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As an early user of the Internet, I was taught "don't feed the troll". We also, once a troll was persistent and identified, banned them.

Do today's users feed them, have they not got the message I learnt, or is it that today's web tools allows a troll to be fed much easily?

I see the need for moderation, (4chan is actually heavily moderated as an example) and I also see the need for users to have the skills in identifying and not feeding trolls. Identifing trolls and actively not feeding takes effort. Perhaps todays web assumes users shouldn't expend effort and are overly moderated. Freedom Vs comfort?
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Ask HN: Sources of historical HN-type discussion during past tech bubbles?
I am interested in reading raw, unedited "intelligent" tech discussion similar to HN during past events such as the dot-com bubble, for personal interest and education. I want to get an idea of the genuine state of discussion during these events without any kind of hindsight bias - what predictions were being made, how were people justifying valuations, were people warning about overvaluation, etc. What interesting sources are there for this?
Bitcoin, if not worse, has similar problems that cash money has. While governments trying to get rid off cash, now we have Bitcoin on top of that.

There will be regulations on Bitcoin for sure but how can it be regulated without breaking the original premise, that is, being able stay anonymous with one's transactions?
"vir-" is a preëxisting masculating prefix. I would read patrulo as "A fatherly person", rather than a parent, as "-ul-" turns an adjective into a person embodying that adjective.

(ge- is the neuterizing prefix, but in my extremely limited dabbling, it's mostly seen in plurals: gepatroj for parents, but for a single parent, one generally says patro for father and patrino for mother.)
At work we are now prohibited from using ‘space’ as a vague term for business, industry, market, or profession.

Personally, I find the use of ‘architecting’ instead of ‘design’ to be particularly irritating.
“Tell the girl you would like to go up to her apartment for a drink.”
right, but in this case, we do have a resource that tracks deleted tweets.

Beyond that, the point still stands, I believe we should always try and corroborate multiple sources (unless you have a primary source), we, the people aren't doing that and just confirming our biases.
Don't courts rely on a chain of custody?
How hard it is all depends on the DSL. I just found another article on HN and whipped one up as an example. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16010971

It's not black magic, by any means, but it's also not yet point and click. We'll build more tools, higher level pieces, and more in the future.
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How is ACPI anti-consumer?
Orwell, of course, covered the political dimension of this in “Politics and the English Language.”
owning 50% + eplison of the hash rate gives you the expectation of being able to undo an unlimited amount of history in theory.

In practice you'd need to show the world the blocks before they got to old or they'd be dropped due to an old timestamp.

Buying up the ASICs would be the real cost, It seems like the chain is largely safe because of that. If the price drops enough that lots of mines liquidate it'd be good to keep an eye on where they go. If 50% of the hash power is dark large txs should rely on a whole lot of confirmations if at all.
Airbus isn't absorbing development costs over 250 aircraft at all, those aircraft are barely going to be profitable on their own construction costs, let alone chip away at the $30B+ developmental costs.

The 747-8 cost only $2.5B to develop. The accounting fiction is Airbus's attempt to minimize how much it actually spent on A380 development. The sole ramification of being the undisputed leader in large wide bodies is apparently limited to massive capital losses.
91 Startup Terms Every Entrepreneur Should Know
We commit everything to master and run CI/CD(staging) on every remote push.

If some work isn't release-ready by EOD it's pushed to a branch overnight so it's not just on a single laptop.

That's it. Works great!
I agree.

I taught myself computer programming before I learned advanced algebra and calculus etc. in school later. I have always felt that math notation was just a type of obfuscated source code with very poor variable naming that you generally couldn't run on the computer -- you are supposed to compute it by hand. In other words, I believe that many aspects of math are quite primitive and shitily designed.
> Specifically, versus other high profile products that continue to have multiple security bugs being introduced every release cycle - Windows, iOS, Android, Linux, etc.

This is not the correct comparison. AMT has terrible code quality compared to the gateware/microcode of your average x86_64 CPU.

That ME/AMT is as insecure as some consumer OSes is no excuse, especially given it's certainly quite possible to install an OS on your x86 machine that is far more secure than your average consumer OS (or than the code AMT runs, which apparently falls to 1990s-vintage buffer overflows).
> your discussion about 4chan lacks some precept or basis of intelligibility.

The poster clearly feels there are large groups of racists on the internet. I'm trying to ascertain where they think these groups are, and exactly what they feel these groups believe. The 4chan mention was a guess.

> Imagine a similar question as being “what percentage of a psychotic mood is racist”. It’s a non sequitor and doesn’t address the substance of the problem.

I stand by my question. I think the poster has misconceptions about internet culture, and wish to reach the root of them to either correct them, or my own misconceptions. You're assertion here dose not make sense to me.

> Similarly, your posited question about ‘dark skin’ lacks traction for similar reasons and illustrates the baseless nature of the internet meme-culture.

