skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honest question: do you think you could have chosen that companies were not "losing bargains" seven years ago? How many companies are there today that you think would grant you significant equity and also will reach liquidity in the next seven years? How would this change if you were an early twenty-something with few connections and little savings?

Off the top of my head I can only think of a handful of companies today, and even with those I'm not sure I would take a six-figure gamble with most of them. If I were a decade or two older things would be significantly different.
In the meantime, in a unanimous opinion issued on Tuesday, the Supreme Court of Massachusetts gave implicit approval for black men to run when the police ask to speak to them.

Bad call!

The right thing to do, is stop and chat with the cop. If you think at any time during the chat that the cop is just trying to mess with you, you may walk away, something you're allowed to do under the protocol.
Complaining about downvotes (especially with a conspiracy-theory accessory) is explicitly against the guidelines, please don't do this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Your only choice is to make it your home page! :)
Does it? I didn't give written approval for the Google StreetView car to photography the front of my house. If I was to create a database of photographs of buildings, taken from a public location and indexed by street address, I don't believe I have to get permission, and the product could be released publicly, or even sold to estate agents or similar. I used to have to give the phone company written (or st least explicit) notice to opt out of their public index of numbers and names. So, it seems most things operate the same way as SSIDs, public information requires an opt-out to be available, not an opt-in.
They tore down the i3 and showed some really interesting manufacturing techniques.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDr4L6BzpP8
Thanks, never knew that! May be a dumb question, but why does that work?
> The usefulness of types is in them describing the input/output dependencies in your code.

I agree, but I find types way too weak in that respect. Its not enough to know a function accepts ints; I want to know its range as well.

I spent so many weeks hunting down overflow and out-of-range errors and null pointer exceptions that types feel like an illusion of robustness at best.

> Now, how will immutability, hostility to state or unit testing help you with this question?

Not that much, I'll give you that. But the same is true for a function whose range was 1-20 being refactored into a range of 1-10; types won't catch that.

I used to like types, then testing, now I'm looking at specifications I can write once, compose and then generate assertions, documentation, test data and everything else from. Its by far the best ROI of the three.
It's well understood, I think, that the biggest determiner of what search engine people use is the default one put in front of them. That's why Google's willing to spend a billion dollars to be that default. Google's claims to it's antimonopoly position often hinges on the claim that it's a 'natural' monopoly, created simply by the fact that they have the best product. It's unsurprising, then, that they're so angry that this lawyer revealed Google pays so much to ensure their dominance.

Google has long held that Android is something like a charity project, to "ensure an open future for mobile" or something like that. You can still see signs of it in the terms of the "Open Handset Alliance", which is actually the group of manufacturers Google forbids from using open source Android, ironically. It's also commonly the defense for why Google isn't a monopoly here: It "gives Android away for free". In reality, Google collects billions in profit, and leaves all of the software patching and support burdens on manufacturers, who can barely turn a profit and are held to Google's increasingly controlling mandates over how Android must be distributed. (I'm sure many OEMs after this case are curious why they're getting such a raw deal on Android, which is another reason it's unsurprising Google is so angry at Oracle.)
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That article was simply hard to read. I kept asking if this was a story or a news article.
I hardly doubt so.
What is algorithm-driven in my twitter feed? The 'While you were away' stuff at the top? Other than that, as far as I know it's always been a chronological feed of whoever I want.
> Now he is demanding that we pay $2400 to have the driveway re-surfaced or he'll sue us.

Work to turn an instance of conflict, into a collaboration. Take the emotion out of the conversation. But do try to talk this out first.

On this subject, Stuart Diamond is brilliant > https://vimeo.com/43817099
I prefer something akin to the `rustup` CLI to a native app personally.
Actually Germany is a pretty cigar friendly country, it's not the absolute cheapest but it's far better than the UK, I know people who regularly order from www.cigarworld.de due to their range and fairly reasonable prices. Another site worth checking is www.top25cigars.co.uk (this is actually a Polish site). Both those should be no issue with German Customs because they're inside the EU (and one's in Germany obviously).

If you want some advice, head over to reddit.com/r/ukcigars that's where I hang out and bore people about cigars, I have the same username there. I'll be happy to answer any questions you've got.
A lot of everyone's users are bots.
> I simply think it is unfair to nullify and demean the good work that hard-working individuals have done. By claiming that their position in life is a product of "privilege" or their parent's privilege, and simply giving those that did not do said hard work a free pass and cash.

And here it is - you think those who didn't have the same benefits as you and me (presumably) are takers who want "a free pass" and "cash".

What's missing in your diatribe is the fact that what everyone wants is opportunity or even a chance of opportunity. Not a handout - most people just want a fair break.
The headline teases "Here's why" and then never seems to explain it. Can someone find it, or distill it down to a single sentence?
>but generally in a functioning, civilized society they are quite distinct.

