skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Was also a bit bizarre that about 6 of them came along to a meeting with 4 of us

Sounds like that's a typical mode of operation, seen that several times, too. So maybe the quality of the sales team is the variable. So if your sales team is C players, do they bring the... E? ... players to project?
Storybook 4.0 is here (front end)
> Can those without the expansions still play?

The core root of the game changes, mechanics, graphics, etc, and those with the expansion get additional content, but even if you don't buy the next expansion you can continue to play the game (assuming you don't mean to take advantage of the expansion content).
I'd argue the purpose for most people leaving FB is to waste less time and privacy is generally a nice side effect but rarely a primary factor for the general population.
No matter what the content, I now find it hard to read articles where it feels like the author has a personal point to make. This is somewhere between news and opinion. Perhaps the author's explanation of the facts is correct-- or perhaps he is interpreting facts for his own personal views. It's hard to tell so I just end up not really putting much weight into the article.
Just like if you pick an average human being she probably is poor and black/indian. But average GDP per capita is pretty high worldwide.
That's the problem with public perception. Everybody talks about the current superstars and thinks the the older companies are declining. If you have read news for the last year it would be hard to imagine that Microsoft just overtook Amazon in terms of valuation.
> Single assignment in an imperative syntax has some advantages over a pure functional form. Values have names, which helps when reading code. You can use the same value twice.

This is where Haskell’s let <variable> = <expression> in <expression> bindings come in handy.
For one, it's illegal for children to play on a slot machine.
Any Mac love on this?
Microsoft kinda broke WebDAV by adding various incompatible extensions and building a horribly broken client into Windows.

When users found out about all the issues, they preferred sticking to the old FTP, having a desktop sync app (eg. Google Drive), or using a WebUI for managing files (eg. Dropbox's website) etc.
Ah, let me clarify. I meant creating new directives. Using the core directives is needed the best use of Vue directives. Creating new ones should be used sparsely as it obfuscates your code.

We have 1 directive in our entire application and it's pretty complicated however the use of it is pretty amazing it allows our app to have a straight forward approach to permission allowing to hide/disable elements with good performance.

Honestly I must be super tired since I just re-read it and I see that it's using existing directives instead of creating new ones...
I deleted my account and recently created a new one to try out selling a product through ads. We'll see if it can deliver commercial value to me. I know a lot of people find social value through chat on there, but it's really lacking in that department for me.
Gotta give them some credit, that is a brilliant name.
> I can't tell if this shows a terrible bias towards NA or if people who aren't from NA don't even bother applying for X reason(s) or get rejected.

Why not both?

There's a probably at least a bias to English fluency, if not a blanket rejection of non-English applications.

There's been a long-standing bias towards teams, which mandates a level of charisma and social skills that many talented engineers struggle with. For a long time, YC completely excluded solo founders.

And I believe being on-site is another requirement, which is classist. People from other states and countries who don't already have affluence probably don't even bother.
> IBM lost the hardware cloud wars

This makes me scratch my head. I heard Power9 is getting more and more traction in some clouds, notably Google's.

Maybe IBM lost the "bog-standard VM-based cloud" wars, where the "standard" is what AWS / GCP / Linode / DO, etc offer. But that space is indeed crowded; doing something where you have little competition makes a lot of sense. (I wonder if they'll be able to.)
Probably 90% of projects that are using Kubernetes
I've been trying Berberine, which controls blood glucose effectively at 1000-1500mg per day doses.
> but the nature of Wine works and how anti-cheat identifies tampering means they'll probably never play nice together.

Unless you're also the distributor and can get the publisher/developer to remove those mechanisms, since you have your own. E.g. Steam.
Seems like Redhat is to IBM as a new puppy is to a failing relationship...

However, I am not optimistic that a Glorious Future will be the outcome from the RedHat acquisition;

While at Mirantis, I was assisting in RedHat's implementation of OpenStack with Intel/IBM and it was a nightmare.

OpenStack, at that time was very difficult to implement with smooth success (much like a JBOSS / WebObjects / Tomcat nightmare implementations back in the early days) -- and the BigCo process-procedure-competency-silos that goes along with it...

I can only expect that adding more layers of abstraction and ambiguity of ownership will make for headaches.

Here is to hoping that my pessimistic outlook is proven wrong.
They did add https://blog.github.com/2016-03-29-saved-replies/ a few years back which would have saved my "copy/paste" stuff in the post.

I have long had chats with Hubbers over the years about the privilege thing, and one of the hardest parts is the UI challenge. That is, you can do this, but can you do it in a way that's not maddeningly complex? It's unclear.
We are heading for a New Cretaceous, not for a new normal
Where I work the answer is most certainly a YES. We have so much stuff using non-portable cloud offerings that switching would be a nightmare. (Step Functions, Lambda, SQS) Sure we could switch
to replacements but the cost and time would be prohibitive.

