skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes - I also have Nymphomation, Pixel Juice, and Falling out Of Cars. Likewise I should give them a re-read. I've always thought of them as the 90s British rave scene version of cyberpunk.
The problem was recognized at the time, though. The first US patent was in 1790 (a process to make potash), the beginning of the industrial revolution.

Of course, now we buy portfolios of patents as an investment backing extortion as a business model, or as bludgeon to slow competition.
Lot of people need to take a recent history course. The trend is generally powerful white men abusing the rest of the planet.

FYI
> The cost and standard of living is much lower so the wage is not as bad as you think. Sure they don't drive BMWs and don't get their coffee at Starbucks or have a $1000 iphone but they are far from living in "poverty

The standard of living is much lower. They don't have "things" because they cannot afford them. But they do want them. This is because of poverty.

Ask them. Would you like a house with hot and cold running water? A gas supply? A bedroom for each of your children? A telly in every room? Be a two car family? Then ask them why they don't have this? They will answer: poverty and life is a struggle.
IRC will never get popular again. Server-based history and connections shared across devices are just too useful.
Reading this makes me nostalgic for 'multiple CPU' PCs. Haven't seen a lot of them for a long time, but was it 'hyper-threading' or 'multi-core' that killed the 'multiple CPU' workstation? Having more than one CPU had cool value and exclusivity - everyone has multicore, whether faked by hyperthreading or not.

I was also surprised by the amount of people choosing automatic login. I thought there was a downside to that regarding the 'keychain' thing or has that been solved over the last decade or so?

Also
If I may interject.. Until 4 months ago I didn't know LTMH existed, but I knew I loved Freenode, and IRC in general. Since then I've learned much about LTMH, having been hired by them as a developer and designer. They have treated me very well so far, and I believe in my core that their interests are benevolent. They believe in protecting privacy, freedom of speech, openness of software, and connecting individuals from around the globe. In my experience, LTMH has never sacrificed these principles in the pursuit of financial gain, and I believe this endeavor (the IRC.com project) will, as all their other projects do, serve the community upon which they depend.
Loathe to be technical, but this is HN ... to the best of my 'definitely not a lawyer' knowledge, you are correct that Officers responsibility to shareholders (i.e. 'internal') is greater than it is to their contractual obligations (i.e. 'external') ... but, there definitely is still a legal obligation to contracted customers, of which there are thousands. Ergo - this could very well sit within boundaries for their personal obligations.

I know they're an YC company, so I don't want to ruffle anyone here, but I do think a class action lawsuit against Twitter is warranted, even if it has a shaky legal foundation.

I believe that Twitter's actions - and the response - will be duly noted among M&A camps and the last thing we want is this to become standard practice. This is just 'bad acting' and it will come back to bite everyone here in startup-land.

I risk my erstwhile happy HN account by getting into a fuss with pvg, but he indicated that we want to 'wait to find out what's happening' - I would argue that in light of Twitter's 'total and immediate blackout' the onus is upon them to provide forthright information, and that absent that, we can assume 'bad acting' given a total blackout without any information.

Maybe we can use this as a lesson and the powers-that-be can provide some leadership, and possibly push towards a 'best commercial practice' like '120 days minimum notice' or something like that as a standard.

This is exactly the community to do it in, as I frankly don't see where else anyone has any broad legitimate authority among early stage startups such as it exists here.
Love this (well i don't love the contact dermatitis bit) but I love the idea. Our ingredients are printed on our bottle and on our site, and we'd be happy to try to help identify what causes the issues!

We have tested our products with dozens of people who have skin sensitivities, and we always outperform the leading brands. Fragrance sensitivity is a different issue, but because our products are basically a natural soap + a few enzymes + a few other natural ingredients, the allergen factor is minimal
>Still, I get things done faster in Go than I do in many of the languages that I've used professionally, like Python, JS, C, and C++.

What's the reason for that, in your opinion?

Do you mean dev time or run time?

