skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They will most likely dump what remains of the CDMA network, absorb Sprint's spectrum (pending anti-trust/regulatory certification; luckily, in this environment, I don't think they'll be forced to divest spectrum to AT&T or Verizon), and offer 5G nationwide to compete against wired broadband providers (with the mobile comms market saturated, growth opportunities are needed to stoke growth).

It's a good deal now that Softbank gave up on keeping control of the combined org and is satisfied with a minority stake.

Citations:

https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/5usle9/exclusive_s...

https://allfor5g.com/ (combined Sprint/TMO 5G info microsite)

Disclosure: T-Mobile customer for 18+ years, no other relation
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16950191 and marked it off-topic.
Yes, I would say that the be vector based editors is a good analogy.
TIL HN audience has a wide range of age
As far as I can tell, Google’s technology is a giant hack, and I doubt a merged Sprint/TMO would want to use it.
I wonder, does open source software help at all here? I mean, if you don't know what instructions will actually be executed, because the user's compiler is deciding how the code will run, can these hardware back doors even work?
Yep, the article linked is from 2016. I'm actually friends with one of the authors, the similarity tipped me off
“Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy”
.com has become the de-facto default TLD for the net for better or worse.
Rubies magic evaporated when I realized that its logic is unintuitive / broken:

```
puts true and not true
>>> true
x = true and false
>>> true
if 0; puts 'true';end
```

breaking backwards compatibility with every rails upgrade didn't help.

Similar bad behaviour in kotlin
>It looks like everything that’s ever been said about the 60s, 70s and 80s is true. What a bunch of savages we were

Or, you know, what a bunch of prudish crybabies you've become...

Post is more about trying to be funny and find ways to fault the old shows than about making its case.
By that logic nothing is ever truly random. Just define the states of all atoms in the universe and you have full determinism. But the fact of the matter is, you can’t establish a causal link with such flimsy evidence unless your theory also _predicts the future_. And by that I mean predicts in the strong sense: you make a prediction and record it with a third party, then see if it held. Not the kind of “predictions” we often see in climate science where a hundred different models are retroactively matched to what actually happened and a handful happen to kinda sorta match the data, if you massage it well enough.
It also has daemon methods, which solve the problem of making sure the superclass gets to do something before, or after, the subclass method runs, without the subclass method having to request this explicitly.
But if you're in a competitive environment that requires speed, why would you write for readability?
I also wondered the same thing and sought out data on it a while back. I provided those data in this thread here [1]. The gist of it is that our hypothesis does seem to be supported by the data.

And I think it makes sense if you consider things in a thought experiment. In a nation with a king and a 100 impoverished citizens inequality would be mostly invisible. But now imagine our king decides he's been cruel keeping everything to himself. And so he decides to grant 10 of the citizens great tracts of lands means of production. Well now the inequality would become quite a bit more visible. Instead of just one king you now have 10% of the entire population living in the lap of luxury.

The king realizes this is a problem and so decides to greatly expand the holdings of these 10 individuals and now grant an additional 30 individuals holdings comparable to what the 10 prior had. So now you have a king, 10 incredibly wealthy individuals, 30 wealthy individuals, and 60 commoners. But of course the problem becomes even more apparent. Now an entire 40% of the population is living in luxury while 60% feel completely left out. What made those 40% so special anyhow?

As more and more people make their way to the top, even as a percent of society, the apparent inequality somehow grows. This feels paradoxical because if we look at things objectively society has become vastly better off as a whole, yet it would feel quite the opposite. And that does seem to be exactly what is happening to America today.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16952930
There are a whole lot of multiplayer, D&D-like online games with NetHack and other roguelikes in their inspirational ancestry (some of which are actually branded as D&D games.)
Note that's from December; there's another flight today but that isn't it.
To call a function declared by a type class, you can use dictionary passing or monomorphization. GHC uses monomorphization as much as possible since it has zero overhead. Dictionaries are required only in very specific situations.
Is there a chrome equivalent to this?
For the first time in 20 yrs a huge number of books will escape US copyright law
Another idea: I don't see you talking about using your network of friends or LinkedIn. I get a lot of things from recruiters trying to get me to interview with them just based on my resume. And then I ask friends about working at the company they are in.
> There are plenty of boring corporate jobs where you can put in your 40 hours a week and go home.

Where does one find those? And how well do they pay?

I’ve been at points in my career where I felt overwhelmed by the need to learn a new thing every other week, and I just wanted to quit and find one of those elusive “40 hour a week comfy corporate job”, but I have no idea where to find that.

