jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The French precursor to "the Naked survival show that i am misnaming" had a contestant die and the medic who lost him commit suicide. denmark had a show in which naked women come on and get their body shape judged by 2 old white men.

TV is shit. we all know it. we all say it when we want to sound cultured. whenever i hear someone expressing shock at content or attaching specific cultures to TV themes i must always wonder at the size of the rock they live under.
Banking culture is unique in that it seems completely willing to burn customers - I can't think of any other businesses that have this so embedded in their approach. Imagine a company like Zendesk, where, at the end of the year, they suddenly charged their clients an additional $5k on their credit card just because they had it on file.

And yet people and companies continue to do business with them. If a company like Goldman approached me about doing a deal on a credit swap, I'd assume I'm going to get the shaft - but large pension companies continue to work with them.

Of course, this is a generalization - there are honest people in the finance industry, but they tend to be in roles where the incentives, again, are aligned with their clients. I'm thinking RIAs and companies like Vanguard.
Peter Norvig once proposed using '_' but got shot down.
"Trust me, Wickr is secure". Right.

Until I can see the source and build the app myself, I'll assume Wickr is just another government op.
I am >< close to quitting it myself, for all the reasons he mentioned. I started using OS X in '04 (on Panther) and have been using it almost exclusively until recently when the bugs of Yosemite made me run back to Linux a few times.

I used to confidently recommend OS X to people as something that "just works". I can no longer do so. It's a buggy steaming pile.

For me, one of the things that made OS X so easy to use was the quality of the third-party apps. Right now, I have no less than 80 third-party apps installed on my MBP. I keep telling myself that that is a LOT of money to invest, to walk away. But then I remind myself that is the "sunken cost fallacy"... I cannot get the money back.

I wish that many of the same third-party apps existed for Linux. I'd be HAPPY to pay top dollar for stuff on Linux, just like I did on OS X. But at this point, it's just not there.

I will go back to using Linux as my main machine, and LOTS of workarounds for the productivity apps I have on OS X.

I already have a ThinkPad W530 that is an absolute beast of a machine (32GB of RAM, 3 SSDs w/2.1TB of usable space), but I may trade in my MBP for a Chromebook Pixel. At this point, it's closer to "just works" than anything Apple is offering. :/
Surely weechat is the new AOL - or does something that is only used by 800m people not count?
> Facebook doesn't want you to leave Facebook at all.

AOL didn't use to let you leave AOL. For many years it was a 100% isolated walled garden. That is what made AOL AOL many years before AOL became an ISP.

They only grudgingly started adding ways of accessing internet content as the growth of the net so outpaced AOL that they had no alternative in order to keep subscribers.
We post thousands of moderation comments about things other personal attacks—though of course personal attacks are not ok on HN. I don't understand this reasoning where, if X is not ok, X must be the only thing moderators care about. Surely it is not so hard to understand that we have more than one rule.

It's not against the rules to be wrong, though. How could this be otherwise? Do you think we have a truth detector?
The only reason FAA ended up with F-35B is that they were too late with the idea of switching to F-35C, which meant that they couldn't rebuild their new carriers for CATOBAR on reasonable time/money budget.

Meanwhile F-35B exists pretty much only due to USMC to the point that I would be doubtful of any praise for the F-35 if it came from USMC crew. Then it got pushed as option for export, often seemingly presenting F-35B as being as capable as F-35A.

Meanwhile the ALIS without which F-35 is an expensive paperweight turned out to be a very expensive turd, that finally got renamed as ODIN after awarding the new contract to the same group that fscked up ALIS :/
I'm not even OK with this. I have very little trust in the average small business' ability to protect my information, on a technical level. I have more trust in their desire to protect my information - but that's not sufficient by itself.
I think that the author hasn't checked them all. Even this isn't checking them all.

The MUSL C library' sscanf() does not do this, but does call memchr() on limited substrings of the input string as it refills its input buffer, so it's not entirely free of this behaviour.

