skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> instead, now the best Usenet archive we have is saved from some old tapes from one or two universities,

The archive is online, I just downloaded a copy.

The first major Usenet archive was dumped from the old tape of the University of Toronto's Department of Zoology, it covered the posts their server received from late 80s to 1991. You can download it from here. https://archive.org/details/utzoo-wiseman-usenet-archive. It's ~2 GiB in compressed gzip, ~20 GiB in raw. Another is The Internet Archive's "Usenet Historical Collection", contains post made in the 90s, donated by an anonymous user, around ~200 GiB. https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical&tab=collection

The UTZoo's archive is very handy to have. There are a million posts to read and no spam and low-effort posting at all (by modern standards, even many flame wars seem to be high-quality). The downside is no external resources is accessible, and nobody is going to reply you. Feels like trapping inside the fake 3D Hologram of the Usenet golden age, created by a supercomputer in the abandoned space station, as in the plot of Otomo Katsuhiro's Memories.

Unfortunately, the original archive from DejaNews/Google Groups, the most authoritative and complete source is inaccessible by the public. Google, a Search Company, Has Made Its Internet Archive Impossible to Search http://motherboard.vice.com/read/google-a-search-company-has...
Privacy also includes data transparency and knowing what data they store about you. The best way to do this is to provide you with all data they do store about you.
Going back to a world where free and open software was the norm would be a mistake?

Being able to buy one of a half-dozen or more periodicals with informative commentary on an accessible programming language would be a mistake?

Empowering a generation of STEM learners with a basic programming language centered around the bedrock of computer science would be a mistake?

Safely and easily gaining first-hand experience with low-level hardware engineering principles would be a mistake?

Not PEEKing and POKEing in Primary school is a mistake.
Can I request they destroy it?
The criminal justice system is not based on the assumption that people are guilty before trial. Otherwise trials would be pointless.

Further, they could easily spend several times that much money defending themselves. Sure, if they had billions then that's a meaningful argument but not for <300k.
This feels like the infamous HN dropbox thread. I don't know if it's solving the problem well or not but this can totally make a killing. Privacy has really gone mainstream, it's pretty clear people are looking for new ways to engage with tech regardless of utilitarian considerations. The holiday season is coming and 500$ is reasonable.
It's not about the tech: the business case for serverless
Thanks for sharing, I had no idea these videos existed!
Francis Fukuyama interview: “Socialism ought to come back”
there is always difficulty of balancing your learning/growth and the work that you have to do for the company
It also exports an extraordinary amount illegally, so there's that too.

For a while the #3 cash crop in BC, after fishing and logging, was weed. That can't all be for domestic consumption.
I'm not too surprised after recent debacles.. Trust, but verify I suppose.
Perhaps, but that's more likely to trip behavioral detection. The technique proposed in the OP is interesting because it may not be detected as a keylogger.
This has to be a troll.

What’s interesting is the proportion of people without any college education at Google has increased over time as well. So we have teams where you have 14 percent of the team made up of people who’ve never gone to college.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-...
I mean...corporations consist of people (i.e., employees) with feelings and values which - at least to some extent - govern their collective choices and actions. Granted it's tough / probably impossible to disentangle this from profit motive.
Check out the Boring Company. This could be the solution. Tunnels can be stacked below the city just as deep or deeper than you can build up.
Question if you don't mind. This "information being destroyed" thing. What do they mean by information? Isn't information a human construct? How is the universe supposed to know what information is?
I agree the whole thing is stupid. Every law enforcement officer in the country carries hollow point ammo. I think the military will keep nominally requiring ball ammo the next time we fight a conventional war, but not be too concerned if soldiers mix in some HP now and then. As you point out, not too different than what they already do.
- Alpha male posturing

- People expect you to care about your job.
Being on call and in a constant state of readiness to troubleshoot problems is tiresome. Even if problems rarely occur, the constant awareness of potential responsibility can quickly lead to burn out. The medical field has known this for a long time, and as a result, physicians get paid a lot of money to take extra call coverage. This is a very neglected topic of discussion within software development.
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The interview process for developer/engineering roles.
Getting Started with Magic Leap One and Unity
And yet despite all the hemming and hawing the squabbling Euro area has de facto better fiscal policy than a United States firmly under the control of a single party.

The Euro area had a 2017 deficit of 0.9% of GDP, as compared to the U.S.'s 3.5%. And this is during a boom in the U.S.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/8824490/2-23...

The Euro isn't a better vehicle than the USD today, but it could easily become one. Not because the Euro improves but because USD will become less stable and attractive and the only realistic alternative is the Euro. Or maybe we end up with a more diversified system. Either way USD loses.
no love for simplex ? how strange... :)
Having to build technology that attempts to manipulate humans and call it "Deep Learning".
It wasn't a surprise to me.

