jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> "The death of the working class reporter"

This article is just standard journalistic myth-making. The journalists cited as examples of success without college degrees, Carl Bernstein and Walter Cronkite (who both went to college, just dropped out), came from privileged backgrounds just like the privileged kids who fill the industy today.
Direct link to the picture [https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/11/27/arts/00venus5/mer...]
>abstracting away from visual distraction is the very point of terminals in the first place.

Um, no. Text terminals are a natural outgrowth of how telecommunications has worked from the start.

It's easy to trace their evolution starting from the first telegraph and radio messages that used morse code to send messages... the information is written onto a paper page line by line to replicate the original message written by hand.

It's a natural outgrowth from that to have the machine translate back to a line of text. When it's time to print the next line, it makes sense to unroll the next part of the scroll (scroll down) rather than start your decoding by unrolling all of the available scroll paper.. that makes a mess, and tends to lead to loss of data.

Early computer TTY (teletype) terminals used roll and fanfold paper to print incoming characters. You could use them for editing despite not having an addressable cursor. Some editors of the time would support using a printing terminal for editing by working on a line by line basis. Unix supports editing on the command line with sed and ed.

It's a natural transition from the line by line printing on paper to a CRT display... you just print each line starting at the top of the screen, display as much stuff as you can, and when the screen is full you get rid of the oldest information (the top line) and print the new line in the space at the bottom. Just like using the paper scroll, except instead of having a bunch of already printed paper hanging around, there's nothing... much neater.

From that, the idea of editing using an addressable cursor comes quickly, leading to the text terminal apps we all use today (which used to be hardware based.. a keyboard/screen arrangement that couldn't run programs and in some cases wasn't digital).

The command line wasn't invented to provide a distraction free environment, it was literally the only thing available, and it's still an optimal way to get certain workflows done over and above GUI based systems.

It also remains a natural way to do programming because almost all programming happens via computer languages rather than visual systems.
Why do you love vanlife? Why you are living like this? Sorry just curious want to know your point of view
A router may be ~200, but I imagine monthly plans for unlimited are over 100/month from a traditional cell provider.

This seems very expensive. How do you set up the monthly plan more efficiently?
Presumably their owners decided that it actually wasn't worth the cost and effort to continue maintaining them, so they got shutdown.
A way out of this would be using professionally translated books.
I don’t think it’s black magic. They just do DNS over HTTPS.
I know plenty of folks who run kodi.

I would say not "hn user" level folks, more like "i have a gaming pc".
it's still great!
I don't think saying "I'm not surprised people of <certain religion> support murder." is making a substantive comment, even if you DID agree with it.

It was just a dumb comment. We should encourage substantive comments - even if we disagree with them. I don't want this place to turn into Reddit with knee-jerk SLAM journalism and low quality comments.
I recently built a house and had to work with power company to bury the cable instead of running it on poles (for the view mostly, not reliability). From what I hear - they prefer to run low voltage (keep in mind, we run 110V vs 220V in Europe) up-to 150ft. From there it is either a significant voltage drop or expensive thick cable. Hence all these wires on these wooden poles - they are actually high voltage.

I lived in ex-USSR country where 220V were distributed through the street over steel (and corroded) wires on poles. Running a stick welder meant lights flickering for the whole street. Flickering to the point where TVs and computers would restart. (With my current setup, with high voltage running within 75ft off the meter, I can run up to 400 Amps without affecting anyone around me.)

And yeah, it cost me total about $15k for a total of 300ft of the high voltage line to be buried. Vs. $2,400 for two poles of overhead lines.
Normally, you won't sell to a strategic if you have not have had a business relationship with him before and he sees significantly value in your business.

As for private Equity, it probably depends on the fund, but I would assume most of them look for growth companies.

So then the question is who is left? Maybe another entrepreneur looking to diversify, then maybe you could try at one of those market places where you can advertise your website. However I wonder if you are not to big.

Evaluation depends on where you are located (US, Europe, etc..), target market size, competition, metrics (growth, churn, potential), Software as a service vs services/consulting, etc... If you are not selling a product (Saas), or you are not growing (which seems to be your case), be prepared to be valued at a multiple of your earnings, and not total revenue. As for growth, everyone will look at past growth to extrapolate future growth. If you have no past growth, no one will believe you that you will grow your business next year 50% more.

As for the fees, I would expect you to pay a fee when you bail out because the price is too low, or decide not to sell, as they have also done work on their side. Otherwise no one wants to work with you anymore as well in the future. Still you should increase their revenue share the higher they sell. Don't expect though that they know all the companies to target, or have all the connections to those companies.

