jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
GitHub is closed in the sense that you can't access most of its source code but it's not really a problem since Git is decentralised. When you clone a repository from GitHub, you have everything you need to host that repository somewhere else. GitHub doesn't take any power away from the project - it only provides tools to easily manage your project.

I'm not sure that status of downloading a project's issues or wiki but I remember they were working on making them clonable.
Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Luxembourg, Mallorca, and so on.

The colonies thing is sort of dodging the question. How did England end up with India as a colony, or Belgium with the Congo? They had great military strength, grounded in their technological edge, despite being poorer in natural resources than India and the Congo. But that same technological edge can be used today to trade for resources instead of taking them by brute force — or, as Germany showed during WWI and South Africa showed during the sanctions, to get by with less natural resources.
I'm old enough to remember this conversation happening three times, and wise enough to know that this conversation happens every ten years or so probably since the first wage was paid in currency instead of goods.

A certain pay rate creates supply. Conditions make it hard to switch jobs. And every year you ever so slowly reduce the effective pay to those employees and they slowly give up little luxuries to make ends meet. And when demand outstrips supply, you raise the minimum wage, pulling in a new group of people.

If you're paranoid or cynical, you might call this class warfare instead of unintended consequences.
Unfortunately we're just not at a stage yet where anyone can easily associate a static IPv6 to an EC2 instance and expect it to "just work". My phone isn't always happy visiting IPv6 addresses. Many coffee shops and university wifi I regularly use don't support IPv6. My home router doesn't seem to route IPv6 correctly (or maybe it's Comcast's problem; I don't know; I gave up because everything I use can work over IPv4 as well :-/). My work internet connection doesn't route IPv6, either.

I'm all for IPv6 but it's not widespread enough to ditch the need for static IPv4 addresses.
> This already exists

Exactly, which is why apps that work in the same way, based on exactly the same input (just superficial visual appeal), seem redundant to me. I'd much prefer something that actually makes use of modern technology, for example: upload 3 photos of your exes and we'll find someone similar for you. Or, match people by professions and lifestyles that are compatible in some way (in addition to ML-rated visual appeal).
No reason to say goodbye to them. It would just mean that the price would have to increase, or the industries that produce them will have a smaller profit margin.

Apple has $245 billion in cash right now.
The 40s-50s in the USA had an amazing number of absolutely astounding ideas, which are still seminal in their fields. Much of the effects went public in the 60s-70s and completely shook the prior society in nearly every area.

My thesis is thus: a society with a lack of desperation, along with a prior encounter with extreme difficulty allows the mental freedom to find radical ideas and explore them without concern.
This was amusing, I don't know why it blocks desktop but Firefox dev tools responsive design mode was enough to fool it into working on my pc.

Also amusing was the wfmynews2 using the youtube redirect to link to the site, wtf, lol.
> I remember Linus playing around with a Xeon Phi CPU with a few hundred threads. The task manager was all percent signs.

The last Sun chips (Niagara / Ultrasparc Tx) also had pretty high count, IIRC they had 64 threads / socket, and were of course multi-socket systems. At 1.6GHz they were clocked pretty low for 2007 though.
The problem isn't the number of addresses, it's the address space fragmentation. The IPv4 global routing table is already 3x the size it should be. At the point where you're just giving every device an arbitrary number, the addresses cease to function as addresses.
Though this could be said for nearly all research until it is complete.
Honest question: why use this instead of e-bay?
Fascinating article... pity about the random and incongruous political jabs. Did the writer have a Post-It tacked to their monitor with "More political!!" scrawled on it? :P
>...Run your own organisation-wide Dropbox? Yes please.

YAY!

this is how Dropbox should pursue an enterprise offering, selling a Dropbox Server as a VM, a set of client licenses and instructions on how to run an internal dropbox server.

With encryption. With additional security features...
Check out lookit (https://launchpad.net/lookit) if you're looking for uploading abilities (lookit supports imgur and custom FTP) but without all the extra features/bloat that come with Shutter.
I suspect that they communicate in ways that we can conceive of, and have recently started to communicate, ourselves.

Specifically, if you're broadcasting radio or TV signals that look like anything other than random noise from the perspective of an uncorrelated receiver, then you're wasting energy. Human history suggests that there's a window of about 100 years between the time when a civilization learns RF theory and starts to generate coherent signals, and the time when they learn information theory and stop.
Allow me to clear up one tiny misconception—the professors and the way the syllabus is taught at IITs (at least D) is not that much better either—a large of my part of my syllabus in solid mechanics, etc. (just to name a specific example) was simply glossed over as facts to ingest without even touching the mathematical foundation. I've had to spend a really large part of my final year project revisiting maths, solid mechanics to get that foundation and then build upon it to make a good project.

