jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What was the name of that slightly fictionalized story that somebody wrote about the rise and fall of the iPhone fart app?

Aha there it is: http://www.flailfast.com/

Along with Jacob’s laughter. “I thought it was hilarious. I mean, we both ate like pigs at the time, and I wasn’t surprised that Ben had to let one go, but man...what a doozy.” Ben and Jacob left the breakout room early; they feared a hazmat team was required to make the room usable again. But they couldn’t stop listening to the video as they walked back to Jacob’s apartment. Jacob remembered his epiphany; he didn’t think much of it then. “I didn’t like having to pull out my Flip cam to listen to it over and over again, when I had my iPhone right there. It deserved to be more convenient.” As soon as they returned to Jacob’s apartment, he built a (aptly described) “quick and dirty” iPhone app that could serve his purposes. All the app displayed was a big red button and the word “FART!” underneath it. Satisfied that it functioned as expected, Ben spent some time prettying up the button, and installed it on his own phone. The novelty refused to disappear as they pressed the button over and over again; the staying power of Ben’s indigestion was unprecedented.
I thought you mean the date of the document. I am not native American, so I am not sure about this format of the date and it's usage.
But just as you wouldn't want to read a novel written by someone who is merely literate in English, you wouldn't want your bank to use software written by someone who didn't have professional-level skills in programming.
Actually, no, many other kinds of food cannot be preserved simply by storage in airtight containers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulism#Prevention
sounds like Lenny which is an anti telemarketer SIP bot you can forward calls to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5IKbFATKLo
Oh man, I remember hating to program Perl. With Perl, there wasn't just one way to do things, but there were 10, and all of those involved different combinations of @{} $[] [#] '%' characters put in seemingly random order and changing completely the context on which they operated, with the logic only clear to those who somehow understood the connection between these symbols and their meaning.

Maybe it didn't win because the language syntax was just a mess, and same variables just in different contexts could mean like 3 different things depending on what way you pass them, what you you return them and what kind of random character is in front of them.

Don't take this personally, just ranting out my feelings for the Perl programming language, and glad that it isn't one of the things I have to know anymore! Good riddance!
I like how he pretends that Windows actually contains preinstalled toaster drivers (with the default device icon in Windows actually being a toaster)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI7tWd7B3iI#t=92

"The factories that manufacture the toasters also run windows."

http://superuser.com/questions/792607/why-does-windows-think...
It's really interesting to go back to my old notes and
goals and, with hindsight, truly understand _why_ they
didn't work out, and what it would take to make them work.

It would be awesome if you could blog about it or share your notes!
> Guaranteed basic income doesn't necessarily give money to everybody

As discussed in the article above and as debated in both right- and left-wing political circles, guaranteed basic income does give the basic income to everybody, either in cash benefits or tax credits [1].

Thus, basic income is unconditional. There is no expensive bureaucracy to decide who gets it and who doesn't get it. And there can be no accusations about "those people" receiving basic income, and the accuser not. Everyone gets it.

That's the beauty of the system.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income
Re: 1. Apparently it takes more money to administer Welfare, than they disburse. Hopefully a Basic Income would solve that one.
What's the problem with that? You have an NHS-like system for the sick, and you pay basic income for kids, too. (Perhaps at half the adult rate for people under 18?)
I think this is the kind of guy who has better uses for his garage than vehicle storage.
Half joking, but force them to federate their content to P2P networks like Mastodon?
Amen to that. Especially since a very popular tactic is to just bombard you with so much nonsense in rapid succession that it simply becomes impossible to discuss (and research!) each and every point.

And yeah - some of it is so far out there it's not even wrong.
I like their idea though. Encryption without a server.

I independently implemented similar ideas over the holidays and then discovered that there were people with similar ideas.

Code:

https://github.com/adsharma/zre_raft/blob/main/zre_raft/zre_...

Usage:

https://github.com/adsharma/zre_raft/commit/b6f897539d1bef10...
>(Also because apparently I have to state this explicitly in every comment related to Trump: I do not support Trump, his supporters, the recent events that occurred at the capitol, etc etc)

The manichaean thinking from both sides is what is really going to doom us in the long term. The other side isn't ever interested in improving the state of the world, they are evil and must be stopped. Even when they say the exact same things you said two weeks ago they are wrong, because it doesn't matter what is said, it matters who said it.

Best of luck to the future octopi civilization that will uncover these servers in the submersed ruins of the US.
Which made car shopping quite a hassle for me because I wanted something that isn't very common (non-sport trim with highest spec options and manual gear) but which wouldn't have been any problem at all for the manufacturer (since they list those options on their site for those models).

