skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We were selling a product to outbound telemarketers. So I bought a bunch of secondary phones for our sales guys, and pumped those numbers into every data list we could find... prize draws... surveys... etc.

They were flooded with telemarketers. And if they spotted an issue (bad quality audio... big gaps at the beginning of call.. and so on) they would open up and insist the telemarketer help them get in touch with a manager so they could help improve things.

We had a spike of sales during that period, before the chaos of managing these phones meant we had to stop. :)
You can avoid a conversation and post in opposition. You can suggest dissent by "like-ing" with a sad or angry face.

If you make a post with an opposing view, or share someone else's then your friend group can use that opposing post to show their dissent for the initial post.
Google wants money, robotics doesn't bring short-term money, advertising does - so it's better to add a "built-in adblocker" that will whitelist google ads (and after removing all adblockers from google store) instead of building robots for better society.
Here's the thing. You agree to let those companies do that. They provide you with a service, and in exchange they collect data about you. That's the trade you're making. Without that data, they can't make any money as they rely heavily on advertising.
Some mints on acquisition: Product Hunt, show HN, Personally recommend your friends (get the first 100users one by one), pitch to review sites, regular blogging, shameless plug on reddit.
> Hacks like this are a lot of fun to play with on the bench but don't design a circuit like this when you want something that "just works", has a reasonable life-time and certainly don't put a hack like this into production.

Dunno, do you think a constant rate PWM SMPS isn't enough to power a trivial load like LED and justifies the cost of adding a dedicated chip? LED forward voltage is well below absolute maximum for the RESET pin, peak current is limited by pulse time, looks good enough to my (amateur) eye.
That's probably a fairer assessment, yeah. It's a shame, because their manifesto was great.
Of course. They shoved goddamn machine learning into the WebKit one.
To add to this, having a system which has to learn to work with other parties, negotiate and compromise is a good thing. MMPs supposed downsides are not necessarily so.
Can anyone point me to a Forth implementation where the absolute bare minimum is written in (C/assembly/whatever) and everything possible is then bootstrapped in Forth itself?

I recall reading what the minimal word set needed to be able to write the rest of standard Forth (Fig Forth if I recall) but I seem to remember that most implementations don't push the purity quite that far for performance reasons.
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I tried not to make value judgement in my comment, because, well, I don't really know wether this whole thing is good or bad. I'm just observing the phenomena - seems like confluence of power is unavoidable, a law of nature if you will, so it would have gotten to this regardless.

The fact that billions of people can do something they couldn't do before is commendable, but it also raises the bar for everyone - just like reading and spelling did 100 years ago and now it becomes obligatory for everyone to learn and communicate or be left behind.

In other words, we have super powers compared to past generations, but it doesn't matter because everyone has them now.
Yeah, but then you've got cases like this: https://www.troyhunt.com/ad-blockers-are-part-of-the-problem...

I've been using adblockers for about ten years now, but blocking that just seems over the top and I understand Troy's frustration. I want a blocker to prevent trackers from being loaded and for removing annoying crap from webpages. That includes most ads, newsletter popups, interstitials, maybe social widgets and cookie notices, but certainly not "Sponsored by [Company Name]: [A sentence about the company]".
> One of the reasons Goole renamed itself "Alphabet" and started using different brand names (e.g. "Waymo") for other products is to confuse consumers about their source.

Citation needed.
Command line argument parser for C++
Is this something that you have done before? If so, how did you approach people to market your product and what does such an agreement look like? (50/50? Rev share for a period of time vs indefinitely? )
The default setting in Brave is no ads. I actively had to make the change to get the Brave network ones. I really liked that.
This is not going to be a five year parliament given the outcome. It might not be a five month parliament.
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Somewhat flippantly: they bought the domain name. The investment is in a hardware/software services brand with a founder with expert experience of the field - the phone is a 0.1 product for the company.

The wider vision will be an (assuming) quick roll out of assorted smart home/business tech built around the "Essential" brand, with a nice proprietary software layer linking it all up.

With his experience, I highly doubt anything he creates at this point would be acquired for much less than $300m (in this day and age, a $300m acquihire doesn't seem so out of reach...), so if they have participation preferred, might not even lose out.
I agree, but I wonder if it is because main usages for such robots are military and that would make a negative opinion impact on Google.
I actually think maps is the easiest to replace. We have bing maps, HERE, waze and multiple open source projects.
> The answer is that the practice must be abandoned because it does not scale.

