jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In practice, the ST3 API is extremely limiting and poorly implemented. The docs are both lacking and dated (read incorrect). It is trivial to crash ST3 by making the incorrect sequence of correct API calls. It is also common to resort to polling the editor to make up for other deficiencies. The API also only allows for extremely limited UI choices forcing highly unintuitive interfaces on end users. The ST3 runtime also features such gems as not shipping the ssl module on linux (while ST2 stripped out even more stuff).

I also expect NPM to be much better in practice than the sublime package manager which frequently ships broken code. JS is a better choice than python for async code which will make writing plugins easier.

Furthermore, ST is 3 people who largely ignore all feedback from the community regarding bugs and features. It won't be hard to out compete ST in the long run.
HTML's not good at windows, apps, doesn't have any sort of concept of a widget and has the kind of layout rules you'd have a tough time beating if you were sitting there trying to be deliberately malicious to future programmers.

It's not a good idea, but given the abysmal state that desktop apps seem to be in at the moment[1], it's probably the least bad idea.

[1] Been about 5 years since I did a desktop app, but if anything they look to be getting worse. WPF, flop. Flex, flop. GTK+ looks poo. If I had to do a cross platform desktop app, I wouldn't even know where to start.
Totally depends on the person. You rarely see the work of those people because they never get anything out the door.

How can a developer get nothing out of the door without eventually getting fired? I honestly cannot imagine an environment that would allow this.
Well I guess it's retro week again on HN... Better check my bookmarks from 3 years ago...
It has 2048 Sandy Bridge cores, so maybe 20 MH/s.
It has, which is great for consumers in cases with these where there is merit. It also means it is easier for anyone to unjustly defame or disrupt the perception of an individual or organization. As per http://boingboing.net/2014/02/25/nsa-and-gchqs-dirty-trickin...
In fairness, quitting while one is ahead is one of the rare yet essential skills. Some people just have it. Alas, I'm not one of them...
Why are you taking this so personally? When centering a div on vertically and horizontally is such a hassle, there can definitively be some improvements in the system. HTML lacks many semantics that would cut down on div.content or .main or any number of similar classes. CSS lacks any sort of inherit structure (like SCSS gives or taking it further with SMACSS) and quickly can become a huge mess. JS is still a terrible language with no support for basic things classes or importing.
> It's just funny to see people (the Light Table fans as well) rediscover what Emacs users already knew

Since many of the Light Table fans either use or have used Emacs, I would say that it is more of a relief to have something that takes the Emacs concepts and tries to modernize, adapt, or polish them. It might also be good to mention that the Light Table team chose a "usable editor first" strategy to build a user base, before attempting the concepts they demoed early on in development. So, we will see if it ends up mimicking Emacs or, perhaps, something different.
Regarding the OP's
>"Sadly, taking part in international aid where you aren’t particularly helpful is not benign. It’s detrimental."
I'm not sure that's true as you will still generally be bringing money to the country either in donations to the good cause or in the way that all tourists do by spending at local bars, souvenir shops and the like.
Nobody wants to go to court, but a studio with a hundred million dollar legal budget can (though they won't for something silly), and your average ramen-noodling, tweeting university student can't. There is no equal representation between someone who can make any ridiculous DMCA claim they want and someone who cannot afford a court battle to prove them wrong.

(By the way, this is a general rant, not a reference to this case.)
It's difficult because the two of you are choosing to make it difficult! Perhaps it's impossible to follow the discussion above without Googling Nick Land, spending ten seconds skimming his Wikipedia page, and seeing the word "Atomwaffen" and reading the rest of the sentence. But you're interested in truth, aren't you? Are those ten seconds so much to ask?

What you're doing is plainly poisoning the well - you haven't argued that the NYT is wrong (either in this subthread or anywhere else in this comment section), you're arguing that the NYT cannot possibly make arguments worth listening to. Elsewhere you're mocking the NYT Editorial Board. Maybe they're worth mocking, but it has nothing to do with the merits of this article!

It's beneath you, and it's beneath this site. Maybe it works. But it only works because it's ruining reasoned discourse and scoring cheap points about those people at the NYT and how we don't like them. The debate is - ironically - no longer about the ideas the NYT is claiming and instead about the people and their proximity to other people we don't like.
Yeah, nice example.
I guess, the interesting aspect in that case is more that the option is way out of the money and almost binary, not so much its Gamma?
Like, you still need to have some kind of idea about probabilities of outcomes to see whether the option is not crazy overpriced?
This is similar to the "lottery ticket" critique addressed in the end ... you wouldn't just invest in any biotech firm?
I think I’m confusing it with the Java EE changes. However, renaming is only easy to accommodate if you have source access. The JVM’s model is portable binaries, so forcing renames breaks some of that model.
I don't mean objectively clean and elegant, I mean in the eye of the beholder it's easy for a tiny codebase to be clean.

