jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"Whatever happened to relying on your own strengths, rather than caricaturizing the competition?"

This is exactly what my issue with the FSF is. Their stated goal is to deliver freedom to software users, but in my opinion they've totally failed at this in recent years by sticking to the GPL, which at this point does more harm than good.

First of all, the GPL creates an unhealthy incentives structure. In GPL software, there's little incentive to add the features that end-users need. Corporations can afford to pay developers to add features to GPL software, but end users don't stand a chance. Most developers will build the features they personally find most useful, and because of this there are very few GPL-licensed pieces of software that have superior usability for non-technical users when compared to proprietary alternatives. If a feature isn't necessary for the developers personally, it faces an uphill battle to get into the software.

But let's discount that discussion and assume that it's true that an open license produces software whose fitness for purpose matches that of closed software, for all users. Even in that case the GPL isn't helping.

Suppose facebook released their entire codebase under the GPL tomorrow. Would it actually make their users any more free? Would the risk of privacy intrusion be any less? Would it be easier to set up a competing platform? That's three times no in my book. The GPL's freedom, that you can build any software you want with it, is its biggest deficiency. By not including a standard of ethics in the license itself, developers are free to add user-hostile features. As long as you could fork the project to remove those features, this wasn't an issue, but what use would it be to fork facebook's code?

The FSF's only recourse at this point to achieve their long-term goal of user freedom is to go back to the drawing board and develop a new GPL-incompatible license that enforces a code of conduct on the part of the users _and_ developers of the software (not just a license but a contract). Basically they need to three-laws-ify software licenses. You can only exercise your freedom to adapt the software in so far that you don't hurt the freedom of others. I don't know if someone like stallman has the mental agility to make this strategy shift though, so I suspect the FSF will remain largely irrelevant to the future battle between free and closed.
At the Texas Linux Fest, there was a great talk that reviewed non-Java ways of programming on Android:

http://texaslinuxfest.org/sessions/decaffeinated-robot-devel...

http://www.deepbluelambda.org/events/live/decaffeinated-robo...

There are some comparisons of code size for the different languages and environments. That was probably the most informative talk I attended at the Linux Fest.
It's good to see that the campus is healthy and no different from any other Google office, despite the whole China issue.
www.co.vu is 'available for registration' ;-)
Just given this a go and I can see that the domain name is given an expiry date. How do expiries work? Is there an email that comes around in one years time to keep it open, or something similar?
load balancing is a far more complex subject

Yes I know, I'm running my own little Wowza cluster of a couple dozen hosts, so I have faced the same problems. ;-)

If the customer of the CDN is unwilling to lift a finger

Okay, I guess that's an argument - although I'm not sure to what degree this can be held against the protocol.

As for the other problems you mention (apart from the RAM issue), I can see how they can be problematic in a multi-tenant/CDN environment. I'm just not sure I'd want to see a transport-protocol packed with all those concerns, as that would result in a lot of bloat and half-baked trade-offs (i.e. quite possibly even worse than RTMP).

While some basic building blocks (e.g. the 302) would indeed be helpful, we have so far had good luck with encoding meta-data into the URLs (crypt/hmac) and handling the logic on the origin.

Anyways, thanks for the insight. It's always interesting to learn how other people use and look at these things.
> Enterprise software is where much of the industry is employed.
> SOAP is becoming more prevalent, not less.

[ citation needed ]
I was confused by this too. If anything it should be harder for native English speakers unless they know French/Spanish also.
Closer to the US, Toronto and Vancouver manage to run effective public transport systems in American style cities. It's essentially a myth that you need high densities to support rail/bus services.
> are you seriously claiming Trump won because of Russia?

That Russia helped Trump is generally agreed upon. Was it the only factor in his win? Of course not.

But your whataboutism here doesn't hold water. Sure, there are subreddits that commonly exaggerated the truth about the Russia thing. Should they should get banned, since r/donaldtrump got banned for supporting violence? The two issues are so very different. I do not see hypocrisy in this case.
I'm curious why less features is a goal here?
I wish VueJS had more features, or at the very least more tooling. Vue has progressed a lot but there is so much more room https://github.com/vuejs/vue-devtools
Did you have to bring politics into it? Smile is better than nothing, people are going to shop with or without it on Amazon why not send a fraction to "charities" ?
For me, Bash scripts with CRLF line endings sometimes just exit without doing anything. A quick dos2unix later they are running perfectly.
Can you point to where I said "all white people"? Seems like my explicit mention of race has brought up feelings of anxiety in you and you threw out a strawman to compensate.
Thanks for the recommendation! It looks quite good. Assuming you're referencing this:

https://www.udacity.com/course/design-of-computer-programs--...

