skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty sure most 70-year-old American ladies would be quite surprised to be addressed or referred to as "guys". I'm not sure who you hung out with while you were here, but it may not have been a representative group. (Some people think "guys" is a universal referent, other people don't. The first group seems to skew heavily to younger males.)
Maybe this is an opportunity for some of you to setup the next gen of ISPs that do not track. I am not sure what is the feasibility for this in the states but it is certainly possible in UK (I think). This is a nice niche to carve and build from there with services that cater to the customers broadband needs and not to milk more money from personal data. For people like me, this is going to be an easy sale.
Solid base product. Terrible browser and poor store management were are problem for too long.
> Do you have any ideas on how to adapt this to someone who doesn't have a "present" internal monologue?

If you use a text editor you don't need to write everything down right away. You can just dump a keyword or a snippet that describes or is associated with what you're doing, note your intent and/or your goal, and as you work on your task keep updating your notes whenever you get the time.
"The Richest Man in Babylon", which was recommended by a HNer (amongst other more advanced books) several years ago.
I find that what helps me the most are the '--help' commands, especially if it has multilevel support, like seen with the docker cli tool.

The problem with just providing examples is it doesn't always tell me what each argument does, especially if I have multiple arguments, making it seem like the tool works by having a 'magical' combination of arguments, instead of explaining what each argument does.
I think the opposite. It is a simple problem. I wouldn't expect someone to write a working solution on a whiteboard, but in a reasoning discussion come up with the answer.

Say if you have one list that might be circular from the "starting" element or not circular at all. You simply save the pointer to the first element an compare every subsequent element to that. If you find the end of the list it is not circular. If you find the first element it is circular.

The step from that to a general approach for finding whether a list contains circular references should be simple.

I am however coming from scheme where linked lists are abundant.

Edit: not to say I think it is a good problem for an interview, but I would expect someone to be able to solve the problem in one way or another it without googling. What I am questioning is that it is a hard problem, or a very hard solution.
Like any other Portuguese speaking country, it is not Brazilian specific. :)
It seems to me that author's point is that he was considered a failure in the Chinese system. He gained the 1/2 million dollar compensation based on his success in the UK & US systems.
> TCP is unusable for real-time gaming.

Only for the twitchiest of twitch games really needs lower latency than TCP provides. So many amateur/indie game devs waste huge amounts of time messing with UDP because "everyone knows TCP isn't realtime" when TCP would have been perfectly suitable for their game.
Maybe see what memory usage is like in a new Firefox profile. That'll be essentially like a factory-reset Firefox, but you can always switch back to your old profile, if it does not change anything.

Type "about:profiles" into the URL-bar and from there it should be mostly self-explanatory.
The consequence would be they get first contract and a better deal for producing AlienPhones?
God please no. This book must be the most overrated piece of junk in the financial advice genre. There are literally only two things in the book that get repeated 50 times over 100 pages:

- invest 10% of your income

- invest only in things you understand or when you happen to know someone who understands them

There is zero more insightful content in this book. And even these two insights are totally lacking, because they won’t tell you what investment makes sense these days.
tl;dr: You can run a socially responsible, human, ethical company in the current climate in the US, but it is nearly impossible to run one with outside investors who are not invested strongly in the company’s mission or who are not willing to settle for organic growth.
there is talk on the bug... and options in about:config

see https://bug635044.bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11580...
Also, raise the bar such that sellers have to put in mental, creative and time investment and are cut out if they repeatedly sell junk.

This train left the station years ago:

https://www.wired.com/2014/04/why-etsys-future-depends-on-le...
My uses of macros in C++ these days boil down to a few common use cases that are still insanely not handled well by the language:

0. Anything involving file and line number.

1. Generating a string version of something alongside the value of something, without repeating myself.

2. Creating printing macros to keep me from typing out the entire asinine syntax for something like “std::cerr << foo << bar << baz << std::endl” so I only need PRINT(foo << bar << baz). Substituting code fragments is dead simple with a macro and absurdly complex or impossible with other C++ mechanisms. Ironically I’m only doing it because of the poor design of the entire “iostream” stack.
Fiction is great because it's compelling. I see no reason for the actual first contact to be more sublime.
I've done the same, but I do allow for MIT-licensed tools as they have no more risk of disappearing than GPL tools. In fact, you could fork your MIT tools and share them on Github under the GPL if need be. The Tmux license is ISC, which for all intents and purposes is identical to MIT.

