jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
FYI, in English, "news" is singular, e.g. "I saw a politician shouting on the news", so it should be "Romanian news is" (and I think it should also have a "the").

I know this makes no sense and in other languages "news" has both singular and plural but that's English for you.
The link appears to be some sort of live news feed and right now unrelated stuff about covid, articles of impeachment, and Trump's power to launch nukes is dominating the page, you really have to scroll to get to the laptop story

I think this is the direct link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/jan/08/donald-...

The "story" is also really just a link to this tweet: https://twitter.com/Drew_Hammill/status/1347598063620206592?...
A Better Way to Take Out the Garbage?

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/a-better-way-to-t...
FYI, Thomas searches time out after 30 min; can you give a direct cite to the congressional record or a permalink? (Click Share/Save, e.g., "http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.uscongress/legislation.111hr4259)

Good news, but yeah, would love to see exactly the bill that you are referring to. Thanks!
Cheers for the clarification, clearly my knowledge is pretty UK biased :)
> Someone who talks about the enter key firing off an interrupt that the keyboard device driver handles and puts into a message queue for the windowing system's event loop to handle is a low-level desktop OS person.

Or someone with a background in electronics.
Actually; I really liked it.

Yes, there are parts that could improve. And, yes, I don't think it is marketed right.

But there is a wealth of opportunity and information in the app and the social aspect has potential. I'm not a big iPhone app user but I could actually see myself using this given the right motivation :)
I haven't been able to find an academic study specifically looking at software engineering or tech jobs, but there are other studies I've seen that send out identical resumes (with just the name changed) suggesting that men are generally perceived to be more competent.

Science faculty reading resumes for a "laboratory manager" position prefer the male candidate
http://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16474.abstract

Academic psychologists are more likely to suggest hiring the male candidate
http://advance.cornell.edu/documents/ImpactofGender.pdf
http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6211
Congratulation with the launch and thanks for sharing the details. I think it was very impressive and show that you are very skilled at starting things.

I don't know how you manage to keep 100's of products alive at once, but as an end-consumer I would worry about the long-term viability when the owner of the product I'm investing in and planning to rely on is run by a guy who say he is more interested in starting companies than running them - which is exactly what your about-page sounds like.

nit-pick: front page of sports tracker spells built with two i's ;)
My employer does enterprise consulting in Fortune 500 companies, the developer stacks and architecture designs we sometimes end up doing, chosen by architects, end up in what is usually called "space station architecture".
If you're a python developer, http://www.tdd-django-tutorial.com/ is an excellent resource.
If she went to Sweden she would be sent back to Spain for asylum processing, there is a treaty that a refugee in EU is the responsibility of the arrival country. One of the reasons that Sweden can be generous, it's hard to get here directly.
I believe the element that you're looking for is <picture>, which will be shipping with a future version of Chrome.

http://picture.responsiveimages.org/#examples
>I'd encourage you to set up shop as an entrepreneur, consultant, or ISV. Then you will a.) get to keep all of the wealth you create (well, minus taxes - damn you Uncle Sam) and b.) get a true idea of how much wealth you actually create.

Or you know, you'll get an inflated idea of how much you "actually" created, just because you get to tell people what to do, and belittle their contributions because, after all you are in charge.
... because they bought Apple :-)
Thanks for the links. I should read up on that. So the privacy argument is false.
> The reason we income instead of wealth, is that wealth can go up and down without the owner seeing any benefit.

I don't think a wealth tax is the right solution, a person that holds wealth definitely does derive a benefit from that wealth -> in the form of control (of a company), collateral (borrowing money at sub-inflation rates), and influence.
Er, why? The choice isn't between sunlight and no glyphosphate and glyphosphate and no sunshine, so there is no real reason to compare them except to make irrelevant propaganda points.
And a few months after this was published... he died.

That might have been related to the fact that he was 83. b^)
That good samaritan is reads Hacker News. ;)
Yes - the essays have to be printed, on a paper measured by inches, not characters.
Kosher, at least, is not a standard for "ritual slaughter of animals", but a dietary standard. Kosher meat rules require fairly humane methods of animal slaughter, whereas captive-bolt stunners are the rug under which many factory-farms try to sweep their treatment of animals at slaughter-time.

As for halal, I'm not as familiar, but due to the level of ignorance you've shown on kosher, I'm going to have to call shenanigans and say "citation needed".
We're taking one step at a time. First we'll give you metrics to help you decide when to scale up or down. Eventually we'll offer to take that decision for you, with a configurable ceiling.

In our experience, for most customers 10-second manual scaling is just as good as auto-scaling.
Yes I did click on the link.

The fact that the RSS stories displayed is irrelevant - that is data and not UI. Only looking at design elements:
First screen shot:

Black bar across the top - that is presumably from the OS so doesn't count.

