jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Punish the rich? I'm sure for most people it's about reducing the deficit.
attack them for being wealthy...

/groan
vimdiff is nice, but suffers from one major deficiency. It can't do three-way diffs.
Actually C# (the language) is libre, it's an EMCA standard. The default implementation and IDE(the MS runtime & VS) is not libre, it's gratis, but Mono is fully free software (libre) and nearly fully compatible (both source and bytecode) with the MS runtime and will run on Windows, OS X and Linux.
Julie Larson Green will probably be chosen to lead the ongoing descent into obscurity and mediocrity.
Did you capture the speech where he's ranting and raving to motivate the troops?
Positives: Only threw away 10-20b on pointless acquisitions (aQ, etc.). Successfully avoided buying Nokia, or pulling an HP/Compaq Fiorina fiasco, and didn't buy a big dying services organization to chase IBM. Also didn't do like HP's board with the lawsuits and revolving door CEOs and such. Avoided major criminal activity.
People may scoff at this - but why not? His experience from Apple and NeXT should transcend into an organization like Microsoft. He will be an extremely useful asset, although perhaps a bit dictatorial from what I've heard.
One almost gets the impression that Xbox slipped under Ballmer's radar and didn't get his full attention :-)
> Compare the subjective wait for the spinner and progress ar in this demo: http://jsfiddle.net/gUkgX/1/embedded/result/
> Notice how much longer you seem to wait with the spinner? Watching a progress bar fill up with a definite end feels way faster.

No it doesn't. I agree they "feel" faster than the no feedback scenario, but I perceive no difference between the spinner and the progress bar in this case.
The problem is that no matter which metric you choose, I can pick another one leading me to have opposite outcomes in a manner that you cannot argue with. The importance of your objective metric will still be subjective based on how important I think each metric system is. Making the entire thing subjective.
Brave is doing that exact thing, or so I hear. I've even made $1 or something from them.
Yeah... although passion and obsession aren’t the same. Passion is the more palatable and friendly version of obsession. The use of ‘obsession’ by pg is deliberate. The set of things you can be passionate about is much more limited, often constrained by your perception of what others will think. We (over)share our passions but hide our obsessions.
The answer I keep returning to: if shady ads is what keeps your business running, stop running your business. Switch off the lights and the servers and go home.
You made me consider whether EEG would notice differences when listening to 24bit/192hz vs. 16bit/44.1hz audio. So far the articles I have read only pertain to the logical science and or anecdotal individual double blind tests. Thank you.
I never knew this was a thing. I compared the kernel (like, actually reading and comparing the disassembly) between SINIX 1.0 and SINIX 1.2, and I noticed that in 1.2 a significant amount of kernel code for graphics support was added. I did wonder what that was for.

Now I'm super intrigued that there may actually be a GUI for the PC-D/X[1] out there!

I'm pretty sure the installation of SINIX 1.2 does not have that, it probably came on extra diskettes, but now I really want to double check.

[1] The machine was basically called PC-D when running DOS, and PC-X when running SINIX. That's not technically true for the first revisions of the boards (where e.g. the MMU was an optional card), but all PC-Ds I remember seeing even had "PC-D/X" written on their backside already.

EDIT: That book you linked seems to be for the SVR4 SINIX that came after the XENIX-based PC-D SINIX. By that time, from what I could tell from other research so far, SINIX was running on NS32032, not on 186.
Why should activist employees (who, I should note, are activists for their pet political causes rather than actual working conditions) not get reprimanded/terminated?
We have shifted from relying on the whims of society for justice to relying on the judicial system for justice. There isn't a "separation of the two" even now, there's only one recognized system for determining justice. Vigilante justice is illegal.

No, I absolutely would not help a loved one achieve some sort of extrajudicial punishment, I would instead strongly recommend against it. I would try to comfort and support them, responses that are helpful regardless of how good or badly I personally judge their case and related punishments. I would tell them that perhaps the justice system has failed them and no system is perfect, but vigilante justice is a terrible and unproductive response that breeds more injustice than it resolves.

