skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much quieter than before but it's much more authentic then before and you hear the crackles and pops better. Also its not like the car is quiet it's certainly louder then most cars on the road especially in sport or track mode. Finally I was planning on getting an intake and exhaust anyway so it will be much louder in the future.
So Chinese NSA is "no joke", because they are manually installing apps instead of using baseband backdoor?
We find medical conditions hard to really solve. Most people just can't begin to cope with a medical explanation of mental issues in terms of seeing it as treatable. That's a concept not even in its infancy. We've barely conceived it. It is still gestating.

Also, with the psychosocial explanations, there is an element of blaming someone or something else. Most people will feel they are the victim of something unjust and that resonates with many people.

Mental illness typically has both components. Family is known to compound mental health issues that have a biological component.

My sister minored in psychology in college and took some graduate courses in it later. She once told me "We must not have the genes for schizophrenia or someone in the family would surely have it given how the family operates" and then talked about how schizophrenics go do inpatient therapy, get better, go home to the nutso family and get worse again.

I think we need better parenting resources for families dealing with neurodivergent offspring. I've seen time and again that parents don't know effective means for dealing with such kids and it actively creates problems which then become very intractable.

I'm good at that and did some work for a time with a related organization and spent a few years trying to figure out how to blog about such subjects. That never really got traction. Articles like this give me a twinge of regret and guilt that I never figured out how to more effectively share what I know. I'm convinced that better parenting resources for difficult kids would really make a difference in the world.

But, I just don't have a path forward. You need fertile ground for such seeds to take root and I've never found that, basically. Then I got badly burned by someone who used information in my parenting blog to manipulate me and it's a case of... Whatever. Not my problem.
> Also if you clear all cookies, cookies from Google aren't cleared.

Wait, WHAT? Are you talking about locally or in sync? I don't believe Sync ever included cookies, and there's no indication on the Clear Browsing Data tool that Google cookies won't be cleared if "All Time" is selected.
Severance can be put in a contract like anything else, so it's as 'guaranteed' as any other obligation so long as the company can pay for it.
> Real hardware is imperative.

Wrong.

> So practical languages took the good idea out of OOP for convenient syntax sugars.

Also wrong, unless by "syntactic sugars" you mean "nontrivial compiler rewrites"

> Functional Programming will follow the same path.

Doubt it.

> You probably don't like it for it will be ended up impure

Purity does not constrain efficiency at all.
Oh dear oh dear oh dear. I can't imagine the Chinese government is going to be terribly happy when they find out about that post. I do hope the poster ends up ok.
According to WSJ's report:

Facebook’s Chris Cox has been put in charge of all the company’s apps now.

When Ms. Sandberg went unmentioned in a major reshuffling of Mr. Zuckerberg’s top product executives in May, the moves caused former employees and executives to speculate that she had been displaced as the second-most-powerful figure by Chris Cox, a close friend of Mr. Zuckerberg, who had been elevated to a new role in charge of all the company’s apps, including Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram.

link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/sheryl-sandberg-leans-into-a-ga...
There's probably some interesting stuff in here, but "operating system powered by node.js" is a little strong. They also say things like "NodeOS is an operating system built entirely in Javascript", which isn't true at all.

They basically replaced bash and some of the gnu utils with node.js scripts. The OS itself is just Linux.
If you want a copy of the app (Jingwang) from the Chinese servers it's here

http://47.93.5.238:8081/APP/GA_AJ_JK/GA_AJ_JK_GXH.apk?AJLY=6...

Which was the version/server the chinese used last year, it might be updated.

Inside is all(?) the MD5 they are searching for.

What would be interesting is what these documents actually are.

You'd have to find some overseas hosted disident sites, mass download all documents, md5, and compare.
Yeah, we had several interview questions specifically to weed those out too. A favorite was, "How would you design a multiplier, without a wizard/Coregen?"

They didn't have to hit everything, but a couple of general multiplier design points - throughout and area? A MAC, or a straight multiplier? Shift add? Do they know enough to try to hit a certain primitive (DSP48E, fast carry chains?).

The wizard-only designers frequently couldn't even understand the question, and were incapable of discussing tradeoffs of area/time/resources.
Did you actually read the article? Ignoring your implicit "experts in the field aren't competent to look at a proof and quickly understand it won't pass muster", the article provided numerous reasons why people aren't interested in vigorusly pursuing this. Unsaid was "let's not embarrass an elder statesman by showing he's not quite mentally at his peak".
Sure but they should be well aware of their choice. If they are paralyzed in your body unable to move and respond in any manner for 15 years, are they okay with that?
That's very short term focused observation though. Power users are influencers. When power users leave - especially being annoyed and angry - they start to actively advise against the product left and right, to the regular users and to other power users.
Because the number of live processes never exceeds 2, and fork bombs typically refer to DoS attacks by exhausting the PID space.
Oodle Lossless Image Compression
They can try to sell it for that much but there's a fair amount of inventory in the area at present, and the housing market has been cooling. My guess is it'll go for less.

