jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Try using Safari instead of Chrome. Chrome on M1 is a lackluster experience. Safari is amazingly fast, even with a hundred open tabs.

You can tell Apple has been optimizing a web browser on their own silicon for a long time.
You can tell that it originates from within the semiconductor industry by the generally chaotic presentation (e.g. the "stuff everything in and add arrows" layout of the slides and picking a bunch of arbitrary, jarring, and unnecessary colors)—on top of the already-dubious decision to use PowerPoint to explain these ideas in the first place (out of a reflex—read: crutch).
I’m assuming this is satire… Wasn’t Golang created in 2007?
Why would you put three ones?

Maybe you should have tried the other numbers
I remember my lego sets coming with apply-your-own decals in the 90's...
I was replying under some comment thread about the the government "not legitimizing" bitcoin, and thus not considering "bitcoin theft" to be actual theft.

And thus the only crime here being tax evasion.
The same is happening in London, UK at the moment; though it's something that cuts further than just art.

The capital and the surrounding regions are now practically unaffordable for anyone other than well-remunerated professional workers and those who got in early.

One thing I find odd about the article is the focus on 'being urban', though.

In the US, is it cheaper to live rurally? In the UK that is not true at all in my experience, country living here is aspirational and generally a sign of wealth.

What we have is not really an 'inversion' of white flight; rather, the city _and_ the suburbs are becoming wealthier whilst the poor move away from the capital to surrounding cities (or try desperately to cling on).

Then again, what constitutes a 'suburb' is radically different here!
The sophistication of the attack is pretty questionable IMO. The malware used can be purchased by anyone on the black market and had been used before by Iranian hackers in 2012. Furthermore, spearphishing emails were used to get inside the network. Furthermore, how would sophistication be evidence against a State actor with (a reported) 7,000 personnel?
Though there are smart people at Verizon, much of their software is outsourced with limited oversight. I once interviewed for what I thought was a dev position but at the end of the interview them tried to slide in that I was really going to be "managing" the outsourced team and would not be allowed to write anything myself. I said no.
That chart assumes 24 hours days. The reality of (my?) productivity is that I have perhaps six productive hours in a day. If I can save eight productive hours per month, that's sixteen days a year, not four.
the semantics you'd like the OS + standard library to provide would be some kind of gettime() call that returns a time thingie, and a secondsbetween(a,b) call that reliably tells you the time between the two time thingies.

the fact that it doesn't already work this way is a design fail.

all the nonsense about NTP and clock slew and monotonicity are implementation details that should be hidden below this layer.
Yes, he's actually pretty nice about it in person.
I did find this guy's font much more readable than the one he linked to! I could actually read the paragraph without too much squinting!
I'm fairly sure the fact remains that you cannot, under any circumstance, give up your rights.
What we understand as "beautiful" is based in cultural traditions. In America, women want to appear tanned, and will use any variety of chemicals to achieve a darker complexion. In the Philippines, they want to appear pale, and will use any manner of chemicals to achieve a lighter complexion. It's not enough to say, "make it beautiful", you have to understand on a fundamental level (and you don't understand something on a fundamental level if you can't articulate it) what that beauty means for your consumers.
Comments and sentiments like "Let them come in India and claim a trademark if it comes to that", doesn't quite encourage people to do what you are asking for.

A community, with a well entrenched reputation for cheap knock-offs, helps oneself to a brand without permission (that would be stealing) and then shows attitude about it.

There used to be an old joke about different countries coming together to show off their engineering prowess by improving a parent product originally from US (or Japan I do not remember). No one can figure out India's contribution. It turns out that they have stamped "made in India" to it.

HackerNewsIndia reinforces that very stereotype.

http://hackernews.in/item?id=555
I don't mind the region wise fragmentation personally. I cannot be global - I can't keep track of every single world hacker-related event and, if it is forced on me, I will reject it (whether consciously or subconsciously).

I have the largest interest in my community and I mean "community" in both the sense of the hacker community, but also my regional community: Texas, United States, North America, Western Hemisphere, Europe, Australia, and then "The Rest of the World" in that order. If "The Rest of the World" begins to dominate the stories or even if Australia, for example, starts dominating the stories then I will head to somewhere where more of my interests are shown.

And I think that's just basic human nature. We can only read so many headlines, articles, posts in a day and it makes sense that we self-filter to select the sites that show us things that are the most interesting to us.
Actually, the annihilation mostly produces photons, which aren't either matter or antimatter (or both, whichever way you like.)

