jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
With fingerprinting it's not impossible. Quoting a recent Webkit thread[1] in which Google blocked all sign in from non-Safari WebKit browsers:

> But if Google does this properly and uses more sophisticated browser
fingerprinting techniques, Epiphany is done for. This could be an
existential threat for non-Safari WebKit browsers. Nobody is going to
be interested in using a browser that doesn't support Google websites.
Google's expressly-stated goal is to block embedded browser frameworks
and non-supported browsers from signing into Google accounts. The blog
post says: "This block affects CEF-based apps and other non-supported
browsers." It says: "We do not allow sign-in from browsers based on
frameworks like CEF or Embedded Internet Explorer."

[1] https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2020-November/...
Right. The solution to small transactions is to use another thing which is not Bitcoin (although I suppose if you felt like it you could denominate it in Bitcoins without settling the transaction...). And/or compromise on the decentralized trustlessness thing.
Uncorrelated, I would say. Plenty of failures are valuable as collectibles, at least on paper.
> rather than gas vehicle

Probably the same reason you use "vehicle" rather than "car".
I just used CSS3 tbh. Some of the animation stuff was painful due to timing issues. There's also some jQuery fadeIn/fadeOut stuff but I'm trying to get rid of that.
Inner spiral arm?
There's a lot of work in this area, in labs all over the world. Google's project Tango has funded some excellent work on this problem on a (very powerful) cellphone/tablet platform:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44vppay5UDc
I'm not leaving that out at all. I addressed it with the fire-in-a-crowded theater analogy. But the fact that commerce is involved doesn't magically eliminate the right. Commerce only creates a few edge cases, but is effectively irrelevant (from a rights and logic point of view.) The fact that government has used the existence of commerce to violate people's rights (and it has done this extensively- you are correct) shows that government is not interested in protecting people's rights as much as it is in benefiting politicians and itself. It doesn't change the nature of human rights.

Further, understand that this law does NOT give religious people the right to open a "straights only" hotel. They always had that right, and the law doesn't change it.

Only certainly classes are protected at a federal and state level. Religions are, sexualities aren't. This law doesn't change that.
Reminds me of http://www.theonion.com/articles/testdriving-the-new-smartph...
Free coffee for people with deep understanding of finance?

You'll get lots of takers on your offer.
Just don't expect lots of matching candidates.
> What I don't get is why it's necessary to have comedy to get people engaged?

It's not, but entertaining people is a good way to keep them engaged and comedy is a relatively easy way to entertain while telling.

When the content is dry and the delivery is dry and completely unengaging people just tune out, even if the subject is interesting in the abstract.

Comedy is not the only way, Attenborough is entertaining without being comedic, but it's a good way nonetheless.

And comedians are observers of human nature by trade, so they might have an easier time couching down and expressing more "serious" topics than some other entertainers.
There are plenty of other rich people doing nothing and also plenty of poor people that help others everyday!
He's saying there was genuine criticism on bias and presenting stories making light of one side, and presenting the other side too favorably.

Knowing full well that a large number of people looked to him for news, and that his reporting (de facto news reporting, that is, despite him not naming it like that) received genuine criticism, how one can then hide behind the notion that 'oh it's just comedy don't take it seriously' for years and years is a bit disingenuous.

In fairness however, Jon has always said that he is biased and flavored. And that's okay. And add to that the fact that it IS also comedy, it's hard to ask of him to be completely objective. Especially when it's a counterbalance to the media landscape which is COMPLETELY biased one way or another, whether it's Fox News or Democracy Now!. And if you then look at where the ciriticism comes from: Fox News, which isn't comedy but just news, but is worse in its reporting, and is pretty much more biased than anyone in media AND is more powerful and watched than anyone, I can easily see why Jon will look at that and say 'YOU guys pretend to be fair and balanced but aren't, pretend to bring news but it's crap, have responsibility as journalists to be objective but aren't, while I'm admittedly biased and run a comedy show'.
You kind of remind me of the guy who rails against the design stupidity of cylindrical bottles every time he gets a drink. Rectangular bottles won't roll away, stack more efficiently, and are easier to use. WTF is wrong with beverage vendors.

(That guy is me. But neither of us is going to win.)
Not the first time.

See: Voices from the Hellmouth

http://everything2.com/title/Voices+from+the+Hellmouth

One of the posts

http://slashdot.org/story/5415
A top fuel racer is very loud because they have short, per-cylinder exhaust pipes and are powered by nitromethanol ("top fuel"), which burns so slowly that the fuel is still exploding when exiting the exhaust pipes.

They are also ridiculously inefficient.
no this is selfish peopel who didnt get the jab in time wanting somthing after the fact.
Since they all lack schemas, constraints, strict consistency and ACID transactions, their replication logic can be much simpler.

