skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can easily discern, with statistics, which political ideology is providing all the insane comments. But in places like HN, people will scream at you for being partisan if you mention it.

I think there needs to be an honest discussion about this, because muting comment sections is not fair to those who want to have reasonable conversation.
what's a CD?
A doctor friend of mine claims that the benefits of doctor-patient continuity outweigh any downsides of sleep deprivation. That sounded like a rationalization or cop-out to me, though. I can't imagine how that could be true, or that they're aren't other ways to solve the continuity problem that don't involve zombie doctors.
IDTracer – This is one of Apple's internally used programs
> They would simply censor access to all the XMPP providers

First we already know this situation with email, and we see that as a federate protocol email is not censorable. At least not as easy to censor as Signal is.

Secondly it's not possible because their is not a finish list of providers. By the way 1) everybody should-could be its own provider 2) everybody must use its own domain name DNS to make addresses like greeting@name.

Solution for 1) https://yunohost.org & https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox & http://modoboa.org/en

2) for this point see https://account.conversations.im/domain AND if the DNS is to centralize lets see for GnuNameSystem https://gnunet.org/gns for the address like greaing@name see https://linuxfr.org/users/apichat/journaux/salut-toto-saluta...
Before someone comments noting that the 1st amendment only restricts government and is not binding on twitter: please note that free speech is a valuable community principle for the same reasons it is a valuable legal principle. The "marketplace of ideas" is very real and very valuable and ought not be censored. Moreover, it is very hard to consider social networks in this day and age to be acting as anything other than an online proxy for public space, and it is no less wrong to censor speech on twitter than it is for campuses to censor speech.
I'm always surprised Slashdot-style tagged voting isn't more widespread, and curious what would happen if more communities tried it.

One can imagine it reducing tensions by allowing different subpopulations to have different views of the same conversation - e.g. some people might want to filter "Funny", others wouldn't mind. If the tags are an open set, you might see other use cases evolving, like being able to jump to the highest-ranked "TL;DR"-tagged comment, or deprioritizing comments tagged "Complaint about article formatting" (much as I tend to agree with those, they do seem to be contentious).
No. It's not too much information. People should know about this. You are by far not the only one.

Ironically, sexual issues can cause depression, and sexual issues are a side effect of a lot of medications used to treat depressions.
I'm in the same boat.

But that just sounds like being grouchy through lack of sleep, and perhaps not actual structural changes to your brain.
I wrote a long response, and deleted the whole thing. These comments aren't going anywhere, so we may as well revisit things a year from now, and we can see whether Apple's doing okay without its pro users. My guess is that Apple is in for a world of pain in 2017. If that doesn't happen, well, power to them! I've been wrong before.
Setting up Global Security Settings i.e. configuring LDAP creds
Personally, I found the comment interesting. I have always sort of wondered how prolific Twitter users actually handle the tedium of this, so it's interesting to see a link to one way they do so.
Yeah, that's a good point. Maybe it's just the first time that we've started to see products that look like they could threaten Apple's niche – Google's Pixel, or Microsoft's Surface in particular. I guess that's good for everyone really, so long as Apple do respond appropriately.
1. Some Windows PCs are shitty because there are so many choices. You can't expect a Mac pro speed and build quality from a $300 laptop. But you can get Mac pro level build quality and better specs for less from some manufacturers (Microsoft, Dell,..)

2. Windows and any other OS gets laggy is you load it full with crap. On Windows this is easier, since everyone targets you on the web.
One could also see this as a large-scale demonstration that employees, in general, disagree with your assertion that stock is an important value of Silicon Valley life. It's important to founders/CXX types and venture capitalists, sure, but so far as I can see it is rarely useful for everyday workers to pay attention to their stock packages, because they are usually worthless, and opportunities to make a decision that has a meaningful impact on their value are very rare.
Pac-man!
Same old story: Making it up on volume...
I talk about the same thing when inner city drug problems are brought up to. The article isn't about the greater problem of the war on drugs, it's about the problem as it pertains to a very poor part of West Virginia. If you aren't going to fix the underlying problems, then bringing down the exploiters isn't going to do a damn thing, because more will just take their place.
What do you want out of “assistant” apps like Google assistant, alexa, etc.?
There are many niche assistants in addition to the generalized ones from google, amazon, and apple -- How do you wish they helped you? What do you really want them to do for you?
So, in many respects taxi companies are essentially becoming Uber in order to compete with Uber. Not shocking.

