skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm Calvin, one of the Segment co-founders.

We're excited to share some of our data around the evolution of the growth + saas ecosystems.

There are so many tools out there, that it's often incredibly hard to pick one.

We wanted to share the trends about what we're seeing to make it easier for companies to choose between the thousands of tools on the market. And we wanted to highlight a few of the new startups that we think are poised to grow significantly.

We welcome your feedback here! Deeper analysis to come.
Agreed with you. I'm not delusional to think Google's attempt of entry is "for Chinese people", just that practically it will help. And most importantly, it won't do more harm (some other people in this thread mentioned that it may help them to "export" censorship tool to other countries, which is a valid point.)

On the other hand, I don't feel Google's departure from China in 2010 was purely based on ideals either.
I highly recommend a service like virtualpostmail (there's a few, but this is the one I use). They're a commercial mail receiving service. You get a new address (like a PO, but deliverable by everyone -- though this gets tricky with credit card billing addresses). Once mail gets delivered, you get a scan of the front side. Then you can choose to have it shredded, scanned to PDF or delivered to you.

This is great for a lot of reasons: (1) Americans move an average of 12 times in their lives, and changing addresses is a huge PITA. This gives you a forever-mailing-address (well, as long as you keep paying). (2) Practically never deal with physical letter mail again, just PDFs (3) If you get that once in a blue moon letter you actually want, they'll just mail it to you.

Not free, but IMO worth every penny.
Well, until you start using literally as a metaphorical overstatement too. I literally died when I read that. :)
It's complicated, inevitably. This is not just increased cost to the middle class (and anyone who wears glasses, presumably), it's also their income.

For the most part, price inflation is a result of and/or caused by increased spending. Complimentary optometry at the mall of your choice. Attentive salespeople standing at glass counters. Brand licensing galore. I would imagine there's a substantial corporate layer, social media coordinators... Profit too, of course. It sounds quite lucrative.

It's interesting to note that a lot of economists predicted we'd be working way less by now. Keynes is a famous example. It's interesting because the theories haven't changed much, and the assumptions keynes and others made about growth and efficiency were about right.

Modern economists generally explain this as "people had an unexpected ability to consume more." I get the impression their not entirely satisfied though.
Study finds unvaccinated kids were more likely to be diagnosed with autism
Interesting case where, on HN, I used "exponential", intending its technical meaning as a critical part of my point, and was accused of using the lay meaning (see last response):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13869092
> I only had a brief moment of panic when it seemed like one of the notes in the new age soundtrack had been held for far too long. I began to worry that time was dilating and that I might be trapped in this space for eternity. When the music progressed to the next note, however, the panic quickly subsided and time resumed its normal cadence.

I bet the panic some people experience is closely related to the time dilation effect. You feel like something is going to happen, then >>)!isf23$s%8f(Pa@#UY(Uf#@dTJKO@!<<, then whatever it was is over. Definitely not a recreational drug.
Should be possible just fine with NodeJS, so long as it's clustered to run an instance per core.

The order of magnitude(s) differentiator for server performance really comes down to whether or not the architecture is blocking or non-blocking.
the warby parker glasses i tried felt so cheap they seemed like costume glasses or something. i got a pair from zenni in the mail yesterday, and while they’re not as nice feeling as the pair i paid 10x for at my optometrist, they feel well made and look higher quality than what i got from wp.
This is only true if you redefine "sleep" in a certain technical way. This redefinition is supported by phenomena such as the dolphin closing one eye during that eye's half-sleep cycle, but it is not obviously appropriate in all contexts.
Repo link: https://github.com/github/vulcanizer
It's relevant to a discussion of free-speech absolutism in a public forum. Free speech as a principle is valuable and if the cost of millions of people being able to express their views is that one random Nazi gets to have his say, then I think most people would think that it's worth it. If that one Nazi were to turn into a thousand Nazis, then I suspect people would be more circumspect about the whole thing. So the question about how prevalent hate-speech is on Reddit has a lot to say about to what extent Reddit will be willing to censor its users.
My experience has been that no one needs a burndown chart to know how a project is going, and, to the extent that you do, it usually points to some mismanagement and an attempt to fix it through intensifying project management rigor. Especially with early stage startups, where the requirements are changing rapidly and throughout the project, I think this stuff represents very real overhead that's just not really that useful. In larger companies, where stuff like this is typically used as reporting up a chain, it can be slightly more useful to get a holistic view of the organization, but again, I'm just not sure it's worth the effort, and I really question resting a significant amount of decision making power on this over qualitative data.

