jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
So, does that mean everything has to be packaged in the same grey form factor as to not advertise their product? You walk around a city and see lots of Coca-Cola branding on the bottles people carry around. That's also advertising.

If you don't ban this, then whomever can pay the most at stores for product space would take over the market. Actually, that would likely happen even if you remove labels since people will be picking essentially at random.
This is the ultimate proof that the C++ approach has worked.
This has nothing to do with China. China is actually behind, Taiwan, South Korea, and the US in fab technology. China's best fabs are in 28nm area, not 5nm. This is why them getting cut off from western tech via the US's semiconductor sanctions was such a huge deal. They don't have their own fabs capable of making high end products.
VAT does capture B2B transactions. That's what makes it different from a sales tax. I'm pretty sure that you already have to pay VAT when buying online ads.
I agree, especially when we already have laws (HIPPA, PCI DSS, etc) that basically already require end to end encryption that cannot have backdoors.

And, I'm sorry, but I'm pretty sure the financial and healthcare sectors (and any vendors that work for them, ie, every major vendor including Microsoft and Google and Amazon) would just ignore Obama and Cameron: being fined by the government for using real encryption is a lot less money than being sued by your customers who rely on certain standards.

Due to the political climate lately on HN, I expect to be downvoted, but I don't care. The sooner we dump this political baggage the better, its simply not profitable to keep kowtowing to the Republican Party and the foreign equivalents.
I recently switched my business-related email away from Google Apps (I was using domain aliases, which I felt was less-than-professional). I switched to Zoho, and I've been happy so far, but I'm curious--what was it about Zoho that you didn't like? Or what didn't Zoho have that you missed?
> It's now an exercise to the user to figure out how to remove all the files leftover from the old OpenBSD release.

No it's not. The upgrade guides for each release literally tell you exactly which files should be cleaned up, which packages are now part of base, which parts of base are now packages, etc. OpenBSD has a good reputation for having complete and thorough documentation on every last detail of its operation, and system upgrades are no exception.
Your comment implies that programmers stop learning once they are slightly advanced.
I feel this is unfortunately the case with a lot of businesses (not to give Apple a pass here). A lot of problems get fixed quickly when the customer has a large enough online following (or is lucky for their story to go viral) to cause a negative pr.
really David ? Come on. How many times you made mistake ?
Were you demoted and/or fired for mistake ?
Now, let's not argue that you or all of us has not fucked up.
In my 7 yrs. as engineer I have seen worse. However, that's not excuse to run to boss/CEO to demote someone and take over their job.
Think about their family,kids before you do such act.

If you defend such behavior for taking over job/demotion I seriously think there lies greater problem in tech community.

Edit: HN is getting fucked up day by day. Any simple disagreement is greeted with downvotes. Carry on.
If there's an IT department to manage the PCs then he shouldn't have to do any of this. "The computer is inadequate for my work" should mean that IT come out, establish what they can do and make it happen.

If configuration changes like Aero or an SSD make a decent difference then the IT department are best placed to make them. They know all of the possible side effects, and when they get it right the benefit will reach everyone in the company.
Please stop being so disgustingly cynical.
I don't get his arguments ... it just seemed like one big REGULATION IS EVIL rant/FUD.

Did I miss anything ?
If you're doing something that's only purpose is to be posted on the internet, it's the same as being on the internet. Even if the cable is unplugged, you're still doing internet things.

That's a lot of the problem here. He's trying to stop something too broad. Instead, he should be picking the things he DOES on the internet that are stealing his time. Reading Digg/Reddit/StumbleUpon/Facebook for instance. Limit or quit those things. The internet isn't the problem any more than 'being outside' is the problem for laying on the beach too much.
Given that the link is to techcrunch...
Another very happy Balsamiq user here, first step though is always a white board and a camera, really fast iteration there, then work in Balsamiq once the really high level wire frame is done and you are getting to the detail level
Pretty hard to screw up scrambled eggs.
This actually pretty neat! $18 is insanely low, I'd make this for my nephews and godson. Any way to get them working with scratch or similar graphical programming "language"?
At some point the bidder realizes instead of four lotus, they could buy a late model 911 instead.
His Go is a little disingenuous. This (https://gist.github.com/EricLagerg/105431503d32f18d239b) is almost as short as his D code, and functions the same.
Is your experience having meaningful conversations with Americans about the problem? Most conversations I have that drill down deeper than surface anecdote and superficial one-liners end with most people agreeing that our prison population (and its corresponding industry) is getting out of hand. This is something even relatively uneducated and ignorant people can see. I'm interested to hear what your experience includes.
IMO, the author's "copy data to stdout" example betrays a lack of language understanding. Here's a more idiomatic version: http://play.golang.org/p/ZWatRuj3Q_
I thought the "sum" example was pretty damning. Bug count scales with code length so writing tons of boilerplate code to work around language limitations means you're introducing bugs.
> it was "too fast" to run Battle Chess [not sure how that was, but memory]

