skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The vegemite bias is real! except for the people who share a differing viewpoint to my own!
Reddit actually does have a number of these. I'm not sure I want to link any, though.
I think part of the problem is that you have to have brass balls to bike in certain routes anyway, which leads to a higher distribution of assholes than you get in other groups.

But after being a cycle commuter in the best (Minneapolis), worst (Albuquerque), and middle of the road (SF/Peninsula/East Bay) cities in America and then also London (which I guess is sort of middle of the road for Europe), I think the real problem is American urban planning and the entitlement of the American driver. Basically, average city streets in the US are like highways in Europe, they are wider, faster, and drivers don't give two shits about pedestrians, cyclists or anyone else (except in Berkeley, Berkeley is like a weird parallel universe of pedestrian etiquette); a disturbingly large proportion of otherwise decent Americans get behind the wheel and turn into Mr Hyde.

Contrasting with London where congestion is every bit as bad, not only on the roads, but also the sidewalks, and you find a sort of emergent cooperative effort for everyone to pay attention to everyone else and attempt to make the least nuisance of themselves. This is necessary because often the sidewalks (pavements) are overcroweded and pedestrians spill into the streets, but the cars and the bicycles watch out for this. Similarly, cyclists will reach critical mass and sometimes block traffic, but then filter themselves down to single file to let cars go by. Lanes are much more fluid in general, with oncoming traffic making room for buses to pass each other by utilizing part of their lane.

To sum it up, America lacks an attitude of public cooperation when it comes to transportation infrastructure and utilization. I suppose this is the cultural legacy of a century of being able to simply move west and be granted 160 acres of land to oneself.
Should Greenspun's Tenth Rule be updated with a note that "they might try adding javascript before they add common lisp"?
This is an interesting legal issue, but I doubt it will have any practical effect on the NSA's future access to data.

As long as the NSA is collaborating with GCHQ, it doesn't need to transfer anything outside of the EU. If anything, the intercepts provided by the UK government are subject to fewer safeguards than those gathered in domestic surveillance programs.
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There's no reason to limit that kind of obviously beneficial practice to just the CEO.

Imagine how beneficial it would be to apply it to all the employees. Company is earning money? You get your paycheck. Company is losing money? Cough up.
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Goes to show you that Mark Zuckerberg was very smart in buying Instagram and WhatsApp. Also shows that Microsoft has a massive opportunity on the productivity side. For those that aren't heavy social users, apps like Mail and Calendar are ripe for displacement by more intelligent alternatives e.g. Sunrise.
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Sounds like a co-op.
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> Good times only exist because bad times exist to weigh them against. Good times would merely be "times" without bad times.

That sounds very poetic, but I honestly don't think that any of the horrible things that have happened to me have made me enjoy life more.
Not specifically, though indirectly. The FEDs activities are intended to counter balance the lack of economic activity and investment capital coming out of the banks after the 2008 crises left them having to unwind their debt positions globally. Someone has to keep the fuel spigot on - usually that's the government but most did the opposite (austerity) due to politics.

What you're witnessing is a LOT of unused capital sitting around trying to find low risk returns. Interest rates are low so money is cheap, and there are only so many places to park capital, thus... Prices go up. Post 2008 Companies aren't investing as much in the real economy: wages, productive capital, etc. are stagnant. they're profit taking and retaining the profits. What's important to know is that while assets are trending higher historically , these are all mostly paper assets - they're indirectly tied to the real economy, and haven't completely become unhinged yet like in 2000.

See http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/07/08/upshot/welcome-to-the-e...

Zimbabwe was a case of hyperinflation. Which is what eventually happens when you have more money than productive capacity - prices of "real stuff" go up fast. But real inflation in the U.S. and Europe is very low by historical standards. We are not going to become Zimbabwe.
>Hiroyuki Nishimura's past doesn't really suggest the same sort of community-mindedness.

That's putting it lightly.

http://www.anonymous-japan.org/fake2ch/

Japanese netizens absolutely loathe him on a level that makes westerners' mixed feelings toward moot seem glowing in comparison.

https://imgur.com/a/o8ruh

Here's what the current lead developer of 2ch (@CodeMonkeyZ) thinks Hiroyuki's plans for 4chan are:

http://pastebin.com/8bfsk6jP
I don't have details, but apparently BART was originally drawn up to encircle the South Bay but that was torpedoed by the local communities on the peninsula just like high speed rail to LA. It's sort of crazy making to think about how much better BART would be compared to the apocalyptic, earthquake-inducing rumbling and dinging bells of Caltrain with at-grade crossings and monthly deaths (sometimes intentional, sometimes not).
That's not true. Most of what I've found was done with Universities with it often published to ACM or IEEE. The areas I collect are security (esp high assurance), fault-tolerant systems, software engineering (esp automated), systems modelling, and specific use-cases (eg databases). I have skimmed over 10,000 papers on these topics to find that most of the best work is University or a company partnered with one with occasional great work out of Microsoft, Google,etc.

