jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I agree with your first point. I actually figured that we were in agreement here. I was just saying the phrasing of your comment is what triggered the clarifying questions, because I had the same clarifying questions when I first read your comment.

I would have agreed with you on your second statement back in the 90's in regard to companies being valued on their future profits mostly, but that's obviously not true anymore. I think Tesla is the most extreme example of this. You have a car company that has a 200+ p/e ratio and has an order of magnitude higher market cap then many of it competitors that sell more cars. I have heard it all about how they are an energy company or a battery company or a software company, but the reality is shareholders are gambling on Elon, and Tesla because it's popular. Tesla has proven no market that will grow their earnings 100x in the next 10 years that would warrant a risky technical based investment taking into account competitors. Honestly, it's the same as GE saying that in 10 years they will have a nuclear fusion reactor to pump their market cap by 10x putting them in line with Tesla, which is a more plausible scenarios than Tesla actually diminishing their P/E ratio through earnings growth in a meaningful way over that same period of time.
This is not accurate.

> The active ingredient in several Febreze products is hydroxypropyl beta-cyclodextrin (HPβCD). The molecule traps and binds volatilized hydrocarbons within its structural ring, retaining malodorous molecules, which reduces their volatility and thus the perception of their scent. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Febreze
So there's an alternative phenomenon that keeps a person wanting to continue living. Strange for sure.
Consider that 10% (probably more like 1%) of people make decisions that effect how society will go. At least in the English speaking world, those people care about what's happening on twitter. The other 90% use Facebook.
The difference that seems to matter to most people is that Go has a standard library that's (currently) free of cruft, and free of "historical reasons".

Java's standard library is bytecode-compatible with Java1 programs, which will run fine on today's JVM's. This results in several very dumb and ugly inconveniences.

For example, take a look at the ArrayList javadoc. Notice the Object methods (clone(), and toArray()), which are there because the return-type polymorphism doesn't work (you cannot call a different method based on what you assign the function result to). So it's not possible to provide a valid Clone() method that returns something other than Object without breaking java1 programs that use it. (Go's has compiler hacks for core datatypes for some things, which of course means it's a matter of time until things break, but for now ...).

Of course if this was the only instance of this sort of problem, nobody would care, but you can find examples like this in most core classes.

TLDR: Go is in it's honeymoon period.

More detailed explanation :

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17509659/why-standard-jav...
Amazon Fire TV Stick came with just a 3 inch HDMI 'extender' cable to fix this problem.
The editorials are really heavy handed about that, however I've never thought that the news was any more influenced then any other news source.
That's a bold claim. Laser cutting and CNC stitching are not done "here" which I guess is outside China, at all, by anyone?
This is part 2 of an ongoing 4-part series.

The first part is here: http://gamasutra.com/blogs/PaulTozour/20141216/232023/The_Ga...

The most interesting result from part 1 was that the effect of different production methodologies (Scrum, Agile, Waterfall, etc) was nearly indistinguishable.
Wouldn't that be the kicker? Monster and Lee win their fraud case. Then he SEC charges Lee and Monster with insider trading and win. And the kicker would be, the fine is the $100 million won in the civil fraud case AND (the best kicker) a few years in prison for Lee.

Unfortunately, it probably won't happen.
The non-American, too - as far as I know only in America people are too lazy to put a zero where it makes sense.
Hey everybody wants to sell a $700 flagship phone since the profit is so high the trouble is does anybody want it?
I have one, its called the Moto G. It comes with near stock Android, it costs $200 without a contract, and I freaking love it. To see the future of cell phones look at the story PC's: prices will fall and quality will become uniformly high- and margins will become razor thin, except for premium brands (aka Apple). This is a tough, tough kind of market for any company to enter.
How the hell does https://help.github.com/articles/dealing-with-non-fast-forwa... relate to their movies?

Why are they allowed to take down sites so obviously unrelated?

I imagine it's pretty easy to use this sort of takedown in a malicious manner to remove competitors' sites, surely there is some defense mechanism against this?
The downfall of Britain has been happening for some time. They are scared, and they are only making it worse.
What if EC2 is your failover solution? That seems like an ideal use case, considering the billing model. Keep one instance online at all times to clone the data, then spin up a few more to replace your servers when they die.

Or just build what you need in two datacenters with load balancing between them, and accept that operating at half capacity for a while is a lot better than being down entirely.
I'm currently reading Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston (http://www.foundersatwork.com/), and one of the stories seems to apply to your dilemma.

If you have the chance I would suggest taking a look at chapter 3 which discusses Steve Wozniak's early days with Apple. He talks about his hesitation to leave HP where he was an engineer. At the same time, Jobs was pushing him to come over and work on their new venture full time. It wasn't until Wozniak realized (through a conversation with a friend) that he could move to Apple and continue to be an engineer did he agree to make the move. In the end, Woz knew he loved being an engineer, and he didn't think that the time and effort it would take to run/manage a company was something he would enjoy (in fact, he knew he would not like it).