There have also been particularly memorable incidents where a professor teaching surveying got confused about what sin\theta was.
I am so l33t now.
How convenient for the justice system to have a built in plausible deniability. A few winks and nods when asking for the warrant and all is admissible.
perhaps the author of this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21595948
SUVs fare better in a collision with a smaller car, when it comes to protecting your kids you are better off riding in a tank.

Unless the other party was driving a bigger tank in response to everyone else's tanks.

An arms race where vehicles get heavier and heavier isn't really in anyone's interests over the long run.
Log on Google/Facebook/whatever in a private tab, surf in a normal window (with an adblocker): problem solved.

Alternative: log on in Chrome, surf with Firefox or the other way around.
Rather, it should (not must) be used for exceptional cases, like if something happens and you have no idea how to deal with it.
One reason is that overriding "=" would allow you to violate the move semantics of Rust: a = b; is guaranteed to be equivalent to memcpy(&b, &a, sizeof(a)). In C++, you can overload the assignment operator, which lets you do crazy, unexpected things. In the end, it's mostly a tradeoff between convenience (writing a = b; instead of a.assign_from(b);) and explicitness (being able to tell what might and what might not happen under the hood).
> Why does the Linux kernel project continue to release code with flaws like this that can be found with automated tools?

This was fixed by the next release.

What happened here is 100% on Googles android team who don't follow mainline kernel releases & patches.
Do you have an example of this? What exactly breaks? I use Wayback all the time and have had no obvious problems.
I'm with you, and I do understand Git fairly well. The UI is pretty opaque for non-VCS/Git users.
I don't think the name 'Pirate Party' will work in Australia. They won't get any support (financial or otherwise) from any credible organisations. From what I've seen people are turning to the Greens as anti-filtering party.
Setup two gmail accounts and post an ad to CL. Same ad, one with pic, one with out.
I think it's very possible that these pretty wrappers allow people to hobble along with little to no understanding of how git actually works.

If that's the only way that you'll use version control, it's better than nothing. On the other hand, I heartily endorse actually learning how the git model works -- it's not too bad, I promise!

.

Good places to start:

[1] Peepcode's "Git Internals" PDF - $9 - short, sweet, to the point
[2] The Git Community Book [2] - free - thorough (if a bit wordy sometimes)
[3] Pro Git - free online, $23 dead trees - Haven't read it, same author as [1]

[1] http://peepcode.com/products/git-internals-pdf

[2] http://book.git-scm.com/

[3] http://progit.org/book/
I disagree - if there were no capital markets, there would be nothing to build your house, or bed from. You would be forced to build your house and eat from what was lying around in your local area, even if you organise a tribal organisation to all help each other. You would live a short life and see many of your children die before their 5th birthday. Because that's how it used to be.

The dramatic improvements in lives came about at the time of the industrial revolution, which in itself was partially an engineering outbreak, but also an outbreak of the abilities to raise and organise capital that had been perfected by financing risky and long sea voyages, which, in themselves brought about dramatic lifts in quality of life. No finance, no 'new world', no USA.

I might add that 'capital markets' cover the entire span of financing, from angel investing to the big board in New York. The principles are just the same and the knowledge required is very similar.

You may dislike the capital markets, but you cannot deny that the rise in standard of living, technology and wealth is not linked to the invention of both structured lending, pooled risk/reward and ability to trade both equity and debt to other people. If you meld my thoughts with PG's discussion at http://paulgraham.com/gap.html you can see the rise in wealth and living standards happening in parallell along with the developments of structured and tradeable debt, invention of partial ownership and tradeable securities (share markets) and of pooled risk taking (insurance). I also recommend Niall Fergusons' 'Ascent of Money' for a good backdrop into how/why this is. http://www.amazon.com/Ascent-Money-Financial-History-World/d...

Again, you might dislike the role that markets have, but pretending they are some sort of bolt-on that could be disposed is very naive thinking.
I second this! I've been looking for a replacement for newmogul as well.
I've also set all of the non content elements to a 30% opacity, when the mouse isn't over them, to hopefully focus even more of your attention on the actual content.

It just makes them more noticeable to me since it's such an unusual concept. This is both a pro and con with going against the grain - it makes you stand out.. which isn't the desired effect this time. The bizarre font combination doesn't help either. The ultimate in clean/simple is probably found in Readability/Safari Reader - at least, from all the raving I've seen over the last few days ;-)

UPDATE: I've now also set the text to be justified and am looking into hyphenation. Justified just seems to be a little more pleasant and smoother.

