skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That speaks a lot towards React - it's "the basics" now. It's basically supplanting what Jquery was known for.
Start with Google Scholar's list of top publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues, and detect self-citing and citing rings within the universe of these publications. Almost certainly the guy with the record for self-citing doesn't have a paper in any of the top publications.
Luddite. Electronic voting is inevitable, and far superior if done in a transparent untamperable way (eg. utilizing a publicly verifiable blockchain). I don't know why you guys have so much faith in paper voting when there are many instances of it being tampered with in even first world countries.
Thanks, that seems reasonable. I still hope Rust can strike a better balance than it has now, which perhaps will become easier as champions emerge in the ecosystem. (Crossbeam stuff in standard library would be nice.)
That's where I ended up - this is a fascinating solution looking for a problem.

I love the idea. I'm not convinced there's "massive useful use cases" for it.
It wasn't, though, in 1995. Though it is perhaps less fashionable now, it was certainly something a lot of programs used at the time.
What is this?
Facebook for the intelligentsia?
Sturgeon's law applies to Sturgeon's law.
Signalfx isn't a cyber security company, it's an application metrics company (think graphite/prometheus as a service)
The team doesn't have to be great at pointing. That is the whole point of this model. A small story is 1 point for the story and 1 point for testing. Medium is 2 points for coding and 1-3 for testing. Anything else should probably be cut up into smaller stories. The idea is to have more stories... this way the work can be divided up more easily and smaller units of work are easier and more fun to accomplish.

I do agree that the PM has to be excellent at writing stories and the team has to be good at pushing back on the PM to say that a story is too big and to break it up appropriately into smaller stories.

Two week sprints are awful. Nobody should ever be in that. The problem is that the team works for 2 weeks and then after those two weeks, everyone stands up and shows what they did. If you don't hit the mark, then it is another two weeks. Now a single feature can be held up for 4+ weeks! Or even worse, you cut out things like testing to make the 2 week sprint.

The pivotal model of making smaller features and factoring in testing into the pointing ensures that nobody is working alone for 2 weeks without any oversight.
We do assume the accused of rape or sexual harassment against a woman is guilty though. In that case, it's guilty until proven innocent. Allegations only are enough to ruin a man's whole career.
Because it would be crazy to link all our different clients to our personal Github accounts, or really to any single Github account.
At that time you could get a moderate 386 system at Walmart or Radio Shack for around $800. These were pretty common consumer systems for kids just on their way to college.
Great video. One of the few infographic videos I've ever managed to watch in entirety
80th Anniversary of a Poisonous Partnership: Hitler and Stalin
Do dynamic libraries really help? They only save space in the case where 1) you are running many different programs and 2) they all use the same libraries in the same versions. If you're running multiple copies of the same program, they share code, at least on Linux.
8 US banks collapsed in 2017, as another example.
The stop-motion animation Endoskeleton effects used in “THE TERMINATOR” (2017)
Sounds like you are in dire straights. You need a quick solution, and the only one I can think of is to beg friends and family to help you out in a big way. Ideally find a relative who will be happy to have you and your family stay with them while you get back on your feet. Find other people to lend you or give you money. In the longer term, with these responsibilities I suggest finding a good job and forget about freelancing.
I’m not super familiar with the details, but all the the major Javascript engines definitely do extremely involved runtime optimizations, and I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the case you described is one of them.
> Virtually everything in the Rust ecosystem is permissively licensed.

I just did our license audit and 100% of our shipped deps were Apache | MIT. If you can clear those two licenses with legal, you should be good to go for virtually any crate.

Might be worth releasing my one liner for this if anyone else finds it useful.
If Rust had a standard library like Go's I'd love it even more.
You just made his point.

The balance of power is working precisely because the legislative is very much majority rule.

As such, if the executive did away without the electoral college, it would also overrepresent populous, majority populations.

By doing away with the electoral college , you literally destroy whatever is left of the Republic
> TLDR, a small amount of voters can basically hijack quorums by throwing tokens at the problem.

Users that upstake proposals risk losing their tokens at stake if the organization ends up voting in the opposite direction that they predicted. It's not completely resistant to gaming but it does make attempting to game the system riskier.

> Aragon is yet another "we'll give you large sums of money if you use our platform" without clearly indicating the why or how of where the money comes from, and how they intend to profit.

