skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It appears the last activity you posted was in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6472749

You called Alex (whose friend had died and he didn't find out for two years) a "shitty friend" and said he didn't "think of, or care for, others".

I don't know if that's worthy of a hellban. But I do know I wouldn't consider the offending comments mere "dissent".
Neat, though I don't actually think I like the look of it. I think I'd rather have an underline further down, so that it's below the descenders.
keyword here is "absorb", which means that all Muslims are ruled out - they do not absorb well, because islam is more like mental illness rather than religion, and you can't cure it. This also means that countries like Germany, France, Great Britain are doomed, because number of Muslim immigrants has reached critical level - trying to get rid of them now would mean civil war.
Definitely true. I think the parent was overstating it saying that one would be miserable without money.

But the larger point stands, your state of mind and your access to resources are connected, very strongly at the poverty end. There are definitely people who can be very fulfilled with very few resources (until they get sick or it gets very cold) but they would all be happier with a bunch of money, even if that's just to give away to those in need.
Oooh, is being saucy or mildly disagreeable not allowed either? I get the hint.
The younger generation isn't bothering with Facebook as much (today's teens to early 20s) and going right to services that offer messaging and image sharing, maybe that's what the article is referring to.
It would be awesome if apps you purchased on the AppDirect marketplace would automatically be linked into you Leftronic account.
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>Macros are of course enormously useful but also very difficult to shoe horn into a c-family language properly since they need to be expanded at compile time (unless you just go ahead and embed you compiler backend into the runtime system of your language.

No, that's not necessary at all, with Rust-like macros which are simple pattern->template things. Macros have zero runtime cost.
Considering they have a ton of ads being served this line of thinking is very unlikely, as they are clearly attracting advertisers who are spending money.
You mention paying union folks like it is a bad thing, in line with "legalized "corruption"".

Perhaps you should go work in a foundry, machine shop, or a mine for a while and then see how you feel about unions.
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I want to control / inspect Internet Explorer and Chrome desktop and Firefox in one consistent app. Moving between different devtools sucks. Browserstack and VMs have horrible latency.

It would be cool for Developer Edition to help me test websites everywhere. I'm not sure how technically you would do that though.
Ah, when lumped with GC I was wondering if there was a new trend in memory management that was confusingly called VR as well :)
Neither of your things in "quotes" are things that I said. The "shitty friend" was alexcap's own words. The phrase "think of, or care for, others" didn't show up in my comment at all.

I didn't call him a shitty friend. He wrote, "Now you’re probably thinking I’m a real shitty friend" after his explanation of the events — which I quoted, in quotes, very clearly a direct quote from his own words — and I wrote "Yes" to answer the question. 95% of my comment was advice for people on what to do in the situation that the friend is reaching out to them as that friend did, who got ignored and later died and that person didn't know for years.

If you write an essay about something you did that you think was bad, and post it to Medium, and post it to HN, and then say "You probably think I did something bad," is it reaaaally so controversial to comment with "Yes, I agree, I think you did something bad"?

Also, if you thought that was my last comment, maybe you don't see my actual last exchange? It was about my bootstrapping conference and upcoming web site. Perhaps it's truly hell banned as in not visible? It was this:

http://skitch-replacement.s3.amazonaws.com/ahoyhere_s_commen...
Not at all. Slides are to support a talk. I find most of them fairly useless without the speaker audio/video.
Pure guesswork: combinations of the several ask HNs and the word jewelery triggered the spam filter.

Did you email hn to ask why you were banned?
Ohai, I've been hell-banned and don't know why. I guess as someone successfully running a software business _and_ being a well-known open source person I have to place in a forum for people who want to run successful internet businesses and are into tech.
With respect, your idealised assessment still has the problem with how that translates to depression, or (after) lack there of.

Definitely agree that our understanding is only really beginning in these kinds of areas though ultimately you are often going to be treating a disorder of subjective experience with these drugs. That makes it very hard for us not to be wishy-washy these days
And that's the best approach I can imagine: programmer should be able to control if he wants 5% penalty or speed. It's a win-win.
> I am not a Soylent fan but I do like this food-versioning idea. What if all consumer food products were required to have versions numbers and a change log to detail out modifications?

Requiring a change log is probably overkill, but I've long wished that versioning was required on any food that is required to have a nutrition and ingredients label. The versioning would probably be most useful if it were simply the date of the last change to the ingredients or nutrition information.

Then all I'd have to do when buying some packaged food item that I've had before is take a quick look at the date, note that it is earlier than the last time I read the complete label and approved the item, and I'm good to go.

