skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
J.K. Rowling had a pretty fantastic facsimile of this in the Harry Potter series:

"The Mirror of Erised is an ancient, ornate mirror. It has clawed feet and a gold frame... The mirror shows the most desperate desire of a person's heart, a vision that has been known to drive men mad."

"Men have wasted away before it, not knowing if what they have seen is real, or even possible."
—Albus Dumbledore explaining the danger of the mirror to Harry Potter

http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Mirror_of_Erised
Sad. I used to a have a Nokia 1520 and it was a great phone. However, there were a few things that eventually just made me switch to an iPhone.
> This is a defamatory statement

Why is it defamatory?

> one person like you knows salaries of all employees there.

Their salaries are public.
Hey, if you're optimizing for "number of apps on our store" I bet it worked great!

Why spend $100,000 developing something one app when you could get 1000 for the same price?!
> I’d want to have the ability to take over the controls if needed.

^C and <esc> do interrupt the playback and print 'Aborted!' to stdout.

>Might have to start incorporating intentional flubs into the script to make things authentic

Unfortunately, flubs give a bit away by showing the temp file that's being run:

$ datl
/tmp/tmpzygMVj: line 4: datl: command not found

I also tried inserting some ^H backspaces in the script. It almost looks like it will work (shows the backspace and correction), then spits out "/tmp/tmp2qhBos: line 4: $'datl\be': command not found"
We also continuously iterate on the compensation calculator, often because of feedback from applicants and employees.

Read about the ideas behind it here: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-operations/global-c...
This depends largely on advances in propulsion. It's convenient to launch to mars every 2 years from a fuel efficiency standpoint, but there is no reason why we can't go there at any other time, other than current propulsion limits. At a constant 1G acceleration (including a flip over at the halfway mark for equal 1G deceleration), even at its farthest distance from earth, we could reach it in under 5 days. You even get artificial gravity as a bonus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_travel_using_constant_ac...
> Anyone who doesn't want to work for GitLab can easily work somewhere else.

That's certainly true. But as a GitLab user, I want to make sure they're hiring the best candidates to work on the product. Is that an unreasonable thing to want?
The point is that his use is entirely consistent with the data yet you assume it somehow is not
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If their salaries are too low, then they should struggle to hire and it'd be their own damn fault. The calculator salaries are lower for my area than what I see, so they should fail to hire here if they are truly that low.
Full disclosure, my wife is a gitLabber. Gitlab is uncomfortably transparent with how they compensate their employees. Given their remote policy and openness regarding compensation, no one is surprised with their pay and everyone can take it or leave it, which you can view https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-operations/global-c...

If you are a developer / professional living in a rural area and don't want to move or have a commute, I'm certain you'd find gitLab both lucrative and a fun place to work.
A) So, wages are stagnant or falling and unemployment (real unemployment) is at 10%.

B) Companies reinvest in themselves through buyback and lobbying congress for subsidies. They freeze wages and reduce their workforces.

C) Congress subsidizes their research and development through tax payer funding. Costing a higher tax burden during which wage rates are falling / stagnant.

If B relies on C, and C relies on A, but A is destroyed by B - then what happens?
.. recently github has been awfully slow
Because not having Play Store != not running Android apps. People's games and other apps still need Android to run. A non-Android Wechat phone would fail for the same reason Windows phones did -- no apps.
How is Github not the main contender just because of private repo pricing? GitHub is the Goliath here.

Also none of this has anything to do with up or down time.
Or just a more ambitious plan, including funding for advanced radiation shielding, a rotating section for gravity etc. we can do it, but it’s going to take a lot of work, money, and time. All people seem to want is a magical billionaire.
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On the Carnegie Library, they left a corner deliberately un-cleaned to show the old Pittsburgh look. Not visible from Forbes Ave, you have to walk toward the library entrance past the mascot dinosaur.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15428189 (yesterday)

>foxhop: I was wondering if you would entertain the idea of switching out Disqus comments for Remarkbox, a service that I'm trying to launch [...] https://www.remarkbox.com
Computer Aided Tomfoolery :)
"For some reason people were reluctant to talk about it, even in private"

You're not talking to enough people.
> What did you get with Windows mobile?

From a consumer point of view, not much.

There's a lot there for businesses though. If you employ a bunch of .Net developers for your in-house applications, Windows Mobile is a pretty natural way get a mobile app developed.
we will have hundreds if not thousands of qualified astronauts fighting over being one of the first to take the relatively minor radiation risks to be the first to go

Same with the age of sail, which claimed many lives, often for the dubious benefit of a few wealthy assholes who never touched a ship.

