skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For many the reason is Facebook who canibalized the brands natural reach without paying.

Everyone panicked and good old email is trustworthy. FB holds the contacts in their paid garden that they once so hard fought for.
Ask HN: When to “move on” from an idea/business?
I've got a side project that is now a "business" which is profitable (~ $500 MRR). I'm sure I could increase the revenue anywhere from 2x to 10x with a couple months of work and experimenting.

I've got other ideas which I'm confident could bring in comparable revenue.

How do you decide when to go deeper with one idea versus start on something new?
I've often heard that it's lucky to be born in a certain place to certain parents, but I think this is a really narrow view of luck.

It may be individually lucky to the person born somewhere (i.e. they had no involvement or choice in where they were born and to whom) but I'm not sure why you would isolate luck to the individual level.

That persons parents made decisions about when, where and how their child would be born. Some parents move countries in search of better opportunities, some were themselves "lucky" to be born where they were. When you zoom out a little it becomes a lot less "lucky" and more of the result of intergenerational decisions and priorities.
Jack Ma: US wasted trillions on war instead of investing in infrastructure
China Unveils Memory Plans
I meant in terms of work needed to upgrade.
I'm not sure the surveillance state is anywhere near as pervasive as you think it is. It's important to realize that you don't yet live on the other side of the iron curtain, and that there is time to save yourself from that fate.
(Learning to learn is older, I just thought it would be cool)
It's definitely rare in that respect. Read phone state is needed to do things like stop music for calls, even after 6.0 the permissions aren't that granular.
Then it becomes rational for the user to buy tickets elsewhere.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13433030
>what difference is non-human drivers going to make?

That's really the key point. Not that roboTaxis are on the near horizon but, if you believe they'll change everything when they arrive, you basically need to point to all the cases that today are almost (but not quite) enabled by Ubers driven by minimum wage drivers.

Do Zipcar and Uber make a difference on the margins? Sure. I know people in fairly dense non-NYC urban area that probably would still have ended up with a car 10 years ago who can get by without one today. But there's a big difference between change at the margins and fundamental shifts.
I believe the original Turbo Pascal was written in ASM by Anders Hejlsberg as that was the state of the art at the time [0][1]. Also it had been ported to various CP/M and non-x86 machines prior to becoming an x86 port. Later versions (4-7) were rewritten, most likely in Turbo/Borland Pascal or Borland/Turbo C/C++ as they relied heavily on Turbo Vision.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal#CP.2FM_and_DOS_ve...

[1] http://wiki.c2.com/?TurboPascal
"Tangentially, I've always wondered why databases today still aren't capable of being self-tuning."

It's still quite hard to optimize queries especially if there are numerous JOINs involved. For reference, please check Dr. David DeWitt's PASS Keynote slides http://www.slideshare.net/GraySystemsLab/pass-summit-2010-ke... and his additional papers on database systems: http://gsl.azurewebsites.net/People/dewitt.aspx.

I can't find the video of the keynote online, I believe it's only available to PASS Summit attendees, but if you can find someone with access it's a superb talk. And he didn't even address parallelism or distributed processing as optimizations. Microsoft has already added a new cardinality estimator to SQL Server 2014 and it's still not perfect.

"In 2016 we're still manually creating indexes, and databases still use the exact same physical data structures for everything they store, no matter if they're storing 1,000 rows or 1 billion."

As of SQL Server 2014 there are 3 different physical storage methods: row store, columnstore, and in-memory hash table store (formerly called Hekaton). Each type of storage has completely different optimization methods and are best suited for specific types of data and queries. Dr. DeWitt's page has additional detail on those, and you can watch his PASS Summit Keynote on Hekaton on Youtube: https://youtu.be/aW3-0G-SEj0?t=1336

With all this in mind, self-tuning is going to take quite a while to get to something that provides consistent improvement over detailed analysis and testing. And new technology can completely change how one would approach optimization: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bobsql/2016/11/08/how-it-wo...
If you're really intent on ending a conversation, try not attempting to slip in the last word.

Sounds eminently reasonable. It's all yours, then.
Personally, I see very little unfortunate about it.
Firefox has an option not to auto play movies but it can be hit and miss. It also doesn't cater to the middle line like youtube where I want auto play but not until the tab is focused.
Congratulations, but this milestone makes it even MORE important for DuckDuckGo to get additional attention regarding its location problem.

You are based in the US, use Amazon servers, and are big partners with Yahoo. Yahoo was found to be cooperating with the government,making it possible for federal agents to spy on customers even if they were not suspected of doing anything wrong.

If the US government were to approach you and/or Yahoo and Amazon with a National Security Letter and gag order, how long do you think it would take for DuckDuckGo to become a honeypot? A MASSIVE honeypot.