I have been meaning to brush up on my interview skills, and I've found the lack of structure in LeetCode's Monthly problem sets to be quite frustrating. Every time I'd get stuck on a certain problem, I'd dive deep into the techniques behind the solution just to discard that knowledge the next day, as the selection of problems was seemingly random.
I'd agree that police defenders often use the rhetoric of "approaching a cop with his gun drawn" or "being somewhere you shouldn't," but surely we can make a distinction between those killed in public areas versus this woman who was trespassing in a very important federal facility, specifically to impede a very important government procedure.
Too many to list but...

- WiFi/Bluetooth drivers (they were terrible at release)

- Intel HD graphics drivers (improved battery usage, responsiveness in some applications, and also seems to have reduced heat slightly (when running on battery))

- They improved the touchpad's auto-disable thing while using the keyboard (so it actually worked!).

- Touchscreen accuracy improvements both for pen and finger.

- More pen customisation (with associated app)

- Several crash bugs fix (e.g. BSoD during shutdown)

- A bunch of sleep specific fixes (e.g. faster entry and exit from sleep, a crash bug here too, and so on).

- Others...

Here's a full-ish list:

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/support/install-updat...
People quit bad jobs and even switch industries all the time. I think you're overestimating how many of us are going to be shedding tears for those poor hardworking folks, chained to their data collection with golden handcuffs.
> Anecdotally, the runtime also falls down when you need to use large arrays or strings, or do lots of floating-point calculations.

Anecdotally from one specific well-known troll. (I'm not saying it is or isn't true, just that almost all of these claims originate from a single individual with an axe to grind).
http://www.amazon.com/HP-Stream-Laptop-Personal-Horizon/dp/B... HP Stream 11 is likely the closest to what you're looking for $199 so slightly more expensive, but a year of Office365 included...
The Supply/Demand analysis of college degrees assumes that education is a fungible commodity. In some ways that's true -- because many technical skills developed in pursuit of a degree are intended to be generally applicable. But there is also broad economic value in an educated population beyond the instantaneous value of the credential. A college education is about creating value by obtaining an education.

The central challenge of college today is not that everyone is going, but that everyone is going into so much debt to do it. Most people will be able to service their debt (in part thanks to the higher average earnings they'll realize), but it is coming at the cost of delaying other purchases. New grads can't afford new cars, houses, weddings, children, or savings. And the fraction of borrowers who can't afford their debt become a drag on the economy because it is so difficult to discharge.
Well, let's not bicker. If you're contemplating sustained (not temporary spikes!) $500/b then you don't agree with TFA's claim that "energy prices are going relentlessly down", although you state above that the feasible extraction "border keeps on shifting". Presumably you envision some factor that will stop innovation in extraction, which would be interesting to learn.
>crashes to hell

Zoom out.
The author has made a good first attempt here but I find myself not really moved.

1. The author repeatedly says that punishing "Excess" consumption is a good thing and is part of why a consumption tax is good without really explaining why.

2. The author argues that the tax code is too complex right now so moving to a consumption tax will be simpler. There is then a list of necessities he wants to make tax-free, different tax levels on "luxury" items, and a proposed scheme to refund people already taxed monies. It seems like we've just recreated the complexity of the tax code but moved it somewhere else?

3. You mention a wealth (assets) tax at the very beginning as 1 of 2 big changes you want to make but then you never discuss the wealth tax part at all...
Fixed for me (macOS) in this[1] commit.

[1] https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/commit/218ef491476f15ab...
So is your argument that we just haven’t been through a cycle or else the hedge funds would have come out ahead? If they didn’t come out ahead after all of the turmoil, they are (on average) worse than an index fund.
I never noticed that. I think subconsciously I wrote it off as OK when they are speaking about the platform, and not a specific device.

No one would ever say "grab iPad and visit a website" but they might say "does your app work on iPad?"
In the US, our public radio (NPR) has similar fund-raising drives a few times a year. They're very annoying but must be effective.

The bottom line is that no form of media can claim to be truly impartial. Period. But some are better than others.
That corny questions like these aren't nearly as frequent over here as they are on Reddit.
I really hope you haven't been carrying the YC rejection around with you for all this time (or maybe its a good thing as it makes you want to prove them wrong)
I'd lose the "mechanical teeth" branding unless it actually has something to do with anything - and even in that case, put in a corner somewhere.

You appear to have something usable as "porn mode"; have you looked into keywords like "ipad private browsing"? I'm not sure you want the business, but...
I disagree. I think that the difference between not accepted and rejected is more about available slots.

Not accepted: "We would like to fund your startup, but we have x slots available and we already chose x startups that look more promising."

Rejected: "We are not going to fund this startup, no matter what".

