skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a bunch of these "quiet unicorns" sitting around, getting little SV press but lots of money and lots of impact.

Another one that often sticks out for me is WordPress. I remember running some analyses over the whole web (first within Google as a side-effect of some work I was doing there, and then after I left Google with the Common Crawl corpus) that indicated that roughly 10% of the web is Wordpress. That's billions of sites. As a proportion of content created, they're bigger than Facebook and bigger than Twitter. But because they're privately held and have taken no outside capital, they have zero incentive to publicize this. I've heard of people becoming millionaires writing WordPress plugins - not even working for them, but just contributing to the ecosystem.

GitHub was in this category until they took VC from a16z, as well, and Atlassian before they went public. I sometimes wonder how many of the "little" sites I use routinely (eg. bahiker, PadMapper, Paletton) secretly generate huge revenues. When formerly-unfunded-but-widely-trafficked sites like PlentyOfFish or Imgur get valuation events, they're often stupidly high (eg. $575M for PlentyOfFish and $200M+ for Imgur).
No, the monopsony designation is key to the comment I was responding to and the point I was trying to make.

If there is no monopsony power, it's hard to make any claim of abuse on the part of the government. Single payer governments are leveraging their bargaining power like any rational market participant. Drug companies are not required to sell to them. They do so of their own volition at a price favorable to their bottom line, otherwise they wouldn't do it.
No, that's just habit and me being slightly sloppy because it's a forum comment (same with the code style, sorry). I did expect this to be common across multiple compilers, so I'm surprised it's only gcc. I'd be curious if there's a similar-in-spirit example for LLVM, since I do expect they do similar optimizations.

Looks like gcc -Wstrict-overflow=3 or higher produces a warning. Alternatively, -fno-strict-overflow disables the optimization (which is included as part of -O2 or higher).
Perhaps we should even leave C as a language for system code. (System code has to be correct and secure first. Optimization for speed comes second, and is only needed for a few small, very hot code paths.)
It's recently been shown that this action is purely political, there is nothing material that the FBI stands to gain in their investigation.

The entire point is to let the genie out of the bottle.
It's been covered a couple of times, but Apple is being asked to make a tool that would check that the device ID is the same as the warranted device. That's the essential part.

By having a device ID check (combined with digital signage), Apple could publicly release the tool without fear of anything happening on any other phone. Plus people couldn't modify it because that would break the signature.
It's true that you don't need much power if both parties have ham radio licences, 44 foot wide antennas hoisted 30 foot into the air, and are willing to transmit unencrypted and very slowly. License-free handheld consumer gear is basically limited to UHF, which is pretty much line-of-sight.
On the assumption that their dissertations were not on relevant topics, I can't help but feel this is such a terrible waste of highly specialized education resources.
The DoJ is just re-iterating what everyone knows, which is that Apple can push software updates to a phone.

That does not in any way explain why Apple should be compelled to write new software, that they would not otherwise choose to write, before pushing it as an update.

Apple retained the ability to push updates to improve the performance and security of products, not to make it easier to hack them. There is a difference!
Those Bubbles in Your Soda May Someday Help Save the Planet
In speculating on reasons behind the preference, my best guess is HTML. It seems more natural/idiomatic to write:

var el = $('<a href="/" class="link">Link</a>');

rather than

var el = $("<a href='/' class='link'>Link</a>");

let alone

var el = $("<a href=\"/\" class=\"link\">Link</a>");
You can type char instead or these other keywords in this file:

https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies/blob/mas...

Maybe even ask for a new shortcut for cheat sheets.
I interpreted "even a modest weight loss has been reported to substantially decrease the diabetic risk" as causation. But you are right, he did not say it directly.
It's open source, take a look at the source code? :D
Very tangentially related, but: if FRAM on the MSP430 saves its state on power loss, my mind went straight to Smalltalk. It's like hardware support for saving an image. Tho from an efficiency standpoint, smalltalk might be pushing it more than MicroPython is. That, and a smalltalk editor on a machine too small to fit a vi clone might be even more of a stretch. lol.
Totally fabricated and the other authors suffered no consequences.
I'm surprised Alex Hillman isn't mentioned, he is the founder of IndyHall the first coworking space in Philly.
All available IA (Instant Answers):

https://duck.co/ia
The Bay Area currently has 8 million and change people in it. A reasonable estimate of "fixing the housing problem" would add another million. Assume $1000/yr per additional resident in extractable economic value, and a net present value of twenty times the yearly income, and you wind up with a problem that's worth roughly $20 billion.
I agree, I would love to have a printable version
I think you've misunderstood.

"Not black" and "White" are different not because of things like the one-drop rule and its legacy, but because there are races other than "White" and "Black" present in the US.

