skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People who hit kids on the highway can face criminal charges, even when there is no intent to hit kids. Negligence often leads to manslaughter charges. We don't always let drivers get away with "the kid came out of nowhere and I couldn't brake in time".

Advice is not irrelevant after the fact. First, there's always next time. Second, other people can learn by example. It's like the advice given alongside car crash pictures shown in driver education classes; this is useful even if the person in the crash is long dead. Learning from the mistakes of others is important.

Today, people are afraid to point out mistakes and give safety advice because it gets seen as "victim blaming". This is a problem.

If you insist on "asking what we can do" though, and you are honest about it, then you've really kicked a hornet's nest. Sexual assault rates vary around the world, and some places change suddenly when the population changes. Good luck having a productive discussion on the matter.
I wonder how alfresco ends up with such a huge recommended default pool size of 275 [1].
Is this bad architecture on their part or are different principles at play?

[1] https://docs.alfresco.com/5.0/tasks/postgresql-config.html
Let's not get into the weeds of nitpicking bad analogies. Guns are a Constitutional right. Lobbying to make it harder for the poors to exercise that right while being heavily armed yourself is not only hypocritical, but immoral. It's that simple for me.
Encouraging cash is a great thing. I make sure to patronize and speak up about cash where I know the merchant will get the message.
I read his book Idea Man, a few years back. I still remember the parts where he travelled the world with his family. Beautiful journey. Most books of people so successful are too inclined towards their work or general advice. It was refreshing to read about somebody you could relate to just like Shoe Dog by Phil Knight. That they had lives outside of their work and went through worse days than most of us will ever face. And yet, he made a difference in the world he lived.
Recognize that getting more salary is a fun goal to strive for, that might even get you some more options, but that you’ll be fine forever at your current salary regardless.

I guess I’ve made it one of my goals to strive for more, but If I’d end my career at my current salary that would still be a solid endgame.
Yup. It is lean and mean too. Brilliant.
Anybody ever felt relieved when their ISP was down ?
It's not doing anything to be annoying on purpose. It's just a fact of life that ads are annoying. If they could use non-annoying ads, I'm sure they would.
Much better use case for lightning network.
All models are wrong. "Physically-based" is rather inspecific as a description, but it's the term people are familiar with.
I watched the whole Chamath talk you linked and I'm not sure I'm entirely convinced. Every couple of years there is a guy like him yelling that this is all a big ponzi scheme about to collapse.

But Softbank is a poor example given how the invest almost entirely in late stage companies, mostly with real profitable business models, who would otherwise easily find plenty of funding in traditional less risky capital markets (who don't share the same critique but push the same never-ending growth pressure and often far worse backroom financial trickery).

This is very distinct from the dotcom boom... or you know acutal Ponzi schemes... which were entities which raised countless millions on zero-value organizations. He's probably right in some ways but lost me in his exaggerated/radical positioning which he seems fond of.
Can confirm aerodynamics are part of it. I drive a 2013 Jeep Wrangler. Wife has a brand new, aerodynamic vehicle. Jeep definitely collects bugs, bird poop, and even rocks at a MUCH higher rate.
Vastly superior to this article is this legendary MetaFilter comment on the same topic:

https://www.metafilter.com/62394/The-Record-Industrys-Declin...
I think copyright generally does not apply to facts (e.g. a list of names).
I’m sorry but I’m born and bred in the US and would have read this the same way.
>nobody has or will make anything practical with Lisp

I made a website with Clojure (a Lisp) that is indeed practical: http://practicalhuman.org
That's a blast from the past. I remember that page generating buzz and filling up with ads.

Go there now and click on some of them. Seems 80% of them are parked domains now, and the rest have been transferred to businesses that may or may not resemble the original one.
Chronicle of Orgnizing and Union Busting in Lanetix
The question is, would United sell you a ticket knowing you have no actual intent to fly? If they answer is yes, there’s no problem. If the answer is no, then there’s a problem.
Most people use it to mean "We are headed in the same direction."
FFFFFound [0] [1] [2]

[0] https://ffffound.com

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFFFOUND!

