jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Apple strictly wants to control their own little sandboxes. Jobs is avowed of open standards, since this means that no one company can dominate the playing field.

For example, Adobe was forged in the print world, where it's commonplace for a single corporation to control a proprietary standard used industry-wide. See Pantone. When they picked up Flash, it was this ideology that led them to believe that people on the web would just deal with it; accepting the fact that a single corporation would control the media standards.

The W3C, on the other hand give a lot more leeway to the most flexible and attractive player. For now that is Apple, at least in the minds of average consumers. Other than using Apple's language, and their crummy drm'd videos, there's not that much locking in people. In fact, the best lock-in on the iPad is HTML5, which isn't that well supported on any other tablet on the market. (Tab, withstanding.)
"Interesting" is a rather subjective term, but when it comes to work, I would sum it up in the following sentence:

Something you might like to work on even if it wasn't for pay.
'Winetricks' makes it pretty easy to install IE on linux, as well as a bunch of other handy windows programs.
What?!

Their inbox allows you to differentiate between messages from people you know and people you don’t. It consequently makes messages from your ISP or phone company more visible.

Ok, so your correspondence with your friends is full of junk and stupid memes? Since that important ISP invoice will be in the “Other” inbox you won’t have to wade through all that junk! Filtering messages based on whether you know the people you are messaging with is a perfectly reasonable and clever idea. (It’s not even novel or creative. Google’s priority inbox does something similar.)

You know that the Facebook hate has reached new heights when a comment that makes no sense at all is the first you read under this story.
You call people based on what they do and not who they are. :)
They wait until the end to say that it could be just a neutron star.

Although the evidence points to a newly formed black hole in SN 1979C, another intriguing possibility is that a young, rapidly spinning neutron star with a powerful wind of high energy particles could be responsible for the X-ray emission
With the .IS domain name, I thought for a moment he might hold the conference in Reykjavik.
Well, I think it's fair to say all entrepreneurs are persistent, but that's about it.
I think you are oversimplifying the situation.

With any plant of sufficient size, there will be a lot of people involved in commissioning, servicing and operating it. This makes "fully insulating" SCADA systems much harder.

Management people will demand to get data from the plant to manage utilization. Servicing personnel will want to connect their laptops to the automation systems to talk to their company's devices that are installed in the plant during maintenance. ... ...

So, for military projects where integrity/secrecy is a value for itself, I can imagine draconian regulations to be in place soon, or most likely they already are. But for "normal" industrial plants where there's a need for money to be made, there always will be a balance between IT security and pragmatism in running the damn thing.

And if diagnosing a failed motor controller in a stalled plant is delayed because IT security prohibits the technician from inserting his USB stick, I can tell you how the discussion with the plant manager will turn out in 99% of all cases.
It will work. Until somebody comes up with an actual holographic device. I hope the name rights won't be gone by then...
You forgot the Android phone manufacturer extortion.
and will make it a better place
That's actually a huge misconception, and LWT got it wrong:

Miss America's paltry scholarship program is the largest provider of women-only scholarships.

Many many non-women-only programs give more scholarship money to women than Miss America.
Hmmm, sort of like they are finding the jocular humor, the ironies, the satire _for_ you, so you don't have to. They are doing all the work for you and you get to sit down and _not_ think. So you get to eat your cake and have it, as it were.
I was all excited thinking he was coming out of retirement to play ball. :(
Well, regardless of your opinion, this ruling means that Google's copying of the Java SE API is a perfect example of fair use.
Emotional support animals are not legally service animals and there is no grant of access to places of public accommodation, etc.
So the bad behavior is on the part of the drivers, not the company, but you prefer the company to get punished?
Back in the dark ages, my first project as a professional software engineer was working on a web app for something or other. I had to write a JS function to figure out whether the current year was a leap year. It didn't go well....

It was a painful experience but it aught me a valuable lesson. To this day I would sooner write my own bootloader than roll my own date/time library.
I have ZERO CLUE and or social skills to seal the deal with Fortune 500 companies.

I am basically a solo founder (have a tech partner, but he's 25% in vs. me 500% in) whose work grabs the attention of the biggest companies in the world. I publish my work on the iNet and or demo it and in doing so VP and higher ups of Fortune 50 to 500 companies reach out wanting to do business and or it could be just flirt and or figure out how my partner and I achieved what we have accomplished.

Examples...
1. Two months after announcing our work we were invited out to the valley to demo our tech to an entity out there. They were total jerks to us and baited us to tell them how we accomplished X. That was a low day .. felt like we flew out to the valley to get kick in the stomach by a giant.

2. Fast forward 16 months later and just about every massive tech company has reached out to us showing some level of interest. Not sure how they find out about us (a east coast start-up), but they do and we get excited but then demoralized as nothing happens.

