jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
We did that in 2008 also, I think the only reason Apple pulled that app is they expected the sales to be charged back and they were wanting to avoid the possible media circus going on around it. I am betting that in 2021 the story might have a different ending. If I wanted to have a service that would certify someone uber wealthy or old money and display an icon, I bet it could be done.

Nothing stops people from gold plating their iPhones or putting it in a jewel encrusted case - if you drop it better then gems take the blow then your phone, right? I’ve heard stories of überrich kids dropping $36k so they can rule on Clash of Clans, and grade school kids blowing their college funds on smurfberries to get ahead in whatever game uses those, and for the most part Apple is happy to let that happen but will step in with refunds to head off any media frenzy.

Has anyone tried to play Blackjack on an iPhone recently? It is almost impossible to find an app that lets you play any casino games without -buying chips- to play. Who is spending $99.99, $19.99, or $9.99 of real money to gamble X amount of fake money with real reward except being on a scoreboard for a day? If you just want to play just for fun you have to go onto web sites.
I'm feel very lucky to have gotten my first "programming job" without a technical interview (it was an unpaid high-school internship that I turned into a programming job, and eventually became full-time after I was old enough to be an employee). Interviews are still tough for me, I have experienced interview anxiety extreme enough that I went home instead of continuing a day of on-sites. The interview anxiety is totally unlike anything I deal with on the job, including during other "high stress" activities like presentations, or pair coding and debugging.

Starting my career I stepped into a totally different world. I have a lot of empathy for the situations Austen that mentions here, which are mostly even more stark than my own. I also have a ton of embarrassing stories and memories. Moving between totally different socio-economic contexts is difficult, and complicated.
They recently switched to using CloudFlare, look at the detail graphs - http://www.dnsperf.com/provider/DigitalOcean

I'm not sure why they're still so high though.
That's cute, but this instance is unlicensed commercial use of Disney's copyright material.

Where I worked nothing went to the press before legal review. It seemed burdensome but I'm sure it saved the company's hide on numerous occasions.
The only ways for foreigners to get into Gaza is when they work for an international humanitarian organization or when they are journalists. I run Gaza Sky Geeks and live in Gaza. I have seen Jewish Americans come frequently, both as humanitarian workers and as journalists.
These new apps are bringing a much more streamlined, accessible method for anyone with a smartphone. People in Ferguson or Egypt likely had a more complex set-up or were posting pre-recorded footage.
In my opinion what Meerkat did wrong was not making relationship with Twitter. The reason why they got blocked are simple:

- v1 of Meerkat was posting on user's behalf without permission, auto-follow @Meerkat on sign-up, sending Twitter notifications without permission.

- user's social graph cannot be ported to the 3rd party apps

- recreating commenting network using Twitter's API

This is why I am not surprised Twitter blocked them. They say: "you don't shit, where you eat".
Why is population growth a net positive?
The line in question:

> Because we humans are not fully adapted to a carnivorous diet, we simply cannot digest protein very well

So you spent years of your life eating nothing but meat, maybe eggs? You never had dairy, never had fruits (bananas, apples, oranges, lemon in or on something), never had vegetables (carrots, onions, leafy greens) in that time period?
To add a few more useful links. Language spec[0][1] is available under a free license and they welcome input on it[2]. The 3 top starred bugs in their bugtracker are: enums, non-nullable types, and "await" support [3], though I don't expect non-nullable types to ever be added, but they like hearing what is important to programmers. If there is really a killer language feature that people want, starring it will increase it's chances of being considered.

[0] https://www.dartlang.org/docs/spec/latest/dart-language-spec...

[1] https://code.google.com/p/dart/source/browse/trunk/dart/docs...

[2] http://news.dartlang.org/2014/02/standardizing-dart-1st-ecma...

[3] https://code.google.com/p/dart/issues/list?can=2&q=&sort=-st...
The essence, perhaps... with none of the nuance or shading. If one thinks that is unnecessary, dispensable fluff, Twitter is no doubt sufficient for most writing.

And a rhyming dictionary contains all poetry in many fewer pages.
You can't have a game be free on one platform and cost money on another either, at least I am not aware of any such games. So either it is free/cheap everywhere or you don't release it on phones.

