skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great response. I'd add that you can meet people on Snapchat without giving away too much private detail, like a phone number.

The new 2d printed avatars that allow you to easily add people you meet are perfect. Shows Snapchat really understand their audience.

Snapchat may have been bootstrapped with sexting but it is so much more than that now. They've hit on something that no other social network has - an audience of regular people who aren't selling anything, who want to retain their privacy and who want to have fun with friends and acquiantances online.

So much of the content I see on Snapchat would never be shared anywhere else - and a lot of the people sharing it are those who weren't interested in building a profile on public pages.
"was considered one of the best mobile websites ever made"

According to whom? The experience, like the app, was simply awful.

None of the Web calls were bandwidth conscious nor polite to browsing in general.

The experience sucks hard to this day. That's not an opinion, it's a fact.
I put several of my dotfiles as gists on github's gist site, in addition to storing my home directory in a repo.
People have flown Phantom 3s longer than 3 miles (one way). That's a lot of ground to cover out in the wilderness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTr2vtWFYMU
I was just installing an older version the other day on FreeBSD, and having to mount (unmaintained) procfs was quite annoying. So after seeing this link I specifically went to their site to check what they mean by "cross platform". They say procfs won't be needed anymore.

Speaking of which, does anyone know why OpenJDK wants procfs on FreeBSD? Is this a Java thing or a problem with libraries people write using Java?
There's no such 'dispute'. It's 100% imaginary.
I would guess that he means Democrats for the former and Republicans for the latter, but I'm not the person you replied to.
holy shit i'm thankful that i barely missed being that generation.
Could you point me to some material about the problems Yahoo and FB had with HTML5 on mobile? I'm currently in this space and would rather avoid this fate!
I also remember when no one could get fired for buying IBM, and when no one could get fired for buying Microsoft. Both were also (and still are) billion dollar corporations.
I severely dislike Gnuplot, but then again, I am wedded to Python. I'm not sure how versatile it is, at least from the slightly acquainted position I am.
Fine. You want to know why it always seems to be the same 'clueless economists' churning out the same crap policy, resulting in crisis after crisis? Because politicians don't know jack about economics. They're a bunch of lawyers.

And you know why we have a bunch of economic dullards in power? Because the public (i.e. you), that keeps electing these idiots, can't even tell the difference between 'politics' and 'economics'. Nor can they tell the difference between 'share traders' and 'economists'. Go ahead and look at the top thread on this page.

And you know what? It's pretty clear you people (yes, you) are quite happy wallowing in your own ignorance, so that you can hold on to some smug sense of illusory superiority, while whining about 'how you could do so much better than these so called professionals'. Meanwhile, the few non-political and sensible economists left in government have been tearing their hair out for years because the public keeps electing a bunch of economically illiterate jackass politicians who refuse to see reason (truly a representative democracy).

So I hope you all enjoy the economic disaster that is now upon us, once again. You've earned it.
Quark looks quite interesting, if odd — it's an entire language, with classes and generics and everything? Just for implementing protocol glue?

I think it's something I'd like to revisit once it's matured, as your set of languages is quite small at the moment, and I think it's overkill for us at the moment. In particular, I'm much more concerned about connection and discovery semantics than about things like wire protocol and how to express the "schema".
Here's another quote: "Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one and they stink"
How do you think Google makes money if not ads?
Ad tracking uses cookies, not javascript, and isn't "malicious" as such. If you're worried about that, just disable cookies and/or javascript.
But they won't. We've been using Papertrail for years and they haven't added a feature I care about in forever.
No more sock puppets, please.
We were farming efreets for daemon bone armour, in that particular case.
15 Anniversary of the Agile Manifesto (Infographics)
I'm in the same place. I really wanna try and see if it works, but I'm scared of bricking my phone.
That Wasn’t a Meteorite That Killed a Man in India, NASA Says
> What in holy blazes, 60 gigabytes in a month just for one fucking stupid app?