Overall layout: both have a navigation bar at the left (fairly standard for RSS readers), similar width (but there is probably an optimal width, and this may be it), the bar is a different colour but on the grey-black range in both cases (probably determined more by the platform). Both have a refresh toolbar button at the bottom - this placement is common for RSS feed readers. Some of the icons and icon placements are similar - how unique this is to the design depends on how common the icon placement is. It is certainly not a blatant copy with no changes, however - some of the positions have changed, and some icons seem to be different.

In terms of the layout of the right-hand side pane with the content, that is completely different. The date is displayed differently, and is repeated on each story in Reeder. The bullet point layout is different, and the MobileRSS version has images.

So it has some similar design elements, most of which are not particularly unique to Reeder, and some differences. They may well have taken some inspiration from their competitor, but they have also made some changes of their own - in other words, the article seems to be a beat-up of legitimate competition. I suspect the free publicity is probably going to end up helping MobileRSS more than it hinders them.
Freedom Phone comes with Newsmax and OANN apps pre-installed. This takes red flags to a whole new level.

https://www.freedomphone.com/
Huh, didn't know that upped that. Guess I missed that with everything else happening in the world.

Speeding is the normal, definitely. And funny that I have seen traffic flowing faster during rush hour, when everyone is going well over. And then mid day you have someone from out of state passing through slowing everyone else down.
Comments saying that this is naive seem to be completely missing the point in their desire to cynically defend a miserable state of affairs: clients, and not Twitter's servers, should ultimately determine what users see. Like the web browser or an email client.

The fact that we calculate precisely what users see on their devices on servers is a result of the architectural constraints of the time, and more importantly, the ad model of monetizing social networks.

If social networks were not monetized in this way, there would be far more power allocated to clients and APIs.

This isn't to say user devices can do everything: they can't. But can easily be given significant power to filter, reorder, and request different content — and with more advanced engineering, allow users to parameterize feeds.

The reason we can't have this is that allowing this degree of user choice undermines the ads model.
We validate email address by making sure it is valid. There are many APIs available in the market that they will connect to the mail server to check if the account exists.
May I ask which kind of performance bottleneck did you see in Lisp? And do you mind expanding on which characteristics make you immediately think Lisp is a toy language?
Are they covered up by warrantee stickers, etc? If not, then putting them under the battery is a signal to consumers to not remove/exchange when the device is on, like a SIM card. Non-technical people seem pretty adept at changing SIM cards, why would they think memory is any different?

[Yes, yes, removing the SIM while in operation won't hose the typical phone's OS, yada-yada-yada.]
Airforce-1 doesn't have this.
The ideal solution (neither SVG or CSS) should be to use appropriate Unicode characters, of which there are very useful ones added in Unicode 6.0. The very first icon, "search", can be done with U+1F50D LEFT-POINTING MAGNIFYING GLASS. Of course most users will not have appropriate fonts installed for comprehensive Unicode 6.0 coverage, so you should deploy a custom font using @font-face that suits your site. For example, the search box on my personal website uses LEFT-POINTING MAGNIFYING GLASS and a custom font I made that defines a simple magnifying glass much like the one in this demo.
...because it derives from the old English word "worc" from before the year 900?
So, I agree with you in large part. The instructor failed his students. By pulling questions out of a test-bank that would likely be available (and obviously was) to his students, he both signaled too high a level of accomplishment to those students who had the exam, as well as too low (in comparison) to those who didn't have the exam.

I think the ethical lines that were crossed by the students were more clear if the students realized that _the exact questions_ had been found on a test they had studied from. If there were students who realized that they had studied from the same test, then that is where they had a personal responsibility to stand up and say "Hey - This isn't fair. I've already _seen_ these questions, I had an advance copy of the exam."

Nobody is saying this was an unspeakable wrong. It was the moral equivalent of keeping an extra twenty that your ATM machine accidentally disbursed to you. It's the rare individual that goes into the bank to report the error, but it's the right thing to do.
Actually, my original statement was based off the reappearing theme in many governments of "shoot the messenger". They're model was wrong and they didn't want to see what the correction was. I actually really had no comment on the populace in general and it seems they had their own disagreements.

For the purpose of the article (and my comment) it really doesn't matter how the populace felt. My second comment had some snark due to your "idiotic statements" comment. But, there is a lot of reported history of purges, removal from film (had an article right here on HN about that), and exile of people whose opinions didn't jive with the current regime.
That needs more explaination.

This is a better example, I think:
http://docs.python.org/library/csv.html
Portland federal courthouse.
Very disturbing example of censorship and de-platforming. The rationale for permanent ban seems both reactionary and subjective.

The scant analysis provided under the "Assessment" stretches the words and context of the tweet to imbue it with the most uncharitable meaning possible.