Edit: And by high budget games I mean games with a high development budget, not games that costs a lot to buy. Genshin impact is a AAA game that runs on phones, they invested $100 million to make it, that is what I meant by it being a high budget game.
We were in talks with Evox for a long time, our contract very specifically allows advertising-backed public display of the photos. They've seen the site and love it. FWIW, the folks at Evox were awesome to deal with.
A company's web site is a reflection of their brand (start up or not). This is a poor reflection. Being a food product / brick and mortar entity does not get you off the hook.
I was thinking more in terms of that $5k anonymous buyer. The value of the apps aren't even close to that amount. The buyer is not getting any advertising benefit since they are anonymous. So the one benefit would be a tax credit due to the donation, but in this case there is no benefit there either.

BTW, I'm not trying to criticize the Humble Bundle folks in any way. I was really just considering the aspects of that large contribution.
Theft of postal service mail has been a crime since 1948. It apparently comes up all the time during divorce disputes (though for obvious reasons it isn't routinely prosecuted). Why should email be any different? The ECPA is decades old and covers exactly this issue.
It wasn't out at the time, but Scott Page's book The Difference is a compelling look at the underlying mathematical model for the value of diversity and problem solving. There's a good summary of it at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/science/08conv.html
Yeah, this definitely seems like old news to me. Many of the girls I know consider themselves geeks in one way or another (and most of my friends aren't in the tech circle, so that's not an issue).
They are more likely to be in the public eye. More visibility = more chances of being attacked for being sexist/discriminating = more programs and "support" to hire females, underrepresented minorities etc.

A startup is working hard just to survive. This is a survivorship bias often ignored by media and report likely because its not politically correct.
As I recall he has to spend at least half his time outside the US in that instance (or is taxed as if he were natively resident). I am not a tax lawyer, YMMV
When you say that Tupperware is 5 years behind Borg, what do you mean? It would take 5 years to add current Borg features? It lacks features Borg had 5 years ago? Or it would take 5 years to reach parity with Borg as launched, i.e. it's actually 17+ years behind?
Create a web page w/ your links and then use one of these services to convert it into an RSS feed:

* http://fetchrss.com/
* https://rss.app/rss-feed/webpage-to-rss
* https://feed43.com/

Or, create it manually:

* https://www.wikihow.com/Create-an-RSS-Feed
it is essential for the rendering of postscript fonts. there is no replacement for it, unfortunately
Web browsers have an ideological position that isn't compatible. Mozilla doesn't want to promote anything.

While we can create a system that supports n protocols we really only need a hand full of new things at a time.

The benefit is fetching stuff over ipfs, onion, gopher, freenet, zeronet, dat, blockstack, news and even irc

Until we can visit ipfs://example.com after a clean install the whole project borders a pipe dream.

I argue that if you cant see the benefits we've done a terrible job explaining them to you. It is sort of a chicken and egg problem. Why would I put a news:// link on my website if you cant do anything with it?

The expected behavior is a prompt asking if you want to install a news reader and register with a news server.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Usenet_newsreaders#Fre...

https://www.eternal-september.org

Don't expect grandma to figure out that stuff by herself. I might as well not post news:// links. She would just be confused.
You're right to question this. It has been analysed by every executive body around the world. A few observations:

- The simulation of how this plays out on a 6M/1Y run might show that the economy will go to a deeper hell otherwise. After seeing the medical system overwhelmed and people starting to present breathing difficulties in the subway at rush hour, many will isolate themselves and reduce economic activity anyway - going out/trips/restaurants for a long time.

- The UK economy is not insulated. If the other countries manage to contain the spread - and they probably will at some point - they will have to stop people coming from the UK since they will be very likely to carry the virus.

It's a very unfortunate trade-off but we need to live with it for the time being.
The cost to plunging the world into a global depression is far worse than this virus will ever be.
Worth noting that the dispute dates back to 1978, so it's a big deal for many that it's come to an end; perhaps not for people who aren't interested in buying music they already own, but the achievement's still worth celebrating.

It's hard for Apple to announce anything quietly these days, so I think they've managed it pretty well; a leak to the WSJ, an understated holding page (albeit with a rather bold claim), and a stylish full-screen feature on the homepage.

Anything bolder might have raised even more false hopes of something 'bigger'. Anything more demure and it might have failed to give credit to a quarrel that's lasted over three decades.
RIPE stores every BGP update message sent through the AMSIX in an Oracle DB. I know this because I know the guy that does it. I don't know specifically about ARIN but we can safely assume they do the same.

Unless someone actually goes and looks at what was being sent by Chinese BGP routers at the time of this supposed outage they should STFU. I'm not saying this is definitely BS. But the article is seriously short on details.
In my technical writing class in college, the professor made the point that "recursion" is based on the verb "to recur", and that "to recurse" means "to curse again".
That's Netflix paying Comcast directly, not Cogent giving Comcast the few grand to upgrade the link that they were purposefully not upgrading to force Netflix into paying.

