jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Technically deleting a directory is done with the rmdir command. But rm with flags is flexible enough that I've seen very few people use rmdir
Compare v31 with v32:

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/compare/v31.0....
>There are far better solutions already.

No, there really aren't. If mass transit was actually better, it would have condemned the car (and the horse-driven carriage before it) to being nothing more than a passing fad; "corruption to kill the streetcar" alone isn't enough of an excuse for why people overwhelmingly prefer private vehicles when given the choice.

Cars return so much time by themselves that every single downside (environmental degradation aside) is worth it from a utilitarian standpoint.

Let's take the biggest disadvantage of mass transit, which is its massive speed disadvantage compared to private transport (you must also account for the maximum speed that you can travel to get to it, and the maximum speed between the closest drop-off point and your destination- increasing the speed of one leg has limited value if you're still waiting half an hour for and on the bus, which in the opposite direction is why park-and-ride isn't as effective in practice as it is in theory).

Assume that, with mass transit, a daily round-trip commute is extended by 20 minutes (this is being very generous to public transit). Assuming 260 working days in a year, that's 3.5 days of your life spent on nothing but waiting to get to your destination, or more precisely, ~11 working days.

11 working days is a lot of time when you consider that even European legally-mandated vacation time is only 2-3 times that (in the US, the average vacation time after 1 year of employment is 10 days). Across 40 years of career, that's 440 working days or 1.75 working years.

Oh, and that's only covering the time it takes you to get to work. If you're going somewhere for fun afterwards, or going shopping, that'll be another +20 minutes (again, being generous) to your commute, and you best be home by 11 or you aren't getting home (most mass transit shuts down very early at night) unless you call a taxi ($$$). And if you want to buy more than 2 bags of groceries or some small furniture, even free shipping is still being passed on to you ($$$), driving prices even higher.

Now, to be fair to the bus, rents get lower if you have fewer parking lots (commutes don't get shorter, of course- more people in an area dependent on public transit means its service gets worse). Except what actually happens is that that effect isn't enough to offset the fact that under such a regime, people will try to live as close to work as possible (to minimize the inefficiency described above or even eliminate it completely- hence why all the rich live in European city centers), which means rents don't actually go down, meaning the property owner captures the value that the commons used to provide in terms of driving infrastructure.

Is it really any surprise that the class of people wealthy enough to be property owners (or afford usurious Bay Area rents), who would sacrifice the least (if not directly benefit) from a decrease in cars, are also the ones advocating the loudest for public transit?
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It's worked for tens of thousands of years, so I think it's a reasonable goal.

If somebody's goal is to understand sexuality, they should be out interacting with other people instead of reading books.
As someone who has written a lot of code (including driver level) in the DirectX realm, that line (about not unlocking surfaces) gave me a minor aneurysm though I admittedly do not know enough about the Android ashmem internals to know if the reaction is actually warranted or not on the Android platform.
This is such an old article that the service (Lone Signal) linked in the text is no longer operational.
Can you imagine being waiting in line behind the guy that is gifting something worth $1.25 while he's typing up all kinds of email addresses and recording a "gift video"? Wouldn't be the best experience I recon.
Are you sure the 'fresh content' head dominates the aged long-tail?

The fresh content will dominate top-N lists, sure. It will also dominate headlines, because it will more often be the subject of newsworthy early-leaks and enforcement actions.

But there is so much more old content, and the collection/completist/sampling motivations so important for unauthorized sharing, that I could easily see the old content swamping the new in terms of total copies or total bandwidth.
You can see the changeover quite clearly by comparing the two against each other: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=fuck%2C+suck&...

If we assume all pre-1800ish mentions of 'fuck' are definitely meant to be 'suck', it still features much more prominently in the corpus beforehand than after.

Any ideas why that might be? E.g. certain types of text that were more common before that era, or other (less, er, 'suck'y) types of text that came after, 'diluting' the corpus?
I remember “tender hugs” being quite the thing in the last quarter of the 20th century.

