jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>Completely forgot how it feels after having been deprived of all of these things due to living in a big industrial city.

I feel you and I'm planning a similar move myself.
Thanks for the detailed info.
Rythm also affects perceived length; a Barry Lyndon minute is not a Modern Family minute.
> Maybe one of the calculations that should be added to the model is that owners of computers in the 80's were a very different bunch from the people having computers today.

This is probably the answer! I was a little kid then, but my uncle played them and I remember that game and some others like it... they were all offshoots of war game board games.

People have moved on since, or maybe better put the market has grown and the number of people interested in nerdy strategy games has not.
I wasn't aware of that. I like iBooks a lot better than the kindle app for the iPad. Need to try that. Thanks.
Actually, if that happened, most people would be slightly annoyed, but not at the "wtf" level of this Tweet. Simply because it's a digital purchase, and it's "ye olde evil Microsoft", it's considered a "wtf" moment.
How is m1 “innovation”? They have solid performance because of manufacturing (tsmc)
I read this is clippy's voice.
Especially considering the svg that a design tool produces is often gigantic. FWIW I have found svgcleaner to be better than svgo. svgo seems to have more bugs and chokes on svgs more often in my experience.
The only even remotely concrete information in this post is their input was 1PB, and they typically have 500 bigtable tablet servers. In 2008, Google said they processed 20PB per day through mapreduce jobs. For the last ten years the only thing they've said about the size of their public web index is that it is over 100PB.
I read this in clippy's voice.
From the American Bar Association:

The Satire/Parody Distinction in Copyright and Trademark Law— Can Satire Ever Be a Fair Use?

Supreme Court also ruled that Satire/Parody is Fair use protected due to their verdict in Campbell v. AcuffRose
Music, Inc

https://apps.americanbar.org/litigation/committees/intellect...
I'm actually pretty early in my career as a 9-5 employee after years of working in restaurants, where the hours are both unpredictable and very likely to fall on the nights when your friends want to hang out. I wished I worked a 9-5 for a long time, and now that I'm here, I'm a little surprised to see people complaining about it. still, it's good to ask why things are the way they are and if they could be improved further once in a while.
W00h! I grew up in Whittier, AK. Ask me Anything! Haha, seriously, I moved to Whittier at the age of 2 in 1974 and lived there until 1986.

The big change there since I left has been the tunnel. When I was there you had to drive your car up onto a railroad flatcar (and pay a steep ticket price) to get out. Anchorage is only 55 miles away, but really it's two mountains away. The railroad sold passenger service only as a requirement of the state and prioritized it behind freight. Between that, avalanches and assorted weather problems, you could wait hours and hours for a train. Winter service wasn't even daily, back then. We didn't even have cable. Just PBS and one channel that mixed shows from the three big networks. It was strange.

Yes, most residents live in one big 14 story high-rise in rural Alaska.

I most definitely do not miss it. I recommend this book if you want more info:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1578331919/
Not really. If google has a network of cars all over the public observing and over 75% of smartphone users feeding data to them, avoiding using google services directly doesn’t buy you nearly as much privacy as you think.

Google even buys credit card transaction data so they have info on you even without a google account.
Where I live (big city) there are numbers you can text and it's a different guy every time. It's like ordering pizza except you get in their car for the transaction. You are usually waiting 20min at most. The whole operation is eerily professional. Back in my home town it was a guy you knew who may or may not be around or that other guy your friend knew who's house you could swing by. For weed in particular you tend to get more of the small town style dealers even in big cities just cos it's nice and people are used to it but for hard drugs people don't care, they want their drugs in the most convenient way possible.
So many people like to nitpick when it comes to Tesla, It reminds me of the Apple critics in the early days of the iphone. They assume Tesla should have the highest standard and be absolutely impeccable with all their products.

Just don't buy it if you don't like it. Let the rest of us enjoy a sustainable future with insanely safe full self-driving electric cars.
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn4vC80Pv6Q

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODZBL80JPqw
Umm, why would a wall battery even need a password???
That's ridiculous. There are tons of jobs in everything from devops to pure frontend to writing shit in COBOL.

ML is sexy and pays a lot, sure, but it's far from the only thing going.
> This means that effectively all C++ code would fail to compile under this implementation.

You're implying that all C++ code uses pointers and that's patently false. It's even false for C code. Pointers was the first thing C++ boxed with references. Box it more. Forks of C++ even exist, like GNU++ extensions. There's a whole spectrum of possibilities between that and where you are right now and I don't see why everyone needs to cross this chasm and embrace Rust at this cost.

