jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/creating-parsers#w... mentions it’s based on GLR.
> There's a more complicated anti-spam system that isn't fully implemented yet.

You may be thinking of Vouch.

https://indieweb.org/Vouch
I’m not surprised a company that consistently sells out within seconds is making money.

What is surprising is their claim that mining only accounts for 6% of sales — though that seems difficult to verify (the cards used for mining and gaming are the same)
Generally interesting article, so I was struck by the ending:

> Also, the confusion does not only come from the overlaps in the wording, but in the necessity to go into the implementation details to understand the difference in a real-life concurrent application. In practice, this is one of the difficulties that had led many people (me included) to look at the ‘NoSQL’ world.

Consistency in database systems is a hard topic because maintaining consistency in any concurrent system is hard. Traditional systems provide you with a set of tools (isolation levels, foreign keys) that make a decent programmer capable of building a safe concurrent application.

Throwing away those tools and replacing them with nothing does not make life easier. The tool is easier to understand, but the problem is harder to solve.

This is not to say that NoSQL systems do not have a place - of course they do - but I feel like a lot of people adopting them talk about 'eventual consistency' while what they maintain is actually inconsistency.

Maintaining consistency in NoSQL systems when the application is nontrivial is really hard - and if the developer is not up to understanding the locking model of a traditional DB, I'd be pretty surprised if they were up to working with an eventually consistent system.
This def makes sense. I'll be fixing that. Active tab should be the "front" tab.
Priming effects could also explain the results: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_(psychology)
In what way are the 'legit' applicants conservative? Normally that term would imply less risk combined with less reward, but I would think these applications merely offer less risk.
What does "temperature" mean with regard to photons? A photon has an energy level given by its wavelength or frequency. But temperature is a macroscopic phenomenon (equivalent to the kinetic energy of a group of particles).
Business plan from around that time: http://www.scribd.com/doc/24386920/Original-Executive-Summar...
I just don't buy that saying something like:

Henceforth, I will consider each day’s effort as but one blow of my blade against a mighty oak. The first blow may cause not a tremor in the wood, nor the second, nor the third. Each blow, of itself, may be trifling, and seem of no consequence. Yet from childish swipes the oak will eventually tumble. So it will be with my efforts of today.

I will be liken to the rain drop which washes away the mountain; the ant who devours a tiger; the star which brightens the earth; the slave who builds a pyramid. I will build my castle one brick at a time for I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

is going to help me do anything but look silly. Maybe I'm just a pragmatic rationalist.
I was thinking about Ivan Krstić, but he did not really defect to Apple.
Personally, the idea I have in my mind of a (US) driver's license is a universally-accepted form of ID that anyone can get.

Don't you have to take a test to obtain a licence? Here in the UK the test is relatively difficult and expensive, so not everybody has a licence. Passports are much cheaper, easier to obtain and don't come with age limits, so they are a more universal form of ID (though they are also bulky and hardly something you would carry around on you).

When most people think of driver's licenses, do they really think government certification, or do they think universal ID? I would be honestly interested in the answer.

When I think of driver's licences, I think of driving a car. Universal ID doesn't occur.
Because everyone is reading cached versions.
Every German older than 16 is required by law to have an ID card or passport. As of November 2010, ID cards carry RFID chips with the same data that's written on the card plus an optional fingerprint. Passports have had the chip for a while already, but the fingerprint is mandatory there. Driver's licenses are not considered a valid means of identification outside traffic.
Presenting what is effectively 'opinions' as 'scientific-looking graphs' is one of my biggest pet-peeves (up there with its 'nicely drawn cartoon arguing a point as proof of that argument' equivalent).

In theory people will argue that it's just a way to make things more 'visual' and 'approachable' to the lay public, but 9/10 times it comes across to me as just a dishonest way to make your audience 'think past the sale'.

Here's an example:

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Must be a universally true fact, right? I mean, there's a graph and everything. I think I also saw a cartoon somewhere...
I agree, you don't have any first hand experience in Japan.

If what you all said was true, why do foreign enterprises profit in Japan then?

Language is culture.

Culture is people.

You seem to be missing the big picture, and that isn't bad - it just means you should try to improve your ignorance.

