skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where do you get the helium needed to make it fly through the air? If you're just pumping air, at best you would float on water, which still leaves you vulnerable to being killed by something else that is floating (possibly a pickup truck, a growler of Rogue Dead Guy Ale or maybe the Space Needle).
While I can see how this could hurt his future employment prospects what legal ground is there to sue over this post?

Seems like slander would be a very hard case to win and what else is there that you could sue him for?
1.Nintendo was a much 'smaller' company than Sony and Microsoft, who had many other businesses besides video games. The video games industry in the 2000s was far bigger than it was when Nintendo dominated it in the 80s and 90s.

2. The Wii is practically the definition of a 'disruptive strategy.' They stopped trying to compete on what was previously considered key (specs, AAA games) and instead focussed on adding a radical new dimension to gaming (motion sense controller).
I mis-read the title as "A race condition ..." Too much multi-threaded coding.
I don't necessarily agree. I think his actions show the downside of having a nincompoop as a CEO. I think the fact that he was an active redditor is circumstantial.

I mean, he went on reddit and had an argument with a former employee after that no remote work fiasco.
I grew up in LA, where water is scarce, and valued. Water fountains are around, but they have valves, which break, stick, or otherwise cause problems. When I lived in Chicago, I was shocked to see that their water fountains have no valves: They run full flow 24x7. Given the weather (frozen pipes) and the water resources available to Chicago (Lake Michigan), it makes sense for them to do it this way, but I had a lot of dissonance when I first saw it.
He's name is actually Donald.
"Downside" depends on which side you're on. From the perspective of an ordinary Redditor, Yishan forthrightness and transparency has probably been quite refreshing. From the perspective of the board, I bet they very much appreciate Ellen Pao's professionalism and silence.

Reddit is basically a society of 36M people now, roughly the size of Iraq. If it were a country, it'd be the 36th largest, bigger than Canada, Venezuela, and Taiwan. r/IAmA alone has 8.6M subscribers, r/AskReddit has 9M.

The biggest challenge of a leader is aligning interests. Many of those "citizens" are not aligned with the board, and are not even aligned with each other. It's no wonder that they keep burning through CEOs. Yishan may have been more aligned with the Reddit userbase (although even then, a good portion of the site hated him) and clashed with the board, while Ellen tried to please the board and ended up pissing off the whole userbase.
Seriously, pornography counts as "free speech" now? Please guys, can't we fight for something worthwhile?

If I had to give my opinion, I'd say that I actually find it quite laudable that Microsoft bothers to heed local values. It shows respect (and a good sense for business), kinda like not selling pork in the UAE...
We don't have that much to compare to, not a lot of control counter-cases. The entire premise that copyright helps authors can be actually questioned. http://questioncopyright.org/promise
Isn't the Chief Executive Officer's job to ensure that the company actually performs its mission? I'd actually assume that the CEO's role varies significantly from company to company.

Where are you getting such precise definitions from?
In that part of his AMA, he came across as oblivious to the experience of a normal user in a normal subreddit. Deleted posts may pique your curiosity, but if you are able to view them and discover some of the really aggressive abuse, most people get turned off the experience.

He obviously doesn't, and that's why reddit is optimizing for the young-straight-white-male-in-a-dorm-room demographic. There may be nothing wrong with that, but it is at odds with being “The Front Page of the Internet,” and it is frustrating for mods trying to create safe spaces.

People associate “safe spaces” with culturally marginal groups, but even if you can’t imagine what it's like to be a woman or transgendered, you can imagine what it's like to try to argue factually about hot-button topics like race, free speech, gun control, or the historical use of the Confederate Battle Flag.
D.TUSK sounds like a secret Street Fighter character.
Ok. But be honest, were you pitching something as good as AirBnB. We can be passionate about what we are building and try to raise capital without thinking our concept is as good as AirBnB. Given that, I would have suspected a warm intro would have done the job. My guess is that the founders (if you gave them truth serum) would say that they thought AirBnB was going to be huge all along.

