jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
My truck goes from 22 mpg to 10 mpg when I hook up my RV. Utility trailers aren't nearly so bad, but an RV trailer is like an open parachute behind you.
I’m sure looking at numbers it’s going to be mostly dog poop.

There should NOT be ANY human poop at all!!!

That it’s even trivialized goes to show the growing acceptance of this phenomenon. On a few occasions I’ve seen people (perhaps transients or whatever) going behind bushes in plain daylight. I’ve seen it on sidewalks and also on public steps. That should not be a thing in a country that emerged from outhouses and such a century ago and understand cholera etc...
it seems litestep is still alive.. just.
We're going back to square one with the 'empties my account' comment. You can mitigate that but changing your password pre/post transaction so the login you use is one-time. It is inconvenient, but worth it if you do not trust the vendor and want to avoid credit card fees.
If you are concerned about them getting your past transactions, you can always create a new account, or even a new bank account just for use for these type of situations. There's still some transaction history, but not nearly as much as a day to day account. I do think there's a lot of value in Plaids services but having said that, it is all a work around due to the abysmal financial infrastructure of the USA and lack of real time payments. Plaid services and requiring bank logins to do transactions does seem a bit whack, but again US payment system is even whacker.
Very neat, thanks.

Loading one of these things in blender and rotating it around is really worth doing, and it's totally weird: when you rotate most 3D objects interactively, you can get a good grasp of their shape, but these things feels like they are specifically designed to prevent that from happening.
Jails is not the answer to the poop problem. Maybe more toilets?
The same sentiments in essay form:

http://raganwald.posterous.com/i-call-bullshit-on-computer-s...
I don't find this surprising. "Piracy" is the expression of a market that is unserved, which is to say that a product is offered at price X, the consumers price is Y which is < X and the risk of piracy is Z which is <= (X - Y).

The MPAA and RIAA and a bounty of plaintiff lawyers are trying to increase the cost of the risk, and people like Netflix are getting the price paid by the consumer below X.

When the inequality ceases to hold, people switch into being paying customers.
The first three are intransitive senses; I'm sorry the abbreviation "intr" wasn't familiar to you, but it's quite common in dictionaries. Please delete your unnecessarily aggressive comment, ajross.
My suggestion: An http://upl8.tv style interface for viewing.
Ars Technica has more info:

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/04/ars-readers-repor...
Both funny and poignant. It is interesting to consider how many popular web services use .ly domain names and are hence tied to Libya (albeit far removed).
I don't see selling pirated works as any worse than creating the pirated work. There is no honor among thieves.
Not sure I completely agree with this idea. I used to own an art gallery and saw many artists, early in their careers, who actually THOUGHT they were great, but who were actually terrible. Some of those same artists later DID become great and produced masterful works (and were embarrassed by their early works). For some people I think it's possible for taste to improve as they walk along their creative journey.

Another example: I wasn't frustrated with my code when I first started because I didn't even have the taste to know it was bad.
Wow, that's neat! I didn't think of that.. But useful app anyway, thanks!
Except they are still useful for mining.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/rtx-3060-still-profitable-...

That's before the driver limit has been hacked out, which there is enough demand that someone will probably do it.
How does this differ from Earthly? https://github.com/earthly/earthly

Earthly lets you abstract anything you do inside a container into an Earthfile, that runs locally on a dev's machine, but also in any CI, making CI scripts more portable. However, testing other CI-specific things before committing, such as GitLab rules dictating when jobs actually run, remain unsolved. But they also remain unsolved with this glci solution, right?
Never been in love making new spreadsheets before trying sc-im, a CLI spreadsheet program. The project needs traction, and new enthusiastic developers to chip in.
I'll pay $300/year for global security any day of the week. Honestly, I don't give a shit if it costs $10,000/year, I want the U.S. being the global police because I am most comfortable with the status quo.

Simple as that.
Calling someone a douchebag is surely a productive means of steering the community to good, considerate feedback.
This was a great read but I found the end of the speech to be a letdown. He does a good job of introducing his core idea:

> The really significant education ... isn’t really about the capacity to think, but rather about the choice of what to think about.

But then at the end of the speech he seems to undermine it by telling us what we should think about, namely that we should be highly empathetic and self-sacrificing:

> The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.

Wait, why should we be living a life of perpetual self sacrifice? He hasn't built the case for this. But he says it's the real freedom. So which is really his core point: the freedom to choose your perspective, or the virtue of self-sacrifice?

Imho he makes a good argument in favor of choosing a non-default (if you adhere exclusively to self-interest, you'll be miserable because everyone's your enemy).

