jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Try Lazarus / Free Pascal, it is essentially a free and open source Delphi (really, it has even similar API and some companies who release middleware for Delphi also release it for Lazarus) without the bloat and with support for multiple platforms using each platform's native controls (Delphi also added support for multiple platforms in recent years but it uses some custom mobile-styled widget set that looks alien everywhere). Under Linux you can even choose between Qt and Gtk.

As for your question, here is a video i made ~5 years ago making a simple 2D tilemap editor under Windows - starts from installing Lazarus (as well as a small image editor i wrote in VB5 :-P) to making the editor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3JgeIUo1X0

Also as a bonus here is another video where i make a swapping tile puzzle game (this time under Linux, also includes installing FPC from repository and building Lazarus from source code which IMO is the best way to install it under Linux as to avoid issues common with packaging):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_01Xhd2EJM

Note these aren't tutorials (they do not even have sound), just screencasts. I thought about buying some mic and making some tutorials but i do not think my voice sounds that good :-P
In California, the only reason people can oppose new projects is because the government enables them to have a say in someone else's property. So you don't have to force development, but you do have to remove NIMBY's ability to veto projects.

That starts with reforming permitting processes and zoning regulations.
I've been reading it slowly for a little while, and quite like it. I think it's a book that really is not for everyone, or at least only for a certain time, but it's worthwhile.
If your gains are less than $250K (single) or $500K (married-filing-jointly), you've owned it for 2 years, and you've lived there 2 of the last 5 years, your gains are excluded federally.

In general, the structure does depreciate very slowly (in real dollars) and the land appreciates in value (at least in desirable areas), typically more than swamping the slight depreciation on the structure.
2 years ago I spent a summer in Kenya establishing reforestation projects with local schools and many families already owned a car battery and a cheap solar panel as well as one cell phone per person. This is not a new development.
Let's hope no impressionable youth stumble on your retarded posts calling for the murder of people you don't like.
If you have an urge to build something that could change the world, don’t focus on the money, but the legacy you’ll leave behind.

- Alexander Tamas

http://startupquote.com/post/2463341352
So start paying based on prisoners who get decent jobs, don't commit crimes, or go back to school or something.
2th, 'nuf said. But, in all seriousness, mistakes like that make these articles lose all credibility. (notice ant the top of the graphic, "-Top 20% -2th 20%...")
No matter the intent or implications of the post or the poll, the fact remains that 20% of the people control 85% of the wealth. This seems horribly lopsided to me.

Plutocracy seems to be an apt description.
I know, that's my point.

Just kidding, I'd forgotten that fact. Wish I could say I'd worded things as I did on purpose, remembering that.
> Systemd-resolved continues the systemd tradition of replacing venerable, low-level system components

Serious question: what is vulnerable in my (non systemd-resolved) desktop DNS configuration I've been using for years? This statement is presented as if it were a "everyone knows this" fact about workstation DNS, but I don't. Just your average Linux desktop, nothing fancy.
While correct, this won't be enough. I've been doing that for years and doing it well is fairly challenging.
>A message that said "Cigarettes will kill you" didn't stop smokers

Nicotine is as hard to quit as heroin. The fact that we still punished smokers through public shaming, exclusion and excessive fines just shows how unsympathetic our culture is to perceived "moral failings."

https://www.heart.org/en/news/2018/10/17/why-its-so-hard-to-...
I see Dhall mentioned in the comments.
cue is another great configuration language: https://cuelang.org/

Both of these are actually designed well for dealing with the problem of configuration and it really shows.
This is new to you? Facebook has been one of the most privacy-hostile companies since day one.

(It's debatable whether or not Google is any better. At least they're a lot less overt about their contempt for user privacy and data sovereignty.)
> [FB revenue model] depend[s] on software to clandestinely steal and sell users data

Isn't it opt-in by using their platform? Or is your argument that targeted ads are not common knowledge to Facebook users? I likely wouldn't use Facebook or Google etc. if I had to pay cash; fine with paying with personal data; but for people who aren't fine with that, they shouldn't use it.

I realize that any attempt to discuss this is inviting downvotes, but I just ask for a quick comment if you do choose to downvote. I try to be very open minded.
However, Krita seems really good also. Probably on par with Corel Painter.
This, my friend, is the musical industry forcing people not to pay them.
I bought my last two cars using the internet as well.

The first one was a Mini for which the conventional wisdom was that dealers never discounted off of list price. I emailed every Mini salesperson within an easy day's travel with what I wanted to order and had a discounted offer over the phone within 5 minutes - within two hours I had a more convenient dealer match the price and throw in a few extras. First and only time I stepped on the lot was six weeks later to pick it up.

