jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I see this like supporting DOS in 2019 or somesuch. There might be an esoteric reason to do so but when 99% of the userbase has left and the old thing can't support new technologies, saying that we need to support the old thing forever because a tiny subset of users still use it stops meaningful progress. If there weren't plenty of good, modern options I would be all for Links but there are, so I'm not. At some point it's on the user for choosing not to leave their little island of familiarity, especially when the user is technical enough to be using Links.
A company shouldn't be allowed to do some things wrong, just because they're doing a lot of things right. It doesn't make sense.

The actual site is pretty engaging, informative - and involves some interesting navigation widgets.

Fixing the landing page is a no-brainer.
I get bounced to a "please install Flash" page so quickly that I don't get a chance to enable plugins (in Chrome).

http://www.tazo.com/noflash.html
While the monetary cost is trivial, the amount of effort to turn around management is huge. This happens in a lot of corporations, where the best known subsidiary may have a radically different methodology. In this case, it’s Tazo’s approach to the web.

Remember, Tazo is owned by Starbucks, which designs HTML5-featured sites around the iPad. They’re no stranger to a forward-thinking web presence.
Europe is not consumer friendly at all.

Service is terrible, many places only accept cash, more accept debit cards, most don't accept credit cards.

Store hours are terrible.
I must confess that for a moment you got me there.

https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/unix-hoax.html
Just a clarification; I'm not sure that when they (Dish) say "streaming" they mean on-demand streaming. So, everything will be streamed "live" and you will still have to wait until 7:30 to watch Jeopardy or record it if you will be out of the house. :(
That's my take on this too. What should be worrying him is what he already said on Twitter:

>I’m scared of having damaged my relationship with Apple, but it wouldn’t be spreading so widely and quickly if it didn’t resonate with many.

You know where else people fear to criticise an institution? Totalitarian regimes. At least that's how I as a developer perceive Apple lately.
Thanks for that reference, definitely going on my reading shortlist. Aside from Musk it got a great endorsement from Russell, who with Norvig coauthored one of the most well known introductory undergraduate texts on AI.

> Nick Bostrom makes a persuasive case that the future impact of AI is perhaps the most important issue the human race has ever faced. Instead of passively drifting, we need to steer a course. Superintelligence charts the submerged rocks of the future with unprecedented detail. It marks the beginning of a new era.
I guess there's not much to do besides studying and learning new stuff for a young, smart, introvert person in such small communities. The best and hardest working students I knew came from the tiny towns in the middle of nowhere.
You are aware that Roslyn doesn't support F# nor has it anything to do with it, right?
That's the "ingrained in law" he was talking about. The law assumes tipping, else it wouldn't make sense to have that exception at all.
Maybe it's just me but i quite like the dark version (Theme "Darcular"). Nothing wrong with it.
I haven't come across his channel before but from what I saw he has good quality tutorials plus he has 300k subscribers. It is really sad that the combination of quality and 300k subscribers doesn't bring him a decent return.
A few weeks doesn't seem like a long enough test period, as they've mentioned.

Psilocybin creates new neural pathways in your brain. It would have been interesting too see if those pathways were better maintained in the active group, months after the experiment.
We tend to forget that Microsoft ALREADY did what these "startups" did. MSFT already pushed the envelope and changed the way we use technology in our day to day lives.

There is (probably) only so much change one company / person can do. Even if there is additional potential, in the end companies will seek profit and stability.
Haskell was excluded from this benchmark because I can't figure it out.
Yes. I am asthmatic, and one of the daily ayurvedic medical preventive [1][2] that I follow is to take a tablespoon of honey, ginger and lemon every morning.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda
[2] http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-4698/5-Ayurvedic-Morning-Ritu...
It's interesting, but this is more geared towards road tripping than living. There's no privacy really except for the bathroom, which if you are not living alone it would drive you nuts. If he added some walls to the structure, that would have given more privacy and provided a different layout than laying everything on the sides.
yeah, sure, that's true. so what?

