skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Verizon's wireline unit is making low single digit operating profit margins with its existing footprint.

Because they never cared about improving its efficiency. They actually noted, that when they upgrade to fiber, their expenses drop. A huge drain on their landline profits is their copper network which is falling apart. Their fiber is profitable.

Investors want them to focus on wireless. As I said, if it would have been split off, investors would have cared about how to improve their landline profits.
Yes, I use OO classes much like I used to use PL/I structures which, of course, are generalizations of C and Cobol structures. And classes have some additional advantages, e.g., can do serialization.

And, what I really like is the name scoping.

For what else is significantly different in encapsulation seems a little obscure. Maybe the biggie difference is not only have the data with name scoping, but also have the code, the methods, stuffed inside the class and making changes in the data in the properties of the class. Okay -- so get to use the class and its methods without keeping track of subroutines/functions separately. Okay.
Margaret Thatcher famously survived on 4 hours sleep a night, and later developed dementia. I wonder if any longitudinal studies have been done on this (I had a quick look and couldn't find any).
Interview with Dennis Cooper about the whole affair: https://frieze.com/article/unfriendly-hosts
The EU is mostly fine; the Euro (and hence the Eurozone, which is a subset of EU proper) is a mess. Fix the Euro and Europe will be a sight to behold.
I can send a text message to my phone and have it be received within a second or two, so my phone must be connecting with the cellular network at least once a second.
If you use JS, if you get how Promises work your probably 90% of the way there; abstracting that pattern out to use in other contexts will probably get you the rest of the way.
At times I've thought that that little device (pattern?) was essentially a closure, but since I don't really know what a closure is I can't really say!

Uh, I've done a lot of programming in a lot of languages, but my main interest is not as a programmer but as a founder of a startup that needs some software!
(throwaway)

And please don't comment on things you don't understand.
Oops, that should be 1/(2^300).
It is pro-consumer to require deeper checks. It is entirely anti-consumer to require them to step through security rings AND require them to pay for it.
> FFI bindings have to come first.

Of course. But FFI bindings alone don't count as “support”.

> More idiomatic wrappers can be written later

Then “support for <language X>” is “planned” or “work in progress”.
They own AOL and now Yahoo, so no place any users actually visit.
Also, most languages have an FFI mechanism for calling C libraries (if they have one at all).
And in fact, the learning of new terminology and a new syntax/libraries/etc as always made it more difficult for me to learn new languages.

I now try to learn new concepts in a language I'm more familiar with, and then learn the language/syntax.

I find this repo wonderful!
This advice on displays made me laugh:

> Absolutely go as big as you can in the allowed form factor, though the Pi won't effectively use much more than a 1080p display maximum.

See, I just used a RetroPi to test a new tv, and the games I reached for were very low res and extremely pixelated.
Boom: the fastest passenger jet ever
And Hello, Clickbait headline!
Who said anything about "solving all problems"? How about just making some things a bit better? I'm get really annoyed when I see the argument "Y does not solve all the problems in X, therefore there is no point in moving away from X."
Thailand has this. I believe it is 50% for a lot of forms of companies and land ownership.
> For heterosexual Whites, the risk of HIV infection extremely low, and HIV infection is inherently more easily spread by anal intercourse (not that other diseases aren't a good reason to use protection).

Remind me again why this is a matter of public policy. Are you going to propose a program to help people in need, like promoting condom use, like the left? Are you going to suggest unconstitutional sodomy laws, like the right?

Pointing out this detail - and putting the focus on it without even suggesting a solution - makes it sound like you think gay people themselves are themselves a problem that need solving.
Agreed. Judging by the list of current territorial disputes in Africa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_territorial_disputes#A...), we're a ways from 'borderless'. Even in the EU, the refugee crisis has made it pretty clear that there are still quite a few borders that people are willing to kill and die over. I agree that improving human mobility and trade can have enormous value, but pretending that doing that is easy (or merely a matter of issuing press releases) does no one any favours.
Nice write-up Cheese! And good work on the Linux port.

