skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was studying my electrical engineering and as all the other Engineering students,I was searching for internships then.My interest was mainly in Electromagnetism and Field theory. I was really hoping for an internship at CERN[1]. I had applied for the same and did not get through.I then kept asking the professors there and tried selling myself quite a bit. I finally got one of them to accept me .However the required fee was atleast 4x what I could afford.As a result I could not go there. Considering the quality of education in Indian colleges and the lack of credible practical experience,I had to forgo those dreams in the field and take up some typical consultancy (like TCS but not TCS) job. This was the first time I had taken up programming(I refused to take it earlier because i considered the field over saturated and highly ephemeral(Boy o boy I was wrong )) .I enjoyed software development .I enjoyed the complete open nature of it and the speed and how helpful people were on the online community (compare stackoverflow and Electrical Engineering SE[2]) . I realised that I loved this work and I was glad that this happened.

My point is this : We are no different from really capable Branch Prediction engines [3]. Every regret stems from an If. We learn along the way.I personally keep a list of all the things I regret which I always go through before making the next important decision in my life .

I also regret not doing my Masters immediately after my graduation.I hope to do that soon too.

[1]:https://jobs.web.cern.ch/join-us/short-term-internship-progr...
[2]:http://electronics.stackexchange.com/
[3]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12340348
The article already mentions it but I highly recommend "The History of Western Philosophy" by Bertrand Russell, if you are interested in any type of philosophy or philosophers. It gives a good overview from the pre-Socratics up until the beginning of the 20th Century.
Microsoft's efforts in Z3 and Lean to make IDEs interactive theorem provers is going to change how we code. I'm curious which will be the first to adopt FPGAs and Micron Automata style processors in memory.
I got a coworker of mine into lifting. She's 62, and she's already enjoying a bunch of the benefits.

Unfortunately, she only goes when I go, and she's retiring in seven months. I don't know if she's going to stick with it when she leaves. I hope she does, as she's been making some great progress.
But how will the Sonder keyboard help you to remember hotkeys? Maybe I'm missing something. I can understand how it can show me that option-shift-2 is the Euro symbol but how can it show me that command-G is "Paste Only MIDI Notes"?
Probably because you don't get any "fitter/healthier" when getting old. When you're in your 20s, you have more options (physically) then when you're in your 50s.
imho there's stagnation in hardware computing as well as mobile phones. It seems the fastest innovation is either in electric cars (both USA/China) or in machine learning.
Grew up in the Chicago suburbs, then went to school in Troy, NY, then founded a startup in Boston. Now I'm starting to feel like Switzerland is the next destination, and while it feels like a more permanent move than the others, I wonder where I would be if I had not moved at all.

I'd probably be a more stout Christian, my economic class would almost certainly be lower. I'd probably have a lot more friends. Moving has a huge social cost and I've paid it twice. I'd probably be happier in daily life.

But I'd also probably feel like a big fish in a small pond. Like I had let down my potential. If I was in that position, I'd probably regret not leaving for college more than I currently regret leaving.

So I don't actually regret the price I've paid. But I do reflect on it frequently.
True. In case of CE, ensuring that CE-declared products are actually compliant is the responsibility of each EU's member state. They do this mostly on case-by-case basis - and citizens are free to report violations of conformity. So in case that e.g. my CE-labeled charger catches fire, I can report it to appropriate authority, which will then investigate and is free to fine and/or jail the manufacturer (if local) or the importer if the product is found to be non-conforming and is a safety threat.

So yeah, CE may be a self-certification stamp, but if you put one on your product, you open yourself for legal actions if your product doesn't conform to the appropriate standards. Extending this to cover networking safety aspects of devices is the minimum I hope regulators will do.
The problem is also we don't know the quality we will get with a new model... I would be more than annoyed by a laptop that has coil whine, screen flicker, and sleep issues, especially an high end laptop with that kind of price tag...
If you first add the app to iTunes for PC/Mac, then it lets you install the last compatible version of the app on your iDevice!
It's a nice trick but it's unsafe in general. JavaScript libraries usually assume single-threaded event handling. If you start up another event loop from a callback (while some other library's code is already on the stack), you'll probably break it.
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> compiling kernels, configuring X11, figuring out which photo management software to use, setting up reliable backups, getting my Bluetooth headset to work, and, yes, getting the machine to suspend when I close the lid and wake up when I open it.

I haven't heard of the need for compiling kernels, configuring X11 etc. in a loong time.

> setting up reliable backups, getting my Bluetooth headset to work, and, yes, getting the machine to suspend when I close the lid and wake up when I open it

Again, works out of the box, just pick a laptop that is known to work well, i.e. a Clevo, Lenovo or some of the newer DELL machines to give Linux a proper chance - there's no point in trying a laptop that is known to work only with Windows and then complain about it - the same way you don't complain if macOS doesn't work well on a DELL.

