skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please stop prefacing comments with phrases to the effect of "I came here to say this", it is already obnoxious on Reddit and is getting annoyingly frequent on HN as well. No added meaning.

I care what you have to say; that you came here to say it is irrelevant.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15683745
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15590466
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13614442
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14306868
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14327156
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14532140
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14531421
Can confirm. Would be very interested in a link that shows a regression of that degree.
It's not like someone would buy an exploit and only use it on one person.
15k is more than my whole entertainment budget of the last decade including all the hardware and electricity and transportation.
There’s something you’d probably need to describe in terms of “risk” if you were to describe it in business school language at all.

..something about owning your own risk-reward. The irrelevance of whether or not a failure/success was yours, bad luck or whatnot. The whys of success aren’t as important to a CEO, at least not outside of his own head. Founders and professionals face totally different incentives, different selection criteria.

Professional managers, are constantly assessed. Their success depends others’ perception of them. Career incentives are intertwined with a system of “winning” regardless of whether a company company wins, in a lot of cases. If a company doesn’t succeed, a professional CEO will probably get another CEOing gig… if the failure doesn’t reflect too badly on him. CEO actions need to be justifiable. Failing despite doing the right thing is always better than the other kind of failure, much better. The Travis Kalkanik failure is a career killer for a professional exec, regardless of successes. The John Scully kind of failure… that’s not even failure.

A founder-CEO typically doesn’t care about that stuff, what the ultimate narrative will be.

Imagine a founder neglects some basic aspect of business. Say HR stuff. No periodic assessments. No employee development… A mess where some people do nothing… Lets say it’s bad, visible consequences.

From a founder’s perspective, this might be meaningless. If we manage to make thingX, we’ll be successful. If not, we’ll fail. That “problem” doesn’t help or hurt my chances much, so I don’t care about it. It’s just mess. Right or wrong, if the CEO doesn’t see The Problem as something standing between here and ThingX, then who cares.

To a professional CEO the same problem represents a massive target on his back. If we fail, I fail. The Problem will be a newspaper headline. The board will hear. The narrative of failure will include “bad CEOing” in a nice, narrative package. Even if we succeed, the stink will still stick to me.

I think this results in more consistent performance, across any metric where performance is consistently measurable.

Consider how this article treats“CEO Performance:”

”a team of professors at the business schools of Duke, Vanderbilt, and Harvard universities finds that founder-run companies to be less productive and more poorly managed”

“..were 9.4% less productive, on average.. consistently lower management scores.. less transparent management practices—nepotistic hiring, et cetera..”

These are the generic assessment criteria of a generic professional CEO, not a founder. They apply to Coca Cola exactly as they apply to Groupon, Stripe or SpaceX. Nowhere in any of that will you find “but he knows how to get to mars” as a criteria.
I still trust Chrome's sandbox - I have less understanding of where Firefox does sandboxing, how it works across platforms, etc. Whereas I have a solid understanding of how Chrome uses seccomp on Linux.

While pieces of Firefox are moving to Rust the majority of attack surface is still in C++, so I want a strong sandbox if I'm going to run that browser.
ISO C++ committee adds new features to draft C++20
Yup,

c:\apps\firefox\firefox.exe -no-remote -profile "C:\profiles\some-clean-profile"

was my was-to-go method for testing various configurations.

Knowing about

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\profiles.ini

is also often helpful, eg. when you want to move certain profile folder.
Unless Chrome has features you can't survive without (and I admit its dev tools are pretty good), then I don't see the purpose of this.

If staying free of Google becomes a goal, then by using Chrome you're still helping them, even if your Chrome is un-googlified.

This is because you help Chrome become a monopoly in the marketplace, I view it as the new Internet Explorer already. Many people here probably don't remember, but IExplorer also won on technical merits, version 5 being an excellent browser compared with its competition. Market dominance that allowed Microsoft to screw the web for a decade at least. And no, in this context its open source nature does not matter much for as long as Google controls its implementation and distribution.

Firefox is right now truly the best browser, at least for my usage patterns and needs, but even if it weren't, I would still use it, because when web standards are endangered due to a monopoly, then I consider it my duty to support the underdog.

Now don't get me wrong, it is true that Google and Chrome have helped the open web. But that doesn't matter that much, because they can always turn and you can see how lately Chrome is making bold changes without waiting confirmation from W3C or the other browser vendors — like disabling forms auto-complete or deprecating certificating pining.

They are at a point where Chrome has enough market share to implement whatever the heck they want. DRM? H.264? Lost battles after they ended up in Chrome.
"Keep reading to see what it is."
Is this pretending to be crap style or authentic crap style? In my opinion it doesn't matter.
`about:profiles` is the UI. It allows you to create new profiles, restart Firefox with a specific profile, and manage profiles. Starting Firefox with `-p` (and no passed argument) starts a window which allows you to do the same.
> This conversation is going in circles. Has anyone brought up “death gives life meaning”?

