skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But, I'm kinda baffled why anyone would volunteer to provide free labor to one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world. I give away tons of my time for OSS, but I'm not about to get out and push if I've paid for a luxury car.

> I'd rather put my time into something that is free and open for everyone, including my future self. Actually, the word "rather" isn't strong enough: I would never give my labor to an $820B corporation.

That's exactly what springs to mind. Why should we do Apple's work for them when they are swimming in cash reserves. It beggars belief that anyone would suggest this. Obviously their pain is so great, they're so tightly shackled, their alternatives so limited, that they would rather willingly donate their labor to a wealthy corporation than attempt to take said corporation to task or shock horror jump ship.
With textexpander, grep, sed, awk, and xargs I macro my way around most of the issues. If you haven't tried TE I highly recommend it. I found it when I started to suffer from some repetitive strain injuries that look like carpal tunnel last year. Being hobbled has actually improved my output!
I mean this without any intention to be rhetorical, but, how common is sending emails to plan an event? For anyone I meet in real life I either talk to them in real life, message them on discord, or call them on the phone. I've got nothing against email, I use it for a lot of things, but it's just too sluggish for event planning in my experience. Occasionally I might use facebook but that's for big consistent events like hosting a yearly get together because I live closest to a fairly big convention that happens in my city.
Perhaps the idea of computers would have been more useful than the computers themselves. Several of the ideas in his proof are simpler if you can say "computable" rather than "recursive" or whatever. So perhaps if he had been thinking in these terms he could have done more work sooner.
I don't think it's really a US thing. I think it really depends on who your target customer is and how they're likely to feel about a cold phone call.

Also cold outreach doesn't have to be over the phone. Email, Twitter, FB Messenger, LinkedIn mail, etc. could work better.
Just tossing this out there, but do you think it might be marginally possible that not all CS grads are created equal and that on a bell curve, 10% is really not an insane amount to be the left-hand-side tail?
This can be automated quite easily : have an other address which transactions contain the last up to date source address for list. Now adblockers just need to look for the last transaction from this address.

Note that I'm not saying it's better than the current management from the github repos. Nothing beats plain text files. What I'm saying, though, is that if DCMA takedowns on those lists become something common, engraving those domains in blockchain is a good way to defend from it.

But most people here could have got to this conclusion taking 5 minutes to think about it. I get it, guys, you've heard enough of blockchains. Let's not answer to irrational outburst of feelings with outburst of feelings in the opposite direction, please (note to parent: this remark is for the whole discussion and the downvotes, not just for you).
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Newpipe is a great Youtube alternative for Android. You can download it from the Fdroid repo.
> A YouTube clone is expensive.

A YouTube clone that uses a clone of YouTube's infrastructure is expensive, but what about a distributed p2p YouTube clone?

Obviously it's hard to quantify, as it doesn't exist yet, but I think it's technologically feasible.
No. It's Apple who needs to do that. This isn't a free software project - lack of documentation is an argument for abandoning the platform, not for starting a community project of doing work for Apple for free.
The NYT is a parody of itself.
Find yourself some "real" Austinites. Something like 4/5ths of Austin's population is "foreign", and this figure is pretty close to literal. It's a big east-coast city in Texas now. But there are "real" Austinites that are every bit the wonderful stereotype you've heard. They have started moving out of Austin lately though, to cities like Elgin, San Marcos, New Braunsfels, or Fredricksburg. There's still some local flavor south of the river in Austin. But everywhere else are just Los Angeles and East Coast transplants that brought their road rage and shitty attitude along with them.
> Dune, a desert planet, was a monocosm.

Which planet of the Dune series?

I guess you're talking about Arrakis, and is exactly what a monicosm is.

Herbert is one of the best world builder ever.
He got the world of Arrakis by looking at real world environments and then added layers on top of them, the melange, the sandworms, what kind of people could live there, what kind of society and most importantly cults and religion could spawn.

"Herbert wanted to write a novel on the desire in Western societies for messiahs—someone on a white horse who comes to fix the sorry mess we’re in. He spent two or three years researching the topic.

Then he wrote a magazine story on how the USDA was controlling sand dunes in Oregon. And he had a eureka moment.

He realized that a world of dunes and its harsh environment would be the perfect place for a messiah to rise and surge out among the vast entirety of human civilization. Thus, Herbert’s amazing world-building.
"

"Working on that book kindled an interest in religion, the psychology of leadership, and how each affected the minds of followers. Herbert researched, collected notes, and read nearly 200 books as he dove into the topic, building a database of story ideas as he went.

