jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
https://moneyfyi.wordpress.com/2013/11/15/5358/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_bath
Move on with this 1M lesson and build something worth a 100M :)
I have been there for about a year and based out of Hyderabad.
As I use my Ubuntu desktop to actually get work done, I'm quite terrified about installing this release.

I'm not sure I'll upgrade for a while yet, I want to find out what the general consensus is first.
Ah yes, but that's a slightly different feature to the one demonstrated by the author (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=gw...). However that's not to say that the vulnerability you raised isn't also a serious one developers need to be mindful of.
Do not replace the logic board a 4th time. Any Apple store manager is authorized to replace with a brand new 2014 model after three repairs especially for 2011 model owners. I just got my brand new replacement last month.
Or the Cathode Ray Mission from Videodrome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJzbgfaFANg
Kudos. That is perhaps the best reasoning I have ever seen for this comparison. I agree totally, though I don't think most people who make the comparison are thinking along the same lines. I think they generally just mean "compiled, GC, no generics".
Also here is a nicer version that still triggers the bug
http://www.pastie.org/private/8a48wgmcuuhjjwbupbk3g
That is a bad news. If the movie industry succeeds in getting rid of privacy, the prices of Netflix subscriptions, BR disks, movie tickets, etc. will go way way up ... And those money won't go anywhere near the artists and other content producers. Plus ppl will be unable to use free software like Linux and Firefox to watch movies.
Great points, but I think you misunderstood it. The way HN rank them is the exactly same. The different is in presentation, points in comments are hidden while in stories aren't.

Can you elaborate why comments and stories are 2 different things? I think stories are just like comments but presented in different websites.

Maybe HN should allow users to downvote stories as well? Since some are complaining about their quality.
More apt would have been that it disables your iphone temporarily until a factory reset or restore is performed. Saying it bricks it causes me to think back to messing up the flashing of firmware on a device and the device never working again.
Of course, this is the release that changes the desktop interface around quite a lot. I'm a bit hesitant, although this answer in the FAQ was soothing:

No problem at all. You can choose to launch the classic desktop experience when you log in to your computer.

Not sure if this really means that the choice has to be re-made on every login, or if is remembered. Anyone?
A short list of whats new in Ubuntu 11.04 - http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/whats-new

And features - http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/features
Another thing Hong Kong does that's awesome, is interchanges.

Typically two adjacent lines will share two stops in common.
The first will be designated to transfer in one direction, and the second for the opposing direction.

They arrange these transfers so that your next train is waiting on the opposite side of the platform.

London is never going to be able to do that.
Similar to https://onetimesecret.com

OSS which you host internally.
I'm guessing you love the way healthcare currently works in US. So many choices! Who doesn't love a combinatorial explosion?
Java beats Scala, and many other languages, in readability and maintainability. Java has a lot of best-practice conventions developed over many years of pain on how to make the code as readable as possible. The functional languages need these guidelines even more than Java does, but they seem to lack them. It's really easy to write insanely convoluted unreadable code in Scala.
Something's fishy here. At the very end you highlight the text field, but then you paste into it and something else (not what was just highlighted) goes in. The only time I have ever seen highlighting automatically get stuck into the clipboard (rather than the primary buffer) is when something like Glipper, Klipper, or Parcellite is screwing things up.
Being unpredictable, the conservative approach would be to look at worst case scenarios. So far I haven't heard much and would be interested in these predictions as well.
Easy to apply these policies only now that he lost the election.
Sure. He's violated twitter's rules numerous times. This is as good of a time as any to actually enforce their rules.
And when effectively no users opt in to advertising, how does the search engine stay in business?

A few years ago my response to this would be that I'd gladly pay Google $10/year for access to Search without adverts, but over the past couple of years that's changed. Google have become so utterly terrible at handling customers that I no longer would. I'll only use Google services if they're free. The idea that Google might just kill my account without notice leaving me with no access to search would be catastrophic.

