jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
For Flash games or other page content, I agree that the performance impact of wmode=transparent is to be avoided. But Flash ads are a different story.

FlashHeed is designed to be used specifically on Flash ads that you don't control. If you're embedding rich content on your page (like Flash games) where performance matters, you'll write your own embed tag and can control the wmode directly.
Sure, Reddit's problems are caused by its size, the same way that Digg's are caused by its size. But this does not make the groupthink, mob mentality etc. any less irritating.
A useful follow-up question should have been "how are startups invited to do an interview when they're not able to describe what they're doing in two sentences?"

It does not seem possible that an application where the only description is "we're improving the way people interact" gets an invitation; so, when the interview is a little shallow (because of stress, etc.) why not start back from the application?

Or maybe the interview is not about the idea, but about the ability of the founders to communicate effectively...?
I hate Groupon. I'd be more impressed with their meteoric popularity if businesses were really benefitting. Instead, my favorite BYOB sushi place is overrun and I guarantee they don't retain all those Groupon customers.
>Eat a small breakfast and you'll start to get hungry before lunch. Eat a reasonable lunch, and you'll start to get hungry before dinner

I usually go without breakfast (only coffee). When I do eat it then I'm ravenous by lunchtime. I put it, completely unscientifically, down to waking up your metabolism. Breakfast for me would be cereal of some sort with raisins and milk or granola with milk.
"It would be terrible to think that your Ivy League graduate thesis was riding on the work ethic and perspicacity of a public-university slacker. So part of my job is to be whatever my clients want me to be. I say yes when I am asked if I have a Ph.D. in sociology. I say yes when I am asked if I have professional training in industrial/organizational psychology. I say yes when asked if I have ever designed a perpetual-motion-powered time machine and documented my efforts in a peer-reviewed journal."

It's quite funny that such utterly dishonest people are so willing to accept someone else's word at face value. Also, that they place such stock in the institutional accreditations that they are proving to be worthless through their actions.
> ANY queries are not widely used by any real world software. We aware of only two programs that issue ANY queries

Does no one at Cloudflare use dig?

I agree that applications shouldn't be issuing ANY queries¹ under normal circumstances but without being able to perform these queries in tools like dig, a lot of sysadmin/support staff time would be wasted. (AXFR isn't a suitable replacement in this situation because it's disabled or restricted practically everywhere these days.)

¹especially qmaild, even when fetching only MX records, the bug linked from the article will appear when there are enough MX records.
Yeah I was being hyperbolic, but my point still stands. The LARGE majority of developers have accepted unix as their overlord, and that poses a huge problem to microsoft as they're a second thought. They're forced to try to fit new frameworks into their ecosystem, rather than on unix where developers expect it to run.

I see it ultimately as damage control. With the overwhelming majority of developers on unix, you're not going to see microsoft hang out in the server market for very long. I think they'll hang onto the office crowd, but nothing on the backend.

This, of course, is just the opinion of a 20 year old unix nerd, who became one because his father is a microsoft fanboy. I rebelled in my teenage years by infuriating my father and installing linux. I still think I raise some valid points.
Lamo was kind of backed into a corner. Even aside from the moral issues (I personally would have turned in Manning; if you volunteer for a role where you will get classified data, you need to play by those rules!)

1) If SPC Manning was talking recklessly to Lamo, Lamo had to assume he was also talking to other people, and generally behaving recklessly. Manning was going to get caught. If Lamo didn't say anything, but Manning later was caught, it would be likely discovered that he'd confessed to Lamo as well. This would not be good for Lamo, especially if that information were not yet public knowledge. An investigator might suspect conspiracy, and might suspect Lamo had data -- he could then be subject to intelligence activity or law enforcement activity himself.

2) If he cooperated with authorities in secret, it's likely his involvement would become known later once the trial happened (or at any time of Manning's choosing). People who interacted with Lamo between his initial contact with Manning and the eventual disclosure would be afraid they had been compromised as well.

I think Lamo was in a difficult situation even if he didn't want to turn the guy in.
IF there is no potential for growth beyond the work capacity of a single individual then yes that is not a company but a job.

I've never said that all studios are like this. It just seems to be that most are.
> The video, he said, was an encrypted AES-256 ZIP file.

Does this mean Assange broke the AES-256 encryption on a ZIP file in 6 months? I mean, I'm sure the password didn't have 256 bits of entropy, but dang that's scary!
As far as I know, the first mover advantage pretty much applies everywhere, even in a world where everything can be duplicated in very little time. Heck, Redhat is a prime example of the first mover advantage.

As far as I know, industries as wide as steam engines, movies, sheet musics, software, fashions, agriculture, books, newspaper etc have no problem thriving without intellectual monopolies.(ERrr..actually Hollywood moved to California to escape the Edison patent regime. Patents delayed the evolution of steam engines quite a bit and divert inventor resource from R&D and production to lawyering.)

