jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Microsoft will make tons of money without spying on users and setting up "anonymous" profiles of peoples personal tastes, behavior, buying patterns, and other personal information. Google will make significantly less money if they don't spy on users. Its not about Google, its the domain itself. Advertising is a scummy business. Google brags about their advertising targeting capabilities, which simply cannot exist without spying on users. It beats me why anyone would think an advertising company would be pro-privacy. Their goal is to setup a toll booth on the internet by inserting themselves between the user and the content they want to actually get to. I'm waiting for Google to buy all the display companies and show a perma ad-box on the monitor itself. (haha.. I hope I didn't give t hem any ideas.. maybe I shouldn't even be making the joke.. :P )
Would be great to add tampermonkey/greasemonkey support. Opened a ticket for it
I've tried to use liquid metal several times over the years, mostly in wearables projects.

Every time there has been a bunch of red tape on the LQMT side in determining if this was a project they wanted to take part in and, if so, how we should move forward.

That slow moving might work if LQMT is the only way to move forward, but for most projects it's more advisable to just go with MIM, Machining, or something else.
That's a common refrain but just how true is it considering the shadow banking system? People said similar dismissive things in 2008, too.
They haven't learn anything from Segway, you look utterly ridiculous riding one of those things (even worse than someone riding a Segway).
You get 1000 requests a second from Reddit? Wow, it's a whole lot bigger than I thought.
Please explain why you think they are good points instead of just listing them again. Your post does not entice discussion.
It probably depends on where you go and what the problem is.

I've had 1 day turnaround from my local Apple store on a repair. On another repair (replace failing SSD) they fixed it in a few hours.

They also replaced an iPhone 5C screen in a few hours.
On HN I recall the title originally including the $2300 (which matched the blog post's title). Now the HN title does not include the $ amount. Did the mods make that change? I would think preserving the source's title would generally take precedence even if a bit misleading.
2015 is the year people accept Bitcoin
No, I agree with the fear-mongering. I guess the author needed to fill article space, this week.

I'm a privacy-nut type of person and I hate restrictive and absurd licenses. I'm a fan of telling the man to eat it. Note that I'm not justifying restrictive or broad legal agreements, either. I think it's stupid. I just don't think it's any more stupid than similar agreements for similar sites that provide similar services that most of you (including the author of that article) already use every day.

However, I don't see anything in the agreement that you wouldn't normally see on any other social networking site. Unlike some other online bookmarking services, Delicious is a social-networking/bookmarking service, which would explain the concern over content and age and so on. It would perturb me if I was having to agree with something like that for a service which was only me saving bookmarks with comments and tags for my own use that only I would see or access via my own account for myself, but that isn't what Delicious has turned into. Very possibly, they may have even bigger "social networking" ambitions for the service after the purchase, which may further necessitate such stringent clauses.

Besides, if one cared much about that sort of thing, chances are that they wouldn't stop using Delicious now, because they would have already stopped using Delicious when Yahoo! bought them, for similar concerns over privacy and agreements.
Yeah, got me. Seems like it would also be worth more without a pointless chain hanging off it.

Perhaps they'd honed a technique for cutting down parking meters quickly? I also wouldn't rule out the thieves being stupid.
> Well, for a start there's the problem that LLVM itself is architecture-dependent, last I checked. It's not as arhictecture-dependent as assembly but the last time I looked you couldn't generate the same LLVM on x86 and x86-64, say. Has that changed?

LLVM bytecode is 100% architecture and platform independent, unless you call into platform-specific bits or into blobs of machine code.
Is Java verbose? Totally.. Is it meritless (like XML)? Absolutely not. I think Java's a great language for some problems, and a fine language for loads of problems.

It's a shame that it's overused for what I guess I'd only describe as institutionalized laziness.. But I don't think it deserves to be mentioned in the same conversation as XML (when the topic is Technologies That Are Fucking Awful).
Kudos to parth16 for selecting the Yahoo! Associated Press page for this particular link. My first chuckle of the evening.
Me too, though I prefer dexamphetamine.

I've given dex to other programmers on occasion; they're often amazed at how much it helps them concentrate and get things done.

It's kind of like coffee that WORKS.

Hence my favourite programming beverage: grind your beans, sprinkle finely powdered amphetamine on the top of the basket, and make yourself a nice motherfuckiato.
No, that's not what Amazon says.

The following is from the AWS web site [1]:

> Availability Zones are distinct locations that are engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones and provide inexpensive, low latency network connectivity to other Availability Zones in the same Region. By launching instances in separate Availability Zones, you can protect your applications from failure of a single location.

