skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an excludible good in the economic sense, but the value wasn't created by the private company, but by the public WWW itself. This is classic rent seeking.
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Note that a mortgage should not lead to negative net worth in the general case. Because you own a house, a mortgage with 0% down payment should have no immediate effect on your net worth. There are people who are upside-down on their mortgages, but that isn't the common case.
He was possibly referring to the XSS "acronym" that the author of the library uses both in the code and in the example. https://github.com/myliang/x-spreadsheet/search?q=xss
This is _not_ the instance of support for disagree->downvote that I recall, but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18408095 links to another instance and recent citing of that use of downvotes by "dang" (main overt moderator AFAICT).

dang also linked "things pg said about downvotes", it might be one of those: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314.

I've been around here longer than it seems (lost account); we used to have visible vote scores too, which I preferred, some comments on this subject mention what I'd call right-voting, which is no longer easy.
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Winning against an army is quite different from keeping peace in an occupied country.
>He definitely should have kept quiet even if it was against his own personal beliefs.

That argument for moral complacency is largely self-fulfilling, because if nobody thinks that one person defecting will change anything, you'll never get more than one defector at once, and nothing will ever change. In that way everyone will march in lockstep to hell and deserve every bit of the torture that's waiting for them.

The foremost thing that Snowden achieved was that he quit doing the bad thing. There is some value in not being an active contributor to the suffering in the world. Sure, if you quit littering that won't clean up the parks, but at least you won't be a litterer anymore. The first thing Snowden did to improve the state of the world was reducing the number of NSA employees by one; and he improved himself by switching from NSA employee to unemployed. Too many people overlook this, thinking that all that matters is whether or not the world is good on average, while ignoring whether or not they themselves are good.

Secondly, Snowden hasn't been forgotten. It might take a few more to follow in his footsteps before the lesson sinks in to the public, but the things he revealed are still out there.

Finally, there actually have been some changes because of his actions (I saved the most concrete point for last). Nobody on HN discounts the reality of malicious state attackers anymore - it used to be that nobody expected to be on the receiving end of a state level attack (and we never secured appropriately), but now it's common knowledge that Public Enemy Number One is actually the public itself. Snowden definitely helped push forward HTTPS rollouts, for example.
That's very unusual, normally IMAP is the easy one and Outlook is horrendous. What does it use under the hood?
I'm not sure about a cheese being prescribed as a cure... And also, I'm very tired about all those articles that talk about another new 'miraculous food'.
this sounds like a textbook false flag "think of the children" action on public opinion.

enemy, or Grey zone neutral power, announce they will use something a state always wanted a reason to jump in but didn't really had a legal reason.

with this news, real or otherwise, every intelligence agencies will be allowed to monitor cryptocurrencies. and then "cooperate" with the irs or do whatever is their real intent.
1 canvas performance is higher than dom rendering
2 easy to write code
Do you have weak developer boundaries?
I don't generally think so. I'd be interested in an opposite opinion though. The end of the 90s was all about being twenty/thirty-something. Just look at popular shows like Friends, Seinfeld and Sex and the City. They are essentially shows about staying young, or at least not growing up. And also the change of things like MTV.

Most of these shows more or less ended with the characters getting married, having kids or otherwise ending that period in their lives. In Sex and the City, Miranda moving to Brooklyn because Manhattan is too expensive is a major event in the last season.
Aren't most people addicted to sugar and a lot also addicted to coffee? Pretty sure they don't "grow out" of those...

Does this data take into account all those who died and therefore didn't "grow out"?

I think the biggest issue with the colloquial idea of addiction is that most people don't realize it's a lot more dependent on social circumstance than it is on the "reward circuitry". People don't become addicts because of any certain drug or mechanism, they do so because they're trying to "deal" with some sort of social issue.
That thread was a nice little rabbit hole in the morning, thanks. There's also an appearance by Drew Houston with early mention of dropbox in there.
you see the value of a good, buy it and then resell it at a better price so you can make a profit.

this is free market 101 as far as I'm concerned...
eh... 6 months is really stretching it!

Once it has been cut from the wheel, the usable life will be a few weeks maybe a couple months max if properly stored. While it may not mold, it will desiccate and become hard and waxy. You might not be able to tell if you're just grating it finely, but if you're cutting off slivers it will taste different when it's been sitting for too long in the fridge.

