jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This entire piece seems to have a bit of a fallacy running under it, that there exist ideal computer languages, and that we should treat all of them equally.

Rather, I'd argue that there are ideal computer languages for specific problems, and most of the holy wars he mocks have their roots in people working on different problems rightly concluding that their language X is ideal and language Y is inferior. The flame wars are peripheral.

That said, there are solid reasons for Dijkstra's critiques of BASIC and in lesser degrees Pascal and friends. Almost all the dialects of BASIC deserve to die.
Let's be honest here. How many times is this really a concern? Why would the FAA approve use of something like this and why would I install it when the chance of use is probably extremely rare?

Seems like too much trouble than it's worth.
Y Combinator probably does not count as a startup. But I'd still have to say YC has been the most inspiring company for me in 2010. Seeing PG talk at startup school about why right now is the best time to do a startup had a large impact on me. I'd argue that currently having the YC stamp of approval for a web/tech startup has more value and credibility than any other single incubator/funder out there. And its probably one of the best things that can happen for an early stage tech startup.
In theory this sounds like the kind of problem snowdrift.coop was created to address, if that ever gets off the ground.
Yes, if your code is going to run on an Turing Machine that actually has infinite tape.
I personally open a (yellow) phone book to a random page and brainstorm ways to make that particular industry more efficient. But then again I'm an efficiency consultant.

I'd peruse idea/complaint websites and see if one idea tickles your fancy:

http://www.sixmonthmba.com/2009/02/999ideas.html
http://www.whynot.net/
http://www.quirky.com/
http://logolalia.com/ideafactory/
http://mybiggestcomplaint.com/
http://www.ilovetocomplain.com/
The OpenKinect project has achieved a lot in the last week.

https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect/

http://groups.google.com/group/openkinect
Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

- Mark Zuckerberg

http://startupquote.com/post/1624569753
A search at searchyc.com turned up:

"There's a background process that runs every 45 seconds and picks a random loaded user to update the average of. Empirically, not more than every couple days, at best."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1875738
If I am correct, this should be the motto of Facebook. Correct me if I am wrong. Thanks.
But they definitely seeded the site with anonymously asked 'questions'.

There's no way that all those "Why does Quora use MySQL" questions weren't rhetorical bullshit.
I would guess that Kinect, unlike most peripherals, but like most consoles, is sold at or below cost and the profit is made in games sales. If people can use Kinect without buying any games, they reduce the amount of profit Microsoft is able to bring into an already low margin area of their company.
That's hard or simply impossible if you're not in US/UK.

Also, even in the US, you'll need to build a lot of code on your site to support all the options that FastSpring and other similar services provide, such as all the offers, discounts, cross-sales etc. It's possible to do and maybe even more integrated, but still it's additional work that needs to be done and maintained.
In 1991 it looked like this: http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/T...

In 1992 Erwise, ViollawWW and Lynx were created and Mosaic in 1993, Netscape in 1994. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_World_Wide_Web)

That picture was from 1993, though I'd concede I got a few inaccuracies in my comment, however Tim Berners Lee, didn't create the whole web by himself, even in the very early days there were others creating it too, that have now been forgotten.
More likely, they'll wait until you all upgrade to 2.1 or 2.2.

Planned obsolescence is baked into the android ecosystem. Plan on buying a new andoid phone every 18 months to get all the new apps if you want to stay with the platform, it's all google is supporting (the newest stuff).
All this pain to drop $2.5k per year on a Nikon camera? Dude, seriously, just take a few months and learn some skills at something, then get a decent job using them. You'll be able to buy a new camera every freaking month.

I mean I'm all for living within your means and planning and frugality but seriously, don't eat out except for the cheapest fast food around? That's the wrong way to go about it. Upgrade your cash flow, not downgrade your life.
Who's Zed Shaw?
"name 4 people on the core team"

Name four people on the core team at Facebook.

This is ironic seeing as the author is in part famous for being a terrific programmer.
Interesting perspective. The Homer Simpson to the rest of the world's Frank Grimes.
Also the small businesses (cafes, restaurants, independent retail) that makes cities interesting will be in extremely bad shape.
I spent quite a while trying to replace the syntax of FFmpeg's filter-graphs with a tree-structure of nodes. Then about a week in I remembered why you should never build a DSL over a DSL.

I personally find the FFmpeg syntax to not need further abstraction. There's more than a few projects that try and replace the graph and they'll be stuck trying to keep pace with version creep.
Cystic fibrosis is supposed to cost up to a quarter of a million dollars per year for medical care per patient. Two members of my household have it. I've supported us all on well under $20k annually for at least eight years and we were homeless for nearly six years.

I often have insufficient money for food. Yet, we are still alive.

I respect your genuine and valid concerns about giving advice in situations where you don't know what you are talking about. Trying to give me advice to do things like volunteer in a hospital or donate money I don't have falls in that category.