I would gladly pay a different search engine company for access to a good search service though.
I've been given a round of applause for pronouncing the correctly at the start of a workshop I was giving in North Wales, especially since I'm not only not Welsh, but not British either.
What does project ownership mean to you?
Yes but apples_oranges suggested that deleting cookies was an alternative to more complex/advanced technical solutions.
That's why I used the word "stereotyped" at the beginning. And why I said it's possible to have both ways (and multiple ways) of looking at things -- and indeed the best programmers do have both.

I do think that most people have an natural disposition toward one way of thinking, and trying the "opposite" way of thinking is a great way to improve.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide#%22In_whole_or_in_par...
Correct -- the RNG output does not reveal anything about its input, just like the output of a strong cipher does not reveal anything about its input.

djb has a good article on the subject: https://blog.cr.yp.to/20170723-random.html

I've implemented his "fast-key-erasure CSPRNG" in Go: https://github.com/lukechampine/frand
I am so sad I will never see Chick perform live again, but mostly I'm sad the world has lost such a genuine, kind, decent, man and great artist who brought light to the world.

The first time I saw him live at Yoshi's he performed with a combo of young musicians and you could see by the interactions on stage a deep mentor/mentee bond between them.

Twice at Weyl Hall with Bela Fleck. Aside: you should take the opportunity to enjoy live performance here when life returns to normal. The first time Chick and Bela both expressed wonder at what a great venue this is. Some are calling it the Carnegie Hall of the west coast.

In Santa Barbara with Herbie Hancock everything about that performance of two real artistic geniuses was amazing. (A very overused word today, but in this case appropriate.) Their opening piece started out with avant-garde chaos which gradually morphed into extraordinary beauty. The rest of the show built on that, ending with an audience participation rendition of Spain.

RIP
Read the book On Writing Well by William Zinsser.
Its scary how much those cubicles resemble some work from home setups.
In case anyone else had trouble locating it, the relevant portion of the linked Twitch stream starts at about the 36 minute mark. I couldn't find a time anywhere, but realized I could binary search it from the fundraising total listed in the screenshot on the second page.... Now that I've said this, someone will no doubt point out a really obvious thing I missed.
Your last sentence struck me as really summarizing the difference in the product/market strategy of Apple vs Microsoft:

great vs good enough

aka

premium experience vs lowest price
I can't see a mix that doesn't dilute one or the other

There's no reason to be pessimistic at this stage. Fivethirtyeight did some coverage of the UK election for The Guardian (major British newspaper) and it wasn't particularly diluted that I noticed.
The oft echoed sentiment "if you're feeling $EMOTION, just stop feeling $EMOTION" isn't insightful advice or good advice. It's a naive solution repeated by armchair psychologists and, frankly, does more harm than good.

"Abused by your father? Find yourself lusting after children? Hey, just stop! It's that easy!"
I didn't say I'd rather fund Chrome projects, but that it seemed Chrome might do more to protect us from an Apple monopoly on smartphone apps than Android.

The more powerful Chrome lets browser-based apps be, the less developers need to build native apps to do what they want. At the limit of that process, the iPhone and iPad are merely beautiful devices that run browsers. Safari, of course, but if Chrome took the lead in adding features to browsers to let apps do more, Safari would have to follow suit, however grudgingly.
"As a student this represents a substantial portion of my income so I am sure you understand how important timely payment is to me."

This is the first line in the original poster's response I've noticed. In my opinion, you should NOT include this in your email, as 1) it will not help get your payment sooner in any way (he seems like the type to have no conscious) and 2) it gives him leverage, control and power over the negotiations. You should not give away information like that involuntarily.
> have you seen him doing those kind of snarky jokes about apple? ever?

Yes. Numerous times. I’m not really in the mood to go skimming through the several months of archives it would take to find a good example.

