jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In my experience, I would highly recommend Digital Ocean. Their experience is boiled down to what matters to dev's: simplicity and speed in setup. You can get started with a Droplet (what they call a dedicated virtual) for as low as 5$ a month for 512mb ram.

Go check them out and let us know what you think!

www.digitalocean.com
I find that this helps tremendously when I'm stuck in a decision. I open TextWrangler on my MacBook, and write about the various options, why I don't like them, and, if I'm really good, what the cost of not making a decision is, and what the simplest solution that could possibly work is.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWo...

I often get stuck when I want to combine the best aspects of various possible solutions, but can't. The writing lays it out there and helps me get over my perfectionism.
This is yet another reason I enjoy typing in Dvorak :) (-_ is in a better place)
That's not exactly true, usually people are already working on distributed systems, and use the failure of centralized systems as an opportunity to point them out.

I personally would greatly fear a decentralized system like Skype, for many reasons.

"Greatly fear" seems hyperbolic. What do you find fearsome about a decentralized Skype?

would do more harm here than good

Such as? I think the adoption of Jabber for IM has worked quite well so far. If Facebook goes down, I don't have to worry about my Google Chat not working.

What problems do you foresee in terms of decentralizing audio/video along with instant messaging?
My cell phone service has never failed in my home.
Does this indicate that the majority of Turkers are already just simple scripts? Perhaps just not as well adapted to particular problem sets as this custom-built one was.
I don't think you need to drink any "koolaid."

There are many reasons to convert from Flash to HTML, not least of which is cross-device compatibility.
Philosophy and ideological arguments might be interesting over coffee at 3am, but right now, companies want HTML5 sites.

Sure, any web developer can offer this service. The point is that they ARE doing it, and packaging their service very well.

I've already sent this site to friends at three different agencies, and got enthusiastic responses all around.
Excellent deconstruction of Jaron Lanier's silly wikileaks article
The additional context is appreciated— it sounds like this tool is something which is likely to be supported long term, so that at least is good.
And that was around the time the CMS was really getting mainstream (instead of Frontpage). So then you had to go digging through a million templates trying to wrap the right thing with your 3x3 table.
Use django. It has batteries included and will let you focus on what matters.
Probably worry about the future of access and direction for FPGAs. Most acquisitions of FPGA companies resulted in worse products afterwards. I'm probably suffering from confirmation bias here.

Is there any example of a FPGA provider delivering better products after acquisition?

EDIT: I'd wager that if the last administration hadn't blocked the sale of Lattice it would now be dead.
> You could try adapting ...

Do you accept PRs for the Rust benchmarks? My code is nowhere near competitive to the Wuffs implementation, but it would be a fun goal to work towards.

> Note that statements like ... can silently overflow a u32

Thank you for catching that, I'll go through the entire codebase and try to fix those up.

That's a part of Rust that always makes me feel uneasy - the compiler will tell you if you're doing math with numbers of different bit widths, but it won't warn you in most cases about overflow. That would be a good addition to the Rust compiler, or at least a Clippy lint.
They accomplished the goal of getting people to maybe think about police violence. It’s clear that lighter protests didn’t get any action or attention. If violence is so intolerable, I would like to see some calls for justice from those who seem more concerned about the protection of buildings than people’s lives.

Stop pretending the violence came from nothing. I have friends with burns on their legs from getting hit by stun grenades while actually peacefully protesting. You won’t believe that, but you can find video after video of police actively attacking peaceful protestors.
I don’t think I’ll ever understand the astrophysics use of the verbiage “causal” and “observable” in lieu of just using “light/ERM” and “spacetime”.

The only argument I could see for the need of these terms in addition to just light/ERM would be the ability to detect the existence of something beyond the furthest edges of the universe from where light reaches us through phenomena such as gravitational pull from beyond the edges on the bodies at the edges.
From what I can work out, that era ended shortly after the Fairness Doctrine was removed.
It most definitely is not, especially if you take the surrounding text, rather than the cherry picked except.
Quite surprised. Exactly a year ago I was in hope that someone do something similar for Golang, but soon realized that it's impossible because Golang relies heavily on GC. Now this seems quite interesting.
To be honest it's probably not something I would do. I mean it's certainly a lovely house but it is 70 million worthy?

A slightly more modest but spacious house on the outskirts of the city is more my style.

I mean imagine how many other cool things you could do with that money instead of having sit in some house.

Well regardless it's his money and he can do whatever he wants with it although i wish he would invest it in something more interesting.
> The justification given by the hospital doc was I "Didn't have a plan."

