skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Evergreen ILS used the heck out of this XULRunner
> It has changed me for the better.

Is that the old you saying that, or the new you?
The Service Mesh: What Engineers Need to Know
Same. In my experience there is one basic "psychedelic state" accessible via all the well-known compounds, which have different characteristics (especially in terms of duration) but aren't qualitatively different in any meaningful way. I suspect that a lot of the differences in reported effects between the major psychedelic compounds comes down to set and setting (i.e., ayahuasca is associated with traditional cultures whereas LSD is not).
Highest I've ever gone was 500ug LSD, and still, it was a more intense experience of the same "quality", not something completely different.
I have this too, and as the other posted said it might be ADD-related. My mother and sister were both recently diagnosed, I'm meant to find someone but it's been on my todo list for months now... while I look out the window :)
If you wanted to model after Berkshire Hathaway, you could just buy shares in them.
I'm a very loyal Apple customer, but if they turned off all third-party apps, I'd switch to Android right away. Just flat-out.
Well, there are some things you really ought to care about (health, friendships, etc.), otherwise you won’t have much of a reason to live.
That's the fun part. Too often forgotten is that, now that you've invented a new vocabulary, you need to teach it to others, or you're just speaking your own private dialect.
There are a ton of cross-platform GUI libraries
A High-School Dropout Started a $150K/Month Online Courses Company
> I'm told in a Mandarin class that there's a difference between 不 and 没 which is whether it's subjective or objective that something isn't true.

I don't think that rule holds. 没 is usually used to negate either 有 "have" or something in the past. E.g. 我没告诉你。 "I didn't tell you." 不 is used for everything else, i.e. 我不告诉你。 "I'm not telling you." (The interesting thing is that "have" also has a past aspect in English, e.g. "I have told you." But Mandarin doesn't use 有 as a general past marker, only the negation 没)

> I speak another Chinese dialect that also has this distinction, and I also can't tell you the rule there.

Which one? Is the rule the same as in Mandarin, i.e. can you produce correct Mandarin sentences despite not knowing the rule, relying just on intuition? I think Cantonese uses 冇 to negate 有.
> The royal family likely contributes quite significantly to the popularity of the UK tourism industry

France beheaded their king, and people are still visiting Versailles.

No one is coming to see the UK palaces because the Queen may be around.
Couldn't you take that to at least 1979 as well?

Or possible 1969?

It's pretty much the hypothesis of the book 'The Great Stagnation'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Stagnation
Do you have to buy multiple of these to have a mesh, or can you use one as a central node that can be extended with other routers?
Looking to move off gmail.

Conversation view and killer search also make great sense.

If free, show me a nice add; otherwise, I am happy to buy. Bonus for long term, like 2 year service pricing advantages.

Email is not a thing I want to think about much. Just works, just use

Good luck, have fun!
Our school made a concerted effort to have us play touch typing games during our 'computer hour' or whatever it was. It was a great help.

Though by then myself and all my friends were pretty great from playing those old Sierra adventure games. The on-screen action often didn't wait for you to finish typing. So I guess my point is, you can make it fun too if you want.
I suspect the main cost would be the materials. Every block of the Great Pyramid weighed about 2.5 tons. It has an astounding 2.3 million blocks. That would be incredibly expensive to purchase and transport to the site, even today. For comparison, building the Great Pyramid would require moving about 10 times the mass of a giant skyscraper like the Bhurj Khalifa.

You could probably build all of the other 6 wonders of the ancient world today, side by side, for less than the cost of building that one pyramid. I'm fairly confident it'd be a billion dollar project.

That said, I'm not in construction. Perhaps someone could correct me?
No, I am not joking - thats what I learned at school. But just look at wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pyramid_construction_...

You have to consider that the pharao wasn't just the "king" but also the link to the gods.
It depends on which part of an interview you are talking about. Big O notation has never been talked about in my daily work, but you absolutely need to make your code perform well when you write it. I've never had to specifically traverse a binary tree, but I absolutely need to be able to process data in a single pass, and I constantly am iterating through something or another.

So if you think you are being tested on being able to recite CS algorithms, the answer is "almost never". But if you think you are being tested on, "Can you solve a problem with code, and make it perform well?", the answer is "Every day."
Here's google's cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https%...
Compare: "A Woman Who Recorded 70k Tapes of American News".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21558684#21560747
In order to do that and get PayPal to acquire you for at least that much money, you'd have to convince PayPal that your users also spend money that makes it back to you. Honey's pitch probably wasn't just "we have x daily active users," but rather something like "we have x daily active users who are big e-commerce spenders, and we can make money by connecting our users with retailers."
Isak Dinesen, The Art of Fiction No. 14 (1956)
See also: the Vanderbilt Television News Archive.

https://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu
I stopped reading at the part where all they recommend to use is Apple hardware.
Largest installed base is PSVR with more than 4 million devices sold.
Cautionary Tales
How do you add value to people who give you money?