To be honest though, Microsoft is much easier to ridicule, because they have much looser control over their messaging, and so it’s not terribly surprising that a generally Apple-oriented commentator could consistently poke fun at them.
Previous discussion from the founder of SproutRobot here: http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=1336406
Yes, people who buy Macs place enormous value on having a flat, nondescript image of a piece of fruit on their computers. We are all massive brand whores, and there has never been anything compelling about the design of Macs. Also, Linux users, and you especially, are extremely representative of the market for computers.
I'm assuming "staticExec" is not sandboxed in any way...

It's one thing to make your compile stuck it's head while doing #include "aux" in windows, but completely different to treat source code as "shell"-script.

(I see the point, and it's a great feature, but with too much power).
"Yaşar received an email from Trello, Inc. asking him to rename the Metrello project. Do you have any idea for a new name?" [1]

Apparently it was even called *trello a few weeks ago, so they are definitely aware of that project already. Curious why it wasn't DMCA'ed earlier already.

[1] http://crater.io/posts/8azTCHojZq8CoJpAR
My experience is that I’ve used libreoffice to convert unreadable .doc 2003 files to working .docx documents. In these (admittedly few) cases, (a more recent version of) word could not read the .doc files in a meaningful fashion.
I hope so! We just started, we will try anything possible to reach that number. All tips are welcome! ;-)
Right now IoT devices use a communications model that overcome's NAT by tying the device to a service endpoint in the cloud. The device registers itself as an IoT device in aws and then your local hosts hit the device by going to the device endpoint in the cloud. I don't know if this model will hold up when IPv6 more widely supported though.
"which yes will make it cost more than a paperback while ebooks remain a secondary release"

You mean because paperbacks use the formatting from the hardcover edition, so their formatting comes for free?

I am still not convinced that your maths is really set in stone. For example, does the retailer still need to get 40%? Editors and proof readers are the same for ebooks as for paperbacks, hopefully.

How hard is the formatting of an ebook, what does it entail? I don't think they can just add new paragraphs? Couldn't the process be automated (LateX seems to be doing quite well with automated layout?
In the last couple of years, we have seen the rise of the netbook, the smartphone, and languages like Python and Ruby. Each of these are, apparently, "fast enough" to be highly succesful.

For consumer purposes. However, a ginormous amount of the software in operation today is not aimed at consumers at all, and don't resemble Farmville in the slightest.

Most programmers are writing COBOL (even if they are using a slightly more modern language to do it in.)
You make time. Same reason people "have time" to gamble, or do whatever feeds their particular addiction. Speaking from experience here.
No, I'm not saying that making ebooks more expensive than paperbacks makes sense, and yes I do realize that this happens sometimes. What I'm saying is that the grand ideas there were a few years ago about surely if a paperback costs $10, the ebook can be sold for $2 just don't make sense. I mean I thought so too, but it just isn't happening and it won't happen, either, because the perceptions that lead to such ideas are fundamentally flawed.
Oh, QBASIC. That's also why I'm a programmer today. It was the first programming language that I learned. I remember typing QBASIC on my MS-DOS 6.22 command prompt when I was still a child, and seeing that blue, text only IDE light up.
I'd already wasted countless weeks of my life on offline RPGs - the idea of WoW just instantly screamed "stay away at all costs". I've never played WoW. I know better. I know it would suck me in and weeks later I'd wake up and wonder what happened...
Steve Dekorte (creator of Io) has already been thinking about an Io implementation on top of Javascript.

ref: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iolanguage/message/12526
The 'add' button (to follow someone) does not work for me (JoachimSchipper_hn).
>> even the most fervent republicans

God, how I despise it when people have to bring their petty partisan politics into every discussion.

No sane person in the United States of whatever political party or creed would have said a rescue mission that had a reasonable chance of success was not worth the money and risk. [EDIT] Assuming it was understood that the spacecraft was in mortal danger.

According to the article, it would have been highly unlikely that the Atlantis could have rescued the Columbia astronauts. Possible, but just barely. Should they have tried? Maybe. Should they have planned for the contingency? Of course--if they had an extra couple billion dollars budget for such a project. 20-20 hindsight.

