jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
They have issued a circular instructing ISPs to block the websites, but haven't made accessing the sites illegal for consumers AFAIK. There are perfectly good reasons to already have been using Google or OpenDNS that have nothing to do with the block.

If I'd already been using these perfectly legitimate services, and went onto Github like any other day, would I be committing a crime?
Thanks for the suggestion. Do you have some example of a site that would in your mind be closer to how Candy Japan should be?
Yiannopoulos can sing exactly one note and even that is off-key.
So it says that farmed salmon has slightly more O3 and 9x more O6. But how are the absolute ratios, is the salmon O6 content enough to matter if we want to balance out the presumably much larger O6 already in our bodies?
The people that have the benefit of using the technology, no matter whether it's Android or Apple. Competition is driving manufacturers to produce higher-spec devices in the hopes of winning customers. The iPhone languished at 320×480 for a long while (and really, I'll betcha Apple would have loved to keep it there, as a lower-resolution display takes less battery power to drive, and produces higher framerates in games, etc), and then all of a sudden, Android devices with shiny high-res displays started showing up, and Apple was compelled to counter with its own offering.
> seems like a bad idea to put the computer in a consumable device.

This was my first reaction, too, but I'm not sure it makes sense, at least not categorically. My current Logitech mouse is over two years old with no issues at all. And I don't know that I'd expect a tiny ARM computer with no expansion to be worth using on general purpose software more than a couple years. Still probably wouldn't trust a newcomer to produce a mouse able to go the distance and worth keeping for years, though.
Just because they sell a 16GB version doesn't mean you had to buy it. Needing lots of space to record video is a niche anyway, like needing the iPod classic for large audio libraries. People store images, video, and music on cloud services now.

Your Luddism at the end seems reactionary.
The problem with the Rockefeller drug laws and subsequent enforcement was the unequal application - despite the fact that whites and blacks use and deal drugs at roughly the same rates, blacks are more likely to be arrested and jailed for drug crimes and given longer sentences.

You talk about "norms" but as was pointed out in another HN thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2031655) drug use is essentially a "norm" in the USA. The problem is that only certain segments of the population get punished for it, which leads to not finishing school, not being able to get a job, etc. It certainly is a cause.
I find the title misleading but hey... I'm happy for the Emacs fans :)
Great point drndown2007!

From the article itself I couldn't agree more on "The ultimate resume". A passionate developer with a lot of cool tiny projects (as his playground) can get plenty of job offerings - as long as the ideas show potential and are executed well. Also, as Sahil mentioned, one of the projects can start small but grow into a big successful business.
That's just mean!
It was at least the early 90s before the first ATM showed up in the large central PA town I grew up in. I still remember waiting for the mail on Thursday for my dad's paycheck. My mom would sign his name and we'd go to the bank, same teller every week, and get $100 in cash and the rest into the checking account.
Mobile payments will start to be popular. Obopay and Bling Nation will be left behind.
I still don't play video games. Is there something wrong with me?
That 2 GB, 64 GB model just looks painful to use. I've seen a lot of Windows installs use up more than 64 GB, in particular as WinSXS grows as more updates are installed (thus more duplicate DLLs are stored). If anyone asked me, I'd describe 128 GB as the "minimum" storage needed for Windows. And even then you aren't storing much if any user data on it.

4 GB is the minimum I'd run anything newer than Windows XP on. The SSD's speed might be able to "save" the 2 GB from being completely unusable, but it is still going to be damn slow with the amount of paging that's going to occur.

Honestly, I get that Microsoft wants to hit that magical $500 figure, but that device is going to give a really poor use experience in my opinion.
> We can't find anyone __worth__ interviewing right now

There is enough research in job markets showing that companies get more picky and advertise more demanding and complicated job requirements as more candidates are available. So your claim is empty, since this is how companies behave regardless of supply. And if you were to measure it, how big artificial barriers or filters are for someone to get hired could be the measure of oversupply, not shortage. With shortage there would be no barriers, everyone applying would be interviewed and likely hired. But given current hazing hours long interview practices it's pretty clear that companies are drowning in oversupply.
Do what I did for a few friends, rip them and edit them to remove that crap.
For six seconds, sure.

Makes no sense.
Easier to configure some times ? dunno
> Most of the web works fine, it does not break most sites the internet.

While I agree with you in spirit, this doesn't seem to be true in practice. I also browse with JS turned off by default, and, in general, whenever I visit a new site, I often find it blank, or completely illegible. After allowing JavaScript for that site, I then often have to play a guessing game of what CDNs or other external resources I have to allow before anything will display. (For example, I was able to see weather on weather.com—hardly anyone's idea of a good Internet citizen, but the first one that springs to mind—simply by allowing JavaScript from their domain; but had to guess around quite a bit before I could get the settings icon to display.)
I started getting systematic

> Connection reset by peer

in a script that I have that downloads podcasts and immediately transcodes to low bitrate opus using ffmpeg.