Actually and sadly it's more along the lines of "The answer is that the practice must be abandoned by others but not us because it does not scale."

My take is that I just disable javascript (though some browser make it harder to do it) and skip the websites which fail at understanding the concept of a webpage and require javascript to display content.
If I might ask, what is it exactly that you do in finance that requires you to stay informed on emerging tech/software? Is it more so just out of interest?
I'm using now.sh, really nice for a node/express based API endpoint. Ours seems to scale very cheaply and deployments are, dare I say, fun :)
Probably so they can track who clicked the "x" vs who used the esc key vs who clicked outside.
Google and Apple have declared war on autoplay video
It's Lenny!

https://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/
Last season of House of Cards is dangerously close to reality this time.

In US, Trump might loose his presidency. UK is a mess, based on wrong political decisions.

I still wonder "Who is Frank Underwood and what does he win from all of this".

There is nothing unusual about a political scandal, but this time is obvious that the elite is quite power-driven and the society is nothing more than a voting variable in their equation.
I am currently working on a side project and once done will try to do the initial marketing and user acquisition myself, just to practice that skill, as I haven't done that before. However, since I am more interested in building right now than anything else, I would be very interested in partnering up with someone who could take care of the marketing and sales side of things and would be open to both rev share and equity split. OP are you asking because you are interested in marketing a finished product for rev share / equity?
I understand what you mean. For me "retirement" would be about having enough FU money to provide a basic income, so that I could choose to work on things I find fulfilling.

Then again if you already find your work fulfilling and expect to continue to do so, I understand that there wouldn't be the same urgency to retire (with the caveat that everyone should save something for retirement as well as having an emergency fund).
"When the service is free, you are the product" or something similar.
That weird moment when you're not a native English speaker, lying in bed at night, pondering an open question while trying to fall asleep, then suddenly thinking to yourself: "Wait, why'm I thinking in English?"

For me, it seems to happen most often when I remember a certain word or phrase in English only, which causes my thought stream to switch languages.
Not directly related to private messages monitoring and advertisement, but leaders like Angela Merkel have said that the Internet is not "a space that is free from the law." She was mostly referring to legislations that would combat fake news and hate speech on Facebook (
http://fortune.com/2017/01/17/facebook-germany/).

If such regulations can be made, I'm sure if there's enough push, governments would (hopefully) regulate social media advertisement to a certain degree? With that said, there's so much money involved in that I highly doubt that governments can do much or would do much about it...
Sounds great, where do you host it? AWS / heroku?
No shit. It's the actual server side implementation that will be like, "The fuck you doing?". Because you'll be breaking the web.
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I don't know... I didn't expect OnePlus to survive long either and yet here I am three years later seriously thinking of switching to Android and OnePlus 5.
There is a serious chance of backfire though. Calling it adblocking normalizes it across all the users. Once the genie is out, shipping a defective adblocker makes for a inferior product.

I think the opportunity window is still open, and can't for the life of me understand why Mozilla is not doing the right thing.
Exactly. You don't need all those people to make Twitter. You need all those people to make Twitter work at scale. Yes, technology does move easily, however if there's man-years of labour invested in making it work well at scale, it's suddenly a lot less movable.
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No bootcamp myself, but I think more people learn to code than are employed as developers, although it may not be widespread. I switch between Product Design, development, and Program Management, based on market opportunity. Development is my least favorite, and I know many PMs and designers who take a short course with no intention to strictly switch gears (becoming a higher paid technical PM is a good example).
The above example might as well serve to reassure you that dystopia is a long ways off. Because whoever saw the first "tractors" and had such worries, died long before the first hints of "tube food" appeared --- or certainly before such became daily standard fare for the majority, rather than the odd diversionary rare "treat" / entertainment for an urban minority..

