skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's also how I tend to use it. I think the main issue was that it was positioned as "hey, we built a better Facebook!"

This was somewhat accurate IMO since I prefer the layout, features (many of which Facebook added shortly after), and granular sharing (which Facebook most certainly lacks).

The main issue I ran across was that Facebook continued to dominate in the space because it was the first to gain a critical mass of users across a wide spectrum. MySpace was big with the younger crowd but typically you didn't find your mom, your boss, your barber alongside your friends and drinking buddies.

Facebook was the first big one where eventually all of your relatives (even the ones who typically didn't care about "techie" stuff) and acquaintances built a profile. So when G+ came out, most of my friends tried it out and quickly realized that they would still need to cross-post things to Facebook if they wanted to share with all of their contacts and not just those who like trying out new things.

Without a common API or protocol, there was no way to just pick the service you prefer and go on with your life. With email, I could switch from Hotmail to Yahoo to Gmail (or even roll my own server) in search of the right setup for my preferences. I could still email anyone who refused to give up their AOL account or who used their work email.

Facebook-style social networking requires everyone to be on the same platform in order for it to work. So instead of some people sticking with Facebook while a big chunk slowly migrated to G+ or other competitors over the space of a few years, you ended up with lots of people trying out G+ and getting annoyed that only a few friends bothered to read/reply.

So now it's mostly used as more of a subreddit-style thing where you can have topical groups rather than personal friends and acquaintances. I still do think it's a shame they couldn't "build a better Facebook" because it would be nice to have a few options for that type of thing. But unless some new player can convince absolutely everyone you know to migrate, it just isn't happening anytime soon.
That it is, although what they end up doing is making people work on their work machine as well as their cellphone. Source: me, working for a defense contractor with the same insane rules, but no "hand in your phone" rules on entry.
such a naive outlook. MongoDB has two things that are being incredibly overlooked right now:
1- company stability. So you don't have to redo your database in 3 years.
2- developer community / pervasiveness. So you have an easier time integrating it into your projects, even with its technical shortcomings.

I bet two years ago there was someone out there saying "if you're going to do NoSQL you better use RethinkDB over MongoDB"

How great the technology is, is absolutely not the only factor. Good thing people can take in many different factors when making their decisions.
What is AGI?
Whatever you do, just, please, add a link for the next page at the end of your results. You can move it later with JS once you downloaded more results, but make sure the link is there.

I'm quite tired of not being able to use sites on slow connections.
The downside is not unlimited when purchasing put options.
Personally, I think a max CEO pay of 200X average company salary would be a better metric... if Execs/Board members can only get so much reward and it's directly influenced by # of employees and average employee wage, -- want a pay increase... raise some wages or hire more employees.

Not sure the algorithm would be... but it needs to be tied directly to # employed and average salary to encourage growth, and discourage greed at the top.

Some CEO's do almost fraudulent things -- but get a golden parachute when they leave, this behavior needs to stop too. If a CEO fucks up - fire them, without any severance.
>I worked on it for a bit and i can assure you email clients are the biggest shit.