Though you might have been lucky and gotten an antineutrino instead. Now you just have to find it...
Now at least we have know the real threshold of poverty.
> “[I] listened and lip-synced to Lady Gaga’s ‘Telephone’ while exfiltrating possibly the largest data spillage in American history,” he added later. ”Weak servers, weak logging, weak physical security, weak counter-intelligence, inattentive signal analysis… a perfect storm.”

The voyeuristic, excited element of it is what got him caught. I have to think that if he'd been more solemn and reserved, saying he had to balance his duty to the American people with the oaths he took, then he'd come across a lot better.

But he didn't. He didn't carefully, agonizingly release a video he thought relevant, he was talking about dumping all sorts of classified material - just to do it. Doing that haphazardly shows supply chains, movements, fortifications, investigations, counter-intelligence, logistics... it would be a gold mine for terrorists and insurgents not to just attack the armed forces, but also, maybe even more likely, to kidnap, torture, and kill civilians who are doing logistics, shipping, etc without a heavily armed escort.

My view here will be unpopular I think, and I don't say this lightly, but I think this is a rare case of where charges of treason should be brought and the death penalty sought. He was putting tens of thousands of people's lives at risk and not just soldiers... and he seemed giddy and excited about it like a 15 year old figuring out the teacher's password and changing grades.

I doubt they'll charge with him treason since it'd attract a lot of press they don't want, but his actions were incredibly reckless and despicable. For someone who has taken the military oaths to break them in such a care-free, unthinking way, lip-syncing Lady Gaga and being all jazzed up about it... it's crazy. He didn't even leak to a professional reporter who would use some discretion in what to release, he went to an anonymous website that'd publish anything.

Again, I think my view will be unpopular, but I think he should face the firing squad for it. It remains to be seen whether he'll be painted as a sympathetic person by people who don't like the war or dislike American policy in general, but a lot of people stood to die violently as a result of this man's actions if he wasn't caught.
My additional simple trick:

Arrive for the flight tired. I would rather sleep less the night before and be able to get something done than sleep less on the flight.
> Is it particularly difficult to determine which messages belong to the same conversation?

Probably, the outbox might have a different structure than the inbox, and lack some kinds of IDs.

> On the other hand, the iPhone Mail interface doesn't get any better if you use MobileMe.

Absolutely (well I think you get push support, but that's about it), and I think this here is a core difference between Apple and Google: with Google, the Service (Gmail) is given a seat front and center (its own MUA) because it's what Google "sells", whereas with Apple the service (MobileMe) is really nothing more than a perk, it doesn't have any kind of primary status on the device, and it's not expected that it be the main service for users of the device.
Excellent advice and information - thank you.

I've changed the hrefs in the gallery items so now they only surround the img in the table cell, and not the entire table cell. I think you're looking at the more recent version. I'll change the trailing ">" in the img to a "/>" shortly - thanks.

A lot of the layout is generated programmatically - a long time ago I wrote a tool that takes a description of a page and spits out the table formatting. It then populates the cells with the contents of the requested file. Specifically, when fed with this:

AAAE
AAAE
CCDE

it will generate the table layout and put files A.phtml through E.phtml in the places requested. Makes laying out pages like this trivial. Ish.

I think I've worked out what Opera was doing. For each image I'd asked for a height of 120. It correctly scaled the image, but scaled the cell horizontally for the original size, or something similar.

I now also have some css, but it's not being rendered correctly by all browsers. However, it's pretty good on several, so I'm going to work more on content this afternoon. Steve (my mother-in-law) has several more pictures to add to the list.
True and depressing.

I think one side effect of suburban alienation is that, because this geography thwarts organic friendships and also maintains social class barriers, people fall out of touch with people who are less (or more) fortunate than they are. Their talented but unlucky high school classmates who end up in shit jobs fall completely off the radar. This is what enables Americans to personalize individual success and failure (which are 50-65% luck) to a degree that other free societies would find unconscionable.

I think the post-Facebook generation isn't buying it, though. An internet connection is all you need to see that there are a lot of people getting screwed, and a few being rewarded, for no good reason.
Certainly the hyperbole is part of the story. And again, let me say I think its fun fiction.

However, I still have strong regrets that the author choose to stick the label "quantum" on it just to make it powerful/magical.

Why not call it a massively-interconnected, nano-organic cellular automata computer instead? Sure, it looses its literary flair, but quantum mechanics and computing is already so rarely understood in the public world, I hate to see fiction encouraging a deterministic model.
We have, but at such short notice it was less risky to create a site to accompany the live sealed-bid exhibition and sale, than to try to work out how to torture eBay into doing what we want.

