jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
One might imagine China wants Xinjiang to remain Chinese, just as the US wants Texas to remain American.

Let us construct a hypothetical situation where our geopolitical adversaries (Russia, China, parts of South America) had spent the better part of the 20th century backing equally hypothetical Jihadist (or even Reconquista) separatists in Texas.

Perhaps the situation in Texas deteriorates when separatist Texans return from jihad in Syria, and some more violent fringes, armed and trained by Russia and China through proxies, begin widely-publicized attacks on civilians in California.

Perhaps the most ethical response by the US would be to deploy prisons and security services to Texas, and use technology to monitor potential separatist action within the state. Certainly there would be human rights abuses.

Now who is at fault, truly? The US? The separatists? No, of course not. One could place moral blame at the feet of our geopolitical enemies for encouraging this in the first place, but this is simply the reality of political action.

Just to be clear, what is happening to the Uighur people is horrific and inhumane and absolutely disgusting, but I will not allow this humanist sentiment to be perverted by propagandists to manipulate otherwise intelligent, compassionade liberals into nationalists and xenophobes in the name of maintaining the Western hegemon.

The anti-Chinese sentiment that has invaded the internet over the past several months has gone well beyond 'legitimate criticism of the Chinese government', and now sounds more like a racist, imperialist drumbeat for war. We should all be suspicious when fascists and libertarian capitalists find common ground and call it humanitarian.
I had an RSS aggregator with around a dozen popular news sources like slashdot, digg, reddit etc but I've found that 99.99% of the interesting stories pop up on HN pretty quickly.

So I gave up on news RSS feeds and just have a tab with HN and a tab with a netvibes account with actual blog feeds from the likes of the eevblog, ben heck show, adafruit industries, hack a day etc.. stuff with unique content being added which I was interested in but won't hit HN every time they posted something.
Perhaps, but keep in mind that a lot of these regulations were enacted during times of economic crisis (the original Act was passed during the Great Depression).
Private companies are actors in interstate commerce, so there is a classic constitutional basis for federal regulation of what they do.

http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/Commerce_Clause

Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution enumerates the power of Congress "to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes." The Commerce Clause, by extensions throughout more than a century of Supreme Court cases, is actually the basis for perhaps as much as 90 percent of all federal legislation on all subjects, including subjects not as noticeably related to interstate commerce as security trading. The SEC gained many of its current powers in the aftermath of the Great Depression, which has been taken as a negative example of what happens when there is too little government regulation of financial markets.
Explanatory is a subset of relevant. Furthermore, using a correlated factor as a proxy for the explanatory one is perfectly legitimate if you are attempting to make an unrelated comparison.

(I.e., if "European descent" is correlated with "good home environment" or other exogenous predictors (the data shows it is), and you are comparing EU schools to US schools, it's utterly reasonable to control for "European descent" if data on those exogenous predictors is unavailable.)

As for PPP numbers, the gap often becomes larger when you compare like to like. The same blog did a very good job of this (focusing on not only European Americans, but actually narrowing down to Swedish Americans) a while back:

USA vs Sweden: http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/03/income-distributio...

Swedish-USA vs Sweden: http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/03/super-economy-in-o...
I think the App Store is helping here by introducing people to a huge variety of applications, thus giving them a huge base from which to come up with app ideas later if they become programmers.

So even if someone starts programming at a later age, experience learned with novel apps at a younger age can be helpful.
Apple II Basic at 5.
last time i checked, every single fantasy football site also didn't allow you to borrow money from money sharks to try to bet against on a bad line up.
This is true and I could have worded it better. My point is that with Let's Encrypt coming online soon, Gandi's one free single year cert per domain gets you HTTPS now, and by the time it expires you won't need to buy another.
I don't install much at all on my devices. On laptops, I install my IDE of choice, Emacs, Java 8, lein, node, haskell, ruby, and a few tools I use for writing.

On my android phone, I do install more things: netflix, kindle, audible, music player, weather app, and that is about it. Email and a web browser do it for me.
Get to Silicon Valley. Ask questions later.
What sites are you encountering those ads on?

You could blacklist them, rather than universally denying revenue.
Direct link:

https://archive.org/details/Unix_World_Vol02_10.pdf/page/n22...

And downloading a PDF is great, but I've always found the in-page reader pleasant enough.
Hacker News without orange? Oh my.
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That's an old topo. They have since revised the pitch breakdown and plan. Also, it doesn't end at 19. The top of the photo is slightly foreshortened and low-definition, but if you look closely, you'll see that the topo says 19-Top (i.e. pitch 19 TO the top). There are still quite a few pitches between 19 and the top.

