jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's definitely doable. It's just a lot of work.
Unless you are stranded on a desert island of course.
Not only Japan, even MÃ©xico (Mojibake intended) suffers from ANSI thanks to Windows still using ANSI as the default encoding for programs like Notepad.

To people not familiar with Mojibake, this is a Japanese word in 4 different encodings:

UTF-8: 煩わしい

ANSI: ç…©ã‚ ã —ã „

SJIS: ”Ï‚í‚µ‚¢

EUC: Ûáªïª·ª¤
Budget alerts were the design decision made. You can set up your own infra to listen to budget alerts and cap your own costs. This is a feature that only makes sense to put in the customer's control because a general solution would work for no one. It's a great solution to the problem imo.
Wouldn't there always be new jobs? I mean, sure, technology has automated lots of things. But that's a good thing. We just need new kinds of jobs - ones that can't be automated. Who knows, perhaps in the future everybody can be an artist. Not sure a universal basic income would work from a mathematical point of view. Giving money to everybody would only increase the price of things.
Indeed if mega-cities were a good thing then Pakistan, Nigeria and the Congo should be doing better than Japan.

If universal healthcare was a good thing then people in Rwanda should be more healthy than in the US. They aren't, so universal healthcare is bad.

Find the flaw in this argument and you'll find the one in yours.
Obviously that would be ideal, but it's easier to determine what is improving the quality of your life (since you have direct, immediate feedback) vs. what is improving the length of your life (where you won't find out for years and by then it will be too late).
This raises some questions:

* If Facebook is "changing" the BSD license, why is the BSD license included verbatim and in full?

* Also, why does the PATENTS file explicitly state that it is an "ADDITIONAL grant of patent rights"?

* Why don't I see comments like the one I originally replied to being posted on articles pertaining to Apache? They have almost exactly the same wording in their statement.

I'll believe claims of Facebook "changing the BSD license" when they actually change the BSD license.
> How do you detect that bug status from across the room?

Know and understand the tools you are working with, and simply click the Modified (History) link at the top to determine the bug timeline: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_activity.cgi?id=1202858
I can attest to that kite was only promoted once to me through anaconda... However, kite itself has gone above and beyond to try and nag me into buying their enterprise edition - it's only just made me hate the software.

It will suggest "" completions at the top of the list, even for incredibly mundane completions, which is apparently a "premium completion" which almost immediately results in a nagging popup that requests that we purchase the enterprise edition because "you are out of your daily premium completions". If anything, I wish the spyder team would completely disallow kite to push their product in that kind of way, because it completely goes against what open-source projects stand for.
Some people have actual breathing conditions (pollution sensitive, allergies etc) that require a proper sealed mask, without the valve the seal will often break.

Valves with a diffuser cap that stops the air jetting out are probably the best if you have this restriction.
Glad to see this is being updated. I have used Beej's Guide to learn network programming back in 2013 or 2014, and it was such a great resource.
TIH python
My biggest issue with Python that is not related to syntax is that it isolates you from the Unix machine in a bad way.

I get that they try to support Windows with the same abstractions, but they are all leaky and subtly broken (like shutil). If you use Python too much, you lose the understanding of Unix.

Other languages aren't like that, for example Perl and Go.

Whenever I stop using Python for 2 weeks and focus on C or Go, my understanding of the machine and what is actually going on increases dramatically. I've even considered learning Perl, but haven't done it yet due to lack of time.
I'd look at cocoivores, it'd be years maybe? but you'd do irreversible damage from missing certain vitamins.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Engelhardt

> "rapid dehydration"

Tom Hanks claimed - "Coconut milk is a natural laxative. That's something Gilligan never told us."
Sometimes I feel his sentiment, like everytime I open up something (that seemingly) is identical to each and every version. Say the FileZilla app, or VLC. (But there are probably bug fixes and new protocols or file formats getting support for each update.) But for Word, come on. There's a ton of new features added through the years. I mean I use none of them, but I suppose people have been asking for database-like features, or simple web layout stuff. As long as its not a subscription model only - just don't buy the new version guy!
Maybe tax it in relation to its environmental harm? It would put me off if I had to record them on the tax return.
The point is that with politics and religion people don't even think they need to be knowledgeable to contribute to the discussion.

I wish this "who can know for sure?" relativist hands-in-air sort of sentiment were less prevalent on HN.
The keyphrase <script>alert(1);</script> didn't work :p
Good article!