Cost is not the only factor. In fact, it's not even that important in terms of why Uber is trouncing taxis in terms of ridership. Uber has some very important UX advantages -- much lower wait times, integrated payment, fewer no-shows, ratings, less scummy drivers that people -- are willing to pay a premium for. Price is not the only variable in whether Uber can compete, your first link forgets that. UX is much more important IMO in terms of how shitty cabs are compared to Ubers.

Even only in regards to price, can uber compete on costs? your first link misses the bigger picture. Traditional taxi companies and Uber are efficient at different niches.

Traditional taxi companies (yellow cabs) are best at higher density areas due to being limited by the need for close-by depot, and 'base load' rides due to having a fixed supply of cars and not being able to dispatch new drivers as quickly.

Uber-models are good for all densities, and particularly areas with wide fluctuations in demand.

Taxis will need to adopt many Uber strategies in order to compete. They already have begun as you said. Taxi cabs sucked. Still do. And I would have no issue paying a premium to Uber to fuck it to the taxi cab companies. Especially when we are talking 10% difference in costs. UX dominates in terms of which ill choose to ride with.

Uber models are not going away, even if your first article thinks they will be slightly more expensive in certain scenarios and thus not able to compete at all, lol. What a leap in logic.

That said, will Uber be the long-term company that dominates? Maybe not. But their model will be.
see edit, I assumed the question was referring to the status quo. A better model than advertising would be to charge those broadcasting their message to a large number of recipients (your CNNs and Trumps should be the ones paying to play).
Post-birth is a consideration as well. Assuming the parents intend to breast-feed, the child will need the mother every hour or two for several months after birth. After a few month the interval widens, but not by much -- at least, not by enough to allow the mother to take on anywhere near a regular doctor's workload. So it's not just the last few months of pregnancy that are a concern.
That's very weird. I am on zoloft, and I got a entire lecture from my psychiatrist when starting about how important it was to not miss doses, and the consequences of suddenly stopping taking the medication.

I suspect this is probably highly regional, and highly doctor-specific. Was this doctor a General Physician, or a psychiatrist?
Twitter to hand over data on user who sent seizure-inducing tweet to journalist
So is that why companies issue options instead of direct equity because it spares the employees the hassle of dealing with actual ownership issues (K-1s, additional taxes, etc)?

The problem with looking at just salary is that salaries all tend to cap out (in my area, Seattle, you'll be hard pressed to find anything above $160k, when you get to that point compensation really starts to skew in favour of equity - especially as RSUs or Options - sometimes an order of magnitude greater than salary (e.g. "Partner"-level rank at Microsoft is easily $1m/yr in RSUs, but only about $200k/yr in salary.
The point is that the media were in a bubble where everyone they talked to had the same views as themselves.
I read the books first and then tried to watch the show and couldn't be behind it because in the books, you can physically tell where a person is from from their looks. Earthers are short and stout, Martians are a bit taller and Belters look like ETs with unnatural gangly limbs. It really brings home the racism themes in the books. Unfortunately the TV series couldn't do anything like that (understandably) and it just felt like so much was left out.
Even then, finishing with your current patient and then going home should still not lead to regular 12 hour shifts.
he broke the law, but he didn't bring the classified info to those governments. by all accounts he has shielded that info from them, that he did share with journalists. I can't understand why you make these mis-statements.
>That's also reflected in how well rewarded security pros are

>That’s bad for employers but good news for cybersecurity workers, who can command an average salary premium of nearly $6,500 per year, or 9% more than other IT workers.