But why do you think the system is setup this way? Car dealerships in the US having more money (or financing access) to keep stocks than other parts of the world? US customers wanting instant gratification for their purchase? (although, likely, anyone likes that over delayed car delivery, it's just that once you get used to instant car delivery is hard walk away from it)
Author lost total credibility at that point. Rails is quite elegant, and yes, it is just another tool. Totally unsubstantiated bashing. Surprised to see this on the homepage.
Or for redundancy sake, if you're using any kind of sane setup. (Yes, YMMV bigly with this particular idea.)
This is exactly the way the Stasi used to get new agents.

Monitor someone who they wanted to recruit until they could

1) find an accusation for which the target would have no alibi (although they were clearly innocent)

2) confront the target with the accusation and the penalties for it,

3) say that (as an agent) "I personally think that you are innocent although you have no alibi and would have to be found guilty if reported,

4) "but to prove your loyalty, you could help us just this once in our fight against the criminals we just accused you of working with."
Yes, it is a random list.
I've been using wordpress themes and plugins for a number of years. This is the first time I've paid for a theme.

This is a stark contrast between the author of the Post Page Associator plugin who gives near instant support: http://dennishoppe.de/wordpress-plugins/post-page-associator

I don't expect support, but after paying, it didn't seem unreasonable to ask?
You may be in the same position I am: a product with little idea were to sell it. What I'm doing is reviving old programmer contacts, users groups, fellow alumni, etc and trying to shop it around there. Ideally I'll generate sales leads or a better understanding of what needs to be done.
What's your real rationale behind not using WP3? Yea its in RC status, but I run the nightly builds and rarely hit problems. Plus themes aren't all that hard to self support. The code structure is really simple and its mostly CSS
I spoke to nick from prgmr. He says last outage he is aware of was 16 days ago (crock), which means that the server possibly was never down. It may have even been a routing issue at your ISP.

However, rule of thumb, jump onto IRC, and you'll get better support on Linode/prgmr anyway.

If you need uptime, get multiple VPS's, but for $8 a month, honestly, you can't expect the admins to respond immediately. You pay double the prices anywhere else..
Hmm. Stupid people forget to take their meds, and cause the rest of us to spend money patching them up. Solution? Pay them to take care of themselves. It's cheaper than us paying to patch them up.

I propose a different plan. Rather than rewarding people for doing things they should be doing anyway, we punish them for not doing it. A computerized pillbox gives people $10 for each pill they take. Instead, why not charge them $300 for the pillbox (with 30 pills in it) and give them back $10 for each pill they take? It's cheaper for society, and it correctly internalizes the costs that these morons inflict on the rest of us.

(If they don't wish to do this, they are of course free to stop forcing the rest of us to pay for their medicine.)
for every success in life there are always a long list of glorious failures that precede it.
You are right, Subbu. Rails is nothing but common sense; it leaves developers only to do development and nothing else.
I think he's right in some ways. I for one don't want my internet to be branded. I'd like to know how it came about that everywhere you look you only see a few brands on the internet now. Facebook, Twitter, Google, eBay. Are we saying there's only one social networking site, only one whatever-Twitter-is site, only one search engine, only one place to sell your garage sale junk? How did that happen?

Companies like Disney control the movie industry by controlling the channel. You can make movies all you want, but try to get them into the theatres and rental stores. It's the same for the music industry. You can cut cd's all you want but try to get them on the radio or in the music stores. You can make a website and it can be the best website in the world, but if it doesn't appear in a search engine, it doesn't exist.

With all these big, rich companies doing business on the internet, do you think for a minute they are going to allow it to remain free?
I see the banner and it annoys me. I'm much more likely to respond to this sensible third party encouraging me to give money to wikipedia than I am to listen to "A Personal Appeal From Jimmy Wales, Founder Of Wikipedia" begging me personally for money.
I appreciate the correction... but there's no need to be nasty.
>However, it would be unpleasantly ironic if it turns out that our culture's moralizing fixation on the association between obesity and sinfullness — painting it as the just the reward of sloth and gluttony, and only legitimately to be avoided by drudgery and self-denial — has allowed a dangerous viral pandemic to rage undetected for decades.

If those without the virus can't become obese through sloth and gluttony he has a point, otherwise he seems hell-bent on tying those with "traditionalist religious views" [I think he means Christian but doesn't want to appear to be just be reacting against his local culture] to the problem of obesity for no reason other than that they consider sloth and gluttony wrong.