At least we hope and pray that is the case.
The web-first approach of the entire global software industry is half-baked.
But this is one of the things I like about twitter :) Well, most of the time. Sometimes you find out your heroes are terrible people.

When it works you find out things you didn't know you were interested in - getting out of the 'filter bubble'.
> Why do people insist on using the term zero knowledge for simple semantically secure encryption?

Note that in the domain of privacy-enhancing technologies the term "zero-knowledge" does not refer to "semantically secure encryption". Instead it is used to mean that a service provider does not have access to user data, and that this claim can be proven cryptographically. The use of the term zero-knowledge to promote privacy-respecting services dates back to at least 1997 with the founding of the Canadian company Zero-Knowledge Systems [1], which provided anonymous communication services [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Knowledge_Systems
[2] http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9902/11/browsanon.idg/
Here's why this Millennial loves the Beatles
> I don't see any reason smoking an occasional cigar would be incompatible with health and fitness.

Sounds like rationalization: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/t...

TL;DR:

- "Some premium cigars contain the tobacco equivalent of an entire pack of cigarettes."

- "Cigar smoke is possibly more toxic than cigarette smoke"

- "...the larger size of most cigars (more tobacco) and longer smoking time result in higher exposure to many toxic substances"

- "There is no safe level of tobacco use."
Not that strange as one cannot saw a digital entity.
> Nothing bad has to go wrong, it's just called that.

Correct.

> Postmortem is the de facto name for blog posts summarising how things went after a, typically, game development jam.

Not just this. Postmortem is a generic Project Management term. A process/meeting after the project's end (or the end of a part of the project) where collaborators discuss what went right/wrong is called a postmortem.

This is formalized by the bible of Project Management, the PMBOK, and Wikipedia has a nice article about the notion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmortem_documentation

Programmer's TL;DR: your scrum sprint retrospective and its "what went wrong" / "what could have been better" is a Postmortem.
Looks like every tool has its upsides and downsides. This one lacks full PCRE syntax support. Does one have to install Rust to use it?
How  to be a “do-er”
Aren't bots in channels a 1990s IRC feature?
Oracle is able to disclose this to the court, just not to the world at large. So if what you say is true, the court (including appeals) is the proper place to raise that argument.
That is what kept me out of Linux when I was a teenager, but it was MODEM drivers at that time. Lack of driver support for an operating system is not a technical problem, it is a social problem.
Personally, I think the "url hack" is pretty cool; I like having both.

It would be extra cool if it considered each person's local timezone.
It's true, the money only ever goes in.
Twitter is not as big as Facebook, but it is not a niche service in the sense that Reader was. Twitter has 300M worldwide users and can count as users most global celebrities, politicians, artists, and journalists. People that make news. Reader is not a good comparison at all.
checkout these:

https://growthhackers.com/growth-studies
Broke some add-ons that read or, worse, write data behind the browser's back, you mean?

Also, what do these add-ons do? The only use case I can think of is figuring out whether the user has a tab open to a given site, and that's going around the browser's security model, so breaking that would be a good thing.
> How does NYC use it? Tax fraud, fire code violations, fake security guards, fake IDs, fake cigarettes, fake marijuana.

Seriously? Is fake marijuana an actual problem?
I think it's a big stretch to say that large systems are failing. We're still in the longest stretch of human advancement ever -- before the Renaissance, society would go into a "dark age" from time to time.

Unnecessary death, disease, and war are also at a low point for human history.

Just because there are existential threats doesn't mean the systems are failing.
Asimov's science ideas sound outdated in some cases because they became science fact. For example his 1945 proposal on communications satellites in geosynchronous orbit ... Www.lakdiva.org/Clarke/1945ww as quoted in Wikipedis. First successful satellite launch to Earth orbit was Sputnik in 1957. Stuff Asimov proposed 71 years ago is the basis for Pokemon Go ...
It was the simplicity of Java 1.0 that lead to some of the famous patterns we see in some frameworks, that were initially created to workaround language limitations.

The same path that is being followed by those that rely on libraries to reduce error handling boilerplate and go generate, just as two examples.
I don't see it happening organically, so if it does happen it will only be by force by the PRC. Therefore, conversely we must do everything we can to fight it. Both are happening right now, and honestly I do not know what the future looks like.
I know about NetPositive and the revamp, didn't see that. But what I meant was RDP support. Now if it actually installed and supported power management and the wi-fi card...
I have a different position on that. My perspective is that if a company doesn't act negligent, follows all legal procedures and industry standards regarding data security then why should it be made to pay for damages caused by a third party.