I didn't get the impression from the article that this was exclusively snapchat. I agree you'd have a hard time hitting 60gb/mo unless you're streaming a lot of video. To be fair, snapchat does have video, and the whole point of this exercise is that we cannot fathom how The Children use it these days, so...who knows.
Monotonic clocks are guaranteed never to go backwards, for one. In POSIX it would be a major violation of the API, although implementations are free to substitute clock sources if the monotonic source is not provided.
I think the fundamental issue is culture. They were always organized like a media company, not a tech company. Marissa tried few different tricks like new logo, better UX, yahoo weather app, hired news show hosts, but none of them worked. In the end, they ran out of time proving you can't acquire your way or pivot your way to success.
Samsung Internet is, surprisingly, faster and smoother than Chrome. They have really optimized it.
Firefox on Android with uBlock Origin.
Trying to convince myself to buy the darn thing. I use it sparingly but I have found nothing else that even remotely compares. Been trying out others lately (Atom, Komodo Edit, etc) and Sublime seems to just kill them from a performance standpoint.

Might just be a personal preference, but something about its performance and way of doing things perfectly fits my usage style.
In my own VM, or share a VM with others?
I post a lot of dumb comments on HN, mostly because I find too many people take things too seriously here. But anxiety is something that I can very much relate to being a work from home developer. I'm still learning the best ways to cope/treat, but I can't say enough about getting enough exercise. I definitely don't do it enough now, but when I do there's an unmistakable decrease in my anxiety level the following day. But I'm talking like running, or something else that really gets me exhausted; not just a walk around the block. I'm a skinny guy too, which for me is another excuse to not have to exercise; which I think is not uncommon amongst developers.
Thank you so much for that post! I used it extensively when I set up vcsh and my. It took a few hours to get everything working, but the flexibility is unbelievable.
OpenFPGA
DJI (Drone Company) is using GPL code without releasing source
Ripple is working with banks on inter bank settlements and they are NOT using a blockchain. A consensus algorithm makes a lot more sense.
has anyone seen this deprecated project floating around? https://github.com/danoprey/depreciated seems like actual elixir code that must have been bought by http://www.digitalasset.com/

I've been watching this for a bit
haha, it's more that it's rare that I see such detail put into ui/ux/branding in many/most products, especially ones that aren't geared toward common end users. big kudos :)
Auto Detect Type of Barcode Elements and Automatic/ Manual Image Skew Correction
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11062729
Facebook does this for cover photos https://code.facebook.com/posts/991252547593574/the-technolo...
Hyperledger server reference implementation
Why aren't they encrypting end-to-end with private keys on the devices?
How can JavaScript be stopped from spreading like a cancer?
Does anyone know why Vimeo does that? I refuse to disable Flashblock to use Vimeo, and I don't understand how requiring me to do so would benefit them.
On the upside, psychiatry and neuroscience are beginning to merge. The disease model of mental illness is such a poor abstraction. And diagnostics in psychiatry is mostly contained to subjective self-reported symptoms. And then treatment is basically a crapshoot; trial and error with antidepressants that don't have well understood causative mechanisms.

As neuroimaging becomes ubiquitous and cheaper, it will replace self-reporting as the primary diagnostic tool. At which point we'll be able to do away from the 'DSM disease model' and actually see which 'neural circuits' are dysfunctional. Consequently, medication will be better calibrated and targeted.