But a system that may be clean and elegant for a 1-person gig may end up falling to bits if you attempt to have 100 people working on it.
> It's going to be hard to tie financial responsibility to individual officers in a way that doesn't ultimately come back to tax dollars anyway.

Why not just deduct all lawsuits and other costs from the collective pension fund for police departments? This seems like a trivial problem to solve (I mean assuming the goal were to solve it, and not increase police power while minimizing accountability). Once the police have to start paying for their own fuckups, I think they will quickly turn on each other. And in the event they decide to double down and hide it collectively, they risk losing the pension fund for the entire police department (obviously depends on the court settlement). At least they'll have skin in the game for their corruption.
You're right that Melbourne and Sydney infrastructure outcompete pretty much all US cities, but the punching above their weight on a worldwide basis is Australian mythology. I've lived on both and several cities in Europe and Melbourne and Sydney are behind pretty much every big city in Europe and Asia. Public transport for example is absolutely atrocious, the state of the roads are extremely poor...
text file with git?
Bitcoin getting even more fun. Interplanetary competition which one is the longer chain...
And here is the complete text of what Knuth says about red-black trees.

"Elaboration of these ideas [2-3 trees, and a way of representing them as binary trees -- gjm] has led to many additional flavors of balanced trees, most notably the red-black trees, also called symmetric binary B-trees or half-balanced trees" ... followed by a list of references to places where these other sorts of tree, including red-black trees, are discussed.

So, indeed, you wouldn't turn to Knuth for "red-black tree magic".
This is very popular. There are several products that take ECG samples at timed intervals and submit them in several different ways.

In addition these devices can be used to take 12-lead EKG measurements in transit (e.g. inside the ambulance) and send them to the doctor for analysis before the patient arrives.

I'm very surprised that they're hosting these services on EC2. The company I worked for recently finished building a huge highly-redundant data center specifically designed for hosting this kind of medically-sensitive information. I'm willing to bet it was a bit more fortified than even Amazon's.
On a few occasions, I've taken a program and added a few functions from Control.Parallel, and five minutes later, I had a significantly faster program running on several cores. It was surprisingly easy.

Granted, I was going after the low-hanging-fruit cases, but even so, I was impressed.
It’s similar to if someone in public who is a non-famous figure said something and it was recorded on a phone but not posted elsewhere.
You can’t use the phone recording on the article.
Now, let’s talk about why that’s stupid.

are you happy you pedantic weasel?
In college I would write what I read when that was happening, usually in math.
It does seem strange, doesn't it?

I've heard that it's because the BBC is forbidden from showing adverts to UK citizens, and since they have a little "promoted content" box at the bottom of the page they have to block it from you.

Something along the lines of if they show you adverts, they lose that TV license funding, which would be catastrophic.

I have no idea if that's true, but it passes the sniff test.
Marriage is what you choose it to be. Who says it has to be forever or be considered a failure?

Its just a way to say, ok we plan to be together for a while and we'll share a lot of what we have. Let make that official and even have a contract about it. What is outdated about that?
Robert Martin, to my knowledge, was never a Smalltalker, and received an enormous amount of flack in the Smalltalk community for making a lot negative, uninformed statements about Smalltalk at that conference. Uncle Bob started, by his own admission, as a Cobol programmer and later transitioned into C++ and Java, where he did the bulk of his work in OO consulting and authoring. He only started to branch out into more "exotic" languages a few years ago.
I bet you can't guess what I think about home ownership... ha.

I think we're in agreement. I do know... three people my age who think marriage is a good idea. One is now divorced, the second one is getting married soon, the third is pretty happy. I'm fine with people doing whatever they feel is great, I'm not opposed to other people getting married, just like I'm not opposed to other people doing anything else I find to be kinda silly.

It's just not for me, nor many other people that I know around my age.
Looks pretty cool. In your blog you wrote "Disporia" instead of Diaspora. I guess they're one of your main competitors, so knowing the correct spelling is important.

For inspiration, comparison, pricing plans, you can check out KickApps, Nexopia, Ning, ShoutEm, slinkset, SocialGO, Yammer
I'm curious if whoever downvoted me has read the "We The People Act".