"Not black" includes Native Americans/Alaskan Natives, Asians/Pacific Islanders, etc., not just Whites.

> Our distinctions are related to old Jim Crow notions that 1/64th Black made you Not White. Why not the other way around? If 1/64th White made you Not Black, then the USA would be about 99% white.

Er, no. Because even if modern Black vs. White racial identification were entirely driven by the one-drop rule (its not), there's only about 87% of the population that identifies as either White or Black, so shifting some portion of the Black to White isn't going to make 99% of the population White. Again, there are other races in the US besides White and Black.
> What I do see is that life today should be markedly better than it was about 500 years ago, but that it has largely flattened out within the last 100 years.

The article shows a chart of total world GDP (in constant 1990 dollars), and this states that since 1900 total world GDP has gone up by a factor of approximately 40. The previous 100 years (1900 to 1800) grew by at most a factor of 10, and in the 300 years prior to that (going back to 1500) GDP merely tripled.

I could definitely understand if you were trying to formulate an argument that this sort of exponential growth cannot be sustained, but your time frame for any "flattened out" phase is completely wrong.
This requires a critical mass of Beartooth users, right? If I'm hiking or camping, how far can I be from the nearest user?
Honestly, I've been using DuckDuckGo exclusively for a few years now, and I still don't use even half of the bangs or instant answer features. Occasionally the Wikipedia summaries are what I'm looking for, or I'll !define something.

My point being, even without the power user features, it's just a great search engine for everyday use.
Just so I understand fully, can you explain which things Mobiledoc handles which Draft doesn't? It sounds like you should be able to easily implement any of those behaviors on top of Draft.
>electrons propelled by a voltage will travel at constant speed

You mean like Ohm's law with a constant electric field?
I like the concept, but what exactly about this makes it "13 days faster" or gives me "3x fewer late payments" ? Is this result just for non-enterprise contracts? People new to freelancing? I don't understand how you can make that claim, and it really rubs me the wrong way that you aren't clear about it.
Do you want contributions? I've done a cursory check of the repo a couple times but my use thus far has been fairly low key and I haven't run into errors for bug reports and most of the stuff on your roadmap from last fall the sort of conceptual / organization work where outside contribution isn't particularly helpful.
There are so many of these. I don't discourage building one for fun, but they're usually not practical.

The common problems are password resets, different password restrictions/formats, and the need to remember these.

Also... Sha256 for password generation? I've been told that's wrong™, even if you do it a lot of times, and was pointed at key derivation functions like scrypt, bcrypt, etc.
I see a lot of complaints about this that I don't really understand. This is similar to final in Java, val in Scala, etc – sure, it's potentially referencing a mutable value, but you know it's not going to be reassigned.
FWIW: that DSDT hack is replacing a constant return value from the first method in the "HAD" device. It was specified to return 0, but now returns 0xf instead. This is almost certainly the _STA (status) method, which informs the OS about the operational status of the described device. I forget the exact meaning of the bottom four bits offhand, but 0xf is the standard value for "device present and operating normally -- use it!".

That it was returning zero would cause the linux ACPI framework to ignore it and not probe its driver. My vague understanding is that windows works differently, and calling _STA is done by the driver, so it's possible to just not do it and still have a working system.

I don't know what the device itself is, but given that the script says "audio" in there it's probably the audio codec.
What made you subscribe to the Times versus other newspapers? I've been debating a Times vs. WSJ subscription.
Did you miss the bit where the DoJ has already declared it has hundreds of other phones it will want cracked if Apple is willing to comply to this?

Also, if you think having a device ID check is going to do anything, you might want to have a look at the cracks scene and what they do with your pitiful attempts at DRM...
Cashless exercise is one of those things that costs the company very little, but is incredibly advantageous for the employee.

However, companies don't always love it, because it removes a lot of the "golden handcuffs" that serve as a shady way to retain employees as valuation climbs.
That's a terrible argument. If you're in a position of power over a hostile population you should preemptively destroy their capacity to harm you. There's a reason the French revolution happened during an economic contraction after a long period of growth. Same deal in Russia with its revolution. The revolution is always lead by people who see themselves as being on the verge of losing something they had a tenuous grasp of.

People who are hungry and suffering don't revolt. They starve. The ambitious gentry and clerisy who see themselves sliding down the social ladder attempt to revolt and are usually crushed. Anyone who is hungry and suffering is incapable of organising enough to be a threat to any military or paramilitary organisation.

Are there any successful slave revolts besides Haiti, ever?
I have been doing this for a while, as has Wall Street.