Herbert’s 1957 trip to the dunes of Oregon turned out to be a moment of inspiration. Seeing how the piles of sand held such sway over the life and landscape around them sparked an interest in ecology. He imagined a world overtaken by desert, and a lone planetologist obsessed with reclaiming it. This seed found fertile ground, growing into early outlines of what would become the setting of Dune—but the true soul of the book wasn’t born until the environment was fused with his research into the psychology of a messiah and his follower"
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Right, if people are expecting spoofing then it should lose money. People won't change their prices in response to it, but they will accept your overly generous offers.
controlled walled gardens = "value proposition"
The problem with filtering the list to only what is most important or necessary is impossible, but none of them are required.

I have launched hundreds of products for myself and clients, and followed a formula for each one, and I believe it had about as good a chance of a successful launch as having a monkey throw darts at a wall. You always end up analyzing what you did when your launch succeeded, and your resulting formula is just the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy with checkboxes.

The only real thing that truly helps a launch is having an audience already. It might not make the product succeed, but it will at least aid in getting the initial signups and feedback.

I have also launched "free" products to no audience of my own, and instead found them in forums. After posting about the product, people typically would sign up in droves. And once I had a critical mass of sign ups, I then had an audience to market to. That would then lead me to selling a bigger version that we were giving away for free [1]. I call this piggybacking.

There are a lot of "hacks" you can do to help your launch along, but I don't believe any of them are better than having a baked in audience already [2].

1: http://jeremyaboyd.com/my-first-product-launches/

2: http://jeremyaboyd.com/tricks-to-monetize-your-side-projects...
Depends on your use case. If you use a rope or tree representation (like most editors do these days), random access is O(log n) at best, in many implementations typically O(sqrt n) or even O(n), whereas concatenation string is O(1).

I don't think that it is bad as a general compromise between editor buffers (lots of inserts and deletes and concats) and symbols (immutable after created), the vast majority of which are under 200 chars (file names, urls, actions, text fields).

Sure, life would be better if every standard library supported a variety of string types for specific uses. But they don't, and I suspect that it is mostly for cognitive overload (that is, it is a PEBKAC, not a technical issue)
> The funny thing is I have a wife and four kids so I am never alone, but painfully lonely.

Not to be rude, but how can that be ? Isn't your wife supposed to be your best/closest friend ?

I'm a loner myself and have no experience with relationships so I have no idea what it's like to be in one but you make it sound kind of pointless.
Right, has the reporter visited China?
> Given the fairly clear-cut factual dispute, I can't imagine this won't be resolved one way or another fairly soon

The police may know much more than they have told the public. They very quickly arrested the man, and they must have had a good reason to do so. The court also jailed him for a couple of weeks, based on evidence presented behind closed doors - the reason for the closed doors being "of respect to the family". There was some evidence presented which would have been of harm to the family, more harm than the public fact of suspected murder. The police may already know most of the story and only needs some time to build the case for the judge.
Google should really get a grip on itself.

Advocating the freedom of expression is one thing https://www.google.com/intl/en/takeaction/free-expression/

... but actually allowing a random guy freely express his little crappy opinion that goes against the corporate culture is another. Can't believe Google bought its own bullshit.

Oh well, at least they acted fast and gave him the appropriate amount of Fire and Fury.

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." -- Noam Chomsky
Pretty sure you don't need AI to beat Papers, please.
I'm immediately put off by any service that uses the word unlimited in marketing material. Whether that's "unlimited" bandwidth, storage space, use of someone's time, or all you can eat hot wings.

Some criticisms: The site is a one page brochure site, it feels odd for a service of this scale. Your example images aren't clickable and there's no explanation of what I'm looking at exactly. Email sounds like a bad format for handling project management, it's difficult to follow an email chain to figure out what was agreed on etc, email is a very bad single-source-of-truth for project details.

I'm being critical because I don't think it's a bad idea, I just think the execution could do with polishing. There are companies that could perhaps benefits from this idea, but I would be put off by this page.

p.s. you're missing a favicon.
The dark forest strike is an interesting idea but there is no reason to actually believe that is how intelligent life on different planets would behave.
Stop with the stupid linkbait titles. That just gets your submissions banned.

Even the uppercasing, ASCII art and baseless claims ("save your STARTUP $1M in dev cost") are already against the guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Missed a big step at the end of customer research:

* Use the results of your research to make sure you are building something that customers will actually want/need enough to pay for.
There are many brutalist buildings in my home town, and they are without exception fugly. My grandfather had to do maintenance on one that was poorly designed and built that water leaked in everywhere, it had half levels that you could get stuck in due to the passback system, and it had poor cooling and heating meaning everyone complained about the temperature. Anyone who has worked in it, absolute hates the building, yet architects love it.