It's a real bummer...
I sincerely don't understand this notion of capitulation to the whims of a rogue government in what is supposed to be a nation of laws. Currently, we don't even have a set of clear laws on the books that outlaw the behavior. This is what enables the current stalling and obfuscation. I am not saying we should simply trust them. Their actions have to be made clearly illegal, with full oversight and robust whistleblower protection. We must start with the law.

I also don't get the idea of "some privacy". It seems to me along the lines of "somewhat pregnant". But, you (and many others) are advocating an approach that says, "let's untether our government from even the pretense of adherence to any laws, allow them to attack us with impunity, and simply do the best we can with what we have to fend them off".

If I were of the lying, obfuscating NSA-worker ilk, what you are advocating is exactly the response that would make me salivate.

I know that many people have this romanticized notion that we will do tech battle against our government and win, but we simply won't. If years of battling virus writers, rootkits, and zero days have taught us nothing, it should have taught us that a determined adversary will own us. Add to that unlimited resources and claimed legal authority to compel cooperation from tech/infrastructure providers.

You really want to unleash the lying, obfuscating NSA and trust that your open-source encryption and ciphers won't be cracked, that your full software and hardware stacks have not been compromised, and that the same is true for everyone with whom you communicate, etc., then patch things up and try again if and when you are made aware of a compromise? Sorry, friend. That's a losing proposition.
From a political standpoint, privatization of space is probably for the best. Some people are automatically fearful of anything a private company does as if government entities were beyond reproach. There's probably nothing evil that Musk could do in space that a government couldn't do. Privatization in this case should have the effect of diffusing access to space which I should think was an overwhelmingly good thing. Unless you expect him to pull a Moonraker, I don't really see the problem.

Also consider, a lot of what happens in space is already accomplished through private companies. Lockheed and Boeing already launch most US military satellites. SpaceX really is just another launch company. They provide competition for government monopolies. That's probably a good thing.
He was ignorant of the fact that the problems were supposed to be impossible. That's in line with the parent comment's sentiment.
Hell yes. Normally I complain that sub-pixel rendering suffers too badly from colour fringing on any display with a low enough resolution for it to be worthwhile.

In that case I'd say that the colour fringing suffered a little from having a hint of font almost visible beneath it, whereas the bitmapped font was actually pretty decent.
With what purpose? How would such a thing act?
"oh my gosh, i just slept with Sean Parker!"
It's been slow for me as well past 1-2 weeks and yes, it's problem with static files - they take 20-30s to load.

Caching seems to be fine - I'm getting 304s for stylesheets and images (and they are served from local cache according to firebug and chrome dev. tools) which means it actually takes 20-30s of wait time for the server to just return the headers.

I wonder if it might be problem with Keep-Alive which is on (with 15 sec. timeout I think) - there's probably bunch of apache processes / threads sitting idle waiting for connections to close and with the amount of traffic hn gets I would imagine there's quite a few of them.
Doesn't sound like it would work.
Cheap literature says so ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_%26_Demons )
The changes were gratuitous. That's why the author didn't directly say "You're cheating".

He wanted a direct answer while at the same time giving them the benefit of the doubt.

But whatever, your mind is made up.
I don't really believe in coincidences, but I might make this an exception.

I'm a senior software developer in Australia who have spent the last 4 months searching for talent at the junior level. I believe that experience is less important than attitude; particularly enthusiasm and initiative. If you have both--and it sounds to me like you do--and are smart enough, we can teach you the rest.

Please do me a favor and send your resume to me: sebastian@e-channel.com.au--make sure to reference this HN thread. While my team is currently full due to recent hires, we're growing rapidly and could be in a position to put on another full or part-time developer soon.

And even if I can't give you a job, I can hook you up with other budding entrepreneurs to collaborate with on projects. I might be available to give you a hand myself.

You'll get there. I've seen quite a few of your peers lately, and you seem to be way ahead of most of them in the areas that matter (at least to me). Trust in yourself and your drive will take you where you want to go.
What city are you in? I'm in Brisbane and a lot of your post reminded me of myself (I'm 21). However I am studying part time whilst working as a programmer.

Let me know if you are in Brisbane, there has been a couple of opportunities for vacation/part time work at my company that I haven't been able to find anyone for previously. Not sure if there is any right now, but wouldn't hurt to know where to contact you (assuming you are in Brisbane).
I’m interested in exploring Zig, but the draconian measure to ban hard tabs is pushing me (and many others from what I’ve read online) away from it. Andrew, get off your high horse, allow hard tabs, and we can all join hands and work together.
Same here. I think I have it as long as I can remember. At a few points in my life it was slightly "noisier" but I think it was some kind of ear infection (once confirmed) or debris. In a very quiet room I would hear it, and if I investigate online I only get very anxious. It might be related to sinus issues I also have.

