jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The missing bits is that they bootstrapped after a lot of heavy lifting was done on public dime, and then landed a crucial bunch of govt contracts way before first succesful draco launch, the same kind of contracts that the previous private contractors also take.
I don't know much about Facebook's current offerings, but the answer to your question might depend on what other ubiquitous services they offer now or in the future. Maybe they'll become equally entrenched in the online payment market, or things of that nature. I don't and can't know if that will leave them at their 235B market cap, or if it will be lower or higher.
Also improve the review system. It's almost certain that if you don't beg for reviews using Appirater, you will get practically none.

And if you update the app, the reviews reset -- which gives developers an extreme disincentive to keep their app updated, especially during the long tail period.
PSA I don't recommend doing this. We did this in the fire service as a training example. We also had full body bunker gear, helmets and the guy lighting the gas was also wearing a SCBA to prevent any sort of flash fire injuries. Gas and fire are really, really dangerous.
File under /r/Showerthoughts.
There is no global mandate that says everyone has to be outraged by all "real issues". Plain and simple, that is the fallacy of relative privation. A person isn't a hypocrite if they post a tweet against this poster hubbub without following up with one about prostate cancer, it just means that they have their own unique interests.

Furthermore, the author of the article has played a sort of mind game regarding the prostate cancer "real issue": he didn't take to Twitter to personally ask the "Everyday Sexism"/"equality movement" proponents if they also believed that funding for prostate cancer was worthy of concern. To assume that these same people wouldn't also be disappointed about a lack of funding for men's issues is really jumping to unfounded conclusions. But, then again, I never got the impression that this article was trying to inspire real conversation... just add divisive fuel to the fire.
Inverse sq law tells us the same thing for free.
> So 3 employees involved with security and not 1 employee. Also, they were pushed out AFTER alerting about security issues.

How much credibility do you put in such testimonies though? Especially if everyone is a "anonymous source", you can basically invent just about anything and publish it and pretend for it to be a genuine article without any fact under the hood.
Depends what kind of speed you are talking about. The Arduino boards are real time while the rpi is not. The rpi can do a larger number of calculations in total but it can not flip the gpio pin timed to a fraction of a millisecond like the arduino can because there is a kernel and scheduler in the way.
Thank you for posting this. It reminds us that in any difficult situation the common man and woman on the ground can still be civil and have mutual respect
I think you’ll find me surprising :) It’s surfacing and chasing down root cause of these misses that make things better for all customers, and that’s my goal :)
It’s much easier than in the film days. Great equipment can still give great results. I met this guy on a walk on the north shore of Massachusetts. with a 600mm lens. Much better reach than mine.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bryanbatley/

As opposed to my setting up a GoPro on my moms feeder. Which is fun but not quite the same (she has a normal male cardinal)

https://youtu.be/BXMRen6lKEw
I’ve seen both! Plenty of culture issues, or tools, and sometimes someone’s just checked out...
If you bought Enron in 1997 and sold in 1999, you would be up ~100%. If you sold in 2000, you'd be up ~200%. If you bought earlier, those figures would be even higher.

Far more accurate comparison.
I worked mostly remote and we met up every Wednesday - unless we had reasons to move it to another day (client meeting, conference, etc).

It worked out really well since everybody came together at the same time.
Also note that it is from 2006. My first thought at his attempt to functionally program in C# was "Were is the LINQ?" but the article is older than that.

He may be being sarcastic but in so far as Haskell idioms don't work in imperative languages he is right, especially as it applies to the large framework languages. The whole standard library (and as he calls out the ASP.net framework) expects a certain kind of mentality that isn't FP centric. The amount of FPisms that you can bring to an ASP.net app are few and far between. On a low level, C# (at least at that time) had very poor FP support. On the High level design side ASP.net dictates part of your design and does it in a somewhat FP hostile way.
It's also confusing to note they don't mention whether they even contacted the authors of the paper to see if an implementation (even partial) had been made, or clarification could be provided on implementation details.
I completely agree. There is, of course, always a balance to be struck but it's pretty difficult to ignore 100x speed up in something non-trivial.

Also, I read part of the paper linked in the post. It doesn't seem completely inaccessible, just dense. I'm sure someone will eventually come up with a non-hacky version.
Hold on. Isn't the problem here the fact that the CO2 gets dispersed into the atmosphere? How would this be any different for algae than for petroleum?

And how would algae-produced fuel "return" the CO2 to the biosphere any more than petroleum?
Point is that he's turning roaming off, and probably doesn't have access to WiFi in the foreign city. By having the database, you don't need a data connection at all, thus saving money.
Windows Phone does not store location. The virus found in the do that for them :D
Yes, agreed. It will be interesting to follow WASI for this kind of thing. I suspect it will try to rebuild POSIX like use case from the ground up. However, there are going to be so many use cases that fall outside the WASI boundary. Wasm is just getting started.
I think author is not a fan of classic lisp representation, the s expressions.

http://www.archub.org/arcsug.txt
> In my case, I was load testing a RESTful DNS management api over http and, as part of the same performance test, simulating DNS traffic to nameservers managed by that API. Locust is horizontally scalable and incredibly flexible since you can write arbitrary Python code to make it do whatever you want.