If it is dev time, I can understand it about Go vs. C and C++, not sure about JS, but vs. Python?

(I know some Go, but much more of Python.)

I know Go has a fast compiler and is somewhat fast to write and run too, sort of a cross between dev time of Python and run time of C (I've that heard from someone who used it for a startup, and others), but I would have thought Python may have somewhat of an edge (even if small) when it came to dev time, over Go, or at least that they would be about the same, all other things (like dev experience) being equal.

That's just a guess, though. Don't have data to back it up.
Normal brain: commit directly to master.

Expanding brain: give up distributed version control entirely.

Galaxy brain: write directly to the deployment server.
duplicate, please check before submitting.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17372773
Rss too
Most libraries do not handle connection pooling on their own. They simply handle opening and closing a connection per query. Hence the write up on pgbouncer being a (relatively) transparent, drop-in solution to handling this when a library does not.
AT&T says 5G will be a software upgrade to cell towers with FirstNet
White males who don't show compassion move up ranks very fast in this society.

Not judging the individuals, but the history of this culture is very well covered.
But I think this is only a problem from a UX standpoint. IRC has DCC, for instance, but it's a matter of building a client which e.g. inlines DCC "attachments" or displays images beneath messages with links. If IRC is truly "revived" there's a chance IRC clients grow or new ones emerge to keep up with "modern" IM systems, and IRC will still have more benefits than these (openness, ubiquity...)
Android is a Java based OS, the NDK is there to implement native methods just like we used to write inline Assembly on the good old days.

Even what is called a native activity isn't really one, because what Google did was standardize a common pattern many were doing before as android.app.NativeActivity, with a bunch of native methods that the .so is expected to expose.

And android.app.NativeActivity is pretty thin anyway, because it doesn't provide a good way to work with permissions or SAF from native code.

Given that they locked down the NDK on Android 7, require JNI for like 80% of the APIs and Brillo was rebooted as Android Things, that says pretty much how they see the NDK for general use.

Which is why most NDK users keep implementing their own versions of NativeActivity anyway.
You're wrong if you think the party actually cares about the people in poverty. for example

"Beijing’s migrants no longer welcome as city caps population"

https://www.ft.com/content/822e982c-1b40-11e7-bcac-6d03d067f...

"How the eviction of Beijing’s migrant workers is tearing at the fabric of the city’s economy"

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/212...

few hundred million of these migrants only make $500/month in the cities.

http://www.clb.org.hk/content/migrant-workers-and-their-chil...
The BBC did a great adaptation of the book to a radio play, complete with professional voice acting, sound effects, even music: [1]

Unfortunately, it's only an abridged version. On the positive side, it's a quick listen, and well worth it if you're a fan (or just want to get a taste).

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S89BHnaxULo
It's hard to enumerate the amount of damage that alarmism has done to the green energy movement. How many years have been wasted by allowing skeptics to mock these outrageous predictions?
> first class support for emoji

I'm sorry. Even in 2018 I cannot take seriously any claim that "support for emoji" is being used to make business case decisions.
Why so much? Do you own a bakery or something?
There's nothing secret about hiring people who can think rationally and morally. It's typically part of the interview H/R screening process.
Don't forget Alfred Bester. The Stars My Destination and The Demolished Man are interesting precursors to Gibson.

He also wrote a fantastic, underrated novel that is definitely his most cyberpunk: The Computer Connection (1975), also published as Extro. It's great fun, and at times paints a future even more callous about human life than Gibson ever described (the main character is arguably a serial murderer, even if he has good intentions). The book was poorly reviewed at the time, and I wouldn't mind admitting that it's "flawed", but it's still one of my favourites.
> The corporate version of this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self
>I have seen multiple companies explode, friendships deteriorate, businesses die a slow death, or waste hundreds of hours (and dollars) working through the emotional debt built up from not splitting equity evenly.

