jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Prior to mobile becoming popular, the two ecosystem models were desktop computers and gaming consoles.

On the desktop there are no gate keepers. There may be aggregators and bundlers, but no one prevents you from installing anything you want on a Windows, Linux, or Mac computer.

On the consoles developers were beholden to Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Sega, etc.

The question was whether mobile would follow the desktop model or the console model. Clearly, they have gone the way of the console. Even though there are alternative app stores on Android, they haven't caught on much.

I agree that Apple doesn't "owe" the ISVs anything, but I think it's bad for our the progress of tech as a whole that Apple has an incentive to commoditize their compliments AND has control of the only real way to distribute apps on iOS.
Very condescending piece. There is no universally best design, it's always the best _for a set of people_. The developer's mistake is that he optimizes for his own kind and designs things such that people who have a clue get an awesome interface. But most people don't have a clue about a very specific piece of software. Therefore it's likely that they optimized for the wrong kind of people. That is the true reason. I myself just accepted that there's stuff that I love and stuff that the majority loves and most of the time the design choices are completely opposite, so I just settle for their 'best'.
I find these to be pretty weasel words:
Is Triton open source?

Yes. Triton Elastic Container Infrastructure is the commercial offering built on the top of the open-source SmartDataCenter cloud infrastructure management platform. In addition to the open source components, Triton includes support, a DevOps portal, and intellectual property indemnification only available to commercial customers.

In more plain English, "Yes. Triton is open source just like Mac OS X"

https://www.joyent.com/developers/triton-faq#os
There isn't much assurance to offer. The vagueness of fair use often benefits copyright plaintiffs, due to procedures that are as much or more a part of copyright law as the big ideas behind doctrines like fair use.

From Wikipedia:

The Supreme Court of the United States described fair use as an affirmative defense in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. This means that in litigation on copyright infringement, the defendant bears the burden of raising and proving that the use was fair and not an infringement.

In other words, fair use is not "an exception" to copyright violation, but a legal process you can try to perform when you've been sued for copyright violation and concede that you copied (&c.) someone's work. If you've wound up in court, or even gone back and forth on a cease and desist letter, you have already drowned in inconvenience, cost, and lawyer time. You might be "right," but you've still been screwed by the copyright holder, who may be on the war path to make a point with a legal budget greater than your net worth.

Remember: lawyers are responsible for practical advice, not intellectual, political, or ideological purity. They will be very sensitive to attempts to treat them as "lawyer-approved" stamp dispensers, and will assume an appropriately skeptical defensive stance. You may think the "substance" of fair use is more important than practicality and procedure, but a good lawyer will anticipate present risks and won't bother reading up on case law on your dime when, as a practical matter, that research and those arguments will never help you. A lawyer that gives you the bad advice you need to feel vindicated now might face reputation damage and potential malpractice liability later when bills mount and you suddenly wonder why your lawyer wasn't watching out for you. Yes indeed, it can be a lot more fun to go it alone on Google, following only links and leads that seem reassuring, a dog-eared Lessig book beside you and a Doctorow talk in the background to keep you warm.

You probably saw this coming: I'm not your lawyer, and this isn't legal advice meant for you or anyone else. If you have a legal problem, find a trustworthy lawyer. They'll ask questions to understand the specifics of your situation, which will affect what advice they give in ways you might not expect.
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C, C++, CMake, Python, PyTorch, JavaScript, NodeJS, HTML, CSS, Linux, Git, (+ some APIs like OpenGL, Vulkan)

Résumé/CV:

- GitHub: https://github.com/aeroc7/

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bennettoanderson/

Email: aerozotac _at_ outlook com
I'm confused, do you mean to say that strong AI is impossible, even in principle?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet

Praises are generally dismissed when they seem to contradict this principle
<use xlink> will accomplish what you want to do.
>> Not to mention my confidence has gone straight down the strain and I find it hard to focus on other aspects of my life like my work and hobbies.

I'm going to suggest your loss of confidence is not an affect but likely the cause. Your emotional strife and lack of confidence will project in your body language.

>> chances are you are an outlier if you were dealt a garbage genetic hand like me

Do you think your genetics on a single point (hair) determine your overall attractiveness? Are there bald men who can gain attention from women?

Have you tried listening to someone like David Goggins (Don't Hurt Me) for a different perspective?
It depends on where you live, but winter and flying insects are terms mutually exclusive normally. Many species adapt their cycles to pass winter in form of eggs/larvae or just hibernate in a quiet place. Some migrate. Most adults just die.
correct! It should be working now :)
Prop 13 benefits everyone who owns property.

