jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I agree, being able to use your favorite local IDE to load and edit remote files can be very convenient.

On OSX, I use Panic Transmit's "Mount as Disk" feature. I've also heard good things about a product called WebDrive for this use case.
>Of course, they would call it "complying with local laws in all countries in which we operate".

If 'I was following orders.' isn't an excuse when you are in the military where disobeying orders can get you jailed if not killed, then no one should accept such reasoning when the pentalty is merely being unable to do business in an area.
It's a losing proposition to even try to stop people from passing their wealth to their offspring.

People will tolerate some taxation but once it becomes too burdensome, they will find ways to avoid it.

That's the biggest problem with using tax policy for social engineering.

We would see an unprecedented expatriation of wealth.

If someone has a billion dollars worth of assets that they know will be confiscated by the US Government upon their death, they wouldn't keep it in the US. They'd structure their finances in such a way as to make it impossible or impractical for the US to get anything.

One could become partners with (for example) a Costa Rican shipping magnate in a company located in Costa Rica so that upon their death, the US government won't get any liquid recompense. Sure, they can take that 49% ownership in the hypothetical Costa Rican company but then they have to find a buyer. Who's going to pay dollar for dollar to the US government for an asset that is only useful as a wealth sink?

Do we ban foreign investment? What happens when the rest of the world retaliates and bans their people from investing here? Do we require government oversight for all investment decisions? That will certainly cure the problem of there being too many rich people. It'll make everyone poor.

The only way to prevent the generational acquisition of wealth is under a totalitarian regime and that is a far worse problem than modern day robber-barons.
They also released an API:

https://www.amazon.com/oc/dash-replenishment-service
Most of the big tech companies have been taken over by activist employees anyways. Look at coinbase. They had to do a purge just to get rid of the employees that weren't working and focusing on non-company issues instead.

Palantir also had to completely leave because there was so much pressure being put on them in the valley.
I'm in my mid 20's and I can't go a day without seeing a fb/snapchat/instagram post with the word 'bae'.
it's possible, they have pretty spectacular error correction mechanisms. Just don't blast it with UV.

There are two problems with bacterial data storage. The first is information retrieval. Running a sequencer is no fun.

The second problem is genetic recombination, which is what they are using to 'achieve encryption'.

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

Of course, there's going to be some toxic DNA sitting in the sequences they are making, and it will be to the advantage of the bacteria to spit it out, they will find a way to do it with recombinases, even the ones with the most pernicious recombinase (recA) knocked out.
Any reason for using height:101% instead of overflow-y:auto for scrollbars?

Also, shouldn't the utf-8 declaration be at the top before a massive block of commented text? Though in practice I'm not sure if it matters much either way.

Thanks
It looks like at least the following patents assigned at least at some point to Autitude are floating around:

7,325,013 Database with efficient fuzzy matching

7,421,376 Comparison of data signals using characteristic electronic thumbprints

7,516,074 Extraction and matching of characteristic fingerprints from audio signals

These seem at first glance to date back at earliest to a provisional patent application filed April 24, 2001, so making some reasonable dot-connecting (e.g. if intonow has rights to these patents etc.), it looks like even this "amazing twelve weeks to liquidity event" was actually at least ten years in the making.

(Obligatory disclaimer, this post doesn't constitute legal advice, talk to your own attorney if you'd like legal advice on these matters.)
He says elsewhere in this thread that this is specifically not live coding. It's more geared towards composition then playback.
Exciting news. Wonder what Google will do? Contribute to Julia development ;-)
Someone should retitle this... the end of that sentence is "like radio and television." In context, I interpret that as "[broadcast] radio and television."

So this doesn't make the trolling statement made in the headline. Rather, it could just as well be a ringing endorsement of the FCC's actions - the Internet is not broadcast TV, the Internet is not broadcast radio. The Internet is a communication medium like a telephone, and should be regulated like telephones.
This is actually a good point. Under current law they aren't going to be able to use one to gather evidence without a warrant, but if they already have a warrant it might make raids safer. Assuming the tech is any good, that is.
This strategy worked super well for me:

1. Keep WhatsApp (for now)

2. Whenever people send you a WhatsApp do this: reply on iMessage if they’re in the iOS world. If they’re in the Android party tell them to switch to Signal

Works like a charm. Thus, I am continuously depopulating WhatsApp to the point where I can safely delete it.
I agree entirely. I've often gone to the bottoms of comment threads on controversial topics. It should no longer be a +vote or -vote. Most + is orthodox and most - is heterodoxy.

We are seeing the fracture of the human mind. Part of it is simply the lockdowns which prevent us from being able to see and talk to each other openly. I just wrote about this before all the insanity happened:

https://battlepenguin.com/philosophy/the-fracturing-of-the-h...

