skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m a New Yorker, grew up there and now living in SF. Brooklyn was cool, but it didn’t “get” the kind of experimental intellectualism that’s needed in a tech startup scene. Not ripping on my old hometown. They have the intellectualism but haven’t applied it to tech. If I were to go back to New York, I wouldn’t go into tech, I’d go into finance because that’s where the nerds would be.

If I may, when I visited Vancouver (several times), I couldn’t find a coffee shop culture there. For some reason this seems like a big deal. In Manhattan and in San Francisco, people write in coffee shops and it’s kind of a thing. This seems like a big deal too. There’s more startups that started in a coffee shop than you’d think. Again, it goes towards a certain kind of intellectual experimentation.
Oh jeez:

> What this means is that, unlike so many other gaming trends, Fortnite truly seems like it's here to stay. According to Google searches, Fortnite has a ways to go to reach the staggering highs of Pokémon Go, the popular mobile game that became a huge phenomenon throughout the summer of 2016.

The argument is that Fortnite is not a fad, and then it's immediately compared to one of the biggest gaming fads in recent memory? And it isn't quite as popular as that fad? Okay.

> “More people in the U.S. are searching for ‘Fortnite’ on Google than they are for ‘Reddit’ and these searches have risen sharply over the last two months," said John DeFeo, VP of Internet Marketing at Purch, Tom's Guide's parent company.

What a genius comparison! Perhaps a site that's been around for over a decade and already has mass brand recognition might not get as many people googling it bare, since most people can just... go there directly.
Another ad guy here. The problem is best practice on one platform doesn’t equal best practice on the other. Additionally, there are many ad formats that don’t overlap on multiple platforms. Even GDN vs FB is a huge disparity. I would be interested in the product though if one existed.

Alternatively, one place to manage creatives and language as well as targeting for each campaign might be helpful as we use google sheets, excel and Trello for this now.
I guess you’ve never heard of inflation. When the government prints more money it steals value from the money in my pocket. See Venezuela printing money for people to fill holes other people are digging instead of letting a free market allocate reaources.
> How much money have they spent on truck rolls diagnosing issues? Is it less than just building a more robust network to begin with?

There's always the chance they can try to put the customer on the hook for a truck roll, turning a loss into revenue.
It's a bit reductive to call 80,000 people evil.

The reality is that everyone is just trying to do their best for themselves and the people closest to them. We're all virtually the same, we just value different things.

No one considers themselves evil, which means there's a disconnect in our ability to communicate with each other. Categorizing a difference in values as "evil" prevents us from understanding each other better.
You haven't heard of the game called religion?
Read the last 7-8 paragraphs. The talk about "the power of love" cheapens what is otherwise a resonating piece. No where else does love (apart from "loving" war) come into play.
I think this was written back before "people" became standard, in the 1980s I think "men" was still in vogue. It says men every few words, but that probably meant less than it does now.

Aside, I think it's insane to argue that men "love war" while at the same time admitting knowledge of Vietnam. Weak men like to feel tough by pretending to like war, as if a politician would exert themselves more or less by calling in a strike.
This may be a stupid question, but, is there any possibility to store data with this?

Also, what is the size of the crystal that you're looking at in these experiments (sorry if I missed that)
Yes I'm referring to the BR modes in those games, and they were all from the same creator / licensed from the PUBG creator.

They all were inspired by the movie Battle Royale, but that was a movie, not a game. If movie <-> games were indicators of mutual success that would be a first.

Grandparent was suggesting that PUBG copied off of H1N1/DayZ, justifying Fortnite copying PUBG. While sony cloned PUBG, they licensed it, whereas Fornite didn't. But they were not originally Battle Royale games and the Battle Royale modes came from the creator of PUBG.

> They are referring to the BR modes in those games, and they are effectively clones and inspired by the movie Battle Royal.

I don't get what you're saying here. I mentioned the movie Battle Royale, not them. And predecessor games' battle royale modes grandparent suggested PUBG cloned from were made by the PUBG creator. I'm not sure what I said really counts as "pedantic" so much as the grandparent completely misrepresenting facts.
> And yet tons of bad things keep happening to regular citizens in the US.

The "War on Terror!"[0] is yet another way to funnel money to rich corporations. It is a money making machine and that's really all it is. More people die from choking in the U.S. each year than died from terrorism in at least the past 5 years. And yet, we've spent 100's of billions. The NSA is just a piece of that machine.

[0] I know you were being more general in your comment, I'm just pointing out a single reason.
I have heard the compensation is a big drag for tech jobs in CA. But I don't really understand why that is. If tech hiring is so brutal, why wouldn't the wages be more in line with what their neighbors just south in the USA are paying? After all, if there is a brain drain and tech works from CA are leaving (in part due to comp, presumably), then why not pay more?
I liked reading about the two forces at play here. The ideal self vs the reality of who you really are. Extreme moments such as war can cause you to learn so much more about your darker aspects.