Why would an RDBMS txlog be somehow harder to ship than any other db log?

And how is that an excuse for crappy usability in any case?
> allow anyone with a link to the file to top up the hosting funds for the image

This is a genuinely differentiating feature and might be useful even without the Bitcoin aspect. It's easy to imagine someone being annoyed by a deep linked image going away - but being able to pay to revive it.
It's not my finest sentence, to be sure! Worse still, there was a missing word. It should read "[...] from sorts of people who _write_ about how great minimalism [...]".
I think that's precisely the issue. Economists thought that driving an open market would push up wages as efficiencies come back around, thus both driving for cheaper goods and higher wages. But they didn't anticipate exactly the effect of globalism and the exodus to China happening so quick.

Foreign industries could be taxed to some level relative to what their workers are paid and their working conditions to even out the domestic companies disadvantages maybe. That's already happening to some extent.

I don't know if that or fixed minimum wage is the solution by the way. But I'm saying clearly that's the problem. Companies don't all start with an equal footing, and that can put out of balance the free economy.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/22/economists-globalizatio...

Edit: Eh, I forgot that you can't really have rational discussions on slightly political topics. If you think something I said isn't logical or true, please partake in the conversation.
Of course, this is just a “point-to-point Ethernet” not an allocation.

That said, I think the original intent was that such “point-to-point Ethernets” should have been issued /64, but seems /126 is common practice.
The article is about a person born and raised in Finland, who lived in Berlin, went to NYC to study in Columbia University, and who can afford to pay $8000 in legal fees and months of paperwork to get an O1 visa. With such a background such a person should be given at least the benefit of the doubt.

"Deceiving" marriages, sham marriages or other 'mail-order' brides services are unfortunately a thing, but to say that it has become the rule for relationships between Americans and non-Americans is a naive shortcut and is certainly untrue.
Regulations have grown to absurd Kafkaesque proportions in recent years to the point where they 're being exppensive for small business here in the EU, and it's clear they are doing it to feed the financial sector jobs, not because suddenly there is a lot more fraud in europe, or because there is a bigger benefit out of it.

I'm not so sure it is "not going to happen" especially as millenials age and realize there is a clear dichotomy between generations owning property/cash vs generations who don't own anything tangible and have basically lived rented lives. Unfairness usually leads people to turn their backs to inflated assets like property, and instead to create their own generation's bubbles.
Link to Book of Shaders: https://thebookofshaders.com/

(And a big +1 on the recommendation)

Another piece of technical documentation that stuck out to me recently as remarkably readable (though I haven't finished reading it): https://craftinginterpreters.com/
The problem is, it's not obvious a priori which ideas are crackpot and which ideas are hidden gems. (The infamous comparison being Newton's passion for theology and alchemy in addition to calculus and physics; it's not obvious he would have made his accomplishments in the latter, without being the kind of person willing to invest time in the former.)

I think the right strategy is to acknowledge that such pursuits are proverbial moon-shots, setting expectations and risk tolerance accordingly. Most innovations fail, and that's okay; "the best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas".
Will CA be in violation if their own privacy laws?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Consumer_Privacy_Ac...
'exceptionally clear'? How do you detect that bug status from across the room? If that bug page was up on a big screen, how do you detect it's status? How do you tell at a glance from a meter away what the status is? All of those things should be doable for an 'exceptionally clear' status. Developers don't have mysteriously different visual capabilities from 'joes'.

this is a work tool used by developers and QE

Because as we all know, developers don't benefit from good UIs. One wonders why they would use a webpage at all, rather than simply connect to an ncurses-based bugtracker that only supports an 80x24 terminal.
I am looking forward to wide-scale HTTP/2 adoption. It means you can take something simple like gRPC (http://www.grpc.io/) and suddenly scale it with commodity things like an HTTP load balancer.
The title attracts eyeballs, no doubt.

The article gives Chris Roberts, the game, and the company a fair shake. It explains who Chris Roberts is, his track record as a game developer, and what he is trying to achieve. The article also explains who has given the money, why they have given it, and what they have received in exchange for it.

It lets an active enthusiastic supporter explain the state of the game play and provides company produced promotional materials to accompany the article. The only suggestion of a harsh judgement is that the success of funding might be fuelling feature creep and delaying shipment. At no time does it suggest there is a scam: the worst implication of the article is that some backers/fans may have unrealistic expectations of their role in the project.

So is the title linkbait? Not really because "this guy" and "buggy half built game" have no context without reading the article. And the referent for "this guy" comes after the description of the game...and the embedded primary trailer.

Disclaimer: I looked it with my eyes outside the circle of wagons.
Indeed, those are cultural differences. However, I don't think those are directly linked to nations. Even within a single country like Germany, I'm observing vastly different approaches to software development.

