jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Note the "current outlook" section, where the TL;DR: is that this is not happening and there is pretty good reason to believe it won't over predictable time-frames.
Chowning was the beginning of an interesting cultural phenomenon that continues to this day: inventors of technology-based instruments. From him, you can path the distance to people like Christoph Kemper of Access Music, developer of one of the most popular DSP hardware-synths in the late 90's, to Paul Maddox of Modal Electronics, current developer of the new "New British Synth" the Modulus 002 which is a more hybrid approach. The inspiration is in the form of the mad genius musician who applies their technology background to music-making in ways that inspire others to do the same, follow their path .. or in some cases, go off the path entirely and discover new things.
"If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants." -- Isaac Newton (1676)
The difference I was trying to point out was that Apple and Google had no legacy involvement in the market at all. Microsoft had clearly defined strategies that were playing out, and were working on developments to further those strategies.

Apple and Google didn't have Windows Mobile 6, 7, and 8 being planned and developed when iOS or Android were released. Microsoft did. It's slower to turn a ship around than it is to start one going in the right direction in the first place.

And besides faster processors and a slicker UI, what exactly puts Android in a different market than Windows Mobile? Serious question. Both allow you to develop, download, and install apps. Both are pocket computers with a cell phone built in, built on the same paradigm that Microsoft ushered in throughout the 90's (give users almost complete control, let OEMs do whatever they want on the hardware side). Windows Mobile has touchscreen support. Both can/could be gotten for very cheap or very expensive. Android seems to be, for all intents and purposes, a straight-line evolution of Windows Mobile with a Linux kernel (yet still closed-source where it really counts).
Looks a bit like this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaung_language#/media/File...
You're not taking into account the higher block rewards in the current environment. The base reward is 2 ETH per block, but the the gas fees have been averaging near 3 ETH per block. Most of the mining calculators don't take this into account.

To be fair EIP-1559 probably turns on in July. So that's going to cut block rewards by a lot.
> Sign language only has a few (thousands) of signs. For the rest the signer finger spells the word they need, if they will use that word again they make up a new sign (often the first letter in a specific position).

I'm not sure where this information comes from, but doesn't quite seem correct. A sign is much more involved than simple vocabulary, and qualified signs exist outside the concept of a one-to-one, sign-to-word relationship.

There are five parameters to any sign: handshape, location, movement, palm orientation, and non-manual communication (e.g. grammar, tone, and emotion). These parameters are all in use for every signed vocab word you can think of, but they're also used in idioms, whole phrases, classifiers, depictions, and even lexicalized English words that have incorporated fingerspelling elements with other parameters to create complete, separate, non-vocabulary signs of their own (e.g. KILLED, PIZZA, BUZZ, COMMON).
At the risk at talking about about myself, I have fond memories of making an animated film as a child in the seventies using a Super-8 camera. It was to be a comedy violence construction safety film and all done in 'clay'. I did have crude storyboards for all the 'bits'. As time went on and how excruciating it was to do everything in clay I came up with the 'lazy' approach to use animated cutouts for the backgrounds. I love seeing Terry pass on his wisdom. I could have used some of his advice. The film did turn out pretty nice and I somehow ended up touring all of the local schools presenting my film. I wish I still had it.
People need to realize that managing risk costs money. As an individual consumer, you are many times better have paying a little extra for something in exchange for reducing your exposure to risk.

Do things that de-risk your life. Make sure your health coverage is good, and not just the cheapest insurance plan. Make sure you have life insurance.
The problem here as I understand it is that ERCOT stepped in and artificially set an absurdly high wholesale price, to try to stimulate production. And then Griddy was forced to pass this price straight down to their customers. The narrative about this being a "market failure" seems really wrong.

Really seems like it should be on TX to make the customers whole here, given that they ordered Griddy to pass along huge amounts of money to producers for days.
I like ads tracking as much as the next guy. However, I am not comfortable with a browser modifying content in any way. I am fine to have extensions that do that, but the browser itself shouldn’t do it “by default” without user explicitly enabling it.
PHP is popular because of low barrier to deploy. All hosting providers offer PHP, while with other technologies you'll have to shop a little.
Yes, we've known (and been enraged by) the font-size changing bug as well. Not sure what the deal is with the beachball you've gotten intermittently, but there are a few updates in the pipe (waiting on App store review process). One of them allows you to resize the left column to your heart's delight, as well as fixing the strange styling issues in the message box when pasting rich-text. After the update, you should no longer be able to inadvertently change the style of text presented in the message box.
Wow. That's a statistic that doesn't get reported nearly enough. It puts an entirely different spin on the unemployment rate.
"Scott Adams defends his self-congratulatory commenting and weighs in on the Obama chimp controversy. Make it stop"

For those that don't follow this stuff and for whom the article is TL;DR, Scott Adams had nothing to do with "the Obama chimp controversy" except to compare his situation to that gaffe.
You’re probably familiar with patents, copyrights, and trademarks, the three main types of intellectual property. Trade dress is the wonky red-headed step-cousin of the family that fills the gaps between the three; you might think of it as a trademark on design elements that trigger consumer recognition. (That’s a vastly simplified explanation, but it’s good enough for our purposes.) Trademarks and trade dress are all about protecting consumers from being deceived in the marketplace — the idea is to clearly indicate the source of a product or service.