i mean literally, so what? do you want to make the money, or not? nobody is going to hand it to you. you have to go out and find it. you're competing with people with no kids, no debt, no spouse, and plenty of savings. tough cookies.

if you don't want to risk it, then don't. going on your own is not for people who sit around all day and think of reasons why they can't do something.
It's a dream to work with when compared with old-style BBS systems. Check out #1984 on EFNet IRC!
I expected this comment.. When I say "beautiful" I'm not just referring to the aesthetics. I'm referring to the user experience design. Good UX helps users be more successful -- we've seen it happen in the personal computing space over the past decade -- and that translates into ROI. That's the theory, at least, that a lot more enterprises are coming around to.
Some feedback:

1. I am not a designer but I could'nt help notice that the footer is way too cluttered. You might want to group them.

2. Dropdown box doesn't work well if JavaScript is disabled. Though I dropdown to Bangalore and hit search, the search results are for DelhiNCR. Ditto for after search results are displayed. Seems to work properly if I change the URL directly though. You might want to degrade gracefully for JavaScript disabled browser settings.

3. Again, not a designer but a map background is not too original and gives me feeling that the page is too busy.

4. Chennai search results are somehow fetching unrelated Jaipur deals. [Searched for Spa in Chennai.] In fact, only the top three were Chennai related I think. And in that, opening up the sasta.com result led to a "more-deals" template page.

5. You might want to geoip and set the default city accordingly.
90s AOL users were technical?
Wonder if diseases are also affected.
On the ChromeOS notebook (and presumably devices that will launch), everything works. Flash requires a click because I want it that way, and full screen works fine (but the screen still dims on a timer, boo). It's actually perfect for web browsing... but that's it. I still need a real computer for music, Amazon VOD, video conferencing with family, and of course work.

Had I not been given one for free I wouldn't get one. It might work for certain people in my family, but so would an iPad, with which it can't really compete.
Arch is also bleeding edge with very little customization on packages. Very different from Ubuntu even if Ubuntu switched to rolling release model.
Why did you chose Flask over tipfy? Because of Jinja2?
Tell us about a couple of projects you did that meant something to you.
I’m no data analyst, but from my experience on various parts of the web Reddit is now often viewed as “cringe” and the term redditor is often used as a derogatory slur (most prominently seen on Twitter, although other sites have similar sentiments) There are more than ever people using Reddit, it’s just that the site kinda has an image problem and no one really wants to “boast” themselves about participating in it.
In Europe there are database rights to consider too.
> walking away from the puzzling aesthetic

This thing looks like straight out of a sci-fi movie. I think the aesthetic is going to get them a lot of sales. If I had use for a car, this would be at the very top of my list, purely based on the looks.
yeah, that's good too.
I probably could have elaborated a bit on this point in the blog post, but I wanted to keep it short. It's a good question though, and it's worth answering.

One of the surprising things we've learned while running Hacker School is the extent to which your comfort level dictates how much you will learn. To learn effectively, you need to be able to ask questions without worrying about looking stupid, you need to be able to admit when you don't know something, and you need to be able to jump into things that are over your head and know that you'll be able to figure them out as you go. Your ability to do all of these things is related to how comfortable you are with your environment and the people in it.

When I wrote about the situations where people build friendship, comfort and trust, I wasn't thinking about pairing sessions (though it can happen there). I was thinking about all the other things you end up doing when you're in the same place with a bunch of people for an extended period of time. Comfort gets built during group lunches, on the weekends, at movies, concerts, in the park, at bars, the beach, etc. Hopefully this clears things up a bit.

EDIT: "talking" -> "thinking" in the second paragraph.
the only reason she is not running this year (in reality she is already running) is that there isn't a presidential election until 2016.
When you were a child, would any of you have believed that one day in the early 21st century, you would wake up in a world where your own government spies on each and every single citizen...

