jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I switched to the Microsoft Ergo 4000 years ago and my issues where largely resolved, it’s a great ergo keyboard at a great price and while they do wear eventually I’ve yet to have one actually stop working in any way.

I have two new in box in case they ever stop making them.
Vine was mostly penis videos at the beginning. I think its original growth was due to the random clips of nudity until Twitter decided they needed to clean it up.
It’s a pity “fat clients” are dismissed so quickly. I think that when your tech stack is uniform enough to use them, they can provide much more that service meshes, and do it faster as well. After all, why does “service is down” and “service is sending nonsense” have to be handled via completely different paths?
I love books, and wish for the world you describe. To me books are a sort of alchemy, indeed (I would not use the word hobby, but I see what you mean. And I love pottery). It is serious business, learning the alphabet, putting oneself or others to sleep, enjoying fiction or getting an insight into a technical problem.

There will always be someone who wants the credit without the effort (I read x books a month, look at me) — the looks without the substance — and yes, it is annoying, but at least we have books :)
What startups fail to disclose is that the equity they offer is not the same class as the investors have, even though they are taking a huge risk of the startup failing.
> This is definitely a true statement. The vast majority of small businesses who advertise on FB will be hurt by this change.

I don't think I've ever seen a source for this. Could you post one, ideally one which is not subject to conflicts of interest (e.g. funded by the advertising industry)?
Author here. I wanted to honor Greece for the amazing cultural impact they've had, similar to how mathematics honors Greece. We got a lot of comments like this in the last thread. What dang said about it was really smart: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24264514
Blocking non-Google users would be nonsensical. News sites currently have tons of non-revenue adding users. The problem they're trying to solve isn't "How do we block these people?"—it's how do we monetize them.

This is why the real shift you're seeing in media right now is back towards subscriber models. Ads are still providing the lion's share of revenue, but as someone whose worked with many media companies, I can tell you that nearly everyone is obsessed with growing their paying subscriber base.
Read more about psychological pricing on this subject (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_pricing).

It boils down to $1999 seeming a LOT cheaper than $2000.
"the distribution in QUALITY OF LIFE is less extreme"

You're kidding right? Ever have someone in your family get an unexpected major medical problem while their young and either have no insurance or have the insurance refuse to cover care? That is a quality of life killer!

Or the simple fact that wages for the average person are stagnant or slightly down in the past few decades while healthcare costs are rising as well as the cost of an education. People are realizing that their children are likely to be worse off than they were and that is a quality of life killer!

Have you had a house foreclosed on? Again, quality of life killer!

I can go on, but you get the idea. What exactly do you mean by "quality of life"?
Come on, they wanted to give thousands of devs the chance to re-implement C apps in java. Poorly. Under the delusion that they can become ramen-profitable one day.

OTOH, Angry Birds is awesome, so I suppose it wasn't a total waste.
Consolidate your student loans into one loan. This is pretty easy -- you can do it online in a few hours. Companies used to throw themselves at students to get their consolidation business since it is practically risk-free (subsidized up the wazoo and nondischargeable in bankruptcy to boot).

https://loanconsolidation.ed.gov/AppEntry/apply-online/appin...

If you do this through a bank, they may do some of the legwork to rope together your loans for you. (If your bank has a student loan group which does this routinely, your permission and SSN make this a ten minute job for a junior employee, and since your business is worth a few thousand bucks they're happy to do it to get you in the door.)

The other option for decreasing cognitive load is accelerating repayment. I got out of debt seven years ahead of schedule. It was economically suboptimal at the interest rates I was being charged, but the sleep it saved was worth every penny of opportunity cost.
I have many loans too (a mix of Federal and private). But, I managed to get everything through salliemae.com. Its almost like consolidating without consolidating. I make one payment to them a month and a little goes to everyone. I'm not sure if you can move other loans to them or not.

Have you thought about consolidating all the Federal ones and the Privates ones so you only have 2 payments to keep track of? Unfortunately I don't believe you can mix both together.

If that isn't an option, then Mint.com also allows you to add different kids of loans and track them. I actually do this now because I find their historical charts and tools a bit more useful than what Salliemae offers.
If you want to increase your typing speed (or waste a lot of time) anyway, check out http://play.typeracer.com/ . In addition to popular works, you can configure it to make you type samples from open source projects in your language of choice.
It only sounds ridiculous because you don't know the full story. We've already had a lengthy discussion on debian's packaging before, including rubygems: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1734936

technomancy summed it up: "The rubygems devs have asked nicely to get Debian to fix these issues, and have been turned down flatly... Debian is the only distributor who breaks rubygems when packaging it."

