skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Implementing a full featured web page renderer is a massive task. Correctly handling HTML and CSS and JavaScript and Canvas and animations and etc, etc, etc...

Then test is against the top 1,000 websites and ensure that yours renders the same as the popular existing browsers, otherwise people will complain and stop using yours because it is different. Then maintain it as new standards constantly evolve over time.

Finally your will have a codebase that you cannot sell because browsers are free! Even Microsoft have given up and Microsoft Edge is going to switch from their own renderer to using the open source one from Chrome.
Better get that brain into cold storage, may be worth a lot one day.
Can you point at any of the addresses?
Completely agree on this one. Almost every conversation I have over religion or politics brings to mind the lessons I learned from The Righteous Mind.
SEEKING WORK - Remote

Location: BC, Canada

Technologies: Primarily Scala, Java (8+), Kotlin, and some Python and JavaScript. I also write some Python and JS.

Website: https://www.windhorsesoftware.com

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/agiledave/

Email: David.LeBlanc@WindhorseSoftware.com

========

I'm a seasoned senior developer with over 15 years experience working with all kinds of companies - from small startups to Fortune 50 organizations. Very familiar with Agile / DevOps approaches, and particularly fond of good developer testing practices.

My focus is on delivering lean, simple, well tested products. I specialize in developing large scale web apps (full stack), with a core competency on the backend side.

This includes all the usual tech: relational and NoSQL databases (Mysql, Postgresql, RethinkDB, MongoDB, Elastic Search, Redis), Docker, Kubernetes, AWS. Spring and many more.
I'd like to think that there are better #1 priorities for a writing system than "as short as possible".
I would argue "Guns, Germs and Steel" is actually better than Sapiens. I felt Sapiens was a bit biased in a number of points.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19060985
Hey this was pretty interesting - the most in-depth introduction to Chinese characters I've seen.
Exit scam or not, we would all be well served to have more (crypto pair - non fiat) exchanges designed like Shapeshift. No account, just send your funds and your limit order. It stays on the order book until it's filled or until a brief timeout expires. No one needs to leave money on an exchange. If we need more liquidity, I'm sure some exchanges could use longer timeouts for larger orders.
DNP has a particularly vile reputation in the fitness community, yet many still use it.
Same thing would've probably happened, but that's not a risk you can really mitigate against. I believe he even had some ownership of the company, so he probably lost out on a bit too.
Mike Judge was both the director and sole screenwriter of Office Space.
When I was a teenager I read "The Story of Philosophy" by Will Durant. I hadn't had much exposure to philosophy before, but it sparked my interest in philosophy at a relatively young age. It covers the most widely known Western philosophers, one philosopher per chapter, and was written for a mass audience. I don't recall a whole lot about the book itself (other than thinking it was fascinating at the time), but it was very influential to me because of the foundation it established, and all the other stuff it inspired me to read and learn and think about later in life.

The other book that feels most influential to me is "Godel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter. I read it many years ago when I was in college and studying CS. Maybe I just read it at the right time in my life, but I remember loving everything about it and being fascinated by all the different topics from math/science/CS/AI/history that it touched on while exploring its central thesis. In really broad strokes, the book is an exploration of logical paradoxes and the insights we can draw from them. It ultimately leads to a focus on the concept of recursion (in nature, in the human mind, in mathematics, in CS and AI, etc.), and how certain patterns of recursion found in math, nature, and the mind could form the basis of creativity, inspiration, natural diversity, human intelligence, etc.

But that's selling it short. It's a huge book that ranges over so many topics that it can seem overwhelming. I devoured it at the time, and it fired my imagination for many years later.

It's been 20-30 years since I read either book, so I can't say if they would hold up for me now. Maybe. But they introduced me to so many different ideas that led to so many more ideas and lines of reasoning throughout the rest of my life. For better or worse, I would be a different person if it weren't for those books.
> Note that this position is mutually exclusive with "It's open source so you can just fix it yourself when it breaks". I can go fix it myself, sure, but then it is my wasted time, that there are 8 or 10 major distros. We shouldn't have to fix the same bug so many times.

They seem to be complimentary ideas. I might refuse to fix your bug or add the feature you want, but you're free to take my code and do it yourself. It's no more a waste of your time than it would be of the other dev's.

I also don't see what you're saying about fixing the same bug 10 times. That's not how it works. Each distro is responsible for itself. If you submit a fix to zsh, for example, it's up to each distro to go upstream and get that fix themselves. Same goes for bugs fixed by distro maintainers - it's awesome if they submit the fix to the upstream, but they're not obligated.

> Or, if you take the position that "Developers don't owe you anything", then that's fair on its own, but it means that it's not an OS that I can depend on for anything.

And maybe you shouldn't. "Buyer beware" should apply double when you're getting something for free.

