skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main event(s) at Vegas (since it split to two parallel GPs, and then each of those split into multiple sub-events which merged for day two) officially had around 8,000 players prior to drops.

So the weekend saw about 16,000 players in the various GPs themselves, though of course there were more people total when side events and spectators/traders/etc. are counted.
"Blobs are vendor-compiled binary drivers without any source code."
> To be honest: no, PowerShell can't (practically) achieve the same composability

PowerShell is much more composable. Just consider how all nix commands must pack insane numbers of output options. In PowerShell - just because of composability - output formatting is not the responsibility of each command - it has been delegated to a small set of general-purpose output format cmdlets.
Solar Shines as Sellers Sometimes Pay Buyers to Use Power
I'm not sure the majority of people really wish that. There are plenty of places where you can rant on mailing lists, but it's not really a great way to spend time. Better to just calmly correct things that are worth correcting, ignore things not worth responding to, and move on to other things. Imo this style of rant isn't even entertaining once you've seen more than a few of them, because they basically follow a template. (Suggested AI class project: write a generator for Theo rants.)
The full-time job is dead, says company invested in killing full-time jobs
Binary blobs running on your CPU under your OS is a completely different issue than binary blobs of firmware. If you have to provide the firmware blob to the device, it's most likely only because it was cheaper to not include any flash memory on it that could store it.

Also, they can be very different in their nature. Firmwares can contains fairly complex operating systems that run on some microcontroller inside your hard drive, they can be hand-crafted for particular piece of hardware (so there's no source code) or they may only consist of some data structures needed to properly initialize the registers or other stuff like that.
That's so 1970s systems programming. We've made progress since then. For one thing, now you usually have enough computers to have a test environment.
That's harsh and generalized
How is that a good response? His argument basically is that an article in a general-news newspaper is not meeting the same standards as a peer reviewed paper?

Well, duh.

Or him dismissing the study Harris does mention because it was conducted 10 years ago? Never mind that since Delhi's pollution has only gotten a lot worse since then, the research probably UNDERSTATES the negative effects of Delhi's pollution.

And anyways, at the end he basically eviscerates his own response, by rebranding his article as not dismissing Harris's concern, but rather as a complaint against the lack of data India is collecting. I guess even he realized he really wasn't negating anything Harris was saying, and if anything was providing evidence that would suggest that Harris may even be understating the issue.
Neat. I don't see any mention of it, but it would be nice if it also supported JSON PATCH for UPDATEs: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6902
Yeah, imagine Bram re-reading this article when he's a brittle 25-year-old whose health is failing while his peers are in their physical primes. Because they wanted to write for a newspaper column.

I feel bad for all of the children involved, but I feel extra bad for the ones who shouldn't have been in harms way in the first place, yet get thrown straight into it by will of their selfish and narcissistic parents.
Unfortunately, the limiting force on all that is that you can't opt out of the legal system itself, which retains veto power over any such moves.

Even if you found an arbitration procedure that reached the same rulings at a fraction of the cost and 100x faster, you have to get the other party's consent to do it, and as long as they have to consent, they can use that leverage to impose disproportionate costs, regardless of the merit of their side.
Has the development of the Neo900 halted or run into serious issues? I wanted to decide whether I buy one when it is finished, but it is already taking quite long.
This is propaganda and some of it is quite false (for example the bin Laden stuff). They are killers, enforcers, doing dirty-work for the most deadly, brutal and dominant empire the world has ever seen.

Your reality is false, a myth created to ensure the perpetuation of the status quo.
Once the advertisers pay for the bandwidth they use on my mobile plan, they can send me ads.
I've seen people say this but really 1 based indexing should be extremely trivial to all the other complexities of writing a worthwhile program for anything more than a one liner.
Ironic that you accuse others of being condescending. You have been nothing but in this thread.
Germany sold arms to Saudi Arabia to secure its vote for 2006 World Cup
LASP: A Language for Distributed, Eventually Consistent Computations
You can also watch it at 2x on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYA0f6R5KAI
Wow, what a convenient way to derail any potential criticism of what many people see as absurd positions & silly missteps. I see you also quietly slipped in an ad hominem.

I'm surprised you didn't go for the trifecta and blame The Patriarchy™.
Getting Things Done – Revised 2015
meh .. yes i know you can repost, but I thought it would be helpful to inform people of this, because they could then see the previous set of comments ... don't know why i bother sometimes.
You seem full of hate yourself, with how you go on about "white male nerds" and their faults.
It's useful to Gecko engineers, ie. the people who actually have to fix it.
Ada has the ability to verify that logic will never produce values that are unexpected. Not just "this will never be null" but something like "this number will always be between 0 and 3". That's one very nice, very different thing.
> When you're full of hate, you're not going to let logic or facts stop you from hating and spewing lies...