Agricultural examples are also tricky analogies here. Replacing beasts of burden with fossil fuels for one always carried the siren song of "we can feed more people for lowered costs --- think of the many hungry ones" (of course reproduction rates always outran such promises then til now) and certainly none of these inventions had the potential to so profoundly rewire brains and actual human consciousness as the always-on, easy-to-use, always-connected, full-mobility "smart" screens that spreaded slowly less than a decade ago.
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It's about as annoying as the classic popup, to the point that browsers include a pop up blocking mechanisms and settings.

Now the popup lives inside the window powered by javascript and the browsers have yet to do something about it so I'm simply disabling javascript.
So do cars. Neither have any bearing on TAOCP.
I think it is probably universal, but I have to show it to know for sure. I'm going to keep calling it universal until I know more.

I think I note it in the README, but some reasons I think it is probably universal are because tifuhash can be parameterized, and it has good independence properties ( passes PractRand ).

Showing it is universal or not is another step. I suppose I could experiment, to see if the collision probabilities match the criteria for universal or k-universal. Or maybe I could show it. For showing it, my next step is to read over this paper[1] to see if I can use its methods to show universality. I think it is using properties of the bits under multiplication. And I believe one avenue would be to show it using properties of the bits under division. I don't know how to approach the bits under division right now.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.06804
Because HN frontpage is Magic™.

A rumour between the wizards has it that the frontpage spell takes into account the first derivative of upvotes, among other things.
If he had used C instead of MMIX assembly language, someone would have made a very similar argument: "it's wasted on the vast number of people who aren't interested in learning a low level language like C". Or, knowing HN, somebody would have called him dumb for not using Rust...

Using C, he would have run into problems by page 200 or so, where he explains how coroutines are implemented. He would have to use some assembly language there anyway.

You can complain about the choices Knuth made in writing TAOCP, or you can trust him and follow one of the great masters of computing (and of writing) along an amazing journey. Calling his choices dumb or stupid without understanding the tradeoffs he made, says more about you than Knuth.

I, for one, have no problem with MMIX. The description of MMIX and its assembly language is interesting in itself (he wrote an amazing simulator to accompany the book). Studying those 50 or so pages is only a tiny part of the effort required to study TAOCP (3000+ pages and growing).
Not the problem here. A file input control would do the same job and be usable on mobile devices; this isn't "web apps lol", it's a straightforward UI design error.
What a great idea! I would love to see a "save AS disk" option that would let you download a D64 disk image containing the rendered graphics in some appropriate format like KoalaPainter or Amica Paint.
I think freelancing is only one of the many awesome ways you can earn money and build your career as a developer :)

If you're interested in working with people, you can always apply to become a mentor on Codementor. If you earn some positive reviews, you'll gain a bit of credibility to help you work as a freelancer as well!

Keep programming and stay passionate!
Try using your escape key, disabling script and reloading page, using wallabag[1] to read the page, editing the DOM to remove the popup.

[1]: https://wallabag.org/en and https://wallabag.it/en
> There's no expressive benefit to implementing algorithms as assembly

You can't write coroutines in portable C. You can in assembly.

You can't write an efficient interpreter dispatch table in portable C (you need extensions like 'computed goto'). You can in assembly.
Yes. At first it was weird, but then I got used to it.

The thing is, nowadays I read and write much more in English than in my native tongue, so there's an ever-increasing amount of things I default to thinking about in English. I also tend to switch languages on the fly in my thoughts, depending on which one "feels" better at any given moment.
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The post fails to explain why, barring some generic ideas that can be
applied just as easily to PostgreSQL or dedicated router.
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When there was Windows 98 and ME 'we' thought the Microsoft's proprietary systems are the dominant platform. Maayybe Linux would win but being so difficult to even install, little chance someone outside of the IT world could productively use it, like install an Application, print something.

Fast forward 15 years: many surprises happened, non-IT people don't even think of buying desktop computers. Laptops are borderline geek-devices, most of the stuff is going on cell-phones of which most are Linux-powered.

Windows as a growing platform is more or less dead. (There are serious efforts to reanimate it, but who knows...)

Maybe the example is too geeky, and one may argue that Windows didn't have so many users as Facebook and Google now. Instead think of Televisions, at least in Germany they are dead. Most of my friends don't have a TV and even among those people who have one, many argue that it's bad for you.

