jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Reference counting does not avoid using something after freeing it...
It's interesting to consider this observation in the context of young people who will grow up largely without the abstraction of local file storage at all. Anyone over 30 or so still feels slightly nervous or protective of their files, but that's only because we've internalized the analogy between stored data and physical stuff.

I suspect the abstraction of a local filesystem will become more and more quaint and give way to popular abstraction involving a remote, distributed filesystem of some sort.
I like Snapchat, I still can't grasp their plan to become the next great thing but at least they have a lot of users and their users 'don't want to leave'.

I always thought that Facebook were too big to fail, like in no one would close their account because of what they've invested there (friends, pics, etc...); yet, people are leaving it at an unprecedented rate. I remember Facebook desertion not being much more than a statistic even a year ago, now it's pretty common to encounter people that don't have an account there anymore. I think that the bandwagon effect that is behind the growth of online communities is a double-edged sword; once the trend shifts to users leaving, the more they leave the more users are likely to leave later and everyone snowballs out until there is no one left. Fortunately for Facebook, many of those peers left because of WhatsApp/Instagram, so business' still in the family... for now, albeit much less profitable. Sooner than later, FB will be gone and its place will have to be filled up by something else. Snapchat has a seat reserved in the post-FB era and apparently that is worth at least $20B.

Anyway, derailing the discussion a little, I'd like to hear what you'd think if 'Core Facebook' went out of business right now (but not WhatsApp/Instagram). Would you consider it a success or a flop? Was it a profitable endeavour or not?
Speaking of safe harbour, have you registered yourself with the copyright office with a designated contact person to receive DMCA takedown requests? You don't seem to have a prominent link to that info on your mobile page.

I suspect that THAT will cause you issues.
Not sure about other colleges, but to my knowledge they don't have a specific class on the financial crisis in the Economics Department at RIT.

That being said, a number of professors have touched on what went down throughout a number of courses.
It started as a board game. The digital port is very recent.
I agree with you but I think Uber will devaluate to some extent and I don't see Tinder surviving...
I think we'll find that this "idiocy" is not a feature of the human condition, but a consequence of the disempowering, elite-owned, few-to-many, aimed-at-the-median, passive-yet-catchy, culturally homogenizing nature of TV. What we're seeing now worldwide is a gradual shaking out of the TV mindset, with the youngest generations the least poisoned.

In other words, don't despair of your cool future yet.
This is no news, really; in fact, we were even taught this part in basic metabolism in biology class in 7th grade. In the morning, the body has depleted its reserve of "immediate energy" in the blood stream and tissue - glycogen, mostly, assuming you have a carbohydrate-rich diet - and will instead have to source energy by instantly burning your fat deposits if you call upon the body to do so by increasing your heart rate and breathing etc. (read: exercise - even a 30 minute walk will do the trick). This is called lipolysis, btw., and is a fundamental part of the human metabolical system. Remember: the human body is primarily a FAT-BURNING MACHINE.

add.: Someone sitting next to me as I wrote this asked me, "how long ago was 7th grade?", as a reference of how "re-inventive" this study was. 7th grade was 17 years ago.
Right now I think Apple cares more about the image AT&T is giving the iPhone than the money their paying for the privilege. The iPhone is not just for 5 Christmas's...
I would argue Windows Mobile is the Windows of Mobile.
Android is the Windows of Mobile. ugly, cheap and clunky.
I abhor the use of hover in webdesign and I'm glad that devices like the iPad may spell doom for that particular design idiom. It's bad UX in general, if touch computing pushes it off the cliff into oblivion then good riddance.
> I get called worse every day, it doesn't bother me.

Really? Every day? I'm curious, why do people call you names? Is it because of domain squatting, and if so, don't you think they might have a point?

> What irritates me is those preaching about how bad something is without ever being able to offer a better solution other than one that would suit them.

Would it make sense for someone to offer a solution that didn't suit them? There could be lots of potential solutions, but I'm not sure we agree on what the problem is.

They could release all obviously squatted/parked domains, for example, and prevent or limit their programmatic reservation. I wouldn't mind an increase in price either, if it made squatting unprofitable, or there could be some requirements for reserving a domain.

> They all simply want more for themselves, it's not this perceived injustice that you couldn't get the domain you wanted is a bigger issue. It's not. It's simply your greed.

Heh. So now wanting a domain is the same as being greedy? Or is it greedy to want a domain that happens to be squatted? Either way, your comment didn't make any sense.

> Of course you will want to turn that around and say it's me being greedy.

Greedy? Most people are, but greed is not really the problem here - it's what you do.

> I've paid large sums for domain names and guess what... I know how to earn more money from it.

I'm sure you do. It's much easier to make money when you have no shame or morals.

