jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think tiling is better, but to each their own. And tiling WMs don't mean everything is constantly changing.

I think you have a good point about the sidebars of webpages. A lot of webpages don't cope very well with being put in a narrow window like documentation beside a code editor. A lot of cruft, padding, menubars etc tend to take up unmoveable space. It would be nice if we could pan and zoom that kind of stuff out of the way.

But I personally use something in the middle. I have 9 virtual desktops (mapped directly to the numpad on my keyboard using KDE's shortcuts) with some static tiled configurations of the apps I use daily. This way I can quickly check an IM that comes in and snap back to my work stuff in an instant.

But like I said, whatever works for you! I don't think it's a matter of one size fits all.

The only thing I really miss about KDE is having virtual desktops switchable per monitor, not as a whole set of all monitors together :(
I never expected someone teaching at my city to show up on HackerNews! I hope that he is liking Petrópolis
Fifth paragraph: "Officials also call twice a day to ensure people don’t avoid tracking by leaving their phones at home."
> These anti-bloat libraries

This probably isn't true, but more importantly this statement misses the point because you're bundling a bunch of stuff into the "anti-bloat libs" bucket with no consideration for the individual architectures of each.

To come back to the example above—React—the core react library is 3.2kb[0] gzipped. (and it hasn't died out). What I'm selectively omitting here is the architectural detail that React have separated their API implementation (core), their renderers (DOM, Server, Native) and their templating (JSX), all of which are loosely coupled optional components. That's a very effective approach to omitting bloat, and is a model that can be copied in an approximately compatible way (see e.g. the anti-bloat Preact and Inferno, further examples of anti-bloat approaches that have not "died out")

[0] https://unpkg.com/react@17.0.1/cjs/react.production.min.js

[1] https://preactjs.com/

[2] https://infernojs.org/
!! That's crazy cheap. Obviously my comment about mid-rises being cheaper is based off of the pre-covid data.
This is awesome and necessary but don’t get distracted from the real low hanging fruit that is consuming less - less driving, smaller houses, vegetarianism, fewer toys.
That must have been quite something.
No this is fine. I fully agree with your points and that's precisely why I'm not a fan of his. But yeah, Signal is the shiniest turd we have for secure messaging that's normie (as in not someone in tech) friendly.
Look at my example. if you literally communicated with someone that way would the other person be confused? The answer is yes.
This is a start:

https://www.eff.org/issues/privacy
I guess it depends how you define it, but France, Germany, Italy, Denmark etc all have been suspending the AZ vaccine as 'dangerous' although the actual reports of side effects are far less than the claimed danger from COVID. I admit I haven't made a formal list of every country and ticked them off to see if it's literally >50% of countries, but it's certainly >50% of Europe by GDP at this point.
That is an excellent write-up, and assuages the main concern I was still having with Playwright (Playwright itself addressing the main concern I had with Puppeteer, which was its focus on a single browser). Thanks for sharing!
I was not aware that the justice system operated on the principle of “if I believe someone is innocent, I do not have to consider any of the evidence”.
That's not a purchase. Every dictionary I've read has described a purchase to include transferring money and ownership.

Starting a VM isn't a purchase of Ubuntu. It's a rental of compute, storage, and network resources. Any other definition is, quite simply, wrong.
The zfs reason makes sense, but in recent releases Debian and Ubuntu take the same approach to systemd, so switching between those two wouldn't meaningfully change the init system situation. (I did see the smiley face; this comment is just in case that smiley is more self-deprecation than sarcasm, or for other readers.)
> Ubuntu is a free product. Canonical should not be able to find out if I (specifically me or my organization) allocates or runs 1 or 10000 instances of Ubuntu

I agree with the message behind this and obviously Canonical and Microsoft are both being extremely gross.

