skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>the fact that there weren't quite so many things to do back then but look at stars and hunt, so there would be a lot of random stories about starts and hunting, along with other common elements of daily life?

If that was the case, the stories would be found in most/all places that there was hunting groups (e.g. maybe not in the Alaska). But they are not, they are in specific places where people seem to have migrated and brought them with them.

Besides, there are far more common themes, resemblances and details (that change as the story passes on) apart from "there is hunting and some constellations" involved.

Finally, while hunting might have been a big part of daily life, the idea that there were few things to do than "look at stars and hunt" seems a little off.
I'm not a recruiter and I completely agree. Never accept a counter offer. Having said this - I work in sales, and a lot depends on trust between you and the company when you work in that profession. It may be different for developers etc.
Yes that's very useful. Go has that, NetBSD has that, its getting more common at last. It doesn't solvevall the problems but has other benefits.
Security Tips to Keep Express from Getting Pwned
The abundance of slowness
How to Install a Computer Sound Card
ActivePresenter Professional 6.0 Crack and Keygen Download
One love produced by zito
Sam Altman is an excellent politician/influencer, which is probably what YC needed. PG gave the impression of not enjoying that role.

I think the best way to understand it is to compare their two respective "request for startups". Paul Graham had 6 concrete tradeable opinions about the world. Sam Altman has 21 non-specific opinions which cover more or less everything ("healthcare", "robots", "hollywood" with no specific opinions within the field), and several of them (11, 19, 14, 21) are not even startup sectors so much as talking points to show the Cathedral that he's one of them.
That doesn't really work for a system like Nix (or derivatives like Guix), where binary packages are only considered an optimization, and packages are always rebuilt without having the old version, or other user state, available.
Yoshinori Ohsumi Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
"great pricing" it is not. None of the major cloud providers have great pricing with the exception of some niche cases.

Look at Hetzner. Look at the cheap VPS options. Google/AWS don't come even close.
I read it as somewhere between "skim" and "learn" - it's probably a term sama used himself in the interview. If you think of yourself as a machine it's probably a term than makes sense; it doesn't feel particularly aspirational to me :)
Not everything can live on the stack.

If you're not using new/delete in C++, you're probably not doing something very complicated. (And hey, that's not necessarily a bad thing!)
>From the authors paper read "What about the Saharan versions of Cosmic Hunt" and tell me they are not just making stuff up

What about it seems as if they are "making stuff up"?

They summarize several versions of some such stories, with differentiating details, and even give the papers and studies where they were collected by anthropologists, etc.
A lot of it is unusable with JS, and progressively getting worse.
Paradoxical Stories of Time Travel
I've had a recruiter lose it with me on the phone. Since I'm normally involved in recruitment wherever I go, they've been blacklisted at each place so far. It's a small world, we can't burn bridges and neither, should they.
This entire class of technology was universally known as "vacuum tubes" for a good reason.
> the alternative of course is smaller offices for 3-6 people (...) That was actually really nice.

Really? In my experience a small office with more than 1 person is worse than a complete open space (while an office for 1, with a door, is the best).

To be productive I need to not see and not be seen; I feel more anonymous in a big loud crowd than in a small office with 2 other people who can still speak to one another or to me, or on the phone, etc.
Why on earth was a matter of war and peace left to a referendum? As someone who lives in the UK my confidence in referenda and most forms of direct democracy (and watching the US that is starting to include having presidential elections over parliamentary systems in which the executive comes from the parliament) couldn't deteriorate any further. A common criticism in the UK to Brexit amoung remain supporters is that an issue that complex or fraught should never have been brought before the public as something to be voted on. Can we please all just adopt sensible parliamentary democracies and recognise that plebiscites are a clutch for weak posturing governments that should otherwise face a general election challenge.
Neovim 0.1.5-2 MIGRATED to testing
I totally agree with your comment about apps unusable with poor connections. I've been away camping for a few days, the campsite was in a forest with a weak 2G connection; web pages would load slowly, so the link did work, but most apps gave up and timed out instead of using the connection. A chat app like Google Hangouts should be able to send and receive tiny text messages just fine over 2G, but apparently app developers put in too short timeouts.
It's not something I'd attempt. Normally they'll have negotiated rates with the hiring company, they won't want to reopen that to give you a kickback.
/off-topic and probably a useless question
how did you retrieve those links? you had them bookmarked :-) ?
Gatekeepers and Their Role in Healthy Software Development
OK, I'll write a blog post about this, but it effectively boils down to use something standard that you can run yourself or on another provider.

For example on AWS, using RDS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server) or ElastiCache (memcached, redis) is fairly low lock in. You can run all of these yourself or use another cloud. Azure offers a similar hosted redis service for instance.

However, something like Lambda or DynamoDB can't be run elsewhere.

