skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not arguing in favor of racial discrimination, so I'm not sure what straw man you think you're arguing against.

Never said that you were.

> I am noticing an implication on your part that animus against white people, or animus against men, is acceptable and welcome in the workplace.

Sorry what? You read in something that wasn’t there.

Perhaps you ought to read a bit more carefully.
I don't think this sounds like a win-win, the founder moved the goalposts and bought the Series A out for the minimum possible (9%) so he could start paying himself.

I read the fluff around core values, but my first thought is that Joel would rather not risk his personal fortune by growing the company further. Better to ride the 25% margin as long as possible, giving himself enough liquidity to retire wealthy, than take a chance on growth.

Maybe I'm too cynical, but I admit I'd be tempted to do the same thing.
Yea, I think most would lean towards requiring one or both of:

- it's a distributed consensus system (often around "blocks", but e.g. iota is not)
- it's a chain of hashes to prevent mutation (around "chains")

And I doubt we'll ever get everyone to agree on what subset (including null) of those are "a blockchain".

Very (very) few things benefit from distributed consensus IMO. And not all altcoins use blocks at all. So I tend to lean towards hash-chains. Publicly-verifiable immutability is useful in quite a lot of real-world scenarios.
Eh, you left off the hunters "killed hundreds" per day part...
> If I can't buy service from that other provider, then they don't count as competition.

Right. Businesses are often currently wired for only one ISP. And the question is: "Can I buy future service from the other guy?"

It's a fuzzy question, because you can essentially always buy service...for some amount of money.

The evidence presented (and deemed credible by the court) is that ISPs will frequently build connections for businesses up to one mile away. And most of the businesses in question were less than half a mile away. And so the court ruled that the FCC could choose to call the market competitive, based on that evidence.

It's an unsatisfyingly fuzzy question, with perhaps an equally unsatisfying answer.
One of my college professors was Thor Hogan.
Well yes that and, many in the world have gotten ridiculously rich. You don't see middle class tourists from Malawi flooding the Vatican Museums despite them having access to the same information on their smartphones, you do see it happening with Chinese tourists because there's a ton of them who can actually afford it.

I mean, I've traveled to four different continents as a student on minimum wage jobs. A flight across the world and back can be had for $500, in some EU countries like where I'm from, you can make that kind of money with three nightshifts in a bar as a young student. That's pretty ridiculous if you think about it, spending a few days serving drinks lets you go to the other side of the world and come back. And especially if you're from a rich country, traveling means the odds are in your favour of actually spending less on things like food or local transportation than if you'd just stayed at home for the week.

How you can sustain that if you have a few extra billion people in the middle-class is beyond me. Owning a home with a toilet, access to a self-driving shared vehicle and a computer is an actual possibility for the hypothetical 3 billion middle-class people of the future who could afford it. But having an access ticket to Paris, despite 3 billion people being able to afford it, is not going to be feasible, ever. In that regard I have some major concerns about the future of certain cities, a lot of our consumption can scale with our wealth, but tourism to prime locations like the Vatican Museums or even certain cities just isn't one of them.
While I do have friends who simply travel to build their brand around it (every year in my circles there's a set of "cool" destinations that you post pictures from, where somewhere like Iceland is cooler than Rwanda), I think tourists have and will continue to have the same behavior. As a tourist, you have a limited amount of time to explore. Sure you can "go off the beaten path", but that represents a risk, and while the experience may be interesting, you could also end up in a boring villa/Airbnb with nothing more than mediocre food and unfriendly people. Wasting your limited vacation time on a subpar experience is a pretty dismal proposition, so most people will take a trip to a place that's easy to navigate as a tourist while still giving enough of the local flavor to impress.

There's something to be said for trying to preserve local flavor while accommodating tourists though, and that's a line each tourist spot will have to find for themselves. Some will probably inevitably become expat party towns, while others will probably strike the right balance.
> This project explicitly says Node.

While that's true, future projects are a lot easier if one doesn't have to keep re-referencing "what works in Node" vs "what works on the web".
if i can access the tweets via twitter without logging in, how can someone block me?
From your first comment:

> Without getting in to a lot of detail, the source I found was very reliable and did not show any upward (or downward) trend in either count of fires or total acreage on an annual basis since the 1960s. I pointed this out - not as proof that climate change did not affect fires - but as a simple data point that didn't seem to match his assertion.

That is called a "conclusion", no matter how many weasel-words you salt it with or how many times you say, "no, really, I wasn't drawing a conclusion". You've since walked it back to, "oh, I meant there wasn't a significant trend", and I shrugged and accepted that and replied solely to your criticism of other people.

Which was:

> Only that people tend to accept narratives that are repeated over and over without critically questioning them.