It might seem that way to the eye at first, but in reality, it just ain't so. Fully justified text is harder to read and has negative effects on retention: http://www.adamsdrafting.com/2007/05/03/justified-text-versu...

Study 1: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120024982/abstrac...
Study 2: http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordD...

The UK government also gives this advice in a style guide:

Avoid fully-justified text - the 'ragged' right edge can particularly help people with dyslexia in keeping reading position.

Making a site harder to read for people with dyslexia (an extremely common disability, even amongst techies) is not a good step towards "simple."

That's the thing about readability. It's not about what "looks good" or "feels good" to you as an author - it's about how readers actually read and react to your styling. Relying entirely on your own gut instinct is like trusting the Web design client who's raving "make the logo bigger" and "use Comic Sans - it's a great font!"
Not too powerful, just overly conservative. This has its advantages - our financial crisis experience was mild because regulations in the banking sector (plus our small size plus our mining industry, but let's avoid that discussion here) helped us through.

But sometimes that conservative need to protect is combined with ignorance of reality, technical reality in these instances. That's a bad thing.

(Some side notes on conservatism - we're a country who didn't have it's own national flag in practice for 50 years post Federation; one of our first national Acts of Parliament was the 'White Australia' policy which lasted until 1975; the Prime Minister we had when Hitler invaded Poland was the same guy we had when Kennedy was shot 25 years later; and we call Football 'Soccer'.)
Somewhere down the list, someone asks about Go

Hey, I think Go picked a few good and important things to
look at, but I think they called it "experimental" for a
reason. I think it looks like they made a lot of reasonable
choices.

But introducing a new language? It's hard. Give it a couple
of decades, and see where it is then.

Linus

(http://www.realworldtech.com/forums/index.cfm?action=detail&...)
Pretty thin gruel for a post.
We need tiny spy camera attachments which work on bluetooth with your cellphone. These should be cheap to make (a couple of bucks) and everyone should have one with their phones. This way we can record without police knowing.
There is not really a difference in software. The 'what' is defined by the 'how'. Imagine you had a very clear idea of the 'what', so complete that it could be used to test every possible output of the 'how' -- in which case, you already know all the answers and you don't need to have that 'how'. (The purpose of software is to produce stuff you don't already know.)

You can compare the 'what's of two 'how's -- that is what testing is doing.
Pretty much what he said in his book [1]: that the state won't allow any privacy in the future and so the only solution is to require a two-way transparency. There are some good insights here but in the end it ignores the power dynamics (state and corporate power is so much greater than individual citizens', and there's so much privilege for the wealthy and tech-savvy , that transparency's value applies asymmetrically) and presupposes a choice between two bad options.

The book continues to be very influential and so is worth reading -- just take it with a grain of salt, remembering that he's writing as a wealthyish white guy who's never had to face unpleasant consequences from being on the receiving end of transparency.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society
The page says, "Objects may be created using indentation instead of explicit braces, similar to YAML. "

Similar to YAML? What exactly does that mean? Is there someplace that explains the specific indentation rules?

The indentation rules of YAML are massively borked; it's not enough that something be indented, it has to be indented a very specific number of spaces. As opposed to, say, Haskell's more sane off-side rules.
> It's unclear what their motive is for not supporting them.

What's unclear? They want to monopolize the market for smart phones, or at least hurt the competition and splinter the market. Clear as day: they are not good citizens, they are a publicly traded company with a fiduciary responsibility to maximize return to their shareholders.

Their website is not apple.org
To whoever downvoted the above, I don't think we view a town becoming a ghost town as an "extinction". As long as the species still exists, it seems inaccurate to use the term extinct. "Dwindling", "near extinction", "increasingly endangered" all seem more accurate in this context. Only reason I call this disingenuous is that it was probably a "cynical" decision to decrease accuracy in return for clicks.
Rise of the Expert Beginner
[0] https://daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-th...
> Can you explain what the issue with this is?

The only issue I can think of is mixing code/data with styling information. Otherwise there is no "issue" per se.

> What does this circumvent that cannot be done with pure JS?

Nothing, it is just JS after all, and the idea that you can store data in other things than JS variables is not new (jQuery days we stored data in various attributes in the DOM to keep track of state). You could also store the same data in <title/> tag and get the same results. Not sure what the use case is, except it's a fun little hack.

Maybe this will spawn some new JS framework, nothing would surprise me anymore.
Vampires did it first.
And the $11? ~100Gb of transfer on S3?
Great idea. I would sign up immediately if I owned a digital camera, although I am not sure about the $11. You should show visitors some of the members' pages.

The price should be free or lower if you upload daily, and automatically charge your CC for the higher yearly fee if you miss uploading.

I have a feeling this site will take off.
Great design! And I love the idea even if I'm not a big photo guy myself.