No mention of tradeoffs.

[1] http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/
I didn't think of that video, but I had the same thought. When I have trouble concentrating on what I'm doing, it usually seems to be because I'm thinking about checking what's new online or reading the recent updates on Twitter or checking my email or any of a number of other things. As other people have said, we have almost instant access to more information than ever before. Maybe it will just take a while to figure out how to deal with that without letting the urge to know about everything control us.
> not all of us an Apple one

Which is probably why they are looking for an Android developer:
http://twitter.com/path/status/26431179050
Oh I see. Some are and some aren't. I guess transcription is something the site's community helps out with.
Wow, this reminds me of the holographic home movies in minority report. We have the camera, now all we need is the projector.
Me too, but just wait until your wife is pregnant... Then you're shivering in a ball and she's sweating with the window open.
We do know that the United States Government and allies manipulate both foreign and domestic press.

I agree with the sentiment that this does not imply reddit or hackernews are subject to influence by the United States Government or allies.

I do not agree that the idea is preposterous or laughable. This is because we do know that the NSA infiltrates domestic technical groups as they did with the IETF to affect standards discussions, that they infiltrate activist groups inside the United States to disrupt them, that they are aware of social contagion theory and its usefulness in affecting public opinion, that they have done studies with at least the UCLA on viral messaging for Americans (to compare to, with and against foreign countries), that political campaigns use social targeting techniques without branding and will comment on news articles (to be 'first to post') to color conversation on hot button issues during the races, and that companies with political interests and who share a revolving door with elected office also advertise political discourse online in this way. Thinkst researchers studied how easy it is to manipulate online social conversation, news media outlets and platforms. We know that the GCHQ have JTRIG capabilities to perform internet manipulation and that there are documents from Snowden that specifically mention their use in derailing conversations on online forums. There have been reports of PR firms of private companies astroturfing reddit and others. And we know that HBGary Federal and other cyberoperations contractors for the US Government sell astroturfing services.

What we don't know is that reddit or hackernews are targeted specifically or for domestic purposes by the US Government. We have a few indications that this is done for large media outlets (recently Judith Miller, Ken Dilanian, CNN on Bahrain) in tandem with other leverage like access to officials, exclusive press passes and permission to report at the edges of no-reporting zones. Unfortunately there isn't enough evidence to be conclusive yet about the reddit/HN case as there have not been leaks that speak directly about it, so any debate in this area is bound to be speculation versus speculation.
Though it's not mentioned in the article, Seinfeld uses the weaving technique pretty straightly from "the Harold", a live performance form.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_%28improvisation%29
Holy shit I hope that the OP was posting that as satire.

"So for 3-6 downloads AD companies will pay you $1,000 via epcm !!!!!!!!" - Gotta be satire, right? Please be satire?
Reminds me of my run-in with Starforce 5 in my youth (when I couldn't afford games).

It measures how many sectors there are in the rings on the disk. This number was validated against a portion of your CD key. At the time only a specific line of Plextor drives were able to create physical replications (this still might be the case). The Starforce driver prevented use of drive emulation. Removing the protection from the game (cracking it) wasn't simple, they advertise C++ obfuscation and thus likely inlined the protection routine in multiple places.

Two years after its launch the specific game I wanted (Track Mania Sunrise) could still only be pirated if you owned a Plextor.
Yep. Burning calories is great if you're having trouble getting in a caloric deficit. The easier way is to just not give yourself a huge caloric surplus in the first place.
Appalachian Trail through-hikers can consume 5000 calories a day and still lose notable weight on the trail.
Why is this tagged with "feminism"? I'm really uncomfortable with that. I don't want ideology (of any kind) in my technology.
But to the OP's question, many, if not the majority, of those technologies are written in Java. Definitely the majority are on the JVM, since a few of the non-Java ones are Scala and Clojure.

I think the simple answer is that while lots of people do not love programming in Java, it can be attractive for projects that want relatively good performance without trying to implement a system in C++. There are also a lot of tools and companies that have investments in deploying JVM applications.
Dogs don't have ceremony rites. In Igbo culture, when a prominent man dies, his burial is a ceremony that can last for days, cows are slaughtered, friends he has made across life drop everything they are doing and come for the funeral. It's a feast with as many as a thousand people. When a man kills himself by hanging himself, it's a shameful thing and the funeral is without fanfare.
Why? PRISM is about selected (targeted) collection of data from users that the government has a court order for. Every country in the world does this. This program collects data from traffic passing through the UK regardless of whether the UK government has any reason to suspect the users whose data is collected, let alone present those suspicions to a judge. Yahoo has every reason to be outraged.
A friend [0] has worked with these guys and showed me a prototype, pretty interesting idea, and the case definitely looks cool. The bumper quality was a bit off iirc, but I guess the final product will be better.