The way you fix loopholes in the justice system is by fixing loopholes in the justice system. The justice system is governed by laws developed by deliberative bodies held accountable through democracy. It's not pretty and it's not satisfying, but after centuries of gross injustice we should know better than to trust mob justice.
Do you reinforce that behavior or put a stop to it? That's a serious dilemma.
> If your paranoia is justified (which it may be, depending on your needs), you need to host the machines in your own datacenter

Indeed! That's the reason why the author shouldn't write "((use)) a managed database service", à la "whatever you have in hand, screws or nails, use a hammer!"
Based on the Excess Mortality across Countries in 2020, Sweden did surprisingly good, with only 1.5%. For comparison, the US was much worse with 12.5%. And Finland had -3.1% for some reason

[1] https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/excess-mortality-across-countr...
The general consensus at the moment is that there's no apparent food chain where mosquitos are the primary source.
I'd guess between $1k to $5k, and probably on the lower end of that spectrum. Might be worth it in a low cost of living country.
I've been using paprika for a while but switched to whisk.
I have been to Istanbul multiple times, and rode my motorcycle across Turkey. It never struck me as a fundamentalist country. Women in Istanbul or Izmir dress just like anywhere in the Western world, and I don't recall seeing any veiled faces in Turkey. I shared many drinks with local friends, and shortly lived on a street that was famous for its crossdressers.

You might struggle to find beer in smaller cities, and it's undeniably more conservative there, but you could make the same judgement about any western country.

I'd say that things don't get complicated around religion, but around politics. It's hard to ignore that Turkey is sinking into authoritarianism, and though a tourist might not feel the effects, he might pick up its distinct smell.
https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=a...

> It welcomes research papers broadly related to interactions between living matter and temperature. The journal's logo is "Temperature is life." While the primary focus is on the medical physiology of body temperature regulation, research in all scientific disciplines and at all levels of organization - from submolecular to biospheric - is of interest to the journal. If your paper deals with both temperature and life, it belongs in Temperature!
I was just complaining about how they're so stubby. They need to be about twice as large.
Trying to find more info about the creators. Looks like there is a Delaware Corp but no officers publicly listed. Hmmm. Anyone else know where to learn more about the creators?
Dumb question: does that mean if you want to see aurora, it'd be better to do it now than in 2035?
If that's the scale, then Go is archdemon-salesman verbose. Primal-Cosmic Fact.
peek (https://github.com/phw/peek) is decent, only issue is that setting the size of the capture area is a bit fiddly
perhaps I should pivot to "Make Your Own Dildo", get it 3D printed and delivered.
yea it was really bizzare to see soros himself goof up austrian/chicago at the top of page 1. maybe its just one of those cases where the popular definition has drifted in the decades since he first internalized them, but still, makes for a confusing piece that some editor should have nudged him on.
Indeed, if you want to do just simple programming in your life.
>If someone on my team was writing a web app and spending time meddling around with transactions outside of whatever abstraction layer we were using on top of the DB without an incredibly good reason, we'd definitely be having a coaching moment, and if it continued, I'd likely help them find a role with another org where they might be a better fit.

