skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually I do think Yang's screencast is kind of unusual, as he seems to start with a very clear vision and the vision seems to remain intact throughout the process. (Or the screencast may have simply omitted experimentation processes...) By comparison, this [1] is my version of notes towards my winning entry [2], which contains a lot of failed approaches and mistakes :-)

[1] https://gist.github.com/lifthrasiir/3909337

[2] https://www.ioccc.org/2012/kang/kang.c
I miss the Netherlands! But I don’t miss IKEA there. Their delivery drivers couldn’t find their asses with both hands, a flashlight, and GPS.
Probably. Never been to Europe so I don't know. But compared to normal Japanese food (or Asian food in general), bad food is not that hard to find.
I would argue with you on the quality point. There have been lots and lots of stories of bad welds and cars showing up for delivery with misaligned parts. It's difficult to really discuss this with the True Believers though.
I can see where you are coming from, but I don't think it's limited specifically to just resource dependent economies. I would argue it's much more meta than that.

A lot of things in life boil down to "pleasing the person above you so you get support". At work, many employees will spend more time scoring points with the manager, rather than thinking of new and innovative ways to grow revenue and profit.

I think you can see this manifest itself in the ways the humans behave politically. "How do I say the right things so that I can get elected/get paid" seems to be the relevant question here rather than "What is the ethical, rational, and equitable thing to do?"
It's also just duplicated work for the producer. I'd rather someone just visit my little blog and read my article on the context where I know the syntax highlighted coffee looks good, my dynamic examples render, etc.

There probably are done folks with great intents, but there's legitimate reasons to channel people to your site as well.
It's a remarkably common problem. So many open source projects fail to put the elevator pitch in their README.md or landing page for their site. You're apparently supposed to just guess?
In reality, you can't do that with these either. You have to have the runtime installed before your example works.

It's really not much better than running a fat jar that contains all of its dependencies.

curl -o binary.jar http://example.org/binary.jar
java -jar binary.jar

This is more like a self-extracting shell script, but more opaque.
The delivered a car at 10:30 pm? How could you even give it a thorough look-over?
Are those two multi language? I can think of a lot of use cases for industrial IoT if they support Spanish and Portuguese
'Non Playable Characters' he meant procrastinators who do nothing about the ridiculousness of the law makers and law enforcement. People who think "well I'm not doing anything wrong, I got nothing to hide" yeah well, except they can't keep your private information PRIVATE... So when the wrong people get a hold of it, what then? Oh look, you have plenty to hide from all these criminals...
Auckland to London won’t happen - new Airbuses don’t yet cut it. But they can do Berlin, Istanbul or Copenhagen.
You still have issues of needing a JVM. The JVM is not a small runtime considation. I'm in the process of converting to GO since I have more time than money. 1 JVM in Docker uses 512 MB to sit still. A Go version is around 16.
Anki Vector: The Home Robot
So one thing I'm going to be looking into is whether this let's plugins handle / intercept the feed content now instead of Firefox's rather confusing preview.

All in all, I'd say this had just about zero impact on folks who actually use feeds.
No, I don’t work for Amazon and that wasn’t an ad but a concrete example of a particular form factor of an underseat bag that came to mind because I happen to own one, and thought it was something other frequent travellers might consider adopting. (I’ve only recently converged on the form factor after having tried many others)

They do fit in most rows except aisle, but even then, because of their small size, they can usually be made to fit in a nearly full overhead compartment (source: recent personal experience). I’ve just returned from traveling around Europe and I can’t count the number of times I’ve managed to avoid inconvenient situations because I didn’t bring a full size rollabord. I’ve even been able to put mine on my lap on a full bus in Spain.
Your response is absolutely politics. You don't debate any of the factual information presented - but simply cast doubt due to a difference of politics and ideology.

Your assertion by pointing to a article from The Nation (the oldest progressive journal in the US, as they proudly quote) just emphasis your partisan take.

Regardless, In this case - the article is correct, as facts are simply facts, and not partisan. Adjusted for inflation, travel costs roughly half of what it did at the time of deregulation. Since hearing facts from people you disagree seems to offend, I would suggest a separate source on the path of deregulation, the instability it brought, but then the ultimate success - check out Hard Landing by Thomas Petzinger.
I'm really sorry! I just emailed you if in case you're still up for meeting up. It looks like I didn't think we had agreed on a meeting, but you thought we had.

