jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"Most projects fail. Offshoring just reduces the cost of failure."

BINGO!

When I saw that bit of wisdom some months ago I realized why the off-shoring craze had gotten so far. In many big non-IT themselves companies most IT project do indeed fail, so offshoring is a fantastic way to continue to pretend to do IT while spending much less money.
The consistent underlying theme to all of Stallman's writings and musings on software is "don't make a profit on me". He is an anti-capitalist. That his views hold so much weight in the tech industry is a testament to the extreme levels of socialist indoctrination that occurs in universities.
Note this article does predate the Mythbusters episode (and the study probably precipitated it). The Mythbusters anecdotally reported that while you could go roughly as fast in high-viscosity fluid it was much harder; IIRC Jamie couldn't even finish his highest-viscosity run, or at least made very heavy weather of it.

(I for one would accept anecdotal reports on the matter, but if you're in an excessively science-uber-alles mood YMMV.)
I absolutely do not believe Unions to be a good thing. They're about bullying and mob mentality. Sorry, you won't convince me otherwise :/

If you decide to strike, you should be sacked. Simple. You've broken your side of a contract to work.

Funny how the site there kinda glosses over the disastrous Union woes of the 70s, how the country was brought to its knees.

Of course I'm not a Labour Party supporter at all, which is perhaps another reason I dislike Unions. The two go hand in hand. The Labour party is after all, bankrolled, and totally controlled by Unions. I disagree completely with the philosophies of both of them. They're about waste. Unfairness. etc etc
Perhaps...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1213150
You summed up in five words, what I was planning on writing quite a few more on. Well done. :)
But if the heavy users of their services are costing them more than they're making, and generally degrading the quality of the service, that argument doesn't really hold up. I'm going to assume that, like most similar business models (including gym memberships and all-you-can eat buffets), AT&T relies on light data users paying for more than they use in order to subsidize heavier data users that use more than they pay for. Encouraging people to become heavy users that are an overall cost to the business so that they stick around longer would seem like the classic "we lose money on each one, but we make it up in volume" sort of mistake.

It would be like encouraging people to eat more when they go to an all-you-can-eat buffet by giving them doggy bags to take home as much as they want, on the theory that then they're more likely to come back. If you're losing money on those people you don't really want them to come back.

It's obviously an open question as to exactly what their costs per user are for light versus heavy users of data, but I'm going to infer from their recent actions that they've decided that at the moment supporting heavy users of data isn't such a great business to be in.
I think the bigger problem is that we let people make permanent residence in area that was designed not to be part of a state. Perhaps they could shrink the DC area down and give the residential land back to the appropriate states.
Grammar nit: "That said," is usually followed by a contradictory statement, not a supporting statement. i.e. "That said, most folks outside of my team follow these guidelines".
The post talks about replacing the Linux kernel's use of email (so, e.g. the linux-kernel mailing list) with this new solution. linux-kernel has hundreds of thousands of subscribers and thousands of posters, all of whom are being given (according to this post) a full and complete copy of everything non-code related to its development.

I don't think it would work, at least while maintaining the same "anyone can post to the list" guarantees we have today. And I think it's important to say that it wouldn't work, so that people don't think the job of decentralizing open source communities has a substrate solution in-hand in SSB.
Native Chinese here. Some Minorities get automatic extra points and special admission category at college entrance examination. You don’t know how big a deal it is to normal Chineses
The recessed door handles are sooo coool (but I would never in a million years stick my fingers in that: chop chop. Unless the retraction mechanism is (properly) too weak to hurt you?)
>it seems like post offices are really only searching packages when they already have some reason to be suspicious

This is not the case. It's a very heavy ymmv sort of situation. Eg, a post office I lived close to would scan 1 in 10 packages of mail through an xray, including random letters. They had a system that would randomly select from the line.

However, when it comes to USPS a warrent needs to be had to open the letter. Because of this if mail is caught with drugs in it, or suspected, from an x-ray, the mail suddenly gets "lost", because it's cheaper and easier than filing warrants all day. Especially given that the DEA cares about the seller far more than the buyer. If the package is large, but not like massively large, they might go out of their way to file a warrant and give a "love letter", where instead of the mail being delivered, instead a letter is delivered that says, "We know what you're up to. Knock it off." (paragraphrasing ofc)

Because they want the seller, and because anyone can frame anyone else by mailing them drugs anonymously, I've not heard of a case where someone who has receiving drugs by mail who has gotten arrested, with two exceptions: 1) Massively large packages, like multiple huge boxes or barrels worth. 2) I have seen a falling out where someones friend reported them for buying drugs online, and an arrest was carried out then, but due to the potential for abuse, the DEA leaves the buyers alone.
Most people don't treat their address as sensitive information.

