skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's true. Snap's and Twitter's consumer-facing product is free, while Dropbox charges for theirs.

They played the long game here. I'm still not a paying customer after almost ten years (partially because I got a lot of free space via referrals and trying out their apps). But if I ever max it out and decide to start paying someone for space, it'll be them unless there's something out there that does what they do at a price that's low enough to make the effort to switch worthwhile.

And, more notably, the freemium model means that they're able to invade the business world in the same way that the iPhone did with BYOD. And there's a lot more money there.

I'd be stunned if Dropbox wasn't very successful already, and I'm happy that someone outside of the Big 5 is doing what Dropbox is doing. It's a fantastic and indispensable product for me.
I'm not sure what to tell you. I'm just quoting the wikipedia article.

In any event...

> hyperinflation is often associated with some stress to the government budget, such as wars or their aftermath, sociopolitical upheavals, a collapse in export prices, or other crises that make it difficult for the government to collect tax revenue.

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation

Banks generally give loans to people who they believe are very likely to repay them. Typically this means that you get a loan if you have a good plan for repaying it and a history of doing so. (Leading to the old complaint, "The only people who can get loans don't need them.")

These are two different kinds of "money creation".

IANAEconomist
The uniformity of response in this thread is what feels like a joke.
> The other big environment with tons of untrusted code is of course the web browser. This is significantly more ridiculous, but: why not embed a ton of tiny simple in-order ARM cores without any shared cache into desktop processors, and run JS/WASM on them? (One core used per origin per site) :D

I definitely chuckled. :) On a more serious note- I'd bet at least a couple bucks it would be possible (albeit super weird and difficult) to channel information through hardware-acceleration mechanisms. Lots of rendering happens on the GPU these days.
Makes me wonder if China’s threat to halt treasury purchases was in response to this:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-10/china-off...

Seems to me that the US should use more of it’s leverage ($400b annual trade deficit) to ensure better market access to China.
Are there any Trump supporters out there who believe the plan is succeeding?

If so, then give us some predictions for 2020, the last year of Trump's 4-year term. What will coal production be, as compared to what it was in 2016, and ditto the numbers for petroleum?
More minority volunteers, and having clinical trials where minorities go to for care. Great example is most of the well funded academic institutions that run research are in affluent, mostly white neighborhoods, so if a (for assumption) poor minority wanted to participate, its not likely that the clinical trial would be available near them.
Uh I don't think it's the purchases that cause people to create a hubbub but rather the sticky situations he finds himself in every now and then https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/the-bizarre-tale...
Sorry for the self-promotion but my recent related project: http://bbischof.com/articles/the-route-to-the-top-100/
Isn't it? That's the end game of the fake news hysteria.
But it does take deep entrenched conditioned cognitive dissonance to believe that a lobster is food when there is a multitude of other more peaceful choices available.
Just rest assured that whatever you do to a lobster, nature has done far, far worse to uncountable trillions of creatures over a few billion years.
Only tangentially related, but I've been living in different parts of the metro Atlanta area for over 20 years and had never heard of most of the areas of town that the article references. I guess people who were born here may be more familiar with those areas.
The model is not based on domains. Just the text of the article. Can confirm there was an even number of real and notreal news examples. Data set was eventually broken into two categories; written with bias, or without bias. For example, a NYT Opinion piece was considered notreal news.
Yes - look at the tweets in the article. I've played Don't Starve Together and Terraria, and neither of them have any in-game monetization. Those are also both family-friendly games. Don't Starve has a cartoony art style, too.

I can't speak for the other games. Strangely, the tweets don't either. They're not like "I am angry about this particular feature", they're like <word salad of swear words>.
io.js?
Why would you think this isn’t a socially acceptable POV? I’ve never heard it before and it doesn’t come across as noxious to me.
One thing that might explain this is that your phone could be pulling data from your computer, rather than your computer trying to connect to your phone to push data to it.
I'd argue otherwise. You'd have to ignore literally the entirety of the natural world to even begin to think that lobsters are not food.
Right now its crypto focused sites, but I find some of them to be positive leaning. Likewise the traditional finance sites seem to be negative leaning. My goal is to add source sentiment so you can see all the sources and which way they lean for all articles. You will also be able to filter the sources you wish to see. Quality of sources/articles are based on reading though the articles, comparing them to similar articles from other sources and making a determination whether or not its a unique article or a spin off another one.
Take a look at Bret Victor’s Tangle project. I believe there are editor plugins that offer this, but I can’t name any off the top of my head.
They officially announced Teslasuit at CES 2018 !

https://twitter.com/real_teslasuit/status/950838538416873472
In general case, yes, of course.

There are still cases where you can prove that a recursion is bounded (I suppose something like dependent types could help here). There are definitely cases where you can prove that a loop is bounded, because the semantics of the language requires them to: a loop with a counter (not otherwise mutated), iteration over a known finite structure, etc.