This sounds really interesting and like good engineering (tm), would you mind sharing which company this was for? Maintaining good blackbox e2e tests and the infrastructure is one thing, finding time (and space in the roadmap) to do that and load test on top of that is a great engineering indicator IMO.

I wonder if it would be possible to translate regular recorded user activity (assuming the API was instrumented) for it and find some way to randomize & generate it (a la quickcheck) and re-feed it into the system. There are some sticky points like pre-existing state (if you take the recording of any given day), but you could probably discover/evaluate that from API requirements (if you saw a `GET /resources/1` which succeeded, then obviously a `POST /resources` must have occurred before hand).
Based on the video found on the Energy Vault web site they seem to be doing some serious engineering in building their prototype:

https://energyvault.com/commercial-demonstration-unit/

As to whether it works, I guess they will know once they've complete the prototype build and done some testing.
> I have personally built tools on the web more complex than the game UIs in your link.

Then you are a far better developer than I am, and I dare say than the vast majority of developers out there. It will take most developers no time to come up with UI of any complexity in any of the non-web toolkits. Whereas on the web even small tasks like placing a badge on an avatar reliably is a thankless gargantuan task. Can't speak for the game UIs (they are undoubtedly hard) but considering the sheer diversity in them that the web hasn't seen since the flash era...
Yeah, IDs with a sufficiently large dataset will be unintelligible no matter what you do.
Probably not but if you have a possibility of 35 years in a US prison, or even 5 years, looming over you that is a heavy burden. And we all know how it turned out.
Observed Fact: If you make butter in blender from Lidl Salted Peanuts it is (very) good only for a day or two, thereafter it tastes little bitter. But you can compensate by adding raisins to the blend.
Airport codes very rarely change though. Chișinău in Moldova has KIV, from its name in Russian, Kishinyov.
TCP sends successive data elements together, at least as part of the Nagle algorithm. I have no idea if the way DNS uses TCP can trigger Nagle.

In fact my own UDP protocol does something similar to Nagle as well. There's no good reason UDP protocols can't pick and choose what features they include. But most don't.
What was notable in this case was that Google disclosed this issue to Intel, and Intel then took responsibility for public disclosure. Intel then proceeded to mail patches to public trees without flagging them as having any security relevance, posted a public disclosure despite the patches only being in pre-release kernels and claimed that affected users should upgrade to 5.9 (which had just been released) which absolutely did not have the patches fixed.

Coordinating disclosure around security issues is hard, especially with a project like Linux where you have an extremely intricate mixture of long-term support kernels, vendor trees and distributions to deal with. Companies who maintain security-critical components really need to ensure that everyone knows how to approach this correctly, otherwise we end up with situations like this where the disclosure process actually increased the associated risks.

(I was part of Google security during the timeline included in this post, but wasn't involved with or aware of this vulnerability)
Some bad mouth would say "You can do it in HTML5", but I guess it's flash because it's called World cup, not Apple cup. (oops)
I'm a designer and I applied and got accepted. Now n=2.
I think the $99 price is a big threshold. It's the point where you can start thinking of general-purpose computing as something that gets sold in a convenience store, just like storage media, MP3 players, and digital cameras. As a product, I don't think this one hits the spot, though.

The specs are hardly impressive, but they're also probably overpowered for most conceivable tasks; it doesn't have the controls to do gaming well, the screen real-estate is too tiny for most other graphic-intensive stuff, it doesn't have the connectivity to be a server, and it's probably too cramped for long-term typing.

This thing really is _too_ small.
> Health care is not a right, because it can't be.

If that's meant to be justified by what went before it, then I think you've overstated it. As long as many effective treatments are very expensive, health care that includes every treatment a person might reasonably want can't be a right.

It's perfectly possible for some health care to be a right. And if by some miracle (and it would have to be a miracle, or something very like one) all the costs came way down, it would be possible for all the health care one could reasonably want to be a right.

The second of these points is, at least for the foreseeable future, merely a quibble. The first is not. It is entirely possible to make some health care -- quite a lot of health care, in fact -- into a right. That's how things are in the UK, for instance, and despite the attempts of some in the US to portray our health system as a disaster, I don't think I know anyone in the UK who doesn't strongly prefer the UK system to the US one.

