jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You know the guy who invented the birth control pill was a devout Catholic?

Catholic nuns in particular, BTW, are somewhat infamous for butting heads with power structures both in and outside the Church, from a progressive standpoint--birth control, sex work, women's rights, and GLBT rights are a handful of issues that have been known to come up. It seems to come from working directly with the affected people on the ground.

And of course many nuns do the same thing and remain staunchly conservative. People are people.

But if you think that you can accurately pigeonhole anyone with different beliefs than yours into a narrow little box, you're no better than the bogeyman you're fighting.
Agreed I can't even recall the last time I used call or apply. We might have only a handful of cases out of roughly 200,000 JS lines of code.
>> The voyage to Mars will certainly not be a direct source of food for the hungry.

This sentence highlights the certainty a mission to Mars was during the Apollo program. Soon after this (early 70's) the NASA budget was slashed, and the mighty Saturn V mothballed.
I haven't changed anything for a while. They shouldn't have been in that order and aren't now. I just restarted the server, and there is various temporary weird stuff that happens when I do that, so that could have been the cause. Let me know if you see something like this again.
Any pointers on how to find these incredibly boring, yet painful problems in industries?
Yes, you can write an ISAPI module if you want as little as possible between your program and IIS, but I wouldn't label that as "easily".

And I don't see why you would bother, ASP.Net is compiled, it's not exactly a performance hog, unlike PHP.
> Google voice is what? An implementation of VoIP?

No, it's not. I could tell you spend the next 15 minutes telling you what it is or you could just look it up yourself on this thing called the Internet. Your purposeful ignorance here is not a good argument tactic.

The reason that Apple rejected Google voice was because of the "duplicate functionality" argument. Other apps don't prove anything except that they aren't threatening to Apple. As soon as an app exists that is, they just pull out one of these excuses and it's gone.
People don't realize there are better ways than that. Also, if they need to enter their e-mail address somewhere they can't insert CSS or JavaScript and aren't sure if it is going to be properly obfuscated when rendered, the only way is to plain text obfuscate it.

By the way, here is a blog post from 2008:
http://techblog.tilllate.com/2008/07/20/ten-methods-to-obfus...
Most companies try to show they are ethical by donating or being a corporate sponsor for a charity or event. I like Google's concept of just giving things out for free since I am a great benefactor of that.

Google can make some of the money back through increased ads, but its not always clear how they do it for some products where there isn't any visible ads at all.
That was primarily in the context of "Also problematic is a standards body that ignores this use case!" part of your comment.

Besides if you don't care about antiquated browsers (eg IE6), the inline-block is a viable option. In IE it will require some massaging, but it can be made to work quite easily.
It may end up only being a very short period of time in human history where we are advanced enough to prolong life with these type of stopgap measures without being able to treat the causes.
Not sure what open formats you're talking about, but their support for OpenDocument (.odf and .ods) has been and continues to be quite shitty. To their credit Google's Docs doesn't even have shitty support for OpenDocument, but that doesn't make MS Office better, not when LibreOffice exists.

$99 / year seems like a good deal, until you realize that it might as well be $0 / year if you don't use Office 365 and you're not missing much.

Office 365 sucks for collaborative editing, where Google Docs shines, or for note taking. It also sucks if you want to write highly technical documentation, for which I prefer Markdown, Org or Latex — I know it's not for everybody, but nothing beats pushing text files in Git.

Microsoft Excel is king for big spreadsheets filled with fancy formulas, but for my own purposes Google Sheets has been much more user friendly and I'm the kind of guy that creates sheets for monthly expenses, tracking my weight, etc. And I've seen this going on in our team too, where Google Sheets is much more convenient.

So you're paying $99 / year which is only useful when other people share MS Office formats with you. And I know this depends on the field you're in, but I can literally count the number of times that happened this year on the fingers of one hand.

And sure they give you OneDrive storage too. But you only use OneDrive when you don't care about your data, because their client is a piece of shit. I tried to use it repeatedly and I witnessed serious data conflicts and sync issues within hours of installing their client and this happened several times. Dropbox is more expensive, but Dropbox actually works for the intended purpose.

I did pay for Office 365 for about 2 years, until I realized that I'm not actually using it, wasted money.
Sure libre _might be better_ in that regard. But 99% of business sheets are done in excel, and work in excel.

If they don't work in libre then that's an automatic no-go for most managers/whoever makes that decision.
Fake news at scale are invented by RF, as part of their Informational War on West. Mentioning of major player in fake news, which produces them on scale with massive government support, is not red herring, because we have border-less Internet.

