skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Off the top of my head: because humans find conflict compelling. If I'm in Minecraft just building away without resource scarcity or random events, sure it's cool but it's just a painting. It doesn't have a story. Whereas these people are having to do planning and execution that mirrors actual warfare.
"I invested well in Monero"
DeepSqueak: a deep learning detection and analysis of ultrasonic vocalizations
Then people talk about inequality. Even in free thing like Reddit only 1% people create value because they get high from it.

Inequality comes from nature, wether it's wealth or contribution on Reddit like sites.
Cynically, that sort of tone is much more newsworthy than "exercise is good, health science is tricky and slow, so fads are probably bunk and anything is better than nothing". Write one timeless article like that and you're finished, but attacking the idiocy of whatever trend came before the current one is a stable opportunity.

(Even more cynically, it's the same dumb presentist instinct that shows up everywhere from film styles to foreign policy. "We've got to arm this faction because the stupid idiots before us armed that faction because the idiots before them armed the other faction...")
Just in case anyone else is getting a 404 when trying to install Sublime packages
I would go a step further and say that “sealed” implies they somehow changed something that directly impacts all RSA encryption. At least that’s the way I read it. Almost like taking down a botnet by taking over the domain or IP it’s C&C server uses.

The reality was far less movie plot worthy.
> I'm appalled by the number of ressources I see online which are using the old mysql api

Recently authored articles? We have an internet filled with 20 years of PHP tutorials, and unfortunately for beginners there's not an easy way to evaluate if something utilizes modern best practices or is an Experts Exchange post from 2001.
So how does this benefit Activision? It seems everyone is focusing on Bungie but not asking how in the world Activision allowed this to pass. Did bungie just give them a bunch of cash? Giving up destiny is still a huge cash cow with the franchise bringing in well over $500 million since it was released in 2014.
Yeah, that was my first reaction as well! With the chapters being this short (which itself is great) it would be really nice to be able to use the arrow keys.
Argentine government releases official statement of sanctions for Venezuela
The 787-900 is just fantastic. Best economy ride I've ever had. I'm not a frequent flier, mind—but it sure beats other jumbo jets I've taken.
Why not teach it better?
https://glot.io/snippets/f8g0wlar0d

No wonder PHP developers have a bad reputation.
Agree. There are ways to protect your data if that’s important to you. If I walk out in the middle of a freeway I should expect that I might be hit by a car rather — the EU instead says, “let’s ban freeways”.
> Are there any good examples of publicly traded companies which have lasted a long time (more than a few decades) with minimal impact of the "we have to keep growing" mindset?

Are there publicly traded companies which _didn't_ have a thirst for growth? By definition, companies which go to the lengths of raising money on the stock exchange are exactly those who grew beyond small business / private equity levels. So this question seems paradoxical to me.
There is one common theme that exists throughout all sorts of media: we like hearing about competence. Why do we like sports? Player competence. Why do we like antihero stories? The antiheroes tend to be super-competent. What makes Ironman everybody's favorite Marvel superhero? His devil-may-care attitude is backed up by his supreme competence.
This is a half hour 3Blue1Brown video: https://youtu.be/NaL_Cb42WyY

If you're willing to watch at least the first half of it, I think it'll give you a very intuitive grounding for 1) why integers have unique polynomial representations, and 2) why that's related to (semi)prime factorization.
Sounds more like a basic sugar daddy relationship than sex trafficking. When I think of victims of sex trafficking, the description "highly paid" does not come to mind.
That's because we don't have the (as the OP puts it, insane) temperament to fight some battle for days on end for something we really don't care that much about. It takes effort to dig up some random edit from years ago that wasn't important enough to fight about then and certainly isn't worth the stress to fight about now. It's a lot easier to just bitch about this obviously real problem instead of having to make the same kind of effort we didn't even do the first time to somehow justify and defend our anecdote.
The XZ4 Compact should also come out soon(ish), if the leaks are trustworthy as usual.
Another Huawei businessman arrested for spying
Interesting... and along the same lines as the parent comment, if two independent blogs had written about the file format in detail, I wonder if that’s enough.
what if they post from outside of the EU, or the platform is not in the EU? that would mean these laws don't apply? seems a bit useless law considering what the internet is... besides that it's prone to trolls getting companies fined. stupid idea for on the internet if you ask me.
Great list. I would add, learn a little about a real-time OS, and become really good with a source code debugger.
And composer!
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You’re muddying the waters. Just because someone doesn’t want to take on the compliance burden does not mean they have an antisocial business practice. What you’re saying does not logically follow.
I've considered playing it from time to time, but then I remember that I already have a job.
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I downvoted you because your comment doesn't help anybody and is offensive. Why do you think your example is better?
But when you fall in the middle there is less of a need to comment
Modeling Intent using Syntax, is it possible?
'If you enter a camp, you never come out': inside China's war on Islam
I appreciate your reponse, and agree that the entire country is not the Northeast :)

However, I would urge you not to discount the existence of 50m people in the Northeast megacorridor[1]. I am not particularly aware of what services are received that directly benefit people living here other than the ones that I have personally experienced, which are unemployment income and pension income for teachers (my parents).