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14204960
Virgin America- not perfect but when I was flying BOS<->SFO a lot it was simply amazing. One of few corporations that felt like it had soul. The seat back ordering system made things so much better. Not to mention decent internet on basically every flight. I looked forward to flying. Def cried a few tears losing them.

AIM - settable status plus chat that almost everyone I knew was on

Early to Mid 90’s Radio Shack. Felt like culture was growing, in a good way

Apple Newton - stupidly ahead of it’s time and for all it’s flaws, still one of the best note taking paradigms I’ve used. Continuous scrolling plus shape/text recognition and vector editibility, multi copy-paste via drag and drop to edge of screen and decent assistant logic as well.
Mysterious cosmic radio signal spotted unusually close to Earth
Have you hear about Via? Unfortunately it hadn't reached SF yet, but it's active in NYC and I LOVE it. Super friendly drivers, very efficient and pretty cheap. Don't know how they preserve these low prices for so many years but...
Patients are the worst at their own health, and often deluded about their ability to manage it. Gwyneth Paltrow and homeopaths don’t rake in money because people make great decisions. When you “empower” patients past their competence you get Steve Jobs in the ground. If he had just been another schmuck, he’d probably still be alive.
First decent index of the web and designed to let you find what you want to find instead of things paying to be found
All of the reported incidents were "unwanted sexual contact" or "sexual coercion" or "sexual badgering." I would propose that asking someone on a date should be considered none of those things, unless you're doing it wrong.
I’ve lived long enough in just one area alone that I should have witnessed at least one of those cycles. I have not. What I’ve seen is a steady decline over the last thirty years (over which time I’ve lived several places).
I wish firefox would just make native clients instead of all this other rubbish their trying to invent, that alone would make it a better browser. These days it at least tries to use the native theme but they royally screwed that app, you have either turn this off or turn off your dark desktop theme to use 90% of web forms out there.

Bonus points if they could actually improve reader mode and enforce contrasting colors.
This is simply not sustainable. As a veteran in this industry, I must tell you that a software engineer's career is very similar to an athlete or model's career in the sense that you make the most money in your career only in your early years ( 10 - 12 years after the first 3 to 5 years).

So if you started your career at 21 and if you are above average, your salary will grow from 25 to 25 / 37 or even 40. After that, ageism will play a role, so also newer tech that companies would prefer to hire the younger version of you rather than pay you your high salary.

Given that, if you already settle for a low salary and remain content at 21, you'll very quickly get priced out of your neighborhood in Boston (I own a rental unit there in Fenway and know the going rents for 1 BR, 2 BRs), and if you do end up getting married and having kids, your current lifestyle and saving will not be sustainable.
This is important, from a client perspective (e.g. from Chrome) this makes sense.

But from a server perspective, you still have trouble with old clients, particularly Windows XP.

Slowly disappearing but not gone yet.

Fortunately SNI (i.e. not requiring a dedicated IP per SSL customer) is becoming so commonplace that a lot of those browsers are getting broken anyway, which will probably speed up that deprecation.
And, just so that I make this clear: you've tried to imply several times with your argument that women aren't marginalized, but you've done this purely by bringing up other groups that are marginalized (Women couldn't vote? neither could I, until I immigrated. Women are marginalized? What about the poor black men who were lynched on nothing but the word of a white woman?) and at no point have you addressed the fact that marginalization isn't a binary thing; there's more than two levels of marginalization, and just because some other group was _also_ marginalized, that doesn't mean that it didn't happen to women too.

