skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps a different business culture:

Staff are given a record of their employment history, and companies have to follow strict rules when dismissing employees:

* Fired is a big negative. It goes in the government sealed employment record. But you do get 3 months salary on the spot.
* Chose to resign gets a month's salary and (usually) no need to come to work and get on the job hunt.
* Released (made redundant), a pain for employers but great for employees, as they get the 3 months' benefit plus it is not their fault.

Focus on the 3rd option, especially when getting a contract signed. Powers out of your control are out of your control, don't get blamed for them.
I didn't realize that if you click on the video, it will tell you if there is a child drowning there or not.
I think pro or anti-oop sentiments as doctrine are both harmful.
There are times where implementing OOP simply to do it could be make your code more complex.
I think Casey's attitude may be pushback against the promulgation of poor OOP practices.
OOP is simply a tool to put in your toolbox, if it suits you, then use it.
The people dreaming up the seasteading plans imagine self-sustaining, seaworthy rafts populated by like-minded individuals. They are, typically, the sort of person who has a rather positive opinion of human nature, and imagine that most other people are at least a tiny bit rational and ethical.

They are not just ignoring, but never even considering, those people who already live "free" on the high seas: pirates, human traffickers, poachers of protected fisheries, smugglers, toxic waste dumpers, and the generally unsavory characters who are largely invisible to the rest of the world.

Any seastead will eventually encounter those people, who are already out there, on their reefers and other largely obsoleted vessels. They do not subscribe to the non-aggression principle (NAP), and are often very skilled at concealing their unethical behavior from observers. I have never seen this issue seriously addressed by any NAP-libertarian.

What do you do when a ship pulls up to your seastead's floating dock, and you see an unhappy man bolted to the deck with a neck chain? If the raft next door runs a brothel, how do you really know that none of the employees have been coerced into working there? If a factory-mothership offers to sell you its by-catch, should you worry about where it came from? Could a group of armed "guests" take control of your floating home? What do you do when your fish farm gets poached? Will you always know where the line between non-interference and complicity lies? If you make any wrong decisions, you may die, or attract the future ire of someone better armed than you.

The key concept is that people who have better reasons for evading the laws of nation-states--typically prison or execution--are already out there. Furthermore, you can't positively identify them or their motives, nor can you avoid dealing with them in the long run. And if you establish a system that deals with them (and naturally, the traditional seasteader's bogeyman of a state-owned navy vessel) acceptably, how do you prevent that from turning into a government? And if those guys are already out there thumbing their noses at the law, why bother with the complicated engineering projects? Just buy an old reefer and take it out beyond the territorial limit, and you're done.

It all makes me think that seasteading is a way to scam people afraid of losing some of their money into actually losing most of their money. If the promoters weren't out to sell speculative floating concrete boxes to credulous suckers, they could be actually operating one of those motherships, supplying and trading with people who live in international waters, on their existing convenience-flagged vessels. Why aren't they?
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Watching "it" happen. the drowning
From the article

"Each megabyte of 3D Xpoint will certainly be significantly cheaper than the equivalent amount of Ram. And the new technology has the added advantage of being non-volatile, meaning it does not "forget" information when the power is switched off.
But, unfortunately it is still not quite as fast as Ram, and some - but not all - applications need the extra speed the older tech provides."
> I continually hear tragic stories of them.

Just remember that you don't hear the mundane pool stories where nobody gets hurt. And those exist in MUCH larger numbers.

In my opinion, banning is often the wrong reaction. Yes, swimming pools can be dangerous. The solution is better education for those who use them.
I think you have this a bit backward. The cleaning business is at it's core, a recurring revenue business. Cleaning at regular intervals keeps the cost down (time) and builds back profit if the first cleaning was discounted. Moving on the other hand is something you don't need often and is harder forecast revenue. In either case the employee/contractor problems exists.
"Many movies are made outside of Hollywood (so-called independent movies) with cheaper talent (sometimes working for free), but only rarely are they as financially successful as Hollywood movies."

There are one or two individual producers who crack the code to making movies that are financially successful AND outside the Hollywood model, but they're rare.

Right now, Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity, The Purge, Insidious) and Mark Duplass (The Puffy Chair, Safety Not Guaranteed, Creep) are the two names to watch in the indie-but-also-profitable space.
The fact that PPK did a lot of good work on web, doesnt mean this article is good. Any genius can create crapwork. So did albert einstein. I once saw a presentation from PPK where he proposed JSON over SMS....(http://quirksmode.org/presentations/Spring2012/bigm.pdf)
IMHO that presentation was technically not very strong.
Not news. That's debugging info.

