jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't think so, Most Chinese developers love github not only because of infrastructure, but also the wealth of content. There's no substitute.
I mounted an LCD above my bed so I can lay flat - no back pains. With a wireless mouse & keyboard on the lap I can touch type on.

...razor straight elbows aren't good either though, which eventually puts a crimp in that pose. Good for short runs of coding though!
If you implement policies where all the benefits of growth go the people least likely to spend them, you'll end up with a glut of savings. That is why interest rates are so low.
Kickstarter and Cloudflare - both have been keeping all their financials in the secret until they have murdered most of the competition.
Most of the users would come from word of mouth.
Snark by people who wouldn't do better on the best of their days? If that's the only problem: +1 for boring technology
Nah, we've gotten pretty good at sealing concrete. You put enough tar and landscaping fabric under there, it'll last a while.
> every commit I make is a good one that I would like to keep in the history

This is certainly not typical.

When working in a team, you may need to push something half-finished so that someone else can work on what they need to. Or testing something before refactoring.

For these scenarios, rebase is very handy for cleaning things up before merging.
I think your point is perfectly valid, I put should when I might have said ‘I Believe should’. But nevertheless I stand by my own point and is not quite convinced, both of us bringing anecdotes from our own experience. It is always good to hear different opinions, though.
I totally agree with your rant, and want to add more reasons :)

First, saying that a couple of devs can turn around an application in a weekend completely ignores the years of software development experience required. Second, it ignores the the specific experience required to develop for an iPhone or BB. Finally, it ignores what type of software.

I can code up a simply utility in a weekend for the iPhone, but it won't have any decent artwork or other niceties that people now expect out of iPhone software. If you look at something like Angry Birds you can see a fairly simple general concept that looks great and is executed perfectly. Something like that does NOT happen in a weekend.
You're right, of course, that you should never use user-input data as code. SQL bind parameters solve this problem for SQL. I'm sure there exist other things without such an easy solution, in which case you do need to sanitize with a whitelist.
Chrome does have a password generator and password syncing though I think the generator is hidden behind a flag still.
Quite so. Facebook has made a bonanza on new internet users. My personal belief is that most of these people will figure out that Facebook is not the internet and spread out to other services, decreasing Facebook's importance, and they will not be replaced by other new users in the similar quantities.

And yes, the past three years have shown derivative introduction after derivative introduction. Facebook is basically in it's MS-1998 stage: if you can't buy the competition, copy them thoroughly and use your superior market power to smother them. This will end up just like MS, in a dying, boring irrelevant company that has a popular product, but absolutely no clue about where to go next and a serious inability to catch on to true trends.
One thing that has always stopped me form writing a journal was the glaring fact that I was never going to get around to reading older entries, and therefore why was I keeping them around to be stumbled upon. I agree that venting your thoughts is generally helpful but my original point was recently validated when a family member was hospitalized and requested that their journals be destroyed immediately. I did so without peaking, but if I were to keep a journal I would have one rule: Burn after writing.
I definitely liked the idea of fish. I tried using for a little while when I first came across it a few years ago, but it´s new features were outweighed by simple things I had become use to in Bash such as operators like && to run commands at the same time and the keyboard short-cuts (Ctrl+A, Ctrl+U, etc.).
You make a great argument, and I've been thinking about it, because I know intermittent reinforcement/operant conditioning has extremely strong evidence in its favor. A HN comment from today[1] brought the problem to my mind again, but this time with a possible solution.

At their roots, operant conditioning and classical conditioning are both learning mechanisms. Since the time of operant conditioning, spaced repetition[2] has gained a lot of popularity. It's a further refinement that depends on beginning with short intervals, and proceeding to longer ones.

The idea this suggests to me is that speeding tickets happen to many people infrequently enough that the enhanced learning never takes place. Draconian crackdowns, however, happen frequently and with high salience because of media coverage--the only time you know about someone else getting a speeding ticket is when you see them pulled over, and it's hard to feel as personally involved with that as when you hear all the details of someone's arrest and imprisonment on the news.

One piece of evidence for media coverage changing behavior is that people buy lottery tickets; because they've seen lottery winners on the news, the probability of winning has a much higher salience than it deserves.

[1]http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2030038

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition
Pretty much, yes. (Though that doesn't mean it's not a good technique. Lots of quite effective spam filters are more or less naive-Bayes.)
The Article only mentioned it's string restrictions, but I'm still interested in how they formalize and implement their schemas. It's granted that xsd is pretty messy, but exposing a schema like this - or with alternative definition languages - goes a long way in helping client adaption seeing as there are a trillion autopwn validation and binding tools available.
Wolves are semi-nomadic, though they are also definitely territorial.
The TL;DR pic:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D_Z-D2tzi14/TORSbWHwCcI/AAAAAAAAEG...
I don't understand why this is getting so much attention. This is nothing more than a couple zip files containing a few Objective-C open source projects that happen to have example projects.

