skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Trump is perceived as an anti-establishment political figure

He may embarrass establishment types and he may use populism in his appeal but Cheeto is very establishment.

Brown is a power broker. I'm not sure what his legacy is beyond that. He said before he got elected mayor that he would pave San Francisco and he's pretty much done that. He also referred to himself as a pimp and the board of supervisors as his whores. A colorful figure (as is Trump) but basically a broker for development deals.

I know San Francisco well and I even took dance classes from his 'wife' Blanch Brown at Dance Mission. But again, I don't know what his legacy will be. I couldn't say what he's done, outside of deals, and I lived in San Francisco 25+ years. He sure pissed me off when he called in favors to literally line the street with cops, sheriffs and CHP during Critical Mass a month or so before his re-election. Previously, SFPD bike patrol rode CM themselves.

Nope, I don't like the guy. And I'd never call him any sort of liberal.
I think you're misunderstanding the context.

IIRC, this isn't a collection of all tweets, etc (though the Library of Congress is already doing that), it's a curated collection of tweets, many important enough that some journalist somewhere bothered to write an article about them.
That was clever and I had a good chuckle at it, too. I originally saved the page as a resource but a once-a-week email with this kind of material is definitely worth the time.

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Do you feel any guilt that your profits are at the expense of naive speculators who "have no business investing in it are taking on debt to do so, with no clear exit strategy" ?
Alabama Supreme Court blocks order to preserve digital voting records
Well, a "company crash" is not a wild, unexpected snafu for a startup. It depends on the "facts," such as you know them, of course. But a $200-$300K debt is, bankruptcy option notwithstanding, a major life-altering event if you don't hit your payday. If it's a legitimately high probability payout, it may be a justified risk. But, for most people in that scenario, my guess is that they're wildly overestimating the upside potential.
Revenue would work, probably not profit.
Presume they all do and plan your trip accordingly.
Okay, that makes a lot more sense. Thanks. I missed this in your original phrasing, "We can SET UP operators L(W) so that they..."—but I think I see now: equating L(W) with the zero function is algebraically convenient, since we want to solve for an unknown function/vector, and using zero there allows us to be 'agnostic' about what that unknown function/vector is (any other value would 'say something' about the unknown).

> The real question is why the addition thing works

Unfortunately I'm still at the point where I can't see why it should be surprising that it works. I'm assuming that by the 'addition thing' you are referring to the fact that adding two wave functions always produces another wave function—or maybe it's something about the characteristics of the wave function produced through adding? I'm not sure how linearity plays into things here. Maybe it's surprising that it's possible to form a linear operator (I'm assuming the "operator" you mentioned is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_map) for wave functions? I guess not though since it's probably just using the structure of those functions as vectors and it doesn't matter what they're 'about'. Nope, not sure :)
Its not a layer on top of the NT system call infrastructure. Its brand new NT system calls that do exactly what the equivalent Linux ones do. There is no combination of win32 NT system calls that will get you the behavior of fork().
>e.g. religious videos of any sort are automatically deemed controversial

Thats not what it says. It reads "Content promoted by extreme religious groups" - Certainly there is subjectivity here and Google should provide clearer guidelines on what is deemed "extreme" (clearly violent jihad and isis recruiting would be considered extreme, and general islam/muslim content should be considered okay).

But it clearly does not say "religious videos of any sort".
I don't see where this code is getting a definition for K. (The return type of the ctype function).

It's not in the "k.h" header, though that references it also.

Maybe the build system injects it through the compiler command line or a forced-include header. Though the gcc command line alluded to in the block comment header shows no evidence of that.

Edit: Found it! It's a typedef for a pointer to a struct k0:

typedef struct k0{signed char m,a,t;C u;I r;union{G g;H h;I i;J j;E e;F f;S s;struct k0*k;struct{J n;G G0[1];};};}*K;
Are there no state or federal laws that regulate the storage and dissemination of nude children? I did not realize casinos were that powerful.
Ah, right, I see what you mean!
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Jailed Russian hacker: I hacked Democrats 'under the command' of Russia
Not a bit.
Can somebody explain why people exchanging at higher and higher prices would require halting?
This is so funny. I did exactly the same thing. I mean, exactly!