It's very interesting that in trademark and trade dress the issue is whether a product confuses consumers, rather than whether ideas were copied. Does this mean, with respect to these claims, that it's fine to copy product ideas and designs, so long as the product is clearly from a different source and consumers would not confuse it with the original source?

(For patents and copyright claims, it's more clear that it's about the duplication rather than the confusion it may cause.)
Rasmus generally promotes abstention from using frameworks, and the use of PHP as more of a templating language.

from watching a recent talk (http://ontwik.com/php/php-performance-by-rasmus-lerdorf/) he gave, i didn't get the impression that he hated frameworks, but more that he hated most php frameworks because they were slow.

in the video he says a big problem with current frameworks is that they deploy to production the same code used in development, which still includes all of the knobs and extra includes that have to be pulled in on every request to support things that aren't used. he would rather see frameworks turn code into a streamlined bundle of code that gets pushed to production.
Want to attract top tech talent? Offer a high salary.
Yeah, more to the point, there's about 500 million asians in rural inland China who will fail the hell out of a math exam (or often a literacy exam). Meanwhile, there's a few million (citation needed) asians in America who share the trait of having parents with the smarts/resources to move halfway across the world, along with a few million in Singapore living in a first world city-state and another billion or so in developed China / Japan / South Korea / Taiwan / etc.

Looking across those examples, parental income and access to good schools seems to be a more powerful indicator than ethnicity. It just so happens that the 2 are correlated in America.
I also find it difficult to get certain kinds of work done in a coffee shop or other public place. I always seem to get this feeling that people are watching over my shoulder, despite the fact that nobody actually is. That feeling is somewhat unsettling, and makes it difficult for me to concentrate on things like code.

So, for me at least, coffee shop time is 'thinking' time. Time to enjoy the brew, do the crossword, let the mind go wild, and write down notes of ideas that pop into my head.
Copyright infringement is normally a civil matter, not a criminal one. Just because it is illegal does not make it criminal.
What is a "raid" in the context of 4chan?
rahulchaudhary, your recent submissions have all been marked as "dead". See http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, particularly:

If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

There is also a list of websites that are considered to be mainly "fluff", and postings of links to them are automatically killed.
The same principle applies in romance (proposals, confessions, etc.), where, if you win over the crowd, she'd be vilified for rejecting.
I can’t help but think sometimes that it looks as if Google actually did the carriers a huge favor in the long-run because they’ve taken many of the bells and whistles that drove users to the iPhone in the first place and opened them up for the carriers to use as glittering lures to rope customers back into their traps.

Remember the ever-half-joking, half-serious talk of open-source zealots of the mythical, promised "year of Linux on the desktop"? Strange indeed how the first truly mass-market Linux distribution ended up skipping the desktop entirely, and then excelling at restricting users.
In China, after paying for the cost of the iphone as downpayment (so around 700$), it costs 10$/month to get 15 hours call and 1.2 Gb/month data plan... That's under a unicom plan.

Now, this is not all of Asia, it's mostly because China is still not a very expensive place to live (although the price of housing in Shanghai is starting to look more and more like any international capitals...). When I lived in Japan, I paid 60$ for a phone subscription with 3 hours calls and no data plan (this was 4 years ago) and France is not much better than the US, plans easily exceeds 40 euros for "unlimited" data plan where you're not allowed to download more than 500Mb and with this you don't get much hours of call either... It's true though that the US is one of the only country I know where you pay to receive calls and to receive SMS.
Using something written in a language you hate is not going to do any good in the long run. I'd stick with Django, and just not use the ORM and the templating system: there's plenty of Django left, even if you remove those two parts.
Or perhaps upgrade to a non-vulnerable version, which was released about a week or two ago.
The guy who found the vulnerability in 2013 could have simply reported it to authorities at the time. If their turnaround was earlier than 2015, it would have worked out better, yes?
It is less code because it doesn't use encapsulation. So is encapsulation a benefit or just needless overhead? Depends on the size of the program.
Time to replace it with SQRL?

