skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
~13 years as a software dev. One-time startup entrepreneur, now working in Cupertino.

- Never (actually) scold people. Being right is not the point. Moving the needle is the point.

- Sell your startup when a buyer comes knocking at your door.

- Learn sales and marketing.
Yes. I am using this unity multiplayer feature as a kind of test tool for children. About 2~30 mobile devices connect to server(also mobile device), and then test result are displayed on server in realtime. In my case, It works very well.
Drove through here on a US roadtrip a couple of days ago and found this page after wondering about all the decrepit shacks in the area.

The entrepreneur in me wonders what could be done with the area and those little cabins. The realist wonders if the abandoned buildings shouldn't just be razed to accelerate the reclaiming by the desert.

Wonder valley indeed!
1982. That was the end of Generation X.
Three-quarters of Android devices affected by the Qualcomm software flaw
strange, this is also on front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11641267
I believe in Japanese "hentai" just means pervert, or perverted. It's only in the West that it's associated specifically with tentacle porn.

You're still right, though.
If this is true, why do cities built precar work?

I live in a neighbourhood in montreal where:

* There are no rocket factories, yet
* There are some setbacks but not massive ones. They're half the size of a comparable neighbourhood in Toronto. We don't flood.
* Nobody's view is blocked
* Most people walk, rather than drive. There's not excessive car circulation compared to other neighborhoods.
* People are significantly more relaxed, and healthier, because they can walk rather than drive.

Plateau mont royal. Have a look at the place on Google maps. If we could clone this neighborhood and build it around the USA, developers would make trillions. It's very dense, yet families live here.

Also: How do we make a list on Hacker News? I've never figured this out.
Fun fact: the compiler's version (19) is larger than the IDE's version (14) because the compiler predated the addition of "Visual" to the branding. (And the IDE skipped 13, while the compiler didn't.)
Right, but this nettlesome coworker you imagine is, I can only imagine, the lone outsider who can possibly find offense in the packaging. I think most would be like, hey, what's that? Oh, candy from _Japan_? Can I try one> Wow, Oishi!
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sure! this maintains my point. the company is operating in an important and revolutionary space (as Facebook did in early 2000s). however, both companies have failed to separate themselves from the dominant schools of thoughts in business from the past century. they (wish to) inhabit the future in body, but living in the past in mind - if I may.

there is no space for such excess such as near-frivolous temporary promotions in order to increase market share. the most successful businesses will be those that realize a business must recognize demand, instead of trying to create it.
And even they have not supporting Windows XP now. I have used Windows 7, 8 and Windows 10. But still loves XP.

Nobody knows what Microsoft wants to do, they have Acquired Nokia but nothing goes well.
Isn't it normal for compilers to just no-op functions that can be proved to have no side effects and no return values?
The first recovered stage, F9-021, has already been static fired and will likely end up as a monument outside of SpaceX HQ as they've filed an FAA request to do so.

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/searchAction.jsp?action...

The second recovered rocket, F9-023, will be relaunched. It has already been static fired with no announced problems. Elon said it'd be a few months before a customer was announced, but the general feeling is that it will be an SES satellite as SES has already publicly expressed interest.
Houston is an interesting counterpoint to your argument that zoning and taxes caused sprawl because what motivated Houston to exercise nearly unlimited annexation powers was racially motivated flight of the voter base. The result is 640 square miles of sprawl and much like Detroit Houston has no choice now but to cut services and raise taxes to maintain the infrastructure or retract city limits. You can imagine which they chose.
Had those pictures in the app engine blobstore, not sure what happened.
It doesn't do that, the gp post misread the source code. It reads the data from a file defined at compile time.
So are you also banning asthmatics from using their inhaler in public? You're getting secondhand propylene glycol from them too!

I don't smoke or vape, but I really don't see why vaping is so unpopular. Is it just "drugs are bad" again? I again don't get it, as nobody complains about seeing people drinking coffee in public. As far as I can tell, caffeine and nicotine are similar drugs with different delivery mechanisms. Except nobody is worried about high school students getting hooked on caffeine from flavored coffee beverages.
People often fail to get this. Just because you can see a trend in data does not mean a hypothesis is proven. You'd have to have said hypothesis based on some other reasoning/empirics and then go searching for data to test the hypothesis.
Well, the usability is okay, menus' navigation is done with the wheel, while commands like Play\Pause, FF,RW etc are done with middle and rear buttons. The device came in with a plastic protection case.

Two outputs - headphones and Line out\COAX. Can be used as an external DAC with windows PC (maybe other devices too, never dug too into it).

The UI theme is customizable: http://fiio.me/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=40141&extra=page...

Firmware is updated pretty often even for older models.

PS: Oh, and it has Apple in-line headphone control. (Android in-line control works too, but only for Play\Pause\Next|Prev. No sound control.)
Starving cancer cells results in up to 96% growth reduction
Can someone tell me why this might have been required?

