jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
i think maybe because it doesnt target developers - it can often replace them, or at least primarily interface with crappy legacy systems that developers are completely uninterested in. but yeah i'd expect more discussion for how unique a story this is, esp with the Europe angle.
I like pencil and paper. Colored pencils are plentiful, and paper is easier to image and share than a whiteboard. You can write smaller on paper and don't get gorrila arms.
Sounds like a market begging for more competition.
Italian here too. I had the luck to be have our holidays in a place that had near to no attraction for a 10 yo and had a ridiculously small bookshop that had one or more comics total. One of those was Alan Ford, and I fell in love with it. It’s a forgotten gem of Italian culture imho
Presumably the agnostic is then worshipping Christianity, Islam and Judaism, as well as the entire Hindu pantheon, various African gods, the Rainbow Serpent...

Claims for the defense of agnosticism always seem to be bizarrely certain about which god they can't be sure doesn't exist.
Whatever happened to Power Builder?
Shady alert: I just clicked on one of the testimonials ("Jason S Co") and it seems apparent that it is an employee of Comma, all retweets of comma's main twitter account.
You go to war with the army you have.
> Or is it the specific Apple customizations tailored to their use case?

Apple's use case is "run applications". It's not like there's any magic or they have some sort of ultra specific workload they improved by 10x while the rest sat there.

Apple's customisations are largely "throw hardware at the problem", which I'm reasonably sure Intel would do if that worked for x86. So sounds like something you can do with ARM, which you can't with x86.

The more magical customisations are workload specific, but then they would only trigger for these workloads, both of which are pretty much opt-in: running emulated x64 code on ARM, and performing matrix computations (which AFAIK will only be used through the Accelerate framework).
>Apple's incentives appear aligned with their customers

Not in China:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/03/apple-privacy...
What that article is describing is just that the Facebook Graph API existed, which always required user consent.
You don't have to predict. Requests just fall into two categories:

1) Nothing bad can happen if we show some optimistic result before server returns, but server side will end up in different result.

2) Something bad can happen.
Accordingly, for (1) we can do optimistic update, for (2) can't
Copy: https://archive.fo/aTij0
over DRY code is the bane of my existence
Or perhaps one day you'll need to read this one :)

If I meet another date format I convert it to this one when possible.

For instance I setup this date format for MacOS in Settings->Language & Region->Advanced->Dates: this way:

Short: y-MM-dd

Medium: y-MM-dd

Long: y-MM-dd_HH-mm-ss

Full: EEEE,y-MM-dd_HH-mm-ss

You just put those strings there and it should work.

In terminal you can do it too:

date "+%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S_"

or

datetime=$(date "+%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S_")
> What the hell? You lost my interest at ruby and the command line.

I install all my dev stuff with the command line (npm, gem, easy_python etc). What's wrong with that?
30,000 children die in africa each day from easily preventable causes. That is the ultimate calamity. There is no point in feeling guilty over things you have no control over there is simply too much suffering in the world - most of which you know nothing about. You should give back, but don't make yourself miserable over not feeling like you are doing enough. You simply will never be able to do enough - just give back as much as you want.
Yeah, The name makes it fell kinda like those "php on tracks" rails spin-offs.

But it's definitely on my list of nice things to try.
> Really? Gawker has not had web analytics for the last two months, after a major redesign? That is hard to believe.

That also struck me as highly doubtful. Many people here work on big web apps; the idea that something as critical as analytics could be broken for two months is ludicrous. My manager would be having some sort of embolism if it was down for two days. After 2 weeks, I'd probably be fired. After another two weeks he'd probably be fired!

Analytics are the bread and butter of large web sites. If they go down, you basically stop doing business. It's inconceivable. Denton has the motivation to lie, so it's pretty clear that's what this claim is.
Good idea I'd probably use it.
My 2 cents...

Group text via SMS is a PITA. The main reason why I use WhatsApp for certain messaging tasks.