It sounds like you love learning new programming languages, something that is not afforded you in your current venture's structure. Maybe you should consider bringing in a partner to help you manage the business while focus on programming. Or maybe you should hire a programmer to handle the routine stuff for your site. Either option could free-up a considerable amount of time that would allow you to again spend some time each week learning something new.

I'm not sure if that is an option, but it is something to work towards maybe.
>it doesn't attempt to rotate the screen to match my position as often as iOS apps do

It was your particular phrasing of this issue that made me think that this may be a feature of the Nook, and not a bug.

My biggest complaint about any iOS device used to be that when I was reading in bed, sometimes I would lie on my side, causing the screen to rotate when I didn't really want it to. Obviously, the screen-orientation lock functionality was a godsend for fixing this issue for me.

It occurs to me that maybe, since the "primary" function of the Nook is reading, that it doesn't attempt screen rotation unless it really thinks that was your intent.
Is there any market Google isn't trying to encompass?
>This is a problem, because where judicial interpretation 'discerned' one in the Waren Court, a more conservative Supreme Court might at some point decide otherwise.

That is pretty much the point I was going for, it isn't explicit so all it would take is a different legal interpretation for it to go away. With the FISA court and all the NSA stuff it seems to already have gone.
As somebody on HN pointed out before, so long as they know something will pass or fail regardless, whips will give more leeway to party members so they can vote however makes them look good. If there were real danger of a vote going the wrong way, they would tighten up their ship.

A close vote seems good, but in reality it isn't necessarily as close as it looked.
The real estate is part of the business. A large part of the value of the business comes from customers knowing that those businesses were where they were. By stealing the land, Columbia is stealing the business as well.
This blog post claim to be destinate at the users of Delicious but it screams all over it "IF YOU HAVE MONEY AND WANT TO BUY US, PLEASE REACH US BY MAIL". Sad.

Hope, they sell it to Joshu or somebody who really cares
Applying this article's advice retroactively - HP should be producing oscilloscopes, Sony should be producing cassette players, and 3M should be producing... rocks.
or Bing cache: http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=http%3a%2f%2fblog.delicious...
Which is why I intentionally used the word "exposed":) I can't really recall very many specifics from my world literature classes either. However my psychology class taught me that the exposure to those novels and their concepts informs my decision making in some small way even today.
Love the photo. What appears to be alcohol, an explosion in the background, and he looks like he's saying something off-camera.

Twice.
He's referring to the fact that "click here" tells nothing about the link itself (for SEO purposes).
But in this particular case, it's just added to the text "Try World Lens for FREE", so I don't know what's so wrong about it (or why you get down-voted for just asking that question..)
At what time point in the video do you see the protesters break through the police line? I scanned through the 1.5 hour video and didn't find it. It seems like the whole video was filmed from the same location.
On principle you're right - and hopefully you, and others who share your line of thought, will continue to fight for this after this period is over so that we can focus on spending money to alleviate problems affecting those in relative-poverty that we - as a society - have happily ignored thus far
Didn't any media company in US history have at all times the power not to publish statements by the US President? Why should the US President have command over their printing press/servers? It's not like Twitter has a monopoly, either.
It's amazing that the reactions to this are both "should have banned him years ago for violating their rules" and "this is blatant dangerous censorship." Whichever side you're on, this is a lose-lose situation for twitter.
You know what also couldn’t convince them? The courts, state election officials, and the constitutionally mandated procedure for finalizing the electoral college’s choice. You’re right the nytimes doesn’t certify elections. But insurrection doesn’t decertify them.

There are no reforms or concessions that will will restore trust in elections among these traitors. Their lack of trust is bad faith, secondary to their devotion to a strongman.

The solution in this case is not bad faith compromise, but the grit and determination to say no and put down insurrection through impeachment and prosecution.
if we're not careful to have a respectful debate

This is misguided. Respectful debate in general is good, but only when both sides act in good faith. When some act in bad faith, telling outright lies while maintaining a veneer of civility, then you don't have obvious conflict but arguably something worse: corruption. There is some research showing that angry exchanges are in fact helpful in maintaining the integrity of an online community when others are trying to subvert it: https://snap.stanford.edu/conflict/
> the government locking down is a deliberate ploy to kill small businesses

I’m not sure I see what kind of upside they see for anyone if this happens, much less the government.
Yes. To elaborate, I felt sick to my stomach when I took a particular investment. Gut feeling that I did the wrong thing? Maybe.
Is there a watch with a mic and speaker that's waterproof?
A quick rational thinking exercise for everyone debating these laws: Anytime you read or write discussions regarding this law and its goals, replace the words "Gay" and "Transsexual" with the word "Black", "Interracial", or "Woman". Would the arguments still hold water?

