jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Not being able to do something properly is not an excuse for doing it badly

Yes it really is. I'm not a builder but if I had to shelter from weather I would make a shelter. And my excuse for it being a low quality shelter is that I can't make a perfect one. And that would be better than nothing because at least I wouldn't die. Your idealism is idealistic but not helpful.

If iPhones couldn't read company email they wouldn't be as useful or as popular. If they could do so, but only by enforcing a horrible dual-personality where you had to manually switch between contexts they wouldn't sell as well or be as popular or useful. If they share data they are easier to use and more popular but not as easy to secure.

You say "not being able to do something properly" without addressing the fact that there is no accepted "proper" way to do it. They didn't ignore the proper way because they were lazy or stupid. Exchange email started on Windows Mobile devices for office use. That it has spread to consumer phones means the assumptions under which it was designed no longer hold.

and causing serious damage to someone as a result.

1) As far as we are told, no damage at all happened to her, she didn't even get lost after losing her navigation system.

2) We don't know that /serious/ damage happened to her.

3) The more serious the potential damage, the more important it was for her to have a backup of her important data and a backup of her important systems. There's no getting around this tradeoff.

4) The more serious the potential damage, the more important it is for her to understand what she is doing when making changes to her device and not blankly follow instructions to hook it up to things willy nilly.

Your second paragraph is a "person should be protected from all harm they don't understand by an all seeing overlord" argument, and it falls down where anyone else wants to do anything else or accept a different risk profile than uninformed easily panicked J. Bloggs.
The Asus UL35 is in there too. Similar config with NVIDIA GPU.
What you're talking about are your opinions and your personal philosophical beliefs [..] discussing them is exactly what I signed up here for.

.. or are you claiming you only express facts ;)
Being that this discussion board is most frequented by those involved in startups, I would posit the meaning behind "UX, not features" to actually be: Focus on maximizing the experience of a small number of features over doing an adequate job on a large number of features.

As Paul Buchheit stated, it's better to make a small number of users love you than a large number of users kind of like you. To do this, maximize the preferred, smaller feature set of that excited minority initially, and then expand to encompass the majority only after you've captured that minority.
From a business sense you want to ship a minimum viable product as soon as possible. There may be teams that could do this most efficiently via the architecture you describe. I think most will work faster with one less tier.
> 1) Kik claimed. RIM may not have agreed.

On the other hand, Apple generally doesn't like other people to play fast and loose with their own user's data, yet no peep so far from them?
Is there any Twitter/RSS feed for it?

Similar as http://twitter.com/#!/hackernewsbot ?
Being in that majority of people who haven't built Twitter-scale systems in the past, could someone explain to me why Twitter is moving to a new form of twitter ID in the first place? What is wrong with their current system?

Also, it seems strange that they would include the new ID in string AND integer form in their JSON. I realize that they don't want to break existing javascript apps, but isn't there a significant bandwidth cost in adding that sort of kludge to the API when you're serving a quadrillion of these api requests every day?
I'm sorry about this miscommunication and it wasn't intentional--we absolutely consider the Digital Service team at the VA to be part of the USDS; we helped build it. Ellen Ratajak (new eng director at VA) is one of the examples listed on whitehouse.gov/us-digital-service

Hiring bright people isn't enough, we have to empower them by building critical mass on impactful projects with executive support. We were focused on creating a team at the VA when you applied (still are, if you finished stapling yourself), but there are other options now that didn't exist then.
I can add some more details here, because I'm still at the MailOnline :)

The CTO, Clifton Cunningham, did help by giving us the space to create new things. For example we also work on our own Javascript library for building the in-house CMS - https://github.com/MailOnline/milo

However, Clojure (we also use Node.js BTW) really does work for us. In the 11 months since Jon's blog post, the code has grown (I guess 30-40k LOC across several processes) but it also does much more too. I think Clojure helps because it gives more freedom to refactor/factor the code in the way the team want.

For example a decision could be made to create a microservice for a commonly used URL or API. Sure you can do that in other languages, but it just seems easier with functional languages, I think because the composed functions seem easier to lift and shift. I've no evidence for this, just gut feeling. I spent years doing Spring/Hibernate etc and really don't miss it.

We'll definitely continue to support Clojure and other functional languages.
The book sounds really good. Thanks for the suggestion. In case anyone is wondering, you can learn more here:

http://computationbook.com/
Few or no European suburbs are as vast as your American suburbs (think Houston, Atlanta or the Bay area). In my home country (Denmark) young families now tend to stay in city centers rather than moving to suburbs so the trend is reverse.

Also, European cities generally have much better public transportation such as really decent busses, trolley busses, light rails, subways, trains, and trams.

