skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, if anything a doer is a step above the thinker - when you do you can review and adapt to be better next time. If you just think you never actually know what the outcome would have looked like, just what you believe.

That what I mean a bit in my reply above about breaking work down in a scrum/lean way and just doing the individual pieces and not thinking just about the great big scary whole.
And then please let's ban them from talking about science and anything science-related too. Exaggerated IT stories are annoying, exaggerated science and scaremongering with "scientists prove X causes cancer!!111" is socially damaging and actually kills people.
A GeoIP database is a database that connects IP address with the nationality of the person who holds it. Netflix explicitly goes beyond this and also blocks those who go through a VPN, addressing the requirement to know the nationality of the customer.
Man who deleted his entire company says it was a hoax
Imagine that you just made a purchase at an online store and you want to know how long is it going to take for you to get the product. That information is available on the site, somewhere. You can do that or you can open your favourite messenger platform and ask "hey how long does it take to get an order", just like you ask your partner what to get from the supermarket. It is a way people are use to communicate. The result is the same but the customer satisfaction is higher. The bot will be able to answer that kind of questions quickly without human intervention. Is more efficient for the customer and the company.
I think intelligence is overrated in the grand scheme of life, so "alien life" would probably baffle us. Survival of the fittest on Earth is worth nothing if the fittest die as well. Evolution would be slower without intelligence but who cares, is there a race out there?
This isn't true at all. Well, not that I can think of. Solo is tough in that it's easy to "pierce the corporate veil" when it comes to legal liabilities and whatnot, but there's not a thing I can write off now that I couldn't as a solo - well save everything related to employees, but, ya know, "solo." But sub-contractors are a perfectly acceptable expense.
Good idea, but sounds a lot like how turntable.fm started out and then they ended up changing direction a few years back: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turntable.fm
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I meant that the second part was illustrative of the first part and not to be taken out of context. I.e., whether someone chooses to use 'censorship', 'moderation', or 'curation' depends on how they view the subject at hand. I don't believe he meant 'censorship' is objectively bad - just that it is usually used pejoratively.

This is kind of a long-winded thread about two sentences from 'dang ... not sure how much value is left in continuing it further.
I agree.

I thought this article did a better job of discussing these weird net subcultures from an outsider perspective, and capturing the ironic/serious tone of all the atrocious crap they say:

https://newrepublic.com/article/132039/tay-exposes-fairy-tal...
(1) This doesn't address ordering guarantees independently from durability guarantees (there are cases where you need to make sure writes don't get reordered, but durability right now is not required).

(2) Signals are just a terrible interface, especially because they are process (or at least thread) global, so they are incredibly hard to use in libraries.
I've never seen GameAIPro before. Great resource. Thanks for the link as I know just who to send it to.
Oh wow was not aware of this. I took the questions from a TechCrunch article:
http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/27/be-concise-the-top-question...

I like the idea of the 15 second timer. Perhaps I could use the microphone APIs to detect speaking and time appropriately. Or better yet, the speech recognition APIs to detect BS.
What's your advice on learning them just well enough to survive whiteboard interviews ?
As a counterpoint, I love this about Haskell.

It seems like my ability to hold logic in my head is partly visuo-spatial, and the terseness makes it easier for me to tell what's going on. (I also do Scientific Computing, so a general resemblance to mathematical notation is hugely helpful for me reading code).
One of my great childhood experiences was going to a big Apple conference in Boston and meeting Garriot, right before ultima 4 came out (he was demoing it). After introducing myself, and saying I knew all about the game (I had pirated it) he said "well you seem to know plenty about it and you like it, so why don't you just demo it for me while go out and do some stuff".
What goes into sensing for autonomous driving?
I would assume this is to create greater logistical efficiencies in ways we don't see.

Side note, I'd be quite interested to see the details of their contracts with courier companies (e.g. TNT deliver all of their new products here in Australia, although AusPost send/receive product replacements)
>The dev made one game (based on already-successful IP) that generated a lot of revenue, and then the subsequent games are only modestly successful.

And now is going write a book and probably go on to become an "expert" and do consultation on how to successfully repeat a process that they themselves couldn't repeat in practice.

The transparency and information in the post is awesome, but I don't see any systematic path to success here, in what is the crap-shoot of the App Store. One-hit-wonders are everywhere.
This app seems to have a bit more complication than most, due to tapping into the operating system more deeply (I presume).

But for most apps I've found AppCleaner to work very well for uninstalling all related files (regardless of where they're scattered about): https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/
I don't think you should stereotype to all STEM majors (internationally) based on a small collection of your programmer friends.

