skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So illegal practices are okay as long as they result in lower prices for the consumer?

Actually, this reasoning checks out with current interpretations of monopoly law. Carry on.
Buyers? I want the makers trained as users.

Everything I've optimized really well was after a week or so using the old bad solution.

Programs made for me, to automate some part of my job? Invariably break some part of my workflow that promptly gets labeled an edge case.
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If this were my project it would take you to a page that says “You Did”
Depending on the amount of data, you could store it in the URL itself as a fragment identifier
The representation is "I would like to purchase an option to travel towards this destination."
exactly. its yet another project to jump in :)
Check out Adrian Mendoza's photo-based works. He's still using Kai's Power Tools and other filters on a PowerMac.

(Not sure he has a site with that work but it's scattered throughout his Twitter feed[1] along with some neat aerial photography of SF and the bay area.

[1] https://twitter.com/Amenfoto/status/1002426100767526913
I first came across SHRDLU in Gödel, Escher, Bach.

I thought it was fictional!
I went from knowing nothing about Phaser to a working game in about two weeks for a game jam earlier this year. Really enjoyed working with it.

http://www.lmnopc.com/air-sea-golf/

The jam was "genre shift", where participants were supposed to take an existing game and shift it to another genre. I chose the Atari 2600 classic Air Sea Battle and turned it into a simple golfing game.

I liked the idea of using the 2600 as a starting point so I could worry less about the graphics and more about the physics and gameplay.

It's simple but it works. It's almost much more fun on a phone - the touch screen is more fun than a mouse for this one. :)
Old-school Winamp. I use Spotify these days, but man it was fun to customise skins and play with the awesome visualisers.

Half-Life 3 would also be nice, but I guess it was never "around" to begin with.
I would say its not even worth it, but this is one of the few games I would say it was worth it for.
Why? Because automatic lionization of people is the proper way?

Wouldn't it be incredible if someone died and we could finally speak about them honestly?
I still spend time in Plug.dj on a regular basis. It doesn't have the population or momentum of Turntable, but there's still something magical about social music.
They were called Powerbooks back then :)
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When they were both new, I tried out Rdio and Spotify. Rdio won my subscription hands down and it was long after they'd shut down that I finally bit the bullet and subscribed to Spotify.
> I made a website with Clojure (a Lisp)

Seems like you’d be in good company ‘round here then.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viaweb
Carousel and Mailbox by Dropbox. God i loved the design language and maturity of Dropbox as a company/product in the 2012-2014 era compared to the trash it has become now.
ironically, first time I have ever heard of sendgrid was a few minutes eaerlier, when I saw that an obviously fake email from verizon was actually from spammy@sendgrid.com
According to Wikipedia, Adobe Photoshop was created in 1988. So yes, we literally had that Photoshop before you were alive, not just some photoshop.

I used GIMP in 1996, on a Sun Sparcstation 20, running Red Hat Linux.
> This is in contrast to google where searches return things that don't even contain your keywords.

This has become so frustrating as of late, especially when you search for something like "c++ map" and it decides to completely ignore the "c++" part of your search, leaving you with pages of actual maps. Slightly exaggerated example since I can't remember any concrete ones off the top of my head, but the actual situation happens way too often.
I see a lot of graduate students focusing on practical uses of ML algorithms as a result of this. A lot of people don't realize that a good portion of the math is already figured out, and that it's in the implementation of these algorithms that they can find more interesting results.
And so fast!

Thanks 'herf.
They won't care until their own personal privacy is breached in some horrifying manner, for example nude photos hacked and posted on public forums.
> why would any real business want to use a public blockchain?

I think it is only important for a business when public trust is important. For example, a news agency could publish its articles in a public blockchain so the original article and any updates to that article would forever be auditable from that blockchain.
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One of my biggest distractions for years has been email. I just have to have my inbox at zero and used to check my email religiously, from every few minutes to every few hours. I'd check email in the bathroom, in bed, at the table .. it was getting ridiculous. The things is, I never got any interesting email worth checking - it was always the same pattern: swipe - delete. So I decided to do something about it.

I figured checking email once or at most twice per day would be enough so I took took a few steps to accomplish this:

1. Moved the email icon from my phone into an obscure folder hidden on the very last screen on my phone. Now, instead of clicking it right away I have to actively find it which is kind of a pain.

2. Installed SelfControl for Mac and added gmail.com, facebook (yes I still have a shell account I use to check one group), reddit, ycombinator, twitter and a host of other news sites I may occasionally visit to the black list. The first thing I do in the morning is set that timer for almost the entirety of the day and hit start. Now everything is literally blocked and I cannot access it without turning off SelfControl which I have yet to do. Some days I make an exception and leave hacker news off the list.

