skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of all of these, DNS is the easist to address -- anyone can set up their own forarding nameserver pointing at the roots. Performance is pretty good.

Much as I distrust Google for anything these days, 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4 offer a widespread advanced notice of domains tracking up the hit rates, and possible attacks.

Email, as STMP, after decades of nobel service really simply does deserve to die. It's far less about the mechanics of email user interfaces, for which there's a great deal of ink wasted, and much more on privacy -- encryption, metadata, and spam, probably as the three top concerns. Very nearly all the suggested replacements (SMS, various messaging systems, Facebook) have either those problems or those and the fatal condition of being proprietary silos.

The more I reflect on it the more the Web is close to what Usenet was, at least in some regards. Origins post messages, which may or may not die in short order (what's TTL for an Internet page now, a few months on average?). We're increasingly relying on sites such as the Internet Archive to actually provide a view-through-time at content.

What the web (and email, especially in mailing lists) lacks and has always lacked is a requirement to meet standards conformance. DDG "The Web is an error condition" and you'll find a far-too-true-to-be-good rant on that topic.

The loose-standards-anything-will-fly-nearly approach has allowed a great deal of flexibility in page design, but much of that is ultimately painful. I'm finding a much greater appreciation for straight-up HTML 1.0 formatted pages.

A huge part of the problem is exceptionally crappy entity styling defaults. If browsers presented pages sanely (at various resolutions), much of the B-Arc profession of Web design would simply cease to exist. And this would be a wonderful thing.

A simplified markup, acceptance criteria (and rejections for failed formats), cache-and-foreard, client-determined-formatting, security, and either a universal content syndication or UBI type compensation model might address other issues.

I'm getting the sense of some interesting possiblities out there.
Not the only! Yota2 phone with second e-ink screen on the back of the phone is engineered by former nokians.
You mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_traffic_control, which we've used in every major jurisdiction of Australia starting in the 1970s?
If you're a government, you can override a corporation, full stop. Whether that's legally, or with force, it's going to happen (up to and including jamming satellite communications or even destroying your satellite).

You could retaliate by force as a corporation, but then you'll probably end up dissolved with your corporate officers in prison.
I love Docker for Mac but I have had a problem of containers just disappearing after running for a while.
The people who built the system set hiding extensions of known file types a default. So virus.pdf.exe will show up as virus.pdf. I know better than them that this is a completely moronic decision.
I think you mean to link to the now official Minikube (https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube). But yes, this is a big win for getting started and local development.
But aren't these simple business standards which lead to standardized contract language and hand-washing?

I'm looking for the regulatory framework which treats employing slave-labor in your supply chain as a civil offense with potentially massive punitive damages.
Is this how AI will begin to segregate our futures and our lives?
Sounds wonderful reat if you enjoy GPRS latency and typing code with soft keyboards. I'd also assume that working with local peripherals work great with that setup?
"xbox mobile"
Anyone know if the volume ozone performance have been improved to at least the level of nfs method? This is what keeps me away from using the docket for Mac and just sticking to dinghy until this is fixed
Collection of Vehicle Security resources, software, hardware, books, and more
I've shot around estimates of the size of Usenet with some old Usenetters (of whom I was one, though only marginally active).

Gene "Spaff" Spafford thinks 50k - 500k users ~1988 - 1994 is probably ballpark accurate. Peter da Silva notes that in 1990 he was the most active user on Usenet ... and under another handle, the 3rd most active. Microsoft did some early 2000s research turning up low-single-digit million distinct user IDs IIRC (I've posted on this previously).

So, yeah, it was small.

Organising people into groups, even ad-hoc, from which exceptionally good messages might be shared to others, might be one way of handling scaling. Clustersizes ranging from a total size within Dunbar ranges, to a 1/9/90 split giving the 10% active users a Dunbar cap (about 300 - 3,000 users per cluster) might work.

