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Ask HN: Who wants to be a designer co-founder?
I'm a seasoned software developer and I'm looking for a talented designer who is interested in being cofounder of a company either building websites and iOS applications for others or releasing our own product or service. I'm tired of working for someone else and am looking for the right person to start a company with.

I realize that this is casting an extremely wide and general net, but strange times call for strange ideas!

About me: I've been a professional web developer for almost 20 years. I remember a world before jQuery. I remember the badge of honor that used to accompany XHTML and CSS validation badges on your site. I remember how cool pixel fonts were (can you imagine?). I have battle scars from painful CSS hacks for IE.

I've been part of a development team and I've also managed teams of 10 or fewer people. My current job and all of my past jobs have been focused on shipping production-ready code for the web and iOS on a regular bases. I've worked directly with end clients as well as internal clients (project and product managers, etc.). I'm creative and good enough at design to be dangerous, but smart enough to know that I am not a designer.

About you: You are a talented designer and have a proven track record delivering designs for the web and mobile applications. You are interested in sharing an equal half of the responsibility, work, expenses, and income with me. You are good with people and are opinionated. Whether or not you have a job currently doesn't matter to me. Most importantly, you, like me, are ready for the move to be independent, but you've needed someone like me — a technical co-founder — to partner with.

If you're interested, please reach out to me at howaboutwestartacompany@gmail.com and introduce yourself (or reply here if you prefer). Tell me what's on your mind and what you imagine your ideal independent scenario to be in this type of situation. Keep it as anonymous or not as you want and we can go from there.
What about something more specific for production-grade compilers?

The majority of people those references will learn toy-compilers, that are surely important but a completely different league than production-grade compilers, e.g: LLVM.

Talking specifically about LLVM, does someone have their go-to references to start and have a sense of the infrastructure, or even some specific reading about a part of the (huge) infrastructure?
Covid-19 Kills Renowned Mathematician John Conway
That's just appeal to perfection, proving a secret military base got away with corona would make you more effective than CIA and MI-6 combined. However, China has hundreds of documents of this base and backgrounds on all scientists, which it can release to no detriment at all, supposing the lab had nothing to do with corona.
What about the discrimination against gun dealers?

I'm speculating that fraud would be lower than average for such transactions, because there's such a strong paper trail from the instacheck system and all.
> How is this researcher specifically related to the current situation?

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3049397/bat-...

The flood of attacks came with allegations that the new coronavirus had escaped from her laboratory, which is in the same city, Wuhan, where the outbreak happened.

As the attacks increased, Shi felt forced to respond. On Sunday afternoon she sent a message to all her friends on the social media site WeChat: “I swear with my life, [the virus] has nothing to do with the lab.”
I don't think "coronavirus escapes from a lab, in the exact area where the outbreak started, that was studying coronaviruses" is exactly an 'extraordinary claim'. If anything it's the elephant in the room. Are we just supposed to casually ignore that or what….

I think the problem is that when people think of "lab" they think of some sort of devious genetic engineering bioweapons program, and not something considerably more likely but much more mundane like some scientists studying what sort of potentially bad viruses the local bats have.
While not an invalid point, it's worth noting that this case deals mostly with occupational discrimination and not racial discrimination which is arguably a red herring here. Debt collectors for example, from my reading, were among certain groups barred from accessing Square.
Bioweapons are crappy precisely because of what's happening now. A good weapon discriminates, and lets you kill exactly who you want. By that measure, a virus is about as hamfisted as you can get. Besides, why unleash a pandemic on the whole world when you can just do what China normally does and use conventional military power instead? It's cheaper and easier to get some men in boots with guns to stop a protest than it is to unleash a worldwide pandemic that might last for years or longer.
> and I reply that I just record the "fresh" random roll ahead of time and you look that up. Doesn't make any difference.

Well, per everything that Conway's said, it does make a difference - if the experimenter is somehow able to choose which axes to measure after all dice rolls have been fixed, and the mapping of dice roll to measurement result is fixed (and does not depend on which axes the experimenter measures), then that creates a contradiction.

To my mind that's normal quantum behaviour - we see the same thing in the double slit experiment or Bell's inequalities (which this is just a variation on). Quantum behaviour cannot be explained by rolling dice ahead of time, because random results in different possible universes/branches must be uncorrelated with each other, even though we tend to assume that only one of those branches "actually happens". And this result is a cool demonstration of that. But there's no contradiction between that and most people's normal notion of "randomness", IMO.
I always thought it was weird that Wisconsin was a swing state. They seem like they would always be red, tons or manufacturing and farms, not a lot of big cities. But, it seems like Wisconsin Republicans are always making the national news for corruption, the Foxconn plant, allowing a vote in the middle of a pandemic for a minor Republican gain, and when Scott Walker lost his governor seat he removed a lot of power from the governor so, the Democrat coming in couldn't do as much. I know there are good and bad people on both sides, but Wisconsin Republicans have some work to do.
I remember how often it was posted on /. back in the day, and how it effectively shut down any discussion about fixing the real issues with email in any kind of open source fashion. The problem was eventually solved, but it was solved by Google and Yahoo and Microsoft in monopolizing email, because they were focused on the user and us nerds were focused on shutting down (im)-perfect open source solutions instead of working to improve them.