Coder * (self taught) + MBA * (human communication skills) = $$

http://www.strategic-options.com/trade/
Prop 13 was passed in 1978, which was after Reagan had left the Governor's office and prior to his election as President. It was Jerry Brown leading California and Jimmy Carter in the Oval Office.
SVG support is nearly universal now: http://caniuse.com/#feat=svg -- plus, the icons aren't necessary for the UI to function, so perhaps they've forgone the fallback.
Seriously? isEven? That can be done using `!(n % 2)`.

You're generalizing, and yes, you're being too paranoid. Not all of them actually agree on (really very small) modules. https://medium.com/@Rich_Harris/small-modules-it-s-not-quite...

It all boils down to balance and common-sense.
It was a devops error. I wrote a blog post about this once: http://blog.terminal.com/knightmare-prevention/
What if prop 13 didn't apply to investment property? How would the situation be different? Your parents and whoever could get the main benefit, and new buyers would still brunt the main cost, but at least people who want houses could possibly get them instead of investors and other people parking cash and/or literally and technically collecting rent.

Sorry to link to a pay-walled article, this headline tells the story:

"Investors With Cash Edging Out First Time Home Buyers"

http://www.wsj.com/articles/investors-with-cash-edging-out-f...
Once again, you call Tim Cook a liar.

A default Debian install is nowhere near to being able to replace iOS as a practical smartphone OS for 1 billion users.

This is an indisputable fact. What is ridiculous is that you seem to be claiming otherwise.

We are talking about the real world where objective comparisons can very much be made. I'm trying to discus real software - not fantasy extrapolations.

For the record, if an open, secure, and practical alternative existed I'd much prefer it to what Apple has produced, and I have been hoping for such a solution since the iphone was introduced.

It seems a lot more like you're the one with an agenda to push.
Cool, awesome iOS kit to detect real network status
https://github.com/dustturtle/RealReachability
I don't necessarily want to suggest that when I see "nutritionist" I read "witch doctor", but if there is any field of science which has made less progress over the centuries, it is nutrition. I am not suggesting that any particular practitioners are ignorant or incompetent (per se), merely that it is a very hard problem to study. Among other issues, there is evidence to suggest that glycemic responses are highly individual[1]. However, this is also an area of political and commercial interest, and there are many actors presenting shall we say "motivated" studies, demanding an exacting scrutiny of any empirical results.

In short, not only are the self-reported anecdotes of a person with a bachelors in nutrition not adequate evidence of anything, but even formal studies are suspect. As far as my own opinions go I suspect that I would be inclined to believe what she says, but truths that mesh with one's preconceptions demand an even higher standard of evidence. Were I you, I would not be promoting this person's work, and I feel it was inappropriate as a response to the parent.

[1] http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674(15)01481-6
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You're absolutely right. FWIW, Draft.js looks awesome and I should have expressed my concerns in a more productive way. Thanks for responding.
Well I think my main point was just to say that the "hypocrisy" you mention actually has a rational backing. Not that the backing is bulletproof, but it's certainly more than a hypocrisy.

You seem to most strongly disagree with the assertion that "the government is incentivized to put as many people in jail as possible". It's pretty clear from my original comment that "the government" is referring to law enforcement agencies, such as the FBI. Note that the FBI has thousands of agents whose performance is measured ultimately by the percent of cases they close. Thus, the claim that FBI agents "are incentivized to put as many people in jail as possible" is more an observation than some crackpot theory. It doesn't mean that we should change that - running a law enforcement agency any other way wouldn't make much sense. But it does provide the rational backing for someone to be more concerned about worst-case government abuse of data than worst-case corporate abuse.
> All six candidates are supported by super PACs; not all are supported by PACs.

I think you have that backwards; in any case, as you have phrased this it is impossible, as Super PACs are a subset of PACs, so every candidate supported by a SuperPAC is also supported by a PAC.
Providing something useful to the world. Reasonable hours. Not having to do any statistics.
WSJ seems a lot more conservative and hacky. NYT is more liberal.
Why do companies insist on disabling the youtube controls when embedding. I want to turn the volume down but I have to copy the URL and watch on youtube instead.
Love this idea. Has always seemed amazing to me that there is almost no science behind hiring, even at respectable companies that are optimizing and testing everything else - sales, marketing, UX. Anything to get rid of the hell of infinite, indistinguishable resumes!!