Most buyers will also require you to stay onboard for 2-3 years.

You should provide more details about region, type of business, market, growth rate, then you can get better replies.
Actually some plans get $8.00 increase.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2d54TOFKFPY/TOnyZck-c_I/AAAAAAAAAA...
would you elaborate more on transactions of authority, or perhaps provide a link to a resource where i can learn more, zach?
Politico called it a "devastating portrait of apparent U.S. indifference to a pattern of murder and torture." BBC said the memos "Show U.S. 'ignored torture'". I only remember the New York Times anything that could be construed as favorable to the U.S. and I'm guessing that your impression was shaped by the NY Times article by Sabrina Tavernise and Andrew W. Lehren.

Anyway, the reports of U.S. indifference and maybe even complicity in Iraqi acts of torture is not enhancing to the U.S. image, which isn't to say misleading reporting couldn't enhance our image after the fact.
have you ever tried this?

http://www.google.de/search?q=site:edu+open+position+as+rese...

good luck in your search!
I was talking about his response when a student asks why all students have to retake the test even the ones that did not cheat (or I presume the student asked this I can't hear it clearly).
I might be missing something - how is headcount more verifiable than traffic? Actually now that I think of it, the first startup I worked for peaked at about 7 people and our CEO regularly told the press we were "about 50 people"!
Definitely not just an Indian problem.

Frighteningly, quite a number of people emerge from CS degrees with the idea that they need to absolutely minimize the time they spend programming and structure their careers to rise into management as quickly as possible.

This is sometimes carried to ridiculous extremes. I have seen a situation where a proto-manager type with specific experience with a given product delegated a critical, time-sensitive bug fix to a 10x less effective person (with very little specific expertise in the area). This was done largely in order so that the proto-manager didn't get accused of being an 'individual contributor'. Needless to say it didn't go well for anyone involved: company, customer or either of the people involved.
Try Tarsnap, which was purpose-built for secure data storage. The founder is a regular here on HN.
Only if you work or have property in those cities.
It's bad writing. "Nevertheless" implies that someone chose a winning argument, and the weasely writing doesn't say who.
Your terms and conditions is still a Lorem Ipsum
I am sad to see this bigotry that looks down on people who organize their thoughts and experiences on paper, vs keeping mental grudges that are likely psychologically biased.
But if someone clicks a link that says https://, then the person who created that link wanted there to be authentication, so an error would be the correct behavior.
Sure, let's talk about sexism. My company has a program by which women are promoted even though a man with the same skills and experience would not be promoted. Does this seem fair to you?

Somehow I doubt I'll be able to find a lawyer to take the case if I sue.
How is this any different than the HAL Specification? It seems like an exact copy except the word "includes" replaces "embedded"
They invited this! It's the republican leadership that's perpetuation this!
https://twitter.com/byaaroncdavis/status/1346908166030766080

It looks like Defense Dept. denied DC's request for National Guard.

Update: DoD denies the report, but says they haven't acted upon request.
Now you do what they told ya
Indeed, OSes already have privilege access mechanisms like GPO on Windows and SELinux / AppArmor / Flatpak on Linux to restrict installed binaries.

Then all that goes out the window when the 100 MiB gorilla named /usr/bin/browser wants access to everything anyway, connects all that privileged information to other people's computers, and then implements its own entirely separate privilege access mechanisms in userspace to make that secure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNQRGohdW9Y

Listening in to the stream it seems like a woman was shot in the neck once she went in/broke into the capitol building. Someone who was with her looked in and saw that. Again, this is as reported in the above stream - no visual or other verification provided.

Edit: modified 'someone who was with her outside the window' to 'someone who was with her'. He did an interview on camera and stated that they did enter the building. Based on what he said I would categorize it as a 'forced' entry with warnings not to proceed further when the event happened.
What does IBM have to contribute to self-driving cars? Google's work has gotten by far the most attention.
It will be interesting to see how people react when it's an automatic update out of nowhere.
> All of the competition can only be good for us developers.

Competition isn't a panacea. All this means is that we get to choose from dozens of half-baked options instead of a small number of ones that have each gotten a lot of effort poured into them.

A little more cooperation would be nice, but editors are one of those things where everyone seems to want to try their hand at it before getting bored and wandering off.