In fact, 90% of property taxes in NY are sent to our school districts. I don't have kids, so I can only benefit from this in the abstract.

Additionally, I think it's important to note that in the last 20 years, wages have not risen in NY more than a dollar or two per hour, yet property values have risen from 100k to about 300k on Long Island.

I think these are serious headwinds for anyone pulling in 30k a year post tax, such as myself.
Vinod Khosla recently stated that 90% of VCs add no value, 70% add negative value[1].

[1] https://blog.ycombinator.com/vinod-khosla-on-how-to-build-th...
True, but they actually they fought mostly around the Black Sea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Russo-Turkish_w... Several times both sides had allies...and eventually Russia helped the Balkan Orthodox states claim independence from the Ottomans. Death by a thousand cuts, but 600+ years is impressive.
I've installed Ubuntu 18.10 on my Dell laptop, and I've done no configuring/tweaking that you describe. Just the default install, changed maybe one or two settings in ubuntu's version of "System Preferences", installed my Firefox extensions, changed the desktop background. You don't need to do any configuring/tweaking if you don't want to. Everything works.
Why would a small corp need to build a station in high sec? You can just keep your stuff in indestructible NPC stations.
In Europe, many of the VWs execs are prosecuted over this.
In the US the exec got 7 years in jail if I remember correctly.
The company itself was fined €1 billion (not enough imho) in Germany.

So this actually happens, and I agree that execs should be personally liable for damage that is done to others/the environment as result of their decisions.
Ask HN: Has anyone ever tracked those social icons at bottom of pages?
Do people actually click those icons? Should I build those into my blog?
I'll buy a DLC 100 times before I buy a loot box.
No email in your profile so I'll write this here:

Thank you for your counterpoint, I wished I'd studied some
branch of physics so I could have joined your ranks, alas
all I could do to stay afloat was to use the one skill I
have, to program computers which put me more on the path
that PG prefers but I still see there is plenty of validity
in humans working in larger groups and feel this blog post
is one that really made its point poorly. Best regards, Jacques.
No, it's more like prop 47: "Hey, you have to warn people if there are carcinogens inside. No penalty for false warnings."

Every business: "Stuff in here causes cancer."

Every customer: "Okay."

GPDR:

Every business: "Hey, we use cookies to provide a better experience. That okay?"

Every customer: "OK."
Laws are usually backed by guns, but your idea might work too.
The lifesaving food 90% aren’t eating enough of [fibre]
Well, you have to sign up with a credit card for AWS so I would think they would just pass on the lawsuits straight to you as they know who you are.
Not sure if the dev will see this, but it would be nice if it was a little easier to get to the table of contents as well. My suggested code change. (quick a dirty example)

.menu {
margin-bottom: 1.5em;
position: sticky;
top: 0;
z-index: 1000;
background: #fff;
padding: 10px;
}
>regarding actors, I actually disagree. Sometimes I will watch a movie made with second rate actors and they tend to be so much worse than first rate actors at acting, that often those movies are unwatchable.

Part of this is also just the options that first-rate actors open up for you as a writer or director that less capable ones cannot. If you think of the performer's talent as kind of a box that you can fit your narrative and emotional depth in, you just wouldn't try to ship something unless you have a box big enough to hold it.

If you have someone like Anthony Hopkins or Ian McKellan on hand you can give them long, baroque speeches and they will nail it. With a less capable actor you would be forced to keep it simpler because most of that stuff might sound corny as hell in less capable hands.
Also interested in the same info on Japan, thanks!
> cell phone providers and ISPs

Wifi probe request tracking is by far the biggest invasion of privacy IMO (it works even when you're not connected) yet hardly anyone talks about it.

The fact of the matter is that there's a huge market for harvested data, and corporate parasites of all kinds have slithered out of the woodwork to compete for the largest, most intimately-detailed sets of information, and none of it is consentual (in the sense that, if people were actually privy to the scale of this nightmare, no one would agree to it).
You could look at it more like their are companies like Ford that look a very long time to build a supply chain and distribution network that may have hammered long term innovation thinking, innovation is required to sustain growth over very long periods of time, and many huge companies either don't focus on that because of other business complexities, or because the supply chain is so tight it's very hard to undo and re-tool to innovate.
As I understand it they make the compiler add a few noops in the beginning of each non-static function.

Then to add tracing or change the behavior of the function, the noops are overwritten by a jump to the new code.
Can confirm. I've written one site with PDOs and a lot of sites with the old stuff. PDO is definitely a different feel to wrap around, and more resources on it would definitely be good.

