skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Out where I'm at in Campton Hills we're seeing business owners asking for the ban to be lifted. I hope it isn't:

https://www.kcchronicle.com/2019/01/11/campton-hills-residen...
Except that at one point in time, creationism and racism were considered official truth and people who thought otherwise were attacked as the conspiracy nuts. Between two of the smartest men to have ever lived, Isaac Newton was a creationist and Albert Einstein was a racist. Neither are what I'd call "ignorant persons".

In my opinion, it's the politically motivated who eschew discussion, logic and reason.
Is it necessarily true that our species will not exist when Voyager 1 and 2 fly through in a galaxy far far far away a long long time in the future?

Are you talking about Terran homosapiens specifically and the consideration that once we populate other planets that we'll become genetically different enough to no longer be considered the same species - or do you think we'll never get up there?
> I'm curious how the implementation of Go has affected the ease of integrating other languages.

In some ways, it helps. You start to see similar issues arise and know what to look out for when you're launching a new runtime. In other ways, every language has its peculiarities and its own set of design considerations.

Launching/polishing a completely new language still takes a decent amount of work. Launching a new version of an existing language tends to be much quicker.
As he already said, it's called The Prisoner's Dilemma. The situation where everybody defects (everybody has a barker) is worse than the situation where nobody defects (barkers are unheard of). But the nobody-defects situation is unstable, because if Store A has a barker and Store B does not, then Store A will be swimming in money and Store B will go out of business (or, in reality, be forced to hire a barker themselves).

Probably the clearest example I can think of is doing a no-adblock Google Search for "Coca-Cola." The first result is an ad, put out by the Coca-Cola Company. This might not seem to make any sense, since the first non-ad result is an identical link to the same website, but imagine what Cott Corporation or PepsiCo would do if they could by the first result for their competitor...
I've read several articles about this and I can't for the life of me understand why: "McDonald’s had not proven genuine use of Big Mac, which it trademarked in 1996, as a burger or restaurant name."

The dispute with Supermac's is another matter; but I just can't fathom McDonalds's being told that it didn't prove it's use of "Big Mac" as a burger name.

Maybe someone better versed in European IP law can help?
From the article: "If you take care the commit history, consider the use of git pull --rebase. Instead of fetch + merge, it consists of fetch + rebase. Your local commits will be replayed and you won’t see the known diamond shape in commit history."

No, not how to teach Git.

Open source just can't do good user interfaces. The result is almost always a zillion features in search of an architecture.

Blender managed to almost dig itself out of that hole, but it took over a decade. Gimp is still down in the pit.
Man, it is frightening to see how fast things are changing. I wonder if and how through things like that whole ecosystems will collapse sooner or later leading, amongst other things, to mass-migration

Side note: very nice and engaging format, just right: playful but not too fancy
Ask HN: Should Qt be considered in the place of electron?
When a cross platform app is required, Electron is often mentioned first: Should Qt be considered to fill that gap (As in the new QML-y Qt)
The output is produced by a Meanwell power supply, it's like a wall wart with through-hole legs: https://www.meanwell-web.com/en-gb/ac-dc-single-output-encap...
Well look, I already told you! I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to! I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people! Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?
Yes, it is. It’s a common preface for a counter argument, and is perceived (or at least intended to be perceived) as being politer/less argumentative while pointing out a (presumes) flaw in the original argument or defense.

Also used to make what is considered a very obvious rebuttal to the original argument.
Git-review-branch
I used Google Music until recently, just to unify the cloud library with my personal library. The problem was how atrocious the Google Music player is. It's a joke compared to Spotify, or to any desktop app.
Way less variety.
> I like this characterization of it. Basically we can't prove that it isn't an alien artifact yet, which is impressive given all the things that we can state conclusively are not alien artifacts.

That seems like the height of human hubris - we are stuck on a little rock in the corner of the galaxy, but somehow assume we are authorities on things astronomical.

> I base that on the following conjecture, if we were to become capable of travelling among the stars with relative ease, then we'll go collect these two little artifacts and put them in a museum. But if we go extinct, these ships will continue on their way forever. So any alien that comes across them can know we're extinct.

You're assuming that we will at some point have the ability to catch up to them - we may develop interstellar flight, but it may be stuck in very slow speeds, we may never catch up to them with our giant colony ships as we sleep away the eons.
I'm always one to consider my reputation and professionalism before I speak, but if this were true, I would definitely be naming names - right down to the name of the employee who cancelled my ticket. I'd be livid.

