jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Funny how every single 'right' thing they did benefits the early owners only and no one who buys the company stock thereafter.

Hypothetically, there's not really any reason to put scare quotes around the word right: At its core, every company is a vehicle for delivering value to its current owners. Future owners are not current owners, and the only defense mechanism they have is good old-fashioned caveat emptor.

In a well-functioning system, that would be sufficient: Few companies would follow the "pump and dump" scheme because it would be so difficult to pull one over on prudent, skeptical investors that approach would rarely meet success. I think, though, that we are not seeing a well-functioning system. We're finding a system where companies inevitably flow toward less and less savvy investors, until eventually you've got half your family members talking about how they're thinking about getting in on the Facebook IPO based on nothing more than that they keep hearing in the news that it's selling for a lot of money.

Incidentially, I was terminally amused by all the news articles talking about the "failure" of the Facebook IPO. On the contrary, if I were one of Facebook's pre-IPO owners I think I'd have been laughing all the way to the bank. Only in what passes for popular financial news could someone do the equivalent of characterizing a masterfully executed Poker bluff as a woeful failure without being rightfully dismissed as someone who's terminally clueless about the rules of the game.
Most of the time, you should be building an initial version and throwing it away anyway.

Internet time does not justify poor program design.
How's this?: http://codepen.io/MarcusLongmuir/pen/rawRKR

You could also write a custom check that used the previous result as documented here:
http://www.fieldval.com/docs/fieldval/Check%20Functions
Or Kanye even.
Writer two is blocked, not the reader. Writer two wants to add a message to the buffer but never succeeds because writer one fails to make the message of writer two visible to the reader.
"Jini has nothing to do with embedded systems? Really? Well, de facto, sure. But how did Sun originally pitch it? Let's do a little search and, oh, here's Bill Venners talking about the same topic in 2006: <http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=150666>..., the Summary starts with "Sun's original marketing message that positioned Jini as a technology for devices backfired in 1999...""

That link is giving me a Java stack trace, but let's put the quote in context from people who actually worked on promoting Jini:

"Probably the biggest misconception is that it is concerned primarily with devices. This was, unfortunately, the original marketing message used for Jini technology, so this misconception is to a large extent our own fault. It was one of those cases where an illustration of what Jini technology could do -- attach a device and it's found and used, detach the device and it disappears -- was mistakenly thought of as all that the technology could do."

http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Interviews/w...

"For an example of the power of a good story, consider the one developed for the Jini project. As described earlier, Jini technology is a thin layer built on top of Java that allows applications to be written as remote services that can be dynamically deployed and located over a network. The obvious story is that Jini is another middleware framework for distributed applications. But this story has a technology focus that would have severely limited the spread of the Jini message--indeed the term middleware causes even developers to yawn. Instead, the Jini marketing team built a story around what Jini technology would mean to users; that story generated lots of excitement in developers, the press, and the marketplace."

http://www.dreamsongs.com/IHE/IHE-67.html

I don't see how that's a message pitching it as an embedded systems solution. Something like network plug and play/Apple Bojour, sure.

"I'll give you partial credit for thinking of J2ME in mobile phones. But there's still a significant difference between programming games in J2ME or Flash for a phone and using Jave to program the phones themselves (ie, the underlying embedded system). Why do you think Nokia's recommendation for application builds was either gcc or, for those building their own phone ROMs, the proprietary ARM compiler?"

Thank you for completely ignoring my mention of smart cards. That's about as embedded as it gets, and Java Card is one of the leading technologies there.

The Nokia example is horrible. Symbian is dead despite having the largest market share - most apps running on Symbian are J2ME. The iPhone might be a better counter-example. But then you have Android, which is a de-facto JVM.

So you have the two biggest categories of consumer devices, cellphones and smart cards, and J2ME runs on over 80% of the former, and I don't know how many smart cards use Java Card, but it seems to be a very significant percentage.

Saying Java hasn't been successful in embedded systems is completely false.
ORM's are great for the 99% of your DB interaction which basically boils down to "Fetch a record from this table and put the result in an object", or "Fetch these records from that table and put the result in an array of objects".

However, for that remaining 1% of complicated queries, a good developer can do a much better job than any ORM.
Summary: Open source advocates should stress the "free (as in speech)" aspect of free software more?

It's wordy, but does that about cover it?
This is tragedy of the commons -- if one person does it, there is no real harm but if everyone does it then there will be no fish left for anyone. A lot of people can conceptualize this but many others rely on the fact that other people don't break the rules.

