skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never really used it, closed 3 accounts over time. Main use is to peek at pages, and I've advertised my business on it at one point, with really bad results. I deeply hate everything about FB, from the fakeness of it as a distant relationship maintenance tool, to its core business model, to the fact it is highjacking a big chunk of the web. To me, FB is a trap, tailor made to attract the Internet illiterate, as I-products does with hardware and music files.
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I have been looking around for awhile for it. I found something that is inspired and looks pretty accurate.

[1] http://code.weflex.org/markdown-editor-flavored/
[2] https://www.npmjs.com/package/markdown-editor-flavored
John Cooley is still active. http://deepchip.com/about.html

From that link:

DeepChip.com is a 20 year old clearinghouse where semiconductor chip designers contribute data-intensive papers and articles of first-hand evaluations and production benchmarks of commercial EDA tools.

John Cooley at or (508) 429-4357 edits the content of both ESNUG and DeepChip.
Makes sense, thanks.

Good point about Content-Length and ETag headers. So it sounds like one needs to do exactly the same amount of work to respond to a HEAD request as a GET request. Meaning the body still needs to be rendered (to calculate its length and hash). Just not include it in the response.
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I appreciate his comments about SV being special because it's actually acceptable to be ambitious, you're allowed to be someone who in most circles would be considered tedious because you only think and talk about your serious projects, probably sometimes met with yawns and "isn't that nice."

SV is special in this regards. I'm now realizing that's one of the main reasons I'll probably never move back home. Family, old friends, the culture of other cities will, in reality, put a bunch of shitty social pressure on you unless you're already rich and successful.

As a side note, I still bet most of this forum is against this ambitious personality, affirming at the end of the day that "there is more to life than your projects, go out and live, meet someone, fill out your social schedule, etc." That's certainly all wonderful, but it's the same social fabric that exists everywhere that's not Silicon Valley. Sam put his finger on something that is uniquely SV, and I think it's something to protect and cherish.

As another side note, I think it's kind of a shame SV is migrating to SF, because SF doesn't afford that protection. There are locals everywhere who despise the ambitious entrepreneur techie type. It's a bit of a struggle in subtle and sometimes unsubtle ways. It's obviously a face of the real world with class tension undertones and what not, but outside of maybe a few bubbles in the city which seem to me to all be in SoMa, it's just not a great environment if you are one of these ambitious personalities IMO. That and there are no late night hacker friendly cafes... why?
THANKS! This is great. I watched the first 3 videos in the series and will finish the rest this week. I love his energy and his ability to explain this stuff.
Some resources for writing OSes:

- Andrew Tannenbaum's MINIX, and his Operating system books

- The OSDev wiki: http://wiki.osdev.org
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Exactly! 2000 in 8 is fucking ridiculous! For some context, there have been only 8 Chinese and 7 Indian Nobel Laureates. That's two of the most populated countries in the world!
Thanks - but which one is the zero?
Yea totally agreed and I pointed this out. The rules from the Dept. of Transportation are for consumer protection and not for airline protection. But you are correct that employees have now twisted this to mean that they are "legally" bound to pay a certain amount and no more, which is horse hockey.
And even 1cm at light speed is still a good 7 thousand cycles long at these frequencies.
IMAP Search support only ASCII and you cannot search non-English content. There is an extension for utf-8, but Some of the major emails services as Outlook/Ofiice365 doesn't support it.
Also, you can search only a particular folder instead entire mailbox.
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True, but the point of the article is that some small changes tend to grow into not-so-small changes on closer inspection, and that they take hours instead of minutes.
What would you like spy agencies to be doing?
Thunderbird's slowness and other quirks got me to switch from it to the Windows mail app when I'm on Windows... suffice to say I don't recommend it.

It looks nice and all, but isn't necessarily all that much faster, doesn't always render HTML email all that well, and has pieces of basic functionality mysteriously missing (i.e., to this day it doesn't understand what the Reply-To header is for).

Chalk it up as another in a long line of Thunderbird alternatives that just don't measure up. I'd love to have something else I like (especially now in the twilight of XUL) but it's just a tough space.
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I just received an email from Google Play:

(...)we have introduced changes that allow us to subtract the developer share of refunds from developer payouts. This includes those refunds issued more than 48 hours after the purchase.(...) changes will be effective starting May 17, 2017. (...)

I wonder how that will turn out...
I don't think there is a fixed pattern in raising a creative child. Every child is different. Instilling creativity is not like a program running under specific conditions.
I never made an account because I could never grasp what value it really had for me. It seemed to me that it was better suited for the "reality show" crowd that liked following other peoples drama.
> All globally-competitive countries are doing this to all other countries

This is trivially incorrect (unless you employ a circular definition).
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You created a strawman in your misrepresentation of the parent comment.