Though, I've had times in my life where I have had to take a chance on job interviews that I didn't have the money to get to. I drove to Vancouver from Calgary with $20 in my pocket, borrowed $50 for a rail pass and crashed on someone's couch on the promise of an interview that wasn't even a guarantee of a job because I was so broke. I got the job and it was water under the bridge, but if I hadn't got the job, I'd have been screwed.
Michael from MongoDB here... Greed? You realize that anyone can still view, download, use, develop, modify and do everything they could do prior to the change - right? The only difference is that if they decide to offer the licensed software as a public service they must release the other components of the service under the same license.
It plans to build the Future Circular Collider (FCC). The Conceptual Design Report (CDR) has already been built[1], but not yet released.

[1]https://cern.ch/fcc-cdr
But they are not really secret just like your email isnt. Its using it as if it is thats the problem imo
Yes - or they would explain all of the good things about their worldview.

Source: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/280718.php

"People who are narcissists are almost proud of the fact. You can ask them directly because they don't see narcissism as a negative quality - they believe they are superior to other people and are fine with saying that publicly."
Why is "whether its use is safe or dangerous" not a science question?
Correlation is still quite easy in that scenario, unless you're sharing that VPS with a thousand other people.

NSA has your international traffic logged and timestamped. If you're doing nefarious activity from a non-MLAT country's IP, and you're the only one connecting to it from the US, it's a simple matter of parallel construction for domestic law enforcement to pop you.
The thing with fasting/low-carb is that once you are adapted it takes quite a bit more to "feel hungry". In fact the feeling is qualitatively different.

I eventually tried the low-carb (actual low-carb of <100g carbs/day, not the fake one nutritionists study where "low" is like 40% carbs in your diet) because I kept hearing about it and it was so easy to self-experiment, so why not?

It was like the scales fell from my eyes when I realized that much of what I thought was "hunger" my whole life was actually "addictive cravings" for carbohydrates. And I was really not a fan of grains and sugary stuff to begin with.
Like, why am I seeing this on hacker news.
Rainbows and unicorns... Apple (pre-Miyake), Microsoft, Google
This might require further explanation for those not familiar with dry British humour ;)
What I’m seeing is that you’d be fine to let someone who got disillusioned with the career/salary prospects of holding a useless degree take a 2 month course on the Paleo diet, and then remove one of your kidneys.
You don't need to understand git's internals; I for sure don't know how it does delta compression of pack files etc. to provide you with efficient storage of snapshots and whatever else it does.

However, what you do need to understand is the model that git uses, which is extremely simple.

Git provides you a way to store snapshots of data into an on-disk graph data structure* that you can sync to and from remote repositories. You also get refs to store symbolic references to the snapshots in the data structure, and you can sync those too.

That's pretty much my mental model of git in its entirety, and it allows me to merge, branch, rebase and perform all kinds of commit surgery with ease, because I can always tell what effect an operation is going to have on my data structure (and even if I'm wrong, I can't lose data)

I seriously can't see how it could get any simpler.

(*) a git repository can actually contain several separate graph data structures, but that's usually not what you want...
I agree that this is a thing with VC's, but the claimed logic behind it is not credible.

If you are able to recruit founders to work with each other, you didn't prove anything that couldn't be just as easily proven by recruiting a VC to invest in you.

And if it's not sales/hype that we're trying to prove, but instead a technical review by a potential co-founder, then that's what technical due diligence is for.

To me, a much better test is whether or not they've managed to get a believable proof of concept or even actual traction all by themselves, without any help and without even a co-founder.

That is a much better proof point. (leaving out of the discussion other salient points like market size, growth rate, etc)

Being able to attract another idiot who might not know anything at all about the problem domain, or gets excited about it for a few weeks or months, or "joins" five different startups in six months in the hopes that one of them gets funded.. this proves nothing of value.

Convincing a VC to fund you at reasonable terms? Much harder than finding a pliant co-founder if you have even mediocre skills at marketing/sales.

The real reasons VC's want multiple founders aren't really talked about, because they're not flattering to VC's:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18924243
"The most vocal proponents of NoSQL know the least about SQL"
Show HN: Short videos exploring and explaining the modern JavaScript
Electrons are smaller than atoms: True

This depends on what exactly you mean by "smaller than". My first thought is to consider the delocalized particle cloud, in which case this is false in the case of valence electrons.
That particular restaurant has a larger parking lot than most restaurants its size due to its location literally adjacent to the interstate highway.

The nearby road is an artery that connects to the interstate; most roads are not the 5-total-lane configuration (though that is indeed the most common configuration for major thoroughfares).

A fair comparison to tptacek's example of Chicago residential streets would be more like: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.1148295,-88.2320852,3a,75y,1... or perhaps https://www.google.com/maps/@40.1114168,-88.2121028,3a,75y,2...

Or a look at the dense commercial zone supported by the University of Illinois campus: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.1102513,-88.2296903,3a,75y,4...

That said, SUVs are now more purchased than sedans, and scenes like https://www.google.com/maps/@40.1102414,-88.230319,3a,15y,34...
are the norm.