Regarding question two ("was the article misrepresenting SA/the rationalists"), a bit of the misunderstanding is cultural, I think. The NYT article makes heavy use of (what seems to be) guilt by association, i.e. he is in the same scene as "known bad" Peter Thiel etc.. While this is an accepted argument in some circles, it is frowned upon a lot in the rationalist community and seen as cheap smear. I think this is a major point on why opinions diverge on the article and why it is seen as malicious by so many people.
The Tractatus is basically an exploration of the limits of Tautology - anything that follows from the axioms is tautologous. And we have no grounds to speak about anything else
3-4 years isn't a very long time even compared to the lifespan of an unreliable car
So this means it should be flagged?
And occasionally... you get a glimpse of something neat... like dish 43 getting data from VGR2. https://i.imgur.com/ZVAnt03.png

The downlink is 160 b/s at -154.54 dBm (as I type this - might have been different in the screen shot)... and then compare that to other data feeds on other dishes.
One question: is it possible to load .so files (through dlopen/dlsym) on Linux when compiling to APE?

I was working on something similar (though much smaller in scope), but had to stop when I realised that `ld-linux.so` has some internal APIs that Glibc uses to setup dlopen()/dlsym(); essentially meaning that it is very hard -if not impossible - to load any shared libraries if one does not link to Glibc.

What I wouldn't give for a liblinux, similar to NTDLL.
There's also Opytimizer [0] for almost every metaheuristic optimization algorithm under the Sun.

[0] https://github.com/gugarosa/opytimizer
John Donne. "The Anagram" is probably one of the cleverest poems ever written; I have never seen such an elaborate put-down in any form.

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?18947...
OK ya, I agree with that. Though as I said I think that saying they caused a collapse is really only telling half the story. Before they caused that they also caused an unreasonable run-up in property values.
He says he has no need for it. But then again, he has a point: why should he need this? He manages to get his work fine without it. Indeed, most people find a DVCS more complicated to understand than a CVCS.

There's an inherent complexity with concurrency that a centralised, linearised VCS does not exhibit.
As a non-iPhone user that has seen neither meerkat or periscope, what's the new thing here? Justin.tv/twitch and ustream have been doing live streaming for a long time now.
> I just cant imagine someone has fun writing those thousands of lines of code.

What's your idea of fun? Surely in this context fun doesn't mean a beach side party with tanned, topless girls. Writing those thousand lines of code which runs Google is fun in the way that it's:

1) Difficult. Mundane and simple jobs irritate the sharp minds. Challenging yourself is very important in the long run. You think the linux kernel developers can't find higher paying jobs at the so called enterprises where they can be PHBs? Why do you think they don't?

2)Sense of accomplishment. It takes a lot to be at the top and even then it's transient. It takes a lot of work to continue to be there.

> Even more so when the code isnt for a cool new feature but for a mundane fix.

That's contradictory reasoning. Mundane fixes won't be thousand of lines. You are heavily mistaken in what constitutes cool features. If I am the one implementing something, more than about you, it's about how I feel about it. I can bet you didn't notice that Google went cooler with their Caffeine search index. It promises 50% fresher content which is a large feat to accomplish, regardless of whether the consumer notices the coolness.

> I image a lot of programmers at Twitter spend hours writing code just so their site/product can handle all the traffic. How it that fun?

It's fun in all the ways any creative, innovative task can be. It doesn't have an "one size fits all" solution. It requires out of the box thinking, challenging the existing conventions, innovating existing solutions, working on NP complete problems...

At this point of discussion, I am really interested in knowing when you said "programming isn't fun", what notion of yours of fun did programming offend?
I hear you and appreciate your wish to be a good community member!

Here's how we look at this. The value of an HN comment is the expected value of its future subthread, i.e. itself plus the sum of the probability distribution of the responses it may receive.

In this case the EV of your post was negative: first because it brought in a partisan stunt that was still hot from the news of the moment; second by framing it one-sidedly ("barged into...without authorization...such a problem"); third by linking to a political source that one side is overwhelmingly likely to agree with and the other side to be unimpressed or offended by.

You're right that the flamewar was more in the responses to your comment than in your comment itself, but that's true of most flamewars. Flames get hotter as they spread. From a fire prevention (i.e. moderation) point of view, the issue isn't where the fire burned hottest but where it started.

By the way, there are some deeper, interesting issues with this 'expected value' model of internet comments. It implies that commenters are in some sense responsible for the behavior of others and not just what they they themselves post. That's weird. And it implies something about needing to predict the future—also weird. Yet it is the model that works by far the best in practice. I feel like this points us all in the direction of learning new things.
If it's a throwaway experiment, it shouldn't take too long to compile locally, I would think.
Two spaces is a sensible convention for distinguishing inter-word spaces from inter-sentence spaces. If it's being typeset then the spacing can be adjusted then.

It's also not true that this is just a convention left over from typewriters. Typeset books frequently have more space between sentences than between words, particularly when the text is justified.
I came to mention TRAMP. A couple weeks ago I started running the server parts of my dev environment on a little laptop that was laying around and using tramp for all source code editing. Its pretty transparent and not having to run any VM's on my poor little aging mac is awesome.
I just tried to think of a ridiculous combination of techs to combine. I didn't realize the hilarious double meaning of it until after I got some upvotes. Sounds like a great April fools project to share.
Yep, Sublime SFTP.
I've heard of something called Liskell and Lisk (two different projects). I haven't tried either of them, so I don't know if they are usable.
Could you redefine a class/structure and update every instance of it at runtime?

