jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If my wire is holding by a thread and is nearly about to sever I need something more solid than Sugru rubber, something that's very inflexible.
It's an acquishutdown.
Your reply doesn't actually contradict fingerprinter's. I agree with you that sometimes people just won't listen to anything they don't want to hear, and if you wish to have them consider your idea you have to let them come to the same conclusions you did organicly- that is, by planting a seed.

However, it's that personality type that fingerprinter was talking about. I don't think we should feel obligated to suffer through their pathology if we can reasonably avoid it. You can point out to people like this that they are as they are, and how it is holding them back (say, by costing them business or whatever), but in my experience they are dismissive of such discussions.

I think the open letter was a quite good attempt, and Stallman's response is quite telling. Note: I've never met Stallman.
I suspect that it is the github integration you are interested in? The post-receive hook generates a post request with json-formatted data about the commit. See http://help.github.com/post-receive-hooks/

When i receive such a request i use the object api http://develop.github.com/p/object.html to get a list of files in the repo, and then fetch *.textile and .png files which are new or have a new hash. I don't use their libraries, i just consume the rest interface directly.

I store the files in mongodb together with some metadata, and for processing i use a nice scala web framework called liftweb. For textile parsing i use http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn/downloads/ And for code formatting i use google-code-prettify

Anything else?
The only time I really change my user agent is when I want to see how a website will format itself on, say, an iPad, without actually grabbing an iPad and testing it. In such a case my privacy is hardly a big deal.

I'm not sure as to how my user agent could be a big deal (this article obviously suggests it is) - can someone explain?
Put some gameplay video somewhere.
It depends on your definition of "done to death."

There are definitely solution spaces where it is impossible to be profitable right now. Especially if two tech giants (FB/Google) are competing in that space - they likely can't even profit in the space because if their competition with each other.

You also have to consider traction. Facebook is not the paragon of social networks (in fact they're a bit ass), but no one is going to pull the reins from them while they continue to have as much user traction.
Guantanamo, CIA, drones, etc. - USA has become the most disgusting, hypocritical country on the planet.
A couple things I wish these types of articles would address :

1) the nuances around how the various employees of the design firm benefit when it is bought/merged.

2) the nuances of the people at the bigco leading the buying activity. Who are they, what are their motives and rewards? Are they former designers who know the value of design and its processes? Are they executives who have reached a level where the next career development item is "buy another company"?

Just like other mergers : will be interesting to see if the pendulum swings back in a couple years to see if new design firms are created ...and the cycle starts anew
I'm very doubtful of drone delivery until battery tech advances at least 10x.

In dense, built-up areas there is no space to land. You can't fly between buildings and land on a sidewalk in Manhattan, and where would you leave the package there?

In rural and suburban areas, where houses have backyards, the flight range starts to be a problem. Amazon isn't going to build a full warehouse every 5-10km, even "drone depots" seem doubtful with that density. With "drone depots" instead of proper warehouses, the packages would still have to be trucked in, so 1-2 day delivery instead of 1-2 hour delivery, and the only motivation would be cost saving over traditional mail carriers.

Perhaps if batteries become a lot more capable, then having drone depots every 20-50km in suburbia might end up profitable over paying for mail.
I’ve gotten far more into twitch during this time too. Just the chit chat of someone else has been nice
Jeff Lindsay who was heavily involved in developing Flynn (and Dokku) is working on a pretty cool new project called Tractor, it's basically a modern Smalltalk environment: https://github.com/sponsors/progrium
That's unfortunate. I wonder why Signal suffers from these issues, but I hope it's something we can fix. I think Signal has such great potential. Society needs a successful privacy respecting open source chat app like Signal.

Do you have any clue how to make things better?
I don't think it's a good comparison. The architectures mentioned in the
pyca/cryptography repo are:

- Alpha: introduced 1992, discontinued in the early 2000s

- HP/PA: introduced 1986, discontinued in 2008

- Itanium: introduced 2001, end of life 2021

- s390: introduced 1990, discontinued in ~1998

- m68k: introduced 1979, still in use in some embedded systems but not
developed at Motorola since 1994.

ARM was once not as popular as it is nowadays but it was never moribund and in my experience has always had decent tooling and compiler support.
Furthermore I'm sure that if tomorrow HP/PA makes a comeback for some reason,
LLVM will add support for it. Out of the list I'd argue that the only two who
may be worth supporting are Motorola 68k and maybe Itanium but even then it's
ultra niche.

I personally maintain software that runs on old/niche DSPs and I like emulation,
so I can definitely feel the pain of people who find new release of software
breaking on some of the niche arch they use (I tried running Rust on MIPS-I but
couldn't get it to work properly because of lack of support in LLVM for
instance). These architectures are dead or dying, not up-and-coming like, say, RISC-V which has gained some momentum lately.