Must we go through this whole debate again?
Perhaps I've been unclear. I am not alleging that English law is adjudicated by a FSM.

I don't think that anyone will be convicted of Felony Treason. No one thinks that James Hewitt will be put to death under the Treason Act of 1351. This doesn't make the existence of such laws any less absurd or offensive.

In the US, there seems to be a proud tradition of using archaic or seldom applied laws to harass those who fail to show deference. (For example, jaywalking as a pretext for a walking-while-black offense, or wiretapping for filming police brutality.) We might as well keep a clean house to forestall that sort of nonsense.

Edit: There's also the matter of British libel law and the jurisdiction shopping that it encourages as a mechanism for harassing those who might exercise their speech rights.
Someone usually pops up to claim that corporations are legally required to maximise profit above all else.

(Not quite true, based on a misunderstanding of Ford v Dodge)
GoodReader can also sync files via an iOS web server, and open-standard SSH (sftp) and WebDAV, not just the usual cloud storage vendors.
Considering the reviews I found[1], I suspect "fire sale" is exactly what this is.

[1] http://www.engadget.com/products/dell/xps/11/
Even though Lebron James is the best player in the world, why is there a good chance that the Heat won't win the championship this year?

Also, could a team of Lebron James level players win a championship?
hq4x definitely looks the best and most accurate. If it only further smoothed the jaggies, it would look phenomenal.
>since the days of Adolf Zucker

I think he is referring to Adolph Zukor.
How would the materials be released? The reactors operate near 1 Atmosphere. If they are switched off, the molten salt cools and solidifies.

There could be a risk of contamination from the cooling loop, but such contamination might even be less than the normal radioactive fallout from the flues of coal plants.
Hey, just came back to hacker news and noticed the change as well. Very confused as I didn't edit the title after I had posted it.
Kamangar is from Iran
To that point nothing about it on either news.google.com or the front of the NYT or WSJ (but there is something about graphene being a wonder material that is igniting a patent frenzy.)
I think it depends on the kind of worker you want to create. With engineering and development, it's an inherently creative process, and creativity needs collaboration to prosper. I don't know enough about Wall Street, but it seems to me that a ruthless employee works better there since you're competing with other companies at almost the same thing.
Netflix was started in Los Gatos, California. Silicon-Valley-ish.
Gumroad sells documentary films. They've grown. Funded by Silicon Valley Kleiner Perkins VC fund.
Yes. Far too lightweight for the background. Hurt my eyes.
The best part about reading these cables is seeing that the USG uses Google to search for information before anything else and references searches in Classified cables....

"(S) Note: A quick google check revealed several companies
with the name INSULTEC in the title - these may or not be
affiliated. Based on the information provided by source
(currently in Iran, where he frequently travels), one
possible candidate could be "INSULTEC Chitral Ltd." "

http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable/2009/03/09BAKU179.html
While certainly Germany has done a lot right and deserve credit for their current economic strength, we have to recognize that they've both chosen a very different path: i.e. stability over growth, and also have a very different culture than we Anglo-Saxons - which I would argue are quite inter-related.

When it comes to quality manufactured goods, Germany is legendary and has strongly biased its economy over the past 100 years to take advantage.

The US & Briton on the other hand, have always been first movers to adopt breakthrough tech - often at the expense of quality, stability of investments, etc, and are seemingly always better at the "soft" side of business: sales & marketing.

The world needs both the Teutonic and Anglo-Saxon models, and seemingly they both are still going to head down the same paths as before will little change in overall direction - with the exception of America trying to get better educated the Germans trying to become better sales/marketers.
So you're going back to the beginning every time. If you had stayed with your first profession, who is not to say you could now be owning a series of ranches around your area?
I have seen it argued that sells at auction does not admit the possibility of not selling it. I do not remember if that was tournament rules or not. You can then buy it for a dollar, if you like, it won't change the results.

If you're going to rules lawyer, you gotta do it all proper like.

I'm not arguing this will necessarily make the game any longer, I'm just saying this isn't a by-the-actual-rules game. It shares this in common with probably 99%+ of all games of Monopoly that are played.

It is not uncommon for games to fail to cover cases in the rules, such as nobody even bidding a dollar for property in Monopoly. Jenga sort of crashes if you get the game into a state where there are no more levels with removable pieces, or at least strictly read mandates that the next person to move is a loser, which is an undesirable outcome.
> So are we in a dangerous place now, or should Apple be allowed to exclude people by race?

Race is a protected class per the law. Parler is not
This doesn’t seem that complicated to me. What’s all the I-am-smarter-than-you smugness about?

> Law text: “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher.”

