jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"Mike told me over dinner that he didn’t like to sign contracts, and didn’t do so with his Crunchpad partners or me, because it gave him an advantage since a) nothing was documented and b) he’s a lawyer."

I can't help but assume Mike will probably start considering detailed contracts.
Whole site. It's connected to the FB fan page.
Because he's an out-of-touch anachronism?
I would also note that a lot of those who leave, send money back home which should enable education for their family members and healthier, more productive lives. I've seen personally seen cases where migration has a positive economic effect.
I have found gmail's IMAP service to be slow (only fetching 100 headers at a time). Perhaps others have had a better experience.
You say that 'one must wonder'... why? Why does this one particular field of knowledge need a hidden agenda to behave exactly as all other fields of knowledge, ie, incremental progress?
knowing nothing about the company or history the line about lost revenue just made my blood boil. 22k unique visitors = 3.2 million in lost sales. 100% conversation.
There is so much fail going on here and that before you include the insanity of the 'patent'.
Information is dangerous to institutions that rely on inflexible dogmas. Adapt or perish.
Thanks for sharing. Writing for a 1.5 years is a long time. How did you stay motivated to keep going?
Location: Monroeville, PA

Remote: I'm open to the idea.

Willing to relocate: Yes (US and Toronto, Canada only. I'm a Canadian citizen currently working in the US. For working in the US if needed, I will arrange my own visa)

Technologies: Web, Android(out of touch) and Windows desktop apps. * 15 years of experience(from frontend to back, though my pref is backend). See résumé link below for further details.

Résumé/CV: http://tinyurl.com/n5bdsd9 (downloadable in .doc, github code also available)

Email: dennis_quicksort-1@yahoo.com

* =not that the number of years of experience matters, but 20 somethings shallow 'software-is-my-only-passion' kids are annoying,(I'm fine with the young, wise, humble ones). I prefer working with silver hairs(or ones born with silver hair - like I was :)) who have life/opinions/wisdom beyond software. Take Care.

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It's basically easy and cheap (once customer base grows from spooks & diplomats to general public) but it will seriously hamper your 4G, and wifi too if you want intra-building insulation.
possibly because they've got a de facto monopoly for the time being

On what?
It just means most people tend to upload stuff that no one cares about.
I used OpenBSD for some years, and NetBSD for many years. And really, 'kool-aid' is all there's to it. You get miserable hardware support, basic features that other operating systems have for ages (unified buffer cache, journaling filesystems, anyone?) are missing, a packaging system that was nice in 2000, no decent virtualization support, and the security features are fairly arcane (no mandatory access control).

Unfortunately, this is all concealed by a veil of elitism (see parent). Expect many replies on how mandatory access control does not improve real security, virtualization is a flawed idea, and soft updates are superior to journaling[1].

All in all, it's more religion than science.

[1] NetBSD removed soft updates because it was, well, unmaintainable:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.announce/399
https://lwn.net/Articles/339337/
In this case A/B testing would also have worked with a big call to action but in general multivariate testing makes sense if you have multiple hypothesis to prove or disprove (instead of just aiming to increase conversion rate by trying different changes)
The Facebook app and Windows app scenarios are not comparable. Microsoft knows that the only reason Windows has succeeded as much as it has is because of its vast and deep pool of applications. As such, there is an incentive for Microsoft to allow a relative amount of freedom when developing Windows applications. Indeed, a bare operating system is quite useless without applications to run on it.

Facebook, on the other hand, became successful without any of the additional third party applications that use it as a platform today. A "bare" Facebook, without any third party apps, retains quite a lot in the way of functionality. This means that Facebook's interests are much less aligned with yours than Microsoft's.
I can't find any references anywhere to anyone asking him about it since he won the election. Before the nomination, his answers where classically institutionalist. After the nomination, he refused to be specific and said I'll let you know after the election". That doesn't appear to have happened.
I suspect you believe that as an article of faith, but it makes me think you haven't been on the internet in decades. Go onto thedonald dot win and you'll see hundreds of thousands of people who have created an insulated bubble where assertions that support their preferred outcomes are articles of gospel.

If you can go on there and convince a single person that the election was legitimate, that ballot security measures make it impossible for their beliefs to be true, and that Biden was legitimately elected, it's possible for the proposition "free and open discussion can diffuse false ideas" to be valid, but if you can't, then you might want to reevaluate.
That's the most upsetting thing about this situation, in my opinion. Police in DC haven't had issues deploying such tactics in the past. Why was this different?
Funny, because I saw a lot of white people among Antifa and BLM violently protesting this summer. But that pretty much went unchecked for months. A few blocks of Seattle were even left to these protesters.
I understand, but what I am meaning is that while I have yet to see any credible proof of electoral malfeasance, the other thing has evidence. What I propose is that this hesitancy is engineered as part of the psyop.

