jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm fine with Windows, as long as you disable the Microsoft account and don't look much at the start menu it mostly gets out of the way, and doesn't have UI latency.

Teams, on the other hand, is an UI nightmare:

- It has noticeable UI latency even in the best computers.

- If you open a document within it, there is no way (that I know of) to get back to the chat to discuss something about the document, and then back to the document again. Once you go to a chat, the document is closed and you have to navigate the whole file system to find it again, click it, and wait for several seconds for it to open because lag.

- If you search for messages with a given word, it shows you a list of the messages but it doesn't allow you to click on each to look at the context, which is what I want to do like 99% of the time I search for a message in a chat app.

- If you have it set up to launch on startup, it will open private conversations and again, take a couple of seconds to close even if you're a fast clicker, because of its ubiquitous lag. Incredibly inconvenient if you use the laptop to give a presentation (of course I know that I can just set it to not open on startup, but I shouldn't need to do that. It makes sense to have it on startup 99% of the time as I almost always use it, just don't open a private chat and stick it in front of the screen with focus as the first thing you do!).

- The filesystem is a nightmare (not only Teams' fault, but the whole Office ecosystem): files associated to a team, vs. files on someone's OneDrive, vs. SharePoint. After 2 years of using it, I still don't get the difference between OneDrive and SharePoint and I'm still not able to find anything without stumbling around, and I'm supposed to be a tech guy.

- Sometimes you drag a file on a chat to send it to the other person and it makes you explicitly set permissions (using a laggy UI, of course) so the other person can access the file. Why would I send a file to a private chat if I didn't want to show it to the other person?

- Calls don't scale. Quality degrades fast.

- Sometimes a "team" will go bold for no reason. I click on it, and there is nothing new. Or a chat window will go blank and only come back when someone types a new message.

Mind you, it has good things (I like the simplicity of partially typing a few names in the search box, having it autocomplete, click on the people and starting a group chat, for example) but the UI is a dumpster fire. I'm not anti-Microsoft as a whole (I like Windows, and kind of like Excel) and while I kind of tolerate it, there are plenty of reasons to get angry with it. And some of the issues above (like search not showing context, rendering it all but useless) are really basic, I don't know how they could even pass QA.
You can’t over one poll. It’s really consistency that you’re looking for over many, many polls.

The worst part of figuring out the trustworthiness of a source is putting in the time and effort to comb over all of its output and comparing it to reality, an effort that can take a long time.

Which lends me to ask: how can you say that you trust 538 if you also say there is only one data point? Because there shouldn’t be: 538 made big news during the election of 2008. 538 has been around since 2008 so you should have a lot of polling predictions to comb over.

I actually don’t have an opinion of 538 as I haven’t put in that work.
5HT2A mediated visual changes are different than dopamine induced hallucinations and delusions. The former are mostly recognized as being fake to the person experiencing them, and the latter are hard to impossible to discern from reality. Psychotic delusions and hallucinations are thought to be the result of problems with dopaminergic neurons, and 5HT2A exists on serotonergic neurons. Psychedelic PEAs work on serotonergic neurons mostly to produce their hallucinatory effects.
Unlimited coffee is also limited by the amount of pee you can hold in your bladder.
Have pushed fix as version 0.10.0. Thank you very much for reporting.
Either intelligent life is rare in the universe or there's something that happens to it that prevents it from what we envision as the future of our own species, i.e., colonizing and spreading among planets. Maybe 99.99% of species ruin their own climate before getting off-world. Maybe they all decide it's happier living as hunter-gatherers. Unless we're alone, there is some fate that's common to all intelligences and it isn't a Star Trek future. The universe is simply too old. If anything else like us existed and it was possible to exist like us for a long period they'd have filled every planet before we ever evolved.

Personally I think just the fact the universe hasn't been eaten by Von Neumann machines means we're alone.
I'm in the US. It's not uncommon here. In fact, two of my cards, a Chase Visa, and an Amex, both only support mag stripe and chip; they do not have an RFID chip in them. I could get them replaced, but why? Every POS system supports those; not everyone supports tap to pay.

The US may be an anomaly here, but it always has been. The UK had chip and pin roll out while the US still had mag stripe being the most common; we slowly added chip and signature (we still don't have chip and pin), and now we still aren't anywhere close to universal in tap to pay.
It's 1.58 dollar heads double your money at 100 bets and 220 bets.

How did I do that?

I use to win money playing poker to pay for college books at beg of Semester using the same math strategy as it always has to be between I/15th and 1/20 if you have 60% odds
Surprisingly, one of the best looking laptop designs I've seen in a while was one by Nokia, of all people. Unfortunately, it is a Netbook, and has all of the associated issues, and I have no idea about its linux support. But from a design aspect, it looks nice.

http://www.nokiausa.com/find-products/mini-laptops/nokia-boo...