Such a requirement should be cheap and easy for the producers. If they have changed the nutritional or ingredient information, they have to make news labels anyway.
As someone actively trying to damage his (how did I guess you were a guy?!) community with dismissive, condescending and anti-inclusive hatred, in a community already battling against these problems, I hope you consider making programming not your thing.
What's a reasonable limit of government surveillance to you?
SpaceX benefited from a great many years of experience, technology, knowledge, and lessons learned in blood from NASA, which is priceless. Comparing SpaceX outlays to a corporate acquisition pricetag is a weak analogy, at best. NASA (federal taxes) provided roughly half of SpaceX's initial funding. Large fractions of their current contracts come from NASA. And of course plenty of SpaceX's engineers are ex-NASA employees.

As far as unions go, I will grant that wages are higher as a result of their existence. That's a feature, not a bug. I'm curious: just how much of that $50B pricetag do you imagine is due to unions and "corruption"? A ballpark figure from the website of your choice will be fine.
Possibly like this: http://discuss.rust-lang.org/t/pre-rfc-placement-box-with-pl...

It looks like it'll be supported first-class for 1.0. By my guess we'll be writing things like this:

// NOTE: This is not real code, just a guess on my part!
let heavy_objects: Vec<Heavy> = vec!();
// Construct a new Heavy in-place at the end of the vector.
box(heavy_objects.emplace_back()) Heavy::new();
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His update to this old blog post is much better: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/09/11/moveprovers.html
but he hasn't found cbmc yet.

A little list: http://anna.fi.muni.cz/yahoda/
Citing specific problems can be instructive, and I would agree that bone and muscle mass loss could prove very bad. My issue is with nebulous claims that 'anything could happen'.

I would add that the bone and muscle problems are very well known to just about everyone who has done as much as read a science fiction book. Heinlein went into the subject in detail in his 1966 novel "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", and more recent writers such as Kim Stanley Robinson have written about it too.
I keep feeling like Evernote is falling around like crazy to try and diversify. I like and pay for the app but god I don't want EN-branded socks/backpacks/thermoses. Or have it try to shove random articles off the internet into my face when I'm sitting there thinking about My Projects.
Maybe you're referring to something else, but std::allocator was in c++98
At a first approximation, your hosting costs are very obvious: you get a monthly invoice from your hosting provider. If you use multiple providers, add them up. If you use a CDN, add that in too. Very simple. Whether or not your infrastructure will be seized changes nothing about the fact that they are receiving regular invoices for the services they consume.

Revenues are similarly easy to calculate: add up all the payments received by whatever ad networks, affiliate programs, partnerships, and so on they use. Some may pay weekly, some monthly, some quarterly... whatever. But it should be trivial to add these up over the course of a 3 month, 6 month, or 1 year period.

Any competent 10 year old should be able to take the revenue and expense information and calculate a net profit or loss. Barring that, anybody in the same position should at the very least be able to consider whether the statement "I regularly dip into my personal savings to pay for the site's operations" rings true for them or if they never had to do that. If the revenue and expenses were co-mingled with their personal bank accounts, it should be easy to separate out other sources of revenue and look at income vs. expense from site operations.
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A similar (non-GUI) tool is scapy:
http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy/demo.html
> In the wake of this, he's decided to take maybe the most important economic issue of the next 20 years and politicize it.

Obama campaigned on net neutrality and has been talking about it throughout his presidency. This is nothing new.

I don't disagree that it might have been better if he had said nothing - but I suspect the current antigovernment sentiment would have applied regardless of what Obama said.
Only self-flying one.
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"A one-day course and a set of PowerPoint slides are not enough to hope to cover all the material in any great depth. So Jim Van Verth and Lars Bishop wrote a book, with the help of our friends at Morgan Kaufmann:"

You aren't the only one who failed to see the connection between their slides and their book. It's a bit of a marketing blunder.

They should have put the book on the same page.
Indeed. Instead of being encouraging, it ends up sounding condescending.
Fair enough. The user mentioned that no one seems to be rethinking the file system so I just wanted to say that we were, but obviously we don't have the materials ready to link to pre-launch.
Can I do this for myself? I mean can I submit a FOIA to see documents that fed gov has on me?
Not that I am an important person, but I mean in general, what does it take?
The bubble will not be over until this guy loses his job.

And, ideally, is eaten by animals, but first things first.
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I dont know much about go, but I always thought that the problem with 'the standard library does everything' is that it starts to feel heavy and better alternatives pop up. Then you have these dark places in the library that most people avoid, and you cant really throw away.

Clojure used to have something called, clojure contrib and it was kind of awsome, it did pretty much everything in just one jar. It was also a huge problem to mentain and everybody wanted to be in contrib, so you had the one json lib in contrib and fasters outside.