Having Wifi but no phone signal - WhatsApp gets used again.

WhatsApp also lets you see when a message has been received and also when it has been read. Spooky, but useful.
Using react-async allowed me to make an aysnc request to an API before initializing the component and setting initial state. The library also enables the client to bootstrap / hydrate initial state generated on the server.

I am currently working on a new project utilizing different modules (alt instead of reflux and react-router instead of react-router-component) which does not utilize react-async.
It varies. I'd be lying if I said mood wasn't involved. But I ask questions like:

1. How responsive are the startup founders when I e-mail
them about problems?

2. How portable is the work I'm going to put into the
site? Data portability is actually probably my number
1 concern.

3. Does the service give me value that I couldn't
create with my own server after an hour of coding?
(Why would I sign up for yet another contacts service
when I can host my own LDAP server for free?)

4. Is there a vibrant community supporting the startup
from the get to?

At least these are the first that come to mind.
> The linked story is interesting...but unfortunately...Nazis.

I live within spitting distance of the German border. In the local stores here the Germans can be picked out easily: they're hands down more polite and well mannered than the locals.

Shall we try to limit the damage done to the German image to that generation that was part of the Nazi era, not those that came into being after it and certainly not those that lived before?

To your other point, that stuff in the USA is playing out today, not almost 70 years ago.
I've seen it for the first time.

But it didn't seem too obscure to me. Deferring execution is a known technique, so I would have probably guessed it right or switched it up with async.
Yeah, I'm very curious about the degradation behaviour, especially abrasion.
My friend lived until recently in Washington DC. She said she loved using Uber in Washington because taxis often didn't stop for her. Uber drivers don't seem to decline to pick her up, due to her skin tone. Or perhaps are not able to tell in advance.

Finally, this adult woman could easily get a ride at night.
What is your source on that?

"Non-stick cookware is not a significant source of exposure." is what cancer.org [0] has to say about Telon and PFOA.

[0] http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/othercarcinogens/a...
So you open every single link? I read the headlines, open the ones I want to read and then pressing the "mark all as read" was a total blessing because next time I open the page I only look at the "non grey" links.

I guess I could just open all the links but it doesn't seem ideal.
There can be overlap! I work with nerds and tend to befriend nerds (though certainly not exclusively), so it's no surprise that sometimes the spheres overlap.
When I said internal matters, I did not have any specific information in mind, just internal company matters.

If engineer #34529, profiled liked to SpaceY says on Twitter that his group has lots of overtime. He could be fired in a case B situation. And yes, information like that could be coupled with other information to figure out what projects the company is working on.

It is my belief that confidentiality agreements and NDAs, along with non-compete clauses are overbroad and expand beyond what companies are allowed to ask of their employees.
> Hopefully, that would bring offshore profits back and increase hiring, r&d spend, capex, etc etc positive feedback loop etc.

What if they don't? We will accelerate inequality further. Then, spend another decades to get "correct it" unsuccessfully.
> and much of the software you will no doubt use to create your premium software was made with this philosophy.

Even the FSF considers selling software a good thing [1]

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
Eh:

> Tesla's cumulative production of the Roadster reached 1,000 cars in January 2010

So about the same time as the Nissan Leaf, a rather more masses-friendly car...
Avast itself recently became malware and got its extensions pulled. Another reason for architectural security is that every third party program capable of updating itself has one unfixable vulnerability: the almighty dollar. A company gets bought out or an individual gets bribed and suddenly a stranger's in your house.
This is certainly wildly untrue for many sorts of trauma. What doesn't kill you can leave you less capable, weaker, more vulnerable, etc...

You might have to be resilient to deal with the trauma without collapsing, and then find that you still have to be resilient to deal with your new, permanently changed life after the fact too.
How do you connect with others there?
GitHub for me is running out of excuses for why the fundamentals of their platform is so poor. And why compared to Gitlab they deliver improvements at such an anaemic pace. They act like a company with 15 employees let alone 1,500+.

