skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think the intention of the post is to stop people using Microsoft's email platform.

From the article:

> Please people. Stop using Outlook, Office365, Hotmail. Microsoft seems to be unable to handle the amounts of email they receive and make it the issue of the senders that they are incompetent.

What is the author advocating here if not to stop using their services?

> Dutch link

Still only hearsay unfortunately. In addition not all messages are technically sound. This is still a one-sided story presented without actual proof Microsoft acted in the wrong. With this information the title might as well be "how Microsoft turns my incompetence into my problem". There is simply not enough information for us to know.

Now, this sounds harsh but it is not intended as offense. I only want to point out how the message comes across to those not involved. Not sure what the author is trying to achieve but I think (s)he needs to change his/her communication if (s)he wants to achieve it.
We realize that folks that have been using WinDbg for 20 years are likely to not be interested in a new UI, but we face 20 years of legacy code every time we want to add a new feature to the UI.

You can rewrite the UI code so it's easier for you to work on internally, but to the user it looks and acts like it was before --- but proceed cautiously[1]. I'm not against adding features and TTD sounds extremely useful, but having in the overview page some slight contradictions and a screenshot of a dumbed-down UI with obvious WTFs like the two duplicate lines really soured the first impression for me. (Looking at it again, I now see the path in the titlebar has been cut off, despite plenty of empty space after it...)

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
You can see this if you just look at the last few hundred years of human history. Humans used to have to engage in hours of labor every day just to survive. If the sun was up you were exercising. Were they so much happier and healthier?

There are people in the world who still have to do that labor. They're not happier or healthier or longer-lived than the western world. In fact, the overall high-level trend appears to be that happiness is correlated with being sedentary.

Correlation doesn't mean causation of course, but as long as articles like this one are going to imply that it does, I might as well point out that I can make the exact same argument in the opposite direction.
It's almost all images / gifs, maybe they failed to load or you have them blocked?

I was thinking it would be interesting to recreate the site with CSS but the animations that show the before and after state change might prove tricky.
Your paraphrasing of the parent post is incorrect and misleading.
Nick Bonner, the author of the book reviewed in the article, once ran (still runs?) Koryo Studio[1] in Beijing, which carries a bunch of North Korean art and "stuff". I once bought a slim volume of film theory there, by Kim Jong-il. It had been translated into English, but was still almost literally unintelligible.

[1]: http://koryostudio.com/
So that's what we say to the guy who scored 89% on his MCAT and didn't get accepted when a person who scored 59% walks in front of him because they had the right skin color the admission committee wanted. "Oh whether you can see it or not you are super privileged and just didn't work hard enough?"

What??
Just like all those stubborn meat eaters ignoring the science that eating meat increases cancer risk.
It doesn't surprise me. HN is very pro tech, even when they don't understand the foundation of what they are betting on.

I own 1 share of a SP500 ETF. That gives me an actual fractional ownership of Apple. That gives me an actual cut of the dividends of real american companies. It has an actual meaning of what you own.

What does 1 BTC give you? What is the fundamental purpose of a BTC?

Tulips went up in price too, but they were not a very smart investments. Tulip chases do not win in the long term.
I recall it was Moscow state university they wouldn't admit any, other schools would
> Advertising mostly moves spending around. It doesn't create more spending.

Citation needed. You're talking out of your ass.
I listen to headphones, music, podcasts, ebooks. I find it a very stimulating time and I feel better about it at a gym, even though I don't socialize much.

Just seeing the same people every day makes me feel like a community member and helps me stay motivated and connected.
It’s part marketing campaign, part pre-sales to prove demand with an easy out if nobody wants to buy it. There’s nothing wrong or unethical about it IMO
It seems the core of the objection is "billion-dollar companies using crowdfunding platforms violates the spirit of crowdfunding platforms". Doesn't seem to be much in the way of hard evidence as to why it's a bad thing though.
I agree with you. But I'd like to point out that the color specifications and audio response ranges we have are pretty much an exact science despite being informed by human experiment. Human experiment is not at all exclusionary to a topic of study being an exact science; it just makes the truth harder to discern. We are still coming up with new color spaces that claim to match the human range better, after decades of research.

Regarding typography however, I argue that there are a multitude of concerns such as readability, aesthetic, and sustainence of focus. People will have different preferences and rankings for which concerns should be most optimized. Thus, the science of typography may need to be parameterized by the context of the text and what it is going to be used for.
Relevant Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
From the article:

"One important consequence of always reading four bytes is that the caller must zero-pad the buffer to at least four bytes. In practice, this means padding the entire buffer with three bytes in case the last character is a single byte."