Aragon makes no claim of giving users "large sums of money", or any sums of money at all for that matter. The Aragon Association does give some grants to developers building open source tools for the Aragon ecosystem, and money for these grants comes from the proceeds of a crowdsale held back in 2017. There is no expectation of profit, as the Aragon Association is a registered non-profit.
It's a bit bridge burning, but from your description it's not like there's people you'd be leaving behind who wouldn't either understand and sympathise with you (possibly even be jealous of you), or who you quite rightly don't care about burning bridges with.

If it's "toxic", and you don't have other (financial or visa perhaps) reasons to stay, I recommend you just walk out today. Shitty companies aren't worth losing sleep over, never mind losing friends or enthusiasm or health over. Not in this industry.
Curious: how did you correct him?
Also just FYI, the Muslim people live with Han people together in most areas of China (you can just go to about any cities in China and start sampling) and most Han people have learned to respect the Muslim religion, to not even talk about pigs, pork or even spam in front of them. I think the "worshiping pigs" misconception may just come as a result of good will trying to avoid embarrassment and conflicts and not talking about any of that at all, and thus the ignorance.
assuming you're Caucasian, you also definitely took advantage of that and all it conveys (assumptions about status, avg height > some other races, etc.). quick thought experiment: would say, a Hispanic looking person have the same success even if born in US? seems doubtful, so can't be purely location, but must include other factors.

we compete for mates in relatively tight geographic locations and you're probably 95th percentile height/wealth/prestige in Mexico by merely showing up with an average US height and household income, easily 99th percentile with software engineering type income. so you arbitraged your attributes by moving to a place with more favorable comparisons to the local population to meet more women.

no complaints from me on that part but that's not purely location, you're omitting crucial parts of what influenced the outcome.
You've been able to book a taxi on your phone for decades - with your voice. Just like if WeWork had existed 60 years ago, you would've been able to book a space in your newest nomadic locale with a phone call.

The value prop of Uber was that you could be instantly and automatically matched with a nearby taxi (minimizing cost and time) and see those costs / timings in advance. That required[1] the internet and software, i.e. "tech".

[1] Ok, so hypothetically, you could've implemented Uber 60 years ago if the taxi company called every single one of their cabbies every time they got a phone booking, figured out which one was closest, sent them to your location, and then called you back to tell you "your cab will be there in 5 minutes". But tech made it VASTLY more efficient. Tech makes WeWork only marginally more efficient. Hence, not really a tech company.

In fact, I think "efficiency gains from developing tech" is probably the best way to determine if something is a tech company or not. SpaceX is a tech company because they're using advances in technology over the past 60 years, combined with their own advances in technology, in order to deliver a product (re-usable rockets) that is far more efficient than what we had before (and brings down cost appropriately).
Worry not! These days we also have Scihub, which is an absolute eye-opener for me as someone who never bothered with research papers before.
> I don't think it's clear that the protestors started the violence. Most reports seem to indicate otherwise.

Its clear from the videos of protest supporters and media outlet without China's influence like BBC, CNN, The Guardian that there was violence in the protest (not small enough to be ignored). This is just deflecting the reality to create confusion.

Hong Kong is China according to handover and follows "Chinese Nationality Law" except for the provisions defined in "Basic Law" which differentiate part of two systems for 50 years. So people who accepted it stayed back and those who couldn't went to either Canada, UK or some other destination. The funny part is many returned back [1][2][3], when it didn't work out for them economically or culturally in those places.

Now the situation is very different, the long term prospect of cities like Shanghai, Shenzhen, Beijing, Guangzhou looked better than Hong Kong which largely moved to worse especially in housing. This discontent when there is no visible better future prospects descended into protests conflating many issues. If protests only targeting the real primary reason of economics and future prospects, it might not have divided society.

Hong Kong has always been about trade, economics and money. British kept it the same without granting freedom or democracy, China to fulfill the provisions of Basic Law granted autonomy (indeed more autonomy in policy making compared to when it was a British colony), but not outright democracy which is not part of the Basic Law or Handover.

[1] http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1...

[2] http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/06/06/hk.returnees...

[3] http://www.nbcnews.com/id/19438776/ns/world_news-asia_pacifi...
> Digging into xi-editor, the biggest single source of bloat is serde

flatbuffers seems to be the go-to serialization lib, in terms of speed and mem efficiency:

https://docs.rs/flatbuffers/0.6.0/flatbuffers/
> Congressmen are "experts at politics": the ability to make a decision WITHOUT being an expert in a subject.

Congressmen are experts at getting people to vote for them. The problem is that the people who step up to the challenge of winning this popularity contest aren't necessarily most qualified to be calling the shots.

