jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The bigger market in this instance is "mobile devices," of which iOS accounts for nearly 60% of users in the US.

It's not nearly as aggressive of a split as MS/everyone else, but being the larger side of a duopoly a lot of vendors don't really have the choice to just ignore them, and meanwhile their users are subjected to this.

The comparison also starts looking a lot closer when you consider the way it impacts web development as a profession that the same ~60% can't choose a browser other than Safari in any sense that has practical meaning.
I used to use Skype for persistent, cross-platform group chat with my close group of friends. But we recently switched to using Slack, and it's far better.

The only thing that's missing, is end-to-end encryption.
I have a birthday in ~24 hours. I plan to deactivate Facebook in ~12 hours and leave it off for a day or two.
> NASA is focused on space more than advancing the frontiers of programming.

NASA does huge amounts of research into aerospace computing science. The first 'A' does stand for 'Air' after all.

Here's just the first example I plucked from the Ames website:

In this paper, a framework is proposed to enable a flight
control system with optimal control allocation to incorporate real-time structural load
feedback and structural load constraints.

$190 million of their budget for 2015 ( $885 million ) was allocated for pure science research and another $50 million for aerospace.
Another great read on this subject "Exactly-Once Delivery May Not Be What You Want" https://brooker.co.za/blog/2014/11/15/exactly-once.html
Errr. I can see why they rejected you. Your spacing is so bad i,e, Yo don't know how to balance and space your elements.

And armature use of colours and gradients.
Giving an explanation is fine but even as a SO user, I don't "get" it. It's just splitting a strong StackOverflow down into weaker parts. Why not a separate Ruby SE? One for dynamic languages? One for questions that involve networking? That's what tags are for.

Stated another way, the best Stack Overflow questions tend to have actual source code in the questions or answers.

That may be generally true, but isn't my experience. Those SO posts that get voted up the most on sites like HN and Reddit have tended to not be source based. These sorts of posts, say:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/487258/plain-english-expl...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/448673/how-do-emulators-w...
"dead end" isn't grammar thought, it's a metaphor / idiom, and the only way to handle cases like that is a database of special cases.

Frickin awesome app tho'
Are you planning to do do anything other than Wordpress ?

if yes, then may I suggest Drupal. Drupal 7 is already gearing up to be an amazing framework and it is a seriously untapped market. I have lost count of the number of times people have asked on IRC about a Thesis like theme framework for Drupal (Acquia is not quite it).

Another popular request is an admin theme for Drupal that is geared towards people used to Wordpress (me included).
Clojure isn't really 'layered on Java'; it does however run in the JVM (just like Java).
It's called marketing and frankly I don't think it takes anything away from the app.
I feel sorry for all the people let go just before xmas.
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You can’t access that web interface from the internal network as the Vigor 130 is not a router. Unless someone has a fancy trick I’m missing I have to disconnect my router and connect a laptop directly to the modem with a fixed IP to access it, unfortunately. The Vigor 130 is really more of a PPPoA to PPPoE converter, or at least, that’s how it’s commonly used.
What is most interesting to me is that the business model he rejected[1] is not just the one of his app, but essentially the one used by almost all therapists.

[1] https://github.com/Flaque/quirk:
"Unfortunately, in order for the business to work and for us to pay ourselves, we needed folks to be subscribed for a fair amount of time. But that wasn't the case and we honestly should have predicted it given my own experience: as people did better, they unsubscribed. Unfortunately, the opposite was true as well, if folks weren't doing better, but were giving it a good shot, they would stay subscribed longer.

So in order to continue Quirk, a future Quirk would need to make people feel worse for longer, or otherwise not help the people we signed up to help. If the incentives of the business weren't aligned with the people, it would have been naive to assume that we could easily fix it as the organization grew. We didn't want to go down that path, so we pivoted the company."
There are a bunch of other technologies as well. Huge flywheels [1], which are supposed to be used for very responsive power needs (i.e. grid stabilisation), trains loaded with weights which get pulled up a mountain and released [2], redox-flow batteries and so on.

[1]: https://www.energydigital.com/smart-energy/worlds-largest-fl...
[2]: https://aresnorthamerica.com/
But they don't do that now, and it would take funding. Where is that coming from?

I mean, look, I'm generally politically liberal and I think all these services deserve more resources than they get, but unless it's attached to the DST bill I have zero confidence it would happen in most communities.
While this could be related to the holiday shut down this is the longest they have gone without updating their apps over the holiday shut down in a few years.

“Dec.19, 2018:
We fixed the tubes that bring you videos – and some bugs too.

Jan.7.2019:
Fixed what needed fixing and squished some bugs.

Dec.15, 2019:
Bug fixes, stability improvements, repairs to time-space continuum, etc. etc.

