jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Since I often complain about bad landing pages, I want to take a moment to highlight a really good one. I arrive on the page and:

BOOM! "Eternal Terminal" the name of the project

But what is-- "H2: Remote terminal for the busy and impatient"!

In a sentence or two? "Eternal Terminal (ET) is a remote shell that automatically reconnects without interrupting the session. Learn how to install and use it here."

Oh sweet, now I know what this is. But I'm a power user, can't you also just do this in bash using-- "Here are alternative approaches along with explanations of why we're better"

Cool stuff, is this a new thing or-- "Here's our paginated version history with DATES! BEAUTIFUL WONDERFUL RELEASE DATES so you can see quickly that this project is at least a couple years old."

Sure sure, but what if someone on HN had just linked to the most recent release notes? "Let your eye and your mouse cursor drift naturally to the upper left hand corner, where the name of the project shows up and links to the landing page you just spent 5 minutes gushing about."

Bravo.
You can selectively disable that particular warning with '-Wno-xxxx'. That way you get the ease of -Werror and you can get rid of those warnings that get in your way.
It' not very clear, but the "on record" probably include only the instrument measurement period, or something like that. The ice cores graph (linked near the bottom) says that 125.000 years ago the temperature was much hotter (+8°C).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature_record#mediaviewer/...
Your 10 month payback calc falls right in line with my figures of 9-12 months, depending largely on the number of man-hours required to get going.

If you've never vetted a DC or picked hardware before, twelve. If you know of three good DCs, have negotiated contracts before, know that you want a pile of HP DL360s, and know where to buy them, nine.
Same problem. No reason to think that historical change is 'complexification' either. Lots of evidence in both directions.
psssst! we're planning a pro version of codr, learn more

Scrolling is broken on this page when it pops up by clicking on "learn more."
You read it wrong. That's slowed by 30mph. I think the desired speed is now around 198mph, right?
Pay them more, how do you think the finance industry attracts engineers?

You're either saving the whales or running a business.
The last line of the article, "If you start with nothing, you’re forced to think about everything.", really sums-up for me one of the real benefits of a startup: you can start from scratch. There are no legacy systems to integrate, no "historical awkwardness" (well, it's that way because it's always been that way...), and no politics. You get a blank slate with a startup - every aspect can be thought about and done right (for all values of "right" that are valid at the moment the thinking is done). Time to innovate...
Anyone have any guidance on navigating es6 output mode vs where firefox and chromium are these days?

Ie whats in typescript es6 output that will have issues?
There were two things that caught my eye in this article:

1. "The Netherlands seems to be undergoing a sort of industrial revolution in reverse, with jobs moving from factories to homes."

2. "Almost 70% of Dutch business owners were exclusively self-employed in 2008."

You can really see that this freelance society we live in is very much like what Alvin Toffler was talking about in 1980 with his book The Third Wave:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Wave_(Toffler)
And then evil ISPs will just not join.
In the end, it might be fair to say that everyone involved (Linus, Larry and Tridgell) was a git.
Of course. Just like Buffett gets deals that others (even with billions) simply can't get. Reputation matters much more than your investment thesis.
Part of me really wants to go into full libertarian cryptoanarchist mode to enable a safe way of doing anonymous Kickstarters for someone to buy that SEM and crack any new DRM that's being thrown at us.

But then I remind myself of this[0] and I realize we'd be probably fighting our own future. Our world is going downhill because it's too uncoordinated, not too coordinated.

We're in a really tough spot here.

[0] - http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

The relevant quote:

But coordination only works when you have 51% or more of the force on the side of the people doing the coordinating, and when you haven’t come up with some brilliant trick to make coordination impossible.

The second one first. In the links post before last, I wrote:

> The latest development in the brave new post-Bitcoin world is crypto-equity. At this point I’ve gone from wanting to praise these inventors as bold libertarian heroes to wanting to drag them in front of a blackboard and making them write a hundred times “I WILL NOT CALL UP THAT WHICH I CANNOT PUT DOWN”

A couple people asked me what I meant, and I didn’t have the background then to explain. Well, this post is the background. People are using the contingent stupidity of our current government to replace lots of human interaction with mechanisms that cannot be coordinated even in principle. I totally understand why all these things are good right now when most of what our government does is stupid and unnecessary. But there is going to come a time when – after one too many bioweapon or nanotech or nuclear incidents – we, as a civilization, are going to wish we hadn’t established untraceable and unstoppable ways of selling products.
It's nice that Sandstorm is mentioned, as a way of users running web services under their own control. I think it's worth also pointing out that one of the uses of Mirage OS (also mentioned) is to build/deploy small services that can give users control of their data -- a project called Nymote [1]. The website needs a refresh and I haven't updated the blog in a while but I'll be making more time for it this year. If anyone's interested in the technical aspects, then the Mirage mailing list is the one to join.

