skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wonder if this is because business borrowed something rather toxic from the post-1970s "postmodern" intellectual meltdown of the humanities? The worst kind of MBAbabble that I've endured over the years reminds me very much of postmodern literary criticism in its vapid, posturing use of language to hide the fact that the speaker is not actually saying anything.

You described easily over 75% of the management textbooks I had to work through when I was getting my management degree. Vapid & content free. It was shocking sometimes to be reading a few chapters in a row, and not even realize different authors wrote them because they all had the same "voice" of page after page of absolutely nothing at all to say.
Did they close() the socket? If you write data to a socket, and receive no signal that it's been processed, shouldn't you shutdown(2), select(2), then read(2) before you close(2) it?
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>> Copyright 2013 Martin Manley Life and Death. All rights reserved.

EDIT - He should have patented this technique (suicide note on website), to prevent others from performing a similar stunt. While I feel sad for him for taking his own life, I am angry for him making his suicide sound so glamorous.
I think Parse has really great documentation.
There isn't an info in the article that she reported the crimes to police at any time is there?
Unless you are ee cummings, basic english syntax is sort of required. Even programming languages are hard to compile if you don't follow the syntax.
It really seems to be the life cycle of a lot of companies. Be small, lightweight and flexible, come up with great ideas that are able to quickly rise to the top. Those ideas make you tons of money and cause you to grow to be massive. But then you're crushed under your own weight.

We've seen Microsoft do it, I'd argue that Apple is well down that road, as you said we've seen HP do it, Google may be headed in that direction.
That does include all of their unit tests code though. I wouldn't personally define unit tests as "core" framework code since I can deploy a Rails app without them (they never show up in a stack trace). It's going to come down to your own semantics since Rails wouldn't exist as it is today without them either.
if you're going to make a snide comment, shouldn't you get the years correct? I'm pretty sure bash has been around since the late '80s or early '90s.
> do Americans really say "penny-wise/pound-foolish"?

Yes, as well as the similarly anglocentric (but somewhat oppposite in perspective) aphorism: "Look after the pennies, and the pounds will look after themselves."
Second that. We engineers have our own perspectives but the management has theirs and it would be unfair to say ours are unconditionally better. If the management thinks in that way there must be a reason for it, and then constructive communication + concessions on both sides would be the real way to achieving a better end.
I'm not sure I see how this is more robust than simply checking to make sure you had an orderly close. The orderly close check should also catch the case where the application crashes after its TCP stack has received the data but before the application processed it.

I'm not saying there's never any point to application acknowledgements; look at any careful SMTP server implementation for a study of how to handle these problems. TCP can promise a reliable transport but obviously not a reliable disk.
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If you have a solid idea that Google would benefit from and allow you to work on it in your 20% time, why not quit and do something similar on your own?

To be fair, not everybody is interested in running a company, and doing all the "other stuff" that it entails beyond writing code. Also, Google provide great resources and infrastructure, which it would be hard to replicate (assuming the hypothetical project in question required Google scale infrastructure).
Does anyone have experience with phones like these?
For those who understand English, the title should be: "Man turns 60, commits suicide and leaves a website as suicide note." Come on, let's try to get those nouns and verbs to agree -- or at least be consistent with the disagreement!
Yes, we also have plans for HTML editing that I think everybody will be very pleased with.
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As you said, you've only partially read it. I think it's a bit premature to pronounce that the website is the primary reason and all else is secondary.

Clearly none of us will ever truly understand, but this certainly struck me:

>I began seeing the problems that come with aging some time ago. I was sick of leaving the garage door open overnight. I was sick of forgetting to zip up when I put on my pants. I was sick of forgetting the names of my best friends. I was sick of going downstairs and having no idea why. I was sick of watching a movie, going to my account on IMDB to type up a review and realizing I've already seen it and, worse, already written a review! I was sick of having to dig through the trash to find an envelope that was sent to me so I could remember my own address - especially since I lived in the same place for the last nine years!

>And, here’s the clincher… it’s only going to get worse!

>I didn’t want to die alone. I didn’t want to die of old age. I didn’t want to die after years of unproductivity. I didn’t want to die having my chin and my butt wiped by someone who might forget which cloth they used for which. I didn’t want to die of a stroke or cancer or heart attack or Alzheimer’s. I decided I was gettin’ out while the gettin’ was good and while I could still produce this website! I’ve been to the penthouse. It may only be a 10-story building, but I refuse to ride the elevator down to the basement! Nope, I'm going out on top. The rest of you can go out whenever you want.

