jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You are missing my point.

From a physical standpoint, it makes no sense to add two RGB colors.

It makes sense to add two lengths. (1 inch) + (1 inch) = (2 inches).

It does not make sense to add two RGB colors. The result is not a meaningful physical quantity. In the same spirit, (7.8 earthquake) + (8.3 earthquake) != (16.1 earthequake).

This is a big problem for those of us who are trying to reproduce how nature looks on the screen of a computer. (In my case, realtime graphics.)

For the case of the combining beams of light, the only time that the hue wouldn't change is if you have two lightbulbs that emit precisely the same EM waves --- the same frequencies and the same intensities for all emitted waves. This is practically impossible. Therefore, the hue of the combination is never exactly the same. Just because you can't perceive the difference, doesn't mean there isn't a difference.
The problem is not the allocation of power, but the centralization of power. Once you have a lot of power in the hands of the central government, it will be captured and misused by cliques and special interests.

The way to 'fix' democracy is to reduce its scope, to make it as localized as possible. In this way, political decisions tend to be made closer to those affected.

The idea that the various branches of government can block and check each other's power has proven quite misguided; they will always cooperate to increase their collective power.
I am also a software developer and my wife is becoming an Anesthesiologist. Would you mind connecting so we can learn what you may have picked up through the whole process?
Yeah. How many users (not power users) actually type https:// into address bar? To my knowledge, if you don't include the protocol, browser default to HTTP.
Heuving's comment is clearly against HN guidelines and as such is downvoted by a few people.
Yes, but most are at least visible.
I've had very similar experience hiring for information security roles.

The volume of "good" CVs that landed on my desk was consistently high, but when we spoke to the candidates on their first telephone interview it became immediately apparent that they were not nearly as skilled at security as they were at writing CVs.

In the end, we inserted a 10 minute quick-fire Q&A at the beginning of the telephone interview which was as basic as "Define: Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability" and other such trivial security knowledge. It was terrifying the number of people applying for mid/senior level jobs, or contracts with high day-rates who couldn't get past this. What was most galling was when people were obviously googling the anwswers whilst we spoke - we countered this with simple "which is better, and why" type questions so that there was too many variables to google and you also needed to defend your answer.

There were only a very small number of candidates who, when confronted with the Q&A responded in a "are you serious?" kind of way and just rattled off the basic knowledge in a couple of minutes. With these we could get down to the detail of the real interview pretty quickly.
I tried `curl` and `wget` before finding the `help` command. Kinda bummed out that tab completion doesn't work. And neither does `ls -la`. Also make it so I can click anywhere to get my cursor back on the right line for typing.
Same with windows and mac os.

You want full-disk encryption or homedir encryption if you want to protect your data.
I sense that Libertarians and Republicans are going to face a day of reckoning when it comes to their ideal of "limited government" and the "free market" because it seems like the free market has embraced Progressivism and rejected political neutrality. They'll have to choose which rights they value more, the civil rights of corporations or the civil rights of individuals.
I'm sure this is a valid complaint about Github, but it has nothing to do with the article, which is a bit annoying since there's some cleverness in that article (checksumming tokens, for instance) that we could be talking about stealing, rather than turning this thread into a generic referendum on whether Github is good.
Payment processors, webhosts, etc (I assume you're alluding a lot of the alt-right sights being removed from those platforms) have in practice refused to serve customers that expose them to legal culpability. There's a clear difference.

Yes. Bake the cake. The only legal culpability is to NOT do so.
How do you stop the ultra rich from renouncing citizenship while their companies generate free profit in the US? Or even easier just keep all their cash sheltered in corporations?
I also think many classic TV shows are effectively TV plays - such as Star Trek, the Twilight Zone, etc.
Don't forget that creating new accounts costs money.

If you want to take advantage of Environments for example then you need to pay for the Enterprise license which means every account is another $21/month. That adds up for individual and startup use.

I am actually confused why we can't just have tokens assigned to organisations and not users.
The most surprising thing about this is that they chose the name "No Rights Employee"

In America a similar concept is called "Right to Work"

Where are your corporate PR people?
user guide, nice. hope they have a Python API!
Conflict makes for humor and drama - see Homer strangling Bart etc. It would make for boring stories if everyone was nice all the time.
You're absolutely right, its not the same and it will likely fail in ways we can't predict just yet.

The 2008 crisis taught the US Federal Reserve how to respond to an economic crisis effectively, and they've been pretty successful at managing the current one. Note that Fed's main concerns are macroeconomic, so their assistance necessarily goes mostly to larger corporations and financial institutions, which seem to be doing OK (smaller businesses are suffering, but Congress stepped in for them... somewhat). I don't anticipate a liquidity shortage-triggered panic + recession like 2008.

