jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I was like that while using ST2. But then better plugins started appearing for ST3 (the aforementioned Vintageous being one of them) so I switched to ST3.

But it crashed constantly; also, by that time the Vim emulation was really hurting me. The dot command was anemic, tabs were interfering with splits etc.

All in all, Vim was calling me, haha.
Imaging entering a state of meditative bliss, realizing we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves and then being interrupted with an advert for a PS4.
What is the mysterious "switchboard" column?
interesting project. thanks for sharing!
I'll give you a more specific example, going to theverge.com and playing one of their videos in Chrome, will cause OSX Yosemite to switch from integrated to discrete graphics. That is typically enough to crash the whole system, allowing you to only move your mouse around.
And their minisite: http://www.google.com/castaudio/
I don't follow how "the market" validates technical paradigms as correct in any way you describe. Even assuming efficient rational actors, it has always seemed like the industry adjusts to what has low conceptual overhead and high familiarity, good advertising and at least reasonable utility.

Nor do I understand how the real-time web indicates we're in an innovative age just because functional techniques are currently gaining popularity.

For what it's worth, I've never been hostile to OO. I enjoy Smalltalk, I like Erlang most out of the so-called functional languages, and I've had interest in the concatenative, logic and array programming paradigms as well, where it seems most academics and HN users are ruthlessly committed to FP that they sometimes fail to recognize there's other paradigms as well.
Haha crappy. Hard to take anything you say seriously if you really believe that.
Don't worry you aren't very far behind the times. It was announced yesterday.
I took seven extra years. That didn't cause me any trouble. The only reason I graduated at all was that I grew weary of interviewers asking me why I never graduated.
They are but they're not supposed to be. At least, they weren't. I know that's apparently changed but that is a funny thing to have such a flap over, if you feel that it is somehow bad in principle to target your own civilians when they have not (yet) done anything wrong what is it that makes it a-ok to do the same on foreigners? I can't follow that reasoning.
> The only way the people take this country back is to start a third party.

If a party was started, it wouldn't be a third party, it'd be something like a fortieth party, excluding strictly regional parties.

The reason additional parties aren't competitive is structural in the electoral systems used in federal and state elections, and adding more parties isn't going to change that.
What's even worse is that any successful company often keeps making the same kind of unnecessary products again and again. Old project learnings are missing so often.
My parents encouraged me to save money, but for my birthdays so I could buy a new cool Lego kit. My parents and relatives would chip in on the day, but I would keep count during the year to make sure I was close enough.

Looking back I think that was a good middle ground. At least as a 5-10 year old it was a quite concrete target yet also showed me the benefits of saving money.
You pay electricity by usage. We don't have "unlimited" electricity plans. This is why you do not subsidize Bitcoin miners.
> There's good news: 5GHz is not an ISM band.

Part of the band is ISM. 5725 to 5875 MHz.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-A...
> It has been clear to us for years that Samsung has baaad internal communication issues... It's clear that Samsung culture prevents people from admitting mistakes...

Jesus H. Christ on a fucking hockey stick. I doubt I've ever read such a breathless hit piece with so many unsupported assertions summarily presented as fact.

I worked for Samsung Semiconductor for ten years and left as a software engineering manager. None of these assertions and accusations in the comments here or below leveled at the people with whom I used to work ring true from my perspective.

Communication issues? Not admitting mistakes? Please... enlighten me. Tell me how we worked.
The "no derivatives" clause is a little disappointing
It's only a 2 hour block and if you are heads down on something you just tell your team that and stay out. Nobody is enforcing anything, it's just a bit of team culture building which is difficult when everyone is remote.
What's disturbing is the mindset in the friendly-fire disaster that the OP links to:

> Nonetheless, the official said the incident shows that the Air Force and the Army have a serious training problem that needs to be corrected. “"We need to know how our equipment works; when the battery is changed, it defaults to his own location,"” the official said. "“We'’ve got to make sure out people understand this.”"

I hope that's not the mentality of the military today, that special forces operators in the field need to remember UI/UX details of the software they use...rather than the software developer adding in relatively simple safeguards, such as confirmation boxes.

It's also a lesson in how software development and engineering can go awry without close feedback from the audience. There are on-the-field realities -- such as the battery going low -- that even if the developers are aware of, they can't easily predict how the intended user will react in those scenarios...to tragic results, in this case.
food is interesting. most "traditional" foods are recent assemblages on most cultures. e.g. pepper on southeast Asia.
Probably never. The iPhone lacks the 4 button configuration that's standard on Android phones. It can be made to work, but it will always be a hack.

Also, not to sound like a fanboy, but why would you want Android on your iPhone? I can understand iOS fans' concerns about the UI on Android not being as polished as iOSes, but it seems like if you're going to use Android, using an Android phone just makes sense.
Some people like to go big ;-)

So you say an audit of the Federal Reserve is not necessary?
If anybody responds, tell them that the offer is oversubscribed and that it is no longer available.

