jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There's a decent Microsoft blog post explaining which aspects of browser performance the different benchmarks test:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/09/14/performance-wh...

On SunSpider: "The WebKit SunSpider tests exercise less than 10% of the API’s available from JavaScript and many of the tests loop through the same code thousands of times. This approach is not representative of real world scenarios and favors some JavaScript engine architectures over others."
What about the mobile OS developed by Facebook on all these smartphones?
Is it even possible to have a webserver that is IPv6 only? How many people wouldn't be able to use it?
I'm not driven by ideology. And yes. I'm not a fan and I'll pay them if they provide me a service I need at a time I need it. I'm also not a fan of the government but I pay my taxes. I'm upset with Netflix for cancelling great shows but i pay my subscription fee. I despise my regular commute train line. Hate it to levels you cannot imagine - but guess from where I'm typing this? Google is scum, Facebook is scum, Twitter is scum. it's all crap. Yet still I'll use it until a credible alternative rises up.
You want to call it hypocrisy - by all means do. I wouldn't care less.
Yup; don't mind a little informality, but all this shit and asses and fucks are trying too hard, don't really want to give my money to a project that markets itself as this hypercool.
По-русски it is a "lance". So maybe a bit fallic.
Simple != Easy

Like certain stuff looks simple in ie. golang, there's tons of opinionated design decision behind every nuance of the language. For some, simple would be more like Haskell, while for others bash (until they need to understand old code). Each eye of the beholder can argue either way.

So what is most simple? Compile linux kernel by hand, or automate it? Automation becomes "simpler" (more valuable) the more it is actually used.

The article talks about simplifying, though is more about discipline, something many find hard to find motivation and incentives for in this age of instant gratification!
It used to be that people who bought property became owners. This ownership of private property provided exclusive power over a object, rights to offspring or products produced by it, and governing the use of the object.

DRM eliminates this concept from anything with a computer in it, which in 2015 is most properties of significant worth. The right to govern is retained by he who has the key, which the seller keeps in order to create additional opportunity for revenue. To justify this, the seller argues that this helps reducing the initial cost of the product.

If the property then happens to produces anything of value, say data logs which can be sold, the producer also retains the right to that data by a shrink-wrap license. This is of course insane, as any such schemed used with physical property would be fast put down as fraud. You can't sell a cow, put a 40 page long shrink-wrap license on the gate, and claim thus the milk or offspring are yours. The legal system would not stand for it, especially if it was done large scale with millions of customers.
This is just not true. You can absolutely be cited or arrested for various infractions on the road without actually hurting anyone. The two that come to mind are following too closely (typically not cited until an accident occurs but that's not statutory) and aggressive driving.
They meant to write airline. Ryanair charge for cabin bags, charge for water, charge for printing a boarding pass.

But, you can see the price of a flight: https://www.ryanair.com/
> But, in terms of environmental crimes as discussed in these comments, the reason corporation dump toxic waste in the river is to avoid the clean-up cost - it's an economic crime.

Stealing is also an economic crime then, as they are stealing it because they cannot financially afford it and no one should go to jail but only pay a fine.

Of course not, the reason might be economic but the crime is against much more than the economy and the punishment should be even greater still. Fines do not even register.
Fortunately, the ISOs themselves are served over https:

https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop

links to https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop/thank-you/?version=20.10...
There are people who are low level enough to maybe not have seen this stuff.

But I also saw stuff that, like that letter, I consider to be wrong. The latter refers to criminal actions-- I am not a lawyer so I can't say whether what the company did was illegal or not, but I certainly thought it was wrong.

One thing about that letter that rang true in my experience was that the company does not follow its own internal policies or handbook.

Amazon HR was dishonest to me, deceptive and engaged in what I consider to be fraud.
As the Alex cartoon posted by mauricemir points out, the majority of companies doing stock buybacks are not doing it from profits. They are taking on additional debt through bonds to buy their own stock.

This may look good in the short term, while bond rates are at historic lows, but once they go back to normal levels, the companies will need to sell their own stock to pay the bonds off.

If companies don't want to distribute dividends, the smartest thing for companies to do is invest in additional R&D. This accelerates companies' growth, whereas buybacks just artificially inflate the individual share value.
I really need a curved keyboard, typing on a straight one just feels cramped. Other than that, looks fancy.
The Ulbricht case that went to trial was a different investigative team. [e.g. These agents were not involved]

> The charges stem from the agents’ role in one of the federal investigations into Silk Road; a separate Manhattan-based investigation ultimately led to the filing of charges against the website’s founder, Ross W. Ulbricht, who was convicted last month on numerous counts. The website was also shut down by the authorities.

