skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're already selling their cars at a loss, according to the article. I'm sure there are plenty of people who would buy a Vietnamese electric car if it was 25-50% less than a Japanese/American/European one. Thats certainly how Korean cars managed to break into the US market.
> If I were you, I would fight for ownership in whatever is next for your cofounder

Depends on whether the cofounder is using the current company's assets towards the next venture (and it seems like the answer is no, so there is really no basis for that ask).
I have been watching this project for a while, but now i can see the full source code. A very ambitious project as so many of the "low code" products today are basically fixed ecosystems where the components are sourced by the company, and you basically mix and match pie chart drawing modules with line graphs, etc., to make dashboards. This is more like VB6 which i understand was the goal. Many people consider VB6 to be the peak of power * ease of use.
https://imgur.com/a/QAT5BiV

Above is profilers of the 2 apps.

There's a MASSIVE amount of JS that has to start and run. Note 1.2s of scripting for full load on old, with 4.6s of scripting on new. Rendering also triples in size because they're using a lot more CSS.

Note also that the "rich" sidebars in themselves have an extremely long load time and pop in.

They do this because they made bad technological decisions, and took an off the shelf low-content SPA-style framework to make what is mostly a static site. Its also quite likely that they haven't done much tuning. They probably were tasked with making widgets and new features over anything having to do with performance, and especially the ad delivery network.
No, but I'd still take a three-fold increase in NIH funding, or a 14x increase in the NSF budget.
Mr Morgan put up his own money in the Panic of 1907. Mr Dimon would not have that kind of cash today.
I concur. I've left my phone on by accident a few times and usually I'm getting alerts right before touch down.
I would be furious with you too. This idea that the only way you can make your job better is to quit is simply evil and heartless.
I suspect the biggest thing you get by 'walking away with the code' is that they can't sue you for immediately using the same techniques in your next venture.

So the question is what's the 'hedgehog' in the Venn Diagram between the old tech, the thing they would be willing to work on next, and what might be available/they can do themselves.
From Modern Day's Startup CEO, CTO or SVP that are under 30 or barely 30+ getting their 5 minutes of frame, while never actually programmed in the IE era and wrongly assumed IE era as IE 7 or IE 8.
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The kids I’m referring to had and have great, healthy friendships with peers.

I’d have mentioned it if I had anticipated this response.
I still count 3 to 5 components.
People are going to unpleasantly surprised by the way the internet changes after tracking for personalized advertising stops working. Already, I see tons of complains about paywalled news sites, micropayments everywhere, and the death of the "old internet". Just imagine how much worse it'll be when only two or three giant social media companies can make money with advertising (since they can rely on first-party data) and everyone else is relegated to a high-friction ghetto. If you're sad about the death of the "old internet", look out, because you haven't seen anything yet.

As for tracking: the current "privacy" push looks like a moral panic to me. I've yet to see any actual personal harm come to anyone as a result of cookie-based tracking. I have, on the other hand, seen billions of people benefit from the monetarily-free services that personalized ads enable. Whipping up an anti-cookie hysteria is making the internet worse for everyone but the big established giant companies.
I’m interested in this tech. Email’s in my profile.
It was the plot of one of the seasons of Orange is the New Black.
Good point, I think Mickey mouse is coming up on year 90, that would be a lot of cash
I love magit. If you deal with a lot of PRs the forge extension is also very nice.

My only beef is the main interface can feel very slow sometimes.

I've learned to start using the functions directly from the M-x command line when I can. Like rather than going to the main magit interface to stage a file, just M-x stage-file. Time to stash? M-x magit-stash, etc. No need to jump to the main magit UI much of the time.
The problem with choosing "the best tool for the job" for every job is that now you have a lot more unknown unknowns and they don't generalize when you find them.
Westerns, as a family of genres, are the first fully-simulated genre. They depict a never-was fantasy-land reinvention of human society, glorifying exaggerated violent and sexual behaviors that serve both to elevate and rewrite a period of history that did not exist as depicted, and legitimizing those behaviors' analogues in our own modern world.