Can you give more context? Generally if someone is suicidal, “having a plan” is not a good thing, because it is beyond a vague intent, and it is a very strong signal of danger. Depressed people are queried about plans to help judge the possibility of suicide: you imply that was the risk that your mother was worried about.
I've worked with Unreal and Unity both, professionally and for many years. Several triple A games, indie titles, commercial sims, and social experiences. What sets unity apart by leaps and bounds is its asset store, community and educational materials.
They also expatriate profits from economies, and are probably using international tax minimisation methods.
Just to clarify, is this with or without Aaron Franklin brisket for lunch?
> By the measure of establishing a profitable business we might argue that they likely will never achieve that.

A "profitable business" was what we'd call a business, back in the day. Companies weren't able to last 5-10 years of losses.
You write:

"Why can't they use real people and real numbers?"

I would suggest that simple models can help clarify things, in a way real situations do not. People use simple models in math, physics, medicine, sociology, statistics, economics, finance, chemistry, ecology, climatology, astronomy, etc. In almost every field of inquiry, people attempt to build simple models to try to get at the underlying truth of some situation. Real events are full of complex interactions, which often involve more variables than can be easily understood. The human brain is not set up to understand real events in which 200 variables all have some influence.

Issac Newton was offering a simple model when he said all matter attracts matter, proportional to its mass and inversely proportional the square of the distance - his model does not explain everything in the Solar system, it especially failed to describe the orbit of Mercury, but it did offer wonderful insight all the same.

Lister and Pasteur were both offering a simplified model when they advanced the germ theory of illness, and yet their model offers wonderful insights into disease.

Gauss offered simple models for more things than I could possibly list here - some have argued that he was the most important mathematician of all time. He contributed something to group theory, geometry, analysis and he largely invented statistics. And what is statistics, but a set of methods for quantifying simple models or sorting relevant data from the irrelevant?

With only slight exaggeration, I could make the argument that the progress of science is the progress of simplifying models.

That is the argument for not using "real people and real numbers".
"Employee" is probably a better example than "programmer." This topic seems dedicated to workwear as a whole, not a specific field.

Nevertheless, how we present ourselves is inevitably influenced by what other people think of us. The amount of influence differs by situation. Though a programmer might dress in jeans and a T-shirt, he surely combs his hair.

Sure, our perceptions of appropriate dress change by the decade or so. But there's a difference between lowered expectations of what's appropriate (business casual instead of business) and no expectation. I think the later is what you're suggesting, that opinions of us are less influenced by our dress.

The former may be happening; but as others have stated, all fashion is cyclical. The later is, in the absolute sense, impossible. In the relative sense, it may sway, just like fashion, but we will always dress based on what other people will think, even if its to a lesser degree.
>"The article is largely trying to, in effect, refute the usefulness of HN."

The usefulness of HN is that it provides information relevant to those towards the top of the income distribution. To assume that the the income of HN readership approximates the income distribution of the US population strains credulity.
>>Microsoft makes some generous discounts. Simply because something is worth more than nothing.

Don't forget: The important part is to not open a niche for the use of an open O/S, where it can grow from.

(A historically good way to get really good rebates from MS has been to start talking about Linux. That might be what is going on here.)
This made me smile. Such a nice Christmas gift. I just started getting into vim and things that solve little nagging annoyances really help me stick with it. Thank you!
What exactly do you bribe a guy estimated to have 40 billion in liquid assets with? It's funny because I am sure a corrupt Russian politician must have a strange existential crisis when they get that much money. It's like that guy who built the $300 million dollar custom yacht because you literally can't spend that much money on a house if you tried. There's this website EnglishRussia.com where they have regular features on $500,000 Bentley's that have been abandoned in a ditch somewhere. It seems these corrupt politicians have all this money and don't know what to do with it all and are just buying expensive cars and crashing them in some sort of nihilistic denial that there is any other point to life than acquiring loot.
RIM wasn't the first one to be schooled by Apple in the "UI matters" lesson. Did anyone else own one of those Archos 20gig Jukebox players in 2000?
A journalist has information provided to him by a source and he's not publishing it yet. It happens all the time.
> Looking back, that experience taught me about how important modeling is to pedagogy.

Very good point!

This is the strongest "pitch" for why one should learn math: the modelling superpowers one will acquire. Every function f(x) is a type of model (e.g. mx+b, x^2, e^x, ln(x), cos(x), |x|, etc.), and understanding the function f(x) will allow you to model any phenomenon that exhibits f(x)-like behaviour.