We're expecting most people not to be particularly comfortable with computers, nor to have PayPal (or other) accounts, etc, so making it independent seemed the best option. Most are comfortable with a browser, completing a form, and email, so that's all this version requires.

PS: I'm in London(ish) June 23 to 26. Perhaps I could buy you a coffee, or other beverage of your choice.
Entrepreneur or Unemployed?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/02/opinion/02reich.html?pagew...
The OP is using Acrobat for graphics design, not for online-PDF reading. I don't think he has to worry about security holes that he or his coworkers can exploit.
That's a funny statement, considering PGP and OTR is the go-to and has held up for all of these years.
It's the first time I see github's Readme's being used as a blogging tool. Is this common? I've started to link to a Vagrant/Ansible repo for my setup / code intensive posts, but having the code and the text encapsulated as a repo is quite novel.
Sadly they aren't useful if your documentation is more complex. For my project I do use Sphinx for the doc, but there is a prebuild stage where some of the API information is extracted from non-Python text files (C source). Another part runs the example code and captures it as RST. There are various other nuances like that.

readthedocs can't build that (make docs would work on my tree). I've contacted them several times to ask for how to proceed and never get an answer.

You can see my Sphinx doc not at readthedocs but at http://rogerbinns.github.io/apsw
> there's more to knowing what you're doing than knowing what the language does.

Sure, but knowing JavaScript isn't just knowing how to program; it also involves grasping how the various language (mis)features work.
Been lurking on HN for a while, finally decided to comment for once.

Same experience on a 3gs (I've been waiting for the white 4, not sure why anymore), painfully slow to do anything, including just closing a connection. I just gave up waiting and let tcp time it out.

The biggest killer of being able to use it was readline support is horrid. First thing I did was login and escape-/ + ssh + n a few times and half the screen turned into some amalgamation of things that matched ssh. I didn't try emacs readline support but expect its about the same.

Interface is spot on, but it has a long ways to go before it can do basic terminal work. iSSH is still going to be on my homescreen for a while it looks like.
get_flash_videos will pull the video off almost any random URL.

http://code.google.com/p/get-flash-videos/
There were plenty of good websites in those days that had (and still have) DMOZ listings absolutely for free. That's even more so for the earliest sites listed on Yahoo back in its human-curated days.
Possibly.

I love the independent Economist articles - the mixture of background, stats, graphs and opinion. The problem lies in engaging with the topics and the need for startup/entrepreneurial content that will help me with my own startup.

Viewing this from a startup/entrepreneurial perspective would create something fairly unique I'd think. I might explore building this myself, maybe quickly testing the idea with Drupal or something.
With anything uninteresting, try and come up with a solution that challenges yourself to think. Say, instead of using that plugin you frequently rely on, come up with a solution of your own (of course, keeping time constraints in mind.)
Obviously. All I'm claiming is that knowledge of the language attributes listed isn't sufficient for being an advanced JavaScript programmer, not that it's not necessary.
I agree.

A lot of software use that kind of visualization. It's nothing new.
Lost here is Steve's wasted money chasing success in the media space. Failed advertising platform acquisitions (aQ), billions spent trying to get MSN and then Bing off the ground.
When you don't have much funding, both are extremely important, and when you can't buy more silicon, you either need to optimise the code or let the human wait.
Become a product manager (at least part-time). I was a developer for 7 years and never progressed towards PM, so I've just left my company, created my bootstrapped start-up because no-one would ever believe in me, got experience at copywriting, marketing, negociation, product roadmap planing, went to conferences, talked at some, (all of those in addition to developing the product obviously), sold enough copies within the first year to make a nice living... I think I've proven my point that I'm not bad at it, as opposed to the stigma we face when we're programmers, so next year I hope to be hired in a proper company to do the same job.
- Finish the half of the projects I started in 2014.
1. Launch one profitable product
2. Finish my Arduino ultimate machine
3. Launch one new passive income source
4. Sleep better
5. More family time
6. Learn d3.js
2014 I struck out on all fronts
Every time I've tried to use it, it's either been unstable (segfaults are fun) or orders of magnitude slower than MRI.

It's a promising project, but as far as "no GIL, true concurrency, mature GC" implementations go, JRuby delivers the goods.

