jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Maybe. The only reason I keep facebook active is because I have 25 first cousins, and that doesn't include their spouses, or the 25 children that comprise my younger first cousins once removed, some of who are adults already.

So when one of my 2 score aunts and uncles has a medical emergency, nobody wants to play phone tag around the world, even with group text messages.

Point being, even people without huge families like mine sometimes have big social groups.
He could make his own platform, but the users matter. With users, there is influence. In old times, you used to buy the news paper company to get influence.

> He is a billionaire who has built huge amounts of wealth by exploiting people, and he wants to control the flow of information and build his wealth even more.

I wonder if we find a billionaire from the top 20 wealthiest who hasn’t at some level
Yes - Inverse Conway Maneuver
OK, but Twitter has about 330m monthly users, that's not much compared to Facebook, TV, newspapers, radio, etc.
> How would you write this simple loop with unsigned loop indices?

> double scale = <non-integer value>
> for (ssize_t ii = 0; ii<len; ii++) {
> data[ii] = sinc(scale*(ii - len/2));
> }

It took me a minute to realize that generating negative multiples of scale was (presumably) not a bug, but that would just be:

double scale = <non-integer value>;
for(size_t ii=0; ii<len ;ii++)
{ data[ii] = sinc(-scale*(len/2-ii)); }

(Assuming my guesses about the intended behaviour and the types of data/sinc/etc are correct.)

FWIW, idiomatic (so admittedly non-obvious) reverse loops look like:

for(size_t ii=len; ii-- > 0 ;)
{ data[ii] = sinc(-scale*(len/2-ii)); }
I used pfSense in a very different context (vpn gateway) and I used the vmware image option. I haven't used the multiwan feature and I don't know if it can be installed on (almost) any router as openwrt.

I did tried dd-wrt for this same purpose, the interface is much better, it is very flexible as openwrt, but I couldn't put my wifi on client and AP mode at the same time and I needed to connect to one of my WAN using wifi because that modem is not close enough yet.
Now that's a surprise. I didn't think Blekko was doing much more than reselling Yandex and adding some social features. Yandex has an $30M equity stake in Blekko - did IBM buy that out?
> A comparison of the two is going to provoke, but similarities do exist. It is an uncomfortable truth that both slave owners and corporations...

It has always irked me that people are unable to differentiate between comparing two things and equating two things. Despite being completely different actions, it's commonly accepted to treat them the same. This leads to all sorts of misconceptions and invalidates plenty of reasonable points.

It shouldn't be "provoking" or "uncomfortable" that any two things share some similarities, because everything shares at least some similarities with every other thing. That doesn't mean other properties (e.g. the evils of slavery) of those things automatically become transposable.
What are the primary reasons people don't hurt each other more?

1) Unfavorable risk/reward ratio (threat of punishment or nothing to gain)

2) They are not a sociopath

You don't mind losing half the safety net right up front?
"Code coverage measures how comprehensively a piece of code has been tested; if a program contains 100 lines of code and the quality-assurance process tests 95 lines, the effective code coverage is 95 percent."

I've never heard of this before. Where does this come from and why did they suspect this would be indicative of anything?
Or they have proper syntax to allow wiring in a sane style, letting the compiler generate the callback hell in codegen. In F#, async is just a library. C# has it built in via a dedicated keyword.
Calvin Coolidge, Jr., 16 year old son of President Coolidge, died from an infected blister developed while playing tennis on the White House courts without socks, in 1924:

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/poison/coolidge.asp

(the debunked myth is that it was the dye in his socks that killed him).

Another version:

http://deadpresidents.tumblr.com/post/18573063027/blister
>> "the employees of this company don't care about how much money they get paid"

More for you, then!

Seriously though, that's always an uncomfortable question when it comes up.

Before accepting my current job, I was interviewing at another place. When asked, I kept my current salary private and was honest about my reasons: "I'd rather not disclose that, because it puts me in a bad situation when it comes to salary negotiation."

