jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Perusing the jobs on that page, it's pretty clear that airport inspectors don't start at the lowest range.
Why, of course he did - not on the first time around though :-)
Better the devil you know than the devil you don't. We know next to nothing about internal Google, whereas we have a fairly good idea of internal Facebook.
Well, I dropped out after 1.5 years :).
The beginning of the end started a while ago. The internet, particularly broadband and mobile connectivity, have revolutionized a variety of industries. News, mail, music, movie rentals.

It seems to me that the Beatles finally caved to reality. Sure, there are "adults" that still buy physical media, but the "kids" haven't been doing that in a high enough volume to sustain the such a distribution model for a few years now.
It's worth noting that the mere _existence_ of a debit card on a checking account still opens a fraud vector, even if you never use it. If the physical card is stolen, or the bank has a security breach where the number is obtained, those are both enough information to make fraudulent transactions. Of course, using a debit card will greatly enlarge the attack surface, but not using it does not make you immune.
Apple never introduced products "You'll never forget" without a media event. Apple would describe their products as "magical", "amazing", or "revolutionary", but "Tomorrow is another day", "You'll never forget" is personal. It has an obvious sense of lyrics. And music, include that from the Beatles, is to most people unforgettable. People has an attachment to music on a whole different level compared to technologies, which are replaceable and in most cases just tools to get things done, like listen to music.

Anybody who knows Apple wouldn't expect anything other than Beatles from yesterday's tease.
This is pure genious: James Daly
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.06/apple.html
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Just to add, Android phones have the same issue with SMS/Google talk interfaces being the same. Luckily I have an unlimited plan though.
Can we please stop posting popular stories on Hacker News? If I wanted to know that the Beatles Album came out, I could have gone to ANY news source.
Where's the repository? I don't see it.

Edit: I'm an idiot. I thought the title referred to a VCS repository.
I hate when people do this, also I think it doesn't work on anyone from my generation.
That was part of my reason for choosing Sonic.net.

Which country do you live in ? I know nobody does ISP introductory prices in France.
For those interested in more: Interactive fiction (IF) is one kind in a larger genre, e-lit, or electronic literature. I've recently started exploring it. Here are some links, but a warning that much in the descriptions, reviews, etc. is written for technical experts -- in the humanities. (If you want to complain, first look at your own documentation. Now you know how end-users feel. ;) )

* Beginners overview of e-lit at ELO (see below) [http://directory.eliterature.org/node/3706]: Overview, includes links to more, a decent starting point but a bit technical.

* Electronic Literature Collection by ELO [http://collection.eliterature.org/]: Collections of leading e-lit works, AFAICT. A pretty good place to start reading. The works themselves are less technical than the descriptions, reviews, etc. of them.

* Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) [http://eliterature.org/]: The most comprehensive resource, but maybe not the best starting place. They also have a large database of e-lit, [http://directory.eliterature.org/]

* Electronic Literature Knowledge Base (ELMCIP) [http://elmcip.net/knowledgebase]: "cross-referenced, contextualized information about authors, creative works, critical writing, and practices."

* Electronic Poetry Center [http://epc.buffalo.edu/]: Community center with very broad collection, also curated collection(s?), author info, links, festival info.
Except for the second last image of the two men sitting and the women standing up giving them the gas face. Priceless.
>> I have experience with unions and I can tell you that if every Uber driver on earth were to protest right here, right now.. and all you will be doing is creating job openings for other people who will happily get paid less to get the job done.

It depends on how many within the pool of potential Uber drivers join the union, and consequently how great the impact on supply is. If the majority of current Uber drivers agree to representation by a union, I'm not sure they will be so easily replaceable.

>> Driving people to and fro isn't exactly a highly skilled job and there is no shortage of people who are made poor because of a car payment.

User's brand and pricing relies on skilled drivers, since the driver has to be efficient, knowledgable, and courteous enough to warrant high ratings (Uber drops drivers with low ratings). It also requires drivers who have access to a vehicle that meets Uber's standards.

I'm not sure the job is as low skill as you characterize.
Hmm? With CTR you usually just want to fill a long buffer with the appropriate counters and then shove it all through the accelerator. The resulting stream can then be used until exhausted by whatever higher level primitive you're working with. Obviously there's a trade-off in sizing the buffer correctly, but dozens of blocks would be more typical than one.
yeah spent like 5 mins looking through project trying to figure out where rust is!
The Dawson WMA has added a $7/night camping fee in addition to the land access fee (or a fishing/hunting license). Hopefully that doesn't spread to other WMAs.
A lot of todays websites are evil. Just today, I couldn't even mark and copy just simple plain-looking text.
Given we're now in a hypothetical where a non-binary person is in the White House I think we've collectively advanced miles as a country. Also what HC laws suggested even come close to outlawing accidental misgendering?
> some shmuck loaning out his uberx login

Literally what? Who does this? The app is a source of income, why would anyone share it?