What are the situations which might prompt a developer to make their users use http instead of https?
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At some point, time spent on Facebook will start competing against time spent playing candy crush saga.
10 years in academia, doing modeling/machine learning. 3 years doing moonshot startups. 1 year consulting in data science. 3 years doing a business that actually works, generates lots of value to many people (Data Science Retreat).

1- I would have gone sooner with a business that targets an audience I'm part of (HT to Amy Hoy for that). It's hard to fail that way.

2- I would have spend more time thinking about how to have fun. It doesn't happen by accident. We spend so much time designing our business and so little designing our life.

3- I'd have spent more time solving real problems.
Weird, they're hosted on Akamai. Even weirder, it doesn't appear that www.senate.gov supports IPv6.
24M Gmail accounts stolen
Money :p
If you don't mind sharing what were these trendy careers?
Not being confounded by choices they dont understand or care is also what they want.

Chrome and Firefox auto updating without user intervention by default is a good thing. If Chrome were to ask permission before downloading updates, many of them will just cancel it and get on with whatever they wanted to browse. If the system is compromised by malware because of an unpatched security issue, it is the vendor who takes the blame.
I can guarantee you that nettlesome coworker is not alone in perceiving creepy links between Japanese cartoon characters and hentai.
They are not exclusive. But 0.0% of Icelanders 25 or younger believe that God had anything to do with the creation of the universe.

Additionally - as I'd like to argue - is that it might be a divine being or a being of sorts that ignited the Big Bang, but it is very unlikely to be God, i.e. the Christian God. So the Icelanders' opinion seem very reasonable to me.

Particularly if the survey was this simple.
What are the situations which might prompt a developer to make their users use http instead of https?

Tracking detailed referrer information from social media, etc. I don't agree with this goal, but it is something that's very important to people running sites with significant social traffic.
Huge fan of Baldwin but this is a strangely titled piece. It's mostly reminiscences of what Baldwin meant to the author personally.
This is kind of weird. Most people I know would distinguish between "the world" (not created in the big bang) and "the universe" (also not created in the big bang -- it's an expansion event -- but at least related to the big bang).

> I would say religion is compatible with anything: since it is not based on reason, it can not conflict with any other human discipline. Which is (if you ask me), by design.

That isn't by design; it's what remains after religion lost a bunch of conflicts ("where did the water from Noah's Flood go?").
Caching.

Mind you, I don't know if that's the case here; it certainly doesn't seem like caching should be a large priority for this sort of content.
Out of curiosity, do you think millenials have a better or worse quality of life than the generation before the boomers?
Well, if you've got nothing to hide...

;)
Because the world being created by the Christian God implies the creation story which is pretty different from big bang.
At a guess, it was built years ago by an agency selected on the basis of anything other than technical competence. As a result it probably has thousands of hard coded HTTP links and an oddly configured out of date web server.

Given the 'encryption is only used by terrorists' climate, spending the time and money to make it work for https sounds like a hard sell.

No sources, but I have done some work in UK public sector and that kind of story would match.
Yeah.

Now Tesla needs to raise that amount of money repeatedly until they stop burning money (which probably won't happen until the Model 3 is released). I tend to think that this $400M or so that they got is a one-time thing. Its not like they can suddenly announce a Model 2 and get another $400 Million from the public.
I was going to make a similar argument, except, I would have stayed with diseases. But your point is just as valid.

>> What makes sexual labor so horrid?

> It is a really effective way to spread some pretty terrible diseases.

There are tons of diseases know to the ancients as spread through human action like typhoid, cholera, TB, etc. And yet, I can't recall coming across taboos against the infected. The only taboo I'm aware of is against lepers. STDs are spread by direct exchange of blood too. And yet, many cultures had taboo-free blood bonding[1]. That it can spread "pretty terrible diseases" comes across as a weak boogeyman. Contrast this with other, nearly universally entrenched, taboos against fraternizing with those who are not your ethnicity, race, caste, social standing, etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_brother
Just a wild guess, but if there are non secure assets in the page, this would result in a browser warning, arguably more suspicious looking than this for average users.
As a quick and dirty workaround they may have done this?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy
What's weird about them not supporting ipv6?
That's the kind of person you do not want to work with. This the conspiracy theorist who misinterprets benign things and paints them in whatever twisted way they want for whatever odd reason they have.

_That_ person is the problem in the office, not the person who bought sweets online and probably shared them with some of the office.

If anything, the packaging helped reveal an oddball at the office.
I disagree. Self defense is a basic human right. You may be punished by the state for exercising that right, but that just means you live in a tyranny.
> Governments do not have the expertise to participate as an psuedo-activist investor.

Don't have an American bias when people share their cultures from around the world.

