jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
While I agree with his point about ecosystems (I strongly avoid them), these examples are a bit weak. Android is not an "open standard", it's a code-dumped open source touch OS controlled by 1 company.

Evenmore, Android doesn't support standards very well. E.g., the default IMAP mail client didn't (probably still doesn't) have IDLE support, it doesn't have CardDAV/CalDAV support (luckily, there are external connectors), and XMPP federation is gone, so you can only talk with your Hangouts buddies via Hangouts.

The 'problem' is that from a user's perspective Android is great. The integration with the Google ecosystem in Android is impressive. And given that many westeners already have GMail et al., Android provides a great and smooth out of the box experience. So, there is little reason to switch, as long as the ads don't become to intrusive.
Can someone explain why you can't take a Tesla for a test drive in Texas? If the "showroom" doesn't actually sell any cars, then shouldn't it be considered a non-retail facility (no different from the Tesla charging stations in Texas)?
They do support this in iMessage, it's called Apple Cash. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207875
This is very good advice and I feel like you've gotten at the heart of the issue. The way you frame it makes it obvious to me that what you're saying is very true, and is not something I've thought about as explicitly as you stated. Thank you!
I never have any idea at all where I last put things. I just remember 5 to 30 minutes ago I had something... and that's all I know.

I've pretty much always relied on full searches of my entire surroundings, or very long term plans with labels and everything, since remembering a new location takes active effort or weeks of time, I don't just see things and passively remember where they were.

The desktop completely rearranging itself randomly doesn't even bother me, as long as I can quickly scan the task bar, since I basically never use Windows any way other than maximized.
I think you could get close by making a lot of pie slices, lining them up in a row, and then flipping every other one upside-down. Then you'd be able to put them back together into a rectangle.

The problem with our plan, I guess, is that you'd always be close at every pie slice size, never exactly there. These guys have figured out how to do it exactly, with a finite number of slices, instead of approaching it in the limit of infinity slices.
I've been thinking like forever that if we had a standard, pure-html equivalent to jQuery's `$('.foo').load('url...')`, we could have a lot of great sites without any JS at all (I'm not talking about the minority of legit cases where react/vue/angular shines).

Similar to a link targetting an iframe, but without an actually ugly iframe.
>That’s not the problem. The problem is when tribes see their own behavior as default good because it is their own tribe and don’t hold themselves to standards that exist beyond any individual tribe.

That is one of your problems, yes. The other is to see everybody who disagrees with you as the same. If society wants to come together it must first treat each and every person as what they are: unique individuals, defined by their actions and not by arbitrary bodily charicaristica such as eye wave-light reflection or skin melamin content.
I still wonder if it was something staged. If it was, it was a brilliant way to do it.
Couldn’t they just sell cookies or something instead?

I got it...

Ask the armed services for some lunch money...

The air force could just donate half a wing of an f35 and it would more than pay for this...
SSH and terminal have long since been ported to browser, fwiw.
>that's why Intel built a table for their hardware

Err... Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the check literally just a string match on "GenuineIntel"?
Do you have a record of this answer?
Ok, it's time to stop talking about cutlery, everyone in this thread.
"If you tell a poor person "We spent your social security on the war and now we're going to lower the amount you receive" that's asking to be voted out of office. If you tell them "The greedy rich person got a tax cut and that's why your social security is gone. Let us fight them" that gets a lot of people upset and helps politicians win elections."

It's funny how, in both scenarios, it would seem the poor person would likely vote democratic, yet Republicans still win 6 out of 10 times. Perhaps, it's because the republican in scenario #1 just issues IOUs to the SS trust while still waging the wars, but spins it by saying "war is manly and we're awesome so debts (and deficits) don't apply to us", then when the house of cards fall, and the democrats scratch out a victory in the next election cycle due to voter frustration, the republicans whip up the frustration and then pivot it by saying "see? we told you the liberals would destroy us. debts are TERRIBLE! give us another chance!"

It's the virtuous circle of modern politics, which is why I don't even bother with it anymore.
Your front page is composed of stories from subreddits you've subscribed to.
It's a LOT easier to find people for jobs if you offer better salary

If there are 200 openings for people who "must have 5 years of java" (pick a different buzzword/skill each year) and only 100 qualified people, can their salaries reach a reasonable equilibrium level, or will they spiral up?

You'll get the situation where there's a tacit understanding that people who put "5 years of x" on their CV actually only have 2 years and enough intelligence to fake it until they make it (hopefully); which is not healthy either.
SproutCore + Hunchentoot + MongoDB is it right choice?

Even then you're not yet off to the races. In particular, Hunchentoot's session management capabilities are anemic out of the box.

I haven't seen any drop-in replacements, so you're looking at reinventing at the very least this extremely core part of any web development stack.

