jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>Links or it didn't happen.

To what? I'm supposed to link you to reality? How about since haskell is a general purpose, turing complete language, you demonstrate that there's some magical reason that it can only be used for "pure math problems" and nobody can be productive in it doing "real work". Why should a random nonsense claim be given the standing of fact and need to be disproved?

>friends (I know, it may be biased)

That's why I asked if it was true in your heart. Lots of people say things they think sound reasonable and believable based on other third hand information, but which are in fact made up. I have a very hard time believing you have so many friends into haskell and unable to write programs in it. Especially after teaching a bunch of PHP people who had never heard of functional programming (and half had never heard of types!) haskell in a few short lessons. Either your friends are some crazy statistical anomaly, or my developers are. Or perhaps your friends are apocryphal.

>GitHub codes I use

"I don't use anything written in haskell so you can't write anything practical in it" is a pretty poor argument.

>I encounter mostly language-oriented

Where are you encountering them? And are you sure you aren't just misinterpreting "practical" blog posts as "academic" because they mention something you don't want to hear like monads? Even most things I would assume you classify as "language-oriented" are still about solving practical problems.

http://ro-che.info/articles/2014-12-26-monad-control-type-sy...

That might sound scary to people who don't know haskell, but it is about solving a common issue with web development (and other server type programming) in a nice reusable library. Do you really think there's tens of thousands of people just sitting around writing haskell code that does nothing for no reason?
PC Magazine didn't have anything on Computer Shopper when you wanted to figure out the best price on a PC. Imagine over a thousand pages of newsprint, with about 850 of them being 100% ads.

It's hard to grep a dead tree, of course.

The best thing was that Computer Shopper could afford to print decent articles -- Steven J Vaughan-Nichols on the first PC UNIXen, cool things to do by writing PostScript to your printer -- after PC Magazine started thinking that those things were too geeky for their business-focused audience. (Six word-processors under $1495 compared!)
He gave a talk about massscan at this year's DEF CON: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOWexFaRylM which is quite fun to watch.
How can you view a map of past locations in Latitude on Android? So far I've only managed to find the stats page listing time at home vs work vs "out".
Wait, income from an LLC would normally just be filed on the member's individual income tax returns right? Not file its own stand-alone return.
I think you're agreeing with the OP. He changes his plan once a year - hardly rigid. Sounds a lot like a general, flexible direction to me.
If you don't try
Classic UNIX behavior was also to have plaintext passwords in /etc/passwd, the shadow file was invented much later...

But why should we jump through hoops for something that was broken over 15 years ago?

Do you still filter ping packets on your router because back in the '90s large pings would crash[1] many operating systems?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_of_death
This has inspired me to do something similar. I don't think I'll do it as a resume, but I'll probably do it as a list somewhere. I know this isn't a novel idea or anything, but I never seriously thought about setting serious goals for myself like this. I mean, in the past I have just set vague goals like "Become more skilled in x or y" rather than a defined list of reachable goals.
> Rent MS Office

You can buy MS office just the same as you can before, but consumers want to rent it. I balk at shelling out hundreds and hundreds for a fully featured copy of Office which will be out of date by the next release. Paying £50 a year or so for an always up to date copy (with a bunch of extras like Skype credit) is a much more attractive alternative.

> Rent this movie

Yeah, because when has that ever been a thing?

> Rent this song

And when will this ever be a thing (Renting a song is not the same as renting access to a library of thousands of songs).
Fun fact: I once bribed a police officer in the Philippines. Had a customs officer at the airport try to get a bribe from me (and I pretended to be ignorant to what he was getting at). It is pretty open there.
Yes exactly this is just another ICO-like pump and dump.

There is absolutely no reason to not use Ethereum for this, or at worst ERC-20 coin.
The highs are higher and the lows are lower than in other developed countries
FWIW, the screenshot of the page doesn't actually look like how the page looks like currently. One could handwave and say that's intentional, but IMHO it looks as though the styles are broken (in particular the text in really small font and the yellow highlighted text)

I think the moral of the story here is that if you're going to be advocating for HTML over a SSG, then perhaps it would make sense to invest a bit of time on a styleguide page, or take a bit more effort to leverage default styles (in the style of http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/), or just commit to inline styles to lock down the individualistic look of each page (if that's what they want). Being wishy-washy about style management over time is not going to age well.
Half of the US fought for the right to own other humans as property. You are very, very sheltered if you think large numbers of people aren't capable of holding terrible ideas and performing horrific acts.
I don't know how much things got better from performance standpoint - Oracle is pretty good on that front - but they built their own Aurora database adding all the missing features to it and then migrating to it. (Bunch of blog posts on Aurora look it up.) Knowing what I know about Oracle licensing it must have gone pretty well on the money front!
We've spent a couple years now (right?) tacitly approving rioting as an acceptable response to feeling disenfranchised. Now we're surprised when the same medicine gets used by others. For either side, I'm not sure it's proper minimize their complaints. If the BLM crowd says they have a serious problem with police violence, the best reaction is, "what can we do to restore confidence?" Similarly, when 40% of the country says they have serious concerns about the integrity of voting in this country the proper response isn't "everything is okay", it's "what can we do to restore confidence?".

