skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, I don't think "aha!-you're-not-exactly-right" kind of people are going away anytime soon, they've been around on the net since I first laid mouse on it (the 90s, I'm not that old) and they've conquered the technical forums for a reason. Some people simply have that sort of mindset, one just needs to wear the "deal with it" hat and get over it.

In fact, those people are very useful and most of them have helped me from time to time, so I'm grateful for them.

Side note:
>> assume-I'm-not-an-idiot-kid-please-get-off-my-lawn-been-there-done-that-have-the-tee-shirt-thanks

Thank you for that, I'll use it sometime, not sure why or when, but it's so funny I must! :D
Anything without infinite memory is simulating a Turing Machine. That doesn't mean they aren't useful.
I really hope there is a joke in there I am missing, besides the obvious irony in relation to the article content.
Different classes of stock is the Google and FB way, IIRC.

http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2012/02/01/at-facebook-governance...
Yet young boys grow up identifying with the hero.
Meh. I've heard plenty of men say the same thing (and I've felt the same way on dates) about women .

People like talking about themselves. I've been out with plenty of women who spend as much time as they can talking about what they do for work.

But this isn't some epidemic. The article paints everyone working in tech as an awkward nerd or arrogant programmer. Are we seriously to believe that everyone lives up to these stereotypes?

The majority of my coworkers are married or in long term relationships - yet by the reasoning of this article, they should all be single men without any sort of social graces.

This article is clickbait and an advertisement for a book that she worked on that is related to the subject. It's no more accurate than any other article fueled entirely by preying on stereotypes. There's no reason to be scared by it.
look, men are disposable. and it's always been this way, biologically speaking. throughout most of history, mens' purpose was disposability - through soldiering, exploring, entrepreneurialism (the high risk / high reward activities), or just working your fuckin' ass to the bone in the fields of fealty or a in a grey cubicle (the low risk / low reward activities).

let's define some terms. "meaning of life" (note i didn't say purpose) = reproduction, as far as anyone can tell. a single man can impregnate scores of women, and then die the very next day. the same can't be said of the female reproductive paradigm. for full replacement rate-of-birth, damn near every female is needed, and the other 99 men aren't... technically. however --

modern society has attempted to socially engineer this hasty biological truth out of male populations - it attempts to normalize male achievement and distribute the proceeds in a more equal manner. hence the social traditions and mores that have come to define the last few centuries (i call it the 3 M's - marriage, mortgages, and missionary)

furthermore, society interprets "men" as the top (physically, socially, financially) 20% of men, the men who make a real dent in the world and who override the general perception of masculinity in society. the high achievers, the genetically gifted, the powerful. the stereotypical 'man'.

however, the truth is most men aren't that archetype. most men are workhorse peons that get the shit end of the deal, having to endure living a modern subsistence lifestyle that consists of cheap housing, cheap food, cheap relationships, cheap labor. our (i hesitate to say western? i mean these days it's all over the fucking world) society has so far successfully plastered over this truth with an embarrassment of material and technological wealth (especially tech wealth in the last 10 years, for goodness' sake think of how many hours one could waste in imaginary world of all sorts), but the ruse may be soon up.

it's true and you can verify it just by looking around - the rest of us men are either invisible, relegated to uncelebrated mediocrity, or become hermits of some sort or another. it's extremely difficult as a man to reconcile the societal and sometimes familial expectations of being into the top 20%, and the slow burn of your 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, straight into the bottom half of society.

to me it's absolutely clear why men decide to check-the-fuck-out, whether through technological, societal, or mortal means. we shouldn't be focusing on the problems, which are clear as day, we should be focusing on the solutions. i fear that my industry (tech, software, automation, whatever you want to call it), in which i am a vanishingly minor, yet complicit conspirator, has only hit the accelerator on the depreciation and obsolescence of the vast majority of men.
I feel a bit foolish for asking, but what exactly do board members do?