Well, both C++ and Haskell allow you to use compiler features that are undecidable in general case, but usually work well in practical cases. Also, if e.g. your recursion / loop analysis is taking too long, you can just stop the analyzer. If the code can't be reasonably proved right, it should be considered wrong (with a chance of a false negative).
> Spectre has nothing to do with program correctness or safety. It has everything to do with hardware's correctness and safety.

But that “hardware” is mostly a program running on a machine whose ISA you don’t know. Intel is shipping a microcode patch.

In an earlier life I wrote microcode, as well as programming machines whose ISA could be changed by rewiring the backplane (PDP-10). I used to think I “knew the machine” and, in today’s parlance, “the stack” as well. Not anymore — nobody can grasp the entire stack.
Which are “the good countries” in this context?
Probably because you live outside of America - for some reason carriers in the states block the FM chip on their phones.

"Your phone has an fm chip. So why can't you listen to the radio?"
https://www.wired.com/2016/07/phones-fm-chips-radio-smartpho...
The first tweet they link to is directed at the makers of 'Firewatch', which doesn't have any in-app purchases at all.

http://www.firewatchgame.com/

If Firewatch isn't safe, I'm not sure anything is.
The obvious question is when are you going to embark on your journey?
I'm not claiming that at all - if you look above I said I acknowledge this is an issue. It's just not relevant to the cases in the OP comment.
I had an HVM instance that had forced downtime.
You kind of contradict yourself by saying there is no backlash and then giving a list of supplements to reduce the backlash...

It's proven that your brain down-regulates serotonin after taking MDMA, which can last a couple of days (or even longer).
What's not proven is those supplements you mention. They are the go-to advice you find on websites like rollsafe etc. but that's all based on shaky science (small control groups, non peer-reviewed papers, tests on mice that might not reflect on humans etc.).
Basically MDMA has not been researched well enough on humans (so thanks Pineapple fund for improving this situation). There's also no evidence that supports 'afterglow' and the supplements you mention are mainly antioxidants (and magnesium to reduce jaw clenching) that will reduce the oxidation in the brain, but doesn't affect the serotonin levels. Another good way to reduce oxidation is to keep your body cooled (but hard to do at parties). Taking 5-HTP the days after might have an effect on serotonin levels, but again, research is lacking.
Just to break up the homogeneity of this thread: I like it.
Nature isn't intelligent/sentient as far as we know. Intelligence comes with responsibility.

To complete your argument:

Many animals eat their children (hamsters for example.)

"Rest assured, if you eat your children, nature has done far worse"
You've effectively hit the nail on the head, but it is actually within the purview of what YC is specifically focused on regarding diseases of aging.

Aging biology is all about understanding how diseases develop to begin with, and lifestyle interventions are definitely part of that umbrella of research. Those of us who obsess over aging biology tend to prefer thinking about preventative strategies first, and rejuvenation as a fallback.
The type is named “Sharp Grotesk”. Seriously... how many meetings involved lines like “We’re trying to decide between Grotesk and xxxx”, “what do you think of Grotesk”, “I need sign off on this Grotesk typeface”.
"You're upbringing from your parents was abusive, so we should just kill you." No.
Google Plans to Vet YouTube Premium Video Content
A Distributed Multi-GPU System for Fast Graph Processing [pdf]
The article isn't about abandoning SV for Canada.

It's about abandoning SV for China.
I am fine with all of the above. The problem is that our increasing focus on solutions someone can monetize and make a mint off of are steadily crowding out other options. YC has a lot of power. Adding their muscle to the goal of finding business solutions to health issues is very likely to deepen that problem.

I quit taking the flu vax years ago and have done better since. In the eyes of some people, this makes me a nutcase antivaxxer even though flu vaccines are not required.

When I was growing up, anyone getting vaccinated was a success. People who didn't weren't all that uncommon. Now we are shooting for 100% of the population being vaccinated and you need to justify not getting it.

The further we go down this road, the more those options narrow rather than expand. I am some nutter who "lives in a bubble" for preferring to limit my exposure to germs as effective prevention rather than live on prophylactic antibiotics all the time, never mind that one of the outcomes of putting people with CF on antibiotics constantly is a high incidence of C-dif infections which are then treated by surgically removing your colon. Limiting my exposure to other people and their germs is not viewed as a reasonable choice for avoiding that outcome.

I am not seeing similar amounts of muscle put into policy changes that are more family friendly, people friendly etc. Saying there is nothing wrong with developing this stuff ignores the context in which this is occurring. If all of the above were equally accepted answers, I would not get so much ugly and threatening push back for talking about the choices I have made. I should not need to defend the idea that I would just rather not be sick, thanks, and I am willing to limit my social life to have that. But I get outright attacked for that.