The lesson here is to condemn all rioting, set expectations that are equally applied to all segments of society. Listen to those feeling alienated and see what can be reasonably done to promote inclusiveness. It's hard to take advocates of inclusiveness seriously when they eagerly cancel, disenfranchise, and deplatform people that disagree with them even remotely (and yes, there are plenty of examples of rational criticism being deplatformed).
The order of events has troubled me since the beginning.

People came to a protest. Trump made a speech on the stage. People got incited to rush the building by what was said.

But then we the events that say that people constructed bombs at home and organized an attack far in advance, and traveled to the protest in order to rush the building.

The odd thing is that I heard similar narratives about BLM riots. In some it was said that BLM organized protests which were peaceful, but which later turned into riots. Other say that the rioters was people from outside that had planned the rioting in advanced and traveled to the protests.

Are all four versions true, or only a subset?
I don't know if it was removed by him or by twitter. But still. Get on twitter and you'll see many similar comments and accounts that encouraged violence and defended rioters this whole past year.

If you're going to be tough on people like that, don't cherry pick.
IMO it's worse than that, because there's a duopoly where both the stores coordinate to do this at the same time. And the intent of it is political, they're trying to end someone else's business because the owner is on the other political team. And that's not even where it ends, next they'll come after their web hosting and credit cards.
The 74 million are mostly conservatives. I don't think they are all the same, but as a group they do have at least a few defining issues that they agree on?
It's already implemented:
https://github.com/ajyoon/systemf
There is even an HTTP server built with it.
Two clarifications without further comment.

The pipe bombs were left at the RNC and DNC headquarters, not inside the capitol building.

I have not heard any reports of plans to abduct members of Congress being audibly discussed during the riot. Someone in paramilitary gear with a handful of heavy-duty zip ties was photographed in the senate chamber though, and there have been reports of the mob chanting “hang pence.” A gallows was erected outside the building.
Sometimes I feel that the free market argument doesn't apply to media platforms. This is because the effectiveness of a media platform (or any mass media, for that matter) is largely determined by its market/usage share; in other words, smaller or alternative media platforms cannot be considered as a working substitution to the dominate platforms. And since the user distribution of social media tends to follow the power law (i.e. the "can't switch 'cause all my friends are using it and they won't switch due to the same reason" phenomenon), it is almost inevitable that a single platform will eventually monopolise the sector if left unregulated. banning a user from using the most popular media channel would mean he/she is no longer able to communicate his/her opinion effectively even he/her is able to choose a less popular alternative.

tl;dr: one can always switch their phone if they don't like Apple because the usefulness of a phone doesn't depend on its popularity; one can't practically switch their social media platform if they are banned because the usefulness of the social media depends on its popularity, and the most popular platform typically dominates due to the power law.
Believe it or not, I am one of these people hurt daily by the modern web. I rely on accessibility to do my daily tasks, and accessibility is the thing that goes away bit by bit from year to year. I used to do Perl for server-side scripting, the classical CGI stuff. I know the war is over. But calling a disabled person a zealot is probably a bit overshooting, dont you think?
Colt (and Remington, and other early revolvers) had a muzzle-loaded, cap-lock design for guns up until after the US Civil War, IIRC. (Also, IIRC, I don't think paper cartridges were ever a big thing for revolvers. Colt's early guns removed the cylinder to reload, which meant you could theoretically carry spare loaded cylinders; Remington guns had a built-in loading lever.) In fact,

"In 1852 an employee of Colt's, Rollin White, came up with the idea of having the revolver cylinder bored through to accept metallic cartridges. He took this idea to Colt who flatly rejected it and ended up firing White within a few years.[18] Colt historian RL Wilson has described this as the major blunder of Sam Colt's professional life.[19] Rollin White left Colt's in December 1854 and registered a patent on April 3, 1855 in Hartford, Connecticut, as patent number 12,648: Improvement in Repeating Fire-arms.[20] On November 17, 1856 White signed an agreement with Smith & Wesson for the exclusive use of his patent. The contract stipulated that White would be paid 25 cents for every revolver, but that it was up to him to defend his patent against infringement as opposed to Smith & Wesson.[21]"

