skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not strictly in favor of the idea, but do feel it's better than the number of welfare programs, subsidies and bureaucracies that are often abused it can replace. By establishing an even distribution not open to abuse, it can work out better than the programs it replaces, while being a simpler accounting.
You have to understand that google is solving a much harder problem, but as a user, a personal solution is much easier to develop for and has higher leverage. If you gave me the ability to curate resources and browse sites I was interested in and upload pools of information as seed data, I would be able to tell (and build) the initial training set much much easier than google.

I only have to be correct for my own use case (with nearly 28 years experience being myself) and google has to be correct for everyone with (at best) 18 years of search results, of which you have to back out what the user is searching for. e.g. If I look for George Washingtons birthday I could look for information about the person george washington, the actual query george washington birthday, where I might find the data wikipedia:george washington, or an event that could contain it preseidents day.

I know both what my query is, and what a successful answer to my query is (at least the format of an acceptable return). Google has to infer that a query like presidents day and then a query like george washington are related and a successful result was the resource: wikipedia, because it contained george washington's birthday.

The point is:

* these examples are contrived. However, a person can be given the tooling to organize their own data & potential data.

* a person will have insight into what they want, almost certainly better than google.

* if they are wrong/the resources hasn't been cached for them, well, the personalized engine can just simply default to google if no results exist and return them

* privacy.

edit: not only this but having every site I visit (if I wanted this and private & personally encrypted) available and searchable is hugely valuable. Google receives takedown requests, resources move, or I forgot how I received them. Caching/downloading/storing video, images and web results and having them remain private and searchable is pretty much reason enough for me to tell you to take my money.,
what are the cons of being fully transparent re the cap table and other financial details when the startup is small (say under 50 employees)?

trying to properly analyze the cost/benefit ratio of 100% financial transparency.

some potential risks:

* employees leaking financial details to press, future investors, competitors.

* employees getting upset over smaller equity stakes.
What’s the point of theoretical physics?
Because there's many more ways to disagree than ways to agree.
Pascal is not dead. Lots of Windows applications have been written in Delphi (Object Pascal), and these will require maintenance. Or a rewrite in C#.
As an artist as well as a programmer, I've learned a lot about the techniques of professional artists. Most are specialists, not generalists. They have a specific, focused toolbox, and they do not leave it. If a guitarist gets that sound from this guitar and amp and pedals and scales and rhythms, he sticks to that. If a painter prefers these subjects and those brushes and paints and canvas sizes, she sticks to that.

Become proficient in a medium to the point where absolutely no conscious thought is required to use it to its fullest extent. That's the secret of great artists.

Apply that to programming, now. You can learn a field and the core tech of the field, and get a lot done for a long time. Or you can go chasing the new and shiny every six months and drive yourself up a wall and spend all your time learning instead of making.
At the time I signed my options agreement, I didn't have the resources or time to engage an attorney (regretfully).

I don't have any recommendations, but would love for recommendations to be provided by a reply to this comment.
> Isn't it all relative? Couldn't a fully libertarian state make some claims about freedom regarding the US that are similar to the claims the US makes regarding China?

No, there's a fundamental difference between living in a country where you have recourse against the government and living in one where you don't.

In the US, I am not allowed to say things that are considered slanderous, but I am allowed to say that I should be allowed to say things that are slanderous. This makes it at least possible to change the status quo.

The same is not true in countries without free speech protections.
Not Chromodium/Chromodo Web Browser[0]

[0] https://thestack.com/security/2016/02/03/chromodo-browser-di...
Landing page science: Optimizing the conversion rates of 10k+ landing pages
Yeah, but the bad news is that most marketed things land in the first category. Else we'll be working the 3-day week by now...
Pretty much, it's not going to matter: http://www.csl.sri.com/users/gehani/papers/SAC-2010.FUSE.pdf.

Putting ext3 into userspace led to slightly less than 10% performance degradation on postmark. Fuse really isn't an issue in most cases, and I can't imagine that this makes a huge difference on most workloads.
Statistics versus Machine Learning
I remember that many of this stuff was in the old developer preview from 2011. While at it, I should also mention the update that was originally planned for Win8.1 to bring start menu back.
Notes on growth hacking
According to what, your gut? If you're going to keep insisting that companies "must" do this or that, you need to cite the law that requires them to do so.
I like this little project. Nice combo. Let's take it to another level:

BALS (pronounced "Balls"): What you have when you combine [Open]BSD, Ada, Lighttpd, and SQLite. Smokes BCHS in both safety (Ada) and probably speed (web server). Especially when you rewrite the web server in Ada/SPARK with all checks on. :)
It is coming soon, sorry for the delay!
Live Streaming Is Hard- How to scale high quality live streams
> BCHS (pronounced /biːtʃəz/, beaches) is for real development. It's a hipster-free, open source software stack for web applications. To prepare a BCHS environment, install OpenBSD. Then get started.