And most people with knowledge of DBs should run, not walk, away from a team that operates like that...
My company is in the midst of a modest hiring blitz and it is really eye-opening how few applicants are actually writing SQL in the coding exercise as opposed to using a highly-opinionated ORM. More damning - in my opinion - is that they mostly have blinders to how much time they are spending working around ORM limitations on a day-to-day basis.
Ideological sympathies, the Soviet Union was an ally at the time, concern about balance of power given a new superweapon. As rationalizations go, the atomic spies had more to work with than most.
If you don't like Python, or Tesla, or simply want to put a Paul Graham essay through the usual paces of critical inquiry, you're in a similar boat.
Okay, now I think your comments endlessly calling ethereum a scam are starting to make sense. It seems like you're a bitcoin maximalist, no?
I guess what i'm arguing is that if fire and mayhem was ongoing in the US in the form of a revolution my belief is that the system would shut it down in any way it could. I know social media stayed up during e.g. the Freddy Gray protests but those were short lived. The ferguson protests were longer but were largely peaceful except for the no-indictment day. And if it was something more widespread and ongoing that was a serious threat to order IN THE US I don't believe these systems would be allowed to stay up. I believe they may even shut down cell phone systems. They have stayed up in when other countries were under threat of course but i'm talking about real revolution in the US where people start regularly doing what the Hong Kong protesters do, destruction of entire banks etc., but maybe i am wrong. It's just that we've never seen the level of the Hong Kong riots because police would shoot to kill in the US for that kind of activity, so it's hard to compare.
I would agree with that picture. In other comments on this thread, I've indicated Java & SQL are the #1 demands on any project I've ever worked on.

At the same time though, none of those people have earned anything remotely what I tend to see on HN in general, and SF area in particular. From my limited experience, it feels like a good, experienced, hardened, senior Java developer in Toronto, Canada (not a tiny/cheap place), makes about half what a hot-startup-technology intermediate makes in SF :-\
Python deployment is a shitshow. Unfortunately mission critical stuff (looking at you letsencrypt) is also written in it which means that your systems are built on very shaky foundations.
Tthe simplicity is beautiful.

A native mobile client (even if wifi-only) and a Flash desktop client would make this an absolute slam dunk. A discovery or "now playing" feature would of course be cool. The grayed-out color scheme (text:bg) can be a bit straining.

I would have killed for an app like this back in the day. It's actually kind of inspiring - makes me want to set up my decks again. Can't wait to give it a shot.
Two words: Poop sock.

MMORPGs have everything to do with being in the zone, nothing to do with sexuality; these two motivations are both exceptionally powerful. I remember an experiment with rats, where an electrode was hooked up directly to the center in the brain that generates the "in the zone" feeling; the rats pushed the lever to fire that electrode continually, until they died of starvation. MMORPGs, computer games in general, Wikipedia, checking e-mail, Hacker News... all operate based on the desire to zone in.

Now, the popularity of well-paid parasitic professions in the contemporary US (law, most prominently, where the marginal value of a new lawyer is negative) reveals that the desire for money is very strong as well; but is the desire for money always the same as the desire for sexual relations? I don't see Dick Cheney living it up like Bill Clinton...

Of course, multiple motivations can be present at once; but I think that good work, at least in computer areas, requires the desire to zone in as one of these motivations.
Oh, well, you must post that next week then!

(From which we may perhaps draw another guide: focus on one topic, and break substantially separate items into separate posts -- where they can be properly addressed . . .)
This seems a well argued point; but when you break it down not so much,.

First off I think it does something of a disservice to Jobs - because if the theory is true I don't think it fits in with the vision he has.

The thing is that Jobs does have a vision for the iOS platform, and I don't think that is: They want hundreds of thousands of decent or even mediocre or crappy apps. In fact as far as I can make out that is exactly what they don't want.

Jobs seems to much prefer the idea of a smaller number of really really classy apps. And that seems (to me anyway) to be reflected in their changes to the developer terms.

To claim the reverse is kind of going against years of Apple branding (clean, classy, slick).
It's hard to say if I'll still be in SF in another decade, but I'm excited about this project:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail
There are of course lots and lots of JavaScript learning materials both in print and on the web. I assume that's what you mean by "framework agnostic". And of course the better you know JavaScript the better you'll be able to use jQuery, or any of the other frameworks.

That said, framework specific tutorials are likely to be far more useful to the casual or beginner developer. In the "real world", while you can do everything without a client-side framework, it's a lot of effort (and ultimately means you're creating a new framework.) All of the browser incompatibilities hidden away by frameworks like jQuery or Dojo would have to be re-invented.