This should be dismaying to non-political and political citizens alike, as well as supporters and non-supporters of this individual. I believe this because subduing your opposition with force (whether it be physical or social) is never an honorable way to triumph.
Or even more simply, by blowing up the stack. If you manage to do 2^40 calls deep without blowing up the stack, you have TCE, if you do blow up the stack, you don't.

And you can tell if you blew up the stack by setting up an exception handler (or lisp condition or whatever equivalent).
This is more akin to Amtrak kicking out half the people on the train who already purchased tickets.
Yes, an Elon and his brother owned debt in SolarCity both personally and through other business ventures (SpaceX owned $100 mn in SolarCity debt at the time).
It's not quite that simple; it's not zero-sum. Whacking one mole breaks up recruitment and kills momentum. People on the fringes lose interest and don't bother to find out where the core moved to.
When the next mole comes up it's smaller and more divided, so you whack that one, and again, smaller, more peripheral, less momentum. That gives people who have peeled off a chance to get re-integrated into more sane communities rather than being bathed in constant toxicity, so they crawl back from radicalisation. At least, that's how it works below a certain size, and is why it's worth doing these things early, before they get to the_donald sort of numbers.
Yeah shame and shun anyone that won’t take responsibility for their actions.
Forget Donald Trump for the moment.

If Social Media has just demonstrated that they have more power than the President of the United States, something is seriously flawed.
Apple doesn’t censor Safari.
The planned and deliberate indiscriminate killing of civilians. Not possession of zip ties.

It was a political demonstration that erupted into spontaneous violence, which we've already been seeing for months. I don't want it to be justification for further authoritarianism.

But apparently everybody else does now.
This is an incredible site, I just read http://www.seriouseats.com/2010/04/cook-your-meat-in-a-beer-... on a whim and am trying it tonight.

Very cool.
Lot of attention to details. I liked the part where due attention was given to those without a temperature controlled water bath. Awesome!
Agreed that we need to deal with this matter quickly. Thank you for your advice.
Thank you for the perspective. It makes sense.
Interesting that all the paths involve selling the company. What about generating $5M for yourself through sales of the company's products instead of a sale of the company itself?
One other thing is that Tax man takes ~25% (capital gains)
I just taught my sister to code. Started out by talking to her about different kinds of projects/things that can be accomplished using programming. Once she had a grasp of what all can be done, she told me about what she wanted to do. She wanted to build a website to track food. Sent her to https://dash.generalassemb.ly/ to get started. After finishing that, she has now started googling specific tutorials and building the site on her own.
I don't think they're that similar. Tor doesn't actually enable harm the way that guns do, and it certainly doesn't do it as specifically as guns do. Guns enable you to shoot things, and that's pretty much all they can do. Tor doesn't enable you to abuse a child, and it's capable of much more. Nobody abuses a child through Tor — they commit the abuse in person. Tor is sometimes used to access the artifacts of that abuse, but the core harm is unrelated to Tor and does not occur through it.
That's so jar. No really, I had a friend who tried to make "jar" the new "cool". It didn't catch on. But you're probably right. I could see a market for the notoriety, or at least self-satisfaction, of being the one who coined a popular term or phrase.
I can't give actual example code (proprietary, company confidential, blah blah blah). So I'm going to have to come up with some fake example.

[Thinking...]

How about a robotic hand that's supposed to pick up a ball. The (C/C++) code might look like :

void pickUpBall()
{
openHand();
moveHandToBall();
closeHand();
}

You have to have that sequence. If the hand isn't open, moving it to the ball just bumps the ball away. If you close the hand before you move to the ball, you don't pick up the ball, you just close on air.

So, in Haskell (if I had the hardware control libraries), I could put that in a monad to guarantee the sequence, and in an IO monad so that I could do things that had side effects like affecting the external world. But in fact I get both of those for free, just by not writing it in Haskell. (The pure functional nature of Haskell also doesn't do much for me in this situation. Yes, for the functions that can in fact be purely functional, it can make them easier to reason about and prove correct. But that isn't the difficult part of the code.)

Composability: It's unclear to me how you're going to compose something like this in any way that's a) useful in this environment and b) dramatically different from simply making a higher-level function that calls pickUpBall() and some other functions.
I have to disagree with you, but remember this is my own milage. :)

C++/C#/Java, less so Ruby, are really all kind of the same, OO languages, 3 statically typed and one not. But basically, they use similar ideas with different syntactical sugar.

I've recently moved to using Clojure/Lisp and I kid you not when not just the language but the tooling allows me to be an order of magnitude more effective when shipping production code.

I'm basically ruined, and now find it hard to get a job because I refuse to code in any other language. Because I want to be able to: spend time with the family, walk the dog, go surfing at 6am every morning, go to live jazz....._and_ still make sure I ship quality stuff on time. Clojure/Lips lets me do this :)

I loved the article because it was basically everything I've realised in the last decade; I am way more effective in one particular set of tools than another, and I don't want to have to learn python or Go or whatever, and all their associated libraries, community and quirks. I just want to use the shit I know and go do something else with my life :)

This is MHO and like I said milage will vary.