What I really want now is a product, app or SOMETHING that just turns off everything, including notifications at a click of tap of a button - across all devices simultaenteouly. Turn of all notifications, popups, alerts, all the garbage that comes up through the day including phone calls, messages, Facetime.. just everything. I don't care if it's an emergency, I don't care if someone died, I don't care if checking the phone will save my life. Just turn it all off, but give me access to the apps I still use.
I have to say, Mandarin is the absolute best at this. One of my favorites is the fact that the word for precedent is simply the character for "first" followed by the character for "example." So simple and straightforward. Even as a non-native speaker, once you get the hang of it you can just glue words together and often hit on the right compound word for some vocabulary you haven't ever studied. And also make mistakes... of course.
Be careful what you wish for :)

https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/15/winamp-returns-in-2019-to-...
Because Jewish people are over represented in many aspects of the US, finance, media, universities. Didn't someone say here that they make up 20% of Harvard? What's their overall population in America, 1%?

They are conveniently white/white-passing and such can take advantage of that.
Thanks I'll take this into consideration but, as a note, I live near Central Square, Cambridge and $900 is a pretty average rent for a mid sized room. I don't know what "you'll very quickly get priced out of your neighborhood in Boston" means. If suddenly housing market inflates and my rent increases, it's not like I won't be able to afford it? I've already been working for a while (I graduated early from uni) so I already have an emergency fund that's enough for me to live off of about 5 months without income.
I still subscribe to Science News. It's mostly smaller digests with one long-form article per issue (it's bi-weekly and thin) but it is a genuinely enjoyable read, and gives you lots of jump-off points on subjects you didn't even know you were interested in.

https://www.sciencenews.org/sn-magazine/october-13-2018
How about a smartphone brand that promises to never change the UI again after version 1.0? Users can move their buttons around or change their appearance, but their investment in muscle memory is sacred. Before javascript hit the internet everyone used (and frequently declined to update) native apps, and largely controlled their UI, but as a society we just gave that control to web designers. Many Vim and Emacs users never let go, but it used to be GUI users as well; I remember tech savvy mac using university professors with 1000 icons on their desktop that are all there for a reason. They didn't search; they just reached.
The Vintage Synthesizer Museum in Oakland has one, I got to play with it. They might be able to do something with the disks.
> Software deliberately designed to go against the wishes of its users is defective, malicious, or both.

I think its quite a stretch to say that Mozilla choosing not to support a technology makes their product "defective" or "malicious". They get to choose what they support. They beauty of open source software, is that if someone disagrees with that decision, they are free to support it themselves. That is unlikely to happen in this case - and that just validates Mozilla's decision.

Point D) is highly relevant - if it's hard for users to present a rational reason that a feature should exist, it further justifies Mozilla not wanting to support it. The IETF, NIST, browser vendors, PCI security standards, vendors such as Cloudflare, etc have all moved away from TLS 1.0 or recommended no longer using it as described in https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-oldversions-depre.... That document also lays out various technical reasons to no longer use TLS 1.0. TLS 1.2 has been the recommended version of TLS since 2008 - 10 years ago and it will be 12 years by 2020 when Mozilla stops supporting it. That is all overwhelming evidence that anyone that thinks that they are the special exception for whom using TLS 1.0 makes sense, is almost certainly wrong. People have the right to be wrong, but, it's hardly Mozilla's ethical obligation to enable them.
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Well, they've had some success, but Dawn of War 3 was an absolute train wreck. Relic aren't exactly in the best form as of late.
Ambrosia software
You ultimately default to action, not get stuck thinking about whether or not.
That Allen wielded such incredible power and influence was not due to him being exponentially more worthy than others, but due to a winner-take-all economic system which rewards marginal advantage combined with good fortune with exponential returns.

> There will be plenty of opportunity to focus on the negative aspects but the polite thing to do at this time is stay quiet.

To suppress Allen's destructive actions from the summary of his life is to encourage their repetition by others.
It is especially good if you want to implement a Lisp.
But as he also admits in the book, he would pursue anything and everything, but Bill Gates would temper his expectations and help direct energy in a productive direction; so, it's possible--or even likely, I think--that Paul Allen would have started one of the many, many computer companies that didn't succeed. i.e. a PC manufacturer with a million competitors.

Of course, it's also possible he would have been wildly successful as an early entrant. Who can say?
That's why I believe they introduced measuring traits for "well-roundedness". Asian/Asian-Americans were doing better than whites at their own game (tests) and as such started testing for skills that can't be easily measured and are heavily biased.

Suddenly someone with high scores and other non-technical skills can still be considered not well-rounded.
If you're delaying an IPO, the downround in the future can be the IPO.