So you would be wise to be a tad more skeptical about where such things lead. They tend to lead to promoting one path over another, at the expense of the other, rather than a broadening of options.
I tried to make a demo app to perform very simple HTTP p2p and found this difficult on iOS. When an app is backgrounded you have ~17 seconds to stop execution or the OS will kill any active threads UNLESS the activity is among the Apple permitted exceptions. (Note that there is no iOS SyncThing app). In Android it is possible to use IntentService as a single threaded background HTTP server. It works for the most part but can be a little flakey. I'm not 100% sure how the OpenGarden SDK accomplishes this but I'm interested. My guess is that it makes heavy use of Bluetooth, which is one of the Apple permitted exceptions to the backgrounding rule.
That sounds distressingly like the logic of killing humans as well...

Test: do you want that kind of mercy levied on you?
I've seen a few indie developers actively antagonize so called gamers.

I've seen abusive companies like EA get rightfully called out.

So Im skeptical of the depth of the claims, but I believe there are a few crazies.

I've ran a few foreign tax information websites, and I got extraordinary death threats very graphic and very detailed.

I think the internet really allows the mentally ill to scream for the attention they desperately want.
The Vanity Fair 'Brotopia' party was way worse than it sounds
No idea, but there was a bunch of articles and probably related tweets accusing this game developer of racism because of the era their animation style is an homage to.

I'm very much tired of articles whose sole basis for existing is random fucking tweets. You can always find bad ones, from every sect of society. Deranged scribblings on walls did not used to be worthy of news articles.
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Did you read the article? He laid it out pretty clearly:

> All of this is hardest on indies for two reasons. Firstly, because they are generally at the coal face of their games. They don’t have a marketing person standing between the hostile feedback and their work — it all comes in direct and unfiltered. Secondly most indies don’t make mass market games that appeal to the broadest cross section of players, and that include every feature under the sun.

Lots of book authors and other artists who have to "promote" themselves on social media run into similar issues.
We need to do performance analysis, but sandboxed code usually doesn't. The performance measurement can be in the environment.

This is similar to eval(). The operating system always needs a way to load new code, but you don't need it in the language, or least not in a sandboxed language.

It's also more consistent with the abstract programming model that we typically use. A new version of a function is normally considered compatible with the previous one based on the values it returns, not the details of its timing (within reason).

We often depend on this correctness vs. performance separation to be able to make performance improvements easily. It's very convenient to be able to swap in faster code without worrying that you'll break any callers. It's also convenient not to have to write constant-time functions (to avoid information leaks) most of the time.
> These seem like polar opposite lines of reasoning,

The problem is you are viewing them as reasoning about the cause from the effect alone rather than reasoning about the cause from a combination of the effect and masses of historical evidence.
I wonder if the WARN act applies since they got laid off without any warning?
> Japan, China, South Korea for example does their own drug testing and development so would they find that a particular drug doesn't work on their population at all?

Yes, it happens sometimes that certains drugs approved in the US fail to make it in Japanese clinical trials. Recent one I can think of is Prozac:

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01808612

It did not show to be better than Placebo in the Phase3 Japan trial. (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT01808612?sect...)

There could be multiple reasons for that, but in the end the drug is not approved in Japan.
Games have credits. Developers have Twitter accounts. Devs are excited about their work, share what they are working on. The devs are not seeking these interactions at all.
> Yes, Spectre has nothing to do with C/C++/Javascript/Rust safety.

I'm not so sure at the root cause level, part of the problem is that programming languages treat memory as a contiguous blob and speculative execution is a work around for that. All languages are designed as if the memory bus speed and cpu are still identical. Maybe languages need better ways to tell CPU's what data they are going to need ahead of time so that the CPU can have it ready.

Could we build a cache aware programming language? Imagine something like an iterator that would process one item and concurrently pull in data for the next iteration. If creating correct hardware is too hard then maybe we can be more explicit at the software level.
Implicit assumption: humans aren't natural.
Major Linux distros have Meltdown patches, but that's only part of the fix
If this is such a problem, how about making a game that teaches people to show a little class instead of yet another 8-bit remake for supercomputers?

Reminds me of that Don Daglow talk[0] at GDC Europe where he basically told them that Americans are idiots and how to cater to that. I would like to think that most people would do something less cynical if they had come to the same conclusion -- like Wozniak[1] did.

[0] http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.385041-Don-Dag...

[1] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kb7y3v/steve-wozn...
Bloomberg's design rules.
Came here to post this article. David Foster Wallace's journalism/essays/non-fiction are some of his best writings IMO. Consider the Lobster is a prime example. He turns a a request to cover a famous lobster food festival into a piece simultaneously exploring the biology of lobsters and our relationship with food both culturally and philosophically. In particular, the ethics of preparing lobster by boiling alive. It provides a great discussion about the question OP is trying to answer.
No idea but saying "women are <foo>" is dangerous when women as a group are ~3.5bn people.