The Clipper database program ran a check on startup to see how fast the CPU was (it ran some code and timed how long it took). "Modern" CPUs are fast enough that the runtime of the function is effectively zero, so when it gets used as the denominator of a division a bit later on in the startup the program crashes on a divide by zero.

http://computer-programming-forum.com/19-clipper/2cd478f1fcf...
Not only that, but the guy also talks of how he was able to appreciate the finer points of graduate level mathematics when he was 16. We're either dealing with another Terry Tao here or he has delusions of grandeur. I'll let you decide which one is more likely. I'm far from being a genius myself, but from spending a few years at research labs I know a few people who could legitimately claim to be genius material. Never in a million years will you find them beating their chest about their intellectual capacity or sophistication.
>A fun question: how does the universe change if the mass isn’t a scalar, but rather is a matrix, and so a = m-1F is the acceleration? What would this world look like? Is it plausible?

m is only a scalar for particles though? For a general rigid body mass is a matrix. Unless they specifically mean for translational degrees of freedom, in which case I think that would probably break symmetry
Oh. There are multiple problems:

1. There is no way to define deployment tokens per package. If you have an organization and want to deploy via CI/CD this can be problematic. If one token is leaked, it affects all packages

2. You cannot enforce 2FA for accounts in organization. So you also have problems if you don’t use CD.

These two problems could be addressed by the registry, the other’s are more of UX Gaps.

3. It is not easy to verify that a package contains the thing that is checked into source. We make it arguably harder by transpiling, etc.

4. It is not widely known how to use npmignore. Often packages contain unnecessary things like all of their documentation website or big images or tests. There could be better UX around that when you create packages or explore packages. The amount of temporary files published by an author in packages is just crazy.

These are the problems from the top of my head, I am sure that I could come up with more. It doesn’t mean that other package managers are better or that NPM is bad, but there is room for betterment.
Some stores in the US have that, some don’t, and it’s always a lot smaller than the total price when they do.
You can also block elements by text content [1], for those that did not know. I ran into a site that tried to counter uBlock by randomized class names, among other things, but was able to target it properly that way.

1. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax#...
I was at the store today and was looking at two different brands. As soon as I saw that one was not made in China, it was an easy decision.
Yeah, it’s just a matter of saying ‘we use prettier’ and that kills all discussion on coding standards.
I'm guessing to easily refer to the parent company (not sure if these collections are still called companies, english is not my native language). Instead of GOOG one could probably use Alphabet but differentiating between Facebook and FACEBOOK might be a bit confusing and for Amazon that might just be to be consistent with the rest of the article.
I'd like such data as well, email in profile.
He was pretty funny on The Big Bang Theory
They have software called Sure Cuts A Lot (SCAL) that can take SVG images in and connect via USB to the Cricut machine (which has to have any cartridge in to work). It's probably sending a well known (but crippled I'd guess) format over the wire.

I suspect that with even the simplest software ever you'd still find a lot of people wanting to buy the cartridges (within the Cricut target demographic).
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1915686

I'm kind of creeped out, honestly.
The problem is less that it's easy to forget - it's more that it's easier to completely lose someone. For instance, you forget your login to HN and you can go through a reminder process - pretty simple. You forget your Open ID you're in a world of pain.

Moreover most sites can't help you - the URLs contain (usually) no information about you as a person. So you come to me and say "I don't know my login" or worse: "My Open ID provider is gone".

All I can do is shrug. The it becomes a matter of sleuthing: IP addresses, PayPal transactions (if you use them)... and so on.

I agree it can be better - but it's technology that when mixed with users is a nightmare.
If you blow up the image of the Declaration text, it's quite readable. I don't see much use for it today, but it's really a very nice design. I'm skeptical that a legible font could use any fewer pixels.
Just based on what the article says, I suspect that even at the vacuum pressures they can achieve, there's enough normal matter around that eventually one of them penetrates the field and annihilates it.
If I may be pedantic for a moment, the HN guidelines only warn against "gratuitous editorial spin." I don't feel the changes were gratuitous at all because (if you look at the last sentence in the blog post) my title is clearly the point Mr. Sayrer is trying to make.
Thanks for sharing these. I bought the app instead because of.
However nobody should be self-prescribing. The toxic dose is irrelevant because you shouldn’t be taking this drug without a doctor’s supervision. Lithium, a treatment for bipolar disorder is also very toxic and required blood level monitoring but it isn’t being criticized for having the therapeutic dose being so close to the toxic dose. But Trump hasn’t talked about Lithium, so thus nobody cares to complain about it.
Who is recommending acetaminophen for coronavirus fever reduction? Provide a source.
In case anyone's interested - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/health/coronavirus-sympto...
I don't see how this is political or harmful. It's a valid criticism of the president based purely on his own actions and their obvious consequences with no mention of party.
Paracetamol is probably the most dangerous over the counter medicine available, and might not be approved in this way if it were in the process now. This is really the exception, it's the poster child for dangerous, but still widely available medication.
I agree, it's not clear if the couple consumed the unformulated active pharmaceutical ingredient.

