skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And I'm happy to pay for their 'yearly license'. Great companies should have great revenues. I don't want them to end up like FoundationDB or RethinkDB. The fact that they get steady revenue ensures me that they won't perish and will keep doing great job.
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* I was just genuinely interested those things.*

Meh, I'm down with that. I would be a much richer man today had I chosen more wisely. But I would not be a happier man.

Maybe I was "unemployable".

Despite my comment to the (somewhat) contrary, as long as you're not specialist in BeOS or the like, in software you'll almost always make money doing what you like to do. Again, whatever ends up winning, the abstractions and concepts you pick up will generally prove useful where ever you end up. You might not be raking in the Benjamins like your SAP buddy over there pulling down $350K/year, but you'll be relatively wealthy and happy.
and Microsoft vs US and Gore vs Bush
https://web.archive.org/web/20151219233805/http://assembly.c...

Sounds like the defunct assembly
Yes, that's something Twitter is pretty good at. E-mailing random people feels more intrusive to me, and blog comments or similar channels aren't always available or appropriate (although Twitter certainly is to blame for at least some of that)
Can I suggest a nice program called NetGuard?

But yes, and this is a deliberate Google policy, also like the don't want ad blocking programs. You are an input to their revenue generating system, not a client.
Not everyone needs a functional language.
While I get the overall message I'm not sure last question is that unpredictable:
I++ + ++I
If postfix is executed first it returns 0 but prefix returns 2 and the result is 2. If prefix is executed first it returns 1 and then postfix also returns 1, result of the addition is again 2.
What else is ambiguous about this snippet? I can't think of a parse tree that'd evaluate addition before any of the increments - that'd be a syntax error.
If the code were (++i + i++) there could be alternative interpretations, but again ++ requires lvalue...
FALLING ON THE BED CHallENGE – LaneVids
It appears to be a catamaran or SWATH craft. The developer is supposedly 'Sifang', which another article[0] expands to 'Beijing Sifang Automation'.[1] Other points from the article:

The project commenced in 2014, according to Guo Tianyu, one of the company’s key account managers

A first prototype of the SeaFly completed phase one tests on Nanhu Lake in Wuhan on 27 October. The system, dubbed SeaFly-01, measures 10.25m long and can achieve a speed of 45km/h via two diesel engines.

The SeaFly will displace 4.5t and has an endurance of 400+km. The carbon fibre hull employs a ‘double-M’ configuration for speed and stability, and it can operate in up to Sea State 4 in all types of weather.

A monitoring centre can transmit commands to the USV at distances of up to 50km. However, the USV is capable of totally autonomous operations, plus it is able to learn autonomously.

Its core equipment was all developed within China and it operates using the Beidou navigation system

stealthy low radar cross-section

[0] https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/uv-online/zhuhai-2016-sea...

[1] http://www.sifang-electric.com/index.php/en/ and http://www.sf-auto.com/Pages/default.aspx
Full title is "Election oasis — Coping with election anxiety (research-backed)"
I'm stunned it took this long.
Also pointing out existing alternatives which can work without some single big for profit company behind is a very valid counter argument to a claim that Twitter has to be saved.
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I do not understand this stuff, but the connection between gravity and horizont sounds like this [quantized acceleration theory](http://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.de/)
Does it function better for you than a google search or a news.google.com search?
Yeah. It seems like something easy to define to me, at least in the case the compiler can recognize the shift is a constant. But that's the standard for you.
You're overfitting to your knowledge of MVC.
You must have not dealt with other engineering disciplines. At least in software engineering you don't have to pass exams and get a "Professional Engineer" certification from the government in order to get a job.
For loops require explicit and error-prone use of integer indices and are of limited utility outside arrays. Foreach loops in Java/C# are an attempt to generalise, but they are really just syntactic sugar over external iterators. They give privileged status to the specific iteration interface chosen, entangling the language and its libraries. The actual Iterator interface chosen by Java has proven to be unsuitable for coroutines/yield, but is now too difficult to change.
In Haskell, foreach loops can be implemented purely as a higher-order library function.
Congrats to the entire Jetbrains team.