(I asked whether you were "going to be in SF next weekend", and didn't propose a time nor place. In your reply, you similarly didn't propose time nor place either. And so based on that email conversation, I didn't think we had agreed on meeting anywhere! I'm really sorry for the miscommunication.)
I read someone describe an isolation tank as boring and pointless. To alleviate the boredom, they would touch their legs "just to have some sort of sensation". They did not seem to understand that they had missed the point.
In Europe, you pay to call a cell phone, but receiving a call is free (for pre-paid voice anyway). Problem solved - except that in the US we like to charge both sides for having a phone call, so we end up here.

On the other hand, legit companies often call as a private/unknown number, and I never pick up. Don't Apple, insurance companies, etc., realize that no one's picking up their phones anymore?

Forget land lines, I'm considering just not having a POTS phone number at all anymore. Just sell me data and I'll take it from there, thanks.
The trend for a while now has been diminishing user time spent on desktops and more time spent on mobile/web. Presumably Microsoft wanted to stake out a territory in those spaces.
Robocalls used for unsolicited marketing, which is the bulk of it, is illegal throughout the European Union and has been so for around 15 years.

The ban follows form article 13 of the directive on privacy and electronic communications: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32...

The ban is not 100 percent effective - I receive a robocall maybe once every year - but it's pretty efficient. From the numbers I read here, it's some 99.9 percent effective. I have lived in 3 different EU countries and it wasn't a big issue in any of them.

Different countries in the EU have implemented the ban differently. But generally, businesses that use robocalls are fined on a per call basis. So it is an issue that can be dealt with by regulation. Companies breaking the rules are fined and the risk of being reported is high so it's not a viable business model.

I still receive spam emails, which is the same and is also illegal, but - and I don't mean anything else than to state the fact - almost all spam I receive is from outside the EU, such as America, Russia, Africa or Asia.
It's a 4chan meme.
I'm not sure it would be any different for any other feed specification unless the spec maintainer supplies all the software. It's a human problem rather than a software/spec problem. But I agree of course, it's a bit of a mess and definitely not something you can rely on to use in automated systems without a lot of extra validation.
I apologize if my suggestion was stupid. I'm just trying to get a discussion started here, that's all.

It would cost the company next to nothing, in my view, because the steps the company has to take is almost exactly the same:

1. Employee quits. Company immediately looks for a replacement. One year down the road, when the company is expanding, they have to look for another worker.

2. Employee goes on sabbatical. Company immediately looks for a replacement. One year down the road, when the company is expanding, they first contact the sabbatical guy if they want to come back, and if not they have to look for another worker.

In scenario 1, the company pays for the cost of two hirings with 100% certainty. In scenario 2, worst case the company pays for the cost of two hirings; best case the company only pays for one.
Thanks for making this comment. You did a good job of putting into words what I have struggled to express to myself. I resonate entirely with your comment, but unfortunately for me, my problem is that it's a lot harder to actually put these things into practice.

>About accomplishment, maybe the thing you wanted out of escaping the rat race was to take a break from feeling like you constantly did have to accomplish something.

100% yes! In fact, when I first left my job, this was exactly what was foremost on my mind and I intentionally took a one-month period where I essentially vacationed and didn't "accomplish" anything. I was very proud of having escaped the rat race, and felt good about it. After that is when I started to "get back into it" and work on side projects, etc. I was still confident that taking time off was a great decision, even if I didn't come out of it with an MBA or a startup.

Unfortunately, ~20 months later, things have changed. I've gotten enough negative reactions in those 20 months, and enough rejected job applications and negative conversations with recruiters regarding my employment gap, that I really start to question (even if only subconsciously) the entire situation I put myself in by quitting. I've started to lose that confidence that I initially had, and once that confidence starts to erode, it's been really hard to get back.
> why HP laptops are lower quality than Apple laptops.

So why can I choose to buy either an Apple laptop or an HP one in the US, but don't have the choice to fly on Emirates from Chicago to NYC? I think you missed my point entirely. There is a market of people willing to pay for superior quality airline service, there is just no supply for it, because of regulation.
Wouldn’t the Apple Watch just fallback to whatever connectivity it can get? 3G, Edge, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Q_4rm8SVI
I’m past the 30 hump so I dunno about new generation but emojis are awesome. Very expressive
You can get a fair amount of entropy out of names, and there are often multiple name type questions (somebody's maiden, friend's nickname, favorite teacher). Luckily it's hard to hammer customer service reps with repeated attempts, at least until the AI for voice personal assistants get a little better.
> The closest that you have with the Singapore/Emirates setup is United Polaris and Global Services.

Please tell me you're joking.
And smuggling of fentanyl from China.
In Android at least (I've never used iOS), there's no need for an app. You can define custom ringtones for both individuals and groups.