I'd like to see more STEM workers in general running for office. They'd certainly pique my interest more than yet another lawyer.
Why Complexity Sells
> It is curious that since 2013 Tesla sales have jumped from approx 20,000 per year to approx 30,000 per month and yet the stock price hasn't shown an equivalent increase.

For the Nth time that this conversation has to be had on the internet: That’s Not How The Market Works.

Tesla’s stock has been _very_ optimistically valued for quite some time because the market collectively determined that the company was likely to do very well. If a company does well and that performance isn’t surprising then there wasn’t an inefficiency and the market doesn’t need to correct for it.

Likewise, if a collection of market participants believes that Tesla’s valuation is overly optimistic then the can short the company. In doing so, they will be incentivized to show evidence that the valuation isn’t realistic and hopefully validate their short position.

There is an argument to be had over which incentives may or may not be good for society here, but that is completely orthogonal to the discussion of market valuation and short/long positions.
Thanks. Doesn't change the substance of my comment except that Kentucky has even less people in it than TN.
It absolutely does invalidate the main response, as was my original point. Your position isn't neutral or scientific; erroneously bringing hypothesis testing into the discussion is an attempt at appearing objective, and nothing more.
Yeah, hard to imagine men singing much higher than Frankie Valli. That guy's got some pipes.
I’m not following your example. You clarified in another comment that Louisiana is environmentally decimated due to the actions or votes of the blue states. However Louisiana typically goes hard red, and the GOP is very much opposed to environmental protections.

Also I’m not sure what you mean by them pushing all the bad stuff to Louisiana and what that has to do with presidential elections (aside from that the president sets EPA policy, but again, Louisiana voted for trump so I don’t get it)
because their security model is too myopic. By defining security vulnerability to be only remote code execution from within the steam client, they save themselves a tonne of work (and cost).

I can understand that perspective - steam can't spend the time to rewrite to fix the EoP/LPE issues. Their stance must be that the user has to "be careful" not to install malware or other vulnerable software, instead of fixing steam.
We have to rely on a 16 year old because governments are not providing any sort of environmental stewardship. Or any sort of leadership at all for a few decades.

It's no wonder people arrive at adulthood with the impression the lunatics are running the asylum and there's no alternative to their own direct action.

Why is her autism relevant?
Our domestic supply chains for a lot of industries have dried up (or never developed).

You make it sound like supply chains are permanent, immutable things that can't be created and dismantled at will. It happens all the time.

Yes, there are countries where an existing supply chain is an advantage. But those supply chains weren't always there. They were created when manufacturing demand arrived. The same thing can happen in the United States, Canada, Europe, Brazil, or pretty much any other company.

It's happened before. It'll happen again.

If I was looking for a country to for long-term manufacturing strategies right now, I'd be taking a hard look at African countries.

Agreed. I read/heard somewhere the notion that Africa is tired of making plastic shoes for China, and wants to start moving toward electronics. Considering the labor availability, sea access, and mineral wealth available, I could see that happening.
No. You misundertood. Changes cannot be achieved by simple talking. You have to complain and do things if it doesn't work. BTW I agree with peaceful protesters.
> vote-by-mail -- it affords high turnout with high vote verifiability

Even if you could verify that a given vote is counted, it's much harder to verify that the voter's choice was not made under duress, or influenced by a bribe.

There are methods for mitigating these problems (like allowing an in-person vote to override your postal vote), but these have their own issues, and I worry that becoming accustomed to vote-by-mail will increase the calls for online-voting.
The first state to secede will be California, and rightfully so, when the Trump wave of 2020 gives the Repubs control of 37 state legislatures, and the first ridiculous Constitutional amendment focuses on who and who is not allowed to use particular public restrooms. They might be joined by other west-coast states...
Black hole gobbles up neutron star, causing ripples in space and time
"The surface is frozen for about 10 months of the year. It may start to melt in the summer, but some years it never fully thaws."

Give it 50 years at our current rate and it will be Lake Geneva, WI.
I have yet to find a game that absolutely requires Galaxy. Could you share which game was it?
Can you point me towards any advertising campaigns or promotional material claiming that vaping is "Safe"? Not safer, but safe.
What I got out of this was how much better the top 100 music of the 70s-80s was compared to the 2010s. Oh wait, that's right, I'm old.
You could require that packages pass community review before they're allowed to be published on (the main) registry. Emacs-lisp (Melpa) does this. Although it's a different thing, Homebrew does that also.
Ask HN: Best example codebases written in Go
Saw this question asked in 2017, asking again for 2019. What codebases do you think are the best examples of go?
It's better to err on the side of being a late adopter than an early one
A taxi company with an app that decided to just sub-contract its workforce.

