skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This allowed them to _SCALE_ revenue because they're basically dividing by zero (Income v. Expenses)

Don't disagree with anything you said except scaling revenue. As far as I can tell they never really scaled revenue, but instead became such a threat to FB in terms of users that Zuck felt he had to give up a substantial portion of his company to own them.

Or put another way, if FB (or anyone else) and not bought them, where would they be?
Trivia: And what open source OS was the Sidekick?

I am one of those idiots who still believe Apple is a hardware company and as with all hardware companies, software is an afterthought.

When they ditched OS9 for BSD this reinforced my belief.

I honestly believe without BSD there would be no NeXTSTEP/OSX/iOS/macOS/watchOS/tvOS, etc. This article suggests they could have used BeOS. But, they did not.

My hope has always been that Apple would optionally sell hardware without a pre-installed BSD/Mach-derived OS, allowing users to install their own choice of OS.

For example, a fully open source BSD with a BSD kernel. That would be my choice but other users might choose differently.

I am not interested so much in the graphics capabilities of Apple HW. I am after the form factor.
you can fake knowledge of undergraduate differential equations if you know about 3 hours worth of linear algebra.

More profound understanding is difficult but not terribly impossible.

The best diffeq text i've found is by Blanchard, DeVaney and Hall, and it remains the only math textbook i've ever been able to read.
I'm okay with that. Middle management can ask an engineer to do something and that engineer has a responsibility to say "no".
This is why Trump is arming police force with military grade weapons--to protect the elite should the lower classes rise up.... That and he's using racism to divide and conquer us--make us hate and fight ourselves poor/middle class vs poor/middleclass -- if we're too busy infighting we'll never join forces and rise up against the elites...
I never said anything about WeChat?
This only does the handling of TLS data frames in the kernel. All the handling of TLS control frames, including the handshake, is still done in userspace by an ordinary TLS library.

This means that kernel is only doing some symmetrical encryption and simple framing (which are both the same kinds of things it was already doing in other application domains).
So there are two ways to add your own equipment. I don't know what method the person you're talking about used.

The first you can put the modem in 'DMZ Plus' mode which is the closest you'll get to a bridge mode. This is where you'll lose bandwidth but it's easier to set up.

The second, which I recommend, is to connect your router to the ONT directly, and use their modem as a client on your network. You have to set up some rules to hook up the 802.1X traffic but otherwise the att modem is no longer in the picture. I haven't lost any bandwidth and I can't imagine that att's provided cheapo box would be faster than an EdgeRouter.
There's another story in those statistics. In the last 2 years:

"Mac OS has dropped from 7.66 to 5.85." (-1.81)
"Linux ... from 1.68 to 3.37" (+1.69)

I speculate that many of the ex-Mac users are moving to Linux.

It also begs the question, what did Apple do wrong in the last 2 years?
Great. Caddy is #666. Hope that's not a sign. :P
> You would also want to wealth tax companies for total global cash-on-hand assets they have as well. Those are also required to be public record already.

I'm not familiar with this being a requirement for foreign, private companies. (Reading between the lines, I'd expect a marked increase in investments in foreign, private companies under such a taxation scheme.)
Most tropical countries aren't highly developed!
> he has no knowledge on this

True

> he knows it

I've seen no evidence of this yet

> it will be the same for NK

We'd better hope so, but the clear first rule of thinking about the future is to give scant attention to anyone who expresses much confidence in their own prognostications. No-one knows what will happen, because the future is undetermined (read Tetlock amongst others: political predictions are difficult and generally of low accuracy).

Don't forget that the whole design of the US nuclear deterrent system is precisely to make their use not "strategic", but keep it rather within the tactical ambit of the POTUS (for an expert description see https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/12/01/...). So if in a fit of pique Trump decided to 'teach Kim a lesson' (this is the level of sophistication at which he thinks), "the generals" may well tap him on the shoulder, but it will be entirely a matter of his whim whether or not he heeds that tap.

Your retreat into comforting certainty is quite understandable.
Can we get this as a spotify playlist?
I didn't mean that software engineers should marry software engineers, geologists marry geologists, etc. What I meant was professionals should consider marrying other professionals, e.g. a software engineer marrying a geologist.
"Not everyone can handle social or intellectual labor."

then they can become janitors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox

but you're right, ubi is essential. not everyone can handle janitorial work. ;)
I think their products are really great for the general public, because not everyone knows GIS and how to access satellite imagery. In some cases, such as fires, earthquakes, etc. they even estimate the impact into buildings (affected, destroyed, etc) which is really useful for people who may be wondering if their family/property is OK. Example: http://emergency.copernicus.eu/mapping/system/files/componen...
It appears the design of KTLS is intended to minimize the complexity necessary inside the kernel; the TLS handshake is handled in user space and then the TLS state is transcribed to a KTLS file descriptor which handles the traffic thereafter. This means the very complex public key part of TLS is user space. The kernel isn't involved with certificates etc. The kernel handles the symmetric cryptography once the user space handshake is complete. So yes, the net attack surface inside the kernel increases, but it isn't as though they are embedding some OpenSSL equivalent into the kernel.

