skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please try to learn even the slightest thing about this subject before you make statements so confidently.

While there is a tiny bit of truth in your statement, Saudi Arabia changed a lot in 1979
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Mosque_seizure

Saudi King Khaled however, did not react to the upheaval by cracking down on religious puritans in general, but by giving the ulama and religious conservatives more power over the next decade. He is thought to have believed that "the solution to the religious upheaval was simple -- more religion." First, photographs of women in newspapers were banned, then women on television. Cinemas and music shops were shut down. School curriculum was changed to provide many more hours of religious studies, eliminating classes on subjects like non-Islamic history. Gender segregation was extended "to the humblest coffee shop". The religious police became more assertive.[

So it is up to debate, if Wahhabism really predates Islam extremism so far or at all. But regarding for Saudi Arabia I have little to no hope at all.

Again, to use your wording, Please try to learn even the slightest thing about this subject before you make statements so confidently.
No the article isn't hard to understand, but it shows that the author has no clue what is actually happening under the hood. He lacks basic understanding of video encoding. His article is well written and I respect the effort, but you can't learn much from his experiments.
I think you mean major companies support of cablecard sucked so badly because they wanted it to fail. I actually had a TiVo with CableCard and it wasn't awesome, just didn't support on-demand.
no. they keep it pretty hidden, but there are other tools designed for intelligence analysis that are easier to see.
We're still not sure shadowbanning is not liable behavior for fraud. So that is a risk to take all on its own.
Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News but for general news?
Does there exist a ranking system for general news or a place to discuss news online?
The less I use C++ the happier I am.
There's a Black Mirror episode vaguely describing what that future might look like.
After completing the challenges (only had to lookup references on bash parameter expansion and how to read lines without parsing them), I would say that it might be helpful to have some reference information available whether via clicking to a third party URL. It'd also be _really_ nifty to be able to compare my solutions against others' solutions.
No real problem with Google running their own CA, but can't help but to think that the same people who provide the browser, the search engine and the OS, now also provide the certificates on who and what to trust.

As much as we might trust Google, shouldn't there be something like separation of powers as a safeguard?
Yeah.

I got this.. about once a month when I worked for a major telecom.
"already FDA-approved ingredients" != organic or biodegradable... especially if the ingredients aren't specifically approved for consumption (the article doesn't say).

Some non-stick coatings for cookware ended up having toxicity that was unknown when initially approved.
I mean, it's the single most ambitious volunteer resource on the Internet and almost certainly the greatest encyclopedia to have existed in the history of the world and possibly the among the greatest knowledge resources to have existed in the history of the world.

But, sure. The admins are obnoxious sometimes. I agree with you.

Worst site ever.
I have 16 Gb in the MBP I use for photo editing, and more memory would be really nice. I'll sometimes have Capture One, DxO Optics, and PixelMator open at the same time, and I notice a performance impact versus only having one of them open. They don't die outright, but performance suffers when there's not enough memory to hold many preview and thumbnail images in memory.

I have Linux running on an old iMac, also with 16 Gb, and I've hit the boundary there a few times, too, but usually only when I'm playing with 3D graphic rendering.

More memory never hurts, and often speeds things up.

There's also the psychological aspect that if I'm buying a new machine I want it to be bigger and better than the ones I already have.
I was either told or read (during the 2.x time frame) they were likely going to break @_silgen_name. @_cdecl was added to replace this (at least for my usage case), but I think it is still unfinished and not official, hence the leading underscore.

It happens that @_silgen_name didn't break for me in 3.0. But I've been moving to @_cdecl.
This account has been posting mostly unsubstantive comments, and we do ban accounts that continue on like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Stack Overflow doesn't care about answering poor questions with no long-term value (this isn't a debugging forum)

On some less popular tags they do. I've had library authors post answers to some of my retrospectively stupid questions.
TCP retransmission rates looks like a useful metric which can help in monitoring the health of a service. One way to obtain that is by analyzing service interactions as mentioned in the blog. Tracing could be another way through which we can find that info. I am curious as to how code instrumented monitoring solutions get that information.
(PS: I work for Netsil)
It seems Urmson is named because the two of them are the leaders of the Aurura company named in the suit.
I've always shied away from magnesium because of the laxative properties. Have you not experienced that with the glycate form?
Nah. I'm thinking of the people trying to understand the relationship between (for example) Trump and the Russians. They don't have that much data because they're not drinking the firehose of wiretaps. They're relying on news reports, contacts, financial documents, etc. It's a question of helping people connect the dots.
> If you're depending on people to "discover" your app without having ever heard of you, then you are choosing to gamble and attempting to game a system that every other gambler is trying to game right alongside you.

Bingo! All the popular indie apps that don't use every possible strategy to get to the top of the heap will fail.

