jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"The data from LibraryThing powers book recommendations for libraries and other metadata for a lot of libraries, and they also sell a very low-cost cataloging system targeted at small libraries."

So in this case there is actually is a sustainable business model for the company having it free. cool.
4.3% is just simply wrong, even by absolute worst case measures. Please don't spread this number.

Even in Wuhan, they revised the official number down to 1.4%, and every serious epidemiologist is saying it's likely much lower, because of undocumented cases. (Current models have it at 86% unreported).
I think we can take this post of yours as the reference for a definition of Whataboutism.
Well it's still up on a lot of other sites, including catholic.com. I just skimmed over it, and it seems more like a political rant than a news article but then again thats what most articles on medium are.
ask him from me what on earth is wrong with R*
> Someone mentioned alcohol at fast food chains. It's only at special unique fast food restaurants.

I don't know about that. Heineken is part of Burger King's menu. Granted, BK isn't nearly as popular as KFC or McDonald's.
https://www.xoom.com/australia/send-money
I actually never thought of it from that perspective. Can you expand on this? Is the primary threat DOS or malicious DMA ops from external interfaces and devices and the primary advantage mitigation by rerouting I/O from that device to a "null" VM?
Here's a mirror: https://github.com/steipete/dropship
I second Sinatra+Datamapper. I'm not much of a web developer, but I really love the simplicity of Sinatra. Using it is like C, in the sense that it provides very little for you (ie. it stays out of your way).

Unlike Rails, there really aren't many conventions to follow, and things don't seem to break between releases as they do with Rails (from its constant and exstensive evolution).

I'll also throw in a recommendation for using HAML if you're building any HTML for the client side.
we learned set theory in grade 7. . . . As far as I can tell . . . , the Libyan curriculum was based on the Egyptian curriculum, which is possibly based on the British one. At least it was based on it sometime around 50 years ago.

Set theory in seventh grade would be characteristic of the "new math" curriculum. That was taken up by quite a few schools in Britain and in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s, so fifty years ago is about right.

http://books.google.com/books?id=RVY_aIlezpAC&pg=PA60...

http://www.maa.org/spotlight/smsg.html

I liked that aspect of the "new math," which I had, pretty well, learning about set theory early and often, but I found that many of my teachers struggled to teach according to that curriculum, which didn't match their own education in math. The teachers being uncomfortable with the curriculum, and parents of pupils in that era not being sure how to help their children with homework, were among the drawback that resulted in "new math" curricula being replaced with "back to basics" curricula by the 1980s.
I think hartror's meaning was the same as "Do you prefer the language Ruby to Python, or vice versa?"
The idea is that if you like Ruby(for example) better, Rails is the way to go.

Even if that wasn't what hartror meant, you probably should still give this some consideration.
I was intrigued until I saw the $250 price tag. Yikes... http://www.lugaru.com/to-order.html
I'll try.

Let's say you want to upload files A and B to Dropbox from your computer. A is a 3mb file, and B is a 12mb file.

The dropbox client first looks at A, sees that it's <4mb, and so hashes[1] the whole file. That means that it runs a function which turns the file into a 256-byte string (a "hash") which is unique[2] to that file.

The client then sends that hash to the server, which checks to see if it has already seen that hash. If it has, then it assumes that it already has the file, and just copies it from the previous location where it stored the block with that hash. If it hasn't, then it goes ahead and uploads the file.

The process for uploading file B is very similar, except that the client breaks it into three 4mb blocks, hashes each of those, and sends the hash to the server to see if it's already received those blocks.

Phew. OK, now we can get to why Dropship is (was?) a neat hack. The idea is, if Alfred has uploaded file C, and Barbara wants to get a hold of file C, but doesn't want to download it, she can just send the dropbox server the hashes for each 4mb block of file C.

The server will see each hash, say "ahha! I've already got the block represented by that hash, so I won't make you upload it!", and put the file in Barbara's Dropbox.

Does that make sense?

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function

[2]: Not really unique, but the idea of hash functions is that we turn each input into a "hash" which is really really really likely to be unique, so likely that we can treat it as unique.
For building something that is content management, Django - as others have said - is a good choice. Going forward though, as a veteran C and web programmer I really like node.js. I think you will enjoy coding in JavaScript since it's like C syntactically, and you will really like the power and flexibility of node.js.

Also there are plenty of ORMs for node.js - I like Mongoose and mongodb personally, but there are several others.
Many of the sources I saw being pulled out were freely available on the sources' RSS feeds
No. Unless you really prefer the Mac environment, it's not worth it. Most day-to-day coding activities are easier on Linux.