There are a lot of governments, and all of our experience with the American government basically means jack diddly with respect to the German government.

With that said, I do share your concerns, but I'm not going to make claims about a government I never visited and never worked with in my life that's roughly 10 time-zones away.
> What I meant by backwards compatibility was that Microsoft rarely breaks or removes API's, so from a developers perspective they aren't any worse than Apple.

It's been ages but I remember being annoyed when they sort of nerfed DirectInput into XInput [1]. The earlier API had way more features for advanced force-feedback and some other features. Why cripple things like that at all?

I think the Vista Sidebar vs. OS X Dashboard is a good example; Apple has kept it around for people who might still prefer it, and the widgets made for it still work, whereas any work that developers had put into making Sidebar (and Sideshow [2]) widgets has been negated by Microsoft. I actually liked the Sidebar.

In each of those cases, Microsoft seems to have crippled or took out features and APIs mostly to force something else on us; XBOX and the Windows 8 Start Screen, respectively.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectInput#DirectInput_vs_XIn...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_SideShow
Foucault and His Panopticon
GOAL is hella imperative by design -- it gives you better-than-C-level control over memory and control flow, and the option to drop down to assembly (for the PS2 CPU, GPU, or sound processor) inline, in Lisp syntax.

GOAL had a fast coroutine implementation written in it that enabled, among other things, autosave while the game engine kept running without a hitch in the Jak & Daxter series.
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Vintage video tutorial on how to develop on atari consoles
The generation before the boomers ("greatest") had a tough time going through the depression and WWII. But after that their quality of life rose substantially into the 1970s. Since then it's mostly plateaued.

It was the greatest generation who turned their back on progressive taxation and properly funding state affairs in the late 1970s - but it has been the boomers who mostly reaped the benefits.
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Only if you are a fundamentalist. Catholics, for example, are ok with the big bang.

One random source: http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2014/10/31/p...
Legacy site/infrastructure that hasn't (or can't) be upgraded?
Yeah I think it's really borderline, besides the product is candy - not girls so why make girls the main / standout part of the very publicly visible packaging. It just looks... Dodgy!
GNUnet has canonical names as well: Files can be located by their content hash (e.g. gnunet://fs/chk/...) or by the signature of the peer offering the data (gnunet://fs/loc/...)[1]

One of the disadvantages of the "public" DNS system, is there are companies[2] and governments[3] (sometimes having a history of oppression[4]) that can interfere with it. GNUnet on the other hand, is actually public.

[1]: https://www.gnunet.org/fs-urisyntax

[2]: http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/06/millions-of-dymanic-...

[3]: https://www.wired.com/2012/03/feds-seize-foreign-sites/

[4]: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Black-Friday-birth-of-U-S...
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>and make no mistake: they are pushing a modern invention, not a historical understanding

Depends on who is writing the "historical understanding". Are we talking about the courts, or the people who actually ratified the constitution?
Facebook loses first round in suit over storing biometric data
I've only been programming fulltime for a few yeras so I'm putting this out for you as much as getting other people's thoughts on my half baked opinions.

1. Be independent in your role. Have opinions. You're hired for your expertise - use it to weigh options, consult with colleagues, and implement a solution. Sometimes your solution works sometimes it doesn't. It doesn't mean a failure, just a learning opportunity. The point here is don't be paralyzed about making technical choices and never make technical choices yourself - if you always defer this to other people then what were you really hired for?

2. It's easy to always say "yes". Sometimes it's important to say no to projects. In the time/money/expertise constraints at your job, some things just aren't possible and everyone in company might not have the same visibility into why a project will fail as you do. This relates to (1) in that you should raise your concerns early as possible if you have them. Then you and your coworkers can make an informed call whether to try the project or not, but this time with better expectations.

3. Try and set yourself up for success. Be honest with yourself about what your skills are and what you think is possible. It doesn't mean saying no to anything you think isn't easy but communicating that you think it is diffcult and proposing an appropriate timeline keeps everyone expectation in line. It sucks sometimes to say that some exciting new idea that will earn tons of money can't happen but it's better then rolling the dice and then missing deadline after deadline. It's also more valuable to the company to know that this a weak knoweldge point and try and route resources approrpiately in the context of that.

