jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
They removed inactive accounts. And made the handles available to register again by someone else.
Er, that's one of those false dichotomy thingos. It's quite possible to have something like properties in Python: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.2.3/descrintro/#pr...

Hey presto! Now you have the best of both worlds.
> I wonder what happens the first time that there's a credible link to someone dying as a results of Wikileaks leaking a document.

I'm really getting sick and tired of the "If it saves one life, it is worth it" argument. No it isn't. Life has risks. I prefer a world that is open and truthful.

This informant obviously knows that. What if he believes that risking his life in the name of freedom is more important? That is his prerogative. Just because you place safety and life as a priority over freedom, doesn't necessarily mean that other do.
Then his insurance rates go down?
You can make the case that extra scrutiny is legitimate here. But being actually arrested has specific requirements which clearly were not met.
The laws of thermodynamics are incredibly popular. The explanation they provide for the ticking of time, and how they enable us to produce incredibly efficient systems is fantastic.

Without the human invention of entropy, we'd have no clue why our perpetual motion machines aren't working.

For the mechanics those laws describe, they're great too. Pretty sure there would be constant unwanted explosions everywhere if energy could keep transforming in any way where it's conserved. I like that my table doesn't decide to be a bomb at random
"This can take up to 2 days for a sufficiently messy project, assuming you want to fully automate everything, and I agree that's it's not fun."

It can take much longer for someone who has never built a server at all. Learning to install and configure Apache + mod_wsgi (in the proper modes) etc. is the hard part. Doing it the second time is much easier.
I hope the author has removed all meta-data or otherwise reencoded the images such that no traceback is possible to the source to the OS.

There was a talk [1] that IIRC mentioned that some userid is "baked" into the OS and its apps and can potentially be traced back to an individual.

[1]: https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7174-lifting_the_fog_on_red_star...
not blaming you my friend - I also get the same feeling sometimes! I'm new to all this IoT hype and just exploring what's available and what's not...

the primary issue that I see is not getting data - but using it for something redundant.. there is no "innovation" as such. IoT should target much larger issues than doing something which adds a whole lot of additional headache. There are stuff such as Estimotes as well - mostly used for marketing strategies than anything else :-/
Do you actually have any real experience (on the order of months) using the other systems, or is this an ideological position?
Wholeheartedly agree with this one, one can only speculate at what home computing would look like now if Jobs had stayed at the helm of Apple.

Fact of the matter is computing is having the revolution it should have had 10 years ago in terms of usability. Microsoft? Complacent since Windows 95. I honestly hope the personal computer dies the horrible death it should have had 10 years ago. There's nothing personal about windows 7, it's just not as bad as Vista.

Linux and Android, I laugh in your face. Fantastic for the minority of people like us. Shit for most people. If you even doubt how crap open source is get some non-techie friends to use gimp vs photoshop, word vs whatever crap they're peddling these days as star office, iPhone vs Android, visual studio vs eclipse. Even MSSql vs MySql, the MySql workbench is pathetic, and that's saying something as SQL Server Management Studio was a step backwards from Query Analyser in terms of usability. Chrome vs Firefox. God I hate Firefox having now used a decent browser.

Open source is designed by programmers, for programmers. And we are weird. Android is slightly aberrant to this, but made the mistake of trying to be an 'every device' piece of software, falling into the same trap that Windows fell in so many years ago. Which makes it practically crap. A swiss army knife when what you really need is a fork.

The only reason Android phones are even selling is because they're a cheap iPhone. Cheap being the operative word in usability too. It's just not very good. Doesn't help that handset hardware manufacturers have been generally totally pathetic at software. The number of crap UI's nokia's pushed out over the years almost beggars belief that they sold any phones.

While as a programmer/hacker kind of person I love being able to extend my own device I definitely do NOT believe that most normal people enjoy dealing with poorly designed technology. It's been this way since VCRs made their way into living rooms. Hell Sky boxes, freeview boxes, even remote controls. Put them next to an iPod and you realise just how bad their designs are. Actually not just bad, shocking. Most hardware manufacturers just do not spend any time or effort designing the UI.

And for the last 15 years every computer hardware manufacturer has been using the cure-all, satisfy no-one, band-aid that is Windows.

Apple have already proved usability massively triumphs extensibility with the iPod & iPhone. They've totally cornered the profitable high end computer market. But where are the other computing visionaries? The Kindle? Please. The Sony reader. Ugh. The JooJoo? Oh dear. If only there were more.

Hell I don't care about the downvotes I'm going to get for this, wake up and smell the revolution of computing people.

Usable technology.
touche and a riposte, I'm well aware I'm not representative of the market for computers, but if you're here this probably applies to you also. So whilst you and the audience of mac users here may not be a massive brandwhore, that doesn't invalidate the point that a significant amount of the mac userbase actually are.

