jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Developing on Windows was excellent. Microsoft provides great tools and support; it was incredibly productive.

I don't know about that. I've made several good faith efforts to really see what people like about the Windows development ecosystem, and I consistently come away dismayed. "Great tools and support" could never be used to describe msbuild, for example. Or any of the MSDN documentation with incredible antipattern code that people like to blithely copy and paste into their programs. Visual Studio is slow, brittle, and makes it difficult to do version control right.

I could list examples for days but that's not the point. Nowhere is perfect, but there's no way anyone could consider Microsoft a clear leader here.
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Unadopted?
Wordpress, Typepad, Tumblr, Posterous, Gowalla, Feedburner, Google Buzz, Blogger, Picasa, Youtube, HuffPost, Gawker Media, Status.net, Cliqset... and many many more publish PubSubHubbub feeds!
Again, it's a protocol not a license. Gnip won't solve this problem (of rebroadcasting) any better than PuSH.

On the other hand, PuSH seems relatively unadopted. I was working over the summer for a company evaluating PuSH and was writing my own Java Hub implementation since the only available reference impl requires GAE which isn't feasible for the data we were working with.
That's plain old Georgia, although slightly off black for the print looking (something like #222200)
Then flag it.
That's ok, I asked for the details. This is an interesting topic (especially to me, as I'm working on my own site which will have user created content). But this isn't the place for a discussion about it.

Thanks for your point of view though, I'll definitely keep take what you said into account.
Now if only someone could write a paper defining the math behind the happiness we get from drinking it!
This talk can't be watched enough. I introduced it to a number of my past professors who are still using it in their undergrad and grad classes.
He is wrong about the accuracy of speech recognition. I know he is wrong because I have actually used Speech Recognition to get real work done.

As have I. The dictation capability built in to Vista / Windows 7 is really quite amazing. (They both also have voice control.)

I'm an extremely fast typer, but dictating - even with time spent correcting mistakes - is quite a bit faster.
Why is this a surprise to anyone? And Nginx to memcache will be even faster... and serving static content even faster...

You're adding a tremendous amount of overhead with any high level language stuck in between the connect and the data source.

This is about as basic as it gets, not worthy of #1 item on hacker news.
Dunning wondered whether it was possible to measure one’s self-assessed level of competence against something a little more objective — say, actual competence.

A much more interesting question, one for my next blog entry, is the opposite: in a complex world of millions of different specialties about which much is known at great depth, might it be impossible for anybody to know when one is exceeding one's competence? Might this, instead of being a humorous story about bank-robbers or a story about "others", be a story about the entire population of the planet?

The easy question is: given a specific field, how do we help people self-rate? But it's not a very practical question, because in the real world it's never just one vertical field to rate inside of. The tougher question is the matrixed-skills one. The brain surgeon who speaks about car maintenance as an expert although he is completely wrong, the psychologist that waxes on about social ills as an expert although he is completely off-base, the college professor in mathematics that forays into economics with nothing more than a lunch pail and a bologna sandwich. This is the really the more interesting (and important) scenario. (The hacker that ventures into cognitive psychology. Yes, I get the irony.)

Note that I picked skills that were far apart from each other: brain surgery and automotive repair, for instance. These are the easy cases. The crazy hard ones are where the skillsets are very close to each other. Not sure that outsiders could spot that happening.
The wonderful and terrifying implications of computers that can learn

https://www.ted.com/talks/jeremy_howard_the_wonderful_and_te...
Heck, any Heinlein fan could've told you this would work. In the "Future History" series (specifically, Methuselah's Children ), we learn that the first effective rejuvenation technique was to transfuse in younger blood. It didn't become practical, however, until they developed a way of growing new blood in vitro. I imagine that's the next thing scientists will be working on...if successful, we'll get rejuvenation quite a bit earlier than Heinlein's timeline predicted it.
> The ecosystem supports growth, but not hypergrowth. Companies like BaseCRM do well starting there, but move to Silicon Valley when it's time to explode.

You could probably rewrite that as "not Silicon Valley". Or is there some other location you have in mind that could also support "hypergrowth"?
Hummm,

Could you be more specific? I know pretty much everything there is to know on extensions (or I'd like to think I do...), but there's so much to them!