Plus, all the issues you said apply anywhere in the world.
The problem is that this is not your data alone. These devices are cloud hosted and subject to subpoena (at best). Indeed any restrictions on these recordings will serve the police.
Haven't read the article but I used to develop a kiosk application that used headless Chrome and holy fuck is that a complicated endeavor. It wouldn't be if browsers were content to simply be browsers, but Chrome has so many stupid value-adds and telemetry points that care+feeding of the Chrome (later Chromium) instances took up a substancial part of my job. At one point we toyed with a simply pyGTK app that loaded a webview but there were issues with that as well. The browser space really needs to return to its roots.
Corporations have only themselves to blame for the failure of the TPP. Instead of limiting the agreement to trade, it was filled to the brim with anti-consumer, anti-worker, and anti-environment clauses. Negotiated entirely by industry and kept secret from even senators, laundering legislation they could never get through any parliament. If there was any justice in the world, the TPP would not only have failed, but everyone involved would be executed for treason.

Instead, they'll just try again in a few years.
Here is a good example, if you are in Germany, thanks to our GEMA friends you may be unable to watch a talk if it is on YouTube.

While this might occur also with self hosted, YouTube is their main target and what they mostly care about.
On the one hand it sounds insane. On the other, he mesmerized so many other people with pure charisma that maybe just maybe he could have been useful.

Fits with the Trumps' thinking that Mideast peace is just a real estate deal. And real estate is indeed central to it.
Maybe they prefer to live under a communist dictatorship? I don't know. I grew up in the USSR. The reasons why anyone would want to return to this shit elude me completely.
This is a great move. It is time to punish countries that impose restrictions on technology. I don't want to be a prisoner in a place where technology is simply considered "illegal" because it doesn't further the interests of the ruling class.
In the extremely early days of a startup one doesn't have much optionality. With only three people at the company it really did not make any sense to hire a full time SRE for a pre PMF startup. I'm glad we made those trade offs back in 2011-2012 so that Firebase could be here today to be backed by a dedicated Google SRE team.
Is anybody excited about Wi-Fi 6?

I'm just not seeing a compelling use case for many residential users to upgrade given the number of legacy devices that don't support this protocol. More importantly, the impending release of WiFi6e routers that open up 6 Ghz makes me want to wait even more... That is a huge potential bandwidth increase.
Being able to the see the components is a great start, but one of the things we've been unable to easily do in our own trackers is dynamically remove particular stocks to see how much someone's portfolio growth is relying on e.g. TSLA. Any plans for that?
Hi there! STEP files are an absolute beast of a format, and interpreting them requires a geometry kernel of no small sophistication. How did you incorporate STEP support into a Chrome extension? Did you recompile OpenCASCADE for JS or something?
But I'm not sure the union is going to be on my side.

If you aren't, check the agreements the union has with you and your employer. These are contracts with enforceable terms and are upheld.
>Gamestop went from 90 to 140 overnight in late/early trading - when retail on reddit are locked out.

Retail traders were not "locked out". Practically every retail brokerage offers extended hours trading, many from 4AM to 9PM.
Well, if you've never heard of a company offering that service/product, then you're probably not alone there.

Someone offering a product doesn't mean they have saturated the market for it, or even made the average customer aware that they exist.

Even if they do exist, and they have saturated the market, the fact that you still want to build a different product might mean there is innovation left to do in that space.

So no, I don't think anything is really done to death. If you want to do it, go with your gut.
The Guardian is a British newspaper, I'm pretty sure the author is using the British meaning.
Indeed, that would be the case if the author were indeed famous. But he's not.

Fame is defined by people knowing who you are, yet this guy's issue is that nobody knows who he is. QED, he's not famous.
Perhaps a better way to think about this is: pro-stasis and anti-stasis mentality?

Remember that liberals, who in theory are in favor of progress, were behind the Clipper Chip (Bill Clinton's first major tech initiative), banning "indecency" online (Dem. Sen. James Exon, signed by Clinton), banning linking to drug-related web sites (Dem. Sen. Dianne Feinstein), drafting key portions of the Patriot Act (Clinton admin, late 1999s), introducing key portions of the Patriot Act in September 2000 (Dem. Sen. Patrick Leahy), etc.

