jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
While I agree that there are far worse conditions out there, I'd like to point out that ADHD falls in a spectrum; while for many people it's a quirk that can go undiagnosed for their entire lives, for some it's an almost crippling disorder, especially when combined with common comorbidities like depression and social anxiety.
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Amazon also places limits on all of its services. I would think one of the reasons for these default limits is to help with cases of abuse. You can learn more about them at http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws_service_lim...
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I would just install VR-Linux OS specially built for VR on PCs. Its fully real-time, that means zero frame-drops and no judder! Only problem is that it doesn't exist yet :(
Good luck. I can say I sympathize with the pain that applying consistent logical principals can have on beliefs. The longer you have believed something, and the more intense the emotions around it are, the harder it is to give up on it. The more times you have defended your opinion, the more you feel you have to maintain it, you feel invested.

I would just point out that you owe zero loyalty to what you thought yesterday (or 30 seconds ago). Maintaining views despite new information and logic is just dogma. Once you make things dogma and they conflict, you can either be a hippocrit (which at least makes you self-aware) or create ridiculous tortured logic to try to self-justify (which seems to be what you are asking for help with?) -- both are problematic, and IMHO harmful.
You're completely missing the point. He's saying that for everyone's sake, contextualizing the numbers improves the quality of everyone's understanding and helps determine the actual significance of the news. You and I both would benefit, not just him.
There was a schism the best part of 15 years ago now.
I concur with that assessment 100%. It's quite shaming how it's all been handled. Even worse, I've had to take German citizenship to keep my European internet domains.
It’s not a given but when it happens it can be relentless. GitHub added the block feature after some outbursts where some crank just wouldn’t give up.

It also happens more when people decide someone doesn’t belong in the field: if you’re visibly a white male your odds are pretty low. I’ve heard more a few accounts of how the tone changes from “I found a bug” or “I don’t like this change” to “who told you that you were good enough to be a developer”.
They 3d print well if you have a good printer. I've seen designs that use standard size computer fans, which make them cheap and easy.
Oh wow, thank you Beej for this work and content! Your resource has been a tremendous reference to many of us myself included and still stands as one of the best resources to network programming today!
I have no problems building the things I want using libraries based on Cats Effect.
I've taught myself to almost automatically find the reject all-option (which they must provide to be compliant).
I had the dyson fan with the heater and filter for a short time, as well as a medify. I was disappointed with both, and returned them.

The dyson looked cool, but the heat function was kinda useless unless you sat right next to it. i might get another one without the heat.

The medify seemed to work well, but it felt like it was poorly made. I kept thinking I could probably diy something just as good. Though the main reason I returned it was because the advertising claimed it came with two sets of filters, when it only came with one.

I bought both of these last year after almost a decade of wanting to get an air filter, and not doing it. The whole industry feels like a scam. This is why I stopped shaving 20 years ago.
In France white collars usually don't work 35h/week.
We usually sign 'day contracts' with almost no time limits. On the plus side it is true we have additional days off, usually around 12/per year and if we don't have enough work we can even work less than 7h/day. I don't know any company that leaves you out of work though.
In 2014/2015 I worked on an insane project where the estimated delivery date was far far too optimistic. I worked around 9~10h/day all week long sometimes on the weekend too.
If I didn't have a 2 months break because I broke my ankle in the mountains I would have gone nuts. After this experience I told myself 'never again'.

Just to complete the story at some point we were referring to this project as the 'cursed project'.
The project manager (who made the original estimates) went 2 months to the hospital with a serious depression at the beginning (he had priors). The surrogate acting project manager was at some point on the verge of psychological breakdown and became a heavy smoker. I (lead dev) broke my foot on my first day of summer vacation. One business analyst was hit by a car (survived but multiple fractures). Another dev had an unexplained swollen feet problem (2 weeks off, probably stress). Another dev, external contractor, was terminated because 'he lost the sparkles in his eyes'. And due to the insade delivery rate, sometimes 2 delivery in production per day, one of the ops got burnt out and eventually resigned.
> Then we can have stuff like sidebars, status areas, code lenses, etc. that behave like modern editors

What's stopping you from doing that in emacs now? That sounds like a bunch of stuff we can already have?
I've heard from people, including my wife, that Aspartame causes cancer. We had a 'discussion' earlier about supplements where I argued that I wouldn't spend money on anything that didn't have scientific studies to show a statistically significant impact by the supplement.

