jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's possible they're lying, that's true, but I think it's unlikely a secret like that could be kept long term. Employees have no reason to remain loyal when no longer employed by Apple and partner company employees would have to know about it too. The reputation damage would be catastrophic, so IMHO it seems unlikely they would take such a reckless risk.

So it's a matter of making a call between using vendors we know for a fact are tracking you, some of which have lied about it (see, hard to keep these things secret), or one that at least claims not to and has a lot to lose if caught out.
> high tobacco taxes to reduce smoking

This ends up just penalizing poor people. Cigarettes are addictive. Higher taxes don't magically cure addictions. Anyway, lots of things in the world are bad for you. But it's a free country. If someone wants to smoke and drink and eat a bunch of junk and never exercise, they have that right. There are a ton of "bad" things you could tax, it's an endless futile exercise.

> high fuel taxes to reduce pollution

Does this actually even work? My own driving behavior is completely unaffected by gas prices. People still need to go places. It seems to me that convenient public transportation would do better in affecting behavior. If public transport is crap/inconvenient/nonexistent, people won't use it.
maybe we should rename some 'theory' classes as 'pretty ok approximation of future problems'
It sounds like the real problem is that the debugger (windbg) isn't smart enough to handle inline strings. If they had used a more powerful debugger they wouldn't have been confused enough to write a blog post about it.
More interesting is fundamental database progress like the work Google's done on F1. Now _that_'s an advancement in the state of the art.
> There is a lot of grey area in qualified immunity.

Not particularly.

> Government actions are protected so long as they are legal.

Generally, actions which are legal are not subject to legal liability, you don’t need immunity when your action isn’t illegal.

Illegal government actions are often protected by governmental immunities, but that’s not the issue here.

Illegal individual actions by government agents related to their job duties may be covered by either absolute or qualified immunity, based on the rules applicable to each type of immunity.

> If someone orders an illegal action, they are no longer protected by being government agents because they weren’t lawfully acting in their capacities as one.

No, such an order could easily be covered by either absolute or qualified immunity. For instance, an illegal Presidential order is within the coverage of the President's absolute immunity. An order from an official not covered by or doing the kinds of duties subject to absolute immunity, which despite being illegal is not of a kind which a closely similar fact pattern has been definitively found to be illegal in the past, would fall within qualified immunity, generally.

> If someone knowingly follows an illegal order, they too bear the burden.

If they know or had constructive notice through an applicable ruling that the order was illegal, sure, provided absolute immunity doesn’t apply (note that “knowingly followed an illegal order” can mean “knowingly followed an order, which order factually was illegal whether or not that was known”.)
NX is not an IDE/editor.
Yes indeed. Black market treatment offers appearing in 5... 4... 3...
Hi there! Why so many security reports on blogspot? http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=blogspot....
Oh, my mistake. I assumed you were in SF for some reason.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4491216
Very fun to play around with, but the UX could be improved upon!
While politicians who like to defer responsibility to economists would want their electorate to believe otherwise, economists are not soothsayers. They are familiar with some ideal models for modeling economic systems of a few variables that may or may not hold up depending on the actual market conditions.

Economic forecasts are a bit like really bad weather forecasts - given a few variables and that nothing changes they may hold up.

But they cannot predict what will change and what effects it will have. Like the long term implications of internet.

For small systems with stable technologies like markets for a limited set of products some macroeconomic rules may hold up pretty well. But for large scale economies the economic decisions are as much political as fiscal, and the soundness of the decisions can be found out only in retrospect...
Yes that's precisely what the Snikket project is about. There also joinjabber.org (disclaimer: i'm part of it) which is just getting started: we don't build an XMPP distribution, but part of our mission is to evaluate and/or recommend clients based on high-level features and usability for end-users.
But who knows what we'll all be thinking when 2140 arrives?
Can you explain what you mean?

