skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The GPA vs Income thing is not really the interesting thing in this article.

The REALLY interesting thing was that there was no corresponding benefit for women who joined sororities. The author kind of hand-waved over this with statements such as:

> One reason for this may be that women are more likely to form social bonds with other women outside of these structures.

Which honestly doesn't make a ton of sense. If they're saying that the bonds formed in sororities are less intense than those of fraternities b/c women socialize outside them, they really need something to back that claim up. The few women I know who did join sororities were very much dedicated to their "sisters" and it pretty much controlled their social life.

If they're saying that men need same-sex friendships to get positive career effects, and that women are more likely to already get those with or without a sorority, that's also not logical. Especially if you consider they studied the impact of fraternities over a time that includes dates from when the college was men-only and claim the fraternity effect was consistent. If "same sex social bonds" was really the driving factor, then men from non-fraternities should have seen the same effect back when the school was single-sex, since all of them would have more (and nearly exclusively) same-sex friendships.

Their other reasoning is:
> sororities hadn’t been around for long enough to provide the same networking opportunities as the more established fraternities at the former men's college he and his co-authors studied.

This one seems easy to falsify as well. Simply compare the salary outcomes from men in newer / less-established fraternities (I assume those pop up from time to time?) to those in older ones, and compare both of those to sororities with age of organization considered to see the difference. If age of fraternity is irrelevant, then it should be irrelevant to sororities as well.

I'm of the opinion that fraternities are a good way to make connections with people who don't mind doing favors for other fraternity members, including hiring/promoting/vouching for them over non-members for jobs. Since women are less likely to be in positions of power where they can do "favors' like that in the first place, and because studies show that women are judged more harshly for promoting diversity (aka hiring other women - see: https://hbr.org/2016/03/women-and-minorities-are-penalized-f...) there is less opportunity or incentive to use those connections to give career favors to sorority sisters.
I was about 9 years old when I first played Leisure Suit Larry at my friends house in the 80s. We were like ninjas with a lookout and everything, most of the time failing to guess the age test questions.

I recently played all the way through for the first time ever, and I thought it was a great game. I giggled at some of the jokes that my younger self didnt get, and the exploratory nature of the text parser really holds up. I could see how the updated versions would ruin it... Now I want to make a game in this style.
That's only true of the presidential election. Senators in states other than those can often go either way, and in the House it's pretty much district-by-district whether your vote matters.
> But now distribution is free

That is laughable. Middle-men like YouTube (Google), record companies and other channels take most of your money. I wouldn't call that free.

(Discoverability is part of distribution)
Yup. The value of software has been driven literally to $0. Yet I still keep writing software :-)
> The terms "open", "proprietary", and "free" don't have consistent meaning across our communities.

While any community sufficiently large has some members using terms in unusual ways, Open Source and Free Software now have very clear generally accepted definitions, and “proprietary”, in the licensing context, as well (as “neither Open nor Free”.)
It might help if they hired local journalists or republished stories from local media sources.

It's pretty ridiculous reading articles from coastal media that covers other parts of America as though it were a strange, foreign land, full of unfamiliar customs.

Or maybe that really is how the NY/DC/SF/LA ruling class feels?
Everyone is very focused on the contrast between the Radio royalties and the Streaming royalties - but we all skipped right past that first item: $149,000 in royalties for writing a song (just the first 3 years).

That's a lot of money - more than most people make in 2-3 years - for what probably amounted to a few weeks of work. And we're supposed to feel sorry for him because he couldn't retire on it? Seems to me if he got 1 of these per year he'd be pretty set.
that's not p2p file transfer.
The point is that AIM was a social network before the idea was even conceptualized. The concept of a friend activity feed existed on AIM in an ad hoc manner before it was hard coded into facebook/twitter/etc: it was standard to go down your list of friends and see who was doing what based on their status message. If someone at Aol had any foresight they could have been on the ground floor of the rise of social networks.
Same here, not sure when I've last used the dialpad other than borrowing a friend's phone.
They already have Google accounts so they should be covered from privacy perspective, but thank you for your concern.
maybe the phone tree options could be described using some sort of markup language.
Yea, this definitely seems inspired by Why's style. The art is similar, the story is absurd, metaphorical, and fun. Man, I miss that guy!
Building a brand for your app – Bumble case study
Languages like F# give a nice sweet spot between static typing and dynamic typing. It has Type Providers that "generate" code on the fly as you are typing. You don't need to specify all the types, it will infer many types for you. So, you almost feel like you are writing in a dynamic language but you it tells you if you are writing something incorrectly.

I would not consider a language to be modern unless it has Type Providers I consider this to be such an essential feature. I believe Idris and F# are the only languages that have it. People are trying to push TypeScript to add it - who knows if it will happen.

