jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Your question's been well answered by ars, but often the next question is: how dangerous would it be to people on earth if it broke? The answer is not at all. As lutorm points out the cable would be vanishingly thin - there would be a lot of gentle drifting and no firey death from above.
I think you misunderstand. By default, Gecko enables just the common ligatures. But this page has the following styles:

div {
text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;
font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;
-webkit-font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;
-moz-font-feature-settings: "liga", "dlig";
-ms-font-feature-settings: "liga", "dlig";
-webkit-font-feature-settings: "liga", "dlig";
-o-font-feature-settings: "liga", "dlig";
font-feature-settings: "liga", "dlig";
}

The text-rendering style enabled optional ligatures. The font-variant-ligatures style enables the use of OpenType "liga" and "clig" ligatures, but then the font-feature-settings style overrides that with "liga" and "dlig" (discretionary ligatures). What that means depends on how your font designer flagged their various ligatures, of course, but the page is explicitly opting into more than just common ligatures.
Excuse me but C++ is only vastly superior of C if you are a C++ programmer and do not know C. I am a C++ programmer, and I would never make such a claim. And for time and space efficiency? That doesn't make sense.
This discussion about the foundation of society is like two people arguing whether the foundation of life is evolution or sunshine. The only real point of contention is how to define "foundation", and any given answer will stem from ideology, and will therefore be worthless.

Thanks for that Amazon link--looks interesting.
He gets sentenced to prison, which is inconvenient, unless you don't have any space for him, then he gets sentenced to hammering (exactly what it sounds like), which is what kills or maims him, but it is possible to survive. Giving important dwarves (or just-sentenced ones) armour, removing Urist McHammerer's hammer or replacing it with a nonlethal one, or just walling him up somewhere are all viable strategies to keep important dwarves alive, but kill^H^H^H^H arranging an Unfortunate Accident[1] for troublesome nobles is arguably easiest.

[1]http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Unfortunate_accident
This looks fantastic. Great work on the documentation too!
Okay, I'll go against the grain here and sign up for scrutiny:

I probably regularly profess my love for python, and I'm prone to hyperbole (plus I love the word 'ridiculous') so I could totally see myself making that statement.

So now, do I know it well? I dunno, not that well I guess. I've been doing it full time for four or five years now (after a decade-plus of other languages), I imagine I'd rank pretty competent in an average shop and "lots to learn" over at say, Dropbox. I have definitely worked with it enough to be exposed to loads of it's shortcomings and flaws though. I still love it. Just like with people, love is a decision I re-make on a continual basis. I sign up for the less ideal bits because the good bits make me really delighted and "just fit".

So anyways, yeah.. I know it's popular to be the "I don't care, anything works, best tool for the job" person, but I'd prefer not to write any more Java code anytime soon if I can avoid it. I guess I'm not that kind of awesome-flexible.

Now as for employers, even I might take this as a negative signal. I love python, but hiring in one's own image on that vector seems a little strange... unless there's a really good reason a passion for python is important (like, I dunno.. Maybe the position is for the python team at NewRelic? Anywhere the company's future is pretty latched onto the language specifically).
Very untrue. I've already seen exactly the same approach in CPAN several years
ago, so it can't be the biggest thing in recent 40 years. It's not that
brilliant, either.
They say how they do it: Hire smart people that match with our philosophy. And that might be all you can do.
I used to be similarly pedantic with English. But a few years ago I converted to descriptivism[0], and I've been much happier ever since. :)

[0] http://english.blogoverflow.com/2012/10/prescriptivism-and-d...
Oh, it's worse than that. The best evolutionary strategy for animals seems to be evolving into humans' pets, human food, or scavengers of human waste... Other can survive -- with human help -- by serving as entertainment.
My favorite question on YA

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090226170437A...
A surface typically means a 2D image buffer managed by an API.

For example, a graphics API like Metal or Direct3D lets you create surfaces that reside either in GPU or CPU memory.

Or, an OS-level interprocess API like Apple's IOSurface lets you create shared surfaces that can be accessed by multiple processes.
Aren't all of these handled by a queue and some reasonable sense of going through it slowly? (I can just say that on the internet, I know designing it that way is not exactly trivial).
I'm a vegan and I could give a crap how we ate 100k years ago. It has no bearing on building a contemporary diet conducive to health optimal health and pollution related outcomes.

Given trophic levels, meat takes far more energy, land, and clean water to produce. Population studies repeatedly show that large amount of meat consumption leads to individual and population health issues. The same is true of sugar and alcohol, I readily admit, and assume kinds of meat don't require as much energy.

We are fishing our oceans to extinction, destroying essential natural area to grow soy and corn which we then waste 90% of as cow feed.

