skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many of those people are iCloud users just because their iPhone's default settings sync their iMessages to it or whatever?
The difference is that 1BB active uses means (potential) ad revenue from 1BB users as opposed to 1BB "active mind share' for Whastapp. Zuck, has yet to come with some way to monitise the headcounts.
Have to admit I’m loving where this drone/anti-drone escalation is heading.

Next we need to breed larger eagles to handle the bigger drones coming down the pipeline. Then we end up with LoTR-sized eagles you can ride to go drone hunting.
The Saxons, Angles and Jutes that invaded after the fall of Rome all generally came from Denmark[1].

Most of the Norse who subsequently invaded in the 700-1000 were either Danes or Norwegians[2], and settled in pretty large numbers in East Anglia, Northumbria and Mercia.

Then the Normans, who were in large part Danes and Norwegians that had gotten bought off with a piece of France came over in 1066.

I don't know how accurate this is, but in Bernard Cornwell's Uhtred series, English and Danish are different enough that they aren't really mutually intelligible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angles#/media/File:Angles_saxo...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Heathen_Army
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That's one hell of a mistake.
This is a really great question as was the 'unfashionable' language thread. My intuition is that those quiet legacy country roads are out there. Slower paced may also be found in modern industries. I would like to be ready to offer interesting solutions or services in niches where most people don't think of working.

Health care is one place with potential though it may only fit some of your criteria. It's been a while since I've worked in HC but things don't appear to have changed much. It was pretty cool to make a 7 figure difference with a little SQL and TCL for a local clinic where I worked as a DBA. Lots of opportunities to make people's day to day lives easier, too. No need for the latest language either.

Instead of learning the latest popular language, what I've decided to do is start learning things that sound interesting. I've almost finished Little Schemer, for example. I'm working through Coding the Matrix to get my math up to speed. The Machine Learning course on Coursera was inspiring. After Little Schemer the rest of the "Little" books, Starting Forth, SICP, and others, are on the agenda.

I'm also wondering if Life Sciences might have some interesting opportunities.
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Sounds like an option for domain administrators... not users.

That's a bummer.
Perhaps a better world would be referentially transparent. Thought I'd avoid a debate about what constitute functional. But here we are...
Developers react to the Facebook Parse shutdown
Who would pay 30$ a month for this? It seems almost insane that you thought "hey I am going to make a slack channel and charge people an access fee of 30$ a month". "Max members 1000". So you plan on making 30k a month for creating a slack channel?
Among my business partners, we talk about "brain cycles" rather than time. There's the famous explanation that Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg wore/wear the same boring thing every day to conserve brain cycles -- basically the need to process information and make a decision.

Emails gobble up brain cycles, and you can't just stay up longer to get those back. You actually have to rest and sleep. They're more precious than time as an input for a decision maker.

So it's not that it's personal. People just can't respond to everything, and you don't always make the cutoff. If you really think you have something valuable to talk to them about, email them 4 to 5 times before you give up (usually a few days to a week between emails is the way to go, depending on how urgent it is).
Keys that are supposedly short-lived on the client and the server. And if you are assuming they already control the client or the server endpoint, then the entire discussion is moot, but considering we are talking about archived packets at a router interface, the parent comment is very valid.
Care to elaborate what I'm ignorant about or is it just a broad insult for something you don't like?

Edit:

OK. I've read your Bio (stating that you only follow mental health related handles) and I've also read you twitter feed. It reads like a propaganda piece. It would be funny were it not for the seriousness of the subject.

You are anything but unbiased and have a large interest in maintaining the status quo therefore the baseless "ignorant" insult.
Webpipe – command line websocket utility for piping messages to/from a browser
I'm not really clear on what azk actually does...

Is this an alternative to Vagrant?