I'm from Europe. We have euvsdisinfo.eu site here, which raises this issue: https://euvsdisinfo.eu/why-facebook-is-more-revealing-on-nud... . USA just ignores it.
>Prices are an added bonus but not the main USP. Not to me anyway.

But it's all related. There is more availability because both drivers and customers are being subsidized.

At the end of the day, a car costs so much to operate and maintain, and a person requires so much economic profit to make driving around worth their while. No "hacks" around that fact.
Looks like some people put up with it :P - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JN4RI7nkes
Reminds me of the Nicki Case tool:

https://ncase.me/matrix/
I like this initiative. Best of luck !

PS : I guess there is a typo in the pricing options, the most expensive should offer 1TB instead of 1GB
There's more to give and take than money.
What timing. I just started implementing an interpreter in go this past weekend. I’d been following Bob Nystrom’s https://www.craftinginterpreters.com, translating java into go as well as comparing my impl to the go package scanner, parser etc. (https://golang.org/pkg/go/) It’ll be very interesting to compare my own approaches with Thornsten Ball’s to see if my use of idioms and intutions about certain things were on the right track.
I love the brainstorming, designing, and building stages of product development, but this is a very misguided thread.

Startups shouldn't start with ideas. They should start with markets. Ideas mean nothing if you don't have an unusually inefficient way to sell the products that come out of them.
Eye of the tiger played using floppy disk drives, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMcRd_4RwRQ
In fact, as far back as 1971, Donald Bligh concluded that “there is not much difference in the effectiveness of methods to present information.”

Apart from 1971 having only nascent experience with educational videos, it's really hard to accept that the science videos of the 50s and 60s were no more effective at imparting information than a book. Seeing things move around as the presenter talks about them can really help to understand the topic.

It really depends on the topic that's being discusses - sometimes a video is better, sometimes a book is better, sometimes you absolutely have to get your hands dirty. You can read a book all you want and watch videos 'til the cows come home, but neither will make you proficient in tying a ligature.

I guess my problem with the statement is that it's absolutist. Some things are better in text, some things are better shown, some things are better done in person, not to mention other methods as well. Choose the appropriate tool for the job. And know your audience as well - the 'general public' is different to 'self-motivated autodidacts', for example.
Yes.

Once someone is on your cap table it's very very hard to get them off. If it's someone who isn't reliable, doesn't align with you philosophically, or is unethical.... There's a world of hurt waiting. You spend the money once, you deal with the consequences for the life of the company. Little things include having to chase down signatures years after they've "checked out" so you can run your business. Bigger things include blocking an exit for petty reasons, or scaring away future, higher quality, investors, because good investors don't want to be in deals with bad ones.
This is a really insightful article. A shame it hasn't garnered any discussion, but maybe people feel they don't have much to add.

I think the next big wave of economic growth is not 3d printing, or AI, or anything like that; it's figuring out how to actually run large organisations effectively. Nick Szabo has a bunch of essays on how it was the printing press which enabled mass literacy, which enabled large bureaucratic organisations. Relatively new in human history.

Email-powered organisations are only a few decades old, and we're still ironing out the kinks.
From the article:

"Recently legal scholars have started looking harder at such fields, hoping to find mechanisms that can support innovation without the cost and complexity of conventional intellectual property law, and wondering how broadly those alternative mechanisms might be applied."

Honest question: how much innovation is there in this field? Is there a steady stream of new magic tricks? Assuming there is, and I have no idea one way or the other, it might serve as a interesting counterexample to the claim that patent laws are essential to innovation.

The extralegal protection system they've developed - essentially a guild system - doesn't seem like a terribly promising candidate for broad application. Among other things, it's more effective than the patent system at stopping ideas getting into the public domain, ever. Whatever its other drawbacks, a patent means an idea will eventually make its way into the public domain.

edit: grammar
Yeah, but for a tax of $300. The big companies will doubtless all register theirs, but there are countless other sites that won't have the time/resources to do this.
Those in the UK should keep an eye out for re-runs of Micro Men, which tells the story of Sinclair vs Acorn in the 1980s. Brilliant television:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n5b92
IIRC exporting encryption to the short list of disallowed countries is still illegal.
Damn right! Girly program languages suck. That's why I never even bothered to try Ada, and why my favourite is Python.

