skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The characters “U+” are an ASCIIfied version of the MULTISET UNION “⊎” character
Keeping your arms crossed, moving your head back from the conversation, tensing of the body, etc.
Designing the User Interface of the Future Home, Pt. 2
"Warning
Given URL is not allowed by the Application configuration: One or more of the given URLs is not allowed by the App's settings. It must match the Website URL or Canvas URL, or the domain must be a subdomain of one of the App's domains."
Completely disagree. Services models seem to very much limit what companies like this can achieve. It also creates a perverse incentive for the company to make a product that needs service contracts to manage. They tend to produce more closed-source "addons" as well.
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When you go to the source link at https://src.sourcegraph.com/sourcegraph and look at the LICENSE file, it says: "Use Limitation: 15 users" That implies that the project there is the full Enterprise version?

Is there a separate link or some dividing line to the Core source? Or how does one build or access just the core features to abide by the licensing terms if you're a team larger than 15 and want to evaluate Core Sourcegraph?
My version is a bit different: It really helps to know my editor well enough that I just look at a spot on the screen and the cursor goes there (without conscious thought).

That's probably not quite the same thing as the article is talking about, though...
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Is it an unwritten rule that the CEOs of companies focusing on git hosting solutions prefix all their HN posts with "<companyname> CEO here,"

:)
The question is whether you are richer than your parents at the same age. If you have more goods and services (including all those cool medical techs that didn't exist when they were 30), you are richer.

I certainly am - in 1980 I'd probably be a cripple. In 2014, cheap airline fares + modern medicine fixed me up for a few thousand.
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> Not shooting down a plane doesn't have to mean you tolerate airspace violations. You can still complain and stress that this is not okay without shooting anything.

Turkey's been complaining and stressing that this is not okay -- and even threatening that if it didn't stop, they would start shooting down the intruding planes -- for months; the intrusions started at the very beginning of the campaign Russia started in September.

At some point, you have to either impose the consequences you've threatened or reveal yourself to be unwilling to do so, making all your complaining and stressing empty rhetoric.
It is awesome. As is his BBS documentary. Speaking of monetizing physical media, my wife went to some effort and expense to get me a personally signed copy of the BBS documentary for Fathers Day a long time ago, that was really cool.

As a disclaimer, I'm a financial backer of the upcoming 6502 documentary, looking forward to it.
To expand on their mall analogy: There is a big difference between asking "what percentage of this week's mall visitors will return next week", and asking "when people visit this mall for the first time, what percentage of them will return the following week".
The blog hasn't seen any activity since then but the service is still used by a few hundred people daily.
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You should consider yourself lucky that you had a way to get actual feedback through a side channel. At most tech companies in the Bay Area, you only know it's a "NO" when you don't hear a word back from them after a few weeks. Rarely, you'll get a generic "Sorry, but your skills are not a match for our position at this time" form E-mail, which although nice, is not really helpful. Good, actionable feedback is very valuable, especially in today's lukewarm job market.
I use this style myself. It is way easier to read than `!condition`. If you are scanning the code, a single `!` at the beginning of the condition won't stand out that much.
That is the most common occurrence of this issue. It can also happen with directives that use transclude or if the app is explicitly call Angular's $interpolate function on a user's input.

You should definitely avoid mixing server side and client side templates, but if that's too much work, scrubbing would work. You would need to strip the expression stand and end symbols. Default symbols are '{{' and '}}', but some apps use different symbols to avoid collisions with other template engines that use the double curly brace.
Did no one else catch the irony that the entire post is itself a generalization based on a specific experience?
So, where's the criteria how the subject is constrained? Why are we talking about Microsoft and not the particular responsible Microsoft business division?
>> Their puzzles are almost unsolvable in some cases, or can only be solved by combining every permutation of every verb with every noun in every place to get the right answer.

That's an interesting reaction. I spent my teenage years playing Infocom games and agree that some of the puzzles were quite difficult. But they always seemed logical and discoverable - the opposite of random. Several friends played as well, and I remember many a study hall spent noodling through solutions to various puzzles. Some took weeks, and the sense of pride we found when cracking something particularly vexing was immense.

I think there is a parallel in modern gaming: difficult raid bosses in MMORPGs. Solving the Babelfish problem in HHGTG = defeating Ragnaros for the first time in vanilla World of Warcraft.
They're almost always not able to be replicated, and measuring something almost always skews the results!

Check out gnn's talk on this tooled towards networking in FreeBSD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BcdRHNTdf4
The square of 30 is.
A better source, with a previous HN discussion, that says much the same thing, is far better sourced, and makes a lot of other important points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10091586

HN readers will be unhappy to read that the war on drugs is not principally, directly responsible for US incarceration rates.