Your search engine is nice and delivers ok search results from Yahoo/Bing. You have some nice extra features. You also make nice privacy promises. But what good are those promises if the FBI demands that you cooperate with them, Amazon and Yahoo by allowing agents to quietly change things up in the background?

I believe that privacytools was right to take you out of a recommended spot and put in Searx etc. instead. Maybe if the US government sees the damage it's doing to companies like yours, things will change. But until that happens, a "privacy-friendly" US search company is a ridiculous notion.
Thank you for this! For the couple of industry insiders they interviewed it seemed like they catered towards a 'helpful to customers' attitude despite what they implement. Could be saving face, could just be easier.

Idk being told to try making it more accessable by a consultant who's job it is to maximize profits and the grocer does "what it wants anyway" doesn't sound right on an industry scale.
Wait... if the neural net can design other neural nets, can it be taught to design itself?
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You are sounding like you have never worked in a job like this. I have worked for a carpenter and an automechanic. Ever seen someone unable to even get the heat shrink wrap off a pneumatic tool and replace the lines? I saw someone unable to do it and end up gashing their hand as they were trying to cut it off. Ever work under a hot engine bay for 8 hours? Holding your hands above your head the entire time, and developing pain in your neck? Ever used an angle grinder? Should I trust you with one? Ever lifted 300lb pieces of granite, cut them to size and polish them? That's hard work. Do you think you can do it?

Besides, by focusing 100% on this physical aspect you're nearly just attack a straw man argument and ignoring the substance of everything else. Not every person is exactly the same and it doesn't matter. Get over it.
Totally agree.

There is another barrier, the technical terms. Even if you know every character used to compose terms like linked list, stack, etc. when they are put together, you will have a hard time to figure them out, unless you have something like a Chinese-English Dictionary of Computer Science to look up.
They just won't go to the grocery store in the first place. They will buy milk at the gas station instead, or at a drugstore, precisely because the supermarket is so much hassle.
Instagram of AP Photographer Based in North Korea
Zuck's answer: https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10103427714244971
Has anyone looked at the CIA declassified documents that appeared a few days ago?

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/search/site/ufo%20ph...

It does have pictures of UFO for reference

Edit: added details
That's not a reason not to use an ad-blocker, it's a reason not to use a public blocklist. If you want more control, just make your own filter rules.
To be fair though, he was replying to somebody who essentially said "it's broken for me".
Very creative. Not sure how one could defend against it; perhaps by noticing if there is a significant difference between the byte count of text and its rendered area, or just don't allow selection of offscreen text to begin with?

On the terminal side, perhaps a way to warn about pastes that match certain expressions such as "sudo"?
It's like web-designers ignored all the lessons of the pop-up blockers in the 2000s. "Hey, it didn't work then, but maybe if we embed it in the page people will use it!"
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There always has been and always will be problems, there are just different problems now...

We can't even imagine what kinds of crazy stuff the next generation will come up with, with all the resources they have available now. The barriers to entry are still there, but the goalposts have moved significantly.
Filament Personal Update
The HTTP gateway included in go-ipfs will try to use a Host header on requests for constructing an /ipns path. So e.g. http://ipfs.io/docs gets turned into /ipns/ipfs.io/docs -- this is actually how we host all webpages within the ipfs project.

edit: And the part which turns /ipns/ipfs.io into an /ipfs path is called dnslink: https://github.com/ipfs/go-dnslink -- it resolves to what's in TXT _dnslink.ipfs.io.

> (on a random note: what's up with /blog returning the IPFS blog, instead of my own content? did i misconfigure something?)

I'm so sorry, that's a bug I put into the nginx configuration -- will fix it!
Given most people don't get A/B testing, it's a stretch to me to believe that some that does would know about more complex approaches that require more skill.

Firmly believe that there's way more to be gained by more people understanding how to use A/B testing than more complex solutions.
He sure as shootin named the hizzy out of that game.
Code That Doesn't Exist Is the Code You Don't Need to Debug
http://www.openculture.com/2015/04/shortest-known-paper-in-a...
What peripherals are you having trouble finding? I have a few tubes of Z80s and peripherals that are a couple decades old. And about 100 crystals.
Microsoft was founded in 1975. So, 40 years instead of 220?

