skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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The bigger figures become untouchable, above reproach, around here. There are some figures who are literally toxic, but because they've become a part of the core group they can get away with it. And if you doubt or question them, you must be a troll.

Meatball wiki calls this "vested contributor". It is a problem. I sometimes post unacceptable but not flag worthy comments. (I welcome downvotes if you see me doing this - it makes me edit the post or withhold replies. Or email me if you don't yet have downvote privs).

> It would be an interesting exercise to remove names from comments for a while and see how they do. I suspect the exercise would surprise some people.

This is an excellent idea. I would happily use a plugin that provides this functionality. It's make my HN life better and easier. I suspect I would upvote more often.
If the slides are dense with text and the intended audience likes it that way (learning a complex algorithm), that's just PPT acting like a landscape version of a Microsoft Word or LaTeX document.

The reverse is also true: one can use MS Word with sparse text and make it act like a PowerPoint.

In the context of the thread, it's when the wall of text on the slides is negatively affecting the delivery of important information. Dense slides when not appropriate will bore the audience (like those military presentations shown in the article.) To add insult to injury, the typical unpolished speaker will then recite. every. single. word. on the slide.

Instead of the PPT being a set of helpful diagrams or pictures that are superior to wordy descriptions, the text-heavy slide deck becomes a glorified transcript of the talk.
I switched from Cherry G80-3000 with Querty where I was very fast, to a Kinesis with Dvorak. I had some RSI problems so I made a very hard cut switching both keyboard and layout at the same time. The keys of the Kinesis (soft click) are not as good as the Cherry's (hard click), but, well, the world is not ideal.

Anyway, the effect was great! I was so slow for the first few weeks that I cursed at the long identifiers I had introduced in my C programs. :-) But even after some years, I never had any serious RSI since, and I am back to the speed of typing as before.

The funny thing is, I never stopped typing Querty. I use a normal Querty laptop at home and a Dvorak Kinesis at work. Keyboards+layouts are so different that I absolutely cannot type Dvorak on a laptop nor Querty on a Kinesis. They are different enough so I very rarely mistype the wrong layout. I switch without thinking, because they are so different. And maybe the constant switching keeps my hands busy in different ways, contributing to not having any problems with RSI since.
It was always Apache, but having these source files makes a huge difference on the "open source" part of "free and open source".
I would never have guessed that we would be talking about erasers in the comment section for this post :-)

I don't know what it is called. It was just mounted on top of the pencil when I bought it. Like a little hat. It works great. Have a look.

http://www.bonsai7.dk/assets/images/pencil-eraser.jpg
If I'm not talking in front of a big room, I prefer to whiteboard notes and diagrams as I'm talking, based on an outline that would otherwise be pretty near to what I'd put on slides.

One big advantage of whiteboarding is that you're much more likely to draw a diagram. People seem to pay more attention. If they want a take-away, you can photograph the drawings and notes.

For whatever reason, trying to do the same in a big room with an overhead projector is much harder.
The most prominent implementation is the album view of iTunes on the desktop: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13637892/how-does-the-alg...
Your second Exploit: cookies and SEH [tutorial]
So we're supposed to be skeptical of everyone's intentions but your own? Why should we believe you over anybody else who posts here? The fact you haven't supplied any evidence but instead rely entirely on manipulating emotions flags you for what you are: a troll.
It isn't just the ability to see what needs to be done, or the desire to put in extra effort or risk. When the individual sees no additional benefit for the risk they will not partake in the activity. It is precisely because the worker isn't compensated for working harder or more efficiently that they don't.

I have worked on plenty of projects that are time critical where compensation scales with the quality of the output. Think a theater performance or catered event. Time on clock matters, but completing the project faster and with a higher quality benefits ALL parties involved via profit sharing. The owners of capital want to pay based on time because they want a higher payout.
My opinion on Native vs. Web
I think a lot is somewhat of an overstatement. When I've looked at voat it seems to be just reposts from reddit and things that explicitly trash reddit. Voat's identity at this point is something like SASS was for somethingawful, it's just an offsite snark board about reddit things without much of a culture of its own.