You can write windows programs in assembler, but frankly why would you?

In that light tutorials based on specific frameworks, while appealing to fewer people, is ultimately more useful to the people who do work through it. jQuery (and DoJo et al) are popular precisely because it lets you build better, more reliable, and more cross-browser-compatible web sites.

Rebecca is obviously a talented developer, with a strong bent towards sharing what she has learnt so kudo's to her - may she do much more, regardless of the framework she's currently using.
Amazon RDS's most expensive feature is automatic, instant Multi-AZ failover to protect against this kind of situation. It's not working quite like that, which the AWS status page acknowledges. This is a major failure.
google for "buy .io domains"
Reminds me of some of my last work experiences...
Speaking as a scientist, "don't think about it, don't care about it, just trust someone" is contrary to my nature.

I was born with a burning desire to understand. Everything. I just wish I could locate a group of like-minded people to work with. I've been somewhat dismayed to find that "the real world" consists mostly of people whose sole ambition (or sole reality) is to fulfill their current role, without ever analyzing what it is they are doing or striving to improve the overall project.

Status is very important. I wish it weren't so. At my last job, I was using EC2 to devise solutions to problems that they truly believed were technically unsolvable --- but no one would listen to me, because I was a newcomer. Their faith in the senior technical engineer was absolute and unwavering, and the senior technical engineer believed it was unsolvable, so therefore it was, for all intents and purposes, unsolvable. (After all, nothing ever came of my research, because no one cared enough to listen, or had time to think about something other than their current, immediate goal.)

Worse, they even became offended when I tried to research the "unsolvable" problem in my own spare time. Status really sucks.
Are you part of the team resolving it?
I thought AZs were supposed to be different physical data centers.

If that is not the case, then having a multi-region setup would be a necessity for any major sites on AWS.

Perhaps there will be a time where to truly be redundant, one would need to use multiple cloud providers. Which would be a _huge_ pain to do now I imagine, with all the provider lock-ins we have.
The photo side could be good for my phone's photos, but not for my real photography. I have to have sync for photos that I am actually going to do work on.
Actually, I think that th Activity/Intent structuring of applications is a very good idea, one that could be brought into the world of desktop applications too.

It allows to use parts of applications in a way that OLE/COM promised, but never delivered.
Not really. Just it was already mentioned sometimes ago about the fixed cost function in bcrypt:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=762708
The most baffling thing about this whole situation is that one would think that learning a language would be a very futile pursuit for a suicide bomber.
> if there's anything in particular you'd like me to expand upon I'd be happy to

Since you asked :)

How much of this is relying on phased array antennae on the satellite and does that mean you won't have to aim a dish or will the downlink for residential require a tracking antenna or do those also work using phased arrays these days?
I know what you are getting at, but by the time the average Retail Investor can even get the opportunity to short the stock it is truely gambling.

"In a hot IPO, when many investors are clamoring to get shares, many of those who do get the newly issued shares will flip it—immediately sell it in the open market for instant profits. The investment bank must, by law, sell the new shares at the offering price regardless of demand. Because of the demand for the new issues, they have to be allocated, and usually it's the biggest clients of the investment bankers who get the issue—small investors almost never get to participate"

http://thismatter.com/money/stocks/investment-banking.htm
Yep. I read the article too.

I would just like to see other examples, and find out more about the practice. Googling just turns up more references to this particular item.
Hoax: Brains were the same and taken from a meth addict brain. https://www.metabunk.org/threads/debunked-funvax-pentagon-br...
Win64 8.1 HD3000

Here is my experience.

On chrome it works, but... after about 15 seconds my graphics card driver crashes and the demo goes black. While it was working the demo was very laggy.

On firefox it worked, perfectly. It was smoothly responsive and noise was barely noticeable after 3secs.

