jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've seen enough of these HN threads to at least accept that a lot of people in this community will think this is morally wrong on the part of Google. So in the spirit of understanding, I'm curious, how they see the rights of the product developer?

Is it just at a certain size the product developer no longer has a right to make a product that they are proud of?

That "pride in craft" is how I see it. For many products the content is the product, more so than the actual software features. For Twitter, the product experience is changed more by the presence of Trump than it would be by an Edit button (probably). For Google Play, the experience is defined by which apps are in the store.

These platforms put their thumb on the scales in all sorts of ways. For example they will recruit and cut special deals to bring people on board. For example, Twitter had that NFL deal at one point where you could watch games live.

As a product owner, the motivation to build something I'm proud of is at least as motivating as the desire to make money. And if some person or organization insisted on using my product in a way that was abhorrent to me, to the point that it cut into my pride in the craftsmanship of my product experience, then absolutely I'd toss them out.

The principle is "we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone." No matter what my TOS says, there's always a 30 day update clause which means that's how long it would take me to change terms and refuse service. So this really is an underlying principle for services regardless of their TOS or community guidelines.

Then the idea that I could throw someone off of my own product and then get yelled at about it--well it confuses me. Prior to seeing the discussions on HN, my expectation would be that throwing someone off of the platform is the equivalent of removing a feature and thus it might come at the cost of some customers. And that's just the constant calculus of any product changes.

Is it that "private platforms have to protect free speech people" have never considered this? Or that there's a reason that the pride of the product owner doesn't factor in?
I think you're wrong. These companies are very aware of what their customers/users think (think of all the data!). It's asinine to think that these companies, with corporate boards and a legal mandate to produce profit, would just out some amount of users and reduce revenue. They clearly don't think the amount of users they are affecting with these actions are significant enough to damage them, especially compared to the costs of enabling these domestic terrorists.

These groups are not some good ol boys looking to have measured debate about monetary policy. They are literally trying to kill elected officials and undermine democracy.

More directly, the average voter very clearly seems to care, when you're looking at these actions in an economic light.
I addressed both time periods.

The opening of your just-cited link reads:

>Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden again ducked questions Thursday about whether he would seek to add seats to the Supreme Court, telling reporters he would not address the issue until after the November 3 election.

For me personally, when I combine that with his institutionalist remarks before he became the front-runner in the D primary, leads me to believe that he's not in favor of it, but tried to hedge once he won the nomination to avoid another irritation to progressives.

I do understand that your interpretation may be different.
Account registration is also non-functional. Is this an attack? Is the purpose to make conservatives feel as if they have no place to go online? If Twitter promotes the worst possible interpretations of @realDonaldTrump's final 2 tweets, then there is no reason why I should not do the same in regards to this event.
Here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/121120zr_p86...

155, ORIG. TEXAS V. PENNSYLVANIA, ET AL.

The State of Texas's motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied for lack of standing under Article III of the Constitution. Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections. All other pending motions are dismissed as moot.

Statement of Justice Alito, with whom Justice Thomas joins: In my view, we do not have discretion to deny the filing of a bill of complaint in a case that falls within our original jurisdiction. See Arizona v. California, 589 U. S. ___ (Feb. 24, 2020) (Thomas, J., dissenting). I would therefore grant the motion to file the bill of complaint but would not grant other relief, and I express no view on any other issue.
It's more than relativity - it's a consequence of acclimatisation, which is the process of adaptation of the human body to ambient temperature environments.

Humans may acclimate to cool temperature by increasing brown fat, which in turn may lead to improvements in glucose metabolism. These changes can be dampened or reversed following exposure to warmer temperatures.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/cool-te...
Space law has been written about extensively: https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=CALL%2B&sear...
Even Republican representatives are calling it a coup attempt. Storming a legislative building to prevent the legitimate succession of power and threatening the physical bodies of legislators is the definition of a coup.

Everyone identified and involved in this should be arrested, tried, and if convicted executed.
How do you imagine that authoritarians get going? Hint: It requires a horde of angry hillbillies, every time.
That's definitely cool. Are there any docs for that "upload" API?

It's good to see people find solutions to the problem Yahoo! is causing.
This is always the major problem with Mac detractors. It's clear that they have little to no experience actually using a Mac for any extended period of time.
OS X has plenty of keyboard shortcuts. In general I find them to be much more reliable and consistent than any of the Linux software I have used (ran Ubuntu for ~6 years).

This is full of gross generalizations. I use keyboard shortcuts for everything and know how to tab complete. Everyone I know that uses a mac to dev on does as well.
In related news, when I'm on a non essential site that requires a password, forces a weird restriction ("Your password must contain at least one number and one non word character) and won't let me save it in Firefox, I just copy the password, log out, bookmark the login page and then add #password to the URL and bookmark that as the new login page.