Local Italian and gourmet groceries sell it for about the same price as Costco. The advantage over Costco is that you get it cut from the wheel in whatever quantity you want, in front of you and you're not buying it as shrink-wrapped wedge.
...which is why we need to fix the estate tax. Large inheritances benefit only a few, often to the detriment of others. One could even argue that it doesn't benefit the few much either, because unearned wealth tends to bring its own psychological problems. I know all of the arguments against a robust estate tax, I've heard them literally hundreds of times, but I find them unconvincing. If we want to keep claiming we live in a meritocracy, the effects of an estate tax on ensuring (restoring) equal opportunity are not optional.
Hmm... the headline has me wondering what was the first time one YC startup bought another YC startup.

Is this the first time? Or has it happened before?
A domain isn't a private good until it's actually owned by a private party.
You just used Apple and the word "standards" in a sentence without the requisite "eschews".
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Hypervisor / container hosting was what I had in mind yes. Seems that would be the place where a from-scratch OS, safe, would immediately gain usefulness.
Oh sure. My point was precisely that the commitment wasn’t that impressive once you consider the application
It did, just not on pure UNIX clones.

Symbian, BeOS, Haiku, Genode, ARM mbed, macOS IO Kit, Android (specially after Treble), Fuchsia, Windows, IBM mainframes (old PL/S code has been partially replaced with C++) ...
I implore anyone interested in The Web, Operating Systems, project design/management etc, the mobile space...just about anyone really to read the original Story of Firefox OS and this follow up.
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Yes, but it may be worth effort. See for example this editor: http://evanw.github.io/sky/ and paste there even tens of thousands long text. It will work super smooth, like Sublime Text does.
If only browsers provided low level APIs for text, font calculations and accessbility (what they already support internally), those kind of editors would make a lot of sense.
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1. What you see in Java is not OOP. It's static, late-bound class/interface oriented programming. Mostly just a set of subtly bad ideas.

2. Real OOP and FP do not operate on the same level. Functional, logic and imperative programming are about language design. OOP is about system design. C++ and Java poisoned the concept. Listen to Alan Kay. Note that he openly admits that "objects" as they were implemented in Smalltalk are too small. Good objects are probably somewhere in between Ruby/JavaScript object and ad a microservice in size/complexity.

3. You can implement an OOP system in an FP language. Elixir/Erlang are a good example.

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Side note: most of what Kay said about system design was validated many times over. If you think you know better than him simply because you use command line and functional programming, while he talks about graphical interfaces and OOP, you are missing the point, big time.
The success of the military industrial complex is that it convinced everyone that it makes sense to plough hundreds of billions on a war that will never come and that would destroy us all anyway if it did.
I thought it was clear from context that I meant annualized.
But, it doesn't say so.
So this seems to be getting slated as a submarine, but the underlying insight is good: users don't like change. They want an app "exactly like X, but ..." So you start with a familiar interface and let people choose when they're ready to make it less familiar.

Rather like how game tutorials work with locked-down interfaces and gradual introduction of more mechanics.
They really don't need this level of customization, but manufacturing in China lets companies do things like this for components that probably could just use standard sizes.
There's something I never understood about e-signature services: how are they legally binding? Why do we need them at all? The end users don't have control over any of the keys, so it all hinges on the e-signature service telling the truth. It's significantly less secure than say, S/MIME with a proper CA-signed certificate. Is the bar for legal "signatures" really that low?
if you're an authority on the matter and consider the news pure noise, why share it anywhere?
The exclusivity of the domain name is a public good. The right to use the domain name is a private, transferable good.

Were the auction site operated by Romania, the value of courses.ro would be determined by auction, paid by a willing buyer, and received by the Romanian polity. Instead, the Romanian polity receives 300EUR as an entrance fee to a race-track where luck is significant in determining the winner. There is nothing in the linked article suggesting that the number of entrants is limited.
Nice work! The UI is really good. In my one of the projects, I was looking for excel kind of functionality - and would like to give it a try. But the biggest value IMO excel offers is ability to define formulas. Is there any plans of adding that functionality?
Yeah this article isn't that so hackles down. Its someone writing a charming description of a tradition which is most likely completely unknown to their target audience.

Also - the fact that Americans have not taken the time to find out what a Bothy is before now should cause no great offence to anyone. I'm a brit who lived for around a decade in Northumberland and although I know the word bothy I certainly have never seen one.
They're definitely doing all sorts of nonsense to game the system.

My latest gripe is in how they'll change or merge listings after an item ships so when what you order isn't what you get, it makes it look like you ordered the wrong thing in the first place.

