skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'd be wary of anyone that claims that they never, ever, have any say in the matter when it comes to doing something once, even if it's hard.

When I hear "I don't have a say in the matter" I read frustration, not dismissal.

I'd posit that when people say that, they don't mean it literally. Or, rather, it's the best they can articulate the internal struggle. I've found the language I know (English) to not provide me with the tools to describe the nuance of the sensation of lacking self-control or willpower.

What I describe going forward is hard-won from long term introspection, and it still falls short of effectively communicating what I am really trying to say.

I would wager that, for a not insignificant fraction of people, when they tell you they "don't have a say in the matter" they are trying to articulate the feeling/sensation of having the intellectual understanding of the situation i.e. (paraphrased for brevity) "I should do X because it has benefits Y and Z, instead of A which has downsides B and C" but where merely having that understanding is insufficient to compel (willpower, initiative, motivation, w/e) themselves to action, for however long they choose to linger on it in their mind.
Why are millisecond bit times necessary? Linux doesn't boot in a millisecond...
+1 for HOPWAG. I've recently caught up with the series completely, including his other series on the history of Indian philosophy, and I can't recommend it highly enough. Peter Adamson is such a pro, he's got the conversational tone and dry wit of a really good professor (which he is), and the series has been so consistently good for nearly 300 episodes now. It's a big time investment, but a very rewarding one.

Podcasts have been my main form of entertainment now for over a year, so I'm gonna drop some history/other brainy recs too for anyone interested.

Hardcore History - essential listening for history fans, skews more toward audio book format than podcast.

History of Rome / Revolutions - a bit drier, but more thorough than hardcore history, I list these together because they're the same author. Very well researched

History of the 20th century - relatively new podcast aiming to tell a multidisciplinary history of the 1900's, very entertaining well produced

The Rhine - The history of Rome, but focuses on the Rhine region, he's planning on following the history of the region into present day

Planet Money - economics for everyone, an npr podcast

Omega Tau - deep deep deep dive interviews into engineering topics. Everything from Rollercoaster design to the gemini missions. English/German bilingual

Intelligence squared - debate club, basically. A thesis is decided, a team argues for, another against, audience decides who won
Anecdotal: I, and a large chunk of my friends and acquaintances use snapchat regularly. We're 30 year olds making good money. In the same way that some messages are best suited for a text message, some for an email, and some for a phone call, there are some messages where snapchat is the best medium.
AI detectives are cracking open the black box of deep learning
> The facts that they are the primary beneficaries of underpriced IPOs (ie, the biggest reward for the smallest risk) and that they are the all-powerful gatekeepers of the process and that most of these IPOs shoot up in price on day one (meaning that their customers are leaving huge amounts of money on the table) is a pretty good indication

On the other hand, the entity that they are taking money from is literally the company that's IPOing (when the price shoots up, it's called leaving money on the table, because it's money that the company isn't raising in their IPO, and is instead going to the banks).

There's a reasonable degree of competition between banks to underwrite an IPO, and companies have the ability to choose which bank to work with, so any conspiracy here would require actual widespread collusion between underwriters (which would be illegal the same way horizontal integration generally is in any industry). While not impossible, that's the sort of claim which warrants tangible evidence, rather than indirect evidence just from the existence of shareholder prices increasing on the opening bell.
Yes, but it's filled at regular price (I bought SNAP at $24), it's just that you put in the trade previous day (in the case of SNAP). It's more of a convenience feature, you won't get the stock at the pre-IPO value ($17 in SNAP's case).
Yes, it does seem so. Also, though I haven't checked the financial aspects, it seems like it could be done at somewhat low cost, and still be effective to some extent - e.g. not only the machine-driven imprinting, but might be possible to do it manually by humans (using some hand-operated tools, like even just spades/shovels, or something a bit more sophisticated). And that could be decided on a case-by-case basis depending on availability and cost of the human labor vs. cost of the imprinting machine (the tractor with an attachment or whatever it is).
I wouldn't say cheaply or even that easily. If I have to get off a train (whatever that cost), catch a fly-away bus ($8 both ways), then get an uber ($50+ just to Burbank 12m away), it's going to be very expensive and very slow assuming the stars don't align perfectly.
> problems

How can I learn more about this?
They sold at 17$ (ipo prices) not higher. So right now, both sides are equal.
As an engineer, I find learning about design to be fascinating. The High Resolution Podcast has quickly become a favorite of mine. Every week, the hosts interview leaders in the design industry from leading companies. Topics have ranged from research to diversity.

https://www.highresolution.design/
Because you can then build single function unikernels that do one thing very fast then disappear from RAM.

The point being that docker is actually a really clunky thing that is reinventing the virtual server ecosystem within the OS which is pointless.