What else is notable about his card?
I use TD Ameritrade and run the Thinkorswim trading platform. I don't know how it compares, but it seems to work well for me.

ARCHIVE: https://archive.ph/lHGxm
The issue is that using an overinflated figure for the scale of the vacancy problem leads to the incorrect conclusion that meaningful change can happen by solving an alleged vacancy crisis. It can't. The scale is not large enough.

It is a convenient issue to misdirect attention to for groups of diverse political leanings. Progressives and wealthy homeowners both can avoid any of the messy realities of needing to permit new housing while pretending as though there's this more politically palatable thing they can do instead.
Especially rechargeable batteries (that the helicopter uses), which not only discharge under extreme temperatures (especially cold), but also degrade in capacity over time.

Maybe JPL has overcome those with some new battery tech, but extreme temperatures have always been the vain of engineers who have to design technology for cold weather.

It'll be interesting to see if multiple cold-weather days or years eventually kill the batteries off. This helicopter only flies for 90 seconds at a time already. If the batteries degrade by 30%, we are talking about sub-minute flight times.
> one cuts off any genuine interest from a genuine person

Maybe that's the point. Maybe the users of this service are trying to focus on school or work, and are tired of friends and family trying to set them up with significant others.
I just listened to this James Altucher podcast on the subject, about monetizing high followed accounts via sponsored posts:

http://www.stansberryradio.com/Frank-Curzio/Latest-Episodes/...

I thought it was pretty eye opening and seems relevant to your situation. Talks about streamlining the content creation process, getting advertisers to pay for sponsored posts, and he is now developing his own products to sell that would otherwise be pitched by advertisers in his sponsored posts.
Can't json deserialize things to interface{} and then use members.
Could be that, it could be design, it could be how something is worded, it could be that what you want the client to see, isn’t being seen. Analytics helps to identify this problem. For instance I noticed recently a huge drop-off in visitors from Ipads, and a redesign apparently made some parts of the site dysfunctional for some ipad users, something we didn’t catch earlier.
no, working an additional job does not give you more hours in a day. rather it consumes time. what do you do at work?
Have you read the original Bitcoin whitepaper?
Hey it's nice you're offering this!

I'd just be careful with ultra-low prices, specially if you plan on having backups and multiple months/years of data retention.

Infrastructure costs alone can add up really fast, and don't underestimate how many hours of support a single customer might require.

Just friendly advice :)
So... quit?
I'd love to hear from you newmnhn please email me through my profile. Specifically want to talk Scene On Radio "Seeing White".
Is this suggesting that we could have "living" / biological computers?
I can make a necklace look almost exactly like gold but out of another material. The slight difference in subjective aesthetics does not justify a 1000x+ price increase. Its expensive because its a speculation.
What happens when copy fails? Don't worry I already know.
Sorry I deleted the parent comment apparently as your were replying. Anyway....sold. $100M here I come!
All those issues are due to direct memory access. Why don't they use automatic memory management? Even without touching Java there's plenty of nice memory helpers for C/C++. Or security developers just prefer old-school?
Kevin Mitnick still owes me $500.
Maybe because Rob Pike (one of Go authors) works at Google and many Google developers often write how they glad to write things in Go for Google needs. Next step is up to you - use search engines to get more information :)
Reading the comments made before the flagkill, your intuition appears to be sound.
I know, right? And even more insane, they only allow alpha numerics, no symbols allowed. And for probably the only password which matters...
I just read this outloud to Anim and he says he wants to be able to "pick all the spells in Harry Potter". I think the rock-paper-scissors gameplay would be pretty smart. I'll see if I can convince him :) Oh, he just said that you could have the game for free because of your good ideas.