For example, let's say you are currently representing complex numbers in rectangular form. Is it possible to convert every existing instance to polar form, at runtime, without breaking any code?
I disagree.

A designer is an individual that solves problems by the use of a divergent-thought led process (A process very different to that of an engineer or MBA). They find problems, and solve them. Since solving a problem is the very pinnacle of building a business, I disagree with you that your claim that a designer is going to be useless.

It seems within the Tech-World the role of the designer is skewed, to the point even designers believe that their only role is to deal with the pixels on the screen. Take a look at leading design consultancies, such as IDEO, frog and Continuum and then try and tell me that a designer's role within a start-up is 'inefficient'.
I don't understand the funding requirements... Take someone like patio11, who's running a profitable business but not making a killing with it yet. Why not let him immigrate to the US, and run his business (and pay his taxes) there?

And what about someone who ran and sold a successful business in, say, Germany, and decides they would like to live in the Valley for a while. Let's say that person has a couple of hundred thousand dollars of wealth, is a proven bootstrapping entrepreneur, and wants to move to the Valley and bootstrap the next Facebook... Why stop them at the border?

Many valuable people want to move to the US, but by making it so damn difficult, the US misses out on enormous amounts of top talent.

Why not, instead, make immigration a straightforward process for anyone with some set of criteria, e.g. recognised science education or other degree from a top university, or track record of entrepreneurship, all of that with good credit score and no debt ... it makes sense to have entry requirements, but why are they so arbitrary?
Hopefully that won't pass.

If you have to get 250k under that law (versus 500k-million under the already existing immigration law) then it isn't going to help startups at all, the only thing it is going to do is to prevent a real startup visa law from ever being passed.

A real startup law would not put capital requirements on the company but would require its founders to be able to live of the income and to either hire people or grow a certain amount each year, which some checks to prevent them from being consultants.
Would you not arguably have more problems getting those same presumably older handsets to run your app?
Is calculated valuation (not market cap!) the only metric relevant to a VC when talking about the size of a company?

What about MRR, YRR, profits, number of employees, revenue/profit per employee?

The only ones profiting from high valuations are VCs' themselves. Therefor one should be really skeptical when reading such articles.
The most important parts of getting good is lots of practice and the ability to tell good results from bad ones. All professionals gets roughly equal amounts of practice so there is no use competing on that front. Therefore the only reasonable thing to do is to practice judging things.

You want to get better at designing API's? Then start writing down comprehensive critique for as many API's as you can. List good and bad traits and explain your reasoning. This will build understanding about the parts needed for an API to be good.

When you are done then you should apply your newfound judgement on projects over and over again since good judgement is nothing without practice.
Did you click on the link? The side-by-side comparison is pretty damning. I think the similarities are way more apparent then just "similarities to other RSS reader software".
I'm sorry, I was too brief in my original comment. I shouldn't have brushed off imitation in design by talking about the murky nature of the origin of creative work. You are quite right that a lot of good has come from people stealing other people's design work; when people come up with something new and good, it is usually a good thing for others in the field to incorporate them into their own work. That's how we move forward. I mean, Reeder straight up copied the "pull to refresh" UI element from Tweetie.

But, as in all things, there is a balance, and one can go too far. What the developers of MobileRSS did is not wrong because they copied, it is wrong because they only copied, and didn't make it better. They didn't incorporate good ideas from Reeder into their own, making something new and beautiful, but rather substituted Silvio's ideas for their own which is lazy and the opposite of good work. I know whose future development I want to support.
How many design elements which were unique to Reeder are actually in MobileRSS? Sure, there are similarities, but they are two software packages which do similar a task, on the same platform.

Putting the platform specific stuff aside, they both have lots of similarities to other RSS reader software I've seen that most likely pre-dates them both.

If I was an iPad user, and I learned that there was another (presumably less expensive) application with all the same features as one I was using, I would certainly bookmark it and consider switching next time I had to do a paid upgrade - so I suspect that Reeder just scored a major own goal.
I have to agree now that I've looked more at what they're really doing.

It's a good concept/name, like you say, but doesn't look like they're actually executing on it.
Well, it's a bit of a stealth piece, as he's claiming to argue that while really arguing the reverse. He's not arguing for greater freedom, he's arguing against religious freedom.

Look at the examples he chooses. He's not really arguing that anyone should be able to wear veils, not have pictures on their IDs, carry sheathed knives, etc. He's arguing that if voters wouldn't see any random person as needing/deserving to be able to do something, then nobody should be able to do it based on religion.