With clojure 1.3 it got split up into many diffrent parts and it still servs as somewhat of a community standard or recommended library. Overall its much better and much more usful, but sometimes I miss the days when everything was in one jar on on dependency.
> To put this in context, the state of California estimates the cost of high-speed rail from SF to LA at ~$50B.

Mars One is pretty silly, but a significant portion of that $50B cost is because they need long, straight lines and as such will have to seize and reimburse a lot of very expensive real estate, isn't it?
I think you misunderstood the point I was trying to make.

Sure, there are good GCs out there, but good GCs are harder than many GC proponents make out.

Take the top 100 most heavily used applications or platforms that rely on garbage collection. What fraction of them actually use decent GC implementations?

Also, you seemingly misread my other point about dynamic language runtimes, I wasn't comparing them to JVMs, I was comparing them to compiled code written in lower level systems languages (like C/C++). V8 may be fast, but it's not as fast as compiled code, yet. There's still a huge gap between theory and practice there.
Mine are more than an order of magnitude. If I recall correctly, numbers were around 200 ms in incognito mode and 10+ seconds when logged in.
"Messaging is a modern version of the social graph"

"The company that controls the messaging platform will control the future of the way we interact with people and, quite possibly, with businesses"

"The growth team is the equivalent of Facebook’s Navy SEALs"

The entire section about privacy.

I know it's Wired but this article isn't even a puff piece, it's reads like it's straight from Facebook marketing or a spoof of marketroid buzzwords. Am I alone in finding its tone gross? I've seen better journalism in "sponsored content" on buzzfeed.
Fwiw, US deficit is about 700B. 18T is their foreign debt, which is not terribly meaningful. Net investment position is -4.5T. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_international_investment_...
A form, time (it isn't fast), and a nominal filing fee (requests are mostly processed by humans, especially on old documents)

You may be disappointed though. When FOIA came about, plenty of "activists" requested their files, swelling with pride thinking of all the things that must be in there- only to find just one entry:

03/07/2012: Submitted FOIA request for personal file
You are conflating two clearly distinct uses of "privacy".
If that is the intellectual level of the applicants, they have far worse problems than radiation and food.
Anyone can.

http://www.foia.gov/how-to.html
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Have you thought about opening this up for more than just commit messages?

Many projects need to check a number of things on PRs, e.g. enforce coding style, bugfix has a corresponding test, user signed the CLA, owner of %{scope} is notified for review, etc. That would obviously need a way to tie into external/custom tools as everybody validates these things differently.
But a licensed cab driver can just as well use traffic information provided by a GPS device.
I wonder what will happen to the California Air National Guard and Army Reserve units at Moffett?
> I can't help but think that's meaningless when you've got an $18 trillion deficit.

We get deficits via a lot of $6.3M/yr expenditures.
> To put this in context, the state of California estimates the cost of high-speed rail from SF to LA at ~$50B.

Well, $67 billion, up from the $33 billion figure they were promoting when they asked voters to approve it.
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This exactly. Try for yourself. Personally I find myself more creative when I don't use caffeine - being slightly tired may even help a little. However, being slightly tired does not help with my more normal, non-creative, work.

A former coworker was just the opposite - put a few espressos in him and the creativity almost oozed out.
What account was hell banned?
Another interesting easter egg is the Futurama Theorem (http://theinfosphere.org/Futurama_theorem). The writers for some of these shows are brilliant people who happen to write for cartoons.
I don't know, it was just the first thing I thought of.

Here are dozens of projects that make me chuckle about the naivete of the $6B figure:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_megaprojects
Yes, but (according to the spec) it was stateless -- which made it worthless for the purposes I'm describing. The original purpose was to support custom static strategies for allocation (e.g. i86 near/far pointers or one memory pool for one kind of object for the whole program), not dynamic memory pools and arenas. C++11 fixed that, which is why I mentioned it.

That said, by C++03, most STL implementations supported stateful allocators (and that's what I've used when I've had to use C++), but the standard took a while to catch up.
What about files which the government won't admit the existence of? For example, what will someone on the no-fly list see when they submit a FOIA for their files?
Like Java's strategy (http://www.win.tue.nl/~evink/education/avp/pdf/feel-of-java....)

Java is a blue collar language. It's not PhD thesis
material but a language for a job. Java feels very
familiar to many different programmers because we
preferred tried-and-tested things.
I was completely confused by why you were hellbanned. Then I stopped looking at comments and looked at your submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4335811

I'm guessing that got caught in the spam filter for use of the words "jewelry" and some of the other keywords in the Amazon link. This is one of the unfortunate side effects of running a startup that happens to be in a field that generates a lot of (affiliate) spam.
I've been with them for years and I can't remember a single outage longer than minutes. I'm sure they've had them, but in my experience, Fastmail is 100% reliable, and will continue to get my money until they prove otherwise.
It's not just filibusters, even. Senators can also issue "secret" holds. At one point, Jeff Sessions (R-AL) put a hold on every single nominee simultaneously until some pork was added to a defense spending bill.