Similarly, on Azure if you use their Machine Learning PaaS system then you are pretty locked in. Yet you could easily move a website to appharbor or elastic beanstalk. Or just run your own server (VPS, IaaS, EC2 etc.)
I continue to suggest that inequality is an actively good thing.

Freeing 100 people from jail will increase their inequality; should we therefore oppose it?
Update the Nobel Prizes
So don't use it? I'm not sure how your comments reflect on WeChat; it's not like stores are insisting on you paying through the app, or that businesses are forcing you to use WeChat to contact them. It's an added convenience, and it seems people like that.
"It doesn't resemble the Hacker News I look at, and I look at HN a lot."

Given your position, do you think that you can look at HN objectively?
To Blog or Not to Blog: Blogger Supreme
Front page of news.yc:

3. How privatization increases inequality

4. Examples of How City Services Privatization Leads to Inequality Are Piling Up

each with EXACTLY 7 up-votes.

Sock-puppets, or just a voting brigade?
I was studying the topic of derivatives for an exam.

It was interesting - the whole point of derivatives was to prevent the fact that markets are volatile. So its a way to "Price Fix".

That is the entire point of markets ! to allow free floating of price.

I found the whole thing funny, that a market solution lead to the creation of something that was against the entire point of market.

What the modern neo-liberals and capitalists will learn - is that there is no perfect system.
Is it possible to sign a contract that you don't want to be common law married?
tldr:

- switched from KDE to Xfce4 [though KDE is still an option]

- USB passthrough now available - so now you can use Skype and other video chat services

- tighter integration Salt based management engine and "potentially untrusted VMs" in a more secure fashion than previously.
Caffeine – Don't let your Mac fall asleep
There really should be some standards that specified how chat bubbles can have the same set of functionality as FB Messenger, WeChat, Kik, Google's Allo and others. It's becoming more common to have "interactive" chat messages with buttons inside, or messages that makes buttons appear somewhere on the bottoms of the screen.
Buku (cmdline bookmark manager) GUI and browser integration
You're going to need to elaborate a bit on that one...
IIRC you can only view the document, which makes sense.
Ask HN: What deal makes sense for a late co-founder?
I'm about to join a startup that has existed for a couple of months on paper, but hasn't actually done anything yet. It's the infamous example of an "ideas guy" looking for a programmer (me) to build it, but he's already been working hard on collecting information we need, networking, talking to potential stakeholders and trying (unsuccessfully, so far) to get money for this idea.

I think the idea is great and would be fun and educational to work on. The only downside is that he doesn't have money to hire me.

We're not sure how to arrange ownership of the startup, particularly in light of the work he has put into it. The first heal he proposed was: I get a normal salary, and in 3 years I can buy 20% of the company for €2000. As long as he can afford to pay that salary, that's a totally fine, no-risk-for-me deal. But there's no money, and I think maybe it'd help a lot if I built a prototype first. I can afford to go without income for a while, but since I'm unpaid, that requires a different deal. Some of his proposals:

* If I work 1 month unpaid, I get 20% of the company.

* If I work 3 months unpaid, I get 40% of the company.

Both seem fairly reasonable to me considering he's already put several months into this.

Something I'm considering is: the prototype is mine until we get funding, and then he buys it from me. This would have the advantage that if it fails, I keep my own code. (But is that worth anything? Once it's finished, I can probably build a better one in less time.) And I'd get money for my work instead of shares that may or may not be worth anything.

Downside is that we don't know when we will have funding. But that's really the fundamental problem here: will we have some funding in 3 months? And how will we eat if we don't? What risks are reasonable to take here?
Usually economic 'equality' is at the expense of wealth creation. So you almost always end up in a situation where everyone's equally as poor.
Telegram Messaging Service Launches Bot-Powered Gaming Platform
> So don't use it?

That's an old argument which totally ignores the network effect.
Yes I think Oracle Labs in the bay area has private offices for all developers. I even had one as an intern - with a view of Mount Diablo.
>Then I was told that they were going to let me through that time but don't come through again unless I can show proof that I wasn't charged with a crime.

They asked you to prove a negative? This speaks volumes about the mindset of run-of-the-mill border guards and the sensibility of their policies...
Unix 40 year old permission system is enough to deal with this, this is no excuse.
Congrats, Sam! That's a really nice article.

Now, please ignore it, and go about your business. The worst thing to happen to a person's acceleration would be belief in having success. The only person you race in life is yourself, and you always need to catch up.
You need this ominous sounding permission to intervene and pause an app when a call comes in.
Having some of the noise diminished by putting things on your ears != being alone. I'm just slightly physically uncomfortable in a large room filled with people, especially when I'm trying to focus on something. Especially when that's how I'd spend 2/3 of my waking life on work days.