A few examples I cooked up quickly from a CNN article:

- The law in Indiana, though, as well as the slew of other states it follows, came after an outcry from social conservative circles over incidents where business owners found themselves in hot water after refusing services to women.

- Supporters of these laws bring up the example of a florist who refuses to sell flowers for a interracial wedding or a baker who won't make that couple's wedding cake -- and it's clear this law is aimed at fending off lawsuits that florist and that baker might face.

- One of those lobbyists, Eric Miller, explicitly wrote on his website that the law would protect businesses from participating in "interracial marriage."

- A photographer in New Mexico used religious freedom as a defense for not serving a black couple in 2013.

Clips adapted from CNN coverage of this legislature: http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/27/politics/indiana-religous-free...
Yes, without a doubt. I can't even stress how important it is to figure out who you are dealing with. Just expect that this person is more important than your closest confident, closer than your lover in many ways. They will affect your life in more ways then you can understand, so choose them more carefully than you do a partner in your own bed.

Ok, so I am maybe a bit dramatic, but frankly it is all true.
The National Soceity of Professional Engineers has a code of ethics I had to learn in school:

1. Hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public.

2. Perform services only in areas of their competence.

3. Issue public statements only in an objective and truthful manner.

4. Act for each employer or client as faithful agents or trustees.

5. Avoid deceptive acts.

6. Conduct themselves honorably, responsibly, ethically, and lawfully so as to enhance the honor, reputation, and usefulness of the profession.

However, this is less applicable, because we rarely do anything that can directly kill people on accident.
Every night right before you go to sleep, write down 1 thing you noticed that was cool or 1 thing you did that you had fun doing. Don't think about it during the day- creativity will not just come to you if it's all you are thinking about. By the end of the month, you will have a list of 30 AWESOME things that YOU thought were cool. In order to become more creative, you need to worry about things that interest you, not others. If everyone was interested in the same thing, life would be awful! There's a reason we like different things, so take advantage of it, and write them down.
(If you noticed 2 awesome things during a single day, feel free to write them both down, but don't stress yourself out about having more than 1 per day.)
You will be amazed at how easy it is to find something cool from that day.
For example, here's a list that you may have during the course of one week:

1- Had mustard on a hot dog for the first time- loved it!
2- Petting that golden retriever was so much fun!
3- I studied before 9 o'clock for my chemistry test today for the first time
4- I got a 100 on my chemistry test!
5- Chewing gum really kept me awake during English class today
6- I like how my friend has a green wall with blue stripes
7- Chicken pot pies are delicious, especially the one I had for dinner. Are there Steak Pot Pies? I would love that!

Looking back at your lists, ideas will fly in and out of your brain. Some ideas that came through my mind from this list are:
I should try making a steak pop pie
I could write a story on a green golden retriever with blue stripes
I should try studying before nine, while chewing gum
Would mustard taste good on steak?
Can dogs eat steak?
If I had a golden retriever, I would teach him how to chew gum :)

The list is endless. And I guarantee while reading this you had totally different and creative ideas. Which is great! That's the whole point of this exercise- to open up a new door in your brain and realize that you can be creative. You just have to 'flick' the right switch.
I hope you enjoyed this post. Try out the exercise for yourself and let me know how it goes in the comments! Don't forget to share this with your friends and have them try it out too. Thank you!!!
Oddly enough I believe Lightroom Classic still has a feature just like this. Select up all the photos you want (or an album etc) and it can generate some pretty stock (bells / whistles included) HTML that you can publish out to whatever with your pictures. Pretty basic HTML stuff that should be parseable for a long long time
I wouldn't say its "irreducibly" complicated. Production C code has a lot of exploit prevention code that production code in a higher level language doesn't need.
Strong jus ad bellum and jus in bello traditions in the military? For better or worse, people can justify killing in war.
I thought most people download a few of their favorite apps immediately after they buy a new phone.
After that, at least for me, installing new apps is a very rare event. I installed about 5 apps right away, and a couple more in the two years since.
> He isn't world famous because of his skill, he was world famous because he was caught.

You're wrong. He's famous for a number of reasons, including a penchant for notoriety and the spotlight, but he was also a prolific pioneer of social engineering since before there was a term for it. He is/was amongst the best of the best of known social engineers.

I'd argue that social engineering is the most important skill for a hacker. And when he was "operational", he wasn't a "known", which leads me to...

> Being famous does not make you a good hacker, the best hackers will never be known.

This line may or may not be true, but it's tiring and obvious at this point.
I'm not pavpanchekha, but I worked on a project[1] that used Z3 to optimize array-forth code without having to implement a classical optimizing compiler. We used Z3 to synthesize basic blocks of array-forth code against an executable specification which involves verifying that two programs have the same behavior and actually searching for programs against certain constraints.