But what helped me with those other issues (like itchy ears) is to listen to my doctor (no pun intended) to "forget" I have ears. Only wash the outer most part of the ear and leave it to do it's part. Wax, although unappealing, is nothing bad and is actually protective. I cleanse it with a hydrogen and olive oil spray mixture from the pharmacy every few months.
Some amount of shaming can be a good thing in society but the idea of not associating with anyone who may even remotely be connected with a bad idea is a terrible concept. It feels very cult like.
> You really should cite those paper if you're going to offer such significant information.

Yes.

> your comment is worthless otherwise.

No.
Edit: Comment removed, I'm an idiot, the list is paginated.
> It is the party's choice for its English language representation.

Maybe OP disagrees on the party authority to define language including naming itself.
Hmm I don’t think so. They’re autocratic for sure but Turkey has been an autocratic democracy for a hundred years so there is a culture of republicanism. I get what you mean but Russia is so new to the voting thing that the comparison isn’t apt imo.
I'd say a better distinction is more important for the students. Teaching is a skill that the accumulation of knowledge doesn't inherently strengthen. Forcing researchers to teach against their will for professorship on the strict basis of knowledge typically causes the students to receive a lower quality education.

If we're talking about bottlenecks, I'd say the number of topics that are ruined for potentially great researchers by horrible lecturers is a bigger problem.

Sidenote - Writing about this topic reminded me of the lengths Andrew Ng went through to achieve excellence in his role of being a professor in all aspects of the job (in this case what he went through to become a better teacher):
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140320175655-176238488-lear...
It’s simple. The universe is electromagnetic. The Bose-Einstein condensate is the aether in most dense form. Everything evaporates into lower densities by means of rotation via the torus and vortices. Everything is pressure finding equilibrium spread throughout densities in fluid. Easy to reason about. The sun is hollow and incompressible aether inside, which is why it’s cold. The surface is electromagnetic activated by the currents spread throughout the galaxy. Every sun is like a lamp. Every sun is a plasmoid. Outer space is least dense form of the aether. Sound makes matter.

Fun!
There are bikes that can take fairly large loads[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freight_bicycle
I think you can comfort yourself with the fact that there is so much success in this industry.

Imagine what it must be like for someone who is the best in a field where there's no money or success to be had. No thanks. Every time I see a big payout I think, "Good for them. This is a signal that I'm in the right business."

If my peers didn't have anything I could be jealous of, I'd start worrying.
Faulty intel about nation-state actions as a precursor to intervention has been proven to be an unsuccessful long-term strategy. Examples are left as an exercise to the reader. Questioning assertions should be commended, for the truth doesn't fear investigation.
Would you be more envious if there was a million people that are better at whatever you're envious at or if there was exactly one such person?
Scoop, http://www.scoopdev.org/, was fashionable for a while. I've not been involved technically, so I cannot say whether it counts as mature http://vkpedia.com/touchline/doc/scoop_admin_guide/1_3_Syste... or neglected http://www.scoopdev.org/story/2008/1/22/43049/0753
It depends entirely on your competitors, the importance of speed to your users and the costs involved.

If your users are doing any click and trade type stuff or buying and selling products where prices fluctuate over the course of seconds then latency will be a very big issue for them.

If on the other hand users are just generally logging in, checking stuff, making payments etc. then latency becomes less of an issue.

As a general rule of thumb, make sure that your page shouldn't take more than a few seconds to load on a DSL connection. Any more than 5 seconds and you're going to get frustrated users. You can help by using CDNs to cache static content and making sure your pages are served compressed.
I started taking RMS much more seriously after Snowden.
> I'm personally unconvinced that it will create mass unemployment, but I don't call it crazy.

Why? It's quite inevitable that it will, unlike all previous eras, there won't be new jobs for humans because it's human thinking that's going to be automated. Robots destroy jobs, that's a fact; sometimes, that creates new jobs, but it's usually always far less jobs for far more skilled humans and that pattern is and must come to an end. Jobs that require smarter humans don't work for the vast majority of barely capable humans that exist.

Mass unemployment is coming, the masses aren't capable of knowledge jobs and labor jobs are being taken over by machines, what other possible outcome do you see?
Stallman definitely considers web sites not licensed under a Free Software license to be non-free. Why would the web be somehow different from any other mechanism for delivering sotware?
There's a similar one from Churchill when asked by a frustrated colleague to get to the point: "How can I know what I think until I hear what I say?"