And when you have a company that is selling fundamentally the same product with a different label on it and marking it up 40%, yes, that does tend to be the difference. Maybe back in the Power PC days you had a point, but what's inside the magnesium case is now pretty much the same as what's inside the black plastic one.
No, because computers have already been commoditized. The new innovation is in high-end items -- which are also partly fashion and style. Sure, you can use an ASUS tablet running Win7 or Linux if you're willing to put up with it, but everyone else will shell out the extra $200 for an iPad. (cf. Swiss watches -> Cheap quartz watches -> Fancy mechanical movement watches, e.g. Rolex)

I don't think Jobs is naive enough to think he could have out-competed Microsoft with the "aesthetically pure products" strategy. I'm pretty sure he does think he could have maintained a much more significant chunk of market share for Apple through the 90's, but I bet he recognizes the strong pressures toward commoditization of the PC concept. And would we have iPods, iPhones, and iPads if Jobs hadn't been fired and grew complacent instead? Doubtful.
The phrase is "trial balloon".

If it doesn't get shot down, the formal policy announcement will include "we're just reiterating something that was discussed and agreed on previously".

At that point, some folks will say "hey, when did that happen" and others will say "it's too late to complain now".
The Droid Incredible seems to be comparable to the iPhone. The ecosystem needs to catch up. I'd wager that the phone service is better.
I'm sure he thinks he could have done better than Sculley, and it's almost certain he would have. But to cite his oft-cited speech:

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it.

-----

An addendum: I wonder how many decisions Jobs made after returning to Apple would have happened if he'd never been fired. Would he have still embraced Microsoft? Would the radically colorful design of the iMacs have happened any earlier, or at all? Would they have switched to Intel? What about the iPod, which was probably the most significant way Apple could introduce non-Mac users to Apple design, making the value proposition of a Mac credible? I wonder if his time away from Apple hadn't made him more sensitive to the importance of media besides software.
As the discussion at http://www.buzzmachine.com/2010/05/29/ftc-protects-journalis... points out, the FTC folks didn't listen to the folks who they asked to comment. In particular, that document contains a number of false statements about what various news biz.

"Yes, the omission of reporting and facts from the FTC is downright shocking. I sat in their hearing room and told them we found news sites making a sustainable living. Others who were doing it were there."

"There was no doubt about what I said: The Batavian is advertiser supported and its profitable and growing (heck, we’ve doubled revenue since I was in DC with the FTC)."
Wasn't that because Texas Instruments pulled out of the mobile market?
that is interesting - does Gevent not give this in python (or twisted) ?
> Without going into detail, if you look underneath thin, shiny, white veneers of people with exploitative, corrupt histories, you'll find worse in their present day actions.

I would be more likely to believe you if you did go into detail. What exactly has Gates done in the past year or so that you object to? Or two years, or any reasonable definition of "present day"?
The "I've finished" button didnt work for me, after I cancelled the addition of a comment. Using Chrome on Windows 7.
I graduated from Makers Academy and now work happily at Alphasights. We have already hired 4 guys (myself included) from different bootcamps (Makers, DevBootcamp & Flatiron). So far people seem happy with how things are going.
Can we get multiple dispatch too?

Or is

- MD considered an anti-pattern these days?

- This no longer 'hinting'
Hey, GA Instructor here! Did he do FEWD or WDI?
In at least two of your examples you could pass in an error handling function (or class) and it would still be a net win.

Analyzing this further would require having a more fleshed out example.
The sooner you get paying users, the better, because then you can figure out what they really want and move in that direction.

Depending on what kind of users you have in mind, HN may or may not be a good place to find them. There are plenty of products, like patio11's stuff, that probably don't convert at all from HN since we're not his target market. Maybe find a niche and concentrate on that?

I'd just use email or the phone for feedback.
> no auto manufacturer wants to be the first to risk a customer backlash by releasing the information.

How I wish one of them would want to be the first to say "We won't release your data to third parties, without prior consent - no exceptions".
"Including the U.S. government as payment for debt."

So what exactly can I get from the US government in exchange for dollars? (I am not a US citizen).
"Simply fire up Apache" is a bit of an oxymoron.
Does anyone else feel that this song really isn't top-notch Yankovic? It's okay, but if I heard it on an album I'd have thought it was one of the tail-end songs; I'm boggled to think that he wanted this to be the lead single in his new album.
Still sceptical.

Pretty much every other reactor system is cleaner and easier.

I fight twisted every day and rue the day I picked it for a big project.
I agree. Does anyone know if there is a way to completely turn off location data gathering?

