skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think often there is more drama about it than necessary.

You can't have 100% innovation all the time. Sometimes you have to refine an idea for a while. Friendster, MySpace, etc existed before Facebook. Heck, you maybe even could make the case that the Well belongs in that list.

Additionally, I hear a lot of Internet gasps at things like Facebook's stories implementation, but far less about, say, Snow which as far as I know is entirely a copy of Snapchat. So the drama seems selective in the sense that folks try to make rivalries out of it to pump up the drama.
Is it possible you aren't offering a wage that attracts talent? You seem to be implying that Indian labor is smarter/more qualified than US labor. In my experience, (hiring in Phoenix) that is simply not the case if you're willing to pay the prevailing wage.
I don't fully understand the tos of services clause or how that woman won a lawsuit. If that were common wouldn't I be able to put a similiar notice and start collecting payments. I would think everyone would do that causing a decline in visiting random sites.
Could it be though that investors tend to be looked after better than employees and rising income inequality means that less people are able to invest in a meaningful way?
Why is he on Apple's board of directors?

He has a working knowledge of how governments operate, and as such knows the right person to call and the right procedure to follow to get stuff done. He probably also still knows a bunch of people whom could be useful to know if you're operating a huge multinational company.
Work from home and don't have a "career" - works for me.
The short answer is no, because the machine language doesn't allow general manipulation of the cache. So the cache is pretty strictly controlled by the hardware. In general the hardware works very well for a wide variety of different workloads. It can often work better than a compiler can, because it works at runtime, and is thus flexible to changes in workloads. The preloading optimization you mentioned is sort of done already: it's called prefetching. The idea is a cache will automatically cache memory near where you just accessed, because for a lot of memory intensive operations you are linearly scanning a specific section of memory.
https://bothsidesofthetable.com/most-startups-should-be-deer...

2009 post, but still one of my favorite distillations of the issues around b2b customer types. Particular impactful if you read it when you end up going above and beyond with support, feature development, and contract negotiations with both rabbits and whales and you're running out of money.
> My point is, the less active money there is around, the less accurate our concept of a correct value can be. This situation has the potential to de-stabilise the economy sooner rather than later.

That won't happen (probably).

The less accurate our concept of correct value is, the more competition it will draw as the margins increase.

Realistically, we can be probably something absurd like 80% passive funds and 20% active investors and be fine.
11 years I cooked in the most prestigious restaurants in San Francisco, Portland, and Las Vegas, why would I joke about something like that? If you want to make money in a restaurant give people what they want.
There are Chromebook configurations where a i3/i5/i7 CPU and 4GB/8GB/16GB RAM are among your options. Just about the only thing that's consistently undercut is storage capacity, but options also include Chromebooks with user-upgradeable SSDs and SD slots.

It sounds like you're working off an outdated understanding of Chromebook options, one where 2011-era limitations play a major role in your perception of how suitable they are for getting work done.
This seems really aggressive, especially for bootstrapped companies. My startup took 31 months to hit $10k MRR, and now we're at ~$130k MRR. I'm really glad I didn't quit after three months. I barely even had the product built after three months.

I think that for most people, if they abandon anything that's not already a huge success three months in, they'll just end up bouncing from one thing to the next and never seeing anything through. It's virtually impossible to bootstrap that quickly, and I'd be surprised if many of the big VC-backed startups we've heard of hit that either (certainly not Google or Facebook who weren't even monetizing yet at that point).
Would you really rather live in your parents' or grandparents' time?

I wouldn't. My grandparents lived through two or three shooting wars and a hard reconstruction. My parents lived through the Cold War, when the prospect of nuclear war was very real. By comparison, we are living in a very benign era. The 21st century is playing the game of life in easy mode.
No, the static destructors for example cannot be optimized away because their effects are intentional and required. In C++, close braces have potentially limitless implicit code that gets executed.
I added some fancy color customization :-)

I also added it to ProductHunt in case anyone feels like giving it an upvote: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/everydaycheck-2 ty! :-p
That would utterly annihilate its corporate use if there was even a rumor they randomly censored content like operations and QA/QC discussion. My company also pays extra money to slack for the "we log everything for your e-discovery enjoyment" so there would be substantial legal issues if they randomly started hiding stuff we're paying to be e-discovered. Slack has problems, but weird censorship stuff isn't one of them.

Weird as it probably sounds, FB sucks for humans because its users are people not corporations.
The relentless fighting over net neutrality rules needs to end, but how can it?
> I should probably have said something about Confirmation Bias which I suspect is what is at work here.

Indeed. I know well about the confirmation bias. I've considered it early on as a likely candidate. I've ruled it out by too many extremely improbable events, many which include other people unawares about anything that I do.

