jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This looks very cool. I am going to wait until the source is posted on github before trying it. I was lucky enough to have received a Xerox 1108 Lisp Machine in the early 1980s, so having an OS written in Lisp seems reasonable :-)

Also, I agree with jacquesm's comment on the advantages of many operating systems.
> Is the web a really a model we want to emulate?

I can't think of a single more successful achievement of software engineering, so can someone explain why I shouldn't answer with an emphatic, "yes!" to this question?

I get the web has all kinds of flaws, and maybe we can do better, but as far as I know, we haven't even come close to actually building something as useful or ubiquitous or stable as the web.

I've been using redis pipes (and databases in general) to get services to talk to one another, and that has its uses, but why must I do that or do REST? Why can't there be a place for both?
Are you saying there's no malware for Macs?
This is really nice, I'm going to use it.
Just wanted to chime in that Dune & Foundation are excellent (and my personal favorite) sci-fi series.

I really enjoyed Ringworld by Larry Niven as well.And of course, the Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy in 5 parts :)
>The anti-psychotics made me feel nothing. I don't know how I can explain this to someone who hasn't been there, but it's like your emotions just cease to exist. In theory, they worked, but a complete lack of emotions and creativity simply wasn't worth it

The thing that's always scared me away from meds is the worry that I'll have a similar experience, but knowing that withdrawal (particularly for SSRIs) can last for months and lead to symptoms that look like depression itself.
The article is largely trying to, in effect, refute the usefulness of HN. If merit counts for little, i.e., if reading about and doing all the things that are discussed on HN is a waste of time, then why is this site here and why are you reading it?

If you save and invest $40 a day for the next 35 years you can retire comfortably, though you won't normally be rich. Deferral of gratification will conquer a lot in a reasonably free society. That's harder now, as inflation punishes those who save and we're seeing rising prices everywhere except housing prices.
I believe that there are some factors that I do not have control over that restrict me from moving up. The things I was born with, inheritance, social status, race and the things I can't directly control such as luck or the discrimination of myself by others are just challenges to overcome or circumvent so that I might merit the success I seek through hard work and perseverance.

Whether the article is right or wrong I will not accept that I cannot get ahead through my "individual merit, which is generally viewed as a combination of factors including innate abilities, working hard, having the right attitude, and having high moral character and integrity" which are all things that I can and do control.
Nope... don't know what Bloom County is. It's just the last iteration that I got to when I decided that my previous nick wasn't up to scratch...
SS is a redistribution scheme which funnels money from the young to the old. It's also not funded by the recipients - the recipients voted to borrow money from it, spend that money, and now expect other people to pay back their debts. It's a transfer no matter how you slice it. All pyramid schemes are about redistribution - they have no other purpose.

Same thing for medicare, medicaid, welfare, and even big portions of defense and education. See the numbers I linked to - most government spending is redistribution, not public goods.
ahhh, thanks. Sorry for the mistake.

That being said, even countries like the US and Canada are saying they expect 60-70% of the population to get it.. so you could say the death rate will be 9% of 60%...
The sad truth is that we very rarely find out about a hack when it happens. Depending on the study, companies generally find out about it 6mo - 3yr after a hack starts, and usually it’s accidental that the company finds out. Rotating secrets buys you time by frustrating your attacker a little more and potentially giving you a little more signal to find among the noise in your alerts.

Credential rotation processes are yet another layer of “defense in depth” — the more layers you have, the more secure you can be.

As you rightly point out, it adds complexity. Having a credential generator+rotator means you are more resilient to the fallibility of humans choosing bad credentials or too busy/lazy to do the task.
Find peace in the fact that they won't fire you because they don't want to do interviews right now and just do the best that you can.
"Fail better." That is so good, thanks for the quote!
(I'm from Tailscale) A few people have reported a failure for the Windows service to start, usually related to registry lockdowns. You can try running "start /w tailscale-ipn.exe /server" in a "admin mode command prompt" window and paste the messages in an email to support@tailscale and we can try to decode them. You can also compile tailscaled from https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale with a Windows target and it'll run on Windows, which makes it easier to explore any bugs.

Magic DNS isn't available for testing yet, but coming soon!

Our network diagnostic logs are based on https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190216 and we do intend to surface those eventually to end users or at least network admins. Just need to work out the right API and security model for that.

As for access controls between devices, Tailscale already supports that but our docs are currently too vague. If you're using Tailscale, visit https://login.tailscale.com/admin/acls to explore. Security policies you edit in there are immediately enforced by all nodes right away, so you can give some users access only to central servers, etc.
Important thing to note. This Thread.php implementation works using pcntl_fork().

