skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Start a small company. "Hustle" diligently for a while. Profit. Repeat. Now you have a large, successful company.

And, also, survivor bias. Lots of companies hustled and hustled and died.

Elon Musk is a really good example. At one point he couldn't meet cashflow--and then the government contract for SpaceX finally came in.

3 months of delay on that contract and Musk is a goat instead of a hero.
> He said it was a constant struggle. But it clearly is possible.

That is just confirmation of point 4 of the parent post.
True, although your example is probably just an attempt to offer method overloading. But I agree that it is confusing. And you do see a lot of times functions trying to sanitise their inputs, which I agree is wrong.
While this may sometimes be true, it would be dishonest to claim that only the original author of a project should be allowed to maintain it. It's also incorrect, since distributions all maintain forks of vim as well. Given how much time and effort the NeoVim community has put into improving the state of vim (that includes refactoring, as well as much more significant features you ignored like async which NeoVim had first since the maintainer of Vim didn't want async), it is quite disrespectful to call them "newbie refactorers". Everything I've seen of the vim development community makes me feel that it is quite toxic, so I'm very happy with the more open development model that NeoVim has.
>just censor anything with naked people
It's a simple solution for a complex problem. Countries that follow this way end up covering up ancient statues - just in case, you know.
Context would be nice. I've never heard of any of the proper nouns in this article.
I can see that its only available for apple devices, is there a technical hurdle in doing this for android?
I think you're referring to color cycling, and it's a much interesting technology than just a handful of sprites:

http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article-Old_School_Color_C...
Google+.

Google Books kicked off to a really nice start, but seems to be languishing. OTOH, much of the accessible out-of-copyright material has been scanned, and a significant amount of in-copyright material (books and articles) is being provided ... by other means. Still, the Google Ngram Viewer tops out at 2008, which is increasingly irksome.

A great many of Google's social products: Orkut, Buzz, and Wave.

Whatever those barges were supposed to have been used for.
Can we automate the creation of RTI requests using NLP, and autonomously analyze the results?
No, it's the cost of choosing to support a new URL scheme. You have to validate your app to make sure it makes sense to allow the use of the new URL scheme anyway, updating a whitelist should be pretty trivial. And you only pay the cost if a new URL scheme shows up that you actually want to support. Meanwhile the blacklist approach not only exposes you to security vulnerabilities, but imposes a cost every time the underlying platform adds support for a new URL type because now you have to update your blacklist to block it.
That's a relief, I was really worried about that.

LN
Thanks!

Just curious, why do you hate to admit it? :)
Diversity quotas explicitly enforce something other than "hiring the best person" as their conscious aim. I think the diversity problem is exacerbated by this type of thinking as much as refusing to hire a <insert gender, race, religion, nationality here>.
This site is a poor source of information for the current state of understanding how porn affects the brain. Here's a great jumping-off point instead:

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/is-...
> They are 100% correct about the spatial Finder; 15 years later and what the current OS has is still laughable compared to some of the gems of the Classic Finder.

And every version that comes out, the Finder moves further away from spacial and towards a disk browser. I hate it so much.

> I don’t quite understand why Apple went so far away from Platinum.

For the purpose of looking cool in a demo. OS9 had Platinum, and it was the standard, and third party apps that didn't fall in line, really stuck out in an uncomplimentary way and collected a lot of flack.

Since then, OSX has gone through... how many re-skinnings? How many optional app UI kits? Do you remember the brushed aluminium one that was popular for a minute? Remember all of their one-off, over the top, skeuomorphic apps? Now Chrome can get all fucky with the title bar and no one even notices. And one of Apple's own flagship apps, iTunes, is such a user-surly, confused mess of UI mistakes it's hardly usable.

> not to mention the pop-up tab windows from 8.5+.

Finder Drawers! I miss them too. I especially miss the huge contextual menu ecosystem that OS9 had. Anyone else miss WindowShade?
> What workloads were you using Gluster for?

Sharing config files. Wordpress sites. Django sites. The performance was too shitty for everything.

> How did you reach out to the developers? Usually the mailing lists are very responsive and most bugs brought up on the lists are addressed.

IRC. I ended up finding all my errors unresolved by it in the mailing list archives with zero developer attention, and since I didn't have the time to help RedHat make their product actually usable, I dropped Gluster.

> Not sure how that can cause a kernel panic.

I guess it's technically not a kernel panic if I/O just stalls so hard that you can neither mount nor unmount nor otherwise access any of your NFS targets… but you have to hard reset the whole machine anyway.
It's the specific context around this photo. Vietnam was defined by media presence which was what drove public outrage against the war.

Essentially the thesis is this: if Facebook were the dominant media platform during Vietnam, we never would've seen these images; we probably would have continued committing atrocities against civilians and our own soldiers.

