jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Also those who are registered as software professionals with the British Computer Society or similar are least likely to be using SO - either because they know all the answers - or more likely - are too busy doing flow charts of what their perfect system would look like if they ever actually did any programming.
Well, if "do we really need this" was a viable yardstick for the value of innovation, nothing significant would have been invented in the past 100 years.

And telling me that the relationships I have on Facebook are worth less that not having them at all because they are on Facebook rather than on the phone(x) is incredibly arrogant and, well, none of your business.

(x) Never mind that they would have significant trouble reaching me using any of the 1998 contact information they have on me. Except for my name, which happens to be fairly unique, none of it is valid today, nor was it already by 2000.
Tim doesn't look at just the present state but at the trend. Other posters have noted that many people abandon or don't see the use for IM or email when they use Facebook to communicate.

If people stop following their email or logging in to their IM because they communicate using Facebook, it could change quickly.
Honestly - the whole "sports fans are dumb" stereotype belongs right in the bin with the "geeks can't get the girl" stereotype.
First off, I never trust reviews saying that something is extremely loud. Just look at every single fan or video card on newegg and you'll see people complaining that they are the loudest thing they've ever heard and other people claiming they are virtually silent.

Secondly, what does the author (or you guys) recommend as an alternative to the Drobo? Just creating your own file server/NAS? Do you need a hardware RAID card, or are mobo-integrated ones or cheaper software cards sufficient?
Encore, small business is what drives the economy!
Where is 6 months coming? I routinely hearing people in auto supply industry claims 3-5 years is usually how a new component enter market with serious adoption. For system like Tesla's entire electronic, 5-10 years seems what they are speculating.
1. That's still less intuitive for someone who wants to understand the relationship between the code and output.

2. Following from 1, notebooks are meant to be shared with output in place, so others can understand without executing code.
> Adobe's Bracket front-end editor is open-source, yes, but does it have any traction?

I suspect one of the big detractors from Brackets is that it doesn't [yet] support VIM/other keymaps out of the box (https://trello.com/c/ckAel1Cl/358-118-keyboard-shortcut-prof... ). Additionally it could have set itself apart as a possible thick-client NodeJS debugger, but again not out of the box (http://blog.brackets.io/2013/08/28/theseus-javascript-debugg... ).

While developers are used to installing features they want, Brackets suffers from the fact that there isn't any built-in package manager and therefore these types of optional features are gated behind a Google search (where most of the top results are questions about support, not the answers).
No, you basically only control the order of transactions: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses#Attacker_has_a_lot_of_...
I just gave a C++ example, because you asked for one.

There are lots of module systems to choose from, and Objective-C offers none.
you can modify git history by filter branch
Yes, this is a reasonable concern, I agree. One could argue that a buyer actually planned the bailout to capitalize on Gox users, who, obviously, are going to pay some percentage of their balances for the whole operation. However, Gox customers don't really have any other choice, so they'd take the deal.

One can suggest that this kind of tactic will never be again used in the future, since all exchanges would be audited and customers would be more cautious.
I read quite a bit, and quite distressingly, I can’t tell if this is satire.. at one point teachers are given an exercise to “dismantle power structures in the classroom”.. one of the answers is to “Create multiple ways of participating that honor myriad ways of thinking and being” by introducing (for example) “Community circles or storytelling circles, incorporating dance, music, song, call and response, and other cultural ways of communicating.”

Is this real? One of the referenced texts I checked seemed legit (and a little more rational and easier to read - it feels generated to me in some way, still not sure if it is)
8. Requires giving them access and uploading your contact list to invite friends.
It's hilarious in an ironic sense that the decisions that SF'ians make drive food prices up in a way that they then complain about. The same way that nearly every metro area makes compassionate human centered decisions which drive the baseline cost of goods up. It's the byproduct of living in a city
Would be fun to do an Ask HN for other features. I can think of a few, just not any that an extension would be a good fit for.
How do you manage the notifications? I'm only following like 40 people but have change my notifications down to the lowest setting.

Even at infrequent, it notified me every 30 mins in the last 18 hours... while I was sleeping too. Just wild.
This behaviour (id not changing after concatenation) is consistent with the original str object being deallocated and a new one allocated in its place with an identical id. It’s not what actually happens behind the scenes (in CPython), but it’s still an implementation detail that this demonstration does not even unambiguously expose.
> Isn't his time up on Jan 20? It really looks like collusion to this Aussie (me), who has no stake in the game.

Jumping on a bandwagon isn’t collusion. Twitter started by fact checking him back in November. Other sites followed. Over time, Twitter got more aggressive about it before banning him. Now everyone else isn’t the first to ban, so it’s not as “scary” to do so.