Plenty of STEM majors appreciate soft virtues and are large-hearted. In fact, I'd argue that lawyers are far more likely to see the evil in everyone (it's practically their job_ and to be oppose to mercy.
Nim has been discussed on HN on multiple times.
How about OCaml? It's not as theoretically advanced as Haskell, but it gets work done, is easy to read, fast, easy to reason about the complexity of, has decent libraries, and is generally quite pleasant.
He implies that this happened organically, without paid installs. And his price point is $.99 at the time of this writing. And he doesn't use IAP.

Those are choices he's made that drastically limit the upside he could earn. I respect the hell out of those choices, to be clear. But they are choices.

It's well understood that the way to actually strike gold in mobile gaming these days is to get to a point where you're arbitraging paid installs. You've got IAP hooks up and running, you've got quasi-addictive mechanics dialed in, and your blended CAC is less than your LTV on converted installs. You spend a boatload on installs every week, which are recouped by the revenue you earn from your casuals and especially your whales. Now you're in the shitty IAP/P2W business, alongside everyone else. Now your game kinda sucks. But now you're minting money.

That's pretty much the BigPublisher playbook. Indies can run it, too, albeit only to a point, and with a lot of soul sacrifice.

All of that said and done, I am impressed and inspired by what the author has been able to accomplish organically. And, while his earnings may seem depressing from an outside perspective, they are respectable, and to be respected. If he wants to build a larger business from here, again, he'll have to make some Faustian choices as outlined above. Or he'll need to raise his price points and/or adopt a high/low versioning approach.

This is the way the world is going to work until Apple and Google decide to put the smackdown on paid installs. Which they won't, because their big publishers make them so much money, and their big publishers have optimized a formula reliant on paid installs and drowning out the small guy. (Theoretically, feature placements are supposed to counteract this phenomenon -- but, as the author points out, they accrue most readily to the big publishers, who can afford to invest millions in production values, and whose games are big enough to be itemized on the App Store's monthly earnings statements.)
I really liked this practical approach to working with bad habits:

http://www.vox.com/2016/3/4/11147432/immunity-to-change

In short, it's a technique for identifying what semi-conscious goal that procrastination (etc) serves, so you can address it consciously.
BSD is at a huge disadvantage in QoS capability, to the point that it really shouldn't be recommended as the OS for the gateway on a typical low-speed bufferbloated residential ADSL or DOCSIS connection.
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Pretty interesting story.

Not sure if anyone did anything wrong other than mishearing. A passenger thinks she hears someone sign off of a conversation with "martyr" and reports it. Given that information he's thrown off the plane which is also reasonable.

The guy who got kicked off also did nothing wrong. He was just talking to his uncle.

I suspect the same thing would happen to anyone regardless of race or nationality should the words Allah and martyr be uttered in close succession on a plane.
I use yadm[1]. I don't have extensive experience with others, but I liked the idea of having my dotfiles in their original place, rather than inside a dedicated dotfiles folder.

[1] https://github.com/TheLocehiliosan/yadm
Of course in those asian nations you describe there is also a stronger tendency to view society as something to be "engineered". Herbert Hoover was the US's most prominent Engineer-president, and although history has been revised to make him seem like a laissez-faire president, he was (especially compared to his predecessor Coolidge) an economically interventionist president. The Hoover presidency did not turn out so well.
> The graphs match up well with the sleep/wake patterns in the EST

I'd expect them to match more PST/PDT (-4h), that's where the Silicon Valley and YCombinator are.
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While technically true, I don't think it is in any way comparable. SO ads are the extinction-level rare breed of ads that are a) unobtrusive and b) actually relevant.
Here is what i can tell you. dont just be a "programmer" Choose one hard topic and master it.

I suggest stuff like Cryptography, Machine Learning, blockchain technologies, networking, low level hardware programming stuff. That is what i think guys in 30's should be good for, the hard things all the kids run away from.

Things like web development are nowadays too crowded with young talent that, even if you get employed. you will feel weird. around teens and young adults.
Thanks for posting this. I was about to read the entire book during the summer break, but now I would start with these videos instead.
Dolphins are mammals, and they are hardly "alien". I would rather look at cephalopods, who had a different evolutionary path (including reinvention of eye).
We included crash protection into RCC++: http://runtimecompiledcplusplus.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/crash...

I use RCC++ daily as part of my development routine, and although you can introduce problems which mean you need to relaunch the program, the fact that you save having to do so most of the time is a big win for iteration.
> Are you saying you would like to return to the languages with explicit memory management?