And now, you're choosing to expand from "people aren't critically questioning things" to, "oh, actually, I meant that they aren't thinking at all". Before you do that, you might want to think a little bit more about epistemic learned helplessness.

> Only observing that there was absolutely zero knowledge about facts behind the situation and no ability to respond to my two minute gathering of facts.

Nice, you're doubling down. Well, your "two minute gathering of facts", first, was erroneous, and second, your "observation" was either obvious, or wrong, pick your flavor. Obviously, people accept any manner of statements without personally verifying them. Nobody has the resources to become an expert on every bit of news coming from legions of researchers or journalists, and further, if they spend just two minutes attempting to verify a single factoid in something, they may well get it wrong, as you did.

Instead, people rely on other people to develop the specialized knowledge required to gather and synthesize the facts of a subject, and then other people still to report on that. It's imperfect, and sometimes (often) somebody somewhere in that chain gets something wrong, but it's still a better approach than armchairing everything you read, which has a far greater chance of leading you to the wrong ... well, "question", I guess, instead of "conclusion".

By the way, re-framing conclusions as questions is such a well-known tactic that it has a name: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions
Nonetheless, the last time I visited Paestum (~2 km. inland in modern times), which may be my favorite archaeological site in the whole country, I was literally the only person there, and there was certainly no issue finding a seat on the nearly-empty train from Naples. It's not that hard to avoid the crowds - just plan visits to major sites for weekdays and try to avoid travelling during the high season.
You are amazing, keep learning more. :)
It comes down to the world moving faster than the infrastructure was designed to handle.

And that's not necessarily a bad thing, I think it's a net good that so many more people can afford to go the Paris, own an internet-capable device, read about happenings on the other side of the world.

Having so much data changed the game, and we're struggling to catch back up.

Optimistically, I do believe it is self-correcting, as more and more people learn that the crowds are too big, and the prices have gone up too much.
> 30 separate tweets in a row trying to explain something

Twitter is definitely not a good platform for something like this
Didn't know that one. Powerful. Thanks!
Oh look, it's an almost ideal market allocation scheme.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_allocation_scheme

Edit: I always find it interesting how when a FANG company is called out, an employee will provide a guarded defense, but when an ISP is called out regarding competition issues, the result is dead silence.
>It seems to me that they largely missed the whole point of being there.

Honest question, what do you believe the point of being there is for them? Do you think other people might have different reasons for being there than you?
Especially since anyone thinking it should continue can just fork and do so.
I didn't realize people were using Java so widely. Especially after the whole google/oracle lawsuit.
Birth control app ran a misleading Facebook ad claiming to be ‘highly accurate’
This tells you that talent can be discovered at any age.
Off topic for the main achievement :)

But: if I open the bitbucket link on mobile, the left part of the text is clipped and it doesn't allow scrolling left.

With "request desktop site", it works perfect.

Why does mobile mode even exist if the desktop site works better??
Here is my opinion on VR, what do you think:

I think one of the "killer apps" for VR will be in education. It will be for unique user experiences related to whatever the student is studying. Right now most students learn by lecture, reading books and maybe going online to watch a video on youtube. Well just imagine if you can do activities like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hXlwRlhueE

Now compare that to the lecture, reading books or watching a video. The VR experience is educational, it is interesting, it is fun, it is exciting. When you ask many kids how they feel about school, what do they say? They say it is BORING and I tend to agree with them (based on experience in school). Add in these VR educational experiences and the whole game changes.

Thoughts?
I think it works. I looked for "fog in san francisco" and it gave me a bunch of shimmering gray boxes that all look the same.
> But I also understand their reaction.

And I don't. I mean, charitably this could be attributed to some non-tech person noticing the extension and sending/asking legal to send a C&D because they didn't like it. That's the only thing I can think of, because the alternative is plain malice. This is a client-side modification, the main part of their letter is just absurd, and the justification is nonsense.
> His point is obvious, clear, and inarguable. If you can’t grasp it that’s on you.

His point is definitely arguable and not at all obvious or clear: it rests on conflating prisons with political re-education camps. The two things obviously have similarities, but they also have important differences.
Madoko – a fast markdown processor for writing professional documents
There are a couple of really cool things you can do with LEDs as detectors. One is as a wireless link, modulate a red laser pen pointer by putting a microphone in the battery supply line and then point it at an LED that is reverse biased on a transistor that is halfway between the on and off state. Most cheap LED pointer internal power supplies have no filtering for "high frequency" (greater than about 100hz) noise on the supply line which comes out as a change in brightness in the pen pointer which the LED can pick up and drive a transistor amplifier.