Great read.
Exactly. There is the concept and the syntax of pointers, and those are relatively straightforward to understand. I gave up on learning C++ — twice — when I was a kid because no book explained why there are pointers. It’s all very “a pointer points to something! Now on to the next chapter.” (The third time was the charm, luckily.)

One simple example showing value semantics would’ve made it click for me, and things only get more interesting when you talk about performance.
I'd never heard of eyeo and was only vaguely familiar with adblock plus before reading this. But I have ublock origin installed on all my browsers, and can't imagine browsing without it. For Facebook I use FBP and like wise can't imagine using Facebook without it.
War is to a degree more consensual. BDSM scores very highly in taboo surveys. I don't think the author would say all men love executing POWs or anything like that.

Also, not to support that view, but the amount of sexual violence that has historically accompanied war is startling. There's obviously something to it.
a. High frequency trading

b. Embedded software

c. High performance computing

d. Robotics

e. Military / Aviation software

In each of the above fields there are categories of software where you can run circles around general solutions by writing something custom and yes some of those involve writing your own database.
I'm not sure what the other ones were, but for the popularly referenced Battle Royale modes in H1Z1 and DayZ, they originated from mods by the PUBG creator.

That being said, both the games you reference, their Battle Royale mode was actually made by the creator of PUBG:

> Brendan Greene, also known as PLAYERUNKNOWN, is the creator of the Battle Royale mod that started in the DayZ mod for Arma 2. Recently, Battle Royale has been licensed by SOE and made an official game mode in H1Z1
Player Unknown grew to fame originally as a modder who created Battle Royale modes for other games, and then used that experience/name recognition to launch his own game. If PUBG was the first Battle Royale mode, Player Unknown wouldn't have been famous and it would have just been Battlegrounds.
My, perhaps incomplete, understanding is that you can just run the old thing if you can support PHP5. Otherwise you can run the eternal dev version, but you will have access to fewer plugins.

Added: It appears there is some version 1.4.23 (the old thing) that will run on PHP7. I am currently running 1.4.22 on PHP5 under OpenBSD with no problems. The problem seems to be in figuring out what version to run.
More like, we’ve reduced the casualty rate in armed conflict? Plus, you’re forgetting about those who were killed that were not American.
H1Z1 Battle Royale mode was licensed from PUBG creator.

I agree PUBG implementation is terrible, but nonetheless the credit is due where it's due. Brendan Greene started it, and PUBG trails Fornite only slightly despite costing $30.
Actually I see now that you specifically said 'black men', which is a different statistic, so I think you might be correct.
The nice thing about this is that we can use Dot-town as a halting oracle, which can then be used to solve any specific undecidable problem we'd want to solve. Make the machine output a set of dots after running some unknown computation, such as a search for twin primes. The residents will kill themselves depending on the results.
Not everything is a conspiracy, but nor should plausible explanations be dismissed out of hand without providing evidence or arguments. AT&T has lost the right to be trusted, or even to have the benefit of the doubt, thanks to a long history of anticonsumer activities.
"So you think you have a power law... well isn't that special?"

http://bactra.org/weblog/491.html
like i'd trust that to happen properly
> "I personally don't know what drives people to work for other people."

I've done a few businesses before. It's extremely stressful when it goes bad. My bosses now haven't had a vacation in years. It's easier to fire the boss and get a better one than for the boss to fire a star developer.

When it goes well, you get more money than the people who work for you. Sometimes. With tech, the larger cut often ends up for the people who do the work.

So all things given, if you're an engineer, it's probably better to work for other people. The only reason I see to own your own business is if you don't trust someone else to be in charge.
This thread and it's comments have been super enlightening. Living in California my whole life has skewed my perception of what is normal with respect to ambition. Ambition is not inherently good, but Eve as a small child we are inundated with messages about success, "hard work" (whatever that means), and reaching
is this spam?
I mostly fly budget airlines so my hand luggage has to be lightweight, but the carpet at Changi is a minor inconvenience (especially when one is tired after a +13h flight) because my luggage practically rolls itself when you give it a nudge on an even surface!
While incompetence may be most likely, alternative possibilities should still be considered, and kept in mind for future context.
One of the most ridiculous manifestations of this is at this prison called "Angola" in Louisiana which is literally built on a cotton field and has forced prisoners to pick cotton since around 1880.

https://mic.com/articles/88461/a-modern-day-slave-plantation...

edit: another link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_State_Penitentiary
Uh, what’s your issue with pee in the shower?

Of similar quandary: Is it actually controversial? How do you put a stop to it? How do you detect it? Are there practical reasons for it being a real problem, and not mere squeamishness?
why not just disable showing of acceptable ads? i have always done this, since they introduced it.
War is a call to power and a purpose. It's also disgusting, but a man can get used to anything.
Not that this isn't an interesting read (albeit mostly a lengthy rationalization of shared trauma) but they really need some better editors over at Esquire — spelling, spacing and grammatical errors everywhere.