Now, if only we could locate a more powerful alternative.
Wow, fanboys need to check their egos at the door. "My pet cause is losing... someone on the Internet is wrong!"
I also agree, but I have a feeling that at some point in the 90's when "tech geek" stuff was cool, the model numbers actually helped their marketing.
But Judy as it stays is extensively optimized for relatively common architectures (and performance degradation on 32B cache line systems is not too great). In fact most software optimized for caching behavior that I know of is optimized for 64B cache lines.

Also even simple hash table greatly benefits from even trivial cache-related optimization, so I would say that while Judy is extensively optimized for particularly common expectation, simple hash tables have to be optimized for every platform also.

On the other hand, for most use-cases these optimizations does not matter much, but there are special cases. Python's dictionary is great example (by thew way it is if I remember correctly also optimized for 64B cache lines)
Yes I meant a bus/train/van-pool/subway/ferry, and yes I was thinking in listening to an audiobook/podcast, reading a book, perhaps doing some brainstorming with a Moleskine (well, it depends on the crowdiness of where your are), and if you have a table perhaps working on your laptop...
I bought a Thinkpad not too long ago. Thinkpads have a good reputation, their new cheap(-ish) "SL" models are very affordable, and their website makes sense (just select a few things you want and they'll present you with a sensible list of options).

Of course, every country seems to have their own range of models, so Lenovo is not free of suck either.
That's what I was trying to articulate in the end.

Microservices are generally less complex.They can appear more complicated because companies who are choosing to transition usually do so after a problem. These problems are often due to poor monolith design.

Teams that design poor monoliths typically have neither a software or solutions architecture proficiency
Can we start getting frameworks in other languages that compile to WebAssembly instead. We already have enough JS frameworks
Or run something like https://toranproxy.com/ if you use composer, and also mirror your code remotely.
You've misunderstood me. I'm saying that Sublime Text should be compared to an editor like Vim, not Brackets. I'm also saying that the folks at GitHub said it was more flexible than Vim.
It would be silly for spammers to use this. It would just increase the likelihood of them being marked as spam by people that already ignored their first try.

This is for people who you expect an answer from but the email has fallen through the cracks. Maybe it's starred, maybe they opened it on mobile and forgot to save as new. Your concern is definitely one we are keeping an eye out for but haven't seen it yet.
I actually like your list, except for 19/20 which I personally don't care about.

I personally believe that benefits should be a la carte.. pick what you want, get cash for ones you don't want. The "free food" thing is a big one for me. I don't like 90% of the food offered, I'd rather just have the cash.
He's not only filing the bug, but also attempting to reproduce it. In the vein of doing things that don't scale, this idea is a clear winner.

It does seem like a valuable service: The project would get a verified/reproduced bug report from a known entity, and the reporter would get their issue addressed just by sending an email.

Under/over on how long before he can't offer this for free?
Easiest trick in the book: Associate any idea you disagree with, with "certain vocal minorities". Works wonders on here and Twitbook. I put this in the same bag as I put book reviews which go along the lines of "characters have no depth", and "no plot".

Is the fact that Nietzsche is still studied and cited in a positive light, that books are written on his works by academics at leading universities including Oxford still not sufficient for you, or is it only Frankfurt types you'll openly associate with?

I suppose really though that this isn't important enough for you to look into; rather you'd prefer to run the party line and maintain your job at Googsoft.

You're right in one respect. I wouldn't expect any different from the mods.
This is a great idea. Supposedly the LEGO factory is set up to produce anything - let me order some nostalgia set from 1983! Like how the Magic: The Gathering people have undermined "rare" cards by just printing so many they can never be valuable.
Yeah and programmers with medium talking speed are the worst!!
Of course the issue with that code is "why use variables at all?" Why not just say

puts("My name is Jesse and I am 32 years old.")
Wait - "Chinese software applications can access and capture vast swaths of information from users, including sensitive personally identifiable information and private information" Doing this is now a bad thing? I thought it was the fundamental idea behind the tech industry.
Story and character is more important for me than prose. I need to care about what is happening to want to read on and I found the book of the new sun wanting in that regard. I found it a struggle to read - similar to the storm light series (which I found even worse with paper thin characters and terrible plotting).
Just my personal opinion.
How bad did your credit score get wrecked?
No, there is already patent protection available for appropriate products.
I wonder why the developer didn't notarize this app? Seems especially relevant since there could be keylogging concerns. You can bypass the warning message, but not a good first impression for users: "Unclack can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software. This software needs to be updated."