But while I sympathize with people who are concerned by this sort of breakage,
it's simply not reasonable to expect these open source projects to maintain
backward compatibility with CPUs that haven't been manufactured in decades. As
TFA points out it's a huge maintenance burden: you need to regression test
against these architectures you may know nothing about, you may not have an easy
way to fix the bugs that arise etc...

>open source groups should not be unconditionally supporting the ecosystem for a
>large corporation’s hardware and/or platforms.

Preach. Intel is dropping Itanium, HP dropped HP/PA a long time ago. Why should
volunteers be expected to provide support for free instead?

It's like users who complain that software drops support for Windows 7 when MS
themselves don't support the OS anymore.
Can someone help me out with my cognitive dissonance. On the one hand, I keep reading about how climate change will destroy everything very soon and the first person to die of serious climate change has already been born and on the other hand, there's always hopeful news like this... If the first is true why bother with renewable energy at all and why celebrate it as a milestone. If the latter is true, then what's the point of worrying about the climate at all?
Wild potatoes are also toxic, the green tinge spuds get is a remnant of that and does make some people ill. The commercial strains we eat now are domesticated. No doubt the same could be done with breadfruit.
From the article: "But in the long run, we're all dead, and Bitcoin might be too."

Google "bitcoin is dead".

Go on, I'll wait.

Here I'll make it easy: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=bitcoin+is+dead

They've been claiming that since at least 2011.

The fact is that it isn't dead or dying. It's still 10x what is was worth in 2012. Currency markets move and when you have to trade one currency for another. We just saw the first real bitcoin xmas last month. With some big names accepting btc for the first time. Those vendors want their fiat and have to sell it on the market to cash out. That's one of many factors right now which includes government auctions of seized bitcoins. As adoption increases and more can be done within the bitcoin ecosystem it will stabilize.
All of the most popular Clojure DE's, namely VSCode/Calva, Idea/Cursive and Emacs/CIDER has great support for clojurescript for now.
KNF seems to be based on basically based on the same principles as Dr. Ingham talks about, if you take a high level view.
I believe they have always had this policy, though it wasn't particularly well enforced when they opened up the platform to all comers. I actually had a Facebook account before I even first got a mobile phone at all, back in 2004 when you needed a .edu email address to sign up, which just meant they were delegating identity verification to the university. I think people were fairly comfortable with it back then because the only other users who could see you were people from the same school and it just mimicked the physical "facebook" that universities already published and made available to everyone with directory listings including your official photo and the phone number and room number of your dorm if you lived on campus. There was no open network. You could only even search for people from your own school.

Obviously, the platform has radically changed since then, but they have gotten a lot of mileage out of the illusion that you could freely share what you wanted because the only people who were going to see it were people who already knew you anyway, which was at least somewhat true at first.
The US is not a police state. Are you some CCP anti-Westerner or something?
It was most likely done on purpose unfortunately.
> a huge part of what I learned was exposure to many things--including non-STEM--and various activities outside of classwork

I think these things can be found at any decent school. Or, for that matter, in many kinds of activities outside of any school.
Most delivery services with an app have messaging built-in so you don't need to rely on calls

I've used dozens and dozens of delivery companies over the years, and the only delivery company I've found that doesn't have its people calling on phones is DoorDash, and even that uses SMS. Plus, most of the best places don't use services, they have their own people.

we had dedicated business lines

Doesn't help you when someone needs to contact you in an emergency, like the alarm company, or the landlord, or security, or the police, thousand other things.

For buying and selling real estate, there are agents that act as go-betweens and you can put their number on your contacts list.

Sounds good in theory, but doesn't work in practice. There can be dozens and dozens of people and companies involved in such a transaction, and you can't predict who they all are.

For renting, put the management company on your contacts list.

When the management company sends a vendor over to fix something, you don't know what number they'll call from.

To "never" get an unexpected, important call sounds like a side effect of a quiet life. I envy you.
Heh, good code is the kind you can throw away once you’ve used it to sell stakeholders on an idea. It’s contextual. Or, to put it another way: is a very structurally sound bridge located on a road that no one uses considered a “good” bridge?
She does have insurance, and it's great insurance. The treatments are just so specialized that the bill, after the insurance does their "work", is still anywhere from $10k to $50k.

That is not "great insurance". I am not a big fan of PPACA, but every single one of those plans has an annual out-of-pocket limit on costs (~$6,400 per individual, twice that for a family). My out of pocket limit on my (excellent) BCBS PPO is $500 + minimal copays.

Now that preexisting conditions are no longer a barrier to changing plans, you should shop around.
It is fascinating. I can't believe this is the same guys that is "broke", and is doing Tesla at the same time and co founded pay pal. Any of this would be a fantastic achievement. Unbelievable guy. I'm sorry I wasn't fully aware of him until recently, this is probably old news for many of you.
Haha, don't worry we're not planning on keeping that.
4. Seek distraction. Take up a new hobby. Or a really cute personal trainer.

