skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The following are postulations that I have not managed to refute since 2013.

Google clearly knows what they have made. The theory that nobody cares to fix this is false. They have good engineers.

Google was always tracking our location and scanning our emails. Few things happened simultaneously in 2014. Google tried to replace the messaging app with hangouts, blatantly stepping on privacy. Inadvertent signing ups for Google+ could occur. I switched to Cyanogenmod.

Navigating new privacy settings would took so long. Then Google maps started suggesting where I intend to go.

Not very creepy. It seems to me that Google intend to do the right thing, which is to declare publicly that our privacy is compromised, (e.g. Snowden) when we use Online centralized products. That is a good thing. I stopped trusting my ill-founded sense of privacy.

I lived in Canada, perhaps the timing was different in the states.
The Java compiler is written in Java, Rust compiler in Rust, Windows OS is developed on Windows PCs.
Eating your own dog food, this is called.
Like your son, I’ve also been tested to have an IQ of 160. Like you, I certainly don’t feel like I’m a genius in any particular facet of life.

I’ve known a few people that I’m absolutely sure were geniuses (or near it), the big difference between them and myself (that I could tell at least) is that they picked one thing or area and just kept getting better and smarter in that specialty. I get so _bored_ with just one thing. I’m highly creative, as I feel they are, but I just like building things.

Software, wood working, cars, motorcycles, robotics. I’m nearly as handy with a wrench and a welder as I am with a keyboard and a compiler. I feel like everything I look at I break into sub-components and constantly run optimizations in my head. It’s twisted and I’m constantly annoyed by people’s general lack of attention to my perceived detail. My wife is a huge fan of my ability to tell her shoes doing things wrong as well.

Maybe the people I regard as way beyond my capacity have the same quantity of innate intelligence, they’ve just applied it all to one area whereas I’ve spread mine around like finger painting on a wall. I just couldn’t do it. I can get interested in literally anything, there’s just too much cool stuff to learn.
Hopefully this is better than Tamiflu.

Years ago I was prescribed Tamiflu and man was it weird. Some of my flu symptoms were greatly reduced, yes, but my brain felt like it was always on edge. For people who have done hallucinogens, it was like that edge of being about ready to trip, but never actually seeing visuals. It was not fun. I had trouble sleeping and just wanted the medication to be over with.

I looked it up later and discovered it had some interesting brain interactions and side-effects in line with what I experienced.

I'm up to date on my shots, but avoid the flu vaccine because ever time I've tried it, it makes my arm hurt (if that's the injection point) for about 3 days. I thought I'd get a tolerance eventually, but never did. It's not as bad as getting the flu, but it's still annoying enough I still avoid it.
Yes: the browser is not in control of resolving "localhost" to 127.0.0.1, nor is it in control of resolving 127.0.0.1 to the loopback interface. These are details the OS is in charge of, not the browser. So the browser can't know that http://localhost/ is "secure".
I Am Worried About My Ears
I never understood this... if there was some investment strategy that beat inflation, then if everyone used it, inflation would catch up to it.

So if you invest 10% of your salary all you're doing is saving 10% adjusted for inflation, assuming your investment vehicle doesn't do worse than inflation. And then when you retire you just live off that.

There is no free lunch. In Capitalism, millions of people are in a rat race to survive and eat.
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker (http://a.co/aGEmQBl)
“There's no need even to have a college degree, even high school” -Elon Musk
The problem is that it is exponential, to the point of having a couple of applications running at the same time, requires a CRAY class computer.
Peter Thiel’s Failed Education Experiment Proves There's No Shortcut to Success
Personally, though, I think there are book anti-patterns, too. If you start somewhere new or get new management and they hand out Machiavelli or Sun Tzu, You should probably update your resume and start taking recruiter calls; things are about to get rough.

I mean, those are important books, and you should read them for historical/cultural reasons, but if management hands them out at work, from experience, it's indicative of an, uh, unhealthy or at least unpleasant work culture.
With the full support of the US government /s

If it was in the US hand, Snowden would be rotting in Guantanamo. As said, the US is criminal and incompetent. Luckily there are other global players balancing power.
How many product managers do they have? 50?
Not if you use multiplication and floats.

We certainly cannot use it for money, for example. Most shops I know of have fancy decimal libraries they never get to use because an unsigned long unit of centicents is simpler, predictable and easy to encode and assume client software will have the same rounding strategy.
The whole thing should be fairly trivial if the Tether folks would let the auditors or even the public see their accounts and balances. I suspect they won't because they are not what they are supposed to be.

