything. If you can "ground" a country you can rule it to a certain extent a thing any government powerful enough want.

Did you remember prohibitionist in the USA to avoid an improbable development of alcohol powered cars because produce alcohol is easy, produce gasoline it's not?

I can cite many more examples.
What an incredible experience it must have been to be around such a creative group of guys. Even today, I can listen to Stipe's lyrics and find different meaning with my changing life experiences.

I know they didn't like it, but Fables of the Reconstruction is one of the most moody, creative works in modern music IMO.
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Yeah, it is not a press release, for more info the home page is very informative IMO https://www.lazarus-ide.org
Simply put, if you are starting off alone, you need more money. I can think of two women I've worked with who were outstanding project managers, and who could step up to the role of COO. Neither of them have enough spare cash to endure the craziness of founding a startup, but both of them could play the role of June Martino, if I could pay them, and that is basically what you need if you are a solo founder. I would look to hire someone like that right away.
Much of this seems to be outdated, like someone at the end of 2016 looking towards 2017 trends. Devsumer makes sense still. Devops more generally is probably a better market to highlight especially as organizations try and tackle security concerns with cloud deployment models.
Once youre shipping software off prem you need to patch it between major and minor releases.

Typically one way to do that is to branch when you do a release to a branch namded for the release. Say 1.2. Then when issues pop up you fix it in the branch then see if it applies to the trunk or other branches after that.
That process will take you 3-7 years, depending on how many resources you throw at it. Can your business survive 3-7 years of #seriouspain?

This article hand-waves over many of the criticisms while ignoring a few cold realities. If you're following an infrastructure as code pattern and/or if you run bare metal, at some point you _WILL_ determine that some things are too sensitive to keep in the monorepo. Here is one of the places where coupling will screw you the hardest.

Your lightweight production deployment repo will have a hard dependency on some nightmarish 35-40GB monorepo. Your collaboration tools like rietveld/gerrit will choke under the load and you will struggle to get big enough servers to maintain it. You'll do things like push to one target and pull from another. You'll deal with all sorts of transient failures trying to push or pull. Your CI/CD platform will start taking an eternity to do anything.

Monorepos absolutely result in coupling and coupling is one of those nasty things that you don't realize how much of a problem it is until you're drowning.

None of the above-mentioned complaints are theoretical. I've lived through them all.
Personally I want the same option I get from Google. I can see ads on YouTube or I can pay for an ad free YouTube. Now a creator will put their own ads inside the video is up to them. Personally I like when they put them at the end, like Smart Everyday does.

If there was an outlet where I can just pay for ad free podcast I would be happy to do it. It also would pay far more than what ads pay. I still remember the release of YouTube Red was how this was hurting creators but it was a cynical argument that paying actual money would pay less than a paying customer.
> But don't get lazy then and really take the time to learn the basics.

Here was a typical (not verbatim) exchange when I was a Front-End Architect interviewing candidates for my team back in 2012 or so:

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Q: Tell me about your experience with JavaScript.

A: I know JavaScript because I've been working in jQuery for a year.

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Further questions would isolate the fact that they've _only_ used jQuery. It was depressing, really.

I mentor developers to really strive to learn and understand the fundamentals precisely to stop propagating the idea that libraries and frameworks > fundamentals. Problem is, I've already started to witness history repeating itself when interviewing candidates and getting the equivalent answer above--but with "React" in its place.
If your projects are simple enough that using a framework is a bad idea it's a waste of money to hire the #1 types.
It's interesting to see how people react so strongly to this phrase.

By default, I assume "boring" is a verb. Maybe it says something about the reader whether they see a verb or an adjective.
Remind me a lot the exelent book 'l' enciclopedie du savoir relatif et absolu ' of Bernard weber.
The other point is Sears Catalog was empowered by the railroads, then along comes the Internet and they miss the analogy.
They seem to try to use this metric to claim healthy financials on individual locations (because they rent out desks in aggregate for more than the office lease costs) but it ignores where a large part of their costs are (central overhead) and thus it’s an unrealistic picture of how they actually run the business.

If they ran themselves like a real estate company then their central function would probably be a few attorneys to process deals and some people handling paperwork. Instead they have huge central costs which they want people to ignore via these metrics.

Simple non-GAAP is one thing but most of these invented metrics scream “our financials are terrible so we made up this metric where if you ignore our real costs we look less terrible”
From 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14973706
If they have a "delete profile" button that works, then recruiters shouldn't be able to scrape that. It doesn't really matter, the country I live in has robust anti-spam and privacy laws. When I lived in the US, I was spammed often (CAN-SPAM is pretty weak compared to GDPR and CASL), but you don't see LinkedIn campaigning for better privacy laws in the US.