0: https://twitter.com/46bit
Do people really speak this way? I would never refer to "Chik'n" verbally. But when seen on the box it does hint at what kind of texture/flavour one might expect. I wish there was an easy alternative as to not be reminded of the animal versions.
I would like to think that 1100 people isn't enough of a critical mass for other companies in Boulder to start "requesting" the devotion of 80 hour weeks. As long as it's only one(Google) then employees who move to Google Boulder with the hopes of a non-Silicon Valley lifestyle can find hopefully equally gainful employees at one of the other companies.

If the general world culture here were to become more similar to that of the Valley then I'd leave. Part of the reason I live in Boulder is because of the lifestyle perks (being able to go skiing in 90 minutes). As soon as I don't have time to enjoy that there's much less reason to stay.
I don't know. I mean, he's still got his finger on the pulse. "Idoru" was excellent, and the idea behind the main character in "Pattern Recognition" (brand allergy) was brilliant. His stories are a bit more conventional. But I think that's because the strange future he visualized has become more conventional as well.

What about his opinion on GamerGate troubled you?
Paul, thanks for emailing me about this. I might have missed your comment here otherwise.

Could you try it now? Should be fixed:
http://mixergy.com/interviews/spartz-spartz-media-interview/
I find Gibson's greatest gift is naming things and coming up with vernacular. Panther Moderns and ice are obvious standouts but I particularly liked "funny" as a term for pirated 3d printed objects in The Peripheral.
> If your valuation rises, you might be forced to move by taxes. If it drops, you lose services and the place starts to get grubby.

Or, if you live in SF, Seattle or Portland, your taxes go up but you still get poor quality services and everything is still grubby.
Did you mean "disagree"? Can't tell what your point is.

I like f2f problem solving too - whiteboarding, high energy, etc - it has its place.
USPS does do contracts for transfers and some local routes.
This is sad, yet also inevitable given so many hurdles facing Fry's.
IE, the first browser I started using and still use regularly now alongside others, behaves the same with single-click selecting all in the address bar (and it's NOT configurable AFAIK), so I'm used to that; but I also see the value in making it user-configurable.

Unfortunately, that dumpster-fire of a bug-report/thread is a horrible abomination that shows massive hubris on the part of the developers; and I say this as a developer myself --- and one who fights against this sort of thing far too often to count. Change the defaults if you really want, but never remove the choice.

(The argument that it has "costs" is stupid --- yes, everything has costs, but they actually have perceived value in this case, unlike working on something else, often of much greater complexity and cost, that your users never even asked for in the first place!)
That's the lynchpin that guarantees Russia will retaliate, but it's Ripper's unchecked moments of control at SAC that set the whole ball rolling, and Slim Pickin's is cowboy-riding that bomb down to the ground whether Russia has an AI or not.
If we're accepting of other cultures, you shouldn't call one weird because it doesn't' conform with other cultures. Isn't the point to celebrate differences? The whole premise of the article is nonsense.
looks like it could be possible :) I just sent you a message so we can discuss it further!
Thank you, my ignorance on the subject has summarily changed
ATC operates on secondary radar (transponder data). If there is no transponder, it would not appear on their scope. Some facilities have an option to switch to primary radar, but it is not usually monitored.
> I use those services only in their webapp form and even then, my laptop grinds to a very noticeable halt as soon as they are loading in the tab.

I'm slightly curious about this, pretty much all my gaming-chat has been done on discord for years now and I've literally never had an issue with it at all
Agree with this. There's a definite stigma with contract-to-hire, at least in my group of tech friends.

No one desires to be in a contract limbo where they aren't sure if they're going to be hired for real or or if they're doing the job search all over again in a few weeks.

Further, as soon as you use contract work to determine hiring criteria -- you've added your management into the mix. Are expectations made clear? Is the person's time managed efficiently? If management fails at any point then it's detrimental to the prospective employee's future, likely not by their own fault.
Take a look at the Harvard Law School loan forgiveness program. Although it does rely on 3rd party loans (in this case the third party is overwhelmingly the government), and so is a bit of the inverse of what you are proposing, it helps pay a quite generous portion of those loans under a broad variety of circumstances while not providing any repayment assistance to those who secure the most lucrative types of private sector jobs.

It is a sort of post hoc means testing, in contrast to the more usual undergraduate system of pre hoc means testing.

