jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"Other races will be confronted with the same problems, and will use the same solutions, to the extent they use wireless for medium- to long-range communications at all."

This seems a little ahistorical and antropocentric to me.

Ahistorical because even humans have avoided using certain technologies for a variety of reasons -- from certain weapons (chemical/biological, cluster bombs, nuclear weapons, etc) to pesticides, communications technologies, certain programming languages, etc. despite their arguable technological superiority or ability to get the job done.

Anthropocentric because, really, who knows how aliens would think or what they would do? Your argument applies, if it applies at all, to species that think and act much like us. It is debatable whether radically different intelligent (a term which we don't understand even when we apply it to ourselves) species would even understand something as "fundamental" as mathematics the way we do, nevermind actually use technical artifacts in a way recognizable to us.

On the subject of recognizability, could bacteria recognize the humans that they dwell on as intelligent or even living? Can they recognize anything at all? As bacteria are to us, so we may be to alien intelligent life, or even to potentially intelligent life here on earth such as trees, superorganisms like insect or fungal colonies, etc. Organisms that operate at radically different time scales or radically different ways of relating to the world.

Some have argued that the Earth is an organism with agency, or the Internet is one. If that is so, how would we recognize these as such, how would we communicate with them, if it is possible? And if communicating with these on Earth is so unlikely, how much less the likelihood of communicating with beings from other star systems or galaxies utterly unlike that of our own?
I know your thoughts on the matter allow for changes because you aren't talking to me in Old English which means you are concerned with changes to specific words only AKA pet words. Then you reply with a post about how it causes image problems and confirm my original reply was correct.

>Tell me, are you okay with this website being associated with illegal activity because the media is lazy and you'd rather just shrug your shoulders than correct that misconception? How would you like that used against you in real life? You're a member of a scary "hacker" forum, after all.

I would explain that hacker has multiple meanings and be done with it.

>Words matter.

Sure and when it comes to meanings majority rules and the majority made up their mind over 15 years ago. You're not just in the extreme minority that uses it for a different meaning. You're in the extreme minority of that extreme minority that still cares that other people use it for the newer meaning.
I think all the talk of being faster than gmail search is going to last until they actually get a lot of users. It's easy to make search fast for small datasets.
What's the difference between writing myLibrary.foobar and myLibrary_foobar? Everyone got too caught up with Java-style module naming convention to bother to figure out how JavaScript actually worked (or to notice that the Java compiler flattens the package hierarchy).
>If you agree to do a project for $3000, make sure you can really get it done for that prices.

Yes, and to repeat another point you made earlier, the price you need to charge includes the associated overhead. I have seen many people start in consulting only to fail because they didn't take their overhead costs into account, or at least enough into account, when billing. The only real difference between failing to bill for overhead costs at all and not billing enough is how long it takes you to fail.
Today I made my first sale of my first technical manual and I wanted to share the news!

I chose FastSpring as the vending machine because of Hacker News. I included many details about the book, along with a sample chapter, because of Hacker News. I received such good advice from you that I could not help but share and give my thanks.

As a small token of appreciation, I would be delighted to answer any questions you may have about the entire process, from inception to first book sale.

Thank you!

*Edit: For those who are interested in reports, part of the book describes an open source report integration framework. The idea is to write applications such that they can use reports without being tied to a specific reporting tool implementation.

http://www.whitemagicsoftware.com/software/java/rif/

http://www.whitemagicsoftware.com/software/java/rif/api/

Chapter 15 of the book (also free) describes how the implementation works.

http://www.whitemagicsoftware.com/books/indispensable/sample...
This drawn-out diatribe irks me. You chose to teach at that school, so you should be familiar with the cheating/plagiarism policy. Should you not?
and that the ip cirfu.net is currently on is owned by amazon. (from my angle)
The obligatory link: http://xkcd.com/221/
Good ones! The sensory overload kills me as well.
oh interesting, I'll try to contribute too.
That reeks of Survivorship bias.

The only reason why I am where I am today is because I happened to bump into physics and programming early because I have such a short attention span.

I'm not overly familiar with the meaning of hyperfocus but what else is it if you literally don't sleep before the single most important exam I will ever take (due to the ridiculous UK school system) because I was stuck reading a more advanced textbook. I agree that some of this is on the individual - i.e. me - but I have been like this from pretty much day 1, i.e. I actually worked out the other day that I've only ever done something early I think twice in my whole life.
Touché. I guess nobody will know what it’s like to be somebody else
Windows 10 is a complicated mess. It would indeed be impressive if someone managed to do this with Windows 10.

