skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for bringing the actual data to the table Patrick.

You wouldn't happen to have any on the more local housing and local economic impact of startup employees would you?

I'm convinced that as the rest of the world burns or stays stagnant, they are looking for a scapegoat, and the geeks who are suddenly rich and in some cases pushing them out of their homes and away from their families make a mighty easy target.

The world wants their economic collapse because God forbid this economic cycle go on for longer than the last (but I'm sure it would be just fine if they were profiting from it).
These functions are proposed for the next C standard. They are in part 2 of the bounds checking interface. The relevant proposal is n1337 'dynamic allocation functions'

asprintf()
aswprintf()
vaswprintf()
fmemopen()
open_memstream()
open_wmemstream()
I'm assuming it's because they interact with each other.
dnsagte[1] should use this as it's default source. Fixing.

[1] https://github.com/jakeogh/dnsgate
Keep in mind that all but the business rules actually run in their own custom CDN nodes around the world, not in these cloud setups.
Great story, brah. Except for the CDN.

https://openconnect.netflix.com/peeringLocations/
Volume and proportion are not the same thing. 50% of net is very easy when you have >10% of all wealth. No super rich individuals are taxed at 50% either of their net income either (if they are they are doing their taxes themselves and their lawyer is a fool), it is more common for ultra high wealth individuals to pay less than 10% of their net earnings.
Is it just me, or is it a massive risk to have your entire infrastructure hosted by a company who is also one of your chief competitors?
Try building something instead of learning something.

Also while programming I find I can stay productive if I always leave my project workspace where there's a bug or half-implemented feature I can start the next day.
Found this pretty much enlightening, I think this applies to careers as well. When I look back at the steps I took towards getting to where I am now, I don't see any connection, they were seemingly random steps.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11080701
I went to Forbes without an ad blocker today and it's a terrible website. Way too many ads. It's not worth it.
So it's not explicitly ruled out by relativity. However, that link says:

> The Universe at large appears to be electrically neutral, or close to it. Thus real black holes are unlikely to be charged. If a black hole did somehow become charged, it would quickly neutralize itself by accreting charge of the opposite sign.

> It is not clear how a gravitationally repulsive, negative-mass singularity could form.

So it falls under the same sort of category as negative- or imaginary-mass 'exotic matter': not ruled out, but there's nothing suggesting that it actually exists.
Because this is astrophysics and not particle physics, this discovery is just the beginning! We don't know the rates of these mergers, the distribution of the masses of the binary components, what electromagnetic signature accompanies the events (if any)...

We've known gravity waves existed since the Hulse-Taylor pulsar, so just observing them for the first time is not nearly as interesting as the science to come in the next decade. Advanced LIGO is a powerful new tool that will open up exciting new observations.
‘I have nothing to hide’ is killing the privacy argument
Slightly related, I was packaging up a webapp in docker, and one thing the application did was form-fill PDFs. I had been using pdftk to do this, but it turns out pdftk is written in gcj, and gcj pulls in a lot for its runtime libraries. I wrote a small program using the mupdf libraries and cut the size of my docker image by over 400MB.
To reinforce what you're saying, I just want to point out that the retina is actually a part of the central nervous system. It grows from the same tissue that the brain does during fetal development.
Universalism vs relativism.

What makes logical sense?

Language is used to describe the world around us seems very logical to me, it came second for starters.

If you want to go the other way, language shapes the world around us, actual evidence is needed for me.

It is full of "just so stories" which I find troubling. It's a meme that can spread without proper evidence beating a boring "language just describes things".
I'm referring mainly to the authors of these works likely having something lying on a hard drive sitting on a shelf or backed up on 'C: Back up 2012-06-21 4 of 7'. These are much like those piles of old letters found in Grandma's attic, mostly unintelligible (I certainly can't read the cursive scrawls) but still ultimately not 'lost' if someone is prepared to spend the time recovering them.
"Sadly the 1919x1080 is not a typo. 1921x1080 works also if you want to see what happens if you use 1920x1080 go ahead and give it a shot :)"

Could you show what does happen with 1920x1080, for those of us who don't have the hardware to test on?
> Or do these events happen all the time, and so if it wasn't those two black holes it would be two others?

This is right. Soon we'll have a much more precise value for "all the time!"
Except:

If you're not denying the possibility, then what exactly are you trying to say here? That you're skeptical that the experiment detected anything, or that the "anything" it detected is what they are saying it is?

Clearly the first can and will be found out over time as other detectors are being built to replicate these findings. However, I believe there is enough scrutiny of their claims that this kind of skepticism can likely be ruled out.

The second, that their story doesn't fit the data, is kind of odd to me. Gravity is so weak and the detectors they are creating are still so new that it seems likely that colliding massive bodies would be the first kinds of things they would pick up. Just as with early telescopes where objects that were very close or very bright were the first ones to yield useful data.