What it does is use a legal trick called "jurisdiction stripping" to take several classes of cases out of the jurisdiction of Federal courts (including the Supreme Court). In particular, it removes jurisdiction over cases involving abortion, same-sex marriage, sexual practices, and establishment of religion (with the exception that if the Constitutionality of a Federal law is challenged, Federal courts have jurisdiction).

This would, among other things, make it so that things like the clause in the Texas state constitution that requires office holders to acknowledge belief in a Supreme Being (and this making atheists and Buddhists ineligible for state office in Texas) legal. Right now, that clause has no effect, because any attempt to enforce it would fall to a challenge in Federal court as a violation of the establishment of religion clause in the Constitution and the 14th Amendment. Under "We the People", no challenge could be brought in Federal court.

It would be OK if "We the People" passed for a State to actually establish an official state religion, or to outlaw specific religions.
Run your own local caching dns server or use one located in europe.

The law requires ISPs to filter their DNS servers, not DNS traffic on their network. If they eventually add the latter to the law, then we can start talking about using Tor to tunnel DNS traffic past the firewall.

The irony at that point will be that Tor was initially developed on a research grant from the US Navy :P
The Wired article says the "X-37 periodically changes orbits". However, the linked article from the CS Monitor (http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0824/Secret-Air-Force-...) only indicated one orbit change.
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This is classic attention seeking behavior by people who have suffered trauma (neglect, physical/emotional abuse, etc) themselves. Their brain is wired differently than a "normal" brain due to the trauma.
What’s the cost that advertising imposes exactly?
Did you mean Asia? The jury is still very much out on Africa, but it's not looking great at the moment:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2236760-we-dont-know-wh...
The article I read on serum suggested that one donor could help two people. No URL, I’m afraid.
This is only tangentially related to the article, but why does any discussion of Rust and/or Go asymptotically approach "RUST VERSUS GO RUST VERSUS GO", or at least have everyone and their grandma chip in on which one they prefer (like this very post)?

I'll admit that I only have experience with the former, but they seem like totally different beasts to me, intended for very different domains / target audiences. I figured that the holy war would be between Rust and the other trendy systems languages (Nim, Zig, Crystal) or between Go and other Web-oriented / glue languages (Java, Python, Perl, et cetera).
I think it's just as likely that the markets will simply stop performing any sort of useful price discovery function, leading to huge misallocations of productive resources -- resources we desperately need right now.
> Niche products become nonviable. If you can't reach out to your customers, they have to reach out to you.

Umm, I think this is largely the reality for niche products right now, with advertising. I don't see ads for niche products, and I don't see producers of niche products paying for ads because a small campaign wouldn't reach the right audience and a large campaign would be too expensive for a niche product.
That is a bit over Rs. 80k per month. That is decent money in India. You can kind of understand the scale if you see that their entire remodeling job cost $14k. In western countries it would be 5x that at least.

Their rent on 2k sqft is approx $1.9k (7.6k savings / 4 month) so that gives some scale as well.
Thank you, for some reason I had a lot of trouble with Google when trying to find this answer. It kept returning results about the video taken by the skycrane, not the rover itself.
And the drivers don't want to be employees or they'd be stuck driving for one company with a set shift.

We need to fix contracting which means fixing access to affordable (ie, the same actual cost the company would pay) medical. The problem for Uber drivers is that the money they make can't pay for coverage because companies get highly discounted rates.
Why not? You don’t have to store the prefix and the UUID in the same column?
But if there is no financial incentive in sex, then isn't it more like just attempting to regulate the private sex lives of individuals? Prostitution is regulated, but there is no regulation (at least in any Western country that I know of), that prevents a person from just going out and having sex with other consenting adults.
You lose your job but then win a big settlement and likely get money out of your role as someone trying to organise labour and getting fired by Amazon. It’s not clear that it’s a bad deal for those who were fired either
My father had a mid-life crisis in the mid 90's, and went from being an avid hunter and fisherman to being a hardcore animal rights vegan. (It was all precipitated by him meeting and dating a woman who worked at PETA)

He was about 45 at the time. Within 2 years, his health had markedly declined. There are healthy vegan diets, but his was an unhealthy vegan diet.

Despite no history of heart attacks on either his mother or father's side, he developed heart disease in his early 50s. This was where I first became aware of the scientific fraud that is the lipid hypothesis, and how wrong it is. The Framinham Heart Study has been a source of data that actively refutes the lipid hypothesis for decades, but the nutritional science community has similar issues to many other organizations with tenured experts whose entire reputation is tied to their theories being right.