Many are saying that if you have a dynamic language you just need to be disciplined and write many tests. With good static typed languages like F# you can't even write tests on certain business logic since the way you write your code you make "impossible states impossible", see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcgmSRJHu_8
To summarize, Uber's app had a private entitlement (com.apple.private.allow-explicit-graphics-priority) that Uber says was used to draw the map on a phone and send to their Watch app. Updates to the Uber app and the Apple Watch now allow them to do it directly on the watch. The entitlement is no longer needed and Uber says it's being removed.

The entitlement could have been used to record users' screens without their knowledge. On the one hand, there's no evidence of this having ever happened. On the other, Uber has been known to engage in activity explicitly against App Store rules to collect data on iPhone users, so it's hard to take their word for it.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/04/tim-cook-once-slappe...

EDIT - note that Uber's response says their device fingerprinting was withing Apple's guidelines. But Apple has gone out of their way to make it so that apps can't fingerprint devices between installs, so color me skeptical. They've gotten to bend a lot of rules that I don't think I'd get away with.
It shouldn't. Xcode usually switches to the shallowest stack frame that has source code available when hitting a breakpoint.
Remember, in King Lear the Fool was the only one able to speak truth to the King.

You're allowed to try to be funny about anything. Whether or not you succeed is dependent on how good you are. A non-funny joke is not funny. However, any joke is funny depending on how you execute it.

If you don't like a game, stop playing. If you don't like a TV show, stop watching.
> If the comments are [dead] but not [flagged][dead], the account is banned.

That's not quite right. These comments were killed by anti-spam software. When this happens to legitimate accounts we rely on the community to vouch for them or email us at hn@ycombinator.com.
The pseudo code expresses the gist very succinctly, hence kudos. It's like an abstract of a scientific article. Not all important details, but the few key things.
The beauty of Go
Brian from BackBlaze reached out and provided some feedback:

I checked into it, and we think your restore is slow for several reasons:

1) Lots of tiny files (we are fixing this in a rewrite literally this week)

2) It landed on a slow restore server. (We are planning on decommissioning
that server soon because it is 8 years old and slow.)

We have the technology to move your restore to a faster restore server.
However, the restore experts here tell me your restore is actually 90%
through the part that would speed up, so they recommend just
"let it run". I really really hope it will be finished and ready for you
in the next few days.

If you need some of your files any faster, I think you should
prepare several smaller restores. It turns out that if you prepare
four restores, each one 25% as large as the original, the four
restores will complete 4x faster because they are prepared by
four separate servers.

You can create up to 10 simultaneous ZIP restores, and they
are totally free, so feel free to spin up a few more restores
even if they overlap with the original large 1.1 TByte restore.

Please reach out to me again if your restore isn't ready by
Tuesday (October 10th).
1992 email account from an ISP that was acquired by another ISP that was acquired by another ISP that was acquired by EarthLink. Still at the original domain.
Most of my right wing friends are the Ayn Rand kind and are deeply offended by the idea of paying other people to live.
What Is a Good Data Model
I find this very important. I will find ways to turn competitive games into cooperative games just to keep my sons' interested in them. It works wondefully, and the increased engagement has a great payoff in seeing them get better at the games.
That's no cult, that's a Utopia!
Ask HN: Dropbox like site that respects .gitignore?
I am looking for a online file storage like Dropbox that support .gitignore. I know I can selective sync in Dropbox and Gdrive but that is a very bottom up approach.

After some research it looks like Ubuntu One supported this but now the file storage is shutdown it seems.

So any ideas?

PS. My main reason for not using dropbox is that it starts syncing the node_modules and vendor folders inside my projects which wastes a lot of CPU and bandwidth.
“Tech-infused”. Like tech is an herb or a spice? Surely a sign that there are no coherent ideas to be found from that writer.
Ghostface Killah Launches His Own Cryptocurrency
> Blue Blood Democrats pushed Bernie off the national stage attempting to elect Hillary Clinton

What the DNC did in last year's primary was shameful, but...

