skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, I do a bit of this now. Feel free to get in touch. It's a lot less tactical lingo type work and a bit more strategic design and development.
Gopher was great. I remember telneting through university networks, exploring, and by chance finding fascinating stuff; more than I could ever read.

But I think the author misses the real killer feature of the web. The difference in hypertext models (external vs internal) is mentioned, but glossed over. Gopher was stuck with hierarchical indexes. It suffered from all of the limitations of hierarchy and had no way to acknowledge the relations between things. And documents in Gopher were dead ends. The web's ability to link from anywhere within any document to any other (and even locations within it) is a huge differentiator.

That was critical - instead of a limited hierarchy leading you down to a dead-end, you had an unlimited neverending web of related ideas. Imagine the C2 Wiki or Wikipedia in gopher format - all the same content but with no links. It wouldn't have anywhere near as much value.

The simplicity, cleanliness, and order of Gopher has beauty, but the much messier web has real-world value. The network effects of linking would naturally cause it to grow exponentially faster.
I interpret 'strategy' as integrating ends, ways and means. In other words, deciding where you want to get to, the approach you will use to do so, and how to exploit the resources you have available. Unless your business space is completely predictable , the strategy will have to include decision points. Strategy is often combined with policy, the set of guidelines and constraints you must adhere to.
In fact, Qt’s – or even Java’s – program sizes, if you bundle the runtime and all libs, are still smaller than what is currently distributed as node-webkit apps.
Dan Dixon, the sole author of Universe Sandbox -- he spent three unpaid years writing it alone -- and the lead developer of its rewrite (and founder of Giant Army, which employs a few developers, an astronomer, and even a climatologist), is one of the most honest, forthright people in gaming. Seriously, HN would love his story if you bothered to look. They're not a hypergrowth startup and have traditionally eschewed many forms of marketing. I realize the concept of an aboveboard, mostly marketing-free gaming studio without a growth team or investors or a bottom line and funded entirely by sales of an unexpected hit is foreign on Hacker News, but believe it or not, there is reality outside this valley. Their press kit is a DIY template, for crying out loud; you really, honestly think they're astroturfing a non-gaming Web site like Hacker News?

Universe Simulator is impressive software that does mostly arbitrary N-body at acceptable performance on a workstation (itself a technical feat), it was written by a single individual (again, a feat), and more than that, it's an educational tool disguised as a game which broke into multiple markets unexpectedly. Your comment is hilariously out of place to anyone who remotely follows the gaming world at all. I've always viewed Dan Dixon as a great bootstrapping success story and an example of following through on an idea to the end, when many would have given up long before the success he has found.

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that people are willing to make accusations (sorry, "questions" about a financial relationship to spam a message board, which smell a lot like accusations despite your claim to the contrary) about people and organizations they've never heard of based upon a significant number of bad actors in the world, but sometimes a little research wouldn't hurt. There are far too many column inches devoted to these "questions," and far too many people upvoting you, so the irony of your taking on perceived astroturfing is that you've successfully and completely derailed the thread.
Last I checked pairNIC was > $15/year for .com etc. That adds up when you have many domains. Therefore I use pairNIC for the domains I really care about, and Namecheap for the rest.
It's just an excuse to force foreign companies to license the algorithm. There's 0 chance foreign nations don't have a copy of the encryption algorithm.
For those sort of "mother's maiden name" type questions, I generally use a fake but plausible name. Probably not as secure as a random string (especially as the name is reused across a few services), but makes it near impossible to research, and avoids a random string not being accepted/treated as an error/truncated like your example etc.
Who is going to teach 18-year-olds sentence structure or remedial algebra at 11 in the morning for a fun side-gig? The independently wealthy?

Adjuncting in law and business schools is a very different gig than the folks teaching English, history, math, physics, sociology, art, etc.
Really good stuff. Here I am waiting to see what Leroy et al will deliver on mini-ML compiler or more from Habit team when Klein et al deliver a systems-oriented, certified compiler. Heck yeah! Interesting, too, in that it splits the supporting argument between the functional language and stuff in C. Its focus on being essentially an executable spec with verified translations will help in high assurance where spec to implementation correspondence is quite important. Could be a shortcut when this produces acceptable implementations.
Please don't do this. You're much more likely to get your friend in trouble with Amazon and have the police called on you.
Several replies? Only one person addresses discretionary research funds. Every other commenter quotes the article but is focused on the subject of that thread (mistaking volunteer hours for money spent). MaggieL wrote:
> So...how much research money was within his discretionary budget?