I get - votes and people yelling at me for bad faith all the time in this thread, but I cannot simply ignore it anymore. Someone has to call people out on their intolerance and media fueled 24/7 hate. We are not in Orwell's world, because there is no way Orwell could even make this shit up. This world would frighten Orwell, and when you bring up 1984, some people will even tell you that Orwell supported fascism.

> “Don’t you see the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expresses in exactly ONE word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten” -George Orwell, 1984

The hard left is controlling language. Major dictionaries changed the definition of a phrase because of what a D-Hawaii said on the floor during a Supreme Court confirmation hearing. This is insanity.

"So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause." -Star Wars II
For the Swiss it doesn't matter what China does, anywhere else is cheaper anyway.
Putting more people through per stoplight doesn't really change much. You just get more people at the next stop light. The light is by far the limiting factor, not the drivers. That's why polite driving actually helps, because you get less people blocking each other and less mishaps, the things that actually slow everything down.
That's seems like a customer support issue and not software related but it's definitely frustrating. I use YNAB and their integration with C1 has been great so maybe push on Moneydance as to why that integration is no longer an option.
I find this to be comment to be unhelpful.

I hope you didn't intend it, but the comment comes across as critical and judgmental. The comment doesn't show that you are curious about the broader context.

Would you consider thinking about this from a different perspective? For example, try thinking and asking about what history and experience underlies this. In my view, someone who writes "That same business ate years of my life keeping it afloat" has a story to tell.

Think about this possibilities: comments are with real people, not abstractions. Every comment brings the opportunity to get to know someone's situation and experience.
Fwiw a reboot didn't change anything!
How about https://node.js.org/express instead?
Great feature, I don't have twitter or facebook and I have to add separate extensions to block those annoying tracking features from every other sites.

To me any website that rely on facebook or twitter to log in is broken and I just don't use them.

I recently had one that required sending my info to xiti to display a js popup to log in with email. Too bad they lost a potential client for their service because their web page sucks and is designed with them in mind instead of the actual user.
I'm aware that Opera wasn't running on the Webkit browser before... but they shifted to WebKit several years ago. How many years have to pass before you'd find it acceptable to start assuming new software is for the new stuff?

The website's meh. It was quickly bootstrapped, but I'd rather focus on delivering a quality product than quality marketing. There's only so many hours in each day and many of the installs come from the Chrome Web Store itself rather than through my landing page.
Apologizing and behaving well in case of screw ups is surprisingly effective, people are so used to dealing companies who try to hide their mistakes under the rug, that it feels like a breath of fresh air to them.

It's the first and most valuable lesson I've discovered as a consultant. That and admitting you don't know when you don't know something (it's a amazing the number of people who'll bullshit an answer instead of just saying: "Sorry, I don't know, I'll get back to you on that")...
> sell user data including recorded chats

Where is the evidence of this?

Most people I have spoken to assume they’ll use a ‘super follow’ style of monetization, like substack or what Twitter is just introducing.
Wooosh!

That’s the sound of a joke flying overhead.

Decentralization is a feature. As with most features, it has technical and behavioral costs. In the case of Bitcoin, this cost is an enormous computational and environmental burden. However, I’m pretty sure that this commenter was joking.
Yeah, I'm not celebrating until they actually lose their power.
I wasn't aware of that. Can you let me know who was the earlier representative and their term period ?

I fully agree that Trump could have handled the virus better. Unfortunately, ALL media attention was focused on his impeachment at the time and he was derided as a racist and tyrant for banning China travel.

He should had the courage to ban all international travel immediately when the virus got to the EU and begun to initiate national readiness. Some nations did this and suffered far less as a result. Sadly, he - like so many national leaders - took the virus seriously far too late.
The commenter has unsubstabtiated opinion, no expertiese and has brought no extra factual information to support his point the discussion. Its literwlly just soreading FUD
Sure! Basically we had a thorny problem that needed to be solved on the frontend- users would be picking a plan, adding a payment, and possibly applying a promo code. JS is a prerequisite for Stripe payment collection and in general this solution would have been a non-starter in a backend template. But this was the only such page in the application, so it really felt like overkill to integrate an SPA like Vue or React. Vue's drop-in CDN is close, but there's still some setup boilerplate that was nice to do without.
So, from my previous career working with spreadsheets, I've noticed that most aberrant behaviors in Excel are easily circumvented through slightly-above average features the average user just isn't aware of.

It's been a while, but for example name-mangling can be circumvented by prefacing an entry with a single quote (analogous to how the r character raw string marker is used in Python). You can probably also change the automatic type coercion, buried somewhere in the settings, since adding that single quote prior to the string mangling might be difficult in Excel. (But data entry is often manually done anyways with these kinds of setups.)