[1] http://nymote.org/blog/2013/introducing-nymote/
This is so dumb.

safercopy(42,a,33,b);

Just use lisp!
Australia also has a similar show RPA (named after Royal Prince Alfred Hospital) that ran for at least 13 years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPA_%28TV_series%29
http://www.9jumpin.com.au/show/rpa/episodes/
I'm glad someone pointed this out, it irks me. Also, when you work at a for-profit job and donate money, a lot of that money goes to pay salaries. Wouldn't we want those nonprofit workers to be talented and capable?
There are more choices than "no regulations" and "every regulation". Regulations created to address proven problems are one thing. Creating a new regulation because somebody dreamed up a theoretical scenario is a different thing.

Progress involves risk. Cowering and doing nothing because someone, somewhere might possibly be harmed is as bad as having no regulation, if not worse. We wouldn't have airplanes at all if someone were running after the Wright brothers telling them it's not safe.

How does "Maybe we don't need 800 bazillion regulations that make it impossible to do anything" get translated to "Oh, so you want a wild west cowboy world where everyone does whatever they want and there are no regulations at all?" Try and have at least a little bit of nuance.

Neither I nor TFA are arguing to abolish all regulations. Just recognize that regulation has a cost. It's not an unalloyed good. When speed matters, like getting a vaccine to end a global pandemic, that cost is measured in lives just as surely as the cost of a lack of regulation is.
It's changed beyond recognition since 2015 let alone 2011. Seems odd to base your judgment of it on an experience 10 years ago.
twitter under same handle as hn. I am slowly ramping engagement on this, you'll have to sift through posts about elixir
It's not what they got to lose, but what they got to gain for doing this? Which is almost nothing. Except they fully support linux on their laptops too
No, people use the web for apps because:

(a) AWT was shitty and Swing an overengineered mess.

(b) GTK+ was never decent cross platform.

(c) QT was more decent, but had its own issues, and still in an uncanny valley (neither native enough, not its own thing like the web UI is).

(d) Cocoa and whatever Windows has this week are not cross platform.

(e) Most other alternatives are buggy, understuffed, and just don't look good

(f) It's easy to put something on the screen with not even a compiler or download needed.
How does this compare to wellsaid labs?
Quantum Computing is the new Cold Fusion.
I read "Anecdote" as "HNecdote", not sure what that says about anything.
I can see you've never been arbitrarily stopped by cops. Lucky you :)
I thought it was only me. But I periodically go back and stare at how beautiful some of my code is too.
I definitely agree with the comments here. I don't know one good developer who doesn't want to rewrite 50% of what they previously written. That rate always goes up to about %100 if it's written when they were anywhere near new to a language.

The fact that you belted something out that was useful and stable enough to still be active is a testament to your intelligence - and that is what a good potential hire employer is looking for.

BTW, you looking for a job in Durham? http://argylesocial.com/jobs/durham-nc-software-engineering-...

/adam
Macbook Air w/

- Parallels + Win7 + Visual Studio for C# stuff

- FDT (Eclipse plugin) for ActionScript stuff

- XCode for Objective C stuff

- Unity but I haven't really used it yet
For one thing, because then someone trying to use your page with a keyboard instead of a mouse is screwed: anchors without href don't tend to be focusable by keyboard action in web browsers. You can't even hack around this with tabindex, at least in Gecko and WebKit, though those seem like browser bugs (Presto gets this right).
"What's wrong with their current multitasking solution?"

If everyone codes their apps perfectly, nothing.

On the other hand, if there just happen to be one or two cough apps out there that are coded according to the pre-multitasking way of doing things there are three main problems:

(1) it will consume more battery, because the apps will pound away in their inner loops blissfully unaware (because they're not listening, or didn't handle it correctly).

(2) it removes control from the user, since a mostly crashed app will remain mostly crashed. Under the old scheme you could exit out and then go straight back in, in order to start with a 'clean slate' (sic).

(3) it uses more memory, on devices that are painfully low on memory. Half a gig (actually less for overhead) was okay-ish when you were the only thing running... but when it is being shared it doesn't go very far at all.

(4) off by one errors
Do you notice any major time gaps between WPF team blog posts here?

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wpf

Like 4-year gap at the top? I have switched to ASP.NET Web API within that gap. That kind of silence killed any trust, that cannot be fixed by appointing some unknown manager and adding a couple of minor features. What is active development? Azure is in active development. Asp.NET is in active development. WPF is barely alive.
I'm not sure; I think it's telling that Instagram, arguably one of the most popular / trafficked and supported (Facebook) websites out there, thinks it's unnecessary to even show an ERROR page if a browser has JS disabled.
You need a new job (as do I probably). There are companies that are not like this, and clients that value developers with exactly these skill sets.
Congrats on publishing.

