jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yes, that's what I said. ;-)

Seriously, though, if you're an American or citizen of a Western country, you should be careful what you wish for. The fact that the Western world still owns pretty much all IP is a huge economic advantage, as long as everyone honors it. And the so-called "knowledge economy" only works if knowledge can actually be said.
every time someone refers me to this I suffer, mostly because it reminds me of old-time optimism for the internet future, the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace.

All we got now is a facebook nation and a lousy web 2.0.
Lesson learned: even if you build an amazing product that basically is magic and way better than anything else out there, there will still be assholes bitching about how you're just not doing enough to meet their inflated expectations.
I don’t think it has anything to do with hype.
Heroku is a great choice to run apps written in ruby. It is the only language they support — with support for node.js coming soon.

GAE, through Java, can run a multitude of languages, basically everything that runs on the JVM. Not every language is a good choice for GAE, but if you want, you can.

You’re right about installing many things on EC2/Rackspace is becoming easier every day. But tuning the system to get the most out of the infrastructure requires advanced knowledge in all layers of the stack. On appengine, you just have to write your app, you don't worry about the infrastructure. It’s a fairly good thing for many people.

With the generous free quotas, you don't have to pay a cent until your project gets some traction, which is not the case with EC2 for instance, because they charge you by the hour and not by the amount of resources used.

GAE is not perfect, but it enables small teams to rapidly launch prototype and iterate until the project takes off. Whether you have 10 users per day or 10M, you’re running on the same stack, built by some of the brightest engineers at Google.
Funny that you mention Tapestry 5 and Howard Lewis Ship. I was recently looking for a fast, stateless, Java based web framework (I liked Stripes, but eventually had to settle for Spring). I came across this SO question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1303438/why-did-you-stop-...

Why did you stop using Tapestry?
Because Howard Lewis Ship is a liar.
Lots of reasons but the main one was breaking compatibility between v3 and v4. Just when we solved all those issues v5 came out and broke backwards compatibility again! Just couldn't go through that again.

Ideally, I would like to have a lean version of maven+jetty+spring to implement a web framework.. which should also be deployable to more heavyweight containers like JBoss. I havent figured this part out. Maybe Stripes is the way.
I remember a similar story from a couple of months ago, and for that reason haven't connected my work email on my phone. I'll only consider doing it if the company starts paying for the phone and the plan. Until then, it's not worth the risk for me.
I use these specific definitions for agile as they are the ones that come up as real differentiators in practice. Of course Agile by itself is virtually a meaningless term that often simply means, "we're going to release more often", but really doesn't say anything about the SLC per se.
Mozy was a big sponsor of a photography conference I attended last year so they definitely want photographers. I use them myself. Backed up a couple hundred gigs without any trouble (it did take awhile though). I don't use external drives so I can't comment on how friendly Mozy works with those.
You saw the part where part of the obesity problem is actually in the developing world right
Insurance companies, lotteries, Las Vegas -- all use similar monetization schemes to what is described here. There have to be a whole lot of "losers" to pay for a few big winners, keep the doors open, etc. I doubt any of them are going away any time soon and I can think of a whole lot of reasons people pay for those things. For example, for fun, for hope during hard financial times, for peace of mind. (Insurance usually claims to be selling peace of mind more than anything else.)

Also, donn, an FYI: rebutting every single comment posted here is a) bad form and b) a great way to make sure no one fucking wants to discuss your piece.
Thanks for catching up on the last 10+ years of nutritional debate, LA Times.

Perhaps the real problem is seizing on one simplistic explanation for a complicated problems ("Meats!" "Fats!" "Sugars!" "Carbs!") and beating on it endlessly, then when that doesn't solve the problem, switching to another simplistic explanation.
...which kind of defeats the point of backward compatibility, doesn't it?
It's not only just one guys take, but there is nothing there but pretty vague generalities. I didn't see a single specific claim, everything was about "processes" in general. And a 20% annual turnover actually isn't unusual for a large, public facing company.
not before reading this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategies_for_Engineered_Negli...
Unrelated, but it's also kind of frustrating to put time and thought into a comment and then to be drive by down voted.

If you disagree with my comment (which in and of itself is not really a good reason to down vote), then please reply with words. I am happy to have a discussion and talk about it. We both might learn something.
"a wedge of silicon" - does the author not know that the green boards are fiberglass or whatever?
No health benefits, really? That should be really easy to verify objectively. Can someone here corroborate that?
I'm pretty sure you didn't bother to check, then:

1. INTRODUCTION
1. By this action, we are finalizing rules to make the unused spectrum in the TV bands available for unlicensed broadband wireless devices.
http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2010/db1025...