Do atheists, humanists, neo-wiccans, animists, etc., consider sloth and gluttony to be virtuous? I know corpulence has often been considered positive but that is not the same as sloth or gluttony.
They could simply get a PrimeSense license. I see no reason why they wouldn't get one.
83% Indians want to escape/runaway from India http://www.rediff.com/business/slide-show/slide-show-1-only-...
That trifecta sounds similar to what Michael Lopp will be talking about soon: http://rands-at-etsy.eventbrite.com/.
OK, here's an idea (perhaps a really bad one, but whatever). Do what you normally do, but also add in the following: follow up with the office staff. Give them a free demo. Ask if any of them want to try the software. But don't let them do it live. Take their photo (or whatever you need) and ask them what they'd want done. Then do it at home (even though you could do it live, don't). Follow up in a few days by emailing the before and after images to that office member and CC the doc.

Again, not sure if this would be effective, but office staff, in my experience, would love to talk about this type of stuff.
I wish I could upvote this more. Implementation was a 'Square peg, round hole' architecturally.
Not sure if this will solve your problem, but have you looked at GAELucene? http://code.google.com/p/gaelucene/
This is very cool. I'm self taught but a tool like this will definitely help me learn more complex patterns! I love that I can slide and change the length of the fretboard. One small picky thing is that could we choose strings as well? E.g triads for only the top strings.
> A change which would be wiped out in a few years by the natural growth.

That’s the elephant in the room.
Thanks, looks like I've definitely fat fingered flag a fair bit over time.
Does it matter where it IPOs?
For unsigned or positive x. Yes, the article is about unsigned integers, but some might see this for the first time and not be aware of this restriction. -3 / 2 == -1 but -3 >> 1 == -2.
The UK gov is keen for Revolut (another SoftBank investment) to IPO in London as well, but it looks like they're trying to court Americans so they can make a bigger splash there.
> one of our few “unicorns”

“There are currently 37 private $1b+ businesses headquartered in the UK—a further 14 have exited, whilst 2 are no longer active

13 UK companies became unicorns in H1 2021—the largest concentration of new unicorns to date”

from:
https://www.beauhurst.com/research/unicorn-companies/
XMPP, IRC, Jami, Matrix, Tox and probably several others too also don't require email or phone number.
That is true, even Google can't fight against China.
This seems to be from the mobile iframe workaround that Google implemented. Apple decided that Safari should not allow an iframe with different source urls to drop cookies unless the user interacts with the iframe (clicks something in it). Google's iframed ads automatically clicked something in order to drop a Google cookie.

I feel that Google didn't get enough shit for this. They kinda get a pass for their shitty behavior.
Now after Google, Facebook want to steal my data with this AI project.. what is the security infrastructure behind this AI is it safe or not? http://www.bestvpnservice.com/blog/facebooks-terrifying-new-...
Hey I am Sam, I built Stitch News with my friend Phil at Make School. We are trying to making it easier to keep track of all the important information we read everyday and also make it easier to share that information. Let me know if you have any feedback, questions, or ideas. Thank you for checking it out!
I guess that the point is that you can share multiple items and connect them with you own narrative, a bit like a mix tape or collage for the digital age. So it is different to both.
That's a fairly neat attack, to be fair to them. I don't see why Github, upon receiving these requests, wouldn't just do the same back to China and absolutely hammer some of their resources in return?
I didn't start with Zed's stuff, but I checked it out when I was interested in Python.

For someone like me, it would have been really fun when I was less experienced. I would have liked the repetitive challenges while I was doing them, because I would have challenged my self to go through them as fast as a I could and gamify it (though it wouldn't have been called gamification back then). It would have got me to memorize things.

His books are different, I appreciate another take on them. I would read and follow along with his books if they fit my needs now. I've recommended him a couple times to people I thought would benefit from that style.

As to his personality, I think most people are jerks sometimes, and not jerks at other times. We all have our issues. :)

Generally, I feel that all the conversations about it much more harmful to the profession than the original instances being discussed.
Mind you, our backs and feet suck for pretty much everything.

I tend to think that apparent effect comes from habitual misuse of the body.

It's possible that millions of years of mammalian evolution could have just screwed-up and puked-out some creature that was mal-adapted everywhere but somehow took-over the earth. But I suspect that what's happening is that human are pretty adapted to many activities but we are so darn flexible to we put themselves in situations even beyond our adaptability.
It's very sad, because the feature actually makes a TON more sense with the Instant Queue. Especially with a youngster in the house.
MySpace failed by assuming that legions of random users would make intelligent design decisions, and giving them control over major style elements. The result being that users would receive a visual kick in the teeth every time they followed a link to a different user's page.

So, while FB certainly profited from that failure, but I wouldn't say that FB actively competed with a consciously superior design.
Funny, point taken about Chicago. I guess I wasn't thinking about the fact that these are test markets, which is indeed a good reason not to start with the biggest cities.
That's a joke.