Great language, greater IDE.
I was never quite able to decide if I should laugh or cry.
Maybe this is the right occasion to re-ask a question I asked some years ago on stack exchange, but (despite several people trying their best to explain) still failed to understand the answer to.

So: does electricity have 'mass'? What I mean is, when current flows, is there a transfer of electrons (or something else) from the power source to whatever it is send to? And is there a difference between AC and DC?

The context of this question is that the core argument of a legal paper (of all things) I was reading at the time (on property rights of virtual goods) hinged on there being a transfer of mass, however small. I wasn't so sure.

(my SE question devolved into a semi-legal argument - I have a law degree, the context of the question is a lot more nuanced still than the above description, and is very much tied to some specific 80 year old Dutch case law - just saying that to point out that a legal argument on whether or not the question matters won't add much to the discussion.)
Not a language issue per say then. It shouldn't a problem to add support for this. Julia is even designed from the start to work with Strings of different types. Something not common in most other languages I've worked with.

Most string functions operate on AbstractString types. You can create whatever subtype you like implementing alternative string encodings.
May be propose for them to use Linux. It should cope better. No lightroom for it though, but there are other good photo editors.
How to Spot the International Space Station with New NASA Tool
Ooh... nice! Thanks!
Oops, added to my profile.
+1 and were playing games with peoples' health in an arguably more egregious manner than even soylent.
What makes you say that Airbnb feels invincible?

They seem like humble guys who are constantly at battle to save their company.
Girl? It's outrageous that you would deny her agency!
Show HN: Vim colorscheme with ERB templates (easier to maintain, faster to run)
I can also vouch for Kotlin. I am actually not an Android dev and I started using Kotlin for a backend project (uses Spring Boot) and I was pleasantly surprised how easy my switch to Kotlin was.
> And don't tell me about "Google Cloud Print." Cloud Printing requires a PC or Mac connected to the printer and a copy of the Chrome browser running.

You are mistaken. While that's an option, the primary option is to use a printer that directly supports Google cloud print.

https://www.google.com/cloudprint/learn/printers.html
I suspect the number of C++/Python or Python/Fortran (where users use 0-based indexing) programmers is larger than Fortran +Math +Matlab + R + Lua.

Anyway, I'm not defending my decision as a globally correct one- it only matter to me.
a similar statup ubeam by a female founder, with secrecy, and non proven prototype yet.

however, a16z invested in them to my surprise.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/11/charged/
By definition, isn't it impossible to be free from your own biases?
Hey, I didn't catch your reply in time, sorry about that.

Anyway, the man page for pselect(2) in 10.12.1 doesn't have that section, and when I run your test program it prints "OK". So it appears that this particular bug was fixed. It only took them 2 years (could be less if it was fixed in 10.11) this time, which was an improvement over their turnaround for fixing the rename(2) bug[0]. :-P

[0] http://www.weirdnet.nl/apple/rename.html
Yes, much better. All it takes is someone and their phone.

Take for instance the recent tornado we had off the Oregon coast. I had video/pictures/reports showing up even ahead of the local NOAA site or google news.
I don't even think it's a city/urban thing - I live right in the middle of a city and walk to work but the car is for getting out of the city to walk/bike/ski and I can't see a glorified taxi working in those situations.
Ask HN: What's your favorite service for email forwarding?
What's your favorite service for email forwarding or managing email aliases for custom domains?

Example scenario:

I have mydomain.com. I want to set up infinite (read many) aliases that forward to one personal inbox.

* hn@mydomain.com

* hello@mydomain.com

* coffee@mydomain.com

* hireme@mydomain.com

Options I'm aware of:

* G Suite (formerly Google Apps): $5 per month for 1 personal inbox & maximum of 30 aliases.

* Mailgun: Can do a catch all (*@mydomain.com) and forward to any email address. Seems to be free if you don't send any emails through Mailgun's service.