Maybe take a few minutes to at least look up cystic fibrosis before commenting further about what you think I should be doing.
I don't have any links or sources, but I remember reading somewhere that Intel has a ton of patents for x86 stuff, making emulation a legally risky manoeuver.
The Babbage's machine would have worked! But it'd be more limited that it needed to be. It was a specialized calculator by design, not a general-purpose computer, partly because of the lack of the theoretical framework.
(As I preface, I have zero qualification to speak about microprocessor and instruction set design)

Microsoft currently has 32-bit-only x86 emulation on the ARM-powered Surface X and the reviews aren't positive. I don't know if it's actual emulation, trap/HLE emulation, dynamic translation, or something else - but Microsoft takes backwards compatibility far more seriously than Apple does, and if that's the best Microsoft can do, what hope does Apple have?

While x86 and ARM's ISAs are fundamentally different (y'know: CISC vs RISC) but given that x86 CPUs today are generally implemented using RISC microcode - could x86 be emulated by instead translating x86's RISC microcode to ARM?

I realize another alternative exists: Apple could buy-up cheap, low-power Intel x86/x64 chips (like an i3 or something) as a co-processor to the primary ARM chip and only use the i3 if ARM-based emulation is too slow for a given process?
I train my diaphragm for singing, not really for any other benefits. But I think taking long, deep breaths is great for calming down and finding focus if you're stressed out.

Don't push your stomach out. Let the stomach be pushed out when you breathe in. There's a difference.

The simplest way (I think) to find a 'deep'/connected breath, is to breathe slowly all the way out, making a 's' sound, until there is no more air left. Then, hold for about 4 seconds. Now just relax and let the body breathe in on its own.
It's not possible to screen for certain if someone has just acquired HIV, so to this day, they try to exclude people with risk factors from donating blood. Which then is treated as a human rights issue by some.
This describe a process used by J.K. Rowling to write the 5th HP book.
Am I the only one to think this is also the worse book in the series ?
Working perfect here. Opera 27.0.1689.76 over OS X
That's exactly my motivation. I've been using these tunnels for a while, but I've never seen it packaged up neatly for anyone to use.
Adding to this, from what I understand, ninja was designed to be generated by another more feature-full build tools. For example in chromium, its generated from gyp (generate your projects) files. The fact that its human readable is just a plus.

Makefiles I presume, will be hard to write by hand when:

1. Your project code base is large
2. It take large amount of time or very powerful machines to build sub-modules (V8 for e.g in chromium) so, you don't want to do it all the time
3. Conditional inclusion of sub-modules (for iOS vs Android if you have two separate set of files etc)
4. Sub-modules are pulled in from 3rd parties into your code base
LOL. I even used them wrong. I put in single line-breaks and three asterisks. Guess it's a markdown editor? ;)
Biden's hot mic gaffe was another example - from gentle grandpa and distinguished statesman to a glimpse into the "hunan" side
It is, certainly. So are the arguments for deletionism, IMO.
I'm of two minds on this.

On the one hand, I like the idea of the internet being organic where things rot and die, truly forgotten.

On the other hand, it's much easier for future historians to look back a hundred years and see the actual content that's posted at any point in time.

In both instances I think we overestimate how important any one piece of content is. If an idea dies when a site goes down, it probably wasn't a very good idea.

So are we talking about accurate attribution of ideas, or the loss of good ideas per se?
Probably some "holographic bracelet" stuff.

In other words: BS.
> and the failure of competing attempts to do this such as Windows on ARM.

Don't forget what Apple has a virtually no variations in the hardware, compared to Windows.
DNS isn't centralized. It is and always has been distributed. De facto under central control, but so is all the infrastructure.
Indeed. When I clicked on the thread I expected more serious technical analysis of the bad security. I could get "lol stupid suckers with victim mentality" pretty much everywhere else on the internet. Fortunately at least some of the more egregious comments have since been edited.

When a bunch of the comments are about how stupid the target demographic is, when there's tons of interesting technical meat to talk about, it's kind of embarrassing.
A little sci-fi sprinkle on an old scam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_medicine
I'm fine with the ambulance driving safely, rather than causing more emergencies from driving too fast.

If you care about the time to get to an emergency room, get hospitals closer to people?

People can drive poorly on any road, but they'll do it more if the road guides them to misbehave.
I remember this. I was a teenager and this inspired me greatly to learn more about tech.
There are no good solutions here.

Should Facebook ignore Turkish law? Should they go by the US' terror organisation list instead? Should they maintain their own "terrorist list" alongside Turkey & the US'? Separate classifications of illegal or immoral content for in every jurisdiction?

You think there are political biases in American FB or Twitter? ... Try FB in a language or political context that no FB executive even speaks.