These holds have been common practice and they are very rarely publicized.
This is just an idea, but how about adding a function to your allocator that turns all future deallocations into a no-op?
Have you tried valgrind for this?
Consider that the post was killed by moderators, then brought back alive, then drchrono individuals made a comment, and then that comment was shot up. There were a slew of submissions crying out "censorship" this day and they were all similarly killed. I can recall like 20 such instances of similar happenings involving YC-funded startups, and having a similar situation around them. So, honestly, dang, the plausibility of the chain of events you've listed from your side in this specific instance is tenuous at best, and unfortunately again, dishonest and deceitful at worst. But I'm going to suspend my tingly senses and give you the benefit of doubt at this moment, and not go on any further about this particular issue.

dang, I understand that you, in your position, have to be mindful of optics, you have to think of ways to say things that are best for YC. That's great, you should do that. All individuals of a company who have a public presence have to do that. The thing is, you must not focus entirely on optics -- you absolutely must in your heart have the right view. Not only because if you don't, some people will eventually find out what's up, but also because it's the right thing. Actions that favor YC companies (beyond a certain line) on a public forum such as HN are unethical. I think there have been enough things done at this point that the only way that trust can again be restored is by having more transparency -- for example, by showing comment scores at all times in some way.
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>Doesn't just making a pot of soup once a week ... cover all of the things you mentioned?

No. I would not want soup for breakfast. A nice glass of Soylent with some Black Cherry (or other flavor) Mio stirred into it would be much better for breakfast. And that is what I do. And for lunch. And frequently for dinner. There are some very easy ways to quickly enhance the otherwise bland flavor of Soylent.
> If he says something now, the reactionary portion of the GOP will take the opposite position as a knee-jerk response. It will become a larger news item and the GOP will have inherited the fallout.

Yeah, exactly. It's a pretty savvy way to drive a wedge through the GOP, and you already see the obstructionist crowd (e.g., Ted Cruz) playing right into it.
How does regions fit into this? IIRC regions have deterministic lifetimes, and all values/objects allocated in a region are freed in bulk when the region is freed (so it seems to only depend on how complex the underlying allocation is).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Region-based_memory_management
You were close, "Obamacare for the internet".

Edit: Which in retrospect is more likely to outrage the Republican base.
They'll receive a Glomar response.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_response
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Yes, but stealing usually had a much harsher punishment.
I strongly reject Louis CK's assessment. I don't believe there has ever been anyone who has reconsidered murder because of the law. If anything the law protects the murderer - without it, retaliation would be far more appealing.
There are several mentions of this in the Snowden papers. I think the most well known is Boeing, in their dealings against Airbus.
Ordering an end to all mass surveillance programs would require Congressional approval.
'Shouganai' struck me as more urban where the locals chatter at 200 words per minute. If you ever visit the back-country like Okayama Prefecture and pose one of those 'riyuu o fushigi ni omoi masu ...' (wonder why ..) questions you can still elicit both a stoic face and a 'shikataganai' in response. BTW, Jim Breen's Monash U website:

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1E

is still a good haunt for researching J-colloquialisms (ad nauseam) when and if you're in the mood. He's a retired IT prof and a friend of Jack Halpern, composer of a popular JE character dictionary.
This is less about THE future of FB rather than a bet on ONE possible outcome - transaction monetization on a many-to-many network, vs continued growth of their highly targeted advertising product.

On the internet just like in real life, someone has to be selling something to somebody.

When you're a "free" service (e.g. your users are your product), you can either facilitate transactions and take a cut (e.g. payments, in-app upgrades/stickers/etc), or you can direct the user firehose to someone (advertising, B2B services, data, etc). Facebook has predominantly been successful up until now doing the latter.

Messenger is a both a hedge against declining app/website engagement numbers and continued bottoming out of CPM/CPC for digital ads, as well as a bet on a Westernized version of WeChat and LINE have done, particularly in payments.
Of course, but I might anticipate the effect of a straight Microsoft stack to be a bit more off putting than most stacks for various reasons.
$12.70/month, according to that Mozilla research, is the total value of advertising per user, which means that is the most we'd have to pay on average if could just pay directly, and in fact much less per my points above!

This is even less than I had estimated. I need to dig into this number further.

Thanks for the link. This issue is a project of mine and it helps me a lot.
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