skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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"The United States’ birthrate fell for a fourth consecutive year in 2018, bringing the number of people born in the country to its lowest level in 32 years"

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/us/us-birthrate-decrease....

I don't think I need a citation to support the claim that the US is also currently trying to stymie immigration.
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Noone is bashing Angular, whew!
That's quite accurate - instead of trying to state any reasoning that would be refutable your statement above doesn't guarantee anything while implying a lot - thus it's pretty unassailable by logic. The implication is rested on a very relaxed statement and will continue to imply even while counter examples are raised.
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You’re absolutely right. I’m an investor but I’d have said exactly what I did either way. Part of my being opinionated about the subject stems from having built Founderkit, which compiled terrible reviews of SVB, batch after batch. I hated seeing YC companies join just for the brand or “network” then end up completely let down by the service.

When I switched away from conventional banks (Wells Fargo in my case), I was surprised how many edge cases there are in banking, so while I love the idea of positioning a new product as a new thing, there seem to be many features and cases when I’d simply want the best bank, period, run by a team whose livelihood depends on serving me so my team, investors, and customers are never left hanging.

On the YC point, it’s none of my business why the founders didn’t do YC again. The CEO was a partner so he very likely was given the option. Since the YC deal can vary with more experienced founders or later stage companies, it simply comes down to the deal offered to your startup. And if you have great relationships with VCs and the tech community already, perhaps it’s an option you’d forgo. And while YC companies are typically excited to try a service that came out of YC, in my experience that has to do with the continued involvement of the founder(s) with with YC (on the forum, offering deals, speaking, etc.). YC founders are smart, and they’re going to choose the best tools for their business every time. But the do YC again question is for the founders to have decided, and I’m sure they considered the option deeply. Anyway, appreciate the thoughtful reply to my comment.
In order to keep a coherent network, most (all?) P2P infrastructure still requires some centralized resource to seed initial peers etc for a node. You would still have a single point of failure, if not for the network, at least for your control of it.
This opinion would generate a lot of justifiable anger from families who love their homes and live in areas that aren't under high housing pressure, but I suspect that you didn't mean to say that this should be applied literally everywhere.
As much as possible, we avoid fixed long-term strategies, or perhaps it's more accurate to say we avoid commitments far into the future.

One of the advantages of running smaller businesses in the tech industry is that everything is customised anyway, at least for each individual, and sometimes for a specific engagement. We can therefore adapt to problems or opportunities more quickly than bigger organisations that need centralised IT, standardised equipment bought in volume from preferred suppliers, standardised preinstalled images, and all that.

One very clear strategy we do have is to avoid lock-in in any form at almost any cost. All of our important data is held in standardised formats as much as possible. Whatever we're doing on the desktop or mobile devices, we run very standard Linux servers behind it. We limit our dependencies on any external suppliers and online services, other than a few trusted ones for things like off-site back-ups, and where it's a practical necessity for something like communications and payment processing.

So the short answer to your question is that if Microsoft doesn't address our concerns, we're done with Windows, and presumably our future laptops and workstations will be Mac or Linux systems. The slightly longer answer is that in some cases a degree of lock-in has been unavoidable because the only suitable software is Windows-based, and that's why both the possibility we're discussing here and alternatives like virtualisation are interesting. We want to make sure we're in the clear legally and we're not doing anything silly in terms of security, but ultimately we need these systems for at least as long as any related engagements continue, so if we have to run Windows 7 with no updates and take other precautions to secure it as much as possible, we will.
I wouldn't call mongo's replication that straight forward... you get redundancy/or sharding (iirc) and if you want both, you have to layer them... and managing a cluster isn't always great...

When the azure apocalypse happened a few years ago, with up/down, the 3 replica node cluster I was running was so damaged, the nodes couldn't catch up when it finally came all the way back up... fortunately, it was all denormalized data sourced from an rdbms, so was able to rebuild the cluster. I could have dropped two of the nodes, re-created them and rebuilt from there, in the end the total re-creation was faster.

It wasn't anything resembling straight forward at all and if it was the source of truth would have potentially been much, much worse.
“How do you welcome in the modern world, but keep this ancient culture alive?“
This is a good point. E2E is better then not, but you still can't trust FB. Anybody who seriously cares about privacy will still use something open source.
For those of you opposed to this request from the government, what do you think the negative consequences are for end to end encryption? Do you think there are no negative consequences or are they just negligible? Just try and imagine what the cost might be, how broad the impact might be and who and how many would bear the brunt of those costs.