All the complaints you listed are features in my book. The only problem is that they even allow what they do.
Prosthetics and implants are the coolest shit
You definitely need to add a bunch of extra emacs configuration on top of the standard evil-mode stuff to get a fully intergrated emacs<->vim environment. On top of that, for most meta modes (e.g. dired, magit) you'll have to either find an evil-compat set of bindings, write your own, or get used to the emacs way of doing things in these special buffers.
Oh god, not tc. Anything but that.
The only paper I’ve seen so far with any generalization used timing feedback to incentivize closer attention. Generalized Outcomes were believed to be due to improved executive function/attentiveness, not memory, which is what the time pressure aimed for.
https://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Societies-Choose-Succeed-Rev... by Jared Diamond goes into substantially more detail about why Iceland was so environmentally sensitive and what the damage was. It is well worth reading.
Yeah, that worked, thank you!
I don't expect anyone will actually be racking their own hardware, but "AWS or CGE only" still sounds pretty narrow to me. Are VCs really going to object to Oracle's bare metal setup, or RackSpace with OpenStack?
Came to post exactly this. Once upon a time there were vast western lands open for grazing. There were even "wars" fought between cattle and sheep ranchers over grazing rights. Today the feds have closed off many areas -- for example, if I understand correctly, in the Hells Canyon area there were once 300,000+ sheep left to graze, where today there are effectively none. Certainly there were areas that were significantly damaged by overgrazing and a better balance for the public good was needed. That stated, one of the counter arguments is that it started with the ranchers, then the feds come along and close the roads, soon the public forests become inaccessible and unused altogether. There are a lot more public lands in the west apart from the major national parks. Certainly the Bundy's approach missed the mark in terms of articulating their arguments on this issue.
Prescient! 4 years and a bit.
Valid points about the ambiguity in that example, but I do believe 'none' is easier to parse than 'null' for the average person. I'm assuming that none is meant to represent, like null "no input was given" not "an input of zero/an empty list was given".
And https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround
So put a ref or a box in your optional.
Bounter: super fast and memory-bounded count estimation in Python
Very good question, and one I've been trying to answer in a concise way.

Essentially it's "static" in the sense that it could be used to generate a fully rendered page that is also an interactive (javascript) application.

It can also process actions on the server and generate a new HTML page in response to that that will be hydrated in the client.

It's an attempt to give you the best-of-both-worlds with a SPA, but one that arrives fully-rendered so there are no delays loading content. It's an SSR approach but without using a javascript engine or framework on the server, the server-side component is completely developed in Rust.

As far as "static app", I would say it's closer to something like Disqus being used on a static doc site or Firebase used for storage when github pages are used to host a site. It means it doesn't rely on server-side rendering to function as a PHP or ASP.net site does, but it can use it if available.
Here's a link to a another example - https://github.com/humanistic/REN
From a tech perspective I love this project, very cool. I think it's more likely to end up partially replacing IRC than tools like Twitter/Facebook though.
Renting one probably makes more sense for an ordinary programmer. If the chip is $5000, that's a lot of workload on a cloud server.
Current fire safety advice is for the humans to leave.

In a real fire animals are prey good at getting out. It's a tragedy for humans to die when they're looking for animals who've already escaped.
Raptor PCs are already taking pre-orders. https://raptorcs.com/content/base/products.html They start at $4,700 for a complete system (the desktop) or $2,400 if you just want the motherboard and one CPU.
In database speak, if your function takes nullable values it is "denormalized". If you design your data structures and flows right, you really don't have many of these.

> False. A null pointer dereference in C is undefined behaviour and can therefore easily be a security flaw (there's been at least one local root vulnerability in Linux due to this).

Yes. in theory... and yes I heard there are also some stupid compiler optimizations around this. Still, the point is, what do you get from checking for a condition that shouldn't happen? At most an assert is justified!

You don't check for the infinitely many other conditions that shouldn't happen, either.
My bicycle.

I commute year round (even in the winter). Life is busy. It's not always easy to get to the gym or set aside time to exercise. But at the very least I do 20-40 minutes of cycling a day. It's an efficient way to transform travel time into physical activity.

My bike is not super fancy. It's an old Trek mountain bike, worth less than 80 bucks these days without the customizations. I've put some work into making it my bike. I swapped out the flat handlebar with a butterfly bar. I have Shimano pedals that are flat on one side and clip-in on the other. I also have a Topeak trunk bag that slides on and off the rear rack and a Nite Ize HandleBand to strap my phone to my handlebar. The HandleBand allows me to listen/watch to lectures while going on long rides (on secluded bike-only trails, I should mention).
Right, and also since that IO memory-mapped address points to ROM whose backing store is likely NAND flash these days there should also be no reason to shadow the BIOS in RAM as the article state it does no?

