skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honest curiosity, how do you feel about Marketers, Salespeople, and Recruiters (people usually associated with good looks and high-level social skills) joining HN en masse and commenting regularly over the last few years?
Back in the early 2000, when I was doing a bit of C coding, even our C builds would take on average one hour per build configuration.

So doing a full release build across all UNIX and Windows variants supported by our product would take almost a full working day.
When restaurants and bars use an AB InBev-owned distributor and thus are restricted to only having AB InBev brands on tap, I lose the choice to drink one of those thousands of other beers when I'm there. Not going to a concert because the venue has the wrong beer distributor is not really tractable.
Yeah but your answer was so weak, talking about lawsuits that have made the news. I have also seen, personally for example, allegations of sexism regarding employee ratings that didn't turn into a news article about a lawsuit. That means you can't use notoriety of lawsuits to precede the use of "QED."
Are you trying to prove the point of my second and third sentences? :) Otherwise I'm not really sure what you're trying to say.
If you're goal is just to copy an existing established site, you're going to either have to generate a lot of content yourself or do a ton of advertising. But, if you're creating something truly new and unique that people will love, then you'll likely have no problem getting a community to come build around it.

E.g. Back in 1997 I built a chess website for playing correspondence chess. There were lots of other sites for playing correspondence chess, but none with actual enforced time controls, and even the weakly/non-enforced time controls were very slow (like 1 move every 7 days). Mine was the first where users could choose their time controls, and the time controls were automatically strictly enforced. The only advertising I ever did was when it initially launched was to post in a couple of USENET groups and forums, and it took off from there. Within a few years sites with deep pockets started popping up with the same idea,and the sheer number of sites that do the same thing today make it impossible for a site with no revenue like mine to get any attention. But even with my almost no advertising, it still got to about 15,000 active users at its peak, and still has several thousand today.
Under-utilized machines in people's stack.
Sales departments everywhere will fight tooth and nail to defend their disproportional power over not only volume but also margin. Who would they be, if they would only be offering subtle personal favors for orders, and never receive any for favorable conditions? It's a matter of balance!

Sorry for my sarcasm, I do understand that outside of consumer goods and commodities, price determination is basically unsolved. But I stand to my point: any possible solution that undermines the grandeur of sales departments will be met with hostility.
That brings the count for number of times the US has attempted to foment a revolution in Cuba to at least 2.
OK so the implication being that with this thing found, someone could make a USB device that when plugged into an intel machine immediately gets control?
Why not both?

If she were a dude with an unfitted black tee, it seems a lot less likely that she'd be accused of being 'fake'.
What extra value would those service providers provide? I assume here that the service level would be Gbit internet with service levels as high as electricity, which is also a utility monopoly at least here in SF.
You do realize that a) corporate welfare is egregiously prevelant in the United States and b) the “government” isn’t a single entity, right? If a democratically elected (roughly) assembly, e.g. people with a ballot measure, a city council, a state legislature, etc. decide that municipal internet is better for society and provided as a government service, that is absolutely that body’s right. Government doesn’t exist to outcompete the private sector. Government is not just another Amazon or Google or Walmart (ideally; in practice it kind of is). It’s there to provide stability, basic services, justice, and an overall formal structure so civilized society can exist. If fiber is one of those services, and that’s the will of the people, then so be it.
Given what we know of the NSA's past predation, why would one think this is not intentional?
Nobody is saying that only white men have bias. However, white men are overwhelmingly in positions where that bias can be used to discriminate against others. Women may have just as much, but far fewer of them are in positions where that bias comes into effect.
Roads? Where we're going, Marty, we don't need roads.
Yes, that district attorney will no longer have free hand creeping on Osama Ben Laden's web diaries and his sextings

On the downside, terrorists will now freely weave their evil conspiracies in web diaries of teenage girls. Nothing is more detrimental to American National Security® than privacy of your drunk selfies, teenage girls' web diaries, and your creep tweets to your ex-boss

P.S. pfff, I'm just sarcastic. Don't you get that i am not saying this for real?
You must be new to this. Literally any change shows that bitcoin will win.

Something bad for bitcoin? And it still can't stop it! Look at how resilient it is!

Something good for bitcoin? TOLD YOU SO to the moon!
I love my Casper Mattress, I think longingly of it when I'm on the road for work... but this gives me pause.. just a little.
I have a problem with anticompetitive practices from ABI
Reading this, I'm reminded how little I understand why so many car people aren't excited about electric cars: all sorts of engineering problems to re-think and ideas to try out.
Vue.js Community in Oslo, Norway has been established
>The proper way to view it is that the university is giving you an "in kind" benefit, in this case a free education.

