skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Essentially a technical debt is an unvalidated assumption that other unvalidated assumptions are worth pursuing. A hunch about hunches of sorts. The article is full of them describing every way to think about technical debt. And it's practically impossible to neither prove nor disprove the claims of technical debt without a lot of work, making it super easy to justify anything with technical debt. Naturally it becomes a term of authority and power to sneak in things unlikely to produce anything of value.

Could be a sign that things got too toxic in software development if developers can't even talk openly about experimentation and research.
Some more:

- Fire Phone

- HDDVD

- Google Wave

- Google+
There isn't much that can make an in-flight connection seem quick, but we've tried with our PWA (https://usebx.com/app) and to a certain extent, succeeded.

Ok, we do assume that you have visited our webpage at least once in an area of strong signal, however, once you've done that, all the JS is cached and all we transmit back and forth are lightweight, gzipped json payloads, often less than a kilobyte.

I use my own PWA regularly, and found it actually quite usable in-flight.
Yeah, sorry if I wasn't being clear. That's pretty much the line I was thinking along.

It's perfectly fine for Go's answer to be, "Go doesn't have generics because generics aren't needed to solve the kinds of problems Go is designed for solving, and we are not trying to be a kitchen sink language here. If generics are something you need, please pick a language that's designed to solve the problems that you're trying to solve."

But that's a far cry from what TFA said. TFA read more to me as, "Go doesn't have generics because generic programming is a half-baked idea that isn't ready for prime time."
And we already have a few cases where the membrane didn't help and keys got stuck or repeating same keys again. i.e The membrane only reduce the risk, it didn't fix a design flaw.
I have a tiny marketplace start up in the EV space and a family member wants to invest $60k. I don't need the money BUT i am at a point where i need to build v2 and add more features to make more sales with different offers. After reading this article i am not sure if it applies to my situation. I don't know if the family member's $60k investment will be enough and not sure what his expectations are in terms of ROI and if i should just wait and ask for $250k to build v2. I have a friend who can build it at a reduced rate. Kinda confused on what direction to take. The comments are very useful.
That's all true, but a 2h window for destruction of single targets is not very useful against a modern military. There are enough ICBM silos that you can't destroy all of them before someone kills you DEATH STAR and then you still have to win the war that follows.
You don't actually need the government to run/fund the healthcare to fix it. You just need it to fix the obvious market failures. E.g. in the US that would be, making hospitals publish prices and preventing employers from funding health insurance, mostly.
> Having a cell shift to a new form seems nuts.

It's quite common to take differentiated cells (e.g. skin cells) and turn them into stem cells, which in turn become all sorts of types of cells.
I've got it working reliably enough. See https://github.com/naggie/dotfiles/blob/master/etc/yubikey.m... for a guide and

and https://github.com/naggie/dotfiles/blob/master/home/.functio... for various functions I use to get gpg-agent working remotely (and transparently with tmux) without locking anything up.
Hey guys, so I made an app that lets you save websites, news articles, photos,
> commodities

The issue for consumers is that every decision now is about weighing up brand differentiation - DTC is no longer about commodities, but about niches.

Unless you absolutely know the exact type of product you want (i.e. you definitely want some flakes of corn), my take is we're shopping in "ranges". e.g. I need something to eat for breakfast, and I won't be offended at paying more than £X for it.

I find it the same with soap - on a basic level, a 35p bottle of handwash is the same as a more expensive one, but I've now been primed that there's this range of prices I won't be offended at paying, and if something more expensive is reduced into that range, I'll snap it up as a "deal" because it was out of reach and now it's in reach.
I work in the live events industry, and like many of my colleagues I use my old 15" Pro every day, often in some pretty wildly varying conditions. Within the past few months I've used it on beaches, in underground tunnels, and in the roof of dusty old church. I take it to client meetings to talk about graphic design work, it's running presentations when people forget their own, it's with me underneath outdoor festival stages configuring show-control networks. It's simultaneously standardised enough that I never have to worry about device drivers when an artist needs to replace their own on stage at the last minute, but with enough flexibility to make it an enjoyable programming experience in my spare time.

It's over five years old now, and starting to feel the strain, but I'll get a few years out of it yet. Some colleagues deeply regret "upgrading" to the newer MBPs. The keyboard and the constant dongle switching are the main bugbears, but there's other build quality issues as well.