Why are the technical skills (in this article specifically) so demanding, but yet the salary is only 9% higher?

Same for the other career-starting directions given here -- most of which seem like multi-year time investments. Many of them ask even more of your technical ability than the article before entering the field with a salaried position, and yet that's only worth 9% extra salary?
>imagine a world with no Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, etc

I would love that world. Of the things you listed the only one I have an account with is Twitter, and who knows how long that'll last.
I own the 2015 basic 15" model and it is a great machine.

The 2016 model consumes much less energy for the same performance (see link in my post above) and the SSD speed (esp. in >= 512 GB models) is much faster. It also has built-in hardware X.265 decode (IIRC) so watching those movies will require less energy than the 2015 as well.
> What came out of this deal not only saved Apple and the Mac,

Er... interesting revisionism, here. That acquisition didn't do much to save Apple from the financial hole it had dug for itself.

Bill Gates is really what saved Apple back then.
I'm using it now precisely because of the cost to advertisers. They can all get fucked.
The amount of tooling we've had to do to track, understand, and limit Jenkins VM usage…

https://jenkins.io/blog/2016/11/21/gc-tuning/ is the state-of-the-art / why doesn't Jenkins set all this by default.
How about achievable raw performance?
Effective techniques for bettering website performance
Here's another attempt to implement a GC in Rust that got quite a bit further:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/552lsf/rust_as_a_lang...
Interesting. I still remember Ben pitching me the idea of cloud services in 1999. I thought he was insane at the time. I retain this as the proof that I can't reliably evaluate a business idea ;)
You do realize he's not the one posting there? Neither was Obama. These accounts are ran by teams...
I bought some Apple stock in 2000 or so (then sold and re-bought it in 2001 when I switched brokerages). Maybe 7 or 8 years ago I put in a limit order to sell off some of it but it fortuitously expired. At this point, the annual dividend payout exceeds my purchase price.
Setting up your business for growth and profit(not just scale)
Ah, I probably misread the comment a bit. I read it as working 7am to past midnight is rare, making 7am to midnight (or just before) normal. But you're probably right in that what was meant was that there are other, more sane working hours (not defined in the comment) that are the normal conditions.

But yes, to agree with the sibling comment, I'd prefer to never have any doctor in any hospital seeing a patient after they have been working for 17 or more straight hours.
That's not really what that study says. The paper finds no difference between a "flexible" schedule and the standard duty-hour one.

Neither one of these schedules is really "reduced" compared to any sort of typical level: they're both ~80 hrs/week (and probably more).

From the paper:

"Programs assigned to the flexible-policy (intervention) group were required to adhere to ACGME duty-hour requirements of limiting work to 80 hours per week, 1 day off in 7 days, and on-call duty no more frequently than every third night, but they were granted a waiver by the ACGME to waive four duty-hour requirements (from the 2003 and 2011 reforms) concerning maximum shift length and minimum time off between shifts (to facilitate continuity of care) (Table 1)"
A more interesting question is where do they originate, imo.

Nature or nurture.
Ok.

"In breach of implied contract?"

"Failing to respect social mores?"

"Doin' the wrong thing?"

I'm vastly less interested in quibbling about word choice than the underlying concepts being discussed.
Thanks, I'd like to read both.
It certainly starts out fairly hard scifi (with the only exception being Epstein drives) but takes a pretty sharp turn away from that as soon as the proto-molecule is out and about. It was hard for me not to put the book away and stop reading the series when the zombies showed up because I was so engrossed in the realism behind the story that those parts just felt like a betrayal.
Thanks... wondered what happened to my damn asterisks!
It is in large part a cultural issue. I grew up in a rural town where a large portion of the population was drug addicted. Anti-intellectualism is rampant. I was literally the only person in town who had an interest in learning about computers. Everyone else thought they were for "nerds". The whole town was football crazy though.