Under no circumstances does a company in industry pay an intern $20k/year, "waive" a $40k/year "training fee", and then go to the government and register it as an in-kind benefit. Here in the much-vaunted "real world" outside academia, we may pay trainees and interns less than the full salary, but we don't try to put a tax penalty of half the salary on being an intern.
SPOILER WARNING: stranger things season 1

The reason why free range parenting has gone down so much can be seen in the series.

There was a believable scene in which one kid bullied another into taking an almost certainly fatal jump into the quarry, and was only saved by paranormal means.

A world in which more free-range parenting is the norm inherently implies a world in which kids more often pay the consequences of their actions, which can be death or maiming.

We, as a society, do not seem to have a stomach for this, to the point where free-range parenting has been equated with neglect.
Northern Americans?
Slight correction, Ethereum may do PoS in future, it currently does not, it is a PoW CryptoCurrency like bitcoin.
Because of the state of miners ETH right now, I suspect it may take a long time to migrate, with several contentious forks.
I suspect bitcoin will always be PoW.
The last argument there seems one that would appeal to people on the right only who would be against this because it's considered "big government" anyway.
I'd say mobile search and mobile web services, since Yahoo Japan was/is a legitimate joint venture by Softbank and Yahoo where they started it from the ground up, and the services being pre installed on Softbank phones made a huge strategic impact on user adoption.

They are the low cost leader in mobile telephony, have a vast solar operation (heavy govt subsidies), and have a powerful contract software Salesforce.
I suck at maths too (we should start a club!), but playing around with Calc the best fit I could get (for working set) was with quadratic exponential, i.e. in the form of e^(n^2+n). It would be interesting if someone who actually knows anything about this could chime in and say conclusively what the growth rate really is here.
they were primarily because she wanted to enhance her body and become a cyborg

I'm sorry, can you explain what breast enlargement is to do with "becoming a cyborg"? I am genuinely baffled.
Ah yes, because corporations obviously don’t do any of those things (all of which are enabled by governments anyway).
I think it's not so much that this Logitech issue validates DIY, as the fact that it validates not relying on external services. Using stuff that will still work if the company shuts down.
Lest we forget iProvo:

http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=56288307&itype=CMSI...
so countless bitcoin developers acting in their own self interest is somehow a sign of a Blockstream takeover, but handful of people that got together to decide on the fate of a fork with idiot one developer is business as usual. you'd have to be a moron to believe that.

an article from Dec 2016 in no way disproves the reality of today. a huge amount of value has entered the network, fees are low and the number of transaction per block have increased, segwit adoption is increasing and the community is strongly in favor. I don't know this jaqen dufus, and and Rizun is an incompetent fool. The 'chief scientist' has no clout and his BU software was complete failure and joke in a long line of takeover attempts and subversions including classic and others. segwit is the most thoroughly reviewed code that's ever been written, a vulnerability in SSL was revealed and patched as a result of this work but if you don't like segwit please use BCH instead, lol.
Doctor with no computer skills vows to battle medical board in court
Week 44 in Information Security, 2017
Calling what Facebook has an "algorithm", while true, probably misleads here - this comment implies that the Facebook algorithm is somehow smart and does this automatically, and that Snapchat's user data would make a great training database.

My understanding is that Facebook are generating hashes from images their users choose to send them of themselves, then blocking any images that match those hashes on their network. You don't need to be a huge player to build something that works the same way really quickly - there's no smarts trying to identify the images to block here, the humans have already done so.

That Facebook system is a hard sell to me - you are choosing ahead of time to share your most intimate photos with Facebook. To implement that feature in such a way as to destroy all traces of the original file and keep only the hashes? That's a big amount of trust to place in Facebook, especially when you have no insight into how this is being performed server side.

At any rate, investing in a business like Snap primarily to get naked pictures of people strikes me as an unlikely reason. There's no shortage of such "content" out there...
Releases page always has pre-built packages (look for "Downloads"):

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases

I've updated the wiki URLs also, thanks for mentioning it.
Unfair comparison. Bitcoin benefits all who hold it, not a single corporation.

If anything, my "GDP" comparison was off the mark because GDP typically represents a country's total wealth, and bitcoin can't have a GDP. But it's a useful abstraction that comes pretty close.

Those bitcoin paper millionaires are investing in startups like Pinkapp, and Pinkapp is hiring programmers. All of this is happening outside the legal system. What does that say to you about bitcoin's ability to affect the world?
Perfect locality for listening sockets, and three epic SystemTap scripts
I don't doubt that this is the case many times.