Either Apple gets it right with this revision, or ours is one industry that will inevitably move to other machines. There's not that many of us, but Apples dominance of the creative industries has been a huge part of it's marketing appeal to a more general audience. It'll be interesting to see if they'll regret alienating it down the line.
I'd love to get away from Go again, but unfortunately it's the hot thing that people see on your resume and then they don't want to talk to you about anything else. I'm very concerned that in a few years it's going to be the terrible low-paying boring thing that people see on your resume and don't want to talk to you about anything else.
The Green New Deal Is Impractical. 'Practical' Solutions Haven’t Worked Either
R fixed its default histogram bin width
There’s a chance you’ll survive even without treatment, and giving you sugar pills is way cheaper, so I’m not entirely sure that this scheme gives the right incentives to potentially unscrupulous doctors.
Why wouldn't the CSS file be deleted? It should be co-located with the widget, so you just delete the entire widget folder.
Hey guys! So my lead gen service Feastflow has been running for about 3 months now and since launching we've been getting great feedback from the community that they wanted us to expand our categories. So with our v2 we have gone from just Fullstack freelance leads to support Frontend and Designers leads as well. If you are a freelance developer or designer and want to get 5-10 remote projects with a $5k+ budget feel free to try us out!
Where can I get the source code?
Actually I didn't say I did it for $10K, I said I'd DO it for 10 dollars.

I get you. I'm talking about the difference between calling something a company and building a sustainable company from zero. $250K is arbitrary because any number would be arbitrary, as you note, but it's also a good minimum baseline to shoot for.

Any one of the caveats I discuss in the article could change the number or how that money is aggregated or how long it takes to spend it.
I loved Skype and by necessity currently use it all day every day. They constantly remove features I use with every update. Is it that hard to leave in what works?
If I had the time, I'd love to apply the C to C++ diff on top of Go (templates, overloading, etc.), release it as Go++, and watch the world burn. Just for the lulz.
Please attend to your facts:

-The fire bombing of Dresden was executed jointly by the United States and United Kingdom, with the UK flying more sorties. This occurred during a war when Germany was executing strategic bombing campaigns against the UK.

-The United States of America did not fire bomb Kyoto. Nobody did.
Is there any particular reason you use a Pro as opposed to an Air?
CEO demands proof from Oracle that frozen core banking system works
I am mainly using my phone for conversations too.
I think the people who are spreading these rumors are playing a very dangerous game. There seems to be a trend to spread doubts about elections, FBI investigations, CIA findings and others without providing real evidence. This is a short term benefit for the people spreading the rumors but I wonder if they are starting something that may spin out of control at some point.
Being attracted to someone is never a justification for breaking consent. If someone uses that attraction as justification for non-consensual sexual activity, it's sexual assault, plain and simple.
Looks like the user just can't win - either we get super annoying and intrusive ads or poorly written ad code that slows downs pages and ruins the experience.
Pharmaceuticals:

- Dump all the pollution into space

- Crash that energy back to Earth in a capsule

- Comparatively light for what it sells for

- If it blows up, it won't poison a hemisphere

That, or mine an asteroid or the moon and build some spinning flywheel or hit a turbine with a molten ball of dirt.
> I agree that humans contribute somewhat to it, but to what degree and to what ends, I know we have no clue.

You said that you agree the physics of carbon dioxide is well understood. Human activity has drastically altered the net amount of carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere annually (all carbin emissions minus all carbon sink absorptions). We emit a relatively small amount compared to nature, but nature was fairly balanced before by also storing most of that in carbon sinks.

Do you not think this is true for some reason? This fact makes it seem pretty apparent to me that we are driving much of the changing temperatures and thus also the changing climate.
A Scoring System in Godot Engine
I think it's very good. It feels very slightly less glassy than the MBP.

Actually, I first bought a Galago, just before the Darter came out. They have a 30-day return policy, and the Darter was a better match for what I was looking for, so I traded. In a progression of "glassiness", I would put the Darter between the Galago and the MBP.
Intentional naked shorting is illegal in most markets, including the US - so, no, they don't.

Debt instruments and fractional lending are not an uncovered short position in that one generally is insured in commoditised bond markets against losses due to the non-systemic default of one or a few parties. The money exists, it just doesn't now, but absolutely will exist in the future. That's the difference between debt and naked shorting.
My ex-wife loved "a deal". I had to throw away so much grout and so many mismatched cabinet handles it wasn't even funny.
It's not a short, technical debt is more like a bet you didn't make at best. If you made that bet, you could have won, but probably not.
In a perfect world yes, but not everyone can afford a lawyer.

To many people only remember to ask for a lawyer and are then thrown when its not a viable option and resign and start talking instead.

Not having a conversation however is always an option you should stick by no matter what.
This is a requirement that most sites can simply dismiss these days. The distinction between an app and a website is blurry, a lot of interaction simply works far better with Javascript.

Supporting "no Javascript" can be costly. It's possible with server-side React and careful engineering, but why bother? What's the impact on the business?
That uses a google map which is nice, but I'd prefer something offline.
Does this just reduce join bandwidth? If so it's a minor improvement since the real problems with scalability are transaction size and proof of work cost per TX.
Given how surgeons responded to the first person to demonstrate that surgeons washing their hands significantly reduced patient mortality, I would be unsurprised if he insisted on them not washing their hands.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
> I find it fascinating that people change their keyboard layouts frequently.

