jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Of course it's really early so you have to be very careful as to making judgements at this point, but if it really is pilot murder/suicide there is some (limited) precedence:-

* An EgyptAir flight in 1999 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990

* A Silkair (Singapore airline) flight in 1997 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SilkAir_Flight_185

There is debate in both flights as to whether it was murder/suicide, but the evidence is totally overwhelming that it was. Horrific but thankfully massively rare (as you might expect.) I do hope this isn't the cause here :(
Another post about Go where the Rust crowd comes out to play. I cannot wait for your language to stabilize so that you will no longer feel the emotional need to bash on golang :)
Interesting. It is the polar opposite for me.
What do you refer, specifically?

Based on "application's files all over the hierarchy" it seems you talk about configuration files (data files can be spread all over, in any operating system; binaries in Linux reside in a few directories (/opt and /usr)).

If you refer to gconf/dconf, AFAIK they require a specialized tool but they're not scattered (you interact through the tool, after all, so they're centralized).

Possibly you refer to the Freedesktop configuration files. Those are definitely scattered, and some concepts are very obscure (the defaults system is indeed terrible, as it's scattered, and it has different concepts of default). However, they don't require specialized tools - in my experience, they're always text files.
If you are using Classic Mac OS, Classilla has the most up-to-date SSL/TLS support (with both SHA2 certificate and SNI support!)
Excel really has no equal, unfortunately.
Add in Lync. After seeing a demo and getting our small office on Lync, I can't imagine going back to other crappy PBXes and their version of "Unified" communications/messaging. Most of them thing adding a toolbar to Outlook means it's a solved problem.

Being able to screen share, conference call, regular calling/transferring/etc. in addition to secure IM and all that - it's really slick.
I'm not sure in 1849 there were a lot of banks that one would trust that kind of funds with in gold rush areas in CA. I'd imagine banks were much less robust than they are now, and even now I believe that 750k is > the FDIC insurance limits.
I don't see any contradiction. SecureRandom uses urandom where it's available, and the next best alternative where it's not. Again, I'd like to know what your suggested solution is. The way I see it, you can either:

1) Don't write cross-platform code

2) Use the language implementation

3) Write your own cross-platform code

Assuming (1) isn't an option, it comes down to using SecureRandom or writing your own version of SecureRandom, which strikes me as plain crazy.
Ack in Project works fine in 10.5, I use it there every day...
Thanks for reminding me but I haven't really tested it from any mobile device.
Surely it's the 'level' of reproduction that counts? You're argument is like "what if Stephen King had a copyright on characters flipping out and attacking their families" - clearly, that would be ridiculous and no-one would argue in its favour. However, if someone made a scene-for-scene remake of The Shining with different actors, most people would think some sort of copyright permission would be required.
Jeffrey Zeldman chats with Jen Simmons about privacy, big data, and the need for designers to pay close attention to ethical questions.
Once I fasted for 3 days, only drinking water. By day two I was pretty weak, afterwards I recovered pretty quickly. The point being, it shouldn't be to difficult to do if you aren't going to need to be too active.
With GPS, the hard part isn't figuring out where you are, it's telling the rest of the world where you are.
Yes. Url changed from http://theweek.com/article/index/274046/what-wealth-does-to-....
Out of that list:

I found "Predictably Irrational" to repeat a lot of the content about biases from TFTS. Its well written and not a bad book by any means but I regretted the time investment after TFTS.

I found "Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work" to be very practical aiming to giving some real tools to use some of which I hadn't come across before.
I see things differently. I see Esperanto as a remarkable success story. It has survived wars and revolutions and economic crises and continues to attract people to learn and speak it. Esperanto works. I’ve used it in about seventeen countries over recent years. I recommend it to anyone, as a way of making friendly local contacts in other countries.
How about risk-taking Spaniards currently living in Mexico? ;)

I am building a startup that will cater to the Latin American countries, and while I would love to move to the SF area, I think that it would hurt my business, since currently I have no interest in the American market.
Probably a frenchman nostalgic of the Republic of Ezo :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ezo

Yes the Last Samurai had a kernel of truth, but it was not about an American guy, it was a bunch of French officers who deserted to help the Shogun in exchange of him proclaiming a republic. It has all the elements of an epic movie, including a desperate boarding of an ironclad by a samurai-French force that was repelled by a gatling gun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Miyako_Bay
@OP - this sounds pretty frustrating, but similar to the experience I had in SF technical interviewing circa 2013.

And now that I'm an interviewer, I've made it a project to promote questions and processes that make people feel (1) they had a chance to demonstrate real skills that are important to doing the job (2) they experienced what it's like to work on my team and feel excited about it.

