skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a bot that's captured the last 70,000 of Andreessen's tweets: https://twitter.com/pmarca_retweet

What I find a little bizarre is that the @pmarca account is still listed as having 189 tweets, yet only the Pinned Tweet showed. Earlier last night, his account was listed as having 100K+ tweets and still only showed the Pinned tweet: https://twitter.com/2bluesc/status/779821454531497985

Is this just a caching issue on Twitter's side? I was hoping it'd be a new level of profile privacy: hide all your tweets, but allow for the publishing of the pinned tweet.
Interesting that one of the people called out as ruining SO may be in prison for some scary sex/murder fantasies/photos involving minors.

Is this the same guy?

http://www.thenewscenter.tv/home/headlines/Belpre-Sentencing...

http://stackoverflow.com/users/237838/andrew-barber
Regarding (2), here's some inspiration: http://hackaday.com/2009/09/18/vintage-video-computing-acros...
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html
What's wrong with not wanting the LuaJIT codebase to have a dependency on the C++ the runtime?
Too reductive, and disingenuous. Of course some finance is a needed part of a healthy economy. But financialization generally isn't. At best that rent seeking is shifted onto overseas "customers."

Similarly, saving lives is good, but costing a multiple of other industrial nations makes that part of health care a drag on the rest of the economy.

Comparables can be compared. It's not as complex or inscrutable as you imply.
In what ordering do you see this feature? Votes, active, or newest. Answers that have the same score are randomly ordered when sorting by votes.
Why not just temporarily blacklist the IP's and ignore all traffic from them when you detect the DDOS?
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Polio wasn't conquered until the 1950's.

> what metric do you use to prove that the standard of living has gone up?

Average height, longevity, infant mortality are good proxies. Median wage doesn't mean much as it doesn't say what you can buy with it.

Have you ever been to Disneyland? Yellowstone? Traveled internationally? Only the rich could do that in 1900. People didn't even brush their teeth until after WW1. Few my age would have any teeth.

No birth control, no living together before marriage. Would you be happier with that?

No radio, no TV, no Hackernews, no movies, no stereo, no Beatles, no disco (!), are you sure you want all that?
Pharo is currently carrying the torch. There is a book: http://pharobyexample.org/.
People also used to keep perishables in a hole in the ground filled with ice, and were happy when they could get more ice.

Six bedrooms as a minimum requirement for a family of three is pretty silly, but some of those old apartments were truly tiny.
> That can still happen with today's real estate taxes

Not in California. The maximum annual increase in assessed property value is 2%, and property tax is limited to 1% of assessed value. This only changes when the home is sold.

It's pretty unlikely for anyone to be forced out of their homes because of property tax increases.
Ask HN: How a DNS problem can be limited to a geographic region?
Some of my co-workers working from France and Germany (I'm in Switzerland) started to have DNS problem with slack a while ago.

Apparently, slack is investigating the problem (https://status.slack.com/2016-09/5c66a4f2b732d3df I hope it's a permalink).

This really puzzle me, how can a DNS "outage" be limited to EU and middle-east? Why would Switzerland not be affected? It seems to me we are in Europe when it comes to internet connectivity. Either 4G nor my own DNS server had the issue here.
What do you mean by trading? The index funds that I blindly buy every month give me almost absolutely passive income in the form of dividends and some capital gain. I wouldn't call anything more involved passive.
Obviously finance creates value, by enabling transactions that wouldn't otherwise happen. I'm not sure what "financialization" is other than "finance I don't like." My question is a specific one--what should be included in GDP?
Interesting. I may have to give that setup another shot. I found TypeScript compilation to be really slow. Was recently amazed by Bucklescript's lightning-fast compile times and killer repl, but its integration with the JavaScript ecosystem was nowhere near as smooth.
No, "capital" is the value we attach to the object; it's the belief, itself. The object is just an object.
This isn't relevant only for development. Applications that take 10+ seconds to process an action are annoying and tiring as well.

At work a lot of stuff is like this. Enterprisey applications that take 10, 15, 20 seconds to process each entry. Time enough to get distracted. Time enough to tab over to email or some other application and lose focus. Just overall mentally fatiguing.

Developers who are annoyed by 10 second delays in their development process should remember that their users will be just as annoyed by slow response time in applications. Cut the weight. Make it faster. I'm more and more convinced that nothing else will go as far in making users happy.
Bummer that guy had some notably annoying tweets
Art is already very linked to these alcohol-related jobs :-)
I can see why a reasonable person would downvote my reply, it's short and adds no value.

I don't know what else to say until I know where you're coming from though, I'm honestly asking what do you mean by that quote?
It sucks when questions answered five years ago are considered the final word on the topic, and newer questions about the same topic are marked as duplicates.

