skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got started in the early '80's, 1982 if I remember correctly. I actually used a teletype for a (thankfully) very short period of time --just like what the presenter is using in this video. In the most primitive early days you had to type two characters, the rectangle and then go back and type the division symbol. Again, thankfully, that lasted a very short time for me.

What most people do not realize when they discuss APL today is that back in 1962 and going into the mid to late '80's APL was an incredibly advanced tool when compared to almost anything available at the time. I mean, people were programming in Fortran, Cobol, C, Forth, Lisp, Basic and a few other languages. They were incredibly primitive when compared to APL.

I was doing crazy multi-dimensional array work in physics that would have required massive amounts of C code to implement, not to mention that I could type a few lines of code that represented weeks of development in other languages.

It is easy to be critical of APL today and not realize that its creation back in the '60's and usage for the next 20 to 30 years was sheer genius.

Today most of these capabilities are not found as inherent parts of languages but as an array of domain specific libraries. The tool-set available to an APL programmer back around the time of this video and for the next decade (at least) was without comparison in the world of computing.

I am very glad to have been shoved into an APL class in college. It made a huge difference in my life and taught me to think about computing in a very different manner.
If any browser can be a camera, why do you require me to register to try it out? I'm not ready to give you my personal details. You say below privacy is your primary concern, but you require us to give up our privacy just to try it out.
From a lot of otherwise science-accepting people I grew up with, the issue isn't that penguins or insects adapted to their environment in unique ways. The issue lies in humans coming from monkeys. People I've known have a hard time with us not being created as special companions for the creator.
I think they use terrible specs just to market a lower starting price.
I have had one of these for years in South Australia (app store release data may 2017). Our car rego is all digital as well which used to cause confusion interstate as we don't have rego stickers. I don't adopt a lot of digital technology like social media because I think it is of dubious value with potential risks but nfc payments and a digital licence lets me travel with just my phone which suits me really well. I hate carrying a wallet.

One potential issue with having this on your phone is that you are unlocking your phone and handing it to the police which could be a problem for some people. Though people can still carry a card.
>This goes for every company

Fuck that. That's not the world I live in. It may go for many companies, even most. But to really believe this is (nearly) universal, you must be in a bubble I want no part of.
The Sandbox Show: Idempotency
Some “smart” TVs transmit samples of video from HDMI and streaming inputs to the TV manufacturers, who sell it to third parties and use it to target ads. Samsung is arguably the worst example. From https://www.samsung.com/us/account/privacy-policy/:

“We may use automatic content recognition (ACR) and other technologies to capture this information. Your Smart TV transfers video snippets or TV tuner information in order to determine the programs watched.”

I don’t have any firsthand knowledge of the methodology in use here, but this seems like the most likely, if not the only feasible, source.

(Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21427405, https://twitter.com/simpleoptout/status/1191029269691957249)
Thank you! This feedback really means the world to me. Please share with others, as I think the insights like what you've described are incredibly important to VCs and founders alike.
> Do you think it's weird that people in other industries might say "great work!" from time to time?

Not at all, it’s just that I personally don’t say, or expect, a “good work” message unless I’m honestly impressed by what was written.

I’ve received that once or twice, and given it a few more times (in 10 years).

But just saying good work to keep someone’s motivation up, that is something I would have to consciously think about.
A string that is supposed to represent a ”name” in a web app context — safe or not? I am referring to potential SQL injections.

Surely, no names contain semicolons, but is the business logic-part of your app to determine that names which only contain A-Za-z (or whatever) are safe?

It is contextually dependent, meaning in practice as close to the actual SQL query as possible. Or call to file system, where dots are unsafe, and so on.

Static typing helps here as described in the article.
Thanks, I appreciate your followup. I'm genuinely interested in discussion on this topic. I was hoping there was something more focused summarizing the academic consensus in a given field of study that you were alluding to, but it appears not.

One thing I noticed is that the focus of these is on gender-stereotypical portrayals of princesses. Is only the princess-themed content specifically seen as 'damaging', or is Disney content not featuring princesses also suspect?

Another detail is that a good number of the results you dug up seem to be reflections on interactions with the 'Disney Princess' line of toys and media which was launched in 2000, which would suggest that the most 'damaging' of this content is specifically 'post-2000'. Was there something about pre-2000 Disney content you had in mind that's especially damaging, that is not the case with the post-2000 Disney Princess line, or is it all garbage?
From the replies, these two might be interesting... no idea if they're worth it vs. a little more for an ITX build. The second one looks like a higher level cpu, but not sure of the real differences.