The other is a simple "firefly" program where the LED is connected to the ADC input of a microprocessor, and when it detects LED light it turns around and flashes the LED some random time in the future. If you have a bunch of these you can bounce a light around for quite a while.

Chris Kuethe did a great example of this but I cannot seem to find his code anywhere.
I agree with you there, to win the case there would have to be some economic reason for Slack to not want users to use this extension.

The reason they state is "Injecting javascript into Slack via Chrome extension can have an impact on the privacy and security of our customers and our product. Furthermore, this can create reliability issues when we ship product updates." If they can prove that is true then the case stands up but if BetterSlack doesn't impact security, privacy or reliability then the case would probably be dismissed.

There's some excellent analysis of this sort of case here https://ir.law.fsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1101&cont...
I would. The whole point of a risky investment like that would be to get a better return. 10% per year is something I can get almost risk free, if I'm starting with $2MM.
Hmmm. FWIW, I saw your question earlier and came back just now to see the answers. Disappointed it was met with hostility.
The name "Dick van Dyke" would often get censored by filters in online forums in the 90s.
Perl's rand() is not a great way to generate values that should be unpredictable. It is seeded with only 4 bytes from /dev/urandom and is an LFSR like rand(3).

The consequence is that the range of possible passwords is probably smaller than was intended, and furthermore seeing previous passwords (or the random MAC) may help in predicting passwords. Of course without seeing their entire setup it's hard to say to what extent that is the case here.

This module may be useful (it even uses the same alphabet by default): https://metacpan.org/pod/Session::Token
I still read Pratchett audiobooks every night - does that count?
LEDs usually are not very good photodiodes. You optimize them differently for each usage. In abstract theory the perfect photodiode and the perfect LED would be the same but in reality there are more tradeoffs and you end up with different devices.
You are both sort of right. Markets can contains incentives for conservation, but empirically have done a rather poor job of it. Part of the reason is undoubtedly the fact that the investors as a collection of economically-rational-actors models is incorrect, but there may be more to it as well.
It seems like certain folks using HN are intent on turning what used to be a great forum for tech discussion into the next r/politics. Please, don't. Keep your militant, divisive discussions on Reddit and don't pollute the discourse here.
Hulu has released the first trailer for its Mars show the First – The Verge
If you'd visited the Vasari Corridor or tried the Uffizi on a Tuesday morning, I think you'd have had a much different experience. Rome is constantly crowded in the same way NYC is, but you can't really expect to have the entire forum to yourself - it's one of the most famous places in the world! Loathsome is the polar opposite of how I feel about visiting either of those cities.
There's a difference between you possibly being unaware of where to find such information vs someone actively blocking you.
I third this. Speaking from personal experience. I sometimes try to implement the logic of some library or algorithm myself, even if I know there is well-known or canned solution for it. For the same reason as you and your parent comment said.

Interestingly, some people (typically newbies who are looking for rewards without commensurate effort. but others too) do not think that way, and even sometimes don't like it if such suggestions are made. I once made such a suggestion to a poster (an obvious newb) on comp.lang.python. He asked how to do some small task in Python. I suggested that he may learn more if he tried it on his own first. He misunderstood the intention behind the advice, and made some comment to the effect that my idea was not helpful, or something like that. Another regular pitched in and pointed out that my comment was meant in the spirit of helping him learn better, because a) if you try it yourself first and do get a solution, you just got better at something, and it will boost your confidence, and b) even if you do not get a solution, you will learn that the thing is not as easy or trivial as you thought (or why were you asking in the first place, except if wanting others to do your work for you) (which would happen if you just blindly used some library to do it). And will gain a new respect for the depth of your profession and all that it entails.

Related: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way:

http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

It's by Eric Raymond, author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar and The Art of Unix Programming.

There are many interesting points in that article, e.g.:

http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#noprivate

Seen people ask for private replies. IMO some of them do it because either a) they don't want to be seen as not knowing the thing if it was obvious, or b) not wanting others (likely their peers) to get the answer too. Both not good.
I expect ideas of mapping functions are only a couple of hundred years old at most, and really quite obscure to most people who are just familiar with the concept of 'maps' and 'mapping' things 'out'.

In functional programming I understand map as just a clone and convert operation. I noticed C++ has a 'map' data structure which is most suitable for associating references. A C++ map is not suitable for storing positions in space.
They can make their tweets private.
There was a 5-10 min window for teachers to walk from class to class. So yeah we were there the entire time, 8AM-3PM. Same thing exists in the lower grades in US, K-5. We don’t see those kids complaining either.
I'd guess you'd still have problem separating helium from hydrogen?
Oh I lived through the 90s. Just used Amigas then Macs.

