jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Why are other countries not victim to lobbying in the way America is?

Is it just a double-edged sword that we have to thank for making us (one of) the economic powerhouse(s) of the world? At the same time, it feels like it to blame on why we can't have anything nice when compared to European countries. Am I out of line/uneducated on this matter? I very well could be.

I hate just chalking the root of problems up to some massive unbeatable evil force (like lobbying).
Haha, I am fully convinced now that lots of HNers actually don't know how to use Github. Are you guys not software engineers? Use the source code, my dude. Read it if you want. Run the program if you want. It doesn't even take that long.

And like, if you're even halfway competent you know how to run the program without Internet access.
understanding isn't mainstream

so, yeah, inertia is certainly a factor, but the staggering level of tech incompetence among the masses is also a likely factor.
I'm down to exactly one adapter in my bag. One usb-c male to usb-a female stubby little guy.

If I'm heading to someplace where I think I might need more than 1 usb-a port or a situation where I might need a bit of a usb hub I just pack this little 'dock dongle' that's about three inches long and an inch wide that has three usb-a ports (2x3.0 1x2.0), an hdmi port, a sd and tf card slot, an ethernet port, an audio jack, and a usb-c power input port... cost me all of 60$.
Oh you're right, I misread the second half of that, thought it was buying puts.
No, for finance at large floats are often fine. Plenty of financial calculations cannot be done precisely using fixed point or arbitrary precision numbers either, so there's no point giving up the performance/ease of use that floating point offers. Billions of dollars is transacted based on Excel calculations every day, this whole fixed point for finance thing is a programmer myth.

Of course as you say for accounting you don't want to use floating point, but I can't see anything like that in this application.
In my largish company, the CTO announced a similar "zero regressions in production" goal.

I came up with this system of coverage which would be a huge improvement and much tighter testing process, eventually moving "left" up the development pipeline:

https://eratestcoverage.org/

I proposed this and a bunch of other ideas, and the general reaction was flat. My boss said he didn't understand any of it and cut me off trying to explain.

I realize now, the goal set by the CTO was just talk, they had no interest in any real process change. And so, nothing changed.

The concepts are sound, granted they could be better explained, I'm working on it, just not being paid to do so.
Normally people create downward pressure on prices by not buying the product when it becomes overpriced. However with healthcare there is a captive market. Are you not going to get a cast put on a broken leg because the doctor wants to charge too much? Are you going to just opt out of cancer treatments and die?

Healthcare is an area where market forces are inherently perverted because people often don't have a choice of not buying the service. This is why every sensible country uses a socialized system instead. Not only does it provide better service, but without the perverse market incentives and multiple layers of middlemen infesting the system it is much less expensive.
Except the internet made things easier. Trading stocks isn’t expensive or error prone. We’ll see.

Is the premise that every mom and pop will list shares in their company somewhere? The problem with that isn’t technological. It’s regulatory. And the regulations were created for good reasons.
I mean if they get their mission done they’ll be worth more...
I use mine nowadays, because my room is just far enough from the access point for occasion zoom drops. The 'better' solution would have probably been to put an access point right in my room, but I already have an RJ45 dongle + ethernet cord and I trust a cable connection to have less drops than wifi.
> you can find out if customers are using your new useful feature or if they can't find it

How do you find out if your "useful" feature isn't as useful as you thought it was? Or is it really always "the user can't find it"?
It does not seem prima facie unreasonable to post a lawyer's professional address for process service.
I have an Archlinux base box available here: http://gotanysnacks.com/vagrant/

Also, it's well worth the effort to learn Chef (or another automated provisioning tool) if you haven't already. It makes working with Vagrant way easier and saves you time whenever you create a new environment. Plus you can use the same recipes on a production box, so the effort isn't wasted.
Reminds me of The Matrix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IojqOMWTgv8&feature=playe...
I don't know about anyone else, but what I read in that article was: "Torrent better product than DVDs and online media stores".

I think torrent is the killer app for Google TV.
The GC process does a full mark-and-sweep collection, so eventually it will have processed the entire heap. At that point, all garbage that existed when the collection started will have been collected, although new garbage will have been created by the program in the meantime. Similarly, all objects that survived the collection will have had their pointers fixed, and new objects will have had the correct pointers in the first place.