They responded with something along the lines of "Once an offer goes out, we don't negotiate beyond that. We try to pay employees what they're worth and we think we do a very good job of making that evaluation before hiring into our team."

Note that what they said seems like they gave me an incentive to offer a number. But read a little more closely and note that this really isn't the case.

I reminded the HR rep that the job listing had a salary range posted, and if any offer was outside of the "very high end" of the range, then I would likely to decline. Once a company makes a decision to hire you, they want you. If they aren't willing to negotiate a salary beyond an initial offer, then good luck negotiating a raise.

In my case, I had 2 more interviews (one via phone, one in person) before I decided that the company wasn't a good fit.
I reached part 3 and still don't know a thing about Docker other than it's history and how its the best thing since sliced bread and it's amazing that it is what it is because its amazing.

Does part 4 finally deliver on the promise in the title?
As far as I know there is no legal precedence (and I'm not a lawyer), but I think that figuring out data formats and protocols counts as "ideas and principles" -- which is okay. It's hard to say, really, courts aren't famous for showing any understanding of computer science.

There is the DeCSS-case, which led to acquittal in Norwegian courts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS
Excellent, though I fear it might be a bit too late to seriously challenge Clojure+core.typed and/or lesser degree Typed Racket. Of course Shen's type system is much more powerful, but that's probably not going to drive adoption as much as us typeful-programming weenies would like. Of course having multiple implementations running on multiple underlying platforms could turn out to be a killer feature...
I don't know for sure, but anything else would surprise me, really.
I was pretty amazed to receive the message :) .

(I guess I chose an extremely favourable profile picture! Definitely didn't expect it)

I can confirm it contains the text described. I was also surprised, as I didn't know OkCupid did any kind of segregation.

Amusingly, it came just at the time I went "off the market" :P
My theory:

I would bet that the system a sliding scale, not a hot or not situation. More than likely users are being shown matches that the system deems to have similar "attractiveness" levels, based on that click-through metric mentioned in the email. The email we see in this article would then just be a notification letting the user know that he or she has cross into the top 50% of click throughs. As their click through has been increasing slowly over the length of their membership they would have been seeing more and more other "attractive" people as their rank increased.
I know what the problem is... After seeing some of the pictures of the people who got that letter, I'm pretty convinced they gave it to the bottom half.
It might make sense behind the scenes, but was it a mistake for them to actually tell their users about it? They must have known the uglies would find out about it, so you've gotta balance out the fact that you've just flattered some of your users with the fact that you've insulted the rest.

Besides, ugly users are probably a lot more profitable than good-looking ones.
Couldn't agree more. Tend to find i'm most productive when i'm miserable. Just as enthusiasm for a project can lead to great things, the motivation to get yourself out of a bad mood can work equally well - but I wouldn't recommend secluding yourself in the hope that you'll suddenly become a talented writer/philosopher/scientist!
It's a fun if janky build, and he's using the "wrong lens for that" distortion as an analog framing effect. Not mind-blowing, just some curiosity and follow-through.
The two realities existed at the founding of the country (probably since forever). One reality requires evidence, one requires belief. They are hard to reconcile. Galileo vs The Pope.
In his minute-long video he spent about 1 second to tell people to go home. The rest was repeating conspiracies, and telling the people rioting that they're special. It's unbelievable.
Sockets, TCP sockets, are TCP packets in a stream of a given format. TCP is layer 4. IP is layer 3. Other socket protocols are layer 7 or an implementation of UDP.

That being said there is no bypassing of NAT, but you can tunnel through it provided an open connection from within the network. For example HTTP cannot connect to a computer inside a NAT network but it can send a response to a request from inside that network.

Most P2P services make use of a central server to connect users no differently from instant messaging, and thus these services are generally considered a backdoor into a network. BitTorrent is different because it makes use of two protocols doing different things simultaneously.
The comments on this post are more negative than I expected.