I realize it's a large and complicated regulatory situation, but it has been in the news quite a lot this year. I don't see why you've assumed the worst without looking into the factual background at all.
Oh god, so other people have to go to Code Detox as well. It feels so good, finding out you're not alone.
> - Dracula is a one-time-purchase, LastPass follows the terrible trend where everything must be subscription based.

Let's be fair here: LastPass needs to finance storage servers, network infrastructure, security engineers etc.. Dracula needs a CDN for downloads. Of course this is a bit simplified (the author needs the editors and a payment processer, for example), but it's a lot easier to work with a one-time fee when nearly all of your cost is up front and you have basically no running costs.
What you said is absolutely true under the current regulatory regimes.

Its important to note though that significant progress has been made on compact nuclear. It's safer, easier to produce, and can be centrally manufactured and delivered onsite, relieving much of what causes cost overruns. The largest hurdles involve allowing such nuclear plants to be deployed, which requires regulatory change.
The biggest threat to DigitalOcean is that AWS, Google, and Microsoft are all going vertical by designing and manufacturing their own chips. Over times they'll be able to get hardware for cheaper, and also more specialized hardware that uses less power.

DigitalOcean will have to buy CPUs from Intel or Nvidia/ARM at a higher cost, and eventually maybe even from AWS or Microsoft, essentially giving money to their competition.

If DigitalOcean doesn't get into semiconductors quickly, the only two logical outcomes are to either go bust, or to be acquired by a major cloud provider as a low-cost branch, like airlines do.
Worked with Ghalib before - a great guy to work with!
Beating a dead horse never works. Let's try beating TWO dead horses!
Coinbase's real value seems like it'll be its ability to use deposits to provide loans. Big money in banking.
IMO the key difference is that you were getting mail from political parties. I think the correct comparison would be if the US government were sending you mail instructing you on how to vote for the party already in power. There's a big difference between the party pleading its case to you and the government itself endorsing that party. I think Amazon's power over employees makes it more like the latter, although neither is a perfect analogy.

If I had gotten mailers last year directly from the United States government instructing me "how to re-elect Donald J. Trump", I would have been livid. Individual within the company should be able to make their case for why they think unionization is bad, but I don't think the company itself gets a say in this.
That's not what you donate to? You don't donations to the firefox application, you donate to Mozilla. It's not a "pay to get a better browser" scheme, you're donating because you care about their mission, and Mozilla uses that money to further that mission. Firefox does not get funded by donation, it has its own revenue stream and it's been losing money for years, so do you want it to at least not die? Then you'll have to accept that they _need_ money and unless you happen to have a cool few hundred million lying around to sign over directly for Firefox as a non-donation, no-obligations-other-than-it-goes-to-firefox sponsor partnership, this is how hard it is to get money in this landscape.
I didn't make it, but sometimes I write a guide on something (like how to read x-men comics) and want to share it with friends, being able to slap it up in Markdown on a website to link to people is really nice.
One might hope not!
By the time I am done with the syntactic BS, I pretty much forgot what I was doing and why...

Java is just not very conducive to exploratory programming.
You broke the website?

I wanted to red it, but lets install WordPress :o
The Signal Desktop app you are trying to install must be somehow outdated, the desktop apps I use are working perfectly (both GNU/Linux and macOS) and I never encountered this issue. Maybe try to get some help from the community? https://community.signalusers.org/
As a college student, that wouldn't help too much, as it's at most a 15 minute walk walk to class.

And shipping my bike across the country would probably be more expensive than a good pair of running shoes.
When people hear about Microsoft innovating, they think about the Kinect and the Surface, but Microsoft Research is very well respected in academia and constantly creates new technology.

An academic friend of mine frequently tells me that Google et al do not compare to MSR in either quality or volume.
Dunno dude...your team changed from Vuex to Apollo and then from Vue to React...if I were to guess, next year you will be making other changes....is the constant variable here the framework/tech or your team!?
Recommendations related to Security, should start from words "I'm {name}, known expert in IT Security, my works can be found here: {url}".

Otherwise such advices should be ignored.
Time from that matter's perspective. From the outside observer's perspective, it zips right in.

Same way that if you travel near the speed of light your perception of time slows until you are no longer traveling that fast. But to an outside observer you are zipping right along.
Wish the article had more about the creation of Android, and less about Rubin's personal history.
"Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he's more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology"

I certainly got from that that Jobs views philanthropy as the land of retirement for the unimaginative.
They received DMCA takedown notice from github because the user interface https://github.com/libreboard/libreboard/commit/14e6b2fb9149...
From the article:

"People have happily informed me that I am a maker because I use phrases like 'design learning experiences,' which is mistaking what I do (teaching) for what I’m actually trying to help elicit (learning). To characterize what I do as 'making' is to mistake the methods—courses, workshops, editorials—for the effects. Or, worse, if you say that I 'make' other people, you are diminishing their agency and role in sense-making, as if their learning is something I do to them."
It's really bad - the underlying pattern of change is tearing down a bunch of buildings an running big highways through the cities.
No, jury rig is the original nautical term dating back to at least 1788. The term likely originated from French words either ajurie meaning "help/relief" or jour meaning "a day" and joined with the word rig (relating to the ships rigging).