But he doesn't defend the latter proposition (commitment to self-sacrifice), and if we accept it as dogma it will conflict with the first. I guess an example of when self-sacrifice goes too far is Stockholm Syndrome, where a victim empathizes with their abuser and accepts the abuse.

Beyond this conflict I wonder whether the question of how to live should be viewed as a binary like he seems to have presented it (live for yourself, or live for others). It is a complex and open-ended question. Reducing it to a one or the other choice fails to represent that complexity.

Also I know this question commits an ad hominem fallacy, but it's hard not to ask it: should we be listening to a guy who committed suicide about how to live well?
Is that a guess? Or does reporting data still indicate there is a lot short? Because my understanding was that much of the shorts had covered according to the drop in reported short interest.
They also have some of the best technical documentation on the web.
D-Bus does not use JSON.
I am bemused by C and C++ fanatics who simply do not and apparently can not see beyond C and C++. Like it is impossible for society to surpass those languages, and that everyone will use them a million years from now...

We will obviously still have them for a while, but anyone that thinks we have reached maturity in an industry that is around 50 years old is just not thinking objectively.
I drove myself insane for a morning recently when I couldn't work out why a site of mine that had happily been working for years suddenly stopped displaying some images in the carousel. They were there in the HTML but Chrome reckoned they were zero size. Eventually, it hit me that I should try turning off adblock. Turns out, I had called the imgs containg divs "#ad1", "#ad2". "#ad3", etc were all fine for some reason.

Anyway, the point is that you could probably easily check for adblock by checking the image size of something within a div named "advert".
The gap is quite large. Even between Manchester and London it's still large.

I've seen contracts that pay £450/day in London for experienced Rails devs.
Given that these requests are using HTTPS (not that a non-secure POST is any better than a non-secure GET in that regard), could you give some other issues aside from the browser history issue?
Evolutionarily, domestication seems to be a jackpot.
I know it's the internet and the standard assumpution is that what I wrote is a complaint.

But just to be clear, I don't find Emac's behavior annoying. I find it empowering. The idea that I might know what I am doing and be doing it seriously is refreshing. Even if I don't.

I get annoyed with the fact that I don't know Emacs better. But I love the fact that I can change that fact. I love that there's something else to learn about Emacs and that it's likely to be worth learning because it involves diving into an incredible piece of software as an object of design.
Beware of economic theory's ability to tell stories. It's a similar danger to evolutionary biology.

It's also at risk of the Is/Ought problem; the stories are not justifications.
I aint no traditionalist or a Java supremacist :). I'm just an ordinary guy with passion for anything web development and I happen to like javascript a lot.

So, I'm okay with non classical inheritance or any other non conventional constructs that would make our lives easier but I'm really skeptical about the direction that these frameworks is taking the industry as a whole in, and I believe that their lack of enthusiasm for established best practices and breaking the rules without offering well thought and coherent alternatives is worrisome.
Calm down, no need to be throwing plates at each other.

Nobody is stealing anything. We are talking about picking the most cost effective option on the menu while intelligently avoiding traps made by the menu's designers. Picking the item that is "under the fold" instead of the one that has been carefully crafted by the designer for you to pick.

Personally, I use the money I save by taking those items over the featured items by ordering more wine! Everyone is winning here.
I guess I'd ask again, do you critique Hacker News for this?

It is definitely not a new idea to reuse existing ideas, even if you don't reuse existing code, to provide previously unserved/underserved markets with already existing services/products, nor is it a new idea to charge for it. I honestly don't know what you're getting at. Do you think they should provide this service for free because others do? Should customers just be smarter and know that Google Voice exists? What exactly do you find is wrong about this situation?
> You have to focus your limited resources somewhere, if you don't, you get Google software, which is OK when you look at it in aggregate, but horrible if you're looking for a refined experience in something important.

Google search, e-mail and maps are wonderful refined experiences in things I find important. Of course, that doesn't necessarily contradict your broader point. Maybe those three services are so good because Google also considers them important and gives them a lot of focus. For all I know, the company might also supply a dozen other things that are of much lower quality because they don't get so much focus.
Not the hackers I know. I bet Upton was like that though [0].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair
> most people in the United States in fact do see a problem with our enormous prison population

[citation needed] because no, that goes completely against my experience.
That looks like a perfectly fine exponential distribution.
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This happened about 11 months ago. We'll be releasing kivy 1.9.0 in the next few days!
It is all about resources.... a person who has the resources to defend themselves like a corporation will probably get the same punishment.
How is this a better alternative?

A major attraction of Prolog is that one can remove almost arbitrary parts of any pure program and still infer useful conclusions that hold for the original program. For example, one can remove a clause and thereby make the program more specific. One can remove a goal and thus make the program more general.