Seeing as we are now involved in several wars around the world, if our media cannot publicize the realities of war because a child's clothes got blown off with her legs, then someone (i.e. Facebook) has a stranglehold on public opinion.
'on an infinite timescale' (as Siracusa likes to say) you could be right but looking at the political realities I don't expect this within my lifetime. Take my home country Switzerland: We already have ~50% of commuting done by public transport, no automation needed. You could certainly make an argument that it would be much cheaper for the other half to switch as well so the roads can be used by buses and delivery vehicles - yet noone would even get that idea. Cars have become such an integral part of culture that it will take a long time until you find majorities for restricting access (with the exception of inner cities where this is already happening).

Plus, even in Switzerland where there is practically zero stigma in taking a bus, there are lots of regions where not having a car is impractical even once automation is there (an auto still has to get to you when you live in a tiny mountain village).
> It's a very different country than the U.S., but it gives me hope that there's a better way to structure our school system.

I am watching how they integrate refugees to see if the "system" or the "homogeneity" is the cause of better educational outcomes.

So far, the "system" seems to be losing to the "homogeneity" argument.
I think the criticism is real, but also that we market the pre-stage 4 technologies inappropriately by implementing them as binary "completely hands off, else emergency" systems. Integrated in a way that is more assisted, keeping the driver in control of the overall decisions but making some cautionary adjustments to implementation of those decisions to adjust speed or direction to stay in lane, avoid excessive tailgating, allow merges, etc., they could still be powerful tools to reduce some number of that death toll.
Once you get beyond keyboard shortcuts and stuff (which isn't the distro, it's the window/desktop manager), the thing to evaluate is the package manager (how are files laid out, how are releases done, how do rollbacks happen, how is the kernel updated, etc). Along with that, what init system is used, how sane the defaults are, etc. Beyond that, I think about how community packages work, and how good the documentation is for, well everything.

Ubuntu loses in every one of these categories for me compared to Arch.
Go discourages classical inheritance, but otherwise it seems pretty object-oriented to me. Interfaces are object types. The only operation they support is calling methods. That's pretty much what objects are: self-contained entities with internal state (fields) and externally visible behavior (methods).

If anything, C++ is less object-oriented than Go, and more oriented towards abstract data types (which C++ programmers call “concepts”).
The author's examples focus on companies that provide services to individuals, which is a subset of all the companies out there.

I'm sure there are many innovative companies silently changing the world in their own small way, we just don't see them because they're not marketing themselves towards individual consumers through tv commercials, online ads, etc.
Post short comment: be misread.

Post longer clarification: dismissed as too wordy.

Tough crowd.
Why does Google Play need constant GPS?
Even the 1984 Macintosh was snappy in its user interface: when you clicked a menu it opened instantly, when you dragged a window it always moved instantaneously.

Working with Windows even 20 years later was disappointing. You click the Start menu, and waited. Finally it appeared. You hovered over a menu item and waited. Finally its submenu appeared.
Also ironic that the fastest and easiest way to the center of the Earth (or at least its interior) is to launch into orbit.
Does it automatically take horizontal video when you are holding your camera vertically? When will we get that technology?
I used to work as a federal contractor in 1996-1997. The Army did switch to MacOS for web servers. I'm not sure what Mac web server they used. They tried Windows that got hacked, and they ran Linux but didn't always update it and it got hacked as well. I think they ran some stuff as Root in Linux. The MacOS security model was different from Linux or Windows and supposed to be more secure.

Of course social engineering meant that people can call their help desk and pretend to be someone working on the server to get the password reset. No security software is going to stop a social engineering attack. Also after people get their password reset they forget to change it and leave it "password" and other easy to remember passwords. So weak passwords mean someone can get in without using an exploit but a password dictionary attack.
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You're less likely to pick up a widely targeted virus, and more likely to be pwned if anyone attempts to target you personally.
OT: How are you able to tell I'm being downvoted?
Snowden's 40 days in a Russian airport – by the woman who helped him escape
We can just disagree.
About 1000 days ago Phil Schiller said, "Can't innovate any more, my ass!" with the release of the Mac Pro. Regardless of whether it was innovative or not, that was pretty much the last time desktops were ever updated.

Apple could have released many upgrades to the MBP, especially considering what competitors with far less cash and fewer employees have accomplished in upgrade cycles every few months.

I don't think they are going to discontinue the MBP, but I do wonder what the plan is that they're executing. Do long cycles increase confidence among consumers that the machines will last a long time? Can they have low profit margins at the release date without worrying markets that they won't increase?
The comparisons up top basically look like HDR for faces™.
Hofstadter also wrote a whole book on the subject ([0]).
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Ton_beau_de_Marot
In the linked post, he mentions that the flood gates opened after he got the offer from Google.