By choosing the top rated apps in the top 20, you are playing the same game. If you don't like indie apps, don't download them. "The only way to win is not to play." You don't like that game, play a different game. Don't hurt the many, many developers who are in fact making a living making apps.

And don't spite them just because they're living the dream of earning a full time income working as their own boss from home and it's what you'd like to be doing.

>The App Store is a cesspool of every developer who figured out how to install XCode acting like they automatically deserve to win the windfall lottery.

I don't disagree, but it also has some very nice apps. If you think an app really sucks, by all means slam it in the reviews. It's a service to other people who may download it.

But I'm complaining about people rating apps they otherwise consider to be 4- or 5-star apps, and that they then vote down to 1-star because they're pissed about being asked to review. That's lying out of spite, is hurting a developer who otherwise did a good job on their app, and is uncool.
Excuse me, but if not getting in touch with your colleagues blocks you for the whole day then you probably have the bigger problems than just not getting your questions answered on time:

1. Maybe documentation is scarce, be it code comments or business requirements specs, user stories, epics, etc.

2. Maybe your tasks are ill defined, and you accepted your assignments without asking enough questions upfront...

3. Maybe you don't get enough workload (if you had many tasks to choose from it would be harder to get blocked on all of them)

4. maybe you lack some technical knowledge or other competencies needed to make the decisions yourself instead of asking others.
Compile-time assertions in Go
I am as thinking it might involve a lot of ACLs. I'm curious too
So the stem cells grow into new nerve cells, and somehow grow all the way through the body to replace the damaged cell? Or perhaps they grow a short nerve cell that connects the two halves of a damaged cell? It sounds like some funky hit-and-miss wiring.
Maybe, but since those tags are less popular - such answers are likely to be valuable for newcomers like you.
I'm finding the Pomodoro timer in Gnome really helpful on this front fwiw. YMMV
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/speech/Recog...
Great to see RethinkDB as a project is pushing forward. My concern is about product and code quality with the core founders and engineers leaving for Stripe. I'm sure the open source contributors are great, but do we really think they will do as fantastic of a job as coffeemug, mglukhovsky, and danielmewes? Especially now, since the financial motivations are essentially removed.
I pulled this a lot - I just totally refused to move forward without the name of the company - if you want my resume, you need to tell me who you want me to work for.
I think at some point people started coming up with a theory that "the reason all the hardware products fail is because they're not seen as 'cool'. Look at Google Glass. People didn't use it because it's not cool", and the tech people started believing their own theory, and this is what we have.

Apple thought being fashionable was core to success with their Watch.

Snapchat (I refuse to call them by the name "the company that makes snapchat") thought giving the illusion of being "cool" is what would make it succeed.

No. Hardware products succeed if they provide actual benefit that leapfrogs anything else that existed before them. Being "cool" is just a gimmick to get initial buzz but unless you have a product worthy of it, it will die off, and that's worse than not even having buzz to start with. Don't try to fake cool and just build a damn good product that actually solves a problem.
There's an Amazon ISP?
Show HN: Automatically upvote downvoted comments on Hacker News
That sounds a bit strange because there's always something else you could be doing while waiting for that answer? Either working on another issue, or trying to improve something without being asked to, or even just learning something that could (or not) be helpful sometime in the future. Worst case scenario: read some HN :-)

But really: doesn't working remotely mean that, when blocked, you can just leave the computer and do some life stuff, then come back a few hours later and continue from there?
I have never understood the pomodoro idea. When I'm busy writing code the last thing I want to happen is to be interrupted by an alarm.
Slightly tweaked to allow using len():

type Hash [16]byte
const _ = uint(len(Hash{}) - md5.Size)

https://play.golang.org/p/qH6DkOcvSC
They control a popular public dns server, a CA, a global local cache, and control over the most popular browser and phone. They have all the pieces to do almost seamless MITM.

"We see you haven't signed up yet for AMP, so we've done the work for you"

Yes, I get they wouldn't do this, but the fact that they could is a little scary.
I hate to be flippant, but surely you've heard of Reddit? /r/news is the obvious subreddit, but there are lots of others with different topics and slightly different flavor commenting communities.

EDIT to add: Ironically, there's a subreddit dedicated to talking about alternatives to Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/

and here's a page listing alternative sites in order of Alexa ranking:

https://www.reddit.com/r/redditalternatives/wiki/alexarankin...

EDIT2: and FWIW, I know that HN started as an escape from Reddit.
Fragment was updated today with a new web audio synthesis engine which allow near perfect audio output on Chrome and related browsers, there is also much improvements for Firefox, i am still working on all the performances issues related to the web audio part of the application so there is many more things to come!