I don't think it would be bad if it took off but the fraction of reddit users who actually care about reddit meta-drama(pao stuff, gamergate stuff, the new harassment policy, the "SJW cartel"/SRS running reddit, 'extreme free speech' and hate subs, etc) doesn't seem significant enough to really mess with the inertia of reddit's huge casual appeal. They'd have to do something that fundamentally wrecked the ux for a large proportion of users a la Digg imo.

At the same time reddit goes down ALL the time and I'm not a sysadmin, but we don't see that with other similarly large sites as much, I guess it's cause they're comparatively poor? I can't imagine the architecture at this point is somehow unscalable, it seems like a pretty simple system besides the scale(famous last words I guess).

edit: right now the word "reddit" appears on the frontpage of voat.co 10 times
There are to very specific versions of how a presentation should be made: As a supplement to a live presentation or a replacement of it.

If you're using it as a supplement to something you're saying live, the slides should be simple, limited, and support the big points which you should be making verbally.

If you're using it as a handout (or essentially in lieu of a live presentation), it should be much more information-dense.
Maybe you don't, but we most definitely do.
I dunno man... Facebook (and Instagram), Twitter, Linkedin all seem to be doing alright with that plan.
You might like https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js .
In the sphere of research & practice, are there any long-term plans for distributed processing applied to the data, akin to the Common Crawl in AWS allowing one to run map-reduce jobs against it?

There is a long history of sandboxing the JVM, which means in theory it should be safe to bring the code to the data without running the risk of having your local machine p0wned.
All online dating does is give you a huge channel to meet new people that you'll know you have some baseline compatibility with. It doesn't replace most aspects of dating, but if are having trouble meeting people you are interested in, online dating is a good way to augment the pool of people you meet in your normal life.

My experience with online dating wasn't that it "solves" dating, nor does it make dating fun all of the sudden, but the people I met via online dating were better matches than the people I was meeting elsewhere. I've had friends who had the opposite experience. I'd say online dating is worth trying if you are single just to see what it is like.

And, in SF at least, there is certainly no stigma associated with it. Most people I know who are actively dating at least casually use one dating site/app.
Curious to point out that Tinder & clones found a solution to the dating churn problem:

- Don't target people for whom success in the app will make them want to churn = people looking for a public committed relationship.

- Target people for whom success will make them want to use the app more = people looking for secret private hookups!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9586413
In the hands of bad coders, which if they would be writing C would just make their code commit suicide with their pointer handling.
It takes a finite amount of proper time (time experienced by the particle) to reach the singularity.
Ruby Meets Elasticsearch
#21 has a flipside belief, which is "Type checkers and static analyzers catch enough bugs that I don't need to write tests".
At the time I found http://remarkjs.com/#1 visually appealing and dev-oriented.
Java has always stored time values as 64-bit longs representing milliseconds since the Unix epoch. This includes System.currentTimeMillis(), as well as what the java.util.Date class uses internally. I'm assuming that the Java 8 date-time API also does this (or something better—either way, I'm certain that it's y2038-compliant).

So, even 32-bit Java is good for another 292 million years or so.
> because a big chunk of concrete (or whatever) is now sucked into the tube in the path of the train

1 atmosphere of pressure isn't going to suck in anything concrete, except maybe in dust format.
The problems: http://icpc.baylor.edu/download/worldfinals/problems/icpc201...

They solved this in 5 hours, using one computer, one calculator and no other help.