11$ seems a fair price if I'm hooked to your product but I need to try it before. Maybe you can offer a free plan, or give a trial period (10days for example).

Also I think that you should put your "View a sample collection" way higher in your homepage.

Good luck! I really love what you did, your design and your logo are awesome :)
Well said. I always cherish things that make me step back from my normal viewpoints, and remind me of how lucky we are.

It's almost certain that anyone reading this site is in the luckiest top 10% of the world, having access to food and internet and enough money to fly as to be bothered by it.

If you have a job that you like (which a lot of us do), and is well paying, that probably narrows you down into the top 5%. Congrats, and sit back and enjoy it.

Happy Holidays!
If you have any more Djangy invites, I am interested in using it ktbyers2 at hotmail. Thanks.
Cookies are sandboxed, so the cookie you write in your in-app 1x1 pixel webview can't be read by the Safari browser, making it useless.

If we could cookie the user properly it's what I'd use for analytics instead of the UDID.
Neither are true, Some Trucks exisit to do work, some are bought because of Aesthetic's not different than sports cars or anything else.

Not every buys a Truck purely for work. Just like not everyone buys a car just for transportation.

Further even if you remove the Aestetic debate over the Cyber Truck, for Work is not practical, any contractor will tell you side access is VERY VERY important, the truck bed on this is completely impractical for traditional work people do in a truck
I'm in the opposite camp from you — I like generics, lack of null, and syntax highlighting — but that's fine! I don't think this is something we have to 'agree' or 'disagree' with. It simply means that you're within Go's target market. If you want to use a simple language, and the software you're writing works just fine without these features in your code, then of course it's OK to jettison them and stick with the simple language. I need those features because of the software I write, so I need to stick with a more feature-ful language.

Acting like there needs to be some 'one true way' when we're writing completely different pieces of software is how pointless internet arguments get started.
I think the only ”evidence” there is, is that it was initiated about the same time the US got off the gold standard.
The renders on their site are exceptionally bad. They don't even look quite like renders, rather hand-made sketches with textures applied on top. The design of the truck is not that bad and I bet the car would look fantastic in real life and on real photos, with all the minor detail, reflections and the feel of the real material, that is now missing.
My personal experience says two things:

- illustration — whether drawings, gestures, animations, using objects, whatever works, but have a visual equivalent to 'translate' notation; the typical example would be fractions which are as simple as it gets with drawings and hard as hell using only numbers, for most people discovering them. The same is true for most common functions and transformations (which, when you reduce it to the maximum, are the entire body of applied math).

- real-world application (typically the best candidates are simple physics or statistics in high school). The point here is to give a point of reference, a "feeling" of the mechanism or logic or paradigm. The deeper problem is that this application must feel 'interesting', like a puzzle, and not everyone is interested by the same things. That's where, imho, narrow AI could help craft customized courses with ad hoc examples that fit people's "world view" and "approach" to problems, and show animations for every variable, equation, let people play with those and see the results.

Both probably fit in the "faster feedback" approach, i.e. have the teacher/teaching material give feedback as fast and as often as possible, to guide the learning mind on the right path. This is an extremely important discovery of UX in the last 50 years and I believe education has much to learn from these very applied insights into human cognition.
Freedom of speech is important primarily and especially because it is a powerful force - not because it's not.
I don't think the term "climate change denier" applies; he seems to recognize that anthropogenic climate change is real, but proposes addressing the effects rather than cutting emissions, arguing that the former is more economically feasible.
After reading up a bit more I think I was too hasty with that statement. Getting a practical solar capacity is quite a lot cheaper than I imagined for many latitudes.
Yeah. Welcome to practice: I type "ifconfig | grep vio" and if it comes back nonblank, I know I'm running in virtualbox.
I’d be careful of mansueto and other companies promoting alternative causes of insect decline, even if these causes are insignificant, to make a few more bucks
Nonsense. It's like saying "arguments in favor of industrial production have always been the justification for the horrors of labour camps". Or "arguments in favor of the rule of law have always been the justification for the horrors of police abuse". There's a superficial similarity, but totally different scopes, methods, and outcomes.

In this case, I'm against things like the e.g. Native American re-education camps, because I believe that they have the right to their own culture (plus, they were there first).

But I'm in favor of mere education camps, also known as schools.

And guess what? Populations that was sent to "re-education camps" also are in favor of such things. They also have schools (or similar processes and teachings for their youth).

There's a whole lot of difference between a society teaching its children (which is how we're not animals merely grazing grass but have culture, technology, science, etc), and to be taken from your family for forced re-education to a different culture you don't belong to (and who is even adversarial to your people).