It is not aimed at people who have made lots of money.
And I don't wanna be that Vim guy, but similarly a mix of these plugins works well for me:

https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim (distraction free mode)

https://github.com/reedes/vim-pencil (better behaviour for writing prose)

https://github.com/junegunn/limelight.vim (visual highlighting of current paragraph)

https://github.com/plasticboy/vim-markdown (better markdown syntax)

https://vim-voom.github.io/ (outliner sidebar)

Edit:

BTW, for my truly favourite aesthetic experience, I like to pair this setup with a nice dark theme, a high quality font, and cool-retro-term (https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/) emulating an old school CRT. Is this practical or ergonomic? Nope! But I love it!
Very cool. Is it all CPU-based or can you leverage GPGPU for that? My linear algebra is admittedly a bit rusty, but I would have imagined that GPUs would do very well in applications like that.
Russian humour has always been very dry. My favourite type of Russian humour is called anekdoty, one of my favourite Russian jokes:

A night watch spots a shadow trying to sneak by. "Stop! Who goes there? Documents!" The frightened person chaotically shuffles through his pockets and drops a paper. A soldier picks it up and reads slowly, with difficulty: "U.ri.ne A.na.ly.sis"... "Hmm... a foreigner, sounds like..." "A spy, looks like.... Let's shoot him on the spot!" Then reads further: "'Proteins: none, Sugars: none, Fats: none...' You are free to go, proletarian comrade! Long live the World revolution!"
Firstly that alerts the person to the breach, because you have to change their password - which isn't true of a session hijack.

Secondly how are you getting the mail? I haven't been able to access my able without SSL for years and I lock my screen everytime I leave it + never leave my phone hanging around.

Thirdly would you even know the email address I used? I use a different one for each site.
I've had philosophical discussions with Germans that ended abruptly because one party suddenly exclaimed 'Kant!'
Just a note that we're working on improving our ssl support.
Just finished the 5-lab course. Amazing stuff.
> Do you really think that google could deliberately disable Opera support due to some internal polytics and renounce from money of many opera users?

Yes. Google Docs officially does not support Opera. Not Gmail either. This was a policy change that happened some time ago.

Sources:
http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...

In my experience, both of these always work in Opera though, if you actually try.
Too bad you can't do that in Chrome.
His expression seems to say, "Let's just get this over with." It's surprising how long a photo shoot can take.
Interesting.

I love Adioso but one place it fails me is when I want to search months ahead (which I do quite often). Adioso only seems to be able to return results up to a certain few months ahead, while other sites are able to do it for a much greater range.

Often times I just want to gauge approximate prices and I'm not able to do that currently with Adioso. Is this being worked on?

Even being able to display past trends would be amazing.
What are the castling rules in this variation?
I don't get it, what about renting dedicated servers at a company like iweb or softlayer? much cheaper than colocation for startups, you don't have to worry about networking and hardware. and also much cheaper than cloud hosting.

(of course, it doesn't give you all the fancy features of cloud hosting such as flexible pricing and automated provisioning)
The biggest problem of electric cars is the battery (heavy, short range, short life), which is a problem electric trains don't share.
Remember that China holds a lot of our debt. You will not see much public chest beating from China over this because of that fact. Both are equally vested in each others success as the other. China does not want value of the US bonds to plummet and US needs a stable manufacturing partner. At least for the foreseeable future, this economic and political two-step will continue.

However this does present serious doubts about the irrational exuberance in the strength of our markets for long term. It is hard to gauge China and its intentions. I am not saying that US has moral supremacy over China, but that China seems to be doing now what US used to do, for its own stability sake, twenty years ago. It is preparing to be the economic behemoth, despite the troubles it face in real estate and regionally.

The next twenty years should be pretty interesting.

Edit: I wanted to add a reference to this paper out of the Pentagon from two Pentagon top level staffers who assert that we should reduce our military spending and reinvest it in our youth. A very prescient analysis of where United States is heading, in the world. I wanted to add it as its own HN submission, but was not sure if it would be well received. Here is the link to the pdf: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/events/docs/A%20National%20Strat...
Odd. My reading went way up after college.
Nintendo also has an incredible track record of not being able to foster healthy relations with third party developers, and being outright hostile to indie developers (see: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/03/21/fils-aime-nintendo-not-...). The Wii, outside from the first party titles, was pretty much a wasteland at least compared to the offerings of Microsoft and Sony. This I think has led to the Wii having a fairly low attach rate and, at least anecdotally, the number of consoles that were bought for Wii Sports and have been gathering dust ever since.
With a little bit of trickery you could even easily cut that by half (e.g. drop the first few significant digits because the general area you're flying through can be assumed to be known, etc.).
I'm far more than the typical user.