Many publicly accessible government records have address information.
Not sure how one would achieve this. It certainly would require new infrastructure. As far as the browser is concerned, the certificate is issued by a root CA that the computer (or browser) trusts. You'd need a tool or a header or something that tells the browser what the original cert is. The browser could then check if this matches the actual cert and then warn.
Where did I assert that absurd generalization you accuse me of? I use fuzzy language about a specific behavior, and you extrapolate it to a absolute that anyone who might ever say such a thing is incapable of nuance or self-criticism. I never said that. I'm really not sure where you see that at all. Can you clear this up for me?

The behavior of exaggerating a claim to knock it down is not unique to to any flavor of partisan. Just as one might respond to criticism of common sexist male behaviors by crying reverse-sexism, one can respond to a criticism of common tribal behaviors with claims of reverse-tribalism. While the behaviors are ultimately different, the structures of responses to criticism tend to be rather similar.

No one said "all sides" are the same. Just that the political discourse is deteriorating. This is well documented by decades of research. It's actually a lot less likely to happen in systems were more than two sides are allowed to exist at once.
If startups prioritize their growth over the good of society, isn't the logical conclusion that startups are a threat to society?
"Chip designers are under so much pressure to deliver ever-faster CPUs that they’ll risk changing the meaning of your program, and possibly break it, in order to make it run faster"

Uh huh. Let me know when that happens.
What makes you think that? NetworkManager is independent of the UI, it has a command-line client, too. And you can even run the Gnome NM applet in any panel-thingy/dock that implements the right spec, I believe it's EWMH. I have it in stalonetray (http://stalonetray.sourceforge.net) under OpenBox, it also works under XMonad.
He has commented on Droid features in the past, vicious attacks like:

"The email client adds support for Exchange and, moving ahead of the iPhone’s MobileMail, adds support for a combined “all accounts” inbox view." (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/10/27/android-20)

"Interestingly, browser scrolling in Android 2.0 seems to have far less “friction” than the iPhone — flick the page and it seems to scroll until you stop it." (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/10/28/engadget-droid)

"The best thing that could happen for iPhone users would be for the Android and/or WebOS communities to start shipping apps that make iPhone owners jealous. Google Voice for Android is the best example so far." (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/08/10/torrez-android)

I think it's a shame that you're attacking him for a counterfactual.
Precisely. Where do we have CSS without JavaScript? And for people who disable JavaScript in their browsers, they get the broken websites they deserve.
I sympathize with your point, but I used to think of runtime and parametric polymorphism as two completely separate things. It wasn't until I heard them both described as a type of polymorphism that I realized the relationship between them.
I never implied that they should lumped under one term. On the contrary. I wrote out all the meanings the term can have to disambiguate it.
If speed isn't a concern, that's great. I really like linux software raid, mdraid. It's FAST and it makes the drives portable between hardware.
You first argue that it isn't sexism, because 'men' may be used in a gender neutral way. Then you continue to argue that 'it is an artifact from a different time', which is a way of explaining the fact that it is sexist.

I fully agree that it is an artifact from a different time. It wasn't considered to be sexist at the time and it wasn't intended to be sexist, but from todays point of view, it's definititely sexist.

It's interesting how our minds work alike in the same wrong ways, because I had pretty much the same train of thought.
Launched it 2 days ago. It's a facebook connect website, so I think I'm okay.
Presumably the HTML page needs to be generated by some code that talks to the Facebook API.

Perhaps the code is also making a bunch of Facebook API calls that are slow to return. That might explain why it doesn't perform well even though it isn't talking to a local database.
The social stigma associated with vocational and trade schools needs to end, and the university "experience" is BS. I imagine a big opportunity to fill the social needs of young people that don't go to college (even beyond selling them alcohol). Businesses that do a good job of matching people socially (maybe IM sports teams not associated with universities) would go a long way to dispelling the idea that you have to pay $50k/year for the intangible college experience.
Nice :)

I actually worked there as a Lisp programmer. The best programmers I know work/have worked there.
I'm curious why a simple alarm clock that wakes you up at the desired hour wasn't sufficient?
No one's talked about its twitter/fb limitation. Are we born with twitter & fb?
These are just account logins (and not "disclosure" on how the break-in was accomplished).

I see no real use in this other than to create havoc.
I think Apple TV is already in the process of disrupting TV, if I recall disruption theory correctly the disruptor is not quite as good as the current status quo.

