skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article misses a couple of important strengths of Google+:

* The combination of Events and Hangouts was magical. This was great for planning open online meetups, games on hangouts, and tons of other things.

* Circle sharing. This really jump-started informal communities. Yes, they added more official communities later, but circle sharing was in my opinion a far more effective way to create real communities of people who get to know each other.

* Ultimately, of course, the most important part were the people themselves. It attracted a lot of interesting people. Geeks, early adopters, people with a passion for a wide variety of topics. People weren't using it to connect with families and friends they already know in the real world, they connected to new people with similar interests that didn't always fit a specific formal Community. Friendships were made, several businesses were launched based primarily on interaction on Google+.

I'm sad to see it go. I'm sadder still that Google mismanaged it into the ground. They had something great, but seemed determined to destroy it by forcing low quality content onto it, and removing popular features.
The way this woman approaches the medical care of her child is one of the most terrifying and heartbreaking things I have read in a long time. Any parent who uses their emotions as the primary (if not sole) driver of what medical care their child receives should not be permitted to have guardianship over a child and should probably be in assisted living themselves. She "didn't like that it required sedation". She "didn't want to overload his system". She "felt more comfortable with" the surgeon. Those emotions are trained responses. They can be, and aggressively are, manipulated in underhanded and unexpected ways. They are an outgrowth of an intuition that grows out of the way the brain functions in the absence of conscious guidance - a functioning that evolved just to keep human beings alive while living in small tribes on an African savannah. It has no place in modern society, and is almost always wrong. That a parent would care so little about their child that they are not willing to engage in some critical thinking and analysis that ignores their own emotion is disgusting.
A fun lesson in taking other peoples money?

The capital is arguably more valuable in this case. Lyft is just a copycat of Uber, what did the founders bring to the table?

I'm playing devil's advocate [more than] a bit. I'm happy for Green and Zimmer, and they are both making FU money from this so I'm not sure what the complaint is.
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Neat! I was looking into wavTones[0] recently but will have to give this a look. (A comparison might be nice)

[0] https://www.wavtones.com/functiongenerator.php
That's the opposite of what the comment meant. The suggestion is that where it doesn't change the size/quality you mandate easier disassembly. Next to zero subjectivity.
Honestly I had never even thought that this would be a thing. Shocking.

Whenever I have traveled, I always enjoy trying street food but this has put the fear in me... at least if I travel to China.

edit: slightly disappointed I can't express my feelings by using the vomiting emoji on HN...
Having presumed liability laws sounds dreadful - you can really follow all the road rules and still be found guilty, because a "less dangerous" vehicle crosses your path and causes an accident?

Australian road rules are quite reasonable - all parties have a duty to try and avoid accidents, but for example if a bicycle exits a footpath onto a lane where you have an existing right of way and hit them, they would be at fault for failing to give way, and also because any action that causes a vehicle with right of way to change their behaviour can be considered dangerous driving
I think employers and graduate schools have raised the stakes around GPA to be too high. Here's a thought experiment, should employers just punish prospective hires who have above a 3.9 GPA without demonstrating exceptionally difficult coursework?

To me, this is similar to Lebron James trying to go 3/3 from the field with 2 assists and no turnovers. Anyone with that high of a GPA in my mind did not seek to challenge themselves through taking the most difficult subjects, i.e. they maximized credentials over learning. Elite schools then become worried that students won't get the best jobs, so they add easier classes to ensure GPA averages stay similar to comparable schools. Overall, this produces a worse "real" educational outcome. Companies should start asking interviewees with a 4.0 GPA, "Why didn't you challenge yourself?" Medical schools should add 0.5 points to biomedical engineering degrees, etc. I think these actions have a much higher correlation to grade inflation than a couple students getting accepted due to a large donation.
Still, it's rare for citizens to be affected if they are outside the country.

The relevant legislation seems to be https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2018B00180, it doesn't contain the word "citizen".

The text is actually neutral on such questions. In theory, I think it could be applied to anyone in the world, regardless of citizenship or residence. However, in practice people with no connection to Australia would be likely to just ignore it.

A law enforcement officer (or another person on the officer’s behalf) may apply to an eligible Judge or to a nominated AAT member for an order (the assistance order) requiring a specified person to provide any information or assistance that is reasonable and necessary to allow the law enforcement officer to do one or more of the following:...

You have a point that they'd have more leverage against Australian citizens, especially if they don't have alternative citizenships (so that they need passport renewals) or intend to travel to Australia in future.
Dont, shorting is a losing battle against inflation. plus you have unlimited downside.
WTO rules against US and Boeing in mammoth trade row with EU
The aspect of capitalism that's problematic to me is not that people can generate wealth through labor, it's that they can generate wealth through wealth.

