jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"A great deal of the books' power comes from the development of Assistant Pig-Keeper Taran from callow youth to reluctant hero to lost soul to, in the end of the series, wise leader of men. But at the time Disney opposed sequels, so the full, five-volume epic was merely grist for the Disney mill: Joe Hale plucked story elements from the first two books and discarded the rest. Even before it flopped, The Black Cauldron would always be the only Prydain movie; that it fumbled such terrific material just made it worse."

I've always felt, since watching the movie after I finished the novels, that they would work much better with live actors; filming five movies over the course of five years could benefit from the natural aging of young actors. It strikes me as a shame that so much effort in Hollywood goes into creating shallow imitations of classic tales, rather than retelling the classics for a new generation.
Really, this page is not even scrollable without JavaScript enabled...
It's not even a good username.

You can change usernames as often as you wish. Kind of hard to do that with your fingerprint.
What the author somehow doesn't get is that you shouldn't see Linux as a whole. You should look at different distributions like you look at Windows vs OSX. Different distributions are totally different to end users, although they share a lot of the core system utilities. Ubuntu or Linux Mint could be picked by a large corporation and everybody in that corporation would have the exact same interface. Normal people don't choose Linux, they choose a distribution.

This way, the normal people have the hard choices made for them and the crazy hackers like myself can do it all themselves on their Gentoo machine.
> As far as stability goes, macs are top notch .

My MBP and its periodic gray screen of death begs to differ. Apple really needs to shore up its QA.
Ellen is also the voice of the Combine Overwatch in Half-Life 2. One of my favourite pieces of sound-design.

"Citizen reminder: inaction is conspiracy,
report counter behavior to a civil protection team immediately."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6pZkmCPwlI

Edit: Oh, and she's the Announcer in Team Fortress 2.
mystride | iOS Developer | Remote | Minnesota, USA | $40K + 10% Equity

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Contact: dave@mystride.co

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Current Team: https://angel.co/mystride
Yep, open sourcing wouldn't help anyone. By the way, I think it's written in PHP and Symfony framework.

This service just needs to stay alive.
Once again reminding us that no matter how cool our phones are in the U.S., East Asia stays a step ahead. sigh
I don't think Clojure's goal is to be "better Java". Rather, that for whatever task you might consider Java, writing that task in Clojure should be:

* easier to write
* perform just as well
* be concurrency safe

Clojure isn't there yet, but it's well on its way I think.
Ok, Reddit handles this really well in their submission system.

If you post a link, and it exists, it simply flags: here's all the posts that already have this link. Do you still want to proceed?

Gives you the choice of jumping into the existing discussions or re-posting (eg, if the old subs are years out of date)
Currently I just run BOINC on them for World Community Grid. Wouldn't mind helping out some other projects or entertain some idea if it is feasible.
For what it's worth, I never called, to the best of my recollection, anyone a "real climber" or not. Having said that, I want to apologize to anyone who was offended by what I did say.
When I implement not-quite-trivial business rules, I usually spend at least two thirds of the time to give good, verbose error messages about which rules are violated, and what to do instead.

Often it would be rather easy to make the check itself a few lines of conditional code or a single SQL query, but then the only response I could give to the user is "you can't do that", plus a link to the requirements document. Instead effort is spent to follow the steps in which a human might check the constraints.
Nobody would deny that there exist both amazing programmers and really crapper programmers. The thing is, without any hard data this information is pretty useless. How is productivity distributed among developers? Is 1/10 of developers 10x productive compared to the average, or is it one out of a million? Is is a bell curve or a power law distribution? We don't know. So we cant use the information in hiring, compensation, team composition, project management or anywhere else.
What would you prefer?

A culture of trust where engineers are treated as professionals and adults, not as children who have to justify weeks and days of their own working time. Open allocation as far as is possible within the confines of the needs of the business.
If you have only small apps running for free on Heroku, for $5 you'll get them all hosted at DigitalOcean and Dokku easily as with Heroku: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-...
Personally, I think the idea that Google/Facebook are hurting people by paying talented engineers a lot to work on ads is just not true. I think that if you act ethically (which is admittedly a question mark sometimes for any big corporation) respecting the market can often do the most social good.

People who were doing silly work making video games pushed the boundaries of parallel processing, created the GPU industry, and now that is relied on for serious scientific research. People making social networks so college freshman could date made tools to help those fighting authoritarian governments connect and created infrastructure technology to work on big data problems the governments might face on social issues.

Who did more to help the Asian Tigers raise from poverty to economic superpowers? Peace Corps people distorting local economies with their help, or people investing in local infrastructure because it was good value for them to make money??

What's better for the world, besides your conscious, working for a soup kitchen for work that can be done for $10/hr, or freelancing for $50/hr and donating that to the soup kitchen to give someone with less skills a job and the soup kitchen $40 remaining to buy supplies they need?