Myself, I'd say sure, let kids carry knives, whether pocketknives (as people in my neck of the woods happily let kids in prior generations) or kirpans. On the other hand, the writer's dog-whistling, saying that we should only do something as crazy as let Sikh kids carry kirpans if we'd be willing to have a stabby bloodbath in our (well, Canadian) schools.

While I'd love to be able to skip legal protection of enumerated rights, knowing that the government would respect my freedoms in every conceivable formulation, it ain't gonna happen. The best-case situation in Western society is that the government remains leery of obviously stepping on the rights that people most object to having abridged - free speech, religion, etc.

ETA: And yes, that means that some people will have a "privilege" - ie, they'll be exempted from some stupid law that would harm or impair them even more than it does everyone else. In that case, the answer isn't to attack the privilege, it's to attack the thing the privilege protects against.
Always:

gmail,
piwik,
dealush (my site)

Usually:

localhost:3000,
sugarcrm,
redmine,
basecamp,
facebook,
twitter (both for work of course...)

and... HN :D
I started to think that it's part of the internet age of journalism, but quickly realized I was just being naïve. The sensationalism of headlines is as old as the headline.
He laid out his reasons pretty clearly in his post about it: http://readitlaterlist.com/blog/2010/12/a-quick-word-on-the-...
Oh, a lot. In every startup that succeeds, the founders become much more formidable.
Apple AirPlay while lossless, is limited to 16/44.1. It's really a great option for wireless transmission and it uses wifi not bt. It's not 24khz so it will never be considered a pro audio solution but wireless and very functional, it is.
Is it denotive that nobody has mentioned Bazel so far? It supports building Java applications as well:

https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/tutorial/java.html
> I don't think eradicating viruses is a good thing.

Yep, if nothing else, we need them to "train" our immune systems.

Treating the coronavirus as a flu would be a best option... vaccinate the most exposed and vulnerable groups, and let others get it.
Sorry, for those of us not in the know, what is it about La Care that provokes this response?
Yes, but the average net worth is 301k. It doesn't make any sense to look at median numbers when talking about uneven wealth distribution. Of course the median is going to be very low, that's the whole point!
To be completely honest, I still think that the work done in the Tailored Access Operations group sounds like really, really interesting stuff.
The rest of the rules could be called "asshole detectors"
The announcement page says pen wouldn't be included.
Sometimes I wonder how hard it would be to find a new job if you can't talk about much, if any, of your work for the past 5+ years.
The idea that a couple kids that programmed a fairly trivial, albeit useful, calculator application feel like they should be raising multiple millions of dollars is what's wrong with the present state of affairs. In my humble opinion only of course.
I hear you. It was actually supposed to be like you're looking down at a desk and then seem as if you were moving your head up at the bookshelf. The bookshelf doesn't move so it's a bit odd right now.
I did a bit of OSDev two years ago: https://github.com/EarlGray/COSEC

It's still a very incomplete system: it loads, sets up IDT/GDT, uses several simple drivers for keyboard, timers, serial interfaces, probing PCI bus, an effort to write a floppy disk driver (I could test it on virtual machines only though). There's a demo of multitasking, a demo of going to userspace and doing system calls, a demo of VFS and RAM-fs (I overcomplicated it and got stuck, but I have not rewritten it yet).

These articles were an invaluable source of information and a starting point for design.
I'm just guessing.
Are you by any chance at the hyperloop team? I see that you only commented on this topic.
I'm going to go with rustic. I think the phrase -a more rustic experience- has a much better sound and connotation than -a more rusty experience-.
"At the very heart of the film industry’s longevity is the art of narrative storytelling which has been refined continuously"

The overwhelming majority of Hollywood movies are terrible, shallow stories with formulaic development that are designed to grab money from specific demographics. There is hardly anything artistic left.

It may be what people want, but let's not pretend that great works of art are what keep Hollywood profitable.

"you have to remember this is a sixty-five billion dollar a year industry that has survived multiple world wars and the great depression"

The typewriter industry also survived those wars and the great depression, and where is it now? Times change, and businesses that adapt poorly to a changing market will be replaced.
Errrm, this translates into a "making large drones" problem. Which has a whole set of additional problems, e.g. what are you going to say to the survivors of a devastated neighborhood when a big drone with lots of water crashes into it?

I'm not saying its insurmountable, just that it's way beyond the current levels of both drone technology and acceptance.
yup, but we are talking about "killing hollywood" which is films.

Longform is largely separate. People rarely gather for a single 20 minute episode of something, they do gather for an 90 minute film.
I might go mirrorless if and when Canon releases a full-frame mirrorless camera. Sony is apparently releasing one next year.
The article is sensationalism at his best. It doesn't worth the read. Ballmer doesn't even come close to Kenneth Lay, normally my choice for that title.