jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Uh.

Boston, MA -> Philadelphia, PA (511km):
By car: 5h15
By Amtrak (this Monday): $311 for business on Acela, 4h54
By Amtrak (next Monday): $119 for coach on NR, 5h50

Munich Hbf -> Berlin Hbf (582km):
By car: 5h23
By DB (this Monday): 195eur for 1st class on ICE, 4h34
By DB (next Monday): 68eur for 2nd class on ICE Sprinter, 3h57 OR 48eur for 2nd class on ICE, 4h34

And Munich - Berlin is one of the worst DB connections. And DB is one of the most expensive systems in Europe.
What part do you disagree with?
What’s the alternative? Give government more power to tell people what they can an can’t do?
Merry Solstice and Happy New Year's.
Hm, I switched from Jekyll to Hugo years ago and don't remember having to re-work the templates all that much but you're right, that may have been only easy because I never deviated much from the default. If you've done a lot of customization then you may have to do that all over again.

Good point.
Just for the record, my iPhone autocorrected my attempt to type the word “handle” to “ya die”.

It’s not a phrase that I ever use, so it’s unclear to me how that became a first choice candidate for Apple’s autocorrect mechanism.

Being in the middle of writing a suicide note, having Apple make such an autocorrection is, at the least, unwanted incompetence. “Ya die” isn’t something I want to see emanating from Apple’s autocorrect mechanism, ever - whether in the middle of a suicide note or not.

There’s also a huge disconnect here. Just because I say some absurd theory about mkultra in the 21st century, doesn’t mean I seriously believe it. I just observe and fit in theories like everyone else trying to make sense of their limited perception reality. Jumping on the mental illness attack bandwagon is most of why I’m out of here. If that’s how I’m perceived, just for stating a non-serious theory, then I’m thankful to almost be dead.

No common ground. Take notes, if you seriously want to figure out how to relate to someone who thinks like I do, someone who truly is at the end.

This isn’t a cry for help for me. It’s to help others understand my point of view to help others before they get to my age. I’m not going to change.

No advice, please.
Aren't supermarkets in the US already subdivided anyway?

In the UK we have at least three tiers of supermarket.

You're not going to see the riff raff in Waitrose because they can't afford it. "Above" that you have more esoteric health shops.

You might see middle-class folk who are cost-conscious (waves) in the low end supermarkets.

Pound shops and discount retailers tend to have a specific style - music, decor etc - that reinforce the fact that they're 'poor people stores'.

Sure, theoretically you could go and buy your groceries in the expensive stores if you're skint, but in practice no-one actually does that.
Algebraic effects are a popular subclass of effects, but not all effects of use in programming (or worthy of study!) are algebraic.

The simplest example is the continuation effect. It's not immediately clear why this effect isn't algebraic (it's not even immediately clear what "algebraic" means) but suffice to say continuations are very weird and behave very differently from other effects.

At the same time, they're very useful and are a useful part of someone's programming vocabulary.
The law is capable of taking into account probabilities.

Claim to have forgotten the password to a forum that you haven't used in a very long time? That's quite believable.

Claim to have forgotten the password to, say, your password manager that you successfully have typed from memory several times a day every day for the last 10 years? That's a lot less believable.
Because Cardano is what ETH might have been if done right. They did a tons of (actually scientific) research on the topics mentioned in this article but the author won't mention Cardano as it is his direct competition (even nicknamed Ethereum killer).
Nice! Would probably use it when looking for a job next time, although this would be in 2-3 years...
This could make your life hard, too...
Unless you could sell this data to headhunters, HR companies, agencies etc. :troll:
There are some .NET and Windows servers there as well. :)
"involves" doesn't mean "would be dead without"
risks imposed on people who don't have a choice and don't stand to benefit

Huh? People do have a choice to move if they don't want to live near a power plant. And the plant is making the electricity they use, so they do benefit from it.

