jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ultimately, MS' business in web development is tied to selling an IDE and Azure. Both have had to change to incorporate the tools people are using (JavaScript), not just the tools MS control (C#/.NET). I agree, the "Embrace, extend and extinguish" philosophy has apparently been replaced with "Embrace and hope to stay relevant".

I think they are doing a good job at handling that change. I don't personally want to be constrained to doing everything within an IDE, and I'd rather use the tools directly than have them abstracted to look like native MS tools, but that's their business model, and it is slick and works for a lot of people.
Well, it's a big decision. The post actually includes a quote from the company I work for (DGLogik). It's kinda a press release in a way.
This guy has the causality wrong. Bitcoin gains value when there is press coverage.

The drop in value is BECAUSE of the decline in press coverage, not the other way around!
I don't really have a problem with anything he's saying. It's not even a secret that we culturally care only dimly, if at all, about the people who are receiving the photons we spew out of their screens, and we are the worse for it (look at how often people kvetch about PMs who want things that are hard but obviously better for the user). We're too busy looking inward and bragging about our build systems to muster any empathy for people outside our clique.

Your attempts to shut him down with "well you're not there, man" are offensive to me, and I do have the resume to hurdle your arbitrary no-complaints bar. I don't have to be the employee of an oil company to know that regulatory capture's a thing, he doesn't need to be writing a bunch of leet node.js to know that few people working on anything in tech gives a single solitary crap about him or anybody else using their stuff past the buying point.

He's right to be mad about what we, as a culture, foist on our users. It reflects poorly on us that we are not likewise angry. We should be angry about many things and we are not.
Best of luck with yours too! Same industry?
Would have the man consumed the chloroquine if not for Trump broadcasting it? I'm willing to entertain both yes or no to this question, but I'm going to guess the gentlemen didn't know based off the scientific literature, but rather, the daily press briefings. And that differentiation does matter.
But the nice part is, it’s been around for a long time, so we know that if it — if things don’t go as planned, it’s not going to kill anybody.

Surely you've noticed that some folk take the President's public statements at face value.
How does the price of the software affect how useful the data is outside of the company?

That was whiplash-inducing goalpost-moving speed.
I'm reading "This drug is gonna be great." I'm not reading "take this drug without your doctor's orders".
This is what happens when you give bad advice to frightened people.

You know who you are. If you had an excuse before, you sure as hell don't have one any more.

If your intentions are good, you'll stop now, rather than risk the next death being your fault because it was the bad information you put out there that caused it.

If you don't stop, now that the stakes are as clear as they can be, then I hope for your sake that your conscience lets you rest easy, and that that's the only judgment you're ever called to answer. I would hope other people would choose to be kind, once all this is over. But I wouldn't want to bet my freedom or my life on it.

I would hope you'd choose to be kind, too. I would hope the fear of contributing to the death of an innocent, however foolish they may happen to be, would outweigh your investment in the sense of righteous certitude that moves you to do what you're doing. Or, if not that, then whatever else it is that motivates you.

Please don't let me down.
Everyone on Earth is in basically the same reference frame. They can easily agree on a standard event ordering.

Even between stars the difference isn't that big, but offsets don't matter at that scale anyway. When it takes a decade to send an email from one system to another, it doesn't matter if their timelines are offset by a week.
I.e. even if the drug is ineffective, at least we know it doesn't have fatal side effects, because it has already been used widely and approved for malaria treatment after going through safety trials a long while ago. This is in contrast to experimental drugs, which don't just have questionable efficacy, but also unknown safety.

It goes without saying that like all prescription drugs which have been proven safe, chloroquine should only be taken when prescribed by a doctor, at the recommended dosage. Obviously if you self-medicate with any safe prescription drug, you risk harming yourself by overdosing.
I recall getting stuck in a DLL hell back in Windows 3.11 ATMFD's granddaddy was still supposedly serviced more directly by Adobe themselves and it was a free for all across various application installers which versions they attempted to install. Windows 3.1 era Games had a bad habit of stuffing weird old versions of Adobe Type Manager into their installers. I forget details of the offenders, but there was a particular many-times-too-many repeated sequence of installing an application then immediately repairing/reinstalling Office to fix the Adobe Type Manager. Forgetting that last step IIRC was a very subtle problem until it wasn't, starting as weird message boxes and then eventually culminating in (days of application use later) Stop Codes that crashed Windows 3.1 back to DOS.

Moving things into the kernel is one heck of a sledgehammer solution to DLL Hell, at least.