Any other services you might recommend?
Nice! I've hacked some shell scripts together to do something similar, but this is way better!
This sysadmin/programmer enjoy Windows 10.

Finally I can have multiple desktops on a stock Windows PC.
Making Videos on Linux
If you compress a spring, and then heat it, what happens to the stored inches?
Too far? Everyone in a position to know the true state of Theranos should be publicly hanged for attempting to defraud the American Government, and by extension, the American people themselves.

The fact that the fraud was related to healthcare should earn them all short ropes.
IMO You really shouldn't want benign things such a med tech company to fail unless they were doing something really egregious. I normally never down vote but this comment is pretty negative. (Wishing others to fail)

I repeat for the downvoters the OP said he is rejoicing in the failure of a company. Screw people loosing their jobs.

I don't care if theranos is Exxon mobile or JP. I would rather they learn and adapt for the better. Stop doing what ever is bad. Btw this my first downvote ever of which I wrote a comment why.

Edit

I wish I could delete my comment as I guess I must have said something terrible to get so downvoted. I assumed I must have offended someone. I just don't like some one "hoping" for the down fall of others and I feel strongly about it.
> Why did these other governments let FB & friends in? I think they just didn't see it coming, and by the time they realised the cat was out of the bag. Well, China saw it coming, and closed the door before it was too late. I'm not surprised China is doing that - I'm surprised other countries don't do it.

Because other countries aren't oppressive regimes and actually place some value in basic human rights.
Is this why my EE prof once said, a metal cabel is like a fiber cabel, it trasfers EM energy but at a different wave length?

This sounded like he went mad to me...
A bit of a late response as I just noticed your comment "I'm considering avoiding the JVM for games."

I have found myself in this boat many times. I have coded games in Purebasic, TI-83/89 Basic, Z80, C/C++, Java, Kotlin, Javascript, Haskell, Swift, etc. If you are an indie/hobby developer, don't worry about the language too much. Just do it in what's comfortable and enjoy the process. That alone will increase the odds of you completing the game by 50% (random number).
Your post is an appeal to ridicule wrapped around an ad-hominem, unless you're planning on enlightening us as to where real-world politics and the grandparent's book are incongruent.
Wow. This kind of thing is not particularly easy to google for - know anywhere I might be able to find out more about this?
True, but WeChat is way better than any social feature/app Google has, and it has certain innovations beyond what Facebook, Snapchat or any other major social network have. There is definitely true innovation coming out of China, and it's easy to see how the GFW has enabled a lot of that innovation, even if it's a bit indirect or confused at times.
Shameless plug for https://github.com/adamrt/sane-term

I use it (and created it) so I could use ansi-term instead of e-shell. Then C-c C-j lets you treat the term like a normal buffer (move, yank, etc), and C-c C-k when you are done lets you switch back to normal term style buffer.
Get rid of Windows. Problem solved.
So much this. And the biggest fools are the programmers that believe that they are unique wizards working magic and being special. They are simply factory workers working under an illusion.
Bureau of Labor Statistics: 22m in Government employment, 12m in manufacturing
Ya, especially if you are an authoritarian despot who wants to track down the friends of suspected human rights activists.
> VS Code is miles ahead

How so? It's very busy adding features JB IDEs had 10 years ago (CSS autocompletion in HTML, wow), it's not aiming to be a lightweight IDE at all, and it's written in JS. It will collapse under its own weight in a couple of years. Sure, today it might be at a stage where they have sort of enough functionality to appear competent while being sort of snappy, but at this rate it's only gonna get worse. It's a new player on a market that doesn't see new players very often, it's interesting to watch, but miles ahead?
I don't think that you know what you are talking about. Please check the https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort page.

Every new mainline kernel release includes improvements for Allwinner chips. Older Allwinner chips, such as A10 and A20, are already supported very well. The support for newer chips is progressing nicely, but there is always a bit of delay.