Referring to something as "hipster-free" automatically classifies you as hipster. It's similar to how asking "Am I cool?" automatically disqualifies you from being cool.
Ballmer-led Microsoft was the scurge of the industry - it's improved 10-fold since Nadella took over. It's less user-hostile now than it's been in a long while.

Anybody sufficiently tech-savvy enough to know how to keep safe without auto-updates can easily prevent them - for most people, they're a good idea.

It's strange how in the web world, everything is always up-to-date and full of telemetry in every sense, but nobody really complains about that.
I've been offered a stake at a privately funded startup for a lower salary and that's reasonable and realistic. Had they offered me options instead I would have walked away sooner than I did. Trading salary for a stake is a gamble, but doing the same for options is like a quadruple mortgage.
India Launches “Mini Space Shuttle”
Is Rest As Important As Sleep?
In my company we are using a mysql cluster based on galera, (percona xtradb server) and it's a master-master solution that is rather easy to deploy and maintain. The only limit was that we had to use a single server for writes (that would make the "cluster" thing kind of useless but it's not in fact, we are using a load balancer on top of the cluster and the load balancer decides of the "master" where writes go so it's transparent to our application), definitely worth a try.
> Any other interpretation that only requires the union to be in scope would pretty much render TBAA moot for any non trivial program.

An interpretation of the 'visible union' rule as being in scope is the only interpretation which doesn't render that text completely unnecessary.

Of course if the access is taking place through the union, the union must be completely declared! When would you be able to access a union member as u.x, or pu->x, when the type of u or *pu is incomplete?
Deep Dive into the Gradle Based Android Build System
> What's the point of stock options?

I know it's hip with the kids to be cynical these days, but surely you jest...

> It's a piece of paper

The legal term is "contract."

> This price can be higher or lower, you cannot know beforehand.

Yep. That's kind of the point. Risk versus reward and all that.

> It's not a replacement for a salary or a stake in the company.

Not directly, no. Neither is health insurance, 401k, company provided meals or other benefits, but all of these things are perceived by most to have at least some marginal value.

> I was handed out stock options myself for a company in the past but it wasn't worth it to use them.

C'est la vie

> I mean, unless you have options from a unicorn, those don't amount to much.

Or, ya know, you end up with a company that has good growth potential and those options work out in your favor, which is actually typically the case btw. On average, the market has improved over time. I'm guessing you were burned either b/c the company was high risk (which means you had the potential to do VERY well conversely) or you were hit by the downturn which also affected almost all stock, so not really related to options in that case.

> I have this impression that some misrepresent options with stock

Then some are idiots for agreeing to something they don't understand.
And for the websites that leverage browser features, those are the websites that stand out and shine.

It reminds me of Sturgeon's law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law

If 99% of everything is crap, you can bet a sizeable wager the 1% wheat from the chaff are using HTML5 and Javascript APIs.

Also if a content silo counts as a 'top website' then this is an outlier and not to be included. Facebook is a walled garden and not indexable. Facebook is parasitical to the web. Twitter and Google are not the web either.
Well that's great but let's talk about the previous Time, it also has some exposed pins. I don't recall anything ever happening with these except for vapor-product talk online. I'm a second time backer but since the previous stuff seemed to just get lost and forgotten about I've given up on wanting to chase this.
Options have different tax implications than stock.

So for instance, an employee that gets a big pile of options in an illiquid stock doesn't necessarily experience a taxable event. This is good for the employee.

If the stock later becomes liquid and worth a lot, the employee can exercise the options and cover any taxes by selling the resulting stock.
Manage feature flags across disparate code bases
"Thank you so much. I appreciate that you took the time to find this and reply to me."

Happy to help. This stuff gets super-complicated quickly. My understanding, and this comes mainly from passing conversations with other lawyers, is that it's a grey area.
If they expressed a waiver clearly and expressly, as it appears here, they may have a good case that you have no inspection rights.

There is also the question of whether you have to expressly consent or not, or if, after the fact, they handed you something that said "oh, by the way, congrats on waiving your rights"
I'm Reach Beach
Stock can indeed just be given to you via a "stock grant." The value at the time of the grant constitutes income (for the purposes of income tax calculations in the US.)
Are there other devices with wrist HR measuring that are appreciably better? My understanding is that if you want very precise monitoring, you're going to need a chest strap.
> Linux is only free if your time is worth nothing

still a reasonable statement about linux desktops.
>First of all, Dropbox the web application is spammed with Dropbox Business advertising. I am already paying.