The document is not obligatory, it is one of the most destructive ever published on the subject; it represents the worst of nerd-dom and should not be used.
I don't think this is quite right. Based on my (admittedly limited) experience, it takes a lot of work to design and verify a fast processor, but unless your processor is very similar to existing ones (in which case why bother?) it takes way way more work to write all the software needed to support it.

I guess everyone underestimates how long it takes to write software - even hardware designers.
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Not much except for certain things (notably, land & housing among them) unless markets don’t actually work to increase supply in the presence of higher demand like they’re supposed to.

Probably we’d need Georgist policies or similar to keep all the money from just going to landlords, yes.
Hi guys,

As a Chinese living in US. Please be mindful that a lot of people do not distinguish China the government, and the Chinese people, living in or outside of China mainland.

This type of news, are of course worth discussion.

But meanwhile, please refrain from politicizing beyond the facts. Think about not letting what a few political figures have started, i.e., politicizing the event without considering the impact, into actual hate crimes targeted at minority groups.

Thanks!
Bloody hell. The responses to my post are not the best and this is an example from the first one:

"That the virus originated zoonotically does not precude a lab accident + leak theory of origin"

Really? A lab spends some time analysing whether a virus is a natural progression from another virus via natural selection instead of deliberate manipulation. They write it up etc. At least spell "preclude" correctly in a rebuttal.
Can I use this to search other peoples tweet history?
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1. Run on 1000, or 100000 files:
`docker run -it --entrypoint=bash -v ${PWD}:tmp python:3.7`

You can simply mount your current directory to docker.

2. Docker doesn't ONLY support web-accessible services:

For example, you can run aws cli without python with this alias.

aws() {
docker-run --entrypoint="aws" infrastructureascode/aws-cli:1.16.309 "$@"
}

3. When you need to debug python code live with your IDE:
Check these out https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/containers/debug-common
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/using-docker-as-a-rem...
Tinfoil hat: I'm not keeping active track, but I passively perceived a sheer drop in mentions of the fact that Wuhan has China's first "biosafety level 4" laboratory, coinciding with an increased lambasting of the US's handling of their infections in the general media ("The Wuhan virus is now the American virus"), along with a streak of random US-critical posts ("What is the worst thing the US government has done?") being massively updated on Reddit (which has a major investment from Tencent.)

This is from the country which forces foreign companies to remove flags of countries it likes to bully (Taiwan, Japan) from their products. It's not inconceivable that they are filtering the narrative about themselves in something actually serious, such as this pandemic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan_Institute_of_Virology#Co...
Equally important is a culture which very highly values the rights of people to make non-optimal decisions for themselves.
While that style personally annoys me, I feel as though a decent chunk of the American populace find the topic of an article more interesting if they understand the human context behind it. The recipe example is a perfect distillation of that point; while some (or most) people come for just the recipe, there is a subset that are interested in how the recipe came to be. Meanwhile, adding that context doesn't dissuade most people from scrolling to the bottom to get the actual recipe. At the end of the day, most (not all) of the population is either interested in the descriptive language and human aspect of a topic, or is interested enough in the topic to ignore the descriptive language and human interest parts.
You can apply the same logic to a specific license plate number seen near a murder meaning that the car's owner was almost surely the murderer. That isn't a high enough standard of evidence as any specific event is unlikely in hindsight.

A pandemic was likely to start somewhere densely populated and first be detected in a city centre. Somewhere densely populated was likely to have a specialised biological research lab. That it was BSL4 instead of BSL3 is evidence but it isn't particularly compelling.

More to the point; it doesn't really make much of a difference whether it came from a Chinese lab or not. Horrible pandemics have happened before and will happen again.
People don't become billionaires from wages, so wage caps wouldn't do anything to address inequality.
It’s called Mexican flu in Dutch.
BeyondCompare is an absolute workhorse for me. It's kind of amazing how many unrelated tasks involve directory and file comparison.
Non-US readers should know that Tucker Carlson is a Fox News pundit, and to say that he has credibility issues would be an incredibly charitable interpretation of things.
WebDAV is about as RESTy as you’re likely to ever see. Collections containing different resources, different behaviors based on ContentType, extensible to allow different types of data. Behavior and state determined by hypertext.