* https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/stdio/vsscanf.c

The sscanf() in Microsoft's C library does this because it all passes through a __stdio_common_vsscanf() function which uses length-counted rather than NUL-terminated strings internally.

* https://github.com/tpn/winsdk-10/blob/master/Include/10.0.16...

* https://github.com/huangqinjin/ucrt/blob/master/inc/corecrt_...

The GNU C library does something similar, using a FILE structure alongside a special "operations" table, with a _rawmemchr() in the initialization.

* https://github.com/bminor/glibc/blob/master/libio/strops.c#L...

* https://github.com/bminor/glibc/blob/master/libio/strfile.h#...

The FreeBSD C library does not use a separate "operations" table.

* https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/lib/libc/st...

A glib summary is that sscanf() in these implementations has to set up state on every call that fscanf() has the luxury of keeping around over multiple calls in the FILE structure. They're setting up special nonce FILE objects for each sscanf() call, and that involves finding out how long the input string is every time.

It is food for thought. How much could life be improved if these implementations exported the way to set up these nonce FILE structures from a string, and callers used fscanf() instead of sscanf()? How many applications are scanning long strings with lots of calls to sscanf()?
> Soon noticed that chuck Norris was in our compiled JavaScript

Is that a library? Or the string "Chuck Norris"?
> "there is no driving force behind Bitcoin other than human behavior itself"

That human behavior is more reliable than anything else when you're working with a Nash equilibrium
I googled your question, and doing that turned up plenty of blog posts with advice on how you might proceed. Here's one such blog post, but I'd read a bunch of articles before you spring into action on this:

https://www.springboard.com/blog/software-developer-job/
I miss the old days of DR so much.

Sadly, both it and I have changed. It's just not the same now for me. I've tried going back, and I've tried to find other things to recapture that feeling, but it's just not happening.
HELOC
The paper will be released @ NuFact 2013, most likely here first ... http://nufact2013.ihep.ac.cn/proceedings.html
Yes, conformance to a single string representation of a datetime is nice. Unfortunately that still doesn't help the issue when deserializing, you're just going to get a string that needs to be manually converted to a Date object.
At this rate it's going to be tough keeping Austin weird.
Maybe I'm missing something but... how does having paid for a software license mean you "don't have to worry much about performance"?
These policies may eventually find their way to Austin. I don't think the people who fled them will advocate them, but keep in mind what "fleeing" means - somebody is pursuing you. These folks may eventually catch up.

One big difference between San Francisco and Austin is that SF has been a wealthy city for a while now, whereas Austin is still on the way up. The more money there already is, the more incentive people have to focus on getting that money than creating new wealth.

As Austin gets bigger, wealthier, and more established, it's hard to believe that some people won't see jobs, benefits, apartments, and vacations as things people "get" rather than "create."

SF, while unimpressive in this regard, really isn't that different from any other old city (Boston, NY come to mind). The advantage these old cities have is they are, well, much more interesting places to live than most of the new cities.

It sounds like Austin is in that magical spot where it is both new and interesting, a rising star that doesn't have the baggage yet.
Or perhaps he would have been fired and the money would still go into the company's pockets.
snake is vi hero

Apparently, it was designed to teach the hjkl keys. It's likely a few other vim games already exist (vim has every feature you can imagine, and then some). After I've played some video games, Vim actually feels like a video game to me.

Except for its learning cliff. However, when I put together regular expressions, I use new features by trial and error at first, and this is quite like a game. Try it, press u, edit and try again, press u. That's a feedback loop, as in the game; just turn-based instead of real-time. lisp/python/ruby/bash etc REPLs are similar.
Interesting. Here in eastern europe, unlocked has always been the 'usual' way. Even now, telecos generally go for partnerships with established retailers rather than opening their own chains. Buying a subsidized phone is more of a "I'm already using operator X, might as well get the device cheaper" kind of deal.
And here I was expecting https://xkcd.com/1102/
From the same website:

"Sunday’s bizarre drunk-driving that claimed nine lives near the Gambir train station should serve as a terrible reminder for the authorities and public about the dangers of driving under influence."[0]

[0] http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/01/29/by-way-drunkar...
As a hobbyist I found Unreal to be far better than Unity. The technical debt that Unity has continued to accrue starts impacting you even as a casual user. It's a bit of a mess to be honest.