I've used Windows, Fedora (my fave), Ubuntu, and have a new Macbook Air.
He's referring to the sound a creeper (Minecraft enemy) makes right before it blows up.
As a designer and sometime front-end developer, I find that writing code can be at odds with taking a user-centric point of view. I've often been tempted to re-use a view simply because I didn't want to maintain two different versions that were almost the same... surely the user wouldn't notice a difference. I also am less likely to start over when I have a better UI idea if I've already committed the first approach to git.
see: http://www.a2techevents.com/

A2 New Tech is relatively well attended by the hacker news crowd. Their monthly meeting is tonight: http://www.a2newtech.org/events/16678437/?eventId=16678437&#...
This comes down to there is no one definitive answer. I've been very effective in coffee shops and in my dedicated space. The change is good and can help with creativity and energy. Sometimes I go to a coffee shop because I know that I'll be there for 2 or 3 hours and I'm motivated to getting something done in that time.
Just make sure there are enough people in the know around, and remember that it takes a lot of people laughing at cocksure idiots to get them to change their minds. I've tried this approach with an insufficient number of "people in the know" and it did not end well.
isnt that the "im feeling lucky" feature?
How many times are you going to advertise this service?

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=backup%20bitcalm.com&sort=byDa...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8095882

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8190401

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8658472

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8672462

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8707216

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8816137

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8816952

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8852457

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863287

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8881902

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8900208

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8904787

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8904824

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8912402

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8913841

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8918899

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8923634

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8925809

You've also been very keen about "Development of billing system with Django framework":

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Development%20of%20billing%20s...

Might I suggest you advertise less and contribute more?

Flagged. Again.
On a sidenote, what's your business?
Not sure what you mean by "holding them hostage," but we don't take down domains without a good reason. In the rare case that we do suspend a domain, we always tell you why. If that's not what happened in your case, please contact us or reply here with your ticket number so we can look into it.
Small nitpick. It was The 11 O'Clock Show [1998] that introduced Sacha Baron Cohen (Ali-G & Borat). It also gave us Ricky Gervais & Mackenzie Crook.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_11_O%27Clock_Show
I’m not sure I understand your problem? Or at least I can’t relate it to anything I’ve seen as a fairly heavy Firefox user.
> A few weeks ago I had a hatred discussion with a bunch of Python and Open Source people at a local meet-up about the way Python's path joining works. (emphasis mine - "heated"?)

Freudian slip? Or something halfway between a typo and a misheard word?
It seems you are correct, the public domain status only applies inside the US.

http://www.cendi.gov/publications/04-8copyright.html#317
I agree that the article didn't really make the point it initial indicated it would make and never really did get back to this initial assertion. I liked it anyway for other reasons. It is rich in certain kinds of information that interest me and which are often not put together. I don't think it did a great job of drawing conclusions and backing them up. I still felt it had a lot of value for me.
The C library should cast the parameter down to a char when "%c" is used; the only reason it allows an int is for the "%lc" case.
Your account was 15 minutes old when you made this comment.

I don't care that because of your comment my article was flagged. Been flagged before and I'll be flagged again.

But it interests me that you seem to be trying to make a point with such a new account. If so, what is it? I blogged to tell folks to pull their heads out of tech and go read some fun books. It wasn't supposed to be a list of book reviews. The affiliate links were clearly marked, and if you don't want to buy something, don't buy it. Nobody is making you. Google is your friend.

As much as I could give a shit, I just wonder why you had to be that way. It was a good message, one people needed to hear, perhaps poorly delivered, but for some reason you thought it deserved a snide response.

Why?
I think it is very important to learn a few different technologies from time to time - they often expose you to various concepts you haven't heard of before. My personal experience with Rails (reading the source code itself and that of its plugins) was that I got so many ideas how to do stuff that transfered quite well to my other projects.

It happens so often that after I switch technologies, and then return after awhile I have a "wow it is so much easier to do it this new way" feel. Creative thinking is fundamentally a "combine and use old stuff in a new way", which means that learning new technologies is worth it just because of the new ideas, and if you can later use those technologies themselves - well thats just a bonus.

Anyway, the original comment is right on the money. I often have to tell miself "just write the damn stuff and refine it later" when I get mentally stuck thinking about ways in which it could break.
I don't think it would help here, though; by changing that one number, they're releasing a new application, not a new version. That way it appears back up on top in the new app list. Comments wouldn't / shouldn't carry over.

Persistent developer comments / ratings could be useful, though of course they'd suffer from the same ills that befall individual application reviews. I sort of wonder why I haven't seen any system which shows the overall developer rating alongside all their applications...
If bandwidth is the main concern, in my testing the AV1 format works in browsers already. You just put it as a single frame autoplay video.

