skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We had similar laptops in a clinic where I worked a few years ago. The hardware switch for wifi caused hours of confusion and many unnecessary calls to the IT service--I never understood the use-case. Is there one?
In different cultures (e.g. Russia), and different time periods (e.g. the 80's), the level of interest and participation from women is/was much, much higher. I would say that's a pretty objective reason for believing that it's cultural and not biological.

What I find hard to believe is that some people don't think that women get treated differently than men, or that that wouldn't matter when it comes to people choosing to participate in certain communities.
I fail to see how you can compare the two rules of thumb. For starters, the rule of 72 is simply talking about doubling (not about aggregate consumption)and the rule of 72 isn't fixed to a single interest rate (7%).
For any partnership with billions at stake, I would consider such experiments as insurance. It's a good thing that Huawei is being proactive in this regards. Although I do wonder why don't they build it on AOSP instead of building something from scratch.
This post is an amusing summary of the six years of Twilio haters: https://kev.inburke.com/kevin/six-years-of-hacker-news-comme...
Totally agree. Duke 3D was far superior to Quake IMO. The only good things about Quake were the engine and the soundtrack. Everything else was just boring. Especially the weak sound effects (especially when compared to the Doom SFX) and the art direction as you said (everything being either brown or grey).
Most of the other things you're talking about, can now be seen with flagship products of other major companies.

User friendliness, style, high-end luxury - all major companies flagship - check.

It just works - Apple - uncheck. :) (It's largely a myth)

They were actually touting privacy as a differentiator from Android devices.
"Opportunity clusters in cities where there is capital available, and those tend to be the big cities where the most rich people live."

Which, in 2016, is kinda crazy. One would think with the internet being geographically close to capital wouldn't matter as much. Now it matters more than ever before it seems.

It's sad that the young midwesterner (hey that was me once!) has to try to "get to NYC" for the best opportunities instead of modern communications making those opportunities available in places like Chicago, or Indy, or that person's small hometown. That person shouldn't have to choose between sharing a one bedroom apartment in Bushwick with 4 other people or remain jobless/stuck at one job in whatever middle of the country place that person resides in.
Since properly treated wood is becoming acceptable skyscraper structural material this as well may be a foot meet mouth article couple of years down the road.

And if it is stupid and it works, than it is not stupid.
The "demand=supply" argument doesn't exactly explain why a foreign billionaire would want to own an appartment exactly in San Francisco. Personally, I would buy a flat in Ibiza, Barcelona or Hawaii way before even considering SF.
Note that the Universal Service Fund is funded by a tax on telecommunications service. So a big company like Bell Atlantic (Verizon's predecessor) never received a net subsidy--the government just forced it to take money from some of its subscribers to offer below-cost service to other subscribers.

That said, the USF is a big step up from the "forced build-out" into unprofitable areas, which is what used to happen with telephone, and still happens with broadband. It highly distorts the market. E.g. if build-out requirements were imposed on Webpass, it'd basically ban their business model.
Actually it is as much about the sender and the message as the receiver.
It is not even just about the cost to produce. Realist games sacrifice gameplay itself, because if you are on the bleeding edge of fidelity you cannot have a lot of useful gamey aspects (speed, object density, environment complexity, etc). You can put more non-interactive polygons on the screen but only in exchange for gameplay quality.
Physicists Have Used a Quantum Computer to Simulate the Creation of Antimatter
1996 was definitely a landmark year for 3D gaming.

http://fortune.com/2016/06/23/nintendo-64-20-years-old/
>But gun owners are not a minority

Where are you getting your numbers? Mine say ~26% of Americans own at least one gun. The trend in the US seems to be towards fewer gun owners, but more guns per owner, which would seem to put gun owners in a minority (albeit a heavily armed minority.)

Also, you seem to be implying that all gun owners would necessarily be willing to start a war to keep their guns, and that's not an assertion supported by evidence.

> You can call gun owners thugs all you want, but that doesn't solve the issue.

I'm not calling gun owners thugs, I'm calling gun owners willing to threaten violence over even legitimate political processes thugs. This is supposed to be a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people." Everything is theoretically negotiable given enough support, even the Second Amendment and the Constitution itself. That's meant to be a feature, not a bug.
Use the freakin' Debugger
My point was that more good jobs would be relocated and distributed across the country to cheaper cities
One big difference between Cygwin and the Linux subsystem is that Cygwin runs Win32 processes, under the Win32 subsystem, so the entire Windows API is available to you. The Linux subsystem (like the Subsystem for UNIX Applications before it) is a separate set of concepts on top of the raw NT system calls, so you get a GNU/Linuxish API instead of the Windows API. With Cygwin you get a GNU/Linuxish API as well as the Windows API.

