skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of such "dated" software can be used much more productively than modern GUI or web based software.

Most oldschool DOS-y business software is very keyboard driven, so the learning curve is much steeper than that of your average web app. But once you're there, and really it's just a few hours of learning to hit the right keys while your experienced colleague is training you up, then it's super fast.

There's no web page loading times. Click ... Wait .... Click ... Etc ...

Inputs are properly tab indexed, because that's the only way to navigate between them.

Every keyboard hit has instant feedback

No time wasted mousing around.

Look, mouse/touch driven UIs are great for discoverability, and web based UIs are great for deliverability, but neither of those are super important when all users of the software are expected to use it a lot, and use it from a known amount of places (eg branches of a retail chain).

Of course there's nothing preventing web based UIs from supporting the same speed and productivity, but I know of few examples that actually do this.

I love web based software and I make it for a living, but I wish UX designers for line of business applications would take a few more hints from the nineties. If you can assume that a new user gets a few hours of on-the-job training from a colleague, then that wildly changes the assumptions underlying your UX design.
The OP question isn't about explaining complicated directions, just literally which way the train is heading, by the people who just hopped off that same train. "Hey does this side head towards x?" "Yep." Faster than Siri.
Do physical work, use them in the way they evolved to be used. I have a farm which helps here as well, land and forest give enough opportunity to behave in typical primate-specific ways. I also build stuff around here, now building another barn. I find the combination of physical and intellectual work complements each other in many ways and thought out many a solution while sitting on the tractor.

For the rest I just wash 'm, really...
Any idea if it's possible to generate new firmware yourself, and flash that?
CGP grey have a cool short video "I, phone" about that topic https://youtu.be/e-ZpsxnmmbE
And this is at the heart of what crypto currency advocates fail to understand what money is.

Money is a social construct. It isn't a thing, mined out of the ground or a cryptographic nonce that satisfies a a constraint on a hashing algorithm. Money is a social agreement that expresses credit worthiness as assessed by people regarded as reliable assessors credit worthiness.

Crypto, which repudiates centralised control, cannot be money. Not until someone figures out a way to guarantee that credit worthiness can somehow be reliably encoded into a trustless p2p algorithm. Given that crypto currency can barely scrape through with a solution to the double spend problem, extending to a solution to assessing credit in a decentralized, anonymous way might as well be on the other side of the galaxy. It is impossibly inaccessible.
Is there any code or published algorithm out there to transform a map into either of these?
This. To non-Indians who are reading: When it comes to opinions, India is a deeply divided country due to our democratic nature and sheer size of population. Almost any topic will find opposition or support from a large section of people. But this is one topic where almost a billion people were on the same page and supported the Government's decision.
http://keyhut.com/64bit.htm follow these instructions except you are running a Raspi, not Win64.
Dan Ingalls himself presenting his continued work in the browser at JSConf US 2012 (whole conf was packed in, standing-room only): https://youtu.be/QTJRwKOFddc

Surprised that video has so few views!
I spent a few weeks doing a long hike.. and found, to my surprise, my arms and back were much more flexible and some difficulty I had with stretching my left arm had completely gone. I think that just the movement of my arms while walking each day had been very beneficial.
Inflation? What's that? The inflation rate has been the lowest it's been since the early 1960s.

There's an inflation-unemployment trade-off. You want to ensure that there's never any inflation? Get used to regular periods of 10% unemployment.
Thomas Cook insolvency leaves 150,000 travelers stranded on holidays
Sure, but those "constraints" could be compared to switching from a piece of letter paper to a canvas. The modern "liberations" would be having a box of a million tiny artistic legos which are getting tinier and tinier.

In all situations you want the best piece of art, it's not entirely clear to me that a million hand-painted legos is superior to an artist's canvas painting. Sure, it's a lot easier to grab all the blue legos and have 30 hours of deep house, but it's very difficult to end up with starry night, with bits of euphoric light trance and depressing shadow dub melded together into your blue canvas, unless you go back to your 1980s flirting skills and spend 20 hours making a thoughtful mixtape.
"Everyone decries the downside of regulation when they have it. They fail to recognize the benefits."

Most of us recognized the benefits of regulation, and then we recognized those systems being brutally and hopelessly overwhelmed.

The regulatory state has not withstood history: the regulatory capture that goes all the way back to the earliest of political machines, the two-tier justice system (as the speaker mentioned, and as the Holder doctrine confessed), the russian-doll configurations of persona ficta (corporations, universities, non-profits, etc) that hide the personal agendas of wealth behind faceless platitudes.

It's just like the libertarians who go, "If only we returned to our founding priciples..." In other words, regression, but with the expectation that things will work out differently this time.
Made into a good movie. Brendan Fraser (surprisingly?) very good. His best role.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quiet_American_(2002_film)
Without reading the article, some ideas that come to mind are:

-differing culture making it more or less likely for someone to go down that road and making it more or less acceptable by others.