I could be wrong on that.
Most people are nincompoops about something. The market expects discreet nincompoopery. Being on Reddit doesn't help.
Even better, cmd clicking on a ./path/file:line string will open in your editor at that line. Perfect for backtraces.
When I teach HTML/CSS/JS, I tell my students this: "put as much functionality into HTML/CSS as you can, and use JS as a frequent, but last resort". I think that sums up the benefits of this article without carrying along any of the needles anachronisms (use pre-processors, they're great). With animations, transforms and html5 form validations, you can avoid JS for longer than you think.
I think the issue is a disagreement over what portability means. To me, portability doesn't mean write once, run everywhere, it just means you can make it run on a different platform with a bit of effort.

In a C/C++ program, if you're careful, you can isolate the platform-independent parts so that you only have to write them once. VM languages abstract further by creating a new language for these platform-independent parts. However, the platform-dependent parts are still going to be written in C/C++, or assembly, or generated by a JIT compiler written in C/C++ (there are rare exceptions).

So if anything, I would say that C/C++ enables portability, simply because there aren't any other viable choices besides assembly when it comes to generating platform-specific machine code.
From what I've read about seismology you are on the right track. It is likely simpler to create an earthquake by water injections along a fault then it is to make 'boom' and hope something works. The big issue here is the control portion. If a fault has been building pressure for hundreds of years it is unlikely that we will have any certainty on what needs to be done to trigger only a earthquake of size X. Most likely we can start a quake, but if there is enough strain on the crust already the shaking will feedback into the crust causing further slippage down the fault.
I'd love to see something like iTerm for Windows.
It discusses why a big earthquake is likely to hit the PNW in the next 50 years with lots of flowery language and science. TL;DR: There's a big earthquake that is likely to hit the PNW in the next 50 years.
Here, Java ONE 2014, one year ago!

"Safety Not Guaranteed: sun.misc.Unsafe and the Quest for Safe Alternatives"

https://www.parleys.com/tutorial/safety-not-guaranteed-sun-m...

Every Java developer worth its salt knows about Java ONE.
I stopped reading as soon as I decided to get a baked potato from TGI Fridays.
You could go up to 4K video for $1500 or so. But that will only get you 4 1080p screens stitched together, so you can really only focus in on a quadrant.
I just did this by modifying the curl request to '…status='\1'D.+Tusk…'
Worst case is company discovers, fires you, and takes all rights to the code. The IP belongs to them and you have to decide if it's worth the legal risk of continuing to develop it commercially. Hint: it's generally not.

It's easier to avoid this problem than deal with it after the fact.
This is awesome stuff. I've blown through the majority of the Bandit levels pretty quickly but looking at the other games it seems they easily go way beyond my skill level. Easy to get started and keep going through the levels since it's all ssh. Would highly recommend anyone thinking about it checks this out.
Been seeing these water bottle refill stations pop up around:

http://blog.hughessupply.com/files/2011/11/EZH2O_Single_L_Fi...
"The object boundary is in some sense arbitrary and porous." Yes. All objects are mind created, so indeed their boundaries are arbitrary.
I like the 10% thing, but the problem is that a lot of the legitimately innovative products would never be authorised.

The 10% thing, to me, only works if it allows people to escape the internal political machine. Let's say you have an existing product, 1 mil+ LoC and ten years+ old, and some young upstarts want to try and rewrite it from scratch, of course the management is going to outright say "no" because:

A) It would take an entire department many years to accomplish the same task.

B) It won't generate new revenue streams even if successful.

C) It competes with an existing product.

But that's exactly the type of thinking that causes very successful companies to ultimately have the rug pulled out from under them when external developers do the same exact thing, and are able to deliver a more modern alternative in fewer lines of code (because it didn't evolved, it was designed that way) and with less bugs (due to better use of libraries and pre-existing code bases).