(That said, plenty of nuclear plants have been killed because the people who would have lived near the plant protested.)
The recent release of 0.6.5 intends to make it possible to take only the parts of Meteor you need while still benefiting from the surrounding ecosystem (i.e. leveraging smart packages like minimongo, deps, and third-party ones like ironrouter).

In practice though, I wasn't able to get a client-side only Meteor example app running, so I'm waiting for Meteor to iron out the rough spots.

In the meantime, techniques such as the one by the blog post author can tide people over.
> It sounds like you've lived life very much on your own terms until now,

It sounds like he's getting his very first dose of reality, and it's putting him into a state of shock.
Please stop suggesting anyone curl install anything, especially if you're transmitting it without authenticating it's even coming from the right server...
I suppose you can defend giving someone jailtime for hurt feelings, but it sounds pretty stupid to me.
The lack of a good upstream health check capable of millisecond timing in core Nginx is largely why I use HAProxy in stacks where, in theory, Nginx could replace both HAProxy and the web server behind it (which is often Nginx).

Compare, for example, this:

https://www.exratione.com/2012/12/websockets-over-ssl-haprox...

With this:

https://www.exratione.com/2013/06/websockets-over-ssl-with-n...
> The OP seems to have a lot of priorities out of whack.

Hands up everyone who had their priorities in life sorted by the of 23? (Mine is down).
Does anyone know what company the writer of this article started?
Different boats, I agree. Skype is an additional plugin I think, so you don't need to have skype installed on your device. But that's the whole point. Google is the new Microsoft, though probably not as much evil. They have wide interests in almost all areas from search engine, android, chrome os, social, browser etc. So they can really control and push what fits their needs.

Tomorrow if Facebook comes out with their own browser, they would surely push skype baked in, into the browser rather than make it an additional installation.

When I mentioned the word "monstrous", I meant that in terms of the implementation and code size. I am not sure of XMPP, but SIP I think is. There are tons of new rfcs, specs and drafts that have come up which one has to implement for effective interoperable SIP sessions.
Is there someone you could talk with at the company who won't judge you for being honest? If you're going to leave anyways if it doesn't work out, then talking with someone there who might sympathize with you cannot hurt.

If there is no one there you can confide your feelings in then leave.
windows xp was released very long ago, snow leopard is much more recent.

I guess you would compare OSX version with service packs though, but I don't think that's fair.

Honestly Apple is playing the obsolescence card much more aggressively than microsoft, because they can. I installed Mavericks on my 2GB RAM macbook pro, and my laptop is already obsolete, it's very sluggish. I would GLADLY trade mavericks for windows XP. And I'm sure Windows 7 runs very well with that amount of ram.
Even the 64-bit CPU won't run Lion if the EFI is 32-bit.
So clearly you should get a remote job at a company in SF, and live elsewhere. :)
The Constitution also says that the states cannot coin money, issue paper money, or make anything but gold and silver coin tender in payment of debts. (Article I, sect. 10, clause 1)

Technically, they shouldn't be accepting Federal Reserve Notes as payment for any state taxes, including sales taxes.

Note that this clause does not authorize the federal government to declare a legal tender or issue paper money; it simply prohibits the states from doing those things. Thanks to the 10th Amendment, those are reserved exclusively to the people. The wording is a bit tortured, but a logical parse is that powers not delegated to the federation are reserved to the states, and that powers prohibited to the states are reserved to the people. Legal tender, and paper money are not delegated to the federation, but prohibited to the states, therefore they remain the province of the people.

There should be no problem with the Federal Reserve printing its own notes, but there's no way in hell that making them legal tender or accepting them for payment on state or federal debts is constitutional. They do it anyway. Hardly anyone cares. Those who do are ignored.

As usual, they will do as they please, damn the consequences, and hang it all up under the interstate commerce clause.