-differing legal frameworks that make it easier or more difficult to pursue entrepreneurship and make a living from it.
Thanks for your comment. I am the author of sshr.

The operation using proxyjump and sshr are quite different.
As far as I know, even if proxyjump is used, the user must explicitly specify the destination host to be connected finally.
On the other hand, the user using sshr does not know the destination host. The host is determined by sshr. (The developer using sshr can freely incorporate own hook functions that dynamically determines the destination host.)
Therefore, if the user knows only the IP address or host name of sshr server, the user is transparently connected to the server associated with the username.

Since the behavior is completely different, the use cases are of course different.
Sshr is effective when the server administrator wants to manages the association information between the users and the servers in the database or yaml file and so on.
The server administrator can freely change the server used by the user without making the user aware of it.
Statistics vs "I have"
What have you already been recommended?
How to Find a Blockchain Developer
It’s terrifying to me. I mean I like GitLab and am happy they are rewarded. But I feel their valuation is not warranted given their revenue model so it will result in customer negative changes.

At that valuation they could get bought. But since Microsoft bought GitHub I don’t see any other developer friendly companies willing to shell out $5-10B to buy goodwill. If Google buys it then they will kill the on prem version which is so important. Maybe Amazon, but I haven’t seen other build/dev infrastructure purchases.

That leaves companies like IBM, or Facebook, or Oracle or people who have the money but would be so weird it would just languish and shrivel up.

But the GL people are sharp, maybe they have some new cash hemorrhaging product in the works.
Are you solving the right problems? (2017)
You could probably get this running in a browser via emulation with one of those JavaScript DOS clones.

From there, you could wrap it in an Electron window and write some nodejs glue code to let it interface with hardware and the file system.

That would make it possible to rig up some kind of cloud storage for the database files and maybe start to think about getting it running on phones with React Native.

You could sell the iOS app for a small price like $20, or a subscription model with in app purchases. That would help to fund a redesign of the website to a more modern single page app approach.
It remind me SWT in Java. It used native graphical window management when the web was still not a thing. I made one of school project with it...
The number of readers who are going to believe this shitpost. This is actually irresponsible.
I hope what you say is true and will remain true in a year or five. Because I was happy about Systemd at the beginning (it looks like we have another init, good). Then it turned out it wasn't engineered to be an independent init system and it practically killed any possibility of replacing it with another init should the user want it. The distributors capitulated one by one. The last big one, Debian, didn't give up without a fight and produced Devuan. But because it's not an official Debian variant, if your living depends on it, you will hesitate before you use it for long-term projects. That's the sad consequence of a few design decisions plus a bit of politics.
Haha, true. And I've had it where we would only dare do this over "safe" topics, like some branching strategy or library implementation detail or whatever. But we would never do the high-overt thing about politics or family life or something "real". :)
My parents tried evidence-based parenting on me. Granted it was 50 years ago, but whatever the science seemed to be saying at the time... In the end, they abandoned the idea completely for my brother as the evidence they collected with me appeared to support the theory that their previous attempt was completely misguided ;-)

Parenting is hard.
Well to be honest the iq test has always been kind of bullshit imo. It changes with your level of education. In HS mine was 120 and now it's 143 (edit: I actually took that test 4 years ago and 3 years ago I had a brain tumor that left me with seizures and I have definitely suffered cognitively because of that so its probably lower if my memory and focus are any indicator). The test itself doesn't even measure useful cognitively profound abilities and if it did we'd all be near the same. It measures everything as a flat value. There is no value for each type of cognitive ability and most of it is skills you've picked up through life and education.

So when you look back at our great grandparents, take me for example, I'm part native hawaiian and my great grandparents were literally living in a shack on the beach. Their lives consisted of catching fish and fruit and sugar cane farming I don't even know if they could read before my grandparents started school. So of course their iq is lower. I mean hell you can't even take the iq test if you can't read. So I don't think the brain changes that we have are responsible for our higher iq points. I think it's availability to information, the more you have and contemplate the smarter you'll be. Pretty straight forward I think. Higher nutrients and regularly available food is helpful as well obviously.
It's a jokey way of saying they told him he had to lose wait or he'd likely suffer an early death.
Given the scale and vastness of the universe, if there was/is other life we have a good change of finding some remnants of them, most likely spaceships?
Too early can be, when bandwidth was slow and download cap were small. Downloading was discouraging
If you use the software you can email him and ask for his Capterra review link. Capterra is giving out $10 USD gift cards for reviews on his software.
May be this is a naive question, but it talks about making home directories portable. In that case how does it resolve when two different users on two different machines with the same username try to move it to the same stick ? How does it guarantee unique UIDs across different machines ?
I love the website. Just last weekend I made a reader for my company's forum with absolutely no CSS. It's just plain text and a total of 38 lines of code written by me, which includes db connection parameters. Some people I showed it to wanted it to be the real forum. It was fast as hell and mobile and tty (lynx) friendly but didn't allow any sort of login, posting, or posts read tracking, so not really usable. Fun though. I love super basic things. Another really basic site I use is called Hacker News. Heard of it? :)
Even if my half baked thought experiment was true I agree in that it shouldn't make any difference in our goals or ideals. I was merely positing a possibility for why if statistically our spacetime could be packed with neighbors we haven't noticed anybody. Another reason could be there are visitors they just exist on dimensions perpendicular to the 3d space we perceive, maybe even our concept of spatial dimensions is a oversimplification or a small slice of a full spectrum.
The "blockchain-based" part is misleading.