I'm Mark Cooke, CEO of Shiny Shoe and producer on both the Day of the Tentacle and the Grim Fandango remasters. If anyone has any questions about the production of the remasters I'd be happy to try to answer.
I'm not really an ST fan myself. I'm not averse to it, or anything, but it has a steep learning curve, because you have to learn the class library, the IDE, and the language, and the poor tutorials and documentation make it even worse. Lisp had way better docs, and could be written in any text editor, so that's what I learned.

However, if you want to learn Smalltalk, might I reccomend GNU smalltalk? it's got the excellent docs you'd expect from a GNU project, unix integration, and while it does have a class browser and an image, it supports plain old text files for code, so you don't have to master an IDE if you don't want to, plus it's good for scripting. However, it has (mostly) the same class library as Squeak and other smalltalks, so it lessens the learning curve somewhat.
Is Edward Snowden a Russian Agent?
"Viewing angle and speed of refresh are rather critical for arcade machines, and both are largely solved problems for LCDs at this point"

This is true, but not for the cheap IPS LCDs he advocates. The important point is image persistence. Each frame is a sample of a single point in time. To accurately represent motion it needs to be shown for as close to a single point in time as possible. Most LCDs sample-and-hold, i.e. they set the pixel and keep it there until the next frame. This results in blurring when your eye tries to follow motion. See:

http://www.blurbusters.com/faq/references/

Modern gaming LCDs can strobe the image like a CRT, eliminating this blur. It causes noticeable flicker at 60Hz, but it's the only way to get sharp looking motion from these fixed framerate games (motion interpolation adds latency which is no good for games).
I feel like the most obvious answer was missed: People use Medium because there's an audience there and it mostly "just works."

I don't personally care about organically building a brand for myself over the course of years. I don't want to write an article a week only to have it never see the light of day. All I want to do is jot down a few thoughts from time to time and have some people stumble upon it. Make the world a slightly better place.

Medium is perfect for that. The interface is beautiful, and it's far more likely that someone will stumble across my post on Medium than find my crappy blog.
Not accurate. From the actual report you're citing:

"The total U.S. population at risk of extended power outage from a Carrington-level storm is between
20-40 million, with durations of 16 days to 1-2 years. The duration of outages will depend largely on the
availability of spare replacement transformers. If new transformers need to be ordered, the lead-time is likely
to be a minimum of five months. The total economic cost for such a scenario is estimated at $0.6-2.6 trillion
USD."

And if you look at the appendix:

"The economic costs of the outage scenarios are estimated by calculating the percentage of residential,
commercial, and industrial customers without power by state and using the average amount of electricity
consumed by each segment in each state per hour. The total amount of electricity "lost" for each sector in
each state is then the product of these items."

In other words, 0.6 - 2.6 trillion isn't the economic cost of the power outage, it's the amount of money the electric utilities would lose on sales during at extended downtime.
I get your desire to deflate something you dislike. I know this calling-out of OOP, as in TFA, has become routine (e.g., Steve Yegge's posts were quite celebrated here, and that was years ago). Maybe you're tired of the banana quote, and thought this post brought nothing new.

But your comment is purely ad hominem -- to the point of calling the author a dipshit with absolutely no basis -- and does not engage TFA (breaking the first two comment guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
Article reminded me how much I use my Gmail account for, and what a colossal inconvenience it would be were it to be deleted. Just off the bat:

- E-mail

- Calendar

- Android account, and all purchased apps, games, etc.

- Drive storage (Somewhere around 1TB, although I don't even use 1/10th that)

- Google Keep note-taking app

- Blogspot blog

- Domain host

- Secondary phone number via Google Voice

- Two-factor authentication device

- Cloud music storage player via Google Play Music

It's really, really unsettling how entangled that singular account is with my everyday workflow.

I've begun trying to compile a list of how each of these components could be migrated to something self-controlled ala OwnCloud. Perhaps I'll make it into a website when I'm done.