If you have another explanation that you believe fits the data better, put it forward and try and find a way to test it. That's how science works. But this is not the kind of thing that is going to collapse in a heap of logic. Data and the scientific method doesn't work like that.
correct. 'cooperatition.'
It seems to me that it is just a matter of time-scale. If patent lifetimes were made shorter to match internet-time it would make a lot of sense. Five or ten years advantage is worth a lot in internet time.
10 megabytes of memory more than necessary! Because that's a massive waste of memory in 2016.
"npm is the bigger than any other package manager of any language."

that isn't necessarily good, cf: "Kill Your Dependencies" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11065769
Well you are right, but these functions are not terribly fun to use. Consider a parsing function which extracts an identifier. For ASCII it's:

if (isalpha(*s)) {
*d++ = *s++;
while (isalnum(*s))
*d++ = *s++;
}

To use UTF-8 / Unicode should require only small changes:

if (iswalpha(decode(&s)) {
encode(&d, advance(&s));
while (iswalnum(decode(&s))
encode(&d, advance(&s));
}

For efficiency, don't decode twice- have the decoder return a pointer to the next sequence:

if (iswalpha(c = utf8(&s, &n))) {
encode(&d, c);
s = n;
while (iswalnum(c = utf8(&s, &n))) {
encode(&d, c);
s = n;
}
}

Also should be able to match a string in line:

if ('A' == utf8(&s, &t) && 'B' == utf8(&t, &s) && 'C' == utf8(&s, &t)) // we have 'ABC'.
I'd love to understand what happened on June, 18th 2015. The guy just noped out of Yii.

https://github.com/qiangxue
"most technical work or any work that requires deep focused thinking is a race to the bottom" - how is this true?
I'll address the ownership angle as that's simple (at least in my mind): because someone (or several someones) put up the capital to start the business. They own it.

If they want to exchange some ownership for some cash, they can sell all or part of their ownership stake. If they want to exchange some ownership for labor or other services, they can create a stock or option grant program, typically with vesting. There doesn't seem to be anything unnatural to me about someone putting capital at risk to form a business owning the resulting business. No different than putting my capital at risk/committed to buy a house or a car. I pay for them and I own them.

If you want to avoid that situation that you find exploitive, you are free to start your own (individually or as a collective) and keep/share as you judge best.
Occasionally on Upwork you get lucky and land a good project. But if you're a good developer expecting more than $30/hr you will never be able to stay busy even part time (more like a couple projects a year).
You don't want to ignore all abuse and harrassment as it may include death threats and so forth. This makes ignore as a feature unusuable to anyone who actually deals with abuse or harrassment.

It's a stupid feature people who don't care about this topic implement to be able to pretend they've done something.

Blocking only works if the cost of creating new accounts is high enough to turn off harrassers. That's almost never the case unless you're running an MMORPG or something.
$50M fund for ophthalmology startups
I don't want to sound insensitive... But aren't phobias a "strong weakness" by definition? Not that a job should treat you badly as a result - I just mean, everyone has weaknesses, and some people's involve mental illness. So in my mind, it's a weakness to be worked on. Viewing it that way works for me, as someone who has struggled with anxiety and depression for my entire adult life.
$man mv
link directly to the games - https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_win3_games
I couldn't imagine speaking in front of a bunch of American doctors. I'm stereotyping, but as a group they have huge egos, and are trained to be critical. This has just been my experience.

In reality, they are very well trained mechanics. That last sentance is curtesy of Dr. Dean Edell. I miss that guy.

We put doctors on pedestals in the states. I have found very few deserve this special treatment.

I'll get beat up over this post. I don't care. To the person I'm writing to, I had a horrid fear of public speaking. I actually got through college with only one public speaking engagement. It was a sweaty train wreck.

As I've aged, public speaking got to the point where my pulse doesn't even flinch.
Your narrative is directly contradicted by Bernanke himself. Read the NY Times article I linked to that references his book. He is clear on the matter.
AWS might make more money from Netflix than they do from Amazon Prime Video.
What is "National Television"?
World Empire II ! Playable in your browser !