The topo I linked to was drawn up by the guys before they launched off for the push. It should also be mentioned that it deviates from the Mescalito aid route. This isn't pure Mescalito.
Nice...I'm excited to know more about it!
> and you would have absolutely no indication.

Except for your paycheck?
It's a shame I hadn't heard of it until they pulled it out of the app store, are there any similar apps out there?
core.async is a Clojure library and is built with no compiler support.
I switched from ISO to ANSI about two years ago. ANSI is much better imho, once you get used to it (and you will!).
I also have one with greens + o-rings (I work in a shared office environment) and love it.

Some people may think the greens are too heavy, but I love the weight behind the keys.
Everybody starts off writing a textbook thinking that it will disrupt the industry.
Makes you wonder if that also worked for Tesla
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The Smalltalk and Speex logos could be easily turned in something good with some work by a professional designer. Some others are hopeless since there is no idea at all.
You think those are the worst logos? I guess you haven't seen the Perl 6 logo: http://perl6.org/camelia-logo.png
People who think any non-trivial subset of a human language can be rendered inoffensive are fooling themselves.

Here, obscenity with a first grade vocabulary and Disney characters:

I just saw Mickey and Minnie getting Goofy with Pluto.
My girlfriend’s given name is Åsa, but actually changed it by deed poll to Aasa when she moved to the UK to stop confusing people on the phone.
Not sure how it works outside the UK. The bank I was referring to was adamant it wasn't their fault (I pushed hard) but Visa's.
They didn't mean to be rude, but do come across as such, especially for people who are not as computer-savvy. Phrasing things badly can be as rude as a deliberate insult; it signals you don't respect the one you communicate with enough to think things through.

No human working in customer service would get away with saying things like that, computer user interfaces should be held up to the same standards.
Awesome - hope it works out well for you :)

I went on the site and I'm trying to figure this out: are you a developer who works for "Nimble Pros" or did you just sign a distro deal with "Nimble Pros"? I found it confusing going to two "different yet related" websites, seeing the same "Nimble Pros" logo on each (neither obviously clickable), going to the NP website, and then not seeing your name. Or maybe I missed it?
I started writing a comment on this but it got very long, so here:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...
You obviously haven't heard of e-learning industry. These kind of tools are used very regularly by e-learning professionals, and instructors. Sometimes everyday. (How do I know this? I was doing e-learning for a few years.) But this tool faces a stiff competition from established and more sophisticated tools like Adobe Captivate, Camtasia, http://www.sameshow.com/
Any kind of attack can already be filtered by the top tier ISPs around the country, and if it's really serious they'll unplug anything Obama asks them to. I just don't see how any kind of mass internet attacks can be a real threat to the USA.

We've had bad things happen on the internet so many times that we're pretty much immune to them now.
Who decided to have the virtual controls up there on the screen?

It seems A ) it would go against the normal way you would hold the ipad and B ) the controls / your hands block half the screen.

Would it've been too hard to have the controls lower (more natural position for hands) and semi transparent?
> Is there a less crazy functional language you would recommend?

Clojure. It's a well supported and documented dialect of Lisp, which is a fundamentally functional language (though not purely functional), implemented on a platform that just about everyone has access to: the JVM.

The more you can minimize your use of the dot operator (which implicitly means minimizing your dependence on Java libraries), the more you'll learn about functional programming.
>I noticed some rather unsettling job adverts in the past while. Some pre series-A startups in the valley offering like $90k in salary for an experienced developer and 0.05% equity. I am just trying to understand who are their target candidates that they expect to join for such an offer (not to mention crazy working hours)?

I had a similar experience recently. all the "startups" expected me to take a 30-40% paycut vs. the larger places, essentially because they expected me to be excited about their company.

Which is weird, because if the startup doesn't get really big, even if it does okay, nobody is going to care it's on my resume. But the large companies? especially the large companies with a reputation for high standards? they look good on the resume.

Another funny bit is that the same thing, as far as I can tell, is true of contract positions.

What irritated me is that I was going through headhunters... e.g. they were already paying 30% extra for the headhunter - if they just gave me that, I'd have been happy, at least for the first year.