So yeah, think positive. ;)
On the other hand in the past year especially my experience has been I am asking something for which the documentation is very bad, I don't know enough about the particular problem area I am trying to solve to make a concise description with code examples that nearly work but don't, and as a consequence I just drop it and say it's not worth asking here because nobody will help you understand the problem area unless you understand it really well. Too bad SO has replaced user groups in so many cases.
Masonry as thermal mass in homes has been in common use for centuries, maybe even millennia:

http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/musings/all-a...
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We have open source implementations for nearly everything that is provided commercially. The problem is that no company wants to use said implementations.
More about this processor here
http://www.darpa.mil/attachments/BAA-16-52_HIVE_FAQ_20160831...
They may be effective to artificially increase mailing list registrations because people who don't know better sign up just to get rid of the ad.

Do you know any very effective ad type ? I don't even know an effective commercial ad (maybe the 30 seconds TV spot?).
wouldn't that be Holmes -> House?
> The premise that visible business failure harms brands is false.

Given that many forms of visible business failure literally cause brands to cease to exist, it seems indisputable that at least some of the time they're harmed.
But that's what I mean. Machine learning as a field is enormous. There are wide variety of implementations that can be 100% derived with every step of logic being open for people to analyze. It would be no different than building any other form of conditional system.
Manufacturing logic on the same wafer as DRAM is difficult since the processes are so different. On the other hand, manufacturing on separate dies and connecting with an interposer or TSVs gets you tremendous bandwidth and relatively low latency; this is how some newer generation graphics memory is implemented (see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Bandwidth_Memory).
Preroll video pays more because it's usually not blocked by adblocker and unskippable, hence more effective than a blocked or skipped video.
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> So the USSR as a whole was not selling (exporting) on a common market?

What goods was that? Military supplies? On that it operated on a market economy with the West and therefore got competition and a feedback loop and therefore produced some useful things.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14519976

Soviet exported oil & gas, but that was also part of global market, which Reagan used against the Soviet by dumping the price. Soviet was largely an oil & gas economy.

Apart from that Soviet didn't produce much consumer goods and exports of that to other communist countries was part of planned system.

> but to the corp's internal demand for stuff

In a corporation you know that you need goods based on what you are producing. If you are white collar company, it is quite logical to have office supplies and if you are IT company, you need to have computers and so on.

However in a central planned system, you have to take into account the entire population what they need. But how would a planner know what to who when it does not know what you are producing. Ask every individual?

If one person wants a blue pen and another red pen, what should the central planner do with that information? Produce two black pens?

That is the Local knowledge problem I wrote about in this comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14520025

So the central planners think you are a carpenter, but you are actually a plumber.

https://fee.org/media/10987/20150729_roadtoserfdom14.png
Doesn't mean that you can't write efficient heuristics that find close-to-optimal or even optimal solutions for a wide variety of practical instances.
This is a slightly one eyed view of what's going on. What would you call the related events in Ukraine? There are plenty of other invasions that have been called reunifications or similar. Attacking a neighbour is quite different to a two state, democratic decision to join.
What are you implying here?
They have an interesting hypothesis. It would be a lot stronger, IMO, if the second horn had picked up the signal as well. Still, I am happy to see this kind of thought going in to the problem!
now provides the hosting abstraction [1], sounds like internally they choose whichever one is cheapest.

[1] https://zeit.co/now#features
Hey, I'm so sorry to hear this...I'm working at a startup too, so I understand how the lack of clearly defined structure can sometimes lead to frustrations like this.

When I first joined my startup, I felt that way too. I felt like my voice didn't matter or was always echoed by someone else, whose exact same idea would matter more.

Like what @dmilicevic said, you have to stand up for yourself! It's a lot easier said than done, but talking to your CEO would hopefully help! If he ignores you, then perhaps it is time to move on.

With that said, don't give up on startups! There are bad bosses everywhere, unfortunately, but not all startups are like that :) you can truly establish a sense of ownership and recognition at the right startups!
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Indeed. Unless we prove P=NP, technology will only help re-define what "practically solvable" problems are.
Firebase - Free for small projects and very nice integration with frontend and node applications
Looking for a job in cybersecurity Healthcare hiring is about to pick up
And hopefully developers / website owner engaging in breaching user privacy and collecting user data to give away to third party will be accountable before court.

Or maybe we could sugarface and kneecap them for being satan's little helpers.