Serverless systems are better implemented as unikernels than docker images.

Unikernels make it possible to boot an entire OS in milliseconds, service an inbound web request, then disappear.
I'd add in:

Stuff you missed in history class - Various events from history, covering a wide range of events, small and large.

Make me smart - Kai Ryssdal and Molly Wood covering current affairs in the economy, tech and culture.
Ask HN: What image processing task in your industry is still not automated?
Snap employees can't actually sell any stock until 6 months after IPO.
>The much greater energy requirements to light, heat, and cool big houses should not be discounted so easily either.

Heat and cool, yes. Light, no, not any more. Lighting is really pretty insignificant now thanks to LEDs, and getting constantly better as the older incandescents get replaced.
Take the Journey: Build Your First Serverless Web Application
you can't, in the short term. There are no good long-term solutions that are not going to cause some acute pain in the short term. Deep down everyone knows this, and the increasing viciousness of politics is, under the surface debates, a fight over who is going to have to bear that pain and to what degree.
The problem with American cities is NIMBYism: existing property owners are the ones with control of the zoning and the approval for new construction. So SanFran can't replace its too-small housing with lots of high-density high-rises because the people who own the other land there don't want it.

The fix for this is to move control of zoning and construction permits to the state level.
Facebook has so completely monopolized social media it is successfully driving SNAP out of business. Hence its share price is accurate.
I'm guessing you have very high earning potential. It is almost certainly the case that the most impact you can have is achieved by focusing on earning as much money as possible and donating as much of it as possible to organizations optimized for making impact. But most people seem to want to optimize the feel-good hands-on impact instead of the total objective impact.
I used to think that, but AirBnb's success seems to be a huge counterexample.

There are occasional problems caused by that subset of people taking advantage, but that hasn't stopped AirBnb's growth.
I'll be very surprised if anyone is actually pulling overtime to get your paperwork done. My guess is they just put it to front of the line and work continues as usual, overtime or not.
It seems to me like a lot of their "value" is in how much more engrossing their ads can be than other display ads. They also have a whole section of their app that shovels "content" from magazines and such, and that content is pretty much just more advertising. I'm sure those outlets pay to be there, or pay for prominent placing, etc.

But those should be easy enough to copy. And I find the content thing weird, it feels bolted on to an app you use to talk to friends. I am bearish on them, I think it was smart to IPO when they did.
> What do you find impossible about the results?

C-f 'gwern' for my previous comments.
Well, it means that modulo hash collisions, a function can only return to one of the places which calls that function, so in the really tragic case (for example) that someone called a vulnerable function and then immediately after called system() with a stack variable as the arg, the attacker can just return there and make the arg point to "bash". But in general the whole business of knitting together assembly instructions in executable memory would pretty much be gone.
Edit: typo, clarity
There are only a handful of people on the planet that could reasonably claim that $1.4 billion doesn't matter that much to them (and none of them are likely to actually hold that belief).

It's an absurd premise to claim that 80%-90% of someone's wealth does not matter much to them. Not to mention implying all sorts of horrible things about their character in the process (to claim what you are, is identical to claiming that Spiegel is ok with losing that money as opposed to keeping it and doing something good with it, that he would feel indifferent to the contrast of said scenario).
Why is it bad? The only difference with the current, "local" approach and the 1Password cloud approach is that the password vault will be stored on their servers rather than something like Dropbox or iCloud.
You got half you order filled at $17 with Schwab on opening day? Or it fills before market open?
No sure what is over, I have a "bot" and I am finding it very successful, would recommend getting some data and the following book and start building with python

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Yes, it's proven that too many options decreases engagement. I'd just leave a couple games and delete the others.

I only watch one or two tv shows exactly because of that.
How's their mobile app on iOS?
I bet doctors don't have to do "surgery challenges" or "whiteboard anatomy pop quizzes" in order to get hired at a new hospital. What is it that their industry is doing that software engineering is not? This is a rhetorical question--we all know what they are doing, but everyone here's usually against it.
Yes, it's theoretically possible. When it happens in Kubernetes, it's far more common that m+A+B failed because of a flaky test than because B was actually broken, and C+D fixed it.