(Windows 10 has slowly moved a lot of the graphics stack back out of kernel space. It appears to be moving the right direction, just very slowly.)
As a TSA officer if a person/his baggage sets off an explosive detector alarm, I think I wont let him fly until I am fully convinced that he is traveling with no malicious intent. How soon and how well I get convinced will depend on how competent I am at my job. Clearly the officers that handled this person were incompetent, unsympathetic and ignorant. That is a different problem altogether nothing related to freedom.
I've been in sea fish farms and I'm a spearfisher hobbyst myself.

Beyond the notion that fish farms are a sustainable source of fish meat, the fact is that fish farming needs a fodder supply to feed the fish. Fish eat fish, remember? This means in its majority the fodder produced nowadays comes from wild fish, probably a cheaper one to catch than de one in the farming nets. So wild fish still needs to be catched.

But it's even worse than that. Much worse... In order to grow fish in the farming nets the fish needs to eat much more than its weight in order to grow a little,just like any other animal. This means that it is much more ecological for us to eat the fish that is processed to make fish flour (fodder) than eat the fish that comes from fish farms.

What a nonsense isn't it? But still, we want tuna...
It is probably the most famous moment of any GDC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwZi58u1FjI
This is petty identity politics framed as a criticism of petty identity politics.
Please don't call someone fat and lazy, even if it is more direct. People respond better to courteousness than rudeness.
if Americans are fundamentally different in their physiology/basic wiring, then the things that work for some other group may not work for them.

On the surface that may seem like a perfectly rational standpoint. The reason why it's part of a superstitious belief is how that idea links up with other ideas. You are not arguing based on social data, but rather the abstract idea of what America is and for better or worse that's an superstitious argument.

Anyway, Western Medicine as understood by the specialists in their respective areas is vary different from that practices by doctors in the field. It's all well and good to prescribe proper nutrition and exercise, but there is no reason not to do it. If your goal is peak physical condition then there is a lot of research in that area, but doctors work around the lifestyles of their customers and most practical research is designed for that setting.

PS: The heath care system protects you in ways that you are probably unaware. Sanitation, food safety, vaccination area all obvious, but healthy populations reduce the spread of disease. The influenza outbreak of 1918, a global plague that killed between 20 and 40 million people, resulted in large part from a local breakdown in heath care on the front lines. http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/

Edit: The evidence of the breakdown starts with: However, a first wave of influenza appeared early in the spring of 1918 in Kansas and in military camps throughout the US http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ and it's well worth the read.
Kiss Metrics e-newsletter is one of best online, they consistently have useful emails with unique information.
Some blog. No updates in over a year! I need a lot more tips on how to be productive than that. Maybe a few productivity app reviews and a guest editorial by Leo Babauta.

Plus why were there no comments allowed? How am I supposed to write lengthy, carefully thought out responses?

And not even any funny videos like Merlin Mann has. I bet this is just a slacker, who thinks productivity means having a funny idea once and then ignoring it.

Anyway, I'm outta here. My Lifehacker RSS subscription has 346 unread items.
...Violence
here here :) btw - I regularly drive from pdx to port angeles on way taking my kids to the grand parents' on vancouver island. That is some beautiful country. Don't stay away too long :)
> Speed is is the magnitude of velocity so bigger is faster.

If you're going to be pedantic, velocity is a vector, and vectors must reside in a vector space, so what vector space do the velocities in this context reside in?

Ignoring all context to call into doubt the use of a perfectly well-understood word adds nothing to the discussion.
Who's to say the NSA doesn't know what analysis tools Apple runs as part of their builds?
>I will go somewhere else (rent a room/desk if needed) and I'll work there.

It is important when working from home to have a "work area" which is only for work and nothing else. When you work from your bed you get in trouble.
Long story short - I went full hipster on that grunt + yeoman + bower + angular ui and my conclusion is http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/439/835/47c...

Too much complexity added to project. Going REST patch is problematic when you have to integrate with with server-render style lib or service. SEO is shit. Angular doc is worse.

Auth is base on tokens, no sessions. I reused the ideas from here https://github.com/mrgamer/angular-login-example

def auth_required(f):
@wraps(f)
def wrapper(args, *kwargs):
token = request.headers.get("X-Token")
if token is None:
abort(400)
user = User.verify_auth_token(token, app.config["SECRET_KEY"])

If you don't make very heavy SPA like photoshop, don't use angular.
On the flip side, they do seem to be making money off of services built upon the free software licensed Git.
The ability to understand it when it's pointed out is unrelated to the ease of spotting it among a thousand lines of other code when you don't know what you're looking for.
I just checked our logs and we had a fix commit and built to stable within a day. We wouldn't wait around a week on something like this.
http://content.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,2166770,00.html
Chicago is somewhat less dense than San Francisco even in a neighborhood-by-neighborhood comparison.