Finally, I suspect a mile driven by 30-60 year olds are generally safer than a mile driven by teenagers. Europe has older population and few teenage drivers.
The same reason mortgage rates are up even as treasuries are at an all time low. Who wants to loan money in this environment?

Have you looked at BBB bonds? A lot of companies have been downgraded because the conditions have changed so dramatically, driving yields up as well.
> Enjoy television shows that offer multi-month and multi-year arcs and are designed to be consumed by dedicated fans in order, rather than principally for syndication in random order.

This has nothing to do with economic or technical limitations. It has cultural reasons. SDF Macross aired in 1982 in Japan with 26 episodes in order and I'm sure there are even earlier shows.
I still use the verb "mapquesting" when referring to online maps. It gets a laugh every once in a while.
For poetry, it makes sense to use `poetry self update --preview` — I often come across weird bugs that take too long to get fixed in the current release.
It’s not about shaming people, it’s just about pointing out possibilities and offering solutions. Whenever this topic comes up people love to bring up contrived edge cases and dismiss biking completely.

“It doesn’t work if you have an emergency during a blizzard, so therefore you should never bike”

“It doesn’t work for a single mother with three jobs so nobody should do it”

“We haven’t completely rebuilt the entire urban infrastructure into a biking utopia and achieved perfect economic justice so therefore nobody can bike”

Nonsense. It doesn’t have to be all or nothing. Not every single person needs to bike and even those that do don’t need to bike all the time for every trip. That doesn’t mean there isn’t tons of low-hanging fruit to turn lots of bike trips into car trips.
Pipenv only targets applications; Poetry targets both applications and libraries. Pipenv has quite some drama behind it that I do not want to get into; in contrast, Poetry's development has been quite professional. Pipenv enjoys better tool support, e.g. it is recognized and supported by VS Code; but Poetry does not have the same level of support.
I believe you have just succinctly described what is known as a "chilling effect" on speech.

Historically in this country, we've tried hard to prevent that.
It's processors all the way down.

There are probably tens to perhaps even hundreds of independent processors in a modern phone/computer system design. They're elements of essentially every chip in the device - especially if they provide complex/integrated functionality or communicate digitally with other chips.
COBOL was never "Admiral Hopper's system programming language for writing missile defense systems in in the 1960s either."

It was always designed for business type applications.

Back in the 1960s assembly language was used for writing the missile defense systems and other systems programming [later C and Ada, etc became prevalent].
"Issued an order" and "has constitutional authority that covers the contents of the order" are two different things. "Has constitutional authority that the courts recognize" is yet a third thing. The existence of the first thing does not imply the existence of the second or third things.

The order itself gives no justification for how the CDC has the constitutional authority to order these things.
|Technically this means I can bring my dog literally anywhere

Doesn't the article specifically state the law only allows keeping an ESA in a residence that doesn't otherwise allow animals, and flying with them for free? The author explicitly states emotional support animals do not have the same rights as service animals, and you cannot bring your dog anywhere. People are just lead to believe so.
The thing is we're literally trying to tell companies that there is a "different" and "better" way to do something they're already doing.

I know it looks like a Medium competitor right now, but what we're trying to do is provide a way for companies and nonprofits to talk about their social responsibility activities in an engaging way. From there we will provide discovery for the companies and thereby bringing awareness to consumers.

And from there we plan to provide initiatives publishing because most organizations have very common initiatives.

I can see why everyone is reacting this way.

And quite frankly, I kind of see it too. It's just that we are so obsessed with the idea of social responsibility that we can't get our minds out of it.
It can be super bad because the YouTube video is a slideshow with a mp3, compressed before being uploaded to YouTube, and compressed by YouTube again.

When it's an official video, I guess it's only compressed twice and they use high quality masters but still, YouTube isn't hi-fi.
> Sure but don't fall for the false promises socialism makes.

What a pithy comment. I guess that ends the debate before it even starts.

Except that every other Western nation has socialized medicine, and most of their citizens are happy with it.

I hope your grocery cashier doesn't have corona virus this week, because they aren't checking into a US hospital.

Don't fall for the false promises capitalism makes.

We have tens of millions of Americans who can't afford the ambulance ride to the hospital, let alone the stay there for even one day.

And we probably spend as much on administrative and billing overhead for health care as other countries spend on services. Think about that.
If there will be much of America remaining. Over 600k unemployment claims and an infection graph that looks way scarier than Italy where the situation is disastrous, combined with a lack of tests and many people still going to work...
> The real challenge is that no one agrees what great writing really is or how to teach it.