...(from Wikipedia) with the result that patent licensing meant that Colt couldn't make or convert metallic cartridge guns until well after the Civil War (IIRC).
So, this is a step towards implementing plugins for go right? It seems to me like this could be used to implement dynamic code loading.
How snarky. According to the author:

I'm fighting quota issues with my dumb host. I assure you migrating to something better is not my day job.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9291719
I discovered The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran around 2009 and it quickly became and has remained one of my favorites. I appreciate the descriptiveness and beauty of the language along with the continuing relevance of the advice. It's very easy reading and enjoyable to pick up for a short time and enjoy in small bits or read straight through.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prophet_%28book%29

A couple favorites of mine are:

On Pain - http://www.katsandogz.com/onpain.html

On Reason & Passion - http://www.katsandogz.com/onreason.html
As a side-note: services like these come with an anticipation -- I think people that sign up for CSAs will relate to it.
Few things:

Google and Facebook have offices in New York (in the case of Facebook, there's a team available for most any engineering role in the NY office; I can't speak for Google, but I believe Spanner is out of the NY office), so for folks who really want a city lifestyle, this is always an option.

As for Bay Area, the big issue are schools: San Francisco schools operate on a lottery system (with the exception of a single "test school", Lowell), whereas South Bay has excellent public schools available to all those who live within their district boundaries (Cupertino School District, Los-Gatos/Saratoga School District, Los Altos SD, several schools in Fremont area, etc...). So for many, a South Bay location is actually a perk: commuting from South Bay to SF on Caltrain is a major hassle (that is assuming the offices of the company are located to close to Caltrain -- public transportation within SF proper is a nightmare unless you work and live close to BART station) and leaves no time to pick kids up from school/drop them off at school/curricular activities.

I should add that at least Google and Facebook run buses within suburban South Bay as well -- so the worst part of the commute (going North on 101 in the morning, South on 101 in the evening) can be avoided.

I should add there are also people living further in various bedroom communities in East Bay like Albany or Walnut Creek, or San Ramon (which also have good schools) and most of those folks either work for SF-based companies (keep in mind Google does have an SF office as well), or make use of company busses (Google runs busses to SF), or work from home some days a week.

This would also be a huge generalization, but one can also think of the Bay Area as the OSI stack: application/presentation in SF, mid-tier (databases at Oracle, distributed infrastructure at Google and FB) in Peninsula/Northern parts of South Bay, and physical layer (Apple, Cisco, Juniper, Intel, etc...) in Sunnyvale and further south. So for companies that do more systems-level development, there's both network effects (they're hiring people coming from other companies in the area), and the need to somewhat more experienced engineers (who are more likely to have families and to own vs. rent).

(background: lived in South Bay Area since I was 13, worked as an engineer in various South Bay Area software/Internet companies -- both in office parks as well as offices in more walkable downtown areas -- since late teens, including at Facebook in the Menlo Park campus).
I'm unclear as to why or how this is entirely useful. This article is probably missing some of the key findings that would make it interesting. In reality, killing a MRSA bacteria culture is trivial and could be done by a child. The real usefulness of this discovery would be if this liquid could be safely ingested and produce antibiotic activity while in the body. Pouring something like bleach, gasoline, hydrochloric acid, liquid nitrogen on MRSA cultures will also kill them. But, but these things won't help treat a MRSA infection in the body.
The article states that they did test individual ingredients vs the combination. So I'm going to assume they use the term "believe" as a layman replacement for "confident up to x sigmas".
I'm sympathetic to the argument (and I enjoy Paul Staments) but this article is a poorly-written regurgitation of Stamets' ideas, which adds little value and makes some overly strong unsourced statements along the way.
Can't say I'm surprised by this.

You'd think that the world's larges cloud provider, would have the tooling and policies in place to deal with this issue (creative inefficiencies). Because that's literally what they're asking their customers to deal with when they sign on to the concept of cloud-computing.
If I had an open-office setting, that alone would get me to sign on to what the author is saying. With my private office, being closer to the hardware and coworkers can outweigh the benefits of working from home.
In insane scenarios like this, is there anything preventing a company from issuing new stock, waiting for the price drop from liquidating major holders, and buying back an equivalent amount?
I think the craft process can work both in the digital and material domains. The key is individual responsibility for a piece of work, and feedback from the materials.

Another book for your list...