The biggest gotcha - pcntl_fork() is not supported under Apache. Basically rendering the whole thing rather useless for most use cases.
That's interesting. Completely agree about the cuts that take a long time being cheaper. I tried cooking brisket for the first time a couple of days ago. It only took 30 mins in the pressure cooker. BTW a pressure cooker saves time and money and energy and lets you eat cheaply and healthily. All students and entrepreneurs should have one IMHO. The entire population of India can't be too far wrong on the merits of pressure cookers. As for the brisket, well it was good, but didn't seem cheaper or better than lean(ish) minced beef, and didn't go as far as we hoped. So maybe we'll stick to making spaghetti bolognaise...
Googling turns up these relevant articles:

This seems to me to be the best of the lot; some great descriptive tips and links to other articles.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/articles/checklist.htm

Here's one even mentioning Y-Combinator:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/24126/How-to-market-your-website-o...

And some others:

http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2009/07/09/good-programmers-don...

http://www.wordsinarow.com/marketing.html
Easy workaround: use wpa2/psk, put the key in the SSID.
Doing this on every action is too much I think, this leads really to uninstall or buy.
The inability to have other clients read data from S3 after S3QL has posted it here is a real dealbreaker for me.

As an alternative I'd suggest S3FS - http://code.google.com/p/s3fs/
Doing science means doing politics - publishing, presentations, conferences, and tenure is all just a very slow and complicated way of finding consensus. It's inevitable at some point in a scientist's career that they run up against some controversy where it's not just "data and facts wins", but it's about relationships, leverage, negotiation, social clout, etc.

I've settled on a theory that the bulk of science that lives hidden in lab journal notebooks and dropbox files is stuff that's not too controversial or heretical, but that the investigator is too scared to share. There's an anxiety about wondering and making sure that it's good enough to pass peer muster. So then most stuff never gets shared, particularly negative results.

The best scientists are ones who managed to break through that social fear barrier, either by building up enough social power for themselves to withstand potential attacks, or navigating the awkward political risks and activism required to push a field forward. You can tell when someone lacks that aura by how worried they are about funding, because ultimately they haven't yet mastered being a politician. The good ones have enough charisma and confidence that they could run for office. At least most of the good professors and mentors I know have that spirit, but likely in spite of the academic system selecting for nails that don't stick out rather than because of.
Comparing open source development to a forced labor camp is a stretch.

I wouldn't hold my breath for a "big payout" -- a company will invest in what they find is necessary. Maybe it's a gold sponsor, maybe a junior engineer hire or more. The market is efficient in my view and everyone involved benefits. The disconnect I see is the delusion that open source contributor(s) are owed something because someone else found the software useful. They seem to so quickly forget that they picked the liscense and that liscense is being used as designed.

Your narrative is not productive. Instead, maybe advocate for cultural change in what it means to adopt open source technology, eliminate barriers for monetary or other forms of support. It's unlikely the intent of adoters is to be laughing all the way to the bank as you're claiming.
If you have a name, phone number and BSN (Dutch SSN) you can easily do lage-scale identity fraud
Google paying for approximately 1 developer isn’t going to change that the vast majority of Python work is done by volunteers who the PSF isn’t in a position to direct, no.
I always have been and always will be against the walrus operator. I don't care how much anyone tries me to sell it on its elegance. There's just no _need_. It's already the #1 example of wtfpython https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython#-first-things-firs...

/rant. Those kind of features are going to keep coming anyway, I'm afraid.
If you’re 100% convinced you are in the right you could perhaps sue for slander. But generally in these cases it turns out something was going on.
The truth of the matter is that if you're just starting out, it doesn't really matter. For basic coding needs, they both pretty much do the same thing. If your needs mature, you'll start to see minor differences that may or may not matter to you (pricing, team management, SEO, etc.).

If you're looking for a single reason, here's one... look at the aesthetics for GitHub & GitLab. Decide which one you like more and use that. When you start to feel like something is missing or suboptimal from the service you chose, give the other one a try!
If I recall correctly it was not the armed civilians that disembarked in Normandy.
While what you say is true, I think it's debatable whether this is reflected in our childcare practices.
From everything I've seen (and admittedly, that's all hearsay), Uber isn't really interested in "doing their best". Their fundamental philosophy from the get go has been to be "disruptive" by simply ignoring regulations and aim at becoming "too popular to ban".

I would not be surprised one bit to learn that they did very little or even nothing at all to address the concerns.
On the other hand, you could be the first among your family/friends to not use FB's products, and slowly others will follow.
>>Similarly demanding construction helmets ... wouldn't be corruption per se.

No I wasn't categorizing demands for safety standards as corruption. The safety point was separate from my point about unions.