If the doc allows an average user to quickly setup the service and how to use it with two or three scenarios without getting confused is a good metric that the doc is good.
If so, you would think their government would have asked the population physical distancing already and work from home where one can.
https://www.government.se/articles/2020/03/s-work-in-the-are...
Were they doing that full page text matching in an ASIC too?! Doesn't that basically involve writing a simple parser also? Else what prevents things like usage of Google analytics/fonts etc from triggering a match and blocking?
Locking down Hubei after 600 cases / ~3weeks is extremely expedient for an utterly unprecedented response. NYC was at 10k+ cases before they implement a light lock down, 60 days after Hubei, they're still meandering through half-measures. That's a comparatively severe response outside of China.

Many considerations in a region of 60million, i.e Jan 17th was the regional two sessions meeting. The early migration and WuHan being regional hub no doubt precipitated the decision to lock-down that fast. China locked down most of the country after ~30 days. Outside of a few city-states or island nations, we have ample counter-examples that no other country has responded as agile as China. Many don't even have a meaning response plan in place.
have you ever considered the security and privacy implications of using this product?
I've been following this book for many months. Quite expensive. I wonder if/when it will be available on Safari.
Long story short, the number of IPO's on US equity markets has shrunk dramatically. It fell not by 30% or even 50%, but by over 95% from 1996 to 2008. In 1996 there were 756 IPOs and at the low in 2008 there were only 36. It's picking up a bit again, with 100 IPO's in the US this year.

I think one of the more interesting bits from the article is "This year alone, Chinese companies introduced 391 global I.P.O.’s, worth $89.5 billion, the data firm Dealogic reported. The 99 I.P.O.’s by American companies listing in the United States were worth $15.69 billion."
Can you use it to write code that will be used (compiled) both server-side and client-side?

Because these days this is my bar for a language that is "nice for building web applications". I've gotten so much mileage out of Clojure+ClojureScript just because of this, it's not even funny.
Already in https://killedbygoogle.com/, that's fast.
Which is only, what, 99% of hospitals?
What 22 year old plans for their parent's cancer? Or really has a solid idea of exactly what their future has in store?

He was doing what people in their early 20s are supposed to do: take risks. He was probably involved in startups before his mom got sick.

Let's not beat him up for doing what many of us are doing right now, then getting caught in an unpredictable and terrible situation and trying to do what he thought was right at the time under a lot of stress and emotion.
> that every human must have complete technological and implementation knowledge

Or they could use software produced by people with that knowledge and who had users' interests in mind, which would automate the appropriate way to handle these concerns. And if they're unable to judge softwares' merits, they should rely on the opinion of more knowledgeable friends.

In this case, the device could easily generate a new MAC for every connection attempt, and give you an option to make that identifier more persistent per-network.

But instead people listen to the TV (et al) as it tells them to keep buying new closed Androids and iDevices, and then act incredulous (or Stockholm syndromed) when for-profit companies end up betraying them.
> It's really a shame that Adobe's absolute garbage treatment of Flash

People praised Steve Jobs' decision that the iPhone shall have no support for Flash, and evangelized that Flash shall be dead - the future shall be HTML5.

Everybody who said something else was treated as an Adobe shill.
It's older than Hollywood. R.L.Stevenson's The Treasure Island (1883) did a lot to romanticize pirates and establish the tropes of the pirate genre (like treasure maps).

In general you will see romantization of outlaw groups soon after they stop being a real-world threat.
I meant to say "unikernel." Don't know where that brain fart came from!

> Google, however, does not control what runs on servers, and server hardware manufacturers know that if they don’t have a driver in Linux, they won’t sell very much of their hardware, since existing hardware run Linux-based systems.

I'm not sure if "It's the way things are" is quite the argument its made out to be. Some server hardware is beginning to look more and more like a phone/Chromebook. And things do change. "Not in a million years" was the argument made against Linux compared to the traditional enterprise UNIX vendors and where are they now?
As a final year of university we built a system interacting with PLC and those systems are insecure by default. Usually the code is stored plaintext on the device if you can speak their protocol. Some of those devices are connected to the internet for remote management.

We were tasked to build an IIoT (industrial iot) to interact more securely with them and package that in a UI for fleet management and real time data with grafana. You can interact with most of them using modbus (over ethernet for newer models) to read and write memory directy.

On top of that they have a proprietary protocol that I actually started reverse engineering to do remote updates but never finished it. I am not aware of anything open source for it meaning people still need to use the vendor crappy windows only GUI tool to update firmware. i expect this APT implemented part of that protocol too to mess with the device.
Ditto. Speaking as a past member of the Generative Art community. Good luck getting anything anything modern into the Wikipedia article tho. They've got it locked down.
>multi-platform targets

I think WebAssembly is the most natural fit here.
If there was a demand, game developers would find a way. It’s just that kids are playing games on phones these days.
sure, it makes you look more physically attractive; nobody is arguing with that. But, looking nice is not always an advantage.