I do make a few exceptions, though. I stay proficient in VIM and use it for personal projects, but I use the Jetbrains IDEs for professional projects. It really is good enough to justify the price and license.
No, that's what I was thinking. Guess I don't understand it like I thought. There's an overwhelming plethora of misleading articles on this and so many things. More specifically, I was thinking of the recent experiment in China with "quantum teleportation". When I looked it up and kept seeing "transfer of information over long distances" over and over, I apparently drew the wrong conclusions.
I pointed this out to some SETI people over a decade ago. They were focused on looking for "carriers", signals with a strong center frequency component. Analog TV, was AM video with 80% carrier, requiring huge transmitter power. UHF stations used to emit megawatts. Those signals are gone. More modern transmissions (DTV, cellular) look like white noise across a narrow chunk of spectrum. Those are much harder to pull out of the noise background. You can detect that a carrier is present even if you're missing most of the signal. That's not true of more modern modes.

If a civilization wanted to be detected, they could easily send out clearly understandable signals - big carriers with slow modulation. Arecibo could in theory communicate with a similarly sized dish across the galaxy. An answer would be a long time coming, though.
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If you're OK with wrapper scripts, take a look at dtrx[0]. It can extract many different formats, so assuming you have the tools already installed, extracting anything can be done with `dtrx <filename>`.

[0]: https://brettcsmith.org/2007/dtrx/
Thx for the wikipedia link, this is probably the best paper list I've seen so far
A fundamental question, of course, is whether FTL is possible. Special relativity says it isn't, and worse, that it would violate causality. We're probably fundamentally limited to having very slow conversations with any civilization that's within tens of light years. If any. We might find out about some that are further away, but there's not going to be interaction.
> Being a student of history, it’s a stretch for me to think they wouldn’t know these sorts of events trigger drastic changes in the native populations

I think we should really stop thinking that space travel is the natural continuation of the geographic explorations and colonizations of our past. It has nothing to do with it- new planets cannot be colonized because they're uninhabitable (Earth included for an alien) and distances are too big to transfer significant amounts of population.
It's interesting to see which technologies people _don't_ use by what they bind as their prefix. The `Ctrl-]` guy probably doesn't do C, the `Ctrl-A` guy doesn't use VIM, etc...

I guess that is because all the good shortcuts have already been taken!
No, it hasn‘t and it sounds strange to me. Why would I leave HN to read a rebuttal to a comment on HN?
This is a little bit less comic book villain-y than it seems. This is an attempt not to get rid of privacy protections, but to return to the status quo circa 2014, where privacy was handled using more general laws enforced by the FTC. This is typical in other countries, where the telecom regulator usually does not take a leading role in consumer protection, leaving that to the appropriate agency. Many countries, for example, have an agency focused on privacy. Historically, that role in the US has been filled by the FTC.
A sense of urgency
THE ORIGIN OF MAN AND ABUSE OF GOD'S PURPOSE ON EARTH
Take a look here for several good options: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15196141.
The modulo represents the cycle.

Maybe it would be helpful to rewrite the loop with a condition as you described, and %= i and j with n after incrementing (by 1 or by 2) both variables in the loop body.
Any useful network uses routing. Comcast is not defying net neutrality by delivering all the packets addressed to your IP to you. Net neutrality is not breached until Comcast or your mesh network starts handling the packets differently based on who they came from and the business decisions about that source.
They really need to imorove usability of this feature though.
At the very least you should be able to move the existing tabs to a given container and add sites to some list to be opened in a given container by default.

Right now workflow is too inconvenient.
just called them "manuals"

I'd be more specific: man vs tldr/bro is almost like an appliance's user manual vs service manual. The latter is super in depth but usually doesn't explain in an understandable way how to actually use the tool. While the former does that, but once you're stuck it offers no deeper explanation and you're lost.
>significant difference in performance vs Chrome 62

Firefox without WebRender is still slower than Chrome. The difference is noticable if you compare it with the old versions.
> High-budget games these days locate servers around the world, so that is not an issue.

exactly what I'm talking about. "around the world" may not be enough. And since they don't allow dedicated servers hosted by players, they better have lag compensation or to hell with them.
Actually the sentence you've chosen is misleading. This is the essential step towards breaking the iPhone open. The next steps will be less news worthy, til we get a jail break
A&A already market themselves on this basis. The problem is it's not cheap, and they're constrained by the RIP type acts too, so pure "no track" is actually illegal.
why don't they turn man/info pages into a wiki?
The article also mentioned the point that China or other state gets the signal(that could be not a deliberate communication to us) and keep it secret. So it can be important if the state that receives the signal is a secrecy state like USA or China.
I completely agree. Also, with a pop-science-y title like this, how can anyone take the article seriously?
We all have gene in our liver for making enzyme that breaks down caffeine. Due to small genetic differences, some of us have enzyme that breaks down caffeine quickly and others that breaks it down slowly. If you win genetic lottery and produce enzyme that breaks down caffeine fast then you flush out caffeine and end up reaping benefits of antioxidants found in coffee beans. If you have enzyme that breaks down caffeine slowly, caffeine hangs around longer causing health problems. That's all there is.
A lot of us are "newbies" of "tar", "find", "[" and many others after years and years using *nix. According to the anti-usability mindset, this means that the users are wrong and ought to be changed, and not an hint that we should rethink how we write and consume documentation.