That’s the same way you’ll add value to others as well.

I’m a problem solver. I’ll help people that do not give me money by solving some of their problems. It could be code, it could be knowledge or it could be connections.

I’ll do that for free because I like helping people and because someday they might help me.
And how does she respond to you usually?
CareHomeApp – something we build for those we love
Put together a little app for carehomes. If you need a way to digitally track check for the elderly, disabled or anyone in care hope this helps. I made it for my dad in his carehome download it on www.carehomeapp.com and ping me on abdurrahman.qadir@gmail.com and will set you up with an account
GopherCon 2019: Johan Brandhorst – Get Going with WebAssembly
This is underrated. Of course I knew most plumbing probably isn't too hard but I never gave it a try until I complained about fixing a leaking tap and a friend showed me how. I bought my own simple tools and have fixed a bunch more in our house by myself (it's just getting to that ~10 year age right now). Here a plumber will charge $150 just to show up.

That really opened things up for me and now I often check things like repairing drywall or replacing a door handle on YouTube. It's a really good way to gauge if you think it's something you can handle.
Yup, it's good to point that sort of thing out. Most of the history that (I suspect) most of the readers of HN are exposed to will be quite western focused, and yes, a lot of things were fairly bad in the first half of the 20th century in the United States.

But damn...things were fucking terrible in a lot of other parts of the world during that time. And more importantly, such terrible times existed, all over the world, going back forever.
As an atheist, I take quite a different approach. There is no God with an ultimate plan of good, so the only ones who can address "unimaginably horrible" things is us.

Yes, in the end nothing matters, but in the present and near future many things matter.
Transcript: https://www.manhattan-institute.org/events/2019-wriston-lect...
I lost around 20k CAN$ FML
Yeah, honestly, as a person who has had the ill fortune of having to work with shopify, I find this kind of boasting kind of funny. Every admin console page load takes ten seconds and their backend can't handle a product with more than 100 variants. They clearly got too big too fast and just piled code on code on code until they ended up with what they have today. They should focus on upgrading the quality of their system, take 20 of those developers and start on a complete rebuild, and spend a little less time wrangling 1000 devs.
Read The Startup Owner's Manual, or the previous version of the same, Four Steps to the Epiphany, and apply what you've read.
I think they only mesh with themselves so you can't use another router and have it mesh with these ones.
Why VR/AR devs should stop referencing Minority Report-style gesture control
I would say it's more about sifting out the wheat from the chaff. Sturgeon's Law [1] is very applicable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
We try to keep this guide as tactical as possible, which means we talk about what we know.

Administering different operating systems remotely is hard. If a computer gets lost or broken, Apple is the easiest to quickly replace.

I'm speaking from experience - I had my laptop stolen from my Airbnb while in Barcelona, and I could buy a new laptop the next day to get back online.

The guide is open-source - we'd appreciate contributions to add more resources and perspectives!
For awhile now, everyone has been one viral moment away from mob justice. You might lose your career, or you might get harassed day and night, or worse just for slighting the wrong person.

But you also can't opt out of online socializing if you want to meet and keep in touch with people.
Rewards and coupon websites are notorious for leaching off the affiliate process without driving much incremental revenue. In the heyday of ABestWeb.com they coined the phrase ParasiteWare for places that stuff cookies like this.

The overall affiliate channel has become increasingly challenging to manage profitably from a merchant perspective. But it’s very easy for a “manager” to see all of the sales affiliates “drive” and assume that it’s making them money.

If you let affiliate sell for you, you had better invest in a professional affiliate manager that you can trust. If you source it to an intern you’ll lose a ton of money to leeches and fraud.
One of the worst side effects of cannabis :[ I miss dreaming and REM sleep. feelsbadman
Similar experience from me,

my grand father was a resistance veteran back from WWII in Europe. He didn't talk much about it except to express the famine and misery they went through those years. He had it rough, lost his first wife young and just about everything.

He never told me how to be or who to be, or what to think, he just was content to have me around, grateful for everything.

Later in life, he became blind for many years, and just kept trucking along, not the complainer type. Always keeping it light-hearted basically, humouring and never judging, just caring deeply for others but himself, never wanting to be in the way of anyone, even the people paid to help him.