Of course, you need to define groups and add contacts to those groups, but it's all built-in.
Heck, some of the biggest tech corporations run communications platforms; they don’t care if phones become an unusable toxic wasteland, they could probably benefit from people using their services more, as long as it doesn’t attract regulatory attention.

I hope instead though some software companies treat this as a technical problem and sell solutions.
It wouldn't be the first time a crew errs in calculating their takeoff performance and uses too low a thrust or flap setting. Everyone on that plane is lucky to be alive, as others have died after similar takeoffs.
You've hit the nail on the head- thats the problem- the number isn't real. I have gotten at least half a dozen callbacks/texts asking "who dis" or "why did you call me"? when the reality is my number ended up in the robodialer spooferator 5000 number generator. The only way to really stop it would be for everyone to stay on the line and waste the telemarketers/scammers time until they realized they had no viable business. Unfortunately, that is a really hard problem to solve.
Spam callers spoof residential numbers so they're not blocked by rules and filters at the telcos. Apple has called me twice once it popped up Apple Williamsburg because I had their number in my phone, and the other time was a 800 number based on a scheduled call. What legitimate companies call from private/unknown numbers? Even HSBC my bank calls me for fraud from the exact same 800 number that I call them for fraud.
Retool (YC S17) is hiring engineers in SF
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Not really - If there had a been a gash in pressurization, they would have caught it on the way up. The 737 is a _tank_. It has more or less the same wing load as a F-16. It takes a lot to shake around - it's every bit the 1950s build 707 chassis, and like the old 50s lathe - it can take a hit and keep going.
the ability to blacklist a range of known offenders would help quite a lot. Further, being able to whitelist numbers would help. But it would be great if foreign nations' governments would stop turning a blind eye to these scams. India is a well known hotspot. The Nigerian scam is so named for a reason and is practically a national sport. To show just how pervasive it is, there was even a hit song about cheating Westerners ("I go chop your dollar").

Caller ID that isn't trivially spoofed wouldn't hurt, either.

Curiously, I had two "microsoft tech support" robo-voice robocalls just tonight. The bastards.
We found a unicorn!

Jokes aside, that's a really admirable - and in my experience, rare - thing you're doing. Your employees are really lucky.
Billing systems for phone lines have been sophisticated and detailed for quite some time.

The Telco knows exactly who is originating the call, at least for the last leg of it, and could trivially issue marks against them, till they get booted off the network.

But alas, why would you boot the entity giving you 100x the revenue than the target?
We should seek to reduce the asymmetry, currently only our masters and their minions get to watch us.

If networked dash cams and home security cameras become common there should be crowd sourced public tracking of every LEO, politician, etc.
I agree it’s likely the office is bugged. But a pocket WiFi device the watch has previously connected to is a perfectly plausible way for him to have had Internet access.
Entertainingly, this is already regulated in an inconsistent manner in some states. In Virginia, for example, the government has some fairly broad restrictions on collection and retention of personal data, but to the best of my knowledge no civil counterpart exists. See this recent case on the matter:

https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/location-tracki...

In fact, they're so worried about government abuse there that another bill seeking to severely limit retention of license plate reader data passed both the house and senate before being vetoed by the governor over "public safety concerns".

Article about it: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/virginia-passes-...

Bill details: http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+sum+SB965

Best quote ever:

> Senator: "I wasn't a criminal suspect, so why are they taking pictures of me?"
My dad was a psychaitrist with a private practice for the longest time.

Sounds like a good time for an impromptu poll?
Luckily for this flight, that they didn't damage the pressure vessel and then blow it out at high altitude. Better to stay low, not pressurize, and land "at the nearest suitable airport."
The ETags are identical to those from Github:

$ curl -I https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/master/readme.md

etag: "1218d241f6c717fa83d0f1afa64809d6ce7451c8"

$ curl -I https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sindresorhus/awesome/maste...

ETag: "1218d241f6c717fa83d0f1afa64809d6ce7451c8"
"That's not a knife... This is a knife." -- Crocodile Dundee
What’s the chip in the Apple Watch? Most of the new low power LTE devices have 2G fallback
I have no problem giving specific and extremely polite feedback, many companies are amazingly responsive of it. Uber sucks at, they are incredibly shitty at it. They need to get their CSRs if they actually have any which quite frankly I donbt., and then get some comptent ones that have actually used Uber.
I do the same. Which reminds me -- when you get a 404 from utwente.nl you're redirected to a domain squatter / advertising site.