https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm

(I think the final spec will launch in a week or two.
I'd have to say that kawaii sure beats the heck out of traditional Soviet art! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_realism)
Google have never properly supported federated login. You should be able to login to Google services with an external account and not need to sign up with Google at all. Their Authentication and Authorization APIs have always been about pushing Google Services.
Actually, it's considerate. Given the choice of having all of your users suddenly shut off, or a small portion of them, the latter is better. Suppose that the number is 1% of people that get shown this page. This means only 1% of the people are going to email you to remind you to fix it, instead of everyone at once. By gradually ramping this number up, you get the most notification with the least number of users inconvenienced.
That's the 2010 census; if you look at the 2013 American Community Survey's 1-year estimate, someone making $100,000 is suddenly only making more than 87.7% of earners - and is $40,000 more than median for someone with a graduate or professional degree [0].

If you look at households, that percentage is much lower - at $150,000 they're in the 90.1%; at $100,000 a household (aka an individual earner living alone or as the sole earner in a household) is in the 77.4% [1].

> If that's the middle class, then what does that make the other 93%, who are worse off?

You've introduced a false dichotomy here. Just because an individual in the 93% (by your own figures) or a household in the 77.4% (by the ACS figures) is considered middle class doesn't mean that someone in the 57.5% (~$50,000) isn't also middle class. These things aren't linearly distributed.

On the other hand, it's pretty evident that neither one is upper class. But that depends on the definition of upper class, no?

What is your definition of upper class? Sheer income percentile, or what an individual can actually accomplish at a given income percentile?

General usage has upper class being those who can afford not to work if they so choose; those who not only are rich themselves, but whose families have been rich for several generations. They send their children to private schools with a higher tuition than a State university; they probably own more than one home. I don't know any SWE that can claim that unless they were born to it or got in just after (or before) the first round of investment at a unicorn like Google or Instagram.

"Upper middle class" is a pretty apt term, and usually reserved for those in professions like software development (surprise!), mechanical engineering, architecture, managerial, etc. Those under this label are usually comfortable, can easily afford to own their own home, and - in comparison to the creature comforts available - better off than royalty from two hundred years ago.

But in comparison to the creature comforts of those just 1-2% above them, they're paupers. And those in the 95% are, to those in the top 1% (generally considered the cutoff for Upper Class), simply one head of chattel among the unwashed, hepatitis ridden, gout prone proletariat.

0. http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/p...
1. http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/p...
I used to think this checklist was misguided. My mental model of improving my rationality was something like acquiring lots and lots of impressive and clever tools and then training myself to apply them in context appropriate places. I've come around to a model much more in line with this checklist though. Something like:

1. Noticing behavioral patterns

2. Thinking hard and doing research on the pattern, whether it leads to good or bad outcomes and whether modifying it is cost effective

3. Using habit formation techniques to modify things

4. Reviewing and reflecting on what is and isn't working for things I have modified using the above steps

Old me would have considered this very laborious. You only get to make small changes this way and you aren't guaranteed they work. However, it doesn't take that many real improvements in fundamental counter-productive patterns before the benefits start stacking on top of each other. A few weeks of intense focus on one particular pattern is actually fairly high leverage considering that you can instill habits that will last a lifetime.
And the EU, rather than doing this, enacted their dumb 'cookie law' which, as far as I can tell, has just meant every UK website now has unnecessary cluttery popups telling you that they're using cookies.
I'm really happy to see DevOps, CD, and Microservices take off, although, as usual, I'm a little perplexed as to why we need new slang. But hey, if it works to get the message out, I'm all for it.

These things are not new, but like so many other ideas, they're just old ideas re-appearing in a context that had forgotten about them.

Traditionally, many of the potential problems the author relates have been solved by architectural conceits. For instance, standardize on a programming language and datastore, then share all persistence-related files. (I'd strongly suggest a FP language, preferably used in a pure manner). Then you've decreased the "plumbing" issues by a couple orders of magnitude, lowered the skill bar for bringing in new programmers, and you can start talking about using some common testing paradigms to work on the other issues.

I'm a huge fan of microservices, but it's good to talk about the bad parts too, lest the hype overrun the reality.
thanks! glad to hear that. unfortunately, pressurenet.cumulonimbus.ca also does not resolve for me.
Ultimately then Javascript becomes useless, because 95% of clients will not have it enabled. This is why we have sandboxing, and very high browser bounties for any exploits that allow you to leave that sandbox. Is it perfect? Nope. But it's the best option to move forward safely in the web without going back in time 20 years.
That is a really common idea here and a really arrogant one given how many SASS businesses wouldn't be possible without JS.

