jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
To be clear, he did say start practicing during planned maintenance times, but I agree: your first try on a live system shouldn't be during peak times.
(This is mostly for future readers when both posts have fallen off the front page, but more discussion is at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2481576 on an AllThingsD story.)
this is great.

what about privacy? sometimes I care where the code ends up since sometime's I working on other people's stuff
Is that third cartoon doing a boogy?
That's awesome news. Congratulations to the Wufoo team -- it is well deserved. (Their product is awesome.)

It is also great news for SaaS startup generally, since Wufoo is a little of column A and a little of column B on the typical grow via revenues VS get investment and grow massively dichotomy. That's a data point in the favor of at least some investors making investments in companies which have a projected trajectory where massive success results in a company on the scale of 37Signals/FogCreek/Wufoo rather than resulting in a company on the scale of Zynga/Groupon. $35 million won't exactly have VCs salivating but, oh well, if they don't invest they don't get a vote -- the angels and employees of Wufoo have to be happy like clams at this outcome.
It sure seems that way. Sitting isn't a new fad. People have been doing it for many years. Even if you want to look at the last few decades as increasing our sit time dramatically it still doesn't jive with reality. Death from heart disease and stroke care actually down in the US sharply in the last decade.
How did Zuckerberg build such a cult following? You're crazy if you don't use this service. Even Apple hasn't achieved that.
I understand your point, but I spend the better half of the last decade building things and blogging about it and nobody cared. You've never heard of my past projects and they are nowhere to be found because nobody cared. I was not going to repeat that.
It is hard to describe in a few sentences, but keywords are bit-packing, cache awareness, vectorization and a zero-copy architecture.
Not that it's a guarantee but at least tesla's emergency breaking detects pedestrians already. We're still a couple years from release. I'd like to think the long-term solution is to just stop hitting pedestrians with cars.
You sound like the ideal person for the cyber truck then - are you excited about it? Is this something you really want to buy?
This is not exactly isolated to the far-right. It's anyone who is bad at arguing or finds themselves beaten logically and needs an illogical escape. We should call that out on all sides.
HPs small business printers are annoying too. I bought an OfficeJet 8720 for my home and it's a pretty good printer except for the fact that they are relentless when it comes to pushing their auto-ink ordering. They also really want you to make an account at HP and put the printer on the internet.
Edit: “Don’t use an ORM” should be point 1
> States have been lying to us since time immemorial, and they don't need fancy video evidence to do it.

True, but now they'll be able to drive any narrative with as much A/V 'evidence' as they want. Lies by omission or one sided reporting are dangerous in their own right, but challenging that is different from challenging fake evidence.

It's hard to say "It wasn't me" if you're on tape/film. You'd have to have experts argue over validity but the public doesn't have the attention span or trust to follow that. Deepfakes have the potential to be extremely damning/damaging to public image/reputation in a way that biased reporting never did.
you still can have political assassinations. sorry to say that so bluntly. but a crazy guy and a crowd pushing each other over the limits ends with political assassinations.
> what exactly are you trying to hide?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25416123
Great for information but no so much for application.

Once you get into forms and submissions you can’t do no-js anymore.
Right, _technically_ it is "sexual assault" by legal definitions. But that's not what you invoke when you say "I've been sexually assaulted". It's about the common usage and the denigration of the terminology that affects victims of serious cases negatively.
export restrictions easily circumvented by getting a US credit card, just like you need one for Amazon Mechanical Turk
Really, a touch API for .NET would go a long way for promoting it in tech circles.

WPF 4.0 has touch support, and seems pretty full-featured as far as I can tell. The problem I have building .NET apps is that I don't know anyone with a Windows touch device. It's hard for me to want to add touch support, given I have no customers for it. Although if MS paid me for my time... :-)

Which reminds me of one more thing for the list... Win8Touch needs to be able to run WP7 Silverlight apps. The market needs to be seeded with touch apps in order for the tablet to take off. This was THE most important thing Apple did for the iPad (followed very closely by incredible battery life).
For many people that won't be a problem - I think of those who already use Facebook inbox regulary, many of them already more often than e-mail. I've found out myself doing it more often recently. Why? It's easier and more convenient - when I write a message to John Doe I know exactly to who I am writing, with e-mail you have to remember which e-mail was whose, or which of the e-mails of Joe Doe that you have is that correct, latest one; and the same with phone numbers and SMSes. Yes, in a big scale of things, moving your communication with others to Facebook isn't the best idea ever, but in a day to day hurry you often forget about the great, big things and just stick to what's seems easier and faster now. That's why I think this has all the chances to actually be successful, for better or worse.
The interesting thing about stoicism is that most of the surviving texts (Letters from a Stoic, Meditations, The Handbook) are extremely readable. Letters from a Stoic particularly is fascinating. Making the connection between what Seneca talks about and issues in your own life is extremely rewarding.
"[In point A] the value you can offer to paying customers actually increases as more free users join the system. In this case, the free users are the resource"