A child with a proper education in history would not have been surprised. Nor would a child with a proper education think it was perfectly fine to have the institution of government so intrusively involved with the education of children.
I like that as well. Or, as mentioned by noiv, we could do:

a(myVariable).is.text

or

a(myVariable).is().text

Either way for me.
I come from a country with a similar system (Ireland). The mechanism isn't inherently any more or less transparent, it just makes the political calculus and incentives different. Tactical considerations are seen as necessary compromises by some, selling out by others.

I like IRV in that it gives voters a greater say over who finally gets elected (though it can often lead to the surprise selection of the least unpopular candidate, to the consternation of the electorate - see Oakland, CA) but I am no convinced it makes politics and governance better automatically.
Free and Reliable to use VPN Proxies for Google Chrome is : http://techfumes.com/free-vpn-for-google-chrome/
Indeed, but I can't remember any occasion I've ever manually typed the whole URL like "stackoverflow.com/questions/1234567/test-here-is-the-title".

One can't be both descriptive and typing-friendly at the same time, so there's always room for URL shorteners and shortcuts ("/questions/1234567", but something like "/~1234567" is better).
Thanks for the reply Paras. Can you share what percentage of your traffic is IE? (and also the breakdown between IE6 - 9)
No, it isn't. Watch it again. If you flee from a hotel, restaurant or taxi without paying for the service, you produce a tangible damage in the form of staff time and other physical resources.

That's in no way comparable to making a copy of a digital work by your own means.
One of the reasons we choose nomad was because it had decent ipv6 support way before kubernetes (and I'm not sure if it's already decent nowadays). See my blog for more info:
https://blog.42.be/2020/11/using-nomad-to-deploymanage-conta...
Genesis, the first LPMUD founded by Lars Pensjö in 89', is still up and has huge Tolkien-based domains and guilds.
Am I the only one who wonders why a dog alone needs lights turned on when it gets dark? Are we afraid canine sleep cycles aren’t as damaged as our own? Or maybe he just wants to read.
Another MUD (and MUX) alumni here, used to play a lot of 3 Kingdoms ( still up at http://3k.org/ ) using TinTin ( https://tintin.mudhalla.net/ ) and TinyFugue ( http://tinyfugue.sourceforge.net/ ) as clients. Also played lots of MUX, specifically BattleTech 3065 ( still up at http://btmux.com/ ).

Once the graphical MMORPG came out and folks started to have broadband and their own computers MUD/MUX usage dropped a ton. The MUD/MUX games were much better setup to play from your shell account on your university lab systems at the time. Even today I'm bummed a MMORPG BattleTech never came out that rivaled the 3065 MUX experience.
Solution to this whole feed. Go get the doc on Apple or YouTube and if you don’t like Amazon just stop using them, I did, and I now save $1000s per month. It’s a win win.
At such big amount of scale of revenues, I'm sure that GTA Online has feature flags that can act as canary deploys or A/B tests groups.

Deploy one hacked version (with the dirty fix / hack for this case) to one group, deploy the standard version to another group, measure the ROI and the crash-rate.

If the results are similar, then you validate permanently the fix and live happily after.

6 minutes to 1 minutes 10 is massive, it will even bring new players to join the game (I don't like to play GTA Online, though it's a great game, just because of loading times).
I don't know what Apple has but people and the media are making out of _everything_ a big thing when it has something to do with Apple.

Stop it.
You're mixing up your concepts, thinking of common carrier status that is used for communications networks. DMCA takedowns were designed so that hosting companies could avoid contributory copyright infringement accusations only. Common-carrier was designed, for example, to prevent telephone companies from being accused of contributing to crimes hatched on their wires.
I can completely understand Arash not wanting Dropbox to be used as a Rapidshare or other similar site - he has every right to enforce his Terms of Service - that's what they are there for, and what users agree to when they signed up (their own fault for not reading it and just now seeing that their files can be removed or their account can be suspended).