It took as long as it did because no one wanted to take that “first step”.
HN has a lot of discussion that doesn't turn into partisan debate. When it does, it's the same as anywhere else.
Yes, unlike Mozilla they have always followed through on this promise.
Indeed. And the likelihood of escape are worse the greater the infected population x time to new vaccine. I'm increasingly worried that covid-19 is the slow loris of viruses. Too slow and mild to warrant panic-mode measures (I don't mean lockdowns), just gonna be an annual millimation of the population.
Sorry, maybe I'm just ignorant, but since when do Mastercard and Visa handle taxes and everything you describe?
I treat everything on LinkedIn as a press release. Not just content from organizations, but especially that from individuals representing themselves or their (small) businesses.

It's all just a dishonest representation of their 'best self'.

The LinkedIn Crowd is just as bad as the Instagram influencer crowd and I hate what the internet is becoming.
I tried Free File Fillable Forms last year on principal, but I ran into issues in two areas:

1. reporting scholarship income (goes on the line beside box 1 and nowhere else), and
2. state taxes are not supported, and my state does not have an equivalent service.
I don't really see it as any different from people discussing communism in someones private bar or house, instead of only having such discussions in publicly owned forests.

The world they want is an ideal that hasn't been achieved yet.

It only makes sense to hobble yourself by not taking advantage of the existing infrastructure if your ideology holds existing infrastructure to be inherently immoral not merely substandard.

Private centralized spaces are less than perfect, but they're okay to use while you work to make something better.
FYI, I don't think you can submit someone else's project as a Show HN. See the rules here: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

(I'm not the creator, but am friends with the creator who is 'Jarred on here)
Good evening downvoters.

It was called "Neptune", so go ahead and duckduckgo that instead of downvoting facts you don't like.
I've read briefly about nano and its super interesting. I don't really understand how its feasible though. What is the incentive for operating a node in the network?

A cryptocurrency that would ACTUALLY be used as a currency needs a resilient network. But if operating a node yields no financial incentive, how is that network supposed to be created?
> ...ironically those buyers aren’t interested in spending cryptocurrency using their MasterCard.

> They’re hoping other people will buy cryptocurrency from these announcements, driving the price up.

So what? Does every investor use the products of the companies they invest in? Professional investors don't care about that, they care about how well the company is doing and what they think its trajectory will be (up or down), not whether they personally will use the services offered.
The ideal employee is both brilliant and easy to get along with. Practically no employees are ideal. Sometimes the least productive people are the peace-makers that let the rest of the team tolerate the brilliant assholes. Cogs are great, but it's idiotic to treat oil as though it were mere deadweight. Both are needed in any company.
A = "Achieved" -- you did what you said you would do, and it's in line with your peers.

70 = You're an average Joe. You're not a bozo, and you're not a rock star, and you're not going to get a promotion soon.
> I don't quite follow, who's stopping you from using sbrk(), mmap() and all the other low level allocation system calls if you really have to?

From a pure language perspective, nothing.

From a standard library perspective... it's probably more difficult. I won't say impossible, as the STL allocator concept certainly seems general enough to allow this, but definitely more difficult.
Why all the verbiage? The essence of Medium should be described in two sentences.
I believe the fish in question is the bluefin which averages 500lbs or so. Apparently they can sell for much more (even 10x more) than $100k! Even if every pound of the fish became sushi and there was zero markup from the ($100k) fish market price, I figure each piece of sushi should still cost around $12. My feeling is it should probably be more like $36.

I just figured the "tuna" at most sushi joints was one of the lesser species of tuna like albacore or something else entirely.
Ah, but there's an interesting point here on the social acceptability of non-expertise.

If you post some expert-level stuff about physics or microbiology or linguistics or early Medieval French poetry then most people won't understand it but nobody will complain because they're ashamed (well, at least slightly) of their ignorance on these subjects.

On the other hand if you post some expert-level stuff about guns or football or Justin Bieber then people will complain because they're proud of their ignorance on these subjects. Being an expert on those subjects marks you out as part of a group which some people here don't want to be seen as being part of, so folks are quite proud to proclaim their ignorance on these subjects.

Of course, go to another corner of the internet and it's all switched around.
Didn't they raise a strong seed round in the past few months?
I first ran into the tool used in the article when I was working in the compiler team of a company that produced DSPs. I figured I'd fire up a set of 100 randomly generated tests to see how we coped.

