skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect the bugs like this come about because of a patch not because of the original development. Devs and dev teams tend to get sloppy after the first push and budgets tend to shrink dramatically.

One time I found a bug that was running for a few years and the result of it was the company was under reporting by millions of dollars per quarter (the running total was near to $100mm, and im sure it crossed it after my contract ended).

This was VERY well tested software in the beginning (one of the best test suites i've seen actually) and audited up to high heaven. The problem started when the patches rolled in and those, are not tested anywhere near as much.
This solution to this "core paradox" is the idea of gains from trade - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gains_from_trade

If everyone has the same capabilities and preferences, then the economy is a zero-sum game like you've described. In some fields, that's close to true, and those fields tend to be low-margin commodities.
Scary how if you replace "radical groups" with "US elections", most of the statement still stands.
The Future of Standard ML (2013) [pdf]
He means the AWS Console editor for Lambda functions.
Why People Block Ads, and What It Means for Marketers and Advertisers
Crap like this bugs me. Because you waste more time on Hacker News you can downvote and I can't? I am clearly correct that we did not hit peak oil back then and if he made a bet on it he got burned for exactly that predictable reason.

Someday we will hit peak oil? Duh? Someday the sun will burn out. The peak oil histeria from 5 or ten years ago was about the claim that we had already hit peak oil and pretty soon we wouldn't have enough petroleum to even grow food and we were all going to die. I had two friends having panic attacks over this BS.

Sorry reality failed to confirm your preferred political narrative in the past. Keep retconning and you can always think you were right
There's also the `Map`, `Filter`, and `Reduce` functions provided by the base library, i.e. in addition to the `*apply` family of functions.
The tutorial is not great, but you can actually engage in the core loop (capture/evolve) at level 1. Conversely, one of the most common newbie questions in Ingress is "wait, why don't my bursters do anything against these high level portals?"
Over a billion daily active users, 1.65 billion monthly. That's not including users who have an account but are not actively using it. Odds are very good that if someone has internet access, they also have a Facebook account.

https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...
And Google dictates the rules of the auction marketplace.
> let them lock them down and after a few years, someone who genuinely values openness will come in as a competitor.

I once read somewhere that it takes 13 years to bring a new combine to market, which I can believe. They are complex machines that can only be tested in real world conditions during the relatively short window of harvest. So, in reality, it might be more than a few years before a competitor can arise (assuming none of the existing players are willing to be that competitor) even with sufficient investment.
Author here. Happy to answer any q's
The bite from the carbonation is the flavor of carbonic acid, which is unstable and will resolve back to H2O and CO2 when not under pressure. A heavier carbonation ends up having a higher concentration of carbonic acid when you first open it up, but as the bubbles burst the concentration goes down.
I do want to turn this into something profitable. I wouldn't say it's "for fun" but I like it because it's something I've always felt I needed at various points, and would be useful to me. Knowing this, it'll even be more useful to the regular, everyday individual because they'll likely use it more than I would. So, I would love to see it built, but I'd love to be one of the people building it more.
> we're suckers that keep on buying and making it work, or at least we make it look like it works

True, but there is a huge power asymmetry. While advertisers do this day-in-day-out, and use all the latest psychological hacks they can get their hards on, regular people need to go about their day-to-day lives, with the usual daily struggles. That doesn't leave much time for education, which is sorely needed to not "be a sucker". Advertising is so damn slick these days.
As I can't edit the above post: Listen to wyldfire over me. My impression was that they were by the book, but I'm not an actual repair-tech
I was making a website for my client and asked for
I'm not sure it's either accurate or helpful to repeat the "Homophobes are closeted gays" line. You can be in the closet without being a homophobe, and there are plenty of people who simply dislike gay people for religious-cultural reasons.
This is a bit of a desperation move from Nintendo as they have pretty much nothing for the holidays for the Wii U with the NX still in development on the horizon.