You've neatly sidestepped addressing this on the times that I've brought it up, which is why I keep on harping on this point. There are two possible reasons you're doing this: one is that you legitimately didn't realize that marginalization has multiple levels, in which case maybe you should take a moment to think about the history of the world and the various forms oppression has taken, and the other is that you're deliberately making a bad-faith argument. I'd certainly hope you're not arguing in bad faith, because that would be incredibly rude, but I wanted to make sure I called out what you were doing (and failing to do) to make it clear to anybody who wanders by and reads the argument.
Coke BlāK. It shouldn't have worked, it's a terrible idea... But why did it taste so incredibly good?
https://github.com/downpoured/vipercard/issues/14
The simplified sales portal
Again this conversation is absurd but for what it's worth, acceptance rates are very bad way to compare selectivity (which is essentially what I meant but phrased wrong). Berkeley and UCLA have around ~8% - ~13% acceptance rate but Berkeley receives almost half what UCLA receives because Berkeley is much more selective than UCLA so some people don't even apply to Berkeley and apply to other UCs (we can see this if we compare student profile). If you look at sheer numbers Berkeley's 10% acceptance rate seems noob compared to a tiny liberal arts college with 5% acceptance rate but Berkeley is absolutely one of the most prestigious universities in the world, it just accepts hoards of students all over the world. So, it's not that easy.
Does being clever with your money include a retirement fund that is considered absolutely vanilla in the country you are living in? Because the USA assumes that all financial services in the world provide exactly the same format of financial reporting that US services do. So retirement funds that are the foreign equivalent of an ordinary 401K have high compliance costs if you need to file with the USA.
Can probably blame dogpile for the evolution of that
For shooters, etc, you just have to ensure the server is running on the same data center as the streamer.
Oh man, I miss what so hard. Can't find anything comparable today. Those were the golden days, when I could find obscure albums that you couldn't even pay good money for.
Prolog is probably the language of god.
No. That ship has sailed. The new runtime is in the browser. Learn about wasm and matrix-multiply-add.
That's why it should be disabled by default but also be overridable. Those users would have to mess with browser flags to re-enable older versions. And if a user is willing to mess with advanced browser settings without understanding them, there are far worse security settings to mess with than outdated tls protocols.

Users MUST have ultimate control over software and not the other way around; even if it such control is used to do something very stupid. Software deliberately designed to go against the wishes of its users is defective, malicious, or both.

PS: point (d) is a non-point.
"Paid".

"Will Pay" is a completely different business model here, a riskier one.
Palm Pre and WebOS
I don't think there was much new in it, but (intentionally or not) it was a pretty good layman's introduction to the preceding decade or so of thought about predictive behavior in neural systems. Of course, Hawkins tended to imply that it was all his own ideas, but if you ignore that it's a pretty good overview.
~200k in a small southern city if you adjust for cost of living is about equivalent to $500k at a FAANG in SF/NYC. When you know people who brag about how cheap their $2000 a month tiny studio in an old poorly maintained building in midtown Manhattan you'd understand you have it pretty good making a salary like that in a place you actually have the freedom to move around without running into someone and easily afford a really nice house & property.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/cost-of-living-calculator/compare...
Now look around our own industry at those being extremely pessimistic. I'm sure you'll find many hawking their own politicized dire warnings.

News publications and media have always sought out the counter points to any news story, so they dont seem overly supportive. It just happens that it tends to be the loudest extreme voices that get the most attention to fill this contrarian role.

That said, it's usually safe to bet any extreme contrarian is likely a little bit right, which makes it hard to entirely dismiss them.
This is AMAZING! Thank you for sharing.
Really ? There is literally a metric fuck ton of messaging apps/chat apps.
> And a downround is totally out of question.

Why? Especially because this is the foundation of your entire argument.
For a while VS code would do that but they claimed it was an accident.
https://www.geeks3d.com/20160610/vs2015-how-to-remove-window...
423 people as of now, so 420 dollars. I paid.