Breaking one part of the language doesn't break everything for everyone. That's definitely a fallacy if it couches the justification I'm chasing here.
I didn't start until I was 25, after doing an undergrad in english and a master's in a completely non-technical field. I didn't really think I could become a "real" programmer just that I could learn enough to automate some things. I loved it and also the CS side of things, I kept working at it and now I'm working on my master's in CS, have built quite a good number of sophisticated applications that I'm proud of and am really surprised at how far I've been able to come.

The biggest lesson in all this for me: all of that skill is just a function of time and practice stuff? surprisingly true. I didn't think I could ever do something like build a complier, but after going home and practicing everyday and reading constantly I got there.

The additional lesson is that this method can be applied to most anything. Want to pick up and instrument? Learn a foreign language? Learn math? do it! I meet so many people who say "oh I could never be good at X", you can. And if it takes 10,000 hours/10 years to be an expert, it probably only takes 1000 hours/1 year to become intermediate, which is good enough to have a lot fun with something.

Learning is the single most amazing thing a human can do, so don't stop
I use a pc and have multiple chrome windows open, each with 20-30 tabs, which I leave open. After hibernating 5-6x it starts to get unstable. It used to be fine, but the flash upgrades have made things horrible.
No. I very, very rarely have any problems. I run the beta version.

Are you sure you are running the stable production release?
For those of you who are unfamiliar with stock awards (as I was moments ago), here's a great article explaining how they work, along with other details and intricacies:

http://www.fairmark.com/execcomp/grants.htm
FF4 is now

And yet it doesn't run on my system. FF4 OS X.6

Oh, force WebGL? It crashes the browser.
I've been running Ubuntu on three systems for quite some time: a unibody Macbook Pro, a Lenovo T61p (t60p before that) and a System 76 netbook. Sleep works great on all three (be sure to install the mactel PPA for the MBP).

That being said...I know for sure there is a configuration out there that doesn't work...that is the beauty and benefit of a locked down ecosystem like Apple. They control everything and absolutely can guarantee the experience....and to be honest, if Apple can't deliver on that promise with the compromise of choice, they shouldn't be in the game.

So, I don't really think it is an issue, or nearly as big a one as people make it out to be. I find that if I stick to the bigger Linux friendly manufacturers (Lenovo) or the ones many people will buy (MBP), you will have good luck.
Yea...it's kind of a crazy idea I know, asking people to be delivery man.

-I am targeting mostly people with cars, maybe bike. As of
age group, I am thinking of 18 - 40.

-Yes the $ is the tip..I think it will vary depending on
what the restaurant/business is willing to offer. People
can either take it or not. The system could give the
business a recommendation at what rate people usually take
the deal.

- I am actually planning to expand it even further not just
beyond businesses, but as a replacement of USPS, Fedex,
UPS. Imagine about it, the market of people using this is
basically people delivering/shipping things. I bet if
shipping was made more social, it would be more effective
than USPS. It just needs a system that coordinate all of
this and that's what I am trying to do here.

- To verify the delivery man, I was thinking of having the
user to put a security deposit first (to cover the lost
cost if someone ran away with the item) when initially
registering. It will be hold after a user gets X amount of
positive feedback and after that it's just reputation
from the business/merchant.

One of my inspiration of this idea is based of my experience when going back from school. Almost every time I went back to my apartment from school, I always show this same pizza delivery guy all the time, I know his pizza store is located along my route of school - home. Then I had a thought that I would want to deliver it, won't cost me anything too much, it lies along my usual route, cost me probably 5 minute, and I might be getting $5++ each time. Not bad as an extra money for college kids right.
> heaven forbid the government accepting payment of the wealth tax in shares, ie TAKING OVER their businesses

There's your solution, the government should offer a better deal if they pay in shares.
Racism absolutely is a structural thing. This can include things such as redlining in the US or more on topic, Japanese banks refusing to work with foreigners and the treatment of the Ainu in Japan.

There's a very important distinction to make between those that write the laws and those that don't.
I should have been clearer, but imo correctly using html5 node types is part of correctly using html5 attributes.
I honestly can't tell if you're serious.

Some things off the top of my head that are in my opinion not at all trivial for even intermediate git users:

- How do you fix a typo in the commit message of the second-last commit that you pushed to remote?

- I accidentally committed something to the wrong branch. What's the best way to uncommit it from that branch and commit it to the right branch?

- What are the differences between the working tree, directory tree, index, and staging area?

- How do I "un-add" a file I just staged?

- I've heard "git reflog" is useful. What is it?
>> It's perfectly possible to publish code for all the world to see, but license under terms that don't permit all uses. GPL does that.

No, it doesn't. GPL does allow all uses. From the GPL FAQ:

"I'd like to license my code under the GPL, but I'd also like to make it clear that it can't be used for military and/or commercial uses. Can I do this?

