jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Nokia used to do well here in the US. My first cell phone was a Nokia in the 90s. Everyone I knew with a cell phone had a Nokia at the time. It really seems like they fell behind with marketing and didn't evolve with the market.
FireEye is the firm I alluded to in my comment.

Varonis, Lifelock, Trusteer, and Cloudflare aren't reactions to deperimeterization and the declining effectiveness of firewalls. (Ironically, Cloudflare is if anything a cause of the declining effectiveness of firewalls, not a solution). Also: my argument isn't that it's impossible to build a billion dollar security company! It's that the dynamics of doing so aren't isomorphic to those of other startups.

I think you missed the point of my comparison to mobile, which was not that there wouldn't be viable mobile security products, but rather than shifts in technology produce explosive returns for things like adtech and video, but tend not to do that for security. Lookout is I think the closest you come to an example of a breakout success for security, amidst the most important shift in computing since the personal computer, one that has minted a bigger number of larger successes outside security.

The STG has been beating the drum on post-firewall broad-scale deployment of security technology (= more blue pizza boxes) since Jayshree Ulal started it a decade ago. Have you read a lot of Jericho Forum stuff? If you found Weiss' piece interesting, I think you'd find Jericho especially interesting. Maybe even lucrative. ;)

(Voted you back up)
In professional services, the economics of team building are much more challenging, given the short horizon of teams, both due to projects duration and due to high attrition rates. The traditional approach is to build teams of equals or of the same (c.f. same colour business suits in old IBM.) It did not work very well, but still it was good enough until it created issues with people not being willing to even participate in such organisations (c.f. casual Fridays.) Even with a complete framework (we have a psychometric classification across different personalities and working styles) this can be applied best when the Business does not go well; bad environmental conditions tend to make team dynamics worse and you cannot therefore see the improvement. Otherwise, as per your experience, teams are built based on availability with the expected random outcomes and increased role for the structural aspects of the team.
The argument against market timing I've always liked comes from Malkiel's Random Walk:

> During the decade of the 1980s, the Standard & Poor's 500 Index provided a very handsome total return (including dividends and capital changes) of 17.6 percent. But an investor who happened to be out of the market and missed just the ten best days of the decade—out of a total of 2,528 trading days—was up only 12.6 percent. [...] market timers risk missing the infrequent large sprints that are the big contributors to performance.
Is it that hard to believe lego might not market one of their products towards boys?
That one i was actually able to fix :)
That one supposedly has source code available under GPL3 but despite GPL3 clause 9, which says "You are not required to accept this License in order to receive or run a copy of the Program", presents the GPL3 as an EULA and refuses to run unless the user clicks "I agree".
Agreed, in particular Dear Imgui is pretty nice, and high performance.
You're incorrect in your realization. The truth is that the older books for learning perl are simply shitty.

If you read Ovid's Beginning Perl, or chromatic's Modern Perl, you'll find they managed to explain the concepts very easily.
As @EGreg says downthread, this package has zero chance of enactment any time in the next two years (or longer).

It sounds to me like "highball" negotiating [1] --- ask for the world so that you can make "concessions" and still end up with what you really want.

[1] E.g., http://changingminds.org/disciplines/negotiation/tactics/hig...
"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems."
It's not marketing as such but adding it to ProgrammableWeb would be a good start - it's the first place I go when I'm looking for APIs. Here: http://www.programmableweb.com/add/api
Disagree, they took the pull-to-refresh from Tweetie and integrated it into iOS because they thought (rightly so) that it makes sense.

If they would feel the same about the hamburger menu, then they'd do the same.
Why put it into a separate function? You could just movie it to the end and jump there and back，saving the call overhead.
No no. I take issue with the mentality that just because two students in a lab can quickly approach state of the art, necessarily implies they have hit on a revolutionary approach.

I am all for promising results. But the "two students in a lab" is borderline meaningless to me. The real story is, "we performed some research, and it looked like it had promise. So we kept at it."

Basically, I reject the "it was clear that if we could get results that good on the first serious try..." I mean, first off, was it the first try, or the first serious try. Why the qualifier? Secondly, science and progress is full of things that were clear, but wrong.

