skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A known phenomenon is that being homeless can work wonders for one's social skills.

Being poorly presented and inarticulate is a form of privilege - it's traditionally associated with academia, but with the rise of the "computer nerd" stereotype, it has increasingly slipped into other venues. What comes to mind is Tfue, the world's top Fortnite player, whose Twitch streams largely consist of him grunting "uuggggghn" and complaining about "stream snipers" with coarse language. He gets millions of viewers.
I take your point in principle (founders ought to be committed to their company), but I also see the other argument not to put all your eggs in one basket, so to speak. Of course, I certainly wouldn't put money into a company the founder of which does not believe it will succeed and profit.
My fault. That's exactly what happened. I saw it first on CNN, but posted the WSJ article (just because I find WSJ to generally be a better source), but it was only after posting that I realized the WSJ didn't mention "electronic jamming", which was actually the reason why I thought it was interesting to HN in the first place. Curious why the WSJ did not mention that.
I'm to believe that it was necessary to bring in an immigrant to fill in a QA position? The point of the program should be to fill positions that we can't possibly (or can't reasonably) fill with a US worker. Using an immigrant for a low-skill job like this just lowers the average wage and depresses our economy when she inevitably leaves back to her home country with her acquired skills and money.
With that kind of salary, you could just quit working for others and lead pretty luxurious (or frugal, or just basic, whatever floats your boat) life almost everywhere until you die. Okay, some of us got the real "dream job" and that's the way they want to live this life, so whatever.

But, if not spending everything on coke one should have several millions on investments at this point. And that makes literally buying (through the loopholes created for investors) citizenship easy. Heck, even Switzerland gives you a passport if you invest about one million IIRC. I fail to understand why anyone in such a prestigious position (but without citizenship for a given country) would not use their hard earned money to make things easier in perfectly legal way.

Well, I guess it's easier to be illegal immigrant and suddenly the media is all about you and your presupposed rights (like invading any country you wish 'cause you want free stuff). The whole system is broken and probably soon also broke.
"WeWork is a weird company because it is a real estate company that thinks it’s a tech startup; it seems to have the culture and New-Age-y patter and grandiose ambition and valuation of a tech company. But what if, deep down in its heart, it really is a real estate company?"

"Multiple investors of the privately held company said the arrangement concerned them as a potential conflict of interest in which the CEO could benefit on rents or other terms with the company."

Mr. Neumann "is WeWork’s largest individual shareholder and has voting control over the company, so it is not clear that the board can say no."

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/articles/2019-01-16/we...
> Viacom sued them for $1 billion in 2007 (settled out of court for an undisclosed sum in 2014).

(...after the district court found in favor of youtube and after it came out that some of Viacom's claims were for things that other parts of Viacom had uploaded for publicity)
Or better yet just put Twitter into its own container and patch up the UA with a native config override - https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/ce1bea/reverting_b...
I moved to a city where I'm pretty much alone so I could go to college. My favorite time of the day is when I play Counter-Strike with my old buddies at night. Not so much because of the game but just because I get to voice chat and have a good laugh for a while.
>Not true. Trump nearly retaliated over a downed drone with an attack estimated to cost Iranians 100 lives. He called it off at the last minute when confronted with the potential death toll.

Sure, and how many appalling things does Trump "nearly" do each week? The guy's mouth leaks like a sieve and I don't imagine you really believe he received a casualty estimate mere minutes before giving the go ahead. That is not at all how these things work. His story made no sense at all... unless he was lying to both frighten Iran and appear empathetic at home. Your second sentence is far more likely than your first.
You sometimes see a drystone wall that has a mortared top. Here's one example: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.8862561,-2.0573352,3a,24.1...

Just down the road there's another, less attractive, example: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.885003,-2.0568722,3a,46.6y...
Not quite.

First, Google isn't a monopoly on search. Popular? yes. Best product? For most use cases, yeah. The fact that the search competition is a click away makes it dominant in the market but not a monopoly or monopsony.

Second, companies are doing fine in this regard by bypassing Google. There are online businesses that exist solely on Amazon and Instagram. Building out a strong social presence is one way to get traffic without relying on Google search. Several major content hosting sites (images/gifs) have taken off in part because of their social saturation.

Is it easy? No, but to GP's point it doesn't sound like they were being strategic in this regard either.
For me, patterns define ways how you put language constructs units together to solve typical "higher-level" problems. For example, "how do I implement an undo mechanism". Of course for static/object-oriented languages, the patterns will be different than for dynamic languages.

I am currently listening to the Software-Engineer Radio Podcast from 2006/2007, and they talk heavily about patterns. Even though the POSA books patterns may not be applicable to dynamic languages like Ruby or JavaScript, I think the right idea is to define new patterns that are useful for these type of languages.