Space Westerns are, well, Westerns in space. They typically espouse some sort of manifest destiny and spirit of exploration, justifying victories based on being the good guys.
Richard?
The project has always been OpenSource, so full source code was always available. Yes you are right, I would like Yazz Pilot to be a total VB6 clone, but I still can't implement 90% of what VB6 did like Modules and inline stepping through code

Aren't you the Beads guy (http://beadslang.org/)? I have seen it before and it looks pretty cool
Scientists create quantum states in everyday electronics
You don't have to get a burrito at Chipotle. Try my salad recipe:

Salad with no dressing (you don't need their sugary dressing when you have salsa).

Black or pinto beans.

Optionally, a bit of brown rice, but they will give you too much unless you ask for only a sprinkle of it.

Onions and peppers.

Chicken or whatever meat you like.

Corn, pico de gallo, and medium salsa.

Guacamole. "I know it's extra."

And some of the chopped lettuce at the end of the line, especially if you're getting it to go. "So the guac doesn't stick to the lid."

Now you have mostly vegetables, some meat, some beans, and not much in the way of grains. And it makes two full meals!
When referring to the O() of a particular algorithm without further specification, upper bound is what is meant. When discussing the asymptotics of quicksort you say that it is O(nlog(n)) in the average case, not that it is O(nlog(n)) in general.
Inflation is the only mandate. There’s been a lot of discussion about whether employment should play into their role. When it does creep in it’s around now outdated discussions about whether going beyond so called full employment causes inflation to rise. Clinton was the first to get a fed chair to admit there was no such thing as full employment and later it was Yellen who really pushed fed policy to ignore employment levels. There are some out there who say we are playing with fire by not targeting an employment number and that sometimes includes me but then I think about the woman in the street I saw about a year ago. At first I was worried she’d been robbed or attacked, she was yelling really loudly but as I got closer I realized she was yelling that she’d finally gotten a job. That would probably never had happened under a fed that targets an arbitrary 5% unemployment Figure and that is one of the many criticisms I’ve had for past fed actions that have ignored the little man by playing god up in their star chamber.
US RDA is 0.8 grams/day per kg of bodyweight. For a 150 pound / 68 kg person that’s around 55 grams.
Intel Unveils Cryogenic Chip to Speed Quantum Computing
Or, you know, the entire Presidency of 45.
Assuming it's an entirely separate venture, sure.

But from the OP it sounds like the cofounder might be continuing in the same line of business, but wants to "pivot" and jettison the now-dead weight of the technologist.

If this is the case it seems plausible that his contributions and R&D are still relevant, even if they're throwing out his code, and so perhaps he's entitled to whatever stake he vested over those first two years.
We responded to them. That's how.

Flat earthers were never taken seriously. A bunch of kooks. Then the History channel "documentaries" hit, interviewing the flat earthers and giving them air time. Facebook crusaders constantly posted memes making fun of flat earthers, and "disproving" them a la XKCD #386 [1]

Counter-intuitively, their numbers grew. Just goes to show that no exposure is bad exposure.

The old solution was the best: do not feed the trolls.

[1] - https://xkcd.com/386/
The explanation I've seen is that yes, most people who buy certain products (a microwave oven, say) are probably done for a long time and less likely than the average person to buy one, but overall the group of people who just bought a microwave oven are still much more likely than the average person to buy another one. So yeah there are a bunch of people for whom the ads seem extremely stupid because of course you don't need another one, but enough who think "you know, I could use one in (the camper/the basement/the rental/the garage-office), actually, but it'll need to be a smaller one" that it's worth advertising other options to the whole group. (for the record, I hate all ads and wish they'd go away)
While I don't share your opinion on "sex, drugs and rock 'n roll," that's not really what I'm talking about here either. I'm referring to learning how to navigate complex social relationships in a low-stakes environment. It's easy to roll your eyes at high school friend or relationship drama (because it's usually stupid) but you learn a lot about how to treat other people, how not to treat other people, how to expect other people to treat you in this world etc etc. It's a crash course in the complexity of social relationships that will heavily inform how you act in adulthood, like it or not. The context goes from "Susie and Bobby kissed at the dance and I was jealous so then I kissed Bobby and now Susie won't speak to me" to "I'm jealous of Susan's relationship with Bob, but I know that hurting Susan isn't going to solve anything because the problem is my unfulfilling relationship and acting out like that will only cause me to lose a friend." Silly example but I'm tired and I hope you get the idea.