Edit: Article I, section 8, clause 5 does give the federation the power to coin money and standardize its value. It still doesn't give them the power to accept those coins as payment for debts unless they are gold or silver.
I think part of the fascination with wunderkind programmers, is that it reinforces the idea that people have innate talent, something that can be comforting to those who lack it. It’s similar to the fascination with lottery winners. Most people understand that building wealth tends to happen over decades from reasonable learned habits, but the fantasy of sudden, unearned wealth is more fun. Child geniuses are the fantasy of being good at something without putting in the work.
Then technicians will just put whatever diagnosis in the relevant text field and let the "AI" do their job (if the "AI" is deemed good enough). I've been working in healthcare for 15 years, and I don't have a single doubt that that's what would happen. Conversely, if the "AI" is deemed not good enough, it will be business as usual and nobody will so much as glance at the "AI" results.
What if they did it in 2021? I'd install that app and try to convince my peers to switch from WhatsApp.

But realistically, some people pay the iphone premium to avoid the shame (?!!) of green text bubbles.
We can start by stopping exploitation of poverty. Pay western rates on everything you buy from poor countries. It's time companies learn to find their competitive edge outside of employee exploitation.
> I'd argue that if apple didn't have a monopoly, we'd have stores that catered to privacy conscious people far earlier.

That didn’t happen before the App Store and isn’t happening anywhere else after the App Store either.
They still need to be shown though. WhatsApp without any user tracking and data sharing to the mothership is a pure expense. It doesn’t show ads directly in the app and a messaging platform isn’t very conducive to adding it in either.
You're right about thread safety. And when you do want it, you probably want more guarantees than StringBuffer gives you (ability to synchronize multiple inserts, for instance ).

With regard to the sufficiently smart compiler: it seems like you'd need every method the StringBuffer is passed to be final to do that kind of analysis.

In the case where you're writing:

public void foo(List<String> strings) {
StringBuffer x = new StringBuffer();
for (String s: strings) {
x.append(s);
}
}

You could conceivably do the analysis at compile time. But the whole idea behind the JIT is that you don't need to. If the code is hot, it'll get compiled, and you'll probably be fine thanks to removing all the synchronization, while if it's not hot no one cares.
Bitcoin has resisted censorship.

Other decentralized services don't allow free speech.
The first AMD64 processor was the Opteron released in 2003, 4 years after the announcement.
One tased himself to death, one was trampled to death by the mob, and one was one-shot killed by the Secret Service after a clear warning to not pass through a heavy barricade.

Of these, only one was a police-action killing, and I would not call it brutality based on the video evidence.

I have no idea the story on the fourth.

The fifth death is a cop the Trump supporters beat to a pulp with a fire extinguisher.
They are just well known examples. Like stuff you learn in high school. So a lot of people have the same general knowledge. It doesn't seem like any sort of big conspiracy. In fact before reading the comments here both ideas came to mind immediately.
I suppose we are perfectly free to make our own pocket computers now, right?

To be fair, there are legitimate efforts underway to do just that: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/.

More broadly, almost any unmoderated platform will, over time, degenerate. In real life, people tend to self-segregate by individual and community, and laws do delineate limits on speech (for example: the classic, "You can't yell 'fire' in a crowded theater)"): https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freedom-speech/
"No, because that doesn't violate the First Amendment, and you're not allowed to feel uneasy about suppression of speech that's 1A-compliant, like the Hollywood Red Scare." -- 80% of comments when this topic comes up
It is only good in the sense that it pushes people off of big tech and hopefully creates new tech.
Can you elaborate? I don’t view Trump as being that far in likeness from David Duke, other than that Trump masks his hateful rhetoric every-so-slightly. Are you also all for having Davie Duke back on Twitter? And what in history enforces the idea that banning Trump is bad? I can’t think of a single incident that would indicate it will be anything but a boon for society.

This reminds me of when a teacher finally blows-up at the idiot student that has been incessantly disrupting class and has him suspended and all the non-crazies can get back to being productively educated. This is a good thing.

Edit, to add: not every shushing is the same. The context and circumstances can drastically change the nature of the shush.
Nobody is saying you can’t mention the idea of election fraud. What’s getting rejected are attempts to lie about it and still be taken seriously. It’s true that a large number of people are mad but that’s because people are feeding them propaganda instead of truth.

