skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I asked a friend, and he said "but isn’t it obvious that if you sum up this and this and...". Yes. To many mathematicians, it is just obvious. Maybe that’s the issue.
People who use drugs do not factor in potential punitive measures when using/beginning to use let alone addicts. "Pressure" doesn't matter one bit.
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but isn't instagram effectively the same thing as twitter, with a much smaller team?
From an external point of view, one doesn't see much difference between email and RSS feeds: both typically end up in your email client. The main visible difference is that with a RSS feed you can retrieve older entries when you subscribe; it's funny how people associate RSS with news when one of its key features is to let you fetch old news. TinyLetter, btw, appears to offer this feature by letting the author resend old letters to new subscribers.

An other difference is that one can reply to an email but not to a RSS feed. Reading the comments here it seems to me it is a key point relevant to TinyLetter versus Twittbook.

TinyLetter is a one-way communication channel. Like a blog with comments disabled. This is to me a major feature for two reasons that are actually one: spam. With comments gone you don't have to deal with spam, trolls, etc. The second reason is "social interaction spam": when feedback is enabled, people may think they have to reply, support, "like", "retweet" etc. Often the reply is void of content.

TinyLetter's key feature is that you are sending a "newsletter", making it clear that no feedback is required, which eliminates the social spam that pervades social networks.
Unfortunately I can't provide a reference, but I distinctly remember reading that the user flow at German ATMs is specifically designed to minimize forgotten card incidents.
I fully support the premise, but I started reading and have no idea what half of the tricks actually are. I think the book could benefit from explaining the tricks for those of us who have not had the misfortune to have been taught them.
We (my girlfriend, who is the author, and I) are with the German DKB bank, which offers a free checking account, EC card and credit card. You basically have two accounts with them, one connected to the EC card and one to the credit card. The credit card can be used for free cash withdrawals worldwide and POS payments in Germany, but if you use it to pay outside Germany, they charge a 1.75% fee.
The EC card can also be used for POS payments in Germany and is useful since many more shops accept EC card payments compared to credit card payments in Germany...
Okay, I stand corrected on that one.

However, the Chinese traditional medicine market would do just as well with chalk dust, I assume.
The debit card of Berliner Sparkasse works that way (paying in shops and domestic, Sparkasse-owned ATM is free, taking out money abroad isn’t). However, you can’t pay too much with that debit card outside Germany, so they have this “travel pack credit card” – taking out money with it abroad is free (if the ATM allows it), but using it otherwise still incurs a transaction fee.
> WhatsApps product is much, much simpler than twitters products.

Can you enumerate Twitter's products?

Perhaps Instagram is a closer comparison -- broadcast photos instead of broadcast 140 characters. And you have a much smaller engineering team, much faster growth, twice as many active users, and far fewer fail whales.

Regardless of the comparisons, 2,000 engineers seems excessive in proportion to Twitter's product, which suggests engineering inefficiency.
Quora has some good answers, which shed light on Ataturk's personality[1]. Wonder, why in that part of the world, there were so few such personalities. Actually, Iran was denied of it's democratically elected leader, Mohammad Mosaddegh, by UK and supported by US (TPAJAX project)[2].

[1] https://www.quora.com/Turkey-country/Was-Mustafa-Kemal-Atatu...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
People might not always agree with you dude and that is okay. Overuse of the wink smiley is patronising.
Rhei is just Greek (modern and ancient) for "it flows" (ρέει).
Sorry that you're so fixated on prop 13 not contributing to any issues with local revenue collection or housing shortfalls. I continue to disagree. Either way though, neither of us are likely to get to express our opinions by voting in our life times.

To your point that "no one is talking about prop 13": a constitutional amendment to modify it was proposed 3 months ago [1]. Obviously that will never go anywhere -- the state can't even pass a balanced budget with regularity. But then, that's the whole problem with propositions, isn't it?

Otherwise, I think that you can rest easy, your point has been made. You prefer to make accusations (article skimming! anecdotes that are anecdotal!) rather than constructive dialogue. Welcome to the Internet, it's full of people you won't get along with.

[1] http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert...
Did they pull the scaling out of their hair? I'd like to read about the rationale.
Bank of America switched years ago to "Insert card, remove card, enter PIN, take money, take receipt." Capturing invalid cards, while often done with early ATMs, turns out not to be all that useful as a fraud prevention measure. It's not required by the current PCI standard for ATMs.[1]

There's also an attack on ATMs called the "Lebanese Loop"[2] which requires that the ATM try to retain a card. So there's a security problem with retaining cards.