I wrote a podcast transcription service using IBM's Watson API. And as a result, having realised it was getting a very crowded space and I had neither the energy nor marketing skills/money to launch it alone, I contacted the CEO of a leading transcription company and landed a gig to build out their mobile product. At least my app will now get a high profile launch, and not vanish without trace. Plus, I get paid.
It entirely depends on the domain so there's no good answer for this.

Our growth has been remarkably steady, with minor seasonal factors. If the majority of your acquisition channels scale with the number of users (SEO, social, viral) then you should see a steady accumulation of momentum over time, even from a very small number — perhaps the low thousands.

We've had a strong word of mouth factor from the very beginning, but I attribute that mostly to the brand and the fact that this is an underserved market. Parents have traditionally been invisible to tech companies and they are delighted someone is finally building for them.
idk what people thought i was alluding to here, i just thought it was a fun/funny way to talk about the experimental setup. get your minds out of the gutter!
Website is essentially plain html with firefox tracking protection. Nice.
The way I see it, it's like investing in the currency of an extremely promising, extremely poorly-defended nation. You could do really well out of it, until they get invaded.

It all comes down to how effectively you think the distributed consensus on transaction history is protected. A consensus which is not based in human relationships is very easy to pervert, given enough wealth.

The doomsday scenario, from my perspective, is China expropriating the mining farms in its jurisdiction, and constructing double spends until nobody trusts BTC as a means of transferring value. If that happens, there will be a huge rush to the exits. And it would be cheap, quick, and easy for China to do so.

There's a lot of money to be made in the meantime, though.
It's also the best crypto to transfer value between exchanges, if you don't want to use Tether.
Uhhhhh I'm pretty sure near miss is the wrong term.

Near hit sounds about right.
> they just replace the battery

Is it even possible to replace an iPhone's battery though?

I would guess if Apple offered battery replacement as a service, at a reasonable price (not very Apple-like, I know!), people would use it.
> What are other job recruitment agencies which I should sign up for (especially international and remote wise)?

Toptal has an interesting platform > http://toptal.com/
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This is the most pertinent article on rewrites for me. 17 years old but very relevant.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
The nexstand, although a knockoff, is half the price and more robust
Games are the exception to this rule. Apple and Google have no problem featuring games built in Unity as long as they are performant and polished.
The direct comparison is that anyone but Brown or Trump would never overcome their scandals. But SF voters just said, Oh that's just Willie being Willie and national Republicans just said Oh that's just Trump being Trump.
That's obviously true, but doesn't get us anywhere.
I appreciate you sharing all this (genuinely), but you missed my point, which is that most of these will fade away. Having cool tech isn't enough.

Personally, I don't see cryptocurrency ever going back to $0, the technology is better than existing models of centralized banking and middle men. Unless something comes along that disrupts the disruptor, I think it's here to stay for the forseeable future.

I agree, but not enough to put more than a small slice of my net worth in at this point. Fortunately, if it doesn't go to zero, it'll probably 100x or 1000x again, so I'll be fine with just a small slice of my net worth :)
It’s a monster L2 domain, I’m amazed it hasn’t crashed and burned by now.
This evening we got our 171st user for our wishlist-service. When we launched it 1 year ago we tried to get it out on different channels like Reddit and HN without much success, while we _did_ see success in just talking about it to friends and family, and had just over 100 users in January this year.

Since then, we've done close to zero marketing, and it's been amazing to see new signups, wishlists and items being created - seemingly out of the blue. I made a simple Slack-bot to post those events to a channel with their ID, and these are the stats from it was added late March until now: 53 new users, 74 new wishlists, and 482 new items.