You should think about that...
If you have a valid appeal, you haven't "already lost" -- you have a case that's working its way through the courts.

The legal system isn't sportsball, and you aren't being a sore loser if you appeal your case to a higher court. If someone gives up their right to appeal, that obviously has a financial benefit for the other party. It's not underhanded to admit it, and use it as a negotiation tactic.
I don't think there is a difference. Yes, she lost the current trial, but the legal system in the US is built on appeals being a near-inevitable part of the process. Settlements can happen during any part.
https://github.com/mozilla-services/loop-server
Potentially increases the pool of buyers, as buying individual CUSIPs is typically associated with high transaction cost, and that's if you have a US brokerage account.
One of the things that made google's ad network successful in my opinion was the fact they're text based and were obviously ads. I've never had a reason to block em and its the main reason I don't get upset when people complain about adblock plus's whitelist.

I wish more advertisers would follow in google's footsteps, the full screen video ads are reminding me of the days leading up to the .com bubble burst.
> a range of PC addresses within a function would do just as well

Yes, but you'll need to know where those ranges are (i.e. you'll need some feedback from the compiler), and then be very careful that no tool injects any instructions into, or moves code around your executable/library.
On the flipside, nothing introduces a modern kid to the 80's era with more gusto than loading up an rPi with EmulationStation, filling the SD card with ROM's, and having at it. The fun factor is multiplied when you've got 1000's of ROMs available to play ..
I once worked in a particularly good position where the owner (my boss) would repeatedly say something that stuck with me. He was proud of the fact that he had been able to 'hire people who are smarter than me'.

That got me looking at my co-workers in a different light, and indeed, there were several people who worked with me, and they were each better at something than the owner. I realized that by hiring this way, he got to take the credit for a remarkably well-oiled machine that was able to get all sorts of things done exceptionally well. We all did the impossible & it was because of each of our points of expertise worked in synergy- like a puzzle coming together.

So, based on this experience, I would wholeheartedly recommend that you find someone- doesn't have to be a co-founder, could just be an employee, to work on something where your own talents are 'less' (for lack of a better word). Someone full/part-time who's dedicated to business development I would imagine would be a valuable asset.

I learned from my own (failed) startup, that the unexpected is guaranteed to happen. And if you need to allot your time & attention to something else that suddenly comes up, it'll help to have that someone around to help bear the load.

-my 2 cents. Best of luck!
>People on here love to hate on Ellen because she's a woman who made it as CEO of a popular tech company. The white male nerds on HN will use any conspiracy theory or baseless attack on her character to try to discredit her.

Do you realise that attributing any controversy about Ellen Pao to 'white male nerds' who are 'trying to use anything to attack and discredit her just because she's a woman' is itself a conspiracy theory, with just as much evidence as that which you criticise?
See, even you are confused.

If you give "loss of fast 3D" as an example of running blob-free, you didn't understand what Theo is talking about. 3D drivers run in user or kernel space, there is a clear policy about how to deal with stuff like that in basically any serious operating system that labels itself free and open.

This mail was about firmwares. The little blobs your OS has to upload into memory of your WiFi card, Bluetooth controller, sensors, camera... and that's all it has to do with it. The rest happens on completely different CPUs - the ones that live inside your WiFi card, Bluetooth controller, sensors, camera...

Even if your hardware seemingly doesn't require the blob to be loaded, it's most likely because it simply has a on board memory to store it. Some don't (obviously, that's cheaper way) and require user to load their firmware before they can operate.

And nowadays, basically anything has such a firmware. Even microSD cards.

From OS point of view, the only sensible approach to differentiate between free and non-free firmwares is to ask a question "is it freely redistributable?". If you go deeper than that, you enter the Open Hardware territory - which comes with its own set of principles and pandora boxes.
Water footprint of everything is hidden 99% of the time.(like carbon.... But more pressing for us in Cali ATM)
He's not attacking Bitcoin, but pointing out that Byrne is not an ideal proponent, as many people consider him to be a bit paranoid, making more dramatic allegations than he can supply evidence for. One can support his actions and opinions while simultaneously recognizing that many people view his leadership with skepticism.
Yes, I was hoping for something which went into more of the details for when Ada might be an appropriate choice. Which is not what this link does.
This is a super interesting workaround.
The problem for me isn't the lack of "political correctness", but the weirdness of being so angry about someone being wrong on the internet, and the tediousness of it happening often. Sometimes someone is good enough at other things that it's worth working with them anyway, but it's despite their tendency go to off on mailing lists, not because of it! And when more than one person does it regularly it gets really tedious, e.g. in the old comp.lang.lisp, Another Goddamn Flame From The Usual Suspects was not one of the group's strong points, even though some of those people were also smart.
I've been using this for months. Works really well! Almost everything works out of the box.