Aren't those who are "already paying" the most likely to upgrade? Maybe not you or not your institution, but most.

It starts with a few people at a business, and then they update to a business account.
How to think about Rust ownership versus C++ unique_ptr
Twilio requires that you call from either a number you have in their system, or a number you've verified ownership of. That's a higher bar than a lot of voip providers -- i've gotten many calls from numbers that don't even fit in the dialing plan.
More young adults live with parents than partners, a first
I like how you ripped out any positivity around the topic :D You are my hero
None of those things will help Europe unfuck itself, but go ahead and look away.
I'm 95% sure this is a joke; like it links to this site: http://www.fastcgi.com/
If you're skipping teaching strings because it's hard to work when them in the language you're using, you may want to consider whether you are actually doing students a favor, or whether you're trying to rationalize your decision to teach a language you happen to like.
I don't think the requirement to buy a stake is the same rule globally. I've heard of people who got a stake just for joining with a lower salary but didn't put money into the company, just their work.
How? The only big difference is that in C the variables need type annotations and that they have proper lexical scope (so they are more like Javascript's "let" than "var")
Could somebody please write up a 140 character summary of this long one-page blog posting?
You mean like Hacker news? Because, I don't think this site leverages HTML 5.

The hard part of any design is knowing what features can be removed not added. HTML 5 and JavaScript is fluff for most websites.

PS: HN even uses <table id="hnmain"... o the horror.
Yes, exactly. I don't know how they do it now, but Wix did the "one big Flash blob as a website" and did not make data available to clients to download once they had been uploaded. So images and other data that had been "compiled" into the Flash blob were erased or something. There was no warning about this, and it took many by surprise. This effectively forced people to renew their subscription to Wix who otherwise wanted to use something else. The worst was a friend of a friend whose elderly mother had used Wix to upload old family photos thinking that Wix was a safe place to store them, not knowing any better. I felt so bad for that woman. I have no love for Wix at all.
>I assume a party as large as Dropbox can request Apple to extend the APIs where necessary?

As large? Dropbox is like a fly to Apple. Not to mention competitors. And they haven't budged for much larger parties.

So, unless it's something that Apple intends to do anyway, Dropbox's request will don't have much success.
The hefty price of growing 'study drug' misuse on college campuses
this is actually not always ideal. If you have visibility to the company books SEC rules about insider trading apply to you even if you have no advantage by looking at the books. For public companies any employee who can see any financial or revenue information is not allowed to trade stocks outside of 14 day window after the announcement of quarterly report. Not sure what the rules are about this for private companies
The most annoying thing about Sinofsky is that nowadays he's all in on anything Apple related. That makes one wonder why he made such disastrous decisions when he was in charge of Windows.

Apple execs were publicly (and rightfully) mocking the Windows 8/RT mess he created and today he's unironically critical of its aftermath while praising Apples stellar execution.
Interesting response. Thanks.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11764095 seems to suggest that at least political candidates can "enforce" some fairness if they'd care to do so.
I'm a bit scared to figure out what this means for my users scanning their hard drives with Space Gremlin. I go through standard file apis to scan all the folders on the users system. Will it end up scanning the entire users online filesystem and not just the actual local files? Will getting file meta data on all those online files end up causing a fetch to DB and grind the whole scan to a halt?

I've been resisting building a custom HFS+ reader for years but apples expanded use of hard links plus whatever DB is about to unleash might require a new approach.
> Lets assume you were able to capture even 0.01% of googles customers ...

Reminds me of this story:

http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/and-if-only-1-of-those-pe...
I get why you say that, but my take is that nobody else was doing it at the time because "open source" had just entered the zeitgeist, and it wasn't Raymond who put it there; it was Linus Torvalds --- which is why Raymond keeps referencing him in ways that make it clear his audience is already familiar.

I am obviously dismissive of Raymond. I think Raymond has been a terrible figurehead for open source. Due to my bias, my reading of "Cathedral" is that Raymond saw Linux getting a huge amount of attention and wrote an essay that is essentially "Me too, I wrote fetchmail".
I respect that. The site just has "acquired by IBM watson team" so I don't know. However, it is possible you were too early. Also, it is impertive that the expereince is built inside a browser. Not 100% sure whate happened to blekko (although looks like you guys landed on your feet) however, if anyone is building a search engine (or you yourself are) I will write up a full marketing plan and strategy and product playbook for free, because it is just so goddamn important.
> and generally just not being a funny joke.

I thought it was damn funny. There was definitely an unintended outburst at my desk.