I really like the app concept!
Yes, but the effort they put into that clearly shows that they are not against people installing other OSs, so there are other reasons, like the fact that the M1 macs have only been out for a month.
I like this programming style, personally. The pattern of having helper funcs as well as class/struct methods, which is most appropriate, is a pattern I seem to see quite frequently with Go code.
I couldn't disagree more about it being a negative result for rule of law. It's important to keep in mind that the law is in no way endemically just and merely represents the political caste's codified consensus. Part of the legal branch's responsibility is weighing whether the law makes sense and whether it should be applied as written. Arguably in this case: no.

What users are presented with aren't terms and services, it's oodles of legalese gibberish. The language is obtuse on purpose and not comprehensible unless you are a corporate lawyer yourself. To put it in programming terms: they have no accessibility and UX to speak of.

That is fine for contracts between corporations, as they are negotiated and vetted by both parties' legal teams, resulting in a document that represents a give and take. If nothing else, it ensures endless work for the people that consider this stuff interesting.

I don't believe regular consumers should be subjected to that nonsense, because there's an inherent imbalance in legal representation between the corporate "person" and the consumer's person, for one. That imbalance is in theory compensated for in consumer protection laws, which wouldn't need to be repeated in these T&Cs or EULAs.

These types of agreements should be condensed to short paragraphs or even bullet points detailing what special agreements you enter into when using the service. If nothing else, to make it easier to filter the text for sections where it expects you to waive basic protections - which is at least unenforceable as far as I understand.

We live in times where corporate compliance departments, the corporate lawyers they work with and corporate "rights" are taken way too seriously, with little to no regard for corporate responsibility or sociability. At the same time, there are a lot of talking heads claiming "the economy servers consumers' interests" and "the free market benefits all".

De facto, these agreements aren't meant to be a bi-lateral agreement protecting both parties to the contract's interests. They're more often than not exclusively meant to cover corporate asses. Is that really a net benefit to society as a whole?
I liked the most upvoted comment on Reddit:

"Latitudie is still better; fun to see google playing catchup. :)"

Of course, I'm biased.
As a (recent) student, my problem has always been ego depletion/"lack of willpower", not so much a lack of intrinsic motivation. In the times I could be spending working, I feel too burnt out to do much other than watch TV/read HN. Starting in on reading a new book would be an insurmountable task, let alone doing productive work. And the worst thing is, I've never found anything that will give me back my "mojo" except time. So, I wait, and sometimes I get lucky and feel a burst of energy before the deadline long enough to start (continuing once started is a lot easier, but no matter how little I tell myself I need to do to get started, there's always a constant factor that can't be subdivided.)

I seem to get this way more often in winter, so it seems like it could be something like Seasonal Affective Disorder (i.e. clinical depression), but I'm never depressed, just unable to convince myself to take any other path than the easiest one (e.g. fast food instead of home cooking, Short stories instead of novels, video games instead of hobby coding, organizing my computer rather than cleaning my house, etc.)

I have a feeling quite a lot of students could describe their problems with motivation in a similar way. It's not "I don't want to study right now, there's nothing fun about that," but rather "I can't study right now, because I am curled up in a ball of stress-avoidance." (If these students had an escapist crutch, like drinking to excess, this is when they would be doing it.)
hyperscript is focused on the common cases for light front end scripting, so right now there isn't syntax for doing operations in parallel.

If I needed that I would kick out to javascript and use Promise.all() to return an expression that hyperscript could then sync on

the wheelhouse for hyperscript is stuff like:

on load
wait 5s
transition my opacity to 0
remove me

where you don't have to do any async or callback stuff for what are, at root, async operations.
I started following Go in 2009. It was pretty much "stable" in r59 or whatever they called it, a good 2-3 years before Go 1.0. There were a few breaking changes, a few new keywords, and one package - container/vector - disappeared (since the "append" built-in was added).

So every tutorial, every article, every video, every blog post is still an excellent source of information, 5 years later.

Rust? Anything you read that is more than a week old is basically wrong. Entire language features, syntax, keywords have been ripped and thrown into oblivion - the @ qualifier, the ~ qualifier, the entire i/o library is being rethought...

These aren't bad things. I'm a huge fan of not maintaining infinite backwards compatibility.

But it leaves a strange taste in my mouth. Go was basically "done" in the general sense in early 2010. Rust reinvents itself every 3 months. You could say that the Go authors knew better what they wanted from the get-go, maybe? There's a sense of "they know exactly what they wanted" vs "these guys are shooting in the dark and hoping to hit the bulls-eye" which is kind of the impression Rust leaves me with.
Mephobox has an excellent collection of great designs:

http://box.mepholio.com/
Haha, it's impossible.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. The goal is to make AI more powerful than humans is it not? We're not going to be able to control it, no way no how.
It definitely depends on what your startup is doing. Since it is addressing a need (hopefully) you should try to find people who have this need and target them. A local B2B company will do vastly different marketing from a social B2C company. Friends and family are great, maybe sponsor local events and go out with an iPad and show off the startup. Or maybe try advertising on stumble or facebook.