Why wouldn't I use Docker instead of azk?
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/bush-lets-us-spy-... is dated 2005.
Eh. People would use Bing. But if Microsoft disappeared the business world would grind to a halt, and with it the rest of the economy.
It's not clearly the point at all. If the solution to the Fermi paradox is 'they existed at one point but stopped before colonizing', then that implies they don't exist now and is why we don't see them.
Only for people that proactively use it. Speaking of which, I should probably backup again.
The text ad which is targeted using AI?
While free software for Windows is better than proprietary software for Windows (because it could conceivably be ported to free software on other platforms), it is not (in of itself) practically free because you need to use proprietary software (Windows and system libraries) to use it.
The world wouldnt screech to a halt though. We're talking about what would happen if Google disappeared and its not a hypothetical situation. It happened in China for a five year period starting in 2010. People who used Google services were very upset. Replacements sprung up and quickly improved. They never caught up to Google but they were good enough, along with propaganda and the threat of prison, to keep people from making more of a commotion.

The biggest loss to humanity (in my opinion) would be all the translation data they hold privately. But Google really just people and money. If Google the entity disappeared tomorrow all those people who still know how to do the work will just start working on it elsewhere and catch up quickly.
Unlikely, as on the astronomical time-scales involved, that implies that some rare risk will eventually wipe them out - asteroids, pandemics, resource depletion, collapse.
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Not as user friendly, but: https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/privacy/whitepaper.htm...
previous discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11005999
>we’re recruiting [interns] from local schools near our offices.
So if we're not local, can we still apply?
not to nitpick, but "HN reader" said:

"The feds also actively try to combat drug sales. LR made little to no efforts to do so."

[sad to hear this from HN reader, who is using terms fed(eral reserve banks) and fed(eral bureau of investigation) interchangeably]

to which another HN reader replied with well done sarcastic remark and was immediately downvoted. i asked "why all these downvotes?", and got immediately downvoted myself. can't get frigging karma above the floor level...
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They use AI to sell advertising and services (be it search relevancy, contextual awareness, filter out spam, etc)...

The reason why it's not incorrect to call Google an AI company is that Wall Street thinks they'll be able to shake out ever more cash from their machines in the future because of their position in ML and AI. It's their competitive edge and one that becomes more and more valuable as software continues to eat the world.
I recently used this amazing little utility:
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It helped me recover some GoPro footage that went corrupt. You feed it a known good video from the same camera/same settings and then it basically uses the structure of the good footage to rebuild the bad footage. It worked a treat after I found a good file for it.

Have a look at it, you may find it helps you out.
I have a few terabytes of encrypted backups and disk images (via command line OpenSSL) on my "unlimited" Google Drive for Education account. I do not consider this an abuse, but a perfectly valid use case for Google Drive. If they don't like it, they can feel free to stop using the word "unlimited". However, I believe they do do some sort of throttling.
Wouldn't they leak every time if intentional? The fact that pics only rarely get released in advance implies the leaks aren't authorised.
There's this thing called GPS. It would cost about $100 to have the train "know" where it is. I don't understand this argument at all.

Why are humans even in this particular loop? It's a train, not a car or an aircraft! It's not going anywhere it didn't go before, and it has no business going 1 MPH faster or slower past any given point on the track than it did the last time! You could implement a half-dozen fail-safe redundant controls for less than what it takes to pay an engineer to sit there and do a robot's job poorly.
accounts != users
Crystalline Computation
US Doesn't Do Poor Well
Once Upon a Jihad
“High-fidelity CRISPR–Cas9 with no detectable genome-wide off-target effects” [pdf]
This is an exploit as well, just a different kind. It doesn't require any programming errors in the clients, instead it relies on the non-standardization of clients.
New Stanford battery shuts down at high temperatures and restarts when it cools
It was culture shock for me when I became a Product Manager for Database at Oracle. In one day, I was suddenly getting 50-100 phone calls every day - and even more emails than that. And these were emails/calls from all over the world. For the first few days, I wasn't even able to make it through listening to all my voicemails - I had to learn to start deleting them after two seconds if I wanted to finish vmails before lunch. Emails were the same - if I didn't recognize the sender after the first couple of sentences I just had to delete the email. And this isn't even beginning to discuss the initiatives that were on my plate already. As a Database PM, everybody wants your time and wants you to help them on their initiatives.