The baby boomers also did an excellent job instilling sex, drugs and rock 'n roll as the core set of values in the west. Hedonism is glamorized, reading books not so much.

The infrastructure required to succeed in small towns exists. It's called the Internet and it's a one way ticket to success if you put the effort in to use it and have the strength to go against local culture.
"Why are browsers so slow?"

Site downloads almost 500KB of fonts.
I don't have this problem, blank pages don't take "seconds" to load, even on my little atom-based tablet. The big question I have for people noticing this behavior is how many add-ons do they have. How many times is your "blank page" parsed by an enormous amount of code written in a language not known for its performance?
What you said is not meaningfully different. You imply there is some implicit relationship between the person who clicks on a link and the person who made the content behind the link.

No such relationship exists.
> Active directory is not a separate product like the others it is very much a core part of Windows Server. Unless you think AAA parts of an OS are a separate product from the OS, AD is very much tied to Windows.

Which is aggravating when you want to setup a test environment.
> modern browsers are so stupid that they reload all the tabs when you restart them.

firefox does not do this.
WriteRack is the best way to tweetstorm
I "discovered" this same type of structure myself recently while thinking about the overhang problem actually.

http://imgur.com/a/chuYj
Optional, but does anyone turn it off? They control their own servers, anyway.
Apart from layoffs, how do you see your other ideas adding business value and/or revenue to the company rather than just making the product better for end users?

Are you thinking about how Twitter could be a better product or a better business?
>essentially

No, implicitly and very subtly. The essence of the argument was the student in a voluntary class. The implications are manifold, but not stating the implications has a meaning on the meta level, that the students understanding is not expected, but the students expectation of an authoritative answer has to be satisfied anyway by stating the obvious to establish or retain authority.
This is in tablet "mode" right? Otherwise it would be easier to use a two-finger scroll on the touchpad (for me anyway).
I didn't imply any of that at all. I disputed their claim that they received no compensation for their attention.
Imbalance is a good way to start thinking of it.

But, are you familiar with the sensation of being so tired you drop off to sleep & wake up seemingly instantly, but time has passed? The 'yeah, I'm awake, I'm awake' thing.

Based on going off venlafaxine myself, that's how I'd put it. It isn't painful, and you don't actually lose time. The sensation is extremely jarring, and unpleasant, though. You'll take a step or look to the side and that sort of zap just happens.

... I'm slightly better at getting out of the house to get my prescription refilled these days.
Depends on your org. Alex had just as much pull as Raffi, arguably more since he got the org he wanted eventually. (Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Raffi and Alex has the empathy of a gnat, but in terms of sheer influence it was Alex/Raffi and then everyone else).
>the critical features of OS X that aren't replicable with a reasonable amount of effort on other systems?

the apps
Why do airlines sell too many tickets?
I wonder what would happen if instead of adding more regulations, they took away some of the power that medical schools have in restricting people from practicing medicine. E.g. nurse practitioners and physician assistants sound like a step in the right direction.
That's an interesting point, and it tallies with what I've heard.

I'll give Apple a pass on the RAM, which AFAIK was down to unavailability of Kaby Lake. Probably better to get the machines out, and bump them when Kaby Lake is available.

The dongle thing is a worse situation. While I appreciate the steps taken by Apple, it does seem like the whole malarkey could have been avoided with the inclusion of a couple of basically free USB-C to USB-A converters. I reckon the general dongle story is going to be much nicer soon, when there are more multi-port adapters available and more devices (including the iPhone) are supplied with USB-C cables.
Concepts are similar to Rust Traits, (I think) Swift Protocols and Haskel Type Classes, but different (significantly more expressive) than Interfaces.

The name has been used in the C++ community since at last mid 90s as it originated from Alex Stephanov work on the STL. Stephanov himself might have used the name even earlier than that. Formalization of concepts which has been attempted at least since the early 00s was influenced by Haskell and in turn did influence both Rust and Swift.
You aren't the author.