I am not sure what would happen to any of the Android apps I had downloaded, however. Do we as consumers get any more legal redress if the account is attached to things we actually paid for?
Food/water supply/heating/cooling/medicine supply/medical equipment.

Our tools, household items and clothes are built with planned obsolescence, can't be repaired by consumer and thus require frequent replacement.

Former CIA director estimates 2/3rd of US population will die in EMP [1], others 90% [2]. In US it would be so much worse because we used to comfortable consumer only life, and most wouldn't be able to adjust. Is that really that outlandish?

[1] http://www.offthegridnews.com/grid-threats/former-cia-direct...

[2] http://www.powermag.com/expect-death-if-pulse-event-hits-pow...
Why isn't this mentioned/discussed anywhere. In 2008 Microsoft offered $45 Billion to acquire Yahoo. Then Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang rejected the offer, saying that the bid "substantially undervalues Yahoo." Microsoft raised the bid to 50 Billion, and it was yet again rejected. After that MS withdrew its bid. 8 years later, at 10% the original offer!
Phones turn off wifi whenever they can to save battery life. For example, Apple: "Notifications use Wi-Fi only when a cellular connection is unavailable." [1]

[1] https://support.apple.com/HT201925
The thesis of Life After Doomsday by Bruce Clayton (get the Dial Press paperback edition if you want to look at it, it has annotations following the original), is that if you're prepared to survive a major nuclear war, you're pretty much set for anything less than that (modulo of course each threats particulars, like storm surge for hurricanes).

He (and I, who started becoming a nuclear war survivalist in 1968-9 in 2nd-3rd grade when my mother became a Civil Defense Block Mother, I still have the sign) recommend you read another book on expedient nuclear war survival, which is a lot more timeless. It's based on serious research at Oak Ridge, up to and including handing a set of printed instructions to an "average" American family, video taping them trying to follow them, and iterating on them. Oh, yeah, in the traditional fashion, the author(s) tried out this stuff themselves: Nuclear War Survival Skills

Check out the official on-line copy here: http://www.oism.org/nwss/ but if you're worried about a nuclear weapon event, get the dead tree copy, for the Kearny Fallout Meter needs better precision than you'll get from digital -> computer printer.

For that matter, you almost certainly want dead tree (or microfiche, there's a company that used to do that) copies for when the light go out.

After that, there's a lot more, but I don't have time to go into it (in the middle of renovating a house built in 1910), check my previous postings on the subject if you can find them, 5 minutes with Google and the built in search engine were useless and I have precise search terms, e.g. the obscure Bad Times Primer by C.G. Cobb. Or email me for more (address is in my info).
What makes you grumpy?

- incompetent managers who treat our relationship too

cutesy

How will I know when you’re grumpy?

- You'll be around

How can I help you when you’re grumpy?

- Don't be around

How do you like feedback - the medium (IRC, email, in person, etc.)

- ok, reasonable - email

How do you like feedback - routine like in 1:1s, or as-it-happens

- let's not have 1-1's m-k?

How do you prefer to receive recognition? (public or private)

- via my paycheck

What makes 1:1s the most valuable for you?

- wait, you actually think any subordinate want's 1-1s? thats funny

What are your goals for this year? And for the next 3 months?

- something this organization doesn't have available

What do you need from your manager?

- what can you provide, ok so, nothing

From your team? (this one is good if the 1:1 is with someone who manages people, but is typically relevant for IC’s, too)

- be professional

From your peers? (outside the team)

- be professional

What’s your favorite baked good?

