jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Of course, the Linux attempt at a cathedral is systemd.
There are a lot of objections to C++, but I've never seen any of the five he mentions. They sound more like strawmen to knock down than real objections by actual users or commentators critical of the language.
I'm going to say MacBook Air - it runs cool equipped with solid-state components and integrated graphics. Whichever one you choose, make sure you get the SSD storage option, as it will run much cooler and simply perform better.

It amazes me that Apple still ships computers with spinning hard drives in 2014, let alone a laptop.
Not an english expert, but would "She wants, gradually, to get rid of her teddy bears" work?
Yes, that thing was JVM, java.. It too escaped the browser and infiltrated the server..
My main problem with the talk is not that you make fun of Perl (every langauge is easy to make fun of), but that you don't seem to have more than a superficial grasp of Perl. No one that doesn't understand a language should make recommendations as to its use.

A couple of examples:

* "You need to backslash the variable" (near-quote) - no, you need to pass the array as a reference (which can be done in several ways).

* Anyone expecting my $var = scalar @array; to return anything but the number of items in @array hasn't spent much time writing/reading Perl.

* "Most, if not all, Perl web apps use CGI.pm" - Not in a world of Mojolicious [1], Dancer [2], Catalyst [3] and others. You should check them out.

[1] https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious

[2] https://metacpan.org/pod/Dancer2

[3] https://metacpan.org/release/Catalyst-Runtime
It's a perception problem. GPS is an artificial organ that happens to reside outside of your brain at this stage of evolution. Most people have to use vision as well, they cannot just use their old trusty sense of smell to get around. So what it's biological?
If you use a tuned quartz crystal oscillator you shouldn't have any problems.
It's not just autocracy. The US government is quite aggressive in shutting down websites that spread information it doesn't like. They also sometimes go further and arrest and imprison the operators. Examples include gambling, piracy and drug trading sites.
@jamil, thanks for the pointers! I will store some of these away for future editions of The Morning Paper :)
I don't have any legal knowledge. Hope someone who does can shed some light on these questions:

Aren't antitrust laws designed to protect the customers from the power that a company can wield due to it's monopoly?

Isn't this what Youtube is doing? - Exercising it's power to 'force' her to move from ContentID to a new product.

And wouldn't this then also qualify as bait and switch? And isn't this according to some law illegal?
Not sure of the circumstances beyond a car accident in MX, but it's awful and painful.

For those still living, a few simple best practices for ground transport that cut the risk:

0. Always hire a driver foreign countries.

1. Make sure the driver isn't high, drunk or insane.

2. Assess yourself the vehicle is in safe, working order and has enough mass and safety features to "win" an accident.

3. Wear a seatbelt, even if it's hidden or nobody else does.

Being reasonably careful isn't about being a p$ssy, "worrying too much" or eliminating all unforeseeable risks, it's about not letting other people down by dying and causing a loss that really could have been prevented by making other choices. There are plenty of difficult/nearly impossible unpreventable ways to shuffle off the mortal coil, no reason to volunteer. I'd venture this wasn't one of those, because JG sounded like a sensible fellow.

Condolences, again.
It is true but not really relevant that they're smarter and more powerful than me. Since they don't trust me, they won't let me decrypt the disk D but will demand the key K to do it themselves. Recall K = D XOR P for some readable plaintext pictures or files, etc., I've already chosen. The "decryption" yields the perfectly readable output P = D XOR K.
This is a side effect of the extremism that happens in our industry. A decade and a half ago there was a hard push on ORMs, to the point that people would refuse to work on a code base that didn’t use one. So a lot of developers simply “grew up” not learning SQL (properly).

We can easily enumerate dozens of other technologies that developers hard push on only to years later realize they’ve swung too far.
> "if people can only afford a $1/night hotel room"

Yes, they exist. They are called poor people.

As it is, the business model seems partially based on there being (1) a group of men on the internet who want to voyeur hotel rooms, and (2) working class women who reluctantly consent to their hotel room being live-streamed for a discounted rate. If it's not textbook, it certainly has some of the symptoms of exploitation.
Paper money already was a level of abstraction above the physical assets like gold and silver. The problem with paper money is that it can be devalued very easily.

You are also not going to have a say about paper money getting banned in the coming years. You'll have a choice between different digital currencies, most of them centralized and some that are not.
I still fail to understand why they cannot see why stopping people from doing what they surely came to the site for is a bad idea. The sizes of the things should be swapped: big search bar, tiny button on the bottom to install it in your favorite browser. But that’d just be their normal website…
Here are some companies that run much, if not most, of their backend on Java: Amazon, Apple, Google, Netflix and Twitter, not to mention pretty much every government, military, bank, hospital, airport, and utility company.
Thank you, this was an amazing insight.
I do a little meditation. Flow for me is about being in the present.
Awesome question! The software has completely customizable "reservation types" and "breeds", which allows for all kinds of animals. We actually don't say the word "dog" once in the app.