Unreal on the other hand has a very solid architecture and goes out of its way to be reliable and maintainable. Plus you have the full source available in your project to search through if you want to dig into the code. The code is generally well written enough that you can use the source code over documentation if you prefer. Blueprints are also great if you are prototyping things.

Also if you are interested in doing networked multiplayer, there is no comparison. Unreal's networking is fantastic, while Unity doesn't really have networking built in.
something half the country hates can be good for the whole country. think COVID vaccines and lockdowns
I am not talking about media propaganda, I am talking about what is happening at the source. This is just another chapter of peering wars, far from being the first in Cogent and its enemies' histories. The actual question here is whether ISPs see themselves as equals (so they can peer with each other, and let traffic fill the links naturally), or belonging to different levels of virtual hierarchy (so one has to pay the other). Netflix and its traffic volume and asymmetry is used as public attention grabbing leverage here, and government decrees are supposed to make one side weaker than the other. Anyway, that has been going for a decade, and lots of bullshit has been promoted by both sides to mud the waters.

As for the latter, my point was exactly that in “normal country” it's hard to imagine, but giant corporate clashes managed to turn this into some big argument about “freedom”.
Warning: The second link above appears to show a dead body in a gruesome position
I use both. I find Bitbucket just lacks polish— it's hard to come up with specific examples, but various things give off the vibe of it being maintained by a small team within a larger organization for whom it's not really a priority.

Code search is one, but I also find it harder to get to the exact diff or pull request that I want. I don't get Github's nice rendering of filetypes like STLs, and there's a lot less of the context-sensitive popups when you're mentioning users, issues, commits, etc.

Bitbucket's issue tracker is kind of limited from ever getting too good, because it's really just there as a teaser for JIRA.
Those journal entries don't really read like journal entries to me. The longer entries seem more like prepared and considered stories--stuff written for an audience other than yourself. I wonder if he was keeping those as notes for a book.
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20949.American_Caesar

Received this book as a gift from an elderly relative and felt obliged to give it a cursory read. Quickly became engrossed. Thoroughly researched with tons of anecdotes make MacArthur come alive.
In a GitHub project I've contributed to (dolphin-emu), a compile check for all supported platforms, plus a few tests, shows up next to the big merge button. So the "other party" doing the merge is a robot, and you can still click the button.

I haven't been a committer on any other large GitHub projects, so I'm not sure how common this is.
We've unkilled that post and are burying this one as a duplicate.
backend as in node.js?
Was popular, XFCE is now more used than KDE in the rest of the world.
No, you're not being a dick. You're right — it definitely made me a better developer. To my memory I didn't switch because of a particular lack of a feature or features, but because jquery was being maintained more consistently.

Community support makes such a big difference, and now that I'm further down the line I'm averse to having to basically make a bet up front.
Is anything? I've recently decided to start learning Python and started with the assumption that Python 3 would self-evidently be the sensible thing to do.

I tried that for about a week before discovering that about 90% of the libraries that I wanted to play with, and 90% of the tutorials and StackOverflow answers that I found were 2.7-specific.
If someone you trust ever vouched for the nods there, yes.
... and the two giants of western literature Shakespeare and Dante. We can't gloss over Joyce and Proust. And "Don Quixote", surely we can't miss that. Maybe Milton. Montaigne? And the Greeks, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides at least. Molière and Goethe...
On the subject, any tips on running a Mysql server on SSD? I've just taken the jump, and what I can find on the net seems more like opinions then solid info.
Agree with everything you said but Book index quality has been going down pretty sharply off late. For some tech books I read recently the index was basically the function calls from the code samples and the Section headings.
I don't miss so much all the things of today as all the things of tomorrow that I will never see the glimpse of.

