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blueish··on Introducing Threads
Some people may not see the use case, but the popularity of SNAP has shown that there is a user base for this product. What's interesting to me is Facebook's decision to completely copy the use case in an attempt to capture the market. They've tried to do so with Instagram Stories & DMs, as referenced to by the post, but I'm curious about the rationale to make it a standalone app, which would hurt adoption.

I suppose the idea is the entry point - Instagram's entry point is viewing content, not creating content (the feed is the first thing that shows up when opening the app). Threads is the same as SNAP in that the first entrypoint is to create content: it opens the camera.

It'll be interesting to see if this can succeed in finally pushing SNAP out, as one benefit for users is leveraging the existing social graph from Instagram, whereas you must add people for SNAP.

blueish··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2019)
Location: Seattle

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes, ideally West Coast

Technologies: Javascript (React + some Angular 1), Python, Java, Go

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-chow-b90b5284/

Email: hn (at) samc (dot) how

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I recently graduated with a BSc in Computer Science, and have 16 months of internship experience under my belt. I have mostly done front end work in my internships, but I am also interested in distributed systems (took a graduate course in the subject last term).

blueish··on How to Design Worlds (2008) [pdf]
From my memory, this is meant to be more introductory material for people first learning computer science, rather than a guide for people who are attempting to learn a lisp. My school (UBC) uses Racket and this book as the intro level CS course.
blueish··on Learn TLA+ (2018)
Speaking as someone who's graduating this year, I wasn't exposed to it at all in my undergrad. I might be covered in one or two upper levels, but I hadn't heard of it until taking a graduate course where we talked about verification.
blueish··on Mozilla Announces Experimental Partnership with ProtonVPN
You can remove Pocket from the address bar. All you do is right click it and the only option shows up as "Remove from address bar", so you don't have to stare at the reminder if you don't want to!
blueish··on OpenAI Five Benchmark
I think that'd be an even harder behavior for the ai to come to though, since they'd have to recognize those benefits for the other team and their origin, and then finding that taking Roshan prevents those benefits. I think that's a next step after discovering the benefit of taking Roshan.
blueish··on OpenAI Five Benchmark
I'm surprised they felt confident enough to lift a lot of the restrictions so soon. A lot of them seemed like big game changers I wouldn't expect the ai to be able to exploit so easily. Especially the introduction of Roshan and invisibility, they mention implementing some randomization, it seems like it would take quite a big commitment in terms of resources to take Roshan where the AI wouldn't even realize the benefits immediately (namely the Aegis, the XP and gold they would have to value against the loss from farming/taking towers).

The introduction of the other heroes also comes as a surprise, I wouldn't have expected them to have the ai utilizing new abilities. They don't mentioned how they are picked, other than the ai having a random draft of them (does the ai pick their composition?)

blueish··on Shutting Down the BGP Hijack Factory
I had a conversation with a friend about this, and the outcome was the idea that BGP could be extended with functionality for this case. There needs to be a way to brand "negative" traffic or routes advertised with some sort of reputation system. In the event of a DDoS attack coming from an AS, you could have intra-AS weight for any given AS such that if an AS reports malicious traffic from a route, it's given a lower weight and traffic is less likely to route to that AS in favor of a less specific prefix. This would encourage any given AS to act in desirable ways, as their actions (or actions coming from within them, e.g. a customer of theirs being the source of a DoS attack) would have consequences.
blueish··on The Emerald Programming Language
From my memory, creates an object, gets all the other active nodes in the cluster, moves them to that node and then back to the original node, showcasing the object passing feature of the language.
blueish··on The Emerald Programming Language
I recently took a compilers course from Hutchinson, and he talked a bit about the design behind object passing in Emerald from a compilers point of view, how once you have garbage collection, it's easy to implement moving objects between nodes of programs. Interesting concept that I was surprised to find wasn't as commonplace!
blueish··on Key iPhone Source Code Gets Posted Online
Here's the link to the github repo, since the article didn't mention it: https://github.com/h1x0rz3r0/iBoot
blueish··on Hawaii’s false missile alert sent by worker believing attack on US was imminent
I wouldn't call it hand wringing, as I think all the points were valid, but yes, the employee sent out the message he intended to (the real alert over the test alert).
blueish··on The dawn of online piracy (2015)
I think the article addressed those points rather well. It highlighted the fact that Glover wasn't the only one doing these things, but his unique position made him a supplier for one of the more exclusive pirating clubs.

The author did a rather good job tying a few story lines together coherently to portray a few of the human interest stories at the heart of the piracy movement. Is the headline and top subject a little grandiose? Sure, but the heart of the article didn't claim that Glover was the only supplier of the pirated records, only that he was the supplier for one of the clubs that typically leaked the records first.

blueish··on ESO Telescopes Observe First Light from Gravitational Wave Source
Silicon Valley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley)
blueish··on GM is launching a $5K tiny electric car in China made for city commuters
Interesting, I have an opposing viewpoint. I'm living in Vancouver, and don't have a car. The car2go system is very useful here, as great as transit is, it's hard to head home late at night or making grocery trips, which is where the smart cars come in. They may not be the most luxurious car, but they are still amazing for driving in the city. You don't need to go super fast (as you usually don't have the chance), and the "cheap" plastic they use for the interiors isn't as bad as you make it out to be. It's certainly not the choice I would make for a car, but they work really well in the city.
blueish··on Other ways to read Hacker News
I've been using

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.hidroh.materialistic
For my day to day browsing. It has a pretty fully fledged feature set, including saving stories for later, and some neat aggregates (top last 24 hours is labelled "catch up" or something similar).
blueish··on 15'' MacBook Pro with Kaby Lake and 32GB of Desktop-Class RAM, Later This Year
It'll be interesting to see if they decide to go back to it. Knowing Apple, they will most likely keep the touch bar, but it might be the case that they decide to add it back after the backlash the touch bar has received.
blueish··on 'Tooth repair drug' may replace fillings
> because everyone said I should.

Why? Wisdom tooth removal is still surgery, and you and your dentist should have been the ones to decide on whether it was necessary or not.

If the surgery went wrong because of other complications, that's a different issue, but you shouldn't get surgery just because other people are saying you "should".