There is no amount of persuasion that could make me go back, unless the laws of physics are rewritten such that eating meat reduces the amount of atmospheric carbon.
If such a simple opinion "pushed" you into the unions-are-bad camp then you were never on the fence in the first place.
> I thought corporations were taxed on profits and not assets? How do tangible/intangible assets factor into this?

Company transfers intangible asset to subsidiary in Delaware, "trademark or naming rights"[0], its locations elsewhere pay the Delaware subsidiary for the use of those rights, lowering their profits(?), and the Delaware subsidiary doesn't have to pay tax on that income and resulting profit?

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/10/dont-bl...
One hopes that the author didn't need me, a stranger, to tell them that this site is missing most of the fundamental features of a shell. Feedback is valuable, but strangers aren't going to visit something that clearly doesn't work a second time to see if they're making progress. There is a reason that early testing and feedback on prototypes is limited to in-house or pre-existing customer review. The author is entitled, and even encouraged, to ignore me--but my feedback is that they should have waited until they were closer to their goal and general feedback would be more valuable than hundreds of copies of "it doesn't work".
... now can you make it work the same over telnet? :D
> Both your proposal (corp rate of 0%) and the objections to your proposal (that individual income will be shifted onto corporate ledgers) are already extant, and addressed, in US tax code.

Fair point, but then why are US companies still parking their profits off shore?
Well, regardless of the topic at hand (the point about brain-size shrinking when eating plants certainly sounds interesting), already the infographics are full of obvious typos ("Domesticsted", "Larg prey") which suggests shoddy editing at least. While that made me chuckle a bit in the context of "brain size" it also leads me to not giving to much credence to the quality of the rest of the text (which I cannot really judge on its merits because it's outside my area of expertise). I do tend to refer to the Gell-Mann effect [1] in instances such as this though...

However, if there's anyone here who has expertise in this area, I would certainly be very interested to hear what they think. Let me ask more plainly: Should we all ditch salad and go back to eating "bone marrow and brains" tomorrow?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
Re-enable displaying upvotes. It's a great way to see what others think of a certain comment. Without it, considering topics I don't know much about, it's more difficult to know if I'm looking at brilliant insight or FUD.
For me the amount of votes did matter - it gave you a quick idea as to where some of the most important comments were within the thread. Also HN seems to having far lesser activity - this someone with actual data might want to check and get back
This is an interesting question. Thanks for the link here to a recent comment by pg on how karma scores are looking on various individual comments.

In sizing up what this means, let's all review together the stated reason for the experiment, expressed in a thread-opening post by pg titled "Ask HN: How to stave off decline of HN?"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403696

He wrote, "The problem has several components: comments that are (a) mean and/or (b) dumb that (c) get massively upvoted."

How do the highest-voted comments visible in the bestcomments list

http://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments

look to all of you recently? Are there fewer mean comments than before? Are there fewer dumb comments than before? Are the comments that are "massively upvoted" since the experiment began mostly comments that are reasonably kind and well-informed, helpful comments on the whole? In most of the treads you visit, do helpful, thoughtful comments seem to rise to a position of prominence, while mean or dumb comments gray out?

A link and comment in the thread referred to by the edit on this submission largely sums up the back-and-forth about visible comment scores as a signal on comments in active threads:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2465357

>> Please bring back the comment scores. It helps a lot in parsing the comments and assigning a proportional weight to each when reading them.

> I had to think about this a bit, and I disagree so far. I'm finding that I'm not pre-judging comments as much. It's nice to be able to read someone's comment without knowing first that 70 or 80 or 3 other people thought it was worthwhile.

My impression too is that even with comment scores not visible, it is still convenient to browse threads to find thoughtful, informative comments, but now there is less anchoring bias

http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/a/anchoring.htm

of most votes on a comment converging to one score level that shows up early in a thread's development, and more engagement by readers of HN in actively reading comments and upvoting (or downvoting) based on each comment's characteristics in light of the context of the thread.

But the main criterion of the experiment is to "stave off decline of HN," and that is what will decide if the experiment was successful. For that every reader can help by actively upvoting informative, helpful comments, and also by downvoting comments that are either mean or dumb--and especially comments that are both. As I recall, the experiment has also involved some changes in the effects of flagging, so flagging inappropriate comments is also helpful.
Exactly. Transportation infrastructure produces benefits far beyond the direct benefit for those who choose to use the system. There are environmental benefits, congestion benefits (reduced road usage), convenience benefits, etc.
One idea I really liked from the previous discussion on this was to hide the Names of all comments for a few hours.

This way comments really can be voted on their merits rather than the fan club of the commenter.
> What is it that MS is actually trying to do?

