jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't feel that's fair -- yes, Lynx is not really updated much anymore and at this point very niche. But it must work for their workflow, and I feel like something as critical as search should have fallback to work with very 'primitive' browsers and older W3 standards.

(FWIW I work at Google, but not on the search team. I might go looking at internal discussions to see if this is being looked at at all)
I'm relegated to that it's mostly the size and complexity of the project as a whole. If you ask me to write small automation scripts that will quickly become obsolete I will choose bash/python every time. If you ask me to make something that has to last a while and requirements won't change a lot and is of a decent size I might write those same scripts/apps in rust or c++ (modern! 17+) for maintainability and disciplined structure. I think a lot of people are in one camp or the other, but I like to be in the middle somewhere, hopefully seeing the advantage of both.
https://antongerdelan.net/opengl/ is a decent resource for learning opengl (the author was a TA in my graphics course in college :D). And I do think it's worth Lear ing opengl over vulkan today. Vulkan dials the api complexity up to 11. If you're happy with windows only, then directx 11 would be a good choice too, but I don't have a good reference off hand.

The problem with graphics programming is that really you need to learn two things simultaneously: how 3d graphics are rendered, and how to use a GPU api. They can both be a significant thing to learn alone, and the complexity of cramming the two into your brain together makes things hard.
I mean, gestures at health outcomes in America, we do that today.
Platforms that should have integrated with k-12 schools by now.

It was a massive failure of the vision more or less.
I love this little newsletter! Always a pleasure to see it arrive in my inbox, usually has at least one or two really interesting articles in it. Highly recommended!
> Why are you interested in making this change, when Julia offers no advantage in this scenario?

Well I love julia the language. It's the interpreter quirks that I find annoying. If julia had something lean and superfast like luajit it would be incredible!
I’ve been thinking about outdoor valet driver in hospitality sector, at a hotel.

I’ll look into the ride share thing I hadn't considered scouring each states “what is an essential worker” list. Or as another person wrote: writing bots to check some appointment list.
Common Lisp
https://github.com/rabbibotton/clog

Ada
http://gnoga.com/

Already there :)
> The only people who hate GDPR are ad-industry parasites. To that I say: good riddance, and don't let starvation hurt too much on the way down.

Broad generalizations are nice, but my experience on HN shows that it’s also people who don’t understand the law. Complaints about cookie banners and popups that you’re powerless to stop as an American do exist.
Such is the complexity of laws, that, through a series of steps that each seem reasonable individually, one can become an owner of a thing that should not be their property.
What the chart describes strikes me more as a prison than transcendence. Not all complexity is order, and not all chaos isn't simple.

However, much of the wrangling could relate to contractual data preservation (like client communications), which means we don't have enough information to decide whether it's "too complex" for remuneration received. Doesn't mean the grandparent comment is wrong, though.
Are you working in toolmaking by any chance?
Braintree's version, FYI
https://www.braintreepayments.com/blog/account-updater
I used to work on the home energy monitoring space a decade ago. The most useful thing I ever heard of as a result of home electricity monitoring is that someone found a 100-W bulb that was always on.

If you have it connected to a major electricity consuming appliance, like a refrigerator, an electric dryer, or a furnace (whose fans use a ton of electricity), then in theory you can see any degradation in efficiency over time which may indicate that they need repairs. I doubt most people will do that.

For example, I'm pretty nerdy about energy use, and it took me 2 years to notice that the output of my house PV system had reduced 30% because of some trees that had grown taller.

Also, in the future, this sort of monitoring will likely be built into the appliances themselves.

There are also easier ways to achieve something like this, for example kill-a-watt meters.
Martin Kleppman has been writing quite a lot about auto merge data types.
He means that most people cannot tell the difference between different wines based on quality or cost in a blind taste test. If you tell them it's a high quality label, they drink it and act that way. If you tell them it's a low quality label, they don't use fancy descriptors when you ask their opinion. What it really is doesn't correlate with the results at all; it's all placebo.

And what the other commenter said is also true. Most people can't even tell a difference in color. If you serve white wine dyed red, people describe it as they would red wine, and vice versa.

EDIT: Citations:

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_tasting#Blind_tasting

[2]: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jun/23/wine-tas...

[3]: http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/handle/37328

[4]: http://www.yumsugar.com/Wine-World-Reels-2-Buck-Chuck-Wins-A... (not a citation in the strict sense, but a demonstrative reference)
Well this story vaguely reminds me of post communist Romania where all newly freed government agencies were fucking with people however they wanted.
And I can tell you now it wasn't any ordinary governmental agency that searched his apartment it was the CIA or NSA.
> BTW, if you wanted a biased platform, just use Google, its significantly better in every way.

It's not to me, when was the last time you used it? I haven't used Google in around 4 years now and I'm getting on just fine, majority of searches answered on first page.