3. Most recently I demoed our tech at a hackathon. After my demo a VP of Fortune 500 company was super excited and said i want to use this at my end of the year board meeting. Ok, awesome let's make this happen I thought. Though first big wig you will need to sign a document and half licensing agreement. Oops that small document that protected us killed the deal and well NOW I AM CRAZY TIRED OF DEALING WITH THESE UPS AND DOWNS.

We can and have a history of making cool things, but totally lack the social skills and business acumen. It time to hang things up and possibly open source our work. Many companies bottom lines will hurt once we and if we open source it. Though of course we will remain living our meager lives.

Done starting up after 10 years, broke, in debt, 4o years old and family-less (she is tired of waiting for it to happen too.. back to the corporate world so i can have that family ive always wanted).
Thats more a wetware problem, than a software :)
I didn't downvote you, but I assume why it happened: What you wrote is correct, but does not answer the question.
Anyone else surprised by this collection? I thought they'd be better.
When he finds the '@', he's gonna be delighted!
With the ridiculous caps on upload and download speeds, this certainly sounds like a gift from Santa.
> The state police responded by saying they would provide the information only in return for a payment of $544,680.

Anyone know what Michigan's Freedom of Information laws are like? Half a million seems ridiculously high for a FoIA-type request.
The mechanics of using XCode 4 are somewhat different, but all the fundamentals are identical. As far as documentation goes, Apple's online docs are a surprisingly good starting point.
or something else that helps rate a comments importance beyond the near-meaningless ordering. Should work within a thread and at the top level equally well.
There are a lot of these ancient tools around. For example, you probably have "rcs", which is a precursor of cvs. Rumors are, there are tools (wikis), which use it.
For the same reason the "every co-founder should learn to code" mantra always gets tossed around here: because it's not impossible to do yourself and will make you a better and more self-sufficient developer.

You might still choose to bring in a design specialist for pixel-perfect work or usability perfection, but it's no different than having the hacking chops to get your prototype into a functionally complete form. Done is better than perfect.
Note: This story is meant to reference the two examples listed, and isn't my personal story. It is someone's story, and has almost certainly happened to many others who are unaware, given the MO described in the leaks.

I would not be surprised to find out that it has happened to me, but I don't think that is the case.

I can't edit anymore to clarify, but since it's not obvious from the post, especially if you don't read the references: I'm not either of the individuals who this happened to.
Relevant. https://xkcd.com/1179/
the meaningless boosting around here is fucking weird - negative feedback is crucial to stuff getting anywhere. calling anything besides praise 'disappointing' is the best way to create a completely ossified creative field, i.e. the complete opposite of the 'hacker' ethic worshipped round here. besides, this guy isn't even being particularly critical
2022? Then those guys move too slow to be useful. Good on Jobs for trying to force it to move at a more reasonable pace. There is no reason to wait so long.
It's really interesting to note the differences in our perceptions of the final audio versus the final video.

The video, while severely degraded, is obviously still a human figure moving around.

The audio, on the other hand, is mangled completely beyond recognition.
Of course, the quality of eavesdropping (obligatory: http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html) is quite better at the former.
I disagree. If the person is skipping their best option due to a misunderstanding on their part (as it appears to be) then that should be addressed.
wtf is with the downvoting here? If you have a problem with the post please state it so it can be discussed.
I'm a software engineer, and I've been browsing seattle.craigslist.org recently looking for something new. Your ads hit enough of my keywords to pop up in my search, but I move right past as soon as I see the letters "SEO". Maybe your company actually is awesome and totally working for the betterment of the world, but you've chosen a label for yourselves that was invented to describe the bad guys.

Your ad could hold my attention longer by dropping the term "SEO", but I'd still decide you were probably just a bunch of spammers as soon as I saw the words "improve their rankings in search engines". I don't want sites to come up in search engines because someone paid a lot of money to put them there; I want sites to come up in search engines because they are a good match for what I'm trying to find. If you're gaming Google, you're making the Internet less useful, and there's no way I could work for you in good conscience.

Now, maybe what you're actually doing isn't so much gaming Google as it is teaching your customers how to build good web sites. Maybe you're teaching them to write good headlines, use quality hyperlinks, add a lot of useful, interesting content, get content out from behind paywalls and flash blobs, and so on; or maybe you've come up with some fascinating statistical analysis that lets people know how searchable their content is. If so, that's great: but why drag yourselves down with the poisoned label "SEO"? It's like calling yourselves "SpamWorks", or "BotNetMasters", or advertising your skills at obfuscating Cialis ads.