> The Baltimore investigation resulted in an indictment of Mr. Ulbricht on a charge of murder for hire, but that case has remained pending and the evidence in support of it was kept out of the New York trial, apparently because of the investigation into the agents.

However, I'm pretty sure the "murder for hire" trial is going to die quietly because of these agents.
I think part of the reason there's a current boom in demand for startup investments is that returns elsewhere, like interest on simple savings accounts, are essentially zero, at least in the US. Add to this the fact that for software-centric startups so many of the costs have dropped (including developers, if you go with offshore devs.) Plus add to this all the good free info being shared on the web about startups and investment. It all adds up. I think most of those factors won't go away, except the near zero interest rates on savings.
"Any wary developer" ranks up there with "a sufficiently clever compiler" among the True Scotsmen of our industry. I don't think you're right; empirically, unsafe SQL is a very big issue, and the places where a QA team is unlikely to stumble across injection vectors (ie, any vector where the string "O'Malley" doesn't pop up an error to paste into a ticket) are worse still, since teams don't find them.
Except it's well-known that humans read more quickly if lines of text are kept short (around 6" or so). The height of a page doesn't significantly affect reading speed (ignoring scrolling). So it makes more sense, for reading, to have a narrow, tall monitor. (This is why LaTeX defaults to wide margins BTW, and I'm pretty sure this is why Kindles etc. are portrait-oriented.)
It's Paris, man. You don't need recommendations. It's mind-blowing, sensory overload everywhere. Just walk down the street.
...tech-centric news forums?
There is a long discussion at http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/e7nmb/reddit_th... , including responses from reddit admins.
There's always the Turing test.
My favorite is still Flea's Knees: http://typophile.com/node/61920

I can't find it any more, but I found another once which made characters in 2x3 pixels, relying on the positions of subpixels. Wasn't the most readable, but you could still make out what was written. That was the smallest.
This for example:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-conf...
What has then now become the biggest name that is "not (yet) on iTunes"?
You’re not taking into account the weight of those batteries or their cost as components. A bigger phone might not just have a bigger battery, it might have a bigger cheaper battery with the same capacity. Only looking at the capacity doesn’t tell you anything useful about charge to weight.
A lot of the so-called Vlang controversy appears to have been disguised allegiance and competition between the newer languages. Looks more like various people defending their interests. Languages like Odin, Zig, Nim, Crystal are far older than Vlang. When Vlang came along and got a lot of sudden popularity and funding, looks like various competitors sought to bash it and hoped it would disappear.

In addition, such detractors were acting like a brand new programming language would be a finished polished product from day 1, when that was not the case for their far older languages. For instance, Odin and Crystal are older than Vlang, but has been surpassed by it in various respects.

And don't get me wrong, I like Odin. That's because Odin is among the newer breed of languages that have continued the trend in which Go started of non class-based OOP and more generalized OO, that are contenders to be alternatives to C/C++ (like Zig).

In the case of Vlang, it has clearly been developing rapidly and consistently, and continually gaining in popularity. Simply looking at their releases (and release schedule) along with their documentation (which various newer contenders are lacking in even that), will show a lot of the controversy is without merit or distortions of language development reality.

https://github.com/vlang/v/releases
https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md
https://modules.vlang.io/
Isn't there the spark rendering engine that can be used independent of meteor? https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki/Spark

I haven't tried it, but it seems like cleaner approach than cutting the patient in half.
That should work out at ~£4.5MM profit, after PayPal takes their cut and misc. bills are paid (e.g. bandwidth.) Not bad for a one-man company (until recently, anyway.)
Somebody downvoted you instead of replying. I upvoted, but looks like the Stackoverflow-like algo pg has didn't count my vote. Or the person who downvoted you has a posse.

Anyway, here's a web page with an extract from the US federal court: http://www.healthfreedom.info/Federal_Reserve_Fraud.htm

"Examining the organization and function of the Federal Reserve Banks, and applying the relevant factors, we conclude that the Reserve Banks are not federal instrumentalities for purposes of the FTCA, but are independent, privately-owned and locally controlled corporations." [Lewis vs. U.S., 680 F. 2d 1239, 1241]"

See also: http://seekingalpha.com/article/125092-grand-illusion-the-fe...
If there's one thing I can suggest to any prospective or current parent, it's that if you child is smart, clever or exceptional in any field, just love them. Love them with all your heart and soul.

I was a 'gifted' kid, and by many standards people would say that I had a good childhood, but I didn't. My childhood was a mixture of pressure, bullying and failure (i.e. getting A's instead of A*'s). My parents did the best they could, but as Philip Larkin said, "They fuck you up, your parents do".