I was astonished, these few tests yielded something like 5 serious bugs (crashes, bad optimisations) in the development branch. That was only when built -O (full optimisation, rarely reveals bugs) on a single architecture, if I'd spent a bit more time I reckon I could've uncovered a few more just be adding or changing the build switches alone for the same tests.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to do this, as I was let go shortly afterwards and wasn't able to convince anyone that we should include this in regular testing before I left. I wasn't even able to submit bug reports to John Regehr and his team at Utah University - who were curious about what kinds of bugs their tool was uncovering - even though I promised I would.
Amazing how some people love destructive criticizing and never give back suggestions or explain the problems...
No. Why? Individuals deserve privacy from the media if they are to be judged fairly.

Governments and states evidently abuse their position of power to hide incriminating evidence under the mantle of secrecy and national security. There's a tremendous difference.
Poladroid appears to be the front-running competitor to Instagram as Poladroid is currently Android only as Instagram is iPhone only.

http://poladroid.me (private beta)

Easter egg on the site.
Agreed - but for some other cross language examples of code you can take a look at http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:HaXe
Are you in the United States? What state are you working in?
But futurists in no small part shape the future by writing about it. Those sci-fi fantasies we reveled in as children are what drives us to create technology today. I smell a paradox.
It was a nitpicky comment, I guess cause I am contemplating the meaning of idempotent. Two identical PUTs on an existing doc will not change the database so I guess that's OK, but their response will be different insofar as the 2nd will fail.
the tour + wine will easily run 500 a person, FWIW
A bit extreme? "Google is a sexist pig?"

For an email usability glitch?

That kind of language is completely out of line.

To call it "sexism" cheapens the word sexism. Never mind the women who suffer from actual, honest-to-goodness sexism, of the truly ugly variety. No it's this lady, with her email usability glitch, that's the one being discriminated against.

Please. Cry me a river.
I guess free-coupons-as-advertising is one way to deal with the fact that Groupon-style "group buying" is a patent minefield:

http://bit.ly/dizELu

I don't mean to suggest that this model doesn't have legs, it's actually pretty clever. But if I were in Scoutmob's shoes I'd rather get paid by thousands of engaged customers in each market than rely on a handful of small, local advertisers. Sadly, I'd be afraid of getting sued if I went down that path and met with enough success to show up on Martin Tobias's radar.
Maybe I should just go ask one of these guys, but how much would a basic blog markup cost me? I appreciate good web design but unfortunately I really suck at it. I wouldn't be expecting a huge amount of time to be put in, just something I could not be ashamed about putting up.
whichever one you wear

NOT THE RED ONE
i'll take a Maserati problem anyday
By "well-formatted" I mean reasonable line length. It is generally much easier to read columns that are maybe 60 or so characters than to read columns that are a couple hundred characters. The print page wraps to window size.

The main point, though, is that those who prefer the print version can simply click the print link on the page. The print version does not provide a simple way to go back.
That's true, but the construction of the argument gives a false sense of security. "j63<2a" is more secure than "password" as well, but since they are both effectively useless (as is "this is fun"), we probably shouldn't waste time comparing their relative terribleness.

The proper solution to passwords isn't to come up with a slightly longer phrase that can still be cracked in a reasonable amount of time, it's to use a 30-character randomly generated password for each login, and keep them in a privately encrypted password safe of some sort.
this is wrinkling my brain. why is it faster?
Hey, I remember your company.

You're the spammer who saw my email address on the website of a campus organization I used to run and figured that meant I would want to earn a pittance by doing your dirty work on campus for you. Oh, and thanks for never responding to (or acting on) my email when I asked to be taken off your mailing lists!
>So your argument could have been phrased 'Personally, i disagree that all commodity businesses are really commodity businesses'?

Well, no. It's a continuum, rather than a black and white thing. I wrote a long argument then edited it back to the wikipedia quote, as that mostly sums things up.

My business is more 'commodity' I think, than slicehost, mostly because of the marketing angles we take. Obviously, the market for a certain grade of steel is far more of a commodity, though I suspect that if I knew more about that market, I'd find it was less than an absolute commodity.
Really, the best thing you can do is make certain you're with a good, stable, Anycast provider. Preferably one that's been beefing up their network. I've been using DNS Made Easy for a few months now for the ability to have vanity name servers and have noticed a significant boost in speed since. I also started using their failover service to help avoid going down since they included 3 records with my membership anyway :P. They're also crazy cheap for the features I'm been getting: http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/enterprisedns/pricing.html

As for why Namecheap got hit, who knows. Could be a malicious attack on a site using the service, could be a prank. Maybe just for lolz. There's any number of reasons. Unless they release that info, I don't think you'll find a clear answer any time soon :-/.
>it stops people from having persistent access to your stuff.