I really think we're on the verge of a psychiatric revolution, and will all be better off as a result.
I am now 40. Reading this article, I felt like an anthropologist observing an alien civilization. So many questions.
Exactly. I'm used to unsubscribing from some random newsletter every company inevitably signs you up for but with Twitter it went from occasional emails to suddenly subscribed to 20 different notification-types (on all 3 of my Twitter accounts) delivering everything from daily "summaries" to every random follow I get.
If you can characterize the latency involved in messaging between domains, it stands to reason that you can provide a reasonable bound on how close both systems are to an ideal shared clock source. If it's good enough, who cares if it's perfect?
When you get out of college and enter the work force it is also the first time a lot of people will really see the world as it is instead of how they were taught it was. That can be depressing.
Send newsletters, 100x cheaper than Amazon (For Devs)
How do you not get sarcasm?
I love htop! I hope homebrew gets it soon. Mine only says version 0.8.2.8? I donated $5 to the developer. Thanks for htop
It's not a default package, right? If so it can be updated in the repos.
I find it hard to believe that your health insurer informed your employer about a prescribed medication. That would be a serious violation of federal law and most insurers are careful about compliance. More likely your employer found out some other way, or fired you for a different reason.
Yeah, dumb question :-)
Right. This concept really can be a truly non-partisan issue, if folks wouldn't introduce partisan politics into things.
(IANAL) Probably not if they do it before a warrant is issued.
I just compiled. I runs successfully.
I used to use htop, but switched to glances at some point, because of a quicker-to-find-the-info-you-want interface.
how does this compare to express/koa/hapi/strongloop/socket.io?
Yet another"Edgy hyperbolic developer opinion"

"Cancer" really? I'm sorry, but cancer is really fucking scary.

The article wasn't funny, insightful, or high quality.

It was crude. Photos of a woman handling giant pig testicles?

This just isn't good enough for hacker news.
Absolutely. I'm just surprised that this many people seem to be in the dark about clock synchronicity (or lack thereof) effects on distributed systems.
Just now downloaded and compiled it on FreeBSD. Works as expected. Haven't used htop 1.x on FBSD so can't offer a comparison.
Bitcoin's blockchain is absurdly expensive to record data on. It's much better suited to only proving data existed by a certain date by recording its hash value.

There's also no real benefit to having the largest chain (designing a cryptocurrency specifically to build as large a blockchain as possible would be relatively trivial) or wasting computing power calculating endless streams of pseudo-random numbers.

As for benefits of a private network: Privacy, while still being able to easily form consensus of records among all parties involved.
RobinHood actually uses Apex Clearing Corporation on the backend, which you'll find is true of a lot of tech-forward retail-facing brokerage. (Other examples include OptionsHouse, TradeMonster, etc.)

This is an optimization which reduces, but certainly does not eliminate, the red tape that the brokerage has to deal with.
well, the argument is, i think, in one situation the error resides on the individual, on the other the error resides in the organization. i don't think this would be really comparable to AI drivers unless each car differed significantly enough to establish them as actually separate. if i use the same equation 100 times, and its wrong every 1 time, it cant be called an accurate equation.
Yay! I like what your family are doing, that is fantastic. Keep up the good work. Those pills cannot and will not ever be a substitute for what you guys can do with the love that you are offering this cousin.

Hopefully it is not a one-way street, maybe through helping this wayward cousin your wider family have seen this 'getting better' and found reward in that, to be a happier family, even if there have been set-backs and disappointments along the way.
Level the playing field? OpenHunt.io looks just like a million other job sites out there.

It's probably not gaining traction because it's not anything unique or new.
I would first point out that it is not really a claim but a simply observable fact for anyone with a brokerage account, check the available market depth at any given price to see how many shares can be sold into the available bid before having to sell at the next lowest available bid in the auction.

The parent did not make a claim that comparing the market cap of TWTR to that of FB is useful, nor am I attempting to make an "argument" in the opposite direction. The goal was to point out that measuring success by an extremely volatile marginal price which rates the stock at sixty-six times earnings is neither accurate nor useful. A little surprised that my attempt to provide useful information earned a handful of downvotes compared to the parents throwaway sentence.

If one honestly believes that market cap data is useful for comparing publicly traded companies in anything but the broadest sense, then one must believe that yesterday TWTR was "worth" 2.5% more of FB than today (judging by daily fluctuations in the TWTR:FB ratio). That is observably not the case, the only difference between that day and the previous is that the company made some information public, no facts at the coalface actually changed. Value of equity is decided over the very long term life of that equity.