My concern is the system they are using for DMCA notices. If it is indeed an automated system, then they are doing things wrong. Yes, have a DMCA notice generated, but someone should physically vet that notice prior to it being sent out - and that should most likely not just be a member of the support staff.

I am also concerned that Arash was using a tool, meant for support staff, that he was not familiar with to perform a mass-removal as well as a mass-DMCA takedown notice when it is obvious any such tool would require him to enter the claiming company name - in this case Dropbox. He should have asked, or been told what is going on with such a tool.
> we've fixed the deduplication behavior serverside

Great, and that's all you should've done in this case.
You know, I really don't understand the rage around this case, or more specifically that it's supposedly all coming from people who otherwise love Dropbox.

So let's examine what you're (potentially) doing by forcing this issue and so on:

(1) Calling down a streisand effect on Dropbox. Perhaps you believe that code is meant to be free to such an extent that this is part of your goal, so, sure.

(2) They clearly have no intention of allowing DropShip to become a common use case. If your Streisand effect results in wide adoption by people who just latch onto your censorship angle, they will have to take rushed action to prevent further spread.

(3) This rushed action could be a technical solution (maybe challenge-response, as mentioned) or a banhammer once they have narrowed down the use signature for dropship.

--

(3a-technical) If it's the technical solution, as it was produced under rapid duress, is buggy. Suddenly, your beloved dropbox starts corrupting your files, or refusing to sync some in edge cases. Oops. Some [paying] users who never even heard about this 'censorship' issue notice this issue and take their business elsewhere, and of course it's less useful to you too as a tool until they fix it.

(3a-technical alternative) It's not a buggy fix because they're supercoders. Still, their team had to put in an ungodly week to make and stress-test the fix; congratulations on ruining their quality of life for a week while still losing dropship.

(3b-banhammer) Well, they figure out how to track people using dropship, and maybe institute a 3 strikes policy (2 emails, 1 ban.) So you stop using dropship after the first email, with a bit of simmering resentment at dropbox; still no dropship. Meanwhile, there are false positives because of course there are; this generates a second, far louder streisand effect, and dropbox again loses some paying customers.

-

In summary: sure, open-source code is meant to be free. But your actions don't exist in a vacuum. At the end of the day, Dropbox is clearly not going to tolerate dropship on its network. Consider whether you would rather keep using dropbox as it is, or shoehorn yourself into basically open war on dropbox unless you can dropship on it.

(Tangentially: it was a neat enough hack, but it still doesn't seem any functionally different than sharing public URLs for the file, with the only differences being that you circumvent the bandwidth limits - again, congrats on fighting the TOS of a service you supposedly love.)
They could still do something. In cases where they have reason to suspect this is going on (which could be based on file usage patterns), they could start asking clients to send the file. Clients that start an upload and then disconnect when asked for the file are pretty much caught red handed, and you could just block their accounts until they upgrade to the next version.
I would tentatively disagree.

You are indeed correct that most Torrent Sites are mainly piracy distribution hubs. However, torrent sites are not indicative of torrent traffic by _Clients_. *

From what I understand, Blizzard uses torrents to spread patches for World of Warcraft. It is also used, I believe, in Steam as well.

* I would also argue that, although copyright violations, transfers of TV shows are already done via the main distributors' websites. Other than where the source is from, I do not see much a difference.

I would also argue that piracy itself is a response to market failure. When it's easier to get working media (notably cracked programs and music/movies/shows) via a 3rd party distribution than from the source, there is _something_ wrong. Many times, it is because of "We wont sell to that country until $later", or "Our antipiracy software wont run on your computer", or it just is infeasible to find it. But essays have been done on this topic alone.
i agree, it is incredible. i just typed voyager 1 into a search engine and got to the JPL's site

http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/
I love Redis and the new features rock! I use Postgres and Redis in tandem and it is a great combo. Postgres for all the stuff SQL databases are good at and Redis for all the stuff they are not.
It’s worth noting that a16z does invest at the seed stage — a lot actually http://a16z.com/portfolio/seed/ although you certainly don’t have to get to them at that stage.
I know people loved turbolinks, but the very thought of it gives me nightmares. That kind of tight coupling between server side and client is everything the modern JS ecosystem evolved to get away from. I can see it being useful in a single developer full stack environment to get something up and running. But any kind of long term complicated application development in that paradigm just sounds painful.
My 16" MacBook has now killed five docks and a USB-C audio interface, including a CalDigit TS3+ and a Dell dock, both renowned for their reliability.