But Ubuntu as a binary image (or source code) is a very different product than a VM with Ubuntu pre-installed and pre-configured, which is what you paid for (and is why you got ensnared by their horrible anti-user license).
The difference, as usual, is: consent and control. 1. the user did not provide affirmative informed consent (it was buried in a ToS doc that nobody reads) and 2. the user has no meaningful control of the sharing.
> I have some coworkers who I used to be able to just walk next door and talk to.

I have different experience - I had people sitting at the next door who were always on the phone with $important_customer and I needed to wait 15mins meanwhile they can answer me <1min on _chat_
I seriously hadn't considered the second definition of the word.

Thnx.
That specific one really sucks. Every time I’ve bought a car that had a satellite radio I got spammed for like two years by Sirius XM. How are they still in business?
its been a few days so doubt you'll read this but, even if you have really advanced fusion tech what people often overlook is that ultimately the civilizations are just heat engines. They would still have a heat signature & as you described that would be orders of magnitude more that their respective stars. you could literally track the growth of a type-II civilization by the radiation signature as long as they are emitting anything above CMB.

Also, yes you dont have to look for Dyson spheres but you'll agree that Sun has 99.9% of the mass of solar system so it would make sense to turn to it after you have 'used up' Jupiter. And yes you can extract mass out of a Star with currently know physics, its just big project. THAT should be visible from far away.

ultimately I doubt there is any stealth for cloaking a type-II civ so whats the best bet? you go the other way & expand as fast as possible. But either way we would have noticed .. at least close to our galactic cluster.
> This is not true. The original iPhone and iPhone 3g only had 128mb of ram. The 3gs has 256mb.

You're misinterpreting his statement. The original iPhone
model had 128MB. The iPhone 3G has 128MB. The original model is not supported under 4.0 but the 3G is.
The police won't do anything. We had a laptop theft where someone just walked into our building and started picking up laptops. He basically said "hey I'm from IT and we are upgrading, I'm picking up old laptops and then you'll get a new one in a couple hours." He walked out with 14 laptops.

We had him on camera, multiple witnesses. Our security found the ebay account where they were being sold and even tricked the guy into providing his address. We provided this to the police. All they would have had to do is go arrest him, but they wouldn't lift a finger.

Conversely, I worked for a bank for a year. And one night the ATM alarm was accidentally tripped, and the police where there in minutes with guns out.

The ATM only had about $10K in it, and the fourteen laptops represented a loss of $30k.

Q: So why was there response so much more aggressive for the ATM?

A: The banks pay big $$ to the local police departments to get that kind of response.
so reposting people's comments as new content for your blog?
The consensus in the support forums seems to be that it's about 3-5 hours:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1334489

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1514754

There are forum posts with people reporting two hours or less, but these may have a defective battery (a company rep offered to replace it):

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1379644
My algorithm is a little different. I analyze every follow request with what kind of information is this person going to provide--does it add to my personal network, interesting commentary on sports or what is happening in the music, snowboard and mountain scene -- if so I will follow them.
It's actually my comment.
I don't understand the author's criticism of anonymity. To me it's the best way to receive criticism - a faceless wall that tells you what you need to be told. Sure, the power tends to be abused for cruel ad-hom attacks, but they're unsupported by weight of authority, so they tend to look weak.
Not only that, but getting help is crazy easy nowadays. In the 80's you either had to know someone experienced in real life, buy books, or just pootle around figuring it out for yourself.
Kinect was home-grown, then halfway through they realized an Israeli company did it cheaper so they used that instead. The far more accurate version of Kinect releasing with the Xbox One doesn't use any of PrimeSense's tech.
OK, so they understood correlation and causality as applied to a particular use case. "Hey, we ground up the pigments real fine one day, and this nifty effect popped out."