Also thanks for the link.
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A lot of this applies to web-design for (what should be) static sites as well. The more complex and "engaging" you make your site, the less likely people are able to read it cleanly. I wonder if anyone is doing a/b testing with those as well?

KISS
I was just looking at fish.

It has a plugin system called fisherman. With plugins fzf, and z - An autojump clone.

https://github.com/fisherman/fzf

https://github.com/fisherman/z
Congratulations, Daniel! And thank you for cURL, it's just terrific.

It's wonderful to see work like this being officially recognized and rewarded. Somebody did a great job of writing a non-technical explanation of the award, too.
There's the possibility that he apologized and confessed to get ahead of a scandal because one or more of the people he harrassed/assaulted were about to come forward with their stories. The Weinstein saga has and is still emboldening many of his and other predators' victims to go public.
People who exercise often have strong biases confirming the efficacy of the type of exercise that they enjoy most.

Weight training, running, Crossfit, yoga, martial arts - I've heard enthusiasts of all of these forms of exercise claim that it's absolute best form of exercise that makes all other unnecessary.

Aside from any journalistic biases, I assume that the author really, really likes running.
Anything that costs $0 to make a copy of, but is sold at premium. Enterprise software like Oracle, etc. Digital Music. Streamed Movies and shows (Netflix).

Also, anything that costs nearly $0 at scale, but is sold at premium. Internet service. Cellular service.
When I first saw the name "HolyJit" On Reddit I thought it was going to be something new from the TempleOS guy.
I spent forever tweaking my plugins, now I just use SpaceVim and love it.

http://spacevim.org/

The default settings required very little changes for me and I've adjusted to their (clever) default key shortcut scheme.
Normally, people that does that do not know enough to care about keeping good technical staff.

What is also another good way to say that, shutting up or not, they deserve to be out of an engineer, so go immediately looking for another boss.
Thanks for sharing. This is run by my brother and I.

Legality is an interesting one, we sought counsel before starting. There is fair use protection for a parody or caricature of a celebrity. We’re doing this out of nothing but respect for Elon, and we hope it brings people some fun!
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The follower hole was a long running bug for us back when I was at Heroku, it existed for at least 5 years. In fact it'd become a bit of a joke so much so that when we'd start our planning process each time (http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2013/03/13/planning-and-priori...) we'd start by placing "fix the follower hole" in the high on effort and low on impact to use as an anchor for everything else.

Congrats to the team for digging into a hard problem which Daniel never solved ;), squashing it, and then the great write-up about it.
Become the master, or go away
Great rebuttal to one of the other commentator's lines... "Yes, the accumulation of capital gains should rightly go to the owners of capital." This position elevate the good of capital assets while ignoring/not balancing it with the "... acute, prolonged, and wide-spread suffering of conscious beings".
Emacs is available on Chromebook and Chrome
It's not the mentality per se; the conditions are very different in humanities versus STEM.

For humanities students, the department or division makes a lot of decisions that affect grad students, including the assignment of TA and RA positions, providing funding for conferences and other travel (e.g., to archives). Issues like fairly distributing TAships and keeping class sizes reasonable are things that a union could address. Their advisors were literally....advisors; some of my friends met with their advisor monthly or even less and their research was usually related to--but not an integral part of--their advisors' work.

In contrast, science PhD students (especially in biomedical fields) usually work for ONE professor and their work is usually a piece of that prof's overarching research plan. The prof (through grants) usually provides funds for salaries and research-related expenses, rather than the department. The department has very little effect on their lives; bad interactions with their advisor are the main source of misery. It's less clear to me how unions could solve this. They could prevent students from being dismissed for not working insane hours, but they can't force advisors to actually help students do and publish experiments, write them useful letters of recommendation, or things like that.
You could contribute to open source projects with an environmental focus. I don't have any particular recommendations unfortunately.
No musk was harmed in the making of Elon’s Musk
Ah, mastodon again, wonder how it is going. Logs in..