Also, issues like "Why don't you accept my (seemingly) working patch?" appear quite frequently in a lot of Free Software projects, independently of the nations of the people.

I guess this cultural difference has more to do with professionalism and long-term experience on software projects.
It gets better later in the thread:

Yinghai, we have had this discussion before, and dammit, you need to understand the difference between "understanding the problem" and "put in random values until it works on one machine".

"There was absolutely _zero_ analysis done. You do not actually understand WHY the numbers matter. You just look at two random numbers, and one works, the other does not. That's not "analyzing". That's just "random number games".
To be fair, the second case really is just a matter of fossilized random changes.
> pg should create a field for github/repo in our profiles.

He did - there's a big textarea where you can put that and whatever else you want.
Linus knows that and says so as well. But that's okay, because that works. Starting down that very same path again without a huge reason to do so would be very painful for any mature product.
I've also had them once or twice for my blog (for which I only bought the .net). I may buy the .com some day, but so far I don't think I need it, more so because I try to use the full name+tld as "unofficial name of the blog".
Well, there goes my development methodology.
Great, I'll give it a try! Thanks so much!
Does knowing about the country you live in really have so little value? Maybe it's not the only valuable thing in the world, but knowing about the culture of the society you live in sure seems like it would be valuable...?

Welsh has been largely abandoned in Cardiff and southern Wales, but there are large sections of the country where at least a quarter of the population speaks Welsh, and in other places 65-80% of people speak Welsh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_language#/media/File:Wel...
Yes the NUC will do 3 displays through MST
These are very good points. It's what I tried but it seems like I never met anyone. Just keep at it, I guess.
The monetary system hasn't been about 'me and my savings', for at least 3 decades. Reasoning about banks, capital, supply/demand, return on investment, in terms of whether consumers spend their savings or leave it sitting on a bank account, will not make you any wiser about the state of the economy or our monetary system.

Current rates are low because central banks everywhere are basically flooding the world with free money, throwing good money after bad money by monetizing poisonous debt, to prevent the financial system from imploding (which almost happened in 2008). Or at least postpone it for as long as possible. Ben Bernanke will be (almost) the last person on earth to say this out loud, which makes the value of this fluff piece on a site like this pretty dubious. There's a reason why his nickname is 'Helicopter Ben'.
It sounds like you aren't familiar with mechanical keyboards and why people like them-- any similarities you're noticing between this keyboard and an old HP from 2000 are purely cosmetic.

I happen to own two keyboards: a mechanical one similar to this, and the Apple keyboard. I think the Apple keyboard is great, but finally it's a very basic laptop-style chiclet keyboard with nothing remarkable about it other than good aesthetics and compatibility with OS X. I won't bore you with the details of why people are willing to pay $100-$200 for a keyboard like this, but just know that there are good reasons.
.. and not on windows. Those installations are not so simple on windows.
Could the title of this be changed please? This was from March 2009 and is unrelated to the Wikileaks cablegate thing. (Having both on the same page is confusing a lot of people)
>You can be a critic of the U.S. government and think Wikileaks is being reckless here.

I would say that if you're a critic of the US government you recognize the utility of exposing the attempts by the US to steal the credit card numbers and biometrics of UN leaders (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/28/us-embassy-cable...), attempts to steal the DNA of African leaders (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/...) etc. This kind of criminal activity shows a large disrespect for the rest of the world.

>I can't believe I'm defending the U.S. government here, I'm quite a critic of it. But they actually do do lots of good stuff.

The US, like any state, does what it needs to to protect its interests. For example, the US fights against corruption in some foreign countries. The reason they do this is because corruption makes it harder for US corporations to penetrate the corrupt state's market. The US is fine with corruption when it benefits them.

The US state's work for disarmament is similar. They wish to maintain the advantage of their own nuclear arsenal, so they work to prevent those not on their team from acquiring nuclear weapons. It's self interest.

A state is like a business. With guns. And each state has a brand that it promotes.

>You can be a critic of the U.S. government and think Wikileaks is being reckless here.

The real recklessness in this case is the laughably poor opsec of the US. If Wikileaks was able to get ahold of this info it's very likely that foreign intel has historically as well.
Seems you'd be really disappointed if you go there :D
I think their biggest fear is that once in the US they would sue the US government for unlawful acts and succeed.
For the webapp load balancing we do (which admittedly isn't very much; we're an ISP and aren't overly concerned with how quickly our homepage loads :p), we just use a DNS round-robin across a bunch of servers. We keep a short TTL so if a server dies, there's at most 5 minutes of downtime.

A better solution would be proxying, but we haven't had the need to step up to that: stick an nginx in front, put n backends behind it, and it'll distribute load across them as it sees fit. Of course, for reliability, you then need to drop a DNS round-robin on a couple of nginxes, so the whole thing repeats itself :).

