jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Based on my position, wired is still young with lots of competition going on. You don't fix something that ain't broken.

Why should the two be considered differently?

And no, I feel consumers can figure out for themselves that paying .25 to send 256 bytes of data is a scam. But I don't think wireless carriers should be granted special abilities to protect this sort of underhanded dealings which wired providers are not. What would you think if it was said that DSL and cable internet providers could block MSN, AIM, Jabber and Skype IMs because they had a special deal where they wanted you to use their IM service for .25 cents a message? Though other data was unlimited? I'd have a problem with that, personally.
Please don't feel too offended. It's totally normal for people to check out profiles when someone posts something interesting. Your know-how on BSD virtualization IS interesting to a lot of folks.
Be sure to check out this post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1051847/why-does-tokyo-ty...

I did some experimentation with tokyo* and experienced that slowdown myself. I just didn't want to disable journaling in the end...
Package management is great, and Nix is neat, but Nix isn't the entropy-eliminating panacea the author makes it out to be.

Just like every other package manager, from rpm to dpkg, Nix is responsible only for the aspects of the filesystem that it's specified to be responsible for. It's not going to remove garbage left behind by users or poorly-written post-install scripts, and it's not going to automatically undo other non-filesystem-related state changes on package removals. And the practical reality is that not everything on a system can be a native package anyway.
Only for what is required by the C++ standard, plus some key open source projects.
After running Yosemite from an upgrade for a long while, I recently did a complete disk wipe and a fresh install without using my time machine backups. This is just one data point, but the effort was worthwhile because my system feels faster and more solid.

I had done Time machine installs for years, and I probably had a lot of cruft.
This was my thought, too - and those that do would recognize the fake control panel.

I think it's becoming more and more common for the PSK to come on a sticker from the all-in-one router/modem your ISP sends you. So, the user never sets a passphrase, never sees the control panel, and has the key ready to hand out by just looking at their "internet box." This attack is perfect for that.
Honestly, I think something like Ocaml's module system would be better for large teams than objects, and I think it's also just a better way to organize code.
I for one am glad they are killing C on Windows.
It seems to me that we should be talking about sanctions & boycotts of Korean products. An obvious first place to start is the products produced by slave labor. But I think it's reasonable to extend a boycott to the rest of an economy that is turning a blind eye to such atrocities.

So think about the plight of these slaves considering a purchase of Samsung, Mitsubishi, Kia, or other items built in Korea or owned by Korean companies. Then buy something else.
lol i got rid of mine about a year ago
Yes, I have always ascribed to the get-rich-slow schemes and I encourage my children to do the same.
Having to pay the bankers 2% for arranging the loans to do the buy back.

As mentioned in Todays Alex

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/alex/?cartoon=11503607&cc...
I'm pretty sure delivery vehicles have been involved in injury accidents since the horse-drawn carriage days.
In programming languages, `Monad` is just an interface with the methods `map`, `flatten` and `pure`.

As with many other interfaces, there are a few rules in the comments that implementations are expected to adhere to.
It's still not clear to me that natural intelligence is anything more than curve fitting.
> Good luck sourcing chips for future military systems.

There's still comparatively little high-tech silicon fabrication in mainland China.
This essay has a very individualist underlying assumption that one person has to do it all. Maybe that's not true? Could a community of hobbyists who share the same obsession make progress?

If a lot of the effort comes from going down blind alleys until you hit on something, it seems like the work could be pretty easily distributed?
No drug dealer punches you in the face for money... drug dealers make money by you coming back for more. Only a crackhead would punch you for money
Lots of people seem to have anticipated these results! So, is it OK now that for low-volume static sites I've just thrown everything on S3? How about adding in lambda and SQS for low-volume almost-static sites? Is it still terrible that I've wasted cents per month on these services?
Number porting attacks, remote phone compromise, phone theft ... probably in that order.