I was categorizing the misleading of the public to get a political party elected that enables one's own union to fetch above-market wages for oneself as something like high-level corruption, though maybe 'corruption' in the public policy context has a more specific definition that doesn't include this.
There are several indications that there could have been laws broken. There is certainly enough for several agencies to start investigations over and at least block the sale until the investigations are completed
The actual accusation -- if you read further down -- is that not only was Oppenheimer a spy, but so were Fermi and Szilard and Bohr. The evidence for this comes from a Russian ex-spy who was imprisoned in the Soviet Union and tried to cash in during the 90s on these accusations. You can get the fact check if you dig around enough, I won't bother here.

Based on some Googling, it seems these unfounded accusations have been a popular theme for some decades. Makes me wonder what all four of those scientists have in common, that would inspire such reactions.
Anandtech's testing showed full load power consumption of 279.82 W (3960X) and 286.72 W (3970X). OTOH the "255W" Xeon W-3175X full load power consumption was 381.08W...
They probably are a little more stale than the large bars because many are in the unsealed paper wrappers.
I've had to simplify the site in order to avoid the hn hug of death.

This is how it should look like if I were a competent SW Engineer:

https://imgur.com/waVjMVe

Thanks!
In that case, we're probably being started from a snapshot provided by the teacher
You should become a Segway gang and wear black hoodies that say "Hacker Angels" in green Terminus.
We haven't launched yet, but we're a digital goods marketplace and my intuition is that our niche audience may have a high chargeback rate. We're looking for any additional protection so we don't stumble out of the gate.
I believe you are blending two different things together. Working together as a team, and making a decision.

I agree that it's good team building to work together in a large group, but do you have to carry around 16 managers for every decision? Why is one person so afraid of standing up and saying I made the decision because I feel it benefits the company, and then go into your data and facts. Then have anyone who objects come forwarded. Instead of having to cross reference every member or other departments for trivial decisions.
I had a hard time over at Drupal.com finding screens of the interface the client is presented with when editing and managing content.

As a rule, if the CMS puts you away from your page and to a list of "posts" to edit with TinyMCE, it's not modern. Atleast in my book.
We use expression engine(http://expressionengine.com/) where I work mainly because the back end interface is highly configurable for us and very easy to use for our clients. Everything is laid out quite consistently and it has everything our clients need(with a few extensions).

It's also really easy to create extensions for any functionality a client would want that isn't provided out of the box.
The important point in my above post is "reinvest the profit"

By doing so it acts as a continual no-interest loan. Which saves the Government on the interest they'd have to pay if they borrowed from someone seeking profit.

(The easiest way to do this would just be to destroy them once you buy them so they could never be cashed out. It would still be listed as debt on the balance sheet but it would be debt that would never need to be repaid)
No mate, that's not what he asked. He asked:

3. Third-party apps that are exclusive to Android.

And followed it up with this:

"At this point, I’m guessing, Android fans are ready to exclaim that the fact that Android supports things like home screen replacements (or other system-level tools, such as touchscreen keyboard replacements) — and that iOS does not — is precisely why they prefer Android, and/or consider iOS to be an unacceptable toy, or what have you. But, again, that’s not the argument I’m making. I’m talking about third-party developer exclusives — and the only ones Android has are ones that Apple doesn’t want."

And yet you provided:

4 system enhancements (keyboard, media player, homescreen, email labeller)

4 apps available on the iOS

1 possibly genuinely killer app, but that falls into the geeky automation category
Yes, this is theoretically cool and all, but when I hear something like:

"Let's start with the easy one: how do we know it's necessary?
Some customers already have datasets on the order of a petabyte, or 250 bytes. Thus the 64-bit capacity limit of 264 bytes is only 14 doublings away."

It raises a huge red flag from a business point of view. In 2004 "some customers" had datasets that would cause issues sometime around 2015 - a problem that ZFS purported to solve (among admittedly much more relavant features). In planning for a future that was possibly ten years away for "some customers" instead of focusing on what was relevant to the larger customer base, Sun managed to continue their slow profitability death march until Oracle finally snatched them up this year.

Something to keep in mind when you decide to add "cool theoretical feature X" or "unparalleled scalability" to your four month old startup...
Here's the easiest way I can think of to imagine an ordering that works for what you need. Imagine an infinite square lattice: a plane where the As lie on one axis and the Bs on the other, and there's a dot in every integer-coordinates point. Now just do a "spiral", for example counterclockwise: 0,0 -> 1,0 -> 1,1 and keep unwinding your way to infinity. The exact formulas can be written out but intuitively it should be enough to convince you it works even without them.
yep this is awesome, you'll have me as customer for sure, as this is something I have wanted for a while because quicktime's trim is ok, but I like being precise with my cuts.

So I am giving you my full permission to email me when you come out with this for real. +1

The things I really liked, In point - I, out point - O, trim, extract split, skip and step = pure awesomeness.

bugs?

1) Clicking on the in moves the white ball scrubber to the end of the timeline.

* would be cool if I could set in and out by click on them where the playhead is, I and O works great, this could be a nice complement.