I don’t know whether you are intentionally repeating claims you know to be untrue or haven’t looked at the details but you should ask yourself what it tells us when the President’s own lawyers keep dropping these cases. They wouldn’t do that if there was any merit to the case – and they’re certainly not out of money. The claims just aren’t true and they know it - once the fundraising dries up they’ll move on to something else.
If you want to read hundreds of these look no further than Python Cookbook [0].

[0] http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000393/
Was there ever any evidence that they were broadcasting to the hotspots (a requirement for 'connect' to make sense)?

That isn't going to make people irritated with them recording unencrypted data any happier, but I guess it is reasonable to be accurate and specific.
I know more bash than I know powershell but you have to admit that shell scripting is hardly sane or well designed.
That would be a fantastic way to display it, yeah. I imagine it can be done with the google maps API, but that's a lot more effort than it took for me to upload it, haha.
There was absolutely nothing uncivil in any comment on this thread. The rhetoric was fact-based and direct appropriate to the topic.

For the record, there is nothing civil about your pretense of offering false opinion as fact in nearly every frontage discussion topic bordering on "law" on HN.

You are just wrong more often than you are right. Sorry if pointing that out is uncivil but it a disservice to the community. Even if you use a downvote brigade to cover your mistakes, you should be responsible for dispensing "opinionated" advice about legal issues.
> Take a look at Japan

OK: ” A record 7,841 new coronavirus cases were reported in Japan as of 8 p.m. on Friday. The nationwide daily tally has set a record for a fourth day in a row.”

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20210108_40/

That’s some fantastic evidence that masks don’t work.
or 2007 apparently.

http://kottke.org/07/06/facebook-is-the-new-aol
You're right that it's not an ideal example. I think I said that in the post. The context of the article was the week I spent with Rust and the project I actually did with it. There was not a better example in my code to show. I could have contrived something, but it wasn't really in spirit of what I was writing about.
Yeah, but that's mostly useful to law enforcement, if they were interested

De-anonymization has been studied and applied by various parties, and I'm personally aware of at least one non-LEO application. I don't know that Google does or doesn't do this, though it wouldn't surprise me at all if marketing/advertising and/or other "personalization" services did. It would annoy me intensely to find that they were.

For that the mere fact of a cell phone is enough to get everything you mentioned.

A dumb phone can only report coarse location information, SMS messaging, and calls data. Frequently expiring SIMs would limit the useful duration of much of that information, though you'd need something like a self-hosted Google Voice forwarding service to be able to use the phone usefully while maintaining reasonable anonymity. It's not currently practical for most purposes.

Relying on a Free Software VOIP service based on the tablet preferentially for voice calls would further reduce exposure.
Do we have an organisation?
We could start with having a constitution written by rebel political idealists in the 19th century, rather than written by exactly the same kind of government insiders we'd want it to protect us against in the 21st.

If they wrote a constitution now, it would suck (they did, it's the EU constitution, and it sucks).
> the authorities truly believe that these leaks are aiding terrorists to evade their surveillance

Even if that were true, leaking documents that aid terrorists is not same as being a terrorist. If it were, they would have arrested Miranda and charged him with being a terrorist. They did not, because they knew full well that he's not a terrorist. Their opinion that he's carrying stolen property or that he's like a drug mule also does not make him a terrorist. Thus it is illegal for the government to use powers that are it's only allowed to use in determining if someone is a terrorist.
"or body transplantation, depending on your perspective"
Apart from the Adaptive Media Streaming feature, all the "plus" features seem to be stuff that anybody can have with the open source version and some external scripting/integration:

* Application Health Checking -> Nagios
* Monitoring -> stub_status_module + Munin/Nagios
* Advanced Load Balancing -> Chain Varnish / Nginx
* Dynamic Configuration -> Seamless configuration reload without service interruption is possible in the open source version
* High Availability -> Pacemaker or whatever...

