jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't agree with the point made regarding having to build ones own software. I've found I've done as much "./configure && make && make install" on OSX as I have done with Linux -- if I'm using something that hasn't been updated in MacPorts I'm going to be building it myself.
Millions to billions, no, but would anybody notice if it never properly turned off? That would be in the thousands.

Again, not really worried about this, I'm more concerned by the blithe acceptance of the idea that nothing can possible go wrong.
Excluding plants from your diet for any kind of substitute is a bad strategy for a long life. Eat more plants, live longer.
This sounds completely reasonable to me.
Do the endless reboots of superhero franchises not count? They've definitely exploited batman and co as much as or more than Evangelion.
I'm happy I didn't offend anybody, then :).

I want to explain the terms again. First of all "not proper" or "incomplete" isn't the adjectives I've used for Emacs itself, but the GUI of Emacs. I did use proper in the sense of common GUI idioms and conventions, and I'm not a native speaker, so if you think that was not a right choice, you're probably right.

For the incomplete, again we are not talking if Emacs is complete or not, we are debating if Emacs is a "full gui app" or not, and since I don't think it is using gui facilities to full extent (and instead it just creates a basic gui window, shows some menus and prompt dialogs here and there, and then handles everything with it's own mechanisms like windows and buffers), it's not a "full gui app". Again, if you have a better word of choice for it than the words I chose, I'd be happy to accept them. Sorry it caused trouble more than it worth.
I get this. To be honest, I had gastric surgery last year, so my stomach isn't big enough to process enough plants to get basic nutrition. I have to take lots of vitamins, or I will get malnutrition.

Why anyone would CHOOSE to have to eat this way though, if they don't have some terrible health problem, is beyond me.
I'm doing all of that, but I got a response similar to the above person, except, the eye didn't blink at me.

Correction: It just blinked at me.
I have felt the need for this before, and wanted to work on it as a side project. Congratulations on launching! I will be watching your growth.
The key to solving this cognitive dissonance is to redefine 'racism' and all the implications that come with it.
Back when the Covid crisis kicked off I (with minimal knowledge) speculated with friends that stuff would get weird economically because all the countries (developed economies) in the world are going to do similar things to counter this so we may not see obvious sides effects we would typically see. Sounds similar to what you’ve said above?
Not true, we certainly have those that start at 8. Consider a ~45m commute and time to get ready, and waking up at 6 something is not unheard of. (I personally had to wake up at 5:45 to catch a bus to a school over an hour away).
I personally do not subscribe to the idea that giving a child ( in this case -- a 4 year old ) espresso is acceptable.

To answer your argument about Bangladesh food. Assuming McD is not worse ( I have no real data to say either way ),I am not sure it is a good argument either. You, typically, want your kids to do better so if McD is that upgrade, then I really cannot fault you for this. We all approach this with resources at our disposal.
Indeed, there has never been a better time to take out long term fixed-rate loans. In several years when inflation kicks in these loans will be much easier to pay off in future dollars.

REITs, maybe not so much. Stocks in growth companies are still a better bet right now.
I like that analogy. When designing an API I try to avoid over-engineering for use cases that might exist in the future, but at the same time I do try to make it hard to end up with invalid states. You don't need to wait around for a user to send invalid data before designing to prevent that.

So I guess the question is whether, in this analogy, net neutrality is about use cases or about valid states? Personally, I see it as more of the latter.
I feel like in some way, it's actually better to let your child hang out with this kid in order for them to learn how not to do things. your child may learn to dislike that other child for one reason or another and they'll associate that need for McDonald's with the negative qualities of that kid.
You sound very red-pilled
Near the end of the article, author suggests "free resources online" as an alternative to LYAH and Real World Haskell. FYI, both are available online, for free:

http://learnyouahaskell.com/chapters

http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/

LYAH has some great jokes in it. It's easier to remember funny things, since humor involves fracturing your worldview just a bit. This helped me ease my way into Haskell and loosen my brain up. Less rambling than _why's poignant guide or Programming Perl (the humor), and well-paced for beginners.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global...
For a company that sells as many units as Apple does, this is no argument for keeping 512mb on iPad 2 but increasing memory on iPhone 5. The price increase would be small compared to the cost of the device.