I really enjoyed this guy’s enthusiasm and his “guerrilla” setup. It’s easy to criticize his method, but he went out and shot some skaters with a big weird lens!
Existence of historical Jesus has been well established. First century Jewish historian Josephus and Roman historian Tacitus wrote about him... For eyewitness, you can find first person account in the New Testaments.
Damn. I really like Signal and it's still a cut above most, but even they must realize the US is a pretty poor place for such an organization compared to, say, Germany or Switzerland?
> more expensive Ryzen

Only because this list happened to pick an expensive chip as the representative model for Ryzen 5000. For an even competition, look at the numbers for the 5800X and 5900X, which are respectively $50 cheaper and $50 more expensive. Compared to those, the 10900K isn't impressive. https://openbenchmarking.org/embed.php?i=2011098-FI-AMDRYZEN...

And the reason people got excited is not because Intel parts became useless, it's because AMD finally managed a generation of chips that flat-out beat Intel's, even in single core performance. Especially in light of how important a role AMD played in breaking the status quo of quad cores, putting fear in Intel's eyes is great for competition.
What matters is if people follow lockdowns. Are people getting fatigued? Starting to resist where before they complied?
If it were limited to "protest" I would support their actions too, no matter how much I disagree with their motives. Everyone has a right to expression. Where the actions are clearly unsupportable is that "stormed" was rather more literal than I suspect some of those 45% realized.

Also, is it possible there's a sampling bias in poll respondents? I almost never respond to polls myself because they often seem to be designed to be polarizing.
Both Eul and Icefrog assigned their copyright of to valve while getting employed at them, Guinsoo assinged them to Riot who then transferred the rights to Blizzard. And as far as I know Valve have only only done any kind of claim jointly with Blizzard as they are not the sole owners of the copyright.
They are though owner of the Dota 2 trademark.

Also a nitpick there have been more maintainers than those three they were the major ones for example the original developers of Dota Allstars Meian and Madcow. Guinsoo worked on the game for around 2 years until early 2005 and then Neichus took over and worked jointly with Icefrog who became the lead after Neichus left.

Main source: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3726401/Blizzardv...
All of the aesthetic stuff aside, the high sides next to the bed make it completely useless as an actual pickup truck. This is what it looks like when a bunch of people who have never done manual labor in their lives designs a truck.
I have a feeling he knew it would all come crashing down, so he was living it up while it lasted.
Adding more cargo space is easy with a trailer. Adding more passenger space isn't. And some permanent cargo space for weekly shopping is easier to justify than cargo space you need twice a year.
It somehow looks way, way better in normal use than during the presentation. How weird, it's usually the other way round.
Well, as a desktop Mac user, I'd be very interested.

Of course its not available for Mac (yet).
I feel like I just arrived to the future
All these other companies are trying to sell you on the notion of email privacy and security.

The thing is - email isn't just sitting in your mailbox to only be viewed by you. The recipient has a copy which could leak it (or via hax). Copies of email can be saved by both incoming and outgoing systems.

If you need security & privacy - email is not the technology you want to use whatsoever.
Nope, query logic happens on the client, so server doesn't know the key. Client is the one who records data and indexes encrypted, and who uses indexes from remote.
Considering that before cars, cities were drowning in horse manure, I would say the quote is off the mark.

> The horse was no newcomer on the urban scene. But by the late 1800s, the problem of horse pollution had reached unprecedented heights. The growth in the horse population was outstripping even the rapid rise in the number of human city dwellers. American cities were drowning in horse manure as well as other unpleasant byproducts of the era’s predominant mode of transportation: urine, ﬂies, congestion, carcasses, and trafﬁc accidents. Widespread cruelty to horses was a form of environmental degradation as well.