The order confirmation they email to you forces you to click through to the site instead of giving you a static copy of your invoice so you have no proof to contest it either.
Yes, but depending on what you are looking for that might not be a bad thing. It usually means that the technology is mature to a certain degree.
Security screws don’t prevent repairs. Glue prevents repairs. iFixit has been releasing screwdriver kits for Apple for years, but the hardest part of taking apart modern Apple is dealing with the glue. Hair dryers, putty knifes, and forcing things that feel like they’re going to snap.
The rising popularity of socialism and distrust/hatred of capitalism among young people would indicate that they have a very clear idea of what is in their best interest.
Science doesn't seem to have fixed itself since. At this point it is prudent to shift the public's perception from "research is true" to "research is valid". To the extent in which public policy is dictated by research, it should be based, not on journal-published research, but perhaps on meta-analysis or third party research-on-research.
Here's the explanation from Linus for C++

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus
I think about that often-quoted statistic about Vietnam veterans, most of whom used heroin while deployed, yet only about 5% came back and were full-on junkies. Stuff like 12-step is for that 5%...the folks who have already been to the doctor, the priest, the psychologist, and still can't get clean. Personally, I had to try everything else and completely run out of options before I was willing to try 12-step, which has worked. I also take meetings into detox, it's been very helpful for me and hopefully others. And of course, I don't believe there's any one way to get clean. I have my own experience, though, and that's what I can share.
I think it's worth pointing out here that the terms Gen Y and Millenial both refer to the same generation (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials)
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I am enjoying reading this thread. There are many pain points here that need to be solved. And I would love one day to run a decent sized makerspace / cafe myself ;)

Can attest to fact that coworking spaces in Metro US (NYC,DC,Boston) can be very crowded. My experience is somewhat limited as I typically attend during events. But have noticed the ratio of work to non-work socializing tends to be well below parity. Terrific for networking, though.

One simple hack is if you are in proximity of your college alma mater, you can obtain alumni library privileges. Typically under $100 per annum. Some facilities are open 24/7. And going when majority of students are on break you have the whole place to yourself. Surrounded by that familiar scent of decaying tomes. And you can always seek inspiration by wandering the stacks.

My ideal space would have all the requirements of a modern software foundry, but still be steps from Nature. Colorado. Or perhaps a remote beach in Chile, with easy access to mountains and hiking and skiing. There is no better mental refreshment or rejuvenation than that!
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/chapter-96/subcha...

Its no less secure than faxing signed documents.
We'll have to agree to disagree. Millennial lives and issues are far removed from the current establishment to be completely alien to people in power at present. To be disingenuous enough to believe millennials don't have a clue what's in their best interest is stupid.
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Finally DropBox will offer a useful product.
It is, but it's an inferior proposition for our business (and for users) without access to the Gmail store. In fact we used to have our functionality as a Chrome extension but Google aggressively marketed the native approach when they published the "New Gmail". And we went for it.
It's weird though - my girlfriend studies nursing and Geriatric Nursing is still one of the lowest paid specialisations with poor conditions and respect (compared to say working in the ICU).

It seems residential homes charge the 'guests' loads and pay the staff (carers, nurses, cleaners etc.) very, very little.
Read Douglas Coupland’s Generation X, the original book that coined the term. It’s all about 20-somethings in the ‘90’s dropping out because the rewards seem so impossibly far out of reach that it’s not even worth trying. Also held the Boomers to blame.
Things really don’t move in the market as fast as people on HN think - especially on the backend.

Java and C# have been the go to enterprise languages for at least 15+ years. Sql Server/Oracle/MySQL have been three of the most popular database for more than 15 years. JavaScript has been in demand forever.

AWS adds stuff all of the time, but the basics still work like they always have.

I avoid trying to keep up with the latest $cool_kids_front_end_framework for just that reason. It’s about knowing where a technology is in the hype cycle.
Did anyone thought about using simpler screws or will we pretend it's okay to invent am an annoying screw and get it done somewhere just 'cause you want it?

apple always fucks up on that, even usb extensors can have a "dent" so it doesn't fit regular usb cables.

that part of apple is the most disgusting.
I know of a few companies in the US that make screws. The machines are automated and energy in the US is cheap so China can't compete. (I don't know business details, but I suspect they make screws to sell in the US, shipping to China probably is too expensive) The machines also ensure consistent high quality, which is something China is only starting to figure out.
This is an excellent question. I think this maybe a fault of mine, but I tend to let myself be dragged into new technologies rather than actively pursue them. (What I'll offer in my defense is that I also tend to pursue roles where I'll be pushed to use new things.)