None of this is stuff you learn by spending your teenage years exclusively with siblings (homeschooled) or chilling out playing video games 24/7 with a couple other quiet kids (nerdy/sheltered). When I say "jackass" I'm specifically referring to the guys who were like this in high school, who were invariably the ones in college doing stupid things at parties to impress their new friends and also treating girls like crap because they were suddenly thrown into a social whirlwind they couldn't handle with any level of maturity.
I hate cooking - but I come home for lunch almost everyday (live 2 blocks from office) and rush cook so I can eat healthy.

99% of food at restaurants is cooked in unhealthy oils like canola or soybean oil, has too much sugar, has fillers like corn-starch or other things that pack on pounds, and barely have any vegetables. (sure you can get salads, but I want cooked vegetables)

If I had a FANG salary I would have a personal chef by now. Only way to eat healthy is to cook for yourself so I reluctantly do it.
In terms of acquisition value, the codebase ranks dead last behind talent, product, engaged users, company brand, patents and just about everything else. Even very successful products are almost always rewritten when acquired by a larger company.

Depending on what your co-founder is walking away with, you may want to negotiate a better exit. If there is nothing else, then more than the code work on selling yourself to an interested company.
> The study was very upfront about the limitations.

That's an overly generous interpretation of their comments. See deogeo's post with some questions about why many of these things are even mentioned in the paper. Where they were upfront has already been acknowledged--by me. My criticisms were where they implied, but did not support a comparison to US-based finance companies generally. Here they were 'upfront' but they shrank what should be several papers worth of arguments into a single word: 'similar'.

> A better analogy would be someone trying to debunk the theory of relativity by claiming it doesn't cover perpetual motion machines.

If you think this is a better analogy, you've missed the point entirely.
I stumbled onto a "ZIL Community" while browsing the comment threads when this news was posted last time.

https://vaporware.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ZC/pages/1998192...

My goodness, the obsession bordering on genius or madness - this language has some serious fans, after all these years since ZIL was created (~1979). And what's with the "vaporware" subdomain of Atlassian..?

It looks it might be one very hard-core ZIL enthusiast.

Here's his repo for ZILF, "a set of tools for working with ZIL (the Zork Implementation Language), including a ZIL compiler, ZAP assembler, and ZIL libraries for writing text adventure games."

https://bitbucket.org/jmcgrew/zilf/wiki/Home
I got another response from AAMI and they basically said exactly the same.

But when does this end? What's the point in introducing new TLDs if people can't, y'know, use them?
Quicksort has O(nlogn) worst case complexity when you use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_of_medians just FYI.
It's actually `git commit --amend --no-edit`, but yes, it's basically "just" a shortcut. Count the keystrokes, though. If you spend much time working with git it's a huge win.

Of course you could do something similar with shell aliases or reverse search, but then there are other switches and flags that you need occasionally, etc. And it's sooo much more convenient to have everything in one place right in your editor. It's almost unfair how much faster I can get stuff done than folks who don't use it ;)

Magit isn't hype, it's as good as everyone says it is. You just have to try it.
Looks like we need to change site guidelines because edit posts like this are substantive and desirable when people are unfairly downvoting a post

Hopefully HN mods will eventually see the error in their ways
When I go into an airport terminal with lower ceilings (e.g. parts of Melbourne Airport) I feel _noticeably_ more cramped and claustrophobic. It really does make the experience feel worse for me.