What we often see is m+A fails because of a flake, and m+A+B+C+D+E passes and merges as a batch. We have a lot of flaky tests. :(
I think most startups that repeatedly charge their customers for services not provided would be out of business quickly.
I like the information on the most and least solar eclipsed places in the United States. I imagine there is a spot on earth that has received more though?
I was thinking Snap might try to buy Musically before their IPO or around IPO time. It would cost more than IG did to FB, making the purchase a much larger deal for Snap, but it would be a way to allow for the user growth and connectedness to the young crowd to continue. I'm not sure how big Musically is now, just seemed like it might be a decent gamble for Snap to try and prob provide the most [media] hype too.
Is it really limited to only call sites of that function, or to all call sites? I can't tell if their return cookie is shared throughout the binary or unique to callees.
"Well-established protocols" can result in IPO prices being systematically set too low. Yes, theoretically a bank should be able to break the ranks, but all they would get for their trouble is smaller profits, and a potential lawsuit from investors. After all, they did diverse from the "established accounting standards" when pushing the IPO price up.
Really sad to hear. Big fan of his work. RIP.
Just to add a little context, people were buying huge cars back in the early years of the century (remember Hummers?). Then rising gas prices, the financial crisis, and Obama's election made that unfashionable. Now many people feel better off economically and are buying the large cars they secretly wanted anyway.
You're not completely correct. Medicare has fixed prices that it will pay for visits, procedures etc. The prices depend on what region of the country you live in. Insurance companies then set their prices up or down from there. Independent physicians have little negotiating power and often get paid by private insurance companies less than the fixed government rate. Larger systems with more bargaining power can get significantly more.
But medicare's irrational price setting system is a big part of the problem.
I had the exact same reaction.

I'm a pretty avid gamer. I play Dota 2 pretty regularly, among manay of the other games listed on the front page. I'm definitely within the target audience.

I recoiled at seeing "So tired of laning with bads" plastered on the front page. If this is the kind of attitude I should expect from people on the site, I'm absolutely not interested.
For me, the money are just the means, the family and friends is what is important in life...
If you're messaging someone to be fun or flirty, or just as causal friends, do you really want to see the random dumb things you said 6 months ago or 3 years ago on Facebook Messenger?

Every messaging app is essentially like one long email thread, whereas Snapchat provides real freedom to be spurious and in the moment without future embarrassment.

And anyone can secretly record anyone at any time in any interaction. That doesn't stop people from communicating freely.
Facebook it ain't.
HIPAA was passed largely to prevent this potential catastrophe for healthcare executives. b^)
I think you're last statement, in a way, answers your second to last.

> You have to show you're better than exchange.

> making proprietary groupware suites practically mandatory for getting work done.

It's not proprietary groupware is why it's better than exchange. I'd argue that if you can get the same work done, you're winning.
It might also lead to doctors "missing" complications to avoid insurance premium increases.

Complications during surgery aren't necessarily caused by the surgeon or known ahead of time. The same is true of other things like home renovation where "we won't know until we open her up" is a common enough phrase.

Case in point, we want to remodel a bathroom that has a 7ft ceiling and my wife wants the ceiling raised to match all of the others. Why is it 7ft instead of 8ft? Can it be raised? Without significant cost? We won't know until we get in there.
I ran cross country in high school on a team that was nationally ranked. I ran my ass of all year long and trained with the team doing the exact same practices. I am short and stocky, no amount of practice is going to give me the long effortless stride of the fastest of my team mates. Like in most things, talent has plenty of influence.
Was that meant to be parody? That's an honest question; I'm not sure whether you're serious or not.
>Give healthcare another 10 years for the generation to turn over.

Anything for a Win10/Modern web EMR. Good lord, all of them suck and are ancient monoliths by now.
ConEmu has been good for me, and it's updated regularly:

https://github.com/Maximus5/ConEmu

It's not a terminal in the sense you might be thinking of, but it's a useful tool in getting a decent terminal environment on Windows.
The term for this effective altruism strategy is called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earning_to_give
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>If that is the message you're referring to, it only shows that the grsecurity patches are not aligned with Linus' values.

The thread is actually someone asking if it's worth taking a look at how grsecurity handles a large stack guard gap to get ideas for implementation in the kernel. Linus then responds saying to not bother with them.

It's a pretty clear condemnation of them in general, not just their shitty patch submission process.
> The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe

This is the biggest omission, IMO. They do a really good job digging through the science, current news and they always follow-up if they make a mistake. It's one of the very, very few places where I feel like I don't have to double check everything they say. I mean, sure you should probably do that with just about everything but the reality is no one really has time for that.

Plus their Science or Fiction game at the end of every episode is fun.
Pretty similar to android (IMO)
There's a huge barrier for entry in programming for beginners so don't take it too hard on yourself if you feel you don't know how to get started. If you are interested in learning programming I'd advise you to surround yourself with like-minded people who are also enthusiastic about programming and want to learn how to code. The place for me was CS department at University but I guess there's a lot of other places too.

