jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Are you willing to ignore ~50% of the potential (mass) market?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

And do you guys really think it's gonna change that much in 1 year?

http://gs.statcounter.com/

In the end it's about what your clients will use. If you're building something for developers, sure, ignore IE. If you're building something to be used by dumb (computer) terminals at big corporations or the public at large, then it'd be a risky move.
Love the design.....if the original author is reading this, did you do the design yourself, or hire someone?
I always wondered about this as a kid. I'm surprised by how simple it is.
What differentiates hackers from the general population? Is it perhaps above average intelligence, a higher level of curiosity, maybe tinkers, and/or possibly individuals who are interested in all sorts of interesting stuff?

If that is roughly the definition, then I suppose there would be general news but of a novel, or intellectually interesting nature.

If, on the other hand, by hacker you mean programmer, and by non general news you mean only news related to programming, wouldn't that be slightly too narrow?

I think technology news are dominant here, but the variety now and then I think is a good thing.
My guess would be 'no' but when a subject is popular you'll see a cluster of articles around it. You can't please everybody all the time in a community this size so your best weapons to counter any negative effects that you perceive are in order the 'submit' link and the voting arrow on those articles that you think are great, and as a final resort for things that you think are off-topic or spam the 'flag' link.

They've worked pretty good so far and it is neat to see how effective some minor tweaks have been in sending the 'front' page in the right direction.

The most important page on HN is not the homepage however, it's page #2 of the new submission list, that's where you might still be able to rescue an article that you think does not get the attention that it deserves.

You may want to really consider submitting more interesting stories, 50 or submissions over 4 years is not a whole lot. If everybody that feels like you do would post interesting articles instead of 'Ask PG' stuff about the perceived quality of the site that quality would go up quickly.
How about "HN is being shut down"? :)

That'd be sure to get a crazy level of response!
I wouldn't ignore IE when targeting fortune 5 million. Check out html5boilerplate.com and css3pie.com to help achieve cross browser and backwards compatibility. Good luck with your app!
Sure, thanks for the advice. Do you have any thoughts on my original question that prompted this post? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2042898
It's terribly sad this is on "Today I found out." I learned about HeLa cells in high school biology, and the story really stuck with me. But when I took The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks out of the library (published this year, and an incredible book up for many awards) my public health faculty SO had never heard of her or the cells.

The contribution of HeLa cells to modern biology is simply unfathomable. They were the first cells to be cultured and the only ones that could be for many years. If it weren't for them, modern biology would have been pushed back many, many years. Every person who has ever been through public schooling should know her name. Which is why I was so happy Skoot wrote this book, because now more people do.
Actually, it seems like a good question to me. The MIT license (and the other major ones, afaik) specifically applies to the software (and docs), not what artifacts the software might produce. It's not clear to me whether those would be included under the same terms. I would assume they're free to use, but I'm not sure that's (always) true and IANAL.

Something to think about: if I write a program that outputs a work under copyright (without actually containing the copywritten work), can I still use a permissive license?
You may want to take careful note of the issue ~laGrenouille raises about others' contributions, though.

Say a patch/pull-request is freely offered to your AGPL project. I believe it's well-understood that such a submission includes implicit permission for distribution under that same open-source license.

But you will also be licensing that same contributed code under another custom commercial license. Contributors should understand that – you've made it clear in surrounding docs – but whether you can legally assume their re-licensing permission, without an explicit copyright-assignment, is a bit murkier of an issue.
Around 2002, I made something similar using WinAPI, in Pascal (FPC). Sadly, the sources are gone, but the executable survives:
http://students.mimuw.edu.pl/~dj189395/nhp/czynic/programy/w... [22 KiB, no external dependencies].

Screenshot: http://students.mimuw.edu.pl/~dj189395/nhp/czynic/programy/w...

Use at your peril, preferably in a VM, Wine, or similarly sandboxed environment.
The niche of software that doesn't take over your computer with malware because you made an off by one error.
> Even if you don't have the source, you can make a change if you are annoyed enough.