Does anyone know what was the team size limit?
> Touching the DOM is by far the biggest bottleneck in performance

My point was simply that this devolves back to Amdahl's law: the only way that React overhead + the DOM can be faster than the DOM alone is when the pure-DOM code is doing too much work. It's possible that React makes the code so much easier to maintain that you write better algorithms but that has very little to do with the virtualdom rather than the strong push towards better structure.
He botches the math. 20% monthly churn means you have to replace your customer base 2.4 times over a year, not 8 times. But the conclusion is the same: CAC > LTV.
"But it’s very clear that the human is one entity: mind and body are one. It sounds logical but it’s not how we looked at it before. We didn’t have the science to agree with what may seem intuitive. Now we have new data and new insights."

This is one of my favourite things about science. People of science aren't afraid of admitting that they are wrong.
I once had a friend show up to help me start a car that wasn't starting–we thought it was the battery but it turned out to eventually be a flaky ignition switch.

It took us a good 20-30 cranks to eventually narrow it down to the ignition switch (when we bypassed it it started). I couldn't believe that little paperback-sized box was capable of doing that.

And it was a relatively big, high-compression engine.

I almost still don't believe it.
I think that one of the points of the article is that PowerPoint presentations have taken over from technical reports and briefings. Instead of having a written report with data (with figures) and then a subsequent briefing to go over the findings, we are left with presentations that try to do both: present data and explain it.

So if the alternative to PowerPoint is better, more technical, reports -- I'm all for it.
Can you put the hard drive from the extra laptop inside the Mac?

If so, grab your code (as already discussed on other comments), and put that disk in the mac. Boot with command+r pressed, and you'll be able to install OS X onto the new drive.

Slightly off-topic: Since you specifically need OS X, Do you do iOS development?
Discussed a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9579881.
Digg was way more popular than reddit but more or less completely died out: http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=reddit+digg#q=digg%2C...
It might be this?

http://www.faber-castell.co.uk/products/more-products/eraser...

http://www.tigerpens.co.uk/faber-castell-grip-2001-eraser-ca...

I freakin' love stationery. If I had the money I would join a stationery subscription club similar to Candy Japan. It wouldn't have to be exotic Japanese stationery - just very good and interesting bits and pieces from around the world.
Oh I'm in complete agreement with you I just think it would be cheaper / more profitable to initially transport goods (saving money on safety features you may need for people) and then using that to build up to people transportation. Rather than hoping an IPO gives them enough money just for a test track I'd rather them hope for far less money and test transporting non-humans.
Sine waves, sir.

Save that money - give yourself a year's solid cushion at current burn rates. Assume you'll be paying for health care and other benefits.

Good times are rolling, so save like a nutter so the bad times aren't as bad. :-)
could you point me to some ansible scripts that setup a fedora 22 desktop? Thanks!
WiFi as a location technology is well-known -- http://www.skyhookwireless.com for example has been selling this data for a decade.

What seems to be new here is that Android is very permissive and leaky with WiFi access point data, which allows an app to reverse-engineer location without specifically asking permission to know your location.

Your claim that Android scans for AP's even when WiFi is off is a very interesting one, which raises a lot of concern for privacy but also for RF interference -- if I say I want a radio to be off, then I expect it to be OFF, dammit!
This statement : "why shouldn't there be long range, high-risk investments available in the market to interested buyers?"

Implies that they are not, and it is not true. Long range, high risk investments are available to any interested buyer.

Generally the challenge that comes up is that the SEC has set standards for someone to meet in order to be a "qualified" investor. Some people interpret those standards as a way of "keeping people out" of investing, but that is not the case. They are there for two reasons, one so that when those people lose all of their investment they aren't "damaged" and more importantly so that unscrupulous sales people cannot dupe people who are unable to distinguish risk for themselves into investing.

So I understand when a smart person who is chafing under the restriction of not being qualified from preventing them from a certain investment. But they have to realize that they are not the ones being protected. The elderly who are being promised a "guaranteed" 20% return on the last of their life savings by a boiler room broker, they are being protected.