Perhaps there is something they know that makes this differentiation worthwhile. But maybe the specs will be the same after all. Who knows yet?
Unless you modified an existing or wrote a new C++ compiler, no, you haven't really (don't forget what you're piggy-backing on when the compiler is invoking ctors and dtors for you too). Boost shared pointers are toys; they don't deal with copy-on-write semantics. C++ exception safety is also hilariously difficult to get right (this adds to the refcounting problem); the language is broken by design.
Is anyone aware of the number of submissions to YC per year and the chance of getting an interview?
I not asking them to tell me why ... just that I didn't make the cut. Believe it or not, some companies won't call you to say they're not going to pick you ... they expect you to figure it out.
And in 5 years time, it's very possible that Facebook, like AOL, will be dominated by old people, the stubborn, and the relatively computer illiterate, as others have moved on to greener pastures.

Facebook's dominance is not set in stone. People may not be able to live without Facebook, but there's no reason they can't transition, such as how people quickly transitioned away from MySpace.

You start by having two accounts. The more interesting, cutting edge, friends are on the new network. Your high school friends, family, and tertiary relationships are on the old network. You check them both equally at first, but slowly you find yourself on the new network more often. Then, at some point, you stop updating the old one, save for the occasional "I don't use this anymore, I'm on X now." updates. Others follow suit, until at some point, the trickle becomes a flood. Next thing you know, the old network is a ghost town. Nobody cares about it anymore, and people only reference it as a relic from a distant past.

There is nothing Facebook has done to prevent this. And this will keep happening until social networking is eventually decentralized.
Content is value, a lot of wall statuses are spontaneous, video links, cute articles, what is happening. That makes people come and stick around. The plan is useful, but not that sticky for people to see any changes.
Thanks Microsoft. This was a great service and really helped cross browser testing for IE.
I've been thinking about your site over the last day. Although there are many sites with good ideas announced on HN, this is the first site announced here that I think has the potential to change society. Obviously the United States is well known to have an unusual take on imprisonment and punishment that is not shared by any other societies in the modern era. Having a place to put together more of the story and follow up is going to be extremely valuable especially since it will have the one voice that was missing, the side of the con. Whether truthful, delusional or outright fabricated, his words will be read and analyzed, often by parties with personal information about the crime, its effects and aftermath.

I see that families of the con, families of the victims, concerned citizens, the many people fascinated by crime, real lawyers, amateur lawyers, judges, police, all will contribute points of view. No doubt some of these will want to make demands that some points of view be removed and this will lead to conflicts.

But overall this will lead to a fruitful discussion and insights about both crime but the way it is handled in our society.

Regarding anonymity, consider the case of a gang member or other member of an organized crime unit in prison for murder is proclaiming his innocence. But a bystander who saw the shooting posts about what he saw. The defense attorney, working on appeal, may also want to know the person's identity and will subpoena the site, unveiling the identity and making it public in court documents. This information would be useful to the gang or organized crime syndicate which would then want to track this person down and kill or intimidate them. If the person's identity is found out he may be killed or harmed. Because of this, it would be best when subpoenaed then to truthfully say "we do not store ip address or browser fingerprint in our logs". DuckDuckGo does it this way (http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/05/duck-duck-go-sea...), and mailinator.com works similarly by keeping everything in RAM and trashing logs that are more than a few hours old. You may wish to implement something similar, and if not, make clear on the site usage policy to contributors that their identities can theoretically be traced.
It's not email.
http://mashable.com/2010/11/15/facebook-messaging-event/
He did write a pretty nice article about the process of the handle being stolen[1], but I'm pretty sure that's not what you're talking about.