People who want Section 230 repealed or modified want to be able to make the legal argument that by actively banning certain speech while elevating other speech, social media companies ARE acting as publishers. The law doesn’t need to define publisher again. We already have an understanding of what publishers do: they selectively choose and publicize OTHER people’s content.

What am I missing? Whether or not it’s justified, the reason some people want it repealed seem obvious to me.
Cool, and you're free to block any account you want. Twitter even provides multiple ways to avoid seeing an account. So the issue was already solved. No need to further censor ideas. Individuals can make their own decision.
The classic example is Charles Manson; he didn't kill anyone but he made it happen. Trump's case is certainly a little more abstract because he's smart enough to use ambiguous language.. But it really doesn't strain the imagination to understand how the principle is similar
Twitter is an American platform, and I doubt that they would expend resources to try quell misinformation and disinformation from third-world countries that have lower followership, little financial incentive and very low legal risk; relative to the US.

I'm from South Africa, and decided to temporarily log out of Twitter, because as a platform, it's become the kind of place for hashtag spam, wild conspiracies that are often dangerous and go unmoderated.
Twitter has no incentive to do anything, the only times a tweet gets censored is when there's momentum in reporting it, or by chance if it gets caught in some other way.

The last numbers I heard were that there's <10 million active Twitter accounts. Compare that to the US.

The ultimate tragedy (for me) is how countries have ceded their digital lives/capabilities to American media companies.
There's little reason for a South African messaging platform to not survive, given that the average South African only speaks to people in South Africa (those abroad could still use such service).
But this is just annoying. People don't want to juggle more chat apps unless they provide clear value, and for many Signal just isn't very compelling.
Trump supporters are unattractive demographics for advertisers because they're overwhelmingly old and rural, advertisers want to win over Gen Z and Millenials who are going to pay for decades, and not to mention the US is not the only, or even the primary market for most of these companies and being associated with Trump is particularly abysmal everywhere else.

If you want to market to cosmopolitan, affluent, educated and diverse urban consumers, which everyone does, associating yourself with Trump isn't exactly a winning strategy
Driving in front of a cop is worrisome because of the imbalance of force. Section 230 specifically bars certain force from being applied— it doesn't add more to the equation. Repealing it would, in practice, require Google and Amazon to scrutinize the content they host for you. It would be like if Target could be sued for the conversation you're having with a friend while shopping. Like if you could be sued for someone else's conduct on the sidewalk in front of your house (for the sake of argument, "on your property, without protection").

The only outcome that can invite is more frequent "driving in front of a cop" moments, because companies would need their own cops, and need them everywhere.
It’s not necessarily single threaded; Rust async runtimes typically schedule tasks on a pool of multiple OS threads, usually one thread per CPU core. In other words, it can be seen as a form of M:N threading.

Regarding the parent’s question, tasks cannot be preempted from their threads. Threads can of course be preempted from their CPU cores by the OS, but if the number of threads equals the number of cores, this will only happen if other processes on the system are competing for CPU time.
The part about "attempted lynching" results from an accusation that the student yelled "Kick her (the police officer's) ass!" during the confrontation. At least that makes the charge make sense, though of course who knows if it's true or not.

Details were linked off the linked page-

http://www.laweekly.com/2010-12-09/news/jeremy-marks-attempt...
OK thanks, that makes sense. I did not know about the ClassPath exception. I have not used OpenJDK so I wanted to seek clarity because as I understand the license, my concerns would have been correct if the ClassPath exception did not exist. Again that you for the info.
The aforementioned site claimed that amazon.com is down... yeah.
It didn't even occur to me there was a gender bias when I wrote this article but you are right.
You can see we've got 13 properties listed publically - there are quite a few more in the pipeline, including deals with some building companies.

We've only been live a couple of weeks, and it's the main holiday time (summer) over here, so we'll see in the New Year.

People seem to either "get it" and love it, or dismiss it as "it'll never work". We take the polarization as a positive.

EDIT: oh, and thanks for the design comments - I'll pass those on (I'm the tech guy)
I prefer Grand Central Dispatch, which fixes the callback model by providing closures and anonymous functions as an extension to the C language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Dispatch#Examples
The Federal reserve was created by senator Aldrich
who's daughter was married to the banker Rockefeller. The Federal reserve is privately owned by the member banks themselves among others JP Morgan, City bank. 97% percent of the money in circulation is debt. 1971 Nixon decoupled the Dollar from the Gold standard, essentially
creating a FIAT currency. During the 1990s Allan Greenspan chairman of the Federal reserve set the capital requirements for new loans to near zero in an effort to let the market regulate itself. With no Gold standard to limit the amount of debt it grows exponentially.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Federal_Reserve...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abby_Aldrich_Rockefeller

You can see the decoupling here GDP vs median income
http://lanekenworthy.net/2008/09/03/slow-income-growth-for-m...