Well, until you get flagged by the anti cheat and get your account and motherboard banned...
> The reply to that by the Gentoo guy (who started the Github issue) was that package maintainers cannot follow every single mailing list of every dependency.

It seems reasonable that, if you are the packager for critical packages, that you follow critical dependencies?

If the problem is that the distro is supporting so many things that the folks working on it can't keep up - well, that's precisely the author's point: stop pretending that you can support HPPA and MIPS or whatever as well as you can support x86_64. But you don't get to tell a million people that they have to have a less secure Python because 3 people have a toy in a closet they want treated as a first class citizen.
I want to believe you but keep in mind that at the same time the government also propped up the private sector (special interests) and it did spend way more than on the citizenry. Industries that were too big to fail were bailed out while a big chunk of the population were left unable to support themselves and I'm sorry but a check or two of a few thousands is not gonna do a damn thing for them when they are forced to foreclose their mortgages.
I played through GTA V, enjoyed it, and tried out the online mode afterward.

I've logged in exactly twice. Load times like that may be worth it to a hardcore gamer, but I have no patience for it. There's no shortage of entertainment available to someone with a PC, a reasonable internet connection, and a modicum of disposable income. Waste my time and I'll go elsewhere for my entertainment.
I completely agree with these statements, except I think the intrinsic value of precious metals is exaggerated and Bitcoin also has functional value as a monetary technology (not generally in an important way for most first-worlders though).
I love the 1953 triptych series, but the Pope Innocent X thing is such a trip. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Study_after_Vel%C3%A1zquez%27s...
Shorter loading times were one of the main selling points of this console generation.
Could be allergy/sensitivity to any of a wide variety of ingredients of beer. Yeasts, barley/sorghum and associated malts, and hops are things that could make this common across a wife variety of beers.
Thank you for sharing, awesome read!
I've been running Ubuntu (12.04+14.04)+NixOS on my Macbook Air with zero issues for the past ~2 years.

(Oh, suspend doesn't work, but my laptop is plugged in 99% of the time, and I haven't undertaken any effort to make it work.)

That said, I do plan on buying a not-Macbook next time around.
Seems like a rather small distinction. Unnecessary optimization is a natural result of premature optimization so I tended to assume that was what was happening. Unnecessary optimization can result from other things as well of course.

Regardless of this distinction, I think the same conclusions follow; the original problem had little to do with reference counting as such.
I love the humble bundles, I bought all 3, but after taking VC money shouldn't they drop the "humble"?
It is when it's a function of an object.
Is there something about the page that I'm missing? Is it just about median of median pivot selection for the selection problem? If so, isn't this fairly common knowledge? I know my entry-level algorithms class covered it in some depth.
I've got an app in private beta on Heroku. Closing in on 2 days of downtime.

Not a good way to instill confidence in the 50 or so potential customers I let into the beta.

Plus my iOS app gets data from a Heroku app that is down.
A lot of users of Hadoop are companies with serious competition. If you took the time to figure all of this out, would you go post a howto for your competitors? No, might as well let them expend their own time and money to do what you did.

While that's not exactly the open source spirit, it is how plenty of people think and also happens to be the default, easiest thing to do. It would be nice if people could share to benefit themselves and each other.
My ff4 also crashes "EVERYDAY", sometimes "EVERYMINUTE", I seriously consider to switch to Chrome, but I still use it even it always crashes.
Here is my about:crashes:

bp-682ee891-e489-4faa-87d9-0e5d52110422 2011/4/23下午 01:34

bp-74dd05b3-8f58-4e07-ba9b-2bfa22110422 2011/4/23下午 01:34

bp-4bb769e8-4851-4433-9f85-b60a32110422 2011/4/23下午 12:52

bp-10707aa1-1636-4a81-8f69-058832110422 2011/4/23下午 12:44

bp-04edd56e-db3a-45c1-8cfe-5bdb82110422 2011/4/23上午 01:37

.......MANY MANY.....

