jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Don Libes' Expect: A Surprisingly Underappreciated Unix Automation Tool
http://blog.robertelder.org/don-libes-expect-unix-automation-tool/
Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella
https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsofts-resurgence-under-satya-nadella-11549022422
FCC cancels Starlink’s and LTD's rural development grants
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/08/fcc-rejects-starlinks-886-million-grant-says-spacex-proposal-too-risky/
What's the difference between the com and exe extensions? (2008)
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20080324-00/?p=23033
U.S. Charges 13 Russians, 3 Companies for Interfering with Election
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-16/mueller-indicts-13-russians-for-hacking-during-u-s-election-jdq8fyg0
Goodbye Amazon
https://www.princeton-audio.com/company-news/goodbye-amazon-and-good-riddance
What's the cheapest domain you can register for 10 years?
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/09/whats-the-cheapest-domain-you-can-register-for-10-years/
How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away with It
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/17/gchq-belgacom-investigation-europe-hack/
Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ‘Geofence’ Search
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/12/11/google-gives-feds-1500-leads-to-arsonist-smartphones-in-unprecedented-geofence-search/#7e36570827dc
OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20200109141600
Game servers: UDP vs TCP
http://1024monkeys.wordpress.com/2014/04/01/game-servers-udp-vs-tcp/
PizzaHut still serves its first homepage
http://www.pizzahut.com/assets/pizzanet/home.html
Danish bank launches negative interest rate mortgage
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/aug/13/danish-bank-launches-worlds-first-negative-interest-rate-mortgage
Signal AMA on Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/kt91qk/signal_private_messenger_team_here_we_support_an/
The compositor is evil
https://raphlinus.github.io/ui/graphics/2020/09/13/compositor-is-evil.html
I2P: Invisible Internet Protocol
https://geti2p.net/en/about/intro
A walk in nature is better than microdosing
https://victorrotariu.com/2021/06/better-than-microdosing-walks-in-nature/
I Was a Political Prisoner at Birth in North Korea
http://www.northkoreanrefugees.com/2007-09-atbirth.htm
Editorial: "How piracy changed my life"
http://www.neowin.net/news/editorial-how-piracy-changed-my-life
Bitcoin is a Ponzi
https://ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/bitcoin/2020-12-31-bitcoin-ponzi.html
Text-only NPR
http://thin.npr.org
Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech?
https://newatlas.com/energy/hb11-hydrogen-boron-fusion-clean-energy/
Use Alacritty instead of Termite
https://github.com/thestinger/termite
Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (1996) [pdf]
http://www.math.tamu.edu/~cyan/Rota/tenlesses.pdf
KeePassXC: Beware of unofficial Microsoft Store listing
https://twitter.com/KeePassXC/status/1575081535442628609
Cracking the code behind Apple’s App Store promo card design
http://blog.equinux.com/2017/07/cracking-the-code-behind-apples-app-store-promo-card-design/
How can C Programs be so Reliable?
http://tratt.net/laurie/tech_articles/articles/how_can_c_programs_be_so_reliable#
Toward a Predictive Theory of Depression
http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/12/toward-a-predictive-theory-of-depression/
$99 ARM-based PC runs either Ubuntu or Android
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/99-arm-based-pc-runs-either-ubuntu-or-android/
An Engineer’s Guide to Stock Options (2013)
https://blog.alexmaccaw.com/an-engineers-guide-to-stock-options#
Citizen’s dangerous effort to cash in on vigilantism
