jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> And they mostly suck.

Agree to disagree - I pointed you towards 5-6 of them that globally don't suck. Macs also have tradeoffs of their own that you seem to have no trouble dismissing.
Cryptocurrency is probably more of a third bucket - it's kind of like a hybrid.

You have fiat - dollars, etc.

You have gold, silver, etc.

You have cyptocurrencies like Bitcoin. Some are more like fiat, some are more like gold, some are hybrids, like Bitcoin.

Gold can be used as a medium of exchange for example and as a currency.
I wonder if this is just a straight-up "bad idea"

I think we've all read about ‘The Stanford Prison Experiment’ and how that ended.

Maybe something useful will come out of it and I am definitely in support of thinking outside of the box. But there are probably some major downsides to this...
No.

People were unfamiliar with showering and brushing their teeth. We move forward.
By configurable, I mainly meant the physical layout of keys, configurable at purchase time. So that one can get a laptop with a trendy 6-row chiclet, or a proper 7-row classic ThinkPad keyboard.

But yeah, being able to override the key mapping in EC is an important feature as well, and I'm glad someone's doing it! I really hope for the future where all these pieces come together: a laptop with a good physical keyboard (configurable/swappable, so that everyone can get their meaning of "good"), with configurable EC, replaceable components, etc. That would be a dream.
I also use uBlock on Firefox on desktop and mobile. I'm not installing that app if I can just go to the webpage.
Blockchains aren't companies, scrip isn't a thing anymore, DeFi renders it interoperable even if it were, we all have smartphones and internet now, webapps and networks change the entire marketplace for information labor, no part of this suggests that the company offering the civic services would be an employer or the only employer, company towns were for in-person work, et c.

Even if you just focus on the idea that a company town had a single employer for in-person work, and now we work online for anyone via the internet, this doesn't even have the basic parallels.
i am in my early 20s and after 6 years as engineer i am starting to dislike the industry and move into product or engineering management. looking at some engineering veterans makes me depressed on the prospects on being another decade into the industry. people seem exhausted and the job now increasingly looks like a low grade clerk job. not sure if this resonates with anybody. happy to be challenged.
You can be cash-flow positive driving Uber, but still lose money overall. Depreciation can be sneaky because you don't pay it until you switch vehicles, and even when it comes time to pay it, the costs are bundled up into the next vehicle loan you get. Maintenance is the same way.

Uber exploits the fact that people mistakenly believe cash flow is profit.

I also wonder if your father purchased commercial insurance. That stuff is expensive, and not having it is like buying an exploding lottery ticket. If he's ever in an accident (regardless of whether he was getting paid or not) and his insurance discovers that he drove for Uber without the appropriate coverage, the claim could be denied.

Uber also exploits the fact that their drivers can get away with not being adequately insured.
Why not? IMO this could be a huge opportunity for some people, since the expectations aren't as high as in a paid gig.
My understanding of the incompleteness theorem is that, for a given set of axioms, there will be unprovably true things. Changing the axioms would change which things were unprovable.

That being said, here is a much better resource than I am: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_t...
I was wondering whether they released it as free software or as software that is free as in free beer. It is the latter.
I work with Accel Partners in London (http://www.accel.com/#people/adrian-colyer), and after many years in CTO roles, I'm certainly not afraid of technical subject matter. A quick read through some of my recent blog posts should demonstrate that: http://blog.acolyer.org. There always has to be a good business opportunity too though, not just good tech. We help our European portfolio companies establish a US presence and grow the connections etc. that they need: Accel has been operating in the valley for over 30 years! Without passing judgement on this particular opportunity, I'm always happy to hear from anyone in Europe doing interesting things with technology, aspiring to build a significant business around it, and potentially looking for VC investment. Our recent investment in Weaveworks (http://weave.works/news/seriesa.html) is a good example.

Good advice from mseebach and kcorbitt still holds true though...
Coral cache: http://glaforge.appspot.com.nyud.net/article/the-groovy-proj...
Nope: "Atom is a desktop application based on web technologies." So it's using node.js internally, but it's not actually a webapp.
In my case (and I suspect most others) it is because the Copyright Cartel seems intent on pushing private privileges that were given during a time in which it made sense and they continue to pursue such privileges to the detriment of the rights of the people and the progress. Anything with Fair Use in the title is going to draw interest from some of us.
This one is a sleeper. Might not get as hyped as the other YC companies in its batch, but I think this could definitely be an interesting business.
Just checked http://www.venutastic.com/ and you guys already had it with a redirect. Strong work.
Nick Frost rocks!
Thanks! We went back and forth finding a balance between the relatively complex constraints some people have in looking for a venue, versus a cleaner interface + fewer features. This is noted :) and we'll noodle on it a bit more going forward.
Huh? I don't get it. I mean moving the digital release date is a cool reaction. The description is a bit weird.