Thanks for your really detailed reply — and everybody else's too! Now I'm thinking I'll have to build this for him. My wife's going to shake her head if I tell her that I just added another sideproject to my list of sideprojects.
I suspect that there's worlds of difference between, say, the arm of the FBI that chases drug dealers and the arm that chases Russian spies. It's a pretty broad church.
1000 is a minimal value.
Was this across the board for all departments in Yahoo, or was it more focused in engineering?
Thanks for everyone's responses. It seems like I was worrying for no reason - Braid turns out to be very easy to play with a keyboard - and as far as I can tell that's all it supports anyway.
# remove-cnnic-root-ca-certificate.pp (only tested on ubuntu 14.04)
file { 'CNNIC_ROOT.crt':
path => '/usr/share/ca-certificates/mozilla/CNNIC_ROOT.crt',
ensure => absent,
}

file { '895cad1a.0':
path => '/etc/ssl/certs/895cad1a.0',
ensure => absent,
}

file { 'bd1910d4.0':
path => '/etc/ssl/certs/bd1910d4.0',
ensure => absent,
}

file { 'CNNIC_ROOT.pem':
path => '/etc/ssl/certs/CNNIC_ROOT.pem',
ensure => absent,
}

(N.B.: Yes, I know that doesn't completely take care of the problem. I manually "distrusted" it in Chromium and Firefox as well.)
One reason would be an Intrusion Detection System: make sure no malware gets downloaded, or to analyze traffic for stuff that looks like malware phoning home.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusion_detection_system
All of the reasons that benefit the company. Data Loss Prevention, web filtering, malware detection, take your pick.
For instance, if you are a company that handles confidential medical information (any health care organization, many insurers, every employee benefits management organization, &c), you may be required to have controls in place to ensure that nobody uses your Internet connection to exfiltrate people's PII through Google Mail.

Similarly, many investment banks and financial information firms have strict requirements to monitor all communications owing to SEC rules and insider trading regulation.
Well if the interviewers would stop asking the same stupid questions over and over again he might get a chance to say something different. I felt this interview was a completely wasted opportunity by NGT.
wow some people still use IE on HN.
Does there always have to be an initial charge (in the example $1.00)?
Brad Feld commented on this article here: http://www.feld.com/archives/2014/12/endless-struggle-boulde...
Sounds neat, but a bit complicated. You have to take those edges and turn them into an efficient set of paths for the oscilloscope to trace, and you have to do it very fast.
Yes.

Although emphasize could, it was hardly certain. (And if this strikes you as crazy, well, remember that since a little before 1920 they explicitly were planning on taking over the world, and got uncomfortably close to achieving that goal.)

This was one of the reasons SDI, even on paper/in the lab, was so terribly effective. Against an even partly effective ABM system a counterforce first strike becomes impossible, since you can't choose which warheads or boosters get intercepted.

Counterforce is an attack on your opponent's strategic forces, aimed at preventing them from retaliating. That's one of the reasons we had to build the expensive "Triad" of ICBMs, SLBMs, and manned bombers. Reliably taking all three out is very difficult.
Sure, but these are NES games; the ROMs for all of them are already on the internet. This is putting security locks on the barn door decades after the horse has bolted.
While I concede that's not the "billion-dollar American startup that was built by a 100% virtual team",
I've worked for a startup where half of the team was distributed across america and europe. It was an amazing team, highly collaborative and flexible, successfully tackling a hard problem.
(I used to joke that the code base was CS funland: all the interesting problems in one place)

We failed mostly because our product was overly ambitious, solving a broad problem.

Yes, is just an anecdote, but my point is that distributed team can run circles around most of colocated teams and we wouldn't have been able to assemble that team if we insisted that everybody had to be on the same place.
That does not make logical sense. For any given nuclear weapon that doesn't kill the entire planet there is a range from the epicenter where a bomb shelter is effective, regardless of weapon yield. Yes, the area where people are killed even if they are in a bomb shelter is larger, but the area where people are saved by a bomb shelter is larger as well.
If you can't wait until 2018, it's worth pointing out that Scala has production-quality implementations of these features on the JVM already, usable today. There are plenty of nontrivial limitations (that will cause a traditional boxed codepath instead), but the core features are working.
As a vegetarian, I'm looking forward to more products from Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods.

