jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>It's the arrogance that you inherently think somehow know better than the people that want to consume the service

Hrm, well, yes, to an extent. However, People do do research on the psychology of human happiness and a bunch of other human charistics and we can answer some questions on what will be "best" in the longrun with quite a bit of certainty.

We also know that oftentimes people are just downright wrong about what will make them happy.

Example- we know spending your money on experiences rather than objects will make you happier in the long run.

If you want to read more about the topic I recommend the book "Stumbling on Happiness."

Sometimes we DO know that your choice is wrong for your goals.

Thats just in general, not particularly about this service.
I mean the model producing artifacts that wouldn't be found in the genuine article.
They're undoubtedly intersectional when it comes to social issues, but they're globalist on international affairs, and relatively centrist when it comes to the economy.
If the only choices you can come up with are to make better services or to eliminate competition through regulation, you aren't being very creative. Corporations can, and do, eliminate competition with buyouts, with deliberate incompatibility, with exclusivity contracts, with spies and sabotage, and with a wide variety other creative, subtle, and sometimes unethical strategies.
If your startup does eventually take off, you will have to hire people. But I'm afraid that no one (no one of significant worth anyway) will want to work for you if your attitude is that "working at someone else's startup is a recipe for getting exploited". How will you, as a founder, do things differently?
Chaos Manor still exists, but it's not the same. At least for me, part of the fun was the immense diversity Jerry played with. In a world where just about every desktop runs the same (poorly built) OS, Chaos Manor is a lot less chaotic than it used to be.
You're right that with "byte" there isn't an official size specification, although the de facto size is 8 bits, unlike with "octet", which was specifically defined as 8 bits (for interoperability between different systems).

Regarding the question of signed/unsigned - I'll try to explain:

byte - unsigned

On page 37 of the C99 standard: "A byte contains CHAR_BIT bits, and the values of type unsigned char range from 0 to 2^CHAR_BIT - 1)"

i.e. according to the C99 standard, a byte is unsigned.

octet - signed

Think of an octet in two ways: the concept of something that is exactly 8-bits on the one hand, and on the other hand, the technical representation of this concept.

When you read the literature you'll notice that an octet refers simply to the size of something (8 bits) and not is signedness.
For example, octets arguably arose in the networking world, and the NDR (Network Data Representation) refers to octet in sign-neutral way.

On page 256 of the C99 standard: "The typedef name int N _t designates a signed integer type with width N, no padding bits, and a two’s-complement representation. Thus, int8_t denotes a signed integer type with a width of exactly 8 bits."

Now, how would you go about representing the concept of an "octet" (which is sign-neutral)? If you used an unsigned 8 bit integer, you can't represent the sign of the (conceptual) octet, while a signed 8 bit type can.
Another small one I'd point out: You can't sort large sets on fields that aren't indexed. It's not just slow, mongo flat out refuses to do it.
It's well agreed that at least property rights and strong rule of law are prerequisites for capitalism. Most anarcho-capitalist discussions I've heard seems to evolve around how exactly those two properties would come to exist in a state-less society.
Going down one more paragraph:

> Second, you must have a direct relationship with your fans. That is, they must pay you directly.

Spotify is acting as an intermediary, presumably you as the artist sacrificing more of the profit from a digital sale to reach more of an audience.
The last paragraph tells the tale of why this article has emerged again.

"No laws define the limits of the N.S.A.'s power. No Congressional committee subjects the agency's budget to a systematic, informed and skeptical review. With unknown billions of Federal dollars, the agency purchases the most sophisticated communications and computer equipment in the world. But truly to comprehend the growing reach of this formidable organization, it is necessary to recall once again how the computers that power the N.S.A. are also gradually changing lives of Americans - the way they bank, obtain benefits from the Government and communicate with family and friends. Every day, in almost every area of culture and commerce, systems and procedures are being adopted by private companies and organizations as well as by the nation's security leaders that make it easier for the N.S.A. to dominate American society should it ever decide such action is necessary."
As I said, I was only attempting to clarify the author's intent [in so far as I could divine it]. So perhaps your counter-argument might be better directed there.

Out of curiosity, if the first principles of software development are not based in mathematics, what do you believe are their basis and how does it differ from "folk wisdom" if we take "folk" to include communities of engineers rather than as merely pejorative?
I was initially interested in getting this for Visual Studio 2013 development on the move but very worried it is way underpowered. I'd be very interested to hear your thoughts!
There seems to be a common thread on HN of people assuming that trendy startups are the entirety of the software industry.
Or try `The Pleasure of Counting'. A mathematical history book. (As the author says, intended for teenagers but not suited for them.)
Also thanks to BioNtech for developing said medicine.
A lot of web services do a little bit of work, wait on a DB query, do a little bit of work, wait on DB, etc. It’s even more true with websockets, which spend most of their time idle waiting for messages.