To add counterpoint to the discussion,
Mark Suster (VC Upfront Ventures) uses the factors you listed as reasons for not doing equal split.[1]

Robin Chase (co-founder of Zipcar) also regretted her decision to split equity as 50/50.[2]

I'm not arguing with you. Just pointing out that reasonable people disagree on equal/unequal philosophy using the same reasons as justification.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAHgGUFjK3c

(A slight correction to the video about Youtube's 3 cofounders: I believe the Youtube split wasn't equal as 33/33/33; instead it was 45/45/10.)

[2] https://hbr.org/2016/02/the-very-first-mistake-most-startup-...
The trustee deserves no thanks. He has actively fought against this for years while drawing down a hefty fee for his office. This action was forced by the court.
This seems like the kind of thing a legal system should be designed to help defend the market against. It's a net negative to the economy as a whole to let torpedoes like this fly without consequence; and evidently, a totally Laissez-faire market will engineer ways to insulate the perpetrators against the damages rather than the insulate economy as a whole against the splash.
Tesla is suing an ex-employee for hacking into its 'MOS' software
Just to take away the creepiness factor, I'd say things like: Passengers who shared their favorite drinks with us rate us higher because we know them better and serve them accordingly.

This is akin to amazon's main website changing "We recommend the following to you" to:
"People who bought this also bought" - to induce a subtle hint of jealousy that others are getting a better deal and this is totally optional.

Any recommendation system should be a voluntary opt-in feature and should consistently do a great job at recommending.
What an amazing and powerful comment.

We should all care about other humans in this world.

(That said, not all governments care about other humans, and I tend to agree with crchang below.)
The literary critiques & reviews were hugely positive about Neuromancer, but its a fairly common take down of the book how bad the technology pieces are.

Here is an interview with Gibson where he talks about it:
https://www.wired.com/2012/09/interview-with-william-gibson/

(For the record he talks about it in agreement, he thinks he himself could write a good takedown of the technology).
Social Networks with real name policies can be just as anonymous as 4chan. And sometimes, an IRC channel where everyone has a pseudonym can be more intimate than anything else. What makes the difference is:

- Moderation

- Small Groups

- Regulars who get to know each other

You can achieve this anywhere online. But I think IRC lends itself to smaller, closely knit communities.
Do people actually like Material for browsers on desktops?

I like Home Assistant and don't hate the Google Cloud Console.
Microsoft's UI toolkit in Windows 95/98/2000/ME/NT4/XP did a fine job of letting me know that I clicked on a button, and it added no latency to the interaction.

On mobile, this is more difficult - the user's finger is obscuring whatever button they hit from view, so I kind of understand the "ripple" after the button is released (and ostensibly the user's finger has moved away, thus allowing them to actually see the ripple).

Still, unnecessary delay is infuriating on desktop apps. I agree feedback is important, but I don't accept the premise that latency is required to provide feedback.
Huh, I'll have to drop in. I didn't realize efnet had an active #motorcycles channel. I'm in one on freenode and one on snoonet, though.
Without full disk encryption with key/password a login is not that much more secure than automatic login.
I really hope they realize this. The last thing holding me back from Linux on my desktop is support for fractional scaling.

... or if there were like more than 2 monitors on the market that were meant to be run at 200% scaling, i.e. 24" @ 4K and 27" @ 5K.
It sounded genuinely honest to me and I find being proud of oneself when tough times where endured is pretty healthy.
There are Basic and Pascal as well, there are a few embedded companies still selling compilers.
He used $8 to receive in exchange a certain amount of bitcoin. What he lost when Mtgox filed for bankruptcy was bitcoin, not USD. To make whole, shouldn't you receive what was lost?
Just read it through and it seems that:

a) any owed assets will be paid in Bitcoin, unlike the bankruptcy proceedings which gave you fiat at (I believe) the rate when mtgox went under

b) a form will be posted to mtgox.com to fill out and send to them before October 22, 2018

Has anyone who filed in the bankruptcy proceedings got any money back? If so did you get it all back?
I don't know who these people are that consider a beer a day an issue. I assume you, it's completely normal and there is nothing wrong with it.
I'm sure it wasn't. You've described a path that most of us can't help but admire.
That's false though. http://theconversation.com/preliminary-report-on-ubers-drive...

