jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>> It applies to all parts of government.

No, you are talking about something else, which is called sovereign immunity.

Qualified immunity is a dumb concept the courts made up to protect police officers.
I use virtual cards from privacy.com for just about everything I buy online. It allows you to set limits, cancel with a click, and be anonymous by giving the vendor any name and address you want. It is a good service, but I wonder if any competing services exist.
Anyone else have a spare invite?
I used to be an operator in night shift in my twenties and the job was exactly how you said. Good memories. Lots of sleeping at work and some days of panic when shit broke.

And a lot of "secret" scripts that automated a big part of our job.
I guess I'll be the one to make the obligatory "magit is awesome and if you use Emacs you should definitely check it out" comment.

Other that being horribly slow on Windows I can't think of any downsides. Aside from the very rare black magic incantations it does everything I've needed from a Git frontend.

If something like it existed for SVN ($JOB VCS of choice, sadly) I would abandon Tortoise in a heartbeat. IntelliJ is nice but the overhead of the VCS add-ons kill my startup time.
Starcraft II had a grid (I don't remember the actual name) mode keyboard layout that worked perfectly with Dvorak without having to remap keys.

Other games like the Java version of minecraft didn't work with Dvorak when I tried them. Even with key remapping.
Never heard that

Do you have any source? (Even if those are opinion based)
Social media is a square wheel. Sure, it sort of goes and if you know no alternative, it might be better than no wheel at all. But there's no good way to use it because it's fundamentally flawed.
Yes. The same way they're required to have certain vaccinations to to attend school. Or travel to certain places.
Reminds me of Stowaway [0], the incredible story of a teenage boy who escaped from his native Cuba by flying the Atlantic Ocean stowed away in the wheel well of a DC-8 airliner. Not as far as in the OP (he made it to Madrid), but he did not have access to a pressurized hold so he lacked oxygen, nearly froze, and barely escaped being crushed to death. But he did survive.

[0] https://www.rd.com/article/escape-from-cuba-dc-8/
I was going to link a related comment but you're actually the author of it!

Here it is anyway: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22316230
If it were truly no zoning in practice, I think Houston might actually be densifying faster than it currently is. But large parts of it are saddled with rules (both private- and public-sector) explicitly requiring low-density housing. A lot of the city was developed in big chunks as master-planned neighborhoods laid out by a single developer. In addition to setting up the initial lots as low-density housing, most of these developers added deed restrictions that prohibit higher-density redevelopment. In effect the deed restrictions end up creating a kind of perpetual "zoned single-family-home" status for much of the city. The city has added its own bit to that, with requirements in some areas that tend to also favor or require low-density development: minimum-setback rules, minimum parking requirements, etc.
Bitcoin exchanges actually can't stop people from sending them new Bitcoin deposits because the Bitcoin protocol doesn't provide any way to block new transactions to their existing deposit addresses. About the best they can do is to send out an e-mail like this one.
Case in point, something as simple as Expandrive.app - it makes SFTP/S3/WebDAV simply accessibly, but also causes huge failure modes as other Apps try to access what they consider to be a local file (think auto-save).

"Transparency" requires reasonably complex caching and invalidation (see: your browser).
> Know what? Bitcoin/Gold is not for these people respectively, and nobody ever claimed otherwise.

Well, I can assure you that in threads and forums other than this one that plenty of people have claimed Bitcoin is destined to replace traditional currencies worldwide. Though I do recognize that you made no such assertion here.

> And most people are never going to buy physical gold because they have to worry about the technical side of securing their own funds.