In other words, both the byte-by-byte and dord-at-a-time code assume none of the bytes being read will be at an invalid address.
تعرف علي دكتارين كريم لعلاج الأمراض الجلدية وكيفية استخدامه بطريقه صحيحة
Human muscle cells experience hypertrophy (growth) but not hyperplasia (increase in number). (Post-puberty, anyway)
One can of course make a precise set of rules that one will follow, and one might even come up with some pretty good ones. But typography is an art as well, by which I mean the range of optimizations potentially desired from a professional layout is intractably large, presenting huge problems for creating an algorithm that can equal or exceed a good human designer. Focus of the eye, retention, recall, mood to be instilled, characteristics of the speaker/brand to be projected, all factor into those decisions.

That said, if you want to go analytical on typography, you should focus on how it is used in advertising. The original work in the field, Ogilvy on Advertising[0], is still important and fun to read. Given when it was written most of the ads it discusses are quite retro (from what I can tell every industry plot point in the first season of Mad Men came directly out of this book), but Ogilvy was a giant in the field who transformed advertising from "people who write good" to a data driven research activity, starting with typography and layout.

[0]https://www.amazon.com/Ogilvy-Advertising-David/dp/039472903...
I had a history class that offered this for the multiple-choice section of exams. I was tempted to do it, but never dared, because there was always a question or two I didn't know and would've been guessing at the wrong answer...
I think, the idea that aluminussoma had (and which sprung to my mind when reading the title, too), is that the questions and the grading would be identical for Jewish people, but that somehow the questions were engineered to be harder to solve for Jews.

Sort of the obvious thing would be to just ask questions about parts of the culture that Jews don't typically experience. But that is what it is - obvious.

And then, yeah, it would be interesting to see what they would have come up with instead. What kind of discrepancies there are between cultures.

I could for example imagine something like countries with big Jewish population often having currencies that don't deal with floating point numbers and then Jews on average being worse at that.

Or maybe revolutionary books not having Hebrew translations, therefore just not being as ingrained into the Jewish culture throughout the generations.
"memory access violations" are reading beyond allocated storage for a variable. You're not allowed to dereference or even reference locations outside storage allocated for variables, except one past the last item of an array which can be referenced in a comparison (but cannot be dereferenced). Stack variables, memory allocated by malloc and memory allocated by mmap all conceptually behave this way.
This is why, whenever you get unsolicited marketing calls, you should waste as much of their time as you can, even if it wastes your time. The best option is to tell them that you are interested, or even tell them that you are going to get your credit card, and then leave the phone off the hook.
I agree - female coder as well. I enjoy coding itself. Doesn't need to be collaborative unless there is a purpose to it for me.
That is the wrong measure. The counter argument to that is something like "How did going 100% all in to pets.com in 2000-2001 go?"

You cannot judge future performance by past results. That is the fundamental thing you need to understand before investing. Zoom in on the right part of 2000, and pets.com and a really nice upswing. There have been other stocks that had a nice and steady growth for years and years.. before exploding.
Mithriliites assemble! (Flems is built with Mithril, and Per Harald Borgen from Scrimba digs the framework as well)
I assume you mean you are using rust to implement your language rather than that you are implementing rust. If that's the case whether or not you need a garbage collector comes down to deciding whether or not you want users of your language to have to allocate memory manually or not. As for as when goes, it can come relatively late in the development of the language. Not having a garbage collector or any other way of freeing memory will make it likely that programs written in your language will run out of memory, but with so much memory on modern computers you'll be able to write more than trivial programs without running into that problem.

A simple stop-the-world mark and sweep GC without any generations should be relatively easy to implement. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/abhinaba/2009/01/30/back-to...
Oh, sorry, I was confused about what exactly you were replacing.
There's no such thing as an "unbiased" test.
Are you suggesting that bad grammar and usage in a scientific article increase one's audience?
> That's not true

Do you have a source for that? I find that claim interesting because I'd be surprised if obesity != more cells.

Update: I found this link about a study that found as you gain weight, you grow new fat cells (2010). I can't find the paper though.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2010/10/05/gorging-study-shows...

Update 2: I believe this is the paper:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=20921416%5Buid%5D

Update 3: Another paper that found growth of new fat cells on weight gain (2015):
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4380653/

From this article found in this thread: https://news.yale.edu/2015/03/02/new-fat-cells-created-quick...
Ask HN: Is there any psychological test for choosing programming domain?
Currently working on video streaming project, but time goes by, so I want to find interesting programming domain for myself to do a side project.