Rationale is that in a world with limited time, I'd rather focus on solving problems external to the technology itself. If I have something in my toolbox that will work, then it's generally the easiest thing to use, rather than learning something new. There's less of an immediate learning curve and fewer of the issues associated with being an early adopter.

Where this changes are in situations where either the investment to learn a new technology is low enough or the potential for return high enough that the learning might be expected to produce a high ROI.

So what that means practically is that I'm looking for things where I either have an immediate commercial need to know it or a strong feeling it's likely to be useful in a way that none of my existing toolset will fulfill.

From the perspective of something like a programming language, this is part of the reason I've tended to like Lisp-family languages as an adjunct to C-family languages. They're different enough that they're more likely to be complementary to each other and it's likely to be easier to make choices about what code goes in which language.
'...Once it has been cut from the wheel, the usable life will be a few weeks maybe a couple months max if properly stored. While it may not mold, ... '

Totally true. That's why, when I buy it, I eat a small piece everyday.
> If I read this correctly, median net worth for all age groups under 44 years old is significantly negative

That's not what that graph shows. It's the cumulative change in net worth. For example, it's saying that the net worth (infl adj) of 55-64s hasn't changed since 1989. Not that it's zero.
I've had a few jobs at smaller companies in WeWork's, and I'd advise staying away from them in particular. The whole thing feels like some nightmarish version of what a committee thinks millennials want in an office. It's expensive, loud, and a creepy environment for the most part. The offices we had were nice though; at least the glass partitions made it feel a bit more open, compared to other coworking spaces where an interior room had no windows at all. I have no idea if that's all of them though.
Sure, just like the public's promise to keep off a chunk of land is a private good.

That's how our current system works, but it probably works that way primarily because the groups in charge wanted to raise money, not because it's a fundamental philosophical truth that it should work that way.
Very nice. My dad’s is a black hollow-body with a white trim, and was built in ‘61. Even though Silvertone was considered a “budget” brand, this was a $150+ guitar in its day, with Gibson humbuckers and a Bigsby bridge.
Making those things in US makes it possible that these industries will come back.

Isn't that a chicken-and-egg scenario though? The industry won't come back if manufacturers don't bring production back, but manufacturers won't bring production back until there's a local industry to bring it back to.
I made the cutoff for Gen-X by a year, but still benefitted from the generally referenced figures in the comment. It's staggering how much more it costs now. My wife is a mere 5 years younger than I and her tuition cost her 3x my own.
Adding New HIDL Interface in Android Pie (9.0.0)
I thought it will be useful for someone who needs to add new HIDL interface to Android Pie, so here is an Example: https://github.com/nayobix/Add-new-HIDL-interface-in-Android-Pie
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I do if I don't know or trust them. Of course I can dislike those people and stop my dealing with them, but I can't really be surprised they're doing something they're allowed to do.
For me, Mark Felt sets the right template - get other people to do the publicising, leak anonymously and keep heavily in the shadows. Sometimes literally.

Just do not put your head above the parapet.
1 canvas performance is higher than dom rendering

2 easy to write code

github.com/xspreadsheet used table
Almost everyone I know who is successfully clean and happy in 12-step had long ago exhausted all the options: doctor, priest/preacher, psychologist, moving to a new town, "going to the gym", etc. Nobody would ever (myself included) do 12-step because we actually think it would work. And yet it has worked for me when nothing else did.
They were a lost generation for different reasons. A little earlier than late 90s:

The Thatcher/Reagan de-industrialisation through the 80s meant a huge number of children deprived of opportunity as whole regions and cities lost their major employers. In the UK it was effectively the start of our drug problem. Criminalisation had only arrived in the late 60s. Then we got the big recession of the early 90s.

Most of those de-industrialised areas had huge crime and drug problems, lost opportunities and parents who were broke, jobless and without hope. London and the South East was turbo-charging banking so we got Harry Enfield's comedy "Loadsa Money" character on tv, and plenty of market traders becoming stock traders. If you were early into IT you avoided it too.

So London and the South East was mostly OK, the rest, not so much. For those coming onto the job market it was a time of very high youth unemployment and limited chances. By the late 90s it had settled and most were busy spending it.

Some of those hardest hit areas are still not fully recovered. The cities have, mostly.

My father's generation were lost in the Great Depression, then got to go to WW2.

His father's in WW1.

We can learn from history that we don't treat the unlucky at all well, or try and prevent damage to the next generation. Oh, and that we mostly don't learn from history.
is this a 70X acquisition multiple? I read somewhere they had ~3mil in turnover?