Headline should read: "People still trying to flip houses in SV".
> This is an entrepreneurial community, we should rush to pay this author to support his efforts, rather than criticize his attempts to get something out of providing his work for free

Criticism is part of the feedback process, even if you don't agree with it.

No, we shouldn't just rush to pay him. We should evaluate his work and content as we could anyone that posts in "Show HN" - if you come here thinking you just get free marketing without the feedback part, then this is definitely the wrong community.

Giving something way for free doesn't preclude you from feedback, especially when that "free" is just part of a larger marketing tactic for building a personal & professional brand.
Well, you can read the announcement. It doesn't mention any specifics about integrating astro's existing product into slack, so there probably aren't any new features to be expected in the near term.

It's just a talent acquisition. If "slack buys astro" means nothing to you, maybe this article isn't meant for you. Not all news is relevant to all people.
Two somewhat related ideas,

- http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/pdfs/szasz.pdf

- http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/10/07/contra-caplan-on-mental...
They may have initially copied Snapchat, but they've built on the feature and made it much more engaging to use than the original.
According to the article, this info was leaked to the reporters from several people who knew about it, and the co-founders have already notified Instagram's leadership team. It's not just anyone, but two co-founders of one of the world's most prominent tech companies. If they are indeed leaving "just for fun", presumably they care enough about their company and their colleagues to have given an explanation for their unexpected, simultaneous departure. I would also assume they aren't naive enough to think this wouldn't be leaked before an official press release.
I broadly agree with you in principle, but in this specific case i think the issue of the law is the subtlety of the definition. The thing that the AG was studiously avoiding to answer was that both he and the people that drafted the law understood that metadata is data. He was trying to obfuscate the fact that the government was massively shifting the imaginary line between them.
that guy was almost the prime minister of australia.
I've been in game Dev for a while now, and your points are screaming that there's a forthcoming closure.

- Cutting a quarter of staff is a Hail Mary unless it's preceded and accompanied by a core strategy pivot, generally.

- Planning new and original IP is typical busy work for a studio that specializes in licensed games. Hiring is hard, expensive and slow; keeping the team busy is standard when looking for another license

- Self-evident much?

- Moving offices is a great way to save operation expenses when the lease is up, if you're desperate.

- Everyone blames management, but often it's the failure to find sufficient revenue is to blame _first_. Their games just weren't selling that well.
rest and vest!

non-story
No, that's not allowed. And it needs to be in broken Flash with slides you can't skip.
I mean, can they not BUY the next one? It's what they did with Instagram after all.

>What future revenue streams does Facebook have?

The amount of Data facebook has on the behavioral nature of current parents and current and future American children of said parents is _insane_. Facebook may not be a social media company for ever, but big blue will be an advertising powerhouse for a while with the amount of data they have.
Severance is "keep your mouth shut" money. If the company is tanking, there's no reason for it.
Good to see you're here defending that one time he fallciously suggested that Black Americans have and average IQ 20 points below norm. It's clear exactly what you're willing to excuse in your frantic reactionary panic about the idea of basic civility being a written policy in software development.

Because Newspeak and thought control and a stubborn refusal to listen to ESR talk about race and gender and how his martial arts are ready to take on any Muslim.
I was never very good at that--ignoring something until later when it's staring right at you.

I prefer teaching programming with a language that minimizes the boilerplate required to get started.
Yea, after learning that the patient died a few months later from a lung infection (after being kept alive for 15 years) yet the doctors/researchers claim there is "no link", it makes this whole story sound like BS. I could see "a link is unknown", or something like that but concluding "no link" from that info is impossible and even unreasonable.

I'll even allow that by stimulating the vagus nerve he had more unconscious movements than before and they misinterpreted it as responding to the environment, so its not totally malicious. But that team has given a very strong reason not to trust anything they say.
> I wonder what's Facebook's move after Instagram becomes stale and no longer "cool"

They acquire the next cool thing
Nothing like a paper or anything, but just kind of anecdotally I downloaded 西遊記 from Project Gutenberg [1] and measured it. In UTF-8 it's 2,236,564 bytes, in UTF-16 it's 1,554,998 bytes.

[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/23962/23962-0.txt
Australia needs a referendum to repeal the laws of gravity.
The ability to buy the next big thing is far from guaranteed.
Windows have a registry, Firefox - about:config, Linux - kconfig and sysfs. You don't need to make it Boeing way, but you need it.
For traceability you would need to look at Do-178C. I am currently not aware that ISO 61508 (general functional safety) and ISO 26262 (automotive functional safety) require traceability between source code and executable machine code.