What're your goals with them? What do they do?
I love that story. His friendship with Siri is more genuine than the relationship offered by this service - if one-sided.
If Best Buy were to replace their markup with that agreement and offer labels the option of working with that or not, I wouldn't see a problem. It offers the supplier the option to walk away and do business with someone else.

Unlike Best Buy, YouTube can only guess at who the creator is. Best Buy has the luxury of a known supply chain.
> (ask Groupon how that worked out for them).

They're a $5B company four years after their IPO and are selling ~$2.5B annually.. not the failure that people keep representing.
It's PHP. Fingers in the dike.

But don't take my word for it... http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php

At least 90% of releases have a bugfix with an associated CVE vulnerability.
This is great, but it's disappointing that JCommanderScript BaseScript didn't make it into 2.4! Given I use Groovy for scripting, not having a built-in first-class support for something like JCommander is a big turnoff especially when JCommander is used internally and is included in Groovy already. The CliBuilder works only for basic stuff.
We've had a lot of success with osTicket: http://osticket.com/

While it doesn't have markdown or code support natively (that I'm aware of), it's open source so it'd be very easy to implement it yourself.
Hooooly cow. Surprising that comes from a guy who claims to hate second system syndrome so much.
While geting tenure at harvard is indeed no small feat, I doubt teaching has much to do with it. Teaching sadly plays little role in getting tenure, especially for prestigious institutions. Grants and papers are the most significant points.
I've been reading a great book called "The Gift" by Lewis Hyde about just this difference in feeling. Like you seemed to intuit, giving is very different from trading.

Beautiful OP as well.
You can be friendly to people in Germany, but most people are rather more introverted than in America. So the common case of somebody being overly outgoing is the salesman. That tends to colour impressions.
As you appeal to Programmers: do you believe quicksort is a general sorting algorithm?

Would it still be a general sorting algorithm if someone had just developed it and used it solely to sort numbers between 1 and 100?

It would be.

Why do you think you need to a general environment to develop a general algorithm?

No one is arguing human rationality is unbounded. But our intelligence generalizes, in a practical sense, to a great many more tasks than any computer algorithm I'm aware of.

Mainstream psychologists believe in general intelligence. They even attempt to measure components of it, with good prediction of performance on unseen tasks.

I think there's a big burden if you want to argue it doesn't exist.
Incidentally, aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu became a Tier 1 supported platform in Rust recently, in part because of the support of ARM themselves.

(My day job involves a lot of Tier 2 ARM work, and I don't personally run into any more bugs than Tier 1 platforms. YMMV.)
Can you elaborate on the link between anxiety and motivation? I can relate.
Any individual part is peanuts compared to overall mission cost. Anyway, it’s a great PR stunt for QCOM. It’s not that big secret, that cubesats successfully use automotive grade off shelf parts.
Why not short them then?
It turns out the true innovation wasn't faster horses at all: it was horses that work as independent contractors and aren't subject to payroll taxes.
They're not fighting against it at all.

That's a load of horseshit and anyone familiar with both PC gaming and cryptocurrency mining knows it.

Why would you divert chips that could be powering GeForce GPUs into mining cards and then also disabling the ability to mine on your gaming cards?

Unless, of course, you were scared shitless about an enormous secondary market forming for 3000 series cards when you release the GTX 4000 series... Why spend $699 for a GTX 4080 when you can buy a gently used GTX 3080 for $299-$399. Decent miners know you need to undervolt and underclock for maximum watt/hash performance - in other words, these chips weren't stressed intensively for months / years - they are the equivalent of a luxury car driven by a 70 year old Grandma to and from the grocery store and the department store.

I can guarantee you if NVIDIA had the capacity with Samsung to pump out a load of 3000 series cards, they'd do it, but they can't, so they're doing the next best thing - creating artificial scarcity.

Once these "mining cards" are no longer profitable, they have no secondary market. They go off to the landfill, or the e-waste processor.

This is about profit, pure and simple.
It's a "cancer" in the sense that it spreads everywhere and people use C software even in environments where it was never intended to work, and get hurt by it.
Yes, Because it generates and unecrypted wifi with the same SSID as your access point. If you connect to that, it will server you the site and you enter your "password" wich is actually your WPA/WP2 Pre Shared Key.

If you want to be save against this special kind of attack, you could use a RADIUS-based authentification, where every user gets a certificate and Username/Password instead of one general shared key.

