skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Derren Brown did an interesting piece about the Skinner experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-FuV8LB3gU
Yeah...the landing page needs work. The templates are pretty solid on smaller screens though.
Also, even hough Raymond Chen's Old New Thing blog is on microsoft.com, the domain name isn't really thr relevant source info.
"For quite some time we've been grilling our candidates about dirty corners of TCP/IP stack. Every engineer here must prove his/her comprehensive understanding of the full network stack. For example: what are the differences in checksumming algorithms between IPv4 and IPv6 stacks?"

I read that and was blown away, uttering "Bloody hell."
I would have never known that from the top of my head. Good joke, well played, sir.
I'm pretty sure we had a big discussion on this a couple of months ago, but I cannot find the link.

Don't forget that for a lot of applications your users don't care about time zones. "I have a meeting every Monday morning at 10:00AM and some folks from around the world call in". Its up the the programmer to figure that out for all involved.
Depends on how tolerant locals are of delivery trucks blocking their cute single-lane roads any time a driver has to do a delivery.

In other words, it's probably OK for side streets, but you probably don't want to do this for major thoroughfares.
Some do; some don't.

But that's not the point: most "libertarians" seem to believe that the ostensible usefulness of the nanny state can be eliminated by people choosing to do good and engaging in market activity with others who do good.

So profiting from something that's so evil is, to this way of thinking, counter-libertarian.
I will add my anecdote to support this comment. Being an EE with probability-heavy background, I tried to give a
"you guys don't use prior probabilities" sermon to a physician and his physician-in-training daughter. I was made to eat my words by their reply, which was essentially that it is something they are all taught and use all the time in assessing risks, interpreting results, etc.

The one time I had to pay $500 for some tests not covered by insurance, but egregiously wrong in the context of my ailment, the referral was from a nurse practitioner.

Two things:
1. Perhaps doctors don't uniformly apply their training in interpreting test results and analyzing risks? (It is after all, quite common in all professions to forget some parts of one's training)

2. In addition to doctors, there are also technicians and nurse practitioners, who some times may not have the rigorous training that one associates with med school.
"go walk"

I suggest biking is also very relaxing and nice! Just take a small bike ride, it always clears my head ...
Realistically there is no big difference between /// and //go: although the former is well used (Java, C# and, probably more importantly for Golang, jsdocs are written as /). Either would be useful.

But the complaint is about //foobar: and that is just confusing.
Applying the same logic: "Google shouldn't have built their search engine because Alta Vista and Yahoo got in the game much before them."

It is nice of you to point out an existing product which is similar. But isn't it better to encourage (or provide constructive criticism) rather than dissuade this?
The definition of Agile is the Agile Manifesto. It doesn't change.
I think the approach is slightly wrong in that what you seem to be doing is removing road space, rather than re-allocating it. Though you might think a 15ft wide street is great it imposes big issues on the interaction between different types of users. You should segregate people walking, cycling and people driving.

Sharing space is not a "good thing" even though it seems to be the the thing that architects seem to be advocating at the moment. I'm still not convinced that a blind person and a bus can share space. Just like the tower blocks of the 1960's, I see shared space becoming the architectural white elephant of the 2010's.

What you should be considering is creating great living spaces where the road design "slows" down the speed at which cars travel through the space. Where priority is given to walking and cycling. Where each mode of transport is segregated from each other.

You transform a city by persuading people that the easiest way to get around the city is not by car.
"The net neutrality rules will hinder deployment of broadband, the group added."

No problem. Local governments and utilities will be happy to step in and deploy broadband. In this area, local governments and utilities appear to be cheaper and more nimble than commercial broadband providers.
This is very true. I have LPR (not GERD, but often mistaken for it) and reducing coffee consumption to reduce stomach acid production is the driver here. Tea can, I'm sure have benefits... but what kind of tea? You can make "Tea" out of anything. Coffee is very specific, Tea is way to general. You would have to study so many specific types of tea to see where and how much benefits exists.
Big company? $2B is a medium company. $10B to start for a big company.
Good questions! But remember this is a theory that I am developing along as we go with a bunch of kids. We may end up with a lot of open problems.

For (1) I think the answer is 'yes' because the knots are finite structures. For (2) I don't know.
It's challenging due to multitude of vendor/model specific device drivers that are also required to computer to operate (mouse, network, wifi, usb, etc...).

Plus you need to have a separate OS license as well to make it work.
I hardly think the valley holds a monopoly on narcissism as I pretty much see it everywhere in society nowadays.
> adobe got in the game long ago

Adobe completely ripped off the idea[1] from COLOURlovers[2]

[1] http://www.colourlovers.com/web/blog/2007/07/06/for-the-reco...