The federal government also has income based loan forgiveness programs (the current one is called Pay as You Earn), but it is far less generous.

http://hls.harvard.edu/dept/sfs/low-income-protection-plan-l...
Same basic analogy, though. If the parts come such that they only fit together one way, then finding how to get them together can be deduced by looking at them.

Falls flat when either a) you don't fully understand the parts or b) you are wanting to try a combination not strictly accounted for in the designing of the existing parts.

Problem A is straight forward. Having an in depth knowledge of the "types" in a system has clear benefits. However, not really understanding the types is doable, provided you are strictly in the "assembly" phase of development. I believe that is what this post was about.

Problem B is the killer to me. Often "combinations not accounted for" include partial combinations. It is not unreasonable to want to make sure the wheels of a bike spin with the chain before the pedals are placed.
But the thrust of the article is that in England eating breakfast became the norm during the 16th century, a period almost coterminous with the rule of the Tudors (Henry VII took the throne in 1485; Elizabeth I died in 1603).
That's actually a really good analogy and a great link. But I don't think "full stalk developer" is what really suits me. Maybe my definition of web developer is more limited than its original meaning, I was thinking more in terms of designing a decent sized, complex web app, but not going as far as building hulu or facebook singlehandedly without an actual scalability engineer.
Thank you. This stuff fascinates me but it can certainly be overwhelming at times.
Alex Levinson says that it's illegal to determine the location or movement of a person.

Apple's lead counsel Bruce Sewell says this is not the case as the identifier is randomized, and that Apple does collect anonymous location data from iPhones in an effort to improve its own database of cell tower and WiFi hotspot locations.

See: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/07/apple-responds-to-...
Back when I was looking at hosting Ruby on Smalltalk VMs, I was playing around with parsers and compiler-compilers.

From what I saw, the Ruby language has about 108 terminals+nonterminals in its grammar.

Python has something like 29 term+nonterm.

Smalltalk (an advanced dialect with namespaces and syntactically distinct class bindings) has 8 term+nonterm.

The Ruby syntax is about 3X bigger than Python's, which in turn is about 3X bigger than Smalltalk's.

I'd like to peruse the syntax of Fancy. If it's significantly smaller than Ruby's, then programming tools will appear in the Fancy community at a much faster rate than they did in Ruby. If large swathes of it are homomorphic to Ruby, then lots of Ruby library code could appear in Fancy at a high rate.

EDIT: Yes, size of the syntax is a real consideration. Just two guys wrote the widely used Refactoring Browser for Smalltalk, which includes a recursive meta-syntax parser engine. I have hand written a top-down parser for Smalltalk, and I completed it in just one afternoon. Contrast this with the situation several years ago, of multiple teams of Ruby syntax "study groups" that each labored many months to produce parsers outside of the Matz Ruby VM. (Yes, an "interpreter" is still a VM! The distinction is nonsense at this point.) Smaller syntaxes mean faster language/tool innovation!
Maybe the OP considered it news because it is tangentially related to this patent issue to do with automatically expiring data in hash tables.
Is it on the roadmap?
Simon Peyton Jones has always said that the secret goal of Haskell is not to get you to write Haskell but change the way you think about programming. Seems like we've failed to avoid success again.
In the article she says the Mercedes was paid off; and anyone who has ever owned one knows that their resale value as a percentage of the original purchase price is among the worst of all car makes.
Especially when its using ES6.
Why? Javascript is not without its thorns and glitches. What makes it perfect for this use, in your opinion? Is it just the general "I don't like something you like" reaction - in which case, what is it that he's wrong about here?
Just off the top of my head ... why not precalculate the tip for the majority of people who don't to fiddle with it, and simply let people change the tip if they really want, for those times when the service was atrocious?
It's OVH so I expect it to suck, and absolutely without support
> Why not stick with that?

Eventually it'll be available for Android, so that's a valid reason.
Todd Humphreys at The University of Texas Austin has been pushing for carriers to implement CDGPS since at least 2012.

That would be much more accurate just from the chipset point of view, but as they point out consumers aren't driving the need for such precision.
Poor choice of words. What I'm saying is that there have undoubtedly been thwarted terrorist attacks. I would like more transparency from the government on what led to those. That way, we can at least have an intelligent debate.
Though it's worth noting that Inbox and similar properties do not use it for UI code, but only (exclusively) for business logic below the UI layer. UI code is written in pure JavaScript/Closure.
Cheers will do. Re major, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian and SuSE current stable releases all have systemd. That said AWS Linux doesn't have it.