(you nong)
Best of both worlds I guess, I'd imagine they could run it on their own servers a lot cheaper but would get destroyed when a new game peaked. Using the EC2 as overflow they can make the best use out of their own servers rather than buying up big computing power that is only ever used in user spikes.
That looks pretty hilarious! I've seen more realistic hair on Action Men than on the actor playing Sir Clive :)

It's on YouTube for those wanting to take a peek: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y8IkcUGV9w
i think software analogy is not quite right. after sw is released next iterations or "sequels" are generally refinement of the first. movies are not.
Indeed, global organisations like the WTO will have to get used to countries like India and Brazil catering to their own interests as bluntly as the European and North American countries.
Calcanis has a long history of saying whatever will get his blog the most hits. I think it's more likely he logged back in to answer a message or look at photos or whatever, and needed a story for why his account hadn't vanished. But we all know, software isn't magic; there are bugs, but it doesn't just do stuff at random!
Musicians and recording engineers have the same saying.

s/painting/mix
Chad Hurley replied to Abdullah Gul, saying "Thank You!":
http://twitter.com/Chad_Hurley/status/15952563522
I don't see myself going out of the house for daily shopping with something like a segway.

What about the option of using your feet?
Simple, baseless predictions have no grounds.
A lot of it is due to the variable stroke width on most serif fonts. It leaves more room for problems with rasterizing the glyphs, particularly when the screen resolution is low. It has gotten better in recent years with more HiDPI screens but print still usually has better resolution.
> for search that was significantly better than google

Why aren't you using Duck Duck Go? [ http://duckduckgo.com/ ]

It's 10 times faster than Google to find stuff if you're a programmer, you can just press J, K like it was VIM and just focus your eyes on the green box to scan like 100 webpages instantly.

It's even faster if you don't use Chromium but a browser with a sane and configurable BACK button (ex. Opera ex. BACKSPACE) instead of moveyour-hand + ALT + ARROW nonsense.

Set homepage to DuckDuckGo and just press backspace with pinky to get back to entering a new search. IMO even if you want to end up at a google service like Google News it's faster, ex. "!news wikileaks"
>Words we learn are linked to experience of their usage but they're also linked to other words and to tangible things in our experiences such as things like books or teachers or places which are objects.

You and I are on the same page, but you're using the word 'experience' in a more narrow sense than I am. You can experience words and things that are (roughly) objects and my point still stands. Things that are objects are still better thought of generally as experiences. It's just more consistent.

Another way of putting this is that language learning is mostly about encoding the appropriateness of linguistic constructs in varying contexts. So it is appropriate to act like you are in a restaurant when you are in what looks to be a restaurant. It is appropriate to run with the pack. It is appropriate to run from a lion and chase down a gazelle. This is basically the whole point of a nervous system, if you want to go wild with it. We just evolved a specialized adaptation for using our 'appropriateness-engines' on words and symbols rather than general feelings of what is going on around us.

At least, that's a rough draft of what I'm getting at.
Nobody's pointed it out, so I'll say I'm really surprised wet-boew was picked up in all this -- it's from the Government of Canada, and what they've done to try and advance web accessibility, etc. http://wet-boew.github.io/v4.0-ci/index-en.html#about

The name is not ... the greatest, though. Maybe they should have called it "Boilerplate, eh?" ;)
> Note that this situation probably won't get that far. That's because the DMCA doesn't require Google or any other provider to comply with bogus takedown notices. And Google happens to have some smart attorneys (at least one ex-EFF lawyer, in fact) on its payroll who are well aware of that fact.

Google removed all URLs except 3:

http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/...

In other words, Google is not the EFF.
Sure, you can take that tiny little shell holding company for all its worth...
I am not sure where you made a link between having idle one sided chatter with a baby = having genes for high verbal ability.

Anyways, there's a lot of research that does consider nature vs nurture... http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...
GitHub doesn't :( I filed one for the craftbukkit takedown a while back, and got a polite response saying it has to be the content owner.
The earliest Androids, like the HTC Incredible, were about the same size as the iPhone. There's plenty of people who prefer the configurability Android's had for years. Some people are turned off by Apple because the perception of hipsterness. Apple chooses to not compete with downmarket (they also are losing MacBook sales to $349 Toshibas). I say all this as an Apple enthusiast (laptop, display, mouse, 6plus, iPad Air all in front of me ... I'm on my 4th MB, 4th iPad, and 6th iPhone), but I clearly see why someone wouldn't buy an iPhone, and I don't think Apple could have easily altered that reality, nor would they necessarily want to.
I've heard the following tips:

- write a first draft (not in your head)

- keep consistent daily writing schedule: either time-based (e.g. 5 - 8am); or output-based (e.g. 2000 words, no matter how long it takes)

- write a lot
Tourists/exchange students etc tend to use them
All your buttons and links look disabled until you mouse over them. I kept finding myself stuck during signup, trying to figure out what information I was missing that would enable the Continue button.