The paper reports a relatively small performance improvements. But I suppose if you're Facebook (they and RedHat implemented this) and performance improvements are measured in millions of dollars you care a lot about 7% less CPU utilization.
> https://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/process.html#process_proc....

This is not argument parsing. I'm pretty sure Node doesn't even do anything, it just gets an array of strings from the CLI, argv C style isn't getting options prefixed with - or -- directly from the CLI, and putting them in a map or something. So no, node has no facility in its standard library for that. Node is not known for its extensive standard library in anyway.
This is because of the shell, not the executable. The shell will translate `*` into a relevant list of files before passing them to the executable.
My staples:

- C148

- Deadmau5

- Cave Story

- Crypt of the Necrodancer

- Undertale

- A large number of the OC Remix arranged albums.

- Zelda

- A playlist of music that I've heard performed at Stanford's Memorial Church or Bing Concert Hall.

In all of the above cases, I filter out virtually all of the tracks which have vocals. Unfortunately, that means my favorite band (They Might Be Giants) aren't on the list.
I have the corresponding regret of wishing I got in six years ago instead of four years ago. Not that I'm doing bad now, by any means. It's just a relative success kind of thing.
I never felt like I had any problems, to be honest. It was so quick and easy to write things, I never worried. There are a decent amount of plugins out there on github, though. Give it a shot!
Inside the black market for Instagram verification
Right, without Jobs there's no iPod or iPhone to run BSD
"here's a list of music i like"
> Of course, if they bought Be and not NeXT […], they wouldn't have gotten Jobs back.

Yep. That's an Apple fan's Darkest Timeline, no doubt.

Having been in Apple developer relations at the time, my perspective is that the specific OS choice was irrelevant to Apple's future success.

By all accounts, BeOS would've also been a fine technology platform for Apple's future. Carbon apparently worked fine on it. And Mac OS X was far from a sure thing, for some time — if early public releases were uninspiring, early developer releases were actively demoralizing.

And yet somehow, we had to make developers believe. The only way that could work is if we believed. And Steve Jobs made us believe.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_(API)
Am I understanding -- you're saying it's better for money to sit in an investment account, than spend it on goods/services locally -- thus applying it to local economies? Money doesn't do anyone but the holder any good sitting in an offshore account and even then it's really not doing them any good... do they really need it if it's not being used for something important/worthwhile..literally just collecting dust (and dividends?)....

The real fuel of the economy is money being spent on Apple products, walmart, amazon, --hell even yachts/airplanes (somebody has to build those)..

To fight income inequality, I think we need to tax at the point of investment.. --if you buy anything you're taxed on it..this includes investments/stocks/bonds/etc... just flat consumption taxes... give a UBI to offset the poorer folks...

But have a mandatory flat tax...do away w/ the IRS/income tax. If you're not a U.S. citizen and not getting UBI sorry--but you're sales tax will not be subsidized by UBI--and if you're here illegally/unpapered -- you're now a tax payer congrats we can stop trying to deport everyone since now we make more tax money off of them!
The author arrives at that conclusion based purely on the # of college grads.

But while comparing current numbers to past ones, he forgets that the relationship between the sexes has changed significantly. E.g., women are far less reliant on men. I think this would significantly affect the conclusion.
Transaction taxes drive vertical integration (as this reduces the number of bites at the apple along the supply chain). I don't think that's always a bad thing, but it does violate a principle of fairness that I hold, which is that substance matters over form.

If Starbucks owns coffee plantations, roasters, logistics, stores, the cup of coffee you get might be untaxed prior to you paying for it. If a competing coffee company performs the exact same steps, except uses third party farmers, logistics, roasters, and rents their storefront, that cup of coffee was taxed 5+ times before you bought it.

I don't see the societal benefit to encourage vertical aggregation like that.
Ask HN: What Are Technical Program Managers?
I come from a background of start-ups, which did not have this position. I am now being offered this position at one of the big 4.

I have been told that they manage technical projects, are involved in large system designs, manage communications, and can optionally code. I personally do not want to completely let go of coding and technical contributions, and being on management sides gives a different experience, which could be nice. I know people in TPM role at orgs like LinkedIn, and tech contribution is not what I have seen them do.

Can any one give me a picture of what TPMs are/do, and how much of what I have been told is actually correct?

