skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Cold War era had a certain logic -- that once the US and USSR were effectively destroyed -- allies and neutral countries, even non-nuclear ones -- would become threats. If any missiles remained unfired, might as well re-target.

In other words, destroying the USSR only to be conquered by Mexico would have provided an ironic epitaph for the USA.
It seems to me that a lot of issues could be better handled if we weren't limited to programming in a subset of the ASCII char set. Unfortunately, the alternative is to completely retool the modern keyboard.
I guess they weren't able to put the bullet into Google's head.
A Few Billionaires Are Turning Medical Philanthropy on Its Head
Uber as a company is very ethical and takes the responsibility that we are entrusted with very seriously.

and at the same time plays dirty with city councils and hires a lot of lobbyists and slashes prices without advanced warning to drivers? all of those are unethical practices.
Halfway through, I started thinking, this piece is incredible marketing for the wife's attorney, Fisher. He's the only one really likeable character (the wife didnt care about defrauded customers, the husband was always the villain). Given that the money might never materialize, pitching an interesting, detailed, already researched article to NYT lets Fisher salvage some marketing out of a potential loss.
..if that argument were not destroyed by the Supreme Court many years ago. Infringement is not theft, no matter how much big businesses want to equivocate the two in people's minds.
Tap the 57 while holding the bottle in the pour position. It really works. From the Heinz Trivia [0] page:

What's the best way to get Heinz ketchup out of the iconic glass bottle?

To release ketchup faster from the glass bottle, apply a firm tap to the sweet spot on the neck of the bottle— the "57." Only 11% of people know this secret. Now you're "in-the-know."

[0] - http://www.heinz.com/our-company/press-room/trivia.aspx
I'll believe it when I see it. Fusion power is in that bin of technologies/capabilities that are always 20 years away, which includes things like cures for aging and manned missions to Mars.

...or maybe I've just become too cynical.
> 9. Are you optimizing for growth or profitability?

> Profitability - 39%

> Growth - 61%

This is what happens when your business goal is to get acquired and not to have a business sustained by paying customers.
> If I had two cores, my CPU usage would be 50% since my computer can run two processes at the same time. The load average of a computer with 2 cores that has a 100% CPU usage would be 2.00.

If I recall correctly the CPU usage would still be 100% but could go up to 200% if both cores are fully used.
especially microphones are a problem - you can always sticky tape the camera but you can not easily reversibly incapacitate the microphone
We're talking about a setup that's already plugged into the wall (triple monitors, keyboard, mouse). Just have the phone use Wifi.

I'll admit, having a self contained setup would be nicer, but that's not going to happen until batteries get much denser or phones get a lot more efficient.
I was really expecting something new from the Medium team. Instead, all we got was ads, promo stories "advertorials" in old media speak, media campaigns, and subscriptions.

Absolutely none of those are a "better" business model for publishing - they are exactly the current business model for publishing. And they are failing.

The execution is key, but so far, just more of the same.
He is clearly not in control of his MPs in the commons, and even less so in the Lords (which are now stacked with Blair cronies). He has to pick his battles very carefully.

Mandatory reselection after boundary changes should see to that.
>like a PR stunt to promote SK as the "e-sports capital" of the world.

Sounds more like it will achieve the opposite of positive PR.
In Canada too you can request all of the data that a company has on you. You just have to fill in a form or call the company and if they refuse you can contact the privacy office in your respective province or the federal privacy commision or just plain lawyer up.
Having done a few years of cross-mobile C++, we get into opinion territory perhaps, but it was never a smooth experience for me. Apologies, but don't have time today to go into too much justification for my opinion. It can be the lesser evil (e.g. you have an existing greater-than 10K LoC C++ codebase that you don't feel like porting to both Java and Swift), but, let's say I want to write a few methods, a few hundred lines of business logic, to validate user input on all three platforms. Sure I can bring out the C++ hammer but I've found that decision comes with more tool-fatigue overhead than it's worth, especially on Android. And I don't know the C++->Javascript story that well, that may be smoothing out these days.

But even if all that worked smoothly, what if I want to move my logic to PHP as well? I know, now I'm getting crazy, but that's what the poster asked for :)
revolutionary things are rejected by the establishment at first
What's broken about Hangouts? I just tried it in Chromium for Windows and it seems to work OK.
please do explain in 2 words the od command. I was looking on the page and there is only one od command and it is not explained. thank you
"Presumably it knows what it's doing so why should it want to stop?"

Because the #1 threat to the power of the House of Saud are terrorists :).

Since 1777 there have been revolutions going on everywhere, one way or another. The ideologies have varied. But where there was not 'progress', some 'leader' used an ideology to validate their revolution. In E. Europe and Asia it was Communism, in ME it's one brand of Islamism or another.