Obviously more than half will go to credit card companies.
Is assembly the devil's own programming language?
Came here to say this. It was such a fun service.
Better article with more historical context: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/15/russian-orthod...
Logs with personal information anonymized are still just as useful for security and other system audits. You would be able to clearly see unauthorized access of A from B, even if A and B could no longer be identified.

And you're ignoring the biggest risk here. If this defense of claiming 'we see there was a trivially exploited issue to allow unauthorized access to data users had marked as private, but we threw away all logs so we can't be expected to see if it was exploited, or be held to any level of accountability' passes for acceptable, it's going to set a far worse precedent than any sort of legal action. Get hacked? Worried about regulatory requirements? No problem, just migrate to a two week cycle of completely deleting all logs, patch it, and stall for 2 weeks. There, you can now hoenstly say you have 'no evidence this attack ever happened.'
Nox was a fun lan game for sure
But postmark is only transactional. Not mass mailing.
Tell your boss you check email three times a day, in the morning, after lunch, and before leaving work. And if she/he has something urgent to please slack you directly. If necessary create a filter that lets people add an #urgent tag to the subject that sends you a notification.

Then turn off email and slack notifications for all but the rooms centered on things you are directly responsible for. Police those groups so they are only critical isssues that the whole team should be addressing. Create a second channel for casual discussion if need be.

I don’t know... maybe none of these work but just try something. If you can’t change anything at least keep a log of all your interruptions and the general category of issue, so that you can talk about it with your boss in an informed way at your next 1 on 1.
Old MathCAD in the Windows 95 era was an amazing intuitive visual math program. Helped me learn and I miss it whenever I have to delve into heavy math of any kind.

Modern tools have regressed a lot UI wise. I feel like excluding easy but shallow web and mobile UIs we are in a UI dark age.
Also at least 99.99% less potential customers, but hey.
Yes but “parellel thinking” is actually a term of art. It generally means that we want to get to the same place but have different ideas on how to get there.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_thinking
Interesting, had not heard of that. What should we computer programmers, we flexible always trying new things without enough tried and true practices think of real engineers, what should they think of us?
I think that feeling has more to do with the way people used the internet than it does with AIM itself. Nobody "goes online" any more. Now we're always online, so it's less special.
Come to the medical field, and it's all the way down.
I've never owned a store, but I imagine there have to be processors that charge only the percentage available to most states, even for small businesses. But maybe not?

I don't think the major EFPOS providers in New Zealand charge a per transaction fee, because most bars will let you ring up ever single drink individually if you want.
> The acceptable part of that spectrum is very small (being a guy awkwardly asks a girl for sex, she says no, and that is the end if it)

This is actually really inappropriate IMO. Who the heck thinks it's okay to "awkwardly ask for sex"? No. You awkwardly ask for a date or some such, and -- if that is accepted -- then within that context the rest can be opened up. Maybe we're just in extremely different cultures.
I clicked through to say Xtranormal. Here's one of my all time favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc64xWxRsag
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huh ? There are loads of 3 door hatchbacks.
scirrocco, fiesta, focus, astra, golf, fiat 500.

Thats off the top of my head.

Personally I'd much prefer 5 door.
The internet before the ghetto could afford smart phones.
Mine was definitely one the 200 series SanDisks! I can't say for certain which device I used. I got the device from my roommate, who got it in a woot.com "bag of crap" that included a couple refurbed mp3 players.

I remember the default firmware being extremely slow to use. It spent cpu time it couldn't afford to render animations between "apps" that added nothing. I think it may have been extensor picky about which codecs it supported, though I wouldn't have had much that wasn't mp3s.

I really loved rockbox. I liked how configurable it was, and how minimal it was. I'd previously used sdd based mp3 players. A dell dj (I was crushed when they canceled that line, and more so when the Seagate hard drive failed) and the first gen video ipod.

Rockbox worked very well for music, which is all I used it for. I always used windows explorer to transfer files to /from, and that worked well.