So, does one keep the recruiter waiting and apply for other companies telling everyone that you have an offer with Google? How long of a leeway does one have in such negotiations? How long can you keep the recruiter waiting before they close the gates? Is it a good job search strategy?
We're more antisocial in a shared office space
> John Holt wrote "how children fail" and "how children learn" at least 40 years ago. John Gatto wrote "Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling" 25 years ago.

Holt is not a particularly good figure to cite to back up your assertions. "Education" books are like most "business" books, very little research and data to back up scores of anecdotes. This doesn't automatically make him wrong, but many of his ideas have been overturned and refuted by actual research and investigation.

However, your point stands and we are in agreement with the fact that there is no political will to expend the resource required to improve educational attainment.
This is really interesting considering the "starving artist" stereotype.

Is the problem that there are lots of mediocre artists but not many who can actually execute projects? Or that it is hard to parallelize things like this? Or that once you parallelize too much, the amount of value added by a marginal artist is not enough to pay them?
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No, this is not the criterion. US politics, for an example, is "of interest to Hacker News readers", but makes for awful (and mostly pointless) discussion, so it's discouraged as a topic.

In fact, "anything of interest to [the people who form the community]" is an inherently meaningless rule: as things are posted that "go beyond" the interests of the community, the site will begin to attract a new audience that is interested in those things, leading to a community shift or dilution. Such a setup can make sense in a closed community, but not in an open one.

The real spirit at the core of the HN content guidelines, I think, is something like this: we want posts where reading them evokes the hacker mindset in people. AI? Cryptography? Engineering? Great. "Lean startup" entrepreneuralist exploration? Sure. Cat photos, gender-studies rants, brand movements? Not really.

It's actually a rather strict guideline; a large number of things on the front page at any given moment aren't really "HN material", as can be seen from the low quality of the discussions they provoke. The guidelines are enforced with a rather light hand, though. It's hard to convince a person currently in possession of An Opinion that they'll probably regret the five hours they wasted in that thread picking apart e.g. the pros and cons of iPhones lacking headphone jacks. Easy enough to convince them afterward, but very hard at the time.

(I've always found that the best forums have "benevolent dictators" who are willing to kill these conversational vortexes and then take the heat for them. pg was this person at HN's start; but now HN is far more of a standard "just moderation, no emceeing" forum.)
I'm not against releasing the particle...but any specific reason you hope they release them once back into the wild after?
Might want people to know that there is a free option, and a paid option that leads to more material, help etc.

That way people can sign up for free and see if they like it and upgrade to paid later on if they like it.
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I wrote that. It is not extreme.

"Security purposes" is mostly attacking routers, dns daemons or kernels via hash flooding which don't have that bad hash tables as the mentioned languages. Interestingly those devs are snake oil resistant.

Security theatre is the claim by siphash and its proponents.
The siphash paper analyzes a very small part of hash tables usage, and then wildly exaggerates its logic. People are reading it as the claims in the section before "7 Application: defense against hash flooding" would affect hash tables also. No, they are talking purely about the hash function there.
But then in section 7 they act as like all hash tables are only implemented as the simpliest and worst of all, linked lists chaining. Only the worst hash tables are using this collision resolution scheme. It is slow and it is "insecure" by default. There is no need to add a pseudo-secure layer of siphash on top of it as it does not help. The idea how such a hash table would be attacked are from 2003. We are now in 2016, and people are using efficient sat solvers (first just z3 in python, then producing scripts which produce CNF, and then eventually cbmc which can use the siphash code verbatim), not the simple ad hoc attempts they are describing. Their analysis is partially sound, but the result and claim is completely wrong. We are just lucky that such hash flooding is uncool, as attacking an application service is nowadays much easier. You can read about it here almost every other day.

Rust uses a uselessly slow hash function while it was already protected by the balancing characteristics of robin hood. Therefore switching to siphash is doing more harm than good. It's using a 10-100x slower hash function which is completely useless. Count the average collisions before and after, and compare the time won there against the time lost in the hash function. It's a dramatic loss.

It wasn't a dramatic loss in python, no idea why. I guess they have some other grave mistake in their hash table. It is a dramatic loss in perl5. Even if their hash table is the worst of all open source projects. Well, at least they randomize the iterator now. Before they used a zero-invariant function (trivial to attack by adding \0), and didn't count collisions when fighting collision attacks.
So I vote they call this the "Alderan model"
I haven't read this article closely yet, but based on other similar protocols, I _think_ the key element is, can you still log in to your servers when all your LDAP is catastrophically down for some reason. Sure, it's unlikely, but for someone like Facebook that's an unacceptable risk. This also means you don't have to actually _worry_ about maintaining an HA LDAP infrastructure that can support all the SSH auth you need.
I haven't. As I understand it, it basically doesn't work at all in city traffic? Like going across Manhattan on 59th street?
I've dated millenials that have never done their own laundry.
Amelia Earhart crash: Did the pilot survive days after her plane went missing?
I don't really understand that. DSN antennas are highly directional because they have to be. If they don't aim directly at the asteroid -- and we're talking a tiny fraction of a degree of beamwidth -- they won't hear anything, even if they want to.

