skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Terminals are weird, but it's not because of the data stream.

The real mind-bending weirdness is in the kernel tty layer, for historical performance reasons. Userspace apps weren't able to keep up with typing in the early days, so the kernel is expected to handle stuff like simple editting (^H) and line buffering. And it has to handle baud rate and uart settings, of course. And it has to trap "special" keys like ^C so that hung applications can be reliably terminated via a signal. And it has to detect dropped lines to free up the terminal for other users.

And it still does all this nonsense even in a world where those use cases are all forgotten.

Terminals are weird.

(But no, there aren't any other good alternatives, so we just deal with it.)
You don't, but if you are dumb enough to give them a share of your business they are happy to take it.
Also got rejected, but just applying was a valuable experience because of the sort of questions it forced us to tackle.

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Why not build atop something like https://github.com/ASKBOT for this?
There are many multiples of "great".
Mass Mosaic adds maps and news to Mosaics
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To view other Mosaics, see https://massmosaic.com/groups/ and to create your own goto https://massmosaic.com/groups/create
I see more Safari bugs/issues - it's surprising how poor Safari is in some areas.
Working on Kobra, a realtime collaborative editor for programmers with built in video & voice chat :)

https://Kobra.io

Let me know what you think!
So Stripe is the company that configured their master to no persistence, killed it, and blamed Redis for losing their data? Annoying they reported the "issue" to Aphyr, decided to withhold their name, and proceeded to spread a ton of FUD against Redis when the core issue was a mis-configuration on their part. Hand-holding can only go so far.
> We make jokes about how nearly nothing is "rocket science" or "brain surgery"

Fun note: a very long time ago I dated a woman who happened to be a brain surgeon. She used to joke her work was actually easy because nobody realy expecting her patients to survive.
Yes, Microsoft the minnow company nobody heard of.
Much and truly thanks for providing some thoughtful feedback. As someone who personally felt the pain from the juror perspective, I actually had no idea about the pains felt by court administrators. The courts we've been working with in determining our MVP are extremely interested in what Jurymind provides as far as a way to more conveniently connect with jurors. They recognize people don't want to do jury duty, and that manifests in many ways. Anything they can do reduce friction communicating is a welcome tool. If a court can save 5 jurors a month from becoming no shows, that's worth the time and expense. A smaller county can easily send summonses to over 500 potential jurors per month. With no show rates averaging in the 30-40%range, we see a compelling opportunity.

Jury clerks certainly don't want more work, either... Who does? Our process has boiled it down to just a few clicks to send out notifications to any jurors using the app. That's a mere fraction of the time it takes just to record the daily phone message, even if it's done in one take (rare). Having shown our app to a room full of jury clerks, including some voicing concerns about more workload, they were adequately impressed with the easy of use. Some were downright excited.

Privacy is another very obvious area of concern. We actually neither store nor require any personally identifiable juror information. At most, we ask for a juror number from the summons and name of the court. No other info or even password needed. We're ultimately not providing jurors with more confidential information than any person - juror or otherwise - could get by dialing the jury "hotline" and listening to the extremely verbose recording every day. Our objective is to provide it in a much more proactive, clear, and convenient fashion.

Final thought... Courts are already well underway in converting to paperless records and court management software, so technophobia isn't really an option any more. State and federal grants are available for adding innovative technologies into the justice system. Not saying every court is or will go this route, but we're also not pioneering computer use in the courts with our app. They've already embraced it more than I would have thought myself.

Again, much thanks for engaging! I'd be most curious to hear how the added info might affect your thoughts. Feel free to continue here or drop me a line privately.
I also summarize key quotes from each lecture in a post. You can find 38 quotes I picked up from today's lecture here:

https://medium.com/how-to-start-a-startup/38-quotes-from-ben...
It's not a hardware limit that keeps mobile from wholly eating desktop, but a software one. Mobile OSes are intentionally crippled and locked down at the OS layer. You don't own or control your device, and only approved software can run.

Android is a bit better than iOS in this respect, but not much.

None of the mobile vendors have any incentive to change this, since it would mean forfeiting the App Store tax and for Apple would cannibalize the Mac market. The only way I see an uncrippled mobile device entering the market that is high enough quality to compete is if someone with none of these conflicting interests bucks the trend. Android is pretty forkable, so a droid fork that solved the security problems in a non-feudal way and that supported the sort of docking you describe would be disruptive.

Dell? Compaq? HP? A "washed up" PC vendor with stagnant market share would have nothing to lose and might have the resources to pull it off.
Fast Randomized SVD
We've probably seen a bit of a slow down in Moore's law over the last 10 years, at least when it comes to Intel CPUs but I think you're exaggerating the extent of the slowdown.