He is to this day my biggest inspiration.
Concerts are loud for a reason. It needs to drone out talking. This is why evening book/poetry readings in bars are universally horrible.
Keeping the directory coherent is the difficult part when translating directory-based cache coherence protocols to other distributed systems problems. The directory is like an oracle that sees every transaction in order. This is hard in most network distributed systems problems where you have to worry about availability, network partitioning, or durability of this node.
Not sure if it became much better in the past few years; I seem to run into issues less and less often (and all were solvable rather quickly), but it may be simply because of the avoidance of problematic packages and approaches. Here is a bit more of information though:

- Cabal 2 supports Nix-style local builds [1].

- Stack seems to aim very smooth and easy workflow. Though it didn't work well for me when I tried it (I think I had a version that was too old, and was rather appalled by the way they suggest to install a new one, with `curl ... | sh`). And as mentioned above, I prefer the opposite of adding even more layers on top of cabal and using multiple package managers, in part because it introduces more ways for things to go wrong. Likewise with Nix outside of NixOS.

- I used to find Cabal sandboxes helpful, but not using them these days. Different versions of the same package can be installed simultaneously, if it becomes tricky to stick to a single version while using Cabal. And as the last resort one can wipe out the local package database.

- Careful versioning could solve some of the package management and dependency resolution issues, and there is a common package versioning policy [2] (similar to, but not exactly the same as semver), but not everybody follows it (in versioning their packages or in pinning dependencies); one should be careful with packages that don't.

- Minimizing dependencies can be useful for this, among other things. Without keeping an eye on it, one can easily find themselves in a dependency graph with hundreds of packages, often coming pretty much directly from developers (without additional package maintainers keeping an eye on them following any standards or being compatible, though it's supposed to be better with Stack), some of which may misbehave at some point.

- On some systems it is viable to use a system package manager for Haskell package management.

But possibly my experiences are not representative either: as mentioned before, opinions and approaches around it tend to vary.

[1] https://www.haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/nix-local-build-ov...

[2] https://pvp.haskell.org/
It's so you can't hear the drunk people who will be talking no matter what over the music.
You have no idea how Google solved it. Basically everyone with a Monorepo (except Google) implements it as a cargo cult best practice. Mindlessly copying Google without understanding how Google actually does it.
> I do not think you can say Apple has a monopoly over iOS as it is a product not a market. Would be equivalent to saying Tesla has a monopoly over Tesla infotainment software

That is an absurd comparison, Apple is one of a duopoly, there are only two mobile app marketplaces, thus, iOS is a market.
...for taste.
Should include tl;dr your concurrency fears are real, but for registers and not caches.
What do you mean when you say you can't think about it rationally? There are enough survivable experiences physiologically similar to death that we can make some pretty good guesses as to what the experience leading up to it is like. And it would be incoherent to talk about the experience of being dead, because it is no experience at all (as before we were born). We know quite a bit about what happens when we die, and we have literally billions of exemplars of the event. I would say in almost every meaningful way we can think about it fairly rationally. (Whether we choose to is another question.)
It depends on the context. If you have had a very similar experience, it can help to share that they are not alone in their feelings. But reaching for straws to try to draw a similarity where none exists isn't helpful.
How is Apple is the easiest to quickly replace anywhere? There are remote places far from large cities where Apple has no shops and no businesses, and all you can actually get your hands on is a PC. not everyone lives in Silicon Valley or in a large metropolis especially when they work remote.
I've accidentally executed this tactic on myself - no red flags were raised and funds were received.

Being owed a sizable wire from a corporate entity, I requested payment to an account via my personal email (<name>@<name>.co). As they were validating/processing that, I opened up a new bank account that can receive wires with no fees. I then sent them an email with the new information, and a couple weeks later received the funds in my new bank account without any friction. What no one brought up was the fact that the email with the new information was from <name>@<name>.com, as I had transitioned from .co to .com in the meantime. The attack vector highlighted in this article is definitely under-guarded.
I noticed the OLPC laptops at Canada Computers in Scarborough Ontario a couple months ago. I'm guessing there are still warehouses with remaining stock around, and I'm definitely surprised about that.
You really should approach from both ends.

You have to consider the hardware if you want any amount of efficiency. You should consider your 'wishful thinking', because those wishes sometimes come true (not always, but often enough that its worthwhile to think about the ideal)
The chain is a bit much, though. Besides, one would hope that news aggregators[1] like HN would direct to the original source as much as possible.

[1]: Is there a better term for this? HN isn't solely focused on news (and in fact has a lot of focus on olds), but the term "content aggregator" seems to imply something more like freebooting. "Social link aggregator"?
Maybe? Let's say I had a kid that got kidnapped, and I spend all night restless like a normal human being. Where has that actually gotten me? And if the kid never comes back, what's an appropriate "normal human" duration of restlessness?