The purpose of the read barrier is to allow the program to keep running while collection is happening. It lets the VM trap access to the parts of memory that the GC is working on, and do little bits of the collection algorithm in the program threads so they don't have to stop and wait for the GC thread to finish what it's doing.
Our corporate parent has some sort of deal with Microsoft that lets you purchase a legit copy for $10 (total with shipping and sales tax is about $27 if you want the DVD delivered). The folks at the office (who have taken advantage of it) mention that they've also been allowed the 3-machine activation per key.
I'm in Australia and face the same problem. It's super hard to open a merchant account here. I'd love to have a merchant account to do things like automatic credit card processing (and refunding partial payments etc) and easy upsells, but to get one you have to either pay tens of thousands of dollars or wait months and submit a thousand and one forms to different companies.
Talking about that, I recently bought some DVDs and they had no English captions (I'm hearing impaired). I was incredibly pissed off, so I pirated them. Then, I was given House as a gift (TV Series) - lo and behold, no captions. sigh
Dammit. Investigating.
OK. Except, 'CouchOne Mobile for Android' seems to come as a complete package with Android SDK bindings. As you'd expect, no Erlang required/mentioned.

I'd be interested to know if an Erlang VM is actually included in the CouchOne for Android package, and, if so, is it possible (or useful) to spin up another node on the phone and connect them natively?
Do you avoid software like FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, and all other software that fits the criteria of your post? Point is, you have shitty reasons and probably aren't consistant in your application of them. Government funding and a committer you don't like preclude the usage of a huge amount of software.

curl -s http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/CREDITS | grep gov
E: becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
E: snyder@fnald0.fnal.gov

curl -s http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/trunk/MAINTAINERS?view=co | grep gov
Asher Langton	langton2@llnl.gov

My general frustation with your blog post is that your arguments apply to many popular pieces of software. It feels disingenuous and it feels like it's provocative solely for the purpose of being provocative.
You'd think they'd want to hire someone in philli who's willing to work two days a week onsite and the rest from home but no. It's like I have the plague whenever I mention it.
Disagree. After the initial smartphone surge of the last 3 years, most of the growth, revenue, and profit in the cell phone market will come from poor consumers outside the first world. It's hard to sell a new iPhone every year to first world consumers who already have an iPhone: it's fast enough and has every HW feature under the sun already. Sooner or later people will stop paying for roughly the same electronics in a redesigned case (no matter how sexy).

Will Apple accept much lower margins to capture the emerging market? I doubt it, but we'll see. If they don't: they need to keep inventing new product categories like the iPad to keep the whole thing afloat, and that is definitely not sustainable. I think they are nearing a top.
yes, but I received the automated replies few hours later
@cma: you mean I couldn't verify the identity of the router upfront and might handshake with someone pretending to be it? I figured you could tell by the SSID of who you're connected too if it's the right one, assuming the official one isn't offline.

See, I knew that I didn't know enough about this to lead a decent conversation ;)
That's different though. http://devimages.apple.com/iphone/resources/introductiontoun... says - "A Universal app is optimized to run on all iPhone OS devices—itʼs essentially an iPhone app and an iPad app built as a single binary." It also lays the responsibility of conditional coding to the apps - to load right resources, show split view by following different code paths etc.

There are no two apps in case of Android, only one App with no conditional coding required to support a tablet and a phone. The underlying framework will do the right thing automatically based on where it is running.
Forgive me, but I lack a copy of the expensive proprietary software necessary to open your second link. Could you just tell us what % of variance is explained by home environment?

(I'm also having a hard time finding it in your 1969 paper, but I admit I only skimmed the first 15 pages or so.)
> Ethanol: on the EPA’s “hazardous waste” list, can cause central nervous system disorders

And with that you've demonstrated that your entire list isn't likely to be grounded in reality.
Dev facing FB interfaces are hard to navigate and chaotic. Not a fan personally.

What would be interesting though is infrastructure that leans on what they know best in terms of architecture and development.

GraphQL APIs, React frontends, PHP, JS, MySQL... Stuff that works for them is widely adopted by the webdev world as well and webdevs want convenient, scalable infrastructure.

Oh and they also have people working with/on Haskell right? I bet tons of Haskell devs would love use FB infrastructure if Haskell support was provided. A niche market for sure, but I suspect it is one that longs for something like this.
We're owned by one of AWS's biggest clients and we get to straight up request features every other month and have their teams build it for us. We have a few humans assigned to our account that will physically come into our office when we have problems worth discussing. We also get access to quite a lot of price/billing advantages.

Google we can't even get them to answer an email.
Used it many years ago and I must admit that while it's easy to start with you can end up with super weird bugs down the line where the only option can be to fork and fix it (after/if you find the issue) :) wouldn't use it again when there are maintained alternatives. Nowadays I just write these integration tests in Go since quite often it's handy to use api client libs to verify some data or prepare some fixtures.
Uh, so I've never really heard of SmartOS or Joyent's SDC before now...