Try 'strip'ping the binary and try again?
So would you be in favor of the advertising business model for books? All books would be free, but there would be ads on the cover and interspersed throughout the book, sometimes on separate pages, sometimes in boxes between paragraphs. There would be product placements, as well as “native ads” which appear to be integral chapters of the book.

What if authors who refused ads just couldn’t compete against the deluge of free books?

What if books had a way of tracking who read them, and this previously private information was sold on the information markets?
Given your example, I thought you were talking about aircraft, so the diminishing returns in the recent 50 years seemed salient.
You should decide what you are really trying to accomplish, because learning a trendy language and game development are not really on the same path. Maybe you could learn Go and use GLFW, but if you want to do things you can't do in javascript you will likely want to learn C++11/14 and get familiar with a couple of solid libraries. Cinder might be worth checking out.
How about letting the receiver choose whatever they are comfortable with?

You can just send it in text/plain.
Stool is just a benchmarking utility for comparing JavaScript snippets. For each test case you enter a name and the code you want to run.

You can definitely code in your own editor, and copy/paste the JS into the text box.

Note however the tool is not meant for large amounts of JavaScript (e.g. not for comparing entire files), but rather for comparing specific atomic implementations (comparing sort algorithms, methods of query DOM elements, etc).
Is TV no longer a dominant channel for big budget film marketing?
Some parts can not be transferred, but others can, particularly usage rights (publishing etc.) and licensing happens all the time.
If what they claim is true, it has the potential to be actually cheaper than both DRAM and NAND, based on the density. The biggest disadvantage at the moment is that is so new that we don't know much.

What can be read from the announcement: it's not as rewritable as DRAM: only up to 1000 more writes than NAND. It's also slower than DRAM. But it seems better than NAND in all aspects.
Amazing, the front page of HN has become completely politicized.

The snowden petition gets buried, the NY times misleading BS title stays and now this fluff piece of propaganda gets on front page.

HN is just another tool of propaganda for the white house.
The article mentions:

>By contrast, 3D XPoint works by changing the properties of the material that makes up its memory cells to either having a high resistance to electricity to represent a one or a low resistance to represent a zero.

Which sounds a lot like memristors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor to me. If it's memristor memory, the main advantages are that it's cheap, uses hugely less power than flash, takes up less space, and has far lower latencies.

We're probably a long ways from replacing DRAM with memristors because it's still much higher latency, but if this stuff scales up well you could do something like put the whole page file on it and get even faster loads than current top of the line SSDs.
Actually, it's different. See this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8008960
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If a company and its potential customers are prevented from making a mutually beneficial exchange because of some rule, that's a cost. You can argue that the cost is outweighed by the benefits of the rule, but you can't just claim that the cost doesn't exist.
No, all debit was regulated. As @pc said, the difference is whether or not the issuing bank has $10 billion in assets. Some kinds of prepaid debit cards are also excluded from the regulation.
I'd rather suggest to train children in swimming as soon as possible. Even if swimming pools would be banned, there are private pools, there are lakes and rivers and creeks and canals and oceans and shores, there are ships that sink and idiots that push you down a bridge. The drowning rates are especially high in countries, where people are not able to swim. I know this from the Sudan: people do not learn to swim in the desert (and not in the cities, because there are no water parks). Everytime a boat capsizes in the Nile (and this happens unfortunately too often) all of the passengers drown, just feet away from the shore, because they are unable to swim. A couple of years ago the entire national soccer team of Sudan died that way.

Being able to swim is an absolutely necessary survival skill and kids should learn it before they start to read and write!
Here's someone knowledgeable https://medium.com/@bethnoveck/funding-science-with-prizes-i...
The army is under a lot of pressure to become more "inclusive". If the standards for female recruits were the same as they are for males, no women (with a few exceptions) would be able to join the marines, or any other corp. Despite the popular narrative, men and women are not equal when it comes to physical capacity. It doesn't mean that women can't join the army in positions that don't require such capacities.

As a side note, it is interesting to see that social activists are pushing really hard for women to be able to join elite units on a "free will" basis, but not at all for girls to be required to enroll into selective service.
It's about limiting risk: kids can die both while driving a car and being a passenger of a car, but that doesn't mean it's inconsistent to ban child driving. For young children especially, drowning in pools is the leading cause of drowning, much more than natural settings, which are relatively rare (for young kids, bathtub drownings are next after pool drownings.)

I said most, because I see a place for swimming pools that are monitored closely by lifeguards and that offer swimming lessons. I'm thinking more of private, backyard swimming pools.
Correct. Freelance sites' negotiation shows that there is due consideration and discussion, along with a meeting of the minds.

oDesk isn't selling you out to X company and saying if you don't, they're going to lower your rates. They simply provide the portal in which to make the deal.