I guess what I am getting at is: that term "let people" has a lot of baggage. Ultimately you might just see people using their 10% not to innovate but instead just to do more of the same-old, same-old because that's all management will allow.

I've always wondered if big companies shouldn't try to simulate a "startup." Imagine this: You take ten developers and one manager. The big company continues to pay their normal salary, and they have six months, their own space, and a modest budget to produce whatever they want (no questions asked). The thing they produce is then trialed and if it proves to be successful, there's a personal financial incentive to the eleven people involve (e.g. they get a % cut of the profits for a period).

Essentially do a startup, but take the risk out of it (no financial danger), and keep the incentive (since they personally financially gain). Do one "startup" a year using a different eleven (10 + 1) people. As a bonus you'll likely see a morale gain due to just changing up what people do day to day.

Something can also be said for turning it all into one giant competition. See Steve Jobs with the Lisa vs Mac "war." It might have ultimately got Steve fired, but it also kept both teams on their toes and may have worked if he hadn't have gone overboard with it (and the Lisa in general). When he returned he continuously started projects which ate away at other products Apple produced (e.g. iPhone Vs. iPod, iPad vs. Macbook, and so on).
It's cool, but I disagree about "awesome", considering how many CPU cycles it probably takes to keep that thing updated in more-or-less-realtime.
A script that automatically submits to virustotal is like reinventing a very slow virus scanner.
That's certainly one of their tasks. Pao didn't execute on that though.
I thought so too, but then I realized I'm viewing this on mobile with a very limited battery life and the smallest data plan ever.

While I'd be a fan of the feature on a desktop this is the kind of thing that makes me want to see uMatrix work on Android.

These features are never implemented as opt-in and the only way to opt-out is with something like uMatrix.
So are you ;)
What kind of city does Seattle want to be?
Ah, this is very interesting. That is definitely one way to look at slogging through rejections: That you're one closer to a sale.
Photoshop is hard to learn. So I'm teaching Sketch 3 for free
Nothing like a cascade failure to make an already stressful project into a terrifying experience.
Yea, been there, a couple of times, but I've yet to find anything "viable" (nebulous term, I know).

Things in common between the three new-ish apps mentioned above is a sleek, simplified UI, all with the essentials when it comes to features.

I've tried a number of the ones on the page you've referenced, but most are too big a step back.

My hope is that there's a Sketch-esque InDesign type app out there that I've missed among the latest and greatest. I'm coming to believe, however, that's only wishful thinking. ;)
For us it wouldn't be worthwhile (6 languages), our text just doesn't change very often and being embedded in the apps guarantees instant delivery at any scale.

Since we don't have multiple people maintaining text it's trivial to do this ourselves if we needed to, and comparable to how we already manage cross promotions and stuff.
That is brilliant. But nothing says they have to stitch the video for you. Giving you access to all your clips would be enough, specially if there is some footage overlap. You might want to transition from one clip to the next in a unique way.

The problem I see with that setup though would be deciding which person to follow when two trackers are competing for camera time. I imagine the base has some sort of logic to make that decision but it would suck to be the person that keeps getting missed because you are always right behind someone that the base gave a higher priority.
Agreed entirely.
How the Smartphone Era Led to the Death of Open Standards
That's where I was.

Not seeing any SPA requirement to click "Payment History" and js display a hidden layer.

Anyway, as far as SPA approaches go this site works well, pretty snappy, no FOUC, just pointing out that server-side + javascript for ajax/effects/transitions is also a viable means to creating a positive user experience.
True, though if you're downloading some else's entire mailspool you should expect to find viruses and spam and malware.
Yeah, it kind of makes the entire thing 90% less interesting.