I don't like arguing this point, as I do want to preserve the optimism that is in the air. However, it does grate at me, at times. It is essentially survivor bias in action.
Even Duke Nukem Forever shipped before Perl 6.
Let's rewrite it. Say it's some conservative commentator like Bill O'Reilly:

"To me video games are the so-called 'real France,'" he said. "The real France operates according to a video game logic, and that game logic is socialism"

That doesn't strike you as overtly and primarily political in nature? Beyond that, it's simply inane.
Who's going to validate all that information? I would assume a (hypothetical) impartial third party who's paid by the sperm buyer. That same third party might even offer services like testing the sperm for diseases, storing it for future use if the donor travels, etc. Which is basically reinventing a sperm bank.
Approximately 22% of the USA voted for Trump this election.
Not in the Trump train themselves, but there are definitely a lot of libertarians on here who believe in absolute free speech - a position that is seen as borderline ridiculous from an European (specifically: German) perspective.
Nitpick: 1/2 of the US did not vote for Trump. In 2016, of the eligible voting populous, only 54.8% voted in the election. Of them, the popular vote was lost by Donald Trump, who got around 63 million votes.

So even winning, it doesn’t really need to be that close to half of the U.S.

Not to say that isn’t a sizable chunk or anything.
Yeah, but that's orthogonal to the question at hand, no?

Sure, startups aren't for everyone, just like big corporations aren't for everyone. For me, working for a /particular/ startup is unstable and risky, while working for startups generally has been extremely stable. Other people find them too risky, and that's fine.

Some people love the perceived stability of a large company. OTOH, big corps are known to do across the board RIFs, independent of how well a particular division is doing. Or killing off a whole department on what seems like a whim. YMMV.
Yeah I'll admit I didn't follow it completely and didn't care enough to investigate. I'm sure it'll bubble up here if it does with more details just like when they got nuked from Reddit. Arguably sites like this one are a good way to gauge the true robustness of the Internet - given the situation this week they clearly now are in the realm of law enforcement, but up until these rather insane events to me their continued presence was an existence proof that speech on the web is still in a good place. Now if they get taken down I won't judge it too harshly against that thesis since they basically fomented a theoretical insurrection by the letter of the law, even though in practice the "coup" turns out was never a real threat given how ridiculous things went once the dog caught the car.
After a cursory check of the "frontpage" there... yeah, it doesn't seem very balanced. More like "r/The_Donald"-lite, with even some anti-vaxx stuff thrown in.
> Move to a country where I can live off the 40k -> 60k a year an interest or whatnot.

You realize the median US household income is like $40k/ year right?
>Which, it probably goes without saying, should scare the shit out of anyone who cares about the principles of the free Internet.

Service-providers giving the boot to « problematic » users is as far as I know as old as the Internet.
Polling happens every eight minutes, so you should be getting matches within that time period.
I don't think single person advocates operating heavy machinery while under the influence of any mind altering drug, legal or not. LSD can be safe to use while at the same time unsafe to drive on, just like alcohol or cannabis.
Makes sense! This I can understand. Analogously, at the end of a software project you tend to have to take care of all of the little things - re-run all of the tests, figure out the packaging script, fill out paperwork, make sure the website is ready, etc. This sort of stuff can be done on relatively little sleep with few breaks. I was imagining the interns putting together models and doing lots of calculations in that 80th hour - seems like sooner or later this would be disastrous.

Thanks for answering the question :)
On a related note, take a look at the US's gini coefficient, which measures income inequality (and strong predictor of social unrest):

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/09/map...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient
What's your thoughts on being a PM? I'm looking at jumping into the role (more of a 'technical PM'). I have corporate development experience and could likely move towards more architect type roles but I feel the pull of being a PM is also worth considering. I can always hack on my own time (not something I would completely stop doing).
Yeah. And corporations are people too. /sarcasm

Government should operate in the open. I might understand need for military secrecy of government of a small country in unfriendly region, but not for a broad secrecy of the government that has has largest military force in the world at its disposal. Unless you think that all this NSA thing is all good because government needs to have its privacy when it's spying you.
It looks like some sort of dispute or contractual issue between Notion and and the .so registry, or a complete messup by the registry.

From a whois of notion.so:

Updated Date: 2021-02-12T12:54:35.982Z

Creation Date: 2015-03-31T00:00:00.0Z

Registry Expiry Date: 2021-03-31T00:00:00.0Z

Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2021-03-31T00:00:00.0Z

Domain Status: clientHold https://icann.org/epp#clientHold
This has become a huge problem on HN lately. Lots of discussions are nothing but complaining. Now the technical discussions are starting to get infested with off-topic whining. The mods don't do anything about off-topic rants. If you point it out you'll get downvoted [1][2][3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25839399
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25064636
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24699908
"The mission we serve as Twitter, Inc. is to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly without barriers. Our business and revenue will always follow that mission in ways that improve – and do not detract from – a free and global conversation."

https://investor.twitterinc.com/contact/faq/default.aspx
Absolutely yes, clearly, for the US eugenics programs.