Happy to chat in more detail if you're interested, even if our firm is not the right fit for what you're after... contact info is in my profile.
My point is that there are couple of problems/unknowns with UBI:

1. Where do we get the money from?

2. What will be the long term effects of UBI and does it constitute progress compared to the current system.

I have no idea whether the math with Geolib checks out but even if it does, it only answers the first question. I just find it very amusing that UBI is aimed at fixing the inequality, yet its proponents are somehow oblivious to the obvious - UBI by design is increasing the inequality. UBI means the top 10% by income/wealth will receive exactly the same distributions as the bottom 10%. Jeff Bezos will be getting the same UBI as the bum on the street. How is that progress?

Whatever your ideology is, I don't think Jeff Bezos should have any fundamental inalienable right to land rent/tax.
It depends on how you do it but generally speaking, the break even point is “will I be generating pages faster than they are accessed?” Eg if I have a site like Wired.com with a long tail of old articles, it might be that by generating it, I refresh old articles 500x daily for the 500 new story creation and edits, even though the average old article gets less than one view per day.
As a remote engineer these days, not sure a gaming session with my team is what I need on top of work. I do my own gaming, and have pretty different preferences from everyone else. We do physically get together 4x a year, which is honestly more then enough to develop strong social bonds.

One thing my company did for a while was a “random coffee chat”. You could opt in and get matched up with someone, and basically chat for 30 minutes about whatever once a month. This was awesome, because I actually met very different roles at the company, like sales engineers or the head of HR. Not exactly the “social time” of happy hour but almost more valuable
That name may have somewhat unfortunate connotations in Italy…
Java is still undisputed in the enterprise. Node.js was a contender but lost steam. May be .net once it becomes truly platform neutral have a chance to take on Java. Until then most probably it will remain widely popular.
> Fair enough. But that doesn’t really change my argument?

I think the point (which bears repeating) is that suspects are not criminals until proven so in a court, and it's important to be careful in our language, especially in our modern times where the court of public opinion operates swiftly and without due process.
For DoH there are some problems in addition to what poitrus said.

In order to make an XHR to 1.1.1.1 you need to be running javascript. But the whole goal of these CNAME and other evasions is to run javascript (aka not get blocked by browser extensions and such). So they already need to achieve their goal before they can make the XHR. Since they've already achieved their goal, why are they bothering with additional complexity?

Adblocking browser extensions could probably block XHR DoH requests that have adcompany.com in the query parameters.

This isn't really specific to DoH. Any database that can be queried by an XHR could be used instead of DoH for this purpose.
Just wondering, unless you’re doing something illegal or are targeted by the government and your money is at risk of seizure, why would you keep it in crypto with all its associated risks instead of in a bank? Banks are highly regulated and so can’t just run away with your money.
I concur. I've never really found it useful.
Especially when said editor costs only $55. That's nothing compared to the cost of a lot of other commercial editors.
The funny thing is, I actually switched to using a Mac as a full-time development platform specifically for TextMate, and a few months after doing so, I discovered the joys of Vim and haven't looked back.

There was a time where I would have cared about TextMate 2, but it's long gone.
I wouldn't call it bullshit. The piece focused on purely online information networks so I really don't think there's anything devious or subversive going on here as your comment implies.
Obviously I must point out the existence of http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/ which claims to have considerably more languages and variations and as such obviously wins this unwritten competition of site-with-more-implementations-of-classic-marching-song-reproducing-code.
This would be useless for the same reason that "Gas Out" boycotts are useless.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18492185/

The only way to make an impact is to fly less, not to shift your flying dates around to avoid a given day.
I could see this site taking off, it's like FML but it targets a niche and looks like it will be providing custom videos for users. Like GrahamH said the contrast is a bit harsh.
The nav should use text instead of images.
That's great! I wish you success!
I would be interested in why it is considered a terrible practice.

That it's slow might be a good point but for performance critical stuff I use D and for larger web project Ruby on Rails (where performance is a whole different topic). PHP is my tool of choice for small and compact web projects and since I try to keep them as simple as possible performance isn't that much of a concern. Anyway I did a small benchmark and was a bit surprised:

direct access: 0.276369s
getter access: 0.540416s
property overloading access: 0.825164s

Of course I can publish the benchmark source if someone is interested. It basically accesses a property 1000000 times adds the returned value to a sum (so that it's not optimized away… just in case).

The overhead looks ok for me. 1 out of 5 properties can be redirected via property overloading before its performance is worse than getter methods. I don't really know much about the internals of large PHP projects but I you can avoid most "empty" getter and setter methods and handle the view exceptions with property overloading performance seems fine for me.