[note: I'm working on the web copy for a math book and trying to decide what to put above the fold to make the average Internet reader interested in math. So far the shortlist of pitches are (1) learn math easily because the book is short and written in a chill tone, (2) destroy your calculus and mechanics exams (for students), (3) get rid of math phobia (for English kids), and (4) gain modelling superpowers. So far I like (4) the best. What do y'all think? Any feedback would be much appreciated. ]
Because no one has ever run the linux kernel on embedded/custom hardware?
That has a lot to do with Western philosophy: beauty, good, truth and being are all "the same" from a metaphysical point of view. Also light=god=goodness. Saying that it is racist misses the point so much.
Whitelisting you would also allow AddThis, Clicky, GA, G+, and Adobe. The "gentle plea" just makes your blog (or whatever it is) look annoying and desperate.
"Violence", you say? What violence is that? Is it taking place in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Korea, or maybe somewhere else, where we don't yet admit we have troops fighting?

Oh, sorry, you were talking about people having heart attacks while climbing the steps of the capital building. Never mind, carry on. Americans complaining about violence is like plants complaining about oxygen.

https://thegrayzone.com/2019/01/15/us-military-160-countries...
Random trivia: Larry Page's brother Carl Page sold eGroups to Yahoo for $432 million which then turned into Yahoo Answers.
Why is this even illegal?
While I don't disagree with your point I don't think you can state that someone being a fan of a low carb diet is not unbiased unless you also say that every single other piece of research on this topic is also biased if it's by someone not "being a fan of low carb diets" (IE. eating like almost everyone does).
Linux phones are really taking off without a good app store? That doesn't sound plausible to me.
The post I was replying to stated that the middle class was squeezed out of existence. It seemed to do so by defining it out of existence in a bizarre way.
I had to run a job ad for a programmer so I took the template provided by HR, added my list of buzzwords and acronyms, and corrected the many factual, grammatical, and spelling errors in the original document.

They ran my ad but the only part that varied from the template was my list if "tech skills". Unfortunately, this meant the job ad was "pre-covid" so it stated we do not work remotely, you must be local, etc. Sigh.
You mean Yahoo Groups, yes? Also shut down recently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EGroups
Makes sense. This is likely the same PFS issue covered in the article.
Well, I wouldn't write a unit test for that - I would write a unit test for the high level observable behavior and if I get it wrong that something is a list then it'll break and my unit test will fail.
Uh, 1$ in food costs. Big difference when you have him talking about having a computer and an apartment his tuition costs since he was in University.

Not really impressed by the "roughing it" statements because it's a big difference when you do this to prove something to yourself when it's just a temporary option and you're aware of that; as opposed to it being a real inescapable reality.
IE6 Must Die. Except for China, IE6 is used by less than 1% of the population around the world, according to Microsoft's own data:

https://www.modern.ie/en-us/ie6countdown
I think Joe's point is that a person who is manipulated into making a certain choice, is not necessarily worse off for making it. In this case, the photo of the high-margin dish not only increases your likelihood of choosing it from the menu, but also increases your desire and satisfaction for having made that choice.

I have some ridiculously expensive designer furniture at home that rationally makes no sense to choose over something from IKEA. Despite that, they give me a lot of satisfaction and I can feel justified in my decision because of that.

That's not to say that everybody makes decisions that they are happy with, there are lots of ways people are manipulated into decisions that they later regret. However, you really should take into account how people feel about a decision before judging whether or not they have been cheated.
You've done your part. It's in their hands now. Whether or not you'll be contacted remains to be seen, but for now assume that it's in a black hole. If you get a response, cool, awesome. Cross that bridge when you come to it. What to do now is to go find 10 more jobs like it and apply. Then find 10 more, rinse, repeat.
>Giving money to everybody would only increase the price of things.

Not necessarily, inflation and the price level are more complicated than that. Creating new money in an economy with no idle capital might create 1-to-1 price level increases, but generally a guaranteed income is funded by progressive taxation. You'd expect some prices to go up and others to go down because the beneficiaries will use money differently, but a funded general income should cause no general inflation.
huge Java projects...why would you compare a general build tool to a language-specific one?
There should be an App for that!
The original posting describes a spectrum analyzer that shows the strength of radio-frequency signals. It's built by reprogramming a toy that uses the Texas Instruments CC1110F32 RF system-on-a-chip (http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/cc1110f32.html)

You (jules) are discussing a spectrometer, that shows the strength of optical spectral lines to identify materials (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer). These are two totally different things - radio-frequency vs optical. (Just want to keep the discussion from getting totally confused.) Also, Natrium == Sodium (Na)
Correct. The issue to take, uh, issue with here is that while this may have had the positive position of keeping things afloat during such a crisis (however manufactured) - the real outcome is that it just further enforces, and more tightly knits, the oligopolistic system in place.
If you're right that it's a cultural thing of the investors, what keeps American VC's from going and investing in European startups? (That's an honest question.)
I had the ISP problem as well, are you sure they scan all ports? They might just be scanning common HTTP ports such as 80, 88, 8080, 8888, etc.