And I worked for Steve. He didn't answer most of his emails. He literally had a dozen secretaries screening him. Even internally, he would often simply ignore emails.
Rocks aren't biodegradable. There are buildings in Rome with basements made of Roman concrete.

Cemetery land gets reused all of the time. In my city, the main park (1890) and high school (1970) were both built on cemetery land. The land gets seized by eminent domain or purchase, bodies exhumed and rebutted elsewhere.
For perspective, Microsoft Office has 500-750 million users.
Remember Apple when Jobs took it over? 90 days from bankruptcy, and written off by most people. Getting the right CEO is enormously important, and not impossible.
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Maybe there is a plugin or something that provides this, but I wish VLC had a little bit better library management. It gets very tedious trying to import a large library and fix meta-data.

I suppose if you go too far in this area, you just end up reimplementing Kodi/XMBC, though.
As a country, we (America) are dragging ourselves kicking and screaming to the future. Give us time.
Well that may be a better idea but they actually have to do it. What I meant was, if they don't behave that way, people will increasingly leave - when they can.
Switching the operating system for all my devices (especially my desktop) would be substantially harder than switching my search provider.
As a "regular joe", receiving a reply from someone I admire is a great feeling. Richard Stallman and Noam Chomsky come to mind.
I remember this. The Linux User Group on my college campus in 2002 was trying to setup a streaming service using VLC to stream DVDs across the network to all interested parties. Unfortunately the administration forcefully said no. This was the height of the Napster lawsuits as I recall.
The DVD and BluRay not working on secondary monitors is probably due to the ridiculous DRM stuff that prevents you from playing on an 'unauthorized' display.
It's environmental paralysis. Perhaps we'd consume less energy rotting in place. If you died in the office, you'd get bonus karma for shutting the office down, reducing carbon emissions from commuting.
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Breaking: Bloomberg writes down write down of snapchat from 63 percent to 2 percent
Why do people have to post dickish comments like this when there is any discussion of depression? It should have been obvious from my comment that I was referring to life events such as stressful jobs, bad relationships, etc. and not traumatic events over which you have no control.
My great grandma died at 94. She prepaid her entire funeral, bought the plot, picked out the dress she was to be buried in, and prepaid for everyone to eat afterwards (not sure how that part worked out but she did).
As soon as I see "pure CSS" or "CSS only" this is the first thing I think of. This meme that "pure CSS" is a Good Thing is a shame.
HN's formatting is not Markdown ;)
How about a scale of "Most private" to "Most up to date and secure"
Please don't spread information that is factually incorrect, especially not if it concerns a small company trying to compete with a much larger one.

"In fact, DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we primarily source from Yahoo!, and in some regions and scenarios, Yandex and Bing.

From: https://duck.co/help/results/sources
I have a lot of disorganized thoughts on this issue. Please bear with me as I try to gather them together.

For the sake of exposition, let's say Mayer makes some $$MM/y, the exact number isn't really important to my point past a certain level, which she most certainly is.

What is she being paid that amount for? Let's explore each of the obvious options I see, and an expected common reaction (Had written logical, but that's not what I meant, since many common reactions are far from logical).

- To restore the company.

This clearly did not happen, if this was her job, she failed at it, and for most "normal people", getting paid that $$MM/y seems very off compared to what we might receive in such a failure.

- To as you say, preside over the decline. (age gracefully)

The argument I'll pose for the anti-Mayer sentiment in this case can be applied more broadly, but is most fitting here. One might expect this sort of role, in parity with firings, would include policies of waist tightening at all levels. I'm not even making a stance for or against these things in this argument, but the press about a slew of very exorbitant and very material benefits when paired beside firing of boots on the ground (again, not taking a stance, just observing the contrasting sentiments) give the _PERCEPTION_ of "let them eat cake", to put it glibly.

- To as you say as well earlier, be a face for the markets.

If we chose this explanation, realize the "figurehead effect" is a two way street. A famous CEO makes markets look positively on the company (is the thesis) regardless of the company, so if a company is doing badly, should not that emphasis also be on the CEO? It seems disingenuous that the CEO gets the credit for success but not for failure. I'm not saying this is logical, but it is consistent to placing significant value on a figurehead.