I'll give a link for the last one; the rest you can find on your own:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20058797-281.html

I can create a similar list for pro-stasis Republicans. Stasis-ism is orthogonal to major party affiliation. Small l-libertarians, on the other hand, tend to be uniformly anti-stasis. :)
Screws, Washers, Nuts & Bolts sizes are prety much standarized, so you can probabbly go to the nearest store and buy one of the same size. Really the main problem is that they may have used an special alloy or quenching or galvanizing.
The flash works great in a pinch as a torch, though. :)
I wrote that blog post immediately after the conversation referred to in the first paragraph. I was very pissed off by my friend's assumption that coding was some kind of menial task (he used to be a dev some time ago) and I did very little editing (and it shows, for which, apologies. I sometimes use writing as catharsis and don't bother with polishing when I've blown off steam).

These days I would just shrug and move on, but I remember I was very irritated with someone assuming that everyone wants to be a manager and that the failure to "move on from coding" was some kind of failure.

PostScript: the person I had the conversation with("Vivek" in the post) is "Director of Innovation" at an "Offshore Development Centre" here in Bangalore these days and he is leading a "strategic initiative" to "increase corporate innovation" (In private conversation he freely admits that he is just "pushing paper and attending meetings" and that his employer is hopelessly non-innovative and bureaucratic) while I am still coding in Haskell/C all day, working mostly from home, learning new things and working with smart people.

What is worse (from his pov) I still make more money than him which drives him a bit crazy but he consoles himself with "you are a unique kind of crazy guy". We have our differences of opinion but we are still friends (I think ;-) )
"Alt-tab"ing should work too.
When selling to your average person who just wants to take a few pictures from time to time I think connection is a better selling point that improved picture quality.
I've never been comfortable using a scroll wheel to zoom. I want it to scroll.
The goal, in terms of business model, seems pretty obvious - get/keep people to use Microsoft services and don't lose any more of the low end to Android. While Facebook and Opera Mini are built-in, so are Bing Search and MSN Weather. I wouldn't be surprised if they eventually add other services also.

If they can sell this type of device at or near cost (which it seems like they are), and increase Bing marketshare at the expense of Android/Google, it's a win for them.
that realized that also his well-being was depending of the well-being of his workers

Ford was incredibly nosy into workers' lives. If you wanted the infamous "five dollars a day," you had to let management make sure you were living decently at home, including the wife staying at home if she had a husband.

But since this time, the shareholder value has taken over the government.

I'm not quite sure, but I think this is saying that Ford got taken over by the government following bankruptcy. But Ford (unlike GM and Chrysler) did not go bankrupt.
> Do you believe a council full of men is biased towards men's needs? If so, then a council full of women shouldn't be much different.

Ah, but it is different, it's called feminism these days
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Videos have been used frequently for all sorts of other stuff in games since the playstation, if not earlier. In StarCraft the portrait of your selected unit was a movie file (RAD smacker, I think? But I don't have a copy of starcraft lying around to double check).

Supergiant Games' titles since Bastion all use RAD's Bink codec to store offline renders of their character models (as movies) instead of traditional sprite sheets or realtime rendered 3d models, so they're playing back dozens of movies at all times.

As another reply mentioned, it's also standard at this point for loading screens to be movies.
RTG’s are extremely expensive, the USSR made expensive use of them for politics not economics.

Remote applications would have lower costs but those should give you some idea of the reasons. https://inldigitallibrary.inl.gov/sites/sti/sti/7267852.pdf
If Boeing's products went down that frequently, I wouldn't fly.
if you manage to get smart card,

Registering company ~186 euros. time ~15minutes online with smart card

bank account ~free first year, full online support with smart card

digital signature with smart card is equal with real one on all documents.

taxes, bookkeeping, hire local bookkeeper ~>30euros per month and use skype/email
I was told by a guy who used to contract in Ireland, that there's a heavy crack-down on contractors working through their own Ltd's happening in Ireland, since they want you to pay taxes as a normal employee. Something worth considering, since it could also apply to foreign-generated income.
In general I would agree, but I think it also depends on junior developer in question. Every now and then you meet someone whose overflowing intelligence, talent and work ethic will make them an exceptional engineer, but are not there yet. It would be a shame not to support that.

I recently mentored such person and she is already one of our most productive developers.
Not including games and command line utilities, I probably have at least 40 different apps installed, many of which have multiple executables associated. It would be madness.

Am not a fan of OS X's dock, obscuring the difference between started and unstarted apps. But it doesn't even behave like you describe, you normally have to fish the icon out of that drawer. That's usually too tedious, so apps are generally started by searching - spotlight or Alfred. Smells like design failure to me though.
Because we have fought hard to leave the manual labour of the past.