I can't be bothered to report it to them.
> Among Native women victims of rape or sexual assault, an average of 67 percent describe the offender as non-Native.

This really changes the tone of the outcry, I had no idea. (the link misquotes the source, but this is irrelevant)
I am paid what the market allows also. I pay tons and tons of taxes too! But it's not better for society if people like me get together and take over the government via regulatory capture and get lower taxes just for us (like paying all the senators to do things we like via campaign contributions and. hiring them when they retire). How much taxes do you think you should pay? Less than everyone else? What if your kids or your nephews say, aren't quite as fortunate as you are, they are sweeping the floor somewhere, and they get sick or in a car accident? Should they just die, or depend on the kindness of strangers or a rich aunt? I think we should take care of the poor, the kids who weren't lucky enough to be born to someone who was rich or a programmer (I was lucky and born to two college graduates, and one was even a programmer :-)).
Not the asker, but I am always interested in how people come to be wealthy, mostly because it's almost always interesting. Even "worked at google" is interesting because I am personally from a region with no tech unicorns, so it's novel to me.
How about a system that picks up and plays this message "if you're a human press 7 (or other digit)". Then wait a few seconds then hang up. If they press the right digit, the phone call gets patched through otherwise it hangs up.
No carrier in Turkey supports the Apple watch.
174 it feels close. I dropped the text and went with numbers. (sorry for any duplicate notification spam)

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Boston Dynamics' Robot Can Do Parkour Now and It Is Incredibly Impressive
The most surprising part is, trichy to mumbai takes hardly 1hr flight time. What caused them to take 4hrs?

In 4hrs, they could have landed in Dubai itself easily

Being Indian, I agree with statement about AirIndia. I would never fly in AirIndia even if the ticket price is too low, laughably they usually cost way above than any other competitors.
For me it was magnesium deficiency.
The people who moved to Chernobyl - city after nuclear disaster with pics
Oh wait, it looks like I missed his write-ups looking back at the company since I transitioned to a new area. I'll be going through them later. Thanks for the correction! So, I drop claims to L4 mostly a failure so far with other microkernels being successful in niche markets, esp embedded and safety/security-critical. The L4 people at places like Dresden at least gave us lots of good designs that are being put to use in open-source and commercial works. Device, driver VM's and Nitpicker GUI come to mind.

EDIT: Still reading the articles. Gernot reminds me PikeOS from Sysgo was "a L4 clone." They got acquired by Thales after quite a few iterations on their PikeOS product. An annual report I found by Thales said they were acquired for over 20 million Euros. Still on low-end in terms of market value but might have been successful depending on money in vs gained.

EDIT 2: Read his blog posts. Before OK Labs Post No 6, here's what he claims about L4 uptake:

"Secondly, a lot of stuff is running on L4:
– Qualcomm modem chips have been running our L4-embedded kernel since 2006, that’s a few billion devices
– The security processor of all iOS devices is running a modified version of our L4-embedded, that’s another 200-300 million devices every year
– seL4 is being deployed on autonomous military air and ground vehicles, with the first autonomous helicopter flight in July 2015
– many other safety- and security-critical deployments are in progress.

I’m not aware of any real-world deployments of Minix."

Of course, we found out later Minix 3 was in Intel's baseband. So, there's two of them with people claiming massive deployments in supporting CPU's/MCU's. What you alluded to didn't refute a large number of units. Just that the company was anything as good as marketing presented. It wasn't. A few deliverables kept selling, though, per same source. He was wrong about Minix 3, too. Probably because it was Intel's secret for a while. I bet they wanted the reliability, included apps/code, and BSD license.
Basically fuck Ubers CSRs, they should all be fired, and their manager fired, and that persons manager fired every single one of them, which is probably ten people anyways, judging from their terrible customer service.
Have you talked to them? What did they say if you did? Management might not be aware this is happening.

This here might be a quick-and-dirty attempt to stop them, at least temporarily: https://writing.kemitchell.com/2018/09/02/Killjoy-DMCA.html

Written for the US, but shouldn't matter all that much in practice.
Looks like they went halfway across the Arabian Sea before turning around, strange... https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/ix611#1e2da319
With respect to programming languages, most software, and most creative works, all states of the lifecycle seem to be bad at some level:

1. It's just an idea/it's just a prototype.

2. It works but it doesn't support everything I want to do.

3. It supports everything but it's not the way I want to solve the problem.

4. I guess I'll have to reinvent the wheel to show them how it's done...

The only real terminus to this cycle is when you've actually communicated the thing you want to communicate, which is quite difficult to do in the form of a programming language.