The meticulous planning and website are certainly symptoms of a certain kind of obsession, but he does outline what some might consider to be not wholly illegitimate concerns...
High-speed rail or Hyperloop? Let's try both, and reward the winner
Everything, from the premise to the details. The grandiosity and self-obsession and narcissism, the delusions about his own motives (which were clearly emotional and painful rather than pseudo-philosophical). Even if you take his argument at face value he is killing himself in response to an ailment that he does not have. His using controversially justified ideas of suicide as a cover for self rage.

Edit: I was trying to dissuade people from promoting suicide as an impressively rational response to reaching an age many people consider to be the best years of life. He killed himself, lied to himself about why, and then wrote and painstakingly edited (20 times at least, he says) an massive, elaborate shrine to himself and his own sad death. Yeah, I guess those are both equally narcissistic.
I found I could never concentrate in a coffee shop. It depends on the task, ultimately.

But the dream is of the metaphorical coffee shop, of course. You could work in a colourful bean-bag-chair-filled brick-and-beam, but still be miserable in your current role. Or you could come into a suburban corporate park and burst at the seams with energy.
There's several "design patterns" in C++ that are used, but you need to conform to at least one of them to have any hope of success.

For instance, do you prefer cheap copies? References? Reference counted pointers with auto-destructors? There's many ways of doing it, you're not necessarily forced to pick any particular one, but not making use of these facilities and instead doing it C-style is making your life harder than it should be.

Between the Standard Library and Boost, there's a lot to pick from. There's no reason to go and roll your own vector just because you don't like or understand the way the standard one works.
And that signals the beginning of the end for Google, when an engineer-lead company is taken over by "managers". It happened and will happen to all companies.
"3) I had no financial problems. I sold my house which was completely paid for in 1998. The same year I bought $30,000 in 1/10 ounce gold coins and pre 1965 silver coins. Gold was $300/ounce when I bought it and silver was $4/ounce. Gold went up to $1,700 and Silver to $44 making my stash worth over $200,000.

38.800542, -94.687884"

The Lat/Lon where it's buried?
Web Components is an active W3 spec. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-components-intro-20130606/

All browsers are going to support Web Components eventually and it is going to greatly expand what we thought HTML should or shouldn't do.

I think Chrome Chrome Canary has an implementation behind a flag and FF is actively working on it as well.
Wow. I never thought of 20% time that way, but it makes perfect sense. Just like mandatory insurance. Thanks!
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5723235
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5567639
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4073162
It makes a function called : which spawns processes, and each of those processes spawns more processes calling itself.
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You would use 'dd' instead which is faster since you don't have to have make sure your other hand is in the correct position.
Haha, thanks, but no thanks. That thing looks like it came straight out of a Star Trek episode!
How awesome is the food?
A lot of third party libraries are just header files you can put into your application directly. How is this even worth complaining about?
I really need an advisor. Although I "have" one, it takes him many, many days to reply to my questions. So much for being put in touch with him by one of leaders in tech. startups....
I believe the culture wars regarding these sorts of subjects will get a lot worse, maybe with lots of deaths, before it become better.

All sides of it, has their own reasons, many of them legitimate... But if history is good in showing precedents, the end result of this will be countless deaths and destruction, before it gets better.
Why pay engineers to work on projects that will never meet a business case?

Isn't that begging the question in regards to whether or not you can know, ahead of time, which projects will or won't become viable and have a supporting business case?
The 20% thing isn't really much of a perk anyway. I would only ever work for a company that let me work whenever I wanted, take naps whenever I wanted, go for walks whenever I wanted, and work on other projects. I do this at my current job, and I still end up being more productive in my actual work than any other developer I've ever met (and more productive than the average google engineer, I'd venture to say). I run the company, so I guess I can decide how I work :)

See also the "people simply empty out" article posted on HN. Google seems to be falling for the PHB fallacy that people are just machines that crank out code. Perhaps that is what google is becoming, but I certainly wouldn't want to work there.
Or thought that he was using sarcasm to register opinions that would have been better supported by actual arguments.
I am the exact same way, and was recently diagnosed ADHD.
> Martin is 60 and well past his prime

Which isn't even half the age of the oldest person to ever live. I think quality of life at 60 varies a lot person to person. Of course your physical capabilities will have peaked, but that doesn't at all imply your ability to enjoy life has. Heck, I was reading a 100-year old recently completed a marathon, which is more than most my age (23) are capable of doing. I'm sure there are plenty of people who had a miserable youth but had very enjoyable years toward the end of their life.
I am still skeptical for this . . the basic approximation formula gives a ballpark .. and when I put 159 million in the formula it gives me 12640500079500000 which is 12 quadrillion ... http://www.tools4noobs.com/online_tools/number_spell_words/

Reason I say this is - let's assume all 159 million bangs are expanded then 159*159 millions = 25 quadrillion
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This is exactly what Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) has been doing in recent years. IMHO, the precision of results from Baidu is less competitive in many niche perspectives compared with that from Google, and many keywords draws hoax, sponsored links by liars/copycats/fake suppliers. The reason is obvious. Censorship in various ways blocks Google from entering Chinese market, and the rest of the players are just not strong enough to compete with Baidu. However, Baidu is good in providing the latest rumours and gossips on entertaining subjects/celebrities.