[1] https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/pdfs/PCI_ATM_Security_G...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_loop
Speaking from personal experience (I bum around in Levi's all day) and the experience of others (my bro-in-law bum's around Africa in Levis) they don't last as well as one might expect.
I wonder if there's good ways to connect your offices via connections in physical locations, always on.

I envisage a whole wall that's a screen with a camera, acting like a portal to a different office location. Stick it in a corridor or a tearoom, a common area where people can just encounter one another at random and chat. If you want to have an in-depth talk with someone at another office, send them a message asking to meet at one of the portal locations rather than scheduling a Skype session. Encourage people to meet and introduce themselves to people they happen to see through the portal.

Does anyone do this kind of thing?
"trying to escape the traditional window focused desktop environment with this project"

I lol'd!

(Because somehow I still tend to much more associate words like "newfangled" with "window focused desktop environments", rather than the word "traditional". I know it's been a long time. The brain is a strange thing.)
Interesting, if you (or someone else) has any source for this, I'd love to read it! I'd say that ALL ATMs should be designed to minimize those incidents though... :)
That would make sense, as I have noticed the same thing in Québec City and was rather confused about it. For me, returning the card first makes so much sense that I wondered how people could implement this differently. A lot of people will grab the cash, their brains will subconsciously tell them "I have what I came here for" and they will leave - without their card.

I see really only one potential advantage for doing it this way: you can provide other transactions after dispensing cash. So you could get some cash and then afterwards check your balance, for example, without having to re-enter card and PIN code. With the "international model", cash withdrawals are always the last transaction in the series as the card will always be withdrawn as part of the transaction. Nevertheless, I would judge this "convenience factor" as far less important as the protection against forgotten cards.

But maybe someone here works in the Canadian banking industry and has some clues? Maybe the recording of the withdrawal transactions works differently and the ATM needs the card for a short period after the money has been dispensed? I don't know...
As far as I can tell France universally uses "Flow A" (get your card back first, then your cash). When I started using ATMs, in the late 80s, I remember that "Flow A" and "Flow B" were about equally common, then in a relatively short span of time all the banks switched to A.

It surprises me, reading about it now, that it could be different in any other part of the world. That Flow A is the correct solution is not obvious, but it should be obvious to anyone who's studied human behavior and human error, which should be anyone involved in the design of ATMs. The form of "goal fixation" Jenny mentions is a very common pattern in human errors.
> Lots in the East Coast (ok, NYC)

Lots in Boston, too.
> Messenger == Facebook Messenger?

Yes. At least among my social circle, it's become the go-to messaging platform.
"Insert card, remove card, ..." makes even more sense than returning the card right before the money!
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which in turn points to this: "That’s per a Wall Street Journal story...."
http://www.wsj.com/articles/propelled-by-apple-ad-blocking-c...
No. We'd be giving people who have chronic pain better treatment of that pain without addicting them to opioids.

People with long term pain need rapid access to pain management clinics. They often need to detox off the not-working opioids they were previously prescribed. Then they need to start running through the other alternative.
We changed the baity title to a representative phrase from the article, in accordance with the HN guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Chinese market isn't looking for huge tusks for display but rather a powder to put in traditional remedies.

It's both actually. I believe that it's actually mostly bought in the form of carved ivory and to a lesser extent for powder for traditional remedies.
> Teaching is frustrating too. Watching the kids that only care about the tricks ace the exam, and the ones with curious minds screw up a few mechanical things.

Or worse, the majority of kids that don't even realise the subject is more than just the tricks themselves.
Only if using the magnetic stripe. If the transaction is authorised using the smartcard chip on the card, the PIN is (AFAIK) used to unlock the authorisation on the chip and thus needs to be entered while the card is in the machine.
Thanks for taking a look! Unfortunately, developing self-contained tools that customers run behind a firewall is a complete non-starter for me. ;-)

Developing against the GitHub API does carry some non-trivial advantages: among other things, I never actually clone any repos. This wouldn't be possible with a raw git repo. I'm considering adapting the tool to AWS CodeCommit, though, which might be a decent middle ground. Making my own equivalent of pull requests is actually the least of the changes I'd need to make, though.

And yeah, performance is a never-ending battle... But considering that all the work is done in the browser (fetching sources, diffing, formatting, etc.) I think it's actually not too bad. Again, like running in the cloud, it's a trade-off of in favor of flexibility and development speed.
No, that's not true. People with long term pain often report tolerance to their opioid pain releif.
I couldn't possibly comment on the RedFox - pretty much everything that's not on the website is classified or at least need-to-know, and I haven't kept very careful track of what's on the web.