I just installed it on a usb stick, bought a £5 USB adaptor that let me use my xbox360 wireless controllers (up to 4 iirc), plugged it into the little nettop box I usually use for Kodi and I was up and running!
There are some great talks by Theo on different subsystems of OpenBSD on youtube. I would post a link but I'm on a mobile.
It's a bit disappointing that Python's async story is so diverging between different Python versions and frameworks, but eventlet and gevent are by far the cleanest and most practical implementations, so for most intents and purposes the eventlet base in nameko is probably the best you can currently get for async IO.

If I'm not mistaken, eventlet/gevent aren't really the direction that Python is heading. The recent stuff seems to emphasize "explicit" concurrency much more.
People use Docker in a public cloud (VM), primarily to simplify the deployment pipeline, not for LXC.

Given this, it actually makes sense to combine VM with Docker, check out www.hyper.sh
Well, yes, of course...

...but does it work?
You can't seriously be saying that Google's text ads don't work? What are you getting at.

I think the parent wants a reasonable balance between effective ads and ads that don't degrade the content by being obtrusive.
So much for Modi's "Clean India" campaign. I used to think illiteracy is the root cause for all the evils in India. But now I guess corruption is. And the people are somehow responsible. Most Indians are overly religious. They are so deeply involved in visiting temples & godmen, praying etc., that they do not think about anything else. They vote on religious lines. I lived in Mumbai for a month. Every apartment in my 15 story apartment building had a picture of a god/godess, or other religious symbols on the front door. I guess the people are relying too much on "god" to set everything right. And the politicians are taking advantage of this fact.
Trust me you are having more fun than anybody out here.Unless being humiliated in a way that you will never dare claim mastery on any thing (even when its the only thing that you think you are good at) sounds like fun to you ;)
Ada has a lot of qualities that are not given in this small article. For example, try to read the C++ standard and the Ada standard.
When I first read your comment I thought you were referring to the employer with respect to the H1-B visa requirements. :(
Well no shit, sherlock. When ad networks decide that mobiles are a fucking free-for-all and I get un-back-out-able popups like I'm on some warez or porn site, fuck yeah I'm gonna block that shit!
Given the existence of Intel x86 microprocessor microcode updates Intel x86 chips are right out.
Wow, are people really that offended by someone suggesting Julia? It is a bullseye answer to the question.
I understand that (I work for Google).

Surely you can appreciate there might be a longer game.
For a fascinating account of who wrote that wikipedia account, see https://www.deepcapture.com/tag/wikipedia/.
I've realized that this is pretty useless to discuss on HN, with downvotes and anecdotal evidence.
SOLID are not rules but guidelines. Design patterns allow the code to be written in a reusable manner by decoupling some responsibilities. But YAGNI, no code should be written until it is needed.

That's why TDD is absolutely fundamental. In theory TDD can help fight over-engineering, and keep focus on relevant code. SOLID and design patterns are then here to help refactor code when a spec changes. They are recipes.

Obviously TDD fizzbuzz done correctly would have resulted in a single class implemented. Now imagine requirements changes and booze should be printed if the number can be divided by 20,breeze if the number can be divided by 40,bubble when divisible by 56, the easiest way to refactor that single class would be to introduce a CHAIN OF RESPONSIBILITY. Which again is not necessary at first place, if the number of cases remains small.
Even in those countries, you are giving up four years of wages. The only reason any ordinary person does that is because they expect to get something out of it beyond mere life enrichment.
And not just a conspiracy theory, but one founded on bigotry and hatred.
Mozilla's mission is to promote openness, innovation & opportunity on the Web. There's nothing specific about browsers in the mission, though it is used to help further the mission.

If you take that into context when you look at Hello, you can see why the organization might want to leverage the Firefox user base to introduce something with negligible overhead (Hello) that would help to advance that mission.
I disabled ad blocking recently and websites that normally load lightning quick would not even load or would lag tremendously.

I don't know why nobody can figure out a workable, voluntary microtransactions model. If you like a piece of content instead of (or in addition to) upvoting or "liking" or retweeting, you send a few pennies to the content creator.

The model now is simply people not savvy enough to install ad blocking subsidizing content consumption of everybody else. That is probably not stable.
Your comment makes it clear you haven't read how the system works. Seriously, read up on how it works, try to understand it, and then come back here and post about it. The limitations you are trying to point out are actually due to the use of desktops instead of high speed servers for nodes. The comment about mining has zero to do with transaction speed, so that means you are wrong in your assumptions (as most are on here, unfortunately). Again, try to read and understand the technology before you post about it. It's important from an infrastructure standpoint.