Me too. I have trouble just switching between Mac layout and others.
The remedy to "fake news" is to restore context.

We've long known that believability is rooted in the esteem we hold for the messenger. The art of persuasion, sales, rhetoric, diplomacy, courtship, etc.

What's new is understanding the role of context, or the lack of it.

Someone recently pointed out the virality of twitter (at the extreme) is enabled by the lack of context.

Use web of trust and digital signatures to add citations and ownership (copyright) to every tweet, post, image, video. Then you know precisely who said what. And if you really care about "the truth", you can follow the chain of citations back to the original source and data.
>In a world with ICBMs

Quite the opposite. ICBMs have somewhat symmetrical threat and defense model. You use similar technologies for both, and you have actionable amount of time - some 20 minutes - for observation, decision taking, and deployment of countermeasures.

Assuming the station is deployed on geostationary orbit (some 36'000 km above equator), the flight time of the electromagnetic waves is just over 0.1 second. Good luck deploying any countermeasures.
It is no wonder this happens, because 'minimalism' today is just a memepack attenpting to address the dichotomy in working class people's heads between the amount of labor they are investing and the amount of rewards they can reap for it, by attempting to link it to Walden-style minimalism. But it's quite different IMO. Modern minimalism simply reflect the reality of not owning enough living space to store things (because they rent and rents are high) and not enough free time to use them (because they have to work too much).

There is a song by Mes Aieux that I feel explains very well the feelings of young people with regards to this:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/3O9FQ4ZSuBo

(Video is Yellow Vests themed but it has English subtitles).
> they feel that generics are a good fit for this language

Or that it's ludicrous for any statically typed language to not have generics.

> It’s small and simple, and every detail is carefully thought out
> Nearly all of Go’s features are bulletproof
> my opinion are among the best implementations of their concepts in our entire industry

Uh huh.

> You could write a book called “C++: the good parts”, but consider that such a book about Go would just be a book about Go

Or it could be one-liner: "easy concurrency".

> simplicity and elegance are now the principles I optimize for

Doesn't everyone who cares? The problem is that elegance and simplicity, like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder.

To me, generics increase elegance and simplicity.

> If you’re fighting Go’s lack of generics trying to do something Your Way, you might want to step back and consider a solution to the problem which embraces the limitations of Go instead

So pretend it's the 70s and use void* (interface{})?
Except Puerto Rico has to advance a state constitution that Congress has to accept, so the Puerto Rico government itself needs to accept statehood. Except there's not a clear majority in favor of statehood in Puerto Rico; the last two referendums were effectively sabotaged.
You must prove that this loop will terminate: All loops shall have a statically determinable upper-bound on the maximum number of loop iterations. It shall be possible for a static compliance checking tool to affirm the existence of the bound.
> I'm seriously typing this without even glancing at the keyboard

I mean... that is what touch typing is and you can do it on a qwerty keyboard as well.
If you can plan on how you're going to spend that $60K and those plans will get you to a new level of revenue that will provide a good return on the $60K and you're not giving up more of the company than you're comfortable with, then consider the investment.

What I'm saying here is that deciding to take investment should be weighed on the merits of the investment itself. It's part of the equation, not the whole equation.
"Anything you say can and will be used against you in the court of law."

Note two things about this statement:

1) Nothing you say will be used for you.

2) Everything you say will be used against you.

I forget the lawyer's name, but the above is paraphrased from a former prosecutor turned D.A. Never put forward any statement to the police without at least consulting your lawyer first. Even if you're innocent, even if you're providing a witness statement. Anything.

By all means - give witness statements. Help the police do their job. Just be sure to speak with a lawyer first. There's a very high chance that even though you did nothing wrong you'll incriminate yourself by speaking up.
I don’t think this number is reasonable if you are going for a tech solution, especially if you trying to build something fairly complex. Less then a half of what strong SWE is paid in Silicon Valley... or almost total of one who works in a wrong place, or waits for stocks.

That is why startups can’t afford strong engineers, unless they want to invest their time for a chance.
NMF (and matrix factorization techniques more generally) are a really underrated machine learning technique. If you have a decent intuition for linear algebra, matrix factorizations are straightforward to understand, fairly easy to interpret, and can work wonders in applications far beyond recommender systems.

As the blog post mentions, NMF has a potential applications to text mining, which I've tried out here on Reddit posts: https://eigenfoo.xyz/reddit-clusters/
How Gasoline Dispensing Nozzles Work [video]
What you say is reasonable and seems correct from my perspective. I’ll elaborate a bit more on my perspective of the exchange.