I wasn't going to reply, but couldn't pass this one up. Inaccurate characterizations might be a pet peeve of yours, but apparently that doesn't prevent hypocrisy.
In this no-managers/no-hierarchy model, how does one increase their salary?
That limits you to the tech industry, when many non-technical managers may look to go to other retail or apparel companies, which will be much more conservative.
Markets don't know how to judge the value of science. Its main product is a non-excludable good -- you can't know if a train of experimentation or thought will ultimately be important until long after you have shared the results, but sharing thought/results almost entirely removes your market leverage. Therefore, the market says the value of science is... nothing. Which we've collectively decided is pretty obviously not true, so we fund science through the government, but that still doesn't give us any way to judge the value we're getting in return. Are we funding it too little? Too much? There's no way to tell the bang we're getting for our buck, we're just guessing(footnote). That guess determines the demand for scientists. Market corrections in the academic labor market target that guess, not any underlying market truth, so it's hard to say whether they're good or not, no matter how much of a True Believer in markets you are.

Contrast to, say, video game programming, where the market forces pushing people away from those jobs do represent a fundamental truth that isn't obviously baloney: there are more people who want to program video games than society needs/wants to program video games.

* Given the set of things that market forces tell scientists they should be doing instead of science, I'm pretty sure we're dramatically underfunding them, but that's certainly debatable.
Pre-defined C/C++ Compiler Macros
Silicon Valley lies alongside a large watershed with several reservoirs. Many people don't realize this. Hearing the name "Silicon Valley" makes one think of miles of tech buildings, but that's just part of it. I supposed "major" is a relative term though, so you're still right.
Most grad students get health care though!
I mean, there's open source implementations linked in the same Wikipedia article: https://on4wp7.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/214...
Interesting that there are actually no encryption at all, just simple math equations.
I guess? I have friends who worked for a company acquired by Twitter pre-IPO and their stock options are apparently not doing well. Granted it's anecdotal, but I'm not saying that nobody makes money off of Twitter.
> After that you learn the sad state of ... expected language interoperability.

Mmm? Ports let you interop with anything that can send data over a pipe. Port drivers let you use a port with programs that don't fit well into the "pass things as a stream of bytes" model. NIF lets you interop with anything that has a C binding.

What are you looking for that's not provided?
Yes, this was a best paper award at PLDI '15: http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~jrw12/herbie.pdf
But... but... they say "Crypho is used by financial institutions, journalists, lawyers, software companies and human rights activists in more than 70 countries." The same thing the rest of the unproven companies tell us. That people believed the salespeople is certainly a good sign, right? I imagine at least one of them was serious enough to ask questions until the C-level executives themselves stepped in to give them personal assurance of the security.

"That's the kind of [paid, personal] assurance you can count on [to make someone else money]." (TM)
Life is too short to do what you hate. Either follow your dream or you'll work for someone else to build theirs. You're in control.

As cliche as all of that sounds, it is totally true. I fired a bunch of toxic clients last year and don't have savings. Screw it.
Large scale distributed systems aren't that simple. I don't know any internal details of Twitter, but from what I've gathered they are trying to hit the kind of QoS you are dismissing. Imagine some celebrity with millions of followers says something controversial: it would be confusing to a lot of people if they start getting retweets or discussions of that tweet significantly before they see that tweet themselves. And that's just one scenario.

I don't know about the 500 vs. 1000 employee question, but Twitter is a big engineering challenge.
Space is hard to get. So much of software involves spaces of some kind and yet we do not seem to think about it very well. Notions of space within software are so often either very rigid and jam-packed or infinite and formless.
Seems like it is the developer's location, with the following note from the bottom of the link:

"(However, there's still the caveat that if any app triggers “Snap to Road”, all apps get “Snap to Road”.)"

which seems to be a poor implementation decision vs providing apps snapped or unsnapped location data based on their setting, but may be the result of some early-on ill-considered internal designs?
Cases like these are so extremely uncommon that trying to twist the law to accommodate them would do more harm than good. In fact, the harm from authority figures committing torture is so extreme that I'd say even in this case the officers should face some disciplinary consequences. The leniency and understanding of prosecutors, judges and jury should be enough of a safety net if their actions are truly justified.
But the deed of trust the buyer signed is in the public record (every Texas county of medium-to-large population has scanned land records online) and has the amount of the mortgage issued on its front page so that gets you close. That goes double if the form has an FHA case number at the top because it usually means the deed of trust is within 5% of the purchase price.

No, not all of the time, but very often enough to make it useful for social engineering.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/02/how-many...
Survey says 53% of PhDs back in the 80s wanted to be profs.

Also, this crazy idea comes from talking to all these fine young people who want my letter of recommendation for graduate school. In pure math, there is not much point in going to grad school unless you're at least considering being a tenure-track academic. No one aspires to be an adjunct, you can get a job making real money out of college, and so unless you just think math is so fun that you want to do 7 years of grad school and then get a job, you are thinking of being a prof.