Does each board member have one vote? I assume events (key hires, acquisitions, investments) are brought to the board for a vote, and need to pass with a majority. Is there ever a case where a single-founder could have multiple board seats? Do board members vote on product/marketing decisions?
The article says the blades wouldn't be defected. I can't imagine how can you pierce aluminum wing using some carbon composite.
This post's title is a bit ambiguous. I originally thought it was a biography about Sam Altman as a YC board member or something and only stopped to actually read it after it got some more upvotes.

How about something like "Choosing Board Members for Startups"?
Would you consider an unsubscribe page that used javascript to automatically make a PUT/POST unsubscribe call on pageload bad practice then?

The google-bots wouldn't affect it since they don't run javascript
10 - 12 hours a day is pretty typical in the entertainment business. Most tv shows do 12s for an entire year, movies about the same for less, and VFX workers during crunch time (which is near permanent for some) 12 is usually the minimum. Plus your weekends are gone.

At least the guys in the Space Program were doing for a far more valuable reason.
> usually weighs 2.6–6.5 kg

Flock of drones is unrealistic too.
daaaaaamn man. You're telling me you don't identify Jerry Seinfeld, you identify with George Costanza?

Because when I've seen men get emascualated or mocked on TV, it's due to some jackassery on their part, and I don't feel the need to empathize. Isn't that true for you as well?

If there's an over-riding theme in media regarding men that I would report, it's that the consequences they experience are a result of their actions. I'd call that just as far from the truth, but an otherwise pleasant lie.
I'm a lifelong techie, and your remark resonates.

An old and dear friend, who started out as a brilliant civil engineer but moved to marketing where she has spent most of her professional life, would completely ratify your second sentence.

Unfortunately, I find it harder and harder to refute her assertion that in the end, it all comes down to marketing.
I think you misread how the previous prime was found:

"4D. The Lucas-Lehmer test began on Sun Jul 20 12:33:46 2008 PDT and concluded on Sat Aug 23 00:29:27 2008 PDT. That's a total of 33 1/2 days. The Dell Optiplex was the only computer used to initially prove this candidate prime. However, the computer was part of GIMPS' "PrimeNet" network of roughly 75,000 computers testing other Mersenne number candidates."

It didnt take one computer 33 days, it took 75,000 computers searching simultaneously to find a prime.

edit: The next largest prime, at 17 million digits, took a further 5 years of searching on a network that has over 100 TFLOP/s of compute power [1].

[1] http://www.mersenne.org/primes/
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909 Back Up, by The Weathermen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDAcHA67OIs
They do, and if you ski the alpine backcountry without one then you must have a death wish.

Avalanche safety is one use case where, as with defibrillators or hospital pagers, I think people will continue for a long time to use simple, rugged, and purpose-built devices with very low probability of failure rather than introducing a million new failure modes by using e.g. a cell phone or flying drone.
> Galaxy Note is way better tablet for drawing then Ipad ever was.

In what way?
As I understand, Sam would rather that you not do what Zuckerberg has done. Zuckerberg can't just not be fired because of the things he's done in terms of how he has set up the governance structure, he can also acquire whatever company he wants, block sale of any part of Facebook, etc. with or without the support of the board. Sam, I think, does not want you to have this power. So the question still remains.
Two Weeks Later with the Apple Watch
OT, but I want to thank everyone for their comments. I've found them unusually thoughtful and challenging. Merci.
Oops I haven't thought about that!

The arrow keys should work right?

Is there an easy way to detect non-qwerty keyboards so can implement it elegantly in JS?
Maybe this is a low blow but if there's one place that needs a little less kindness and a lot more truth it's the Facebook News Feed. It's real nice that they only show you news they think you'll like but it seems pretty irresponsible.

If they really want to make the world a better place they should come up with some way of spotting some of the verifiably false news stories that get posted there. They could do it nicely, maybe: "Hey did you know this story may contain many factual errors? Check it out on Snopes.com!" Facebook could even set up their own fact checking service if they wanted to, it would be good PR for them.