We don't even know that. It is not as if we found a factory that produced these things, so it might just be "Dionysus thanked me for making this goblet in his honor".
How does this compare to Bulbflow?

http://bulbflow.com/overview/
Presumably by 5% utilization you mean by time. But the main depreciation factor on owning your car, aside from driving off the lot, is miles driven. If your car were driven 50% of the time with the kind of street/highway blend of mileage typical of a taxi, it wouldn't last nearly as long and your insurance and maintenance costs would be far higher.
http://event-fabric.com/ (I'm the Co-Founder)

here's an overview video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyeqgrykNkI
Subresource Integrity - W3C Editor's Draft
http://w3c.github.io/webappsec/specs/subresourceintegrity/
Their are two levels of security, Mossad and non-Mossad. Worrying about evading the NSA is premature optimization at best and a form of mental illness at worst.
Speaking of the HDD->SDD transition, is anyone familiar enough with SRAM and DRAM design/fab to comment on why we haven't seen a similar transition with memory? 60ns latency on a 4GHz processor = ouch!

I'm aware that SRAM is 3-6x less dense, but it isn't uncommon these days to see people with >3x the DRAM they need, so this doesn't strike me as a terribly convincing justification.

I'm also aware that $/GB is insanely high for on-CPU SRAM, but that would also be the case for on-CPU DRAM, which is why DRAM is typically put on a separate die so that its process can be optimized independently. Does the SRAM process just not optimize as well? Does it have insane power/heat requirements? What goes wrong?

Or (puts on tinfoil hat) is JEDEC full of people who design DRAM memory controllers for a living?
Can we go back to IRC now, please! Slack is not only distracting, proprietary, but it is also pretty expensive. Let the mere mortals use it, but we should stay away!
I believe the real crux is that if any data protection law is voilated by passing on your details via a friend that the whole onus of responsibility is laid soley at your friend via some EULA and the like they never even bothered to read.

It doesn't work that way. The usual EU legal position, absent any special case, is that any entity acting as a data controller is subject to data protection rules.

Given explicit consent by the subject of the personal data, Facebook might have a way around this. I could believe they escaped with legalese in their terms and conditions for anyone who has a Facebook account themselves, for example, whether or not we might agree with legislation that allowed them to do so.

That would not cover data about anyone else who had not given such consent, however. I suspect they'd also have trouble arguing that position for any subject who had previously had a Facebook account but had ceased using it and effectively withdrawn their consent.

(Just to be clear, I'm not any sort of lawyer. I'm just a guy who runs businesses that sometimes deal with these issues in Europe, so I'm broadly familiar with the rules and I've taken advice from real lawyers about some aspects of them.)

Edit: It's possibly also worth noting that the EU doesn't have a general rule prohibiting all collection of personal data without consent, nor a general rule compelling a data controller to delete data on request. The situation is more nuanced than that, and has all kinds of legal wriggle room.[1] The question is whether Facebook's lawyers are somehow using that room in this sort of situation, or whether they're just hoping they'll get away with the behaviour even if they aren't sure it's legal.

[1] For example, in the UK, see https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
I think this just goes to show exactly why these systems will become more commonplace. There are only so many security experts to go around. Having all the very best concentrated on a smaller set of services seems like it makes more sense than trying to get a security expert for every service.
Not Twain, Pascal: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/.

But yes—just as applicable to computer programming as letter writing.
Vim and Emacs weren't enough?
Synchronize Opera.. :D It can synchronize typed history, notes, speed dial etc. between other opera instances.
My observations:

Most people in word have 1-2 documents open at once.
Most people in text editors like gedit, kate, eclipse, VS have maybe 10 or 20 tabs
But most emacs users have at least 80 or 90 buffers open! It's an interesting phenomena that I haven't seen elsewhere. Why is this? Are tabs too much overhead or does emacs have really good buffer management?

Not a criticism, I'm slowly picking up some emacs after 2 years of vi, and I'd like to understand more of the nuances.
What is idiotic about MAI vs. Peak?
Previous discussion on the same topic (different article): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2018351
I see something wrong with presenting someone's clearly-stated presentation of the bias they came into the matter with before reviewing the evidence as if it were a characterization of their position after reviewing the evidence.