There is also a live logarithmic scale spectrum of the output :) and many other fixes.
While true, one should always remember, "If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up."
I'm pretty sure our University Senate does something, but again - I always forget what group specifically does what.
>Every time I get to take even a minute to see something I cherish it. Then I have to run off to the next task to do.

Only people do the same on their spare time, for the whole duration of events, in the holidays, etc. Where there is no other pressing thing waiting for them like a flight, a job or a child. Besides all of those things could wait for 10 minutes.

As for non pressing things and "countless other distractions", that's the whole point of the author. They don't appreciate or cherish or stop to look at the things they visit, they just pass through to the next thing.

>I'm not sure I agree with the authors projection of possible motives of those they were observing. There is always danger in assuming you know what is going through someone else's mind.

Only we do know what's in most people's minds, it's mindless consumption of places and experiences, where they care more to post they've been there than of actually being there. Not to mention that the vast majority of those images (countless photos taken during a concert for example) nobody absolutely cares, not even the picture taking them will think about them twice.
> ""I read your profile and I think you'd be perfect for this role""

example: You're a freebsd/netbsd/openbsd sysadmin with a CCNP and some asshat is trying to recruit you for a front end HTML5/CSS UI/UX designer position. Seriously. Jesus christ.
Interesting stuff. I've heard about the TPU chip but not the rest.

They're still eons away from e.g. Intel or Samsung when it comes to vertical integration on the hardware side.

I believe that Samsung is the only company in the world that is capable of building an entire computer (e.g., laptop or smartphone) from scratch completely in-house. They can design software and OSes AND manufacture SoCs, memory, LED panels, etc. It's very impressive.
Great summary. I started using Mobike+subway+Mobike to get to/from work after Uber China stopped offering generous subsidies.

I use both Mobike and Ofo, depending on which is available.

Advantages of Mobike:

- Map-based view of nearby bikes

- Can reserve a bike for 15 mins, whilst you walk to it from wherever you are (good if you're a couple of subway stops away)

- Bikes are plentiful in most places I go

Mobike disadvantages:

- Bikes take some effort to ride, perhaps due to a dynamo and the weight of the electronics

Ofo advantages:

- Bikes are light and easy to ride

Ofo disadvantages:

- Need to wander around to find one, which takes time, even if the app tells you there are some nearby

- Quite common for an Ofo bike to be locked to something using a private chain (i.e. someone has stolen it), and you don't know until you walk up to it
So I think it is necessary to differentiate between "deep work" jobs (See Cal Newport's blog/books...) and "interrupt driven" jobs. Engineering design generally is a "deep work" job. Long periods of uninterrupted concentration are key to productivity.

Other jobs, like receptionist and office managers, for instance, are interrupt-driven. Receptionists add value by responding quickly and handling a continuous stream requests.

Now let's talk about engineering managers. Being an engineering manager is IMHO, an interrupt-driven job. The job of an engineering manager is to tell you where to find answers to your questions, or on a good day, actually answer the question. The friction comes when an engineering manager does not understand that the interrupt-driven nature of his/her job is not reciprocal. A good manager will handle interrupts quickly, but only very judiciously use the power to interrupt.

Another source of confusion is dev/ops. Anything operational will tend to be interrupt driven. An engineering manager that has been running a high-functioning dev/ops team that is a team of crack fire-fighters might be a very disruptive force in a design engineering team if that manager expects a constant volley of chat messages among the team.
As far as I know this is the closest - Go to Reddit News and look at the "new news".

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/new/
'Blurt' seems like a good name for a chat system...
Do you favor a particular kind of tea?
Oh, you mean PCB milling! Well never mind then; those three are all for metal and plastic milling. I worked at Plethora for a bit, I forget that "milling" means different things to different people.
# Print "hello world".
# Hint: There are many ways to print text on
# the command line, one way is with the 'echo'
# command.
#
# Try it below and good luck!
#
bash(0)> echo '"hello world".'
"hello world".
bash(0)>

What is this, Android? Sheesh.
Looking for my spare LCD so I can actually see what I'm doing, on top of mining out a huge garnet pocket. Gimme some time!
But that is a different claim, isn't it? I would expect that the general parser for a CL implementation is also quite large.

My question is why does the teaching often go that there is practically no syntax for lisp. Now, it is often followed quickly with "in lisp, you can write your own language."

But then, those two thoughts are hard to justify next to each other. Again, just see this thread. The complaint is that there is not enough syntax in lisp. The argument appearing that you have to have another language to express some ideas. And again, I'm not even disagreeing with this claim. Just trying to understand why it has the foothold that it does. That you drop to lisp if you want to use no syntax.
> Facebook:

I came across your Github profile and I noticed your ipv6 enabled goatse steganography projects have been gaining quite some traction on Github.
The assumption that the world creates 50 person companies at the same rate as Sweden is not likely.

