jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
My mistake. Thank you for the correction. I certainly agree that popular opposition to creepy laws isn't an area where Australia has covered itself in glory over the years. That's not a specifically Australian failing, though.
Why did I have to read down THIS far to find someone speaking this sense!
I'm pretty sure the founder of EY is the one (not) mentioned in this TechCrunch article... http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/28/oops-beware-the-accidental-...

I hope it's true and I hope it changes his life. VMWare has a decent track record considering they're a big company.
Thanks, nice to read a sober judgment of the situation. As a both a C and C++ programmer I really appreciate your point. I would however argue that some effort should be done to enable the possibility to create some common culture. I am sure that some unbiased eyes could find subprojects where c++ (or other compiled oo/functional languages) would be better suited than c. I strongly believe that the paradigms all have their uses, and that in time the Linux project would be more powerful if it used the technology available. After all, isn't that one of the great strengths of openness?
Change our focus away from central hubs, or change our focus away from the expectation of perfection?
You can also provide false ID when you buy them in person. That's not the point.
History has shown that heuristics like this are a fantastically good idea. They've been part of science more or less since science started, and science has accomplished an enormous amount. The number of bold, exciting claims that are entirely wrong is far larger than the number of bold, exciting claims that are even partly correct. Heuristics like "put less trust in single-author papers" (among others) are essential for science to actually make progress rather than spending all its effort chasing mirages. Yes, sometimes an important idea gets overlooked for a decade or two along the way, but the alternative would be to accomplish nothing at all.

(Unless you've been a physicist at a major university, you have no idea how many emails those folks get claiming to have quantized gravity or to have proved Einstein wrong.)
Isn't that definition premature optimization?

A ton of quick wins that amount to minimal real changes to total emissions isn't going to stop the earth from heating too fast
> where were you when the authoritarian shift from the "war on terror" and "war on drugs"

In parts of the world where "authoritarianism" has a different meaning from where you are, apparently.
I believe ENOUGH people have these apps for this approach to be effective.

What I don't understand about this article is that the author assumes the data has to flow through a government entity. I don't see why the company holding your data, eg Google, can't just have their own pandemic-tracking analytics that they can publish for everybody, including the government.
The point is that it's a different flow of resources, e.g. retail distribution vs commercial property management supply.
As a rather poor kid, it was months before I got access to the musical instrument I wanted to learn. In the meantime, I drove some appropriate nails into a piece of wood and practiced my fingerings. Worked pretty well.
They should actually be enforcing the quarantine. People aren't taking it seriously, partly because it's not mandatory.
This seems to be a euphoria fork, which can be installed on linux, and which runs fine. But how can I bootstrap phix on linux with euphoria?

Ah, got it. You need to download the executable p64, see http://phix.x10.mx/download.php
Like with old lisps.
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How do you plan to avoid a commercial focus/ bias?
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That's what YouTube Red was. Did you subscribe to it?

If you did, why aren't you now grandfathered into YouTube Premium at that old price?

If you didn't, why not? It was after all exactly the product you now claim to have wanted.
Have an ironic upvote.
I remember playing this as a kid. I barely knew how to play chess, but just loved the intricate animations when a kill happened.
(disclaimer: president of VideoLAN here and old VLC dev)

What's interesting in this article (quite accurate, for once) is the focus on the size of the team, which is quite small; and on the development process. And how the team are now friends more than co-developers...

In fact, VLC is ported - and maintained - in a very large number of platforms (probably more than Firefox, Chrome, Office or Libreoffice) with Android (+TV), ChromeOS, iOS/iPadOS, AppleTV, WinRT&Xbox, Windows (XP+), macOS (10.7+), Linux, Unixes, BSD, OS/2. While the core team has always been around 5 persons, and always less than 10. And most developers have been working on their free time...

The VideoLAN non-profit needs also to maintain quite a bit of infra (updater, crash reporter, bugtracker, forum, wiki, ml, gitlab, git) for a lot of projects (not only VLC, but things like x264 and dav1d) and do support, appstores, PR, translations and partnerships (the only way to get support from MS, Google or Apple).

Sure, VLC is probably not always the best for your usecase, and there are probably better solutions for each platform, but we are consistent, completely open source and open process, therefore people can trust the project and the brand: VLC will be around in 5 years, and we will do our best to port on all platforms, in an open way. A lot of players come and go, but the project is structured so it can last.