It didn't cause the damage, it's been the criminals who did that. They should be held accountable for this.
You actually don't know that pigmentation does not cause more crime or the alternative an absence of pigment decreases crime. I am not saying that pigmentation is a causative factor, just that nobody knows if it is not.
Is this somehow different from the random article link in Wikipedia?
I recall one major case (the Costa Concordia) in which the captain abandoned the sinking ship, survived, and later faced prosecution.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16611371
Google Allo vs. Apple iMessage vs. Facebook Messenger: How They Compare
In private browsing mode the site won't have access to the cookies stored in the browser that it's been using to keep track of the number of "free" articles you've read. In addition, some news sites will selectively disable the paywall for certain referrers, especially search engines and social media sites, to strategically gain hits. So when you do what the original comment suggested, you appear to their site as someone who has never visited before and came from a Google search — in other words, they don't want your first experience with their website to be a paywall.
Made it all the way through! Really fun, please make more levels!
I bought a BeBox while in college. Everyone was using DOS/Windows for C++. Not me :-) The amount I learned about threading, SMP, concurrency, locking, mutexes, was way more valuable than any college programming course I took.

I still wish an email client as good as PostMaster was available on OS X now. PE was my editor.

Haiku is a great implementation. I wish more of what it offers were in OS's that I have to use each day.
There were some efforts to port it to ARM, but they apparently never took off. Which is kind of sad, since it would make an _amazing_ OS for, say, the Raspberry Pi.
Get out of the box sometimes
Google has 7 different products with over 1 billion users [1]. This "brand problem" you speak of, if it exists at all, doesn't seem to have slowed them down much.

[1] http://www.popsci.com/google-has-7-products-with-1-billion-u...
How dare you! I put a note on the door that says that all unauthorized persons are forbidden from entering the house.
At least they want to fund the Commercial Crew project. Space-X should have sent a manned Dragon capsule to the ISS by now. There seems to be political pressure to hold them back until ULA can catch up.

(Space-X now claims they know why they had a pad explosion. They're saying "breach in the helium system".[1] But what caused that? What part has to be changed? This just came out a few hours ago, so the details are lacking.)

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/23/13031308/spacex-falcon-9-r...
Especially with that animated gif above the fold. I had to scroll to a point where the animation was completely hidden to be able to read comfortably.
I found out that my rural parents' ISP is pooling their public IP address with more than one household. Not exactly sure how many. We discovered this because somebody in the pool was doing dodgy things via CraigsList and CL blocked the IP address. Meaning Mom and Dad couldn't browse antiques.

When I read about stories like this, I worry about them being raided.
Taking all the facts given us at face value for now, what is the range of punishments the court might impose here, along with what your gut feeling says the most likely outcome(s) are?

Based on the quotes, one thing the court appeared to contemplate was forcing them to inform all future courts of their conduct in this case.
> calling mayday gives the rescuing vessel significant rights to the ship and cargo

What do you mean by this? Is there a legal case for a rescuing vessel to commandeer the ship and cargo somehow?
Things have fallen off a bit since the late 90's... not that I'm AGW, I would posit that man may not be a huge influence and that it's likely not as big of an emergency in general as overall pollution and even population control probably are. Alarmist, reactionary legislation rarely does what it is intended to do, and to be honest, I think it detracts from the issue overall.

I happen to feel it's been globally warming since the last ice age, and that it seems to be a cyclical event, are we speeding up the next ice age, and what will seeing another 3-4 degree rise in temperatures in the next dozen or more decades change. And how much of that is actually of human/unnatural cause.
When does this go into effect?
I don't understand what makes this open source. It seems to be a nonprofit for the destigmatization of mental illness by a forum to discuss online and I guess resource collection. By that logic, several craft hobby communities are open source.
totally agree with this.
Because people value collecting them more than they do smoking them. Would you smoke your 5 million dollar cigar collection? Probably not. It's burning money!
the whole robot stuff sounds for example soubds like he had it the wrong way. First robots, than computers etc.
when does this go into effect?
Investments in space programs are investments in sustainability, global cooperation. Knowing how to seal a person in a box for months tells us what a human actually consumes. working together on joint scientific ventures brings foriegn peoples closer. This leaves out all the other cool inventions like GPS that space travel has enable thus far that improve are ability to do everything better.

This is just a repackaging of the purely economic investment observation of space programs. The government spending dollars on space has resulted in a many more dollars (or the same dollar spent many more times) on related economic interests. For example: Improved ways to track weather lead to reduced costs of flights, lead to more airline tickets purchased, lead to more travel, lead to more business trips leads to business happening.

Each step in the thread of such and example the effect gets smaller but because there are so many hard problems and so much science gets done that there are many threads.

