jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Didn't mean to imply that they are the same ABI, sorry. Just that they're both "What's commonly known as the C ABI".
That’s so true, trucks and SUVs like the Mercedes G Wagon, the Ford Raptor (the F150’s rowdy cousin) and maybe even the Range Rover HSE are typical Veblen Goods. They do really well in urban areas specifically because they are over-engineered and are overkill for the purpose they are used for and are not afraid to show it off. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Cybertruck does well for the exact same reason.
Thanks for encouraging me to be more precise in my examples. Looking at the rest of this thread, I can see my mistake.

Ironically, I thought this would be a better choice than a Brexit/the EU example.
Why is this a standard being uniquely applied to Facebook? There are ads for x-ray glasses in magazines. The are commercials for security products with many lies running on all the cable news networks.

I tend the think the source of the lie is the thing that should be attacked. Who has the most responsibility here: the advertiser for lying, the network for showing the lie, the ISP for delivering the content with a lie, the laptop for displaying the lie?
Understood the first time but am I being singled out here? I see lots of comments spewing unsubstantiated nationalistic hate and I don't see them getting flagged/banned. Those comments are getting left up and leaving the argument totally unbalanced. At least when I comment I make an attempt to link to (legit mainstream) sources and explain in a rational way.
There is literally a mirror in the moon you can get a reflection from it you know where to look. Mom landing hoaxers don't need evidence to believe what they believe.
quote of the month: “Code, in itself, is not an asset. A solved problem is an asset.”
Oh yes, I'm going to try and see if they have data on me and send a number of GDPR requests if they do. For others from the EU, it's very easy to do using: https://www.mydatadoneright.eu/request
I remember the GOOD OLD DAYS(TM) where I had to pay to upgrade Mac OSX, iOS, and paid monthly for MobileMe. You know what? That just worked.

Now it is all free and 99% Jankytown. Apple, take my damned money and give me my productivity and happiness back!
I bought it off eBay a few weeks ago.

As to why - sitting in front of emacs with a clicky model M keyboard produces a very different frame of mind. I am more focused and more deliberate in what I type (one doesn't just type ls /usr/bin on such a thing). Although it's by no means my primary computing device, I do find myself going down there for at least a little while on most days. It is a pleasant break, a change of scenery, a different mental state.

I got it, and my vt420 and vt510, after thinking about the bifurcated nature of computing history. Although I started with computers in the 80s, it was the PC side of things. The Unix/"big iron" simply wasn't accessible to many in those days. I have spent decades doing work day in, day out in what amounts to a fancy vt510 emulator (xterm). I wanted to use the real thing. Also it got my son to play zork with me.

I wrote about it here: https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10013-connecting-a-p...

and here: https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10031-resurrecting-a...
Their goal for Israel: a democratic, two-state solution that provides for the security of everyone living in Israel and Palestine.

https://www.adl.org/news/op-ed/dont-destroy-the-two-state-so...

Sure, they might have a bit of a blind spot that makes them overly favorable toward Israel, but in a sea of bad actors, they're one of the few groups acting in good faith.
Which is it? That they don't care, or they care but disagree?

The first seems to be pretty much the definition of "amoral".

"Lacking a moral sense; unconcerned with the rightness or wrongness of something."
I think the problem is that the US essentially spans from the arctic circle down close to the tropic of cancer - if you include Puerto Rico it extends past.

This provides a large number of environments within the US. It's hard to blame someone for not going through the colossal bullshit of an international crossing when you can simply drive or take a national flight to get to another environment.

In countries like the UK (where I'm from) people travel out of country on almost every holiday as you want to go somewhere different, but it's hard to do in the UK.

I think there's a stronger correlation between vertical size of the country and lack of international travel.
I think the author means traveling over large distances over extended periods of time - the whole "gap year" culture that is pretty standard behavior before/after University in the UK. This seems to have developed from things like Inter-Railing which I did 20 years ago.