Some benchmarks are heavily dependent on RAM latency and / or bandwidth but improvements in those have been slower than improvements in CPU performance and if CPU performance is what you're interested in then pick a benchmark that is largely independent of main memory (a compute bound benchmark whose working set fits in L2). Haswell will still do a lot better than a P4 in a compute bound benchmark, perhaps even beating it by more than in a memory bound benchmark.

The other thing to consider is that over time more attention is being paid to performance per Watt than raw FLOPS and in that regard Haswell looks rather better compared to the P4.
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Octane is half good and half rubbish: https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2012/08/24/octane-minus...

The notable thing about this achievement is that for a very long time V8 was miles ahead of the competition on its own benchmark (first V8bench, and now Octane), as the graphs at http://arewefastyet.com/ show.
> Whatsapp has lots of users - most of whom are in countries viewed as almost worthless by advertisers.
Really? I have run campaigns in almost every country on this rock. All people are valuable in some way. Sure a wealthy country citizen is worth more but you'd be surprised how much companies will still pay and compete to reach that villager in Thailand on their mobile phone.

I agree that $19b was excessive for this company, but if they can maintain/grow market share then it wont be that bad. But given the way technology changes I think they should have discounted their offer to offset the risk another service gains popularity. Unless FB do something to lock in distribution like create their own mobile OS, this will remain a big risk.
Mobile FIRST yet we didn't build an app
My notes from the video:

1) breaks all compatibility with angular 1

2) there are no longer directives, controllers, $scope or jqLite

3) forces use es6 features that haven't been accepted yet by the community.

4) forces static typing of javascript in the same way that didn't work in Google dart, as opposed to building on top of es6 modules

5) Since we've dropped all major components of angular, they've brought back non-semantic html. Everything is now triggered via onclick="" tags. Except since now there's no controller, what they've actually done is introduce non-semantic templating into angular templates, which are now required to replace your controller definitions.

6) in order to allow for Dart-esque static-like typing, directives can no longer be used throughout an application, every module that wants to use a directive needs to be hardcoded into an array in the directive.

7) modules have been replaced by es6 modules, yay!

8) the three scope type bindings are now no longer settings on your binding, but rather differnt syntaxes you use specifically in your angular templates

9) your components in your directives are DI'd by whateber the closest service/module/etc is closest in the template where it is being used, instead of being configured on an application or controller level (since those things no longer exist). So concievably, you no longer need to configure any DI, ever, but if you start injecting your templates into other templates, you will have all sorts of collisions (which can be good or bad depending on the application's desires), but seems untestable.

10) because all objects are now tied into the templates, broadcasting of events on child types no longer need to be done through services or listening to the DOM, instead you can just query your current object, and it will have a reference to all events bubbling up or down the dom.

11) Did I mention jqLite is gone? And they did it so they can fudge better benchmark results vs ember / react / knockout / backbone, not for an actual technical reason.

12) Chrome will have a better angular specific performance tool in their webdev tools, of course. Makes sense, since ff just built jquery support into fdt/fb
If you stop the excessive spending, you may actually pay off your debts prematurely. Guess who it'll hurt? The sponsors of the Economist, the banks and wealthy investors who want at least 2-3% interest for nothing (for lending out money they've accumulated in the past, or money they've generated out of thin air in case of banks).

It'll likely also hurt some countries that have accumulated far more debt than they could ever reasonably hope to pay back. Debt also motivated by the same entities hoping to make a buck from nothing.

I'm not at all afraid. I have no debt and I invest in things that have actual value when used, like real estate. I don't care if prices drop, because it'll still be real estate with practical value.
We have customers delivering moving boxes, picking up laundry, lawn care, compost bins, etc...

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The article exemplifies a pretty common attitude among certain types of environmentalists, which is that there's something intrinsically and irredeemably evil about the modern industrial society as a whole.

Not surprisingly, it does not occur to them that we might be able to harness and redirect the formidable forces of the industrial economy to do good instead of evil under certain circumstances. Even though this would be easier and more effective than getting rid of it altogether.

This is not a failure to think big. It's just what happens when you think big and only big. Nothing less than the entirety of the industrial economy can be the subject of their moral judgments, because they don't want to spend any time trying to find out which parts are okay and which parts are truly evil.
Focus on school. Graduating at 24 doesn't matter. Don't start a company in college. This was discussed in the start up lecture videos that are being posted to HN. Do fewer things well.
Actually, if basic income is implemented, the cost will be much higher than the current costs, not lower. Basic income is a redistribution. You can't give a bunch of people money without also causing inflation. The question is whether basic income adds an acceptable amount of inflation. It definitely won't help with production costs, though.
I think what's really interesting is exploring the dynamics around lowering or raising the interest rate. Lowering it will tend to pull purchases from the future to the present, everything else equal. But -- at least with housing -- all other things aren't equal; lowering the interest rate also drives up property prices.