If anything I now toggle between Duckduck and Ecosia as Ecosia still isn't 100% up to scratch (frequent 500 errors, slow, results are bad) but I like the idea of my searches planting trees.
The Fifth Estate, Mr.Robot and Blackhat. For TV it's Silicon Valley.
ok I don't think that the gov't should be moderating huffpo comments. Upvote/downvote stuff might be good at least for trolling stuff (but it too can be abused in the right situations).

However, actions are actions. Just because it's easier to do something on the internet doesn't make it more legal.

Obviously the seriousness of it all has to be judged , but if you're harrassing someone constantly on the internet (even if it's "just" making a bunch of online accounts and commenting extremely viley everywhere), you do not have my sympathy.

If I were putting hateful messages into your (snail) mail box every day and sending your friends photoshopped pictures of you in compromising situations, would I be pardoned? Doing on the internet shouldn't either
The problem is simpler than all that.

There already exists a function that does the exact thing the question asks for, handling all the atomicity complexity.

What this comes down to is can the candidate: figure out how to build the project, grep to existing implementation and copy, paste, change a plus to an asterisk. And also, can they articulate the work-to-be-done this simply.

I've never seen the first item in that list tested in an interview and .. I don't hate the idea.
buddy, you need to go to drawing board again. As a user, at this moment, it is of no use to me. Complete it then share with others. IMHO, it is incomplete. Let people feel privileged to give opinion about your work. People reading this site are serious. Wish you luck.
Google Analytics isn't harmless though. It's giving a single party a wide view on the entire Internet (thus the ability to circumvent cookie-based tracking by just using IP addresses and heuristics) and said party makes its money by tracking people online.

I'm not saying Chrome is any better, but at least Chrome doesn't toot the "privacy" horn at every opportunity.

Brave does have some kind of blocker built-in which might actually help even if it's not perfect.
Nothing is stopping GCP from doing likewise but they don't. Thus for a YC startup AWS is ahead in terms of customer service.
It’s the baseball metaphor. If it takes 10 at-bats to produce an article that resonates, you’d prefer to get there in 2 weeks than in 2 months.
Not a USAian but from distant observation I wonder what proporation of the total spend would disappear if you had "socialised medicine". In an ideal world this would be counter-intuitive, because competition usually increases efficiency, but as far as I can tell the provision of medical care in the US suffers from the same legalised near monoplies that many other parts of the US economy do.
WWII had trench warfare, sharpened entrenching tools beat anything too long to effectively wield in a trench.
Nah, we build cool shit all the time. We just rolled out a whole new vaccine technology across the world in under a year. You never really wanted a flying car, and AI-driven tech is everywhere but you just don't call it AI any more.
It's unlikely enough that we should spend this money on Medicare for All, climate change, etc. We already have a gillion fighter jets too...
Please see my general response to all the negativity I've received here [0].

To address your specific point, though, which was echoed by others in this thread, there is a lot of truth to the human ability to hone their auditory memory, especially when it comes to sounds that fall within the human auditory frequency range. Many of us have experienced this phenomenon not only with their own and others' children, but also with their house pets (especially cats and parrots), and even machines (i.e., your car, your air conditioner, your server, etc.)

Nonetheless, as I have shown, there is a particular biological difference exhibited between first-time mothers and first-time fathers. Nothing about this statement invalidates or calls into question your own statement and I agree with it wholeheartedly.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26254581
Is property rights completely at odds with living in a developed industrial nation? When you're threatening to force people to give up their property - it's a robbery.
That doesn't stop the NSA from doing them. I applied to work for the NSA as a mathematician in 2007-8 and went through two separate trips to Fort Meade and two separate polygraphs.
Linking yourself to a brand in this way completely removes any power you have as a consumer. I don't understand why people do it. And to be honest it seems more prevalent the younger you are.

If you like a brand, you should really be doing a quick c/b analysis prior to making any purchase. Why? Because it changes often.

A seller's entire goal in life is to extract maximum profit, so they tinker endlessly, with formulas, package sizes, prices, etc, etc.

As a consumer, you should be looking at how this movement affects your personal cost benefit analysis. At some point, the price may become too high, the formula not ideal, etc. for you.

Simply disregarding that and saying "no matter what, I buy Tide" is a sure way to be taken to the cleaners.

This is a genius bit of technology for businesses that want to maximize profits, so I'm sure they will be all over it. P&G would love to sell you Tide without you even looking at other brands, or the size of the package, or the price. It's a seller's dream.

It's horrible for a consumer though. I'd suggest all consumers give careful thought to relinquishing any bargaining power they may have in an already unbalanced equation.

Case in point: Disposable razors.

EDIT: Heh, didn't think this would be a popular post. Go figure.
Sweden's public transportation was impressive, though. Compare a map of Gothenburg's light rail/tram:

http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2010/imagenes/public-tr...