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3dpyw/inside-crime-app-citizen-vigilante
Silicon Valley: A Reality Check
http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/11/silicon-valley-a-reality-check/
McAfee quarantines svchost.exe on millions of WinXP machines worldwide
http://andreyf.tumblr.com/post/538652366/hacker-attack
Google accused of GDPR privacy violations by seven countries
https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/27/18114111/google-location-tracking-gdpr-challenge-european-deceptive
FaceID Security [pdf]
https://images.apple.com/business/docs/FaceID_Security_Guide.pdf
Terms of Service, Didn't Read
https://tosdr.org/?repost
Lyrics Site Genius.com Accuses Google of Lifting Its Content
https://www.wsj.com/articles/lyrics-site-genius-com-accuses-google-of-lifting-its-content-11560677400?mod=rsswn
Rails is omakase
http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2012/rails-is-omakase.html
“AppleMusic will pay artist for streaming during customer’s free trial period”
https://twitter.com/cue/status/612824775220555776
Stop Googling
http://railstips.org/blog/archives/2010/10/14/stop-googling/
Firefox 28 Release Notes
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/28.0/releasenotes/
Apple Podcasts suddenly became a five-star app
https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/2/22914612/apple-podcasts-app-rating-user-reviews-problem
Signald: Unofficial daemon for interacting with Signal
https://signald.org/
A Farewell to LWN
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/879072/24151294abe770de/
I help seniors with technology issues
https://twitter.com/_danilo/status/1583169632516509697
Life of Brian at 40: an assertion of individual freedom that still resonates
https://theconversation.com/life-of-brian-at-40-an-assertion-of-individual-freedom-that-still-resonates-114743
Shareholders approve Tesla Solarcity acquisition
https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/17/shareholders-approve-tesla-acquisition-of-solarcity/
A Formal Security Analysis of the Signal Messaging Protocol
https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1013.pdf
American Equity
http://blog.samaltman.com/american-equity
Introduction to A*
http://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/a-star/introduction.html
Jack Ma fell to earth and took Ant's mega IPO with him
https://www.reuters.com/article/ant-group-ipo-suspension-regulators/how-billionaire-jack-ma-fell-to-earth-and-took-ants-mega-ipo-with-him-idUSKBN27L2GX
Facebook plans cryptocurrency debut
https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/06/facebook-libra-launch/
Parsing can become accidentally quadratic because of sscanf
https://github.com/biojppm/rapidyaml/issues/40
The programming talent myth
http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/641779/474137b50693725a/
In Raising the World’s I.Q., the Secret’s in the Salt (2006)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/16/health/16iodine.html
Fractal planting patterns yield optimal harvests, without central control
https://phys.org/news/2017-06-fractal-patterns-yeild-optimal-harvests.html
RISC-V based 64-bit quad-core application processor
https://www.sifive.com/products/coreplex-risc-v-ip/u54-mc/
Facebook Patent Imagines Triggering a Phone’s Mic When Hidden Signal Plays on TV
https://gizmodo.com/facebook-patent-imagines-triggering-your-phone-s-mic-wh-1827176182
Mussels test positive for opioids in Seattle's Puget Sound
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-44256765
Intel plans to rival TSMC and Samsung as a chip supplier
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Business-Spotlight/How-Intel-plans-to-rival-TSMC-and-Samsung-as-a-chip-supplier
I concur to whole this thread. Have no need for tiling VM especially on macOS. With trackpad gestures I can manage all windows quickly and conveniently (and to be fair I did not know about keyboard shortcuts).