Paid Linux distros exist for a reason. If you're depending on it for something important it's worth paying for Ubuntu or RHEL.

> That doesn't follow at all. There are plenty of reasons for starting an alternative software project which have nothing to do with meeting any user need. "Ego" is a common one -- it serves only one person's interest.

Exactly, there are plenty of reasons. Just because you think they're bad reasons doesn't mean they are, or that anybody has to listen to you.
Most streamers use a dedicated capture card to do encoding/streaming.
One of my favourite sites for explaining floating-point, especially the more subtle aspects, is https://www.exploringbinary.com/ . Here's a similar article from that site:

https://www.exploringbinary.com/the-spacing-of-binary-floati...
Vue.js Projects for Bounty Hunters
So basically every possible configuration in which people can be made to work together is intolerably unbearable along some dimension or another.

What have we learned?

There isn't a configuration that is good, productive and cost effective.

Pick any two.
At that stage you are not hiring full time employees. You give out short contracts with promises for bigger ones. Someone always leaves and you are not paying the salary of the persompn on leave.
That's a very good question. I know a few companies here in Auckland that give their employees some days per year to work on volunteer projects. Maybe that could be extended to longer periods?

Another alternative is to use industry veterans. We have few from programming background, but I believe that might change in a few years?
> “But as a piece of commentary, the film’s damning portrayal of bad management and inefficient workplaces holds up today.”

I’d say that tech workplaces have gotten worse in many ways after this movie’s time. Office plans are now usually not very conducive to getting work done without a noise canceling headset (which many companies won’t pay for), and the greed at the CxO levels for higher pay/compensation for themselves at the cost of thousands or even hundreds of thousands below their levels could be appalling in many larger companies.

If anything, we need an Office Space 2.0 to be made with contemporary observations and critiques.
You completely ignore the fact that it makes no difference. You seem awfully comfortable with the idea that a man won't screw you over and a woman will by going on a leave. If you want to be irrational, you might as well not even start a business because it could all be destroyed by hurricanes, floods, or fire too.
I remember just last year r/4chan literally had a picture of an overweight woman drinking a big gulp getting fucked doggy style by a man covered in blood with a caption "I have evolved" as the background to their subreddit. 4chan regularly got to the frontpage of reddit and many posts were not marked nsfw. Reddit should have done something about that subreddit years ago, because that could actually turn new users off of reddit.
I think you're better off going with VP9 as your next-gen codec for now rather than HEVC despite the lack of iOS support.

That's what Twitch is doing, for example. They say VP9 is a particularly good fit for them because they're getting a 25% bitrate reduction over H.264 in live streaming, they don't want the licensing headaches of HEVC, and because most of their viewers are using Firefox or Chrome on the desktop.

Apple joined the Alliance for Open Media so they'll be adding AV1 support eventually. It'd be good if they also added VP9 support, especially because some of their laptops already have hardware decoding for VP9 in the CPU. Most Android phones have VP9 support so iOS joining in would be great.
Same day is still rare, I'd argue. Walmart started online sales in 2000. Newegg came to be in 2001. Zappos existed since 1999. Amazon 1-click was also patented in 1999. Yes, you didn't have Shopify spawning an uncountable number of small stores, you didn't have Amazon Fresh or Instacart.
It might have been whoever was funding the movie then.
found the ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK43Ureuiqc
What's the big deal and why are so many people raving about this book? Can someone summarize the key points in a paragraph or two?
I don't think anybody would disagree that Canada, and really all Western countries, are more on the individualist side of of the global spectrum - that's our shared Enlightenment culture at play. But OP was talking comparatively, US versus Canada. In that context, I think it's quite true that Canada (and, again, most other Western countries) are not quite as individualist as US. When you compare both versus Japan, yeah, it's a very minor difference.
Props to you, putzdown, for bringing this up. The Bible is an often overlooked trove of wisdom
Restaurants aren't exactly businesses where people become difficult to replace. Imagine you had a company that was trying to start a video service and the expert on ffmpeg goes on parental leave half way through. Good luck replacing somebody like that if you're not in a tech hotspot.
"Dunning-Krugerrands"
Another fascist hellhole from Europe.
The Little Prince. I read it when I was younger, so I wouldn't say it changed how I think, but it shaped how I think and view the world to this day.

The most memorable part was around the fox.
It's likely that if someone lacks empathy they don't think about the problems of 100% of the population.
I find the stuff on jneem’s github wayyy more intelligible than the actual current pijul code. Granted I think it should be largely equivalent!

Full disclosure : totally planning to messing around with a Haskell port of some of these ideas sometime soon.
The Power Broker by Robert Caro, and
The Dictator's Handbook

Practical Primers on Political Power - now I think of EVERYTHING in terms of selectorate theory and cartels
That’s real optimism there, assuming it goes well 10% of the time.
> The solution that should make everyone happy, of course, is to just make everything remote.