The Craftsman by Richard Sennett (Sociology professor, musician and sometime Linux user).
Hinduism: an inexhaustible, ever-reshapeable resource for Indian nationalism.
> There's still a point where it's beneficial to split an application into seperate stacks

Do you mean like having a different "infrastructure manifest" for each micro-service? In that case, couldn't each micro-service specify which other micro-service it depends upon? For example, I could have a central "API gateway" service which would specify all the other micro-services it depends upon. This reminds me a bit of a Gemfile/Package.json but for processes instead of libraries. On the other hand, I can easily see how this could turn into a dependency hell.
Sounds great for people that already have dropbox, for others that might not work so great. Most savvy computer users understand dropbox, but sometimes (less savvy users) just can't get it to work.
If you're a web developer, the site http://www.caniuse.com/ breaks down exactly which browser support which "HTML5" technologies.

You can also compare 2 browsers (e.g. IE10 and Firefox 3.6: http://www.caniuse.com/#compare=y&b1=ie+10&b2=firefo...) and it shows support by current browser market share (e.g. 53% of users have browsers with CSS3 border-radius).
I used Chartbeat on Hackerbuddy.com - it has customisable alerts which can go straight to your iPhone, so when traffic spiked I was able to react. The app hit the front page of Hacker News, and I was able to join in the conversation early on, which was really useful. It also got mentioned by Mashable, and Chartbeat alerted me and let me share the Mashable link around. It also monitors uptime and alerts me if the site is down - which means I get to reboot the server pretty much as soon as it happens. I'm not 100% sure real-time analytics is a requirement for everyone, but for me it's been extremely useful.
Ah, the poor debt collector, what a burden he carries these days.

When I started in my legal career over 30 years ago, debt collectors could declare open season on their victims and pretty much harass them without limit: calling up at all hours of the night, lying through their teeth about what might happen if you did not accede to their demands, pestering friends, relatives, employers, and anyone else in reach once they had exhausted their arsenal on the hapless debtor, and when all that didn't work, cynically start the process up again the next day until the poor soul was worn out from the continuous beating.

All of this has radically changed in the past several decades, to the point where debtors (and, dare I say, deadbeats too) now pretty much have the upper hand with collectors when it comes to fending off their efforts to win through harassment or intimidation. A fascinating write-up on this appears here (http://www.dallasobserver.com/2010-01-21/news/better-off-dea...) and that piece in turn sparked an interesting HN discussion on the topic (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1075903).

Essentially, there are now innumerable laws that permit debtors to sue debt collectors who slip up on even small issues in the way they handle their collection efforts. What is more, the entire industry depends on hiring low-skilled workers whose main talent is to intimidate and such persons are normally not astute enough to avoid the legal traps. The hope is that most people will remain ignorant of the laws protecting debtors while the harassment continues.

Accordingly, this game turns on playing the percentages. I have dealt with people at the wholesale end of this business and, believe me, the amounts they pay to acquire debt packages are miniscule in relation to the size of the debts involved (often as low as 1% of the face amount of the paper). Thus, it is rare that any of this ever winds up being pursued in court (at least for the low-quality packages) because that would never pay. The goal, rather, is to scare people into paying. This means, of course, first finding the person so that the process can begin. And this in turn places a huge premium on whatever data might exist by which a debtor might be tracked.

So, yes, the debt collectors will use all forms of social media available as well as any accompanying tricks that might lead to finding their targets. Facebook may adopt policies to try to limit some of this but I would doubt that this would be effective except against flagrant offenders. Anti-harassment laws likely would be more effective, assuming the debtor is savvy enough to know about them and to use them effectively.

In the meantime, this cat-and-mouse game will continue on and on, as it has for eons, only it will now involve the new playing ground of social media.
How does Akshell handle security policies, btw?
I feel like pythons docs are hard to use, its difficult to just look up a method quickly also the search feature never seems to be very accurate for me. I will give the python docs credit when it comes to supplying good examples though.
A point needs to be made that most design software is proprietary software and does not lend itself to version control systems. It would make little difference if you upload a PSD file to git, if there is no real way to parse the changes.

Version control systems oriented toward "creative" are very visual and expensive (like alienbrain) primarily due to the fact that the cost of adding proprietary format parsing capability. And you will not be able to convince the vast majority of designers to use Gimp or inkscape.

I would say that the web developer community needs to promote use of open formats for design composition, perhaps if we can get rid of AI and PSD as standard compositional formats we will make some progress, it is starting to work with Flash.
Yep, all fixed now. Looks good I'll give it a try when I get my site launched and let you know.
@Tichy has asked in the below comments,

> where are the killer games for OS X?
And are those all of the things that were built, created in the USSR at the time? To the extent that it allows you to claim that "The Soviet Union was quite literally built on slave labor?" Were they even a fraction of a percent?

You seem to be pointing out that the GULAGs existed and are providing sources for this fact. I'm not really disputing the existence of the labor camps. Let me ask you this, do you know anyone who lived in the USSR, who worked in the USSR and who was not a convict in a labor camp? I know lots. Are you saying that they do not count?