But the fish tank part would be true either way (I don't know!), and was likely included to scare people from doing stupid shit like this.

It's the same reason you can survey people about whether we should ban the corrosive chemical dihydrogen monoxide and you'll get a ton of yes responses. In the absence of sophisticated knowledge I think framing matters!
Yes, exactly like the man in the article. People are trying to make this into some political, partisan fight, which causes people’s trust in experts to be eroded. There’s a whole story about this called the boy who cried wolf.
That's completely unrelated to the person you responded to. You can't blame someone for simply mentioning something and not even advocating for it. Good grief.
I'm curious what your source is? I haven't found anything with more details than the linked article.
For that matter, the ability of these tests to predict success hasn't been very good over time. From another recent article on HN:

"In truth, though, the United States has never done well on international tests, and they are not good predictors of our national success. Since 1964, when the first such exam was administered to 13-year-olds in 12 countries, America has lagged behind its peers, rarely rising above the middle of the pack and doing particularly poorly in science and math. And yet over these past five decades, that same laggard country has dominated the world of science, technology, research and innovation."[1]

[1]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-stem-wont-make-us... (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9285423)
Sure, but just because you went through periods of getting “poisoned“, why does that mean you stayed too long? Everyone goes through trials and tribulations. You’re making an error by assuming that leaving before the poisoning means you left on time. You always leave on time. The poisoning is part of the bigger plan of life. There’s never a need for regret, for everything happens exactly the way it’s supposed to.
But the underlying situation is biased. The data could be both accurate and unfair.

Is it, just don't do data, same interest rate for everyone, no denials and amortize defaults across higher rates for lower-risk borrowers?

You'd need a law, the first bank to do that would be crushed by other banks that can attract the lower-risk borrowers with lower rates.
The commenter above is correct in that I don't like plastic as the primary reason why a Thinkpad is out... Perhaps if they produced an aluminum unit I'd give it a shot.

I really want to emphasize I'm talking about my preference. I don't want to anyway say that the Thinkpad isn't great for some folks.

With that said...

I personally just don't like Thinkpad keyboards at all.

A MacBook Pro (MBP) keyboard for me is much nicer to type on, but it's also completely inferior to a mechanical keyboard (again, for me).

I've looked (online) at some from HP (envy?) and they seemed alright but were often underpowered for my tastes. I really like that I can get a high power i7 in a MBP. Cheap? No. Fast? Yes. I'm okay with paying that premium.

I haven't tried the Lenovo Thinkpads; so, I am admittedly behind the times.

One change to MBPs that I loathe is not being able to upgrade my ram or SSD. I'd be fine if it was a weird format/connector/size, as a result of the form factor, but having them soldered on is a step too far.

I also very much miss my matte screen. Matte "stickers" (?) suck and just look shitty.
You can use base 64 with a URL-safe alphabet, as specified in RFC 4648: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4648#page-7
> Ok, let's set aside "10x" because many previous discussions about it have shown it to be a distasteful description to some. For those who do not believe in the "10x programmer", how do you feel about programmers such as John Carmack (Doom, Oculus)[1], Fabrice Bellard (ffmpeg, pi algorithm)[2], Linus Torvalds (Linux, Git), TJ Holowaychuk (node.js projects)?

Have you noticed how you have only listed programmers with skillsets that go beyond programming [except for the one I don't know know anything about, TJ]?

The first 3 of these are really programmers with management skills and the ability to build enough of a following to contribute to their projects. Their ability doesn't stem from a unique, magical "10x programmer" capability but rather the ability to get others to buy into their vision.

Linus didn't succeed because he was a better programmer than 99.9% of the population. Linus succeeded because he got other programmers to buy into his vision and was a good programmer.

You remember John Carmack more than Romero, not because of the skillset difference but because of John Carmack's ability to organize other programmers.

I understand there is a desire to honor these people due to technical skill alone but it isn't their technical abilities that made them famous. If it was, you'd be including a bunch of other people with some very impressive list of technologies to their name. Rather than people who are "well known". Its the social skills that allow people to achieve fame that cause you to remember them like this.
I haven't seen it in any programs other than old research UNIX era utilities and their modern implementations. In that context, they're often called "traditional" or "old style" invocation.