Though I use spectacle.app for those rare occasions when I want to snap a window to the left or right.
Sure - I'm used to problems on my contract but usually when something went wrong I knew I could count on my agency to step in. Conflict resolution, 3rd person perspective needs analysis, project re-assessment and stuff like that (even to the point of body swap if needed). But as we grew unfortunately it become more of a "don't worry, we have insurance and lawyers". Project was heavily understaffed and neither me or client could get in contact with representatives to get additional help.
Good. Never a good outcome for the industry for Arm to be owned by Nvidia - and regulators have learned by now that undertakings in these circumstances have little value.

Sorry for Simon Segars who must have had a tough job essentially implementing Son's ideas. And those ideas seem to have been pretty poor - Arm China debacle, focus on IoT and selling to Nvidia have all clearly harmed Arm's prospects.

It's clear by now that selling CPUs is a mature market but that Arm has room to grow and there is still lots of money to be made in hardware if you innovate - eg in accelerated computing. It's also true both that Arm's model works and that it has more competition than ever from RISC-V.

A lot still to play for in my view and I think that the IPO price will reflect that.
Maybe Stackoverflow finally started to aggressively block everything that might "crawl" their data. I'm super tired of all the paraphrased/translated copies in Google results.
I spent a while working on one of the real early metaverses (IMVU) and we already figured out things like compensating artists for their work, enabling derivative works, and properly compensating everyone. We also let people show off art and create custom spaces to experience with their friends, without having to pay gas fees.

The absolutely miserable quality of stuff like decentraland combined with the high prices is pathetic, honestly. Tons of ordinary people have been experiencing the real metaverse for years on Second Life, IMVU, etc.
Not sure about google, but most of the big tech companies have a code browser website with a search feature that shows the most "relevant" repositories first in the search results. For example, repositories that people in your team or org have recently modified will show up near the top of the results.
This video called "Seamless: No Human" was made as a parody of the shut-in economy, and showed up on Reddit the other day. It's actually pretty funny, but the craziest thing is that the top comments on Reddit all said it's a service they would want to use in real-life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD13GrccRPw
Good systems = good quality.

Compare this to anything in your business that is brittle, and see what benefit even a simple system can have on it.
The author makes some great suggestions, namely to cache heavily and throttle requests. However, they lost a lot of credibility for me with "screen scraper traffic should be indistinguishable from human traffic". Sorry, but that's BS--socially responsible scraping leaves control with the publisher. If the publisher doesn't want you scraping their content, you shouldn't try to fake a human in order to be able to.
Agh, can we eliminate these posts please? Meta-link-bait.
That's a good point that I hadn't thought of much before.

One issue that I could see is that there would still be asymmetry in the ability to use the information from surveillance. Someone with access to lawyers, the media, PR people, lobbyists, etc. who knows your secrets is much more dangerous than the average person who knows their secrets.
Thanks very much for the feedback and bug report, which I have reproduced on Ubuntu. I'll fix the bug shortly and put the feature requests on the list.

Edit: fixed in 0.5.20
More dead pedestrians?
The main issue is organizational incentives. Microsoft has thousands of employees in the windows division who need to justify their jobs by constantly changing things. They call this innovation but it’s really just busywork to minimize the chance that they get fired or their boss’s boss’s boss loses clout in the company. The major innovations in windows over the past 20 years have been increased stability, an App Store, better security, easier control in corporate deployments, and some cloud and local backup features, the rest were mostly unnecessary.
The kind of people who are worried about the image driving a truck will project upon them simply don't buy trucks. They'd rather buy a model Y or a Model X anyway.
I agree. But at the same time stock-market is not zero-sum because economy is growing, productivity is increasing due to innovation. So the question is how to take the maximum possible slice of the growth in the pie.

Can quants help? That I am not certain.

And many people like re-creational gambling. So why not gamble on a non-zero sum game, the stock-market?
I understand perfectly well what it is. But see my sibling comments, that reflect an agreement with the concept of "coordinated disclosure", rather than "responsible disclosure", which gives an implication that I am being irresponsible if I do not work to the vendor's needs and priorities.
This damned cool, and neat!

I do wonder if this can be combined with something like whitelisting based on some criteria. A _very_ unthought-through version would be checking a SHA-512 sum of a binary or some such.

Either way, a neat tool in the toolbox.
Well we did it for the F-35.

Defense pork/corruption is a liability in economic war. We need to wake up and realize that China is kicking it into high gear.
That's a paddlin'
Have a gf, but very bad social life. Not sure where to look. Do I move out of the bay area?
The contemporary world can be very isolating. Realizing that it's a systemic problem instead of an individual one is the first step to figuring out how you might go about finding something that will be personally meaningful. You might consider learning about meditation or joining a local yoga studio since that can be a good way to develop meta-cognitive skills to deal with feelings of isolation. It won't solve the systemic problems, that requires large scale cooperation and political effort, but it will help you get through a rough patch and give you time to think how you might contribute to solving the larger systemic issues.
Every investment has risks, stocks are not that different from crypto in that regard.