Hunchentoot also doesn't have any built-in capabilities for handling updates to the website's source code.
I hear you, and you know I agree with you on this point, but the naysayers (mostly employers, it seems) will shoot that down with, "We already know the apprenticeship model works, but we can't afford to implement it in a culture where the average American worker changes jobs every 6, 7, or 8 years. Essentially we'd be training our competitors, and we can't afford that."

I myself have benefited greatly from the apprenticeship model-- up until very, very recently (for example) there was no other way to become a land surveyor. You had to actually apprentice, in the formal sense, with a licensed professional to get on the career track and achieve the minimum level of years of experience and then sit for the licensure exam.
I rarely see those. If you see them a lot, you can tinker with your thresholds so most of them will be hidden.
Have you ever spent time on the leftist "tankie" / "Chapo trap house" kind of subreddits? Or the Gen Zedong groups that glorify the purge of landlords during the communist revolution in China? If we are really going to go after such people wanting to violently overthrow the government we can't be ignoring the left when they do it.
"Censorship" seems to work pretty well around here in HackerNews.

When someone's opinion becomes violent or unhelpful, the mods around here will delete their post, curtailing discussion and making this area more reasonable for overall discourse to move forward.

There are unreasonable opinions and unreasonable people out there. The only possible weapon online groups have to combat unreasonable people in a discussion forum, is censorship.

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But sure, feel free to use the decades old arguments of "unmoderated speech" from the days of USENET. Some of us have been around long enough to see this argument style play out over-and-over again.

Again-and-again, the only USEFUL discussion forums are those who are run by good moderators. "Censoring" Spam, pornography, doxxing and yes, censoring calls to overt violence in the real world, is incredibly important to keep online discussions safe.

Cutting out hateful groups is _effective_. Its the weapon of last resort, but given what we've seen this past week, it is a well warranted move. It is no different than a moderator coming around here to delete spam.
Hopefully the wonderful moderators on this board reprimand you for posting political flamebait and attempting to use hacker news for political or ideological battle.
> "the things people post there"

You mean, the things a tiny handful of people post there. Most posters are center-right and don't advocate violence.

I would also note that there's been plenty of talk of violence against conservatives on left-leaning platforms, Twitter especially but many others. These people are never called out even if they talk about "rounding them up and putting them in camps" and similar Nazi-like talk, even killing them seems to be permissible. I've reported lots of such tweets and sometimes they're taken down, other times, not.
Chipping in as the co-founder of a job board startup - https://swissdevjobs.ch

We are:

- 2 co-founders

- 2 up to 4 people part-time as contractors

- full remote, almost zero offline retreats

- growing the user base around 10% MoM

- all communication happens on our Discord server

- bootstrapped, no founding

It's not clear if this model will scale easily, but I can see us growing to at least 10-15 people this way.
From my perspective, every article on Reuters included the phrase "claimed without evidence" in regards to election fraud. For me, trusting Reuters, that is sufficient information.

From a believer's perspective, articles mentioned affidavits, eye-witness testimony, court cases being filed, and important, trusted people saying something along the lines of "there is evidence the courts are not even considering!" Presumably if that same believer dug deep enough into individual court cases and affidavits and statements by the judges dismissing cases, they may have changed their mind.

But I don't dig that deep, and obviously neither do the believers. We are wired to our inclination of confirmation bias. When we are already programmed and motivated to find evidence of what we already believe, we do not tend to exhaust every option possible to validate it. We stop when we cross the smallest of hurdles of validation.
You have to unregister and reregister the device to change phone numbers.
Imagine a situation where people are credibly planning an armed assault on, say, Citibank, in public forums.

Do you believe it is OK to disrupt their planning? Do you believe it becomes not-OK if the target of the domestic terror is the seat of our government?
The traditional automakers are the ones making the regulation, trough lobbying (in the good and bad sense of the world). There isn't a regulation passed on the car industry that the car industry isn't part of writing.

I highly doubt that the traditional carmakers are slowed down by regulations.

Would be cool to find someone who has actual insights to ask this.
If Pence invokes the 25th amendment then she would have to go on the record with a vote. So just resigning is the easier decision.
Also, it's not mentioned in TFA, but by default the kernel does not allow audio recording :).
I’ve been watching Girls und Panzer this week so that one felt oddly normal. Maybe that AAA is operated by cute high school girls?
>> How do you feel about the saying that code itself should be as good as documentation?

The truth is, 95% of developers do not write readable code. But I've been doing this for a while, so I can follow pretty much anything. It's the shear volume of legacy code in the typical code base thats the problem.

What kills me is dead code that you don't know is dead; hundreds of class files, dto's, booleans passed around to control processing that are always false now, because that alternate path is no longer used. And protocol messages, oh god the hundreds of protocol messages, but we only use 10 now.