Oh about the job thing, I decided to start my own company so I could build it how I know I will be best able to do it.
1) Yes, I submitted appeal request and now my blog is restored. But that made me think about how much I can trust blogger... Probably not too much.
2) Why do you think it was keywords section? Do you think spam filters don't like keywords and are able to recognize such section?
This seems insane - these guys have sold, what, 2000 models at the most? And they would be even worse off the instant all of their government subsidies dry up.

Their innovation may be remarkable, but the fact is that they make a product which isn't economically feasible without a lot of help from taxpayers doesn't bode well for the long-term health of the company.
> And even though Mac mini is ultracompact, there’s no shortage of ports.

I don't see any eSATA ports.
True, for external sites.

But for internal sites, storing my framework with my app lets my local web server cache it, instead of forcing users to traverse the network and go outside our firewall to Google's CDN.
According to the article, Musk owns at least 28.8% of Tesla, which is about to go public. He's not having money troubles; he's having divorce troubles. Surely his claims of the former are to help him with the latter.
+1 vote for keeping it real! :)
ibm's watson is still up to no good
Well sometimes they can talk about it, but only in a language approved by Steve Jobs.
In your specific case, the only clear "dumb" redundancies are the wildfire and legend (the differences seem trivial). And yes, I agree, it makes little sense for HTC to be making such similar models.

The Desire is the flagship (to htc), the tattoo is the low-end budget and the legend/wildfire is mid-range.

All of the other models HTC makes seem to be due to deals with carriers/other companies. The Nexus One is a google-branded phone sans sense. The Sprint hero had changes from the regular due to Sprint. The last goes on.

I imagine HTC is somewhat forced into this position. They don't have enough market power, so if a carrier wants something different, they generally have to comply.
By sheer bulk, his point is that quotations from people who were there are more interesting than an "IIRC".
Ha! Me too! I asked a librarian at my university to fetch me "whatever they had on Perl" (this was my first incursion into the interpreted language world) and the librarian came back to me with this. Imagine my surprise when I started reading the book over the weekend (only then I noticed the title said 'Pearls' not 'Perl').

Forward 10 years, I have a copy in my bookshelf and read a chapter every now and then just to keep myself real. I've completely (and happily) forgotten everything about Perl though.
But this is what I was told the future would be when I was a kid.
Instead of websites deploying reverse-proxies to tunnel ads through, Google has entire websites tunnel through their edge via AMP. Wouldn't surprise me if BigTech gets together and introduces standards that open up more avenues for CDNs to take away even more control and monetize the traffic they serve, on their terms.

Google has pretty much checkmated content-blockers in that they control the servers, the OS, and the clients used by an overwhelming majority internet users and service providers, alike.
Are these synonymous with prairie oysters?
Meijer (US megastore retailer that competes against Walmart in the American midwest, though generally has slightly higher prices and higher quality items) has introduced this recently with app-based self-checkout, and it's picking up adoption at a fairly quick pace.

Another huge regional grocer, HEB, does this in Texas with their largest and most upscale stores, and it's been a norm for nearly a decade.
It feels like there's a common thread between whistleblowers working for Elon Musk and retaliation to their personal lives.

https://old.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/c7pmaf/yes_...
In my experience most of the vegan evangelists are not pragmatists
"...who are putting their careers on the line working for a no name company that may fail any day"

If you're talking about software engineers, I don't think there's much risk there other than opportunity cost. When a company folds, other startups generally swarm pretty quickly to snatch up the team.

Chris is absolutely right that there are two types of people in the world, but isn't necessarily saying there aren't THREE types of people in the world. Or a whole spectrum. But his point stands-- a founder suffers through everything this post describes PLUS working for free/debt for months.
They only talk about the unencrypted credit card data available to the console, not to PSN. This chat happened weeks before whoever gained access into PSN's network. Basically the same thing as pointing out the flaws in someone storing their passwords in a plain text file on their desktop. It isn't secure, but you'd have to get access to the single machine before you could get anywhere else.

I agree. This isn't much for "news".

I am, however, curious on the repercussions of the current hack of other services tied to the PSN network, like Netflix, that aren't directly gaming related. Do you think it will make companies give pause to developing dedicated clients for 3rd party services on game consoles that rely on the manufacturer of the console to maintain a network outside of the 3rd parties control?
I stand corrected. That seems onerous. Not sure all parts of that would stand up in court, if that's a civil company (non-TLA gov't dept't).

Seriously, to my non-lawyer ears, that sounds more like CYA/intimidation than enforceable contract. (more or less like those signs at parking garages where they absolve themselves of liability with a sign saying so).