All standards specify different levels of safety. Lower levels come with fewer requirements and are easier to implement, but are recognized as less reliable and therefore limited to less critical applications.
The Fairlight CMI (short for Computer Musical Instrument)
Man, the gaming industry is crazy.
I'm not saying it's good or the right solution, but there is something there. I just think it's fair to point out that they have an option even if it does suck.
This is often the case. More generally, every crook has a sob story. And it's important to not let that cloud your judgment.

In judging a harmful person's character, all that matters is whether that person has definite potential to become a net-good person given spiritual instruction, social support, medication, or whatever. But if such a process is infeasible, then the person needs to be written off. Some people are irredeemably lost, and the only thing you can do is love them and pray for them, at a great distance.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/08/29/1997-apple-bites-the-... . But yeah, not exactly common.
Destined to end up among these harrowing stories: https://longform.org/archive/tags/lost-at-sea

Not the linked article, but perhaps a future well researched biographical article.
Even "very good" doctors often don't know the state of the art procedures and treatments for their craft, as I have personally discovered since a close family member began receiving cancer treatment. From my experience, the vast majority of doctors' response to bringing up experimental treatments or care - or even recently approved, well-researched treatments - is a mindless affirmation of "that's the future", meaning they don't know anything about it. If you press them, most will say that they prefer to start patients with XYZ, which means "I want your business but don't know about that treatment". This happened to my own sick relative, a pharmacogenomics researcher, who said it reminded him almost exactly of trying to get clinicians to incorporate basic gene panels into their practice (e.g. don't give this patient warfarin because they have this gene which will make them bleed to death).

As a society we are much too afraid to call shitty doctors shitty doctors. Having parents in medicine, I grew up hearing about them all the time.

I do believe that most doctors would not consciously and maliciously decide to sacrifice people's health for money. I also believe that most doctors aren't particularly diligent about keeping up to date on medical information throughout their careers; for every developer with 30+ years of experience who has treated a job as a job and worked with the same tech staff for all his life without bothering to learn new ones, there's a doctor doing the same with medicine.
> from my experience more emphasis on different languages i.e. throw in a ML (as in Meta Language) and a Lisp, and most importantly some information about the trade offs

Most CS curricula have a course where you spend time programming in a variety of different programming languages, in different paradigms.
And everyone else awkwardly shows he hasn't.
ISWYD "big blue" = FB not IBM.
Amazon honeypot packages to 'trap' drivers who are stealing
Is HN going to continue linking people to pay wall articles?
I am an Office 365 customer and I love it. It basically gives you 5TB if you have 5 people in the family plus office software plus free Skype minutes for 5 people. For this money you can 20% of the storage with Dropbox, let's say. So, lots of value for the money.

My only dream is to include some version of Vizio in the package.
SnapChat Adding Visual Search
I really blame China for the shift away from libertarian thinking and toward both right and left authoritarianism.

The old argument from libertarians was that freedom and modern prosperity are a package deal. Take away freedom and you get poverty, corruption, and stagnation.

That seemed mostly true until the Chinese "miracle." China seems to be proving that you can have prosperity without freedom or human rights. You can allow some amount of freedom in certain select areas, and that's all it takes.

That has in turn opened the door for a whole host of fundamental challenges to freedom and human rights in the West.
What is the difference between being shitty and mentally ill?
Is it an opportunity to start a side project with former TTG employees?
What do you mean impure hacks like `par`? It's a parallelism primitive. You mean `seq`? In either case it's not impure. It's just a primitive that can't be expressed in the language itself. It's still referentially transparent (which is what people mean by pure).
I thank my lucky stars everyday that Samsung has still yet to figure out how to port their security rootkit to OSX. Getting into and out of Digital City is already horrendous enough as it as, I dont need software spying on me forever until I format my machine.
Socratic method style.
People fighting more than usual over high priority or money making projects, especially middle management
I don't understand, what could the founders have done differently? At some point they must make the initial step to notify leadership that they are leaving. This the step that was leaked. Were they supposed to write their own press releases before they even told anybody that they were resigning?
These days more or less the only bad press Microsoft gets* are the presence of those pre-installed apps. It is unbelievable that the great marketing department of the Microsoft cooperation continues to do this. Removing those apps will more or less make all bad press go away.

* only other frequent complains I see is the windows 10 logging (of course) , but that is not the subject of the article.
>"The scientists saw the scans of her head that showed a void where there should have been brain."