I can buy that, but that's far from the most likely danger on the internet. Usually it's the equivalent of a smash-and-grab job; break in, download everything of value within minutes, never go back (unless you can install a trojan, bypassing passwords anyway). Because going back in multiple times raises flags.

And every system with any reasonable need for security should detect questionable access from new locations, and block them until they are verified. Not all of them do, of course.

The must-change-password tradition seems more and more like a blind dogma for proper systems, because it's a slightly-effective bandaid for really crappy ones. I have yet to see a reason why, in an even half-way decent system, it's not actually a detriment due to weakened passwords / people writing them down where others can see.

>Once I've got the hashes...

... you've already got access to all the info in their database, likely in their entire networked system. That's infinitely more destructive - all those passwords can be changed within days, rendering them useless for re-entry. And it's safe to assume that they will do so, as per above in an even half-way decent system with any kind of logging whatsoever.

As a bandaid for systems which need a bandaid, I admit, they do have (minor) advantages. But such systems shouldn't exist in the first place, and are less and less of an option for newer systems, as proper setups are getting easier and easier to create. And I fear that, as long as they're seen as an effective bandaid, the weaker systems will be more likely to be used because there's an effective bandaid to improve their security. And such systems are usually more vulnerable to trojans, which are a far greater and more real danger than someone guessing someone's password.
I like how you just assert-- sans any evidence or argument-- that they are trying to "get around things intentionally". You don't even say what things.

Don't bother, I don't care. I'm just amazed at the BS this topic has elicited from people, and I am done defending these guys.

All the BS is just proof of why the country is going to hell- why the FBI was able to steal $7M in gold, silver and platinum and get away with it.

It is because you, and the rest of the ignorant government "educated" americans can't be bothered to think critically.
Nika, none of the issuers you mention will convert back into dollars. Its a one way street. Presumably they have set up agreements with people who will accept them an they have pre-negotiated a discount rate. Its like chucky cheese tokens, you can't turn them back into quarters so that you can play more video games.
Where I am (BC, Canada), the drinking age is 19 and nobody, police included, cares about weed. So I guess for colleges, underage drinking would only be a problem for freshmen. Even then, there are dorm parties all the time and no one on campus cares about liquor.

I've never heard of campus security hassling anyone over substances. Hell, we even have a "420 club" that meets on wednesdays at 4:20 on the field in the center of campus and smokes piles of weed. I guess attitudes towards substances are just much more relaxed here than most places in the US.
> I know this is popular rhetoric for anti-war or anti-US people, but come on, either make a good argument or don't bother at all.

Ouch, sorry. When I lived in the USA, that's what my school told me: drinking alcohol (as an adult, 18+) under the age of 21 will get land you in jail. I moved to Canada when I was 13, so I never encountered this personally. But do note that what I said, I was told by the USA Government education system, Georgia specifically. shrug Sorry if they lied to me.
Because posterous is blogger/livejournal/wordpress--, whereas tumblr is twitter++.
I have used Catalyst a bit, bought the book and appreciated it. I have never used Dancer, but it look good; I'll probably learn it.

Otoh, what I really don't like is a just created troll account, like yours.
In the spirit of making something that people want: who wants a Facebook-killer? Not the users.

So why make a Facebook-killer?
I say "sir" to the cashier at Starbucks.

It's a politeness and showing of respect thing.
Thanks, I missed that article.

I was wondering if there was something deeper to it than just great design - perhaps some kind of special viral loop that tumblr does well that posterous doesn't?
>Young people are often unaware of the value that experience brings.

Demographic Dunning-Kruger effect.
Meh? I build a suduko solver one night on my own in 2-3 hours. I've seen agile do much more than that. What are you trying to say?
When you realize what to look for, you realize Puritanism is alive and well in the US. "Hairshirt environmentalists", neoprohibitionists, the way we approach sex ed. Don't get me wrong, by no means is it dominant, it's just that like any other interest group, a small organized group of people against a lot of organized people with weak opinions can do wonders with getting favorable laws passed. I wouldn't be surprised a majority of people think 21 is a silly age limit, but only weakly (perhaps even cowed into saying otherwise in polls), whereas the ones trying to keep it in place believe they are the last bastion standing between society and every teenager in the US getting blotto and smashing their cars into walls at 140kph, and they vote and campaign accordingly.

Also, technically, it's a state-by-state thing but 21 is pretty popular.
I think the comment you replied to was pointing out that Kickstarters are generally bad for consumers. No doubt you and a bunch of other people have made out well on the supply side.
My kids and I played Warcraft 3 together quite a bit. It came with an editor that let you create custom maps, including the creeps. From about the age of 10 my oldest loved making worlds for the rest of the family to explore. It was enough of a hook that he eventually wanted more than the map editor could offer.