I'm not entirely sure why it makes me feel that way.
I have rarely needed to escape a SQL string since the days of PHP4, nowadays it is standard to use parameter binding such as "SELECT * FROM table WHERE row = ?" - it's also faster since the query doesn't need to be recompiled every time, but if you really have a desire to escape SQL then you can write a string interpolation function that does it automatically e.g. sql_format("SELECT * FROM table WHERE foo = %s", s). Indeed, JavaScript supports this via custom templated string literals.

As for closing resources, you can use a pattern such as using(open("file.txt"), (f) => { ... }) if your language doesn't already support such a construct.
It's be less ridiculous if the iphone didn't come with a USB cable. It did, though, just the "wrong" one (I understand from elsewhere in the thread they've finally fixed that, however).
Free for all students universally, or free for students who score well on tests with good grades?
"The future's USB-C! Convert!"

"So, the iphone charging cable will connect to USB-C?"

"What, are you crazy? Literally everything is USB-A."
Ok, but good luck getting a Ph.D. in computer science without first getting a bachelor's degree.

The point is, it's silly to condemn the value of college by waving around employment in a company that is well-known for recruiting from top-tier universities.
>The length of copyright established by the Founding Fathers was short, 14 years, plus the ability to renew it one time, for 14 more.

I would love to go back to the original copyright act of 1790 law. We the people of the United States grant a monopoly with the understanding that society will be compensated for granting that monopoly in 28 years.
presumably its about the people attending, not the food...
Debian General Resolution: Init systems and systemd– first call for votes
Give a Net: Donate a Mosquito Net to People At Risk of Malaria for $2
Mmm, that one is a bit of an overloaded term, at least in America.

But I agree with the general sentiment here; it especially drives me nuts to see people calling others “trolls” for saying things they don’t agree with.
Technically the ussr collapsed because externally it had to settle accounts in the US dollar and low oil prices - it’s only export - couldn’t provide sufficient hard currency to do this but your point is still correct. Reagan knew this and leveraged it to the maximum even to the point of ruining our own oil economy and increasing our reliance on and strengthening our “allies” in the Middle East some of whom we later had to topple and some of whom we still struggle with today. It’s notable that this lesson wasn’t lost on China who long resolved that it would never run out of hard currency the way the USSR did. Russia on the other hand... as you point out they can’t seem to realize a diversified economy is one that collaborates and is open.
Cell service isn't for yapping anymore, it's for scrolling!
Indeed. From what I can tell, it sounds like an e-commerce company is bifurcating into:

- A B2C Shopify store, with the former traffic / audience

- Some kind of e-commerce platform (not yet a business)

To your point, if they were not already actively trying to market the code as a platform, this is an EXTREMELY hard reset for the second project and your best hope (if you're going to continue this path) is negotiate an acqui-hire.

Speaking as an investor again, the commercial side of the second project sounds like a potential goat rodeo. You're basically dealing with the sales cycle for selling a B2B infrastructure product (specialty e-commerce backbone) to small companies...

Guessing at the market size, you would need an average installed price north of $5 K to make a business viable which means you need a B2B outside sales team. Given that you're selling to startups, suspect getting above $100 K ticket price is a challenge. Strong likelihood of issues with customer acquisition costs > contribution margin.

Again... hand waving BS about the business I haven't seen, but much caution would be advised. The other guy definitely grabbed the crown jewels of the remaining business.
Off the top of my head, when Lincoln was president, most women were homemakers and had a second to fourth grade education. His wife had a twelfth grade education and was considered "difficult" and her own son stuck her in an asylum.

An eighth grade education used to be very normal. In the Deep South, Blacks used to be essentially unable to attend high school. A lot of Black families moved to northern cities -- or sent children to stay with relatives -- so they could attend high school.