Company listings are actually often really useful on wikipedia, there can be some outside info that is far better than what the company itself has and if there are suspect things about the company wikipedia can link to them as well.

Wikipedia at one point deleted the article on Atlasssian because 'it wasn't notable'.

Unlike so many minor characters in Star Wars...
By "social permission" do you mean from the individual's community, or from established parties/organizations?
In short, that the rate over a decade instead of over a year is the official corporate tax rate. For Google it doesn't work out this way, still.
While Amazon has a lot of tech and Internet savvy individuals, and Bezos himself is quite sharp, they also have a large cadre of business executives who come from decidedly non-tech backgrounds like Walmart and similar. This is the case in a great many, if not the majority, of large "tech" companies. These executives are the ones who talk out one side of their mouth about wanting "the best and the brightest" and "doing great things" but out the other side of their mouth stick to "best practices" and "proven methods." They are the ones who block remote work. They're the ones who ignore the research and push open floor plans and put emphasis on the number of hours a person works rather than the fruits of their work, load days with meetings and interruptions, etc.

They're the ones who have a wealth of knowledge about business management practices. Business management practices developed for manufacturing. And never adapted to address thought-work. In Amazons case, this leads to them having a great deal of policies that are hostile to tech workers. A coworker of mine who has several kids was talking with Amazon and even considering the move to Seattle. But then he asked them about the work schedule. They were not coy. They let him know in no uncertain terms that he would be expected to work very long hours in perpetuity, and that if he desired "free time" to be with his family, he was 'not a good fit'.

These practices lead Amazon to churn through people very quickly, leading to their constant need for more people, driving their recruiters to become proficient spammers.
It's not about specific unit test frameworks or TDD strategies. It's about the fact that thirty years ago, for all intents and purposes, there was no such thing as "unit test frameworks" or "test driven development".
If you are somewhat of a "programmer" you can complete that integration using a RPI and a software package called "Home Assistant".

They have links between Vera and the Echo along with a TON of other things.
Let's talk about this whole Moon vs. Mars thing for human spaceflight
Yes, it's too bad that the author lacks basic understanding of signal processing. I respect his effort though, it's not an easy topic - you have to start somewhere.
Sure, I can always do something else instead, but that context switching is costly for me as well, when a minute-long conversation, though briefly distracting for a colleague, would have been able to keep me working at the task at hand.
Toxicity, not harassment, has always been the glaring issue with the Wikipedia community. Of course there are the occasional miscreants who look to personally attack and harass people, but the entire site seems to be dedicated to finding the most lawyerly and acrimonious way to discourage contribution.

Some of that is certainly warranted. When political topics are the target of massive edit wars as each side seeks to enshrine their particular truth in the public record, you need rules and enforcers and arbitrators. But it can get extraordinarily toxic.
Sadly, this comment of mine is incorrect. I meant 0.1%. My error comes from the same error in the comment I was responding to:

> 99.9% safe (i.e., I have a 0.01% chance of a negligent discharge)
Very interesting insights, thank you!
Only because there exist a few kids who are very passionate about a specific thing and thus admitted to a top school this does not imply, that the "typical" kid with this property will be admitted.

I would rather conjecture that many well-rounded pupils will get admitted plus a few (but not more) "special characters". Thus it would be a bad strategy if you want to go to Stanford to become passionate in only one thing.
Aha. The forced If-Modified-Since on reload is the piece I was missing. Thanks.
And you too sir!
Well then, clearly the definition of "civil" varies from person to person.
I started editing Wikipedia in 2003. It was fun. Over the years it became less fun, I gave up on participating and quite a few articles I had started ended up being deleted.

I also often found myself looking for articles I knew had been on Wikipedia, but had been deleted.

In December 2013 I had enough of the deletionism. I spent a few hours to set up http://deletionpedia.org/ - to rescue articles from deletion.

It doesn't deal with harassment, but it's a useful resource if you want to find back something that was deleted on Wikipedia.

(The site had been set up before, but the original creator let it slip.)
Personally, I love Fark:

http://www.fark.com

Fark is meant to be links to non-news news articles, but has a large number of links to interesting articles and humorous rewritings of headlines.

I've been a Farker for 16 years.
Just try actually going to one of those interviews and then turning down the job offer sometime. Recruiters go absolutely feral when that happens.
This post explains very well the #1 benefit of AMP caches (yes, there can be more than Google's, and Cloudflare has just released their own cache): pre-rendering:

https://medium.com/@pbakaus/why-amp-caches-exist-cd7938da245...
At least recruiters don't send unsolicited jpegs of veiny erect cocks (yet).
I read some. worth the time? it's just entertainment for me :)