A platitude uttered by people who believe they have no way out, and are desperate to make themselves feel better about that. Not necessarily a bad thing, so long as there really is no way out, but catastrophic once that changes.

Destroying death will lose us something, most certainly; there are any number of great works of art and philosophy that would never have been created without the pressures and emotions it creates. But none of that, I think, can even remotely make up for the sheer awfulness of the downside.

There has to be a better solution than this creeping horror.
> some kinda Wall-Street software

http://store.steampowered.com/app/271240/Offworld_Trading_Co... ?
Sorry if I mistunderstand. The readme is very limited. But this need a (vps or something) server that I own / manage ? It does not seem to upload the functions(s) to some cloud ?

In general I think 'serverless' means deploying code without managing some kind of server yourself.
So they'd have to make the seat pitches in all their aircraft the same. Sounds like a desirable outcome, especially if the seat pitches grow as a result.
You'll never seen concrete evidence. Nor is it in anyone's interests to offer it. You have two choices, one at each extreme. You can assume:

- Everyone working for "agencies" do so with no regard for their stated goal and are simply interested in their own personal gain.

- They're genuinely intending to prevent incidents of "crime" and are relatively disinterested in the maintenance of your privacy.

I find the latter more likely than the former, with a mix of the two broadly probable. Given that I find it equally unlikely that they achieve literally nothing. (Frankly even if the former were the truth it seems unlikely they wouldn't prevent something at some point even by accident).

Claiming they do _nothing_ is ill founded. The more valid argument is "But at what cost?"
I can't think of any way out honestly. You can say anything you want about EA but I'm sure they act very rationally. If despite the heavy backlash over the years they keep doing what they're doing then it must be working for them.

That's the problem with these lootboxes, given how fast they spread to every AAA games these days (including single player games where they hardly make sense in the first place) it's obvious that the maths work out for them. The amount of principled gamers ending up not buying the game is probably more than compensated by the dividends of microtransactions. There are not enough gamers who care enough about the issue to stop buying the game. The marketing and network effect is simply too strong. A mob downvoting a comment on reddit won't change anything, it's nothing but slacktivism. Might as well sign an e-petition at this point.

It's not the first time it's like this. "We don't want always online DRM! We won't buy your game!", "We want to be able to host our own dedicated servers for multiplayer! We won't buy your game!". And now it's the new normal, hardly anybody expects these things from new releases or even mentions them. Lootboxes and microtransactions are headed down the same path IMO.

Here's my prediction: five years from now every big release will contain microtransactions one way or an other and nobody will find it surprising or inappropriate.
Yes, production increases when incentivized by high prices. That’s the core of how markets are in any way useful.

The only meaningful difference between luxury and affordable housing is whether it’s allocated to the highest bidder or randomly among low bidders.
Try to review all your lists (or one list in a given context) every time you sit down to do work and choose the one that is the right one at a given time, energy level, context.

Personally, I find that overwhelming. Also I don't wait to be in a context (at phone, at computer, ...) Rather, I define my context, sit down and focus on one project single mindedly for hours and days to get this project done.

Of course I have my groceries list, my errands list, my "talk to dev team" list, Trello and JIRA and whatnot: all sorts of lists. But when I want to get work done, I ignore all these lists, get in tunnel-view-mode and forget about everything else.

When I have the time or when all the C-Prio tasks can't wait no more, I will turn to them and batch process them to get as many of them done das possible.
What does that mean if the EU rejects it? They are American companies, no? If the US doesn't reject it, why can't they merge? Or can they, but the EU rejection means they can't sell things in the EU or other ramifications?

It's curious to me because China does multiple things that wouldn't be allowed in the EU. Like working far too closely with the government can be allowed for Chinese companies, but mergers between them can still be rejected by the EU?
> That being said, 40 hours doesn't seem like an awful amount of time to sink into a game to unlock a character. Heck, I'm ashamed to talk about how many hours I've put into CS:GO, and it's only triple digits.

Its not the 40 hours. Its the fact that its 40 hours or $10 In previous iterations of the series these types of characters were only available for free, and to every player with in a couple of hours.
Archived copy, which can be read with JS disabled:

https://archive.is/rDJ6G
Don't they gain value at both times? I mean, stock options are something people pay for.
I think it's probably a side effect of translating into English, and I want to support people communicating even in a language in which they're not fluent.

But the mangled English is too much in this case. It hurts my brain to read. :(
Saka keys on Firefox has been a suitable replacement for me.
Same concepts apply, you just have to map the AWS services to the GCP alternatives. Autoscaling Groups = Managed Instance Groups, ELB/ALB = Cloud Load Balancing, RDS = Cloud SQL, etc.
Dropbox Paper as a Knowledge Base
I'm not a medical researcher. Maybe it could be.

