jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> unfortunately it is so primitive that in practice it is only used to spawn getty(8).

The AIX System Resource Controller is spawned by a record in /etc/inittab. (AIX actually comes with utilities for maintaining /etc/inittab such as mkitab.) So too is svscanboot in daemontools 0.75 and later. Gerrit Pape is currently having problems with the Debian package for running runit, precisely because runit has for some years been run from /etc/inittab in some configurations and in Debian 8 it is suddenly no longer a file whose existence is always guaranteed because it is part of an "essential" package. There are some other packages in Debian 7 that have undocumented dependencies from the existence of an /etc/inittab file, because they too read/write it for their own purposes. I have yet to verify whether they've been fixed for Debian 8.

Don't think for one second that in the second decade of the 21st century people only ever use /etc/inittab for getty. (-:

This is one of the quieter on-going problems for Debian 8. It switches one to using systemd, because that's the Debian 8 default; but there's no upgrade path or compatibility mechanism for /etc/inittab. Every few months, another "I was (unknowingly) using /etc/inittab; I upgraded; it broke." person seems to pop up.
I say let kids think for themselves and sometimes be offended.

I totally agree - let them think for themselves and let them read and research what they want. Forcing them to do so on the other hand helps no one.

YMMV. Like I wrote, my exposure to Mark Twain just resulted in me not going anywhere near his other works.

What would we have to lose other than to have a society of people that better understand the world and the history that brought us here?

Life experience was a much better instructor to me than nigger Jim.
This issue has been fixed. I was using a proxy to grab the raw file from Github via normal http, but recently Github has been defaulted to serve via https, and forces all normal http traffic to https with a 301, thus the proxy failed. I updated the code to us https instead so the diff view should be working again.
I'm sorry but he said to "backport it to 1.6" which would mean taking code from a more advanced version and making it work on an older codebase. This would involve updates to the 1.6 release or forking, which is what the other two "lol" comments in the thread are making fun of. If he would have said "re-implement it in your own app" I wouldn't have asked the question, and regardless, there's no need for the personal insults.

A small part of ever community dies any time some random fanboy resorts to ad hominems.

:)
Is the way things look&feel not a part of usability and especially UX?

It depends, color pallet selection would be an example, we have a specific pallet that we use that works for color blind individuals, that pallet was created by our UX professionals, it is provided to the artist as a requirement of the project. What colors that are selected out of that pallet is a function of the artist job.

A/B testing, what color schemes work well is the function of the usability analyst. As that is not a detail that can be front ran.

These are three distinct roles and sure you can hire one guy and he may be decent in 2 but 10 to 1 he is not going to be top of the industry in all 3. 1 if you are lucky, so you have to make the decision do you want one guy doing 2 sun par secondary responsibilities or 3 guys doing their primary role better than any one guy could do all three. That is not to say that you don't have generalist, we have a good deal of them but when it comes to art, if you want the best generalist is generally not a skill set that you want to look for.
it doesn't matter if characters are repeated. Let's assume ascii characters, so 'A' = 65 in decimal. If you make an array, T[], where T[65] = 1 if 'A' exists and 0 if 'A' didn't exist in the first string, you can run through the 2nd string to check if T[65] was true (1) or false (0), telling you if the character in the 2nd string appeared in the first. Same thing as the hashtable. I think that's what was meant by boolean array.
He said 3rd party apps.
DID + SIP is a super cheap solution - http://www.didww.com - forwarding numbers in multiple area codes for a few bucks per month. Can team it up with a free SIP account + VOIP router if you want to be able to pick up calls concurrently
I can't find anything in the arc source to support that. Can you point me to something?
The retailer is not much wiser than you, all they do is enter the number to find out whether it's valid or not. Talk to your bank/card issuer, by calling the phone number printed on the back. They deal with this sort of thing all the time, and will probably straighten it out very quickly. If you run into difficulties, find a solicitor; investigating it yourself is likely to be a monumental waste of your time.
Cheers.

If I could make a suggestion, I think this kind of history belongs with the bill text on a blog post; providing the 1997 version without commentary caused a bit of confusion.

It felt a wee bit misleading/alarmist because that text - again as far as I can tell, given the text of the later version that was approved - never actually made it into the final version. As presented it makes it seem like that's the law as it stands today.
And the solutions for C++, Java, PHP:
https://github.com/googlei18n/libaddressinput
https://github.com/commerceguys/addressing
I am sure ISIS and al Qaeda feel they are being terrorized and Americans fully support these operations. Pakistan and Yemen help with these missions because they want them eradicated. Europeans criticize while not realizing these operation are run in large part from Europe. As long as the governments of Europe do what the U.S. says the opinion of their citizens can be ignored.
If you employ a certain number of people, it's assumed that they're doing other things. When you have to devote them to a different project, you're doing a few things:

1. Making your staff work overtime.

2. Leaving other work undone.

3. Hiring new staff to make up for this.

4. Keeping redundant personnel on board in case something like this happens again.

5. Hiring temporary contractors and services to help you with this specific task.

All of these cost money.
The problem is: It is very difficult to make acquisitions work in successful companies (i.e. Google integrating Jaiku is just one example that comes to mind) so I wonder what this will look like at a struggling company.