A email telling them to remove the word donate within 5 days or their account would be closed, I would totally get that. Shutting down new orders until the verbiage is changed, same thing.

But to say that this is a reasonable action, I just don't see it. There was clearly no deception going on. While it clearly does violate the TOS, the use of donate in this context (a voluntary payment above the minimum that gives no additional benefit) is perfectly reasonable.

I'm not saying that Google isn't within their rights to do this. The author should have been more careful, fine (although I could see myself making the exact same mistake). But this still just hits me wrong. Even if the takeaway is just "if you make a completely innocent mistake that hurts no one, Paypal will alert you while Google will close your account with no recourse," that's STILL plenty of reason to choose Paypal. Who doesn't make innocent mistakes?
The front loaded cost of that is pretty high vs. $8 for Netflix though - and we're talking a handful of premium/new releases vs. the Netflix's streaming catalog which has been rapidly growing in size/quality. That said, I can only speak to my experience as a Cox sub from about 4 years back as I've since cut the cord.

I agree that big cable should have the power and leverage to stop the bloodletting. I think it's similar to any industry that has coasted along far too long, thinking that it is too big and powerful to fall.
Google customer service is a mess.
I can't understand why people would actually want a US passport.
That's totally my point, it's all anecdotal until someone does actual research and a poll.
I was looking for the google spreadsheets api earlier today and I noticed it has not been migrated away from GData yet. I wonder why this is not getting any love

https://code.google.com/p/gdata-java-client/ <--- Spreadsheets api is one of the three apis still alive out of all gdata apis
My neighbor when I was in grad school did her PhD on concrete. Even after being around for, what, a couple of thousand years, there's still a lot to learn. She basically went to work every day and destroyed concrete (and, of course, spent a lot of time studying the measurements to identify failure modes and causes).

The consequences of getting concrete wrong can range from expensive to devastating.
Yup, but you need to take into account semantic confusion by a native speaker of one language with words in another language. In this case, peterfirefly might have been thinking of 'se souvenir (de)' and mkesper might have been translating 'se rappeler', but confused 'remind oneself' and 'remember', which is pretty easy to do and explains the mistranslation.
When I worked at Google I built a Blaze extension to be able to build Android apps. It worked really well, though I'm not sure how well it was maintained after I left in 2010. Internally at Google, Blaze was extremely customizable, and I hope Bazel too, so one can easily add support for building iOS apps etc.

EDIT #1: I see support for building Objective-C apps is already present in Bazel.
EDIT #2: Bazel uses Skylark, a Python-like language, which could be used to implement all sorts of extensions, including the one I was referring to.
"1" - 1 = 0

Seriously, what answer were you expecting other than this?

I'm really curious!
My gripes are that these extrapolations and inference from a select audience, "Everyday Sexism", to the general public are both tenuous and myopic. The "Everyday Sexism" people have their concerns, prostate cancer advocates have their concerns... the world is a good place for equality and the furtherance of all humankind! News articles on Sky News and tweets from a sexism advocacy group are completely independent. There are no public opinion statistics in this article. What basis is there for assuming that the majority of the people in the Western world act according to and adhere to the "Everyday Sexism" tenets?

I might be coming off as hostile to this article because I can't shake the feeling that the author is looking for outrage where there is none to be found. They consciously skirt the middle ground I mentioned in my first post, so as to rile up a mainly male audience. The article drops lines like "you can bet your life if women, or minorities of any ethnicity, sexuality or transgender were killing themselves at four times the rate of straight white men, it would be front page news" which is the opposite of a grounded, good-faith interpretation of "public opinion". This article simply doesn't explore "public opinion" with a holistic approach. The statistics given at the end of the article are misused to show that "we are better off (re: sexism) than we were before, so we might as well not talk about it anymore."
> I build a _very_ paranoid Makefile that recompiles everything if it feels like anything changes.

Do you have some kind of way to verify that your makefile dependencies conform to your source dependencies? Is clang/gcc tracking sufficient for your use case? What about upgrading the compiler itself, does your makefile depend on that? If so, how?

Have you considered tup[0]? Or djb-redo[1]? Both seem infinitely better than Make if you are paranoid. tup even claims to work on Windows, although I have no idea how they do that (or what the slowdown is like). Personally, I'm in the old Unix camp of many-small-executables, non of which goes over 1M statically linked (modern "small"), so it's rarely more than 3 secs to rebuild an executable from scratch.

> (deterministic mode for ar)

Why do you care about ar determinism? Shouldn't it be ld determinism you are worried about?

[0] http://gittup.org/tup/

[1] https://github.com/apenwarr/redo