Finally, a lot of really smart people end up going in to law or finance because that's where the money is. Even if making consumer ad-tech doesn't sound quiet as noble as researching novel energy, if it encourages people to start entering fields where they are building things rather than creating more regulation for things, it's probably a net-positive. I really doubt that this idea that engineers should be this monastic underclass is so great for society. I constantly hear programmer say their salary is "inflated", to which I respond "if you feel overpaid, give your money to a good charity, don't roll over for the uber rich tech-exec/VC in charge."

If you want to make a positive impact on the world, respecting market efficiency is underrated.
I'd comment on the rest of this, except...

200 chars? Really? Sure, there shouldn't be arbitrary limits, but...

200 chars?
Point taken. The animations are just pure CSS3 although the fades still use jQuery. I got the gulp folder idea from this blog post as a way to decouple gulp tasks from individual projects: http://viget.com/extend/gulp-browserify-starter-faq
Haskell is probably a lot more stable and suitable for real-world use, i.e. more practical, than Perl 6.
Sweet. We can call it Everyone On-line, or EOL.

We'll start first in the States, and call it AOL.
that's like saying you'll donate to wikipedia only if it's used to pay for the bandwidth used by a single page on the site.

No, because wikipedia isn't going out and saying "you should support us because we have a page about Hacker News". They say that we should support them for everything they do.

What Theo is would be like me saying "if you use bsdiff, you should pay me to work on FreeBSD" -- bsdiff is a small part of FreeBSD, and only a very small amount of the time I spend on FreeBSD is even remotely related to bsdiff.
> freebies and concessions just for this publicity

And it's not just the publicity -- it's Salesforce.com's sales reps being able to say to Oracle's other customers, one on one, that they should "be smart, do what HP did, rip out Oracle and go with us." That's not at all uncommon, from what my sales colleagues used to tell me.
Here's what stands out for me and they are lessons repeated time and again:

- The founders had experience and backgrounds.
- The founders were a team. There were two of them.
- The founders worked on several projects that failed. The YC application was for something before they were successful when they were young in the game and basically inexperienced.
- The founders both quit their jobs to get serious on their start-up.
- They were committed to starting something.
- Canada is very difficult to do anything in from a scene/support POV.
- SF is great for a scene/support POV.
- SF didn't work out for them financially but they learned a lot and a return to Canada rescued them through RIM betting heavily on the team (which had seasoned and matured by then).
- They smartly exited to better positions taking the bird in hand (Google).

This tale is a walking, talking start-up lessons learned. Be smart, know when to pivot, be committed, learn from mistakes, and never stop banging on doors because if you do all that someone will eventually let you in.
Funny to see an Opera guy suggesting a way to browse the web without using Opera :) He even says it is easier to read all the comments that way (via text using curl / wget/ grep) instead of using their browser (not that I don't agree with him).
I wouldn't say postgresql is a self inflicted problem, like eg some argue micro services are, it is rather that choosing PostgreSQL optimizes for developer experience over things like flawless HA and zero downtime upgrades. So the tradeoff is between being able to build products faster and cheaper while sacrificing some reliability.
They blackout your home games and all nationally televised games (although there may be a carrier-exclusive deal worked out here and there).

It's a shame that the NHL signed such a long deal with NBC. I know it was just a couple years ago, but everything was so different then. I hope when their next deal comes around, the NHL is the first to abandon these stupid blackout restrictions.

Besides, if you stream it live, you're still watching the commercials.
That's a wonderfull idea !
Previous: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
"It's more mature"

Usually that implies that bugs and rough patches have been ironed out. I would have to say that Delphi is far more polished than Lazarus.

Not that I'm complaining about Lazarus, it's an amazing accomplishment and I play around with it every now and then to see how far it's come.
The only thing you've done is shown your own accusations to be false (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26138152). Ta!
Cool. Now do the Japan bubble in the late 1980s.
Too bad it’s toxic, otherwise Beryllium bike frames would be amazing. Since it’s number four in the periodic table and therefore very light, it has been used to make the James Webb space telescope mirrors [1].

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/topics/technology/features/jwst_mirror....
I thought I'd look up a few more. Once again, every single person I tried yielded positive examples; no cherry-picking here at all. (The ones that took most tries were Macaulay and Chesterton.) One caveat: I only bothered with people for whom I expected there to be a reasonable amount available online for searching; if "neither" has recently become acceptable only when there are exactly two things, that wouldn't show up in what I found. (But I don't think it has.)

John Milton:

"Into this wilde Abyss, / The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave, / Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire, / But all these in thir pregnant causes mixt / Confus’dly, ..."

Daniel Defoe:

"And now I thought myself pretty well freighted, and began to think how I should get to shore with them, having neither sail, oar, or rudder, and the least capful of wind would have overset all my navigation."