And it's important to be nice but you have to be able to say "this sucks" sometimes too. With a guy like this Boz who's doing a good job but has a natural inclination to steamroll people maybe they should have set him up with some sturdier folks and let them fight it out instead of creating an atmosphere where he's afraid of being fired for being direct. That sounds like poor management, IMO.
Interesting concept, and the idea is conveyed quite well. A couple minor suggestions, hopefully useful:

> All boxes come with your logo on it.

In this sentence, "it" is intended to be coreferential with "all boxes", and thus should agree in grammatical number. You should change the sentence to, "All boxes come with your logo on them", or, "Every box comes with your logo on it."

Second, as a B2B customer, I would like to know more about your company before contacting you; at a minimum, where you are domiciled. I currently have to guess from the "Ltd" and use of centimeters that you are in Europe somewhere.
> In most stories, arn't protagonists primarily male?

In most stories, the protagonist (male or female) is chosen because they're extraordinary. While I might identify a bit with Harry Potter or Luke Skywalker, they're certainly not going to be people I think of when I try to think of who I am because they're so fantastically extraordinary.

On the other hand, Bart Simpson or Fresh Prince Will Smith? Or, considering the age I'm approaching, Al Bundy? I can identify with them a lot more, even with the negative traits.

The other issue is:

> Arn't they typically courageous, or intelligent, or unyielding, or strong, or determined?

Why do you have to be courageous, intelligent, unyielding, strong, or determined? Why are all of those the absolute "good" traits?

If you're not a super strategist, are you a bad person? What if you avoid conflict? Afraid of dogs? etc.

The "standard" of extraordinary manhood is incredibly high if you look at stories like that.
Brady's Suspension Is Great for the Patriots
Tape the last drone's tracker to the first drone, and launch them all at once. I'd pay to see that video :-)
I like what Sam says here, but how would the founders know the new board member is the right fit for a particular startup..would you interview(if so how?) or ...? would love hear what Sam has to say about that.
Yet somehow it survives ice.
It's a valid question, but most people I know (including my boys) identify far more with the guys on Big Bang Theory than Bruce Willis in Die Hard, and those guys are every negative archetype of maleness (sexist, unable to care for oneself, etc) wrapped up in a pseudo-intellectualized package. The one exception was Penny's boy friend, who filled "stupid jock".[1]

What Bruce Willis brings to the table is this idealized version of what "man" is supposed to mean. So, on the one hand, we have an image of men as socially retarded incompetents and on the other hand, we have an image of men as unkillable tough guys. Where is a 15 year old supposed to land in there?

1. I actually really enjoyed the first five or so seasons of BBT, before they started playing more and more to the cheap "socially retarded scientists" jokes. I also believe they aren't making lives better for intellectual young women, either, who need the role models more than anyone.
> One philosophy, called Baconianism after Sir Francis Bacon, neglects theoretical underpinning and says just make observations, collect data, and interrogate them.

I earnestly endeavored to hold this silly assessment in abeyance and read through the article, but I could not. His curt summary of Popper was almost as unsatisfying. I gave up after a few of paragraphs.

Bacon would not much like being called the ant. [1]

[1] http://www.antspiderbee.net/bacon/
That was a terrible example. Try calculating PI with HTML.
Great question!

And then why can't this model of board (of Directors) be reconsidered and perhaps reinvented? What makes for the need to have a board and what other alternatives to a board does an entity have?