This was point A.
Inside Steve Jobs other house:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/04/29/inside_steve_j...
it will ultimately cause users to spend more time on site when they can send sms or email very easily through FB. for instance, i neglect to use FB chat a lot because i'm not sure if the user is really logged in - if it instantly became an email or SMS so i know it would reach the recipient, i would use it more
Android, maybe. I suspect most initial Android phones went to hacker types, before it gained mainstream attention.
I've always thought that the Google Ideas projects page was a bit frightening since many of projects are closely tied to defense.

https://www.google.com/ideas/projects/
I think surveys have fallen out of fashion because enough people have used telemetry or analytics now to know that what people tell you is often at complete odds to their actual behaviour :)

The difference between users self-reporting how they use software and what they actually do when you observe them using it is often massive, even amongst technical users.
It's also unwise to use a password, when you should be using a passphrase[0]. See eg https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/936.

Edit: 0: or at least a pass-multiple-words, depending on how picky your definition of "phrase" is about grammer. It shouldn't be "word", singular, is the point.
..and TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 and RT-11 and RSX-11 and RSTS-11.
So the argument that Taiwan is like Singapore is false, the ties are deeper than that. Moreover the conflict between Taiwan and China is a civil war that never ended, if the roc is able to recapture the mainland then I'm all in favour of its right to rule, if course the reverse is also true
Being away from the computer for two weeks will make you forget 80% of the CLI commands from the author's list.

As someone who uses both GUI and CLI, and has taken month-long travels where I don't use a computer at all, I don't think this is true, at least for me. CLI is like a language; once you've really learned, it takes a long time to forget.
I think you can explain it pretty easily at least. A blockchain is a Google Docs spreadsheet. An NFT is an entry with the name of an item next to the name of an owner. Magic prevents other people from editing it, but you can just start another spreadsheet and put your name in there.

Plus if it's the NFT of a physical item then you can just steal the real thing.
>If you use the same word in two subsequent sentences, this is considered "bad"

It depends. We are explicitly taught to do this in philosophy papers - be clear about what your terms mean, and then always use the same term when you mean the same thing.
China is the second largest single country economy on earth and growing. They will be completely covered with healthcare in the next 10 years. They are the largest holders of gold on earth, hold the largest amount of debt from the US. They are developing, but as a nation, they are not poor.

> Blaming westernized companies (by which I mean both western companies and local companies like Reliance/Infosys that try to run things in the modern manner) for the problems of the third world is silly.

It is perhaps a bit silly. I mean, there are actual examples of mining rights being held from colonial times, Dutch East India company, Haiti being forced to pay for slaves freedom from rebellion for 140 years etc. and some of those do still have influences, but I don't think they are the primary ones. I don't, however, think all of these values are always exclusively western though. Japan has worker rights, as far as I can tell from a cursory glance on Wikipedia.

Assuming India wants, or needs foreign influence, Japan is just as good a place to get it.
A wild guess would be that OS X drivers contain poor shader optimizer.

Parallels probably work by decompiling DirectX shader bytecode back into GLSL, which is already optimized for OS X shader compiler, therefore there is less burden on the optimizer.

Another example of poor drivers are various GLES drivers on mobile, mostly trivial optimizations can drastically increase the performance: http://aras-p.info/blog/2010/09/29/glsl-optimizer/ and https://github.com/aras-p/glsl-optimizer
I just noticed that CVE-2014-1266 aka "goto fail" does not have credits next to it. The assumption then being: it was found internally?

Interesting twist... I suspect their code will get more attention in future.
Thank you. Then apt-get purge icedtea-7-plugin icedtea-6-plugin is planned for execution in 2014 as well.
Thanks for the correction on the origins. Since MagicalTux has run the site for most of its existence though as CEO and it seems developer too, I think the criticism of his methods stands.

See this scary record of a response to issues from 2011 as an example:

I'm adding some code to avoid this from happening, but nobody in their right mind would do that

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/1032/what-happene...
It was always a joke, and the joke is on people like the author of this post, who treat linux as a tribe rather than as a useful tool to get your operating system of choice to interact with your hardware of choice.
are you some kind of java troll?
Well, suppose I'll start, though not sure this quite fits. I work for a university, and this year we completed a move of a very sizable portion of our business processes from proprietary software to open source software. The biggest breakthrough was moving some stuff to Drupal (http://drupal.org). Drupal was basically a snowball that picked up steam as it rolled downhill and is now being deployed across campus. 2011 will see it (along with other open source software) taking over the vast majority of our university's apps. The best part has been that most of the effort has come from the ground up with a strong community emphasis.