Since this is your first book, and you have no immediately obvious prior published authority on the matter of Docker, I recommend you improve your Amazon author profile.

Currently I see the book and think, "this looks good!" But then I ask, "wait who is this guy, and why does he know so much about Docker?" Your author profile should answer that question, but right now it's just a brief picture of your personality. Sell yourself. Explain why you are the best person to teach me about Docker.

Always establish your authority. :)
While the overall tone was a bit antagonistic for me, I tend to agree with the premise of the title of this article. As someone who runs coding training programs for adults, I don't think you can teach someone coding in a matter of weeks, anymore than you can teach them Spanish in a matter of weeks. However, if you're going to make coding your career, a course that covers the basics and puts you on a good footing, especially if linked with work experience, is the best way to embark on the learning and exploration that the author discusses.

Nevertheless, I don't see why we could put say HTML in the same category as Excel- why shouldn't everyone in the world be able to make a webpage? We teach reading + writing, not to make everyone a journalist or a novelist, but so that we can express our thoughts and communicate our ideas. HTML (and even CSS) are basic enough for any professional to pick-up and are empowering skills to learn; without relying on third-party means to publish your own information on-line.

One last thing - in the UK, Excel is one of the skills listed under I.T. apprenticeships, if you can find a company who offers that.
This. Lawyers and ilk don't understand the amount of interest, persistence and MONEY that fans/fandoms generate for a body of work. Doing this is stupid shortsighted - goodwill is something hard to generate and easily lost. Paramount should have instead gifted that person a giant fan pack and made it a huge PR opportunity.
I had a whole response here but I took it out. I'll put it this way - you don't know what you're talking about and my name is right there in my nick. Do some investigation then return and tell me I'm lying.
Can you? How can you have technological or scientific advancement without someone to pay for it in advance? Who would pay for it without a reasonable expectation of getting more out than they had to put in?

(For some reason, I'm reminded of the Superconducting Super Collider and the western invention (discovery? reverse-engineering?) of porcelain.)

I'm going to leave the idea of "cultural advancement" alone, 'cause I can't easily and convincingly define it or figure out where it comes from. And I don't believe anyone else can either.
Set the view port width to 900px (give or take 50px), and the title and logo overlap.

Hit ctrl+shift+m (firefox, IIRC, chromium uses the same hotkey) and play around with the mobile view to test different resolutions.
This matter is beyond using or selling drugs. The definition of crime is based on a law which isn't necessarily morally right.

For example, in my country, discussing LGBT or even marijuana would get you into serious trouble. Hence, as internet users, we should look beyond our time and space, ensuring freedom of speech.
There are several examples of ethnic cleansing over the last 5 years.

But, I guess as long as it’s not "in Europe" then it’s ok....

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

Yes, WWII saw 10+ times the number of dead per year, but that's not such a huge gap as you might think.

PS: Many of those conflicts have far more civilian deaths than that link suggests.
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You're not necessarily wrong that the causes of the increases in prices for things like healthcare, etc. are due to policy issues, among other things. But you can kind of make that argument for any good or service - that that the increase in the price of x is a "specific industry/policy issue" and not a "monetary issue".

That doesn't negate the fact that people are still paying higher prices. If the fed is mandated with controlling the increase in prices then it is still upon them to address it, no? The fact that monetary policy is not a primary cause of the good/service specific inflation is irrelevant.
He left a huge mark on me--I literally have an excerpt from 500 miles high tattooed on my forearm.
Chick's work with Return to Forever made me __love__ jazz which led to so many more discoveries. You bet you'll be missed, Chick! Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful compositions with the world.
Is this only for citizens or also for blue card holders ? I suppose both since they pay equal amount of taxes.
Monkey species are likely much more different from each other than these Homo branches were though. Including courtship behavior and general lifestyle.

They might have been more similar in the past, but now they're well speciated.
Divers is Germany's official category for other gender.

The article is about companies actually hiding ads from people who didn't pick male or female. We don't know how they would judge gendered titles in a gendered language.

Most German companies just put m/w/d after the gendered title.
Except for very narrow use cases I don't see how the rules you can enforce in a digital space like a blockchain network help when you don't have a stable meatspace system of law. A bitcoin transaction can be mathematically as bullet proof as you want, but that doesn't help make your meatspace assets any more bullet proof.
> Not all of those statements would have been suited to the occasion of our rendezvous at the Maple Diner, but over the course of our years together—17 years, as it turned out—there came a moment for each of them.

Did make me sad, though. Considering the last message found in the text.
Everything is a people problem at the end of the day.
> Traditional applications that require Windows, a legacy .NET runtime and IIS don’t tend to fit quite as seamlessly into modern cloud practices. So a low-risk approach to adopting cloud can be as simple as building new functionality with a modern framework designed to run on the cloud like .NET Core, Node.js, Vert.x, or Golang.