Of course I assumed this was the case before reading it; I'm pretty sure legitimate psychic powers being discovered would warrant more than a HN article.
Man. In times like these—the northwest falling into the ocean or whatever—it's unimaginable to think about the sheer amount of data loss that could occur. I'd probably be really worried about that loss of data or, worse, the loss of services if millions of people suddenly died.
AirBNB-like services are older than the internet, AirBNB just made them sexy and much easier to use as a landlord.
Seems like a mistake waiting to happen.
There are whole sites/companies built on flash games.. armorgames, kongregate.. Not to mention the developers to make a living off of it.

Facebook has had a lot of vulnerabilities, maybe someone should ask them to set a kill date?
> Isn't the Chief Executive Officer's job to ensure that the company actually performs its mission?

Yes it is, although sometimes the COO plays a large part in internally managing that. I'm not sure how Reddit is structured.

The CEO being the face of the company is always part of the job though.
>The Reddit community is not the customer. They're the product.

Yay, this meme again. What a silly oversimplification. Of course reddit users are customers of reddit. Reddit does not exist without their continuing visits. Their ability to create meaningful content is part of the product, along with how reddit the site actually functions. But they are in no means not customers nor the only part of the product.

I'm surprised how often people on reddit say this, given what happened to Digg.
Yeah, I stopped drinking at water fountains after I realized that half the kids I saw drinking from them were practically swallowing the spigot whole. It's not tap water I'm afraid of, it's the distribution device. It's a attractive breeding-ground for every form of nasty.
Here in Seattle, quite a few water fountains in public parks have a 2nd fountain at ground level for pets. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean that all dog owners will be courteous enough to use them, but at least it's a start.

In reality, though, all kind of other gross things are going to get on outdoor fountains even if we keep the dogs away, not the least of which comes from the other people who used them before you.

My understanding (and this is just what I've heard, not something I've investigated) is that if you let a well-maintained fountain run long enough, say 10 seconds, before drinking from it, it's almost certainly fine. Of course, this assumes there isn't any visible contamination on there that the water's flowing through. In short, I don't hesitate to use them if they look OK.
It's probably so that people don't accidentally publish something they intended to DM by tapping the spacebar twice after the command. It'd still imagine it should be allowed from a full keyboard, at least.
I'm not a conspiracy person but the parallels are eerie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpei_Yokoi

nintendo executive
mid 50s
latest console was not well received
dies suddenly
I live in a harmonized country where we get to use a harmonized version of bing. It filters out many legitimate search requests, not just porn. You might search for something completely innocuous that happens to have the word girl in it (e.g. the TV series golden girls from the 80s), and it will be harmonized, I mean censored.

The filters are necessarily inaccurate and will affect legitimate search queries. You probably wouldn't use them in your western country even if you were a conservative Puritan.
Cue the rapid price increases.
There's a nuclear submarine base there too :(
Breach of fiduciary duty.

If you're an executive, diluting your shareholders is extremely illegal.
The new box will be brought up to netboot via PXE, which runs whichever automated installer your OS uses, including assigning IPs, partitioning the drives, etc. The script then points to the proper configuration management system you use, which chooses the proper script for whatever the box is -- web frontend, database, etc -- and then finishes out the install. You're never a version behind, because your installer is maintained with every other bit of configuration. A good deployment system means new boxes are never out of date.
I would ask any doctor you know who they would recommend. I'm not a doctor, but I've noticed there's a certain clubby quality to the medical profession, and they tend to know what doctor has a good reputation and which one doesn't (and who they would go to). I happen to be on particularly good terms with my wifes ob/gyn, who recommended an exceptional psychiatrist, and my ortho doc recommended a solid ear/nose/throat guy when I needed one. YMMV, of course.

P.S. - I probably would have tried out at least one other psych if I hadn't really clicked with this one. Good advice there.
The tech bubble? More like the teenagers with snapchat, youtube and twitch.
1) What are you on about? Who said anything about 60fps UI? OP mentioned physical keyboards. That was what my comment was directed towards. There were touchscreen only phones before iPhone that didn't have physical keyboards.