As we do no sort of analytics, we have no clue who these people are, but boy does it make me happy to see those "A new user was just created!"-messages nonetheless!
I'm of the camp that says that the Judeo-Christian symbolism is mostly faux symbolism. Window-dressing, basically.

(FWIW I'm writing this as an atheist and a huge fan of Evangelion)

To choose an arbitrary example: Sure, there's a "Spear of Longinus" but there's no real relation to what's in the Bible. In the Bible it's an unremarkable thing, used for a remarkable purpose against a single being, Jesus. Literally any spear (or rock, or whatever) would have accomplished the same thing in the Bible.

In Evangelion... it's no ordinary object. It's a superweapon that serves as a trump card against a variety of beings, none of whom are particularly Christ-like. Oh, and there's more than one. Shinji is somewhat of a reluctant "savior" for the human race, which is vaguely Christ-like, but little else in his story matches up with Jesus' life.

Same with the crosses. In Christianity, crosses mean one thing: they're a reminder of Jesus' sacrifice and the chance for salvation. There is nothing magical about a cross itself; it's just a reminder of events past.

In Evangelion, crosses are over the place. Misato wears a cross, Lilith is nailed to a cross, the Angels make cross-shaped explosions, the Evas are transported on cross-like frames, and people apparently turn into glowy crosses during Instrumentality.

But there's no Christ figure in Evangelion, and nobody seems to be pining for one. They don't even seem to be aware of Christianity for the most part, and are certainly not reverent of it. In fact, it's just the opposite - all the major players in the story seem to be determined to fashion their own fate for man, rather than submitting to a higher power. Ultimately, you could cut and paste out all the crosses and replace them with some other evocative token, and the story would remain unchanged.
Private ones usually do. (outgoing)
I agree.

I want a VCS that does NOT try to hide how it works from me.

I love that git gives me a) a bag of commits forming one or more rooted trees, b) symbolic names for commits/branches that resolve to individual commits in that bag.

That's such a simple model.

Remotes. Commits. Branches/tags. That's it.

Merging and rebasing merely create new anonymous branches in the bag of commits, then move a branch name (if applicable) to point to the new HEAD. Done. Trivial.

The reflog is just a local log of actions taken, and can be used to quickly recover from missteps: just find a HEAD you want as your branch's head, and then git branch -f branch <commit>.

The index/staging area are very, very useful, mostly because of git add -e, which is extremely powerful. This lets me split up my commits usefully.

Just about everything else is stuff you can figure out as you go.

The only thing you can ever lose in git (short of doing rm -rf .git) is workspace content that you have not added to the index or committed. Stay away from git reset unless you know what you're doing with it, and all is good.

Being able to think of the state of the repo as a tree of anonymous commits, with a name resolution table for resolving branches/tags to commits, makes doing complex tasks trivial for me. I often rebase in detached head mode and nothing goes wrong; when I'm done I manually move/create a branch to the new HEAD -- I can do this because the tree-of-anon-commits model is so darned simple.
But who did it first?!?!? xD
Corporate ones sure don't. Even outgoing HTTP is passed through proxies on most bigco networks I've worked at.
I think it's fair to say that, in the U.S. at least, this has failed.
Trump's presidential library is going to be a Twitter archive.
Did the dog bark just before an e-mail came in?
All millions of them? I know Amazon still advertizes on Breitbart and they're one of the biggest advertisers in the world.
Yeah, how would we charge money for it?
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You're not wrong. It very well could. I think there will be a major correction before (if) that happens, though.
In my experience, if you track velocity long enough, and 'categorise' the values based on things like team size, technology etc, you get values that are useful to predict how much work you should commit to in an iteration.