Also, Baidu was accused by many to have intentionally removed or weighed down the links to sites, admins of which have refused to bid advertisement or increase their advertisement bidding. I cannot explain such strategy except to hypothesize that Baidu has sustained de facto monopoly.
Such a good call! I don't use buffers enough :)
Not going to lie. I expected a different kind of coffee shop.
Supposedly it was a "fat-finger" by a Chinese state-owned equity firm (Everbright securities). In other words, an arbitrage algo gone wrong. Cost the firm $1 billion and they are now suspended from trading for who knows how long.
They also work harder than most of the people where they are from - it's being an immigrant that's associated with being a hard worker, not being from a place other than the US.

Americans work harder than almost every other nationality in the world. New Americans generally work even harder than that.
Suicide at the right time is the best death, pity that religion has taught us to see suicide as a coward act.

You can choose suffering, physical degradation, mental declination, assisted feeding and cleaning, or you can choose death at your own pace, in a nice hotel with a view over the sunset after a delicious meal and some final words with your family and your conscience.

We should learn the art of death for we will all face it.
> I have to suspect that's because he was willing to shut down his company and make a big stink

Why so many are stuck on the fact he "shut down the company" and did a good dead. I been downvoted about this before and its fine, I just didnt get my answer.

The Feds did not ask him to shut down; it wasnt Government mission. Their mission was to get access to Lavabit data. Said that, regardless if he shut down or not, Government will or already did get full access to Lavabit data. Its even worse that they shut down; if they were online you could go and clean up your mailbox (not necessarily from anything illegal, but for example your own naked pictures you sent to your wife). But since they are offline, nothing can be done. Government won.
This is my first product release. The whole thing took about a week to design, develop, and release. I'd love some feedback.
Debian is the center of my linux universe. Happy Birthday and THANKS! to all who contribute to what is the best representation of what computing freedom should be.
He's right because he 'feels "done?"' He feels done because he is paranoid and lonely and feels bad about himself, because he seems to have profound psychological pain. Glorifying his manic, grandiose justifications is a terrible idea, even if horror is sometimes fascinating.

He felt done because he was using cliches about aging to rage at himself. There is no "prime" after which the value of your life declines. If your conception of yourself is that you only deserve to live insofar as you can perform as a young person would, you aren't admirably rational, you're just self-loathing.
"I'm currently working on a ToDo-App for the iPhone. The problem is, I'm not really working on it."

LOL
> It boggles my mind, given the big money involved, why so many people continue to bet huge sums of cash on the proven short-term penny-wise/pound-foolish idiocy of MBA-think.

A lot of this "idiocy" is in fact rational (if unethical) behavior. At many large companies, upper management is rewarded for short-term gains. In response, these managers adopt strategies that produce short-term gains. If these gains can be boosted by risking the company's future, that too is a rational trade-off: The managers will be long gone when the company falls into decline, but in the meantime they will have collected a lot of pumped-up bonuses.

When people are paid today to burn tomorrow, why are we surprised that they reach for the matches?
I started hacking around in linux at 12 too!
Trying to figure out a mathematical representation of this sequence...

I noticed that different patterns emerge when you subtract 1 from each value in the sequence. From there we get:

0

1

2

4

16

160

15680

159591040

16866847940875520

Each (excluding 0 and 1) is a multiple of the previous term:

1

2 = 1 * 2

4 = 2 * 2

16 = 4 * 4

160 = 16 * 10

15680 = 160 * 98

159591040 = 15680 * 10178

16866847940875520 = 159591040 * 105687938

Anything ring a bell? Notice any other patterns?
There is an issue of who calls the shots -- if you solicit donations from your users, that's who you are beholden to and need to serve to get money. If you are soliciting third party advertisements, that's who you are beholden to (and if you are using a third-party ad placement service, you are beholden to them as well as, perhaps more than, the actual advertisers.)
the article ? "The situation highlights both more general problems with cyberbullying and the targeting of women via Twitter, both of which are likely to see more strict legal sanctions in the future."
Someone must be on there way already. Hope they post what they found.
I find myself much more interested in space now than ever been (as an adult) and I can directly attribute that to the work Elon Musk has been doing. I wonder if he's shaping the next generation of entrapreneurs and startups.
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Writing his own biography is no more or less narcissistic than your thinking anyone on the internet cares about your opinion on his writing his biography.