Disclaimer: I have a friend at the company. But I am a big fan of what they do, apart from that, and think this analysis is very smart.
If you have a Walmart nearby they carry Novolin R for ~$24/10ml. It's still expensive, but better than the $120 or more for Humulin I was spending at Costco (and still better that the $300 charged at some places).
Scientists Ponder the Prospect of Contagious Cancer
Yeah this is awesome if they keep doing stuff like this. The only reason I use google over ddg is cause google kills it with programming queries
Unfortunately, no. There was no rhyme or reason to the way that they formatted the names. I guess I could implement a fuzzy search, but I'm still at work.
True Object-Oriented and Immutable Java Web Framework, 0.31.3 Released
The man who made the worst video game in history
The Seven Habits of Highly Depolarizing People
Wikileaks: NSA spied on Merkel for longer than previously thought (German)
A Focused Culture
Colemak is Dvorak for programmers
Probably depends on the cost of medication to begin with. My HBP medication is like 25 cents a pill even without insurance. I figure it can't really go much lower than that given that all those folks at the pharmacy need to be paid. Now if something is $25 a pill, there's definitely more room for negotiation.
I feel wet
I found the Deep Learning SIMPLIFIED series really useful https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjJh1vlSEYgvGod9wWiyd...
Trying to recall the name, but I believe it was a decapitation strike on the Capitol during the State of the Union.
Hillary has 100,000 popular votes, and 52 democratically elected pledged delegates to Sanders' 51. The "establishment votes" are not cast until the convention.
WikiLeaks reveals the NSA spied on Berlusconi and his closest advisors
>A reasonable estimate of "fixing the housing problem" would add another million.

Another reasonable approach to "fixing the housing problem" is realizing that not everyone can live in a handful of popular areas. Even if incremental building happens. Even if tax policy changes. Not everyone in web/social/mobile development can move to the Bay area. Indeed, many probably don't want to.
VR platform incompatibility: what if it doesn’t matter?
I'm not an expert but have played around with sensors on some Android devices. The absolute thermometer accuracy will vary by device. When the temperature rises by 1℃ over the course of an hour is that because it actually got warmer, or is because the user moved inside or put it in a warm jacket pocket or ran another app that caused the CPU to heat up? In theory I suppose if you had thousands of devices in a small area uploading simultaneous temperature readings you could perform a regression analysis and extract a little bit of signal from the noise. But in practice I just don't see how you could ever get enough device density in a small area to make that work. Remember that in urban areas the vast majority of smart phones spend most of their time inside climate-controlled vehicles and buildings, so any temperature readings from those are worthless for weather prediction. But they do still give useful barometric pressure data because the pressure is fairly consistent inside and outside for a given location and altitude.
I was just curious about how they are using immutable data structures to implement an editor. I skimmed through the code, but it is too difficult to read that quickly.
Syntorial is also a synthesizer.
I like this idea, and would probably use it. I only seem to be able to select "United States" (and subsequently choose a state) in the contract, though. Are there any plans to open it up to other countries? I see you can already choose GBP as a payment currency, for example, but not choose the UK as my location.
Ah, thanks for pointing that out - we didn't intend to make a normative statement with respect to the defaults. We'll update with examples of longer post-termination exercise windows (we've set up these forms so that it's easy for companies to customize this part).
well, you would, you're in games. fairly substantial amount of stockholm syndrome in game programmers, imo. ;-)

bjarne and others in the community have talked about the heavy cost of legacy and compatibility many times. it's okay to like the language but acknowledge that it's not as awesome as it theoretically could be. it's okay to be unhappy with the warts and weirdness -- after all, such things are what the committee needs to be mindful of when progressing the language.

there's no real reason a language can't outright replace c++ without having many (most? all?) of it's idiosyncrasies. rust is a decent attempt, though the memory safety ideology seems too high friction to properly replace c++. there might be others who give it a shot someday.
> You're contradicting yourself.

No, you appear to be purposely taking my words out of context.

I said the government should not be trusted with a carte blanch skeleton key to access any phone.

Then you said I'm trusting the government not to get access to Apple's signing keys. Which of course I trust, and which you do too. If the government could get Apple's keys, they could just make their own firmware change, sign it, and install it on any phone they want. They wouldn't need this case.

> No I'm not. The keys will be acquired when necessary, if they haven't already.

Now that is some tin foil hattery. That would be reason for outcry. It's a big leap from where we are now.

If this case sets a precedent in either direction (pro or anti privacy), then the battle is already lost because nobody understands what's going on. This is in no way the same as the government circumventing privacy. If people don't understand that, then they're not going to understand a more principled argument of a company impeding a perfectly legal request to get access to the data on a phone.

Is your problem that you don't like the ability of the government to get and execute a search warrant against a person? You don't think they should be able to? If they can search your property, and they can demand for example that your landlord grant physical access, then I see no problem with this request. The responsibility is Apple's to make it so the phone can't be unlocked by Apple.
What's new is that they are using FP instead of C++ to deliver results quickly and more reliably.

These aren't the quants from the 90s that were Physics PhDs applying the latest and greatest in differential equations and whatnot. These are programmers who know how to make the complier do more work for them so they achieve results faster.
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Kik battles Facebook with bots in the new messaging wars
Exactly how do the deceleration work... ? Hoping someone put a really big haystack on mars?
Why is it wrong?
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