I'll be back in 12h or so.
You're suggesting renaming the hosts file to something else temporarily? I guess that would work. How quick does the operating system pick up on this change, do I need to reboot my machine for it to reload the Hosts file?
Ford makes $776,348 per employee. I will take a stab in the dark and say that the assembly worker is making substantially less than that regardless of whether it is $20k or $100k car while still producing far more value than the cost of either vehicle.

http://csimarket.com/stocks/singleEfficiencyet.php?code=F
false.

http://www.business-management-degree.net/features/amazon-vs...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11079097
Then you might say that it has an in-toto benefit?
>> Bizarrely, they've broken out into two graphs, with the slower languages getting graphed first. <<

How wide is your phone? :-)

(It's just to confuse people who insist on saying this language is first, this language is second … as though rank order was useful information.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11064886
Actual blog post on the Netflix site - https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/completing-the-net...
you're getting downvoted, but I remember this issue cropping up for windows XP boxes. Other Operating systems and more modern versions of windows cope with large hosts lists more competently.
I watch a lot of UK television, even though I'm not an ex-pat or anything. I just find it better than US television. So I get a lot of insight into the UK culture. One thing I see is that the the citizens of the UK are actually very happy with their socialized healthcare. There are very few negative jokes about it. When I see how they take advantage of it, especially with home-care, I am extremely jealous.
This looks awesome, plus I am already running shorewall +dnsmasq.
Buzzfeed has proven itself by now to be a legitimate news source, even if the money is coming from the other division (clickbait). And not just tech stories: when big-name publications cut their education coverage entirely, Buzzfeed hired a reporter dedicated to it.

I would expect similar penalizing treatment of other "mixed-quality" sources like Quora, Forbes, Techcrunch, Business Insider, etc.
On hand they say if everyone is digging for gold, start selling shovels. Everyone is doing start-ups, maybe sell them dashboards, log aggregation services, api testing tools, virtual whiteboards and such.

On the other hand, if you sell to just a few, now your own volatile future is coupled with theirs. You might run out of cash, hire bad people, make bad decisions -- the company fails, and that chance is now multiplied by the chance that other company make bad decisions, bad investors, burn through all the cash etc.

So it seems the answer is to just sell to a lot of startups, to spread your risk. That might end up like the sub-prime mortgage crisis. The risks everyone thought were decoupled from each other, weren't actually. So when start-ups start imploding and investors start looking at ... I don't know solar, hyperloop, or robots, the panic spreads etc.
No reboot needed. I have updated my hosts file regularly in linux, windows and macosx without needing a reboot.

Generally your browser will pick it up quickly as well. It doesn't cache host file entries in the same way as dns lookups so the effect of adding or removing is pretty much instant. I use Chrome mostly, so I am not as sure about other browsers.
HathiTrust.org, 13-14 million volumes has less than 20 FTEs and the vast majority of them are on new development projects. Put into maintenance it might take 2 FT sysadmins to keep going. Maybe double the cost for operations. Preservation and digital distribution is really really cheap. SoundCloud isn't losing $44 million on sysadmins, servers and network. It's all the other startup crap, sales, bizdev, legal that is doing them in.
BBC Domesday Project
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11080080
No need to reboot, as soon as you change the hosts file the OS should immediately start to use the new version, the hosts file is the first thing the OS checks when resolving names, this is what enables this approach to work.
I could have sworn I saw it used in email in like 1997 to indicate underscores in plaintext.
Not long winded at all actually. It's not easy to admit you have a problem like this, most people (men especially) tend to run from it.

I don't have any answers, except that this is really where a professional can help you out. Dr Habib actually has been dealing with this sort of thing for a long time and was quite successful, it's just that the issue with him being live on air was so different and he wasn't really prepared for it. He seems to have worked on strategies with professionals. When you read his blog post, you can see that he's not defeated by this experience, but is going to use it and take lessons from it to work out more strategies to prevent it from helping.

(I hope that the ABC asks him back again when he has dealt with the issue, he is an expert and what he has to say is actually very valuable).

There are a lot of great professionals that can help with anxiety and panic attacks. As someone who uses a pyschiatrist, a psychologist and was referred to a guy who helps people with adult ADHD (a life coach I guess), it has been incredibly helpful. Not sure where you live, so I don't know how much it costs but if you can afford it, or you are lucky enough to live in a country that helps pay for this, then speak to your doctor and get a referral to someone.

Only other bit of advise around this I can give is to forgive yourself if you make mistakes, and if you do go to see a medical professional and you don't think they are the right person to see, don't feel bad about finding someone else. Any true professional psychiatrist or psychologist won't mind, as they know that each person has different needs and not everyone they see will be a good fit for that person.
Well, I have written a lot of code on 6502.

What you name is the value to be operated on, and that is indexed, zpage, immediate, etc... the accumulator is not named. There are two or three bytes, one instruction, one or two for value or address.

Same for things like ADC, the accumulator is where it will happen, the things you name are values and addresses.

LSL, LSR can just be stated, one byte instructions that operate on the accumulator, which does not need to be specified.

6502 is really basic. The accumulator is the working register for many things. The index registers are for indexing. One does not do LDX $c000, A for example.
A situation I've found myself in before: asking our devs why the site is broken, only to find it's my overzealous script blocking.
What happens then? You're reading about it on Buzzfeed. That's why it's a dumb thing to do.
Allocation of that memory still costs /something/ even if ram is so plentiful as to be free.
I don't think that any startup wants to sell to other startups forever. However, in general startups are early adopters, so it makes sense to start there in a vertical-by-vertical approach. No startup can sell a future "billion dollar" vision to investors with a market constrained to just other startups. A startup is differentiated from other businesses by growth prospects and potential, and a startup must grow outside of the startup market to survive. A landing page may not signal long-term vision, but the plan to disrupt a broader market exists in most of the companies.