I know we're all excited about the interesting applications of the availability of this data, but what about the privacy implications? (Or is it generally assumed that the fact that Apple is gathering this data is a bad thing from a privacy perspective?) By no means am I opposed to them offering this feature. It seems like it could be very useful. It's just a matter of opt-in vs opt-out.

From the article:
"The most immediate problem is that this data is stored in an easily-readable form on your machine. Any other program you run or user with access to your machine can look through it. The more fundamental problem is that Apple are collecting this information at all. ..."

I'm not an iPhone user myself, though I'm likely to get one soon. Not sure if this affects my purchase decision, which I suppose speaks volumes about the current smartphone landscape.
Selling every iPad 2 they could make is interesting, but I didn't know that after reading this. I asked because I didn't know why Apple's quarterly earnings are a big deal, not because I didn't think they could be.
I suppose they only charge you taxes if you actually earn dollars, so if you wouldn't earn anything, you wouldn't have to pay taxes? What I mean: you pay taxes with the dollars you earned, you don't have to buy dollars on some market to pay taxes.
A related development I find interesting is the increasing denial of accountability. More and more, people focus on the ways that things aren't their fault or focus on things that they can't change. It's to a point where IMO people are basically treating themselves and each other as children, with the tired old mantras that children often use: it's not my fault, they started it, everyone else is doing it too, etc. It doesn't matter too much to me. I've always focused on the ways I can improve myself and my life without worrying too much about how things could have been better if XYZ. But I do think the people who participate in this aspect of infantilization culture may be holding themselves without even realizing it.
Sure, emacs is an OS [1], you can write any kind of programs for it.

On the other hand, you can do symbolic calculus in Scheme - see, for example, MIT Scheme-based Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (which, incidentally, is perfectly usable from inside emacs).

[1] http://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux....
Great insights for someone who is 3 year in, like myself. Key point for me ‘Beware of Lock-In’. Been feeling that lately.
I loved the article too.

I mean, the most important wisdom is never "mountaintop guru" insight, it's always simple things that just need to be reinforced and actually observed in practice.

It's one thing to say "keep it simple" and a totally other thing to actually be keeping it simple for four decades :)
plausible deniability at every level makes this impossible.
Hmm.. this is how I got hired last year. I told the employer that I wanted to test them and to get me a short term project we could use to determine if company/me are a good match.
Thanks for a thoughtful reply.

>>I don't know how intro/extroversion might be shaped or not by the environment, never gave that a thought.

I asked you that because I assumed that you would not try to force introverts to be more outgoing even though outgoing people are supposed to be happier.

>>People in the US are car centric not unlike in North Korea they're Juche-centric: it's often (or always) the only option.

The comparison is rather bad but yes I agree the USA as a whole is pretty car centric. I just don't see anything bad about it. It is like that for historical reasons (USA is pretty big place compared to Germany you mentioned, lots of space, lots of wealth) and personal reasons (people like to live like that). I think the USA actually for its size has very good transit options. Ships and trains for cargo, cars for small to medium distances and planes for medium to large distances. Europe is also pretty car centric, the roads all always full inside and outside of the cities and Europeans love their cars as much as Americans do. There are a lot of car manufacturers in Europe.

>> Maybe we've lived in different parts of Europe? There's like 2-4 levels of proximity in all major conglomerates (e.g. Carrefour > Carrefour Market > Carrefour Express, Monoprix > Monop', etc). Even though the smaller the more expensive, they're invariably cheaper than even just starting the car, and a no-brainer if you value your time at minimum wage.

I know Germany, Austria, Italy and some other smaller countries in the Balkans. In my experience people rather take a car to the shopping mall weekly, bi-weekly or monthly to make a big purchase (cheaper, more choice) than to go to small inner city shops for that. The smaller markets are used for buying things you ran out and urgently need or to buy launch or snacks on your way to work.
So, can I go around writing "Debt forgiveness bills", take that off my taxes, and report them as "debt reconciliation income"?

What allows them to make up magic numbers for a price?
I'm slightly older than you, so we're both millenials, and I've noticed a lot of my friends sort of struggling with the fact that we're no longer the "young and cool" crowd. The Gen Y/Z TikTok crowd are the cool ones now, and speaking anecdotally the people I know in their late teens and early twenties are quite a bit more sheltered and childish than my friends and I were at that age. We were using fake IDs to get into bars and shows, and my younger cousins are literally spending Friday/Saturday nights inside on social media (pre-Covid).
Years ago I watched a British documentary called Howard Goodall's Big Bangs. It's well worth watching. It explains how music theory developed from Pythagoras's (matching the 12 keys on the piano). It's an interesting exercise to "prove" these 12 steps based on this simple ratio.

What came much later was equal temperament. The 12 steps don't match up exactly. Equal temperament changes the notes slightly by changing the ratio slightly (to factors of the 12th root of 2). I believe it was Bach who first discovered this.