Plenty of people do trade/invest in gold through avenues other than direct physical ownership (ETFs, etc). At the moment it definitely at least "feels like" it's impossible to do that with respect to Bitcoin due to the security issues and general shadiness that seem to plague many Bitcoin-related companies. The supposed Bitcoin ETF that is forever just-around-the-corner could alleviate some of the concerns with respect to accounting issues and negating the "take-the-money-and-run" factor, but I'm not sure there would be reason to trust them to any greater degree with respect to cryptographic security of their holdings of any virtual currency.
There's a difference between making an educated guess and "have no clue what you are talking about". I first mined in 2011, and have purchased through numerous exchanges since then. An increasing number of users aren't geeks who give a damn about crypto: they want to get into Bitcoin with the easiest on-ramp.

edit: Did you totally change your reply? From the time I started my comment to hitting submit, your comment completely changed.

But to your point, you're presuming I have no clue, that I own no Bitcoin, that I'm not a regular participant in communities like Bitcointalk and /r/bitcoin. You believe there's a world where everyone has paper wallets and Trezors and ASICs. No: the early adopters are becoming a smaller percentage of the Bitcoin world. People are buying via Coinbase and Circle, and if they're really advanced, they sweep to a hosted wallet on Blockchain. Even many miners aren't immediately sweeping their coins, instead, leaving them on the pools. Do you really think it's going the opposite direction, towards less centralization?
Apple still ranks very highly in customer satisfaction.

But is dropping. In fact, Samsung has surpassed them in consumer satisfaction for smartphones:

http://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/samsung-surpasses-apple-in...
"Coinbase, which sells on Bitstamp"

Not exclusively. Coinbase also sells (and buys) bitcoins directly to consumers. In fact, Coinbase is probably the biggest seller of bitcoins in the US (or second biggest after Circle.com - none of these companies publish volume numbers due to competitive reasons).

"Something is going on."

What is going on is very simple: customers of Bitstamp see that bitcoin withdrawals are halted. So the only way to get money out of the exchange is to sell coins and withdraw fiat. This selling activity is what is causing the price to crash. This always happens whenever an exchange halts bitcoin withdrawals (eg. see MtGox's demise in early 2014).

Edit: @TylerE: some customers usually learn about news before others: friends of employees, or even simply the first affected customers (before a public statement is made... remember: rumors spread fast). Again, the same scenario happened with MtGox: the exchange rate started crashing on MtGox a few days before the public news of their insolvency came out. I have been trading BTC for 4 years. I have seen how most of these scenarios play out in the Bitcoin world.
Does anyone else just think there is some combination of the genetics that American blacks have in common and the way the parents/community teach their kids that just makes them worse at math?
Thanks for your reply. First off, you're right, cheers for resuscitating SF.

Not that it would by any means be easy, I was suggesting a conceptual re-think of SF to attract and enthrall new users/projects. However your response (and the refrain I hear from others) indicates a strategy of monetizing the big binary projects you already have. That's cool, and that's a market. But I would fear

- those projects being coaxed away by innovations from services in adjacent markets (GitHub using enterprise revenue to cover download costs), and

- those big binary projects eventually dying (as projects sometimes do), without replacement from new young projects (because they will prefer to start on GitHub and will then mature there).

Perhaps go after the conceptual strategy of "SF is where you go when you've grow out of GitHub".

Good luck.
> One year the U.S. can take one stance, but on the next year they can take another.

Or even the same year; the FCC is already moving to restore (and perhaps expand by voiding barriers to municipal broadband) the substance of the ruels in its Open Internet Order, under different legal authority, based on the decision in the Verizon case. [1]

[1] http://www.fcc.gov/document/statement-fcc-chairman-tom-wheel...
If deliberately congesting links to encourage another company (who happens to be a competitor) to negotiate peering is not a violation of net neutrality then we need to update the definition.
http://w3schools.com/ does a good job of providing tools and tutorials for picking up HTML, CSS and a host of other technologies.
$ heroku logs --tail

! Realtime tail and filter are not available with basic logging, please upgrade to expanded logging

:(
"Identity theft" per se is rarely the problem, it's the credit card (and other) frauds committed using the 'stolen' identity that cause issues. And obviously those frauds deprive both the actually-defrauded party and rightful 'owner' of the identity of the opportunity cost of sorting it all out.
A great guide. I'd mention some minor things, but I love the brevity of it, and I think squabbling over details would ruin it.
I bring it up a lot, I promise I'm not trying to spam the site or something like that, but I think every single geek needs to read http://lesswrong.com/lw/154/why_real_men_wear_pink/

(Why Real Men Wear Pink).

