skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a fairly active Mormon... I'm curious what you see as the difference between the leaders and the people. I would think most of the Mormons you know support most of the things you find distasteful in the leaders.

(Edit: I don't mean to say the nice Mormons are secretly as horrible as you think the leaders are, although that's one possible conclusion. Just trying to figure out how a group of supposedly-vile leaders so consistently produces supposedly-great people.)
“Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.”

It might be a stretch, but this seems like a small glimpse of the concept of a time differential ('dt'), a thousand years before the math existed to describe it explicitly.
Mormon from Iowa here. I see those behaviors much more among my non-religious friends than I do within the LDS Church, and some of my best LDS friends have been female, Asian, Brazilian, or African-American.
Maybe Uber is secretly in legislative pentesting business - working to probe just how much laws they can break and still get away with it.
> flywheel, an Uber competitor

"competitor" is a little generous considering their site barely makes page 1 of Google.
It's my bandwidth, my browser. I'll automate clicking any goddamn thing I like. Don't like it? Don't serve it.
Show HN: Buttons – Organise and share your bookmarks
How about mkLinux?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10764605
The moment Dick left was when I felt a disturbance in the twitterverse (but I also have a disdain for Dorsey).

It kind of felt weird to me that Twitter went from this platform of literally starting revolutions to managing expectations of its users in the name "fighting harassment".

I now use it simply to tweet out my latest recipes...
Ah I see, that makes sense.
Yes, the approach shares elements with what Mozilla and later Microsoft have been doing. It derives types from asm.js annotations, and uses that to perform AOT compilation.
You made that point elsewhere in the comments; and I replied to it there; for the benefit of other people wondering why a secret store _isn't_ just robbing Peter to pay Paul: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13224802
Bigger to me is the VP of Product - Josh McFarland - just bailed out 30 minutes ago too:

https://twitter.com/crazyfoo/status/811331557608652800

AKA outside of Dorsey, who is a split / shared CEO, who is in charge of Twitter?
What do you think of this interactive sports gaming app?
I've been playing the beta version of this interactive sports app for the last couple of weeks and I don't know if it's just me but it's been really engaging and I think I'm getting addicted! :) Curious to hear your feedback because this is the first time I've seen an app in this arena. Please check it out and let me know what you think!
https://www.firefan.com/player-invite/livecalls/nflcrazies
Not never, but it is close. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MkLinux:

”MkLinux started as a project sponsored by Apple Computer and OSF Research Institute, to get "Linux on Mach" ported to the Macintosh computer and for Apple to explore alternative kernel technologies on the Mac platform. At the time, there was no officially sponsored PowerPC port of Linux, and none specifically for Macintosh hardware”
Complementing Python with Rust
OK, but do think through how you might be better off with a little less in your account and the people around you having jobs, as opposed to having more in your account while unemployed grocery workers throw rocks at your shuttle service and vote in a ridiculous gov't.

But if you want to buy local beer and local socks and support local jobs in other ways with the extra $, coolio.
> Does that mean rich people should incorporate

The IRS is already ahead of you there. Although it is a common statement here, you'd be very lucky to pull it off with any reasonable success.

There are some workable tax avoidance strategies, but they typically involve already having a bunch of money and family trusts.
When I tried this (.NET PGP) I could only get it working one direction based on this abandoned open source library:

https://crypter.codeplex.com/
> They seem to be in the range of say PayPal in that they have a decent reputation but they aren't really a name that gets you any resume recognition anymore.

PayPal doesn't get you "name recognition" anymore? In fact I would expect Twitter would garner more because of their larger open source initiatives but I still hear lots of chatter about PayPal and the people who have worked there.

Maybe I'm just in a weird bubble but I still consider PayPal one of the big tech names.
Radiate – Node.js Devops task runner
I'm wondering this too. I used to work at a DSP and we had to deal with a lot of clickfraud. Typically it took the form of: a shady publisher which has somewhat legitimate content and has a relationship with one or more SSPs. Then the publisher goes to "traffic growth" sites like cpmbux.com, and purchases fake traffic. Those fake traffic sites own botnets which they leverage to generate the fake impressions on those publisher's websites. Because there's this separation between the two parties, even if the publisher gets shut down by the SSP for engaging in clickfraud (there's still plausible deniability), the fake traffic site can continue marketing themselves to other not so by-the-book publishers.

I'm not sure if it's a similar arrangement here. The linked report makes it sound like they own the publisher sites too, but it's hard for me to fathom how they could maintain "legitimate" relationships with SSPs when they're funnelling out millions of dollars per day. It goes without saying that it's much harder to fake your way through the financial system.
It's hard to not be obsessed with base-10 values, when your numeral system is base-10.

I am sympathetic to the argument that 12 (but not 16) would make a better base. But that argument only works if it's uniformly applied bottom up - base-12 everywhere, and then we define base-12 metric prefixes, use 144 degrees between defining points for temperature etc.