I have never been in, nor seen a brutalist building that looked good and was functional. They may exist, but all the examples in my home town (and there are many) are terrible buildings best left in the scrapheap of history.
May his soul rest in peace.
> i guess i wont go into detail but i was completely alone for four years.

As someone who craves solitude, how did you manage this ? I can't even go a day without seeing another human being, let alone 4 years. How do you get food, income, housing ?
I don't think "customer" in the list for cold calling was consumers. It was probably businesses which are a lot more receptive to cold calls/emails.
Agree to disagree. This isn't really an issue of a lack of absolute free speech but instead has much more to do with AI gone bad. With any reasonable definition of free speech (i.e. limited) it would've been wrong to remove footage documenting war crimes - hell even with a highly restricted free speech.

Freedom of speech is not inherenlty the highest value there possibly is. You should be able to defend something like "Yeah, even Hitler had a right to say what he thought and it'a a good thing he had it, despite the consequences that ensued." because, in my opinion, I rather restrict the freedom of one genocidal maniac than see the dath of 85 mio. people.

Using your definition of freedom of speech we could easily justify not outlawing murder: "We should just educate people not to murder each other instead of banning it." Maybe banning can actually have a chilling effect on ie. hate-speech, heroin abuse? (While I'm for banning heroin, I advocate for providing services that ensure safe consumption (e.g. needle dispensaries, consumption rooms) and help prevent (further) abuse instead of jailing them)
fuel, air, spark, compression.

People are so much harder... :(
So the rational path takes us to a horrible conclusion. Are you saying it's time to throw out rationality?
While the guy is probably a jerk, it doesn't appear as cut and dry from reading the article. Unless I'm mistaken in my reading it was a private beach that had been previously open to the public versus a public beach that went private. Not veering into my opinion of private coastlines, it appears that he did violate a law by changing the public access, though he will probably just price it out of reach for most people out of spite since the law doesn't say anything about how much he can charge for parking. Which was what was monetized by the previous owners.
Why label it as ridiculous before you find out the reason?
Sometimes reading is inconvenient, for example during commute while driving I listen to YouTube videos.
But it wasn't a public space in your story. It was private land he graciously allowed the public to use until they damaged his property to the point that he felt he had to restrict access to the property to protect it for future generations.
> Is this kind of thing still possible, or do exchanges prevent it these days?

Why would exchanges want to prevent this?

As far as I can see, it’s speculators battling against speculators. Why not just let the best speculator win? It’s not like it affects my ability to sell or buy bitcoins on Bitstamp — and I hope we can agree that there is no “right” price of a bitcoin — so what’s the incentive to stop it, other than to assist particular speculators (with particular strategies) in making profits?
For things that are crimes only if the intent is there, it certainly does absolve the owner from responsibility. There's no duty to preserve everything that might be evidence in some manner (because, really, everything might be) - if evidence gets destroyed as a byproduct of normal operations, that's not prohibited.
I can see not wanting to go outside but not even seeing a mailman (was going to suggest grocery delivering)? Not sure there's anything you can do - even remote working requires some interaction with people.
Ask HN: Examples of apps/systems for physical “issues reporting”?
Could anyone refer me to apps/websites/systems for general reporting of physical issues? I mean something like github issues in spirit, but targeted to a less technical crowd, and focused on the physical state of a public service. Examples could include:

* Reporting issues with public transportation (missing roof in bus station, delays, broken toilets, and so forth)
* Reporting road safety issues to local council
* Reporting general broken bureaucratics of some public service (let's say of the national security type)
* Reporting "production inefficiency" issues in a big factory/production floor.

Many of these exist in the form of dial-in (i.e to report a crime call 911). Some officials would have contact-us and may even reply. I'm interested in examples which are online, transparent, searchable, trackable, possibly "social" in the sense of having a discussion/comments functionality. And hopefully gained actual traction. Thanks for sharing.
Completely agree. This is the point. We live in software, everyone else doesn't. "Just please make my job easy, I don't want to know about Github"
> Documentation effort towards OSX would help vastly more people than similar efforts for any flavor of Linux, which nobody plus epsilon uses (except amongst devs).

Documentation effort towards Linux would help get that number up from nobody plus epsilon.