I want to know the best way to solve the problem in 2016, not five years ago. In that time, we've gone from Java 6 to Java 8, almost everything in the JavaScript world has changed, etc.
This bot used to archive his "tweetstorms" (whose origin coincides with the invention of that word)

https://mobile.twitter.com/pngmarca

but it looks like it stopped working some time ago.
Beautiful photos of an amazing piece of art.

And the article's discussion of land use planning in the 1970's is relevant to anyone who wonders why there is so much open space in the SF Bay area despite the economic pressure to build more housing.
I know it's off topic and it's been said countless times, but why does a news website need to put my computer on its knees with animations and shit when opening the page?

160 requests and 10mb for a 2 pages article?
er "it", is the software to run your own autonomous vehicles. It is the hypothetical cost of capital. If it is widely available, then people can sell transit services to other businesses.
Great list, thanks for the thorough response
Government give our taxes to support dying/depressed town, so yes - society is somewhat forced by gov to support.
Yes, it will and it has:

In 2008, the banking system imploded. Owing to a number of things, but primarily securitized lending leading to too many bad loans, losses in the banking system exceeded the amount that could be absorbed from loss provisions and profits. (Which as point of reference, isn't that high to begin with, it's no more than about ~0.75% of total loan capital/year).

The US (and other countries) did two things - they bailed out the banking system's asset losses, and they lowered interest rates.

Had no intervention at all occurred, there would have been a great depression style crash. That would have led to substantially lower house prices (due to the destruction of money/credit) - but it would also have destroyed anything else in the economy that depends on credit.

Had just the asset side bailout occurred (this is essentially Quantitative Easing), and interest rates been held high - housing prices would still have dropped. Lower interest rates translate directly to being able to afford larger loans, larger loans mean non-linear (leveraged) higher house prices in any market where housing is in any kind of scarcity/high demand.

Now it could be argued that it was necessary to do both to stop the banking system failure from destroying the economy - but in that case, and with house owners clearly benefiting preferentially, why wasn't some form of compensation advocated for all the non-house owners in the economy?
The outrage engine is still up and running. Worry not.
That solution clearly isn't working. You need to come up with something better, or SO is going to become a graveyard of programming best practices from the year 2012.
Just one of many issues not addressed. This code base is effectively frozen.
It was always just a fad.
3x profit is a pretty standard multiple.
>I'm aware of a coup in 1979

Where did that come from? You are proving my point. You don't have any idea what you are talking about.

At least you can open the link I gave, before trying to write some made up answer.

Because how much I think , I cannot understand rational behind your logic, there.

You and people like you destroyed a countries fate.Installed a brutal dictator who killed people like lollipop. Now you are trying bring imaginary number out of your magical hat (I guess you can pull rabbit out of it too) claiming no government cannot last longer than 5 if it haven't public support? Pure nonsense. Give me money to show you how it can.Close the information flow, throw to jail elite class, design good propaganda machine, try to isolate people from outside world. Then I can rule as long as you want.

First of all where did you get those numbers?
Have you done study?
( I know the answer , I give you the answer , no, those number is pure nonsense coming from your imaginary world)
Have you been in middle East? Because there is a lot of regimes there which last more than maybe 20 years with killing and suppressing their own people.

You clearly don't know how politics works. Did most German agree with Hitler? Of course not. Most of them were just ordinary people forced to work for government, otherwise they would have been killed or tortured. Did most American agreed to Vietnam war? Iraq war? Or did they agreed with Prism?

It is simple fact, middle class (most of people) don't care about politics as long as they have minimum standard of living. You can get them to do everything if you leverage their income and security.They would believe to everything as long as you give them food and place.
And every teacher would be lost 5 mins into that tutorial.
Possibly. All this talk about getting antsy if things take time to build seems to fit a worry i have about our current web focused world.

Observe Google and their management of Android.

Again and again they have pushed out some half-baked X.0 version with the unstated intent that it will be sorted in a near future update. A clear example of that was the introduction of the Storage Access Framework.

This is the web mentality seeping into the development of firmware and physical products, and it is leading to a massive culture clash and crap products.

Basically you can't just code, push, run, repeat on devices in peoples pockets and bags like you can a web site.
Even if this behavior is real, the term is condescending and I see a ton of speculation about the impact of this type of thing, zero data.
Not so hard if you assume it's their second house, and they bought the previous one a few years back. Once you're on the housing ladder, you're protected to some extent from the increase in the price of the house you want to buy, by the increase in the price of the one you already have.
really? damn. one of the best. one time I replied to a tweet and he responded a few seconds later. it's like he was connected to the twittersphere 24/7
I only have very basic understanding of LVT but I don't see how it is the magic variable that makes UBI make sense. Could you explain?
Here it is[1]. I've answered it six months after the first time I came across it. It is so specific that some people considered it nonprogramming and tried to close it. Am I complaining? No. For me, the main purpose of SO is to share specific programmer's knowledge that is not covered by documentation and can only be obtained by experience. The only way to share the knowledge is to communicate with the other people, and sometimes you get rejected this way or the other if you failed to communicate your problem or solution clearly. Taking into consideration the amount of help I've got from SO and the satisfaction from watching my answers being upvoted, I'm ok with being rejected from time to time.