See, for instance, this discussion about how copy-on-write fork is available as a system call (and had been around for a while, to support SUA), but doesn't work right with the Win32 subsystem, and that means Cygwin can't use it:

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsdesktop/en-U...

I don't know how many actual applications take advantage of this, though. But if they do, then Cygwin is definitely not obsolete for them.
So if they sold at their true price via the Google-style reverse auction, they would have $9 * 10 million more to use for business growth. Instead lots of hedge funds and high net-worth individuals that are big clients of GS and JPM made an easy $100k this morning.
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Given that people don't want to leave the Bay Area and don't want to be homeless, prices seem to be largely determined by how much firepower the demand side of the equation has. In the absurd scenario of 0% mortgage rates and a 100% LTV interest-only mortgage you could theoretically occupy any house you wanted indefinitely for the price of the property taxes and maintenance (and turn a profit by subleasing to roommates or tourists). 0% is an extreme but how close could we get? Japan is already close to 1%. At which point it costs $10k/year or just a bit more than $800/month for every million in housing cost. It doesn't seem fiscally healthy (but who knows), and if any significant number of people started to consume housing in this way I can't see how we avoid another 2008 style housing collapse in those areas if rates ever rise.
It just means underrepresented in the computing technology community.
Or when some foreign government might suddenly screw you hard:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-08-07/chinas-hua...

The US has no problem purchasing foreign telecom gear from foreign companies - Ericsson(Swedish) and Alcatel/Lucent(French), just Huawei. Selective economic protectionism. Free market what?
Chesapeake Light Tower up for auction
That's it, I've cancelled all our Comodo certificates!
>they're just asking like thugs and vigilantes.

said the British about the American Revolution
For employees sake, stock price should remain that high after 6 months...
Depends on the adjective. If "Hot Pizza" is granted (it seems to just be an application), which I doubt because that does sound really generic, then probably nobody will be granted "Warm Pizza" or "Sizzling Pizza" because that sounds similar enough to cause confusion.

Likelihood of confusion is the acid test for trademark infringement:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_infringement

Also, preventing others from competing with you is completely irrelevant to trademarks. That's more something like what patents do. As far as trademarks go, you can compete all you want, just make sure you don't portray yourself as having the same name as your competitor.
You can make a ton of money elsewhere, relative to cost of living. If you were to move to SF, to have the SAME living standards, you'd need to making multiples more than that.
Just wait until enough democratic voters are imported to overturn Proposition 13 (caps property taxes at roughly what they were when you bought the house, and requires 2/3 vote in the legislature for tax increases).

California is trying so hard to go full Venezuela, and the only buffer they have are the three or so major industries that are doing well (agriculture, entertainment, and tech). If there's a contraction in those sectors, expect a death spiral.
Oh, I should read more :) thanks!
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I don't think that Twilio is a YC company.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11961379

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11768980
That's it! I've just replaced all our Comodo certificates.
That's a tough pill to swallow for many
- Lightship deployed in 1930 marking the entrance to Chesapeake Bay

- Replaced in 1965 by the Chesapeake Light Tower

-- One of six “Texas Towers” along the East Coast, built in 1965; the only one still in service

-- Initially staffed full time; automated in 1980

-- ~13 mi (22 km) from VA shore

-- Water depth ~ 45 ft (13.7 m)
I've always wondered what happened to the hardware and software talent from RIM, now that they've pretty much stopped producing anything useful.
Utilities must build for worst case load. This going to be a nightmare for utilities. To learn more, read about the duck-curve http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/solar-energys-duck-cur...
The question was whether it can meet the Unicode inclusion requirements, not whether it's common.
Deform makes ideas come true
It's not just restricted to startups. I know a few stories of F500s who hired people then fired them days or weeks later. In one case one guy never made it to his desk.

I don't think HR was given any heads up. I imagine management wanted to keep everything business as usual until the last moment.
That's not necessarily true. They were selling 10 million shares all at once in the IPO. Just because a smaller number of shares are trading higher now doesn't necessarily mean that they would have been able to sell that whole slug of 10 million at 23.99.
Hipmunk AI travel assistant out of beta, on FB Messenger and Slack
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You have to be muslim to be a terrorist?
I apologize, what you say is correct. I wonder if airbnb should make it clear to people that they can be discriminated in most of their properties.

That law screams for reform, however.
You can but you still can't get statements in there.
Hi jboy, thank you! :-)

The problem with the syntax you propose is that it does not compose well.

For instance, in the example you give, `path`, `get` and `ok` are all handlers, but they appear in very different roles syntax-wise. It is not clear to me how one would add one more level, say to parse handlers.