Usually in cases like these, the problem is that the user isn't aware of the feature they need to solve the problem they're having. (Granted, Excel's whole appeal is easy onboarding for non-technical users.) Save for obvious limitations like data size or overly intricate business logic better suited for an actual language, Excel is well-suited for a broad range of business and academic use cases.
As a Norwegian living in America I'd love to hear some of these. Got a link?
https://archive.md/BGXqQ
GoodReads does let you download your data, but it's a weird complicated process. I've done it once or twice to try to update my LT library with Amazon ebooks, and IIRC every time I've done it I've used the kindly updated instructions on LT's own import page to remind me how to download the GoodReads data.
Hi, I’m Max. I’m a second year PhD student in CSE at Ohio State with a focus on system dependability. My internship plans were altered due to COVID, so I need a new one. Right now, my interests are in software reliability in technology ranging from robotics to blockchain.

Location: Columbus, OH

Remote: Not a requirement but willing and with experience

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: Docker, Terraform, Java, Go, JavaScript, Python, learning Rust, ROS, sh, C

Résumé/CV: Available on request

Email: taylor dot 2751 at osu dot edu
I'm pretty sure you are going to piss off instagram with your name. I think they even say not to use a name that has insta or gram when you sign up for the api. Other then that best of luck.
you must mean ape. But the package itself doesn't seem to use any such characters.
You actually need to send if with different emails to make me open it every time otherwise I will not open it even the second time. Or perhaps hide a goodie in there like a funny video or something.
Do it for a year. Make $200k and then get out to do something for you. Unless you like the job.

Personally it's one of those of those industries, like defense, I don't think I'd want to work for long term interesting problems or not.
It reminds me so much of Io, that I'm a bit disappointed that Io is not mentioned in the "its design is inspired by ..." text at the top of the first page.
> European "rehabilitation first"

Really? I have heard French justice/prison systems are nothing like a walk in the park. Probably the same across all southern Europe?
I had an ATM eat a check I tried to deposit once. I contacted the bank and they had me give them the ATM location and date and approximate time of the transaction, along with what I thought should have been the result (debiting N dollars to my account). They debited my account immediately and then investigated. A week or two later I got a letter saying that they'd found the check and the debit would remain on my account.

My guess is that when problems do occur the banks are, generally, very responsive about resolving them because a loss of confidence in ATMs would be rather disastrous for retail banking in general.
That comparison seems slightly disingenuous, only for the fact that Australia's size vs population is very disparate. The majority of the area isn't even populated at all -- as in, not even rural sustenance farmers live there. [0] Localized air particulate pollution is very much a matter of local energy generation density, which is going to be closely related to local population density.

[0] http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Latestproducts/1270....
This still doesn't explain why I haven't been able to add new applications to iTunes Connect for the past few days, until now. They seriously stopped that process for this?
Oh, goodie, another Google service I can't use until it works with a Google Apps account. Looks like they really need to fix Google Profiles…
"The whole concept behind this is to have a very painless way to parse command line arguments, possibly by losing some flexibility."

Is "GNU getopt" painless? I suspect it depends on your definition of "pain", a pro/cons section would have clarified the rationnals for not using "getopt".

For sure it would be nice if people added a "prior art" comment whenever they reinvent the wheel.
non-technical friends is your best bet for best ideas! just listen what they need, what they complain about, etc.
I am at a loss for words. Mostly because they are bads ones and I don't like being negative.
Seafood watch says they are ok: http://www.montereybayaquarium.org//cr/SeafoodWatch/web/sfw_...

Costco sells Wild Planet brand -- cheap, tasty, and sustainable.
You can't vandalize HN threads like this, regardless of how wrong other people are or you feel they are. If you know more about a topic, that's great, but the thing to do is share some of what you know so that people can learn. Flaming aggression doesn't help anyone and only hurts the cause you're trying to stand up for. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24563326 also.

I don't mean to pick on you personally and I'm not commenting on your views—only that your comments stand out in this thread as particularly nasty, and from a moderation point of view that's not ok.

From a human point of view, I sympathize. Most of us would feel and act this way in your position. I know what it feels like to be the sole person arguing against a majority view—it is extremely activating, and when people are speaking out of ignorance, it can be maddening. Nevertheless you can't post to HN like you've been doing in this thread. You have to manage the activation in yourself and post within the site guidelines.

In a way this is not fair, because others are also being nasty, but happen to have majority opinion on their side, which creates a false impression of reasonableness. But fair or not, it's the way that mass psychology works—there's a greater burden on the one who holds a contrarian position.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
According to the API, clock_gettime() can only error out for two reasons: EFAULT when the 2nd argument points to invalid memory or EINVAL when the clock is not supported on the system.