However, all asset prices seem to be inflated. Real estate, crypto, stocks... all going up and up. They can't do so forever, it will be interesting to see how it fails this time.
A comment towards Windows10. You actually only would need HID support, but Windows takes over control over fido2 to hide it behind the Windows Hello webauthn API for non elevated users. This makes crossplatform implementations terrible. I own a solo somu and it has much less value due to this on Windows. It really discouraged me to put any more work into fido2 implementations. I started a keepassxc integration, which actually worked well based on the HMAC extension. If anyone from Microsoft reads this: please allow hackers to set a security policy to allow non elevated fido access! Otherwise the devices are great!
When I first started, I thought I would by touch typing code all day long. It was within my first project I realised we were there to solve problems rather than hacking at a keyboard.

Since then I’ve learned it’s best to spend more time on a whiteboard or notepad than to jump straight into an editor - measure twice, cut once!
Oh nice! I was migrating my dev environment from an ancient MBP to a Linux machine a few months ago and found Flameshot when looking for a Skitch replacement. Have been a happy user since, it functionally does all the things I need it to do :)
No, they harm people because of what they don't know and don't understand. Get it.
I'm working with many SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite and soon Mongo versions daily, and I have to say Datagrip is worth it's price tag easily. It is the only non-open tool I work with because it really makes work with multiple databases a lot easier.
>"Won't give you a tax cut" translates to "pay us a percentage of your earnings, otherwise we will throw you in jail." So, I'd like to disagree here and say my original assertion was accurate.

Your worst case scenario happens to all companies in the absence of the deal. So your argument seems to be more that taxes themselves are bad rather than the deal is bad.

>I am not convinced this applies here.

Sure, I might agree with you there. I was more replying to the part of your comment about removing all requirements that force companies to do things they wouldn't do themselves.
Oh goodness do I know it! I worked on education software messaging there. Schools have to have so many resources just to be able to speak to parents.
Economy is literally the measurement of the movement of money. aka Velocity of money.

People hoard money. Rich people manage to hoard a lot. All the hoarding is slowing the money down. Depressing the economy.

> Taxes should be raised in an inflationary environment...

Did you mean spending? Because then you'd be touching on the philosophical difference between Keynesians and Modern Monetary Theorists (MMT). Whereas as most classical Liberal economists emphasized deficits, MMT emphasizes inflation. (Or maybe you're nodding towards the Laffer Curve.)

Regardless. Taxes are how governments pull money thru the economy. If we want to keep the money moving, thereby grow the economy, we need to tax the hoards.

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In the case of more tax breaks, abatements for Samsung, things are a little different.

Samsung's just exfiltrating money. From Austin, from Texas, from the USA.

Since our polis can no longer have a rationale discussion about taxes, "omgherd taxes are theft", I propose a novel solution:

Austin should become a Samsung shareholder. Holdings equal to the value of the tax breaks. Like for like. Mutual cross holding investments, just like a true keiretsu.
You don't understand, it's better for 10 innocent people to go to jail than for one guilty one to escape.
The public thinks Bitcoin is the currency of hackers. Decentralized, technical, innovative and challenging the whole financial backbone. In reality... We have threads like this. Never seen so much hate for Bitcoin as on HN.
Actually freezing prices is the best way to create long term shortages. We saw that last springs when countries with free markets kept having N95 masks available, at slightly elevated prices while countries that imposed priced controls did not have any until fall.

In a free market the vaccine would’ve cost 10k for a month while producers would’ve been scrambling to increase availability and production to take advantage of this amazing opportunity. Pretty soon after the price would’ve dropped at a greatly increased availability.

Right now the vaccine is free and very few lucky ones can get it. And it’s been months.
Question, is the association for you with a singular sound or with a series of sounds (as found in the simulator)?
Built into the Nim compiler, yeah, it has a `idetools` feature that makes integrating it into an IDE far simpler. I've been playing around lately with getting it into Textadept, now that Textadept has a better "call some particular binary and get input and output from it" story.
There's a TV special that will be available on the Albany PBS affiliate (WMHT) called the "Neighborhood that Disappeared" talking about the destruction wreaked on Albany.

They also had more plans for destroying the city that fell through when the unlimited Federal dollars ran out. See: http://alloveralbany.com/archive/2011/03/08/the-highway-that...

When you think about how small Albany is, the sheer scale of highways is ridiculous.
Boston losing it's West End for towers in the park is one of the worst crimes of mid-20th century urban planning (renewal).

The automobile destroyed American cities... and mostly for the benefit of people who never even lived in the city but rather just commuted into or through it.
Nope. If he were attractive all those things would somehow be positive traits.
You can get font smoothing from xterm by using the -fa option. Use xfontsel to build the parameter string. There are probably "xresource" (iirc) settings to change its color palette, or you can use a 256color scheme for your editor. It's not exactly easy, but it is very fast and lightweight.
Or supported Win32 API which would have brought with it a number of open source and free applications, such as VLC, OpenOffice.org, AbiWord (smaller, so more suited to RT), and Firefox.