Oh and I know Go, so I must be super intelligent, because only super intelligent people use Go.
And also because drugs companies can't make money out of a non-drug solution.
I grew up in a neighborhood in CA that gentrified fast since it was on the coast so I wound up with a lot of millionaire neighbors (doctors, lawyers, actors, pro sports people, a remarkable number of people who scammed government contracts). One thing about it was that the richer the people were, the more you'd find among them those who had a sense of really being better than people who weren't as rich - even if they basically stole their money it made them feel like they were special and successful and better than others because of it, and different rules applied to them. Certainly not all, but some, and they stood out. Their kids who I was in school with inherited that attitude, and did things that made my skin crawl, like doing school fundraisers and spending the money on a cocaine party, or getting a Corvette for their 16th birthday and crashing it since they'd wanted a Porsche (my god I hated that kid), shoplifting for kicks, or wasting expensive things in front of less wealthy people for entertainment. Having a lot of money can seriously mess with some people's heads.
What I really want is actually a way to turn a xlsx or a csv file into a REST API. For example if there's a subcategory column, I want it to be hierarchial.
It truly blows my mind that any further explanation would be required.

If you want a data store that exposes your database over HTTP then use on of the billion data stores that is designed to do that. None of those are meant to be a public API, and doing this is so incredibly wreckless and short sighted I could write at least a chapter in a book about it.

Actually, I did write a chapter in a book about it.

https://leanpub.com/build-apis-you-wont-hate

A RESTful API is about so many more things than just shoving a generic CRUD interface on top of your data schema.
I assume you mean NodeJS-based generators? Static site generators as a concept have existed since the very earliest days of the web. I worked on a team that used an in-house SSG to maintain dozens of sites years before NodeJS (or even V8) existed.
Then he should have linked to that.

But keep in mind, the question isn't really about if they supported abolition, but if they considered slavery a "horror" and slave owners to be "evil".

It's a separate question from supporting abolition because it is morally justified.
@nnain I removed the "on hover" animation.
Login and posting, is not available from the HN API. so not much to do there.
I love this! We need more of this. Let’s poison every data that is collected!
The card network is never liable, in your proposed scenario the bank would be the closest party.

However that’s not how it works in credit card processing. The merchant always eats fraud charges unless you’re doing 3DS or chip processing.

Standard “type your card number in” will always see the merchant taking full responsibility for fraudulent transactions.
It's in Britain. We're not like that.
There are reasons why the drinking age is set to where it is, if you did a little research at all you would know what they are. You might find it interesting that every nation in the world that has a drinking age has it set around the same age(20-21).
That's interesting, I haven't considered certificates at all. Where are you getting these errors? My intention was to serve pdftotext.org strictly over plain old http. Are you using HTTPS Everywhere or similar?
Should bear 2011 in the headline.
For the past two summers I've been an intern at my local county's IT department. Last year, I helped get rid of ~40 Windows XP computers in favor of brand new HPs that were downgraded from Windows 8 to 7. I even got to install a second 4GB of RAM in each one, along with asset tagging them. It was a pretty fun day.

Now the county libraries are a different story. Their public computers are running Userful[1] which is a Linux OS that allows one desktop tower to power multiple workstations. I wish I checked the version, but as I can recall, they looked a little outdated.

Here's the reason why Ontario libraries started using Userful [2].

[1]: http://www.userful.ca

[2]: http://www.userful.ca/press/ontario-libraries-power-consumpt...
You need professional help!
If you like swagger, I'd also check RAML - http://raml.org/

I found it recently, but it looks quite interesting.
Yes, its not as clear cut because being in finance vs. joining or launching a startup has a very different risk profile.

If you stay in finance for some time, you have probably made a lot of money by the time you get out. The plan is to work yourself to death as an investment banker and hope you made enough to retire (or become a VC, like him) at 35.

Work years for a startup, and you might not have made anything beyond living expenses. The upside is that the working culture will probably suck less and winning the startup lottery will make even more money. Also, scamming people and being a sociopath is optional (but see Uber).
Sounds like you had success at the trade shows, I'm about to embark on that route too.
Can I ask how you went getting the word out at the shows, and any tips converting to a sale?
Did they mind that it was still an MVP?
Because you have no idea if it'll work when you go through that system or be escalated to the right people, and you may not have access to such a system in the first place.
I have a problem with the 'likely' part, because that's where the 'paranoid' comes into play.

What evidence is there that it's likely, other than paranoia?
If you cannot distinguish it is java or IDE problem, should you update your title?
This is a wonderfully hilarious work of sarcasm, on a level similar to the Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce.