Once again, I'm trying to understand how the poster conceptualizes racism both within the context of the internet, and society as a whole.

Forgive me, but if someone is seeing pervasive racism in society I want to know where and why. I fail to see how this is me parroting a baseless meme-culture. I'm sorry if talking about skin color and crime offends you, but that is no excuse to disregard me as some sort of troll. I have a genuine desire to engage with the poster on their opinions about the nature of the internet/racism/social progress, and being dismissed in such a pedantic manner seems uncalled for.

Edit:

My larger point here is, in my experience racists are a dwindling minority. However, people have begun to conflate certain types of discussion, and forms of comedy (namely absurdist), with genuine racism. These misconceptions are leading them to feel that the internet is somehow heavily racist. True racism is a serious issue, and deserves a heavy handed response. We need to be careful that the racism we point out is true racism, not just an opinion we disagree with, or a joke we don't find funny.
I feel like Unsong is much more attractive to a community of programmers if you describe it as King James Programming in story form :)
How much is a Dankort worth?

Can I divide a Dankort into smaller Dankort units?

Can I send my friend a Dankort? Can she send a Dankort to me?
I am all for it if someone can make the doctors use emails instead of faxes.
so ELI5 why we shouldn't just get rid of HIPAA? from the way people talk, all HIPAA does is guarantee that things will always be awful(?) how does HIPAA help if it just keeps us in the past?
It’s an online survey - much like the one First Round Capital did a few months ago. We’ve also augmented our quantitative survey with over 10 interviews with volunteers from all backgrounds and tech firms. There are similar responses. Some have even cited their companies as positive examples of allowing all viewpoints - which we fully intend to report.

As for Bannon, I happen to disagree with much of his ideology, but it’s hardly “fringe” when 62 million people voted for a candidate that used his playbook. You’re free to have your own interpretation.
> Bullshit is organizational self-deception

I have known companies that were entirely run on the stuff. C-levels and wannabe C-levels would spew it in every direction. It was simply a signaling mechanism that you were a company player. It was so patent that it could serve no other purpose. If one rotated it the correct way, it was not unlike a Monty Python sketch.

At some point I had a list of banned words, because they had lost all meaning, turning only into rest stop on a Markov chain road-trip. It simply wasn't possible to think with them, the Sapir-Whorf-Frankfurt Hypothesis.
Vue 2. I love Laravel, I suck at front end. I'm working on a monitoring app at the moment that could really benefit from live updates to the display, usually I'd use jQuery and timers, but I'd like to try something more modern.
The Inside IME talk [3] was quite disappointing :(
I am sure that it happens, but I don't know how you find somebody who wants to do it.
Vim, vimwiki and markdown accomplishes everything their homepage says Medley can do.

You decide the structure and the files, so you can throw it all in git to make it accessible anywhere.
Totally agree, I'm also glad there is another resource for learning templating! The gotchas are frequent for me when it comes to templating in Go. Recently I found that html/template will strip tags when inserting into an attribute [1]. I did not realize that Go made a special template for attributes (template.HTMLAttr) which is what I needed to make it work. [2]

[1]: https://play.golang.org/p/nHG_F2a0t-4

[2]: https://play.golang.org/p/TU5CX9Kstj
This feels overdramatic.

The internet has helped humanity in many ways and, frankly, the notion of an individual apologizing for it is absurd.

I do feel like there are certain cultural assumptions that have not proven themselves out. Those will need to be addressed if we want to maximize the value of our shared internet for all of us.
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The main argument for why value investing doesn't work in the tech sector is its basis on revenue trends over time.

The whole approach is based on figuring out when a good time to buy a stock is based on when it's cheap / undervalued. However, many techs cos are growth stage investments, and it's hard to predict which ones will (eventually) win / succeed in creating moats.

Determining the value of pre-revenue companies, for example recent tech IPOs, is just hard. You don't have the revenue history that you do for a company like Coca Cola. There's much more projection and extrapolation required.

https://www.quora.com/Is-there-such-thing-as-a-strategy-like...

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategy-and-cor...
The 747 was killed by loosening the regulations on ETOPS. Going to 4 engines used to be the only way you could run certain routes (particularly transpacific and trans-antarctic routes). Now that big jumbo twins are allowed to run those routes, running a 747 is unnecessarily expensive.
Well, demand is the driver of that. Right now the need isn't that great. If it becomes that great, a far easier solution than the A380 is new runways and new airports.
Einstein’s Little-Known Passion Project? A Refrigerator
Sure. Join https://telegram.me/joinchat/BLVsYz92zHUp2h2TYp9kTA for some Toki Pona chat!
You can see how Red is starting to approach this in http://www.red-lang.org/2017/07/063-macos-gui-backend.html, particularly the Cross Platform GUI Metrics section. It is a really hard problem. Technically it can be done, if you put all the onus on the user. The more we try to do for them, the harder it gets. It will always be a balance.
Yes this is a classic, and I think I was first introduced to it when I was going through my fake-circle trauma. As ridiculous as it seems, it describes the real (mis)behaviour of people. But I feel there should be an equal and opposite video. Perhaps one where an engineer keeps producing solutions to problems nobody has. (An astroturf mower? A robot that goes to the gym for you?)