I am also very suspicious that buying up random companies and integrating them is easier than actually building something on your existing infrastructure.
It's not about fad. It's about providing unikernel technology to the mainstream development world where it's actually needed. Mirageos is not going to drive uptake of ocaml in any big way. It makes more sense to give the people the tools they need to get the job done, like some less arcane language than ocaml. As you point out, it's had 30 years to catch on but hasn't.
I think Guido makde it very clear he does not favour any use of map/reduce.
Since jps is very active again, you should post your feedback here if you feel strongly about it / or have found bugs: http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17796
It would be funny to send a cheque to Sierra Entertainement for HiRes Soccer, just to see what they do with it :D
> It is just silly that Chrome thinks I can't handle méric in my address bar

To rephrase GP post, it's because they think you can't handle: https://www.bankofamérica.com. Well, you probably can, mostly. On a retina screen, my eyes aren't good enough to spot the difference when the "i" is accented.

The Chrome team's decision seems a reasonable compromise to me.
Atom is terrible to the point of being almost unusable compared to ST. It needs a ton of work.
from the link: "I want to make sure that the Node / io community has a password security library they can trust. In 2013, I researched all of the libs I could find and found serious security flaws in all of them. I know it's impossible to make it perfect, but we need to ensure that there is something that at least raises the bar enough that a random script kiddie can't cause multi-million dollar disaster, PR nightmares, and personal loss to users.

I'm not a password security expert. I'm asking for your help. This has already been reviewed by many security experts, but I know there is room for improvement, and I want to make sure that users have a clear indication about which library author they can count on to really work to make their users more secure. Please review this code carefully. Attack it with everything you've got, and then file issues here. I'll give you public credit, and you'll be helping millions of people have a more security online profile."
Haha I can confirm this as well. Two Dutch colleagues talking to each other in Dutch, I thought they were talking in English but I could not understand it, my brain got confused but then realised its not English.
Where did you get $40,000 from?
> Government backed loans have driven up the cost of education and housing

Yes, housing would be cheaper if 40% of the population were living on the street because they couldn't afford a mortgage. Lots more supply to go around.

Blaming the AMA for healthcare costs is a unique take. While I can't say they are completely innocent, they are absolutely not a major factor in your insurance quote.
Derivatives are typically leading crypto spot markets (although recently it flipped for a while) It's been that way for a few years. I'm talking Bitmex, Binance derivatives, not CME.
While I am German, I did pick up a lot of my English when watching Star Trek (TOS) on the Dutch TV :) To that extend I can confirm your theory.
It hasn't been passed yet, but there's some info here:

https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/reports-and-publications/subm...

https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislat...

The CI cybersecurity reforms are part of the overall 2020 cybersecurity strategy (https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about-us/our-portfolios/cyber...), there's a lot of changes happening in the sector at the moment. If you have an interest in cybersecurity now would be a good time to grab some certifications and be ready to jump on board, as there's expected to be a big demand for cybersecurity professionals over the next few years to support these initiatives.

This looks like a decent summary of the proposed changes: https://www.ashurst.com/en/news-and-insights/legal-updates/m...
Poor chap was probably confusing it with farthings. Some strange fellows on the interpipes these days, isn't it? The state of it all, I say.
> They have been trying to get into too many fields while at the same time forgetting to make their main priority products perfect.

And when, pray tell, did they do that?
I have a second dirt-cheap used phone with a disposable SIM card just for WA. But you could make a WA<->Matrix<->Signal bridge (https://matrix.org/bridges/) using a temporary phone no.
HDMI CEC should allow you to just reuse the TV remote, I had an NVIDIA Shield plugged into my TV for a while and it would automatically forward TV remote inputs to the Shield. At some point I just took the batteries out of the Shield remote and used the TV's for both.
YouTube on AppleTV is the worst experience, though. The UI is incredibly laggy. It's much nicer on Roku.
Ah I remember. Thanks for the reply sorry if I sounded too negative.
It works on my cheap TCL TV with a PS4 after enabling HDMI-CEC, it's really nice!
There are opportunities all the time. Go look at the chart for AMD, Netflix, aaple. Go apply your learning skills from computers to the market. Don’t look at the past but to learn.
I see that Thonny has the Python shell built into it.

You can use the help function to see some information about things.