The effect is the same, you do not get into Y Combinator. But in case of non acceptance this does not mean that they think your idea is not worth anything.
You might be able to use F#. There is no technical reason you can't use F# with C#, but I've seen political barriers to even using C# with VB.Net.
Step 1: Write your Representative. https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

Step 2: Tell your friends and family to write their representatives.

Step 3: Search for your representative's contact information and call their office. Send them a fax. Go in personally.

Step 4: Pray.

Step 5: (If required). Join the legal movement that we will create. Follow on http://www.eff.org

Step 6: (If required). A technological solution can and will be created.
> copyright has a clear boundary: you know whether you copied someone else's stuff

You can violate a copyrighted song by writing a song with a similar melody or motif. In the U.S., the accuser needs to prove that you previously heard the original song, but not that you were aware of the similarity or purposefully copied the musical idea.
Thanks for the answers.

Reg (2) Is it like https://stripe.com/checkout ? What you meant by capture the payments from dashboard ? Do you mean I have to pull the payment details from dashboard api ?

One last question : How extensively net banking is supported ?
I'll check out what SurferSEO is suggesting, thanks for the recommendation, though generally - I try to avoid tailoring my content for bots and optimal SEO.

Good catch with the spammy forum profiles - I moderate the forum quite heavily, so there is no spam there, but I never thought to monitor inactive profiles. I'll clean them up and will see what I can do to try and prevent those from popping up in future.

Thanks
Over-engineering of course is bad by definition, but my point is that is not the correct characterization. Scala is both safe AND expressive which is good for both productivity and reliability. If, of course, you take the time to learn and understand the core abstractions. To your point, yes that does take time and there is generally not a ready pool of talent you can hire with that knowledge already. So I wouldn't decide to write something in Scala if the team doesn't have any knowledge already and you're on a deadline, but you could say that about any language really. Any given team is going to deliver the fastest with the highest quality using the language and tooling they already are experienced with.

But as an individual engineer I would say that it is worth learning. Even if you don't use Scala for any major projects due to various organizational reasons, it is a great, principled introduction to a lot of the patterns that are becoming ubiquitous is most modern programming languages. One of the small pleasure in life for the moment for me is when the NodeJS devs I know who always told me static typing is unnecessary and Scala was too "academic" are suddenly gaga over Typescipt and functional programming.
I wouldn't worry about his bow weight. The trajectory of his arrow on one of outdoor shots show he is not even shooting 30 lbs. You can hold that as long as you want.
For those not in the SF area, this is almost certainly in response to this (unless Uber has a mole within Lyft...):
http://blog.uber.com/SFpoolparty
Flood stilts seem like they would do a lot to complicate surprise entry.
Uber stated that the drivers are still getting what they would be getting without the $5 promo
What? By your definition object orientation is a "framework" because it "helps you structure code" and is "a set of conventions that are optionally enforced by code". That's not a framework, that's a paradigm!

If a framework doesn't do something implicitly it's just a large library. If it's a set of conventions not backed by baked-in logic, it's a style guide.

A framework must CALL YOU. It usually gives you a piece of code that loads itself and lets you customize what it does by passing your code/configs to it. Then you tell it to run with what you gave it. The parts of the framework that you call yourself are actually "plug-ins" or basically framework-specific libraries.

If the framework never calls your code and you only call into the framework, that's always just a library. I would argue that actually it's easier to conflate a very full-featured library with a microframework because both really kind of call your code (especially when it's in the form of closures or a DSL).

You would never accidentally call a framework a library, though, because it's obvious that it's handling things for you. It's running everything behind the scenes and you just kind of advise it to do the things you want.
I have a serious question.

I understand the benefit of this program to the public, but what real benefit does funding Project Zero Day provide Google?
Interesting. Are you saying that Ayn Rand's ideas are so obvious that anyone could come up with them?
oops. I forgot it was .org. You're right.
Reminds me of the U of Chicago Physics prof who took an interest in coffee stains. I believe he even has a full font of coffee stains; perhaps that could be the next step.

http://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/ring-around-t... for public article about the research and http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rddeegan/PDF/Coffee_Rings_1_n... for the Nature article about it.

As is, this addition to LaTeX is a bit redundant for me... all papers I have soon enough have this feature anyways.
Dude - Ive been having an affair with my co-founder too. No pregnancy (as far as I know). Dang. Both of us are married. I want to stop it, its fucking crazy. Its like work stress plus lust stress. We banged in the office the other night. Its a bit out of control.
A good long password - the first few words of your favorite catchphrase in lowercase with no punctuation. For example: "well thats the funniest thing". I'm not sure how strong it is, but it doesn't seem too bad.