Most people in their 20s that I know have had at least one extended period of traveling. I know a few people whose careers are effectively arranged around extended periods of traveling.
Yeah affiliate links seemed the right way, but I was also thinking about crawling the ads first, as it looks like some interesting data to have.

Of course money making would be a bit harder, but getting traction would be easier I think.

Actually, it should be validated and that seems to be the hardest point for me.
The key challenge is that if you're very good at technology and finance, you probably aren't in an internal IT job. You're much more likely to be in financial services or a technology company. This is why so many internal projects become a mess.
The times are off - says 01:00 GMT on the timer, but believe it was 01:00 PDT when Amazon began noticing issues.

"The errors, which started at 12:55AM PDT, began recovering at 2:55am PDT" http://status.aws.amazon.com/
Can I exchange them for one bitcoin?
That's actually this post (the fallacies link). :-)

And you make a good argument about handling read errors.

In practice that's not what high availability is about though, and it's certainly not what we're talking about with AWS, iSCSI or even an HA-NFS solution.

Availability in those terms is properly designed, redundant infrastructure. There are many cases I'm sure (say a Stock-Exchange) where HA-NFS would not be appropriate. In your average web-app however, request failures while transitioning to failover are (in my experience) just part of the bargain.

In that context, waiting 60 seconds for a stale NFS handle to pick a new connection up on the VRRPed failover node is acceptable, and like you said, you make assumptions and don't worry about the edge-case here.

There are clearly situations where NFS wouldn't work well, but those are definitely the exception to the rule. There are not a lot of reasons/scenarios where iSCSI couldn't or shouldn't replace local storage for virtualization needs however. In my opinion.

iSCSI is simple and extremely reliable. Perhaps even more reliable than local disks, especially if the primary concern is availability.

Frankly, I don't know that these rules are really something that applies at the level of a polished iSCSI or NFS stack. They certainly apply to the internals of those systems. While you or I aren't going to worry about wether a buffered-file-reader can fetch the next 8K block, that thought and engineering effort definitely has been put into these protocols and implementations at a lower level than you or I will typically work with.
I use dreamhost and never had a failure like the Amazon one.

It's an irony.
And that you found a WINNER. Don't let her get away :)
Perhaps not all countries have equivalent suicide hotlines, and thus they would not get such a notice?

Its really interesting how I feel really good about this use of data, but feel much more uncomfortable with (for example) using location data to tell me where to go to get pizza.
Reddit is a very good place to have a discussion with a small group of people -- thanks to the orangered envelope you get whenever someone replies to one of your posts. HN, by comparison, discussions last only as long as the link remains on the homepage. On reddit, I've had conversations go on for weeks.
Your source wouldn't need to be stored in a tree, necessarily. Files in your source code could be tagged with the module name they belong to.
Yeah... because "women and members of minority groups" is clearly an "equal opportunity".

It absolutely is. Men are a minority group, so "women and members of minority groups" includes everybody. ;-)
Don't take the money.

To do otherwise is saying you should choose to get paid to be sexist.
Without having actually read the paper yet (still downloading). I always feel like these sort of things are nice, but you still want a hierarchy underneath it all.

For example, I have a document which I want to put onto a USB stick for a friend. I have no idea how their search metaphor lets me do this. I search for the document, but now how do I "move" it? Does "moving" even make sense? Now I'm not doubting that they do have an answer for this, but is the answer something that will be easy to explain?

If you just start with hierarchy, and put a working search over the top of it, then it has a nice model that is easy to explain. All files have an address (like a URL), but if you don't know (or can't be bothered to type) the address, then you use the search box (like google).
I'm also surprised that the funding source requirement somehow makes this discrimination arms-reach and hence legal. If i was a millionaire homophobe, could i create a fund for positions that specified "no gays"?
Are there any studies available comparing development effort for the two approaches, using an existing tool vs. writing one's own? It is not obvious to me in how many percent cases the former is better.