There were a time when the internet was about reading text, but that has long since passed. Without javascript you can't have a presentation overlayed with video (say of the presenter), you can't have real time anything, you can't comment without having to reload the page, etc. Look at how horrible the UX of HN is compared to reddit.
Yep, pretty much all of this is well known c100 years. Part of what made social welfare popular across europe. Whenever the UK forgets that, crime and riots go back up. Crime is caused by poverity and inequality. Countries that push back against inequality and poverity have crime reductions.
Your #2 point is false. Most diet/exercise programs appear to "work" in the short run, but fail in the long term. Very few people who diet haven't gained the weight back and then some within 3 years. The sad truth is that we don't yet have any GOOD advice to give overweight people who want to not be overweight. Telling them to diet to lose weight is, in practice, terrible advice.

The headline is fine if you keep in mind that the subject of the study is only one of a number of mechanisms by which people could be not at fault for their weight gain. There's things like the "fat virus" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infectobesity). There are epigenetic factors - we're just learning that how well your grandparents ate can affect your health. There might well be chemical or medical factors too - overuse of antibiotics changing the bacterial load is a common suggestion.
Right, you can achieve this easily in nginx/apache. The whole idea of the rack-rewrite gem (and this post) is to move those rewrite rules into your app's code repository. This way your app can be moved between web servers without having to rewrite those rules.
I'm a Yahoo! webdev alum, and I have most of the original YUI team on my buddy list. I've paid a lot of attention to YUI3, and have some differing opinions in our approaches; probably enough to warrant a blog post... thanks for the topic idea. :)
huh? 40 miles of iPods.

+5 for an intuitive analogy. Priceless!
Yes, it's a grand conspiracy. The only other possible explanation would be:

1) Readability got popular. It's a good idea so they baked it into the browser.

2) There is plenty of money in ads. Apple decided they wanted some of this money instead of funneling it to a direct competitor.

I prefer the conspiracy idea myself.
I would think that would depend on how much money you started with. You might need to gain a little traction before you even have enough money to buy a premium domain. Even if you do have the money, spending say 5000-10000 on a domain might be a little hasty before even convincing someone that your idea should be funded.
Besides URL shorteners being totally unnecessary, this just slows down users' browsing and diminishes their privacy. Basically, every Twitter app will have to become Spyware in order to comply with Twitter's new ToS.

FWIW, Here are my messages to the Twitter developer list about it:

http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/...

http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/...

I think it is disgusting how Twitter has appropriated the old post-9/11 "we're spying on you for for own safety" stance that governments have been terrorizing citizens with. Basically, their spyware is protecting you from...other spyware. All for a fraction of a fraction of a penny per click.

Also note that their t.co shortener will create links that are 19 characters long. But, j.mp links are only 18 characters long, which means t.co links won't even be as short as possible. So, it's worse all around.
DataMapper is a Object Relational Mapper written in Ruby. http://datamapper.org/
"Takes 3 days, but who cares?"

Who wouldn't care? At 3 days, you might as well just mail around cash.
> Interesting idea, but that wouldn't work, the authorities wouldn't let the drones close enough to the prisons.

Couldn't they instead mortar things into the prison? Shoot a capsule with a phone on a very steep ballistic trajectory.
There was a lot of anti-market sentiment after the depression that lasted a couple of generations. There are also other ways to make money than speculating in the market, actually, I would say it isn’t even the main way GDP is generated.
I wish we could measure "asshole-ness" then we could have asshole tax
"In the West, it's just all gone to the very wealthy" is also a claim that is broad, hard to define, and is empty without evidence.

Of course those who pay attention to these sorts of things know that the reality is more complex than that, even if you limit your analysis to "The West," which isn't a unified bloc. See the differences exhibited by the change in income inequality by these nations: https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2018/07/Top-Incomes.png . You can't make a generalized statement about "wealth in the West," because it has exhibited different patterns in different countries over different timeframes. You have to specify all of those parameters before an intelligent conversation can even be started.

Even if the grandparent was worded too vaguely to communicate the poster's actual point, the grandparent turned out to be making a statement that was too low resolution to actually communicate anything beyond hand-waving anti-Capital rhetorical sentiment.
You can use the Dark Reader extension for Firefox on computers & Android, which makes all sites dark, or the Stylus extension which allows you to load custom site-specific stylesheets. Stylus allows access to a big repository of community-made themes and there are surely some dark ones for HN.

These both are likely also available for Chrome.
I like dark mode -- it has a sleek aesthetic.

The only time dark mode is bad is when you're doing a product demo in a darkened room, like at a conference. It's really hard to make out text in dark mode in a dark room.
that's 150kb! and already addresses html/css which the author was complaining about...