The death, poverty, rape, famine, violence, sadness, intolerance it brings.

So to have manual labour used for half of all journeys and be consider good is a surprise.

I really don't find this a hard thing to understand?
whataboutism and flamebait

please do not do this
I'm more thinking that not all data is equal. We really treat it like it is, at least from the public perspective (it clearly isn't from the perspective of those gathering data, but there's a clear disparity in how these groups view things). Some data is actually necessary to give up to have a well functioning internet (what browser you're using) and some data is not (canvas fingerprinting). There's a tough question here because the people making the decision of what data to be used is not us. It is the websites we visit. I would argue that there is no consent being given here and all is assumed to be "common consent" (which I'm using as a lack for better terms. Things like that if you walk out in public people can see you. But conversely, someone can't run up to you and measure your height with a tape measure). There has to be some balance here. What that is, I don't know. But really the only people that can figure that out are us computer nerds who at least kinda understand these things. We have to be having these discussions, or else it becomes "fuck silicon valley" (a conversation that is becoming national). So if we don't think about these things, then we clearly live in a bubble and bubbles burst. If we do think about these things, maybe we don't live in a bubble.
Mozilla is planning something, subscribe for updates:

https://premium.firefox.com/vpn/

Presumably, they'll partner with a vendor that they can audit, but who knows.

Having worked at Mozilla I'm confident lots of individuals would leak if forced to build backdoors :)
Like I said, these things aren't common occurrences in Western countries. You know... the countries that can afford the Cybertruck (I don't give a shit about an authoritarian of an impoverished nation buying this truck. There are so few of them it doesn't even make sense to market to them, and why should we condone that?)
If most people managed to reduce their car driving by 2000 miles per year, I fail to see how that is a bad thing.
Yes, mob justice and public humiliation are very useful when people do and think things you don't like. Just what we need to deeply heal our damaged society.
I wish the text examples were more compelling. I suspect that they don't do the original book justice. The textual connections they cite are too fragmentary to look like anything other than coincidences.

The juxtaposition "noisome weeds" is striking, but it also appears in the King James Bible. It may have just been a set phrase of the period. The other connections in that same extract are all even further, such as "wholesome herbs" and "wholesome flowers" (used in different parts of speech and spread differently over line breaks).

I find the rest of the argument more interesting. Shakespeare does not appear to have ever gone to Italy (his grasp of Italian geography is abysmal), and I'm perfectly willing to believe that he used North as a source. Shakespeare surely did crib from other writers.

So it's an idea. It's a springboard for future work. Which is neat, but that's kinda all of it.
Right, good points. This does remind me of how Flutter dev experience is just by yourself except this is published as a product. It's slick cool and at the edge of what's possible.
> videos of lectures are missing, which is the case for most OCW courses

Yes, fair point.

> suggesting it can substitute actually studying at MIT is a bit too... optimistic

My personal experience at MIT was that I didn't learn much from lectures; too long, too boring, and too much tailored to the professor's style instead of the student's. In this respect lectures at other schools where teaching is valued more relative to research might actually be better. (One of the professors I had at MIT who was the exception--an excellent lecturer, who actually responded usefully to questions from students in a freshman-level class of 200 or more--was criticized by the MIT administration for not publishing enough research papers.)
Lower one’s expectations of quality of life and consume less.
Where I live 20km from Stockholm it’s pretty common to ride year round at least. That’s around 45min to 1h. It’s definitely not very dense the first 10km, but no exactly rural either. Infrastructure is good though with separate bike paths more or less door to door, and some bike lanes once you reach the city limits (though not as good as class leading Copenhagen).
qnap and Synology basically already cover this market
I agree - plus there's already enough culture war arguing just with EVs, now we're going to pivot to the NIMBY battlefield that is cycling?

Make progress where you can.

I'd love for their to be more cycling options (and things are way better than they used to be), but no reason to disincentivize transitioning to EVs too (or framing it as some battle between them).
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I’m using restic too for part of my backups, having moved from duplicity. My experience has been (on a dataset which is relatively compressible ie not audio/video files) that deduplication has saved me quite a lot more space vs duplicity than I lost through not having compression.
> reward

This person is dead. We can thus deduce the reward is death. While that is a big reward, it's not one most people want.