jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"But if that kid wants to have a goodbye beer with his dad before he goes to war, he'll be thrown in jail (and maybe his dad, too?)"

No he won't. Most states have maximum penalties set to fines in the magnitude of $500, some form of community service and/or driving licence suspension.

I know this is popular rhetoric for anti-war or anti-US people, but come on, either make a good argument or don't bother at all.
Rather than list all the studies here I'll just link you to a page with that lists them.

http://healthpsych.psy.vanderbilt.edu/2008/VeganDiets.htm

That page lists studies showing B12 deficiencies, bone density issues, and elevated Homocystein issues.

Also there is a very strong link to issues with pregnant and nursing women and their babies due to B12 deficiencies. The opinion of most researchers in this area appears to be that pregnant and nursing women should not follow a strict Vegan diet.
It isn't a useful heuristic at all.
The vast majority of people can't program.
If you take a random person from the population I'm going to assume that they cannot program.

If we are talking about 'from the population of programmers'
I'd wager (a large sum) there are more men who claim they can program, but actually cannot, just given the fact that the field of programming is a male dominated industry.
Isnt this pretty much the same as what firefox "tree style tab" addon has been doing for some time already? Except for the preview option, but im not a big fan of that anyway. And tree style tab was putting the tabs on the side, which imho is better because it saves the precious(on widescreens) vertical space.

Anyway, good to see the cool concepts spread :)
Maybe the shops have their reasons. Don't know - I never run a shop. But I have a feeling the author of the article doesn't really know either.
One word summary:

MOBILE!
I had an Oric-1 in those days, but really wanted a Jupiter Ace as well .. there was something so sexy about that machine, for some reason.
I'm a huge fan of Xevious and have it on my Pandora gaming console as a stock-standard go-to for when I need to shoot something.

I'd love to see ZXevious - any chance you've still got a copy somewhere? We Pandora fanboix have lots of emulators in our pockets these days ..
There was a comment on Reddit a while back about what the 140 character limit means in different places:

In English, you get a comment.
In Japanese, you get a poem or a brief news article.
In Chinese, you get a short story... it might as well be a novel.

And someone gave an example Chinese tweet that translated to:

"You guys are the Sina fans other there? 'Keep on Perseverance' (some literate group) is publishing some online literature collection, referencing to the sissy poet character in the 'Cellphone' TV series. I know the people in 'Sina Literature Collection" (another group) well since junior high school; often went to their chat room to chit-chat bull. His (Keep on Perservance) main page's arrangement is overwhelming; I can't digest them. My preference is simple, slim, light-breeze style of literature. Hey, today is the clan chief's birthday, too. Don't know how he/she enjoying his/her day in Swissland. May be eating chocolate fondue? I can't do winter hibernation anymore. Have to come out. And have been messing around with you all day long."
Thankfully, the days of surreal games are here again, the form of homebrew .. see "Pandora Panic!" for example, one of the first homebrew games for the Open Pandora gaming console .. http://open-pandora.org/
Ah well. Stealing focus is happening more and more in macOS. A great annoyance…
The automated property generators are just syntactic sugar. At the moment, if I want a property that's settable inside and out I can can type:

public string MyString{set;get;}

In order to do the same with an immutable property requires a fair bit more code.

private readonly string myString;
public string MyString
{
get
{
return myString;
}
}

Replacing all of that with

public readonly string MyString{get;set;}

would be handy, and work with the way the language currently does.
there are a number of ICANN alternative dns roots -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root
Don't confuse the skills/intellect/resources necessary to be a successful platform developer with the skills/intellect/resources necessary to be a successful platform operator/provider.
"...He handles those transactions like a Boy Scout because Amazon doesn't mess around, he says - the company just kicks you off its site if you infuriate customers."

more evidence in the 'amazon knows what they are doing' file.
It's possible great advice. See these two TED Talks by Sugata Mitra for evidence:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRb7_ffl2D0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk60sYrU2RU
There are certain (secluded) populations that do not report certain illusions (e.g., Muller-Lyer effect) as strongly as Western subjects do. Standard explanation is that, living in architecturally under-developed environments, they lack experience with corners, thereby diminishing corner-related illusions.

But that's not immunity, it's merely a highly interesting artifact. Goes to show that psychology's biggest problem might be excessive reliance on college students as test subjects.
I doubt you need to defend it right away... if you get more powerful - yes, why should anyone want to attack your micronation? They rather do it in diplomatical way so other countries don't recognize your sovereignty.
Ok.. But they could just buy out a small country, but that would mean no clean start.
Or they could build something in the ocean

Is military really necessary??
btw, even with the "current" laws of physics the energy required to boil earth's oceans is not that big http://pinktentacle.com/2010/09/animated-simulation-of-aster...