Maybe one reason why we don't have this is because nowadays to solve a more "specific" problem the only thing you need to do is to install some third party library from github that already does it? (like if I wanted to implement an undo-redo fucntionality I will use maybe this: https://www.npmjs.com/package/undo-redo )
if the stacks are mostly the same and you have far fewer processors than frames, you could use copy on write to share stacks

not useful but maybe interesting if you're into this kind of thing
I fear GP's post has not been fully appreciated.

(I noted these words: [...] embrace [...] extend [...] extinguish [...])
Thanks, that was very interesting and sad. I guess the constituency against the telescope is small, vocal and concentrated, whereas the pro-telescope constituency is much larger, but very distributed and not very motivated.
The article is 90% delusional
But some of them (we won't speak of Singleton) are patterns that are helpful in conceiving of and understanding architectures or how the implementation language is used, even if an instance of the pattern looks like a very simple expression in the implementation language?
I am not saying $5k, I am saying $35k. With that amount of money, you can certainly afford to live a super comfy life in Thailand not in a shack AND afford an iPhone.

I agree with your premise in general though, because given a similar lifestyle and similar percentage of savings (let's say 10%) from your salary you get in a high COL place vs. low COL place, high COL place would be more preferable, as that 10% will be higher in absolute dollar value, and a lot of goods are priced the same everywhere.
"A bunch of your friends are hate-following this obnoxious prick, let's show you that guy's tweets to ramp up engagement!"

Yeah I'm not a fan of the "Home" view.
If you're using Firefox, the Smart Referer add-on strips out the HTTP Referer and the value of document.referer (in JavaScript) from cross-domain requests. It includes a default whitelist, and is customizable.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/smart-referer

It's also open source.

https://gitlab.com/smart-referer/smart-referer

This extension is most effective if you also use an ad blocker (like uBlock Origin) and Firefox's first-party isolation feature, although Smart Referer will still help prevent tracking even if you don't.

https://www.ghacks.net/2017/11/22/how-to-enable-first-party-...
I still don’t think an actual SMS would be received.

SMS is old-school. That thing is going via the tower or it’s not going at all.

(This is just a hunch. Happy to be told I’m wrong!)
I really hate this sentiment. The "if it makes you money it's good" mindset is the core of most corporate moral-rot.

I don't care if what he did was legal, or if it benefitted him as a capitalist. It's unethical, and makes us all question the value of the WeWork ecosystem.
I think it is unfair to label Go with "bad ergonomics."

It might be fair to say the ergonomics are suboptimal for the code _writer_, but I would say they are much closer to optimal for the code _reader_.
I'll be 40 years old later this year. I've been interested in communications and communications protocols since I was about 12. I've been a software developer with a focus on network communications for over 15 years.

I'm well aware of all that you've said.

My point was, they get TLS interception down, and they capture what they want from a target of interest.

When they look closely at your traffic and decide all these cat gifs have too much or too little entropy in the data that forms their pixels, they simply (if they're courteous) say, "Persuade me that you did not know that this app was helping you hide messages back and forth. Persuade me or we shoot you now." And then they shoot.
DPhone: The most secure calling app. Free, P2P, E2E encrypted
Airbnb threatening me over my domain. Legit?
Received an email from "Brandprotection@airbnb-mm.com". Is this legit? What happened to a free internet? Is anyone really going to get confused between my site and airbnb.com? What happens if I don't reply and don't change the domain?

"To Whom It May Concern:

As you may know, Airbnb, Inc. is the owner of the well-known trademarks, AIRBNB (Reg. No. 4884815)

itslikeairbnbforyourdog.com

As a trademark owner, Airbnb, Inc.is obligated to enforce its rights by taking action to ensure that others do not use its trademarks without permission, including in domain names. Registration and use of domain names that are identical or confusingly similar to Airbnb, Inc.’s trademarks, without permission, could result in a likelihood of confusion among consumers.

In light of the above, we request that you respond to this e-mail within ten (10) days, informing us whether you have obtained rights from Airbnb, Inc.to register and use the domain name(s) itslikeairbnbforyourdog.com. If so, please provide us with details as to who granted you such rights and when. If not, please indicate your agreement to immediately stop using the Domain(s) and refrain from creating any new domain names using Airbnb, Inc. in any manner.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter.

Sincerely,

Airbnb Brand Protection"
I was a 20x engineer. I apologize as well.
Certificate Transparency would make it blatantly obvious if any existing CA were being compelled by governments to issue fraudulent certs.

