jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
One month is NOTHING. Companies do not care about a month. Users do not care about a month. Nothing changes within a month of development anyways.

Now go 2 years without an update, and it would start to show. 5 years, and the general consensus would be "the app is outdated"

This is what happened to IE, btw. They stopped updating it for 5 years. We all know what happened afterwards once the momentum was lost.
Github also uses a flat structure. They don't have any official papers, but some of their employees have described their internal tools and workflows.

http://zachholman.com/talks

http://www.slideshare.net/InfoQ/github-communications-cultur...

http://tomayko.com/writings/adopt-an-open-source-process-con...

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3020181/open-company/inside-github...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7805842

Here's a small collection of resources you might find useful - I had the same question about a year ago.

The end result one year later? Google docs + Yesware.
When they inevitably can’t abide by the request that Google and Apple have made, they will be pulled from the App Store and the Google Play Store.
I assume you know about mirror twins [0]. Do you and your sibling happen to have opposite dominant hands?

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin#Semi-identical_twins
You are fortunate to go to a university that can afford the large and increasing costs of bulk journal subscriptions.
Debunked nonsense.
We can improve the security of the capitol without closing it off the public. Off the top of my head, such improvements might include:

- Exterior doors that can't be rammed open with portable fences

- Interior doors with shatterproof glass windows

- Facade walls that don't function as ladders [0]

[0] https://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/photo-capito...
you JUST found these guys? on the day their domain was registered?
Every idea which moves society forward starts out as an idea first believed to be false. If we censor what we believe to be false, we stop right here - progress halts.
More like the cave in Alibaba and thieves.
That is what uncovering nothing looks like when someone has spent years scrutinising a subject.

Nothing in that turned out to be important enough for left-wing partisans to quote the report. The people bringing up the Muller investigation up first in the conversation tend to be told-you-so rightists; the left by and large would be happy for that debacle to fade into a distant memory.

This report concludes that some politicians don't want to cooperate with politically motivated investigations. The appropriate response to this revelation is shrugs and sniggering.
I don't think anyone is labouring under the illusion that only the U.S. is capable of that sort of thing, but they have been very clearly proven to be doing so already. There's a huge difference between `could do' and `already known to do'.
He's a barrister and QC, and his name is associated closely with this law.

He's very much the type that might take this type of abuse as a combination of personal affront and horrible insult to the legal system, as well as worry that abuse of this law will reflect badly on him.

And he's not exactly best buddies with Theresa May.
That is new. Apple has seen the light, finally.
True, but there's also the argument of patents (eg how DVD decoding libraries cannot be shipped from US-based Linux distros)
I remember the way he spoke during the Kelly affair and that stands out more than anything for me. Contrasted with that to speak out like this in the Guardian no less is completely out of character. He's as much a chip of the old block as there ever was and even though he no doubt doesn't mind grilling the Tories he is going far further than would be required for that.
And is therefore an opposition politician, and free to play politics with the issue.
IE6 introduced XmlHttpRequest, just one of the things where it was ahead of its competition.
I wonder if Windows Phone will soon have TPM 2.0, too:

http://investmentwatchblog.com/leaked-german-government-warn...
Not really. Eric Holder is still in power. A better analogy would be if George Bush's Attorney General spoke for Snowden.
Now that's something I'd like to see on MythBusters. (Though not necessarily with an MRI machine—those things cost more than their entire budget. A large ferromagnetic coil would do nicely.)
One thing nobody ever mentions, but I always notice is how much more CPU power Chrome takes on my macbook. It's a few years old and anything remotely CPU intensive causes my fan to go nuts. I actually like Chrome better (I like the interface, and it's faster) but I stay with Safari because it doesn't hog my CPU...
I still don't see what "having fun" has to do with "solving customer needs": often customer needs are boring, esoteric, poorly-specified, and technically uninteresting -- exactly the opposite of the sort of thing you'd do to "have fun".
Yes. Companies. There are hundreds and hundreds of tiny technology companies created every year, and Wikipedia only covers the ones that have managed to get written about somewhere else. Wikipedia's business coverage would be a "who's who" mess of press releases without these policies.

Another one: industry jargon. When I was on AfD patrol, I was constantly having to knock back random three letter acronyms people had invented to promote or position their companies. If you find industry jargon in WP, there is at least a decent chance that three people in the world have spontaneously used the term before.

Another one: open source software. Obviously it would be bad if Wikipedia was Freshmeat, but I'll give you an even more concrete example: I helped maintain a couple pages that summarized a bunch of different software solutions (such as "Comparison of DNS Servers"). Those pages were dumping grounds for everyone's 0.01-alpha releases, each of which usually came with added columns on the page's table that was a "yes" for that NN piece of code and a "no" for everything else.