Yes, you can't expect this newly released Orange Pi PC 2 board to be already supported in the mainline kernel today. But maybe half a year later everything is likely going to be much better. And even right now, there should be some sort of a legacy 3.10 kernel available too, so it is not like you can't use the board at all.
Got taken over by a new investor, who had their own ideas. Stayed a while then left them to their new direction.
I fucking hate jews.
I've used both. Lua is powerful because of torch and it's GPU computing capabilities, but in terms of ease of use and modern syntax, Julia is lightyears ahead.
I was the same way for a while -- had body pains and discomforts that I (somehow) misattributed to whoever was demanding my attention and so came off as (or was) grumpy.
I was down voted heavily for suggesting that! I don't really think that breaking out of its sandbox is the problem though, its touching and manipulating data from the network. All the data I worry about losing is inside the signal app.

It would be better if features could be disabled. Sadly the only way to achieve that is to fork the code base and run your own dev build.
and SCO vs IBM.
>"More than one internet backbone got built this way"

Can you elaborate? Which ones?
Is a phone that much more clumsy than a card? Personally, my phone comes out much faster than a card.
Well, a cloud-ready printer would solve that issue...
One hurdle I've faced is lack of things like Skype. OP mentioned lightroom. Sometimes, the alternatives are not good enough, or not user-friendly enough for parents who insist on say Skype instead of hangouts
And the UK-France Channel Tunnel - which didn't go bankrupt but did have a significant financial "restructuring" along the way.
It also finally solves the Android Studio bug that would show all the Databinding code as erroneous in the IDE.

The tooling is still a bit rough around the edge compared to the base Android one, mostly because the android tools team really does an awesome job.

It is still useable though, and the language is so much better than java that it is a breeze to use.

The only downside is that you have to interface it with java code, which brings a couple of issues.
> pro-life atheist, or a pro-gun liberal, or an anti-war economic conservative

You just described Libertarianism
Quite a bit, each foot does add latency tho, if you switch from a 3 foot cable to a 10-12 one it can actually be noticeable.
As I understand it -- and I could be way off here -- the path from Software Engineer to Sales in the corporate world goes through Sales Engineering.

So if you really want to get into that, I would recommend finding some sales engineers in your company or another friendly company and ask them for advice.

Another closely related thing AFAIK is "Solution Architect" jobs -- in abundance at places like IBM and SAP. There you'd normally be in contact with the folks in Sales as they would want to make sure you're doing the required nerdy stuff to keep the customer happy and open-checkbooked.
It's monolithic vs many apps.

Facebook tried to copy Snapchat and failed because people would just rather use Snapchat.

I'd bail on whatsapp if it got more integrated into Facebook.

It's a cultural issue, not some amazing chinese innovations that we out west are just blind to.
Anyone see where this was filed? I can't find it on PACER or the Chancery court website. The article says "Delaware federal court"...
Jesus, red flags EVERYWHERE

- was also bubbling throughout the company’s mustard-and-green Palo Alto headquarters, which was nearing the end of a $6.7 million renovation.

Not sure how many startups you guys have been apart of, but none of the ones I worked for were making 7 million dollar renovations to their offices.

- Holmes largely forbade her employees from communicating with one another about what they were working on—a culture that resulted in a rare form of executive omniscience.

This also keeps your employees in the dark when the ship starts sinking.

- Moreover, he was also struck by Holmes’s limited ability to explain how it all worked.

You're running a biotech company and you don't even know how the technology works? Another HUGE red flag.

- And, as a then dark-haired 19-year-old first-year at Stanford University’s School of Chemical Engineering

So somewhere she was able to charm people that she was some kind of biotech expert after only having ONE YEAR in a chemical engineering program? Unreal.

There's a bunch more, but I'm quite shocked frankly she got as far as she did. There should have been so many red flags on the investors part to stay away from this company and they all got suckered into it.
I think a private enterprises in the U.S. can refuse money, so your bank can refuse that 1000$ bill at their discretion (and pissing you off as a customer in the process).