For one, when people say "blockchain", they're almost always including the clever protocol that enables a currency with no central authority. That's the interesting part. Bedrock doesn't do any of that.

Without that, "blockchain" is just a simple technique for incremental hashing. Bedrock uses that, but it's not substantial enough to sensibly list "blockchain-based" as one of the three top attributes.

(They could have said "Paxos-based". That's the protocol they use to ensure things don't get out of sync.)

Just trying to capitalize on the cryptocurrency hype, I guess. FaunaDB did something similar: https://fauna.com/blog/distributed-ledger-without-the-blockc...
I think it has something with redemption and new identities. I think societies that allow reboots lead to greater risk taking.

Also capital and risk distribution. I visited Amsterdam and was interested in their history and how it took off after the invention of the corporation.

Corporations can end and the knowledge from them can go into a new venture (redemption). They can also raise capital through distributed ownership and distributed risk.
It pretty much is settled fact. There were some hold-outs, but we recreated the conditions of the Great Depression, and then we had a crash as large as the Great Depression. Countries pursued more or less Keynesian policies in response, and the countries that pursued the most Keynesian policies recovered the fastest. It's as close to an experimental test of Keynesianism as we're ever likely to see, and it came out in favor of Keynesianism.
Actually it would hit a lot little people who inherit modest homes from parents and grandparents.

And this was about the Dutch tax system.
Except the 600,000 customers currently abroad
Is this the templeOS version of a POS system?!

I love it.
How can he gut democracy by removing an article which prevented integrations and women's rights? 370 only helped Islamic extremists as no one else could invest in the area giving them autonomy of control
I bet many people at MediaLab knew what was going on in OpenAg. Research world is small and these are the kind of things people cannot help but internally talk about. We now live in the world of instant popularity and power. Once you have good affiliation and can make big claims, you can count on getting on late night shows, TED, 60 minutes, NYT etc. Corrupt people fully leverage this media circus to become a force to get new funding, make org wide decisions, sit on boards and committees. I bet there are few other "Theranos" at MediaLab and everyone knows who they are. The question is not that whole lab was corrupt but the fact that lab culture allowed and even perhaps embraced these corrupt groups to exist and grow.
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You uh...might have missed the fact he was joking. :)
I'm more interested in the Cult of Listening.

First you listen and really try to understand not only the what but why from the person you're having a conversation with.

Then you paraphrase what you heard back to make sure you understand and that they can hear it back and agree.

If you do these two things you'll find that most people are actually pretty reasonable and you can in turn have a reasoned and listened to response and, shockingly, a real conversation.
They talk about planets and generation ships. Isn't it obvious that a multimillion-year spacefaring civilization would be mostly autonomous machines that have no need for habitable planets and can sleep for aeons?

They also talk about civilization lifetime and interstellar resettlement. But interstellar resettlement doesn't make sense to me; simpler for machine civilizations to hedge their bets by putting resettlement sleeper ships in highly eccentric orbits with some desired period. Maybe there are civilization-killing effects that disable those resettlers, but they would apply to interstellar resettlement too.
There is ATOL protection but there's only approx £18 million in the fund. £200 million is needed to pay everyone out.
Why 0.1 and 0.2 === 0.30000000000000004: Implementing IEEE 754 in JavaScript
Poll: Voters back Medicare expansion, keeping private insurance
This is absolutly not related, but on a funny note, I got subribed to prime forcefully last month.

I'm highly suspicious toward Amazon behaviour now. This kind or news only flurish the idea that Amazon has taken it's first steps toward being a total a company.
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+1 for Matomo, it's a no brainer for any 'privacy service' to stay far away from Google Analytics.
That is already available.

