jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Doesn't the same logic apply -- that new upstart is unproven and is essentially paying people to use their platform. The last thing your burgeoning new business needs is trying to debug issues on a brand new platform, you can't even hire industry experts to help because there are no industry experts.

So if you want to work on building your business and not debug cloud provider issues, avoid the new upstart.
They host the 'GreatFire' org and other software to bypass their censorship firewall.
I think the point the parent was making was that using terminology like "scary" or "boring" for technological choices is fundamentally an abrogation of responsibility. It's cargo cult programming. Good programming, intentional engineering, is one where people are cognizant of the risks and other tradeoffs of different languages, frameworks, designs, etc.

It shouldn't be surprising that an organization that opted out of a discussion on technology stacks would also ultimately opt out of discussing algorithmic complexity as well, it speaks to a lack of sophistication and maturity at the institutional level.
Thanks for this. I ended up coming up with this as a shell script on OSX:

#!/bin/sh
mvim -f -c"au VimLeave * !open -a Terminal" $@

The subcommand makes sure that when MacVim exits, focus returns right to the terminal I was in before MacVim opened.
Author here. Gladly will answer any questions and would love to take some feedback!
Yeah that's what I was doing for almost 5 years before I found Ansible. Now I even don't bother to put a CD. I go to my VPS provider and add a VPS then add my key and run an ansible playbook, which installs whatever I want, the way I wanted it.

The thing with package managers is that it get's boring to do everything all over again for a large amount of servers. Also your brain memory does not have a reliable version control. You need to keep why and how you do certain stuff on your server somewhere else. First thing that comes to your mind is a shell script and people are already using something better ( ansible, puppet, etc. ). Now, with this article, I see that there is something even better than this.
Maybe they stopped the spread in Hubei, but suppose just one infected person travels to another heavily populated province. What is the contingency plan for this obviously dangerous scenario?
For some reason I never thought about using the rational and civilized behavior of people in war-torn areas of WWII (specifically the UK & US) as a response to these kinds of comments. The people then really were ok with things like rationing (mostly of certain types of materials for war use).

There seems to be a large number of people who almost look forward to having their favorite (post-)apocalyptic movie/video-game becoming reality. Let's not pretend like there are not far too many people getting a minor degree of pleasure from thinking about how they will "out-maneuver" their fellow man in some sort of "apocalyptic end-game". The plethora of zombie shows, movies, and games probably does not help with this either.

But, your WWII anecdote inspired me to tell these people: "be more like your grandparents who remained heroic and civilized in the face of a purely chaotic and even evil era."
Awful policy. The fed needed to hold off on this and the previous rate cut until Congress finally passed a useful bill. Powell had all the power to force Congress to act and he's blown it again.
It's the same reason people climb over fences and past signs at the Grand Canyon for a photo and end up falling: they've never experienced mortal danger and and have been so coddled by modern society that they don't even know what it looks like.
Zika was first diagnosed years ago, vaccines were developed years ago. There is still not a single one approved anywhere on Earth. I truly think you have very little understanding of how the regulatory environment for vaccines work.

Perhaps read up on previous virus pandemics a bit before commenting?
The FDA just approved one, and the company says it will ramp up production fast, but as far as I know it's not available in quantity yet.

https://www.biospace.com/article/releases/20-20-bioresponse-...

The FDA has given states the authority to approve antibody tests on their own.

https://globalbiodefense.com/2020/03/16/fda-pandemic-respons...
I think the idea that asymptomatic cases are the norm is well accepted and widespread already.

It still begs the question of why the severity varies so much.
Only works if you are the sole copyright holder, and not using code from someone else.

> https://github.com/peter-iakovlev/Telegram/issues/157

> http://meta.ath0.com/2012/02/05/apples-great-gpl-purge/

> https://thenextweb.com/dd/2019/06/04/why-does-macos-catalina...
I believe that's incorrect, although I cannot find the article that I read recently: One of the oddities of modern America is that one party promotes idealism strongly (or it's antagonistic synonym, ideology, if you like) and many Americans strongly identify themselves (and vote) by idealism. The other party has been more pragmatic, and apparently a significant majority of Americans like the specific policies. A chunk of them just don't vote for their preferred policies.
In my experience most long-time advanced OS X learn all of the somewhat hidden keyboard and mousing short cuts of which there are many. Most advanced users don't directly improve or replace the Finder with more GUI mousing tools such as Path Finder, XtraFinder and the like.