Last car I bought, I found online though AutoTrader with the options I wanted on Sunday about 120 miles away, but the dealer was closed. Called Monday morning 8am, negotiated the deal over the phone by 10am, and the car and paperwork were delivered to my driveway at 6pm that night.
Couldn't quite figure out how to use the tool, but it did manage to create a pretty rad 3D version of my site (using the "Both" setting and varying font sizes on each). I'll probably have another go when I've got less homework.
Mr. Dorsey must have received or at least heard about text messages (SMS) before 2006. Is it really possible that he had no idea what it was?
Obligatory 1D Glasses: http://jpgdump.com/files/5798.png
That's been the case for well over a year now. Digital product distribution has been completely botched by nearly every company recently.

Music services: all region-locked.

Amazon Kindle: region-locked.

Amazon Appstore: region-locked.

Amazon CloudPlayer: region-locked.

Amazon Video on Demand: region-locked.

Android Market: region-locked, often also carrier-locked.

iTunes App Store: region-locked.

I actually can't think of any digital market that ISN'T region-locked anymore. It's ridiculous that you can buy physical items and have them delivered across oceans but online distributors refuse to send you bits if your IP address is in the wrong range.
Oh, thank you.

I host several of my favorite short stories merely because the other pages on the internet that host them look as if they were constructed in 1994!

Borges and Garcia-Marquez are my favorite authors. There's something about magical realism that is very alluring.
Python is generally faster than PHP, particularly if you're not using APC or Zend. But the real benefit of using Python is the vast amount of software out there to do so many things. For example, PyBrain (http://pybrain.org/) may be right up your alley. The book "Programming Collective Intelligence" is all Python-based, and covers a wide range of algorithms including classifiers and so on, some of which use SQL backends. I thought the book was awesome, practical and inspiring, but I'm not a hardcore AI person.

MySql vs NoSql: you may find that sql is totally adequate for what you're trying to do. You may be able to factor the data access out to a data layer such that you can switch the underlying storage without too much work.

If your goal is to just get it finished, go with what you know. If your goal is to grow and/or earn street cred, leave your comfort zone asap!
I didn't forget it, I don't think that that can be a 50x effect.
I've read that a few Vim users have switched to Emacs to take advantage of ENSIME, which is a really nifty Scala development environment.
"The United States' incarceration rate is, according to official reports, the highest in the world, at 737 persons imprisoned per 100,000 (as of 2005).[7] A report released in 2008 indicates that in the United States more than 1 in 100 adults is now confined in an American jail or prison.[8] The United States has 4% of the world's population and 25% of the world's incarcerated population.[9]"

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration
A. MVP usually takes at least a month if not more. Do you want to waste a full month of your life? That could be avoided by 30 minutes of talking to future customers.

B. & C. - "Maybe" - not wrong, just maybe. There needs to be emphasis on "real potential customers." I've made the mistake of thinking I'm doing something great because friends (who might buy it) liked the idea. Just trying to point out the need for honest feedback.

(Sorry if I came off as snarky ;) apologies)
I don't think Steve Jobs can take credit for MP3 players existing. If people weren't using Ipods and Iphones, they would be using Diamond Rios and Blackberrys that were pretty similar.
> in exchange the IRS does not develop their own

Would you really want to file on a website controlled by the IRS? Imagine an auditor calling you to say "we noticed you entered a big number in this field and later edited it to a smaller number, can you explain why?"
Are you arguing that private conversations, ones not terribly different than private phone calls, led to Trump (I assume Trump is "the effects" but you're not very specific or clear about what "this" is or what "the effects" are, so your comment seems like a dog whistle to some group I'm not in (I'm not a dog)), and therefore it's expected that private conversations now be censored?

I mean seriously why don't we call in the censors to the plain old telephone system? I'm sure lots of people express "problematic" ideas privately in phone calls to trusted people. Why not start cancelling people based on those conversations?

"We now know the effects of being relaxed on" allowing people to have private conversations! Anything less than censoring people on private phone calls would be supporting fascism.
If that's the case, shouldn't they/he be adding some functionality via plugin(or built-in) that improves the situation in Opera.
Well, Oz sorta grew up around a textbook on programming paradigms, so that's why they stuffed every conceivable programming paradigm into it. Same goes for the minimal core: since it's intended to illustrate PL concepts, it behooves them to make the core as simple so it doesn't distract from the concepts they're trying to illustrate.
One huge value: Targeted advertising. The FB scripts can tell your sexual orientation from your post content. I imagine they know a lot more than that too.
If you damage the citizens enough, maybe they'll actually hold their government accountable. Then again... probably not.
To me it's a bit of a gray area, I remember seeing something similar with sports statistics apps with separate team themed applications.

I've already seen this on the Windows Phone 7 marketplace where someone spammed separate applications for single currency conversion (USD => NZD, NZD => AUD etc) and can see why you want to remove them.