Web marketing attracts derision because web marketers make the Internet suck. Maybe you're a step above the spammers of the world, but you're not helping your case by marketing yourselves under their label.
I always lived in an at-will state, but I wouldn't ever go back there to work. I was under the impression that the states were either Union (California?) or "Right to work".
Yes it is. Got it on Craigslist, ridiculously cheap, with a full set of pods and manuals. Making a boot floppy, on the other hand, was a bit of a challenge. Thanks to WeirdStuff Warehouse for still selling 720K floppies!
But the seller made a mistake whereas her actions were fraudulent. The world is not black and white, for example, as your comment is downvoted you will be able to witness a variety of shades of grey.
Just got through reading the first suggested item in the Background section: http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html

I recommend this to anyone interested in learning about the appeal of Lisp. It's well-written, and lays a nice foundation for those trying to figure out what all the buzz surrounding Lisp is about. I'm sold.
I like Amazon's email. "We're writing you to let you know that your order 3984-39843234-23431-3413 has shipped. This shipment completes your order. Tracking number: 1Z2394829348938293."

That's all I need to know. I don't have time to read a novel every time I buy something.
Although UBS titled this document a dresscode it seems to be more like a dress handbook from the snippets that have been translated.

Overall I think it's an intriguing idea. I've known quite a few people (myself included) that have harmed peoples' perceptions of them simply by not appearing professional. I had used to think it would be a big burden on my time, but it's amazing what taking 5 - 10 minutes a day will do to improve your image.
If Best Buy had to remove that TV from inventory such that they would never be able to sell it to anyone else, they would probably pursue finishing the deal more vigorously.
If you have to pay the money up front, you're less likely to buy; that's true for houses because they cost so much, and it's true for meals because there are lots of small individual charges in the course of a full meal. I guess restaurants find that the money lost via dine-and-dashing is not as bad as the money lost to misers.
I can recommend the "Additude ADHD Experts Podcast" where clinical psychiatrists, neurologists and therapists detail their approaches. Apparently something that works really well is pairing up someone with ADHD with someone who is more systematic. E.g. having someone with ADHD do prototypes and someone behind that who fleshes things out.
In practice, why does that matter? When you go to a restaurant you order one entree but they offer a dozen. Does this bother you?
"The original" was probably bad word. The copy was still painting and money for it went to some painter.
Haskel. For when you have an IQ of 187 but act like it’s 293.

Haskel. Perfect code for a perfect world.
We are living in a William Gibson world.
I had in mind that the political power and monetary kickbacks go hand-in-hand. Yes, it is probably widely acknowledged across USA that Murdoch wants more political power over there. But what we've seen here is what he does when he gets that power. It doesn't sit idle.

He has demonstrated that with his political power in Australia, he can make Facebook bend the knee within Australia. And once he has completed his control over USA politics, he'll make the big tech companies bend the knee over there too.

A billion dollars changing hand is just cosmetic to these guys. What has been displayed is a flex of power.
Thank you for your answer.

I'm glad to hear that Buxfer is still improving and I'll take some time to take a deeper look at it.

Congratulations on building a solid business!
It's possible that this is the end of the Bay Area's tech ascendancy - there's no guarantee that whatever wave comes next will take off in the Bay first. But the region still has most of the ingredients that slant the odds in its favor: an educated and very hard-working population; a dense, diverse population to support chance encounters; lots of rich people to provide funding; and plenty of active research being conducted by the major corporations and universities in the region.
The point that I'm trying to make here is that even the projects ran by "people who are incensed and motivated enough about this change" need to have the upstream going and be continuously supported.

If you say "we can get rid of crappy technology" but you still need the crappy technology to be used by the absolute majority of users, are "we" really getting rid of it?

To get "rid" of the crappy technology, "we" must go beyond this piggybacking. "We" need to put resources into an alternative. "We" must ensure that are enough people working on it to satisfy the needs of the majority, not just our own. And unless you are really invested into defending this ideal to the point of sacrificing yourself (or your money/time/resources), you will have to make compromises. For Mozilla, this is coming as sponsored links. For Brave, this is coming as a business model that still deals with ad distribution (although in a model that the users also benefit from it and that are not tracked).

You can complain and wish it was different all you want, but at the end of the day the truth is that these compromises do not bother "the community" to the point where they would pay to keep an alternative business around.
They also have manuals for the X-Wing, Tie Fighter, and Millennium Falcon:

https://haynes.com/en-gb/practical-lifestyle-manuals/sci-fi
I never know if unchanged means "still good" or "obsolete". How can you tell?
I got the Starfleet Technical Manual. It's pretty sweet. Gotta figure out where it is.
I find the Forbes article completely misreads the source article it quotes from: https://www.airforcemag.com/brown-launching-major-tacair-stu....