For what it's worth though, my understanding is mysql_ functions are removed completely as of PHP 7. So that old documentation will just not work, rather than teaching people the least secure option of how to write their website.
Let's see.

1. Fails to yield to a car making a right turn

2. Decides to jump into the opposing direction "lane" to try and go around a truck which starts moving and effectively cuts it off.

3. Makes a ridiculously late left turn

They achieved the opposite of what most people want in a self driving car.
Automated bad driving and assholery.
This might be an unpopular opinion, but my view of VC money has changed significantly in the last couple years.

Raising money is a failure mode. If you are raising money it is because you failed at something and you need the money to catch yourself. This is more true for software companies than, say hardware companies, but I think is still generally true.

For example, if you are raising because you need to hire people. You have failed to find small team to cofound the company with, or you have failed at developing the necessary skills yourself.

I'm not saying that no one should ever raise money, I just want entrepreneurs to stop seeing it as some kind of badge of honor. I hear people measuring themselves on how much money they've raised way too often. You don't build great things by raising money, you build great things by building them. Measuring your company on the number of customers it has is _much_ healthier than measuring your company on how much money it has raised.

Focus on profit and quality.
That’s a lot of percents.
>Given your first line, this sounds like a bad faith suggestion. Why should I walk away from something promising vs helping our team become more productive?

You presented two options: stay and try to fire the other guy, or leave. I presented a reason why you shouldn't stay, and suggested you leave. Not sure what about that appears to you as bad faith.

>And given the context of the person in question, who was fired from the last startup for lack of productivity, I don't think this will do much to my reputation.

But you're not going to control the narrative; your fired coworker will - unless you're willing to go door to door and publicize the fact that you got that person fired, which is a terrible idea.

>It's out of wanting to work with excellent people and build an excellent product.

You generally don't get to do that by punishing people who recommend you for jobs that you find fulfilling.

I've always found that the most talented people in a room tend to gravitate towards one another; so too do the most toxic. If you keep doing toxic things, don't be surprised when you find yourself surrounded with people just like yourself.
I'm sorry but no, there's no such thing as an objective measure of merit.

In 1991, most of the "important people" in technology would have laughed at Linux compared to OSes like Unix System V and DEC/HP Unix. Even as the 90s progressed most serious shops wouldn't adopt Linux and went for the BSDs (FreeBSD/ NetBSD, etc) or Solaris because Linux was considered hobbyist software. I know because I worked in tech at this time and the same attitude even continued into the early 2000s.

The point I'm trying to make is that random users' opinions are exactly how certain software projects, open source or proprietary, become popular or fall out of public use. It starts with Systems Administrators or developers getting fed up with a certain solution and adopting alternatives until it reaches critical mass and the old is rendered irrelevant.
Method Dispatch in Swift
To make your comment useful [0], I would suggest explaining why and giving some context. For example, you could start with the size of your AWS infra, which other tools are you using other than CloudWatch etc.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> 1. Get a platform you can tinker around with, and recover quickly in case of disaster. Raspberry pi is a good example.

I'd recommend something cheaper and simpler like the STM32F4 discovery boards. You won't get linux and will have to program via JTAG but the documentation for the STM32F4 is not as overwhelming as Broadcom's.
Yep, big fan also of Pieter's other services / sites!
Agreed. I have a platform that runs a headless version of the Unity editor on an EC2 instance, and I read their terms of service ~2 years ago that indicated that it might not be totally "ok". I then chatted with the guy from Unity who handles these kinds of licenses/partnerships and he said basically once real money starts coming in, then we'd put together some kind of licensing deal. Until then, totally fine.

My suspsicion is the price was too steep for Improbable, but they should have been talking to Unity about costs from the beginning. Even I have a backup plan.

And Epic... I didn't like the way they rolled out the "free" version of UE4, perfectly timed to fuck with Unity and this certainly feels similarly sleazy. Back in 2006 when I was first attempting to do some 3D interactive projects, I couldn't even EVALUATE unreal engine without paying something like $500. Unity was a miracle.
Author of Recent Academic Hoax Faces Disciplinary Action
A bit on the more unusual side, one thing my son and I found very instructive on "lower level" concepts is the fact that within PICO-8, which is already a very user friendly high-level environment, you can use peek(), poke(), memset(), memcpy and similar functions on any memory address that PICO-8 uses. Literally all the capabilities that PICO-8 gives you, it exposes memory for it and explains the conventions it uses to read/write that memory, so that you could do it yourself. We were able to make a simplistic "paint" program that draws a pre-drawn cursor sprite and changes pixels whenever you drag the mouse, all using memset(), peek() and poke(), and avoiding line(), spr() and doesn't use any Lua tables. It entirely does this by reading and writing memory. It was a fun experience in learning certain useful low-level memory concepts.
Viscode for remote programming ftw.
I want to see it handle double parked cars that aren't using hazards.
The idea that working for a small company that fails is damaging to one’s career is a durable bit of propaganda. It probably originated as a way for big companies to discourage their people from shopping around. You can picture IBM execs, after the company singalong, telling ghost stories about the Man Who Joined a Startup, with themes from Icarus or fairy tales where someone strays from the village and is eaten by wolves.