Hypothetically could use WebAssembly to do encoding/decoding client side, and have the server just validate it. I'm not sure if there's a speedy av1 frame integrity tool yet or not.
> feels confident they found something to connect

“I’ve got a lot of money and you’re young and have great tits”
We have been using this since it was announced for our main repository. (The author of git-subtrac is my cofounder.) It is a definite improvement on storing submodules in separate repositories, where one of us would forget to push a commit and the other of us would have to wait for them to be online to get it.

There is still more needed to make git submodules a pleasant user experience, but this was a big missing piece of the puzzle. (Submodules mean to you need to know a ton about how git works before you can do even the most basic things.)
I think that you are correct, there isn't anything wrong with the question in itself, but Eton would be serving its students and its nation much better if, after asking that quesiton, it then asked "Now, you are the leader of the opposition. Write the script for a speech to be broadcast to the nation in which you explain why the government's actions are unnecessary and immoral, and how you would have handled the situation."

One of the best exams I ever took was a two-part exam, 90 minutes per part - the first part gave a narrative of a set of facts and the disposition of a lawsuit arising from the facts, then asked us to write the majority opinion for the appeal. The second part (which was handed out after we turned in our answer to the first part) simply said "Now write the dissenting opinion."

These sorts of questions force to you use the best arguments of ideologies you may not agree with. I think that is very useful, particularly in today's political climate.
Tangentially related: is there any reason to be suspicious of/careful with react/redux? We've been using it internally for front end stuff, would be nice to know if there's any weird default tracking going on, however unlikely...
I’m curious why they aren’t calling for a medical examination first, given that none of them has examined him.
This blog post addresses two issues - cost and support. There are a few more that are more important to me and why I won't move to LO. Which I was forced to use for almost a year a year ago -

In order of importance (to me) :

● Document format

● Keyboard shortcuts

● Stability

● The ribbon

● Screen layout

● Power Point. Just... all of it.

Libre Office feels like Notepad.exe with a VB6 UI.
I think they already threw away XUL for Firefox on Android.
Those temperatures are OK on a desktop or sometimes even a laptop but having something running that hot in your hand / lap is not so comfortable.
Can you run those things as a pure Linux system, without any tie to Google? I have an application where I run a Python program that needs WiFi and a USB port, but nothing else. I'm using old EEEpc 2G Surfs now, but they're getting old.
Arguing "well" for evil is still evil.
There is also http://www.deployhq.com/
Yea, though you know I'm still attracted to Scheme b/c of its sweet sweet parens.
Wow, a hacker space in Beijing, I for sure will come to hack.
I'm trying to get all of my friends to use .tel domains. That way they own their data and I can discover all of their URIs dynamically (through DNS) from various apps. It doubles up as a web based "business card", which makes it a slightly easier sell.
hopefully no one leaves a cheese laying around to infect the hard drives!
And how much do you want to bet that the developer og this plugin works for Google ;) .... let the mud slinging begin ;)
Wow. The backend, emscripten (http://code.google.com/p/emscripten/wiki/GettingStarted), seems really nice. Wonder how it will work out with Rubinius....

Edit: Guess i just found it out :( http://code.google.com/p/emscripten/issues/detail?id=1
I'm sorry, but the patent system didn't place a gun at this guy's head and force him to make the application.

If he definitely chose to do a dishonest thing, perhaps he should be punished accordingly.
awesome, i'll try this out now. btw, have you checked out forrst.com?
One of the reasons why I don't use LibreOffice is completely broken kerning: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103322
Yes - it's not surprising to me that few people are willing to consider adopting or living a 'childfree' lifestyle, only that the suggestion that doing so is an extremely effective way to reduce your carbon footprint is received so poorly.

I would suggest that whether an idea is good and whether it is popular are mostly orthogonal, but also that encouraging people who aren't certain they want kids to not do so is, from the perspective of someone concerned about climate change, a good idea.
>Space is a waste of time unless you're a government or a bored billionaire.

Unless you are 100% self sufficient, you rely on space to live. Freight logistics are reliant on space (GPS), farming (GPS optimized planting and harvesting), air travel (GPS), using your phone to get directions somewhere (GPS). Then all of the weather satellites, satellites are rapdily gaining use in archaeology revealing unknown sites far faster than boots on the ground can, etc etc so on and so forth.

Gobs and gobs of money are waiting to be made in space with current and future technology. Some quick near-future possibilities:

- Space tourism

- Seed vaults on the moon for companies and countries

- Archival data storage on the moon

- All matter of material sciences research and possibly production of materials with qualities that we can not replicate in an Earth-based production facility (think crystals and crystalline structures)

- Extremely isolated biological related experiments, such as genetic engineering, which could be be done in complete safety in a self-contained habitat remotely, with no chance of any of the material spreading outside of the lab unlike on earth
Man, that's a blast from the past – thanks for the chuckle!
I tend to put a link to the SO answer in a comment. That way whoever is looking at it later (mostly me in a few months) can understand what prompted that solution.
> I think the bigger problem with fertility will be overweight/obese people more than anything else

Obesity is linked with low testosterone in men, and normal levels of testosterone are necessary for good sperm production and fertility (testosterone treatments have the opposite effect) so I think this is correct.
Bit of a difference between a kernel and video conferencing.