Then, come login, I can just copy the password from the URL.
That's still top down, but with different people at the top.

The Google-Verizon deal involved common framework for government regulation of the internet. Calling it "open internet" was a deliberate misnomer.
Start by reaching out to your past and existing clients and tell them that you're looking for referrals.

Assuming you've done good work, you'll get a contact and a built-in recommendation.
> It isn't as smooth as on OS X, but it's definitely possible.

Yes, but "smooth" was the whole point of the question --as in the "no fiddling" part.
Do you do PHP? I've had loads of interest in my services as a freelance PHP developer but don't have the time to take them on.
And this is why they should use caching :)

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A common trend among many of the best developers is to see them posting screenshots running OS X. Many of the best developers, some my personal ‘developer heroes’, have made the switch to OS X.

It’s All About the Mentality

I respect and admire programmers like @migueldeicaza, @mitsuhiko, mandrake, @dhh for all they have accomplished. One thing they all have in common, present day, is running OS X. Mandrake cowrote Enlightenment (which is the original really cool window manager for Linux), Miguel started Gnome, and the majority of code both Mitsuhiko (wrote almost every useful Python library ever) and DHH (Ruby on Rails) write run on Linux backends to say the least.

What are they most known for? Problem solving skills mixed with actually producing / releasing.

Linux is Open Source

And this, I believe, is why great developers tend to move towards OS X (yes, there are plenty of exceptions). A critical piece of writing software is focus. When a problem solver uses a Linux desktop, they are immediately confronted with the possibility of being able to modify every part of their system. When a problem solver runs OS X, their options are severely limited, by design.

I think all of us are guilty for hunting down PPAs to get a backported browser, or running ‘./configure && make && make install’ at some point. And when you have programming skills, source code can turn into a detriment to productivity when you start modifying projects outside of what you intended to accomplish. All of a sudden you start hacking a project for a few minutes, and wake up days later in a coding haze with all of that time lost.

Personally I have had experience with this while using old Linux distributions. We have SLES 9 systems and SLES 10 systems here at work, and in the past year I have spent countless hours hacking Sprint 3G wireless drivers, USB over IP, Firefox 3 and countless others to work on these older systems. Why? Not because they are the primary goal, but because I could, which in turn took up time from things I actually “wanted” to do.

Time is Valuable

Watching one of Miguel’s presentations, he mentions that he does not have enough years left to “worry about memory management” and that they leave that to the younger folks. This is the crux of the argument. For programmers, there is far too much opportunity for distraction at every avenue. We don’t know how long we will be here for, but certainly we know that nothing we care about will get done as long as our focus is spread so thin across the spectrum of Linux.

Summary

This is all just food for thought, not a judgement against any form of desktop or usage pattern. For reference, I am still running Ubuntu on my desktop, and being wildly unproductive on the tasks I want to finish.
On a side note: the rise of the 1k, 4k and 8k sub-"scenes" is likely a response, create artificial constraints to enable creativity.
My friends and I all upgraded with the ACE version came out, which was meant to be used more as a passthrough - it was great. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravis_Ultrasound#UltraSound_AC...

A lot of friends who were devs got free Gravis boards by writing to Gravis directly which is why so many demos and shareware supported it.
The original product was called Solid ICE by a company called Qumranet. Red Hat acquired Qumranet in 2008 and as we do with all acquisitions, we started to liberate the proprietary code. It became oVirt in about 2010, and parallel to that is the downstream (but also fully open source) RHEV management product.

Interesting fact: The original product was written in C# and ran only on Windows. It was translated into Java, largely automatically at first with manual tidy ups, so it could run on Linux or Windows servers. (Well there are some Python and other bits too)

http://lpeer.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/switching-from-c-to-java...

http://lpeer.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/casing-moving-target.htm...
Exactly.

It'd be great to be able to do with Stripe what we can do with POs. Here are Three POs for three vendors associated with this purchase (80%, 10% & 10% respectively).

And then directly push the funds to each with separate transactions, without having to have a 'master account' that pulls in 100% (and takes the full fee structure on the nose), then internally/itself pushes out 80% and 10% to others.
BTW, here's a great post from someone who did get the balance right: http://tiempoapp.com/y-combinator-a-two-year-old-and-a-pregn...
We're not talking about taxes, but environmental cost. San Francisco provides a bunch of (human) services walnut creek does not.