The first thing is ensured in the code, the 2nd thing can be ensured by, for example, checking for the existence of CLOCK_MONOTONIC in an initialization function, which we don't see in this example.

So I'd say that this is a case where you can relinquish checking the return value without feeling bad about it.

Same thing about sleep/usleep: All possible situations (sleeping correctly, and being interrupted) are handled correctly by the code (if you don't intend to handle signals, of course...).
Cloud66 can handle most of what you describe using manifest files. You can have a relatively simple yml file describing what types of servers exist in your stack - something like "I need Postgres servers, Redis, a RabbitMQ server, oh and here's the 3 different types of process servers I have and also how my main web server functions."

There's still a point where it's beneficial to split an application into seperate stacks, in which case the manifest concept breaks down and you're stuck doing a lot of work yourself, but they can take you a fairly long way.
I understand what you're saying, technically they are different things.

But not to my mother.

I would guess (and only guess, I haven't tried to look for any numbers) that the percentage of people who go out and install an alternative app store, let alone Amazon's, is quite small (especially once you take out the HN audience)
> by a Caucasian

In the original classification, Indians (of India) are Caucasian.
> order in which they were constructed

Seems very impractical. What's the benefit?
What's wrong with a simple link? I know facebook doesn't want you going down that route, but there's nothing to stop you.
Discussions on these topics is often not very nuanced. I think before talking about problems of distraction and/or the inability to maintain deep concentration we should dissect the premise of the original problem.

For me, for example, it is being socially self-conscious that hinders deep concentration in what I'm trying to study or work on. E.g., if my classmate is trying to help me and somewhere in his helping me I am lost, I will become increasingly more lost because my brain is then a) concerned about making me look stupid, b) afraid of disappointing the helper, etc. The other distraction for me is one where I'm thrown off a tangent in thoughts by a certain hook -- e.g., thinking further about a 'thing' that was just passively mentioned in a lecture, and just wandering very far off with it.

I can very well analyze my problems, at least I think so -- but it's damn hard to come up with a strategy to get at them. I think I am capable of maintaining deep concentration -- I think most people are, and I think that's verifiable by doing something that you already are good at -- you'll notice that if you do do it you won't be distracted as easily; you will maintain deep concentration.

This concludes the problem with me (and I think, for most people) to not be with deep concentration, but the will power.
The company I work for has prospective developers write something that parses Java property files, and sample files are given to them to examine. It is amazing how many are unable to write something to do this. Additional small-grained programmer behaviors are also discovered besides if they can code the answer: do they comment their code, do they structure it, name it in a thought out manner or use X,Y, and Z as variable and function names? Do they use exception handling? It is a pretty useful test and filters out people who have head knowledge but inability to do a simple task, or have impressive resumes that mean nothing.
Actually, more like "shell assembled in 6 days". To build it they needed to first prepare the foundation which can take several weeks prior just to get it solid and firm enough to support such a structure. While that is happening they need to be crafting the panels and components in a factory. Then they can bring it to the site and start assembling. With enough labour on site it can be done. Pre-fab is far more advanced in Asia than here and in places like Japan a house can be assembled and ready to move in within 3 days (fully finished). Toyota builds AWESOME steel frame homes that are earthquake resistant and insulated for sound and energy efficiency. Still, the land has to be prepped first and that takes the most time (no good to have an earthquake proof structure on a poor/soft/shifting foundation).

Now... what we need to see is what that hotel looks like in 5/10/15 years (doubtful it was built for a lifespan beyond 25 years as most prefabs are built with short life expectancy and planned replacement).
Really disappointed in the hackernews community for downing dissenting opinions in this thread. I understand this is an emotional issue for people but that doesn't excuse for immaturity. Fortunately my karma is pretty meaningless to me as much as I like to watch it go up (or down.)
FWIW, I have been extremely happy with the following combo:

http://emacsformacosx.com/

and

https://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit

Along with a few other minor tweaks to remove some minor irritations.

I bought Textmate last year when I got a Mac after years of linux, but it just can't compete with the ease of switching between buffers that emacs offers.
clickable http://dushare.com/
You wanted an Art community and it doesn't get any better than deviantart.com in terms of sharing work, discussing art and getting feedback. Artists can even sell their work and I'm sure a lot of deviants have gotten work simply because of their portfolio on deviantart.com.
I contend that the USPS is the world's largest legal spam operation.
At my previous job (which I enjoyed greatly until the president embezzled funds and ran off with a woman), I asked to do a programming task so that I could prove my skill and ability to do what they needed.