It seems that Microsoft is working on a new UI for Office which will eliminate the need for Win32 support on devices such as RT in the future.

At the same time they restrict what native applications can do on Metro devices, which limits the usefulness of existing codebases and forces Metro tablets to start over without the long time catalog of Windows software.
Rochester is brutal. I go there every couple of months for work reasons and it's not hard to see how it was once a thriving city but it has been totally destroyed by highways.

I've seen these images before since architecture and urban planning are a hobby of mine and I always find the Buffalo before/after shots horrifying by how many pre-war buildings were turned into asphalt for cars.
http://grammarist.com/usage/briton/

This link supports the opposite of davidgay's comment (sources within).
yes, alas, that's exactly my point. The only peoply who are conscientious enough to go for (a) are also typically the same people who will pick up all the bullshit from people doing (b) and (c).
Did the Stasi also permit you to lawyer up with the ACLU and sue them in open court?

What these FBI agents did, if true, was reprehensible. But surely we can come up with a better comparison than one of the most evil secret police regimes ever to exist.
From earlier today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26711698
Among other potential issues, this would make it much harder to search for information related to the database. Starting out, it'd always make sense to google for eg "postgres ilike", but for new features you'd have to search for eg "NewNameSQL kindalike" (assuming a new ILIKE replacement called KINDALIKE comes along in pg15 aka newname3).

Even years in to the rename, newcomers to NewNameSQL would need to be told that it used to be called Postgres and that they should look for things related to that too.

Tools and code that refer to Postgres would all have to change their names, including those developed internally, open-source, closed-source, and no-longer-maintained. Not all would, and some would change the name and functionality at the same time.

It'd be chaos.
Same. It really doesn't help that their logo is skin-colored and the shape that it is...
hahah, I like this.
the hairsplitting of HN never ceases to amaze and amuse me.

Yes, realistically, bootstrapping means you are only allowed to use money you find on the street, and "no marketing spend" means you press "publish" and can only wait.
This is going to be VERY useful for WebXR social platforms.
I think it's far more likely that Apple Inc. did actually donate between $100-249 as part of an employee gift-matching program. I'd be willing to bet one of those $100-249 donors works for them.
Apple supporting users upgrading their hardware with freely available tools is anti-consumer? A bit over the top, no?

We are speaking English and anti is the opposite of pro still, right?
>> â€œI came to the conclusion that $500,000 was the new $5 million,â€ said Michael Maples Jr., an entrepreneur who created a $15 million venture fund aimed at investing in companies that required little capital.

Pfft. $18k is the new $500k.
Based on your username are you Jewish?

Because you'll be interested to know that Judaism not only permits embryonic stem cell research it actually encourages using the embryos rather than wasting them.
About the bees you could check with http://www.sfbee.org/beekeeping.html if it's a city-related problem or just a neighborhood/plant related issue. In some busy city-areas in Europe it turns out that bees have more varied resources there than on the often mono cultural countryside.

Thanks for the tip: I will threaten my bees with a toothbrush when they are lazy next year.
That's the one, thanks! And ooh, I hadn't thought of setting it up for a traveling salesman problem... that does seem like a good application. Never knew that was one of the first uses; the moment I grasped the principles, maze-solving seemed a logical use.
The users really started to trickle over to Facebook during the year. I see even my less technically inclined friends appearing there now.

Give it another year or two.
If Google compromises search result quality for revenue, users will switch away in the same way they switch from AltaVista et al to Google.

It is within the Google ethos not to fuck with their best selection. They understand that their success was from showing the best results. I doubt they will screw it up.

Screaming to the government to do something about it is just useless. If it is crap, it will die.
I have been wondering the same thing. JS might be a good language. But we should still have a choice to choose other languages.

I'm seeing efforts with asm.js turning JS into a byte code language aka. LLVM IR. I'm not sure if turning JS into a byte code language is the best way either. It is still too high-level language. And it seems like a ugly hack.
Because books with solutions give a false sense of security. The goal of exercises is to have the students to think for themselves about the solution. It really doesn't matter if the y can solve the problem perfectly. People concerned about solutions are in fact thinking about a quick way to get the best grades for an exam. Which is fine, bu t it should not the first goal of any one writing a text book on a mathematical topic.
Available on Amazon for ten bucks:

http://www.amazon.com/Casio-F91W-Digital-Sports-Watch/dp/B00...