As one example, muni costs money and sf pays more for BART than WC does. These are still cheaper and more environmentally efficient than everyone owning cars.
wanting to practice religion freely cannot be called "destructive" or "totalitarian". certainly no more than the blm riots in america. Those were certainly destructive and (imho)somewhat totalitarian in their desire to impose their agenda on everyone.
The way i see it you have 2 options; either acknowledge you are wrong that normal countries wouldn't call this out as such, or explain why the blm riots are quantifiably more significant then freedom of religion.
FWIW, I believe this has been debunked. Volume (when there is a net margin) always equates to greater profit until market saturation. Veblen goods rarely work for niche markets but can work for commodity markets (see cars and watches for examples).
Fantastic comic! I remember episode "Don't vote for Notax". Now I see Notax was like Trump :)
Basically it was irony of american society, that's why it was not forbidden by yugoslav regime. Character No.1 and his short stories about his happenings with Homer during their travel through old Greece were short version of Iliad. I learned Iliad from this . This was surrealistic, and just because of that, acceptable.
Recent and related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26142483

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26044640

A thread from 2019:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20352252
Call me crazy but I've never considered eating bacon "safe" in as much as I considered eating a Ribeye "safe". Also who are these mythological deep bacon state actors convincing everyone eating bacon is safe? I question the premise of the subtitle. I went deep into the article searching for clues, but all the only substance there was some squabbles around nitrite based curing versus traditional salt curing.
Be careful, a lot of the “uncured” or “no added nitrites” have fine print that say “except those found in celery salt”, which is a natural source of nitrites
Honestly building some command line tools on OSX is such a headache that I feel like I'd break three keyboards a year if I was a linux user and had to go through that cryptic and poorly documented experience all the more often.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tigosmIryU a lecture on youtube by Martin Sweatman that explains the result of the paper. Is it possible that the Bible in Genesis is mentioning the same story? Sodom and Gomorrah, two cities destroyed in divine retribution for the sins of its citizens; sounds familiar. Also interesting that they have a similar astronomical line of reasoning in this story (was on hn some two weeks ago) https://singularityhub.com/2021/01/10/the-worlds-oldest-stor...
> mitochondrial dysfunction that results from insufficient exercise

What does this mean? Can you cite something to back this up?
Sorry to ruin your narrative, but SARS-CoV-2 was circulating well before it showed up in Wuhan. https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-italy-tim...

Perhaps people noticed it when it hit Wuhan and freaked out because of the Research Institute thinking “oh shit, is this what they’re playing with?”
Nice! :) I hope to see you there
> you didn't create the system and are just a part of it, if you don't take the job someone else will.

Exactly why I moonlight as a crack dealer, with the odd stint pimping adolescents I meet at the bus terminal. Sorry for the lame attempt at the witty reply... I guess the point is that not doing something doesn't mean it won't happen, but it does mean you won't do it, and that matters to some people.
You know, after having owned one of the unibody MacBooks, there's no way I could buy another brand, no matter what the OS. I know there's supposed to be some other premium laptop makers out there (Sony?) but I've never seen evidence of them; every time I walk past the laptop section in JBHiFi or Dick Smith, all I see are rows of the same fat, heavy plasticky laptops that have always been there.

Sure it has its faults (the screen is crap, for starters) but damn it's some sexy hardware.
I think you accidentally the word
It depends on a combination of factors: background education, personal inclinations, innate abilities, and so on.

I'd say it's not too late, but it takes time. You can trade your existing experience against the native wit/speed of the youngsters, but it still takes time to learn to program.

Especially to learn to program for someone else, by which I mean robust and comprehensive enough to be used by people you don't know, in ways you'll have difficulty imagining.

So it depends a lot on both you and your ideas. Are you willing to work as hard as a founder has to, but on someone else's ideas? I would recommend starting to learn to program, but floating your ideas to some experienced developers as well with the intent of finding someone to work with. If you can do all the business stuff, and are mildly technical, and they can do all the deep technical, and appreciate the business stuff, then you can have a formidable partnership.

After all, PG recommends having a co-founder ...
no one start up is worth the initial fuck you money that allows you to spend the rest of your life working on cool startups rather than on someone elses boring stuff.
It really depends on what you want to do. If you just want to see your ideas done, but don't care that much about programming itself, then you would probably be better off teaming up with a good programmer and providing whatever skills you have that he or she doesn't.

If, on the other hand, you feel you're really interested in programming then, by all means, go ahead and take the plunge. However, bear in mind that it will take you more or less 10 years to become an expert. It doesn't really have anything to do with age, it's just how much time people need to get excellent at something.

If you feel undecided about whether you're really interested in coding or not, give it a shot and find out. If you really like coding, you'll know it.
The punishment is the removal of your voice from the conversation. Everyone wants to be heard :)
no, no es tarde. pero comienza ya. te recomendaria python o ruby son mas faciles, disponibles y los dos tienen amplas comunidades. suerte!
I have some cool ideas to implement in the Web...