Al Queda is very much against House of Saud and would want to overthrow them 'first', type thing.

It's a complex issue.
Except the programmers working in this case work directly against the interests of the creators, and players, of those games.

So the hackers are driven away from working on Counterstrike so they can ruin my Sauerbraten game instead? Fantastic! /s
"Is Betteridge's law of headlines correct?" (brilliant title, given what follows)

http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html

"In other words, it appears as if roughly a quarter of all headlines which end in a question mark can be answered by the word no. You can go ahead and call that Linander’s law of headlines, if you will."

Don't miss the data:

https://gist.github.com/matslina/64601f39ef12bd653be6
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As I already said in another comment: Might have something to do with the demonization of the 500 and 1000 rupee bills. Which seems like another serious blow to the credibility of fiat money.
Ask HN: Bootstrapped founder seeking advice from people who've done it before
Hi HN. I'm building a fairly vanilla Rails app--"server-side HTML w/ JS sprinkles." It's for small businesses and I will be charging for it. For those who have done this before: what choices can I make now that will make my life easier later? (e.g. tools that help, workflows, code structure, business practices. Anything really!) I'm bootstrapping, it's just me, and I'm looking for any advantage I can get.
The worst of public school attendees in the United States join gangs and kill other human beings in US inner cities - I suspect that's much less common among homeschoolers. If true, I'd argue that the homeschool 'worst' is probably a lot better for society than the public school 'worst'. It would be an interesting research question.
Disclosure: homeschooled our 4 kids, my eldest is 20 years old and working full time as a software engineer in sf. One down, three to go... :)
Have you checked? I stumbled on it myself with background network, background upload requests get killed when the app is killed, and they don not resume even if you relaunch the app. I have a hunch all other background actitivity is the same way.
> 2. The main IP is the brand and trademarks. I don't know if I can get it back without a fight, and I'm tired of fighting. We will likely need to fork and rebrand, which might not be a bad thing. Would you support it?

Yes, if CM offers something "less libre" and son-of-CM continues the legacy of CM with AOSP. Other high-profile projects like this have survived rebranding/forks. It's not clear to me all the stuff this long saga includes but I get some bits and pieces from the comments. I am not terribly concerned about whatever business missteps took place at CM Inc.
How verifiable? You've seen the Underhanded C code competition? http://underhanded-c.org/
The only value I ever saw in the socialization aspect was when we had early childhood education centers that were family oriented (as opposed to age) and the older kids taught the young kids to use the potty. After that, it was all power and cliques.

On a side note: in 1995 I used the word socialization in a sentence with a government official and immediately had to spend 5 minutes defining my meaning was not whatever she thought it was. Words mutate overtime in government and there are actually hot and cold words for grants. I'm pretty sure I would have got the same reaction even if she hadn't been a racist in the old sense (a shame when that happens to minorities particularly when its directed at other minorities).
We've already been down that road:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)
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Yea married to teachers, have children in schools, went to schools are selves. Way more relevant than some jackasses study or some article.
You haven't met enough people who are alternatively schooled and/or home-schooled. Plenty of outstanding, high-performers who probably aren't wearing their Homeschooled! arm bands that day.

Most everyone, given enough time away from homogenizing environments like public schools, becomes increasingly differentiated from the norm. They find their tribe and grow into that niche instead. Then, when tribe members cross paths outside their tribe, people sense something "off" about the other.
More than technical expertise this is what will make you a good lead.

You can learn the tech side. You can't learn to like your team, be a good person, or enjoy helping people.
Why would anyone want this?

If you just want cheap service, you can already get that with a full-fledged smartphone with data. I pay less than $20/month with Ting, and I'm sure you can get similar deals with other MVNOs. You can't constantly stream YouTube videos all month long for that price though; you get that kind of bill by not using your phone that much, and doing a lot of your talking over WiFi using VoIP apps.

And you can get "burner" flip-phones for next to nothing anyway which will do exactly what you want here. If people really wanted stripped-down phones that much, those flip-phones would be extremely popular, but they're just not. There's no "revolution" to be had here.
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I am getting feedback that I should not be using the terms CPU usage and utilization when talking about load averages. I will update the post later.
The Leader of the Opposition is already in Privy Council, which (I believe) means he'll get most of the security briefs he wants to. He should probably be in COBRA too, but I don't think that's the case at the moment.
Agreed... If they'd just make it so the @replies carry the root and upstream Id's, and make some leeway into their constraints... Is anyone still using the SMS adapter to do anything but send new tweets?
I agree with you both that it would be amazing to see this in Haskell, and that Java (which I'm using full time now, after years of rails) is close-ish to what you want. I think this is what Scala is supposed to be, but I'm not sure it has realized that potential. You should look into Kotlin - you'll still miss Haskell's type system, but it's a good bit nicer than Java, and has a lot less history.
What about ransomware? The variants I know usually have to be paid by Bitcoin.
Sounds like something a game developer would be able to do.
Swift support on android [I'm aware of kotlin et al, I'm the kind of guy who never got well with Java]
Just like design by committee works well right?