They're trying to prevent Windows from becoming the COBOL of operating systems.
The reason it's hard to take slow typists seriously as programmers isn't that typing speed affects your ability as a programmer; the issue is that it speaks to how much time you've really spent in front of a computer, actually writing programs. I've never met a slow typist who had written gobs of code (good or bad).
At work, we use our pet names for physical servers, and city names for virtual servers (and my partner always gives me grief over truth-or-consequences). One problem we found is that we now have to maintain a mapping of city names to customers, so moving forward, we're naming our virtual servers after customers.
Message passing, and pattern-matching on the message structures. Learning to use message-passing idiomatically is a huge part of programming Erlang.

Erlang is arguably more OOP (in Alan Kay's sense) than something like Java or C++, as it more directly implements late binding and message-passing.
Did a manager at a grocery store have the same amount of responsibility as today? My guess would be that today being a deli manager just means that you need to follow your chain's rule books. In 1985, with more independent stores and smaller chains, a manager had more responsibilities, and thus her contributions were more directly related to the store's profit than today. Thus a good deli manager is worth less than she used to be (and the really good people should work where they contribute more value, like creating the rules for deli managers in a chain).
It's going to be strange to live in a world where there is no longer a double-digit percentage of poor people. There may still be pockets of poor in areas at war or under very dysfunctional regimes. But poor continents or regions will be things of the past. It's so incredibly different from anything that has happened before in all of recorded history.
Hmm, let see, all my family's back in India, so a whole day on the internet with my reader feed running on empty. Close to zero posts everywhere except HN today.
I agree. How many people in the bottom wealth quintile earn $200K+/year? Probably not a great portion, but definitely not zero. When Americans think about "wealth" inequality, do they consider the distribution of asset levels, or the distribution of income and the implied potential to accumulate wealth at various levels?

Perhaps the ever "improving" social safety net reduces the risks associated with having no wealth (savings)? Another commenter noted the woman who, with her 55" TV in the background, complained that she could not afford to pay to heat her home. I'm sure there's some governmental program (or some government-mandated assistance from the utility companies) waiting to help her out.
it runs on node.js (a server side software), not a browser. So no need to worry about hijacking someones ip.
Build and use is enough for most people.

But of course things would be very ambiguous in terms of how much means "meaningful modification".
http://lifehacker.com/5657283/how-to-make-your-own-open-sour...
Don't know too much about the rates, etc, but you can look at:

http://www.quora.com/What-are-Dropboxs-major-competitors
http://venturebeatprofiles.com/company/profile/dropbox/compe...
https://www.jungledisk.com/personal/desktop/pricing/
The interviewer was rather bad. She held it together though. Good job!
Here is my request: Let me filter! Meaning, when I am searching for Apps, I don't want to see Music. This why is this not the default behavior?
I think it's fine the way it is.
Cincinnati's got a great startup scene.

What skills are you bringing to the table?
This is so cool. I'll be picking one up.
Their website is still up: http://www.detachedsolutions.com/mirageos/

From the ticalc.org page, "Ranked as 2 on our all-time top downloads list with 1003409 downloads."

Over a million downloads over its lifetime, that's incredible. I never realized just how large the calculator homebrew scene was in its heyday.
SEEKING WORK - AU - SYDNEY - REMOTE

iOS Developer - Objective-C & Swift

I love everything iOS and that's what I know best. I have worked on a couple of high profile apps and have created numerous MVPs for clients.

Résumé: Available on request

Github: https://github.com/safetyscissors

Contact: jason@safetyscissors.co
If you’re looking for an alternative approach, I built this Add To Calendar Ruby Gem[0] which generates URLs for all the common Calendar platforms. There’s also this reference repo[1] which helps explains how to build your own and lists some other libraries in various languages.

[0] https://github.com/jaredlt/add_to_calendar

[1] https://github.com/InteractionDesignFoundation/add-event-to-...
Imagine you are a hiring manager at Lockheed Martin, and you have two candidates' resumes in front of you:

One has a bunch of certifications, a TS/SCI with polygraph, a list of skills/technologies that overlap strongly with the ones you are interested in, work experience with your biggest customers (responsible for 85% of revenue), but only has very vague information about what he has done specifically. Everything looks like a good fit, but it is hard to tell for sure because of the vagueness.

The other has an excellent, detailed, resume listing several jobs in the purely private sector. Even though he has worked in large enterprises, they weren't DoD and so the technology overlap isn't quite as good. But by and large you think he'd be an excellent fit based on the projects he has undertaken so far.

It will cost you six figures and take at least many months to get the second candidate security cleared, which will be necessary before he can start working on the project you have in mind. He might fail to get cleared in which case you will have to start all over.

Who do you interview first?
And continuous integration with simulation and testing. Then computer assisted planning and resource allocation for implementation of selected laws.
Several people have said "I would never hire you"... but you see, that isn't an insult, that just shows the list is working. Every single item on this list is about respecting employees and the work. Every one of them is about making me more productive when working for you.