Programmer thinking: cool, ideas, Web

PHB speak: some, implement

If order to have the right mindset for programming, you must replace "some" with "one" and "implement" with "build".

In other words:

1. Is there something that you just have to have?

2. Do you absolutely have to build the first version yourself?

If you can answer both questions "yes", then, by all means, get started. Just start building something. Resources are right at your fingertips. You don't need college, classes, or special training, just a burning desire to learn what you need in order to build what you have to build.

If, on the other hand, either of your answers was "no", then you probably should stay a manager and assemble a team/project to pursue your ideas.

Either way, age has nothing to do with it. All that matters is what you really want. And the only one who can determine that is you.
I don't think there are any legal issues here (but IANAL), and I can see a free Windows clone being useful to some people. However, Microsoft has a 25-year head start so these guys have some serious catching up to do. Until Microsoft goes out of business, I doubt they will ever have a system compatible with a current Windows version.
Functions are "types" just like everything else in rust. And you can implement traits (which can add methods) on any type. So its just "normal" rust code to add a function call to a function of a certain type.

This enables us to (statically) extract information from the type signature of the function and use it to populate the relevant values using the ECS. We also use this type information to automatically (and safely) parallelize system execution based on what ECS resources are accessed (and if they are mutated).

We do (internally) use macros to implement our IntoSystem trait for all relevant function types, but there are no macros in user-facing code.
A gaint check could make a difference in the rate six months from now. Though with other vaccines in development that use different processes it is questionable if those would be shots in the arm vs shots made and discarded because we don't need them. Your guess is as good as mine as to which vaccines will work.
The argument isn't against individuals, or even corporations, having the freedom to deny service. The argument is about monopolies, or in the case of Parler: colluding monopolies, being able to do so.

There are two things everyone knows are market failures that need to be regulated: monopolies and third party negative externalities. Right and left wing economists alike. Trust bust and regulate monopolies, and return net neutrality.
Great point about the logical fallacy.

The whole reason an "employee" exists is because they create more value than they cost. The only relevant factor is how much value they create (either in the form of eventual increased profits or eventual decreased costs)...location has absolutely nothing to do with that calculation. I.E. If a business could rent a money printing machine, the location of that machine doesn't matter....the only thing that matters is how much money it prints in relation to how much it costs to rent. Any argument from the business stating they should "rightfully" be charged less to rent the machine is merely a negotiation tactic intended to increase profits for the business owners.

If you work at a company that does this or is threatening to do this, I'd seriously consider making a move to one that takes the opposite approach. Any hint of this mindset from a company should be taken as a huge red flag.
PBS is funded by taxpayer dollars.

Assuming every news source tends to have some degree of bias, do you imagine they would tilt towards bigger government or smaller government?
The Earth being flat is a very useful approximation in all cases where you don't need to land as spaceship. Just because something is useful doesn't mean it's true.
I'm sure that many could read it, but reading it and understand are not the same thing. Understanding takes time, often a lot of time. And this is where the simplified bit comes back.

Discussions on social media rarely indicate much effort at nuance...
Just did a quick test, and Bromite fixes what I find an extremely annoying 'feature' of firefox...

i.e. when you back away from a page - back to the home screen - firefox leaves the tab open. Bromite (correctly IMHO) closes the session. I really dislike the ff behaviour enough to switch!
Allow me to present a standard swedish parking sign:
http://i.imgur.com/e4KVoaC.jpg

Avgift means fee. The intervals specify when the fee applies.

* White digits: Hours of weekdays.

* White digits in parens: Hours of days before holidays (read: Saturdays, Christmas eve etc.).

* Red digits: Hours of holidays (Sundays, Chistmas day etc.).
And in fact, in used book "arbitrage", the seller always has a very, very good excuse, which is that s/he "sold the book already" to someone in s/her imaginary brick-and-mortar store.
Scribd link is auto added by HN system if the original URL ends with '.pdf'.
I believe the point is that users want to run firefox and openoffice at the same time, but they don't trust firefox to not have remotely exploitable bugs. So they run firefox as a different user, assuming that if it can't read their secret files or the memory of openoffice, they're safe. They are wrong.

This problem has in fact been solved by the X security extension. The problem is that nobody tests their programs as untrusted clients. GTK, for instance, will more or less immediately abort because its error checking consists of assert(trusted_only_operation()).
If you're on a shoestring budget, can't you just afford the day of downtime once every few years? Yeah, it's annoying to be down, but each 9 you add past 99% costs more than the last.
Do you really can't talk campaign financing reform as if it was offensive content or call to violence?