HN readers will probably thrilled to read that responsibility for over-incarceration is placed squarely on overzealous prosecutors; the rate at which arrestees are charged with felonies has climbed sharply, despite an overall drop in crime.
When (if) you retire, that farmland will probably be worth more than your income over your entire career.
That really is.

"Hey, I can fly JFK to Heathrow for $800. But I'd be willing to pay $1100 for business class."

You win, great. You lose, no loss.
When economies of scale are factored I do believe rail is highly efficient.
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It's definitely not GNU OSS. If that's your ideology, this is not going to appeal to you. IANAL, but my understanding of the license is that it's trying to build a new economic model for OSS contributors. I'm pretty excited to see if it takes off, since I think OSS could use some new thinking in this area.
Factor in time spent cooking. $3 a plate would either mean cooking up a large batch or eating mac&cheese. You couldn't drag me into an Applebees...
If the wine were rare, the price would be high.

Here, we're talking about a product (an extra leg on an airline ticket) whose price is negative. You're being paid to take it. That pretty strongly implies the product is abundant. If it's not abundant, and the airline is still giving it a negative price, that's pretty dumb on their part, and I don't think we can be blamed for making decisions based on the (apparently wrong) information they give us.

Edit: it occurs to me that there's an excellent comparison to be had here with the electricity market, which also sometimes sees negative prices. With electricity, prices go negative when there's an overabundance of supply and it's cheaper to use up extra electricity than to shut down power plants. The electric company wants you to use that power and they don't care how. Whether it's running your refrigerator or just shooting a laser into space, it's worth it for them to pay you to use it.

A negative price means, "Please, I beg you, take this product, we have too much of it." If it's not actually beneficial to the airline for people to buy those tickets (regardless of use, which is a separate bit) then they're basically lying by way of pricing.
Like raising money, you should trust the "No", but not the "Why". There are so many factors that comes into hiring, most of them totally unrelated to you or your performance during the interview.
Yes, let's talk about Android. First, let's try and get a few things correct before we talk about it.

1. There is no need for a Google+ account. Why you would say this makes me wonder if you even use the platform.

2. You don't even need a Google account and can use the phone without one.

3. Getting back to the Google+ account. If you don't want one or would like to delete your existing one then there's a simple way to do it.
It definitely does matter if the host machine is taken over... an attacker could access other customer instances, shut down the system to try and shut down EC2, etc..
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Tragically, Blood & Laurels isn't available any more. It stopped working on iOS 9, and rather than update it, they pulled the app.
I won't be travelling to Middle East however, in a more general sense, there have always been problems in the world and we shouldn't let them drive the course of our lives, in my humble opinion, that is.
Freight rail is about 4x more efficient than freight trucks. Electric freight trucks are more efficient than gasoline ones, but are totally experimental.
Proprietary software isn't a religion. It's politics.
I don't think you should read into it so much to be honest. Everyone looks for different things when giving interviews. You can't please everyone.

Also, you say things like "When being interviewed, we must make sure that when asked to speak in specifics, we answer in specifics"...the interviewer should be nudging you in the right direction if you're veering off track. If they don't and judge you for it, they're not doing their part in my opinion.
"They don't know how, in part because nobody teaches them."

Or they don't have software that does it for them.

"They don't have enough upload bandwidth for even a modest web server. Our links are asymmetric, remember?"

Last I checked, BitTorrent was still a thing. IOW, build a killer app and that will change.

"Residential IP addresses are blacklisted by most mail services. What good is a mail server that can't get its mail accepted?"

Then you can't run a mail server unless you have a cloud server that isn't blacklisted.

"Many ISPs forbid their users to run a server —by contract."

Which is a gray area that will fall apart the moment a killer app exists. ISPs don't block Twitch, they don't block Skype (which is P2P), they don't block BitTorrent, they don't block my NEST thermostat.

"In many regions, most people are put behind a big NAT. They don't even have an internet connection (which by any reasonable definition requires a public IP)."

This is barbaric and not my experience in North America.

"Even I can't run my own server, even though I'm technically qualified. Instead, I loan some processor time from a provider I like to run a VM on their servers."

Sure, that's a common workaround and I don't really consider that "centralized" computing in the manner of a Facebook or Twitter.

My point is that everyone having a server for decentralized internet doesn't have insurmountable barriers, it requires software that people want to consume that will change the way the market works. Uber is doing it for a way more regulated industry (taxis).
Why linking to producthunt? Why not directly link to the website?? http://jointhebox.com/?ref=HN
I think you could do that with srclib, the underlying library that powers the product.
"Empty" doesn't necessarily mean that it still owned by the developer and not yet sold on. It can mean that it has been purchased, but that whoever has purchased it has no use for it other than as an investment.