This last argument is the weakest, given that the markets probably take into account perceived CEO skills as part of "figurehead" status, but the BROADER market (sentiment of the people) likely can't inspect that deeply. So if the financial market loves kingmaking, the people get to see a king, and have their own expectations which do go both ways (in terms of lionizing success c.f. elon musk, and demonizing failure)

At the end of the day, each of these universes results in a very negative sentiment towards Mayer, thus my not being as surprised at that outcome.
I gotta ask you, as a gamer, don't you find Clash of Clans to be... well kinda bad?

I mean the tech stack behind it, with replay functionality and async multiplayer is cool together with its "Battle.net like" integration is also working great for mobile.
But as a game, it isn't better than any random mod on WC3. It's essentially build, purchase crap, and attack. Sometimes they give you the false notion that anything you do impacts the game itself as you attack. You get "bombs" to drop and etc, but as a game... it's essentially just a shallow graphic layer on top of numbers.

I understand you can say the same thing about most games, but somehow my brain just rips apart Clash of Clans or Boom-beach easily, while it won't treat Star Craft same way.

Just needed to ask.
Utility isn't necessarily correlated with profitability. Craigslist/wikipedia being obvious examples. Apple's good at making products that people will pay a premium for.
> How well separated are the UI and engine?

Completely. VLC can be run headless from command line.
But to quickly die while paying out the money to owners of preferred stock is okay?
I thought DDG used Yandex for search?
I am already on DuckDuckGo and I love it.
Yes, I am beginning to realize that a lot of people actually don't want to bang their heads against the wall regularly at work. I do, though :/

Solving an insanely hard problem I have struggled with for days, weeks, or months is the most satisfying thing I've ever experienced.
Can you give an example of what you have tried to do in Nix that you couldn't do well due to lack of power? I imagine it is something rather fancy since for most configuration tasks Nix is significantly more powerful than other config file languages.

Number 2 sounds like a legit bug rather than an inherent problem with the design. If you haven't already maybe you can file an issue on Github and it could get the timeouts to apply correctly.
Are you looking for someone to argue that Marissa Mayer was Steve Jobs? I'm the wrong person for that.

I'm saying something simple. You claim that Mayer had 4.6B of cash flow to play with turn around Apple. My response is simply (a) no she didn't, and (b) to the extent she had real revenue to work with, it was an encumbrance: she was tasked with turning around a company for which 30% of its income was people routing their search queries to Yahoo. It's hard to think of big moves you can make that don't somehow jeopardize that revenue stream. She's boxed in.

(Then you look at the activist shareholder critiques of her tenure, and it's like, "she spent 10MM buying iPhones for everyone on her staff", and I'm like, it's fucking 2014, almost nobody but Apple has figured out how to make huge amounts of money on mobile but pretty much everyone thinks it's the most important thing in the world to do, and she's, what, buying the staff computers to do that with? Sheesh.)

Did she rise to the occasion and do something unprecedented in business history, like Jobs did? No she did not. Executive hired to do the impossible fails to do the impossible, film at 11.
Google's flagship product is an advertising platform, not a search box.
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I only have static, unimportant data on my site, but I use HTTPS in case someone's ISP is injecting ads or scripts into their pages. I don't want people to think that's part of my website.
It's the same here in Argentina. You buy a book to study the subject of the Physics class, and then you buy the Feynman as a companion because it's very interesting to understand the subtle parts.
> Starting May 1st, 2016, GitHub Pages will only support Kramdown

Kramdown has strange behavior.
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An eyeball attracting "typo"
In India they are in training for 8 years I believe before they are allowed to drive a passenger train. Its far more complicated than it looks.
Now I just need to write a parser to turn my natural language plaintext argument maps into code :)
Why does Drive lack where Dropbox has succeeded (efficient, reliable syncing)? (Honest question, since you mentioned you're on the Drive team)
> What's wrong with working from mainland Europe assuming one can work within UK hours?

People from mainland Europe (EU) are legally able to work in UK.
This seems strange. While I think price transparency is good, I'm not quite sure what incentive a funeral home would have in participating since essentially it would be a race to zero.