Let's look at apple tv compared to a traditional cable box: Netflix is pretty good but doesn't have the same level of
"appointment" or "water cooler" shows as cable. Cable is far superior with live sports, apple tv just has MLB
streaming with probably the NBA and NHL soon to follow.

Already for some audiences that might be enough to kill the cable bill entirely or (more likely) to reduce the package they have. Throw in the fact that it can also play the stuff that's on the your iPhone or iPod, has built in pay per view mechanism, and a prettier interface and I think you might have some freaked out cable/ satellite providers.

Apple TV is definitely not as good as cable but it's getting close to being good enough.
Suppose Apple buys Comcast, then what? They would have no position right next door in Mexico and Canada (not to mention Asia, Europe, South America, and the Down Under).

If Apple seeks content, the target is Disney - hands down the only halo brand in content, and it provides a sports network and deep market penetration worldwide.
I'll stand up and raise my hand and state "I do this often." I'll also say that this article has me scheduling some code reviews this week of my own work to find out where I'm doing this.

And, this is a well written article - especially since it points out actual examples of where things could go horribly wrong on a page with jquery implementation and why they could go wrong. That alone could possibly save me hours of searching stackoverflow for reasons why my jquery events aren't firing etc.
The sun puts candle makers out of work.
Awesome... Nice job (:
Thanks for sharing. There are a lot of cool ideas here. I've had the most sucess with a custom notebook approach using QR codes to stitch together analog and digital information:

http://www.drbunsen.org/custom-notebooks/
> rmaxima is recommended for use with SBCL.

What is rmaxima?
It's good that people experiment with new ideas I guess, but in my 27 years as a software developer all the progress I've seen is towards continuous integration and testing. The more branches and configurations there are, the slower development is and the lower overall quality is. Sometimes there are advantages to counterbalance that, and if you've got a huge team and a huge user base it may be worth the cost. But a strong default bias towards less branches, less options, test more often, merge sooner, deploy sooner has always worked better than fancy alternatives.
Apparently I’ve been outbid for the 1986 Star Wars figurine I want so bad.

1986? This was written by someone who knows nothing about Star Wars. If you wanted a figurine at the latest you'd be looking at 1983 when ROTJ came out. Kenner stopped making the figurines in 1986.
Agreed, there's a serious risk vs reward problem of founders vs first employees. I see founding as an exciting option, equity, control, low/no pay before revenue or funding.

First employees face a different risk, starting with a competitive but subpar salary with very small equity and little stability (get fired and your vested equity goes away), and they work long hours like founders.

If you found, you have to find a way to make it worth the risk to early employees. Many founders go the route of hiring first employees out of school where their options are slimmer.
To be honest, that sounds like an accident waiting to happen, for both parties. Who owns the work you produce? Verbal agreements on this are great until push comes to shove. If the company exits, you'll almost certainly get nothing, regardless of what the founders have verbally promised. (not that the company should pass due diligence if the copyright status of their code is murky, but who knows)
"Indentation has almost nothing to do with readability, though. It's just common sense."

Um...it has EVERYTHING to do with readability. That is WHY it is just common sense.
My favourite thing about this is how those 70 users must have been feeling quite smug and superior about how they chose their password, without realising 69 others had done exactly the same thing.
Can you give examples of natural monopolies?

The only ones I can think of government granted (including US broadband, because of the local city/muni exclusive contracts purchased).
I was in Kazakhstan recently. I am Muslim, religious, have beard etc... I had interview with nice КНБ (http://www.knb.kz/) agent right after customs. It was about 1 minute after which I was free to go. Nothing like experience described here.
Well, perhaps we can see things on a line from perfect rule of law to perfect authoritarianism, with the understanding that no state is ever completely at one end or the other. I think we're still less than half way to authoritarianism.
My favourite was a CBP asking me "what do you do for work" (lovely unspecific question, that) then pretending to get upset with me for not telling him I was unemployed at the moment. I resisted telling him I personally don't consider unemployment a career...
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It would be censorship to _force_ a company to say something they didn't want to say. That is clearly taking away their rights to free speech.
Is this Jack's entry into the 2024 race for potus?
I support this ban.

I’m a physician. In addition to this president inciting a riot, this president and his supporters are complicit in using social media to promote unscientific, self-serving views that strike at the health of my patients and adversely affect American healthcare in general.