For example:

help(list)

Of course all of the help that you get that way is only useful if you already know the concepts you need and the names of things. It’s not like a tutorial or a guide or anything. But still, if you find yourself forgetting some detail about something it can be a way of finding the information you need.
Gumroad is basically feature complete. I use it to support content creators (about 300 purchases or so), and never found the website to be particularily cool or useful. Search sucks most of the time. At least it doesn't get in the way, well unless it does: They have this feature to archive an item in your library, and then it disappears from your library, and you have to dig it out again. Funny thing is: when you hoover over an item in your library, a menu appears, and the archive entry is exactly positioned in the middle. So if I try to select an entry by left-clicking it I often hit the archive button. lol. Also download sucked for a very long time (dl from europe was slow and completely downloading everything in one archive wasn't supported for a long time). So yeah, it's good enough at least it's a way to more-or-less-directly support content creators.
> This is a political statement that says only some political views are acceptable and others are not approved.

That has been the case since forever. White supremacy gets you banned from sites, for example, and that is a political stance. What is the difference between that and whats happening here?
It does! Thanks for asking, because:

CORRECTION: I must correct my lay hands’ pollution of the information on paper. The ‘92 study on budesonide makes an indicative argument towards action on the 5-HT2 receptor subtype. I mistakenly overspecified the 5-HT2A sub-subtype. I hope it isn’t grievously incorrect. There are three 5-HT2 receptor subtypes, A, B, and C: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-HT2_receptor – according to the individual Wikipedia entries, the 5-HT2A subtype is highly expressed on platelets, and the 5-HT2B is also expressed. No mention of platelets for the 5-HT2C subtype.

It is indeed true that psychedelics are generally known as agonists of the 5-HT2A receptor. Seemingly they tend to be agonists of the B and C subtypes as well, as per Wikipedia.

And interestingly enough, the substances known as psychedelics are also very significant and notable immunomodulators! As per this paper: Psychedelics and immunomodulation: novel approaches and therapeutic opportunities – A. Szabo, Frontiers of Immunology, 2015 – https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2015.00358

(I want to mention author A. Szabo’s credentials: The 2015 paper cites the researcher’s position at Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, Hungary. Subsequent publications show a position at the NORMENT Center of Excellence (CoE), Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo and the Department of Medical Genetics, both at Oslo University Hospital, Norway. Source: https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/193869/overview – There is reason to assume that this is a serious and capable person.)

There is mention of the Sigma-1 receptor as well in Szabo’s 2015 paper on immunomodulation. I want to take great care to not make spurious connections, but I did find this paper curious and interesting in this context: Repurposing Sigma-1 Receptor Ligands for COVID-19 Therapy? -
J. M. Vela, Frontiers of Immunology, November 2020 – https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2020.5823...

Via: https://twitter.com/EricLenze2/status/1364459057629773824
Delivering email from your own little server is theoretically possible, but extremely difficult to do in practice. I wrote about this at length here: https://www.attejuvonen.fi/dont-send-email-from-your-own-ser...
That’s literally every company though. Amazon is no different than any other company with respect to fighting against things they perceive as not being in the companies benefit.
First: This strikes me as truly amazing - but my mind immediately goes to the economic impact of something like this. Personally I try not to be an alarmist about the potential for jobs to be automated away, but how strikingly good this is makes me wonder if we just haven't seen AI that is good enough to automate away large parts of the workforce.

Seeing the "lovestruck cup of boba" reminded me of an illustration a friend of mine did for a startup a few years back. It would be a lot easier and less time consuming for someone to simply request such an image from an AI assistant. If I were a graphic artist or photographer, this would scare me.

I don't know what the right answer is here. I have little to no faith in regulators to help society deal with the sweeping negative effects even one new AI-based product looks like it could have on a large swath of the economy. Short of regulation and social safety nets, I wonder if society will eventually step up and hold founders and companies accountable when they cause broad negative economic impacts for their own enrichment.
Very much so! But I don’t think I can link Ada libraries into my Ruby or Elixir codebase :)
You are correct, I did confuse the terms "visible source" with "open source".

The way userTrack is currently distributed is as any other digital product (you pay for it and you are not allowed to sell or redistribute copies of it) with the mention that the server-side code is un-compiled and un-obfuscated so you can transparently see what it does, how it does it and change it if you want.