No, because those two goals contradict each other. The GNU GPL is designed specifically to prevent the addition of further restrictions. GPLv3 allows a very limited set of them, in section 7, but any other added restriction can be removed by the user.

More generally, a license that limits who can use a program, or for what, is not a free software license."

Source: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#NoMilitary

As the FAQ states the GPL does add additional conditions regarding adding restrictions that would restrict usage rights for the original or derivative works. That is not the same as prohibiting use.

You are welcome to use GPL-licensed code in your commercial product, provided that you follow the terms of the license.

>> The politics of free and open source are hackable. We're engaging in that process. We expect others who disagree to, as well. But the hood is not welded shut. The phrase "open source" isn’t proprietary to anyone.

You are free to debate all you want, but attempting to redefine the commonly accepted meanings of what constitutes "open source" and "free software" amounts to the corruption of the principles that those movements were founded on, more especially for "free software".

If eroding freedom for profit is your goal, fork off your own license and give it a distinguishing name. For example, it could be called the "Ethical Software License" (EthSL) with one or more acronyms that represent what non-ethical uses are restricted.

For example: EthSL-NoMIL (Non-Military), EthSL-NoICE (Non-Immigration / Customs Enforcement), EthSL-Animal (No use in endeavors which harm or exploit animals), EthSL-Eco (No use in endeavors which harm the environment), etc.
> Here's a recent interview with Christian Ude[...]

This is a really interesting interview, unfortunately it is only available in German so I translated (with the help of deepl) the part about the situation right after the switch.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Linux-Magazin: How big was the pressure afterwards?

[...]

Christian Ude: The most intense thing I personally experienced was a visit from Steve Ballmer, after all Vice President of Microsoft. He interrupted his skiing holiday in Switzerland to visit me. With his well-known enthusiasm, with which he dynamically jumps around on stage at conferences, he jumped around in my office and first of all praised the beauty of Munich. But then he said that I was making a catastrophic decision that I could never justify to anyone, especially not to a taxpayer.

Funnily enough, he constantly made new financial offers during the conversation, he talked about what Microsoft would add for free, for the school department for example. On and on he reduced the price, one million and a another million and a another million and a dozen million cheaper than before. This is how important Munich - which is internationally perceived as an IT center - was to Microsoft as a symbol.

Would [Munich] walk a new path or repentantly return into Microsoft's lap? We have calculated that Ballmer has improved the financial offer by around 35 per cent. But since we wanted to make a strategic decision and not just make a price comparison, this was not important to us.

Linux-Magazin: Bill Gates also came to visit?

Christian Ude: He was in Munich because of a presentation of the "House of the Future", which inspired him insanely. With it, you could determine from your car how high the room temperature in each room is and whether the refrigerator should defrost a bit. On his way back to the airport I had the opportunity to talk to him. So I sat together with one of the richest men in the world in a camouflaged van, which was luxuriously equipped inside, but looked from the outside as if it belonged to a small craft business. Gates asked me stunned: "Why are you doing this? That's absurd! That's incomprehensible!

Now that I'm not the hard-boiled IT specialist who could stand up to a Bill Gates in every detail, I just said:

"Please note, we're all about independence. We don't want to be dependent."

Then he said, "That's nonsense, who do you depend on?"

"Now that you are here [I can tell you]: From you, of course!"

That really made him collapse, and he said: "It's incomprehensible to me, it's ideology".
I never said that technical expertise makes my experience more (or less) important. I'm saying that my technical expertise lets me understand my experience better, reason about it better, and communicate it better. I know concepts and vocabulary that a non-tech-savvy user doesn't, which makes it easier for me to pin-point sources of frustration.

User interfaces are an acquired taste. A shiny-looking app built on newest design trends may look appealing at first. But once you're couple hours into using it, your outlook changes. It suddenly starts to matter whether the application is able to handle reasonable-sized workloads without slowing to a crawl (many web applications can't). It matters whether you can use the keyboard instead of clicking on everything. It matters whether the application is fast and responsive, and doesn't. lag. on. you. every. click.

What long experience with software - both as a creator and as a consumer - gives me is the language and ability to look past the shiny facade, and spot the issues that will matter long-term.
Thanks for making me aware of brow.sh. What an amazing project.
What happens when you click the down arrow next to the domain? Google cache/similar links?

Edit: I can see it on all my searches on https://www.google.co.uk/ it is cache/similar
> yet the algorithm might override your choice and decide to not create the match

I believe part of the motivation for this is to keep the experience good for straight women. If straight women leave the app, it's going to die.

Because straight women often have more potential matches than they can go through, Tinder is more aggressive about prioritizing those.

If they present a woman with a man whose score was high, he might be physically attractive enough for her, but he might have "behaved badly" in recent conversations and therefore be low-value match for her in the end. If she keeps getting matches with men who behave badly when chatting starts, she'll probably quit the app.