Enough is enough.
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Ahh, thanks much. Those generators are making it click.
I agree, I think this would help reduce a lot of clutter, and I think it is a feature that should be standard in comment systems.
I didn't say they were executing on that strategy well these days. Surface, Zune and Bing are all examples of fast-follower products that either came too late to be relevant (Zune) or that weren't good enough relative to the competition to displace them (Surface, Bing).

Which is not to say they can't execute a fast-follower play successfully anymore -- see XBox and Azure. Just that they don't nail it as thoroughly and consistently as they used to.
A paid government shill? [woosh]
Another startup in this category is

https://medium.com/@phillish/my-worst-mistake-as-a-homeowner...

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Made-Renovation-Reviews-E4...
to fix it I had to reset my Keychain. Pain in the ass, but it was preventing me from working.

To do this, open Keychain Access, open Preferences, and click Reset Keychain. It will create a new login keychain and keep your old one backed up in the keychains folder.
Poor PHP. It just keeps getting dumped on.
They are pretty common on program download sites, not just on pirate sites.

http://marc.durdin.net/2012/08/rant-of-the-day-the-big-green...
I'm curious - why would you want to host these yourself? Don't your users then lose the benefit of caching (e.g. if they also visit other sites which use the same fonts).
Agreed, the overhead of maintaining two solutions can be a huge burden (especially when troubleshooting something going wrong via the synthesis of two solutions), but I definitely called out "big ass files" because the difference between some text data and some smaller blob is almost nothing in terms of performance.
Google Fonts follows the Google API TOS. As far as I read it: no, as long as there aren't any further restrictions on the font by third parties.

> d. Data Portability

> Google supports data portability. For as long as you use or store any user data that you obtained through the APIs, you agree to enable your users to export their equivalent data to other services or applications of their choice in a way that's substantially as fast and easy as exporting such data from Google products and services, subject to applicable laws, and you agree that you will not make that data available to third parties who do not also abide by this obligation.

but also

> a. Content Accessible Through our APIs

> Our APIs contain some third party content (such as text, images, videos, audio, or software). This content is the sole responsibility of the person that makes it available. We may sometimes review content to determine whether it is illegal or violates our policies or the Terms, and we may remove or refuse to display content. Finally, content accessible through our APIs may be subject to intellectual property rights, and, if so, you may not use it unless you are licensed to do so by the owner of that content or are otherwise permitted by law. Your access to the content provided by the API may be restricted, limited, or filtered in accordance with applicable law, regulation, and policy.
I'm using Ghostery as a privacy and ad-blocking extension. Does anyone have data on the impact Ghostery might have on the browser memory usage?
Part of this discussion should be asking your boss what, exactly, are the requirements are for the next position up the ladder. Use your work on the current project to determine if you, in fact, could reasonably ask for a promotion.
You interesting take, thank you for sharing.
Am I the only one who would expect the us to launch on China as well in this case of scenario. I mean every enemy country with nukes would be attacked in all out nuclear war.
All radio receivers have local oscillators built into their receiving circuitry that actually transmits energy that can be detected by specialized receivers.
Perhaps a better title would be something like:

Some privacy issues with DuckDuckGo

A large part of the list is ‘they cooperate with X that I don’t like’ ‘X that I don’t like works there’ and similar conjecture.

And to top it off ‘A judge told them not to link to some sites and they don’t’. Hardly a ‘privacy abuse’. More like a typical attempt at cancel culture.
They'd be halfway through the first line when I say, "Sorry, not interested. I won't give you any money."

I'm a nice guy, but this approach has scam sob-story written all over it. I don't deal with scammers, and I'd prefer not to be seen as one.
This is cool. My son is 8 and I'm trying to get him interested in learning code, but right now he can't draw the line between code and the games he plays.
plug: http://hntrades.com/
I get the regular "sorry" page when following this link. Not very interesting...
I haven't had cable since the early 90s. I got frustrated at how annoying it was to set up service with them when I'd be paying $1000+ a year to them. So I gave up trying to make it easy for them to take my money and just never signed up up when I moved. I don't miss it, and I wish all the companies involved doom and gloom.
There are two nice things that you get with an explicit "self":

* You can nest classes and methods. This is ugly, so I never use it except in testsuites where declaring a mock class right in the test method is the best way to do it, but it's great to have "self" be the testcase and "xself" be the mocked method.

* There's no such thing as a magic variable. Every name you can reach is declared somewhere, either locally, globally, or from `__builtins__`. If self were automatic, then it would be invisible like the builtins, but it would change depending on where you used it from. The consistency is worth the minor inconvenience, IMHO.
I'm assuming it's just the general term for a 'piece of transmitted information', no matter what the medium.