Further, I stumbled upon the meme expressed by Perrine [1], etc that tech continuously reinvents the wheel by making same failures or re-inventing same solutions from the past. There's a bunch of tech that hasn't caught up to stuff from 60's-80's in those papers I reference. You'll see me do my part by referencing it in places like this where it might apply. However, it reflects an overall trend that there's tons of wisdom that's not transferred to new tech generation and we need a Standford-style encyclopedia for it all. More likely a collection of books and Wikipedia-style articles so cross-referencing will encourage serendipity.

So, we could really use this. I considered creating one but Jeremy Epstein advised me to get real buy-in from academics first. That such a repository would probably need a lot for it to be effective, using a network effect I'm guessing. That's a lot more work than I have time for right now lol. Nonetheless, we desperately need it for INFOSEC and IT. Just for fun, I'd use only best-of-breed tools and methods its recommends to run the site itself. People would see it in action as they showed up.

[1] https://c59951.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/5085-1255-perrine.pdf
Welcome to the wonderful world of network peering.

I suspect Google is very transmit heavy on bandwidth usage. Peering agreements tend to sweeten as your rx/tx ratio approaches 1, so increasing rx on the network makes it easier to establish a peering arrangement, avoiding the need to purchase transit.
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I think you're talking about a "cashier's check" which we have in the US too; the problem is that these can be forged, and the bank will still accept it as a deposit. What many people don't know, is that when the check fails to clear, the depositor is liable for the missing funds, not the forger.
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I'm not going to argue that there are problems in the world...

...but pointing to Elon Musk as one of those is ridiculous.

It's talking straight down the 'space, who needs it? We should spend that money on earth instead' trope, which has been, repeatedly, and in many many places, shown to be a completely hollow and invalid argument. We don't need to debate this. Go speak to the people at NASA; they've been having this conversation for the last 60 years.

When you taint the message you're trying to get across with this sort of trope, it actively harms your ability to convey a meaningful message.
>It is well established that most programmers will produce defects at a relatively high rate when writing C or C++

It's anecdotical, but most of actual C++ programmers I know won't produce more defects than Java programmers for instance. In the last 5 years I have seen buffers overflows just once and was in a legacy code (and C++ has been my main language in that period). Java has its own sets of defects (such as resources leaking).

In my opinion are good practices like code reviews the ones that help to produce good code and not the choice of the language.
From facebook's perspective, what would the signs be? Not logging in for days/months/years probably isn't enough. Age might not help (I've told countless websites that I am 100+). Even searches tied to obituaries would yield countless false positives for deaths.

Imagine if the Facebook robot thought you were dead, then asked you to confirm. "Login to your account or we will announce your death to all of your friends."
>> For whatever reason this seems to get motorists to drive more slowly and makes it safer for everyone.

That's actually a known phenomenon. When drivers experience unusual situations (like roads without stripes down the middle), they're forced to pay much more attention to the actual act of driving.

For more, see here: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/02/to-make-ro...
SV isn't even remotely close to being in the same universe in terms of density, which is needed to make transit really work.
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I told each boss "I work with the Scouts. I camp one weekend a month, and will leave work early on that Friday. The day will come when there's a rush at work, and I really need to stay late and get something done instead. On that day, I will go camping with the Scouts."

Being upfront about it like that got me a lot of credit somehow. It was never a problem.

Also, when they were around 12, I was a partner in a consulting firm. So I could make my own hours. That definitely helped out during those years.
I'm a huge procrastinator! On a previous and recent "procrastination" post here on HN, I read someone's post about his experience with mediation and how it helped him overcome this. Of course I heard about meditation before, but I wasn't sure what it meant exactly in practice. I found this video very informative, and I hope someone else will find it useful too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt5Qv9tUObI
Do you charge more for the bundle?

If so, sincere question: why, if it's the same content?
Things that would happen:

- CEO like any other investor is driven to apply mostly by speculation.

- CEOs would bail ship very quickly when things turn sour

- Failing companies would be doomed to fail as no one wants to be their CEO. Competition decreases as companies become more volatile on the downside.

As for the upside?

- HN and reddit pitchfork mobs are happy as they are less jealous of CEOs.