Of course, but I assume that WeWork offered them a better deal.
Which makes sense If you run your own investments / pensions your going to want to have some commercial property investments (normally by having a certain % in funds / REITS)
India has long waited for this. Just to remind the readers who don't know the whole story, The Hindus of the Kashmir Valley, were forced to flee the Kashmir valley as a result of being targeted by JKLF and Islamist insurgents during late 1989 and early 1990. Of the approximately 300,000 to 600,000 Hindus living in the Kashmir Valley in 1990 only 2,000–3,000 remain there in 2016. On 19 January 1990 mosques issued declaration that Kashmiri Pandits were Kafirs (Disbelievers) and that the males had to leave Kashmir, convert to islam or be killed. Those who chose to the first of these were told to leave their women behind. The kashmiri muslims were instructed to identify Pandits homes so they could be systematically targeted for conversion or killing. Kashmir was a peaceful state till 1990s. It was only after exodus of Kashmiri Pandits and insurgency of militants government had to send in troops. The abrogration of article 370 is not going to take away any rights.It will just make them equivalent to other Indians.
Discussion on reddit (3 months ago):
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/byuw77/so_this_is...
Introverts are a race?
Mean-spirited post. The OP appears to be working for his own design/development studio, so your premise is already wrong. Others could be doing it because they want to be more productive at work in order to finish quicker and spend more time with their families at home.
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That's not the point? I'm just saying there's probably a whole lot of those in China. This is a problem to the health of many people.
Stopping by to say that I couldn't find the video without JavaScript, so I closed the tab. I get that you want to paywall later videos in this series, but for feedback purposes, it would probably be better to link a(n unlisted) YouTube video (watchable without JS, although doing so is a pain).

These are the kinds of problems that only exist in the HN audience, sorry ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
losing your shareholder's money isn't a business.

True, but if you do it right it can be a very successful career.
In some big corps, in order to be a maker you have to know people in different departments to speed up things and take some shortcuts. You can also slowly have your technical solutions adopted.

It takes coffee breaks and some jokes to reach that. And I think it really boosts your productivity.
The '$4.4m a Year' Bug
Then there is a discussion about forcefully killing sockets :)

* close(): socket will be lingering in background as usual

* shutdown(SHUT_RD): no network side effect, discards read buffer

* shutdown(SHUT_WR): equivalent to FIN SO_LINGER socket - if timeout non-zero blocks until write buffer flushed; if timeout is zero then immediately sends RST

* the trick with close() after TCP_REPAIR: (https://lwn.net/Articles/495304/) immediately discard a socket with no network side effects.

* "ss --kill" command: forcefully close a socket from outside process, done with netlink SOCK_DESTROY command.
But what happens if they declare bankruptcy on you way back ? and what about hotel reservations or the more expensive flight you'll have to take ?

BTW Norwegian are fine for a while

https://simpleflying.com/norwegian-bond-payments-deferrednor...
Hot take, but the data for this study comes from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM https://www.gemconsortium.org/), which has been repeatedly beaten to death in the literature (that is, used as a primary data source).

I'm not saying that she doesn't add anything that hasn't already been published, I don't know if I see it though.
> Jamie Terran, a licensed career coach in New York City, said that small talk between colleagues and supervisors builds rapport, which in turn builds trust.

IMOA trust is built by delivering, being consistent and helping out.

You can chitchat all day, it won’t help if there’s nothing behind. Some people may be terse on the interaction side but do their job, come to help when they see you need it, and generally be aware of what other people are working on without chitchatting.

In this day and age if chichat is the main communication bus of your group/company, either it consciously chose to do so, and you have been hired in this perspective -> no issue whatsoever. Either it’s doing something fundamentally wrong and you should go somewhere else.

Also what is a “licensed career coach” ? Why don’t they ask 5 or 10 people with actual successful careers and give clearer context advice. It feels so bullshitty to have someone with that title for everyday job interactions.
Not everything should be wrapped in electron :)
I'm 54, nobody seems to be able to read text on my screen or phone but I like it just fine. It has gotten harder to focus at short distances (~20 cm and closer) but at normal reading distance I seem to have more acute eyesight than most. I make use of this by lowering the dpi setting on my screens which makes it possible to cram stuff on the screen (320 characters/ 4 side-by-side 80x24 terminals on a T42p (15" 1600x1200)).
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Credit cards are never secure by default. It is best to assume that the number will be stolen eventually.
Given the vastness of the Universe, I would say there is low chance finding some spaceships wandering out there even if they are present.
I thought that we already conclusively ruled out alien life by observing that there aren't huge, galaxy-sized smoke signals, generated from their massive candles to heat their galaxy-sized cottages? I mean, if aliens were out there, then surely they'd have sent us a notarized letter in the mail by now, as would any civilized culture. I bet they use really fancy quill pens, too!

...seriously though, I can't fathom why people are so caught up on the Star-Trek-like predictions where hyper-advanced aliens are still essentially humanoid. It's at least as absurd as [protocells](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocell) assuming that all advanced life would be essentially protocelluar.