Everything from Security, Actions, Containers, Packages, Terraform, JIRA Integration etc is either completely broken or has major outstanding issues that haven't been fixed for years.
It is right and proper to doubt the results as published in that new book.

It's the tone though that surprises me on what I expect is a more technically oriented site. I'm now half expecting an accusation that Renaissance uses witchcraft, or alien technology from the History Channel.
I don't understand, doesn't this only apply to DRM content? How does this enable remote control of your browser?
How often does it matter? For that matter, Java's not necessarily the first thing anyone reaches for when they have to push a piece of hardware to its limits.
maybe ask the question there
I've been using it to monitor my personal VPS and availability from my home internet connection.

The integration with github with the hooks are nice.
I think it's worth remembering that this is one guy who started with his bingo cards, was pinching himself through the small-scale success of that as a side-earner, spoke honestly of it on HN to an audience appreciative of anyone sharing figures and experiences so openly regardless of their scale. Consider too how many here would be keen for any earning side project at all.

From the cultish following that developed (in the absence of many alternatives), he picked up some consulting work and commenced further pinching and explaining of his efforts.

Then, from that consulting to more self-pinching following some success with winning enterprise clients. And again, sharing what he personally learnt.

Yes, the jump from "guys, consulting is awesome!" to "no wait, consulting has its issues, wait until I tell you about enterprise sales!" was bemusing to me, but it's a discovery anyone following along saw happen to a real-world person. Some of the writing style (NDA, etc) can be dorky/annoying, but if you remember that this is a kid in a candy shop documenting the wonders of their personal experience, maybe that will help you appreciate it.

This isn't his business theory but a series of relatable experiences enough people value to upvote any time he shares more.
I can think of one thing, and no one will swallow it in our society: The engineers who work on nuclear plants must pledge their lives for its safety, and ritually kill themselves in the event of an incident.

I'm perfectly serious, in that it's within the human experience and it would work. I also suspect our world society can't wrap its head around that kind of medieval pact, and I'm not even sure I want to live in that world.

Still, knowing you have to hang yourself if the plant goes critical is pretty good motivation to do things right and not cut corners.

EDIT: well, this is getting misunderstood. My point here is: would you accept a lesser guarantee of safety? If you really believe that nuclear power can be made safe, these hypothetical engineers aren't at risk.

Let's say I took a pledge to kill myself if a meteor ever knocks the flame off the Statue of Liberty. Would any of you worry about me? No?

Maybe we shouldn't build nuke plants at the moment, then.
"It's just too bad that prison is where he has to go to get help."

Why do you say that? Before now, he[she] lived a life, with plenty of opportunities to get help, or help him[her]self.
Constant speed is irrelevant in space-time calculations.
I find it interesting that he thinks anonymous taxi travelling is important and that sexual services should be legal.
I found Compressor Head quite enjoyable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb7rzMxHyOk&list=PLOU2XLYxms...
We haven't even ruled out life on the closest planet to us yet. (Or Mars.)
wow, this is crazy. I would never have imagined this level of a shitshow when you said "annoying"...

But what to do with such a person if you can't/won't ban them from posting? Delete his comments? Don't engage until he tires himself out?
Benefits include being able to demand better working conditions such as reduced work quotas, increased time for bathroom breaks, better pay, and more sick time and/or better shift scheduling. Union work in the US tends to pay a lot more because they have negotiating power. Amazon can afford anything but squeezes their workforce constantly.
I configured my terminal to copy on mouse release. This allowed to keep Ctrl-C for killing processes while I use Ctrl-V to paste with Ctrl—Shift-V configured to send the original Ctrl-V.
What about a system that shows actions in a GUI as a list of equivalent plain text commands. New users would have the discoverability of a GUI while being able to see what goes on command-wise. With time they would be able to convert to plain-text commands and scripting for increased efficency.
Profitability in private railways is everywhere - it just isn't with large "public service" passenger railways.