You pick a specific machine to run macOS, do the same for Linux and everything will work beautifully out of the box.
It's very hard to second guess things in life - if you're happy with how things have worked out in general, it's near impossible to say what contributed and what hurt.

But....

1 - I was quite a jerk in some relationships when I was in college and soon thereafter. I didn't need to be.

2 - I regret not forcing my way overseas earlier in life.

3 - I regret not paying attention to subjects outside of Computer Science earlier in life.

4 - I regret not achieving wealth soon enough in life to take care of my parents better.
I think you're confused about "value."

CTL isn't valued at $16B. That's only the market capitalization of its common shares outstanding.

LVLT market cap = $19.4B
LVLT assets = $24.1B (as of FYE15)

CTL market cap = $16.5B
CTL assets = $47.6B (as of FYE15)

This deal's ~$10B cash + ~$15B stock (edit: based on diff. article from wsj[0] It's $34B if you include $10B in LT debt.) CTL needs to raise cash and issue/buy-back shares. Lots of options, but I'm sure they already have creditors lined up.

On an unrelated note, CTL has $20B in goodwill on its balance sheet. Wow...

edit: [0] http://on.wsj.com/2f0DDdj
In what way does highlighting with the mouse not feel right?

Seems to work pretty much the same as in Visual Studio to me. Mind you I hardly ever use it, I prefer to mark the region instead.

If you can add what you want to Emacs without making the new features compulsory and without removing the existing ones then by all means go for it. But I suspect that the lack of some features is simply down to no one with enough enthusiasm and expertise to build them actually wanting them. Most of Emacs' features were built by people who wanted to use them so a lot of stuff ends up being worked on just until it is good enough for the creator's own purposes.
not available in my country tough.
Nor I, but that mechanical keyboard is damn tempting...
1. What widespread laptop applications need 20+ GB of random access memory? With the low latency of PCIe storage, virtual memory could cover the non-random access cases like editing UHD or DCI-4K videos, or data mining large datasets.

2. Apple might be looking forward to future generation processors, which might add on-package memory with lower power and faster bandwidth. If that on-package memory is limited to 16GB, then Apple could be preparing its software ecosystem to deal with a similar 16GB memory window and latency/power cliff, thus saving power and boosting the battery life in the next generation to come.
It's really not. Google has 7 billion in cash. Every one of the big 5 could spend a couple billion to win a market. They can't. They are incapable of risking losing billions on an idea. They're not startups anymore.

I made a peer comment about google vs Tesla self driving cars that captures the essence. The point is, Google won't sacrifice ad sales to win at tablets. Apple won't sacrifice consumer electronics to win services. None of them are in a do or die situation that startups are in. The big five might see the problem, but they can't make the move. They're structurally incapable of taking the risk.
Yeah, AFAIK ozone hole predictions made sense, they were actually acted upon, and by doing so we actually fixed the problem.
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Curious if WPDemo spins up a new container for each vistor.
Really fun to see this on HN:s front page - I started using this last week to give some non technical people access to some queries I usually run for them. Works perfect so far!
Since I changed my view, also due to HN, I found there is little left to regret. I mostly give the best I can in every aspect of my life. And when that wasn't enough I will probably do better next time. If there is a risky decision ahead I try to be aware of it and the details and use it as learning experience. Living that way mostly gives every decision, every success and every failure a meaning. And having meaning means there is not much reason to regret it.

Btw: currently I'm without a job, about $15k in depth and will probably spend the next 3 years paying off these debts without any holiday or much improvement of life quality. Yet it was only painful for a few weeks and I was able to move on. And who knows, the next role of dice may end up giving me unexpected luck and next year looks very different already.
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I did the opposite too. I kept taking the harder options and while my knowledge and understanding increased drastically.my "GPA" wasn't good enough for anyone.
Grass is always greener on the other side heh?
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In addition to the tax benefits someone mentioned, Level 3 has massive voip and traditional voice assets. They are a huge wholesaler to other voip companies.
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I'll be very interested to see what he has to say. I'll be more interested to see how those who've stood by him through this (YC, facebook) react.
> I regret letting myself get comfortable, to a place where the money is too good to leave.

Getting comfortable is not necessarily bad. Knowing you have a solid "fallback" option in case anything goes wrong can actually help creativity and reduce the risk of having to compromise, imho.
This one should be read (and understood) by anyone who fancies him/herself a manager.
Lot of people in this thread crapping on Microsoft. I don't know that Microsoft is more brave or more innovative than Apple yet, but I know one thing, they are more brave and innovative than Microsoft five years ago. That's all that matters.