Regulation, once it comes, will help better protect retail investors.

Crypto is still in the early stages, the technology is revolutionary though and I think it's here to stay.
Let me give you a concrete non-US, Eastern European (Bulgarian) perspective on the scale of financial and career “shitness” that the majority of individuals, and even a sizable portion of the well-educated go through.

From my privileged position as a remotely working software engineer for a western company who resides in a middle-sized town, I am able to observe the daily hurdles and fears of my friends and relatives earning 10x less for a lot more stress and sweating. The typical clerical office job pays you something in the range of 350 to 450 euros. Renting a small, badly furnished and badly isolated communist-era flat costs you around 150 euros. Food isn’t cheap compared to the West and you would need at least 200 euros a month. Many working adults prefer to live under one roof with their parents in order to make ends meet. Starting a family is a risky affair. Dysfunctional families with 1 member working abroad in a wealthier EU country are quite common. That member often comes for a visit to attend a relative’s funeral or for Christmas. Most people drive a 20 year-old banger just to be able to go to work and it eats their full income. Just know this when complaining about your Walmart or Amazon US job.
you basically described one of the main use cases for crypto.
Can confirm, we’ve raised hens for about 7 years now and a good feed system (we’ve landed on rainproof containers that allow the chickens to feed at will) and a large water reservoir with drinking cups has allowed us to go on short trips with ease. For anything beyond 4 days, we have someone stop by to check water levels and remove eggs from the hen boxes.

We recently introduced a bantam rooster to our flock- he’s great and he’s really helped with the pecking order issues, but now we have to pull the eggs every 2 days at most (to avoid creating balut[0]).

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_(food)
Only "normies" call stuff "cringe".
The Taxi system still sucks often. I take cabs when I'm in downtown Chicago once in a while because they are faster than waiting for an uber. Recently I was wearing a tie-dye shirt and joggers (leaving the climbing gym) and it took me 5 minutes to flag down a cab even though plenty of empty ones passed me. I've never had an issue in the past with being picked up and it was clearly related to my state of dress. Cabs suck.
Why not just make it a graduated tuition based on parental income?
GC was developed because too many programmers were morons, not the other way.
The very idea that CIA would somehow be involved in a violent and coordinated coup for the purposes of advancing its geopolitical interests.... Somebody get your friend a tinfoil hat amiright or amiright!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_United_States_foreign_re...
Video now available: http://www.joyent.com/blog/what-linux-can-learn-from-solaris...
I am not aware of any drawbacks aside from requiring more energy intake to maintain weight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner_battery_...

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

man event:

http://www.boeing.com/assets/pdf/commercial/airports/faqs/ai...
Possibly best twist in the story yet :P
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1z3gom/conspiracy_t...
Given that many of these democracies arose in conditions of substantial individual privacy, your conclusion is unproven.

It could be equally true that democracies die from insufficient privacy, but it just takes more than a decade or so of massive invasive snooping. In particular, the surveillance apparatus may not yet have been sufficiently corrupted to be used as a source of political power.

I should note that the US had a previous wave of improper snooping [1] which was seen as a threat to democracy and fought off. It provided a lot of the legal restrictions that prevented massive surveillance up until 9/11 got Washington's undies in a bunch.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
Ordinarily I'd be bristling at a comment like this, but you are articulating some stuff --- a little rudely, but still --- that I believe about Vixie as well. I won't pretend not to have noticed and let you take all the heat. Paul Vixie's reputation among software security people is a little bit fraught.
So if I understand correctly, I put in my expenses like $20 for the cab, $100 for the flight, $100 for the hotel and then this app will add those numbers over time and tell me I spent $20 ... $120 ... $220? What is the usecase? Real question. Not sure what this is about. Is it something companies would use? Or individuals?
The point of the OP was that he believes electronic money cannot benefit the unbanked.