[2] http://www.colourlovers.com/browse
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Yes, of course. Exercise!
Always found it odd that wind capture/generation shapes resembled centuries old windmills. Great to see some (expected) innovation in the space. With non-moving parts, no noise, and won't sent people into epileptic shock around sunrise/sunset, it looks like a winner. (if you've never driven past a windfarm in the morning or evening, the flashing is incredibly irritating).
That may have been a hack based on emacs where you can set various file options with comments like that.
Thank you, this made me regain all my respect for Bill Gates and imagine that the messy shit that is Windows today was not his intended or approved creation.
> I bet it'll be titled "the era of internet tail fins"

This is my feeling as well. The norms on mobile and the web are so far out from anything I'd call common sense or proper usability that it must be cargo cultism at work here. Its just so. friggin. bad.

I also think this is why Apple is doing so well now. They're guilty of these sins, but their ultra-minimalist approach means they're able to sin less than others. Google's "anything goes" mentality allows these bad habits and this broken culture to thrive.

I'm not too pessimistic about it. We're still in some growing pains here. Mobile is a kind of a mess. Memory unsafe languages rule. Privacy is non-existant, Security is in the toilet, etc. I think there will be a shakedown of these things and we'll look back at this time as being needlessly reckless.
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Making a living, as I wrote, is perfectly acceptable. I am not opposed to this.

You are right. It's the society and the market that rewards such situations. The ugly sweater startup makes millions but the charity fundraising you mentioned will probably fail. Because one would prefer to look out of fashionly grandma-like cool (?) than help someone else. It's a problem of education in the broad sense, and I don't know, overcoming our natural impulses for egoism, greed and fear ? Sound like clichés but I belive they are at the heart of our problems as a whole.
Thanks for the inspiration. Brb, going to write a book.
What part of "all syntax should be validated" don't you understand? By putting that syntax in comments, syntax errors will not trigger any output from the tools because they remain valid free-form comments.
Wow, TIL. Any idea why?
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No, because CLOS is awesome.
Interesting results, but the post seemed a bit liberal in its application of mathematical notation. A fork can be explained entirely in English, with no use of numbers, let alone subscripting or negation...
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I remember daydreaming about how one day "running a BBS" would become mainstream. It just seemed to make sense that a day would come when almost every entity (person, business, etc) would have their own BBS, as they do a voice phone number. The WWW is not far from that.

It really was a special time. Some early 90s BBS-related memories for me:

* Getting my own phone number so that I could run a BBS.

* Buying an external US Robotics modem at a 50% discount in return for advertising for them on my BBS.

* Getting a donation to pay for that from a member of my BBS.

* Not being very good at ANSI art, but spending lots of time in TheDraw, and joining an "art group" anyway.

* Trading BBS source codes and feature snippets with local developers and late nights hacking on the C code of my BBS.

* Switching to the OS/2 operating system and introducing a multi-node feature; so that I could login to my BBS at the same time as members.

* Getting cassette tapes for a lot of music I had not heard before from local BBSers.

* Tracking my time in a notebook for my "LD calls" .. so that I would not go over my "budget" for calling Long Distance.

Good times.
GERD?
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Because the same people who bitch about the cost of living going up in the city where their family has lived for n generations will also flip their shit if you try to build anything that doesn't look like the 3 story Victorians they have giant fetishes for.

Of course, that's a bit exaggerated (there are skyscrapers going up downtown and some neighborhoods have the occasional modern-looking condo). Still, the problem is fairly untractable in the current climate. There's an endless stream of people ready to wait in line to bitch at every one of the multi-year stretch of town hall meetings needed to do anything that meanders away from the well-established status quo. (For reference, see all the FUD spread about Polk Street that led to the eventual neutering of that project).
This is a crisper and more tightly written version than one previously submitted (and now deleted, because this is better).

There was one comment[0] on the previous submissions in which slvv[1] said:

This kind of activity tracking and productivity management
is so helpful for students at a variety of levels. I wish
these skills were clearly and intentionally taught either
in high school or in early university! Even if everyone's
goals and patterns are different, figuring out what works
best is a HUGE asset. Your observations about your ability
to estimate are especially interesting!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9522634

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=slvv
In this case we wanted to ship the marketplace as quickly as possible (we had some related promotions and partnerships that required it in a specific timeframe) with a tiny team.

Solr/Lucene is the right answer for a full blown solution but it incurs the cost of having to maintain a second service besides your webapp as well as learning and gaining expertise in a second system. All things that can and should be done assuming you see growth, but as quick solution that would work for several months, you can knock out a reasonable search in a couple weeks with tech your app is already using.
I think TCP SYN segments have always been able to carry payloads; they're not delivered until the 3WH completes.