I almost never use Twitter on my phone, and if I switched Twitter to depend on my Yubikey, I would stop using Twitter on my phone completely.
> which seems like a really clumsy way to handle it. In most real cases, wouldn't you write the From impls for the specific types of errors you're expecting?

In an application, yes. The problem is in libraries because the `From`s` are public so you have put the error type for your dependency in your public API and if you change dependencies or upgrade past a major, you've broken your API. Granted, it is unlikely someone is going to use it ... but I wouldn't put it past people to take shortcuts like that.
Every time I see a discussion about REST guidelines, I get a little bit more happy about having switched to gRPC.
maybe. but there's always this....

http://www.team.net/mjb/hawg.html
> Also, you don't get repeat customers if you kill them, so online procured products are usually of a quality high enough you will be a repeat customer (and not die).

It seems like that argument would apply to in person deals too.
A human should know because it affects user agent behavior. Over use of POST where it is not needed causes pointless friction with confirmation dialogs that could be avoided with PUT.
Three tech firms make the list of Italy's top-ten export companies:

- Telecom Italia (telecommunications services): $83.6 billion, up 12.5%

- Atlantia (infrastructure, mobility networks): $48.7 billion, up 17.3%

- Leonardo (aerospace, defense): $30.1 billion, up 12.4%

http://www.worldstopexports.com/italys-top-10-major-export-c...
4 years for a product is abysmal from one of the richest companies in the world. This is Google not some garage shop with 2 employees.
That's what I was looking for.
After parking in DC I always thought there should be a "parking lawyer" service. You take a picture of the signs (sometimes 6 on top of each other), you upload it to the service and they tell you whether it's OK to park.
>Apple has a monopoly on iP*ds ... the durable-goods monopolist, Apple. ... durable goods monopolists

Further evidence that "monopoly" has no useful meaning. At best it allows a speaker to hang negative emotion onto a subject, and at worst, agitate for government coercion against the subject.
This is really cool.

But is there anything it’s useful for as it stands? Or is it better thought of as an experiment in distribution?
You also need to factor in this bit of wit from I think William F. Buckely, although I wasn't able to find the quote as I remember it on the web: "The only thing liberals want to be liberated from is their marriage vows." I.e. there is an aspect of self-interest in all this.

This is a complete misunderstanding of the intent and the actual result, but someone as honest and principled as William F. Buckley can be forgiven for misunderstanding :-) Affairs have always been an option for married people. Back in more conventional days with less freedom of choice, anyone in an unhappy marriage had an understandable reason for an affair. At least in the upper classes -- in William F. Buckley's milieu -- longstanding affairs could be open secrets and might not bring any opprobrium onto the parties involved, depending on the exact perception of the situation. These days, the legitimization of non-marriage lifestyle choices has made open-minded progressives feel more responsible for their marriages.

Most progressives are pretty bland in their sexual tastes, especially after marriage. They mostly commit themselves to conventional, sexually monogamous marriages. Without rigid societal rules to take partial blame, inability to stick to that conventional image of marriage has finally become a purely personal moral failure even in the eyes of social progressives. Yet most progressives still choose marriage and submit themselves to this standard. For the average progressive, little has changed about sex except that the pre-marriage scene has been liberated from fears about shame and pregnancy.

tl;dr Being a progressive and a liberal has always been mostly about fighting for rights that one will personally never exercise. William F. Buckley was a brilliant intellectual, but he was wrong on this. Monte Python, however, nailed it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifgHHhw_6g8
That seems like a very smart approach.
Not necessarily a programming book but Code: The Hidden Language of Computers Hardware and Software. It's really easy to digest and moves at a good pace. It may not change your world but it will make thinking about computer internals feel less mysterious and more fun.
Wikileaks did have their name seized in the US, it happened as part of the "Bank Julius Baer vs. Wikileaks lawsuit" - but it was overturned with the judge citing First Amendment concerns (ACLU and EFF filed motions in Wikileaks defence).
If you have $41m in investment gravy, er, I mean money, by all means, write lots of unit tests and automated test suites.