One of these absolutely needs raw memory management and all the unsafe-if-not-very-carefully-done features that C(++) offer, the other definitely does not.
I blame the mathematicians anf the engineers.
> The idea that the whole of the software industry was under threat if Google wasn't able to wholesale violate Oracle's license terms for Java is absolutely laughable

Why is that? How is what Google did any different than what Stallman and Torvalds did when they created free reimplementations of the Unix API, or how the Wine and ReactOS projects reimplement the Windows API?

The way I see it, the ability for us to write a drop-in-compatible replacement for proprietary software is a critically important right that allows us to defeat vendor lock-in, and it has fueled the growth of the software industry for decades.
Please don't cross into nationalistic or ethnic slurs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The last I will say on the subject.

Whining about downvotes without "saying why" is an idiot's move. Thank you. According to your comment I am not an idiot because I "said why" : if you are going to do it, give a feedback. Otherwise you haven't added anything to the conversation. .

I cannot start to think of a world where giving someone a coin as a way of saying you are adding value is just as effective as taking away a coin from them as a way of saying you are taking away value. The way we communicate online should just be an extension of how we communicate in real life. In practice you should only be able to downvote someone because you upvoted them in the past. So in a sense you would take back what you gave them. Otherwise it is nothing short of robbery.

I have never downvoted anyone, unless it was done by mistake. Maybe we are different, but I just do not see how downvotes are helpful. I respect your point, but I think it doesn't make sense.
It's difficult to get a sense of Chinese zeitgeist without actually going to China. There's a certain je ne sais quoi to the ethnic unity that can be established through the unique commonality of a language, and the Chinese government is undertaking this linguistic jujitsu in order to preserve that.
As jbyers said, it should be trivial to stick a webserver which supports SSL in front of the app. Perhaps it would be a good idea to modify the app to add the secure flag to the cookie it sets though.
+1. Comic sans irritates me a little bit, but as much as being irritated by it does. Relax and worry about something else :)
The Honda CR-Z is a great car, it's too bad so much focus is paid to 0-60 times.

I think it's a really innovative blend of driver involvement, education about efficient driving, and sporty driving dynamics. A really cool "hack" of a car.
Of course, and I'm sure that they have used unreasonable force on occasion.

I only got into this whole argument because the OP sounded surprised that ticket inspectors, of all people, were getting into unreasonable-force situations, as if it were crazy for ticket inspectors to be using force at all. I only wished to point out that it's reasonable for ticket inspectors to use reasonable force, and hence it's inevitable that eventually one of 'em is going to wind up using excessive force. But I'm starting to regret ever getting into this discussion since there's a much nicer one going on in another thread about the heat death of the universe.
Toxic chemicals were used during production of the components, probably leaving waste to be dealt with, toxic gases vented, etc. The components of the computer were made using minerals possibly sourced from conflict-ridden, corrupt places like Congo. Some of the minerals involved may become significantly more scarce in the foreseeable future.

If you're going to incur these (ethically, if not strictly economically) non-trivial externalities of manufacturing an electronic device, the ethical thing to do, it seems to me, is to at least make an effort to use the device as it was intended for a reasonable service life, rather than destroying it in a cheap stunt in a way that renders it unlikely to be recycled in any meaningful way and impossible to cannibalize for working parts.

This is especially so if your company pretends its motto is "Don't be evil".

As for the marketing value for the blender firm: They could always fake it. Put a "No Cr-48 Laptops Were Harmed During Production Of This Advertisement" disclaimer up at the end.
Sure, that would probably reduce interest in later ads, but frankly the whole thing is just played out now. "Wanker posts video of a gadget being destroyed as cheap stunt to draw pageviews. Yawn." They'd probably get some PR for the switch to faking it, then they could bow out of the whole tired thing.
I'm not an OS guy, but don't you think for something as (overly) complex as Windows the regression cycle alone would be 3 to 6 months?
Medium double-double please. Hopefully the cream helps too.
> DHS should really be focusing resources on domestic terrorism rather than shutting down a few websites.

What domestic terrorism?

> how will they feel then?

They'll yell that they need more money and legal authority.
Does anyone else feel like biological engineering/synthetic biology is the next "big thing"?
Why, this sounds like a brilliant idea, immune from failure. A recipe for stability if ever I've seen one.