IMO, definitely worth it. Every company should implement this idea.
Bicyclists in Palo Alto kill pedestrians. http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2015/04/22/pedestrian-str...
Exactly, the same type of distribution seen across many natural phenomena https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law#Empirical_examples_o...
San Jose tried this in the 60s. Most of the little towns surrounding San Jose used to be San Jose. They were rebuked over and over again as town re-incorporated. I think you'd at least have to wait longer before trying that again.
And that wealth is nicely tied in the top tier of society with no chances of it trickling down to the masses. And they wonder why no one is buying anything or willing to pay for anything. It's like DMX said, stop being greedy.
I was referring to the Baylands trails, specifically the Adobe Creek Loop Trail and those that lead to EPA.
I've always wanted to see what would happen to competitive RTS play if the micro was handled by an AI, so the players were just indicating what macro actions they wanted to undertake to the AI and it was sending the moment-to-moment key-presses to the game engine. Would high-level players have more time to think, or about the same?
You're mixing up assets and yearly output. You're also ignoring the fact that real assets that always existed may be shifting from other asset classes to hedge funds.
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And the financial toll of 500+ hours/year in a car that costs real money every operating hour.

On the plus side, you'll never pick up fast food to eat on the way when you're on a bike.
Interestingly, closing roads and reducing the number of cars would improve the number and availability of foot crossings. It's funny you mention good city planning, since a lack of good city planning is actually why we are in this situation in the first place.
I would basically like to see stock options eliminated.

If you want shares of company, you need to buy it just like everybody else. With your taxed income.

This makes decisions to buy stocks much harder, and it will really show you're putting money where your mouth.
> You can also get a feel for how many molds/stamps/etc that your competitor has in their factory by looking at the mold IDs.

Also known as the German Tank Problem[0]

Allied intelligence, trying to estimate the extent of Panzer production, used estimates based on serial numbers of various components in tanks that fell into their hands.

From Wikipedia: "Estimating production was not the only use of this serial number analysis. It was also used to understand German production more generally, including number of factories, relative importance of factories, length of supply chain (based on lag between production and use), changes in production, and use of resources such as rubber."

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem
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Inter-process IPC is going to block the event loop for longer than a inline RSA operation.
Aren't they allocating ipv6 IPs in a similar way though? the only difference is exponentially more addresses to a single company...
It is a combination of liquidation preferences & far more money going into the private market as there are fewer "investable" options in the public market & asset allocation becomes broader (a trend I see continuing: https://medium.com/@emad/asset-allocation-not-share-prices-w...)

This is why you see hedge funds, family offices etc playing the $100m+ round space as Andreesen Horowitz for example showed in their recent funding report.

This is different to prior instances as there was less money available in the private market at this stage as typically public markets were seen as the preferred venue

A final few reasons were a) higher interest rates at prior times which made convertible notes/bonds not as attractive versus an equity IPO round and b) IPOs provided liquidity events that you can emulate now
Well, for some people everything is a popularity contest. Reddit includes an interface for popularity contests whereas 4chan is popularity contest agnostic.
Personally that's because I think most apps suck and I'd rather use their website in safari. Furthermore many mobile sites annoy me and I try hard to stick with their desktop site.

So yes, Google, Facebook, Twitter and Safari/mail (do those count) account for a ridiculous amount of my app usage even though they're just a more normally distributed slice of my internet traffic
Better javascript would be incompatible with javascript - best you can get will be "less sucking javascript". And you'll be able to use it somewhere in the far future, after four competing companies have implemented enough of it in a way that mostly works, their browsers have reached most of the internet and the brave open source community has developed the polyfills needed to fix the incompatibilities.

I'm not holding my breath. Javascript sucks, it will be everywhere and we are stuck with it.
IP communism is not in conflict with belief in private property rights. The trick is in denying IP the status of property, because you cannot own ideas in the same sense you can own a car. Cars are fundamentaly scarce, two people can't use the same car at the same time. Ideas can be copied and improved upon, they don't go away when somebody steals them. Anyway, there would certainly be successfull business models in absence of software patents. Not saying 'we should abolish software patents', we are probably too invested in this model.
Appreciate the counterpoint. Could in fact be a myth or legend. Lots of money to justify spreading disinformation, too. Maybe an anonymous survey by a reputable organization is in order that tries to break down what issues people have and don't have along with specific metrics. Then compile that into a big picture.