- yeah, your an ass
http://qz.com/424120/our-poor-sleeping-habits-could-be-filli...
I'm guessing Mayer had a mandate to take a few moon shots to revive the brand knowing they were likely to fail, but at least had a chance of going viral. The upside was big, but the downside wasn't so bad because they were already so deep in the doldrums. I doubt they were worth much more than $5B when she joined. The ship had sailed a while ago.
If Yahoo had ever known what the fuck it was doing Podcasts would now be known as Ycasts or some such.
Direct URL to opt-out: https://wbillpay.verizonwireless.com/vzw/secure/setPrivacy.a...
Just a little warning: there are some NSFW images in this link.
Also, now in react (as of 0.14 with stateless function components) you can define components as pure functions that return a jsx dta structure to the render function.
IE (coded by memory quickly syntax may be wonky):
const test_component = () => {
return <H1>Blah!</H1>;
}

<test_component/>
Well, YHOO's total market cap is now about $37.36B, so it's not a complete travesty. (MSFT would have gotten the Alibaba investment with the $45B offer)
First PokemonGo Chat/Social full stack solution is open sourced
I don't understand why Google won't just explain what the problem was and give him a way to extract his data, even if they won't let him use Blogger anymore. Would the precedent really be so bad? They're getting some not-great PR — I feel like most companies would try to work something out.
When Verizon replaces copper with fiber, the investment gets booked as a capital asset, which doesn't count against profits. But any operational savings achieved by that will goose short term profits. So if Verizon is focused only on goosing short term profits, as you claim, they'd replace all the copper with fiber!

More generally, Verizon is legally required to keep serving the places it already served with copper. If it could save money by switching that with fiber, they'd do it. You're accusing a money-grubbing big corporation of leaving billions of dollars on the table each year.
Sadly this isn't quite the case with skylake IGPU, there's a ton of issues with power management options rendering the system very unstable or down right unusable.

Also worth noting is that NVME ssd power management is flat out unsupported resulting in additional 3W power draw on DELL XPS 13 pcs out of the 6W that's currently possible with stable power options enabled.
NVIDIA used to make an X86 processor long time ago an embedded 386SX.
Around 2010 they were snooping around including trying to build an X86 emulator that would run on their HPC parts which started a small turf war with Intel/AMD which was settled.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4122/intel-settles-with-nvidia...
I also maintain my family's mail server and haven't run into any issues sending to other providers. I assume it's because the system is kept up to date, secure, and follows recommended standards.
According to the above link, contra BBC, it turns out that the ancient "tar-like liquid in the brain" theory was quite accurate; it's a decent rough description of Amyloid buildup and Tau tangles.
It's fine now. Hacker News's favicon shows up.
If only t'was a scam. Praise the sun.
Does any of that give it customers?
Deals like this are made by the board of directors, who represent the shareholders and have a fiduciary duty to them, as well as being shareholders themselves. So that's your guarantee of it not being a crap deal.

If you do a sum-of-the-parts valuation of Yahoo, you can end up seeing that the core business has a negative value. So holders of YHOO will trade something worth -1$bn for $5bn in cash, that's a pretty good deal.
It was meant to be tongue-in-cheek. Gold has some nice useful properties, but it seems the properties that have mattered most to people throughout the millenia are 1) it has a pleasing color, and 2) it's hard to come by.
Standard Oil. Extraction. Transport. Refining. Distribution. Sale.

Seemed to result in some issues as I recall.

Mixing common-carrier status with provider-of-goods is quite inherently problematic.

I've got some pretty strong issues with Google's status as both search provider and other services, or with their dominant position in infrastructure, services, operating systems, applications marketplace, and on a growing basis, bandwidth provision.

Some of that is based on actual practices of the company. More is on the basis that when this has been tried before it's come to tears.
Not sure why people have that impression. It doesn't fundamentally do any OO things. You don't inherit from the react components. Maybe you could make an argument for encapsulation but even that is shaky in JavaScript. Most it only uses prototypes as object for namespacing and to organize the api better since JS lacks good namespacing syntax.
still, mixing up Yalta agreement and colonial borders in Africa... besides, it is not natural resources that Stalin was after.
They would. Except they can get even more profit by investing in wireless. So again, typical conflict of interests. Removing it could help.

Their execs indeed have no clue how to mange landline business or they simply don't care about it. Their whole background is wireless and they are trying to get rid of landline (selling it off).