Instead we use tools that keep our hands on the keyboard and automate workflows. I have been a user of LaunchBar for over 15 years since OS X Beta. Other people use Alfred or Quicksilver for the same reasons. Any of these apps will address most of the issues people have mentioned in these comments. Each of these apps has a slightly different focus and style so it is worth testing each to see which fits you the best.

For the few things that LaunchBar can't do, or for much more complicated workflow automation, I use Keyboard Maestro.

* http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html

* http://www.alfredapp.com

* http://qsapp.com

* http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/

Fun Note: you can still download versions of LaunchBar back to pre-OS X NEXTSTEP.

EDIT: immediately after posting, I saw this review in my RSS stream. They pick Alfred, but discuss the rest. http://thesweetsetup.com/apps/our-favorite-os-x-launcher/
No problem. Also, the shop wouldn't gain anything in the long run if they were telling lies. We measure conversion over multiple sales and that shop would see poorer performance for that message compared to our control group.
As someone who is working on an artificial life simulation, I'm drooling at the chance to use this.
I've been following the development and growing maturity of MuseScore for years. This is a big milestone. In the past years, we've seen a weakening and decline of the leading proprietary programs in this space, with Finale (http://www.sibeliusblog.com/news/layoffs-and-reorganization-...) and Sibelius (http://www.sibeliusblog.com/people/avids-michael-ost-speaks-...) suffering from lack of investment, reorganisation, and a growing aversion to vendor lock-in (http://blog.adamspiers.org/2013/02/25/music-industry-learns-...). In that context, it's a huge win for libre software to have MuseScore running strong, with the best release ever, and other recent milestones like the completion of the Open Well-Tempered Clavier project.
Interestingly, the author of the 110 point comment has no submissions and only one comment - that one.
> Super useful for sorting a list.

Unless you have some special script/filter for specific sorting of lists, then why not just use ':sort' instead of ':!sort' (i.e. the Vim sort command, rather than piping it to /usr/bin/sort)?
I don't know if it's intentional, but I would expand your scope beyond complaints. If your math is good you could have a very nice reputation tracker and analytics package in general.
It's a fairly short game, much shorter than their Doom Resurrection which sold for $9.99 on release. I also recall JohnC saying that the iPhone game offers a fantastic marketing channel for their bigger Rage console game, so they wanted to get it into the hands of as many people as possible. I wouldn't be surprised if id seriously considered offering the iPhone game for free.
Sounds like you already have good insurance. Here in NY the most minimal insurance starts at around twice you're paying and goes up from there. You can see the prices of freelancer insurance from MediaBistro here: http://www.mediabistro.com/insurance/newyork.asp
Never thought about contributing my ignorance to HN before.
I've been programming in the aerospace/defense industry for 5 years now. For me, programming has stayed fun because I get to work on interesting problems and see the fruits of my labor when a new product gets built and certified. My biggest piece of advice for people is keep learning and find something new when you get stuck in a rut, never settle!

I definitely agree with the authors "Lack of a Programming-Centric Career Path" points. I recently ignored my gut and took on a management/leadership role. It's good experience and the "right career move" but it's not what I wanted at this time. Anyone wanting a programming career should read "Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman".
Swype for me, it changed my input method so completely and utterly that it makes my input experience on the Ipad painful and primitive by comparison.
100% honesty would make prospective candidate leak internal Google stuff to the outside world.

That doesn't make any sense.

open != honest. Two different things. It's not dishonest to obey a Non Disclosure Agreement, and so you can be perfectly honest person and still not be "open" about matters which you are not authorized to reveal.
As an unfinished economist I thought people willing to pay a specific price is an indicator for expected - not guaranteed - value/utilization.
Well you can do 100Mbps Ethernet over HDMI 1.4 with a compatible cable, so I don't see why it would be technically impossible. The question is, can this stick do it?
I would love a 15" (or larger) version of such a laptop. I hope this comes soon.

Also some other options for CPU and GPU would be nice. (AMD CPU. Maybe Nvidia GPU for CUDA. Or maybe even some ARM CPU?)

How long does the battery last in this?

Will this be available in Europe? (Or rather when?)
Why didn't they do this months ago?
Real people are losing real money here -- it is a serious matter.
I like Calca, and this looks like a cool project. Could be cool to combine the 2 in an editor similar to Typora.

Typora is my favorite Mac Markdown editor: It looks like a plain word processor file, hiding the markdown annotations, but they're still there and can be edited. I think it's ideal.
The vast majority of my email list is strangers who signed up on my website, after they got linked to something I wrote. That is to say, people don't sign up for my emails because of my emails, they sign up for my emails because of my website. I'm yet to actually send a single email, but I will probably start soon as I have some cool things to announce.