(With the caveat that Oracle seems to have bought the administration's souls, so it will still be used as the database of choice for many apps for years to come, but eh they own MySQL now too).
This is an excellent point. The decline of unions is probably one of the greatest reasons why wages have stagnated over the last 30 years.
A regular freezer can go a lot lower than -5c, -20c is easy, every home freezer does that.

And ammonia can go far lower than -27, it can easily go below -60c.
You have no idea how much I want Cobol on Cogs to be real.

Another one I'd like to see is Node on a Dirt Bike.
For me, it's Node.JS. Most useful new tool since jQuery. I wrote a domain name generator with it a couple months ago:

http://impossibility.org/

It handled simultaneous Reddit and HN front page traffic without any problem. I'm pretty sure server load never passed 10%. The script ran for more than a month straight and performed 120k+ searches without crashing.

Considering the first Node.JS release was only 18 months old, it's amazingly stable and scalable.
I always felt like school-level English classes were very hazy, muddy environments where you didn't need to have clear thinking and the structures (the English language mainly) didn't strictly follow any internal logic, opposite math. Peers got good marks for presenting half-baked ideas in inarticulate, thesaurus-abused essays, as long as they made sure to repeat their limp argument, cut up into a specified number of points, in the extremely redundant structure imposed by the curriculum (say what you're going to say, say it, then say what you said, with different synonyms each time) and use different joining-words or whatever term they used for obnoxiously putting "also" "further" etc. at the start of every new paragraph. Intellectual laziness was rewarded by the system, purposefully or not.

Those classes probably turned off a sad number of would-be good writers from learning how to write creatively, efficiently, or even reasonably. I had exactly one English teacher who was reasonable and only taught to these abominable standards as required by the state but let real writing be rewarded in other assignments; he understood the reality of the language and that the point of your writing should be moreso effectively articulating ideas, effecting desired emotional responses, or provoking thoughts rather than some nonsense a committee at the Department of Education decided is proper and that legions of English teachers across the country take to heart as dogma and revel in the sadism of. Otherwise, throughout the years it was splitting hairs over prescriptivist grammatical minutiae, the aforementioned ridiculous essay structure, memorizing obsolete Shakespearen-era "vocabulary words" that no writer writing for a living audience would even consider using, and going on about how any grammatical structure or word that appeared after 1900 is objectively wrong.

I could have put much less effort into them than I did and still gotten As but I preferred to use them as an exercise in trying to work good writing around the myriad deeply-rooted problems in how I was forced to present it. That's the only bonus point I can give to it as a learning environment.

English classes in college have just been the same disappointment with a different mask on for the most part, except for exposure to real research methods, but still lag behind the real world in forcing you to use non-internet sources.

Was the experience different for you?
I'd love to see Toyota embedding user accounts on the wireless key fobs and having the car customize itself to the user. Say if it's night time it should know I like the interior lights turned down to about half brightness. With the user accounts they can then track points that the user can then exchange for certain things. If I can take the Prius on a road trip and in the end cash in points I get for a discount at the hotel I stay at. That would be pretty awesome.

I wonder if this even has to be a car company. Why not a mobile app company that uses a Bluetooth module on the ODBII port to get info on the vehicle, MPG, and driving style. Then uses that data to reward points.
Game design guru Michael John posted an ode to the game sensibilities of the Prius when it was (ahem) the only game in town:

http://www.methodgames.com/methodblog/files/archive-4.html#u...

All you need to make a game is a feedback loop with some challenge (an implied reward) for the user. With the Leaf, the challenge is a lot more explicit, but any number representing performance quality is challenge enough.

Fuel efficiency metering is a great example of this, and also of gentle teaching which inspires users to become more passionate.
This is an exceptionally good point. I've read a lot about early child development, and I've never come across this before. It sounds very plausible though: children seek attention, so reward good behavior with attention. Of course.

The same goes for schools, of course. The misbehavers earn the attention of both teachers and students alike, and if they do it enough, even that of their parents and the administrators. The promising students, on the other hand, are often expected to do their work in near-monastic solitude: usually, the only reason for special attention is if a student is performing weakly.

This is necessarily the case given that a teacher having to divide their attention between twenty students and the current priority structure of our schools. Regardless, that's a clear area for improvement.
I was following the arguments until I came across the one where the company is to blame because some customers are afraid of being harassed by drivers with the conclusion: "this problem comes directly out of the practices listed above that mistreat all users of Uber".

No it doesn't. It's a non sequitur.
uBlock is going to become very very popular. It isn't just going to be a small percentage of users. It is going to be the majority of tech savvy users. That is the problem.

ublock isn't Ghostery or NoScript. It is being sold to most has an ad blocker, but really it blocks everything.
Take a look at Kernel USB source code. I did. Once.
"It’s been a bit of a slow realization for me, but I don’t actually want to be safe, I’d rather be free and unsafe."