All medical cannabis in Canada has been shipped via Canada Post for almost two decades, and the same set of producers are handling recreational supplies. Extending this to recreational seems like a straightforward way to get things started.
Achieving Productivity with Lb4 Repository Command
If nothing else, that’s plenty of time for the real user to see the email notification and complain.
Being viewed as a cost center rather than a revenue generator if you're not in a tech centric company.

Having best practice and common sense ignored by management in the name of expediency and then being blamed for the results (going over budget, building something the client doesn't want, being late on delivery)
From the technical specs, it's almost certainly the i.MX 8, which as far as I know is not affected or listed on any of the errata for that vulnerability.
> In that case other companies, say, Micrsoft could then start to offer a $100 Android version containing Edge, Bing Maps, Hotmail as services.

Just like Microsoft offers a $100 iOS the same way, right? All you're asking for is for Google to stop developing Android for free. Then Google's version becomes macOS to the legacy Android's FreeBSD, or WINE trying to keep up with every change to Windows.

It would make it harder to develop an alternative to Google Play than it currently is because then you would also have to produce an alternative to Android.

And it does nothing to solve the actual problem, which is that app stores have network effects, so users won't use one with no apps and developers won't use one with no users. Even ignoring Android, suppose the value of Google Play to the OEM is $50 and the value of being default to the highest bidder (e.g. Microsoft) is $20. Then the OEMs have been getting a discount of $30 to get both for net of zero.

Now suppose you price them separately and Google offers Google Play for $35 and pays $35 to be the default. The result is exactly the same. Google Play is worth $50 to the OEM over alternatives, costs $35, so they net $15 by choosing it. Google Apps pay $35 when the alternative pays $20, so they net $15 by choosing it. No change in behavior at all.

If you want to actually fix it you need to break the network effect, e.g. separate the Google Play service from the Google Play app, so that anyone can build a store app that can install apps from multiple stores (even if OEMs still have to pay for access to Google Play). Then explicitly allow app developers to pass the store fee onto customers using that store through differential pricing between stores, so that the same apps from stores with lower fees actually have lower prices. That's how you get more stores, which is how you break Google's leverage with the Play Store.
I can teach someone how to make a button blink in JavaScript in ten minutes. I don't have to explain what line numbers are. I only have to teach some very rudimentary HTML.

From there they can absorb more knowledge and do really cool things.

That BASIC program is garbage and nobody cares. Seeing your name on a screen doesn't carry the same thrill it did in 1985.

Show someone PONG today and they will wonder if you're playing a joke on them. Show someone PONG IN 1972 and you'd blow their mind.
Separate point : tech industry tends to make one delusional about ones abilities (usually overestimation of intelligence)
> What is the difference in your mind between someone who is really good at the game vs someone who is cheating?

Cheaters are regularly banned and are matched up with new players.

Additionally, cheaters have super-human reflexes and powers that make them completely unkillable.

Cheaters are much more common than elite players, so you are much more likely to run into them than an elite player.

Finally, getting matched up with an elite player in an online video game as an average player is something online video game companies invest technology into avoiding.

> If we're saying that being beaten in a video game is a entertainment-ruining experience akin to someone hacking my Chromecast, I see virtually no distinction except that one "earned" the skills. At the end of the day, my displeasure comes from being beaten, so morally speaking I don't see a difference here.

OK so you just don't like video games and want an opportunity to shit on them.

This is a huge leap. Who said their entire argument is based on winning vs losing? Losing can be fun, it's not the same thing.

Being beaten by a hacker with super-human reaction speed and is completely unkillable is experience ruining. Losing in a game against a skilled player can be rewarding. And if the other player is so skilled it's not even a competition, it's a bad matchmaking system and it should be changed.
Open offices have driven Panasonic to make horse blinders for humans
Would you use a scraper that can collect data from any site, no coding needed?
Not here at Waterloo. Engineering costs way way more than Arts. Math is reasonable but CS is twice as much.
Learn to develop a deeply secure emotional attachment style.

Once I unlocked this, my close rate and inbound referrals went through the roof.

Literally closing 95% of leads and 100% of leads are from referrals.

Granted, this is in person 1 on 1 work but isn’t sense is that will translate into the other work you do.
If you think BASIC was free and open have I got a letter from Bill Gates to show you.

GCC is free and open. Clang is free and open. BASIC is commercial, proprietary, closed-source software.