It is a little tricky, but if you are running a NAS from a vendor like synology or qnap you could use their RADIUS packages to set it up.
Hmm, in Germany a lot of products in most stores is tagged with a special capsule, if the product is stolen, as soon as it leaves the store, the capsule explodes and releases a 100ml of extremely bright red ink, which stains and can’t be gotten off anymore (literally, it will stay on your skin for a month or so). Also this marks the article as stolen, so no one will buy the red-stained product from anyone.
http://www.businessinsider.com/snapchat-ceo-evan-spiegels-em...

It was submitted on HN couple of weeks ago, here is the discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8764135
All I wanted to do was play shopkeeper. A kid of 8, I was a happy tester for the inventory control software my dad wrote in the 1990s. I bought items and sold them. I had brand-name goods in my inventory master, with MRPs and re-order levels. Virtual lemonade stand. I still find that idea fun.
I don't care one bit for what got her in jail or how terrible a person you think she is. What matters is that she went there and that either what's in those cartoons is a credible representation of what being in jail in America as a woman is like. If it is then those images should be reason for wholesale reform.

Even if she was a murderer it would still be reason to go and make some drastic changes.

Even if they're inmates, they are still people and with the number of people in American jails running in the millions and taking into account that the men probably won't have it any better it's a thing to be very much ashamed of.

Whatever she did has nothing to bear on the information in the article, it's either true or it isn't.
If I don't listen those who provide the service, am I going to listen to you? If Apple cannot give me a good solution, why would I buy its product? I know you are good at backing up your files and reinstalling, but I don't want this stuff bother me every release like this. I am just not that free, dude.
"What, exactly, is it about JavaScript that makes it particularly appropriate for this paradigm?"

Devs with experience writing interactions with the DOM had already convinced themselves that callbacks nested ten deep was a totes OK way to write code, "releasing Zalgo" and all.
You still don't get it. Whatever you're going on about is only "obvious" to you. "Cultural norms" are your judgements and your biases. There is no mandate to "suffer" from a "lack of nutrition," millions and millions of people are vegetarian and just fine. I'm one of them. My CBC and vitamin panel came back as 100% normal.

Meat agriculture is killing us slowly like cigarettes and cancer, and kills us quickly.

1918 most likely zoonotic route:

Birds -> pigs (at a "piggery") -> humans.

2019 SARS-CoV-2 most likely zoonotic route:

Bats -("wet market")> humans.

You seem to emphasize edge-case FUD and "other" people who don't agree with your value judgements rather than opening your eyes to meat agriculture as a slow-moving existential threat to our survival like and causing climate change.

It's very unfortunate that you're so narrow-minded.
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Google's "Mesh" Network Failing
http://www.sdtimes.com/blog/post/2009/01/08/Googles-Mesh-Network-Failing.aspx
It would seem that Google's plans to make its own router are coming thanks to an ever more fragile existing setup.
Ready-2-Go Dedicated Short Code
http://www.wire2air.com/ready-2-go_dedicated_shortcode.asp
Wire2Air is offering Ready-2-Go Dedicated short codes for customers who are looking to run campaigns for either short term or long term. Wire2Air business development told us that getting a dedicated short code takes 10-12 weeks. Now, with this service client can launch their campaign instantly and without wasting any time.
Acompli is hiring
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We are looking for iOS developers. Email jen@acompli.com if you are interested.

Here are some recent articles on our founders, the company & cool pics of our current office:

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http://gigaom.com/2013/06/19/in-new-startup-javier-soltero-aims-to-sell-enterprise-software-with-end-users-in-mind/

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so much of the experience we record through pictures, videos, audio, etc. are lost in private silos such as private streams to facebook friends. But many of those things are relavent to everyone in the world. For example, if I take a video of the pyrymid and upload to facebook, my friends will see it but soon it will be buried under tons of new posts and lost even though this video is relavent for everyone in the world to see. We are builing an app that allow you to take videos, audio, picture, comments and seamlessly and easily upload to a public map so that everyone in the world can see them. There are services such as google panoramio but it only does pictures and no mobile app for easy upload. Instagram has a way to upload to only a private map. No one is doing it right. We are creating the alpha version of this app and here is a demo scribbleeverywhere.com any suggestions, feedbacks, comments are greatly appreciated!
Ask HN: Please help me shape the launch of my project
Dear HN,

I need your help.