While all this discussion about the actual laws of physics is very important, I would like to underline the fact the the other half of the reasoning about whether 128 bits are enough is centered around the fact that we are of course not able to handle that amount of energy, it sounds so obvious for all of us that this argument is used as a punchline.

While I cannot imagine how it could be done (or why), this is the kind of things doesn't involve changing our knowledge about basic physical laws.
I believe this is a question worth revisiting by pg, because the site doesn't look good on mobile devices, even on the iPad.

Using css might make it easier through @media queries to adapt the site to different devices (I actually only care that it looks good, so a table based solution is actually fine with me), but nevertheless the site does need a revision.
Has been said of Colin Chapman, and also attributed to Ferdinand Porsche:

http://forums.autosport.com/lofiversion/index.php/t63818.htm...
Rather wondering why google is allowed to do that ... As you said, they're just the payment processor, you shouldn't be obligated to show them proof that the goods you were paid for were actually delivered
I work for a company were a predecessor made this kind of terrible code. Nobody can understand how it works. And as the product works, most people say: "He was a Genius".

But the amusing part is the was proposed a full job and he refused it for a better paid one.

Until now, it is a bit miraculous he's product didn't exploded while trying to maintain it. And each time I propose to rewrite some part, it is refused because it seems too _risky_ to touch this code.

The worst is everybody is aware of the fact that this code cost very much. But nobody want to (or can) pay a bit extra immediately to redo the complete project with "clearly" some new bug that will certainly appear.
I've seen H1Bs from India using this technique.
If he insists on using Windows, you should insist on installing VMware. Or, at the very least, Cygwin.
Yup, and they've consistently marketed it on the website as a server option for small business. (That is, places that don't want to buy or support a full Apple Xserve.) From the site, "Mac mini means business. Small business."

I wonder what their numbers are for it. I see zero advertising for this option, but maybe I'm not looking in the right places. And the mention on the Apple site is clear, but not exactly huge. I imagine it's a niche market, but I wonder.
Incitement is everything. 10 year ago my mother was very reluctant to do anything other than type and print on the computer. Then, when I was going on high school exchange one and a half continent over, and said I wasn't going to plan my life around being close to a phone for the few hours a day when timezones lined up, but I'd be sure to check my mail, she learned in a weekend and haven't let go for a second since.
You can bet Microsoft will make Windows 8 ARM compatible. They don't want to lose the tablet market and since Intel is having such a hard time getting into that market, they can't simply rely on them.

And if you're going to suggest WP7 for tablets, don't. Microsoft will only do that in worst case scenario if Windows 8 will prove to not be good enough for tablets. They don't want to get $10 per license when they could get $50, and that's especially true if touch/mobile computing will replace desktop computing.
This post arrived here today just after me getting told off for being honest, again. I still don't know if being too honest is right or wrong.

I work in a big company (100K employees worldwide), and as such there are company politics going on that few would believe unless you worked there.

This time I got scolded for telling some of our DBA team members that the database we were trying to fix was a schema design disaster from day 1 - I didn't call anyone out, just plainly stated the problems with the design so we don't make the same mistakes again. Apparently admitting that outside my local team could lead to bad things happening politically, and I should just say nothing.

What are you supposed to do? Lie, refuse to comment when asked, sweep the problems under the rug (which is generally what happens)? I really don't know, and as a hacker, I am not great at playing the big company games. Maybe I should say nothing a bit more often, but that doesn't exactly get the customers served any better. So far I have stuck with the honest approach, but I still don't know if its correct or not!
on a meta-level, has anyone done a query for "Why X Should Y" titles for blog posts? those sorts of titles seem to get on HN often. other popular templates include:

- "Why activity X is like doing a start-up"

- "Why I'm leaving X", followed by someone else posting "Why I'm staying with X"
It's a problem in general when we pin the fault of something on a moral failing. It's a cop-out that does nothing to solve the problem. If we want to discourage some behavior in our society we have to look at the causes and try to mitigate them. Unfortunately many people refuse to even consider the reasons for people's behavior.
Plus they have a profit margin of 25% on revenue of 40B. So they could be selling everything 20% cheaper and still earn money (and lots of them). And that's including all the settlements Intel had to do this year. It's just a big Chipzilla
I'm not buying it. There are too many outside variables. And as one commenter points out, this disease seems unusually concentrated in the USA. Also, any animal in constant proximity to humans is likely less lean than its wild counterparts.
Also linked in the comments at Stross's site:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/2as/diseased_thinking_dissolving_que...
I vaguely remember that there was an Objective-C environment in one of the 90's game consoles. I want to say PlayStation, but it could have been one of the Sega consoles. Anyone know more?
I think we're already there regarding the technology. Now someone simply has to figure out that getting pennies from loads of people is better than getting nothing and it might be actually a good idea. I'm already registered in paypal and flatter. I'm paying for lovefilm (cds posted to home). I'm paying for ebooks and a game once in a while. It's really easy to get money from me, as long as someone makes it easy for me to pay.