Note that in the latter two cases, NN articles are creating worse problems than simply littering the WP and abusing it for company promotion; it's also tainting WP's coverage of topics, confusing lay readers.

It is definitely a WP problem that "tracking down reliable sources" devolves to "search NEWS.GOOGLE.COM". On the other hand, the authors of pages can cite books in AfDs, and after doing almost 100 AfDs, I never saw such a citation get knocked down.
Not all men evaluate women like prize-cattle in an auction. If you're tacky, I can probably figure that out from your speech, writing, or actions .. not your bust.
I assume you can do this with other phones too, though I've never tried it. The video call quality you get over 3G is fairly poor too - iPhone's implementation seems to have much better quality based on the promo videos. However, it still has some major flaws - only to other iPhones (for the moment) and only when you're on Wifi - that requires quite a bit of coordination to make sure the person on the other end is ready for your call.

I honestly don't see this catching on - the trend I see is away from actual human interaction (SMS, Facebook updates and IM) rather than towards it.
Java or C++
Definitely. Will add option of which image to use (twitter, fb, linkedin or quora profile pic), or perhaps even let users upload a service.

Will also add the ability to create field with a generic web icon.
PlannedChaos: Why wouldn't it be better to just defend yourself online using your real name?

Scott: You're not a good listener. Watch what happens now that I have. Every part of this post will be taken out of context and twisted to its opposite meaning.
I live in Missoula, MT and I'm not willing to move because my family is here, and I love the city. Programmers here are willing to take a pay cut to stay, and I know several that telecommute to out of state jobs that pay better than most local companies. I telecommute too, but my employer is local.
Have you tried using the right arrow to go into your Documents folder?

E.g. Type "docu", Documents shows up as top results, right arrow, then pick your action either by arrow down or cmd + number.

If all you want to do is open a folder, prefix your search term by "open" or hit the spacebar first (shortcut for "open"). If you want to reveal it in Finder, just type "find" first, and if you want to search inside files, just type "in" first.

If you give Alfred a chance (and accept that it isn't trying to be Quicksilver), you'll really get into a groove with it.
This is very true.

Also it's worth noting that if you do want to do PHP "right" and use a framework like Zend or Cake you will probably still be shopping around a bit because you're not going to get the ability to use those frameworks out of the box on most hosting providers.
Oh - the other variable - I grew up on a farm miles from anywhere, so I'm used to spending time by myself. That's probably also a factor.
I routinely have people begging me to work for them, but probably 4 in 5 clam up when I specify that -- while I'm happy to spend as much time with them as necessary to get the specs and make everyone comfortable -- I will not sit in their office to do the programming.

I can not, for the life of me, understand why that is such a sticking point with so many people. Fortunately I have enough people who are willing to work with me anyway that I can forget about the ones who don't, but it seems mind-numbingly obvious to me that if you're desperate for the skills I have, you should be willing to work with a requirement that doesn't cost you anything.

As near as I can fathom, it's a psychological thing. Remote people don't seem like they're part of your "empire" as you look out across the office and see all the busy beavers hunched over their computers.
I get the feeling that the division doing the fabbing doesn't really care about the phone division beyond how many chips they are ordering.
Waste treatment is a form of industrial infrastructure. Infrastructure lasts decades. What I've always wondered about is whether there is a hardware/software platform designed to last forever. I don't know much about IBM Mainframes but from what little I have heard they do provide such a platform.

The question is whether we can build such a platform with opensource tooling and make it scale down to microcontrollers (KB of RAM), medium sized MCUs (MB of RAM) and SBCs (100s of MBs to 1 GB of RAM). The support burden is very high so whatever distro/RTOS would have to make it possible to run every binary on any architecture without recompilation.

Lots of people say that the JVM is that platform but the garbage collector makes it insufficient in my opinion. We also need the ability to run existing C code to reduce the porting burden. I think WASM could fit the bill.

If someone doesn't call this cool then I don't know. Of course in practice nobody cares and people just dig out ancient C compilers.
(I upvoted you for adding context). The reason this is being brought up right now is because of Biden escalating tensions with Saudia Arabia over the murder of Khashoggi.

E.g. https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/25/politics/biden-us-saudi-r...
Thanks Michelle for sharing your unbelievable yet amazing story. You have made me to regain trust in human power which seems infinite. God bless you and I wish and pray you get your hands cured and you use both mouse and nosePad to create awesome stuff.

Best wishes from Pakistan.
3d Beziers have been a thing for a long time already though! In modelling, NURBS surfaces are typically used (the non-uniform rational B-spline, where the rational B-spline part is a "rationalised" bezier, which is a whole section that I've not had the time to write yet...)
That works once you've reached a certain level of understanding. Most AAA games have really good translations.