At my startup http://louderr.com we have been trying out as many ideas as possible to see what generates good CTR and loyal visitors. Word of mouth is working best, along with strategic advertising on social networks. Im looking forward to writing a blog post with lots of information about what worked and what didnt for us.

tl;dr: Guess and Check. Repeat. This is the hard part.
I loved Skribit's idea in general, but never could get any traction with it on my site. Hope Notifo goes better for @stammy and team over time!
Dropbox is a good service, and I am sure file access is limited to a few employees, but I wouldn't use it for sensitive data or for a business. Any service where you do not control the encryption keys, e.g. Box.net, and myriad others will have the same issue. It's all about tradeoffs. Ultimately they can access your data. The truecrypt option may solve it for some but that means the whole archive has to be shared.

AltDrive unlimited online backup versions your files and allows you to control your encryption key. It runs on *nix, OSX, Windows, and other OSs. http://altdrive.com
Charging per pixel of video would be much more sensible.
Cause all Asians look the same? Haha. /s
Very interesting result. The volunteers, local people make map using free and open source GIS tools, and using OpenStreetMap. But it wasn't just a means to an end as the exercise proved that there were areas not in the official village, and areas in the village were not in the official map. That showed a problem with official records and lead to the government agreeing to redraw the official maps, properly surveyed. I'm not sure if that work has been done or if they don't have the money.
Last reported position: http://www.flightradar24.com/data/airplanes/d-aipx/#5d42675
Very interesting.

Reminds me of a paper from 2013 published in the JoCM⁰, where scientists breached air-gapped system using inaudible sounds.

0: http://www.jocm.us/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&catid=...

EDIT: why the downvote? I thought my comment was informative...
That's cool.

I've toyed with PC-BSD, which has a per-application jail setup function called Warden. FreeBSD jails are supposedly a more secure version of standard chroot (which historically was pretty easy to break out of). I have always wondered about the vulnerability of X-Windows in the PC-BSD context, and if an untrusted jailed app could cause grief on the main desktop via X.

It's nice to see more stuff like this being experimented on. I recall reading about a similar Windows thing some time ago (Sandboxy?), but the concept never seemed to go mainstream for some reason.
Does it also show how much longer the ride was compared to the shortest route?
Shameless plug for my language "bish" (compiles to bash) which aims to solve many of these annoyances with shell scripting: https://github.com/tdenniston/bish
Or those in the UK who say well my mate made 100k in options working for a big company so why would I bother with a silicon roundabout startup.
The article is very well written. It explains what the motivations are, but you also get actual technical insight on how it all is done.
No I haven't. I have cleaned Internet and books on information, so it has 407 sources.
The machines were often sold with your ability to create software with ease being a feature / benefit selling point.

The Apple ][ is the iconic machine, as was the BBC Micro (which has a kick ass BASIC / in-line assembly environment in ROM many Apple ][ users would envy), and heck my machine came with schematics!!

The modern Mac is a bit painful. Agreed.
Things like nuclear meltdowns are black swan events, with a multitude of causes and guilt.

I'm not advocating ritual suicide, but I think it's worth noting that in the case of Fukushima, there is an easily identifiable single root cause to all the current problems: the fact that the backup diesel generators and the switchgear for them were sited behind a seawall that was overcome by the tsunami. If they had been on higher ground, none of this would have happened; there would have been a continuous supply of cooling water to the reactor cores and things would have shut down normally. The process that led to that siting of the backup generators should be fairly easily traceable, as compared to the design process for the entire reactor complex.
.info domain, SSL cert but no HSTS, email list subscription posts to non-SSL endpoint, empty forums. Is this real? WHOIS info appears real and it's over a year old, but still...
It was a concept that techies seemed to like, but restricted its viral growth by design. In reality, not many people care enough about their "social graph" to curate and restrict. It's sort of why Google+ really diminished its "Circles" concept - a large percentage of people made a few circles and just lumped everyone in those, rather than multiple heterogeneous circles.
I believe Nokia 20X devices do tethering via Bluetooth:

http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/nokia-207-and-208-are-most-affor...

I used to have an E71 and used that for tethering. It worked well, but it really drained the battery - I think it would last maybe an hour. You might be better off looking into a 'mifi' device, or just getting a tablet with mobile data.
Done: http://wiki.daviddarts.com/PirateBox_DIY
I would be more interested in a report from a credit card company involving a spike in fraud that is linked to stolen data. This would be a much clearer indication if it was a coincidence or not. I would also think that credit card companies should make a statement if they did notice any increase in fraud as it is such a large scale leak.