> Welcome to capitalism, quit your bitching and play the game or shut up.

Yes, I'm sure you'll continue doing what you do.
I found structural discussions took place in the free form areas of mondrian, ...

I wonder if this part of Mondrian has been improved since I was at Google. There was a freeform area, but it wasn't really good for much, as I recall.
I’m not sure that’s a fair representation of mainstream feminism (“They stand upon the claim that women are totally equal [in the sense of ‘the same’] to men”). Obviously, biology differs between the sexes. It’s not at all controversial, under the umbrella of feminism and gender studies, to explore the influence of brain chemistry in the assignment and acceptance of gender roles. Few will dispute that hormones affect the expression of, say, aggression and empathy, on average characteristic of men and women respectively.

The more pressing and socially current matter is how these differences (rooted in biology or not) are respected or disrespected by institutions, including the social institutions of our prevailing cultural norms. For example: is it fair to demand that female scientists jockey for position in academia as ruthlessly as male scientists are accustomed to doing? Would it not benefit us if our scientific institutions were more accepting of “non-masculine” approaches to research, however those might be defined?

In short, the argument is for accepting diversity, not blindly insisting on exact sameness between genders. That’s also why feminists will argue there’s no such thing as the “truly unbiased test” you seek: testing, by attempting to quantify the qualitative (scientific aptitude), will naturally privilege the testmaker’s perspective to the exclusion of alternatives. I think there’s room to argue that science would benefit from encouraging a diversity of perspectives.
Interesting times ahead for humanity, that's for sure.
I understand that FoundationDB's main point of differentiation from other NoSQL document DBs was support for transactional integrity across documents. Others (i.e. all open-source options, AFAIK) support atomic transactions only on a single document.

Sounds like the author had been told this, didn't quite get it, and mumbled this stuff instead.
I don't get the idea. And Im not sure when Sublime Text became considered an IDE, if anything it is anti-IDE. An IDE classically has tools and integrations, well, integrated. E.g. Visual Studio or Eclipse.
I'm not sure I follow the question, but I think you're asking about comp and whether employees have opportunities to earn equity.

We do!

Every ShapeShift employee has equity and has opportunities to earn more. It is vitally important that our employees benefit from ShapeShift's successes and I'm proud to be a ShapeShift employee.

More important to me than equity is the feelings of accomplishment and camaraderie that we already feel for building such a great platform that holds user privacy and self-sovereignty above all else.
Yes, one intruder has been shot.

No injured guards/ officers/ staff/ journalists reported (afaik). I cannot help but think that this is a comparatively! good outcome when dealing with armed right-wingers.

EDIT: Heard on C-SPAN now: 5 reported injured now, 1 law enforcement. At least some of them gas related. I still stand by my opinion but I don't know for how long.
How is a mob storming the legislature at the direction of a politician not a coup attempt?
Exactly right. I noticed this many times when living in DC. There's even a study that puts numbers on the ROI for politician-purchasing:

"In a recent study, researchers Raquel Alexander and Susan Scholz calculated the total amount the corporations saved from the lower tax rate. They compared the taxes saved to the amount the firms spent lobbying for the law. Their research showed the return on lobbying for those multinational corporations was 22,000 percent. That means for every dollar spent on lobbying, the companies got $220 in tax benefits." http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/01/06/144737864/forget-s...
Headline leaves out a pertinent detail:

>... in Russia...
Those thing need people, and for that size makes sense.

What doesn’t make sense is why do all of that themselves, instead of using third party providers.

Bringing more things in house often doesn’t even make sense if you’re a huge behemoth. But even then, it’s a great way to make your company fail, as you lose focus on what value you’re providing.
My browser does stuff like that for me. :)
There's a void to film then.
From the point of view from Xerox PARC workstation experience, which is kind of replicated in modern IDEs, it is the UNIX experience that fails short.

The shell is a subset of what an IDE REPL is capable of, with OS API integration and structured data manipulation.

As for background processes, that is a basic feature of any modern IDE.
Does the antibody test even exist yet? I was under the impression it doesn't.
I've been guilty of using Baskervald myself. But I agree that's it's not a very good variant of Baskerville (which I like a lot).

Do you happen to know what macOS's "Baskerville" font is exactly? That one looks much better than Baskervald.
They have a lot of verified users. Depending on how much you're willing to pay for a user, it' may not be that terrible a proposition and a lot of the reputation problems go away when you bring in new management.

Basically, their assets might be worth more than you think.
well the discussion about the film on objectivismonline.net has been mostly negative in the lead up to release. i think fans of the book are more likely to slaughter it for blowing a glorious opportunity to bring the philosophy to the mainstream.
sigh.

The new version is all ajaxy with everything in one tab: I want to be able to open multiple views for multiple websites in multiple tabs. Now I have to re-open GA for each different thing I want to look at and then navigate to it, because I can't open these in a new tab.