EDIT: Also worth noting that Netflix has to pay every month (which is what Comcast wants) rather than Cogent just giving them $10k once for new hardware (not as delicious as lots more money!)
So everyone without an AI background but with high net worth has a go - is this how it works? Like the Ice Bucket challenge but about AI scaremongering.

In the grand scheme of things, the important bit is for some intelligence on Earth to survive. Maybe a non-Facebook+CandyCrush-loving kind of intelligence would be a better option.
Just philosophical. I'm honestly not sure which approach I like more after having done it both ways: highly isolated projects (open source world, at Amazon), and monolithic (at Google).

It all boils down to dependency management in the end.

---

For the monolithic world:

* You're always developing against the latest version of your dependencies (or very near it).

* This comes at the cost of a continuous, but minimal, maintenance burden as upstream folk make changes.

* * However, because things are monolithic, upstream projects can change _your_ code, as well. You can be confident that you know exactly who is affected by your API change.

* * Similarly, being able to make an API change and run the tests of _everyone that depends on you_ is a huge benefit.

* You have to be more diligent when testing things that go out to users, as your code is constantly evolving.

---

For the isolated world:

* You can develop without fear of interruptions; your dependencies are pinned to specific versions.

* You get to choose when to pay the cost of upgrading dependencies (but typically, the cost is pretty high, and risks introducing bugs).

* * Security patches can be particularly annoying to manage, though (if you let your dependencies drift too far from current)

* During deployment, you can be extremely confident about the bits that go out.

* You can get away with less rigorous infrastructure (and maintenance costs related to that)
Microbes should not be seen as animals, but as nanotechnology. A bacteria doesn't differentiate between human's throat and a martian's butt. If there are resources it needs and conditions that don't destroy it outright, it will thrive there.
That is apparently the "google style" https://github.com/google/yapf/blob/master/yapf/yapflib/styl...

No option to change the line endings though, and it changes them all to Windows style.
People keep using the word "never" and "always" to describe periods of time that are relatively short.

We wouldn't say "never" with a sample size of 5 in any other scenario, but with finance we seem to look at small samples and confidently say things like always and never.

How does this make any sense?
I need to spend at least 15 minutes a day cleaning up my inbox at work, which can easily grow to an hour if I neglect it for a few days. This product sounds truly awful.
Paraffin candles release benzene and toluene at a minimum. Then factor in the amount of soot candles will readily produce when people don't trim the wicks between uses (and cheap candles are sooty no matter what you do) and, yeah.
Not the OP, but I’ve been using Netcup for video transcoding. It was the best bang for the buck out of a large number of providers I tried.
it is a smear and therefore does not need to have a point. back in the days tones of illegal immigrants were slaving on russia's constructions projects causing uproar among locals competing for same jobs.
Great paper and highly useful for biogerontology research. Thank you for sharing
Some of the people who are usually warning about AI doom, like the rationality community, were screaming in January 2020 that Coronavirus is getting out of control, and a pandemic is inevitable.

They were accused of fear mongering at the time, and told that they should worry about the flu, and not about a virus which only killed a few hundred people.
Navalny is going to die in Russian jail, like millions of people before him.

Russians don't care on average. They have been living under authoritarian regimes for many centuries, and are more or less OK with them.

No reasonable amount of outside pressure is going to stop it. Nuking Kremlin might do the trick but that amount of pressure is not reasonable, IMO.
IMO using things like [likely] has more potential to shoot oneself in the foot than improve performance.

Using real execution statistic to determine branch prediction (at compile time) should be the new standard
> But if you do a test you first have to physical sign of that other people are anonymized informed that someone they likely had contact with has covid

This is false. I've been tested about 15 times within the last year and none of the things I "signed" included any of that.

I didn't have to physically sign ANYTHING at all. What are you talking about?? It's just a click field on the online application and that only says that you're okay with your data being shared with the lab that also sends you your test results.

> then when you get the result you still need to agree again to share this information.

This is also absolutely untrue as Covid, among others, is on the list of illnesses that the local Gesundheitsamt has to be notified of. It's not even optional. It's the law. https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ifsg/__6.html

Honestly curious where you got that information from?
Sure, but cargo-crev does not seem to be about safe vs. unsafe code, it seems to be about vetted vs. unvetted code. If someone will go on to wrongly vet a big Rust library full of unsafe code, and you trust that someone's reviews, there still won't be anything that tells you of the unsafe code, if I understand correctly.
Ampere seems to be in the same space and shipping product. Why couldn't this company?
Now tell me which side destroyed education.
Not quite! It's on expensive side when compared to avg income.