Every company these days seems to be rewriting their stack and moving to the cloud and whatnot. Sometimes I wish I could just find a boring job where I just write Java every day and don’t need to care about much else.
A forensic image of the encrypted disk is useless (assuming strong passphrase, no bugs, etc.). The article is about the risk that an "evil maid" injects software/firmware into his laptop that presents the expected UI but secretly logs everything he types, and does something bad with that information later.
What's there to stop them self signing their cert and allowing everyone interested to add it to their certificate store?
> I will never forgot his reply: “I am just fucking with you all” he said, a twinkle in his eye. Indeed, there was only an air of official-ness around his outfit and stool, he had no real authority. We all just accepted a queue for ID checks voluntarily.

Reminds of my visit to Hacking At Random in 2009. Their entrance had an X-ray scanner where you could scan your own bags, and if that wasn't enough to make you feel safe, there were latex gloves so you could ask another participant to give you a body cavity search.
Really nasty development. And current handicapped anti-trust regulation would do nothing to stop it.
Seems like one political solution is to simplify the tax code
This is a real downside of the festival. Just how financially burdensome it is filters and restricts the kinds of perspectives and culture that can enter. It's not just the ticket cost. It's the travel, the ability to leave work, family, and other obligations for so long, the typical costs of costumes and art projects and camp setup, the consumables... for fortunate attendees, these issues are trivial enough to perhaps not even notice. Most people are completely excluded by this.

The cult of positivity will want to justify and explain this away, but sometimes it's important to allow oneself to confront the negative things in life. Don't just blame the poor.

I highly recommend regional burns as a cheaper and more accessible alternative to Burning Man, which has been poisoned in many ways by its reputation as a club for the independently wealthy. A lot of people in attendance don't consider themselves that well off, but you really are if you can take that hit without consequences.

I think the regional burns really follow the intent and aspirations of Larry Harvey more closely than the big burn. But if you can afford it, definitely go to Burning Man and have a good time.
Ask HN: We launched 2wks ago and just hit $700 MRR. Should we chase funding?
I launched a SaaS business recently in the sales automation space, with a product that's better than anything else in the industry (especially at our price point). Without a ton of marketing, we've gotten to around $700 in MRR already with really high conversion rates (1-2% of our total visitors pay us).

We're not profitable yet, however the cash flow is modelled in a way that we'll be profitable after 250 users (we're at around 30 right now). In the long run I want to build this myself without venture capital, but right now a quick $100-$200k seed investment would immediately give us the influx we needed to become a sustainable business.

So, I need your suggestions: do we continue to just slowly grow ourselves, haemorrhaging 1-2k a month until profitability? Do I take time away from the business to focus on early-stage accelerators? Are we too early to look for investment?
So if I have a US telephone number that spells out FRANCE, it's OK for France to seize it? 1-800-FRA-NCE1 ?
One feature that I use a lot in Inbox and that I hope will be ported back to Gmail are location-based snooze.

Being on a somewhat flexible schedule on multiple sites, I like to know I'll be reminded of an important email when I get to the relevant site, which can be unpredictable sometimes.
There are theories that the brain is just an interface for the mind-- as in, it exists apart from the brain, but the brain facilitates its expression in physicality. If the brain were damaged, the interface would thus be damaged, and you could no longer access the information provided by mind. There are theories that there is no such thing as mind. You didn't prove anything.
The webcast was removed from Youtube when it ended — we'll have to wait for them to recut and reupload it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUV53Nn3PhA
I think you've got it. There is more demand for programmers and you're right that companies don't find it is hard to hire people for it support jobs. That's a shame. If I was in your position I would consider trying to train as a programmer. But reading your other comments it seems like you've got it worked out and have transitioned into something new so good for you.
and/or/not have different precedence than &&/||/!.

The symbol versions of each of those would behave as you would expect. However, I can’t say much in favor of the existence of the word forms.
If $x is more than $y they lose not owning the domain, it makes no business sense.
Exercise but forget math?? Why on earth not do both???
I cannot recall an instance where virtual methods were definitely my best option. I have used them sparingly, but I suspect further review would reveal a perfectly good alternative. I have always considered them one of the least readable constructs.
Check out the early albums of Tycho and alt-J on Spotify with related artists.
JavaScript isn't everyone's cup of tea, and performance isn't always a huge concern :)

The more other languages I learn, the more often I come back to Ruby. I'm excited to see it becoming a more portable language, and I think it'll make a good language for web clients someday.
Probably because you’re presenting a state level case as if it’s precedent for the US as a whole.
This is a stupid analogy. He makes the assumption that the actual slaying of the “dragon” just takes one major push, that afterwards, there is nothing else that needs to be done to deal with the dragon.

Except, like with everything, you can't just have one push and then it's job done, go on with your lives. As another example, technically speaking we KNOW how to kill the dragon of infant and child mortality due to diarrhea… yet as of 2015, half a million children still die, a year, due to infectious diarrhea. 2.39 billion instances of the disease in 2015, with 900+ million of them being children. 500 million die. Slightly less and half of those are in India and Nigeria.