While I'm sure the grand plan is to eat Apple's lunch, they seem more focused on being better than themselves. I think they are onto something with the Surface line, they just need to keep iterating it. They also need to introduce a Surface product that the average consumer can afford--even Apple has done this with the Air line and the non-Pro line.

I have a MacBook now, but I'd love to go to a Surface Studio. If they can work to get up-to-date hardware in all of their offerings, and provide a $1k Macbook Air equivalent, along with a sub $2k iMac equivalent, they'll win.

Microsoft also has one other major hurdle. They lost a ton of ground they were gaining because they chose to force upgrades to Windows 10. I can actually get why they did this from a corporate perspective (Less OSes to support, therefore more money freed up to do other things), but as a user it sucks. They have to build an update to 10 that wins over the people they lost. They have to come out and say "Yes, we want your telemetry data, but we aren't going to force you to give it to us, so from now on, it's opt-in".

As far as Apple goes, I think they know they aren't innovating at the same pace. I think the headphone jack, the escape key, and touch bar are them trying to figure out how to innovate without Steve Jobs. I think Jony Ive is capable, but he needs room to fail to learn. Steve Jobs talked a lot about how as a company, you produce a lot of failures for each success. Steve Jobs was just much better at having many of those failures never see the light of day.

Either way, I don't care who the most innovate company is. I'd rather see them all trying to innovate, because the good stuff they come up with can only benefit the consumer.
This is not an infographic, it's a plot of data with some humour sprinkled on top.
34B is the kind of money I can only dream of. Hell, I don't think I can even afford to dream about it.
I regret deciding to major in a hard science instead of programming, as well as spending far too long in a PhD program before dropping out.

The personal and professional toll of these choices has been painful on the best days, soul-crushing on the worst.
If you're going to be using the machine professionally and hooking up a couple 5k monitors for doing video or high end photo work, why not connect an external RAID or NAS as well? Are there use cases where one needs to carry around many terabytes of video portably but without access to a 5k monitor?
A lot of lisp people get testy when you call lisp a functional language.
I mostly regret not starting sooner with something.

Lifting weights, playing guitar/bass, programming, polyamory, remote working, saving money, studying for school.
I'm not sure what the Bayesian fallacy is (I find several papers with the term in the title, but couldn't find a definition) but it seems like this could be the base-rate fallacy (most goals come after short sequences of possession, neglecting the base rate: most sequences of possession are short).
Here you go:

# Privacy: don’t send search queries to Apple
# Safari
defaults write com.apple.Safari UniversalSearchEnabled -bool false
defaults write com.apple.Safari SuppressSearchSuggestions -bool true
# Spotlight
defaults write com.apple.spotlight orderedItems -array \
'{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "MENU_WEBSEARCH";}' \
'{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "MENU_SPOTLIGHT_SUGGESTIONS";}'

Also turn off Dictation in System Preferences > Keyboard > Dictation. I'm guessing you're smart enough to already have disabled Siri.

Voila! More privacy.
We're moving into a post-code world.

Development ten years from now will be all about training ML/AI systems and chaining them together in interesting ways.

That's going to need lots and lots of cycles and RAM. If Apple can't see that and wants to carry on selling jewellery with a keyboard and screen, Apple is going to be steamrollered by competitors who can.
No regrets BUT I think I should have studied Engineering and enjoyed it more.

I love my family and my kids. I would have hated to not be there for three kids that became my family. I wouldn't have adopted these kids if I didn't live here and no way that would have happened if I was an engineer.
I never quite understood how goodwill is calculated. I mean, I can understand how ATVI (Activision) or HAS (Hasbro) can have big "goodwill". But it doesn't make sense for CTL. Do you have any explanation?
He's not. Inefficient code multiplied by millions of users = quite a lot of coal being wasted.
Let's encrypt down
In case you were wondering why issuing certificates via certbot is failing. https://letsencrypt.status.io/
I always wonder how companies like this get founded. So i checked their own history page which includes this statement which reads so dry, i have to blow the sand out of my eyes by the bucket:

"Our business started as part of a subsidiary of a construction company that created one of the first competitive local exchange carriers, MFS Communications."

If you follow that trail of companies, you feel like you've hit "deep corporate america" where nothing has a founder and everything is a subsidiary of some larger corporate division of something.
> it's guaranteed that this will work in the future without any hassle

I wish this was true, but I always hold off updating my work MBP at least 6 months, before all the issues with the newest release are resolved.
I remember updating to 10.7 since 10.6 was a solid release and it was a nightmare.
There's a bunch of stuff broken with 10.12 as well, including a bug which prevents curl from working well and a bug which makes Duet less reliable under Sierra.
What I regret is a single thing: Not finding out about my allergies earlier.