I, too, would like to hear about the process of actually getting the handle back. Apparently I don't read HN enough(something I thought was impossible) so this story is news to me as of this evening.

[1] https://medium.com/cyber-security/24eb09e026dd
Do you have a source for this claim? None of my contracts in the US have ever had something like this. It's in fact illegal in most jurisdictions, including California.
> Oh, and don't forget the world's militaries, who throw enormous amounts of money at research groups for anything even remotely useful and for who full meal replacements would be a holy grail.

Not a good objection, because for military purposes, Soylent is completely unacceptable. How well do the ingredients tolerate extremes of heat and cold, no access to a kitchen, being stored in crates for months or years...? Not too well. And those are just the obvious requirements for an MRE.
vine video of the crash
https://vine.co/v/OjqeYWWpVWK
Whoah-when did this
"Collections" feature sneak into iBooks? Very nice. I made a "Cocoa" collection and stuck them all in it.
Also, if Julian Assange were say a Chinese citizen and this were happening to the Chinese government he'd be cheered on, called a dissident, and given a Nobel Prize.
> I mean, some people might genuinely want to know for sure.

Are these the same people that want to go through TSA screenings just to make sure they aren't dangerous?
I live in SF, followed this link to make sure that Patxi's is indeed the best Chicago style Pizza in the city. Lo and behold, it is. I'm not surprised, because their pizza really is the best I've seen outside of Chicago.
Erm… I’m only seeing a “loading” throbber.

Edit after it becomes clear this is because I don’t have Flash:

They are not only blocking out users with Flash disabled and/or not available on their device, but also deaf users — there is no text equivalent provided. There isn’t even an explanation that a plugin is required.
They shouldn't. But right now, YouTube is a huge part of being discoverable as an artist online. There should be more of an ecosystem; more competition would result in more favorable terms. And seeing as this is the web, an ecosystem should still be browseable as a coherent whole.

My wider point is: why isn't it as easy to discover an artist's work on the wider web as it is on YouTube? Isn't this an opportunity for someone?
I'm interested if anyone has any insight into why there is a such a push for "Free" software (for example by the FSF, Richard Stallman), but not also "Free" hardware.
Also note, if I'm remembering correctly, there are native virtual desktops slated to come with Windows 10. Kinda late to the game, but it's nice that they're finally getting them.
Take a look at the Serious Games/MilSim arena. A lot of companies in this space have standardized behind Unity3d (C# based) or as mods for existing engines like VBS2/3. Most of this work is done under government contract and has a fixed period of performance (often 18 months or less).

We often crank out several great games a year on time and under budget. There's a lot of cool stuff going on in this industry right now.
How can you understand and write about economics if you get something as fundamentally change-provoking as technology wrong?
They get a valid excuse for reverse engineering their competitors products so they can copy their technology.
How did Lord Prescott, who used to be deputy prime minister and was a union activist, get behind this?
5:20 - Wake up - Take a shower

5:45 - Leave for the office (to avoid MAD traffic)

6:15 - 7:15 - Read a book

7:15 - 7:30 - Breakfast (office), catch-up local news

7:45 - 8:10 - Hacker news/Reddit/Techcrunch et al ...

8:30 - 11:15 - Office work / side projects

11:15 - 11:45 - Tea break (office)

12:00 - 12:50 - Office work/ Side projects

13:00 - 14:30 - Gym

14:45 - 16:00 - Office work/side Projects

16:30 - 17:00 - Tea break

17:30 - 19:45 - Office work/side projects/hacker news et al ...

20:00 - 21:00 - Drive back home

21:00 - 22:45 - Read a book

22:45 - 05:20 - Sleep

... a tight loop of trying to define life...
It does not matter what language. Focus on value creation.
This bit is great:

> We’re aware that we are not “having kids”, we’re “breeding”. We have kids for much the same reasons that I imagine rich people do. Urge to propagate and all. Nobody likes poor people procreating, but they judge abortion even harder.
A little shoutout to a alternative Python formating tool https://github.com/google/yapf (developed by Google).