Some UNIX geek once wrote a tutorial saying that good passwords have a random collection of uppercase, lowercase, and punctuation marks. It's too hard, so people just use "Pa$$worD".
That's because it's just 4 microphones. You STILL have to do the speech recognition yourself, and that's tough.

The new part of the Kinect is the 3D stuff, so that's what people are playing with.
Source?

Last I heard, someone estimated the cost of the parts in a Kinect at $56, which is quite a bit less than the $150 they sell for. Even with all the related costs, they're making pretty good money off every Kinect they sell.
Haven't planes been hijacked with Stanley knives (or box cutters or whatever Americans call them)? And if the response to that is locking the cockpit, then what will guns do differently? (Shoot the windows? Could they get the exit row and open the emergency door?) Surely, now, the response to either would be to rush the assailant?
I would say he answers most of them. The ones that I've seen, he's answered.
I've only done traceroute a couple of times, normally when my internet is crawling at a bizarre time of day. I expect some slow down at primetime when everyone is home from work and school, I don't expect it when I'm up at 5-6am.
What I want is to email friends for their recommendations and have someone parse their prose and put it on a map for me. Friends ask friends for recs all the time and its tricky to google each place, put it on the map, figure out if you're near anything recommended when you're on the go. So just take what google already does with the survey forms, stick that in a simple email you can send to friends, and their recommendations automatically get pulled together into hotpot.

I wanted to build this but Hotpot has too much of a head start.
Would be nice to see something like this made for languages that are currently popular (and 'easy'), like Ruby or Python.
That's Portugal, a country with Net Neutrality.
"Tooling" can mean many different things, it can be an over-engineered flow including a dozen of different tools, or it can be a few custom made scripts to glue together html for you... but anyway, it's one time setup, you invest 2 hours of your life once and if done right it can happily run your site for decades, plus if you did it before it's no brainer usually... hell, I even have some old wordpress sites that I haven't touched in 10+ years and they autoupdate and work just fine, even make a few bucks here and there (but it certainly helps a lot if one knows what they're doing when making the sites).
They even fail at protectionism. They try to take on American tech but get swatted away in the courts when they realize they need American tech to be remotely competitive again. There's a reason America is launching Teslas into space while the EU bickers in court
It's not original reporting by the Gateway Pundit. They just happened to rank high on a quick Google search.

Are you actually contesting those two examples? The police officer shot in the head in Las Vegas was international news, as was the 4 police officers shot in St. Louis riots the day before.

[1] - https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/photos-4-police-of...

[2] - https://lasvegassun.com/news/2020/jun/02/officer-shot-during...
> When carried in a front shirt pocket.

How about jacket pocket, how close/strong the magnet needs to be to deactivate the device?

To me it seems that iPhones have gotten big enough to be really impractical to carry in a shirt pocket.
"affecting" isn't the word I'd use there.

"protecting" would be better
I've also watched it, and a few other videos on the channel.
Frankly, his videos just seem to be minimally editorialized recitals of wikipedia pages.

For someone that has made so many videos on nuclear accidents, he seems to have a pretty poor understanding of nuclear radiation and contamination.

His "plainly difficult" disaster scale is all over the place, for example, the texas city disaster, which killed >581 people is rated as a 7, while some smoldering garbage at the "West Lake Landfill", rates just below it as a 6.
Thank you, that's very useful to know.
It may come as a surprise to many, but on high security services such as banks, servers that handle critical data cannot have any build tools installed or usable.

Having said this, I've found limited proof that a particular language is any safer than another as it comes down to safe coding policies and risk mitigation strategies.
> The era of the all-in-one hardware and software solution has been gone for at least the last ten years

Hum, completely backwards; it's the other way around, appliance computer devices are everywhere : NAS, media hub, phones and tablets... it's the customisable computer (the one you can open and extend) which is nearly dead. Everybody buys laptops or small integrated machines like macs mini and the likes.
As an example of how overly optimistic people have been about translation, here's a page on Foresight Exchange (a long-running play-money prediction market) where people have been betting on the probability of high-quality machine translation by 2015, since 1995:

http://www.foresightexchange.com/fx-bin/Claim?claim=Tran

Even up through 2008, most people thought it was going to happen by 2015! Of course the people who were more actively following AI knew that it wouldn't. I probably doubled my fake money on FX, if only I could remember my login.
I recently received a bug report from a client asking for display support for "Central Western Standard Time". (+845, no DST, not officially recognized) It is the result of a compromise between Central and Western timezones in Australia, and is used by four towns and a roadhouse. (total population: ~200)
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Defragging can be useful for some file systems. XFS has one.
While this is a great list, it is subjective, and shouldn't be taken literally. There is no "right way" to do things.