Compared to Linux Windows 10 is a malicious bloatware operating system designed to prevent you from removing the bloat and the user hostile stuff. Which is why I think it's not possible to do this with Windows 10.
I’m sure many, many PowerPoint slides were developed in order to make that decision.
I always found the tribalistic "crony capitalism" vs "crony socialism" debate to be a convenient escape from actually discussing the removal of cronyism.
http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Wall_Street
A few differences off the top of my head:

- We had the domain http://gri.pe during the initial showing. From our data, a significant number of people watch The View live, and most watch during its first showing in the US.

- The URL is short and it was written on-screen (we always make sure to tell people to spell it out so they don't go to gripe.com).

- People likely watch "The View" for some form of education. They likely watch "The Middle" for passive entertainment. I imagine they would be more likely to explore something seen in the former than the latter.
And it would be easy enough to defend against if it really became a problem -- just time out. Most web sites don't need have a need to receive gigantic POST data.
Originally this was supposed to be a way for my sisters and I to make and then keep track of christmas lists for each other (there are 6 of us kids, so it's a lot of lists to make).

I thought it would be fun to be able to list more than just stuff I wanted for Christmas, and it just kindof grew from there.
Arguably Bangalore already has that status, it's certainly produced several multi-billion dollar tech companies which puts it ahead of most cities (both in the developing and developed world).
>Google's algorithm is not a mystery - most 'SEO' people will try to sell you some snake oil.

Google's current ranking algorithm is a mystery. Sure we have some good clues to go on but outside of Google's own info (which on at least one occassion I've considered to be a deliberate attempt to mislead, though I might be wrong) or industrial espionage the only way to determine the nature of the algo is to experiment (or use other's experiments).

Yes they have a heavy reliance on site authority and the external link structure but this is not all there is.

Good content is arguably what Google wants because it is how they mine their product (people) to be delivered to their customers. Whether their algo is optimised to deliver good content is a separate issue - you clearly think not.

Haven't you been stung with any of the algo updates?
I also have a five-figure rep on SO and haven't received any job offers. However, I was just on the hunt for a new job a few weeks ago, and I'm fairly confident that my rep did help me get in the door in certain situations. No way to actually know for sure, but it was mentioned.
The UK is way overpopulated. If there's ever a hiccup in international shipping they're all gonna starve, just like the krauts back in WWI.
How come I didn't hear about this? I don't remember seeing anything on Hacker News, and my local Internet of Things meetup don't appear to know anything about it either. I would've maybe looked to organise something in Sydney, had I known.
I think you're going to run into trouble with the word "objectively" there.

All languages have warts, and some are much worse than others. I actually think JavaScript's warts are fairly minor compared to C's or Python's, for example, and PHP is in a different league.

In fact, there are almost no other programming languages with JavaScript's basic features: Unicode support out of the box, proper lexical scoping with first-class function closures, high-performance garbage collection, and easy manipulation of strings, arrays, and dictionaries, for example. Python comes pretty close, with slightly wonky scoping and Unicode bolted on, but then JavaScript also has another Python doesn't, which is a spec with multiple first-class implementations, and not to mention a committee that is plotting a great path forwards into the future with fully backwards-compatible upgrades to the language.
Correct.

Labor shortages have conspicuously caused an increase in wages at all times even as far back as the middle ages [1]. The people in power today respond exactly as they have in every case since the dawn of times: to suppress it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Labourers_1351
I grew up in one of the Italian cities that adopted the "limited traffic zone" approach many years ago (Bologna). The fact is that many Italian cities were designed basically in the middle age and they have not changed much since then, hence they have very narrow streets, crossings, and sometimes wide sidewalks. They are simply not made for cars. Anyway, in the last years, the new administration additionally decided to completely "ban" cars from the main streets during weekends and public holidays: no cars of no type, no taxis, bus routes changed to only reach the beginning of the closed roads but they did introduce a small bus line that goes around the closed down zone. The idea was highly criticized at the beginning mainly by the business owners located there, who were afraid of seeing a sharp decline of customers. Instead, after a first period, those "T days" became a success: people re-discovered the pleasure of just walking everywhere on the streets, more and more events were organized, and also shops saw an increase in revenue, and in fact now they are asking to extend this ban to more days.
Personally, I think we should start realizing that cars have put high cost on society in terms of pollution, safety, low efficiency in the use of resources (fuel), stress related to jams (which is a clear alienating experience). Maybe banning them from everywhere is not the solution, but at least the idea that every family must own (at least) a car should be publicly questioned.
The future of infantry/tank warfare is here it's just not distributed evenly.

Abu Tow (nom de guerre) is racking up kills in Syria, and from the videos I've seen none of those tanks are sporting APS.
I'm only talking about the _implemention_ of web components. You can still use any custom element from HTML.