At some point most large companies will play their hand and raise prices to more closely match the cost of switching off the platform. (i.e. the MO of Oracle/IBM) It is really more a matter of when, not if. The problem with doing this is customers wise up this strategy and quit using your products for most new work. Once this happens, the company's best option for growth is to buy new users via acquisition.
"The best thing going for this strategy is its pragmatism: IBM gave up its potential to compete in the public cloud a decade ago, faked it for the last five years, and now is finally admitting its best option is to build on top of everyone else’s clouds."

Ouch, but hard to argue against.
I would say yours is the edge case. For US users, when they see an on-screen message saying "There's way more features in the app", they go ahead and download the app, and soon forget they ever even accessed it as a mobile website. FB has deliberately hobbled its mobile site in slow increments over the years to drive the maximum possible number of users to the app.
The UK has gotten very frustrated with the slow movement of international lawmaking in this space. With business rate slashes to help struggling retailers (retaliation against Amazon) and mental health funding increases for schools (retaliation against Facebook/Google), I'm quite happy to see something happen at last.

I expect other governments to follow suit.

From a tech defence angle, I can't see Trump rallying in support of his good buddy, Jeff Bezos.
The other terms you mention have some relation to the original meanings. A computer "virus" is named after the infectious, peer-to-peer spread of the real one. A "platform" is named after a supporting structure. "Debugging" has an engineering tradition that predates software[0].

"Serverless" is the exact opposite of that. It's taking a word that literally means "without servers" and making it mean "with servers, possibly a lot of them".

--

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug#Etymology
Global talent pool, professionalization, performance enhancing drugs, wide proliferation of training knowledge. Those are the big ones.
New Rule:

If you don't want the "like" button on Twitter, you're not allowed to press the "downvote" button on HN.
I don't disagree with your assertion, and am fully supportive of the non-profit utility model for Internet services (and donate to such existing causes accordingly).
Turns out that few people actually wanted what Facebook has become, and they just needed a small lull in the content pipeline to realize that.
Same here, but s/RAM/battery/ for me
Shortening it to “illegals” is weird, though, since it could easily be the shorthand for illegal hunters, illegal employers, illegal polluters, or what have you.
The observation about getting C players to do the work is part of the actual strategy for succeeding in their market. The idea is that there are C players who are supported by B players who are supported by A players at HQ so that when things aren't going well the problems are escalated in order to either make the account go well or fix it after something has gone wrong. It is a model that actually works - though it can be a rocky path sometimes.

If you hire an independent A player as a consultant instead, they have no big organization with the resources of IBM. I've competed with IBM, and the saying of "you don't get fired for choosing IBM" is still more true for them than for anyone else.

IBM can still bring a level of competency which far exceeds anything Red Hat alone can do. Several well-known and successful companies where I've worked considered their biggest competitor to be IBM - though they didn't say that publicly since they didn't want to further legitimize the competition. They were already losing too many sales to IBM.
I agree with your sentiment, but have found that enterprise partners are flabbergasted when I recommend using HTTPS for file exchanges, because they believe SFTP is the only way to accomplish this. When we control both sides of the communication (via an on-premise virtual appliance) we always use HTTPS, and only support SFTP where a customer is wanting to push data to us and this is the only way they can do it (because there's usually an ops-adjacent team that manages all file exchanges and they use software that only does SFTP--as far as they know).

In your (Matasano/Latacora) experience, does SFTP register as a security risk / exposure, or does it check the box as long as they aren't using FTP/FTPS?
> Heck, even YC itself develops all their software in SF.

A little off topic, but what software does YC develop?

Obviously there's HN, Bookface, and there's probably a bit of web development that needs doing for things like the Top 100 companies list, is there much else?

More generally, I realise that YC is a tech incubator so they're likely to develop software for things that other companies wouldn't, but do they really need a dev team? The blog could be Wordpress/etc, HN and Bookface could be Discourse. Is it all being over-engineered? Is there a large dev team where other organisations of a similar size might have one or two IT people?
> While it is true that there are many people all around the world with the skills necessary for working at a startup, many of them congregate in SF.

It seems odd that this doesn't appear to scale with population size. One would expect many multiples of people with these skills in cities with higher populations.
That's someones personal repo - you're looking for this one:

https://github.com/vespene-io/vespene
In that case, the client has always been compatible (not binary compatible, but you can always download the latest version for no additional fee).

It's that the game changed beyond recognition over ten years.

The simplest analogy I could give is - imagine that you started out playing chess, and ten years later the game was chequers.