Yes, things change: productivity, moral, team members join and leave, some teams are shit at estimating etc - but at least in my experience if you take an average you do arrive at a useful figure.
I'm pretty excited about DNS over TLS. Ahaha no, that's so tacky, I meant DNS over QUIC of course. Sorry, I meant iQUIC. Ah no, it's not even there, but it will suck compared to DOH, DNS over HTTPS.
Depends on the product. Winnie's target demo is millennial parents who are mobile power users, so we knew the apps had to be best-in-class and we were prepared to invest in them.

Not all products need to invest in amazing apps or apps at all, but if you don't have a decent app than ASO and featuring are not going to be available to you. This may or may not be important to your business.
The strange thing to me is why you get taxed before the sale of the asset (i.e., at the time of purchase).
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I think if you hold a non-obvious position like this, it'd be great to explain your reasoning. I am def. curious as to what you think here!
If you invest in something you can lose, especially if you have no idea of what you're doing. There's no guilt to be had.
This is very interesting strategy. Thanks for the good article.

Could you elaborate on the content-growth strategy? I'm really curious since in some business ideas I'm usually stuck with "chicken and egg" kind of problem. I believe there is no universal strategy here, but what worked for you except this special onboarding flow for users in new markets?
You're not wrong either. And the higher it goes, the riskier it gets. And while I'm seeing signs of a bubble, I don't think that (excluding a few volatile 30-40% corrections along the way) we will see an implosion in 2018 just yet. The entire crypto space "only" equals the value of Facebook.

In the end, if it goes another 30x from where we're at today, and then has an 80% correction, you'll still be up 6x. It only makes sense to exit if you think such a correction is imminent, or you believe the entire space is going to zero.
"salty wet twisted pair", lovely.
except the valuation is a private estimate.

why can't the tax be levied when the same stock is liquidated into cash? then you'd get a real price, rather than an estimate.
I'm guessing they called you because the connection was so bad the compensation for your line was interfering with other lines that ran parallel to yours. It is nice that they called you, the standard procedure is to disconnect you and when you call to complain, come out and fix it (and bill you for it)
Looks fine to me. I've dropped my Air from over 4 feet with not a scratch, granted it landed on a wood floor.

Even if this somehow broke, it would only break in one direction, causing it to tilt and fall meaning the speed on the vertical would not be so huge.
I find this depressing.

I do think the git model is superior to Mercurial's, by far.

I also find the git commands much, much easier to use than Mercurial's, unless I stop caring about having meaningful commits.

With Mercurial I end up just committing lots of work in one go, with minimal logical splitting, and that's that. The Mercurial repos I share with others are full of useless (to me) merge commits because no one can bother rebasing as rebasing is not as easy on Mercurial.

With git I can spend the effort of making clean, logical commits and rebasing so that no one need see pointless internal-to-my-way-of-working commits. I can do this because git does not hide its internals from me. I know git is a pile of anonymous commits that form trees, with branches and tags as symbolic names that resolve to specific commits in the pile.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15910094 in this same thread for more on how the git model is natural.
Go true native, not hybrid

Users don't care. Most of them can't tell.
You can't get from 0 to 100k without passing through 171 first. :) Congrats and good luck!
"That's false. When writing a game, you interact with APIs in your implementation language (e.g. SDL)."

Ultimately - information must not only be passed through an ugly memory-reference API, but anything that happens on the screen, must happen in JS.

Ok, sure, you can abstract it all away, but that doesn't change the fact of the matter.

It would be more powerful and efficient to be able to do stuff natively inside the container.

" Some JS developer somewhere will want to use a native library. They will want to use it badly enough to port it to WASM, write a JS wrapper interface, and upload the whole thing to NPM. Suddenly, a C++ developer with no knowledge of JS will be delivering features to front-end developers with no knowledge of C++, all thanks to some third developer who put in the effort for the WASM port."

Agreed - but I still don't think we are quite there yet.
heat dissipation?
https://git-scm.com/docs
You get taxed on sale as well (as I understand it). I think the issue is that you are purchasing something at a price considered below market value so your estimated net worth changes.