Also, at this point that's just not true because of Android. Most of the userspace is different from normal GNU/Linux distros, but not all: for instance, if your question is "how the heck am I supposed to connect to this WPA-Enterprise network," it's wpa_supplicant under the hood whether you're using Android's network dialog or GNOME's, and documenting wpa_supplicant's abilities and bugs helps Android users just as much as GNOME users.
In Pellegrino and Zebrowski's The Killing Star, it's the know-it-all attitude in Star Trek that seals our fate.
Meaning, you just have data stored on people's hard drives?

That would be more expensive because

- You have a much higher failure rate of the storage media as people say "I'm running out of hard drive space. What should I get rid of?"

- You need to recruit those people to give up a resource that (unlike the spare compute cycles that SETI uses) they are likely currently using.

- You have to convince people to trust you to put arbitrary video content on their hard drives. Therefore, you need to have some process for deciding what video content is objectionable enough that you won't store it.
Why humans are so bad at thinking about climate change [video]
I understand that tastes are different, but... Red text on black background? I couldn't even read the github readme.
At the point BTC isn't under pressure anymore. Both forks have value because people give them value. But two forks are worth more than one because it was under immense pressure to scale. It could be that the growth was stunted until the split but I think the fork gave people confidence and became more than the sum.

Forking again will probably not relieve any pressure. It wouldnt take off.
They quite likely have some humans verify the content - however, the criteria most likely are quite straightforward (depictions of the deaths violate their guidelines).

They don't provide the judgement because that only invites attempts of explaining and negotiation - they don't want to spend time to do a careful review of every contested video, they want to make an usually accurate final judgement with the minimum time investment possible (e.g. 5 seconds for a video), and they don't want to spend resources reading all kinds of reasoning and appeals, so they don't. And that is their right to do so - they can completely arbitrarily choose which videos to host on their site and which not.
> AI playing games of Dota against the top players

This example weakens your argument. As TFA explains, the bot can only play a very restricted version of Dota - much simpler than chess - which means it was thinkable ever since the '90s, when Deep Blue beat Kasparov.
Well, you need a landing page so users can actually buy your product. Maybe not A/B test but you should use something like hotjar or userTrack, at least in the beginning to see if your users are having difficulties actually converting.
I would say std::string and std::io are special cases and somewhat atypical. Both have large performance overheads. I think the standardization committee blessed existing implementationsite that had become popular rather than design one with performance in mind. Strings really ought to have been immutable by default.
Was on HN yesterday, see also for insightful comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14997725
and it wastes your time since you could be doing somethIng more productive instead or rehashing the same thing.
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No body was found on the sub, and police suspect the sub was deliberately sunk.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40916787

He claimed earlier that she was dropped off many hours prior to the incident. He apparently has a new and different story now, though the police aren't saying what it is.

He can't claim they both abandoned the submarine when it sunk, as there were eyewitnesses to that event.
> A lot of them are on permanent vacation now but if all of us had that much brains, charm, and grit it would be a lot easier to get rich.

Don't forget that sometimes luck is a big part of the reason why some of those people are successful.
The raw version of the blocklist in this repo can be used that way.
Rust will actually optimize a chain of string additions to a chain of `push_str`s. This isn't hardcoded, just how addition is implemented.

fn add(mut self, other: &str) -> String {
self.push_str(other);
self
}

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/liballoc/s...

Of course, upfront sizing is still advantageous, but you avoid the pathological n² case.
I'll precommit to being very impressed if a bot can achieve >5k MMR in solo ranked or if a bot-controlled team wins a tier 6 (or higher) battle cup.

When Checkers and Chess and Go pros were beaten by AI at the actual game, people were impressed, because it was impressive. (The goalpost moving involved claiming each consecutive game could not be solved.)

I don't think anyone here is saying Dota 2 won't be solved eventually or that its complexity is beyond the realm of AI (as was claimed of Chess/Go in the past). They're just saying this particular achievement isn't actually meaningful progress. It's using known techniques to do something those techniques are known to do.
Your delusion that paying "availible [sic] providers" the large price tag they put on their electronics and 'doing plenty of customization' make them "your" tools is the reason I don't take you seriously; "your vernacular" is more an indicator than an issue in that regard.

> The second they shape up, someone else delivers me an answer, or I write something to get me out of this platform, there I go.

The first two are more of the same. The third is just something you're telling me (and yourself?) to try and continue the charade, as anyone capable of taking that option would already (and as I said, did many years ago when they saw the choices in front of them) have done so, and would not be "angry" over what they would see as the obviously financially sensible decision from Apple et al.