Sorry, but that's just not practical. Even github has managers now; you need someone to steer things in one direction and have the authority to decide if all discussions failed, so that the project can actually move forward.

Put many senior devs together and it's entirely possible that the project would be "very interesting" code wise but nothing would actually be of use to the customers in 1 year. Yo dawg, I saw you refactored my code so I refactored it again.
There's a phrase for that: "design by committee"

While I think democracy is the best way to preserve personal liberty, I do not believe it is the way visionary or ambitious plans are conceived and executed.
I started to take a swing at the comments part a couple years ago with firebase: https://github.com/mimming/firebase-jekyll-comments
No because it's statically typed, too much work programming like that and it's not worth it for the kind of software I develop (backend of web/mobile apps), but thanks. Suggestions are always appreciated.

I found a defunct Ruby like language called Reia a couple of days ago https://github.com/tarcieri/reia/ and http://reia-lang.org/

It's object oriented and runs on the top of the Erlang VM. It maps classes on gen servers, which is pretty natural and it spares the developer all the boilerplate of creating a gen server module. Unfortunately the language designer killed it because "it's pretty bad to have two competing niche languages with nearly identical features." The other language was Elixir. However the two languages are very different. Elixir is 100% functional, Reia could have been the language to transition millions of OO developers to a functional and concurrent world. I could have used it instead of Ruby.
Yes, everyone is "hodl"-ing because the people who came before them got 100x or more gains. They're all praying that the steadily decreasing inflation curve and steady demand naturally yields higher exchange rates.
> Apparently, there's a giant sequoia that's 24.1m wide

I'm not sure where you got that number, but according to the link you provided, the max diameter of General Sherman is 11.1 m
All major IRC networks hide your IP address when you connect now (mode +x), but I bet the perception still exists. Most of these ToS'es are thoughtless copypasta from other services.. every now and then there's a Show HN from a new hosting company that has absurd nonsense in their terms, and the creator gets suitably chastised for it.
How to thank your employees, and motivate them
The core science of diamond growth inside an HPHT cell is essentially the same (a diamond seed, heat, pressure and graphite). There are a lot of variations in the composition of the cell though, which can control color (brown, orange, yellow, blue, colorless, near colorless), as well as overall quality, quantity and size of the diamond.

Outside of the growth cell, the machine and environment also influence growth. Temperature and pressure ranges, tolerances and gradients of the press all factor in to the final quality of the diamond. Ambient room temperature and humidity as well as conditions during the growth cell preparation play a role too.

For consumers though, when considering two 1.0ct G color, VS2 clarity round polished diamonds (for example), it doesn't really matter what process it came from, who grew it or what size or shape the rough diamond was.
Sure, but a hasty import of large amounts of data that no one is around to maintain it is at odds with accuracy.
I'm not sure why you say that. There are plenty of bitcoin stories on HN going back far longer than 3 years.

Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2524631
About scalability, a possible compromise might be making some distance-based limitations. I.e. limit subscriptions per prefix or adjust packet drop rates.

That way regional SSM can still be useful and local islands (which whould hopefully grow over time) could be bridged by unicast links or - if they have overlap - by leapfrogging.

Even at the ISP level there would be still be use-cases for SSM.
I'm looking for a CTO or a lead engineer for my early stage startup. It's a community marketplace for childhood education. We're Brooklyn Based and one month in have already generated almost half a million in sales and built a community of 9,000 parents and teachers with one founder/employee. I'm a female founder and would love to interview some strong female engineers, but am of course open to all applicants. Would love to find someone with a lot of vision and knowledge about education. Http://www.cottageclass.com
> I can't comment on Go, but the textbook examples of Rust and even treatises on the subject from recognized experts in the computer science field (Adam Leventhal) show it to be an utterly overcomplicated language for which there should be a criminal trial and a prison sentence of several decades.

You sure are angry with me for working on a programming language.
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Making Snapchat stories helped me to find my voice
Yes, it's a large 3d game made in the Source Engine. Luckily all tools are scriptable using bash.

Using svn for the game assets would work but to build them we would still need the shaders for example, which would live in the git repository alongside the rest of the code of the game. The resulting problem is that the asset git/svn should be triggered to rebuild when the code git changes. I'm looking for a tool that could help with that.

Thanks for the suggestion of perforce, I'll look at that.
I mean if the HN crowd can't recognise an intriguing new emergent technology, who does? I am genuinely interested to know.
"Well just because they have access to some data doesn't mean they use it." This reads very naive in my opinion.