I'm basing my statements mainly on what I've heard from people who are, and I've yet to hear about glia cells. If any easily fixable cause turns out to be the truth, then I'll be happy.
This sort of article makes me angry. Facebook are trying to come up with solutions to fight a real problem and this person is just saying "I don't trust Facebook".
When continents break it gets warm on Earth
I think they will still have a steady supply of talented people who consider themselves patriots and whose politics align with the NSA and CIAs stated missions. Just because their politics don't agree with yours doesn't necessarily make the 'mediocre' remember.
Agreed... although a probabilistic energy distribution (e.g. thermal) could cause electron/hole current exponential with voltage, it would be unlike tunneling across a potential barrier that is too high. Thermal current would not be exponentially dependent on the separation gap.
Fortunately, we have enough resources to try multiple approaches.

I'm happy that we're doing so. For a very long time this was treated as just a fact of life, immutable.
You know, I did that for 18 years and the situation only got worse

It’s also easy to say when you aren’t in the same city as Amazon. There are ex Amazonians everywhere and they have strange ideas.
Depends a lot on what you are building. If you're talking about a von Neumann machine with symmetric registers -- basically a PDP-11 derivative aka "C machine" -- then you're right: you "simply" have the hard part of, you know, designing a chip, which is an art, and at any appreciable clock frequency, de facto mixes digital and analog design.

But as soon as your stray off that path you're on your own (and you still have the chip design problems as well). The Mill guys have been at it 14+ years (admittedly none full time AFAICT).
Buuuuut.... if you delete more than 5 older passwords at a time, it will crash. #truestorybroh
Agree. As much as I love HN, I think it suffers from too much snobbery at times...

Which is why I've decided recently (since turning 27 and a half) to transition away from online forums and focus on building pen-pal relationships with fellow hackers through physical mail. Really makes me feel like I'm improving myself
You are misinformed. If you had followed both companies from the beginning, you would know that Uber started with licensed drivers - even UberX started that way with only cheaper cars - and it was lyft who broke the city ordinances by using unlicensed drivers under the disguise of tipping-as-payment. Uber refused to do it, until they realized the governments were not enforcing the laws at all. The case in Miami is the best example of it, as pointed out by malandrew in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15686983. This is covered in the book "Wild Ride: Inside Uber's Quest for World Domination".

As many drivers in the lyft reddit point out, lyft just want you to believe it's more ethical, when it is far from the truth. It's also sad some people here draw conclusion from talking to drivers, often lyft drivers only, without considering there is huge survival bias.
A trick I used to use while in college was that if I ever dreaded the magnitude of the task that was in front of me (preparing for an exam, or working on my thesis or whatever), I'd spend half an hour making a very systematic time-table for it. So if it was preparing for an exam, I'd nicely spread all the chapters of the book I had to read into whatever time I had left. Even if the plan was a little unrealistic, the fact that I had made it made me feel in control of the situation and worked wonders for my mental state.
Battlefield 1 CD Key Generator
I'm against counting doing anything as equivalent to doing something productive.

I completely agree with you.
> You certainly have nothing to suggest they're Russian

I don't think they are Russian. It makes no sense for a state actor like China or Russia to penetrate the NSA and then disclose it. When they disclose it they lose the ability to exploit it.

Even if the NSA had already closed all the holes, which we can guess they didn't because of Microsoft patching them after the leaks, a state level actor would still not show their hand because keeping your opponents in the dark is more disruptive to their operations, and showing your hand has the potential to reveal your own methods.

Whoever it is is specifically focused on attacking, disrupting and discrediting the NSA. They are not making money off it (even though the op has to be expensive) and they are not exploiting it for intelligence advantage.

I don't believe it is a Snowden type for the reasons I mentioned and because the op seems way too complex and long running for any individual or group to pull off for ideological reasons.

I would tend to believe that it is not a leaker or it was a one time leak to a third party who is now running the operation.

The NSA knows everyone who worked for them, and who had access to what, and I am sure they are watching every single one of those people so the only plausible way it could be a leaker is if the NSA can't connect the leaker to whatever individual(s) are running the online campaign.

The problem with a long running op like this is that all internet access can be traced back eventually. Every time you post online, even if you are going to really extraordinary measures, you are leaving a trail that will eventually converge on your location. That means you have to stay on the move. But travel is also observable and so moving all the time will eventually create a pattern that allows you to be identified.

It is some real Jason Bourne type shit.

It could just be some relatively crazy individual who is playing a high stakes game spy game for fun.