How do you find interesting programming domain for yourself?
The emphasis might be on the "crowd" part as opposed to the "fund" part. Companies can try and size the actual market for their products, once a MVP is found properly fund it. I think this actually make it a level playing field for products between the big and little guy.
Not really in his prime. You are conflating popular and mainstream. I’m old enough to have watched delirious and raw when it was released on video. Eddie was popular but the mainstream didn’t embrace him until the dr Doolittle years. That’s well beyond his prime.
Honestly, I'm blown away that someone has actually read cover to cover Knuth, CLRS, Dasgupta and Skiena. Is this a common thing? Has anyone here done something similar?
For years I've had the textbooks of CLRS and Skiena at home (and a pdf of Dasgupta) but they are used only in the event I need to drill down to understand a particular algorithm to solve a particular problem. I feel that the most effective use of my time is to have a birds view of the landscape (i.e understand the categories of algorithms and the problems they solve) and dive down only when I actually need to know the nitty gritty to implement a solution for a real problem. I can understand the joy of learning them all just for fun, but who has the time? I wonder if he did all the exercises too... :-)
You have to use memcpy with length 4 to read that uint32_t from something that was a char pointer, those casts are not allowed anymore. On x86 it would become a single mov instruction.
This is not an "accidental tactic", after the first time. After the first time, when it was done with intention, it was deliberate. It was also a deceptive marketing practice and there's really no argument against that. Deceptive marketing practices are frowned upon in most legal jurisdictions. One may or may not choose to go forward once realizing this, and can not complain if they later feel they were defrauded when the initial contact was so intentionally and deliberately fraudulent. Caveat Emptor.

In any case the article goes on to describe the intentionally deceptive campaign then badgered their mailing list with multiple deceptive follow on mailings designed to get them to initiate a telephone chat with a telemarketer at the company who would be acting under false pretenses. Of course this is all clever, it's very clever. It's very similar in design and method to the Nigerian 419 promotions which intentionally use misspellings and obvious falsehoods in order to filter out any potential marks who are not extremely naive. This is valuable as it increases the chances the mark who does respond will be receptive to the game being offered, and as such doesn't waste the time of the marketing artist promoting the scheme talking to savvy or intelligent targets who ultimately won't be receptive to the promotional offering.
Thank you. I'm going to check
In my view, it's worth considering whom spam is sold to. The customer is not the person who receives spam in their in-box. It's the person who pays for their business to conduct a spam campaign. Spam is a money-maker if it can be sold to businesses.
The more the cells the higher the chance for a mutation?

The older we get the more opportunity for cell mutation?
Not really. What if there's an emergency and someone's trying to dial a number but, due to mitigating circumstances, are having trouble using your crazypants dial pad?

What if, worse, they're only familar with your pad and are confronted with an actual phone that uses a totally different system?

What if this isn't a dial pad, but an interface for a car or heavy equipment? What if, in a moment of panic, someone's muscle memory kicks in and they do what they've always done to avoid disaster, only in your system it does the opposite?

Switching from rotary dial to a dial pad was a big deal, and whatever system they chose for the dial pad out of all those kooky options would be the standard. If they had them in random order for whatever reason, then leave it alone.

I see this all the time when people think they're "helping" by showing a keyboard in alphabetical order. No, not helping.

It used to be that every single country would have one or more power plug types. Over the years some have faded out, sometimes reluctantly, sometimes stubbornly, but having fewer standards is almost always better.

The long-tail of UX is misunderstood indeed. Just because you can redesign something doesn't mean you should.
Lunch works too, but the earlier and the harder the better.
How similar is your language to rust?

Does it has ownership like rust? does it have explicit allocation and dealocation like C/C++? Does it have automatic memory management like Java/Python/Javascipt?

Good garbage collectors are difficult to implement and it's probably too much for an initial project. You can probably use Rc or Arc and hope nobody makes too many cycles before there is an official package in rust for a garbage collector. https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/faq.html#is-rust-garbage-col...

As the other comment says, in C you can use the Boehm garbage collector. I don't know if there is something similar for rust.
"Sadly it was killed when workstation 8.0 came out."

What ever happened to the intellctual property for that? Any chance it could be open sourced?
I don't agree with your interpretation, and neither does the user "unclebobmartin" here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15420618

This is not about emphasizing a point about caring for your craft. It's about open hostility to certain things that are not his particular preferred thing.
Sometimes first mover means first to achieve any significant valuation which means first to be acquired. As you point out, acquisitions can often mean death.
Sorry, I really don't agree with this. It doesn't matter how big or small you are, any company has a right to crowdfund. Big companies have their own set of problems, and crowdfunding can be a way to help those companies solve them. The point of crowdfunding is to allow the "wisdom of the crowd" to determine what ought to be funded and what not to. In that sense, if enough people believe that a project is worthy of funding then it is worthy.
I have multiple classmates and relatives who proudly did this. Interestingly, all are conservative and anti-affirmative action. Their pride was probably related to exploiting the system or proving that it's poorly policed.
The submitter is quite dedicated to self-promotion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=queserasera
This is the part I am unconvinced about - that "collaboration" is the issue at all. It seems like an easy go-to based on older assumptions. But plenty of woman I know I think would love tech but know nothing about it - but rather than what I feel are misconceptions that they would not enjoy it or could not meaningfully contribute.
You seem to be working very hard not to understand their point. Or mine.

