jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
While I don't agree that it denotes bad UX in all cases, I acknowledge that it can be overdone to the point of annoyance (ala the new YouTube, which is a hover-fest)
Zipties have been awesome for me. When I'm working on a car, when I'm setting anything up, zip ties are strong and reliable, as well as disposable and cheap. You can get the long ones that just work for everything, and if you need longer, just chain them together.
> I can tether via USB or WiFi

USB and Bluetooth tethering available on the iPhone

> install apps from websites without using the Market

True.

> and use free turn-by-turn navigation all while while taking a phone call

Always been available on the iPhone, you can do whatever you want while taking a call. With iOS 4, users will be able to do even more.

> With Android I feel like I have freedom to do what I want

Yeah especially when you don't know what you can do on an iPhone, I find that interesting.
The only "not great" thing is that it is Apple that have introduced this as a problem, not this app developer. Which is a bit brutish.
These aren't registrations; these are hostnames in use.

For some reason -- perhaps just traditions -- it's especially common for bulk service providers to assign individual machine/address subdomains from .NET rather than .COM.

Indeed: I'm using a Comcast cable modem, and you reach Comcast's web page at comcast.com -- but my dynamic IP reverse-resolves to a comcast.net subdomain, and is obviously one of many thousands from its formulaic construction (including within it the IP address and region hints).
> With so many people so closely grouped together trying to read porn on trains, it's a necessity.

At least, that was my experience of trains in Tokyo, anyway.
Until there is an alternative established market, realistically you are only looking at getting a slice of the government funds, as that IS the market.

And if for that $1B you can achieve what currently would cost $15B and up (orion - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(spacecraft) ), then what other reason do you need?

Government has deemed it necessary to spend this money, so its in your best interest (as it is your money) to make sure that this gets used most efficiently.
Please don't be a jerk in response to someone sharing what they're working on. If people can't share that without being jumped on, this quickly becomes a shitty place for conversation. Probably you didn't mean it that way, but it's difficult to gauge intent on the internet, so the burden is on the commenter to dismabiguate it.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No clarification at any point was necessary. Despite your rant here, I made no claims as to which was better, or whether a users opinion on that particular aspect was valid. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so one cannot claim right or wrong.

What I stated was that development decisions, whatever they are, are up to the developers, including which frameworks they wish to use, and how they wish to use them. Saying in any form that you don't want developers to make decisions is nonsensical, as they would not be able to write anything then. Decisions have to be made, compromises chosen, and ultimately, not everyone will get their will.

If you don't want other developers to make decisions for you, you're stuck writing all the software you want to use yourself.
Threadreader is unambiguously superior to Twitter.
Thats a good idea! I might try that.
So they claim. Anything out of China should be taken with a healthy pinch of skepticism.
>The problem with library authors in general is that they, on average, have a better perspective how client programs should be written.

Even if this may be true. Your users are an important stakeholder and their views are important to consider. An attitude that you always know better that your users is not a good one to have as users can have more experience acutally using the software than the developers themselves.
Off-topic: If YOLO and you want to join Google, wouldn't that be motivation to study?
Very different IPs for me.
Even if, that's an awful lot of work - cancelling should be just as easy as signing up.
> This is an ill-informed opinion.

Like it's opinionated, poorly researched, and really just the thoughts from his head?
I might be mistaken about this, but I believe they plan on implementing support for this at some point.
Erm... Photon mapping uses "forward" path tracing to trace photons from the lights, not the camera.

In conventional (uni-directional) path tracing, rays are shot from the camera only, and bounce around the scene (other than for light visibility testing).

Bi-directional path tracing uses rays originating at both the camera and light sources going in opposite directions.

VCM is a combination of Bi-directional path tracing and photon mapping.
DHS is the poster child for mission creep. The White House suggested last year that they could help track down "circumvention devices" such as game console mod chips. From the Office of White House's "Copyright Czar":

“[It] is illegal to import or traffic in devices that can be used to circumvent technological measures that control access to copyrighted works,” they wrote. “When DHS discovers the importation of a potential circumvention device, current law does not authorize DHS to share a sample with a rightholder to aid CBP in determining whether it is, in fact, a circumvention device. Allowing DHS to provide a sample would aid enforcement efforts.”
This is a bit off-topic, but the fact that stringing or burying wire is necessary for ISPs is one of the arguments for net neutrality legislation.

The networks rightly point out that they invested lots of money in their infrastructure, and argue that therefore they should be able to do whatever they want with it.

Net neutrality proponents would reply that the public has invested in the network, too: we've allocated a scarce resource, like space on our utility poles or under our roads, to the ISP. (Not to mention friendly policies, actual subsidies, etc.) Only a limited number of wires can be put on a pole or under a road.