Unless the Forbes author has inside information, the airforcemag article in no shape or fashion says the F35 is a failure. The airforcemag article quoted Gen Brown saying the combat commanders are using the F35 too much. And wearing out the available ENGINES. With a limited budget and the mission he he has to fulfill he wants a cheaper alternative that he can sends into low threat theaters. And preserve the F35 if and when the US must fight near peer enemies. Eg Russia and China.
How are you measuring poor education?
I assume you are in computing / programming? There are loads of jobs available at good salaries world wide. So don't worry about losing your current one.
But if someone just wants to customize their text editor, $('#element').hide();, or something not orders of magnitude more complex, would actually be useful.
At that point the variable 'err' is still zero (noErr). So the function returns noErr, the caller thinks everything is good, and the communication is allowed.
I've actually been looking for a license like that for a while. A combination of the ease of MIT and the spirit of CC-BY-NC, for source code. I don't want to write one myself since I am not a lawyer and would inevitably get it wrong.
I haven't seen any evidence of that. Do you have some data that you can share?

One thing that I have noticed is that Mozilla tends to push Firefox fixes out as soon as they are ready, rather than waiting for a monthly patch cycle. For a home user, that's probably good (but annoying). For a corporation, it's royal pain.
As philwelch stated, you give up a bunch of rights to join the military. "Fuck that. This is America." is a 'bunch of bullshit' on your part. Even the Constitution itself states that you give up rights when you join the military. Don't invoke the Founding Fathers only when it's convenient.
Because of it's market share? Perhaps.
How can you refactor if you don't have a test suite? Do you manually check everything in your application after every change? That's the main value of having a test suite you can trust. It speeds up refactoring massively.
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss is another great read. It's the first in a 3 part series (came out in 2007):

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Name-of-the-Wind/Patric...

The next one, The Wise Man's Fear is coming out in March, but neither Amazon or BN have the ebook version listed yet.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Wise-Mans-Fear/Patrick-...
I just wanted to point out that the first link you posted had a great discussion in the comments.
Uh, the risks are certainly a lot higher with starting a country than starting a startup. The two are barely even comparable in terms of real risk.
UK murder rate is 1.4/100000

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murde...
Whoa, why? That sounds like an awful advice to me. By all means, use regexes, but make sure you understand the theory behind them (state machines) so you will know not to parse HTML with them. They are really pretty easy to do right once you grasp the concepts.
I agree that police unions can be problematic when it comes to disciplining bad cops.

But don't blame them for something which is unrelated to the union itself.

There are cities where Derek Chauvin would have been on paid leave for weeks after killing george floyd.

Yes, and the police forces in those cities would all be unionized. Clearly, the issue is not the union; it is the city or county that negotiated poorly with the union. Though generally, in some states like the US Deep South, politicians are more than happy to give officers unlimited rights even without the unions requesting them.

Minneapolis had the right to fire his ass when they saw how bad a cop he was.

They fired him literally the next day. For prior incidents, none of them rose to the level justifying termination. That would have been true even in a non-union force.
Personal hot take: It's super hard and no one cares very much.

With SSDs, booting is fast. Most apps that I care about which have complex state (browser, IDE) do a much better job of saving their state than the OS can do (browsers & IDEs can and do easily restore sessions, etc).
Those aren't different definitions of "snapshot", though.
> I think that future compiler and VM writers and FPGA soft-CPU authors -- should target this "abstracted instruction set"!

GNU lightning succeeds in what it sets out to do, which is to offer a simple and minimal JIT code-generator. It offers nothing in the way of optimisation, by design. Most projects looking for a code-generator are looking for something with great optimisation built-in, so they're not wrong to go with LLVM or the JVM rather than GNU lightning (or something similar like Mir [0][1]). I don't think the average compiler would gain much by targeting GNU lightning.

With all that said, GNU Guile, a Scheme interpreter, uses a fork of GNU lightning, insufferably named lightening. [3]

[0] https://github.com/vnmakarov/mir

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lightning/2020-02/msg0001...

[2] https://wingolog.org/archives/2019/05/24/lightening-run-time...
No, I think I'll still assess the hitchhikers I pick up.

Seriously though, especially with individuals, why shouldn't you use all the information available, if it produces results even an iota better than blind acceptance (and for most people, their empathic-sense does)?
In my country it's semi-illegal to demote someone. Sure they can put you in a lower skillset position but by law they cannot lower your existing pay. They would need to fire you (without reasonable cause it's a 3 month payout) and rehire you at that lower position/pay.
I mean I could, but wouldn't it be better to try and fix where I am instead?
>If you could get a couple of distro owners such as Red Hat, Ubuntu, Arch, etc. to agree upon such a device

I think I would rather (it'd be easier) to wrangle cats.
It's basically correct, there's very little of value on YT kids. It's junk food ADHD content, continuously. Just crappy content like ripoff songs and kids playing with toys, a giant toy advert. My little one used to go nuts when I turned it off.

I've had to get rid of it in my house. Standard YT has some interesting channels that you can learn a lot from, but it's worth it for me to PiHole anything youtube anyway. Now I just curate interesting videos and the kids have to watch it with me.