Jan.5, 2020:
Fixed what needed fixing and squished some bugs.

Dec.6, 2020:
Fixed bugs, improved performance, took the afternoon off.”

If I were to bet they are probably waiting to see how people react to the labels. FB listing everything and it not making major news doesn’t bode well for people caring about these long term.
Access to capital shouldn't require flushing $100k down the drain to get started. I have faith the technology will evolve to make companies click-to-start, and cheap to maintain, even allowing unregistered securities in those companies to be traded freely by the public.

To the companies who are trying to build walls and dig trenches around marketplaces which serve this end, personally I hope they all fail, and we end up with a distributed network which can host the necessary ledgers and market-making functions required.

If anyone here has the legal chops to help build this, please email me ;-) I've done my own 506(b) and I could build the distributed trading engine (did similar work on colored coins) and I would love to open source and democratize a platform for this.

I look at what SolarCity did with SolarBonds, which is a platform built by Common Assets who they acquired (unknown amount), if you've tried that platform, I think you have a taste of how SME companies could sell their equity.

I think the right platform can also significantly reduce the burden of an extremely long-tail cap table.

From a fund / roll-up perspective, the companies host their own trading platform, there's no reason the funds can't buy shares right on there, bundle, and resell the mix to their LPs. Someone like FounderFund benefits by being able to cheaply (as in transaction fees) acquire equity in many company who are running the A+ platform.
FYI - the Twinkie factory was in Natick, MA. Tragically, it no longer exists.
As has been pointed out by many people, while Columbia is to a large extend a social club for extremely privileged young people, the extensions being built are largely intended to support research work, the output of which is a public good. Apparently, Columbia's research facilities are genuinely and alarmingly overcrowded.

It is misleading to suggest that Columbia is arranging to have private property seized simply for the benefit of those wealthy enough to attend Columbia.

I'm opposed to the underlying doctrine of eminent domain that suggests that land can be seized if the parties who it will be granted to can make better overall economic use of it, and thus I suppose "opposed" to this instance of eminent domain, but it's still important to have the facts straight.
Fundamentally it would require a shift in what a lot of the citizenry feels the prison system is. The prison system is currently not a system for rehabilitation, it's a system of punishment.

It would be a breath of fresh air if we actually tried to rehabilitate people in prison to some degree. I don't know how far off that is, since a lot of people I've talked to seem to think that pretty horrible stuff like rape is part of ione's prison sentence.
"a pejorative modifier to refer to a person who experiences something vicariously rather than first-hand, or to a casual critic who lacks practical experience"

Ironically the most fitting application would be to say that they're armchair quarterbacking their own database administering.
The landing page link also shows that the editor is Michael Swaine. I believe he was one of the main contributors (editor?) of Byte magazine. Alas, I remember the monthly "Swaine's Flames" column (and others from Byte, as hinted at). I'll have to check out this e-zine. (I have several of the PP's books, usually pretty good)
You raise some valid points - let's look at it from a completely different angle, namely what's our goals.

I'd like two things to happen: First for the lady blogger mom to get over it, and second for the TSA to be sharply pulled back from their ever more ridiculous policies which are both ineffective and intrusive. They're incompetent monkeys and we keep giving them more power. Which, unsurprisingly, only makes them more annoying, not more competent.

Firstly, if you consider yourself a "victim" of anything your best recourse is one of reflection, and ultimately one of forgiveness in the knowledge that the perpetrators are more insane than other people. You are not a victim. Something happened to you - it was bad - it can't be changed now - but is it going to ruin the rest of your life? That's for you to decide all alone.

I'll refer you to the Buddhist parable of Two Monks here [http://www.examiner.com/buddhism-in-national/buddhist-parabl...]

You don't forgive in order to make life somehow easier for whoever wronged you - you do it in order to make your own life better.

Second the TSA policies and procedures are a joke. The TSA must be stopped. If it takes people getting outraged or stopping air travel to do this - I am all for it. Publish this story as widely as possible, crack jokes on Leno, etc - I don't think it takes away from actual victims of actual sexual harassment (or worse). Victim-hood is overrated, and I firmly believe that the active approach is the only valid approach to solve trauma. Avoidance of the topic isn't going to solve anything (neither is confrontation BTW - insight is what is needed and what resolves seemingly impossible problems in an instant).

Sorry this is not more coherent. Argh.
Singapore. English speaking. Modern clean safe beautiful city. Mostly banking and finance here. Something like 2% unemployment, 15% economic growth this year. Lots of Westerners (and Indians, Chinese, Malay, Phillipinos, Indonesians, etc hugely diverse). Little India, Chinatown. Very easy to get a work visa. Low taxes. Tropical island. Can be as cheap as $50 to fly to Bali and a weekend of surfing. All of Southeast Asia a few hours flight away.