Though that could be for reasons other than the money being missing - maybe when Tether couldn't open an account directly they opened one through a shell company and don't want the bankers to know or something along those lines. My guess is that when they couldn't hold usd they held btc instead and then tried to prop that up.
There is no reason to assume that evolution always brings about intelligent live. Anything "higher" on the ladder than bacteria could very well be an aberration that only arose due to very specific circumstances on prehistoric Earth.
Another good one for project management is The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande. When running many large projects, there's always a common set of stuff that needs to get done before declaring a project ready for deployment. The techniques in this book are simple, effective and a lot more subtle than simply writing down a list.
Haha, when pop-culture knowledge meets specialized "high school clique-esque" category of questions. This is kinda funny to me but I feel like it shouldn't be.

I'm nearly 100% certain all three of the contestants would run circles around me in 99 out of 100 categories but this entire group of questions made me feel like I could be a Jeopardy champion.
In your subconsciousness you think that a genius has to be imbalanced somewhere in life. a dear cost to be paid, even. I wonder if that is really the case?
Emacs + Intero is absolutely the way to go, I switched to Emacs to learn Haskell and have loved it ever since.
What’s the association with countries? Is it just where designer is from?
You are still legally required. Pretending that it’s okay to ignore your legal obligations because you think they have no leverage does not seem like a sensible thing to do. Neither morally nor legally unless you are willing to write off the EU market.
Anyone want to give a summary of what this community is about for those who don't speak Portuguese? I wonder how many upvotes are just because it has "Common Lisp" in the title...
It also had a tiny footprint.
I was toying with compqring similarity of texts just last night, is there anything that could handle 10k+ sized sparse vectors? Obviously there are tools like lucene, but I wanted to mess around in the interactive interpreter
1) The Pragmatic Programmer by Hunt and Thomas will always be a classic.

2) The Decision Maker by Dennis Bakke. This one pairs well with the more thorough Reinventing Organizations which has been mentioned in another comment.
Teams is an afterthought from Microsoft in its continuing lineage of Collaboration Applications.

We recently switched to it for a world wide support team and it's a step down.

- No direct quoting, only threaded replies in group chats.

- No linking to Threads, even though you can personally bookmark it

- No message indications except in 1 on 1 chats ad hoc chats, so if you're in a large group thread, you have no idea if someone is paying attention or not

- Poor UI decisions (the menu which appears over messages for "options/bookmark/like" will obscure messages if the same user sent two messages in a row; because it appears over the right-most part and the second of two messages from the same user doesn't include the user info, the menu will hide whatever's at the end of the message).

- Scrolling back in a message thread (group or personal) is pointless, as messages take so long to load, and it seems to load sequentially. (i.e., you can't just scroll to approximately where you think the message is; if you scroll for 10 minutes, it will still just load the most recent messages before continuing)

- Search has no proper way of search only one conversation, it's all or nothing.

- The mobile app is incredibly slow to sync regardless of whether it's on data or wireless.

I could go on for awhile on this. I honestly wonder if anyone at Microsoft even tried to use Teams before they released it, since everything about it feels like it was just tossed in there and the devs weren't allowed to look at what other collaborative chat apps did to make them good. Even their "me too" implementation of things like giphy integration or inserting photos in to the chat is very poor (dragging a photo from desktop will insert it into the thread, but dragging it from the web will upload it to sharepoint, though both take very long to upload). Accessing Sharepoint content takes a long time because Microsoft's login to the Office 365 space takes a long time. All text is actually rich text, but for some reason they included a pseudo markdown syntax which just toggles the rich text functions (bold, italics, etc) whether you mean to or not. You can't just escape these characters either since it's not that well thought out of a function.

When we briefly had Skype For Business, I thought that Microsoft couldn't do any worse, but they really did their homework for Teams and made a real horrible product that works for basically no one.
I agree! I thought the article ended there because I ran out of free monthly articles and I got cut off.

Seems like half of it is missing.
> I have to wonder what the product managers were thinking.

That billions of people were using WeChat and WhatsApp, and they wanted a piece of that? I'm guessing that's the motivation.

As for the enterprise use case, I'm not really sure why nobody cares. Every company I've worked for has had their own internal system for IM-like functionality, some better than others. Microsoft has one included with Outlook whose name escapes me. At Google we used Hangouts, and despite everyone complaining about it, it mostly worked well enough. You typed a message in it and at some high percentage probability, the other person got it. It was fine.

My complaint has always been intrinsic to the medium, it lets people bug you Right Not for very low cost. "Hi, I see you're currently triple-booked with meetings, but I'm bored and I want you to chat with me and I'm much too lazy to think about my problem long enough to type a one-paragraph email and then wait for you to reply when you have free time." No.