OTOH, if you have OTOOM of $1k or less, and only a few free hours per day or week to put into a project, or a drop-dead-runway of a few months, then tests are your enemy, because there's a lot of additional cost in terms of time and hassle in order to write them and maintain them as you go along. That's not to say that all tests are bad, or that tests never make sense. It's to say that having tests adds a cost, and so sometimes the upside of having them does not justify the downside.
We are also living in a world economy which is constrained (among other factors) by energy inputs, water, and arable land. So a method of reducing calorie intake of a food after you've spent the resources to produce a crop seems... well, wasteful.
But lots of the vulnerable C code we have in the world today was written by very experienced C developers, so I don't know that's a particularly strong argument
No, it really wasn't. Did he have some idea the 4S was the direction it would take? Sure. But for God's sake, that phone was released a week and a half after he died. He hadn't been at work very much for a year before that.
> For the most part it works fine.

Only for apps that don't try to utilize maximum throughput. Skype, YouTube, most web browsing, most mail use.

But those that do - like large file transfers over ftp/sftp or a very large email, for example - will cause the meltdown described in this article.

There are some TCP stacks that use RTT rather than packet loss as their congestion metric; Those fair well under a TCP-over-TCP regime (but have other problems)
You'll never get adoption for a new browser that can't parse existing websites, unfortunately. There's no 'clean break' option.
I'd argue that the one on the RIGHT is a train wreck... if it's a PHYSICAL poster, I want stuff to be readable... how can making every single important point smaller be better?

Heck, the one on the left has a much better call to action, it says CALL 603-431-8561 in big letters. The one on the right has the "Come Visit" clearer though.

The one on the right might be "cleaner", but I bet that the one on the left converts a LOT better (simply by being more readable).
I am guessing the scheduling has become significantly more complex as the company has grown. The conveyor system in the Memphis facility alone looks to be an interesting problem. Is there stuff you want to have, but just don't have the time to do it?
Your broker will not protect you from buying a bad asset. The real question is if you trust the trust and its management.

In other words: do you trust the Winklevosses?
What's the reason behind this? Usually there's some kind of a backstory...
Then there's Jeff who doesn't care.
Right, 3.5% is your typical whole milk you find everywhere. Nothing special about the fat percentage.
>So did the F35 fail because we spent too much? Depends on how much it saves us later.

It might not be a lot. The concept of flying Corvettes is strong, culturally and industrially, but it might be on the verge of becoming like cavalry with the advent of drone swarms.
On the one hand yes, on the other hand laws intended to prevent some behavior are usually less efficient than participants just not doing that behavior, and add extra overhead to the people whom you're worried about doing that behavior.
That's not high-deductible, it's low-benefit.

I have less experience shopping for group plans, but in the individual market you will die of natural causes before you find a high-deductible, high-benefit plan, let alone one without fatal loopholes.
oh give it a rest with the "my(older) generation acted with morals/humility/respect while your(younger) generation has no morals/shame/responsibility"

it's an old script that gets repeated with every generation around the time when the new gen gets to be 18-28. it's like the "HN is becoming reddit" alarms that cry out every 3 months or so.

the crux of your (or at least the most compelling) arguments is these students did nothing wrong studying but should have had it in them to say "hey i've seen this before". Did i get the gist?

The crux of my argument is that in a societal structure such as a college where the students pay large sums of money to be educated it is morally wrong to take that money and then do nothing to actually test their knowledge.

i believe what the students did was a moral misdemeanor and the professor committed the felony. yet you seem more interested in prosecuting the students than fixing the larger issue.
Our news media is a narrative driven media. They find their narrative and build the story around that. Details, subtleties, and complexities get shoved under the rug.

For example, look at the health care debate. Headline news for over a year. Here's a quiz, ask 10 people to name 3 concrete aspects of Health Care reform. I tried an not one person game me 3. A few gave me two. The mode was zero concrete aspects.