You can't go to space on the cheap. The old Nasa slogan to promote the Shuttle--faster, better, cheaper--is proven incorrect by historical events. You can have 2 of those, not all 3.
Mono. I think it's a bug or something.

Mono JIT compiler version 4.0.0 (master/c198a39 Pk feb 21 22:02:35 EET 2014)
Copyright (C) 2002-2014 Novell, Inc, Xamarin Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
TLS: __thread
SIGSEGV: altstack
Notifications: epoll
Architecture: x86
Disabled: none
Misc: softdebug
LLVM: supported, not enabled.
GC: sgen
I'm assuming the company in question is Blue Cross Blue Shield. This kind of sucks, but looking at their logo[0], I would have to agree that they're uncomfortably close, if they are deemed to be in similar enough markets.

The only question is whether Watsi and BCBS operate within similar enough markets for their use to be considered infringement - I'm less sure of that.

On a related note, this is why early-stage startups shouldn't get too attached to their branding, product name, and/or company name. You're better off focusing your efforts on your product itself.

And don't waste money (as an early startup) on filing for trademark protection - because US trademark law respects common law use (ie, if you used it first, you are protected, even if you didn't file for protection)[1]. Registering your trademark does nothing if someone else (with more expensive lawyers) was using it first and can demonstrate that use.

And even if they accept your registration, that doesn't mean that it will hold up. Just like patents, the USPTO leaves this up to courts to decide. You could easily register something like the Coca-Cola[2] logo and they could accept it, but that doesn't prevent Coca-Cola from litigating against you and winning. They have no great way to check for conflicts, and they err on the side of issuing the trademark (and collecting your fee) so that the courts can be the final arbiters[3].

(Obligatory disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice).

[0] https://encrypted.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=blue%20cross%...

[1] This is the opposite of the way that patent law works.

[2] In reality, probably not Coca-Cola per se, because it's popular enough that anybody reading your application would notice it, but a trademark that's very similar to an existing logo.

[3] If you're wondering, no, they won't refund your fee if your trademark is deemed invalid.
note, Efficiency != Good for all

That depends on how you interpret it. Free trade, even unilaterally, delivers better efficiency for the entire society as a whole.

However, it's true that in the short run there are individuals who will be affected negatively.

Economic conclusions do not lead directly to policy decisions. We also need to consult our values as a society. I think it's likely that we'll decide that it's not fair to simply sacrifice those few for the rest of us to benefit. But I also don't think it's right to throw the baby out with the bathwater by calling off the whole project.

Surely there's some middle ground, where we can take the overall benefits, and use some of that to mitigate the localized negatives (perhaps through job training or career rehabilitation programs, for example).
In Canada, if the phone has a password police need a search warrant to go through it.

Whats more alarming is he was a high school student who got arrested for a disturbance on a bus:

> One morning, Anthony Granville was arrested for the Class C offense of causing adisturbance on the school bus. His cell phone was taken from him during the bookingprocedure and placed in the jail property room.
An enjoyable read! Also from the genius Puterman, the Chipophone [1] and also some Hubbard goodness [2].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1pchpDD5EU

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn2h6f1EO2k
Hardware support has always lagged Linux (and still does).

Not everywhere. Last I checked we do considerably better for 10GbE, for instance. We certainly consistently lag behind Linux for desktop hardware support, but I think we hold our own pretty well in the server space.

As a BSD hacker who hates anything hardware-related, however, I do love the idea of outsourcing such irritants, though.
Yes, we'll certainly keep routing around it. But wouldn't it be even better and more efficient if that wasn't necessary in the first place?
> What if I get an AMD CPU? Do those also have an IPMI in disguise inside the CPU package wired to a network interface?

AMD implements something similar with DASH in some of its APUs: http://www.amd.com/Documents/out-of-band-client-management-o...