I got to 25% of my Twitter numbers (after 12 years on Twitter) within only a year or two of writing consistently on my own site. By those figures, I am discovered and followed more and faster on my own site than I ever was on Twitter.

YMMV, of course.
It's worth noting that Sprint is also Virgin Mobile US and Boost Mobile ... which has a fairly large subscriber base and is very oversold. T-Mobile also has a few MVNOs that use their network (I use Simple Mobile)... It seems that AT&T has cut support for most MVNOs using their network, and Verizon afaik hasn't ever had any.

It's a bit of a race to the bottom in one way, but I never saw the point in paying more for AT&T or Verizon. At home I get very good coverage... the only time I'd rather have Verizon is on my annual road trip, and that's only a week or two. If you're in the northern us (Wyoming, Montana, Dakotas etc), Verizon is pretty much your only option.
I wouldn't consider the passive/active distinction the definition for 'invasive.' I'd consider thermal imaging from the outside of the home w/out a warrant 'invasive', but a thermal camera is just picking up the heat radiated by your body.
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Thanks. It really is a brutal space to be in. I blogged at the beginning of 2014 about why we left the consumer space for the business space [1].

The "fork" of Trovebox that is mentioned in the shutdown email is what we should have been working on all along. But it took us 3 1/2 years to figure that out. I don't think we could have taken a shortcut here. Now we have the backing of a big company to make that happen. It's bittersweet but also exciting.

[1] https://medium.com/@jmathai/hello-2014-goodbye-consumer-phot...
There was a 1970s proposal for an underground tunneled very-high-speed transport quite similar to the hyperloop. Partially-evacuated tubes, relatively small vehicles. Cost and other considerations torpedoed it.

Look up R.M. Salter at RAND:

"The Very High Speed Transit System" (August, 1972)

"Trans-Planetary Subway Systems -- A Burgeoning Capability" (February, 1978)

http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P4874.html
http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2008/P4874....

http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P6092.html
http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2009/P6092....

Similar / more:
http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/6107059
Is that Mono 4.0.0 or .NET 4.0?
You did benchmarking so you may be able to confirm/deny this: I've heard that Lisp machines went out of favor because Lisp just ran faster on a VAX. Was this the case?
its way worse than that even. some people are living on $1 a day, others are making $100 an hour.
How do people have "scaling" problems with authentication? I have never heard of the source of a scaling problem be related to user accounts.
Yes of course, I was referring to the press in general.

Rupert Murdoch & Co. have a kind of similar influence as well.

They are not held to the same standards of accountability and I don't think people realize how bad it is, that most of our news is narrative.

As the population starts to become aware - the other problem is that truth is hard to come by, it takes work, and also rational readership - the population is really, really easily led astray by basically anything. Combined with Twitter, Social media, it's a hugely serious problem.

So we have the Truth being twisted by institutional sources, 1000's of other outlets with no commitment to the truth, and then millions of individual voices spouting raw inanity.

I wish I knew the answer.
Here's an article they wrote about the rapper Kendrick Lamar Duckworth. You may notice they leave off his last name. There are many examples of the NYT doing this, using the names people are popularly known by rather than their real ones.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/arts/music/kendrick-lamar...
I've never even heard a simply amplified PA system sound as good as the acoustic instrument the mike is attached to. This is with high end pro equipment, not home audio stuff.
Hardware is notoriously difficult to get right with thin profit margins. Even with all the resources Facebook has, I question how they can ram their way into the market with their reputation. You have to be a willing participant to buy a watch from Facebook. I wonder if their employees would buy one for their kids to wear.. that would be very telling.
Although I am there with you in spirit, a global ban is effectively meaningless.

It is unenforceable from the start. All the major world powers would continue their research (perhaps slightly less openly) simply from a MAD angle (it is irresponsible to ignore the value of a pathogen that no one else has seen and you have the antibiotics for).

We are living in dark times in terms of our technological capability and the aggressiveness of state actors.

I would argue that the only chance we have is to reign in the behaviours of our states. Crazy and seemingly impossible, but stopping science/tech is far beyond reach.
This was a fantastic article -- examples were concise and clear, and everything was well-written.

Tangentially, I'd love to know the best way to create the visuals for this kind of content. I assume no one's writing all those SVGs by hand, right?
"directed selection is not darwinist evolution and does not exist in accepted evolutionary theory. it is artificial selection"

I don't know what that means or what your source is. It sounds like you're maybe saying that orthodox evolution theory doesn't apply when humans are involved. Why, what is the mechanism?