The narrative never was the bill itself. What everyone did know was that Obama and the Dems won and the Republicans lost, and it it costs a lot of money. For a year of coverage, this was the only narrative. Win/Lose + costs money.

A lot of people wonder if the decline of newspapers means that things like city council meetings don't get coverage. I've discovered that you often get better coverage from reading a couple of blogs -- and there almost certainly will be better targeted blogs than you get from your major city paper.
And when will you stop taking short cuts? If you do stop, will you find out that your business wasn't truly viable? So will you continue taking the short cut, even then?
Programming is fun, but shipping is not fun, and shipping is your job: http://www.removingalldoubt.com/PermaLink.aspx/a32977e2-cb7d...
Most commercial airplane doors cannot open directly outward. They unseal inward and then twist to clear outward. At altitude the internal pressure will push them directly outward and render them unable to open, even if the locks fail. In this regard they are fail-safe.

The DC-10 eschewed this standard in favour of doors that opened directly outward with catastrophic results if the locks failed.
Thanks for the link.

It seems like he's pretty clear that he chose to quit. He says his job was "tentatively willing to try to make it work". It appears to me that he's shown a consistent pattern of overstating the effects of his name being revealed, so I don't put a lot of stock in "tentatively".

I am quite convinced he simply didn't want his name in the paper because he knows he's said some edgy stuff (ie, explicitly comparing himself to Charles Murray).

The sources he provides as supporting the importance of therapeutic anonymity appear to be debates, as opposed to, say, APA guidelines emphasizing its importance. And that's a one sided picture, where Scott is digging for evidence to support his claim.

Part of his argument is that he has already faced threats and harassment. Okay, and he still didn't take basic steps to anonymize himself, so apparently this didn't concern him so much in the past. His argument is that he has a lot of crazy, nutso enemies. But those people could already easily find him.

He's been pretty clear about his dislike for SJWs and distrust for the news media (I mean this in the most value-neutral way possible). That's fine, but I think it's silly to make up a bunch of reasons your name shouldn't be in the paper.

He even comes out and says that it's simply his preference for anonymity:

>Why didn't I do this? Partly because it wasn't true. I don't think I had particularly strong arguments on any of these points. The amount I dislike death threats is basically the average amount that the average person would dislike them. The amount I would dislike losing my job...and et cetera. Realistically, my anonymity let me feel safe and comfortable. But it probably wasn't literally necessary to keep me alive. I feel bad admitting this, like I conscripted you all into a crusade on false pretenses. Am I an entitled jerk for causing such a stir just so I can feel safe and comfortable? I'm sure the New York Times customer service representatives who had to deal with all your phone calls thought so.

Again, he did not lose his job. They were willing to keep him, and he quit anyways.

>In the New York Times' worldview, they start with the right to dox me, and I had to earn the right to remain anonymous by proving I'm the perfect sympathetic victim who satisfies all their criteria of victimhood. But in my worldview, I start with the right to anonymity, and they need to make an affirmative case for doxxing me. I admit I am not the perfect victim. The death threats against me are all by losers who probably don't know which side of a gun you shoot someone with. If anything happened at work, it would probably inconvenience me and my patients, but probably wouldn't literally kill either of us. Still! Don't kick me in the fucking balls!

Replace "dox" with "include my name, which was found on my blog, in a news story about my blog", and yes, that's a default-allow unless you have some really extraordinary circumstances.
No I don't believe it is just to make it taboo. It's not only unjust it's counterproductive. To do this is to build an argument with it's foundation laid in falsehood. And that makes for a very weak argument, as well as making others doubt your integrity as they see you try and deny sometimes you know is true. At it's most benign this just results in people making fools of themselves as they try and deny reality. At it's worst this results in the likes of Lysenkoism - false beliefs that become entrenched and have real negative impact on society.