Your home timeline is empty! Visit the public timeline or use search to get started and meet other users.

Double checks, yes following people, checks again... closes tab, goes back to somewhere else.
Cortana partners with Harman Kardon
This name is already an amazing typography library... http://matejlatin.github.io/Gutenberg/
Resources for Getting Started with VMware NSX
Except for the long run you're pretty much guaranteed a brick when apple drops hardware support if you plan on running MacOS..

Not sure if these have replaceable battery which is another gotcha, so it might be a moot point in the 'disposable hardware' era..

That said, lack of replaceable battery on macs will change the resale value picture.. don't think that's really hit things yet..
Exactly. There is no way in hell I want JavaScript running in my email.
Well maybe by the time we get there it will.

The thing about mars is that we can't just export the parts of society we like and leave out the rest.

When humans colonize a new 'utopia', we tend to bring all the normal human problems with us too.
I saw a couple of dead comments from him here on HN earlier today or yesterday evening actually. First time in a long while I'd come across his comment so that was kind of random.

Edit: The comments were posted 6 hours ago, check his user page https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TempleOS
Baiduspider, Yandex, and Bing all generate a lot of robot activity but often seem to send little or no traffic.
Nice article.

One thing I'm noticing is that I have less and less time to learn and explore.

Between the work projects, the open-source projects of my spare time, family life and the entertainment I need to keep some sanity, I can't seem to find the time or the focus necessary for expanding my knowledge.

I still do a lot of learning, but as I suspect that most of you are doing, the learning I'm doing is only incremental and in small dozes. This means that I end up rejecting solutions that invalidate my prior knowledge, because those require a leap of faith and resources that I don't have.

Maybe this is what growing old feels like — experience and responsibilities ends up getting in the way of learning.

I do feel the need to become foolish again.
Postgres is better than MySQL but not because of how long it took to fix a bug
I think that's just the explanation of the name, not necessarily a rule how to pronounce it. As for pronounciation, let's compare: "see-you-are-el" vs. "curl". I think I'll stick with "curl" ;)
I was proposing a chaga tax, not an Amazon tax. I was just using Amazon as an example of a retailer since they sell it.
Reading up on IEX, it seems their API access is already free? [0] What's the value add from your service in this case?

[0] https://iextrading.com/about/press/2017/01/
If people want to try their hand at it, I recommend them to try to participate in game jam warm-ups, such as MiniLD[0] for Ludum Dare. Getting your feet wet gives quite some hint at the scope of things you have to handle.

[0]: http://ludumdare.com/compo/minild/
A house fire made my substantially less attached to my possessions. I take care of things, but if someone doesn't give something back or I break something, I don't really feel much emotional loss over it.

I had an extensive midcentury science fiction collection (about three thousand volumes) - most of those are out of print and a lot largely forgotten. That was a bummer.

I've been doing a fair amount of soldering lately, and for some dumb reason was resistant to buying helping hands for a while, instead building complicated fixtures that didn't work well. I was a moron, and those tentacle-clips are currently my favorite things.
At this point that is a feature, not a bug. That's the only explanation as almost all websites for products/services you don't already know of are utterly useless at explaining what precisely it is they do.

I still get pretty upset by this and try to avoid buying from such companies whenever possible in my professional role, but I'm pretty convinced it's on purpose so you have to call someone and let them "engage" you in the "value add" sales process.
Hopefully we will see this on a public cloud somewhere. I think there is a great business opportunity for someone to start a commercial hardware lab for developers which gives remote access to new / upcoming hardware. Would gladly pay 50-100 (possibly more depending on whats offered) bucks a month if I could get access to new GPUs / CPUs / networking gear / FPGAS etc. Would allow me to significantly downsize my homelab.
Hard to answer. But the things I use the most and are really old:

* 2000 Ford Mustang
* 2011 Lenovo T520
* 2008 Citizen 8651 watch
* Perl
Give me a break, every country is hugely protectionist, Canada as much or more than most. I'm a Canadian consumer who is tired of paying inflated costs on dairy and other Quebec and Ontario products just because of tariffs imposed to buy votes in federal elections.