I've looked at your work before, but I'd be happy to receive some more. Two points, though: (a) I'm incredibly busy right now, so don't expect a prompt response, and (b) we don't talk a lot about what we do, so don't expect to see a lot of credits in (open) print. (My apologies for both!)
Awesome. You're probably already working on this but would be nice if there are tags of companies you're crawling and also forms to suggest/personalize new companies. This was a nice list I came across a while back: https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs
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The author is mistaken about people always waiting for their money from an ATM. I've seen people take their card and leave the machine before the money comes out. I'm pretty sure I've done it myself at least once, when I was thinking about something else.
Cross multiplication is a trick to multiply by the 'reciprocal' of the fraction.

The failing here is that you don't understand why you get the right answer here.

Why is (1/2) / (1/4) = 2? It's because there are 2 quarters in every half, it's not because (1/2) * (4/1) = 2 that's just a 'convenient trick' to get the answer quickly. This is a great idea if your goal is to pass some maths exams which have a fixed format in the near future. It's a terrible idea if you want to be able to apply mathematics to anything.
Good catch. We'll change to that from http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/09/24/adblock_plus_....

It turns out to be a dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10274239.
Accounting for User Growth
Not for long it seems.
Can you point to remote execution issues in the CLR? I'm having a rather hard time thinking of any that'd impact an organization. The CLR issues with unsafe code has almost entirely been related to trying sandbox binaries (via CAS or loading .NET apps via browser plugins (same as Java)).

I'm unaware of any time the CLR would provide any useful attack surface. The only ones that come to mind are GDI+ issues that .NET inherits via passthrough. So, citation needed, I guess?

Agreed that use of C/++ code in general is bad and for all the effort spent on mitigation, we'd be better off moving to a proper language, but ... doesn't seem like that's happening.

A rewrite is rather silly; the NT kernel is well respected and capable. You're basically suggesting "throw away everything and start a new company" which certainly doesn't seem like a winning strategy.
I believe that mobile browser will beat apps, like it did on desktop. Mobile browsers were unusable, sites were not mobile-friendly, devices were slow with tiny screens. Now those factors change and browsing websites on modern smartphone is much more usable. And it's likely that we will see shift from mobile apps to mobile websites in the near future.
Is US politics particularly polarised now, though? More polarised than 1968? More polarised than 1852? More polarised than 1983, when Reagan was President and all the left could talk about was how much they hated Reagan? (Not old enough to remember it, just going off the music and film from the period.)
Economic illiteracy, Exhibit A.

The definition of elastic demand is that there is change in demand given a change in price. College students and tech workers, who will pay anything for their place, are examples of demand inelasticity. The demand keeps going up, despite the price.

Though, I suppose you have a point, considering the global market. There are enough houses in the United States for everybody to live. It’s just that more people want to live in the Bay Area than in Detroit, so we’re double- and quadruple-packed here while entire neighborhoods go empty there. And then, skyrocketing house prices attract speculators, who will bid against people who actually belong here and keep the price rising as long as possible.
This is old news, except for specifics about which firms are paying. And in any case, Adblock Plus alerts at installation about the option of deselecting "Allow some non-intrusive advertising".
Samsung will pay you up to $120 for buying a Galaxy S6
And going a bit further back, this is probably one more reason Windows was successful. Networking "just worked". It was pretty neat (in the 90s) to just plug stuff in, turn it on, and hey, there's the other computers, and printers and so on.
But google doesn't sell software. Most of their sofware is never distributed outside google (apart from the parts they strategically open-source), so the GPL can't force them to open up their source code.
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Clearly for better. Most of the Google projects I've come across over the years are close to the throw-it-over-the-wall end of open source development, as opposed to Red Hat which seems to me to mostly let individuals participate.

Their CEO has written a management book (or perhaps anti-management) which explains their take on these things in some detail.

I'm pretty sure that if Red Hat had been running Android, it wouldn't be a big fork.
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Its not actually just Saudis, its Qatar, UK, France, and the US.

Saudi Arabia spent a long time getting the US to attack syria. Also Al-quaeda is/was a bigger threat, because it came from within, it started out as a jolly adventure for a low ranking Saudi Noble.

ISIS only works in a vacuum, Plus if we are going to be brutally honest, on the scale of 0 - 10 (full ISIS) Suadi Arabia is about a 6-6.9

The main difference is that ISIS show a flair for video editing of their medieval punishments. Something the Saudi state does behind closed doors.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/cia-overseeing-su...