If some people take a true fact and abuse it to push unjust claims, the focus on addressing the abuse of facts. Not the facts themselves. And Slate Star Codex has done a good job of this. His explorations of these controversial ideas almost invariably entail refutations of abusive use of those ideas.
> In fact I think that personally, given the choice I would choose death.

I, too, am not sure that I'd prefer life in prison over death, but in practice it takes decades to execute a convicted prisoner in the US, and since you're considered a particularly dangerous prisoner (since you have nothing to lose) you're held in particularly isolated and unpleasant conditions during those decades. If I thought I was going to get the death penalty I might prefer to just blow my brains out quickly and easily before they have a chance to slap the handcuffs on.

I can't be arsed to fact-check it, but I'm pretty sure I've read that death row inmates are more likely to die of natural causes while awaiting execution than they are to actually be executed - that's how long the legal process waits.
indeed they do, i don’t have a lot of details in this case, but it seems like it happened at very low altitude. the plug door design works when there’s an actual pressure differential (ie. at higher altitude)
I am curious about this “pro-lockdown, pro-mask” advice from ethe WHO.

I am almost certain that they took a long time to recommend masking. I also am fairly confident that the WHO was/is opposed to lockdowns and it certainly still opposes travel restrictions.
being "commonly used" is not the same thing as being the "correct uncharged verbiage."

For an example, there are many similarly charged terms "commonly used" to identify geographic areas surrounding Israel, but in modern discourse we use "Occupied Palestinian Territory" since 1999.
I'll give credit to the WHO for not deleting their tweets. It would be even better if they offered a mea culpa explaining how they came to this position that was incorrect in hindsight. But not just disappearing things already is better than some others do.
I went to Angkor Wat. It is beautiful.

I also rented a motorbike and used Google Maps to locate other far less popular ruins. There is a ton of them that are easily located from the imagery.

It was a really fun set of adventures of driving a dumpy motorbike, by myself, down dirt roads in the middle of nowhere. Coming across ruins that no other tourists find.

I really miss travel...
> Maybe Apple, like the Soviet Union, doesn't have it all figured out?

I wish I had a super-like for this answer.
Exactly. That was the crux of Arment's "regret" of his article. It wasn't that he was critical of Apple, it was that he said it in such a way that the tech press in general was able to quote him on stupid "hit pieces" on Apple. It wasn't his original article per se, but the way that original article was used.
Oracle bought Sun in 2009 and finalized in Jan. 2010, so this time traveller would have to be from a very specific slice of 2010 to not know about the demise of Sun. :P
This is how RTOSs work on microcontrollers that don't have a supervisor mode. A hardware timer interrupts each process and the interrupt handler switches which process is active. However, there's nothing stopping one process from disabling interrupts for some critical activity (like bit-banging some serial output) and then forgetting to re-enable them.
Ooooh DAMN.
Interesting idea.
That part that pisses me off is that I was very familiar with all the concepts that you used, but I doubt I ever came close to the conclusion.

Ok, I concur, I was probably not aware that color mixing is a human physiology thing and not a physics thing.

So to clarify, when we mix red and green playdough as kids, what happens is all the little particulates/molecules interweave together, but each is reflecting a different signal. And when that variation/entropy back-and-forth between red and green is too high, the brain just melds them to yellow?
Deformed children are still being born in Fallujah from all the depleted uranium. It's a bit late to get sanctimonious about nuclear weapons in combat.
Async/await are not inherently bad. They are actually very simple and quickly allow for higher level concurrent programming. I implemented async/await in a Scheme and from there was able to easily build actors in the language.

It’s just that certain languages, like Python, seem confused or unable to maintain the simplicity.
> How would a random teen create a game in it?

Create an Adobe (or, back then, Macromedia - memory is a bit hazy there) account, download the trial of whatever you wanted, download a keygen off of eDonkey or Pirate Bay, run the keygen in some VM so it would not dump some virus on your actual machine, blacklist a boatload of Adobe/Macromedia domains, done.