Edit: For kicks, I'm trying to boot my primary app with RBX right now. RTLK threw some "id for nil" exceptions due to some initializer stuff, so I disabled that, and now, trying to run my test suite, after 2 minutes of sitting there doing who-knows-what, it finally attempts to boot my app and dies with a "Missing constant" error despite the fact that I put in debug code to ensure that the file containing said module is a) loaded, b) executing properly, and c) that said constant actually exists in the module tree.

This code boots and runs just fine under MRI 1.9, 2.0, 2.1, and JRuby 1.7. I might be able to get it running with some more work and explicit load path management, but I'm off to a party for now, so I'll poke at it a bit when I get back.
Sony announced their offering a year ago at CES. It was simply a matter of time.
But why? What tangible impact has it had on conservatives?
The linked page says:

"Subsection (b), service provider caching, exempts service providers’ making local copies of Web pages so that the pages don’t have to be fetched repeatedly over the Internet."

It doesn't sound like random people making copies of specific YouTube videos would qualify as "service providers". In the case of YouTube videos, wouldn't YouTube be the service provider who is allowed to create cached copies, like on a CDN?

From a legal point of view, making copies of YouTube videos available to the public would seem to be a straightforward violation of the video creators' copyrights, except in cases where they license the videos in a way that specifically allows such copying. I'd expect that copyright owners would get upset about this.
Wish it was longer / more in depth. Seemed like he was rushing through it. Like he has more important things to do...
That's a good point.

No one has ever heard of Armijo High School. But strictly speaking, I graduated when I was sixteen by taking the California High School Proficiency Examination so I could attend Solano Community College during the summer, and in the evenings during the school year. I continued on at Armijo until I graduated with the rest of my class.
Damn! I just realized, github is getting a full 1% of baidu's traffic. I wonder if they're getting the search terms. I bet they're getting cookies.

The ultimate mitigation might be google paying to show the results instead of baidu.

Or just showing their own ads.
Thank you so much for reminding me of his writing. I fell in love with a Greek woman on Crete many years ago. It was one of the most painful times of my life when I realized that I could not stay there with her, or she with me. Cavafy's poem Ithaca has haunted me whenever I'm reminded of it:

http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=74&cat=1

I am a muted Ulysses.

[Update] Looks like I'm not the only one who loves this poem. See the follow-on comment for some background.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9292200
1) The best tool is probably RAML. It's very succinct, looks like YAML and has powerful features such as traits that really simplify the process of documenting many endpoints with similar traits (e.g. pagination).
http://raml.org/

2) Swagger is an older option that is quite verbose but has a lot of good tooling support.

3) A third tool that is pretty decent is API blueprint.

Disclosure: I did work on an open source swagger-raml converter about four months ago.
It's also extremely good in Intellij (at least, in Ultimate...which is what I'm using daily).
Without knowing the exact figures, I would say you're (in part) missing the point. The parent was using "efficient" in the same way that a non-profit or other fund might say efficient (i.e. that money in is mostly money out, administration _by the program_ is not a significant source of cost). Whether the health system spend is efficient is strongly related, but a separate section of the pie.
"President Reagan opposed the holiday, citing the cost of another national day off and suggesting instead a scholarship program for young blacks."

Well, this seems to not have ended up being a problem; everyone I know is still working sadly. (Sadly both because it's as though companies are ignoring the significance of the holiday and also because of their reluctance to let employees take take off)
OK I will play. Current geopolitical climate being what it is, the labor market wont work they way that you would like. An ideal world is a great target, but not current reality. Say what you want about Bill Gates or Tim Cook or any other billionaire giving away their wealth, but curing disease, building basic infrastructure and solving hunger are great ways to fix the world so that such horrid conditions cease to exist in the labor market. When that happens, the "slave labor" that you (and any reasonable person) dont like wont exist and the world will be more "fair". The world isnt going to fix itself...
Well, the fact is that we are such idiots, and it's easier to stop terrorist attacks than to change that.
Piketty's thesis is that the concentration of wealth in the permanent upper class of the 1800's is the historical law, and that the mid-20th Century prosperity of the middle class is a historical anomaly that was created by unprecedented destruction of real property by the two world wars, and further that now that the world wars are receding into history, we are returning to the 19th Century status quo.

If post-1960 data does not show a return to the status quo, then that undermines the core of Piketty's claims. Nobody is claiming that the 19th Century had a strong middle class.
Super Maryo Chronicles
And don't forget 2x2.gif, with the top left and bottom right pixel transparent, and the other two pixels coloured white or grey. Used to make background images of table cells with this, and that would create a faux opacity effect with whatever was used as the background image behind the table.