Are you volunteering to be first to Mars?
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The problem with windows phone / mobile is not the apps. It was Microsoft.

When Apple launches an Phone, it’s avaliable world wide. When Microsoft launches a phone, it’s avaliable in America.

My last windows phone was a Lumia 925, the last Lumia announced I waited 7 months for it to reach singapore before throwing in the towel and going android.

There were no phones avaliable outside America, uk, Australia.

Now I use iPhone. I have no sympathy for Microsoft in regards to it’s phone biz because it didn’t try to break the market.
You are right! I've updated my article since then. At the time I was solving this problem however this wasn't supported, I just happened to blog about it now. Good to know though!
It's not recording the effects of the commands being run. It only records the commands, so each command is run live.
Stage 1 Landing: https://youtu.be/SB4N4xF2B2w?t=1749
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I personally have no issue with the test. Players have different preferences when it comes to video games.

What I have a problem with is researchers attempting to drawn a relationship between video game preferences and basic needs. To me this reeks of Jack Thompson.
I (American) interviewed a Gitlab while earning "SF money" from Argentina. During the phone screen, they told me if I chose to live in SF, they would pay me $121k, but if I wanted to continue to live in Argentina, I would take a massive pay cut $70k. Not to mention, ARG is have massive currency inflation, so each month I would work there, my pay would drop 1-2%.

For remote workers, the job market is actually pretty small. Many of the "remote only" companies (Buffer, Gitlab, RainforestQA, etc) pay based on how expensive of a lifestyle the employee chooses to have.

One remote company I interviewed at mentioned how one of their SF employees moved in with their parents and how they talked about cutting his salary significantly because of his cheaper lifestyle.
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Ubuntu has made the commitment for 6-month releases, so that makes sense for them. Debian releases "are ready when they're ready", so they can't predict the month (or even the year) ahead of time, and the version number is needed well before the release is made official.
The unfortunate reality is that the most friendly thing one can do for users is never ask them to change.
Nah, they're releasing money, not energy.
>For more niche apps they ran promotions for students and independent developers giving away free phones etc. But nothing was enough to get over the problem of the lack of an initial user base.

The one thing MS didn't try to incentivize independent app developers was to eliminate the 30% revenue cut MS would take on the sale of paid apps. I always thought it would have been a good differentiation as there were always complaints that it was getting too hard to for indies to make it in the iOS app store. Even if MS would have said they were waiving the commission during an introductory period of a few years it might have helped. It seemed penny wise, pound foolish to think they could charge the same skim that Apple does.
Absolutely, I just don't think it's sincere to present it as though GTA itself doesn't offer a ton of context to push oneself in this direction. The premise pivots on the notion that we're doing these things of our own volition.
You can sideload applications in Windows 10 mobile easily enough. Like Android it's been on by default for some time and just a matter of downloading an .appx package file. The ability to sideload doesn't help if there aren't apps to sideload.

I don't think the problem was ever the openness of the platform. An open platform doesn't guarantee developers either (look at decades of people not support Linux ports of their applications as an obvious example).
Unless you’re one of the kids in those pics I guess... then the harm is easier to see. Plus drugs almost only ever involve consenting adults!!!
Sure, but I was specifically pointing to EBM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence-based_medicine
Yes, it's like hearing a malapropism: "statues of limitations," or "all intended purposes." I just sigh in my head and move on.
We need to dream big while we commit to solving the problems spaceflight poses to human health.

Whether or not NASA has the right amount of funding is not going to make or break this; instead, we need to lower the cost of spaceflight and start sending more stuff and more people up there. With the cost of going to space lowered one hundred times, suddenly NASA's current budget becomes quite sufficient.

This article is one man's emotional retelling of his first days on Earth after a year in LEO (he's trying to sell his book). In contrast, a trip to Mars is only three months, and it will be on a ship with a water layer (radiation shielding) between the outer hull and the cabin - a much better environment for humans. Thus this article is not the determining factor for whether or not Mars is a pipe dream.

The other big danger of spaceflight is the body's response to microgravity, which can be solved with a massive centrifuge. Hard, but possible.

Telling humans to not dream and have hope for colonizing Mars is an egregious offence. The window of technology is open, but it will not be open forever. We will lose our technology in the future, either soon or in many millenia. In addition, there is rising tension in our low-growth society. A few more natural disasters or bad geo-political alliances and tensions might explode, hastening the closing of our technology window. Should that window close, and we fail to reach Mars, then humans will be a grand failure: We had all the resources to colonize another planet and begin colonizing the Universe, but instead we killed ourselves as we gave in to our aggressive tendencies.