The situation seemed dire. In 1894, the Times of London estimated that by 1950 every street in the city would be buried nine feet deep in horse manure. One New York prognosticator of the 1890s concluded that by 1930 the horse droppings would rise to Manhattan’s third-storey windows. A public health and sanitation crisis of almost unimaginable dimensions loomed. [0]

[0] http://www.uctc.net/access/30/Access%2030%20-%2002%20-%20Hor...
But how would you deal with it? If it's not Wikileaks or TSA, there will be some other topic that is borderline offtopic to HN. It's not feasible to start implementing content-based filtering IMHO.

The HN will eventually devalue and be replaced by something else, like it happened to Reddit, Slashdot and Usenet if you will. That's just normal circle of life. Pointless to fight it IMHO.
Hi HN. I'm working on a new project, but wanted to have a splash page to send people. I wanted it to be a bit different -- hopefully more engaging. The other key limit was I refused to spend more than an afternoon putting it together and getting it live as I never expected too many folks to randomly stumble and go to it.

Feedback, suggestions, slander are all welcome. I realize folks have strong opinions. Happy Sunday.
Yes, it's pretty sure the longest ad hominem I read in my life so far.
I can do Jan 3, but only if you vote the thread up so more people can see it. Otherwise I vote tomorrow.
> Didn't know that a tablet platform will have device constrain with so much processing power at hand.

These devices (Android/iOS devices) are fairly limited in power when compared to your average laptop or desktop.

For the iPhone and iPad, there's not much low-level stuff you'll normally worry about. Memory management is pretty easy to understand. In most cases, if you follow a few rules of thumb, you'll be okay.
Travis Kalanick is the definition of relentless - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QrX5jsiico
:P We see ourselves as more of a discovery tool rather than a streaming service (I know streaming is inevitable). What we want to offer is a fast way to discover new music for those who get bored of their music collections.
Because we are getting the tracks straight from tastemakers, it normally means the majority of the music is not yet available on Spotify, Rdio etc, so we stream it from Soundcloud.
Hope that helps. Sorry for the essay.
Interesting that it's built on ZODB. For those that aren't familiar, in essence ZODB gives your Python application a 'magic dictionary' which automatically persists any keys written to it. It was probably my ignorance, but while I thought the concept was interesting I ultimately abandoned using it since I couldn't find any out-of-band way of inspecting saved data. Eg, sometimes you want to run some ad hoc SQL to see what is stored in a relational database but the only way to access data in ZODB (AFAICT) is within the application itself.

It looks like ZeroDB abstracts away these issues, luckily. Is it intended to be a full-scale application data store, or something more specialized like a secrets store?
In the UK, they bring the card reader to your table and the transaction completes wirelessly. If you want to add a tip, you type the amount into the reader before you tap.

Increasingly public transport supports contactless instead of tickets or proprietary NFC systems - notably the whole of London supports contactless and I've not used an Oyster card in years now.

I've also not seen a card reader that doesn't support contactless since at least 2015, possibly longer. I'm not sure, but based on how quickly contactless rolled out from 2007, I suspect they'd been adding support to the hardware a well before it was enabled.

I know everyone says it but USA really needs to do better. It doesn't make sense that this is so uniquely difficult to rollout there.
I think it's more accurate to see the government's primary function as deciding who gets what sinecure, not accomplishing things. I would wager that's the historical norm.

Your list of failures, among others (homeless industrial complex), make much more sense through this light: they're all wealth transfers to political friends.
Could we please declare "pivot" an exhausted concept and move on to the next start-up buzzword?

Interesting... why do you say so? I mean, yeah, the word is used a lot... but is that necessarily a bad thing? If people are taking the "lean" approach to heart, iterating and pivoting, and being more market focused, isn't that a positive?

Strangely enough, I love to rail against buzzwords myself (esp. "Web 2.0", "Web 3.0", etc.) but I never thought of "pivot" as a buzzword before... maybe it's a regional thing? Perhaps people who are in the Bay Area (or $WHEREVER) hear it more often?
I agree. We need to see more of that. I would suggest to offer a few trips a year to the "office" though for morale.
In addition to what pavel_lishin said, this is just a UI problem. A skilled developer working with a skilled UX designer could make a comprehensive security system that anyone can use, possibly by allowing casual users to accept some kind of default, and anyone who cares enough to drill down into detailed permissions.
A&H has been making some big investments, but this looks to be smaller, safer and perhaps a better bet for them.
Great for the manager, and the employees, but what about the company?