I'm sure someone here knows about the underlying concepts about Companies & Corporations and can answer this.
I think you are misremembering the rule that any statement of the form if X then Y is true if X is false as "anything follows from a false statement" which isn't correct.
Unlike radio ads, which annoy the shit out of me, I can choose to skip podcast ads if I want to. Problem solved. If advertisers are happy to pay for the production of great podcasts, I'll download them.
The fundamental key for a communication is respect, if this breaks, nothing else would ever work to maintain a relationship.
DRM blob is probably already broken (and if not, it will be soon enough). Those who use DRM do it despite knowing that it's useless for preventing copying. So breaking that DRM won't help that. It's some kind of distortion of the mind, not the logical reasoning here. Of course there are those who use DRM for simply sinister control purposes (i.e. DMCA-1201 supporters and the like). Those wouldn't care even if you clearly show them that DRM has negative, not positive effect on reducing piracy.
In older stories, sure. But the "action hero" died a while ago. Have you not noticed the rise of the weak male lead in movies/TV/commercials? It's hugely prevalent in romantic comedies, but even TV shows like Modern Family (bumbling Phil and razor-sharp Claire) depict archetypes that are becoming quite common.

The formula is a charming yet incompetent male lead who's mainly driven by sex, paired with a strong, capable female lead who's always two steps ahead of him.

If I had children, I certainly wouldn't want them watching TV/movies that depict their gender as incapable or unintelligent. And that's equally true for girls and boys.
$15,000 spent on open source – elementary OS project
Or a snapchat utilities. Since the servers do not save contents, it can be a nice broadcast-and-forget network backbone.
That's great, thanks for pointing in the right direction, and great job btw!
> Is it, really? You're still supporting DRM, because that's the basic requirement here. You're still therefore running unknown, closed source code that is prima facie working against your interests as a user.

On far, far less websites, however. One or two video streaming services have DRM. Banner ads in most pages will not be using EME.

> You still have an extra potential attack vector for malware.

This is true, but one with a smaller surface area. One that might not even be installed, in many cases.

> Flash on phones only really lasted for about two years, and given that the earliest phones somewhere around 2010 were running something like 1GHz low-power processors, it's not entirely surprising that the initial performance wasn't great.

1GHz is slow, now? Wow, Flash must have sucked even more than I thought.

> Various video hosting sites that had been reported to perform badly in earlier criticism were debunked, with evidence that the other junk on the sites was causing more of a problem than the Flash video itself and that similar Flash videos could play just fine on devices of the 2011-2012 era. Likewise claims that Flash seriously reduced battery life didn't stand up to careful scrutiny over several days of investigation in some cases; battery life was generally found to be reduced, by sometimes by no more than a few minutes.

Links? I'd be highly sceptical of this claim: software video decoding is not good for battery life, for example. Of course if it's H.264 I'm sure Flash would use the hardware support, but why would you use Flash in that case?

> When did Flash ever run on the iPhone?

Never, but I mean by the time that the iPhone was powerful enough that getting Flash to run on it might be reasonable.

> Given the number of sites I run into that still don't work properly on an iPad, I have to disagree.

Most of the web has moved on. There are still plenty of sites that don't work with mobile devices and require plugin downloads to be used modern browsers, it's true, but it's a number that is continually decreasing.

> Because I have concerns beyond just security. I don't run a browser so I can be secure. I run a browser so I can browse. When you take security so far that you break the basic functionality of your system, you aren't so much securing it as... breaking the basic functionality of your system.

Flash support isn't "basic functionality". It's a bonus. Mobile devices can't and shouldn't support browsing every website made for a PC in existence, they just need to support most reasonably well, and that they do. After all, PCs still exist.

Mobile devices also don't support simulating right-clicks, Java applets, the Unity web player, ActiveX controls, and so on.

> In any case, with the new model using media extensions, we still will be adding binary blobs to the browser,

Smaller ones with much more limited scope, used in far less places, and which you can blacklist without breaking a lot of websites.
If you have JavaScript (obviously Turning complete by itself), why do you need canvas?
Yeah, it's definitely tough to try out speakers.

I try to be a little aware of speakers in friend's houses and stores to see what things sound like, but I don't purposely audition them. Although very few of my friends have decent speakers.

It sounds like you know a bit about what you want. My use case is also music. I used to have a surround setup, and it just wasn't worth it. And I agree with you on the subwoofer thing -- I had one and addition to the physical downsides, it felt unbalanced.