Edit; I've been the hero more than once documenting stuff like the above.
Presumably you would have to set up and run a subsidiary in the country
> Would you prefer System.out.println("Hello world!"); instead?

This is why I didn't get into details originally because I knew I would get this kind of response.

You know full well that's exactly the opposite of what I mean. You're being an asshole for no reason.

> Not sure what you mean here. "in" is only used in for loops.

I meant the "of"s, of course.
Really? That's a bummer. It's a GNU project, so it should be using Guile.
"The only possible way is to use violence, but we do not have guns."

Well, there's a few options left, no?
It is probably nr 1 because it still has very clear audio and video while the performance of Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams is dramatic at this moment. And the last two are supposed to be the standard tools in the very large organization that I work for.
I think this will confirm the exact opposite.
It did let a lot of banks fail in 2008-12 as fallout from that crisis.

Somewhere around 500 banks failed, with something in the neighborhood of half a billion dollars of assets.

Just certain banks were propped up because the powers that be decided it would have too big of an impact on things.

Too big to fail and all that.
my theory: depth == salary, width == mobility.
depth is risky - when time is right, you make a ton of money; opposite also true.

width is a hedge - you don't get paid as much, but you can land a job quickly, because you can plug into any team
JavaScript based manipulation of the SVG’s nodes doesn’t work then.
How about the newest version of an old technology
I'm not sure that partial experiments which test none of the putative downsides are of much benefit to a debate though.

I certainly would contest, for example, the suggestion that Neil Armstrong walking on a sidewalk would have represented a moonwalking experiment, because we didn't need to experiment to learn that astronauts are capable of perambulation on earth or learn anything about low gravity from it. Similarly, if you wish to test the hypothesis that a welfare state would be best reorganized on the to each irrespective of his need principle with taxes adjusted accordingly, you're not creating evidence for it by learning that unusually poor people are better off after receiving one off windfall of $7500.
The assumption that poor people are better off with more money is already baked into the status quo solution.
Though it sounden incredible then, compared to the blip blop sounds we were used to.
> Disclaimer: I'm an Indian, so an Asian.

That's not exactly how "Asian" works.
Hm, perhaps I'm reasoning about this correctly, but wouldn't you think the opposite? Being attractive provides evolutionary slack that requires less optimization on other characteristics (like intelligence), and vice versa.
Just about everything is better than Go. Nim, Rust, OCaml, Haskell... Did you read the submission? And for further enlightenment, the link to the previous post on the blog about what makes Nim special? Here's a link to a rant comparing Go and Rust, which includes some links of its own highlighting further issues with Go: http://www.quora.com/How-do-Go-and-Rust-languages-compare
Mmhmm. They're threatening him with fines of $10K a day.

Oh no. Khosla is worth $1.7B. Every year this goes by costs him almost 0.2% of his net worth. In five hundred years, they'll bankrupt him.

He's earning that much a day in interest on investments alone. Why would he care?
Reference from Fatal Attraction http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bunny+Boiler
I believe it is a current project goal for jor1k to get Firefox running.
Let's be realistic. If you have somebody naming variables:

foo_bar = blah

foobar = blah

fooBar = blah

That's someone you really don't want to be coding anywhere near, because it leads to really, really confusing code.
So nim is just enforcing not being able to do it it as a language.
He doesn't need to be humble, but if he wants to be part of a community or not face this criticism, he should be.
Most of it sounds like run-of-the-mill new products to me. Might be good, might not. Unlikely to make waves in either case.

The open sourcing of .NET is the real news and as far as I'm concerned, the jury is still out on what that actually means for the world. Don't know about you, but I'll be sticking with JVM langs until I see a CLR for OSX on MS's download page.
We have a Tango tablet.

First thing, it crashes, a lot. We're talking 2-5 minutes active 3d scanning before the structure sensor driver bites the big one. Requires killing and restarting service along with all programs associated.

Also had hard freezes as well.

Its "google quality" in other words, crap. It might get better. It probably won't, given their track history regarding consumer devices in "google beta" (read as alpha).
Facebook leaked your IP people you communicated with, not that IPs are that sensitive in the first place. It wasn't a big deal.
#1. I hate the "this" keyword abuse in jQuery, this article demonstrates it clearly.
#2. Some minor code style issues do not make a bad plugin.
"Johnson, why can't we push this security update?"