The prevalence of busses in street views of Urbana should also be considered unusual. Because of the university, Champaign-Urbana has an exceptional (for the US) bus service. It only takes 30 minutes to travel 3 miles (5 km), with only a 30 minute wait between pickups: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Springfield+%26+Kenwood+(SE+...

Regarding parking lots, everything from https://www.google.com/maps/@40.1172443,-88.205592,3a,75y,31... to more dense 'downtown' areas like https://www.google.com/maps/@40.1177271,-88.2417685,3a,75y,1... are typical.
Luckily we are much better equipped to deal with any effect of change in climate today than we used to be when we also had even warmer climate.

In fact that's one of the things we've been really good at learning to deal with. Natures tendency to throw us all sorts of unexpected events.
You can sue for slander, libel, sex abuse, defamation, etc., right? How can you always prove a monetary loss in those cases?

Also I wasn't necessarily suggesting it's actionable today but that maybe "tortious misinformation" should be.
Shouldn't these multi-million-dollar design firms have a checklist that includes:

* [ ] Doesn't look like 4 sets of you-know-what arranged in a circle

* [ ] Whitespace between elements doesn't look like swastika

Someone mentioned these, and now I can't unsee them. Way to go, Slack.
"To the best of our knowledge, all systemd-based Linux distributions are
vulnerable, but SUSE Linux Enterprise 15, openSUSE Leap 15.0, and Fedora
28 and 29 are not exploitable because their user space is compiled with
GCC's -fstack-clash-protection."

Interesting. Maybe it's time I switched from Debian to Fedora...
When you stay at a hotel, you are definitely being recorded in hallways and most public areas. AirBNB should modify their policy to allow hosts to have recording devices outside their home (public spaces), but blanket ban any recording devices inside (off or on). Significant fines/banning would result from discovery. This policy would not deter legitimate hosts, while significantly reducing the likelihood of a PR disaster involving serendipitous recording.

This "as long as it is disclosed" policy invites grey areas like described in this post.
What are customer needs likely to be, and how does that align with the part time schedule?

Will the side project support itself? I am asking because they will.

Do the day job people know?

Finally, what is the support expectation?

Assuming the answers to the harder questions are sane, tell them what you can do and exceed that expectation when you can.

Depending on the slow support impact, it may only affect sales a little.

What is that impact? Are there ways it can be marginalized?

What consideration can you put out there to sweeten the deal?
How do you figure-do you have any specific cases you're thinking of? Like the platform itself, the brand and positioning of a company is constantly evolving.
I really do wonder why so few places use CDNs these days.

Otherwise, I love what this software is aiming for.
> multi-platform, open source, permissive license

https://wxwidgets.org/about/

> web view

https://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.0/page_class_cat.html#page_clas...

However, a "web" view could be interpreted in many ways; are you just looking for an easy way to layout formatted text/images/etc? Many toolkits (including wx) have lightweight HTML widgets.

If your app doesn't actually need a "web view" (many don't), Tk is easy to use[1], has strong cross platform support, is BSD licensed, and bindings are available in many languages.

[1] https://tkdocs.com/tutorial/intro.html
This seems like it tracks with the rumours/suspicions that they are planning to go public soon. It's likely that the impetus for their stated desire to to clean up and consolidate their branding, could be that aforementioned upcoming IPO.
I can be quite quick in Tex, and a modern surface or ipad is very good but to be completely honest paper is still king.
No. Bullshit jobs are the consequence of markets being short-sighted optimization systems, with goals only partially aligned with human values. It's quite easy to make money in ways other than delivering socially valuable things; in fact, many of the most profitable jobs and endeavours are precisely that.
[warning: cannot be unseen]

There is a swastika hiding in the negative space in the middle of the logo.
But.. is it continuous?
What's the rationale?

I was thought quite the opposite for logos (re: colors): fewer colors is better, and the logo should be instantly recognizable in monochrome. It being something a layperson could draw reasonably well is also a good thing.

Edit: Did I just miss the sarcasm train here? It's very possible.
I don't agree with this. People will still have to get along in order to survive. Two things:

First, crimes usually come with financial consequences I doubt that this would change even with UBI.

Secondly, its just as likely that the opposite becomes true and people learn to appreciate a sense of community much more deeply due to the lessening of competition. For instance intramural sports teams might become even more popular than they are now which could increase the general sense of camaraderie.

edit: grammar
$1000/month is enough to live off in many parts of the United States. I lived off it pretty comfortably a few years ago when I was in college – although I had four roommates, we all had our own rooms.

Obviously, it's not affordable everywhere, but I think incentivizing people to live outside of expensive areas is a good thing (adjusting for cost of living would mostly just funnel the extra money towards landlords, i.e. rent-seekers).
The state income tax is not used for education, which is individually funded by counties via property taxes, which more than make up the difference.
Earth orbits the sun is not true. They orbit each other around the barycenter of the system.