This is possible due to the way the language is designed, the interplay of syntax and semantics enables this. The program fragments serve as explanations that can be shown to programmers to pinpoint mistakes in the code. Thus, when narrowing down mistakes, it becomes possible to focus on smaller portions of the code that are therefore easier to understand.
Like GDPR? Try reading it.
While this is annoying, it's not impossible to get around...
The authors don't care for it much :). I however argue its great for when it fits the problem. Like implementing a protocol like XMPP.
You may want to consider reformatting this in the form of a poll (http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll) as the number ordering clearly did not work out. Also, the way it is posted now makes commenting a bit more difficult, whereas if there were a poll at the top it would be easier to keep just the discussion below.
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no, it just means they are as classy as any big corp.
Cloud Desktops Startup in Arizona

Wondering how many other Arizona people (or anywhere for that matter) are interested and knowledgeable in the VID, Desktop Virtualization & Hypervisor space to possibly work with.

Developer myself & other founder is an Infrastructure Architect looking to make having a Cloud Desktop simple via our control panel, that's in the works.

http://ExpertZero.com
Email me at oscar@expertzero.com, would love to talk!
That's assuming the president in a given case (speaking generally) has any real power and wants to make the change. It's possible that a president is just a puppet beholden to the interests that got him elected, surrounded by staff who are loyal to those interests.
What about monetization? If it's ad-based, alright; however, in many cases the simple payment process offered by iTunes, for instance, is essential.
Even worse, myopia is an eye condition!
vapor, where?
Makes me think: the exploit he describes is the UNIX-predecessor of today's web's XSS attacks ...
You are correct. I suspect that the author started writing “the Linux kernel”, and later changed it to “the GNU/Linux kernel”. But the words “the Linux kernel" doesn’t make any sense – Linux is a kernel, it doesn’t have a kernel; you could say “the kernel Linux”, meaning “the kernel which is named Linux”, but you can’t sensibly say “the Linux kernel”, since that would mean “the kernel of Linux”, which would be nonsensical. Therefore, writing “the GNU/Linux kernel” does make sense, but it is the same as writing “the kernel of GNU/Linux”, which is merely a roundabout way of writing “Linux”. The phrase “the GNU/Linux kernel” is weird, like writing “the shape of the Pyramid of Cheops” when you simply mean “pyramidal”.

Summary; the Operating System, of which there are many variants known as “Distributions”, is “GNU/Linux”. Some distributions choose to use this term verbatim, like Debian GNU/Linux, and others don’t, but they are all GNU/Linux variants all the same¹. The kernel is named “Linux”, so you can call it “the kernel” or “Linux” interchangeably.

① Except the ones who go out of their way to exorcise the GNU components but still use Linux; one example of a project which does this is Android.
I’m fine with the noise pollution if it means potentially saving someones live. However some rich asshole wanting do depart 20 min later then otherwise, to the airport is unacceptable.
Agreed. We must allow for people to change their mind.
pdf.js in Firefox - as it’s sandboxed. Safari on iOS also natively displays web-hosted PDFs very snappily. Okular is an excellent PDF reader for the Linux desktop and supports attachments.
Let's not devalue any one person's job or contribution. However, inequality of pay is real and it's a massive disparity that must be addressed.

Another way of looking at it: the persons who clean the hospital are equally as valuable to the organisation as the doctors and nurses are. Without medical care, patients suffer and die. With an unclean hospital, patients suffer and die.

Everyone should be paid roughly the same, with a reasonable stipend for extra time spent training. No good reason that a doctor should be on hundreds of thousands in salary per year, and a cleaner subsists on a minimal wage.

Same goes for software engineers.
> the deeply flawed idea that healthcare should be a "marketplace"

It should be a marketplace. instead, it's a racket.
This is how I learnt loads of great magazines in the 80's in the UK with code in, you spent hours typing it in. It didn't work and you fixed it (that's how I learnt to debug!). The next week the corrections were usually published, good times.
OBL was found in Abbottabad

/minor_nitpick
Not an expert, but my guess is a lower immune response to the vaccine in older patients.
The Republicans don't "threaten" to block, they just block.

I'd prefer Wyden just got on with it, rather than making probably-empty threats.
Is the way things look&feel not a part of usability and especially UX? And how can a designer make it right if he is not familiar with actual problems or requirements?

If he does not care, it's his problem but if you don't then you should not blame him for anything.

btw, Isn't UX secondary for a developer too?
The SAT (for all its flaws) was once called the "Scholastic Aptitude Test" and actually functioned as an IQ test. It has since been renamed simply the SAT because it's politically incorrect to suggest that some people have "scholastic aptitude" and some people do not. Food for thought.
I'm one of the 2500 backers. I plan on wearing my red-anodized LunaTik.
Still wondering what apps uses that trick, and which ones have gotten rejected for trying to use it ;)
Probably none of the above. I've heard the interviewer makes up their mind to hire you in the first few seconds of meeting you. Psychology is a strange, strange thing ... but reality is better than fiction.
Good point, but there is context missing.