Apart from campaigning for GDPR-style protections, there are enough other solutions. For example, GitHub has a nice email forwarding feature to preserve user's privacy/email address.

LinkedIn could provide a similar option where when I opt-in, my email address is replaced by an address they provide. They could even go a step further and make it look like a real email address. Any emails to that address are forwarded to my real address, and after the initial forwarding I could reply from my real email address. Meanwhile LinkedIn could do analysis of who is sending what to these email canaries (like they transparently said they would when you opt in), and catch scrapers that way. For users, if I'm getting too much spam, I can simply request a new canary email address from them.

This is what a user-focussed solution would look like. Not some weird semi-legal hack they are doing now.
I got a similar email about pets.com

It’s all relative
They were founded in 2010. I'm reasonably certain I remember co-working spaces being a thing a good while before then...
Also a physician working with Doctors Without Borders doesn't do it for a chance to get really rich.
Yup. I've worked on projects where there were 6-7 major branches active at the same time and several smaller ones, besides the master branch. Then you'd have to merge everywhere applicable, etc.

Totally different from the Google monorepo approach of "master only", basically. And probably one of the main reasons why Golang is having a ton of difficulties in the outside world by not having a proper versioning story.
Food is a cultural and emotional issue. As much as some people like to try new dishes, others prefer to stick to what they know and love, give or take a few variations. What you eat may be part of your identity and culture, and giving that up for something foreign that's supposedly better isn't easy. Seemingly small steps are an easier sell.
Their is a difference between ads and forcing someone to be a product. The tracking software in JS ads is what turns someone into a product in my opinion.
I aggressively block ads and all other forms of tracking in my browser, but I have to admit that I don't generally have a problem with podcast ads. Listening to some podcaster blather on for a minute about some product or service at least gives me the warm fuzzy feeling that they're earning something for their efforts.

More podcasters really do need to get on the premium ad-free model though. I pay money to make ads go away on a few platforms (YouTube, Spotify etc) and would gladly put my money where my mouth is and do the same for podcasts. Websites, too, if anyone can come up with a decent way to make it work - AND STOP TRACKING ME!
Costco is an upscale place to shop? I’ve never seen them lumped together with Whole Foods or even Apple.

Edit: Wow I didn’t realize Costco’s profit margin was higher than Whole Foods, Wal Mart and almost a full percent above Kroger’s.
Hey op, my 2¢: just mute them, everywhere. Duplicate the audio stream, detect ads, use that to mute the volume of whatever is playing the ads.
They forgo some income, or work for free.

But for public service, not because there is a 0.1% chance they'll get a lot of money.
I’m one of the organizers of Hack N Roll and personally know the guy who built this.

He says that the code on Github is actually broken but he forgot in what way.. I still think it’s pretty cool though
I would say more people don't know lisp and find the syntax foreign than people who understand lisp and can't read someone else's code.

Golang was designed around the philosophy of blub.
I was talking about JavaScript. In JavaScript there are no typed functions or arguments, so that information doesn't exist period.
Those aren't the equivalencies I'm asserting. My position is that members of both parties expend far too much energy working on re-election fundraising versus working for the people. That's the equivalency I'm asserting.
Even without the physical locations, the Sears brand will likely persist through the Kenmore brand and Sears home services.
Extremely confusing discourse. I can only assume that was your goal.
Only school I know of that uses ProctorU is University of the People but they do not have a regional US accreditation, so likely won't be valid for applying to OMSCS afterwards. Every town though will have some kind of invigilating/proctoring service you can rent. All the local colleges, libraries and universities in my city do this for a fee.
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This is completely rational and works well for some people, but speaking from experience, there is another side to this coin.

If you are the sort of person who enjoys the making side of things, and aren't naturally gifted at selling, this can be a trap. I've seen so many solo founders try to validate a product by selling before building, only to get talked into different features and use cases until they're stuck building some bloated mess of a service. Not super enjoyable.

That said, if selling is your strong suit and you have the discipline to sell a product idea without deviating from your product idea to chase sales, then selling as a validation tool is fantastic.
It should be called Spolsky's law :)
This is also true, but appears to mostly be made up for with money or other factors. I say this because pretty much all large enterprisey companies (in tech or not) use unpopular or ridiculous technology stacks in various places (I expect you can collect thousands of stories from HN easily), but their attrition rates are not particularly high.

I could believe it affects the bay area and other areas of "high amounts of choice" more, but ....

So while I believe what you say, and I even believe it impacts recruiting/attrition more than it used to, it still doesn't seem like a dominant factor yet.
> I used the Windows comparison functions to figure out how to compare the keys, in order to handle case insensitive lookup IIRC.