They, like us were arming the rebels. ISIS "formally" split from the Free Syrian Army in late 2013:

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/israel-middle-east/p...

When they gave up on getting us to attack them they tried a different tact:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/saudi-regime-working-to-lure-th...

In the same way that Bin Laden is a direct consequence of our actions in 80s Afghanistan. ISIS is a direct consequence of our half-arsed dicking about in Syria.
I agree. My father was working in thermodynamics, and he quietly steered me from tricks to being able derive things myself. For example, in cross-multiplication, percents, unit conversion, long division.

I remember him saying: "Forget all rules about percentages. All you need to know it's like a number multiplied by 100."

He also wasn't fond of mole as unit, he felt that it obscures things especially for students.

Later I applied the same method myself on algebra (deriving binomial expressions), trigonometric functions (deriving constants from unit circle, other relations from the basic relations of sin(x+y)) and so on.

I guess this actually applies to any field. Do not start with tricks and shortcuts until you understand and can do the deed with basic methods.
How many photos they have per second compared to how many tweets there are per second?

How many API requests happen every second for twitter and instagram?

Instagram has only began support for free format photos now.

So maybe twitter engineering is inflated, but it's a different product beyond the 'stuff in a timeline' description
Congragulations... It's great :)
Don't forget that Twitter has a comprehensive advertising platform. The partnerships, sales, tooling, and ad auction system themselves are likely just as complicated (or more so) than the basic Twitter product.

Instagram has only recently started to monetize the product -- it's almost unfair to compare the size of the engineering teams supporting the systems.
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Bohemian Sketch alternative?
Given the success and usability of Sketch for macs, why no one is making an online clone of it??
I hope this is named after the DEX cyborgs in Romantically Apocalyptic.

http://romanticallyapocalyptic.wikia.com/wiki/Pilot
As a developer and consumer, I think that browsers are better for most use cases, where user interaction is simple enough and web technologies are more than up to the task.

But this technical consideration could be trumped by business considerations: making people pay for "mere websites" is more difficult than making them pay for apps, and if ad blocking really becomes mainstream, this could be enough reason for producers of even simple content to prefer apps - where they can have their free version with ads without having to worry about blockers.
It is 2020:

- Speech recognition has acquired acceptable (par with human) accuracy. This has been a great boon for the digitally excluded. It has also increased the relative prevalence of text based commands in the operating system, not that too many people notice.

- CNC machines that can operate on anything strong now require a license, it was too easy to make guns with them and on balance governments decided that was the important thing.

- VR headsets have failed to gain market share. They were neat, but only if you stayed in one place. Elite Dangerous and co' weren't able to support a physical product of that cost by themselves. There are some fantastic applications of the technology, but you need to find an old headset to play.

- Linux is still waiting for it's year of the desktop and still looks like a poor knock-off of Windows.

- Turing complete systems aren't banned yet, but it looks increasingly likely as phones and tablets start to dominate the marketplace.
I find is to so much easier to just type out the URL of what app I need - facebook, reddit, youtube, etc -

Its just faster to let google auto-complete then having to browse my own phone for the app that I need.

typing the letter "f" is faster than exiting the browser and using my OWN EYES to browse left to right row by row the apps on my phone. How cave-manish.
I had to take down the server for a minute to install a WP caching plugin, it should be back up soon!
Just recently the Galaxy Note 5 reverse pen issue was also being called "Penghazi". But in both the Bendghazi & Penghazi names it works because it sounds so similar to "Benghazi".
Atlassian did exactly that, scattering large displays with a permanent audio/video link to an equivalent in another office around their hallways.
The most interesting part, and something that the article doesn't go further in to, is why partnering with artists didn't work. The author just says "interests faded". Why did they fade? Was the artist not really onboard? Did the coding take too long? How could that problem be resolved?

Having a second founder makes a huge difference to your chance of success. There's just too much to do on your own.
A nice hack, but it does suggest that IPv4 scarcity isn't here yet - at least not for some of us! ;)
I think that adding the "probably" is probably being overly careful.

Red Hat is an amazing company.
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> If the pay cut isn't too large, this could still work out to a net increase in real income, just because the cost of living in Nashville is about half of San Francisco.

So long as you don't mind being stranded there.
Something else that happened in 1996 is the internet was just getting started. With that came the dethroning of traditional information sources who then moved more towards sensationalism rather than news to keep viewers interested and advertising dollars flowing in.
On the iPhone, it's easy to search for an app with a quick swipe down.

As for cavemanish, some might argue "clicking a large icon" is less cavemanish than having to resort to something as unnatural as a keyboard.