On the other hand, I'm beginning to think the pendulum has swung way too far in the other direction.

I feel I have worked hard to get to where I am. But just because I am white and male, I'm no longer entitled to enjoy the privileges associated with this hard work and skillset I've developed.

I'm all for equality of opportunity. But this equality of outcome is not something I'm going to be shamed into supporting.
If Underarmour refuses to buy your running tracker, pivot to a beer review site!
It forces them to unify everything except VAT (and land tax). Or, and I only realised this just now, do something complicated with imports, customs, and how to handle cross-border sales of digital goods (the EU does this, but it is a mess).

If I had to guess, I’d suggest haven’t already done what you suggest for at least one of these reasons:

1) because it’s economic mutually assured destruction

2) because tax codes are long and complicated (and sometimes deliberately written as political favours), and they’re as afraid of touching it as PayPal are of touching whatever Musk wrote 20 years ago.

3) because businesses that have revenue (Apple, $229bn) comparable to the GDP of the nations whose tax systems they are exploiting (Ireland, $293bn; Luxembourg, $59bn) is novel and governments are slow to adapt.
It might be better to start the program, and then, if the finances of all academia get nuked by Congressional Republicans, your adviser can help you find some place outside the USA to transfer or something.
can anyone please provide some feedback on data analytics bootcamp offered by UC Berkeley
Proof of work is conspicuous consumption economics.
Both good points. If I may ask, why is MS dropping the case if they had good points to make something come of it?
Love Rubyflow. I was just on that site before surfing over to HN.
Aw man, I was going to say that.
Where does “automatically” come from? This has the same ring of ideological boilerplate that we've asked you many times not to post here, so we've banned the account.

We're happy to unban accounts if you read the guidelines and then email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we believe you'll follow them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Java 9 compiler fails with the following error (for similar code):

Error:(4, 9) java: UTF8 representation for string "LMain$Clazz<LMain$Cl..." is too long for the constant pool
The gain is decoupling deploy and implementation, not latency performance (or network reliability).
Oh, and this is an ad that ran in the U.S. airwaves.

https://youtu.be/OTSQozWP-rM
The big alcohol companies force distbutors to carry certain products, or even not carry comepetitors products.

An example: you want to keep selling a macro like Bud or scopes that makes up 40% of your revenue ? Drop that local brewery, we have a “craft” IPA to sub out.

They get the revenue the same, you get the illusion of choice, and the new company gets to pound sand.
As in, assume the review sites are compromised and ignore them, but also give money to the company that might or might not be posting biased reviews there? So you're only denying yourself the potential benefit of the review site while still giving up your money.
Why does Taylor Swift write so many one-note melodies?
Lower block times increase orphan risk and increase the size of the chain (because there are more block headers), but I suspect Satoshi pulled 10 minutes out of the air and now it can't be realistically changed.
Perhaps there are really two separate relationships between the school and the grad student, and we're confusing everything by conflating them. On one hand they're acting as researchers and TAs, and being paid (a pittance) for that. On the other hand, they're students buying educational services from the school, which they're putatively paying for out of their compensation package.
Something like Forest or Hamilton Ave becoming pedestrian only would be great.

That being said, University Ave becoming increasingly "corporate blasé" in its selection of restaurants (basically great for a business meeting and little else) is sad to see.
Because the vast supermajority of academics vote for Democrats, and because the Republican base has a cultural preference for basing the economy on physical labor in heavy industries. Basically, it comes down to what the Congresscritters passing this consider a "real job". Tax subsidies will be used to transfer money to "real work", and tax penalties to take it away from "fake work".

If you have a graduate degree (spoilers: I do), Congress is now labeling your education and your job as fake work.
Smudge, a DSL for state machines, from Bose
I think the key point here is that that set is probably small for most people and also differs from person to person. Someone else might insist on trying their keyboard but be happy to buy a bike online. And that's before we take into account people trying out goods in-store and then buying them online.
Possibly, yes. Even just some idea of which urls are involved and of which operations are being slow would be useful.
Given the remarkably shady business practices of the entrenched players (past and present), I don't consider this relentless consolidation to be desirable. Additionally, in other markets where such consolidation has happened, it has historically not been beneficial for consumers (internet access, cell providers, etc).

I primarily interact with this market via the grocery store, not the bar tap, but I find this app [0] to be useful in that context. It makes it relatively painless to leverage my (minuscule) purchasing power to support small businesses, and reject these kinds of intentionally-obscured corporate maneuvers.