In my case I realized I like the imaging of Bose speakers, but they are cheaply made and seem a bit scammy and overpriced. Bose isn't worthless -- they do sound DIFFERENT, on purpose -- but they are flawed. There is real engineering there.

I asked Don Lindich about small speakers with good imaging that are not Bose, and he recommended Mirage Omnisats. It basically gives you a spacious sound like Bose, but they are higher quality in other respects, and I think cheaper.

I used to have Mirage Omnisats with a sub. Now I have Ohm Walsh 1000's:

http://ohmspeaker.com/speakers/mains/walsh-tall/

Admittedly this was a blind Internet buy, but they have a long (90 day) return policy, and I trusted Don's recommendation.

They sound fantastic, and people who have come to my apartment love them, and start spontaneously dancing when they hear them. Relatively speaking, they're not super expensive, but most people haven't heard speakers this good in a living room.

I also appreciate a small company that has been around for decades doing the SAME thing -- really refining it. They believe in what they're doing. You can't derive a speaker design from first principles, so you need to have a long history, with lots of trial and error.

Perhaps this doesn't really answer your question, but that's how I got to a set I'm very happy with.

As for the physical aspects, good speakers require fickle and custom manufacturing techniques. And, all things being equal, bigger speakers sound better, and bigger usually means more expensive.

Amplifiers and cables are mostly made of commodity parts as far as I can tell. There is also just more of a potential variance in quality of design with speakers, so I think they require more expertise to design than amplifiers. Bad speakers are really bad, but it's hard to buy an amp that's unlistenable.

So I guess if like me you are short on friends who like quality audio, I would visit stores, ask like-minded people on the Internet, and then make liberal use of return policies. There is also just a bunch of trial and error, and there's a reason why audiophiles tend to own many pairs of speakers that they don't need :)
Turing Phone: the device stronger than Titanium
huh? No. I was talking about my life only. I'm sure you're wonderful.

To be clear, I don't actually believe that the thought "Society treats men so poorly, and I'm a man" is a thought that is pushing you towards depression, or anyone to depression. I don't believe would depress anyone. I do believe it outrages you. I would agree, some of those things seem pretty outrageous!

I'd have a hard time believing you were actually depressed if you were to assert that the reason you were depressed is because you didn't like the way society treated men. I would not believe that at all. It would deeply contradict my experience with depression.
ha. your welcome!

maybe turn it into a C poem and wear as a T-shirt?

I once had the following printed on a T-shirt and wore to a Meetup.com event here in Colorado, and out of the crowd an early Bell Labs alumnus (C/UNIX era) emerged and tried to recruit me:

while (!(success = try()));

perhaps:

void whatever(params) {
assert assume_im_not_an_idiot_kid_please_get_off_my_lawn_been_there_done_that_have_the_shirt_thanks(params);
...
}
Facebook Instant Articles Will Launch with European Partners BBC, Spiegel, Bild
Emoji4j v2.0
Supports transforming short codes, hex, decimal html entities and now emoticons as well.

https://github.com/kcthota/emoji4j
I guess the parent is saying that there are lots of people with nasty behavior who are successful - may be not bill gates level successful, but successful nevertheless. Just a guess though
Livestreaming events isn't cool. It's theft
no luck! same issue :(
I'm not expert on security, but wouldn't that only apply to sites that have XSS vulnerabilities? The extension script only needs to have the same trust level as the top-level HTML in order to do its thing, in most cases.

At the moment, the ask is that users put 100% trust into some extension from the Chrome Web Store. It's not clear that Google does much to ensure that the companies are even who they say they are. It's a completely unreasonable ask, in my opinion. Then, in other areas, Google is hyper-sensitive about security. Eg. Chrome, under some circumstances, won't even let users download zip files anymore without trying to intervene. (https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=423217)
When it comes to cel animation I recommend watching
Chuck Jones: Extremes and in Betweens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrD0aog7Kts