Jury rig literally meant a temporary fix to the mast to support the rigging.

It was likely corrupted in WW2, and I highly doubt it came from the implication of the Urban Dictionary article. The Germans were incredible engineers, and often over engineered their equipment. Jerry rigging likely meant the work that the allied forces did to use the German equipment as some of the earliest uses seem to stem from the airborne forces dropped behind German lines who were under orders to commandeer their equipment. Jerry rig then likely became the phrase for what you did to fix the equipment the Germans sabotaged during their retreat.

I've never read of the Germans retreating and leaving repaired equipment for the allies, so I'd put a lot of money on that being an absolute bullshit claim.
Is that true ?

Whatever controlled freezing method they propose for cryogenics ... although they also propose draining all the blood out first, so ... perhaps that's not relevant ?
> The reason the specification document isn't moving very fast is simply that it's stable

Say's who? To my knowledge, nobody has attempted to build a container platform using the docker spec. For all anyone knows, there's large gaping logic holes needing to be filled. It's simply untested and unproven.

> and already deployed at large scale, via Docker's implementation.

I think you mean to say "Docker is deployed", because again, nobody has tried to implement the docker spec as-of yet.

The docker team spent so long actively avoiding introducing any sort of standardized container specification out of fear someone would come along and eat docker's lunch, that it's hard to believe miraculously overnight you were able to develop a rock-solid specification that clearly addresses all scenarios and is extensible for any 3rd party to implement cleanly.

The docker spec technically has zero implementations, since it was only created (overnight) as an afterthought after your "implementation" was already completed. If anything, the docker spec is an (untested) implementation of docker.

As-of today, the App Container Specification has 3 times more implementations than the docker spec, has far greater adoption, has been refined more significantly over multiple iterations, and has accepted far more community input into it's development.

Let's be genuine here shykes. Your purpose in this thread is to get people talking about docker and cast some shade on the CoreOS team. The very thing you got so upset about when they first announced Rocket and the App Container Specification.
They've been interchangeable since about the 1960's, unless you work in a maritime industry, where you would be correct.
We have computer-controlled braking and throttles now

Couldn't the same case be made for doing your own mechanic work, though? We have braking, which is hydraulic and throttles which operate by wire. There's nothing preventing you from replacing the tried and true hydraulic brakes with something that runs on bluetooth. That would be just as dangerous as messing with the software of modern car brakes. More so, since one would hope modern car software has some failsafes built in[0].

[0]: they probably don't, but I know Sevcon does. Sevcon is a company that makes electric vehicle controllers for EV vehicles. They're popular with the DIY e-motorcycle crowd. Messing with the settings directly affects the power delivered to the motor.
We do have the ability to retain some of the formatting (simple HTML tags) but haven't exposed that over the API yet. We'll update that this week, so come on by a bit later in the week.
Only if you're building your own products that you can sell in a scalable way - not just becoming a larger consulting shop. That's not to say it isn't a good idea -- just that building a business is a little different in most people's mind than a "startup".
Internally, yes. Give a day or two and I"ll add a flag to let you preserve some of the formatting.
If you replaced existing welfare, food stamp, and Social Security programs with this guaranteed minimum income, not only would you break even, you'd probably fix the deficit to boot.

If you're of the opinion that poverty causes crime, you might save money there, too. However, most spending on law enforcement is not federal and having a large population of idle people who can't get jobs might actually increase rather than decrease crime.
There should be an alternate version where he's pointing at something (such as what you're working on) and the speech bubble says "This is shit"
I’m not sure whether a program financed by taxes (either existing tax revenue by cutting other spending or additional tax revenue by raising taxes or both) has to lead to inflation. Could you elaborate on that point?

It’s certainly possible for certain tax increases to affect everyone or nearly everyone and consequently lead to a rise in the cost of living and inflation. Increasing the sales tax would certainly seem to increase the cost of living, making the stipend worth less. That is not the only way to finance such a program, though.
I've attended a few conferences lately, which have been the first "lecture"-like settings I've been in since graduating in 2007. The extent to which fellow attendees felt the need to constantly mess around on laptops and smartphones during presentations was dismaying and struck me as rather disrespectful. The conference organisers even seemed to encourage this by bleating on about twitter hashtags whenever they got the chance, and having live twitter searches full of vacuous banter distractingly projected as a peer to the presenter's slides.