If anything, this ban makes me feel like London is run by a bunch of protectionist luddites.
It isn't really meant as a comparison. It is more that "badly enough" isn't a high bar for a very large number of employees as they already not that attached to their jobs.
Because many Rust fanpeople came from those high-level languages, but haven't really spent any time coding in C or C++?
Why? My job is now fully remote. I'm getting paid more than when I was in the office.

Remote work != Not Working
> Completely different crowd, though.

I find these differences fascinating. I used to work out at one of the top bodybuilding gyms in Europe (I’m not a bodybuilder but my trainer was) — and none of the hardcore members would have been caught dead swinging a kettlebell.

Now I work out at a more corporate gym and am trying to learn to stop worrying and love the functional because my trainer is in fact a professional and I pay to learn from him. But I totally give the side-eye to the flimsy TechnoGym gear.

I’m pretty sure that for any given exercise trend, you will find purists and haters and they will be outspoken. Just like in tech, but don’t tell my PT!
> The debugging process is similarly endless, tho.

Monthly preventatives make that pretty easy, though.
Looks like the game can get itself into invalid states: https://imgur.com/a/3Wktj10. Don't want to spoil this board, but there are incorrect letters accepted as green here.

* edit: just saw that oceliker ran into the same issue.
If I am working alone, I sometimes do similar stuff. But if I am working with others, I don't really want to deliberate over every new architectural decision if a project grows. I want to be able to say, "Hey, can you make a new storelocator page" and then they can get it done using the docs. They know where models, controllers, views live, they know how to make migrations for the new tables, they can even google "store locator laravel" and probably get 90% of the way there in a day or less. Once they are done, I already know how this new feature should work before I even read their code.
> This is a terrible idea - the data isn’t yours until it’s been explicitly given.

I couldn't disagree more. I think the owner of a website should be able to track whatever information they please about your session.
This adds up, metrics for Tor show increased bandwidth in recent days https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth.html?start=2022-01-...
App store review can only catch so much, and isn't able to analyze the actual code. It's one way for them to gate malicious code.

And providing extra approval process for the NFC API is exactly what they're doing here.

AirTags actually have a lot of design in them to thwart bad actors so your comment there is incorrect or ignoring all the anti stalker measures in there.
Every company in history could have remained smaller and more efficient. Amazon could still be an online bookstore with higher margins than they have now. It is very normal and natural for companies take risks to grow, and sometimes those risks pay off and sometimes they don't. It is very results oriented to see what happened and then say they shouldn't have tried.

Peloton is also far from insolvent. I'm not saying they were mismanaged or not, but the fact that the gamble they made didn't pay off is not on its own evidence they shouldn't have tried.
I have seen this solved at a bar with a QR code linked to venmo.
I haven't heard much about Nim (until reading this post). I saw that someone was comparing it to python in a way? What are your thoughts on it?
This is a good point and we have this problem in the US and England currently. I was recently talking to my aunt (who lives in London) about her son's school and extracurricular activities. He's around 11 and has tutors to prepare him for his entrance exams for the next level of private school (I guess this is the equivalent to American high school?). He has German and Spanish tutors who he meets with several times a week, singing lessons, soccer/football practice, piano lessons, etc.

It seems like a really awful way to grow up.
I trust myself to securely store my bitcoins more than the Winklevosses
I read the PG article as a "grass is always greener" argument.
There's a library[1] that wraps the jni, allowing just that.

I haven't tried it, but it looks featureful enough to be useful.

[1] https://github.com/Monnoroch/RustJni
Sin, the original author and maintainer of a few of the suckless utils necessary for Stali, has a similar project called Morpheus[0]. He has actually shipped a bootable image for testing and has more or less gotten the packaging sorted out[1].

If you're interested in the idea, definitely check it out.

0: http://morpheus.2f30.org
1: http://morpheus.2f30.org/0.0/packages/x86_64/
OC Robotics makes one such system, although it's used primarily for observing/cleaning in tight spaces.

Pretty neat to watch: http://youtu.be/_gU6TWGynkU?t=28s
It's easy to say that communication is key, because it is, but all else being equal, if your team can't execute projects in a distributed, remote environment as well as it can in a centralized place, then it's not as good at communicating as you think it is. Dragging a failing remote team into an office isn't going to magically make them successful, and scattering a successful team across the world isn't going to suddenly make the project fail.

I personally find the very disconnected nature of the teams I lead in my consulting work actually forces us to communicate in an open, concise, discoverable way that would be good for any type of team, but that co-located teams get to cheat out on because a weak team member can always ride his stronger teammates' organizational coat tails with nosey interruptions and annoyances.