bp-2d469003-dcb9-498e-9f67-b58f22110421 2011/4/22上午 12:53

bp-1ad3daca-bb71-494b-88b9-9fd972110421 2011/4/22上午 12:32

bp-c7701cfa-793b-4b36-b610-111402110421 2011/4/22上午 12:07

bp-bd445659-4a3b-4b46-b809-11f582110421 2011/4/22上午 12:01

bp-7d00ada1-6b01-4d15-8b91-dfc102110421 2011/4/21下午 11:44

bp-81e36a99-7007-43c7-8d9c-3c3192110421 2011/4/21下午 11:44

bp-83a6eb96-0221-450f-93c0-25b7b2110421 2011/4/21下午 11:00

bp-a92673b1-7a13-497f-b459-e9dd12110421 2011/4/21下午 11:00

bp-8d5367f2-132f-4d34-9f12-6de5c2110421 2011/4/21下午 10:29

xpcom_runtime_abort(###!!! ABORT: Main-thread-only object used off the main thread: file e:/builds/moz2_slave/rel-2.0-w32-bld/build/xpcom/base/nsCycleCollector.cpp, line 1195)

I really hope this problem would be fixed......
I would totally scream for Knuth!
> Can someone weigh in on why FB is making such a stink about this?

There’s no such stink. In a SEC filling, Meta said that if they had too much trouble with EU data laws, the worst-case scenario would be that they would leave Europe. That’s all. That’s "if these things go to far, we might have to maybe do this if really we can't do anything else". Some medias changed this into "Meta is threatening to leave Europe", and here we are.
Closed source? Why hack it then? Why waste the effort to learn it or customize it?

It's kind of like the new/gnu reality, where the GPL, designed to protect the authors from commercial exploitation, makes this exact exploitation easier than less restrictive OSS licenses...

Making money off a text editor is going to be hard. Especially when it is meant to be hackable.
Thanks for sharing those sources. The HN crowd overestimates the impact of social media and under estimates the impact of Fox News and Fox News clones. The typical Fox News viewer watches 4 HOURS every day: https://www.foxnews.com/media/fox-news-august-ratings-most-w...
Yes, even if you are careful about Privacy, your friends will betray you by adding your data (phone, photos, etc.) to big tech services

Even if you never touched Google/Facebook in your life, they have your number and many other data about you via other persons

Even if you never touched an Apple device in your life, they already have done Facial Recognition on you because your friends took a photo of you and tagged you (see the creepy HomeKit doorbells that recognise you despite you have never agreed to facial recognition)

Laws totally fail to address that aspect of Privacy
Child pornography is illegal. If Trumps tweet is illegal, then the authorities would love to know and the justice system can handle it.

No one is asking Twitter to break the law, nor host illegal content of any kind.
This is cool and just the right amount of functional!

Suggested features:

- Custom URLs (perhaps for a fee?)

- RSS for blogs would enable linking to everything from Mailchimp to RSS readers

- Customizable colors?
Yes I do.

1. The democratic platform endorses "restructuring" (packing) of the lower courts.

2. A large number of democrats including Kamala Harris have endorsed court packing or other schemes to change the balance of the supreme court. Joe Biden refused to tell the american public what he thinks about court packing. He later promised to create a commission to study court packing.

3. Chuck Schumer has made it a priority to eliminate the legislative filibuster so they can pass laws with 51 votes instead of 60.

4. Democrats believe the senate unfairly benefits republicans. They want to make D.C. and Puerto Rico into states to give them an advantage. Some democrats want to make states out of every american territory. This would lock republicans out of the senate permanently.

They will do all of these things given the opportunity. Republicans are already pretty fucked due to demographic change, but democrats very openly want a one party state.

https://reason.com/volokh/2020/09/19/regardless-of-what-trum...
Sure, but that's not the hard bit. The toolchains that I've seen so far all generate code for a static set of RISC-V extensions and that set of extensions become the target platform's identity. Sort of like we've seen variations like 'armhf+gnueabi' before, except with RISC-V several of these 'extensions' are pretty much mandatory to get performance parity. The resolution of these ISA extensions is much higher than other architectures. That's part of the appeal, for sure. You can design a Just Right RISC-V without wasting any power or area supporting features you don't need.