Uber relies on skirting regulation, as well as misdirecting their employees of what the risks truly are. If I'm hurt on the job, workmans comp takes care of it. What if I'm hit while running an uber run? What if a customer sues for getting hit while in the car? What if it's illegal to run as a cab in my state without a chauffeurs license?

Uber counts on you not knowing the logical and legal landscape, as well as skirts employee protections.

All to make a buck.
Can anyone explain what's going on in that chart at the Uber b round [0]? It states their valuation at 50m and says Goldman invested 37m - how would that ever happen? Also Angellist says that round was 32m and Goldman were 1 of 4 parties in it. [1]

[0] http://assets.bwbx.io/images/irAfvE0DI.rE/v1/488x-1.jpg
[1] https://angel.co/uber
Banning's a pretty harsh response. I was gonna respond with "So are you going to ban cars?", but apparently you're okay with that.

Most of the things that are worth doing in life involve some risk - getting on a plane, getting in a car, going to an unfamiliar neighborhood, doing any kind of sport or physical activity, letting your kids walk to a nearby park. It's not the job of the state to ensure that its citizens are perfectly safe. It is the job of the state to ensure that people have the information available to them to make informed choices about risks, and to ensure that people can't push risks off on other people who didn't sign up for them. Swimming, at least, doesn't pose the same risk to other people that guns and dangerous driving do.
DO is for people who want root access to a commodity VM at the lowest price possible.

Rackspace is for people who want root access to a commodity VM and are willing to pay more for support.

AWS is for people who are willing to ditch commodity VMs and replace them with orchestrated services. (They'll sell you a commodity VM via EC2, but if that's all you want there's not a lot of reason to go with them.)

Rackspace's problem is that this segmentation puts them in the awkward position of being the wrong choice for the extremely price-sensitive (who go with DO 'cause it's cheap, or with even cheaper alternatives like Dreamhost) and the wrong choice for the "money is no object" crowd (who go with AWS, because at scale working with orchestrated services is much easier than managing huge fleets of persistent VMs). Which ends up not leaving a whole lot of people for them to sell to.
Considering it was the only blurred page, I wonder if that made it stand out more...
> it did not wave the arms
We are looking at using Docker to help make our dev environments a little bit more sane. We deploy to Heroku so we use the Heroku docker image to give us (what is hopefully) as close to production environment in dev as possible. I have got docker working in a proof of concept project but the performance on OSX when using volumes, so you can actually dev on it, pretty terrible.
Really the value for the customers comes from being able to hail a cab from your phone (because we're talking Uber, here). I don't think there's really any major value intrinsic to the "sharing economy" that trickles out to the end user. Uber could just as easily be a big company with a fleet of cars, or a service that lets nice taxis connect with fares. It would probably all the same to customers.
2FA is available for all users, not just Enterprise.
Always the same thing.

>1000X faster, 1000X cheaper!

Then "No, you can't buy one right now, but you will be able to do it "soon". And, no it won't actually be 1000X faster neither 1000X cheaper because blah blah blah..."
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It appears to be slower than DRAM, so it's not going to be a sufficient replacement. I also see no indication of how much storage it actually offers. The range between RAM and SSDs isn't that large and I think it's going to be a huge difference whether they can offer 16GB, 32GB or even 64GB at an affordable price.

For a lot of users 16GB might not be worthwhile, 64GB might actually allow some people to not use a SSD at all, so it I think they will have to provide 32GB of storage. That seems obvious enough that the fact it's not stated in the article seems somewhat concerning.
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I'm really wondering if something very close will be possible soon with AWS EFS.
It has to be created by someone, but it runs without maintenance because anyone can run it. It also can't be regulated because anyone can run it. These are some of the benefits of a decentralized system.

Funding the creation of a such a system is an interesting problem that I think will be solved.
PPK raises very valid points. I further want to add that you do not need flying boxes, fading tool-tips and what not to make your app look cool or even beautiful. In-fact it is pretty silly to try to make websites look very beautiful and cool because you can never cater to the taste of every single user. Your flying boxes which look cool to one person might look ugly and distractive to another one. Do we not have enough flame wars on whether iOS looks prettier than Android or the other way round?

Google is popularizing a set of styles called "Material Design" and it's friends. Here is an example: http://www.google.com/design/spec/animation/responsive-inter.... Here is another example of something more classy: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com. Why the first one is any better than the second one, only Google knows.