> "not everyone realises how much is invested in ambitious, groundbreaking tours"

How many people would see those? Hundreds? Thousands? Probably not one percent compared to sales. Then again fans would still like to buy it. Whoever wanted to hear the tracks at a gig, will wait for the gig before buying the album. I don't see how tour timing is related here. Tour posters will be visible anyways to remind people about the artist - it's not like they got cancelled.

> "collaborations with brilliant artists"

Again - what does it have to do with the release date?

> "lovingly designed packaging"

Not related to digital sales at all.

> "All that happens is a lot of great ideas and music come under threat."

To me it translates to: We were waiting so you can all experience the release in a way we imagined it, but apparently all you wanted was the music, not our tours, designs and marketing campaigns. And because of that the music came under threat. The horror!
Counterpoint:

I get 30 FPS on a machine with an Intel E2180 @2GHz processor and a GeForce 8400 GS...

Chrome 10 on WinXP 32bit.
Good luck following it across Lake Washington.
I think this is better than sourcegraph.
I started to write a comment here but it became a bit lengthy and so thought I would post it to my blog. You can find it here<http://blog.parishmedia.info/post/708546766/no-departments-y...; if you are interested. For the tl;dr version, the problem isn't departments, its communication.
You give away a part of what you do in exchange (or optional retribution) to using what others gave you.

I am using a very powerful Unix-like OS under a very nice GUI and typing it on a browser and none of them would exist if lots of people and companies hadn't donated code, time and resources to these projects. I am happy they did and I am willing to share some of what I do to make this whole ecosystem better.

I also share because if I didn't, I would have to maintain my code independently and a great part of it does not give me any product or competitive advantage - it's my cost. When I give them back, I can count they will be part of the whole and they will be maintained by others in case I fail to do it. When I do it, others share the cost of maintaining it, reducing mine.

It's actually pretty dumb to keep everything to yourself.
It's the Brave New World, SWPL version.
The other thing that makes many of them sound unique is the way they are put together (conjugated?), which produces a new sound. To an unfamiliar ear, isotope and iso topos sound like different words.
Please don't do this here.

And please don't violate the site guidelines by making insinuations about astroturfing. It's a long-established rule that those are not allowed on HN, because the overwhelming majority of the time they are just an internet trope, and a poisonous one at that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
This is an embarrassing situation and I can only be compassionate.

There is a lesson here: the Apple process of approval is not agile enough.

Once the initial version has been approved, subsequent "minor" version should get an immediate "default approval".

That's the proper way for Apple to build some trust relationship with their developers.

Of course, some people could abuse that system, but that's easy to monitor (like when there is a sudden increase in sales just after a "minor update")
Care to tell your story?
This isn't it. It was built against 4.1 (just double checked it).
Yes. There are no restrictions on Delaware incorporation. Anyone can do it. BUT...you would need an in-Delaware agent for service of process (basically, to receive legal documents and notifications).

Of course, international-based companies don't usually incorporate in Delaware because that would subject them to US federal income (and other) taxes, in addition to the taxes of their home country, on their full income, rather than just the income derived from their US operations. This is why multi-national corporations have separate subsidiaries in each country.
I'm sorry if "arguing" means "advocating" to you, my meaning was that the conclusion that you reached was an extreme end of a continuum. Decrease one or the other and you can still call it a government for many possible points on the continuum.

Thanks for the article, it was quite interesting as I don't have a US background. I was a bit surprised that the author thought that people might assume that a system of explicit rules, judgements and binding agreements could be anything other than political in practice.

We use language to create these legal instruments, and interpret them as language users in a community, each of us with our own interests. Politics is what we call this interpretation, negotiation and transformation process. But the fact that there is a political process (whether you agree about the current scope of these state-sanctioned instruments, or whether you'd prefer that civil society manintains them instead) is a classic marker of a rule of law society: totalitarianism, as the extremis case you describe, has very little of this political process and for very good reasons - it's not necessary in the broad.
Not exactly a blog (though it does have a feed) but http://coder.io/tag/sass has a regularly updated list of Sass related articles and projects.
How about a service where you can pay people to do it for you, maybe, say, 10 cents an image?
Have you tried moving from iPhoto to Aperture? At 200GB I think you've outgrown iPhoto's capabilities.
Writing articles is a great way to improve your language skills. The more you practice, the faster you will be able to do it perfectly. As a foreigner, it is not so easy to master all the vocabulary well, but it is possible to understand the terminology and the most common expressions. You can also read different materials to improve your writing skills, for example this one: https://ivypanda.com/essays/writing-process-in-five-simple-s...
I've not been conditioned to expect bad interview questions, so I'm gonna ask: in what way would/could this be a trick question?
The problem with taxing products higher is that it essentially becomes a regressive tax on the poor. If milk is $2 more expensive per gallon, that hits a poorer person much more than a rich person. This is why it's a hard sell to tax goods everyone relies on, like food, oil, and electricity. You could possibly then give a subsidy to lower-income people, but it's hard to track exactly how much a person spent on smaller items throughout the year.
This is pretty cool. It faciliates the use of what I've seen as a number of sore omissions from bash. I dislike the "why aren't you using a real language" mentality - if we can make bash better, why not do it?
What is a hard thing that requires better syntax?