Here's a prediction: when the “dragon” gets slayed, i.e. you figure out a way out for senescence and death, you'll “slay” the dragon for you and your mates in your circle-jerk, and fuck everyone else, because they're not “worthy”, or “not a pressing concern”.

After that it's just a matter of either your backs get shoved to the wall when the revolution comes, or you lot will perfect the Universal Disassembler and the chaff will get thrown into the furnace to be remade into something more worthy than what they were before.
Regarding getting off of Gmail:

I switched away from Gmail at the start of 2018. So far everything has gone smoothly. My new email provider (Fastmail) has a tool to import all emails from another provider, which ran overnight. I forward all mail from my Gmail address to my new address. One feature of Gmail which makes it particularly easy to switch away from is that it's free, so I can keep my Gmail account open indefinitely to forward mail.

Asking people to update my address hasn't been a huge problem. Even when they email me at the old one, I still get their messages.
This is not production quality code that is running on some important business. It's competitive programming.

Speed is the goal here.
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It seems that you posted your comment on the wrong article.
You could use a VPN. If you live in a place like China that blocks VPNs, you are screwed, agreed.
On one hand author argues that dietary cholesterol doesn't pass the blood brain barrier. Author also says that low brain cholesterol should not be a problem because some vegans have high cholesterol. Well, that high cholesterol is from measuring the blood, so seems like a conflicting argument.
Anti Evil Maid (2011)
What you say makes zero sense.

NSA benefited from companies having access to people's data. Those companies were doing their job for them, for free.
"These virtual identifiers, whether it's a phone number or an email address or a domain name or a Twitter handle, are now the dominant way we contact someone."

That's a good argument for changing the law.

However, this is wrong:

"More than that, these IDs are becoming trusted ways to reach a specific person."

That is something that I would like to see, but that is definitely not the way things work now. If I fail to pay to renew a domain name, I lose it, just like if I fail to pay my phone bill, I lose it. I would like to see ids that belong to each person for life and which can not be sold or transferred. I'd especially like the postal service to offer me that option, so I would no longer need to give my physical address to strangers, but instead could simply give them my postal alias. But no such thing exists right now.
JOY.JS: make happy little programs
We called this ASCII art and figlet when we were young. These keywords appear nowhere in the Git repository.
Coca Cola probably doesn't have a trademark for chairs, so this is a bit of an odd example. If you tried to trademark Coca Cola chairs, Coca Cola would sue you based on confusion, not because they already have a trademark in the category of household furniture.
> However, Fastmail is working on something similar with JMAP.

They are! [1]

"It really is coming in JMAP! Come along to IETF in London to have a play, or I'll be pushing out links to updated JMAP Proxy in the next couple of weeks and you can play with it there :)"

Once they've got JMAP nailed down, they'd just need to support Gmail's native API [2] for retrieving rich message data for their import process.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16375101

[2] https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/guides/
+1 to this. You have to realize that over a billion users use gmail. You can't possibly imagine that prioritizing .0000000001% of users that know about something like filtering on custom headers is remotely good decision-making against all the other work being done that helps the majority of users.
Don't know why you were down-voted. Consolidation in the (relatively expensive) US mobile market is likely to hurt consumers, especially as T-Mobile has been the cheaper option for most people. And it's no secret that US anti-trust regulation is limp-wristed nowadays.

EDIT: I'm down-voted as well? Are my observations incorrect?
When I started my career as a programmer it was a bad sign if people didn't stay 5 years at least at a company. But these days hardly anybody stays longer than 2 years unless they're being paid exceptionally well. So it's no longer a terrible sign if someone doesn't last more than 2 years. It can actually be a bad sign if you work at a big company for 10 years because you're probably out of date because you focused only on their tech stack .
how are you throwing in the towel with 50% of funds left and encouragement from your early investors?

get back in there and find a way to make it work! come
back in three years when your broke, your early investors hate you, and you’ve had at least one divorce.

just kidding. its hard to be a startup founder. it takes a lot of time and energy. some
good suggestions here, take some time, regroup, come back refreshed. Keep your burn low and talk to your customers about why they left and ask the people who never signed on why they didn’t.

perhaps equally important, if you insist that you’ve already failed and you don’t have the motivation to push forward, please stop wasting other peoples money and give it back. or at least hire someone who will try. do not phone it in. one warning though, if you tap out now, you may very well ruin your reputation and another shot at a funded startup. the early stage investors are prepared to lose their money on a stallion, but not on a deadbeat. either way they will remember you.
You still need to ask for ID if you are serving alchohol to strangers, since it’s still in Nevada. People often have an ID on them or a photocopy on their mug to show to people giving out drinks. Many people run a lot of exquisite bars as gifts to the community and the law doesn’t care if you are charging for alchohol.