Which is fine. Plenty of tech companies have already demonstrated IPO downrounds are fine.
the full reach was around 126 million

Wow, controlling 1,260 people per dollar spent is quite the ROI.
Ah perfect! Will drop by as well as reach out to the Mess foundation in Melbourne!
Create a basic balance sheet spreadsheet for your self.
In the rows, enumerate out the next 50 years
In the columns put in your Income vs Expenses
Factor in things like marriage, kids, buying home, college, reasonable investment returns.

Make the numbers work for the life you want. You don't need to be a billionaire to have a fulfilling life.
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Going the distance with cross platform development
I worked there for a while around 2000, after Interval was drastically downsized. Among other things they'd been working on a prototype "web tablet", ten years before the iPad. They did some good work there.
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Tackle the hardest problems and solve them.

or

Attach yourself to the areas that have the highest business impact and produce results...
Tilt payment app in Canada, we don't have half of the payment apps like Venmo in the US and it is quite inconvenient sometimes
Yeah I just meant equality between everyone, period
There are so many advantages to early cars, are you kidding me? They don’t eat hay and shit for one.

Is there anything that your argument wouldn’t work for? Do you truly have to wait a decade before making any judgements about the hype around a technology? When will we be able to say if smart contracts have been overhyped?
No but it would still be an interesting experiment.
Because "unwelcome sexual advances" is a spectrum from acceptable to unacceptable.

In a situation where there is a lot at stake, socially savvy people generally want to know the answer will be "yes" before the question is asked.

Historically, when men were the primary breadwinners and women were expected to be homemakers, a man asking for a date from a woman he had determined was single was not likely to be causing big problems for anyone. If she said "No" and he dropped it, no drama would ensue.

This is not true where they are business colleagues and she has career aspirations.

I had an entry level job at a Fortune 500 company for over 5 years. I wanted to get a better paying job more in line with my education in the IT department.

One day, a senior programmer asked me for a date. I'm sure he had stopped to consider if he was in the clear and determined he was. He wasn't doing anything wrong and he wasn't going to get in trouble.

I'm equally sure he didn't stop to wonder how it impacted my career aspirations. It basically killed any hope I had of getting a job in his department. Simply asking me out closed doors for me.

I left the company shortly thereafter. I left for largely unrelated reasons, but that incident made it clear to me I could basically give up all hope of ever escaping the Pink Collar Ghetto I was trapped in because some powerful man at the company saw me as date material and never stopped to ponder how that framing might impact me.

In over 5 years, he was the only person I ever met at the company who knew what GIS was without me having to explain it. He never once wondered what my career goals were, nor what my unusual skills might do for the company. Nope. He just got all excited about the possibility of getting a date. Full stop.

This is the essence of why we are seeing studies like this one about the impact on women in specific, even though anyone can be a victim of sexual harassment.
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Jeff Bezos is just fine taking the Pentagon’s $10B JEDI cloud contract
> Except that almost nobody who hits a kid on the highway did it on purpose, and everyone who commits sexual assualt does it entirely on purpose.

Counterexample: There was a recent episode of Vice titled Consent, which included a mediation between a man and a woman where the man had no conception that the woman hadn't consented.

It's not hard to see why this is common. When you have a power dynamic, even subtle and unofficial ones, someone who doesn't want to consent has an internal conflict. They neither want to participate nor want to harm their relationship with the other person.

Those types of situations are horrifying. If you signal refusal using overtly transparent methods (throw a drink in their face, scream, slap them), they'll get the message but at the cost of making a scene and potentially souring the relationship. If you try to be too subtle they won't get the hint. The middle ground exists, but with pressure on both sides, it's not the least bit surprising that sometimes someone errs too far on the side of not making a scene. I don't mean to blame the victim in a moral sense, but in a technical sense where sometimes the situation is hard and the right balance isn't clear.

In many of these cases it's still fair to blame the other person for not getting the message, but the failure can certainly be in perception rather than intent. In a sense it is very similar to when you hit a kid in the road because you weren't paying enough attention.
From another thread:

“Code bounties are a great use-case for cryptocurrency.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18226000
Still not the biggest such blunder, even in the late 20th century. That dubious honor must go to Xerox. They created a research org (Palo Alto Research Center or PARC) and tasked it with pushing the state of the art in the industry, which it did. Xerox PARC invented the GUI, ethernet, laser printing, WYSIWYG editors and desktop publishing, bitmapped graphics, the smalltalk language, the MVC design pattern, and more, all in the late 1970s. Xerox corporate leadership looked at this stuff (especially the ALTO computer which represented the culmination of most of these innovations) and couldn't see a future in it, so they shit-canned it. A few years later other companies (specifically Apple and Microsoft) toured Xerox PARC and learned a great deal about these things then repackaged it in their own forms (the Macintosh and Windows). Meanwhile, some PARC employees quit and spun out their own startups using the technology (3COM and Adobe).

