skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another analogue would be watching people play chess. Many people find it interesting to watch people who are good at what they do.
> "Install our app" is annoying but still trying their best to send us where we will have better have better experience

Not always, apps give them the ability to have push notifications plus the fact that having the app icon in your app tray is a constant reminder of their service.
Taking All That Family Leave? Maybe Not.
Rent control in SF is not the primary cause of the failure to build to meet demand. Anti-development zoning laws, anti-development rhetoric, an obscenely convoluted permitting process, and NIMBY protests of questionable motivation are currently the source of the city's woes.

Consider:

* New construction is not subject to rent control.

* Newly built units are renting for $2,200 -> $3,000+ per bedroom per month.

* Again, those rates are not subject to rent control and may be increased at any time.

* Folks with apartments to rent often hold hours-long open houses where dozens of people attend to be interviewed, present their proof of financial stability, and jockey to make the best offer (read: pay the most) to their prospective new roommate/landlord. [0]

In any reasonably managed city, I would agree that rent control stifles construction. In this city, rent control is hardly even a bump in the road; there's no rational reason not to build.

[0] Source: I recently had a friend attempt to find a vaguely affordable place to live in the city. fully 80% of the places she looked at (and she was looking at at least one a week) did this.
Well, it's one that they had a choice from before, which they hadn't picked.

First column, fourth row down: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7ZYqYi4xigk/SEnK37orPGI/AAAAAAAAAp...

Honestly, the block letter G on the far right, next to the lollipop, is the icon with the most character.

Actually fits their rebranding, too, but I don't think anyone at Google pays much attention.

Everyone's been seeing a lot of rainbows lately, too.
It's a very similar move that Facebook recently did. Move to a rounded sans serif. Facebook said it was to look more "friendly".
A similarly embarrassing state of affairs is the train traffic control system used by the NYC subway system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjx3S3UjmnA
Looking down at people? What part of the article gives you that impression? That was certainly not the intention.
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X - ε, for very large values of ε.
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It happens to men too though. There are arrogant colleagues I have to stop when they explain things to me I already know. And I didn't even ask for it. I don't know if they just think that everyone besides them is an idiot or if they just like to show off.

On the other side, I am maybe a bit too conscious about these things. Sometimes it is very hard to judge someones skill level. There are a lot of people who somehow manage as programmers without knowing even the most basic things. I find it often hard to explain these basic things to them without seeming like an arrogant showoff.
Musl libc
What disappoints me most is that a lot of the sites submitted here use this same super annoying tactic.
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UIWebView is definitely still vulnerable, as I've seen it when browsing sites through the default Twitter iOS client. Not as frequently as in the past, however.
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Facebook links used to be so bad with this until they changed something in the built-in browser to catch them. Now every time I get a "this page is trying to leave the app" confirmation box I feel extremely satisfied that the redirect was squashed.
I guess a new web image standard to replace JPEG might be a nice side-effect of this too.
My understanding is that IPMP was not precisely builtin to MPEG-2 or -4. The fact that it could be backported to MPEG2 is partly indicative of this.

IPMP does not in any meaningful way alter the H.263 or H.264 compression algorithims, even though it does alter the bitstream in ways that require modifications of the encode/decode pipeline

There is nothing stopping a third-party from similarly making a pipeline-invasive DRM for any open codec. As a matter of fact, if the open codec is patent free, then there would be no legal way to stop them.
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The Interim Operating System
From what I've seen that is an unrealistic goal. It's not very close to H.265 yet.
Am I the only one who thinks make is fine for 80% of the things that these new build systems popping out every day are trying to solve?
Argh. No.
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I think understanding how things are implemented intimately is something that certainly helps, but isn't 100% necessary in many cases until you want to start optimizing, or you are trying to do things the engine isn't designed to handle natively.
You may want to look at https://guardtime.com/ for audit/data tampering concerns.

I'm copy pasting this from their site https://guardtime.com/ksi-technology

* A user interacts with the KSI system by submitting a hash-value of the data to be signed into the KSI infrastructure and is then returned a signature which provides cryptographic proof of the time of signature, integrity of the signed data, as well as attribution of origin i.e. which entity generated the signature.
Putting a message on the blockchain with Node.js
Continued:

"So we're making them, and we're penalizing any dealerships that are still selling black cars."
Thanks, I'll check that out!
> RAID6 and RAID10 are only directly comparable at 4 disks

They're really not ever directly comparable, because RAID10 isn't a hard-and-fast RAID level like RAID6, but rather the combination of two (really, one plus a quasi-level, but whatever). RAID10 encapulates any situation where mirrors are striped together.

> For 6 disks this means using 4 parity disks which allows failing any 4 disks which is RAID10's best case but better than it's worst case (any 2 disks can fail).