William Wordsworth:

"Neither vice nor guilt, / Debasement undergone by body or mind, / Nor all the misery forced upon my sight, / Misery not lightly passed, but sometimes scanned / Most feelingly, could overthrow my trust / In what we may become"

Thomas Macaulay:

"Neither blindness, nor gout, nor age, nor penury, nor domestic afflictions, nor political disappointments, nor abuse, nor proscription, nor neglect, had power to disturb his sedate and majestic patience."

Jonathan Swift:

"I find likewise that your printer has been so careless as to confound the times, and mistake the dates, of my several voyages and returns; neither assigning the true year, nor the true month, nor day of the month"

George Bernard Shaw:

"But there are men who can neither read, write, nor cipher, to whom the answer to such sums as I can do is instantly obvious without any conscious calculation at all; and the result is infallible."

G K Chesterton:

"He takes us into the schools of inhumanist learning, where there are neither books nor flowers, nor wine nor wisdom, but only deformities in glass bottles, and where the rule is taught from the exceptions."

Since the above are all notable English (or in two cases Irish) writers, here are a few notable Americans.

Herman Melville:

"But neither great Washington, nor Napoleon, nor Nelson, will answer a single hail from below, however madly invoked to befriend by their counsels the distracted decks upon which they gaze"

H L Mencken:

"I am thus neither teacher, nor prophet, nor reformer, but merely inquirer."

Mark Twain:

"It is not pleasant to see an American thrusting his nationality forward obtrusively in a foreign land, but Oh, it is pitiable to see him making of himself a thing that is neither male nor female, neither fish, flesh, nor fowl--a poor, miserable, hermaphrodite Frenchman!"
This is why I never contributed to open-source software. I guess it's just an irrational fear of failure at the bottom of it.
BGP could stand to get a security update but as with most fundamental internet protocols it will probably never happen. Most people seem to believe this incident was accidental. More info,

http://bgpmon.net/blog/?p=282

http://www.nytimes.com/external/idg/2010/04/08/08idg-a-chine...
Isn't that how it is supposed to be, though?

I mean, apply some bayesian reasoning about the probability of someone being a terrorist _given that_ he looks like an Arab and/or is Muslim — and you won't be surprised some people are screened more thoroughly. Had the world evolved differently, they might be paying increased attention to white males with freckles and red hair.

The US for some reason likes to pretend that everyone is a terrorist with equal probability and avoids "racial profiling". This is kind of like sticking fingers in your ears and shouting loudly "can't hear you!".
What should kill Facebook is an open, distributed system. It should be more like email. That's why frid.ge stands no chance, because it is basically the same as Facebook. I have hopes for Diaspora.

Openness and profits don't have to be exclusive. Any successful email marketer probably can testify to this. And Google most definitely can.

Just for the sake of professional pride, talented developers and entrepreneurs should be able to make something that can compete with FB. I have little sympathy for top-people like the Google Maps creator joining Facebook. They should be better than that.

But who knows, maybe I'm just a liberal crackhead living in a dream-world and people really do need a walled system where they can get rid of that pesky privacy, the overwhelming choices of open systems and the boring speeches of arrogant intellectuals.

</yadayada>
I can't imagine that this is what everyone is doing, but the marginal cost of using a VPS/colocated server's idle capacity is usually $0 to the customer.
you could have a form asking for the previous password and the new password... It then checks the previous password against the salted hash and then has the information to compare changes between the old password and new password without having to store anything
Flew there with my girl friend. We were very happy to be there 2 days only after sudden invitation to see a prospect. So when we handed our passports to the interviewer to get the Israel (Holy land!) visa Stamp, we were laughing of sheer joy to be there. Interviewer glared at us and asked abruptly: "what makes you laugh?!"
You are right, this explanation of public key encryption is wrong. Maybe this stems from misunderstanding by the author, or is just the result of oversimplification.

However, that threat of Chinese authorities sniffing on SSL traffic is real. Just remember the root certificate issued by the China Internet Network Information Center that ended up in Firefox, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1244444
$363,500,000 and no finished product.

LOL, Jesus Christ if this isn't proof-positive that Modern Monetary Theory has corrupted everything I don't know what is...
What is the 'max out of pocket' on your mother's insurance plan? With many plans I've seen, once you've paid out of pocket X thousands of dollars for the year, the insurance picks up 100% of the cost, as long as you are seeking treatment at an in-network provider.
I am confident that if DNSChain is such an obviously good solution, it will be evangelized by at least one person who doesn't complain about being downvoted, or claim that people clearly don't want security.