> According to Uber, the developmental self-driving system relies on an attentive operator to intervene if the system fails to perform appropriately during testing. In addition, the operator is responsible for monitoring diagnostic messages that appear on an interface in the center stack of the vehicle dash and tagging events of interest for subsequent review.
A vesting schedule is so crucial. Many founders find themselves in the position of being partners with someone who is all but inactive with a substantial portion of equity. Not only is it unfair to those doing the work but even if all parties are willing fixing the split later can be costly, time consuming, and have serious tax implications.
IRC is great and IMHO still the best chat system we have. I'm active in a IRC-based community of programmers (http://dailyprog.org/chat/).

I'd like to know more about Andrew Lee (especially if he is reachable on IRC).
Michael O Church’s Theory of 3 Class Ladders in America (2017)
>isn't going full-bore on a market economy and democratic system

No that's the dumbest thing china could do. They would lose their protectionist advantages like the great firewall and currency manipulation which resulted in decade long trade surpluses. China is doing the "walmart strategy" of price dumping and killing off competitors but on a global scale. On top of that stealing IP is a very cheap way to build manufacturing capability while avoiding expensive R&D costs. Homegrown innovation is only required if they no longer have competitors.

Trump's decision to implement tariff is a very conservative strategy to even out the imbalance of protectionism between china and us but unfortunately the execution of the tariffs is terrible, he's targeting components instead of finished goods and he is also targeting allies that are not excessively abusing the trade imbalance.
I don't consider a proper dressing down (with some volume for emphasis) to be abusive, sometimes a fog horn is needed to cut thru the fog.
Supreme court will decide if Apple's Appstore is a monopoly
"I find it interesting how frequently "just ok" software is picked up and reaches a critical mass just because it is open. There are many good software projects that won’t grow because of licensing because they are more useful with network effects."

UNIX itself is a great example of this. Look at the graveyard of excellent UNIX flavors that fell by the wayside when free, open Linux came around.

With more open licensing and a different business model, any of them (instead of Linux) might have been the dominant UNIX flavor today.
One of the most significant pre-Gibson cyberpunk titles was True Names by Vernor Vinge -- a computer scientist who understood the nature of technology as it existed at the time of writing.
How did her "state" materially contribute to the accident?
In many ways I thought the segment was quite good. A bit over-acting, but nothing terrible. My only real gripe is they should be clearer about the whole thing being a simulation/example.

Yes, the stuff in studio is obviously fake, but they should be clear that the tornado on the screen was too.

Also, if this require a special rig to process today, how is magic leap gonna fit that into a pair of glasses?
Did Electrolux just hint at their new IoT platform?
You're wrongfully assuming that any other organization would've had the foresight to develop such a program back in the late 1950s, if they were given the budget. NASA wasn't established until 1958.
How exactly is this a bug in Win32? We can argue about whether or not this was a good design choice, but it wasn’t Win32 that opened an HTTP connection, wrote the response stream to disk and then executed the file without any kind of validation.
Same result but you are tied to your wm key bindings for navigation. With tmux you have everywhere same bingings. Even on machine you see for the first time. Lost connection? tmux a - t0 and all panes are restored.
(I also use tiling wm, but not for terminal splitting)
If there's a workaround, it's ok. Users often post workarounds in the threads, e.g. see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17371963.

More here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Haha. No, but it never goes bad and I really liked paying $1/oz instead of more like $4/oz for the tiny bottles at the supermarket.

I do tend to make French toast for the kids a couple times a week, so we do use quite a bit. I usually just kinda splash it in the bowl, I guess I have to start measuring now!
Having used slack at a business, emoji reactions to comments are an extremely valuable business feature -- they allow people to react without having to make a full-sized comment, which helps keep conversations compact.
There's a fabulous article from Raymond Chen about EXE headers in general: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060130-00/?p=...