As it is, the incoherent mix of base-16 and base-12 that is common for American customary measures, and base-10 used to actually write them down, is a mess.
>(T)he AWD system has some interesting 4WD simulation modes, so it's not a complete departure, but I have no idea how well those perform in practice.

The Explorer is still solid enough to get you through most winter conditions but it's no longer an offroader if that's what you're looking for. Just look at the approach/breakover/departure angles and you'll see that the most off-roading it's designed for is parking on the grass next to the lacrosse field. I'm not saying that to disparage the concept of crossovers and soft-roaders, I think they're brilliantly designed to match the way they'll actually be used which makes them far more efficient. However, it you're looking for an actual truck, they are no longer for you.
Misspelling circadian isn't a great sign.

The ICU my wife worked in resisted carrying emergency buttons around on privacy grounds because they included location tracking. One that tracks physiological data and presumably analyzes sleep outside of work would've probably had them striking.
No, different person entirely.
Seriously, there were no specifics here about how much each founder got of the 5 million and how much each founder got out of the 10 million. Taking the simplest view of 1/3 split, he screwed himself (and his outher founders) out of 1.33 million $. Doesnt seem worth it

Lot's of people are talking about investor's cashing out, if they had investors would this dude have been able to unilaterally force a worse deal so he could work at Facebook, seems unlikely
I'm curious... you, and all other commenters who mentioned electric shocks... which I'd previously heard of as "brain zaps"...

What difference would it make if the doctor had told you of that side effect before you started the drug? Imagine you have no idea of what brain zaps felt like. Would you have avoided the drug based on such a vague description?

Can you describe the sensation? It's not painful, right? The sensation of an electric shock is sensory nerve input driven by external electricity, but there are no sensory nerves in the brain are there? So it's confusing to me (never been on psych drugs, so never gone through psych drug withdrawal) what these brain electric shocks could possibly feel like.

I assume you can't localize the sensations to somewhere that has nerves, like maybe the eyes, or somewhere—anywhere—else that really does have nerves? So it's like re-balancing the synapses after quitting these drugs causes a phenomenon in the somatosensory cortex that simulates non-localized zap sensations in a place there are no sensory nerves? Is it limited to a sensation, or are other senses (vision, hearing, smell, taste) ever involved? Is it perhaps more like a non-physical zap that's more like an interruption or glitch in consciousness than a ghost physical sensation?

[edit] So one person's experience with one day off meds was a feeling of floating or vague floating-like feeling of imbalance. That's probably related, perhaps an earlier stage of the phenomenon, but doesn't sound quite the same as the electric shocks people mention they get after quitting. Are the electric shock feelings anything like a rapid (instantaneous?) change in balance, like a shift to zero-g and back?
Trump uses Twitter but he didn't invite them to the tech summit reportedly for not creating a special trending tag for him.

Trump enjoys being treated like royalty. I doubt he has loyalty to Twitter and would jump ship to another company that puts him on a pedestal. He would enjoy seeing the millions of customers who follow him.
Have career conversations, not performance reviews, says Russ Laraway
> a big name in tech anymore

Donald Trump is making headlines using Twitter every day. I think that once users/victims become immune to Facebook's dark patterns, Twitter will look pretty good. The only thing it can do to screw that up is continue censoring content and allowing botnets.
I've often seen people get worked up over the for-profit businesses linked to the Church. Carefully structured leaks can make such businesses look shady, and inspire knee jerk reactions of people claiming tithing is used to build malls, and that somehow tax exempt status is magically extending to the businesses.
Great stuff for people working with C++ Templates!
I've seen it explained by Bjarne and Andrew Sutton, the benefits are clear for people used to work with the STL. Unfortunately, Concepts won't be there yet, they are not coming in C++17 [1]

I can't wait the day when, we can avoid crazy long errors like this [2], which ends with a cryptic error "not match for operator + in iterator<foo<bar<.......> > >::ref " we will get clear, english errors that can be defined by the library writers : "The items in this collection needs to be summable" or "This collection must be sortable" , etc. etc.

[1] http://honermann.net/blog/2016/03/06/why-concepts-didnt-make...

[2] https://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/791461/errors_temp.PNG
Apple’s Mac team gets a lot less attention than before
You said this: "Rarely do I see a team eliminate all of their debt, but the organizations _that least respect_ their debt never get so far behind that they can no longer be helped in a breach."

Do you mean instead "that _at_ least respect"?

I ask only because they two have different meanings.
Demanding perhaps, but not questionable. It's just the nature of the industry. Not an apples-to-apples comparison, but look at combat medics for contrast during wartime. There are limits to what humans can do, but the 120-hour workweek in a heated-and-cooled hospital does not bump into those limits.