I think to get around this sort of restriction mass application submissions will really need to differentiate between applications a lot more than a single feature. Possibly content from that radio station, contents, news etc, hard to tell what will meet with approval.
I think the very last point is one of the most important. The ability to drive users who are bored with the current game towards other, similarly addictive games is huge. The more games you can get one user to sink time into, the more money you can make.
Since identity theft means that the person looses stuff (privacy, high credit score, etc) it seems like it was perfectly named.
That's right; they live in glass cages to a precise extent defined by democratically-formed law. If I wanted the government of my country to stop keeping secrets, I could form a party and run for parliament on a platform of radical transparency (all government data to be made public, from sensitive diplomatic communiques and military research to your next door neighbour's tax returns) and if people actually wanted that they could have it.
Without knowing what is being released, how can you possibly claim it is reckless? The U.S. warned Canada. Canada is hardly an oppressed nation that requires delicate communication.

At this point, all we can do is wait and see what is released.
Hah - I knew bhutan would be mentioned. It's the exception that proves the rule.
That seemed like some pretty obvious exaggerated humor/sarcasm to me, given the rest of the site.

If it wasn't then I agree, it comes on a little strong.
I agree. When salaries are not public, there is just one factor that influences them, that is, the value that the company puts on that employee and the fear of losing him/ her to a better offer. On the other hand, it's much easier for the company to reject a request for a pay rise because it might upset other employees. Note, this mechanism only works downwards: the company will never give a pay rise to nine employees on the grounds that the tenth already has a higher salary.
Also, they're no longer using the Nvidia chip. They say it's because they decided that VT-d was very important, and the i7-4770HQ needed for the VT-d required them to use the Intel GPU.

Honestly, I prefer the Intel GPU. I don't play a lot of 3D games, and the Iris Pro GPU is so much faster than many discrete GPUs I've used, and the Intel graphics driver team actually tries to cooperate with the open source community. Unlike the Intel network driver team.
Is it common where you're from for people to take all six weeks? That's almost one week out of every eight spent on vacation. (Don't get me wrong, that sounds amazing...)
This article[1] links to various sources which cite different values. Of those, this report[2] (research funded by US Department of Labour) states in it's summary (page 35);

"Specifically, variables have been developed to represent career interruption among workers with specific gender, age, and number of children. Statistical analysis that includes those variables has produced results that collectively account for between 65.1 and 76.4 of a raw gender wage gap of 20.4 percent, and thereby leave an adjusted wage gap that is between 4.8 and 7.1 percent."

My personal opinion is that there may be a slight gap, research that conservatively accounts for factors rather than assuming the difference is 100% gender-pay do tend to put it below 10%, however there just isn't enough hard evidence to account for all the variables which may cause such a gap, so finding an accurate value isn't possible. Each side of the debate will always find the most attractive figures to support their agenda, as can be seen by people quoting 20%+ raw wage gap analysis that doesn't account for difference in time worked etc, and others misreading statistics to say that it's lower than reported.

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[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christina-hoff-sommers/wage-ga...

[2] http://www.consad.com/content/reports/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20...
We anticipate authors will be able to raise several thousand dollars for promising book projects. Very promising ones certainly may raise $50K or more.

Crowd funding is proving to be a very powerful fundraising model. For example, the record, so far as I know it, is currently $190K for an iPad stand listing on Kickstarter.com:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jay-design/padpivot-lap-...

Edit: Also, successfully raising funds is just the start, as this would be a great indicator of ready market demand for the book.
I liked the ending:

Maybe if we called it 'cloud commuting', CIOs would buy in.
The unemployment rate for college graduates as a whole is under 5%. White collar workers are not the ones feeling the brunt of the recession.
From my not-still-incomplete engineering education I came to understand that "solar panels" are huge photodiodes.

Doesn't sound exiting at all. I get to the point of having a PhD like you, I guess nothing will excite me on the mass media when it comes to technology.
How do you make money? Do you take a cut?
I guess that is the reason why you really don't want to spin off a lot EC2 instances for large jobs. Instead, you may use the MapReduce framework s.t. you can exploit the data locality. And of course, MapReduce only solves a small portion of parallel problems.
Linode doesn't use SSDs (yet) - the founder has been spotted on their IRC channel in the relatively recent past mentioning the cost/performance isn't where they want it yet.

hdparm only does sequential reads, so don't expect a night-and-day difference between SSDs and rotating disks. Plus that benchmark reads out of the disk (buffer) cache, so you might really testing your memory speed.
Is music streaming really that hard a service, that you would need to acquire someone to figure it out?

Apple already does DRM'd video streaming, and that's a much more difficult problem.
That shifts the pocket the wasted money comes from, but does not unwaste the money. It also possibly exacerbates the problem, since it creates a moral hazard in that the student can pick a degree known to be non-renumerative but otherwise desirable ("I always wanted to study anime... and now I can!"+), and the rest of us get to foot the bill for it.