It feels comparatively very cheap in US.
That's a dumb move from facebook unless they are planning to buy every other chat applications and ask their users to share their data with Facebook. I'm amazed that they are asking for it and not doing it already.
"because most people are not equipped to understand what is reasonable"

> I hear this all the time now. But let's be clear -- this is the talk of fascism.

Nonetheless it seems objectively true to me. This may just be my biased perspective being substantially smarter than average, but I'm continually surprised by how gullible, uneducated, and uninformed the average person is. In the USA especially - stop skimping on your education system there!

I'm also surprised pleasantly by what humans in the aggregate accomplish, so it's not all doom and gloom.
> So how come this gets twisted on its head when it comes to web apps? The user should be allowed to do what they want, right?

The web needs to be secure against untrusted code, so it makes sense that there might be things you can do in a native application that you can't do in the browser.

> Why should I _have_ to use native apps if I don't want to?

It's not an affront on your freedoms to impose sensible restrictions on browsers' capabilities.

> As a web developer, why do I need to learn Qt or GTK or whatever to ship something useful to end users, when I already know HTML and JS and could easily deliver my product if the right native API was exposed?

If you want to use your web-dev skills to build native applications, there are various frameworks that let you do exactly that. You can call C/C++ functions from Electron. [0] Of course, you also have the option of learning and using C++ for your own GUI code, with frameworks like Qt.

> Remember splash screens? Random freezes? Running out of RAM because some random app in the background decided to malloc 80GB for some godforsaken reason? How is that a better experience than a web app running in a sandboxed tab you could easily kill whenever you want?

This is a straw-man. The people you are caricaturing are just people who want technically excellent software. This includes (but is not limited to) the efficient use of computational resources. No-one is pining for the instability of Windows 98.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/39569062/
Hopefully, it is however a slow process. In India, whatsapp is so dominant, I cant imagine what it would take for them to move to anything else
JetBrainer here. It was an on-premise instance of TeamCity.
Once again - Signal[0] as an alternative. It's fully Open-Source (including the backend) and their crypto is public and independently verified[1][2][3]...

[0] https://signal.org/en/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software)#Encryption_p...

[2] https://threatpost.com/signal-audit-reveals-protocol-cryptog...

[3] https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1013.pdf [PDF]
http://archive.is/XTYO6
In my thirty years experience in IT, my statement might be right.
Reading this article made me think of Terry Bisson's "They're Made Out of Meat", particularly apropos the conversation earlier today about the Fermi Paradox.

http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html
At first I thought this is an article with tips to build a portfolio. Then I thought ah, they help me publish my stuff, like dribble or behance. Then I arrived at the node.js setup page and I closed it.

I recently started to update my GitHub profile for the same reason and created my username.github.io page with a simple landing that summarizes my interesting repos. My point is that the need is definitely there, but I think the message of the site is "if you have zero imagination how to show off that you can code, here are some projects for you".
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(Chinese Proverb)
Don't believe these people. A university education (especially in CS) will introduce you to A LOT of people and opportunities in your field, will expand your technical horizon, and will force you to learn things you wouldn't have otherwise learnt on your own. In my opinion, all the anti-university hate is from people who are too lazy to make the most of their university education on their own and expect their money and degree to magically earn them money after graduation. School will open doors for you, it's up to you to pick which one to walk through.

Personally, I went to a top-10, big-10 school. If you wanted to go into research, you had that opportunity. If you wanted a silicon valley internship, you had that opportunity, if you wanted a startup position, you had that opportunity. The money is optional, if you can stick to federal grants/loans, you can consolidate them all into a single payment, and when you get your job out of college, start paying it off, as far as I can tell, it's the private, non fed loans that should be avoided like the plague.

I loved my school, I loved my college life, I loved my friends, and I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.
Next time have a cliff so if a founder leaves within the first yr, he gets nothing.
It doesn't have any impact on it. You can deal with this in either case just fine.

OpenDNS was an LLC for it's first 3.5 years of existence and then we converted to a C corp when Sequoia Capital invested.
Hey may agree to less than what he has today because by giving back a huge chunk of equity to the company it can allocate it to future hires. That way he is hopefully increasing the chances of his somewhat smaller stake being worth more later.

In other words, he'd be better off owning less of something huge than more of something small. :-)

This is not unheard of. It might not be common, but I've only been in silicon valley six years and I've seen it at least a handful of times.