Music piracy is similar. Piracy works right now because there are enough people buying music and the margins are high enough that those legitimate buyers are supporting the pirates. Only at the point that creating music is unprofitable will piracy be affected (no more fish in the sea). I don't see that happening for a long time.
"If you can't remember your passwords, write them down and put the paper in your wallet. But just write the sentence - or better yet - a hint that will help you remember your sentence. "

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/nov/13/internet-pa...
Netty is not the problem. Java NIO has that limitation. And performance isn't in any way bad, just that there's more to extract (I believe).
I use and enjoy vimium too...but it doesn't help with editing text fields.
I know how this story ends: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163978/
Some people have been working through this class together on Curious Reef. It's loosely organized, with people posting questions and ideas in the class forum: http://curiousreef.com/class/stanford-cs229-machine-learning... Might be a useful resource to people learning this material. (Disclosure: it's my website)
What he means is that it's next to impossible to give that kind of advice (beyond generalities) without some more insight into the product/site itself. Because it is all relative.

(for the GP: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1370042 is the previous submission)

I would focus on affiliate sales through the site; it makes more sense.

Also: expand the network into other cases like you said in the other thread. That way you should be able to build up a big base of traffic across the niche.

Then you'll probably have more success selling targeted advertising space (i.e. case manufacturers who cover the whole niche)
Math is just symbols that happen to have congruence with\
something deeper in reality.

In which you already sidestep an enormous debate about whether such a thing as 'a deeper reality' exists. Nietzsche's 'God is dead' doesn't apply to the Christian God or Gods in general: it applies to every absolutist philosophy. Wittgenstein's work on the limits of language may have consequences for even what thoughts can possibly make sense. Their whole lineage, including people like Heidegger, Davidson and Rorty, is completely ignored by such an implicit, seemingly innocent, assumption.

The danger is the philosophers who misunderstand, or who
ignore the advancements in mathematics and scientific
knowledge we've been making.

Philosophers tend to have a pretty good understanding of the meaning of physics. It is taught to them at length, because of the importance of the scientific advances you refer to. It's certainly not the other way around. The fact is that most intelligent people are mostly unaware of the last 150 years of philosophy. The time before that is all they hear about, because it is pretty easy to explain. After that, it gets hard. However, those folks, among each other, just keep repeating the debates of back then, without realizing the advancements that have already been made. It's a damn shame. Even when you have progressed as little as I have, just to understanding how complicated these dualities are, discussing the Cartesian mind/matter duality with them over and over again gets like teaching yet another kid to integrate. They may be top-notch phycisists, but they simply don't know philosophy.
Some cities are pretty much first world, but 100km out of town you're in the 3rd world. Cellphone coverage over my whole country, I'm typing this on a notebook attached to a 23" LED screen and a docked iPhone. I'm writing C# for the day job while telecommuting from home. My guide up Kilimanjaro friended me on Facebook the other day. But I'll be donating blankets to some very cold people this winter - people who have never typed on a keyboard. Huge differences.
Just to be clear for those who do not read the article, "decriminalized" does not mean "legal". It means that while personal drug use, and possession for personal use, are still illegal, they are not treated as criminal matters. You go before a commission which can send you to treatment, or levy a small fine, or do nothing.

Dealers still get treated as criminals and go to prison.
What I did is:
notrealnews.net is behind cloudflare

All images on notrealnews.net are behind a CDN I made at: fullsend.xyz (like all the images are hosted there and then I utilize Cloudflare to cache them [0])

[0]: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/tutorials/configur...
"Under the new infrastructure all the builtin REPLs are capable of booting on modern hardware in a second or less." - https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/wiki/Custom-REPLs
Hi, maybe I ask what's "mpls", did a Google search but had no luck.
>Blocking and using are not mutual exclusive categories of human behavior.

Huh? I suppose one could say, bathing, singing, peeing, blocking, using, and jazz hands are not mutually exclusive categories of human behavior.

All these people need is a tub full of water in the middle of the highway and they can do all those things at the very same time. So then, what the fuck is your point?

Because my point is that jazz hands are for Broadway, bathing is for your tub, peeing is for your toilet, and driving is for the road. Why would you argue with that?
The first comment or the first paragraph of any article about Xiaomi is always how much they copied from Apple. I don't see it, it looks like any other laptop, there are laptops from HP/Dell/Acer that look more like an MBP than this does. Same goes for Xiaomi phones.

I'm sure they got a lot of inspiration from Apple and several places, so does every company, but this "blatant copiers!" reaction is a headline in every single Xiaomi article from every news site i've ever read. I'm not sure how much of this reaction is legitimate and how much of it is just corporate sentamentalism from Americans and/or apple-owners.
Not a requirement. Eg USA didn't have them half a century ago despite being mostly developed (I understand some parts are still a bit wild west), and fairly stable (probably not really going to be taken over by communism).
I think there is knowledge to be created but the process of it's creation is not the exclusive domain of the brilliant or even the above average.
I don't trust anyone to respect my Do Not Track settings.