Further, qualifying, is simply a matter of building up your portfolio to demonstrate you have the knowledge and presence of mind to make those decisions and if they go badly you knew the risks. The youngest person I've met who was a qualified investor was one pretty much right out of high school. He had started with $5,000 in a Charles Schwab account (his college fund) and moved it over to E-Trade when it was at $30,000 and was over a million about a year after he had graduated high school. He read a lot, developed a much deeper understanding of finance than I will probably ever have, and showed me just what was possible for someone determined to get there. Nearly every day there are stocks that move up by more than a few percent, and if you can anticipate that movement more often than not you can move a portfolio along.

And I would have no trouble whatsoever with these guys on a road show trying to drum up investment. And as I've said I'll read their S-1 with interest. I would not want them to do this raise on the general market because that opens up defenseless people to get hurt by folks who just want to push shares.
I really liked this article. Normally I'd open something say "neat" and close it, as soon as I got bored. For your article, each example of the law in a case by case analysis was interesting and I felt like I was learning things that ran counter to assumptions I'd made over time.

"Games aren't copyrightable" was my previous assumption, but actually it seems to be the case that the reality is more nuanced.
Rabidly liberal = professes to care a lot about the poor and disadvantaged, but finds the prospect of sleeping with one of them unthinkable.
My experience showed that online dating still is a numbers game.

Even with OKCupid. Women get >10 messages a day and men maybe 10 a year if it's a good year.

I think Tinder is the most innovative one in this sector, because it acknowledges the number-game thing and doesn't bother with unneeded fluff.
If we do this, then we need to pick a platform. There is enormous replication of effort in creating "native" experiences for all of OSX, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android, probably worse than what we spend on replicating native tooling in the browser.
AOSP is still open-source, it's what allows CyanogenMod to exist, it's what allows Replicant to exist, it's why Amazon could fork it for their Fire OS and in terms of user experience, compared with both iOS and Windows Phone, it's the mobile OS that allows for third-party app stores, or that allows alternatives for "system" functionality, like the browser or the search app being used. It's also the only mobile OS on top of which the Firefox browser runs, a browser that supports extensions, like AdBlock Plus. This font itself is part of AOSP and it's been open-source for some time, licensed under APL 2, just like most of AOSP. Chromium and Chromium OS are also open-source. We are talking about another operating system that has been a success.

Not to be harsh, but Microsoft hasn't open-sourced anything of this magnitude or importance. And don't get me wrong, I like the direction of .NET, however we've been having Java / the JVM, with all the great languages built on top, like Scala, Clojure, JRuby, Groovy, Kotlin, Ceylon and with all the great projects built on top, like Hadoop, Cassandra, Lucene, Apache Spark to name a few and Android uses Java-the-ecosystem as well, so we've been fine without it.

But on the other hand, here's me holding in my hand a Windows device received as a gift and I can't install apps from third-party sources, I can't use my IMAP email account, not to mention IMAP IDLE, I can't use CardDAV or CalDAV (because Microsoft insists on their own patented and expensive ActiveSync), I can't change the default search engine and I'm browsing through an app store filled with shit which is supposed to be curated. And from the looks of it, Microsoft's Edge only supports extensions installed from this same store filled with shit, it won't be open-source and it won't be cross platform. And I also remember a time when Microsoft sponsored SCO in its lawsuit for the ownership of Linux and when Scott Hanselman writes an ironic article that's somehow proof enough that Microsoft hasn't killed my pappy, he conveniently forgets that Microsoft acts like a patent troll by blackmailing Android phone makers with the FAT patent and extracting from this act of racketeering more profit than from its Windows phones.

And I'm becoming more and more negative on Microsoft, even though I want to like some of the things they do, but this is the reaction I'm having lately because I fail to see how Microsoft is changing, even though everybody says so - as frankly I smell nothing more than a massive PR push and it's pissing me off. And btw - I've ranted on Google and Apple countless of times, one of these days I'll write about why I've shut down my Google Apps account, my standards are pretty consistent across the board ;-)
One of the problems with "Powerpoints" is that they serve at least two different functions--as a visual aid for the the audience during the presentation and as a leave-behind/documentation (or slideshare, etc. independent of a presenter). One presentation is very unlikely to be optimal for both. At the same time, you're right that it's unrealistic to expect multiple versions.
I work in consulting; I have seen my fair share of badly-drawn graphics and spend more time using PowerPoint than I would care to admit.