Nobody really cares about your personal Facebook messages to your friends and family. You're not that important. But still considering what is being offered in payment for this privacy, it's still worth it to you?

I'm not so sure it is, personally.
The Digital Productivity Coach
Whatever you are trying to accomplish as a team, you need some things.

You need to know what you intend to build. Depending on whether you're trying to create a new market or compete in a large field, you might have a clear picture of the end result, or a lot of ideas you need to try out. Where you fall on that spectrum should tell you how far you're allowed to plan in advance. Rarely do you need to change what you're building on a timeline as short as a week, but of course that can happen, too. But given that planning and meetings require time, and rework also requires time, you need to find a balance that works for your team size and the above allowance of planning based on volatility of your goals.

Someone has to be able to make decisions. Often those decisions are high-level - what is the market value of the thing you are building, and how many resources are you willing to allocate. We know in software that estimation is hard and we will get it wrong, so that's always going to be a thorn in the side of the decision-makers, and some of them will always try to offload that responsibility back on us anyway. Still, at some point it is reasonable to relay how well things are going back up the chain.

You need to be able to share plans, decisions, constraints and a swath of other information among team members. Some of it will be for builders. Some will be for decision-makers. Team structure will probably dictate how important leadership and decision-making is compared to maker details. And that structure will hopefully flow from the kind of thing you're building, whether it's just an idea, or something that has to be done a particular way against a particular cost profile to ensure it's worth doing at all.

There's plenty of room in all of this for ambiguity, for conflict, for human errors, for ego. For prioritizing the wrong thing (whether that's the thing to work on, or the thing to measure, or how much of a stink you make about mistakes.)

Given all of the above, what I don't like about Agile is the tendency to put off figuring out how you're going to build things until the last minute, and in the middle of figuring those things out, you change what you're going to build. If you're building out ideas and moving fast and breaking things, then that pain I just described is something you have to accept as one of the costs of being a pioneer. In so many cases I've seen, you're not being a pioneer, so if you spend a bit more time on planning, you'll figure out what to build and how to build it, and then each member of the team will buckle down and focus on the details required to do to the building.

Focus, and less volatility. That's what I want out of the process in play for accomplishing something. I think the decision-makers mostly don't want to be caught out making a bad decision, such as spending resources to build something only to find that the value isn't there - either because of the market, or the unknowns in resource cost.
They aren't close because they don't need to at the moment. All "western" nations populations have been divided and conquered long time ago so that for every group of righties/lefties protesting down the street there's an opposed lefties/righties countering group somewhere making the news, so that for any 50% of the population the enemy becomes the other 50%, not the rulers, and thanks to well crafted propaganda the reasons for protesting usually reflect that. This is done on purpose of course.
The day any western government fails at dividing people and does something that can unite all protesters is the day you will see police and the military shooting at people. In every country or culture the 1st rule for any government officer is protect the status quo at all cost (then picture as traitors whose who refuse to). People start to die when they no longer are lured into fighting against their peers, and both them and police (which now is seen rather as enemy than external player) refuse to back off.

Give people enough important motives to protest united against their government (that is, no food, no house, no jobs) and you will see bullets and corpses pretty soon, no matter their nationality/religion/color/sex/whatever. Maintaining the status quo at all costs against well motivated protesters always escalates into violence and deaths; it happened in 3rd world countries and in one of the most developed places in the world, why should we believe it can't happen to us?
Also, it's a pwa so you can install it as a standalone app and use it offline etc :)
I don't quite know how to express my rationale, because I know exactly what you mean as well.

There is a certain flavor of question that I characterize as an attempt to harvest ideas from users who respond.

I would agree there must be methods of poking around with a similar aim, in a more organic way.
I mean, for at least a few years, my sense of NK has been that the world hates them because they want to be left alone.
How is that even relevant? The parent was specifically saying that you should be able to sideload apps so that even if an app was removed from the official store, you could still install it.
Well,

1. There is no "international law"

2. It violated the "Vienna treaty"

In the meantime, Federica Mogherini, the high representative of the EU for foreign affairs and security policy, stressed that "the emerging circumstances of Jamal Khashoggi's death are deeply troubling, including the shocking violation of the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations." She reminded that the case is "in violation of article 55 of the Vienna Convention, which is about the respect for the laws and regulations of the receiving state."

If I were "Erdo", no matter what I think of him, I would have told the Saudis to pack up and leave within 24h.
When Will AI Exceed Human Performance? Evidence from AI Experts (2018)
"president openly calling on foreign governments to investigate his political opponents."