I mean, yes, Microsoft CEOs serve longer, on average, than US Presidents do, but it's not nearly as stark as you make it sound.
Yes, because offshore tech support is free...
https://gitian.org/

The bitcoin development community solved the problem of mapping source code to a binary build. Check sums or signatures of binaries is not sufficient. Open source is meaningless if you cannot verify the source maps to the build and you're running critical software with irreversible consequences. E.g. a bitcoin transaction or a dissident being imprisoned from state surveillance eaves dropping on communications.
These popups are one of the biggest reasons I started using ublock origin!
Making AI systems that see the world as humans do
additional ideas for google:

- penalty for non no-js fallback
I doubt that Angela Merkel, or 35 other world leaders, knew we were listening to their phone calls. I doubt the EU knew that several of their offices were bugged by US intelligence. The same goes for the embassies of 38 countries that we had bugged. I doubt that Al Jazeera knew that we were monitoring their internal communications. Even though some people said it was possible that Dual_EC_DRBG was 'backdoored', RSA Security was still using it as its default for some products. Look at this list here: http://www.businessinsider.com/snowden-leaks-timeline-2016-9

All of these people who were successfully spied on before, and others in similar positions, are now surely much more careful and focused on securing their communications. Even if they had reason to suspect that America would try to spy on them, they probably didn't know that their countermeasures (if any) had failed. If they haven't since switched to much more secure communications methods, then they are stupid and should be prosecuted for criminal negligence with their own country's secrets.

How can you possibly expect concrete examples of information that we don't get? I'm sure there's some specific things that we know we don't know, but why would the United States advertise to the world which of their new countermeasures are and aren't working?
Consider that content can have way more potential to be educational and interesting when crafted with a specific audience in mind. For an Elixir post, that audience need not be "all programmers". I see nothing wrong with the author's approach and would gladly welcome more writing of this style.

Perhaps what you mean to say is that you'd like to see more folks in your own communities writing about Elixir with your relevant needs and perspectives in mind.
No, but C will automatically take the address. The same goes for arrays. You can explicitly take the address of a function, and this is different from taking the address of a function pointer.

Pros: beginner confusion; sometimes bugs.

Cons: one less character to type; sometimes able to get more out of a macro
'a' is a constant that can be dereferenced to get int.
PRX.co is hiring ML and full-stack engineers in SF to fix the broken PR industry
TLDR: 25k Govts is better than 25 Govts.

And I absolutely agree. Its obvious that noone is going to happy with their Mega Govt all the time. We should work on mechanism that allows creating new, smaller Govts out of a Mega Govt as easy as possible. Let the market innovation/compitition advance Governence too.
Where did anyone say that they can't get paid for their work?
>Plus "alien spacecraft" aka UFOs always seem to output a huge amount of light ...

That aspect in particular is interesting because it's central to most UFO sightings, and subsequently adds to the collective mythology.

For the sake of argument, imagine you operate a joint USAF/CIA psyops program charged with protecting the secrecy of entirely-terrestrial aerospace black programs.

Personally, the first thing I'd do is take existing airframes, coat them in a matte or even light-absorbing material, put a blindingly-bright layer of lights on top of that, and conduct missions at night, in a profile that minimizes noise. The lights serve to draw attention, conceal the airframe's actual shape, and suggest some extraterrestrial origin all at the same time.

At the risk of sounding like a nutter spouting the usual "black helicopters" cliché, it's worth noting that during the Vietnam War, the US operated a modified Hughes 500-series helicopter reconfigured for extremely quiet operation.[0]

Likewise, Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad was raided in 2011 using stealth helicopters. During interviews, neighbors present at the time of the raid said they weren't able to hear the aircraft until they were almost directly overhead.[1] Compared to a normal helicopter, that's extremely quiet.

The Phoenix Lights[2] was a very famous UFO sighting, and in my opinion was almost certainly man-made. The technology was there to build long-endurance unmanned VTOL aircraft at the time, especially when all you need is some struts, lights, a control system, maybe a balloon, and some propulsion. Complexity comparable to what hobbyists face when building small quadcopter drones today, just scaled up in size.

At further risk of sounding like a complete nutter, I think it's probable that the rash of cattle mutilations[3] throughout the United States were a result of something similar. If you're already tooling around with quiet aircraft lit up like Christmas trees, dissecting cattle in the process for whatever legitimate ancillary reason will only further solidify the belief it's aliens.

The bright light we often associate with UFOs is likely just a terrestrial invention.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_OH-6_Cayuse#.22The_Quie...

[1] http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/top-secret-stealth-helicopter-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Lights

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_mutilation#Government_o...
> Discord seems to take security seriously

Any app that has voice turned on whenever it detects sound by default, without prompting the user on installation, doesn't take security seriously.

I mean, unless you expect a communications app, running in the background, to share the conversation you're having in your room, without telling you, with everyone in every channel, until you discover it in your user preferences.

(I'm going to assume you're going to misunderstand what the issue here is. It listens by default, like when you install, and you're not prompted that it's the default. Contrary to every other communications or microphone app in existence, save for ones that are designed to spy on people).
A single-payer healthcare system is your government mitigating the effects of your bad luck. Giving you a tax break for gains on certain kinds of investments is your government rewarding your work. (That's not traditional "hard work" in the sense of expending physical energy, but deciding what investments to make is certainly work.)
As a veteran, I can say that Basic really doesn't prepare you for much other than the rudiments of military life.