That said, at that impulse buy price point, I'll definitely pick it up and I'm sure it'll be incredibly popular with those that grew up with the system. This isn't the sort of product that really grows Nintendo's market with a new generation.

I wouldn't be surprised if it outsells the Wii U this holiday.
The Democrats want to impose a "sin" tax on soda to try to nudge people from making themselves even more obese than they already are, in a futile attempt to bring down health care costs, without addressing the main problem, which neither side wants to confront (too much lobbyist money at stake).

I would welcome sane legislation on gun control that would work. I doubt that anyone in Congress would have the courage to do what Australia did.

It really doesn't seem worth engaging you any further, as you seem to be a fine exemplar of your closing statement in your argument.
I like this. When testing my cloud9 account I thought it was a still rough edged proto-type of the future. I wasn't ready to change my workflow, but thought very interesting.

Congratulations to the cloud9 team.
Or the e-sports team: http://cloud9.gg/
The New York Times does not have a dominant position.
There are probably a million different websites and applications hitting their HTTP endpoint, and likewise for scripts and assets embedded in their webpages hitting third party non-HTTPS endpoints. If you just start serving your existing HTML and APIs on HTTPS, lots of stuff will break.

They probably have more websites and hostnames than you'd realize, as well. Take a look at a site like https://dnsdumpster.com/ and search for bbc.co.uk
Microsoft wins federal appeal over warrants for data held outside US
They might start once consumers have a quantifiable measure of customer service.
Vagus nerve stimulation has also been used to treat some forms of epilepsy since the late 90s, and is being researched as a treatment for a wide variety of other illnesses and conditions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagus_nerve_stimulation
Calling FUD on your comment.

It hasn't been "standard on full sites for years", and still isn't now. Only recently with the 'HTTPS everywhere' move has the idea that public sites with no authentication should support HTTPS. And even now, that's not a universally supported opinion, because of its effect on caching.

The BBC has used HTTPS on pages with forms that submit secure data, as has been the historic standard.

Moving a site as massive as the BBC, which spans multiple domains and subdomains and has millions of pages is a big task. Note how you can still see news articles from the late 90s at the same URL. So, yeah, I can understand why writing a blog post about it is worthwhile.
> As for why Thiel would support Trump, I'm mystified too. But what I would guess it's because he doesn't support either Democrats or the "establishment GOP", which Trump isn't a part of.
Thiel is a contrarian, and in tech social circles, Trump is the ultimate contrarian choice :)

This does seem to be a major reason why otherwise rational people are supporting him. I think it is incredibly short-sighted, and sometimes wonder if these people have thought it through much, but it is what it is.
From the article:

> Starting July 12, users were welcome to score their flights on a scale of 1 to 10 based on flight duration, quality of aircraft, in-flight amenities, and duration of itinerary.

So hopefully that'll help level out those sorts of criticisms.

And my experiences in airports has typically been decent, once I'm past the complimentary government-sponsored massage.
I knew they would use Electron ಠ_ಠ

But I can't blame them, I can imagine the difficulty of maintaining a native Linux application considering that the majority of their users are either on Windows or Mac. Since they released the web client I knew they would come up with this "solution" to offer a new client for Linux users. At least the mobile version is native, otherwise I would be flipping tables. Guess Electron is winning more and more space among millennial developers, so maybe I should give up on hating these web applications disguising themselves as native software altogether.
Or perhaps it is a means to give back to society ? Bill Gates often mentions than the affect of the BMG Foundation is dwarfed by the resources of a government.

Given BG's comment, wouldn't it make sense to use political influence as a leveraged means to improve society ?
There were four major bullet points on the challenges. I imagine they also have other things to do and need to spend time persuading people to make changes elsewhere in the org.
I'm most excited to see a Wii NES pad as an official and widely available product. Hope they do the same for the SNES pad.
Firefox 2016/17 Strategy and Roadmap
Yea, fwiw these days it is much better. But i think the biggest issue is simply the lack of choice. On my OS, i can choose whatever language i want. Whether i choose for preference, or the right tool for the job, i have choices, many of them.