Rather what I do is to blackhole the analytics servers with my /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1 www.googleanalytics.com
127.0.0.1 www.heapanalytics.com

Unfortunately one must jailbreak mobile devices to get at their hosts files. I understand that Windows no longer uses it at all.

Better would be to block the analytics services at the router, or preload a caching DNS server with them.

I also avoid "Log In With Facebook" &c. I don't register at a site unless it offers its own login facility.
I like the name MiBook Air better.
The other post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8813049 has an appropriate link:

https://www.typotheque.com/articles/hinting

I think it explains things like what hinting is and the different approaches there are. I AM an expert and I read new information (that Windows 7 brought in a major change to font renderering). Something for everyone.
“For aging research, the Bay Area is one of the best places in the world to be,”

I've been laughing about this fact for years. Give a guy a billion dollars and all of a sudden he wants to live forever.
It's not a bizarre assumption, it's an easily verified fact:

https://slate.com/business/2012/04/grover-norquist-and-h-r-b...
Yeah I think they might have missed that the leaving was in solidarity rather than exercising their freedoms.
The controversy is in the language "started" vs. "run."

Tezos, as an example, is governed by voting and on-chain governance. It isn't "run by a single entity."

Ripple or Tether are, though, sure.
Please don't misunderstand my post starting "the best thing about Windows..." as an overall endorsement of Windows. I didn't mean it to be read that way. I was just saying it's more convenient to have a clean install, although as you pointed out UEFI shenanigans can counteract that, so thank you for that.

>2. Do you actually run linux/bsd as your only desktop operating system, with no binary blob drivers? Because otherwise, you still don't own your computer.

I ran openbsd for decades, bought every release dvd, a few t-shirts and did my best to own my hardware. The only reason I don't run it now is their networking stack can't sustain gigabit speeds on the firewall hardware I use. Freebsd can't either, but it gets much closer. More than double the performance, actually. At least for me, it'll have to do.
The real wtf is: if the IRS already knew what you owed why did you have to go through the rigamarole to begin with?
Like this one? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091993

That would be super fun :)
This is what I used this year after watching the show and it worked great. I recommend this link to all my friends now. It also seems like they keep it up to date which is nice.
I would call it two functions with multiple tails.

And that was very popular when memory was scarce. The typical BASIC for the 6502 used it. See for example http://hackzapple.org/scripts_php/index.php?menu=14&mod=8517... (search for “The CHARGET Subroutine”). Here, it is used for speed, too (otherwise, at least one of the functions would have to do an indirect load, which is cumbersome and slow on a 6502. The self-modifying code is a lot faster)

It also often was used when one had, say, a function to output a character and another function that printed a specific character. Combined with a creative use of the BIT instruction, one could even have functions printing _any_ character, a space, a question mark, or a CR share their tails (https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/11132)

But yes, nowadays I guess it is rare, although, with an ABI designed for it, it could be used to make a call with a default argument value fall through into the more generic code)
> I don't want the capitol to be a fortress, but they need to prevent stuff like this.

And they would have, had the Trump Administration not denied the D.C
Mayor's request the day before for the D.C. National Guard to be deployed.

The Administration also delayed approval of requests by Virginia and Maryland to send Guard units to the Capitol in response to urgent calls for aid from Congressional leaders when it became clear the MPD and Capitol Police were overwhelmed.

Of course, it's a problem when the person inciting the insurrection has authority over important components of the security against it.
That's not really true. The early-ish internet saw plenty of, say, communists peering with Hayek libertarians inside Exodus cages, and other such unexpected arrangements. You also had LUGs, lan parties, BBSs and IRC channels that had very diverse users, but tolerated, and even thrived on, offensive speech and trolls. The community's glue was love of the technology and the medium, with political, ethnic, or other tribal interests being anywhere from completely unimportant to secondary.

Damn near every channel on 2010 EFNet or DALNet would be deemed in violation of most of 2020's TOS. To say nothing of mid-90s EFNet. Whoo-boy, the eggdrop bots logging those channels could get probably a thousand well-known, well-respected developers and network engineers working at FAANGs today fired, if someone took the time.
It's so great that I'm seeing this type of content in the foreign feed. Because every week another ancient temple, town or monument discovering in Turkey and it is so wonderful to see this richness of root but, the problem is our people or government can't properly serving this to global, consequently all this founded waiting for to rot.
Creating a cancel culture is exactly what the Nazis did to push their agenda.

I can be anti-Nazi and pro-free speech.
Perfection only lives in your mind.
you are allowed to uniquely identify a user with a "User ID" which is different than the "Client ID"

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...
I truly don't understand the increase in interest in visual coding recently.