Edit: "Does "Nazis are bad" really qualify as a liberal elite position? Oh wait I just saw your username."
Don't agree at all, I find the same attitude in many major cities in the world ex. Sao Paulo, Shanghai, NYC, Tokyo and others - it also strongly depends on who you talk to.
I'm sorry but if all you have to do to justify violence is to call someone a Nazi, that's terrifying. Don't like it? "What, so you like Nazis?"
I hardly use facebook now-a-days.
I have used tools like this in the past, to track how I spend my time while browsing.

I made it a habit to look at the tool after a session of browsing, and try to understand if my browsing was productive or not. Then try to think what I would to differently the next time.

This can help improving your browsing habits.

Now, the title feels a bit like clickbait (had to click to get an idea of what it was about).
As nice as all the features they've added are, I can't help but see Vivaldi as "Chromium but Blink probably isn't completely up to date", and it worries me more than a little to use a browser where the latest (potentially high impact) changes to the browser rendering engine aren't remedied until the next browser patch.
> companies are pretty strict about quality of their imported goods like potatoes in Japan

>> Calbee spokeswoman "cited regulatory hurdles, which limit the amount of imported potatoes that can be used in products, as partly responsible for the shortage"

Japanese farmers are reliable voters. The evidence for an electoral motive, over a national security imperative, is Japanese farms' small plots and low yields [1]. The system is set up to maximise the number of farmers (i.e. voters who farm) over production.

[1] http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21576154-fewer-bigger-plo...
>the liberal elite's sacred cows

Like not wanting to shoot gays in the street?
Sweet! It's good to hear. He was always so super-helpful both on Usenet and directly when I was at Moto Semi way-back about 20-or-25-or-so years ago. Of course, Moto is gone, and I've moved on, but it's good to hear a knowledgeable war-horse is still still around to guide, mentor, inform and design.

Knowing that warms my heart. Thank you.
I wrote a mail-client, mine is console based with lua-scripting. I figured, when I started, that the task was simple, there are MIME-libraries, etc, out there, so to create a simple mail-client I only had to write three things:

* A view of all maildirs/folders.

* An index-view to show the contents of a maildir/folder.

* A view of a single message.

How naive I was. Broken email is everywhere. Things like IMAP support, GPG-support, and similar took months to get done. That moment when you're checking email in your spam-folder and your mail-client crashes? That happened far too often.

Writing a mail client isn't hard, but it is fiddly, and you don't realize it until you think you're done. (UTF-handling, malformed MIME-messages, etc etc.)

In the most sincere way possible: good luck!
You may be right. It's good to see some reasonable views at least.
nano and a $10 Logitech k120. What's your verdict?
Yeah I've lived in a lot of places and I could see NYC (and I could see Hong Kong too; most definitely not Tokyo, nor Shanghai nor Sao Paulo unless you're just talking about wealthy neighborhood ex-pat communities). I think it's an env that's hard to find, at its scale anyways.
I'm surprised to see anyone put forward such an argument, it doesn't hold up under even the lightest scrutiny.

The whole reason the problems of gender, age, and race discrimination are hard to tackle today are because they exist as widespread cultural biases, not as official corporate policies. Any company attempting to implement a sort of "reverse bias" as an official policy immediately opens themselves to legal action and a PR nightmare (because it's exploitative). Few companies are that stupid, which is why it doesn't happen.

Legally, companies can choose to be better at hiring and to try to keep their biases in check using training, policies, corporate culture, etc. This can be effective but because it also goes hand in hand with paying everyone equitably the major advantage is pulling from a larger talent pool. And make no mistake, tons of companies do just this and are successful at it. It is a significant competitive advantage. However, there's also no strong feedback mechanism that causes a company who can "beat the market" by doing things better to somehow change centuries of ingrained socio-cultural biases. That's just not how it works.

Moreover, the idea that businesses are somehow universally run by god-kings who act purely rationally is sheer fantasy that has zero relationship to reality. Business managers and owners are just human beings. They are flawed and they work against their own self-interest just as much as anyone else does. They are driven by their own desires (ego, power, status, etc.) as much as they are by a sense of trying to maximize their RoI.
I stopped using it entirely a few years back. It got to be an unhealthy obsession which I realised was making me quite unhappy.