+ In addition to my degree in making stuff, I have a degree in making stuff up, and one course was literally Manga As Literature. Nothing wrong with studying it on the side, but I know people who literally designed a course of study to focus on it, and the options for being a professional anime geek are rather constrained (particularly, cough, if you drop out of Japanese because "it is too hard").
Simply putting on a mask does a great deal to limit the spread of a virus you already have - you’re not spewing particles all over your environment due to respiration.

Simply putting on a mask does very little to keep you from getting sick, because you’re very unlikely to be following proper PPE donning/doffing procedures. Unless you your house set up as a “clean zone” with two rooms between it and the outside world - one for removing PPE, and one for putting PPE on - then it’s really not helping much for reducing your exposure.

It makes sense to me.
There are so many ways to slice the raw data, each giving a different sound of how alarming it is. For example, if you look at just Washington state, it has roughly the same number of deaths of South Korea, with one seventh the population.
The problem has been the boomers that have valuable housing, and actively vote in politicians and laws that will ensure that their housing prices remain high.

Housing is a basic human right. But this is denied to millions of Americans, simply because those that came before them, were able to secure affordable housing for themselves, while locking out others from attaining affordable housing.
You don't need to compile React, and compiling `jsx` is just a couple lines. Clearly there's something being missed here about the function of create-react-app. It's an application development environment. React itself is quite secondary to its purpose.
> The loading bar UI/UX correctly gives the impression that the report will be thorough. In my experience, they are quite good. So that's just fine.

The loading bar is lying, plain and simple. "Giving the impression" of something that very much isn't true is just a polite way of saying "screwing with your user's perception of reality". Developers often complain that users cannot at all understand computers - these kinds of practices are part of the reason that is the case.

It's not that far conceptually from the tech support scammers that show you errors in your system's Event Log to "give the impression" that you're insecure, and then offer to sell you bogus security products at inflated markup. Same kind of ethics underneath.
> you'd be powerless to compete with them.

A substantial potion of the part-timers could temporarily increase their working hours, possibly doubling or tripling the rate of progress overnight. The company of part-timers effectively has an additional prequalified workforce waiting in the wings for emergencies. The company would then have a period of time to put arrangements in place to bring each person's hours back to previous levels.
I've got a few in my basement ... my email is in my profile and if you'd like one, send me your shipping address. As a note, I'm about to throw out a huge pile of legacy electronics (I believe I have over half a ton going to the recycling facility so if there's a broad interest in old hardware, I could put together a list for the community.

I'm going to part out an old Sun E450 and use the chassis and power supplies for a 40 node Kubernetes cluster. There are 20 7200 RPM 18GB SCSI drives in there as well as four CPU/memory units.
> without the exploitation of gig workers.

I'm pretty sure that the people who decry 'exploitation' will be condemning robotic taxis for putting cabbies out of work altogether

Also, the whole notion of 'exploitation' is, frankly, ridiculous
Any links to the actual content?
If only social engineering were engineering; maybe I'd be better at it.
Why are there "all you can eat" buffets if you can't really eat all that you might ever want to eat?
Are you sure you aren't thinking about the children's variant of Monopoly?

Monopoly proper is all about trading, which is in turn all about risk management, probabilities, and leveraging your holdings. If your strategy for Monopoly can be summed up as "buy the property if I can, otherwise pay rent if I have to", you aren't actually playing the game.
His explanation isn't perfect. It's quite flawed. Rice's theorem (and the more well-known halting problem) demonstrates that deterministic computation is absolutely unpredictable.
Not true. Determinism does not imply predictability where predictability means "able to be computed faster than just waiting for the algorithm to play out." When the whole universe is performing a computation, even if it's deterministic, there's no way to "predict" in the sense of knowing a future event before it takes place. Any other definition of "predictable" doesn't make sense.

An additional (and perhaps stronger) argument is that Rice's theorem states that you cannot in general predict the behavior of deterministic computation. You can't know if a program will ever access the network card, output a letter "A," halt, etc. even though all of these programs are known to be deterministic.

I don't think anyone is saying that we can create a cellular automata (or any computer) capable of simulating the entire universe. That doesn't mean that the universe can't be modeled as one. You can't simulate an Intel i5 CPU in realtime in Windows 7 running on an Intel i5, but that doesn't mean an i5 isn't deterministic.

As a side node, the potential richness and unpredictability of deterministic computations is a major theme of many works by Rudy Rucker. Any investigation of cellular automata will reveal the unpredictability of deterministic computation, which is essentially the whole point behind cellular automata.
The lack of a proper module system was the major drawback for me. I also miss the immutable lists by default that racket provides.
Sounds like the technical definition of brandable :)
Let's hope so. Not fool-proof but this is a sound procedure isn't it? So why wasn't it implemented by European Authorities as well? I wonder what their counter-arguments were?