As for your final question, one need only look back in history to see that the aggregate marginal daily price and hence market capitalisation is often (and especially in tech) not a good estimate of future expected earnings of a company. The market almost always overshoots, both to the upside and downside, largely depending on available liquidity.
I really wish the restrictions can be reduced or removed so @pmarca etc can tweet more on the companies of which they are on the board of.
This guy could make a lot of money from the bounty threads.

5k+ was the last reading IIRC.
Disclosure: Datawire employee

Quark is a protocol implementation language. If you think of a protocol as being defined by something like an RFC (or RFC equivalent) then RFC's are fairly complex because of English and ambiguity. Quark is trying to help you define protocol's by encoding them in a language more familiar to programmers and computers and at the same time generate language-native bindings.
A lot of it comes down to exercise and diet. Skipping breakfast after a night of drinking can lead to a low level of blood sugar; this gets worse as we age and has the effect of depression. You have to closely monitor your blood sugar level, even if you have never been diagnosed as having any psychiatric precondition.
Show HN: Don't wait for your terminal. Get notified on your phone
I wager Elixir counts.
Good therapists are overbooked and have waiting lists for new patients. They will be the same number of hours even with substantially less contact per patient.
You must encrypt the logs at Rest.

Also, if you are dealing with a production issue with HIPPA logs, you must keep them on the machine. You can't send anything in an email, send a stack trace over a messaging client, or put them into JIRA.
It depends on the tracking. They are far more advanced than simple cookies these days. Some do use javascript to load things and/or report back without resorting to easily-deletable cookies. Whether something qualifies as malicious or not is a matter of opinion. Imho any tracking attempt by unnamed third parties (ie without my say so) is evil.
40 replies in a minute? The app is so slow it takes like 3 to 5 seconds to even display each snap, and this is on a top-of-the-line phone.
One of the World's Top Aging Researchers Has a Pill to Keep You Feeling Young
Young Buffett didn't buy GEICO, the company. He just bought some of its stock. So he didn't get any extra liquidity.

Older Buffett bought the company.
From the other comments on this thread and my tiny bit of Snapchat use, I think you're wrong about Snapchat being in the "promotion [over] communication" bucket. As a largely private, ephemeral communication medium, it seems much worse for promotional purposes than other social networks.
This is the resource I recommend to all of my friends as well. Great walkthrough.
Splain it to me
Yes, it is hard top something called top, but htop does! It is a must have.
iOS makes it intentionally much easier to just use Apple Maps and deal with the badness than to use another map App.
Why not find contracts on sites like Craigslist? When I was unemployed, this is what I did for a year. It's not easy, but all you need is an email account and a laptop.

It sounds like you have both, since you are posting on HN.
I've never submitted to a journal that took SVG, nearly everyone I submit to takes EPS.
I'm sort of playing devil's advocate here, but:

> Got a service that was rushed out the door and isn't maintainable anymore? Rewrite it! 2 weeks later you have erased a bunch of technical debt and since you kept the same API(s) in place, you have not affected the rest of the services that make up your application.

But that's also true of a monolith. Got a piece of your system that isn't maintainable any more. Rewrite it! 2 weeks later you have erased... you get the point.

I like the idea of microservices. I like the idea of the clean boundaries. As a developer, the separation seems correct to me. But, unless you're actually feeling the pain point of the monolith, it just seems like more work that falls into the category of YAGNI.

You also said this:

> Delving into a huge, old, debt-riddled monolithic codebase to make changes is hard and scary...

I mean, it's hard and scary if you don't have a high level of test coverage. If you have great coverage in the old monolith, you should be able to change pieces of it with confidence, no?
OpenHunt tried solving a problem for the content makers without providing any additional benefit to the content consumers.

It's a nice, heart-warming mission. But in the end of the day, content is king, that's what consumers want.