Usually when people say they don’t like CalDAV or CardDAV, they mean they don’t like XML, non-GET verbs, and Versit Consortium syntax (none of which are in conflict with REST)?

I’ll admit Versit syntax, with it’s significant whitespace, among other warts, is a bit of a pain.

JMAP is really the same data model as CardDAV and CalDAV, just with different encodings of everything, if that’s what you want.
Author here. The Coronavirus impact on the economy is a surprise for me. Hence I view it as a Black Swan. Taleb calls it a White Swan. Maybe, he foresees it. The definition depends on the observer.
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They are afraid where it will lead to.
Hilariously it was the CCP that pushed the Wuhan virus name in the first place, instead of SARS-like which was what the doctors were calling it, so as to not appear incompetent for having repeated the mistakes of SARS and in order to distance themselves and make sure it's the local baeurucrats that take the blunt of the heat.

Then they went on claiming everything was good again, 0 new cases nationally, so the head honchos could take credit for showing leadership and whatnot. Now they're blaming new cases on foreigners, especially Africans, most of whom never even left the country since this whole ordeal started both to stoke nationalism + rally around the flag effect and so as to evade responsibility for not actually having stopped it yet.
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An interesting bit of trivia, but this idea is very old, and geographically close to the Pope (though the practice predates state sponsored Christianity).

In antiquity, the Roman Empire practiced a flavor of UBI, in that the city of Rome provided free wheat (later, bread) to its poorer citizens. This was no trivial matter, as importing and distributing (to 200k citizens, at its zenith) were complicated and expensive. This was a stable arrangement for centuries. After the loss of North Africa, the wheat stopped flowing so regularly, and it grew increasingly expensive to support this benefit, but giving it up was politically impossible. Rome collapsed, and the experiment ended.

Across the world, Lao Tzu said the wise lead by emptying hearts and filling bellies. There’s also some famous saying “Civilization is always four square meals away from collapse”.

What can we learn from this? UBI makes sense when times are good, when there is surplus and trade. But it’s very hard to revoke what a people are used to receiving for free. It might be more efficient to teach a human to fish, than to feed him fish “for free” every day.
This is a useful library for plists, in case you're interested - https://docs.python.org/3/library/plistlib.html
>Maybe a solution would be to change these laws so that the outcome of the lawsuit is a mandated change to ADA standards, but no damages,

We pretty much have this for violations of civil law. The judge says "just make your crap in compliance and we won't fine you" and continues the case to a later date and if it's in compliance by that later date they don't fine you.

Of course that doesn't solve the trolls that send a scary looking letter even when no violation exists and hope that the victim settles but it's better than the trolls being able to win in court.
That all makes sense, and I guess I agree on all points. Not knowing anything about the RAAF's resources (or the buyer's feelings on the deal), I would have leaned toward selling half and keeping half in a reserve capacity if it were at all feasible. If you need a reserve, you probably need it really badly, and it's not exactly unfathomable that the fancy-but-fragile F-35 might be grounded someday because of some automotive airbag recall-like "whoops" screwup by the manufacturer.

edit: it looks like you've still got two squadrons of Super Hornets until 2025, so you've got that going for you
It's not new. But it's also not common. Francis (see top-level comment) has had an unprecedented focus on poverty and the poor.
> What? That's not how evidence works. The onus is on the person making the claim to provide positive evidence.

You might have had a point if the Chinese regime wasn't putting it's propaganda machine into overdrive spewing conspiracy theories on how covid19 was created by the US to attack China.
No one knows where this started. We know where the first confirmed case was reported, but that's not the same thing.

I carry no brief for the CCP. But I do find it difficult to say nothing in the face of what looks like a struggle among a variety of factions, none openly declared, to establish a narrative of responsibility for a world-altering catastrophe, with no closer or more consistent reference to facts of any kind than is judged useful in support of whatever claim is being pushed at the moment - and, most notably, with the only reference to potentially contradictory facts being to claim either that they're unfounded, or presented with ulterior intent, or both.

Last time I saw something play out that looked like this, it followed the World Trade Center attack and resulted in the Iraq war. That was a catastrophe from both a humanitarian perspective and one concerned with enhancing the geopolitical power of the US - but it was, at least, relatively minor in both respects. This one, if it plays out similarly, seems likely to be much worse.

And aside from all of that, what the hell, is your time of no value? If you're going to peddle what may very well prove to be war propaganda, at least you should have the self-respect to refuse to do it for free.
I agree, it's a lousy name. Unfortunately, many people, upon hearing of it for the first time, assume that it entails forced redistribution of wealth -- take from the rich to give to the poor.