I've been working on creating an athletic apparel brand this whole year. Most of my time was spent behind product development and after finishing a close-to-final prototype, I started planning a kick-starter campaign to raise funding for the first production.

Problem is, the video we made for the campaign did not turn out great. After receiving initial feedback on the video, I have concluded that it is not good enough - it doesn't do justice to the product. So, despite having very little runway (I quit my job 2 months ago with 2 months of runway to pursue this venture), I have decided to make a brand new video.

I need your help in shaping the story of the new one.

If I could get some feedback on what works for you in the existing video and what doesn't, it would vastly help me determine the focus of the new one. To express my gratitude for your time, I'll give you a lifetime discount when the brand is launched. Just send me an email and tell me you're from the HN community (email in profile). ANY feedback is welcome and appreciated. Thanks so much!

existing video: http://preview.yathletics.com

previous HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6213871
Deciding when to abandon an ecommerce platform
We've been using the osCommerce platform (ms2.2) since 2005 and have done quite well in adapting it to do what we want. We're now processing a decent volume of orders with it and quite frankly the system is becoming a bit of a mess in terms of code and extensibility. We've done a tremendous amount of custom coding/theming and now we're starting to run across some difficult architectural issues such as the ability to properly build a kit/component item so our inventory isn't a total disaster.

I've thought several times about migrating to plaltforms like Magento but have been turned off by the complexity of the system and obvious performance issues out of the box. Well, that and we have around 10,000 items which are customizable so we're likely not talking about an easy migration.

Looking at the pro's and con's basically gets me this: a clean platform we can properly extend. I could probably save over $100k the first year in alone in providing more accurate shipping costs to customers. Inventory will be more accurate with kitting/components. I'm having some 3rd party integration issues with PayPal/Google checkout that could be fixed out-of-the-box with Magento. Magento has some other features which we don't currently have that might help a bit as well. That and the future of ecommerce most certainly won't revolve around platforms like osCommerce. We could use the Magento platform and leverage proper plugins just as we did as a startup with osCommerce and the community contributions.

So how do you make the decision? When is it time to ditch the old platform for the new?
ICandy – 20 Appsolutely Must Have iPad Apps for Design Enthusiasts
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I know, you already saw all of them on Mashable & Techcrunch, right? No you didn’t! Those techfarts didn’t search for anything relevant, they just copy-pasted some emails. SO, we – the only iPhone + iPad design heroes on the planet – made a real research and found 20 amazing apps you should definitely own the next second you put your hands on an iPad. Some of them are uber-useful for designers & co, while the others are just pure iCandy. Enjoy!
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Anchorium 1.0 introduced for OS X
https://www.sitepenalise.fr/free-mac-seo-software-anchorium/
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Many website owners are mystified by how search engines works, why their own sites do not show up on any search results and what they should do about it. The app Anchorium demystifies the world of search engine optimization, commonly known as SEO. It clearly shows people the importance of website links and their relationship to their own websites The key in strengthening the position of websites is understanding how search engine bots analyzes and penalizes websites, and Anchorium shows users this information in easy-to-understand terms.

How Does Anchorium Work and Who Should Use it?
Like many of the search engine bots, Anchorium looks at and analyzes inbound linking on websites. However, engines like Google and Yahoo do not reveal their findings. This means that Anchorium will help website owners understand how the web pages are linked together, which is important in how Google determines how much power and exposure a website receives. As most people with websites know, If a site is findable their website will receive more traffic and, in turn, that will translate in increased sales, profit, customers, etc.

Anchorium aims to help anyone with a website be searched and be found. Not only does it explain in plain English what is happening within the infrastructure of websites and offers suggestions for improvement, but also, Anchorium is entirely free-of-charge. There are not even any in-app purchases.

System Requirements:
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* 64-bit processor
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Pricing and Availability:
Anchorium 1.0 is Free and available worldwide through the Mac App Store in the Business category.
Show HN: Generate commit messages using AI
https://www.splitjoin.com/
Hey everyone! I've just launched my latest project SplitJoin today.

TLDR: SplitJoin helps you generate commit messages from source code using AI.

Writing commit messages isn't the hardest problem to solve but I tend to write less informative messages over time (see xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1296). Using an assistant helps me stay disciplined and be a better communicator. My goal for the project is to complement copilot/etc on non-coding related tasks.

I'd love to hear what people think about it and please share any feedback you have.