It's wrong. The exact details of bitcoin aren't the right thing for it, but there are many cryptocurrencies that are more like m-pesa in their use requiremnts than they are bitcoin.
It makes me wonder just how grand a disaster Google Editions will turn out to be.
We've used an Java-embeddable Prolog engine called tuProlog to provide the reasoning capability in several applications.

It's a very nice little language for rule processing, and it has served our needs well. It is unlike most other programming languages in that it's declarative as opposed to procedural, and that can take some getting used to. Our primary motivations for choosing it at the time were that (1) it was a "rules" language with which we were already familiar and (2) its license permitted its use in commercial software (unlike Jess, which was another contender).

As ScottBurson has already noted elsewhere in this thread, it's not exactly a general purpose programming language. We for example used it as just one component of larger Java-based applications. Its performance, at least for the implementation that we chose, is not great, but there's a performance-flexibility tradeoff: if the alternative is to write-up a bunch of nested if-then statements in Java, and to have to recompile that every time the rules change, I believe that Prolog comes out ahead in terms of development time.
There's two issues: debugging and scaling. I agree that multithreading at the Pthread level is harder to debug. But I think it's easier to design a program that will scale using Pthreads than MPI because with one you rely on the hardware to distribute data, and with the other you have to do all of that yourself.
"Draper wrote EasyWriter, the first word processor for the Apple II, in 1979. According to The Wall Street Journal, he hand-wrote the code while serving nights in the Alameda County Jail, then entered the code later into a computer."

Amazing...
Has Google lost their focus?

Are they trying to be everything to everyone? It seems everything in the last two years has been unfocused, and consequently, ineffective. (Go is an exception.)

Do you agree?
And, as bizarre as it may seem, Apple and RIM reportedly warn users to hold the phone 5/8" and 1" away from your body, respectively, in other words not against your ear or in your pocket -

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/business/14digi.html?_r=1&...
This reminds me of Polyvore(http://polyvore.com/) - which has a few ex-googlers among their ranks. Most notably, Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, their CEO (via Accel) was the president of Asian-Pacific and Latin American Markets.
* Random dude who worked at twitter and cited the people currently working at twitter who found and fixed the problem during the time he tweeted it.
Thanks for posting this, it is very timely for me. I have been a forum lurker for most of my life. I visit Hacker News almost everyday but seldom do I post a comment and I have never submitted an article. Same with Facebook, I'm mostly a lurker. It is my New Year's resolution to start writing and contributing more to the online communities I visit. In fact I just finished my first draft of a blog about my experience using Angular, LokiJS, and Ionic to make offline apps. Hopefully in the next day or two I will publish it on my blog and maybe even submit it to Hacker News.
Your blog posts encourages me to keep at it. Thanks.
Freedom of communication has a lot to do with western values. Democracy is about informed consent.
I certainly treasure my periods of solitude. The closed lipped Oyster produces the Pearl.
You cannot do these things easily currently since the assignment operator cannot be overloaded. There are ways around it, you can "fix" the broken builtin assignment with a TR macro, but since TR macros MUST not change semantics (you can disable them on a global level and code shall continue to work!) this is a bad idea.
Good point, work as a freelance on his current path to pay a MA degree seems a good idea. Can you recommend a MA? Any of them with online options?

I am on similar situation and I live in Europe. I didn't saw a lot of MA in related areas.
Agreed. I don't have a solution, but this frustrates me to no end.

As a software engineer that previously worked in an open floor plan I can testify that they absolutely crush individual productivity. Headphones are no solution. I think I'd need a potato sack on my head too.

But as a software engineer that currently works with geographically distributed teams, there's no way to deny that certain elements of communication can't be reproduced with chats and hangouts. It's not just technical discussions either - it's much harder to build cultural cohesion in distributed teams as well. Which is a bummer because it's a lot easier to engage in blame and scapegoating when the guy that wrote something is just some email address and not a friend.

I wonder if anybody has had success with some sort of 80/20 (remote/on-site) model...
In my eight years' remote working experience, your statement is false.