We have to think things through and write clear specs, because we can't use body language to clarify and count on the people involved in the meeting to just remember the attitudes expressed. We have to be good about change management, because we can't just turn around and ask someone to "get out of a file" or do whatever we want to the database whenever we want to. We have to keep meetings to a minimum, because you just can't have a productive, two-hour phone call.

These are all good things for non-remote teams, too. But they cheat and don't follow good practice.
It'd be a consensus thing more than anything else. I for one am not sure that this is a sufficiently correct feature to implement in language.

But that said, Haskell's LANGUAGE extension system does allow things like this to be easily added to the language in a smooth way.
Reminds me of John Cage's 4'33", a composition where no notes are played and instead the audience is expected to observe the sounds of the environment.
1 unsuccessful underwear bomber => $500 million in contracts for scanners.

There's your cost of terrorism right there.
Hell, if you can get enough like-minded friends into it, just make up your own holiday.
I think that's part of the alleged "bullshit", pretty stories that distract from the actual material.

Then again, similar methods like in Learn You A Haskell For Great Good seem to work on me. I do wonder how much time I spend trying to understand the jokes and references.
CP866 is a very old standard, it was used in pre-Windows times. There are at least 3 more standards to encode cyrillics in 8 bits. Today, most Cyrillic letters on the web are encoded in either UTF-8 or CP1251.

All of them define the whole alphabete, though, so even the letters that look similar to some latin letters are always encoded differently.
Could you provide reference links for what you're talking about? It seems like very interesting reading.
No, surely I don't / didn't. That's not the point at all. Security issues will ALWAYS exist, no matter how many bots at Apple check over the submissions.

But why couldn't Apple open source their automated scanning software so I could run it locally? Why couldn't they publish reports on the state of application ecosystem? Why not release lists of sponsored developers (with signatures)?

A paranoid organization can still not give users root, or install access. And secure OS could in theory not install things without checking them locally.

Problem solved?
Is anybody looking for Erlang people? I passed on a job in Stockholm doing Erlang ten years ago because Erlang seemed like a very small niche, even if the platform does make some otherwise very difficult things easy.

It was kind of sad, actually, to hear Jonas Boner talk about Erlang at one of the Bay Area Scala group meetings. He said he fell in love with the language but realized it was too hard to get people to deploy Erlang so he's trying to build the same functionality in Scala with the Akka library.
A "screenshot" wouldn't be easily done without a browser. ;-)

However, there ought to be a way to dump the DOM as HTML that can then be viewed in a browser. If the feature doesn't exist, it couldn't be all that difficult to write.
Left full time employment two years, was profitable within three months, now employ three full time staff and profits into seven figures. The best move I ever made.
I use Apple's Aperture. I have around 200GB of photos organized in there.

When I dump a flash card to the computer (using Aperture), I then remove the card, and delete it manually on the camera.

Then I go through a quick pass in aperture rating everything that is just a poor/duplicate shot as '-1', so that it can go into my deletion bin. Ones that are exceptional get marked to '1' at that point. Most don't get rated. This is a really quick pass.

Then I make a second pass where I can start making more decisions.

A third pass is generally required to figure out what is really decent, worth uploading/printing/retouching.

Fortunately, 16GB of photos isn't too much to organize. Around 450-500 images on my camera.
Also it would be nice if there was room for opinions even when creating topics. I know your community page[1] says submissions should be factual and neutral. There are all sorts of things I wouldn't post based on that. For instance my favorite summer alpine climbs in the Rockies... Since it would be neither factual or neutral.

[1] http://www.thrutched.com/community
Super nice - but is there anyway to extend it to also blog thirdparty javascript? Often ad services slow down the sites more than these widgets.
Hash them and store them in folders by the first few characters of the hash.

You said 'organized', but didn't say HOW.

If you don't tell us what kind of organization you're looking for, there can be no meaningful answers.
"Pending an Apple release" means that the binary was built against a version of iOS that hasn't been released yet (probably 4.2). You could try resubmitting with a deployment target of 4.0 if you need to get it into the store right away.
Fixed it for ya. Thanks for the post!
MP4 is a no-brainer. I purposely limited this beta to .mov and .avi.

MKV and OGV files are another matter all together. MKV files are weird and not suitable for editing at all, even with Perian. Same goes for WMV via Flip4Mac. OGV, I've never even tried, but will add that to the list.

Thanks for the feedback!
Do you know who your local WWDR (Developer Relations) representative is?

My experience with Apple is that if you are polite and reasonable they will do everything they can to help you out.

Try somebody like Bill Dudney (find him on Twitter) - who is a really nice guy - as an initial contact.

Good luck!
This rather is the important work I agree.

Personally I'm not that afraid of Google nor what they are up to. I think they strike a decent balance. I tire of the polemics against them.