On internet Explorer, trying to change the scene presets causes mem usage to climb furiously to to the point you have to kill it. otherwise the demo run beautifully and was very responsive.
Agreed, but I could drop a couple K on SpaceX and it wouldn't hurt me if it disappears.... but I'm not allowed to.
I wouldn't be surprised to see SpaceX do an IPO in the future. I'll definitely buy in even if I would do that as a kind of kick-starter rather than for the potential return.
"SpaceX provides almost no current value to anybody."

Well, someone payed SpaceX for a delivery flight to the ISS the other day, they're certainly providing value in that context
Some of it, yes. As a matter of fact, Clang already includes one, which is deployed on a large scale at Google.

http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ThreadSafetyAnalysis.html
> I also toy with the idea of creating a simulation (aka "game") to teach other people who may not be as capable as I am of figuring it out from scratch how to achieve similar results anyway.

That is interesting. I know the military is trying this. They have a limited amount of time to teach a larger and larger amount of things to new recruits. They are experimenting with VR environments.

But I can see how that could be applied to other things. Perhaps a sim environment that lets someone see how molecules interact.
His 'VB' emits byte code for the .NET VM which is highly optimized. Also, VB.NET runs on the same VM. VB.NET has a lot of 'features' that are performance nightmares but it's not that slow if you know what to avoid.

Oh, I didn't see that VB was run on mono, run that code on a windows machine and I bet it will beat the -O3 optimized C
Is that it?!??! We were all set for music streaming and we get the back catalogue of a fairly influential band whose label had a long standing trademark dispute with iTunes over the word Apple.
I don't like Teams much but the calendar integration is really nice. If I get a calendar invite for a meeting via outlook I can tab over to teams and it's right there in the calendar view with a join button. Much easier to keep track of compared to the old way (calendar invite, tab over to slack and find the appropriate channel or group chat to start/join the call)
Among the reasons there aren't many DCs in SF are the cost of real estate, and the seismic risks. There is 365 Main, and a second one going into warehouses south of Potrero Hill.

Others are on the Peninsula and San Jose. There are also several in the Central Valley, which is more seismically stable, though flooding can be a concern.
68 = they deserve the pain, 67 = all ok?

It's not about the absolute numbers, they were presumably just picked out of a hat. It's the general concept. Why is there so little empathy on here?
Use

softwareupdate -l --include-config-data

To list available updates, then adjust the command with the MRTConfigData version Apple provides for you.
I use http://www.bettertouchtool.net for window snapping (among other features).
All under the watchful eye of Facebook, a company that leads the world in online identity and specializes in user data security. It's a very smart move, but raises questions about the company's growing power.

I honestly can't tell if the author is saying that tongue-in-cheek or if it's copied from a press release.
Didn't think it was particularly awful, so much as... new.
I wrote this so I would not have to rely on a third party for bookmarking and so I could have regex search:

https://github.com/mmb/murlsh
For the contest you get a $300 Premium plan for free. You can see the pricing table at http://addons.heroku.com/indextank
Wikipedia: women could vote in the USA since 1920, and in the USSR since 1917. Though the Cold War was more of a series of proxy wars and an arms race.

But the argument in the grandparent post is not supported by history either. The military monk orders of the Crusades are just one example.
I also am a huge pinboard fan, but not for things that I use daily. I use XMarks for all my main things, and pinboard to store things that I rarely use, or if I am going to need a list- for instance, one of my physics professors wanted a list of web sources to save him some time (60 term papers). I used pinboard to store them all, and just had to give him a link at that point.
Really sad to see Delicious go. One of my most used services :(

See http://www.shareaholic.com/services for a list of over 50 bookmarking services.
Open question: How could Yahoo have monetized delicious?

I'll start: Use the browser plugin to deliver highly targeted but low profile ads to users. The targeting would be based on the longitudinal interest data they have for millions of users, many of whom have been tagging their interests for months or years. For active users, I think this data is better than facebook targeting info.
Chrome shares your links to all your computers via a feature in the browser.
"When he unexpectedly died"?

As opposed to what, an experiment where patients are deliberately killed in the name of science?