It saddens me whenever I think about this for a moment. Only hope is that humanity achieves singularity before I die which is in my opinion not likely.
I do this too. The SSD is effectively another layer of cache, but one that has to be managed manually. I wonder how difficult it would be to write a filesystem that does this automatically.
Well, there's cognitive dissonance. After spending $2-300, you'd better not regret it :p
Because the performance improvement still isn't significant enough (for me) to spent 200€ on a 64 GB SSD instead of 80€ for a 2 TB HDD.

This article is the typical case of buyers euphoria... he just got his brand new toy a week ago and now wants to push it on everybody else regardless of their preferences. And he doesn't even own the thing long enough to find the bad sides.
Not feasible for a single idiot to accomplish, but you're forgetting we live in an age of State-Level Actors who distribute very sophisticated malware to attack enemy nation's infrastructure by borking SCADA controllers in e.g. uranium enrichment plants or petrochemical refineries.

One may hypothesize about the feasibility of a router-targeting worm (similar to the Moon router worm, targeting Linksys kit) that has a payload that searches for nearby PowerWalls and uses its owners's resources to play guess the password. Getting in wouldn't be fast, but over a period of months such a worm could well gain control over thousands to tens of thousands of powerwalls. At which point, a DDoS attack on national-level grid infrastructure is within reach.
Just what I was looking for! Can you give some context on this too? Like what else is about ~400 in the US?
Yes, I've read about it, but it doesn't mean that going against Facebook will benefit your business. As an ethical move, I get it. From the business perspective, it's questionable.
So, I was surprised to hear this, among the people who entered the building was a CEO of a tech company from a town close to me.

There were smart people in that group.
The media is moderate, not left leaning. But anything left of Donald trump is considered socialist by his supporters.
I think they meant that people with institutional access to journals still use sci-hub because it is more straightforward than dealing with all the institutional logins, which are especially annyoing when not on the institution's network.
> AAPL net earnings for 2020 was 30%.

Apple is not in the auto industry. Their margins are not comparable to auto companies.

> AMZN had almost no Net Profit their entire existence, because they were reinvesting in growth. Once their growth slows, you can expect them to show higher Net Margins.

Amazon did not need nearly as many capital injections as Tesla has over its existence, and acting as though the Amazon story was slowing growth rather than AWS is missing alot.
But you have to have zoom "on focus"?

e.g can you write code in your fancy IDE and hit space to unmute temporarily yourself?

edit:

Ok, I now see

>Though tbf, Zoom has to be in focus in order for that to work
That's not really a bug, it's just behavior explained by numerical analysis. A very small change in the initial guess can be the difference between success and a blowup for numerical algorithms; particularly rootfinding algorithms.

Sometimes this is implementation specific, and is numerical instability. Sometimes this is endemic to the algorithm regardless of implementation, like Runge's phenomenon. Often there is no fix, or the fix would be inordinately complicated or only generalize poorly, etc.

In this situation scipy should probably just pop a warning.
There was at least one person near her in the video of that women getting shot who was clearly armed with an assault rifle. She may have been unarmed but was storming the chamber with other armed people. The security on the other side had good reason to believe she was a dangerous threat.
It's very, very big.
Pixel Art Scaling Algorithms Comparison on a Sonic screenshot:
http://plus.mobianlegends.com/emulators/Gens-gs-r7-win32-pkg...
Hardware is still cheaper than the extra hours developers will have to put in writing the "C scripts" (...) in the first place.
You sure that policy is right? I don't understand the spec, nor how to read the P3P policy, but looking at http://www.w3.org/TR/P3P/ seems to indicate these might be problematic:

NOI = Web site does not collect identified data.