If <google-maps> was rewritten in LitElement, you'd still be able to write:

<google-maps lat="89.2" long="123.2" draggable="false"></google-maps>
> The vast majority of software professionals are not researchers, and are not trained in evaluating computer science research. They are notoriously poor at assessing such information.

Seem less ridiculous?
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. They just lead to predictable discussion, usually flamewar.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22665112.
There might be latency issues. Although I'd expect that any decisions which are being made which require such latency are automated decisions running on a on-prem machine anyway...
Re: The first organ that gets formed is the anus.

And some modern day ancestors stay that way into adult form (or at least externally adult in appearance).

On a serious note, it looks roughly slug-like. Most guesses of the earliest animal were more "wormy", that is, narrow. It's also odd that Spriggina and Dickinsonia left no ancestors (that we know of). The "earliest mover advantage" does not always play out. They are akin to the Apple Newton of smart-phones/PDA's. (Plus, having naughty-part sounding names probably didn't help).

I suspect Spriggina and Dickinsonia were single-celled organisms. (Even today thumb-sized semi-mobile cells exist.) That gave them an early advantage when oxygen first became plentiful because they didn't have to coordinate millions of cells, but rather merely grow bigger. However, multi-cellular eventually caught up and had scalability/complexity advantages over one-big-cell. The digestive track may be such a result. Spriggina and Dickinsonia probably more or less just sat on stuff and slowly digested it in place. The new system allowed Jabba the Mini-Hutt to eat on the go, useful as predation increased or for food sources too small to bother sitting on.

We see similar patterns in social animals and symbiosis in general, such as flowering plants. They are slower to appear on the evolutionary stage, but eventually out-compete creatures that rely on simpler behavior. Neanderthals had bigger brains, but were probably less social. Trade and sharing ideas gave us more tools and food sources. After the "Dino Asteroid", birds had the early predator advantage and grew quite large and fierce. However, the social pack hunting of mammals eventually gave them the edge.
Is there a reason these drugs may have value fighting variations of coronavirus and not other virii? What's the suspected mechanism?
Unfortunately, I think this is only the beginning. The Trump era was just a warm-up.
I think it's most important feature is fast restarts. Too many game devs think a 30 second loading screen is no big deal.
So, there is an inverse relationship between freedom to travel in the long term and strictness of public health response in the short term.
Oh man, dude, art is art. It doesn’t have to be avant-garde to be worthwhile. Let me relate a fun little story.

In my last place I had to clean behind my stove due to a particularly nasty culinary accident. Among the odd things I found there was a kinda odd acrylic painting of a banana. It’s strokes are rough and it has an almost sickly blueish greenish hue, kinda over exposed.

When I moved recently, I was thinking what will I do with the banana painting? But hey, it’s art, I’d rather have it and enjoy it’s unique oddity than throw it out.

Don’t let anyone put art up in an inaccessible ivory tower. A doodle on the back of an envelope can bring more joy than a acclaimed masterpiece when you’ve got a free attitude.
I doubt the NSA needs or desires a backdoor in Windows.
If they were going to put that kind of pressure on Microsoft, they'd demand access to source code or perhaps a backdoor in its TLS implementation. These investments would pay off much better. I think you also vastly underestimate how much effort it would take. I sincerely doubt Microsoft would comply with a smile, and even after they won the (secret) court case keeping the operation under wraps would be even more laborious. Snowden is proof that people who sign contracts are still capable of disclosing secrets.

It is worth it for the NSA to backdoor crypto because, if the implementation is solid and the keys can't be stolen, then no matter how many resources they pour into cracking it the math will remain inflexible.

There is no computer in the world with that kind of security. If it is smartly configured, they'll use 0day. If its airgapped, they'll compromise a sysadmin's computer and wait for them to connect to it (think Stuxnet.) If that isn't feasible, they'll walk into the data center and put malicious hardware into a PCI slot.

If we persist in thinking of the NSA as a boogeyman logging every packet and backdooring every OS, rather than discussing their real capabilities and motivations - what they are, what they should be - we will become paralyzed to act against them, they will continue to operate without meaningful oversight, and our rights to privacy and to secure software will languish.
One solution is for Japan to start encouraging immigration. Maybe setup an H1-B program. This will increase the number of tax payers, while also increasing exports.
If you're not going to help then why even post? When someone comes across this post in their searches it's not going to help them at all and it's a waste of time. Your post is similar to people posting "Use the search function" in forums, which is also a huge waste of time.
This is probably the best way they could have handled it. It protects the name from abuse while still allowing enough freedom for those wanting to use it legitimately.

They don't call Ryan Dahl a BDFL for nothing.
I would recommend just taking a leap of faith and trying it out for a few days (with oh-my-zsh, of course). If you're used to bash, you'll probably find zsh very comfortable to use.