(In 'unrelated' computer science, do you consider a zero knowledge proof to be 0% likely even after 100 iterations? How many iterations would you need as proof?)

> Note that you say the times it doesn't work, you dismiss as being due to circumstances beyond control; when it does seem to work, due to random chance, you seize on that as proof, confirming that there is a hidden occult mechanism at work.

You misunderstand. I do not classify them as failures, because they are not. I can tell when a divination won't work. Call it a little message in the back of my mind. Something. Doesn't happen often.

> Even a really low success rate -- maybe only 5-10% of your guesses are correct -- is still enough to generate the illusion, particularly if you are able to dismiss the failures as unimportant, so the successes stick out more.

Id say much higher than that. But you've already dismissed this as some self-inflicted mental health issue. If you've read any of my meager posting history, you'd know that I'm trying to blend both this mysticism and science, and bring it so all may use and benefit.
The original StarCraft and its beloved Brood War expansion are now free
Probably because rich people own stock and engineers draw upper-middle class salaries. When rich people can get richer while paying fewer people upper-middle class salaries, you get growing wealth inequality.
I use docker because I can go from

"Hey cool project, I want to try it!"

To already setup in under a minute depending if I'm at home or not.

Also the VMs start really fast, so it's good for getting exotic compiler toolchains on Windows running quickly. Everything has a dockerfile.
You're being downvoted on the basis of your ideology, which I imagine is somewhat unpopular here. Your posts are of otherwise good quality. It would be nice if people started a dialog instead of silently downvoting, but I guess that would take more effort...
I found and loved Riot, too. Even used it to build a medium-sized application. At a time when React was in flux (pun intended, I guess) it was the first implementation of the custom component model that made me go "ah ha!" Mostly because how fast I could be useful with it.

The challenge I think for Riot is just that the community never really developed around it. As my friend always says, when you pick a technology, you are picking a community, and the latter may matter more in the end.

I find Vue to to be the best blend of the two. Great docs, great community, and as powerful as react. (Don't let the declarative templates fool you, everything compiles down to render functions and you can even write JSX or even hyperscript if you want to.)

Vue doesn't quite have the React ecosystem but in some situations fewer choices may be better, as examples, boilerplates, etc, seem to have more in common rather than less.
We're in!

We got a video interview last week which seemed like a good sign, but then came the rejection letter today. I was just thinking about setting up a post-demo day event for us rejects and found this thread. I'm glad to see others had the same idea. We are actually going with our original plan to move to California from Europe despite the rejection. We would be very interested in connecting and helping to organize such an event. I like your idea to call it YnotC or similar as the brand will get attention. Domain name ynotc.co is available. Who is taking the lead on this?
Unfortunate that it starts with the PC era, rather than starting from the earliest computer RPGs. Avatar and Oubliette (and their predecessors and cousins) on PLATO were the foundation on which the Wizardry empire was built; from what I can recall there were even successful lawsuits. A critical part of RPG history.
Malaysia Airlines to track planes with satellites
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I worked in the mapping (GIS) pipeline for MS Flight Simulator. The amount of tools we wrote just for QA was on par with what countries use for their census (I also worked on those st ESRI). I try to be of the philosophy of love and obsess about your customers, but every industry has fellows like this that make you question your beliefs. Still love them though... (mostly)
And worse -- they seem to have recently capped the chronological view to 24 hrs. with just a tag at the end "to see more, add more friends" :-/
Running from the start as fast as you can will never help you win a marathon.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_...

Unbelievable how much M$ changed for better in the last years!
That happens all the time in history too. There are thousands of failed demonstrations, protests, etc.

Demonstrations are not some guaranteed method that will always bend those in power: it's just one of the few methods that affect change and have in the past.

If demonstrations were all that it took every time, then the French wouldn't have to behead their king, and the Americans wouldn't have to fight a revolution.

It's also about how seriously those people mean it. Marching for a day is useless if you don't also change how you act politically, inform people, change your buying habits (e.g. boycott some company), vote differently, go on strike, etc.

Else, who cares if they protested? They just had their fun for a day and went back to watching their favorite TV series. They didn't even mean it that much themselves.
I found the first part, about the difficulties of attaining flow at home, pretty interesting.

I have much the same problems while at the office (and while avoiding open-plan areas helps, all offices seem to be distraction factories to some extent).

Different environments for different people, I guess. Although that doesn't fit well with a culture that says management is about fitting people into standardised processes.
tabletop and P&P can be distinct as well. Tabletop means, you have a board and character-representing tokens on a table. P&P means the character data is represented on paper tables/sheets/diagrams. You can play one without the other.