A fun set of trivia questions involves inconsistent retransmission: in out-of-order delivery, with some data buffered --- IP fragments or TCP segments --- what happens when the packet that allows reassembly to proceed (a) overlaps data already sent and (b) that overlapping data isn't the same as what was already buffered? (When we wrote the IDS paper, Vern Paxson told us he'd been observing this happening in the wild, which blows my mind).

Another fun set of interview questions pertains to how you'd design the fastest possible "traceroute" program. You can do better than parallelizing/pipelining. :)

I used to like asking people what the utility of discard, chargen, and echo were.
Do you really think us Europeans living in cities with narrow streets are cut off from shopping on Big Box stores and malls?
The spec is for the worst performance possible at end-of-life time. So a new drive will retain the data far longer than 3 months or 1 year of the spec (enterprise vs consumer spec) but a drive after five years of full writes will retain for near-spec or it will be considered a failure and you can ask for a refund.

The failure mode is that there are only about 50 electrons in that charge trap of NAND flash these days and they can disappear on their own and they will disappear after enough time and when they do you don't have the voltage you should have and so can't read the bit value you stored in it. After enough such bits become incorrect you can no longer fix the block with the ECC and then you no longer have the ability to read the original data.

It should be noted that the more worn out the drive is the easier it is for the electrons to disappear from the cell. Which is why a new drive retains data perfectly well but an old drive can barely hold itself.
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What specific questions are you finding hard to look up? (Some of them are easy to find, some aren't.)
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Demand for parking spaces in new Toronto condos is falling:

http://www.thestar.com/business/real_estate/2015/03/16/condo...

http://www.thestar.com/life/homes/2014/11/14/no_parking_cond...

There has been talk of what to do with unused parking spaces in other buildings (e.g., turning them in to work spaces for artists, etc.).

Here's an article saying Vancouver has unused parking spaces:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/unused-...
I agree but this is only half the battle.

To use an Epoch you have to convert it into a timezone aware date (as you stated, as late as possible). Now that could be UTC but more likley it will be a timeZone that observes a daylight savings time.

Consider the epoch of 0, 1st of Jan 1970 or what ever it is. Well that's correct in GMT but if you are in NYC what time is it, how about Singapore, Australia, Huston etc...
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They will breed more customers, give it a few years.
It is one of the selling points. It has been over 5 years since Apple has sold a computer with any third party software on it.
The OP was saying that being lonely is worse for your health than drinking coffee.
I don't understand how they can have no moving parts?
It's not really odd, it's a very efficient shape. Which is why propellers and main rotors also use it.
It's sort of like religion. The definition of Christianity is the Bible. The amount of Christian religions that actually care about what's written in the Book is minuscule.
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I was verifying a credit card last night, and even the freaking credit card company couldn't understand my credit card number if it had spaces in it.

Then again, I guess it's my fault because I always put in the spaces because I'm a masochist who likes finding out how much the web sucks.
There is a huge level jump between "unfairly giving someone investment because they are attractive", and " pretending to want to give someone investment because they are attractive".
I'm not sure on the positive hilariousness.

My bank's mobile app does not work on rooted phones, because they are concerned for my safety, afraid that some rogue app will get my banking info and steal my money. Well, that's my problem, isn't it?

Do you know how most people with custom ROMs bypass this? They go on XDA and download a patched version from some stranger on the internet, stored on some malware-ridden file hosting service.
Would it be C◦C* ?
I don't know how you manage to make up this distinction. If anything it is worse that Sweden were willing to ignore both Swedish and international law to hand over political asylum seekers that are subject to special legal protections and international conventions mean exactly to prevent the kind of acts that Sweden carried out, to a third country knowing they will be handed over to the country they're fleeing from at the risk of torture. Unsurprisingly torture happened.

Not only that, but the treatment of the prisoners during the handover was a clear violation of Swedish law.

The Swedish government and their agents carried out a criminal act. Nobody were punished for it.

Foreign agents carried out criminal acts on Swedish soil. Nobody were punished for it.

Years later it was uncovered the CIA were still carrying out illegal rendition flights via Swedish airports with the support of Swedish staff. Nobody were punished for it.

Why should anyone trust that this government, or elements within it, will not violate international law again?

We only know about the continued CIA flights and the Swedish governments half-hearted secret protests in the first place due to Wikileaks.
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Yes, this. You wrote what I tried to write in another comment and you wrote it better. Thank you.

As for other replies suggesting that 50/50 is an outrageous estimate, I think it can easily be even worse than that -- the fraction of investors potentially interested in making a deal with your business is very small (5%? 1%?), so it doesn't take many folks pretending to be interested to swing the balance, and those folks will also have a tendency to gravitate toward you at fundraising events, since they can clearly identify their target by appearance alone (i.e. "oh there's a pretty young woman, I should go say hello").