It's super easy to install if you're on a Mac and have homebrew installed (just do `brew install zsh`), and oh-my-zsh has an uninstall command that will switch you back to bash if you don't like it.
Oh good--post a link to your own poorly-reasoned blog post on Hacker News. Terrific--there's 5 minutes of my life I won't be able to get back.

1.) I'd be a lot more inclined to take your opinions seriously if you would take a moment to spell check your work before posting it. It's not that difficult really--use Chrome or Firefox--spell checking is built in.

2.)
<sarcasm>
You heard of this phone OS called Android? I hear it's really starting to catch on. I think it's somehow related to Google. But they'll never catch up to Facebook's smart phone OS--what's it called again?

Yep Facebook is bound to eat Google's lunch any day now. Because Google is staffed by a load of incompetents who'll twiddle their thumbs while Facebook nimbly beats them to death.
</sarcasm>

There's nothing insightful or worthwhile about your blog posting. Don't waste your time. More importantly don't waste my time by linking to this poorly-reasoned, misspelled tripe on Hacker News.
d'oh, could have thought of it. thanks
Find a better partner - I really need somebody to clean my toilet.
From Trademark Policy:

Examples of things which are not nominative fair use and not permitted without a license:

• Use of a trademark in a domain name (e.g., nodeconsultingservices.com)

They trademarked "Node.js", but claim that having "node" in your domain requires a license?

Edit: BTW, I have registered this domain.
Anyone aware of "easter egg" links on HN - something not listed in the "lists"?
Facebook message cannot replace email until I can contact people who are not on Facebook through it.

I do not want to have a social connection to everyone I exchange messages with. I swap occasional emails with workmates, but that doesn't mean that I want to see their every move in my status updates.
Klingons don't re-negotiate :) Ok, seriously now: If you fail, you do what you've agreed to. And even if you cowardly re-negotiate, you will probably get a hard time from your partner, which is nothing pleasant.

If you know that you will be able to do it, all the better. You will be able to make a bigger commitment.
As someone who has spent a pretty significant amount of money (not compared to some, mind you, but pretty far up there) and is heavily involved in following the game's development progress, I have two things to say that I don't think almost any article correctly addresses (this one touches on the first, but doesn't really lean enough into the point and it's buried towards the end of the article):

1) Most fans who are dropping more than about ~$100 have no expectation that the money they are spending on ships is going to be equivalent to the effort that they would have spent in game on acquiring said ship. Most of those fans would probably really rather have that conversion ratio be extremely "poor" just because if it isn't, then the game is pay to win, and absolutely not a single lick of us want the game to be pay to win. I bought a Constellation, which is kind of an in-universe equivalent to the Millenium Falcon. Since it's a multi-crew ship, I would expect it to be about equivalent to when someone gets access to player housing in a MMO. If it takes a player who hasn't dropped a dime more than the basic purchase fee of the game at launch much more than 15 to 20 hours of effort including setbacks to get into one of their own, I am going to be really, really worried about the long term prospects of the game.

2) Star Citizen has had the single most open development of any major title ever. Short of indie developers who live-stream the programming of their entire game, I don't know anything that comes close. If nothing else comes out of it, we've all purchased some of the most interesting inside-baseball content on video game production ever.
This doesn’t seem to be linear time for exponential changes. It’s much slower.
If you want a higher standard why aren’t you willing to compensate at a higher rate?

What are you offering to get these higher standards? Sounds like you want to punish them rather than reward them for trying to lead?

> Do try and understand that last sentence

Not sure why you’ve decided to be snarky like this?
"The Panic of 1873 was blamed for setting off the economic depression that lasted from 1873 to 1879. This period was called the Great Depression, until the even greater depression of 1893 received that label, which it held until the even greater contraction in the 1930s -- now known as the Great Depression."
If you happen to be in California go ahead and sign it, they’ll never be able to enforce it.
All former UK prime ministers are entitled to an allowance of up to £115,000 a year to cover the costs of their ongoing public engagements. This can continue for decades. In the first 10 years after Tony Blair left office, he collected £1,077,888 which is quite close to the maximum.

In addition, former prime ministers can still remain members of Parliament if they get re-elected for that role, as is the case with Theresa May.
So, then, it's just "Chinese Disorganized Crime"?
When this happened I made a web page (for fun) that used its logo and you just bookmarked it to Homescreen.
Take it easy there. It's only internet points, and it looks like gumby has plenty to spare.

I didn't downvote, but to be fair to those who did, this item wasn't submitted by the blog author, so the question could come across as misdirected.
What do you mean that macOS doesn't virtualize memory? Would you mind expanding on your thoughts a bit more?