> Conspiratorial thinking is healthy until it isn't. Be careful about how deep you dive my friend.

A long time ago I made a decision, after particpating in what could rightfully be called a conspiracy myself (the Iraq war), that I will simply pursue the truth, and will always prefer the ugly truth to a beautiful lie. The fact is that much of the truth tends to touch conspiracy and I will not shirk away from it just because of that fact.
I also understood this as an instance of the security state threatening Congress. The police were saying, "Don't even think about de-funding or reforming us." DC police spend $210k/employee. 80% of its 2500 employees are "sworn officers," whatever the heck that means.
"Nazis who literally think I should be murdered"

I disagree. I may be wrong, but it would appear that you feel personally attacked. I am not sure how people storming capital AND fighting cops AND leaving pipe bombs in said building want to kill you specifically. I do not see the connection. Are you a staffer/lawmaker/cop there or something?

I recognize that tensions are high, but shouting "literally neo Nazis" is not a great argument in US for a variety of reasons ( not completely unlike antisemitism, it lost some of its punch ).
Under the current anti-discrimination laws, political affiliation is not a protected class. Religion, race, sexuality, etc., however, are.
I am flabbergasted there isn't more going on in this space. I am sitting mere feet from a tv, I am holding an iPad, why do I have to pick up a remote.

As for Kinnect there are some obvious, and probably useless gestures you could implement, such as point up or down for volume, but how about mute or pause when you answer the phone, how about pause when you leave the room.

Give people an sdk to interact with the tv, maybe in the short term IR will do, and things we can't even imagine will emerge.
Doctors used to be one of the wisest, most educated people in a small community where they likely knew everyone. They took their little black bag to your home and got to see how you lived, which gave them vast quantities of knowledge about what ailed you without having to ask a bunch of questions -- more info, in fact, than questions would yield.

Then we invented modern tests and everyone goes to the office or hospital where their machinery is and we get treated like specimens in a petri dish, not like products of our environment and lifestyle.

This is the crux or what's wrong with modern medicine. Also, some doctors don't bother to keep up with new developments in their industry.
They do indeed provide some excellent quality services to the public, without asking any payment in return. I love their BGP tools, among many others.
Huh? That's not true at all. It took over 30 minutes to compile the self-hosted Rust compiler with the OCaml compiler, when rustc was far smaller than it is today. rustboot was agonizingly slow, and one of the main reasons why I was so anxious to switch to rustc back in those days was compilation speed.

I was there and had to suffer through this more than virtually anyone else :)
I'm making this part separate because it's less important.

> So are you saying cars need to slow down to bicycle speeds, wait for the cyclists to go to single file (assuming they do at all), then go back to normal speeds?

Cars shouldn't have to slow down quite that much, but overall yes cars might have to wait a couple seconds as they approach the bikes and show intent to pass.

Once one car passes, other cars can easily go by after them, since they'd need to stay single file until the cars are done overtaking.

It's a very short wait and only for the first car in line.

And, mind you, this is only on roads where bikes can't use the shoulder.

If the law wanted bikes to stay in single file at all times it would just say that, and not "when being overtaken".

> (assuming they do at all)

Well if they don't then that's breaking the law, of course.
How do you expect RAII to work in any GC language? It would be non-deterministic. The point of try-with-resources is that it is deterministic and you know when something is closed out. Every GC language has implemented this.
Nit: RPG didn't stand for rocket propelled grenade. It's a Russian acronym: Ruchnoy Protivotankovy Granatomyot.
This is coming a day after he gave a TED talk and called out the SEC for ignoring evidence that his tweet was true. Someone is lying. https://mobile.twitter.com/nemeer/status/1514669809845346304
Ha! Good point. Good time to take a lifecation to Africa.
He is politely giving an example of a superior mark-up language. Just because developers are effectively forced to eat shit we shouldn't pretend it's a piece of a nice cake. Things like angu-bootstrap-whatever are just a thin layer of icing on the top of a big pile of manure.
Facebook literally had a box on their web site asking for your email address and email account password, so they could log in to your webmail and scrape your contacts.
> UPDATE: If you think that I just claimed that 199 out of 200 working programmers cannot code, stop immediately and either read my follow-up explaining the math, or read Joel’s article on why companies aren’t as picky as they think they are. Thank you.

http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/01/dont-overthink-fizzbuzz....