Wow!

A company built to handle other people's money that recommends deception. What's wrong with this picture?
What I think Google could hugely benefit from, is stop hiring too much PHD & engineering-type people. I think they have a cultural problem that has the effect of many consumer products they develop (where the technology is not the only important ingredient) to don't work: you can't rule the "social" world from the nerd-point-of-view, seriously. Get creative/artistic people into the mix, and Google could turn into some magical stuff again.
This has nothing to do with startups or tech, but Dan Savage's Savage Love podcast is excellent. Anyone who is in a relationship or wants to be in one should listen to it and save themselves a lot of stress and heartache learning things the hard way.
I completely agree. This video is not amusing: it is offensive and I see that man as a complete idiot. I have no idea what this smug destruction is intended to signify.
Schneier's argument is that openness shouldn't work both ways:

Privacy has to be viewed in the context of relative power. For example, the government has a lot more power than the people. So privacy for the government increases their power and increases the power imbalance between government and the people; it decreases liberty ...
Privacy for the people increases their power. It also increases liberty, because it reduces the power imbalance between government and the people
That mascot is really scary.

Amazing design, though. Really sets you apart from the competition.
Mysterious Universe (Plus+) for a healthy dose of paranormal entertainment. The hosts are (most of the time) aware of the fact that alot of the things they cover are pretty dumb, and they do laugh of it. It's one of the more professional podcasts I've ever listened to, sound quality is excellent, the music is good, and the hosts are really funny. Check it out!

Also, to feed my hunger for gadgetery, "The 404" and "Buzz out loud" from cNet.

And if you're into history Dan Carlin has two podcasts, "Common sense", about US politics, and "Hardcore History" on history. Good shows by a smart host.

Drive safely, and merry christmas!
\o/ Word of mouth really does work. Thanks, weel! And don't be a stranger, hugh3, drop us a note with any & all feedback (contact@hipmunk.com) or say hi in Olark chat right on hipmunk.com
You're making a false assumption that the hacker must somehow divine your pattern, but that is not necessary. An attacker could mount a Markov-chain based attack based on common phonetic patterns (and even common numbers, since some will show up more often than others) and radically cut down the search space even without assuming any aspect of your "pattern", and what you cited will get caught in that orders of magnitude before a truly random password. Along with enormous numbers of patterns that you could cite, as well, this is pretty much a superset of them all.

When you cut the possibility space down, you have cut the possibility space down. You can't fool entropy. The math is quite vicious that way.

You're encountering the "everybody can create an encryption scheme that they themselves can't crack" problem. You may not be able to think of how to abuse low-entropy passwords to crack something far longer than you "ought" to be able to, but that doesn't make it impossible, or even necessarily hard for an attacker.
I don't know if that's how dropbox does it, but I could imagine that they have a master key to which normal employees don't have access, you need the founder and a trusted second person to retrieve it.

Thus their statement "Dropbox employees aren't able to access user files, and when troubleshooting an account" wouldn't be too far off the mark, and they can still make the data available to the government, on request and with higher effort.
I think it's high time philosophy was replaced by modern psychology. From a cold, reasoning point of you what you're saying makes sense. But in reality it's hardly relevant. Social contact of any form is healthy for the mind and the soul. More of it tends to tell our brains that "you're in a group" and "you have friends around", and the brain reacts with less depression and more good feelings.

Is that contact empty? Maybe, maybe not. Baby birds react to a model of a beak the same as they react to the whole, real thing: for their brains, the concept of "mother" is triggered by a long shiny thing. But their reaction is real.

Baby chimpanzees sometimes don't survive in the wild when their mother dies, even if they're inside a group and have plenty of food. Having a brother or an aunt around helps.

What happens in our minds is a lot more predictable then we like to think, but that's a good thing. It means we're very close to a checklist to a "good life". And I bet social contact is going to be on it.
Always “store” timestamps in UTC is more accurate. For date math purposes alone.
Not really.

Very roughly:
It's a group with a an infinite number of elements which is smooth, in the sense that there is a notion that elements can be close or far from each other, and locally around each element the group looks like R^n (for some n). Of course the group operation must play nice with this notion of "close". I.e. if elements A and B are close, after multiplying both of them by X, AX and BX can't be too far: the group operation does not "tear" the structure apart.

So in the example above of rotations on the plane, you can visualize the group as a circle where a point represents the rotation by that angle. Locally it looks like R, but it has a different global structure.
That looks promising, thanks! This thread just gave me a great excuse to get into Erlang (and Elixir), seems too good to be true.
Hey Thanks!