Maybe it would be 'better' if that wasn't the case, but it's simply what is.
How cooking vegetables changed humanity 10,000 years ago
Do investors get no say when negotiating an acquisition?
> It's not like the ads just appear while you're sitting around doing nothing.

Yeah, it's literally like that. I open a random webpage, wait a few seconds, and here they are. I visit my aunt, and don't even get to open the browser before BAM, ads everywhere!
> another company

What other company offers a similar broadcast style approach for text content and doesn't require real name registration?
Null is meant to be used when it is likely there is a default handling for the responce. For instance

String favoriteColor = accounts.get(username);
if (favoriteColor == null) favoriteColor = "blue";
setWindowColorTo(favoriteColor);

Removing null does not make your code more safe. Wrapping Null in more code does not make your code more safe.

You get null for free. I could write the same think that optionals do in Java with 1 static method

public static boolean isAbsent(Object o) { return o == null; }

public static <T> T get(T o) {
if (isAbsent(o)) throw new RuntimeException();
return o;
}

Now you get your nice abstraction from an inlined function. Wrapping it in an object in my opinion is bloat around seomthing that doesn't need it.

The best chance your have to sell all Java devs on something is @Nullable which is a fantastic idea. It lets you know where null WILL propegate so you know where to control it. IT will also help you get out of "I see NullPointerException so therefor null is the problem, not my code!"
>You set the price when you consume the content that you know is funded with ads.

You're objectively wrong. If that were the case, I would be blocked from accessing the content without "paying the price".

The situation is instead clearly analogous to a "pay what you feel it is worth" model.

The creators of the content allow anyone to view it, regardless of whether they run an ad blocker or not. Sometimes, they place alternative content where the ads would be, requesting that I disable my ad blocker, or like them on facebook as an alternative.

I think the "recommended price" of this "pay what you feel it is worth" model, which is usually watching advertising and allowing myself to be tracked, is too high.

I have once or twice directly sent the creator $5-10, when they offered a payment method that didn't require a paypal account. If it's good content, that's pretty reasonable. Dans Data[1] /is/ good content, even if it's getting a bit dated these days.

[1] http://www.dansdata.com
Why should I have to pay a pretty significant amount of money at the start of my career to buy a piece of paper that suggests I'm capable of critical thought? In fact: isn't doing the exact opposite of that actually doing a better job of demonstrating critical thinking skills?
>I open a random webpage
It's certainly unsustainable but that doesn't mean that it cannot be sustained for 20 to 60 years. The money can come from buyers of treasuries. And indeed it has.

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spending_chart_1900_2016...

And it's cheaper than ever for the government to do.

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GLYubON4v7A/UPTBpQUr8eI/AAAAAAAAE...

As long as we never try to pay it back.
> For transport security, HTTPS or SSH. Why go lower level?

Because not everything on this green earth uses HTTPS and SSH.

Examples:

(1) I want to implement a SAML consumer, and per the spec, I need to verify signatures. Crypto.

(2) I want to use a client-side cookie so that users can remain authenticated in the current browser session. Crypto.

(3) I want to issue a URL with a signed assertion that the owner of the content has granted permission to access it. Crypto.

Asymmetric encryption is not the be-all end-all of cryptography.
Specs dont matter much anymore. Any dual core laptop can do what most people need.

What matters is the build quality, QA, battery life, screen, heat dissipation. All things you cant infer solely based on specs.
Was Twitter ever really about tech excellence? My perspective as an outsider who doesn't live or work in Silicon Valley, it always seemed more of a communications and media company founded on a tech backbone. Beyond their early scaling problems, which they spent a long, long time fighting, what really exciting tech has emerged from Twitter? Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook all have much more impressive technology to show for themselves over the last several years.
> If there is a tax that's applied specifically to gas companies that isn't directly paying for infrastructure they use, then that tax can be subtracted from the subsidies. But the gas tax doesn't fit that bill; if anything it undercharges.

The gas tax is only one of many taxes that these companies pay - you have to sum all their subsidies and subtract all their taxes. That's the point. If you're not doing that, comparisons with subsidies to other industries are going to meaningless.
I hope using a tweetstorm to announce his departure was a subtle shot at the company's inability to ship a product the way people want to use it.
Daala: Modern video compression for the internet
See, I can't use the OSX interface. It makes me feel like a complete imbecile and I consistently do the wrong or useless thing. It's why I can't say good or bad things about Macs - haven't successfully used one since 2003 (thank goodness iOS apps can be compiled via Jenkins or the like!). People I respect seem to love their machines, but I turn into a cussing idiot when in front of one. Like can't-click-on-things stupid. If it didn't have a command line I'd never get anything done. Sure I could learn, but it comes up so rarely for me that I just settle for living in mild fear of having to help the secretary connect to the printer or something.