You're getting caught up on redundancy for a given total number of disks, and in the process missing the point entirely. If we really want to play that game, then I'll just roll a RAID1 (a.k.a. a RAID10 with only one set of mirrors) and call it a day, because with a n-disk array, a RAID1 will always be at least as redundant as the equivalent parity-based RAID (really, it'll always be able to survive one more disk failure than an n-1 parity-block array; you can see this rather easily when comparing RAID5 with a three-way RAID1).

From there, my point should be more clear. Just like how you can constantly add more and more parity blocks (and disks to handle them), I can constantly widen the mirror. Eventually we'll both get to the point where we realize "what the hell are we doing; there's 100 copies of every block; we should start adding some more non-redundancy disks", at which point RAID10's advantages become more clear, since each mirror group added to the striped whole instantly bumps up capacity and the best-case without compromising the worst-case. Meanwhile, you do have the advantage of having more flexibility in the quantity of disks added, but doing so doesn't help your best-case unless you feel like resuming the whole "let's make every disk a parity or mirror disk" arms race.

And before you mention it: yes, I know RAID1 isn't traditionally counted under RAID10, but a RAID10 with only one mirror group is possible to configure using tools like `mdadm`, and while this wouldn't look different from a RAID1 at first glance, it would certainly be different as soon as more mirror groups are added.

> Parity is strictly better than mirroring at redundancy

I think this remark is the core of your misunderstanding here. Are you really trying to claim than an n-sized parity array with n-1 parity blocks is better than a RAID1? You might want to clarify your position there if that's not what you meant to suggest :)

> Parity exploits that lack of correlation completely (any disk failure is just like any other, it doesn't matter which disk is which)

Which is exactly why you're incorrect. Since any disk failure is like any other, every single disk has to be unique in order for a parity-based array to benefit from any diversity. With mirroring, you don't have to go nearly as far for that same benefit; you just need each mirror to have a different bathtub curve. That's my point.

--

This has been a fun discussion, and there is certainly lots of room for debate on the merits of mirroring v. parity, but I'm starting to think that we should just agree to disagree on this one.
Sure -- that makes sense. I find that it depends upon the category or space that the company is in.

For eCommerce, this type of interstitial is a no-brainer: users have an easier time feeling more secure purchasing through an app vs. Safari or some other mobile browser. (Especially if it's Apple Pay enabled!)

For content heavy sites, it might be that the opposite is true: faster access to content can be used to hook the user. If you own one of these sites, you still need to design a method to get the user to come back repeatedly after you post updates. Email subscription modals do a good job at this, but people hate giving their email - especially on mobile.
Google will soon start encouraging you to continue using their apps. FTFY
> It's about math and software engineering.

Good idea; can you explain it in terms of software engineering? What software engineering problem is it solved by this lemma?

E.g. Starting with this set of requirements, we are transported to a solution thusly: ...
This. A Yelp for websites that encourages sites to be good web citizens.
Interesting. Are you open to training?

I've always viewed success as passionate curiosity. If the mindset is there, but not the skill, you can teach the later.
It should, but I think parent is talking about the input string having a limitation, which limits the amount of combinations you could have in your password. My original comment still stands, though, as 20 characters is a large amount of combinations (although I just did some quick calculations to find it's still less than 128 bits... 114 or so).
I too enjoyed the side bar. It's mysterious but it made me feel like there was more real estate. The map wasn't covered with boxes, whereas in the new design the 40% left handside of the map is unusable. Also, when searching a place, it resets the zoom, it zooms until I see the inside of that place (such as, the city center), whereas I generally want to see where the city is located with a bit more context. Same for a path: it puts the origin and destination on the viewport edges, whereas I generally want to locate the route, therefore see slightly more context. Slightly enough that it's painful.
It will be interesting to see how much of the "stack" ends up being open and royalty free. Don't get me wrong, open format is great, but only part of the story.

That being said, I'm definitely optimistic this is a step in the right direction given the fact that Mozilla is a part of it.

EDIT: Actually, looks like they may be proposing full-stack will be open: http://aomedia.org/about-us/
There's a couple hundred PHP 4.4 sites running on our shared hosting. We're probably never going to upgrade them.
It's part of the movement toward a more realistic view of "entrepreneurs".

I guess that's one way of looking at it. To me, it feels more like an attack on the very notion of entrepreneurship, and a way of discouraging people from pursuing that path. I feel like this kind of article originates with the same people (and the same thinking) that are always proclaiming "it's all luck, nothing you do really matters".
Oh man I miss olga. I had completely forgotten about it. These "newer" sites are the pits and every single one of them does this BS app install crap. Thank goodness for the "View as desktop" button in mobile browsers.
For those I just enter webmaster@<domain-name> or even the author's email if that's listed :P
That's what gives away the tell... I'd say reading people is probably the more relevant skill than counting odds...
I don't want more shit relying on a 1 GBps, sub millisecond latency internet connection. Even if bandwidth has gotten better in the past decade (although it's doing so logarithmically), latency is still there no matter what you do, and sadly the speed of light makes it that no matter what you do, you can't do NYC-Paris in less than 40 milliseconds. You can use tons of tricks to somewhat massage that fact, but at the end of the day the physical limit is there.