The trick is "comprehensible input." If you can provide a learner with input that is just a little beyond their level of comprehension, they will learn much, much faster. Dump someone into an ocean of complex grammar and vocabulary? It's a nightmare. I can see definite value in a game that starts very basic, and increases complexity as you acquire a language.

A game would also be good for reinforcing word-image links without translation. Sites like DuoLingo do a very good job at training people to be translators, but a poorer job of training people to become adequate speakers, writers, and listeners.
Similarly, movie subtitles specifically for language learning could be devised.

For example, you'd have 3 lines: the original line, a translated line, and a "learning" line in between that would have the verbs in their non conjugated form, etc.

Example with your sentence:

Mata 8 dragónes verdes

Matar 8 dragón verde

Kill 8 dragons green

This probably isn't the ideal configuration, but I think the general idea has a lot of potential and would greatly help with language learning. It would also really shine for languages with different alphabets - eg for japanese the top line could use kanji/hiragana/katakana, and the middle line romaji.

I thought of this recently while watching a Japanese movie- my Japanese is very rudimentary, and having romaji+English subtitles while listening to the movie in Japanese would make me learn super fast.
I always cringe when I see a talk or a blog post in tech talking about "fixing" something that is "broken", especially something as complex as the internet. It's just sensationalism. The state of "brokeness" of the internet is totally ill-defined. I would be much more likely to give this talk my time and attention if the topic was more clearly stated in the title.
How Hitler defied the bankers
http://open.salon.com/blog/gordon_wagner/2010/05/11/how_hitl...
It really makes no sense that saying "Nim is better than Python" is an acceptable opinion, but "no, it isn't" is not an acceptable opinion to HN.
The fact that you answered me with this quote confirms something that I suspected but wasn't sure enough to put down in my first post: The author is being unclear about whether the statements she's making are things she claims are true, or things she claims poor people (incorrectly) think are true.

These are two very different things, and mixing them together leads to confusion and error.
i hope this project gets going and i hope you make plugin support :)
So, how did you guys end up jumping on the Elixir train? New shiny, or practical reasons?

:)
The scariest thing to me about AWS is that I might accidentally bankrupt myself while I learn to use it. I've seen horror stories on HN before. Articles titled "How I spent $32k with AWS, a for loop, and a simple typo" or something like that.

Normally when I learn something new, I learn by tinkering and breaking stuff. I don't feel comfortable doing that with AWS. I'm hoping people will tell me I'm way off base because this fear has stopped me from getting the ball rolling.
Yeah, good advice. I always try to simplify things, so this makes sense. One thought was that It may be easier to convert users if there are focused cheaper plans that meet a specific need. Wonder if anyone has data on this?
You mean immigration as a federal skilled worker, right?

I thought they were making this process tougher because of the current economic climate.
He wasted effort, they wasted effort, it backfired.

Just because you can say "it wasn't his fault" doesn't mean it wasn't still a failure.
This was the logical thing to do to avoid more bad press. But greed often trumps logic. I'm surprised they did this.
The translation is amazing. I had no idea machine translation had come so far. I guess I need to read more stuff in languages I don't understand.
This kind of attitude of company towards employees is seldom seen nowadays, yes I'm sure that it was seldom or even unique in those days. But one would expect that this kind of behavior would be more common nowadays.

It's one of those intangible things that "feel" right but are hard to prove (especially on quarterly basis).

I firmly believe that just as great generals, great businessmen also need to be people with broad interests.

A (great) leader needs to be firstly a philosopher, scholar, businessman, humanist,... and lastly a great warrior - I believe it was somewhere along these lines the way Sun Tzu described qualities of a great general.
It always confuses me when the energy company promotes energy efficiency. It seems like economic incentives exist for both promoting efficiency, reducing it, and greenwashing (doing one while promoting the other). It would be really interesting for someone to do an economic analysis and figure out what the bottom line is for the oil companies with regards to energy efficiency.
I think my point is, if that’s your panic buying, you’re going to have to do that every two weeks (minus the pizzas).
In the US that's debatable. We wash our eggs before selling, but I guess we also wash off the bacteria in the process? I've personally kept eggs on the counter for weeks and not gotten sick, but the taste might have been a little off.
Yes, i think the guide is saying it backwards. The caption of the video says “ Space Shuttle thermal tiles conduct heat so poorly that after being in a 2200 °F oven for hours, you can pick them up with your bare hands only seconds after they come out, still glowing hot”

This makes sense - the tiles themselves are at 2200 degrees but are not transmitting the heat quickly to you while you touch them for a brief period of time.
I wouldn't think Christmas is similar to these past two weeks in terms of volume driven. Many people still drive to work during Christmas, and some even drive more, to get to relatives' places. Not to mention, air travel probably rises significantly. Right now, car travel and air travel are low.
I believe they can get 3 inches only if they lengthen femur and tibia/fibia, so it would be closer to 3.8 cm longer tibia. Still seems like it would make everything different
I'm fascinated by the contrast of conceptual abstraction and concreteness in that title (and work of course)
Isn’t MACOMs process GaN on Si, which is cheaper, but lousy thermal performance compared to GaN on SiC. I thought they were touting GaN integration with CMOS?
I thought that Ubuntu was already capable of doing this in the latest release (19.10.)