We've had this problem in London for years now, mainly in the west towards Vauxhall and beyond, but there are pockets of it all over, and it doesn't seem to be going away any time soon. Large new tower blocks containing "luxury apartments" are built, purchased by and often marketed solely to foreign investors and offshore companies as a way of parking large amounts of money into what is seen as a relatively safe investment, with several tax loopholes: Unlike many other investments, property in the UK is not subject to capital gains tax, inheritance tax etc. Also, if the property is owned by an offshore company rather than an individual then stamp duty (5% on £675k or more) is not payable. AFAIK this last loophole was closed last year, but only for properties over £2 million (and, I think the tax is only payable on the remainder that exceeds that).

As well as adding to an existing under-supply in the market for actual houses in which actual people can live in, the speculative feedback loop caused by this only drives up property prices further.
Reminds me of this podcast (specifically on free throws) I ran across recently:

https://gimletmedia.com/episode/2-free-throws-2/

A different style of talking about it of course.
> But imagine if you bought one of the last few bottles in the shop, and then went and dumped it on the ground. It's totally legal, but I don't think many would argue it's good conduct.

OTOH, wine shops don't generally offer deals where it is cheaper to by two bottles of wine than one by itself, and prohibit you from reselling (or even giving away) the bottle of wine you don't want.

If they did, lots of people would probably see the seller's conduct as bad conduct, and it might make people more likely to see the buy-two-and-dump-one conduct as, if not good, at least reasonable given the circumstances created by the seller.
Testable code is often less encapsulated, contains extra complexity for the test machinery, among which we can count extra methods (with potentially non-private visibility) and dependencies between classes (such as strategies, policies, factories, etc).

I think that's a more a consequence of poor testing libraries/frameworks than of TDD itself. A method shouldn't have to be turned non-private to be tested.

Furthermore, while designing at the class level is important, it is much more important to architect at higher levels: component, subsystem, application, system/platform. All of these aren't considered when writing unit tests and what makes perfect sense in a "unit" might only be a local optimum.

It's TDD, not UTDD.
Reading this article didn't inspire much hope for a bundle-free JS environment - but if you want to play around with one, we've been working on such an environment that provides 2 applications:
1. A Koa + HTTP2 static asset (primarily JavaScript) server
2. A rendering application that loads a route-based JavaScript dependency tree using JSPM + react-router in order to isomorphically render a web-page.

https://github.com/nfl/react-wildcat
...and so can an old microscope. Betzig invented PALM, which was a cool idea. This isn't. The lattice light sheet is a combination of a great idea Betzig didn't invent (light sheet microscopy) with another great idea Betzig didn't invent (structured illumination microscopy). The engineering is well done, but the fundamental idea is crap: the two techniques don't combine in an elegant way, and interfere with each other's strengths. What Betzig did exceptionally well with this paper was parlay a star-studded author list and some fancy surface-rendered time lapse movies into an extremely high-impact paper, despite a mediocre underlying accomplishment.
I'm sure there are exceptions but there seems to be a general "dumbing down" (or at least arcade-ification) of games if you look at things like the strategy or simulation genres.

>I would give these games such a bad rating, not for "lack of graphics" or anything technological, but for lack of smooth gameplay.

Like anything else, some are better than others. In general, though, it's fair to say that the parser wasn't very smart (by modern standards), so solving puzzles could sometimes seem like an exercise to coming up with a specific incantation. And, in the absence of walkthroughs etc., that could be really frustrating. I gave up on a number of their games because I just lost interest in digging up how to get past some puzzle.
And then you remember that electric trains have existed for a very long time. Rail wins hand over fist.
Cutely emotive comparison, but you have the power dynamic backwards.
But who says that governments are superior? It makes no sense, it's like saying that a heart is superior to a lung. It's not, you need both!

Governments and markets cover for each others failures. Where a government is inflexible, a market can find an efficient solution. When a market is trapped in a race to the bottom, the government creates coordination. They complement each other.

As for the argument that keeping the current government prevents us from experimenting with alternative forms, you could say the same about free market keeping us from experimenting with different forms of markets...
The Delta Clipper was historic. This has been a followon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X
I don't see them as separate, they are very much interconnected.

Tech progress is learning. The "economy" is the act of economizing; learning to do more with less. It's a virtuous cycle.
There is very little reason to believe private security providers would resort to "firefights" to resolve conflicts. This is an incredibly expensive and undesirable solution for customers.