(I don't know much about the Australian example, so won't comment on that, other than to say that a cursory search that seems to also imply UM YES)
> apply a EEE strategy to Jabber and actually succeed

You talking about Google killing its Jabber compliance?
Useful how? What actionable insights do you get from Last.fm? It's vanity metrics optimized for sharing on social networks and there's nothing wrong with it.
What your doctor / nationalised health care system is recommending sounds like a good approach
I’ve used and have found great engineers on UpWork. None have used that tracking tool. It’s all been manually reported time. I’ve also interviewed and have encouraged questions before moving on.
Or, they like having sex? I'm not having sex with my kid sleeping in the same room. And I'm not particularly interested in having to manage my sex life around my kids sleep schedule.

I don't know why you think adults wanting a space they can do whatever they want without their kids witnessing the activity means they have a "weird focus on individualism".
That's not Mozilla's only or most significant misstep.

CEO drama, Hello, Pocket, UI indecisiveness, repeated feature removal over objections, breaking everyone's addons first with the XULening then with the addon cert fiasco, opt-out telemetry, force-pushing addons without affirmative consent, opt-out advertising, buying into scummy tracking outfits like cliqz (and trying to hide it), poor prioritization, lack of focus..

If there's ever a choice between giving the user more control and transparency or taking it away, Mozilla seems to take the latter option.
I definitely agree with individuals taking actions within the system to optimize their chances is fine (e.g. targeting colleges that don't require standardized testing if the applicant doesn't do well on those tests, but not things like the fake sports recruiting that was in the news a year or so ago).

I may be biased as I did well on standardized tests. I have family members that volunteer to do admissions interviews as alumni of a very major name university. They both mention how gamified some applicants are taking the process, with some high school students' parents essentially buying them research opportunities and other experiences to talk about on their applications. While standardized testing is influenced by family wealth and resources, I'm convinced standardized tests (SAT/ACT/AP/etc) are the least influenced part of college admissions, and thus should remain in some form.
Depends on the dynamic language, Common Lisp can be used to write full stack OSes.

Python also exposes pointers and manual memory manipulation via ctypes package.
Of all the "weird" things we do as parents in euro/anglo nations, sleeping arrangements seems nowhere near the top.

IMO, the top "offender" is over-scheduling kid's activities. So many kids in my area have their days booked solid with sports, academic tutoring, music lessons. Approaching zero free time to enjoy being a kid.

Edit - and this isn't really a western thing, "Tiger Mom" and similar probably pre-dates this behavior in the US.
there should some sort of public/private partnership... when governments monopolize industries and there aren't market forces at play at all, it tends to result in a sub par good/service.
I agree with some hard regulatory angle on the power grid, especially considering the very unique technological constraint of maintaining the required frequency.

The thing I am concerned about is masking market forces from consumers. Potential "band-aid" solutions for the current approach might include adding a capacity market, or requiring that all consumers operate on a variable rate plan in order to more fairly mediate demand vs supply. Customers with fixed rate plans in Texas had no incentive to not run things like electric clothes dryers or resistive pool heaters while others were literally freezing to death.

If you think about fundamentals of consumer behavior and markets, a fixed rate electric plan is like buying an insurance policy or options contract on some underlying security. If you have a lot of derivatives in play, bad things almost always happen regardless of the underlying asset types.
I think there are similarities between the nuclear power debate and the GMO debate. In both case, I think it's stupid to be fundamentally opposed to the technology/research itself. But in both case, the industry is so fucked up (lies, too close ties with control authority, ...) that I don't trust them at all.

It seems to me this is partially a failure of our current economic system, where the incentives for the industry are towards minimizing costs / maximizing profits. This is fine for some other industries, but it seems to fail for areas where the impact of mismanagement is much more severe than a bankruptcy.

We have to find a way to make those critical industries transparent and honest so that citizens can trust them again.
That's true, but these containment tanks are right next to the ocean. So pretty much everything that leaks is going into the ocean.

And they aren't going to be gone by the time the next tsunami hits, so I think it is roughly (and with their level of ineptitude and deceit, roughly is as good as we are gonna get) reasonable to think that it's all (300,000 tons of radioactive water and counting) going into the Pacific at some point...
That reduces the mass of the black hole. Effectively, you have a particle tunneling out of the hole, mass is still not appearing from nowhere.
You can stab people with almost anything. Toothbrush, piece of paper carefully folded, shoelaces melted into a soap mould... stopping one more thing getting in won't matter.

I think the idea was to make it easier to notice them, as parent suggested.
Note the exception -- "(...) except for the purposes of national security."