I have many a times used an existing tool and after getting the thing to work, have come out with a feeling that it may have been easier to do it myself. I used Flex in a compilers course on Coursera, and getting the lexer to match the specifications took about full two days, which sounded too much for the specifications at hand in the assignment. I have written a CFG parser from scratch in less time (not to say that these two tasks are comparable from development effort point of view).
You definitely don't need $5000/mo. to pay bills in NYC, except maybe if you're trying to raise a family on your salary alone in a fancy neighborhood. I live very well on $2000/mo., and could easily cut that without excessive sacrifice by moving to a less happening neighborhood with a bit longer commute than my current 35 minutes (say: parts of Jersey City; Sunset Park or Ditmas Park, Brooklyn; Jackson Heights, Queens; Inwood, Manhattan; Riverdale, Bronx; Stapleton, Staten Island) and cooking more of my own food.
I wonder if a smaller rocket could have been repurposed to simply send extra supplies to the shuttle (or a repair kit) while they waited for rescue? Maybe a soyez?

Even if it couldn't dock with the shuttle, I wonder if it could match orbit and then do a space walk to retrieve the supplies?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSI-catcher
When I hear "drone delivery" I hear some PR guys spending $500 on a hobby drone, carrying a trivial weight a short distance within line-of-sight of a manual operator, then we don't hear any more about it.

Textbook drone delivery: http://pandodaily.com/2013/10/14/zookal-starts-world-first-d...

Cake drone delivery: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/1020621...

Pizza drone delivery: http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/dominos-tests-delivery-pizza-r...

Parcel delivery drones: http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57601531-76/drones-in-chin... http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/25/german-dhl...

Beer delivery drones: http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/branding/1561256/...

Taco delivery drones: http://tacocopter.com/

Burrito delivery drones: http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2012/12/17/burrito-bo...

Sushi delivery drones: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=y9RKX...

Rubber shoe delivery drones: https://www.techinasia.com/crocs-japan-drone-delivery-crash/

General delivery drones: http://matternet.us/our-vision/ http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21567193-... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/11210026/Drone-on... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/02/project_wing_google_...

I think a certain amount of scepticism is warranted :)
This is a trend amongst developers who rely on monolithic programs for development.

YOu should really just stop developing on windows and learn to embrace docker.
Also see https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/12/149 and its replies.
Like I said, I'm about a week away from forming a solid opinion, but my guess is that I'd use Mono.

I'm doing very simple web stuff (fcgi-type, if I can get the fcgi bindings to work) Also a bit of command-line/batch work.

As far as I can tell, .NET is the best match for what you want. If i were you, I might want to do a bit of poking around to see how the low-level stuff is configured first.
Pretty good analysis. Thanks for the post. Why these sites don't use OpenAuth is beyond me.
Interestingly, the Coinstar machine that I use is in a grocery store, and it will give you free gift certificates for that store. I am not sure who would not choose that :)
You could get an eReader for the hardware and then pirate books? No DRM. You would probably get a better customer experience.
> Unless you review every patch

I happen not to use Windows, so I don't download software from "any software vendor" and most of what I download was peer-reviewed at the source level. Not to say nothing bad ever happened (Debian's SSH keygen comes to mind), but, most of the time, it was caught before it did any relevant damage.

> How is a Kindle any different?

Amazon already deleted content users purchased without their consent. That proves, without any doubt, there is at least one backdoor Amazon can use to delete content from your device. Did anyone review Amazon's code to make sure there are no other backdoors?

> it would be commercial suicide to do so.

Have you ever seen a WGA false-alarm?
Slightly offtopic, but do you have in America casual employees?

In Australia, many non-professional jobs have award wages. These are the minimum rate you're allowed to pay someone in that position, eg a Pharmacy Assistant may earn a minimum (and I'm making these figures up) of $18.50/hr full time. I think this figure may vary by state, but I'm not sure. These rates are for full time employees; 37.5hrs/week, 10 sick days, 4 weeks holiday, 10 public holidays all of which you're paid for.