We can have simple sites, like the present google home page, like the blog post you linked, like the second example I linked, etc. without emulating native, which do their work, and users use them with a lot of love.

P.S. The question "why do you need smooth transitions" applies to native apps as well, PPK ;)
In the land where there are no "1000 tech experts" warning about them in mainstream media and rich moguls like Kurzweill and Musk getting interviewed every second week on the matter...
I am aware of why they haven't made a profit. The point is that this is still a bet and if the strategy doesn't hold up they will be punished much more quickly than a privately funded company.

My point is that the latency that exist in privately funded unicorns can end up creating a bubble exactly because the feedback loop is too slow.
Interesting perspective, I can follow the line of reasoning for sure.

Part of the reason I mentioned song or story (vs. visual format e.g. a comic) is because it allows the consumer to fill in the visualization themselves. Thus, while using the 'Steamboat Willy' version as a creator, the audience is free to substitute their conception as they please. No doubt I'm working a fine line here, but a catchy song about "Mikey Mouse on the River" could pretty much hit the factors to ground it in public domain...well, I'd like to think so at least haha.

I guess we'll have a whole new set of legal knots to work through. I mean as in Trademark vs. Public Domain Copyright. This does bring me to recall Southpark has frequently used Mickey Mouse in a parody fashion (as an evil, iron-fisted empire chief) and apparently did a good enough job of sticking to Fair Use that I can't find evidence Disney ever sued.

What I'm getting at is I do agree Disney is highly motivated to protect every bit of their IP to the fullest extent possible - no doubt their lawyers like this very much - but in a changing landscape, there may be certain workarounds that clever artists will use.
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Secret was an awesome app, it has not only inappropriate content but a lot of cool jokes, stories, news etc.
It was closed not because people haven't used it but because it went not the way founders wanted.
We don't have over expectations in the field.
> We're more than happy to ban guns, while they're not even close to as dangerous as swimming pools.

What? Guns cause over 3 times as many deaths as drowning.
After looking it up, it is a coast guard approved flotation device, so I would have allowed it at my pools. That was my rule, and it was always nice having that when parents questioned my rule. Things like rafts, boogie boards, round tubes, noodles, those were the big no-no's.
I did that at one place, but I wasn't super satisfied with the process--having to download container images on spin-up was annoyingly slow and I didn't feel like we were getting better dev/prod consistency versus Vagrant and Packer.
Show HN: FB Cusom Audiences as a Service
Hello HNers:

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You can create “buckets” of your website visitors that have (or have not) performed certain actions on your website and go after them accordingly.

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If you are too busy or do not have the in-house expertise, let us do it for you. Here is the link to get started: http://startuplift.com/facebook-custom-audiences/
But the case that he is making in this post is strong.
> Drowning is the single most dangerous form of activity for children. We're more than happy to ban guns, while they're not even close to as dangerous as swimming pools. Even traffic accidents come second as the cause for death for children, after swimming pools.

That may be true for children age 1-4, because they can move around but not swim. However, cars, falls, and poison are far more dangerous overall. Learning how to swim in a safe manner reduces the risk of drowning.
This website cycles through a series of videos. You will see a different scene depending on when you opened the link. For that reason, not all of the comments here refer the same particular incident. Even so, they all depict the common characteristics of someone drowning, followed by a lifeguard who quickly spots this and acts to save the child. Sometimes you can see the rescued child's face and the panic is obvious.

At first viewing, it is not always obvious why the lifeguard acted, but on repeat viewing the signs of drowning become very obvious: head persistently under the water, arms held out to the side, body rigid, jerky movements, and remaining in one spot rather than swimming about. Sometimes it is possible to mark them as being at risk before they get into difficulty.

Everybody should learn how recognize these symptoms.
Ah, thanks for putting some numbers out there everyone. Very interesting. That's why I love HN.

Musk has said several times that if he wasn't working on space and EVs, he'd be working on hyperloop or electric planes. Wonder what potential he sees in the latter.
Exactly why people hate them. You want to get people to come back? Make it easy for them to accomplish something. Don't add an extra step where I have to switch contexts and download your app over a slow connection after I've already downloaded your 8mb of js over a slow connection :)
They explicitly mention that they are going to release it next year. Not exactly when next year but it's clear enough of a statement that it will be a public failure, if they don't come out with it.

I think that's sufficient to not put it into the vaporware category.
Who needs flash when we can have 15 competing application frameworks for the web that all just abuse the canvas as their medium, so we aren't even authoring HTML/CSS anymore?
Then you're SOL, because web-delivered applications that own the experience will happen. Hopefully someone would come up with a better user-respecting user agent by then.