Go back ten years and have a conversation with someone about a private taxi company that uses technology to operate outside of existing regulations. You would hear outrageous claims about murderers, rapists, and thieves using the system to exploit customers. Of course, Uber drivers can and have assaulted people, but it turns out there are all sorts of creative solutions and private incentives that undermine these outcomes. Fortunately, the future does not lie in the hands of the uncreative people of the past and present. It's the people who can actually envision and deliver solutions--people like Kalanick and Camp--that determine the future.
they are working with world bank to source data from taxi firms and other companies which maintains these datasets
>> That's neat.

You make a very good point about public perception. But your opening line seems sarcastic and aggressive. I think that's why your comment is light grey.
PC Does What?

What an apropos marketing campaign.
If you don't like wasting space on the desktop, most apps can go full screen these days. So that complaint seems a bit weak.
Is there an advantage here over Goodreads?

The design could use quite a bit of help, but otherwise this could be something I could use.

How are the recommendations generated?
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I wrote an essay describing a general principle, using a specific example from my experience, and closing with specific strategies to employ.
From what the website says, one of their main goals is a commercial "astronaut experience". In that case, they're only aiming for 100km. [1]

This flight confirms they have achieved that goal, correct?

[1] https://www.blueorigin.com/astronaut-experience
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i think it is a nice possibility, but for now it doesn`t. It is only looking at providers who have access to large GPS datasets
Okay explain to how forking would work with this license. Forking a project is a huge part of creating a OSS community. Would licensing have to go to both parties? I don't see any explanation of how it would work for this license.
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Sounds like a bad interview process to me. Crushed the technical interview, had a glowing recommendation, and "blew" the interview on the whim of a founder- for talking about root principles no less. And instead of pulling you back to specifics (ie. leading you to answer the things they're interested in), the founder dismisses you for failing their totally hidden criteria.

From my perspective, the founders blew the interview, not the interviewee. Then again, no one ever complains about the interview process on HN...
but he said nothing and checked his phone

I realize that it's easy for me to say this, and I sympathize with your nervousness at the time. But this is an opportunity for you to ask both the immediate interviewer and his superior (assuming he will also interview you) just how serious they are about finding a candidate if they can't even extend basic courtesy to the people they invite in.

Hell, if his manager was going to interview me, I'd have use that opportunity to ask if that was the kind of environment I would be in working for them and exactly what drove the last person in the open position to leave.

There is no excuse for that kind of rudeness. Use it to your advantage.
> you could also maintain / fork it

That's true. However, for the majority of cases, it's not worth it.

You theoretically could have an old version of Red Hat running and then self-support there, but I believe the answer is probably something similar to what would be done with Windows XP. Even if what you need to run there is Free Software. Easier and probably more feasible, true. Still, very unlikely.

The last option you pointed out is a possibility as well and it happens, however it's usually a way of throwing a lot of money for very little gain
A map of one million scientific papers from the arXiv
So lucky to get some feedback. I've been on several interviews this year for positions I was well qualified but didn't get. I've gotten zero feedback.

Sounds like the writer was qualified. How many good hires are lost because they have only a single interview and there is a misunderstanding?
Show HN: Earlycard – Annual Greeting Card Subscription App
I agree with your point about search/indexing, but a lot of that has to do with an economic model to fund such a service ... the advertising-driven free models leads towards centralized control and loss of privacy. One interesting way to look at this is the move Apple is making towards more search and cloud services that are funded by device sales, not by advertising and analytics.

Decentralized services have tended to suck because you always need at least a federation of centralized servers for search/discovery. But it's possible to do so in a relatively end-to-end secure way, if it can be funded without requiring spying/analytics.

Anyway I'm just saying that there's a lot of possibility out there, and the barrier really is one of coming up with a big enough application incentive to force change across multiple areas of the current deployed web.
I built this app because I always forget to buy greeting cards until the last possible minute, which is especially silly considering it's usually for the same dates every year. Earlycard remembers the dates for the occasions, and sends you a card in advance.

I'm excited to get some outside feedback, thus far it's mostly family and friends (and they aren't going to tell me if it's terrible). This project allowed me to scratch several itches (development, design, starting a business) at once, but now that it's built I'm struggling a bit with how to tackle marketing as a fully bootstrapped one man show.

Thanks for checking it out.
Looks like the Microsoft reputation manager dogs were notified.
> These models are just clever image uncompression. Nothing scary here. :)

Yes and no. The latent representation space can be seen as a kind of result of compression, but the opposite is going on. As you say, these models generate images from (latent space) random noise, but there's no direct mapping from image space to latent space (as there are with autoencoders), so no way to compress, really.