DANE is, unfortunately, not viable to implement in browsers right now for a variety of reasons: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2015/01/17/notdane.html
Even O-1 seems like it could be a good possibility (I wrote a reference letter for a colleague seeking the O-1 via a few years ago, and I only had to describe his work as open source project lead).
What can we do about the noise pollution? Last time I was around a windmill the bigger one made an annoying woosh-whop noise and the small ones an annoying high pitched noise. Fixing the noise will help getting them accepted in more urban areas.
Do the investors in WeWork just allow him to do this? Did he hide it from them? This seems like an obvious self-dealing situation any experienced investor would be watching out for.
Just to be clear, and without engaging in any other part of your comment: the AdSense guidelines forbid ads on pages that link to or otherwise promote adult content, which this site surely did.
If they're scrutinizing you closely, I would not trust my life to it. If the hash of the cat gifs you're exchanging is different from others, eventually there's going to be too much or too little entropy in those pixels and they'll make a strong statistical case against you.
I always thought the “job creators” need all that money so they can invest in new industry that creates even more jobs. Not sure if buying houses helps with that.
I for one look forward to the inevitably patriotic, tear-jerker ending to the film depicting the US military demolishing these dang terrorists.

Hopefully we get a solid win at the 2026 Oscars...
Exactly this. Superiority has nothing to do with it.

Some people have uncommon interests or opinions, and may be reticent about sharing them in the absence of some enabling signal, as one can be punished socially just for having them.

It doesn't help that my employer has a mainstream dress code. If I saw an exact copy of myself before or after work, I wouldn't want to talk to it, unless we were in a nerd haven.

I've had too many conversations that bring in early "so what church y'all go to?" or "what's your football team?". The wrong answers can get you a "bless your heart," which seems to be Southern for "fuck off, asshole". Wearing a Chicago Cubs tee-shirt sometimes invites conversation, but my spouse is the fan that live-streams every MLB broadcast that isn't regionally blacked out, and for me it's really more a signal for "I'm from the Midwest." The Chicago skyline on my usual payment card has sometimes unintentionally served the same purpose from restaurant servers and cashiers who are also ex-Chicago-residents.

It's why I'm considering a nerd tattoo, like "e^pi*i=-1" or the Fano plane mnemonic for octonion multiplication, or a space-filling model of my favorite molecule, benzaldehyde.
To some extent this makes sense for a franchise. It allows McDonalds to use it’s real estate expertise to negotiate the best possible deal, then pass on the deal to the franchisee. If this wasn’t the case, every franchisee would have to become a real estate expert just to open a restaurant.

In the case of WeWork, this isn’t a franchise, WeWork has the ability to own the property outright and lease it out. The CEO owning the property effectively guarantees him a good return on his investment and his rent profit goes into his pocket while WeWork the company passes him the profit.

If there are holes in the logic please elaborate. That is the best I can compare the two.

I’m sure McDonald’s makes a bit of profit off of leasing to a franchisee, although I can’t say. In the case of McDonald’s it seems it is providing a valuable service to a franchisee. No need for a franchisee to try to negotiate property deals, nor put up real estate capital to own the land. McDonalds is effectively cutting out a 3rd Party landowner middleman that could arbitrarily raise rent once the restaurant is opened.
Linus brought us Linux and Git. To me, he's probably the greatest programmer of our time.

James Strachan brought us Camel and Groovy. That's pretty good.

Gavin King had Hibernate and Seam. Not too shabby, either.

There are definitely people who are very good. To me, having more than one runaway hit is a good indicator.

But there are a very few of them.
It's not your land to build upon.
This may be a cultural difference, or it may just be a difference of personal experiences, but I wouldn't make the leap to inferring much of any correlation between loneliness and living near extended family or childhood friends.

For one, as the article pointed out, there are differences between social interaction and loneliness. For another, there are many broken families out there today, especially with the rise of opioid and other brutal addictions.

Anecdotally, I've seen hispanic families tend to be closer-knit, while a lot of other families tend to have some pretty serious problems. As one data point, my parents now live only a few miles away from me but I see them only very occasionally. Likewise, former close-knit groups of friends who all never left their home town -- and in at least one case, ended up buying homes only a couple blocks away from each other -- ended up squabbling and fighting and stopped talking to each other at all.

So whereas your experiences have led you to suppose that being close to childhood friends and family makes someone less lonely, my own -- and those of the various other nomads I've gotten to know over the years -- lead me to suppose that getting away from childhood friends and family helps to stave off the loneliness.
I want to see all tweets of the people I follow. Precisely because I decided to follow them. It's the whole point of the site for me. Seeing all the updates from accounts I care about.
For-profit clickbait items reinforce unhealthy and unrealistic digital hallucinations to stay in business, and celebrity developer bloggers do much the same in order to advance their careers. You don't know how they are to work-with or if they have even earned their chops. Worse, the celebrity effect tends to ruin most people as they become insufferably entitled and/or uncooperative. These sort of people are often vastly overrated and can absolutely annihilate the morale of teams.
That would be a bad use IMO. Letsencrypt solves any need for legitimate certificates.
Petabyte Scale Data Deduplication
Sorry, what are these good reasons that aren't in the realm of specifically impeding user's ability to use the site as they please? My understanding is that the sole reason for dynamic class names is to confuse user style sheets that may reformat the page (how dare they not use our beautiful UI!) or to combat tools trying to ad-block based on a CSS selector rule.