Wouldn't you need to do case normalization before hashing, to make that work?
Oracle and Palantir say diversity figures are trade secrets
A mall is a shopping center. In the United States, it is illegal to have a “no blacks” shopping center, even if it is technically a private membership. The Civil Rights Act is the relevant law.
All companies will eventually end, but it's crazy how big Sears was and how far they fell in a short time. At one point they were selling mail-order DIY houses!
You're the typical blub programmer. Python and Java are both readable to you because they are essentially languages with the exact same concepts.
I find that shipped software actually operates better in a normal, branched monorepo. You just branch the whole thing. The alternative is several repo and using a package manager. That minimizes merging in many branches, as you can just point the package manager at the updated module version, but brings its own hassles.

Either way, as I said, different world from the discussion here, which I'd summarize as "SaaS monorepo vs SaaS polyrepo".
I can't find it anymore, but from it I learned for the first time that functional programming can be understood simply as programming using component-oriented design - from then on, my favorite programming concept. I have a huge interest in software composition, so here's at least something I could find that explains it well:

https://alvinalexander.com/scala/fp-book/how-functional-prog...
I can't argue there. Career wise, React is a good choice. It is a really cool piece of technology too. I have been very resistant to the new hat frontend frameworks, mostly because I had a strong methodology for frontend UI already and there was no sense throwing it away. But even I put React in my toolbelt recently.
>Is there anything people don't buy online these days?

Tons of stuff. [ADDED: e-commerce is 10% of retail in the US.] Ironically, especially in the categories that Sears was best known for selling. Major appliances, lawn equipment, home improvement generally, (to a lesser degree) clothes.
@all: Thanks for trialling 'Get up or die'. There is currently an issue with delivering text messages to some of you. This looks to be related to country codes, e.g. messages to China, Indonesia, Thailand and Hungary are affected.
Checking with the provider - please hang in there.
If anyone has experience with sending text messages to these country codes using Twilio, please let me know. THanks
Neil Saunders wrote a good Twitter thread last week about how mid-scale US department stores don't execute the basics of retail very well: https://twitter.com/NeilRetail/status/1079785924966445058

Others have pointed out that Target seems to do a much better job with organization, presentation, and flow. Not coincidentally, it seems to be performing much better than legacy department stores that historically targeted the same class of shopper, like JCPenney and Sears.

Brick and mortar isn't as dead as commentators sometimes present it, but the increased competition is certainly weeding out dead wood that managed to persist for decades based on natural local monopolies and oligopolies.
Red Hat, a division of IBM, literally does almost $3B of revenue selling a Linux distribution that includes almost the entirety of the GNU corpus, all GPLv3. IBM bought them because they already resell packages and contracts based on the same stuff and wanted the vertical integration. So yeah, you buy an expensive service contract from IBM and it comes with (gasp) a giant license for GPLv3 stuff in RHEL.

That point is silly. If what you say were true, then the purchase would have been poison. It's not true. It's FUD. And it's hilariously the same FUD that people were flinging around in years before most of the existing FUD-flingers were even born.
A few years ago I made the decision to go back to school (for two years) to be a web dev. It cost me approximately $25k. Immediately after graduation I added $25k to my yearly income. There is a ton of work for web developers, and there will continue to be for some time (even if something comes along that makes web devs redundant, there is still decades of maintenance work in the market).

It may be important to clarify exactly what you mean by web developer though. I work in many different portions of the web stack every day (database, server side code, front-end code, etc). The more diverse your skill set, the more opportunity there will be.

At any rate, web is a really good entry point, and after a few years in industry you'll probably start to see different branches of development that appeal to you more. If you start out as a web dev there will always be different avenues and opportunities as your career advances.
(this announcement is most likely about mobile vr headsets, not the PC side)

I'm pleased about this because -

1- Firefox Reality is actually "Servo" ie the Rust based browser Mozilla has been developing for years. edit - UGGGH this may not ship with Servo enabled :(

2- This is a stamp of approval from both Firefox and HTC that Servo is ready for consumers at least for this use case (which is very demanding low latency graphics!)

3- Actual Firefox means far higher standards of privacy and integrity then some cancerous Chromium embedded scenario.

I'm concerned enough to think twice about buying anything from Vive mobile because -

1- Their Vive PC software is awful shovelware.

2- It's not clear what the OS environment around the browser would be in an HTC branded mobile headset. If it's a clean version of Android that can be hacked on and replaced then we have something.