I expected, once finally in, to find a site where I could listen to the aforementioned live/saved music. Since the page I saw was empty, I tried clicking on my username, which brought me to a page containing absolutely nothing except my username in a bigger font.

No links to anything at all.

Now what???
Because laptop buyers, like many apes, are attracted to shiny things.

(What? H. sapiens is a species of great ape.)
Top notch design. The posterous doesn't do you justice. Great step by step sign up process. I just didn't like how it automatically opens up finder to browse for a pic (unless I accidentally clicked).
OK so did anyone go to http://www.lollibomb.com/ - the site/person who made that? Really? The bevel and drop-shadow they use are from the 80's - along with the crap-tastic logo... And did you actually say 97,00%? really?
If you're wondering what it does, it's like Justin.tv for sound - a super simple way to share live music.

... and it's awesome!
Here in Switzerland you can send an email for free using terminals that are installed in lot of these booths
In parts of London they double as advertising space promoting members of the oldest profession. I wonder if this is related.
I mostly agree with you (not the least of which is that blocking I/O is a damn fine API), but the reason that people use async I/O is to have lots of outstanding requests. Typically you would use select (or similar) to service whichever one responds first. That way you can multiplex many I/O streams onto a small number of threads. If threads are memory-intensive, you almost certainly have to do this.
I agree that we should keep in mind that violence underlies everything the government does, but I don't think we should act as if the violence is always realized. For example, we don't let a chemical plant emit more than a limited amount of certain toxic chemicals into the air. How does this "not letting" happen? The company operating the plant is careful to stay within legal limits because it does not want to be fined. It does not want to be fined, because if it does not pay, the financial institutions it does business with will freeze its accounts on order of the government. The financial institutions will freeze the accounts because their officers do not want to commit a crime by failing to do so. The officers do not want to commit a crime because they don't want to go to prison, and if they refuse to go to prison willingly, men with guns will take them there.

I'm just guessing at the exact chain of enforcement, but I think we both agree, ultimately it comes down to the state's capacity for violence. However, that doesn't mean that when we pass environmental regulations we should envision people being dragged from their homes screaming in the middle of the night at gunpoint while their children soil themselves and are traumatized for life. We should envision what actually happens: companies keeping their emissions within legal limits and paying fines when they fail to do so. We should think about the reality of what enforcement will actually look like, not imagine the bank officers in solitary confinement for struggling with prison guards and their children in therapy for PTSD.

I agree that we should keep that stuff in mind when that's the reality of enforcement. Drug laws, for example, do result in a lot of young kids seeing their parents and siblings dragged out of their homes at gunpoint. But I think it's a misleading image when talking about most government uses of power.
I have that on my list.
Dark mode can cause strain on eyes. Lower total brightness means your pupils open up to be able to take in more light. Wider pupils means lower depth of field, i.e. less stuff in focus immediately in front of/behind whatever you are currently focused on. You are more susceptible to having to refocus from subtle movements with a lower depth of field. The less of a steady state your focus, the more the muscles involved in focusing are engaged, which might be a cause of the strain you are feeling.

Similarly, this is why your eyes can hurt while reading in dimmer settings. It's not because low light itself is somehow harmful while reading, but because your eyes have a harder time staying focused as you naturally move while reading.

edit: I adopted light themes everywhere after reading this, probably https://ux.stackexchange.com/a/53268 . Knowing depth of field from photography helped this make sense, as well as understanding (from conversations with a doctor in my family) that the generic feeling "strain" is most likely associated with muscle activity than anything else.
I don't currently have access to the machine and files that I was doing it on, but I'll try those in the morning!
Thanks for your input. Many commenters suggest hobbies with more social aspects, and I'm thinking they (and you) are probably right. Although my dad tends to keep to himself, I think too much of that is probably not good and a solitary task like software development will only enable that. One of the things he liked about work is, as an introvert, he got his daily dose of social interaction.
>For the 50 years preceding Apple's intervention, any example that can be produced of MB equalling 1,000,000 bytes, likely has about one MiB-worth of counter-examples showing it equalling 1,048,576 bytes.

You'd be surprised...

M has been the accepted prefix for 1,000,000 since the 19th century, widely used in science, networking standards and disks, decades before Apple made any change itself...
Hi dreamer. Yes, it is quite simple to add new connections, they are logically separated, since we do have plans to add custom connections, much like we have custom blocks, and also to only include the connections used by the app in the server, since bundle size becomes important in serverless applications.

If you would like to contribute a connection to the project, we would be more than happy helping with that.