[1]http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3326955/remove-usb-host-c...
Yeah it would be nice if social networks had a 'lockdown' button so all your public stuff can be hidden mid-controversy or if you were a target of harassment and/or otherwise inquisitive folks.

The real question is, how did he do this without running into rate limits? What app did he use? Which portfolio company's elevated API access did he commandeer? #APIPrivilege
I know work with phoenix + live-reload and the nearly instant dev cycle is the best thing that happened to me since I started web dev.

I know rails has something similar but I haven't worked with rails for nearly 2 years now so I can't tell.

As a side note, having a short dev loop is really good for education.
From this perspective, the worst things I meet are setting up or tuning complex CI pipelines and developing infrastructure automation: a cycle can easily last more than half an hour and there doesn't seem to be an easy way to speed up things, really.
Pretty sure it's just a technical issue. I once did the same thing and I believe it showed me as having some tweets left.
The protocol is so simple and the client so pervasive (it's even on Windows by default) that you could still do something semi-interesting with it today, I reckon (for command line dwellers only though, it's just as easy to hit a URL and get some text back..)
After 9.6, the next version will be 10.0.

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CABUevEzT3RqJZR2i...
Sounds awful for him.
Diversification, if that is happening in the fund to any realistic measure.
> Of course, there would be downsides as well (no houses available for rent, etc.) so I'm not suggesting we do away with finance. //

Local government could own rental houses, then rents would return to the local economy reducing taxes.

What other examples are there in this specific case, if people [could] only privately own[ed] houses to live in?
Either that or he has something to do with the possible upcoming sale/buy of twitter?
With a modular TDD approach, you could in theory test individual components very rapidly. I haven't looked into it too much, but I assume such systems exist.
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A startup tried this with IronPython to draw financial analysts away from excel. Here's the result: https://www.resolversystems.com/

The product was pretty slick, too. I hope someone can crack the nut.
I think you are missing the point somewhat by offering up tips and strategies.

For example having a question incorrectly closed as duplicate is one of the big problems, yet you only address it dismissively in a single sentence.
> There is also plenty of evidence for the narrative of capitalism as spontaneous collaboration and growth.

There is? Has capitalism developed in any region of the world without the explicit help of a state? Even the birth of capitalism in Europe was facilitated by governments forcibly enclosing land into larger estates.
have a counterexample: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-it-faste...
One of my favorite parts is when he talks about buying a gigantic $10,000 "portable" computer (an early Pentium, I believe) and just going to an out-of-state hotel and working for a few days with no contact with the outside world. On his return, he decides to repeat the exercise every few months. I've been considering the same (but with Internet access).
At least in the US, the regulatory framework and medical system is heavily biased towards mass-produced pharmaceuticals.

Biological agents like phages have a much higher regulatory hurdle to clear (you need to show that they won't develop virulence), and they have also been traditionally harder to administer than drugs (e.g. phage therapy ideally requires a sample of the infectious agent and individualized identification of phage species).

Basically once we discovered penicillin, it was so cheap, effective, and easy to distribute, that we built a medical system premised on developing new drugs, and dropped most alternatives. It's very hard to turn back the clock.

FYI, one reason phage therapy continued to be developed in Eastern Europe was less widespread availability of antibiotics at the time.
This is my guess. He probably knows a sale is happening and doesn't want to provide value to the new owner. Probably because he has a competitive portfolio company or something.
> Listing a numeric offset can't possibly be any kind of legal risk

Theoretically, if the code also for some reason needed to contain the original byte-value of the address at that offset, you could be sued for copyright-infringing reproduction ("you published one byte of the game ROM!") Encryption would prevent this being a clear reproduction.

One could then argue, given that, that when it's trivial to deduce what the original value would have been given what the code does, you still have published a reproduction. E.g., if a code XXXXXX:YY means "give a player 0xYY lives at the start of the game", and the game regularly starts with 0x05 lives, then it's clear that byte $XXXXXX of the ROM must be 0x05.
Good cautionary tale. There was also the case of a 21-year-old Bank of America Merrill Lynch intern who was found dead in a shower at his London flat after working for 72 hours in a row: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/nov/22/moritz-erha...