I can't tell you how many stupid pointless debates I've gotten into with people about this language vs that language vs this editor vs that editor vs linux vs openBSD vs gpl vs BSD vs MIT vs vs vs vs vs

SHUT UP! I'm telling this to myself too because as I said, I've participated in the discussions, but this type of stuff is almost completely pointless. A hacker friend of mine hates the arduino board. Isn't real computing. Isn't real programming. It's a toy. It's STUPID!

Stupid? People are building stuff. Who cares if the board has a bunch of stuff that they don't need. They're going to take the toaster apart in a week and repurpose it as a kegerator controller, or a droneduino, or a christmas light controller, or a...whatever.

Sorry, I'm getting ranty, but I really, really hate this type of stuff and I find myself having to defend the position of "who f!cking CARES?!" pretty often.

One argument I got into recently was with somebody who insisted that people who can't or don't do manual memory management aren't real programmers. Python isn't a real language and nobody really uses it in production. /facepalm

Just shut up and code/build. If it doesn't work, take it apart and build it again.
Going into details about the problems a platform has, and then sweeping everyone else along is a bit weak. I've used Heroku enough (not too much though), to know that it doesn't suffer from most (any?) of the listed issues.
Speaking off-the-hook as a normal nerd, I like this angle. There's actually plenty of Google stuff I might be interested in, but their size and my privacy concerns, partly about Google, keeps me off.

Cultivate your trustworthiness as Andrenid says and you will probably have at least my business and quite some more. Explore (even more?) just what keeps people from sharing their location - their privacy concerns and how they, and you, can get around it in a way that is useful to them. That said, I'll check out your app.

I also really liked someone's suggestion up-thread to animate your app and make it a good place to hang out. That sounds like an app I could and would use. Best.
Are you implying this isn't happening already?
I can't help but mentally add a C to the front of this company's name.
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services has links to each state's Department of Health [1]. They will follow up on reports of food poisoning and take necessary action.

[1] http://www.foodsafety.gov/about/state/index.html
Apart from the current year (which is implied).
He said he used PageRank algorithm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

It is what google ranking is said ot be based upon. though they keep their exact algorithm secret afaik.

In a nutshell, you give each page a base score, and have it give away part of its score to the pages it links to.
Assuming that the page author wouldn't link to a page with poor/irrelevant content, you get some sort of quality/popularity score for each page.
Those people won't use Python; they'll have to use a truly general-purpose language.
Yes, except for the ones that aren't...
I think the reason that Grandmas have adopted technology at a faster pace is that technology as a whole is becoming easier to use - probably due to a stronger focus nowadays on UI/UX. As opposed to engineers being in charge of design, we now have more real designers in charge of design - see what's happened in spaces like email marketing with Mailchimp. Another obvious example but in hardware is the iPad. Grandmas don't have to worry so much about booting up, operating systems, etc. They just press a button and it works.

I think kids don't blog as much because it's so much easier for them to get an audience through their current social media networks - primarily Facebook. Most blogs don't have huge audiences - mostly just friends and family. So, why would someone create a separate blog and then try to drive traffic to that blog when they can just post similar content on Facebook or Twitter and have it served up to their friends and family? I'm sure they get way more comments on their Facebook updates than they do on a blog anyway. Particularly for a narcissistic blogger, that's what they're looking for anyway - affirmation.
As an interesting note, I'm pretty sure I remember the GitHub guys saying that this is built with JRuby. A cool way to do it...
It is "spam," but much in the way that O'Reilly's book deal was spam, or the way that the 23andme 100 buck deal was spam.