Cute personal trainer = new hobby?
1500 SMS/month for $20 sounds like daylight robbery to me.
Here in Pakistan, we get about 8000 SMS/month for $1. So it's not unreasonable to think that SMS would take off really well.
Anyone know the technical details? DRM? Remastered recordings? Bitrates? Available in all markets?

i see that Live at the BBC, Anthology, and Yellow Submarine Songtrack (not Soundtrack) are not there. So not quite compleat beatles.
It is better to actually use the language, particularly as it is presently, versus refer to old disputable controversies from years ago. There are no false claims on their website (in my opinion), though of course there will be things people can dispute and argue about, as there is with all developing programming languages.

If a person does their research, then they would have clarity on the subjects. This is partly why I think it is better to refer people to the website or advise them to do their own evaluation, as oppose to reference critics or 3rd party websites who may have hidden motives and are advocates for a competing language. I think the competition between the newer languages has come to that point.
Even before the Raspberry, with the rise of open source programming languages and libraries (or even commercial toolkits that are cheap), there was the possibility to make some pretty complex games!

And indeed, some people made use of them. But for most people, it's easier to play games than to create them, just as for most people it's easier to read books than to write them.

But tool-wise, we've been living in paradise for a long time now. Whether we take advantage of that is up to us.
It's low risk high reward. I agree with you in principle, but in practice, it depends on how strong your negotiation position is. Mine was rather weak so most things I asked for were denied.
I'm struggling to find any moral justification for the US drone program after reading an article like this. I guess the argument is the trade-off between the lives of the civilians killed and the operators who are impacted versus the damage done by the enemy combatants. But it seems impossible to measure those trade-offs accurately. Are there any philosophical/ethical frameworks that take this on?
Unix console doesn't display the characters.

Mobile inputs display only the last character and gets converted into a dot.

Other methods will present a scrambled pad, usually for numbers.
I used to report broken tracks to Google when I had Google Music. I gave up. I’d get a form letter that said to reset my cookies, uninstall and reinstall the app, etc. every time.

I’d write and explain the problem was with the same song, on different machines (Windows, Linux, and Max) and both Android and iOS. Still got the same form letter back.

I’ll almost guarantee that if I search my email for the broken tracks they’d still be broken. One was Saddam-a-Go-Go by GWAR. A few seconds in it just skips ahead a few seconds from one lyric to another.
App store is a great distribution, not marketing mechanism. You still have to do your own marketing. It's just very easy for people to buy an app by tapping a button. And it's the default. Many people would be suspicious of apps trying to charge them in Safari.

Of course, if you have a non-mobile web app and are offering a mobile companion, web version it's fine, but if you're building a standalone iDevice app that you want to charge for, AppStore is the only viable option.
Yes- The slashdot book review took my Amazon rank from ~1700 down to ~550 for a few days (which is a great rank for a niche-y programming book...)
I submit that not only should it be legal, but that it is good to do so!

More seriously... You write "but who are good enough to be clearly understood". Have you considered that perhaps they are only clearly understood in their own minds? By definition poor communicators (speakers/writers) have trouble getting their point across. If they get their point across well, they are not poor communicators.
Well, that's a good question, but it depends on whether you mean a graphic designer or a "user experience" person. A graphic designer can make most any site look nicer, but that doesn't mean the same thing as providing them with a better usage experience. For example, does the position/availability of search boxes make sense.

I'm not trying to argue, either. This is an interesting topic for me. Where the purely technical/engineering world merges with the artistic world there is often interesting overlap. Is it better to have form over function, or function over form? I think the answer is that it depends case by case on the desired result, and both areas often compromise to accommodate the other. So, for example, "concept cars" usually have exotic form, and look great, but they are usually hypothetical only because in reality they wouldn't be that great functionally -- they're usually purely artistic.
> - Allowed individuals at businesses to be sued rather than the company itself, for which there would exist no legal entity.

Interesting. What problem would this proposal solve?

You had this legal situation earlier in the US. The problem was, that the consumer could not pinpoint who to sue. That's a horrible incentive to make the structure of who did what in your company totally non-transparent.
re: #3 - My tests show that the virtual NIC can only handle about 100k packets/sec. I don't have the results of my tests up anywhere, but Rightscale confirms this in their tests as well:

http://blog.rightscale.com/2010/04/01/benchmarking-load-bala...

So I'd say YES, other workloads would be affected during heavy EBS I/O, though I've never tested/measured this specific case.
I wish more companies (hell people) were as forthright, pragmatic, and sensible as the Heroku gang. Their breakdown and response to the outage is exactly what me as a paying customer wants to hear.