1. Are TPMs expected to be technical?
2. Are roles/responsibilities of TPM at different companies like Google, Facebook, LinkedIn etc different?
3. How much of technical contributions (design, coding) can they get involved in?
4. How much of a flexibility will I have if I want to shift back from TPM role to SWE role later on? (within same org, or outside)
4. Career growth in this role?
5. Finally, compensation comparison with an SWE role in, let's say, a typical company at Bay Area.
Above & Beyond's Group Therapy Radio is one of my favorites http://www.aboveandbeyond.nu/abgt
Oh yes... I design PCBs. <bangs head on desk>
Are you like 12 years old
As a society, if we figure out an economic system which doesn't lead to inflation, then all would benefit by not having to grow their net worth, and in turn, have a job that doesn't have any growth prospects.
Maybe "blown" is a better word, but the point is the only thing stopping exhaust going up another nozzle is it's own pressure. I read about it here I think:

https://www.space.com/38016-spacex-falcon-heavy-rocket-maide...

> If one engine doesn't ignite internally as it should, you will get a flame front that travels back into the engine."

> "That creates a pressure spike, and that can cause what we call 'rapid unscheduled destruction' — and that's bad,"
My kids are in high school right now. I was getting my daughter psyched up for geometry, by promising her that she'd get to do proofs.

The geometry class completely glossed over proofs. It was much more oriented towards solving problems. I don't know if it was because of standardized testing, but I have my suspicions. Fortunately, my daughter worked on the proofs herself, outside of class.

I was saddened for many reasons, one of which is that lots of people I've talked to -- especially women -- loved high school geometry because of the proofs. That was where math came alive.
Yeah, I would have thought that curated meant there was reasoning and insight into selections.

This isn't very curated at all.
Some of ny picks: elastic is a supercomputer that will release product probably during the month, QRL is a quantum resistant ledger that will do the same, NEO is te new ethereum, Monero is the only super private one and Ardor will release mainnet in Q4 with very solid child chain tech.
I disagree that consumers didn't find taste important, but probably was trumped by other factors. The major factor (not mentioned in your list) was a result of the industrialisation of farming and marketing (I.e. supermarkets). Vegetables had to be able to transport and store well, and maintain appearance at the end of that. So process (both breeding and other) were adapted to those goals.
I do all of my work on Windows 10 Insider Edition. I have an update about once every other week or so, and have to reboot. In between those times, I only put my laptop to sleep by shutting the lid, and wake it up by opening the lid. Despite using a "beta" version (Insider Edition), I can count on one hand the number of unplanned shutdowns I've had that weren't due to an update.
Maybe I'm just lucky, but my experience with Windows 7 (which never figured out how to sleep and wake up properly, on the same laptop) makes me think not. I've had the same experience on 2 other models of laptops and 2 other models of desktops.
My webapp manages photos for photography competitions. People upload 30MB JPEGs that would be visually lossless at a tenth of that file size. And I keep the originals, but actually resize down to 300KB for every function within the software. Haven't had a single complaint about image quality... :)
I'm embarrassed to admit this, but I got into white noise playlists on Spotify and came across some womb noise tracks. They're oddly soothing.
LWN's coverage of this patch: https://lwn.net/Articles/666509/
PHP and C have getopt in their standard library which work mostly the same way.

flag package bothers me because it breaks getopt conventions for no good reason.
Same argument again without realising tulips offered no innovation while blockchain clearly does
That string theory is already compatible with everything we know about reality is a titanic achievement.

If you think it's not, go ahead and list all of the other alternatives that also have a hope of unifying gravity?
> The intellectual battlefields today are on college campuses, where students' deep convictions about race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation and their social justice antipathy toward capitalism, imperialism, racism, white privilege, misogyny and “cissexist heteropatriarchy” have bumped up against the reality of contradictory facts and opposing views, leading to campus chaos and even violence.

God, this is laughable. If the author were clutching his pearls any harder he'd be making diamonds. What <<sturm und drang>> a couple of hundred hyperleftist college students are capable of inciting in the conservative literati! Making themselves appear so much larger than life that they can haunt the imaginations of so many otherwise rational thinkers and authors. Impressive, really.
Yeah, love should have nothing to do with marriage. It should totally be about bank balances.

/s
A huge body of scientific evidence.
Yeah, that's not passive voice, which in this context would be something like "the money was robbed from the bank," but you might be interested in the "past exonerative tense":

1. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-...

2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/07/14/...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistakes_were_made

Generally, this form of English can only be used by certain segments of business and society.
In the other direction though, there is inherent right (IMO). I have the right, in my pursuit of happiness, to make allocations of my lawfully earned money to my current needs, to my retirement savings, to my children's clothing and education, and other such pursuits and accounts as I see fit.