Which was obviously brilliant and they don't need me to say that. But, I don't think it's a tech company. Adding drivers is not necessarily that easy. I know there's a metric-fuck-ton of them right now. But bandwidth to send a copy of software and hiring a new driver are two different things. Same with allocating cloud server space and doing a background check on someone. I think the definition needs somewhere in there, humans cannot be the bottleneck. Uber's bottleneck is in drivers (and municipal policies), not getting people to download and sign up for their app/service.

I mean seriously. What scales easier? Getting people to download an app or hiring drivers across the country that don't shank their passengers? Yes they did a good job at hiring a fuck ton of drivers quickly. But Carnegie did a great job at mass producing steel when others said it couldn't be done. Didn't make that a tech company either.
Show HN: Gymmr – an app for finding workout partners
I initially developed Gymmr as a web app, but decided that mobile was the best platform given the increasing popularity of mobile chat apps.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.connecteddeveloper.gymmr

The app lets users find others who are into (or interested) in the same diet and fitness programs as they are. For example, someone who's on a ketogenic diet and doing the 5-3-1 program might want to meet people with similar plans/goals.

It is also location-based and allows people to meet others who go to their gym. The idea is to break down some of the barriers to meeting others at the gym.

I've started small, but I have future plans for Spotify integration, search, and anything that users might request.
Could you cite this? I'm not finding any evidence that this is the case
Shareholder lawsuit.
Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)
Yes it's pretty bad. What it comes down to is: follow the local rules. If you don't know the local rules or are unsure, err on the side of keeping the recycling clean and throw it out.

(Landfills are quite good at keeping plastic out of the environment. It's the stuff that doesn't make it into the landfill that you have to worry about.)
Thank you for raising some interesting points about the practicality and estimated cost of a country-wide surveillance network.

As an additional data point, according to their own media, China spent in 2018 "the equivalent of $20 billion USD" purchasing equipment for domestic surveillance, about half of total purchases in the global market. They've been making similar (or much larger) expenditures every year. So, that probably covers a wide part of the infrastructure.

> 300mil cameras in ONE city

I think they mean in the whole country.

That's still an unimaginably huge amount of streaming video to process for facial recognition, storage, etc., as you've outlined.

> I'll take that piece of that pie

I imagine, like in most other countries, this "defense" spending props up many well-connected companies, jobs, political and professional careers.
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Maybe it is also time to switch from the prehistoric model of "hey let's download a .exe on the web, execute it without any sandbox, and let that .exe install other .exe from thousands of other unknown sources around the world and run them without any sandbox either."

Steam or any other app should always run sandboxed with no root access, no file access, no camera access, no access to other process, etc. For most users, steam only needs a sandboxed local storage to put its game into it and a internet access (and maybe mic access), that's it.

I really hope Flatpak and something similar for Window becomes the norm, the current situation is a security and privacy disaster.

There can still be exploits of course but now you have the find a weakness both in the app + in the OS sandbox which is a whole lot harder
Signal is in the monitoring space rather then cyber security.. still a relevant point though.. monitoring is very overlooked
I'm not saying .NET developers will never use other libraries as an alternative, but they wont invent wheels (or used reinvented wheels) where the .NET provided one is solid. I am speaking generally of course. And there are many developers who are .NET + something else. I'm .NET and dabbled with Haskell and Node JS for example. I'm looking at Lisp as it is interesting. But let's write a web app in .NET. How many .NET developers will think "which framework should I use?". That is a valid question in JS/Haskell/Lisp. It's quite interesting, and its a positive for .NET in many ways. You can get stuff done, and also come in on a project and it be familiar.
History’s First Female Filmmaker Has Been Rescued from Obscurity Thanks to an En
How can a single state hold back progress in this case?

Individual states can apportion their EC votes however they want. 48/50 states are all-or-nothing states (arguably the actual problem), which is decided at the state level.
"The worst H1 or a client can do is kick you off the platform."

As a hacker on hackerone, this is not my understanding of the relationship. Generally speaking the programs give you "authorized access" under the CFAA conditional on following the disclosure guidelines. I don't know about for other countries, but for the US I'm pretty sure this means that breaking the guidelines means you've retroactively committed a felony.

Now seems a little questionable about if any federal prosecutor would actually take the case, but it definitely doesn't seem like a strictly civil issue to me.

Strongly agree on all other points though.