>A Win32 executable file begins with a so-called "MZ" header, followed by a so-called "PE" header. If the "PE" header cannot be found, then the loader attempts to load the program as a Win16 executable file, which consists of an "MZ" header followed by an "NE" header.

>If neither a "PE" nor an "NE" header can be found after the "MZ" header, then the loader attempts to load the program as an MS-DOS relocatable executable. If not even an "MZ" header can be found, then the loader attempt to load the program as an MS-DOS non-relocatable executable (aka "COM format" since this is the format of CP/M .COM files).
You might like this talk about code reviews from an art critique perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpWvYxEW09k
When you try to reconcile the behaviors of people acting in accordance with a premise (oh, well gee, it's just an experiment), versus a person trying to survive and provide for themselves (if I don't find food, I'll die), while faced with the choice of placing dependence on others, there's a cold animalistic urge those choices become founded on n the the real world, which an experiment involving informed consent cannot replicate.

Going into that, eyes open, you have to make quick decisions about who you can count on, who will matter, and if push comes to shove, whether it's you or them.

For sure, I'll say this much, reducing people to a phone call or less, the choice always swings against the phone call. Being on the wrong side of that phone conversation sucks, and when the novelty of being on Mars expires, both sides of the phone call will need to have the ability to hang up safely, or, for sure, the Martian colony will face exposure and death.
Can I suggest clicking to toggle interactivity off/on.

for each step.
Given the speed there might have been a legal reason.

Perhaps they were in violation of either the GDPR or their customer data agreements.
Much of the importance of Neuromancer at the time of publication wasn't that it was so technically correct or insightful, but rather that it connected science fiction to the cultural awareness of punk rock. That seems trite and obvious nowadays, but it was a revelation then. And although you sneer at the technology, his cultural insights were profound and remarkably predictive.
>There’s a massive ($430B) menswear industry and massive ($130B) laundry industry, and there’s a growing number of U.S. men doing laundry (55 million, up 23% from 2013). The laundry industry still seems to be missing this male demographic

TAM = $130B

Liquid Detergent SAM = $3B

Male-marketed Liquid Detergent SOM = ?

As a (tech) market researcher, and a man somewhat in your target demo, I'd be interested to hear more abt your mkt research both quantitative and qualitative...do men really care abt what brand of detergent they are buying? Is price the most important purchasing factor currently? CAGR of 4.9% [1] is slow, especially since it's driven mostly by mkt penetration of washing machines in developing economies, but I'm sure the CAGR in Frey's niche market would be faster.

What are the profiles you are aiming at? From my perspective your core demographic would be single or non-married, young-ish, working professional types (similar to myself).

Most of these guys live in cities, and when I lived in NYC I used a corner laundromat. Very cheap, efficient, good quality, and not to mention the apt didn't have a washing machine.

Now I live in London with a gf, and we go for eco-friendly but economical detergent to do our laundry. TBH not something I've ever thought much about, or discussed with friends.

I'll be interested to see who your core demographic turns out to be - my tongue in cheek guess is moms of teenagers demanding Frey because they saw it promoted on youtube/instagram by their social media idols :)

My other real-er guess would be high-end corporate accounts - boutique hotels(?), fancy department stores (give it as a sample with purchases of expensive clothing and have it stocked in-store if the customer likes it).

I'm sure if you get enough traction P&G or Unilever will swoop in for the acquisition...good luck!

[1] https://www.happi.com/contents/view_breaking-news/2017-11-28...
Slack deprecated their IRC and XMPP gateways, so its no longer an IRC client.
Even in the Gulf countries, in many contexts, expat is used as a synonym for "white people", or at least people from rich countries. I used to live in Kuwait. In other countries it refers to any foreigners.
To save money, my insurance company forced me to try drugs that didn’t work