Don't let this be you.
I enjoyed both Master of Doom and the two Mechner books (for Karateka and PoP). Can anyone suggest similar long-form blogs or books where a single developer talks about a programming journey they took? (Nat Friedman - Ximian - had a great blog 2002-2006ish of this nature, but it has since gone down.)
Like everything else, I look at nature for guidance. In this case the Epidemiologic Triad (https://onlinecourses.science.psu.edu/stat507/node/25).

My understanding (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) of it in the context of good websites is

Host: You need a great host/site, something stable & something people want to use

Agent: I consider agents as internal factors like technical, sales & marketing, They help you grow & the ensure stability.

Environment: Environment is pretty much your jurisdiction, you need to make sure that your solution is legal & your environment is supporting of you growing. Another fascinating theory to study around that is the Overton window (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window).

Vector: A vector, an organism which transmits infection by conveying the pathogen from one host to another, with the most powerful agent been word of mouth.

I guess if you have these 4 components structure well, then you have a pretty good chance of having a successful website according to the Epidemiologic Triad.

Now if you're question is more around business models, then heres also another good resource to look into by HBR
(https://hbr.org/2016/10/the-transformative-business-model)
Clean, Cheap and Profitable: Boosting Real Estate Valuations with Innovation
Usually there are many IPs popping in and out, and it's often hard to tell them apart from regular clients.

Also, you still have to receive the traffic even if you then ignore it; if your pipe is smaller than the attacker's, it may be enough to overwhelm you.
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The issue is, in these areas, there isn't much choice. Here in DC, couples max out their mortgage because prices in any area with a good school district and less than an hour commute are exorbitant. And we're not talking luxury houses here. A 1,200 square foot 3BR in Bethesda that was last renovated in the 1950s will run you $600k.

In the DC area this results in a weird trend. There are almost no 3 bedrooms in Georgetown below a million. That'll buy you about 1,200 square feet. $2 million will buy you an actual urban mansion with triple the square footage and wood paneled walls. The price is entirely driven by what ~$300k HHI couples can "afford" maxing out their mortgage eligibility. Once you get above that, demand drops precipitously.
You (probably) don't need to use -A to use a jump box. SSH agent forwarding with -A is unsafe on shared jump boxes where either 1) anybody else has root on the jump box or 2) everybody uses a shared account on the shared jump box, because the connection to your agent can be hijacked and used to authenticate as "you" elsewhere.

Look at ssh's -W or -J options (depending on how old your ssh client is), or see e.g. [0].

[0] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSSH/Cookbook/Proxies_and_J...
I recommend reading the money speech from Atlas Shrugged, if you haven't already.
The Next Phase of Agricultural Innovation Begins Now
I've migrated a small part of my app to MobX to try it, and it's really a threat. Code size divided by like 4.

I cannot really speak in term of maintenance or architecture quality yet. But it works.
Well, I didn't propose either phasing it out or repealing it. I proposed modifying it.

That said, I admit I'm not optimistic either, but the way to do it is to point out how ordinary people in the Valley have been or are being forced out of their homes by rising rents and the generally rising cost of living -- as property values rise, everything becomes more expensive. There's a hardship story there at least as compelling as that of the fixed-income seniors that Prop. 13 was designed to help (at least, that's how it was sold). Bay Area teachers, plumbers, food service workers, etc. etc. etc. surely have as much interest in not being forced to leave as anyone else -- and what's more, the local economy needs them! We can't run a regional economy with only software developers!

It's true that Prop. 13 is not the sole cause of the problem. Kim-Mai Cutler [link in my first post] does a great job of analyzing the whole situation (though I guess the Google bus thing has blown over since she wrote it in 2014). But it is one cause, and it may have to be addressed before the problem can be solved.

I know that getting people to vote to increase their taxes is exceedingly difficult. But excessive property values behave just like a tax: you can't get out of paying if you live here, and the money is sucked out of the local economy -- it doesn't even go toward local services and infrastructure. The argument is that we'll all ultimately be better off if we build enough housing for everyone who wants to live here. The change I propose is one way to encourage that to happen.
Law is old; in Medieval times such redundancy was considered normal - usually triple - and was very common; presumably it was considered a literate flourish, embellishment and arabesque (sorry couldn't resist a go at it myself.)
Turbo Pascal was blazingly fast even on a 286 or 386! Such a great IDE.
I've always liked the ability to "follow" anyone on Twitter. Unlike Facebook which I see as a way to communicate with friends and family, Twitter allows me to follow interesting people who might post interesting and insightful thoughts on topics I'm interested in. Then they limit it to the length of an SMS so I can get no more than a sound bite. I basically abandoned the platform as a waste of time.
"Googlification" has been my main reason for avoiding chrom{e,ium} until now. This could become my main browser.

IMHO Chrome has a better track record than Firefox when it comes to security issues, but Firefox has better privacy.