Anyway, there's also Casual employees who aren't paid for any of the above (no sick pay, holiday pay etc), and they usually only work <20 hrs/week, but in return their award pay is 17.5% higher than that of a fulltime employee

[Disclaimer: I actually know very little about this, it being 10 years or more since I needed to know, and there's a high likelihood things have changed and the above info is all wrong]
Actually this setup is really nice, by including the use of reltool it makes life really easy for distributing your code. Reltool is like a jar file in the java world - except it actually includes the entire erlang runtime. Thus eradicating shared library nightmares.
Exactly, it's all how the two companies market their architecture is all, that and branding. Technically speaking, AMD does more in less silicon area but also has to run at higher clock speeds to do so. The power draw is about comparable between similar price/performance ratios from each camp.
Just imagine it integrated with your Facebook profile...
Honestly, I was looking at these thinking how under-paid they are. I contract for a company in a much lower cost of living area and I'm making more than the average Googler.

I honestly don't understand why anyone would work for someone else for peanuts.
It's actually J for "jounce" http://www.f1technical.net/features/10586
It's not. It breaks copy and paste.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inerter_(mechanical_networks).

I am not too happy with that article; does anybody have a better source?
Thing is, you can do essentially everything on a netbook, just not in Aluminium & Aqua luxury.
D-Bus is a cancer of the Linux desktop.
yeah, and the thrill of not knowing whether you'll be quietly disappeared when you finish the job, and if not, how cool would it be if your code all worked perfectly and the nuclear reactor did blow up! Really awesome. I think I'll stick with web development though.
Racket.

I have used Clojure for large projects and PLTScheme for a lot of academic projects. But I have not tried to write a large application in Scheme. In addition, I want to use all those libraries, typed/racket and mainly the syntax/parse macro dsl.
This feature evokes unpleasant memories of Microsofts decision to hide file extensions and all the pain which came because of this.
The only good news is that you can deactivate the feature in your preferences.
For getting angry at Android privacy, Jobs certainly seems to be missing out on the fact that this isn't an opt-in service, whereas it is in Google. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/bright-side-of-sittin... Apple is GOING to get your traffic data, whether you want them to or not. With Google, I have the option.
>B&N claim that Microsoft is asserting control over Android via (tangential) patents which, when you add Nokia, gives them control over the Number 1 & 2 smartphone OSes, plus Windows Mobile which is about 2/3rds of the global market.

That doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Apple asserting it's patents against HTC, Samsung and Motorola will give them control over 75% of the US market, so it's now an anti-trust concern? I think that argument is a stretch.
It's important to note here that a big piece of Barnes & Noble's argument is bad faith on the part of Microsoft.

They're characterizing Microsoft as a bully who is attempting (under cover of NDA) to use a limited number of patents (with limited scope) to extract a per-device license that is greater than what it charges for providing the entire operating system (and access to its patents) on WP7.

In layman's terms, it's like if I owned a patent on a keyboard and tried to keep you from making a computer to compete with mine by charging a licensing fee for my keyboard patent that was more than the cost of my entire computer. That's what Barnes and Noble is accusing Microsoft of doing.
The shockwave towards the end was quite a scene as it travels through the ash cloud.
... After they physically seize your phone or home PC, to read this only-locally-stored file, of course.
I was unaware of that. Good to know. I still think it's an issue; although, one that Apple is apparently resolving in the next major release.
For the lazy:

From https://www.nomadproject.io/docs/nomad-vs-kubernetes

> Kubernetes aims to provide all the features needed to run Docker-based applications including cluster management, scheduling, service discovery, monitoring, secrets management and more. Nomad only aims to focus on cluster management and scheduling and is designed with the Unix philosophy of having a small scope while composing with tools like [Hashicorp] Consul for service discovery/service mesh and [Hashicorp] Vault for secret management.