I am not sure that fully open-sourcing it is the way to go as I've seen so many projects die or disappear because the maintainers didn't have a lot of incentives to keep improving it or simply no longer had time to work on it. I also think that it's fair to pay for something that brings value to you also knowing that by paying for it you support its further development.
There's a term for the current 20-somethings who can't be seen as responsible adults yet, I don't remember what it was, but searching for it got me this long article, from 10 years ago! https://www.salon.com/2010/12/23/not_quite_adults_interview/

Maybe it's the still-living-at-your-parents-at-25 economy... Maybe it's also because the 20, 30-somethings have been raised by more and more helicopter parents and schools giving out participation medals, i.e. too coddled.
More likely churning credit card points.
It's so heartbreaking to see people who are very sick or even dying have to stress about bills. It's just not something a moral society does. It's not just mental, cortisol really knocks down your immune system.
Tangentially;

It's awfully hard to get the TOS/EULA etc, before purchasing a product which essentially coerces the end user into agreeing under duress. I don't need to sign a eula to take a taxi or train, why should I expect the uber eula to be anything except:

-if I damage the car I pay for repairs

-i agree to pay for the trip

-i agree to follow the laws of the land

?
Working as intended.

We need people who are willing to be worked to the bone and only bleed FB-brand blood :D
We spent 3.552 trillion in 2010. Here is how that should get split up: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/Fy2010_spendin...
Seems like a someone could put something together using a kinect to make in-home measurements.
How many friends?
"Finding users" is pointless if none of them are going to give you money. Don't put the cart before the horse.
My friend in China says it isn't a 404, the connection is just RST'ed to both sides and dropped. Simple, and effective. Your browser should display a "connection reset by peer" message or something to such an effect.
With a starting point of two signups, the statistics and causation argument are really murky.
Those are modified (apparently new-style) Spivak pronouns for gender-neutral singular third-person usage: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Spivak_pronou...
Does not work on OS X 10.6/Chrome, too.
Are you drawing a direct analogy between piracy (which does not involve stealing of a physical item that costs money to produce) and shoplifting (which does)?

Seems to me that that's a very shaky analogy. There's no way for the bookstore to end up ahead on that transaction. But there ARE multiple ways for a movie studio or recording studio to end up ahead on the transaction that I am highlighting here.

I think this is a very strong argument against the MPAA, despite what you say. The MPAA, as we know, likes to claim and pretend that all piracy is evil, that it costs them massive amounts of revenue in all cases, that they cannot possibly survive as an industry in a world where piracy exists. These claims are far from proven; some would say they are ludicrous.
OK, I'm not sure how valuable my advice can be, since I'm usually not in your situation, being a tech person myself. But I think you would be better off with a technical partner than with a small development shop. A shop is generally going to try and deliver a finished product in a given time frame. They will not take the long perspective on things. A partner would do that.

If you're going to persuade someone to partner up with you, I would question what you can offer to him. Having a customer is obviously a big plus, but I wonder - What are you -personally - bringing to the table? Why shouldn't he cater directly with the customer and leave you out?
Iolanguage has many of these advantages but is far slower, lacks the reach of python's standard library and (I think) also lacks python's awesome list-comprehension syntax.

Lua is prototype based. It's also quite fast. What if we ported the Python standard library and added list-comprehension?
For every 37signals there are at least just as many examples of companies that set out to build a business...and built it. I can see why scratching your own itch may be the better way in certain situations. But I can just as easily see going all out to build a business of apps.

Is there even a way to gauge which one is "better" other than personal preference?
I would be willing to bet that the increase in general acceptability of divorce is the main factor.
>A police “back door” for all smartphones is undesirable — a back door can and will be exploited by bad guys, too. However, with all their wizardry, perhaps Apple and Google could invent a kind of secure golden key they would retain and use only when a court has approved a search warrant.

Has anyone even bother to sanity check that?
People who use Tor seriously usually also use a VPN service, and disable cookies, java, or any other client-side means of tracking you. They will also run TOR via a local virtual machine that they created on the fly.

While the exit node will be able to sniff the users, it won't be able to link it back unless the user gives up some information. ISPs can link back every time, regardless of behavior.

The FBI busted a child-porno ring on Tor using only an iframe and some javascript. They were able to take control at the data center the site was hosted, and then trace back to the ISPs for the Tor users who didn't disable java.
Reminds me of what happened in my old (rapidly gentrifying) neighborhood in Boston when Whole Foods wanted to build a store in place of a recently-closed local supermarket. I remember being mystified by the opposition at the time.

http://www.boston.com/yourtown/boston/jamaicaplain/gallery/0...
Haha, I appreciate the frankness (seriously). Great tips, thank you!

Btw, I'm not trying to become an expert in five things in 90 days. I just want to get comfortable enough in each that I can confidently tell prospective employers/partners "I'm not an expert in X, but I can productively use/do it."

Your 70% approach is the sort of thing I'd like to adopt as a long term learning process.
Just cause you can see the source, doesn't mean it's Open Source.
Sure I could do that. That's how I ended up with a Honda Civic. I can also ask my friends if they like Bank Of America or CitiBank or whatever; but to truly understand the health of a bank... I'd need a degree or something.