As far as I can tell, the only original contributions here are that the author tested the apps (in an old version of Xcode) and wrote vague descriptions of what those projects did.

As @orta mentions in another comment, http://cocoapods.org already has a canonical database of thousands of projects. And there are plenty of other sites that do a much better job of curating (and properly attributing) interesting projects.

Edit: Link to original HN submission (2012), for anyone curious - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4182483
If cars become more useful, they will be used more often and car companies will sell more cars not less. Obviously automakers that end up on the wrong side of this trend might struggle, but overall the industry will be larger.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Seems to work for Mongo, but yeah.

You pay me and the licensing question goes away. You still get to poke around the source.
The firmware exploits that were being talked about a few weeks ago are probably the most surprising to me. But IIRC a lot of the stuff that Snowden revealed was previously considered the realm of tin foil hat conspiracy theory.
GitHub has done a remarkable job at being less evil than many proprietary companies… but they are doing one very annoying thing: actively undermining the free software movement by (A) getting everyone to use their proprietary tools and (B) craftily undermining the GNU GPL and related licenses by making their license-chooser and choosealicense website designed to discourage GPL use.
We haven't built the migration tool yet, but mostly likely it will involve running a new version in parallel with the old version while the upgrade runs.

For a guide on how to design your schema for a clean migration see here: http://influxdb.com/docs/v0.8/advanced_topics/schema_design....
Not to mention the companies that use GitHub for hosting their code base in private repos, keeping track of issues, code reviews, etc.
We have, but sadly not in Denver... yet ;)
How can I let you know? There are no contact details in your profile.

Apart from that - thanks again.
My routine is surprisingly similar. The only thing I would add is that the Mindfold mask is by far the best I've ever used. It's so good that my experience is almost binary: with the Mindfold, sleep, without the Mindfold, struggle.

http://www.mindfold.com/
I think the problem has been the overuse of bullet points. I'm sure there are times when they are appropriate, such as when these slides listed what CRAP means, but in most cases I've seen, the information would have presented better with an alternative format.

The last few presentations I myself have given tended to follow the Lessig style, so instead of bulleted lists, I've presented each item in its own slide. This allowed me to bring the audience's focus on the one thing I'm discussing at the moment, instead of wandering off into what the other items are/could be and how they relate to or contrast with each other.

I read somewhere of the backlash against Powerpoint in the military, and the primary reason stated was the overuse of bulleted lists.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint.html
It's not the same because in JS you usually would use a large number of libraries with varying degree of documentation and different conventions. Also, you would loose autocomplete when you expect to receive something as a parameter instead of defining it in that closure.

The basic language API is not that large, the benefit of autocomplete discovery comes when you have autocomplete on custom types of a specific framework accompanied with proper documentation.
At the time, it is hard to understate the impact this display technology had!

Raster systems were starting to get good. More colors, lots of moving objects, better resolution.

Vector displays had, and in my opinion still do, have a future tech look to them that people find compelling and engaging.

The CRT is gone for a lot of reasons, good reasons. From time to time, I find myself wondering about laser driven setups, perhaps low power directed at some highly reflective coatings...
Back when Thiel was funding it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_c...
If you have so many comments, why raise it here and not mail the contact stated at the website? Do you think it is more productive in effecting a change to only post this here, rather than to whoever is responsible?
Maybe you shouldn't get your news from reddit.

Hint: T+2 settlement in a time where a stock price is highly volatile means that brokerages are forced to pony up more collateral. Robinhood is such a bad brokerage, it didn't have the funds to do so and was cut out by the clearinghouses.

Selling of GME would roll back the amount held by Robinhood, lowering collateral.
Interesting setup, do you use the Wacom as a touchpad with your finger or with the pen? Do you have an external keyboard?
I think hidden biological mechanisms related to overpopulation have kicked in. Perhaps, subconsciously, when we see a lot more really old people living around, something switches on suggesting that reproduction can wait. Maybe informational explosion make us wait longer to acquire necessary amount of knowledge, necessary for decent life.

Also, stupid TV and internet entertainment, combined with lack of opportunity in USA contributes to this problem. ...
Every time I switch on American TV, I want to throw up.
That wouldn’t be as intuitive. We have better statistical tools, sure, but his graph was immediately understandable, even if you don’t know what standard deviation is or what error bars are. I would use that graph as an illustration for the uninitiated even if I had exhausted the statistical toolset.