I think if you had both those videos and a convincing explanation of how they can both be truthful, the combination would great training material for everyone on a product team.
When Star Trek’s Spock Met PLATO
I would not be afraid of working on something that isn't famous. If this project succeeds you have a great story of how you picked up technology X and did something great with it. Then when somebody else needs technology Y, you can do the same.
Ah, I see @rebolek noted that as well. He always beats me.
It can be a surreal experience when driving late at night on an inland road and the shipping forecast comes on. If you are on a coastal road, it becomes rather more real.

It is a much loved institution for all Brits who are old enough to listen to Radio 4 8)
> So it appears that they're finding approximate solutions, so already it's rather less significant than the title suggests

The title doesn't suggest anything about exact solutions as far as I can tell.

> We know that for most NP-Complete problems, most instances are easy. The question then is whether they are testing their algorithms on instances that are known to be hard. There's a chance they're doing something like finding factors of random integers, which we know is easy in almost every instance.

I don't know how they choose the problems they choose to solve but I assume this information is in the paper? If you are skeptical then why not read it and report your findings? Simply expressing your skepticism doesn't seem valuable.
> There will be roughly ten investments per fund that will return maybe 5% of the fund (the third and fourth quartile). We spend a lot of time on these investments and it is difficult work that I have written a lot about over the years. The time and money we spend on these investments is not rational but we do it anyway.

I notice this in my own work all the time. Some sort of human condition, probably, that "requires" I focus on the biggest headaches to try and solve them, despite probably being a lot of other more beneficial things to focus on when thinking about long term results.

As for the whole argument around the second quartile, this just seems to be the ecosystem of venture capital. A business with [insert healthy, reasonable, steady annual growth metric here], fantastic by most standards, doesn't initially cut it when VC portfolios require so much bigger returns to remain viable against other asset vehicles. But then suddenly that's not the case anymore, once the business has I guess proven itself as being a success relative to other fantastic flare-outs who once had much higher expectations.

I always think about that scene from Silicon Valley about 'pre-revenue' being more exciting for investors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo
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Hm while "In the land of invented languages" was a fun read, I found the book to be overly Western natlang focused (I know many more natlangs than I do conlangs, but a lot of my natlangs come from different language families, so I am aware of the large conceptual gap between languages).

As far as keeping abreast conlangs, there's reddit's r/conlangs that's a lot of fun. Lojban and Toki Pona are very popular there.
Interesting you bring up heart failure readmissions. Not saying they aren't a problem, but here is a fascinating study in JAMA that argues that places with lower readmissions have higher (worse) mortality. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/article-abst...

Not sure we (I'm a physician) understand even what the problems we need technology to solve are. But yes, we need technology to help (find and) solve some major problems that will improve lives.
Thing's I learnt from a hackathon
Hacker News is aggressively moderated, that's never been a secret, and the mods will override consensus when they feel like it. That's what many people here like about the site. If you want more free conversation, you can and should go elsewhere. Hacker News just isn't that place, as much as some of us wish it could be.

One person's groupthink is another person's culture, after all.
Can't uBeam already do this??

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/06/01/ubeams-m...
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This comment itself seems much more accurate than your original post. It allows for the fact that - sometimes - you don't have the power to change things right then. Sometimes the best you can do is survive, endure, and accept. You can only fix things when you can fix things.

It seems like you don't know how your first post got me thinking "try harder" so I want to highlight the things you said that gave me this impression.

>I was determined to end this trend, no matter what. After a few months (literally) of me not raising my voice, unless it was totally and completely justified (which I discovered was very rare) I could then say to my kids (and wife), I expect you to talk nice and decently to eachother, and as soon as they accused me of being grouchy, I pointed out that I hadn't been for months, and something changed, everyone started to listen to me, even when I talked quietly.

- Your determination seems to be the key factor in how you tell this. You made a choice and tried really hard to to follow through.

> I've become a morning person, I started jogging about 5 years ago (I hated exercise), I stopped eating white sugar in 1995 (because it was controlling me like a narcotic), and I have worked on many of my other bad habits and traits. I think anyone can change anything.

- this is a list of great accomplishments but avoids expressing that any of this was difficult. Just that anybody can change anything. I disagree, but so far we are just talking about behavior changes, you haven't mentioned depression yet, so fair enough.

> We just need enough of a reason to do something, and then we can do it.