See also: build systems, programming languages, games.
I tried playing this game but I really didn't like it. I found it way too long and complicated. We never actually finished a game. I much prefer <1 hour games.

So sad, since there are so few great two player games. I was really hoping this would be one of them.
That's how innovation works: 99% of the time it doesn't. Think about that the next time you give a group a hard time for being too conservative. Whenever they are not conservative, people blast them for wasting time and money on something that has a 99% chance of failure.
I don't think you are going to win that argument though. I agree with your sentiment however.
The big change is that you can't do that on the free tier. The free tier has a maximum of 12 hours uptime per day.
React is 121 KB minified. Compare to JQuery at 84 KB, Angular at 125 KB, and Ember at an impressive 408 KB.
I can relate to this. I took klonopin for 10+ years, just recently weaned myself off of it (six months and counting).

My first panic attack happened about two weeks after 9/11 on the F train. Top 3 most terrifying moments of my life.

I did CBT, talk therapy, all kinds of anti-depressant medications (the worst being Effexor XR, that shit should be illegal) until finding klonopin to be the most effective. Marijuana was helpful too, though it had its moments of making things worse, but for the most part A+++ rating, would smoke again.

My anxiety manifested itself in some pretty severe panic attacks, extreme hypochondria and some pretty intense derealization. I miss the derealization though, but it took awhile for me to appreciate it instead of fearing it. The hypochondria I don't miss at all. The panic attacks still happen from time to time (mostly when the lights in the room suddenly change) but I'm so used to them now they don't really phase me. And I'm so practiced at having them, nobody standing around me is ever aware that I'm having a sudden bout of tachycardia and growing concerns that my heart is about to explode in my chest.

I noticed the klonopin was making me kind of a zombie, putting a mega-kabosh on the creative output, so I decided to taper my way to freedom. The first two weeks without it were pretty painful, but now it's relatively smooth sailing.

I'm not sure what happened that I got to this point now. I did move to a foreign country (Vietnam) so I'm sure the slower pace has had something to do with it, despite how much I've grown to dislike living here.

As for what caused it, all of my therapists think I have PTSD from my high school days (I was in a pretty violent anti-racist skinhead group back in the day), but I personally think it has to do with all the MDMA I chewed in the post-skinhead rave days. I guess I'll never know.
I wonder how it compares with P2.js. Another nice pure JavaScript 2D physics library. https://schteppe.github.io/p2.js/
Contrary to this, as they experience more instances of the fixed cadence, they will have more opportunity to measure their capacity and adjust the scope accordingly.

What needs to 'give' is over-promising. And the best way to achieve that is to maintain a fixed cadence so that they can gather a more and more accurate understanding of what can be delivered with high quality in that timeframe.
True, but even this isn't always perfect. I was told recently that Xen shares the kernel memory space among VMs so if once is compromised at the kernel level all of them could be compromised. This person dislikes using Amazon for this reason because he can't be sure his box isn't popped through another VM.
App updates also throw off reviews quite a bit, an update that changes a behavior (or color like you said) is likely to receive a large amount of negative reviews, just because users were used to the old way. These reviews are potentially valuable information for other users of the previous version. However it's mostly irrelevant to new users.
Indeed, big libraries supporting Python 3 is rapidly growing http://py3readiness.org

Heck, apart from few - even those which are not supporting Py3k now have alternative package in PyPi. So it's positive sign.
I'm the author of the article and very interested reading all the discussion.

Let me explain exactly what the issue is as there seems to have been a bit of confusion about my intentions.

I understand that by stepping into the lambda we are effectively stepping into a new frame analogous to 'stepping into a method' - therefore variables outside the frame will not be visible inside that frame.

But - if we are stepping into a for loop of sorts (or perhaps the lines() method of Files) - you do want to see the other variables in the enclosing method. And the point is that using the old constructs this is exactly what you were able to do.

Java is not functional enough (or at least the way I code isn't) that all the variables I need will be enclosed in the lambda.

In fact when you step into a lambda you retain the scope of the enclosing class (unlike an inner class), so for example when you call toString() you will be printing the toString() of the enclosing object. For this reason it makes sense that in the debugger you should not be considered to have stepped into a new frame when you drop into a lambda.

Ultimately this is all about usability and in real life I have found it extremely frustrating that I can't easily observe the values outside the lambda.
It isn't really complicated as all that, it helps to define terms.