You can make far more money just by being rich and owning capital than you ever can by your own labor. You can own physical property that makes money like farmland, apartment buildings, natural resources, factories, etc. or you can be a shareholder in companies which make money.

Either way, it's not really your labor that's making you richer, and that's the part that feels unfair about the whole system.

A piece of anecdata to support my point: the richest families in Florence today are the same familes that were rich 700 years ago, too: https://www.vox.com/2016/5/18/11691818/barone-mocetti-floren...
No complaint, just a commentary on the value of capital vs labor.
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The story makes no sense. She probably was an alcoholic.

If she wasn't, why would she consume an entire bottle of vodka?
a fungus is also responsible for a serious disease killing millions of North American bats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-nose_syndrome
No.

Google Plus never had an API for incoming content.

Buzz allowed one-click connection to Twitter. Great idea, but people would use it to publish straight from Twitter, and wouldn't engage on the Buzz platform.

This was a terrible experience - you'd miss the conversational aspect of Twitter, and be ignored if you tried to have conversations on Buzz.

Google dropped the ball here.

Maybe, but it isn't clear to me what they should have done differently.
Nosh: Utilities for initializing, running, and shutting down BSD systems
They put in capital, true, but it wouldn’t be available unless this was the most likely fit for their investment profile, vs say low yield treasuries. The investors are just playing maximization game and have much more security than the lyft founders even if they lose ecery cent.

We lionize the “risk” of VC investors far too much.
Portable to Linux as well.
Printing more money also doesn’t affect external costs.

If that heart bypass machine is coming from Germany or Japan printing more rupees isn’t going to make it anymore affordable either.

However with abundant natural resources and a large population you could maybe be a self-sufficient economy in close to absolute terms.

I’m not sure what the Indian balance of trade currently is but they seem to be rapidly developing in a lot of ways.
The book you want is probably Kelly: More than My Share of It All. I haven’t read it myself but the reader reviews seem great.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0874744911/
Neither I nor the paper I cited use the phrase "Junk DNA".

> The non-coding genome is a large part of what causes us to look different from a mouse or a fruit-fly.

Now that's just fantasy. There have been a lot of changes since our common ancestors with mice and fruit flies. We are all animals and obviously would share genes that perform analogous functions -- like common genes for controlling wing shapes and organ shapes. But would you like to point me to evidence in the human DNA that codes for fruit fly wings? And what role do you think having virus DNA in our genome plays in our development?

DNA encodes information. Information theory does play a role. But as mannykannot pointed out, the topic of the conversation is something else.
Lawsuits I think.
over a decade on this site i've watched comments from people being cynical about the value of Google, Facebook[0], Amazon, Uber and many others

At what point of seeing this same story over and over again and realising that funding growth is a viable strategy do the cynics just let go?

[0] heaven forbid you ever take investment advice from dhh https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2585-facebook-is-not-worth-33...
That all got wiped when you swapped parts. How does it leak now?
I don’t know why people think it’s ok to intend to commit fraud, intend to swindle someone, do it. Then have a long song and dance about how the fraud committed wasn’t actually fraud

Let’s make it simple you intend to commit murder, you buy the tools, draw up a plan, then get arrested. Guess what you are up for with zero interaction with the victim
I totally agree about the bland UI - when Google+ first became a thing, I tried to get into it, but bejesus it was just so bland and uninspiring. I found it difficult to discover functionality, and honestly it just completely lost my interest.
Circles were nice. The overall design was nice.

But was it original? To me, it seems that they directly copied quite a few UI elements and concepts from Diaspora, including circles: https://blog.dbrgn.ch/2011/8/23/google-plus-inspired-by-dias...
Sure, it "really does pay" so long as you can run a company lean into hypergrowth. Recall the number one reason startups fail is they run out of cash.
This is a fantastic point! Over time, the number of group chats in FB Messenger has grown, and it totally meets this usage.
Ask HN: To people who own smart assistants, how often do you use it?
Is it like the way iPhone was used (high usage) or the way VR headsets are used (low usage)?

There's a reason iPhone grew and VR headsets didn't, as of now.
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That's more thanks to the Fed than anything else, though their role is also pretty small. The truth is the president doesn't have the ability to affect the economy very much one way or the other.
As I said, I live in an area where guns are very much a part of the culture. Hunting is big here, and so is shooting for fun.

76% of my neighbors voted for Trump, and they're very open and vocal about that and their 2nd Amendment rights.

I don't personally own a gun and very rarely shoot them. I don't hunt either, but I don't have any fears of or animosities for those who do.

But they've been completely silent on this on FB. And looking back, with all the noise from Kavanaugh to the Mueller report this issue has been buried by the media, and that 10 year potential prison sentence has too, and that really bothers me.