Except there exist a set of people who enjoy the camaraderie of talking shit with their colleagues in the office while they go about their worker bee lives.

You will inevitably make those people unhappy with that move and then they will come here on HN and categorically declare how terrible working remote is (for them, but they will omit that detail).
I just now realized that the telephony mindset has won---the "dumb network" (slung packets to an intelligent edge) that was the Internet back in 1992 is now dead a buried. All hail the "smart network!"
Why are you ranting on packaging story, when this post is clearly about development workflow?
If we're sharing Alan Watts related stuff, check out Everything [0]. It's currently 75% off too.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/582270/Everything/
You've not gone wrong, you just haven't succeeded _yet_. My advice would be to widen your vision a bit, stay positive, don't give up, and most importantly, and be open to other opportunities to fulfill the same goal of a successful business.

Would running a different kind of successful business be as fulfilling? While I shared the same vision as you approximately 5 years ago (starting a SaaS business), ultimately that particular goal didn't work out. But pursuing that goal did open many doors for me as well as teach me a whole lot about business and how to negotiate. Fast forward through years of attempts at making the company successful, I now run a small consultancy that I consider extremely successful. I owe this directly to my initial goal of starting a SaaS business. Had I not pursued that goal, I believe my consultancy would not exist.

"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still." -FDR
Whats the tldr?
Fair enough. Sometimes it's hard to tell if people are opining or proclaiming.
Last time I dealt with this, 20 years ago. The cost of an office for a tech worker appeared to be basically nil. Less than 5% of wages, benefits, insurance. Place I'm in is a 1500sqft warren. Costs $300/month per tech monkey.

Gonna pay $12000/mo for a code monkey? Costs $300-500/mo for him to have an office? The extravagance!

I'm back to an old observation by Scott Adams; Ask yourself why the secretaries chair doesn't have armrests. Cost isn't an issue, the price difference is $50. This is all about status and class not money.
I was going to put down "The Selfish Gene" myself. I remember picking it up in high school and hating the first few pages. I read the first chapter in college, and I didn't get what all the fuss was about. After college, I picked up the book, and was blown away! In retrospect, my younger self wasn't ready for it
Hoa: Using Ghibli Style for an Adventure in Unity
I don't know how reddit even operates while having subreddits dedicated to hardcore pornography and extreme gore and violence on the same domain as sfw subreddits. Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, do not allow those type of things for a reason, because once young children start using the site and the parents/ media find out what their kids could be looking at, their is a large amount of outrage. Reddit seems to have not had that problem, because it is not as popular and harder to use for < 13 year old demographics, but if reddit keeps pushing an easier to use layout and keeps expanding, then they are gonna run into this problem at some point.
I can't work out if this is sarcasm or not.

Is the implication that people who don't lack empathy consider the problems of 100% of the population? Because that's obviously and demonstrably false.
Can you elaborate on what you've seen as far as "questionable boundaries" is concerned?

I went to a licensed therapist who insisted I call my GP to obtain antibiotics for a cold. I explained to her that antibiotics arent effective on viral illnesses, she insisted that yellow phlegm indicates "an infection" this antibiotics would be effective. I am also anaemic due to a genetic condition, and the anemia is mild but basically untreatable. She suggested I look into treating it with "herbs."

That sort of boundary crossing?

I stopped going to her, obviously. Pisses me off i actually paid her.
Supporting a new protocol on top of IP using raw sockets can be supported by endpoints that are running your software. Except, of course, if you go through NAT or any of these "middleware boxes" that litter the Internet.
Online order, pay and instore pickup are a thing, and superior for dry, canned and frozen goods. Just buy your produce seperate, or join a co-op. I order all my meat from one of 3 local farms, all of whom deliver either by hand or fedex. Easy peasy. Nobody can compete in price or quality.
I went vegan.
With all the possible factors: leaving for a better job, falling ill, having a family member fall ill, getting hit by bus, getting poached by a competitor, or taking parental leave -- that last one is hardly even the worst. If you're worried about that, you're not worried enough about real issues.
Never even heard of a European slider before; it looks clever, but a bit large for a home shop.

Also, these tools last a long time, so even if something better comes along, it's going to take quite a few years to make inroads into existing shops.
He has a bit here: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/07/28/administrative-purgat...

Obviously, we'll never hear the real reason, but as he says, he is the author of curl and maintainer of libcurl and his domain is haxx.se. Perhaps one of those is the reason
CEOs in other successful newspaper companies? Or CEOs in other failing newspaper companies?

I'm OK with him making that kind of scratch if McClatchy was doing great journalism, making great returns for its stockholders, and being a good corporate citizen in the cities where it has newspapers. But it isn't.