The power consumption of Bitcoin is proportional to the price of Bitcoin, it is not related to the demand for making transactions or how many transactions are being made.
> I found myself checking the HN frontpage way too often, only to make a visual diff in my brain to skim through the articles I already read.

Check out hckrnews[0]. It gives you a clean chronological list of entries that you can filter down to top 10, 50%, frontpage and all.

It also marks the point where you last visited, and dims the entries that you clicked.

[0]: https://hckrnews.com
Perhaps the nueral net that Google uses to choose research areas decided to learn how to locate human dwellings?
Obviously I don't know the laws of every country in the world but I would be surprised that lying about the revenues of your company isn't at least a felony.
I gave up after this classic Scoble:

"I know, I have 10,000 people following me..."

Was there anything intelligent in this article, or more ego masturbation?
The game is not early, it's almost over. Why? Because the O/S is just a hardware abstraction layer now.

Android comes right out and says it. Linux is the HAL. Apple is a little more coy about it ("oh, it's OSX underneath"), but then again what's with the renaming the of O/S to iOS4? What does that fortell?

All said, it doesn't matter anymore. Android could be ported to OSX tomorrow, and iPhone can run on Linux if it wanted. It's the application layer that matters now. Microsoft and Nokia are scrambling to catch up, but there's either nothing there (Nokia/Meego), or something that's not compelling enough (Windows Phone) for developers to care about.
I've tinkered a little with http://heroku.com/ and if Ruby is your thing it really is awesome, especially the setup and maintenance parts. The first few chapters of the tutorial at http://www.railstutorial.org/ are worth reading if you're not familiar.

My current project is on a Rackspace VM because I want more control to do unconventional things. It does need to reach a certain scale before is starts paying off though.
That's my point, we know so little about them that it's impossible to compare.

Everyone, no matter how great/influential has a mundane, humdrum, petty aspect to his/her existence. We are just privy to the biographies of the philosophers you mention filtered through the lens of centuries of hero worship.

Rand lived in the television age. When I first saw her in a video interview after reading her books I was disappointed at first glimpse. It's inevitable. Nobody can ever live up to their creative achievements.
Do her books (or more precisely: her ideas) need to last two millenia in order to be influential now or have been influential for the past 60 years?

Fact or not, you can't dispute the Bible's influence over the last 2 millenia either. Dismissing the Bible as a fairytale for entertaining fools is either an extreme hyperbole or proof that you have no idea what the Bible is about. I also am beginning to believe you know just as little about Ayn Rand other than that lots of assholes justify their actions using her ideas.
I'm trying to think of "famously aggressive" and "little", and all I can come up with is one of them Koreas.
I don't agree with Rand's philosophy, but I think you're maligning her by not even considering the effort she put into writing her books "work." I read the second biography in this review ("Ayn Rand and the World She Made") and from that it's obvious she worked damned hard. I don't like what she produced, but that doesn't change that she worked hard to make it.
I just set up a complex series of recurring draws to btc to reconcile being paid weekly with paying bills monthly. This could either be really awesome or really catastrophic!
These comments are almost all a dumpster fire of clueless speculation. I normally suggest people read Hacker News comments, but this is embarrassing. The uninformed ramblings about winner v. sucker funds, or assertions of insider trading are sad.

The only factual comment here was by MR4D about how IRA accounts can impact wash sale rules, as would all accounts you own in prime brokerage.

Hint: maybe there is a high probability the author of this paper doesn't know what he is doing. It wouldn't be the first time: https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-corne...

Or maybe he's selling a competing product: https://cornell-capital.com/about-2 but can't compete.
This is really cool, but the gmail thing is a turnoff.
No, it doesn't work. "./*" expands to "./ -@" as a single field, which rm has no problems with. (Note that, however, this is still the globbing of the shell, as far as I understand.)
One neat observation is that a lot of the time a team member's job is to stand there and unobtrusively wait for another team member to finish what they are doing.