Meanwhile, there's chance (grumblings in europe, atm) that FB/Twitter will be subject to positive pressures as well. IE, making it illegal to exclude (eg) a political party from a platform. It doesn't take long before the same content is illegal in one jurisdiction and illegal to restrict in another. The Armenian Genocide comes to mind as a likely example.

Zuck is like a case study in "no morals" corporate culture.

OOH, saying yes to revenue streams worked out really well. FB "retargeting" and creepy personalized advertising won. The effectiveness of the ads, and revenue soared. Being "cutting edge" really, really paid off. It was creepy, but people got used to it. Scandals like Cambridge Analytica also passed. Other platforms (adwords) did it too, and FB doesn't stand out too much.

On the other hand, having no morals makes it very hard to navigate issues like censorship & moderation in multiple jurisdictions. This is exactly the kind of work morals were invented for.
Not everyone knows how blockchain works, and so NFT marketplaces are acting as pseudo central authorities (the average Joe buys, sells and checks the ownership of NFTs via marketplaces).
As I also have to manage databases, I also take into careful consideration how much work it is to manage them.

So, at one end of the spectrum is SQLite (zero administration) and at the opposite is Oracle (a major PITA).

Postgresql/MariaDB lie in the middle.
I really liked "The C Programming Language (second edition)" by Kernighan & Ritchie. It doesn't teach C99 and later features, but if you want to write portable code you're not using those anyway.
If you're okay with (1) not supporting the guy that designed it in the first place and (2) taking a risk on a Chinese knock-off (reviews generally seem good), you can often find the Hackrf One on the usual suspect sites straight from China relatively cheaply.

There's a listing right now for just the hackrf one board at $125USD (versus a legit one at $350USD).

Hate to say it but I ordered one from there (with a metal case, high stability clock, assortment of antennas and other useful stuff) for $160.

I've had my eye on one for years, but it's just never going to be something I'm willing to drop $350+ on as part of the hobby.
This article seems reasonably objective at first, until it suddenly turns on you and becomes extremely opinionated:

"The problem is that Glass’s music fails to do what I believe all great music does, which is to structure time in a profoundly meaningful way"

Not really. When I'm composing something, and I find myself forced to backtrack and rewrite my work, lest it sound "too glassy", which I know everyone would complain about, then that's a rather clear sign that Glass is now settled as a great composer. It's not an understatement to say that he changed the history of music, and that his style is likely to influence most, if not all future composers.
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Our founders thought about that quite a bit, the answer they came up with? You can't.

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - James Madison

As those were spoken over 200 years ago I think we can forgive the phrasing and understand the meaning of "moral and religious." And though at the time I'm sure these intelligent people thought that morality and religiosity were positively correlated, today I'm almost tempted to say that in my own relationships I see an inverse correlation, and I say that as a deeply religious person.
Hardly. The Fairness Doctrine is exactly "the cure for bad speech is more speech".

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Fairness-Doctrine might be useful.
Depending on the headline, week, angle JetBrains is Russian, Czech, European, …
True, but as someone who grew up in Pakistan, these trucks are generally regarded as an eye sore.
CNN: https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/congress-electoral-co...

Ctrl+F for windows.
Doesn't matter, assuming you allow people to pick who they follow. Try to look at the twitter feed of somebody who disagrees with you on a topic you find important - most the posts will be insults towards those who disagree with that persons POV.
We also have a pretty comprehensive discussion of this and many other vectors in:

http://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/client-identi...
I'd think the opposite. Since she is used to having to work hard from a young age, she will be more successful in life.

Others who coasted through—whom were used to everything being relatively easier—will not have the experience she has already accrued when faced with a harder challenge.
Noisebridge has the right idea. If you've never been there, just show up and hang out awhile. Seriously.

Only thing about hacker spaces in general is "no sleeping". My vision involves a place to sleep and take a time-out.
Would love thoughts on this. I'm here to learn as much as I'm here to share what (little) knowledge I have.
Having been through similar bouts of depression in my teens and early twenties I also adopted some of daekan's techniques.

Personally, another thing that has helped me greatly is to preempt situations that have caused me to become depressed in the past. Because at least for me, it's incredibly hard to get past the hopelessness and despair without hitting rock bottom, and there's a lot of damage done before that happens. For me it's more economical to spend extra effort avoiding the depressive moments altogether than digging myself out of them.

So nowadays I just avoid things that trigger or resonate with those depressive emotions. So, I'll eschew watching movies that people describe as sad or depressing, no matter how good they might be. I don't fill my reading list with tragedies or existential dramas. I'm more picky in the type of music I listen to and purposely reduce the frequency with which I listen to melancholic songs.

I noticed talking about my negative emotions empowered them and gave them more substance. So now I only allow myself a limited number of instances to talk about my problems. Going to a therapist helped with this as it isolated those moments to a specific place, time and person. Thus reducing the desire to wallow in those negative thoughts with friends and acquaintances.