If you go through stats per neighborhood and cut off at 20k/sqm, you'll see that San Francisco has a lot of neighborhoods over that cutoff. It's true that Chicago's dense neighborhoods are much bigger than San Francisco's; for instance, The Mission is an SF standout at 1.4sqm, while Chicago has many dense neighborhoods at 2-4sqm (Lakeview, West Town, Logan Square).

But if you add up all the little SF neighborhoods, I suspect you'll get a bigger number of dense square miles in SF. SF also has some absurdly dense neighborhoods (Chinatown, Downtown); they're tiny, but north of 50k/sqm.

It's pretty obvious that Chicago has an inherent advantage in sheer land area; huge tracts of Chicago are residential neighborhoods of bungalows on lots with back yards, which is a kind of home you can get in Chicago very inexpensively, but is priced out of reach for most people in SF. These areas relieve a lot of density pressure in other parts of the city; if you live in a dense neighborhood in Chicago, it's because you want to.
This, exactly!

The down side is that you don't have any direct influence on those business decisions. (At one point, I wrote about three different login/single-sign-on clients for a web app infrastructure (including Kerberos/Active Directory) before they finally decided that SAML2 was politically/technically the right choice. Frustrating.) You do have indirect influence if you have a good relationship with your team lead, who will likely be a "real person", a real employee.
Wow, that's unbelievable. What possible explanation could there be for this?
A diverse information diet is a great thing, but you need the context and tools for understanding what you read. That means you need to understand math, science, history, social science, etc. at a somewhat advanced level to make sense of these things.

America has been good at free speech, and we should never give that up. But for free speech to result in advancement of society, rather than goons storming the Capitol, a good education is an absolute requirement, and the government has not given all Americans the opportunity to get a good education. There will be pressure to censor speech because people aren't equipped to process it -- we should resist that and focus on education instead. This is where we should be spending our money; this is what the government exists to do. Give everyone an equal standing to understand these sources of information. We're not doing that, and the results are bad.
And yet, we are supposed to follow the wisdom of the top comment with this all being about some "Free Speech" argument.
CNN: And here are the results of the golf tournament between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Biden took the second place. Trump was just one row above the looser.

Reflecting the same joke for Fox News is left as an exercise to the reader.
Speech aside, what about looking through a lens of personal responsibility?

Some people don't take responsibility for offending others, they'd rather place the blame on the person who heard them. You think that's rather a minor problem, ok. Let's skip past the question of offensive speech for now...

Let's talk about preserving a democracy. What happens when people no longer feel any responsibility for citizens having trust in that democracy? They use their speech to weaken it (this is a much broader group than just Trump) and now, with Trump, even to incite violence if they think it will benefit themselves. Fault and responsibility seems to clearly lie with them and their choices, they shouldn't be able to dodge that responsibility by redirecting to abstract discussion of the pros and cons of restrictions on speech.

You are dodging the direct "how did we get here?" answer of "people are making blatant shortsighted power plays" by talking about people's "iddly-widdly-fweelings." That's ridiculous.
Or just something like

0 0 * * * nice -n 19 /usr/bin/units_cur

for *BSD crontabs or both HN users (besides me) who prefer systemd-free distros of GNU
I think you and GP are talking about different time periods. Walter Cronkite is 50s to 70s, the postwar figurehead when there were like 3 TV channels. That's where the notion of a shared reality comes from. And I guess this was still pretty strong into the 90s, everyone watched gulf war I on CNN right?

Whereas Walter Duranty was a big deal in the 20s & 30s, in much more fragmented & volatile times. Although how much their fragmentation resembles ours I don't know. They had many far-out newspapers but still only a few radio shows, and perhaps a larger role for shared institutions like churches & public schools?
I should say - thanks to the author though for trying to make the best of a bad situation! Fantastic community initiative.
Bulgaria* and Hungary*
Her name was Ashli Babbitt, and she wasn't killed by a citizen with a gun, but rather a government employee with a gun.
The fact that it is possible to make a gun using 3D-printed parts does not make it a significant contributing factor to the prevalence of guns (for non-recreational use) in the US.
Was USB 4 gonna solve that or was that just me dreaming?
Maybe they should turn it down a bit while on the job? There is no reason the music should to be heard outside their car.
That's what I was thinking too. It doesnt even have to be perfect. All it needs to do is mask/distort music to make the algo matching content id not identify it.

Hmmm.... would playing another song at the same time not have similar effect?