Since HN is a technical crowd, we're currently working on 2 fun projects: VLC.js and integrating sandboxing inside VLC :)
I’m not sure enterprise computing was ever based on open/general tech. In the 80s everything ran on closed-source for-pat Unix systems and big-iron proprietary mainframes. In the 90s that shifted more to Linux but increasingly companies would buy “appliances”, which are pieces of general purpose hardware combined with specific software. Those appliances were never meant to be opened or toyed with and the hardware lifecycle was based on the software lifecycle. If the software was discontinued, the hardware was thrown out as well. Appliances are still very popular today because again enterprise companies like stability and predictability.

An appliance is the ultimate lock-in and enterprise companies LOVE them.
I actually read their digest on a daily basis, and used to be confused by this as well. My observation is that each link in the digest actually points to an answer of a particular question. When you click on it, it looks like you arrive at the home page, but the page will show "From Your Digest" at the top so you can actually read the answer. You can then click on the question to read all the answers.

It's annoying because if you open a bunch of these links in the background, you would not be happy if your browser crashes, because then you lose all the links.
I remember thinking that Quora was really good, I thought that Hacker News and Quora were two sites with the highest quality user-generated content on the internet.

At the beginning the core demographics was Sillicon Valley startup scene. It felt like a small community of smart and interesting people (my favourites were Yishan Wong and Rory Young). At one point, the site got very popular in India for whatever reason and there was an influx of low quality answers. I left some time after that. There was also a trend of people using the site to promote their products, which was explicitly allowed by Quora AFAIK.

Right now, it seems that the site is much more popular in countries like India or Nepal than in the US: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=quora
My blog, https://plurrrr.com/ consists of 291 pages and is generated within less than 1.5 seconds. I use my own static site generator: https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog
well, I hope the author is doing well
I've found it effective to just watch Skype with Fiddler, and add whatever ad servers it touches to my hosts file, and redirect them to 127.0.0.1 Entries like this work for me:

#BEGIN: Skype ad servers
127.0.0.1 rad.msn.com
127.0.0.1 a.rad.msn.com
127.0.0.1 secure.adnxs.com
127.0.0.1 m.adnxs.com
127.0.0.1 ads1.msads.net
#END: Skype ad servers
> Someone kill me please, make the misery end.

How about you just stop posting instead?
I put limits on things in the D compiler. One thing is certain, I'll get a bug report because the limit was exceeded. Who'd have thought programs would be built with a hundred thousand symbols in them? Or that 65,000 lines in a source file isn't enough?
Very cool overall, but to me USB-C is the default port I use. Most of my cables are USB-C on one end, not USB-A. I can't see myself buying a laptop with just one USB-C port. Does it even charge via USB-C? It says "USB Type-C Power Delivery Compatible" but I don't know if that's just power out or power in as well.
73Wh battery, not bad in such a slim design!
"Open Source" (Eric Raymond et al) and Apache Foundation.
What Kiip does is so brilliant it's almost shocking. The rewards network provides game developers with a targeted advertising system that aligns in-game achievements with brands. In other words: score a thousand points, and a voucher for a bag of Pop Chips comes up onscreen.

Awesome, I can't wait till they combine this with real-world achievements; "Brushed your teeth 3 times today! Save 50 cents on Colgate toothpaste! TOOTHPASTE UNLOCKED"

Yet one more method for the profit motive to seep into our lives. Instead of enjoying life, this 20 yr old is figuring out how to make our lives more about the money -_-'
His status has been earned. RMS did incredible programming work in the 70s,80s that I think entitles him to make comments (even if they are wrong).
Saying "Big Brother" is simply telling the truth. When the US government and other governments feel it's okay to illegally wiretap people and the TSA subjects you to full body searches and cellphones make you easy to locate and the US government uses drones to kill people in other and the NSA wants backdoors into encryption schemes and ways to break them, I think it's safe to call them Big Brother.
Thanks for your help.

You give me a clue to deal with this problem!

I immediately found this
http://support.mozilla.com/zh-TW/questions/800955#answer-155...

And carefully checked all of my extensions. I found a Z extension hide itself in FF extensions list. Finally I deleted it.