People with "no" (very small) brains due to hydrocephalus have been discovered who are successful mathematics students and public servants. So, not sure the scientists are right here. As long as the brain is shrinking slow enough it may not be a huge deal in terms of mental ability.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/70204/man-without-brain

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2003/oct/02/research.h...
In one case you've spent $100K and have a house and in the other, you've spent $200K and have a house. That represents a difference of $100K.
Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down from Facebook
> I realized that imperative programming is so much more difficult than functional programming that in a way, it's the majority of the work of programming. Anyone can learn to use a spreadsheet, but it takes years of dedication to master debugging enterprise software.

Anyone can learn to program spreadsheets, because spreadsheets realize that state is the most important thing, and puts it front and center—hiding the calculations. Most programming paradigms are about manipulating the calculations, and the state is only visible when the program is running. As long as programming tries to avoid state, it'll be hard for most people to learn.
>>"Doctors want patients, not cures". Really stuck with me.

I suspect you don't know many doctor personally. If you have the intelligence, patience, grit, money, etc. to go through the many years of school and training to be a doctor, you're not doing it primarily for the money. There are other professions that offer similar levels of pay and prestige with much less trouble. Doctors want to help patients.
Why not just explain it in less detail? Public so that java can see it. Static so it just lives here, no need to create objects. And void is that no value is returned, we will just print our results. Java calls it as program runs, thus main(). Btw, object is something you can create and call methods – functions of that object.

Static may be hard to understand, but it is something you just can do. You can say(hi) and that requires nothing, but you cannot drive() without a car.
As what, a toddler?
Well, in a cynical sense sure sometimes, but it's also the right thing to do
Kevin and Mike have my utmost respect for everything they have done for the world. Thank you so much for truly believing in something and giving it all up for that.
Webflow is hiring – come make development visual
Are HN commenters going to continue complaining about a paywall that's documented to be easily bypassed?

Are HN commenters going to continue complaining about a payall that's pretty cheap to pay for?
MacOS Mojave's security and privacy enhancements
What people? Why are you scared of them? Should I be worried, as I have domains at namecheap.
Also on UTF-16:

> Alas, if your language needs to run on or interoperate with the browser, the JVM, or the CLR, you might be stuck with [UTF-16]

And Windows. Win32 and COM APIs use UTF-16 natively, so if you want to avoid lots of conversions on Windows, UTF-16 is the way to go. Maybe the best solution would be an abstraction that lets you choose the internal string encoding at compile time.
Without being too careless[1] I think it is plausible to assume they and their children will not "have" to work again. The "have" is in scare quotes because, in my experience with tech people I know who have 'banked out' of the workforce, working on something is often more rewarding, over a longer term, than sitting around consuming entertainment while eating and drinking. So nearly everyone I know who became multi-millionaires or beyond have ended up still doing something interesting with their lives.

So stepping down from FB is kind of a no brainer, especially if it becomes less "fun" due to issues raised by other people. Building stuff is fun, cleaning up a mess, is not fun. Trying to do stuff while the mess is getting worse and worse around you, that is pure torture in my opinion.

[1] There is a sad track of people who have made millions and then lost it all due to poor choices.

[2] Billionaires actually -- https://www.forbes.com/profile/kevin-systrom/#3b19b6447396
-- or not -- https://www.therichest.com/celebnetworth/celebrity-business/...
Some humans were prehistoric. Others were not.
Time Cube
Right well again, if your average East Asian codepoint is 3 bytes in UTF-8, and your average markup codepoint is one byte, then as the percentage of markup in your corpus rises you'll grow asymptotically towards 1. But not all text contains markup ;) Consider any database storage for example, text in a game, e-books, visual novels. I guess anything that isn't the web or JSON is what I'm saying -- which is a lot.
What country are we talking about here?
Zoho user since 2006.

Thank you for responding to this quickly. I saw this just a little while ago; I use Zoho Writer and Show for presentations and team-based doc editing and I have for the last decade. If Zoho goes down, I'd be very much lost. Thanks for providing a great service for this many years and I hope it keeps going for many more.
New Biocompatible Alloy Is Four Times Harder Than Pure Titanium
Ask HN: Startup folks,how did your company define a “North Star” metric, if any?
I work for a seed-funded startup (online marketplace, 2 years in, 8-10 staff). We're having robust conversations internally about what our "North Star" metric is, and should be, for the coming months/year.

We're finding that trying to pin the North star on a simplistic metric has inherent issues - for example in our case, a concentration on monthly actives (who actually transact, not visitors / tyre-kickers) might cause the team to wantonly attract "the wrong type" of new user, cause short term transaction spikes, and bring on major churn. A concentration on #transactions might possibly cause the team to overtly facilitate low-value transactions. A focus on $transactions/$ATV might bring on a rush to push the higher-value users, possibly annoying them and causing disengagement/churn.

Without giving up any sensitive details, how did the startup you work(ed) at tackle pinning down a North Star metric for the whole team to push towards?

Interested in any & all constructive feedback. Thanks.