Honestly, I thought I had a problem with attention deficit, but maybe I ain't seen nothing yet.
I think you're right, that Friedman viewed it as a least-evil approach: that, if we're going to have social welfare programs, the least distorting and least bureaucratic approach is to just pay out cash.
Is the bureaucracy of welfare distribution a significant portion of the cost?

The article also argues that people actually have an intrinsic motivation to work (to get nice things for themselves and their children).

If your sole motivation for work is to get nice things for you/your kids, and someone hands you free money, why bother working?

As for Namibia, it doesn't seem that Namibia replaced a welfare system with work incentives by a welfare system without. All they did was create a welfare system. News flash: giving money to poor african villagers can help.
You don't give enough information for a reasonable answer. What's the app for and how do you want to distribute it?

For instance, if your app is intended to go into widespread distribution and make you some money, then the answer is either Android (suck it up an learn Java) or IOS (you should be able to develop on a Hackintosh).
I was more confused by the implication that being a nerd in a Digital Sub-Systems course would somehow make you stand out.
The same article was posted and discussed 4 days ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1894261
He's only complaining about UX, but the bigger problem is that this doesn't actually make things much more secure.

It is already really hard to teach casual computer users about security online. The one thing that used to work so far was "never enter your password on a website you've been redirected to" and "always check the site's identity in the address bar". Verified by Visa redirects you to some website on some random server and asks you to enter your password. There is no way for the user to check it's authenticity.

A much more reasonable design would be to control all sales via your bank's website, i.e. having an inbox with "purchase requests" and approving them through your bank's interface. That would be both secure and very transparent to the user, and the bank could easily control the level of security required (passwords, TANs, ...).
Reminds me of a use of math in rock that was actually calculated: the beat in Queen's "We Will Rock You".

"I mixed all the tracks [...] with different delays, related to each other in length with prime numbers, so there would not be any discernible 'echo'." -- http://www.brianmay.com/brian/brianssb/brianssbsep07.html
...you motivate people by helping them to learn what they're interested in learning and not through gimmicks like a flash mob. If you think you have the ability to 'trick' people into learning then you are mistaken. This is thoroughly embarrassing.

The establishment needs to realize that learning can be enjoyable for people that take pride in it or see it as a way to an end. Edupunks, Autodidacts and the like come from people having real passions and learning how to harness this to learn.
Yesterday google has presented new Nexus S and most probably it will be available for sale in a few days/weeks and it will come with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). So it may be really good idea to wait for it :)
The rumor on the street is that Apple is eyeballing these chips for next gen Macbooks.
"some" means "any":

Bob tells Alice to draw repeatedly from the uniform distribution on [0,1] until her current draw is less than any previous draw, and he will pay her $n, where n is the number of draws. What is the average value of this game for Alice?
And what do you call the attempts to burn down a federal courthouse in Portland, with people inside of it?
I don't think you're crazy, but I think your theory is extremely implausible based on how elections are administered and ballots counted. I sincerely think you would benefit from being a part of the process next time around -- it's kind of fun and you learn a lot.

I'm not sure it's helpful to keep going point by point, but this started because you said the video wasn't adequately explained. An observer says she was ordered to leave the room even though some counting continued. Other people in the room (including other Republicans) describe it differently. Investigators who watched the tape say it doesn't look like anyone was told to leave, but there's no audio on the tape. I'm not sure you're going to get much more of a definitive answer than that.

But there's just a massive gap between "ballots were briefly recounted on video without Republican observers" and any sort of fraud. The tape shows the ballot boxes involved were supposed to be there. And it would require a truly impressive conspiracy to manifest thousands of bogus ballots into the process at this point. It just isn't plausible.
I've been encouraging my social circle to try FluffyChat[0]. I've only recently tried it myself but I would describe the client's I've tried as:

- Riot/RiotX/Element is like Slack on Matrix

- FluffyChat is like WhatsApp on Matrix

[0] https://fluffychat.im/
Most of my contacts (tech-oriented, Europe-based) are using Threema and I am most happy with it, especially because I do not have to share my phone number (or complete address book!). And the new video call capability is also working well. Unfortunately, most of the family is WhatsApp only. Since I will not use anything Facebook, they either have to use SMS or contact me via my wife.
Yep, I remember spooling usenet and email to my Atari ST over a 1200 baud modem over UUCP in 1990, 1991. Bang path and all.

And you're right, the centralization is crazy, and opposite of what techno utopians predicted/promised at the time.
I wonder if many folks who only joined the world of software development after DVCSs (and indeed, just VCSs) became popularized can understand why Fetchmail was not trivial to fork and fix.
Wow, thanks for the info, I've been following HN daily for about 6 years and this is the first time I see a poll.