Either your theory is wrong, or there's more to it than just first mover advantage.
Author's email is in whois, for those who have questions.
I don't accept the argument: "Software is software". Why is GPL better than all other licenses, for all software?
Look at using SQLite. Or at least start with that, and if you 'outgrow' it, only then consider PostreSQL. PostgreSQL is the best multi-reader, multi-writer, multi-user database out there, but you don't need the extra DBA overhead of managing the database with the load you expect. I'm certain SQLite could easily handle 1,000s of concurrent writes without a lot of latency, which you can test yourself to find out what those limits are. Plus you can start prototyping with Tcl as the scripting language (or Perl, Python or Ruby, but those are not as good for this use-case -- no flaming please). Tcl can load SQLite as a library directly into the Tcl shell. Awesome. If you 'outgrow' SQLite in any way, migrating to PostgreSQL should be relatively easy. FYI - I attended the Tcl/Tk conference in early November and Richard Hipp, the SQLite creator, gave a full-day tutorial on SQLite internals. Very impressive software.
Now that you mention it, 'data processing' seems more neutral and accurate, so I've put that in the title above.
By your logic doesn’t Apple already violate the First Amendment by not allowing porno apps? That doesn’t seem to have kept them up at night or caused any significant consequences.
I'm not saying you should. Enjoy your free time. I just think it's weird to shame people that care more by implying they have too much time on their hands. Everyone has a level of caring that's appropriate for them.

There's a lot of things you can learn from writing demos that is still incredibly valuable. I wouldn't expect 99.9% of developers to know those things, but if I saw it on a resume? That'd totally jump off the charts to me and I'd definitely want to interview that person.

Don't shame expertise just because you choose to spend your time differently.
> it would be violating several portions of the the First Amendment including freedom of speech, for the right to assemble, and the right to petition the government.

i am pretty sure the bill of rights is about what the government can’t do, and doesn’t affect private parties like apple...
Any analysis recommendations? I have Hubbard & Hubbard in mind.
There is a long-standing distinction within classical political economy of differentiating between land, labor, and capital holding classes. Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and Karl Marx among many others make this distinction.

Capital holders face depreciation. Land holders do not (at least, not to the same degree). Piketty looks at the asset mix of the rich over time, arguing that the rich have predominantly shifted away from land holding toward capital holding. Pre-WWI most wealth was drawn from land holdings, whereas Post-WWII most wealth is drawn from capital holdings and super incomes.

The argument about the reconcentration of wealth from the 70s and 80s through the present ought to be affected if depreciation of capital were much higher than Piketty allowed for in his model—especially since the rich mostly hold capital now.

If the wealth increase over time has been coming from land and not capital (which faces depreciation, while land does not), that's an interesting and important fact, because it affects the policy recommendations that flow from Piketty's argument. Piketty's conclusions call for a global progressive wealth tax and a global progressive income tax. What the article points out is that if most of the wealth increase is coming from land, a different type of tax might be the best way to target the concentration of wealth—namely the Georgist land-value tax instead of broader global wealth and income taxes.

It doesn't appear that the MIT student is just casting about to find reasons to dismiss Piketty, rather these may be significant insights into the data that affect the overall conclusions that we might draw from it. Just like Piketty, Rognlie should be judged on the quality of his data.
Interesting comparison, in times of militarized trigger-happy police...
Simple turns this on it's head. Instead of looking back at transactions and how much money has already left, this looks forward. I have house and car payments due on the first, utilities due later in the month, kids college accounts, Internet, car registration due once a year, garbage due quarterly, insurance due every 6 months.

I get paid twice a month. The day after I get paid a job at Simple runs that takes a share of all the above expenses from my account, moves those funds into "envelopes", and gives me a main account view of the money I have left over after my expenses are accounted for. So in the middle of the month I have half my rent and car moved off for 2 weeks in the future.

I guess a similar notion would be to just add all these up, or maybe keep a spreadsheet of them, and have it give me a number to transfer into a secondary account every paycheck, and pay bills off of that.

But the Simple expense view is great, I can see what expenses have already come out (because they are empty), which haven't been paid yet (they are fully funded, according to the progress bar), etc...

In fact, their "categorize transactions" I've found to basically be useless. Aside: Part of this is their system, which has never seemed to be able to learn some transactions. Part of it is that you just can't track Amazon spend (is this Home Improvement, Groceries, books, etc...).
Honestly, I don't see the difference. If you're talking about general low quality posts, look no further than r/PoliticalHumor. And, even though the algorithm has changed, The Donald was ONE pro-trump subreddit and they got banned. They are gone now, mission accomplished.