Are you Tao Effect? I've seen you on messaging@moderncrypto, and you have trouble staying on topic. I'd have been more inclined to give you the benefit of the doubt if you were some second person in the world who thought DNSChain was a good idea, but I've only ever seen one person evangelize this concept (in email, on the website, and now in HN comments). As general advice, if you try a bit harder to respect the conventions of the fora you use to evangelize things, no matter how reasonable or unreasonable you think the conventions are, you're likely to win more hearts and minds.

And you do want to win hearts and minds, don't you? Either you want this problem to be solved (and you have the perfect solution, if only people would listen), or you don't.
+1 for the weird title
Yes I'm against mandated insurance. Some enterprising group of young people will be able to make a decent living evaluating the viability of bitcoin (and dogecoin, etc) exchanges and selling the information in a monthly email. So much win. So little compulsion.
Would be interesting to see this available for the web platform as well.
Ah I see, no worries. I assumed you were trying to compare against a production build since that's what "parcel build" does.
So San Francisco is not in the... San Francisco Bay Area?

Strong disagree with this one. It is part of the urban conurbation. Sure, it might be "different" from the rest but yes, it is part of the Bay Area. Even San Rafael and Richmond are SFBA technically if you look in the map.
Likewise. Once in a while I force myself to do backprop by hand to make sure I still understand all the concepts and can walk myself through the calculus.
You should be able to use "gvim -f" as your editor and it won't detach itself from the terminal.
I've got tons of respect for everyone on this list, but especially Chris Coyier. He taught me (and I'm assuming many others) everything I know about CSS and Wordpress.
Why should they be? They have an official support channel--they aren't obligated to have some poor "evangelist" follow up on every reference to their product on the internet.

Some companies might do this, and you might be used to getting a semi-canned response on Twitter every time you mention a company's name, but that doesn't translate into any kind of obligation on their part.
Flip side: Y2K was a Maserati problem in 1990.
>Someone besides me has fantasized about bringing modern tech to the past.

Many, many, many times over the decades. Anybody remember Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court". Or more recent movies like the one around 1980 about the USS Nimitz going back in time and keeping Pearl Harbor from being totally destroyed.
Worth watching; nice pick.

Important note: the timing between each milestone will vary among businesses and even among founders in and among those businesses. In my experience, founders with "Let's Change The World" ideas -- as opposed to, say, "Let's Make A Facebook for Kids" ideas -- tend to spend most of their time in between Informed Pessimism and Hopeful Realization.

In other words, the more revolutionary your goal, the more time you'll spend trying to reconcile whether that goal is indeed worth reaching. And that's before you even begin to assess whether your way of reaching that goal is indeed the best way to do so.
If you think your product has potential even with your misgivings about the site design, go ahead and launch. Release early and often, as they say.

As long as your design isn't dead-awful, such that it makes users feel your product is untrustworthy or poor, release now and iterate. You might want to consider getting feedback, either from posting it here as an Ask HN post, or by asking your friends/family/strangers. See what they think, then make an informed decision.

The perfect is the enemy of good. So is the bad.
For formal occasions, wear your Starfleet Dress Uniform.
Exactly this. Prosecutorial discretion, and discretion on which laws to use to charge people, are ways how these corrupt ways work in the US.
Interesting. But looks like a software[1] and not a service[2]. Do Yandex plans to launch a public service on Cocaine?

[1] - https://github.com/cocaine/
[2] - http://api.yandex.ru/cocaine/
`<script src="foo" />` only works the way you’d expect it to in XHTML. Proper XHTML, that is — served with the correct `Content-Type` header. http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/xhtml5
I did a GPU version in 2012 for my course project. For small size sprite, it runs roughly the same or even slower than the original paper. Anyone interested in finishing this and maybe try this on realtime emulator? http://yzhwang.github.io/depixelization/
While it is disappointing if it doesn't have a single setup experience, they should at least try to locate & use an existing install without the user having to specify a path on disk or an env-var for example. Two installs but no gluing is at least acceptable.
I'm a fan of both Rust the language and Rust the game and didn't even think of them when I saw the name.
If you want to complain about unfairness of the market, at least argue for more equality, not more inequality. My heart won't bleed for you - if you want to be selfish, just be; don't cry to me for help.

I don't find the moral argument for pay per productivity very convincing. Being smart is like winning a lottery; you are lucky enough already to be born that way. I think (useful) effort is what should be rewarded, not productivity.
I don't look at the statement and think of all the loopholes, no.

If they're asking for this, it's clearly because they're committed to Python and they want a developer equally fanatical about Python. I doubt this is the only condition for getting the job, experience will account for something.

In answer to "who this will appeal to", many people love Python, know Python and would like to use Python more. Sticking this in your advert clearly marks this as a company who you will align well with.
a lot of people get this wrong, and a lot of people aren't from the US, so for anyone that doesn't know, the dollar sign goes before the number, if you care about correctness.

you say it after, but when written, it goes before.