With a map of Houston's:

http://www.urbanrail.net/am/hous/houston-map.gif

This isn't an exaggeration. Houston really only has one rail line. Other major cities such as Phoenix also only have one line:

http://www.valleymetro.org/images/uploads/lightrail_publicat...

And both cities are much, much bigger than Gothenburg.
PR damage control?
One thing I've often thought - but never investigated to test - is that governing at scale requires different policies and approaches than governing at 'small'.

What always brings it to mind is the oft-cited success of the Scandinavian states on welfare, as compared with the USA.
How about making it dead easy to get all pictures in print. For example take a look at Apple iPhoto app (OSX) which allows you to easily create an album and have it print.
BGR managed to get it http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1412283
they only now realize this? haha
I live in "Europe" (France to be exact) and wifi is extremely easy to find if you live here. Two of the three biggest ISPs here turn every customer's wireless router into an access point to share with other customers. The result is free Wifi within 500 meters of almost any residence in the country.

In addition, two of the three carriers offer unlimited Free wifi to these access points with the iPhone plan, even if you're not an ISP customer. So you're doubly covered.

I checked the iPhone plans of the UK and Germany, and they both offer free Wi-fi access with the iPhone plans.

Regarding your other point, I think it was clear from the UI of the phone call that a voice chat icon will appear when video chat is available and you can switch to it at any point.
I have not seen that accusation before. Can you cite any references to support that claim?
The original "Losing My Virginity" autobiography is excellent. Some of the smaller "guide" type books he did afterwards tend to just rehash things from the autobiography..
Yes,

If I was a truly unscrupulous job seeker, I'd set myself up as an employer, get a bunch of resumes in my field and sabotage anyone with a skill set similar to mine. Presto, the field is wide-open now!
Gawker uses a really outdated hashing algorithm known as DES
(Data Encryption Standard)[...] Because DES has a maximum of
8chars [...] If your password is longer than 8 characters you
only need to enter the first 8 characters to log in!
[...]
PEOPLE USING PASSWORD AS THEIR PASS!!!!!

I never saw the DES' 8-character-limitation and the 8-character-password password so clear before.
plaintiff. they were the plaintiff in that case.
Sure, will add some slides below the videos. Don't have any plans to transcribe the talks but that is a great idea worth looking into.
On an only tangentially related note, read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It explorers why human beings are able to make quality decisions in the face of massive branching factors such as making a chess move or (more relevant to the focus of the book) develop scientific hypothesis. It's also just a great read.
Definitely be sure to give thanks to ViEmu for this great set of graphics, and if you happen to like Vim and use Visual Studio, give consideration to buying their plugin. It works incredibly well, and really helps me feel at home when writing software in Windows.
The definition of a "weak" password is so loose it doesn't make sense to make your work factor a function of it. The most common attack on this kind of schemes is a side-channel attack, where you single out a subset of the password alphabet with a relatively small "work factor" and crack passwords which use that alphabet quickly.

BCrypt is already based on the premise that there are passwords which are easy to compute, and tries to avoid that differentiation. Why would you introduce it back in?
Android does this. Even windows 7 has a configurable option for the size of all interface elements. (I recently got my mom a laptop with a small but very high resolution screen and was impressed with how well it handled it.) This article is a waste of space.
Yeah, I think Apple wants to quickly get its developers up to speed on all the new iOS features before the iPhone 4 launch.
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I would prefer signal, but I use Telegram. Everyone I talk to likes the feature set, so Signal would seem like a step backward.
There are a number of ways I think Quicklisp improves on asdf-install. Here are a few:

* Quicklisp centralizes metadata and project archives, so you don't have to rely on a world-writable wiki and 10 random servers on the internet to install a project

* Quicklisp doesn't need any external programs like tar or gzip

* It works nicely on Windows

* There is a level of integration testing before projects are published; it's not much, but it's way better than nothing

* It works with projects that don't go through a formal "release a tarball" process

* It can be installed by loading a single Lisp source file

* It's not named asdf-install, so not confusing people about where asdf stops and asdf-install begins

The main way they do the same thing is at a very high level. I think Quicklisp gets more of the important details right.
Can anyone point me to a howto? I'd love to spearhead something like this for my small community.
I worked at a machine shop as a teenager and the machinist there always said, "you computer guys have it easy. You make a mistake, you just press backspace. If I make a mistake with one of these machines it's either going to cost a couple grand or I'll need a new hand."
Of course, that goes both way. Any engineer so fixated on not using Microsoft Word, and unwilling to submit a resume in the format requested by their potential employer, might not work out well in a number of environments where they might gasp be required to use operating systems, applications, and methodologies that they were unfamiliar with, or downright opposed to.