(I'm taking "right" to mean "thing guaranteed by law" rather than "thing to which one is morally entitled". I take it that was your meaning too.)
While these publications try to rank universities, I engage in the smaller task of trying to rank undergraduate colleges: http://college.mychances.net/college-rankings.php

The decision to rank them based on students' decisions of where to attend may be questionable, but at least the "science" is straightforward.
Considering the number of people on HN involved in startups, though, I'd expect a lot of people here regularly have to travel by air, and so the TSA stuff would be of interest.
What I'm curious about is why no mention is made of living across the Hudson (ie New Jersey).

I know New Yorkers like to look down on NJ and I guess the Times is complicit in that but the PATH trains make the commutes to Midtown and Downtown much shorter than the outer boroughs.

Plus NJ has lower taxes. And no "Amazon tax" (at least not yet).

So perhaps this article should be titled "the price 20somethings pay not to appear uncool", for which I have very litte sympathy.
Also, why are the animations lagging?
A car door analogy is weak, simply because I don't know enough about how they are designed and built. Maybe an artist goes to town, and then the engineers and interaction team have to bend over backwards to make the concept work (probably a bad way go about making car doors!).

Still my point is that aesthetics, functionality, and usability are all subsets of design (according to the author).
Oh no I got from your post that you where not making that specific point. Sorry if I came off as 'protective' of my ideals or something, I was just trying to convey why I thought that the TSA policies are rubbish. I agree with you that there is a counterpoint to the way I see everything regarding this, I just think that the counter point is as misguided as the policies are.
Would be a much more useful site if it had some sort of editorial standard, rather than "let's find as many pages that people call cheat sheets and shove them together in a huge directory".
I'd like to see more of your work. What is your blog/portfolio?

Thanks
Remember “If you don’t like Twitter’s rules, you are perfectly free to make your own platform”?

I suppose we are perfectly free to make our own pocket computers now, right?
there is absolutely nothing peaceful about this https://twitter.com/slpng_giants/status/1347609631527489537
people are straight up calling for murder on that website, it's insane. There's no negotiating. "Let me call for violence on the internet, or I'll go out and actually shoot someone" is nuts. That's not someone you negotiate with, that's a person that belongs into a mental ward. Authority does not need to back down because someone threatens terrorism. And yes before other events are invoked, that goes for all form of violence advocacy no matter from which group.
It sounds dystopian because it is! Shame on you all!
Herzog's documentary is just a new cut of the original Russian documentary, adding Herzog's old hippie narrative.

The original version is fantastic, and much more authentic. Available on YouTube, with subtitles, on the director's own channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbhPIK-oBvA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIdHG9zyrtE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnAF_amhups
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjCs8qi3R0U
This really isn't a union though. I mean even the union expert they interviewed for this article calls it "groundbreaking" in that it looks nothing like a union, since it has no economic goals or worker protections in mind and it's all about social issues.

So it's a charity that you donate 1% of your salary to, with the goal of impacting Google's policies. That's interesting in its own right, and it's not out of the question that this could end up being a good use of donations from an effective altruism perspective depending on what they can accomplish. But this is not unionization in tech.
Allowing it to fester just did lead to violence.
Thanks I didn’t hear about that
In what way has he destroyed America?

If anything has it’s people becoming less tolerant of those with political opinions that differ from their own.
I, for one, deeply appreciate any project which isn't afraid to do things differently when they decide there's a better way. I see it similar to iOS not supporting Flash, or Angular 2.0 rethinking things.

You can't change everything, but it's what you do differently that gives your project value.
I bought a Samsung chromebook and basically it was useless as a workstation, but I bought a 32 gig sd card and installed ubuntu on it. Now i can switch between chromeos and ubuntu with a few keystrokes. I am able to develop ansible code , python code on this machine. I also have dosbox, Vice C64 emulator on this sd card . I also installed openvpn on the machine and can vpn into our network and do my work. It is a great computer because it is light and the battery life is good.

:)
It seems that MS is coming around to the idea that charging consumers for the OS is no longer terribly good business, even though they have less skin in the hardware game than Apple does.
This is sweet.

I like being able to chat with my friends while I am at work so I'm glad to see WhatsApp bringing web access.

Hopefully iOS support is around the corner, but given how often iOS gets preferential treatment over Android, I'm okay with my Droid friends getting first crack at it.
I think the point of the pairing itself is more just to make sure people only have as many WhatsApp accounts as they have phone numbers. Not sure why it's Chrome only, though.
Really?

http://imagebin.org/328080
>>The typical Japanese person hasn't exchanged normal human interaction in favor of simulacra.

I don't know, but we have statistics to answer this question, which is precisely what we are talking about. Did you know that 50% of Japanese couples have not had sex in the past month? [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8945585
> Impressive refresh rate!