I'd much rather be coding side-by-side with people that know the language(s) inside and out.
Could be! I hate sitting mostly because I like eating, and I feel like a slug if I'm not at a standing desk after Chipotle.
Actually, I believe the words were "Flight, go SCE to AUX." But an awesome story nonetheless.
I meant only, because if Bitcoin effectively becomes the leading world currency 10^100 might not be enough. However it shouldn't be hard to change that limit, or to find a way around it.
Verification seems very slow.
So as a result of the acquisition, IBM has disabled the service? Seems odd. Their only interest was supplementing/enhancing Watson?
Large scale evolution denialism in the western world is pretty much exclusive to the U.S.

There are, of course, various smaller groups of believers and faith-based private schools that espouse creationism, but it is certainly not very prevalent.
I am logged in and I don't see an option to 'edit'
https://i.imgur.com/tV96G2T.png
China and Chinese have been accused of all sort things. From ten years spent there I can tell you accusing their gov to be stupid is really dumb. Attacking github is the most useless attack they could invent. Therefore it's not them. Or it is a side effect.
I don't know about Netflix but even Youtube has trouble with high profile live events.
> Pilate is a critical figure to the marketing of Christianity to the Roman world, as in a couple of weird, awkwardly inserted passages completely absolves the Roman government of responsibility and solidly lays it all on the Jews.

It... doesn't though; it's long been the canonical Christian illustration of how you can’t escape culpability. Even the significant subset of Christianity that does treat Pilate as an actual saint rather than a villain does so on the basis of extrabiblical narratives of a later heel-face turn—including, in some versions, martyrdom as a direct consequence of his failed attempt to convert Caesar—but still sees him as a villain within the boundaries of the scriptural account of the Passion.
In theory, they keep your data private, combine it with the greater learnings of the world, and provide you with perfect autocomplete and autocorrect.

In practice though, it just doesn't work. I got GBoard for a while because it has a bilingual keyboard, but the autocomplete suggestions often ended up being people's first names instead of common words (and not even the people I was talking to).
Analogy: When I looked around my computer, I found no evidence of someone having broken in. Doesn't that lay to pasture claims of all these "security holes" "zero-days" and "hackers?" And aren't these "security updates" just paranoia?

Whether or not something happened in Georgia this election -- and I don't particularly care whether something did -- the perfectly valid point is we have an insecure election system, and we should fix it.
> How does this data sharing fit in with GDPR in EU?

It actually doesn't fit at all. As long as "payment" for usage is based on agreement to share personal data it is illegally obtained consent. Either they are ignoring their lawyers or they should fire them.

EDPS Opinion 4/2017 on the Proposal for a Directive on certain aspects concerning contracts for the supply of digital content, 14 March 2017, p. 7.

"There might well be a market for personal data, just like there is, tragically, a market for live human organs, but that does not mean that we can or should give the market the blessing of legislation. One cannot monetize and subject a fundamental right to a simple commercial transaction, even if it is the individual concerned by the data who is a party to the transaction."

https://edps.europa.eu/sites/edp/files/publication/17-03-14_...
it's a sad state of affairs, but I see a project like this and think immediately what's the angle? what is it these fuckers don't like about webpages now. what new and interesting way have they come up with to subvert the work of those that created an open internet in the first place.
I got no further that "modified browser" than to suspect they are up to no good.
I'm not saying anything about this project specifically , just they sorry state of the Internet and everything that runs on it and the big corps writing browser tech. Now that mozilla sold out, your only portal to the Web is preinstalled with tracking software written by those least able to control their own greed
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I expect there’s been some increasing call at Twitter to basically ban trump since 2016. I expect it’s mostly grown since the summer or so. I think of this move as being less about the specifics of the event than it is about that event making more people agree with the group that want to ban trump, allowing them to take a stronger action.

I feel like the “Twitter internal politics” explanation is more convincing than eg some small committee of expert moderators looking at trumps tweets and carefully deciding if they break the rules, balancing that with public interest considerations, and deciding if some restrictions should be placed on them
Didn't Photoshop release a feature in the past couple years that does exactly this? Simulated depth of field? And I remember watching the demo video and it looked damn good. Plus there's that Lytro camera that also allows you to move the point of focus around in the picture in post-processing.
O(n) is O(n) in any language. And how does Python become alphabet soup?
Usually, yes. However, it is possible for a package to have code that only runs when it is installed. If you just copy-paste, it won't be run.
Right on. Voting systems must have integrity but also voter anonymity. To quote Schneier:

> If we could do away with anonymity — if everyone could check that their vote was counted correctly — then it would be easy to secure the vote. But that would lead to other problems. Before the US had the secret ballot, voter coercion and vote-buying were widespread.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/04/securing_elec...
Not sure he and his people are capable of that, I mean it involves research and a printer...
That's a great answer. It's a great example app for learning on. How it looks isn't important. There are plenty of tutorials out there for building a simple CRUD app. I think those would be a good place to start.