Not only can you manage your reservations online, we also feature photo/video report cards over SMS :). That's my personal favorite feature...love getting a video of my 2 dogs wrestling at daycare.

We have a pretty generous referral program, get in touch if you have a business you'd like to refer.
I almost fell out of my chair when I read this. Seems like there's a lot of, well, interesting advice mixed in with the good advice! :)
I was a paying customer for a while. The web-app was super snappy and the ui (minus usability and simplicity and minus sane defaults that "just work") design was state of the art and reminded me of apple or metalabs in some regards (reading about them also being in canada is especially interesting).

BUT i had to leave because the usability and amount of settings and exact reasonability about the workflows and data was just not doable for me. Especially sharing with my PA and managing a small team gave me nightmares. I would maybe setup all the preferences one day and understand what my assistant could see and do at what point and what "archiving" exactly meant in which situations. But after a few days it was all a blur again and i was just anxious about using this thing without accidentally missing messages or losing track of what was going on. They seem to have build every feature on earth and support any workflow for teams possible but without the guide, visual feedback and structure to be effective.

Going back to stupid gmail was just relieving, because it was possible to reason about even though it felt ancient in comparison. The fact that i had to write them to delete my account instead of just being able to do that in settings made me really angry back then because i had no idea it was just 4 people, i assumed a team size of front.app or intercom.

A major problem of email team inboxes in general (missive was better than others but also had issues) is the sync with gmail, they all do not sync back in a way that you could go back without losing significant metadata and labels. I know this is a hard problem but especially front.app gives me the feeling they also use this knowingly for a hidden lock in.
So how do they check if you have a driver license? Or do a routine check for drunk driving? That's not allowed in US?
Yeah and Webrender, Stylo, and Servo just happen to appear out of thin air.
There's already an API for native activities. While I doubt that Google will be the one to release the framework to write Rust applications, there's no reason why it would be impossible to interface app-level Rust with the Android SDK.

The big problem with such a setup, of course, is that the application itself would be running inside a JVM/Dalvik VM, so the app would constantly be switching between Java and native, which can't be great for performance. However, it can be done; thankfully, Chrome and Firefox aren't completely compiled to byte code, the JIT and rendering code is written in native code. With Mozilla's use of Rust in their browser, that means that there's already a significant Rust runtime running on Android, at least.

If the app uses Rust and a library to hook the draw call, it should be fairly easy to write the app like a video game and render everything in Rust. This would come bundled with a tonne of accessibility problems, of course, as every rendered control would be a non-standard one.
ACLU donation link for the lazy https://action.aclu.org/give/now

I personally have a monthly recurring donation. Give what works for you.
Funny thing, by pure happenstance, I watched this video last night, and others have noted, I try to watch it at least once a year.

As entertaining (and informative) as the professor is, and he really is, I find the follow on talk from the detective with 25 years of experience even more compelling.

He comes across as a really nice guy, someone you could trust, even more than Duane.

And he's sent thousands of people to prison.

Most likely the majority of those people did commit some crime, and perhaps did deserve their convictions. That's not the point.

There's a non-zero chance that a completely innocent person's contact with law enforcement can end up with a false conviction. If you role a 1 on a d20 and fail your 'save vs. law enforcement', even if you're entirely innocent, everybody is best served if you don't talk to them without legal representation.
Sure, in theory.

We (America) have lots of folks that accept plea agreements because we put pre-trial folks in jail and treat them like criminals, which can easily ruin lives even if you are found not guilty.

Of course, you might not be talking about the US system when you refer to a decent system, so maybe you are correct.
Hopefully Monero will one day put an end to such tyranny.
> However, the article is a bit misleading, mainly for two reasons: “bootstrapped”, and “without spending a dime on marketing”.

> They “bootstrapped” by financing the company with another profitable company. That technically means they were their own investors, but they weren’t limited only to the revenue that their email company was generating.

That is the definition of bootstrapping with no need for quotes. They pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps, starting with existing resources and created something more complex and effective.
> Pro designers are famously fans of Mac's, and they are certainly willing to pay a ton for lots of different types of software.

That is true, and to compound to what you said earlier, Pro users are demanding and finicky, as Apple found out when it released Final Cut "Pro" X - which should have been Final Cut Prosumer. Apple lost years worth of goodwill overnight, because of shifting demographics of Apple users and Apple's own failure to balance the needs of casual, prosumers and actual video professionals. The same thing will happen to Pro designers, should Apple lose focus on attention to color accuracy and screen quality.