Good concurrency support lets you handle thousands (even millions) of these activities in a single process, which is massively more efficient than using a process each, and puts less load on other systems (DB, Splunk, Graphite, RabbitMQ…)

Green threads in particular make it possible to get these benefits without writing the code in async style. You just write regular, blocking code and the runtime / frameworks take care of yielding to the scheduler (event loop) when appropriate.
My understanding is that what is not covered under free speech in the US are not "discussions around" violence and murder but actual "true threats" and calls to "imminent lawless action". Not quite the same.
Actually, the Arch devs said that if anyone stepped up and maintained the sysv scripts it would continue to be officially supported, no one did, and that was that.
I'd go a step beyond the frontpage: every time I reach Pinterest for some reason (usually due to a picture that I found on an image search), I'm hit by a very annoying "log in to see more" banner (usually before I reach the picture I was looking for). If Pinterest is a magazine, that banner is the guy taking it from my hands and scolding me "this is not a library!"

I now actively avoid Pinterest links.
Speaking as someone not intimately familiar with Apple's desktop line, what's "redesigned" about it? From the website, I gather that it now has an aluminum casing rather than plastic, a less archaic GPU, and +$200 on the price tag?
Biggest Django app ever?
If I just answer "yes" without a long dissertation, will I get downvoted by the elite here? My guess is yes.
I wasn't looking to threadjack here, but thanks for the feedback :) I'll have a think about that - the app did originally just get climbs in your locality from the web service, but I changed to the cache-only due to coverage problems. I'll see if I can come up with a hybrid.
Not to mention that there are different ways for the government to bail out the banks, and we happened to take a rather outrageous one. We bailed out the banks without wiping out the current shareholders, because the "capitalists" complained about a government takeover of the banks.
What is it with hackers and climbing? The relation pops up regularly.

Hackers and martial arts I get somehow, been training myself somewhat. But for some odd reason climbing is a total black spot for me. Does not grok. Can someone briefly explain what's the hacker appeal in that?
This is probably off-topic but I'd never heard of Inventables (http://www.inventables.com, referenced in the article) before. I'm having a geekgasm just browsing through the weird and wonderful articles on there. Love the mini-faq below each one. This is going to make me blow so much money...
Doesn't look like her. Ashley Judd was on twice and in a yellow suit both times. Hmm.
Yes, it's the same engine but only in that they came from the same source. Even in the cases where they were exactly the same unpatched source from upstream, they wouldn't really be the same. E.g I can trivially freeze midori which uses webkit, I can do it to many others. If Midori or any of the others had security bugs, it doesn't mean that Chrome would have it as well therefore they can't be classed as the same.
Is there a changelog somewhere of what's added? One thing that's always frustrated me about this project is the lack of release notes on each new version.
I'm a self-taught coder with no formal CS training, and as such have found over recent years that I've been lacking (among other things) some of the appropriate vocabulary to talk about programming unambiguously.

Consequently, I'm always on the look-out for more formal and concise terms where previously I may have used more simplistic language - in this case, 'braces', 'brackets' and 'parentheses' struck me as being the best way to describe {}, [] and (), compared to curly, square and normal brackets (as I've likewise always called them). <> will have to remain angle brackets though I think.
obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1235/
Good question. It's a pity that the only response was a flag-killed irrelevancy. Only last week, I downloaded and started using Privacy Badger as an alternative to Ghostery. I'm liking it so far but my current laptop is 7 years old and only has 1GB RAM (running LXDE) so resource consumption is my main concern after safe-guarding my privacy.
From the same wikipedia article:

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Paper spreadsheets

The word "spreadsheet" came from "spread" in its sense of a newspaper or magazine item (text and/or graphics) that covers two facing pages, extending across the center fold and treating the two pages as one large one. The compound word "spread-sheet" came to mean the format used to present book-keeping ledgers—with columns for categories of expenditures across the top, invoices listed down the left margin, and the amount of each payment in the cell where its row and column intersect—which were, traditionally, a "spread" across facing pages of a bound ledger (book for keeping accounting records) or on oversized sheets of paper (termed "analysis paper") ruled into rows and columns in that format and approximately twice as wide as ordinary paper
This bridge was most likely not constructed as a pedestrian bridge. What you see in the back probably is the bridge that replaced this one when a one way bridge did not provide enough capacity anymore and the old bridge was re-purposed as a passenger and probably cyclist bridge.