But yeah, that's just for the frontend. For the backend databases, you'll want to look at replication and doing writes to one and reads from another, etc. We haven't had the need to do that, luckily :).
It's called the Uniform Access Principle, as I've already mentioned in a separate comment. Getting back to your example, it is not very useful without mentioning a language under examination. There is no single definition of OOP, and every language implements in a slightly different way.

There are languages where UAP is enforced by the syntax (eg. Eiffel, Smalltalk, Ruby) and languages where it's a matter of convention. But even in the latter it's considered a good practice to keep properties private and encapsulate them with accessors. Some even have dedicated features that help with that (auto-properties in C#, properties in Python).
The article is about the theme of the app I am currently working on.
Get the app at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plusask.an...
or http://plusask.com/app
Stripe has higher chargeback rate compare to other gateway but they provide really good API.

You can use 3rd party fraud screening service such as FraudLabs Pro to compensate the Stripe weakness. It cut down our chargeback rate to less than 0.5% and we are happy.
Not if they make more than $10 per round. There are a lot of marks in the world, as evidenced by 175+ submissions. This went unnoticed for how long? Made them how much money? $10/app would just cut into their profits, it wouldn't stop it.
It's also mirrored here:

http://progfu.com.nyud.net/post/384151811/testing-is-waste-o...
Corruption is the disease of all societies. It will be present in seasteading societies too.

Fight and cure corruption here on terra firma first. That's the real utopia and exactly there is where money should be spent.
The effects of climate change certainly have to be carefully considered. It is true that not every change is automatically bad. I’m, however, pretty certain that the scientific literature is full of papers dealing with just that topic [0]. You obviously won’t find an answer by asking “Gore supporters”, you will have to ask scientists.

This guy is an economist for goodness sake. I’m pretty certain that if he looked hard enough he could find a colleague who is working on just that topic with a climate scientist. He could ask her or him and then write an informed article.

[0] http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=economic+costs+climate+c...
And you can't access any of your sales data until iTunes connect reopens after Christmas.
I'm assuming this is a tongue in cheek comment.
> The end result was I purchased my mother VMWare Fusion 3, a copy of Windows XP, and ended up having to tutor her on the usage of a virtual machine, the mechanics between how to seamlessly work with the two operating systems, etc. I still get daily tech support calls that eat up a lot of my personal time, now not only for the MacBook, but for VMWare Fusion, Windows XP and IE/Safari usage.

Just enabling Unity for MSIE doesn't work well enough?
"Global warming" is something of a misnomer. I prefer "climate change" as it more accurately depicts the fact that everything could become more extreme, not just heat. I don't think it would be as enjoyable as the author seems to think.
I can understand how TDD can feel like an extra burden if you're a single developer working on a project. However, having tests is so critically important if the project is passed on to another dev. I recently inherited a project that I had worked on at a previous gig. There were no tests but at the time I was familiar with the code and it didn't matter too much to me at the time. Now, the code has changed significantly, there are still no tests, and I'm always a bit nervous if I have to make a push to production, wondering if somehow I missed something that's going to break the app.

Even if you hate testing... do it for the sanity of the next dev on the project.
Current employment status, not work history.
When someone is offering a service and everybody wants it, its not unreasonable to conclude that it might be worth more to you than a service that has no line of people waiting to pay for it.

Frankly, I don't see how that's immoral. Its acting in what one thinks is in one's own best interest. There is nothing wrong with that. The job seekers do it all the time whenever they decide to pursue a job at a more stable company rather than one that's been through hard times.

You may not want to present your criteria for hiring openly because you don't want to hurt people's feelings. That's your prerogative.

Just make sure you're consistent about that and avoid giving people feedback that might hurt their feelings while they're employed and when you finally have to let them go.
I've looked everywhere for GeoJSON data for county boundaries.

It's really hard to find good data for these boundaries, especially for Orleans Parish in Louisiana. This is the only place I've found good data for Orleans (though, it's not free): http://www.maptechnica.com/us-county-boundary-map/county/Orl...
You would need to be careful - in many states it is against the law to record other people without notifying them that you are recording.
The EFF brings up potential new copyright modifications to tighten down on fair use. It's important to remember that in 1998, the US Congress extended copyright protection retroactively for 20 years, putting off new additions to the public domain until 2019. So all of us who care about copyright ought to be ready for a new copyright extension act coming in 2017 or 2018, to extend things even further. That will be the optimal time for the industry to push for another DMCA-style law that will complicate our lives even further and push more power into the hands of media conglomerates and out of our control. Be prepared.
WhatsApp definitely stores your messages on their server. They have to. If you send a WhatsApp message to someone and their phone is off, does it bounce? If not, they are storing your messages at some point.

Just because they say they don't store them forever really doesn't mean much, and I am pretty surprised by how many people on HN keep repeating it.