I chose one item to see what was changed ...

https://github.com/The-Feminist-Software-Foundation/ToleranU...

See you for yourself and have a laugh.
Private companies shouldn't be going to war against nation states. The US government should be able to defend itself and its citizens from attacks by foreign nations.

Maybe you're right and the answer is to let private companies wage wars against nations, but right now US government agencies have to sit on their hands due to a lack of direction from congress on these issues.

There is no RoE for cyberwar. There really ought to be.
It's no wonder there are issues with Perl 5 to 6 transition they went from:

> They're going to merge Perl 5.12 and Perl 6

in "mid-2001" to:

> There's a Perl 5.8 on the way

in 2002. ^_~

That said, I think that anyone doing serious Perl 5.x work has long since abandoned the idea that Perl 6 has anything to do with Perl 5.x other than sharing the "Perl" name and Larry Wall. Maybe this is confusing to "outsiders" and the branding needs to change? It's not like the Perl 5.x line is not being maintained. Since Perl 5.10, there were some significant improvements, with consistent point releases coming out.
Why not do what a lot of devs do now, which is run OS X on the MacBook and run Linux in a VM?
I've been reading the comments and it looks like typical political bickering. People have been made so polarized on these issues by propaganda, astroturfing, the two party system, mainstream media, and etc. that they can't have a conversation about these topics without going for the throat. Shockingly, or not so shockingly, even on Hacker News we can not seem to have constructive conversations about this stuff.
"Darling, I just logged on to our Sky broadband account and it says here that our porn filter is off. Do you know anything about that?"
That G+ is likely to fizzle is much less interesting to me than why a company with the might of Google was unable to make it work. I suspect that G+'s seeming fate is not particularly surprising to anyone in the tech sector under the age of 40 or so.

Social media technologies are about as remarkable as email accounts in the year 2015. And switching to G+ is the social media equivalent of switching to hotmail, at least in terms of public perception. And since public perception means a lot in a world where you have about 30 seconds to change minds, the G+ ship sailed several years ago.
Well, I guess every teacher ever lose the real first step, which is getting a problem to solve.

Once you need to make a basis change, or you need to discover a "natural basis", all of linear algebra becomes easy and very intuitive.
My palm Treos are still the most productive devices I've ever owned. Android is starting to get close but that keyboard and shortcut keys to go directly into an app on the Treo has been unrivalled.

Hoping with the sale of the Palm Trademark, and WebOS being free, which is a generation ahead of all mobile operating systems, before the javascript app craze came up, might, in some way, come to lead and inspire the way again.
Security Theater Everywhere strikes again. Unless you're logged in and entering data, Hacker News does not need SSL.
Why is this a surprising thing? The only thing incognito mode does is that your browser doesn't remember what you surfed on the internet, pretty much everything else is fair game. Your ISPs know what you're upto, adtech is so advanced that they can still track you purely based on your IP, all the websites pretty much know who you are (if you've visited them before) even if you don't log in, why is it so surprising?
Curious. I have a HPMA115S0-XXX dust sensor and I can't hear any noise from its fan at all.
Kiwi here, we generally only use pounds for the weight of a newborn, unsure why.

We also tend to still refer to height informally in feet and inches.

That's about our only remaining usage of imperial units apart from inches in penis size. We refer to a serving of beer between 425mL to 468mL as a pint, but it's only a descriptive term and not a legal measure.
I was a long time Android user (and former Google employee) and this was the feature that got me to buy an iPhone.
I agree in general, however the rise of touch screens has also coincided with a dramatic increase in other safety features, like lane keeping assist, auto braking capability, and even android auto/iOS carplay (which at least allow attention to be focused on the dash instead of down on the phone). I would not be surprised if these are somewhat mitigating the distraction issues by actually allowing distraction to have less risk.

I’m not saying it’s perfect or even desirable, but it is at least there.

Also, I think a contributing factor to touch screen problems are the absolutely terrible GUIs the auto manufacturers come up with, and their insistence on using the cheapest (slowest) CPU they can find just to save $2 on the build. If these screens were much faster to respond, you wouldn’t have to be distracted for multiple seconds just waiting for the command to have an effect.
Any kind of LCD screen is a security hazard at night. Even black are lit enough to cause distraction and prevent getting used to the dark.
But modern macOS versions still do this.
Wouldn't UPX give similar results in deduplicating binary code?
Please try to avoid gatekeeping gatekeepers with regards to where they gatekeep.

Also, is it actually "gatekeeping" to say that arbitrary numeric goals optimize for a different kind of reading than what you'd get with different kinds of goals?