Edit: there appears also in the text, frequently, the world "tile" as an adjective. "tile night" "tile blackness" "tile war". Methinks someone needs a better find + replace regex.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartmental_models_in_epidem...
I guess I'm using PUBG/Brendan Greene/PlayerUnknown interchangeably. In spirit PUBG is the successor of the mods he created, the game engines that happened to host it were vessels. So PUBG the game is simply a continuation of the original modes he created. It's also currently the most popular, outside of Fortnite, so I consider it the originator.
I haven't looked at the solution but I don't see why it requires a box that can have two padlocks attached.

A sends their open padlock and a box to B. B puts their open padlock in the box, and locks it with A's padlock and sends it back. A opens his padlock, puts the ring inside, locks it with B's padlock and sends it back.

Maybe it was just too hard for you? :P
There's lots of towns that grew up around military bases.

Washington DC is a federally planned city.

A less drastic measure than trying to start new cities is to move services to existing cities that have lots of housing (or a clear path to expanding housing).
It's not omitting and it's not just zeros: try `ping 127.256` and `ping 127.65536`.
This is a pretty dense read.

My summary (and I’d appreciate correction from those who follow this more closely):

There is a set of problems where the runtime complexity increase exponentially as the problem size increases on classical computers.

If you can show you have a device where the time complexity only increases linearly and you are faster in clock time then you have shown that your device is superior to classical computing.

Here Google chooses a problem and shows that their 9 qbit quantum device (which they developed) shows exponential speed up between 5 and 9 qbits.

They project that speed up and error rates forward and find it should achieve quantum supremacy at 50 qbits.

(At least that’s my reading. Corrections and expansion very welcome)
I'm not sure Marin County ever strove to be a center of commerce, or to offload housing onto other counties as a result. This is the main point here: surrounding counties caused this mess, they should fix it.

I would prefer to see state measures that require cities to tie housing development to commercial development and jobs growth. Or even for SB-827 to be modified to exclude cities/counties that have maintained a balance. This would exclude Marin from SB-827, but would certainly still include SF and Cupertino.

(The Sausalito lawsuit is a separate matter to this discussion; its success demonstrated the effectiveness of existing state laws for that particular development.)
There are other ways to fund content that doesn’t involve slapping a bunch of third party trackers and running retargetted display ads.

Some examples other than subscriptions would be sponsored content and creating a product such as an ebook or selling products that are related to your content.
Since this was written in the 80s and it’s Esquire, it’s highly possible that the author is a military-industrial complex shill. Or an apologist at best.

The only people who love war are corrupted individuals. They have no morals.
Speaking as a dev, the benefits sound great. But as a user, I just don't care. As a user I want these things from an app, in order:

1. It does what it claims to do.

2. It does those things quickly.

3. It looks and works like an app designed for the OS on which it lives.

Number 1 is standard, since I won't use your app if it doesn't do something I want. PWAs, in my experience, struggle with #2 and absolutely fall down on #3. For example, and I'm not picking on you here, your app looks like an Android app even when I installed it on my iPhone. I don't want to context switch between visual styles or wait for JS performance delays just so you can save some time in development. This is the primary reason I very much dread apps I depend on deciding to go the PWA route since despite being technically capable of emulating platform look and feel it seems very few do so.
Whew I wonder which of your sentences caused downvotes
It's not ping. It's a common C library routine used by quite a number of programs that does this. And this is old behaviour of that library function, that has been around for decades. Here's FreeBSD's library function from 1994, and it was fairly old then:

* https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/FreeBSD...
marijuana has been de facto legal in vancouver for two decades
MH370 search finds two 19th century shipwrecks
On the other hand a company that I worked for some years back had published a summary of recent accidents in the monthly newsletter[1]

A significant number were for office workers who had tried to change light bulbs or similar by standing on desks or office-chairs and then fallen off.

[1] - Yes, company newsletter could be seen as a bullshit job
I don’t know if that salary cap is true, but these agencies have the option of hiring well-paid contractors from private firms.
What is the race of your friend?
> Tell me, what do you think would happen if you gave them $500 million more?

Honestly with the way Seattle is with it's taxes. I highly doubt it; there's already 90 million allocated and all they have been doing is studies and trying to help outreach programs.

I know what I could do with 500million if I had it; I'd build a bunch of low income housing apartment complexes all over town and use outreach to bring people off the streets.

I don't think Durkan is up to the task however.

> I'm still waiting for them to fix the roads after we gave them another tax levy to fix the roads. It's been almost 4 years in some area's.

Now if you want to argue that Seattleite's are overtaxed and we don't see enough out of it. I'm game i'll agree with you.