It's not to the level anywhere near some sort of phobia, it's just that when I'm in a big room with a lot of activity a portion of my brain is dedicated to concern for what's happening in the room. In an office, it's a space that I own and control. That level of comfort leads to more productivity and happiness.

I don't want to be alone in an office all the time or even necessarily most of the time, but without that cave to return to when I need to focus, life is just plain worse.
It would be better if communication technology with more than (say) 1M users would be forced to obey open standards. This is the case for telephony, so why not enforce it for social media as well?
The linter will give you warnings on some permissions.

But some of the permissions listed can't even be used without system permission, meaning your app has to be signed with the same keys the OS was (iirc more recently I've seen a device that didn't need this) and installed in a special system directory. Permissions like getting the users local MAC address...
> 3 / 42

> Only a few scan engines detected this file as a threat. If you think it might be a false positive, find out how to contact the engine vendor on our blog.

That is one hell of a "definitely". The only specific entry has it as "Riskware/SpeedUpMyPC" which, after a quick google, states it is "unwanted software". Pro tip: if you don't want it, don't install it, NoScript certainly does not force or trick you to install it.
Pfft, how public city services stole from everyone via inefficiency and rort for decades maybe?

YC is broken if this is up top.
Google app engine with flexible environment is really cool.

Google-app-engine couple of years ago was claustrophobic with most of the things baked inside its environment. As a developer I felt restricted and there was the fear of locking in.

But with intro of flexible environment its really good for any web application (except ones with real-time communication as sockets arent supported yet). So for now way to work around this is - have a (GKE) kubernetes handle all real time traffic and REST traffic to app-engine.

I havent used AWS so so cant comment on it - but there is another reason its better to be on google compute engine - Google kind of leads in machine learning and AI - so when they decide to role out goodies on server side - its not a bad idea staying close to these.

edit: really food -> really good :)
5 Scientific Tips to Sharpen Your Brain
It does warn you for some permissions.
Google Pixel phone leaked before unveiling
أمحمد حابة هل يا ترى يكفيه الدمع الذي إنهمر؟ جنازته حضرها الوزراء
Agreed then. I'm a developer and I can't see myself developing on a mobile phone operating system anytime soon. But I still like my Android phone for taking notes, pictures, syncing PDFs and reading my mails.

It's just two different use cases and different security/freedom tradeoffs. Not sure if I'd call Android a general purpose operating system.
I don't get it.

What things have prisoners/jail common with privatization?

Please explain.
This is why we Need to Colonize Mars
It depends on where the inequality is coming from. If I own more than you because I worked harder, it is ok. But if I own more than you because I stole from you, it is not.
Free Lossless Image Format Publications
The resource manager (like std::vector or std::unique_ptr) can certainly live on the stack when the data it manages resides on the heap.
Apple Mail sends text as UTF-8.

If you view it in an ascii-only mail client you will see plenty of places where an ascii character could have been used but instead a visually similar code point has been chosen. Things like dashes, single and double quote characters.
Intents as in Android intents?
> when your organization scales

Case in point: AWS/GCE are intended for organizations. If you're not operating an organization, they're overkill.

Do the Quick test: Is your budget less than $100/month? If yes, use Digital Ocean.
Stay employed - both of you.

Build it and prove it whilst employed.

50/50 equity. Make sure you have a vesting schedule.
This development is backwards, it reverses everything what is great about the Internet and made it such superior and successful. Instead of a network of networks where everyone can freely share information and talk to anybody, even directly via standardized protocols it's going back to heavily centralized systems, to the last bit controlled by a a small set of commercial entities which even do not see the user as a customer. WeChat is a dystopia which is not unlikely to become also true in the rest of the wold. No matter how nicely your cage is decorated, it's still a cage.
Dotcom’s MegaUpload 2 Will Be ‘Dropbox Without Ability to Read Your Files’
AlphaGo wasn’t just a victory for artificial intelligence
Nop. This is the first time I'm hearing of gandi.net but nice to know
I'm afraid the job of the new AOT is not to produce standalone binaries - it's code to be loaded into the JVM, not to run without it.
Gotcha, I thought you were saying that I was claiming the wording of the title, not the actual content of the book.
So you argue against references in a Wikipedia article -- with a reference to Wikipedia(!). You link to something else in a neighboring country, that basically claim that propaganda is done in an active war?

You can literally argue that the Earth is flat like that, using a reference to My Little Pony.

Your position needs that all the news are a conspiracy -- e.g. that the Gulf countries are lying about being threatened by Iran and just wasting tens of billions of dollars in weapon buys for no reason.

Extraordinary claims needs extraordinary support, you don't even have a coherent conspiracy theory -- just claims that anything that contradicts the Iranian priests could maybe be a plant.