I didn't read it as sarcastic and if people were talking about tweetstorms and I found out my tool was used to build it, I'm sure it is not irrelevant to point it out.

You would get my point if you tried building something and had it used.

It seems you have carried on with your monitoring behaviour from Techcrunch comment days.

You can downvote and go in peace but please quit your lecture.

Thanks.
Saying they should do it for free or an unsustainable price(they need side jobs) does actually say that you don't understand the cost of good content.

You complain about the cost of your attention while suggesting people spend their time building free stuff for you.
They are absolutely making cash revenue. GAAP losses come down to share-based compensation, which doesn't affect their bank balance.
Since the comments section of a news website is a major source of engagement, why not charge to make comments? Wouldn't this discourage the worst of the them?
It's not easy to index all those GUIDs and have them updated live for NSA
no comments = fake news
Not asking you to argue with me. I'd just be interested to see some substantiation for the claim that Twitter is overstaffed. It seems like that claim turns up a lot, and I'm sort of surprised that no one seems to have taken the time to explain why he thinks so.
BRB, walling off various cave entrances.
Additionally, it's debateable whether that's a bad default to begin with.
THIS. If you want a fast website, remove all JS and make everything simple. For maximum performance put the static site on a CDN. It isn't hard.
> Keeping a persistent connection to your server [...] is not a simple problem

But is already solved. Explanations : "The State of Mobile XMPP in 2016" https://gultsch.de/xmpp_2016.html

> Federation has the problem of being harder to prevent abuse.

Precisely XMPP have already solutions for this problem

> And when you control the whole infrastructure, it's easier to provide a good user experience. With federation, you are depending on the quality of other's implementations.

Answers here : "Objection to ‘The ecosystem is moving’" https://gultsch.de/objection.html

You might also interest by GnuNameSystem wich is a federate, decentralize and censorship resistance DNS https://gnunet.org/gns
There is a relationship though or else there would be no communication.

You want something, they have something. You communicate your desire and they provide you with something. That is a relationship.
I am an H1B from India. I want to add one point.

My LCA says x salary. I get 3k more than that. Considering all yhe benefits, it comes to around y per hour. My employer charges the customer '1.76y' to '2.14y' depending on the project. So the customer is actually paying nearly twice of what I get paid.
The show is reasonable (as are the novels) but the SyFy channel has a bad reputation for some truly awful television that they are only just starting to recover from.

Having said that, it is the only current sci-fi show that gets the physics of spaceflight more or less correct. ie: No 'gravity' without thrust or spin on board vessels or habitats.
The Mac would not have been a huge success probably in that scenario.
I don't understand the Taligent reference. Taligent happened while Jobs was out of Apple -- it was a competitor to NeXT back when everything was about "object-oriented desktops", and Jobs didn't like them, much like he didn't like OpenDoc, for pretty good technical reasons. It's not surprising that Taligent went nowhere, same as OpenDoc.
are you suggesting it can't?
Are you the one who did this in the AWS booth at re:Invent? It was so perfect that my colleagues did not want to disturb it.
Nice! There's a paper in there called 'Block-free concurrent GC: stack scanning and copying' which opens by claiming that "on-the-fly Garbage Collectors (GCs) are the state-of-the-art concurrent GC algorithms today". I'd never heard of on-the-fly GC, so i've learned something!

However, on googling, i find that Edsger Dijkstra wrote about it in 1975:

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD05xx/E...

Hey, maybe that's old enough that Go can use it?
So you drive away your biggest draw? In the media-centric view of the world, those people would be asking for a cut of revenues. There's clearly a major disconnect from reality on one side or the other here. Any examples of successful businesses that do it the way you describe?
I think people forget that NeXT and its OS had some time to evolve. NeXT had .8 in 1988 and 1.0 in 1989. So, we are talking 8ish years of evolution and API changes. Going from the pre-web to WebObjects and its influence on the API.