There is no conceivable risk of "jamming" the DSN.
I recently heard a rule of thumb: "accept interfaces, return structs".

I haven't put it into practice, but it seems like this should give callers enough flexibility to pass in whatever they like.
The case of the headphone hijack
Neat, I was just thinking to myself how much I wanted an app that would automatically wash out all my photos for me.
> Doesn't the order of the adjectives sound wrong?

Yes.

> Am I missing something to explain why it's "big next rocket" instead of "next big rocket"?

Well, if you are looking at the meme, which is incomplete, yes. And even most of the more complete descriptions of English adjective order I can find are missing this. But there is a category (I'd call it sequence) that comes before any of the listed categories, that includes things like "first", "next", "last", etc.
The requests are not a problem, the availability of data is.
You're correct that Prisma uploads images and processes them "in the cloud" - but only for about half the filters. It's kind of weird and it isn't immediately obvious what the difference is between "cloud" filters and "local" filters.
xscreensaver will always be there for you.
I feel the same way about advertising.

It makes me sad that some of the smartest people in the world are at Google and FB getting people to click ads.
I am of another school of thought. The layouts of my documents are there to make them easier to understand, and I benefit from them while I am writing. So I personally do not like writing in a text editor, even though I spend a lot of time in one when I am completing other tasks. At the same time, I simply create or import styles at the beginning of a project, so I am virtually never doing layout while I am writing.
The things I'd do for a Power Pete remake... iOS seems like a pretty good platform for it all told. I tried the emulator and managed to get it to run but everything was sped up 4x or so...
+1 to this. I recently just started toying with the idea of going sugar free and ketogenic... so I started trying foods without many carbs but wasn't even committed to it. All of a sudden I noticed I had lost 5-7 pounds in 3-4 weeks. So I got excited and kept it up... I'm not losing weight at the same rate but now about 2-3 months in and I'm down about 25 pounds. It's ridiculous.

I haven't noticed the energy or clarity improvements in myself and my wife hasn't seen that in me either. That may be due to sleep as I'm going to school full-time, training for the Chicago Marathon, and working full-time. Given all that maybe it's just great that I can function. :)

Either way! The changes have been amazing and dramatic. My biggest problem now is that I need to buy a whole new wardrobe but I can't yet because I think I still have another 15 pounds I'll blow through by Christmas. I finally feel in control of my weight and it's the best.
I have a feeling 8 hours of pitch black video compresses to even less. So at the lowest resolutions and framerates maybe you have 1gb of video per day. That's around 2 and a half years per tb. You can buy 5 tb drives for under 300 dollars. That means you can do video for 14 years. With backups and all the hardware, this entire project could cost less than 1000usd.
Your goal is to replace mining. If we had free energy (let's say "zero point energy"), then we could stop using natural gas and get the H2 needed for the Haber process directly from electricity. There would be no need to replace the Haber process.

But we don't have enough excess power for this to be economical.

The thing about 100 years of history is there's also 100 years of optimization, and 100 years to find something better. And there are many proposals of methods which are better in the lab. Just not at industrial scales that can feed a planet.

Nor is it for lack of trying. There are economic and personal incentives for anyone who can radically improve our understanding - to "grow up" as you so crudely put it. It's a certain Nobel Prize, following in Haber's footsteps. Yes, we know it can be done since bacteria have figured out how to fix soils at STP.

(To correct a point you made earlier, nitrogen fixation is certainly NOT part of the biochemical repertoire of any tree or plant.)

But as I pointed out, ammonia synthesis is only one of several very large industrial processes we use for food production. In addition to phosphates and potash, a lot of crop land is zinc deficient or in other micronutrients. Neither plants nor bacteria have figured out how to replenish those chemicals on their own or through bacteria, and depend instead on glaciers, erosion and volcanoes.

While we mine rock to make fertilizers more quickly.

It is not so easy to get rid of mining and feed the world's billions. There is obviously much profit to be had in finding something renewable which is also cheaper than mining. Most of Australia's farmers, for one, want to replenish the nutrient-poor, ancient soils under their crops.
It can mimic a human voice but not synthesise novel sentences of arbitrary length - which are actually meaningful - the creative process of speech.

Check Noam Chomsky on AI and the singularity, interesting viewpoints. This video is good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kICLG4Zg8s
Why do you think a religious based society, an Islamic society for instance, would be any less transparent about public information?