Kudos!
I don't think that's what the author was describing. I think it was a case of everyone gets a vote, then we pick someones vote at random.
Is this reasonable? I'm sure a lot of amazon hosted companies are thinking similar thoughts.

But being on multiple Availability Zones was supposed to be bulletproof (according to Amazon). Now that we know that wasn't the case, is being hosted on multiple regions going to provide the necessary level of protection?

Is it an over-reaction to say that relying completely on Amazon could now be seen as irresponsible to your users, given the magnitude of this event?
That would be a bad guess. For a start, Lisp is not a functional language. It just has some functional features. It has side effects.

I learned FP using Haskell, which is a pure functional language.

But I still stand by what I said. I code faster in Perl than I do in Haskell due to the availability of libraries. The "pure FP" features may make some things theoretically cleaner, but they don't honestly make things that much easier. Having access to FP features (map, grep, reduce, closures in particular) is significant, but access to built in data structures (hashes in particular) make life so much easier than C or C++ or Java.
I would like to see comparison of what skills I lack to those who make more money than me.

That would be fantastic. How cool would it be to have an app/site that tells you where you are, and where to go for the best return? "If you add an open source Ruby project to your profile you may gain $10k/yr on your next job."
Expound upon this, remembering the common audience that want things fast and easy and from anywhere (iPhone, Android, mac, windows, some computer at the library), I'd be curious to know it.
Even if you consider running consistently over a long period of time?

Also, my hypotheticals were meant to be such that you wouldn't take even vanishingly small chances. If you are willing to, then I failed in my argument.
Did work for me on Chrome/Win7 without installing Quicktime, although I have the beta version of Chrome installed.
Also, now that they aren't using the already existing technology UMTS, but they have been preventing Skype video calling for years (iirc).

When they do video calls, why didn't they just enable skype and instantly have a much bigger userbase and also that would potentially include videocalls between all platforms skype runs on.

Edit: Well, ok. The former iphones had no second camera.
It's something you don't see in web apps because the idea has been roundly rejected. Because in almost every setting where you could possibly implement crypto in JS, you have to run the app over HTTPS anyways, you gain only epsilon more security than if you would without added crypto --- and that's if you get everything right.
This is insecure. It is using Unix time as a nonce for CTR mode: https://bonchat.org/js/aes.js

Clients may send messages encrypted with the same keys and overlapping counters. This could allow the server to recover information on the message contents.

There's also no authentication on the encrypted messages. A corrupt server can alter messages sent to a valid client without detection. This is trivial to do in counter mode.

Also, as people have already mentioned, if the server is compromised, then the Javascript is compromised.
I think there's a broader point to be made here: Silicon Valley has an inherent association with technology partly because it's a center for consumer technology. Two of the companies mentioned in the tweet that sparked the post, Skype and Nokia, need to be known to consumers to sell products. Whereas chip manufacturers don't care whether the average Joe knows what they do, as long as their potential customers do.

I bet the average consumer these days associates SV with Google, Apple, and Facebook, not the abundance of technology firms serving enterprise or vertical markets.
The compiler is free to optimize in this case, because there's no requirement that in[i + j] point to temp_out, even if you manage to make the stars align.
Only Mozilla supports Ogg

Chrome/Chromium and Opera also support Ogg Theora/Vorbis out of the box.
It looks like Apple now represents a very real and serious competitive threat to Google's #1 money maker: ads.

They now control a 3rd of the mobile market (iPads excluded) and are seemingly poised to continue this trend with the new iPhone packing several new and revolutionary killer features. Again this excludes the sold-every-3-seconds iPads. We all know that they'll get the lion's share of what's left of RIM and Windows mobile in a year or two.

Also, Jobs definitely didn't hold back when introducing Bing and iAds during the presentation.

I'm a little uneasy about all of this of course. I love the web and have devoted much of my career to building web apps that run on laptops and netbooks but I have to say, love it or hate it, Apple is bringing some serious game changing shit to the table and continues to iterate faster than anyone can catch up.
What if someone set up an "almost hired" list? That is, after a company finishes its job search, it can send a few names (with applicant approval) to the service.

Other employers can enter names from resumés they have received, and find out if that applicant made it to the final lap on any recent interviews.

There's no direct benefit to companies putting the names in, but it could be seen as a 'pay it forward' sort of service -- if you benefitted from this, please put your finalists in after you choose your hire.

One important distinction the service would have to make is not allow browsing of names, only specific name-lookup, so job-seekers can only be found by companies they're applying to.
Just goes to show how important it is to make technology accessible. How many people were willing to buy an ISDN line and $500+ of hardware to make video calls at both ends? The phones with video conferencing were usually very off-putting to use with bad GUIs and poor quality cameras. Even Skype, which is fairly easy to setup and use, has only really caught on in the last few years.