I will note the person making this observation is apparently incapable of securing their website with SSL!
Injecting politics into science can be pretty scary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism happened when genetics was deemed too reactionary.

But it's already there, you might argue.

That's right. Just like how the idea of everything being determined by genes is a capitalist narrative meant to justify class differences while ignoring the potential for change in all things (by which anyone can do anything the state needs). ;p
Violating UN conventions by spying on, and attempting to steal credit card #s and biometric info of, UN leaders (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/28/us-embassy-cable...) and attempting to steal DNA of world leaders (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/...) would be considered, by most, to be immoral.
>>>The Tier-1 visa didn't surpress salaries

And you wonder why a Conservative government would want to eliminate them? The fact explains itself.

Do these apply only to foreigners from outside Europe? I read that EU member nationals can form a startup in any EU country.
I think both tier 2 and 2 require sponsorship by an employer which would preclude setting up a new business.

I'm going through a tier 2 application at the moment and it is hell under the new UK government.
regular expressions are always the wrong tool for the job of parsing languages with recursive syntax. See, for instance, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-...
I don't think cord-cutters qualify as early adopters anymore. With Hulu's paid offering and Netflix, cable is pretty much useless. At this point people who still have cable are mostly hidebound or sports aficionados.

Well, that and they have too many functional analog TVs. That's the only reason I haven't switched my parents off is that we'd need Boxee boxes or similar, and they haven't quite come down in price to the point where I'd rather not just buy a laptop and pretend it's a TV.
It is bizarre that a PFC had access to so much intelligence.
Yes, large scale terraforming is both simple to understand, easy to do, and poses no political difficulties at all! I can't imagine what could possibly go wrong.

I mean, you realize that even if we could put giant space mirrors in orbit, it wouldn't solve all the biggest climate change problems, right? Reducing the amount of sunlight that reaches the Earth's surface does nothing to reduce the amount of CO2 in the oceans, which means we might still devastate the ability of a few billion people to get sufficient protein to survive.
This was discussed on HN earlier, I think. As one commenter remarked:

"God help them."
One domainer's trash is another domainer's treasure?
Why are you assuming that splitting it into multiple apps would require less engineering resources than keeping just one?
Primarily so I could be rid of two the main problems with the N1:
- hardware flaw in the touchscreen sensor
- 196 Megs internal application storage is pitifully small

I also hoped for:
- more speed
- better battery life from a newer generation screen / CPU
- all the new toys :)
Natural language is evolved (and therefore haphazard and merely "good enough"), whereas programming languages are designed. Natural languages are to programming what biology is to robotics.
Sorry, but late back but I’ve just found the code.

It’s a bit of a weird case where I needed to reverse arrays inside a big json blob (millions of big json blobs). Trying to explode the structures out and rebuild them was a bit of a no-go. Instead I did a nasty little regex replace on the json string:

re.sub('"key": \[([^\\]]+)\]', lambda match: '"key": [' + ', '.join(reversed(match.group(1).split(', '))) + "]", els)

There might be a way of doing this in postgres these days (this was 3 or 4 years ago), but I'm not sure. At the time this was the best I could come up with and I was pretty surprised it worked as well as it did.

Since then I've always installed the python extension whenever I set up a new postgres, just in case.
I had to chuckle when I read the title. I'm at the office on a Sunday.
I am talking about macOS guests, you are talking about Windows guests. It is not exactly the same thing.

Yes, you can have accelerated virtual graphics adapters for your Windows guests on your macOS host.

No, you cannot have accelerated virtual graphics adapters for your macOS guests on your macOS host.

It is true that I could have worded that a bit better.
They're recommended by PrivacyTools.io¹ You can read more about their methodology² and what's wrong with most other "VPN review" sites.³ They're also a top pick from wirecutter.⁴

¹https://www.privacytools.io/providers/vpn/

²https://blog.privacytools.io/choosing-a-vpn/

³https://blog.privacytools.io/the-trouble-with-vpn-and-privac...

⁴https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-vpn-service/
John Hammond, his face wet.
It needs to be noted that the Sumatran rhino has been on the decline for thousands of years now:

https://news.mongabay.com/2017/12/dna-analysis-shows-sumatra...

While humans have no doubt accelerated their demise, the overall problem stems from "rising sea levels that submerged the land bridges connecting the islands of Borneo, Java, and Sumatra to the Malay Peninsula and mainland Asia, subsequently fragmenting suitable habitats for the rhino."