But no you didn't understand much of what i intended to bring across and even created a point for me i did write. I did not say they should not have access to your data.

I wrote, for the amount traffic information (if you can't or don't understand how to monetise that, please google a bit), they should _consider offering_ the service for free, including features that matter.

And to block something what do you have to do first? 'Check' if the condition to block is true or false. If country == x move request to the nearest recycle-bin seems to be the most efficient action, requiring the least of anything.

So it would make more sense in my opinion if it was vice versa, block countries for the default subscription, filter more 'advanced' as premium feature.

For some reason i doubt you have ever enabled CF in a ddos situation?
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I take it you've only been to either very high performing (nationally) public high schools or private schools?

I have a unique education background at that age - I was homeschooled until 5th grade, then went to a private religious school until 8th, then a private very high-end high school in 9th grade, and then a brand new suburban high school in 10th, and then inner city shitbox schools in 11th until I finally dropped out and took the GED since it was such a waste of my time.

In the good schools? You're pretty much correct. I can definitely see why a parent would not like a lot of what happens in them, but it's a bit much to call those social scenes dysfunctional entirely.

The inner city schools? Oh man, I would do anything to keep my kid out of such hellholes. I think you really need to volunteer in a Chicago south side or similar high school for a week - I haven't met anyone who's spent any time in that system who would ever send their children to them. It's social environment is more like a juvenile hall.

> Some are even comparing public schools to Lord of the Flies? That's just ridiculous.

I'd say it's a pretty apt comparison, murders and all for a significant portion of the US population.
There was an episode of the american version of the "modern Sherlock Holmes" TV series, "Elementary", where the plot revolved around a company akin to Uber (called Zooss in the show). It was particularly illustrative of how tempting it can be for internal employees to abuse that type of data. Among other things Sherlock was able to requisition a large fraction of the company GPS tracking data for his murder investigation. As a side effect he was able to figure out who was having an affair, who was going for an interview at a competitor's company, etc.

5 minutes after drop-off is quite enough to uncover where you meant to _really_ go if you gave a close-by address, in these scenarios.

That's pretty much what the OP meant with "So your secret rendezvous may not be so secret" but it's particularly poignant in a TV show.
I'm not sure why what I plug it into cannot have its own computing and storage power. There are wired caps on data too.

In fact, why the heck did Apple sell a display and an iMac? Why not insert a processor board (a blade) into the display to turn it into an iMac? Why was the Mac Pro anything more than a bunch of slots for blades?

I want to carry a small display, some storage, and computing power and be able to dock it with more storage, display, and computing power. I really think we need to examine the PC in the post-PC world. Given the prices, I'm fine with the cloud being my backup, not work environment.
So coercive legal action against modders is a good thing because... Open Source?
Why not ask him?
Most savory sauces

1) Add Vinegar

2) Shake

3) Pour
Also, selling and taking steroids isn't illegal. I don't know where that's coming from. Purchasing or selling scheduled steroids without a Rx is what's illegal.
I'm not even convinced that the human brain can be modeled in terms of a Turing machine. How does does the brain achieve free will - the ability to "decide" between two arbitrary, equally-weighted things? RNG? And yet, it doesn't "feel" random.
Kind of like the rememberance agents the early wearable computing people used? http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~rhodes/Papers/wear-ra.html
Perhaps in some cases but can this be really true? I've never heard of a "paid" cheat.
Well this is one of the few but key differences between a "startup" and a "business."

A business that isn't profitable is either a hobby or a bad idea. A startup that isn't growing is dead. Personally I'd rather make $5/10/15/25k a month with a business than kill myself trying to get millions in funding, pay myself a $10k/mo in salary and leave with nothing through either failure, dilution or some combination thereof.
this raise the question of how much you want to give in order to play.

i myself am fine encountering the occasional cheater. it sucks but it's only a game. and to be honest, sometimes its lots of fun when all honest players gang up on the cheater on AoE2 :)

now, i won't put up with a closed code having to run as root. i gave up online gaming because of steam, which i consider a rootkit.

and the scary thing is that I'm so in the minority that university of California now does not even give you the option for paper tests in some classes. you have to install a rootkit that turns your webcam on and report back a list of all open and installed applications to their servers, while you take a online test. and of course, no Linux support and it tries (badly, thankfully) to not run inside a vm.

as a security expert i can run it in a vm with a fake webcam feed just fine. but everyone else will have to be subjected to this if they want a diploma subsidised by tax dollars. would you put up with it? the alternative is to book time on the few computers in the lab they allow this thing to be installed (remember, it denies vms, which is what the lab admins use to have always clean systems).

oh, and everyone cheats by leaving open books behind the monitor. this whole thing only serves the software vendor. just like the Korean cheating will only serve who actually uses cheats for monetary gain. as i doubt it wasn't criminal before if money was involved.