Billions upon billions of dollars and entire industries (graphic arts and digital design, ethernet based networking, the home desktop computer, etc.) were built up out of the technologies that Xerox simply left abandoned on the roadside because they were too myopic.
Not the poster, and I have no idea what was in their mind, but if you don't mind speculation, the timing is interesting. These particular pesticides arrived on the market in roughly the late 1980s / early 1990s according to Wikipedia, which according to my fuzzy recollection corresponds to when we started hearing reports of bee populations crashing.
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d/dt e^t = e^t. So while vapid and pop-sci, technically true. Of course, the exponent is constant or we'd be talking about the Ackermanity instead.
The hardest part was that I didn't have the hardware documentation (6502, POKEY, ANTIC, GTIA...) and my mom wouldn't buy me the assembler cartridge. I got delayed 6 to 8 years because of this. I finally resolved the problem via Peter Norton's assembly book and MS-DOS's DEBUG.COM when I got a hand-me-down with a V20 CPU.

The second hardest part was that edlin is a dreadful editor.

The programming comes naturally if you have documentation and tools.
What did it do that Google Photos doesn't? I never tried it, but I know there are some die-hards who really miss it.
China cracks down on religion, crosses burned at Christian churches
I've been using Google Optimize for the first time a few weeks ago - easy as pie and the reports are simple but informational.
It was such a well engineered piece of software. It worked so effortlessly and without any issues. It was so good that I had it installed on my family members’ laptops as well and used it instead of FaceTime for simple calls
Why? News sites don’t even care about maintaining an edit history. They just make minor fixes and leave editors notes when they fix things. News on the block chain is not something anyone wants.
> I'm... just balancing a math equation.

Fine, but are you sure that you are working on the proper one?

Having followed a number of these threads, I think people understand the admissions process as some simple equation where "high academic achievements" + extracurriculars entitle them to a golden ticket @ Willy Wonka U. That's just not how this game works!

I have no affiliation w/the school, but have been through the game elsewhere and done a bit of research on their (and similar institutions') process. Their addy process is complicated, but not exactly inscrutable.

As has always been the case, the school has an agenda and admits the people it thinks most likely to further it. (A number of books do a pretty good job of spelling this all out. I've mentioned at least one of them in previous posts on this topic and the search engine of one's choosing or a librarian can help the interested find the others.)

The practice(s) in question aren't even specific to "elite" schools." A few months ago I attended an event where a State U president explained why they'd ratcheted down the admits for qualified "Asian" students (who actually would pay full freight to attend). Nothing to do w/ making room for "black" or "hispanic" students. But I guarantee you that his school's rationale is the same as Harvard's, Yale's, etc...

I've pondered posting the recording of the event, but honestly, I never sense that the information would change the conversation(s) here. A lot of the comments here smack of attempts to scapegoat others and assuage bruised egos.

Facts: "Asians" get gamed. "Blacks" get gamed. "Hispanics" get gamed. Btw: people should spend a little asking themselves 'WTF do those quoted terms even mean?' Chances are that your defs aren't the same as those of the addy staff, but I digress.

Respectfully, be smart, folks. This is not an issue to be taken at face value.
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Surely people used to convey similar objections about sailing uncharted waters. Exploration is by nature a dangerous gig, everyone involved is completely aware of the risks they are taking.
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Japan doesn't have low gun violence because of strict laws, it's because culturally there is simply no desire to own guns (per-capita ownership rate is 0.3, near the bottom of all countries[1]), combined with an overall low violent crime rate due to their high trust, homogeneous society.

There's simply no comparison to the USA where firearms are a deep part of our history and culture, and where our right to bear arms is recognized right in the Constitution. That's reflected in our per-capita ownership rate.

If you look just at the laws, Venezuela has even stricter gun control laws than Japan (complete private ownership ban) yet it has the highest gun homicide rate on the planet.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...
It's actually a lot more complicated than that.

I have been watching this discussion and loathe to jump in. I'm glad to see a few comments adding some nuance, in spite of this being a conversation with very polarized positions.
Clementine and MusicBee are pretty good replacements
2.) WhatsApp, the paid messenger app with a decent approach to pricacy, before Facebook bought it and made it into a metadata harvesting engine.
I slowly working in something alike: A relational lang:

http://tablam.org

Eventually, the idea is have a FoxPro-like experience.
I had two daughters before I came to the conclusion that this is the most likely path for humanity at this point. There is a possibility of a global awakening that might prevent this tragic loss of megafauna. But I'm already a vegan and don't drive much; can't think of more to do, and while I'm not too bad at dealing with this, it can be quite depressing.
This reminds me that I've been meaning to read Fumbling the Future:

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0791LWDG3/

$3.03 for the Kindle edition! How can I turn that down?

(And yes, I do note the irony of this being an Amazon link.)