jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I started using Telegram a couple of years ago to prevent my "online status" on Whatsapp being visible to everyone.

Just start using both, and convince a few close family members (spouse/parents) to start using the app. People cannot be forced into using a new product. On the other hand, they will automatically use the better product if their network is on both.

Now my parents and partner are comfortable with both Whatsapp and Telegram. They use Whatsapp more heavily than I do, but they can comfortably use both. Since Telegram is better (from a product perspective), they also use Telegram when talking to each other.

IMO we can't tear down network effects easily, especially when the negative consequences of using one of the products is seemingly non consequential. We just have to move brick by brick.
Yeah, that doesn't really work in the long run. I organize the Toronto HN Nights, and even though a whole bunch of us upvoted TOHNN 2, it languished. I assume that we were caught in a vote ring (because naturally people from Toronto consistently upvote anything to do with Toronto). In my opinion the title is much more important than having a few friends.
One of the things most make replacements don't do and that Rake does is implicit dependency management; the .o.c type of rule. I use this constantly and miss it every time in ant, scons, and indeed nearly every "make replacement" save Rake and make itself.
Just curious, does anyone have some hard evidence that the MWBS is a cancer risk?

I ask this simply because anti-X activists have pushed junk science claims of the form "X causes CANCER" many times [1], so I'm a little dubious. I don't think fighting civil liberties violations with junk science is a useful tactic, if that is indeed what is happening here.

[1] For example, feminists pushed the "silicone gel implants cause breast cancer", anti-bioscience types push "GMO foods cause cancer". Drug warriors have pushed "pot causes cancer" and anti-abortion crusaders pushed "abortion causes cancer".
Certification will lead to the recognition of your product as an enterprise-ready technology, allowing interoperability and intercompatibilitization with all Oracle Java products and libraries. In today's complex and increasingly specialized economy, a promise of compatibility is not sufficient. The Oracle Java Compatibility Process™ provide you with the credentials you need to succeed in acquiring market share.
sample size 5 students. gtfo.
After all , he too is human ! Nice to see a human , softer side to Steve. Despite the dizzying heights of AAPL Inc , he seems to be a very modest person privately, compared to his peers.
Interesting, and it makes a bit of sense, even if it is counterintuitive.

"It creates a single file system that spans the internal storage and the SD card." - Meaning that you don't worry about "shall I store this photo in the phone or in the card" and juggle disk space around after upgrading the memory.
The main thing I miss with the IE developer tools, at least in 8, is that unlike Chrome their JS console doesn't let you expand the results of evaluating JS expressions that return complex objects. It just spits out "<Object>" or something of that sort.
The developer got his Google accounts suspended for no clear reason (probably stupid ML models to do moderation), and couldn't get anyone from Google to help, so he cancelled the release of Terraria for Stadia. Which seemed fair enough.
Since the 1099 requirement was put in to recover more revenues and improve the healthcare bill's financial justification, if that requirement is repealed, should Congress re-evaluate the healthcare bill based on the new (worse) numbers?
> " but simply taking something that's not yours is not the right solution, in my opinion."

I think that was his point - you're not taking something that's not yours.

Say I take a photo of your cup, then feed the 3d image into a 3d printer, so that I have an exact replica of your cup, I haven't stolen your cup have I.
The google doc is still broken for me; thanks for the mirror link.
Copyright infringement happens when I don't follow your artificial scarcity rules

Would you agree that an artificially scarce intellectual product is better than nothing?
"Tomorrow new places to download stuff will appear, the content industry is still going down."

May be, but these guys paid a big price for their part in it, if there is one at all, and I don't see anyone picking up the bill for them...
Very interesting. Is such a thing configurable in Apache or nginx? It seems to be a rather rude behavior, but I'm curious how accessible it is.
Except that, in the case of the USCIS, "forgiveness" isn't in their procedure manuals.
interesting - we tried it out (was it ultra slow for you too?) and while we didn't see the snowflakes zoom to the left, we didn't get orientation events. We didn't have a lot of time so we went with it, but we'll look into the code and see what's up.
"Mostly agreed, but I've used Lisps for years, and prefix for arithmetic still feels weird."

But that is just because you learned the conventional notation from a very young age, right? We all did, hence the name "conventional". When we learned to add and subtract, we also learned that the notation was 2+3, not (+ 2 3). That's why any other notation feels "unnatural".

I do wonder if it would be possible to teach kids prefix notation instead, and whether such notation would seem completely natural to them. (I suspect the answer to both is yes.)
Sorry, but no.

If you jump the fence at a concert, or sneak into a movie theater, you are guilty of "Theft of Services". Note that this type of theft does not deprive the original owner that resource.