[1] https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16856158066
[2] https://www.neweggbusiness.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9B-...
I was at the Louvre for the first time just a couple weeks ago. The Mona Lisa room was so crowded that I didn't bother lining up or looking at anything else in the room. Definitely a bad experience for people who don't like crowded museums.
Turn your smartphone into a dumb phone
> Regarding the irrationality of the fear of current nuclear reactors, requiring active intervention (with control rods) to prevent nuclear meltdown is a genuine and justified cause for concern (as evidenced by Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima).

Fear of nuclear is irrational. Chernobyl was the single worst nuclear accident in the history of the world and UNSCEAR projects a death toll of no more than 4,000 [3] from the original accident (which directly killed about 50) onward. A large amount of them are suicide by people who fear they were “contaminated” when the most likely cancer, thyroid (due to radioactive Iodine-131 released) has a 98% survival rate [4]. Better than some flu years. That's what they were taking iodine pills for -- to saturate the thyroid so it didn't take up any of the Iodine-131.

Three mile island killed nobody and Fukushima killed 2-12 (almost 600 died from the actual quake). We learned from all 3 incidents and incorporated substantial additional safety measures for future designs.

The worst hydro accident by comparison, the Bangqiao Dam failure killed 230,000 people instantly. [2]

Nuclear has an order of magnitude fewer deaths per TWh than solar (it’s 10X safer than solar panels, yes) and two to three orders fewer than hydro and coal. [1].

Nuclear is no question the safest and most environmentally friendly energy source in the world by all metrics, and especially carbon emissions.

Of course I’d love to see thorium cycle explored too but we'll never get the funding with negative sentiment towards nuclear. It should be respected, not feared.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/d...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_Chernobyl_dis...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyroid_cancer
Let's say I paid $500 per month in rent a decade ago and today I pay $1500 in rent. What does that say about the quality of my home today compared to the quality of my home a decade ago? It says nothing because there are countless other details being ignored in that equation.

OP's point was that a change was made during the 1970s. You therefore need to look at the period before the 1970s and compare it to after the 1970s. You were just looking at the time period after the largest change in the top marginal tax rate was already made. Here[1] is the top marginal tax rate during a larger time frame.

[1] - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historical_Marginal_...
You may be right, proving the old adage that the best way to get an answer on the internet is to post a wrong answer ;-)
That is an extraordinary anti-pattern.

Is there any browser in 2019 that is actually capable of blocking obnoxious pop-ups? It seems like we're losing the arms race.

Fortunately the best part of the article was "above the fold" so I didn't run into that monstrosity.
Why does this matter? Pornhub is addictive, probably on a much deeper level than Facebook. No one criticizes Pornhub. Reddit is addictive, no one criticizes Reddit. Videogames are addictive. No one says we should ban videogames or take legal action against them. Even if people do criticize these things, they don't criticize them the same way they criticize Facebook.

I think FB has added more to the world (wealth, high tech jobs, open source technology, places for people to organize, ways for people to connect) than it has taken away in the form of FB addiction and manipulative ads.

The masses have always had their bread and circuses. I don't see why a new digital variation is any worse than existing forms of mindless entertainment.
I thought glass is an amorphous solid (has some shared properties with liquids). How will this play out over a "long" period of time?
Depends on the price. From what I gather they buy crap properties and renovate them.

But honestly I would go the other way - I would target the prosumer segment - create some nice spaces with a dinner table that serious hobbyists can rent by the let's say 3 hours slot, since they don't have real estate (and power) in their homes.

50 square meters that are filled with everything from wok to latest modernist toys.
You go to Canadian Tire for kitchen stuff? Is that a typo? If not, can you explain?
I think I can live with all of those things, if only the code actually works after it is merged. But too often you merge the crap and it doesn’t even work...

That just baffles me, you’ve been writing all this code, but you never bothered to test that it actually did something?
Sounds like your company needs some ISO 9001 love. Though with such chaos, your position is less likely to become automated ;).
All human efforts have some eco footprint. Hydro dams have similar CO2 emission profiles to wind and solar, so for argument's sake, let's assume their ecological impact is lesser than that of coal or natural gas. The south island of New Zealand is almost exclusively hydro, the north island has just a little bit of coal and natgas (less than 1GW of generation in aggregate) to displace to go 100% zero carbon for electrical generation.

There is an interconnect (Cook Strait cable, 1200MW HVDC) between the islands, and the south island ships power to the north island (primarily hydro), so you can aggregate renewable generation between both islands fairly effectively and treat them together as a single system.

Electricitymap.org South island: https://www.electricitymap.org/?wind=false&solar=false&page=...

Electricitymap.org North island: https://www.electricitymap.org/?wind=false&solar=false&page=...
Ode to My Startup Team, a Music Video
From reprints of sears catalogs from the turn of the century to a secondhand 1970s catalog we had as toilet reading (and emergency toilet paper) I understood where I thought sears positioned. I think much of that market was hollowed out by others (Costco, Walmart, Amazon) but a lot was thrown away in corporate insanity which made a few people immensely rich and broke things for no value outside of that play.