And yes, each of those interactions is perfectly legal (we'd all be condemning in chorus if there were groping or assault involved), and perfectly fine in isolation, but en masse they create a lot of extra work for the entrepreneur. Put in other words, at the micro level, these interactions are fine -- one or two people inviting you for a date could be lovely, or at least tolerable; but at the macro level, the combination of a large number of these isolated interactions creates an onerous and hostile environment.
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On the other hand, it might be a good filter - you really don't want to work with those kind of people who hesitate to offer you a job because of your disorder, neglecting your background and experience.
If the purpose of an interview is to deflate claims people make about their expertise, sure. That's not a productive goal for an interview, though.
Thanks, this is fun!
Hacking several million computers is minor? What qualifies as major, then?

The Morris worm infected 2-3 orders of magnitude fewer computers...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
If we were buying a product/service, I firmly believe we would see incremental improvements, which things generally getting better each iteration (with the occasional mis-step).

However, since so much is "free as in beer" people have to layer on a bunch of stuff to monetize everything.

People aren't trying to build better mousetraps. They are trying to monetize the mousetrapping experience for social. No, wait, we have to throw all that out because we are trying to capture mindshare for mousetrapping on mobile.
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Another profile of Marc from August 2000:

http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/8.08/loudcloud_pr.htm...

For those who don't know the outcome of Loudcloud, it would eventually sell the managed services business to EDS and rebrand the software portion of the business as Opsware. Opsware would later be acquired by HP. HP would later acquire EDS.
If I'm not mistaken, this sounds like an incremental fisher-yates shuffle.
Great great feedback everyone, thank you. Will add more to the list over time.

Also been suggested over on Product Hunt to have a countdown launch timer. This is great motivation to launch a site too:
http://www.producthunt.com/posts/departure
You used to be able to pay $50 extra on Sony laptops for it to come clean.

While that's technically better than no option at all, it doesn't make me miss them too much.
"Additionally, the large security hole created by the Superfish program can easily be breached, because the security key for the single self-signed root certificate used by the Superfish program has been broken and published on the internet. It took one computer security researcher less than 15 seconds on-line to obtain the security key for the Superfish root certificate."

It's interesting that they are sticking to the original narrative when the situation was actually far worse as I originally disclosed here on HN & which was later written about by Filippo Valsorda on his blog.

Original discovery:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9078536

Filippo's blog post:
https://blog.filippo.io/komodia-superfish-ssl-validation-is-...
"Coffee itself might not have anything to do with it; rather, coffee follows a certain lifestyle which is healthier than that of non-drinkers."

I think it's much simpler than even that.

Health fads and science results come and go, but over thousands of years humans develop (just a few) heuristics based on subtle observations along the way. One of the best of those heuristics is "an apple a day keeps the doctor away".

Bear with me here...

Is it flavonoids ? Special anti-oxidants ? Some weird apple chemical that we can isolate and realize all of our dashed resveratrol hopes with ? No. An apple a day keeps the doctor away because it keeps your bowels moving, all else being equal. That's it. Just a big, boring macro effect on your body and your bodies primary consumption/waste pathway.

I suspect the same is true with coffee. Special secret antioxidants ? Natures hidden chemical compounds we can distill into a pill ? No ... coffee is just a good laxative[1] and if you're having 2-3 cups of coffee a day you're (all else being equal) moving waste along (relatively) more efficiently.

Which is great. Nothing to be sneezed at - just like the apples - but also nothing exotic or confounding.

[1] http://www.onemedical.com/blog/live-well/why-coffee-makes-me...
Necessary, but to be kept at a minimum. Especially when there's no pressing need; no active invasion of the US or imminent risk of one.
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Yes, but for many, moving around hundreds of gigabytes of data is something that will take a day or two on their connection, which is enough of a barrier that they'll deal with crap instead.
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People have evaded extradition to the US for years with relative ease, a much lower profile than Assange, and a lot less heavyweight legal teams. The UK makes it very easy to extradite people to the US when the case is open and shut and/or there's no serious opposition. When someone seriously fights extradition, it's a quagmire.
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Well, that's interesting. Ignore my comment then.
Thank you for the feedback. I'll try to avoid it in the future. My synonym repertoire is pretty small so giving things a name is really helpful.
And when people ask me why I can't stand flat UI, I have to tell them that it reminds me of the UIs everybody outgrew in the 80s and early 90s because they were ugly as sin.

Flat UI just reminds me of Windows pre-95 and Mac OS pre-8, which I've never found aesthetically pleasing.