Each individual change was small, but they add up. You can still play 'something', but it's not what you bought, or perhaps more relevant what you invested significant time and emotional energy in to.
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The majority of the feed was what looked like irrelevant spam, ads or political arguing. It has essentially no positive value anymore so I deleted my account.
How is Docker doing?

Elastic and MongoDB also offer cloud hosted versions of their tech.
YC funds HN so poorly that they can barely afford a single core to run this web forum.
WebRTC datagrams are very 'close to the wire'. Size them correctly, and they map 1:1 with UDP packets.

I can't think of many network applications you couldn't build on top of them.
That's another hidden feature of Steam/Proton:

Whichever platform you play a new game on the most during the initial two weeks after getting it will be registered as the platform you bought it for.

E.g. play a Windows-only game for two weeks using Proton and both Steam and the gamedev will see it as a Linux purchase in their stats. Meaning they get actual numbers how big their Linux demographic is.
I made up the word identificand. Like, integrand, subtrahend, identificand.

I mean, don’t take me too literally about the month thing. Obviously your mind is already poisoned by other languages. But I’d say, try to avoid just doing what other languages do, and inject some novelty. If only like a chess player going off-book.
Self-reporting measuring how socially popular respondents think an action is vs. their actual actions is likely a more significant issue (we know this from, e.g., comparisons of actual election results to pre- and post-retirement polls; immediately pre-existing polls tend to be very close to the actual results, post election polls of how people say they voted consistently show a much better result for the declared winner than the actual election results.)

Now, we don't know how big of an effect perceived popularity has on other self-reports of past actions, but we have plenty of reason to believe it plays a significant role.
Years later I had a thought that she was trying to throw me off and see how I reacted under pressure maybe - but bizarre is a great way to put it. She took everything I said out of context.
I think the point of the two styles not being mutually exclusive is helpful. So often, is the literature treating the two concept like either-or, very black and white....
> What is an actual phenomenon that is well modeled by a poisson process?

Radioactive decay. Collisions of fluid molecules. Unstimulated (i.e. not in a laser) photon emission due to electron transitions in an atom. Lots of pretty memoryless stuff going on at the microscopic level.
That seems ill-advised to me. Yeah, he has a bias. So does literally everyone else. The notion of unbiased news is 1) fiction, and 2) fiction that exists to support a status quo that may or may not be to the readers' liking or their best interests.

An honest accounting of where one stands allows you to calibrate for it. Dishonest impartiality--and, for reals, it's all dishonest--robs you of that ability.
> No one is 3 standard deviations above the mean in terms of their skill. //

Maybe, but then surely the cheaters will just set their cheats to be 2.99 sd above the mean. Probably best to use it as a signal rather than a fixed limit.
but having a family.... to enjoy life

YMMV
You don't get coerced into signing for something electronically for a start. If this is the only way they allow to do this and don't allow for you to amend sections, you tell them that you will print it, have your lawyer amend it and then fax it back.

If they want your business, they will make concessions to win that business.

If they don't allow for this, then you need to be the one to decide if you still want to do business with them. I sure wouldn't. I'm not signing for anything that gives away my rights.
More than anything I've read recently, this article makes me bullish on Microsoft, who are successfully executing the playbook IBM ran to right the ship in the '90s:

> The problem for IBM is that they are not building solutions for clueless IT departments bewildered by a dizzying array of open technologies: instead they are building on top of three cloud providers, one of which (Microsoft) is specializing in precisely the sort of hybrid solutions that IBM is targeting. The difference is that because Microsoft has actually spent the money on infrastructure their ability to extract money from the value chain is correspondingly higher; IBM has to pay rent
ASICs have nothing to do with it. With conventional computing, basic physical limits put the completion of a 128 bit brute force eons into the future.
Obviously. But that doesn't help figure out where the boundary is between "collection" and "museum".
Do they not use your conversations for targeted ads? This is news to me, and surprising.
This part's exciting for me:

"Early this year, TransitMatters’ leaders released their most ambitious proposal yet: a “regional rail” plan to speed up and electrify the MBTA’s sprawling, aging commuter rail system, which covers most of eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. With faster, quick-accelerating electric trains, and high-level platforms for every train car in each station to speed up entry and exit, TransitMatters predicts that its plan could cut the commuter rail’s Boston-to-Providence travel times from as long as 73 minutes down to 45 minutes."
This came up (albeit regarding Instagram ads) at a Seattle conference I was at a couple of weeks ago. It was during a talk about the future of video ads. An FB engineer was one of the panelists, so an audience member relayed a story of him having a conversation about a product with a friend, and then seeing an ad for that exact product in his Instagram timeline.
It was actually quite an uncomfortable demo as when they finished they genuinely expected us to be impressed - what they had demonstrated would have taken a few moments by someone competent in SQL to duplicate.