> Nomad is architecturally much simpler. Nomad is a single binary, both for clients and servers, and requires no external services for coordination or storage. Nomad combines a lightweight resource manager and a sophisticated scheduler into a single system. By default, Nomad is distributed, highly available, and operationally simple.
They can do that. They probably won't because they'll argue it's all part of peoples public profiles and therefore published information rather than private information.
Edit: forgive my ignorance
It often is bad and incompetent. Take one of the most left leaning cities in the USA, San Francisco. Not sure there is any metric where by it can be claimed they not bad and incompetent.
The problem comes when the people doing their jobs are also abusing their power for personal gain or vendetta and can’t be punished.
Natural selection relies on large swathes of prior human populations dying without having offspring. That doesn't mean that going forward this continuing to happen is desirable.
Those of us from NJ really need to know what diner though...

> UTF-8 was designed, in front of my eyes, on a
placemat in a New Jersey diner one night in September or so 1992.
> If you’re a product manager working on a feed or search interface inside of a giant tech company, you have access to hundreds of billions of hours of human attention. Could you help your users spend one hour a year learning about what’s coming for the world, climate-wise, with a small dose of civics to go with it?

> Because, if you did, that would be 2 or 3 billion hours of shared experience. Two to 3 billion hours of people learning how important it is that we come together calmly. And that is a beautiful canvas of time upon which to paint a future. It would be one hell of a product. We’re counting on you.

Although this power could be used for good, it’s scary to think of what could happen if the “bad guys” develop or control such platforms. It wouldn’t just be a yearly 1 hour knowledge drip, but instead a firehose of propaganda.
But taking existing facts and rearranging them into new text is considered "creating" in basically any context. Books and articles, especially those written for general public, are often collections of already existing facts. And it counts as creating.
Seems that this may indeed run afoul of section 5e here: https://developers.google.com/terms/
Not at all. It was just difficult to find the same kind of satisfaction in your work when other parts of the product fail so spectacularly. The MobileMe launch was a widely known failure, and the effects of that (and the problems) went on for a long time. Still today, there are many (legitimate) complaints about MobileMe, and such things impact one's satisfaction quite a lot.
25a) Copy stdin to clipboard on Mac

ssh user@host cat /path/to/some/file | pbcopy
I was in your same situation a year ago and what helped me was literally ignoring the fact that so many people were there. Speaking in front of a dozen people is no different than 2000. The streaming aspect shouldn't bother you either because you see no difference. If I were you I would stop focusing on the crowd and more on the presentation. You are speaking in front of 2000 people for a reason, give them a good show!
If the regex was (0|1(01* 0)* 0)*, then that would accept "10", which is not divisible by 3.
Actually, it's not that different (to talking to 20 people). You'll probably be interrupted less often and it may be harder to make eye contact with people, but if you've already given talks then you're way more than half way there.

So instead of being worried, think of it as a chance to give a really excellent talk where you're going to be able to say what you want with less interruptions. Go for it (and good luck :o)
If that's the case, our tech support team (I work for an ISP) would wholeheartedly welcome those Internet User's Licenses.

Obviously, just kidding.
Right now it seems AirBNB posts appear on CL as either "sublets and temporary" or "vacation rentals." (http://newyork.craigslist.org/search/hhh?query=airbnb&sr...)

The page linked above states that "sublets & temporary" is one of the "categories for which bulk posting is no longer supported." Vacation rentals is not one of these though.
Also check the archive
http://helplizeaaneenlaptop.tumblr.com/archive
We literally just posted almost the same thing at the same time...weird.
Teaching our kids about Siri and Alexa... and how to subvert it.

By not participating. Reading books. Enjoying time together at a park. Finding mirth in games and late night conversations.

By teaching them to pick up their own groceries, shop local, use the library, see local performances, and enjoying our neighbourhood.

If 2010’s were all about staying in and binging on Netflix I hope the next decade will be about getting out and letting our computers gather dust.