Finally, Sumatran rhino populations are so small, remote, and fragmented that poaching is less of a concern for this species than issues like land use.
> [Just] breed the animals, [it's that easy]

TFA points out efforts to breed this rhino failed.
This is currently true for almost all human endeavors. We're beset with PR people deliberately promoting misconceptions and out right lies.
A recent article about "beewashing" is another good example of subverting human attention from real issues by over simplifying for the purpose of corporate PR.
We are constantly bombarded by noise and lies so we won't be able to make sound and rational decision about anything.
In recent years this transformed from a side effect of bottom line mentality to out right weaponization by powerful entities political and corporate.
> For example, it's more promising if you're creating something, rather than just consuming something someone else creates.

That heuristic leads to bikeshedding. Try talking to an old white person for whom rap "doesn't sound like music to me." Inevitably they'll bring out the big guns-- that rap "just" takes the music that someone else wrote and talks over it.

Besides, there's no cost to dropping that heuristic. Nobody who scrolls through cat pics is in danger of thinking they are Vincent van Gogh. And if some "cat pic scroller" makes a real breakthrough in the artform I'd really prefer to talk about it without a bunch of grumpy, anti-intellectual gate-keepers whining, "how is that art?"
Could you explain? I hardly ever use Facebook so I can’t remember the old one but the new one seems to be perfectly fine. It’s snappy (the page doesn’t reload and it seems to be faster than flickr), photos are displayed sufficiently large (still apparently no way to download originals, though) and the arrow keys work. All the things that make me happy when I encounter a photo viewer are there.

It’s nothing special per se but a perfectly fine implementation of a photo viewer as far as I can see.
Or somebody is going to be fired or this is a marketing rumor-apple like movement...
No, they still use Akamai (dig cdn-0.nflximg.com to verify), but they are planning on moving to Level3 (assuming the Comcast/Level3 fight doesn't sour that deal too badly).
The Optimus 2X uses the Nvidia Tegra 2 system-on-system chip, with dual Cortex-A9 cores running at 1GHz. LG boasts that the Tegra 2 enables the phone to offer "instantaneous touch response," ...

You know "shit's bad" when you all of the sudden need two cores to get a responsive UI :) Incidentally, the iPhones never needed that...
Interesting: The Chaos Monkey’s job is to randomly kill instances

Another way to say "If it ain't tested, it's broken".
I never really fell in love with delicious (partly because I could never remember where to put the dots). I have, however, found a good bit of use out of Historious lately.

StavrosK is quick to mention it (he did in another Historious thread already), but I figured I'd give some endorsement for him. I like it (and I paid for a year).

The full-text search of the bookmarks (at the time you bookmarked them) is the key feature - it really does come in handy. It's also nice that it caches the text of those links as well.
This is for bookmarking...
Spare us the direct links to .doc files? Ta!
I train 3 to 5 times per week (Olympic lifting). Like most people I had a period of fast improvement which is tapering now.
This occurred on July 17, 1981?? WTF?
Laws with no teeth are effectively broken laws.
With any fiat currency, you are indeed aware that it devalues at a steady pace.
How else is BTC miner supposed to pay for expenses?
IMO, cookie consent should not be a website's reponsibility. It should be built into the user agent, which should block all cookies/analytics by default and prompt for consent when first visiting a site. Of course, this would most likely break adtech so it won't happen.
I guess 8.

They did that with a YouTube link sometime before [1]. Stopped after 8 failed submissions.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23810499
Your average constituent may be part of a union or professional body or other organisation that does this on their behalf though.
The early ISPs I worked with all connected through UUNet, over 56K leased lines! They all dropped UUNet for either Sprint or MCI since they were much cheaper.
I guess if you spam /newest enough, you do eventually get traction!
There have been cases where the driver attempted to switch to neutral and the car would not shift. Also, there is often not enough time to shift to neutral because the majority of instances of Toyota unintended acceleration take place in parking lots and other confined spaces, and the car hits something before the driver can react.
Whew. I was afraid it was going to link to Super Simple Songs.

For what it's worth, we found https://www.youtube.com/user/SuperSimpleSongs via the Khan Academy Kids app. They have select videos (from what we've seen) from this particular creator that they break up into the app and make responsive.

So for example they may play a bit of 'Do you know the muffin man,' then pause it and ask the child to tap on the ___. Or tap and count the ___.

Given how he's been developing, and that we'll break into random songs that we learned from the series, I've no complaints with a few channels.
The signal is facial expressions. You're missing the “map facial expressions to emotions” step.
The architecture/design phase in XP is when everything is working, and you refactor the code to be better.

It was absolutely fantastic when I understood how to first write the code, and then design it!

Sounds like the SAFe people left that part out.