On the bad side:

* Freaking hot. You will get used to it after about 8 months.

* Expensive apartments. Not as bad as SF or NYC, but getting up there.

* Despite being a decent size city, it often has a conservative, small town atmosphere.

* Asia loves status and brand names and leans towards Java and .Net and industrial programming and tends to look down on scripting languages

Hong kong is probably good to look at too. Bigger more interesting city but like everywhere, has its drawbacks too of course.
"Most recruitment in Berlin seems to be done via social networks rather than via job boards."

Most hiring I've done in Berlin is via job boards.
And to add to the "annoying" bit - do not even bother to watch that youtube video. I kid you not, it is precisely 40% soundbites of the talk (with only slightly more nutritional value than a talk outline) and 60% mindless electronic music (which also plays a good deal louder than the talk). /shudders
I'm one of those people who achieved enlightenment with haskell and Lisp and yet still enjoys firing up perl for the occasional project or script.

Perl is still very much alive and not at all stuck in a bad place. It may be easy to get that impression in your local circumstance but in the larger sense Perl is thriving. It's even gasp still grabbing young developers. I wouldn't worry too much about it.
I can only write from my perspective, 110qm are around 950 EUR including heating, but this is a more expensive part of town (not the most expensive though). Fairly cheap compared to other large cities in Germany.

There are many tech jobs, most companies are hiring.

As a developer you might make 35-60k EUR a year, depending on the company and your skills.

Transport is currently 72 EUR a month.

Meals are around 5 EUR for lunch, 10 EUR or above in the evening. Pizza is below 10 EUR. Beer is around 3 EUR.
Just read the article. Looks like a good project.
Shame that it is so ridiculously expensive, dur to Telstra not having to compete properly with other carriers. Tesltra should really have been broken up, into reatil and infrastructure, it is a big joke that it hasn't been, and all of Australia is the worse of, due to that fact.
Well, for a big enough project something like Guice will become necessary sooner or later. However, for smaller programs traits are simpler to use and get one 80% of Guice's functionality--and it's all built into the language. Traits are relatively easy to understand that any reasonably competent developer should be able to easily reason about. I don't see why a Scala-native DI framework wouldn't be able to leverage this existing, simple solution to build the last 20%.

Guice is the result of smart Google engineers who had probably tried all sorts of DI frameworks before and finally developed something nice. It's the result of more than a decade of painful experiences with existing solutions to a real problem.

In conclusion, I think you can hang yourself when using any language. In Scala, when I needed to mock out a dependency for a project, I settled on a fairly simple trait-based approach that was simple and elegant. In Java, I could have rolled by own Factory scheme that would be ugly and unmaintainable, or picked a DI framework that hopefully wouldn't have sucked. In this case I was presented with many fewer opportunities to make a mess than if I had been using Java.

(BTW, you can use Guice in Scala programs right now! And, when you do, it looks way nicer and easier to use than in Java. See http://makeapp.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-to-use-guice-with-sc...)
Or a shipping container filled with hard drives. Conservatively speaking, you could easily get more than 60 PB in a typical shipping container and have plenty of room left over for padding, using 3.5" 2 TB hard drives. Assume it takes a leisurely week to get from, say, one coast of the US to the other; that's a little over 100 Gbit/s sustained throughput.

I've been rounding down here; the real bandwidth would be quite a bit higher.
This is so awful to look at I can't even comprehend.

Maybe in 2004 screen real estate was at a premium, but a lot of developers I know now have at least two high resolution monitors, if not a single ultra high (2560x1200) resolution monitor. I'd gladly take the standard monospaced fonts any day.
You don't have to be making money for your time to be worth something. I'm home from work right now. If an hour spent clipping coupons takes away from "recreational" time spent coding for fun or in my machine shop puttering around, it's not worth it. The leisure time is worth more to me than the money the coupons would save.
The problem with your UI suggestions is that even when they're logical and seem to make sense, they wont for every program. ;)

Except I didn't make any suggestions to change the UI. Instead, I'm saying leave it as it is, do it like everyone else does, and users already know how to deal with it :-) Your comment highlights exactly why I hold that belief - you've demonstrated that there are edge cases that I (and everyone else) never anticipated.
Short summary, the integrity of the well seems to be compromised below the layer we can reach. Therefore attempting to cap it will just cause it to leak out the sea floor below anything we can reach. The only choice is to let the oil out and try to catch it. However this will erode the already compromised well structure.

At that point it is a race between erosion and the relief wells, which hopefully will relieve the pressure on the existing well.