For personal stuff, my group of friends uses Discord these days. It doesn't alleviate any complaints that you might have about other services, though. It is IRC-like and has voice/video chat. It has a native app, but it's whatever that framework is that calls bundling 1 kilobyte of HTML with three hundred gigabytes of a Chrome fork a "native app".

I also think you'd get better customer service from your local DMV than Discord:

https://plus.google.com/+JonathanRockway/posts/NswjT5nuyBW
Tether presumably maintain the price by buying and selling USDT within 1% of parity, probably automatically using software, and probably mostly by trading BTC/USDT rather than USD/USDT given the difficulty of moving actual USD.

It's not really rigging the price in a bad way - it's kind of how the thing is supposed to work.
> Skype for Business

Which has a horrible UX.

Personally, I use trillian to connect to facebook, jabber and others. But FB is always working hard to make that integration as bad as possible.
There is a class at Georgia Tech I colloquially referred to as "making sure your coworkers don't hate you." It covered design patterns, software testing, and project management. I'd tack on a basic knowledge of databases to that. These are things you can gain a true functional knowledge of in a couple of weeks, and which not knowing might make senior engineers hate working with you.

So to mimic the class:

The Mythical Man Month

Design Patterns - Even if some of the particulars are not as relevant, it still provides a useful framework for thought.

Lessons Learned in Software Testing: A Context-Driven Approach

I'd also add Harry Potter & The Methods of Rationality. A lot of engineers can think empirically, but its not their first reaction. Going through this book helped make it second nature for me. Can't remember if a certain data structure is immutable? Now I'll write a couple of lines of code to see rather than go looking for documentation. A lot of big problems start as false assumptions. Having the instinct to think to test them and knowing how to will prevent a lot of wasted effort, regardless of your role.

How to Solve It by Polya also gets an honorable mention for similar reasons.
That might be a start. But there’s even more subtle things going on.

What about the person who can resolve conflict. The person who always takes on a task to the bitter end regardless how bad it smells. The person who thinks ahead. The developer who loves process and documentation. The developer who can code you out of a tricky situation. The person who’s always trying new things.

Personally I think it’s a lottery. Like putting together a football team but we don’t even know the positions yet. We just know they can play football
WebSpa – web knocking tool sending a single HTTP/S to run O/S commands
Sorry but when you are living through the phase of fastest technological progress in human history, with a huge amount of goodwill after a catastrophic first half of the 20ieth century (in which the US dropped two nuclear bombs, lets not forget); when you emerge as the only global power, leading the world in nearly every aspect, and the best that you can achieve is the current situation, it is a waste.

Not only, it is a disgrace. You have missed the chance to make the world a more just place, and you have probably demonstrated that humanity is hopeless.

Maybe the error was to put so much trust in the US to begin with.
I think planning for retirement is important, but spending no thought of what happens next seems very irrational.
I don't speak the language but I'm a Lisper, so I'll try deciphering this.

What is Common Lisp / Materials about CL / Setting up Emacs / Setting up Quicklisp / Setting up Slime / Relevant links / Appendix: Irrelevant links (:

There is also a link to what they call an official Telegram group.
Yeah, pretty much no one here (Germany) used AIM, it was 80-90% ICQ and some using MSN.
Using NoScript or turning off javascript fixes all the problems on that site. Although then it's just a blank white page without even so much as noscript text.
Yes definitely.. was truly amazing the number of those phones they built and sold.. pretty amazing phone for the time..
Arch Linux on a Sharp Zaurus C3x00 in 2018
The Federation are basically space Amish that don't see their current technology as being advanced.

Starting in TNG, they literally fight technology incarnate to keep from losing their souls.

And who brought them to that fight? None other than a people with ultra-advanced technology who appeared to them as gods.
An invoice is either a contractual or legal obligation, which takes precedence over the data subject rights. Even if you are asked to destroy the subject personal information, that information should never be included and is against the law.
I have to say that, although I began to use Matrix for the open source / open protocol aspects, their flagship client Riot is actually much more fully featured than most other propriety products. For sure it is much more useful than Google Hangouts and I'd say about equal to Slack in terms of user experience and features.
Just finished it. It is a good book. I expected it to be more from sw dev point. But I was not disappointed.
Quick glance looks like it's a starter document for Common Lisp: what is Lisp, good resources for beginners, and projects to look at.
As a non EU person or company with no legal assets in the EU, even if you or any EU institution says this, there are no repercussions from us continuing to engage in the activities (collecting data people put willing into the open) because there is no ability for the EU to enforce these laws upon us, short of arresting us outside of EU's borders.

In order to stop us technically, the EU must pass laws that disallow their citizens to give information to platforms of various forms that could be used in various ways to amass data upon them as well as against allowing their citizens from accessing such information on sites like ours that mine crypto based on the time they spend on the site engaging with such information.