Freight railroading is where the money is at and that is why every single majorly successful railway company focuses on just that.
It's still down for many people... Reddit came up, but that's not everyone. Assembla the SVN/Ticketing system is still down.
As one of the pro-economics faction, I'm a strong proponent of offshoring and immigration.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9246255 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9126011 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8884775
Leave. Treat them as they treat you, promise you will find someone to replace you and then don't and leave. And don't tell them anything util you are ready to do the move.
If one were alive today, I am sure a buggy whip manufacturing apprentice could provide the same type of nostalgic reminiscence: the smell of the leather, the suppleness of the whip, the acrid taste of the dyes. And comparisons how that new car smell is not as satisfying.
The link works for me in Australia but the sidebar is positioned over the content.
http://lifehacker.com/5299994/rain-gutters-as-cable-manageme... is a working link which seems to redirect properly.
How do you physically get a hold of your servers if the gas main under them blows up or a tornado sucks them up and drops them a hundred miles away?

Servers are not physical things that you can just go get when there are problems. They are imaginary devices that can suddenly vaporize, leaving no trace. Plan your deployment accordingly, and you won't need to be writing emails saying that people are dying because your data center blew up. Your systems will silently switch over to some other data center and you'll file a claim with your insurance company to have the servers replaced on Monday morning.

In other words, "the cloud" had nothing to do with this problem. It could happen if the server was physically attached to you or in a abandoned missle silo with an army of armed guards.
Why you shouldn't use talloc for your next C project:

GPL v3.
> things like samples are all in proprietary formats

This is not exactly true. There do exist free samples in open formats, for instance the Freepats project:

http://freepats.zenvoid.org/
This is a combination of posters not understanding what the technology is used for and the tech guy exaggerating the urgency of the situation.

Remote cardiac monitoring isn't for people who are imminently going to die of catastrophic heart attacks or who risk dropping into a fatal arrhythmia (wonky heart rhythm). In fact, there isn't even solid evidence that it saves lives. What it is used for is investigating patients who have vague symptoms which might be related to transient changes in their heart beat.

These are people who come to their doctor at the age of 54 and say "I felt my heart beating really quickly and felt kind of faint" or "I felt kind of dizzy and then passed out. It's happened twice in the last month." The more traditional way to investigate these patients are with what's called a Holter monitor, as alluded to by a previous poster. These are little belt packs you carry around while wired-up and that record your ECG for 24-48 hours at a time. The main weakness? You said it: the device only has a 24-48 hour windows to capture the weird, often rare, rhythm.

There are different ways remote cardiac monitoring systems report their results and I'm not sure which this particular company was using, but it doesn't really matter. Some of them only report weird stretches, others only report events when the patient says they're feeling symptom X, others are reporting continuously.

Take-home message: this is not life-or-death data. When doctors (at least those who are allowed to keep practicing) think a patient needs critical cardiac monitoring, they admit them to hospital.

This was a tech guy, looking to jump the queue by trying to raise a red flag because his servers were being used for--OMFG!--cardiac monitoring. A lot of my doctor buddies use similar strategies when they're caught speeding by the police. "I just got called in to the hospital!"

…to see a patient with a really nasty rash.
If the spokesperson for the Vegetarian Society was trying to persuade others to become vegetarian by branding all farmers "murderers" and engaging in ridiculous rhetoric, I think other vegetarians might be concerned that their message wasn't being conveyed appropriately and was alienating them from the mainstream, thereby resulting in fewer vegetarians.
Why does a cracker use a Hotmail account?
Because US Citizens intentionally have more rights then non citizens (says a non citizen living in the US)
I think that the mindset of Zuckerberg or the next Zuckerberg will be the one of a hacker. Making him/her in fact a hacker.