It really bothers me when people trust more in word-of-mouth than they do in science.
I don't think this is reason enough for downvoting, but I'm not sure how "he would have already spent time in the military if he was Israeli" is relevant. Nothing that he says implies that he hasn't spent time in the military.
Stanford made his money in railroads, not necessarily in the most seemly way, but hardly a drug. He did own wineries in Northern CA, but I was under the impression that those came much later. Are they what you were referring to?
Manual memory management, no MOP, etc.
Agree fully. I see it as replacing a short-term problem with a long-term one, unless you find a really good partner. Many, aren't.
You know, if we would prefer that people not judge presentations/companies/etc. according to the race of the person they see (or anything else in the category of "outward appearances easily faked by bringing someone in"), then this sort of thing is really good. It confounds people who do make judgments based on outward appearances; it fools them out of their money, punishes them for their prejudices and induces them to change.
This post explores the phenomenon of URL shorteners, discusses the potential impact of the recent announcement by Twitter (a favorite site of mine) to rewrite all links shared through the service, and makes a few specific recommendations on how to improve on these implementations.

What a god-awful way to start a post. Nothing of interest to hook the mind.

What is a URL shortener?

You've all seen short URLs before — the links to tinyurl.com, bit.ly, wp.me, etc., recently popularized as a workaround to fit more content into smaller spaces, most notably within Twitter's 140 character limits. URL shorteners work by taking any arbitrary URL (which can contain hundreds of characters or more) and creating a new URL, typically only a handful of characters plus the short domain name, and returning a 301 or a 302 HTTP response code that redirects the browser from the short URL to the original.

More factual pointlessness. There is nothing whatsoever that is interesting in that second paragraph.

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3.5 thousand words written in that style? No thanks.

Writing is designed to be read by people. If you have a point, present it digestibly or keep it to yourself.
Obama's "HOPE" poster seems like a great example.
3.6ms? Your reaction time increases from about 500ms to about 503.6ms? I'm amazed they were able to measure that at all — it must have been a huge study — but why should we care? Too bad the article didn't link to the paper.
Do not count on continued US complicity, especially if the "synergy" is unintentional. Remember that the United States and the Soviet Union did joint surveys for petroleum exploration in the Persian Gulf. It did not exactly herald a period of international cooperation.
This is incorrect, in the U.S., at least, grass fed marketing claims can only be used when the steer is exclusively fed on grass:
http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/ams.fetchTemplateData.do?tem...
I recently re-read Neuromancer this year as part of my VR research, and while it basically had no technical relevance, it stood head and shoulders above the rest (Snow Crash, etc) as a literary work, and if you rework some numbers/treat as slang the few bits of technical flavor ("three megabytes of hot RAM"!!!) it actually doesn't feel very dated to me - mostly due to just how clear/strong the writing is.

I was surprised by how strongly it evokes this sort of late-80s oppressive paranoia though. A reminder/argument for science fiction as a lens on contemporary society I suppose.
Isn't this the company that released press photos of a phone whose camera --- the actual supposed real-life physical camera --- was the icon from Apple's photo app?
Great explanation and I think you are right for Java, Kotlin, etc.
But what about dynamic languages on the JVM such as GraalJS, groovy, etc?
Hmmm. There was a comment somewhere last week that due to the closeness of the polls, that the French Establishment would start a smear campaign against Le Pen before the run-off to ensure a Macron re-election.

And, right on time, here it comes. Politics is a very dirty business.
Except he is wrong. It is very real.
Let me rephrase.

Given a Tech document that addresses the risk of change, the rollback plan, the security implications etc, and a suite of metrics demonstrating load and failure conditions with appropriate alerting. And of course the PR with appropriate test suite, shown to work in a test environment in concert with the rest of the ecosystem, that stuff is just table sakes. convince a director to approve the change. Ideally a director that doesn't report to the same vp as your org.
The courts just want someone other than the state to take care of the problem.

That's mostly it.
I had the impression people don’t move from the US to Europe because they speak only English. In Berlin I’ve met many that gave up because of the language barriers.

On the other side, I have friends regretting their move to the US - citing a workaholic culture, high living costs, lot of cars and shopping, no safety, etc.
"Kill yourself" or some proxy, that's an objectively evil gutless thing to say. I've had people say some very insulting things to me in recent memory, but the last time someone said "kill yourself" to me she was a sad-sack in her mid-teens. Therefore I associate it with being extremely immature, depressed, and severely separated from reality. When I think that one of the people out there who has been mean to me might have already offed themselves, I have to ask myself "Who's out there for these people? Probably nobody". I wish I could gently pull people out of the attitude, but I'd probably come across like some wannabe camp counsellor.
Neither is personal finance, and this has more to do with that than policy.