- This is where I think you are just plain wrong. It oversimplifies the situation. Dismisses the many factors that effect motivation and mental health.

> The trick seems to be, can you make up your own reasons? I know we can.

- this is your own personal framework that worked for you. To my mind, reasons require logic to be available to the person.

> (also I defeated crippling life long depression, food addictions, weight loss, and few other things many people want to label "diseases" we have no cure for or control over, I call bologna on that, we can change anything

- This is where you bring up depression, which was my main problem. You put quotes around "diseases" and call bologna on the whole list, again offering that that "anyone" can change anything, presumably using that single method you have described. "Have a reason, make a choice, be determined." It's so dismissive, and I believe it's inherently false, plus it also sounds like it's not even what you really think?

You didn't, in the first post, mention anything at all about asking for help, or going through periods where you could not help yourself or change at the time. You only suggested that if the person thinks right, they can change literally anything.

People feel such guilt when they are engaged in behavior that hurts the people they love, and watch themselves make the bad choices in spite of knowing better. Family members wonder how their parent could ever sure by suicide, unless they hated their family. Etc etc. Reasons, alone, are not sufficient.
Because nothing was wrong with the batteries as far as we could tell, and Apple "support" didn't mention anything. That's the whole point of these law suits. Apple didn't tell consumers that a) their batteries were degraded or b) that performance would be dialled back to compensate. If people were told they would have just swapped batteries, as we would have. I'd much rather pay $150 for a new battery than $1000 for a new phone.

Prior to iOS 11 they still lasted all day, no random shutdowns, no issues at all. After iOS 11 the phone was slow as hell and the battery drained extremely quickly... the opposite of what you would expect given the recent revelations, but that's what we observed.
>One interpretation is that you really don't think that technical quality is important. In this case, you'll end up getting complacent on quality, ship crap, and open yourself up to competition.

I would dare say this mechanism has been in trouble for the past decade or so and that's the root of the problem.
If you're a large company with a sizable share in an established market, technical quality becomes secondary. It's customers' habits, compatibility and your sales budget that run the show. Until the market turns and you go bust, of course.

If you're quickly growing startup, the budget you can spend on growth (i.e. the amount you can raise) far outweighs the technical side. Efficiency? Investors don't care about that, they care about you making enough buzz and getting acquired (or IPOing) while you're still hot. They will get a return even if you never had a single profitable quarter.

Unfortunately, as much as we technical people hate this, I don't see any reason for the "IQ -> EQ" trend to be reversed anytime soon. Not in the current market. The only way out of this circus is making your own bootstrapped business.
Toto, the producer of fancy toilets in Japan, is believed to be developing some kind of back-end analytic system.
Too little, too late.

At this irreversible point it's not actual actionable regret, but a merely symbolic act meant to save their conscience from hellish guilt.

Besides, the blame for the Facebook-surveillance state and "alternative" facts is dispersed over hundreds of thousands of people. No single individual is responsible. It's an out-sized ego with out-sized guilt that motivates him to write the article.
GC will come. It just hasn't been needed yet for Red to continue its own development. If you write in Red/System, the C level dialect, you have `free`.
> versus the 2 from AMT

Until very recently, independent researchers had no access at all to the instructions that the ME processor runs; maybe normalise against that? http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2017/12/huffman-tables-intel-me.h...
viable == introspectable
Sigh. I'm leading an effort to cleanup TLS company wide and it's a nightmare.

I get why some people want middleboxes but honestly, I'd rather TLS1.3 take the opportunity to clean things up instead of coming up with workarounds for fallback.
I think at this point our Overton windows are just non overlapping.
USN - USS Boxer - 2003 - 2007

Specific 'core values' remain important to me.
An hour a day for standup, five hours a week for retro. Grooming sessions never made a dent in the backlog. 30 person team, VP in the room during some standups.

Obviously that monster was not what anyone intended by agile, yet the trappings of scrum slot neatly into what the organization actually wanted. Interchangeable workers, a progress chart to show the SVP, enough hipness to sound like the management isn't to blame.
Race? What are you talking about? Black mirror is a TV series.
The bridge designer imagining failure modes for a new bridge design isn't critical thinking, but the liberal arts autoethnography about the colonial etiology of Daft Punk, that's critical thinking?

Reality is the opposite of your assertion: critical thinking is largely dead outside STEM, and that's because only in STEM does reality punish you for indulging sweet-sounding nonsense.

I've also met good developers over the course of over 20 years writing software. Many of them had no degree or an irrelevant degree. I respect them tremendously, but they're exceptions.

The kind of thinking that today's liberal arts departments encourage is contrary to the rigor needed to solve real engineering problems, and it's rare that you find in a single individual both a knack for the cold logic of engineering and the social sensitivity needed to succeed in a world of post-modern, post-logic quicksand.