Based on that it was definitely built for higher load than just a few pedestrians.

Edit: The German language Wikipedia article actually confirms this [1]. It states that the bridge was built for a traffic load of 13 tons and that the new bridge was built in 1993 to increase capacity. The old bridge was thoroughly renovated after the new bridge had been constructed. The bridge actually is well documented and is under protection as an architectural landmark. It was exhibited in the MoMA for a long time.

Based on the amount of prep these guys put into this and the available documentation I don't see why they should not have checked if what they wanted to do is possible.

[1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pont_de_Gueuroz

Edit 2: Some fascinating pictures from the time of construction: http://www.swiss-timber-bridges.ch/detail/193
The use cases for Pinterest have always been very vague, and the default categories keep changing.

Pinterest hasn’t done a good job of explaining the uses of the service, especially the great wishlist service whose rich-data pins can send you an alert, when the price on one of your items drops. I also think they haven't nailed down exactly what Pinterest is for and just keep seeing what people do with it; they didn't have a Quotes section initially, if I recall correctly, for instance.

On the other hand, it's a little silly to frame it as an issue that guys aren't using a particular service. I hear the demographic of women is still quite large.
My thoughts exactly, they've probably invested a lot of time and money in this product, and it is wasted over the very poor presentation. For less than a $100, they could hire a copywriter to write a proper description.
Have it shut down if you haven't scanned your fingerprint in the last 5 minutes?
Bluetooth is cloning-resistant if done properly; communications are encrypted and devices authenticated.
I forgot who these guys were, but yeah I reckon.

IIRC LizardSquad did allegedly "disband" awhile back, I think when some heat got applied to them, but I don't know. They were repeatedly DDOSing the servers of a game I play so I started following their exploits. I do hope law enforcement catches up with these guys sooner rather than later.
The attack was directed at their WordPress installation[1], I'd presume they either host it separately or have verified it's clean.

1: http://www.cyphort.com/isc-org-infected/
I knew there was something like this but when I went searching for it I couldn't remember it or find it.
And now the kids are too old.

But maybe I'm not :-)
I get the same feeling reading the comments in this thread.
I can see why your comment would get down-voted. Most ppl in this thread do not want to hear the real fact that they are no different than the rest of the labour force. But because they grew up with an entitled expectation they cannot even imagine that someone out there can even be marginally talented as them.
Like similar abstractions, participation is an empty goal unless it is gauged in relation to the job to be done. It is a means, not an end, and when treated as an end, it can become more repressive than the unadorned authoritarianism it is supposed to replace… No one wants to see the old authoritarian return, but at least it could be said of him what he wanted primarily from you was your sweat. The new man wants your soul.”

– William Whyte, The Organization Man, 1956
Photosynthesis is required for the evolution of intelligent life. The point I was making is that intelligent life has evolved on Earth pretty close to the latest time possible.
Well, it's probably a little late to save the term. Job descriptions for devs routinely state they are looking for "hackers" with Ruby. Not to mention, we're commenting on a site called "Hacker News", which features more posts about NASA and the latest JS framework than anything "Hacker".

Words do matter, but some are abused to a point wherein they take on new meanings; grating as that may be for those who knew and appreciated the original meanings.
I think your point here is a great note on the topic, but sort of misses the very large, loud group of people out there who honestly think the world's improvement has inflected and is now going to hell in a hand basket.

As such, I prefer being reminded about how remarkably not-awful things are versus the next pointlessly negative everything's falling apart rhetoric. Mind, that may have to do with where I live, maybe, and I prefer balanced rhetoric. But it's useful to remind people that the general goodness of the world is monotonically increasing (perhaps with a 10-point moving average and a little spot of outlier filtering).

And yeah, this sort of conversation is almost necessarily a long-now topic. To talk about it over the course of a few months or just a year is a bit silly - there's a lot of noise. But over many decades and especially centuries, things certainly look better now. Things may be crap now in many ways, but it's only knee-deep crap. In the bad old days people waded through crap up to their eyeballs uphill both ways.
> What I've seen among H1-Bs is a far higher percentage of people who basically hate their job, but do it because it allowed them to come to the US and afford a comfortable lifestyle for their families. I don't blame them for that, but I also don't think that it makes them particularly good developers.