There are a couple of examples of criminals who engaged in robberies based on the movie Heat, which seems bizarre, but it happens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/mar/24/gilestremlett

The European team that was obsessed with the movie and based their operations on it pulled off some of the biggest armed robberies in history.
I have only ever heard of painting actual shapes on to your face with makeup. I imagine that, whatever your technique, you will get noticed and stopped by security. Especially if the makeup obscures how your face looks compared to your photo ID.
How to: a blog with custom layout, with content from my medium.com page?
I've seen many people (but can't find the URL again) having a personal blog (firstnamelastname.com) whose content comes from their medium page.

What are the common ways to use this? (without having to clone manually / copy/paste between a wordpress and medium)

___

I know how to register a .com and how to host a blogging engine, but what are the common ways to autoreplicate medium.com/user's articles to the blog?
No one is trying to eminent-domain your land. If you own a place, you’re not going to lose it unless you choose to sell.
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Thanks for this. Was waiting patiently for the push this week after getting tired of Nightly builds.
I know this is just one data point, but I just downloaded Firefox 56, and it is still as slow as I remember. Loading YouTube seems to lag behind Chrome, and viewing .gifv videos causes a noticeable stutter. I'll give it another shot next version.
I doubt that it's that simple. For tax rules, it's likely more about the notion of when the employee has the effective right to it. If the employee has the right to it, via being able to write a letter requesting it, then it's already vested from the perspective of the IRS, regardless of what word games you play.
Google is 2B lines of code – all in one place
It may be an interesting exercise to think of how this can be turned "against" you. If you wanted to play armchair politics, you could spin this:

- Highly paid engineer walked away from a 6 figure salary

- Takes a job at a small company where he gets equity that could potentially be worth millions.

- Complains that he may have to pay taxes on a significant portion of his compensation.

Put those together, and you have someone probably still making more than double the national median wage complaining that his favorite tax loophole is being closed. Meanwhile the local plumber / school teacher / single mom is struggling to make ends meet; why shouldn't you pay your fair share so that they can get a tax break?

FWIW, this is just an exercise, I'm not saying this is true. Just something to keep in mind though, that many (most?) of the people on HN are being paid significantly higher than most Americans, and complaining that their stock is being taxed differently isn't going to garner much support.
This narrative isn't consistent with what the actual tax bill does, which is a massive redistribution of wealth to the very richest Americans. For example, what part of repealing the estate tax for inheritances above $5.5 million will help this urban middle class?
I was referencing internal A/B testing results for several high-volume e-commerce sites I've worked on.

An oft-parroted best practice in UX is "effective user interface places users in control of the application." This study seems to agree:

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/top-10-enduring/

>Many of our study participants moved to a new site or subsite without realizing it and then struggled to get back to the main site because the subsite offered no option for return

Using target=_blank ensures the Back button is broken. A third-party site disabling the Back button is out of your control.
I noticed that last week as well, but got 59.0a1 (2017-11-13) this morning and so far have not seen it again. Hopefully just a minor issue that was fixed...
'Way too little, way too late': Facebook's factcheckers say effort is failing
Since the GP did not mention a time frame I assumed yearly (otherwise it would be most countries instead of some). And when you compare GDP with a the value of a company it sounds like “company X is more valuable than country Y” to most people. I was just trying to mention that this is not the case.
The 3-minute SQL indexing quiz: Can you spot the five most common mistakes?
Vanu Bose, pioneer in cellular wireless infrastructure, dies at 52
Less than 2.0 is more or less an alpha imo. I use 2.0 in production and love it. But not sure how they’re going to get over all the bad PR 1.0 and 1.1 generated.
Presumably England, where 'public' schools are what would be termed 'private' or fee paying schools in the USA ;)
Hacker Who Busts Child Pornographers on the Dark Net
Does anyone know who would be making the chipsets that come after LTE? Do patents for each round of network technologies change which companies make them? Or does it stay the same?

Really, I'm wondering what happens whenever 5G or whatever comes after 4G/LTE comes around. And in how long approximately that will be.
I think you're right about target=_blank. Still, it has very little potential to benefit the user, who can option-click or similar if he/she wants a new tab or window, but has to copy-and-paste to prevent one. It should never have been added.

I would rather that web browsers simply not implement things with significant potential to do harm; at the least, those things should be disabled by default. Unfortunately we aren't headed that way: WebUSB is coming[1]. Anyone who could write that "[t]he composablity of the web allows a new ecosystem of hardware support to be built entirely from web technology" without feeling a chill run down their spine and imagining a years-long security nightmare is truly blind.

[1] https://wicg.github.io/webusb/
HN guidelines ask you to submit the original source, which in this case clearly is Herb Sutters post. That also already has been on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15680430
The (apparently) continuing lack of tab duplication is my major reason not to switch back.
Even though I'm a huge Carmack fan, somehow missed this book. Adding to my immediate reading list. Thanks!
Only if we take your “right” to low building heights as sacrosanct.