Yeah, and apparently no need to go to the black state required on current e-ink screens?
Japan has been in 25-30 year recession. Due to government polices the Japanese have seen their wealth deteriorate and the hardest hit are the young professionals who have work more than their elders. If people don't feel financially secure they don't procreate. This issue is only going to grow more pronounced as nations devalue in the race to the bottom. However for Japan the problem is exacerbated with great ideas like the one below. FTA:

“handsome tax”: “If we impose a handsome tax on men who look good to correct the injustice only slightly, then it will become easier for ugly men to find love, and the number of people getting married will increase.”
If Jiro was a programmer, he certainly wouldn't limit himself to one programming language or editor, just like the sushi chef doesn't use just one tool.

He would use all the tools that make it possible or easier to write good software (version control, tests, continuous integration, possibly code quality metric tools) without being married to one in particular. He'd switch to better languages and tools as he becomes aware of them, as far as the switches are practical.

He would have a broad overview of the underlying theories (algorithms, computability, complexity, various fields of math), and dive deep into those that matter for the problem at hand.

He'd write clear documentation that the end user can understand.

He'd continue to evolve his tools and skills, and where he finds the current tools lacking, he'd improve on them, or even write his own - but only so far as it doesn't distract him too much from actually producing the software that is his focus.

He'd be aware of his customer's requirements, and equally important, of the goals behind those requirements.

He would be aware of security and moral implications of his software, and refuse to compromise on them.

He wouldn't rant on hackernews, but be available for mentoring to those who strive to imitate him.
The detectors detect more than metal.

Perhaps you missed the great scandal of the 'body scanners.'
Oh dear, a paywall. Here's a similarly milquetoast but literally more accessible treatment of the topic: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2...

But don't close that tab, 'cuz I'm coming at ya with the Silicon Valley bleeding heart liberal nouveau riche's most hated news publication, Breitbart! Be offended! Take the bait, hook, line, and sinker! Reply with a snarky dismissal insulting the intelligence of anyone that would dare link to such a rag! And maybe, just maybe, taste the subtle grit of a grain of the substance we call "truth."

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2014/12/04/the-sexodus-part-...

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2014/12/09/the-sexodus-part-...
> In my opinion using ad blockers is borderline piracy.

Once upon a time I agreed with you... now I view all online ads as threats.

Unfortunately, marketing companies have gotten greedy and the degree to which they fingerprint and track us as we surf the web has gotten completely out of hand. This is an industry that cannot even follow their own watered-down initiatives like DoNotTrack.

And because ad networks use layers of affiliates, sites typically have no visibility nor control over what their visitors are being served. That's why you end up with a marketing company like Evidon buying Ghostery - just so they can help companies monitor the garbage on their own pages![3]

And to top it off, ads are now a common attack vector for viruses and malware that not even the big companies can control:

1. Just last week, Youtube was serving banking malware via its online ads. [1]

2. Last month Yahoo got a lot of attention serving Bitcoin malware via online ads on their site. [2]

I know that online publishing is important, and we need a strong press. But publishing desperately needs to find a new business model because online ads are a failed experiment and it's time to stick a fork in them.

[1]: http://labs.bromium.com/2014/02/21/the-wild-wild-web-youtube...

[2]: http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/05/tech/yahoo-malware-attack/inde...

[3]: https://www.ghostery.com/faq#q15
I prefer always using brace brackets for if's...

if (cond) { goto fail; }

instead of:

if (cond) goto fail;
Desktop background would be amazing.
http://www.gnu.org/software/dmd/
Then there's the case of destruction of evidence. Depends on a number of circumstances, possibly including whether or not it takes a positive act or merely the lack of an action, on your part, to ensure the data continue to exist.
More context: http://realmacsoftware.com/clear/letter
So when are we going to make them stop doing things like this? Why haven't we already??
You're not talking about it anymore, most likely because someone from Mozilla called you out on it last time. Instead you're talking about a vulnerability that's 4 years old and have quietly stopped mentioning exactly how old it was, because it'd make it obvious just how weak your argument actually is.
I wonder how much of the problem in San Francisco is Wi-Fi congestion rather than the wired service.

When I am in SF the number of SSID's I see boggles the mind and with people stacked up in small apartments, plus Comcast offering the public Hotspots, even the 5GHz band is overloaded, and it's amazing 2.4 works at all.
You know you're awesome when you bust out the micrometer to systematize the rendering of perfect french fries.
I'd say instead that the real value of ideas generally cannot be known/calculated until executed. They are somewhat like prophecies. Only a good track record will get people listening and willing to pay 'in advance.' In the meantime your only hope is to capitalize on the idea yourself (and if you're planning to do so, the potential value of the idea merits some considerations of secrecy).
I'd rather have one of the printers listed as having yellow tracking dots and yank out the color cartridges.

Its easier to disable a security measure you know than praying there isn't a security measure you don't know.

There is still a chance of a redundancy but I believe it is somewhat lower - as normally companies would do the bare minimum to comply with a directive like this one.