Thus we _must_ be more ambitious. We _must_ dream big and strive every day to do the impossible, for the cost of not striving may be another 14-billion-year waiting period to get the opportunity to do this again, on another planet, at another time, waiting for another species to awaken with consciousness and begin it's own effort to overcome the Great Filter[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
Your e-mail validation regexp is broken. It allows spaces in the domain name,
among other things. And the other one is overly complicated (there are totally
unnecessary fragments). Also, you don't state what flavour of regexp it is.
What exactly is your criticism?
You are just rephrasing the flawed argument in favor of not increasing minimum wage.
Reminds me of retro gaming for some reason...
Spoiler: A will collapse, C will collapse, B will give themselves parachute payments and move to China (companies will tank of course).
A good cook/chef can take a look at an ingredient or set of ingredients and vary their techniques to produce that 'repeatable' dish.

I think you're completely discounting what cooking involves when it's someone with skill and experience, and that's unfortunate.
I like making recordings too, but they are annoying to update/recreate when the expected output changes.

I found spielbash[1] recently which helps you automate asciinema recordings... though it was a bit broken and I ended up forking it and re-writing most of it [2] and adding a bunch of new features.

There's probably a way to merge the two ideas and have a way to automate live demos as well as have a mode that just spits out a asciinema recording.

[1] https://github.com/redhat-cip/spielbash
[2] https://github.com/justinazoff/spielbash
As someone that only works on linux systems....

The state of Linux is not great. We still can't get the basics like sound, wifi, etc out of the box. I get why it's a problem, and it's generally not the fault of Linux devs, but it's still a problem that turns people away.

I really want to see Linux take over on the desktop, but turning a blind eye to our problems is a poor way to do it.
This is very disappointing. Apple and Google needed the competition.
> Branch prediction of modern CPUs is so good

Modern x86 CPUs. ARM branch prediction is much worse, unfortunately.
If a project actually follows semver, then you know that unless the first number changes, there won't be any (significant) backwards-incompatible changes - eg, your config files will still work as expected.
Caddy's developers don't understand that Oracle licensing model does not work in 2017.
Well, packet loss here really is a bandwidth problem, though. The packet loss happens because some link is saturated and packets are arriving faster than they can be transmitted, and TCP simply reacts by adjusting the sending rate so as to not exceed the available bandwidth at the bottleneck.

Still true that the problem often is more the peering than internal infrastructure, yeah.
Ok but that's a different topic. I also think you want the best product, regardless of how that's done. Asking for the best candidates is a rather indirect way to get there and I'm sure they understand their business better than anyone here.
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I always wondered if Bing gave away $1M a day in a sweepstakes to it's users if people would switch.
Issp is a lightweight, open source comment service, written in Python:

https://posativ.org/isso/docs/
> Most Windows phone owners I know (myself included) loved the design (hardware and software), the customisability, etc. but the lack of apps ultimately made us move to another ecosystem.

From my experience, that wasn't the case. I didn't own a Windows Phone but one of my friends did. According to him, what forced him to move was an overload of animations which became very irritating. I can recall a comment that suggested how Windows phone exploited animations to cover the fact that it was too slow.
I think the customization aspect is overrated. In a blind taste test I bet prepackaged salads and hand made ones would fare about as well. Just like how cheap and expensive wine are indistinguishable under a blindfold. And that's what's so funny about this story. Two hundred years ago all salads were hand made. Then we invented machines to automate it. But then automated food got a somewhat arbitrary and unjustified stigma about it, which allowed for hand made salads to become a thing again. Similar to how an artificial social stigma was constructed against "fake" furr, in preference to animal furr. There is virtually no visual difference, but rich people wanted to maintain the signaling-value of the more expensive "real" furr and did so by sneering at the cheap-to-manufacture fake stuff, which propagated out in the rest of society in the form of adverts and the like.

And of course the same thing will happen here too. Now robots can make
"hand made" caesar salads. But eventually the same social constructions will be created against that and in preference to man-made "hand crafted" caesar salads. Under a blind taste test man-made and robot-made foods will be indistinguishable but without the blindfold there will be enough culture and clever rethoric created to trick the senses, and we'll be back to where we were a few years ago.
how do they verify where you actually live? do you have to provide them proof of residence everytime you move?
> We needed what they called an “Anglo-Irish” name. We were sure that a family name might be better than a “thing” or a place name. That was the popular convention of the business in those days. After all, many drinks were named after the people who made them.

> We were still struggling to find a name for our revolutionary new drink and there it was; above the door. Baileys. Was it really right in front of my face? It was certainly Anglo-Irish and in a flurry of post-rationalisation I managed to dredge up from my memory a dairy of that name in the Port Elizabeth of my youth in South Africa. This gave it a kind of relevance in my head.