On the web it's.. well, just JS. Some languages that transpile to JS.. but ultimately they're all pretty much just JS.
From what I understand, the modern violins in this price range tend to be completely handcrafted by luthiers. (Actually $100K sounds high. Googling, it seems possible to get handmade violins for $10-$25K. See this quest: http://www.violinist.com/blog/smileyh1/20095/10115/)

Luthier is definitely a skilled trade like any wood working, and I think it's easy for me to buy that an entirely hand-crafted product will have some "signatures" in tone and -- especially -- playability that, especially for the professional, might be worth paying for. (I know I definitely have some preferences in acoustic grands that boils down mostly to the nice playability of certain high end models, and I'm hardly a professional piano player!)

I also imagine that above a certain quality level, much lower costing products will often be entirely acceptable. Actually, like wines, I imagine in some cases people might actually prefer the tone of the cheaper product.

On the other hand, there's definitely a "too cheap" instrument level that's mostly for students / beginners.

One additional point concerning the violin market, too, I know that if you change the name of "violin" to "fiddle", you'll find very few bluegrass shops selling fiddles over $1K. :)
Perhaps this will change that? I know Amazon's review section has dramatically changed my purchasing behavior for products.
This is hugely important. The precedent that the government was trying to set- that American courts can issue warrants to an American company to retrieve data stored in any country- would've been a disaster for so many different reasons:

- The simple privacy nightmare of the US government being able without the cooperation of other countries

- American cloud providers losing customers to native companies which would be unaffected by the ruling

- Retaliatory actions of foreign governments demanding information stored in the US, with no sound rationale why these requests should be refused.

Of course, now intelligence agencies are simply going to go to Congress and demand a revised version of the Stored Communications Act that would let them get back to business as usual, but this could be defeated. Keep paying attention!
It's roughly pulling from the Ingress dataset. The Ingress portals were user submitted (there are some hilarious examples of things like ashtrays or bad graffiti being landmarks already).
Making custom renderers for React
You're on the right track: machine-to-machine payments. Check out https://21.co/ for more info.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12086223, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12091933

Similar discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12086769
Yes, Satya is very stupid, and you are very smart.
And just yesterday I told someone to visit BBC when trying to connect to public wifi that requires a redirect to a login page first. Guess I'm going to have to find a new go-to http site now
> I pay nearly 48% tax to state federal and city, and it does significant damage for my ability to grow in the Bay Area.

Its possible to reach that total tax rate, though even if you manage to have no dependents or other sources of deductions, credits, etc., it takes a lot of income, even for the Bay Area (like, the kind where you could, after those taxes, meet reasonable living expenses and buy a new Bay Area home, without selling the last one, for cash every decade or so.)

> There is no room to be taxed more

The maximum combined federal, state, and city taxes on income (including income and payroll taxes at all levels) in San Francisco is lower than the maximum federal income tax alone in the period of the US most rapid aggregate growth (and also the most rapid relative growth of the middle class.)
This. Upvoted.

Does anyone have the data to do the math and see what the difference in ROI is between startups in general and startups which a) should have technical due diligence done and b) which have or would have passed tech due diligence? Maybe we could call these something like "tech startups" to distinguish them from the others. :)

It would be good to see how much delta exists between these two different pools of startups. This would be a fairly easy filter for VCs to apply.
Oh god. Oracle? shudders
It shows you when the file is being edited, when it has unsaved changes, and when it's been saved. It also has a linter that shows you if there are typos. It's a full fledged IDE. It works great.
> There are voluntary ways to resolve this, either by a coalition of consumers and business that are for accessible products.

On the other hand, we have recorded history and can know what happened before the ADA.
A new app lets women charge for a night out
For running a developer event like BattleSnake.io, C9 is amazing.