But that's not what distributism is about. It's a "third way" economic system that advocates for widespread ownership of productive property. Whereas in laissez-faire capitalism, the ownership of such property becomes concentrated in the hands of a relatively small number of wealthy business people, and in socialism the ownership falls into the hands of the state, controlled by a relatively small number of politicians and bureaucrats, distributists argue that society works best when ownership of productive property is not concentrated, but diffuse.

But to achieve that end by seizing and redistributing property would go against the point of distributism, which is not socialism under another name.

At most, distributists argue for a climate in which such a system can flourish.

Cooperative business structures are a great example of what distributism advocates for. And we know that co-ops can be really beneficial, as long as they're not disadvantaged under the law.
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Over the years, we've found the people are better at allocating their money to serve their own needs better than the government.

Wage caps just encourage hoarding capital, and accrual of wealth thru capital gains instead of wages.
At first I thought people would be in general more afraid of debt, as the world could stop spinning at any moment but payments still had to be made.
However, now with all these government aids it might point to the other direction as in “if the economy stops I know the government is going to give me a hand”.
The optcarrot benchmark is pretty far from being typical Ruby code. It simulates several chips inside the Nintendo entertainment system and essentially interprets the instructions those chips would execute. In actuality, real world benchmarks like web applications perform best on jruby,
Well, that seems to be the analogy the judge saw... and common law works by analogy.

Analogies and metaphors break though.. when stacked too high or precariously. Here we stack the segregation analogy and the metaphor of "corporation are people, with rights." So, discriminating against a class of corporations is a violation of civil rights. In this case, the civil rights of bankruptcy attorneys & collection agencies... who probably do unsavoury things with square's service.
You have previous known infections in the villagers who interact with bats and then travel to say the Wuhan live market. We study these viruses because we know they infect humans. The Spanish flu was a bird flu. There were no biosafety level 5 labs back then. We get viruses from other animals all the time.
Wow. This story was mind blowing. I don't understand how a small town can borrow against a state's future tax earnings? Why are Wisconsin's taxpayers on the hook for the stupid mistakes of these council members? Also the story doesn't make this clear. How are the incentive payments made to Foxconn? I'm certain that it's not just a direct transfer of tax dollars from the city/state to Foxconn (?).
> why would you deliberately release a bioweapon in a densely populated part of your own country? doesn't make sense.

Historically, China has not been above harming their own citizens. There is probably still a substantial "Greater Good" philosophy there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests
Okay "Freefall"
Indeed an interestng thread, thanks!
"Profiles" and "Away Messages", right? Different name, same thing. I'm not sure what I'm getting at.
Ask HN: What happened to Archive.org's Wayback machine?
Archive.org's Wayback machine has been broken for me for some months.

For example this page is broken https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.kuon.ch/post/2020-03-08-hsluv/
Nitpick: there's no such thing as BSL-5. The scale tops out at level 4. Coronaviruses are handled at BSL-3.
Different lab. I bookmarked https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/coronavirus-china-tra... but it's offline for me right now. (Can't say if any of it is right, but the claim of the ~180m-away lab was the most interesting bit.)
Yeah, I've eaten Ethiopian food and liked it, but unless I've been completely out of the loop, Ethiopian food is not "an American fascination".
Take a look at reddit to see how legions of paid government actors are actively shaping the discussion on mainstream platforms.
Some years back, after hearing from often unlikely sources "I like this pope", I did some ... very nonscientific ... research into the papacy and references to the poor or poverty, based on Wikipedia entries, going back about 200 years.

Even heavily discounting Wikipedia's extreme recency bias, Pope Francis's focus on the poor and on economic injustice seems utterly remarkable.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/258gq1/francis...
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A lot of this can be solved with push-to-talk, like what Virtual Airwaves is doing. They simulate radio in that the closer you are to someone, the "stronger" the signal is. (Take a look at their patents). https://virtualairwaves.com/ or try it at https://cb.virtualairwaves.com/ There are usually conversations on Channel 1 each evening, UK timezone.
Money is all of these things you've mentioned. It is a token that has no value on its own but can exchange for values most pertinent to the perceived need of whoever that has it.
I don't know about you but if there were hundreds or more of people congregating I sure as hell want the cops to show up.
No it doesn’t mean that.
Why is China reopening the wet markets if they know the virus came from there? I will let you ponder on that.
I don't think there is a clear path, or a collection of clear paths. If you're interested, read stuff and try stuff. With hard work and enough luck you might be a "wizard" some day. It would be silly to make promises.

For whatever it's worth, I have a PhD in compilers, and I work as a compiler developer. I have done nothing listed in the article except learn about regular expressions.

Also, I disagree with your disagreement with the last part of the article.