I agree that 1990 Usenet in 2016 would be a fatal mistake.
That is the stated narrative: that it's hard to hire CEOs who are good, and we need to give them every dollar we can.

But there's a darker, and (IMHO) more accurate narrative: corruption or nepotism. Company A's CEO serves on the boards of companies B and C; and company B's CEO serves on the boards of A & C; and C's CEO on A & B. When the time comes, CEO_A votes for a big raise for CEO_B (and so does CEO_C). Now, when their turns come, they point to CEO_B and say: "look, the market is valuing CEOs so much! You've got to do something!". And CEO_B and CEO_C express outrage and vote to give CEO_A a huge raise. And the cycle repeats.

Of course the connections are not as direct, but the club is a very exclusive club, and they all know how the game is played.
I find the correlation-causation discussion a bit troubling.

What if, for instance, men who want a divorce manage to quit working/become involuntarily unemployed because they don't want their incomes going toward alimony for a spouse they now dislike?

Or what if it's like those initial studies linking low body weight with high mortality, which we found were mixing together healthy skinny people and people who'd lost a lot of weight due to cancer? Maybe men who are involuntarily unemployed are drawn from a mix of guys with bad luck and guys with traits that cause them to be less stably employed?

How do these decisions fluctuate or not with the national unemployment rate?

It seems like this is an interesting exploratory study but not yet very specific.
It's politicization of the military, as I said in my OP.
Actually, Nokia Software was awesome. It was their usability and UX that was dog awful. A lot of SW features that are around today have been around for a decade with Nokia. They had a plan, to move over to Meego, which won awards.. but was torpedoed by Elop.

Elop destroyed Nokia, they had the best distribution network and supply chains. Linking up with Elop instantly killed that and destroyed any goodwill they had with operators and carriers who would have continued to back Nokia. Unfortunately carriers are anti-Microsoft...
Cray. Radio shack/Tandy. KSR. MasPar. Thinking Machines. Sinclair.

It's easy to accidentally have survivorship bias.
It takes a lot of research to find the winners. I just bought another brand new Sony Xperia Z3 Compact for 220$ because the newer Z5 Compact doesn't compare well for being double the price.
With the GPLv2 (as opposed to the v3), and "distributed" ownership of the copyright, respecting the community's standards for enforcement is particularly important.

Say FooCorp violates the Linux kernel's GPLv2 license. When FooCorp do this, their license is instantly terminated. Say the SFC notices, and goes after FooCorp. The SFC helps FooCorp come back into compliance. The SFC then re-instates FooCorp's license to the portion of the Linux kernel that the SFC owns the copyright to (and the portions owned by others that the SFC represents). However, FooCorp's license to the rest of the Linux kernel is _still void_! They are in violation of the copyright of most of the other copyright holders! Patrick (for example) could then sue FooCorp for violating his copyright, even though they are now in compliance with the original license and have worked things out with the SFC. He could probably make a decent living just following the SFC around and extorting everyone the SFC brings into compliance. Being able to resume using the Linux kernel after violating the GPLv2 and then coming back into compliance fundamentally relies on the rest of the copyright holders following the community-oriented principles and treating the license as re-instated.

Admittedly, this is just one aspect of the community oriented principles.
The comment you replied to wasn't talking of the advertising industry in particular, but of the tech industry in general. The "big players" in his comment were the big companies, and "us" were the startups.
They didn't have us update the Word document in place -- meaning each status didn't take the place of the previous week's status. So you can imagine that the document quickly grew quite long. Managers started complaining that they couldn't see what was happening quickly enough because they had to scroll too much.
I've been banging my head on QFT and the Standard Model for enough time now that I can actually glimpse more or less what those terms actualy mean, as in , I can translate them into words. It's almost like learning a new language! Pretty awesome.