Now you have about a dozen progressive subreddits hitting the front page on a daily basis with nothing more than screenshots of tweets. How is that any better?
They don’t officially support it but they don’t disable it on consumer chips like intel does.

It’s supposed to work but if you have any problems with it you can’t go back to AMD and complain. IMHO that’s not really good enough, if ECC is going to protect you they need to officially support it.

It sounds like not officially supporting ECC is a CYA move for when it doesn’t work.
The governments of Russia and China are ideologically anathema to me personally. I try very hard to avoid my gut reaction, which is rather... final.

Knowing this reaction of mine, every time I post something about either country, I have to be extra careful that I'm not indulging that.
They pay multi-millions to license Imagination Tech patents and poached most of their best designers.

Even with a custom design, those designers are likely to think along the same lines (and Imagination Tech IP is pretty good in it's own right).

In any case, I doubt Apple would pay that much money if they didn't need rights to the IP.

The only real question is why they didn't acquire the company outright.
Maybe the color code is shitty, i agree with that. SPLC should be yellow.

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The Southern Poverty Law Center is considered generally reliable on topics related to hate groups and extremism in the United States. As an advocacy group, the SPLC is a biased and opinionated source. The organization's views, especially when labeling hate groups, should be attributed per WP:RSOPINION. Take care to ensure that content from the SPLC constitutes due weight in the article and conforms to the biographies of living persons policy. Some editors have questioned the reliability of the SPLC on non-United States topics. SPLC classifications should not automatically be included in the lead section of the article about the group which received the classification. The decision to include should rather be decided on a case-by-case basis.

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For information, hatewatch indeed group KKK, Neonazi with other conservative groups, anti-LGBT especially, and sometime anti-abortion group depending on the degree of proselytism. It is a antifa technique, really soft as only the organization and the leaders are on the list. It is useful knowledge, but not as much as the private antifa lists (that include members of the organization too).
It's about perspective. Imagine being pinned down by a squad of these things for "only" 60 minutes. Or being pursued through the forest or an urban environment. That 60 minutes would feel like a very long time.

For a glimpse of this, check out the videogame Generation Zero (1980's Sweden overtaken by armed robots, including robot dogs).
Mind you, Discord's ToS do not specifically mention third party clients at any point. They do say that they can ban your account for whatever reason, however.
If you had ever worked in or near government, you would have been disappointed that the analogy was not ridiculous enough.

The aqua-hoverboard is essentially a powerful water pump attached to a fire hose. The single rider stays above water by spraying all the other people in the face with his jet stream.

Actual government is dumber. I didn't see anywhere in the analogy a requirement that some swimmers be required to carry 20-lb rocks. No one had their life jacket taken away because it was either carcinogenic or insufficiently fire-retardant. No one was given a bucket, with which to move the water from one corner of the room to the other. No one was fined for indecency after converting their own pants into a flotation device. None of the life jackets were nailed to the floor, for use by the people who have already drowned and sunk to the bottom.

But on the other side of the coin, no one hired a swim instructor for $20/hr for 10 hours, either. The thing about government is that it simultaneously does useful and efficient things, and also incredibly stupid and wasteful things. That almost makes it worse, to see the one little thing that shows how it could be, and compare that to the way it actually is.

The simpler an idea is, the less likely it is that adding government to it will screw it up. That's why basic income is so simple. Every additional detail is just an additional opportunity for someone to get it wrong, whether that is accidental, due to incompetence, or intentional, for profit.
No need to box with std::function. Since C++17 this is enough:

template<class Fn>
struct defer {
Fn fn;
~defer() { fn(); }
};
template<class Fn>
defer(Fn) -> defer<Fn>;

int main() {
defer _ { [] { std::cout << "exit"; }};
}

Although you might want to add the ability to dismiss() the guard.

edit: a more complete implementation: https://godbolt.org/z/6675K1 . I like to name my guards. Making them anonymous is left as an exercise for the reader.
It would also prevent one from buying plain Coca-Cola or other soft drinks in certain countries. One of the odd things about the history of pricing in the Nordic countries is that the price of ordinary soda has climbed to that of Red Bull, while the price of Red Bull itself has stayed about the same.
I remember an old article on Java3D: rewriting a C++-based system in Java3D led to an order of magnitude improvement in performance! Of course, the lessons they learned from writing the C++ system could be cleanly integrated into a fresh Java3D implementation, so the comparison was not honest at all.
Worse: Why do you consider the multiple universe hypothesis as more probable than the God hypothesis?

On the basis of data? No. (If you think otherwise, show us the data.)

On the basis of philosophical prejudice? Yes, I think that's the reason.