Few nitpicks from how I see things

1) I think you should add a preference for the playbar thing to show always. when I'm in this sort of program, the editing is more important to me then see the top and bottom part of the video.

2) Inside of encoders pref tab, maybe include why i would want to use this, and where I could possibly download this if I wanted to use this. I'm sure your not including it because of the licensing mess, but as a simple user I wouldn't know what this is all about.

3) the open other thing people mention earlier, threw me for loop as well

4) i haven't tried any of the sharing options, because I already have methods to get everything where it needs to be, so if you dropped these it wouldn't matter to me, but very cool for including them, I'll try them out at some point.

All in all very cool, please keep me in the loop with your developments, contact is in my profile.
You should keep it in mind when other company's make PR statements, yes.

I would like to think that a "good" company should also consider other factors like when they make a PR statement (things like: "is this statement a lie"?). I'd certainly have a hard time arguing that a company should lie in a PR statement, even if it appears that such a lie would be in their interests.
> Wikipedia has a list of some of the big remaining ones

That's a list of projects that are undergoing expansion from single-stack to double-stack, although that's not the main purpose of CREATE, and the Cross-Harbor Rail Tunnel is a perennially-proposed project to link NJ with Long Island that's unlikely to come to fruition. Furthermore, my understanding is that most of those projects are already completed; Wikipedia isn't always timely on updating these kinds of topics.
I don't think using CEF or Electron makes any difference. Some apps are just coded or structured better.
I also get gibberish both on Brave and Chrome on Linux.
The bad news is, there's no single way to package your product. The good news is, nobody cares, as long as what you choose works.

Also, linux users arent averse to paying for software. They simply expect their software to be respectful. That most paid software also historically happened to be disrespectful is more of a historical accident.
> it turns out that the game logic to marry two characters is contained in the game binary, not in the scripting files, and the game engine will unilaterally block same sex marriages.

> it became clear from statements both on the forums and off of it that while the concern was noted, fixing the issue would be difficult, and it wasn’t a current priority.

Doesn't look like it's that easy.
The beauty of it is that they pretty much already throw as many charges that they can.
Concern about the licensing was eventually sufficient that they resolved it a few years back.
I don't think you've really answered the last question. At the moment, in the US, how you contracted HIV makes no difference to your access to treatment. Do you think this should change or not?

As to the rest, you're obviously aware that in general, obese adults are not deprioritized for treatment as compared to non-obese adults.
Some would argue that that shouldn't mean Amazon gets to impose conditions that cause a non-trivial amount of workers to be forced to do things like pee in bottles, or fight for their right to not endure such conditions (amongst other harsh conditions like extremely high quotas).
Good point. Aviation in Indonesia operates in a particularly challenging environment (many islands, short hops, inclement weather, problematic infrastructure, institutional culture with massive corruption and shortcuts, pervasive poverty). Given that background, I think commercial aviation there is amazingly successful and safe, by and large.

On the other hand, Lion Air does have a bad reputation even in Indonesia, and I suspect not without reason. So some speculation in that regard was to be expected. What's a shame is that some commentators pinned it on Lion Air without waiting for the full picture to emerge, and it seems Boeing screwed up, here.

But I don't think Boeing specifically is sacrosanct here; the discussion would have been much the same if it had been an Airbus.

FWIW, I've suggested to my Indonesian friend (who's just been to the funeral of one of the victims) to avoid both Lion Air and Boeing 737-8, -9 MAX for now.
I'm reminded of this article: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o... TL;DR Essentially, senior executives are sociopaths. Since senior executives are typically rich, these articles are related.

From my personal experience, I find the thesis to be incorrect though.
Holy snowflakes batman!
I made this little app in a few hours, just for fun. You can make your profile looks like this:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/12/no-its-not-a-facebook-profi...

I would probably improve it later today, this is the very minimal version.

Tell me what you think =).
amazon/paypal/visa/mastercard dropping wikileaks demonstrates that its not worth the hassle for them to stand up to the government. I speculate that most service providers will continue to comply with warrant-less requests.
Thanks, Evan! I actually disagree about production use, with similar reasoning to Travis Swicegood's answer about coffeescript in production [1]. Since sibilant is just a source-to-source compiler, it's as production-ready as Node.js or client-side javascript is. The output javascript from sibilant is fairly plain and readable and encourages a particular subset of javascript's features. The language is under active development, but Node's API is also changing. I've been hacking on sibilant since late June and believe it to be sufficiently expressive, although it can always get better.

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[1] http://www.quora.com/Should-I-use-CoffeeScript-for-more-than... .
Its the cost of a decentralized currency, people find it worthwhile and priced it accordingly. Who are you to say that is wrong?
I use it constantly, but usually via the trackpad. I hadn’t actually noticed any key binding changes!