Still, despite all this complexity, we still have several minor and major theoretical gaps to fill. Exciting times!
Courts are more favorable to women in some ways, but the economic consequences are generally worse for women. "Worse" and "better" all depends on what endpoint you're looking at, just like all those studies on cholesterol (do you want to lower cholesterol or not die from heart problems?) -- do you want the alimony now or the overall financial health?
Curious, can you share what you need it for?
Extrapolating from that correlation!=causation theme, now I wonder if that "thing that happened in 1975" was something affecting people's marriages or something within those marriages affecting everything else.
Very inspiring story. I wish they had gone into more detail on how she learned without internet access.

I did not have internet access either when I was growing up, but I learned to program from reading books I checked out from the local public library. I installed my first C compiler from a CD that was in a book from the library. I just kept checking out more and more complicated books as I learned more. I still fondly remember the six weeks or so that I kept renewing Bruce Schneier's Applied Cryptography while I tried to make my own encryption algorithm.

Honestly I think that learning to program without internet access was one of the biggest contributing factors to making me a good engineer today. I made a lot of mistakes along the way, but that trial and error gave me improved ability to figure out solutions to problems on my own. There was no easy out of being able to get an instant solution from Stack Overflow or Github.
Major issues:

* RFC 2047 is a pain in the butt

* Handling attachments can be difficult (particularly the inability to safely add binary data)

* The display name/address is both painful in terms of syntax.

* CFWS in general (you can tell who's written an email client by their reaction to the letters CFWS)

* Header fields in general have way too lenient handling, so there's no way to, e.g., guarantee non-ASCII handling (RFC 2047 needs to be handled differently in the Subject: header than from the From: header, and the Content-Type: header does something else entirely).

* Mandatory line-length limits, which means you need to be able to insert line breaks in however you encode custom header values

* No way to get attachments without the body or vice versa

* All metadata needs to be shoved into a header (see above about i18n, line length, and CFWS)
What "message" are you talking about?

I've associated feminism with "women make $0.67 for every dollar that a man makes for the same job, working the same hours" and equal gender ratio over equal opportunity.
I actually thought that was a cool idea when it came out but I always did wonder what the purpose was if I wanted to do more. I was pretty focused on getting a Blackberry (shudders) at the time
I'm not completely disagreeing with you but Debian in recent years has taken massive steps backwards as far as production stability. Jessie for example did not ship with SELinux enabled which was a key deliverable for Jessie to be classed as stable / ready for production, what's worse is it doesn't ship with the require SELinux policies - again another requirement before it was to be marked as stable, it's filled with out of date packages (you know they're old when they're behind RHEL/CentOS!) and they settled on probably the worst 3.x kernel they could have.
> If you want to have a car, you have to live somewhere that has an alley/garage space for you. If you want your business to be usable by drivers, have a parking lot or do a parking validation deal with a nearby garage.

I've wondered what would happen if a city was built with a mandate that there must be a parking garage on every block, or every X blocks. You could even make them a public utility, an extension of the public road network.
It's an understandable bug that didn't just leave trump off. The title is bait. Basically since the republican and libertarian conventions are over neither showed up on the list.
I see; so what you're saying Tk bindings actually invoke Tcl execution, in addition to the lower level C API (functions named Tk_Whatever); i.e. there is no Tk without Tcl being interpreted.
We fine companies millions of dollars for illegally dumping waste in international waters.

EPA raided a company and jailed the executives for purporting to recycle but actually shipping the waste overseas.

So it doesn't have to stop at the borders. US law can and does punish companies for damage even outside the US.

I would have hoped for something like child slave labor, companies would be looking at potentially facing a full embargo on their goods. When you put the fear of God into a company for something like that, they will make damn sure their supply chain is clean. I see it as the best way to stomp out these horrific abuses.
I wasn't a gamer, but belonging to ECHO (East Coast Hang Out) in NYC in the early 90s was similar. We had monthly meetups at a bar downtown, and I got to meet people with similar and different, but interesting passions.