For the energy part, a lot of comes from personal determination. For me I'd say programming always feels a bit tedious and boring coming back after a proper vacation =). What helps is of course gym and socializing about coding the right amount. It comes easier after you've established a routine and have a distinct goal to work on. But yeah doing it all by yourself might be too much, for me it was at least (and still at times is). Not knowing what to do was the hard part, after getting to know the basics you kinda free yourself to do whatever you want after which it's all about determination to do it.

And if it's depression well that's a different matter entirely. I hope not, it's a shitty place to be in. If you can get a free assessment at psychologist that would probably be a good idea. In that case getting around other people might be the thing. Exercise also is very important. Also only studying CS might not be then the best thing to do, a creative hobby might serve as a better outlet and help you get energized with the coding.

Can I ask what you're about to build? I can help you get started if it's something webby like eg. React/Nodejs. You should setup yourself a taskboard like Trello and start making tasks that are not too overwhelming and have them in for example sections like: User stories (abstract goals for what you are about to build: 'As a user I want to be able to log in' etc), Backlog (tasks, such as 'Create a React component for rendering log in form' or 'Study React course x'), Bugs, Done but untested, Tested, Merged and deployed. That should get you started for professionalish style of development.
I kind of disagree with that. Yes we have more technology and science, but there are also lots of human processes and social orders (like nations and governments) that don't really change. I'm not sure superior technology guarantees the survival of civilization as we know it in the event of some cataclysm, or wide-scale famine... imagine how many things in the world would be messed up if the US and China were to lose all their value/power in a short amount of time.

Also, I think it's a mistake to assume people were dummies back then. If you think about it, humans have accomplished amazing things over the millenia, and some of those discoveries are still important today (every cryptography book still covers Euclid's GCD in its early chapters). Dismissing them as barely literate IMO is ignoring the important lessons that history has for us.
> Medicare pricing is a special case, but you can't get that price without being on Medicare.

As far as I recall, Medicare pricing is defined by law as a percentage of the lowest price the provider ever charges to anyone else. For the sake of this comment, call it 40%.

If Medicare pricing is public, you can look it up and try to negotiate for 250% or whatever of the Medicare price.
I use it regularly with a lot of my friends and it's one of my favorite apps. Here's my take: The ease of sending and ephemeral nature significantly lower the barrier for what you'd consider shareable. Imagine you were walking down the street with a friend and saw something that gave you a casual chuckle. Something mildly interesting. If you were in person you might point that out to your friend, promptly forget about it, and carry on with your day. If you are by yourself, it probably isn't interesting enough to save a picture to your phone and send it via text message where the default is the image is immortalized in your photo library and text history until you delete it. Snapchat makes it so quick and easy that those little moments are now almost as easy to share as pointing to your friend if you had been walking together.

I agree that the innovations are not major, but each little nuanced feature in combination makes it so that people share the little moments in life and you suddenly have a small window into the daily lives of your close circle.

EDIT: I should mention that I have no opinions on its viability as a business. Just commenting why I enjoy using it.
I'm honestly not too sure myself.

Like I mean they all seem like stupid reasons that are used to justify loss-making companies that have no chance at success. At the same time, for the right company, they are pretty logical reasons. That said, loss-making umbrella shop really seems like a better explanation than a "a growth focused tech company with massive economies of scale, recurring revenue, and huge potential in a wide variety of other markets."
I remember the 80 colum hacks for the C64 looked better on a monitor than a tv set at the time. The C64 and its custom chips were hackable and affordable. Like a poor person's Apple 2.
The next total eclipse in USA is on Monday August 21, 2017.

It starts on the Oregon coast at ~9AM PT and finishes on the South Carolina coast at ~3PM ET.

More info here: https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/eclipse-who-what-where-when-and...
HTTPS/JSON is common place, developers are familiar with debugging problems in that stack. INI or CSV delivered over DNS would be esoteric an unknown to most developers.

You might see it as more clunky but I think it's great that the transport and security layer are bundled into something I already work with and know how to debug. I don't think the extra overhead is a concern these days. Most servers can handle that sort of load easily and most clients have not issue with HTTPS/JSON.
Who’s the fastest? Modern muscle cars drag race
Why you assume that nic.$cctld must exist?
Google Plus was a very real competitor when they launched (right around the time of Facebook's IPO), it was a very similar situation to that of Snapchat vs Instagram. Huge user growth very quickly, but most of it due to it being attached to Gmail. Not saying Instagram won't remain a real competitor to Snapchat, but it's possible that over time users will go back to their previous habits.

Personally, I never post anything on Instagram Stories, but I do view them because they are there. I have my Instagram feed curated for my Instagram audience (which is very public and intended for things that aren't private), and Snapchat for my Snapchat audience (which is private and intended for only friends and family). I know many others do the same.
These Logo Designers are basing their pricing on how good your startup is