This stuff looks pretty fucking unreal. What's the catch? It looks like it solves so many problems with clustered container deployment. Exposing a whole datacenter as a single Docker host seems like the end-game to me.

Am I missing something? I'm a little low on sleep today.

edit: To answer my own question a little: I guess the docker-sdc isn't quite fully baked yet. That's not really a huge issue since it's still a preview, I think?
I tried this a while ago with libbirt-kvm and the most awesome thing was that I could live migrate VMs from AMD to Intel and vice versa. None of the other solutions, like vmware or xen do that, afaik.

On the not so good side is that disk cache needs to be disabled for live migration to work at all. This reduces the iops of the vm by 50-60%.

So you either get high performance or high uptime...
Sure $3.5b is a lot of money and worth mentioning; but just that alone is somewhat misleading considering it's a very small fraction of Berkshire Hathaway.
This only works if someone has added such an interface to every object in the programming language, the user is familiar with the dot-calls-method convention (and the state-is-modified convention), etc. I think to do actual programming it's probably best to use an actual programming language, as you do want all the details under control. To do what most people do with mathematica, however, (and the way most people use mathematica is more like the way they use an interpreter than the way they write in a source file, by trying out all sorts of combinations of some little pieces while they work out the actual problem they're trying to solve in their heads) it seems like a good idea, as you're just removing friction from the system (what if circle.make_smaller() was named circle.reduce_size()? Is this responsibility better offshored to an intellisense-like technology with heavy autocompletion? But in general I don't want to be told what to type, I want what I type to work)
I really love these abuses of TCP. Over the weekend I setup my router to do TCP proxying, and I noticed that a lot of sites do not emit valid TCP streams (making them inaccessible to machines behind the router). Metafilter, in particular, emits a valid stream if the page is not cached (like submitting an article), but it's hit or miss if the page is cached.

Presumably this is because the load balancer hijacks the raw TCP connection, but is not smart enough to use valid sequence numbers:

http://readlist.com/lists/openbsd.org/misc/9/45511.html

The side effect of the Internet violating the TCP standard is that TCP becomes a lot less resistant to man-in-the-middle attacks. And, my firewall has to deal with various strange things, like packets in the middle of a TCP stream that have a TTL such that they don't get routed, but do affect the firewall's state table. But hey, at least your load balancer doesn't have to establish two TCP connections! Imagine the latency that would introduce!
"2001: A Space Odyssey" - Stanley Kubrick

"Eat Drink Man Woman" - Ang Lee

"The Ice Storm" - Ang Lee

"Wonder Boys" - Curtis Hanson

"The Apartment" - Billy Wilder
Agreed, it would also meant the establishment of WebKit (and its variants) as the de-facto rendering engine of the web.
Floating homes are also quite common in the United States; many examples can be found along the Mississippi and Columbia rivers.
Yeah, that's another way to do it. Another way to look at that is you're doing the proration on the final amount, and then distributing the rounding difference across the line items. Which is nice because you get the right total, though it can look weird when line items for the exact same thing are off by a penny from each other.
I guess it depends on your salary. ;)

The way it makes more sense to me is when you spread out the same amount of effort over longer elapsed time, quality increases just my not rushing things and being able to reflect more.
> Baofeng

I didn't know Baofeng made phones. I thought they only made radio HTs.
Lara Warner (Chief Risk Officer), was fired today, so I guess she's lost a fair bit.
Our profession is misunderstood by the public, and some effort is required to let people know that this is in fact high-skill, demanding work.

Recently, a non-technical executive berated me for not working faster. I wanted to tell him, "would you say that to your accountant, who just worked an 80-hour week to help you meet your obligations on time, continuing to receive new spreadsheets all the while?"
Finding a bug and not reporting it is not illegal. The rest is assumptions.
I can install solar on my roof in 1-2 days (after permitting/approval). I cannot install a nuclear reactor on my roof.
The CEO of the coin itself said they they are planning on donating a lot of money to signal in the future.
Either put up the real reason to be impressed by Intel's much, much delayed PCIe 4, or stop shilling for them.