I also like how there was no 'dance in the end zone' when it is all done. With minimal fuss, they did the job and then unobtrusively drove off when it was done.
From the article: "The Fed will be moving for the first time into corporate bonds, purchasing the investment-grade securities in primary and secondary markets and through exchange-traded funds."
Surely many people would prefer a 10% cut rather than being laid off outright?

Pretty sure unemployment doesn't cover 90% indefinitely, and they did promise to make everyone whole (which should be put in writing, but still)
If Zoom is actually reporting that people are inactive after 30 seconds of no having the window focused, then all the people watching on a second screen while they have relevant docs pulled up on the other are getting stuck in the same category as the people playing games, and might even be getting penalized more than someone who's got Zoom open on one PC and is playing LoL on a different PC entirely.

Deeply flawed, IMO.
That doesn’t address OP’s point at all.
I more or less like FB as an application (and I have no idea whether I should like Zuckerberg or not). But MFABT is different as a formulation: it articulates broken things an imperative rather than a side effect that needs to be persevered through.

There's also context to it that matters -- everything from the great documentation diaspora from a decade back where they blew away a developer wiki that represented years of community effort to describe how to use the various APIs without having anything remotely like an adequate replacement, to changes a few months ago which temporarily had access to the "Friends Lists" features unavailable which made managing privacy settings more difficult. There's a lot of things FB does right too, but when looking at blunders, it's easy to have the catchy phrase come to mind and wonder if maaaybe someone overconfidently strode forward MFABT in mind when more caution might have been warranted.

You can't make an omelete without breaking a few eggs, as they say, but if you say that often enough, you start to get some people who think cracking a few open means breakfast is ready.
> What does having a shared culture have to do with having humanity?

I'm not trying to kick off a flamewar but this is hopelessly naive - divide and conquer has been used for thousands of years - just look at Rwanda for a recent dreadful example.

With the UK being a diverse multiracial population it's even more important to attempt to unify everyone around some kind of shared values etc. Otherwise you end up with people living right next door to each other that are mentally living in completely different universes. It should be obvious that this is not an ideal starting point for rallying a population around a unified goal.

The USA used to be seen as particularly successful in absorbing everyone no matter their origins, and giving them a strong identity as American that superceded everything else. Not sure if that's still valid though.
You're conflating two different events.

The "have you seen their car?" comment was from an interview with Bloomberg regarding BYD, not BMW.

He laughed when asked about BMW during the Q2 2013 conference call, but it was a chuckle followed by serious comments. It was only when the questioner began nervously laughing that he laughed for a significant time.

Compilation video containing both events (unfortunately with music, but I don't care enough to track down the individual sources): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gt6CAswSOY

So, the big criticism here is that… he's too forthright about competitor's products? I'm actually quite ok with that.
> When the traditional sysvinit starts and stops processes, it actually has no clue what it's doing and thus init scripts need to rely on PID files and other hacks to provide basic functionality.

Tooting my own horn here, but I wrote a filesystem called runfs that specifically addresses this. A service writes a PID file to runfs, and runfs automatically removes it once the process dies.

Code: https://github.com/jcnelson/runfs
This excerpt -

"what he really liked was solving problems. The text of each chapter was just some advice about solving them. He said that as soon as he got a new textbook he'd immediately work out all the problems—to the slight annoyance of his teacher, since the class was supposed to work through the book gradually."