I'm still not paying for tv shows simply because there's no good way to do that (or I haven't heard about it yet). I don't watch them on tv, because I don't want ads and I don't own/need a tv in general. I'd happily pay a pound or two per episode I watch (you can get older series for £10 on 6 dvds, so that's not a bad price I think) if someone gave me the opportunity.

I think the whole "As long as piracy is easier than purchasing" concept is getting old. It is one step longer. For me it's virtually the same. If someone organised a good content distribution network, it would be even better since I could get planned downloading and wouldn't have to wait for the video to buffer, just because it's on some dodgy hosting in Thailand. I don't see either RIAA or the producers wanting to resolve the situation really - maybe it's still too profitable to do the silly war on piracy... Meanwhile, I'll keep giving my money (page views / ads impressions) to some random guy who wasn't involved in making the show at all. It's rather sad really.
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I definitely like Ubuntu's font rendering engine better than either Windows or OSX's. The one used by other Distros though (FreeType) is like a way inferior version of MS ClearType.

One thing that definitely kills the Linux experience for most people is that they buy a new laptop model and then complain about Linux not supporting their hardware. In fact, the latest Linux kernel image will generally be pretty awesome about hardware support, but most Linux distros ship with an older kernel version.
I have seen GPU acceleration cause problems with VLC taking screenshots before, the problem doesnt have anything to do with the video format as far as I remember, but with video drivers, updating those solved the issues.
> As Artur Jarosik explained to us, the game is primarily intended for Amigas upgraded with an Apollo processor. However, it could also be playable on a 68060 processor with a grafics card with the music and sound effects turned off. Since the audio code is very resource hungry, it is explicitly written for V4 SAGA audio.

Ah so really he ported it to an "accelerator" that really only uses your Amiga as a power supply and IO hub
To avoid str() calls with concatenation, use % formatting:

'%s %s' % ('hello', 'world')

Avoiding these implicit behaviors helps avoid bugs; it's worth it.

I'd recommend going for Python 3 unless there's a specific reason (library) keeping you on 2.
> Also, it's pretty obvious terrorism is an excuse.

Terrorism is indeed very real, and is happening all the time. Hundreds of acts of terror have been committed in the years since 9/11, resulting in deaths of thousands of civilians, including hundreds of children. They those acts have pretty much 0 media coverage, and no one is doing anything to stop them. The US is free to keep on terrorizing civilian populations around the globe.

http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/category/projects/drone...
You should totally disable password authentication for SSH.
I have both laptops and both touchpads are really nice. Though Apple's is nicer for being bigger and I prefer their materials to the XPS.

If you run linux on the XPS this project (https://github.com/iberianpig/fusuma) is great for configuring multi-touch gestures that work like the Mac.
I've had some disillusionment with HN, having been on it for 6-7 years. The dialog is mostly cordial and respectful but precisely because of that I'd come to put a lot of faith into the knowledge of the commenters. But I realized a lot of people here talk about things they have only superficial knowledge about (me included, though I've been trying to curb this behaviour) and as a result there is a lot of quackery about, well formulated, respectful quackery but quackery nonetheless. So I try to check the credentials of people when they include them in their profiles before putting too much faith into what they say.

Now I'm not trying to disavow HN, it's a really cool place and there are a lot of knowledgable people here with lifetimes of experience in complex subjects but there are also a lot of technical topics where the discourse is clearly inferior to reddit, twitter or even discord.
I don't know if that is the most important reason it is not equivalent. It also doesn't have any system processes; there is no systemd, sshd, no crond, etc. It doesn't need its own firewall rules configured or its own security managed. I could go on but I think you already get the point.
> I'm starting to see how crappy the competition is!

What about this laptop? https://puri.sm/products/librem-14
My experience on mobile is that after viewing a subreddit a number of times on chrome it just blocks you and forces you to download the app to view any posts at all. This can be bypassed by using old.reddit.com url.
As a user I want them to do things that make business sense, because I want them to have the money to keep developing the browser. If that means an occasional minor inconvenience for me I'm okay with that.
The circular valuation is the primary reason its valued so highly today. Any article which ignores that isn't doing the topic justice.