>are willing to write off the EU market.

We don't discriminate against our site visitors; we want to collect, correlate, cross-reference, and process it all and put it into the public to be used however people everywhere see fit, just like governments do today!
The Crypto Canon
Franz is the modern day equivalent of Trillian/Pidgin.
It's alive, but I don't know about 'doing well'. It survives among some special interest communities, but the usage is tiny compared to any of the major platforms now. You won't find your uncle on it.
NSA Sent Coded Messages from Twitter Account to Communicate with Foreign Spies
IOTA Can’t be used for IoT
You're spot on.

I think we're debating with astroturfers - my comments on this thread have been to -8 and back. This is a climate change related article after all, so all science is just like, your opinion, man, and no more valid than Bob the slime mould's thoughts. Over to you, Bob.
Slack has the saving grace of optionally supporting an XMPP gateway, for those still committed to that dream. For now.

(I sincerely hope this comment isn't too prescient.)
CC seems to be Design Patterns meets Moral Harassment

It turns development teams into a judgemental arena, demeaning of other colleagues and a race to see who follows "the gospel" closer to the letter

Who says their code is clean? Who says that's the best way of doing things? In all cases?

It just reeks of "I'm better than the rest", which is already a problem in the industry.
The grandfather comment was making an observation, not asserting something as being good or bad. The child comment didn't add value because it was unclear.
Rather mostly China succeeded because it had a population larger than any other country. Production depends primarily on resources and human labor is one of the most valuable resources. It is no surprise that population count is strongly correlated with nominal GDP.

This should be completely obvious.

It also refutes the author’s argument. Why has a market economy directed by a Communist state become the world’s second-largest?! Would Friedman find it hard to explain why China, run by a Communist Party, has emerged as central to the global capitalist economy!? China has 19% of the world population but roughly 10% of the world GDP. It is 79th in GDP per capita at purchasing power parity. We should not evaluate a country’s economic policies by looking at its nominal GDP without also looking at its population—this is nothing Friedman would have difficulty explaining.
How I Manage Bunch of Domains
AOL bought them. Slow burn.
Shionogi has an impressive set of drugs coming along.[1]

[1] http://www.shionogi.co.jp/en/company/pmrltj0000000u4v-att/e_...
I have never agreed more to any single article ever than this in my life! How accurate! So true and the pain to leave GTalk still lingers in me to this day. I experienced my first love in that thing ffs!
I was disappointed with Pragmatic Programmer, but maybe I picked it up too late. It is quite obvious stuff for experienced person. If someone is 5 years in dev and content of the book is not obvious for him, then I am afraid the book will not help.
Seems like a nice feature for something like Little Snitch.
Wow, that's actually a really great idea. Takes you back to the days of simple 16 colors. It could even have that vintage Google UI look to it.
Are you careful and open about what you do with personal data you have collected? You'll be fine.
I still use https://coolors.co.

The thing is no one ever uses one of these pallets. You start off with one maybe as a base and then adjust everything to get stuff just right. The Coolors UI seems to be good at that.
I miss google talk but it was just chat. I use hangouts this days for chat, voice and screen sharing and it works well enough.
At 48 volts you start running engine accessories off of the electrical bus instead of belts and pulleys. That means the engine isn't necessarily responsible for keeping everything under the hood running at all times. You might not need a water pump or the AC when the engine is off, except to keep the cabin comfortable. But you still need things like power steering and power brakes, stability control and other safety systems.

Also, you start getting economies of scale with all-electric car components that pull down the price of EVs over time, because they can use the same components.
I don't think Bitfinex is directly involved with Kraken. Bitfinex is a shady offshore operation [1] and Kraken is a fully US regulated company with their main office in SF.

Kraken is however about the only place you can actually trade USDT for real USD. Or indeed short the things.

[1] >[people] have attempted to visit the company’s registered address in Hong Kong only to find an accounting company which served as a registration agent for the company

>most of the executive team is distributed across the globe.https://medium.com/@cadammitchell/bitfinex-has-a-true-workin...
Is your office safe from unwanted visitors?
Seems like Slack figured out how to make a lot of money out of interoperable groupware. If they'd been slower at it, I'd still be saying they're an acquisition target for those companies.

edit: "All" they did was come along at the right time and make the interoperability easy. The prerequisites to have done it at all? Smartphones, WebRTC, and ElasticSearch.
That might not have very good cache performance though?
Yes, we are building the tool using our tool! I am glad that at least one person got the importance of that!
Exactly! And we are actually doing that!
Yet when the Cookie Law came out the ICO basically said "we know it's complicated, it's an education job, not an enforcement one".