I have a lot more photos, but most of them are 35 mm slides that are in storage in Canada (I'm in Vancouver, Washington). I'll get them eventually.
Wait, did they encode the audio files in the javascript? That's pretty clever, I'm surprised I've never heard of it.
Unfortunately, with any specialization comes a sense of superiority and, oftentimes, extreme smugness. I'm guilty of it myself at times. Hopefully reading this post causes some of us to do a bit of reflection and introspection because being an asshole to those who aren't on your level, on any topic, can be very damaging to the advancement of said field. It tends to create a clique-like atmosphere of those who are in and those who aren't, and discourages others from trying to pursue it.
Yes, like breathing. http://www.patentgenius.com/patent/6658577.html

The moral of this story: Apple pays more attention to details than gigaom.com.
slight prediction here: apple may introduce a 3g plan for a next generation of iPod Touch, strongarm AT&T or Verizon in to offering a decent unlimited data plan, and start pushing facetime (and possibly skype) over traditional 'phone' functionality altogether. Yeah, why would a carrier cannibalize their own voice network? Perhaps they won't, but they might for the right amount of cash (isn't it always about cash?)
To be honest, I am a little baffled that they haven't already. Around this time last year I wrote about why Apple would use a 960x640 screen in it's 4th iPhone* and I naturally expected a product line split. It would have made perfect sense to have a top-end 4" 960x640 phone and a low-end phone using the old screen, less RAM and other money-saving components.

Perhaps they wanted to hold off another year protecting their high margins, knowing that even in the developed world, a lot of people would have brought the low-end iPhone instead of the high-end one? In any case, it would be interesting to see if this summer they'll introduce a lower-end iPhone or if they'll continue to be an exclusively top-end provider.

*http://martin.drashkov.com/2009/12/iphone-4g-predictions.htm...
That does not make the insanely bright white light any less annoying when you are trying to sleep, though. Quite the opposite, in my experience.
I think that actually is what they are designed to do, make it look like it is going to be completed sooner. If you just underestimate completion times, the you'll have a 100% complete bar while still making the user wait - that will make it look broken and slow, the opposite effect. Better to overestimate, then the task will be completed "early" because it was so "fast".
Yeah, the mental change described in the post is also known as 'growing up'. I mean that sincerely! :)
True, if you're comparing 'an Android phone' to an iPhone, the Android phones are cheaper. For phones of similar capabilities, they're more expensive. As you have to pay $70 a month minimum for two years to get one of these phones, though, I don't see that $80 for the phone is very different than $180.
Yes, the one that also rated their posts by emotion and other criteria? I can't find it either but you are not crazy, it did exist.
ftr /etc on Mac and /private/etc are the same. It looks like the contents of /etc/ssh is in /etc on Mac OS X's SSH
I have a gen2, no trackpad problem under arch. (I'm guessing ubuntu would work out of the box). I see no reason why gen3 would be different.

More generally, it's intel based so the linux experience is pretty solid.
>I wonder what would happen if you actually hide all the numbers ... all karma/etc is still there, just not visible to the user.

That's a pretty interesting idea. I like it. I don't know of any community that has tried this.
Feist Publications, Inc., v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 499 U.S. 340 (1991)
>There's a hatred of mathematics in mainstream American culture that runs very, very deep. And it will probably take generations to change that (if changing it is even possible at this point).

Could you explain further? It seems like you believe that something should change, but it is not clear if you are saying that the "mathematics" or the mainstream American culture should change.

Lockhart's gist is that of course "everyone" hates "mathematics", because they are being presented with a dried up empty shell that only superficially resembles real
"mathematics". Are you disagreeing with Lockhart, and think that the culture should embrace the "mathematics" as-it-stands? Or are you saying that it is unlikely
that reforms will be possible to change the system to present "mathematics" in the way Lockhart would approve of? Or are you saying that even Lockhart's "mathematics" is and will always be hated by mainstream American culture?
Re: they demand a "Python Expert"

Or they demand a "Rockstar". :)
>You have to understand the entire system and all the interaction between all the parts.

Maybe if you're CTO. Never seen that in case of individual contributors.
> why should it?

It's extremely poor style, even if the behaviour is identical.
and its back
The global outage drinking game:

bad DNS config push - 1 shot

routing loop - 2 shots

third party advertising your routes - 3 shots

power outage at data centre it turns out everything depends on despite decades and millions in engineering to avoid precisely that - 4 shots

Wolves ate through fiber - 5 shots

And it was a full moon - 6 shots

Single service failure, but service has not been restarted in 5 years, and no longer restarts in any documented fashion - 7 shots

And service developers left the company to found a startup - 8 shots

Expired internal SSL certificate - 9 shots

Daylight savings changeover-induced database corruption - 10 shots

Windows Update - 11 shots
3) Frantically planning Zuck's next apology tour after he leaked personal data on half a billion people.
If an intern can bring down the whole presence of your company online it's not the intern who is dumb.
Nope, another platform =)
Who’s blasting it? You’re the only reply.