If an ISP can provide service without using any scarce public resources, they should be able to sidestep regulations. But I can't think of a way to do that: it's either physical space or radio spectrum, neither of which is infinite.

Net neutrality legislation may be a bad idea; I don't pretend to understand all of the issues involved. I would certainly be irritated if my tax dollars subsidized an ISPs infrastructure, and my road was torn up to lay their cable, and they then took that service and throttled YouTube in an effort to give their own video service an advantage.

But maybe that's a boogeyman argument and such things wouldn't happen.
Wasn't this exact point the case with PC/Mac? People bought IBM, Compaq, Dell, Gateway because of the manufacturer (...back when the manufacturer mattered), so purchasing was tightly coupled to manufacturer adoption. So could we intelligently say that someone buying the Compaq Whatever was choosing Windows 3.1? And what would it have mattered or would that have been a tricky part of understanding adoption? No: network effects had taken hold and one operating system was going to win without regard to manufacturer adoption.

I guess you're trying to point out that there aren't two separate markets in the Android space(ie. Android vs iOS and Apple vs Motorola) and instead there is just one market (ie. Motorola-Android vs HTC-Android vs Apple-iOS). I just don't see that to be the case. The market seems pretty fragmented and rich. Everyone I know who's bought an Android phone has either shopped amongst the brands or has gotten an Android because "they heard the iPhone sucked". I haven't heard of any brand loyalty.
Neither. (With occasional episodes of class 2 back when I used to go to first-year philosophy lectures, but that was twelve years ago...)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tvrageshellsite/ might work for you
Interesting. I imagine that observers notice "tells" of some kind when a person is acting above their own internal status estimate, and downgrade their own status estimate of that person accordingly.
Oh, man. Those apps would make GREAT screen savers.
I think it's interesting how many people react to the article as if it's saying "those other people use emotion rather than rational thought, we're not like them", when it actually says that reasoning and emotion are inseperable. For all of us.
Once you get an eye for it, it's very easy to see other people playing this game.
This pretty much sums up why I made a Shamwow inspired commercial for my project (RestSharp): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2460298

I also had stickers made that I mail to contributors and promoters. If I had the cash, I'd make tshirts. All of this makes the project feel vibrant and alive which inspires people to participate and contribute.
What are the alternatives to Anaconda, restriction-free?
This is not true, the figures you and others have provided account for an additional theoretical externality cost on our well being for coal. The nominal price of coal energy in the US is more than half of the cost of solar per kWh (3.2 vs 6.8 cents on average)[1].

It’s even cheaper in third-world countries (and China) due to the cost of labor.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/the-real-costs-of-u-s-ene...
I like these stories because they make me remember that things like electricity and water are not free.

Water and electricity should be a lot more expensive, then people would start to understand that having an Electric car, 10+ devices in the household, a washer, a drier, lights, tvs and all that shit is expensive for the lot.

But people don't really care, as long as our things work and we are not bothered by anyone else.

Pretty much like this
It's really annoying that WhatsApp chat export isn't available in Germany. I used to export my chats as backup and for creating fun stats for group chats with friends, but that feature got removed about a year ago.

I haven't found a way to circumvent this restriction. There were some tricks like installing a modified Russion WhatsApp APK but that risk didn't seem worth it.
I think this would likely work better as a newsletter first that (maybe) later expanded into a news site.
When I lived in NYC I remember the first day it reached 50 degrees, sometime in late March or April, you would see people walking around in tee shirts.

Ditto for Chicago. First 50° day of the year, and Oak Street Beach fills up.
The important part is not the source code but the content. As for libgen, they provide torrents per 1000 (I think) books, so maybe downloading and seeding those could be helpful? (But I heard they recently created IPFS mirros as well)
Thank you for sharing an inspiring story.

When my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer my dad poured over literally hundreds of medical papers to determine the best course of action. I believe he saved her life. Scihub was instrumental in that. I helped a little in checking and challenging his conclusions. I think it's unlikely she would have had as good an outcome if we'd just listened to the doctors.

My conclusion is if you want the best medical care be sure to do your own research and talk to many doctors about your findings and treatment options. Do not blindly trust the medical community. They are years behind the current state of knowledge in their field and just do not have the time and energy to spend per patient to get the best outcome.
Regardless of using CRA or not, would the adoption of a lockfile help in keeping your direct and indirect dependencies pinned to the same versions over time?
And it was not an scientific paper
True, but the chosen measure is going to be the lowest inflation imaginable since it relates strongly the global price of goods instead of services cost.

Poor people actually can't escape service costs and pay for a lot more (seemingly) mandatory service costs that go away when you have enough money to stay away from them. I.e. the costs of not having a fridge at all vs being able to bulk shop at a warehouse are all massively higher.
> I would also add "Dahl" for Simula, McCarthy for Lisp, Grace Hopper for Cobol for bringing in innovative ideas and the Standard ML folks as another example for tayloring a great mix of concepts.