The US military invented the GED to give credit to literate members because it used to be very common for people to grow up on a farm and not finish high school. Now even the military treats GED holders like second-class citizens.

If the world doesn't have some kind of serious crash, demographically or in other ways, I imagine it will become increasingly common for people to have advanced degrees and "ordinary" jobs. With 7 billion people on the planet, more information is how you stretch limited physical resources and also how you constructively occupy the masses.
RelioSync...? I think you meant Resilio Sync[0] (formerly btsync). Excellent tool.

[0] https://www.resilio.com/individuals/
Cisco should really focus on providing an actual solution to the market.
I'm a programmer with a bachelor degree, majored in CS and minored in math. I can't do my kids AP calc anymore. I haven't used it in 20 years of programming.
I have some interest in talking to you about what you have created. We might have a use for it. Send your contact information to info@localnursery.ca I will reply.
It's not called "the tarmac" by anyone in aviation. Taxiway and ramp?
> Genuinely curious so would appreciate calm, non-aggressive responses.

My browser history is none of your business. That’s it.

I don’t take care if violating my privacy by stealing my browser history is less effective than the newest way of violating my privacy.

Doesn’t make it any better.
Shhh, the truth doesn't line up with the ideal, don't speak of it...
They're really "green threads" or "fibers". Remember those? With a good way to avoid blocking on system calls, which Go has, it's a much simpler way to do sequential operations. No need for state machines, "promises", "futures", "async", or all the other hacks used to hammer an event driven model into a sequential model.
I dunno, it's more like ... English, Dutch, and German are West Germanic languages, but unlike German English and Dutch did not undergo the high German consonant shift. So many cognate words that seem odd in German are similar in Dutch.

As a native English speaker who has German family and studied German I always have found that Dutch seems "halfway" between the two languages. I can usually figure out what a sentence means by reading it that way.
Why cut off your nose to spite your face?
Why Windows 10 Is My Desktop OS of Choice
One advantage of selling people their first car is that they might be slightly less likely to have strong opinions on brands. Need every advantage you can get.
doesn't this force you to define a comparator for everything though?
Databases are part of programming.

Hash tables are easier to use on arbitrary data because they don't require Comparator to be defined.

Trees are faster when data is large enough that performance matters.
You can sell the code, but it's going to take work and a bit of luck to find a qualified suitor.

Startups with the resources to purchase likely have the resources to build themselves. And the inclination.

Your best bet is to prospect for companies who might consider the IP for a secondary product that compliments their core offering. They'd likely want code + customization + a maintenance period. It could be worth it.

Send me a note if you'd like to discuss further.
The post isn't clear, but I read it as "The cofounder has decided to shut the company down and hire the designer for a new venture in the exact same business doing the exact same thing, except using Shopify instead of a custom tech stack, so they don't need a technical cofounder anymore," which is basically "The cofounder has decided to downsize the other cofounder whose skills were no longer needed." If this is true, OP at the very least provided market validation/research/etc. If the new venture is relying on business relationships or branding from the old, then the claim is much stronger. If so, OP can say, look, you basically want to fire a cofounder and take their ownership stake but you don't want to fight this in court, neither do I, I will settle for you taking some of my ownership stake in exchange for going away quietly.

If the new venture is actually completely separate (or no more related than "In the process of trying to launch business X and failing, I realized that a very different business Y would be more profitable"), then yes, I agree with you.
Not quite "at" yet, IEDM 2019 effectively confirms Sub 1 nm possibilities.

Whether it is economically viable remains an open question.
Does your college teach security before networking? Probably a smart choice.
As an English speaker who knows a bit of German, Dutch basically seems like a random combination of English and German words with a few misspellings thrown in for kicks.
There are a surprisingly high number of military enlisted personnel with Master's degrees.
1. There are many freelancer gigs at freelancer.com and other freelancing sides where people are looking for a custom CMS. You might be able to sell your solution to them, though you might still need to customize it slightly for their needs.

2. Open source it and add a donate link.