This might be fun weekend project :)
Yeah, apparently humans can learn to build rockets and electric cars, but not not to worship power figures...
This won't magically make other audio sources that were present when the recording was made easier to hear, though. Once the recording is made, they're not independent any more. They'll still be masked, maybe even more.
Devart makes good SQL IDEs. They came out with one for Postgres ... recently? In the last year or two. If it's similar quality to their mysql ide, I'd recommend it.

https://www.devart.com/dbforge/postgresql/studio/
If there was no Ruby, I suspect Perl would still be popular. At one point the scripting language holy wars were "Perl vs Python". That turned into "Ruby vs Python". Similar philosophy, lots of better stuff in Ruby.
I disagree. The lambda expression allows him to use variables outside of the stack frame, why shouldn't the debugger also be able to show those same variables?
John McAfee: "I'd really like some more attention please!"
It involves a lot of techniques which are typically called AI. E.g. planning and learning simple models of the world. The best word is "weak AI" or "narrow AI".
The economic benefits of having that many people that close together are absolutely massive. It's absolutely true that costs are enormously higher in certain areas, the value of a dollar significantly lower. Due to the progressive nature of the code, lower-value areas are overly penalized. It's just another flaw in the system.
I think the point is he can say whatever he wants without any downside since it doesn't matter anyway. I think as we see here, showing the 'grand vision' however is not without its risks.
The document seemed to be a report (suggestion) to alter the SAFE Act to include those provisions.

The GPO link I shared doesn't list those recommendations so it looked like they didn't make it in to the final draft. So I'm not sure what the purpose of the original linked document is either.I've edited my original comment to make it clear since it was ambiguous as to what I may have been "reading wrong".
You should probably avoid ever visiting the Southeastern US...
If you can do X, then you will imagine X + 1.
>and Moxie refuses to allow apps to be distributed there because he openly admits he wants the usage metrics that come from Google/Apple distribution.

So he admits he cares about usage metrics more than privacy. which makes trusting signal a bit hard
I thought we were calling them 'protestors' now?
You don't get it.

It was for show, but the police allowed it to go way too far. Not to mention, where was all the surveillance power of the NSA to provide advance warning?

The disturbing part of what happened yesterday was not that a bunch of assholes formed a mob to disrupt Congress. The disturbing part is that they were obviously allowed to do so.
I would love it if we could get something like SwiftKey, but actively developed. Its predictions are magic, but lately it has been getting more and more buggy, suggesting words that don't exist, changing already-correct words to nonsense, and refusing to learn.
This is an overreaction because, as the OP mentions, legislatures around the world are often not heavily secured. Protestors forcing themselves into legislative buildings is pretty common worldwide even in stable countries, for example Taiwan and Germany recently, and there are no longterm consequences at all for rule of law.

There was meaningful security in place last night in Washington DC: the legislators were evacuated to a heavily secured facility nearby.
If you start discarding software which has problems with a space in a directory name, you should start with libtool, at which point you can't build significant chunks of the Linux ecosystem.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=193163

I hit this when trying to test libgmp (as an example of an important library you would lose).

This means in practice you can't really build most software which uses configure scripts and libraries in a directory with a space -- this may well be what they are hitting.
1299 is not an entry level price for a bike, goodness me.

Unbelievable that the peloton costs that much, what benefits do they actually offer over any alternative?
"I propose being more selective how and which operations actually deserve limited liability"
Nobody said anything about theft. This is just about cause and effect. If your actions will cause less of the things you like to be produced, you probably shouldn't do them. No one knows if you went to the bathroom, nor does anyone know if you're using Tivo unless you have a Nielsen box. Do whatever you want. However, if they're selling an ad-free, timeshiftable version of the show you're Tivoing, you will be better off if you make their business viable by paying for it.

Product placement is making that less of an issue for television. If the entire show is a Subway advertisement, you're probably doing your part by just watching it.
Here's a link to my new novel writing software project and the reasons I think it's going to be successful. I'm curious to know whether you all would consider this a success as well?
I want Vim Hero!

This is a great presentation - thanks for posting.
No. Site owners have no obligation to be usable. They don't owe you anything.

Just because we don't like sites with "abusive" ads doesn't mean they're obliged to change to suit us.
I would be surprised if you can get a part of it. Most IPOs, particularly if they are tipped to be 'hot' are locked up by institutional investors and brokers' preferred clients. The supply is restricted to ensure that the price moves higher on the first day, giving both a successful launch and a handy profit for those involved.

It's almost a case where you don't want to buy into an IPO that you can get into.

Having said that, if you can get an allocation through e-trade, by all means go ahead. On the plus side you don't have to pay brokerage fees to enter.
I'm baffled by the title. Is the author trying to trap non-programmers into understanding their error by (falsely) promising to provide them a scapegoat? Or is he using "trust" as in "trust in the omnipotent"?
> The delicious, inescapable inference is that they’re the only vegan food that can itself eat meat.

OK, this bothers me. Carnivorous plants are well-known. Surely it must be possible to eat at least one of them?

Edit: The article then even says later that other fungi do this too! Oy.