I would have a different and richer life (also economically, but not what I mean) if I knew I was a bit chronically tired from them, not to mention other problems I got from that.

On the other hand, I might have f-cked something else up with more available time/energy.

(Edit: The really weird part is to realize late in life that your personality is much more positive and cheerful than you thought. You see yourself differently afterwards.)
Question - did you go with the default blank keys? And how do you like them? I'm trying to figure out which keys to get, but I have yet to see one in person.
One key, if not the key, to being a good manager is empathy. There are different overall approaches, but lacking in empathy is giving up an important tool.

If you treat every tool in the manager's toolbox as a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail. This attitude is usually a result of people finding what they expect.

If you expect the worst in people, they won't let you down. One shouldn't let negative anecdotes cloud their perspective and hinder their ability to relate to other people. You start ignoring situations where you could have done better and don't accept your role in allowing problems to blow up.
I appreciate that you took the time to share your experiences.

In hindsight, what would you have done differently? Can you imagine a set of circumstances where you would be running the company as a happy person?
Great idea! I have always felt that the Wireshark Lua bindings are not ready-to-use enough. They feel like the ugly stepchild of Wireshark.

In the last dissector I wrote, which was about 1000 lines of Lua, I built a very limited structure definition parser, not completely unlike wssdl. I did it to cut down on the repetitive code needed parse the structures: Typically I parse every field twice: Once to add it to the dissection tree and once to get its value as a Lua-held variable.

I'll definitely be using wssdl in my next dissector!
My wife has one, and the trackpads on them are terrible compared to a MBP. I don't know how they compare to other laptops in the current Lenovo line.
Or take a picture or find their photo on a social network http://www.geek.com/apple/bypassing-touch-id-with-a-phony-fi...
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>Apple now has a dominant position in the PC market

??

Lenovo, Dell, HP, ASUS = 64% marketshare. Apple=7%.

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-macbooks-pc-market-shar...

Apple laptops are not dominant, they are a large niche. Microsoft dominates the PC market.
This is my one regret also, causing collateral damage to some very close friends - rightfully not close friends anymore - while I went through depression. Had to really rebuild myself from that point and still continuing to do so.
Meh. This is what overseas management do to Australian subsidiaries all the time. They don't worry about the profits made by the employees, what they tend to believe is "It's Australia, we get tax incentives to work here, there's no way Australia workers could be as productive as U.S. workers."

Then they try to introduce business practices that only work in the U.S. and consequently fail. I've seen it time and time again.
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Well, million years from now on, nobody will care about any impact you did
Ask a kid who's been issued a Chromebook for school. Everyone I've talked to complains about it being heaving, having a short battery life compared to their other electronics, and being very limited. I know "Chromebook" encompasses a wide array of devices, some with better and worse performance, but they're not a panacea for computing. Most are low performance devices.
Yeah, to have a goal will make one happy and stronger.
Learn open source tools, you'll be able to use them freely your entire life. These tools may be shinier, but they offer no real productivity gains in the long run.
FYI, this is v2 of the concept. It's continuing to evolve, and has also been made OSS.
Yes it does. However, they are garbage collected after 5min of inactivity.
I regret that I never made as much time as I could have for my dad when he was around. Knowing how much simple texts calls and emails would have meant, my consistent failure to respond promptly and contact regularly will always be a regret. I hate the idea that he might have thought I didn't care, rather than I am just lazy/thoughtless.
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Sometimes our failures guide us. I thought I might want to study mathematics for life. I pushed myself hard and was taking advanced courses. When I received my first bad grade, I realized it was not the right path for me, and that my motivations for delving that far into mathematics were wrong. I'm glad I learned that earlier rather than later.

I've stayed in research, and all those math courses have given me a firm foundation on which to solve real science problems--I see that now. But I cannot regret going through what was fundamentally a learning process, and stepping too far in the wrong direction.
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My wife is really into her dancing, and before I met her, I never cared for the likes of anything I considered 'girly'.

People really need to hear the story of Billy Elliot (my favourite musical - another thing I would never have bothered with, previously) and the life of Carlos Acosta (who I was watching on Parkinson just last night).

Good luck with your dancing, and don't let others put you off.
Nope. A large part is being at the right place in time (and location), which is pure luck.
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Any recommendations to stand in for these?
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Nice! Cool application of the touch bar. Much more practical than some of Apple's so far demoed examples. ;)
Running my company for 15 years instead of for 10.

After the crash of 2008 it was clear that revenues were plunging and the situation was dire.

I could have shut it down right then and there and left on a high note.

Instead I slashed my own pay and applied a Herculean effort to keep the firm alive...only to shut it down anyway 5 years later.

That was five years of my life that I have nothing to show for.

Know when to walk away.
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