I used to have a bicycle that I rode to work that was made using an aluminum foam that NASA developed and licensed out to companies that wanted to make light but stiff metal frames. In this case Fuji a Japanese company making racing bikes. Without it for that 3 year period I didn't have a license I would not have had job.
The reason crypto in the browser is dangerous is because the crypto algorithms come from the server (they aren't built into the browser) so you have to verify them every time you go to the site to know they're doing everything properly. They could easily change them to no ops for you at the request of the NSA or whatever and you wouldn't know. So on the basis of that, I don't think this project avoids that problem
That's just the kind of coverage I hoped for, thank you.
Inside Apple and IBM's App Making Machine
I think that just means contraband lettuce.
Sure, I was just giving a possible reason for the different experiences of reviewing for ACM conferences.
Sure, you can get my routing information. In any modern country, you can’t use that to scam me out of money anyway.

If you need an IBAN, I can give you that in a few minutes.
The Woman Who Lost Her Sense of ‘Mine’
This article is total garbage.

They claim that one plant in California dumps about 2.5 billion gallons of warmed water into the environment. Because of it's "once-through" cooling design. If we extrapolate this out across all nuclear power generation across the world, it's the equivalent of 5.03 TWh of energy per day dumped into the environment, per day. Compare that to the warming effect of the Sun's solar radiation of 174,000 TW (every single instant) of which 70% makes it through the atmosphere. This provides about 2.9 million TWh of warming energy to our environment. So the worldwide warming contribution by nuclear power generation above baseline is less than 0.0002%.
Only if the sync is the equivalent of:

rsync [...] /dev/shm/.browser ~/.browser

Instead of:

rsync [...] /dev/shm/.browser ~/.browser.new && ln -sf ~/.browser.new ~/browser

Or some such equivalent, i.e. doing the full sync and then atomically juggling a symlink around.
Agreed. If my computer crashes (once in a blue moon) I would be happy for it to just open the urls again. I don't care whatsoever about it keeping the current state of every tab. If any users do care about that, it should be optional (perhaps a tickbox in the preferences window).
Language Server Protocol foretells future for developers
By any normal metric, Twitter is a huge success. 300 million people find their service useful.

But it was already huge success when it had no business model. Moreover, what is fundamentally valuable about Twitter to its users--sharing and discovering little bits of textual expression over a publicly visible social network--is not very expensive.

From the perspective of the users who find it valuable, why does it need a for-profit model at all? Why can't we just subsidize it as a non-profit via grants and donations, a la Wikipedia? I'm pretty sure you could do the important thing that Twitter does--ignoring all the extras devoted to figuring out how to extract more money from the data--at a small fraction of its $2 billion in revenue.

I'm not being naive here--it's quite obvious why things are the way they are. But there many examples out there of making a big impact while making a decent living (just without anyone trying to become a billionaire). Social networking is ripe for more of this approach. The attempts so far have failed not because of their business model, but because of the usual reason: poor execution.
check kerl: https://github.com/kerl/kerl
I'am sorry if I drop it, but it seems not many people know about cache poisoning. I have always kept the suggested settings since the age of javascript.
And yet they still can't make money. They aren't growing either.
Doesn't this line of reasoning apply to everything from wine to truffles?
NASA paid SpaceX & OSC in advance to produce cost-effective vehicles that NASA then bought. Paying in advance to create new products like this is a standard commercial transaction, and it saved NASA a lot of money compared to buying what was already available, according to NASA.

Sounds like you don't want to fund space at all, but that's a different discussion.
Some sites still manage to defeat that. The Economist, for example, knows I've opened my 5 free articles, no matter if I browse incognito or whatever (I guess my IP gives me away :P ) .

I'm not going to use a proxy or TOR to read them.
Straw man basically. Developers shouldn't ever be working with 1000 line files, except as build artefacts.
Srvr: everything express does, better, less code, no dependencies, websockets
Believe it or not there's no legal basis in the west where the government owes help to individual citizens. Protecting the good common does not in itself transfer 1-to-1 to helping Joe Blow down the street. It just happens that for the common good Joe Blow gets help. It's why cops can let a person die and still get off the hook if helping might endanger more than themselves because if their actions expand the risk to others to help a single person or a small group of people then they can be held liable for negligence. So, there's no theory in law that allows you to make the assertions you're trying to make. I strongly suggest you read on the law because I've seen people try to argue the same sort of stuff you do and find out later in court they got smacked down hard by the judge for the same reasons I've mentioned.
"This is him funding smear campaigns for a fascist."

This sort of "Trump is literally Hitler" rhetoric is anything but constructive. I'm sad to see that so many in the tech community are willing to operate at this level.

Republicans are not Nazis. Good people support Trump. They are your neighbors and colleagues.

You're behaving like the fear-mongering oppressors you claim to despise.
This refers to 'synthetic marijuana' (K2, Spice, etc.)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280064789_From_juni...
Nobody is under the slightest bit of moral obligation to work with existing projects when starting a new one. There is nothing wrong with competition.