We're just going to completely ignore the last administration spying on their political opponents?
Same here. Messenger spinning off kept me on Facebook. I use Messenger all day long; I like the the UI, especially reactions and replies. I now log into Facebook once or twice a month. It just gives me FOMO. No need for that.
You can still introduce them via circular strong reference-counted pointers. The solution of course is to have only one strong reference and many weak ones, but the compiler in principle will let you create a cycle that will never get deallocated.
What if it means your homosexual or blaspheming 2nd cousin might be caught?
They said "single-family-only", not a ban on single family homes.
Decades of stagnant wage growth combined with decades of the "charge what the market will bear" mantra ensuring you're paying the absolute maximum you can possibly tolerate have resulted in people earning less with which to buy things that cost more. This setup is going to be difficult to navigate for a lot of people.

The cost of housing and rent outpace inflation by a wide margin and cost considerably more than they did in the past. The age of the typical home buyer has increased 10-20 years in the last 40 years. Living costs more now than it did 40 years ago. It's not such a surprise then that fewer are able to achieve, or are achieving later in life, what used to be very common life milestones.
The Agile manifesto is fatally flawed, though for rather different reasons than the ones typically given.

Agile was started by software developers, and everything in the manifesto is very strongly tilted to how software developers do things and for bottom-to-top (or at least shallow) organizations devs like. However, every existing software company has much more of a top-to-bottom structure and is run by managers. They even have people who are not managers or developers!

Every 'twisting' of Agile is a completely natural outgrowth of trying to fit Agile to how organizations are actually ran and how people who are not software devs need to do things. That exactly is 'true' Agile, because business as structured today cannot support any other Agile you might conceive of.

That's why Kanban is so much more appreciated - it wasn't conceived in denial of how businesses are currently structured.

P.S. The other option would be to built the business to support Agile and not the other way around. For better or worse, almost no existing company actually works that way and that's not going to change.
Must not have been tail call recursion.
There is also qt/qml for javascript.
Ah, the gamification of citizen law enforcement. What have we come to?
has sign in with Apple launched yet? It was the Big Thing in iOS 13 that I was personally most excited about but honestly, if it has launched, I haven't seen it yet.

edit: from the comments it sounds like it has launched, but currently being implemented in a voluntary manner. Looked at the 9to5Mac article on iOS 13 support of apps and it looks like I just don't use any of them unfortunately.

Love the idea still and hoping it gains heavily in adoption.
It's hard to describe but easy to observe the difference. I'd put it like confidence is believing you're correct and arrogance is believing no one else could be right.
Your friend must have realized that there was a possibility of his future child (or multiple future children) seeking him out one day. You don't donate to a sperm bank if you NEVER want to have a kid. Did he need $40 that badly?

Your friend was not very wise here.
I live in a concrete high rise and I don’t really notice any noise from my neighbors (the street noise is much, much worse as emergency sirens pierce even double-pane windows).

There are also plenty of multiplex designs that have good noise insulation.

In reality people do want to live in them which is why zoning laws are used to prevent them from being built. If people refused to live there, there would be no need for zoning as developers wouldn’t build homes people don’t live in.
How about borrowing and lending using MakerDAO and Compound? Or, a decentralized prediction market through Augur? Or, decentralized derivatives through dYdX? Once the Oracle Problem is solved, you'll be able to trustlessly buy synthetic decentralized shares of the S&P500 without using a brokerage. Some people have already done this as a proof of concept.
Not sure about beetroots in winter but the rest seem plausible.
Doesn't matter, I suspect - It works within the narrative and implies they have something to hide. It's good /tabloid/ journalism, and poor investigative journalism.

Randstad are very much the former.
I'm not going to answer this in regard to Facebook specifically, because I can't imagine a circumstance where I would be willing to use a Facebook product.

But since this idea has been brought up by a number of ad companies (Google, most notably), I can answer in the more general sense.

I would not support ad targeting done that way. It is a bit less objectionable, but it doesn't really address my objections to the entire practice.
it is totally non custodial. target audience is prosumer, not a whale
>Fair use is a doctrine in the law of the United States that permits limited use of copyrighted material without having to first acquire permission from the copyright holder.

I wonder where the line is drawn on fair use in this case.
The good news is while the US should be excluded - so should China - it might just be Norway and Sweden sitting at a table eating some lutefisk[1].