To be clear: I'm not throwing all project management methodology to the wind, but this promises to give you a fancy chart that will "identify bottlenecks in your development process" and I'm sorry if you need a graph to know where those are I think there are probably larger problems in your organization. Identifying bottlenecks is easy, fixing them usually involves much higher level management functions like recruiting and training.
Try a laptop with Linux installed/supported at the factory. Return when it doesn't work. Repeat.
"Based on this observation, and our battery demand forecast, we expect the price of an average battery pack to be around $94/kWh by 2024 and $62/kWh by 2030."

Would very much like to know the assumptions and factors for the demand forecast. Will manufacturers keep up, or will there be under-supply, either of the batteries or any of the key components? Will the pricing of different battery technologies transpire at markedly different rates?
I'd rather use pdftk or pdfedit on the command line for free than "contact sales".
Lockheed Martin's new fusion reactor might change humanity forever
This is how it seems to work in the US Airline industry.
Off topic, what led you to snag "the_economist" for BuildZoom?
I worked a little bit more on it, and thanks to my refactoring I have identified a bug in the original code (which I have intentionally retained in my own code because the point is to produce the same output as the original version, all the way down to and including bug-for-bug compatibility).

Description of bug, which I also posted as a comment on the OP gist:

> Player and other entities will never be placed on the rightmost column of the room floor, nor on the bottom-most row of the room floor. See https://gist.github.com/ctsrc/fef3006e1d728bb7271cff0656eb02... [...]. In my refactored version of your code the bug is explained at the line I linked to in this comment.

https://gist.github.com/munificent/b1bcd969063da3e6c298be070...
Each state receives an amount of electoral college voters equal to how many congressional representatives it has. So the Wyoming Rule means states with a disproportionate population/elector ratio would no longer exist - all states would have a roughly equal ratio.
The original title is "Another study finds no link between autism and measles, mumps and rubella vaccine," and the subtitle is "A large new study finds kids who got no childhood vaccines were more likely to be diagnosed with autism than kids who did get recommended vaccinations."

I took the view that the subtitle is the most newsworthy part of the report, as folks on HN are probably well-aware that there is no evidence whatsoever that vaccination is correlated with autism.
The USPS started scanning everything right around the time the anthrax letters were going out.

USPS has also figured out how to many some money off of this. You'll start to see relevant ads in between the mail images based on the kind of mail you're receiving. I've had the preview for about a year now and the ads are slowly increasing.
Author of this story here, thanks for reading!

Very curious about the small warrant story -- can you tell me more details?
I think this is just a variation of Hypenitis as discussed here:

https://blog.codesolvent.com/2016/10/hype-on-hacknews-and-si...
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That's very useful feedback, thank you!
Worth remembering five years ago there was a startup (Outbox) trying to work with the USPS on this with some disruptive features (spam mail removal). USPS killed it: https://www.insidesources.com/outbox-vs-usps-how-the-post-of...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7667068

Outbox's shutdown note:
http://web.archive.org/web/20140712084627/http://blog.outbox...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7097892
That's not a terminal, but a console, and uses ancient GDI graphics.
The definition I gave is, nonetheless, the accepted definition of the term. Can't find a citation for yours.

(Note: I do understand about utility, and how/why progressive tax systems help society. My only bone of contention here is that you're trying to redefine a specific term to have a different meaning.)
Yes, I remember Safari for Windows also, and FWIW I preferred it. Of course in those days, I had CRT monitors so none of this really mattered, everything was slightly blurry anyway.
"In addition, the girl and boy each have male and female sex chromosomes — in other words, each twin has some cells that carry an XX pair (female) and some that carry an XY pair (male). Having both male and female pairs of sex chromosomes throughout various cells in the body is linked to certain developmental problems in the reproductive organs as well as cancer, Gabbett said. When the doctors examined the girl twin's ovaries, they found some changes linked to cancer, and so "the difficult decision was made to remove them so she didn't develop cancer," he said.

The girl also developed a blood clot shortly after she was born — blood clots are a common complication for identical twins in general — and the clot cut off the blood supply to her arm. As a result, doctors also had to amputate her arm."

"When, in a separate unlikely event, the blastocyst divided into two – creating twins – more of the cells with genetic material from one sperm (which had an X chromosome) ended up in one embryo, while the other had a greater proportion of cells formed by the other, Y chromosome bearing sperm. This is why one fetus developed female characteristics and the other male, although both twins have cells from both sperm in their bodies, making them chimaeras"
In the latter, while you can't build a building zoned for multiple uses, you can certainly very much blend zoning very thoroughly, alternating commercial and residential buildings as you go down the street. Of course, the simulation likely isn't sophisticated enough to make full use of that (people will travel across the entire map to go shopping). I can also understand from a gameplay perspective why this is the case.
If that was the case, then there'd be no ability for something like Warby Parker or Costco to show how much cheaper it can be the way they do, and it would just be something that cost hundreds of dollars. Costs everybody has can't explain this. And even those costs can't really explain the differential here; 10% and 10x are very different beasts.
If you buy hardware of those who make junk drivers - you are shooting yourself in the foot. Same applies on any OS without exception. No point to complain, if you don't want to do any research before buying.
An idea doesn't have to be practical and it certainly doesn't have to be immediately practical. I think useful is a locally greedy optimization and that is not in itself at all bad. I just think that an idea might be able to take you a little further, sometime, just not right now.
AWS has GPS/atomic clocks in each datacenter that provide an accurate reference time. Recent linux distros use chrony instead of ntpd to synchronize with the reference time, which should introduce only microseconds of error between the reference time and the system clock.