Edit: the wording was angrier than it needed to be.
A concrete example of a better documentation tool : https://kapeli.com/dash
Most browser user will NEVER report a bug, maybe they will ask on a forum, giving very limited and misleading context.

As far as i remember you can read the whole automated bug report or even modify it. did i miss something?
those are sensors for measuring forehead temperature to detect visitors having a fever fever; part of the post SARS measures.
http://www.info.gov.hk/info/sars/en/boundarycontrol.htm

having said that, the immigration department recently launched the opt-in self-check-in with facial recognition though
bitcoins!!
High-pace FPS games become unplayable without lag compensation so what do you mean exactly?
Two things to try after opening a new screen window:

1) Enter "bash" then vim file.java (some file)
2) Enter :syntax on
I understood that the employer pays the fees.
Doesn’t this entirely depend on access patterns?

If you read one field of all elements all at once, sure, a structure of arrays is probably right. But what if you instead read all fields of one element at once? Isn’t it advantageous to have those fields adjacent in memory with an array of structures?
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned this: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/02/22/getting-rich-from-...
Some people genuinely believe free markets are the best thing for consumers. I’m all for net neutrality but I don’t think every politician is a sell out for voting against, they were voting according to their beliefs.
I don’t think your last sentence follows. Like I noted if they have the technology for interstellar travel I sincerely doubt they wouldn’t also be able to transfer larger populations across those distances. Even that idea might not make sense in this context. Perhaps they’d store their genetic code and simply grown the colonists upon arrival. For us yes we shouldn’t think of colonizing the solar system like it’s just a new continent, but that’s viewing it in the context of our current technology levels. If we had interstellar travel available suddenly that equation changes considerably.
‪"The Automatic Millionaire" by David Bach, https://m.barnesandnoble.com/w/automatic-millionaire-david-b...

Recommends automatically paying a share of your income each month into index funds, and gives recommendations on how to distribute this across risk categories according to your life situation.
Completely disagreed. If you're amateur/indie, use a premade engine that has networking. If the engine's networking isn't good enough for what you need, there are probably some options on the store that meet your needs.
isn't cliqz basically the same as duckduckgo? i understand if you do not trust them specifically, but what i read there is that mozilla was intentionally reducing the information it could collect.

i have seen this article already 5 times on this post, what is the point?
Yes, I just started and I'm from Europe, that's why I had Ryanair and Wizzair (EU low cost) as first airlines. But I could make a US version, could you give me hint about us low cost companies? :)

thank you
FF always had issues with rendering fonts. It generally over-sizes them. It's not a huge deal most of the time, though.
Here's another theory. Coffee makes you move more. Moving is healthy. Think of how coffee gets people off their desks to get it and also because of the caffeine and the need to urinate after. Its unlike other drinks as people don't carry it in bottles, it requires more movement. Maybe the sedentary lifestyle is what's killing people.
Only installing it because of the great testimonials it has gotten from your mom
>If so, why should a company like Etsy even bother to go public?

Etsy took $85m in VC funding. Those VCs want an exit. So, in my mind, they made the decision to eventually go public at the same time they made the decision to take that funding.