Given no other information, are you going to hire the programmer who obviously puts a lot of effort into his appearance? or the programmer who does not?

I mean, I know people who answer both ways. Some people think looking nice is a sign of respect... but others assume that if you put that much effort into your appearance you must be covering up for incompetence.
Great hack, or greatest hack of all time? I am inclined to think the latter.
One thing Meld cannot easily do (unless it's changed very recently) is manually align blocks of text when autoalignment fails.

I recommend Diffuse for that, and also for three-way merging: http://diffuse.sourceforge.net/

I do join in recommending Meld for your everyday diff/merge, though. :)
The hebrew word for sin is חטא ("het"), which shares a root with להחטיא ("to miss the mark"). Hebrew forms start with a 3-letter base[1], which gets put into various templates for conjugations of time, person, active/passive and other nuances. So it seems that you're right there.

[1] modern hebrew also has 4-letter bases and supposedly even a couple of 5-letter ones -- rumour has it that the 5 letter ones never found their way out of a dictionary though.
Realize that I have to give lecture in half an hour. Pull up lecture notes from last year. Change "2009" to "2010" on the title slide. Skim over them and remember that this lecture was a total disaster but that I don't have time to fix it now. [..] Give lecture on cache algorithms to 70 or so somewhat perplexed and bored undergrads.

I'm sure there's a little hyperbole but this was outlining a typical day? It's not a surprise the students would be perplexed or bored if taught by someone whose passion wasn't for education. Some colleges get this right; many get it wrong. While it's good to have experts in your faculty, you need good educators first.

Many colleges seem only too happy to coerce expert non-educators into giving lectures against their will, but it makes as little sense as pushing good educators into doing large research projects..
I have no idea why you are getting upvoted. You're not bursting any bubble, you're just parading your cynicism and knowledge of a specialized field before a technical audience. The post http://www.superconductors.org/276K.htm contains a whole bunch of data which may answer your 3 points. How about you go through it, or email the author who has "released [the details] into the public domain without patent protection in order to encourage additional research" and get back to us? You ask, "Does the sample show the Meissner effect" and I ask you does the information provided supply you with the answer? In which case you should write, "the published research information does not provide any information regarding the Meissner effect" because otherwise it sounds like you didn't even look closely at the article. And 10 out of 10 for not explaining what the Meissner effect is by the way. The top graph on the linked to page has a portion of the plotted function circled and labelled Meissner transition, is this what you mean? From Wiki P: "The Meissner effect is the expulsion of a magnetic field from a superconductor during its transition to the superconducting state. Walther Meissner and Robert Ochsenfeld discovered the phenomenon in 1933 by measuring the magnetic field distribution outside superconducting tin and lead samples."

Is (Tl4Pb)Ba2MgCu8O13+ a ceramic compound? If not, why mention them? They are claiming superconductivity, so this implies zero resistance doesn't it? We can worry about impurities when we make enough of the stuff to extrude and bend it.
"He ... is a proponent of government mechanics to get people to do the right thing"

Sounds like the last person I want anywhere near my government.

"when they would ordinarily fall prey to fallacious reasoning"

The first problem here is that the idea of a "fallacy" only makes sense in the context of logic, and politics often diverges from logic. Even if we could have a political system that was logically consistent, there would need to be some set of axioms on which that system is based, and the approach of "protecting" people from fallacious reasoning would only serve to prevent those axioms from being changed.

Put in less polite terms, he is proposing that the government protect itself from political dissent. I believe there is a name for such a system...
Let's recap.

In these days, mothers kill their children before they are born, we call our self evolutionized beans, but sex still is what drive us, we still live in war and we have become more racists, and indifferent to the pain of the weak.

No, we are not better than before.
Not really an unresponsive driver - more like an unresponsive passenger. I bet a lot of people will fall asleep while being driven around.
~2k miles, wow. That is a trek.

If you hit the Bonneville salt flats at night, you might find fire-dancing on the flats near the rest areas.

The rest areas in Nevada have fresh drinking water, so you can save some weight by waiting to fill your water tanks.

Shoot me an email electrodynatronic von gmail if you like. I might have a few more tips if you're interested.

-Good luck
This is so wrong in many ways. Some of your costs go down, but your means of earning money go down also. Also, there is a cost to having poor infrastructure in health as well as money (septic tanks ain't cheap, burning your trash out back will give you cancer), forget about public transit, you have to have a car. Better to be poor in a city, where there could at least be some services to help out, and at least the infrastructure is there and relatively cheap. And finding a job is a possibility.
Why do you assume this has been tried? It's not even clear what the game is. In this setting, what state and actions would the algorithm have access to?