Once something is expensive enough that say, 95% of the population has to finance it, the purchase price is no longer really a consideration. Sure you might sign on a mortgage that ostensibly says you start out owing $300k or whatever, but in reality what you're signing on is an obligation to pay $2k/month for the next 30 years, or until you sell it, go broke and move out, etc.

At 10% interest the $2k/mo doesn't have all that large of a price-artifact; it's about $200k. At 4% interest, the $2k/mo price-artifact is $375k. This is interesting and serves to illustrate that lowering the interest rate doesn't really "help" real-estate except to ensure that people aren't underwater in houses they paid too much for.

In the non-financing world, a high interest rate means that you get a future-discount by saving your money and buying it later. And a low interest rate means that you get less of a future-discount by waiting to buy. When I say "a high interest rate" I'm talking about the real interest rate, interest minus inflation. The nominal interest rate doesn't matter save for some psychological effects. You can get that by having 10% interest and 4% inflation or 2% interest and 4% deflation, either way the real interest rate is 6%. But when the interest rate is 1% and inflation is 3% then the real interest rate is negative, -2% and you're a fool to save any money at all; everything else equal. This is how lowering the interest rate pulls future purchases into the present.

Here's the kicker though: eventually there's less and less future purchases to pull from, and as a result the inflation has to get ever-more severe. As you start to approach spending all your money on debt service, you have less and less ability to take on new debt. And that means that the terms have to get substantially more favorable, and seemingly the only way to do that is to inflate enough to make the old debt less burdensome. Is that an underhanded form of theft? Probably, but it's the legal kind.

The "hoarding" argument tends to fall apart if you consider all the things which a person HAS to buy; food, water, clothing, shelter, energy, transportation, etc. It's not as though you can not eat your vegetables because they're expensive for 20 years and then make up for that all at once. Can people make do with less? Sure.

One person's "hoarding" is another person's ability to finance a house because the bank has enough savings to make the loan.
Your site looks great. As an objective 3rd party with experience in the real estate sector, I think you are on to something great. (Which is obvious since you got in!)
The problem with engineering the planet is that you would presumably have to have every country on-board for it to be effective (or at least the big ones). Which would imply that either the engineered solution is so obvious to everyone involved that any opposition would be considered a fringe minority, or you have some sort of united world government that has the power to enforce that kind of change. Neither of those seems super likely though, at least in the near future.
Court filing: FBI impersonated repairmen in ruse
If I had to guess, none of the solutions back then sufficed for them. Batman has been around for a while.
I am not sure, but I think that an implicit goal of keysigning is to: one, get any chain at all between two people for the more common case of no chain compared to the rarer case of active malice; and two, if enough people do it the graph should reveal impostors or at least a discrepancy that can be investigated. Someone may not realize there's a fake key out there with their name on it until a bunch of people start signing each others keys and uploading the wad of signatures to keyservers.
We kinda already had this with the old segmented memory model. That AMD mostly dropped support for it in x86_64 should tell you something.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_memory_segmentation
How do they root cause something like this when so much of the evidence is blown to pieces?
I have been hoping for a world where developers and content creators produced reactive HTML 5 web apps that worked beautifully on all devices from phones to laptops to large screen desktops and TVs.

An analogy: writing and production tools have been getting better with output to PDF, Kindle, iBook, and print books. The overhead for creativity decreases so more effort goes to producing great content. This is what I would like for interactive web applications.

There is a lot of niche content and special interests and there will continue to be a wide range of devices. Lots very inexpensive phones in developing countries and a wide range of devices upscale. Content providers and application developers should have access to all users, world wide, with low development overhead.
I'm pretty sure Law Enforcement Agencies have apprehended suspects with a similar scheme. "Hey, come down to our car dealership, you've won a new car!"
That link says nothing at all about any sort of transfer of wealth it just says a lot about a bunch of people getting poorer. It's pretty widely acknowledged that the financial crisis revealed that we were not as rich as we thought we were. That's not the same thing as a transfer of wealth.
PyEDA author here. I agree.
have they sent out all the invitations/rejections already?
This breaks some sites.
None I use.
I've read it is a problem for last.fm users because of some social chat thing they use I forget the name of.
Anyway.
I do this too, kind of.
I use either refcontrol or smart referrer.
I let sites have referrer on their domain but no 3rd parties by default and can add an exception if I want.
You can test this at http://ip-check.info regardless if you're using Tor or not.