[0]: http://www.craftcheckapp.com/
That's why I tend to link to the anchor of the README title, if I can, e.g. https://github.com/ibm/type#ibm-type Something I picked up from @jsvine, who pointed out that when they open-source their data stuff from BuzzFeed, it makes it much more accessible for the general public when the first thing they see is not the code view.
can't help but wonder if alphabet would be allowed to buy 12% of wechat if it wanted to.
Buckminster Fuller's serious proposals for his Dymaxion Car aren't very far off from that!
This person was asking for advice. There are many different was of providing encouragement. Not everyone needs you to hold their hand. Some people just need a push in the right direction. Tough love, etc.

Without knowing more details of the situation, we are all just speculating.

Also, nobody said anything about FU money. If you’re single with no dependents, you just need enough money to survive and use your laptop.

People are way too quick to jump into corporate jobs out of college. If your career is not your priority in life, I understand it. But so many people are influenced by truisms, tribal knowledge, zeitgeist, etc. that it has essentially become propaganda for the status quo. Leave college, join the workforce, do your part in society.

Nobody questions it. Then a few years down the road they come to HN asking what to do about the overwhelming corporatism directing their life. The truth is, there is no fix. The only solution is to create and control your own environment.

There are so many other options for how to spend your life than a “safe” corporate job. It’s sad how quickly people are to declare themselves ineligible to participate in the opportunities those options afford them.
Another competitor is CoCalc (https://cocalc.com/) created by the SageMath developers.
Tuna sandwich -- half can tuna, mayo, relish, bread, cheese, 360 calories for about $1.02. Prices and calories derived from serving sizes on the various product labels, looking up the products on walmart.com. Takes about a minute to mix the ingredients together and make a few sandwiches.

Can also bake a potato in the microwave, throw some butter, sour cream, shredded cheese, and seasoning on them. Baked potatoes (or skillet fried, etc) make fairly cheap meals.

Pasta is something that is cheap and easy to make, for time management purposes, boil it while you are taking a shower in the morning. Throw it (along with some tomato sauce) in a ziplock baggie in the morning, take it with you for lunch.

I realize that time is limited esp. if you are working 80 hour weeks at minimum wage. And then there is the time it takes to stop by walmart to pick up the ingredients. However many people that I know that complain about lack of time also spend quite a bit on either watching TV, or taking smoke breaks, or other things that would be better spent on meal preparation instead of running to McDonalds.
>With plaintext mail you can reach everyone, with HTML mail only a fraction of that. //

Any stats on that? I'd reckon you're in 5x9s territory for those that are reachable by HTML mail (vs. plaintext). Also I don't know about other mail clients but Thunderbird has a setting to send HTML email in plaintext too, choose your poison.

For me text based emails are far less common and are more often than not "Hi, my name Lena, I saw your info on Facebook and want to know you well [...]". Indeed the only non-spam plaintext emails I can recall are dev mailing list mails.
This sentence no verb!
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Deep, solid expertise and resources, highly professional standards, and a deeply rigid bureaucracy. The latter make accomplishing anything so difficult that it's not worth trying unless you are a customer/partner with influence and unless a big payoff makes it the high cost in time and frustration worthwhile. I avoid buying IBM for that reason - I did recently, because I had little choice, and nothing has changed since the last time I became their customer.

IME, the overwhelming response I get from IBM employees to a problem is they tell me about their bureaucratic rules, with no flexibility, and not about solutions to my problem. It's like dealing with a computer algorithm: They follow very specific pre-written instructions, and cannot and will not deal with anything the programmer didn't specifically anticipate. They don't care that a problem exists or needs to be solved; they care only about following their algorithm. And the bureaucracy is so large and complex that they don't know who can solve the problem. When training customer-facing employees, I use IBM as an example of what not to do - it's your job is to solve the customer's problem, not the customer's, and your job is not to follow a procedure; procedures are tools, not outcomes.

I'm not blaming IBM's employees by the way; clearly that's a management and organizational problem. When I deal with people at organizations like that, I try to have sympathy - I only have to deal with these frustrations on the occasions I interact with their company; they have to do it all day, every day. They can't bend the rules and go out of their way to help every customer.

As long as I'm going on about this: IMHO it also deprives IBM the benefits of human intelligence - dealing with novel situation, innovating and solving problems, etc. Perhaps IBM's view of human work explains, to a some degree, their concept of AI that can replace people.
In the early 90s, I was lucky. I pitched on the phone, they called me in, and the following day I had a corner office overlooking the beautiful statue of liberty. We laughed, dined, and drank often after work, it was fun and not a snob in sight.
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Yeah. It has been a major pain for a lot of folks.

See https://github.com/pallets/jinja/pull/708 and its reference issues.
Not 0% if you count the resources required to enforce that paper money.