Do you have any examples of modern utilities using a dash-less syntax?
Also: EMC testing, RFI, etc. Certified by a test lab that will cover both North America and Europe.

On shipping: these days it's pretty common to ship everything with mechanical accelerometers in the packaging that trigger on high loads so you can tell when the crate has been dropped. Crazy how often it happens.
"Revived" is probably the right term to use.

A clinically-dead patient can be revived, but the condition they're in is far from OK.
It is true that luxury is relative, but, from an external point of view, when I was a kid, I remembered commenting with people how everyone in American movies seemed to be rich, even when depicted as "low middle class" (huge houses, a couple of cars, tons of clothes, toys, etc)
We are not talking about having an helicopter, but my family bought our first car when I had 15 years, and live in a relative small flat for 4 people. My father had a well paid job in IT industry and we considered ourselves middle class.

And I am not talking about a really poor country on the third world, but Europe.

As usual, we perceive as rich anyone "an income step above us" that can mean they'll go on holidays to a private island, that they'll go on holidays to Aruba, they'll go on holidays to a rural house, or that they simply go on holidays, period, depending on your income.

I think we focused too much on the "hyper rich" billionaires. A couples of steps down from that is also luxury...
Why would consumers worry about whether there is a single point of failure in the Bitcoin economy? What they do worry is whether they will be able to take their money out when they want it, and that means fewer, larger, and supposedly more trustworthy exchanges.
Yes, it's completely impossible that this company has its own corporate culture, they're probably exactly like every other startup (to a laughable stereotype). Working 500 hour weeks, literally paid in peanuts, and if you go on a date instead of pushing a bugfix they crucify you.
The limit effect is temporary isn't it? Though Tesla could fulfill the note by repayment in cash, I would suspect that by 2019/21, even if they execute perfectly on their plans, the company is still going to prefer to keep cash in hand and repay in stock. Wouldn't that increase short interest in a time window in front of the 2019/21 due dates?
I'd love to see it, but I seriously doubt it. Apple is secretive to an incredibly annoying degree.

Has Apple even publicly discussed the basic details of this bug? As far as I've seen, every single bit of analysis has come from outside the company, based on simply viewing the source code. Apple acknowledged that there is a vulnerability, but they haven't even said what it is in any detail.
Given the common coverage of esoteric programming languages, I have no idea how you have arrived at that expectation.
If it was not simply an error, why does it have to be the NSA?
Yes, they even state that the "quantity R is qualitatively similar to the Reynolds number", which supports this intuition.
I don't believe the election was stolen.

But I will say: it's almost impossible to prove an election has been stolen after the fact with mail-in ballots. Once the outer envelope is removed and destroyed, the ballot is irreversibly anonymous. It's impossible to tell if an anonymous ballot is fraudulent or not -- there's no ability to audit it by contacting the voter.

Mail-in ballots are particularly vulnerable to fraud, something the New York Times correctly worried about back before Trump.[1]. And we just had more mail-in ballots than ever before thanks to Covid.

HN has long been suspicious of voting systems; we all know how often systems are hacked by bad actors. I don't think it's a stretch to think that election tampering is possible, particularly in close elections.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/us/politics/as-more-vote-...
Even if you are not actively trying to find a job I find leetcode/hackerank useful to do a bit of coding in case your current position moved away from that or maybe you want to repeat some of it with a new programming language.
I have read about his notebooks with ideas. I don't think people write stuff down b/c it's super obvious to them...

His motivation for not publishing all of it is hard to guess. You suspect it's b/c he didn't know that other people were ignorant of it, but he never stated that. My first guess is it's b/c it'd have been a lot of work to help others but not himself. When you have millions of great ideas, writing them all up for publication would be a huge chore and it's more fun to just work on more new ideas. Feynman cared a lot about fun.
Maybe you could use the wiimote in combination with the physical tracking to get more precise telemetry + precise physical location and AR.
What I actually want is my own apartment in a decent building (like, hm, the one where the architect paid some attention even to "details" like accoustic isolation) somewhere in a decent part of some decent city, not some detached bunker in a wilderness, or (even worse) house in some infinitely stretched suburbia. Sometimes, I do want to meet people, and it's great if it can be done with ten minute walk or 15 minutes of subway ride or something. I even kind of enjoy crowds at city squares, busy walking street and so on. I don't want to live alone, without a human being within tens of kilometers. That's not even practical and makes little sense.

And I don't like the idea of this thread below this at all. I even think it's very much a part of the problem, not its solution. Of course, it's happening, all the time, people moving from "ugly" and crowded city, somewhere to a "countryside" (yet near the city). And that's why I can't go anywhere outside the city, because there ceased to be any outside, just ring after ring of satelite villages, and roads between them. It had also turned the city into just a little more than a large parking place...