Graph showing the middle classes loosing to the debt system
http://lanekenworthy.net/2008/03/09/the-best-inequality-grap...

An Investment Manager's View on the Top 1%
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/investment_manage...

Hitting peak debt 2008
http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2014/0...
It gets absurd. "Owning bitcoin" is just linguistic sugar for having knowledge of a private key that corresponds to a public key that hashes to a bitcoin address that holds bitcoin. It's just a 256-bit number. In essense, every single private key represented on the blockchain becomes an illegal number (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number), and not just illegal to publish, but illegal to store and even illegal to think about (aka know about).
This looks similar to the type checking in Google's Closure compiler.

https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/js-for-c...
Performance is always a factor for me, until IBM finishes that new line of $1.00 servers that don't use electricity and are the size of an atom... in the meantime, we can continue to learn from highly performant libraries and frameworks like this.
I can't speak to anything regarding Windows dev here as I haven't done any of that since the mid-90s, and even then it was just a short project.

That said, I see what you're getting at now and it isn't what I thought you were talking about previously. It looks like what you're talking about is it taking a few days (or so) to get a working environment up and running vs. nearly instantaneous now? If so, fair enough I totally agree.

I thought you were talking more about the more nuts & bolts parts, like it taking a few weeks to come up to speed on Python (for instance) instead of several months. I've always felt that claims of it being difficult to change languages or other type things (e.g. changing from Oracle to MySQL) were radically overblown, and these days w/ sites like SO it's pretty much trivial.
HN is also made up of people with modest tech experience who want to learn from a community of learned and experienced individuals so that they can manage their startups better.

Like me.
I think you're right, the combination of layman knowledge and professionals might make the most sense. The big issue here is how to weed out bad advice
What is the purpose of showing demos that work only on Safari? How can one call this a standard? Standards should work everywhere IMO. One of the many criterion I use to define a standard is that it is widely available. Right now, Flash is more a standard than HTML5 according to this criterion.
Jobs is doing what Gates was doing - locking everyone on his platform. I don't know the stats but the Safari browser share is very low (on Desktops).
Where exactly do you find -webkit-transform in some CSS-standard, again?
So, you are saying all those -webkit-* CSS styles are CSS3 standarized?
The issue may be, however, that the standards committees for HTML5 haven't defined how different implementations of these standards are supposed to play together. And the question is: does Apple have the right to define how HTML5 should be handled cross-browser? (In this case, by very simply denying all non-Safari browsers -- at least via that link -- the developer links work -- kind of.) In all fairness, I think they do if other people haven't said anything else about it. But in even more fairness, perhaps other people (specifically the working groups) should make it more clear about whether or not you can target specific browsers.

If you want to do things progressively, there should be a feature matrix, and as more and more enhancements are fully implemented in all major browsers, one shouldn't be able to specify which browser you must use.

It's probably just my ignorance. But it's not clear to me where the lines are between best practices, web standards, and fairness (forcing a browser of course evokes nightmarish legal history a la Microsoft).

I suppose I should look through:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/

If anyone can point me in the right direction though (or maybe I'm asking the wrong questions), that'd be cool.

I suppose the risk is that because HTML5 has so many different features, it would be easy to basically not standardize. If Apple is the only company that fully supports interesting parts of the standard and they keep on iterating and nobody catches up -- is that really a standard? But are we right to deny them further development and innovation? I think there's a balance, but where is that balance? We've now got a lot of cooks in the kitchen:

http://www.w3.org/2000/09/dbwg/details?group=40318&publi...

Hope it works. But you know what they say about committees, second-system syndrome, etc... Though honestly it's not like I see any other solution....

Though an easy to browse website that showed near real-time progress of all the major browsers' implementations of the HTML5 feature set, so we can at least see the playing field. That might be a start.... I definitely think it's in everyone's interest to cooperate.

ETA. Found this for HTML5/CSS3 feature matrix:

http://caniuse.com/
SEOMoz is a reputable company and love going there for all types of SEO information. The community is large and growing larger. Most people are searching for SEO related solutions for Wordpress blogs and I think the best solution so far is.. http://www.seodestination.com/wp-seo/ any other tips?
I don't really understand this claim: "Standards aren’t add-ons to the web. They are the web. And you can start using them today."
Standards should therefore be right there, sitting in you computer for someone to use them. Why do I have to download Safari then? I prefer to download a 2MB add-on than 30MB additional browser that I will never use.
So buy a brand of washer that partners with multiple detergent companies, including the one you like.