There are third party scripts to accomplish this. I would look at https://github.com/saveriomiroddi/zfs-installer. The only reason I have not used it is that I had already written my own https://github.com/HankB/Linux_ZFS_Root. And in this case, better the devil I know. (I'm presently updating my script to follow the most recent instructions at https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/wiki/Debian-Buster-Root-on-ZF...)

ZFS-installer appears to be more mature and is seeing more effort than mine. Perhaps I should give it a try.
Mind-blowing that she tries to blame that on _men_.
Board of Director. The title of course is not called "Commissar", but they serve as a defacto one.

Some are public. Some hide their identities (but serve similar purpose). Secret ones usually are used in dealing with foreign entities (i.e. non-mainland). So you may not even know there is one except if you are in the top management.
Not just business leaders but the government has been co-opted to shill for China. The author of Stealth War [1] writes that many members of the US congress have been lobbying for the CCP through dockets and/or have tremendous conflicts of interests through business or personal relationships.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46064194-stealth-war
Step 1: Never use a debit card for anything ever.
Step 2: Fraud is no longer your problem as long as you review your statements in a timely manner.
This was just on here a few days ago:

https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/validatin...
I wish there were more "medium" themes.

I usually find light modes too harsh, but I think that's because the background is often pure white or close to it, as opposed to something softer.

I think dark modes look cooler and I like the aesthetic from an artsy perspective, but they're not something I enjoy working in all day. I like the lower contrast ones to an extent, but they're still not ideal.

My preferred Visual Studio theme has been Humane, which is one of the rare ones that fall somewhere in between. I tweaked it to make it a tad darker, but was fairly happy with it out of the box. In any case, I feel like these kinds of themes are underrepresented; there is an overwhelming number of dark and light themes out there (mostly tweaks of other themes, or just plain bad) and I really wish more would aim for the middle ground. Largely because I'm actually not a fan of the color brown and would like to see a semi-light theme based on something else, haha.

https://damieng.com/blog/2007/10/14/colour-schemes-for-visua...
I assume you're using WordPress - are you using any type of caching plugins? W3 Total Cache is what I currently use on the smallest Linode server available (512MB). I'm running Nginx and Debian 6.
"Two-way hash function" is an oxymoron. The fundamental characteristic of a function that makes it a hash function is the inability to (feasibly) reverse it.

Base64 is an encoding.
I'm not surprised. I've never been to Heathrow without having some kind of trouble (from missed flight, through lost luggage, to security having issue with my contact lenses solution).
I'm an investor managing an innovation program for Quest Software (NASDAQ: QSFT) at http://www.quest.com/innovation-accelerator/.

If those guys are reading, I'd follow up with a question of what's really important to them:
- Control of the business (key capital & strategic decisions)
- Long term gains on an individual basis
- Contacts & network needed to establish distribution, deals, and partnerships
- Minimizing the number of relationships that need maintenance

If, as there article indicates, they really want to be in control of their success and failure, there is a number of ways to achieve total control without owning 100% of the company. So they should really think about the various options they have available to them. I can appreciate the desire to not have investors - even non-controlling minority interest ones, as even those people need to be nurtured and relationships developed.

So, as a message to the authors, would hope that they seek out some additional inputs as there are a number of clever ways for them to structure their business to achieve their goals, and to gain the benefits that come with YC.
I hacked together an encrypted (aes 256) read/write "database" once with the bitty API as the persistence backend.

However, this site disappoints me, it doesn't seem to do anything other than what a data URL can do, except it's vulnerable to downtime because of a centralized website.

Edit: for those of you unfamiliar with what a data URL is. You an store a HTML or image document using a URL like data:text/HTML;base64,hashifystuffhere
Technically, if you squint hard enough, and assuming that Bit.ly always shortens the same URL to the same code (which on my brief testing it did when I tried the same URL from two different browsers), a one-way hashing function is being created from bit.ly shortened URLs -> the full "hashed" document. Technically. It certainly lacks most of the usual properties we associate with hash functions but the bare skeleton is sort of there. And there's no way to feasibly reverse that hash function algorithmically short of keeping the original input table and querying that, which is how Bit.ly of course works.