Lots of people have personal web sites of their life's accomplishments, they call them "portfolios". Lots of people have an online account of their day-to-day activities, they call them "blogs", "tweets", and "status updates".

What Martin Manley has done here is no more or less "self-obsessed" than what you and I do every single day, he only presents it in a manner slightly askew to that with which we are accustomed.
Dead on.

When you're huge and cash-flush, you have the luxury of really innovating in truly hard areas.

This luxury is damn hard to obtain in a short-term gerbil-wheel economy like ours. Once you have it, throwing it away is like setting fire to a house as soon as you've paid off the mortgage or crashing your new luxury car as soon as you drive it off the lot. It is abysmally stupid and short-sighted. Investors should call for the heads of people who do this, literally. As in on a pike.

People think innovation comes from startups, but in reality it doesn't. Not because startups aren't smart and agile, but because they don't have the resources.

When I say innovation, I mean innovation. I don't mean application of existing innovations to new market areas or problem spaces. Startups excel at that.

But you'll never see a scrappy basement startup whip out a self-driving car, an artificial lung printed from a 3d printer, an orbit-capable reusable rocket, augmented reality goggles with a complete software stack, etc. Not unless the parts for those things already exist and can simply be combined in a novel way to yield a result in less than a year.

If you're big and cash flush, you can do what nobody else can do (except other monsters like you). You can do this.

http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

That dent gets you a Ph.D, but if you do it for something of high economic value it gets you early entry into a market nobody else can enter because they don't know how.

If you do it, you've now created a piece of value that you can do one of many things with. You can feed it into your more short-term product-dev branches and do things nobody else can compete with, you can license it, or you can use it to pump up the prestige of your company in ways no advertising can.

"Holy crap! A self-driving car! And it really works. I mean, there it is, on the road, and it's driving better than I am and getting around faster than I am! I'm going to move all my business's hosting to Google Apps, cause they obviously have the smartest people on the planet..."

I do have the sense though -- and keep in mind I am an outsider -- that there might have been some "ADD" issues with Google's 20% policy as it was implemented. But I don't think the solution is to ditch it. The solution is to focus it, to try to get people to spend their 20% time pushing harder into deeper and more difficult areas instead of whipping out hacks. Maybe incentivize more people to work together more formally on 20% projects over longer spans of time, and incentivize them to tackle things that are very difficult... things only a big elephant can do instead of things a scrappy startup could do.
Yep, I got it wrong. Thanks for pointing that.

Now I'm also wondering how I'd use something like that in an imperative language... Well, I have some studying to do.
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> The reliability signals this app needs are built into both TCP and the socket programming interface, from what I can tell. The application-layer acknowledgement it wants appears duplicative.

An ACK only suggests that a segment has reached the recieve buffer successfully. If the receiving application crashes between buffering incoming data and successfully processing it, that's expressly not TCP's problem. The RST will signal that the receiver has died, but does not imply whether or not the application has successfully processed any buffered data up to that point.

AFAIK, an application-layer acknowledgement is the only way to solve this problem.
You're overlooking that the underlying technology - Web Components - is landing as a standard as we speak in both Firefox and Chrome. The idea that creating custom elements is inherently bad is an urban legend - there is no empirical basis for such a claim. Additionally, you are mixing metaphors, Custom Elements are not meant to describe data, they are meant to create new, active UI components and other useful tags.
Sorry, this was a mistake. The correct number is:

16866847940875521

which is just 2.4 times as much as your approximation.

It would be nice if somebody could confirm my numbers indepdently.
> There's no rule to success.

Amen. I think as HN readers we suck up so much info on a daily basis (I would guess so much more than the everyday public) and get confused so many ways on what is 'The right way' to do thing, 'The wrong ways to do things' and the '5n lessons you should learn to do things right'. But really, all that will change and become irrelevant when company x does things in way y. Then all the armchair experts and runaway copiers will wax philosophical, and no-one will know any better until the daring party actually does it, or completely bucks it.
> A lot of this "idiocy" is in fact rational behavior. At many large companies, upper management is rewarded for short-term gains.

The fact that microoptimizations that are harmful to the company in a broader perspective are rational on the part of individual mid-level managers working within the incentive framework provided by upper management, doesn't mean they aren't idiocy on the part of the upper management responsible for creating the incentive framework.

In fact, that means they are idiocy on the part of upper management.