It was surprising that something meant for business could lookso childish. Whereas the closest the Mac got, a ‘toy’ OS that couldn’t be used for Real Work was Clarus the Dogcow.
Well then maybe we're not understanding each other since I don't have a clue where the convenience problem may even be.
I tend to read my own code in bed on the phone after I commit.

The new Bitbucket interface really dropped the ball on this. It is almost unusable.

I hope they’ll fix it...
Now, you know it's up to you whether or not you want to just do the bare minimum. Or... well, like Brian, for example, has thirty seven pieces of flair, okay. And a terrific smile.

People can get a cheeseburger anywhere, okay? They come to Chotchkie's for the atmosphere and the attitude. Okay? That's what the flair's about. It's about fun.
Well done little one. Keep it up and hats off to your parents.
I don't think it's very far for arguments list, considering that you can already do it in some cases :

struct foo {
float x;
float y;
};

int main() {
std::array<float, 3> x{1,2,3,};
foo f{1,2,};
}
A really nice idea, definitely needed for people who are diabetic or obese and what to lower their insulin level.
>Do you ever find yourself on a road getting passed by all the other cars?

Yes, often.

>Isn’t that annoying?

No, it is much less stressful when everyone else is passing me than it was when I was driving about 5 mph over and always coming up behind cars trying to find space and time to pass them. (Or even now, the few times I come up on someone who is going under the speedlimit and I have to safely pass them.)
> including kicking you out of your own company

kicking you out of their company
Building a Site in 24 Hours and Growing It to +$2M/Year
Risk-adjusted return
> I can’t be the only one, can I?

No, but as long as more people go the opposite direction it is a net positive. Considering it's seemingly the natural progression of timelines I am guessing the numbers show that this is the case.
Land and Go device travel kit for international travel
Even arbitrary text doesn't cut it -- not all names can be represented in Unicode.
Detectors for fiber optic data transmission need a very fast response time. For gigabit data, you need sub-nanosecond response. LEDs are much slower. They're also less sensitive, which means you need a higher-power transmitting LED to get the same range.
I'm incredibly absent minded. I constantly keep forgetting/losing my cards, my wallet, my phone, bags, random stuff; somehow I break things in ways I don't understand... I just graduated from college, my life was fine so far, but I'm currently getting kicked out by my landlord because he was sick of me making trivial, small mistakes 10000 times a day. They're things like forgetting a plate on the table, forgetting toothbrush in the sink, a towel on the dust cabinet, a shirt on the couch, my laptop on a desk etc... In fact, it's getting so bad if this persists a few more months I'll get an MRI because for all I know this might be a brain tumor. What's worse is I have absolutely no idea how to improve this since most of the time I can't remember the moment of incidence.

Today I realized I lost my debit card. I went to my bank account and it seems like I used it last 2 days ago, but it's not in my wallet now... I have absolutely no idea where it is. This is the 3rd time this is happening this year...

This is affecting my work too, but not significantly. Sometimes I push print statements with my code, can't even see them until people point them out (I do review my code before committing, `git diff`). One time I merged two branches that should never ever ever be merged and spent half a day trying to fix git. These are mostly minor things and afaik my manager is happy with my performance and I consider myself an ok software engineer. But still all these small mistakes are driving me crazy! I also worry it'll affect my career as an engineer.
I love zoomable UIs - something about these niche UI controls is just really cool. It's like a movie or game UI feature. Does anyone know of any collections of unusual/exotic UI controls? I always like to take inspiration from unique ways developers enable their users to browse and update their apps intuitively even if the data or structures you're working with are odd.
Well part of the reason everything is so spread out and part of the reason cars drive like that IS because it is such a car-centric infrastructure. More bikers and a political push to change zoning laws and city planning would help alleviate all of the issues you mentioned
The last time I did the math (it's been a while now), assuming that I did this correctly it showed that the current rate of sea level rise is something like half the average rate of the last ten to fifteen thousand years. So the current rate would basically have to double just to get us back to the long-term average. And it might very well do that someday, and do so perfectly naturally, too. (Nobody has ever said that the natural rise in sea level has stopped since the beginning of the last interglacial period.) But that wouldn't be good news for places like Miami.
There is a difference between giving someone a chance, and ignoring obvious signs that a candidate would be a bad choice.

Let the guy work, sure, but not doing the exact thing that he already proved he couldn't be trusted with.
Was thinking the same. Then remembered that OpenBSD's rand(3) actually returns result from arc4random() now. Then went to check and it seemed like Perl doesn't actually use rand(3) from libc? At least Perl's srand(N) and then rand() returned deterministic results, which shouldn't happen if it was using rand(3)...
So it is better than systemd :p