The "bedrock of computer science" is machine code, or if you're not a fan of reading and writing hex values or flipping physical switches on your Altair, then assembly. Everything after that is an abstraction.
Generally speaking, people vastly underestimate how difficult it is to get a good job. Even people with 5-10 years of experience and an MBA will have major difficulty getting a good job if their career isn't laser focused towards a high demand field. I think this is something that needs to be explained to people when they're in high school. I feel one of the primary classes in k-12 should be Job/Career studies.
> I don't understand why they didn't just focus on the hardware, make it very hackable for the community to develop the GNOME (or any other) OS for it.

Probably because the "do everything yourself hackerz" are not the only target audience.. This company has a history of selling quality laptops with their PureOS distro on it, while also supporting the ability to put on other distros for those that want to.
Sydney’s transport planning fundamentally flawed
I tend to use a min/max equation that acts similar to a fibonacci backoff, allowing for a couple rapid retries before the exponential backoff kicks in. Provides a little extra speed for the transient problems.
Well the E-Mail server still runs locally. While they could intercept traffic on their VPN endpoint, the traffic should be encrypted (TLS). However, I am not to sure if all e-mail servers speak TLS to each other.
The undeniable urge to solve all problems in life with a new app
A huge part of the appeal of C64-style BASIC is the lack of distractions. I mean, you're already talking about CSS! :-)

A better match than Javascript (which doesn't have an interactive console, and HTML+JS is event-driven) would be Python.
You missed the biggest reason:

- Networking with people all assumed to be at or above a bar dictated by the college acceptance committee.

This is point is huge, given how spread out the US is many students may have never had that kind of opportunity. The things you learn from your peers, all naturally aligned in the community are orders of magnitude more than what you learn in class and can't easily be replaced by online resources.
It's about engagement. They want you to click another article, another section, etc, while remaining on their property. Every link away is a potential loss of further reading, and is competition for your attention.
Hi I'm Drazen, developer of the Slack app "articulo".

I made articulo to address the problem I've had for quite some time. If your team shares a ton of useful links in Slack it gets hard to track and remember all the stuff that's been shared. Even with sharing in the first place, people are often reluctant to share useful content, not wanting to litter the channel with unimportant stuff.

articulo addresses the first problem by providing a personal Reading list, that you can use a bookmarking and read later list, all without leaving Slack.

articulo aims to nudge people to share more by providing a different method of sharing useful content with your teammates. Add links to Recommended lists (one per channel) and anyone can view all the links ever shared, upvote and contribute their own recommendations. All without sending messages to the channel.

articulo is currently in beta, and is 100% free.

Would love to hear any feedback you might have.
Unfortunately sleeping pills are rarely sustainable, good luck.
I want this loaded with a bunch of text adventure games.
Long answer short: Information has to be a fundamental conserved property of the universe for the second law of thermodynamics to work under some thought experiments.
I found zopiclone to be addictive. You have the most amazing sleep for the first few days when you take it. Then afterwards when you stop taking it, you get the absolute worst sleep: barely hitting REM, constantly waking up, difficulty falling asleep.

I think: diphenhydramine or melatonin might be a safer bet for some people. Never take it more than a few days in a row.
>I still don't get why reporters or publications seem to refuse to link to the most obvious and central key piece of material to an article.

Because people would click the link and leave the article/news website as soon as possible, since the link will probably have more pertinent information than the drivel on bloomberg. Or, they're just that dense.
I see even Google requiring OEMs to pay for the apps to be included as a good thing.

However, what the EU should have done - and can still do - is force Google not do bundle Play Services with its other apps or Android in general. If Google's other apps don't work without the Play Services framework, well, that's Google's problem, isn't it? And maybe then it should make its apps more interoperable with other frameworks.
There is an expectation and honestly a need to keep up with changes to the industry that I haven't seen in other fields. Any older dev has had to transition at least 1-2 languages and it's not an easy step. That doesn't even start covering how fast javascript frameworks are moving. Oh, hey you learned Angular, that's so 3 years ago we don't do that here. We use Vue.js which is better because _________. Vue will be replaced and you'll have to learn something else. If you don't like constantly learning then you'll burn out. On TOP of that most jobs expect you to work and learn this on your own. Which leads to a ton of 9-5 developers who refuse, or other developers who make sacrifices to stay on top of things.

It can also lead to franken-apps which have angular -> react -> vue all in one. (Pause to take a breath) I love developing, but there is a lot to learn. I only stay on top of the industry for about 6 months out of every year. It works for me.
As someone who just started working at a startup, I definitely resonate with the idea that you learn a lot more quickly and get to operate above your level. Of course, for him that meant creating Gmail.
Intentional dehumanization in the name of delivery/progress/development.
Many US states restore the vote.

http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/felon-v...
I'll add that it's not just some random people, they have a company and a SAAS product they provide and make a profit out of.
Did it come with a mentor to help you understand all of that highly technical material?