Edit: at the time of me writing the initial response.
if there is tyranny there can't be unity. unity requires that both partners treat each other with love and respect.

the partner may not be aware what they are doing because they grew up with that kind of treatment from their parents. it may be normal to them without being intentional.

in that case nothing short of therapy with a relationship counselor will help.

if they are doing it intentionally then probably even therapy won't help.

(if you want to talk about more details we can take this private, my email is in my profile)
I agree that there wasn't much depth of analysis. But the problem with Theil's thesis is that it doesn't really have much to do with what a bubble really is. There can be overvalued things that people believe in without it being a bubble. One of the big problems with a bubble is that it can "pop." There will be a widespread, more-or-less simultaneous realization that the core investment is worthless and the whole thing comes tumbling down at once, sending shockwaves through the whole economy. Asset freezing causes other businesses to fail, stock values plummet everywhere devouring life savings. This causes lots of harm to people and is why bubbles are scary.

None of the people yammering on about a higher education bubble seem to be discussing the issue in those terms. If automobiles are overvalued and people stop buying them, there might be some pain as the market adjusts and the existing industry dies but it's not a bubble pop.

It doesn't mean it's not something to analyze or worry about, the industrial revolution never "popped" and we still have the rust belt, but it's likely that throwing the word "bubble" around is just to get attention.
i'm able to still use netflix after getting 2 login failures on my end... it's a hassle but it's not blocking me from using it entirely.
Just to complement your point, try to do recursion on 80's BASIC.
The parrot video linked at the top of the article is also worth watching, along with a follow-up read of the text related to the video (npr.org):

video: http://t.co/M3qL1or
article: http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2011/04/07/135209962/watch-lis...

I should also add that the top youtube comment for this video (a transcription of the bird's conversation) is actually the most useful (perhaps only useful) youtube comment I've come across.
GC code runs differently depending on the code running around it. It causes the code to be non deterministic, and introduces a side effect.

I've written code in a reference counted language(python) which processes about a gigabyte of data per second from the network, with hard real time requirements - all on one machine with multiple cpus/cores. The code is fully unit tested, doc tested, and functionally tested. It's also short, runs on multiple platforms and has been maintained by other people than myself. My personal experience is that you can write highly efficient maintainable code with reference counting.

Reference counting manages memory automatically for you, but it also lets to manage memory manually when needed too. For many situations, it's the best of both worlds.
Floats doesn't complicate radix sort that much. To quote McIlroy et al. (1993) "the troubles with radix sort are in implementation, not in conception".

Finding the median strikes me as more of a academic problem than a real life problem. However, partial sort (for which finding the median is a sub problem) is an easy optimization relevant for search engines, where you sometimes only need to extract the hits from position 1000-2000.
OSH Park and OSH Stencils are both great!
You really need to implement limits service-by-service, and with as many services as AWS has, it would make sense if some of them hadn't implemented limits yet.

Think about the details... if you are paying something for both storage and bandwidth, and get a sudden surge of bandwidth, do you really want items in storage to be deleted? You basically never want storage to be automatically deleted even if your program suddenly uses a surprising amount; limits on its maximum size and alerts are much better.

But once you realize that bill capping doesn't make sense for storage, well, many different services are essentially some type of storage. This is a feature that sounds good but in practice what people really need is something slightly different.
At the very least allow users to roughly define what happens when the threshold is reached: S3 will still store data but maybe not serve anything, Lambdas will still be defined but not run, EC2 instances will keep running, etc. It's not supposed to be a hard cap as in "don't spend a penny more than my $5" but more as in "do everything possible and reasonable so the customer doesn't wake up to a sudden $20k overnight AWS bill".
You can easily find it on various Telegram groups and the Bittorrent DHT.
> In doing this, I believe that the FSF board felt that punishment should have an end, especially in the case of the first punishment, and should include an opportunity for the punished to demonstrate that he has reformed his behavior.

Has Stallman apologized for the behavior in question, or stated that he has in fact reformed? Or is this mere speculation?
Debate? I’d rather rely on scientific guidance and updates as more information becomes available. Within the first few weeks we received updates that it was highly unlikely to be transmitted through surface contact. That information became more and more detailed as time went on.

There is little debate in the matter.
Nonsense. If you're going to bill for the alert, send it when the charge is the difference between the current bill and the limit.

Of course, it's no more realistic to charge people for the alert than it is to charge them for email receipts. Do you not get those from Amazon?

You implement the feature cap by ceasing to provide the feature once the account is over the billing limit. It is always possible to project the cost of "freeze everything until the end of the month", because there is no unknown information in that scenario. Nothing you've listed is an actual problem.