I think a lot of writers are like this: we are painfully aware of our ignorance, our uncertainty, our lack of belief. The struggle to articulate our beliefs is a struggle to form them. Non-writers often seem to "just know" what they think, which is to me quite remarkable. But they also frequently lack the tools to analyze their beliefs and how they are constructed, because they never have to go through the slow and painful process of figuring them out.
I haven't seen much discussion of a more ideal way to solve this problem (to say: as a one-off like the author was doing, not reusable software), so I thought I'd just think about how I'd do something similar.

Luckily there are libraries that are great at interacting with a web page or multiple pages at the same time without needing to actually have a browser instance open. There's selenium and its various scripting environments, which are meant for browser testing but work just fine for many automation tasks:
http://www.seleniumhq.org/

And, newer, are headless technologies like phantom.js:
http://phantomjs.org/
and Dalek.js:
http://dalekjs.com/

This is SO much easier than using Javascript to find purple links on a page, and so much more reliable.

He could have looked up each link on DB1, then used the data to look up the DB2 information.

In any case, what he did saved him hours and hours of time and started him on a lifelong interest in programming.

Also, obligatory relevant XKCD's:
http://xkcd.com/1319/ &
http://xkcd.com/1205/
Capitol Police open the doors to the U.S. Capitol for the protestors. One officer is heard saying, “I disagree with it, but respect it.”

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1347615998610911234?s=...
A product is something you offer to the user, to me if I am buying a service or a product I am also buying the customer service and the reliability (the service should never stop unless its supposed to). So the support emails and tweets are the product, as is the Fixing gnarly bugs in production and Stopping our infrastructure from collapsing under our user growth.

If you are growing, you will have to have new employees so of course you will have to Read resumés and interview job candidates. This is essential for developing the product (even as defined by you).

The only slightly unnecessary thing on the list is the responses to press and bloggers and applying for visas. I say this because both could be avoided if 1) your product does not require much press(as in, it is a tool which is used by experts, not something which has to be advertised) and 2) you can work in what ever country you are in.
On the other hand, any time you consider spending dev cycles to accommodate a minor player in the mobile market, you can consider the competitor who instead makes their product better on the main platforms.
The short answer is yes, with abbreviations being possible exceptions. "Internet" and "World Wide Web" already have Chinese counterparts. Other words will just be phonetically similar Chinese phrases, similar to how we write "Beijing" instead of "北京".
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/20...
I'm not an expert by any stretch and know virtually nothing about firearms, but I was able to decipher "fps" (feet per second), and 40gr (a 40-grain bullet). As for the other jargon, .22lr and .22WMR are pretty obviously types of weapons and were readily googlable in about 5 seconds.

I don't really see a huge complexity issue here.
Yes, it's very important that people who work in the language be able to read and understand it easily. It is not, however, important that people who do not work in the language be able to do so. The most persistent critique of Haskell is that it is hard to understand for people who haven't learned it. This is as reasonable as critiquing Java because it is hard to understand for people who do not know how to program. You're welcome to claim that Haskell has a larger barrier to entry, but that is a fundamentally different claim from the claim that operators make the language harder to read for practitioners. I have been attempting to refute the latter claim, using my experience discussing the issue with said practitioners. If you want to discuss the former claim, I'm happy to do that as well, but you have to acknowledge that it is a separate claim and be clear about what it is you actually mean.
I didn't say it's trivial.. I think it's a cool model (and much better to be Amazon than all the suckers paying for AWS!), I know it's hard to do well (and expensive), and I don't doubt at all that your software is waaaay better than what Tecan and PerkinElmer et al. provide. The breathlessness of the reporting irks me though..
I'm curious why this article seems to have gotten flag-bombed off the front page:

http://hnrankings.info/9266769/

Is there something particularly un-newsworthy about this change?
That's the whole problem with REST; getting transactional semantics requires distributed transactions.

In RPC you can do everything you have to do in a local transaction and package it as one RPC call. Fast and simple...
Works great on the Nexus One (and thus any Android 2.1 device)
Yes, it is too late. At age 36 all you are likely to be thinking about is retirement and old age homes. That, and trying to remember your children's names and where you left your dentures.

That's sarcasm, you old fart.
have to figure out using this can one get daily digest of all google services one is using
Is there any reason not to go do this? It seems perfect - why don't more hackers take this path?

I think in the past alot of east coasters did take this path. But with NY coming into it's own with in respect to start-ups. That is starting to change. I would do it for the domain knowledge alone.
Well, coming from the hard Right I'd say no, he does have some good ideas, but this is most certainly not one of them!

This is beyond the pale; as the Instapundit (a University of Tennessee law professor) put it, "If they shut down the Internet, I’m getting out my gun. And I think everyone should take it as a signal to do the same — because one way or the other, it means the country’s under attack." (http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/101391/)
You think any country has the right to censor news from reaching the people who live in its borders? That that regime has rights that supercede the people? That free speech must succumb to the wishes of government censors?

How totalitarian.