In other words, this injunction isn't worth the paper it's written on...
My first thought was "how much of this is about jails and how much is about small 3g-capable cameras?
At night the guards occasionally walk around with some sort of signal detector, so something like this already happens. Don't think they can intercept, but they can tell who's using a phone.
When freelancing the general rule is assume that will be spending 1/3 of your time with no billable work, and you need to build that into your rate. That leaves you with $83,000/year, and you still have to pay for healthcare and vacation time.

This rule especially applies to short, 2 day jobs like this. How likely is that you will be able to roll through a string of ~20 hour jobs with no downtime?
There's a not-widely-publicized feature of Linux that allows programs to store secrets directly in the kernel: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/security/keys.txt That has some advantages, including the guarantee that it can't be swapped to disk. Kerberos can use it for secret storage, I haven't seen it used elsewhere though.

It looks like process-private storage is one of its features.
Who's on first ?

No results found for "abbott and costello explain monads".
And why should we artificially restrict the supply of immigrants? It's not like it's a zero-sum game, something that Greenspun ought to realize.

http://journal.dedasys.com/2014/12/29/people-places-and-jobs...
> teletext is increasingly un-used.

Was there a time when teletext was actually used? Honest question, I was under the impression that it just never managed to catch on.
We already solved the peer-to-peer solution along time ago - it was called TCP/IP.

At least, The internet was supposed to be peer-to-peer. It was for a while. Hosting data yourself - possible because your local computer was an equal peer on the network - worked wonderfully.

Sharing some photos with a friend was as easy as sending them a URL[1] to your local server. Yah, it slowed down your internet every time someone wanted to access the data, but that was fine because you only sent it to a couple friends. Better hosting was only needed if you wanted a larger audience or if you had some special requirements.

Unfortunately, a lot of people - either intentionally or from ignorance - ended up conflating "NAT" with "firewall" and generally popularized the idea that giving up your status as an equal peer on the internet was important "for security". This became the excuse to put off IPv6 until v4 addresses started to run low which took over as the reason to hide everybody behind a NAT.

A common response to this is that setting up a server is still technically complicated - the average user still won't understand how to setup Apache or how to configure DNS. Even with proper addresses, these technical issues will stop self-hosting from becoming popular! This used to be true, but... software gets easier to use over time. The only reason we haven't seen progress easier to use server software is.... who would run it? The people who understand NAT enough to bypass it don't need "user friendly" server software, and everybody that needs it cant access their server form the internet.

sigh - Walker's imprimature[2] was right. NAT was (or will be) what reestablishes barriers to publication and turns the internet back into cable tv.

[1] Traditionally, the "URL" was actually an IP address, and the file server was probably anonymous fTP.

[2] http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/
Did you mean to link to the lobste.rs page? The real link is https://blog.engineyard.com/2015/introduction-to-mysqls-inno...
I thought this was a well-written piece, as well, and threw it into Pocket along with my other "regular review" articles that I use to keep myself motivated. I clicked through to the blog and it looks like that's your first essay--hope you keep writing.
It's probably easier to host a website serving a bunch of .torrent files. There's dozens of those around.
Might want to remove your site search with google and link to google maps on your masthead image, then.
I am afraid to ask if your comment is serious or sarcasm
In this context, in my personal opinion and world view?

A monopoly is MAGLIGNANT FUCKING TERATOMA!

Excuse my emphasis and emotion, but that's the best analogy I can come up with.

Unless of course you want an economic or dictionary definition, but I don't think that's what you were asking.
Do you have a link from a state-sanctioned and social media site approved source where I can read about this?
This has nothing to do with you.

This is their platform and they said enough is enough post the attempted coup.

You can think just as much for yourself as you could before.
Who should decide??
I chose not to protest on the streets but I would still consider myself a BLM person
Planned attack? No, I'm afraid I don't know anything about that.

The latest video that Trump posted there was that the protestors will be prosecuted and that he basically concedes and will transition power over to Biden. At no point, including his latest tweets on the @POTUS account that were deleted within minutes, have I seen anything that would suggest that he's planning any kind of "attack". And in fact, I see it the opposite way. If my reading of the situation is correct, he's trying to control the damage and calm down his base precisely so nothing like this will happen, because he believes that there is still future for him, as the tweet in question suggest. It could very well be that he was the only person that was keeping his supporters from starting the actual uprising and not whatever the Capitol thing was. And now it might be gone.

Obviously that's my opinion, but if you actually don't want any violence to happen, you better hope that I'm wrong about this.
The tipping point was probably the revelation earlier today that multiple right-wing seditionist groups are planning to go back to DC on the 17th, but with weapons. (https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Live-updates-U-...)

If Wednesday wasn't enough to make it clear that Trump's rhetoric was inciteful, that news was.