> Another “Baileys moment” was the discovery of an attractive, traditional restaurant in Dublin called The Bailey. I could imagine our drink being enjoyed there a long time ago. It gave a gentle nudge of support to our off-the-wall idea.

> The headline mentioned R&A, golf’s governing body, and I instantly blurted “How about two initials? How do you like the sound of R&A Bailey? ... Yet as I thought about it after our conversation, a fantasy began to form in my mind. I could see them: R & A Bailey were two brothers, one a distiller and the other a dairy farmer. They had disliked each other for decades. Their father looked to bring them together...

He begins with "many drinks were named after the people who made them", and proceeds to follow up with works of complete fiction when creating the Baileys brand. Perhaps I'm a bit too left-brained to understand this creative work, but how does imagining something that didn't happen lend a gentle nudge of support to an idea?
There's nothing wrong with doing things perfectly; mention you're using a script to avoid the demo effect if need be. Tools like this will really help speed up your presentation, especially if you're not too fast a typer.

Also for cleanup, wrap this command in its own shell script; for example:

#!/bin/bash
rm -rf temp || true
doitlive session.sh
In one word: neat.
Isso is a pretty minimal self-hosted alternative https://github.com/posativ/isso
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Years ago, Microsoft indeed paid to have my app written for Windows Mobile. Totally free and hands-off, i just have to agree and it will be done.

(It was in Malaysia, and my website was very popular then.)
Thanks for that link, it's interesting to see how the fbi operates. What always confuses me is how liberally the feds use "Wire Fraud" 1343. In the report I don't see evidence of Lin trying to obtain money fraudulently through the internet cabling. But over and over I see "Wire Fraud" 1343 tacked on if there is any computer abuse type charges. It must be super easy to get a conviction of Wire Fraud (/ impossible to defend yourself).
another idea would be a shopping engine with the guaranteed lowest prices. since your not paying as much per click sell at a lower price.
Oh! I see!

Thanks so much for this little detail - you helped me figure out that in the

format ELF64 executable 3

at the top, that 3 is what gets put into the binary!

Change it to 0, and sure enough it shows as SYSV. That is cool.

...change it to 2 and it shows as NetBSD

...and 1 makes it show as HP-UX

...4 makes GNU/Hurd

O.o

5 is 86Open

6 is Solaris

WAT

7 is "Monterey"?!?!

(Yup, still executes just fine)

8 is IRIX

9 is FreeBSD

10 is Tru64

O.o

11 is Novell Modesto

12 is OpenBSD

13 and 14 don't display anything, and I presume that's because that's where this madness ends.

That was extremely interesting...
Validation in this space is nosebleed expensive. The "usual suspect" security assessment firms don't do this kind of work (or have no business doing it).
Because businesses are greedy and short-sighted. They all think the problems they're solving are novel, and they keep deviating from standards and reinvent the wheel as a way to diffentiate themselves from others.

Truth is, most businesses are solving the same problems and a single general purpose platform could easily be used by all of them. I'm not talking about a framework that all businesses could use to build their apps, I'm talking about one app that could be used to interact with all businesses.

I am convinced that a team of 10 people could make 80% of existing software (and tech companies) obsolete in about 2 years.
The VPN he was using honestly would have been fine to protect you from drag-net style surveillance, but he was specifically targeted by the FBI. By the time the FBI opens a case against you you're most likely totally fucked, regardless of what software you use.
> If you have pandas installed, ...

I'll just copy my Reddit comment when somebody notified me about `to_latex()`:

> To be honest, I didn't know this exists (and I use pandas for lots of things). If I did, I probably wouldn't even start making tably.

> Thanks for letting me know about it, I might use it as an inspiration to maybe add some more functionality in the future....
Having done my fair share of windows phone app development (8.0, 8.1, 10) I can confirm. Microsoft incentivized app development, and paid top game development companies millions and gave them featured placements for their half-assed windows phone ports.

And then as a regular joe you would actually put in the effort* to get things working well. Then you would watch these bug-plagued big name 3-star ports appear out of nowhere and usurp you on the top free lists and search results due to their favorable placements. And then you would move on to a fairer market, and when microsoft stopped paying them, the big app developers did too (not that they ever updated or fixed the bugs on windows phone releases.)

* Difficult as windows phone was the only mobile platform not supporting openGL in hardware and the top sold windows phones were incredibly low spec.
The data you provided does not support your claim that that isn't how other people use their phones.
They're not? Looks like an executable script to me (in a simple demo script), it's just missing the `#!/bin/bash` header. Might be an idea to add that.

But giving it its own extension might be a good idea either way.