Did you know anyone else that had a similar computer who was doing similar things with it?
I'm sorry I wasn't clear. You are making the world out to be a false dichotomy, either you spend $100k or 0 for a college education. One means you are broke and the other means you can buy a fancy car and a house. My point is that it is a spectrum. My schooling cost me $50k. I got a small, liberal arts environment in a cool city with access to a variety of internships. State schools around me did not offer that combination.
A) I enjoyed my schooling and I don't mind paying $500/month in loans for it and B) it didn't cost $100k and C) I find it nuts that you are bragging about the fact you got to buy a car because you didn't have student loans.
This is a very important point but oft neglected too. I wish more people speak out about this.
Some thoughts on this in no particular order:

Most workflows are a DAG[1], not a graph, this makes them representable as Tuple[List[Step], List[Tuple[Step, List[Step]]]. In other words, (List[Step], Map[Step, Dependencies]), so your example could be

(
(A, B, C, D),
[(A, []),
(B, [A]),
(C, [A]),
(D, [B, C]),
]
)

which is clearer than the graph representation. Notably, your syntax also assumes a DAG, it can't represent a full graph, so the graph syntax is more "powerful". Though unnecessarily so.

The expression-y representation doesn't scale well. If you consider that workflows are mostly linear, but have branches, the syntax you provided gets ugly fast.

If you imagine a workflow for a CI like

Lint -> Build -> Test -> Deploy -> Email
\-> Test_Windows -/

You end up with

Lint (((Build Test) (Build Test_Windows)) (Deploy Email))

This is one of those weird things that is very much not obvious without hindsight, but try describing a workflow with a critical path of length 10 or 15, and some subchains that are mutual but not exactly the same. Formatting the expression based form you suggest quickly becomes a bit of a nightmare. In the extreme, consider representing a git commit graph, which is also a dag, in the various syntaxes proposed. Then consider trying to modify that structure. It's not very ergonomic.

[1]: Anything loopy or graph-requiring should be factored out into its own sub-flow implemented in a turing complete construct. A workflow should be a composition of such turing complete sub pieces.
Since mosh relies on UDP, it's completely useless for folks who are behind proxies (e.g. for work, school, etc)
In the list of top investors at the bottom, I'm surprised to see FundersClub so high (#5 ahead of even Sequoia Capital!) and AngelList not listed.
I spent last year attempting something very similar in Python (www.duckly.com - unlaunched) and am very impressed. It's an extremely difficult problem and the CI data angle is inspired.
How we keep investors in the loop
Creative license: the trend i have seen at startups is moving more in the direction of product and designer control over the things a company creates. For developers seeking control over their creations, this can be a frustrating thing to be a part of. Even at small startups, the value of designers and product managers is pretty obvious. It can be tough to find the right balance of control there.

Sexism: this is a tough topic. I worry that the people who care are not part of the problem, yet they tend to beat themselves up about it more than those who arguably should. I want more of everyone in tech, but to a large extent my ability to affect change in this area is crippled insofar as i have a job at a startup which requires lots of hours.

Hours/Appreciation: I've been a part of a few startups where employees, especially engineers, care more than they arguably should. High senses of responsibility are amazing assets for a company, but they rarely get appreciated as much as they deserve. When leaders see lagging growth or declining numbers, they try to incite urgency in the ranks. Those working the hardest often take that urgency to heart the most, which can leave them feeling really disheartened that their above-and-beyond efforts to this point have gone unrecognized.

I'll close on a positive by saying that i love the tech and startup industries. They provide so many people opportunities they wouldn't have had otherwise. Like every industry, there are problems. Picking the size and culture of the company you work at changes the landscape of those problems, so be conscious which you are sensitive to and choose accordingly. If you are happy to trade reduction in control for stability, bigger companies probably your jam, for instance.
I had someone call us the Expense team. I put an end to that pretty quickly. It is an easy wedge to drive between sales and engineering.
True, but in this case the content behind the door is obfuscated. This reveals, or at the very least reiterates, what is behind the door. In some cases, that might result in us deciding that a bigger lock was required (or moving the contents somewhere more secure ... and so on).
You would hope an economics major would have learned the sunk cost fallacy.
I've heard that at many times 1/3 of cars on the road in SF are looking for parking. Don't really believe it is that high, but, if true, would be a way for uber/lyft use to decrease congestion in a meaningful way.
At least at the pop-science level, his ideas connect a lot of dots. He'd neatly resolve the weirdness and mystery of black holes, their jets, their information paradox, and dark energy. It feels good.

Whether or not any of it makes a lick of sense once you start actually crunching numbers is another question. The lack of interest from other scientists leaves me skeptical (even if I'm silently enamored of the neatness myself).
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