> leaving the disadvantaged to only vote for the candidate who offered to champion their cause (Donald Trump)

Laughs...he never championed their cause. He told them all their problems were because of minorities and that he'd return the country to a time of bigotry and racism where things would magically be better because they were white. He's since taken the office of The President and used it to try to screw over poor whites in every way imaginable and tried to placate them by making it even worse for minorities. It's hard to blame under-educated people for falling for Fox News propaganda, but you still can't deny their complicity in enabling their own situation. What they did in the general election to defeat Hilary they could have done in the Primary to support Bernie. They didn't.
> it says Java derives solely from C++, that's not remotely true

Not really, I just assumed the one I posted was trying to highlight syntax similarity. The ones you posted are just as terse, there's no way I can figure out if the Lisp arrow to Java in your first link is something about the type system or how it handles reference or the like
I'm probably a little older. We had dot plan files.
Agreed: I watched Singin' in the Rain recently. Donald O'Connor's physical comedy is really the standout element in that movie.
If you receive SSI disability payments you qualify for Medicare even if you're not 65. However, you don't qualify until 2 years after you're eligible. People typically will go on Medicaid since they can't work and their low (or non-existent) income qualifies them for Medicaid.
The Skylark configuration language
cat verysecret.csv | cut -f 1 -d ' ' |fpaste -z -x -a

Wait, I meant paste.
No, that's wrong. PA developed their own assets.

Tynan Sylvester (the Rimworld developer) made his own art, intended as placeholder art, minorly inspired by Prison Architect. The games however are extremely different when it comes to mechanics.

This game however seems to directly copy a large chunk of PA's gameplay.
Does it use the new hidden services technology yet?
As dpark mentioned, code formatting doesn't work well for quotes here. I like to use this format which is about as good as we can do with the limited formatting options available here:

> *A sentence or paragraph without line breaks.*

> *Another paragraph of the quote*.

The blank line keeps the paragraphs from running together.

Since it's too late for you to edit, here's a mobile-friendly version of what your friend said:

> Somehow I really thought there would be an AIM emoji <emoji of man running: UTF-8 \xf0\x9f\x8f\x83\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbb>

and your reply:

> If any service should have an emoji standard, it’s AIM.
> This is refreshing compared to most books, which hit you with the Emacs cinderblock to the face right in the preface.

While if they use Emacs' lisp features that approach could be useful for some people (mainly those unfamiliar with or undecided on an editor to use), it's likely to strike others that don't already use Emacs as extremely annoying. I'm glad I haven't encountered that (but I haven't read a book on Lisp either).
> they literally killed their own golden goose with stupidity

I think this statement misleads readers.

Was there organizational stupidity? Always, in every organization. What kept AOL from capitalizing on messaging and social media was lock-in to the subscriber business model, which when combined with market defined quarter-to-quarter EBIDTA driven board goals did not permit leaping at what the people at the core of the (AIM) business knew were the possibilities.

About the only thing they could have reasonably got away with would have been some kind of spin-out, which was always opposed by the subscriber revenue side's logic. Guess what: the folks with the multi-billion $ revenue stream win those arguments.

So, not stupid. Bound by the market and biz model, and not managed by suicidal execs. So in the long run it took folks with tens of billions of dollars of private risk money to take that leap.
Can we stop talking about Uncle Bob? He's like the old, weird, drunk, racist uncle at a wedding. His ideas haven't really been relevant for about 10 years, and he is increasingly posting ranty, politicised, attention-seeking diatribes...
I was going to say. Safety net as a percentage of gov't spending has only increased. That would suggest we're not dismantling anything.
Perhaps since standup comedy particularly relies on edginess and cultural context, as opposed to some other mediums?
Other than my work (which happens to be related to telephony apps) I rarely use the dialpad.

If I meet a new person I enter 10 digits and that is the extent of my usage. Not to say that the design in use is justified by limited use, but my point is that dialing a number is already antiquated. Most of the time I dial something from a saved/shared contact, maps, or from a link in an email or on a website - never actually typing in a number.
I wouldn't like to see CSS replaced with lisp. CSS is declarative, lisp is imperative/functional.
I don't think his problem was with the $149,000, but rather, with the trend toward $200 for tens of millions of streaming plays.

I.e., it might not be long before a comparable song with comparable popularity earns him $1000 instead of $150,000.
I'd argue "tech --> brain" is just as much an interface as "brain --> tech" is.
I think you've hit a bit of a logical mistake here. The study doesn't show that members of rich and powerful fraternities get higher incomes. It shows that the average fraternity member gets a higher salary. This is moderately surprising to me. Instead of the rich, it is surprising that any grouping of people might raise salary expectations. Keep in mind there are plenty of fraternities who don't even have a fraternity house and I'm assuming they are included in the average.
Acquisition of the RAG proteins responsible for generating the diversity of your immune system's B and T cell repertoire (allowing you to develop defenses to microbes you have never seen before) may be the result of a herpes virus inserting itself into germ line cells of our ancestors (likely sea lamprey or sea urchin).

In short, without viruses we wouldn't be able to defend ourselves against viruses (and other pathogens).

Source: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

PDF: https://www.pdf-archive.com/2017/10/06/journal-pone-0005778/
> My understanding is that a blockchain is a distributed, immutable database.