The CEO shouldn't be rewarded handsomely for being bad at his job.
Thank you! Appreciate the recommendations and explanations. I've been wanting to approach the Gulag Archipelago but was looking to enhance my understanding of the historical context and political climate of the times first.
This is not an answer to his question.
Strategy for whom? Not anyone in charge of Apple Retail, surely... sounds more like a policy question for government and society that undoes the foundation of our markets and most of capitalism.
What's the difference between using the Z3 library and using [sympy](www.sympy.org) a symbolic solving library?
The Two Things You Need from Early Customers That Matter More Than Cash
A book I keep coming back to (re-read every two years or so) and recommend others is "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".

It has shaped my thinking on 'what is good' or 'what does quality' mean. As an engineer it is easy to appreciate the author slowly going insane about the details he keeps coming back to, and as a human it is invaluable to have an understanding yourself of when something is 'good'.

Highly recommended.
Possibly, existing kiosks are registered by MAC address in the API. By querying the API for registered kiosks, you can pretend to be one by spoofing the MAC
Everything about the hotel is geared to get you to lose your money in the casino.

That's last century thinking. Gambling's influence on the bottom line domestically is waning.

These days it's all about entertainment, clubs, and restaurants. That's why every casino in Las Vegas is falling all over itself to build new sports and entertainment arenas, and paying huge bucks to put celebrity chef names on their restaurants.
YOou could have the City AND a sovereign wealth fund. It's not like they are mutually exclusive choices.

The rise of the City was more to do with loosened regulations, privatization and the leveraging of historical factors like trade links and banking presence globally than anything else AFAIK
Most Taiwanese use bopomofo* for digital input, so it's not an issue :)

* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Keyboard_layout_Zhuy...
It also appears they’re making some changes as well.

I sell on FBA and recently had to create new listings that force the Amazon barcode instead of the manufacturers, which is where the commingling happens.

I’m sure this isn’t all products (large brands are probably still using manufacturing barcodes), but it should help nonetheless.
Using Latin terms doesn’t change the fact that your argument is intellectually dishonest.

Name a single, unqualified societal benefit to a one year leave.
> shit happens, and when it does, it would be nice to know that the owners are going to stay the owners and the IP/code stays with the company

This is why we have contracts and lawyers. You shouldn't start up a company without first having paperwork that clearly defines who owns the company, its intellectual property and other assets. For example, who owns what percentage of the shares, what is the corporate governance structure (who are the CEO, officers and board), etc.

This applies even to a business partnership of two people.
They can't solve it because in many cases you are not buying from amazon, you are buying from some rando merchant who posted an ad. Unless it is sold by amazon (not FBA or seller fulfilled) the relationship is no different than Buy It Now on Ebay. The actual risk is that people realize this and generally stop thinking of amazon as premium and realize it is pretty much another eBay style marketplace in disguise. The only possible solution is to run a process like StockX, but good luck training seasonal workers to spot some fake Yeezy sneakers... I guess they could buy StockX and outsource authentication of Luxury brand items that are not received from an official supply chain. I'm with you though, it needs to be solved, not just accounted for.
"Start with Why", by Simon Sinek.

Everything from leadership to how your mission needs to speak to people's reptilian brain first, because that's how people ultimately make their decisions.

It helped me think about the deep motivations that should drive me to build a successful company. Apart from making money. And all the benefits that comes with thinking from Why, to How and then to What.

It was an eye-opener for me. And it's full of real-world stories to really make you understand his points.

I highly recommend the audiobook narrated by Simon Sinek himself, on Audible.
Protecting a Story’s Future with History and Science
If I go to India then, should I expect them to not make fun of my name or pronounce my name perfectly?

Once any name, culture, ethnicity, becomes large enough in size in a population then people will start learning how to pronounce their name and about their culture naturally. For cultures or ethnicities that are small in size in a country, then naturally people are gonna have a harder time, because they are not as exposed to those people. It would be a net negative in time for a whole population to learn about a small subsection of the population, because it would waste more time for the general population overall than is worth saved through hurt feelings and a feeling of being unwelcome.
My experience is kind of opposite. I decide one day to discard everything I own and live out of a suitcase for a while (had plenty of savings so was not living poor).

I had bookshelves full of books I never read, architecture books, art books, children's books, clothing I never wore, toys and figures I didn't play with, stuffed animals, framed posters, and entire household of stuff.

5 years later I miss some of that stuff. For lack of a better word I think it was part of my identity. Of course not all of it but lots of little things, even if I didn't use them they served as anchors for memories. Even if the only anchor was when I bought them that would remind me of other things that happened around the time I acquired the item etc..

I'm still mixed on if it was the right thing to do.