Plus 4K screens make me squinty (the SP4 has a lovely screen, but Win10 often gets confused on scaling and does horrific things to Java subwindows... and it's small). I'm pretty much a 30 year old curmudgeon now.

Oh and I used to use |-| with two 1080s on the sides of an IBM 2560x1600 monitor. Gosh you could spreadsheet the hell out of things on that 30" screen. Kinda miss it.
I worked for an employer who used the Bermuda shell corporation trick. To keep the IRS happy they had to actually do some real work in Bermuda -- it wasn't just a PO box. And let me tell you, it probably cost as much as it saved in terms of yahoos doing things suboptimally based on misunderstandings. It might have been something that could be cleared up with frequent trips to Bermuda for business stakeholders, but that would have cost some money too.
I'd love for this to be inside some kind of proxy server - stripping ads for my browsing whilst simultaneously clicking every one of them under a fake profile of some kind...
I'm not going lower level – in fact, I'm not even dealing with a communication protocol. Certificates are also used for document and executable signing.
I think the fact that Palm's technology was designed for mobile and NeXT's wasn't turned out to be a huge advantage in the long run.

If Apple had planned to build the iPhone in 1996, they probably would have bought Palm and ended up with something a far cry short of the iPhone as we know it, for obvious reasons.

Palm's OS was designed for what mobile hardware was capable of in the 90s, whereas NeXT's OS was designed for what workstation hardware was capable of in the 90s. By the time the iPhone was released, Moore's Law had made mobile hardware capable of running the superior NeXT software (full unix kernel under the hood, Objective-C and its APIs, etc.) and you end up with a better end product.
Richard Wrangham wrote a great book on this https://www.amazon.co.uk/Catching-Fire-Cooking-Made-Human/dp...
I want to implement SAML (as a consumer).

(To be fair, it can be done without certificate chains, but it could also be done with chains.)
I think this lack of demand for storage has prevented innovation. Why bother with grid storage, when day and night prices aren't much different? Well now there are times with negative prices, so there is going to be incentive to get paid to store electricity and sell it later. This incentive should grow as renewable penetration grows. If we have deep solar penetration, then there is the big problem that demand is very high in the early evening and the PV suddenly ramps down production as the sun sets. You can cycle your storage every buying dirt cheap solar and selling to the peak price a few hours later.
I think you're at least mostly if not entirely on the money with what is happening at universities right now, but that doesn't make it better. I subscribe to Bryan Caplan's theory of the 'signalling model of education'.

My personal position is that universities should be exclusively focused on academic and non-applied science activities. They should almost entirely be liberal arts, and un-subsidized, probably focusing more on part-time studies and 2-3 year programs than degrees. This would be a model of university education as a venue for personal growth, and I would have liked to attend a university like this.

I would be against subsidizing the technical institutes (which would teach engineering, computer science, etc.), but would understand the reasoning in favor of it.
Good to know, I had to take paroxetine for cripping anxiety, and will probably attempt end of treatment in a month.

I remember being off one day (10mg per day) and having the same sensation you get when an elevator stops after going up. A chill in your spine, except it was very intense, and located in my brain only. Lasted a day, only thing that would relieve it is swallowing something..

I really hope I don't have to enjoy this kind of black magic again next month. I'll be sure to go off very smoothly.
They'll make the desktop great again.
I've had good luck with Cloudwatch and, if you're on AWS, I'd recommend it over any other hosted log system (with the possible suggestion of a more elaborate ELK setup that you build yourself).

The trick to Cloudwatch is --- like most AWS services --- never using the web UI.
> What's unfortunate is in LA it is not just that there's rush hour on the weekends, it's all over and at odd times.

Yeah...people here in the Bay Area say traffic is bad, but it's mostly concentrated at rush hour. In LA, I recall traffic jams at 11:00 PM. You don't see that much in other places.
You can select some code and then press F1 to Google it, plus this trick does something else: It adds the name of the language you are working in for better search results.

New Macbook Users...

:)
> Twitter already has to pay out an extreme amount of compensation in stock options just to get and retain talent.

Lay off then no need to pay it.

There are 4000 employees, which is about one order of magnitude too much.
> What's the battery and noise/heat level like on those?

If you have to ask this question, a gaming laptop is not for you.
Would you shun (or, online, downvote) someone who chooses to behave in a way that you find abominable?

I'm not a Mormon, I don't believe what they believe, but AFAICT they are — most of the time, and in the modern era — behaving justly & reasonably according to their beliefs.
Content creators have gone with not blocking blockers up until now because it's not an issue. As it becomes more of an issue you start seeing more and more anti-blocking scripts.

Once or twice in all your years online you have agreed to an alternate funding method and you think that is sustainable for content creators?

You can make a lot of arguments for ad blocking. I ad block because it slows my computer down. Making the claim that you ad block because your attention is more valuable though is a joke.