1. Joke. In reality there are plenty of moral countries, but a lot of the economic powerhouses have clear exclusion reasons - Canada might get a seat at the table, along with Mexico perhaps.
At a certain size, companies innovate through thoughtful acquisitions.

You can't separate the company WhatsApp from the company Facebook because they are the same company FB.
Can you provide an example (even in pseudocode, syntax doesn't matter here)?

I don't think that's how you'd handle a state change in idiomatic Haskell. What you propose sounds very error-prone.
A 2012 KP article claimed every third Russian under 45 lived with parents.

A Western migrant would unlikely be hanging out with the most desolate group.
Politifact seems to think that "Obama tapped Trump" thing was a myth [0]. Are you referring to a different thing that I'm not aware of?

[0] https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/mar/21...
Fair point, since this question is getting engagement, but I don't think breaking the fourth wall equates with an attempt to ask a compelling question about a real subject, if that makes sense.
This really counts as “extreme and unsavory” these days?
There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people in the name of freedom and safety.
Good information, thanks.

Some years ago, while skimming The DFW Reader (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21423291-the-david-foste...), I saw the fact he included the exclusivity of who to humans on his list of good practices for students in the class he taught.
Having lived thru the hell of trying to deliver web apps via a thin client model I personally prefer rendering on the client for anything that is not a static web page intended for content only (which now days is rarely the case). Thin clients where an anti-pattern championed by the big server vendors, due to the need for big servers. At the time they where justifying the architecture based on the fact that PC hardware was expensive and thin clients would reduce the need for high end PC's. They where trying to sell it before the web, the web just gave them the vehicle to really push it. Those realities are gone and, decent power in pc's is a commodity. If the web where invented today, it would have been a mesh given the current realities of the proliferation of computing power. Unfortunately it has the law of inertia on it's side.
As a project manager, I hate taking a bug tracker and trying to beat it into being a project management/communication/measurement tool. The only reason I always end up doing so is that bug trackers are already in the engineers’ daily workflow so they are usually the source of truth about the project.

I’d love it if developers would be willing to collaborate using a dedicated project management tool and leave the bug tracker for bugs, but the chances of that happening voluntarily are nil. You gotta go where everyone else already is.
> You're "ego" quip is not very charitable of this community

And the blanket dismissal often posted here in a knee jerk reaction isn't very charitable to a whole body of research, that is arguably harder to operationalize than the hard sciences.

I'd prefer a more substantial discussion of the findings or paper at hand rather than to just bring up the replication crisis anytime any psychological finding is mentioned on HN.

I think many people on HN, myself included, are kind of addicted to appearing clever.

This tends to produce responses that earn us clever points with the least effort possible.

We've heard about the replication crisis a thousand times, we've heard about the Gell Mann effect. Neither of these alone constitute a substantive argument against a particular scientific paper or piece of journalism.

I'm waiting for someone to write a bot to post Gell Mann and Replication Crisis replies to every newspaper article or psychology paper. Maybe someone already has...
Intergenerational housing doesn't work for people who end up living in a different city than there parents or grandparents due to work. And a large portion of the population is in that situation. I grew up in the rural mid-west. Good luck working on robotics there. I had to move to a city to get the resources I needed to do the work I want. However that city also happens to have no housing and exorbitant rent. With rent eating up 30% of my income, taxes the other 30%, the path to saving for a small home in the city puts me a decade, if not decades behind where the previous generation began to set-up there homes.
Does marriage increase financial stability? My personal bias says yes but I may be incorrect on that.
WolfSSL with Curl and Tiny-Curl
It's even a poor version of that argument. The victims of whatever crimes this would allegedly prevent aren't necessarily users of the platform. In that type of scenario, the perpetrators are the users.
I thought flexitarian is a vegetarian who sometimes eats meat. I think reducetarian is what the term is for eating less in general.
I know of at least one app that uses it (Ten Percent Happier).
You can also find it on the play store -
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.scales.sca...
Tog: Get and share travel ideas with your friends all in one place
I also wonder how many users are aware of the imperfections in the end to end encryption in WhatsApp.

https://keybase.io/blog/chat-apps-softer-than-tofu

(I have no affiliation with Keybase, I just appreciate their very thorough and public analysis.)
Only on IE11 and only in angular1.6. Vue and React it is lightning fast.
read some psychological articles about interpersonal interactions. Group processes. Do not break existing unwritten rules. There is always a some sort of climate in a team/workplace. Observe how other people interact formally and informally. Be more like them and after you are accepted as group member - you then can pursue your own goals. Get to know other people before you roll out your ambitions.