"Well boss, we thought it would be more webscale to use our own chip design, so we're kinda stuck, but the good news is that we've negotiated the cost of new masks down to 3 million dollars"
Docker CLI and Docker engine are open source :) Docker Desktop for Windows/Mac are not. So as long as the dependency is on the open source components, AFAIK they'd be fine.
There's quite a bit of overhead in execing and piping data from ffmpeg. If performance is a concern, then using the C ffmpeg API is a better bet(see pyav for a good example of this) . Cool project though!
Amazing to know how little we knew and experimented with such a popular process used for so long. It makes me wonder what's undiscovered about other processes we take for granted.
I don't necessarily think there is a difference between students and programmers in general. What I'd like to accomplish is a more curated freelancing site, where qualified programmers don't necessarily have to compete with people offering services at a fraction of the cost. In addition a place where students can learn a bit about freelancing, so if a freelancer has a question on how to handle a certain type of client or how should something be done, we'd like to provide the resources to help the freelancer. Kind of a mix between an agency and just a freelancing site would be my goal as of now.
I suspect that responsiveness is more strongly correlated with sales than the ability to share URLs or open them in new tabs.
As a content producer, I do not care for people to excuse their copying of content (and resulting loss of residual income) by saying that they're sticking it to the publisher/distributor. In the real world, the publishers/distributors are often fronting the money to produce the content in the first place to varying degrees. Undermining the distributors' business model does not improve the negotiating position of producers one whit.
I'm not sure I agree with this. What percentage do you reckon, and what stuff?

You say useless later in "life", but then mention specific career paths. Is education useless if it isn't directly applicable to a currently occupied career? What if they change careers?

It takes a lot more than career specific education to mould a good member of society.
I wonder what really would happen if the experiment were tried. It would be difficult indeed to find any credentialed United States schoolteachers who speak Finnish well enough to teach in Finland (but not insuperably difficult to find Finnish teachers who speak English well enough to teach in the United States, which tells us something right there). I would like to include a few more countries in the mix. Indeed, that is what I like about the new book The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way,[1] because the book follows some American exchange students over to other countries (Finland, yes, but also Korea and Poland) and examines a lot of different trade-offs that different school systems around the world have to deal with. The boy who traveled over to Korea to be an exchange student and was profiled in the book traveled over from the same school district in Minnesota I have lived in since I had children. Finland is not the only model of a different system, and we should be studying a lot of different models to make sure we aren't missing out on lessons we can learn from practice elsewhere.

P.S. I am a teacher by occupation, and I know that the research shows that teacher characteristics matter for learners. The parental involvement or value placed on education by parents mentioned in several comments that preceded mine here are important, but I deal often (just today, in fact) with trying to help parents who are involved in their children's educations but are frustrated by what's happening to their children in United States public school classrooms.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Smartest-Kids-World-They/dp/145165...
I'm not too impressed with Louie's attempts at 2 to 3 stories per episode. The show is hilarious, but I think that experiment failed, personally. However, I think when he does outlandish episodes like the one where he has a dream about his "Uncle Excelsior" are much better examples of throwing the rules out the window and making something really interesting and memorable.
Stiglitz has a political agenda so his definition of poverty is not what you might think (i.e. lack of food or shelter) but "relative poverty" - defined as income below 50% of median adjusted for family size (which are larger for poor families). It would be nice if he mentioned this...

Edit: Also this is based on (pre-tax?) income before transfers such as subsidized food, housing and healthcare which distorts comparisons (i.e. in the US, unlike almost every rich countries, only the poor get free or subsidized healthcare).
I just bought the pdf book.

My first two immediate impressions:
1) The handdrawn illustration thing is cutesy and cloy.
2) I've no idea why the line spacing is so massive. The word density per page feels like half a normal book.

Of course those are just superficial remarks, and I have barely read anything yet, but they both immediately annoyed me.

*the line spacing thing is annoying because it makes me feel like i'm constantly spinning the scroll wheel on my mouse more than actually reading the text.
Why wouldn’t they just used a customized Ford Transit or something?
Wonder how their employees can be relocating worldwide when all their engineering jobs are listed as US/Canada.
Better yet- do both.
Nah.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4512156.stm
I mean, legislators have seeked to ban literally water (see https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-mar-13-me-water...)
AWS failed this test hard for me a couple weeks ago. A cat walking across my keyboard terminated an EC2 instance. Lesson learned: no cats on the desk when logged into mission critical software :)
For an example of this, in GA last year a bill was passed that allowed people with weapons carry licenses (who have to be fingerprinted, background checked, etc.) to carry weapons into unsecured government buildings. Immediately local governments began complaining about now having to install metal detectors and have police officers to screen people for weapons before entering their buildings.

Local government officials said they didn't "feel safe" with the new law, even though by virtue of being an unsecured building, nothing prevented a person with illegal intentions from entering with a weapon before or after the law. The law just exposed the faulty thinking that a "no guns" sticker on the front door would keep bad guys out.
Looks just like a bit more polished version of Socrates[1]

[1] http://socrates.io/