I agree that the [] syntax is not the best-looking in the world, but I need something where I can do the equivalent of `h1[h2]`, where `h1` and `h2` are both handlers.

Templates and blocks would sort of work, but not in the case where both `h1` and `h2` are, say, stored in a variable. I am all for trying to obtain a better syntax, but I would not like to lose composability for that
Same reason a 64GB iPhone is so much more than a 16GB one.
> The government can pay a reasonable salary if they wanted skilled workers.

Government doesn't even pay a reasonable salary + benefits for many positions including pensions, in overall monetary value, and the public and politicians aren't generally interested in fixing that.
The name Quake came from Carmack's D&D character, who was an inspiration for the original game design
When I moved from San Francisco to the Denver area about 10 years ago, the attitude I picked up on wasn't so much personal hatred as it was, "Oh great, another Californian moving here to make our freeways more crowded and drive up the cost of everything".

Sure, there are significant cultural and political deltas, but I think a lot of the disgust for Californians moving to other states is just the simple fact that people generally don't like change in the form of "outsiders" flooding "their" state and threatening the status quo.
Is it different than Amazon Seattle? I mean, is there a reasonable balance between work and life?
Well, even if it doesn't meet unicode inclusion requirements, it is necessary for printing in one of the largest markets in the world. Without that character in unicode, Chinese display systems and printers probably won't use unicode at all (and before unicode they used some standard of their own) - meaning the question is whether unicode wants to be relevant or not, not whether the inclusion requirements fit.
I guess I'm assuming the primary use of airbnb is 'rent my house', not 'stay in my guest room'. By offering both at the same place they really do seem to be muddying the waters.
spot 2 on the front page already, with 400+ points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11961034
I guess I'm to much in the C++17 land.
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I was apart of the reddit exodus when they closed the Salt Lake City and New York City offices (I was in SLC.) It only took me 90 days which was the minimum requirement to not have to pay your moving expenses back. Since then, which happened in January 2015, I would roughly estimate that 50-60% has turned over at reddit.

All of this to say it typically doesn't end well for the company unless this is what they're planning on.
wow, thanks for clarifying! :)
would get gardening leave for sure, prob 3 months. That doesn't stop you looking for new work tho, and the leave itself is not a problem, all banks expect to have to wait 3 months before a new recruit can join.
Given the prevalence of subject-object-verb order in non-English languages, I'm mildly surprised there aren't more RPN or Forth-like languages in this list.
>I don't like the term "intellectual property"

and rightfully so, see https://www.eff.org/issues/intellectual-property/the-term
Reminds me of the "Freeze Frame Filesystem" that the CS dept @ Cornell is working on:

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/quicksilver/public_pdfs/f...

They want to power the backend of hundreds of millions of energy sensors for a smart power grid.
It is not the case: http://www.tested.com/tech/mac-os/459491-mac-webcam-hack-pro...
>the could likely (and ironically?) afford to buy more goods

While that seems true it's messier than that. In your scenario people have to postpone consumption until they accumulate the cost of goods which would have a huge negative effect on the overall economy. The entire concept of interest rates is to smooth out this issue, rewarding those who can postpone consumption.
The OP's profile leads me to believe they're not in finance although I could be wrong.

Change in market cap is a very awkward way to look at a recent public company because it's a very volatile measure and also is harder to mentally extrapolate other metrics from.
Wouldn't a 4 digit PIN be really fast to hack? And then all of your passwords are belong to us?
http://quakespasm.sourceforge.net/download.htm or http://fte.triptohell.info/ftedownloads/experimental seem to be recommended elsewhere.
I just moved back here. I can confirm. Now looking for an exit strategy.
How is it incorrect - 'guys' (plural) is not gender specific, and refers to groups of people regardless of gender.

In addition to general usage anecdotes (of women using this word to address groups of women), I'm happy to provide dictionary citations if you'd like?
The issues are rather small. The support is what's bad. They expect you to contact them endlessly, through multiple mediums, to resolve the most mundane of issues.
Prior to like Amazon Payments showing up, PayPal was one of the few things I'd be willing to use to deal business with small web stores that I don't trust. And I still don't see Amazon Payments really commonly.
How would search work with SVG? What about support for screen readers or translation? Having standard symbols like this means that all of those are easily solved without needing something like an image classifier.
And let us consider the infamous Mario Kart blue shell, a weapon that specifically targets the player in first place. Still, for all the complaining about it making races random, the better players still seem to win most of the time.
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Heh, you're doing it again! The actual water level is constantly changing, but "sea level" is typically defined to some fixed level. Although there is more than one definition to pick from.
> to achieve our vision for Joist, we need the best talent in the world

This is a standard mantra of startup lore, but if I put on my nitpicking hat, is it strictly true?