If only everything in life could be as simple as rewriting your legacy .NET app in golang.
Lock users in? What does it change from that point?
In reality, birthrates in every developed country have crashed below extinction level; providing an actually universal basic income might help reverse that.

But if that's not going to be the case, if 'universal' is going to be a lie, then I'm opposed to the whole concept. Our society has too much bullshit ageism as it stands. The current social welfare system, flawed as it is, is better than bringing in more.
Nice article. Differentiates between an Entrepreneur and a BigCo.
The bigger picture is

Chinese capitalism = American capitalism - Human rights
Indian capitalism = American capitalism + Wage slavery

Hence American capitalism is not scalable in globalized economy/free markets.
I have a hard time believing this. Do you know how loud it is crawling through an AC vent? How loud a parachute landing on a roof is? How likely the fake from the store weighs the same as the real? Maybe he did steal what he claims to have stolen, but I'm finding it difficult to believe he did it the way he did.
Not all of us feel that way... I've having such a rotten time finding the digital music that I actually want that I'm quite ready to go back to CDs.
1) Why is it just an app, with no option to use on the web?
2) You should probably post more details about what this actually, well, does.

Cool concept, would love to try it out.
Or you could just design a network where new users don't annoy existing users

Sure. But that is just one of many possible cost-reducing mechanisms. I've expanded on this idea at more length here: http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1yzvh3/refutati...

In the case of cities, physical distribution means that even within a given city, the interactions of its citizens, while potentially very high, are generally reasonably low. It's less my direct contacts (likely within a fair approximation of Dunbar's Number) that are high, than my 2nd and 3rd order possible contacts which are high.

In a small town, those 2nd order connections are inherently constrained to the size of the population: my 300 direct contacts may expand to the 3,000 or 30,000 of a small town, but not the million or more of a large metropolis.

Similarly, for more complex organisms, you also have more complex immune systems. An interesting (and staggering) recent fact I ran across is that the individual cell mortality rate among ocean lifeforms is about 20%. Per day. If you're a cell in the ocean, you've got 1:5 odds of not being here tomorrow, because of the viral load:

http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1vyanj/viral_so...

So it is with other complex networks: higher levels of complexity require far more aggressive immune systems.
> There is no reason why "editing plain text" should be anything other than immediately intuitive.

Are you suggesting that it isn't in Emacs?

Well, I remember using Emacs for the first time. It opened up and I started editing the opened file. I saved the file from the file menu (which also showed me the shortcut for saving the file the next time I have to save something). Done. Now, this is exactly what a novice would do with notepad.

I found that many people 'demonize' Emacs just because they found it unfamiliar. Sure it's unfamiliar. For about a day. Then, it's just as familiar as any other user interface. I now used Emacs for, well, the shell, the dired and wdired, multiple cursors, keyboard macros, project-wide grepping and everything in between. Getting familiar with the editor was a great thing to have done, however unfamiliar it was in the beginning.

With the benefit of hindsight, I can truly say that learning how to properly use a text editor, especially one so powerful as Emacs, is the one thing the any programmer absolutely must do. So, even if the editor isn't "anything other than immediately intuitive", it's still a good idea to wrap your head around the non-intuitive things.
So why didn't you switch?
My guess is DDIA + USENIX/OSDI/... papers.
I was interested in building something like this when COVID-19 first hit. I think it's still a space with a lot of potential, but there are now a huge number of competitors. I made a spreadsheet and add to it each time I see one of these products come up on HN: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R5DXWtz4H7eIT5VbGYJE...

There are currently at least 18 projects operating in this space.

- The majority (maybe all?) of them are browser-based (probably because it's easy to throw something together with all the JS webrtc example projects out there).

- Most of them seem to be trying to sell to enterprises or conference organizers.

- I suspect that most of them are ghost towns.

- None of them that I've seen actually try to originate events- i.e. the only way you would use them is if you try to organize an event or are invited to one through a different channel.

- Most of them are top-down, although there are a few 3d ones.

I still think that there's a lot of potential for someone to come in and take over this whole space with a product more polished than is possible in the browser, and with a social element that can drive usage of the platform (similar to Clubhouse). I suspect that the winning team will come from the ranks of game developers, not webdevs who cracked open a webrtc tutorial one weekend. For now though, it's probably best to sit back and let the majority of the 18 existing teams burn through their funding.
Might as well just go for LTE cat20 or cat22 (Snapdragon X55 or newer) to future-proof with sub6 if you're already going to spend that much on a modem.
I interviewed a bunch of fb E4s at previous gig and yeah imo not a lot of them would have senior title if you rewind industry say 10 years back. Once you deviate from their canned prep it all falls apart. They’re almost all very good with basic algo stuff tho