What I see as critically important, as absolutely key to a vital, alive civilization is progress & exploration. Android is on version 11, and at this point, the mold has set. This world where you buy a phone, run the same OS you've always run, and wait 3 years until you have to throw it out (because it's running an antique kernel & security updates are ending) is an unexciting one, it is less than what human potential has available.

PinePhone is one of the forebearers of a better future. Which future? Any of them, all of them. The future that is coming that doesn't look exactly like today that doesn't look exactly like 5 years ago. The future where hardware is supported for more than 3 years. The future where there are multiple different interfaces & operating systems available for devices.

The future where people other than giant companies have a chance to build cool hardware. This one is a nod too to Quartz, their new/upcoming very-competent, expandable mid-range option, which they explicitly target as a featureful development kit to make cool hardware on. Battery charging, 12V, ePaper, camera, display, USB, PCIe,... just a lot of good robust well built features. On an open source board.

The fact that everyone is so up in arms against Google disguises what a boring, out-of-our-hands, staid, unchanging future we've been lead in to. Google is not the focus. The actual agents that we should be looking at, attending to, are ourselves. We've still spinning endless stories & selling fear of some other, but it is our own slumbering, our own lack of control & competency & creative freedom that defines the last decade of communicative capitalism taking over. PinePhone & Pine64 just want the individual human spirit to have a chance again. (And to band together as they may with other spirited journeyers.)

Excited as well by their last bit in the update, embracing LoRaWAN. Not just opening the door to innovation in cellular phones, but blowing open decentralized, user-empowering new means of communication.
Mozilla Observatory provides excellent web security header guidance and if have found this to be more helpful than OWASP for those new to app sec.
Also arguably spiritual descendants of the Transputer?
> But I agree with Norquist that it’s a useful exercise for people to go through once a year and write down how much they make and what part of that the government is taking.

Were it that simple, I would agree. This approach is problematic in the US because:

- the tax code is too complex for the average citizen to approach on their own,

- powerful interests such as Intuit have a vested interest in keeping things difficult for their own gain, and

- reporting your income incorrectly (when the IRS already knows what to expect!) can expose one potential criminal penalties.

> I don’t like the idea of socializing people to accept higher taxes by deducting them automatically and making it so they never have to think about how much they’re paying.

I think this is an implementation detail; there are solutions to removing unnecessary pain from tax filing that combat regulatory capture while keeping people involved with the process of taxation. Advocacy for lower taxes and tax reform are not mutually exclusive.
> Since the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has a huge percentage of its wealth still in MSFT stock, I think Bill Gates can make a case to himself that picking the best possible leader for MSFT will save hundreds of thousands of marginal children.

According to its most recent SEC Form 13F, the Gates Foundation Trust does not hold any Microsoft stock whatsoever. About 47% of its stock holdings are in Berkshire Hathaway.

As for Bill Gates himself, he currently owns less than 5% of Microsoft. That's still almost $14 billion, but it's just 11% of Bill Gates + Warren Buffett's combined wealth. (Both of them are giving essentially their entire fortunes to the Foundation.)
> When 1/3 of the country thinks the pandemic danger is already exaggerated if not completely made up

Maybe they think that because people in power keep lying to them.
You seem to argue that politics is whatever issues where you support change and "not politics" is whatever issues where you support the status quo.

It is quite hard to not see your examples as political _but_ you don't want any of the changes currently being advocated by leftist activists.

> Selling customer data to advertisers is economic, not political

If selling customer data was forbidden, then it would not be a natural outcome of well-understood deterministic processes of economic self-interest. It seems the "natural outcome" is wholly dependent on current laws.
On the other hand, you're talking about spending thousands of dollars on something that's idle %95 of the day, and is often patently awful to use (rush hour traffic). Being able to walk to work probably portends being able to walk to grocery stores, restaurants, a downtown... which a lot of more people find preferable and more healthful than a car-dependent life. And suburbs are often aesthetically dull (McMansions and cookie-cutter shopping malls) compared even to suburbs with a walkable downtown.

I'm a suburban commuter myself, and though there is a whiff of pretension to the idea of "courting" milennials, I think it's a completely rational preference.
For Odersky's class, SICP is available for free on line and in dead-tree form so there was plenty of background material to support the lectures [not to mention the SICP video lectures].

I just found the exercises for Functional Programming in Scala to be drudgery. That wasn't the case in Grossman's class. Odersky's class was full of klunky complexity - SBT, IDE's, and Scala's compiler performance and the warts of working on top of the JVM. Formatting the exercises partially completed code just added to the mess [though the partially completed code idea is a useful pedagogical approach].

On the other hand, Grossman's use of Emacs was one of the reasons I took the course. I still use Emacs. I don't still use Eclipse or ScalaIDE.
Haha, it looks a bit shady, right? I created the account just to ask this!

I'd really appreciate your insight, though.

Thanks!