I also see something wrong with inventing quotes in order to support the above mischaracterization (and find that particular form of dishonest especially silly in a comment in a threaded medium where the original isn't far away, so that the falsity of the quotes are obvious to anyone who spends even a second looking.)
The OP didn't use the word "proof". He or she is correct that absence of evidence is indeed evidence (but not proof) of absence.
The most important thing to stop sql injection is to validate your parameters on the server side.
This is completely dodging the (hard?) questions and deflecting to historical actors.

Also, I didn't decide anything (and I doubt you did either). This is the system I was born into and it as been operating without my input.
I don't think it's necessarily that unusual if you're dealing with a person of means or capability in deception.
given how easily they caved to the Australian government when the whole revenue sharing thing was going on I think the possibility of them leaving the 14 trillion dollar Eurozone economy approaches zero.
Kind of a shame because MIPS is one of the more approachable ISAs if you want to learn assembly
Which is a reference to a place in Germany/Deutschland/Allemagne/Niemcy/Saksa, right?
I think if kids were introduced to some kind of tiling window manager with CLI, they would easily get use to it and probably prefer it to complex GUIs.

The command-line is interactive and that's where its power comes from. I think a mixed approach would be ideal both for kids and professional hackers.
> Windows 7 and 8 were the first mobile OS that didn't completely rip off Apple, had the first original interface since Apple's iPhone and you're saying they missed the target? Seriously?

Personally I think WP8 is an excellent OS. But it's a distant third in market share.
> The fact that it is really the only contender that can preform the same role as C

Modula-2, Ada, Turbo/Apple Pascal were there first, but sadly lost developer hearts to C.
I am getting tired of this whole dumb x86 vs. arm comparison bullshit. You cannot compare chips (read: chips not even talking about architecture here because it's not relevant) which are designed for complete different purposes (high performance big ooo workstation cpu vs. low power mobile chip). Please stop making those.
I really wish I could have gone to Beijing when people still rode bikes. Really loved how that looked in photographs.
I don't think it's that easy. Not every statement is either true or false in Coq, you'd need to accept the law of excluded middle for that.
Graphene has always had loads of applications, but I understand it the main issue is reliable manufacturing. There are too many imperfections or way too high cost which limits application.
I remember my whole family was in gtalk and other jabber talkers. The funny thing they were usable on mobile long before android/ios phones. There were JavaME clients that could run on many common phones. I still miss T9.

GTalk was really in a position to be the #1 messenger.
I love this one: https://airvpn.org/ "A VPN based on OpenVPN and operated by activists and hacktivists in defence of net neutrality, privacy and against censorship."
I grew up in a European city and never once took a car to school. I walked to primary school, junior high and high school. Then I took public transport to university.

I know most cities and neighborhoods aren't set up for that in the US, but if it can be done in Europe it can be done elsewhere.
From my ~15 years of experience, if there is just one advice I could give to someone starting their career as a software developer: irrespective of whether your work is exciting or not as much, it is a joy in itself to keep working on improving your craft, which is writing software systems. Excellence is always a moving target, but if you stop working on your craft, the joy you will experience as you become senior and older, will keep decreasing.
And for the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid, the Power8 came out on top.

Dutch article:

https://tweakers.net/reviews/7426/datavloedgolf-lhc-op-komst...
The whole market was much smaller. So maybe much less competition, but also much less market when only hobyists had computers at home and no one had smartphones.

The only "golden age" I can think of was the internet bubble when investors were crazy and threw money on anything that had anything to do with internet. Some kids made really good money "programming" HTML.
> NordVPN users are paying money and are getting stabbed in the back.

could you please expand on this claim?
People will disagree with you on that, but I think such disagreement misses a crucial observation - economic value was highly correlated to the value for humanity. But as we took all the low-hanging fruits we can see those two senses of value increasingly diverge.