There have been many examples of people rallying around a "free and open" version of a service. They fail to realize that the end user barely cares. Look at voat (Reddit), app.net (Twitter), Diaspora (Facebook), and even ycreject.com (Y Combinator) tried to be a thing for a while.

If someone is able to make it "free and open" while also making it a better experience than the alternative, then it'll be a big success. But so far everyone gets that wrong.
Tesla posts big loss in a quarter when investors didn't see it coming
The thing about the internet is that you can find evidence to support your theory 100%, and evidence that does the exact opposite. The internet is not always a source of knowledge, but it can always be a source of reinforcement for one's belief.
It's not about typing faster, it's about moving your fingers less by placing frequently used keys on the home row, or in an easier place to reach. I posted a lot of information about this. Read through some of it.

Think about it like mileage on a car. If your fingers move half the distance to type the same text, that will add up over the decades.
You can flag them now. The karma threshold is 30 and you're well over that.

To flag a comment, you need to click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click the 'flag' link at the top. A couple of restrictions: (1) you can't flag direct replies, and (2) flag links disappear after 2 weeks, which is also when voting expires on a post.
Just 7 percent of Y Combinator speakers are female.
>> Princeton University Press is publishing the official, polished, and professionally done version of this book. It will be out in summer 2016.

Is this really freely available? I'd much rather see Princeton release this book to the public domain.
Really? Have you ever done any professional C work? :)

This is, like, #99 on the list of problems. #99... out of 50!
A “just and liberal” vision of war
If he mounts a good defense and is proven innocent, then he never committed the crime.
> It takes a lot of work but it's worth it. It's good that you recognize it for what it was. A lot of people don't get there.

I don't really know what the next step to take is.
I use htop. I tried glances as I heard good things about it. It is nice, I like how it has more stuff -- disk, network. However it installed matplotlib, fonts-lyx, tk8.6, libjs-jquery-ui, python3-bottle, and a slew of other dependencies, not a big deal but something to watch for.
Community concerned by Mozilla's connected devices pivot
Twitter has lost a cumulative $1.6B, including $521M in 2015
Not to start a flame war with you, but in the hope that maybe I can make this panacea a little less popular I want to get something off my chest. Every time someone has a problem with mental health, whether it's depression, anxiety, drug withdrawal, etc the answer from the audience is always exercise.

I'm only one data point, but I've exercised more days of my life than not and have observed absolutely no difference in mental health between the me that exercises and the me that doesn't.

What about athletes: students-athletes, NBA players, olympians. Do they show a significantly lower rate of mental health issues?

This argument has been floating around in my head for a while. The reason I think this suggestion is harmful is because it is the most vocal and popular, and yet excludes anyone who already exercises.

Who is recommending this? My hypothesis is people who only exercise every once in a while and so they get a huge hit of endorphins and think, "Man if I did this every day I would feel great." Maybe, some people with mental health issues use exercise as an escape and are really recommending it for its temporary relief. But I'm just in denial about the majority of people being people who didn't exercise, were miserable/anxious/whatever, started exercising and now they're happy/normal/perfect.

Again, I'm not trying to start any arguments here. For those of you who have been saved by exercise, I'm envious. I would really just like to see more answers than this instead of seeing it as the go to answer. It makes the assumption that people who have mental health issues don't exercise.
Abusing UIView (2012)
Is there a quick way to avoid having all those cores take up the top 32 lines of the screen?

Checking my 40 core machine in a typical terminal window, I can't see any of the processes, just 40 lines of CPU! Thanks.
According to https://www.snapchat.com/static_files/lawenforcement.pdf, Snapchat still stores a record of who you've snapped, and that information can be retrieved by courts/etc.
Correct. Federal supervision officers have a great deal of discretion when writing their reports. They can take information that has never been shown to the judge and use it to enhance the sentence guidelines that the judge has to follow.

Besides, the reasonable doubt part only applies to a conviction.