I think they might have been used to giving demos to not technical folks rather than people who were actually fairly competent and inclined to scepticism.
This is exactly what we've been working on (QUIC with Noise).

As for the happy accidents, none have been spotted so far, it is an open and collaborative project so feel free to check it yourself and chime in before its finalization.
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About a year ago i listed a car on facebook and craigslist at the same time, and it ended up selling on facebook. I check it a few times a day(does blogging about it count against that) and mostly use it to post pics to family, troll friends. I also started my account about a year ago.
The week after: Ubuntu LTS ditched, Ubuntu gets forced updates; https://github.com/Microsoft/Windows returns 200 OK, containing Windows 10 source code :)
I don't think it's fair to say that swatting was a "prank". Bad reporting. They shouldn't even pretend this narrative was ever true.

>his idea of a prank

For example, there is no evidence that the perp thought of it as a prank. The perp was paid for some of his bomb threats and swatting of others. This is aking to calling a mob enforcer "pranking" someone by breaking their legs. Simply saying that they broke the persons legs for fun, instead of money this time, doesn't make it suddenly a prank. They know what they are doing, and the goal is fear.
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Why would you think that the question immediately implies an insinuation? It is a perfectly normal question to ask based on data.
Article gives info. First comment (now no longer the top comment) asks question on info, response from person who read the article - did you read the article? It is logical to me, I don't think there was any insinuation here, just asking for verification. Simple as that :)

A better question in the first place would be - I read the article but am unable to figure out which are the drugs actually used as I do not have much background in Bio/Pharma science
People certainly live on $25,000/year--ask a grad student. Actually, the median household income is a bit over $50k (~$57k, I think), but many households include more than one earner, so there are a lot of people getting by on about that.

It would not be particularly pleasant, but as I said, it would be hard (possibly hard enough to merit a newspaper article), but not impossible.
I've recently converted my primary operating system to linux and--although Proton is very good--I still find myself unable to unlatch from Windows. My solution was to install Windows 7 on a separate hard drive for those games that are still unplayable. Among those games are Final Fantasy X/X-2 Remastered and The Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth. Although I'd like to kick Windows to the curb for good, it's hard to believe that some legacy titles (like BfME) with nontrivial minimum specs will ever run on linux.

My other big concern with SteamPlay in particular is save game compatibility. It depends on the game, but a lot of the time your save games just won't be compatible across operating systems, which is quite a difficult problem to solve.
It's useful to step back and realize that some of the things Basecamp advocates are privileges, not strategies.

In other words, they've been blessed with enough success that they can choose the path they're on. OF COURSE there's a feedback loop—remote work helps them be more successful, without a doubt. But, the trade-offs Basecamp makes are not always available to other businesses, and do not offer the same clear upsides to either employees or owners.

(Having said this, I'm a big fan of their style and have learned a lot from them...)
Thanks for the reply, got a few more additional questions for you :-)

Lets say you are counting distinct ips used by `users` using HLL. Lets say you start getting DDOSed by certain users since I am assuming you are not doing s shuffle before writing to FDB, you will be locking the user, reading HLL, deserializing, merging and writing back to FDB from multiple machines which will results in a lot of rejected transaction and retries. My question is whether retries unwind fast enough or you will end up dropping data on the floor as you will exhaust the retry count
Are there any more examples? Removing a few lines doesn't seem that impressive and can be done with the PhotoShop pattern tool without any fancy neural net.
Why do you find that surprising?

The fact of the matter is, the company's modus operandi is to collect as much information from you as possible. Their business model is spyware.

Whether the application currently records conversations or not is almost immaterial. You know that if they could get away with it, they would.
The goal would be to use a SRV record rather than an A record for http?

Whats the benefit?
I'm guessing the Amazon 2nd HQ deal will make Foxconn look like small potatoes.
The second sentence is only referring to the whole population though right? 26% of all participants have deleted the app but 44% of those aged 18 to 26 have deleted it which is dangerous as that is the target demographic for Facebook.
Definitely a growing problem > https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-18/florida-m...
I chose the family life, but the family life did not choose me.
Yeah probably GitHub is best. As I've said elsewhere, little bit burnt out atm but will be looking to start afresh at some point probably next year incorporating as many suggestions as possible.
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Submission by auhtor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18328410
They got the name of the drug wrong, it's Avonex (generic name: interferon beta-1a), not "Axonex". The original SL Tribune gets it right.
My cat doesn't get bored, when she wants something to do she finds something to do:

1) Move things from tables and shelves to floor

2) Chew on stuff

Finding non-destructive activities is a challenge, new toys work for a bit until they're not exciting anymore, then it's back to destroying things.
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