Heck when I went through a couple of decades ago we were still shouting anti-communist slurs while we practiced with bayonets.
PitchBook: 2016 saw more private equity tech investments than in past 15 years
I know of whole demographics who don't even get cars because they can take the bus.
The Standard File protocol
I work for Oracle. I had my reasons to choose Oracle.

First, the facts.

* I could clear Oracle interviews and get an offer. I applied for a RDBMS development position in Oracle ST.

* I could also clear Apple interviews and get an offer. Apple interviews were easier than Oracle ST's.

* I could clear interviews in several startups and other small companies too.

* I could not clear interviews in Google. I did not get an offer.

* I did not apply to Microsoft, Facebook or Amazon.

Now, the reasons.

* Oracle ST (RDBMS) provided me an opportunity to work in system development in C and ASM language down to the level of Linux syscalls and memory management (think custom memory allocators, designing locking semantics, distributed file systems).

* I was almost ready to join Apple because the offered work was quite similar to Oracle's and the offered salary was about 5% more than Oracle's but Apple's stringent security policies turned me off. I learnt that Apple would dictate what I can and cannot discuss with my wife. I learnt that I cannot discuss with a friend within the same company what I was working on. All of this may be reasonable from Apple's perspective but I wanted to work for some place with more open culture.

* Most startups and small companies I could get offer from required me to work on web services in Java, Python, Node.js, etc. This kind of work does not interest me.

* I could not solve all the algorithm problems asked by Google but I found Oracle ST's interview a little bit easier. I could solve most of Oracle ST's interview problems and got an offer.

* The openings available in Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon did not interest me. Moreover, I felt I was under-prepared for Facebook's interviews. I felt I was well-prepared for Amazon's interviews. I have many friends in Amazon and I don't find them happy due to long working hours. I learnt that they require developers to provide on-call support at add hours. These things scared me a little bit. Due to these reasons I did not apply to these companies.

So considering the offers I could manage to get and my love for system programming, I had a strong reason to choose Oracle over the other offers.

Why is it so hard to believe that everyone working in Oracle would similarly have their own reasons to choose Oracle?
>top speeds driven along every section of road

If your goal is to make things safer I don't think this will help.
Yes, just a baseline. Trying to arrange a comparison with further strategies X vs Y etc.

Still working on the OpenAI plumbing though, so still a ways before I get to play with all the different research agents available.
Google likes clean urls for everybody except themselves. The Google results tracked url are driving me mad.
Functions degrade to pointers when passed as values, but they aren't inherently pointers (and these have distinct types, e.g., for C11 _Generic).
Because people taking taxis/Ubers don't generally like to share rides. See also car pools.

Now there is an argument that, given sufficient scale and intelligent routing, some sort of jitney bus system could work in a space between private taxis, driving yourself, and scheduled buses. Though that person would then need to explain why we don't really see this business model at any real scale today (in wealthier countries).
Why does this API even exist? I thought the "Security and privacy considerations" section [1] was a good example of how hostile the Modern Web has become, but anyone who thought that allowing web pages to vibrate your phone was a good idea was either malicious or oblivious.

[1] https://w3c.github.io/vibration/
Yup. The serial relay boards I resell are controlled by an 8051 variant. Those things are everywhere
Advice on how to build hard tech startup (from Lytro CEO)
The details buried at the bottom of patch notes pointed to there being severe bugs with the higher rate from clients going out of sync to abilities not working (it was under the "high bandwidth" option in patch notes)
I really don't see how. What are the alternatives you envision? Switching to a more expensive service that doesn't show ads but charges a markup? Physically waiting in line at the box office?

Sadly, if "give it away for free and make money from advertising" is the dominant business model in an industry, it's very hard to disrupt. That's precisely because there aren't really any sustainable incentives for users to switch to a different model.
Relatively it seems mobile ads cover way more area than when on desktop.
Ah right, I was thinking about the 8250 indeed. It made click when you mentioned their curious "multi-processor" arrangement.
You keep arguing that people "should be paid for their work", but I've yet to see someone say that they shouldn't be.
Why does it matter the complexity of the solution check?

If for some reason the counter example of the Reimann hyp would be checkable in exponential time (whatever that means), and if it would have required 10 years of computer time to check, how would that matter? The solution would still stand (assuming that everybody agrees that no mistake was made).
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I loved that story, but couldn't remember what it was called. Thanks!
Memkind
How did Charles Darwin decide which book to read next?
Using an FPGA makes it especially weird because a Z80 only has a few thousand transistors and would be pretty easy to just implement on the FPGA!

That said, I've used a microcontroller as a debug device for a retrocomputer and it made things a lot easier. But that's the way it was originally done -- using a bigger computer to build a smaller computer is "fair game".