Are you interested in matrix math, or were you merely trying to pass an exam?

Alternatively, if you are interested in matrix math, did the fact that you had to pass an exam make it harder to learn?
I enjoy clever ways of approaching problems as much as the next guy, but I would never ding someone in an interview for not coming up with a clever-enough solution. Good software engineering is maybe 99.7% failure-avoidance and 0.3% cleverness. On very rare occasions you need a clever solution, but most of the time you need to solve the problem in a way that you're 100% sure will work, has no nasty failure conditions, and that other competent engineers will understand. If there's no other good solution, or if every bit/cycle matters, then you get to try to be clever, but that happens pretty rarely. I've seen way, way too many problems caused by people using clever solutions for problems that had straightforward-but-less-fun solutions. (And as has been pointed out plenty of times already here, the clever solution in this case is less optimal than a more straightforward one would be). If an interviewer seemed intent on proving they were more clever than me, or on trying to get me to throw out unnecessarily-clever solutions to straightforward problems, it would be a pretty big turnoff.
People aren't afraid of cicadas.
Worst title ever, this is not a new metal any more than printed paper is new paper.
Carrying a beacon in your pocket seems like a really impractical solution if you own a smartphone.
Yes, only marketing improvements here.
After having looked at dozens of Bitcoin exchange APIs

For those who don't recognize the name, Clark ran one of the best Bitcoin exchange charts sites at bitcoin.clarkmoody.com (now part of ZeroBlock?)
Updated version: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=228167
Original article on author's own site:

http://www.ben-morris.com/why-rest-is-not-a-silver-bullet-fo...
If that's the case, it would've been nice to see snappy included in the comparisons, since it seem appears targeted at the same use cases.
Hi (sorry for hijacking the thread),

Is there a plan for a french version of learning the hard way in the future ? That would be awesome.
That dude looks like a straight dealer. Lol. DoctorX.

But yes I agree if someone is going to put harmful chemicals in their body they might as well prevent any further damage to their body and reduce risk of complications.
Sure, but that has nothing to do with Excel. You could say the same thing about basically any legacy application on any stack.
Wonder what the lie is today?
It would be cool if you integrated with Open Graph to allow links posted to Facebook to be cross-posted to howl. Feel free to ping for clarification
-4 is the lowest a comment can go. I suspect it's to prevent the author from losing too much karma. At worst, he can lose 5 karma from a single comment that the community doesn't like.
There could be some fun ways to simulate hover on touch devices.

Perhaps a drag gesture across an area can work as a hover? Probably won't work great if context stuff pops up directly under your finger.

Better/crazier plan: the new iPhone has a user-facing camera. How hard is it to get some eye-tracking software going?
Well, the UK situation involves three GSM carriers. In the United States, the only prominent GSM competitor to AT&T is T-Mobile, and they have no need or intention to get their phone on a budget carrier. With Verizon, they'd have to design different hardware and deal with the fact that EV-DO Rev. A on CDMA is on the way out and LTE is going to be lit up for about 100M subscribers by January 2011.
>The government admits that they don't have the money

As with all large government infrastructure projects, the government will borrow money to fund development. This isn't a problem considering that Australia has the lowest public debt of any Western country, and net debt will peak at 6% of GDP in 2012.

>I think it is fair to say that the National Broadband Scheme in Australia is a dead project walking.

Centrebet 2010 Australian Federal Election

Labor $1.46

Coalition $2.65

It's likely that Labor will win the next election and continue with its plan to build a national broadband network.

>These projects sound good in theory but are terrible in execution because Governments just cannot understand commercial returns

I would say that China is an example of a Government that's been able to roll out a significant amount of infrastructure in a small amount of time.
You're completely correct in comparing this to relationships (though maybe dating is better than marriage, but still...). Basically any pairing problem is prime territory for a technical solution. That's why we see so many attempts (and even successful ones) at dating sites. And job sites. And apartment sites.

Whenever you're involved with many options to choose something, and the other party has the chance to reject you, you have an interesting problem. Am I missing any big ones besides housing, courtship and employment? I guess higher education could be considered, but it's a little lopsided: more of a few-to-many relationship.
Well, now we now.

At WWDC 2010, Jobs announced that Apple has paid out over $1 billion to app developers.

That means Apple has pocketed $428.6 million from their 30/70 revenue split.

A small amount of their total margins since the App Store was introduced in 2008.