Problem: Reduce terrorism to zero while maximizing individual freedom. So we'd have to define "terrorism" and "freedom". That is going to be pretty difficult, as the the goal posts on terrorism have shifted from what was once an activity that fell within the spectrum of warfare, and therefor outside the realm on nonstate actors, to where it is at today - criminal activity that upsets people. I have no doubt that the goal posts will continue to shift. Freedom is even more difficult to define, as many feel they are entitled to freedoms that necessitate the reduction of other's freedoms: freedom from hunger, sickness, etc. So you aren't likely to find consensus on a definition for that.

It isn't a difficult problem, it is an impossible problem, because it isn't even possible to define the terms. That is, unless you accept the idea of universal preference, then it becomes pretty simple - as you'd be able to fix both variables. But then this conversation would be completely pointless, as universal preference invalidates the supposed justifications for the existence of government :)

The only reasonable action is to do nothing. The costs outweigh the gains by a tremendous margin.
If it weren't for Apple's pricing restrictions, I would love to see a free version of Instapaper that is "unlocked" to a full-featured version if the linked account is a paid subscriber. (For those that don't know, Instapaper also utilizes a subscription model: http://www.instapaper.com/subscription)

I happily pay the quarterly subscription fee and would love a full-featured application to go along with it. That said, I no longer own an iOS device.
So it would seem:

https://github.com/jcoglan/fargo/blob/master/source/fargo/li...
So what's the plan for the missing HTTP feature after the move to libev?
As a touch typist I've never understood the fetish for backlit keyboard design, I don't need it and it only decreases battery power.
I often wonder if there is there any volume at all in businesses that sell to startups. The startup market as a whole has to be pretty small. The startup market that will actually buy something has to be smaller still (I'd reckon a lot of startups would rather than make it themselves or use free software).
100% agree. This is a far fucking step up from NSFW. I'm quite angry at this one for not just mislabelling - but the absolute disgusting, flippant and completely inhumane disregard for human life that this post represents.

Browser-humor does not equate appropriately the the real human tragedy that this represents.

I am really and honestly furious at this.
> would be a fun litmus test for these folks.

I always thought the same about those companies who pose themselves as some "domain registration office" and tell me that they have a customers request to register $firstname$lastname.$tld but that they found out about me and would like to offer me the domain, because I'm $firstname $lastname obviously. What would keep me from registering a TLD by myself and then order them to do so?

On the other hand: I already bought too many domains while being drunk, so I won't get deeper in to that.
> So when those disappear, the customer-owned hardware is bricked? No thanks.

Yes please. If the company that developed some consumer networked hardware goes away, I don't want botnets of that hardware sending spam...

Software updates for security are now the norm for internet connected things, and if a piece of hardware can't be supported anymore, it will probably be exploited and siphon your private data to the highest bidder. It's far better to disable unsupportable hardware than keep using it.

If companies going bankrupt starts harming consumers, government could step in and force companies to contribute to a "support fund" for continued support of their hardware after bankruptcy if necessary.
red orach?
From history, I’d say it’s actually the exact opposite.

Textual information reaches its upper bound far before visual information.

Think reading a recipe from a cookbook vs following along with a well done YouTube recipe.

The density of information delivered via video (visually) in addition to the word messaging (via audio) is roughly 10-100X that of an all text recipe.

...and with zero added effort from the human receiving the information, because our brain natively does the visual processing.
Why do we have pain receptors then ? Nature sux as designer ?
For me it matters extremely when and in wich mood I watch a film of Tarkovsky. In the wrong mood I cannot stand watching through any of his films. Im the right mood they are pure magic of the kind that will stay with you forever.
A lot of people in security end up having absurdly weak passwords. A lot of police think they are immune from being bribed.
Also if you can make money or build a career being an activist...

Many "smart" activists found that with a little faux rage (and in the end, believing their own BS too), all these pundit, policy advisor, and advocacy jobs are there for the taking...
As far as I know, second dosage is to extend the duration of antibody production.
Yes! I use them to keep all my passwords handy! :)
The real paradox is this idea once it justifies both sides and advocates a perennial dispute.

The answer to the question 'Who are the intolerants?' is by definition biased.
The cognitive dissonance on HN at play is frankly hilarious. One minute, Apple and Google are monopolistic abusers that should be broken up. The next, we’re actively cheering on selective enforcement of deliberately vague ethical standards and laws, simply because the other team is bad.

Downvote systems make this issue nearly impossible to discuss, so I’m not even sure why I’m posting this. All I can say is: fighting polarization starts with treating people you disagree with as fellow citizens and human beings, not as Others to be removed and excommunicated.