I'm upvoting this, as several of the apps were on my "nice to have" list, but not essential. Occasionally a really good deal should make it onto the board.
He didn't explain HOW "HTML5 videos are more searchable and indexable."

Is there an attribute or property that search engines pick up that isn't available when you embed flash?

A lot of the best additions in HTML5 are in the DOM. Search engines don't run JavaScripts so it doesn't seem like HTML5 adds much in the way of on-page optimization. Maybe the new section tags will have a benefit but this article wasn't about those tags.
How are the plants not dead in the first photo? Small bushes like that would die immediately in such oily muck I'd expect.
Mountain View, Toronto, work from home

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We're hiring just about any position you can think of. Webdev, analytics, C++, IT/sysadmin, security, QA, etc.

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Here's the HN thread about them from about a year ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=755665
I think you're overstating how often you're only going have a sorted vector of unknown type and an opaque comparison function, and understating how often you'll know your types and be able to make a reasonable guess at their distribution.

You're also ignoring how much simpler it is to roll a quick interpolation search than throw together a B+-Tree, to the point where it may make sense as something to try when you've got an hour to try to speed up some process just enough to get you through another week of growing load while you're rewriting your app to do it right.

But, yes, I'll agree with your summary.
I suspect blackhat SEOs would be all over it.
Also, when eating out in Western culture you are more prone to just ordering your own meal, whereas in Chinese culture it's typically family style.

It is also, with few exceptions, acceptable to grab food in the 'center' with your own chopsticks. I guess chopsticks don't get dirty :)

One thing that drives me crazy about chopsticks is when you want to cut something, you have to do that X trick and sort of cross the chopsticks, or use the spoon. I'm a wiz with chopsticks, but a knife and fork is the ultimate combo. It wins at every category except noodle soup and sushi.
Exactly. Someone using Rescue Time is not your typical mainstream Microsoft user.

So yes, sure, there is a segment in the market that Google is winning.
I remember back in a Paradigms of Programming class in uni, our professor who lived by Dijkstra's "Gotos considered harmful" mantra tried to get us all to write programs with a single exit point from each function. I argued that short-circuiting errors before going to the logic made sense both nesting-wise and maintainability-wise, but was ridiculed. I wish I'd known about coding styles in the Linux/BSD kernels back then so I could throw it back at him.
I really don't like the long concatenated HTML strings embedded in the scripting code. Is there a way to do templating here?
This is true of any dynamic memory management unless very careful constraints are put in place. I would assume anyone writing an OS kernel, regardless of language, would be careful to avoid unbounded consing. (Of course, memory allocation in kernels is tricky even in C: http://lwn.net/Articles/627419/)
And in Hebrew, double colon is literally something like 'four dots'.

Leads to some interesting PHP errors, like: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM
completely agree.

read it when you start c++, then read it 6 months later. it will feel like you are reading a completely different book :)
Doing that is not easy and Apple is not very good at it. I'm not surprised that they are not there yet.
It's a shame it has no Mac client. :/
What does your mental preparation consist of?
The iPhone 4 and iPad 2 updates are almost breaking 700 MB for the latest 0.0.1 revision. Obviously, that's not going to work for OTA upgrades.

However, the requirements for OTA updates are significantly less than for these standalone files that iTunes uses. Right now, Apple has to include the entire system software partition in the file, since it's used for upgrading from any version -- even back to the ancient iPhone 1.0 -- as well as being used for updates.