Not really, but that does seem to be the logical conclusion at the end of the day. Haskell makes a really good case for the use of a garbage collector via pure functional programming, but I'm open to more fine-grain programmer-driven mechanisms for handling memory. I need to try out Rust's borrowing system on a meaningfully large project before I can start saying anything conclusive.
You don't explicitly say this but, were these nasty or threatening letters?
I don't think so. SO/SE have won because they've always been honest - they provided Q&A service without upselling you bullshit, spamming you with ads or forcing you into paid plans. That eventually led them to #1 spot in Google for everything programming. I don't see how heavy-handed moderation could help here; if anything, half of the questions I search for are marked as duplicate / not relevant / etc. Basically, I can't imagine what question can be relevant to SO anymore...
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I feel like these kinds of Valley-flattering articles can only continue as long as the Department of Justice and Department of Labor continue to enforce antitrust and labor laws leniently. Google and Facebook are monopolies, Uber's profit margins shrink whenever the drivers decide to stick up for themselves and demand legal rights and status as employees, and a who's-who list of tech companies have been declared guilty in court of colluding to suppress engineers' salaries and bargaining power.

I look forward to seeing the interesting technologies the tech sector will concoct and market when the strong arm of the law finally forces it to concoct and market technologies rather than collecting monopoly rents or exploiting disadvantaged labor.

http://thebaffler.com/videos/graeber-thiel#.VxPmqyZyhyQ
I don't think they should delete it. Just ban the user for abuse, and edit the post to explain the situation. People spent time answering that question, and it's plausible someone might find it helpful.
Shoot me an email kumarovski@gmail.com :)

Looking forward to connecting. This is a tough space. :)

http://www.engineersf.com/2016/04/17/a-list-of-the-technolog...
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Outrageous and disturbing behavior on the part of Southwest Airlines and the security people. As is too often the case, the details of what transpired are lost, but this sort of incident shows how irrational fears are now driving institutional behavior.
First of all, in the world scheme President Obama and President Bush are quite close together in their governing strategies and policies. That's the nature of the kind of politician we elect in the United States.

However, it extends far beyond the head of state. All levels of government in Chinese government are dominated by engineers instead of lawyers or career politicians.

> However, this doesn't really reflect on HOW someone chooses to implement policy or govern

Of course it does. We even have a word for it: technocracy. There are dramatic differences and if you don't think that then I'm curious why you delved into perpetrating negative stereotypes about engineers.
Ask HN: Which cloud provider to use in 2016? AWS or GCE?
Few years ago, I would have chosen AWS over GCE. Now, I am starting new project and need to reexamine which cloud provider to use. If you are starting new project in 2016, which cloud provider do you choose? AWS or GCE? They both seems to provide the services I need such as database, storage, scalability etc.

Correction: I meant to say Google Cloud Platform instead of GCE.
I think I'm politically on pretty much the opposite side of Carter's "official position", but I would squarely put Carter in the top quarter of American Presidents (for reference, he beats out Polk, whom I appreciate quite a bit, I put Obama hovering about 50% and FDR and Wilson competing for the very bottom). Obviously, the whole affair was botched on many levels, but in the grand scheme of the Carter presidency it wasn't that big of a deal, I don't think the authority to take action was misplaced, and much of the grousing about it is monday-morning quarterbacking.
Don't make me scan a document and upload it to your site. That's too much work.

Just tell the customers "Text us, email us, fax us.... etc..."
I'm 100% sure iTunes pauses itself when receiving Skype call, without any custom software. Not sure about other players though.
This explanation is circular. Microsoft had a legally determined monopoly, not a real actual market monopoly where no one else could participate in the market.

For instance, Apple made computers that were such sufficient substitutes for Windows computers that Microsoft chose to produce a version of one of the their core products for use on Apple computers.
Runtime Compiled C++ (code avaialble on github https://github.com/RuntimeCompiledCPlusPlus/RuntimeCompiledC...) allows you to change a C++ program whilst it's running.

It uses shared libraries (DLLs) to do so, but manages the creation of these for you so you don't have to set it up. Only the required changes are re-compiled and linked into the shared library, which improves turn around times over approachs such as UE4's Hot Reload which recompiles the entire game lib.
Well there you go. When I'm in Italy I don't pay the American premium for fizzy water because the moment I step off the plane, I'm Italian. You can verify this by geolocating the IP address of my phone.
>They forgot to count the 2204# (1000kg) of self-congratulatory PR value extracted. Kind of ruins their bragging rights though

No it doesn't. At all. Doing the right thing should, at the least, be worth positive social recognition ("public relations") at any level, from the largest corporations right down to individuals who work to keep their local neighborhood clean. Ideally, doing the "right thing" should also be profitable so that the Free Market can efficiently optimize towards it. That's part of the point of enforcing the price inclusion of externalities.