OUR = Recipient of the information is your company (only)

STP = The retained information will only ever be used the the currently stated purposes.
The gift giving does tie in with the 3 wise men in the Jesus story.
Almost all trade deficits are deceptive.
in general imports are very carefully monitored - since they are taxed - while exports, especially invisible earnings, are very approximate.

Until recently the US measured exports purely in tonnage and then averaged their prices. So a ton of wheat = a ton of Windows DVDs
Yeah, I'm sorry, but that's (mostly) bullshit.

IE does support P3P - perhaps not completely, but to some degree.

the P3P standard is now out of date and does not reflect technologies that are currently in use on the web"

Actually, reading it in conjunction with the new Mozilla privacy icons shows it has held up fairly well.

I'm just troubled by the idea that Mozilla seem to be re-inventing the wheel a bit here.
Art. I, Sec. 8, cl. 5 explicitly grants Congress the power to coin money. It restricts the individual states to only using gold and silver as legal tender.

Income taxes were never "banned". Before Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust in 1895, federal income taxes were considered an "indirect" tax constitutionally, and thus only had to meet the requirements of Art. I, Sec. 8, cl. 1, which was that taxes must be uniform geographically. Pollock declared federal income taxes a "direct" tax, which thus had to meet further requirements under Art. I, Sec. 2, cl. 3, which called for the receipts of direct taxes to be apportioned proportionally to the population of each individual state.

The Sixteenth Amendment (ratified 18 years after Pollock) lifted the requirement of proportional distribution; it did not change the constitutionality (or unconstitutionality) of federal income taxes.
Wealth is a funny thing in China, because it hardly buys you a real lifestyle, as the author already hinted.

I would argue that broke foreign students partying in Shanghai have more fun than local multi millionaires struggling to find stuff to buy and places to go that give them more status and better entertainment than average mid management joe.

If you never thought that getting rich as a way to attain happiness was a trap in the west, then going to China will open your eyes...
Another way of looking at this is that his trolling has not been going so well lately [1], so he's trying a change in tactics.

The "brokenness" that he sees in the patent system is not that it's too easy to profit from patenting obvious things, but rather that it's too hard.

[1] http://www.law360.com/articles/573649/google-wins-invalidati...
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/30/amazon-tes...
If I had to make a guess, I'd say it's a new charging station. Wasn't there a rumor of a new home-charging product on the horizon?
I have discussed this with friends recently. Why do we need growth?

I don't need a faster iPhone, or more tech. I honestly don't see my life being any better for the last ten years worth of "growth" (much of which seems to have been pumping up asset prices).

I would quite like to relax and coast a bit in life, but with the constant chasing of growth by everyone else, standing still means you will get left behind (i.e you will become poor).
sirn is damn right about the learning curve, but once you get the hang of it (as I have), it's an absolute pleasure to type in Japanese.

So much so, that it makes you almost regret having to type English messages.
Here are the original HN discussions for anyone curious what this is about:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1945112

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1946085
The verbosity problem in JS cannot be solved with libraries, although methods like "each" made life a lot easier.

Seeing CoffeeScript is the first time I've felt I can write a full app in Javascript. You and your team have produced something truly significant.
In follow-up, now that these documents are released, it was done in a much more responsible manner than I had expected. The complete documents were not released, and news agencies were allowed to "censor" portions that would seriously threaten people or security. I can say I generally support this as it was done.
Now you're just being obtuse. The author's intent is abundantly clear even if you didn't understand the allusion.
I agree - but his view on Twitter is pretty interesting as well, namely the fact that Twitter is countless parallel groups and cultures that have little or nothing to do with each other.

I am using Twitter to follow friends - though, sadly, most of them don't use it anymore - and as a news aggregator. For the latter, it's brilliant. Following William Gibson now.
A well-written article, but really? Investing in a low-cost broad index fund is the /only/ investment advice I get nowadays.
Why exactly? Because of their ability to copy another existing site? http://flavors.me
I got you 123 Fake St!

That is a pretty sweet printer. Is it the Adafruit one?