The point that people should be taking away for their personal use is not to leap into home ownership without seriously considering their circumstances and rationale for doing so.

Saying anything about programming tends to cause more fractious conversations than musing on economics.

I care only what HN thinks about the subject in this case anyway. If an off-topic HN existed, I'd leap to it.

A lot of what this community is about is seeking an approach to managing their lives and goals in a way that may not be popular.

Like running their own business/startup.

This is just another side to the same coin, about reconsidering home ownership from a different point of view.

Both have an impact on your career and finances.

I chose to focus on poverty because I needed a way to drive the point home.

I'd be happy to accept editorial recommendations.

Edit: This highly political thread seems to be doing just fine. http://hackerne.ws/item?id=2039503
Having a packaging system at the core of the OS distribution has some great benefits. When a new Mac OS X comes out, don't you just hate having to wait for DVDs from Apple or making a trip to the Apple store? A packaging system would allow you to do a live upgrade as soon as the new version is out. (Note: I am fully aware that a package system is not necessary for this but think it is the most elegant solution for this problem). The other matter is of course software installation and upgrades. There is no reason in today's day and age for you to remember that Photoshop comes from adobe.com or wait for their DVDs by mail. Most applications can quit adding new version checkers too: why bother when the package system does it for you? Lastly, the package manager could also handle payments. Why bother building your own solution when a central one exists (or would exist)?
From the site guidelines:

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon

The political left and right have been arguing about the causes of poverty and the distribution of wealth for the last fifty years. This is not hacker news.
Clearly the solution is for a politician to marry into wealth...
Donald Knuth's Christmas Tree Lecture 2010:
http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/seminars/knuth/101206-kn...
Ah, but this isn't about income, it's about wealth. The two are very different; there are plenty of people in the bottom quintile of wealth earning six figure salaries.
You know I understand the motive behind Hollywood's attempts to propel the story with flashy interfaces and completely bogus mechanics behind a 'hacking the mainframe', but there are times where attempts to engage the audience go from "an honest attempt to blur the line between fantasy story telling and a surreal experience meant to obfuscate the non-geeks" to complete and total cruft (pun intended).

Even after seeing the movie Hackers a thousand and one times, Swordfish still remains my all-time favorite offender.

And apparently the motion graphics artists who create those interface animations are paid a killing. Maybe I'm in the wrong industry?
On the other hands, they are needier, because you just realized they are much less wealthy than you previously thought. So much less wealthy that you cannot conceive of living on that amount of wealth. If they are at the 20th percentile, they earn 5 times less than you at the 80th percentile[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_...
Another reference: I'm getting about $30/month for 60K pageviews/month to www.developingandstuff.com – definitely not serious cash, just a nice incentive.
It's a slightly worrying grey area. If a generator only has 2 possible combinations of all its various settings, claiming authorship of the output is clearly absurd. If it has 16 trillion possible combinations, maybe less so.

Where do you draw the line? If people can copyright a bunch of settings, does that prevent people from using the generator with randomized parameters in case they accidentally hit a lawsuit?
I was thinking this would be fantastic for reading textbooks or code documentation. My eyes get fatigued after reading for any length on a tablet or lcd, but a traditional ebook reader is far too slow and small for scanning through textbooks.
Unlike many martial arts practices today, there is a very real chance that most of the techniques in HEMA have been used extensively by real soldiers in real life and death combat. By any reasonable definition that should place it as far under the banner of martial arts as you can get.
It is very "close to the metal".
The economics of private ad sales have gotten worse in the last view years, particularly for the bigger sites.

The big thing in online advertising is "retargeting" which means that a bunch of systems in NYC built by people who have burned out of HFT will bid for ads in real time with the consequence that you will look at a pair of shoes on Zappos and the shoes will follow you around for days.

Retargeting has the benefits that: (i) you're more sure people have some interest in the product, and (ii) the results are quantifiable. Spend has moved away from premium venues towards retargeting which is good if you have a bottom feeding site (they can show a relevant ad even if nothing matches the content of the page) and bad if you have a premium site.
I couldn't disagree more.

Walnut is an example of what happens when amateurs move into an industry without understanding the fundamentals or doing sufficient dillagence.

There is no reason that Co-op workers and IT can't be paid market rates.
Exchange ActiveSync is also available as a beta feature.

Wow! Anyone tried this? How's your mileage?
> It's the principle not working perfectly, which is perhaps not ideal, but is far less end-of-our-democracy than this tries to make it sound.

When Civil War is being unironically thrown around by pundits, elected officials and the electorate itself, I don't think we should be saying any problem is not "end-of-our-democracy" worthy.