The built in "facebook style" formating felt by far the most natural to me with the out of the box settings and no extra config.
Transfer fees on Ethereum are currently $2.75, so either the movers got $2.25 or the dude paid an extra 55% just to pay them in something that's less useful for them.
My statement wasn’t in support or opposition to these actions. I’m very carefully not taking a position on this site, on this issue or many others.

What I am saying is that it seems like a large proportion of the Canadian public already support this. Probably not a majority, but still a lot of people. The government can’t just start applying extreme measures without at least considering the reaction of its citizens.

Punitive actions like unnecessarily destroying these people’s livelihoods will not only further radicalize those involved but also sway public opinion toward them.
"People write worse poetry than they used to, the books are worse now, and all the architecture is terrible."

What percentage of newly created poetry, books, and architecture do you read or look at?

There's an absolute glut of information right now, and no human is capable of consuming more than a tiny fraction of it.

I'm absolutely sure that "great" creative work is being made right now, but it's going to take time for humanity to sift through everything out there to find the gold.

That's not to mention that one man's trash is another man's treasure, and plenty of people who we consider "great" now were completely ignored or even denigrated in their lifetimes.
They could run their own stackoverflow .onion service and advertise it in the site headers [0] (including on the block page).

Then the onion traffic can be handled differently (maybe DDoSing the .onion will only affect Tor users, or the resulting .onion resource usage is throttled). Worst case a readonly version of the site would be better than nothing.

Something similar could be done with the existing tor exit node blocklist, but maybe this is easier to separate from existing infrastructure.

[0] https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/advanced/oni...
Oh get out of here with your suffering is noble nonsense. Take all your clothes off, give away all your money and live outside in a ditch if you like it so much.
For Americans visiting the Netherlands one word of caution: many of the pay terminals (especially the parking ones) do not seem to like U.S. cards, and even some the vendors from Europe. When we were on vacation there a few years ago it was a roulette game to figure out if parking meters would take my card or that of my father in law (from Hungary).

The problem is that they have a local exchange there, and do not have cross agreements with all of the payment vendors (not at the Visa level, but bellow that). It was annoying, and caused us a lot of hassle. I am not sure how we could have avoided it.
I do agree with your point. It was a highly requested feature, indeed. It's available only with our Pro plan, so it's not widely available to everyone.
That does not really work for stack variables
Cardano. Plutus.
Pull requests seem to be open for a while ; is this maintained actively?
The missing feature for me is more cache control. It's behind cloudflare but not configurable. So you can't cache json for instance
If I'd said 'largely', would that have helped?
Why don’t more people talk about this? The CPI is clearly broken. I’ve seen things stay the same price but get smaller in shrinkflation. Housing/rent prices go up 20% in a year but CPI barely budges. Do they just find 20% smaller houses every year? Just fixing the index would have a huge impact
There are some hoops and a fee to pay to join. It is effectively 'open' though.
I don't know if you specifically want to buy, but I steal mine from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis
You might be experiencing a form of survivorship bias / confirmation bias here.

If you work at Linode, presumably people would come up to you asking about something they then couched to you as a Linode clone. That doesn't mean it's how people were talking about DO when not directly speaking with someone at Linode.
Casinos and CFD buck shops love it. Typically only pay 0.003% vs 0.02-0.08% charged by VISA/MC card processors.
It's too bad you are on here disparaging a current employee.
I was working at Intel on integrated graphics less than a year ago.

Geekbench could, at best, be described as a fine benchmark. But it's pretty terrible in a bunch of respects.