If you want to pretend you are not stealing something when you infringe on copyright, that's up to you; I'd suggest that this is an oversimplification of the issue designed to induce unwarranted feelings of innocence

One last thing: since when is "Stealing is Wrong" a "western" notion? The Buddhist prohibition on stealing is even more extreme in its condemnation of the type of behavior you are defending.
Both the nasaspaceflight.com forum and the Nasa TV webcast.
I agree that "Fun" is just as important as "Easy", if not more. But the nightmares I'm mentioning? In my experience, they're just waste of days of my life. Not Easy. Not Fun. Not even remotely interesting.
If this is such a great idea, why aren't Google, Amazon, Facebook, Rackspace, etc. using it? They're really smart folks, and they have teams doing nothing but work on this stuff. I suspect that they've already considered this and rejected it because of some cost not considered by the oil-immersion folks.
At this point, I thought we would have actual sales numbers of Android devices (not activations). I am a little curious why this isn't happening.
Sounds strange, but thinking about it -- it did work for me. I got motivation when I failed an interview a few years back (I hadn't understood what was really needed).

Otherwise, I am in the same situation as the grandparent comment, I've certainly lost more than I've learned at the present job. (But my CV looks better for what I planned to apply for next, which is the point.)
I'm excited about Cloud Foundry, but I'm still waiting on my invite.

I hope they scale up soon so I can play with it, as it seems really awesome.
Oops! Thanks for noticing this. I'll make a fix.
What do you mean by "loosely coupled"?

Are you saying that the electricity flowing into Volts and Leafs hitting the market doesn't really come from a polluting source or merely that it doesn't have to?

...or am I missing your point completely?
Funny. I thought the same at first glance. I actually hovered over each underlined text block out of habit, even though subconsciously after the first one I knew the others weren't links.
The OP is truly missing the point of Basecamp, and some of the points don't make that much sense if I'm reading them correctly:

"No time estimates" - if you upgrade to the next highest version of Basecamp you will get time tracking functionality for all tasks, which would work just fine for basic time estimation. If you don't want to upgrade to the next highest version, then just put your estimate for the time a task will take into the comments for that task. The idea is to figure out a way to make this simple system work for you, and that's why they can cast such a wide net to so many different types of industries without catering to them specifically.

"Tasks have no correlation to Milestones" - this is not true, but probably mentioned because of the OP's brief interaction with the app. When you create a todo list you can choose which milestone it relates to. You can even set it to complete that milestone when all the todos have been checked off.

"Too much Drag & Drop" - this point is really pretty nit-picky and more a matter of personal preference. I don't claim to be a UI expert, but I could make equally compelling arguments as to why the drag and drop functionality they have in place would be better than up and down arrows.

"Why 6 categories of messages?" - This one is just laziness on the OP's part. Right at the bottom of the messages dropdown menu you will notice an "-- Add New Category --" option which allows you to customize categories. You can also globally customize categories so that they show up for other projects too.

I'm really surprised this post hit the front page of HN. It iss a cursory glance at a piece of software and a seemingly offhand damning of it. I wouldn't doubt that a few of these up votes came from people just reading the headline and having a general feeling of bitterness towards 37signals, for whatever reason. There's been a spate of anti-37signals posts over at reddit.com/r/web_design too so it wouldn't surprise me.

Basecamp is great software because it's extremely simple. They purposely keep the feature-set small and are very opinionated about how they do things. The result is a very solid tool that isn't bloated and can fit many different niches because of its accessibility. Before they came around you were stuck with overly complicated all-things-to-all-people solutions. Kind of like Rails and Apple products...
I am just logically arguing here, not in support for anyone. But hasn't Facebook worked "hard" to setup the infrastructure to "collect" users' data? If you want users' data, go ask the users; not via scraping Facebook.
yes, using the user-agent:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard
While I agree with you... what to use instead? It seems that all the other CMS/blogging platforms have the same issues...
the biggest thing for me that basecamp is missing is email. I would want to have a direct integration into my email, so I can set tasks and organize projects directly from there. I think the likes of producteev and taskforceapp.com are probably on to something.
I had a friend whose legal name here in Canada was Juliana Juliana. She came from Indonesia and didn't have a family name. They told her she needed to have two names for her visa application so she just doubled up her given name.
I am a maker. I am also a gamer, caregiver, teacher, student, craftsman and consumer.

No one label defines me, or restricts what I am able to do.

The Maker label has gained traction, but I think all of that traction has actually been positive. It implies not only creation, but also creativity, curiousness, cooperation, and equality. It doesn't care about your gender, race, or even your socioeconomic situation (I'd even go so far to say that it revels in the creative repurposing of "trash").