Enough.
Atlas – Clever Software
I submitted the NextCity article after reading the article, but then decided to submit the report as well. I do think they can be read without redundancy, as the NC article is a bit easier. I'll leave it up to the mods to drop either, though for completeness that if one of them is drop it should be the NC one, not the original report.

I don't know sock puppets or voting brigades in HN, but I would expect those who upvoted one to do the same to the other. They appeared next to each other in the /new page.
The Art of the Bodge
> However, it keeps a lot of ideas from 1.5 that were later dropped by CL and others. Names don't matter: ideas do.

That's what I say: vague ideas don't matter much when forming language families. Code does. Books. Libraries. Communities.

What were those ideas that were dropped? Fexprs would be one. That was dropped when compilers were used and Fexprs were found not to be compilable. That happened in the 70s before CL existed. Pitman published his paper on macros in 1980, which summarized the view of the Maclisp / LML developers. What else?

The Lisp 1.5 manual gives an extended example: the Wang algorithm.

The code still runs in Common Lisp.

http://www.informatimago.com/develop/lisp/com/informatimago/...

What were the 'ideas' that were dropped, even though somehow old code still runs?

> We weren't discussing macro system internals until just now. It's not great, but it gets the job done, and that wasn't the point.

The point was, claiming a 'slower compilation process' due to splicing backquote usage, while in fact the whole compilation of the example you gave was the really slower one, because use used a slower macro system which traverses code for renaming and re-renaming.

> You seem to miss every point I make

EVERY POINT? Are you really sure I miss EVERY POINT you make?

Personally I would only claim that you miss SOME of my points, not every. In some cases I would claim that we have different opinions, for example what makes a language and its dialect.

But I would not claim that you miss all my points.

Maybe you should check again.
Free market works in fixing prices if there is competition. In the case of privatized municipal services only is there no competition, the residents are forced to use the service. It's often a super-monopoly.
Agree completely, two additions:

Azure's interface is years ahead of AWS. Most importantly: there's a single entry-point for everything. Just this month I was evaluating some stuff on AWS. I was certain that I had cleared everything that I was using up - I hadn't. Luckily it was merely a $17 lesson.

The nomenclature used is also quite understandable, unlike AWS which has branded everything down to the NIC.
That was about whatsapp doing a major goof and putting private files in a "public" area (every app already had a private area for file storage) and failing to secure them properly (encryption is hard, apparently).
The hard part is the user interface, not the backend. The application needs to invoke a privileged UI where the user can choose which files or directories the application may access.

(many storage media are formatted using FAT, so the media API is probably not implemented using Unix permissions)
You mean a subscription based model? What will happen when people stop paying, they brick the device?

If their idea that what customers are really after is a OS filled with ads, they are running into a wall with both feet on the accelerator.
A Universal Classifier for Binary, Multi-Class, Multi-Label Classification
Staff Squared
I cannot believe that still in this day and age, there is still a belief that open offices are better for developers?? Joel Spolsky tried to set the record straight, what, about 15 years ago?

For the record, I don't normally listen to music when programming - I like a quiet environment. Interruptions are a bane. I have a private office, but as soon as anyone enters - even quietly, my flow state is broken.

Plus on the flipside, while waiting for a long compile or download, I will grab one of the guitars sitting in my office and randomly jam away. I am sure in an open office environment, my co-workers would not appreciate that either.
I find it odd that you'd criticize Sam Altman in this way then go on to call Steve Jobs a "true visionary". I see Jobs as being more a managerial type that managed to get a few things very right. He wasn't able to dive deep into technical things and grok them as you said. I have read comments on hacker news from people that worked directly under him, talking about how he forbid using object orientation in programming. So programmers had to hide it from them that they were actually using it, which was easy because he could not read the code.

Additionally, Sam Altman is now in a position to achieve greatness and he probably will do so whether or not he has already. Someone in that position would not even have to be particularly exceptional (once again, whether he is or not) to do so. So whether he has or not so far is a moot point. I'm just pleased he has ambition and apparently isn't focused on the lime light. Compare that to how most billionaires use their funds (ie, big yachts etc) and you should just be pleased that anything is happening.

Anyway, my main point is that I guess that an appreciation of "genius" is a highly subjective thing. And the instant someone would mention Jobs as such is the same moment I'd intensely disagree with them. It can probably just be left at that.
Or everyone's equally as rich, or well served. The purpose of a public transportation service should be to serve the whole city, not to run just the profitable courses.
Seriously...haven't looked at Azure?
But Nix and Guix need a base compiler to start with, right?
Well it was Google's excuse for how only certain Chromebooks of a recent vintage would be getting Android app support.
Pretty nice. I would have used Chibi or SPOCK (probably Chibi) myself, as opposed to Biwa, but that's all up to personal preference. The point is, this is pretty cool.
HNLondon, October 2016