Energy “originally” from sunlight even more “orginally” comes from the strong force.

The antibiotic neomycin has been shown to have therapeutic effect against multiple viruses.

It’s the father’s genes that decide whether the baby is a boy or a girl is not true if you are talking about “boy” and “girl” as self-determined gender identity rather than biological sex. Might have been clearer to frame this as male or female baby.
Well, apart from the interiviewee in the article that this conversation is about who certainly seems to make that claim. From the interview:

> "It is much more likely that it is being made by artificial means, by a technological civilization."
It's true that obsessing over 100% code coverage is a bad thing.

It's false that the purpose of unit tests is to lock down the project's source code. Unit tests have multiple purposes, but that isn't one of them. The main purpose of unit tests is to allow developers to quickly reach confidence that code works, be it a code change or new code.

There is no such thing as writing unit tests too early.
It is not a property of human nature. It is endemic in human societies.

Pardon me, but I'm not immediately seeing the distinction, maybe I've read the statement wrong and found the wrong conclusion. Can you clarify/unpack that statement a bit? If it's not a property of human nature, how is it then endemic in human societies?

Does not the second sentence you're offering here completely betray the first?
I'm more disappointed than appalled.

It's 5000 times faster than an sequential list lookup.

It is a good discussion of radix trees, though.
That's true, 125,000 years ago we weren't good at this. But then again, there weren't so many of us either.
>> especially in Cluster B just train people how to better fake “normalcy” and to speak the language of therapy.

Really effective, non-superficial therapy is very hard. You may have to dig deep. Really deep. And when you do reach the roots there's still the issue of how to deal with what you find. It's not like surgery where you take out an infected appendix and say "you're cured".

>> If you consider it in those terms, then “treatment” amounts to having someone voluntarily attempt to change their personality at a fundamental level. Even if they wanted to, how likely is that to succeed?

That's exactly why it's hard. The fundamental drivers are often hidden and can be scattered (my term). You don't really change until you change the core. Most therapy seems to try to work from the outside in - probably because it's easier to do but less effective.
Why didn't they just decide to delay the posting by 30 seconds? It's not like that would deter regular users but it completely eliminates the high speed trading case.
I don't know about intermittent fasting, and don't feel like checking your source at the moment. But I know in the case of "low-carb" diets the people publishing research articles on it made up their own definition that has nothing to do with what people actually call "low carb".[1]

So the track record of people who study diets is abysmal in my experience.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18453665#18457257
History of Ashiyane: Iran's First Security Forum
>The shareholders do mind, because these actions may violate the CEO's fiduciary duty to act in their best interest. They can sue him for violating said duty.

Yeah, and how well is that going to work out for them? They should have known better than to invest in this company in the first place; companies like that are cults of personality. It's like investing in Sears under Eddie Lampert; you have to be a moron to put your money into Sears stock when it's obvious the guy is solely working to drain as much money out of Sears and into his own bank account as possible. And a lawsuit, even if you win, isn't going to net you much money.
I didn't downvote you but I disagree with the general idea of your comment for two reasons.

One is that the big machine for war is what allows you to feel and be safe, by making sure you don't get attacked, and making sure no country can deprive you of the necessities you need, thus allowing you to invest yourself in things that aren't related to your safety, like this kind of research.

And the second one is that we owe a giant lot to research done for the purpose of war. That we're having this conversation currently, on computers, through the internet, which I use by wifi, in a french home powered by a nuclear reactor ... War research is one of 3 big misappreciated sources of research advance along with fundamental research and space research, amongst the ones that many people often calls out as "doesn't bring anything / we could do without". Like it or not, we're competitive organism and we're at our best on that front when threatened or when trying to steal others's resources.

With that said it is all a matter of measures and balance, and assuming you're american I agree that the US went completly overboard on that military spending front. Having the know-how to make carriers ? Yes. Having enough carriers to ensure you're safe, that nobody can push you around and that you can push someone else around if need be ? Yes. Reaching that point and then still building some more ... Well no.
> But then again I see no company name mentioned, or even hinting at it

It doesn't have to be an attack on a specific company; I think it's just posted for laughs: "Can you believe they're responding seriously to this?"
I'm a teaching assistant for a class called Entrepreneurial Finance at my alma mater, which always has a good draw of entrepreneur and investor guest speakers.

One of the recent speakers was Kent Collier, CEO of Reorg (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/reorg-research#secti...), an information service to the buy-side that focuses on arcane and opaque information, particularly bankruptcy. They are a smash hit that only took $1.3M in financing that now does $1M a week in revenues.

His view is that solo founders and preferable. The reason he gave was that it takes such a clear and unambiguous vision, with total dedication to that vision, that any space between multiple founders creates drag and can kill the startup.
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