I haven't found the time to do it my self yet but will if someone doesn't beat me to porting Window Name Eraser to firefox from chrome.
window.name is great for the site your visiting to use on their site. They have absolutely no business using it crossdomain, period.
Not even if they own the other domain. There are legitimate ways to do that but they are too lazy, dumb, or opposed to using encryption.

I will allow a fucking cookie if I want to login or allow them to store or gather anything!
No supercookies, no flash cookies, no evercookies.
I use cookie monster, cookie culler, cookie self-destruct, and Cookie Controller that applies my regular cookie rules/disposition to DOM storage cookies as well.

Browsers, all of them, should behave and act the way they do after I make them go all green on ip-check.info.

In addition to that they have no fucking business knowing what the monitor resolution is.
They ONLY need the canvas/inner window of the browser to render their damn site right.
I will pull down videos and watch them offline without flash phoning home or to anyone else to give them anything to fingerprint my devices with.

They aren't entitled to this information and I'm against them having it.
If I were like Carrie or the Twilight Zone kid who sends people into the Corn field and does other "fun" stuff they would have very good reason to be worried. >=/
Is anyone currently doing, hmm, civilization engineering? There's a very short question with a very long answer, design a perfect civilization. Heck, simplify it further, design a perfect industrial economy. What would our resource acquisition, energy generation and transmission, manufacturing and shipping, transportation and housing, agriculture have to look like to arbitrarily high standard of living with arbitrarily low environmental impacts?
That's a religious heresy to this movement. What you wrote is tantamount to suggesting a Christian worship Satan.
I don't doubt this is true, but this shouldn't be what an incubator is about. It should be about taking a great idea and a talented team and helping them buid a great business when the founders are inexperienced in running a business.
My problems were really two fold:

* I previously had a 23% discount (FAN code) on my account which applied to the unlimited data lines in a favorable way. In essence, it applied to both the $30/month data fee for Unlimited, and the couple hundred minutes of call and unlimited text family plan which were sort of an umbrella for all the lines. With mobile shared, one of the gotchas I didn't discover until well after the first bill (since the perpetual excuse with a FAN code discount is – it takes a while to apply) was that the discount applies only to the mobile shared data bucket charge, not to the $30/phone, $x/tablet, $x/modem device access charge line items which quickly add up if you have more than a single line. This really threw off the math I had done for affordability and made it more expensive for me.

* The tiers previously were structured a bit differently, and with the two lines I had plus another person, I would always hit the 10 GB I had signed up for, then pay the $15/GB overage. Going to the next tier up to avoid paying overage for a GB or two would've still been more expensive, so like clockwork I would always end up paying some overages. Since then they've doubled some of the larger tiers as a reactionary measure.

Affordability wise quite honestly AT&T is close to parity with T-Mobile if you manage to get the mobile shared value plans which have cheaper monthly rates if you bring your own device or buy without a contract.
Taking another year for school is not a big deal. Heck, it is a lot easier to get intern and coop jobs while you are in school, and participate in programs like Google Summer of Code, than it is to get a full time full pay job after. That said, if your side business has traction, ditch school. If you have traction you can get funding pretty much, and work on your own idea.
Awesome. Maybe I'll end up buying a windows machine sometime soon.
Not everyone uses chrome. I ditched chrome 3 months ago and happily recovered hours of my battery life.

Not coming back till chrome stops taking 30% off my battery life... Only VMware Fusion uses more battery life on my laptop.
Good work. We were invited for an interview, but I can tell you that I've failed to get an opportunity so many times in my life that I've lost count. I've had a handful of wins, but have thrown the dice tens of thousands of times. Opportunity is a fickle beast. There have been dark dark days (and months). My ego and pride is covered with calluses. It's depressing and it makes your humble, but it's not a sign of defeat. Push through if only because the alternative is to concede defeat.

A couple of my biggest regrets are not applying to Google in 2000 when I was graduating from CPSC: "Search engine? Well that sounds boring. And they don't even have a business model!".. Opps....

The other was not applying to YC in November 2009. "Oh the next class is too far away." I had a killer prototype, and since then the whatifs always haunted me.

Better to try, and be overlooked, than to never try at all.
That theory is complete nonsense.

If you wait a little longer, you can buy a better tablet, a better computer, a better phone, a better TV with the same amount of money (inflation-corrected or not). That doesn't stop people from buying all kinds of electronic devices, even though they get obsolete much faster than their money.
I submitted a Goodie about a year ago and had it pulled into their repository on Github and am yet to have it appear in a search that should trigger it. It's a cool opportunity but I don't get how the instant answer plugins will make it in.
I have vague memories of Frames not working under the HTML4 Strict doctype
AngularJS 2.0: all you need to know