There is nothing negative about doing something good simply because it's efficient and profitable. I very much dislike the self-flagellating attitude that somehow comes to the conclusion that in order to be worthy of praise doing good must be ultimately rare, unpleasant and costly. Sometimes that is the case, and extra praise and recognition is part of the feedback loop to try to make it more common, but in general society should work to make barriers to positive change as low as possible.

Even if something like this is efficient and profitable once it's up and running there is still significant capital expenditure (both material and human) involved in setting it up in the first place. As always, that capital could be invested elsewhere, in areas that might be equally or more profitable and involve less risk and variability as well. Merely looking outcomes with risk-weighting and considering opportunity costs is always a mistake. You wrote:

>It has taken markets a long time to catch up with how obvious it is

Sometimes you may know better then the entirety of the market (business opportunity!), but sometimes you should consider that perhaps the markets recognize something that you don't. Maybe the reason this hasn't been more common is that it only looks "obvious" on the surface and taking into account life time costs, capital requirements and so forth most places have found that it has not been worth it.

So when companies do forge ahead it is still worthy of recognition, particularly to the extent that it may encourage more to follow and ultimately make it more effective for everyone.
Great. I think to win, you've got to have aggressive conversation with the folks who buy sattelites/ your customer base.

While your answer to this question right now is generic, in the future, you can have a lot more insight and it will shine through in your pitch with customer stories you can tell.
Scalability mostly: netconsd can handle several gbps of netconsole spew, standard syslog servers choke and start dropping messages way before that.
I don't think the moderation itself is the problem, it's the rules. There are certain kinds of questions that are interesting and useful, and get shut down. That of course makes people upset. The moderators are perfectly fair and consistent in enforcing the rules, but the rules are stupid.
> Of course in those asian nations you describe there is also a stronger tendency to view society as something to be "engineered".

Indeed.

It's important to keep in mind that a technocratic leader will likely not do well or have effective results in a political system dominated by lawyers (as Hoover shows).
That is the second chance pool.
Funny thing about this "viral" metaphor - you can only pull off any given stunt once (at least in the period of several year). Internet has a sort of immune system that doesn't like copycats.

RE strategy, I think it might have been just exactly what happened - first post a story, then wait for it to go viral, then admit to faking it, thus putting yourself in the spotlight.

It is a risky strategy though. Personally, if he was running this business in my country, I'd immediately put him on my personal blacklist ("never ever do business with this person or company") and I'd be urging anyone I know who uses his services to change the provider.
A corresponding increase in income transfers or income tax progression can be used to offset this effect. Then the low pressure ncome person can choose to use the increased income to pay for gas price increase or use it for something else.
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The "Pomodoro Technique" works for me. http://pomodorotechnique.com/get-started/#how

I don't do all the extra stuff with time-tracking that the full method goes into; I just sit for a bit and make a little list of a few Things I'd Like To Do Today, with 6-8 checkboxes (for the total list, not each task) next to them, each representing a 25-minute block of work. Then I take the timer sitting on my desk (it's shaped like a cute ladybug, and has had everything after the 25 minute mark painted over, whimsey is important), wind it up, and start working on one of those things. When it dings, I stop for a break. Get up and stretch, go to the bathroom, get more water. Maybe get right back to working on what I was doing, if it needs more work and I'm excited about it; maybe work on one of the other things because I need a break from that thing, maybe just fuck off and take a longer break for lunch/slacking off/whatever.

There are ways to do this entirely in software, but I find I like the physicality of winding up the timer and having it sitting there on my desk ticking away.

And all that said, (a) I haven't been doing this lately, (b) I've procrastinated on my taxes until the last minute. Which is pretty much today I guess, ugh.
If the HN front page consisted of your content alone, I would be very happy. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=forrestthewoods

https://blog.forrestthewoods.com/reverse-engineering-sublime...

https://gamedevdaily.io/four-ways-to-create-a-mesh-for-a-sph...

https://gamedevdaily.io/advanced-behavior-tree-structures-4b...

Speaking purely for myself, I hope to see them resubmitted. The post about reverse engineering Sublime's fuzzy matching algorithm is an overlooked gem, I think.
Pre-delete would already hide files from apps and services for them to "fail fast", and actual delete would be just "i'm running fine for two days". Of course this implies that active open files should not be pre-deleted on unix at all (at least not by rm process). Even if you delete the entire filesystem with backups, there will be a chance to boot into recovery mode and undelete everything back. We can even go further and apply small-file-versioning on fs level to prevent misconfig accidents in /etc.

That's very simple and powerful, I can't tell why it is still not implemented today.
I have noticed exactly the same thing, having been in High School in France until 2013. However, I wonder if this idea isn't a red herring since it looks like some people have had this feeling for decades (or maybe there has been a steady decline of our academic level since then).