Works out well for everyone - so, to some degree, a valid filter.
Since it's easy to calculate Pinboard's user numbers, apparenty most of them. Browser bookmark sync is probably a much bigger alternative.
I'm an extroverted hoarder. The only way I can close a tab in my browser is by saving it forever and broadcasting it to the entire internet.

Only half joking, I have 134 tabs open.

People like to be building something. Delicious is less edited than the wikipedia but it's still a massive datastore, semantically tagged, and filtered by its users.
And if Delicious would get off their cans (and it looks like they will) it could be the single best way to share a link.
Yeah there is only so much that you can do solely with css but I prefer explicit labels anyway.
I just finished Lippmann’s 1922 classic Public Opinion. In it he argues that different people may draw completely different conclusions from the same facts due to three things:

1. Sampling. There’s a big universe of facts, and each media outlet reports on a tiny piece of this universe.

2. Stereotypes. When you read a news story, you unconsciously pattern match and associate it to related examples you have in your mind.

3. Context. When you read a news story, you subconsciously have some fascet of your own identity in mind (as a Republican, as a pro-choice person, etc.).

All three are in effect when stories are reported on and consumed. It’s a series of lenses that samples, then distorts, the truth in a way that given the same real-world event, different people may come to completely different conclusions about what happened.

I’d add a #4: fake news. This amplifies #1 significantly. It was less of a problem in Lippmann’s time since the News world was much smaller. He might have called this “rumor”, not news.
True but you have to consider the app needs to be user friendly to see any real adoption...

Don't get me wrong, I love Riot (or whatever it's called these days) but it's just not user-friendly for your average Joe...
Users want centralized services. Syncing across devices and shared history are mandatory features, and are basically impossible to do well in distributed models.
The X server architecture, designed long time ago by some happy hippies who just thought all the people are good and non-malicious

Oh noes!

I just found the following security vulnerability: someone could smash their way into my house, and then threaten to hit me with a large pipe unless I gave them my bank information. Damn those hippie system designers that didn't include an armored work area!!!
It might be more mathematical to use e=2.718 rather than 10, and perhaps even displaying the log value instead of the rounded number, e.g. 3 -> 1, 9 -> 2, 29 -> 3, with suitable fiddling for negative vote totals.
He's saying that any computer system hosting the data would have downtime. Your own custom data center can blow up just as easily as Amazon's.

Now, if zero downtime is the requirement, then you just need to have a lot of data centers and well-tested failover procedures. It's all very simple, and EC2 can easily be one of those redundant data centers.
I think there's a difference between discoverable content on a service and the service itself being discoverable. Podcasts (video or audio) are relatively easy to find once you're actually into that. But I very rarely hear anyone mentioning video podcasts at all.
From the notes:

> CUDA 10.2 (Toolkit and NVIDIA driver) is the last release to support macOS for developing and running CUDA applications. Support for macOS will not be available starting with the next release of CUDA.
> extension of the person’s mind

That's exactly what our computers are. However, it's a mistake to think the government cares or can be persuaded to care.

People in power simply cannot tolerate the notion that something is out of their reach. Encryption is just mathematics but it can render entire governments and militaries powerless. The fact common citizens have access to something like this is an affront to their power.

What's happening in practice is a politico-technological arms race: governments make laws, people make technologies that neutralize those laws. With every iteration, the state must become more invasive and tyrannical in order to maintain the same amount of control over its population.
I think even more, the worry is that the YouTube algorithms are the initial deciders, and they tend to have high false-positive rates that it is then your responsibility as a creator to overturn.

Note: the way YouTube has set this up, it is the creator's legal responsibility to mark their videos appropriately, but YouTube will also be running an algorithm to automatically flag videos as a best effort approach.
> I mean, it is basically just changing your IP and putting an additional hop in. You aren't mixing with other's traffic, making it very easy to fingerprint you.

If that IP is in Russia, on a cheap supplier that has hundreds of similar VPS sitting behind a NAT, I wish em luck in fingerprinting you. Or extracting logs for that matter.
ATTENTION CITIZEN

Your online transmission contains material deemed threatening to the United States of America:

"... threw a big metal ball really hard at the president's limo ..."

Please volunteer yourself immediately to the nearest CYBERTRUCK for autonomous transport to a Security Processing Facility.
That involves city law, and it's political suicide to do it everywhere, so it doesn't happen. You need bootstrap efforts like this so people can know what the alternative is like.
I've always been a bit confused by the relationships among government agencies, ICANN, IANA, the registry-operating entities, etc., and this site doesn't seem to explain why the CEO of the Internet Society is the right person to appeal to. Can anyone point to an explanation that summarizes the overall flow of authorities and obligations involved here?
TBH I’d be happy for the (AM/FM radio) airwaves to be privatized if it meant getting rid of the absurd, antiquated rules about not being able to say certain words in song lyrics.