I have never heard it implied that people who don't make are somehow less; in my experience someone who self-associates with the "Maker" label is more interested in how they can help than putting down someone whose life passion is in the care of children or the preparation of meals or even the collection of trash.
Some of that culture develops pretty early, I think. Certainly by undergrad there seems to be a culture at many engineering schools where it's a point of pride to put in lots of hours. Sort of part of the "hardcoreness" to brag about 16-hour coding binges, weeks of sleep deprivation, etc.

On the other hand, there's also a culture, possibly smaller, of doing the opposite: making it a point of pride to not put in lots of hours, while still doing top-quality work. That culture emphasizes a different kind of hardcoreness, sort of the hackerly virtuoso who can bang out an A-quality semester project in a single day of in-the-zone wizardry.

I definitely notice that among adult engineers as well, at least as far as attitudes go (not sure how much variance there is in actual hours worked). There's the person who brags about how much they work and sees 9-5ers as slackers; versus the person who sees 60-hour weeks as a kind of failure, and instead brags about the time he fixed a huge problem in 3 hours and left work in time for happy hour.
If the author worked in a start up, he'd have written a more succinct article.
Sunflower

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0923714/
Point taken. Some parts of Europe have better corporate culture than others and Slovenia is probably not the best representative of the entire continent (although it's not the worst either). But you misunderstood me: I'm not saying that Europeans are not risk takers -- I know quite a few of them that are -- I'm merely saying that the corporate culture in Europe discourages risk taking far more than the corporate culture in the States, which is why there is no shortage of successful European entrepreneurs on the US market.
5.3 => closure, 5.4 => traits, PHP's revolution?

Honestly, I would prefer PHP remove all the bad parts of PHP before adding new things.
Yeah, at first I thought this was another http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com. That stuff is much more creative.
Link bait. Complete misrepresentation of what Theo said.
Their servers are not doing well from the extra publicity. Getting a bit of extra attention from HN on a Friday night does have its downsides.
Just released for ruby. http://tenderlovemaking.com/2010/04/12/rdoc-on-your-ipad/
Possibly still due to the time decay function. I don't know exactly when each comment was created, but pg's comment may have been more recent (within 24 hours). I haven't looked at the inner workings, but I imagine that upvotes might also be weighted more for how recent they are. Example: pg's comment may have received 17 upvotes within a minute of posting, and his post was 4 hours after brh's, and brh's upvotes happened slower, or before pg's comment.

This is all speculation. Maybe someone who has looked at the code could confirm or debunk this.
Project Xanadu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu) failed hard.
Your interviewer didn't read your resume?
He's got more system() than perl. Probably just should have used a bash script.

You know there's trouble when they use system("echo...") to write to a file!
C# is free: I use Visual Studio Express at home (both C# & C++) when I need to build a desktop app and there's nothing I've needed that it couldn't do.

I see the issue as really being about what kind of programming you want to do. If I'm writing a Windows desktop app, my choice will be C# simply because it's easy, available and I don't need to learn a new GUI library. But it's the last thing I'd consider for a Web project.

OK, not always the last thing. A week ago I did a quick experimental Web based interface for some hardware we build here at work. It was my first .ASP project and I was amazed at how trivial it was to make a .aspx page backed by C# connected to a COM object that talked to the motion controllers. Say what you will about Microsoft; they do make the go-path easy!
Ah, yes, I remember that time when I tried to copy a house and the private sector, all parasitic-like, went on about bullshit like "labour" and "materials" and "land". Like, what's that? I have rights, you know!
No. Checked quickly, looks good. Thanks for the link!
It’s not a dichotomy, there are a few authorities.
I thought the whole article was a joke. For real, are there others who honestly thought it was humorous?
PSA: you can disable automatic loading of images in Gmail. PLEASE do this NOW and end this horrible privacy practice which enables stalkers and numerous other behaviors.

I would start a Twitter storm but I'm not famous enough on Twitter to do that. Here is the setting you want:

https://twitter.com/dheeranet/status/1163542814233223168
I found about E-Prime years ago when I picked up the book To Be or Not: an E-Prime anthology. Since then I have tried to write without forms of “to be.” Not consistently or always successfully. I have not tried to speak without “to be.”

I think the benefits come from using action verbs, and identifying actors, eliminating passive and weak expressions. A secondary benefit comes from removing implied identities: I don’t say I am a programmer, but rather I write computer programs. I recently argued with a friend who insisted D is a racist because I reframed that as D said some things many people interpret as racist. Focus on the action rather than the person, in other words.