And yes, it was overhyped by a bunch of morons. Fortunately for all of us, ad hominem arguments are bullshit.
Over my head but still fascinating to watch (because I like space). Anyone have good intros to this kind of simulation stuff?
Macros is something I really miss in Ruby. But static classes strikes me as a bit of a limitation. E.g. a Crystal REPL can't create classes if I understand it correctly.
Of course they had luck (and more than a bit). But aborting safely would have required luck too. They were already off their pre-planned trajectory, which meant initiating an abort would have put them off of the pre-planned abort trajectory. So a successful abort would probably also have required manual control, and not just for the minute or so required to land, but for an extended period of time while they tried to figure out the right trajectory to get back up into lunar orbit and rendezvous with the command module.

Given that choice, I'm not surprised that Armstrong elected to attempt the landing.
> The world is not run by mustache twirling villains who get sustenance from the tears of "the people."

Actually, yes, about half of it is. Cuba, China, North Korea, Viet Nam, almost all the Middle East, two thirds of Africa, Russia, ...

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index for an overview
How could I be interested in any kind of discussion, when you don't care to see the difference between Unix and Unix shells?

And I don't see how you in anyway progressed the comparison of bash and Powershell with your comment. But go ahead, call me a jackass some more. Maybe that will help?
The Wii (dunno about the Wii U) had a pretty great collection of Virtual Console games for quite a number of platforms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Virtual_Console_games_f...

Also, there are flash carts that can run homebrew emulators for the DS, including an emulator that can play almost all NeoGeo games.
I'd be more than willing to be excluded from sites that have ads on them.

Give me a browser extension that completely blocks all sites that don't want me to visit since I'll be blocking their ads.
> I'm a little surprised they offered her the original $1M. Which I guess means a counter is legitimate, who knows what the legal costs are for Kleiner.

We know what they are: around $1M, the number they may ask Pao for. That number literally represents their legal fees, that they may be able to get her to pay for as she lost.
A drug addict isn't chasing material possessions, either. "Selfish" doesn't imply any concern for material possessions.
Google puts India PM Modi in criminal search line-up
What is your reasoning? Getting press isn't easy, and it can greatly help a startup in terms of sales and contacts. Self promotion directly helps with that, and also opens up connections that would have been missed otherwise.
Ask HN: Reading for first time managers
I've been working as my company's sole QA engineer for the last year or so. I've now been tasked with building a team, and I've just hired my first two engineers.

I have a good support system and managers who are excellent models, but I'm also looking for reading that might help me as I build a multi-person department with processes, etc. Does anyone have recommendations for papers or books that have good insights into 1) managing people and 2) managing software projects?

Thanks!
Overstock to Offer $25M Corporate Bond as the World’s First Crypto Security
Both Spring and JavaEE (as compared to J2EE) have gotten a lot better by using annotations for meta-programming. I was about to give up on enterprise Java programming when the clutter/over-engineering started to get better.

Curiously, I'm going to at least partially credit Ruby for introducing the idea of convention over configuration.
7 architects defend the world's most hated buildings
If you want to run a cartridge based console on a modern TV without introducing a lot of clutter, the Retron5 is worth consideration. It also supports many of the original console controllers.

http://hyperkin.com/Retron5/
You are right, it is not the lawyers fees, but the costs associated with the case, like you said the expert witnesses, copying documents, court fees, etc... that are owed.
Lying burns bridges.
1st part: reasonable
2nd part: fedora tier

oh and below he 'prefers os-x', got a good laugh out of this article.
Malicious Facebook UnfriendAlert app used to steal FB credentials
Advertisements are useless to advertisers if I refuse to buy their products based entirely on the fact that I've seen an ad for their product. So the jokes on them.

I keep a spreadsheet where I add products/brands that have somehow snuck past my adblocker. I avoid buying from them altogether and will look for similar or offbrands.

I do have a few exceptions to this rule. If enough of my friends/coworkers can testify on the products behalf, I may purchase it because it seems to be a good product. If I already have purchased the product in the past and enjoy it and later see it in an advertisement - I already know I like and buy the stuff so it doesn't get added.

Imagine how fewer advertisements you'd see if more people kept a personal blacklist? :)

"But how will you hear about _____"? The same way anyone eventually hears about any great product: word of mouth.
HN goes reddit. Java, oink, oink, lol!
It can scale: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability
I hate adverts.

My problem with adverts is that they are not information, they are selective truths or downright lies. I cannot trust adverts.
Well, it is. Or maybe not only that; there's a strong culture of saying the right thing even if you're not that convinced :( But most people will believe it. It's very sad.
You mean at compile time? Could you explain how or point me to some references?
The extreme attention applied to discrimination, harassment, and civil rights issues in the US is a cultural phenomenon that goes far beyond women in tech.
The person you're replying to wasn't even talking about Rust. You'd also be vastly overestimating the amount of Rust libs that need unsafe code. For example, Rust's most mature web framework, the one powering crates.io, doesn't use unsafe code at all: https://github.com/iron/iron
It's is amazing how many psychopathic corporate shills you'll find astro-turfing all over the place. It's disturbing too how much they are able to influence the discussion.