I don't know what to make of that. I don't know if they're uninformed or not willing to criticize Trump or why they're so silent. They've been very open about their right to own firearms in the past and the right to own a bump stock.
Lyft: It Has No Idea How Ridesharing Could Ever Be Profitable
If you look at healthcare variation in the US, there are strong socioeconomic correlations to many measures of health and life expectancy too.
Apparently some African country bought into it I think.

>Regardless, this is a shit system and I can't believe anyone even bothered to create it. Also, I've never heard of it prior to today. Who uses this crap?

It's literally a con job designed to create a middleman where one isn't needed. It's the modern libertarian dream.
i thought it would be a clever name for a p2p architecture pattern, but now it means "runs in an on-demand container on a cloud"
The spiritual ancestor or wasm, pnacl, was in fact based on a safe subset of the llvm IR. I think llvm/wasm interop will be hugely important, and will receive a lot of attention from the nascent wasm ecosystem.
In Australia you can get a PO Box and pay a bit extra to have everything coming there scanned and emailed to you. Obviously wouldn't work for id cards though.
Bitcoin created a new asset class inside of a decade
Not wanting to insult, but im often called as a firemen to projects that have been run and run-into-the-ground by self-tought people.

I do not believe that university fullfills a really good role when it comes to filtering for intelligence, it rather filters for familys who put pressure to preservere on kids.
But they do a really good job, on forcing people through stuff, that a self-tought person might skip- because they found it useless or not applicable. Algorithm theory and the limits of computation? That is a dry topic and tough to get through without beeing forced too.
Software-architecture? Cant see me using that- those small projects i worked on always worked well without.
And so on and so forth.

University does one thing right, it forces you to be interested in stuff you do not know you should be interested in.

I do find the filtering out of people who go to university - either by school grades or by monetary parent background really nasty though. In my eyes, anyone who is shown to apply himself, should be able to stay at a higher education.
Yes, exactly. My friend is working as rehabilitation specialist for autistic kids, and from what she tells me life for those kids is nothing like typical HN meme 'autism is my superpower' implies.
>> "Buzz allowed one-click connection to Twitter. Great idea, but people would use it to publish straight from Twitter, and wouldn't engage on the Buzz platform."

This almost became a problem on Mastodon with Twitter crossposters. Enough people pushed back hard to keep them from taking over timelines. People still use them, but they generally engage on both sides now.
It will not solve the entire problem, therefore it will do nothing.
The use of the word "low caste" is in quite mean considering "poor" would be more appropriate.

Just as Black or Native American would be a poor substitute for poor american.

Or Roma/Eskimo/Greenlander/Sami for Europe

Especially considering that the current prime minister and president of India are from so called backward communities.

India has come a long way in social development and using the "caste card" is quite out of taste.

The word "Caste" is of European origin and does not have a proper native equivalent.

The "caste system" itself is again a European concept imported into India to aid the colonial powers in their divide and rule.

Unlike the persecution of the Native Americans, Blacks, Jews or Aboriginal which were systematic state run pogroms often in democracies.

The fate of the "low caste" can be attributed to the fact that they were the most exploited, often to the point of death or slavery under colonial rule.
While the so called "Upper caste" enjoyed second rung positions as peons, clerks and teachers. This experience is universal in the other colonies like Rwanda, Syria or Iraq where the words "Tribes" or "Clans" have come to substitute "Caste".

It must be noted that the newly independent India gave all Indians of both sexes the right to vote and went on further to provide "reservations" the equivalent of "affirmative action". This was long before the black American even got the right to vote. Less said about Europe the better, the "Roma" still get rounded up and "deported" even though as EU citizens they have the right to mobility.

"Caste" is a powerful tool for the unscrupulous politician inside India. The excuse of colonial apologists or more markedly the evangelists (if they are not the former) outside India.

Caste a European concept so prominent in the family names of Americans and Europeans, has today become synonymous with India thanks to the relentless propaganda of the colonialists/evangelists.
How is a company that makes no money in a commodity business worth so much. FB and Google had a monopoly. What moat does Lyft have to justify the valuation (24B)?
We occasionally used a regular old propane torch at a previous employer, mainly looking for counterfeit power FETs. It'll burn the bond wires and such off an IC, and certainly isn't going to result in great quality images but it's not too hard to get rid of the plastic without damaging the silicon beyond recognition.
I wouldn't assume everyone involved is a grown-up.
Buzz had some horrible privacy problems and was too smart for its own good if I remember correctly.
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The trick is to produce programs that also run correctly on their second and third run, and multiple other runs where the user is someone other than the creator with different ideas for the inputs.

There isn't anything special about the first run, other than emotionally.

Also, if we define "run" as everything that happens when you feed that source program to the machine, then your first run actually bombed with compile errors.