I mean we're not talking about the Manhattan Project here.

Plus it's not as though there isn't intensely fierce competition for talent in the valley. Just because a lot of talented people are there, doesn't mean you'll get to hire them. The "best talent in the world" is already bid up to high levels by those few companies in the Bay Area who are straddling rivers of gold.

Where I work, we have offices all over the world, including one here in NYC and another in Toronto. Because of the timezone alignment and relatively short travel times, we're now experimenting with more and more remote pairing to share projects between the two offices.

In Joist's position I might have considered opening an NYC office instead. It's not as though this city lacks for talent either and if they feel like paying a lot for it, the finance folks have kindly bid up top performers for them. They can get all the difficulties of hiring in the valley, but much closer to home.
Think about it this way: 9 * 10m = $90 million. But probably they couldn't have sold the whole 10M slug at 24. Let's guess and say they left more like $45M on the table.

They are currently at a ~2B valuation.

45M / 2B = 2.25%

Twilio is (in theory) a high growth tech company. Say they want to grow at 15% a year. 2.25% / 15% = .15 or about 2 months worth of growth.

2 months is certainly something, but in the grand scheme of things isn't the hugest deal in the world.
I've encountered companies that are already globally distributed but try to force you to move to one of their offices permanently. I can imagine arguments for it, but the arguments I was presented with were unconvincing and more of the hand-wavy kind.
It's a fair question, though you don't actually need to register your trademark to "own" it, it just provides some advantages and of course reduces the danger that someone will do what Comodo did.
Direct link to guidelines: https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines...

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10239962
Every year you see tons of 福倒 printed too (福, but upside down). That has yet to receive a code point.
Let's add to that the song and dance focused specifically around "assault rifles", which kill less people per year than knives, blunt objects, or bare hands. (The vast majority of gun deaths are by handgun, and are either suicides or gang violence.)
GLQuake was so dark for most people that someone wrote a tool called 'idgamma' which actually modified the games' textures to be brighter: http://www.quaketerminus.com/exe.shtml
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I don't think there will ever be a scientific method for measuring or ranking intelligence, and I understand that life circumstances play a huge role in being able to acquire the social markers of intelligence. Still, some people are clearly smarter than others. Saying "top 20%" is a reasonable shorthand for "decently above average," which I think is about as accurate as we can get outside of people like von Neumann who could recite novels that he had read years previously. (Note that I'm not saying something like "people who can't graduate high school are dumb." There are plenty of smart high school dropouts and plenty of dumb Ivy League graduates.)

There are people around here who believe that their interest in computer science is one of the things that makes them smarter than other people, but that is not a belief I am defending. In fact, I believe that is a small minority of people here. Most of the posts I saw in this thread were criticizing the education system that leaves many people without an understanding of compound interest, not calling those people idiots.

Most people are comfortable with the idea that some people are at the bottom of the intelligence heap. It is scientifically verifiable that some individuals are unable to remember new information or identify patterns. Why shouldn't this be true at the top of the heap as well? Based on my life experiences, I believe that my intelligence is significantly above average, although I realize that I have been aided by fortunate circumstances. However, I am not strongly invested in the idea: I am more interested in being happy, in being a disciplined worker, and in having strong relationships with people than I am in being a smart person. Why are you so invested in the idea that no one is smarter than anyone else?
It was an Atlassian plugin, written in Scala. I also wanted to download the JS Closure Library and minify JS with the Closure Compiler.

Your comment is accurate. If you want to do a very specific set of things, Maven works fine. If you want anything outside that, it gets much harder.
> What happens if you want to use two different extended text code points in one blog post?

There are no codepoints if it's not text. How do you use codepoints for embedding a video or a picture on your blog? You don't! But, if you want to treat something as if it were text, then I suggested doing something similar to an XML namespace: "the next segment is hieroglyphics, you can get their glyphs from here, and these are their indices...". That "extended text" is still not text, and it still doesn't use any Unicode codepoints, but it can work according to similar principles.

> Do you think it'd be more efficient to have to support 6 different standards than one?

Then why don't we let the Unicode Consortium take over standardizing video or audio? If something isn't text, why is it standardized by a text standardization body?
Can someone explain one aspect of their business model to me? Their cost of goods sold is rather high at 45% and hasn't shown much operating leverage - no bueno. They explain that this is mostly payments to "network service providers"...would this mean the carriers? If so, what options are available to Twilio to lower these costs as a percent of revenue? This is the only aspect of the business model that concerns me. I read that Bandwidth.com actually owns a CLEC in order to lower these costs, might Twilio be able to do the same? Any help much appreciated.