The man on the stool was asking for ID’s as a prank. People assumed he was legit and you needed an ID.
T-Mobile and Sprint agree to combine in a $26.5B merger
Sprint and T-Mobile agree to merge
I've got two wildcard domains that are completely unrelated from LetsEncrypt.
Intelligence Amplification
Crawl consumed my spare time for some years, i even got good enough to streak 4 wins in a row. I disagree that it's a shallower game. Crawl is streamlined, yes, but the game mechanics are so finely tuned that at a tactical level its depth surpasses Nethack. That is, if you play an interesting combination and not MfBe or something :p The tactical complexity leads to strategic complexity at the margins when you're pushing for low turn count wins or streaks with difficult combos.

Ah, now I want to log back on and do a run :) I'm curious to see how the game has evolved since I last played.
When you use marketing buzzwords, you sound like a moron
The behavior of the booster landing looks very different than SpaceX's.

Blue Origin's booster seems to switch to a different control logic at ~30ft up, from a rapid descent to a slow controlled touchdown procedure. Meanwhile, SpaceX has a very smooth touchdown that seems to use a single control logic. I'm sure that the SpaceX approach is better for fuel consumption, but the slower Blue Origin landings seem better for spectators!

I love watching the physical effects of somebody's code, and I'd love to hear more about the decisions that led to this behavior.
There is some experience with this in the K community, and the answer is "it does not gain accessibility"; and "extracting reusable definitions" goes against the spirit of APL, at least for the simple stuff.

Everyone focuses on the syntax because that's the first thing you see, but it's just the tip of the iceberg. The real problem is that you have to think differently, and a weird representation actually HELPS you start thinking differently.

My favourite two examples (K syntax - K is of the APL family) are: maximum subarray sum, written in K |/0(0|+)\ and in english "max over 0 (0 max plus) scan"; And flatten, written in K ,// and in english "join over converged".

They are both good examples of K's orthogonality (which is shared by APL and J), and of the fact that the english doesn't make them more readable if you don't already have the right mindset.

K has a verbose english syntax called Q. People who grok the APL mindset, quickly drop Q for K (which is terser and uses symbols), and people who don't rarely find Q more palatable than K.
What you're proposing isn't really possible. Sure you could hide a microcontroller in a capacitor or diode packagebbut those components are rudimentary with very simple functions. A diode is like a check valve in pluming, it allows electricity to flow in a single direction. Capacitors are slightly more complicated but still a two pin component.

Imagine you're a pipefitting installed in something, based on the water flowing through you would you be able to distinguish if you were in a house, fire engine, office complex, or high-rise? Would you be able to ascertain what function you served in the system?
Can one publish a research paper in ML while working in a startup company?
It feels odd to see such a transparent exhaust from a rocket
This sounds like it would be a very powerful targeted attack, but would it be possible at scale?

Or would such a modification going into all chips coming out of a factory be noticed?
This is such a departure from the industry norm, trying to figure out what works best and focusing on that configuration. It looks like Google already struggle keeping the product maintained and nice-to-use, I imagine these options make it a lot more difficult.
I think it's just an oversupply of people in it support and it really contrast with the shortage of software engineers. Now that you're teaching English as a foreign language you're in a skillset area with a shortage and that's why you're more in demand. Age might matter a little bit but I think you've just got the right skill set now in the area that's short of experts.
Covered in Common Lisp by custom method combinations.

A "method combination" determines, when a generic function call denotes multiple methods, in which order they are called.

There is a default method combination with standard features: :pre/:post/:around auxiliary methods in relation to a primary method. This has the conventional ordering: derived controls dispatch. E.g. an :around method can decide that the primary method won't be executed at all by not calling (call-next-method).

The documentation for the define-method-combination macro is a bit of a challenging read. One of the examples of its "long forms" shows how the standard method combination would be defined with this macro, if it didn't exist. A simple example shows how to arrange for methods to be dispatched one by one until one returns something other than nil.
Indeed. It uses .gouv.fr subdomains.
really good people are involved with this software project and they make it easy and fun to contribute; there's still a ton of work to do so get involved if you're able
Pull it all out with IMAP and then stick it wherever you want after that
For young people (I assume you count in that category since you're just leaving college - if not, I apologies and still recommend you), set aside all that you may have heard about the author and sincerely read :

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson

https://www.amazon.com/12-Rules-Life-Antidote-Chaos/dp/03458...
I can actually use that exact same argument to claim the opposite.

The federal reserve driving high monetary inflation (ie low interest rates) has fallen squarely in the times of the most income inequality, the 1920's and today.

The Federal Reserve and its monetary policies can not be ruled out as the issue.
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