I shopped in modern Sears a couple of times (I'm not a US resident) and it was sad. More staff than customers, a sense of doom, the kind of lighting designed to make you not linger (this is actually a thing. A shop here in Australia called Lowes which specializes in cheap big-man fashion has lights which are pretty much there to make you grab and run)

I got three pairs of Levi 501s at below any other suppliers price, 3x or more below Australian price. To be so significantly below market, you either have to have massive stockpiles of unsold asset you need to move to save storage costs, or you have to have some amazing sweet deals, or maybe both. But it said to me "this is simply not sustainable"

I too am amazed at the lingering mouldy corpse. I expected it to be fully dismembered, and anything called Sears was implicitly holding onto IPR to keep a venue, but actually sending money who knows where.

I probably wouldn't willingly go into one again, Ever. I might if they sold me online on an item and it was a pickup venue, but if they can sell it online and I pick up at target in a box, I'm good. Probably, I find another source for levi's
After reading some of this, I'm a bit blown away by how sophisticated and on top of their game FB is as a company. Pretty sure my company would not have these discussions at the same level, or think about things in this way with such a tight engineering/product/business alignment and thought.

edit: and I work at a "tech company".
Luck playing a part doesn't take away from the whole. You still need to work and create opportunities.

Ripping people off is already a crime. Exploiting the poor is a complex equation of personal choices and societal policies. Bribing politicians is an issue with govt politics (something I've stated several times). Poor corporate practices require regulation. Taxes do not solve any of these issues.

The bailouts were completely paid back with interest. It was one of the few examples of good govt spending and one of the best investments ever made. And it wasn't about saving a particular business but rather ensuring we don't go into a greater depression. Is that what you would've preferred?
This is essentially what I assumed and what I believe what
ralusek assumes to be the case. This does not change our question.

What would be the syntax for how you would spawn a future, add it to the current Executor, cooperatively yield execution in the parent such that progress could be made on the child, but also return execution to the parent if the child yields but does not complete?

In C# I believe you could simply call

Task.Run(Action);

This will schedule the action to the current executor. If you yield execution through await that task will (have a chance to) run. The crux of the question is that the fact that you do not need to await that specific task, you just need to cooperatively yield execution such that the executor is freed up.

var shortTask = Task.Run(Task.Delay(100).Wait);
var longTask = Task.Run(Task.Delay(500).Wait);
await Task.Delay(1000);

await shortTask;
await longTask;

In C# this will take ~1000 milliseconds as the child futures yield execution back to the parent such that it can start its own yielding task.
Yes!! It's time for browsers/users to fight back against this madness.

We all blocked pop-ups for a reason: they are obnoxious interruptions that interfere with web browsing.

Unfortunately site designers learned the wrong lesson from, thinking "oh, I guess that means we need to come up with a sneakier way of forcing obnoxious pop-ups on users that don't want them."
You are missing my point again - even a medieval peasant had a bed, shoes, etc.

How much has the productivity improved since then? 3,000%? I should be able to survive working 2 hours a week.

Suppose I forgo everything invented since then, even the ac you are finding comically important, it's still impossible.

Of course medicine, a fridge and soap are important, but that's not where my income is going.
Case where lawmakers fail and fuck up everyone due to their incompetency to do math.
Cosmos Returns on National Geographic
Another interesting paradox is Thatcher closing coal mines in the UK for not being profitable and left protesting and wanting the mines to continue saying there's always a need for it. "we want coal, not dole"
But what about perceptions! People’s perception are what counts in a democracy, not the objective fact.
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It depends, but there's an issue of biocompatibility similar to any organ transplant. So no, a rock wouldn't work. The backwards tooth though is interesting - my guess is if it would fit it would stick (although it would definitely fuck up your bite).

https://myhillsdentist.com/blog/why-dont-we-do-tooth-transpl...
> Generally the answer is that the founders / designers use iPhones, so it's what they prioritize

My understanding is that people willing to pay for apps use iPhones
Yep, the good old "build it and they'll come" trap for the naive engineer that I've stepped into myself. Thankfully, having read Rob Walling's book now I know that marketing comes before code: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rwalling

It's a bit dated now, but most of the advice is still relevant to solo engineers looking to turn solo founders.
Exactly. And the galmon network already does that. (It should really be renamed gnssmon at this point, it's far outgrown its Galileo-watching roots.)