(Also, there are better tools but it’s not as though what he did was meaningless and provided no evidence for the point he was making. It’s not as strong but it is there.)
Great game. and before it came Wasteland and Fountain of Dreams. Fallout 3 is a worthy continuation of the series as well.
The difference is that programmers characteristically start technology startups, and plumbers don't. You can verify this empirically by scanning the Forbes 400.
The general topic reminds me of the book "The selfish gene" by Richard Dawkins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene).
kinda-off-topic: I am very often baffled by the sheer mathematical and general complexity of music. Each music-related wikipedia article is the stub of a link-tree that quickly ends up in confounding complexity.

The highly emotional associations I get of rock musicians and metal concerts when thinking about music could not be further from the science of music.
Depends, I have a very good boom mic plugged into a solid interface that has essentially no background hiss or noise.

The software noise cancelling like Krisp in Discord or this Nvidia software is really nice because it stops outside noises like dogs barking, keyboard keys, etc from coming through.

With Krisp enabled in discord I can eat chips with voice activation enabled and no one can tell, and no one can hear my dog bark occasionally even if I'm talking while it happens.
Tax fraud is a felony. If morality doesn't stop a person from doing what's wrong, then usually the law (and its repercussions) does.
Your comment presupposes that the Everett interpretation cannot be true. But it offers an explanation of the appearance of collapse without having a collapse.

Namely if a quantum mechanical observer observes a quantum mechanical system in a superposition of states, we get a superposition of quantum mechanical observers who can no longer meaningfully interact, each of which observed a different state of the quantum mechanical system. This is exactly what the Schrödinger equation predicts MUST happen.

As a side note, this is the most popular interpretation of quantum mechanics among cosmologists. It turns out that if you're using quantum mechanics to explain things like the birth of galaxies, taking seriously what quantum mechanics says for human sized quantum mechanical systems becomes very easy.
I'm a year and a half in on the removal of Facebook from my life. Deleted the account and didn't look back. Has not had any impact on my social or professional life. I'd recommend doing the same.

I am currenlty well on my way in the process of uncondition myself from using Instagram, and I haven't touched WA in months.
One thing I don't see mentioned much here is the local or topic/interest facebook groups.

I have a house in a remote community where it's hard to find contractors and the like. The local FB group has been invaluable in finding local resources, getting to know neighbors, and alerting neighbors of local conditions. The alternatives are basically Nextdoor and craigslist which suffer from network effects among other things.

Of course people use the group as a soap-box or meme/clickbait sprayer at times, but the mods do a pretty good job such that there are very few wortwhile "forked" groups.

Similar applies for a few other interest groups I'm in. Groups.io is starting to eat their lunch on that, and reddit is gaining steam in the mainstream, but again network effects are strong.

When using an app container and limiting engagement with clickbait content, there is still some human value in participating on facebook in these very limited ways.
All this speculation could be laid to rest with egg on the face of western media outlets with just one proof-of-life phone call. The CCP, who he would like to get back in good graces with, would certainly want that. So why hasn’t it happened?
Yup, Email is the only thing I haven't migrated off Google yet, that one is tougher so far.

But also instead of Chrome use Brave or Edge, both built on Chromium and are essentially Chrome, but without Google's spyware bloat.
I'm not clear on how to quantify "enormous". Many people don't use facebook and still manage to make appointments and lead fulfilling social lives.

It depends a lot on your country or region. Your life is different from other people's lives.

In my country, decoupling from Facebook is pretty easy. Google, less so, but doable.

In some countries, decoupling from certain apps or ecosystems will leave you pretty much stranded.
Yeah basically same purpose as you. FB messenger to talk to some people or have old friends keep in touch.
I have to agree - the LinkedIn requirement was a deal breaker for myself. I have one, but I already gave my real name and email. What if I didn't have a one?

My inner conspiracy voice is telling me this is a fake and just a front for headhunters. Absurd, but true haha.
Microsoft had lost all it's momentum before Windows XP was released? An OS which absolutely dominated for over a decade.

Even more importantly SQL Server really matured in SQL server 2005, as did IIS leading to a large proportion of the server share too.

.NET / C# was also post-2000, another very important strategic asset with Visual Studio.

I'm not sure that it is fair to characterise MS post 2000 as missing out completely.
Like Paul Graham said in July 2009[1] The trouble with the Segway is that it makes you look smug. This thing will make you look even more so.

[1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/segway.html
I took this to mean that Google switched their target demographic from corporate to consumer and that Gruber thinks the consumer market segment is Apple's turf. I don't think his argument is about technology at all - more about money and Google actively attacking Apple's income stream (instead of RIM's).
Amen!

Google is and always has been playing a "heads I win, tails I win" game with Android and sure enough is positioned to win. Not just against Apple but the telcos too.

Google Voice was a major move here.

I like my iPhone, but I like a carrier independent phone number with web access to my voicemail and SMS way more.