Not everyone is living in your Google Fiber bubble. If you're going to design the cellphone of the future, you probably don't want the base assumption of your design to be that the user will always be in an area with high bandwidth, low latency environment, because that represents a minuscule fraction of cellphone users.

Sadly, that's what happens when all of the startups are based in an echo chamber - they lose sight of the fact that not everyone has the same conditions as them. Well, tech has the nice habit of cyclically reinventing shit, so I'm glad we're going to spend a few years banging our heads against thin clients again.

Homework reading for the founders and employees of this company:
https://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/rants/Latency.html
Did you play at Cafe 40/42? =)
Why was the post about meritocracy being a myth in SV flagged?
Can someone please explain to me why the post to this blog entry was "flagged"?

https://medium.com/diversify-tech/i-m-a-white-guy-in-silicon-valley-and-i-m-done-buying-the-meritocracy-myth-2cc0ef9f9b60

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10155295
So the best scientists in the world were asked “If civilisation was destroyed, what scientific information would you pass on to the survivors?” - And all they could come up with was basically, choose the most precious bits of information that would hopefully allow the survivors to restore our great civilisation (and possibly repeat our mistakes)?

IMHO “If civilisation was destroyed,” given current environmental status (exhausting resources, pollution, rising sea levels and temperatures, almost 75% of species gone extinct in the last century), as well as our unsustainable economy, corrupted political leaders, and proliferated nuclear weapons (still) powerful enough to fully obliterate mankind (if not the whole of life on Earth), it would most likely be due to ourselves.

So the best bits of information I would pass on to survivors would be those that would allow them not to repeat our mistakes: "take care of the environment, and don't make war to each other; do this with the utmost diligence - keep in mind it's a really tough job; so tough in fact, that we failed, and all of our advanced technology, with all of our wisdom, wasn't enough to prevent our collapse."

Edit: I understand my answer is perhaps OT (in the sense that it's not scientific information) but nevertheless if we want to maximise the survivors' chances...to survive, I would rather ensure they do not make our mistakes; because if we assume they'd have their own history and evolution (as a civilisation), just like we did, then we might assume as well, that they would make mostly similar discoveries, so there's no point in telling them in advance what they are going (sooner or later) to find out by themselves anyway.
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>That's more of a consequence of the erosion of anonymity in the Internet, than you being a woman.

No it's a consequence of men seeking out my social profiles on other sites and offering to give me "extra help". Also dick pics.

>I'm asking people to critically examine a concept and judge for themselves

That's exactly what you're being asked to do. Women in the spaces, including myself, aren't looking for things to be angry about, we are looking for acceptance and the ability to enjoy our hobbies/passions and professions in peace. Insisting that everything is just a misunderstood friendly gesture is ridiculous and part of the larger culture that make certain groups of people feel unwelcome in tech.
Design by AB testing, my favorite :(

I worked at a major tech company where every decision needed to be justified by AB testing. Our design was a series of haphazard guesses made on data that depended on a very brittle data pipeline. Needless to say, nobody thought it was a very good product, but the incredible bureaucracy and people behind the approach made it hard to fight against.
As long as it not one of those Genere Novels :-)
Priceless: https://www.amherst.edu/system/files/media/1349/Finalproj_s1...

Kind of makes me want to take Geology there, sounds like a fun place.
The branch is dead, short live the branch
Hopefully Google can distinguish them from the "By browsing this site, you accept the use of Cookies [X]"-popups that EU websites have to implement now.
I'd estimate building anything that floats in the ocean is about 100x as expensive than a regular building, as the environment is very hostile. The sea is constantly moving, trying to pull your structure apart. There's storms and salt spray. In case of a problem, like a a fire, you can't escape it by just stepping outside.

This is why ships are more and more tightly regulated and certified nowadays.

Anyway, if this is going to be deployed in a wide scale, there's another issue. You're going to shade the ocean so they will start blocking large amounts of light, and it could be a problem, as they would be limiting primary plankton production. You'd have to place them far away in "the deserts of the sea".
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Not to mention that an app potentially has access to a lot more information about you from the device.
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Does that mean they'll block youtube? Try playing a video on a phone that does not have the youtube app installed, it's just about impossible to get it right, it's a roulette that's rigged with more than half the links going to the youtube app page on google play. Highly annoying since there is no reason why the youtube page of some video should even have that app installation link at all.
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Personally, I don't find watching sports to be very engaging either, but I know I'm not typical in that regard. Theoretically, I can see more of an argument in favor of watching traditional sports since it's harder to go out and find other players of similar skill in your location and then organize everyone into teams, etc, etc. The barrier to participation in video games is much lower though with the internet and automated matchmaking for multiplayer games. Singleplayer and free-to-play games are even easier to get into.

I love playing video games, but I've never had the patience to seek out and watch other people play. I'd much rather be experiencing it for myself - but as you said, to each their own.