So please. If you have a 'gifted' or 'talented' child, let them know that you love them no matter what, that they don't always have to come first, and that happiness is more important that intelligence.
You're submitting that marketing an html5 app is any easier than an app store app? The app store is orders of magnitude smaller that the web. Talk about being buried.
The fact that he wrote it actually wins him points in my book but it's not relevant to this discussion. Kudos to the Joyent team, i've been curious about dtrace for ages but never looked into it thinking i couldn't use it anyway (only use debian based distros at work) - maybe now is the time :)
And before it was the new Wall Street in 2015, it was once before the new Wall Street circa 1999, the Frank Quattrone era.
It's interesting that you suppose the AU and US results are likely to be different. As an USian I do not perceive that the system very often fails smart, motivated, hardworking people, healthcare and education regimes notwithstanding.
And, even earlier (also with excellent commentary and occasional rebuttal): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1554656
Posts like this will get you banned on HN. Please don't post nationalistic or personal attacks.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yeah, when I made this program two years ago I never intended it to be taken this seriously. I added a big disclaimer to the readme.
Roundabouts are great for road vehicle throughput, but are death machines for pedestrians.
If you had thought about them, you might have answers for them!
Finimize | Full-Stack Engineer, Product Engineer | London, UK | Full-time | Early-stage | ONSITE

We're building a platform to equip our users with the tools and information they need to become smarter investors.

We now have a global community of over 1 million people, and have been featured several times by Apple as one of their favourite apps as well as Forbes, Wired, Monocle.

As well as being backed by top VCs and high-profile investors, our CEO was previously featured in Forbes 30 under 30 following a successful exit of a business at the age of 26.

We’re looking for smart Engineers who are motivated by building the best product they possibly can. Join a strong, high-impact team and learn how to scale a subscription business as well as the tech behind it.

Tech stack: React/React Native, Relay, GraphQL, Django/Python, Kubernetes, SQL (100% match not necessary)

Apply here https://angel.co/company/finimize-com/jobs?role=Engineering or get in touch directly: henry@finimize.com

- Henry Galbraith, Head of Talent
It's pretty easy to move to (most) European countries really. It's nothing like what you're hearing from people trying to move to the US.

Most will just let you stay to work (visa/residence permit) with relatively little bureaucracy. As long as you have a job they won't bother you. There's some other requirements (qualified professional, certain income), but as a software developer you won't have any trouble. Your employer will probably help you.

If you want to get a passport usually you'll need to have found work, lived in the country for a number of years, and pass various tests for your language ability and such.

You will then likely also have to renounce your old citizenship.

Specifying the country you wish to move to and where you're coming from would allow people here to give more helpful advice.
Didn't think about ETL jobs. Thanks !
Using physical checks/cheques to pay for rent what means that you need to physically go to a bank, or send it via post. It takes days if not weeks to clear

Lack of same day/instant money transfers between bank accounts so everyone uses paypal which is not a real bank and it can block your money for 180 days for their "investigations"
If I take your apple, scan it in my StarTrek replicator, then put it back, I've not stolen anything. At worst, I've borrowed it without your consent. The fact that I can use my replicator to make as many apples as I want, which are just like the one I borrowed from you, is not stealing.

Not saying it wouldn't be wrong. But it's decidedly different from stealing.

Likewise, getting a copy of a copyrighted movie with Bittorent through the Pirate Bay is not really stealing. It may still be wrong, but since it does not deprive the original owner from their own copy of the movie, it's different from stealing.

In general, non-rival goods should be treated with different rules and laws than rival goods. Turning them back into rival goods like copyright does strikes me as a very bad idea. Artificial scarcity is… non optimal to say the least.
> I agree with the Scrum Master suggestion, my Scrum Master pretty much just creates meeting invites for 40 hours a week.

Same here! Scrum masters are secretaries on managers' salaries. They're the true winners of the corporate game.
That would be logical for USSR culture, but it's completely at odds with AK family reputation — these rifles are said to be one very durable with minimum maintenance.
Are they ready for what? I had no problem instructing a turtle around to draw a line on a screen with Logo or building a number guessing game. Nobody is talking about teaching 7 year olds Haskell.

To go with your calculus example, we don't teach 11 year olds calculus, but we do teach them things that they will need to know later in order to do calculus. We expect them to practice those skills again and again until they are easy.