E.g. Warhammer is tabletop even without RPG.
Yeah, the article is meant to entice you in with doubt. But as you say, I've found a way to not need a job like that but still work from home. So yeah, it wouldn't work if I was trying to do the same type of work as the person in the article.
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Blizzard offering Starcraft I for free
Forrester vs. Gartner on Data Science Platforms and Machine Learning Solutions
A blast from the past - Starcraft I is free. Probably to seed multi-player or to build buzz for a remastered version of Starcraft I, which is set to launch in a few weeks
You mean, keep it good. Keeping it cheap is almost never a good idea if you are able to sell it expensively.
For a few years during the current CEO's reign, but how will the next CEO make their mark when the CEO musical chairs game continues?
> This is pretty standard anthropological knowledge. A quick google search returned this Time article that lays it out nicely: http://time.com/4252373/meat-eating-veganism-evolution/

I don't believe that article contradicts anything I said.

> Of course we started off eating plants, and we still do to this day. But the evolution of humans really kicked off when we started consuming meat, and even more so when we were able to start leveraging fire to make accessing those calories and nutrients even easier.

Indeed, more carbs were able to go to the brain instead of other parts of our body, which enabled the brain to develop.

> You can choose to not partake in meat, and that's purely your choice, but to damn it as something that unnatural is purely, scientifically wrong.

I didn't say it was unnatural. I said we have no instincts to do it. It made sense when we needed to, so we learned to, and taught our children the ways and so on to be better at survival. Today, we neither need to and it's also the single biggest contributor to climate change, animal suffering and the heart disease, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and (partly) cancer epidemic thats the number one human killer globally.

For all the talk about how meat helped us develop our brain and become intelligent, it seems exceedingly unintelligent that we have not yet stopped when it's so damning to our existence.
>Protesting only works to persuade those who have a conscience, it does little against a faceless government or the class of property owners.

Protesting is not just standing around with some banners. Demonstrations, strikes, occupations, etc. are all part of it, and have brought down many a government.

It's not about "conscience" -- except if we mean some tame gatherings where people stand quietly and hold some picket signs for a few hours and then go home.
I always think this quote has explained a related topic the most concisely:

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
- Upton Sinclair, "I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked" (1935)
Looks great, will you offer an android app too at one point?
Are you aware that one could read your comment 100% serious as well as 100% sarcastic? Which one is it?
This is a perfectly succinct rebuttal to the article. Especially this part:

> I have much the same problems while at the office (and while avoiding open-plan areas helps, all offices seem to be distraction factories to some extent).

> Different environments for different people, I guess.
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How come there has never been a person with both supernatural abilities and a want for a million dollars?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Million_Dollar_Paranormal_...
short term margins.
Not the compiler per se, but you can remap memory to mark it as "non-cacheable". This is typically done in drivers for instance, when you access memory-mapped device registers that should most definitely never be cached.

You probably don't want to do that for regular RAM unless you access a lot of data only once and your access pattern is completely unpredictable (which is almost never the case).

Even if you only read the data once having a cache means that the prefetcher can work its magic if it notices a pattern in your accesses, preloading what it thinks you'll read next in the cache ahead of you.

You can also help the prefetcher by explicitly adding preload instructions (if the ISA allows it, at least) if you know ahead of time where you'll read next but you expect the prefetcher won't be able to guess it. That's useful if for instance you're navigating through some sort of linked list data structure, where the access pattern is potentially random looking "from the outside" but you know where you'll go next in your algorithm.
Microsoft+Authenticator:+2-Step+Verification+Reaches+All+Microsoft+Accounts
You should post this in the next weekly HN pro-Marijuana circlejerk thread.
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I've had a couple of seizures over the last 5 years, and have the same experience you describe. I hate it though, I feel like a child :(. The last time it happened, my wife was around, so I felt somewhat comfortable asking her to walk me through what happened.

Stay safe buddy, and please take your meds!
Most of what they were citing were issues you'd have working for a company that doesn't have that culture, and a guy who was at home all day with a two month old. I love my son, but when he was born I quickly found out why older guys were happy to be at work.
I've got a fair bit of money in Wealthfront and tax loss harvesting has directly saved me quite a bit of money over the last couple years. For instance, the beginning of last year was tumultuous and their tax loss harvesting let me realize around ~55k in losses. The market then shot back up and my investments were right back where they were barely a month later. Because I had a source of capital gains in 2016, I basically earned free money.

So even if my investments were in the black in the macro scale, with tax loss harvesting I can realize additional gains from the inevitable dips that happen on the more micro scale.
To flesh it out, I hiked a few portions around Beijing. Next to the entrance to the restored / touristy part there's a smallish musuem / cultural building.