But then...... I also thought it was spectacularly hypocritical of Mozilla to fire him for having what amounted to... ideals. Which is what Mozilla supposedly works to protect.
A closed container allows pressure to rise which allows superheating.
The Emotions of a Startup CEO: Fundraising
> I invite you to look up the current market share of Windows 7 vs. Windows 10

This type of thing is probably why they want to drag people kicking and screaming onto 10. Otherwise people refuse to get off a decade old OS.
The problem with giving outright shares compared to options is you owe taxes on that. In the taxman view you got something (shares valued via 409A) on which you have to pay taxes even if the shares you got are not liquid.
"a rich country that can afford it" is an absolutely terrible argument.

I agree with tracker1, its better than the bevy of welfare programs in the US for example. Better than this would be a negative income tax tho. http://economics21.org/html/replace-welfare-negative-income-...
Can it yet run queries that refer to a temporary table multiple times, in the same query?
They have the same goals.

From React-Native's website:

> React Native enables you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms using a consistent developer experience based on JavaScript and React. The focus of React Native is on developer efficiency across all the platforms you care about — learn once, write anywhere.

From libui's website:

> Simple and portable (but not inflexible) GUI library in C that uses the native GUI technologies of each platform it supports.

They're both cross-platform GUI libraries. They take different approaches, but they aim to do the same basic thing: let you write cross platform desktop apps more easily.
I can only think of one or two. Windows being the most used desktop OS and Cloud: Azure being bigger, with more offerings and more than double market share than Google's Cloud. E.g.: https://www.statista.com/chart/4546/cloud-infrastructure-mar...
It is and isn't. There is only one access-x function, and it receives obj, which is de facto a pointer into the heap (a boxed object). So it's a case of aliasing: "access slot x in this thing, regardless of its specific type". It is analogous to what the C code is doing when it does type punning. It is tangentially relevant because C implementations of dynamic languages sometimes bend the rules to skirt with aliasing.
Looks like this was just announced today from Twilio: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11763067

Could be a great pairing.
Is there any way to incorporate this into iOS or Android so that you can backup to your infinite drive instead of iCloud or Google Drive?
Atlassian Bamboo Cloud Shutting Down
I categorically disagree with the premise that we live in anything resembling a golden age of privacy. On the contrary, IMHO we are approaching the clichéd Orwellian system of Big Brother. Don't forget for a second that the privacy tools we currently have only exist due to the rampant and ubiquitous nature of tracking these days.

CCTV cameras. "Real Name" policies. Corporate monetization of user data. Third-party cookie networks. Password/data leaks. Doxxing. Tape over laptop webcams. PRISM. TVs with built-in microphones and cameras. Facebook listening to your ambient audio. It is an incessant and relentless reality that everything we say, do, and soon think, is being collated to enable later correlation possibly years from now.
What if you make your core competence as a programmer "gaining steady footing in new tech", along with basic like code structuring, version control and some automation (CI/testing etc.)?

That way you might not become "the greatest X86 assembly programmer" or whatever niche you like, but you might become a very proficient system integrator, which is useful in its own right.
Now it's employees' fault. It's nice to be able to blame grass roots, not the processes.
I prefer mercurial over git and will choose it every time for new projects unless there's some other concern preventing that.

Mercurial has a number of features that git never implemented - in particular revsets. I also prefer the hg CLI over the git CLI. Mercurial has sane, concise online help, and a lot of work went into the design of the command-line to be consistent, composable, and made of pieces that do one thing and do it well.
This is exactly the point. Fox carefully manipulates, coverage, actual delivery by journalists and counter points to advance their agenda, as I'll admit MSNBC does as well. Crying wolf on Facebook is ridiculous in the grand scheme of things imho.
eq() is equivalent to selecting an item from an array and can be replaced by using bracket notation (e.g., arr[1]).

In D3 you can do selection.classed('active', false). This is equivalent to toggleClass().

According to jQuery's API, show() "... is roughly equivalent to calling .css( "display", "block"), except that the display property is restored to whatever it was initially." Instead of show, you can just do selection.transition().duration(300).style(display, 'block').

The length method? You can just use JavaScript's native .length.
> maybe some lisp dialects, if you don't count Common Lisp as their successor?

In that case Dennis Ritchie's K&R C is dead, if you don't count C11 as its successor.

If/when Python 2.7 dies out, Python's age can then be measured back to Python 3.

Etc.
That may work with a UI, but I'm running this on a server without X, without anything and I'd like to be able to manage it like I do ufw.
For a real "deeper" blog they could have given us some benchmarks comparing good implementations on FUSE and kernel space. They instead gave a meaningless diagram to argue about performance. Toward closed source binary kernel blob they go, and out I jump.
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just need to install a bed, bathroom and breakfast table and commuting won't be so bad afterall!

In the UK you could sell the house and live on the M25