I've also removed people in my life who were extremely focused on their problems and misfortunes and replaced them with more active and happier people. Basically I've made an effort to befriend people that compliment my weaknesses (staying active and upbeat) instead of reinforcing them.

Being involved in periodic activities with others has also helped greatly. Like meeting with my old DnD group, despite being idle entertainment, was incredibly useful in getting me out of the house during weekends when I would be most tempted to stay in and be left alone with my thoughts.

The final thing was recognizing what situations, places and events are depressive triggers and avoid them like the plague. For example, I can't travel alone for extended periods: being isolated in a foreign country is an instant depressant. So now I always try to travel with friends or companions and that ends up being more enjoyable to boot.

Anyways, thanks to all who shared their experiences.
I think one issue is the length of the bets. Ten years is a very long time for a human bet, but it's not very long in terms of history, in terms of heavy industrial technology, or in terms of Hubbert's ideas about resource peaks.

It was obvious that oil was a finite resource from the start, but it took the better part of 100 years of exploitation for US oil production to peak. Five or ten years doesn't seem long enough to reliably spot a trend on that scale.

I'm surprised Simmons expected such high prices. As the shock in 2008 illustrated, above a certain price, oil users cut back as much as they can, which lowers the price again. A sustained price of 200 2005-era dollars per barrel is a really high; that price would surely kill a lot of demand, which would probably prevent it from being sustained. Eventually, we may see $200/bbl, but it will probably be quite a while.

I know hindsight is 20/20, but still, I would have thought a better bet would be something about the average price of oil over (say) a five year period always being higher than the average price over the previous five year period. Then again, maybe Tierney wouldn't have taken that bet.
I'm tired of this argument as well - it also goes something like this:

"Assange has founded Wikileaks, so how dare he oppose leaking details of his alleged sex crimes trial!?"
If you look at Kick-Ass, it was downloaded more than Inception but made about a tenth of Inception's worldwide gross. This suggests to me that because its cinematic 'wow factor' was less, pirates took the opportunity to forego the theatre experience and enjoy it for free. I can't see how piracy has helped it here - judging by its popularity it should have made an awful lot more money. If piracy drove ticket sales then why the stark contrast with Inception?
The roundtrip through the string rep can happen, but only if YOU treat the list as a string (more generally, as a non-list).

That's a hell of a thing to have to document, so I think it was appropriate to have the string conversion functions raise an error. When I worked on it, the code was running in Tcl 8.3 or 8.4, and I was able to reproduce the round trip through the string reliably with exactly the operations I described. I may have printed the list to the console as part of the test, and if that qualifies as "treating the list as a non-list" it pretty well proves the need to assume the worst. (It's also possible I was using older interfaces, even 10+ year old interfaces, since I kept my code consistent with the existing style in our software, but it's pretty harsh to say "your fault" if the interfaces for the most basic type in the language changed between versions 7 and 8, just saying.)
With a quick and easy modification of your code, you could make a 0 handed clock where the current time is always lined up at the top-center of the screen.

That way, you only have to look at one place to find the time.
Yes, isn't that exactly my point?
I don't necessarily think DHH's problem is with not charging for things, but for not charging and calling yourself a business/company. Listening to him talk about it, he seems to be more pissed about this bubble that's come up in the last few years -- people are coming up with technological ideas that don't possess a lot of real monetary value, yet burn through investor capital without ever developing a revenue model. It's South Park underpants gnomes all over again:

Step 1: Steal Underpants (Build software)
Step 2:
Step 3: Profit!
The tone/editing takes away from this video's credibility, but if you look past that and watch with healthy skepticism (for lack of a better word), there is a lot to be learned.
It seems kind of strange to me that in America, we let marketers push junk food and all other means of unhealthy food with little to no regulation, and then when we can't resist the cravings and eat a whole box of Oreos, it's our fault for not having enough discipline to say "no" for the 100th time this week.

I know at the end of the day ultimately we are responsible for our own actions, but there is nothing in this country to make it any easier on ourselves.
This does look terrible but I'm not sure about number 2 - can you quote the part of the clause that suggested that?
I am pretty sure my dad didn't like them to begin with but the question at the time was 'do I give the cops a hard time and spend even more time out here or let them take a look and get on my way'.

Drunk driving is a serious problem, no doubt about it, but stopping everyone on an interstate to talk with them is insane overreach.

I am surprised no one's figured out the problem of analyzing traffic camera data to flag people who are driving erratically so enforcement can be both more comprehensive and targeted. I'd be wary of that solution, too, but it is far better than stopping everyone.
Contrary to your perspective, I've grown up in Toronto, lived in the Bay Area, and have come back to Toronto because I genuinely feel it's a more balanced city to live in.