But as far as Amazon; my view is they are one company who is too big. If they were like other companies like Nintendo and Microsoft and Google who have offices all over Metro Seattle and King County I would have much more sympathy.

If they were a little guy trying to make ends meat I would.

However Amazon is a big fish. Their earnings show it.

Revenue: $51.04 billion vs. $49.78 billion, as estimated, according to Thomson Reuters
EPS: $3.27 per share vs $1.26 per share, as estimated, according to Thomson Reuters
AWS revenue: $5.44 billion vs. $5.25 billion, as estimated, according to FactSet

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/26/amazon-earnings-q1-2018.html
Loos like a poor OCR of a previous text. All they really needed was a proofreader. Why they didn't even bother is the real question.
You don't really need rDNS delegated to you (and I'm pretty sure that's not what walrus01 meant), just so long as you can set (or have your ISP set) the PTR RRs to match.

Correctly set PTR RRs can (will) make a huge difference (lots of MTAs will reject if FCrDNS fails).
Theodore Roosevelt, an admitted war enthusiast, once said:
"A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace."
Ripple wanted to pay to get listed on Gemini and Coinbase
“anything sent through the mail will be stolen unless it is enclosed in a padlocked box”

That’s why — A’s open padlock will be stolen.
> This was in the 1980s, I’m sure drivers pay much more attention today.

Missing the /s. Drivers today are far worse than they were in the 80s.
Incredible story behind Chrome's most popular theme, Morpheon Dark
Drug prohibition is indeed slavery - in the case of the text of the 13th amendment, literally so.

Moving the bar from "you're enslaved based on your color" to, "you're enslaved based on your diet" is not much of a move.
Or just attach a lock that needs a combo (ex: 3,7,15) instead of a key to open it, then tell her the combination after she gets it and the risk of theft is zero.

The problem specifically says they are communicating using the internet, so why not?

"Hey, I sent you a box. It's locked with a combo lock. Call me when you get it: I want to be talking to you when you see the surprise! I'll tell you the combo on the phone!"
The process I've always followed is:

1) Make it work [in the nominal case]

2) Make it correct [in the edge cases]

3) Make it fast [without breaking the other two]

This, plus "Make the bad people pay" gives you working software in no time.
In this solution the open padlock would be stolen, because it is not in a locked box.
I think the thing that improves country wide healthcare outcomes in Canada is that everyone can go to a doctor. However, outcomes for complex cases are not as good.
When I was a young man, the military appealed to me. I liked its presentation of power. Its structure, order, and clear roles seemed to provide a sense of purpose. Maybe war itself would be bad, but the structures and forces that war brings seem like they wouldn't necessarily be bad for everyone.

Not everyone thinks or feels like you. That doesn't necessarily make them morally corrupt individuals.
The thing you're missing is that you're amortizing the cost. Yeah, it's typically prohibitive to run the manual testing on every CL. However, if you have any manual testing you need to run, then at some point you have to batch the changes & test them out together anyway. Automated tests don't necessarily solve this problem either. 1) Some automated tests can be time-consuming & so require batching of CLs to run too 2) it's impossible to predict if you are going to catch all issues via automated testing 3) there's always things it's easier to test for manually.

When it comes to data integrity, I would think you need a structured mechanism (at least for larger teams that have a high cost for failure) for rolling back any given CL either by tracking writes, making sure to have a plan in place to recover from any given CL (e.g. nuking the data doesn't break things), being able to undo the bad writes, or just reverting to a snapshot. Without being careful here CD-style development feels like lighting up a cigarette beside an O2 tank. Now for web development this is fine since it's not touching any databases directly. More generally it feels like a trickier thing to attempt everywhere across the industry.
As long as you’re alone in the shower I think it’s ok.
I started because it saves time, urine is sterile when expelled and I am using soap to wash the rest of me which should clean everything after up. Makes sense to do it then, rather than use an extra couple gallons to flush 500ml of liquid to what is ultimately the same place.

I also regularly clean the shower.
Curious - source for the estimated figure?
Hahahaha. I browsed without any adblocking for years, and the ads just got worse and worse.

I'm still running Adblock.
Deadlocks and data races.

Which boils down to problems created by the POSIX implementation with condvars, mutex and semaphores. No lockless and waitfree data structures.

With threads there are also minor hidden contants: limited stack size, high cost of context switches.
And random order of evaluation.

Lockless threading semantics needs to know ownership, copy or ref and relationship to be able to fix these problems. I only know a few not well-known languages who actually did a solve these problems.
This article is idiotic. The assertion seems to be based entirely off Google Trends and "supported" by a quote from someone with a professional relationship to the author that just says they "believe" it might be true.

Google Trends is almost completely meaningless for both judging the popularity of a game, and the popularity of sites like reddit or Amazon.