But until or unless the extensions stabilize to a canonical popular set (maybe this has already happened, or is happening soon), I wonder if the extension soup will cause some to be hesitant to adopt.

Whatever hesitancy I am imagining is not holding back some super swift progress on all kinds of awesome RISC-V stuff.
presumably? I'm not sure how many videos of alleged ballot fraud are floating around and the link you posted doesn't have a link to the video so I can only assume we are talking about the same thing.

>> No one told observers they had to leave, and both an independent monitor and an investigator oversaw the vote count, according to state and county officials.

The observers dispute this, and reaffirm their claim that they were asked to leave.

>> Confusion arose when election workers thought they were done for the night, but then were instructed to continue scanning ballots.

Yes, everyone was aware that vote counting was supposed to stop at 11pm but after they got rid of everyone else, this one team continued to count ballots that had been prepped and hidden.

> But investigators who reviewed the entire surveillance tape confirmed it showed “normal ballot processing,” according to Gabriel Sterling, a top official in the secretary of state’s office.

It's normal to do this? Perhaps the problem here is that the actual activities are not in dispute, but one party considers them normal and one party is unhappy that fraud is considered normal.

>> After a short period when observers weren’t present, an independent state election board monitor arrived to oversee the scanning at 11:52 p.m., Barron said. A state investigator arrived at 12:15 a.m. Both individuals remained at the facility until the count concluded for the night, he said. The Georgia secretary of state’s office said it was aware of the late-night counting, and confirmed that both its investigator and an independent monitor observed scanning “until it was halted for the night.” The office said it had launched an investigation into why partisan poll observers left before scanning ended.

Sounds like we really need to get that investigative report.
The government should use their own website + RSS to communicate with its citizens, not some private social media. It should promote open standards (activepub,RSS...) not a private corporation.
No matter what BLM did or didn't do - and saying they burned and looted cities for months is clear right-wing hyperbole - Trump supporters stormed the Capital, destroyed property, looted, committed violence and planted explosives in an attempt to disrupt the legitimate process of government and overturn the Presidential election.

They are exactly the breed of fascists that everyone thought they were. You can blame the left as easily as you breathe but there isn't enough whataboutism in the world to negate that.
Granted.. it is not tracking your fine location, but rather the location of the towers you connect to. Your location, however, is still reliable to within 200-1000m with triangulation.

http://www.skyhookwireless.com/howitworks/cellid.php
On the web especially, I've been conditioned not to start typing into boxes until the page fully finishes loading, because onload js stuff often repositions the cursor, which is annoying to have happen in the middle of typing something.
The near instantaneous drop of 700 points is exactly why you need market makers. In normal times, dozens of computer algorithms are posting bids to buy and offers to sell stock, at slightly more profitable prices than what their algorithm determines is the fair value.

On the day in question, the algorithms' "oh crap" mode kicked in, the bots no longer felt they had a grasp on fair value, and decided to withdraw all their bids and offers. Now whoever was left trying to sell (like all the people with STOP orders) had to do so in an environment with very few counterparties.

The stock exchanges give these market maker bots a few special privileges in return for them providing liquidity regularly. It varies by exchange, but one example is a market maker must quote a spread of no greater than 10 cents, and provide both a bid and offer at least 99% of the time. In return, the market maker gets a special spot in line when orders come through (think of it as first dibbs on certain proposed orders).

So it sounds like we should either blame the guys who put in market stop orders, or we should blame the exchanges for not requiring more strict rules for their market makers (like 100% uptime). You can't blame the algorithms for wisely using the 1% of the time they are allowed to hide and wait for more opportune times.
C as a context free language? Bullshit. How many global variables are there? How many functions with ridiculous names like htons?