From the article it’s hard to come to the conclusion that the couple are extremists. That they had this concern at a young age speaks to the influence of their parents. But they are now philosophers of science and professors. Presumably they are well informed and well read at this point in their life. They are devoted to the study of scientific misinformation. I find it odd that porpoisely focuses on the fact that at a young age they were concerned about climate change. I think it says a lot about porpoisely that he/she focuses on this. Specifically that he/she is looking at superficial reasons to discredit the couple and ignores what expertise they have. This shows the bias porpoisely has.
I'm embarrassed to say Amazon got me with this trap a few times. I'm at the checkout with a $19 mouse but amazon reminds me that I could get free shipping if I get to the $25. So I go back and look for something I need for $6 bucks. Can't find anything I need for $6 bucks so out of frustration I somehow end up with a $70 worth of stuff I don't need just to save a couple of bucks on shipping.
conclusions & recommendations (on pages 89-98) or here:
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmcu...
I think you must mean USB-C ports. There are no standard USB-A ports on the MacBook Pro any longer. https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/
With copy and paste? :)
The costs I quoted include everything, including manufacturing and maintenance. The book breaks down all these costs. In the 4 cents/kWh scenario, launch isn't the dominant cost anymore, and dropping that further wouldn't make much difference.

You don't put a battery on a solar power satellite. To whatever extent you need battery, you put it on the ground, but you don't need much because a satellite in geosynchronous is in full sunlight almost all the time.
There are a few cryptocurrencies out there on market and usable with big communities that use 99% less energy and data that bitcoin
The Philosophy program at my alma mater focused heavily on Epistemology. Earlier on in the program I was more interested in Metaphysics and the word games that allowed for topics like the argument for God. But nearing the end I’d come to appreciate that epistemology is the root of all Philosophy. One cannot make any claims on objecthood, on morality, on logic, without at least furnishing their argument with a justification for how they think they know.

Epistemology is sorely lacking in public discourse. We should seek to nurture a healthy skepticism as the first impulse in all public debate.
How to Orchestrate Change from the Bottom Up
Off topic, but: is there an Adblocker-style tool that automatically removes sidebars full of shitty celebrity gossip and swimsuit pictures? It's not the only reason I almost never click a Daily Mail link, but it's the one that usually makes me wish I hadn't. Makes my head hurt trying to filter that out while figuring out if the actual story has anything intelligent or interesting to say.
Efficient open markets are only possible thru regulation.

Benefits include level playing field, transparency, accountability, recourse thru a fair & impartial court system.

Sadly, regulatory capture remains an unsolved problem, necessitating constant vigilance.
China’s Social Security System
You can download/share via webtorrent

https://instant.io/#4f9178e5e89d5ec55fb3345d8f52627c23d39ce9
I have to say this is not a very well thought out argument. Plus the kinds of arguments he makes about hierarchy, control and the state are extremely authoritarian. It seems to boil down to, we can't enforce a galaxy wide police state, so let's stay here on Earth where we can really keep people under control. There might be lots of reasons not to colonize space but that's not one of them.

Also, if it takes decades or centuries and a huge amount of resources to even travel from one system to another, what reason could there possibly be to send an invasion fleet? The idea is ludicrous. If you can't meaningfully control some other system, doesn't that remove the justification to go to war?
I write CSS in CSS and my JavaScript in JavaScript because at some point abstractions pile up into this massive cognitive burden for anyone adopting your code, especially when they didn't follow the exact same path as you technology-wise or if they're newcomers. I want my work to be pick-up-and-play, not RTFM x 20 abstractions and tools.
Silly idea. We could not possibly come up with all the possible outcomes (positive and negative) of space colonization in order to make an "informed" decision. If Phil Torres and his friends decide for us that space colonization should not proceed, how do they enforce that decision?
I don't see how this is idiotic or even a rehash of that argument. The author is simply saying proceed with caution, not that one should not proceed.

The last paragraph summarizes the intention of the article:

> The lesson of this argument is not to uncritically assume that venturing into the heavens will necessarily make us safer or more existentially secure. This is a point that organizations hoping to colonize Mars, such as SpaceX, NASA, and Mars One should seriously contemplate. How can humanity migrate to another planet without bringing our problems with us? And how can different species that spread throughout the cosmos maintain peace when sufficient mutual trust is unattainable and advanced weaponry could destroy entire civilizations?

> Human beings have made many catastrophically bad decisions in the past. Some of these outcomes could have been avoided if only the decision-makers had deliberated a bit more about what could go wrong—i.e., had done a “premortem” analysis. We are in that privileged position right now with respect to space colonization. Let’s not dive head-first into waters that turn out to be shallow.
BOGO does not always mean "only sold in units of two". Sometimes retailers, like my grocer, will just halve the price of a single item if it's BOGO.