is literally me. I did that. Every year at my school I did exactly that. Once I actually turned in my solutions and my math teacher was quite upset because she didn't know what I'd do for the rest of the year in her class. She thought I was being arrogant and I should take in the material slowly, not swallow it all like a whale. But I wasn't arrogant or anything, because unfortunately this skill didn't transfer to the rest of my classes. I wasn't particularly good at history or physics or anything else, only math. Even now, I have tons of Schaums at my home. Like this one - http://www.amazon.com/Schaums-000-Solved-Problems-Calculus/d...
I work problems in it just because it is a craving - I simply have to solve it. Sadly, society doesn't pay for this sort of addiction. I have been a professional programmer for the past 2 decades to pay the bills, but I secretly hate programming, debugging, programmers, git, the whole enterprise - just seems so stupid & futile. But hey, atleast I can spend my salary on Schaums.
Coverage != speed. You can have excellent signal strength, sharing the bandwidth with thousands of other mobile devices.
Funny he used the example of popping zits as something that most people don't enjoy. I rather enjoy popping a nice juicy zit on the occasion that I get one - it's quite cathartic. I wonder if I can make a career of it.
Yeah, that money could pay for nearly a week's worth of Iraq War!
The discussion on Github for user-defined type guards (spion's comment) is at https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/1007

Advanced pattern matching, monads, etc. might be out of scope for TS, since it doesn't want to have major syntactical additions from regular JS.
That's likely Chrome WebView.
I've always wondered if this is the kind of things real programmers make for actors so they look like hackers in movies.
Ah, no, don't. Stop fixating on the score and trying to write comments that other people like instead of writing what you actually have to say.
It's just a negotiation tactic.
Most HR people are playing a game that most applicants aren't prepared for and/or interested in. The offer, the dancing around, even the bit about looking for "top people". It's all just trying to dress up the game to their advantage [1].

[1] Your ability to negotiate effectively is helped/hampered by your knowledge of their field of candidates. Ergo, they inevitably say 'top people', to skew your perception of your competitors to their advantage.
Duolingo could have the unintended effect of making English even more dominant by teaching everyone English.
Really great idea. Other opensource community should learn from this.
Adding this way after the discssion in case it appears in future searches - the quotes don't really help with words that can be split into other words.

My great-grandfather's surname is Aland. I did some searching on him recently - a search for "Aland" also returns results for "Al and" and "a land", neither of which are relevant. Using the + prevents that.
I suspect, that programmers themselves do not know their productivity (because there is now objective metric), so how can they know what to demand?

I certainly do not know if i'm more productive than average or not :)
People who don't get enough sleep, have you tried napping?

I find that a 20-30 minute nap after lunch is a decent replacement for hours 5-8 of sleep that I didn't get the previous night... until about 10pm or so at which point I crash hard but hopefully the day's work is done.

A few other people where I work have been napping. It's becoming culturally acceptable.

Don't doze. Nap!
Take this with some serious grains of salt; I started skimming when it gave 100% of the economic recovery credit to Carter's Fed appointee, which is particularly ridiculous due to the actions with capital gains tax rates which are critical for VC investing, and then I noticed it labeling Control Data as a hard disk startup. Uh, yeah; founded in 1957, the C in BUNCH, 2nd home of an obscure computer designer named Seymore Cray, etc.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_Data_Corporation Its magnetic disk unit was a bright star in the '70s, e.g. the prototype Lisp Machine's hard disk was a CDC SMD 80 MiB unit.
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses. --Bjarne Stroustrup [1]

[1] A standard complaint deserves a standard response.
smlar extension for pg

"Simple Recommender System" section:
http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/talks/pgcon-2012.pdf

http://railsware.com/blog/2012/05/10/effective-similarity-se...

http://blog.databasepatterns.com/2014/07/postgresql-install-...
> curl -L http://git.io/pdTu | sh

a) the url doesn't clearly relate to the repository

b) the url isn't secure.

c) the install script isn't even in the repository

d) I would submit this suggestion via a pull req, but alas, http://linux.die.net/man/1/mktemp

- - -

edit: the script it runs, does

> curl -L https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh | bash

which does not currently seem to be the recommended way of installing chef on ubuntu, and seemingly was last updated in 2013
> The whole of northern Europe is pretty much built with wood

Wooden construction for buildings over a certain size has been outlawed in Norwegian cities and all of Norway historically, so it's actually mostly concrete and stone, although small towns have mostly wooden, detached homes.
To quote wikipedia: Germany has several styles of timber framing, but probably the greatest number of half-timbered buildings in the world are to be found in Germany and in Alsace (France)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_framing#German_tradition...)