I would argue that hard things require clarity, and syntax can often reduce clarity.
It looks like mingw provides a non-installer version of the binaries, although it is (unintentionally) well hidden in the web. http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%2...
Great work, Gleb! This is in my top ten list of the best gems out there. We are using it on itbyen.no and it does the job really good.

Keep shipping!
How do you recommend finding a niche like "heritage language schools"?
Except their marriage is probably a Pakistani one.
The project initially used DocumentCloud, but I guess that's built for scenarios which are a little less horrible than single-page JPEGs coming in via FTP.

Tesseract has been working beautifully, we've got the first 1500 documents sent through it. Unfortunately, we don't know the language of each document (trying to get up some crowdsourcing for that), so each gets sent through three times (eng, rus, ukr). Finally, all versions are indexed in ElasticSearch. If anyone has a neater way of doing this (e.g. a good, Python-based language detector), please shout!
GitHub sources: https://github.com/cambecc/earth
He found a minor XSS flaw that was overlooked.

You are reaching a bit too far, it's not like he hacked their database or accessed private data.
It's just data that can be used for blackmailing, trashing, etc.
I believe he is referring to the fact that you cannot write a lib in Go that you link into a C application.

Note that this is not just a matter of Go's GC and runtime requirement, but simply the fact that they do not support cdecl / stdcall conventions.

There are plenty of garbage collected languages that can be linked into a C program (Lua, Python, even Haskell) - you just have to make extra calls to start-up the runtime.
I'm a simple man. I see a Julia Evans article, I read it then I upvote. Her blog is one of the best around imo.
This is an angle that hasn't gotten enough attention, and for people paying attention, it sends the message that the government sees small landlords as a way to subsidize public policy. It's the same as rent control; lawmakers would think twice if the the government had to pay the difference between the rent controlled rate and the market rate, or pick up the tab for people who can't pay during a pandemic. This isn't to say people in these situations shouldn't be helped, but if they should, it's the role of the government (really, society), not landlords, to pay for it.
Huh? The foreground is #404040 and background is #F9F9F9. That’s 9.84:1 which is high enough for WCAG AAA. The background image is speckled, but even the lowest-brightness pixel is #E8F7FA which is 4.72:1, which is not AAA, but is AA.
An example that springs to mind is a CSRF token [1]. One might use a session cookie so that the server can have a CSRF token on any forms. In this way we still require a session to be present even if the user doesn't have to login.

1: https://portswigger.net/web-security/csrf/tokens
Good point. Why is there no cooking wiki?
To be clear: qualified immunity is about civil liability. It doesn’t protect from criminal liability. Qualified immunity isn’t the reason cops don’t go to jail for murder, because it doesn’t apply at all for criminal procedures
Thought sex change operations are performed in Iran. And your remark about the intolerance to gays: yes the govt is officially making a tough stance, but I found most modern barbershops staffed with gays discussing their situation openly with me.

Have you been to Iran, or are you Iranian?

You seem so positive about Israel, and interestingly enough I view that country as modern apartheid state, with racist laws an policies.
Windows support? Great as far as I can tell. ActiveTcl, the Windows distribution, has been a thing for several decades now. I remember using it back in 2008.
I think it's all about whether you belong to a company or not. As I wrote, it's great that I wasn't accepted to Coinbase, as I wasn't a good fit (even though I was and still is a huge Bitcoin fan).

In another interview at a quant hedge fund I had a lot of fun talking to the interviewers (even the CEO) about low level data structures, and I got some tricky questions about the CPU that I really liked.
> They only counted the images, so they can't know - but if they just release the images you can know?

Yes, because the images have serial numbers. It's not difficult to understand.
But Youtube is actually defying the government. It’s the opposite of what you’re saying.
The 3.5" drives had no practical disadvantages as compared to 5.25" drives, so the 5.25" units really declined in popularity and were EOL'd in most cases long before 3.5" drives disappeared. IIRC the interfaces and pinouts were different too.