E-Prime may change how you think about your usage and improve your writing, even if committing to it completely presents too big a challenge.
Nice, glad to hear it. We lean new contributions as well.
Gmail loads external images by default. You can disable it. Please do.

https://twitter.com/dheeranet/status/1163542814233223168
What is the denomination of these tokens? Do I hand over 500 one-cent tokens to pay $5?
Agreed, if I wanted "One UI to rule them all", I'd be typing this on OS X or Windows, instead of Linux + KDE

(Re: systemd though I don't dislike it as long as I can choose to remove it, I don't really care about it)
A really good iniative, shame the BBC had to realise this, and address it, rather than the government. Well done BBC!
Above I mentioned io.js, an up-to-date fork of node. I think either are a great option.
I think it's machine translated. I can't think of another reason for writing "The adventure begins in Bar Scumm", when the bar in the game is called the Scumm Bar.

The part written by Gilbert was actually taken directly from his blog and can be found at http://grumpygamer.com/if_i_made_another_monkeyisland

EDIT: Except they randomly capitalized words, removed random parts of sentences to make them incomprehensible, and inserted the word "blackberries" in the middle of a sentence. The more I look at this article, the weirder it gets.
I've been working on a "virtual life assistant": https://myplaceonline.com/. It's in private beta since my target audience is just me right now, but the code is all open source: https://github.com/myplaceonline/myplaceonline
As far as I know, UNIX isn't really a standard. POSIX is, with varying degrees of compliance from these OSes.
I'm talking about what's possible. You're talking about rules. I'm assuming rules are meaningless, because your rules aren't exactly stopping anything anyway.

If my aunt builds a home, she can lock that shit down and not give the keys until you pay. Heck in some states she can kill you if you break in. And yes, same story. She can charge 50 milliion for a 10x10 foot box. Doesn't mean she deserves it does it? Also, even if price is "reasonable", my point does not change.

I totally understand wanting to be paid, I really do. I want to be paid for everything I do too. Not likely though.

The market is trying to figure out the value of movies/music/digital goods. Piracy is part of that. Maybe one day it will stop (figure out how to lock that down so can't be shared). Maybe it's here forever (cat-and-mouse continues, lawyers continue to sue individuals). In either case, the market rate is what people are willing to pay in the aggregate.
Yep, that's exactly why fatten exists. There's also swaddle[1], which complements fatten to make apt and yum repos with deb packages and rpms.

[1] https://github.com/raphaelcohn/swaddle
The .gitignore is a good way to see if a project cares about being precise.
Only works on mac and windows, no Linux port.
The clients weren’t really web 2.0 ;)
The HTML version of diffs is also available, but not referenced by links: https://criminocorpus.org/fr/legislation/versions/689/1/diff...
While only one data point, in Germany BTU is very uncommon. Energy used for heating is expressed as kWh, same as with electricity.
He went in part to meet with an American citizen imprisoned there, also worth noting that the state department didn't approve of the visit: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/08/world/asia/bill-richardson...
I'm hoping that someone sees value in creating and open source business around the CommonCrawl data, with a similar strategy as NodeJitsu, who opened source enough of their work that others could build a parallel business to them. This approach is appropriate where the market will only exist if enough private actors realize that they need to cooperate for the market to exist at all. BitCoin is a perfect example of a similar ecosystem. It's a collective, distributed startup. Search tech beyond what Google is requires a similar cooperative effort.

Right now the CommonCrawl data set is so big and the cost of setting up all the infrastructure to work on it is so expensive, that few people have the luxury to explore how search engines might work differently.

I don't know how the search algo team does its job at Google, but it would be awesome if the interface made available to them was offered as a service that anyone could build a search business off of. That would be a great first step in allowing specialized search engines for specific verticals/domains to take off.
Is it supposed to be funny?
Well, every set I've ever had came with extras, and the number you're supposed to use is printed right there in the instructions.
But we're speaking hypothetically as if they were actually buying bitcoins, but not withdrawing them, because it's cheaper in the long run to pay with other currencies.

But if you never withdraw them, they have no value at all. Therefore some are withdrawn, and at least some of that $1 came from bitcoins. If you even withdraw one penny worth, you have added one penny to your net bank account, which has influence on your account forever.

The simpler hypothesis is that they intended to show the uselessness of a deflationary currency by infinitely hoarding. But that's completely irrational, so an alternate, simple hypothesis is that they are using bitcoin, so any money they have is influenced by bitcoins they exchange.
Green Accounts are for users who are under 5 days old. You can see all their submissions at - http://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories
Few things I can think on top of my mind:

- You can have a complete new feature without changing your phone

- You don't depend on your carrier in order to buy applications

- No crapware (sorry this advantage is available only on non-open devices)

- They opened the mobile development industry to indie and small developers
Congrats Fan
I think the most important skill to expect of a non-programmer is presentation.

Startup success boils down to two problems:

1. Building the product

2. Finding customers

Be it personal powerpoint presentations, meetings, preparation of advertorial material, giving talks, or website content, the presentation of your product is really important. It is what differentiates a company solving real problems from a bunch of geeks doing some geeky stuff in a lab. It reveals the potential of your solution to real users.