Especially because there is a very solid reason the value grew so large to begin with. Prior to the invention of the electric lightbulb gold was far more beautiful than it is today (which was not discussed in the article). In candlelight gold will shimmer and gleam as the flames dance (with the red-orange flames accentuating the gold coloring). With electric lighting, the light provided is so consistent that gold is reflective but isn't any more more beautiful than a shiny steel appliance or clean marble countertop.

The combination of rarity and being the most beautiful material in candlelight made it the perfect material for kings and temples to collect to show off their status. And when the richest people in the world compete to collect something, it makes sense that the price is driven upwards.

In the modern world gold is still collected and stored as a symbol of status and wealth primarily because ancient kings valued it. Even if the driver of why they collected it originally has been greatly diminished.

(The idea behind gold's reflective properties in dim candlelit rooms comes from the book In Praise of Shadows which I would highly recommend)
yes, it is well known. I just see it as a digital versin of the phone book.

And there are even more extreme versions, like ratsit.se

where you can pay to get credit information on anyone.

Personally I think that what ratsit does is probably too far, and maybe it shouldn't be legal.

But in general I like our "public information" system, that lots of government information is available to every citizen, I find the benefits of being able to check what the government and those with power does (journalism would be way harder without this), outweights the negatives.
I've heard that Stephen King considers the Dark Tower series his greatest work[1][2], but almost none of his fans do[3][4]. The intent of a work can be far divorced from the public reception of it.

[1] https://darktower.fandom.com/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_Series
[2] https://stephenking.com/darktower/
[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-personal-shopper/2021/02...?
[4] https://stephenking.com/xf/index.php?threads/which-king-book...
Regarding your comment below/above - I think it's worthwhile taking that feedback seriously rather than a commentary or failure. It seems that companies and big orgs don't value this open source project and I think we have experience of them not valuing many open source projects as well.

Fundamentally, and from experience, I think that's because a compony doesn't need the benefits of open source. It's cheaper but 50k a year for some db software isn't a big deal to a corporate. Could argue it's more robust but liability insurance helps private software in this respect. More programmers understand it on joining your company but most programmers at a big corporate will be there long enough to 'pay off' any training they have to do at the start. Also makes employees less tempting to poach...

But clearly it's adding value for individuals which is great! 10K a month is extremely good in my opinion. It's a shame there one off purchases - get them to subscribe to the book? /s
This is why I only work remotely.

Too many tech companies are up their own asses with how hip and cool their offices are. I just want to work when I want, how I want, and in an environment of my own choosing. I 100% understand that collaboration needs to take place at certain times and I really do enjoy the collaboration of remote work with other employees. However the "collaboration" that takes place in these types of offices is just wheel spinning and time wasting. It truly is the art of not working. It's all about how you look in front of managers (who are really only interested in asses in chairs and looking good to their managers...the cycle of doing nothing continues).

I really prefer having all hands with other remote employees 6-10 times per year where everyone is together in the same room. The meetings and collaboration that comes out of these is much more meaningful. Time is of the essence so we make it count.
I'm not sure why you are being downvoted; I think differing opinions are the heart of HN.

> so-called "official secrets" requiring security clearance granted by party members

It appears that you're not from the U.S. or another Western-aligned country, security clearances aren't granted to or by the dominant political parties, but are an artifact of government and military/defense industry bureaucracy.
This comes up every time people ask about billing daily. You're not billing hourly, you're billing daily, so the number of hours you work doesn't matter.

Some days is 4 hours, some days its 8 hours, some days it's 10 hours. Do more 4 hour days. You're probably only productive for the time period, anyway.
I'd have an easier time maintaining a CGI app written in Haskell than I would a Rails app.
Doesn't seem to be available on Amazon, try on abebooks http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&tn=Winni... it is a few bucks (book + shipping).
As the article points out, the innocent request to baidu is being intercepted by China and replaced with a malicious script.
Aaron Winborn passed away on March 24, 2015 after a long and difficult struggle with ALS. I would like to honor his memory by upvoting the only Quora answer he ever provided. It signifies the determination and dedication Aaron showed to everything he contributed to the Opensource community. Simple and to the point. http://aaronwinborn.com/ https://www.drupal.org/aaron-winborn-award
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Yes, all the best bankers in the world are idiots?

They are not idiots, the only question is strategy.

Inflation is actually in check, which is odd because they are spending a lot.

The concern right now is not inflation or deflation, it's the amount they are spending and the huge amounts on their balance sheet. That's the worry.
> it generates serious problems

I would say that by just existing it create serious problems. You can never be sure if a date if day/month or month/day, this was especially bad from year 01 to 12. During those twelve years I was a date zealot "there can be only ISO 8601".