I chalk it up to the novelty and size of this sort of thing back then. It exists now in meetups and other such things like Gitter, but it's more common, so it seems less special (but it's not!).
Absolutely, I too would really like this, especially if you could easily do PCIe / Thunderbolt passthrough for GPUs.
> Summly was none of those. They got one 17 year old dev, and a fairly-decent product they made basically no use of. I don't know how good D'Aloisio is, but he's not that good. Especially without the kind of status and support that could turn out a bold new product within Yahoo.

Summly was not D'Aloiso's product in terms of development. He may have had the idea, but the technology was SRI's (the same guys who developed Siri), and IIRC, Summly had exclusive use of that. So please stop demeaning it as "some 17-year-old's app".
My psychologists said the same, as a child. I suspect it's a stock phrase for many of them.

Psychologists as a profession are much more comfortable with the idea of people whose thought processes are unusual, but still effective. It's what they're for, really.
Can you give some links where MRM people support women? Genuinely curious.
The older versions are also not literal dumps. They're binary "dumps" of the object tree in memory, yes, in a sense that you walk the tree and write it out. This is bad because your in-memory object tree then effectively defines the format, and it's not spec'd otherwise, which makes portability that much harder, especially for a closed-source application where you can't see code. But it's a very different problem.

FWIW, old Office documents were actually CFBF (Compound File Binary Format) files - think of it as FAT-in-a-file, allowing for multiple independent streams inside, with transactions. This was very commonly used on Windows in the OLE/COM era, because it was the underlying format for OLE Structured Storage. It's what allowed a Word document to embed another arbitrary document in an extensible way. The underlying data in the streams within CFBF was a loose object graph dump.

It all makes a lot of sense when you have your OLE glasses firmly on - it's basically a natural design that follows if your world consists of OLE objects and interactions between them. Look up IStorage and IStream to see what I mean.

The side effect of all this, however, is that the data inside an old Office file is not laid out in a logical way - streams consist of non-sequential interleaved blocks in a seemingly random order (depending on what was written when), some blocks may contain garbage data, and so on. So it's very difficult to reverse engineer, which is why it took so long back in the day, and the results were often unreliable.
I was just suggesting that people might take the parent poster more seriously if he didn't go straight from 0 to 100 on the pain-meter.

If it was an attempt at humor, it certainly seems like people here didn't enjoy it much.

In general hyperbole for emphasis is fine, but blowing the badness of something out of proportion is a common way that people polarize and shut down otherwise healthy discussions, often unintentionally. HN is a forum to foster discussion, so we should try to avoid doing things that shut it down.
> it violates a social norm

This story hit me pretty hard. While I was in medical school, my wife's family, especially her mother, routinely encouraged her to divorce me.

We had two small kids, and I had gone on job interviews and seen the offers I was getting without a graduate degree, despite a BS in physics and 7 years of experience. It was obvious to everyone that medical school was the right course of action in the long term but it would be hard.

I didn't realize it would get harder when her family started jumping on any opportunity to point out my "temporary financial embarrassment". On a day-to-day basis, she was working 40 hours a week and while med school was paid for, and I had a small stipend, her paycheck was better. And cognitively, she understood that. But her brothers and mother, and eventually her father told her to "get rid of him".

We stuck it out. They wonder why we don't fly across country to visit them much...
> All the companies I listed do not exist now.

Nokia has 114000 employees (almost twice of 2014 after buying Alcatel-Lucent: Nokia owns Bell Labs now) and $20b+ of revenue.

It's amusing how people in the HN bubble tend to think Nokia was bought by MS and closed.
I still use it for small, quick apps with a GUI. Like most older languages, there are a lot of gems that have been written that you can study.
He is likely referring to hard drugs of some sort. "Using" connotes methamphetamines or heroin.
I'm starting to see what I'm calling for now "hygiene factors" as a critical element and technological mechanism for almost anything. Maybe it's a generalisation of le Chatlier's principle (@btilly's got a good post on this).