This, I believe, is the key tension in democracies. A majority of the constituents can be scared into compromises for "their security", not fully understanding what they are really giving up. A large number would rather "feel safe" than "feel free".
The license limits in the US are by weight of vehicle (max legal weight, not current weight), not by size of vehicle.

There are extra restrictions for commercial driving.

A 15 passenger van requires no extra license, but that's about the largest you can go.
Does Rust have an equivalent location to get nice summaries of future development?
Now Silverlight was _actually_ innovative and modern. As opposed to 20-ish year old broken script and mark-up languages that have to be backwards-compatible.
Easy question to answer -- narcissism. Fortunately, the article addresses this issue.
For messaging, telegram is awesome. For video/audio calls though, I haven't been successful: lot's of delay and reconnecting sounds.
That sounds amazing, sadly in a lot of organisations that isn't how it pans out.

Either the engagement with technology doesn't happen early enough, or when it does, the technology point of view isn't given the weight it deserves. The ideas have already caught and too many people are invested and have 'faith' it will all work out.

The crux of this is that many of those people who carry the weight in decision making don't actually carry any risk or responsibility for delivery. Given the scale of engineering and time to deliver, by the time it comes to fruition they've moved on, so they never experience accountability for ignoring the advice.
That's not instant - I need to register an account, pay elance money (or be extremely limited on their 'free' account), send proposals, bid against thousands of other developers with substantially lower costs of doing business, wait to get 'win' a proposal, then do the work and get paid.

An HN appeal like this is certainly potentially more instant (and cheaper) than elance.
Anyone remember the Pippin? Apple released a (terrible) gaming console back in '95/'96.

I don't think prior mistakes (or general ignorance of the games market) are the reason there aren't apps on the Apple TV now. Maybe it's a hardware thing (A4 can't drive games at HD resolution)? Maybe it's a chicken/egg issue (not enough Apple TVs to warrant developer attention)?
my other life lesson here is: get a job, at least part time, until you can afford to reliably freelance. and when you take on a project, don't forget to get a contract signed with a pay schedule immediately before working, especially if you need the cash soon.
"would that ever pass regulation?"

AOL bought Time Warner. Google bought DoubleClick and Admob. Adobe bought Macromedia. Oracle bought Sun. AT&T bought Cingular. Anti-competitive acquisitions happen all the time.
It would if the federal government adhered to the rule of law.
If the AppleTV gets iPlayer and 4OD (I guess the equivalent would be Hulu for the US) then I would cancel my cable box immediately.

I've got Freeview for live digital TV, the AppleTV could then take care of all non-live watching.
The joke's on you if your interview process consists of asking googleable questions.

Asking "Define X" questions is a really bad proxy for assessing development skill. If you think developers are winging it by c'n'p--any interviewer who asks the candidate to produce a bunch of facts for an hour is the same, if not worse. You don't interview a classical pianist by asking him what notes are on the keyboard.
Vanilla != Flow

Flow is a fork(?) of ChromeOS created by Hexxeh which runs on most PCs. Vanilla only supports the hardware Google officially supports.
Unfortunately Hexxeh abandoned Flow after it turned out to be too tedious and unrewardnig(lots of users demanding(!) support for their hw).
To some visitors. According to previous reports, only visitors from outside of China are sent the DDoS-ing version of analytics script.
If you need a multi-platform build system that runs on Windows, OSX, Linux, supports the platform's native compilers, and that also works for IDEs, GNU make is simply not an option. Then add cross-compiling to Android, iOS, emscripten, NaCl, game consoles etc... and cmake suddenly looks really nice. I've been using manually written makefiles years ago (around end of the 90's), but then also had to support Visual Studio projects, so I wrote a Tcl script which could generate makefiles and Visual Studio project files from the same project description, this soon became a problem because I also wanted to use Xcode and Linux IDEs, and also because Visual Studio project files change between versions. Cmake does the same and much more (there are also other, similar systems like scons or premake, but cmake seems to have "won"). CMakeFiles ain't pretty, but I never encountered a build problem (including more complex stuff like code generation or running custom build steps) I couldn't solve without pulling my hair out, and everything works automatically across IDEs and platforms.

[edit: typos]
Gizmodo has some info. but I wanted to find a less trashy source; the register has a story [1]. In short, it's suspected that the Chinese government is behind the attack because there are some projects hosted on GitHub that it ideologically disagrees with.

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/27/github_under_fire_fr...
seems a little silly to support low income students like this yet continue with class biased "holistic" admissions
Does anyone have a .torrent of all the videos from F8? It's a shame that they are self-hosting otherwise it would be possible to youtube-dl it :-)
Laypeople in general. I think that's part of the fallacy - the idea that a 'turing test' is some recognized standard for when computers are smarter than humans. But as others have stated it works a lot better as a thought experiment than something to directly pursue.