Without some kind of qualifier it's a shade pointless.
Animals eat other animals. Some of us in more privileged positions of society have the knowledge and means to avoid eating those animals if we so choose. This doesn't mean that certain animals are NOT food...

There are plenty of reasons to not eat meat but attributing consumption of meat to "conditioned cognitive dissonance" is not only a vast oversimplification, it's just a dumb point.
Part of it is a lack of financial incentives on the part of the drug companies. Most pharmaceutical research is aimed at marketing drugs.

Take the example of hypertension, which is more prevalent among blacks than whites. At the moment, all of the major antihypertensive families are available as generic drugs. The best way to help black people quickly is to do a comparative study of drugs already on the market. No drug company is going to do that because they won't be able to capture the value if the drugs are generic.

Maybe a drug company could try to develop a drug which is particularly good for blacks, but it will take a decade, may not work, won't sell as well (fewer people), and then it will be an expensive new drug and people will complain about the cost.
Where does the oxygen go? Argon is inert right? So it’s not binding with it or anything like that?
And yet it is being downvoted, which is one of the more polite responses I get. It used to be a lot uglier (even on HN, which is generally a bastion of civility) and I left a lot of lists, or was thrown off of them, where it simply wasn't constructive for me to try to participate.
That article was signal boosted by every indie game dev I know of so I wouldn't dismiss it so casually.
Every thread about something cool has a bunch of posts filled with unfounded skepticism.

Do you have a good reason to claim it's vaporware, or is it just cool to be controversial on HN? What does your pointless pessimism and negativity add to the conversation?

HN is a community of hackers who like tech, creating stuff, and building the future. Let's get excited about the new things and support our colleagues, instead of just instinctively dismissing anything new.
Like the delicious peaceful cows out in the pasture.
I think your comment is mostly in jest (and it's funny), but...

Most of nature doesn't have a "choice" in its cruelty - eat the thing or die. Humans have a choice most of the time. You can say that you killing X isn't worse than its natural predator doing so, but the reality is that you could survive without killing it and yet you chose eating it over its living.

Personally I'm not pro- or anti-killing of food animals, but reducing the argument to "I'm not worse than nature so I can painfully and slowly kill cows like lions do!" isn't being totally honest about the agency that you have.

IMHO if you're going to decide that you'd like to kill something to eat it, do it in a "respectful" way that doesn't cause more suffering than necessary - doing any less is more or less reckless cruelty (to put it harshly)
Dropbox has come a long way... Kudos to them!

My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

Dropbox launches (YC summer 07)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=134405
Fresh water.
For a minute, I thought your comment had simply trailed off without finishing your thought.

Then I realised it wasn't "Microsoft Skype", but rather, "before Microsoft, Skype had..."
The best I can come up with: nuke it. That way, there will be no time for pain signals to travel along its nerves and reach its brain; the nerves will be gone long before.
I was going to write something insightful but then realized that yeah, people are just being incredibly rude when they provide feedback in that manner, to the point that their comments are not useful as feedback.
Did you read my comment?

“Barring those so small they can’t hire someone to run interference,”

Let’s both appreciate the moment.
> Reactionary is a label thrown at people who do not agree with a particular progressive idea and might have different ideas

I disagree; it's a word for people who disagree with an idea because it is different, often because it's an easy way to manipulate people or gain favor. One could call the Amish reactionary, but you'd be ignoring an entire philosophy, culture, and context.
Obama also said he was pro whistle blowers
we all know what happened to Chelsea.

Obama commuted her sentence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Manning#Commutation
I don't understand the point you're trying to make. Why would the fact that many animals meet an unpleasant but natural demise somehow excuse or otherwise dampen the implications of inflicting suffering or death onto an animal?

I don't generally have qualms about killing animals for food, but "it's okay/less bad because this lobster might have been eaten by something else, or perhaps crushed beneath a rock somewhere" isn't a consideration that would ever play a serious role in my moral calculus of whether or not I should eat a lobster.
Now THAT is some straight up bullshit.
Thanks for pointing out this little gem. I hope Google can be a little less responsible for independent company intel in the future.
Thanks for recommendations! I just purchased the Lenovo Flex 5. 16GB and a TB drive for $999 was a steal.
The Firewatch devs took a public stand on the Pewdiepie drama and got hit in the head as a result. It went far beyond Twitter harassment and their Steam reviews got bombarded with negative reviews. The hate campaign they got has nothing to do with their development or business practices.
Are you also planning to include pregnant women in your trials?

I'm not in the health field, so I don't know where the regulations stand, but I recall talking to someone who was advocating for this a couple of decades ago to avoid future cases like Thalidomide.