You expose your kids to things, and hope they'll like some of them. That's just how it works. You just have to hope that they end up liking some of those things you've exposed them to, or at least gaining enough from them that was worthwhile. I know I got dropped off at soccer class plenty of times, even though I fucking hate soccer
This is an uncomfortable suggestion, considering that in 2020, there were mass protests about relevant deaths.
Ruled out repeatedly by multiple individuals who would need to sign on. Whoever you heard that from was either misled or trying to mislead you. Biden is one of the staunchest institutionalists in government today.
A question to consider is that the courts found @realDonaldTrump was official government communication a couple of years ago. As such is it appropriate that a private company can shut it down?
They need to balance this against the impact this would have on their long-term ability to minimize taxes for the wealthy.
I can't justify and support these actions in the past few days. It's time for us to opt-out of these scuffles. There exists the middle. Resist the temptation to join either side.
There was a survey! Many news reporters were on site, interviewing people who entered the grounds. They talked about how they were taking the government back, how they'd like to get their hands on Congressional leaders, and how they'd be back with rifles on January 20th if Congress didn't do the right thing. Without random sampling, there's no easy way to know if it was 20% or 80% of the insurrectionaries thinking that way, but even 20% of such a big crowd leaves enough people to do some serious damage 2 weeks from now.
>They were never part of public debate. They were just talking amongst themselves, showing each other what they wanted to hear, and validating their own beliefs in a downwards spiral towards eventual extremism.

Isn't the exact opposite true as well then? If one side is siloed, by definition the other side must be in an opposite silo. You've taken it upon yourself to define that your side is in the "public debate" and therefore somehow isn't just "talking amongst themselves". Don't you see the issue here? Left Twitter/Reddit/Facebook absolutely exists, and they are not meaningfully conversing with the other side.

And, if anything, having a sitting president on your side should by definition mean that you are "part of the public debate", since everyone at least hears the president's words (and especially Trump's).
Actually, the unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud, the frivolous legal challenges to the election results, the fomenting of rage and grievance among Trump supporters, and the attack on the Capitol building were attempts to silence and overturn the votes of the majority of voters, who elected Biden to be president.
Lisp is blub. It ignores Noam Chomsky and a large amount of research and development in linguistics and CS that goes way back to the 1950's.

Sometimes I wonder if the MIT CS department was so hot on LISP in the 1970's as a way to spite Noam Chomsky for biting the hand that feeds them (DOD research $.)

Funny, modern work on machine understanding of language is pointing more and more to the primitive "markov chain" sort of models that Chomsky rejected in the 1950s; simple experiments prove that humans don't have recursive (LISP-like) mental models of language (or anything else) -- actually, ALGOL-type languages, much closer to natural languages, are a much better match for the human brain.
This doesn't make sense at all. If your site isn't readable, or it's too distracting, maybe you should spend some time figuring out why, rather than just slapping another button on there.
I've heard of people filling physical carts with (non-perishable) goods and abandoning them in the store to protest against a supermarket chain. This makes me wonder whether a similar online tactic might be effective.
I'm not sure I buy your distinction between "natural superstitions" and "religion". Can you go into more detail about why, for instance, the quite elaborate mythologies of the various Australian Aboriginal tribes don't count as religions?
49 weeks worth of steak, presumably...
It's Apple, they're going to do whatever makes their product look as good as it can possibly look. If it means that the 3rd party devs have to create another icon size (gasp!), then so be it. You're not really required to, though. You can just resize your iPhone icon to the iPad, iPhone 4, etc sizes and be done with it. It will not look so good, though.
Thinking from a life form/species/creature point, this process you described looks quite artificial.
Does the queue update while you're sitting on the queue page? I was at #2 the whole time, and then it gave me a "time's up" message.
I am absolutely loving this site. I am not normally a list person but I am going to try. If they ever add collaboration then I will be all over this.
I keep trying new tools when they come out, but find myself always snapping back to Notational Velocity.

Workflowy reminds me of OmniOutliner, they share a very similar, hierarchical approach. Sadly they also share similar problems; a GUI that's too slow for my fingers and too complex for my little brain.

The GUI-complexity stems from the enforced hierarchy. Indenting stuff seems nice at first, and makes it look tidy. But after a while I'd find myself constantly futzing with the indentation in the futile attempt to structure what doesn't want to be structured.

And finally workflowy has the added drawback of living inside the browser - which is not nearly as close to my fingertips as a native app.

For me NV is ultimately the better approach. I can not praise it highly enough. Think: "full-text search for your brain". Try it out if you haven't yet.
I'm not sure there's much of a problem to be solved. The customer can already refuse delivery if the packaging is damaged. If the package is fine, but the contents are damaged, you can still file a claim and (after going through the inspection process) collect on the insurance.

I don't think that having proof of some particular level of shock during shipment would make much of a difference - regardless of shock all that really matters is if there was any damage to the contents and whether they were properly packaged in the first place.
I like the idea of this, but there's not an Android version of MobileOrg at the moment - so I'll hold off trying it for a while.
I had trouble understanding exactly what SAP did, so I found an article on the story: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/11/15/oracle-v-sap-a-silico...
It's a top-down approach. The question is, can your ideas be subdivided into small(er) tasks?
hehe - my first comment when I saw this post was "nice, Intel caught up with Smalltalk and Erlang." :-)