Then your understanding is wrong. It's document timestamping system, dragging
along all that data is just a side effect of an implementation detail.
Fast Fractal compression implementation upto 16x speed up on single core
This is not my original thought, but what if that "beauty" is manufactured? What if it's not genuine beauty, but an illusion created by your mind to validate the experience of taking the MDMA? I guess the research would prove whether that's the case.

I realize that's a pretty extreme statement to make. But from what I understand, we hardly realize how the mind works. I am not saying don't dismiss the research. I just wonder if we are trying to sell psychedelics as a magic pill, when maybe just awareness is all you need.

What about people who have bad trips on these drugs? Do we dismiss them as people who aren't just suppose to take psychedelics?
> The Quantum performance is amazing.

Agreed! I am astonished, and I switched back to FF after many, many years.

> But I cant get my nightly to remember my logins.

Quantum is in beta now, did you try that?
Thanks bdamm. Yes, in particular, I am looking for pointers to that, I suppose. Perhaps, somewhere there is one and we could travel there.
I've been at same company for 13 years. I'm only on my 2nd computer, both ThinkPad. (the expensive model that you can pick up by edge of its display and swing it around even though it weighs 6 pounds)

Usually, our company forces us to upgrade laptop after 3 years, but when I heard they were changing supplier to HP, I told them, over my dead body. Eventually they stop harassing.

3 years go by, I get the same notice. This time, instead of HP, they had moved onto Dell.

Horrified, I told them to go pound sand, and they eventually went away.

Another 2 years go by, and I must've ended up on our IT's most wanted list or something. I relent, and turn my 8 year old machine in. Mind you, this laptop went through daily grind, tens of thousands of docking and undocking, enterprise software updates. (you know how brutal those are)

When IT guy saw my machine, he said, "Wow, I haven't seen this in years! Hey guys, check this out!"

Luckily, by then, my company had switched back to Thinkpad.

That was almost 6 years ago, and I'm still rocking my W520.
I know of several Communes that worked just fine for 20+ years. What's interesting is not that they die off, but that the form so naturally. To survive they need to be like collage fraternity's and focus on new membership regularly, but naturally occurring Communes don't have that drive out of thin air.

Monastic orders for example can be stable over hundreds of years, but to pull that off they need a focus on new membership. They fail not when the last member dies, but when nobody signed on 20 years before then.

PS: There are ideological reasons that people oppose communes, and many had significant issues. However, the jump from 6 young people sharing rent, to 20 young people living together is not that difficult. And at 20 people economy of scale kicks in where buying in bulk saves money but meticulous record keeping is not worth the effort.
>Of course a white 20 year old can get hired. Of course he has the time to walk an hour to his job and work there for 12 hours since he has no children or elderly relatives to take care of. Of course he can move furniture, since he's young and healthy. Of course he can get a job without a criminal record.

Is it unreasonable to expect this level of effort out of any 20yo who's options are "be poor" or do this?

Not being white and having a criminal record aren't going to stop you from making ends meet. They just make it harder to proceed upward after that point.
This is probably the last post I will make lest I be accused of spamming...and I am probably wasting my breath...but I want to put a human face on this.

I am middle aged. I was strong and healthy and worked multiple jobs serving the community. I paid taxes and believed that if I needed help it would be there. I was ruined by unneeded and poorly done surgery I was scared into having and since then everything had rotted and faded as systems failed me and people turned on me. I live in severe pain daily with no healthcare beyond an income based primary care clinic for once or twice a year nonsense. I live trapped in the middle of nowhere with no public transport with the last people who will offer a bed and they did so to lord it over others and resent me daily. My meager partial pension covers my food and medication and the big expenses like a CT scan or surgery I have put off for years are ignored. I eat Walmart branded canned goods and cheap fresh stuff. I don't even have a computer anymore as mine and the backup from when I had a life gave up. Once someone donated an old one to me but it had issues and cost too much to fix. I use an external HD on a borrowed laptop I have irregular access to just to get online and have some exposure to the outside world. BTW the internet here is 1mpbs and irregular so add that to the mess. Imagine thinking daily of ending your life or deciding to run away to a cheaper place knowing it will be a dead end too sooner than later but you have no other hopes.

Now...if you read all that. Imagine living that way. With nothing but scraps. Imagine seeing no hope. Imagine years go by losing more and more. Now imagine how buying some junk food or a beer or a lottery ticket or some other "waste of money" brings you just a tiny little escape or joy or moment to not suffer and hate everything. Imagine when you DO that people jump all over you judging you and making you feel worse. I don't know if you even can truly imagine living like that...but I hope you do and reconsider. We are human beings and not abstract objects. We want lives as much as you do. Please consider this next time you encounter this topic or someone you are put off by...despite what you probably think it could be you next.
they operate at datacenter scale: https://xkcd.com/1737/