Am I missing something? I am not an expert, I'm just not seeing where the 100s of ms of error is going to enter this system.

(edit: thanks for the great explanation aesipp!)
Unfortunately, if we take this definition of "anything" literally, it is impossible to build such a build system.

For example, depending on the input order, linker may produce different output. Surely you can sort the object files, but the sorted object files order is still effectively "stored" into the binary, and that's not source code.

You can only normalize such things (like in the example above, sorting), you can not eliminate them, they naturally exist.
If they don't require a notion of a request then don't pass it to them?
So what career should I seek out if I love to play the game Opus Magnum?
From the post, FaunaDB initially had several issues, which they've generally resolved. Jepsen is open source, so I'm curious why a database company wouldn't run Jepsen internally, work out as many problems as they can, and then engage aphyr in order to get the official thumbs up. Given how important data integrity is, I would assume that any database company would be running Jepsen (or something equivalent) regularly in-house. If they are doing that, then how is it that aphyr finds so many previously unknown issues? And if they aren't running Jepsen in-house, why not?
I like web design 1.0.

Funny that all examples of web design 1.0 present ye olde web as "boring" pure text websites rather than the rivetingly fun designs going around (see http://mentalfloss.com/article/53792/17-ancient-abandoned-we... :) ).

Also, any mention of "design progress" sounds odd.
> I think it's up to the customer to decide how the use the purchased product or service, since when do you owe an explanation to a vendor where or how their product will be used?

It goes both ways. The vendor can also decide they don't want to deal with a customer who's being intentionally dishonest with them.

It's quite simple for them to just refund your deposit/money and leave you without a florist a week before your wedding, especially since you didn't sign the type of two-way "binding" (I'm using that term loosely here) agreement that you do with a wedding.

I spoke to several vendors in the course of my research who handled situations like that in exactly that manner, for what it's worth. In one case the vendor arrived at the venue on the day-of, realized it was a wedding, and straight up just turned around and went home. Another basically required a "security deposit" that would be returned once the vendor confirmed the event wasn't actually a wedding.
The number of representatives is simply set by law so congress could, say, triple the number of representatives. The current size was set 90 years ago when there were fewer states and the dynamics were different.
Yay, I'm superelderly!
Some young people are buying houses with friends
Major Russian money laundering schemes
For those that can't do audio right now:

"everything is worth what people are ready to pay"
Au contraire ;) Innovations of Plan9 landed in mainstream systems: Unicode, Namespaces => Containers. If you will, Docker is the result of a mainstream implementation of a Plan9 feature.

I was recently thinking, if you want to create a popular system feature, you just need to copy something from Plan9. IMHO the only reason nobody uses Plan9 is its bad hardware and userland software support. Also I've given up hope this will ever change, however it's a nice innovation testbed somehow.
Well, obviously you'd be a phenomenal alchemist. As soon as you find that job opening, let me know, I'll be applying as well!
I don't know as much about that side of things but as I recall Luxottica didn't make the prescription lens, they were ordered to spec from a third party. They sold and manufactured the frames and did the fitting work (which does some times require significant work on the lens like reshaping or drilling holes). This was ~10 years ago though so that may have changed.
For everyone criticizing his views on MacOS X, try using an external display with a lower PPI. It's not obvious on native laptop screens with 220+ppi.

On my Dell U3415W (109ppi) the issues he pointed out are very obvious. An equal sign (=) for example has a much thicker and blurrier bottom bar than the top. The rendering of the H in "History" is different than the H in "Help" in the menu bar.
What's missing from: "apt-get source the-package", add patches, "pbuilder build the-package.dsc" ? (I'm assuming that pbuilder was already configured to work)
I had to look it up and figured I should share: Singapore is roughly six times larger than Disney World.
> If you're looking for a super low latency CRDT-style database where every node can commit even if totally isolated, it's not the right fit.