What I'm trying to say is: Designers are hackers not in the software engineering point of view but in the problem solvers one.

In my opinion he was successful early on not because of his exceptional programming skills (although nobody said Facebook is the easiest thing to develop), but because his "Product Designer" skills.
I've heard the term "peter-pan generation" be applied to this characteristic.
You can use the link and see if it is a mobile or cellular connection.

https://www.ipaddress.my/<ip>
In my opinion, medical cannabis was just an excuse to decriminalise cannabis. Maybe it helps with very specific conditions better than alternative drugs, but certainly not for all the ailments it's supposed to cure.

Now it's actually getting legalised, all the "medical" thing makes even less sense anymore. It needs to be rethought from the start.

What I think is sad with all this is that we don't have a meaningful and intelligent debate about the place of recreational drugs in society, and why they should be legalised (or not). Instead of that, we hear hypocritical arguments about cannabis being a "medicine" that can benefit to pretty much anyone. That, or the other camp telling us that users will end up with schizophrenia or other chronic impairments.

There should be some middle ground where people are rightly informed about the pros and cons of taking such drugs...
I was a talk by Stephen Wolfram at MIT in fall of 2010 about Wolfram Alpha. Never spoke to him personally. When Wolfram answered questions he was always direct and gave grounded answers -- not dreams.

More than once he had to remind people that a lot of the shortcomings they point out are not trivial. It's easy to see how someone could interpet him as egotistical for this. But Wolfram seemed much more focused on building a product now and making it better as you learn from customers.

Wolfram is not trying to make everyone happy. It seemed like is he is trying to build something he loves doing and see if others find it useful.
'Gnome Do' is a great alternative for 'Alfred'.
Here's a ballpark:

http://ask.metafilter.com/73789/Cost-of-printing-national-ne...

And that's just printing, not counting the physical paper design folk, who also cost money and who actually are needed to design each individual issue (as opposed to website developers, who I maintain are not needed constantly to update a site whose primary product is not software).
Is there a "Why Haskell?" post somewhere out there? I am just curious about what Haskell brings to the table, what it is good at, and does it have a niche. Is Haskell trying to break its bonds in the niche to get to the wider world in general? All sorts of questions like that.
It continues to amaze me how easily and nonchalantly terms like "near-field communications", "enhanced image technology" and the like are accepted by the general public without raising concern or question as to their intent or necessity.

We live in a world where technology has provided us with amazing advancements and benefits, but it continually butts up against the privacy that we are supposedly guaranteed as citizens of the US (yes, I am only talking about America here since I'm not familiar w/ the laws 'n liberties of other countries). Privacy is a pluralistic concept that must be practiced on a daily basis if it is to survive amongst the constant barrage of "features" being sold to us. I want someone to be able to read the RFID software running on my Droid without my explicit consent no more than I want them to take naked pictures of me when I have shown no possible indication that I have an intent on hurting others.

Sure, turn your wifi/APN/Bluetooth/GPS off and only turn them on when you want to use them (ignoring the battery issues), but this treats our right to privacy as the alternate option, not the default one. I shouldn't have to be forced on a daily basis to constantly defend my default option of privacy, but I am. Do I use credit cards and have GPS turned on? Sure. Does that make me a hypocrite?

Absolutely not.

It's my right to choose when and how I allow someone into 'my world' and every time that choice is either not provided or taken away from me by default, the balance between privacy, publicity, and secrecy is thrown.
> What's more, if it is known that no liquids can be taken through security then the bad guys won't even bother to take liquid precursors to explosives through security.

So the bad guys will just find another way to get their precursors through security. TSA's focus on things just forces the bad guys to adapt; instead, it should focus on the bad guys themselves.

> This begs a number of questions

No, it doesn't. It may raise a number of questions, but that's very different than "begging the question", which is a philosophical term for a circular argument. Please stop misusing this phrase and contributing to the general decline in modern English usage.