My experience dealing with militant vegans is that there is no amount or type of evidence that would convince them that a diet that includes ANY amount of animal products is healthy. It's a religion to them, and that's that.

I was a teen when he converted to veganism, and my encounters with these various activists made me absolutely despise them and their ilk. Truly contemptible people in general, who fully believe the ends justify any means.
> the one silver lining of being "independent contractors".

It should be fairly obvious why employment contracts cannot be allowed to construct an end run around legislation like the ADA (or worker safety, etc.).
I'm British, have read the Economist in the past and a friend of mine interned there. I think "middle class" is bang on to describe their audience, which ranges from aspirational students to working professionals who want a quick news summary with some wit. Not many builders (working), dukes (upper) or Oxford faculty (upper middle) would be caught reading it. It's definitely seen as middlebrow fodder for undergraduates.
I'm gonna do it! Other people please feel free to jump in and help me refine this. :)

Arguably; the 2010's are the first decade I've maybe seen without a serious incident like this I can recall, what with Eminem (and a lot of other rappers) firmly occupying the 00's.

1990's had artists such as Nirvana, Marylin Manson, and the turn of the 90's featured the controversy of N.W.A., Ice Cube, etc.

The 1980's, before the rise of rap in the late 80's; featured the metal movement, with often overtly Satanic lyrics and imagery such as inverted pentagrams. Christians would often gather and burn albums by Metallica, Alice Cooper, etc.

The 1970's continued the themes of psychedelia and occultism that first occurred in the 1960's, and albums by artists like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and (introducing!) Black Sabbath, were; again - super controversial, not to mention the burgeoning punk scene.

The 1960's turned rock and roll into just rock; and you bet your ass those Beatles worshipped Satan, don't ya know! The 'bigger than Jesus' comment would remain in music history forever. The Beatniks and their pill-popping would raise eyebrows all over the world.

The 1950's featured the hip-swinging movements of Elvis Presley, who was certainly corrupting the youth of the time, infusing them with ideas of promiscuous behaviour. :O

That's probably about where I lose the plot, myself. I know jazz was controversial, but I don't know enough about the specific history around it beyond the obvious racial implications.

So you can certainly go back more than 50 years and find one or more of these 'controversy-mongerers' every decade for sure. :)

Outrage has always sold. Outrage goes Platinum. ;)
Why do Americans believe vigilante justice is more inevitable than the citizens of other developed countries?
You gotta learn the rules before you learn which ones to break
When it reach the cap, all your service stop working? This is incredibly user hostile.

Not nearly as user hostile as the possibility of an unexpected DOS on your bank account while you're asleep.

Which has actually happened to people.
I agree, but I think this case is even more extreme.

I'd be surprised if there are more than ~10 people (even on HN) who use the ability of Tasker and Termux to communicate with each other - and I bet those 10 people would be equally happy using some other solution they hacked together.

I think it's the act of hacking a solution together that they like, rather than it being a truly useful thing that can't be accomplished equally well in other ways.
We've continued cleaning deliveries just to be double-safe, but yes I got this rough impression fairly early on. Glad to see it confirmed with more data.
One in 10k per contact is still non-neglible imo.

Everyone can do the math. With 100 contacts to contaminated surfaces the chance of infection grows to 0.01. If the chance to become infected per contact are just 1/2000 with 100 contacts the chances of getting infected are now 40%.

It makes perfect sense to maintain surface hygiene since those contacts accumulate statistically.
He's not literally saying there wasn't any debate. It's an expression. It means everyone already agrees.
This is really cool! I use a similar tool for fuzzy cd[0]. At the moment I'm trying to use broot[1] as my directory browser but I might consider trying this too

[0]: https://github.com/b4b4r07/enhancd
[1]: https://github.com/Canop/broot
Did anyone call this early on

Not in my area. That is, scientists here would beasically say: we don't know yet how well surface transmission works, so better take precautions. Which in hindsight still is the best approach in my opinion. Took a couple of months (IIRC) before it became well-accepted that chances (while existing) were fairly low. Not sure, but 'free and open' debate sounds like you want to have laymen have their say in things like this which is, again in my opinion, a bad idea. Only biologists/chemists/virologists/... have the fundamental knowledge it takes to reason about this without making mistakes. And between them there definitely was a debate, and they came to the same conclusion.
There is sourcecode for both front and backend and the creators linked their names. So check the sourcecode and decide whether you trust the people involved that this is actually the code that is running the site
The title should include [2013].