Being part of a small company that fails sucks while it’s going down, but quickly turns into a new adventure for people that are open to it.
Which coordinate system are they using in the article?
You've never had a government job, have you?
when you start with a game that basically revolves around the delicate balance between five weapons, even subtle changes to the mechanics can make a very big difference to the way the game is played at all levels.

I know you probably don't care about things like movement accel curves or hitbox sizes (which have changed drastically over the years) but just look at the deagle, possibly the most iconic weapon of the franchise. the weapon went largely unchanged between 1.6 and source, but is almost unrecognizable in csgo. you simply can't use it the same way you could in the older games; it has a completely different role.
Thanks...looks like I was wrong.
Couldn't you just have someone else scout for you? Or you don't know anyone else in the game anymore?

Also, is multi-accounting allowed or common?
While there is an interesting and relevant point in this article, I feel compelled to point out another possibility: you only comment if you have a POV or opinion not yet represented. If I'm seeing somebody else make the point I thought of making, I upvote it and move on, only spending the time to comment when I don't see it already there.

It would be odd if, after viewing/reading the exact same content, we all had unique opinions of what we just saw or read. It would be pretty bizarre, and probably imply that our communication system wasn't working. It's good to see more than one POV, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't ever have agreement either, and if I see someone has already made the same point, why should I type it in?

Admission: I didn't read absolutely every comment here before typing this; just the top dozen or so. :)
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There are hundreds of abandoned open source anything. There's no barrier to entry and and no incentives to keep working on things when you're no longer interested in doing so. It doesn't mean anything.
Schedules aren't accurate, but I find neztmuni to be accurate about 90% of the time. It's the only reason non-metro Muni is even usable for me.
Not in my experience.

We homeschool, and use a modified unschooling approach. We were in Charlottesville, VA from 2013 to 2018, and there are far more atheists and hippies than fundies. Here are two distinct groups there.

Now we’re back where we grew up: Harrison, AR. It’s pretty much the reddest area in the country, and even here, the homeschool co-op that my kids attend has much more of an “anti-authority” vibe than anything else.

For what it’s worth, we’re Christians, but I go out of my way to ensure my kids get a well-rounded education. Christianity is not at all incompatible with science, and I believe that Man was created as an intelligently being for a reason. Our ability to understand the Universe is not a mistake.
Well, we are bootstrapping a SaaS as well, which is much more Stripe-friendly (we take payments via Stripe). Either that, or I got lucky and they didn't notice.

If you are doing purely consulting you probably don't need Stripe Atlas, as the Stripe integration and AWS credits likely won't help you. But if you are doing consulting, I also recommend turning your consulting expertise into a SaaS somehow :)
> 600 billion ISK in resources spent to destroy a station

It's not like they lost that money. Unlike cars, internet spaceships retain their full value after leaving the lot. They can just sell those battleships back or keep them around as part of the fleet.
Nostalgia is powerful, certainly. I’m sure it’s in play whenever I hear arguments like this.
Now if they'd only let me compile my iOS app on Linux ;)
Sequential UUID Generators on SSD
And the EU is trying to prevent Romania from doing it. I don't see your point. Romania could just have used another law or just made a new one to harass the press.
Train ferry
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True, but Ireland is less than 5M, 13 seats in the EU parliament. They are not seen as a competition to anyone. The UK is 66M with 73 seats in the parliament, member of G7 and one of the most important economies in the EU.
Not sure I follow. What are your criticisms, specifically?
You have to be obsessive but you also have to produce content that is useful to the community at some level, otherwise other superhumanly obsessive people will reject your edits and IP ban you.

On reddit you can submit posts all day but you only see the light if others upvote you.

In short I think you have to be both obsessive and skilled, which is something like the real world.
I should have worded it differently: what I was trying to ask was - publicly traded companies by definition have to keep growing and have the "we have to keep growing" mindset, and this often negatively impacts the products eg- facebook showing ads way too often, collecting more user data and it's parly driven by the desire to keep growing and earning more ad dollars. Fb is a perfect example of a product going downhill as it grows. Are there companies which continue to make products loved by users even though they have the "we have to keep growing" mindset? One example was Apple, but they are starting to faulter, increasing prices way too much. Some gaming studios are publicly traded and seem to be doing fine. The WWE company also seems to be doing fine. I'm looking for such examples but companies which have been around longer than that.