The other thing was that they were weird about money. I talked to one startup and (after an 8 hour interview) they seemed super excited. the person who would be my supervisor gave me his email, and man, I thought I was in. "how much are you looking for?" I named a high number, about 10% higher than I expect to actually get, because that's what I always do. Let them talk me down. I even mentioned my bottom number "a guy who has been working for me for most of his career just landed a job at $x" - but nope, the mood immediately changed; I was hustled out the door and the company went completely dark. no response to the official or the personal emails. I finally got some bullshit answer from the recruiter, where he read back the "why you shouldn't hire me" things I give companies before any interview.

The solution? I ended up getting a contract gig at the large advertising company in mountain view. I'm pretty happy with how things worked out; It's closer to where I live in the south bay, it looks way more impressive on the resume, and I need three people to sign paper before I do overtime.
It's not, IE6 was not standards compliant.
Settle down little froggie. Look at the pretty bubbles!
Ben Wheatley's film adaptation is in post-production now, and is getting a lot of hype from people I know in the UK film/TV industry.

Really looking forward to seeing Jeremy Irons in it!
Interesting, AdBlockPlus in OSX Firefox was blocking them.
Wonder if it helps with dep hell...
Regarding roundabouts I personally find them confusing since they are not common where I live but I wonder if the main benefit of a roundabout it that the curve forces people to slow down instead of gunning through a yellow/red light.
Depends on your perspective. If you think that grabbing source or pre-compiled bits and deploying it, like say, LINUX, you are going to be in for a rude awakening. Not easy, lots of architectural and configuration items to consider. For all intents and purposes you are attempting to build AWS or GCE from scratch. Its going to be complicated. OTOH, if you consider exactly what you are trying to solve for, pick a supported distort and go with that - the big players all focused on different verticals from the outset, and their strengths map to those niches. Many of them are pretty solid from an architecture, implementation, and support perspective. But in no way think that OS is a replacement for VMware...it just isn't.
Whenever I see a non-highway fatality here in the US, it falls under a few categories:

* head-on because someone crossed the center line on a 2-way, 40-55mph road, and they are usually going well over the speed limit

* one of the cars was running the light at a 4-way intersection

* someone pulled out into traffic into a 40-55mph road and was hit
Ah, I see - thanks!
Yeah. They even use incorrect year: San Diego, Calif., December 17, 2004.
Relevant: egg laying mammals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotreme?wprov=sfla1
I agree with all of your comment.
" The core idea of capturing a child's imagination with a learning toy by framing it as an object from the universe of a beloved TV show is a great idea."

What about the political undertones?
The US would be perfectly capable of providing better healthcare to Native Americans if it wanted to. It doesn't want to.
This explains why some people were forcing me to move to signal for the past 2-3 weeks.

Glad I made the transition, you should too.
Nice to see a story about a Third world problem for a change. There are some great lessons for entrepreneurs and product managers here. Ferroni was able to perceive the villagers' (unmet) need and come up with a solution that met that need in a way that dovetailed with their culture and way of life.

Understanding users' needs is an essential skill for product managers. Hence the commonly-given advice to "scratch your own itch" - it's easy to understand users' needs if you, yourself, are a typical user. Creating a product that you wouldn't use is more difficult. You have to step into the user's shoes and understand their needs. It requires empathy and the ability to discard one's preconceptions.

How common are those traits in the average Silicon Valley startup?
People talk about MSIE's massive market share and all that, but I don't think I know anyone who uses it for anything other than occasional testing.

So I really couldn't care less about what MS does with IE, I'll use whatever open standard technologies work in my and my friends' environments. Yes, I'm a software developer (though not of the social website variety).
If an investor quibbles market size its usually due to lack of traction and velocity of traction.
This pattern of circular logic for justification of presence is what enabled aristocracys to exist even in times where they were clearly better options.

I think its a human error to allow such behavior, but one whose results will, given enough time, be detected and corrected.

In the case of monopoly laws its worse in the us than europe, because our legal system only asks you to pay for your defense in the event of you losing the trial.
Is there any reason to assume that merges should be associative? Hell, of the four normed division algebras, only three are associative; just because you can say "operations on octonions should be associative" doesn't mean that you can necessarily create a system of octonions where it's true.

For what it's worth, "git pull --rebase" does enforce a specific order to changes (local changes always happen after remote changes) which will produce the same results regardless of when user Bob pulls user Charlie's changes: regardless of whether Bob pulls change c1 after commiting both b1 and b2 or after commiting b1 and before commiting b2, the final commit order will always be "a, c1, b1, b2".