However, the government probably is required to take that money to pay nay taxes, although I do not know how you can pay any taxes to the federal U.S. by cash. Maybe a customs duty at a border crossing?
I think what you're saying is definitely indicative of what I was trying to get at: that analog is more of a "feeling" and less of a technical term nowadays. I didn't mean to vilify you for that; I think it's a fairly widespread phenomenon, and you just happened to illustrate my point well :P

Great article, by the way!
I would have expected it to be in Chattanooga, TN... not Ohio.
Is it really harder to change the new tab page in Chrome OS anymore? Wow.
> Chromebooks cannot print.

+1. I can vouch for that.

Source: We bought 5 chromebooks to trial at our company.
I wasn't previously acquainted with the term "modal realism" (been avoiding contemporary philosophy for a while now), but there doesn't seem to be an immediate connection in this case. There aren't actually many worlds being simulated here, as each computer simulates the same world and they all get the same results. Leibniz does introduce the idea of many possible worlds (§53), but as a set of designs for this whole thing (computers plus the stuff running inside them) from which God draws one particular design to be the actual world.

He might be closer to modal realists in other regards, though. I don't know.
Regarding Facebook. Monstrous, centralized entity which knows everything about everyone? That's an anti-utopian example, not utopian one.

I'd prefer something like diaspora* to gain more traction. Open, decentralized social network without pointless limitations on post length.
Is it that hard for you to accept that people use different tools to accomplish the same task?
I think you should re read your statement. In particular: "They seem like humble guys..."

http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-co-founders-freshman-r...
Yes it's a historical accident. But so far no one has offered anything better, visual programming sucks.

As far as inter operability go, nothing beats text.
Is there a lambda-to-loop refactoring? Every refactoring should have its inverse. For loops are often better than map() calls (not always).
Someone to feed you projects slowly and show you how to get started before you're left to your own devices.
This article is a criticism of Facebook, not a defense of Twitter. The idea that Twitter, by virtue of not being Facebook, is a public square fit for deliberation of ideas that are key to the health of democracy is fairly absurd. Tweets are just about as imperfect a medium for dialogue as any that has existed in the time of the internet. Both Twitter and Facebook in their current states are fatally flawed as public forums. Let's at least acknowledge that before exploring solutions.
His reading list, especially Postman, is much more useful than what he has to say.
New York Times election front pages 1852-2012
I'm still waiting for this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12489586 ;)
> There's a bunch more, but I'm quite shocked frankly she got as far as she did.

That's only because you don't know who she knew. With such deep connected friends when you bring powerful people to the board, money will follow.
I think you should re read your statement. In particular: "..constant battle to save their company". Is a person who raises 500 million in funding constantly at a battle to save their company?
> And don't forget that a wave can travel at the speed of light even if the wave is carried by massy particles that can not.

I would love an example of that!
TBQH the Russians probably faked that email. Sure makes you wonder how the Russians were wise to their scheme when the Americans were falling for it!

(I honestly can't tell if I'm being sarcastic or not...)
I see that get repeated a lot, but every time I drill down into the details (including this one), it seems like they're experiencing different emotions, or lacking specific ones, not "lacking emotion altogether".

Their example in this case: "I didn't feel joy on first seeing my child." Okay, that's one situation you don't respond to; it doesn't mean they never experience joy.

Some people aren't bothered when e.g. others poke holes in their story; doesn't mean that person never experiences anger.

I admit it comes down to a tricky question of what you're counting as an emotion.
Zhuhai to Shenzhen
The nice thing about Excel is that it does resemble a functional programming tool.

Would love to work with a replacement, even if it is some sort of Pandas/Python/Matplotlibb derivative - but it takes too long to set up things with these tools, and it seems not all operations are as trivial as I want them to be.
adwords is interesting because you can create a landing page and test it. regardless of whether it's cost effective it allows you to test your top benefit, etc. even if your targeting SEO your going after the same keywords. facebook is a way to test things as well.
I would consider selling faulty tests to be egregious for a med tech company. I'm happy they are going down in flames; this is a public health concern. Their tact was borderline fraud.