I think this is a good way if FF can give users some clue to deal with crash problem. It might be a great help.
Thank you.
"The first thing you notice about Kiip CEO Brian Wong is how decidedly un-CEO he actually looks...In nerdy black glasses and a halfway zipped navy hoodie (flecked with kaleidoscope colors on closer inspection), the young man who graduated from college as a fresh faced 19 year old could've very well been, you know, anyone."

Has the author never seen a tech CEO before? Or the Social Network? Are you totally kidding me? This is no longer "un-CEO," my friend, this is de rigueur.
Also, Stallman has been taking baby steps for a very very long time. He didn't start with a completely free software machine at all. He used a proprietary compiler at first, a proprietary editor, etc. in order to build everything up.

In today's world, it is possible to do all of your work using free software. It may not be Google Docs, but LibreOffice is pretty awesome and you can just use Empathy or Pidgin IM to talk to people over an XMPP network.

At some point you have to pry yourself away from proprietary software and the sooner you do it, the less likely you are to cave in and use more proprietary software.

Stallman has been repeating the same ideas for years. It's hard to sound persuasive or charismatic when you're not trying to be a leader and when you've been saying the same damned thing over and over and having to adapt it to the realities of today (which could have been avoided if only more people had listened in the first place...)
Is it only twice? In my experience, 99.9999% uptime is significantly more than 16x more expensive than 99% uptime.

For comparison, 99.9999% uptime means about 30 seconds of downtime in a year, while 99% uptime is about 3 days of downtime. You can get 99% uptime with a singly-homed, not terribly reliable commodity system. For 99.9999%, you need multiple redundancies in every architectural component with automatic error detection and failover, and have to watch every change to make sure it doesn't introduce the possibility of system instability or cascading failures. Those are qualitatively different approaches to software engineering.
What you want is an RFID keyfob/detector. There used to be a writeup on a homebrew version of this at http://hackaday.com/2013/09/07/hidden-rfid-reader-locks-work... -- but the link that article references is rotten now. A sufficiently motivated person should be able to dig up instructions somewhere.

A few years ago there were companies that did this for most operating systems, and fairly inexpensively too, but I'm having trouble finding them now.
I thought you were talking about economies with poorly functioning states, like say Ethiopia or Kenya. In these places, markets work quite well, they are just limited in the range of products and services they offer. They have limited access to the most useful financial and payment systems, like PayPal, due to undeveloped banking systems, blacklisting by governments of advanced economies, and bans by their own govermments.

Cryptocurrency offers a much more accessible alternative to global payment systems to the people living in these countries.
Yup, and also a bit here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1600151
I dunno, if one of my team members was constantly coding up non viable prototypes instead of communicating with people, writing up proposed solutions and alternatives, and seeking a bit of consensus first, that would strike me as a much worse waste of time.
Thank you all so much for the answers! Sorry for my ignorance (or laziness, since I haven't read up on this and don't know of a disinterested guide for techies) about backups; not allowing it is a completely understandable trade-off between security and convenience.

It sounds like this is a perfect solution for people at high risk of phishing, a good solution for somewhat technical laypeople with something important to protect which supports this (like a bank account), and too much hassle/risk of losing access/lack of support for most people/use cases. Does that sound fair?
The idea there's one language for everything was false even during C's heyday. Your list contains languages for very different uses.

Rust will eventually win low-level programming from C++, but massively networked applications will always be slightly easier in Go. Swift is a bytecode language, it competes against .NET (mainly C#) and JVM (Java and variants), not Rust or Go.

IMHO Swift seems to losing when not tied to Apple's ecosystem, its future will be as some Apple-niche language.
Charlemagne struggled with writing the incredibly arcane Merovingian script [1]. That's the very reason he came up with the Carolingian script [2] the very print script you're reading this message with is descended from and the reason why he implemented school reforms.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merovingian_script

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolingian_minuscule
Why is it a weak argument? As a college student you are about 10 times more likely to die in a car accident. Are they forbidding their students from being in a car?
>My personal problem with digital books, which I avoid by going to used book stores (So I guess I'm not really supporting anyone other than the book store), is that some publishers think there should be a convenience charge to the customer in order to obtain a digital copy, I believe in no way should an ebook cost more than the cheapest copy (be it paperback or hardback) available from the same store new.