But if you say that, given no evidence for God, one should be an atheist, then given no evidence for multiple universes...
This is really interesting. I have been having conversations with a bunch of folks in the Portland area about trying to find funding with a very similar model.

Glad to hear that other folks are thinking, and doing things, along these lines.

I love the fact that it is offered as a line of equity. Being able to get money when you need it, but not take it if you don't, makes it a lot easier to keep your spending low, and not have a pile of cash burning a whole in your pocket.
1. B2B + autocorrect.

2. First year outlay: $15k for 100 hours + $15k for license. First year return $24k. Net negative cash flow $6k in first year.Only $3k net cash overall after 2years on a $45k outlay.
I'm not sure about "more demand", but I wouldn't be surprised if multi-language ability were to seen as more distinguishing in a world in which language translation is readily available - i.e. "can do what most rely on a machine for". I don't think "why do they trouble themselves instead of just using machine translation" would happen any time soon, since being able to speak a language yourself still affords the most direct communication path (unless it falls out of fashion to talk face to face).

Especially since this is something where it's not possible for machines to truly just eclipse humans -- if you're fluent, you're fluent. Of course machine translation easily surpasses human speakers on vocab, but you're more or less bounded by what the recipient/listener can understand, anyway.

But demand for translation services will likely dwindle.

That said, one of the best reasons to learn languages is simply the mental exercise, and unless we change the way humans learn and maintain mental performance, that will remain true.
It can be done (I'm doing it in production), but it is not thought out with this situation in mind. I forked the formula repo at some point in the distant past, and untar it onto each machine. Then I manually manage dependencies when I tell it to fetch bottles from my own source.

A lot of the simplicity and 'it just works' nature of Homebrew is because it's meant to be used in one situation and that's it.
I agree in principal, I hate those 'N tips for doing X' blog posts (and magazine articles) too. That format is so overused and so shallow. <3 Yegge and Paul Graham.

But not many bloggers are Yegge and Graham. And they don't beat around the bush with uneccessary verbiage either, as the OP was complaining about.
I think it'd be interesting to see someone write a letter to Apple to see how far they'll bend.

For example:

"An educational app to teach programming in python. The app consists of a code editor and source-level debugger, an online tutorial book, and example code for the user to edit and modify. Source code is stored in a read-only sandbox; any user-edited material must be saved to DropBox or an iDisk. Some built-in language functionality is disabled, to comply with App store policy (notably fork()/exec(), filesystem access outside the sandbox, most POSIX IPC, etc). Interpreter will only execute while app is open (no backgrounding)."

In other words, something like "Learning Python" as an ebook, with http://www.skulpt.org/ (Skulpt) wired up to it, possibly with some IDE-style bells and whistles.
depends on your needs.

Wordpress: You get the power of manipulating the Server Side freely. Think plug-ins, widgets, Ajax...
You host it yourself.

Blogspot: You only have JavaScript and few Server side commands. Good for simple blogging.
They host it for you. Secure hosting that handle effectively massive traffic.

Others (Like posterous, tumblr...): You are limited, some how. I prefer to stay away from them, as they may surprise me with new rules.
Then we could talk about how we make systems to help the editorial team sort through the 16,000 content submissions we get every day, or how we have a public API so people can submit funny content from their applications.

So could you talk about some of that now? I'm genuinely curious.
Speak for yourself. Gaussian distributions are ubiquitous (thanks to the Central Limit Theorem), while uniform distributions only exist in the realm of pseudo-number generators and little else.

I think that the point you're trying to make is that a random variable with a uniform distribution is more "random" than a random variable with a gaussian distribution. The metric you're implying is called entropy, as a uniform distribution is maximally entropic.
What kind of replies do you get?
Is there something wrong with the creative commons no commercial use license? It is a copyright license much the same as the BSD license or GPL license are.

Or you could, you know, just not license it to commercial entities.
Both still look like they're still moving when they're stopped though, which is the real point of them. Tricking the user into believing the task will be completed before it really will be isn't the goal - otherwise they'd intentionally underestimate completion times when they're displayed.
Summary: Intel guy says 1000 is feasible in a message passing architecture without coherent caches (having done 48). The programming model will be radically different from current shared memory models.
Mitko, the title of your linked article is 'Faux Marx'.

'Faux' means 'fake'.
The biggest illusion of progress bars is when they don't accurately represent the time left for something to complete. Like when you wait 7,5 minutes for the bar to reach 75% and then it suddenly jumps to 100%, instead of taking another 2,5 minutes to complete (that is frequent on installation processes).

Of course, when it comes to download progress bars it's not possible to make it accurate without making it bigger as the download speed drops and making it infinite/disable it when the speed is 0KB/s. But in other offline tasks the progress bar is frequently useless to capture time remaining for the completion of something.

That's probably why a time remaining label is added to them.