It was not until yesterday when my CalDigit died, then I brought my laptop home and plugged it into my girlfriend's Dell dock and it didn't work the next morning, that I started to connect the dots. I thought the cheap docks I'd tried previously were either DOA or incompatible--turns out the laptop actually zapped them.

Also had to have a MOTU M4 USB-C audio interface replaced on warranty after my MacBook zapped it; assumed at the time it was a random failure.

I would bet serious money we see a class action suit here shortly.
I never said that we should install Soviet socialism/state-capitalism, it's not a good system.

Workers unions in socialist countries were basically illegal, there was only one legally allowed union pretty much. In the Soviet Union the role of labour unions were mostly for the state to resolve interpersonal problems, and in theory to allow the state to receive feedback from employees to optimize production, but not in practice due to dysfunctions because of the broken political and economic framework.
I have been inside a newsroom (for 20 years), and your assumptions are not correct.

Very very very few journalists have time to grind axes for any reason. They're too busy feeding the beast.
Loading the linked webpage on the most popular web browsing device in the world displays their logo with an incorrect aspect ratio. It's pretty obvious that none of these free software zealots tested their software with an iPhone, a device that their target market actually uses.

A refusal to use or promote nonfree software comes into slight conflict at times when developing consumer products, as the markets are captured by nonfree software distribution channels, a tragic fact. You have to be willing to bend your own rules slightly while remaining true to your principles, such as testing your website on an iPhone to make sure it works right when nonfree software users visit it to learn about why free software is better.
Options are standardised contracts. You only have to find someone willing to sell, it doesn't have to be the original buyer. And, most options traders do not actually want to exercise the options; they simply want the cash. It is much easier to sell the contract a day or two before delivery than to come up with cash to buy the shares only to turn around and sell them again.
Thanks! We're continuing to grow the team, and have a bunch of roles open currently: https://jobs.lever.co/framework
You'll have to excuse me, but you're wrong. I mean, sure, it is an OS upgrade. But there's no real "trouble" (it takes about 20 minutes and a few clicks) and there's definitely compelling reasons to upgrade (including running 10.6 specific software). One pressing reason to upgrade: 64bit. Another one: cocoa finder. Also, faster and smaller.

Seriously, I know people who have a reason not to upgrade. You don't seem to be one of those people. Those people are on worse operating systems than you are.
A tv is not a Mac Pro.

Look at the price of Mac mini.
Tesla will survive and they will fix their build quality issues. What won't survive is current TSLA evaluation when other car manufacturers report their RV sales numbers in 2022. And I think that's the reason behind Elon's ninja crypto moves.

I would hold it until Q4 2021 right before the annual reports because I don't want to risk. But I think Q4 2022 is going to be the hardest hit.
When I downloaded the file, it also had the date in the name. You have to accommodate that change in the instructions. Also be sure to run bash -c './redbean.com -vv' (also with the name as downloaded).
So, something that always seems to be missing from these blog posts: what do you do about showering / bathroom? What happens when it gets into cold wintery weather?
I never thought about it, this is a great observation!
At the end of my first balloon flight, the basket tipped on its side on landing. The pilot totally expected this to happen and had already got everyone in a brace position with someone else (typically their partner). The basket also had internal partitions so every couple had something to lean on. The tip over was quick bit smooth, and because we were bracing no-one was thrown around. Immediately after landing there was silence followed by laughter and amused comments as we all tried to disentangle from the unintentional spooning.