I agree (maybe excepting Cobol), but sadly McCarthy, Millner, Dahl and Hopper are no longer fall under the category of great living programming language designers.

> some people did revolutionize language design, others had a talent of remixing existing concepts to something that was really useful and and a programming language that's comfortable (Rossum and Wirth would fall under that category for example)

Yes, I think to qualify as a great language designer you either have to be really good at "UX", without necessarily contributing major conceptual breakthroughs (like van Rossum or Hejlsberg) or come up with something original and valuable. I'm pretty sure Stroustrup is not that good at UX (the C++ edit-compile-debug cycle is almost singularly miserable) and I'm not quite sure about the original and valuable part either.
Okay, that sounds better.

But... I don't even know HOW do you increase your wealth. I suppose speculation but outside of that I have zero clue. I am aware that people "buy low, sell high" but beyond that, nothing. Plus, there's a ton more out there compared to the normal stocks, no?

Where can I learn about various entry-level wealth increase techniques?
I swear we must be the same person!
An example from forty years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_(software)
> Presumably shipping ads ( or 'sponsored content') off by default would leave them with a low adoption rate... this is the sort of feature that people don't really request in their browsers.

Geez almost like users don't want sponsored content in their address bar...
Not a bug I personally was very affected by, but:

Thank you so much fpr actually fixing bugs!

If my impression of Mozilla is correct you must have both done the work and possibly also fought hard to be allowed to merge it.

(Now, if any Mozillan feel inspired I'd love to get my real extensions back, particularly TST without top tab bar and also Scrapbook.)
As far as I can tell they make no mention of where exactly they are getting their data, but they claim to update multiple times daily and review all data manually.

They also say the following:

> Uns blieb bei der Aktienanalyse oft keine andere Wahl, als unzählige Geschäftsberichte der vergangenen 20 Jahre zu öffnen und dort die gesuchten Daten manuell und mühsam viele Stunden herauszusuchen.

The essence of which is that in the past they often manually extracted data from the last twenty years of annual reports from a given company. Maybe that's still how they're doing it.
Except that problem shouldn't exist; IMO byte stuffing is evil and all protocols should use byte counting.
Nice to see a concrete example of someone treating piracy as a market failure. The Michael Geist article [1] about it was very informative but light on actual examples.

[1] http://www.thestar.com/business/article/956637--geist-canadi...
The electronics shop is fairly easy; it was the only one I had access to. Like you, I learned by tinkering. The only thing in the electronics lab that will hurt you is the soldering iron, so as long as you know which end of that is hot, you should be good.

That said, I have some memory of the shops being fulltime-only. Once you get to Google, go to http://goto/workshops; full details are there.
Does anyone know if Valve and Steam use the same servers as Playstation for processing? I purchased Portal 2 through Valve on my PC a week before they shut the network down and had my card stolen two days later (I didn't use the card for weeks before and didn't use it after) so it seems like these might be linked.
Facebook acquires Daytum or Daytum founders hired by Facebook?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's suspicious. What I mean is that, had it been me in, I would have probably picked a "no name" representation of a credit card.
Hi everyone,

Author of the blog post here, if you have any questions or feel that I've missed something out, please feel free to ask me :)

Previous discussion of part I is here: http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=2471130

Cheers,
Tom.
But you get to keep the money you'd spend on buying the house/apartment which you can then invest into other assets. Also, who repairs what is down to agreement. I've always been renting (it's not that uncommon here, in Europe, though it is less common here, in Hungary) and the agreement was always that all repairs that are due to proper usage is to be paid for by the landlord but any damage is to be paid for by the renter (me).

Now the little repairs that were due during these years (in 3 different downtown apartments) always went like this: I tell the landlord that something needs to be fixed, they tell me to call someone (or sometimes they send someone they know) and I pay for it, get the invoice which we then deduct from the rent next month. No extra profit made on the repairs. You can say that it is priced in the rent, but then that's the rent (which will be subject to competition). Yes, obviously they are looking to make some meaningful return on their investment. Whether that's higher than the mortgage's interest rate depends a lot on when they actually bought the property. But in an equilibrium the two should be pretty close because if they start to diverge too much people will either stop renting or they will stop buying apartments (and do the other).
Looks very nice!

Two questions off top of my head:

- Might be worth mentioning how Hyperactive compares to tons of other similar packages, like Hyperopt, Optunity and a ton of others? Also how your GFO package is different from optima, opytimizer, and many others as well. Having some benchmarks or performance stats (or even just listing functionality differences) would be very helpful to anyone who's been already using those.