Seidenberg was landline man through and through. He cared about improving it and moving it forward. McAdam has no clue about it and doesn't care.
OCaml is quite fast, and I guess it could produce faster code than C++ on some occasions, but it's definitely SLOWER than C++ for most benchmarks, e.g.:

benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lang=ocaml&lang2=gpp
The democrats I feel have elected the 1 person that could loose to Trump and the Hillary campaign keep making things worse. At this point I feel any vanilla Democrat will do better than Hillary in the elections
Any sort of thinking about what the code does or does not do is essentially proving theorems about it, is it not? It seems to me one does that all the time when debugging.
> Having a ton of stuff may not be very helpful if you don't have the physical capabilities to adapt to unexpected circumstances.

The actual amount of physical stuff you'd need to survive some sort of post-apocalyptic scenario really isn't more than a few hundred bucks, e.g. a year worth of crystalized iodine for purifying water and a flint & steel fire starter costs all of $25. What's more expensive is learning the edible plants and mushrooms in your area and their medicinal properties, plus whatever other miscellaneous survival skills you'd need.
> It might be okay for your project, but there are many cases where warnings seriously get in the way (e.g., indirect throw/longjump but leaving out a return statement).

I'd prefer to explicitly annotate the indirectly throwing function as non-returning, when possible. Longjumps are rare enough for me I'd be willing to individually suppress them, or suppress them over a range of code where they happen to be common. I've seen return warnings catch enough bugs that I believe this will save more time than it spends in the long run. If I didn't, I'd explicitly lower that individual warning's severity. I will also lower the warning's severity on a given compiler, if (but only if) I can't properly annotate it away on a given compiler.

> Besides, the warnings depend on the compiler (which may be non-gcc/clang/vs)

Again, feature. More coverage. Good.

> and may not even make sense on a given system.

In which case, upon reviewing said warning and determining said warning indeed does not make sense, said warning can be individually suppressed as mentioned.

> Put the important stuff in the tests.

This is a statically typed language. Successfully compiling is the first test. Successfully passing static analysis is the second test.

Undefined behavior bugs can lead to some very subtle behavior that can be very difficult to unit test for, and tends to be quite sensitive to things like compiler flags, which call site they were inlined at, allocation patterns, etc. to even manifest in the first place. Given how nasty they can be to debug, they're also some of the bugs I'm most interested in catching - ideally before I commit, definitely before I ship. Taking full advantage of compiler diagnostics is way easier than e.g. writing enough unit tests to catch all UB caused from falling off the end of a non-void function without a return statement.
Jeez, guys, this is Billy Crystal:)
For anyone who likes this video, you should also checkout Sega Saturn CD - Cracked After 20 Years[0].

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOyfZex7B3E
they obviously deemed the content unsuitable to host... considering that, they would have to host that data to make it available for him to extract it. it's a catch-22.

you're all sheep.
Some friends of mine have similar concerns, and it surprises me. I have multiple Exchange 360 accounts and multiple Gmail accounts, and OneDrive. I use offline .PST files in Outlook to copy everything older than 3 months into. Everything on my OneDrive is on my local hard drive. To be fair I don't do cloud music - my entire 80Gb collection is on my hard drive and duplicated on my phone. Do you just have so much stuff that something like what I described isn't feasible?
I can't parse this. Especially "User count should not ever be exponential of customer counts". Wat.

I'm not seeing the connection between content monetisation and Google's ads business either.
> I tend to prefer languages and tools that adopt good ideas without promoting a single specific way of thinking.

Do you mean promoting, or enforcing?

There are many aspects of, say, the Zen of Python that I am very grateful for.
Soo..We said never look for something better than Java? Or OOP? What if FP gives us all the important things that OOP does and more? Why wouldn't we use it?

Personally I want to learn from and use a language that supports as many of the paradigms as possible, like Scala or Swift. Let me choose based on what I need. That being said I'd much rather work in pure FP then OOP because of the fact that most of the advantages of OOP can be achieved via FP and the inverse is not true.
The DNC hack and dump is what cyberwar looks like