Some degree of a "House of Cards" certainly exists. Look at Y Combinator - part of its value is being able to sell within the network to other YC startup companies. At demo day, many of the logos on the "current customers" / "traction" slides are other YC companies. When a company doubles in size every year, almost everything breaks - from HR to communication to hiring - so, of course it make sense to start sales with customers whose pains are so dire that the sales cycle is days instead of months. The customers may be startups, but revenue is still revenue. A startup is defined by growth, though, and at some point leads in the startup market get exhausted and a company must search for prospects beyond other startups to continue growth.

Breaking out of a single vertical, whether it's selling to other startups, a market outside of San Francisco, or even a product that doesn't cater to just high-end consumers is the key to making it huge. Uber started in a niche market - high-end on-demand chauffeur services to people who could afford their own car, but Uber managed to go beyond that vertical. Shyp just shut down Miami - that's a far bigger signal than the health of their SF market. Can Mattermark find a market outside of tech investors? That's the key to justifying their valuation. Many startups will not develop a repeatable growth strategy outside of other startups, but alas many startups do not succeed.

No startup can continue the growth prospects that define them as a startup by just selling in a narrow market, whether it's startups, San Francisco, or on-demand black cars. There's low-hanging fruit in any approach, and the ability to continue growth beyond that defines success.
It's just used to emphasise a word. Asterisks, _underscores_, /slashes/, -hyphens-: they all work for that.

It just lately got more standardised with the markup languages that they actually correspond to bold, underscore, italic, etc.
I do some blocking with my hosts file, and I used to put 127.0.0.1. That hits my default nginx vhost, so i usually get 404 or 403 pages which is not so bad since my default vhost is an empty docroot. But it is not very intuitive and sometimes I think a server is down because of the nginx error page before I realize its my hosts file. I considered making a custom error message for my default host to remind me what I'm hitting, but I'm lazy.
- Adding a metronome, even at very slow tempos, adds good subtle variation.

- Starting from different points in the piece also provides a good subtle variation.

- Playing the piece at different octaves.
I think they meant Netflix pays Amazon more per year for infrastructure than Amazon makes on Prime instant. It's hard to say how much Prime streaming makes per year since it's also part of the 2 day shipping.
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Google Challenges AWS Lambda with Cloud Functions
I am not sure 25-30 year old engineers are the problem. The problem is management and leadership
People have gotten fired and had mobs of hashtag warriors try to destroy their personal lives for merely stating facts or a personal opinion.

Yet, the same mobs of people somehow think they are allowed to say the worst things, with no consequences.

I'm glad Woods is going after people like this. If anything, it might put a stop to some of the nonsense.
They also represent exactly what the poster wanted: the leaders of America (who are mostly strong aggressive men).
Thanks for the TL;DR. I use TLS! And FWIW, it's really cheap to host downloads with Cloudfront which supports TLS.
When I get like this I can write code and design systems as easily as breathing, but only for short stints, and once I go to bed and get a full nights sleep I'm done for a couple days.

It's like hyper vigilance but all I see is the computer, it's awesome (probably unhealthy), but I can't turn it on and off. There are triggers that usually work though.

If I stay up playing past 10pm it almost always turns on, and all of a sudden it's 4am and I've got standup in a couple hours, but I got a shit load completed.

I used to be able to take a lot of uppers, like smoking and drinking too much coffee/red bull, and that would stretch it out, but I can't do that anymore because I want to live past 40.

So now I get the effects over shorter periods of time, and really only when I stay up late.

I also find that when I'm really exhausted from lack of sleep, it actually kicks in faster, but when I do that, I just end up sleeping all weekend because I invariably end up working on something until 4am every day.

I'm still trying to figure out how to attain that extreme level of focus at will but it feels like it would require me to stop focusing on computers/electronics to try to figure it out, and that simply won't do.
I've always found it totally bizarre. I just picture Bezos in his office, cackling to himself over Netflix' shortsightedness.
> "An Airbnb spokesperson writes that the company has a zero-tolerance approach to hosts and guests who violate local law."

Irony?
That infographic isn't very clear. It's hard to separate the impact of Prime Video from Prime and from normal Amazon operations.

How many people buy Amazon Prime for the video streaming? What percentage of the $800M Prime revenue is attributable to the video service?

I'd wager less than 10%. Does Netflix spend more than $80M a year on AWS?

The numbers needed to answer the question aren't publicly available. It's a bunch of guesswork.