While I read Hacker News and some technical subreddits, I don't think these are entirely benign, but they are an interest rather than an obsession. They do both have an element of gamification--your comment upvotes/karma etc., but they aren't actively sucking you in with a never-ending stream of status updates from the site members either.
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Is this a reference to the violence against homosexuals found in some Islamic countries?
Arrested Stayzilla CEO Yogendra Vasupal reveals his side of the story
Automation doesn't "create jobs". People's desires plus their creativity to supply new goods or services create jobs. Driving is a relatively big part of the economy, but it's nothing compared to what agriculture used to be (upwards of 90% of employment). Automating agriculture freed up time for a multitude of new and totally unrelated pursuits.
Please don't create accounts to do this.
This is a lengthy piece. There is plenty to discuss, and it clearly contains contentious topics. Please don't extract a single statement, no matter how poor or egregious, to use as kindling to start a flamewar. Topics such as these are difficult to discuss in the best of circumstances, and even more difficult on the internet. If you're not willing to put in the effort necessary to do so, please just let it go.
I doodled with it a bit.

Added a few friends and relatives, then realized that most people that I know are either not on it, or not very active. And I couldn't figure out what to do with it. I posted a bit but that fizzled out.

Right now it seems such a primitive and restricted system and not of much use at all unless you are addicted to it or you have no idea of what is available on the Internet.

I get the feeling that it only appeals to those who like to get into a rut and stay there.
There are plenty of small changes in well-designed systems.

Had this system from the start had a defined limit on the length of inputs, the change would have entailed the changing of a constant, and possibly a rewrite of an error message/instructional oneliner, nothing more.
Fortunately, it doesn't matter what you think is ok.
this is an interesting piece, but its premise is totally ludicrous. we don't spy on europeans because they bribe, we spy on them because we spy on everyone, to have intelligence to act upon in any domain. spying on diplomats and politicians gets orders of magnitude more attention than airbus paying off saudis, and probably any other catgeory besides perhaps security. we spy on these types of people so that analysts can make informed policy recommendations, with better sources than the public media, and any country that doesnt is either underresourced or incompetent. this article is essentially a (literal) joke, thumbing the nose at any outraged europeans who would read it and a collective laugh in their direction for its actual american audience
What is this negative thing you speak of? ;)
I am shocked at the violence I have personally witnessed coming from those who casually throw around the "Nazi" label.
Saying a "issue is small", depends on someone's knowledge.

* An individual's knowledge can be limited based on his technical experience.

* his knowledge about product features
> seems the author is unable to accept that the staff might just be following rules.

One can follow rules while being polite.
I wholeheartedly agree. I've seen many cases of PHP being scorned in favour of Node.js in problem domains where PHP is a clear fit (I've been guilty of this myself). It's not at all a bad language in the hands the right person.
I stopped using it actively 3 years back, now i use very rarely.
It's a bit scary that we rely on the Amazonian ecosystem to carbon sink the Northern Hemisphere's fossil fuel excesses, but we know so little about how it works.
So which globally competitive countries are not doing this, and how can you prove that?
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This account has been used exclusively for ideological flamewar. That's an abuse of HN, regardless of ideological valence, so we've banned it.

Please don't create accounts to do this.
It's uniquely SV only for those who spend all their life in SV. Go to NYC, go to LA, go to London, go to Tokyo, and you will find very ambitious and driven people working hard on their acting/band/fashion label/non profit/etc. Those people also tend to be way more open about the forms creativity other than their own takes, whereas the SV techie entrepreneurs tend to think that anything other than changing the world with a billion dollar startup is a waste of time.

Which is why on a personal level, after about a decade in SV, I'm very much looking forward to leaving soon, having realized that ambition, fulfilment, and impact can be realized in ways other than yet another iOS or rails app, and am getting tired of the monoculture.
US Corporations pay an effective tax rate of 12.6%.[1]

http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/01/news/economy/corporate-tax-r...
China has ghost cities, yes, but it also has some incredibly impressive new high speed rail networks [0]. This scale of infrastructure building looks like it would be impossible to do in the US, given the difficulty of building just a single line between SF and LA [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_China

[1] http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-bullet-cost-ov...
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Maybe the piece itself should be removed?
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The US also happens to be the home and origin of most of the global software industry.
Eh, I think they'll be fine. A solid product and existing userbase. They'll either get auctioned off for a few billion or showered with enough money that they can't possibly fail for at least five years.
Compiler's spec is that the behavior of compiled program must be one of the behavior of source program, which is called 'refinement'.
If you think this (or any other submission) is inappropriate for HN, please flag it. Part of the curation process on HN belongs to each of us.
The thing about all these scoring systems like FAcebook "likes" is that there is no way to know that they mean what they say. People do not click "like" because they like your post or they like you. It means a lot of different things to different people so when you add them all up it is like adding apples to oranges to grapes to footballs to dustmites.

Plus there are hordes of people trying to game the system and millions of dollars being spent on that. How can anyone take this thing seriously?
The difference:

Import.io needs user's click to determine what to extract, thus, the user has to repeat it whenever the web page changes.