There is a whole field of research in program synthesis, much of which can be done efficiently on theorem-provers like Z3. You can read these slides[2] for a good overview.

[1]: http://jelv.is/chlorophyll.pdf

[2]: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bodik/cs294/fa12/Lectures/L1/L1-...
Salesforce isn't embargoing customers in Indiana, it's just no longer sending staff or running programs for customers in the state. They're not going to stop the locals buying their product.

in Africa too

Africa is not one homogenous mass of religious backwardness.
I'm referring to the "nothing is perfect argument". It gets used to muddy the water so that one can imply that it's all a wash. "Nothing is perfect" should be taken as a given on almost all topics, so it's useless except for as a dishonest rhetorical device.

I don't like to compare programming languages and human languages, but for different reasons. (Hint: because they have so little in common.)
EDIT: I see, you were providing an example of a smart person, not an example of a smart argument. I'll let my rant stand anyway. :-)

No, it's an idiotic argument, because it essentially boils down to forcing the billions of people who do not live in the GMT timezone to adjust their mental model of "what time is office hours", and you STILL haven't solved the original problem of answering the question "Hey, you are in a different timezone, is this a good time to schedule a meeting?" You STILL need to do a lookup!
According to what do you conclude that the track record for real therapy is pretty poor? Some study or just some subjective perception?
The backup storage is my guess is the best bet without changing lock formats.

As a homeowner, I've come to the conclusion that the best thing is to have some kind of backup system that relies on a code or something not requiring a key at least. Doesn't have to be a smartlock per se, but some system that allows you access without any key.

Good locksmiths do a lot more than just get into a locked door. I learned the hard way that they can fix doors that were never really cut right, have access to locks and bolt systems that you can't buy as a general retail consumer, and lots of other things. I always thought of them as a kind of backup until I ran into a problem (long story, not really my fault actually in many ways), and they recut the door and put in a very high quality lock I would have never been able to purchase myself. I was kicking myself for not calling them years earlier.
how about bandwidth bills? is there a flat fee for those?
> - It powers all of Messenger.com. The team put out a case study where they went from ~10 bugs a week to less than 10 a quarter by switching to Reason

Did they move from Typescript or Javascript?
I've been to some American cities where it's patently untrue as well. There are other places in Europe, where I repeat that you have obviously never been, and I'm talking about suburban Germany here, where it is not patently untrue - where, in fact, it is patently true.

So feel free to reject my underlying argument if you like. Just don't think that makes you right.
My friends and I did that in 2005 with Google Reader.

But fair enough, the project looks nice. I'd only suggest to implement caching better:

1) Make /get_user_feed.php return only list of stories. E.g. [http://.../story1, http://.../story2]

2) Fetch stories one-by-one using unique links, set proper caching headers

You could also use pro.embed.ly
...then that just sounds like its a library of word processing and spreadsheet utilities that exposes nothing buy an API.

Not that anyone who would use the root and assume is a library wouldn't already know better, but just sayin :)
Hey, I think I read your paper in class. Amazing how small the world can be sometimes.
I'd never heard of SpiderOak before. Reading some info on their site here is how they explain how they allow access to your files from a browser.

"When you access your data via the website, in order for the SpiderOak server to send you your folder and filenames, and send your browser the plain text versions of your data, you must type in your password, which exists in the SpiderOak server's memory for the duration of your browsing session. Your password is only stored only in encrypted memory (and never written to an unencrypted disk) and is destroyed when your browsing session ends."

Seems pretty cool. I might have to check them out.
I used to make about $1000 minus taxes and had 8 hour work day. Now it is about 3-5 hours per day and income as you see.
Wow, that's embarrassing. I have no idea why I put Console. I usually have my Terminal on the dock, so when I was looking up the path to it in Finder I must have thought Console. I upvoted you. Thanks.
Hmm, but there's something negative implied about the original intent in the word though, like you were doing something wrong.

How about "snitchsoft", nah, same problem.

Really it's "trackware" because regardless of how you use the device/product, you are being tracked. Even your PDF documents have serial numbers by default.
Cookies are often used for good. Based on the examples in the article, "traitorware" as herein termed is a specific implementation of a technology that betrays its user, and not the component parts that make up that software. So, a cookie may be part of traitorware (say, an ad network that tracks your movements across every page it can (Facebook)), but cookies themselves are not traitorware.
Source: http://mossblog.allthingsd.com/20101224/best-and-worst-produ...
Being proxied to Server:Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) fyi

edit: I don't think the page itself is actually proxied it seems only the static content is.
LoL...
Out of all people you are quoting Trotsky? Really? How about quoting Lenin, I am sure he had a lot of smart things to say as well...