3- WebXR/WebVR still has no useful way to actually browse the real web, there is no "HTMLTexture" to allow you to say even look at Wikipedia through a portal. As a result you are trapped in basically WebXR Demo hell...
My parents were young, and broke, and opened a Sears "charge card" to buy their wedding rings. "Craftsman, so it'll last forever!"

I mean, intellectually, I get why Sears is going away, but it still kinda tugs at the ol' heartstrings a little, you know?
Sears is a company with a CEO and board that do not care. Their skin is fine if company goes bust.
That dog perk makes a lot of sense and doesn't sound weird at all. Rest of it though...
I really don't understand the downvotes.
go talk to a lawyer so you don't get sued. how can you prove YOU didn't take the money and run?
Are you able to share any pictures of your setup? I am having a hard time visualizing it.
That's actually how Japanese bees defend themselves. European bees do not have this defense as I learned from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ1eAM8CChc
Another option is to force an increase in minimum wage which is what most people in those positions make. Not every company can afford to keep the same amount of staff on hand at that price so some people would be let go but it makes the remainder of people much more valuable.
Paying employees more is supposed to work because it results in employees who do their job better. It seems Sears just increased the pay without increasing the expectations. I avoid Sears because when I go, despite there being no customers, the place is a mess and I can't find anyone to help me.
The Theory of Type Hints (2014)
It really depends on your niche, your product and the amount of work you need to keep the entire startup going? As a rule of thumb, you just want a functional MVP that sells, which is your first milestone. After that, it’s open waters.
Hindsight is 20/20. Maybe people in 1999 were wrong about Amazon but they were right about Pets.com and many others, your comment is just an example of survivorship bias. I mean, I'm sure you're not trying to argue that dotcom valuations weren't generally ridiculous.

Besides, Amazon, Kodak and Boeing were never exactly in the same market. The parent is comparing companies that ostensibly offer similar services.

If I can trust Wikipedia by 1999 Amazon "also sold video games, consumer electronics, home-improvement items, software, games and toys in addition to other items." That meant that it was already an online retail store, not a mere bookstore.
Yip. March 2021 is the current estimate. Maybe for target #4 it could be useful, but hopefully New Horizons doesn't have to wait that long for its next target. As time goes on, NH has less power and less sunlight for photography & spectrography.
It's what I do on adblockradio.com/player

I am currently working on Sonos / Google Home / Amazon Alexa
The USB chip (like many microcontrollers) has clock gating and sleep modes so it uses almost no power when idle. When running it uses 10 mA (50 mW) which is pretty low, but in deep sleep mode it uses just 100 µA (0.5 mW). In comparison, a desktop processor can use 95 W or more and the Cray 1 used over 100 kW.
Sears also just wasn't able to get how to move its catalog online. My parents purchased a house that was mostly built with Sears appliances and furniture (cabinets, counters, etc). Ordering replacement parts from Sears was a chore; you were constantly moved around to tons of different domains, some of which weren't even made human readable; their inventory system was terrible, making it impossible to find the parts based on absolutely any serial or identifier included on the appliance itself.

Their warehouse and delivery was atrocious, first sending us the wrong stove top glass multiple times, then finally realizing they didn't have our model in stock and wouldn't for months. Months later, they sent us the top finally, but 3 of them. And then tried to ask us to pay to send the 2 they accidentally sent back.

Sears either never took the time to figure out how to use online or weren't interested. For a very long time, due to custom printing, you could get semi-permanent Sears URLs to rather vulgar images on shirts, pillows, blankets, etc.

They just weren't ready for online and didn't take the time to learn it. Once they finally got a site up and running, it was just too late.
What data are you using? Was there a change after the CFIUS rules went into affect on Nov 10th?
I wish I was affluent enough to be able to make that kind of decision. I'm glad you are.
Decreasing meat consumption would dramatically decrease the amount of land amount used for crop agriculture, not increase it. 85% of the UK's landmass is grazing land and crops grown specifically as animal feed[1].

In 2010, the British livestock industry needed an area the size of Yorkshire just to produce the soy used in feed. But if global demand for meat grows as expected, the report says, soy production would need to increase by nearly 80% by 2050. [2]

From a completely theoretical standpoint, if humans were to stop consuming meat we would actually need to close 1000's of crop farms, not open them on rolling hills, even when accounting for our dietary increase in plants. I'd therefore argue that it's a shame the land has to be used for agriculture at all. Better would be to maintain them as national parks and the like.

[1]http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378017...

[2] (PDF WARNING) https://www.wwf.org.uk/sites/default/files/2017-10/WWF_Appet...
Are there instructions for training so we can contribute our own models? I've been wanting to play with ML and this seems like a fun way to do it. I read the write up and briefly looked at the repos and didn't see training instructions.