Apple is putting up a killer fight and it's fun to watch. But Google is hacking away at the entire mobile, portable, and cloud landscape. Someday Apple will come back to drink from these wells or customers will leave.

Gruber is nuts for the footnote saying Android will lose money for Google...
> I often ask "stupid" questions, but I do so after having searched the documentation, google and tried everything I could think of trying.

Then when you ask, demonstrate that you've done so.

"Hey, how do I do X? I read through the docs, googled, and tried everything I could think of but I'm still stuck" is likely to get you a decent answer.

If you're going to ask someone working for free to give you free support, the least you can do is demonstrate that you've done your homework. The unfortunate reality is that many users do not do this and just want someone else to hand-hold them through everything.

I agree that it'd be nicer if developers would remove "RTFM" from their lexicon, and, even if it provides no more information, go for something politer, like, "the answer is in the manual; please read it". But people get tired, people get frustrated, people have a bad day. And some people might do it deliberately to push away users who they think will be an unproductive time-suck for them. As someone benefiting from someone else's free labor, you are entitled to nothing. Suck it up and do your best to show that you're not a leech and that you'll do your part to support yourself, only asking for help when you've exhausted the usual avenues.
I normally skim through these types of articles but the visualization that s/he demos is so captivating and hypnotizing
FF Developer 71.0b10 MacBook Pro from mid 2018 running Mojave, works great.
Subtract their position as the forward operating base for the US military in Asia and try telling this story again.

While Japanese economic progress postwar was astonishing, it was entirely premised on them having favored status in the region. Few people know, for example, that the US forced Korea to purchase massive amounts of goods from Japan to rebuild its economy, essentially reinstating their former colonial relationship and stoking tensions that culminated in the Korean War.

Japan is a cautionary take because it was entirely too dependent on using its favored status in American geopolitics to throw its weight around Asia-Pacific, as opposed to building meaningful, trade and immigration agreements with other countries in the regions. Now that US dominance is in retreat and the Chinese ascendant, they’re in a poor overall economic position to counter them.
The first rule of online dating is be attractive. If you're average or below average dont waste your time.
Out of the tree biggest ISPs in Slovakia, only T-Com doesn't support IPv6, unlike it's German parent. UPC (Liberty Global) switched all their residential customers with new enough CPE to DS-Lite years ago, and Orange also had a flag day, since then all new customers are also on DS-Lite (they allow getting public IPv4 for nice 99 EUR one-time fee, static one is additional 8 EUR/month).
I think I remember writing about this before, but it's also unclear what comparative advantages a startup in Japan offers you outside of two things: easy access to the Japanese market if you think their consumers/businesses will be the largest market for your product, and world-leading expertise in robotics (and some other things). I guess you can also live in some huge, nice cities without absurd cost of living too. Not sure if those are worth all the operational and cultural difficulties for most people, relative to other places.
You should take another look at the image—there's no domain suffix, and they've also removed any arguments in the URL, both of which are _incredibly_ important.
A 20 year old "kid"???

Yes, he's in that awkward period between 18 and 21 where he's legally an adult who can't legally do a bunch of adult things, like the relevant posited drinking (according to the more detailed accounts I read he wasn't hiding from the police, the party was broken up by the incensed homeowner of the property where it was happening arriving), but if you're going to call young men who aren't even "teens" "kids", we have no basis for a discussion, we cannot get past your idée fixe that he was automatically an innocent.
I love to be able to refrigerate my soda while washing my clothes, all in my nexus 4.

... just sucks to have the soda can burst out because you know, my freezer is integrated in the washer. And my nexus battery now weights 100Ton. But thankfully LG will buy some small truck brand and solve that too!

...sounds retarded, but that's how I see what's google is doing. A total lack of connection to who uses their services and with common sense. All their services more or less already worked like this, with open APIs and decent standardized integration. but they decided to move away from it and use g+ as the glue. which they are probably sniffing.
Basically this is the only answer. I think of this (but rarely say it) when I hear people talk about supporting our troops and honoring their service. I don't honor people who willingly decide to be put in situations that almost certainly will be immoral.

The immoral act starts when you volunteer to join the gang that commits it.
> Except it does actually cost more to cycle.

No, this is plainly wrong.

Don't take my word for it, work out the cost per mile for yourself. You'll quickly see that you have to choose ridiculously low car costs vs expensive, low calorie foods to get it remotely close. With average car prices vs cheap food...it isn't even a contest.
No try, major league sports athlete who is trying to mitigate his losses! ;-)

If taxes stopped supporting sports, and if cable / satellite customers didn't have to subsidize sports, something would have to give.

Are you just saying those things are impossible, or are you saying I'm overstating what the outcome would be?