What is actually a good for this lately?
You've been breaking the guidelines a whole lot (here by commenting about voting and posting unsubstantively). Could you please stop?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The political views impacted were indirectly affected by the aforementioned online communities. Whatever the design of the groups, the resultant effects have been overwhelmingly political.

I don't know much about Ms. McKew as a writer other than she was present during the Russia-Georgia problems and would have been witness first-hand to Russia's prototyping of these kinds of tactics, as well as she's written for other reputable outlets like the Washington Post and was interviewed for Harvard Political Review[0][1]. Couple that with not only our intelligence agencies, or even the five eyes, but other national agencies like the AIVD (Netherlands) have all confirmed that this is happening. They aren't exactly green. And while I would be remiss to just dismiss a university study, I don't know who the researchers were, their methods, or their scope. If it's only about the fake news items, that stuff was almost passé by the time these other tactics really took hold.

If you take a look at the CBC article and the timing of the attacks (for lack of a better word), they aligned quite tidily with a continuing stream of anti-immigrant conversations online to the point where those vitriolic approaches to the subject of immigration were wrapped up in the yellow-vest marches here.

[0] http://harvardpolitics.com/interviews/molly-mckew/

[1] She's also a particularly prominant subject of attack for various [outspokenly] right-wing outlets and pro-Russian sources. It doesn't take much of a search to find that.
Gathering for Open Agricultural Technology
I don't really appreciate the diving into my background, so thanks for that.

1. Will Google really be fine? China is the up and coming superpower of the century. How many large corporations from Britain in the late 1800s / early 1900s are still large that didn't invest in the US?

2. Doesn't Xi Jinping already have this ability to an even greater degree with Baidu/other Chinese tech companies? I do worry about the precedent.

Who are we to ignore the will of the majority of Chinese folks I've seen that do want Google to come to their country, even in this censored form?
Surf is great if you want one very slim browser for reading and some other fat browser for webapps. I've been really impressed how much more advanced surf is compared to dillo.
There is a way to restore Infinality-like font rendering on freetype2, which improves text readability. Linux users may find these instructions helpful:

https://gist.github.com/cryzed/e002e7057435f02cc7894b9e748c5...

Skip the "Removing the infinality-bundle" section if you don't currently use Infinality.
The recommendation I've seen about how to deal with the potential privacy/security implications is to sign up for it even if you don't use it. This lets you "park" your address, so you're notified of any changes or if anyone tries to sign up for your address maliciously.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/informed-delivery/
Hi willvarfar - I am one of the authors of the post. Very good feedback. Appreciate much. I will update the post or write a separate post on `double-spend` problem with clear example.
> The number of representatives is simply set by law so congress could, say, triple the number of representatives.

Yes, members of Congress could vote to decrease the power of each individual member of Congress to undo the effect of their previous vote to assure that power would increase over time, but it'd take native popular pressure to get them to do so.
This is not a company account.
While union can be a factor compared with Asian countries, aren't our costs higher than European countries that have stricter labor laws ?
The Warby Parker App already does a much better version of this. Open the front facing camera and any frame you want is super imposed in real time on your face. It works very well, on a newer iphone at least. You do have to enter your prescription details by hand though.
Aren't we both doing the same thing, only coming from different ideological perspectives?

I'd love you to prove me wrong. If Google has domestic talent available at $150k, and can pay $110k to an h1b, they are supposed to hire the domestic talent. That's how the system works (or rather, it does if a company doesn't abuse it). I'd love to find out they are instead having to pay the h1b $175k because no domestic talent is available. If Google is doing this, and is the statistical anomaly, then good on them. However, all the evidence I've seen (anecdotally and in writing) suggest otherwise (though at an industry-wide level, not at the Google level)
I just had flashbacks to Bearshare on U of T's campus
Installing a mod for more intelligent/realistic behavior of various aspects of the city, and then another mod for watching citizens first person/third person view...holy shit, its the closest thing to watching p-zombies live out their lives. They wake up, goto work/school, go shopping, get food, drive home. And the economy does its thing
I'm confused why I'd use this. My flow now is:

1. branch off of master

2. write a bunch of code that runs the risk of breaking stuff

3. deploy it to our already existing developer/staging environment

4. test it. if it is good, promote it to QA/UAT/CAT

does Dockup assume that companies don't already have the 3 main environments (dev/CAT/prod) set up?

Why would my service be worth anything in isolation? Usually when I deploy to staging, it is after I've already made e2e+unit+integration tests work locally, so I'm checking how live databases/load balancers/routers/etc. work in staging.
You can get lithium from sea water. Cartels work for oil because nation states physically control it.

You cant enforce a cartel where all non land locked countries can compete with you if they choose.

And for businesses cartels are illegal in most of the largest markets so that won't work either.
geography plus the cars run gas instead of diesel
Choosing deliberately to not have a child.