I would pick some random port to host a web server and setup a load balancer on linode using nginx or pound and point it to your home server, that way your visitors don't have to see funky ports in their URL

Home Server (IP: 1.1.1.1)

Web server running on port 25399

Linode Server (IP: 2.2.2.2)

Nginx running on port 80
`-> HTTP requests for host x.com
`-> use 1.1.1.1:25399 as backend

x.com

DNS A record points to 2.2.2.2
Ah, the cross-disciplinary have vs. understand.
Could you clarify what you mean by "fast reading"? I read very quickly and it was like speedbumps for my eyes. If the article hadn't been short enough to fit on one screen I think I would have been annoyed enough to not finish it.
>It's very simple. If you don't want the music you created to be available free of charge, don't release it!

If you don't want your car to be stolen then don't leave it in the street. If you don't want to be run over then don't walk anywhere. ...

Seriously, if you one day forget to lock something up do you really think people should be free to help themselves to it?

If you don't like the current music regime, don't buy music from those who've established it and maintain it. If you want free music then only get tracks that artists are giving away as free and/or licensing with free-gratis licenses.
Good post, getting incorporated (or making an LLC) really IS that easy, and I've not seen anyone outline the process so succinctly before.

One comment: You don't NEED to incorporate in delaware, unless you have specific liability reasons for doing so. Incorporating in your own state is usually cheaper and easier, so unless you have specific protection you want that only a delaware corporation corporation can provide (or nevada, they're also good), don't bother and just use your home state.

Also don't forget that there are upkeep costs for a corporation or LLC, certain paperwork (usually annual) that you have to keep up with and file each year to maintain the corporation.
I mentioned Twitya cos I built it :) What you mention sounds great, and you could also run some twitter searches and subscribe to their feeds. The Twitter ecosystem is so rich, and there'd be crossover involved between different apps, and apps are being improved and new ones released continuously, with this itself a big problem.
Back in '95 when my wife and I were dating, we didn't have a lol. Most of the campus was vt220s hooked up to a VAX, local chat was done with a DCL command called 'phone'. To simulate laughter we would mash random characters from the home keys. The longer the string, and the farther out from the home keys, the harder the laugh.

I don't know, I still think it's a more expressive way to laugh in a terminal.
A friend of mine interviewed at Microsoft sometime in the mid-90s. They offered him a job, but he declined it. They interviewed him again a few years later, and one of the questions had come up in his previous interview. He said "in fairness I have to disclose that I was asked this in my last interview -- and they must have liked my answer because they offered me the job." For some reason the interviewer was so flustered that the rest of the questions were all softballs :-)

Your mileage may vary.
I'm not showing off, I actually often hated it. I'm sorry you took it that way.

But it is what it is, and I think so-called average people fail to understand that when they talk about how they wish they got to work a high paying job at a big company.
> What is the point of a site saying they don’t want to show ads, then covering up 50% of the screen with a request for money? No serious for-profit site would consider giving up 50% of the page to an ad. It’s insane.

First of all, it's for like 1 or 2 weeks a year or whatever their fundraising period is. The donation request is not up there all the time. It is similar to how NPR raises money.

Second of all, Wikipedia is not a "serious for-profit site". I have no idea why you are making this comparison. Lets take a look at a "serious for-profit site" like nytimes.com or cnn.com. Oh look, there are ads everywhere, taking up a huge portion of the page. And they are there every single time you visit the site.

Stop trying to push your inferior competing site (newslines.org) with trash like this.
>(FWIW: The sad state of Windows is that almost every installer out there, MinGW included, means crapping in your system to some extent and never knowing what went on nor being able to removed all traces of what was installed. With each installed application you have to make a conscious decision whether it's worth the unpredictable OS pollution to install the application on a particular machine ... because you know with each install that your headed to that inevitable last one where you have to wipe the entire OS and start over.)

This is a huge point, and a huge downside about Windows, even in recent versions. E.g. some time ago I installed some utility EXE and suddenly my Skype stopped working - in a really weird way - the UI itself changed, IIRC it did not show the login screen, though it did start the app. But could not use it since I had no way to log in. Had to roll back to a previous system save point or some such to undo the damage.
The Windows registry (being a single point of failure [1], plus not getting cleaned out or updated completely (i.e. not all the registry keys getting updated) on installs/uninstalls due to buggy (un)installers), and DLL hell [2] are major causes for this.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_point_of_failure

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLL_Hell
Yeah, I'm not by any means the first.

Note that I do not mean science. Fundamentalist positivism is really a religious fundamentalist movement built around scientific nomenclature and academic orthodoxy. I consider it a form of cargo cult pseudoscience.
If economic growth averages 2% for the next 35 years America will be twice as rich as it is now. We can provide for old folks now, just like we did 35 years ago, and we can definitely do it 35 years from now. This is just another rich dude complaining about the proles.