The geckoboard esque dashboard is cool though.
Retric, look.

Do you realize that the whole point of asymptotic analysis is that _we do not care_ what integers we "really" deal with? These bounds specifically deal with sorting arbitrary data of unbounded size, and _no other assumptions_.

Do you understand? No assumption that we can use parallelism. No games with integers you see in "real life". None of that is relevant. You can't play games with practicalities to get a better bound. This is the general bound, and if you fiddle with it to get something else, you are changing the scope of the question to be something else entirely.

If you want to have a discussion about those other models, fine, but that's not the discussion we're having.
Your conviction and intelligence definitely show from your decision to use a throwaway to reply!

Out of curiosity, what should people be using instead of Go? (And don't say Haskell, because surely you're more pragmatic than that.)

I'm looking at Elixir now, but Go has a growing community and great concurrency.

It seems to me that you perhaps hate any language that encourage or forces OO design, even though almost no one does real, widely-used, functional projects.
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8726707
As source I cite this PR that just landed today:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/20218

"It's quite possible that small programs don't use all of jemalloc, and building with -ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections allows the linker (via --gc-sections) to strip out all unused code at link time. This decreases the size of a "hello world" executable for me from 716K to 482K with no measurable impact on link time. After this patch jemalloc is still the largest portion of our hello world executables, but this helps cut down on the size at least somewhat!"
Looks great! On Linux, /dev/urandom gives better results.

Incidentally, this resembles jwz's homepage quite a bit: http://www.jwz.org/
Writing an application that can support 1,000s of concurrent users (some malicious) connecting from any operating system and client program, that provides a rich user experience, and one that is read/write and backed by a database is complicated.

If you want simple, shorten this list of requirements.
Well, that depends on the goals of the beginner in question. We could also ask which human language is best for the beginner, but the answer would invariably be the language of the culture they live in.

I was just talking to a neighbor who's a game and graphics developer. He writes code in C/C++/C#. I was telling him about my side project, a website which sells cupcake wrapper designs. We got to talking about web development and he asked me what homework would I give him to get started. Well, after some more digging, it turns out he was most motivated by the idea of making some passive income on the web.

So, while I did email him links to RoR. I told him that learning about SEO, Keywords, and WordPress is what he should do first; that he should put up a couple of "trial balloon" sites to collect emails about his ideas, and then if he found potential customers who were interested in one of his ideas, he would have some great motivation to work through that RoR tutorial.

So, my advice is: Programming is just a tool, and unless the person is interested in programming from a pure academic standpoint, it's better to first find out what they want to do with that tool, and go from there.
That's actually not an architectural difference. In Backbone, when you call .save(), the attributes update instantly, and the changes are synced to the server asynchronously.
A bijective function (also called isomorphic) is a one-to-one mapping between the persons and the bikes (between the domain and codomain).

That's the assertion made in the article - that a bijection and an isomorphism are the same thing. That's just not correct, and the distinction matters in general, even if you have not yet encountered a situation where it caused a problem. If you care only about the bijective property, why bring isomorphism into it?
So all of those massively expensive condos that are built in the middle of dense cities are for poor people? People complaining about how expensive real estate is 'downtown' are just extremely poor people because they can't even afford what regular poor people can?

In any case, living in suburbs doesn't account for the preference of wanting to drive everywhere. It's perfectly possible to build suburbs that are walking distance from most local stores that you would need (i.e. grocery, hardware, etc).
Why should the real Larry Page have an old username?

And decades-old is not possible. HN isn't that old.
> I completely agree that web development is a mess. I just don't think that the first major problem described in your rant (choosing a programming language, web server, database, server-side framework, and client-side framework) is actually a major problem these days: Just pick any modern stack, and use the defaults.

Actually, the first problem mentioned was not choosing, it was _dependencies_ and then _documentation_.
err.. other than perhaps jQuery, I don't see how any of your examples refute what the OP is stating. To stay current with modern web development (such as the technologies you listed), developers need to continually improve the breadth and depth of their knowledge.
Reminds me of that story about why switchboard operators were women.

During the telegraph era, boys often hung around outside the office, as they could earn a bit of coin delivering telegrams.

With the introduction of the phone, they tried using those boys as switchboard operators. Problem was that they would prank the callers by either cross wiring calls or unplugging them mid-call.

So instead women were hired, as they didn't do that. Instead they would listen in on calls, and so became a source of gossip.

This was seen as an acceptable trade-off by the companies, as at least the calls where properly and reliably routed.
I'm not sure that's the only difference. I'm pretty sure I could walk into many companies and read a ticket and be able to execute without ever having worked on their project before.
Child porn and nazis, generally the two categories that get that treatment.
Why, do the people with the screen reader have some specific need to read the title of this article? As if it's some important resource or something?