Despite NAFTA, we also pay huge duties on products shipped from the States; we have a $80 limit on imports while Americans can ship ten times that amount from Canada duty free; once again to protect mediocre Eastern retailers from real competition.
I once had to fight with IT to unblock MSDN, and we were a Microsoft dev shop. Glad I do not work their anymore.
I am sure there are parts of the world where you could sell one of these and buy multiple houses :)
The key is also delivery. Once you factor in delivery it's always usually $30 for my spouse and me. And we almost exclusively buy from well-priced Asian restaurants.
A classic, 'must read' book on this subject-- All Politics is Local: And Other Rules of the Game> https://www.amazon.com/All-Politics-Local-Other-Rules/dp/081...
Why does it have to be either socialism or capitalism?

What if every employee became a shareholder and reaped rewards for such, making companies employee owned and 'SHARING' everything.. ---it's a more privatized way of running socialism and imho works better...

I do think gov't should cover healthcare/education -- maybe require service in military, or local community initiatives for those who are pacifists/not fit enough to serve.

Employee owned companies / Worker Co-ops I think are the wave of the future, and the next big economic shift. I'm wanting to start a web dev / growth hacking company built around that principle, where even the janitor would be an employee-owner (that's an example, janitorial would probably be contracted out).

Good examples are Winco foods -- where some cashiers who started with them in the 80s/90s are worth > $1 million dollars and are still working in-store: i.e. haven't necessarily moved to any sort of 'exec' position. They've just received shares/stock to raise up their living standards substantially.
I'm sure I'd have a different answer on a different day, but today the answer is a '68 Ford Taunus. V-4, front wheel drive, 4 on the column. It handled wet cobblestone like you can't imagine, had plenty of power for the autobahn yet spared the gas. Mostly, it was just fun to drive!

Commodore64 used daily from '84 until '92. I actually still have it packed away in a box somewhere. We've moved 40-some times, so certain things just never seem to get unpacked.

Yamaha FG-110. Not the greatest guitar in the world, but my first. (bought in '73) Replaced the frets over the years, and it could use frets again, so other guitars get more use these days.

Several dogs and few cats over the years, but I don't consider family members to be possessions.
Bay Area cities submit formal bid for second Amazon HQ as deadline looms
Exactly, its easy to get a VM on any of the major platforms and poke around to see what might be going on in the same host as you.
The first thing in a small screen an example. On larger screens it still appears at the top, but floating to the right of the "Goals" section.
> I do not understand the sensationalism. I think there would be reason to be upset if Uber decided to enforce a system where if you drive less than $x per week then y% of your nominal rate is cut. However, this is a incentivizing system, not a coercing system. In other words instead of punishing those that do not drive as much, it's rewarding those that do.

First off, "reward high performers" and "punish low performers" are equivalent as long as both systems are explained fairly up-front.

But more relevant here is that a percentage change is much more defensible. The worst case scenario is still getting money per mile, but less of it. That's very different from starting off $115 in the hole.

> It's effectively the equivalent of a loyalty card availability in industries of all sorts.

With a loyalty card, you're in full control of how much you purchase through it. It's not dependent on the luck of the draw over a course of a particular week.

It's the combination of a flat fee and the random (uber-controlled, too) nature that makes this deal throw up all sorts of red flags.
Trust Bugs
I think the KISS acronym is better if you swap the last two "S" words so that its keep it stupid simple.

It changes the acronym a bit from KISS to KISS but use your imagination.
On Reddit they call it Beetlejuicing.

/r/beetlejuicing