Not all cultures use equal temperament but it is overwhelmingly dominant in the West.

The series also explains chords, keys and so on. For someone like me who is more mathematically inclined it was fascinating. Give it a look if you can.

Oh also it wasn't the BBC as you might expect. It was Channel 4.
Thanks for your comments.

We actually have synchronization an transactions. You can execute any SQL statement, including BEGIN, ROLLBACK and COMMIT. It's just that we haven't finished the database driver wrapper yet, so you have to handle them manually for now. I was unclear in the FAQs, will update the page.
It's very rare for me to find a book that I literally cannot put down, but last night I started reading "Blood, Sweat and Tea: Real Life Adventures in an Inner-city Ambulance" - it's a collection of blog entries from a chap who worked in the emergency services.

This made me appreciate all the times my family and I have had the benefit of the emergency and health services - so I am very very grateful for the people in all countries who dedicate their lives to protecting and saving others.
I usually gather information through those sites/techniques:

- http://www.crunchbase.com

- Google search "COMPANY alternative"

- Twitter search "COMPANY"

* Where COMPANY is either the company/product name.
Also the comment count does not count replies, only fresh comments.
It's relative. It depends on your POV.

To some people, Hacker News is like that book. To others, HN is like a bible.
Absolutely. I had no idea the app was called Switch until a read another comment in the thread. That's a great name; Mechanical Teeth means nothing.
>According to the link you posted, that's over four times slower than C++ virtual method dispatch

Hmm, check the results in the same page for the 64bit Cocoa runtime. This is where most optimizations are made, because Apple used the 32->64 bit transition as an opportunity to do most binary compatibility breaking changes to the language.

There, in 64bit, the IMP cached msg send is actually FASTER than C++ virtual method dispatch.

And if your app's performance suffers because of method calls / msg sends, you are doing it wrong. They should be an insignificant amount of time compared to the actual processing stuff done by your app.
I dig this presentation in pieces, but it's a bit noisy and pretentious.

Why is it that so many people are trying to tell me how to present my information?

I do use images as recommended, and find that they make great cues for telling stories and fleshing out the idea, but come on...are bullet points really that bad?
THE ROAD TO WISDOM

The road to wisdom?
-- Well, it's plain
and simple to express:
Err
and err
and err again
but less
and less
and less.

~Piet Hein
Search engine yielded both the rest of the poem and the identity of the author.

少小離家老大回，鄉音無改鬢毛衰。
兒童相見不相識，笑問客從何處來。

(as above)

離別家鄉歲月多，近來人事半消磨。
惟有門前鏡湖水，春風不改舊時波。

I have left home for so long, society has lost its meaning.
There are only the waters of Mirror Lake before the door, and the spring winds cannot change the ripples of the past. [my translation]

The author is Hè​ Zhī​zhāng​ (賀知章), a Tang Dynasty poet. The poem comes from the second part of his book Images of Homecoming (回鄉偶書). He is one of the Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup (ie. alcohol-loving Tang poets): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Immortals_of_the_Wine_Cup

Coming from Japanese or modern Chinese you can use http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php to understand the relationships between words. Also try http://chinesenotes.com/classical_chinese.php for grammatical background. More Tang poems @ http://chinesenotes.com/classics.php
rubenv what's your view on mashape.com documentation portal?
I'm not a fan of bumper infants, personally - prefer to keep the squishy mini-humans inside the car - but I can understand why some people might adopt that solution... ;-)

More seriously, am I really the only person who can't stare at a phone in stop-and-go traffic without starting to feel motion-sick? Every time the robot car fantasy comes up people talk about how great it will be to sit around reading the whole time, and I just think - no, I'll be sitting there with nothing to do, and that sounds awful.
I'm willing to bet it was more CGI than Perl or Python that was shooting you in the foot, to be fair :)
Feel free to swap out Windows/Mac/Linux for your preferred OS configurations and make your own rules. I'm not trying to start a debate on what is best-- except maybe to say to give your employees the option.

Of course if you're building windows software you're going to be working on a windows machine, same thing with iOS. But if you're building stuff to run on linux servers, seems wrong to make your employees do it on windows (since it's not unix.) Sure if some employee prefers to do it on windows (since it has ssh, etc.) more power to them!
IE lagged behind other browsers. It did not implement the open standards that the others did. That has nothing to do with developers not liking IE. It has everything to do with how Microsoft had a monopoly on the browser market.
This is great advice. If you have a chance to get the vaccine, that's the best option. But keep wearing masks, and try to not get the virus in any ways you can. Vitamins are basically boosting your immune system, and as a bonus there are studies that back up that it actually helps in some cases 77% better outcomes (potentially more). That doesn't mean you can't die from covid even if you're taking these vitamins (as well as with the vaccine).