PCIe efficiency is such buzz-none-word.
This doesn’t work at all, many companies don’t have lawyers of their own but keep big law firms on retainer. And companies could just offload more onto JD-advantage employees/ law student interns anyways since they’re not “lawyers”
I don't think that's a terribly good tl;dr. Allowing git pushes over HTTPS is not necessarily a problem per se. The likely real culprit is mentioned later in the blog post:

The master.php.net system, which is used for authentication and various management tasks, was running very old code on a very old operating system / PHP version.
If you’re concerned about this, writing to Signal directly is a good option: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/requests/new
For all we know, there was not that much of a difference between very successful sheepherders and small princes back then - and bronze was not a common material back then. Animal skin parchment was readily available - It is a good assumption that they chose bronze because they wanted the agreement to persist for a long time, and to show it's importance.
I agree with the need to preview whats going on.

In real life spaces, we often decide to switch to a different conversation from hearing a snippet or zoning in to what's going on around you when you're bored of the current talk. In this system, I feel like it would be rude to bring yourself over to a group and then leave again when you decide you're not interested in the conversation. Perhaps being able to mouse over a location to here the audio would be good. I don't think there's much expectation of privacy in a space like this anyway.

I think this spacial arrangement would generally make such social dilemmas easier to handle. For instance, I think it would be more awkward to abruptly leave a room during a conversation than to just sidle away. Leaving slowly could implicitly invite others to follow.

The internet has forced us to create a bunch of new social protocols and norms. Why not design our tools to fit with our existing ones?
This. I recently installed Telegram without giving access to my contact list.

Within seconds of installing, I received a telegram from a co-worker who jokingly said: "For privacy reasons, when you install Telegram, it sends a message to all of your contacts."

It simply creates your virtual contact list from the contact lists of your contacts.
> Why would it go to Famous Writer?

From the article:

> Reames said Amazon refuses to send him a corrected 1099, or to discuss anything about the identity thief.

The writer in question received a 1099, which states that he earned the proceeds from this book, and the IRS is going to require him to pay taxes on those earnings.

> As for why bother impersonating Famous Writer in the first place? Probably because an unheard of author selling $500,000 worth of books for $500/each would be suspicious,

The author says this book made much more than any of his other books:

> Reames is a credited author on Amazon by way of several commodity industry books, although none of them made anywhere near the amount Amazon is reporting to the Internal Revenue Service.

They (the hackers) impersonated the author because they had access to his information via his publisher. Thus, they could bypass Amazon's normal vetting process for self-published books.

This is a terrible money laundering scheme (since it doesn't actually result in legitimate money), but it's a very good theft scheme.
See [0] for examples of spreadsheet support in Org Mode (which, while often discussed as a thing of its own, is still part of default Emacs installation).

Basically, your table is drawn as text (with Emacs automatically managing its layout, and providing various shortcuts for larger manipulations like inserting or swapping rows/columns). Formulas are recorded as text below the table. They get recomputed on demand, or can be made to recompute on each edit[1].

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[0] - https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-spreadsheet-intro...

[1] - https://orgmode.org/org.html#Advanced-features describes a bunch of features, including recomputation of select rows on edit/navigation, as well as marking which rows are names of columns or cells vs. data.
Your mention of mailing lists/fora/newsgroups made me wonder about how easy it is for people today to forge those same (non-"friends", but still) close relationships with strangers today. I definitely remember those close bonds with other internet users in the 1990s and early millennium.

However, today due to everyone moving to Facebook and other content silos with a mobile app, independent website forums are severely hollowing out. On some of the forums about various hobbies that I follow, the most active posters left are often extremely curmudgeonly elderly people, and if they hail from very polarized countries they are quick to descend into political rants to the point that they do little on-topic posting. Facebook isn’t a satisfying place for friendship due to the feeds and algorithms, and independent forums can now be high-stress environments. Consequently, the internet feels like a more lonely place than before.
Team mates, usually know who is a good engineer, and who's not - much more accurately than management.
When I was in Google, Perf process was based on peers feedback, and it worked well.
Not all professional programmers are college kids with degrees in C.S. Imperative languages are much easier to get your head around than OO-languages if you don't have a formal training. And lispy abstractions like map and first order functions are even trickier. So I thought it's natural that the more abstract a language, the more difficult it is for it to make it into the corporate world.
> I had a decent chunk of cash locked up for almost a year

This isn't a judgement, but a real attempt to understand: why would you lock up a significant amount of money someplace like that?
I think the 30-40 and 20+ second claims were not intended to be factual statements.
Actually, the usability test pretty much replicated my experience with Unity. The dock was fine, but the way it folded was awkward. I wasn't sure what the Ubuntu menu did either and I eventually got sick of never being able to find system settings and the really unhelpful search and switched to Xubuntu. I was reading this usability test and going "...And they went ahead with it!!??"
I agree with you. Unfortunately, I allowed my common sense to be temporarily overrode by the desire to make a pun.