- One of the best universal 'works-out-of-the-box-most-of-time' global optimizers I've used recently is DLib's: http://blog.dlib.net/2017/12/a-global-optimization-algorithm... - any chances for implementing something similar?
Only if you're a business, right? Does offering to buy 500 euros off your friend because he have some left over from his european vacation make you a MSB?
I think Apple’s approach is reasonable and I don’t have a better way. I’m just warning against over-interpreting the results as a strong preference.
To be fair, there are few which have mot suffered the same fate from the British Empire or USA either. This is probably why KSA has never faced any punishment from western powers, they are members of the club.
I’m surprised downvoting isn’t even mentioned in the guidelines. Assuming they didn’t want to mention downvoting unless you have enough karma, they could just display the clause for those with downvoting capability.
Not intended, my bad
So first of all, I just want to echo the general sentiment here and say that all of this is beyond awesome. Cosmopolitan libc seems to have the potential to literally re-define what constitutes portable code.

With that out of the way, am I understanding correctly that the way this works on Linux/Unix is that the modifies itself (by overwriting the EXE file header with an ELF header)? This seems to have the consequence of making that specific file no longer portable. If I'm understanding things correctly, it also looks like the QEMU hack for non-x86_64 architectures will only work once per file, since after the first time running the file it will no longer run as a shell script on Unix so the QEMU invocation will be unreachable.

Have you considered adding workarounds for this?
I put together a historical list of TLDs that had been removed in 2017: https://github.com/pzb/TLDs/blob/master/removed/rmtlds.csv . It overlaps with the early part of this list.

.cs was the first removed TLD as far as I was able to find.
I have a limesdr and a hackrf. Both work really well, but it does seem like there are more people/projects for the hackrf. Once you learn the ins and outs of GNUradio, it is pretty amazing what you can do.
jcromartie's premise was, "If Dustin were a major corporation or a politician..."

IANAL, and it's not exactly the same circumstances, but when Sarah Palin's e-mail was hacked during the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, the FBI and Secret Service both "got involved". According to Wikipedia the hacker in question was eventually found guilty of (1) felony obstruction of justice by destruction of records and (2) misdemeanor unauthorized access to a computer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin_email_hack
Yes, well, there is a certain amount of silliness that comes from thinking someone would be programming with something _other_ than C# for the web with .net. But yes, I do agree.

(Full disclosure: while an intern I wrote an application in VB.net for PennDOT to help manage all of the random light poles throughout the state. I wouldn't say it was my proudest moment.)
Only of course, Daisy Disk actually animates beautifully. Have you ever seen it in action? Its animations really bring it to life.
How would those two things be related at all?
Very tangential, but I was just checking out Flipkart and some things are extremely inexpensive. Portal 2 and Crysis 2 are under $20 USD.
Completely agree here. We'll have a much better picture of where the startup industry stands once we find out the real market value of all these companies set to go public.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/...

“Now, pathologists at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston have found evidence that large bone marrow cells known as megakaryocytes may be responsible for the brain fog. They suggest that megakaryocytes migrate to the brain in a journey precipitated by the destructive activity of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.”
He explains that he's happy and says he lives comfortably. Why is that not enough?
To say something is just 'good' is a pretty lame excuse to stop eating somewhere, and besides one eats at chipotle because it's typically very healthy and economical, esp. if you are feeding a family. Or perhaps you are on the road and given the choices of Subway, or a burger joint, again it's a healthy, better choice.

If you live in Denver then you likely have grown tired of Chipotle since it started here; then you'd choose Illegal Pete's which is by far the best local burrito at the moment.

Either way though, fine stop eating Chipotle, they won't miss you. ;)
Nevermind the clickbait title, I think there are some pretty important ideas here that aren't commonly discussed.
IMHO, fuck high school history class, yes. I learnt nothing of value there, except how nationalistic middle americans are.
This is great!

PHP is trying to provide full support for hinting (you couldn't hint a scalar type nor returns)

I can see how most languages are slowly converging.
tl;dr take risks

Do you think there are too many line breaks in this post?
Really wish I knew why everyone automatically assumes that homeschooling is useless...
> And as users start making fewer decisions because of this automation, the "advanced features" that they would otherwise use get used less, leading to their eventual removal.

That much is probably inevitable. When they build a house they provide you a light switch that will cause the room to be illuminated and then put up drywall everywhere which makes it less easy for you to add new switches and outlets. What they don't do is fill the walls with cement and epoxy everything with a screw thread and then, when a light bulb burns out which is permanently affixed to the frame of the building, tell you to buy House 2.0.

It's one thing to not spend time adding a feature most people don't use, but which the owner can add later with some work. It's quite another thing to actively spend effort to prevent the owners from exercising control over their own devices.
Excellent suggestions, will be adding format configurations next!