One of the criticisms people have is: it doesn't taste like real meat. To that, I'll say: tastes change. Sure, you (presumably of European descent) and your ancestors have been eating meat for 1000 years; but look at the spread of Indian/Chinese/Mexican places; your ancestors never had those foods! Heck, "chicken tikka" was voted as the 'national dish' of Britain, when a 100 years ago hardly anyone had heard of it!

More people would be vegetarian if restaurants had it as a decent option. Hopefully, these new products will encourage restaurants to expand their veggie menus.
The disease is, to a large extent, myopic and self-serving reasoning. It goes like this: we want larger number of "highly skilled" developers to come to the US, preferably, permanently and preferably, working for VC-backed firms.

Let's think about the consequences.

If this is implemented, it will hurt the sender countries (brain-drain) and may even lower the salaries for people who are already here. I'll go back to the brain-drain again. The REST OF THE WORLD NEEDS DEVELOPERS TOO. Maybe even more than the US.

Once here, these people will toil long and hard and face very steep challenges in making serious money. Maybe 1-2% of them will see millions. Most will make sub-par wages as immigrants. Yes, H1-B wages are lower.

Meanwhile, VCs, since their bets are widely hedged will get to play many rounds of the same game increasing the odds of the payout.
Misses I can believe no problem, but then precision ammunition would probably have turned it into a hit, not into a civilian building eating a bunker buster.
Please don't do this here. Blasting someone like that is rude at best, and outright mean when English is not their first language, as is the case with so many users here.
Although it does get them regularly, and they are pretty awesome actually.
Wait, what? It's irresponsible for me to opt out of screening, because screening me might prevent an attack... how?
OMG HOW EXCITING!!!11111111
No the openness argument is that the code is open and it is. It is 100% open source, Apache and GPL. What this does is limit their openness. You can't see every line as it's written.

I would guess they do it this way because they work with a lot of unreleased hardware, and the carriers and manufacturers don't want any leaks.

Lots of programmers prefer to tinker in private and only submit to repositories after everything is cleaned up and debugged. Others are fine with exposing every keystroke. In both cases we should be grateful if the end result contributed to the public good as Free Software.
Exactly - to add to your #4, I start a repo for the project and shove the entire thing, docs and all into it when I start creating anything new.

Automation here is your friend - I scripted it to create a new repo, create a remote branch to a private git server for backup, make a standard directory structure, etc. for various project types.

The fundamental thing about this is making a ritual out of your best practices - the list above is a great example of that.
I don't think you're being downvoted for reporting facts. The article was about an editor that you're not even mentioning. And on top of that, what you're talking about is very obscure. Why would I ever want to open a 450mb file in a text-editor?

What tipped you off to start talking about large files in a thread about UltraEdit?

EDIT: Just saw the thread about large files further down. Maybe you meant to make a reply?
That's not Beat It... this one is:

http://isleoftune.com/?id=819
Absolutely. I mean, I get a certain, sick satisfaction from melting servers, no matter the size.
It's interesting... On Safari if you put it into a background tab you can hear the music slow down as the thread gets less processing time.
They are just examples of things he disagrees with, and not meant as a comparison. But yes, there are probably better examples in this context.

The point is that you don't have to support people you disagree with.
Since I clearly need to spell this out. What is appropriate is clearly subjective, I was taking it to the extreme in order to make a point. But I'll reiterate the same question. Why would you not disregard political or religious outlooks, or even crimes for that matter, when buying(i.e. giving money for) "stuff" from "vendor"?
I would also add use version numbering on all docs and properly minute meetings and action points.
I have resorted to that more than once at this point. I consider that part of the "painful" as I may not always have speakers at the ready and/or at certain times of day feel a need to take the time to plugin headphones so as not to bother neighbors/etc. I also suspect given how many bots have moved on to using that themselves that those are going to get nastier and worse "soon" too.
That's BS. Verifiable credentials mean that you pick up a phone and call the references the candidate gave you.