Unexpected behavior might be a problem. However not existing properties still return NULL. The only difference is that no notice is generated… and that can be easily done with one line at the end of the __get() and __set() functions. Management of "raw" property overloading can be troublesome for a larger number of properties. However you can simply add some runtime reflection to call a corresponding getter function. But in that case I would start to think about the interface and if I might have done something wrong (in regards to encapsulation).

Having spend much time in the Ruby world I really like the kind of interfaces you can build with property overloading (like SimpleXML). For me more fluid handling like that is worth the performance cost.
Lets see who submits the shortest code to do the same in bash, perl, etc? and how short we can go? Let the competition begin...
I definitely see what you're saying, and that's a very good analogy. I guess the difference for me is that Wagner's music and anti-semitism were two mostly separate things -- his music wasn't being used to promote his prejudices. On the other hand, the LDS's SEO, by its very purpose, is promoting their ideology.

I just find this casual discussion about the self-promotion of a group which at its very core believes that friends of mine are inferior, sinful, damaged goods because of the way that they were born a bit upsetting. Even if SEO practise is a separate topic from their scripture, I think that this kind of discussion attributes to them an undeserved level of legitimacy.
""Google" is not a person/individual."

Neither was "Edison".
The building is a massive colocation site the size of a city block. It seems right up Google's alley.
Check out http://www.arewefastyet.com for daily benchmarks against Chrome and Safari/WebKit; it definitely shows something different, and my experience is also different; Firefox 4 is about even with the others now. Perhaps you have a misconfiguration somewhere?
> One of the worst mistakes in modern government is pretending that the people 'serving' have more rights and privileges then everybody else.

The correct term to use here is "powers". The people have "rights". The people delegate, through the constitution, certain "powers" to the government. The government, in turn, delegates some of those powers to the police. The police do not have "rights". The government does not have "rights". The government and police have "powers", and are supposed to exercise those powers within specified limits.

What is under discussion here is the limits of those powers.
Yes. :(

Hard to believe it was 20 years ago.

And that we're finally coming full circle back to it.

Shit, I'm getting old.
Do you see being independent of Airbnb as a value add in that even if they did "move up the stack" so to speak and copy you users would still prefer you as they are posting to multiple rental platforms?
It did, didn't it? faangs have been moving development to the Midwest for at least 20years.
This is super cool. Thanks!
Do you have evidence that they are not? By all means, provide the evidence. If Yellen has lied, demonstrate it and let due process take its course.
Not exactly CSV but close.
The good thing is now you get to see the...less than optimal code that reads this file: https://github.com/GTAmodding/re3/blob/master/src/vehicles/H...
People shy away from this, but public sector employees already have huge advantages:

* The jobs are largely undesirable, so threatening to quit is viable

* The jobs are public facing (for the major unions like police and teachers) so they can rally the public on their behalf

* These professions have extreme leeway for "work to rule" (doing the minimum requiremed) that applies pressure on employer without violating employment agreements.

* note: When most people debate unions, they mean collective bargaining obligations, not free association "minority" unions. A minority union can still speak up for its membership and provide financial support for victims of management.
> "You went to that school huh, are you an idiot?"

Which schools have this reputation?
The Earth might not be flat, but it isn't round either. That one is a lot more wrong than the other matters little if you're trying to land a spaceship.
No, it was probably the anthropologist Jonathan Marks, in his 1995 book entitled, curiously enough, Human Biodiversity.
When we had satellite TV (more than a decade ago), one of the conditions was to keep the receiver plugged into the phone line. If it wasn't plugged in, there'd be a $5 surcharge on the bill that month.

I figured this was because they were collecting data on viewership habits. Each customer profile must have been worth $5 or more, based on the surcharge amount.

(The phone line was useful for other things too, like ordering PPV/on-demand/premium channels through the menus directly, as opposed to calling them in through a 1-800 number.)
I used a ShivaPlug and part of it melted. I was glad when I had planned for that by putting it on a low risk surface - it came with a cord option, and I was using that partly because I also don't like the strain it was likely to induce on the outlet.
> would you consider it problematic to learn about, say, a philosopher, preacher, guru, etc. who was cited by a bunch of people like Sam Altman, Paul Graham, etc.?

Potentially, yes. What does the biographic information add to the story?

If this hypothetical philosopher were influencing people under a pseudonym, then their real identity is important only if it somehow interacts with their influence. Maybe there's a conflict of interest; maybe there's some sort of fraud (i.e. it'd be remarkable of Alexander were not in fact a psychiatrist); maybe the person is otherwise independently notable in a surprising way.

The Times article was written from the perspective that Alexander's blog is harmful, dangerous, or risky because of its message. That perspective is neither strengthened nor weakened by hearing irrelevant details about the messenger, so in a publication always short on column-inches I'd think that the balance of convenience is in preserving the pseudonymity.
You really shouldn't judge people (positively or negatively) by what their ancestors fought for or didn't fight for, especially under oppressive regimes.