I found installing rockbox very easy. More so than installing ddwrt or homebrew on a wii. I don't think I ever updated rockbox. I probably used it for a year and a half, max.

I only stopped using it when I got a smart phone. I would certainly still be using it today.
In a similar vein, i wish a remake of Knights and Merchants were available and good.
WHEN FIXING FALLING PROFITS ONLY MAKES MATTERS WORSE
Macbook pros when they had a good keyboard!
Aces Studio/Microsoft Aces, responsible for the Microsoft Flight Simulator series, shutdown by MS in 2009.
Maybe that risk is calculated to worth 0.02? Hence 1.01 instead of 0.99
I didn't realize this was his work. I've visited that museum and it truly is amazing. You can play with working NeXT boxes, a working Alto (the screen resolution for that time is amazing to see in person), TI9As, tons of old HP-UX machines ... If you're ever in Seattle it is totally worth checking out .. that and the smaller (though less interactive) museum at Recycle PC.
The term “Smart contracts” (Ethereum/EOS/hyperledger) is often used with wild claims for supply chains and cross border business deals, but why would any real business want to use a public blockchain?

Smart contracts can’t even do anything interesting without a trusted source of data input. The threat model and legal questions of smart contracts are another huge deterrent for most businesses.

Latency, throughput, security threats, and cost are all fairly understood with normal databases, yet with blockchain software all of these are measurably worse.

Where are the completed successful smart contracts deployed?

Why would any person or business want/need to use an existing blockchain when some bug or mining operator might cause a catastrophe of that system, who would they sue for damages?

A single user who spent less than $5000 crashed the entire market for Ethereum last summer. Most of the supply of ETH, XMR, BTC and other crypto tokens are owned by a very small population of crypto-oligarchs.

It all seems like a marketing scheme to sell cyber beanie babies to people who are unfamiliar with the engineering flaws in distributing computing and the marketing lies from “investors” who need to pump the price on their magic beans.
Or when Aaron Schwartz died
I don’t understand why you would be anti- something so new at all. To me it’s preposterous that you would evaluate a new technology based on how many problems it and only it can solve. Don’t you get that new technology has an incubation period where its fundamental challenges must be overcome?

What problem could early steam powered cars solve that horses couldn’t solve better? I doubt the earliest ones performed better than the animal based solutions for ANY specific use.

Yet writing off automobiles at that stage would’ve been a mistake only obvious in retrospect.

Especially for something as truly bizarre as Ethereum, why write it off at this early stage?
The Zune (media players) and Windows Phone (upto 8, not even 8.1). The fluid interface with focus on readability and content.

The photos app was amazing. Live tiles are amazing. The music player and it's live tile was amazing. The performance was the same whether on a low end budget phone or the top of the line model.

So many good ui and ux decisions like the lack of hamburger menus and placement of all menu items along the bottom of the screen with the extra items being hidden away in a drop-down using ellipsis. System wide light and dark themes jazzed up using an accent color that all of your apps respected.

The People hub (contacts app) was the central point for all social media. Facebook and Twitter were integrated. I didn't need fb messenger. Skype and fb messenger were integrated with the messaging app.

Damn, I wish we made it.
Jeff Bezos: Today's internet is a 'confirmation bias machine'
Split method in Python
Well, looks like you could have said that you consider any gun control advocates as hypocrites, then. (Shrug)
YC Interview Simulator
What happened to them?

What happened to SignalFX?
> It generally means that we want to get to the same place but have different ideas on how to get there.

Is it? The description on that page is just about having multiple conversations at once, not having them all start in the same place.

Also, starting in one place and going different directions is basically the opposite of parallel lines, so this makes zero sense as a justification of the punchline.
Mac OSX Snow Leopard. Butter smooth and uncluttered.
damn, almost all your comments are advertisements
Is Science Slowing Down?
Fatbabies.com was the scathing gossip site for any Internet company bad behavior. During the original dotcom boom, guessing if you knew anyone described was a common drinking activity.