Most people from China, India, etc who immigrate to the U.S., Canada, and Australia/NZ are, in my observational experience, primarily focused on whatever aids the immigration process from an early age, often prompted by their parents. Their secondary focus is the backup plan of rising in the ranks of business, government, or academia in their home country. There is a significant minority of people whose primary focus is on the hierarchy at home, and choosing immigration as a secondary concern happens later on in life, often after marriage, perhaps to someone of the first group. For both groups of people, though, an interest in something geeky like technology, programming, gaming, or whatever comes a distant third. People in China who develop such consuming interests outside of work or forgo higher status jobs to do more interesting work will almost certainly miss out on some crucial step in the arduous immigration process. And of course you won't see many Chinese who totally forgo saving for a car, apartment, spouse, and child to spend all of their time on a geeky interest because their parents simply wouldn't allow it in the one-child culture here.
Submitter here. Thanks for checking out my site. I'm looking for feedback on all levels: the UI and implementation, the product idea, and the market.

Particular questions: do you "know what to do" when you get to the site? Is it ugly? What would make you use a site like this?

The idea here is to iterate in the same space as ChatRoulette, towards the goal of becoming the best place to meet new people online. There are some obvious directions to go in, like adding video, dating features (FB' Interested In/Looking For), and locale support, and maybe some not so obvious ones, but I'd like to hear what you think.
You probably already know the answer if you have talked to a tax accountant..if they set the hours than its employee and they need to withhold taxes.

First, find some other projects/gigs to cover your expenses and do not tell the startup.

Second, when those other gigs are secured ..spend $150 on a CPA that does tax work..have him compose a letter stating that under work conditions at startup that they need to state you as employee and withhold payroll taxes. Give cpa any docs that he needs to document this.

The purpose is not to force startup to do anything. it sot protect you and your family.

From now on, if firm sets working, hours, and has full quality control of the work than you need to only accept w-2 employee status.

Your local cpa will have a employee/ tax check list as far as conditions make it employee and which ones do not so ask for that.

if you cannot afford he $150 to $250 ask your local CPA state board or SBA office to give you a list of those CPAs that sometimes do free advice workshops on this.

And most important do not under any circumstances let the startup know your anger..just get the extra gigs so that you can get out of the situation.

S the project manager I am using know states, you have to care about the money as the right startups will than take that market rate of a freelancer(no not salary rate) and say well we can do 75% and pay rest in stock is that acceptable and as employee.
It’s made using the Guardian’s Content API: http://www.guardian.co.uk/open-platform
Their site should be so easy to scale as most of it is static data that can be cached by something like Varnish.
My reading suggests that once they made books. They no longer make books: they pay people who make books. They also pay people who do editing, and pay people who do covers. They've largely abandoned PR for anyone less famous than J.K. Rowling. This leads me to believe that they're essentially just VC for books, which wants to invest $20k at a pre-money valuation of $5k.

I am not seeing the attraction, personally. (I've nursed dreams of doing fiction writing for my next quirky hobby.)
That’s exactly what happened with covid-19. By the time Beijing knew about it things were already out of control.
Not sure why you are getting downvoted for telling a fact.
Sounds like they aren't enjoying benefits from past eugenics after all.
Comments by experts who went on the WHO mission https://mobile.twitter.com/TheaKFischer/status/1360590441817...
Wrong. ReadLines returns an IEnumerable<string> and lets you read line by line without loading the entire file into memory: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd383503%28v=vs.110%....
Destruction of property is destruction of property. The logic behind this seems to imply that you could legally take steps to crash a manned helicopter merely because it was flying over your property. That is almost certainly not the case.

Another example: Some of the wealthiest people in California live on a street called La Jolla Farms Rd. (supermarket magnate Ron Burkle owns a 58,000 sq ft home there). One of the hallmarks of living on this street is that hang and paragliders taking off from the La Jolla Gliderport fly over these homes constantly during the day - many with cameras. Would it be legal to take any of them down? My guess is you would be charged with attempted murder.
What is the effect of this result, if any, on established theories?
I do the same thing with my alarm -- walk across the room and manually set it for 10 minutes later.. sometimes several times... sometimes without even remembering.

So what does no alarm mean in practice? How early do you go to bed? and how early do you need to be at work? Does this mean going to bed at 8pm?
Under what conditions do you have a usefully functioning system when the clock is so off you need to do multi minute jumps?

One example is embedded systems. Many don't have an RTC, or boot after the RTC has lost power. If a network connection finally comes up, NTP will instantly fast-forward the clock by years
Shut down the IT and watch all those profits disappear. As in, finance/sales guy can't pull up his daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly/yearly numbers.

Oh, and your customers are gone too because you can no longer deliver any product or added-value. So, no income (except investments).
Maybe this will help:

> Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

This was John von Neumann talking.
If we make the software vendor responsible, who pays for open source vulnerabilities?