What you are describing is essentially "it varies widely in rigor - so we must subject every candidate to a full CS exam, because we don't trust anyone."

Even in medical field the schools and standards vary, especially between countries. And there are good and bad doctors. Heck, some have even got their diplomas fraudulently.

However, that doesn't mean you will have the prospective hire sit in for an multiple hours/days of redoing university examinations during an interview - as it seems to be the rule in software engineering (and pretty much nowhere else). You would be laughed out if you tried that.

Especially for a senior position, where the candidate has a past experience you could ask about (i.e. not a freshly out of school student).
As a palliative you can always use some hp48 emulator.. you get some forth and some lisp all at once.
Is it possibly exposed via sysctl, which does support a flag to list all variables?
If I loan my girlfriend a hoodie and then break up with her, I'm not getting that hoodie back
DMCA, HIPAA, Whitewater, Travelgate, Waco

People remember Clinton as being better than he was because they think he was railroaded over the BJ.
Many clocks and watches are still manually set.
Your coin flip is in a vacuum though. What is this innovation replacing? Did I previously have to roll a 100-sided die? If so, that coin flip sounds really damn good.

I feel like Technology Connections did a better approach to the same topic of innovation:

https://youtu.be/GiYO1TObNz8?t=335

The idea is "But Sometimes". That is, this new innovation is great in all these areas, but sometimes it's worse. That then becomes a locus for the FUD campaigns -- justified or not. It's also the same kind of thing heard in "no one was ever fired for picking IBM". Fear of an unknown potentially bad outcome outweighs all the known bad outcomes which are improved by the innovation.
I did some more reading on this, and found various fuzzy and confounding factors. I have to admit that much of it might boil down to "winners get to write history". For example, whoever won their civil war was going to end up being credited with unifying China.

Lots of interesting stuff I bumped into, though. It did seem that the KMT made some pretty big mistakes, such as disbanding more of their army then they should have after the Japanese were defeated, mismanaging the economy causing hyperinflation, and being very corrupt. Also I had no idea that the KMT backed muslim insurgents on mainland China in the 1950s.

Given all of that Mao's popularity makes enough sense. There's also a lot of curb appeal in a successful peasant/worker revolution.
> I'm trying to do this in as harmonious way as I possibly can, but I'm a bit worried that getting really contentious about it might have negative repercussions.

You mentioned "contentious". Are you concerned that the conversation can't remain friendly, professional, and cordial for some reason?
Likely but not because no filtering at is is better than mediocre filtering rather precisely because it's not easy for a user to "accidentally" side load.
My father tried to introduce me to programing when I was 12, BASIC, but it didn't go well, nor did it go well when I tried to learn every subsequent language. Being ADHD I needed instant gratification with minimal effort, to pull me deeper in so I wouldn't bounce to the next thing. Programing was chaotic, hard to keep straight, and frustrating because my ego wouldn't let me say "hey, you don't have all the answers, let's go figure out what we're missing."

So my advice: Help him to understand that when an answer to a problem is not visible, it doesn't mean he's dumb, etc. It means he doesn't have the right puzzle piece of information, and needs to find it first. (i.e. a formula, code block, etc.) Be ok with not knowing the answer, and be ok that he will need to learn in order to apply knowledge (like puzzle pieces) to the problem.
It's an article with a separately-written (and credited) sidebar in the print magazine.
> looks like this went completely over your head

The fact that I disgree with the statement you quoted doesn't mean I didn't read it.
> Most of that stuff is written by people with a financial motivation and are likely biased. You can’t take them too seriously.

You're saying that without disclosing your financial stake. "HypX" is the name of a hydrogen car company.
And other benefits too: Disney trying to shirk its royalty paying responsibilities https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25143926
That's not how investment works.