With OTA updates, though, they don't have that restriction: you can't restore a device with them, and you can't use them on a device that's not reasonably current. Instead, just including what's changed (which usually isn't particularly much) is now possible, and likely the route they would take if they choose to support OTA updates.
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin have a compelling take about the respective strengths/core competencies of Google and Apple in this episode of their podcast, Hypercritical: http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/10
Perhaps you should discuss this with your doctor. I've also found some success with low-dose usage of psychedelics, although I do not recommend this course of action without doing plentiful research.
He was beyond a brilliant person, of that is no doubt. And not in anyway trying to take away from that fact, reading the following excerpt from the article..;

"[..] von Neumann both worked alongside and collaborated with some of the foremost figures of twentieth century science. He went to high school with Eugene Wigner, collaborated with Hermann Weyl at ETH, attended lectures by Albert Einstein in Berlin, worked under David Hilbert at Göttingen, with Alan Turing and Oskar Morgenstern in Princeton, with Niels Bohr in Copenhagen and was close with both Richard Feynman and J. Robert Oppenheimer at Los Alamos."

..makes me do wonder how many of the accomplishments he made were due to his own brilliance, or due to both it and the stimulating environments he kept finding him self in.

For my own parts, I see a big difference in my own output, and the quality of that output, when getting the opportunity to interact with high caliber people (knowledgable, emotionally intelligent, inquisitive and open) on a regular basis.
The Racket people are attempting to do that in a new way with the Honu language, to truly have Lisp powers with an alternate syntax. It's probably going to replace racket as the main language on the racket runtime:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...
What I was objecting to was that constructive proofs are somehow easier to understand.
Just confirming these libraries are there for CL.

(https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl/ for a start)
That would very much depend on what you're buying stock in. Holding companies and investment companies are mostly valued to what your "share" of their holdings is worth. Real estate too.
> It's very common here and won't be a roadblock.

Some companies won't let you do 24hr/week though. They'll require at least 32hrs :P
Yeah, but it turns out people can’t actually write software right (or won’t) and this sort of network boundary is the only way to force them to write modular code, without the monolith collapsing into a tangled mess.

It’s really annoying.
> so the market disappeared.

So your claim is that it has nothing to do with Intel's product segmentation strategy?
This is not responsive to he comment you're replying to, which is comparing AMD to AMD.
Ibram Kendi is a professor. I’ve read some of his work and I think the basic point is sound, and something I’ve agreed with for years. My concern is the degree to which these ideas have percolated through the the media, etc., which causes well meaning people to think and talk about these issues in a way that doesn’t make sense to people. There is a thought process that causes a bunch of people involved in an article to green light use of “whiteness” as a pejorative when they would never do so to refer to another racial category. Most of the public would call it racist.

This happened with the vaccine prioritization at the CDC. I understand the arguments for it. Most Americans do not believe that life saving vaccines should be allocated based on peoples’ skin color. They would call that unambiguously racist. Thankfully for the CDC, the media barely covered it. Imagine what would have happened if the CDC had prioritized vaccines to white people? All of these people are operating with assumptions that are not universally shared by the public.

Ditto the riots this summer. Most people in the media have internalized this notion that whether violent rioting is okay depends on context. Most Americans do not see it that way. That distorted their coverage of what happened this summer, and burned credibility when it came time to cover the Capitol Hill riot.

I think Biden handled it okay, though I don’t think this was the time to inject the issue. But what if we’d had a President Elizabeth Warren? I shudder to think. Folks like her have really internalized this “they need to hear it for their own good” approach and are apt to use language that ordinary people aren’t familiar with. My in laws in Oregon don’t understand what any of this stuff means, and scolding them won’t help. They don’t feel “privileged” and you’ll only make them feel attacked. Which is fine if your intent is to bring about some sort of reckoning where the bad people are vanquished and the good prevail, but I don’t think that’s a great way to run a country.
I can second this. I grew up in the Arizona desert. If it was below 55 degrees people would be wearing jackets. I then lived in NYC for a few years, I too recall the first day it broke 40 degrees. I went out in shorts and a t-shirt, it felt great!
I'll try it, but it was mostly for family members who didn't have any use for any of the cloud products.
Aren't a large part of the Python and Ruby standard libraries written IN Python and Ruby, respectively? That should greatly reduce the amount of work.