The largest 500 retailers is an excellent representation of major retailers. It's also a reasonable indicator to use for general consumer behavior, because what makes retailers the largest is their use by consumers.

You could claim that a loss of 2 retailers isn't significant proof of decline, although since it's 2 of 5, a 40% decline seems notable to me. But regardless, having less than 1% market penetration in this segment (and declining) is a pretty good sign that it is not currently successful. If you pitched some VC partners with that as proof of traction, they'd laugh you out of the room.

The BitPay post is definitely interesting, but they're cagey enough about their numbers that it's hard to tell what's actually growing. You might be able to use it to make an argument that BitPay is succeeding in some other segment. But it definitely doesn't prove mainstream consumer ecommerce success. Which apparently isn't interesting to you, but to major ecommerce companies, it's very interesting indeed.
http://nypost.com/2015/04/12/mindy-kalings-brother-explains-...

(Not white, Indian)
Yes, of course the variance of the distributions is greater than the mean difference. That is trivial. But it ignores the actual point. Mean population differences have practical population-level effects. The fact that internal variance exceeds the mean difference is inconsequential and meaningless.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15423972
The problem would be bigger if they used their own money to fund development of new products in existing markets; that would put small startups at a disadvantage. What the article speaks about does not.
SWEEDZERLAND – TEASER 2
it's actually quite easy to consume a caloric surplus with only "healthy" foods. beans, steak avocado, nuts are all examples of "healthy" foods with high nutrient density and high caloric density.
> The lack of any mention that the DPRK is a murderous dictatorship that is starving its people to death is disturbing.

How many people are likely to be unaware of this fact?
You could be transacting your coffee with any crypto that Starbucks supports, and which is compatible with the lightning network. Litecoin will work for this example.

So Starbucks ask you to pay via Litecoin, which is fine by you even though you don't have a Litecoin balance. Atomic swaps over lightning network funded by some bitcoin you own, converted to Litecoin, is how you'll pay for your coffee.
Courage.

Try things. I have done web dev (front and backend), low-level OS stuff, game dev, math simulations, teaching, VLSI, etc...

In the end, looks like teaching and game development is what stuck. Took me years to discover this, but I'm happy with it.

If something does not appeal to you after trying it? Don't do it, go and do something else.

Be your own test.
And now they are given to programmers at large companies during interviews... We should revolt as well ;-)
Does anybody else feel that comparing not getting into MIT/Harvard/Stanford to being disenfranchised or, in the case of the Soviet example, preventing you from earning a livelihood is a bit ridiculous?

At minimum, as an Asian person that did not go to a top school, it feels very elitist.
> I wouldn't say that practicing these problems will make you a better software developer

I know. Apart from it being fun, I'm mostly interested for the social-proof value in interviews. I don't want to beat the dead horse either, but it's definitely a socially useful skill.

Thanks for the suggestions.
You could get a new publisher. If I ever write a book, I think I'd make LaTeX or TeX support one of my non-negotiable terms, or perhaps I'd self-publish.
> Unless they’ve been lead to believe that it works, and it doesn’t?

In the long run, it's pretty difficult to convince a business that something makes money if the money doesn't actually show up.

Sure, some businesses might be poorly run, and therefore be misled for a long time. But the industry as a whole would have noticed if spam didn't work.
To not mention it is conspicuous. Last year, an American tourist was tortured to death for taking a poster from his hotel room. I have a lot of trouble believing that the graphic designers in the DPRK aren't under similar threats. This piece smacks of context dropping. Not to mention that the author of that book promotes DPRK tourism. One might consider that American and think twice about going there.
Except Elizabeth Warren had already taught at UPenn and other top schools and was already a well known figure in bankruptcy law...
I wear a fitbit. Tuesday I was home sick from work, and all I did was move a little bit to grap a soda, use the bathroom, etc. Even so I went over 1k steps.
If I wanted another Chrome, I'd use Chrome. (And I do, for a subset of functionality.)

Speed and stability and whatever mean nothing to me, if I can't e.g. do 2/3rds of what I did before.

Anyway... Guess I'll be looking at the forks that continue to support what I actually do with the browser.

Maybe just as well. Web-Bluetooth, web-USB, and like stuff coming down the pipe, just seem like new surface for exploits. Of course, in reality, I don't expect the forks to have support approaching what Mozilla can provide. So, I take on some more risk.

I guess it's past time to look at dropping the browser into a VM, for a start.

I'm going to pay now, in terms of time and effort, for having deferred my own action, earlier. Oh, well: Nothing like a deadline to get one moving.
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