What sane business do you want managers being better at "stacked ranking" than product strategy?

This to me, is indicative of why Microsoft has failed - when your daily job is to prove that the team next to you - not your team is the one that should take all the bad reviews, that's pitting employee vs. employee, when it should be employee vs. external competitors
Meh. Not surprising he's a freshman.

"It's not a habit, I just do it all the time because it's healthy/good for me". The arrogance of this is astounding. Does he truly consciously think about everything he does before he performs the task? The overhead is mindboggling.

When he puts his shoes on in the morning, does he consciously think about the comfort difference between putting the right shoe on the right foot versus swapping them?

At some point, you have to 'automate' what you do, it is no longer conscious. At this point, it is a 'habit', no matter how much you want to pretend otherwise.
It's not just UK; there is a huge market in Singapore as well.
> Microsoft, as it exists now, is a vehicle for selling Windows and Office licenses.

What about the (rather successful) Xbox 360, which you mention in the very next paragraph?
Exactly. Funny is, I've seen this video months ago (or more) linked as 'pay for marketing/advertising/webdesign', so it applies to most industries.
I mostly agree with you. Police should have blasted them off the stairs and/or held the cordon at the top of the steps. It would be easier to do and should be easily planned for. If someone died there while trying to break through it would be much more understandable than this.
https://olvid.io/en/
> Are you familiar with the Brandenburg v. Ohio’s “imminent lawless action” test?

Yes, and saying this is a perfect example of speech inciting imminent lawless action is better than making the comparison you actually made upthread.
A counter way of looking at it: kids today are the Boston Dynamics of tomorrow. Roblox is selling pickaxes.
I'm downvoting you because you're trying to shame the people who are doing so, and I'm Spartacus.
Of course, why would anyone oppose it. But, we only have limited funds/time/political capital, etc. I think we should give top priority to healthcare/education/jobs/, and use the remaining funds to address other issues.
After having written Pug and component-scoped CSS the last few years, it's surprisingly hard for me to go back to raw HTML and raw CSS.
See also:

- Subroutines - Not a free lunch
- Libraries - Not a free lunch
- Client-Server - Not a free lunch
- OO - Not a free lunch
- Multiprocessing - Not a free lunch

Many of these arguments apply to these, too. The main difference is that of scale. Latency and call overhead are way larger than for the examples I gave.

Improved tooling can bring both down, but not by that much. That's why you will not see many micro services that are truly micro. You won't see (I hope) a 'printf' micro service, or not even a 'ICU' micro service. A regex service might make sense, if the 'string' it searches in is large and implicit in the call (say a service that searches Wikipedia), but by that time, it starts to look like a Database query. Is that still micro?
Modding facts down doesn't make them any less factual, you know.
Do not undermine network effects. C/C++ have had unbeatable network effects going on for them for a very long time now. Most systems are shipped with C based drivers and apis (Opengl, posix etc). Writing code in Lisp (Or any other HLL) means that you have to first write a binding for said library which is lispy, then build a system on top of that. Also then data has to be marshalled / unmarshalled from the C data structures into your language specific data constructs - this has a penalty in terms of speed. And finally you have to wrap the unmanaged c/c++ code so that it has an idiomatic (in lisp) garbage collection and exception handling story. In short - to write systems level lisp code requires you to be a jedi in C, api design, lisp and sheer code writing (because you have to essentially recreate the convenient wrappers that intel/ nvidia etc write in C).

Put another way - in 10 years if HTTP/Javascript continue on the same path people could arguably say the same thing - "some furry guy wrote Linux in C, but what has C done for the world recently? All the cool apps being built recently are in Javascript/HTML on the frontend and Python/Ruby on the backend"