People go to therapy for years to get over that restless stuff and replace it with some version of accepting that the world is not under your control.

No doubt that upsetting things are upsetting, but the guiding principle is that you have to accept the things you can't control, and do the best with the things you can control.
These are nice tips, but execution is more difficult than simply knowing them for someone with social anxiety.

Suppose you read a guide that said "...during the next phase of the conversation, you should start spinning a yo-yo around your head at the end of its string. Spin it faster and faster, and gradually move closer to the other person until the yo-yo is almost smacking their face. Don't worry, they won't get angry..."

Now suppose this were actually true. It would still be really difficult to overcome your gut discomfort and engage in such behavior. Someone with a social disorder feels the same discomfort making eye conduct, taking their hand away from their face, etc. as a normal person would dipping their finger into a stranger's coffee or spitting on the floor
Liskov is one of the few programmers who truly understood OO-programming waaaaayyyy back in the 80s.

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=62139.62141

And later developed into the Liskov Substitution Principle (`94): https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wing/publications/LiskovWing94.pdf

Over the next 20 years, people would be writing about bad examples like "Class Car extends class transportation", but the fundamentals of good OO-programming were laid out by Liskov pretty early on...
I had looked into local geocoding databases but did not want to add a database file in the git repository. reverse_geocoder looks really interesting though and I may have a look at adding that.

For the time being, elodie does cache responses from the MapQuest API. And to reduce the number of API calls it does some approximation by seeing if an entry exists in the cache within 3 miles of the current photo --- if so, it uses that instead of looking up the location. [1]

[1] https://github.com/jmathai/elodie/blob/75e65901a94e14e6fd1ff...
Yeah, make that not caring about bad stuff then :)
Hey man, would like to pick ur brain some regarding saas sales, sadly I am not based in the valley or US for that matter, mind if I email you, quick question what is the fastest no bullshit way to validating ur saas idea and seeing if people needed it, I was thinking of driving google ad words traffic to a landing page will that be sufficient?
I don't understand this claim.

Building something people want is marketing? Requirements gathering? Business analysis? Project management? Engineering? These are just subdivisions of marketing?
Humans placed in suspended animation for the first time – New
Yup, curious to see the analysis of this failure when/if it's available. Failures like this often provide a great view into the difficulties of aerospace manufacturing and testing along the entire supply chain.
Ok I'll sound like such an amateur, but that's one nice router. Probably the nicest one I've ever seen.

I hope it's a commercial success. Unifi/Amplifi makes good hardware.
I agree; one should educate oneself. That's why my advice was to "learn how and why" rather than to simply do it. The danger with the financial sector is that there is a ton of biased, bad advice out there. So you need to take some care and critically evaluate what you're learning. Having done that myself, I'm a strong believer in low-cost, diversified investing. (Which usually means passive indexes, but the important things are low cost and diversification; occasionally that's not incompatible with active funds.) For most people who don't want personal finance as a hobby, an hour should be enough time to learn why a simple portfolio of low-cost index funds is a solid choice, and then they can confidently stay the course, rather than trying to time the market or pick winners and ending up worse off for it, as many do.
I think human emotional state is nature's tool to get us to procreate and improve the chances of our offspring to survive.

If at anytime we become truly happy this hurts these goals. For example, if an old man could be building a wall or an arsenal of bows an arrows, or inventing a better way to go fishing, his tribe would be more likely to survive. But if he just sat there, content to being alive, this is bad for his offsprings' future.

You could say, well why can't he do these things and be happy at the same time? I can't really explain why not being happy leads to a better outcome for the safety and procreation of society in general, but I would assume that it must serve some purpose in that goal, or the whole concept of it would have been removed by evolution long ago.

So, I think it's better just to resign yourself to the fact, barring using mind altering drugs, that you'll never be much happier than you were on average before, or much sadder, either.

And as far as this 70 yo lady is concerned, I'd bet when this was written she was simply riding the high of accomplishing something, and probably soon crashed back down below her baseline, only to recover back to it sometime later.
Yes and no. When you ask “so what do you want to do about it?”, you get no as an answer. “I was just venting man” is a legit response, so it’s all fair enough. You can take it from there. Let them vent, you can only vent so much.
The major differences being that P/NaCL was:
1. An open standard/implementation
2. Used regular OSS code
3. Was actually written to be secure

The effort spurred ASM.js & eventually the WebAssembly standard because of the discomfort of deploying a cutting edge research to billions of people on the web (the initial NaCL implementation was very large & eventually turned out to have security holes, the original research was improved upon but by then the industry had spoken).