I would love to see more benchmarks run through with this.
Bazel guarantees that each build step depends only on its declared inputs, and that each step is deterministic. So if the inputs to a step have not changed, Bazel can skip that step and use a cached copy of the result of that step. If you break up a large multi module build into a tree of small steps, Bazel can perform an incremental build after a small change in a few minutes, even though running the entire build from scratch would take hours.
Uber claims that New Years Eve is their highest traffic day. I could imagine they might override the surge algorithm (or give it a nudge) to provide a more consistent price based on their historical data.

I've encountered a number of situations where Uber's surge prices annoyed people not simply by how expensive it was, but because the person standing next to them got 2.5x and if they had waited another 10 minutes they might get 1.25x or 8x. The non-repeatability can be frustrating and feel unfair.

However, just because NYE 2014 naturally surged to 4.5x doesn't mean that NYE 2015 will, because things change. Not the least of which is the (small, but vocal) backlash against Uber that this article is a part of.
it is absolutely worth it to me as a solo developer to pay Apple their 30% to have them handle fulfillment

I think one aspect that gets easily lost in the debate is the long-term impact of having your app on the MAS (exclusively or not). You need to consider the value of being able to provide trials (i.e., do not force potential customers to spend money upfront on software that might not fulfil their requirements), discounts for your long term repeat customers, the ability to communicate directly with them and resolve their problems.

If you want to run a sustainable business, whether the MAS is a net positive becomes a question mark. I have not seen much supporting data to suggest that the MAS is a net positive if we compare exclusive direct vs exclusive MAS over a long period of time.

Anecdotally, from the data I have on hand (conversations with customers and friends), almost no one discovered their Mac apps from the MAS (there's some bias in my sample, of course). If they needed the software, they would have bought it - whether it's outside or not doesn't matter. If you need a tool for your job (the type of software I'm interesting in making), you're not going pass on it just cause you have to enter your credit card. For other types of software, the more disposable ones, convenience plays a much bigger role.

And most importantly of all, it will all depend on the particular type of software that you're selling. In my experience, the MAS works great for type of software that's mostly consumable - cheap, disposable, no long term plan to keep it updated. For other types, where you plan to run a sustainable business over many years - I'm not convinced.

While you'll probably do less units selling directly, you'll be getting a significantly higher proportion of the sale price. It's important to consider all aspects, not just raw revenue over a short period of time and make a decision from there - for some apps, the MAS would be the right way, for others - not so much. Now, deciding which way to go is a much, much harder question and I'm afraid there's no easy way to come up with a definitive answer.
Yup, sounds like you're right. What should have been an automated algorithm based on supply & demand was instead hand-tuned by an idiot and fucked everyone over.

Well done Uber.
This is exactly the way I think about it too. it doesn't seem reasonable to assume vastly more complicated universal structure based on nothing more than our own existence.
Sorry yeah. I don’t know why I shouldn’t trust tapping on someone’s iPhone but it doesn’t scream “professional shop” in the same way that those card readers do. Even though those card readers are very cheap and ostensibly work the same, they just feel more “professional”.
Absolutely agree, it ought to be displayed and then consented to based on that knowledge.

Right now with most contactless in shops in the UK you're left thinking "did they key that amount in right?" and if you're paranoid you ask for a receipt (from the machine, although merchants often drag their feet or try to give you one from the till not the reader!) and/or you check on the phone afterwards (which would be a pain if it showed an issue because by then it's a bit late!)
yes, that's basically what a framework is for. but you have to follow the framework's way of doing things. most of the time that works well. few times, you may be fighting the framework to achieve some special cases.

you call libraries. framework calls you.
People are obsessed with short term gains. I reckon most people knew the stock was overvalued in the long term and simply wanted to get in and sell at a profit before it inevitably settled in to a proper value.
No difference for Biden, but a significant difference for the Senate, who staff panels with the power to investigate Facebook.
This was a coup attempt that involved breaking into congress to stop presidential succession. Are you suggesting the two are comparable?