Meanwhile, the companies I've worked at all had mainframes without trouble from them that people said. Problems were virtually always the app developers or the pain of doing 21st century stuff with 60's-80's architecture or legacy code.
What's weird is five hours after asking that question, no one has provided a reasonable explanation of why C requires arrays to become pointers on function boundaries.

My "online search" found Walter Bright, who knows a thing or two about C compilers, wondering the same thing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7572011
If I'm reading a book, I don't want to be zooming in and out. It's a pain to hold a phone one handed in a way that also promotes easy page turning without accidental page turning. Reading in bed while my partner sleeps is also a lot less intrusive on my Kindle than my phone (which annoys me too, as unless overridden, the brightness will be far too much in a dark room).

I love my iPhone/iPad. But they don't compare to the Kindle for reading experience, at least for me. I just wish color eInk would get here already.
It's not a matter of risk. It's a matter of whether a candidate is at all able to work on something like this over a weekend. A weekend assignment presumes a certain lifestyle and implicitly discriminates against candidates who don't have that life. Primarily this affects single parents and individuals who are caretakers, but I'm probably leaving out a host of other reasons.
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That's where salt idea comes in. Even if you know the hashing algorithm and the key, you still need to rehash it for every single entry in your database to check if you have a match.

That assumes you can get a consistent description of a fingerprint though, or have some scheme for fuzzy match with hashing. Now I want to find a paper on this...
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>Does grandma get to the doctor on a tricycle?

Yes they do actually.[0] Disabled and weak elderly can get allocated tri- or quadbikes by the Ministry of Social Affairs in Denmark.

[0] http://www.hmi-basen.dk/blobs/orig/45500.jpg
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Calling it utility doesn't seem to actually explain what it is.
Back in my day, trolling used to mean something.
It seems like they have removed the default apps like Mail. They should be included in any analysis.
I think that kind of analysis is what you use to fill books.
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"Color drains battery life. Let this be a 2nd/3rd gen thing. Few books will take advantage of full illustrations. This, however, can be huge for children's books."

1 - aren't we past generation 1 of eBook readers? Color might drain battery life more, but my Voyage gets well over 100 hours with Wifi off, even using the adaptive backlight. How much more is needed?
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I agree. Innovation in open source is all on commodity computer stuff that developers understand, like operating systems, compilers, web browsers, and databases.

For almost everything that requires other expertise the innovation is still done in closed source software.

Stuff like photo editing (LightRoom, Photoshop, Capture One), video editing (Premiere, Flame, DS), high end rendering (Renderman, 3Delight), CAD (Catia, Solidworks, NX), embedded systems (almost anything in cars, airplanes, appliances), and a million other areas are all still as closed as can be, and open source isn't even competing, much less innovating.
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"The so-called “bike yield law” would make enforcement the law requiring bicyclist to fully stop at stop signs the lowest priority."

I'm not a fan of selective enforcement. If you don't like the law, sit down and change it. There are too many laws on the books already that are never enforced, except when some officer feels the urge. Perhaps a special mark on stop signs to indicate to bikes which stops are optional and which ones aren't? If you don't like how cops are deployed, or how they are acting, then the correct redress is to elect a different commissioner/chief or whatever the title is in the jurisdiction.
I think the popularly accepted notion of "market rates" basically leads to a social status ladder with the kind of jobs that "high class people" tend to do at the top and "low class work" at the bottom, and there might be a correlation with how much each person contributes to the bottom line of the company, but it is my belief that the within-groups variation is larger than the between-groups variation, which makes it basically a farce. The best support person is probably bringing in more revenue than the worst engineer while making less money.

This system endures because if you are in a higher class, there is no incentive to upset the popular notion of market rates. The top half of the pyramid tends to control pay, and why wouldn't they want a graduated scale based on status?

As engineers, we protect this status by releasing our tools when they are robust and easy enough for ourselves and other professional engineers but stop short of polishing our tools until an end-user could use them. We also maintain a complex set of cultural practices that need to be navigated in order to get access to additional layers of information and institutional knowledge. It's in our interest to prevent people from getting in, because under the Market Rates system, that's how you make more money.

CEOs are just another tier in that system. Like engineers, they keep their knowledge amongst themselves, and require you to work up the ladder in order to get the information and knowledge you need to access successive tiers.

I wish more people would spend more energy in actually trying to tease apart where profits are coming from and give compensation based on that. Or, even better: expect everyone to make a full-bodied human contribution and recognize that that's what is truly valuable, and no human is more valuable than any other.

I realize that's a little too woo-woo for many people, and I respect that. Maybe do the profit-assignment model then. But I really wish people would stop talking about "market rates" as if it's anything other than rent-seeking on a cultural scale.