Hell, for a simple analogy, it's like with solid rocket boosters - you should appreciate how far they got you, but you definitely don't want to keep being attached to them when they burn out and decide to not go to space.
I only did a quick search and didn't find the latest model. But for the previous model you can tow 1600kg with a Golf GTI in Norway. The tow hitch can be ordered factory installed
I believe that the title should be changed because: "In late 2012 Sagi acquired the start-up company Crossrider for $US 37M." [1]

That alone tells you that Kape's (or rather, Crossrider's current owner) had nothing to do with their past actions, and could be therefore considered libel.

Moreover, post that someone linked with all the proof is pretty much a lot of FUD, and while I'm not happy with the sale, I fail to see any actual proof being brought up.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Sagi#Kape_Technologies_p...
It depends on many factors.

If propaganda comes in small amounts, it will not be apparent and one can fall victim of it.

If it comes in a sudden, big quantity, people may react with disgust and be more wary of similar content in smaller amounts.

For an example, younger people can easily be effected watching videos with slight racism. Yet if you were to put a straight up neonazi speech in front of them, they would probably be disgusted.
The more insensitive one is, the more overly-sensitive everyone else seems.
He might be the only person in the world who thinks Microsoft needs help making mistakes.
"Heck, even I’m concerned when I see companies like SecondMarket holding public auctions for Facebook stock, driving the price ever higher..."

Ah, nice a cleverly rephrased 'blame the speculators' argument, ignoring the fact that all stocks are speculative in nature. Also, the Pets.com reference felt lazy.

I'm really noticing a pattern with TC articles and a feedback loop on HN, they basically just milk a subject until the comments die down and then once the comments begin to show a new popular consensus they're quick to hop on that. Reminds me a lot of Fox News. He barely even covers the topic his headline implies the article is about--whether we are, or aren't, in a bubble currently.

The article is mostly about himself. Funny when a journalists favorite subject is himself.
Here are more photos and some additional infos:

http://www.eaa.org/news/2011/2011-04-14_aero.asp (scroll down a bit)

http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/23/flynano-plane-is-super-li...
The purple squiggly piece is broken. If you turn it so that it is vertical, it doesn't collide properly (acts as though an empty space is actually taken up).
It's good that Crockford meant semantically, then.
Stop spamming: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=kkunal
Obviously it has; it made you forget the difference between a period and a question mark.
Man, what a bad article.

I think Apple success has been enabled their investment in a solid OS platform that they have been able to move to new devices. This is not easy, and it is often overlooked.

It takes a long time to build an OS. The move from Mac to iPhone to iPad was pretty well done (yes, you could argue that iOS is not tablet specific enough), and RIM, Android Honeycomb, and HP/Pre are having a hell of a time catching up, Microsoft are still getting their phone OS sorted, and Nokia just threw in the towel.

While I don't think iOS is the pinnacle of operating systems Apple's investment in engineering Cocoa/iOS is certainly paying off.
Meta visualization of visualizations, and a pretty good list of tools at that. Good find, bookmarked.
There are plenty of good suggestions in this thread about acquiring contacts, so I wanted to mention there is a lot of administration work with freelancing that the sooner you get started on the better. Remember, as a freelancer, you're in charge of taking care of taxes, health care, vacation days, sick days, work related costs, and unemployment time.

I would try save at least half of everything you make. First, 1/3rd should be saved for taxes. Second, save at least 1/6th for misc expenses and everything else. Second, look into tax deductions, there is a lot of associated costs with running a freelance business that you can deduct and save a lot of money. So get a system together for keeping track of expenses, ie gas mileage traveling to a client, cost of new computer hardware, if you work from home then you can deduct the percentage of space your office takes up from your rent (not quite that simple), and electricity and internet, etc etc.

Invoicing is another thing that is a hassle. Keep track of hours everyday and stay on top of it.

The best advice I can give is to really treat freelancing like a business and get a system setup that works for you. Doing business/administrative stuff is not as fun as programming by any means, but the headaches of not doing it up front will be much bigger.

Best of luck to you.
hnhackers.com
Not sure what you mean. Phusion Passenger 2.2 is already 1.9 compatible and has been for a long time now.