The reality is that for most of Corporate America banning PowerPoint is not going to happen anytime soon. In our industry, decks are viewed not just as presentations but general fodder for deliverables, handouts, etc. I've been on several engagements where we intentionally jam-packed slides full of content (including multiple levels of footnotes) so they "stood on their own" in case someone picked up or distributed the deck after the meeting in which it was used.

If I was giving a talk I'd agree that presentation style would be overkill, but I've been in meetings with C-level execs and VPs where the extra info has paid off by being able to preempt questions and provide additional justification for the conclusion. Sometimes having a crowded slide is more "professional" in a meeting context than alt-tabbing to the detailed Excel worksheet showing the assumptions.
Those link to

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9556685,-77.3727741,5091m/da...

https://www.google.com/maps/@58.4080516,15.6156912,1715m/dat...

(For anyone who despises the use of URL shorteners here as much as I do.)
While this is great for making a presentation, it makes it Really Hard to learn anything at all from a presentation for which you do not have a video recording.

I've frequently seen Slideshare (or similar) presentations that look like a disjoint selection of code examples and meme images, with a narrative that is only barely hinted at.
This is exactly it. It's fundamentally a numbers game, and then there's a lot of romanticizing from people who prefer to believe otherwise.

That, and Tinder understands that people prefer being shallow. So it optimizes for that.
Instead of learning a new framework, try learning a new paradigm. You can then apply that knowledge in whatever new shiny tool your boss want you to use to build the next big thing.
Bitcoin: Provably Fair Bets Remove Trust
Are you kidding? YouTube is displaying a binary format, not ridiculous html, rendered by _native_ code integrated into the browser.
Hey, McFly Canadian sets new hoverboard distance record
I assume his formula (1+monthly_churn)^12 – 1 was based on a misremembering or misunderstanding of annual churn = 1 - (1-monthly_churn)^12.
AS someone who wants to go to Mars, anyone trying to sell you investment shares in a colonization effort is a scammer.
How startups can design for accessibility
No, I am literally having a hard time understanding why people are so automatically suspicious of ebooks. My bias on the table: writing books is so non-remunerative that making them almost seems like charity to me.
There's this crazy thing that always strikes me about Wikipedia articles. I read or skim through the text in a linear way, out of habit. Until inadvertently, I get to the "In Popular Culture" section, and it seems the article turns on me and attacks me with ridiculously nerdy content.

Pinky and the Brain? Heck, this is beyond nerdy. I don't even know how to qualify it, but it always makes you snap back to the fact that you are not reading a normal run-of-the-mill encyclopaedia. (And it makes me wonder, who even takes the time to write this kind of incongruous cross-referencing?)
Unfortunately, since a week or so it's all over YouTube. Arial was much easier to read.
Meet the man who steals your Instagram photos and sells them for $90,000
Tinder brings to the mainstream what the gay population had since 2002 [1].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20020903191409/http://www.adam4a...

Edit: changed to reflect actual date of a4a going live.
Ha, I knew I recognized it. Thanks for proving I'm not crazy, at least because of this.
Please don't make the thread still worse by telling another user to leave.
yes, it's called food
This is very common in Thailand and Malaysia. Vendors, locals, they're often seen standing in the street holding both the power bank and the phone in the same hand, plugged in, while talking.

Clearly they're being pragmatical, it's all about battery time and a small set of features.
Not only that, as usual there is the fallacy that there is only one JVM.

Here are a few 32 bit ones for the embedded market:

http://www.is2t.com/products/

https://www.aicas.com/cms/en/JamaicaVM

http://www.atego.com/products/atego-perc-pico/