Among my straight female friends who use Tinder, harassment fatigue is the #1 reason they quit or take breaks.
Not sure I'd count adding one line to your site as "designed" or "hacked together".

<script src="js/snowstorm.js"></script>

Maybe if you'd written that JS yourselves..

pre-emptive edit: Maybe it's worth pointing out that I'm not saying you shouldn't have used that script, or that you ought to have written it yourself - just that you shouldn't claim you "hacked [it] together".
> No benchmarks, no comparative NoSQL code, and the example is trivial. There's nothing interesting here.

Yes, nothing EXCEPT raw information, that you have to access yourself. Is only spoon-feeding "interesting"?

I, for one, didn't know about this alternative MySQL connection pipeline at all. Now, I know at least that it exists, how it works, etc. I can do the benchmarks myself, if I need to.
I've had a pneumothorax - the collapsed lung part of his experience - which required major surgery and a painful recuperation. That was awful enough on its own but was only a tiny part of what he experienced. Yikes.
Could it be possible to get some info on how you built that site? Frameworks, technologies, tools, ... I am new to this, and trying to learn a bit.
Not a very informative article. They left out tons of information, such as that the growth is coming from their business products like LiveCycle (the article doesn't even recognize that side of their business). Also Adobe is spinning the Creative Suite story as "sales for the latest release are higher than they were at this point in time for the previous release" but my understanding from the sketchy articles out there, is that, overall, Creative Suite revenues are down a bit.
Why would ChromeOS complicate tasks like page setup? It seems printing is somewhat different (not sure - I haven't used a Cr-48 yet) but it can't possibly be so complicated my mother (an archetypal 75 year-old lady) would have problems. About a month ago, I set her up with a USB printer (I took away my networked printer), Ubuntu detected it immediately when plugged. No driver download, no nothing. It all just worked.

Anyway, if page setup and connecting external screens are your worst problems, consider yourself very lucky. Most of us have to deal with the occasional malware infection (luckily, I don't). The horror stories are often amusing.
I just published an article about my subscription list:
http://mwermuth.com/podcast-list/
Python is also dynamically typed, but it does something sane:

>> "1" - 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -: 'str' and 'int'
Can someone copy and paste the article. Its behind a location based IP wall:

"BBC Worldwide (International Site)
We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee. It is run commercially by BBC Worldwide, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BBC, the profits made from it go back to BBC programme-makers to help fund great new BBC programmes. You can find out more about BBC Worldwide and its digital activities at www.bbcworldwide.com."

Such a stupid policy to be honest. I live in the Uk and pay my licence fees too.....
Lennart Poettering would do well to pay attention to people like this, continuing to honor the POSIX way.
Most things are cheaper when you're not paying first-world labor costs.
For anyone using Firefox with Greasemonkey installed, here's a small userscript that will undo some of HN's passive aggressive BS: https://gist.github.com/kennethrapp/5b5e413220afb93c9c93
I don't think there's much more to say (also your email address isn't in your profile) - we had a very bad experience with OrientDB and we weren't doing anything out of the ordinary with it. We didn't even really use the graph features much beyond very simple traversals. The consultant that we hired to try and fix the mess was unable to do so, and he recently told me about 2 other companies that had a basically identical experience to us. The thing is just not ready for production, and for small startups making this kind of mistake can be fatal, that's the only reason I'm saying something.
I wonder what are the considerations when Google decides the next city for Google Fiber? Some people mentioned NYC's bureaucracy, I guess the existing infrastructure is also another factor, Google would of course want to make larger impact. Now it seems that they are targeting middle-level cities (especially southern ones).
I saw one game quickly become a lone white king against six black pieces. The king eventually captured three of them, and then the game gave up after some number of fruitless moves.

Even with that advantage, black couldn't randomly stumble across checkmate.
There was no intentional blocking of Tor there in the past as far as I understand. But there are some mechanisms that block users from IP addresses that posted spam or abusive content. Those are automated and based on flags and not directed towards Tor specifically, but of course TOR addresses are more likely to have been misused that way so your chances of encountering these blocks is dramatically higher when using Tor. But these blocks only apply to low reputation users, I think once you're above 100 they don't matter anymore. And they also don't block reading the sites.

There have been DDoS attacks recently on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange, I think it's quite plausible those have something to do with this. They still seem to be under active attack intermittently.
Too bad all those jobs got automated.
No one wanted me and my ADHD and so I went out on my own. Now running a decently successful software/consultancy firm (not funded and not a single loan, I'm proud to say - edit: as in "told you I had it in me").

Of course this isn't an option for everyone, but starting your own business might be worth considering.