If the relief wells fail to get there in time, there is a real possibility of the sea floor collapsing and letting the entire oil pocket out. The potential oil spill if that happens could be up to 2.5 billion barrels.
That's like saying Holocaust was quite OK since most Jews survived
I had no clue until about a year and half ago. I had that intense limerence feeling, (with alll the irrationality walking in the sky when I saw her type of thing). It is intense. BUT when I was scrutinizing that person closely I knew that she was somebody that I knew wasn't right for me (in the long term anyways). So, something was wrong with my primitive instinct lying to me to be attracted to this person a lot, while the rational side was saying that this is not right, especially when scrutinizing/imagine the future.

I eventually found the term, and looked at it closely. Sadly I could describe my two other 'loves' of my life (or what I thought was the feeling of love then), as simple limerence.

:(

But I guess, the shattering of an illusion is a price you pay for maturing up.
Looks cool. But not so cool I'd want to install Silverlight!
as long as daddies check is arriving every month...
That period stretched from a few centuries ago (Newtonian mechanics) to the first half of the 20th century. Now, I think, we're heading toward the understanding that "intricate biological machine" might not be the best of models, and that "blob of living matter" is worth revisiting.

The notion of world-as-machine is becoming dated I think, as a more organic understanding arises, both from the mixing of western and eastern ideas, as well as better physics.
Gitmo, extraordinary renditions, enemy combatants...don't ring any bell?
Why would you want to overcome limerence?

My problem is that it tends to go away after awhile...
I suspect that a business/pleasure line will be drawn. Social networks tend to lead you towards entertaining content, where as people turn to Google for both entertainment and critical path content. In reality, I doubt that social mechanisms will do anything more than continue to boost Google traffic.

In this case, Scribd is baking a bigger pie. I doubt either Google or Facebook need to concern themselves with arguing over the size of the slices for this one.
Hmm, we need more volunteers unless we want to split at 40 books each.

Or get donations so we can commit time to do it all.
I think it should be noted that she has the same thing going on. She's idealistic in a way that just happens to be very convenient for her and her finances. What's convenient for others isn't a concern.

What's interesting is that she poses her doing this as morally superior to someone else doing this.
Agreed. And also, there's not a lot of manipulation/math to be done on these IDs once they come back to the client. They're only used again when an operation happens on a tweet (favoriting it, replying to it) and in that case you're just taking the ID and sending it back to Twitter.
I don't think that was the entire Atlanta data center, for what it's worth. Mine's in Atlanta too and I haven't had any recent downtime.
Serious question - I'm a photographer so generating 5-10GB of new data in a batch is far from unheard of, I've got hundreds of GBs stored and it's all on external drives. Mozy's FAQ doesn't seem designed for me ;-)

When I've looked into this in the past, every provider has had issues with the new and archived content volume, and sometimes even the use of external rather than internal drives (!) that has made it unviable. I couldn't see from Mozy's site whether this was the case with them as well? If not and I can genuinely back up several hundred GBs of data (phone calls from ISP notwithstanding) and potentially add tens to low hundreds of GBs new data per month, from whatever drive source I choose, this sounds like what I want. Would this be the case from your experience?
This is a crappy place to talk about politics.

Where's a better place? I watch CSpan on occassion, and the Hill is a much worse place. Political discussions tend to devolve, but so do discussions about Microsoft, Google, Apple, RoR, Python, typing, editors, IDEs, paradigms, SLC, etc...

With that said, everyone has to decide where to spend their time. And everyone has a preference as to what kind of discussions they prefer to have. I hope Matt finds a great community whereever he ends up going.
That one sounds rather argumentative. He's taking conventional wisdom about learning (active engagement, problem solving) that is accepted dogma among practicing teachers (at least in U.S. primary and secondary schools) and trying to paint it as a minority view. Without hearing some evidence for the robustness of the "transmission" idea, I'm tempted to dismiss this as a rhetorical trick. I suspect there are some popular classroom practices he disagrees with, and he's trying to stigmatize them by linking them to an old, discredited idea.
Same here, but used the ScanSnap-Evernote integration feature, so Evernote takes care of both the OCR and the searching, and if anybody is feeling particularly motivated they can also tag.
You managed to combine gender war with politics war. That's like a Molotov cocktail with poison in it. Please don't do this here.

Edit: it looks like you've been breaking the site guidelines a lot and we've warned you about this already. From now on, please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
This is actually a good timing, there is many people upset by banks behaviour today, that some may be considering moving.

I'm french and I use a bank that was a 2000 internet startup (boursorama ). They didn't start as a bank but as a low cost solution for the money market. So creating a bank as a startup is definitly possible.

It's a better bank than others I have used, but it's still a bank. Their website is powerful but designed like crap though. However all of my money isn't there, as I fear a little bit doing a move I didn't understand (because of crappy design ) and loose everything.