One of the few things both sides agree on is feeling that their votes don't count and that their beliefs are not represented. Whether this perception is based in reality or fantasy is irrelevant; the fact that so many who disagree on so much agree on this gives it credibility in my mind.
Haha thanks for posting. I was reluctant to share here due to the limited amount of "hacking" involved -- but glad you liked it!
I know it's the only reason why I'm still with them, that's for sure. This new move definitely solidifies my choice.
I never used Krita before today-- trying it out, it made me realize how much I love MyPaint.

(NOTE: I'm mostly a pen-and-ink illustrator who's very much a novice in the digital realm)

MyPaint, though, makes it really easy to toy around with one hand on the keyboard with nice one-stroke shortcuts. I'm totally able to make a drawing with one hand on the keyboard and one hand on the tablet.

The minimalist interface for MyPaint is really terrific. I can't recommend it enough...
Tab navigation is sometimes inconsistant with the greater purpose of an app. You need some tabs, but also something else sometimes.
A million is probably still small compared to what they would make off a revolutionary algorithm (and significantly smaller than MS would make off a better spellcheck), but at least it's enough to quit your job and do what you want for a while.

10k is nothing. It's an insult to the work that would go into an improvement.
If HN ran on Heroku, it would be trivial to add search to it...
>Leon Walker told the Free Press he routinely used the computer and that she kept all of her passwords in a small book next to the computer.

Wish I had skills like that. I wonder where he was trained to hack computers, I'd love to reach that level some day.
> Instead, I think that I am able to separate my identity from my work. Perhaps it is a defense mechanism at its core.

I think this is the core of egoless programming; this, to me, has been the hardest thing to learn.
"wonderful skills" = able to open and read the notebook of written passwords she kept beside the computer.
A recent ruling in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the government must get a warrant to read stored emails [1]. The opinion was in large part based on the "fundamental similarities between email and traditional forms of communication" [2]. Having established that the 4th amendment does indeed apply to email, the question is how the 4th amendment works between spouses. In Burdeau v. McDowell the Supreme Court ruled that "the origin and history [of the Fourth Amendment] clearly show that it was intended as a restraint upon the activities of sovereign authority, and was not intended to be a limitation upon other than governmental agencies" [3]. Further, in the Supreme Court ruled that (emphasis mine) "[the Fourth Amendment] does not apply to a search or seizure, even an unreasonable one, effected by a private individual not acting as an agent of the Government or with the participation or knowledge of any governmental official." [4] Thus I'm not sure under what legal basis reading your spouse's email could be considered a crime (although ethically it is reprehensible).

(Note, no training as a lawyer. Just interested in the law.)

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/12/breaking-news-eff-vict...

[2] https://www.eff.org/files/warshak_opinion_121410.pdf

[3] http://supreme.justia.com/us/256/465/case.html

[4] http://supreme.justia.com/us/447/649/case.html
Prosecutors can charge people with all sorts of things. I seriously doubt this will stick.

I have a friend who is politically active around a certain cause -- the details are not important -- and I've noticed that he receives an "update" every day or two with the most outlandish sorts of news. Of course, in a country of 300+ million, odds are something unusual are going on every day. To read the accounts as he does suggests there is some vast conspiracy at work. But to take an honest look at the numbers just shows that, given the randomness of people's behavior, every once in a million times something happens that would piss him off. The rest is just a result of the large number of people and the efficiency of the reporting systems involved.

So I'm assuming that new law isn't being explored, and this is just another example of this phenomenon I've noticed with my friend. What I'm interested in, however, is how the prosecutor came up with the idea to criminally charge him? Did the wife file criminal charges on her own (which I suspect)? I can't imagine this being an issue that the state would have any interest in pursuing. Part of a lame-brain divorce lawyer's case, sure, but not a matter of law enforcement.

Of course, I'm not a lawyer and don't even play one on TV, so whatever you do, don't put any trust in any legal analysis I might give.
As a parent, I'd argue that one can't 'make' a child a fan of anything.
I smell an opportunity for a "readability" style bookmarklet using a monospaced font and a blinking cursor at the bottom of the screen. F11 gets rid of the browser chrome and you're set.
I would check out Oh-My-ZSH on GitHub (https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh). This makes it very quick and painless to get ZSH set up.

As for any problems, I didn't really face any. I'm not a system admin so bash wasn't a big part of my day to day. I can still run bash scripts in ZSH (because of the shebang line) and there wasn't anything in my bash_profile that could not be converted. Because of this, there was hardly anything to stopping me using ZSH.

But check out oh-my-zsh it's a good starting point which I found soon after I had set up my own configuration and I now use it too.