Other fields are certainly different.... but why get a PhD in art history if you don't want to be an academic?
From what I hear, the link between microcephaly and the disease is still a matter of debate.
I particularly like the photo of the chemicals (including one in a bottle marked by hand with "XXX"), which includes a bottle of whiskey...
I don't blame these people for leaving. Self-governance is hard. Most kids are taught to obey their authority-figure teachers. They eventually grow up to obey their authority-figure bosses. So when a company like Zappos goes flat like this, it flies in the face of over two decades of training for managers and subordinates alike.

That being said, the new setup is great for people who are used to that level of independence. Were you a freelancer? In an early stage startup? Came from schooling where you were in charge of your education? If that's you, the new Zappos is a natural fit. It also puts you in a tiny (lucky) minority of the potential candidates who are.
First Time User Experience – the key to scaling a product
My guess is embedding "monetization" platform within existing. So yea it's a simple service, but under the surface they probably got all sorts of hooks to increase value of their 'social graph.' My guess also is, by the looks of their revenue, etc., it's a mess
Tough to say in the general case, but it's often a good idea to adhere to the so-called "principle of least surprise" in UX design. If I'm riding on a trail that periodically approaches and diverges from a nearby highway, which is common around here (Seattle area), I don't want my recorded path to snap to the highway every time I exceed 12 MPH. That would come as a surprise -- an unpleasant one. I'll go so far as to say that nobody would ever expect this to happen, or be dismayed if it didn't.

That's a good reason not to include a given feature, or at least to allow it to be turned off. Someone at Apple obviously thought it was a good idea, but they clearly didn't ask very many other people, or ask any cyclists at all.
.. both are which are tightly integrated into Twitter. Hardly anyone browses Vine.. they view Vine videos through Twitter.
403 error. That's weird.

EDIT: Nevermind, it works now.
Armstrong's paper about the history of Erlang is fantastic.

It explains how Erlang was developed through a process of trial and error, initially in Prolog and then inheriting a Prolog-like syntax when it became its own thing. Worth reading, lots of trivia about the thought processes behind his and Virding's back-and-forths at the time; and Armstrong is characteristically modest about how they had to invent their way toward a solution, because none existed at the time.

I believe this is the one: http://cobweb.cs.uga.edu/~maria/classes/4500-Spring-2010/pap...

Edit: It also touches on why Erlang's syntax looks the way it does. They initially for a Prologue syntax, and evolved it from there.
Yep, the general sentiment among doctors is that they've failed to advocate for themselves both in the public sphere and government. Comparisons are frequently drawn between themselves and nursing groups who have lobbied very successfully for both expanded scope of practice and better workplace conditions.
Fraud against Amazon, not the account owner.
Same model in-browser - http://netlogoweb.org/launch#http://netlogoweb.org/assets/mo...
Weed may not have an effect on IQ or memory (which I still don't completely believe), but it sure has an effect on ambition.

I've seen so many smart people over the years sitting at home after work and smoking out almost every day. When they weren't smoking, they were talking about smoking.

I actually didn't mind it too much, because it gave me a competitive advantage. I got better pay, better jobs, and the time they spent smoking, I spent on my startup (which is now a company with employees). It's also a time and money sink.

I knew a guy that could barely afford rent, had almost 100k in student debt, and worked a job barely over minimum wage. Yet, he always had the money to spend on weed (nearly $1000/month). I should have been a dealer.

I even tried to start a business with a friend of mine that I knew smoked every day. We are still friends, but never got our business off the ground. I was always waiting for him to complete something.

Anything in moderation is fine. With weed, it just seems to be one extreme to the other.
I found this article very interesting. I suffer from RA and I can tell you that it sucks. It attacks more than just your joints. Things like minor coughs and colds will hang on for forever and make you vulnerable as you age. Scary stuff. Its good to know that there are possible treatments on the horizon.
It appears to be very intentional: http://put.as/
Yes got that too
Cybersecurity 500 Q1 2016 Edition
> Large scale distributed systems aren't that simple.

Nobody's debating that. If it weren't a "large scale distributed system" then the debate would be about 3 employees vs. 10. The core experience without scale could be made by a single engineer.

But running a service like Twitter doesn't require 4,000 employees, even at scale. Facebook has "only" twice as many employees, despite a 10x more complicated product and 12x as much revenue.
From the article, "After its creation in 1991 at the University of Minnesota, use of Gopher exploded."

I'm a Gopher. That is, I'm an alumnus of the University of Minnesota. My first Internet account was based on my alumni relationship with the university, which gave me access to their large dial-up modem pool, and a distribution of a software suite called Minuet (Minnesota Internet Users Essential Tool).[1] Minuet included FTP and other standard protocols, and also had a Gopher client built-in (of course).