Edit:

I realize that "context free language" was a poor choice of words; i meant it in the sense that linus did - his claim that you can 'look at a piece of code and understand what it does' is laughable in the face of accepted c programming styles.
> but what happens when someone creates a foo to objective-c compiler - for eg flash to objective-c or mono to objective-c.

They already exist and are specifically forbidden by the license (or were last time I checked): the previous update added the requirements that applications be originally written in a supported language, forbidding the usage of a cross-compiler.

Now I'm guessing if it's your own for your own stuff (think GOAL) it's going to fly unnoticed, but the minute a cross compiler gets enough traction, you can bet its binaries are going to be fingerprinted and banned on sight.
Give humans 5 mins with any new technology, they’ll use it to make porn.
Low but readable natural with access to personal (ie. non-intrusive for others), diffuse, ideally broad-wavelength lighting when required.

At no point should (1) a light be in anyone's eye while they are looking at a screen (2) window/skylight/outside be reflected on top of anyone's screen (3) major thoroughfares be located directly in front of anyone.

This requires thoughtful seating arrangements and non-crappy architecture/interior design.
Or you could just purchase a fully refundable ticket.
How about asking your customers, instead of stalking them by default?

Even telephone hotlines warn you that the calls may be recorded and give you (at least) a way to opt out. No site ever gave me such an option, but my browser has it - so I'm using it indiscriminately.

If you want my trust, give me an (opt in and later opt out) button, limit your tracking as much as you can (time, do not correlate with others, personal info, etc.) and as much information about your tracking as you can and what you use it for. In fact, give me an easy way to see what you have profiled and give me an option to clea(n/r) it.

I guess that sounds like hard work. Maybe Piwik can be extended to provide such things? Does it already do some of that?
Oh, the Tesla website is available in French now and they're building stores all over Europe.
Excellent. It used to be that you had to wait a generation or two to find out what actually transpired behind closed doors (example, Margaret McMillan's excellent book "Nixon in China"), but thanks to Wikileaks we can know merely years after the fact.
Anyone have tips on getting this working with custom images? I tried making my own with TinyEMU and this JsOnline script, but it would never load. Or any suggestions for another project that fits my use case? That is, presenting a very minimal, in browser only, FULL Linux command line, for training purpose. The image can't be client side, and it has to have all 'expected' functionality; IE, not just a simulator for certain commands/paths.
> Does it really just unleash too much power in the hands of the users and make these companies afraid what might happen?

Social media companies spend incredible resources trying to continuously improve the stickiness of the app so users keep coming back to it. Giving users total control over curation creates two big problems for this.

1) if I can cut out all of the BS in the feed, I can utilize the app more passively which likely reduces overall usage. I would try to get my social media into a weekly feed, which is not compatible with the business social media companies are trying to run. It's all about DAU's.

2) total curation makes researching and optimizing the UX for eyeballs more difficult because you introduce an entirely new set of variables into the equation. This increases the likelihood that behavioral research draws erroneous conclusions based on the patterns being observed. By controlling the drip of the content to the users, the company can control for this much more easily.
Published "May 23, 2017"

I'm not sure why this hit the HN front page?
Generally, yes we would want most of the people working on the production side of the military complex employed by our government in some way, and working on our toughest problems. Sadly that's not what their effort is going into now.
That is your takeaway?
Would like to hear more about this!
It does ePub as well:
http://www.bluegriffon.org/

Has a free edition and a paid edition with more features. WYSIWYG features like a word processor.

Don't forget that Word and LibreOffice Write can export HTML files.
Or even https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compromise_of_1877
In Europe, words like Russian or Czech typically mean ethnicity. Even if you live there for 20 years, learn the language and get citizenship, people likely won't call you Czech. Maybe you can be called Czechian (if it's a real word) or Praguer since those don't imply ethnicity. I don't live in Czechia though, so take this with a grain of salt.

> The company is not owned by the Russian state and has never been.

This is true however, and NYT did (predictably) poor job here. Unless there is any indication that JetBrains were involved in the hack, mentioning "Russian-owned" in the title is misleading.
By reducing cycle time and resource competition between generations.