On page 10 in that PDF it says:

> DASH support is available in numerous client platforms, including the HP Elitebook 700 series, HP EliteOne 705, HP EliteDesk 705 Mini, HP EliteDesk 705, HP 6305 and Lenovo M78 ThinkCentre. Support is also available in management consoles, including the Symantec/Altiris Client Management Suite v7.5, and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)*.
That's borrowing, not sharing. The project borrowed from has no idea there's someone else using their file. So they will feel free to change it without informing others.

"Who tells whom what to do?" - Lenin
I would also like to hear more about their infrastructure.

I do know they use Varnish as their cache server.

https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Varnish
That's where multiple beacons would come into play. As long as at least one beacon provider is one you believe you can trust, that should be enough.
1) We don't know which one takes more computational effort, hence the need for realistic benchmarks with decent confidence intervals.

2) If benchmarks show one style to be slightly faster than another, then I will take note. I've already noted that these benchmarks have no associated statistical information; they're just numbers quoted to an arbitrary precision.

3) If I ever find myself needing such slight increases in speed, it's probably a sign that there's a looming disaster, since it means that a) there's a bottleneck in the program, b) I can't improve the algorithm, c) porting that section to native code hasn't been enough.

If it's a case of death by a thousand papercuts, where slight slow-downs throughout an application are actually making it unusable, then I'll roll up my sleeves and patch the interpreter/compiler (this is easier in self-hosting languages, but doable in all).
Not real Red Hat 6 though right? I used 6.2 all those years ago.

Do you mean RHEL 6? :-)
I thought this was about British Aerospace, I have never heard this word. Or "normcore".
But for "normal" industrial plants where there's a need for money to be made, there always will be a balance between IT security and pragmatism in running the damn thing.

And those plants likely don't have enemies powerful or motivated enough to attack them in this way. Typical black hats these days are in it for the cash and I don't see how sabotaging a factory could be made into cost effective fraud.
I am not against it but just wanted to know details :)
Except that the technical limitations favor correct pagination — it's perfectly cacheable unlike the idiotic model: http://www.dehora.net/journal/2008/07/20/efficient-api-pagin...

I think the true reason is really just pervasive ignorance — everybody royally fucks this up and doesn't question it for a second.

If you have N items with M on each page, and the same request for 'page 2' always returns items N-M through N-2M, with the contents shuffling off the end as N increases, you're an abject failure. SELECT … LIMIT M OFFSET N-(P-1)•M is in almost every single web app and totally bullshit. It's incredibly depressing, but we'll probably be stuck with it for at least the rest of our lifetimes.
Clickable: http://demo.qontex.com/

http://demo.qontex.com/?url=http://www.thestar.com/news/worl...
Personally, I'd rather tell my media centre PC to change channel with a voice command than wave my hand at it. Seems more natural to me. I'm sure flicking through channels would be easy enough with some kind of motion commands, but navigating to specific channels, how would you do that? I guess you could have a specific gesture for each individual channel, but even then, it would me much easier to just say the name of a chennel. Another idea would be a specific gesture to go to the list of channels, which you could then scroll through and select, but this is still more work then voice commands. I'm not saying this technology sucks, I think it's fantastic, but it doesn't solve every UI problem.
I was reading a study a while back about how an absurdly high percentage of total jobs could be done via telecommute but aren't. It's crazy to think about how many millions upon millions of dollars in fuel costs and reduced emissions could be saved by having more telecommuters. Not only that, but companies could save so much money by having reduced or no office space/electricity/etc. Plus they'd get the added benefit of increased worker satisfaction in most cases.
This has to make things a little awkward considering Samsung has been fabbing Apple's mobile chips.
Don't you get annoyed at how much money bankers make just because they control the infrastructure of transferring account balances around?

I like it because I think it's a clever solution to rampant government/institutional corruption..
If this really comes from a high schooler, I can say that you are going to do really well in life :)