I used Minuet to browse around the Internet for a few months after getting my account, and definitely used it at first to access Usenet newsgroups. On the Usenet newsgroup about homeschooling, I noticed that one frequent poster had a funny-looking string of symbols in his signature block, which I learned was the URL for his website about homeschooling, which is still alive and well.[2] So I downloaded a Web browser (finding advice about how to do that in one of the first popular books on using the Internet, borrowed from my friendly public library), which must have been an early version of Mosaic. Wow, wow, and wow. The integrated images in HTML documents are what won me over to preferring the Web to Gopherspace, as well as the nonhierarchical hypertext links. Following the URLs given in the library to some early cool websites was all I needed to get hooked. An early version of my own website about homeschooling[3] was on the Web by a year later, and I had my own domain for it a year or so after that. Now I live online, as you see here. Gopher got some people started in reading reference documents online, and then Web browsers finished that job and also got us talking in new discussion formats that have largely supplanted Usenet.

[1] http://foldoc.org/Minnesota%20Internet%20Users%20Essential%2...

[2] Jon's Homeschool Resources

http://www.midnightbeach.com/hs/

[3] http://learninfreedom.org/
GOLD+Threatens+Additional+Downside+Pressure+On+Bearishness
I assume this keeps popping up on Hacker News because of schadenfreude, but I'm going to say something controversial (and from a completely uninformed viewpoint), and that's "good riddance". Of all the managers I've ever had, maybe 1 or 2 of them have been any good at it. And by good at it, I mean they made me better at my job. All the other managers I've ever dealt with succeeded primarily in making my job harder to do.

Good managers are glorified butlers. Their job is to do everything and anything they can to accommodate those whom they manage, and recognize that because they aren't actually creating anything, they defer to those who can and do whatever they can to help them do it. If they came from a creator position, then their main challenge is to not forget what it was like to be a creator and advocate for them as though they still are.

One of the major problems with the whole concept of managers is that they are typically higher than the creators in the corporate hierarchy, and often get corrupted by that. They are proud to be managers because it's a promotion in most organizations, but they have to deal with the uncomfortable fact that they no longer actually make anything (or never did to begin with). Thus, they try to find other ways to make themselves feel valuable, and that often involves inventing extra work for the creators to do.

If I ran a company, managers would be butlers. Their compensation would be directly tied to the level of happiness of the creators they are serving. I might even let the creators they serve set their salaries. I currently have a manager whose salary I would set higher than my own because he completely embodies this type of management style. If anybody on the team needs anything, he does it with a smile. He is our advocate, our cheerleader, our mediator, our friend, and our faithful servant. It's not a coincidence he's gotten employee of the year (based on embodying corporate values) two years in a row.

I really appreciate what Zappos is doing here and I sincerely hope it works out. The worst thing that could happen is they lose their resolve and give up on it. That would be a very unfortunate signal to the rest of corporate America that the status quo is working just fine, and it would make me very sad indeed.
LGPL v3 is _really_ complicated. That's a red flag for a lot of corporate lawyers.

As a result, some issues arise, such as code that is stuck on GPLv2 (e.g. removed the upgrade clause like the Linux kernel) may be incompatible with LGPLv3.

This blog tries to explain some of the issues.
http://nmav.gnutls.org/2013/03/the-perils-of-lgplv3.html
One possibility may be to give users the option to sift through their feed in different ways. I know it's a novel concept in SV, but...
Correct. The amount of hashing power is correlated with how difficult it is to manipulate the network, but not with the rate at which coins are mined or transactions are processed.

I expect this to drop off after the reward halving. It's a constant zero sum game, but I don't expect the halving to propel the price so much that the hashing power is maintainable.
At the end of 1993, gopher was much more popular than the web, gopherspace was bigger, had search engines like veronica and so forth. You would hear about the web, and download lynx, and connect to a dull University of Kanas web page, or perhaps CERN's web page. Gopher just had a lot more content, was searchable with veronica, was more enjoyable to browse etc.

Some of this behind the scenes stuff mattered, like University of Minnesota's announcement of licensing fees. But the release of the Netscape browser is really what changed things for a lot of people, with its inline images, live cameras like the Fishcam, and this sort of thing. Mosaic was a harbinger of it, but the release of the initial Netscape browser in 1994 is what really set things going, and then the release of Netscape 2 and then 3 in 1996. Then Microsoft release of their then-primitive browser with Windows 95 helped as well (as well as them including an IP stack in Windows 95 - Windows 3.1 needed things like Trumpet Winsock).
>perhaps you've had a string of very bad ones.

The "no true manager" argument is always brought out when I say something critical of the management profession.

>Power isn't the benefit of the role unless you're a sociopath or an asshole.

I agree. Guess who inevitably fills management jobs at medium to large companies.