Edit: FTR I think just taxing on sale for the entire realized gain would make sense to me as well...but I imagine this policy is to try and prevent high income individuals from dodging income tax by taking all their compensation in stock.
I may be alone, but this feels completely hopeless. This administration is the most corrupt, craven, and citizen-hostile in our history. Net neutrality is hardly the biggest problem facing America, and they keep doing much worse things, almost out of spite. And Congress has proven to be utterly feckless in their duty to hold the executive branch accountable. So I guess I just don't really see the point of engaging, because they. do. not. care. about. us.

At the end of the day, we need to flip control of Congress. I don't think anything else will work.
Great to know the EU has it better, but it doesn't really help others unless the suggestion is to move.
Yeah, there are degrees of early. I think it's fair to say this one is meaningfully early, rather than a statistical slight of hand.
This is wonderful, and vents the bottom of the laptop

https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Ventilated-Adjustable-La...
I'll share an anecdotal opinion contrary to the article. I've been running the engineering team at a startup for 3 years now and our app is still 100% cordova. We passed 100k actives over a year ago.

There are many benefits to native apps from the experience polish to the community and resources surrounding them. There are 2 major negatives to native: dev time and cost.

The Native vs Cordova/SomethingElse discussion is going to have different answers depending on your use case. Let me restate that for importance. Your use case will dictate which is "correct" early on.

For us, the rapid product tests we were looking to run, in both web and mobile platforms with a very small engineering team all but required a cordova app. As our product has grown more mature, and major client features change less frequent, the appeal of native has grown. But despite that appeal, we remain firmly in cordova and will for at least another 6 months.
I can see the argument for terseness. In fact I loathe how verbose Java is, I try to minimize LOC, and I enjoy using ?:. However, I don't think it's a good idea to use this extreme single-character, single-line style in languages not designed for it. If you really want this style, you should use APL or design your own language.
I don't think there's native for games. You're going to use a game engine and almost none of the OS UX conventions, so go with Unity. I don't think there are any developers that don't.
Instead of ranting, perhaps post your broken AppleScript so we can help you fix that. It really ought to be < 10 lines of AppleScript.
> There is a new beta feature in Windows 10 that may just see the retirement of Putty from many users

I don't think so. Putty is not only a superb ssh client, it's also so much better shell than command prompt.
How did Googlers become so brilliant?
Personally I never went beyond DBA when selling software because I don't want additional cost and hassle of maintaining LLC or S-Corp.

People register LLC in Delaware because it's usually cheapest state, laws are most understood and there are plenty services to help you do that. For example, in SF LLC is at least $800 per year to maintain (http://sfosb.org/step-1-structure-your-business).

Protection benefits of LLC are vastly overstated.

If someone wants to sue your business, they will. Merely defending a lawsuit can bankrupt the business, regardless of DBA vs. LLC status.

It's true that if you loose and that results in damages awarded, in some cases damages will be limited to what LLC can afford.

But in software business, where you sell $100 program or $100/year service, chances that someone can sue you for any significant amount of money are nil. That's why you don't hear about Word users suing Microsoft for millions of dollars because the software crashed and corrupted their work.

For software business the only time it would matter in practice is if you were to take a big loan and loose that money.

That is also unlikely because even if you were inclined to borrow recklessly, banks stay in business because they are able to assess risk of lending to you correctly.

Also it's important to note that there are limits to limiting liability. Bernie Madoff ran LLC and yet he's in jail. LLC doesn't shield you if you defraud.

The best way to limit you liability is:

* don't to shady stuff
* don't borrow to fund risky stuff
Kenya is the global leader in mobile money adoption for the same reasons you've stated. Smart money should be preaching the crypto gospel in Somalia, Zimbabwe, Venezuela etc. The average citizen from such countries is way more in tune with the need for alternative currencies
"it has to solve a few problems first (transaction fees/time and anonymity)"

Bitcoin Lightning currently works on testnet ... give it a few months and those problems will be solved. The price is exploding in anticipation of events like this.