I would imagine that for many people, they moved any valuable data on 5.25" disks to 3.5" disks during the roughly decade of overlap of the two drive types.

I doubt there is enough of a market demand for legacy 5.25" disks where the data doesn't already exist on other mediums to make it worthwhile to offer any kind of modern interface.
Is there something that’s reasonably close to Simple as a replacement?
Whatever the reason, I view this as a good thing. Hopefully the news regarding WhatsApp privacy will convince others as well.
Well to their defense they also released Windows 2000 the year 8 months before that.
I’m making $10K/mo for a quarter-time PM role at Gumroad (so about $250/hr).
well maybe fridge magnets have awesome aesthetic sensibilities and you write beautiful code? ;)
"We have the Crips and the Bloods, we have the Muslims, we have the head Mexicans, and we have the Aryans all with a peaceful understanding, all on common ground."

Whatever's happening, they must have done something terrible to cause that.
Ouch, I stand corrected. I should know by now not to take quotes from articles at face value, especially when it is so easy to look up the source directly. :-)
The sandbox is highly annoying. I can't attach files when using flash uploaders. I thought it was just a bug that would go away soon because I'm on the dev channel.
And also Four Lions[0], a satire about terrorism

And you may know him as the first Denholm from the IT crowd.

[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1341167/
I knew there was some sort of preventative measures built into modern colour photocopiers but hadn't heard of the Eurion constellation until now. It turns out that it was actually discovered by the author of the excellent UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ for Unix/Linux [1] resource.

[1] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
I think we have to take the question and flip it, as the law (mostly) lays out what you can't do, rather than what you can. If I own X shares in company Y, why can't I enter in to a contract with you whereby you take my X shares and return them to me on date Z?

If I can do that, why can't you sell those shares and buy them back (presuming I'm okay with that)?

It is just sort of the default position, and stems more from our property rights than anything inherent in securities law.
It did, first year free, then $1 per year, but I think many just created a new account, or WhatsApp perhaps didn't really enforce the payment much.
> Trump who has been very clearly violating twitter TOS on a daily basis

How has Trump violated Twitter's TOS on a daily basis? It feels like every policy that has been put up is typically put up specifically for Trump.

I don't see how people can post photos of Kathy Griffin showing a decapitated Trump head as being kosher, or CNN's Como saying violent protest is constitutionally protected, and claim Trump is violating TOS. It's hypocrisy.
Respectfully, that does not match up with my rudimentary understanding of linguistics. Considering that both languages pull from the Latin family, I would assume that they are more likely to share an origin, than converge to that etymology coincidentally.

I could totally be wrong about this, of course. For example if you would spoke French, I'd look like an asshole.
I didn't feel like reading a low effort anecdote about that one time someone tried to run their house off of some rooftop solar and a golf cart battery and all his ceiling fans slowed down and everything died when the fridge kicked on so I figured I'd bring load based frequency reduction into the discussion on my own terms.

I can't think of any practical way to use that much power all at once either. On a small country size grid with a lot of renewables that can't ramp quickly I could see some foundries pulling it off.
I didn’t see it mentioned but a common use case for 3rd party cookies is correlating session data across your own multiple domains (if your company owns multiple domains). Publishing companies typically own multiple domains/verticals and can increase ad revenue / seo / traffic quality by linking properties together. It’s important to be niche as a site (verticalization) but also broad as a publishing operation (own many verticals and shift your marketing spend daily).

Anyways, google has been writing a spec for “first party sets” to help replace the use of a 3rd party cookie to connect domains you own. https://github.com/privacycg/first-party-sets

I believe this will need to be implemented before Chrome moves aggressively against 3rd party cookies.
Hills are great for aesthetics too. I grew up in the a flat Midwestern suburb so I'll never grow tired of biking to the top of a hill and gazing miles into the distance, watching the city confirm to each and every wrinkle of the geography. With mountains on the horizon... Why would I ever choose to be anywhere else?
>Apple isn’t selling my data to advertisers

Yeah, they are instead setting up a walled garden of fuck you. I'm not sure how you can argue it's any better. It's a different class of issues for sure, but it's still bullshit. They intentionally make communication more complicated with non-Apple devices so everyone will buy their expensive hardware.
I met a guy in 1998 who had done his Ph.D building full color direct to retina projection. He was doing VR with it back then. That's how long this technology has been in development.

He did it at MIT and if I understood correctly, the US military bought everything (he had no say in the matter).
Joining my local Hackerspace(theTransistor in Provo, Ut) made my life better. The people I met, and the projects I have worked on there are amazing. If you have a Hackerspace near you, go check it out.
Engineers are creative and artistic people.
Or gift them some linux gaming - http://www.humblebundle.com/