That's stuff that high traffic sites have covered themselves. But: Many normal Enterprise IT ops won't touch Nginx with a stick if they can't pay for it and have someone to blame should things go wrong. Plus, managers love shiny dashboards, buzzword features and fact sheets like http://nginx.com/media/cms_page_media/21/nginx_plus_datashee...

Everybody wins.
What about Hawking radiation? [1] Then one of the pair escapes and the other falls into a black hole.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation
Disk usage patterns are the problem with most relational stores (and were for Mongo). When you do a query on time series data, you want to look up a start, read some data, and stop when you hit the end point. Getting it laid out largely sequentially on disk is a big win there.
Nope, and am in IT. I had buddies who wanted to move from tech to IB, Consulting, etc.
While we can easily blame our forefathers and their forefathers for global warming, the problem is still ongoing today and people are still stubborn about confronting it. It's not like we've said "oh yeah, we were wrong before and we're totally getting on that".

And personally? I'm a vegetarian who bikes to work. The smug emissions around my house are lethal.
The number of people who need cars to survive is far greater than the number of people who can afford to fix every nuisance fault. So long as it can keep rolling and comply with whatever minimum safety requirements actually get enforced, people will run it.
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Thank you, point taken. Speaking of constraints, the concrete canoe competition held by the American Society of Civil Engineers shows that concrete is not really a constraint. Also, it would be interesting to see if you could repurpose Ikea furniture and make a boat.

http://content.asce.org/conferences/nccc2011/index.html

http://content.asce.org/conferences/nccc2011/gallery.html

Winning team design papers 2000-2010:

http://www.engr.wisc.edu/studentorgs/canoe/designpapers/inde...
Yes, absolutely this.

And add in the ability to add various types of payments, track direct debits and other regular payments.

I just moved into my own place and keeping track of budget/bills is a nightmare :) it would be excellent to replace my current manual spreadsheet with a more automated online system.
I'm the chap responsible for the Python developer hiring at Ableton.

To sum it up: I don't give a rats ass for any degrees. I don't even have one myself. We send applicants a programming test. I get these tests, and I assess them without even skimming the CV. Because it would otherwise just skew my observations.

If the test convinced me that you can code, you will have a job-interview, via phone or in person depending on if it's feasible to fly you in to Berlin or not.

This interview is pure technical, either.

If this convinced me that you are a good coder, I will arrange a third interview with the CTO, who has the final say on all employments. I won't spoil the enjoyment of that for you :)
I'm not sure. Why do you think this would be assault? I'm not familiar with Canadian law, but article 265(1)(a) defines assault as without the consent of another person, he applies force intentionally to that other person, directly or indirectly; I'm not sure that performing a physical examination under false pretenses is 'applying force'.

There may be Canadian case law clarifying this, I don't know, but prima facie it doesn't seem to me that your position is correct.

Note that other legal systems have problems with doing things under false pretenses. A woman claimed rape because her husband's brother slid into bed with her and initiated sex, in which she went along. The guy didn't disclose explicitly that he wasn't the woman's husband. When she found out she felt (justifiably) violated. Yet the guy was acquitted because there was no statute on getting sexual favors under false pretenses (there is now by the way, as a result of this case).
I can no longer relate to Dilbert.

As long as you don't start to relate to pointy haired boss, you should be okay.
I love multiple-choice tests where someone that I disagree with most of the time gets to pick the options.
Here are stats for the University I work at. It's still not a representative sample but does show a different picture.

(Current Period):

IE 35.01%
Firefox 33.32%
Safari 15.68%
Chrome 14.56%

(Current Period - 1 Year):

IE 40.61%
Firefox 38.79%
Safari 12.92%
Chrome 4.93%
Eh, you don't really need habitation -- just a datacenter. It may be more cost-effective to design something specifically for this

At the minimum, there should be an expectation of the platform surviving the environment. Decoupling from wave energy is the point of a spar buoy. Even inanimate servers are perturbed by being smashed by walls of water. Did you actually read or search on anything mentioned, or did you just go with the "stead" in the name?