And how exactly do you get from the idea of a pathogen evolving to be less virulent to "artificial" selection? Stipulating that somehow artificial selection is different, what would make it artificial? It seems obvious that human behavior would factor in, but what is the definition that makes the evolution artificial?
> People think that one child abused is one too many, which is hard to argue.

It is hard to argue, but it's also a red herring. The missing bit is the solid link between someone(1) NOT accessing child porn and, somewhere down the line a child NOT getting abused.

1: and that someone is likely to be a small fish, as one must expect the serious guys to be perfectly capable of using any of the hundreds of easily accessible and usable tools (various flavours of crypto) to circumvent the deploy anti-measures.

To a certain extend, this is the war on drugs all over again. We fight (a very small subset of) the consumers because then we are seen to do something (tm), but it's not clear that it puts a significant dent in the production. And this is a harder nut to crack than drugs, because the easy demand-side solution (at least partial legalisation) is not really feasible here.
After logging into Analytics yesterday I noticed a red "New Version" link on the top right, just to the left of my email address

It looks like this:

http://searchengineland.com/google-analytics-v5-unveils-a-ne...
> It’s not exploitation if adults, without coercion, agree to it of their own free will.

This is the only moral stance to take. It is amazing how people, with totally incomplete information and no matching life experience, decide they can decide for others. Popular example: payday loans are bad. Well sometimes they are the last line of defense between having a working car and being able to go to work vs loosing everything. Just ask them, people may have better reasons than you can imagine.

Its the same kind of folks who think that Facebook should be outlawed/heavily regulated because it caused all the ills in the world ("Trump"). No it didn't, stop thinking of other people as gullible idiots and yourself as the one with all the smart ideas.
>I don’t know how often you switched companies but if you switched more than 2 times in your 6 years, there might be a risk of you build it but you don’t want to maintain it.

Consultant shops build things for businesses all the time without maintaining them (and businesses pay lots of money for it, way more than an individual candidate), so that shouldn't really be on any hiring manager's mind. Job hopping is a rational response to tech companies unwilling to give raises that match market salaries.

Plus if you have someone that can build things but hasn't maintained them, your company can be their first experience.
> The very act of having sex with a man is so revolting to them, they would never do it.

As others have noted, the torture/humiliation angle might outweigh any other considerations.

There's also the trope going around from time to time that the biggest homophobes are closeted gays, but I don't know to what extent that is junk science.

> But I'm pretty sure this would not happen in Yugoslavia.

Up until the year 1990 or so, the whole world would have said exactly this sentence when asked about the possibility of civil war, genocide, or mass murder or rape of civilians in Yugoslavia. And yet...

I'm pretty sure that there are plenty of people alive right now in the former Yugoslavia who when asked would tell you that that murder and rape are wrong, yet who committed murder or rape during the war. They would probably try to explain that in wartime things are different, that you have to do them to avoid being ridiculed/punished/killed by your comrades, or that you get caught up in the moment or whatever. None of that means that they are innocent, of course. But in their own minds they can justify doing things that normally they would find revolting.
That gaffe was probably worth tens of of million in accidental publicity. It increases newsworthiness of the launch. People learn that the car has armor glass while they laugh at failed demonstration.
I struggle to understand why this post has been downvoted and if anyone could explain I would find that useful please.
The difference is not because the mind is different, but because we cannot infer its content otherwise reliably. (That's the problem with polygraphs, they are extremely unreliable relative to the importance of their purpose.)

If it were possible to do it with some sort of scan (reliably!), eventually courts would order those scans.
I would probably agree with the verdict if the defendant wasn't in a child pornography case and hadn't stated (FTA) "we both know what's on it, why would I [reveal my password]".
I would be interested in knowing how they accomplish such a huge undertaking given the fact Rust seems [1] to be a language in constant evolution right now. Do they target a fixed subset of Rust (is it even possible) or do they make continual updates to their code? (disclaimer I know nothing about Rust other than having read some of the previous posts linked from HN)

[1] as others HN readers have commented in related threads about Rust
Huh, searching for "site:news.ycombinator.com terra lua" did not turn up any discussion at all. Thanks.
Being a little generous to say "Wrong", I believe it was a blatant lie.
No

In the case of the dating website it is faking. Because there's no way you'll end up dating the fake profile

Not sure how it was in the case of Paypal, if it was a false order or they would just go ahead and buy small stuff then.

But in the case of Reddit and Rentoid, it's not fake. You're getting what you want. Links and the products to rent.

It doesn't matter if it's being provided by the founders, you're getting the service
Oh yeah I used ClamAV in the past on Mac. It wasn't great though.