There is harm to the donor to abolishing inheritance. I don't want to live in a world where "I farm this land, just as my father, his father, and his father for 5 generations has done." is not possible.
You are missing the key quality for which industrial scale produce has been selectively bred over the past century: shippability. The ability to be placed in a box and moved thousands of miles without falling apart is the paramount quality of mass produced produce. Go to a farmer's market, be anything but delicate with a large heirloom tomato and you will understand what I mean.
BeOS would not be able to run Classic MacOS PowerPC/68K apps. They'd have to use some sort of emulator if Apple went with Be.

Be did have the BeBox that had a Geekport that Apple could have used to better expand Macs for.

There was this ARDI Exeuctor software that could run 68K Classic MacOS stuff in Linux, Windows, NextOS, and I think they were porting it to BeOS.

NextOS was a much better choice due to the OpenStep librarie shared with HP, Sun, Oracle, and others. It was forked as GNUStep and ported to Linux and other operating systems.

Apple has always been a hardware company that has the software integrated to the hardware. It is because they bundle both together than it works better than PCs running Windows from everyone and their brother making PC Clones. Even with the Hackintosh stuff not all drivers work and some Hackintoshes don't have things that a Mac does like OS updates, etc.

BeOS was made into a multimedia OS to challenge AmigaOS that already was a multimedia OS with Video Toaster and other stuff. BSD aka NextOS was more of a workstation/server OS and clearly the better choice.
I just went ahead and created a collaborative one on Spotify. I'll wait for others to contribute to see if it's something that could take off.

https://open.spotify.com/user/1216464111/playlist/7L1nBwgeDS...
Every time one of these armchair lawyer articles is posted it stirs up a bunch of fretting about nothing. These are the legal requirements of a TOS that lets Twitter (or Google, or Facebook, or...) handle things like uploading images, creating thumbnails (including changing aspect ratio) and distributing the result to users, without a photographer suing them for copyright infringement.

Don't like that it's overly broad? Your problem is with copyright lawyers, not with Twitter.
Maintaining projects with MySQL in them is still a thing, yes.
Somewhere on the Internet Archive is a series of BeOS ISO images, but I refuse to link to it.

HaikuOS is a good OS to try and use BeOS API calls to make it work like BeOS.
Created a collab spotify playlist to track these, in case OP didn't. I'll hold off on adding more, just to see if it's something people would be interested in.

https://open.spotify.com/user/1216464111/playlist/7L1nBwgeDS...

I'll go ahead and add that this playlist should diverge from OP's, since a collaborative coding playlist would ideally be free of vocals.
A lot of people have yet to discover nvm (:
> I am one of those idiots who still believe Apple is a hardware company and as with all hardware companies, software is an afterthought.

You're obviously not an idiot, but the best mental model for Apple isn't "hardware company" or "software company" — it's "product company".

[EDIT: Apple actually tried "software company" on for size. Remember Mac clones? It's one of the first things Steve killed upon his return.]
No, you can't. It doesn't use a username/password for authentication, it uses a protocol known as 802.1X, which uses certificates (and the associated private key) that's stored on the device.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.1X
I agree. If the US makes it even less attractive to invest capital here, do we think we'll get more or less capital investment and job creation here?
I didn't read it but figured it was just using a combination of GTK and ffmpeg or something. There's really nothing special here unless you're a fan of haskel looking for some validation of your language choice.
I decided at age 16 to opt out of "dating." To my mind, "dating" is about men spending money on women in hopes of getting laid. It isn't a great courtship model (courtship is the correct term for the lengthy process of establishing a serious, committed, long term relationship).

Our dating practices are rooted in a culture where men make money, women are primarily wives and moms. This is no longer true, so it should be no surprise that dating is having a crisis.

Though it is sad to read about how victimized the women in the article feel.
Yes, it does, at least in the case of TIPS:

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/tips.asp
While we're talking about turning school math on its head... I suggest teaching vectors before trig. You can get the cosine and sine from the dot and cross products.

Learning about vectors in physics finally got me comfortable with trig.

Now, one thing we did learn in trig was to get much more proficient with algebraic manipulation.

Amusingly, with complex numbers, proving trig identities becomes a trivial algebra problem.
What is funny is the support status of Win10 1507 (non-LTSB) where they provided extra months of updates but did not extend the official deadline beyond May.
But they are right, it is totally weird.

When people say that they usually mean counterintuitive with respect to everyday experience.

It makes it progressively harder for lay people to grasp bits of it, from classical mechanics, to general relativity, to QM. Maybe it’s even a factor for theoreticians, but that’s just speculation.
Is this using the same techniques as the old mostly-vaporware "cantor dust" project? It looks very similar.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/comments/2apw6l/...
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