The trouble with Linux is that it's hard to build tools for people with strong opinions, who can build their own, better, free versions of the tools when sufficiently motivated - your Git example will suffice.
On the other hand, these comments are only met with responses indicating that the source for that is an old whitepaper without any more information. While the person replying is the MobileCoin CEO. So they at least try to embellish the current situation in some way. Which doesn't tell me much good.
Sure but before the pandemic probably 99% of office jobs were onsite. If 15% of workers prefer remote while only 1% of companies operate that way, being remote will be a competitive advantage for companies that do it for the foreseeable future.
> Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Not quite in the same weight class as von Neumann, but Matt Parker's "There's a trick for dealing with that in mathematics, called 'not really worrying about it'" when discussing results that don't mesh with our intuitive understanding is another nice one.
Spectre and Meltdown but for Disk I/O
Have you tried COBOL ON COGS?

http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM
One reason is that it encourages wrong-think in healthy discussions. /s

Questioning why something is flagged is also against the 'HN Hivemind'. Now get in line. /s
How do you evaluate the merits of an argument?
"When you search any of the endpoints on Have I Been Pwned, you can add a + prefix if you like and it'll be automatically stripped off when performing the search. Same with spaces and same with dashes."
Good analysis, I didn't say it would be easy :-).
>>This is incorrect. Stock represents actual ownership of a scarce resource (a company).

He's referring to the grandparent comment's definition, not yours. The GP's definition is:

>>Early adopters mine or buy large proportions at negligible prices while late adopters mine or buy negligible proportions at large prices.

By that definition, anything that goes up in value is a "multi-level marketing pyramid scheme".
every twitter feed expands until it contains a variation of Zawinsky's Law
It could be, I believe what you say is very much the truth.

But that doesn't really matter. Even by doing that. these two are associated. Imagine, if there was a non-profit, that took money from some Kremlin or Fobidden City development program, using exactly the same procedure. Would be that non-profit trustworthy going forward, given their association?

So this one is the same, just with red and white stripes. Definitely not FUD, they did take money from US Gov agency.
Last I checked, end-to-end was only available on the phone app (not the desktop client) and only for one-on-one conversations. That's a pretty huge difference, but one that most people won't even understand or care about.

But the simple fact is that for most people the security profile of Telegram is good enough and its UI is miles ahead of Signal.

I've already complained about that in the past but the fact that the desktop client still won't let me set the spellchecking language is baffling to me. It's an application that's meant mainly for exchanging text, and it won't let me configure the spellchecking, and let's not even talk about formatting options.

It amused me when in the announcement they said that the reason for testing the payments in the UK was that they were English speaking. You can tell that this is an application developed my monolinguals...
Cosmic bitflip is like the Godwin's Law of BOFH excuses.
Man their website is bland, how do they expect to attract users?
The way to get around this if you absolutely want to be able to disable a clients site for none payment is to have the code call out to an authorization server that you control. In which case you can shut down authorization on your own system for non-payment. This is akin to a dongle and is legal.

In saying that upon payment it is a good idea to have a routine that kills the check to your server as an authorization check that fails in production could shoulder you with a good deal of liability.
Would you be happier if I had said sectors instead of a sector? Or do you have in mind a sector that gets a significant amount of venture funding that also suffers from high unemployment?

Most venture also wants to see ideas that can scale well non-linearly with employee count. This leads to the few ballpark successes being pretty job light compared to their revenue. Which is better for the economy, cash hoarding and dividends or continual reinvestment in expanding into new markets?
I'd say a lot, because to do the import you have to swamp your firefox bookmarks structure with your delicious one, and then import those using the toolbar. Of course this looses all of the tags, and comments, which are pretty much the whole point of delicious.

A system that actually gets all the data from delicious into google bookmarks seems to be worth while.
I like the idea of us taking our own bookmarks and re-importing them into a new system, then getting it to work (optionally) in a network (maybe syncing based on friend/follow relationships) on any domain we like...
They'll move the Vim and then have the epiphany of realizing they where wrong all this time. Hopefully before their left hand becomes this unusable and RSI ridden extension of the rest of thier arm. Being serious, I think it's insulting to mention Notepad++ as a replacement for Emacs instead of a more capable editor! ;)
Funny you soudl mention that my prefered comenting style in perl has similarities to the one use by NAG for thoer fortran Libs back in teh day :-)

And when I write a small perl utilities I still use a program ident string that losk very like RT11 ones :-)

No who rembers the comandline argumenst for PIP (the real one not the CP/M rip off) to rebuild a floppy's directory
It wasn't even a ban though. It was a restriction on the size of the container. You could still drink soda, as much as you like. It's well known that when you put larger amounts of food and drink in front of people, they consume more, regardless of whether they felt a physical need for it or not. Instead of letting marketers use psychological tricks to make themselves more money, I'd much rather let the government use the same tricks to make the public more healthy.

Even if science later finds out that soda is super healthy and we should all drink nothing else, I'd much rather have regulations motivated by people asking "Is this healthy?" instead of "Does this make me the most profit?"
The GraphChi paper from OSDI 2012 made a similar observation: http://select.cs.cmu.edu/publications/paperdir/osdi2012-kyro...