Listly.io needs URL or HTML codes. It always works even if the web page chages.
Were you unaware that buzzfeed produced feature longform journalism?
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In this [0] interview, Head of Olympus Imaging Division hints at that being the case indeed:

> Technically, the major challenge is heat management. This is a stills-oriented camera, primarily, and that’s one of the reasons why [video recording] time is limited to 30 minutes. If we wanted to provide a more video-oriented product, we’d have to overcome heat.

[0] https://www.dpreview.com/interviews/6838833139/cp-2017-olymp...
How about the 16 lenses L16 camera? It's suppose to be out by summer for pre-orders according to its recent blog.

https://spot.light.co/l16-update-april-2017/
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> In addition, the algorithm that the author attempts to describe is called Simulated Annealing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing

And the last one i thought was a nod to genetic programming.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_programming
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Anyone have good resources on the future of internet security???

I do think it's about to get crazy if (like Sam mentions) individuals use superior AI to attack systems.
Seems pretty great
Why do so many of the complaints I see about Facebook in almost all forums seem to instead be about the complaintant's friends and family and the things they share? Why you would be Facebook friends with someone who shares stupid or uninteresting things? And if you feel obligated to maintain that friendship, why would you complain about it? How is it Facebook's fault that your friends and family share stupid content?
here is an article by google vp about their approach to hiring: https://www.wired.com/2015/04/hire-like-google/
I fail to see how most of the staff were really being rude. The retail worker in particular.
Something like every odd frame is input, every even frame is upsampled output?
Heh like the peers said, it was a reference to what IEX does.
In that case, I revoke my membership to society. I have my own problems.
> I think this is the essence of the recent debate about inequality. I think most people would not have a problem with those who are genuinely producing more getting more as well. Think back to school, did you ever complain about your grades if you knew some other kid had worked harder? Me neither. Of course there were times when it seemed arbitrary as well, seemingly having no relevance to quality. It's a big problem creating a notion of fairness when you move on from school, where everyone is the same age, in the same class, doing the same homework.

You are not alone: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0082
You can do so by moving out in to the middle of nowhere and becoming a self-sufficient hermit.

Anything less and sorry, but you're a part of society.
Hilarious!!! To learn more about how socialism is perfect, please buy Rutger B.. (the author) book off Amazon, a "rentier" by the author's own admission. And like good mind washed sheep, buy the book in huge droves to propel the author into "rentier-ship" accelerating a vicious cycle of the author curbing out books demonizing the very thing the he relies on to mind wash you into rentier slavery and socialism.
Did you just leave out the Rust evangelists?
Surprising to hear Sam say that SV has no advantages. Just because it's nice to tell an international crowd, doesn't make it true.
But, like, less millions.
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> having realized that ambition, fulfilment, and impact can be realized in ways other than yet another iOS or rails app.

If you think that's SV you're probably not the ambitious personality type I was referring to, while also being unaware of what's getting the focus these days in SV (which is most certainly AI/ deep learning).

I've lived in more cities (3 months+) than most in this forum being a perennial digital nomad (And I don't know why people keep citing Tokyo - the culture is not pro entrepreneurship for young people at all, there is no real concept of a coworking spaces, etc. I did however meet a lot of white techies from SF so maybe that's why people are getting that impression!). It's a certain type of ambition/ personality that's encouraged here, for better or worse.
It's good to see a company trying to push browsers forward again. Seems like once again things have stagnated a bit with the current browser experiences.
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Besides, the author feeds us the fact that others have reacted poorly too her telling of those events, and leaves the reality of the events ambiguous, surely on purpose. The various anecdotes are examples of when she's done something wrong, more or less. It's right there in the text. One could take the story about the shop experience as a turning point--her behavior is still wrong, but she's beginning to understand how and why, and this is compared with the reaction of the person she tells it to, which is closer to how a (possibly very, very slightly) younger her might have taken it, one supposes.

She's not claiming to have been right in these situations. The piece is about her journey to resolve to be more polite, rather than more correct.
Volume up also works.
Nitpick: You can, in fact, create new folders in the iCloud Drive app on iOS. For some reason it's hidden under the Select option.
This is not "uneducated" people, this is people getting used to type in like that in the 90s and not loosing the habit - or possibly simply perfecting the speed. It's not about keyboards only, but about software simply not having support for non-ASCII characters. Even in 2017, there's too many American companies that won't accept non-ASCII names (even like mine, which fits into Latin1).

It's the same with Czechs: 15-20 years ago, typing without diacritics was perfectly normal. Some people still do.

So ,no. Not uneducated.