So yes, please don't hire me if you're just going to then turn around and wasted my time (by making me work on windows or Linux on the desktop, for instance.)

I understand compromise and working with reality-- and the reality is no company may be able to make all the points on this list. That's why it's facetiously called the "Prima Donna" list.

But if you're not interested in facilitating good engineering then I'm not interested in wasting time TRYING to work for you.
Short answer: No.

Long answer:
The Surface 3 Pro had an SSD that could in theory be upgraded, but it required some serious disassembling to pop the display off, and even the ifixit guys couldn't pull it off without breaking at least one screen.

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft+Surface+Pro+3+Tear...
is anyone aware of a sentence segmenter for poorly written english that is missing some punctation? like from chat sessions? it could be useful for normal sentence segmentation. i.e. if you forget about the punctuation, can you detect the boundaries of the sentence anyway.
The benchmark section in the README clearly shows the echo router to be the only one of all benchmarked routers that has exactly 0 allocations per request.
No, but his team was also on the receiving end of policies like only using Enigma data for certain events. He knew of attacks that were probably avoidable that led to significant casualties. We can play the moral card all day here.
The most interesting part of this is the "Dash Replenishment Service" linked at the bottom of the page. Looks like they're building APIs to insert the service back-end into appliances - they give an example of a coffee maker that automatically orders beans when it runs low.

They list several partners who are going to release products using it - Brita water filters (buys new filters), Whirlpool washer/dryer (detergent), Brother printers (ink/toner) and Quirky who seems to have several products that all re-order consumables.

Looks like Amazon's investing heavily into the "Internet of Things" with this.
I wonder if they're pulling a Gmail by announcing this on April Fools Day (it's April Fools Day somewhere, right?).

(Like most stuff coming out of Amazon, I can't actually tell if this is a good idea)
Why not just post as show HN? If there's a nit, it'll be picked.
Not all email clients display images by default, and I could easily see this being bypassed by caching the images.
Thank you, that means a lot! :)

I plan to publish the source code with step by step instructions on how to build and host your own instance. Publishing the source will require some cleanup/preparation, I'll get to it as soon as possible. I never really thought that someone would even want to look at the source xD

It's nothing fancy, really, and every library used is noted on the about page[1], as well as third party services such as the one used to transmit SMS for account verification.

[1] https://20-things.com/about
Thank you for sharing your journey. A few of the comments left make me sad.
Nah, not anymore. SSD and RAM are soldered on the motherboard in newer Macbooks [1]. And you can't even swap parts in iPhone 12 unless you reprogram their EEPROMs [2].

[1] https://www.ifixit.com/laptop-repairability
[2] https://youtu.be/FY7DtKMBxBw
Yes but Google blocks browsers that don't belong to the group of "large" ones for "security" reasons:

https://developers.googleblog.com/2020/08/guidance-for-our-e...

https://security.googleblog.com/2019/04/better-protection-ag...
You’re intentionally not getting it. I don’t know how to make this clearer than what I wrote, especially as you haven’t actually responded to what i wrote.
Is the performance of the JVM/PostgreSQL/NGINX on OpenBSD the same as on Linux? Are there any reliable OpenBSD VPS providers?
Thanks for the response. I'm looking for a more comprehensive way to learn it though.
Found a random improvement:
Kraken 1.1 benchmark runs faster now.

Improved from roughly 760 to 700ms on my 5800X.

Still ways to go to reach Chrome at 560ms
Everything you listed except for the status bar can be gotten by customising the UI in Firefox (not single-click but pretty easy).

On the other hand, if this is the kind of approach to UI you like personally, I think the Vivaldi browser would be up your alley (sadly not open-source though).
Some level of targeting is necessary, for example it clearly makes no sense for a typical restaurant to advertise globally.

The interesting question is much tracking adds on top of simpler targeting based on location and context.
The words parroted where a confirmation of social alignment.

What people were investing in was a sense of belonging/power and/or the belief that the short sellers could not exit their positions. Some knew that they could ride it up with the hype then cash out near the top and short it on the way back down.

Those sentiment towards the new CEO and a change of direction was valid but that’s a big gamble at $400 a share. That said I find any sort of investment that doesn’t generate income in the short to medium term odd myself.
Real money is in merchandising. Demon Slayer is big out here in Taiwan.. every kid has pencils, erasers, buttons, shirts, pencil cases, backpacks.. the animators are seeing none of that money yet they are a core part of why the show is successful.

Too many predatory gatekeepers offering dream jobs to kids who don’t know any better. It’s not just anime. In music, you got acts with albums in the top ten albums of the year lists with millions of plays making like hundreds of dollars per year on Spotify, same people are on tour each year in the red financially after being on the road. The economy isn’t kind to the creators who entertain everyone.