Because it's ironic that you'd mention Germany, a country where the majority either supported or was silent as one of the most brutal regimes rose to power. It took armies of foreign powers to come in and change that.

Sometimes people speak up and sometimes they don't. The math is complicated. Do they think it will actually have an impact? What do they stand to lose? How desperate are they? The Arab Spring showed that sometimes all it takes is one or two events to switch people from being silent and passive to being vocal and active. Unfortunately, that didn't turn out too well and the repercussions will favor more passivity.
I am surprised CMA-ES is not included. It is the state of the art gradient free optimization algorithm last I checked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMA-ES
Functional and object orientation are programming idioms not properties of languages. Few people would argue that Common Lisp is Object Oriented...or at least argue that it is successfully in an online context among Common Lisp users. And while it is easy to argue that Common Lisp is functional in those contexts, it is full of direct paths to mutating state...and even mutating the state of the runtime environment in ways that would make C blush.

The advantage of SQL is that it facilitates a declarative idiom that maps well onto the relational algebra. But due to its Turing Completeness [1], the OOP and FP tarpits are possible in theory.

None of which changes the big point of the article, what people say about programming languages is what they want to say. People invested in Java as the one true choice will ignore SQL (and people invested in FP will call SQL a FP language).

And everyone ignores that it's idioms all the way down.

Until you get to the Von Neumann architecture.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/7580013
It's unfortunate that her options are "close" and "extend Tock a line of credit which they clearly don't deserve".
It looks like a lot of people misunderstand that this isn't a union with collective bargaining power over pay.

The union that has been formed is called a minority/members-only union. You can read more about them below.

>> https://workercenters.com/labors-loophole/what-is-a-minority...

The article posted points this out, but unlike most unions this one wasn't formed due to economic reasons. It was formed for social issues that Google isn't addressing or is purporting.

The current HN discussion seems to all veer towards collective bargaining rights, but that's too early to discuss. Don't get me wrong that this is a first step to collective bargaining; however, that will only ever be if current membership gets big enough and they get certified by the NLRB. That isn't an easy feat in the US and will probably take years to happen!

Right now, it would be more interesting to discuss if this type of union will allow employees to have a a real say in Google's direction as a business on what projects they will work on and which clients they will accept.

Google can't do anything about this union because it's considered protected concerted activity.

>> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_concerted_activity
My (businessish) headset has a hardware mute button.

Given that a lot of business voice chat is essentially phone calls (rather than group meetings), it makes some sense that toggle predominates UI designs.
From a user perspective, Android has gotten more locked down. This in that while previously one could access the file system directly, now on has to go via a sub-system that can deny or hide access arbitrarily.
"part of the money from sponsorship goes to donation"

Can you elaborate on what part, and to whom specifically?
Surely, having her images spread without her consent and being called a whore upon requesting for them to be removed isn't hacking.

The pictures in the video are also not the ones she was embarrassed about. She explains why she had them taken in the video.
Did you watch the video? Do your parents know ur a slut. is a pretty nasty message to send to someone.
Viennese Actionism could be repeated with a good shock value in many cities today. It's vile but very effective in breaking tradition and creating a fresh start.

I am not convinced we have a lack of shock potential. People just seem to have less need for shock ... and probably too much cable news.
If indeed the claim is true (I have not verified it), it is possible that the malware creators don't offer up these popups to Google's bots.
It's certainly possible to praise a language without it suiting your needs.
I can't speak to the technical merits of either language, but something can be said about choosing a language with a lot of hype as opposed to one that's hated in the community. From a recruitment perspective, choosing Go may be more favorable in a lot of developers eyes.

The problem is that the 'HN community' has IMO a pretty small overlap with the overall software development community.

Hype in the former does not equate to hype in the latter.
Java might be one of the few languages for which there isn't an immediately compelling sell.

For scripting languages like Python or Ruby you can sell out-of-the-box performance and concurrency benefits.

For lower-level compiled languages you can sell the ease of cross-platform binary compilation and direct compatibility with C.

The only thing I can think of that might be interesting to someone with a monolithic Java codebase is the syntactical simplicity and speed of testing / deploying. But if you have such a codebase that's a major prospect for potentially minimal benefit. Not to mention you have a much larger set of developers to choose from.

edit: weirdest downvotes ever
I think it depends on how you see and interpret the friendliness. In some cultures it's not so much faking it as it is fulfilling a (n expected) role. So it is actually a sincere execution of a role and not fake --on the other hand outside this role their personality can be quite different.
when/where is Go faster than Python?