Is there some advantage other than removing these two features that dynamic CSS classes provide?
Baseless?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit

I could of sworn there are instances where root authorities had brush ins with the law, maybe I'm just remembering a theoretical rant I heard somewhere.
Somebody worked very very hard on an algo that figures out which part of the image is important and they're not going to let some dumb users with silly opinions like "I want to see the whole thing" ruin it.
Yup, broad shallow support (even among Native Hawaiians, according to some polls) pitted against narrow, very intense and dedicated opposition.
Medico Inc exposes 14,000 medical billing documents via open S3 bucket
From the article:

> he walked away with about $50 million when News Corp purchased my space. He should have walked away with a lot more

He thinks that News Corp should have paid more for myspace? Because they got so much value from it.
This is why (at least in my country) there are very clear codes about delineating power and data equipment. When we run data, it’s always at least a meter from any power cables or equipment.
theres shortcuts to strip exif from photos en-masse
> He has also taken out loans of several hundred million dollars backed by his WeWork shares, people familiar with his finances said.

That's not really "cashing out". The portion of your shares that you've sold, sure, but leveraging investments is just an option that's available once you hit a certain point and it just makes sense to take advantage of it.
Just bought a Thinkpad T480, put 32GB ram and an SSD in it. Runs amazing with linux and the keyboard is a huge upgrade from my 2016 MBP.
What’s important is that you need to do this to average speed, not top speed, and increasing average speed especially on old, curvy lines is not nontrivial.
Anyone else find it mildly strange how such a huge portion of the economy functions solely on the production and consumption of terrible products such as soda?
SWE->SWE is relatively safe. And there are a number of significant differences between a truly "de novo" petition and a transfer. While it is true that you need a sponsor, and therefore a petition needs to be filed, you don't need to wait for it to be approved to start working at the new place. You can also have multiple prospective employers file petitions, so if one gets denied another might get approved, or if you get a better offer you get the option of picking and choosing. The process is still fraught with uncertainty (particularly if H1-B worker brought their wife and kids along), but you aren't really "starting from scratch" or undergoing the same degree of scrutiny.

It used to be worse, BTW: it used to be that you couldn't really change jobs at all, and until fairly recently, your spouse (who is typically on H4) couldn't work. Or to be exact, she/he could, but couldn't get paid (volunteering was OK).
C# is a typo. If you read the original post it always refers to C++ when discussing memory safety.
> Are you saying that all these people are fraudulent / incompetent and that somehow the whole market cap of Google and FB combined (above 1 trillion dollars) is just a complete fraud?

TLDR: despite your models the result I see as a male in Norway are ridiculous and laughable.

Longer version: All I can say is that the last 10 or so years the ads I have gotten have served no other cause than to make me despise the advertisers and distrust any claim about working AI.

Maybe I'm extremely unusual, but I would think this

- pushing mostly crappy dating site ads

- for 10+ years

- to a married man

- who is generally very happy

- and has small children

- while not pushing ads for major infosec events

- and not for family holidays

can hardly be considered very smart unless you are paid handsomely to show those ads regardless of if they work or not, especially as I've repeatingly clicked x -> not interested -> irrelevant.

Seing how Google is botching search accuracy, Google+, Reader etc etc I feel I have good reason to think the company in sum is a lot dumber than the people who work there.

And yes, I think so highly of most men in my exact position that thet won't fall for the crap I've seen.

And, based on my talking with others it seems not to be a fluke: if you are man this seems to be their best (and often their only) idea of what ads might be useful.

Or maybe it works on enough other men to pay off.

But personally I've now concluded that my best explanation is that Google is dumb or deliverately fleecing their advertisers.

PS: Facebook ads have been somewhat better for me. I actually bought something from one once.
FYI that link just gives a log-in screen.
This sounds like good news.

While there is always the argument that innovation is stifled by regulation, sometimes you do actually need regulators and experts to step in and point out where issues may lie. With a system like Libra, this seems like one of those times.
>is space mining even legal?

Who's gonna stop you?

It is for all intents and purposes wild west...except constrained by which geopolitical relationships the launching country/company is keen to maintain.
eBay and PayPal are an inconsistent mess. The changes often make it hard to even Google to find what you are looking for. Some pages on PayPal as far as I can tell seem completely inaccessible from the UI and require you to know the endpoint.
Oops, you're right! That's the one I was thinking of, just got the names reversed.
This is not true - in your Congo example, the driver claimed asylum, won his case, and then was able to apply for his green card. You cannot go from illegal immigrant to green card directly. Many people don't win their asylum cases and are deported.