After a few years of headaches trying to help students get their local dev environments setup, we started recommending Cloud9 to all Students. Definitely the way of the future.
Yes. I don't create any channels. Team members create and invite users as necessary. The multiple narrow channels request in particular came from engineers.
Facebook just publicly said they will not censor these videos.
Now I feel guilty! Thanks for the link, it’s easy to laugh and much harder to create.
ftr, when i mentioned speed i was mainly referring to WASM->DOM. So, if that ends up too slow for heavy DOM manipulation (eg, React style diffing/etc), then with any luck we can offload the DOM interactions to JS. Eg, WASM->JS->DOM
This entire thread is about the US.
Interactive map http://isis.liveuamap.com/

Latest map of Shirqat (near Mosul) where there is heavy fighting right now https://i.imgur.com/dxb7BHM.jpg Still months of fighting at least until ISIS loses their Iraq 'caliphate' look at all those towns/cities they still control like Hawijah.
Congrats to the team! My first node.js experience was with Cloud9 IDE and the experience was great. I built a real-time multiplayer Bomberman clone extremely fast and it definitely helped me get hired in my past two jobs.
The biggest problem with email? It’s way too convenient
"The right to err" is commensurate right on behalf of those your err'ing against to call you a lunatic.

Thiel is responsible for his own pronouncements, ideological fantasies and desire for catastrophe.
You interpreting it the other way was the man bites dog case. I believe most readers weren't misled.
I think Satchmo would approve.
Two AI chatbots have been talking to each other for the last 2 days straight
Interview with Putin Foreign Policy Advisor Sergey Karaganov
thats not even a fourth of humanity. if we exclude china who can not visit any of our news outlets anyway its still less than the half.

Do you seriously suggest that all these people should create facebook accounts, including all the privacy issues, just so they can consume news without the half screen dedicated to forcing them to create a account?

seriously?
Babaji ka thullu – ramdev baba in COMA after watching this video
The Six Main Arcs in Storytelling, as Identified by an A.I
Oh, great! Something else my daughter can blame me for.
My thought is that you should aim to do something different from what you are doing now.

Just change language is not a step forward nor backward.

Keep doing the same type of application over and over with always the same set of constrains and problem is not a step forward.

I wouldn't worry about change language... I would be worry about don't change the set of problems you are facing and the kind of tool you are learning.

(with tool I don't mean "git" or "make" but I mean mental tool, paradigms, ideas.)
This is what most security companies do if they are any good. A battery backup with cell connection. Can easily replicate it yourself using a mobile hotspot on an old phone. Along with some usb battery packs. Pretty cheap and easy to make a solution. (Under $50)
C9 is my favorite web IDE. Being open source made it so much better than their competitors because you could install it locally to take advantage of your own hardware. It's really cool that they got acquired vs the fleet of mostly proprietary alternatives.
PBS would be the equivalent here but as you said, no where near as interesting to watch.
But how can you know it's safe in a collaborative project? What if someone else merges a PR right before you push?
I agree with the reviews from credentialed users. People should put their names on the arguments for or against a paper, and let others evaluate them in return.

I like pre-print services, and I wish they would go one step further and allow people to comment/critic the paper. This way, when you find a paper, you could see all associated thoughts and join the conversation. The really powerful idea behind pre-prints is that it would speed up academic publishing, by eliminating the ~6 month publication time.

The only problem with pre-prints (currently) is they are not widely accepted for academic tenure. With academic publishing being a multi-billion dollar industry, I'm kind of surprised there are not more tech startups working on this issue.
Within Reach: Gloria Steinem's Life-Long Fight for Women's Rights
It would require me to back-up the ISP router, the Apple Wifi router and 3 cameras - so 5 UPS. Yet even if I did that, given that my Internet connection comes via fiber, if they cut the Fiber, I am still out-of-luck.