You can run a station yourself if you have a Ublox 8- or 9-series receiver.
As GP states, these services largely have very easy cancellation processes. There is no need to pay for the “rest of your life” if you don’t feel the content is worth the price long term.
In general, the above poster is correct. I'm glad you had an easy time though.
This already smells like pure censorship with no rationale behind it and little to nothing to do about avoiding flamewars; you seem to have an exact opinion on all these controversial topics and anyone who disagrees is creating a "flamewar".
The operational and management aspects strike me as what happens when you have too many cooks in the kitchen - if everyone is responsible for everything, no one is responsible for anything
Omg. I can't speak further, but this startup and Kalanick are really awful. This is shockingly stupid.
I've come to believe that ignoring one side of the cost/benefit calculus is the root cause of an enormous number of mistakes.

To spell the two errors out:

A: "This has a benefit, so we should do it!"

B: "This has a cost, so we should not do it!"
You missed a very big one: Walmart. Walmart started in 1962. Before Walmart got big people bought a significant amount of stuff at Sears that they now buy at Walmart.
are you suggesting company should never pay pension and instead pay their employee directly?
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/34421/does-the-m...
Corvée
I have a similar collection of 2000+ sites on GitHub. I recently posted the repo on HN and it went to GitHub trending and stayed there for 2 days!

Here's the repo:
https://github.com/rsapkf/goodies
That's almost exactly what Vancouver does. Biggest difference is that instead of image processing on the video feed, there's sensors on the tracks at every platform.
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Classpass maybe
Dscript – A Collision of Science and Art
Might have something to do with economic cycles; 2004 was a better time in world economics then 2009.
>I actually think that's a class where a high inheritance tax would be most problematic. Do we want the government to suddenly gain controlling interests in Amazon or Google or any other massive private enterprise?

Absolutely, yes! The whole point of a publicly-traded corporation is that the company is owned by lots of different people, not just one person. If one person owns most of the stock in a company that large, then they're doing something wrong. Having a high inheritance tax for billionaires would be good this way, by making them think twice about hoarding all that stock.

With a normal huge corporation in this scenario, it would take a bunch of people all dying at once for the government to suddenly gain a controlling interest. I'm not sure about Amazon, but I'm pretty sure Google is not more than 50% owned by one person.

>That an inheritance tax alone doesn't result in perfectly equitable wealth distribution doesn't mean there's any problem with it - it would certainly be more equitable than not having inheritance tax.

I don't see how it's really equitable at all, unless you restrict it to truly wealthy people, so that you avoid family dynasties from happening and continuing for generations. For middle-class people (who these days really do not have that much wealth), I don't see how this benefits society at all.

Also, you never addressed my question about how you handle gifts. This is typically how extremely wealthy people get around a lot of inheritance tax today. (Remember, we do have an inheritance tax now, and it only applies to multimillionaires IIRC. And they typically get around it with trusts, giving it to their kids before they die, etc.)
What do you need an account for? Does the APK not work if you sideload it?
By bundling. I believe there are couple a options to reduce the resulting package size some. As with all things, it's a matter of priorities when weighing language and deployment options.
Can you search local and are these conversations encrypted? If so this is great for grey/black market sellers.

In addition to the inevitable harassment, this could be it's big money maker.
Brooklyn-based construction robotics startup Toggle gets $3M seed fund
There is a theory that fighting actually prevents serious injuries and concussions.

Teams have goons and enforcers. It’s the goon’s job to hurt star players. A skilled goon can lay a clean, legal, but devastating hit on your top scorer and go unpunished. If he gets him when his head is down or not paying attention, he can take him out of the game, the series, or potentially the season. It’s those hits that cause injuries and end careers.

An enforcer is hired to send a message that if you plan to incorporate injuring the star player as part of your strategy, he’s going to beat the living hell out of you.

Fights are by mutual consent, and almost never result in serious injury. But they hurt physically, and losing one hurts morale.

The league actually introduced an instigator penalty a while back, which means whoever initiated the fight is penalized. Concussions went up, because now the enforcer couldn’t do his job, or his own team suffers even more. So it was open season with cheap shots on stars.
Can someone explain the benefit of this programming paradigm to other applications besides web servers/IO bound tasks?
So there's not enough cash in circulation for banks to sell some of their assets marked down?

In some sort of bad event won't the be unable to pay back the one day loan and so the fed is just helping them juke the required liquidity ratio?
Agreeing with you.

Section 315 of the Federal Communications Act of 1934 states:

"If any licensee shall permit any person who is a legally qualified candidate for any public office to use a broadcasting station, he shall afford equal opportunities to all other such candidates for that office in the use of such broadcasting station: Provided, That such licensee shall have no power of censorship over the material broadcast under the provision of this section."

It also specifically says licensees can’t censor "material broadcast by any such candidate."

so at least in the past the government decided tv stations can not censor.

I know FB is not a TV station but it's probably the closest applicable law ATM.