From the abstract: "In this work, we present GraphChi, a disk-based system
for computing efficiently on graphs with billions of edges.
By using a well-known method to break large graphs into
small parts, and a novel parallel sliding windows method,
GraphChi is able to execute several advanced data mining,
graph mining, and machine learning algorithms on very
large graphs, using just a single consumer-level computer. ... By repeating experiments reported for existing distributed
systems, we show that, with only fraction of the
resources, GraphChi can solve the same problems in very
reasonable time."

Section 7.2 compares themselves to distributed graph frameworks.
If they charged you on usage percent times maintenance cost plus future upgrade plans, they wouldn't make nearly enough for buying golden yachts. You'd be paying like 20$/month for 10Mbit unlimited data.
Shouldn't the market sort this out in the long run? That is, I would expect to see company buyouts and mergers that would reduce the levels of overhead and redundancy.
Yes, the difference what year it was passed completely invalidates the point.

Moreover, this is not about "can't sue in case of national emergency". You can't sue period.

Other countries don't do this, why the US? Those poor uncivilized europeans with no vaccines.

Do you also drive cars where you can't sue Ford if it explodes?
Interesting reading, thanks for the link. Who'd have known that HMRC used such elaborate language! :-)

In this case I'm imagining only holding shares offshore, not paying dividends, etc. So not sure if that article applies fully. But it sounds like the intention of HMRC is to restrict the ability of companies to move profits offshore to avoid paying UK tax.
Unfortunately it doesn't work well on OS X and still requires me to run Chrome in background next to the Firefox leading to alot of annoying horrible window switching issues (for some reason chrome apps tend to get stuck in background when alt-tabbing, sometimes it just hangs, burns alot of memory for a really simple interface....)
One of my relatives very close to me is VP of sales and ops at a Fortune 250 B2B insurance co. You definitely hit the nail on the head with #2.

On another note, One of my good friends started working as a direct sales rep for the same company selling group insurance to very small businesses(5-20 people). He has tons of sales experience...But four months in is still stumbling and struggling with how complicated their products(plans) are...and he is one of the top people in their new batch of sales reps.

It is a complicated industry, but a lot of the complications shouldn't have to involve the actual customers or product. Unfortunately the complications they build into product can help make them a lot of money.

If you want to go after this market. Take an approach like Square. Hide all of the necessary complications(regulations, etct) of the industry so the customers don't even have to be aware or think about them. Then start off by gaining a foothold in an under served and less profitable market segment like small biz group insurance (guys selling couch on craigslist and farmers market vendors ~= 1-10 employee small biz in insurance). Then start building from there
You are basically describing my wife's engagement ring: 2ct yellow saffire, cushion cut, with 3 small diamonds on each side forming a triangle.

It knocks the socks off everyone. That said, we mostly don't correct people who think its diamond (protip: no matter how much you believe it, no-one who just admired your wife's ring wants to hear about blood diamonds or how evil debeers is.)

FYI, rubies are saffires (but you're referring to the colour of course.)
You're probably referring to this quote:

"Particular congratulations are due to aerospace engineers, who top the list, with a starting salary of just under sixty thousand dollars—a figure that, if it is not exactly stratospheric, is twenty-five thousand dollars higher than the average starting salary of a graduate in that other science of the heavens, theology."

The author doesn't mean "science" in the literal sense that implies the scientific method, he's using it in a far looser sense that only implies "the study of a subject". It is the New Yorker--there's some degree of poetic license involved here.
Excellent point on quants that I didn't think about it. The only stereotype I have is that I hate them because I wish I had their money but I wasn't old enough to cash in.
Coming late to the party, here is my version. Even though it uses some weird constructs, it compiles and runs with TurboC V2.01 from 1988:

char *d,*s;
for(d = s = z_terminated;
*s;
s += (char_to_remove== *s)?1:((*d++ = *s++),0))
{;}
*d = *s;

Note this is the "fun version". For production code, I would use more conventional constructs, rather than the comma-delimited embedded expression with side effects.
The X11 clipboard support in vim works in the terminal, but it only works when X11 support is built in. You just have to use the keyboard shortcuts ("+y = copy / "+gP = paste).

vim has to be built with X11 (gvim) support though b/c vim and gvim are really the same binary, IIRC (gvim = vim -g).
The $40k he made was off his Rails ebook.
Right on - thanks.

(and all you other SaaS providers out there - take note!)
I'm really struggling to think of a strength training scenario where your heart rate wouldn't be elevated (thus increasing blood flow). Consider a max. back squat, where all your muscles are contracting to the maximum degree that they can for several seconds. I'd say that'll make your heart pump.

(Thanks for the citations. That's awesome, and I wish more people would do it.)