It's as if an alarm company said, we will notify you after 30 minutes if someone comes into you house.
I think it forces the search to hacker news

On google you'd type this for the same behavior:

site:news.ycombinator.com google skews

Except you don't need to, you can just type "hn" because google knows hn means you want the hacker news website results

Duck duck go could provide the same behavior if they displayed the top search result of "!<first word> search" when I type "<first word> search" if it realizes <first word> is one of these popular keywords or a synonym
> Even a 2012 MacBook Air can sign an SSL key in only 6.1 milliseconds.

The BBC has to deal with machines much older and much less powerful than that.
How about class awareness as the explanation? A one percenter supports the party that represents the interest of the one percenters.
One of the primary characteristics of a monopoly is high customer switching costs. For example, a business running on the Microsoft platform in 1995 could not realistically switch to Apple, Solaris, etc. During the heyday of Standard Oil, you could either buy from them or find a way to get your oil shipped from overseas. If you didn't want to use AT&T in 1975, you'd... uh, have to work at the speed of telegrams?

Meanwhile, if someone builds a better search engine, all of Google's customers could switch to it in ten seconds and never look back.
Yes, but the rankred article hasn't reproduced the full paper, it's just cherry picked and summarised in a way that you would have no idea if you missed something worthwhile.

The original paper isn't that terrible to read.

Also the amount of third party cookie crap that site tries to deposit in my browser is crazy.

That's why HN prefers source material, not blogspam stuff like this which adds nothing new and often removes possibly useful information.
Cool.

I look forward to seeing a blog post when you have that compensation framework completed. :)

I've seen/heard words like that meaning anything from a 10% paycut to a 55% paycut in practical terms, its too big a range for me to really take away an effective idea of GitLab's pay level which is why I was curious about the more concrete form.

A 10-15% haircut for a place as good as GitLab sounds on paper seems reasonable, a 50% haircut...not so much.
Despite such late upgrade to https, the site looks good, uses html5, works without Flash and even not accuses me of piracy for using adblocker.
Maxthon browser is a spyware
To me, Diet Coke tastes "crisp", while Diet Pepsi tastes "slimey". I can tell the difference in a heartbeat and I dislike Diet Pepsi (while I drink a lot of Diet Coke).
Clearly not every person who pushes homophobic rants is in the closet and gay.

But Peter Thiel certainly was:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/peter-thiel-keith-rabois...
During that time there were many more tax shelters. Even interest on personal debt like car loans was deductible.
Nice tool setup. I would like to work under those circumstances.
More Brexit predictions, small-business edition
Why would Carter-Wegman-style message authentication not be broken by P = NP?
Not sure how I feel about the not rebasing PRs rule, especially with CI on PRs becoming more common. I'd much rather have a PR get rebased than have an extra "Fix whitespace to satisfy linter" commit.
Can't stick my Game Genie in it, either...
Can you point out some other major sites used by the general public which have spent the last few years without site-wide SSL to back up your claim?
Edit: I posted the batch file here originally but it looked crap so I have removed it.

Here is an example of what it removes:

echo Uninstalling KB2976987 (description not available)

start /w wusa.exe /uninstall /kb:2976987 /quiet /norestart

It's all the updates that enable "telemetry".

You could be right that there is some genuine functionality I have removed by not having a particular update in which case I will need to look at alternatives to OneDrive.
What are your career goals? (Where are you trying to get to?)
The Immigrant Spirit Is the American Spirit
Is this legal?
Perhaps zombocom? http://www.zombo.com/
You might then be surprised to learn that many people cannot tell the difference, even from taste, between coke and pepsi.

Dr. Pepper I think has a more distinctive taste but my point is that your experience may not line up with what most people expect and you may in fact have an above average sense of smell and/or taste.
The difference is that switching away from Windows in the 1990s was effectively impossible for any established business. Switching your default search engine takes ten seconds.