Which, if you think about it, seems totally backwards. A paper or hardback book can be sold secondhand, and some of the value recouped. With an ebook, there's no way to resell and regain some of what you've spent. However, if you aren't discussing reselling, this is kind of a moot point.
Perhaps the page was incorrectly post-processed to replace "fi" with the proper ligature glyph?
Wow, I wasn't expecting such a reply. Kudos sir, and thanks for taking the time to put pen to paper :)
The interesting bit of isomorphic applications isn't the fact that you can use JS on the server. For me, it's that you can keep all your UI and UI-related logic written in one language, and have your business logic, data fetching, and everything else in whatever language you prefer.

This has many benefits like code reusability and not having to write placeholders/render code twice -- in two different languages.
They say it's "React-like", but afaik it doesn't do the cool things with a virtual dom? What's cool about React is how it doesn't write to the DOM all the time, only when there is a diff. Does Riot do that? If not, thanks but it doesn't compete with React.

Also, does it render to string?
Crashing more in relative terms than it ever has in the history of bitcoin.
> I think you're paying too much attention to Trump and politics. The people actually getting work done are cooperating and moving at a pace that has really never been done.

A pace that is constantly hindered by wrong/misleading statements made by Trump. You cannot pretend he is not actively making their jobs harder and thus putting us all in more danger.

> Although, I would once again offer up to ignore Trump and watch the governors. They have been acting quickly and decisively.

Not all of the governors have and that is in part because they themselves or their constituents will do just about anything Trump says and/or anything to avoid his ire. We still, to this day, have people parroting things from Trump/Fox about how it's just the flu, it's not bad if you are young, vacinee is right around the corner, we already have drugs to fight this, etc. That is because of one man caring more about his reelection/markets than the people of the United States. Period.

His comments have been and continue to be extremely detrimental to fighting COVID-19. Even now, he is more concerned with re-writing history ("I always took this seriously") and downplaying the threat suggesting we don't have to worry because we already have a vaccine in testing (without saying it's ~14mo out) and by talking about the malaria drugs as if they are cures (we still have to test). Look at how they spend insane amounts of time in press briefings: attacking the press, talking about how the markets will boom after this, repeatedly having the POTUS make false/misleading statements that have to be corrected, and having almost every official start by "I'd like to thank Trump for his leadership...".

> Underprepared with respect to supplies is always easy to say in hindsight because now we know the war we are fighting. There is a saying that armies are always tooled to fight the last war. Until you know what the next war will be, it's impossible to fully prepare.

That's just not true though. They knew about this as early as Jan 3rd and waited months before doing anything substantial, they had a team designed to spearhead the fight against a virus like this and they disbanded it, they had a simulation of a virus outbreak just last year and failed spectacularly but decided to make zero changes.

One more thing to leave you with, /yesterday/ he suggested the reuse n95 masks and just clean them with "very good liquids". And 2-3 days ago he gave the /wrong/ set of symptoms for COVID-19. To ignore "Trump/Politics" is pretty naive as it's not like the experts are in control, he is actively making the situation worse.
You could make a great case for carbon tax + dividend right now, because people aren't driving as much and the people staying at home get the dividend too, so in addition to the economic impact of the tax being blunted by the low oil prices, you're also creating a net transfer to the people most impacted by having to stay at home. And giving people more financial incentive to stay at home instead of going out and spreading the infection.
> Enter your email to check

Uhhh this is definitely a scam
Yep, you're not alone in wanting tighter control over memory allocation and GC. It's something that we're planning to work on this year.
clear water doesn't necessarily mean clean water.

Turbidity, which is how cloudy water is, is on a different axis from pollution, toxicity, and mineral content of water. There are heavily stained lakes in Florida with a lot of silt mixed up that you can't see further than a couple feet in that would be fairly safe to drink out of.

Mono Lake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_Lake, by contrast is very clear, but it's a soda lake and most normal aquatic life can't live there.
Android is Google.
Personally I found that style funny for a while but now I feel it's becoming tedious and won't age well. In the long run I prefer a style like Kernighan & Ritchie which is concise, easy to read and timeless.
The Chinese government told us in early January that there was no human->human transmission of the virus, when this was not the truth. Doctors and medical professionals were silenced until it was blatantly obvious that the world had a problem on their hands.

If we had known the virus was this contagious at that time, more countries could have prepared and put a stop to travel from some of these areas.

It happened way too late with Italy, which is why the cases skyrocketed.

I've seen reports that patient zero in Wuhan was back on November 16th. I know many people that had symptoms (including myself) at the end of November/early December.