Of course, if Bob commits and pushes b1 before Charlie commits and pushes c1, the final commit order will be "a, b1, c1, b2", but how could it ever be otherwise?
Abolishing patent system would be an overkill, but shrinking it, say, ten-fold, would help.
more precisely, I believe, the history of the merges counts, not the history of the files per their original edits.
I suspect that the bigger issue is that the wider range of topics, the fewer hackers will be as a percentage of all users, and that will precipitate a further slide into general news.
Forgive my ignorance, but a mason jar can withstand temperatures of 200+ without shattering?

I kind of feel bad asking this bc I have lived my entire life in the south (Dallas, Texas) so I feel like I should already know the answer; yet I don't.
When I was a kid, we lived regularly on a camping ground during the summer. There was an older couple with a beat-up bus they had converted - They drove happily through Europe with it, so I guess it's viable to some people!
Its this kind of out the box thinking and guts to follow through with your idea that makes a true difference in this world.
Not all of them - in particular, "on-the-fly reconfiguration" and "adaptive media streaming" sound like useful webserver functionality, although it's hard to tell without more technical details (the absence of which is somewhat grating).

Clearly nginx has gotten along fine for years without any of these features, but there is a difference between features that are missing because they're not ready yet or a bad idea, which usually have some sort of best practice workaround, and features that are missing because you need to pay. Although Nginx theoretically has a strong incentive to maintain a strong open source version and not make the limitations too onerous, open core doesn't have many success stories in practice. And there's a big psychological difference between "best of class software" and "intentionally limited software".

To reply to one of the children commends, the idea that Nginx does not owe its users anything is a red herring: it doesn't, but in the so far, hypothetical situation where nginx starts to unacceptably resemble crippleware, neither do the users owe Nginx the continued use of its product rather than a competing open source alternative or fork. Your own question, whether it's philosophically better for Nginx to be able to make money this way, is probably the better one to ask. I don't know. For such a popular piece of software, there are certainly potentially viable business models that do not depend on making users pay for features - for example, there are probably numerous companies that depend on nginx enough to employ its developers to work on it, like Linux or Python; alternatively, support (including hotfixes) from the original authors of the code is really valuable, and might make the product worth it for many users on its own. But without that hypothetical situation actually occurring, it's unclear that there will be anything really wrong with this model in the long run.
For those who find this new baffling: Uber operates in the following cities:

1 AMSTERDAM
2 ATLANTA
3 BALTIMORE
4 BERLIN
5 BOSTON
6 CHICAGO
7 DALLAS
8 DENVER
9 DETROIT
10 HAMPTONS
11 HONOLULU
12 INDIANAPOLIS
13 JOHANNESBURG
14 LONDON
15 LOS ANGELES
16 LYON
17 MELBOURNE
18 MEXICO CITY
19 MILAN
20 MINNEAPOLIS
21 MUNICH
22 NEW YORK CITY
23 ORANGE COUNTY
24 PARIS
25 PHILADELPHIA
26 PHOENIX
27 PROVIDENCE
28 ROME
29 SACRAMENTO
30 SAN DIEGO
31 SAN FRANCISCO
32 SEATTLE
33 SEOUL
34 SHANGHAI
35 SINGAPORE
36 STOCKHOLM
37 SYDNEY
38 TAIPEI
39 TORONTO
40 WASHINGTON D.C.
41 ZURICH
As Chris mentioned elsewhere: In user.behaviors (ctrl+space, user behaviors), adding an element to my current editor vector activates vim mode:

:editor [:lt.objs.editor/no-wrap
(:lt.objs.style/set-theme "default")
:lt.plugins.vim/activate-vim]

Instead of this, you can write :lt.plugins.emacs/activate-emacs to activate emacs mode.

Note that this page has nice completion-matching--for example, if you delete the interior of the string "default" you can see fuzzy completions, and putting the cursor within a keyword will explain what setting it's bound to.
The phone was too expensive and the risk too high that at the time it is delivered it would be outdated.

Here in France we have a company configuring and selling wiko smartphones (made in china) which are very cheap for their capacity.

Offering Ubuntu on such cheap phones could be a better way to get adopted by the Ubuntu community that doesn't have the money to buy Apple or windows computer. People would be much more forgiving for some software flaws or glitches.
It seems reasonable to expect the same conditions for the other 4 "Five Eyes" countries [0], too:

- Australia

- Canada

- United Kingdom

- United States of America

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement
Actually, Russians are quite pragmatic, as most other xUSSR people. So this is a rare counter-example, I believe.