Not log cabins, but wood framed "Fachwerk" houses are everywhere in Germany, or at least Bavaria.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wooden_houses_in...
Honestly, if anyone is getting the short end here, it's comcast. Imagine if some loophole allowed FedEx to tie trailers onto UPS's delivery trucks. That's exactly what netflix is doing to comcast.
I look forward to the day GitHub implements a CI service.
That's largely for ethical reasons though. The US is obsessed with minimising civilian casualties.

That's certainly part of it, and I imagine that China cares far less about civilians than the US does.

But I think it's also because properly motivated individuals can cause far more damage than they could do in the past. There's a lot more technology to take advantage of, and many more targets to, well, target.

Nowadays anyone can trade with anyone, and there's really no need to have political control over India just to trade with Indians.

I think there was a degree of "take" as well as "trade", but in general I think you're right. In the past it was easy to profit from conquest, but nowadays it isn't really cost-effective. I don't think there's been a war fought so far this century that hasn't been a huge economic loss for all involved.
His wiki page indicates he's a "doctoral candidate in Business Administration." Also interesting, it seems he's a godson of Timothy Learys.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joi_Ito#Later_life

[2] http://www.leary.com/joiito/
"If you're a real honest-to-Allah member of Al Qaeda then I don't think that the civilian "release 'em until they actually kill someone then try 'em for murder" is a good strategy."

That's a very big if.

Why should anyone trust the US government to decide who is and who isn't a member of Al Qaeda?

The US government repeatedly proven themselves to be liars (or at least incompetents) on precisely this subject (not to mention many, many others).
I had Dell's 24x7x365 4 hour, on-site service contract for a rack of 16 identical 1U servers. "4 hours" was for them to respond to my call (phone or email, I can't remember). Their response was not showing up on-site with the part, but asking me to run a long series of tests, including brining the machine down, swapping out parts, resetting the BIOS, etc. Once I did all that, they ordered the part, then scheduled a delivery. It was 3-4 days, minimum, to get something fixed.

For the $1,909 price per server: I followed the link to Dell's site and tried to configure the R515 for myself. I added the second processor and left it set to the worse one, added the cheapest 16GB memory option, the redundant power supply and rails. That was $1,999.

A single, 250GB HD seems a bit "lite" for a server, even for one that does mostly processing. I didn't look into the networking or anything. I'm guessing at least another $1k to make it reasonable, probably more like $2k.
The joie de vivre of Flangan's concise writing is a joy to behold; it's awful to think the modern world can't support that level of craftsmanship.

It may not be piracy, but that the free resources have become good enough, combined with programming becoming easier to lower the bar for support materials like books. i.e. he's been disrupted. For example, Stackoverflow contributes to this.

I think he's right that the size of his markets means dropping the price wouldn't recoup enough via volume. He can easily get work writing tech materials for proprietary languages and systems (in-house and for-sale e.g. at MS or Oracle) - but what a loss for him and us!

uhhhmm... maybe google could "hire" him? Giving him the same freedom as royalties, and just release his work for free (because it grows the web, which helps google) - perhaps in collaboration with O'Reilly, because authors still need great editors. Though Google might want Android in a Nutshell. Google might also be able to target his work more precisely, with their data on searches, and whether people seem to be happy with the public resources they find, and what particular aspects. Data-driven writing...
It's Crysis, not World of Warcraft.
Selling a house is a convoluted process rife with potential pitfalls which is why a broker is engaged. What I would prefer is a listing site or service that will streamline the whole thing and take 1 or 2 percent instead of the 6.
Need (2020) In the Title.

Also not sure what is worthy of discussions or if there are anything new.