It's just one irrelevant thing they can't read, same as millions of articles written in different languages...
Wow, congrats! I'm a big fan (and customer).
I think it's safe to say that 100% of all software and hardware have a security vulnerability of some kind, though that doesn't mean the vulnerabilities are known or exploitable.
I find screeds from engineers about how broken everything is to be directly at odds with the observable truth of vastly more people with less technical expertise having vastly more access to technology that provides them value. I think the take-away is to get some perspective and stop caring so much about the state of "the system" and just try to create things that are valuable to people.
I'm actually working on a toy project specification that involves:

- Tor Hidden Services
- Onionimbus (basically tor2web + DNS)
- Namecoin
- node-webkit

All to make an anonymous desktop publishing suite to encourage diversity in the darknet, and to encourage anonymous and decentralized publishing in general.
Define "mind." I've had offices. I've had traditional high-wall cubes. I've had open-ish plans. I work at home a fair bit. I'm OK with working just about anywhere. If I had my druthers, I'd take an office given the choice--though I've had a dark interior office and cubes with a decent view and that's a factor too. I suppose my revealed preference is that I prefer quiet given that I don't usually put music on when I'm working at home.

But I don't really have a lot of trouble with distraction and will just put on headphones if I really need to focus.
Not to mention Covid-19, and of course the mumps virus.

https://physician-news.umiamihealth.org/covid-19-can-infect-...
Apple should be applauded for this. Their revenue does not depend on software to clandestinely steal and sell users data.
One day, we will look back at history and see facebook similar as to how people view myspace now (junkyard of software).
Good on Apple not selling devices with a facebook backdoor in them.

I know apple probably has deals with malicious governments regarding data access, but at least they are standing up to FB and exposing their vulnerable points where it hurts badly, Zuckerberg has no clothes.
The person that made this decision was the author of the original DOS - Al (Allan) Alcorn. I had a conversation with him nearly 2 decades ago about this very subject. I remarked to him how using the "opposite slash" caused grief for untold numbers of developers. His reply was "yeah, I know. It was a poor decision, and I remember it clearly. I was trying to make DOS a bit unique, and that was all. It was stupid, in retrospect." From the author's mouth.
If you're going this route, then you wouldn't use Bootstrap. You'd dreg up your own semantic/non-semantic styles from scratch.

This works really well on projects that have a dedicated design team.
As a kid I remember family discussions surrounding the legitimacy of certain pieces of trivia, often reaching the point where people began trying to shout over each other. Eventually, my uncle would pick up the phone, dial a random number and say, "Hi there, you wouldn't happen to know who directed Casablanca would you?"
I'm not saying the Orion is going to be anything physically resembling the former shuttle. In the context of the article, I'm saying the Orion is something that will serve a similar purpose, and for which you can sell naming rights. Even better if it is not reusable, since you can sell naming rights for each mission.
For now :)

The things I mentioned are the inherent value in BTC.

If you want regulated centralized exchanges then you might as well just keep your fiat currency and PayPal.
I am not so current in US politics. What do you mean?
It's not about blasphemy. It's about referring to the source of the universe (belief respective) over a popup, just a bit daft is all, mate.
I found http://www.letscodejavascript.com/ very useful.
Same here, my phone shows in HIBP but not in this tool
Fabulous post.

Even if the thing is absolutely, perfectly safe as designed, if you keep in mind human error, mechanical failure, individual physiology, and variations in flying frequency, it's not to see this as actually significantly more likely to cause death than terrorism.
Look for one in your friends.

If your friends can't invest their skills in you than no one else will.

And if you don't have a techy friend, then probably you should drop the idea. You don't know their culture enough to have them as co-founder.
If the purpose of a domain name is to find the assigned IP, how would you find the "real ip" ?

Unless there is a centralized database but then who is the authority in that case so spammers don't change it at will? Ironically you'd be creating your own alternate domain/tld system to compete with ICANN.
And according to David Brenner of Columbia University:

Recent research ... indicates that about 5 percent of the population — one person in 20 — is especially sensitive to radiation. These people have gene mutations that make them less able to repair X-ray damage to their DNA. Two examples are the BRCA-1 and BRCA-2 mutations associated with breast and ovarian cancer, but scientists believe many more such defects are unknown.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1268330...
Especially since that state is particularly known for its hostility towards the content industry.
You're right they're not domestic. I've lived in and have family in Europe so I have tendency to not view Canada and Europe as completely foreign. So, anyway, Lockerbie, shoe bomber, Xmas bomber all actually not US departures. Sorry.
Ironically, I'm reading the book now ...

"You can't consume much if you sit still and read books."