I'd put it on par with a small town's local museum. Maybe the expectation was that people would go to the larger museums downtown, but it seemed surprisingly undersized and thrown together for a large tourist site on a pretty amazing object of historical significance.
Several points of agreement here, and now I'll have to check out Riot (which I remember seeing around here a while ago).

But I think that

> html in the middle of your code

is selling JSX a bit short. Tooling and coupling aside (and I agree those are strikes against it), JSX creates a pair of mutually-recursive, formally-defined languages, which you can switch between freely and frictionlessly. I've never seen this before, not even in lisp, where quoting/unquoting is bad enough at a single level.

This—the ability to compose languages—is extremely powerful in general. Even if you don't like JSX per se, I'd bet there is some set of languages that you'd like to be able to use this way. I'd look at the "controversy" around JSX (and Babel and the React dependency) in this light, as a learning experience.

For example, JSX is really just a variation on EX4, which has been around for much longer. A number of "external" factors have put JSX over the edge (of mass adoption), and these mostly have to do with React's popularity. By the time I capitulated and decided to try React, I found that I already had tooling support for JSX, even though I was pegged to Babel 5.8 for reasons.

I think this is the principle behind OMeta: we should be able to iterate on language features as freely as we do on application features. We ship applications, why shouldn't we ship the languages, too? (Of course OMeta came out of VPRI, and Alan Kay's view is that we could just ship the whole dang system!) Anyway, from that perspective, JSX is no more "insanity" than some of the things we do to work around the rigidity of languages-as-silos.
Active strategy may be investing in small/mid caps, currency, commodities, bonds, emerging markets and so on. Lot of that money would be pulled in to biggest popular indexes now such as S&P 500.
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my favorite part is when facebok switched to prioritizing popularity of posts, and not time.

Now I see from my friends "I'm going out to devil's den in 20 minutes if anyone wants to join me - 23 hours ago"

yeah, thanks for that facebook. i really needed cat videos and political rants triaged ahead of that for a whoel day.
The case against tipping(2015)
Just FYI there are still markets out there [1] and Boeing is going to try to take advantage of them [2].

[1] http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-iran-airlines-snap-story....
[2] http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/21/482955544/...
I don't really mind what you say (don't care about the issue), but I do care when someone very confidently extends a trend into the future, here even into eternity, based on nothing but "it never worked before". That's just extreme intellectual laziness, which is fine, until you start commenting and pretend you know more than you do. There is way too little argument in your argument.
fire seniors, hire juniors?
* Privacy

* Safety

Pick one.
So true.. At my fortune 50 company we force ie to render in ie7 engine for our internal reporting. Yes, that ie7...
My mother experienced the exact same issue while I was attending college. It was preceded by an intense migraine the night before (including vomiting). She called me early that morning very confused why she wasn't at school (she was a teacher). She didn't remember the night before, or why she had stayed home, or where my dad was (he had left for work). I was seriously alarmed, but she had no other impairments other than her memory. She was lucid, had clear speech, etc.

I eventually pieced everything together (my dad is a doctor and he diagnosed her over the phone). I then spent the rest of the day on the phone with her, answering the same cycle of questions. I eventually had her start writing those questions and answers down, but she kept losing the paper! Eventually we moved it to the fridge, and a close friend of hers was with her.

Similarly, it lasted about 24 hours, eventually faded, and had no adverse after effects. It truly was like Memento, though. Definitely one of the more surreal medical issues I've been exposed to.
Millennial Hoarders
Memory Blocks in Go
To be honest, the lack of it existing in javascript aside, statements-as-expressions is a useful thing - no need to remember the semantics of `if {} else {}` vs `? :`, ability to have very complex (multi-line) expressions, and in languages with RAII, blocks being expressions means it's easy and clear to be able to acquire a resource in order to calculate a single value.
Mitchell & Webb have a classic take on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW3lhfVpLL4
One of the "Pros" of passive investment is that you are in it for the long haul and not reactive to immediate swings in the market. In your scenario I believe the investor is supposed to treat a downswing like you would a 401k account. Cry inside at the losses and wait for recovery since your target date is likely 20-30 yrs down the road.
Really, a small danish startup "funds campaigns against cannabis legalization" (presumably those in the US?)?
Reminds me of the other HN front page article about bleeding crabs. They lost to think you can steal animal blood and get away with the karma.
But at the same time, I am having zero issues working from home with a 2 year old and a 7 year old. Everyone knows when daddy's office door is shut, he's working and is not to be bothered.

You can't expect to work from home and still interact with everyone who is home.
people have believed this since the very beginning.

even though, right now, we live in one of the most peaceful periods ever. world hunger has been drastically reduced. most people live safer lives than ever before (crime, health).