You can't sit there pretending that the compile errors are the only mistakes you made, such that your first compile-error-free run that made it all the way to program startup and through to successful termination is also bug-free.

If you were that good, you wouldn't be making trivial errors flagged by a compiler.
So You Don't Want to Be a Programmer After All (2013)
So, lawyers. Do we short cisco? Are they going to be sued out of existence. They know the problem. They have claimed a fix that does absolutely nothing. It will be the vector for a hack. Hundreds of thousands of people's personal details will be stolen with Cisco responsible through criminal negligence or worse.

Bye bye Cisco? (Bankrupt, assets sold off to other companies).

Or is this not going to happen because there's a computer involved so nobody can switch their brain on and think in the entirety of both lawmaking and enforcement?
I’m no expert but I would say Vault and Nomad should share the same consul cluster.

Don’t deploy your Consul servers with Nomad as that will create cyclic dependency if I’m not mistaken. The same should be true for Vault.
Maybe modeling a many to one relationship inversely? Like if you want to show all the chips sold in a day but the data comes back with chips sold per customer and then you have to massage that to show how many chips were sold at a location.
Lead has infinite half life and it's very dangerous when ingested!
Anyone who has ever been to Shenzhen’s HQB electronic market will chuckle at the Apple claim that iPhones are “too complex” for non-Apple techs to repair.
Think about what plastic actually is on a molecular level: it's the exact same atoms that make up all of life. (Carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, rarely chlorine.)

So if anything the plastic might be beneficial, assuming that it's able to decompose it and absorb only those atoms it actually needs as nutrients.

That's kind of what the person you are replying to is saying: if the plant is absorbing it, it's obviously been decomposed into its constituents and is actually beneficial to it.

It doesn't work the same as it does for an animal that eats in the standard way you use the word eat.
Congrats to the entire lyft team. Maybe Waymo may acquire them in the future?
I went to a school that is pretty much as you described. A 2 year intensive program designed to make you productive right out of the gate. We still took math, operating systems, computer architecture, and the like, but in general there was a big focus on writing a lot of code (often doing so in groups), and learning how to communicate effectively. It wasn't perfect, but it was absolutely the best decision for someone like me where programming wasn't my first career.
are you kidding?

Lyft is loosing 1B/year

there is no "free money" to give out to anyone, engineers, drivers, marketers. its a tight market.
How I miss that thread?

Anyway, if you wanna join the dream, I will not complain ;)
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The sites you mention (aside from Uber, which does not make a profit) found their way to profitability by building out and then cashing in from an apparatus of mass surveillance unparalleled in human experience.

So if I'm critical about the "grow while burning money" strategy, it's because I've seen the damage the eventual successful business model does to civil society. It's a bait and switch that we don't have to continue falling for.
> you'd miss the conversational aspect of Twitter, and be ignored if you tried to have conversations on Buzz.

This comes with the territory of having a fledging social network - it's not "terrible" if it's good enough for users. You grow from there by encouraging some niche communities to congregate using your system, that's how true "engagement" can start. Even Facebook itself grew from a very small community, namely students at a particular college, then college students more generally.
Just to add, a mildly more conservative/higher probability short would be a short call spread, can adjust the strikes depending on your risk tolerance/confidence. This limits upside but you no longer need to outpace theta, it's working in your favor on the sell side.

The long put is more sensitive to timing whereas the short call spread limits upside returns. Trade-off depending on your goals.

Edit: not to be confused with a short call, which has unlimited downside risk.
I don't necessarily disagree with either of these, but Unicode got encoded as it was and Linux got these files with these names and we can't go back and change it. (Even if the files get renamed, we have git history and stable release branches to think about.)

The point of software is to deal with the world as it is, not as it should be. We've got pseudocode and research papers for the world as it should be.
Alternately, one could translate that instead to mean the number one reason is unsustainable over-scaling too early is what causes failures, not the lack of cash.
I wonder if this will be the future of the USPS Online Mailing thing where you get pictures of your mail...

Just register with an email, things are autoscanned and sent to you with a PGP key you provide.
I remember being asked how I'd go about implementing quicksort in a phone interview. My response was: I wouldn't. Sorting is a solved problem that's available in pretty much any language's standard library (every non assembly language I've used, at least). The interviewer chuckled and something to the effect of "good answer, then can you describe the algorithm to me?", to which I said sure, and did.

Thankfully, I went through college before these automated plagiarism detectors had caught on. They were around, but not as pervasive as today. I mean, if you're going to sort a vector in C++ for a trivial app, there's only so many ways to write:

std::vector<int> stuff{...};
std::sort(std::begin(stuff), std::end(stuff));

And, lets face it: most lab assignments requiring a student to write a program are pretty small and trivial (at least mine were 20 years ago). The projects, on the other hand, were definitely more involved and you'd likely see more divergence in solutions there.
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