I do agree with your broader point "Wouldn't it have been fine to not go public?" but I think if you want to plan to not go public, you probably should bootstrap your company instead of taking VC funding.
I did on firefox 56 (from chrome together with everything i could have thought), not sure about quantum.
They are going to spend tens of millions of Euro on the migration. The cost of contracting someone to add hotkeys, equations and simple features to libreoffice is nothing compared to that.
Advent of Code 2017
Manpages are UNIX thing, and I can tell you that GNU ones are much better than what commercial UNIXes used to be like.
And what of the effect suppressing/policing speech has on society and wellbeing? Believe it or not, censoring yourself and having to be in a heightened state of alertness with every word you say, against a litany of possible ways someone might take offense also has a negative effect on people.
Of course - such service will not be mainstream. Gmail is free but we know what we pay with.
In some sense traditional medicine or traditional\religious healthy habits (I'm thinking something like kashrut) has way larger sample since it's been practiced for millenia and its populations still survived enough to transmit them to offspring. If grandma made it long enough to teach the grand kids some old traditions there's probably some merit to some of them.
I have a corollary to Greenspun's maxim: "TCP/IP can solve any given networking problem suboptimally."
No. As you can see from the aforegiven snippet, which is fairly representative although it was the result of my going looking for a sentence with a lot of different elements in it, it isn't.
How your data are shared and sold could be California's marquee ballot battle
Is there a documentation about the type system somewhere?
The fact that an act was passed after the greatest bubble pop since the great depression shouldnt be enough to convince you that dems as a whole arent beholden to wall street. they had zero choice but to do SOMETHING. look instead to what they did before the crash. compare what they did to what they could have done. look at what happened to proposals to do more. look at wall street profits a year after the crisis. look at the doners. less beholden than the reps, probably. not beholden at all? no
I'm with you and would go a step further, if anything ad/tracking blocking should be opt-out for any pro consumer browser.
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Frank Dod Act is a ridiculously watered down version of regulation that was originally proposed. Wall Street lobbyists made Democrats nerf it to the point it's almost meaningless. So I would say that Democrats have been very good to bankers in this particular case. For optics reasons (it was right after the financial crisis) something had to be done and this was the best possible scenario for bankers so I'd say they were glad with it under the circumstances.
There was one other interesting bit of advice I recall from that book, which is to invest in things that have fallback value (forgot the exact term) in case the investment doesn't pan out. He gave the example that when the king of Babylon decreed that a new wall of iron (iirc) be built around the city, the "richest man" in Babylon recommended buying up lots of iron. If the wall got built, it would need iron, driving up the price. And if the king changed his mind and it didn't get built, other things would still need iron, so you wouldn't lose all the value in your investment. Basic hedging strategy.
I am a big fan of Daniel Jackson's approach to teaching programming, and really like his courses, in particular the mindblowing "Elements of Software Construction" [1], which is, by a mile, the best programming course I have come across, and which I believe is sadly underrated; I know there are more recent versions of this course, by a different professor, that use the more popular (at least in this forum) Python instead of Java, but IMHO with all due respect, they are a bit dumbed down and I believe that you won't get the same out of them. It is not really a Java course, it has improved my programming (and, very specially, design) in general, in any language. It completely changed the way I look at design patterns, for instance; it made me really understand functional programming and state machines; what OO really is about; how to choose a software paradigm for a given problem; and now I use JSP stream processing to model many programs (nothing to do with java JSP, it was created by his dad in the 70s, "the other Michael Jackson").

To really appreciate how much thought went into the design of this course, I recommend reading "A New Approach to Teaching Programming" [2]

As for the Concepts and Purposes you refer to, there is more on this in [3] [4] [5] in the MIT 6.170

[1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

[2] http://people.csail.mit.edu/dnj/articles/teaching-6005.pdf

[3] https://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/6/fa16/6.170/courseMaterial...

[4] https://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/6/fa16/6.170/courseMaterial...

[5] https://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/6/fa16/6.170/courseMaterial...
> Renewal fees are not an issue anyone sane would worry about

Right. The presence of that threat is enough to discourage looking for alternatives. "we hear you've been looking into Linux and teaching Python instead of C#/.Net next year... sure would be a shame..."
Yes, the screen shot is wrong, I'll update it.
Imagine if Munich had put the same amount into improving the upstream software instead.

Politicians never fail to disappoint, feels like.

That said, I often can't replace Windows due to legacy applications.

Regarding MS Office, some people buy iPhone. These people also seem to need their Microsoft Office.
The hot hand fallacy fallacy.
The trials are not independant (there's a feedback loop) and the initial probabilities are not fixed from game to game.
Where’s the evidence? Self reported happiness of intelligent people in those situations does not prove anything with regard to collaboration killing creativity. What if creativity tends to come with unhappiness?
Although the key lessons can be written in a few bullet points, the story helps the reader internalize the teachings.

I think we misunderstimate the impact a few fundamental lessons on finance can do to a person’s life. Especially when the person is oblivious to it.

I’ve seen it first hand multiple times now. I give away this book all the time and and have seen nothing but good come from it.
Probably right. I drink 2-3 espresso shots a day, one at home in the morning and one after lunch when I have to walk 10 minutes to get. Some people don't even bother to leave their desk or complain it's long walk.
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An alternative is a co-op such as the John Lewis Partnership in the UK.
I find value in the narrative since your average retail investor can't remember principles without anchoring.

If someone wants more concrete advice I usually point them to David Swensen.
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Ask HN: What are your long-term goals?
Do you have a career related or other long-term goal? How do you work towards achieving it?
(Or rather, the hot-hand fallacy misapplication.)
I understand that there is experimentation and innovation inside and on top of the Linux kernel, but that still leads to some kind of local optimum, the best approach that fits within the design and implementation of the Linux kernel.

I'm not saying this is necessarily a problem, but it risks becoming a problem.

It's clear we're seeing reduced investment in Linux competitors in exchange for Linux flavours from large players the past decade or so.