60 fps... That's like jumping in and saying, who had true HD phones first? We could spend all day telling each other who had what before who.
In spite of the misleading, click-bait title, I think it is interesting:

Mirror-touch synesthetes struggle with the constant intrusion of others’ feelings. At a symposium on mirror-touch synesthesia last year in London, a woman named Fiona Torrance of Liverpool described how she had once seen one man punch another. She promptly passed out in a car. Her boyfriend at the time found her unconscious and took her to the hospital. “I felt the punch,” she explained. As a child, she once saw a man kill an otter with a spade on television. She was inconsolable for a month, feeling as if she’d killed the otter herself. To this day, she takes medication to control the sensory onslaught, and she does not own a television. A recent episode of the NPR program Invisibilia profiled another woman with the condition who has essentially become a shut-in.
They're unpaid volunteers, I don't know that anyone expects them to spend a lot of time on contingency planning.
Herpes.
It sounds downright depressing. Don't get me wrong, it's quite well done - but that won for a song to celebrate birthdays?
You can download an audio version free from librivox.
I agree.

> Unless a third-party fills this vacuum, Golang on mobile will remain a curiosity.

No, it will be used for shared libraries, as intended.
Wait until you see who is the top replies to /u/yishan's comment.
A heads up: this peace is 6.3K+ word long and according to my estimate it would take you around 45 mins to finish reading it.

Enjoy!
That would be absolutely horrific, a loss that I can't even comprehend.

The loss of life would be sad too. /s
Premium products usually cost more to make justifying the price. The point being made is that the cost to manufacture the iphone isn't any more than say an android device, so your just paying apples exclusivity tax.
Wikileaks' purpose is to publish leaked data, not tamper with it.
For what reason? This is easily bypassed.
What exactly is antiquated about the design of modern water fountains? How could the designers of the water fountain effectively and reasonably communicate that the water fountain is safe to drink from, and do so for the design life of the fixture?

Sure, some water fountains look old...but I imagine that if you live in a major city, odds are (from a logistical standpoint, unless you live in a new subdivision) the tap water to your house or apartment flows through pipes that are older than that water fountain. A dog drinking from the fountain is gross, but I'm not sure the onus is on the designer to totally prevent people from acting silly.
What am I looking at here ?
That's an interesting idea but very speculative.
I wouldn't call it work yet. "Long-term research" already is somewhat of a compliment.

One problem is that experimentation is risky. If you do an experiment, and a tsunami follows, you are likely to be sued, even if it happens months later. Conversely, there's no way we know of to prove that a man-triggered magnitude quake prevented a more destructive one a few years later. So, you couldn't even prove that that quake with a few billion dollars of damage and a few hundred deaths relatively speaking is a good thing.

Dreamers even envision extracting energy from tectonic plates. Small-scale, that is trivial (you can easily stretch a rubber band a few centimeter a year across a fault line). Large-scale, it could be a huge energy source.
> Yes, Gmail and Drive may cause all kinds of chaos but I think I can survive quite a while without the search engine and YouTube.

Perhaps you can, but how many companies are now wholly dependent on Google for their groupware functionality? What happens if you're one of the gaggle of people who make a living off YouTube?
Yishan was a member of the PayPal mafia and started working as an eng director at Facebook in 2005, so it's very likely he has F-U money already. This is someone actually exercising the "F-U" part.

I also don't really see what there's grounds to sue on - pretty much all of business is based on taking advantage of undervalued assets and changing control of them so they can be better utilized. Framing it as a long con won't make any friends at Conde Nast, but all the moves at Reddit have (to my knowledge) been by-the-book, legally.
Lessons from 100 Days of Rejection: Jia Jiang at TEDxAustin
Scribus is powerful enough. Even magazines are beeing made with it. It is for sure lacking some features when compared Indesign but for every normal user who is willing to learn how Scribus works it offers at least for me everything I need from a DTP program.
There was a bit of discussion on that in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9733034