4. There's 40+ years to get what you want done. No need to rush things. Try and do some creative hobbies outside work. Be a person you wouldn't be bored to spend time with.
The way they put it in the survey is exclusive: 93.9 + 6.1 + 0.0 = 100.0
Depends on what you define by “bad” team. I'm in the Philippines, and there's lots of BPO companies here (call centers, dev shops, …). They have to deal with a high rate of ppl leaving, and train their employees from scratch. Still, those companies are successful and ppl want those relatively well paid jobs, even if they'll jump ship for any reason at all. In this kind of environment, process is everything.
The boomers are starting to be ushered along. The next 10 or 20 years might be quite game-changing.
Well, briefly - the General Service Administration declared "By September 30, 2014, agencies needed to update their public networks to Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)"

There is an exception process, but Akamai already supports IPv6 (though they do charge extra for it, booo!). You'd like to think something as high visibility (PR, not web traffic) as senate.gov would comply with the GSA.

http://gsablogs.gsa.gov/technology/2014/01/02/1128/
And it's OK. This "HTTPS everywhere" concept is damaging. I think it should be revised. The amount of overhead and the lack of ability to optimize encrypted content for transferring over, say, satellite or other radio links, is bad. Lots of people still use very expensive (>$2,000 per Mbps) long-RTT connections that would benefit immensely from content optimization techniques. And most of them are cost-sensitive because they live in developing countries.
Yeah that's something I find really embarrassing - so much so that my first thought was 'omg I have to cancel this service' when I saw it
If 'god' did not create the universe but allowed the Big Bang to take place then it would be impossible to 'anthropologise' this deity. 'god' would just be an energy completely unlike how the religious view he/her/it.
because USB is serial, and parallel is parallel.
So every bytes has to be sent in parallel after you made sure you signal correctly they are ready the direction of communication...
So, it makes a lot of trouble.

USB is still one of the biggest mistake of computer hardware where a supposed simplicity for the user comes at the price of an clumsy complex unsecure spaghetti layer of abstractions in order to prevent small hardware makers to compete.

A bus should not care of the class of the device on the bus. A simple handshaking protocol with a simple fixed size identifier handled by something like IANA could be enough.

It could also be just declarative avoiding bad surprises (well I still don't understand why my computer sees 3 USB keyboard at bootup and what my devices can do). You have 1 device on the bus, you load explicitly the driver, avoiding functionalities you don't wish to work.

USB is hardly auditable, while a multi input oscilloscope is enough to see what happens on a // bus and debug analyze...

The certification process is a pain. The HW manufacturers do what they want and patch the protocol in ways that are wtf. And just look at the dozens of cable to convince yourself the U in USB is not for Universal anymore, but rather Unconsistent.

USB is almost DRM by obfuscation for the profit of shitty hardware manufacturers.

Long live to USB-C, long live to the future of computer where obsolescence is programmed every 5 years, while some electronic have a life expectancy of decades (industry, aeronautic, medical systems, expensive labs systems, weapon systems, traffic signalisation, nuclear/energy equipment)...
Deism seems completely compatible with science. I'm not sure how a Deist would answer this -- would depend on exact phrasing and meaning of terms in Icelandic, which I don't know.
Seems like a good alternative. There has been a lot of valuable feedback in these comments. I hadn't considered how these might be perceived at a workplace, or that people even receive packages at work.
What do you mean by 'ushered along'?
And so we see how picking the right question is important to get the results one wants.
Sort of... It follows Japanese advertising characteristics and they are selling Japanese candy. So.... But, yes, I think the people depicted are too prominent and the candy should be more conspicuous. The packaging might benefit by giving the candy more prominence?
I mean, you'd have to eat a ton of bananas for that potassium to affect your body more than the potassium you already have in your body does.
You are right that they aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. But I really dislike the idea that religion is somehow "beyond science". That's a very modern idea that isn't really compatible with most real religious beliefs through most of history, or even the present day.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/i8/religions_claim_to_be_nondisprova...

>Back in the old days, there was no concept of religion being a separate magisterium. The Old Testament is a stream-of-consciousness culture dump: history, law, moral parables, and yes, models of how the universe works. In not one single passage of the Old Testament will you find anyone talking about a transcendent wonder at the complexity of the universe. But you will find plenty of scientific claims, like the universe being created in six days (which is a metaphor for the Big Bang), or rabbits chewing their cud. (Which is a metaphor for...)

>Back in the old days, saying the local religion "could not be proven" would have gotten you burned at the stake. One of the core beliefs of Orthodox Judaism is that God appeared at Mount Sinai and said in a thundering voice, "Yeah, it's all true." From a Bayesian perspective that's some darned unambiguous evidence of a superhumanly powerful entity... The vast majority of religions in human history - excepting only those invented extremely recently - tell stories of events that would constitute completely unmistakable evidence if they'd actually happened. The orthogonality of religion and factual questions is a recent and strictly Western concept. The people who wrote the original scriptures didn't even know the difference.

...

>The idea that religion is a separate magisterium which cannot be proven or disproven is a Big Lie... It is a wild distortion of how religion happened historically, of how all scriptures present their beliefs, of what children are told to persuade them, and of what the majority of religious people on Earth still believe.
Perhaps, but it's not a huge jump from creepy given how hyper sexualised girls are in modern society coupled with perhaps some good intentioned coworker humour but at the end of the day I'm paying for the interesting candy, not for cartoons of young girls and I find that weird regardless.