To make this concrete: put enough people or activity or stuff in some area and you end up with noxious effects. Bulk, bioactive, chemoactive, systemic, and even cultural impacts. For most towns and cities, water pollution and sanitation rapidly become pain points. For transport systems, congestion, but also highway robbery and piracy. For communications systems, it's the annoyance of low-quality or unwanted signals. A key point is that cost reduction makes all hygiene factors worse. You end up with more of the bad stuff. There's also scale effects. Ultimately, you need to apply different cost factors to the wanted and unwanted effects (generally through some form of policing, patrolling, filtering, reputation feedback, etc., etc.).

Or you can limit the total size of unrestricted networks and provide gateways (with filters) between them. And yes, that means you're subject to policies (egress and ingress) on both sides of those filters.
> Considering how cheap the Nexus line is, I'm not sure why people even both with the super-budget phones.

Might only be true in the US. At least in my country, it is neither accessible to buy nor cheap.
So... just like iOS?
Exactly this. Implementing low-level algorithms focuses on C's strengths: arrays (memory layout) and manual memory allocation. They will be your biggest blind spots coming from a dynamic language, and they are the primary reason one would use C.

After that I would move on to implementing something like a telnet or simple HTTP server, focusing on using sockets and processes correctly: handling all error cases, ensuring no deadlock, etc. That is C's other strength: it is the language of Unix.
Prof. Geoffrey Hinton Awarded IEEE Medal for His Work in AI [video]
There is a parallel universe where Windows 8 was the beginning of Windows as a flavor of Linux and the attempt to create a new ecosystem with Windows 10 never manifested as Microsoft became a new creature.

It's sad that a company with numerous intelligent and talented people fails repeatedly. It's a waste of their efforts.
Constantly using various recreational drugs. It's actually not something my wife has a problem with at all, and even recently she encouraged me to keep doing so. The decision to stop was my own. There have been many extended periods of heavy use and total abstinence in my life already, and I wouldn't change that. In general it's a habit that I have good control over, and one that has never jeopardized my physical wellbeing. Emotionally, psychoactive drugs can have myriad effects, but on the whole they have influenced my personality in remarkably positive ways.
Group Smells: anti-patterns in collaboration
In my area (poor, very rural), craigslist is too slow for that.

I've been searching for a drill press for months, and I actually just hit one today. Assuming it's not sold out from under me by tomorrow, I'll have a new one in the evening.

The last one I saw was sold within two hours of listing, and that was over a month ago.
Australian Census 2016: Mark No Religion
Tock: A secure embedded operating system for Cortex-M microcontrollers
They did not merge. They were bought for peanuts.

You are misremembering.

"Digital was acquired in June 1998 by Compaq, in what was at that time the largest merger in the history of the computer industry. At the time, Compaq was focused on the enterprise market and had recently purchased several other large vendors. Digital was a major player overseas where Compaq had less presence. However, Compaq had little idea what to do with its acquisitions, and soon found itself in financial difficulty of its own. The company subsequently merged with Hewlett-Packard (HP) in May 2002. As of 2007 some of Digital's product lines were still produced under the HP name."[1]

The Sun purchase wasn't as big, true. But they had multiple bidders, and sold for $5.6B:

"In late 2008, Sun was approached by IBM to discuss a possible merger.[4] At about the same time, Sun also began discussions with another company, widely rumored but unconfirmed to be Hewlett Packard, about a potential acquisition. By March 2009, talks had stalled between Sun and both IBM and the other potential suitor.

On April 20, 2009, Sun and Oracle Corporation announced that they had entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle would acquire Sun for $9.50 a share in cash. Net of Sun's cash and debt, this amounted to a $5.6 billion offer from Oracle"[2]

These are both excellent of examples of companies that one might argue "failed" in the market place, but were still valuable years after their peak in the market. That is exactly what adventured is saying.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_acquisition_by_Oracle
Stationwagons full of tapes. Your best bandwidth option since 1981. Well, probably since 1951, but still.

Obxkcd: https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
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