Looks nice enough for what it is and the price.
There's already many, many ways to do this and it works fine for me on (primarily) web development.
I think it have not, what has taken so long is to get caught.
node+npm does everything you need here. if you're writing your own libs, you're doing something wrong.

there are so many middleware modules for express that you can have a web app with a connected db, user auth, forms with csrf up in a matter of minutes.
With few exceptions, an advertiser's job is to convince people to spend money on things they don't need. Often these things are actively harmful, like soda or cigarettes. Advertisers use manipulation to achieve these goals. They're not honest about the pros and cons of a product, they're not informative about what the product is. Instead they rely on manipulative techniques like catchy jingles, flashing banner ads, false "experts," or any other number of slimy techniques to convince people to do things they wouldn't or shouldn't do.
Because it's not reddit (stop acting like it's reddit - the communities and conventions are quite different) and if you want to participate in a discussion, stay in the thread.

Did you come from /r/programming? There have been a few comment threads talking about hacker news recently.
In a nutshell: the vibrations that affect the imaging are pretty high frequency. So to get rid of them he has isolated his whole setup in such a way that if there is a vibration it will be well under the lower cut-off frequency that is part of the measurements. So the whole apparatus may go up or down but that won't affect the measurements. If the whole thing would not be isolated then the rumble from the tires of a passing car or a jet flying over would utterly ruin the measurements.

Especially the vibration damping is nicely done, it is zero contact and has the effect of stopping any beginning oscillation in its tracks.
Any difference there is will depend on the individual, and all in all they're pronounced very similarly if not exactly the same.
> Some people will be bothered by a low contrast, others by a high contrast.

Being bothered by high contrast is very exceptional and can't be compared, being hard to see and unpleasing to see are entirely different problems. In one you need to strain your eyes and the other to adjust your aesthetic sensibilities.
I look at that and think "I would get cramp immediately and be in absolute agony".
Given your comment, you'd probably really enjoy Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" since it's effectively heading down a similar path of thought: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf

The gist of it is that when a small team builds a piece of software, they have a theory (or I suppose a mental model by another name) of how it exists (either the literal files on disk or a rough abstraction of the "shape" it takes) and an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of its design.

One team may share the "theory" of the program with another by adding a new team member, they learn from osmosis (not just the codebase but the insights from other members).

In reality, what often happens is that a team erodes through attrition or even is entirely removed from a project. The new team who takes over it, has no theory of how the software works and has to form an entirely new theory.

That theory may be mismatched to the realities of the environment it lives in (infrastructure assumptions, cultural assumptions and so on) which can make additions even worse.

I suppose I imagine it like the statue of David that gets created in Spongebob only for the weird, out of place squidward nose to be tacked on it like it works but it doesn't seem quite right and you can almost point out the line.

Anyway, it's an interesting conundrum since there's not really an easy way to express this concept to big bloated corporations who think they can just exchange one contracting firm for another, and not end up with a mish mash hell contraption that shits all of their customers.

The natural fix might feel like having sole indies running a project where the mental model is not in jeopardy (sans being hit by a bus) although I would think it's more in the range of 10 people or so but I honestly haven't gotten far enough to test that out yet :)

Additionally, you could say that documenting not just the software itself, but the assumptions held at the time would work. It probably would help but that assumes future developers will read it (some will find a rewrite the only logical course because they don't understand the project, or the language etc) while others may just be under business pressure to "move as fast as possible" which gets mistaken for "writing code" instead of understanding what came before.
> What baffles me is that the problem exists in apps used by millions of people every day, developed by gigantic corporations who pride themselves with having the best engineers in the world. Why is this baffling? Because the underlying technical issues are rather trivial!

> Hint for developers: Switch your computer’s keyboard layout to something other than US to debug your application’s shortcut handling on different layouts.

The problem with this and all the other X is broken and should be tested articles is that the testing burden is already enormous. Plenty of companies don’t even test with Firefox and/or Safari.

That’s really the problem that needs to be solved. How to reduce the testing burden.
This is really lovely. I'm looking forward to seeing more developments! :-)
Look like the full text here: http://books.google.com/books?id=lMdz84dWNnAC&lpg=PP1...
It’s kind of shocking that a company with the resources of Yahoo couldn’t innovate and turn [Delicious] into a success

Most bizarre line of the article. I don't follow it that closely but acquisitions before profit seem to be a sure fire way of the new parent company wasting a lot of money. Perhaps we just hear of the failures here.
Ubuntu user here, I can't watch any video on apple sites, it says it require quicktime and offers to download safari. Yes, Apple is so walking the walk on that issue...

edit: also google "why html5 video is not ready"
Humor aside, intercourse and discourse are synonyms.

Although, intercourse is often used as short for "sexual intercourse".

But you are pretty much asking for that joke (like when you still use "ejaculate" with the "blurt out" meaning).
I think that a coup attempt by the losing candidate concerns me more.